Steak Juice

A pointless bedtime food count mutates into a conversation about memory, influence, ADHD, perimenopause, barking dogs, and the ongoing group project known as Marriage 2.0.

Gen X exhaustion meets Gen Alpha chaos. One brain is Jeopardy-ready, the other is a busted library. We talk recall triggers, who actually influences us now, grounding strategies for anxious brains, and how love holds when everyone is overstimulated and the dog refuses peace.

Listener emails derail things (steak juice, yearbook trauma, cult names), a history quiz resets the room, and we land with sports nerves, gratitude, and affection.

Familiar, unhinged and accidentally useful.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Cold Open And Show Intro
• 0:53 Marriage 2.0 And Generational Chaos
• 1:30 Late-Night Food-Counting Saga
• 3:35 Memory, Recall, And Jeopardy Brains
• 5:12 Libraries Of The Mind To Library Germs
• 9:06 Who Shapes Us Now
• 13:04 ADHD, Anxiety, And Grounding Tactics
• 22:55 Game Time: History Flashback Quiz
• 29:16 Listener Emails: Steak Juice And Yearbooks
• 35:25 Perimenopause, Community, And Almost-A-Cult

Transcript

SPEAKER_02: 0:00

Familiar Wilson's Media. Relationships are the story.

SPEAKER_01: 0:08

You're trying to be insightful, but I need you to remember that when this podcast is over, you actually have to live in this house with me.

SPEAKER_02: 0:15

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 you.

SPEAKER_01: 0:35

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

SPEAKER_02: 0:38

And I'm Josh. Amanda, how are you doing today?

SPEAKER_01: 0:40

I'm good, but aren't we the podcast about marriage 2.0 and all the side quests?

SPEAKER_02: 0:45

Yes, sorry. I forgot.

SPEAKER_01: 0:49

Because you're always like, don't start talking until I say the tagline.

SPEAKER_02: 0:53

Yeah, so we are the podcast about marriage 2.0 with all the side quests and children, but also like we're Gen X and we're losing our memories and our faculties and all of the things. Very soon, this will be a geriatric podcast, I think.

SPEAKER_01: 1:11

I mean, we're we're we're closing in upon it. But the problem is we have Gen Alpha and Gen Z in this household.

SPEAKER_02: 1:18

It's not a problem. There's a chance that one or or more of them will hear this. It's delightful and we love it. It is not a problem.

SPEAKER_01: 1:27

No, but I'm just saying, like, we have lots of differing viewpoints. But I have a I have a question for you that has to do with, you know, I feel like I don't get very good sleep. And so then that impacts my cognitive abilities. But I was trying really hard to get some good sleep last night, and you decided I wasn't going to.

SPEAKER_02: 1:45

No, no, no, that's not what happened.

SPEAKER_01: 1:48

We were going to bed, lights off. You get, you know, annoyed with me when I'm still on my phone. So I put my phone away, I'm laying there, and then you say, How many foods do you think you can count?

SPEAKER_02: 2:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 2:02

At like 10 o'clock on a Saturday night, totally dark in our bedroom. Why?

SPEAKER_02: 2:07

It's not even sexy talk.

unknown: 2:09

No.

SPEAKER_01: 2:10

Just how many?

SPEAKER_02: 2:11

I'm not looking for eggplant, baby.

SPEAKER_01: 2:12

That's not why was this a thing you needed to know last night? Because I kept saying, We'll talk about it tomorrow. No, I'm gonna do it now. I just want you to recognize that should the tables have been turned and I was trying to do this to you, you would have been so annoyed at me. But the thing is, you I was annoyed at you, but I like I what's the word you call I like what's the word you call that? See, this is what happened because I didn't sleep. You capitulated or yeah, whatever. You would have just shut it down and refused to do it. So humored, that's the word I was looking for.

SPEAKER_02: 2:47

All I needed you to do um after I established that I could probably name 200 foods, yes, is I just needed you to count them to keep track of them. That's all I needed.

SPEAKER_01: 2:57

And I did up to 110. And that because I quit at like 108. I'm like, I'm not doing this anymore. And you said, Well, let me just get to 110. But I'm pretty sure it was like when you read to the children at bedtime and you skip the pages of the book to get there faster. I know that I wasn't counting accurately for you.

SPEAKER_02: 3:14

Right. So I maintain that I can name at least 200 foods. The reality is now that I think about it, it's probably a lot more.

SPEAKER_01: 3:22

Yes, I said a thousand and you questioned me.

SPEAKER_02: 3:25

Yeah, well, I don't think that you could name a thousand foods.

