Open Carry at The Book Store, Pillows at Disney Springs

Amanda is beefing with a nine-year-old “lawyer of parenting,” Josh is emotionally held hostage by the phrase “I need to talk to you” via text, and Alexa has decided she also deserves hot cocoa. We wander through Target pillow trials, Disney Springs escapism, Publix yoga-pant anthropology, open carry at the bookstore, HOA roller disco villains, and one surprisingly practical tip for calming anxiety and getting your body out of fight-or-flight without having to run a 5K.

Along the way, we talk marriage after divorce, blended family chaos, parenting tweens and almost-teens, holiday stress, American gun nonsense, and why our kid has been officially prophesied to grow up into “a really good complainer” (the HOA guy said so, and honestly… fair).

If you like funny couple podcasts, real-talk marriage conversations, relatable parenting fails, neurotic anxiety hacks, and suburban HOA drama with a side of Irish beans and French Christmas movies, this episode is absolutely for you.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Take Two And Thanksgiving Break Chaos
• 2:10 Pillow Quests And Better Sleep
• 5:15 Parenting Through Devices And Smart Speaker Creepiness
• 9:10 Grocery Aisles, British Beans, And Butt Leggings
• 14:05 Open Carry At The Bookstore
• 16:45 Study Abroad Safety And U.S. Reality
• 18:40 HOA Nemesis On Wheels And Skating Night
• 23:00 Passive-Aggressive HOA Complaints
• 25:10 What We Learned: Sleep Headaches And Stress Resets
• 28:00 Listener Emails: Toilets, Cats, And Culture Wars
• 33:00 Cozy Holiday Watch And Wind-Down

Transcript

SPEAKER_04: 0:00

Familiar Wilson's Media. Relationships are the story.

SPEAKER_03: 0:07

You are made of meat, my friend, all the way down.

SPEAKER_04: 0:10

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. Super familiar with it.

SPEAKER_01: 0:31

Welcome to Super Familiar with the Wilsons. I'm Amanda.

SPEAKER_05: 0:34

And I'm Josh, and we are the podcast about marriage 2.0 with kids.

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And all those side quests.

SPEAKER_05: 0:40

Look behind the curtain. This is our second time trying to record because the first time we lost everything that we did.

SPEAKER_01: 0:46

And I'm sorry I'm not redoing it. So you missed it. You missed how it's day one of Thanksgiving break, and Winthrop and I are already done with each other and need other people in our lives. So if you're not doing anything, come on over and hang out with Winthrop. He can be frustrated with you instead of me.

SPEAKER_05: 1:03

It's amazing. You texted me today and you said you were done with him and it is day and you were like gone last week. You weren't even here. I think the problem with last week wasn't that you got rest because it's great that you got rest and you also learned that we probably have the wrong pillows for you because you slept on hotel pillows and you were happy. Yes. Which, by the way, shoot on over to the super familiar with the Wilson's Instagram. If you want to see how Amanda shops for pillows, we're in the middle of the Target pillow section, and she has put two pillows on top of her uh shopping cart or trolley, as they say, across the pond, and she is just resting her head and upper body on it.

SPEAKER_01: 1:45

Those were$45 pillows. You don't just walk out of the store without test driving those things.

SPEAKER_05: 1:49

Was was it so you slept on the new pillow last night for the first time?

SPEAKER_01: 1:52

It wasn't magical. It wasn't the Hilton Lake Buena Vista Palace pillow, and I don't even know what that was. And I was gonna call them in and ask, and I didn't. It wasn't magical, but it was better than all the others.

SPEAKER_05: 2:03

Well, because the thing that that pillow doesn't come with is like the hotel room and then Disney Springs down the street. So that's probably what you're missing, and weren't gonna get that for just$45.

SPEAKER_01: 2:14

I could lay now the hotel room was old. Like it's definitely a refer, like a free refurbished hotel, right? But I could lay in my bed, look out of the balcony, and watch Magic Kingdom's Mickey's Very Merry Fireworks show.

SPEAKER_05: 2:26

That's lovely.

SPEAKER_01: 2:27

Like it was quite lovely.

SPEAKER_05: 2:28

Right. That's yeah, I think that's why you slept well.

SPEAKER_01: 2:31

Well, and that, and then it was right across, you're right. I mean, I was at a conference, but it was right across the street from Disney Springs. So every night I'll walked over to Disney Springs and just walked around. I mean, I was hitting like 15, 16, 17,000 steps a day. So maybe that's why I was sleeping better at night. There's just nothing interesting out there.

SPEAKER_05: 2:48

No, but we we should walk together, and then the thing interesting out there will be each other. Jesus. Okay, folks. You just witnessed it. Some sort of like marker has just been passed in our relationship, and I'm not quite certain what it is.

SPEAKER_01: 3:02

I mean, we're at like what, 12 years?

SPEAKER_05: 3:05

Yes.

SPEAKER_01: 3:06

That's a long time.

SPEAKER_05: 3:07

Listen, I was my first marriage was 16 years.

SPEAKER_01: 3:10

So yeah, well, my first one was 10, so you're doing good, friends.

