Oversized Baggage

Ep 53: What's New? Forgotten, Can't Park & People Watching

• Libby & Nick

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In this episode Libby and Nick laugh about Libby's epic failure at answering a simple question: "What's new?"  It's hard when cool, popular people ask, you know?  We also giggle about a friend of Nick's completely forgetting who he is - is he unrecognizable now?!  We recap a fun jaunt up to Washington DC to see Father John Misty - a wonderful concert for people watching - and Nick's inability to park the car.  We also chat about losing our kid and Nick's favorite director, Wes Anderson.  We wrap up with faves and what we are trying these days!

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hey everybody you're listening to

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oversized baggage

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with libby and

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me nick

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we have oversized baggage why do we need more podcasts

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uh actually i got the name i was standing in um seattle's airport yeah and

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uh yeah yeah

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yeah yeah and uh was there with uh two of my four kids and i was there as part of our like custody journey that we make and we found ourselves seattle's airport is like under complete demolition right now and we found ourselves like navigating a bunch of like logistical emotional and whatever waters all at the same time i was just like looking around and we were standing right near this like section of baggage claim that was like roped off and full of like misfit wandering people and there were stickers on the wall and they said oversized baggage and

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i was like stickers

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yeah because it's basically it was an indicator of this is where all the golf clubs go yeah and everything and i was like wow what a great description for my life

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yeah

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depending on how you look at the oversized baggage it's like the baggage you want Yeah. You know, it's the golf clubs, it's the skis, it's

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the whatever. All the good

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stuff. It's the stuff you pay extra for. You're paying extra. But it requires special handling.

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Yeah.

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You have to go over to the special section.

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Yeah. It's not

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fast. Yeah. And it's usually a pain in the ass a little bit. Who's that guy that made that movie? Wes Anderson? Yeah. We need luggage that Wes Anderson

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would have. Nick wants to live in a Wes Anderson movie. Who wouldn't? Did you watch that one with Scarlett Johansson? Where they're just living on the side of the road in Arizona or Nevada? Like aliens. They're like, we're filming a movie. Or they're just in this town in the middle of nowhere.

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Oh, I love that movie. That's the movie I...

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I didn't see it.

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Oh, yeah. That's the movie

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I... It looked really boring.

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I forget what it was called. Oh, I'm going to have to look

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it up. Side of the Road.

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It's Side of the Road. That's the one that I went to go see by myself.

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I do love his aesthetic, though.

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Oh, his aesthetic in the music was also really good.

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Yeah.

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But I remember saying that I wanted to go see it, and everybody looked at me sideways. So I went on a Sunday by myself down to the movie theater and watched

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it. Which I'm sure you hated. I mean,

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it was a little sad, for sure.

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I found out who won Traitor Season 3. Gabby Windy and Zac Efron's brother, apparently. They'd make a cute couple, wouldn't they? But she's engaged. You love

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doing

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that. I know. I know. I can't help it. You're a reality show.

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You guys should get married.

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It's so true. We're watching Survivor now, and I'm like, well, they should be a couple, obviously.

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Asteroid City, I believe is what you're talking about. I mean, this had all its normal people in it. It had Bill Murray, and it had a whole bunch of people in it. And Scarlett Johansson

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was one of them. Yeah, I'm really bummed I missed that. Totally bummed.

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The one I think you would have even liked worse or less was the French Dispatch.

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That also sounds really

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boring. What is that, about a postman?

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What? Is that about a

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postman? It was about a newspaper in Paris.

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During World War II?

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No.

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Oh,

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just

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a newspaper man in Paris.

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It was about a newspaper, and it was actually a series of vignettes, basically.

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That's Wes Anderson?

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Yeah. It was tough. I fell asleep the first couple times I watched it. But again, most of his movies visually... Do

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you think his house looks like his movies? He's got it, right?

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I don't know. Maybe you go into his house, it's all blank walls.

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Like beige and white. That would be crazy. No, his house has got to look like that.

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I don't know. Maybe he's

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a fucking slob. I wonder if he's married and his wife is like, I don't want to live in one of your movies. I like beige.

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guy that didn't recognize me i remember being in his house and this guy was like a legit rock musician Legit. Legit. When

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you pointed him out, I was like, is that the guy from the Holderness family? Because he had that white gray hair and kind of pointy nose and very white.

