Jingle(s) All the Way!

The holiday season is upon us, and with it comes both magic and mayhem. Have you ever wondered how moms manage to sprinkle that festive cheer amid the chaos of finals week, unexpected health hiccups, and the hilarity of driving permit misadventures? Join us as we share personal stories of navigating this bustling time with humor and grace. We also take a moment to empathize with the families of astronauts dealing with mission delays, adding a unique twist to the holiday stress narrative.

Nostalgia takes center stage as we reminisce about the unforgettable jingles of the '90s that have been the soundtracks of our childhoods. Remember the catchy tunes of "Empire Carpet", "Folgers", or "Mentos"? We explore how these jingles transport us back in time and contrast them with today's pop music-driven ads. From Mentos to Chia Pets, and a nod to Scottie Pippin's juice box days, we celebrate the creativity of jingles and their lasting impact on our memories.

In the spirit of finding joy in the little things, we uncover the surprising satisfaction of a lint shaver and a happy evening spent holiday shopping with Dad. As we embrace the Merry Everything mantra, we extend festive wishes to all and invite our listeners to share their stories. Join us on Instagram to connect and spread the cheer as we wrap up this delightful episode filled with laughter, nostalgia, and a touch of holiday magic.

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Transcript

Speaker 1 0:07

Hi, thanks for joining us today. It's Nora and Nora, take two for us, because our first intro was a little wacky it was ruined by me. Don't be so hard on yourself, friend. Drained it.

Speaker 2 0:17

Oh lordy, the holidays are in full swing, they are Well. This episode drops, as they say, in the biz on the 23rd. So hello out there to all you moms Creating all the merriment. Can we just be honest?

Speaker 1 0:31

It's the moms Nine times out of ten.

Speaker 2 0:33

The moms are making the magic Way to go. Moms, you hang in there. You're doing a great job.

Speaker 1 0:38

Like we're almost there.

Speaker 2 0:39

Yeah, and your kids are going to have a great Christmas.

Speaker 1 0:42

So, dads, if you're listening, do something nice. Do something nice for your wives, check on your wives. Check on your wives.

Speaker 2 0:50

Speaking of checking in on the astronauts, it's being delayed again I saw that Till March.

Speaker 1 0:57

I saw that. I have that in my notes. I didn't know that you were going to find that, so I'm glad my dad actually flagged it to me yeah, they planned on being gone a week in June and now it's not till March or April. What?

Speaker 2 1:10

do you mean? I mean, I would be so angry at this. I feel like you're like I get it, I get it, and then you're only patient to a point where you're like, hey, employer.

Speaker 1 1:21

Yeah, hey, customer service yeah.

Speaker 2 1:23

Hey, can I talk to?

Speaker 1 1:24

HR. Like my job, like crazy. I hope they're getting paid a billion dollars an hour, Say they should be, and I feel bad for their families.

Speaker 2 1:34

Oh right, yeah, they're missing a lot.

Speaker 1 1:37

Sometimes I tell, like my kids, I want to send them to the moon, but I don't want them to get stuck up there. Right, just go for eight days and come back.

Speaker 2 1:44

Yeah, I know I can't imagine. Could you imagine that a person would be having to make that call? It's like ooh Joseph, can you call the space station and let them know that it's going to be a few more months. It's going to be March now Looking like March. You'd be like ugh.

Speaker 1 1:59

Can you imagine receiving that call? Can you imagine receiving that call, trying to hold it together and not going bananas?

Speaker 2 2:05

Thank goodness they have plenty of supplies.

Speaker 1 2:07

I guess up in the space station, although she's losing a lot of weight.

Speaker 2 2:10

I know I'm worried about her. I know, oh, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 2:13

Who knows? But back to you, back to us. I'm sorry, no, how has your week been?

Speaker 2 2:19

My week has been good. It has yes.

Speaker 1 2:26

I'm so happy that our high schoolers are done with finals. Yeah, there was a lot of energy, nervous kind of energy at my house and I didn't realize it because I didn't know really that they were taking finals or what they were doing. Oh, you didn't know. And then I realized it and I was like this all makes sense.

Speaker 2 2:39

Yeah, Aiden took it very seriously, which is good, yeah, but he definitely he was nervous and then for his first final had a blood sugar that was so high and like another diabetes complication so he had to miss the first final. So that was a little stressful but the school was lovely and he made it up. But then on his last final there was a train stopped on the train tracks.