SPEAKER_01: 3:27

Not gonna try. That's the difference between me and you.

SPEAKER_02: 3:30

But there was actually a thread as to why I was thinking about that and I decided to do that. I was thinking about like how interesting it is that there is stuff in our brains that we don't necessarily know is there, or we don't remember is there. Information that's on a shelf, and unless we need it or we access it, we're not aware of it, but it's there.

SPEAKER_01: 3:51

Like song lyrics. Like you don't know you know that song lyric until the song comes on and you start singing it.

SPEAKER_02: 3:55

Isn't that weird? It's odd. It's weird and wonderful the thing about the human brain. And the food thing came up specifically because I was thinking about our mutual friend Mike DuPay, who is a Jeopardy champion and a champion of champions, or at least he was invited on the champion of champions show. I mean, he this guy knows his shit, right? Yeah, yeah. I think I've told this story on the podcast before where I was in a grocery store and I found him in the deli section memorizing meats.

SPEAKER_00: 4:26

Right. Yeah, you did tell me that.

SPEAKER_02: 4:29

And I said, Mike, what are you doing? Because he was just kind of standing there and I thought he was looking for something. He says, No, um, I'm gonna go on this champion of champions uh thing and I'm memorizing meats while I'm here. And then he moved on to the cheeses because he might be asked, yeah, right, uh, by Alex Trebek at that point, um, R.I.P. about deli meats and cheeses. And I was just thinking, what an interesting brain that dude must have. Yeah, let's say this. If you think about brains as like libraries with books in them, right? Because that's kind of the analogy I'm thinking of. It's like I've got books in my library and I'm not sure that they're there.

SPEAKER_00: 5:04

Yeah. Um checked out by other people.

SPEAKER_02: 5:07

Mine is like a neighborhood lending library. You know, those little boxes that you see on a post.

SPEAKER_01: 5:13

Yes. And his is there's never anything in there you want either.

SPEAKER_02: 5:17

Yeah, yeah. His is like the Library of Congress. And it just must be so interesting to have a brain like that. Our friend uh Chris, Chris Baron, lead singer of the Spin Doctors. I was just um texting with him, and he is learning Greek. Yes. He is wanting to write a book about Odysseus, and he's learning Greek so that he can kind of get in that mindset. And he's like on day 11 of learning Greek. And I saw like his pictures of his notebook, and he's learning the like a brain that can do that. Yeah, I can't, I don't think that I can do that. No. Ah, yes, the faith that you have in me. Thank you very much for always being in my corner.

SPEAKER_01: 5:59

Yes. I I am here for you, except please don't ask me to name or to number foods. You were and you were getting so mad at me because I was just I'd stopped counting because I was drifting off. Uh, by the way, I had taken two dramamine. Which I didn't tell you about, so you didn't know about it. But I hadn't I was feeling so sick to my stomach because I made such good food last night, but ate way too much. And I wasn't feeling great, so I took two dramamine. And so I'm fighting through the dramamine fog trying to count food for you. And I'd start and I'd stop because I'd be falling asleep, and then you'd start smacking the bed, like keep going. And it would just, my god, it was the most obnoxious you've been in a very long time.

SPEAKER_02: 6:40

Well, again, the the point of all that is just I wanted to see, do I still have the brain power that I used to have?

SPEAKER_01: 6:47

To name food?

SPEAKER_02: 6:48

Well, just to be able to recall things. It it was an exercise, but the the larger thing was do I still have the faculty to be able to recall all these things?

SPEAKER_01: 6:59

I told you I'd be happy to do this with you on a road trip.

SPEAKER_02: 7:02

Okay, well, what you want to do it now? No, I don't. No one wants that content. We left. Are you sure? Because that's super interesting.

SPEAKER_03: 7:09

How many foods out there wants this?

SPEAKER_02: 7:12

Listeners out there, email us familiarwilsons at gmail.com. How many foods do you think you could name?

SPEAKER_01: 7:18

No one, no one wants this.

SPEAKER_02: 7:20

I bet you would get an email about this.

SPEAKER_01: 7:23

God, it's probably Dan Belson. Just trying to make me annoyed. Anyway, go ahead.

SPEAKER_02: 7:27

It's interesting because he's a vegan, so I wonder if like he's forgotten about some other foods.

unknown: 7:33

Yes.

SPEAKER_02: 7:46

I was reading the other day this idea, and I'd heard it before, about how you are an amalgamation of the five people that you have spent the most time with.

SPEAKER_01: 7:56

Like ever in your life or currently?

SPEAKER_02: 7:59

Yeah, I didn't read that far. I basically just read the headline as I'm want to do.

