Work Party and Podcast Jesus Returneth

On this week’s Super Familiar with the Wilsons, Amanda and Podcast Jesus return to Sunday-morning recording to unpack holiday work parties, questionable parenting moments, mysterious car trouble, and the strange comfort of niche pillows, Hallmark-adjacent movies, and loyal listeners. It’s marriage 2.0 with kids, hormones, neighborhood nonsense, and a little Gainesville holiday magic, exactly the kind of chaos you can put in your ears while pretending to be productive.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Cold Open And Show Setup
• 0:34 Podcast Jesus And Guest Spots
• 1:09 Work Party Or Party Party?
• 3:31 Networking Etiquette And Public Spats
• 6:22 Flats, HOAs, And Neighborhood Drama
• 8:16 Office Dance Floor Anthropology
• 9:19 Holiday Lights And The Top Restaurant
• 12:05 Spicy Kids And The Jalapeño Fiasco
• 14:08 The Parents’ Notary Kit Bit
• 15:33 Hot Cider, Night Wakings, And Karma
• 17:05 Biting Toddlers And Onion Consequences
• 19:05 Calm Parenting And Safety Language
• 21:03 Intuition, Safety, And Social Awareness
• 22:20 Perimenopause, Patches, And Patience
• 24:02 Modern Life, Hormones, And Food
• 24:42 Listener Mail From Jeff
• 26:06 Pillow Testing, Neck Pain, And Recommendations
• 28:04 Hallmark-Style Movies And French Charm
• 29:25 Sunday Funday And Sugar Daddy Hopes
• 30:05 Clarifying Cervical Terms With Humor
• 31:05 Recording Schedule And Local Event Plug
• 32:18 Thank-Yous, Shoutouts, And Sign-Off

Transcript

SPEAKER_01: 0:00

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. Three, two, one. Run. Super familiar with that. Get it at it.

SPEAKER_02: 0:32

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

SPEAKER_01: 0:35

And I'm Podcast Jesus, and this is the podcast about marriage 2.0 with kids.

SPEAKER_02: 0:41

And all the side quests. I forgot about Podcast Jesus.

SPEAKER_01: 0:44

Oh, you never forget about it. Podcast Jesus has come again. Oh I recorded this morning with Chris McClellan for the Aging Gay Flea Podcast. And yesterday I recorded with John Spence for Notes for an Awesome Life with John Spence. And now we're doing this one here. You are the best one. I've warmed up now.

SPEAKER_02: 1:04

Okay, good. I'm glad. All right, good. Your podcast Jesus, let's go.

SPEAKER_01: 1:08

Bless you, my child. We had your Christmas work party, your work Christmas party.

SPEAKER_02: 1:14

One of the work Christmas. I have two every year. A larger one and then a smaller one. Which is interesting because the larger one actually winds up being the smaller one. And my my actual office one is much bigger.

SPEAKER_01: 1:27

Yeah, that's good. Let's figure that one out. But I was very sad uh to find out as we walked in. Usually there's the same DJ year after year, uh, a gentleman called Elio Piedra here in town. And he is he is just such a happy dude and a wonderful guy. And whenever we enter the room, Yes, this is why you missed him. Yes, of course, because who wouldn't love this? We enter the room, and the first thing I hear is, it's the Wilson!

SPEAKER_02: 1:57

The Wilsons are here. No one welcomed us.

SPEAKER_01: 2:00

No one welcomed us.

SPEAKER_02: 2:01

No one seemed happy to see us.

SPEAKER_01: 2:02

Well, well, I mean, they were happy to see you, not so happy to see me. And then we had a moment. We had a moment at the work holiday. So, okay, here's the thing. Folks, and I've talked about this before, but it bears repeating. When you're at a work Christmas party, please don't emphasize the word work. Emphasize the word party.

SPEAKER_02: 2:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_01: 2:25

Because always what happens is, and it happened again, all of a sudden, Amanda's gone. I go find her, and she's talking to like two or three other people, and they're talking about, well, we need to circle back to this, and we need to make sure this is. I heard circle back, friend.

SPEAKER_00: 2:41

That oh, then that wasn't me.

SPEAKER_01: 2:43

Uh-huh. And you know, oh, we need to network about this and don't do it. Don't do it. Don't do it. I saw so many times different people pulling people aside and talking about work things. Not just you. And I will tell you, it made for a bit of an awkward moment because I came to find you.