Speaker 1 3:02

On your way to school, on our way to school.

Speaker 2 3:04

So we had to reroute but he made it. But I was like I'm so sorry that your first and last finals were like way more stress than you needed.

Speaker 1 3:12

Yeah, I'm glad for them that they're on break and can kind of twit back, but I had somebody home all week with strep. Oh, is he back at school today? Today is his first day back.

Speaker 3 3:20

yeah, it was his first day back.

Speaker 1 3:21

Yeah, oh good, but it was brutal, it knocked him out. It knocked him out. The amoxicillin made him kind of wacky. Oh yeah, he was just—.

Speaker 2 3:30

Poor guy. Better to get it over with now, though, than next week.

Speaker 1 3:34

Yes, it was just a lot on—like. It kind of cramped a lot of my plans in getting ready for the season.

Speaker 2 3:40

You had a helper, yeah, and a sick kiddo who just probably wanted to be near you.

Speaker 1 3:46

The proximity isn't out of control when they're sick. Yeah, because they want to. He wanted to sleep in our room, which was fine, but he was so out of it and it was just. It was a long week. I'm glad he's on the mend.

Speaker 2 3:57

I'm glad he's on the mend too. We also. Well, we had a take one. The take two will be today. I brought Aiden to get his permit yesterday. What happened? His driving permit. What happened? Well, we didn't have the form signed by the driver's ed teacher.

Speaker 1 4:09

First-timer, oh, mr.

Speaker 2 4:11

Bill, but I got my real ID, oh good. But we did it super last minute and I know you'll appreciate this and I sound very vain, but I was like why don't you get your real ID when you bring Aiden to get his permit? And I was like, okay, but I had been like running around and then I was like, wait, am I going to have to take a new picture? Did you? And I was like I'm going to put makeup on.

Speaker 1 4:33

That was what I was going to ask you. Did you get a new picture?

Speaker 2 4:35

And although I should have changed my top, I didn't. It was just like a L sleep top but whatever.

Speaker 1 4:41

But I was like I have to put makeup on because if I'm staring at this, I know I'm not going to look gorgeous in a driver's license photo, but I don't want to look. I look like I'm 762 pounds in my. It's so close and I look terrified because I'm like it's quite close.

Speaker 2 4:57

I only have a photocopy of it, right now Of my no of mine. That would be weird. When I was at the DMV I was like could you give me a Norah Westphal's?

Speaker 1 5:07

picture please. I was like trying to be like cool, but that would have been really weird.

Speaker 2 5:11

But so Aiden Al was taking him back today to get his permit. But while we were there I was like, can you look at the rest of our paperwork and our proof of whatever to make sure we have everything else we need? And they were very nice and then they'll go back and get it. So I will take them today, but that's kind of crazy. This is my first-timer driver with a kid.

Speaker 1 5:29

Your kid's a first-timer driver, my kid's a first-timer driver.

Speaker 2 5:32

It's kind of it's exciting, but then it's also like no, he's different driven, but don't you kind of look and she's like five years old behind the wheel of the car and then he like shakes his head and then she's 16.

Speaker 1 5:46

No, I never said that. That's a cute commercial. It's a cute one, but I was just like oh, and I'm on the end of the spectrum where I'm like, oh my, could someone please just get their? License other than Ryan and myself, because we're so wildly outnumbered. Yes, with drivers to non off break too. Yeah, I was happy for him have you heard this new term that the kids are using.

Speaker 2 6:13

Probably not.

Speaker 1 6:15

Knee surgeries tomorrow.

Speaker 2 6:17

Oh yeah, okay. See, I've heard a lot of like people our parents age say that, but they actually mean it.

Speaker 1 6:24

So they've been saying it now I don't know for a few weeks to me. So now I get the joke. But then they told another mom that I was getting knee surgery and she believed it. She's like, oh God, she is a runner. People would probably think you might. They'll say like, oh, knee surgery is tomorrow. Oh, that feeling when knee surgery is tomorrow.

Speaker 1 6:46

So I googled it. Yes, thank you. Yeah, and it's the Grinch, a blue Grinch. Okay, that says that feeling when knee surgery is tomorrow. So then I had to keep googling because it didn't give me a definition of knee surgery.

