The Importance of Being Bored and Nostalgia In The Target Toothpaste Aisle

This week on Super Familiar with the Wilsons, a quick Target trip spirals into a Gen X nostalgia summit, we uncover a child sized fashion manifesto and discuss sleep accessories forehead dents. 

Along the way, birthday-party battlefield tactics, accidental hometown reunions, the strange power of sports fandom. Plus: antique mall treasure hunting, British pub curiosities, listener mail from around the world, and a reminder that screens may be the solution to many modern problems and the cause of several others. 

Key words, yo! Gen X nostalgia, parenting podcast, family humor, marriage podcast, Target stories, childhood boredom, screen time for kids, parenting teenagers, funny family podcast, Super Familiar with the Wilsons, growing up Gen X, listener mail, British pub decor, antique mall finds, sports fandom, everyday comedy.

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Cold Open And Theme Thong

Josh 0:00

The theme thong? The theme thong? The theme thong.

SPEAKER_04 0:03

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

Josh 0:06

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

SPEAKER_03 0:14

Three, two, one.

Josh 0:16

Run.

SPEAKER_02 0:19

Welcome back to the conversation. Tell me who I'm talking to. Get on down to imagination. You want me and I am you. Stop the familiar. Stop the familiar. I want to be super familiar. Don't be stranger.

A Target Run Turns Existential

Amanda 0:56

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

Josh 0:58

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

Amanda 1:02

And side quests.

Josh 1:03

Amanda, I had one of the most middle-aged experiences of my life in Target yesterday.

Amanda 1:08

Okay. Yes, we went to Target because Winthrop was going to a birthday party, and uh the easiest thing is to buy somebody a gift certificate these days. So yes, we our gift card. Certificates are not a thing anymore. Certificate. Did you have it framed this time? I did. Yes, I did. No, a gift card. All right. And then yeah, you wandered away from us and you came back.

Josh 1:26

Like I want to know how the giving of the gift certificate went at the party.

Amanda 1:31

I'm not telling that story because he's outside the door.

Josh 1:34

When a kid receives a gift card, like at what is this kid like 10, 9, 10? Like how does one is that a thing where the kid is like, yay, you got me a gift card?

Amanda 1:43

Or I apparently went there but the child had already discussed it.

Josh 1:46

Oh, interesting. Okay, so that ex that exchange went well then.

Amanda 1:49

There was a little bit of comparison with another child who brought a gift card to see which one of them spent more. I need to nip that in the bud, but not at that exact moment. So yeah, he had a really good time, but it was a nerf battle. They basically played Capture the Flag. Did you play that at camp?

Josh 2:04

Yeah, but we called it SOC Wars.

Amanda 2:05

Okay, but yeah, right, similar rates.

Josh 2:07

So they basically they played that and they um at my camp, it was a boys, all boys' camp, and we weren't content with just like going and finding the flag. We would also fill our socks up with flour or dirt. Oh my god. Whip them around and hit the kid, and then the kid would be out, they would have to go report to a base to get back in again.

Amanda 2:27

Horrible.

Josh 2:28

It was tremendous amount is teaching us all to be survivalists. We're like tromping through the woods with our belts full of socks. And what we would do, they would have a sock war every session. And if you stayed for the whole summer, like you're doing multiple sock wars. And so near the end of my camp career as a camper, I would stay multiple sessions. Yeah. So I would save my socks, but I'd save them outside because you're not bringing them inside because basically it's a tube sock filled with dirt and then tied, right?

Amanda 2:54

It's like a like a I don't know what this is like a anyway, it doesn't matter.

Josh 2:58

It's like some sort of medieval um instrument of of war. Go ahead. I I think that it's a plus two on Dungeons and Dragons. But anyway, you'd leave it outside, and of course it would rain. And so by the time the second or third sock war comes around, you basically have a rock in a sock that you would club other children.

Amanda 3:16

Did the Baptists let you do this?

Josh 3:18

Oh, they freaking loved it.

Amanda 3:20

Questions. All right, so Refine K Jeff, because this is how you know Jeff, is from apparently the murder camp or the medieval war camp.

Josh 3:28

Maming camp.

Amanda 3:29

Jeff, what life lessons did this teach you that you still carry into your life today?

SPEAKER_04 3:37

About the sock war, yeah.

Amanda 3:38

Yeah, you said it was teaching you life lessons. Yeah, well anyway. The point is that they were playing Capture the Flag. Thank God nobody had socks, they just had nerf things. Uh, and I learned this morning that Winthrop was um a defender.

Josh 3:52

Oh, okay. Oh, it's organized.

Amanda 3:53

It was organized. There was, yeah, so, and his team won.

Josh 3:56

The West Gainesville militia. Yes. Was he?

Amanda 3:59

Yes.

WSHE And Gen X Recognition

Josh 4:00

So I'm wandering down this hallway in Target. And I see this guy, and he's wearing a shirt, and this shirt says W S H E, she's only rock and roll. Right. So if you're not from South Florida, you have no earthly idea what that means, but that's a radio station we used to listen to uh growing up in the 80s and 90s. Like if you're Gen X, that's that's a thing. So I walk past him and I noticed it. And by the way, uh it was a rock station. This guy looked like the when I was growing up would be the people shaking their fists and saying, turn off that radio station. So it's just so funny to me.

Amanda 4:38

It's shocking that this is an age Gen Xer. Listen to this, yeah.

Josh 4:42

So anyway, um I walked past him, but I stopped. It's like I really want to say something to him. So I turned around, I went back to him, um, because there's moments in life where you have to honor the ancestors. And I went up to him, I said, Hey, I grew up in South Florida, and I I grew up listening to to She at W S H E. Dude, we called it She. And his face changed, and it's like it's like he knew me.

Amanda 5:04

Like he didn't It was like your like your the call of your people.

Josh 5:07

Right, right, right. It's not that that he knew me, but he knew what I was saying, he knew where I was coming from. And there were like basically three stations that you listened to growing up in in the 80s and 90s in South Florida. I mean, other ones would come and go, but basically WSHE, um Power 96, or or I-95, right? Were these stations.

Amanda 5:26

But that's also uh an interstate, but okay.

Josh 5:29

It is. I mean, it was strange.

Amanda 5:31

South Florida people are strange.

Josh 5:32

Easy branding. Or you'd listen to the AM radio, which I listened to a lot, and that's how I got into talk radio, which is why I'm doing this now. WSHE was the rock station, and the other ones were like the pop stations. Um, but it was the soundtrack of every Camaro, every IROC Z.

Amanda 5:47

They went to prom in an IROC.

Josh 5:49

Every like IROC uh modified pickup truck in South Florida listening to all this stuff. Yeah, no, no. If you grew up on WSHE, all your problems could be solved with Vanhaling, ACDC, Metallica, and and all of these things. It's the radio station of an entire generation. Okay. So all of the that I just explained to you, like we knew in an instant. The motto was she's only rock and roll, which sounds cheesy now, but to our generation, that was a constitutional amendment. Like that was that was serious.

