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.
Whether you’re navigating your own second act, raising kids who don’t want your help, or just wondering why birds seem to aim for your head, you’ll find humor, honesty, and heart here. Expect: offbeat storytelling, second-marriage dynamics, parenting fails, philosophical detours, and new friends you didn’t know you needed.
Familiar Wilsons Media produces content to bring people together. We are curious, hopeful, and try not to take ourselves too seriously...admittedly, with varying degrees of success.
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Flies in the Kitchen and Math in the Negroni
Josh declares himself a genius after inventing a shockingly effective fly-eviction method and surviving “new math” after a Negroni. Amanda breaks down acronyms vs. initialisms, we celebrate the Strongly Worded Email that moved a construction dumpster, unpack a social-anxiety misunderstanding, and confirm AI is terrible at fantasy football. Plus: spooky-season TV recs and neighborly shout-outs. Gainesville, marriage, chaos, and cozy...served warm.
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Speaker 2:You are made of meat, my friend, all the way down.
Speaker 1:The following podcast uses words like and, and also. If you're not into any of that shit, then now's your chance. Three, two one run.
Speaker 2:I'm super familiar with the Wilsons Get it.
Speaker 3:Welcome to Super Familiar with the Wilsons. I'm Amanda.
Speaker 1:And I'm Josh Amanda. I am a freaking genius.
Speaker 3:Oh, is it because you did math problems really well tonight?
Speaker 1:Oh, don't talk to me. Do we want to start with math? Why is it that we're trying to figure out this eight-year-old's math right? And I don't understand why math needs to keep changing, because math is one of those things that shouldn't change. Math is math. One plus one should always be two, but I this is this the third iteration of math that I've personally witnessed. First, like me going through it and how much I freaking hated it right. Then Andrew and Daniel went through it. They're in their 20s now and that math was different, like they had changed math.
Speaker 1:It's new math Right, but now with Winthrop, who's eight, now math is different again.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:What the hell is going on here.
Speaker 1:I listen, I think I figured it out okay I think that that whoever has been creating the math across generations, all of them had serious issues with their parents, because all of them got to the point where they were, like, appointed to the math council and they said fuck my parents, I'm gonna do my math differently than them. Like this is the way that the nerds chose to rebel is to do math differently because it's different. Now I can't figure it out. I don't know what the hell is on this piece of paper that winthrop needs to figure out and turn into his teacher. I can't help. I tried to figure out a thing tonight with you and and me, him on the couch, and like I figured it out and you're like, well, you need to explain it to him how you figure it out. I'm like, fuck, no, I figured it out. Like that should be. The point of math is that you figure out the problem.
Speaker 3:But then he won't know how to figure it out. And then you kept trying to explain it, and then you weren't even right.
Speaker 1:And then I was right. By the way, I was right.
Speaker 3:But you asked Alexa and she kept telling you a different number.
Speaker 1:Well, because I kept slurring my words. That's a different problem.
Speaker 3:This is why you should not do math after a Negroni.
Speaker 1:Yes, but I got it right. The point is that I got it right using our like. Apparently we're the dumbasses with the old math, but I figured it out.
Speaker 3:I actually don't mind this math because it is math in a way that never was taught to me and it took me a while to figure out how to teach it when I was teaching. But it's really just logic and it's just thinking about it like reasonably. So anyway, we got through math, but you're a freaking genius and it's not because of math. Go ahead.
Speaker 1:It's not because of math. I went out and I watered our little back garden, which, by the way, we need to talk about my new obsession, and that is greening up our back garden. There's so many stories that I have there. They're all interrelated, because then we need to go back to this fight that we're having with the developers of our neighborhood who built this house next to us, right?
Speaker 3:They sort of built it.
Speaker 1:Well, they halfway built it, and actually they halfway built it before they finished our house. And that's five years that a halfway built house has been next to our house. And I'm gonna tell you that this house, the siding was green right, because it was the construction wrap. The construction, whatever it was, I felt like I lived on a movie set for five years because, this fucking like green screen against everything. Well, the, the, the house started to fall apart we get legit falling apart into our yard and I've talked about this before.
