Two Noras and a Mic
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Two Noras and a Mic
Two Noras and a Bike
Poor Nora! Has this ever happened to you? You take a couple pills to help with some cold symptoms, only to have it get physically stuck with you? Nora found herself in a real pickle and when Google suggested "immediate medical attention" she tried everything from drinking copious amounts of water to sleeping upright like "the Dutch used to sleep" and even going for a morning run - all while hoping the pill would dislodge itself without intervention. But fear not...the situation is under control now.
Between opening night celebrations of a junior high musical and surprise birthday festivities, the Noras share their parallel journeys auditioning for Wheel of Fortune. While one solved puzzles solo against the clock, the other competed live against fellow contestants, leading to good-natured speculation about who might actually make it onto the show. We even taste test the limited-edition "Moon Punch" Capri Sun created for the March lunar eclipse, which prompts nostalgic discussions about the juice boxes our parents would (or wouldn't) buy us as children.
The conversation shifts to bicycles - from childhood memories of banana seats and BMX bikes with pegs that "burned the inside of people's shins" to dreams of opening a bike shop called "Off The Chains." We uncover fascinating bicycle history, learning how early models were described as "uncomfortable, no brakes, dangerous, no steering" before the revolutionary idea of making both wheels the same size. Did you know a Tour de France cyclist once reached a speed of 63 miles per hour going downhill? That's like "you're going to die" fast.
Whether you're reminiscing about your first bike, wondering if robots should really be running marathons, or simply enjoying our signature "highs and lows" segment, this episode captures the small moments that make life both challenging and delightful. Join us for laughs, nostalgia, and the comfort of knowing we're all just figuring things out as we go.
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Hi, thanks for joining us today. It's Nora and Nora. Welcome to all, and an extra special welcome to those tuning in for the first time. We're glad you're here. We sure are. You're smiling. I can't look at you.
Speaker 2:I'm trying not to laugh Because of what I just disclosed. Yes, Usually I'm the one who now I know how you feel. Because, usually I drop a bomb on you right before we record.
Speaker 1:So what's happening is? I told you something off air so we wouldn't have to talk about it on the podcast and you're bringing it up as we open the show. We don't have to. I'm sorry. I just I couldn't.
Speaker 2:I needed a little bit more time to compose myself.
Speaker 1:And I also didn't tell you this, assuming I would get laughter as a reaction. I was looking for maybe like compassion.
Speaker 2:I was worried and then you kept telling me the 12,000 things you did to try to resolve it.
Speaker 1:And then that's what I'm laughing. So, listeners, I took two DayQuil two nights ago, which I understand. You should probably take DayQuil in the day, that's neither here nor there. And the pill got stuck.
Speaker 2:Wait, maybe that's in the direction. It's like if you take them at night, they get stuck.
Speaker 1:So I took the pills with not a lot of water and then I carried on finishing up my evening jobs and then I realized the pill was stuck in my throat.
Speaker 2:But you could breathe. You weren't choking on it, you were just like oh yeah, it was something.
Speaker 1:So I drank so much water in like gulp fashion. Oh yeah, So'd get some like flow.
Speaker 2:Some water pressure, some pressure To like, force it down.
Speaker 1:But that didn't work. No, it didn't work. And also I was like, oh my gosh, I'm going to be up going to the bathroom. That didn't help either. So I slept in an elevated position.
Speaker 2:This is like how the Dutch used to sleep yeah, sitting like straight up. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And that also didn't work. So then I just figured I'd go on a run in the morning because, like the, the dislodging yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, no no, but tell our listeners what you read when you Googled it.
Speaker 2:Oh, just just to share in case any of them run into a similar situation.
Speaker 1:So I read if you have swallowed a pill and it feels stuck, you should seek medical attention immediately, oh, not after a run no. Or eating on your chest, to which one of my kids did say what are you doing? That's not going to work, but you're fine now, I think. Yeah, I still feel like Well, I didn't until we started talking about it. Now I have like a Like phantom pill.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, like if you have a splinter or something and then it's, the splinter gets taken out, you still feel like you feel it.
Speaker 1:yeah, oh it also said to take prilosec what's prilosec?
Speaker 2:oh, like heartburn yeah, if it was stuck there.
Speaker 1:Oh so I bought some. How'd that go?