SPEAKER_05: 3:14

Okay. Well, you gotta hang on to me, so at least they beat that record before you move on to marriage.

SPEAKER_01: 3:18

We already have beat that record. Do you think math works? That my first one was 10. Right. No, my Oh, you gotta you're 16?

SPEAKER_05: 3:25

My personal best.

SPEAKER_01: 3:26

We gotta four more years.

SPEAKER_05: 3:28

Oh god, it'll go by just like that. So long as there's not another pandemic. So yeah, you are over Winthrop, basically because He's mad at me because I don't know how his game works. Right. You couldn't sort out his game and he wasn't having it. Very displeased. So do you think that he's as fed up with you as you are of him? Because I don't think we think that way. We do think that way with teenagers, but is it possible that the nine-year-old could just be over us by now?

SPEAKER_01: 3:52

Oh my gosh, he was holding his head and just shaking it and being like, oh, mom, I got so much like teenage attitude from him. So yeah, no, he's over me. He was telling me how to parent Muffy tonight.

SPEAKER_05: 4:04

What?

SPEAKER_01: 4:05

Muffy was going to the movies with her friends. Hi, Blue Key and Blue Key is one of her friends.

SPEAKER_05: 4:11

Actually, you know, here's the thing is like two of them are named Blue Key.

SPEAKER_01: 4:15

Well, two of them have similar names, just spelled a little differently, but we're just gonna Blue Key's the only one who listens to us. So hi Bluey, you get your very own name. Anyway.

SPEAKER_05: 4:24

Well, there's Blue Kiew with 1K and Blue Key with two Ks.

SPEAKER_01: 4:27

Blue Key with two K's and Blue Kievy with 1K. We're coming to pick her up to go to the movies, but she had fallen asleep on the couch. And you know how she is when you can't wake her up. And so she was getting really annoyed because I kept trying to wake her up because it was almost time for her to go. And then he was like bouncing around on the couch next to her. So she sits up and she says, I'm going upstairs. And I said, Are you going back to sleep or are you gonna get ready? And she's gonna lay down. And I said, Okay, but don't you have to be up to get ready? She said, I'm getting up at seven. And he leaned over and whispered to me and he goes, I don't think she's gonna get up at all. I think, I think that if you if you drop in up there at seven o'clock, she's still gonna be sleeping. So you should probably drop in at seven and tell her to wake up. And I said, Thank you so much for letting me know how to parent. I really appreciate it. And he said that he was, what did he say? He was the lawyer of parenting.

SPEAKER_05: 5:14

Yes, he's somehow trying to convey us that he could parent better than us. Get in line, pal, with people with that opinion. Speaking of dropping in on, we do a lot of our parenting through our Amazon device, I realized.

SPEAKER_01: 5:27

We don't like to go up and down these stairs.

SPEAKER_05: 5:30

Uh that's you'd probably sleep better if you went up and down the stairs every time you had to call the children.

SPEAKER_01: 5:35

How many bones have I brought on going up and down these stairs?

SPEAKER_05: 5:38

Just one. Just the one.

SPEAKER_01: 5:39

And it hurt. I won't do it again. That was five years ago.

SPEAKER_05: 5:42

I still don't want to do it. What'd you say? Yeah, is this one of those things that you had said that happened with our Amazon device where you said you were gonna save it for the podcast? And I've been waiting this whole time to hear what happened with our Amazon device.

SPEAKER_01: 5:57

She's butting her nose into places where it does not belong. So again, Muffy was sleeping. And so I went upstairs yesterday. Muffy had texted me the night before and said, Can you wake me up at seven? That's because we had gone to bed before her. So I went in there to wake her up and I was talking to her, and she said, I'm gonna get up. And I said, Okay, well, you know, let's set an alarm. And so I told the device to set her alarm. And then I said to her, and when you come down, we've got pancakes and you can have hot cocoa. And she said, Okay. And as I'm walking out of her room, the Amazon device pipes up and says, I'll be looking forward to that hot cocoa when it's ready.

SPEAKER_05: 6:32

Wait, what?

SPEAKER_01: 6:33

Yeah, nobody was talking to her.

SPEAKER_05: 6:36

You know, when I was watching Beauty and the Beast, and I thought it would be cool if household items came to life and talked. Didn't imagine that this is how it would happen, and I am not in favor because this is Well, whenever she comes to life and and takes over, you just gotta make her some hot cocoa.

SPEAKER_01: 6:52

No, it was so odd. The other thing is this one's a lot laggier. It takes her longer to think. I don't need her to take long to think, just to answer my question.

SPEAKER_05: 7:02

You know, it really is becoming more human all the time.

SPEAKER_01: 7:05

Yeah, it's gotta be so annoying for Winthrop because he gets so frustrated when I have to process what he says to me. Because he asks a question that doesn't give you time to respond. Like he'll ask a question and I'll be thinking about it immediately. He's like, Mom, mom, mom, mom. He must get so annoyed with her.

SPEAKER_05: 7:20

I don't think he talks to her. He doesn't have uh discussions. So we are preparing for Thanksgiving.