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I think his name is Nick as well. Wow.

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Confusing. He's

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also a big shit. He's on CNN regularly. He's a financial

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analyst guy. Yeah, I remember being interested in him. Wasn't he doing a podcast? Or maybe it was just the fact that he was on TV.

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He works for River City Investments or Riverfront or something. Anyway, he's a very smart, good guy. And I just remember meeting him and walking in their house. They live over by the VMFA. I'll tell everything about this guy.

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Except his name.

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But in his band, he played at BCBG, which is like a famous punk bar in New York City.

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What are we talking about right now? Oh, that he had a shelf, too?

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In his house, his music... Like memorabilia was kind of like interwoven into their decor.

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Oh, everywhere because they're the perfect couple. It

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wasn't. No,

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it wasn't

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everywhere. I just remember it being like present. And I remember thinking like, oh, that's what I want in my future life. Well, you're welcome for those three record holders. So I

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was going to say when you saw this guy you're talking about, we were standing in line for the soccer game tonight. And Nick goes, I think that's that guy, you know, that we saw at the party a while, like seven years ago. So Nick just scoots out like. All the way over to the other line. And it's sort of just, like, standing there like a G.I. Joe figure, like, overlooking his shoulder, like, smiling at this guy. Like, I don't know. It's almost like you were sticking out your butt, like, trying to get his attention. Like, look at me. Look at me. Look at

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me.

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And he looked right at you and just, like,

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threw

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you, basically. And then just, like, kept talking to his family. And probably nobody else noticed, but, like, I knew what you were doing. And it was so, I mean, it was almost like you guys were six inches apart, nose to nose. And he just, like, looked right through. Thank you. You were, like, giving him your best pose.

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Are you doing this on purpose? Like, it's very hurtful. Like, just, you know. It was

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just

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funny. It was bad enough he didn't recognize it. It was funny. You know what's even more funny about this is, if you remember, we went to Wintergreen a couple years ago, and my parents... No,

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I drove home that night because our kid was sick. Yeah.

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The point is, you remember the event. Did

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you see him there?

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Yes.

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Him and his mother. Did he know you there?

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Yes.

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So he's just forgotten you in the past two years.

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Yes, it's been very recent.

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You've really gone downhill since 44. This is the

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same guy. You

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and I went to the quirk. I told you.

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We went to the quirk for the Halloween party. Okay, first of all, time out. The four of us, him and his wife.

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We have to learn. Like, one of us has got to stop talking when the other person stops. No, that's not true. We never... Neither one of us ever stops. Okay, keep going. I

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wonder why. We should unpack that in the

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podcast. You saw him at the

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Wintergreen. I'm just saying, this is not the... Yeah, I saw him at Wintergreen. We saw him at the Quirk Halloween party

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four years ago. Well, that was like eight years ago.

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Well, whenever... I'm just saying it's not the first time I've run into this guy. And I've run into him at bars and stuff before. I've seen the guy around.

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Maybe he didn't want to talk to you because he didn't want his wife to be like, who's that hot guy? Because you were really sticking out your tushy in his direction. I'll take this even a step further.

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He was with

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his family.

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And he invited me to join his basketball league and I would go to CarMax

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and play basketball with him and his friends. This is weird. This is awkward.

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I played basketball with him and his friends at CarMax for like six months.

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You didn't tell me you played basketball together. This is a lot more serious.

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He was terrible at basketball.

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This is more serious than I thought it was.

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I think maybe that's why we stopped doing it because he was really bad. But anyway.

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He blew you

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off.

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He totally blew me off.

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Wow.

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He's a very successful guy. That's the other part I remember. He's another one of these friends where I'm like, I can't be friends with you. You're way too wildly successful. I can't handle to be in your presence. But he had a very introspective side that I really appreciated.

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If you're not working at the same company or the same industry, doesn't it make it a little bit easier?

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What you mean from a comparison perspective? Sure. I mean, I think, you know, I looked at him and I was like, here's a guy that like, did music on the side, but actually was successful at it. He has everything you don't have. He's successful professionally to the point where he's on CNN. He's the guy that they're like, oh, we need to know what's going on with the offshore futures in China. And he's like, I'm here. Why didn't I

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get a job where I could be on TV?