Speaker 2:I was, you know, I didn't really have heartburn, yeah, but I was just reading an article that said that, if you're, how about your cold symptoms Resolved completely? Maybe the pill being there helped your symptoms more.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh. But enough about me. How are you? I'm good. You are smack dab in the middle of fabulous yes, well, when this drops, it'll be done in the best way possible. You are incredible.
Speaker 2:Oh, you're very kind. 'll be done in the best way possible. You are incredible. Oh, you're very kind. Tell our listeners what you've been up to. I'm putting on a show. My junior high musical opened on Thursday night and I'm so proud of the kiddos. They did a really awesome job. They brought their A game and the biggest thing is I'm like just have fun. Like no one wants to see sad kids on stage, so I was. They looked like they were having a blast. I also love when small things go wrong and I see how they rise to the occasion and pivot and work with it and help each other. And a few little things went wrong and I was really proud of them and how they handled it and yeah, it was really good you are giving him such a gift of confidence on stage.
Speaker 1:I hope so, and they looked fantastic and we talked about this off air and their daughter has the best smile on stage.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, so happy.
Speaker 1:But we talked about off air, about how you really are responsible for the choreography. You're responsible for choosing all of their costumes, all of their hair, all of their makeup, all of the lighting, all of the set. Like you do it all for Anne Meany.
Speaker 2:She does all the singing and then I have some nice parents who help that I can kind of bounce ideas off, because some you know like I'll, be like I know I would like something like this, you know you made the bus. A very nice parent made me a bus, which I was so grateful, because you really need a bus, you need it.
Speaker 1:Well, I just I hope you know how incredible everything was.
Speaker 2:Oh, thank you, I was really happy with how it all ended up and people who seem to like it and it's just, I wanted to do a super fun show, silly and just full of love and fun and laughs, and I feel like that's what delivered. That's what they got. So I'm excited to see it again tonight, because the kids will be excited and jazzed up and then we'll have our last show on Sunday and then I will come back to Earth and focus on everything else.
Speaker 1:Speaking of Earth, oh, Well, planet. Yeah Well, actually just the solar system, oh okay. What do we saw? Oh, just the solar system, oh, okay. But I saw you got your Moon Punch. I saw it at the store. I'm so excited. So a couple weeks ago, listeners, we talked about Moon Punch, a drink that Capri Sun launched for the lunar eclipse March 14th, and it was just a juice box to I don't know was it a marketing?
Speaker 2:what was it to celebrate the?
Speaker 1:eclipse yeah, to mark you, to mark the eclipse there you go, eclipse occurs, yada, yada, yada.
Speaker 2:Oh, they've got some. This is a great box to read. You can learn a lot.
Speaker 1:Constellation tells you oh, all the phases of the moon, and I think the juice boxes have the phases on that.
Speaker 2:We're going to find out. Oh, there's a thing over here, oh.
Speaker 1:This box is like a cereal box. You can read it.
Speaker 2:Let's see Little Moon Punch. Let's see what phase. I got A waning gibbous. Oh, what'd you get?
Speaker 1:Well, I don't know how to say that Did I get the same one?
Speaker 2:you did Waxing gibbous, what are you? I'm waning and you're waxing.
Speaker 1:Ew, I'd rather be waning I don't know.
Speaker 2:Well, I don't know. So, oh God, help me. Sorry, I broke the box, that's okay.
Speaker 1:So this little punch to celebrate the lunar eclipse was obviously on sale, because the lunar eclipse was March 14th. Oh sure, oh, they're ice cold, oh good idea, this sheet. Shake it up. They glow in the dark what the packs. So if you're listening to this and you think you might, be, interested, hustle over to your local Kroger or.
Speaker 2:Mariano's. Do you think it tastes like the moon? It. Do you think it tastes like the moon? It's like rocks. Oh God, look at you Dive in right in. Oh moon-ish, Huh, Hmm, oh no I mean. Tastes kind of like water.
Speaker 1:Moon water.
Speaker 2:Moon water. You know what it tastes. Like Water with like the end of, like maraschino cherries, like a dash of that Like grenadine.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm looking for the nutrition facts on it. That was 11 grams of sugar.
Speaker 2:Wow, here we go. What's in it? Water, sugar, oh, pear and cherry. Yeah, oh, that's what I said, cherries, look at my palate, so refined for juice.
