Our Maine Trip, Horse Tornadoes, and Lobster Rolls

After two weeks away, we are back with stories from Maine, where delayed flights, lobster pounds, suspiciously homemade mayonnaise, and surprisingly charming small towns made for an unforgettable trip.

Along the way, we debate airport etiquette, discover the world's largest cryptozoology museum, argue over fireworks parking, play a game of guessing perimenopause replacement words ("horse tornado" might become part of your vocabulary), answer listener emails, and wrestle with the surprisingly complicated question of whether friendships should always require equal effort.

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Cold Open

SPEAKER_05 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 0:16

Welcome back to the conversation. Tell me who I'm talking to. You don't down to my nature. You want me and I am you. Familiar. Don't be stranger.

Back Again And Flight Delays

Amanda 0:53

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

Josh 0:55

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

Amanda 0:59

And SideQuest.

Josh 1:01

Amanda, we are back. We have been gone for two weeks. Don't know why I feel the need to tell you that we're back. I know. Because you know and actually the listeners know that we're back too. But we did miss a recording last Monday because we were well, we were still in Maine last Monday. I think that the idea initially was we would get home. I would take Tuesday off and we would record on Tuesday. So we would only be a day late. Why didn't we do that?

Amanda 1:28

Because we did not we knew we were getting home at 1210 in the morning, but that is not what happened. We sat on a runway in Charlotte in a thunderstorm for a couple hours. So we didn't actually leave Charlotte until after midnight. We didn't get home until 3:30 in the morning. And then I slept until noon the next day.

Josh 1:46

Yes.

Amanda 1:46

So that is why we did not record.

Josh 1:48

And I was not gonna and actually the the idea of recording after we came off of a week in Maine seemed exhausting to me because I was like, man, I'm gonna want to talk about all the things, even the things that people won't want to hear about. And it's uh I just don't want to do that. It just felt like me last Tuesday would not have been a productive podcasting me. First of all, I you know, this is the first time that I've experienced difficult air travel. Ever in your life? No, no, no. Recently. Oh, yeah. Recently. Like I haven't traveled a lot by plane and um recently. Yeah. And uh the last time we did, I think was to England or have we been on a plane since England. Easy breezy. It was it was a delight to do that. British Airways was a delight, everything was on time, everything worked, and it was fine. And that was a couple different trips that we took. Haven't flown since. Now I understand that the the current system of flying and all of the things that make flying is kind of a mess right now. When we flew up to Maine, it was beautiful, it was perfect. I was like, okay, great, this is what we can expect. Flying back, there's a weather system going through the the country at a very inopportune time for the Wilsons.

Amanda 2:58

And so no one consulted us.

Josh 3:00

It screwed all the flights up, not just ours, so I should note that. We had our gate moved like two times before we ended up at the final gate, and that was annoying as well because the people didn't really know. There was one point where I knew that the gate had moved before the people at the check desk knew. Yeah. Because we're sitting at the gate and I kept refreshing our American Airlines app and it said the gate has moved. So I I'm like, let's go. And we start to walk, and then they announce it that yeah. So because I went up to the thing and I said, Uh, have they moved the gate? And the person at the at the thing said, I don't know. Like okay. Super helpful. Come on on your name badge, please.

Amanda 3:37

The one lady was very mad because her plane just right on left, and she came like an hour later.

Josh 3:42

Okay, that's a different story. That's a totally different story, though. Person at the at the the check-in was mad because she was sitting in the bar. Now, granted, I think she had a point. She was sitting in a bar that was in the area in between gates, like the median strip.

Amanda 4:00

Yeah, yeah. She should have been able to hear it.

Josh 4:02

She should have been able to hear it, but maybe also that they made that like that specifically so that if you're sitting at the bar, you don't hear all these gate announcements.

Amanda 4:09

Yeah, because you need to do like it was on her to check, keep checking on her flight.

Josh 4:13

She was pissed though, because she came.

Amanda 4:14

Well, it was like an hour after the flight left, though.

Josh 4:17

She was drunk as well. So anyway, but that's not that's not my story to tell. The Wilsons never were uh airport messy. No, we were not. We did not drink anything during these. We're never airport messy.

SPEAKER_03 4:29

Yes.

Josh 4:30

So we go to our gate, we get on the thing. I'm like, okay, all of our problems are solved. Yeah, we're a couple hours later than we thought we'd be, but we're going home and it's great. I was very happy because it was a smaller aircraft, and so there were two seats on one side that you and Winthrop sat on, and then one seat on the other side next to the I was next to the window and the aisle.

SPEAKER_05 4:48

Yeah. Cannot get any better.

Josh 4:51

Any better than I'd have to be on like a biplane or something where it's just me and the cockpit. Um, so we're sitting there and they come across the thing, and actually they didn't come on anything. The uh the pilot got on the microphone and said, We have to stop and we have to wait for the lightning to not be in our area. And I think he said between five or ten miles.

Amanda 5:14

Yeah, I don't know why I wasn't listening to this.

Josh 5:16

There had to be no lightning strikes within that radius for at least 10 minutes. Yeah, like a certain period of time. And I get so frustrated because I'm sitting there and I put music on my headphones and I'm trying to block everything out, but the windows are open in the in this tiny plane. Every time the flash of lightning happened, even in the distance, you'd be able to see it. So the countdown would get to like you know nine minutes 57 seconds, and then there would be a flash.

SPEAKER_03 5:40

Huge reset.

Josh 5:41

So we were there for a couple of hours sitting there, and I was very concerned that the pilot would come on the microphone again. Oh my god, stop that the pilot would get on the mic and say, Okay, my time for today is up. Like I'm only allowed by FCC or not F H A. What is it? F FAA. Jesus.

SPEAKER_03 6:03

Yeah, FCC's other people.

Josh 6:05

FAA they regulate us. That's right. I'm only allowed under FAA rules to to fly a certain number of hours today, and my time is up, so you're not getting anywhere. That's what I thought would happen.

Amanda 6:17

Well, because that's what had been happening when we were in Maine and we were leaving. There was a whole flight to LaGuardia that kept getting pushed and then canceled because they couldn't find a new flight crew because the flight crew that came in late had had already exhausted all of their time. And that happened to a colleague of mine when she was going back home as well. So yeah, I mean, that is has been the issue is this the flying time. Well, and it was also it was I felt really bad because we were sitting there, it was after midnight, went through, laid on my lap, and fell asleep. And then two hours later, he woke up and he said, Are we home? And it was like, Nope. No, we haven't left yet.

Josh 6:59

You should have said you've only been asleep for five minutes.

Amanda 7:01

Yeah.

Josh 7:02

We finally got home and we flew into Gainesville Airport, regional, Gainesville Regional Airport, not international. Uh he's teeny. And it is, and it it's very strange to me to fly into an airport at like whatever time.

Amanda 7:18

3 30 a.m.

Josh 7:19

Right. And there's no one there.

Amanda 7:21

Yeah.

Josh 7:22

Like they were waiting for us so they they could lock up, is what it was. We got off the thing and they started to turn lights off behind us.

Amanda 7:29

Oh, but the next flight left at 6 a.m. So they weren't getting much too much.

Josh 7:33

I mean, at least they had to clean the the bathrooms. You want to know that there's a break in time that they can just clean the bathrooms and and go through and give everything a once over. But it really does look like the world's most expensive bus stop at that point. Gainesville Regional Airport.