SPEAKER_01: 8:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 8:04

But which five people do you think affected you the most in your life? Well, like, and that you carry a part of them still with you.

SPEAKER_01: 8:10

Okay. I no, I'm gonna go with immediate, immediate uh influencing because I feel like we change a lot, and and there are people in our lives who influenced us at one time who no longer influence us. So I'm gonna talk about right now. Okay. So um I'm definitely influenced by Winthrop. I say six, seven in ways I never thought I would. Okay, I I I worry about things like if the books in the library are dirty or not. Like there are definitely influencing.

SPEAKER_02: 8:35

Okay, so let's talk about that because I was setting up for this recording, and all I hear from the other room is Winthrop saying, I don't like the library, it's dirty. And so I'm thinking that he's making some sort of a moral judgment that he wants to ban books, or you know, he got himself a copy of the children's version of Lady Chatterley's lover or something.

SPEAKER_01: 8:58

No, it's the what's happening to my body or whatever.

SPEAKER_02: 9:00

Fifty shades or whatever.

SPEAKER_01: 9:02

He's now afraid of libraries because he just doesn't like the fact that these books have gone out and they are in other people's homes and then they come back. He's not wrong. I mean, it's kind of weird to think about.

SPEAKER_02: 9:12

It is, it's oh my god, such a consumer's attitude you have right there. So I'm gonna choose to believe that he's not an elitist that needs new things all the time. But no, it's germophobia. He's a germophobia.

SPEAKER_01: 9:23

Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_02: 9:25

And does is he aware of like what's going on at school? Shh.

SPEAKER_01: 9:30

We don't talk about it. We don't draw attention to it if we don't, if we can't help it. Another influence would be Muffy, right? Because Muffy is the now the total opposite where she wants everything secondhand. She's really into sustainability, so that's also impacting how I I now buy bamboo toilet paper and bamboo paper towels. I haven't gotten to the no paper paper towels yet. But I mean, I am thinking about that a lot. I have some work friends that I feel like influence me. I'm probably influenced by this dog. Um, and then and then my mom. I think I carry my mom with me a lot, even though she's been gone for well, going on six years. But there's this quote that I really try to take in when I'm feeling, you know, when the grief hits, but it's be the thing or the things that you miss most about the person who's gone.

SPEAKER_02: 10:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 10:15

So when I, you know, when I wish that she were here when it comes to, you know, helping like with stuff that's going on with the kids or whatever, I just try to to channel the things that would have brought me comfort and then do that either for myself or other people.

SPEAKER_02: 10:28

Sure. No, I like that. That's very cool. I think that you're the main influence on me right now, obviously.

SPEAKER_01: 10:33

Because of perimenopause and I'm grumpy at you.

SPEAKER_02: 10:36

This is not I wasn't gonna bring any of that up. I wasn't gonna do any of that, friend. I've already gotten yelled at uh for piling onto you with the perimenopause, and so I'm not here to do that. But no, I think that that you have taught me how to be sensitive and how to be compassionate and empathetic, or at least, you know, at the start of our relationship. And then my two older boys uh definitely are an influence in that I see how much better they're doing by leaps and bounds than how I did as a kid. Yeah. Because they have more support, and so I'm they impress the shit out of me. And then there's like some relationships that are newer, like uh this gentleman that I podcast with, John Spence, who I'm getting to know, he's like a top 100 global business thought leader. Um, but he's very smart, and a lot of the principles that that we go through in this podcast that I do with him, like I'm applying to myself. I texted him the other day and I said, Hey John, Amanda and I are going through each room and we're doing a a list on what we want this room to be because we want to make our house nicer. I said, And damn it, this is you rubbing off on me.

SPEAKER_01: 11:57

Did he appreciate that?

SPEAKER_02: 11:58

Or did he say you're doing it wrong? No, no, no, he did. He did. He's not necessarily the type that would just say, Oh, you're doing it wrong. But so I would say that he's becoming an influence on me. Um, but yeah, I think it's really important for us to consider what's influencing us, because if we don't intentionally consider what's influencing us, then all sorts of weird and passively consuming things around you. Yeah, excellent. Very, very good. Um, so uh y'all should consider who influences you, whether you know that they are or whether you don't know that they are. Uh let us know because I'm super curious. Um, familiarwilsons at gmail.com. I got an email from a guy the other day. He said, This isn't a marketing email, which it clearly was. He says, I'm not trying to get money from you. I just want to let you know about my podcast. I'm not gonna name check it here, but the name Wilson was in the podcast. This is a a dude whose last name is Wilson. And apparently his marketing strategy is contact all of the other people, either podcasts or anyone else named Wilson, and try to make the connection with them.