Amanda 6:19

No pop music here, only rock and roll.

Josh 6:21

I'm like, that's cool. Sure, whatever. He says, Yeah, I saw it online. I told my wife I had to get it. And then he stuck out his hand and and I shook it. And all of a sudden, I'm like, where's the uh where's the person filming this for TikTok? Because this is like every scene in an airport where two veterans wearing a hat from War Gone By meet each other, yeah, you know, for the first time. Thank you for your service. So for us, it was thank you for your service. We survived South Florida, we survived the 80s, we survived Reaganomics, we were survived all the things we survived, and we are now in the toothpaste style at Target honoring the ancestors. So I'm just curious now how many more of these I'm gonna start having because this is definitely, I think, a result of aging where I'm just clinging. And this guy, you know, in his 50s or 60s, whatever he was, like, first of all, no reason for him to actually be wearing a t-shirt. Yeah, he just he doesn't he doesn't have the build for it anymore. But he wanted to just recapture something. Yeah, so yeah, so it's such an interesting thing.

Amanda 7:24

How come you haven't invited him onto the podcast?

Josh 7:27

No, no names exchanged, no contact information uh given, nothing.

Amanda 7:33

You apparently did not do the Amanda Wilson instant friendship kit or whatever that you advertised on last week's episode. No, no, I didn't you didn't need it? You didn't need him to be your friend? It sounds like somebody that you like maybe, maybe you guys find each other in every lifetime.

Josh 7:49

Oh, no, why do you gotta go there?

Amanda 7:51

I don't like in in like, you know, in the 1800s, it would have been like whatever music. Like you're connected through music throughout the centuries W B A R D.

Josh 8:01

I don't know. All I know is that I didn't need to exchange contact information. I don't need to know his name, but when I need him, he will be there.

Amanda 8:08

Okay, got it. Yes, excellent, very good.

Josh 8:10

So that was my that was my experience in in Target.

Bucky’s Bathroom Line Hometown Reunion

Amanda 8:14

I had a similar experience, but not because I'm gonna use t-shirts, but randomly at a Bucky's.

SPEAKER_04 8:21

Okay, Bucky's.

Amanda 8:23

If you're not from, you know, the US, Jucky Buck Juckies freak. Bucky's is this giant what they call a gas station, but it's not. It's like a mall, there's like 50 gas pumps, it's massively.

Josh 8:36

Yeah, we've done this episode, just search Bucky's in our archive's right in our archive.

Amanda 8:40

So we were at a Bucky's in Georgia, I think, and we were coming back maybe from Atlanta, and I was in line to go to the bathroom. Also, Bucky's has the nicest bathrooms, should you find one near you. And um, this woman behind me said something about being from Polk County. Well, I'm from Polk County, and so I started listening. I remember this. And then this woman said something, oh, you know, I'm I'm I'm from Lakeland, and I'm also from Lakeland, but Lakeland is very like there's a north side and there's a south side. And the south side is very affluent, and the north side was what like developed later, and so it's all kind of like middle class or maybe like like blue collar ish.

Josh 9:16

Where was you?

Amanda 9:17

Oh, I I'm from the north side.

Josh 9:18

Represent north side, yeah.

Amanda 9:20

So um and then you say like what high school you go to, usually people don't go to the same high school in the north side. It's all like, oh, into Lakeland High, and they're all like, whatever. And this one, my mom was like, Oh, no, I I'm from Lakeland, I went to Lake Gibson.

SPEAKER_01 9:33

Yeah.

Amanda 9:33

And then the woman next to her was like, Oh, I also went to Lake Gibson. And I turned around, not having been in their their conversation, was like, I also went to Lake Gibson. And we each had graduated like a decade apart from each other, yeah, and had just randomly wound up in line in like sequential order at this Bucky's in Georgia.

Josh 9:48

I mean, if you're gonna meet and you're all from Lakeland, it's gonna be in Bucky's.

Amanda 9:52

That's right, right? Yeah. So anyway, yeah, it's weird how those those things, maybe I find them in every lifetime.

Josh 9:58

That's that's what I what what I think is that you should have taken a picture and sent it to Lake Gibson social media and tagged and said, hey, look who's meeting in the surgically clean restroom at Bucky's.

Amanda 10:10

Except that I don't go to any of my high school reunions, so I'm probably not gonna engage in their social media.

Josh 10:16

So beyond that, that was

The Underwear Manifesto And Growing Up

Josh 10:19

my big thing. The big thing that I found out this week from you is that our son has an underwear manifesto of which I was not aware.

Amanda 10:27

Very strong opinions.

Josh 10:28

All right, what's this all about?

Amanda 10:29

So we were talking about needing to buy him clothes, and I was saying that I wanted to buy him more than just basketball shorts because that's what he lives in.

Josh 10:37

We had a person that I used to work with, I don't work with her uh anymore, who tremendously generous person, and she would give us clothes from her, you know, who's a couple years older than a couple years older than Winthrop, and we ate off of those clothes because every every so often she would bring a new and nice clothes too. Super nice clothes. It's very generous of her. Like it's the way you should do it.

Amanda 11:02

Like thrifting. I have passed those on too. I don't try to sell them or anything.

Josh 11:05

I think drifting is good, but but but passing things on, that's like the best possible. And we're bypassing somehow. I think Amazon is getting it in the throat when we every time we do that. So that's always good too. But so we would like to thank Rebecca for providing us, but we have run out now. Rebecca has moved away and we no longer receive the bounty.

Amanda 11:25

Winthrop has hit uh the size threshold from Wentz, uh the last bin of clothing in his closet. So I need to start buying clothes. And we're I was having this conversation about how I I didn't want to just keep buying basketball shorts because that's all he wants to wear. And you were saying that, you know, that's how Andrew was, and it's you know, let him live in the comfort as long as he doesn't have feelings about fashion. Right. So my response of that was well, he does have very serious, strong feelings about underwear. He does not want underwear that have any sort of print on them.

Josh 11:54

Right now, he okay, so just we need to set uh definition here. He doesn't have feelings, he has now underwear standards. Standards, yes.

Amanda 12:02

He has he has a manifesto, it cannot have a print on it. So he had some from Rebecca, actually, some that had like bears and this you know, like planets and stuff. No, we had to get rid of those. We put them in the donate pile. And um, stripes are okay, they're not preferred, just solid, solid underwear or what colored underwear. Um, but the other day I gave him a pair that had stripes, and I didn't realize that between the stripes there were shark fins, and very upset with me for handing him these.

Josh 12:34

Folks, if you're listening, this child has gone a whole day before with his shirt on backwards.

Amanda 12:38

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Josh 12:39

Okay, so I don't even know where this is coming from. First of all, who is he doing this for? Like the reality is that he has shark fins.

Amanda 12:48

No one was gonna see those.

Josh 12:49

Right, I know. That the his underwear is supposed to have a confidential relationship with his shorts. Yeah. No one else is gonna see these things. So what's the problem?