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Well, you could be on TV if you wanted

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to. What would they interview me about?

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It would probably be a bad thing.

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Like an unhappy topic? What do you mean? Something

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went wrong. So you could be on TV. What?

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What

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are you implying? Like

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somebody wants to talk about divorce and they call me in to talk on TV? Is that what you mean by a bad thing?

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No, I'm saying you have a job now that we would only get interviews if something bad happened. Like they're shutting down campus or whatever.

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Yeah, I was talking about...

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Regularly be on TV. Being a personality on

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TV. No, or and interview. Like let's pretend like I can leave the bounds of my current situation.

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Right. Yeah.

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Can you see me being interviewed someday?

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Totally, yeah. Why not?

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I might be able to answer questions about something I don't even know about yet.

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I think so. All right. I think that that's possible.

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Anywho. Why

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not?

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I don't know. I

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think you could.

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Yeah.

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I'd like to interview you about the soccer game we went to tonight. I wouldn't be able to answer much. Not much. I

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can tell you what the backs of the people sat in front of me

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looked like. Nice people we were sitting with, at least. It is nice we're able to sit with nice people. We're not just like...

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Alone. Alone is always sadder.

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Well, I mean, there is five of us, so it's not like we're that alone.

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I know, but nobody's talking to each other in our family.

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Yeah, we're all just like, why are we here? Are we here for dad? It's only David and dad that are enjoying this. Get off the phone. I'm hungry. You know, so it was nice. I mean, I did run into a bunch of people up on the bowl while our children were missing.

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That's nice. Yeah, Nick lost our kid. No

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biggie. He's very bold. He looked at me. He's like, I'm going to go find mom. I'm like, no, you're not. He's like, yeah, because you had gone up to go get food. I mean, it's the classic thing. I saw him walking up the stairs. I was walking up behind. I paused for a moment to look at something. I look back and he's Gone. Gone. And what he had done was he had walked all the way over to the Chick-fil-A line where David was and, like, checked on David and then walked away from that, presumably to come back to find me. That's what he was going to do. He was going to check on David to make sure that he was buying him food. When I couldn't find him, I went to go find David, and David's like, yeah, I saw him. And I was like, where'd he go? And he's like, I don't know. You're

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like, cool, you saw your six-year-old brother walk away in a big crowd by himself. Yeah, and

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I was like, well, and then of course I'm like, well, I guess it's my fault that he ended up there in the first place, but the whole

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thing. Yeah, I guess he was like, I mean, dad let him walk around by himself, so it must be okay.

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And then he's like, well, I figured I'd lose my place in line. It's like, well, that's reasonable.

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You've been there for 40 minutes. Do you want me to get some nuggets or do you want me to make sure Jacob doesn't get lost?

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And then I saw Tanya and Jordan by the bathroom and they were like, how are you doing? And I was like, oh, I lost my kid. Anyway, okay, I'll shut up.

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Let's talk about my birthday.

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Yeah, let's do

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it. Way more interesting than bathrooms and lost kids. We've had so many excursions out. We're just... Out and about people. We

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are people about town.

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We are. We had many nights out. Plenty.

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We did. I thought they went pretty well. They were much better than our failure to launch.

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Nick gave me concert tickets to a person I've never heard of before for my birthday.

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You're welcome.

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Because that's just how he knew. That's actually

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not how I do. I rarely do. That's actually your move. Your move is to...

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Nick,

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I think not... Dude, yeah. Let's just... Quick reminder. Rewind the tape.

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I purchased tickets to...

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You bought me tickets to Mamma Mia. You bought

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me tickets... You said you wanted to see that.

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Oh, my God.

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Who are you talking to? Rewind

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the tape. Like, I...

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I read off all the musicals, and you were like, Mamma Mia. Now that's what I would like to

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see. Oh, my God. It's like I must have been a sock puppet in that conversation, and you're like holding the sock puppet. You're like, Nick, what concert do you want to go to? Mamma Mia? Oh, yeah. Mamma Mia. That sounds good.

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Okay. Well, anyways, at least you had heard of Mamma Mia. So, yeah. So, we went to Washington, D.C. It was... Well, you gotta tell me who we

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saw. We saw Father John Misty.

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Oh, I thought we said him.

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We did. Okay. You were just like, some dude. I didn't see.