SPEAKER_01: 13:20

Just because of the last name?

SPEAKER_02: 13:22

Yes.

SPEAKER_01: 13:22

I don't get that.

SPEAKER_02: 13:23

Well, his podcast is about famous Wilsons, right? And so that's kind of his shtick, because that's his name. And he has a website, and on the website, he's listed as many Wilson connected things as possible. So on a page there under podcast, super familiar the Wilsons is there. Now I did not ask him to put it there, yeah. Um, but like that's his strategy is like I'm gonna reach out to all now. Did it work? Kind of because you went to his website. I I went and I listened to a a part of his show, wasn't into it at all, and so it's not sustainable, but it was very it's just kind of a weird.

SPEAKER_01: 14:03

That's really odd. Was the volleyball from Castaway there?

SPEAKER_02: 14:06

He talked, you say that on his first episode, he talked about the volleyball from Castaway.

SPEAKER_01: 14:12

All right, so little known fact that the podcast pup is actually named after the volleyball from Castaway, not really our last name. And I have to explain that to people, and they're like, Oh, that's cute, you named him Wilson Wilson, but it's really he's named after the volleyball. Well, maybe the podcast pup should be on because he's got his own Insta.

SPEAKER_02: 14:30

He's listening. This podcast pup, which I wish he wasn't the podcast pup.

SPEAKER_01: 14:38

He comes anytime you said he put it up.

SPEAKER_02: 14:41

I don't know how he knows. So I went upstairs to get the microphones just now, brought them downstairs, set them up on the table. We hung out here for a while. As soon as we close the door to this room, he's he's at the door whimpering. How does he know? And what does he think he's gonna get from it? Because he sits in here and he's even done it now. It winds me up so much. He's like licking his paws, he's making noises. Occasionally he will go and try to rip something apart, like his bed. Only when we're recording. Why?

SPEAKER_01: 15:09

Why he did it to me on Friday. I was home because Winthrop didn't have school. I had an interview with um uh a children's movement organization here. They wanted to put some video of me on their on their socials for this program that I manage. 15-minute window. That dog sat next to me all morning in his bed so lovely while I was working on other meetings, no problem. And as soon as they hit record, this Joker jumped up and started ripping up his bed. Like he knows, he knows, and I had to just ignore it and keep going. They said they couldn't hear him, but it might I might be out on their socials with just this in the background. I had to freaking stop and pulled a leaf out of his mouth just now.

SPEAKER_02: 15:52

Thing is, is that I don't have the ability to to tune it out, and like you get upset at me, and I'm sorry that I cannot just simply record. Like if he is there and he's making any small noise, like I lose my train of thought. Like I don't know where we are, and it's clearly ADHD, right?

SPEAKER_01: 16:11

I don't I I I'm sorry, I shouldn't be getting frustrated at you. I only get mad at you when you get mad at me because I haven't done something about it.

SPEAKER_02: 16:19

Right. Well, that's that was the source of a big argument last night.

SPEAKER_01: 16:23

Yeah, because you lost your little mind about it.

SPEAKER_02: 16:26

Well, let's not get into that now.

SPEAKER_01: 16:29

We and poor Winthrop was like, I don't like it when you fight. And we're trying to be like, you can love someone and still disagree with them and then make it all better. So as long as we made it all better in front of him, which we did, but definitely wasn't the best parenting moment we've ever made.

SPEAKER_02: 16:43

I saw a thing this morning, a little quote from someone called uh Rachel Nicole on Threads.

SPEAKER_01: 16:49

Oh, I know Rachel Nicole. Oh, do you?

SPEAKER_02: 16:51

Yeah, okay, never heard of her. She calls herself an ADHD entrepreneur, yeah, which must be loads of fun. But she her quote was ADHD is having enough ideas to build an empire and getting stuck on picking the font.

SPEAKER_01: 17:03

So does that feel like do you feel scene?

SPEAKER_02: 17:05

Oh, yes, very much uh so uncomfortably so. So the the damn dog, this podcast, if not for the dog, man, we would be so good. We would be so good.

SPEAKER_01: 17:16

Are you interested in meds, adult ADHD meds? I know tons of adults who who went on meds as adults.

SPEAKER_02: 17:23

I don't know. I don't know. I don't like that idea so much.