Speaker 1:But yeah, the part of the, the soffit or the, the, the trim of the roof fell and and messed up one of your bird feeders, which you're still salty about. I am salty about it Crushed some plants and I'm a pretty easygoing guy. I don't like confrontation, but at that point, after five years of roofing shingles falling into our yard, scratching up my car. Nails falling into our yard, and now that had happened like I had reached the end of my rope and I wrote a strongly worded email to code enforcement and then magically, it got ripped down the next week.
Speaker 1:I felt so powerful, my balls were so big.
Speaker 1:That's not an image anyone wants, I know, but it's just, it's a euphemism, for I felt so powerful for just sending the email, I know, but it's just, it's a euphemism, for I felt so powerful for just sending the email. And then they had ripped this thing down. And damn it if these people, they've mastered the art, these developers, of doing the job right, almost done, yes. Yes, it's like you ask your kid to mow the lawn and he mows the whole lawn, except for like the one foot that's closest to the house. For some inexplicable reason, he leaves that unmowed.
Speaker 1:That's these people yeah so what they did was they ripped the house down and happy, I was for it and um, but they left the the dumpster full of construction material in the driveway of the old house just sitting there for a couple weeks. I'm like, well, okay, what's going on? So a couple weeks went by. I sent an email saying, hey, what's going on? No answer. I wait six days. I send another email. No answer, I wait six days. I send another email. No answer, I wait six days. And the last email I sent was a list of all of the county and state statues that I felt like that they were breaking or possibly breaking, and then miraculously, two days later, the dumpster full of the construction material disappears.
Speaker 3:You guys don't need attorneys anymore. You just need Josh on an anger bent.
Speaker 1:So like I said, I'm feeling pretty good about myself, I'm feeling my oats right Because I have all this power through these emails. But then it hit me. I think I'm turning into my dad dad, which is not a good thing. My dad was the master of the strongly worded letter. He didn't use email. He would send letters and after he died I was digging through some of his old shit and I found some of his old letters and actually he would send me. When he'd send a letter to someone he would also send me a copy, as if he's bragging like look what I did the most ridiculous things that he would write and he would threaten and I don't want to be that guy he wants, because he sent me the letter that he sent to this company where he had a floor fan right, one of these oscillating fans that broke, and he had written a few letters to the company asking for a replacement.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:The last letter was threatening to call the FBI.
Speaker 3:What were the FBI going to do?
Speaker 1:Well, I have a feeling it was just a threat. It's just I'm surprised he went with FBI. He didn't even go to Better Business Bureau, he went straight to FBI. I don't want to be that guy. I really don't Like. I'm happy to do something for you and the family and the neighbors by sending these emails. I just want you to to just keep your eyes out for when I start making ridiculous threats, because I do not want to be that guy then how do I stop you?
Speaker 1:I don't want to be a guy where he sends an email, a threatening email, to someone, and they get it at the office and they print it out and they frame it and they keep it in their office. I don't want to be that guy is all I'm saying to you.
Speaker 3:Well, at least you put yours into written word. I just disagree loudly and when I'm upset with things. So I took Muffy wanted to get contacts, her contacts renewed, right, but with our vision insurance you can only use it once per calendar year for something. So she got her glass, she got new glasses this year in January and so we have to wait until next year to use the vision insurance. So we were looking for just one of these, like I just need to get my contacts exam and then we can go to 1-800-CONTACTS. And so we go to the place, right, and it was not at all what it said. It was going to be on the site. It was like it's going to be a $99 exam and then you can get your prescription. Well, no, no, no, it wasn't $99. It was like 130 something, and also you had to order your contacts from them. Now I am willing to concede that that probably was in fine print that I didn't see.
Speaker 2:So that's fine because I needed contacts.
Speaker 3:No, those Muffy's contacts. I do wear readers now, but I'm willing to concede that I didn't read the fine print. However, when we got there and she went back, she came out and she's like mom, it's going to be 130 something, is that okay? And so I said well, wait, this is what it said on the website. And the girl said oh yes, I'm just waiting for the power to come back on because apparently there had been a storm and the computer wasn't working. I'm just waiting for the power to come back on so I can show you that it still says that it's been changed to 130. I said but last night, when I booked the appointment, it said this amount yes, yes. Well, it's really been 130 for a couple of weeks, but it's not updated on the website yet. But here I'm going to show it to you in, like this email or whatever. And I said no, no, no, you should honor whatever it is that your marketing is. And so I looked at my face and said, no, we're going.
