Super Familiar with The Wilsons
Marriage 2.0 with kids…and all the side quests!
Super Familiar with the Wilsons is a weekly comedy podcast about second marriage blended family life, and the beautiful chaos of parenting, aging, and figuring it all out (again). Hosted by Amanda and Josh, partners in life, love, and side quests, each episode dives into real-life stories, quirky observations, listener emails, and spontaneous tangents that somehow always circle back to relationships, resilience, and the absurdity of modern life.
Whether you’re navigating your own second act, raising kids who don’t want your help, or just wondering why birds seem to aim for your head, you’ll find humor, honesty, and heart here. Expect: offbeat storytelling, second-marriage dynamics, parenting fails, philosophical detours, and new friends you didn’t know you needed.
Familiar Wilsons Media produces content to bring people together. We are curious, hopeful, and try not to take ourselves too seriously...admittedly, with varying degrees of success.
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Super Familiar with The Wilsons
Hot Flashes, Parmesan Cheese, and Main Character Energy
In this episode of Super Familiar with the Wilsons, married podcasters Josh and Amanda dive into the real (and ridiculous) world of modern marriage, perimenopause, and parenting chaos. Amanda battles hot flashes and podcasts without pants. Plus: when is it appropriate to sprinkle parmesan on the dog, Josh has a deep concern about eating bugs, and a Flashbacks Quiz.
Along the way, they explore who the real “main character” of their family is, reveal confessions from the internet’s Fesshole, and deliver hard truths about healthcare, condiments, and childhood sleep music trauma. It’s a comedy podcast for anyone navigating second marriages, second chances, and second helpings of sausage balls.
Perfect for fans of: marriage podcasts, parenting humor, midlife meltdowns, and people who secretly worry about eating grubs in salads.
Super Familiar with The Wilsons
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Familiar Wilson's Media Relationships are the story. You are made of meat, my friend, all the way down. The following podcast uses words like and and also If you're not into any of that shit, then now's your chance. Three, two, one run. I'm Super Fam with the Wilsons.
Speaker 2:Get it Welcome to Super Familiar with the Wilsons. I'm Amanda.
Speaker 1:And I'm Josh. This is the podcast about marriage 2.0 with kids and all the side quests.
Speaker 2:Josh, somebody has said to us that the way I've been grumping at you, it sounds like maybe we're on the way to 3.0. So I want to just let everybody know that I do love you and even though I get on you because perimenopause has settled in and I have no patience for anything anymore, ever again I do love you.
Speaker 1:This sounds like the video that an influencer has to release after some sort of controversy. Hi, yes, well, chicken Tom did mention to us that very thing. He's like wow, amanda's getting. What did he say? Spicy, spicy, amanda's getting really spicy. I will say this, though I don't think that we're going to revisit this bit that we tried last week sharing our beefs at each other yes, first of all, I hate that turn of phrase what beef?
Speaker 2:it's just, it sounds like just. I don't like it sounds dirty no, it's not dirty in like a dirty way, but just like a beef, like it's dumb, like where's the beef. Like it's not a Like it's dumb, like where's the beef. Like it's not a thing.
Speaker 1:It's dumb. I don't like it. Okay, so this is why we don't need to have a separate segment, because stuff's just going to come out.
Speaker 2:Listen, I am sitting here podcasting without pants on because, though, our air conditioner is set to 72, internally I'm about 104. I have been having full-blown hot flashes like for days. You know how it feels when you drink a lot of alcohol and then you start to sweat and feel like just bad.
Speaker 2:Yeah that's how I feel, but without any of the fun of a buzz or anything like that no alcohol, just all of the sweating and the heating from the inside. And our friend Jeff sent me a real on Instagram yesterday of and he just said tell me you're in perimenopause without telling me you're in perimenopause. And it was just a woman who, in the middle of doing a cooking video, could not remember ketchup and mustard and she stopped saying custard and match up and custard and she couldn't like. It was her whole thought process of like, match up, match up, like she had to go to the refrigerator and pull it out. So, yeah, that's a real thing, friends.
Speaker 1:I guarantee you that there's going to be a product pretty soon that is called matchup, that is, ketchup mixed with mustard, because this is what people do now. Like what is it? It's ketchup with mayonnaise. Right Is a thing.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:What's that called?