SPEAKER_02: 3:00

And you yelled at me publicly.

SPEAKER_01: 3:01

And I didn't yell at you, I just said I'm very, I'm very angry at you.

SPEAKER_02: 3:05

You pointed at me, you said, I'm really mad at you.

SPEAKER_01: 3:07

Yes, but in a joking sort of way.

SPEAKER_02: 3:09

I didn't but somebody who works in in my downline was standing there, and she goes, she got really concerned that you were really upset with me. And then I had to assure her that our marriage was fine. So, like, don't do that stuff in public, please.

SPEAKER_01: 3:22

Well, I'm I was kidding with you. You knew I was kidding.

SPEAKER_02: 3:25

Yes, I knew you were kidding.

SPEAKER_01: 3:26

Okay, so that's listen. Other people don't we we are the main characters. What can I say?

SPEAKER_02: 3:30

Listen, you want me to yes, Anne, and you're just talking through it. You gotta let me like now explain. The reason why is because the this was the college-wide party, right? And my work is a center within the college, and my work party tends to be oh, we're all celebrating because we work together all the time. The college-wide party, I don't see these people. The person that I was quote circling back with, I haven't seen in maybe 14 or 15 months. And he was asking me to write a paper for this journal that he's editing. And so I think that this work party really is a networking time because you're it's bringing together people who don't see each other on a regular basis. I mean, I don't even work on campus anymore. So it was a time to quote circle back with the people.

SPEAKER_01: 4:13

Then don't invite the spouses or do like you. You're welcome to not come. Well, no, what I'm saying is like I had don't call it a party. And if you're gonna invite the spouses, have like a special room for them, like like you do for the kids when you're doing something, like with a movie playing popcorn, full bar. Elio can be in that room.

SPEAKER_02: 4:30

Okay.

SPEAKER_01: 4:31

And because clearly you all need to network and call it your your Christmas networking, working off the clock, by the way. That's another thing. For the folks who are, were there any folks there who weren't uh salaried?

SPEAKER_02: 4:43

Um sure there were. I don't know actually.

SPEAKER_01: 4:46

They better not have been talking to them about work things, they better not have been networking with them because none of the people I were talking to weren't salaried. Okay, well, at least that. But all I'm saying is that if it's billed as a as a holiday party, then have it be a holiday, which means no work, and then party, which means fun.

SPEAKER_02: 5:03

Okay, well, first of all, you got a bar, you got an open bar.

SPEAKER_01: 5:07

I did, but I was driving, so what can I say?

SPEAKER_02: 5:10

Okay, and then you had a a space for you, which was the dance floor.

SPEAKER_01: 5:16

Dance floor ain't no space for me, baby. I exist on the periphery. I had an interesting conversation with one of your colleagues who wants to start a podcast, and so that was that was fun and interesting. Um, Jesus talked to another one of cool. Right, talk to another one of your um uh colleagues who's from Miami, and that was fun. I enjoyed that. So those were enjoyable parts of it. The Amanda's off networking and doing work and all that, not not so bad.

SPEAKER_02: 5:44

You want me to continue to build my brand so that you can retire and be a full-time podcasting house husband. So I gotta be out there building my brand, publishing papers, securing networking opportunities.

SPEAKER_01: 5:58

Building your brand. If we ever reach a point that sounds so whatever that sounds like, we reach a point that in order to get to you, I need to first talk to your personal secretary or whatever, then we got problems.

SPEAKER_02: 6:09

Let me tell you who my personal secretary would be.

SPEAKER_01: 6:11

Who?

SPEAKER_02: 6:12

Winthrop. No, he's you'd have to go through him.

SPEAKER_01: 6:14

No, he's your boss. What are you talking about?

SPEAKER_02: 6:16

I know, I know.

SPEAKER_01: 6:18

You're his downline.

SPEAKER_02: 6:21

I alright. Well, talking about you had to drive. So you drove because Muffy and Winthrop went to do another holiday thing in town. And we gave her my car. But last night we were gonna go out and had a lovely time, and we went to drive and getting down the road and clunk, clunk, clunk. I have a massive flat tire. Shoot, I forgot we got to deal with that today.

SPEAKER_01: 6:42

You start talking about it. I'm like, oh, guess we should immediately after this go deal with the flat tire.