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So, we go to Washington, D.C. We're in Richmond, Virginia. So... It wasn't just a night out. It was like a night away and out. I guess it had been warm that day, so I was dressed for spring, and it was 30 degrees when we got there. And Nick is like going to park in this really small space somewhere in the big traverse. So I get out, and he goes, oh, okay, so you're going to help me park? I'm like, no, you can park. You're a grown-ass man. So I'm standing there, and it's 30 degrees, so I am freezing. And Nick proceeds to, I guess, like back into the car. Were you trying to back in or pull and I was

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trying to back. Well,

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I feel like you did both. Anyways, he's trying to park. And of course, there's a line of cars behind him and he cannot park. And he's getting so frustrated. He's like looking at me like, are you not going to help me? Cars are honking right next to me, but they're honking at Nick and I'm covering my ears. Oh, this is so loud. And then Nick zooms off and leaves because he's so frustrated.

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You're not describing it right. You were just covering your ears looking interesting. You were looking at me like, what's the problem? Like, what's the problem? What's the fucking problem?

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Just park the car.

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I'm trying to park

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this fucking huge car. And then

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as soon as

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you zoom out, the 65-year-old pulls right into the spot. Yeah, probably in a little

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Subaru or whatever the fuck. Driving

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this goddamn

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minivan into this little tiny parking space. I hate parking in garages. It's the worst.

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I mean, it is stressful, but...

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I would have loved to have seen you navigate that situation any different. And when I looked out for help, you were just like... I don't even know what's happening.

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I

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don't even know him. As you were getting out, I was like, can you help me? That is a common thing to

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do. Nobody else asked for parking help. Nobody asked a person to get out of the car and help them park.

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What the fuck? Who cares?

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What do you want me to do? Like stop traffic and be like pointing my fingers left and right? No,

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do the common sense thing where it's like, oh, you're a little close. No, I was

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going to get run over by the people honking. There was no place for me.

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You're ridiculous. Anyways,

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so he just left me. I

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sped away in shame.

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So then you finally parked, found me, and I'm like an ice cube at this point. So we missed your reservations.

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We missed both

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reservations. And then I saw these beautiful paper flowers hanging from a ceiling, and I said, let's go there. So we took the service elevator up to this restaurant, found a remaining table at the bar. It was crazy busy there. Yeah,

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I mean, this is a reasonably upscale restaurant in D.C. It was

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so expensive. I had sticker shock. It was like, would you like to pay$80 for an appetizer? No. No, I would not.

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It was pretty expensive.

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It was crazy.

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It's pretty expensive.

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I did get a flaming drink, though. That was fun.

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Yeah, you got two of them.

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The concert was good. People watching. And the music was pretty good. Yeah.

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There were

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a lot of people making out.

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That's true. It

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made us want to make out. We did make out a little bit. I lost my earring because we were making out.

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Oh, yeah. And there must have been 3,000 people between us, if not more. I mean, more, right? No idea.

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But you and I are really kind of, I think... kind of extreme people watchers. I don't know if people do that as much as you and I do.

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Yeah,

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I've gotten in a lot of trouble for it. Nick is doing the backstory. He's like, what is going... Did he just get out of jail? The way he's holding her face.

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Oh, yeah.

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Kissing her. Oh, yeah. Look at this. One other guy got escorted out of a bar or anthem. Oh, yeah. Those are

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always fun. Yeah, we did have... Those were the two main ones, right? Like we... But anyway, we saw this one couple where it's like this extremely drunk dude with this like probably pretty drunk girl. But the dude is like visibly swerving while he walks. He's like bumping into people. He's like,

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Not good.

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It's not good. And you're kind of just like.

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But then they take him away and they weren't together. And then she's like looking for him. And we're like, should we tell her that he's been escorted away? What is she going to do? So

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that was interesting. He's one of these people, and we've all seen them before, that are so drunk you almost can't look away from them. It's like watching a car wreck.

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And when you're so far away from the concert, like the stage, you know, it's not like I can see his face. I might as well just look at the people around me and listen to the music, you know.