SPEAKER_01: 17:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_02: 17:29

When I was this had to be before I knew you, um, I went on some sort of medication because I was going through a trying time. Yeah. And I didn't like the way it made me feel. I didn't like it was like the disassociation that you might get from what they say that you get from these other recreational drugs, right? But none of the fun. Yeah. So it's just like, and I imagine I guess, I don't know. I I don't want to be out of my depth here, but ket ketamine apparently like you disassociate hard, yeah. Yeah. So I just got a small piece of that and I freaking hated it, man. It felt so weird. I felt like I didn't care about anything or that I didn't really like connect with anything. I didn't like it. Felt like an alien.

SPEAKER_01: 18:12

Was it for mental health? Like, was it prescribed for anxiety or depression or something?

SPEAKER_02: 18:17

It was, I think it was, if I'm remembering correctly, it's for ADD or ADHD or something like that, or anxiety. I don't remember. It was like, like I said, it's like 15, 20 years ago. And clearly the medications have probably advanced and all this and that, but it left a bad taste in my mouth.

SPEAKER_01: 18:32

I I mean that's understandable. It took me a while to find an anxiety med that works for me, and I'm I've been on now been on it for years, and I don't I don't feel disconnected from emotion or stress. I just am aware that I'm able to handle it better.

SPEAKER_02: 18:48

I'm finding out a lot of strategies, physical strategies to use to manage anxiety that surprisingly work. And I think I've talked about a couple of them uh on here, but all of them are are based in grounding yourself in your body and reminding you of where you are, orienting you in time and place, and like becoming mindful is what all of that stuff is doing. And that works for me when I remember to do it. That's the thing about medication. You take the medication, it just happens in your body. But you know, these other techniques, you have to do them, which I mean, there's agency in that though, and that that feels good when I'm feeling particularly stressed and I can do the thing where I'm tapping my shoulders, um, which is another strategy, and that works. Then I'm like, oh shit, I did that. Yeah. Um and you know, you also have the option to stop doing it. You take you take a medication, and please, oh my gosh, what I don't want people to hear is that I'm against the medications. Clearly, the medications work for members of this family and they're great. I just have my own personal feelings about. But I'm so happy that they work for people. So I don't want people to hear that I'm saying that you shouldn't take them.

SPEAKER_01: 20:06

No, but I mean some people need the medication and the strategies as well. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 20:10

Absolutely. And I probably hell, I probably need them. Who knows?

SPEAKER_01: 20:13

Well, we've talked about the tapping before, but it's been a long time. But there is there is something that is rooted in our brainstem that that harkens back to being in utero and hearing the heartbeat. And that being like, I mean, now you you were gestating through a really difficult and stressful time. Your your birth mother was in a very stressful time in her life. So there's definitely trauma that happens.

SPEAKER_02: 20:40

And I was born very premature. Prematurely. Probably what needs to happen is I just need to go back in the oven for a few months.

SPEAKER_01: 20:47

Yeah, we'll ship you back up to Vancouver. Isn't that where you were born?

SPEAKER_02: 20:50

It's where I was born. It's not where my mother's uterus is. And I'm not interested.

SPEAKER_01: 20:54

I'm not I know where your mother's uterus is, but I don't think we should go back there. I don't want to go back to the back. I'm thinking like a NICU incubator in Vancouver, is what I'm thinking. Because Vancouver feels a little bit safer right now. But there's it is rhythm is definitely definitely helps to regulate and to bring down the hypervigilant, like the cortisol and everything. But I had um, I had a student when I was teaching first grade who could not focus. I mean, couldn't focus. And he would say, Miss Wilson, I really want to, I can't. Like he was able to articulate as a first grader. I want to, but I can't. And so our counselor, the school I was teaching at, fortunately, we had a mental health counselor, wasn't just a guidance counselor, we had a mental health counselor. And she would push in when we were doing whole group, meaning she'd come into my classroom instead of pulling him out, and she would sit behind him and just tap him on the back while I read and he could focus.

SPEAKER_02: 21:45

Oh, that's so interesting. Just a note here the Wilsons are not medical professionals, and you should not take our advice. There you go.

SPEAKER_01: 21:54

But tap yourself, it helps.

SPEAKER_02: 21:56

Yeah, that's right. That's not a euphemism.

SPEAKER_01: 21:58

We don't mean tap that. We mean tap that.

SPEAKER_02: 22:01

Well, so that's what I was talking about when I wanted to go back in the oven.

SPEAKER_01: 22:04

I want to Okay, there's a difference between the anatomy of what you're talking about and a uterus, but let's just keep going. Is there? Isn't this? How do you not know this? We can I I'm gonna have to show you some some diagrams. Let's go, let's go. Some diagrams when we're done. Diaphragm? What? Oh my god. Keep going.