SPEAKER_02: 6:47

I mean, it's not like this thing has been leaking air. Like this thing was sliced by something, and I am trying to assume goodwill and that it is not retro uh retribution for all of the complaining that you have done in the neighborhood.

SPEAKER_01: 7:01

Are you saying that the HOA people slashed your tires?

SPEAKER_02: 7:04

I think they might have. Or they just left construction debris out and it slashed my tire.

SPEAKER_01: 7:08

Well, we know that that happens. Hmm. I'm gonna take a picture of your flat tire and I'm gonna put it on the on the community app.

SPEAKER_02: 7:18

Oh, wait, the resident one or the like what's app with all the neighbors?

SPEAKER_01: 7:22

Oh, now I might do that as well, actually. No, I was talking about making a complaint to the community, say, hey, you've got all this construction shit about, and now you owe me for this tire. That's what I was saying. But no, I'll I'll put it on the neighbor app just to raise your hand if you also have a flat tire. Just to be funny. Yeah. So uh the other thing that I did notice, you talked about the the dance floor. There was there were only as many as four people on the dance floor, except for when they did the the Cupid Shuffle or something.

SPEAKER_02: 7:49

I heard the Cupid Shuffle playing. I was out networking, but I heard it playing.

SPEAKER_01: 7:52

A bunch of people got up for that. But otherwise, there were there were four people um up dancing as and it looked like you would imagine it would look like at an office networking um situation.

SPEAKER_02: 8:03

Easily could have been Michael Scott.

SPEAKER_01: 8:05

Oh my goodness. And there was this one guy, he was he's a middle-aged guy, he's kind of dancing okay, but where he fell down is that his face looked like he was taking aim at like a 20-point buck. It was just like such intensity and narrowing of the eyes and eyebrow. He looked kind of like maybe like imagine the Grinch in like business casual on the dance floor.

SPEAKER_02: 8:30

Well, I mean, he had to concentrate really hard on the rhythm.

SPEAKER_01: 8:33

Well, he did have to concentrate really hard on the rhythm, but his face was puckered up like a butt. Let me tell you something.

SPEAKER_02: 8:40

Well, he was out there doing it.

SPEAKER_01: 8:42

Yeah, well, he was, and but I feel like I enjoyed it more than he did than he did by just watching it.

SPEAKER_02: 8:48

But it's also it's like in this conference room, and so the dance floor is not really delineated, other than people have just decided this is the perimeter of the dance floor, this square in the middle. So it just looks like these people might be standing around having a conversation and then start having little fits.

SPEAKER_01: 9:04

Well, that is the thing, is uh there were certain points where I didn't know whether I needed to call EMS or not, um, you know, because of the strobe lights, you know, someone was uh upright seizing or whatever. Um, so it was it was a kind of I much more enjoyed um last night and what we did last night, which is go see holiday lights at a local historical venue. Yeah, it was very, very cool.

SPEAKER_02: 9:29

And we went to a restaurant that you have insisted for the past 12 or 13 years that has really bad service and you'd never want to go there. I like it. The food is good and it's a locally owned place, and I like like putting my money back into locally owned businesses. And Muffy suggested it because we were gonna be down near it for the um for the lighting thing, and it was a good it was good, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 9:53

We can say the name of it because we're gonna be able to do it.

SPEAKER_02: 9:55

Oh, sure, because we liked it.

SPEAKER_01: 9:56

There's a place in Gainesville that everyone talks about called the Top, the Top Restaurant. And the inside of it kind of looks like um, you know, 1970s thrift store chic or whatever.

SPEAKER_02: 10:10

Yeah, yeah, it's definitely eclectic.

SPEAKER_01: 10:11

Uh lower lighting. It it's definitely one of these character places, and people always have it on their must-visit in Gainesville um map there. My experience in the past is that the food has been good, but that the service has been really slow. And I think that over the years it has had the reputation for that. I don't know what they did, um, but last night the service was exceptional. Our server was great, it was quick and easy, and it wasn't empty, it was full. It was full of people. And in fact, when we left, it was there was a line out the door, which was pretty cool.

SPEAKER_02: 10:49

I mean, and the price point is is reasonable. It's I mean, I think it's really reasonably priced for the portions that you get. And um, like I said, it's just it's a locally owned place. And um I've been twice in the past six months or so, and the service was great before too.