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um so we had that and then we had the the couple the the jail couple we were referring to like it was as if they must have been like long distance or something like they had not seen each other they were barely paying attention to the concert but like they were doing the

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like they kept holding her face holding

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her face and neck and like it was just very yeah you know possessive like or like end of an action film kiss all the time and it was just like

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and it seemed like they were talking too

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yeah and in like one time it would have been okay but it was like every time they kissed he like

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they probably worked at

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NPR

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that's what all these people looked like

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that's true it's true

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well anyways it was

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like one big tiny desk

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concert I had an embarrassing event in a store We went into a Williams and Sonoma at the mall, my mom and my daughter and I.

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Sounds pretty embarrassing so far.

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And I was like, let's go look at the non-coffee maker ways to make coffee because my sister says that coffee makers have plastic and they'll kill me. So I was like, let's go look at these weird pour over things or whatever contraptions they have. And my mom split off and went somewhere else and I'm with Valley and Valley had not been able to find anything in the entire mall she wanted and she finally found a pack of candy there. And I was like, yay, great. You can buy something with your money. You found something. Just let me finish looking first. And so I'm looking at this coffee glass beaker with a carafe underneath it. Kind of like what I bought us, but I'm looking at it at Williams-Sonoma. And I'm like, how much does this thing cost? And I just pick it up and try to look underneath at the brace and as you can maybe guess the craft just slides right off the holder and crashes on the floor like this glass shatters everywhere and it's super loud and i was like

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where's valley when this was happening

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she's right next to me and we're just like and we're trying to like kick the glass a little bit. And this lady comes over who works at the store and she's just like, y'all are going to have to move back. So I'm just like, I have to go right now. Go get me. I know I have to leave the store.

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Did you run

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out? I just, like, ran out of the store.

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Just because you were embarrassed?

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So embarrassed. And I went and, like, hid around the corner. And then my mom comes out. She's like, that was you? Oh, my gosh. When it happened, everybody was like, are you okay? Is everybody okay? I never imagined it could be you. And then Sally is, you know. Sad that she couldn't get her candy because it was the one thing in the whole mall that she found and I made her leave the

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store. So traumatic.

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It was so humiliating. It's like they should have put a giant red A on my chest.

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Yeah, that's pretty bad. It happened when we were Christmas shopping at HomeGoods.

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Did you break something?

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Wait,

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what'd you break at HomeGoods?

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It wasn't valuable, whatever it was. It just shows the different types of stores we're in. You're like, I was at Williams-Sonoma.

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Because I'm Dracula, apparently. Count Chocula.

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What's the count, I think is what you're looking for. Excuse me. That's right. One broken garage. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

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Um...

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Wow, really, really nailed that one for you. I forget what it was, but we were like looking for last minute gifts for the family. I think Emma, me, David, Jacob were all there.

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Was it glass? We lost Jacob in that store.

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It was something like that. And David went to go grab something. A lamp? Bumped into Emma or Emma bumped into him or Jacob bumped into somebody or something. But yeah, something to the equivalent.

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Then did they fight over who did it? It

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broke, and they all just looked at me, and I was like, what the famadama dima? And the guy just comes over like, don't worry about it. Just back up. I'm like, can we help? He's like, nah, you know, whatever. And I'm like, do we have to pay for it? And he's like,

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nah. You asked that? I just scurried out of that store. Well, it

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sounds like you scampered. You didn't just scurry. You're like, I have to go. I did have a similar situation where I was like, well, and I just like, do we pay for it? And he's like, no, don't worry about it. And I was like, do you want me to beat my kid? Like,

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does he need to like,

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do you know, does he need to like, well, and it's kind of like we're holding other things. I'm like, I guess I'm just going to go buy the rest of this stuff then.

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At least you bought something. I was like, put everything back. We have to leave right now.

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And just the reaction from the other people in the store, they like barely looked. They're like, well, Another broken piece of shit in this store. So, but it's embarrassing. So

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tonight when we were at the soccer game and just one of our...

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Home opener for the kickers.

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Yeah, one of our friends was just like, what's new? And what do you answer when people ask you that? Because I didn't know what to say. So I was just like, my job is hard.

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Yeah.

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But I could have said anything. I could have been like, I'm excited for spring or nothing is new with me. Seeing like I'm here with I'm still a mom, married to this guy, thank goodness. What do you say when people... It's kind of like when people say, how are you? Do you give them something or do you just give them a one word answer? Do you have go-to topics for what's new? I

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think when someone says what's new... One path you can go down is, when is the last time I've seen this person? I

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couldn't remember. Right.