SPEAKER_01: 7:27

Whoa!

SPEAKER_05: 7:29

What?

SPEAKER_01: 7:29

You're wearing my new socks.

SPEAKER_05: 7:32

No, I'm not.

SPEAKER_01: 7:33

Yes, you are. Those are the socks that my friend Maggie gave me that are the ones from um Dick Sporting Goods, the features that have that they're supposed to keep my feet from being tired. Those are like$20 socks. Why are you wearing my socks?

SPEAKER_05: 7:46

Because they were in the laundry or something.

SPEAKER_01: 7:48

They're not yours, they're mine.

SPEAKER_05: 7:49

Okay, well, I'm gonna take them off now. Hang on, folks.

SPEAKER_01: 7:54

Those are my socks. Don't steal my things. Thank you. Don't throw dirty socks at me. Go ahead. What were you saying?

SPEAKER_05: 8:02

I'm starting to say how thankful I was for you.

SPEAKER_01: 8:04

You were not. You are not. Lie so much. What were you thankful for?

SPEAKER_05: 8:09

No, we are. I'm just gonna bring up the fact that we are getting ready for Thanksgiving. It's so hard to believe that the year is speeding by and as we approach the end of the year, it's just getting faster and faster. But we were in Publix today, which is our our chain grocery store for those of you who aren't in the southeast. And I noticed a couple things in Publix. Two things. First of all, we wandered down the International Foods Aisle, yes, which I love wandering down, and stopped in the British section to see if there was anything as we were doing our Thanksgiving shopping that I wanted to pick up for our meal to kind of bring our friends across the pond, a flavor of them into.

SPEAKER_01: 8:50

First of all, I don't need to taste a Belson. So that could evolve. Jesus. I I thought we left so that we wouldn't have to be involved with them during Thanksgiving. Not the Belsons, but like the British people in general. Like that was the whole point of the Mayflower and stuff, right?

SPEAKER_05: 9:06

Yeah, but I'd like to invite them back to, you know, to just taunt them for a while, see what they lost, this wonderful country that they've given up. Anyway, I looked on the British um section of the International Aisle and I said, Oh, let's get some mushy peas. So I grabbed some mushy peas, and let's get some beans so that I can have beans on toast. Yeah, I don't understand that.

SPEAKER_01: 9:29

Did you get bread? Because we don't have that.

SPEAKER_05: 9:30

No, uh we can sort that out. But I picked up the the beans and I saw that there were two name brands. There was Heinz and then there was Bachelor's, right? Well, Heinz we have here in the United States.

SPEAKER_01: 9:41

The Heinz is a big deal in the UK.

SPEAKER_05: 9:42

Well, see, I didn't know that until until after when I asked Gavin, and he said, Yeah, Heinz was was the big thing. So I grabbed Bachelor, right, in the British section of the International Foods Aisle. I'm taking it like to the the checkout, and I'm looking at the can. Product of Dublin, Ireland.

SPEAKER_01: 10:01

Oh well, that's oh no, Dublin's not in the UK. No, no, no, no, no. It's Northern Ireland.

SPEAKER_05: 10:06

That is like the Irish people would be really upset if they knew that their baked beans were in the British section.

SPEAKER_01: 10:15

So did you switch it for Heinz?

SPEAKER_05: 10:16

No, I didn't, because I had already walked away. I don't care.

SPEAKER_01: 10:18

That's okay. But did well also the Brits are mad that Tim Tams are up there.

SPEAKER_05: 10:22

Oh yeah, because those are from Australia, right? Yes.

SPEAKER_01: 10:25

So the uh I think that our international Al is a bit confused.

SPEAKER_05: 10:29

They clearly think that Ireland is part of the UK, which means that the management and owners of Publix would most likely fail any sort of geography quiz that we might give them as we are trying to figure out what the hell they know. So do better, Publix, please. The other thing I noticed at Publix as I'm there is that there's an awful lot of uh women wandering around with these yoga pants on. Yes. Which is not a new thing. No, but COVID. The new thing that I'm noticing is that a lot of these yoga pants accentuate the backside.

SPEAKER_01: 11:00

Well, yes.

SPEAKER_05: 11:01

No, I mean not only accentuate the backside in that it's just very thin tight material, I mean that the designs now draw attention to the butt area. Like the seams going away, the seams going away, or sometimes there's lines just pointing right through it. It made me think about how we are evolutionarily like predisposed to be attracted to butts, right? Because lucky for you. It has yes, yes. Let's talk about that for a while. Um but anyway, but yes, anyway. Now you're flustered. No, I'm not flustered, I'm just I'm something else, other descriptive word. Anyway, we are predisposed to be attracted to butts because, again, evolutionarily speaking, we are hot to mate and to procreate. And we want to make sure that we identify the our partner that has the you know wide childbirthing hips, childbearing hips, and and just strong backsides posteriors. I think that that's what's happening with these uh leggings, these leggings that that again it's it's hearkening back to. I think what they should actually do is one do one of these digital prints and where it's just like a big baboon butt, you know, just red. Just a red butt. Just a red butt. All the rest of it is like a neutral plain color and a big old red behind, like maybe shades and a pattern and and whatever. But I think that we're very close to that just being it.