Speaker 2 6:52

It's like something you have to do, you're not looking forward to, it's just you're in on the joke. That's the joke. Oh, that you know it's not serious, or that it's actually not true.

Speaker 1 7:05

Yeah, you just kind of say it, to say it because it's the joke. That, like being in on joke is the funny part.

Speaker 2 7:11

Oh, not that it makes sense at all. The joke is kind of like that. It doesn't make sense, but you know that.

Speaker 3 7:17

Yes, if you know the joke.

Speaker 1 7:19

Isn't that complicated? That's super complicated. The boys went crazy because I told them guys, I really kind of I went, I had knee surgery. I didn't really. I had a cortisone injection in my hamstring and that's no joke, but I felt like it was knee surgery because I've got a sitting foot in. But hopefully I'll be on the men's soon.

Speaker 2 7:41

That's a complicated one, like I'm glad that you told me about it, but I'm like come on, guys, why are we making it so complicated? Knee surgeries tomorrow. Knee surgeries tomorrow. Knee surgeries tomorrow. Have you heard about this gingerbread man that's causing a stir online? Does he have knee surgery tomorrow? He might Well. It's controversial because some people think it's really like the ugliest toy they've ever seen. And some people think it's really like the ugliest toy they've ever seen. And some people think it's adorable and it's gingerbread. It's a stuffed gingerbread like beanie baby. I'm going to show you a picture. One child of mine thought it was cute. One thought it, one went ugh. So oh, it's terrible. Yeah, it's not great. I'm team ugh.

Speaker 1 8:21

It looks like a creepy.

Speaker 2 8:25

It looks like it might come to life.

Speaker 1 8:26

Did you put it in that position? Did you put?

Speaker 2 8:28

it out. No, this is from NBC News, so just some random girl.

Speaker 1 8:33

Did Rose think this was cute?

Speaker 2 8:34

Rose thought it was cute, kevin thought it was creepy, I feel like, and I'm sorry that you can't see this, listeners, but maybe Nora will post it on our social media.

Speaker 1 8:42

I always say I'm going to post it, and then I forget.

Speaker 2 8:44

Oh, that's all right. But it's a Thai like beanie baby, gingerbread man and I don't like how its arms are. The arms look like he's going to strangle you.

Speaker 1 8:53

I don't like how its eyes are so big and spaced apart.

Speaker 2 8:57

The eye spacing is weird, the dimensions seem off. So this girl saw it in a hallmark or whatever and she just posted it. It was like saw this guy and said ew, ew, ew, ugly. And then felt so bad I cried and bought him. And it has gone viral and this thing has blown up and now people are buying it all over the place.

Speaker 1 9:14

How much does a Beanie Baby set you back these days?

Speaker 2 9:17

I would think like $9.99.

Speaker 1 9:22

Remember when they were a huge craze.

Speaker 2 9:24

Oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 9:25

And then they were the Happy Meal toys, yes. And then they got very expensive for a while. So I didn't know if this was one of those throwbacks, but this is a.

Speaker 2 9:33

This is a new one. I feel like it's haunting me slightly.

Speaker 1 9:37

Yeah, I feel like it's looking at me.

Speaker 2 9:39

Yeah, we can take this picture off, but so you're team ew. So far we got three ew's and one aw.

Speaker 3 9:45

Rose is the only one that makes it cute.

Speaker 2 9:48

You know, it's always an aw and never an ew.

Nostalgic Jingles and Holiday Deals

Speaker 3 9:57

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Speaker 1 10:45

And now back to the show. So our topic might be a little misleading to some people, because it's jingles, but it's not jingle bells or the jingles of the season, it's jingles, jingles and jingles. And when we were getting ready for the show, the jingles that came flooding back to my head were the ones from like the 90s, and it reminded me of how, when you listen to songs from that time in your life, how the words come back immediately and you can put yourself exactly where you were.

Speaker 1 11:20

Yeah, it's how music kind of takes you back and we've talked about this on the show a couple times how your brain remembers music from that age so much differently than it does in different parts of your life, and so that's why I ended up with what were the first ones that popped into your brain um 588? And I can remember that being on In Between the Prices Right, and I also had the Folgers one Folgers in your cup, that's a great one.