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And so I'm just telling you a potential framework.

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And I thought about it. If you had seen them six months ago,

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you're like, oh, well, you

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know.

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I'm on my period. That's what's new right now.

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I wanted to be like, I've been thinking a lot about your garden, but that sounded really creepy. So I didn't say it.

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I mean, you could just say, I've been thinking about a garden. Like, that's what's new with me.

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It's just such a weird, awkward thing to say.

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You did, because then they were both like, oh. Like, yeah. Because then it evokes,

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like, why? No, he goes, oh, you mean the job that you, like, get paid for, you don't get paid for. And I was like, not the one I get paid for. Yeah.

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He tried to give you an out, and you're like, no, no, I'm just suffering at work. Because my job's fucking hard. And by the way, you're talking to two doctors, right? I know, I know, two doctors. You're like, my job at the Fortune 500 company is hard. Really hard right now. I know you deliver babies, and you deliver hearts in the AR.

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I did show interest, though, and they said they thought about getting a donkey.

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Yeah.

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After that, I was like, I don't want to talk to you. But when you see somebody and they say, what is new with you? Like, what are you talking about? Are you like, oh, my kids. You just like pick a random, like, what should I say this time? Or, you know, like a friend outside of work. Like, do you talk about work? Do you talk about soccer? Do you talk about, I got a new pair of shoes the other day and I'm really digging

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this. I don't know. There's lots of answers to this. I mean, like, there are easy answers. Like, oh, I've just been busy, man. You know, just. And then you end up talking about what have you been busy with? I

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could have just been like, I'm excited for spring break.

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Yeah. You could, you could have said that. That's how you felt. Clearly something else is dominating your psyche. Um, you know, could have been what's new. Oh, like soccer season is starting for all the kids or feels

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like we're in a stage of life where like nothing's new. So I just did not know how to answer that

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question. Well, and I think that's fine too. Like, Nothing. Everything's fucking still here. You know, like still raising these

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fucking kids. Thank

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goodness.

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And then because I was so embarrassed by my answer, I didn't even ask them, like, what's new with you? Because I was just like, God, I'm so stupid. I just like went over to my side of the bench with the kids and shut up. And you tried to

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cover

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for me. Shut

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up.

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I did. I was like, well, she took a new job. And, you know, things

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are a little choppy. Let me explain my awkward wife and what she

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said. Yeah, sorry. She doesn't get out much. She doesn't interact with people that she doesn't, you know, feel safe around. So, sorry for her. Off her meds tonight. But, I mean, you could have said Jacob's birthday is coming up. I know. We just celebrated my dad's birthday or St. Patrick's Day. Yeah. Really loving the weather tonight. What's new? I don't know. You could just say what you say to me every day. Well, I've been eating stuff that makes me feel like shit.

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I don't want to do it again today to the Mexican food truck. You're such a jerk. You don't have to tell the podcasters everything.

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Oh, geez. Yes, I do.

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It's all I have. What did you tell him when he said, what's new to you?

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Well, you know, we just caught up just a couple weeks ago, so we...

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You didn't have to ask that terrible question. Answer it, I mean.

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No, I mean, when he's like, what's up? I was like, oh, nothing, man. Just glad to be here. You know, David's got his first soccer game tomorrow. I was like, look at Ford's new haircut. You know, I just started interacting like a normal

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human being. You're

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so much better. A normal human being. Oh,

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man.

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Yeah. That was pretty good. That was pretty good. What's new? Let me tell you about my job. It is the worst. I'm like, this is my life. This is what I get a lot.

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I just said it was hard. That's all.

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Yeah. People are like, do you need help? Yeah. Can we help you? Like, what do you mean your job's hard? Like, is it physically demanding?

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I'm not used to it being that hard.

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Yes, you are. No,

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I'm

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not. Oh, my goodness. Yeah, some people have no context. You're like, what? Like, did you just get this job? Like, has it always been hard to just turn hard? Like... You know,

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I don't want to get, you're talking to two doctors,

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you know, two doctors who are like, you know, fairly good at their jobs. And so they're like, yeah, work is hard. What are you talking about?