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:Okay, very good, well done.
Speaker 2:That could be matchup too.
Speaker 1:Oh, it could, but it's not. It's got another name and I like ketchup and mustard on my hamburgers. It tastes good. Now, I don't know if it would taste good together. Didn't they do a thing once where it was peanut butter and jelly together?
Speaker 2:In a jar and it was like striped.
Speaker 1:Oh, was that what it was.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was like Goobers or something was the brand.
Speaker 1:But they didn't take care to mix it.
Speaker 2:No, I think that that would be the fail. It was like you used a piping bag and you did like a line of peanut butter and a line of jelly, and just continue to do that around the jar. Remember when we were talking about perimenopause, and now you've turned it about how you like certain condiments.
Speaker 1:So I want you to notice that there are certain strategies it's called diversionary tactics.
Speaker 2:Why are you holding one of my crochet hooks? What are you going?
Speaker 1:to do, just to keep me safe that you have to develop as a husband of a small cranky Irish woman. You have to develop these defense mechanisms, and one of them is the oh look over there, which is what I just did, which worked until it worked for like a little bit and then I remembered that it was supposed to be about.
Speaker 2:You know what else I'm annoyed about? This is how we're going to start the show now. Um, there are all these women's health services, right like so you'll see on social media like oh, midi Health is like a women. A comprehensive women's health program takes insurances and whatever, not a sponsor.
Speaker 2:And I go and I'm like, oh great, it's, our insurance is on there and it's listed and it wants you to put and it's specific to perimenopause and menopause. I'm like this is great, they're going to understand me and I put in, and you put in your insurance card and it comes back. You're out of network. Mother, like I, just if this was a problem for men, it'd be free. You know that right, like we would have solved it. Nobody would have hot flashes and all the care would be free.
Speaker 1:Let me tell you something. I figured out that our health care system here in the United States can't speak for anywhere else. But our health care system here in the united states can't speak for anywhere else. But our health care system in the united states promises so much like buying a new phone but then discovering that you have at&t as your network. Yes, dropped call here, drop call dead zones there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what it is. That's our health insurance, though no insurance, no I mean, listen, we could get real dark, real fast, but we did that last week, so I'm not gonna.
Speaker 1:So I do have a question for you who do you think the main character of this family is?
Speaker 2:The freaking dog.
Speaker 1:No, no, the dog is not.
Speaker 2:Yes, he is because he controls everything that we do. You know that right, because right now we're having to stop recording every three minutes because he's making some sort of noise. He has centered himself solely in the middle of, at least when we podcast. Okay, who do you think it is?
Speaker 1:I don't know. I know that I'm not the main character of this family.
Speaker 2:Okay that I know Are you sad about that.
Speaker 1:I think that I prefer that. I don't like being the main character, particularly if it's like out of my control. I like particularly if it's like out of my control. Okay, I like kind of sitting in the background observing and watching and pitching in or whatever, but I don't mind doing this. Yeah, podcasting, because, like, we're in control of this and if something is said I don't like, then shit, I'll edit that out and that's fine. So I'm definitely not the main character, I think. Well, what do you think?
Speaker 2:because I think it's winthrop oh, you think it's Winthrop.
Speaker 1:Oh, you think it's Winthrop, go ahead.
Speaker 2:I do Only because he stands in front of the TV.
Speaker 1:You're going for a very literal interpretation of this question.
Speaker 2:He does not seem to understand that the people cannot see through him. My mom, do you have a saying for that? Like when you stand in front of somebody and they can't see through you?
Speaker 1:Yeah, you make a better door than a window.
Speaker 2:Oh, my mom would always say. What did she say? Like either have you been drinking muddy water or your daddy wasn't a glass maker.
Speaker 1:Well, I don't get the drinking muddy water.
Speaker 2:Because then you can't see through them, Like it's like a glass with muddy water. I'm telling you these with muddy water, I'm telling you. These are the things that I was raised with.
Speaker 1:You people in the South man, I know you don't know how to talk is the bottom line.