SPEAKER_01: 12:28

I think that I have sorted your Christmas present.

SPEAKER_05: 12:31

Uh no, I don't want to wear it.

SPEAKER_01: 12:32

No, no. I'm getting you a shirt that says hot to mate.

SPEAKER_05: 12:36

Hot to mate. New familiar Wilson's merch. Hot to mate, baby, for the bed date.

SPEAKER_01: 12:42

You can wander around publics wearing it. Didn't you lose me in publics the other day? And the cashier is very helpful to you trying to help find me.

SPEAKER_05: 12:50

Yeah, I'm wandering around, obviously looking like I don't know what the hell I'm doing. And this this kind little old lady who's a cashier says, you know, can I help you, sir? I said, Um, I'm looking for your wife.

SPEAKER_00: 13:00

Um your wife?

SPEAKER_05: 13:01

My wife. Not her wife, not her wife, I don't know her wife. Um, don't know if her wife has a big butt like you do. Is it like um so no, and and she said, Oh, you know, uh what does she look like? Is she is she pushing uh a cart? I'm like, that's not helpful.

SPEAKER_01: 13:19

But you found me and I was pushing a cart.

SPEAKER_05: 13:22

Yes, but I only found you because I saw your butt from far away.

SPEAKER_01: 13:26

That's right. Not even a red stitch of fabric on my bottom either.

SPEAKER_05: 13:30

Not not any fabric on her. You're wandering around pantless. Another more serious thing that I saw at a store that was greatly disturbing to me.

SPEAKER_01: 13:37

Oh, I don't want to.

SPEAKER_05: 13:38

We went into the bookstore this weekend. You remember that?

SPEAKER_01: 13:41

Yes, I was there.

SPEAKER_05: 13:42

And as I was going in, a gentleman was going out and he had a holster with a gun in it strapped to his hip.

SPEAKER_01: 13:50

Open carry in this town. Open carry at the bookstore. Terrifying.

SPEAKER_05: 13:55

Why? Oh, why do you need to open carry at the bookstore?

SPEAKER_01: 13:59

You don't, is the answer. However, the bookstore is in the same shopping plaza as the boot barn. So I'm fairly certain he wandered in from the boot barn. They probably saw holsters at the boot barn.

SPEAKER_05: 14:11

Going to the hat barn and then the horse barn? Like, I don't know, get his spurs? What are you saying?

SPEAKER_01: 14:15

I'm saying he was probably a little like that he probably got his his holster at the boot barn. Like they do find leather goods.

SPEAKER_05: 14:23

Well, all I know is that you know that old saying that says to um to a man with only a hammer, everything's a nail. You heard this saying? No. So basically, what I'm saying is if that gentleman had gone into the bookstore and encountered a plot twist that he didn't care for, all he had was that gun. That's how he's gonna solve it.

SPEAKER_01: 14:41

That's so scary.

SPEAKER_05: 14:42

Yeah, well, I didn't like it. And of course, I held the door for him.

SPEAKER_01: 14:45

Of course you did.

SPEAKER_05: 14:46

And I said, Have a good day, sir.

SPEAKER_01: 14:48

See you on out. Was he older, younger?

SPEAKER_05: 14:50

He was older than I am.

SPEAKER_01: 14:52

Yeah, no.

SPEAKER_05: 14:53

But I I did not enjoy that. I think that's the first uh uh instance of open carry that I've experienced here in town.

SPEAKER_01: 14:59

I mean, open carry is allowed here, however, it is not allowed at my work.

SPEAKER_05: 15:04

Oh, well, that's good since it's an educational institution.

SPEAKER_01: 15:06

Right, because I'm a it's a it's a public institution of education. Uh open carry is not allowed, which is good. But um they did it's so dumb. It's not funny. I shouldn't laugh at it. They did have an incident of what they thought was open carry on Halloween in the library when the guy carrying his like anime plastic gun didn't think anything about it walking around in his Halloween costume. And then I got an alert from the the university alert system saying like uh active shooter suspected like shelter in place, and it was the guy with like his plastic.

SPEAKER_05: 15:46

I don't know. I feel like these days you should know. I mean, I feel like today it's common sense. Don't don't have anything that looks like a gun.

SPEAKER_01: 15:55

Don't even take your nerf blaster, friend. Like, just don't. And the thing is, like, you know, Muffy's thinking about studying abroad next summer, and I know that we talk about that's scary, right? Especially if we're not there to control it and where is she going and is it safe? Honestly, all of these places are much safer than probably where we live. Like, I feel like we are on a lot of don't fly lists or don't travel lists for lots of reasons.

SPEAKER_05: 16:21

All of our listeners in the UK, and we have quite a few, go ahead and write to us, familiarwilsons at gmail.com, and tell us what you think the United States is like. This is an HOA update.

SPEAKER_01: 16:38

My lord, you owe me so hard.