SPEAKER_01: 11:04

So okay, so they've fixed it, they've done something, they listened to the people, love that. I can recommend their burger that's called the Rubinesque, which is basically what it sounds like a burger combined with a with a uh Ruben with pastrami and sauerkraut and special sauce, and it was really, really well cooked, really, really good. So that is the top restaurant here in Gainesville. What did you have?

SPEAKER_02: 11:27

I had I split the vegetarian nachos with Winthrop, and they were great. It was, I mean, it was a starter, but I mean it was perfectly we brought a bunch home. Frickin' huge. How can they call it?

SPEAKER_01: 11:37

This is why this country's in trouble. That's a starter inherent in the name is you can't stop with this. Well, it was it was nachos that you shared with th four people, really, because I had some, yeah, and Muffy had some, and Winthrop had some, and you had some.

SPEAKER_02: 11:50

Yeah. Um, and we still had a bunch left, and that was mine and Winthrop's main, but it was, you know, it's black beans and a ton of cheese and really great guacamole. I mean, and a ton of guacamole, too. And like you go to Chipotle, they charge you like three dollars for that, and sour cream and jalapenos, although Winthrop was insistent that he could have this jalapeno was not going to bother him.

SPEAKER_01: 12:13

Listen, parents out there who are listening and you want to hear about our suffering. Our child insists, he's so insistent upon everything and everything that he thinks is right until it isn't, and then it's still right. But then it was my fault. And it's your fault. Because we told him, Look, dude, don't don't eat that. He's like, Oh, I can eat it, it'll be fine. No, I like hot things. No, don't eat it. It's gonna burn and you're not gonna be comfortable. Of course, he ate it, and of course it burned, and I watched his little face, and he's like, Can I have milk? Can I have milk? Why did you make me eat that? Why didn't you? Why did you give it to me? Yeah, why did you give it to me? Dude, at some point, I'm gonna let you just ride with the fellas. You know what I'm saying? At some point, I'm like, all right, throw my hands up, and then it's all you. In fact, what I am gonna do is I'm gonna get my notary public and I'm gonna make him sign a form whenever he makes some sort of questionable decision like that. Uh, Amanda, bring out the briefcase, bring out the form for jalapenos. Uh, Winthrop, sign this. I'd take my little seal. Boop, boop. This is legal, dude. Nothing I can do. It wasn't me, it was all you. And this is what I'm gonna do from now on. In fact, we should sell a branded Wilson's uh notary kit for parents.

SPEAKER_02: 13:32

Yeah, but he won't sign it, but he won't sign it.

SPEAKER_01: 13:35

No, he will sign it because he's right. Yeah, and he's gonna say that's not my signature. Right. Like, dude, I was fucking here. I saw you sign it and I I notarized it. Can't can't do that. Are you done with the lies? Are you done with the I already brush my teeth when their breath smells like a garbage disposal? Are you done with I'm so hungry? Followed immediately by I'm too full for vegetables. That's why you need the parents' notary kit. Now, every promise comes with a legally binding affidavit. Little Timmy swears under oath that yes, he did flush. Madison signs in triplicate that she will not claim her brother started it without video evidence. And my personal favorite, a binding contract stating that five more minutes of screen time means five actual minutes, not 45. The kit comes with an embosser, a tiny gavel for dramatic effect, and pre-written affidavits for common lies, including I didn't eat the cookies, the dog ate my homework, and this is my inside voice. The parents notary kit, because I promise means nothing without a witness and a signature. Please notice this is not legally binding, will not hold up in a court of law, definitely won't work, but you'll feel better.

SPEAKER_02: 14:53

And then last night we're at this lovely thing at the Thomas Center, and the kids wanted hot cocoa. And by the time we got to the place in line, all they had left was hot cider. And they put whipped cream on the top of it for him, which I guess made him seem like or feel like he could just take a big gulp of it, which he did, and it burnt his tongue. Did he spit it back out? Because I wasn't there when it happened. I just saw the aftermath.

SPEAKER_01: 15:18

He did.

SPEAKER_02: 15:19

Great. So the jalapeno happened, and then scalding hot cider. I didn't think I could forgot the word of it. He woke me up at two o'clock this morning to tell me his tongue hurt.

SPEAKER_01: 15:33

Do you believe in karma?