Speaker 2:You are from the South, friend. No, I'm from. Miami that is it's Southern more than here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but it's Northern more than here as well. Okay, anyway, yes, and then we'll be in a room start talking if he stops talking for, like, I don't know and I've got to have this internal timer in my head how long after he has stopped talking am I allowed to talk?
Speaker 1:maybe he is the main character, because I gotta make considerations about when I'm allowed to talk. I'm a 50 freaking, some odd year old ass man and I gotta, I gotta, wait on this little tiny creature to have permission to talk. That's like an essential human right just to be able to talk, freedom of speech. And I don't even have that, right, okay.
Speaker 2:Well, we've solved this now.
Speaker 1:Maybe he is, yeah, the whole standing in front of the TV thing. I think he does know that he's doing it and he's just doing it to get attention.
Speaker 2:I don't think so. I think he gets distracted by what's on the TV and then doesn't think about it, because as soon as you say his name he moves over. I just think he's not like. He's just still being a little bit like egocentric, which is developmentally totally normal or typical for kids as they're growing up. But he is now at the age where he should start to develop this awareness of where he is in space and time and I don't know that that he cares so much right now.
Speaker 1:Were you the main character in your family growing up.
Speaker 2:Yes, maybe because I was the youngest and I was my mom's only girl. I mean, my dad had a daughter, my half sister, and my mom had two boys, but I was the youngest, significantly by 14 to 18 years. So nobody really lived with us until my nephew was born. So maybe that way. But then also, you know, I I had a very, you know sick brother and we were in and out of the hospital a lot and so I really it wasn't there were other priorities than than me at that time. So my brother probably would tell you that I thought that I was, but I don't think that I was.
Speaker 1:Oh, I have no doubt that you thought that you were yeah but I don't think I was.
Speaker 1:I feel like that might be genetic. Okay, fair enough. Who's the main character in your family listeners? Is it the youngest child? Let us know. Familiarwilsons at gmailcom. It's time for some Fessholes. These are anonymous confessions online from an account called Fesshole. Here we go. Tell me what you think about this one. When I was younger, I watched an episode of the Simpsons where Homer ate a bunch of tulips. The scene made them look so tasty, so you can guess where this is going. I took one out of my neighbor's garden and bit the head off of it. It tasted disgusting and had an earwig inside.
Speaker 2:Gross. But also, why was Homer Simpson eating tulips that had an earwig inside?
Speaker 1:Gross, but also, why was Homer Simpson eating tulips? That's your question. For this.
Speaker 2:Well, I'll say why is Homer Simpson our role model?
Speaker 1:Well, why would you look at a cartoon tulip and think that that made regular tulips appetizing? But also, have you ever eaten a bug?
Speaker 2:Not intentionally. I mean, if I swallowed one, I don't you know, like they say, that you swallow something like hundreds of bugs and spiders in your lifetime while you're sleeping.
Speaker 1:I think that that is a subconscious fear that I have baseline throughout all of my life is swallowing a bug or eating a fly. I am currently growing a sprig of spring onions.
Speaker 2:Not a sprig friend, it's taken over. You have a forest of spring onions coming out of that planter right now.
Speaker 1:Which, by the way, super easy to do. I kind of discovered by accident that, oh, these spring onions, they don't go off as quickly as the other veg goes off in the fridge, it's because the roots are still on.
Speaker 2:I was going to say they come with their own roots.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. So I'm like what would happen if I planted these. So what I did is I took two bunches or three bunches that were going to go bad. And I said okay, whatever, I'm going to stick them in this planter. And they are just gangbusters.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I had already planted wildflower seeds in that planter. Oh, did you really?
Speaker 1:That'll be fun. So, anyway, they're growing. It's like a house of fire these things, and so I'll go out and I'll cut the tops off them and put them in a salad or put them in whatever. But when you cut the pointed end tops off them, all of a sudden it's just like a tube.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I was thinking this morning oh shit, like bugs can crawl in that tube.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And then I cut them off and I eat the bugs and I haven't been considering that.
Speaker 2:Do you not wash them? I wash them but I don't like run water through the straw. Yeah, okay fair enough.
Speaker 1:I've told the story about eating a double whopper on the highway and biting into something that tasted A roach. I don't know if it was a roach, I felt like it was a grub.
