The Pub and the Pickled Egg

We built a pub inside our house in one week, and then we stress-tested it with a birthday party full of friends, darts, and the kind of conversations that make you ask, “How did we get here?” 

Also, Kermit and Miss Piggy breakup, VeggieTales, and being an introvert. The the Flashbacks history trivia game, plus recommendations.

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Cold Open And Minecraft Foley

SPEAKER_03 0:00

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

Josh 0:03

The following podcast uses words like and and also if you're not into any of that shit, then now's your chance.

SPEAKER_00 0:11

Three, two, one.

Josh 0:13

Run.

SPEAKER_00 0:15

Welcome back to the conversation. You don't want me to. I want to be don't be strange.

Amanda 0:55

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

Josh 0:57

And I'm Josh, and this is the podcast about Mary's 2.0 and kids. And psychous. Or with kids, not and kids, right?

Amanda 1:05

I mean, it's fine. They're and with, it's fine. Inst in spite of.

Josh 1:09

Yes, Winthrop right now is in the other room making throat noises that are driving me absolutely up the wall.

Amanda 1:15

Well, he's smelting copper. And apparently that's what you need to do when one smelts copper.

Josh 1:21

Well, so I was sitting here in this room setting up, and he was started making these noises in the back of his throat. Ho So I yell into the other room. Winthrop, are you okay? Yeah. What what are you doing? Making noises. So I go in there and I said, Why why are you doing this? And he said, Because it feels good.

Amanda 1:45

But this started before because he's trying to imitate the noise of the nether portal and Minecraft.

Josh 1:51

Oh, is Minecraft still a thing? Is that going to get our us listens?

Amanda 1:55

Should I put you should put Minecraft in the title? Well, that's that's why he's smelting copper. He's not like just, you know, in our living room smelting copper. He's playing Minecraft with his friend, which is cute because his friend and his friend's little sister, so they're like two nine-year-olds and a seven-year-old girl, are um playing Minecraft and they talk to each other in the chat, which is really cute. There was a noise that came out of his tablet while I was sitting there having breakfast, and I looked at him and he said, Oh, that's that's the nether portal. Let me see if I can make that noise. So then he made me listen to it, and then he just kept repeating it. So that's the noise he was making. But I'm sure that it also felt good.

Josh 2:32

This is your fault then.

Amanda 2:34

What how is this my fault?

Josh 2:35

It's because he wouldn't have made the noise had you not said, Oh, what's that noise?

Amanda 2:39

Well, because I didn't know anyway. Maybe he's gonna be a foley artist.

Josh 2:44

Yeah, that's definitely one job that's safe from AI.

DIY Home Pub Before The Party

Josh 2:47

We opened our pub for Amanda's birthday party, and I want to reflect upon that a little bit. If you've not been following us, this is the first episode that you've ever listened to. We took our spare room that used to belong to our son Andrew, and we turned it into a little bitty pub.

Amanda 3:06

And we are recording to you from the location.

Josh 3:09

We are recording to you from the location, yes. Apparently, Amanda's had a little bit of fun from the pub.

Amanda 3:15

I'm legit and the only one who doesn't have something from the pub in their coffee right now.

Josh 3:20

At the beginning of this week, this pub was an empty room with three walls that had green paint on it.

Amanda 3:28

Yeah.

Josh 3:29

And we had a party coming up at the end of the week that we had announced to all of our friends hey, come celebrate Amanda's birthday party and bring things to stock this pub that we will open. And you were nervous.

Amanda 3:41

I was because I mean, until like Thursday, the walls weren't finished. And then and then you were like, Oh, on Tuesday you freaked out because of the the bar top that you so you did this really cool thing, which you turned this existing dresser that we had, which was a nice solid piece of wood furniture, into the bar. And you bought a bar top, but you hadn't stained it yet. And on Monday you were like, Oh, I should probably do that so that it's dry. So you went downstairs at like 9 30 p.m. Monday night out to the garage to stain the thing. And I always feel guilty when we're talking about something, and then you just get up and go do it. I understand that's because you're like, I need to do it now, but I always feel like you're doing it to like appease me and I've created this situation.

Josh 4:28

What happens is that I don't consider the consequences of not doing something right then. You help me consider the consequences, and so then therefore I go do it. But you take that as I'm going and I'm doing it, and I'm pissed. Just to shut me up. Like to sp somehow I'm doing what you want to spite you, which is a new relationship dynamic that we have here because that's how you treat it. Then you're like, Oh, don't go do it now. I'm I'm like, I'm freaking doing what you want me to do. Like, I see the importance of it. So I come down, I stain the bar top, wake up the next morning, and I show a man. I said, Look, isn't this great? I said, It's it's probably gonna be lighter than the rest of the room. But I said, But that's okay. Oh, it was not okay.

SPEAKER_03 5:12

It was not okay.

Josh 5:14

All of a sudden you started to go from what a nice gift that you're giving me for my birthday to very specifically how you wanted everything to be.

Amanda 5:23

No, the uh false. The only thing that I mandated was a spar top. Because the the piece of furniture underneath it is is a dark wood. And and I, as it is, it's still lighter, but it's much closer and it's warm. Like before, it was like a cool tone.

Josh 5:41

This is warm, beautiful, it's gorgeous. Thank you. I worked like a house of fire Friday night. I was up until midnight uh and a little past messing with this, and I don't know what you were thinking would happen down here. I don't know what you were thinking it would look like, but what I've done is I put up slats to imitate nice um wains cutting and um paneling. I had put up six wireless lights and these really ornate, uh, cool-looking uh brass light fixtures, hung pictures, moved furniture, assembled the bar, put up a dartboard. I mean, I kicked ass.

Amanda 6:21

Yeah, no, it's so good. It's so good.

Josh 6:24

But I don't know what she was expecting because when she came down, she was like overly surprised.

SPEAKER_01 6:31

And I cried.

Josh 6:32

And she cried, yes. For once, this guy did something.

Amanda 6:38

For once, hush, I married you.

Josh 6:40

Um the second time I did something good then.