SPEAKER_02: 15:35

Well, is it karma for me for letting him do it? Because to his credit, I did say, Do you want a jalapeno? I did ask him if he wanted one.

SPEAKER_01: 15:41

Why did you do that?

SPEAKER_02: 15:43

Because he likes spicy stuff, but I told him.

SPEAKER_01: 15:45

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02: 15:46

I said, do not eat it alone. Eat it on a chip with the cheese and the sour cream. And he insisted he could eat it by himself. Because he and Andrew both are our spicy kids. And Andrew's not a spicy kid. Winthrop's a spicy kid, but they both like spicy stuff. And you don't understand the difference. Spicy meaning like fighting me aggressive.

SPEAKER_01: 16:07

Got it.

SPEAKER_02: 16:08

It um Winthrop's birthday at the Mexican restaurant, they just sat there and ate all of the hot sauces together. Okay. Tried all of them. Well, I you know so I assumed he'd be fine. So car it was karma for me getting woken up at two in the morning telling me his tongue hurt.

SPEAKER_01: 16:23

I think it's karma for him. The universe is trying to say stop talking back to us.

unknown: 16:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_02: 16:28

So instead of I'll wash your mouth out with soap, that's right.

SPEAKER_01: 16:31

No, make you eat jalapenos. Be careful, little tongues, what you say.

SPEAKER_02: 16:34

First of all, I have not heard that in a while. I taught preschool at my church when I was in college. And there was a little kid who, in the two-year-old class, which is absolutely developmentally appropriate because we went through it with Winthrop, would bite.

SPEAKER_00: 16:48

Oh, sure.

SPEAKER_02: 16:48

Because and we used to call them in Winthrop's class the baby sharks because they don't have language is is in that they can express themselves very well. And so they they go to biting. That's a thing. It's developmentally appropriate, it's fine. But his parents required us, and now I'm looking back on it, going, I that probably broke so many like laws or something, to keep an onion in the refrigerator. And anytime he bit a kid, we had to make him bite the onion.

SPEAKER_01: 17:20

Listen, you remind me how unreasonable parents can be, and I'm one of those parents. When our kid bites, we just oh, I'm so sorry, you know, blah blah blah. When another kid bites our kid, we're looking for the death penalty.

SPEAKER_00: 17:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 17:35

I mean, parents just have uh any sense of reason ripped from them, and it's probably from the lack of sleep, I don't know, or just the struggles and stress of I gotta work, I cannot have my child be kicked out of this daycare. My child did something wrong, split second, whose fault is it? Must be someone's someone else's fault, not my fault.

SPEAKER_02: 17:59

There was a lady last night. I was in the bathroom at the light thing, and she had a toddler, I mean, couldn't have been more than two, who was losing her mind. I mean, the child was just yelling and screaming because she didn't want to be in the bathroom. And the mom was trying to explain to her, you, I'm not trying to make you go to the bathroom. I have to go to the bathroom. You have to be with me. The mom handled it so beautifully and spoke with such just even tones to by the end of it, and she said, I understand you want to do this by yourself. I understand you don't want me to hold you or touch you. It's my job to keep you safe. So if you can stand here with me, and like she started now, at first the child was just screaming and yelling, but because the mom's tones stayed even, the child was able to co-regulate and calm down. And by the end, the child was like, Yeah, I gotta go to the bathroom. And it was beautiful. And the mom said, if you can be, you know, you're doing a great job. You're I'm you're keeping yourself safe. I don't need to be holding you. And I wanted to walk out of the bathroom and tell her what a great job I thought she did. She doesn't know me, she doesn't know my background, she doesn't know that this is what I do for a job, she doesn't know that I write courses on how to do what she just did. So then I thought that's gonna sound so patronizing. So I didn't do it, but I kind of wish I would have. I don't know. What do you think?

SPEAKER_01: 19:10

Why didn't you?

SPEAKER_02: 19:12

Because as I was walking out, she was walking into the stall, and I mean, she she needed to use the bathroom. I whatever. I just I I I didn't have time to explain to her, and then I didn't want her to think that I was I don't know, is it weird? Should I have done it?

SPEAKER_01: 19:26

Well, yeah, no, why not?

SPEAKER_02: 19:28

I why not? I don't know. I just felt weird.