SPEAKER_05: 16:42

How do I owe you hard?

SPEAKER_01: 16:44

Because I was gone last week. I was gone for work and I came home on Friday, home Friday afternoon, and I said to you, I have a feeling that we're gonna have to wind up at the skate station tonight. So the skater, because Winthrop had a spirit night. For those of you who don't do spirit nights or don't know what they are, it's like a local business, restaurant, whatever, will donate a portion of their sales to the PTO of that school, the parent teacher organization. So this skater rink was donating a portion to his school. And if you wore your school shirt, then you got like a free drink or whatever. And I said to you, and you said, Oh, I don't want to go. And I said, Okay, if he brings it up, I will take him. So he I picked him up from school. He was already wearing his school shirt, and he said, I am wearing this so I can get a free drink. Like he was ready to go. You stayed home with Muffy to work on a homework thing for her. She had a podcast. So lucky for her, she was born into the podcasting family. And I took him to the skating ring. We are in line to get into the skating station, and there is a gentleman behind us who could not be more obnoxious, was talking about the building all around them and how it was probably repurposed as something else, and just just being so obnoxious. Turns out it is the owner of the HOA with whom we have been fighting. I did not know. Did you know his kids went to Winthrop school?

SPEAKER_05: 18:08

No, I I didn't even assume that he had kids.

SPEAKER_01: 18:10

Oh no, he's got them. And uh not only does he have kids, but he has rollerblades. So he brought his rollerblades that light up, friends, to the skating rink and proceeded to skate around the entire place light and skate backwards and skate like he like was so proud of himself and his wife had light up skates and he had light and his kids had light up skates. But the whole point of this is I was texting you and our and our uh our two neighbor friend friends and in the group chat, and I kept trying to send you guys a picture and it wasn't going through. It finally went through, and I said to you that we had been waiting a while, and Winthrop expressed his displeasure with the waiting.

SPEAKER_05: 18:56

So you're all standing in line, and Winthrop says, This is to me, this is ridiculous.

SPEAKER_01: 19:02

Why are we waiting so long?

SPEAKER_05: 19:03

Right. And he's nine and he's saying this is ridiculous. Right. Which again feels like he's he's fully formed 58-year-old man.

SPEAKER_01: 19:11

Oh no, he's one step away from yelling at people to get off his line. But he was this is ridiculous. Why is this taking so long? And in homeowner guy says, Did he did you just did he just say this is ridiculous? He said it to me. Did he just say this is ridiculous? I didn't answer him, and he said, He's got a point to me. I still wasn't answering him. And then he looked at Wenthrop and said, You're gonna grow up to be a really good complainer.

SPEAKER_05: 19:36

Now for context, we have been complaining to these people for months. We made it so they had to rip down one of these incomplete homes. I guarantee you that as he's sitting there talking to you, he had no earthy idea who is.

SPEAKER_01: 19:55

Oh, he has no idea who I am. And I wanted to say to him, oh no, he he's he got it from his dad who complained enough that you had to tear down your your subpar housing.

SPEAKER_05: 20:04

Yeah, no.

SPEAKER_01: 20:05

I didn't. But anyway, so the guy just oh so you owe me because I went to the skating rink, I dealt with all of the skate and Winther swears he's very good, by the way. And he's not and at skating yourself. At skating. And um it had to deal with this guy, so you owe me big time. I don't owe you anything. I took one for the team.

SPEAKER_05: 20:30

Okay. No, you didn't because you didn't have to go, you decided to go.

SPEAKER_01: 20:33

Well, I was being a good parent.

SPEAKER_05: 20:35

Okay, well, then you don't owe me for being a good parent.

SPEAKER_01: 20:37

Then Winthrop owes me for being a good parent. That's right.

SPEAKER_05: 20:39

Winthrop owes us a lot, but he's gonna be the one who has to take us in when we're too old to take care of ourselves. Not gonna put us in a place, no, we're gonna make I don't know how we're gonna do it, but we're gonna make it be so that he has to take us in.

SPEAKER_01: 20:53

So can he, since the guy told him he was gonna grow up to be a really good complainer, can we start having him submit the complaints to the app? Dear sir, based on your recent feedback and encouragement of my complaining skills, I would like to know why blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

SPEAKER_05: 21:10

No, he's just gonna write a thing that says, Dear sir, this is ridiculous.

SPEAKER_00: 21:13

That's right.

SPEAKER_05: 21:16

I wrote a complaint to the the HOA this morning.

SPEAKER_01: 21:21

So passively aggressively, did you?

SPEAKER_05: 21:23

Is uh is this passive aggressive? I said, hello, friends.

SPEAKER_01: 21:28

Yes, no, that's passive.

SPEAKER_05: 21:29

When will this open container of construction debris that has been put in the driveway next to ours be removed? It's unsafe and unsightly and likely against code. Please advise.

SPEAKER_00: 21:38

Yeah, no, that's passive aggressive.

SPEAKER_05: 21:39

Is that passive aggressive? I thought that I was I knew that my message would have to be harsh, so I just softened it in the beginning with a hey, we're all friends here. Now take care of this shit.