Amanda 6:43

All right. No, I did. It's just it's beautiful. Like I don't know what I was I don't I don't know what I was expecting. So I can't answer that question for you. But it's beautiful. And the reason I cried is because, you know, it we leaned a little bit nautical. So my brother, who we've talked about before, was career navy. He was a captain, he worked at the Pentagon, he retired, and he wound up, you know, having a fairly tragic end. And we'll get into that story some other time. But when Winthrop was born, I took all of this Navy stuff and made this nautical nursery. And Winthrop immediately had no interest in anything that had to do with the ocean or sailing or whatever, and only wanted to talk about construction.

Josh 7:23

Yes.

Amanda 7:23

Or frustruction, as he called it. And so we've got all this, and you you even bought me a ship's bell. Yes. And so we had to hang things up. So we've it's got taken a little bit of a nautical bent, but Josh also went and got my brother's um portrait from when he was commissioned as an officer and hung it up, and that's why I cried, which is a nice Memorial Day tribute as well.

Josh 7:43

Yeah.

Amanda 7:43

So we're still looking for a name for the pub. Now we're trying to lean a little nautical, right?

Josh 7:49

But this is what I'm saying to you. We cannot end this episode without a name for this pub.

Amanda 7:54

Well, I like the ship's bell. Or and you keep saying we can't use bell because of bell end.

Josh 7:59

Right. That's the thing, though.

Amanda 8:00

It's we have a freaking bell in the pub.

Josh 8:03

I wanted to call it the admiral's bell.

Amanda 8:06

Yes. Right?

Josh 8:06

That's what I wanted to call it. Your brother, if he'd stayed in, she was slated to make admiral, yeah. Made admiral. And so I think that that's really cool. But we can't fucking call it the Admiral's Bell. That's ridiculous.

Amanda 8:17

There is a person who would have been an admiral in here and a bell in here. It's not none of that is false.

Josh 8:22

I think that we should actually go the opposite direction.

Amanda 8:24

Uh-huh.

Josh 8:25

Because I I'm not quite certain how many people know the reference to Bell and Bell End. Although the thing just happened with the president and King Charles, so it may be on people's mind now. They may be aware of that reference from UK slang that bell means penis. Um, so I think that we just call it bell end. Two words.

Amanda 8:49

The bell end.

Josh 8:50

Bell end the bell's end. The bell's end.

Amanda 8:53

This is this is where the bell ends.

Josh 8:55

And then if people don't know it, great.

Amanda 8:56

And then if they I'm actually really okay with our pub being the bell's end, just so you know.

Josh 9:01

The bell's end.

Amanda 9:03

I'm really okay with this.

Josh 9:04

All right, I'm gonna write that down. But I do want to consider some other choices just in

Pub Dog Energy And Pickled Eggs

Josh 9:10

case.

Amanda 9:10

You know what a byproduct of this space was that I wasn't expecting?

Josh 9:14

What's that?

Amanda 9:15

How much the dog loves this space.

Josh 9:17

The dog is a pub dog now. He is usually when we're recording, he is scampering all around, frustrating the ever-loving shit about me, which is why I was so excited the last three or four weeks, however long it was that we were recording outside, because the dog was inside. But now he is he is sitting on the chair, he's not barking, he's not bothering us, and I can relax.

Amanda 9:40

He's usually my little shadow. He goes everywhere that I go. And when we were getting ready for the party, I kept looking around. I'm like, I'm in the kitchen, and he is not in here. I'd walk into the pub and he'd just be laying on the rug. Like, I think it is a calming, chill space for him.

Josh 9:54

It is like a big hug, this place. It is. I heard some people say that green paint on the walls, dark wood. It's it's really nice.

Amanda 10:03

And and you've honored the Belsons with your choice of football flags.

Josh 10:07

Oh, yes, I do have a giant Chelsea flag and a giant Arsenal flag. Although, Gavin, answer us this because Amanda looked at the Chelsea flag, and what she sees, so it's got um is that a lion in the middle there?

Amanda 10:22

Uh or a dragon. I don't know.

Josh 10:24

Yeah, so it's a it's uh some sort of mythical beast in the middle, and it's surrounded by the words Chelsea football club, and it has ornamentation. One is a is a red flower, and the other one is what looks like an American volleyball. So, Gavin, do you do the footballs uh over there are are they really volleyballs? Because I thought that footballs pretty much everywhere had the little hexagon shapes on it. Gavin, let us know.

Amanda 10:51

Well, we bought Winthrop uh football when we were in the UK. So I just need to go look at it.

Josh 10:56

Well, also, it could just be that I bought like a knockoff flag. Is Chelsea spelled right?

Amanda 11:02

No, no, no. Because we had one of my really good friends was here and she was wearing a Chelsea jersey. Yeah, and I looked back at the picture of her in front of the flag, and it's the same football.

Josh 11:12

Okay, so good. So we did not get the T-Mo Chelsea flag. Having a pub in your house is a very interesting dynamic, though. First of all, it it is set up as a bar, and I was standing behind the bar because I was comfortable, but I certainly wasn't serving people or mixing drinks, and so everyone would come up to me and be like, as you would, because your condition is you were the bartender. And I'm like, no, I'm just standing here because this is my fucking bar. You get your own drinks. I had all the bottles uh set out in front. I pointed to the glasses, I said, y'all deal with yourselves. But also, it was all of the great things of having the pub without any of the headaches of having the pub, except for cleanup, which wasn't too bad. It wasn't really bad. It's just a small room, and by and large, our guests were were polite. The tremendous benefit of having this pub is that we got this space where it's very chill. The rest of the house was madness because we invited way too many people in the house. I just stayed in this room. Yeah, I just stayed in here, and and I went out once for the the birthday cake situation, and it was wall-to-wall people.

Amanda 12:12

Yes, like we had That's where I was the whole time because I was making sure everybody was eating and doing all the things.

