This episode of Two Nora's and a Mike is brought to you by Mike Haggerty, buick. Jamsie, hi, thanks for joining us today. It's Nora and Nora, we're sure glad you're here, we are, we are. Thank you for having an away game today, absolutely, for joining me in my other studio. Thank you for hosting me. Have me, too, on location. Yes, is that on location In my location, in your location?
Speaker 1:So last week we talked about laughing, so hopefully you listening, you heard that episode and haven't Go back and listen, and hopefully, though, it cultivated some laughter on your end. Yes, right, yes For sure. My dad was funny. He was saying it reminded him of a time when he was younger, like in grammar school, and had a fiddle laughing Ultra serving. So some nostalgia there too, some nostalgia, but we would like to clear up a little bit about a moose. Oh, here we go. Now I see why you told our listeners if you haven't listened, you may want to listen. So members of my family are like maybe Nora was thinking of bow and go because he has arms. That was so nice of them, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:But I was amazed to find out that moose can run up to 35 miles an hour. It's pretty fast For something of that size? Yeah right, I mean, they're not aerodynamic, they don't fly. They don't fly, they don't have weight, they have arms. So they can run 35 miles an hour and they can swim six miles per hour for up to two hours they can swim. They can swim. What? Wow, why, I don't know. Why would I don't know. I just want to take a dip. They just don't know what to buy athletes. But I mean, do you ever see moose? Just like, do they travel on a pack? I would think so.
Speaker 1:And then you and I watched a video about a moose fight, which was probably one of the most boring videos I've ever seen. But what was interesting about that YouTube clip about moose fighting was the gentleman videotaping it like had seen us before. He looked like an announcer, remember. He was like, oh, he anticipated they're about to run. Yeah, how would they know that? He knows the language of the moose whisper. There's a lot of grunting, a lot of antler thrashing and a lot of anxiety on my end because they were so close to these things. And now that I know they can run 35 miles an hour, I'm just like I gotta charge.
Speaker 1:Where do we live? There are moose in Alaska, but in a forest, correct? Yeah, they're woodland creatures. Yeah, I don't know if I've seen a live moose. I don't think I have either. Hmm, well, added to the list. Feel tricky to the last.
Speaker 1:I do like that ice cream moose tracks. Oh, I don't remember had it. Well, I don't think you would like it because it has like topping, like things in it. Oh, does it have nuts in it? Oh, it might. It's like Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, sorry, like chocolate vanilla, like French. I'll probably try that before I see a moose in real life, just based on geography.
Speaker 1:You know I don't want to dedicate too much more time to this topic, but with March Madness right around the corner, ryan and Mike were talking about some different teams and Ryan mentioned that one of the team's mascots is the dirt bags. Oh no, which I think might be the word Like. That doesn't sound. How do you go? Dirt bags, go bags. And I said, like, what are their colors? But I was just thinking what school is the dirt bag? I have to look at them to look there. Oh no, but I was thinking I don't know if there's any school that has a moose as a mascot. That is an excellent question, because it would be hard to cheer for them because it's one of those plural is the same as the singular. We are the mighty moose. I don't know. Oh, moose, I mean it would be bad for maybe like a wrestling or a boxing team because they're not great fighters, but they're pretty fast. Moose, moose, dirt bags are great fighters. Moose is on a loose. Oh, I think there's a missed opportunity here. Moose is a mascot. I would have gone with moose or dirt bag or gamecock. What's a gamecock? Well, depends who you are. Sure there's somebody out there. We're definitely research that We'll be talking about moose next week too. March madness is no moose madness on the podcast here. Oh man, well, let's just continue with the switching gears as we're all over the grid. Tonight.
Speaker 1:There is a new trend on TikTok. Oh, no, I know it's not bad. Okay, it's terrifying for me to think about. It's the going shoeless trend. What? No, that's not a thing. Well, it really is.
