What's hAPPening?

A $100 hot dog topped with caviar and gold flakes should taste like magic, right? We dig into why viral “luxury food” often lands like a regular snack, and how the internet turns menu stunts into must-click culture. From there, we zoom out into the bigger question behind the joke: when does food stop being food and start becoming performance art, and who’s paying the price for it?

We also talk about restaurant prestige and the messy ethics that can sit behind it, including the Noma chatter and what it means when young chefs tolerate toxic kitchens for a resume line. Then we lighten it up with wellness trends that feel suspiciously familiar, like Viking-style retreats built on cold plunges, saunas, communal meals, and “nature as a gym” aka camp with better marketing.

Finally, we get literal about “apps” and go both directions: appetizers (hors d’oeuvres vs first course, shareable starters we love, and why we’re picky about boards) and applications (the early days of Snake, today’s most-downloaded apps, how to check Screen Time, and when a website still beats an app). We wrap with our highs and lows, including roof leaks, weird prop problems, Nora shoes, and the joy of going home and feeling like a daughter again. If you laughed, cringed, or strongly disagreed with us, subscribe, share with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find the show.

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Transcript

312 Day Catch-Up And Freebies

SPEAKER_01 0:06

Hi, thanks for joining us today. It's Nora. And Nora. It's always fun to be here. It sure is. Especially when you drop comments like that right before we record. I'm sorry I do that to you long. That's okay. Well, you know what?

SPEAKER_00 0:19

Happy 312 Day.

SPEAKER_01 0:21

Thank you so much. You're welcome. And to all who celebrate, happy 312 Day. Everyone downtown Chicago should be whooping it up. Yeah. 312 Brewery. How many times can I say 312? 312. Um 312 Brewery giving away free beer for a year to a lucky recipient. That would be amazing. Or problematic. Or problematic. Well, yeah, I don't know. But as long as you were to share it. It's not like it can only be drunk by that one person. True. And there's no time limit, I guess. I was thinking, like, do you get a card where you can use it like any grocery store? Just like show your card. So that's what I was wondering about too. And I listened to that Lonely Island podcast. No, no. They it's these three guys from Saturday Night Like, well, they did their own stuff, like YouTube videos and comedy. And then they were on Saturday Night Live, like Andy Sandberg, he's a part of that. And they were saying they did commercials for Klondike Bar, and in their contract was free Klondike bars for life. For life? For life. Oh wow. And that they would basically just like email the person, like, we're ready for more. And then they would just get shipments of Klondike Bar. Maybe that's how the beer? Yeah, I don't know. You just sent text a picture of an empty case or an empty can. Like self-passed out. Oh beer bong. A recycler full of empty cans. I could fall on. Yeah, right. There's a lot of signs, I guess, for free beer.

SPEAKER_00 1:53

I was thinking about like if I could get something free for a year, you know what? I would probably pick iced tea. Yeah. That's not very exciting, but it's something that would be nice.

SPEAKER_01 2:03

I get almost every day. Same. Have you tried yet the gallon of iced tea from Chick-fil-A?

SPEAKER_00 2:10

No, I like the gallon of iced tea from Village Gourmet.

SPEAKER_01 2:14

Oh, is that in Downers Grove? Nah, Claridon Hills. Claridon Hills. It's$9. Okay. This is$6.99, I think. Okay, so plus tax$7.28. So it's about the same. What was that? Look at you, math skills. What was that? I don't know. So fairly comparable. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not the$25 iced tea racket egg harbor's drenapole. I stood up for us. You did. And I'm grateful for that. And then we never went back. No. I'm just kidding. No, we have gone back, but we just never get that. But I for sure always get a to-go one when I go there.

SPEAKER_00 2:49

Oh, cup.

SPEAKER_01 2:50

Yes. A to-go cup.

SPEAKER_00 2:51

So do you every week get the Chick-fil-A?