SPEAKER_01: 19:30

Well, if you felt weird, then don't do it. That that's that's a good rule of thumb. And maybe that was your women's intuition telling you that this this woman, uh, you know, in her regular life is a serial killer and you don't want to draw attention to yourself. I have learned through very, very, very difficult circumstances to rely on uh people's feminine intuition.

SPEAKER_02: 19:50

Oh, I think it's a real thing.

SPEAKER_01: 19:52

No, I do too. I do too. I think that you've been given that superpower because men by and large are huh? Suck. I mean on the bed date. Um but men by and large I had coffee in my mouth I must do a spit take. Oh wow get out of here. Anyway, what was that? Sorry, Bogie. No, I I think that the the reality is is that men have certain or some men have certain physical advantages. I think your advantage is the ESP that you have.

SPEAKER_02: 20:22

Yeah. I saw something the other day, I think Gavin Belson posted it and I was just so appreciative of it. But it was it was a reel or something that said it was a guy saying, I know that I am not a danger to woman. I know that I would never do anything to hurt a woman, but she does not know that. And so I don't take offense at her giving me a broad pass when she walks past me and all of that stuff. Because I think there are some guys who get offended. Like I'm not gonna hurt you. And that in and of itself is threatening behavior.

SPEAKER_01: 20:51

Well, and the get offended is such lack of awareness. Yeah, no, that not everything is about you. In fact, most things aren't about you.

SPEAKER_02: 20:58

I'm just now reflecting on the fact that I was praising in my head this woman's parenting and talking about how this I have this background in this and all this research. Well, I don't do it with him. I try really hard. But me, paramenopause, and him, it's not a good mix.

SPEAKER_01: 21:15

Yeah, it's that's a bad threesome right there.

SPEAKER_02: 21:17

It's the whole like, do what I do, not what do what I say, not what I do.

SPEAKER_01: 21:21

That is the unholy trinity. Yeah. Winthrop, Amanda, and Amanda's little little gray friend.

SPEAKER_02: 21:27

Grumpy Irish perimenopause woman.

SPEAKER_01: 21:30

Oh goodness.

SPEAKER_02: 21:31

We're fine Gay Jeffson a thing this morning, and I I think that I should start doing it. I loved it very much. It was it says, as a feral paramenopausal woman, I'm gonna start yelling not friendly when someone approaches. I got the idea from dog people. I hope it works.

SPEAKER_01: 21:44

Yeah, but see, the thing is, is that with dog people, it's the it's the owner that yells. You don't own me. I don't, Jesus. I know that's for certain. But you're saying that as we're out, someone comes towards you, and I look at them and say, Not friendly. You'll lose a finger, back away.

SPEAKER_02: 22:01

Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_01: 22:02

It's not you, it's her. It's her. She's not been socialized correctly.

SPEAKER_02: 22:06

I mean, it's and it's gotten worse again. Have you noticed the difference when I started messing with the patch? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 22:12

Have I noticed the difference? My stress level fucking through the roof, man. Come on.

SPEAKER_02: 22:17

I can't control it. It's the worst. Is this just like were women just supposed to be dead by now? Like what this is like women live longer than men. Historically, though. I mean, every like the average age was like 45 or whatever. What I'm saying is that modern medicine is now accounting for this change and and equipping us with the ability to deal with it, but for millennia, it wasn't a thing. And so did women women just all had died by now and no one had thought to fix it.

SPEAKER_01: 22:46

I have no frame of reference, no, nor do I even think I have the right to comment in about this. I'm serious. All right, I do wonder this in general. When we ask questions like, did they do this a hundred years ago or was it like this or like that? The people 200, 300, 400 years ago were not ingesting the hormone-laden shit that we ingest every day with in our proteins, which by the way, we gotta wrap this up. I'm hungry, we gotta go eat. Um, our proteins and all the stuff that they spray on the vegetables that I sparingly eat. A whole new game now.

SPEAKER_02: 23:18

Yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_01: 23:19

Whole new game. We don't know. Welcome to the Wilsons. We don't know.

SPEAKER_02: 23:24

God, for most things we don't know.