SPEAKER_02: 22:25

Anyway, this is all just comedy content, folks. I'm not actually this ignorant. That music means that it's game time. And of course, that music is by AJCW, which is also our middle son Andrew. Check his stuff out on all of the streaming music apps. Amanda, what game time do you have for me today?

SPEAKER_01: 23:08

Uh, we're gonna do a flashback because we haven't done one in a while. So here is your weekly history quiz from January 10th, 2026. I'm gonna give you eight notable events in history and you're gonna place them in chronological order. You ready?

SPEAKER_02: 23:21

So I'm gonna try to guess what date they happen, but really what you want me to say or what the game demands is just for me to put it on the before or after. Before or after something.

SPEAKER_01: 23:32

So but you do try to guess around the time. Okay, so here's your anchoring event, right?

SPEAKER_02: 23:36

Okay.

SPEAKER_01: 23:36

That now the game that I'm using from the New York Times tells us the the year, but I'm gonna see if you can get close to it. To buy the Virgin Islands from Denmark, the US agrees not to make any claims on Greenland.

SPEAKER_02: 23:50

Really? Yep. All right, so we're gonna say, you know, like 1947.

SPEAKER_01: 23:56

1917. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02: 23:57

Very good.

SPEAKER_01: 23:58

Okay, so that's your anchoring one, 1917.

SPEAKER_02: 24:00

All right.

SPEAKER_01: 24:01

All right, your next one is the U.S. debuts its first food pyramid. That's in the news right now. Other designs include a food wheel divided into slices, but focus groups say the slices look too much like pizza, which I would just want to eat. So before or after 1917.

SPEAKER_02: 24:17

It's definitely after 1917, so I know that I got that right, but we'll say that it's like 1971. Ooh, 1992. 1992 is the first food pyramid.

SPEAKER_01: 24:27

Yeah. I feel like I knew about this before. I guess maybe it was the wheel, like you need to have this much on your plate.

SPEAKER_02: 24:33

I I don't know what to do with that information. I feel like I've been living in a false like reality because I thought the food pyramid was so old. Same. Okay.

SPEAKER_01: 24:42

Okay. In Chicago, the U.S. builds its first nuclear reactor. If something goes wrong, a man has an axe to quickly cut a rope, which will turn off the reactor. So is this just looks like this like the the tomb of the unknown soldier? We're just like gonna have somebody post it up here all the time with an axe.

SPEAKER_02: 25:00

Okay, so obviously this is in between 1917 and 1992. We think that the first nuclear reactor was probably 1955.

SPEAKER_01: 25:09

1942.

SPEAKER_02: 25:10

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01: 25:11

All right. Prohibition begins to keep its own alcohol flowing. Congress employs a bootlegger, George Cassidy, who works out of congressional offices. Hmm. Congress breaking laws that they've set. Interesting.

SPEAKER_02: 25:27

Okay, so that's gotta be 1921.

SPEAKER_01: 25:30

So after 1917, 1920.

SPEAKER_02: 25:33

1920 prohibition and the government running alcohol. Excellent.

SPEAKER_01: 25:39

The Shah of Iran gives speeches to stop a growing revolution. Protesters fight back, they cut the electricity when he and other officials would be on TV.

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We're gonna say 1985.

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1978. Oh, Jesus. But you're still doing perfectly in your timeline. Yeah. All right, number five. The first oil oil, well, that's really hard for me to say. The first oil well is drilled in the US. There's so much oil that it's stored in the most practical containers available to workers. Barrels of whiskey.

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Okay, so I'm gonna get this wrong. Uh we're gonna put that in 18 in the 1800s, like 1890.

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So before the Virgin Islands, 1859. Nice. Oh Lord, here we go. Okay. Oh, I didn't know this. That's super interesting. Okay. Oh, French words. Here I go. Etienne de Silhouette becomes France's finance minister. He's stingy, so when a cheap art style takes off or of just a person's outline, it's called a silhouette. I had no idea that's where that came from.

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Okay. Uh before the oil things, we're gonna say 1800s. 1800.

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1759. All right, you got two more. Near the Dutch colony of Manhattan, the settler Jonas Bronck builds a homestead. It's later known as the Bronx Land, or simply Bronx. So it was possessive Bronx, and now it's turned into B-R-O-N-X.

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Oh, this is tough. Um, we're gonna say before Silhouette. We're gonna say 1730.

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1639.

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Okay, very good.

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All right, last one. Ready?

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Yep. Going for 100% here at Queen Sleep.

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Carl Linnaeus makes a taxonomy for nature from kingdom to species. His dad had scolded him for forgetting a plant's name. He vowed to never do so again.