Amanda 12:56

Um, it makes him feel too baby-ish. He feels like only little kids have printed things on their underwear.

Josh 13:06

Brand standards.

Amanda 13:07

I mean, you have boxer briefs that have like I don't know, like cheeseburgers or something on them. You've got that's your socks, but you've got like boxer briefs that have the or you used to. I don't know if you still do. You have the Christmassy ones.

Josh 13:19

Yeah, I mean, I you don't have this manifesto. No, I just need a barrier between my boys and the outer shield wall or whatever it is. I just need just a thin separation. I don't even it could be a pillowcase with some holes in it. As long as I've just got that that shield, I'm fine. I don't care. He has feelings, yeah.

Amanda 13:42

From Ain gets mad at me that I'm not complying with this.

Josh 13:47

But where do as children are trying on like individualization, right? Yeah, I feel like that's what they're doing. This is just practice. This is practice for picking a partner, right? Like this is the safe way to practice.

Amanda 14:01

Is like whatever their orientation is cannot have shark fans on them, is what I believe.

Josh 14:06

No, no, but what's what I'm saying is like I, you know, this is a way I'm gonna try to individualize, I'm gonna see if this works out. And to us, it doesn't make sense and it seems nonsensical, you know, that all of a sudden now he won't drink out of anything but a blue cup. But the reality is that he's just stretching his legs for when you know he finally leaves the house shaking his hands uh at us, saying, I'm gonna take me and my years of therapy, I'm gonna go now. So maybe that's what's happening.

Amanda 14:32

Yeah, I don't know. But another thing, we also hit another milestone last night, and it it's like equal parts liberating and also very sad to me. But this is a child who is going to be 10 in the fall, but still does not like to fall asleep on his own. Sure. And I know it's because of like he says that his brain keeps him awake, and I get it, I I have that too, right? Until I was medicated, like your brain just like spins all the time. You this also happens to you, um, the anxiety, and so he he doesn't like to be alone when he's falling asleep. So one of us will go in there and lay with him. Um, and last night I went upstairs with him and he got in bed and I pulled the covers over him and he said, I want to be alone tonight.

Josh 15:08

He's done that before though.

Amanda 15:09

Okay, well, I was sad and also very happy at the same time.

Josh 15:14

Well, if if you could do a little bit more of a deep dive on this whole underwear thing so we can understand, God forbid I screw it up somehow.

Amanda 15:22

Yes. So we need to get rid of You get in trouble for all the things.

Josh 15:24

We need to get rid of all of the underwear that that don't project quiet professionalism.

Amanda 15:28

Yes.

Josh 15:29

So that I don't accidentally do something wrong.

Amanda 15:32

Well, I have to we have to pick our moments because I also, you know, yesterday when we picked him up from this not sock war, but color wars or not color wars, what is it? Capture the flag birthday party. I we I started asking all these questions. He he does not want to talk. When he gets in the car from school, does not want to talk about it. No, he doesn't. When he gets back from something, does not want to talk about it. Yesterday afternoon, did not want to talk about it. And then this morning he came out with me to walk the dog and he said, Okay, can you ask me questions about the birthday party now? So what I'm learning is that at like 12 to 24 hours is the distance he needs from an event to be able to discuss it. So I need to wait until we've not talked about the underwear for 12 to 24 hours and then talk about it.

Josh 16:10

See, this is why we're gonna end up getting him a phone early, not so he can connect to the internet, not for any gaming apps, but so that we can synchronize our planners so that I know when I'm allowed to ask him how his day was like the alarm's gonna go off at 3 a.m. in the morning. This is his self-chosen time, and I'm gonna go wake him up and say, Son, how was your day yesterday?

Amanda 16:36

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, definite feelings. So there you go.

Falling Asleep Alone And Sleep Gear

Josh 16:40

Well, speaking of trying to go to sleep and the brain spinning until you occupy it, my strategy to go to sleep, uh, which has been very successful throughout the years now, is I went and I purchased one of these speaker systems that's it's a basically a headband with flat speakers on either side, so that I can occupy my brain enough to fall asleep. And it works really, really well for me. I'm very happy.

Amanda 17:06

I'm so glad it works for you because I bought myself a pair and I find them horribly uncomfortable. I can't lay on that flat speaker.

Josh 17:13

Sometimes I'll get the the sweet spot and it's just right, and I'm fine. But I do tend to move around a lot when I sleep. So sometimes I have to actually take the side that is against the pillow off of my ear, but I still got the other side.

Amanda 17:23

Yeah, I know, and then I can hear all of your podcasts.

Josh 17:26

Well, it's the same podcast every night, actually. So you should be used to it by now. It should be background noise, but that's not the point. I've noticed the last couple weeks that I will wake up and um I will have these headlines stamped into my forehead, and I'm afraid that if I keep doing this, they're going to be there permanently. Because even as it is, they last appreciably into the day. Now, I don't know if this is just that's how it goes whenever you have anything like that.

Amanda 17:56

Like you get a pharmacy or but the pillow marks like on your arm when you've like laid in one position.

Josh 18:01

Right. But all I know is that this is wearing a groove into my head that is it it's lasting throughout the day.

Amanda 18:08

This is what Botox is for.

Josh 18:10

No, I'm not doing Botox. I gotta figure this out though. Like maybe get new headphones that that fit differently or something, but I need not to wake up, go to work, and have people think that I've worn my GIMP mask to sleep. You know what I'm saying?

Amanda 18:23

I just I have the J Lab Go earbuds, and they are much more comfortable to me than I AirPods are not comfortable to me. Not a sponsor, and um, so I just they're soft and I put them in my ear and I just sleep with one in my ear.

Josh 18:36

Yeah, I gotta figure it out. I can't have AirPods in my ear. I've tried that, and it because I flip back and forth, I would have to keep flip changing the ears. But it can't be that I go to work and I've got like this topological map across my face where archaeologists can look at it and determine where rivers once flowed. Yeah. I mean, it's pretty bad.

Amanda 18:55

We were going out yesterday and it was like after one o'clock because we dropped Winthrop off at this party, and I remember looking over and looking at you, and they were still quite grooved and like you were wearing them well into the outer. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Josh 19:06

It looked like someone had just shipped my head and put packaging. You know what I'm saying? It's it needs to I gotta figure it out though, because what I can't do is not have the the earphones. Um because that will make you miserable.

Amanda 19:17

I can't go sleep with Winthrop because I'm not allowed in there anymore, which is fine. But I try I I sometimes will go down and lay on the couch, like if something's going on, and then you come find me and guilt me into going back to bed.

Josh 19:30

Wait a second. Wait, why are we doing this live for the first time?