Amanda 7:49

I was also worried, I was stressed though, because when we were sitting in Charlotte, I had ordered an Uber or a Lyft or whatever uh to pick us up. And if you do it and you attach it to your flight number, it will kind of track your flight number. And if your flight gets delayed, it'll push the car out. But then I actually didn't know that we were gonna leave. I kept thinking we were gonna get grounded. And so I canceled it. And then when we landed at 3:30, I was like, are are Ubers still running at 3 30 in the morning? But then I remember that we live in a college town and people leave the bars around then. So of course people do this.

Josh 8:20

Which by the way, I'd love to know people's opinion on what you should do in Ubers because we've taken we took an Uber to the airport and then we got an Uber from the airport for this trip, which is a thing we've never done before.

Amanda 8:34

No, because we were gonna be gone for so long, I didn't want to pay to leave the car.

Josh 8:37

Um, what is your your thing about talking to people in Ubers?

Amanda 8:42

It changes depending on whom I'm with. Um, when I flew into Philadelphia to uh go to a conference a couple years ago, the guy who picked me up was chatty, and then he started talking to me about his husband, and I was like, Oh, you're safe. So then we just talked about and he basically pointed out things.

Josh 9:00

Right, but he initiated yes, okay. Because on both of our Ubers, we said maybe one thing to the driver.

Amanda 9:08

Yeah, but we also our flight, I mean, our Uber there was at five in the morning because our flight was early. And then this one was late. So we didn't really talk, but I did notice this one this one there, that home though, I'm convinced he had a playlist that was based on who got in the car and that we were like like middle-aged white people playlist because we were getting songs that I do not think this gentleman listens to.

Josh 9:33

All I know is that that was a week ago, and I still smell his cologne on my screen. Yeah, no.

SPEAKER_03 9:39

It's really strong.

Josh 9:40

No to Uber drivers out there. Don't do that. Don't do unless, I mean, if you're working hard to try to cover up another smell, find that I don't know that, and I've just got this obnoxious smell of you know axe body spray, whatever it was, but don't do that.

First Taste Of Maine Life

Josh 9:55

So we did go to Maine, never been there before.

SPEAKER_03 9:58

Me either.

Josh 9:58

Check that off the bucket list. Not that I was ever like itching to go to Maine. It's not one of those places you're like, oh, I gotta go there.

Amanda 10:04

I'm glad I went though. It's beautiful.

Josh 10:06

It's wonderful. It's a different place, though, Maine. Firstly, what one of the things that I I noticed almost instantly is not a lot of chained fast food restaurants.

SPEAKER_03 10:17

I know.

Josh 10:18

So that was nice though. It was nice. So I I came to find out that they really value local and independent um stores in general, retail and and and restaurants. So they yes, they had we did we did see a Dunkin' Donuts in places where I wouldn't expect to see a Dunkin' Donuts. But besides that, it was all small local places, especially, and that was fun. We went to this one place in Orano, Maine, which is where we stopped first, and it was called Pat's Pizza. Shout out to Pat's. I don't know who Pat was, I don't think Pat is still alive. I don't think Pat is still with us. Um, but it is the dictionary definition of hole in the wall.

SPEAKER_03 10:56

Yeah.

Josh 10:56

Like they had holes in the wall.

SPEAKER_03 10:58

Yeah.

Josh 10:58

They had just like the you could tell the old regulars that that come like over sitting on the barstools. Sitting on the on the bar stools, like over middle aged, like whatever's next. We went to another place in Orno called the Wood Shack or the Wood Grill.

Amanda 11:12

Yeah, it was nice though. I actually wound up being there three times.

Josh 11:15

Yeah, but did you notice what happened when I asked them uh for something to dip my fries in?

Amanda 11:20

Yes.

Josh 11:21

I asked for mayonnaise to dip my fries in, and they said, Oh, we don't have any of that, but we can make it for you.

Amanda 11:27

No, that is not at all the story that happened.

Josh 11:30

What?

Amanda 11:31

What happened was even better. You asked her mayonnaise, she said okay.

SPEAKER_03 11:34

Right.

Amanda 11:35

She went back to the kitchen and she came back and she said, He's just gonna uh whip that up for you really quickly, make that make that mayonnaise for you, and then I'll have it out. Like, so she didn't tell you we don't have it, she went to the kitchen, learned they didn't have it, and that he was gonna make the mayonnaise.

Josh 11:48

The point being that this they don't have here's the thing. Here's the thing I just didn't understand any of it. So is that to say that they were out of mayonnaise and then they had to whip some up? Is that to say that that their their SOP is we make our own mayonnaise? Because that wasn't advertised, homemade, you know. It just seemed very odd to me. It'd be like asking for ketchup and saying, hang on, let me get some tomatoes.

Amanda 12:12

Yeah, I don't know.

Josh 12:13

And and it wasn't that fancy of a restaurant that you could say, like, oh, and they made they didn't call it aioli, is what you're saying. Bespoke mayonnaise or whatever. And it's weird because one of the things that I noticed about Maine, obviously, is it's lobster everything. Lobster this, lobster that. And they're famous for lobster rolls, which is which have mayonnaise, which has mayonnaise.

Amanda 12:33

So how could they not have mayonnaise? The BLT sub you had at Pats had mayonnaise.

Josh 12:37

It's not that Maine doesn't have mayonnaise, but anyway, Maine is a different place, right? Yeah, and I like how it's different, it has a real feeling of age to it that I appreciate and history. I love the architecture, it was beautiful. We went to a very small town to experience a 4th of July parade. That was really fun, that was very charming. And no, Maine, Maine is just a lovely place. That I didn't even know that now I miss it. I didn't even know that that I would appreciate it enough to miss it. And I love I didn't have the lobster. I know, you don't eat seafood. Winthrop doesn't eat seafood.

Amanda 13:14

Winthrop was sad.

Lobster Pound And Lobster Smell

Josh 13:16

Well, okay, so we went to this place called the lobster pound, which is a place that you go. They have live lobster there, it's next to the water, and you pick your lobster, and they take your lobster, they dispatch the lobster, hopefully, humanely, and then they serve it to you however you would like to have it fixed. This place was in um Belfast, Maine on the coast. And I was so excited to go to this place. Sounded so cool. Uh, you're the one who told me about it.

Amanda 13:42

Yeah, no, because I had colleagues who went, and I was like, I didn't know this was a thing, but a traditional Maine lobster pound is like how you're supposed to, and people will come. It's real like warehousey, not fancy, not air-conditioned, like kind of like a dive bar version of this. However, people come with these elaborate picnic setups and they bring bottles of wine and they bring their, you know, like their crystal and all of this and have and have it. So it's it's a big deal in Maine. But what I didn't expect, now I would have expected it from Muffy, didn't expect it from him, is that he saw the lobsters and then got really upset. Winthrop. Winthrop, yeah. Not you.

Josh 14:18

Yeah, they're not even cute.

Amanda 14:19

No, but now he has a stuffed lobster that he sleeps with, and his name is Leo.