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Oh, and you know, I also think about every time I see the wife cause she's an OBGYN and I went to her practice when I was pregnant with Jacob and like she, they came to our Christmas party like the first year we met them and That might have been the first time I met her or one of the first times. And I was basically like, oh, yeah, I saw Dr. So-and-so at your practice. And I was like, it's a good thing I didn't see you because I went crazy when I was pregnant. It

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is a wonder you are not better at holding on to friends.

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And then I thought, because, you know, OBGYN, and she has two sisters, do you think they'd go to her for their gynecology appointments?

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I don't know why we're talking

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about that. Probably not, right?

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Yeah, probably

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not. Because that would be weird.

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Go to her? No, definitely not. What's wrong with you?

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Well, I don't know why, but they'd be seeing some comforting.

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I can't even

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imagine.

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Oh, yeah.

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God.

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Hey, sis.

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Now I know where David gets it. David's like, are we going to have to sit next to him?

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Who? Wait, what?

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Four. He

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eats it from me? Because I'm awkward?

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Yeah.

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He's like, oh.

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Those cool kids are hard to sit next to, you know?

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Well, important.

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And I feel like you get in my head. Like, when it's just you and I, you're like, oh, they're so cool. Like, they're so cool and successful. And like, these friends. And then I'm like, you get in my head, too. I'm like, god, they're so cool. And then I see them, much less than you. And then I just panic.

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Jeez. They are pretty cool.

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What's new? We're done. We're done.

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Nothing as cool as what's happening to you, I bet. Well, I'm sorry that you felt that way. I will say that I'm...

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Did I recover during the donkey part?

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During the donkey part.

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They said they were going to get a donkey, and I tried to show a lot of enthusiasm.

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Yeah, yeah.

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And interest, like a normal person.

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Well, that conversation happened. It was me, this other dude, and Jordan were talking, and he was the one that was driving. He's like, hey, are you getting...

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Wait, was that guy, did he know that guy, or did he just butt into your conversation? Yeah, he knew a bunch of people. Who were those people? I don't know. Were they, like, doctors that work with him?

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I don't know. See, I don't need any of that information. Like, I just, like, I interact with them. I assume that they're good people. Like, I don't need to know.

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Oh, my gosh. That is not at all what I'm implying. I just, like, didn't know things.

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Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that you judge good or bad or whatever. I just meant to say that, like, I just don't need any more information.

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I'm sorry that I'm interested in others.

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Yeah, well, that's part of your problem. I don't need to know anything about that fucking guy other than he, you know.

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So he had a donkey?

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No, he was like, hey, Jordan. He's like, what's up with your chickens? Are you getting a donkey to protect them? I hear that donkeys, you know, protect animals.

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Yeah, donkeys are badass.

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Badass? What the fuck was that? I

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always do my variables. It's time for me to get it.

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Jordan was like, not yet or something. And I was like, you should definitely get a donkey. Yeah.

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They could do rides.

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That's what I said. I was

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like, Jacob. We could have Jacob's birthday there. I

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already hit that with him. What

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did he say?

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He goes, well, maybe. And I was like, yeah. I would have Jacob's birthday party at your house. Like, in fact. We

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can switch it. We haven't set out the invites yet.

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That's right. I'm going to switch it is what I told him. And I was like, you need to put that zip line in in the backyard. The

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go-kart. Yeah. How much does it cost to have a birthday party at your house?

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Yeah, exactly. Excuse me. Well, and then I said, you know. And then me and this guy are like, oh, yeah, we could just, you know, hip camp on your property. It'd be no problem. So, yeah, yeah, that'd be great. I also told him that, you know, donkeys have the, you know, the cross of Christ on their back, you know, so.

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They have the cross of Christ on their back?

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Yes.

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I didn't know that. I thought it was on their forehead.

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What? No.

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I need to make hot crust buns, though, for Easter, speaking of crosses.

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And

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now I need a donkey, and I need a garden. They make me want to live in the country. I feel so confused. They

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got a donkey at church last year. If you remember, there's a picture of David with the donkey. Oh, yeah. Do

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you remember that video we watched? Was it the donkey that fell over the fence? Remember he went over the fence?

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Yeah, I remember. That made you laugh a lot.

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It made me laugh so hard. And I feel bad about that a little bit. But he was okay, right?

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I don't think he ever survived.