Amanda 19:34

Guilt you you come downstairs and say go back to bed, and then you go, It's fine if you don't want to, and you get up and leave. I only do that when something or someone or some dog has woken me up in the middle of the night. The dog has now has now taken to waking me up in the middle of the night to cover him back up. And the only reason I do it is because it's so cold in our room because of perimetopause. That I mean, I I he legit is cold. I can touch his fur when he's cold. But I tuck him in when he goes to bed and then he rolls around and gets out from underneath the covers, and then I wake up in the middle of the night too. He won't bark because he knows you'll lose your damn mind if he barks in the middle of the night. So he just whines at me sitting next to me until I get up and tuck him back in.

Josh 20:20

Do you know what the answer to keep him asleep is? What? Sleep headphones.

Amanda 20:23

That's right. No, he'll be cold.

SPEAKER_03 20:31

It's a door in your hold by go driving. Hold the bottom of your eyes to the line.

Boredom, Screens, And Setting Limits

Josh 21:01

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Amanda 22:02

Find a book. Get a board game.

Josh 22:05

No, those are boring.

Amanda 22:07

Okay. Use your imagination.

Josh 22:09

That's boring.

Amanda 22:10

Just think about life. That's boring. Look outside. Go for a bike ride.

Josh 22:14

No.

Amanda 22:15

What I have discussed. I see what you're doing, because this is what happens to us when any tide screen has gone away.

Josh 22:20

It happened yesterday when I when he was rude to me. Yes. And I'm like, well, okay, there goes the screen that you're currently on because you're spending too much of your attention on that screen, which is basically his drug fix. And so now we're going to do something. So he lost his damn mind, and I'm bored. Instantly I'm bored.

SPEAKER_01 22:41

Mm-hmm.

Josh 22:41

I I just got to the point where I said, Well, I'm not going to solve this for you. Right. I said, This is the last time I'm going to say this. You have things here.

SPEAKER_01 22:49

Mm-hmm. You have things here.

Josh 22:51

And here's what I didn't do. I didn't go into, you know, when I was a kid, blah, blah, blah, blah. I didn't, which I could easily do. Yes. I'm sure that Gen X is known. If someone were to do an impression of a Gen Xer, it would be like, oh, you know, Saturday mornings they would kick us out in the morning, and then we weren't allowed back in the house until Until the streetlights came on. Right, right, right. Like that's a Gen X impression.

Amanda 23:13

You could come home if you were hungry. Well, you but then you had to find your own food.

Josh 23:16

Well, but then you had to leave. No, my dad would would fix me food like a sandwich, and then I have to get the hell out. But here's the thing when I was growing up, boredom wasn't something that you fixed. Boredom was like the weather. Yeah. You just had to deal with it because it wasn't going to change. Like nothing about the conditions were going to change. So you had to change. And that's where that's where we are with him. And listen, when I was growing up, that predated even most of the the computer game systems, right? So we could sit around and watch TV, but also like you had to watch what was on. Well, but Saturday TV after the cartoons, no great shakes. No, like old black and white movies, Tarzan Theater would come on. Yeah. No. Um don't want it. I would have to go outside and my app was a stick.

Amanda 24:01

Yeah. Right. I wasn't, see, I was a little different though because I wasn't allowed to just go and be out for forever because I mean my parents were older. Well, your dad was older too. Yeah. But my parents were, you know, I was the youngest of four. My siblings were 18, 15, and 14 years older than me. So I was the baby by far, and my mom's only girl. So she was pretty, pretty protective. I was still allowed to go out and play with the neighbor kids, but I couldn't be gone for hours at a time. Like that was not a thing that I could do. But I still, you know, like I remember, why is this the thing that I remember trying to convince myself that the linen closet at the end of the hall was really a secret elevator? And so I would go in there and like pretend I was going up and down in this multi-story house that I did not live in, and then get off on a different floor and then go play something. Like these are the things we had to do to combat boredom. Why are you looking at me like that?

Josh 24:58

Because you're a writer now. And at one point when you weren't sick of writing for your job, you wanted to be a fiction writer. But the ability that you have probably in there somewhere latently still to create new worlds is based on the fact that that's what you spent your childhood doing. Yeah. I mean like our kids now, they don't have to create new worlds, right? It's creative new worlds. Worlds are being created. Like, yeah, I get it. I get it. He's creating worlds in Minecraft. Not the same thing. Right. Not the same thing.

Amanda 25:23

But I mean, I've also heard the argument though that is, you know, it's like, yes, we can sit here as Gen X and say we had to do this, this, and this. However, had the technology been available to us, we would have been doing the same thing as them.

Josh 25:34

I don't know what that means, though. You know, so it's saying like if my grandmother was a bike, then we could all ride.

Amanda 25:39

What?

Josh 25:39

I mean, it's it's just no point in that.

Amanda 25:41

What you have just said is the dumbest thing I've ever heard come out of your mouth. If my grandmother was a bike, I could ride all day, also sounds really dirty. So, like, just don't do that. Uh no, I'm saying that you know what I'm saying. It's not, I'm not saying that we shouldn't set limits on it because we should. It's saying don't vilify it and act like it's this thing from Satan because we would have been doing it too. So it's not like, why okay, stop making that face at me. I'll find you the TikTok that talked about it and I'll send it to you. That seems hypocritical in some way. So anyway.

Josh 26:12

Um, you remember back in medieval times?

Amanda 26:15

Yes, because I frequently am in medieval times.

Josh 26:17

No, but when whenever someone had a problem or an issue, they would bring out the leeches, right? Bring out the leeches. You had a headache.

Amanda 26:26

You think leeches we can do that with for boredom?

Josh 26:28

No, I think that the modern-day leeches is the screen. Yeah. Like, are you bored? Okay, then here's a screen. Oh, do we need a babysitter because mom and dad want to go do something? Here's a screen.

Amanda 26:38

Okay, but are you upset-just said to me, because you have poetry tonight at the bowl, and we're not sure if Muffy's gonna be back because it's her friend's birthday and she's going to the family barbecue, that we could bring Lethrop and put him on a screen. So don't act like this is not something that you do as well, sir.

Josh 26:53

I'm not saying I'm the perfect parent, but I'm aspirational.

Amanda 26:57

Okay. Don't let Josh make you feel bad about your parenting choices because know that he also does these things when it's convenient for him. When he wants to opine about how life should have been when his grandmother was a bike. It's fine. And and he is holier than thou. But if he has a need for somebody to occupy the child, he's willing to give him the screen. Oh.

Josh 27:21

I will say that someone I can't believe that you're you're taking the side of the empire here, not the rebels. What's happening?

Amanda 27:27

I'm not. I'm just playing devil's advocate.

Josh 27:29

Don't do that.

Amanda 27:30

Why?

Josh 27:31

I don't know.

Amanda 27:32

Okay. Because you don't want any critical, like you don't want to have to think critically about what you're saying. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 27:37

She says that she refers to the TikTok that I should watch to bolster her point.