Speaker 3:And as I'm walking out of the store, I'm saying this isn't okay. You have something advertised on your website. That is the thing you honor until it's updated. Like I get that you're telling me it increased. Go to Publix. The Publix promise is a thing. If it's marked wrong on the shelf, not only do you, you don't get the discounted price, you get it for free. Get the discounted price, you get it for free. Did you know this? The public's promise is, if it is misrepresented the price, you get the whole thing for free. I have worked retail my entire high school and college career. I know that when a marketing thing is up, even if that sale expired yesterday, you have to honor it. So I let everybody at Vision Express know, as I was walking out of the door, my displeasure.
Speaker 1:Did you not ask to speak to the manager?
Speaker 3:No, I didn't need to speak to the manager. I didn't need to care in it, I just telegraphed to the whole place why I knew that they were wrong. And I looked at Muffy. I said I'm sorry. Was that embarrassing? She goes kind of little and I was like I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:But as you're, as you're skulking out, yelling over your shoulder, you're, you're impotent rage, because nothing, nothing happened, nothing was changed nothing was changed, but they needed to understand why they were wrong.
Speaker 3:My sense of justice very finely tuned, yes okay, so anyway at least you write emails. I just yell at people as I'm leaving stores.
Speaker 1:All of this leads back to I'm making the connections in my mind. How we started this is that I've kind of gone crazy because now we don't have this giant ugly ass house, right, yes, backed up, excuse me to our back garden. And so now I'm planting all of these plants because I'm so thrilled, I'm so happy with, but I think that I've kind of become like, whatever the plant version of the cat lady is, oh, you have so many different plants. So many plants, so many plants.
Speaker 3:Palm trees, you got like hedges, you got hibiscus, you got lots of things and I don't even think that these plants are supposed to be planted together.
Speaker 1:I feel like they're sitting there looking at each other. It's like, what the hell are you doing here? It's like I don't know, dude, this crazy bald guy bought me and then plopped me here. There's so many. I'm just, I'm out of control.
Speaker 1:I think I'm spending too much money on these plants. I think you spend a lot of money on me, but I can't help it. I think it's just that the world has gone so nuts, so crazy that I'm like I'm just going to go over here and plant plants, Like thank God I've not pursued, like something a little bit less innocuous right? I'm not on a street corner yelling into a bullhorn. I'm planting, you know, hibiscuses next to palm trees. That's what I'm doing.
Speaker 3:Right, well, that still sounds rather tropical, but you started this podcast by saying you were a freaking genius, so I'm still waiting for that part. Oh my God, did I not get to that?
Speaker 1:No, so I'm out watering my plants today. This is how this all connects together. I'm out watering all of my plethora of plants, my back garden, here, that's right, lots of oxygen. My post-distant that's right, so I'm watering all that. I left the door, the sign glass door open. I come back in and there are no less than six flies buzzing around. I felt like I was the freaking queen bee in the hive. It was so loud for the buzzing.
Speaker 3:That's when I got home. I walked in and all of a sudden there's just like flies everywhere.
Speaker 1:So loud these flies and so I'm losing my mind because I'm like how the hell am I going to get these? I grabbed a washcloth. I'm waving around like a freaking idiot, like I'm. What is it? Tom Hanks on the island waving at the plane, you know, coming by and waving this damn washcloth, and then I had a freaking, brilliant flash right of how to get all six of these flies out and I executed it and once I started to use my method, I got them out in five minutes.
Speaker 3:All right, so what did you do?
Speaker 1:So a couple of them had flown into the laundry room. Okay, Right so I closed the pocket doors of the laundry room. Okay, right, so I closed the the pocket doors of the laundry room I'll say I'll get to those fuckers later, right, so I'm, I'm chasing these others around the kitchen like an idiot and then I'm like, well, forget that, I'm gonna go into the laundry room, I'm gonna kill those two. So I have some sense of mastery, some sense of efficacy.
Speaker 1:And then I'm gonna continue on on my my battle, like don quixote against the windmills. So I go into the laundry room and I notice that the flies are all gathered around the window and I'm like, oh, wait a second. These flies are attracted to light, they're just trying to get out. Yeah, yeah. But like whatever you know, like you have these fly buzzers that they're attracted to.