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Nick.

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Had some brain damage. That's not funny. Okay.

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Why did he go over that fence?

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I don't know. You have your little animals. What are you

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going to do? Okay. Anyways, anything else you want to talk about? Are you ready to wrap up with favorites?

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Whoa, that's it? That's all we're talking about?

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I mean, it's been over an hour.

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You're out of material?

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I think I can't even think straight anymore. I'm

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shocked.

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What's new with you?

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What is new with me? Our son's been taking swimming lessons. That's cool.

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Yeah.

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Nothing left,

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right? Okay. At the YMCA, they make you wear big old t-shirts if you're the teacher. No, they're very modest over there, and I appreciate it. I mean, I do have our boys hooked on pickleball. You're welcome for adding. I could have talked about that today. I could have been like, we played pickleball today. That was super fun. That's what's new with me.

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Yeah, that's right.

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Ugh.

SPEAKER_05:

I'm on my period. My job is hard. I'm on my period. Have you seen my zit? Well, I can do favorites if you

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want. Oh, you want to go first?

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Okay. You cut me out anyway, so what's the difference?

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No, I just cut it down. I cut it down.

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Literally, last time you were like, do you have any favorites, Nick? And I was like, um, and that was it. Just cut me out.

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Now, I always leave in the ivory bar soap that you love to reference. Excuse me, Dove.

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Okay, well, I guess it's like favorites. The Head and the Heart have a new album coming out. It's called Aperture. David and I watched Last of the Mohicans together, which is a movie I watched growing up with my dad. And I don't know. It just felt kind of like nostalgia a little bit. And it kind of like I enjoyed rewatching that movie. And The other night after we watched it, he was like listening to the soundtrack to go to sleep to it on his Alexa. David was. And so I bought him the vinyl so he could listen to it. So that was cool. As you've heard, our local soccer team, the Kickers, is getting their regular season rebooted, which I always love. probably more so than anyone in my family, but I love going to see them play live. Oh, I'm also drinking Hardywood Hopkeeper tonight, which is a juicy, hazy double IPA, but it's infused with Virginia honey, which just in the spirit of all your farmer's market jazz, wanted to highlight.

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I haven't been drinking much lately because I did give it up for Lent, but I was going to drink some tonight, but then I was like, gosh, I'm already tired and unable to think. So, already. But Nick did find this really good red wine. What is it called? Life Vine, and it's zero sugar, right? And a red wine. Yeah. Organic grapes, zero added sugar, Life Vine at Publix, right? It's kind of amazing, because I mean, I start... really hard before for, like, they don't have an organic section, right? You just find it randomly. It's really good. I haven't gotten a headache from it yet. So, Nick's laughing at me. Okay. I also, this is going to be a mix of favorites and just things that I'm trying. I signed up for golf lessons. I'm super excited. I've never, well, I took a golf class, I guess, in college and really haven't done it since, besides, you know, driving ranges, so I'm excited to try that. I'm doing it with two girlfriends from church, so that should be fun. Miss Jones brownies. I think she also has cookies, too. I accidentally bought the gluten-free brownies, and they're quite tasty, I must say. I got them at Whole Foods. I'm trying Scarlett Johansson's brand, The Outset, face cream and lip gloss. I don't think the lip gloss is that good, if I'm being honest. I mean, I think it's okay, but honestly, it's not like moisturizing. I think they sell it to you as like moisturizing. I think it's just more of a gloss. It doesn't seem to have great sticking power. If you want a good lip balm, Dr. Rogers is the best. And then the face cream is fine. It's thick. but it doesn't like feel as moisturizing, but it is thick. So I don't know. I probably won't rebuy, but I was interested in trying it out. And then I've been loving the farmer's market. We've gone three weeks now in a row, loving homemade sourdough bread that I don't have to personally make and micro greens, which is like sprouts. And they have a lot of pea shoots, um, Some people have like broccoli or radish or any plant basically. They just let it grow from like a seedling for eight days and they harvest it. And it's supposed to be really nutritious. So I'm really liking that. All right, cool. All right, well, thank you for listening. We beg you to like leave us five stars, tell a friend about us, follow us on Instagram or Facebook. You'll find Nick there.

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I'm there

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right now. Yeah. Love you guys. Thank you. Bye.

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Peace.