Josh 12:17

But you didn't need to because whatever, it's your party. But we had like 50 people here or something like that. We did not, there were 35. Well, anyway, small house, 50 people. It happened. It was fun in here. People were playing darts, which I didn't know that whether they would do or not, whether they would just think it was ornamentation or whatever. But they were in here and playing darts, and people were chatting about all sorts of ridiculous shit. The other benefit to having a home pub is that when you have a party, people bring you liquor.

SPEAKER_01 12:43

Yeah, yeah.

Josh 12:45

People were bringing liquor in. I had uh I have more beer than I know what to do with. By the way, if you're anywhere in town, come get some beer. Come to the battle's end and get some some beer.

Amanda 12:57

We got some beer, we got some local beer, we got some Guinness, we got whatever. Come and get it, please. Well, I don't drink beer. Josh rarely drinks beer.

Josh 13:07

No, that's not true. I have Guinness. Like you'll drink the Guinness. If they just brought Guinness, you know, I'd be happy as Larry. But you know, they brought all these other things, which is great because I was happy that they did it and I was grateful that they were so generous. But this is what I'm saying. Whenever we have a party and we utilize this pub, it's gonna be like, yeah, and and bring some alcohol. Uh I'll be like a feudal lord. Bring you their tribute to me. And then they can also partake as well because I can't have all of it. It was just great.

Amanda 13:37

Well, so let's be clear. So, what you said to people was bring something Amanda would want for the pub, right? So there was a lot of wine because I don't I don't drink beer, so there was a lot of wine. Um but also like people were bringing pub snacks, neighbor Kate brought mocktails because that's what we have together. We have non-alcoholic happy hour. And really great. But a really good friend of mine and his wife, actually, I don't think she had anything to do with it. I think this happened in spite of her. Brought what I am looking at now on this bar and need it to go far, far away. He brought a giant 40-ounce jar of Big John's pickled eggs. My God, it's red. Red dye number 40 is in the ingredient list. And you had it up in front of a light yesterday, and it looked like a specimen jar from the mad scientist lab.

Josh 14:29

It looked like an exhibit at the International Testicle Museum. I mean, it is a bunch of boiled eggs in red liquid. And with the light going behind it, I'm like, oh, that's where the sperm stay.

Amanda 14:42

I don't eat boiled eggs, period. So I'm not about to start eating those. So unless you want to start that, Matt either needs to come get it back or that needs to go to someone. I'll put it on Facebook, come get my stuff page.

Josh 14:58

We need to have a contest. Then you could win Big John's pickled eggs, which already sounds like a euphemism. The good thing about this though is it never needs refrigeration. It's that what it says. It has red number 40 and red number three because they needed to get the exact right shade of red, so they had to mix two reds.

Amanda 15:18

I can't even look at it. I need it to go away. I mean, I but this this is this is how Matt does life. For my birthday last year, he got me a Dobby sculpture, which I from Harry Potter, which I'm not even into. I wound up giving it to Winthrop's teacher for teacher appreciation because she was a Harry Potter fan. So it worked out.

Josh 15:37

Oh, I thought you told her it was a Joe Biden doll.

Amanda 15:40

So do you think we can repurpose this? Like, which of Winthrop's teachers do you think would want Big Don's pickled eggs for teacher appreciation?

Josh 15:47

Miss G.

Amanda 15:48

Yeah, Miss G totally would want this.

Muppets Breakups And Gin Capri Sun

Josh 15:50

So let's talk a little bit about the chat that was had in this pub. There is no way I could ever have guessed some of the things that folks decided that they wanted to talk about. Well, I wasn't in here long, so well, I found out that apparently Kermit and Miss Piggy got got um Oh yeah, broken up. Broken up or divorced or whatever in August 2015.

Amanda 16:11

So I did you know this? No, I was in and out for that because I kept going back in to check on people. So I I I felt like I couldn't be in one space very long because like supposedly these people were here for me and they were in all different spaces, so I was trying to wander around. And I heard that, and then I left, and then I then I heard you guys talking about how he dated like a human CEO or something for a while.

Josh 16:33

No, no, no. They some of the people were drunk, they got the story wrong. So apparently there was a reboot of a show or something.

SPEAKER_03 16:40

Okay.

Josh 16:41

And reboot of the Muppet Show, and a plot line was that they were no longer together, right?

SPEAKER_03 16:46

Yeah, okay.

Josh 16:47

And they had Kermit dating someone from HR, quote unquote, but it was another pig.

Amanda 16:53

Oh, okay, got it.

Josh 16:54

It was not a human.

Amanda 16:55

I heard like a hu I was very confused, but I also didn't stick around to listen. And that's the thing, is like I I have decided since we have a pub in our house, I have to be very moderate in any alcohol consumption because there could be an opportunity to just feel very sick. So I re I had two drinks the entire night spread out. Like I was very, very aware of everything that was happening. And it was it's an interesting interesting space to be in when other people aren't so much, and you're sitting listening and trying to make sense of their conversations.

Josh 17:27

Well, I didn't sense that this conversation was off of the rails, except for the subject matter itself. I don't know.

Amanda 17:33

Well, that's the thing. I guess it was a sober conversation, but it felt like it wasn't.

Josh 17:37

But I need to know who at Disney greenlit this.

SPEAKER_03 17:41

Right?

Josh 17:42

Like no one wanted this, right? The kids do not want to watch a show where the two main characters are splitting up. We don't want to remind them of mommy and daddy or whatever may or may not be happening, right? It's not why they watch this. They want to they want to watch it for fun and jokes and all this. We don't need to inject soap opera. The adults who grew up with the Muppets don't need yet another thing from their childhood broken. We have been so disappointed by leaders and by whole systems that we grew up with that we believed in, and then we look back and we're like, well, that's actually sucked.

SPEAKER_01 18:20

Yep.

Josh 18:21

We certainly didn't want that or need that. No, you know who needed that? The people at the Muppets? Disney.

Amanda 18:28

Maybe Kermit was just really over biggie.

unknown 18:32

Okay.

Josh 18:33

I'm gonna stop us right here. They're not real beings.

SPEAKER_01 18:38

All right, fine.