Speaker 2:Okay, Because it was soft and it burst in my mouth. Nope, nope, nope, nope. We're all done with that story.
Speaker 1:So I have just this genuine background fear of two things in my life eating a bug and snakes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, remember all the snakes we saw on St Augustine last week, like we just walked past a guy with like five snakes on the street.
Speaker 1:That's so stupid. Why would you do that?
Speaker 2:I think he was wanting people to pay him money to take pictures with the snakes.
Speaker 1:No, get out of here with that, did you?
Speaker 2:see them as you were walking up to them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I did, I did and I walked around them. You didn't see me. No, I hate that. No, that's the worst. Let's talk about something else. Awful, I'm not yes-handing snakes.
Speaker 2:Let's talk about you consuming a grub. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Next, A customer left a really nice leather jacket in my pub. Made no effort to see if it was in lost property.
Speaker 2:I was to the window, the teller gave me funny looks and commented on my jacket and how he used to have one. I smiled and walked out. He knew. Well then, joker, come, come, get your jacket. Well, how do you know? Did it have his name embroidered on it? How did he know it was exactly his?
Speaker 1:I mean, it could have been a very particular like a custom-made thing, yeah all right. What would you have done? Would you have just said give me my jacket, give me my jacket.
Speaker 2:I mean, it's interesting, I had one and I couldn't find it. Where did you get that? Oh yeah, no, I think that's mine. And then how do you prove it? Yeah I don't know, you don't know yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:Next, whenever I'm grating parmesan on my dinner, I grate it all over the dog as well, like it's raining cheese.
Speaker 2:He absolutely fucking loves it you should try that with our dog, but also, for whatever reason, wait wait, wait.
Speaker 1:Can you imagine like you've seen those slow motion commercials of people running in the rain? Now substitute a dog and parmesan cheese.
Speaker 2:The dog already smells like Fritos, I don't need to have him smell like funky cheese too. But honestly, when you said whenever I grate Parmesan cheese on my, and then you said dinner, I really thought you were going to say a different D word, like it went totally somewhere else in my head, somewhere else in my head that gives whole new meaning to the term dick cheese. I know right. You know how, when you can get a whole narrative in your head in a split second, there was a whole story behind that.
Speaker 1:Go ahead.
Speaker 2:No, I don't know. I just pictured him standing in the kitchen with it out and then the grater above it, and just like, and then like okay, first of all it would be in the kitchen.
Speaker 1:I'd be like in the closet or in the bathroom or something with shame.
Speaker 2:This is like a fetish that I would not want somebody would have to consume it.
Speaker 1:He's not able to reach it well, also, I am not having a cheese grater anywhere near that's fair enough. I mean industrial accidents happen, my friend.
Speaker 2:I mean, have you ever zipped it up with a zipper?
Speaker 1:I have not. First of all, it's not that you zip it up, it's that you catch a little sack happening. I know no I have not, because I wear underwear. That's what underwear is for.
Speaker 2:It's a shield against that kind of accident. Could you imagine how much worse a grater would be?
Speaker 1:Yes, I can imagine it and I'm literally inside. I'm just imploding just thinking about it.
Speaker 2:All right, move on to your next fess hole.
Speaker 1:Last one I was nervous about doing a presentation at work, so I went to the pub at lunch and had a few pints to calm the nerves.
Speaker 2:Not a good idea.
Speaker 1:I then smashed the presentation. I was confident and funny. Problem is I've been asked to repeat it for all of our branches and I'm concerned I'll turn into an alcoholic Friend. I think you're already an alcoholic.
Speaker 2:If you're leaving work in the afternoon to go and do this, you might be. So you know my work does your work have?
Speaker 1:a policy about drinking during work hours. You know what? I've never had to look this up, but yes, I assume that they do, because I think most of them do.
Speaker 2:So my work has one, and it's not that you can't drink like at lunch, it's that you cannot return to work inebriated.
Speaker 1:Well, how are they testing that Right?
Speaker 2:So so, then it's like you got to know your own limit. I've never done it, I've never, ever done it like. But the thing is, I guess, like when you go out for a work lunch or with visiting people or whatever that it's. So it's not not allowed, it's just you can't return see I would.