Speaker 1:There is a guy and he has all these TikTok clips I don't know what to call them. One of them has 12.3 million or 123 million I'm going to have to fact check that. I would hope 123. That he just goes up to people on the street other strangers and says, like, would you go shoeless? Would you go shoeless here? And if he says, if they say yes, they take off their shoes in all these public places and just hang out shoeless, why are you so against this trend? Oh, you know what? The next trend will be Tetanus shots for all these people walking around the shoe sign. But you should have heard some of their not their commentary, but what like their reasoning? Like all this dirt from the earth, I was like, is it? I don't think it is. No, wait where? What kind of places was he in? Where he was asking, he was all over like Target or like gas stations. There was inside that looked like stores and outside which Gross Ew, would you ever? No?
Speaker 1:There are times like I remember, like if my shoes were really hurting me and I would take them. Like if I was at a hotel, as soon as I get in the elevator I would take them off. Oh, that's bad, that's really bad. That's only in extreme situations where I was like I might lose a toe. Oh gosh, you know, sorry for your loss, I haven't lost any. Reavaliate those shoes, but you didn't like get weddings and stuff or parties. Like I don't like to take my shoes off because number one, I'm worried about somebody stepping on my foot, and if my shoes really hurt, I know if I take them off and try to put them back on it's going to be worse. I'm not so worried about other people stepping on my feet. I'm worried more about what I'm going to step in, ugh, or like, yeah, that's nasty, no, I don't, I'm not. That's so bizarre, that's what.
Speaker 1:So then there is, you know, in places, no shoes, no shirt, no service, yeah, so this trend is catching on. It's not just this guy interviewing people, so some people are taking their shoe, cutting off the sole or the bottom of it, or do they have the top so they can be letting it place it? It's like the Flintstone car. They're like no, what is wrong with this? Because they said it's better for your feet. No, it's not. There is no way walking around barefoot is better for you.
Speaker 1:I do think that flat shoes or sandals sometimes are bad for you. Yes, so are there any worse for you than walking around shoeless in a public place? I have high arches. I need some orange supports Not to brag, sorry. Yeah, so that's so gross, so gross. Do your kids go shoeless. No, no, no, do yours, john, I will catch everything on that. Outside They'll put like like sandals, like slides, but I don't think it ever.
Speaker 1:Also, does this person live in a warm weather place? I don't know. I'm still looking for them Because I didn't do my due diligence. It must be chilly. Or are they allowed to keep their socks on? No, they take everything off, they strip down. Ew. But my kids sometimes go outside and just their socks and that drives me bonkers. That is so annoying, I know. And they're like, what? Like, look at the bottom of your socks, that's what. Yeah, this is why you wear shoes. So then, when you go into the house, yeah, I don't always take my shoes off when I go in the house. Sometimes I forget to, but I like to wear my cracks. Oh, that's right. So I'm pretty.
Speaker 1:Mr Rogers, sometimes I'm worried this is nothing to do with our topic. Yeah, it's fine, but sometimes I get worried if I'm going to somebody's house and I know I have to take my shoes off About what shoes to wear, because socks to wear, and what socks to wear, yeah, yeah, no same. Do you wear special shoes when you're driving? Do you know there are such a thing called driving loafers For a dirty drive shoe list, because, listen, we'll definitely circle back to that and our topic today is driving Beep, beep, pongawk.
Speaker 1:Wait a minute. Shoeless in the car? Yeah, sometimes, like if you have a pair of heels on or a pair of boots that are kind of restricting yeah, I prefer to drive shoeless, but I feel like I can't get a good press on the pedals Because I'll do that sometimes with you, because it is weird to drive with heels on. Yeah, I'll usually bring flats. Oh, you will bring a pair of shoes. Yeah, look at you. Fancy pants over there. I mean, usually they're like little one out, nothing flats, like they're not really fancy. Driving loafers, that's interesting.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what kind of driver are you? You're a fast driver. You're a real follower. Yes, I am a defensive driver. I am a speed limit driver. I am a oh gosh, that person might want to turn. So I better. Also, if I'm on the highway and I know I have to exit, I give myself a good like five miles to be in the lane I need to be at to get out. I know that about you. Yeah, yes, I think you and I are opposite drivers, which probably is no fun for you to be in my car, but if other people want to drive that way, that's you know, that's it doesn't bother me. Oh, I would think, like for me it doesn't bother me that you err on the side of safety, but I would think on the flip side, it would be harder for you to drive with somebody who doesn't have a safe drive.