Speaker 2 11:52

I kept just thinking of Mentos. That was one that I almost like couldn't think of any other ones, because I was just like Mentos fresh fruit, mentos the whole time.

Speaker 1 12:03

Did you come? Up with the Klondike bar. What would you do? That's a great one too.

Speaker 2 12:09

No, no, oh, Klondike bar.

Speaker 1 12:11

Yes, these are great, but they're all like tapestries of our childhood A hundred percent and we all know it.

Speaker 2 12:19

And, of course, nora, I already told you this, but I went down a real rabbit hole of research.

Speaker 1 12:24

I know We'll get to the research part in a minute.

Speaker 2 12:27

But this kind of goes along with what you were saying, that for a long time it was these jingles, it was new music, new songs to advertise the products, where now the switch is kind of with pop music and what I think the problem is, I don't know a lot of the time like I'll be like, oh, I like this song, but I don't know what they're selling With the jingles. You know, it's a Klondike bar, it's Folgers in your cup, it's McDonald's, it's whatever, it's. I'm a Big Kid Now. Oh, or how about that Toys R Us song? Yes, there were certain like that in the Oscar Mayer Wiener song.

Speaker 1 13:07

That one. Well, one thing you know for sure that they're selling is a Chia Pet, ch-ch-ch-ch-chia. And that's kind of an interesting backstory, because the guy that was working on the jingle was out drinking with a buddy no way and the buddy had a hard time getting the word chia out and he was like chia and he was like that's it, that's how he came up with it?

Speaker 2 13:29

Or what about the clapper? Clap on, clap off. Clap on, clap off and a clapper.

Speaker 1 13:37

I mean, that was really very basic. But you understand how to work it.

Speaker 2 13:42

Do you know? My sister's voice activates a clapper so they can't have one in their home. The way her whatever vocal quality of her voice sets off a clapper, that's really funny. It's a real struggle for Erin. She's got to turn off her own lights. She's been really hoping for the clapper. That's really funny.

Speaker 1 13:58

It's a real struggle for Erin.

Speaker 2 13:58

She's got to turn off her own lights.

Speaker 1 13:59

She's been really hoping for the clapper. What about the Flintstones vitamin 10 million, strong and growing?

Speaker 2 14:06

Oh you're so good at this. That was a really sweet one, because they would be like 10 million strong and then a really sweet kid's voice and growing oh, those just came like flooding back to it.

Speaker 1 14:19

It's like once I thought of one. I just kept going and going.

Speaker 2 14:22

Mentos really blocked me I was on a real mental, mental, mental block. But the one there there was, the uh, scotty pippen came out with a uh a drink. It was a juice kind of like a like a high C, like a juice box, a juice box and the juice and they put it in a box with a straw With a straw, but it was like Scottie Pippin drinks a Zippin, like it was this whole ad campaign. It did not last, clearly because it's not on the market anymore.

Speaker 1 14:51

So this thing that I saw on Instagram was where they took Scottie's name and then, instead of using Pippin, they replaced it with a different word, and then a graphic to go with it Like a verb. Like Scotty Pippin, looked like Pimp Scotty Flippin and he was Flippin Burger Really funny. Or Scotty Zippin and he was on a zip line. I mean, people got really creative. He was dressed up in 70s and he was scutty zipping no, he's tripping yeah he tripping, so we'll put that on the yeah, definitely share that because that's super funny.

Speaker 2 15:19

Okay, now I feel like there's either they're using pop music to sell it, which is tough, because then you don't know what the product is called, or, uh, spokespeople yeah, that was kind of like uh, justin timberlake and pharrell for mcdonald'm loving it. Yeah, they collaborated, but at least that was an original song. You know they weren't using an existing song to sell it. Because don't you have that where you watch a commercial and you're like what is this for?

Speaker 1 15:49

Yeah, but one that's been around since 1977. That surprised me that I had on my list was the Nationwide jingle. That's been around since that long me that I had on my list was the nationwide jingle.

Speaker 2 15:59

That's been around since that long, since 1970. It's older than we are. Wow, nationwide on our side. I guess if you have something like, if it ain't, it works. Yeah, that and I love the. It's kind of a jingle. It's the hershey kiss one. When they're in, the hershey kisses are in the shape of a tree and it's like a bell chorus. We wish you a merry christmas.