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Oh God. Stupidly random is that. I have no idea. No, and nothing about the so uh I'm gonna have to go with 1820. Okay. So after silhouette before the first oil well. Go ahead.

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1735. So you got seven out of eight, friend.

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Damn it. That's annoying. How did you all do? Let us know. Write us at familiarwilsons at gmail.com. Email. It is email time. Got a couple of things that we want to read to you today. First of all, we got a message from Dean, Dean of Total Cult Zone. Very talented podcaster, artist. And yeah, check him out. Yeah, we met Dean when we were in London. But next time we go to London, I would like to hang out with Dean again in a quiet place.

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It was really hard to hear in there.

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So we met him and the Belsons, and was that it just yeah, because the plants were gonna come, but Rachel's foot was hurting. In a really, really noisy food hall. Yep. And Dean is is at that point was I guess he still is pretty soft spoken. And man, it was so difficult to hear. But I want to hang out with a super cool guy. We had him on, he was a wrestler.

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I was gonna say he doesn't look like someone who would be soft spoken, but he's a very sweet and gentle person.

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Very, very nice guy. Anyway, he writes this to us catching up on your shows and heard the bit about eating sushi off someone. So we talked about how that's a thing.

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Because you didn't believe me.

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Eating sushi off of a naked body. Reminded me of a story my partner told me in the week. It's even weirder with food and fetishes.

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Okay.

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Her workplace has a library of books left by previous patients in the ward. One has been there for ages, as its title isn't appealing to the crowd of geriatrics they usually have to work with. Something about hypnosis and mindfulness. Okay. They gifted it recently to one of the doctors as a joke, as it had been a little running gag about it that it's always been there. It's only at this point that they cracked it open and read a few pages. Along with some woo-woo magic and fake sounding spirituality nonsense was a bit about quote, pleasuring your partner using the hypnosis techniques and using food. The one suggestion that stood out, no pun intended, was using, quote, steak juice on a person's particulars to increase enjoyment.

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Ew.

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Not sure how animal fat, oil, and blood will make a BJ any better. I'd take plucking a bit of sushi off of a nip like a weird game of operation over that any day, though.

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Ew. Ew. Is it like a jus? Like when you get like a French dip, you're like zip it in there and oh, ew.

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Well, I'm I'm quite certain that French dip is also the name, the name of some sort of sexual perversion. So there you go. Thank you, D.

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Oh God, you gotta go with something that's uh got a little bit more like like viscosity to it, so it'll like stick to it.

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Uh dude, I don't know.

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Like like ranch dip, like or something like that.

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My thing is, and I answered him with this, is that I don't want anything on my Johnson that will encourage someone to take a little bite, a little nibble, a little taste. Not into that even a little bit. So there you go. Thanks, Dean. Anyone else have any stories about uh putting stuff on places? Email us at the end.

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Like we know the whipped cream, we know the chocolate sauce, we don't need that. Steak juice is new.

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I I told Dean that we would call this episode steak juice, and we're doing it.

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Gross.

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And we have another letter or email, they're really emails, they're not letters, that we got from Kate. Kate listened to our last episode. She's gonna refer to a lot of that in here, so I'll try to keep you up or catch you up if you also go listen to that episode. Actually, you should. Um, so she said that our cold open was super. It reminds me of my favorite podcast, maintenance phase, and if books could kill. I think I'm gonna start to do cold opens now. We have What was our cold open? This is this proof that you don't listen to our did listen to last week's. It's where you're talking about how Zamboni would be Zamboni driver.

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No, no, no, no. I guess I didn't listen to last week's. That was the week before I listened to you.

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We were talking about yearbooks. Do yearbooks still exist? And she says, I've destroyed all my yearbooks save for my senior yearbook. See, this is what I'm saying. My only good picture was my senior picture.

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This is what I'm doing while you cut the episode. I'm gonna go out there and pull out your yearbooks. No, you're not.

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I am no, because I'm gonna go get them and I'll be able to do that.

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Now you'll be busy with the episode.

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As a teacher at my kids' school, the yearbook is more for me for identification purposes because I'm surrounded by so many children I don't personally teach, and I need to call them out by name when they're annoying me in the hall. Yes. That's very good. Please see attached photo of Tony as a youth is my favorite thing ever. So this is a picture of her husband as a kid, and the glasses in that picture are the glasses that I was talking about last week that I wore. And for the life of me, and Tony helped me answer this question why the hell do we allow pictures to be taken of us?

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I've seen Tony's face in this picture, and I don't think he was agreeing with it. Yes. That was done against his will.