Speaker 1:So I'm like, oh my gosh. So what I did was the laundry room is connected to the garage, so I opened the garage door, turn on the light there. They go out into the garage, and so now I've got this system where I turn on the light in the laundry room.
Speaker 3:You corral them into different spaces.
Speaker 1:No, I'm just like coaxing them into the airlock in like one of those space movies and then shooting them out into the void. So I turn off all the lights in the kitchen, I turn on the light in the laundry room. A few fly into the laundry room. I close the pocket door, I open the garage door, turn off the light in the laundry room, turn on the light in the garage. They go out. And it took like three cycles of that and I got all those flies out. And I am a freaking genius man. Call me the fly whisperer, call me St Patrick getting all the snakes out of England. That's how he did it. He coaxed all the snakes into the laundry room and then let them out of the garage. Did he get them out of England or out of Ireland, wherever? I don't know where he got them out. There's no snakes in england either. I don't know, doesn't matter. Okay, I'm not from over there and I don't want all of our our english listeners to email us about this.
Speaker 3:It's ridiculous. Doesn't matter, I am the fly whisperer, this is all I'm saying. I appreciate the stroke of genius because I just immediately went outside with the dogs. I couldn't take all of the chaos and you texted me where's the small vacuum. So I then I thought you were going to start vacuuming them out of the air.
Speaker 1:Well, that was one of the suggestions from from the internet is to get a vacuum just suck them out of the air and I was dubious but I was willing to try it. But you said you did not know where the vac was.
Speaker 3:I remembered where it was, and so I texted you and told you where it was. Oh, I didn't, I didn't get that text. It was in the laundry room.
Speaker 1:It was in the laundry room. Was it in the laundry room? Where was it On the ground next to the dryer? I kept looking up.
Speaker 3:Anyway, but you didn't succeed with one. There was a fly carcass on the floor in the kitchen.
Speaker 1:Oh no, I killed that one. Yeah, okay, that's one of the ones I got with the washcloth.
Speaker 3:Yeah, because the dog tried to eat it. Yeah, well, well, good, it's protein.
Speaker 1:What you know. They're trying to feed human beings flies now, because they say that that's the food of the future. I thought it was ants, ants and flies and insects and grasshoppers and all the things this is going to save us, so you should have eaten that thing.
Speaker 3:I didn't want it, thank you.
Speaker 1:So I learned how to whisper to flies and get them to do what I want them to do. Have you learned anything this week? This is a segment that we've done before. What have you learned this week? So I'm giving you an impromptu, Amanda. What have you learned this week?
Speaker 3:Well, I have actually learned something this week. I learned something today. I did not know the difference between so okay, abbreviations. Right, abbreviations is to make something shorter. I did not know the difference between acronyms and initialisms. Did you know that initialisms were a thing?
Speaker 1:I don't know what an initialism is. What is that?
Speaker 3:Okay, I learned about this today. It is initialism is like an acronym, but an acronym can be pronounced as a word. The initialism is when you like. Ncaa like you don't pronounce it NCAW, right, NCAW. So yeah, or or CIA or FBI, like NCAA. Like you don't pronounce it NACA, right NACA.
Speaker 1:So yeah, or or CIA, or FBI, which my dad's gonna call on the fan company.
Speaker 3:But I never really thought about this. The two types of abbreviations are acronyms and initialisms, but usually, you know, the acronym for the Federal Bureau of Investigation is the FBI. Well, no, it's not. That's the initialism. Acronyms are abbreviations that can be spoken as words, like YOLO.
Speaker 1:YOLO. So how is it that you learned this?
Speaker 3:I belong to a WordSmart email. I read it occasionally, but can you name the two abbreviations, the two acronyms that have become actual words that they're no longer like thought of as acronyms in the English language? I only knew of one. Nasa, no, that stands for the National Aeronautic and Space Administration Laser.
Speaker 1:Laser.
Speaker 3:Oh, maybe laser. What does that stand for?
Speaker 1:I don't know Scuba.
Speaker 3:Scuba is one. I knew that. Self-contained underwater breathing apparatus, but see we think of scuba as a word, though right, like we know, like it's a scuba tank, it's this. We don't think of it as the acronym. Are you looking this up?
Speaker 1:Don't look this up. Well, no, because I think laser light light something, something, something Laser. I am looking this up. Tell me what the other one is.