Speaker 1:I will say with my husband. Sometimes he cuts it too close, like for the car and on the highway I'm like we're two miles away from the exit. We're one mile away from the exit, so I have plenty of time. Then I start to sweat because I know he will get off no matter what, like he's not missing the exit. I wait till the very end. I like to drive in the left lane as fast as I can for as long as I can and then over.
Speaker 1:But my 15 year old is learning to drive. How is that? What is that experience? Like? I learned to drive very young. How young, how close? Tell Full disclosure. It's probably about 13 or 14. It's amazing.
Speaker 1:I've loved to fact check with my dad. But yeah, so we started him early. Not yeah, I mean, was it? Yeah, about the same. So he is a good driver, but he is also a 15 year old driver, sure, and my like there's so many different things that I've been focusing on with him. It just makes you so much more aware.
Speaker 1:I've really been telling him like you have to give these people on the road a little grace, like it wasn't his turn, like he made a mistake. Or like if somebody's crossing and it's not like in a crosswalk, like he's like well, she shouldn't be crossing there, like yeah, but you shouldn't, but if you hit her, you shouldn't scare on her, yeah, or you know, just like little things, like just give people grace is what I say. Like give them some grace, just like I'm following the rules and they are not Correct. Oh, that's a really interesting thing where I am constantly like well, that you, like I, yeah, you do that, I do that, but probably to a fault, where sometimes I was like you can't let everybody go because there's people behind you. But that's I, my son, my oldest is 14, he'll be 15 in August and the other like a couple of weeks ago I was like you should pay attention now you should start watching when I drive and also you should learn what the streets are called, because I think, like I know, when I was growing up, if I had a friend drive me home, I had to say take Oak Street and then turn left on Riverdale and then these are fake streets. I'm not going to throw out my rail streets to get to my house To all our fans who might want to find us, but you had to know how to get to your house. I don't think he could get Because you didn't have one of these, because the parents didn't have a phone. No, I mean, like the mat, you didn't have GPS. Yeah, you didn't have GPS. But now if a parent drives Aiden home, he's just like my address is this. They plug it in and yeah, and away they go, and away they go. So I knew the street. Do you think Mike knows the street names? And like that, how is he with direction? Pretty good, because I use them. If we get in the car, I'll be like hey, take Wolf. Ah, there you go. Let's take Willow Springs to 47th Street. Okay, because Aiden. Now I'll be like do you know what the street's called? He's like the street bicycle, mike. There's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 1:But when learning to drive in Arizona, there was no need for driver's ed. It wasn't a requirement, so you could just go and get your license. So you just show up at the DMV on your 16th birthday, yeah, take a test. So then it was like a homeschool driver's ed. Your parents just had to, but there was there a requirement for like hours in the car. No, you showed up, got your license and it was good for 40 years. Uh-huh Gosh, wow. So you were probably one of the better drivers amongst your friends. I would think so I, because my parents were from Chicago and they learned to drive. They mean, they went through driver's ed and I think that was just the expectation. And one of my very best friends looked around the corner and her parents were on board, so she came with me. Oh, so, it's kind of fun. And then we showed up at the DMV and because we had taken driver's ed, we never took a driver's test. Oh, so I don't know Well, but I guess in a state where it's not required, they're like well, clearly these people must know what they're doing, because you probably got all the in-car license. Yes, we just went and got our license.
Speaker 1:How was driver's ed? It was fine. It was like after school. Yeah, one, I don't know. One night a week. Oh, that's nice. They had a great vending machine. It was right when Nestle Crunch had the white chocolate cookies and cream crunch bar. That was your driver's ed snack. A lot of 90s country and Nestle Crunch bars.
Speaker 1:I took it with my friend, erin, because we were both September birthday. So all of our friends saw, from a year of high school had basically had their driver's licenses and they were all 16, which also meant that they all had jobs, but we were still 15. The summer going into junior year, so we couldn't really get real jobs and we also couldn't drive anywhere. So you and Erin had a very good friend. We had a summer job setting tables at a banquet hall and we would go to driver's ed together and my sister had gone to the same place.