Speaker 1:I could be a juice sommelier, that's what I'm going to do when the musical's over. I think they're in high demand.
Speaker 2:I'll do kids' birthday parties, oh great.
Speaker 1:Everyone put your straw in your juice box my mom never bought these when we were kids.
Speaker 2:My mom wouldn't buy them either, mm-mm. But my mom bought Hi-C, which is not bad.
Speaker 1:Oh, so would my mom, yeah, same.
Speaker 2:But I think also I never buy these because I feel like a lot can go wrong with the straw.
Speaker 1:You know what we got banned from at my house. Oh, what Squeeze-its. This is a core memory I have.
Speaker 2:Squeeze-its Were those like the bottles with the tops.
Speaker 1:We had just moved to Arizona in white carpeting. Oh, I twisted a squeeze-it and that was it. Damn, those were so good. They had that weird plastic bottle.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then people would chew on the straw.
Speaker 1:Yeah, those were weird.
Speaker 2:Those were weird. They were just a whole lot of sugary syrup.
Speaker 1:I liked juice boxes when I was a kid. Same I mean. What's not to love? You know what's a nice juice box? That? I would buy for my kids when they were younger was the Honest Kids.
Speaker 2:I still buy those you do. Yeah, I used to drink those when I was pregnant. Kevin has one in the morning. Oh, he does.
Speaker 1:Yeah, do you put them in the?
Speaker 2:lunchboxes? No, because I feel like they get warm. I'd rather them just drink water, A nice cold juice box.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's good for fortune, it's good for human control it is yeah, is it apple? Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I like apple juice.
Speaker 2:Something else happened this week that was super exciting, it sure did.
Speaker 2:It's kind of a continuation of an adventure we had in February, that in February Nora and I went to a casting for the Wheel of Fortune. It was part of the auto show and we went and it was fine. It was long, but like a typical casting like you don't leave there feeling good about yourself You're like, well, that's all I could do. And then I had kind of forgotten about it. I had forgotten about it too until I didn't. And then last week I got an email saying are you available to do a Zoom casting, like the next step? And I was excited but I was sad because you hadn't gotten an email and we were all in this together.
Speaker 1:But I was happy for you.
Speaker 2:You were so happy for me and that was really really nice. I was happier for you, I think than I was for me, because then you got your email.
Speaker 1:Oh yes, then a couple days later, yeah, Because you're T for Taylor and I'm W for Westphal.
Speaker 2:Maybe that's why I was just going down alphabetically.
Speaker 1:But yeah, you're in letters and words and jumble and crossword and I'm not. Yeah, so we each individually auditioned for this and our auditions looked very different.
Speaker 2:Yes, which is interesting Mine I had to play against other people and I probably came in a solid second out of three.
Speaker 1:Okay, so I played solo. I was on the Zoom call. We should probably let listeners know that we were both on Zoom.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:And I met the other two potential contestants they're all in the room together and then, one by one oh God, that sounds creepy he took us into the room In the virtual waiting room, yes. So then I had a screen that had four puzzles on it and there was four groups of them. So in total I had 16 puzzles and, I think, 90 seconds on the clock for each grouping. Yeah, mine was so different, and so I was able to solve four out of four. On the first one, that's amazing, silly cry, baby. This one, that's so, that's so weird puzzle.
Speaker 1:Well, at least that's what I think. Yes, so four out of four on the first one, but then the other 12. I did not do nearly as well because I only got two and I only.
Speaker 2:We only had, so I had two other ladies on with me and we had to see who got them first.
Speaker 1:I think it would have been helpful for me to have somebody else on there like so I could spitball, like if I could hear their ideas and build off those.
Speaker 2:But no, we weren't allowed to spitball. You had to just guess when you knew it oh. You weren't allowed to sound it out and like, uh, this fish. And he told me to try and sound it out yeah, which is usually what they do on Wheel of Fortune for that final round, but no, ours was just like. Say it when you know it, If you know it, say it. You see something, say something. So we haven't heard. I don't think I'm going to get picked, but I think you will. That's I like your positive.
Speaker 1:I would just be happy if one of us got picked.
Speaker 2:You should get picked. You answered a lot of puzzles.
Speaker 1:No wait, six out of 12, six out of 16?.
Speaker 2:Well, you don't know what the other people got, true, so All right?