Amanda 27:41

Yeah, at least it was more than just a headline, which you've done. Like I saw this headline, what'd the article say? Oh, yes, headlines with your yes, with your speakers. So Muffy and I this week, we traveled. It was nice. We had a girls' weekend, I mean a girls' week, which was great because we used to do this when she was little with my mom. Every summer we would do a girls' trip. And a lot of times we would go to Disney Springs, and it was very sweet because this time I had to go for work and she came with me. And we were checking into the hotel, and as we were going to our room um on the outside of where we were staying, there was a cardinal sitting there. So it was just kind of like, oh, you know, my mom's come with us, which was lovely. But we were walking around Disney Springs eat. We it was it was within walking distance. She just walked across the street Disney Springs eat tonight for dinner, and I was amazed at the number of children and strollers looking at screens. Yeah. And it's like, but yeah, but here we are, all of this stuff has been made to entertain you. Now I will say Disney Springs is not the most entertaining for little kids, like it's shopping and food and stuff like that. But uh, yeah, all the kids on screens.

Josh 28:42

It's funny because as much as you like to rip me for being hypocritical, I have stopped taking as many pictures as I do of things that we do.

Amanda 28:51

Uh, why do you think you do that?

Josh 28:52

Because I'm trying to intentionally be in the moment and not see it through the screen. Like I don't take nearly as many videos uh anymore. If I take a picture of anything these days, it's because you're not with me and I want to show you a picture of something to make fun of. Like I did it the other day.

Amanda 29:07

I I I want that gardening flag.

Josh 29:09

There was a gardening flag that I saw um and I took a picture of it. It said gardening because murder is not legal or something like that.

Amanda 29:17

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Josh 29:19

And here's a lesson for for you to show how harmful screens are. I'm looking at the at the picture and making sure that that I can read it um so that I can send it to you. And I walk into a low-hanging tree branch because I'm paying attention to my screen.

Amanda 29:34

And you are still suffering the consequences of that because it looks like something scratched, like something with claws scratched across the top of your head. Yeah.

Josh 29:41

So the if you learn nothing else from this episode than this, it's uh put your screens down because you could hit your head.

Amanda 29:48

Or and please also put your screens down when you're walking across the street. That drives me absolutely insane in a college town. Please look when you're walking across the street.

Josh 29:56

Well, how about yesterday? Uh, we're driving somewhere, or day before yesterday. Whenever we were driving to take your rental car back, we had stopped at a light. We we were lined up with the cars in the lane going opposite. They were also stopped so that I I could see all of them. And I looked down the row of people, all of them sitting stopped, facing their screens.

SPEAKER_01 30:15

Yeah.

Josh 30:16

Now, I have been pulled over for having a screen in my hand. And luckily I got out of that because I went to traffic school or or whatever that was. But now I'm ultra aware. Yeah, don't have your screen in your hand.

Amanda 30:29

Winthrop is also ultra aware because he was in the car with you when you got pulled over. And so now if I if I pick up my screen, because the other day I picked it up because it was in the cup holder and it was getting like I got the like notification that it was overheating because it was in the sun. So I went to move it, and boy, did he was right on that with me and mommy, or you've got your phone in your hand. So I um I do not I try very hard. If I'm driving to work and I get a notification, I might look at it when I'm at a stoplight. Um, but I try very hard not to look at my phone while I'm driving, but I'm amazed at the amount of people that do. But also I remember it's so weird the things that we remember. So you're talking about radio stations when you grew when you were growing up. So we've talked before. I was I was raised in a very fundamental evangelical Christian household. The radio station that we were allowed to listen to was WCIE, where Christ is everything, right? Like this is you're only allowed to listen to the Jesus station. Now my brother would pick me up listening to Q105 or whatever the Orlando rock station was, and then I would immediately go home and tell on him to my mother. But oh god, perimenopause, what am I talking about? Oh, the radio station. I remember one of the things that like just listening to the radio station, they were talking about when you're at a red light and you're like you're sitting there waiting, that's a really good time to start praying for the cars around you. And then that makes the light go by faster. Because you're now praying for all the people.

Josh 31:50

Oh you said it's praying for the cars.

Amanda 31:52

The people in the cars, like, you know, God bless that man with the scratches on his head. Something very bad happened to him.

Josh 31:59

Okay, so all of this is to say that if you have a kid who says that they're bored, yeah, because believe it or not, that's tell them to start praying for people. No, that's not what we're saying at all. But do write in. What do you do? How do you respond to your kids when they say I'm bored? Write in at familiarwilsons at gmail.com because I want to hear it.

SPEAKER_03 32:31

Email.

Listener Mail And Sports As Instant Friends

Josh 32:32

It's email time. Yes, you all have written us letters. You've posted them in the mail. They went to a magic place where elves transcribe them into emails and sent them to us. Thank you for doing that. Again, our email address is familiarwilsons at gmail.com. We have something from Dan Belson. Dan says this. Hi, Wilsons. Hi, Dan. At the age of 45, I believe I've worked in seven different businesses.

Amanda 32:59

Dan's 45?

Josh 33:00

Yeah. That's what he says.

Amanda 33:03

I don't know why I thought that he was younger than that.

Josh 33:05

Oh, well, I wonder how he's gonna receive that.

Amanda 33:07

Yeah, sorry, Dan.

Josh 33:08

Probably as an insult.

Amanda 33:08

I'll also realize that it makes Gavin older than that.

Josh 33:11

So worked in seven different businesses. Seven? Seven. Seven. Seven. Seven.

Amanda 33:16

Maybe he says it with his slow accent, seven. I don't know.

Josh 33:19

So what do we think? That doesn't seem like a lot. It does not seem like a lot.

Amanda 33:22

That's not a lot, Dan.

Josh 33:23

I want to hear stories about um Dan. Dan has worked in several different interesting jobs. Seven of them. Yes. He thinks that that the one I really want to talk to him about isn't as interesting. But I I won't, Dan, you've offered to come on and talk about your jobs and being fired from jobs, this and that. We're taking you up on that. Let's do it in the next couple weeks. He says, I also enjoy walks in the countryside and the poetry of John Keats. Thanks to Dan Belson.

Amanda 33:51

Did you ask him what he does when he's bored? What were those last two things about?

Josh 33:56

We have some feedback from Danny Buckets. Danny says this. Josh Wilson, please get a Tottenham flag. Yes, we have this pub that we are sitting in right now called the Admiral's Rest, and we have adorned it with a Chelsea flag and an Arsenal flag. We don't have a Tottenham flag. Danny, you need to just send it to us. He says, Amanda, birds are awesome. They are. We talked about birds uh for a disturbing amount of time in a previous episode. He says on holiday, we saw amazingly colored kingfishers and hornbills and herons and woodpeckers, along with plenty of other wonderful animals.

Amanda 34:31

Is that when you were in the US or where were you? Uh I like how I feel like you can answer me right now.

Josh 34:36

On holiday. Now I think that they just went on holiday and they were they were not in the U.S., but they were in the U.S.

Amanda 34:42

previously.

Josh 34:42

Yes, but he says this been to the Disney area, downtown Disney question mark.

Amanda 34:46

That's what it used to be called.

Josh 34:48

But just didn't go into the park itself. Just because we were in Orlando for a couple of days, we wanted to say we'd been in the vicinity. Don't have kids, so I'm not sure has the allure for me as it does for families with little ins. We went to Universal instead.