Speaker 1 16:16

Yeah, it's like a bell chorus we wish you a Merry Christmas it is like a jingle.

Speaker 2 16:18

Yeah, it's like a jingle of the jingle bells. Yes, and that one's one of my favorite commercials, but it's not really a jingle.

Speaker 1 16:24

Do your kids have any jingles that they like or sing or?

Speaker 2 16:28

do? I can't think of any. Off of the top of my head. They like Jake from State Farm.

Speaker 1 16:36

They like the Simu Limo, my kids like the O'Reilly Auto Parts.

Speaker 2 16:38

Oh, yes, wait, my sister has good friends, the O'Reillys, so if they ever come up, yeah, everyone's oh O'Reilly.

Speaker 1 16:48

And then they'll sing the Menards one.

Speaker 2 16:51

Oh I don't know why? Well, because you can't not sing it. They're made to be that way.

Speaker 1 16:55

Then they change it to your mom's Say family month. I don't know. They must have done it when they were little, because they still do it. It's not even funny.

Speaker 2 17:04

Al used to work with someone whose wife's name sounded very similar to Menard and so if it would ever come up then I would sing it, and Al was like you probably shouldn't do that. That's funny. I thought it was kind of funny. I mean, I feel like if that's your name, you need to kind of own it.

Speaker 1 17:20

And the State Farm one Like a Good Neighbor. Yes, Was done by Barry Manilow. Get out of here, who just had a Christmas special Wait, I thought Barry that's well.

Speaker 2 17:32

It was really big business. And can I dip into my research?

Speaker 1 17:35

a little bit, oh yeah absolutely Okay.

Speaker 2 17:37

So the very first jingle was in 1926 for Wheaties. I have a recording of it, do you want?

Speaker 1 17:44

to hear it. Well, let's hear it.

Speaker 2 17:45

Do you want to hear it? Okay?

Speaker 3 17:46

Value, pride.

Speaker 2 17:48

Wheaties.

Speaker 3 17:50

They owe me. With all of the friends, we want to pride Wheaties, wheaties. We tease.

Speaker 1 18:20

That never expired.

Speaker 2 18:23

Good the whole year through. Good the whole year through. But this saved Wheaties. They were tanking.

Speaker 1 18:32

They were about to like, give up and then somebody was like, let's make up a song about it and put it on the radio.

Speaker 2 18:38

They were a sponsor of this radio program and they're like you know what, if we get a barbershop quartet to sing about your cereal? And I think at that point the Wheaties company was like sure, fine, like whatever, and it was a huge hit. It saved the cereal, saved the Wheaties. Yes, and that was in 1926, but this was kind of amazing, and probably only to me. In 1921, there was one radio station that everybody tuned into. Okay, in 1920.

Speaker 1 19:06

Right. Is that too many?

Speaker 2 19:06

Yeah, one radio station In 1929, 630 radio stations, holy cow. So in eight years there were that many more, and so people were sponsoring radio programs. But it wasn't until Wheaties in 1926 that they started doing these jingles on the radio. That's when it really blew up. But in the 19th century they used to print in magazines poems about products to sell. So it was kind of, I guess a natural progression.

Speaker 1 19:37

I don't mind making up a poem for something like that. I think they're kind of clever. I think it's clever, we kind of do that in our Greek articles. Sometimes we should do.

Speaker 2 19:45

Yes. And then my aunt would always sing this Pepsi jingle. I don't know it. It's like Pepsi Cola, but she has changed the melody. But she would always say Pepsi-Cola hits the spot. 12 full ounces, that's a lot, and I know it only through her. And then in this research paper they talk— that you happened upon, not that you wrote, Not that I wrote Someone else's research paper that I devoured. They talk about the Pepsi-Cola jingle. Can we hear it From 1977. We sure can, Nora.

Speaker 2 20:34

I'm so glad you asked how about that. They really do say a lot in a 20-second speech Nickel, nickel, nickel, does your aunt drink Pepsi? She does, oh, she does Well, she prefers Coke, but my uncle likes Pepsi and so does my brother. But I thought that was really funny, so I hope everyone enjoyed those.

Speaker 1 20:55

There's a Jingle Writers Hall of Fame.

Speaker 2 20:57

Yes, and I want to go. Where is it? Of course you do, where is it?