Speaker 1:Well, stay tuned. And you had your birthday. Yes, I did. It was a very big week.
Speaker 2:We have had a big week. No wonder we haven't recorded until Friday.
Speaker 1:No wonder we spent 47 minutes catching up before we could record.
Speaker 2:Oh, and I didn't bring your gift. What a ding-dong.
Speaker 1:But we're going to celebrate your birthday properly. Yeah, and I'll remember that Ryan was out of town in the afternoon so we had a 7 am birthday party. I got a long run in in the morning which you know is my favorite. It was before I had the pill situation and then I came home to small cakes and cards and treats and gifts and I mean the whole shebang at 7 am that's amazing 7.27,.
Speaker 1:The big kids left and then the little guys got off to school. Ryan and I did some planting and worked in the yard a little bit, and he asked where we wanted to go to lunch. Yeah, where'd you end up going, bona? Yes, for your birthday. I said yep, that's where we want to go. Yep, and then he headed off to the airport and I had a typical mom. What do you get at Bona? Oh, I get this protein bowl.
Speaker 1:I really do like to get a sandwich, but if I'm trying to be good, it's steamed spinach, roasted red peppers, tomatoes, grilled chicken it's so good and a side of fries.
Speaker 2:Yes, their fries are delicious, that sounds. See, when I go to Bona, I panic because they have so much on the menu that I'm like I don't have time to read all this, and then I usually just get a beef sandwich. They have everything, but I like the sound of this protein bowl. Their pizza is very good.
Speaker 1:They have everything Catherine Grace wrote an article about, or an essay about how it's the greatest place. It really is a good spot.
Speaker 1:I want Bona how it's the greatest place. It really is a good spot. No one won't want to. But how about? So then in the evening I had, we had a divide and conquer because Ryan wasn't home, Right? So Mike and I hit a soccer game and a baseball game. And then Mike stayed at the baseball game or the soccer game and I told the big kids just to grab dinner and come home and they said meet us at Hill Grove. And they set up a little birthday dinner. Wasn't that cute? Oh Nora, they were very thoughtful. That is really sweet, I know. Yeah, they took good care of me, that's awesome.
Speaker 2:So you had early in the morning and then at night. Yeah, you were up late on your birthday. Nice work, guys. Were you late on your birthday? Oh?
Speaker 1:no, not really. No, probably like 9.30. Oh, late for me, but yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, that's awesome, I'm glad. And speaking of running, did you hear that in Beijing they had robots running a half marathon? Oh my, gosh why.
Speaker 2:Exactly, there was a Beijing half marathon and they had thousands of people running in this half marathon. Wait, were they people or robots? Well, they were humans and robots, oh okay, but some were like three feet nine inches tall, and then the tallest one that one was oh, some fell down. The tallest one was five feet nine. I can show you the video later. He finished it in two hours and 40 minutes with a robot. I don't know if he has a gender, but two hours and 40 minutes for a half marathon.
Speaker 1:Who controlled him?
Speaker 2:His keeper, His scientist. They had the people who the robots had. Like it's almost kind of like when the disabled runners run, Like they have a guide. Like the robots had to have a guide, I guess, to make sure they could go roll, did the? Robots only run as fast as their guide. The guides ran as fast as the robot. What if you were the?
Speaker 1:one controlling the robot?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I think they were like run, robot run, and then they what if you wanted to switch robots?
Speaker 1:She goes, wait, my robot's too fast, you better get ready. You can't get too far. What if you're rolling by? She wears so fucking big.
Speaker 2:But a lot of these guys have, like khaki pants on Because they're not runners, they're scientists. Oh, these guys are. Oh, that robot was really fast.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, he looks like a person.
Speaker 2:Yeah, humanoid robots. These guys were prepared. That's the one that won. Then these guys are in like khakis and flannel shirts. That one has a sun hat, this one has oven mitts on.
Speaker 1:oh, boxing gloves oh, that robot has a knee problem. He's got khakis on.
Speaker 2:He's in the PT after this.
Speaker 1:But isn't that so crazy? That's so funny. Have they ever done this?
Speaker 2:before. I think it was the first time they had to resemble humans. They couldn't roll, they couldn't be on wheels, they had to walk or run. I love that. Your first question was why? Because yeah, why? But two hours and 40 minutes is that a good time for a half marathon? Yeah, that's right. Pretty good For a robot? Yeah, that's right, pretty good For a robot. Yeah, for I mean for a human.