Josh 18:39

They need to stop. Okay, first of all, they need to stop rebooting.

SPEAKER_01 18:42

Are they back together?

Josh 18:43

No, I don't know. Maybe. Who cares? I don't know. I don't care anymore. I don't care anymore. This is what has happened. Disney fucked around with the the property. Now I don't want to know from it.

Amanda 18:53

I was never a big Muppets fan at all.

Josh 18:55

Oh, I freaking love the Muppets. Oh, such a clever show.

Amanda 18:59

The only well, you're also older than me. So maybe like you got it in a way I didn't get it. I was a giant Sesame Street fan, like giant, but Muppets never I never got into the Muppets. The only thing that I I I remember seeing the Muppets take Manhattan and liking that, but that was it. Maybe I just wanted just where my love of New York started. I don't know.

Josh 19:19

No, I mean I didn't really care for any of the movies. I just liked the original show. And that's and the first movie. The first movie was Gold. They just needed to leave that stuff alone. But of course, the money grubbers are like, we gotta get our hands, we gotta make this interesting. Listen, I'm telling you right now, like, I have my last straw. My last straw with pop culture in general, and with this whole like consumerist-driven pop culture is if they reboot Breaking Bad with Fred Rogers, I am out. What's wrong with the I am moving to the top with a book of matches and my therapeutic pillow, and you just leave me there in the middle of nothing, and I will be happy because no one will be able to steal any more of my childhood from me.

Amanda 20:03

I mean, that's the thing. Like, you've asked me over and over like, who would you be the most disappointed? Because we talk about Cosby and we talk about these people that we grew up with. Like, who would you be the most disappointed if something came out? And it hands down, it's Fred Rogers. And so far, I've made it to 51, and no one has sullied his memory for me yet.

Josh 20:22

They need to leave it alone. Other things that they talked about weirdly, a lot of veggie tales talk.

Amanda 20:28

We did talk about Veggie Tales, and I had forgotten that I had a Bob and Larry stuffy until we were having that conversation. I took it to camp with me.

Josh 20:35

So, does everyone know what VeggieTales is?

Amanda 20:37

I think if you were raised in the church, they did. Did you know Veggie Tales?

Josh 20:40

I'm I was aware. I never watched it because it was after my older, yeah. But I was, of course, aware because it was. I mean, they even had a Veggie Tales movie at one point, didn't they? No, they had a couple movies. But was it known to the broader non-Christian culture?

Amanda 20:53

I don't know. I think a lot of them know that Where is my hairbrush song? I think that one went mainstream. It was a crossover hit.

Josh 21:00

Way too much talk about uh Larry the the cucumber.

Amanda 21:05

We couldn't figure out what vegetable Jesus was, and then we realized Jesus was never a vegetable. But we think the angel of the Lord was asparagus. We went we went down a veggie tail rabbit hole for a while in here.

Josh 21:15

That's when I thought people were really drunk.

Amanda 21:17

No, we were all sober for this conversation.

Josh 21:21

And then uh my friend, my dear friend Jason Sanders, invented a new cocktail.

Amanda 21:26

Yes, he did.

Josh 21:28

Because what he did was you had Capri Suns.

Amanda 21:30

For the children.

Josh 21:31

For the children. He grabbed one, he sauntered in here, and he's like, I wonder what this would be like in a cocktail. So he made a Capri Sun and Gin cocktail.

Amanda 21:39

It was gin and juice, baby. Because his money was on his mind, and his mind was on his money. It's fine.

Josh 21:46

So that was, and he liked it as well.

Amanda 21:48

He did, he kept drinking it.

Josh 21:50

He's a very inventive fellow. Now, talk about bars. He has got this liquor cabinet at home. That's crazy. I know.

Amanda 21:57

And they don't drink it. His wife was telling. Me. Yeah. Like they they need to have parties just to get rid of it.

Josh 22:02

It is like four or five tiers, I feel like, with categories and you know, the wine is probably sorted by decade.

Amanda 22:14

And it had to have been driving him nuts that things were just here on the bar and people were grabbing them.

Josh 22:18

Well, he was getting really annoyed that people would wander in and open a new bottle of wine when there was when there was other wine, because I guess they didn't want just that vintage of like two buck chuck or whatever. Right.

Amanda 22:29

Um two buck chuck is now four dollars.

Josh 22:31

The pub was a great experience, good

Decluttering And The Power Of Novelty

Josh 22:34

test drive. We're gonna have to have many more people around to justify having this thing. Because I was sitting here in the middle of the party and enjoying the people coming in and out and and everyone chatting, but I was like, why did we do this?

Amanda 22:48

Because I love this room, hush. Don't ruin this for me.

Josh 22:52

No, but it's just when you think about it, like a whole room now, we've turned into a pub.

Amanda 22:57

Yeah, but it's not just a pub, though. Like, I mean, yes, there is a bar here, and yes, there is alcohol. We had that in the kitchen. That's the thing, is that there's there's a chest set, there's a dartboard set, there's books, there's bookshelves, there's chairs. Like, I can do my homework in here. Like it's a nice place just to sit and chat with people, or just when when this was the office, you and I used to just come and sit and listen to music in the office early on when it was still not cluttered, and then it started to build up a whole bunch of shit.

Josh 23:23

That's one thing that this has done for me is it's again, whenever we move stuff around, it makes me realize how much extra shit that we have that we just need to get rid of. So this is actually a good exercise for people to do every now and again. Not only just go around and like clean up, you almost have to shake the chessboard when all the pieces fall off, and you have to set them back up to see how much junk is like squirreled away, like under the bed or or behind the cabinet or or whatever. So we've gotten rid of a lot of stuff.

SPEAKER_01 23:58

Yep.

Josh 23:58

There was a lot of stuff in here. Now I say that the closet in this room is chock a block full of nonsense that we need to get rid of.

Amanda 24:06

Yeah, don't open that door.

Josh 24:07

I don't know.

Amanda 24:08

I also told somebody else not to somebody not to go in our garage.