Josh 14:24

And um Yes, I understand existential crisis again, but anyway, regardless, we go to this place and I instantly love it. It's got it first of all, the people who work there all seem to be um from different Caribbean islands, right? Yeah, and they were just having the time of their lives, and so they're and it kind of reminded me back when I lived in Grand Cayman, you know, and all the banter and this and that. And it was it was funny because so they what they would do is a truck would come in and and two came in while I was there waiting in line, and they would offload these crates full of live lobsters, and it's right there. So they're bringing it through the crowd and so they're going through the crowd saying, Lady with a baby, step aside, lady with a baby. Which I'm gonna start to use that in my roof in my real life right now. So obviously they are seasonal workers, yeah, right, because the lobster season is only so long, but I think that that they're probably long time seasonally employed there. It felt like the thing that some of these other fast food joints try to replicate. Like, remember when you'd go into a Moe's and everyone would say, Welcome to Mo's, or like you go to a restaurant and they have like a catchphrase that they're supposed to it's all so anodyne and so Mo's doesn't even say it anymore. Yeah, last time I went to the Mo's that they did that was like one guy in the back on the drink machine. Welcome to Moe's, and then they're like, Well, we're not doing this anymore. But that this was real, it's just like people in their workplace having a good time and and fucking around and BSing, and it was a lot of fun. So I order a lobster roll, and the guy says to me, He says, Okay, you are number 5,000. Like, get the fuck out of here, number 5,000. What are you doing? Yeah, so whatever. I take my five, I I think he's pranking me. I take my number 5,000. I go, um, I go out and I set the picnic tables with you all waiting, and you gotta wait like a good 20, 20 minutes. Like probably 30 minutes, yeah. But I mean they're doing they're doing the thing. You gotta give them lobster time to say goodbye to his friends and family.

Amanda 16:27

Oh my god, I'm gonna get sad. Please keep going.

Josh 16:29

I'm standing out there, I'm sitting with you all sometimes, but then I'm walking over to the entryway to to where the people are because I want to make sure that I can hear my number. Well, finally they say a number. I thought that it was that they weren't that they were saying numbers I couldn't hear, but they said a number, they just hadn't said one in a long time. 23 or so. So my my number was 5,000 and I swear to God, they were like number 84. Yeah. I'm like, get the fuck out of here.

SPEAKER_03 16:57

It's like we live here now.

Josh 16:59

So I go back, and there's no sense to the number because someone else came in and they're like, You're 1652. Right?

SPEAKER_03 17:07

It really was no more.

Josh 17:08

There was zero sense. They were, I mean, again, good for them having fun, but don't do that to me. Anyway, as I was standing there, and I don't think you noticed this, uh, older couple came up to me and says, uh, how does this work? And like I had sussed out how it works. So I told them, but then I said, Pardon me, why did you ask me? He said, Oh, you look like you knew what was going on. I don't, I really, really don't. What they're saying is I look like an old shipboat captain. There you go. I've got this gray beard and bald head, and I'm I'm not like I'm not tan tan, but I'm not pale white either. So my shirt was open. I had some chest hair showing. Gray speckled chest hair showing. So this they were obviously like, this is a man of the world. This man. But it happened again. Oh, did it really? So they asked me that, and about 10 minutes later, this girl came up to me. This she was like maybe 45 or something. I say girl. Um, she's like, Where do I go? And I'm like, honestly, do I smell of the sea? What's happening here?

Amanda 18:08

Well, yeah, because then that night, so I somehow we wound up with just a king bed. So we went there probably to sleep with us for like the first four or five nights of the trip. And that night he kept going on about how you smelled like lobster when he was trying to sleep.

Josh 18:23

Yes, dear, but everyone smells like lobster after you eat lobster, not the point. Those people weren't all those people weren't sniffing you, they weren't uh snuggling up against me. So, anyway, the the lobster roll, of course, when they finally got it was freaking delicious. And I didn't know this. I didn't know that in Maine you don't have drawn butter with your lobster.

Amanda 18:43

Yeah, that surprised me. I thought that that was a thing.

Josh 18:45

If you have it on a lobster roll, it comes with mayonnaise. That's just my mayonnaise and spices, and that's just how it is. So good of the colours.

Amanda 18:52

Do you think they've made the the mayonnaise there at the lobster pound?

Josh 18:55

Probably not, but it was delicious. It was so good. And that's the other thing that I really loved about being there and the fact that lobster's everywhere. Like we went into a grocery store. For us, that would be the equivalent to Publix, even though I'm not I know not everyone has publics, but just you know, your garden variety grocery store went to the prepared sales section and they had lobster rolls. And so I got one and it was delicious.

Amanda 19:20

Which is which is interesting because we tend to stay away from seafood here, even though we live in Florida. We are inland, so when you see seafood at the grocery store, you tend to like shy away from it. And so for it to be fresh and everything there is really interesting.

Josh 19:34

Another thing that I appreciated and noticed about I guess New England, just the the part that we were in, was a lot of things hearken back to to Britain, to the United Kingdom, to Ireland. So, like for example, the Bangor, yeah, which is the the large city we were near, I say large, larger city, is uh named after a place in Wales, which I didn't know. Oh, I didn't know that either. Then, of course, the coastal city where we went to the lobster pound was Belfast. And so all these and a a couple of the towns they had high streets. Yes, they had a street called High Street. So that's like um our equivalent of Main Street in at least the UK, probably in Ireland as well. I don't know. But they had high streets, which I I thought was super interesting.

Amanda 20:21

Well, and we wound up staying in Camden or right outside of Camden, and it was named after the Earl of Camden or something. I saw that on his little statue when I walked past him. I will say that's the one thing that I didn't feel like I got great food in Maine because I don't eat seafood. So it was just, you know, like whatever. Although the place that once the conference is over, we drove down the coast and stayed in in the mid-coast outside of Camden and Lincolnville, this place called Glen Moor by the sea. And their thing was they would bring you breakfast every morning in a little basket, and it was just continental, but like nicer. And they bring us a craft of coffee, some orange juice for Winthrop, and then it would be a baked something. So it would either be like an egg frittata or like those little egg cups, and then scones or a baked blueberry French toast. And I think those were probably the best food that I had while I was there. That that blueberry baked French toast was, and Maine is famous for their blueberries. Incredible. The scones were great. I've decided I want to learn how to bake scones. This is my new hobby.

Josh 21:20

Will you not try lobster?

Amanda 21:22

Well, I actually would have, but he was so upset that I I couldn't have.

Josh 21:28

What is your thing against fish? The fishy taste, right?

Amanda 21:30

It's the fishy taste, yeah.

Josh 21:32

Lobster is its whole But I asked you what it you'll have scallops, right?

Amanda 21:36

I don't mind scallops.

Josh 21:37

Okay, well, lobster is like firmer scallops.

Amanda 21:40

See, and I think I would like firmer better because I don't like scallops are a little spongy. But I asked you what it tasted like, trying to get you to explain it to me, and you said crab, and crab smells fishy to me.

Josh 21:50

Oh, but crab is good as well. Have you never had crab?

Amanda 21:52

I've never had crab.

Josh 21:53

Okay, we need to expand your horizons here because you went to Maine and you missed out on like the the color. Thing of Maine. He didn't need to do that because it was delicious. It was so good.

Amanda 22:04

Well, and it also like surprises me how sad he got about the lobster because the boy ate so many hamburgers. Like, it's not that it's like all animals, he just got really maybe it was just seeing because it's not like the cows are there when you go into the restaurant to order your hamburger. They wouldn't fit behind the thing. Yeah, it was just seeing the lobster and then knowing that death was imminent that really upset him.

Josh 22:28

Oh well, maybe if he'd had a hand in killing the lobster, that would have been a lot of people.