Speaker 2:How do you gauge? But for a human, is that a good time? No, no, no. Okay, take that, robots, we're still faster than you.
Speaker 1:No, maybe it is. It's all relative. It's all relative.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's better than a robot I could build, and I'm glad that robots are taking care of their heart health.
Speaker 1:Healthy robots, that's what we need. Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I am still like buzzing from our nightcap with the Norris. That was so fun, so fun. That drink was delicious, I know it kind of scares me when I like a whiskey drink Same. Do you ever get that song in your head? Like a whiskey drink, a log, a drink like from that 90s oh my god, I get mad. Is that what I get up to get me chumbalumba whenever I like a whiskey drink I'm like a whiskey drink sing the song that reminds me. I sing this that was a weird song.
Speaker 1:I say danny boy in it why are they called chumbawumba, that song?
Speaker 2:is called.
Speaker 1:Tell them something. What does that mean? No, maybe that's what happens when you have too many whiskey drinks.
Speaker 2:You feel chumbo?
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Speaker 2:So our topic today is not Chumbawamba or tub thumping or robots.
Speaker 1:It's bikes, bicycles, thumping or robots.
Speaker 2:It's bikes, bicycles and hooray for bikes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean hooray for bikes, but do you like to ride a bike?
Speaker 2:I do like to ride a bike. Sometimes I forget that it's an option. You know that it's not always first top of mind for me, like oh. I could just ride my bike. But I also think that's because Al got me a baby seat for my bike for well, not for me for Rose and I never liked it.
Speaker 1:I did not feel safe. I didn't like riding her around.
Speaker 2:You didn't ride your other kids on a bike, no, what Well? Aiden was in London and I didn't feel safe riding around in London. Rory was New York and I definitely didn't feel safe there. And then in South Bend there was nowhere to go.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, and then.
Speaker 2:Texas. I think I was just sad. And then when, Rose, I just I never felt safe doing it, but you had your kids on a bike, on the back of your bike.
Speaker 1:I had kids on the back of my bike. It's one of my favorite milestones, yeah, and I had them on two wheels like freakishly early.
Speaker 2:You did yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're ready to roll my youngest believes that our neighbor taught him how to ride his bike.
Speaker 2:Oh you did?
Speaker 1:It was me. Yeah, you were running down the street, so we just kind of go with it because it's funny. I taught all four of mine.
Speaker 2:Did you teach your kids? I taught aiden and rory, al did kevin and rose I like in in europe they have more baby seats.
Speaker 1:They're at the front. I've seen those around and I like that better.
Speaker 2:I wish I had one of those because number one I felt like rose kept kicking me in the butt well and it just felt like I would think it would be. They can't be too big if they're in the front Right. But then I always felt like I was like you. Okay, back there. I felt like I kept having to look behind me.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, not safe. No, no, I got eyes forward. When I was a kid, the bikes were like your only mode of transportation. Indeed, yeah, yeah, Like that's how we got everywhere. And then we moved to Arizona and that was not quite the thing. But my dad had a baby seat on his bike that we slid off and we made a seat cushion for it. So, we made like a, like a rumble seat, like a sidecar. So I would pick up my friend Whitney on that bike and she would sit on the back.
Speaker 2:That's very clever. It was clever of us. So now that I don't have the baby seat on there and Al bought me a beautiful bike and it's a very nice, proper bike, but I kind of I'm jealous of your, like I wish mine was cuter, like. It's not a cute bike.
Speaker 1:My bike is 22 years old. Oh wow, I don't know if it's. It's from my sophomore year of college. Okay, my dad made sure I had a fantastic parking pass when I went down to school my sophomore year, which I really appreciate. But I wanted a bike. So when I was in Tucson I saw this bubblegum pink beach cruiser and I knew I had to have it, and that was how I got around.
Speaker 2:That's amazing and I still have it.
Speaker 1:It's probably one of my most favorite things.
Speaker 2:I kind of wish I had, because my sister has a cute like beach cruiser kind of bike, but because I wanted a basket so I could hold stuff in it. But because mine has, like all like the brake wires in the front, you could never really do a basket. But with the Target Kate Spadesale I got a little.