SPEAKER_01: 23:26

Jeff did send us a an email last week, but we had already recorded with Gavin. I do want to hit you with a couple of the highlights from this uh this letter from Jeff here that I've just lost. Okay, there it is. So he did uh talk about how his car uh it went kaput. I'm sorry, Jeff. Yeah, no, and I mean I I almost don't want to read this bit, not because of of you, Jeff, but because we're probably gonna have to deal with our car in a few minutes here. But man, he had to pay a shit ton of money um to have this dealt with. But the wonderful uh thing about it is that at the end of this whole experience, he had a bunch of gays who took him out for hours of day drinking to finish out the day. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 24:13

I love that you have a butt a gaggle of gaze.

SPEAKER_01: 24:15

Yeah, uh quartery is what he says. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02: 24:18

Good.

SPEAKER_01: 24:18

I didn't say that because I don't know if our audience understands the the word quartery.

SPEAKER_02: 24:22

Well, I thank you for assuming that they don't.

SPEAKER_01: 24:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 24:25

I mean, so Josh basically just said that you were all dumb, but actually I don't know what it means, so it's okay.

SPEAKER_01: 24:30

Okay, very good. A group gaggle. A gaggle, a gaggle of gaze. Sorry for calling you out. He says this though, because you talked about your pillow and the new pillow, and I do want a new pillow update. He says, Amanda, I totally do the same thing when choosing pillows. I mean, it's the same when buying a mattress, right? You would never purchase one without testing it out.

SPEAKER_02: 24:47

You're gonna lay on that nonsense.

SPEAKER_01: 24:48

And I don't mean bed date, he says. And so I did post a picture on our socials of Amanda laying on a pillow in the middle of Target.

SPEAKER_02: 24:56

Now, to be fair, I put the pillow on the car and laid my head on it. I didn't lay on the ground with the pillow.

SPEAKER_01: 25:01

Um, how's your new pillow?

SPEAKER_02: 25:02

Well, the one that we got at Target, I don't love so much.

SPEAKER_01: 25:05

Okay, so let's get this straight. Your foolproof method of testing your pillow went to shit and it didn't work. So you bought one off Amazon and you love it.

SPEAKER_02: 25:14

So I follow this influencer who is a labor and delivery nurse, but also very much like, hey, Christians, you're not doing what Jesus actually said to do, which I love. And she did a promotion, paid promotion. Nobody blames them because this is how they make their money with this pillow. It was called Pillowhaven. It was incredible looking, and people in the comments, like I was reading through saying I had neck problems, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Well, I ordered a version of it off of Amazon. One because it was about$30 cheaper, and two because of the prime, I could return it and I wanted, I wanted to be able to do that. And I love it. I don't know. You just ordered yourself one last night, right?

SPEAKER_01: 25:54

I did, the same one. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 25:55

I'm gonna look and see what it's called.

SPEAKER_01: 25:58

No, it's the same one.

SPEAKER_02: 25:59

No, I but Pillowhaven's not what I ordered, is my point. So the one that we ordered off Amazon that we can speak to is the osteo OSTEO cervical pillow for neck pain relief, hollow design, odorless memory flame pillows with cooling case, adjustable orthopedic bed pillow for sleeping support for side and back sleepers. And that's the thing is I'm a side sleeper, and if you don't have adequate support on the side that you're sleeping on, you're gonna pull the muscles on the opposite side of your neck, and that can cause a lot of pain and headaches when you wake up. So I am a weekend and very, very pleased. That was gonna be my recommendation.

SPEAKER_01: 26:39

If I'd known that what you had me order for me was also something for my cervix, which I don't have one of those, then I definitely would have gotten a different pillow. Jeff goes on, although I wonder, does that mean that we can use it during the bed date?

SPEAKER_02: 26:54

I mean, you use pillows anyway.

SPEAKER_01: 26:55

Yeah, well, there you go. Very germane to what Jeff says next. He says, I would like to offer my condolences to Muffy as her friend Bluki explains to her the contents of last week's conversation about yoga pants and your future hot to mate sweatshirt. I don't know that they discuss these things.

SPEAKER_02: 27:12

No, Blue Keells Muffy when she listens and that she loves it and that your parents are talking about sex again. She does tell her that. Although I was so happy when Blue Key got her end-of-year wrap-up, we made her top five podcasts. We were like number three.

SPEAKER_01: 27:27

Oh, there you go. She also says I can fully picture Muffy with her head and her hands rocking um back and forth. Yep. No, she's not happy about it. Yeah. Uh, Jeff continues, Amanda, you know that I am totally into cheesy Hallmark-esque movies, and I watched Champagne Problems under your recommendation. I absolutely loved it, and like you, we'll probably watch it again. Thanks for texting me back because I didn't know if you would still be awake.