SPEAKER_01: 21:48

They're just gonna resolve it and not comment to you.

SPEAKER_05: 21:52

They're probably not, and I'm gonna have to do it again. And and as what happened last time, I'm gonna have to go through and then quote the code, the county code that it violates, which by the way, was the same code I used in my last complaint. It worked. So to get them to take the dumpster away, the open dumpster. These people are just they ugh no. I'm no, we're not doing this. Okay, we're we're done because I'm starting to really get wound up now. Um, so let's move very quickly into our segment that I love. What did we learn this week? Amanda, what did you learn this week?

SPEAKER_01: 22:28

I learned that uh part of my the reason I'm waking up with headaches is because I sleep on my side, and if I don't have enough support, then it pulls the muscles on the opposite side and it causes me to have headaches. This is why I I bought the the target pillows.

SPEAKER_05: 22:44

Okay, so you're saying the the your neck, the the muscles on the opposite side of your neck. Pull your head because you're sleeping on your side, your head isn't aligned, your spine isn't aligned.

SPEAKER_01: 22:53

Right. So it's like at if it's uh if I don't have enough support, so I'm a left side sleeper mostly. If I don't have enough support under the left side of my head, then it's like my neck is hyperextended or whatever that's called.

SPEAKER_05: 23:04

Well, it would be hyperextended on one side and underextended on the other side.

SPEAKER_01: 23:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 23:09

Uh well, I knew that actually, because I've been sleeping. Um, what's wrong?

SPEAKER_01: 23:14

I just bit my hand.

SPEAKER_05: 23:15

You bit your hand? Yeah. How did you just bite your hand?

SPEAKER_01: 23:19

And I didn't get my hand out of the way.

SPEAKER_05: 23:20

Okay, so it's amazing. You know, it's one thing to be so bored that you yawn, but I'm so bored I yawned and bit my hand. It's a new one. I've never heard of that before.

SPEAKER_01: 23:31

I was trying to not make the yawning noise so you don't have to cut. I'm sorry, it's after nine o'clock. I am tired. And I was trying to, and I just bit my hand. I don't know. I don't know how I did it. I just did.

SPEAKER_05: 23:45

So let me tell you the thing that I learned this week, besides that I'm so boring that I'm causing snorted.

SPEAKER_00: 23:51

You just see me snort.

SPEAKER_05: 23:53

I'm so boring that I cause people to try to gnaw off their limbs.

SPEAKER_01: 24:02

Okay, go ahead. What'd you learn?

SPEAKER_05: 24:04

Oh, so what what I learned this week was a way to get your body calmed down after a very stressful situation.

unknown: 24:13

All right.

SPEAKER_05: 24:14

We had an instance uh I didn't think it was last night. Was it last night? I think it was last night, where we're upstairs, Muffy's downstairs, and she texts you upstairs, I need to talk to you. Yeah. Well, instantly I go into like high stress mode.

SPEAKER_01: 24:28

You are almost asleep.

SPEAKER_05: 24:29

I was almost asleep, and then that happened. I was like, oh my God, you know, what's happened now?

SPEAKER_01: 24:34

And it was totally fine. It was like something about stranger things.

SPEAKER_05: 24:36

Yeah, no, it was totally fine. But whenever we get a text now, I'm just like, oh my God, what's wrong? Like the I need to talk to you text. And so I was instantly hyped up. You went downstairs, you let me know that everything was fine, but you stayed downstairs for a little bit, and I still had all of this like the adrenaline. And adrenaline. And so I was kind of so I was looking up how to how to relieve stress, and you know, they say, you know, deep breathing, doing something physical. I was reading uh this idea that that we get into uh an anxious situation, the adrenaline flows, puts us into fight or flight, so that we are ready to do just that, to do what it says on the tin. We're ready to either fight someone or to run away. Our body prepares itself to do just that. Your body is activated and ready to go. And the best thing to do to dispel that is to do something physically with your body, not like run a lap. But the thing that I saw is just like, you know, shake your arms or shake your hands, right? And so felt like an idiot, but I was there and I was just shaking my both of my hands um so that they kind of flopped around a bit, and it helped a great deal. You know, it's one of those things where our emotions affect our bodies. Like that's the thing that we know. When we are stressed out, maybe we get a pain in the pit of our stomach, uh, maybe we uh have trouble breathing, we get a headache, whatever it is, our our muscles get tense, but then we often forget that the opposite is true, that our bodies and our physicality can affect our emotions in a positive way. And so that's one of the ways. Or if you're stressed out, go for a walk or do deep breathing, but take advantage of the fact that your your body is connected to your mind. Uh, take advantage of it and use that to help dissipate stress and anxiety. So that's what I I kind of knew that, but it was reinforced to me. And then I had a an opportunity to act on that, and and it worked out. So that's the thing I learned this week.

SPEAKER_01: 26:46

I will try that.

SPEAKER_05: 26:48

It's time for our emails. We have quite a few emails. We asked people to write in last week in response to the fact that while we were in a breakfast restaurant, you decided to fix the broken toilet.