Speaker 1:Did you get one? I got a bike like a side basket.
Speaker 2:Because also, if I'm riding my bike, it's probably to either go somewhere or run errands or I want to pick stuff up, so it'll be nice to have.
Speaker 1:I ride my bike to the grocery store a lot, or in the town.
Speaker 2:Because you have a nice basket.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm a big bike rider.
Speaker 2:That's great, and you're in bike season. Now I am in bike season. It's almost.
Speaker 1:I love bike season, but I look back to my childhood and I have so many memories built around bike riding yeah. And we put kids on handlebars and kids on pegs.
Speaker 2:Oh, you were a daredevil. No, handlebars and kids on pegs, and oh, you were a daredevil. No, I never did that but we would ride our bikes around all over. I broke my arm I when I fell off my bike. Okay well, I broke both my arms, not at the same time, but one time playing football, the other time I fell off my bike it was kind of that's when I was like I guess I'm not cut out for this.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's funny, sean. My brother tackled me and I just fell back wrong on it, and that was it, that was it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, as adults, I love a bars on bikes.
Speaker 2:Oh, like the pedal thing all together, oh that. I like that, but no like if you do like a pump, crawl on your bike. Oh a pump crawl and we did birthdays on bikes. That was super fun. Have you ever done one of those like group bike?
Speaker 1:things. Yes, they were big in Arizona, okay.
Speaker 2:I did one in Dayton with my college friends and that was really fun.
Speaker 1:Wait, have you been to the bike shop in Dayton?
Speaker 2:No, which shame on me. It's still there. Oh, it's still there. It's a national historic site. Oh, yeah, so because I did a little research on it. But the Wright brothers were fascinating. Yes, because they were. They had a bicycle shop before they went into airplanes, but before that they had a printing company. They did so. It was a printing company and then they just got into bikes. And it kind of reminded me of you because they were just they got. They both got bikes because they were relatively new and they just got really into it and loved bikes I love bikes and then learned how to repair them. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:Yes, and then, they ended up opening a shop.
Speaker 1:You know, that's my dream, I know.
Speaker 2:And what did?
Speaker 1:you say manifest it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, throw it out, throw it out there. Okay, yeah, your bike shop.
Speaker 1:I would like an old-fashioned bike shop with like an old-fashioned cash register and kind of like cozy vibe in there. If you have a dog, maybe I'd have a little water bowl out front and some treats.
Speaker 2:Well, not if I have a dog.
Speaker 1:No, if someone was a dog. And then I'll have like cute little greeting cards and bells and baskets. Oh yeah, I think that's a great idea. I even have a name for it. Oh what, yeah, I don't have a name for it. Oh what? Should I share it? Or should I wait for the grand reveal when I get?
Speaker 2:the shop. I don't know. I kind of want you to share it. Okay, it's going to be called off the chains, oh that's good, yeah, that's really good.
Speaker 1:Um, and even if somebody else wants to open it and then I just work there, that's okay too, okay okay. But I need to be paid well and have lots of days off on a flexible schedule and I don't know you want to open your own business and have lots of days off on a flexible schedule.
Speaker 2:And I don't know how. So you want to open your own business and have lots of days off?
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm oh okay and not a lot of referrals. Sure, okay, throw it out there, but like in the summer.
Speaker 2:Maybe you could just franchise it, come up with like the ideas of like what people need to open it and then sell it like a. Okay, that's some food for thought. Yeah, all right, like small cakes, what's a franchise?
Speaker 1:I kind of like the feel of like a neighborhood bike shop.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, well, we'll see we can talk about it. We'll iron it out All right, thanks. Do you remember your first bike?
Speaker 1:That's what I was going to ask you. Yes, I do. Do you remember yours?
Speaker 2:Yes, blue BMX kind of like a mountain bike. We were in California, what?
Speaker 1:I had a little tomboy face, didn't you? Weren't you able to like ride around your pool in the backyard?
Speaker 2:We had our backyard in California was awesome. We couldn't ride around the pool but there was this like concrete slab that was probably almost like a half court basketball court. I think of it as being humongous. I bet my dad and maybe it wasn't as long as I thought- Wouldn't that be funny to go back and see it.