Speaker 1:But what was the biggest joke about it was when you had to take the practice written tests. The answer in the multiple choice was always the one that didn't. It was either I did have a period at the end of the sentence or didn't. So you just had to go through and be like yep, that one has a period. That's the answer. So we were passed with flying color. That's why you're such a good driver. Well, but we had a blast, it was super fun. And then I remember going to the DMV. I had to take a test in the past. I remember going in my school uniform, in it In a bow, in a bow Half up, and I was so excited.
Speaker 1:My sister failed it. Oh, she did Three times the written test, the driving test. Oh, were you getting the car with the guy? She failed it at least two times. I feel like she failed it three, maybe it was just two. What happened? Where did she go so wrong? But I remember the first time she failed it and she got her license really late. It was probably like six months after she failed it. She failed it at 16. Because she just like drivers, it was tough with sports and trying to fit it into her schedule. And she failed the first time and it was like nobody talks about the driver's test. And then the second time it was like what is wrong with her? What the heck? I'll have to ask her more. I think the enough time has passed where it's not so raw and she's probably a driver. She's OK, she's really.
Speaker 1:One time when we were in our 20s she drove me home from downtown. We were going back to my parents' house. She was on the phone for a work thing. And we get to my parents' house and she was like I don't even remember driving here Because she was so engrossed in the conversation. I was like this is not safe.
Speaker 1:Are you a talker in the car? Do you like to listen to stuff with your kids? Do you like to listen? What do you do in the car? So if I'm very stressed or I'm upset about something, I like to go in the car. I like to take a little drive, I like to play music that fits my mood and I like to belt it out. Do you ever hop in the car when you're amped up and you're like, yeah, let's go? Is if I need to sing it out? And they're like happy, yeah, oh, you do. Whether it's happy or sad, yeah, I'll find the right showtunes to match my mood. Pop it in. And oh, yeah, I love that there's Bluetooth now, because now people are like is she on the phone or is she singing? Oh, I would love to see you to catch me. Yeah, happy days singing showtunes driving around the neighborhood, but I will. So I do like to sing in the car. It's my favorite place to sing, but I will. It is a good place to make calls too, on Bluetooth. You know, safety first.
Speaker 1:Elle always asks hey, you want to go drive around and listen to music? Oh, no, I mean, yes, yes I do, but no, I can't. Yeah, like it's just. I used to do that in high school. Same my friend, anya, and I would drive around and just listen to music because she had a car and my favorite was we had songs that were Windows Down, songs, like if you came out and we hadn't put the Windows down and like play it, that was risky Business for Chicago kids, but we should get yourself filled with that. We had to put the heat up yeah, that's what I mean and then put the windows down, and then we were like cru-ru-ru-ru. We used to drive around and if you wanted to listen to a CD, sometimes you would have to use an adapter because it would take ducks and then whoever was riding it was shotgun, really had a big job Because you had to. You had to flip through all the CDs in the giant case logic binder and then you had to hold the disc. Man, still so, still so. Then you couldn't always do the hand motions that went with the songs. Oh, yeah, the choreography suffered. Yeah, that was really important.
Speaker 1:But it's amazing that, like I love Sirius XM radio, like that's you do, I don't have it. I don't think Well, because I have my show tunes channel, I got the 90s channel, I got the hip hop channel yeah, no, I definitely don't have that. And now I have the. There's a stand-up comedy channel. But I I was like, oh, I didn't. I was just thinking a lot of like, if Ella's in the car, she always is our DJ, and if the younger kids are in the car, it has to be clean, yeah, and if it's Seriously Not, then it's fine. I mean, the stuff she listens to is just about as bad as what we listen to in high school. So that's great. But then when I'm with Mike, we usually talk oh, that's nice, because he doesn't usually control the rate, like he doesn't. Yeah, oh, usually he's driving now, but oh, never, he doesn't really care about the music.
Speaker 1:Did your mom or dad let you do the radio growing up? Yeah, my mom and I liked the same kind of music. Oh, that was nice. I was in the 90s country, in Arizona. Oh, okay, it was like really up and coming and there was always new women on the listen. Yeah, that's true. So that was kind of fun. We were all kind of on the same page with that.