Amanda 34:59

Well, that was Universal we prefer, actually.

Josh 35:01

Less expensive. We talked about uh in last episode how you make friends easily. So he says the whole thing of instant friends. I find for me talking football does just that. If you're in a group of people you don't know and you find out someone has a sporty interest similar to yours, that's all you need to strike up a two-hour conversation. Um, yeah, I mean that's guys bond over sports. Even guys and fathers who don't bond over anything else, you know, bond over that's the singular thing I bonded with my dad over. My dad and I had a very contentious relationship, but we could talk dolphins football and and that was you know, that was a thing.

Amanda 35:39

I mean, my dad and I didn't have a contentious relationship, but we bonded over gator football. I mean, that was like I I still, when it's, you know, he's been he's been gone for nine years, and I still, when it's football season, want to text him. So that's a thing. All right. So speaking of bonding over sports, I just got a message. So uh one of my best friends, her uh significant other, was born in New York and on a whim a while ago, bought tickets to game five for the NBA finals just in case the Knicks might make it to the finals.

Josh 36:13

That's crazy. Can he buy me a lottery ticket? Right.

Amanda 36:16

And um, you know, a big Knicks fan, they've never won in his lifetime. And so they went and I I texted her this morning and said, How was the game? And this is what she said. Crazy amazing. The Knicks fans were everywhere. It was so loud. A friend of mine from Gainesville soccer, she's a big Gainesville soccer person, was also at the game. He offered us a ride home, which was awesome because an Uber weight was like two hours. When we were closer to downtown, we told him we'd walk the remainder because it was so congested. Well, that was a bad idea. The Spurs fans were pissed. They took over the roads and were honking like they won, but yelling, fuck the Knicks. That's the one time you'll hear me say that word on this podcast. Nick's one of the cars threw eggs at us and missed. Then a dude got out of the car, ran up to us with a bin full of pre-cracked eggs, and tried to pour it on her significant other when we were at the crosswalk. The guy then picked up the bin and hit him with it. Her significant other, yes. He's fine and we're all good. Some locals were like, take off your jerseys, it's too dangerous for you. We had to slip into the Marriott to get jerseys off and did our best to walk with the crowds. Lesson learned. Nuts were totally fine and still riding high. Already in Dallas for the Japan World Cup match this afternoon. Time to switch gears to soccer mode. Uh, so her significant other is is of Japanese um origin, descent, was born in New York, but his family is from Japan. And um, they travel all around for sports, and so it's um, and I love it. She deserves to be super happy, and she is, but that's insane. What's the worst crowd you've been in?

Josh 37:43

Oh, I don't know. I'd have to think about it, but I'm quite certain it has to do with sports.

Amanda 37:48

Well, that's what I mean, like more sports.

Josh 37:51

Um, yeah, I don't know because I've never been to a non-home sports game. Never, never ever. Now, I've been to games and seen the home team get rowdy around other people, like dolphins games, especially Dolphins and Buffalo or Dolphins and Jets. Yeah. It's always Miami, New York, right? Someone asked me, um, Dan Belson, I think, asked me what I thought about the Knicks possibly, you know, gonna win. This is before they won. And my reflection was well, the hate between Miami and New York goes deep, right? But I've been out of Miami for decades now. Yeah. And so now I'm just happy that that the Knicks won. New York's always been basketball mecca. Yeah. Right? New York's always been the place. Madison Square Garden, you know, Rucker Park, all these things, tradition. So New York deserves it. Yeah. Right. And I don't mean the the rich people and the bandwagon jumpers.

Amanda 38:45

I mean like You mean the the residents, the home. The rank and file. Yeah.

Josh 38:48

You know, just the the average New Yorker there who, by the way, shout out to my friend Chris Barron, by the way. Oh, I gotta text him. You know, New Yorkers, just again, just your regular New Yorker, the nicest people in the world.

Amanda 38:59

I'm so thrilled for I'm so thrilled for them with Bandami and like the the way that that city is coming together. And it's it's kind of it's really, really lovely. It's like the real people of New York are finally getting the benefits that, you know, like he's doing this universal preschool and all of this, you know, uh affordable housing. The the real people of New York are finally getting the benefits that all of the um the one percenters have been have been enjoying for decades. Um, I think for me, I was at a an SEC championship. UF was playing Alabama, and I went with a a f a girlfriend of mine, and we just we had to buy tickets off the street because we weren't planning on going, and we were in the middle of Alabama, the the Alabama section. But they were so nice to us. And I don't know if it's because we were women, I don't know if it's because we weren't being obnoxious Florida fans, but they were so kind and we lost horribly. They could have been super obnoxious, but they were so kind. But I think historically it's University of Tennessee fans have been really awful. Um, you know, I have a friend who was in the marching band, and Tennessee fans attacked them with broken bottles when they were going back to the bus. Yeah. So I I I think historically UT fans have been pretty nasty to us.

Josh 40:15

We finally have Refined Gay Thoughts with Refined Gay Jeff again.

Amanda 40:20

Jeff, what's going on in your city? Why are they being unkind to my friend?

Josh 40:24

What was this in Houston? No, this was in San Antonio.

Amanda 40:27

Oh, right. Never mind.

Josh 40:28

Oh my god.

Amanda 40:29

I don't know where Texas is.

Josh 40:30

We've been to Texas, we've driven to Texas.

Amanda 40:32

I thought it was the Houston Spurs. This is how bad I am. Jeff, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Jeff. Cut that out.

Josh 40:38

The Houston Spurs?

Amanda 40:39

Can you hush.

Josh 40:40

I'm not cutting that out.

Amanda 40:42

All of Texas is about like cattle and horses and stuff.

Josh 40:45

You're making it worse. I just told you I'm not cutting this out. And you're just doubling down. You're like, well, fuck it. You know.

Amanda 40:51

Houston Astros? What are the Houston people?

Josh 40:54

Houston Rockets. Rockets. It's where NASA is, friend.

Amanda 40:57

All right.

Josh 40:58

Okay, so anyway.

Amanda 40:59

Astros are a baseball team.

Josh 41:00

Jeff, you can continue to text me and just exclude Amanda from the I don't know anything about well, actually, I don't know how much Jeff knows about sports ball anyway. So here we go. Refined gay thoughts. Hi, Wilson's long time, no thoughts. Sorry about the extended hiatus, but life has a way of slowing you down, or at least giving you two other things. No, not two other things. Where did I read that?

Amanda 41:21

It's just two things. Jeff had two things.

Josh 41:23

At least giving you other things to do first, doesn't it? So this is what's happened since we've last heard from him. He had a car accident on the Ides of March.

Amanda 41:33

Oh my goodness. Did we know about this?

Josh 41:36

Instead of Caesar getting off, it was my car. Instead, I was sitting at a traffic light waiting for it to turn green, minding my own business, and bam, two cars collided right in front of me in the intersection, and the impact drove them right into me.