Speaker 3:Radar.
Speaker 1:Radar, Damn it. I thought of radar.
Speaker 3:But I didn't realize that radar was an acronym.
Speaker 1:I'm sure that there are others as well. Laser I think laser is as well, but I can't be bothered to read this whole damn thing to figure it out.
Speaker 3:Too long didn't read. That is an initialism.
Speaker 1:That's right. That's right. That's right, that's excellent, that's excellent.
Speaker 3:So it's just a little word, nerdy kind of thing, but I'd never really thought about it.
Speaker 1:You are a word nerd aren't you, I am a word nerd. It is week two of my fantasy football league and I I think that it's entirely possible that, out of all of the fantasy football teams that exist on this planet currently, I have the worst well, there's got to be some sort of like prize for that.
Speaker 1:I think that I need to get that prize because I am here to tell you that I don't think that I've ever seen so low a score in FNFC football, and so, again, this just goes to show you. If you didn't listen to I think it was last week's episode I said that I let AI pick my entire team. Right, I let ChatGPT pick my entire team. This is the worst team ever.
Speaker 3:So what did we learn?
Speaker 1:That we have nothing to fear AI is not gonna come and take over. But also this thing with AI. It is so prone to mistakes, right, and we've talked about this before it is so prone to mistakes that I would make, which is to say that if you ask it a question, it's actually worse than me, because ChatGPT and some of these other AI things. They have access to all the information, right, but apparently they can't be bothered to look it up.
Speaker 3:No, they tell you, they're looking it up though.
Speaker 1:Right, but they don't. They make stuff up, they make stuff up, they make stuff up. I was doing a thing for work the other day where I was trying to justify a this or a that right, and so I asked for the industry standard of something or another right.
Speaker 1:And it gave me an answer I'm like, okay, well, good, please give me the citations so that I can look these things up and I can just verify. It's like, oh well, actually, I don't have actual citations, these are more anecdotal. I'm like, okay, please then cite the anecdotes that you've taken this from. Oh well, actually. And it reached a point where I'm like, well, where the fuck did you get this information?
Speaker 3:from then.
Speaker 1:It's the most ridiculous thing, so that AI now is no better than humans it did it to me the other day.
Speaker 3:I asked it. I always ask it for. So if I'm saying like I need evidence-based strategies on teaching text, evidence whatever in middle school, and then I will say well, sure, if you put in that prompt it's not going to return.
Speaker 1:But rubbish, because what did you just say?
Speaker 3:right. And so I tell it that it needs to um research only peer-reviewed scholarly journals right. And then I need in-text citations with the research that it brings back to me and then an apa citation list. And it does that. And then I'm like, okay, cool, and I click on the links to make sure that these are real articles, not phantom articles. And then I like read through it a little bit and then it gave me a table of something. I'm like, oh, this is great, I'm gonna use this. So then I asked it for the citations for the table and it said, oh, I synthesize things to me. Okay, please tell me where you synthesize this from. Well, it's kind of general guidelines from like what's out in the world. Well, it's kind of general guidelines from like what's out in the world.
Speaker 1:So it does the same thing to me. Ai now is no better than you asking someone where'd you hear that? And someone saying my uncle Frank told me.
Speaker 3:Right, yes, yes.
Speaker 1:No, absolutely not Ridiculous.
Speaker 3:It's my favorite too, when I will say something and then I go. Well, you make it clarify. Oh, you're absolutely right.
Speaker 1:Thank you for bringing that to my attention. No, thank you. It's ridiculous that I had a weird social situation that you're aware of that I want to share with the listeners.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 1:I was told by a friend of mine that a friend of his thought that I hated him.
Speaker 3:Those were strong words.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was a really weird thing. So I get a text from a friend of mine who's doing a project for me and in passing he says "'Oh, and this guy? I was talking to him about you. "'and he says I think Josh Wilson really hates me'" and I was like wait what?
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That was really weird, because this guy I've met him like once or twice I don't think I've ever like had a full conversation with him, never interacted with him to any appreciable degree, and so just out of the blue to be hit with this guy thinks I hate him.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I freaking hated that. That drove me crazy. I couldn't believe it. What would you do in a situation like that? You'd probably just let it go right, Because you wouldn't care.