Speaker 1:She loved Kenny Loggins. My mom loves Kenny Huge, kenny Loggins. My mom loved music in the car. Yeah, my mom Kenny Loggins, anita Baker, she's like Basha, but I would never play my music in my mom Like the stuff at like the hip hop. Right, kids don't have any problem listening and singing. I would like my mom would always be like you know, when you drive you can control the radio, but every once in a while she would let me do it. But if I, if it was on a song that I knew the words to that I knew my mom wouldn't like I would never leave that song, never, never, no, I know, I think even today I would change the chance. Say, if you, if my mom was in the car. I like to listen to Hoda and Jenna in the car because I like to catch them when I'm at home and if I miss them it's like a little treat you get a little catch up, get them in the car.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was thinking about songs that I'm singing about driving, whether it's the fast car which you don't like that song? No, do you don't even like the original? No, I love the original one, but it was the Hiva. That was a Windows Downside, the TLC Scrub song, because I was thinking about really hanging out of the passenger side Of my best friends or anything. I just thought that was funny.
Speaker 1:We my friend Anya and I used to listen to the Celine Dion song, all coming back to me oh yeah, we would listen to. We had a Windows Down song. Wow, because we liked the part the crushes Thought you were history with the slamming of the door. Boom, just really liked it. For that part, oh gosh, what did that? I went with Nelly. You wanna go take a ride? That's a good one. I'm gonna road again.
Speaker 1:The Rory likes the ghost ride the whip. Rory likes to play there's a song from the Muppet movie Moving Right Along and it's really cute. It's Kermit and Fuzzy in the car and it's like moving right along, and so he likes to play that for road trips and stuff. When we drive to New York in the summer, and actually whenever we drive to New York, whenever we cross the bridge from New Jersey into New York City, we listen to Taylor Swift Welcome to New York Singing New York State of Mind. But yes, as it's welcome to New York City. That's so good, which is always fun.
Speaker 1:I used to play the song Vacation Like vacation all in one Whenever I picked them up from school on their last day for vacation. Love it. But I don't really pick them up anymore, so I guess maybe I could play it when they get home. That's the other thing. Like, if I can bike somewhere, I will. You are really good with your bike. I would like to here's. I have a lovely bike that Al bought me for my birthday, but it sells a baby seat on it. We'll take it off. So I and Rose is fart, I and I will say that's like, it's a beautiful bike and it was a very nice seat. I was never comfortable having her on the back. Really it made me nervous. I wish she was in the front of the bike. Oh, my kids rode. They didn't. That was a milestone. All four of them hit very early.
Speaker 1:Riding bikes Riding bikes because I think I like to be. Yeah, I like so much. You like stationery or oh yeah, but I like I. You know it's the same bike I've had since college. It's really cute A bubblegum pink beach cruise, I know, so I'm. I'm this summer hoping to ride my bike. Wish you go bike riding? Oh right, let's do it. I feel like I'm in good bike riding shape from Pelagin, okay Well, I mean, I don't think we didn't go like racing. You don't want to start a race. Maybe just we could ride in the town and get a glass of wine or something. But yeah, if you want to race, I could look into that.
Speaker 1:What are your thoughts on self-driving cars? Thoughts on self-driving cars. Is in Scottsdale, uber is self-driving in some places. What? And my brother, because he's awesome was trying to get me one, but I was just outside of the location, but I saw him in the parking lot and I saw him over there. Fine, fine with him.
Speaker 1:I don't like it. It freaks me out, it's just no. What if? Yeah, yeah, I don't know how. Is there like an emergency break? Are you the emergency break? Well, that's. Or is like the wall? You're sick? Yeah. Do you just sit in the back? Well, but if there's plenty of space in the front, you may as well sit in the front and control the radio. Who? Yeah, right.
Speaker 1:And then is there somebody like in a control tower, like watching, like Pac-Man, like watching all of that, like with like a remote control, like no, no, no, no, no. Watching all of that Making sure, yeah, kind of like a puppet master trying to make sure, like the Like if you see, like a red flash, like that one might. Yeah, so has your brother been in one? I don't know if to ask him he's like I'll put you on a self-driving car. I'm not getting a self-driving car and I just wonder, like how does it? Does it know?