Speaker 1:I have never in my adult life done that. I would be scared to death to do that, even if there wasn't a policy. I'm so fricking uptight and stitched up. I would be mortified to think that I might say something inappropriate. Hell, I wander around even now, afraid that I'm just gonna let slip with a curse word at work and you're stone cold sober.
Speaker 2:It's in my everyday parlance curse word at work and you're stone cold sober.
Speaker 1:It's in my everyday parlance, not at work, right, but I can't be saying it in front of the people that I serve, and so that would be, that would be a big issue so that's one of the things when you're teaching right is that you can't like.
Speaker 2:Obviously you cannot use curse words in front of in front of children or students if they're older, um, but it would amaze me the people that I taught with their ability to like code switch, because they would be happy kindergarten teacher and then walk into the teacher's office and then like, curse like a sailor and turn around and walk back out and switch back. So it's definitely a um, a skill set but you weren't like that, or you were I didn't really curse very much until you and I got married.
Speaker 2:And I was only teaching for like three, two years when you and I got married and then I went out of the classroom.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there you go, All right. Well, that was our festivals. Let's skip merrily along to emails. We asked last week what do you do to keep your children occupied when you travel? And Josh Scar got in touch and he said that they just bought a van. It doesn't say just. It says they bought a van with the DVD player to keep the kiddos occupied and as quiet as possible on road trips. We made the 18-hour drive from Rockford to upstate New York several times in this van and it's been a lifesaver.
Speaker 1:We had that for a while. We had the portable DVD players.
Speaker 2:right when Muffy was little like maybe two we would drive to my mom's frequently at Marriage 1.0, and my mom lived two hours away, so it's four hours back and forth in the car. We had little DVD players and she was super into Barney, which I tried very hard to not introduce to her. My mom did and she loved it with her whole heart. And we went and we only had one DVD and it was a Barney DVD. We got stuck in traffic and sat there for like five hours just because of like the road was closed and it was really bad and we watched that damn Barney video so many times to where she started saying no and crying when we put it on. So please, please, make sure you have, if you're going to use the DVD player option, make sure you have plenty of DVDs but Muffy, growing up, though, really loved and took comfort in repetitive things.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean, that's an anxiety coping skill, right? So, like the nighttime music, every single night, every single night, the same damn songs had to be on, and I grew to hate Somewhere Over the Rainbow.
Speaker 2:What a Wonderful World somewhere over the rainbow. Mashup by brother is yeah, something like that, yeah oh, my god, I can't.
Speaker 1:I have like, because it was just on repeat, like it wasn't, like it was other songs on the way there was, also, wasn't there the nat?
Speaker 2:king cole christmas album yes, oh you can't listen to chestnuts roasting on an open fire and that used to be my favorite christmas song no, no but it is a thing. That's why, like I fall asleep listening to friends every night, there is something. I mean, there's studies about it, how um familiar, familiar text, or familiar um median consumption, um, is most definitely um an anxiety manifestation.
Speaker 1:That helps you control it because you know what's coming. Yes, but you had like what? Seven or nine seasons? Of 10 seasons of Friends to choose from instead of just one song.
Speaker 2:It worked.
Speaker 1:It worked until it didn't Remember. Just one day she was just like I don't wanna hear this song anymore.
Speaker 2:She can't listen to it now.
Speaker 1:If you would like to reach out to us and let us know any little thing. Familiarwilsons at gmailcom.
Speaker 2:All right, we have not done a flashbacks in a while. So for those of you who are new, flashbacks is a quiz from the New York Times where they give you eight historical events and you have to put them in chronological order or put them correctly on the timeline. So this week's flashbacks we're going to do one anchoring event and then you have to decide if these other ones come before or after. Josh makes it a little bit harder for himself because he tries to guess the actual year. All right, your first one, josh, is. Robert Cornelius takes one of the first photos of a human. It's of himself making it the first selfie.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's cute. So that's definitely in the 1800s, so 1890. 1839. Okay so 1839 is our starting point. Robert Cornelius, the first selfie Did he do? Duck lips? Maybe All right, go ahead.
Speaker 2:Steven Spielberg wants a complex musical score for the film Jaws. The composer John Williams picks a simpler two-note theme. Can you do it?