Amanda 22:33

I don't think I want him to do that. I think we are good.

Entertaining A Kid In Bangor

Josh 22:37

So we were at this conference, or Amanda was at this conference for the first few days, and it was my job to keep the nine-year-old occupied. And let me tell you something, folks. If you never had to occupy a child in a city you've never been in and just barely heard of, and particularly if it's not a huge city, it's not as easy as all that. It's not as easy as thank God that most cities they reach a certain point. I think that it's law that they build a children's discovery museum. Yes. These are these wonderful things, if you've never heard of them, that are basically a series of themed playsets.

SPEAKER_03 23:18

That's right.

Josh 23:19

Because, yes, sure, they have plaques, you know, giving you different scientific facts or regional facts or whatever. But basically, it's like, okay, now play on this soft play volcano. Now go over here and play on this soft play pile of rocks and lighthouse or whatever. Um, so that occupied a good hour and a half of our time, but then we had the rest of our time there. And part of that was spent walking up and down looking at stores, but he did not have patience for that.

Amanda 23:49

That is not his favorite thing to do.

Josh 23:51

I thought he would be more into something that I found, the International Cryptozoological Museum. Yes, which is the largest one in the world. If now, did you know without me telling you before, would you have known what a cryptozoological?

Amanda 24:08

Because Daniel is my bonus child. Daniel, our oldest, is very into this idea of mythical creatures, right? And that's what cryptology is Bigfoot and Sasquatch and the giant spaghetti monster, yes. No, what's it what's it called? A Yeti. That's what I was trying to think of.

Josh 24:27

So I found, I don't even remember how I found this. I think I looked up Weird Things to Do in Bangor Mail. Uh Bang. I can't even say, by the way, can we stop here for a second? Bangor.

Amanda 24:39

Yeah, you can't say bangor. It's Bangor.

Josh 24:41

It's but it's Bangor, but the emphasis is supposed to be on the first syllable. Bangor.

Amanda 24:46

Yeah. And then Orano kept confusing me because I kept wanting to say Orano, like Toronto. Like all of it. All of it's hard to I could say Camden and Belfast fine.

Josh 24:55

Well, that's the telltale sign to locals that one doesn't come from there as you don't say it right, and they've made it very difficult to say. It's kind of like, what is it? You're not supposed to say Nollins in New Orleans. New Orleans? However, they say it. Do they say New Orleans? They say New Orleans.

Amanda 25:12

They say New Orleans. New Orleans. Yeah, they say New Orleans.

Josh 25:15

Okay. But so if you're like this whole Nolans thing, they're like, oh, you're a tourist. Yeah. Same with Banger.

Amanda 25:21

Super interesting content. Okay, so you went to the Crypto Museum.

Josh 25:25

Went to the Crypto Zoological Museum and saw the largest collection of artifacts and or replicas of cryptids in the world. And the guy who built this thing is like a foremost expert.

Amanda 25:41

He's an action figure for himself.

Josh 25:43

He says several action figures for himself. The question is, did he have them? Of course he did. Well, I think that that was pretty funny. But he has discovered and named, well, I say discovered. I shouldn't say discovered. He has been one of the first ones to classify and name certain um famous cryptids. Like there's one called the Dover Demon. Yes. That apparently he he named it that. And then also part of it was because there's a huge display, a bunch of cabinets of curiosity, a bunch of statues, furry statues, and this and that, and replicas. And then also in the corner there, it was an ode to the 1950s, an ode to life in the 1950s. And so it was set up like a living room with all this random shit. And so basically, this museum turns out to be just stuff that I own.

Amanda 26:34

Oh, well, we could make one of those museums.

Josh 26:36

Right. We could. I mean, apparently this guy owns a lot of cryptozoological stuff, but also other random things.

Amanda 26:44

I think what we own isn't that interesting, but that's cool. And very interesting to the older children, but not so much to Winther.

Josh 26:51

See, that's the thing, is I thought he would love it. So we we did that. We went and we saw a giant Paul Bunyan statue.

Amanda 26:58

Yeah. Was that interesting?

Josh 27:00

He was kind of into that, but then once we did that, we did that. That was it. So it's a real struggle trying to find things to really engage. You know what he was really interested in? We went to a giant thrift store that had a upstairs and a basement, and that had a bunch of interesting things to him. Just old, oldie timey things.

Amanda 27:18

And he was cool with that?

Josh 27:19

Yeah, you know, he liked it.

Amanda 27:20

Well, and you guys also had the World Cup, so you watched some matches in in the hotel room, but the thing that he wound up being completely enamored with shocked me. The boy, you you showed him how to skip a rock, and then that's all he wanted to do for like the rest of the vacation. Just find a place to skip rocks.

Josh 27:40

Yeah, which doesn't work out too well for us here because we don't have a place to. I mean, we could do the community pool.

Amanda 27:48

No one ever goes to it. I took him yesterday. Nobody was there but us.

Josh 27:51

Did you skip rocks? No, because amazing.

Amanda 27:54

You told me I wasn't allowed to let them skip rocks.

Josh 27:56

Well, I mean, you're not, you're not. We get in trouble. They

Fireworks Stress And Parking Debate

Josh 27:58

probably have cameras. Which, by the way, HOA um update here. They've now posted signs on these places that they started construction and then stopped construction. Yeah. This says do not um enter or do not trespass. These are construction zones. First of all, I applaud the effort that they're making to do something, but no damn way that these are construction zones anymore. Because no one is going to buy these plots of land. And then so basically what they've done in the past year is they've put up signs now.

Amanda 28:30

Yeah, but that means that that would they can continue to take our money, which by the way, we've not paid all of our HOA dues that we're due at the end of July. No, at the end of June.

SPEAKER_01 28:39

What?

Amanda 28:40

Yeah. We've paid like most of it, but not all of it. I'm just waiting for them to yell at me.

Josh 28:44

Wait, are you serious?

Amanda 28:46

I am serious.

Josh 28:47

Oh we we can't do that.

Amanda 28:49

I just paid $100 toward it when I got paid on Friday.

Josh 28:52

You're changing. What is happening with you here? No, you don't care anymore.

Amanda 28:59

You are like so stressed by me in Maine.

Josh 29:01

Yeah, because we went to go see the um the fireworks over the water, over the the bay, the harbor, over a lot of things. Because they're in the sky. Yeah. And we went to this place and there wasn't anywhere to park. You're like, oh fuck it, let's just park at the side of the street. We park at the side of the street with other people.

Amanda 29:18

But there are cars. I didn't create this.

Josh 29:20

No, but but we were the last car.

Amanda 29:22

Yeah.

Josh 29:22

Right. And on either side of the block that we parked, I then noticed it says no parking. So I'm like, Amanda, we need to move our car. She's like, no, everyone else is doing it. I'm like, wait, who are you?

Amanda 29:33

I know. I told you, I'm like, I am usually such a rule follower and have so much anxiety that if it is not causing me anxiety, you should not be worried about it.

Josh 29:41

And we were the last car. So the first car they're gonna tow, the easiest car for them to tow. In fact, the car that they have to tow, it's kind of like Jenga, would be ours first. No, somebody get it out of the way and then keep going. You know what I think? I think this whole Perry Menopause thing is a sham. What? I think that you are either a twin sister or a clone that that some sort of foreign government or agency has started a sleeper cell here with you. And I am not down for it.

Amanda 30:12

I mean, did the car get towed?