Speaker 3:No, no, no, no. Of course I'd care. I mean I'd talk to people, but I mean a lot of people think I don't like them when they first meet me.
Speaker 1:Do they? Yeah, you're so freaking delightful though.
Speaker 3:Thanks, or it used to be like that or like. I mean, I got that a lot when I was younger, because it was like they thought that I thought that I was better than them or whatever, but it was more. I was just intimidated by them but they were intimidated by me, kind of thing.
Speaker 1:Wait, but how would that manifest that they thought that you didn't like them and you're intimidating? In other words, you would ignore them, or how would that? Shake out.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I would ignore them or I would come across as aloof. But really I was just being like shy. I guess I don't know, because as far as extroverted as I am, I'm still rather insecure. So anyway, it doesn't matter. Do you hate this guy?
Speaker 1:I don't hate this guy and I didn't know what to do. So the first thing I did was I texted my friend back and I said oh, tell him that you know I'm just really shy. Or tell him that. What I said was tell him that I'm due for a new prescription of glasses.
Speaker 3:Well, and probably hearing aids, Because what I think happened is this guy probably tried to talk to you and you didn't hear him. You're probably like in a crowded place, and then he was like, well, that guy just ignored me.
Speaker 1:That's probably what happened I think that that is what happened. So I didn't know what to do. I didn't want to put my friend in the middle of it and do that middle school thing where I was like tell him that you know, give him a piece of paper that I've checked, this is I like you, or whatever. So what I ended up doing, after stewing over it, like this past weekend not this past weekend, but the weekend before last, like I was thinking about it all the time is I finally just got this guy's number from our friend and I called him.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But he did not answer the phone. Well, I don't think that people like taking calls anymore is what I think. I know that I don't. I'm not used to taking calls anymore is what I think. I know that I don't. I'm not used to taking calls anymore. I'm not used to answering the phone. So I called him. No answer. I left a voicemail message and he texted me back the next day. Cause that that also happened. I left him a voicemail message around like five 45 at night. No answer that whole night.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I'm like wait, wait what.
Speaker 3:Now he hates you.
Speaker 1:So then he texted me the next day, the next morning, said hey, got your message this morning. I'll call you at lunch. I'm like great, but at the same time I'm like I can't believe I just called this guy.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I was surprised.
Speaker 1:Well, it's not my usual move, but I'm trying really hard to not do everything by text.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Like face-to-face means so much more you can get.
Speaker 3:That wasn't face-to-face right, you can.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm sorry, hearing face-to-face, but then hearing the person's voice Shut up, hearing the person's voice and at least having more cues to go on on what the person's thinking, what the person says or whatever. So he said he'd call me at lunch. He didn't call me at lunch.
Speaker 3:Yeah, were you like really starting to stress?
Speaker 1:No, I was starting to let go of it. Actually I was like I was kind of like I've done my bit.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I've done my bit, that's fair.
Speaker 1:But Gainesville is so small.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it really is. I done my bit, that's fair.
Speaker 1:But gainesville's so small. Yeah, that is. I figured I couldn't just ignore this situation. Yeah, because like I'm gonna run into this guy again and bless him. He seems like a perfectly sweet guy. So I finally, like the next day, just texted him and said, look, I would have rather have done this by phone, but I just want you to know that whatever I've done to make you think this you know I apologize the reality is is that there are certain situations I get into where I have extreme social anxiety. And number one and number two, I never assume that people know who I am, which is a weird assumption to make. Number one I'm in Gainesville. Number two, I've been in some prominent positions in different jobs I've had. And then number three, I have had my artwork shown out in the community and people have purchased it and I used to be in an events, a promotion little thing with my friend Jacob. But I still don't assume that people know who I am.
Speaker 2:So I told him all this.
Speaker 1:No, it's not. I'm not humble. I have extremely social anxiety, like I said extreme social. So I explained all that to him. He said oh good, I'm glad that it turned out that I didn't offend you. So, he thought that I had somehow taken offense to something he had said.
Speaker 3:Oh, wow, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So I'm so glad that I dealt with this yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. So anyway I said, yeah, I'll buy you a beer next time I see you. You know case closed, and so you know, I don't know when the next time I'll see him is. I don't know when the next time I'll see him is, but yeah, so that's.
Speaker 3:That was very mature on both of your parts.