Speaker 1:Dun-dun.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Yep, so Jaws, I would say obviously it's after the first selfie, I'm gonna say around 1979.
Speaker 2:1975, the year of my birth, oh very good.
Speaker 1:So 1975 was Jaws Yep.
Speaker 2:Jaws was the number one film when I was born, or something like that.
Speaker 1:How appropriate.
Speaker 2:Good. So 1975 jaws was the number one film when I was born, or something like that. How appropriate, yes you're awesome.
Speaker 1:Prohibition begins. I think that should be your theme song.
Speaker 2:Now you imagine you should make it for me when, like when I start like yelling about menopause, perimenopause, you can just have like the little theme song I just want you, when you're starting to come I'm laying in the bed or whatever.
Speaker 1:You're starting to come upstairs, just put that on your phone so that I hear that first.
Speaker 2:The high football team in high school. They were not good. Right Like football was not our sport.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:They always came onto the field to the Imperial March and it was the most ridiculous thing because, like they thought they were so good and they were so bad.
Speaker 1:I feel like at some point it should be compulsory to change your walk-on music depending on how good you or your team is. So at some point during that season they should have just chucked it and gone for the Benny Hill theme.
Speaker 2:Right, okay, prohibition begins. Patients can still buy alcohol with a doctor's prescription, so whiskey is suddenly used to treat asthma, cancer and simply old age amen, all right, we're gonna say 1920 prohibition begins 1920 exactly bam.
Speaker 1:Excellent, not excellent.
Speaker 2:Terrible idea, go ahead ruby bridges, age six, integrates a public school in new or the staff refuses to work with her, except for one teacher who shows up every day for a year.
Speaker 1:I'm letting myself down here. Well, clearly it's after 1920 and before 1975. So I'm going to say 1968.
Speaker 2:1960.
Speaker 1:Oh, 1960. Okay, Sorry folks, I let you down, go ahead.
Speaker 2:All right. South Africa becomes the first country to voluntarily give up all of its nuclear weapons after developing them. It's also the only country to ever do so.
Speaker 1:Oh wow, Nelson.
Speaker 2:Mandela led that too. Okay, at least by this picture I see of him holding his hand up with some white dude.
Speaker 1:Okay, so we're going to say that that was like in 1985, okay after jaws 1990 good on them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, love that story work starts on the hoover dam amid the depression. Board workers need to have fun too, so las vegas expands its newly legal casino industry all right.
Speaker 1:So we're gonna say between 1920 and 1960. So we're gonna say 1924 1931 still six, six or six so far, sir this is where I get screwed up, because you tell me how good I'm doing and then I fuck it for the rest of the time so go ahead at the saint lewis world's fair earnest what like I know that at all, go ahead where the world's fair in other countries are just here.
Speaker 1:I've only ever heard about them being in america I don't know, but I mean that would be so appropriate if we thought we were the center of the world, where, I mean, we already do the world champions of football and the world champions of basketball.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Not, but whatever.
Speaker 2:All right. At the St Louis World Fair, ernest Hamwi, h-a-m-w-i, sells Persian waffles. He folds one to hold a dessert from a nearby booth popularizing the ice cream cone.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay. Well, that's going to be in between 1839 and 1920. So I'm going to say 1906.
Speaker 2:1904. Jeez bam All right, two more you ready.
Speaker 1:Ice cream cone invented. I'm writing these down so I never forget these facts ever in my life.
Speaker 2:Okay, william Morrison builds the first successful electric cars in America. Meanwhile, president Benjamin Harrison brings electricity to the White House.
Speaker 1:Wait what.
Speaker 2:William Morrison builds the first successful electric car.
Speaker 1:But you're saying that electric cars were way back then Way before Elon. I thought that Elon invented or stole the invention of Right. All right. So electric cars, geez, geez I have no freaking idea.
Speaker 2:Well, when was benjamin harrison president? Because I also don't know that. That's helpful um, that's.
Speaker 1:This is gonna suck because this is all like we're all clustered between 1839 and like 1960. We got all these things close together.
Speaker 2:Yeah, usually we do like some BCEs and stuff. None of those.