Josh 30:14

It could have gotten towed.

Amanda 30:15

Yeah, here's why I knew it wasn't gonna get towed. Okay, first of all, I understood the street signs to mean during the day and not like when it was 4th of July.

Josh 30:24

Not what they said. No, usually it'll have a type you understood it because that's how you wanted to understand it. Because usually it'll say from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Amanda 30:32

Right, it was a special holiday.

Josh 30:34

So calling BES on that, go ahead.

Amanda 30:35

And then there was also there was an ambulance parked there, uh I assume, just in case, you know, something exploded. And um, they watched us get out of the car and we walked past them and they said not thing one.

Josh 30:48

They don't give a shit.

Amanda 30:50

So I was just like, they're police adjacent. They didn't get mad.

Josh 30:54

You know what? They are government, local government adjacent. And guess what? Police tow my car, they give me a ticket, they get money. Yeah. So that they can get new uniforms or ice cream day or whatever.

Amanda 31:05

But then it turns out like police presence came and you've like stressed out and went back to the car. But it was because they're I learned this while you were gone because people are talking about it. There was a fight. Two guys were fighting at the shoreline, and it turns out the one guy was on probation, so his probation officer came and responded to it. Yeah.

Josh 31:23

Did they take him away?

Amanda 31:25

I guess so. I don't know.

Josh 31:27

There was a lady behind us who had the thick New England accent who was fed up with all of us tourists. She was like probably eight in her eighties, and she had a little folding chair, and her buddy had come up to her and she's like, I can't stand all these tourists. I used to come out and sit and watch these fireworks all the time. And she ended up leaving. Oh, did she? Usually I'm on the side of that person because I was even apart from the the parking situation, I was stressed to the hilt. I I've learned that I don't like going to see fireworks. Okay. I've learned this because it's all of this buildup. You you gotta, it's just such a hassle to get where you need to go and find parking and walk to. Oh, look, lights and and loud noises in the sky. And then it's a drudgery getting out, right? And then the people there are obnoxious, which they were. They were, they were crawling all over the the rocks like ants. They were loud. It was not a pleasant experience. And so this lady, like I'm hearing her bitch to her friend, and I'm like, I'm on your side until I realize that I'm in her eyes, I'm one of the people who's the problem. Although I clearly wasn't.

Amanda 32:36

All right, fine. Anyway, we didn't get a ticket. We were the first car out because we were parked in the back.

Josh 32:42

Well, we left before the things were.

Amanda 32:44

We were walking away as the finale was going. It was fine. We were fine.

Josh 32:48

I did feel in general that life is a lot more laid back there.

Amanda 32:52

I was trying to decide if that was because we were on vacation or if that really is just sort of their speed.

Josh 32:59

I don't know. I think maybe it's a little of both. Obviously, we were on vacation. I mean, at one point we took a ride on a an old schooner sailboat.

Amanda 33:08

Yeah, it was so pretty.

Josh 33:09

Well, very peaceful, delightful. Loved that. But all the shops that we went into, the people didn't necessarily seem to be too bothered that we were there. In fact, a lot of them didn't notice that we were there.

SPEAKER_03 33:22

Or talk to us, right?

Josh 33:23

Or talk to us. So I even if they noticed. Part of it does have to do with the fact that it's it's just a calmer way of living. I liked it. I liked I wouldn't mind going back.

Amanda 33:34

No, I would I would enjoy going back. I I I think that maybe I'd want to see Bar Harbor, but I didn't want to do that over the Fourth of July weekend because it's supposed to be super packed. But I'd also like to spend some time maybe like Providence and down toward Massachusetts because I've never been there either.

Josh 33:49

Okay. Well, we'll make a trip of it. The Wilsons will will go back. One thing I did notice is that the name Wilson was on a lot of things.

Amanda 33:58

Yeah, they like the Wilsons in Maine.

Josh 33:59

There were a few street signs that was Wilson Street. There was a Wilson Center for Interfaith Spirituality. Something or other nonsense. Um maybe those are my folks.

Amanda 34:12

They might be your people.

Josh 34:13

Uh-huh.

Perimenopause Word Loss Game

SPEAKER_05 34:25

What's I'm in the dungeon?

Amanda 34:29

And that song by AJCW, our son, our middleest son, and middle in the middle. I don't know. There's two of them in the middle. Um, it that means it's game time. I don't know. Words are hard, and that's the point of this game. Words are hard.

Josh 34:45

It's almost like you're new to doing this podcast, even though we've been doing it for six years. Maybe you've only done a few episodes since.

Amanda 34:54

It says the new the new version of me that is whatever this body double is. Okay. So there is this. Speaking of paramenopause, you were just talking about it. Um, this phenomenon that happens is that uh finding words, particularly nouns and names of things, is very difficult. And it has to do with the fluctuation of estrogen and and the receptors that it influences in your brain. I won't go into the science of it, but it is a thing where people say, I forget words all the time.

Josh 35:27

I love how you're like, I won't go into the science of it. Like you got that science like right at hand already.

Amanda 35:32

Do you have my phone, Jackass?

Josh 35:34

Okay, go ahead.

Amanda 35:35

I looked it up.

Josh 35:36

All right, go ahead, Mrs. Spock. Keep going.

Amanda 35:38

It is. It's like you don't want to live here anymore. I don't understand you are acting like somebody who's new because you don't realize what what your the consequences of your life is.

Josh 35:50

I guess the problem is that I'm just always the same. I'm I've always been the same, I always will be the same. So don't go changing to try to please me.

Amanda 35:58

No, no, I won't. Anyway, so you know, it's this idea that words are hard to find, right? And when if you talk to a woman going through paramenopause, we feel like we've got early onset of something all the time. But the first time I have lost words, but then there's this also this phenomena of just reaching for the words and using all you cans to describe it. And you wind up using more words than just the words you were looking for. Okay. But that hadn't happened to me until this week. I took the rest of the week off to catch up on schoolwork and laundry and stuff. And Winthrop was hungry, and I was trying to tell him his breakfast was at the dining table. Right. And I could not come up with the word table. And what I said was eating desk. I think about it, it just popped out of my mouth because I could not come up with table. So I called his name and told him his breakfast was at the eating desk, and he wasn't listening to me, so he didn't even know.

Josh 36:55

Okay, so what does this have to do with game time? Or have you forgotten that we're doing game?

Amanda 36:59

I'm so sorry. Are you in a hurry? Because you spent a really long time pontificating, pontificating about mayonnaise.

Josh 37:07

So I you got the word pontificating down. That's good.

Amanda 37:11

I do not enjoy you right now. Sit down. Why are you standing? Sit down. You're stressing me out. Sit down.

Josh 37:17

Please, please. The listeners are the game.

Amanda 37:20

No, the listeners are like, this is interesting. Mayonnaise not interesting. This part is interesting. So I came up with accidentally eating desk. And then I've started paying attention to all of these women on the social saying, Oh, here are all the words that I came up with when just trying to think of one word. So the game time is I'm gonna give you the perimenopause label, and you have to tell me what the hormonally regulated word would be for this.

Josh 37:46

Okay, well, this should be easy then.

Amanda 37:48

So I have 15 of these. All right. So the first one, I'm gonna give you a couple easy ones. The first one is leg hand. What would your leg hand be? Your foot. Right. Okay. So somebody but these are legit. Like people trying to come up with things, couldn't think of foot, said leg hand. All right. Broccoli's white cousin.