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Here's an interesting sentence. Amanda, I am sorry you are short.

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I am short, and it's the worst. It's the worst, Kate.

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As your tall friend, I'll come over there and take that picture down for you. And the picture to which she refers is a picture that Amanda does not like of herself that I put on a high shelf, so she can't get at it. Uh, she says, I have too many thoughts for an email. It should probably come on as a guest.

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Well, Kate and Tony were just here, and I tried to get her to come in and do this, but we were too busy gossiping about the neighborhood.

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That would really give a boost to my imaginary stand-up career as well. We talked a little bit last week about this group that we are attending that is not going to be a church, but is going to be some sort of group where we get together and talk about the deep things of life. She says, 100% your friend gathering uh is a cult origin story.

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Yes.

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Please at least choose a good name for your cult. I don't care for NXIVM.

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That's the sex cult.

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Or non-denominational church.

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That's the other, that's the cult I grew up in.

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Ah, yes. Um, the NXIVM. Is that said?

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I don't know. I only ever read it in print. I don't know how it's printed. Mix of them.

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Whatever, it doesn't matter. She says, Why is Josh such an op as the kids say to Amanda?

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Yeah, we had to get Jen Alpha to explain this to us. So James explained it means he said it means opposite, but I think it means opposition.

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Yes, in other words, I'm opposing you exercising, is what she's saying here. I'll go for a walk and do yoga with you, Amanda. You don't need that negativity in your fitness routine.

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I don't, and it lives in my house.

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And then she ends with Josh, stop making paramenopause all about you. Or the middle-aged ladies will rally and sweat all over you during a hot flash while screaming at you about something that angered us in 2015.

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Which also sounds like a cult. Sounds like a cult experience.

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Some cult leaders would be really into that.

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And listen, I are so we were talking, I think, last week about how we went to show and tell. Did we talk about that in last week's episode with our friend Colin? Yes. And I, one of the women who participated in Show and Tell talked about perimenopause and how it is stolen all of her words. And so I said, I think we need a perimenopause version of this. Colin very wisely said, I don't think I can host that. So he volunteered me to host it. But I think that might be the origin of our perimenopause cult.

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Very good. I mean, God forbid you all organize.

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You just want to be with people who understand the perjury that is happening to you.

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Oh, yes. There's nothing so pure as trauma bonding.

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Perjury, is that right? Perjury means when you don't tell the truth.

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Purgatory.

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Purgatory is what I mean. See. Ay, ay, ay. Thank you, Kate, for sticking up for me.

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Send us emails. We want to hear from you. Familiarwilsons at gmail.com. All right, Amanda, that's all there is. There is no more. What do you think about that mess?

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Well, before we go, are you not at all excited to talk about how the fact that your Miami Hurricanes are in the national championship for the first time in like how long?

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Oh, God, it's so stressful. Oh.

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It's the Miami Super Bowl. Is this what it's being called?

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No, it's called being called the the um Cuban Super Bowl Super Bowl because of course you have the Miami connection with the team there. It's in Miami. Um, the the coach is Mario Cristobal. He's Cuban. So there's on the Miami team. And then on the Indiana team, the quarterback for Indiana, Fernando Mendoza, is from Miami, and I don't know why he didn't go to UM. I'm sure that's a thing that's been reported on. So this is being called the Cuban Super Bowl.

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Are you nervous?

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Uh yeah, because Indiana's a buzzsaw.

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So are they still undefeated? Of course they are. Like they didn't lose in the playoffs. That was the dumbest thing I've ever asked. Have you put any money or anything down on this game?

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No, no, no, no, no. So me and some friends are going over to Chicken Tom's house tomorrow. And we are going to watch it. And I might stay for the whole game. I might not stay for the whole game. I think I'm going to take a blindfold with me or a sleeping bag I can bury myself in and just huddle in the corner. I don't know.

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As long as you're not taking some ranch tip.

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That's uh God, what's wrong with you? Alright, so we want to thank um Dean for his maybe for that, Dean. Maybe we want to thank Dean. Uh to Kate and to Chris Barron for our theme song, and also we want to thank the following people for just being great. And the reason why we do our show uh every week is for folks like this: Antonio, Josh Scar, Daniel J. Buckets, Chicken Tom, Matt, Monique, Ryan Baker, Joey, Joey, Leo, Refined Gay Jeff, Mark and Rachel, and Dan and Gavin. Thanks, folks, for being you.

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Thank you guys.

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Alright, so until next week, um, you all take it easy and just be careful with the steak juice. It can get in places and it might burn. I don't know.

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Go be kind. Bye. Bye. Welcome back to the conversation.