Josh 24:10

Yeah.

Amanda 24:11

Too because they were talking about something. I said, do not go in the Wilson's garage.

Josh 24:14

So it's a good exercise to really kind of turn your rooms upside down every now and again. Is that a thing that people used to do that they would just rearrange their rooms?

Amanda 24:22

I grew up like that. I mean, I grew up like every so often, I would just rearrange my furniture. I mean, and from the time that I was like a kid, and then through my teen years, whatever, because it just made it feel different. And I remember waking up the next morning and being like, oh, this is a new fun space because it, yeah, you just I would just move the bed or move my my vanity or move something and it, yeah.

Josh 24:43

Here's the thing as you age, time just seems to speed up faster and faster. But one of the reasons why is because you get into a routine and there's less and less novelty in your life, and novelty, new things, new experiences, that's what makes the time feel longer, as opposed to just doing the same old thing 24-sev. And then you wake up in 20 years and you're like, shit, those two decades just went by. Where did they go? Well, now we have this signpost. This is the week that we totally changed this room, right? Now this is a different room. We also, as a result of changing this room, we brought some cabinets in from the dining room. Now the dining room looks totally different.

Amanda 25:24

Yeah, it's nice, so I like it.

Josh 25:25

That's the reason why then. I have answered my own question. We do this so that we can extend the time that we have so we can have more novelty.

Amanda 25:33

I think we need to take that same lens to our room.

Josh 25:36

All right, I'm so tired. Can we just live in in the happiness of this for a while?

Amanda 25:41

We can, but I th I laid there and I thought about something. Muffy did this thing this week where so when we moved her back from the dorm, everything was just in the loft. And we told her, You gotta you gotta deal with this because we're having this party and that's where the kids go. We put the TV out there and that's where they go. And but Muffy has from the time that she was little, cleaning her room is a full experience because she cleans, but then she organizes, like it's not just a tidy up your room. Right, it is a process. Right. Well, so she couldn't she wasn't going to be able to get it done in the depth that she wanted to get it done. So she just cleaned out the loft and her room still needs to be done. But she kept bringing things into our room. I don't want this, what do I do with it? And I had flashbacks to when she was little, that's how she cleaned her room when she was five. She just bring me the stuff she didn't want. I don't want this doll. What do I do with it? I don't know. I don't want it either. Right, come get my stuff. So it's like she wandered in with a pair of sweatpants. I don't want these, but they have a stain on it. What do I do? I I I guess we throw them away, which breaks everybody's heart because we don't want to add to the landfill. But I I, you know, and then I then I was like, why is your hamper in here? And she was like, Oh, because I have another hamper now. I don't need that one anymore, which actually worked out well because you need a hamper in your closet, so not have one for you. But yeah, like I just this is how she cleans, and it's how she's always cleaned by just bringing me the stuff she doesn't want. Winthrop does it too. Brings me the stuff from his room he doesn't want. I don't want their things. That is why they are their things. Well, I'm gonna put it in the ground.

Josh 27:20

Muffy has a phone, she has Facebook account.

Amanda 27:22

No, Muffy does not have no nobody in her age has Facebook. Blue key, do you have Facebook? I don't think that you do.

Josh 27:30

Well, she's gotta sort it out. Like the go ahead and post it on something, like hey, come get my stuff.com or whatever it is. Um, so she's gotta sort that out.

Amanda 27:40

With the pickled eggs. You know what I just learned looking at this this thing? It is the official snack of the South.

Josh 27:46

Of course it is. I thought that that was I was boiled peanuts. I would have said no, I was I thought that that was the the pig's feet that comes, by the way, in this very same color. Is this like the South's official food preparation color? Because the pickled pig's feet also comes in this shade.

Amanda 28:02

Well, I'm very happy that our friends that brought this are vegetarian, so they weren't even a little bit tempted to bring me pig's feet.

Josh 28:10

That I don't think that that goes in a bar in any case.

Amanda 28:13

Uh maybe. I don't know, but I thought he was just getting confused with like southern dive bars. Yes. But you said that Gavin said they have these in the fish and the chippies.

Josh 28:22

Yeah, I don't know. Anyway.

Introvert Batteries And Pub Name Debate

Josh 28:24

Um, one thing that I did learn about being an introvert during this little party. First of all, I think I've determined that. I think I've determined that I don't need to have 50 people in my house anymore.

Amanda 28:35

Okay, you can stop adding 15 of them. It was 35.

Josh 28:39

Well, we went on this kick of having these huge parties in our house. And I think maybe I am now to the point where I've graduated to just small gatherings. But I was considering how I felt the next day on Sunday because Saturday I spent the whole day basically in the house getting the room all the way the rest of the way ready. I went to the store for a little bit, but in general I stayed in the house, which is something we don't usually do on Saturdays. Yesterday, basically spent the whole day in the house.

Amanda 29:06

Yeah, we didn't leave the house for Saturday.

Josh 29:07

Didn't leave the house. In fact, I didn't I haven't changed even yet.

Amanda 29:09

I'm still Are you still wearing Saturday night's clothes?

Josh 29:12

Yeah, yeah.

unknown 29:12

Oh my god.

Amanda 29:13

Okay. I have changed clothes.

Josh 29:16

I mean, I've bathed.

Amanda 29:17

Did you just put the same clothes back on?

Josh 29:19

No. So anyway. The point is this. The point is that I used to think of it as, oh, you know, I'm an introvert. My social batteries are drained. I can't possibly do anything, so I need this time to recover. What if that's not the right way to think of it? What if the way to think of it is more positively that I've had my batteries socially filled.

Amanda 29:43

Yes, like that.

Josh 29:46

Everyone I think needs to have that kind of connection. It's just that I've had enough. See, if you look at it the other way, it's like I have this battery power that I'm just trying to hold on to, and when I'm around people, it gets sucked out of me. Well, that sucks.

Amanda 29:59

Maybe it's just full now.