Speaker 1 21:01

I don't know anything about it. How?

Speaker 2 21:02

great would that gift shop be.

Speaker 1 21:03

Yeah, it says there isn't much info about the Jingle Writers Hall of Fame right now, but here's some related information. I wonder if you know.

Speaker 2 21:17

you know you're only allowed to go if you're a Hoff member? Oh, you know what I think it's in the Songwriters Hall of Fame Okay, you know I love a museum.

Speaker 1 21:21

Or in a Hall of Fame, so I'm in All right. Well, let me do some more research on that.

Speaker 2 21:23

I wonder if they have a jingle to advertise their Hall of Fame.

Speaker 1 21:28

Do you remember the show Two and a Half Men? Yes, he was a jingle writer. Oh that's, that was his profession, that was his job. So I mean, based on television, you can make a lot of money doing that.

Speaker 2 21:41

Yeah, I think back in the day, for sure.

Speaker 1 21:44

That would be kind of a fun job I would like to do that it would be a fun job. It would be fun to like make the theme songs for like game shows or TV or the background music and things like that I think it would be fun if somebody just gave you a product and they were like all right, come on, put the jingle for this, Like Mad Men.

Speaker 2 21:58

Did you watch Mad Men? Well, I don't know Mad Men, the TV show. No, it was Don Draper. It was like 1960s Madison Avenue advertising guys.

Speaker 1 22:08

Is it good oh?

Speaker 2 22:09

it's awesome. Is it a movie or a show?

Speaker 1 22:10

It's a show.

Speaker 2 22:11

It was on a long time ago but you would probably like it Same kind of time period as Maisel. Oh, I love that time period. Yeah, it's a really good show. We started it but I never finished it.

Speaker 1 22:23

I still want to watch. This Is how it Ends.

Speaker 2 22:27

Nobody wants this. Nobody wants this.

Speaker 1 22:30

So that's the problem. I've been looking for the wrong show. There you go. It was good.

Speaker 2 22:36

It's a super quick it's a good like wrap your gifts watch a show.

Speaker 1 22:38

I don't know why I haven't found any time in the evening to watch any shows with Ryan.

Speaker 2 22:43

I haven't, al, and I haven't watched TV in a long time either.

Speaker 1 22:46

Yeah, maybe our kids are just well. I know our kids are getting older, but their activities are later in the evening and it really hijacks the quiet time that we used to have.

Speaker 2 22:57

You know what I think has also Mm-hmm, I agree, there's not as many opportunities to watch a commercial.

Speaker 1 23:07

What I noticed was my kids don't call them commercials Ads. They call them ads, and I think that has a lot to do with watching YouTube or something on the internet Like an ad pops up and someone else is like, oh, can you fast forward through the ads? But I love Super.

Speaker 2 23:24

Bowl commercials.

Speaker 1 23:27

That's a place where commercials still shine.

Speaker 2 23:29

Yes, but even I remember there was one. There was like a Cheetos ad last year, a commercial, and they used it Wasn't Me the Shaggy song.

Speaker 1 23:40

Oh, I don't remember that, but I like that song.

Speaker 2 23:42

It was Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis. They were. That's funny to pair the songs with the product, yeah, but I kind of like that they changed the words.

Speaker 1 23:52

I would hope they changed the word Especially for that song.

Speaker 2 23:59

Yeah, yeah, wow, okay. Should we move on to highs and lows? Highs and lows? I really enjoy talking about jingles. Thank you for bringing all the jingles you brought all the jingles.

Speaker 1 24:08

I brought Mentos. What about Ricola? That was fun. I don't know if that was really a jingle or not, it was just like been going since 1977. Just one word and the name of their product, so they need it.

Speaker 2 24:20

And we all know them. Mm-hmm, ricola, it's impossible, like, like, when you say it it's almost impossible not to say you have to say it. I know I'm kind of like bursting, not saying it, but anyway, my low, I'm going to start, if that's okay. Yes, I broke my jacket.

Speaker 1 24:36

I ripped the metal zipper thing off of it, the jacket that you were afraid to unzip. Yes, once you got home, you got real aggressive with your zipper.

Speaker 2 24:47

No wonder. And now I can't zip it because there's two, you know, like there's usually two zippers. Well, I have a great tailor, could they fix a zipper? Yes, because the zipper it's the toggle. Is that the right word?