Speaker 1:I will say my, the car that I got in November beeps constantly. Yeah, like it's like you know objects, which is fine, which is great, except for if you're in the car wash, because then it's like it has like a panic attack. It's like what's wrong with you. It's like behind, to the side of the front, it's like I appreciate the beeps. But the thing I worry about with the beeps which we experience with the alarms for all the diabetes devices we have in our family, that you kind of get alarm fatigue. You get so it's so many beeps that I haven't I'm not there yet with the car because of safety, but is there going to be a point? I don't even hear the beeps. I have a lot of beeps Because you have so many beeps? Yeah, there's a lot of beeping, and that's you know. So that's kind of interesting. Can I tell you a fun fact about you know? I love fun facts, bring it on.
Speaker 1:I can't believe that the average American spends two weeks of their life at red lights. What? Yeah, well, some of the red lights around western sprains. I believe it because they're long, so long. But isn't that a long time? Wow, two weeks of your life. That's like a All of Christmas break of your life.
Speaker 1:Oh, at red lights, at red lights. So what do you do at red lights? Like, will you check your phone? Will you change your? Yeah, I'll check my texts. You'd like to hand lotion on Lipstick? Lipstick, yeah, I'm a people watcher, like in town, if we're at a red light.
Speaker 1:Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes. Like there's a couple of good corners and a lot of the red lights we're at in town have, like, you have to pay attention Because there's people in the crosswalk. Yes, yes, yes, yes, I always appreciate. When there's no turn on red, what do you do? Appreciate it. Appreciate it when they're like no, turn on red, because sometimes Father's me, when you can't turn on red. Yes, see, you're a high.
Speaker 1:I appreciate it, because sometimes I feel like if I'm, if I need to turn right and I'm the first one, and it's a red light, I feel like again, well, this is like a psychological problem that I have. I guess that I am worried that the people behind me are impatient and that they're going to honk if they think I should go, but I haven't gone. And then I get nervous like should I go? Should I not go? I don't want the people behind me to be mad. You're the most thoughtful driver. I've never thought about that. I do think about it. So then, when it's no turn on red, I'm like phew head on to her about it, just have to wait. I am mindful, though. If there isn't a no turn on red and I'm in the right lane and I am not turning right, I try to get over so that the people behind me don't get log jammed and I'm not waiting. Yes, yes, yes, I always like.
Speaker 1:Or if it is no turn on red and the people honk at you because you're not turning Look at the sign. The sign is here. Will you ever like? Are you a honker? Are you a fish shaker? Are you flipping the bird at people. What are you doing in here? I'm a talker. Oh hey, same Like. I will talk to them. I will tell them, yes, that they are not good drivers. That was not your turn. It was not your turn. I was like are you kidding me? That was not safe. What are you doing?
Speaker 1:My mom would always say they're hopped up on goofballs. She drew an 11-phone head Just in driving. Yeah, never in life. She's a honker too. She is Al will do like a happy honk where. I'm like you can't do that. If I drive by your house, I always honk. That's nice, like on the highway. He'll be like we're almost there. I'm like people think you're honking at them. He's like I don't care, I don't know these people, you'll never see them. Actually, you might, but you wouldn't know because you can't see them. You're the one who honked at me.
Speaker 1:You know, what bugs me about driving here is the trains. Oh, it doesn't bother me. The trains are pain. Trains are pain, but you know what? Because in Long Island they have overcasts for the trains, so the trains are elevated, so you don't have to wait for the train, but I don't think it looks very nice, I mean. So you know it is what it is. But what's nice is when you need to go downtown and you want to take the train, then you're very happy. Oh, then I like the train Right.
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Speaker 1:And now back to the show. Well, this was a lovely episode about driving. Was there anything else you wanted to add? Or shall we hide it? I love it. We can eyes and nose. Are you hooked up on goofball? I think so. Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps, perhaps my low and I hate to say this because you're in my house right now I saw, oh my God, I forgot about that.
Speaker 1:I forgot about that. I forgot about that. No, I so last, I forgot Thursday. I didn't even do it, I forgot. It's okay, it's okay.
Speaker 1:I was editing our podcast and I, well, I thought I saw a bat, but it was a mouse, this little critter. We trapped it behind the refrigerator. Okay, we have trapped out. We've had trapped out for a week and we haven't caught anything. Where are they? They're in little boxes under the oven. And then there's one over there. He was stealing pistachios from the pantry and bringing them behind the refrigerator. Little mouse, he's a little mouse. Thief, he's a hoarder. So that was totally disgusting and I went to Target and bought those like oxoplastic containers we have totally.