Speaker 1:Well, more mature by me, I would say Well I mean he did leave you on read for a while. So there you go, and that would be my recommendation for you this week. If you have any weird dangling sort of socialist situations, go ahead and take care of it. Amanda, do you have any recommendations for the week? No one likes to be told what to do, yeah, and now is the time of the program where we tell you what to do, amanda. What should you do? What should we do? What should they do?
Speaker 3:Listen it's spooky season. I love baking, I love cozy. The Halloween Baking Championship started today on the Food Network, so you should go watch that and enjoy the spooky. And it's John Davidson. And am I remembering that John Davidson hosted Super Sloppy Double Dare, or is that just? Am I remembering that wrong?
Speaker 2:That was Mark, somebody I don't know, mark Summers.
Speaker 3:No, that was Mark Summers, and then he did the unwrapped thing where he taught you how Tootsie Rolls are made and stuff.
Speaker 1:I'm quite certain that whenever this shit came out that you're talking about, I was already a grown-ass adult, so I didn't watch any of that you don't remember Super Sloppy's Double Dare I? Freaking. Didn't watch Nickelodeon, right. Yeah, yeah yeah, no, no, no, dude.
Speaker 3:I was like 12 and you were 17, 16. So, yeah, that would have been weird. But no, they would do things where, like, you'd ask you questions and then you'd have to do the obstacle course and there would be like a giant nose and you'd have to stick your hand up inside with all the green slimy this is where the Nickelodeon slime came from and find something in the big nose and occasionally, to be extra gross, the big nose would have a big zit on it. This is the super sloppy double there.
Speaker 1:Very good. What's your recommendation? I've already forgotten.
Speaker 3:Watch. The Halloween Baking Championship was not hosted by Mark Summers.
Speaker 1:All right, very good, Y'all go do that. All right, Amanda. That's all there is. There is no more. What do you have to say about all that?
Speaker 3:I caught you mid-yawn, you did. I'm so, so sorry. That's what I had to say about all that. I caught you mid-yawn, you did, I'm so so sorry, that's what I had to say about that. No, we are recording on a Monday night. We typically record on a Sunday morning, and so I'm just struggling with the fact that it's dark out this window where usually I'm watching the lovely birds in the trees. Okay, so I think that I'm happy I got through it, because I'm just tired.
Speaker 1:All right, there's a couple of people that we want to give special love and attention to, actually three people that I'm thinking of. I'm going to go ahead and put the positive energy out for them and I'd like for you to think about them as they're going through things. We're fine, gay Jeff. Of course we are thinking of you right now. Our friend Karen is going through a bit of a time right now. We're thinking about you. And then also our friend Terry is going through a time right now. We're thinking about you, terry.
Speaker 1:These following people are the people without whom we would not be able to do this show. We'd like to thank Josh Scar, who played the horsefly today. Keeps showing up where you least expect him. Monique from Germany, played the fruit fly. Tiny International, always around the good stuff. Matt was the firefly. Glows brightest after dark, mostly near coolers. Antonio was the house fly. Everyone's seen him. No one can get rid of him.
Speaker 1:Leo, the mayfly shows up once in a while. Lives fast gone by morning. Ryan Baker, the gadfly, constantly stirring things up just for fun. Refined gay Jeff, the gadfly, constantly stirring things up just for fun. Refine Gay Jeff, the butterfly, technically not a fly, but fabulous enough to bend the rules, joey. Danny Buckets the dumpster, fly. You'll find him where the action really happens. Chicken Tom, the horsefly junior, clucks, pecks and still manages to annoy the cattle. Mark and Rachel are the dragonflies elegant in tandem flight, but don't cross them. And Dan and Gavin, the clusterflies, never just one of them, always in a swarm. Thanks you all. We appreciate you, we love you and we do what we do because of you. If you out there would like to be on that list, if you'd like to contact us about anything at all, email us at familiarwilsons at gmailcom. That is, familiarwilsons at gmailcom.
Speaker 3:I'm just waiting. Are you done singing to us?
Speaker 1:I'm done, I'm done now. So, folks, until next week, amanda's going to go straight to bed right now. Night night, we will talk to you again. Take care of each other.
Speaker 3:All right, go be kind.
Speaker 1:Bye, bye.
Speaker 2:Bye, bye,