Josh 30:00

That stinks. I'd rather think of it as I am filled up. That's all I have needed. Um, we are gonna have uh the neighbors over for some pub time this evening, and that will be our first social interaction since the party. And I'm perfectly good with that. Now, good thing that this happened over our three-day weekend. Yeah. Because I would not be ready for work if I had to get up for work and go there this morning. Yeah, no. I would not do that either. So that's how I'm gonna think of it um from now on. Not that I'm an introvert and I'm this this tender little shoot that can only take so much social interaction. It's more that I only need so much social interaction. And then when I have what I need, then I'm I'm fine, then I'm done, and it's good.

Amanda 30:41

Yeah, I know, but you know, we talked about having smaller parties, but I I do want to know how we deal with this issue that you brought up, is that you know, you over invite because experience tells you you're gonna lose about 10 to 15 percent, right? So, how do you do that if you're inviting six people?

Josh 30:57

Invite 10 people, okay, and then you're happy. Okay, see, we invite 14, 15, 16 people, and then for this last thing, people brought other people. That's new, yeah. Which happy to have everyone here, and they were all celebrating.

Amanda 31:12

And we had enough food, like it was good.

Josh 31:13

Yeah, no, no, and they were all celebrating you. It was it was fine, but we just had uh what I think was the tipping point of I'm like, oh, I'm reconsidering this big party situation, yeah. So, anyway, we're not gonna call the pub the Bell Zen because that sounds like a strip club. Not doing it.

Amanda 31:31

All right, well, the podcast is almost over and you have to come up with something.

Josh 31:35

It has to do with expectation, is all I'm saying. Because they're gonna come in here, they're gonna see me behind the bar, it's called the Bel Zen. They're like, let's see the Belzen. I'm like, no, that's all right. I mean, we might as well just call it the big ding-dong. How about that? That's also on theme both ways. Are you tired of museums that quite frankly just don't have the balls to be different? Well, then come on down to the International Testicle Museum, where every exhibit is a nut to be cracked, and history has never been this well rounded. Our permanent collection covers ancient history, comparative anatomy, and the surprisingly rich folklore of the scrotum, because every culture in its own way has something to say on that subject. From now until next Tuesday, we are running a guided tour through our hall of the vasdefrons because you deserve to know where you came from. Our gift shop is fully stocked. Pick up a snow globe or two, a tote bag, a novelty bookmark, or a keychain that your aunt will absolutely bring up every Christmas. The International Testicle Museum. We're the museum that has the stones to do what other museums won't.

Memorial Day Flashbacks Trivia Game

Amanda 33:21

That song means it's game time, and it is my favorite by our son, AJCW, whose room we've now turned into a pub. Thanks, Andrew.

Josh 33:30

Andrew, you can't come back now.

Amanda 33:32

That's right. Well, I guess you could live in the pub. That seems dangerous, though, right? Um, all right, so we are gonna play flashbacks. We've not played flashbacks in a while, and as that's it's Memorial Day weekend, there might be some interesting history. So the conceit of this game, it comes from the New York Times.

SPEAKER_03 33:47

Not a sponsor.

Amanda 33:48

No. Josh is going to get a clue or an event from history, and he has to place it on a timeline. Now, New York Times will give you an anchoring event with the time, but Josh likes to make it a little bit harder for himself and try to guess the first one. So the first one is French troops rush to the battle of I don't know. This is a French word. It's spelt like Marne, but I don't know if that's how they say it, because there's an E on the end. French troops rush to the Battle of Marne taking taxis. Drivers let the meter run and build a military. So they go to the butt the battle in taxis. Why? I don't know.

Josh 34:24

Okay, so taxis tells me it's more recent than I would think. Because I always think about the French battle of this or the Spanish battle of that, or the the English battle of whatever is in the 17-1800s, but I'm gonna say that it is early 1900s.

Amanda 34:39

Okay. But you have to make a guess. Usually you guess.

Josh 34:42

1920.

Amanda 34:42

All right, 1914. So good. Okay. Doesn't really count toward anything. But all right, here we go. Your next one, and you have to tell me if it was before or after the Battle of Marne, a Sumerian priestess and who Dwana, I apologize to her for that, becomes one of the world's first known writers. In one hymn, she describes an early form of writer's block.

Josh 35:04

Okay, so obviously that's before 1914. Yes. Um, so I get a point for that. Um, but then do I get the bonus point for trying to guess within, let's say, 20 years of when it was. Or no, a hundred years, because this is way back in the day. So this is this is like BC times. This is like BC 1500.

Amanda 35:26

Okay, well, it is BC times, but it is circa 2300 BCE. So you don't get your bonus point.

Josh 35:34

All right, go ahead.

Amanda 35:36

All right, the third one. Amid a coup attempt in Moscow, Pizza Hut delivers hundreds of pizzas and 20 cases of Pepsi to Boris Yeltsin, the Russian president. It boosts morale.

Josh 35:47

All right, so obviously that's after 1914, so I get that point. And Boris Yeltsin was during Clinton's presidency, I believe. So that's in the 90s, so I'm gonna say 94.

Amanda 36:00

1991.

Josh 36:01

Okay, very good. I get that point.

Amanda 36:03

Yeah, you do.

Josh 36:05

Um, all right, go ahead.

Amanda 36:06

All right. During Napoleon III's reign, a French aerialist performs the first flying trapeze act. He wears a one piece outfit, which is later named after him, Jules Liotard. I never knew that. This is fascinating to me.

Josh 36:23

Oh goodness. Next we're gonna be talking about it.

Amanda 36:26

There is a picture of the gentleman in this leotard, and I can see his bell's end.

Josh 36:31

Next we're gonna be talking about Johannes Douchebag. Let's see, that is 1860.

unknown 36:39

Okay.

Amanda 36:40

1859.

Josh 36:42

Bam! You get your bonus point. Burn it up, baby.

Amanda 36:46

Morocco is the first nation to recognize US independence. It later seizes an American ship when the US ignores their treaty deal.

Josh 36:55

Oh, how ungrateful were we. Yep. So, like seventeen um eighty.

SPEAKER_01 37:05

Okay, hold on. 1777!