Speaker 1:All right, so I'm going to say 1850.
Speaker 2:1891, you're still correct on your timeline. All right, last one ready. Can you go for a clean sweep? Go ahead massachusetts becomes the first state to require smallpox vaccines for the general public amid opposition. It's later one of the first to repeal its mandate. Cool guys, go get your vaccines oh god, see, I'm screwed here.
Speaker 1:I'm screwed, I don't know, dude.
Speaker 2:Let me show you the picture of the doctor giving the kid the vaccine. That might help you All right, go ahead.
Speaker 1:Is it in color or black and white?
Speaker 2:It's an illustration.
Speaker 1:Well, that's not at all helpful it looks like Thomas Jefferson-ish.
Speaker 2:I realize it's later than that, though Probably.
Speaker 1:All right, I'm going to say I I don't know why 1916 popped into my head, but 1916.
Speaker 2:So between the World's Fair and Prohibition.
Speaker 1:Yep, ah, 18. Okay.
Speaker 2:So seven out of eight Good job.
Speaker 1:Yep, and so along with this usually comes little explanations as to why they picked these particular questions. So what facts can you lay on us?
Speaker 2:Electric vehicles died a century ago. Why? Battery-operated vehicles were a mainstay more than 100 years ago, but only a few still exist. One happens to be in Jay Leno's garage. Okay, but why?
Speaker 1:Wait, they were a mainstay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, more than a century before Tesla rolled out its first cars, the Baker Electric Coupe and the Riker electric roadster rumbled on american streets. Battery-powered cars were so popular that for a time, about a third of new york taxis were electric. But those early electric vehicles began to lose ground to a new class of cars, like the ford model t, that were cheaper and could be more easily refueled by a new oil-based fuel. There you go, bolstered by federal tax incentives. In the 1920s, the oil industry boomed and so did gasoline powered cars, and it killed the environment. Yeah, all right. What else? Maybe something about people taking selfies are causing headaches for europe's museums? Got it? Um oh. Ton of 10 of the world's most alluring speakeasies. I've only been to one speakeasy and it was insane. Have you ever been to a speakeasy?
Speaker 1:I don't think have you ever been to a speakeasy?
Speaker 2:I don't think so. We should do that. I did that in Austin when I was for a work trip. It was crazy. Las Vegas casinos are now sun powered.
Speaker 1:Okay, very good, thank you. No one likes to be told what to do, and now is the time in the to do, amanda. What should we do?
Speaker 2:okay. So muffie brought this show to us and she said she had heard about it. We started watching this show called jury duty. It was made in 2023. Um, I think it's on amazon prime. But it's this show where everybody involved are actors, except the one, the one guy right, and he it's kind of like the truman show, but for real life, and he's on a jury. And I know it's hard for you, josh, because you feel for real life and he's on a jury, and I know it's hard for you, josh, because you feel really bad for the guy. I think it turned out fine for him. He got a TV deal or something out of it. I think he's okay. He's a really nice guy too, which is like, how did they guarantee that this guy wasn't going to just be a complete asshole? But anyway, it's funny. It's like the office with the way they do, like the uh, documentary style.
Speaker 1:But anyway, if you're interested, go check out jury duty on amazon prime I just feel bad for him because, like he was the main character, he didn't know he was and he was just getting pranked and I'm just super uncomfortable but you watched the show I did watch the show and it had certain things that were funny. But in the back of my mind I was thinking, if this happened to me, I would be freaking livid. I would be so pissed.
Speaker 2:Well, he wound up being okay out of it all.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, there you go. What do you recommend? I don't have any recommendations.
Speaker 2:I just saw on your notes sausage ball king. I had forgotten about that.
Speaker 1:Do you?
Speaker 2:want to recommend sausage balls. Only if you put a little grated Parmesan on your sausage balls, way to bring it all back together.
Speaker 1:All right, Amanda, that's all there is. There is no more. What'd you think of that mess? I mean it's a mess, but it's our mess and I love you.
Speaker 2:Okay, I'm going to keep telling you I love you, so Tom feels okay about us.
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Speaker 2:And go be kind.
Speaker 1:All right, bye, bye. No chickens were harmed during the production of this episode, except emotionally. Thank you.