Josh 38:06

Cauliflower.

Amanda 38:07

Yes, okay.

Josh 38:09

That's pretty funny.

Amanda 38:11

But I mean, what's funny is that these were real. Like I need broccoli's white cousin. Okay. Statute of limitation on food.

Josh 38:18

Expiration date. Yes.

Amanda 38:22

Somebody asked what the statute of limitation was on the mozzarella. The cheese on anyway. Okay. Potato children.

Josh 38:32

Is it French fries?

Amanda 38:34

Potato tots.

Josh 38:35

Oh, that works. Potato. Also, that sounds good. Yeah. No, don't tell him about the winter because he's not going to want to eat those anymore.

Amanda 38:42

Right? They're children.

Josh 38:43

Go ahead.

Amanda 38:44

Burrito skins.

Josh 38:45

Oh, um taco shells. Tortillas.

Amanda 38:48

This woman told her husband he's stopped by the store and get the burrito skins. All right. Pickle glitter.

SPEAKER_01 38:54

Pickle glitter. Pickle glitter?

Josh 39:01

Oh, um, relish.

Amanda 39:02

Yes. Pickle glitter. All right.

Josh 39:05

That's funny.

Amanda 39:06

Sandwich lotion.

Josh 39:07

Gross mayonnaise.

Amanda 39:09

Yes. That's the problem. You should have ordered sandwich lotion for your fries. Right.

Josh 39:14

Well, the the lady at the at Patsy Pizza, or no, it wasn't a different lady. It was a guy. Never mind. Keep going.

Amanda 39:19

Okay. Baby wheelbarrow.

Josh 39:21

Oh, a pram.

Amanda 39:23

A stroller, yes. Okay. Halloween butterfly.

Josh 39:27

That.

Amanda 39:28

Yes. Fresh baby.

Josh 39:30

Newborn. Yes.

SPEAKER_03 39:32

So she couldn't think of the word for newborn. So she just said somebody had a fresh baby.

Josh 39:37

Yeah, they were a little cheeky. They were a little sassy, these babies.

Amanda 39:40

Closed garage.

Josh 39:42

Closet.

Amanda 39:43

Yes. So hang that up in the closed garage. All right. Meat syrup.

Josh 39:47

Gross. So that would be like barbecue sauce or ketchup. Gravy. Yeah, okay. All right. I'll take that point.

Amanda 39:54

Three more. Hair tongs.

Josh 39:56

Hair tongs? You have me at a disadvantage here. Because I don't have hair. Okay. Hair tongs? Yes. Oh, so like um a curler. No. A curling iron.

SPEAKER_03 40:07

No.

Josh 40:08

Hair tongs? Yeah. I don't know. Tweezers. Oh, fuck off. Tweezers.

Amanda 40:13

You own tweezers.

Josh 40:14

I know, but not tongs. Go ahead.

Amanda 40:16

Body tears.

Josh 40:18

Sweat.

Amanda 40:18

Yes. Alright. And the last one, horse tornado.

SPEAKER_01 40:23

Horse tornado?

Amanda 40:24

This is my favorite one.

SPEAKER_01 40:26

Horse tornado. What could horse tornado be?

Josh 40:31

Um a stampede. No, it's not a stampede because you've not said yes yet. A horse tornado. A hurricane?

SPEAKER_03 40:43

No. What is it? That would be a horse hurricane.

Josh 40:47

What is it?

SPEAKER_03 40:48

A carousel.

Josh 40:49

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 40:54

She didn't think of what to call it. She's trying to tell somebody. She's like, they were they were at the horse tornado.

Amanda 40:59

But that's what the legit. Like you you wind up using more words than the thing that you were looking for, but it is real. So if you are experiencing paramenopause and have been replaced with a body double in your house, uh, write in and let us know the uh oddest words you've used to describe just really simple things that people forget.

Josh 41:20

See, that reminds me of a quiz that we did way back in the day, and I think we actually reused the quiz at one point too, where I was asking you alternate names to things because you couldn't use the brand names. Remember that thing that we did, yeah. That was like a really good thing.

Amanda 41:37

Because I have to do because I have to do that for work. Like I can't say hula hoop if I because it's a trademark if I'm writing on like play playground equipment or whatever.

Josh 41:45

So, what is a hula hoop then?

Amanda 41:47

It's an exercise hoop.

Josh 41:48

Exercise hoop, very good. All right, folks. If you got most of those right, like I did, I almost got a queen sleep.

Amanda 41:55

But which means you're not in parametopause. Good job.

Josh 41:58

Yeah, well, I mean, I'm starting because someone told me the other day that there's a male version of paramenopause.

Amanda 42:04

God, I hope not. We can't both be doing this nonsense.

Josh 42:07

I I would assume though, that like since it's not what you're going, it's the opposite that I will become more friendly and more easy to get.

Amanda 42:16

No, because you're you'll be going more matriarchal, like your estrogen will be soaring or something.

Josh 42:20

I don't know. Maybe I'll grow some hair finally. I mean in places that I want to.

Amanda 42:23

I was like, you're growing hair. You have hair tongs. Yes, thank you.

Listener Emails And Pub Rivalries

Josh 42:28

Email. It's time to read the emails that you send us. If you want to email us, drop us a line at familiarwilsons at gmail.com. We have two this week. The first one being from Dan Belson.

Amanda 42:45

Hi, Dan.

Josh 42:47

Dan Belson says this. He says, Good day, Wilsons. Oh, how I laughed when I heard that neighbor Kate thought Gavin and I were a couple.

SPEAKER_03 42:57

It's just really fun for me.

Josh 42:59

So the Belsons are two brothers that do a podcast that we have gotten to know, and we talk about them a lot. And I guess Kate didn't catch on to the fact, even though they have the same, it's the Belsons.

Amanda 43:12

Well, they could be married. And one took the other one's name.

Josh 43:15

Who do you think would be it? That Gavin would take Dan's name, right? Yes. Okay, very good. I can't wait to hear what Gavin has to say about that. Probably nothing. Probably just again, one point against me in Gavin's book. That's right. He says, Oh, how I laughed when I heard that neighbor Kate thought Gavin and I were a couple as if he could get someone like me.

Amanda 43:36

See, this is why. This is why he would be the one that said, You're taking my name.

Josh 43:41

Anywho, he continues. I don't care how big Big Wayne is. You absolutely cannot allow a Tottenham flag in your fine establishment. Yes, we are sitting in the Admiral's Rest Pub, which happens to be our personal pub. And we have a lot of footy flags in here, including. Including American football and the Miami Heat, American basketball, Gators. We have Arsenal and Chelsea. We have Inter Miami. We have the Miami Dolphins. We do not have Tottenham.

Amanda 44:17

Okay, so basically you told me to hurry up through my interesting quiz so that you could just read aloud all the flags that are on the wall.

Josh 44:25

So that was Dan's letter to us.

Amanda 44:30

Why what does Dan have against the Tottenham Spurs or whatever their names are? What are they called?

Josh 44:34

The Hot Spurs. Yeah. Um it's just a rival team. It's the the three London teams that I'm aware of are Arsenal, Chelsea, and Tottenham. And he roots for Arsenal. Gavin roots for Chelsea and Big Wayne roots for Tottenham. Big Wayne and Daniel J. Buckets. There you go. Um roots for Tottenham. So we'll see. Neighbor Kate decided to email us, even though the reality is she could just walk right on over and yell through our fence.