Amanda 41:49

Oh no, that's terrifying.

Josh 41:51

That is unbelievable. So badly that I was trapped in my car, uninjured, thank God, except for a giant deep bruise on my back that went away in two or three weeks. Yeah, uninjured. Except for that huge thing. It also totaled my car, but thanks to insurance, I was able to replace it with another Q5 that I've named Wilhelmina.

Amanda 42:10

Wilhelmina?

Josh 42:12

She is deep moonlight blue and has been good to me so far. So, Jeff, did they have to use the jaws of life to get you out, first of all? And second of all, were there any good-looking fire people or emergency uh uh technicians, workers? Emergency workers? No. Emergency. Personnel. Um personnel, right. Any of those that caught your eye or gave you a number. I'd like to know that. He says, I really enjoyed the podcast with Eric Atria. He seems like a person that has common sense and is thinking clearly, and I hope he does well in his quest to become judge. I've checked out his website and will be following his journey because your election day is my mom's birthday, so it'll be easy for me to remember to check on him. Well, there you go, Eric. That's very kind. You have a supporter. Unfortunately, he is not in your district. But anyway, he says, I love, love, love the British pub. So for those of you who don't know, which I don't know because we keep banging on about it, I've built a British pub in our house and it is the venue from which we're recording right now. He says, at first, I thought you named it the Admiral's Breast instead of the Admiral's Rest. I had to rewind that podcast two or three times to fully understand what you said. When I heard the Admiral's Breast, I immediately thought to myself, okay, that's a choice.

Amanda 43:26

It was.

Josh 43:27

Of course, Amanda, the Admiral's Rest is a wonderful tribute to your brother and a perfect way to honor him. Thank you. Have the Belsons weighed in yet? I can't remember if I heard anything from them. Since at British pub, I think that it's only proper for them to journey across the pond to Florida to help you christen it. Oh, it's been christened. Yes. Not only has it been christened, but it has been christened.

Amanda 43:48

No, it has not.

Josh 43:50

What do you think of it?

Amanda 43:52

I thought you meant we had sex in here.

Josh 43:53

No, I thought that we had a drunk person that we had to kick out of our house in here.

Amanda 43:56

Okay, that happened. Okay. We didn't kick them out. They just

Josh 44:00

They they stumbled out with a lot of help. Um he says, OMG, I might even try to venture to Gainesville for that.

Amanda 44:07

You should.

Josh 44:08

He says the school year is finally over here in Houston. This is where he is. Houston. That's in Texas.

Amanda 44:13

Not in San Antonio.

Josh 44:14

As of June 5th. Our graduation was last Sunday, and it took a while since we have over 750 seniors graduating.

Amanda 44:22

Very, very large graduating class.

Josh 44:24

It was a great ceremony, but my fave part was the valedictorian speech, which was a video because we had 12 valedictorians.

Amanda 44:33

How do you have 12?

Josh 44:34

That's what happens when you have highly motivated students that have taken every AP class all four years and gotten straight A's in every single class for every single year.

Amanda 44:42

And they all had the exact same GPA.

Josh 44:45

This is what I'm led to believe. My high school has the distinction of offering more AP classes than any other high school in the state of Texas and the second most in the entire nation. We were told this year by the College Board. We were told that this year by the College Board. Several of the valedictorians have complete full rights scholarships to Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Stanford, Rice, Princeton, Duke, Vanderbilt, and UCLA.

Amanda 45:09

Wow. That's that's a lot. Jeff, I have a question that we can talk about later. Do you do AP for all? Like, do they have to take these courses or these are choices?

Josh 45:18

Okay.

Amanda 45:18

That's a question.

Josh 45:19

That could have been a text, but okay. Next, he says the World Cup is in town for seven matches. The iconic Dutch double decker bright orange fan bus arrived in Galveston this week. Galveston's about 45 minutes away from Houston.

Amanda 45:32

Thank you. You're gonna get me a map of Texas for my birthday, aren't you?

Josh 45:35

I I don't care that much. And supporters of the Netherlands showed up in force to welcome this bus that is shipped all over the world prior to games to help bring their fans to its games. It left Belgium for its 4,500 mile journey to Galveston.

Amanda 45:50

I'm assuming it came by ship.

Josh 45:52

I would hope.

Amanda 45:53

Yeah.

Josh 45:53

He says, I have no plans for the summer, just sticking around here and playing my new baby grand piano that I've been enjoying immensely.

Amanda 46:00

Have you named her?

Josh 46:01

Um, probably. It doesn't say though. That's another thing that we can ask him by text. Of course, cocktails will still play a very large part in my enjoyment of the summer as well. Speaking of cocktails, I will probably be making an appearance at my bar of choice, the ripcord, later today. My goal is to touch a random penis today. Oh my god. Hashtag sword fight. He says, I can't think of a better way uh to end these thoughts than that. Talk to you guys later. Now this was sent yesterday so we can actually find out if he touched a random penis or a specific penis.

Amanda 46:34

Well, I would think that you would have pictures from the ripcord last night.

Josh 46:37

Yes, but there were no penises that I could see.

Amanda 46:40

Oh, Jeffrey, please let us know how that turned out.

Josh 46:43

All right. If you listening out there have heard these uh letters and said, Well, I want to tell them about random penises that I've touched, then email us at familiarwilsons at gmail.com. We cannot wait to hear.

Bastions, Antique Malls, And Treasure Hunting

Josh 46:59

All right, it's time for us to find out what have the Wilsons learned this week. Amanda, have you learned anything this week?

Amanda 47:06

I have confirmed something that I thought that I knew, but then I taught you and Winthrop about it.

Josh 47:11

All right, go ahead. You mean the name Bastion.

Amanda 47:17

That's right. So we picked Winthrop up from this party yesterday, and I was asking him who all had been there, and he has a friend I did not know named Bastion. And so wasn't that wasn't the kid from Never Ending Story called Bastion? I never saw Never Ending Story, and it upsets my Gen X friends greatly that I've never seen this movie.

Josh 47:34

Well, it's also a very upsetting movie. Yeah, and very weird movie. If I'd have known about drug use back then, then I would have pegged that movie as this is what a drug trip looks like. It feels like one that's that that that goes slightly south. Yeah, because that movie, of course, I'm not gonna re-watch it, but I remember watching it and thinking, I don't understand what's going on, and also this horse is dying.

Amanda 47:57

Yeah, I don't, I it's I know the song. That's all I got for you. Anyway, uh, what were you talking about?

Josh 48:03

Bastion. You learned about the name Bastion.

Amanda 48:06

So you said that, oh, that's probably short for Sebastian, and he's and he kept saying no Bastion. And I said, Isn't that a term for something that has to do with like a castle or a a stronghold? Like I it and you said that you didn't know that, that you hadn't heard that, and I said, No, I'm fairly sure that it has something to do with a fort or a castle, and I thought maybe it was part of an armory, but protecting it. So, have you looked it up? Is that what you have there? The definition of bastion? No, I thought that's what you looked up.