Speaker 2:Yes, I would love to, and we would just ride our bikes Like the backyard was massive and it was great. Oh, and I would. Yeah, we'd ride our bikes all over the place there. My mom used to ride her bike a lot in California and put Sean in the back of her bike and stuff like that. And then Pennsylvania was crazy because it was so hilly. And I got a new bike in Pennsylvania and it was fluorescent green and like hot pink. No way, I wonder if we had the same one. Oh, my gosh, that's funny. Yeah, oh, and then I had a bike in college but I don't remember what. I must have brought it home. Were there a lot of bike riders at Dayton? Yeah, people did ride their bikes a lot to get around campus.
Speaker 2:Because not every a lot of people had cars, but a lot of people didn't.
Speaker 1:You didn't really need a car, like a wide campus.
Speaker 2:It's getting bigger. When I was there, it's not. It was. It's not as wide. It wasn't as wide as it is now. It's definitely more sprawling. Wait, so what was your first bike then?
Speaker 1:It was also blue. Oh, it had a banana seat. Oh my sister had a banana seat and a Hagerty Chevrolet sticker right in the middle bar. Oh, two little handles.
Speaker 2:It was cute and we called it the blue bike. We used to do this thing in Beverly. We did it probably like three years. It was like the Beverly Mystery Bike Tour.
Speaker 1:That sounds vaguely familiar.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that sounds vaguely familiar, yeah, you would put a sticker on your bike because you were like a part of the group, yeah, and you would have to go around to different places? Yes, I wonder if we were there at the same time. I don't think I ever did it, oh, but yes. Okay, that sounds familiar, but it was a thing and it was so fun.
Speaker 1:We used to love doing that. Yeah, I did a flashlight on the front that you could remove and then take with you and put back on.
Speaker 2:Okay, in case you were bike riding yeah.
Speaker 1:And then I had a blue bike in Beverly, again Betty. We named her Betty. She was a mountain bike. We put pegs on her. Oh yeah, I think that would burn the inside of people's shapes.
Speaker 2:Betty with a vengeance Betty Whoa.
Speaker 1:Because I think the pegs were too short or the width of the wheel was maybe too wide.
Speaker 2:Oh, I see they're like. Who's riding on Nora's bike?
Speaker 1:Never mind, I'm just going to go home, but I think we were so desperate to get from point A to point B. You'd ride on Betty and just be careful.
Speaker 2:You were like your legs bowed out Bowed. Yeah, my dad is a huge bike rider.
Speaker 1:He is, and he went to the Netherlands for biking, didn't he?
Speaker 2:He did. He biked across the Netherlands, he biked across Italy, he biked across. He went from Paris to London but there was a boat involved. He just biked across the water. He's done. I think Michigan he and my Uncle Bill, his brother, they do a ton of bike riding and they still do it.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm, I think they're looking at another trip. I forget where they wanted to go, but he tries to pick places that are flat, that's very smart there are these companies, these bike tour companies that you bike ride a certain amount and then you get to the hotel and then the company you give the company all your stuff in the morning, they drive it to the next hotel your suitcase and stuff and then you ride your bike.
Speaker 1:I'm, I'm in for all that. My mom did one through burgundy.
Speaker 2:Oh, I would like to do that. I would like to do that.
Speaker 1:That would be nice, and then here in chicago they have bike the drive.
Speaker 2:Yes, my dad used to do that and then Shore to.
Speaker 1:Shore, shore to Shore, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, that probably goes right by Grand Beach. Yeah, my dad does it. Yeah, or did it?
Speaker 1:Hasn't done it in the last couple of years.
Speaker 2:But yeah, it's really good exercise there's a lot of opportunities to bike ride.
Speaker 1:The only tricky thing is when you do it for exercise, is how much time it takes. Oh, it takes longer to bike to burn the calories than it does to run. Oh, really. Yeah Huh, but I like biking.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I remember when the Divvy bikes came out.
Speaker 1:Well, they were called City Bikes in New.
Speaker 2:York. They're very popular and people use them all the time. But that is not for me. No, it makes me nervous to ride my bike in New York City. I've never done it, but my brother-in-law and sister-in-law were champs. They do it all the time.
Speaker 1:You know who, what we need, what we need a tandem bike. Oh my God, two Norris and a bike. Have you ever ridden a?
Speaker 2:tandem bike. We could take our show on the road.
Speaker 1:I wonder if it's hard though. It can't be that hard. It's not harder than producing a middle school musical.