Amanda 45:04

Just put the microphone in the backyard. It's like, what were those things like you know, when the people would like the public squares where they would have like you'd get up on your podium and yell your grievances in the public square? Yeah. We could do that. Kate could just come over and yell toward us and we'll record it.

Josh 45:19

I think we should set up a grievance um podium here in the neighborhood.

Amanda 45:24

On the on the thing I'm not allowed to trans trans transfer. See, I forgot it. I forgot it. Trespass.

Josh 45:31

Trespass. No, I mean on a sidewalk, a grievance. I think every neighborhood should have a grievance podium.

Amanda 45:38

All right. Number one, fix the nonsense in this neighborhood.

Josh 45:43

Okay, but but I'm gonna I'm gonna make this happen. Anyway, neighbor Kate is going to refer to something that you talked about last episode. The lady who made the interesting jewelry. Can you remind our friends who might not know about the interesting jewelry?

Amanda 45:59

If you did not listen to the previous episode, I uh made Josh watch an Instagram reel that I had found. So Josh does this thing where we lay down at night and we go to watch TV, and Josh says he's not going to sleep and immediately falls asleep. So then I'm awake for like the next three hours. I finish watching whatever we're watching, and then I just scroll on Instagram and I found you can stop telling me to hurry along. You just listed all of your damn flags. You can just hang on a second.

Josh 46:25

Okay. Well, I'm not gonna cut this.

Amanda 46:28

No, I didn't do it.

Josh 46:29

I you had covered your mouth.

SPEAKER_03 46:31

Okay.

Josh 46:32

I was scratching my nose. Yeah, but you covered your mouth and the people couldn't hear you.

SPEAKER_03 46:36

Oh my god.

Josh 46:36

So now I'm gonna have to go through an editing. I'm gonna have to jack up that little section.

Amanda 46:41

I'm so sorry. That means scratching my nose has inconvenienced your editing process. Somebody come get him. Neighbor Kate, come get him. Tony's home by himself, right? Go go come get him. He can go over there. Anyway, I was scrolling on the Instagram and came across a reel of this woman who makes semen jewelry. And I think she called it juiz jewelry, actually. But you send in a sample of your partner's semen, and she will make like a hair clip or a necklace or something. So this is what Kate is referring to.

Josh 47:15

Okay, so Kate, I'm not gonna talk about how appropriate both necklaces and hair clips would be with that kind of jewelry. We're just moving on because I'm polite. Dear Wilson, she says, as a supportive friend and neighbor, I never want to discourage someone from pursuing their passion. However, Amanda's new side hustle is a bit concerning, and I wanted to let you know that Tony will not be participating. Thank God. Please do not ask. No problem. Also, I want to ask the original creator of this business if she had the proper permits for dealing in bodily fluids slash hazardous waste.

Amanda 47:52

Ooh. No. Ew. I'm I was hoping it was satire, but I really don't think it is. Like I really think this woman's doing this.

Josh 48:00

In order to exchange bodily fluids now, you don't need a permit. And if you would, then Yeah.

Amanda 48:08

I don't I yeah. Anyway, okay, Kate, I won't do it. I'm gonna learn how to make scones instead. Maine has changed my mind.

Josh 48:16

No frosting, please.

Amanda 48:17

This is a glaze. It's more of a glaze.

Confessions And Friendship Effort

SPEAKER_05 48:21

Um super familiar with Festholes time.

Josh 48:28

Festholes is an online account. You send them your confessions and they post it. Done. That's it. And I guess people can feel like it's a cathartic thing. I would never do this for fear that people could trace whatever back to me, especially some of the things that these people put. But I find them funny and interesting. We have no connection with these folks. They are not a sponsor. But anyway. First fest hold I would like to read to you, Amanda, and get to your response here is my best friend is in a band and is trying to make it big. I've bought and downloaded everything they've ever released. Never play them and skip their songs when they pop up. They sound like a herd of goats in distress.

Amanda 49:11

Oh no. You're doing a nice thing. You're downloading the stuff, you're getting them listens. Um, I hope that they don't trivia question you on specific lyrics.

Josh 49:21

Like, what do you do in that situation, by the way? I love that this person is supporting his friends. I wish my friends were that way. I don't care if they listen to my music. Go ahead and download it though. Yeah. And get me the uh get me the the listens. But let's say they do ask you, what'd you think about my song, uh, Mary's Potatoes? Do you lie? Do you the jig is up then? Surely you have to lie and say, oh no, that was that was really great. I guess that's a good thing with art and music, is you can use really vague terms, and because it's an artistic endeavor, um, they can't question it.

Amanda 49:56

Unless they are on to you and Mary's Potatoes isn't really one of their songs, and they're just like trying to see if you're paying attention to it.

Josh 50:02

Okay, so at the very least, friend or friends out there, if you're experiencing this, know the names of the songs and which album they're on. Next one. I'm a gassy lad. Oh, sorry. And I love sitting next to the toilets on trains because I can just let it out and everyone blames the bog.

Amanda 50:21

No, thank you. That happened to us. We were in the back of the plane. Uh well, I don't remember what flight that was. That was probably maybe from going from Bangor to Charlotte, and we were sitting in the very last row or the next last row. And you were like, What is that smell? And I was like, I think that that is the chemicals from the lavatory.

Josh 50:37

I mean, if you're right there next to the bathroom, then get up and go into the bathroom.

Amanda 50:43

But also, if you're writing in to say that you are gassy, then I think that you're aware, and this happens frequently enough, that you need to do a little investigation into maybe changing your diet andor seeing a general practitioner.

Josh 50:56

Yes, that. Well, he also says that he loves sitting next to the toilets and doing this. So I think they're not users accepted this. No, uh more than that, I feel like it's it gives him a special thrill.

Amanda 51:05

Oh, so gross.

Josh 51:07

All right, last one. I got fed up of doing all the work in my relationships.

Amanda 51:11

Oh, did you write this one?

Josh 51:12

No, I didn't. So I stopped messaging everyone first. Then every time someone's first message to me was to criticize me for not messaging them, I block them. Oh, God. I haven't spoken to most of my family in five years now, and I feel amazing.

Amanda 51:27

Really? But are you lonely or do you just have relationships?

Josh 51:31

And I feel amazing. I know. I just want you to hear that. I know. See, it's an interesting thing because I feel like in a lot of my relationships, not with you, obviously, because you have to put up with me.

Amanda 51:44

Um legally bound to.

Josh 51:47

Uh like I am the the one who does all the work to call or to text mostly to text. Like it's very rare that folks text me first. And that probably says something about me, I guess. Like, like how people view me as a friend.

Amanda 52:03

Oh, that's this is sad.

Josh 52:05

No, no, no, no. But the thing is, is that I like I'm always probably too much thinking about my it's called navel gazing, I think, is where you're just like you're concentrating on you or whatever. So I think I'm pretty aware. I think I'm a pretty good friend, yeah.

Amanda 52:22

I think you're a good friend.

Josh 52:24

I mean, I'm genuinely concerned for people. I I think you're a great friend. If I want to encourage them, I do that. So I don't know what it is, but if I am doing it so that I get a response, then maybe that's what I need to examine. I don't know. It seems very Buddhist of you. It's an existential crisis. So should I keep texting them first or should I just give up? I think I'm no closer to having an answer to that. Because if I truly don't care whether they respond or not, and if I want to put positive energy into their lives, then I'll just go ahead and do it.