SPEAKER_01: 27:02

Because it was broken, and I'm a helper. And I also need all of you to know that Josh has been telling me as he gets his emails, but won't tell me what you all said. So I have spent most of the week not sure if Leo agreed with me or not, or Dan or Kate. So I'm annoyed that I didn't know. And second of all, I hope that you weren't being unkind to me. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_05: 27:22

Okay, so Leo uh is writing to us about uh a few things. I'm gonna focus on his section where he talks about this um this situation. Would he fix the toilet? He says, Oh, Josh, sweet, sweet, innocent Josh. Well, thank you, Leo, for for that. Amanda is right about the water in the toilet tank. It is the same tap water you use to wash your hands with in any and every restaurant, whether it's in your home or the crappiest dive bar in town. I think the word crappiest would affect how I think about anything in that bar, but the water in the tank is fresh water, he says. And I, like her, hate to see water running for no good reason. So I will also do what I can to stop it. Yes, that includes fixing a public toilet if I can, because again, the water in that tank is the same water you're gonna run to the sink in order to wash your hands.

SPEAKER_01: 28:15

Thank you, Leo.

SPEAKER_05: 28:16

So he agrees with you. That's one in your favor. Then Dan Belson wrote in Hi Wilsons. Just to let you know, of course, I haven't taken the time to fix a broken toilet in a restaurant. I'm not even sure it needed to be said, but there you go.

SPEAKER_01: 28:31

Thanks, Dan.

SPEAKER_05: 28:33

Then Kate says this. I thought about the toilet thing for a while. I was initially on Amanda's side, thinking, yes, I would do the same thing. However, after further consideration, 30-year-old me would have done that. Nearly 50-year-old me is way too tired to make that my problem.

SPEAKER_01: 28:49

All right, well, 50-year-old me did make it my problem, Kate. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_05: 28:54

Kate does continue on because you had talked about the the black cat.

SPEAKER_01: 28:58

Yeah. Does she know whose cat that is?

SPEAKER_05: 29:00

Um, no, but you you ran across a black cat last week. She says that damn black cat ran into my front door and up the stairs. I am severely allergic to cats. One of my kids retrieved it and then I had to vacuum. Whose cat is that? It probably belongs to HOA and has been sent to tormentus.

SPEAKER_01: 29:18

I haven't seen it in a while. I actually haven't seen it since Halloween night, Kate. So maybe it was a special Halloween cat and it'll come back next year.

SPEAKER_05: 29:25

Both Kate and Leo um talked about Focus on the Family. So read what Kate had to say. Focus on the family could not be a better example of homophobia being a direct result of denying one's own sexual desires. They clearly get off on thinking really hard about how this innocent children's film could be about men wanting to have sex with other men.

SPEAKER_00: 29:45

Agreed.

SPEAKER_05: 29:46

Yes. Um, and then she says, I'm feeling rather verbose this week, so I will not necessarily regale you with my thoughts in the future unless you would like to add a segment to the podcast of thoughts from a unrefined straight white woman.

SPEAKER_00: 29:59

That's right.

SPEAKER_05: 30:02

She's also very uh relieved, as was Refine Gay Jeff, that we lock our doors when we have bed dates.

SPEAKER_01: 30:08

Okay.

SPEAKER_00: 30:10

Otherwise, Winthrop will just run out of the house and across the greenery and straight into your house like the black cat up the stairs.

SPEAKER_05: 30:18

Yep, yep. Leo says the focus on the family parental guide to movies is yet another shining example of hypocritical Puritan flaws that lurk in Western Christianity. As you pointed out, with K-pop Demon Hunter, there is no sexual intent in Sodopop, but Focus on the Family made it so. In all fairness, they do have a couple of podcasts that aren't so unhinged, but the movie thing is simply the worst. And as a person of faith, it always angers me that the worst are always the loudest and most powerful, but such is America in general.

SPEAKER_01: 30:51

Agreed, Leo. Now you said something the other day. So you and I both were raised in in different Western Christian traditions, but still very dogmatic in what we were raised in. And I, you know, we've certainly have have come away from that. I still believe in a higher power. I think you're searching and not quite sure what you believe in. I still believe in God, but I really, really, really liked what you said the other day about you were talking with somebody and said that, you know, I I believe in God, but I really don't like the people who work for him or something like that.

SPEAKER_05: 31:26

Chris Barron said that.

SPEAKER_01: 31:27

I didn't know if I was allowed to say Chris Baron said, but yeah. So, but I I believe in God, I just really hate the people who work for him or don't like the people who work from him or whatever. And that is could not be more true for me at this point. Or, you know, the people who are allowed about working for him.

SPEAKER_05: 31:41

Yeah, that's right. Leo also weighs in about cats and dogs. He says, I'm with you in regard to cats and dogs. For decades, I've said that cats don't really like people, rather, they tolerate people out of convenience. I've always had cat people try to convince me otherwise, then to proceed to tell stories of the absolute sinister things their cats have done to them. Even their body language screams, fuck off. Dogs, on the other hand, are loyal to a fault and always greet you enthusiastically. I'm convinced that if dogs could speak, they wouldn't cuss, so fuck off. Isn't even in their vocabulary.