Speaker 1 25:00

Yeah, sure, the handle I don't know. The zipper pull, the pull, the pull.

Speaker 2 25:06

No, he's wonderful and if he can't fix it.

Speaker 1 25:09

I have a shoe guy who probably can fix it. I might need like an iron it's metal. Okay, I don't know any blacksmiths. But, no, I have two guys for you that I'll give you All right.

Speaker 2 25:21

Thank you, al, saw it happen and he was like ooh, because I was like all right, I got to go and I zipped my coat up and I zipped the zipper. Have you been working out? Thanks for noticing Just my right arm.

Speaker 1 25:42

My zipper arm. I think I zipped my coat up with my left hand. Are you a left hand zipper? I think you do yeah, okay.

Speaker 2 25:51

No, I'm a right-hand zipper am I?

Speaker 1 25:54

I don't know. I guess we'll have to try that. Wow, stay tuned for that. I think our readings are gonna go through the roof, um my low is that john missed all week of school because it's stress boo, but we're on the mend now. But my high is that I was able to continue the tradition I have with my dad going about 40 years strong to go shopping for my mom for Christmas Great. So we did that last night, and then we had our dinner.

Speaker 1 26:18

Found something nice, many things. She's been good this year, I know. And then we did our dinner club, christmas party right after Nice. Oh, that's fun. We had plans to do somewhere different and a little bit further Kind of fancy. But, we ended up at our fave York Tavern. Oh yeah, Nice. And there you have it. How about you? You're much better high than me.

Speaker 2 26:44

I treated myself to a you're trying to read my notes A lint remover. A lint remover, no like a. You have to charge it what it like. You know, like all the If your sweater fuzzies on it. Like this, like a pill remover yes.

Speaker 1 27:02

So this is brand new.

Speaker 2 27:02

I almost returned it.

Speaker 1 27:03

It's like a fabric shaver, so I almost returned it.

Speaker 2 27:04

It's like a fabric shaver.

Speaker 1 27:05

So I almost returned this because I haven't even put it through the wash. Can you see it?

Speaker 2 27:09

Yeah, I can. That's annoying. Can you shave it? I could. So it was on Wirecutter. Do you know how I feel about Wirecutter Do?

Speaker 1 27:20

you have it. I didn't bring it. Have you used it?

Holiday Lint Shaver Joy

Speaker 2 27:22

Yes, Are you shaving clothes? I'm shaving all my sweaters. It's amazing because I have some sweaters and some of them are nice and they're pilly and it looks not great, it looks like schlubby and I was like I don't want to get rid of this sweater. And then it was like Wirecutter could read my thoughts. It came in the mail. I charged her up. It's amazing.

Speaker 1 27:45

And then does it have like a little receptacle, like a vacuum does yeah, and so you can clean it out.

Speaker 2 27:49

And I'm like, oh my God, look at how much I shamed off the sweater.

Speaker 1 27:52

Can you shave my sweater shirt? Sure, so that is my. Do you put it on a flat surface?

Speaker 2 27:58

Yeah, you put it on a flat and you have to be careful because there's a blade inside that spins around that. What? Was doing the work, so you don't want to get too close, or else you could get a hole, oh gosh, they could cut a hole in it.

Speaker 1 28:08

That's like the disclaimer, yeah.

Speaker 2 28:10

But it came with two replacement blades and in the little handle of it there's an actual sticky lint roller. This thing is a home run.

Speaker 1 28:19

I really wish they sponsored us.

Speaker 2 28:20

Merry Christmas to me and my lint shaver and my lint shaver. We might get some people calling us asking if we need help after this.

Speaker 1 28:33

We do because we are two moms powering through the holiday season, making the magic happen while hosting a podcast.

Speaker 2 28:40

We sure are, but this has brought me much joy, as it always does. And Merry Christmas, happy holidays to all our listeners. Yeah, oh right, because Hanukkah starts on Christmas too. So happy Hanukkah and happy Christmas Happy.

Speaker 1 28:53

Christmas. Whatever, I don't want to say that.

Speaker 2 28:54

Merry everything.

Speaker 1 28:55

That's what my sweatshirt says Merry, everything Freshly shaven. And on that note, follow us on Instagram and tell a friend to tune in. Bye.