Josh 37:11

Oh yeah, it would be earlier, wouldn't it? Okay.

Amanda 37:13

The first McDonald's drive-thru opens in Arizona. It's aimed at soldiers from a nearby base who weren't allowed to patronize stores in uniform unless in a car.

Josh 37:23

Oh, wow.

Amanda 37:24

I had no idea. We're learning a lot of military history from Memorial Day.

Josh 37:28

So that was, yes, this is the important military history. That was 1953.

Amanda 37:35

All right, so before Moscow and Pizza Hut, but after the taxis. Yes. 1975, the year I was born.

Josh 37:42

Oh, wow.

Amanda 37:43

Wow. I would thought drive-throughs would have been around a lot earlier than that.

Josh 37:47

Okay.

Amanda 37:48

In Pennsylvania, the U.S. Mint is founded under Alexander Hamilton, the Treasury's secretary. To roll out the first copper coins, it uses oxen and horses. This is a weird fact.

Josh 38:01

Okay, so that's like, let's see, seven. Ooh. Uh well, that has to be like 1785.

Amanda 38:09

So after Morocco. That's right. So before Leotard. Yes. 1792 or 93. It's not sure. There is there is a hyphen.

Josh 38:19

I'm giving myself the point.

unknown 38:20

Okay.

Amanda 38:21

America uses the McKinley tariff to pressure Canada into joining the US. It backfires. Canadian pride surges, trade with Britain booms, and US prices skyrocket. Hmm. Sounds familiar.

Josh 38:37

Okay. Ooh. McKinley. McKinley. Um, 1853.

Amanda 38:43

So before Leotard?

Josh 38:45

Before Leotard.

Amanda 38:47

1890. That's the first one you've gotten wrong. All right, here's your last one.

Josh 38:52

Oh, but I still got it right.

Amanda 38:53

No, you got it wrong on the timeline. All right, this is the last one.

Josh 38:57

Alright, go ahead.

Amanda 38:58

An English English, that's how we say that word, scientist, John William Strutt, is the first person to scientifically explain why the sky is blue.

Josh 39:07

This is gonna be earlier than I think. So I'm gonna say 1600.

Amanda 39:13

Okay, so between BCE and Morocco.

Josh 39:16

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 39:17

1871.

Josh 39:19

Damn it. Why did they cluster everything in?

SPEAKER_01 39:21

You got six out of eight, but a bonus point. So seven out of eight, friend.

Josh 39:26

No, I got one, two, three, four, five, six, and I got one, two, three, four bonus points. So I have ten points.

Amanda 39:35

Okay. I'm gonna keep your own points.

unknown 39:37

I don't care.

Josh 39:37

Wait, that's what I got. What are you talking about?

Amanda 39:40

Uh, because you gave yourself bonus points. I wasn't counting. You're right, you're right. No, you're right. You're right. I only gave you one bonus point.

Josh 39:45

If you learn anything, folks, you have to be your own advocate, even in marriage.

Amanda 39:49

Yeah, there you go. Advocate for yourself.

Josh 39:52

All right, so the New York Times gives us little factoids based on these questions. What are some of the things that we can learn?

Amanda 40:00

Um, McDonald's thing is baseball fans are bringing their own fast food to the stadium, and teams don't mind. Baseball stadiums have lax outside food policies, and fans love it. And the picture is a guy eating a plate of spaghetti and meatballs with garlic bread at the stadium.

Josh 40:16

Very good.

Amanda 40:17

Maybe we can. Oh, maybe somebody wants our pickled eggs.

Josh 40:20

Oh, yes. No, we can't send this to a ball field because these will end up on the field.

Amanda 40:25

People just chucking it at the team.

Josh 40:27

Can't do that.

Recommendations, Email, And Goodbye

Josh 40:32

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SPEAKER_03 40:52

No one likes to be told what to do.

Josh 40:54

And now's the time in the program where we tell you what to do. Amanda, what should we do?

Amanda 40:59

So I'm gonna recommend a book. I think I recommended a book last week. I'm recommending a new book. Um, I recommended the Libby app, and I heard from Refine Gay Jeff, who um appreciated my shout out to the Libby app. Also, Jeff is loving the pub. We got his absolute seal of approval. So, Jeff, the next thing is you need to come here and stay at the pub. We will put a cot out in the pub for you, and you can stay in the pub, like a real British inn.

Josh 41:24

He would like for us to call it the bell end.

Amanda 41:26

The bell's end. It has to be possessive. The bell is in possession of the end. Anyway, I'm recommending this book called The Storm by New York Times best-selling author Rachel Hawkins. It is southern Gothic. Um, it's not horror, but it's definitely southern gothic mystery. And I I was drawn to it because it's about a town on the Gulf Coast in Alabama that has a storied history with hurricanes. And that is something that we can identify with here. But really fascinating um group of characters, these women, and just the impacts of, you know, the the skeletons in the closet from days gone by and the impact on people now. And it's kind of been a little bit of a slow burn as the hurricane's been building out in the Gulf and it's about to hit, and it's it's really interesting. And the audiobook has a cast of seven characters who um, you know, an ensemble cast and that, and they're all good because I get real picky about a a narrator. And so anyway, I'm recommending The Storm by Rachel Hawkins.

Josh 42:30

We found a show on YouTube called the Canadian Great British Canadian Pottery Throwdown.

Amanda 42:40

Great Canadian Pottery Throwdown.

Josh 42:42

Anyway, it's a takeoff on the the pottery throwdown from from England, and we couldn't find any of those episodes to watch, so I did a little searching on YouTube, and they have a Canadian version. I'm like, well, this is gonna suck. Yeah, you know. But because whenever I've seen American versions of British properties, it's usually been inferior. I've not liked it.

Amanda 43:02

Well, and it's obnoxious.

Josh 43:03

Americans are obnoxious, except for Sanford and Sun, which is much superior to Steptoe and Stun from whence it came. But that's neither here nor there. We found this Canadian pottery throwdown show to be delightful. It is starring um the lady who is in Shits Creek as the the mayor's wife. The mayor's wife. Jennifer Robinson. Jennifer Richards?