Josh 48:36

I looked up the derivation of the name Sebastian because I figured that they were connected. So go ahead.

Amanda 48:41

So a bastion is a projecting structure built into a fortification designed to allow defenders to fire at attackers from multiple angles, right? It's part of a castle or a rampart wall that juts outward to protect adjacent walls from flanking attacks, or it's a nine-year-old child. So uh Bastion was uh in the um in the nerf uh capture the flag yesterday. I don't know if he was serving for as a Bastion, if he was behind the Bastion, I don't know, but that is the definition, at least of a noun of the word Bastion.

Josh 49:15

Now the interesting thing is that I don't see a connection between that and the name Sebastian. Sebastian actually means from the region of Sebastia. So there you go. All right, well there's the thing that I learned this week that Sebastian comes from the you know, a person who's from Sebastia.

Amanda 49:33

Okay. The more you know. And and Bastion is not a nickname for Sebastian.

Josh 49:37

So is that all that you've learned this week?

Amanda 49:39

No, I learned the definition of scrumpy.

Josh 49:42

Oh, yes, scrumpy.

Amanda 49:43

And you learned the definition uh what a snug is in a British pub.

Josh 49:48

Yeah, but that's not what I was gonna put forward as the thing I learned this week. Okay, so what did you The thing that I learned with this week is if you go down to the antique um mall down near Mikinope, Florida, which is about ten, fifteen minutes away from us, giant warehouse-looking building with different booths that people have uh put their stuff in.

Amanda 50:08

I thought you said boobs, giant boobs. So let's let's make that clear for Jeff. This was not a breast reference.

Josh 50:14

Booths. Booths, they're not offering giant boobs for sale.

Amanda 50:18

They are across the street.

Josh 50:19

Yes, yes, it's across the street from a notorious strip club that exists outside of our city limits, but not the point here. This is what I learned. Oh, it's kind of related actually, that if you go to that antique mall and you browse those booths, people have old issues of Playboy and Hustler for sale.

Amanda 50:41

Yes, they do. And what did you do yesterday when you found the Playboys?

Josh 50:44

Well, first we're gonna talk about what you did. Immediately you drew my attention to it. So you you you picked it up and you started paging through the.

Amanda 50:54

And then I was like, where are the naked people? Because there were not, I would assume that when you pick them up today, like, well, first of all, they're probably all online. There's probably no longer print copies. Um, but I assumed you would just open it up and there would be naked, but there wasn't. There were so many articles. Well, there were I had to go hunting for the naked.

Josh 51:10

Well, and you found them.

Amanda 51:11

I did.

Josh 51:12

Somewhere else on a shelf was a near the shelf above it was a a prayer book. A book of prayer. So I took it and I put it in in the center fold of the Playboy magazine. Um, but I was a little shocked that you picked that thing up. Huh?

SPEAKER_01 51:27

Why?

Josh 51:28

Okay. I don't imagine those particular magazines are the cleanest.

Amanda 51:33

And I don't I don't mean that.

Josh 51:36

I don't mean content. I mean fluids.

Amanda 51:39

Well, yeah, no, you don't want to take one of those black lights to it, do you?

Josh 51:42

No, you don't. There's a whole other magazine happening under the black light.

Amanda 51:47

So I offered to um toss it out in the woods so it would feel nostalgic for you.

Josh 51:52

Don't say tossing.

Amanda 51:53

Okay. Anyway. Yes, all right. So yes, yes, yes. We've this is what we found. That's what you learned. But we went, this was gonna be my recommendation if we did recommendations this week. But since we did what you learned, that's fine. But my recommendation is no one likes to be told what to do.

Josh 52:07

All right, go ahead. What are your recommendations?

Amanda 52:09

So my recommendation this week is go treasure hunting. So we've got, you know, we've got this pub, and we don't really need anything other than like decor for the walls, and we don't want to, you know, we want it to be authentic-ish looking. So we went to last Sunday, you and I went to Goodwill, and we were just looking. There was nothing particular we were going searching for, which is the best way to go treasure hunting. When you have something particular in mind, you get really frustrated very easily. But we were just wandering and and I found on a bottom shelf a bunch of croquet mallets for $1.99 each. So we purchased them and they are up in the pub and they look great. And then yesterday we went to the antique mall and found a really cool uh pub sign that um was this where you learned about snugs were for women only, and no couples could go in there. If you're curious, look up what a snug is. And um just some other things, but it's the treasure hunting aspect of it is really fun for me.

Josh 53:00

Yeah, we talked about this last week that it's it's fun to find these treasures, like like little hidden things, like you're kind of cheating the system. Again, you you you're giving uh Amazon a shot to the gut here because you didn't contribute to the landfill, you didn't contribute to the uh the corporate machine of of Amazon. It's all great. And so again, that remains my recommendation. Do that.

Thanks, Shoutouts, And A Screen Fail

Josh 53:25

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

Amanda 53:31

I, you know, it wandered all over the place. I forgot to say words. It's like being inside my brain.

Josh 53:36

Is that what this podcast is?

Amanda 53:38

Just my brain, yeah.

Josh 53:40

Are you the main you're the main character of this podcast? I think it's pretty clear, right?

Amanda 53:43

I don't think so.

Josh 53:45

Well, these people are not main characters, but without these folks, we would not be able to do what we do here, or we wouldn't want to. So we'd like to thank Antonio and Josh Scar, Daniel J. Buckets, thank you for the feedback, Chicken Tom, R.I.P. Matt, Monique from Germany, Joey, Joey, Leo, Refined Gay Jeff, Ryan Baker, and Kate and Tony, Mark and Rachel and Dan and Gavin. The theme song, the theme thong?

Amanda 54:16

The theme song?

Josh 54:16

The theme thong. Did you find a theme thong at the antique mole? The theme song is by Ricky Kendall, Gainesville artist.

Amanda 54:25

I love it so much. I just want to listen to that song.

Josh 54:28

The what I'm gonna start calling the shorter theme song in the middle is by Chris Barron of the Spin Doctors, um, who we will be talking to this Tuesday, and so hopefully we'll be able to publish that. Good to know. I don't think I had that on my calendar. You did know that. Um, also thank you to AJCW for the music that you're listening to right now, and also just for being our son. Love you, kid. Alright, so until next week, you all take it easy.

Amanda 54:54

Be kind to each other. I'm sorry, I'm I'm texting my friend about the Knicks. I got distracted.

Josh 55:00

Oh wait, what just we just went on this whole big thing about screens and distributions.

Amanda 55:06

Yeah, but you don't need me except to say Joey, you don't need me for the outro.

Josh 55:10

I need you for so very little in this outro. All I need you to do is to put the little the little button on the end of it. Go be kind, three words, and even in such a modest task, you failed because you were on your screen.

Amanda 55:25

Because I was talking about the how bad the um Houston Spurs fans were. That was a joke. Oh my god, that was a joke. Go be kind. Bye. Bye.