Amanda 52:58

Yeah. I think the unselfish thing here is that you just reach out to people when you think about them.

Josh 53:04

Yeah, but I think about people all the time.

Amanda 53:06

Or okay, then m maybe not like spamming them because that's a little creepy.

Josh 53:11

Okay. No advice has been given here.

Amanda 53:14

No. Feel free to reach out, familiarwilsons at gmail.com. Give Josh advice.

Josh 53:20

Yeah. So w what should I do if I'm always the one? Should I just do like this person and and say stop doing the work? Or is the work worth it and it makes them feel better, and I should just stop expecting responses.

Amanda 53:32

Well, but this joker is like blocking them when they reach out. So I mean, he is like hardcore I don't want to talk to anybody.

Josh 53:41

Well, those are his boundaries, and I'm very happy for him.

SPEAKER_01 53:45

No one likes to be told what to do.

Amanda 53:47

Now is the time in the program where we tell

World Cup Obsession And FIFA Drama

Amanda 53:50

you what to do. Josh, what should the people do?

Josh 53:53

We're on the tail end of it, but pay attention to World Cup.

Amanda 53:57

Alright, why?

Josh 53:58

It's very, very interesting. Of course, the the soccer or football or whatever you call it is fun to watch and interesting, but even more intriguing to me is all the behind the scenes behind the scenes.

Amanda 54:11

The scenes.

Josh 54:12

Scenes or scenes, actually, in this works either way. FIFA, which is the governing organization around World Cup soccer, apparently is very corrupt.

Amanda 54:23

Very problematic people they are.

Josh 54:26

So it's really, really interesting to watch the different rulings uh that are made on the field. And did that actually happen, or was that made so that this team would win over that team? Especially if you don't have like a dog in the fight, as they say. If you don't have a team that you love, love, love. Like I have teams I'm following, but I I find the whole thing to be utterly interesting and better than a scripted uh TV show by far.

Amanda 54:55

Well, and and Winthrop is really into it, and Winthrop is a is a messy fan and really wants Argentina to win, but he's also experiencing his first, like real I'm into this team, and they have the potential to make me really upset. And Argentina has been pushing it to the end of every game, the last three games, and he was ready to throw his jersey away. He has a messy jersey, and the other day he said, if they lose, can I throw my jersey away? Like he was done.

Josh 55:19

God, he's gonna be a great Miami Dolphin fan, boy. Oh, any Miami fan, actually Gator fan as well, although they've won some things, but yeah, he is prime boy.

Amanda 55:30

He is unhappy, and right now he's really on wanting to play soccer again. He's played three seasons, and then the last time he was like, This is the worst thing in the world, I never want to do this again. It's you know, he goes to extremes. And um, and now I have the Billy Joel song go to extremes in my head and think that this might be his theme song. But anyway, I digress. I don't know what I'm talking about. No, he's really into wanting to play soccer again, but I'm just waiting for Argentina to lose, and then he's just gonna be done with it.

Josh 56:00

Yeah, he'll be done. But I want to get into, like I've said before, Premier League. We've got this pub, great place to watch sports.

Amanda 56:06

Put a TV up so we can watch the Premier League. Yeah. So when does the Premier League start? I don't know.

Josh 56:11

I guess I should find out that sort of thing.

Amanda 56:12

You should know that because I mean they need a little bit of a break before they start playing again, right? Yeah, like because they're all like hard playing for their countries.

Josh 56:19

They hardly do anything, they hardly run around. Soccer's for lazy people.

Amanda 56:22

Did you see the thing that I sent you, the Instagram thing I sent you where it was like women in labor, like pushing like whole humans out versus male soccer players or male football players?

Josh 56:32

No, I didn't see that.

Amanda 56:33

I just fallen all over. Like it's the this is why Winthrop's primed for it, though, because boy is he dramatic when pain happens.

Josh 56:40

He can flop. That kid can flop, but the best of them. All right, those are our recommendations. Go check out World Cup, but even more so, check out the intrigue of FIFA. It's fascinating.

Amanda 57:24

You made me grumpy.

Josh 57:26

Fucking make you grumpy. You were grumpy.

Amanda 57:29

I was not. I was perfectly pleasant until we started recording this.

Josh 57:32

Well, you need to tell me what your real name is, so get out of here. Yeah, and tell me what your wake word is so that I know that I won't accidentally say it to turn you into like the Black Widow or whatever. Which, by the way, you really turned on me in Maine, and I couldn't understand why you were so upset that I had put one of your earrings on.

SPEAKER_03 57:53

I just wanted my earring back.

Josh 57:55

Yeah, but that's it was so weird because I wasn't gonna take it anywhere. It's right where you could see it. I popped one of your earrings in my ear. We went out to go get um, we're doing s'mores by the fire, and you just was I embarrassing you?

Amanda 58:08

I think it was just that I don't mind you having an earring in, but this was a big gold earring, and they're one of my anthropology earrings, and anthropology earrings are not cheap, and so I did not want to lose track of it. So it was mostly me like questioning my ability to keep track of this thing, but then also you looked ridiculous, and so I don't want people to think that I'll let you out of the house like that.

Josh 58:30

Very good. I've I've found your line. Very good.

Amanda 58:34

I have some smaller hoops if you'd like those. I would have been totally fine with them.

Thanks And Goodbye

Josh 58:38

We would like to thank the following people for being such inspirations. The wind beneath our wings. We'd like to thank Antonio, Justin, Matt, Brendan, J and K, Danny J Buckets, Leo, Monique from Germany, Terry, Blippy, Frosty, Scummy, Sleazy, Chicken Tom, R.I.P. Ryan Baker, Jacob, Jason, Mike O'Malley, Tasha, Joey, Joey, and Kate and Tony, Mark and Rachel and Dan and Gavin. Thanks to Ricky Kendall for our theme song, for Chris Barron for the middle theme song, to AJCW for the music what he does for us, including the song you're bopping around to right now. And of course, eternal thanks always to Muffy and Winthrop and Daniel and Andrew. Have anyone you want to thank?

Amanda 59:28

No, you've thanked all of them. I would like to thank the podcast pup for finally lying down.

Josh 59:33

Yes, now that we're done. Alright, so until next week or really next time, although we should be back on schedule. We have no trips planned anytime. At least within the next few weeks. Couple weeks, I guess. We'll get Muffy eventually. Muffy is in uh Muffy's, where is Muffy right now?

Amanda 59:50

Muffy's in Paris right now.

Josh 59:51

Muffy's in Paris.

Amanda 59:52

And then Mary's going to be. Isn't that a Jimmy Buffett song, Muffy in Paris? And then Muffy goes to Budapest next weekend. And then Muffy goes to Cappadocia the weekend after that. And then Muffy flies home.

Josh 1:00:04

Very good. And boy, are her arms going to be tired.

Amanda 1:00:07

That's right. Dad jokes abound.

Josh 1:00:09

I want some lobster now.

Amanda 1:00:11

Okay.

Josh 1:00:11

Can we get some lobster?

Amanda 1:00:12

I don't know where you're gonna find it. Do they have it here? Probably frozen.

Josh 1:00:17

Of course they have it here.

Amanda 1:00:19

I realize we live in a peninsula, but we live inland. I don't know what to tell you. Alright, but whatever. Go be kind.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:25

Bye.

Amanda 1:00:25

Bye.