SPEAKER_02: 27:52

Um, I was still awake and I was so, so happy, Jeff. It's so cute. And I recommended it. Another friend of mine watched it and she loved it too, and loved that because they were French actors, like the accents weren't horrible. And when the dad and the son were speaking to each other, they spoke in French in France. They spoke in, well, they were in France. They spoke in French. And so they would English subtitle it, but they didn't, you know, dumb it down. And I appreciated that.

SPEAKER_01: 28:18

The movie classic destined to be on top 100 of all of the movie films, Champagne Problems. Jeff says, time for me to close because I'm off to the ripcord for Sunday fun day. My goal is to flirt with at least one person, and maybe I can find that elusive sugar daddy.

SPEAKER_02: 28:36

Oh, well, I don't know how last Sunday went. We didn't get an update, so I'm thinking maybe not, but today is also Sunday again. So good luck, Jeff.

SPEAKER_01: 28:44

Good luck, Jeff.

SPEAKER_02: 28:45

All right, I have an update for you. The cervical spine is the neck region of the backbone, composed of seven vertebrae that support the head and protect the spinal cord, while the cervix is the lower narrow part of the uterus.

SPEAKER_01: 28:59

Okay, very good.

SPEAKER_02: 29:00

Cervical spine is what this pill is for.

SPEAKER_01: 29:03

Thank you. Thank you very much. If you have any other questions about your neck or your vagina, go ahead and email. Super familiar. No, what is our email address? Familiar Wilsons. FamiliarWilsons at gmail.com. All right, Amanda, that's all there is. There is no more. What do you think?

SPEAKER_02: 29:32

I enjoyed it. I we were back to recording on Sunday mornings now. We were doing Monday nights, and Josh informed me that I sounded really drunk a couple episodes ago. I wasn't. I was just very, very tired and slurring, so it's better to be in the morning. I realized that we we talked about recommendations and how I was recommending this pillow, but I also want to recommend that if you are a Gainesville listener, because this episode will uh we won't have a new episode before this happens. If you're a Gainesville listener and you're around next Sunday night, you should come hang out with us at the Bull for the Groove Before Christmas.

SPEAKER_01: 30:03

The Groove Before Christmas is a Christmas cover night or holiday music cover night that I started with the now owner of the Bull, Jacob, ages ago. And I haven't been involved with it for quite a while, but they keep doing it every year. And my claim to fame on that is I came up with the name The Groove Before Christmas. So there you go. So join us at the Bull Downtown Sunday, the 14th, I believe it is. 5 to 9 p.m. 5 to 9 p.m. You don't know where that is, just look up the bull downtown Gainesville, and there you go. I mean, downtown Gainesville, not a big place.

SPEAKER_02: 30:40

No, just wander around until you hear the Christmas music. It'll be fine.

SPEAKER_01: 30:43

Follow the music, yeah. Um, okay, uh Amanda, that's all I got. We got folks without whom we would not be able to produce this fun little podcast. We'd like to thank Antonio and Matt, Leo and Danny Buckets, Chick and Tom, Josh Scar, Ryan Baker, Monique from Germany, Joey, Joey, Justin, Refine, Gay, Jeff, Mark and Rachel, and of course, Dan and Gavin. Thank you all for all that you do. Although, reach out to us, please. Send we we name check you every single freaking episode.

SPEAKER_02: 31:16

Three of those people we hear from.

SPEAKER_01: 31:18

Leo writes in occasionally, which I appreciate.

SPEAKER_02: 31:21

Um and Antonio and Josh Scar uh will are responsive on WhatsApp about episodes.

SPEAKER_01: 31:28

And then um Jeff every week. Dan will occasionally um Dan Belson will occasionally send something in as well. So there you go.

SPEAKER_02: 31:35

Gavin and I just talk about dogs. It's fine. Very good.

SPEAKER_01: 31:38

All right, so folks, until next week, you all enjoy this holiday season.

SPEAKER_02: 31:43

Go be kind. Bye. Bye.

SPEAKER_01: 32:22

And it is five to nine PM. You don't know where that is, just look up the bull the bull You don't know You know you don't know where that is, just look up the bull downtown Gainesville, and there you go.