Amanda 43:26

Robinson? Something like that.

Josh 43:27

Who could be bothered to look it up? My phone's only right here. Anyway, she's she's fun and has two Canadian pottery experts. The only thing that is a little iffy to me is Seth Rogan is involved with this project. The first episode he was there, right? And then in successive episodes, he has had little taped segments. Apparently he's a potter, right? There's the connection. And he's probably a it looks like he's a pretty good potter. He knows what he's doing. 'Cause he does like little video demos for the the potters. Um during the show. But I cannot get past his lap.

Amanda 44:04

That's really awful. And I did not know this about him.

Josh 44:07

Oh, he's got a tail. I don't even think I can do it.

Amanda 44:10

No, it is.

Josh 44:12

That's what it sounds like.

Amanda 44:13

But it's like so incessant and so it sounds like he's putting it on, right? Like he's trying to be obnoxious.

Josh 44:20

Who would put that on?

Amanda 44:21

No, it's like he's trying to be obnoxious, but because it's like, you know, we've talked about Jimmy Carr and how Jimmy Carr has that obnoxious laugh, but when he gets really tickled about something and starts laughing, it does not sound the same.

SPEAKER_03 44:33

Right.

Amanda 44:34

So that is that is an affectation to an extent. I believe that it's a little bit him, but like really, this is just it's bad.

Josh 44:42

The point is that Seth Rogan aside.

Amanda 44:45

Yeah, it's a lovely show.

Josh 44:46

It is a very pleasant show. And we're hopefully we'll be able to watch all of it before they take all the episodes. So that's what I recommend.

Amanda 44:53

Better go start watching now.

Josh 44:55

Go watch it if you can find it, because it's just it's very calming, as is the the original show, and it's worth watching.

Amanda 45:02

There are other seasons of the original show on YouTube. We just can't get the newest one. And if you have HBO Max, they're on there as well, some of the other ones.

Josh 45:11

So they are our recommendations for the week. If you would like to recommend anything to us, then email us at familiarwilsons at gmail.com. Or you just want to drop us a line and suggest to us something for our pub. We're open. Or if you want to book some time in here, you know, it's it's available for rental.

Amanda 45:30

I got some, I will give you some pickled eggs.

Josh 45:34

Well, also, if you're in Gainesville, like I said before, and you want some beer today or tomorrow or the next day, um, come and get it, and you can get some pickled eggs as well. Alright, Amanda, that's all there is. There is no more. What are we gonna call this place? Because we said that we were gonna call it something by the end of this episode. What are we gonna call it?

Amanda 46:06

The pickled egg.

Josh 46:08

That's actually not bad. Except you hate pickled eggs, so we don't want to.

Amanda 46:12

I do hate pickled eggs, but I mean, I you won't let me name it anything that sounds like penises, so might as well name it after testicles. Do you know what Winthrop said to me the other day? He was talking to me about how he's been with me since I was born, and I was like, what are you talking about? And he was like, you know, the human egg. I wasn't expecting that from him. Also, I don't think he's put two and two together about how these don't just like spontaneously decide to make a child. So I need you to maybe follow up on that conversation sometime soon.

Josh 46:42

Really? I mean, I'm happy to. I'm gonna say, son, when an egg and a sperm love each other. Yes. They get together, yes, and they make you.

Amanda 46:51

Yes, do that. Don't do that. How old were the boys when you had this conversation?

Josh 46:58

Oh, we've done this. We bought them the books. Don't you know?

Amanda 47:00

But how old were you? Were they? How old were you gonna be? What grade? Yeah. Were you old enough to be having this conversation?

Josh 47:07

Yes. Um, I don't remember. Um pretty old.

Amanda 47:10

He's gonna he's gonna be in fourth grade. In fifth grade, they have the talk in school.

Josh 47:14

It was probably right before the talk, actually.

Amanda 47:17

They've taken that out of schools now. I don't know.

Josh 47:20

I don't know. Uh fifth grade seems to be a good time to have this conversation. You mean that you don't think that they've had this conversation on the playground somewhere?

Amanda 47:28

Somewhere. Hiding behind the slide. What? What do you mean somewhere?

Josh 47:32

Isn't that what's done?

Amanda 47:33

I don't know. It's not what happened with Muffy.

Josh 47:36

Yeah, well, that's true.

Amanda 47:37

That was all me. Made her cry.

Josh 47:40

Well, us.

Amanda 47:41

Yeah, but you didn't mean to be there. I forced you into it.

Josh 47:46

Alright, we'd like to thank the following people for their contributions to this planet, really. Justin, Matt, Antonio, Josh Scar, Daniel, Jason, Buckets, Chick and Tom, R.I.P. Monique from Germany, Leo, Joey, Joey, Ryan Baker, Refined Gay Jeff, and Kate and Tony, Mark and Rachel and Dan and Gavin. Ricky Kendall provided the theme music. Chris Barron added a little something to the middle of our podcast there. AJCW, Andrew Wilson, provided the music that you're listening to now, and of course, the theme to Game Time. Thank you to all of these folks for their contribution. Of course, I'd like to thank my lovely wife Amanda, who puts up with me. Thank you to Muffy and Winthrop and my two sons, Daniel and Andrew, for all that they do and bring to our lives.

Amanda 48:37

Did we thank neighbors, Tony and Kate?

Josh 48:39

Yeah, we did. They're in the list. I wasn't listening. They made the list.

Amanda 48:43

I was reading about um New York Times stuff still.

Josh 48:45

Oh, okay. Put my app down now. Uh email us if you think that we should have mentioned you, familiarwilsons at gmail.com. All right, folks.

Amanda 48:54

Look how good the pub dog is being. I know you're in the middle of saying goodbye. I just you are so invested in this dog behaving. And I am just telling you that is one more benefit of your pub.

Josh 49:05

There you go. Now I'm gonna cry.

Amanda 49:07

Until next time. Go be kind. Bye. Bye.