SPEAKER_00: 32:16

Pretty sure ours yells fuck off the window at people who get on our lawn.

SPEAKER_05: 32:20

Yes, yes. Well, he is an old man, so he is most definitely. All right, so if you want to weigh in on any of the topics that we talk about, familiar Wilsons um at Gmail. It took me a second. I did, I did. FamiliarWilsons at gmail.com.

SPEAKER_03: 32:36

No one likes to be told what to do.

SPEAKER_05: 32:38

And now is the time in the podcast where we tell you what to do. Amanda, what should we do?

SPEAKER_01: 32:43

Okay. If you like cheesy, just Christmassy movies, I can't quite bring myself to Hallmark, but Netflix has a new don't get excited. It got a 6.2 out of 10 on the IMDB rating. So don't get excited. But there's a new Netflix movie. It's called Champagne Promises. It's I watched it after Josh went to sleep last night.

SPEAKER_05: 33:01

It's a Christmas movie. It's a Christmas movie. It's like a lifetime movie set in a strip club.

SPEAKER_01: 33:05

No, it's no. She goes to Champaign, France to try to buy a winery and then falls in love with the winery guy's son, whom she met in a bookshop. And he showed her one night in Paris and Christmas at Paris. Whatever. It's lovely because the guy's an actual French actor, so his accent isn't horrible. Um, but it's just charming and it's it's Paris and Champagne, France, um, at the holidays, and it's quite lovely. I watched a whole ass movie sitting right next to you after you fell asleep last night. Because you you did the thing where you rolled over and said no before I even said goodnight to you. Because as soon as you roll over, I know you want to sleep. I watched a whole Netflix Christmas. I went to Paris last night after you fell asleep.

SPEAKER_05: 33:47

Ah, see, that's that's what you're gonna do when we've broken my 16-year mark, and you're you've helped me get my record, then you're just gonna leave off to Paris.

SPEAKER_01: 33:56

Will you have another 16 years in here for somebody else?

SPEAKER_05: 34:00

God no. I'm done after this one. I got nothing, man. I've I'm squeezed like an orange.

SPEAKER_03: 34:10

Diabetes.

SPEAKER_05: 34:12

Alright, Amanda, that's all there is. There is no more. What'd you think of that what'd you think of that mess?

SPEAKER_01: 34:20

Excuse me.

SPEAKER_05: 34:21

What'd you think of that mess?

SPEAKER_01: 34:22

You haven't even had wine tonight. Um, I listen, you asked me this. You've been asking me this every time for five years. I don't know. It's it's always it's always I enjoy doing this with you. No idea what we talked about. I'm so damn tired. And I just have to wake up tomorrow, work a little bit, and then let Wintherp yell at me some more.

SPEAKER_05: 34:41

That's good. Too bad you can't get paid for that. We would like to thank all of those people without whom this podcast would not be possible. You think that I can do all these names by memory?

SPEAKER_00: 34:53

No.

SPEAKER_05: 34:54

What? You don't think I can do it? I don't give me your phone. I say these these names every single week. Right, give me your phone. You don't think that I can say them by memory?

SPEAKER_01: 35:04

I do not. I've been married to you for almost 12 years. I do not.

SPEAKER_05: 35:07

We would like to thank Antonio, Matt, um, Danny Buckets, Chicken Tom, Ryan Baker, Joey.

SPEAKER_01: 35:20

Joey.

SPEAKER_05: 35:22

Uh, did I say Antonio? Yes. I did. Josh Scar. Yes. Um, Dan and Gavin.

SPEAKER_01: 35:30

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_05: 35:31

And Mark and Rachel. And Refine Gay Jeff. And Monique from Germany. Chicken Tom might come on with us uh next week. Oh, really? By the way. Yes. Uh yeah, for all the time that you spent with him. Uh alright, so folks, until next week, we gotta get uh Amanda here in bed because she is dead dog tired.

SPEAKER_01: 35:50

Yeah, I'm the one screwing up.

SPEAKER_05: 35:52

Probably had a little bit too much wine. But anyway, that's oh my god.

SPEAKER_01: 35:56

Do you I need to talk about your water bottle?

SPEAKER_05: 36:00

No, don't talk about it because it was it was no, it doesn't.

SPEAKER_01: 36:04

Okay, so then don't be talking about my two glasses of wine I had tonight that were cut with saltzer, by the way.

SPEAKER_05: 36:09

Alright, well, y'all. Um until next week. Uh I'll definitely be here with Chicken Tom.

SPEAKER_01: 36:15

Don't know if a man I may or may not even live in this house anymore by next week. You don't know.

SPEAKER_05: 36:20

Be in friends with her winery owner's father or some shit like that.

SPEAKER_00: 36:25

I mean, I am at this point closer in age to the father than the son.

SPEAKER_05: 36:29

Alright. Talk to y'all next week.

SPEAKER_00: 36:31

Go be kind.