Speaker 1:We had the people come and they inspected and he was like you must have caught this early. He's like, because if this was a big problem, you would have bigger evidence. And he figured out. He was like I think he's coming in from here. He sealed it up.
Speaker 1:My hope is that the mouse was telling his family like, oh my God, a real close one and a crazy man hit me twice with a broom, but I survived. And while he was outside telling his friends, he lost his entrance back in because I haven't seen it and we haven't had any catchment. That seems to make sense. That's the narrative I'm telling myself. Okay Gosh, I can't believe I forgot about it. We've had so much going on. I know you're looking around and I also put a fake owl in my pantry to try to keep the mouse. Let me see it. Want to see it? All right, yeah, we'll put this on our Instagram. That's funny.
Speaker 1:Did your kids ask why there was a mouse in the pantry? I mean, I thought so Well, that too. I was like because you guys leave food on the floor. That's why we didn't have it. No, dude, that's why there was an owl in the pantry. I told them I was like, by the way, the owl which we used to have outside to scare the chipmunks isn't out on the pantry to hopefully, scare the mouse away. I think they're going to remember this for the rest of their life.
Speaker 1:Then, the owl in the pantry my low isn't as exciting, but I've gotten into Easter candy. Oh, the little robin's eggs and the gummy bears, the earthy gummy bears, the jelly beans, the starburst jelly beans and the robin. Have you had the free seas eggs? No, there's so much. I actually saw them the other day but I didn't buy them because I was like you'll eat all of us. I love peeps Really. Yeah, so that's a problem. That's okay. You deserve a treat, but I eat them until my stomach hurts. I do that with gummy bears. You very kindly bought me a thing of gummy bears and I had to say out loud stop eating these. I like those ones. I love gummy bears. Those ones are not natural but not vacuum sealed ones. I don't know. I feel like they're different.
Speaker 1:But what was your high? My high is that for the musical I had a bunch of parents sign up to help build the set and I could not have asked for a better group. There can do like helpful attitude and their skill level. They were like professionals. There's two of the desert home builders, so to the point where the tech director at the high school was like it doesn't have to be this precise, if you like. They're trying to build stuff like home grade. Theater grade is safe, but it doesn't have to be perfect. So I was just so grateful and so overwhelmed with the help and the quality and the set looks really beautiful and you helped me paint it. I think it's going to be incredible. I think the level that you hold the kids to and the level that you hold yourself to it is not going to look like a middle school musical. They're so cute. They're working really hard.
Speaker 1:By the time this comes out, it will be over. We're going to have our free lunch Free freedom lunch. We're going to talk about more than just moose Bringing you podcasts, more, More than moose. What about you? My hi is Katherine Grayson, my brother.
Speaker 1:So Katherine Grayson is my fifth grader and then my youngest brother, who is her godfather, are very close and she was trying to track him down and I thought it was because she wanted to make sure that he was coming to the musical, which he's not, which is very surprising for him. But she was tracking him down because she wanted him to get her tickets to the Taylor Swift concert in Paris and she mentioned that it would be no problem, that they would get passports and he could just fly to Chicago and then they would fly to Chicago. She wanted to go with him to see the show she wanted. And then she I guess I wasn't on the phone, so I got a text from my brother that said she wasn't looking for me, to ask if I could come to the musical. She wants me to fly her to Paris for Taylor Swift, and she said she's willing to pay 20%, which I don't know where she heard that, but the text from my brother.
Speaker 1:It made me laugh a lot, but it made me so happy to know that they're still, even though they're so many miles away, they're still so close. That's really sweet. Is he going to make it happen? Oh, the other thing is and the reason I guess she had asked is because it's on their birthday oh well, there you go. Anyways, stay tuned on that. That's really fun. If they go, you have to go. No, no, no, you don't want to go to Paris. I can go a different town. Go to Paris with them With Mackin, with Mackin, kevin, grace, hot Twisters. I'm sending you different Nora, right, and we're yeah, we're interchangeable, all right. Well, in that note, we will react next week. So thanks for joining us. Bye, thanks.