Speaker 2:It's less people to worry about. That's for sure.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, if you're out there, let's manifest that too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let's do it, because I bet you it would be easier than some of the early bikes that were created. I like too that in 1818, this bike was called the dandy horse or running machine, but all of these bikes up until, I would say, 1885. So, like the first 75 years of bikes, it's all described as uncomfortable, no brakes, dangerous, no steering. Like this bike had no pedals, no steering or brakes, it was difficult and dangerous to maneuver.
Speaker 1:Could you imagine if our kids hopped on a bike like that?
Speaker 2:No, no. And then another bicycle had crank pedals, so I don't know what that means, but they had no brakes and a lot of head-on collisions. And then they had this other bike with the gigantic front wheel called the Penny Farthing bike and again very difficult to get on and off, unstable.
Speaker 1:How do you get on that?
Speaker 2:bike you would need a stool or a friend, a ladder or something. A friend, yes. And then, finally, in 1885, john Kemp Starley was like what if the wheels are the same, you know the same size, and we get the wheels working together? Because on some of the first bikes with pedals, the pedals would only move the front wheel because there was no chain on it. Well, cheers to this guy because he really Way to go, John, yeah, but then at the end they show this bike of the future.
Speaker 1:Oh, I don't really appreciate that it looks kind of like suggestive it doesn't look right no, no, it looks kind of good, I was reading up on the tour de france.
Speaker 2:Of course you were, of course I was. It's 21 days long. That's too long, that's a long, that's a long time. It's a big commitment. It takes them about 80 hours.
Speaker 1:So I'm like, why don't you just?
Speaker 2:make it shorter days and ride your bike longer. I don't know. I feel like that's not a good use of time 21 days is a terrible use of time, but it's 2,200 miles and guess how fast they go 15 miles an hour 25 to 28 miles per hour. On flat land. They're hauling, but the fastest ever Tour de France. Time recorded ever was 63.1 miles per hour.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, Isn't that insane. How do you make your way down the hill?
Speaker 2:Well, I guess this guy would go Hold on, but that's kind of that's dangerous.
Speaker 1:That's really scary. That's like you're going to die. Like if you hit a rock, it's like goodbye.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, how is that?
Speaker 1:That's just bananas, you know what that makes me want to tune into it, though. Check it out Now that I know they go so fast. Yeah, I get nervous when I watch a lot of people biking so close together.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't like to watch that. That's something I have no interest in watching live. No, you're fine.
Speaker 1:I mean, if we're going to watch it for eight hours straight.
Speaker 2:I'd like something exciting to happen. Eighty hours.
Speaker 1:No, no, how many hours straight.
Speaker 2:Oh, like in a day. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Not that many.
Speaker 2:A few.
Speaker 1:Because that'd only be ten Right Right.
Speaker 2:Not a number. Smart, we could do the math. We could, but we won't we won't.
Speaker 1:Should we jump into highs and lows? Let's do it. Where are you at my low.
Speaker 2:my high and low are kind of related. My high is the musical but my low is. I am so behind in all the other aspects of my life right now Like I have so many emails from school about Teacher Appreciation Week and to sign up for things for the end of the year and I'm like I can't right now or ever You've done all the things I know, but I do appreciate the teachers and would like to participate in that, but just give them a nice end of the year gift.
Speaker 2:I just feel like my car smells bad, like it needs to be washed. I just am like I need to get my other life things done.
Speaker 1:Yes, I get it so.
Speaker 2:I just, I mean, I have a pretty good reason why it's all behind, but I still don't like that feeling. How about you?
Speaker 1:My low is that they had to reschedule the Wheel of Fortune I had planned to do it on my birthday and I was so excited. And then I had to wait an extra day, but that was okay, because whatever it still got done, yeah what about your high. My high was my birthday. Oh, I love my birthday because I get to talk to so many people and it's a good reminder about how lucky I am and how many incredible people are in my life.
Speaker 2:It's just, it's a happy day and your kids really stepped up yeah they did and that's got to feel good on you Like, wow, I did a good job on these guys. I know.
Speaker 1:It's like you gave a birthday present to yourself. I'll remember that. All right, we have just been talking and talking and talking.
Speaker 2:Should we land the?
Speaker 1:plane Yep. All right, we'll see you guys next week. Bye, bye.