SPEAKER_01 2:54

It's just kind of like whenever I I go to Chick-fil-A. Like, and I'm not going there every week. So if I'm getting it for my kids, I'm like, oh, I'll get a gallon. That that makes sense. Can I tell you how my daughter totally played me? Oh, sure. Okay. So she's an Irish dancer. She's seven. So she's like early years. And so she's she's been doing it for a year, and this is busy season because we're around St. Patrick's Day, and these little girls have gigs, essentially, that they have. And last night they did a whole big giant show. And there was pizza afterwards, but it was so crowded. There was nowhere to sit. And I had two other kids at home that needed to be fed. And like my husband had, it was just kind of like, this is not happening. And she was like, We're not staying for pizza. I'm so hungry. I'm so hungry. I just want to eat, like tears, crying. And I knew she was hungry, but I was just like, clearly, you're tired. You're hungry. You're all the things because you're crying. And it's a school night. School night. Yeah. So I get in the car. I'm like, you can have whatever you want for dinner. I'll make you whatever you want. I'll get you any fast food, any food, anything you want, you can have for dinner. Except for the pizza at that place. I was that smart. And she goes, I want brownies and ice cream. Oh, she did? Oh gosh, she's so smart. You had to. I was like, all right. She was like, you know, like that. Like, really? I was like, yeah, sure. I said you can have whatever you want. So did you go to the store and get brownies on it? Well, I have brownie mix at home. Oh, yeah. So you made brownies. So, but then we got home and I was like, listen, the oven has to heat up. I have to make them. They take 42 minutes to cook. I know you're really hungry. In the meantime, maybe a bowl of cereal while you wait for your main course of brownies. She's like, okay. So she had like two bowls of cereal and then a nice big brownie for dinner. Good for her. And everyone was happy. Everyone was happy. Brownies take a long time to cook. 42 minutes. 42 minutes. The ones I make, they do. They do. They're so soft.

unknown 4:55

Yeah.

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SPEAKER_01 4:56

It's a slow burn. They're at 325. Oh. So it's a low temperature. Did you make that up? No, the on the box. It's well, the box gives a range of time. I find 42 minutes is the person. The sweet spot? Yeah. Speaking of food. Oh, yeah. Did you see at the Miami Open the$100 hot dog? Oh. What? The$100 glizzy?

unknown 5:18

Gross.

SPEAKER_01 5:19

The golden glizzy, they're calling it. No. What makes it$100? Well, it's made with Australian wagyu. Okay. Beef. And it's topped with an entire tin of golden goat caviar. Okay. Do you know that? No. Remember I had caviar at a football party.

SPEAKER_00 5:35

You had a caviar cocktail. A caviar pie. Pie. Casserole pie. Pie? And then there's a sprinkling of gold flakes on it. Oh, okay. It's wrapped, not in a bun. It looks like a bun, but it's more like a crunchy croissant shell.

SPEAKER_01 5:51

It's like a bagel dog. But not totally right. Just like housed. Quickly. Oh no. Held. And then instead of topping it with ketchup and mustard, relish, whatever condiment, they top it with like a marscapone cheese and chives. Ooh. I don't know if I how I feel about marscapone on a hot dog. But then again, I eat my hot dogs plain. You do? Yeah. I don't put anything on them. A naked dog? Yeah, essentially. Wow. Are they selling like hot cakes already? They are. No way. But the taster said it just mostly tastes like a hot dog.

SPEAKER_00 6:32

Which is hard to believe. A whole can of caviar, marscapone cheese, chives, gold flakes.

SPEAKER_01 6:40

Yeah. You would think you'd taste the gold. I've never eaten gold. I don't know. I'll show you a picture of it. Oh, yeah, I would like to see one. Um, speaking of food, did you hear the the scuttle bud about Noma? Remember that restaurant? Yes. About the chef? Oh no. Oh, well, it opened March 11th, which is yesterday and when we're recording. But apparently the chef is not a nice man.

SPEAKER_00 7:09

He sounded so nice. Remember, he was gonna house all his workers and pay for schooling? What happened?

SPEAKER_01 7:15

Had a lot of therapy, but for a long time, from like 2009 to 2017, like horrible. Punching, screaming, slamming things in his kitchen, screaming, like like humiliating and belittling all his workers. How does he still have workers? Like those are slaves, frounging for like acorns and like flower petals to like sculpt all his food. What? And like people are coming out now and they're like, listen, yeah, he's a great chef. But and then all these chefs are saying, yeah, it was horrible and he was abusive and horrible to work with, but it was the best restaurant in the world. And if I had it on my resume, I could go work wherever I want. And like people will put up with this kind of behavior because they're trying to make it in that world. Has he turned himself around? So he's apologized and he he has like there's no more unpaid interns. Apparently, there was a documentary, Noma at Boiling Point. It was made in 2008. That's a cute name. I know. But and then some other chefs are saying, like, yeah, he's he's a great chef, but his reputation is tarnished, and you know, having a meal cost$1,500 a person. This one chef said, that's no longer a restaurant, it's performance art. Like, that's not food. Yeah. And then they said, you're feeding the rich and exploiting young chefs. Also true. Yeah, essentially. Because they're not feeding, you know, the common man. So that's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_00 8:52

When I read that article, we talked about that article. I know. He sounded so generous.

SPEAKER_01 8:57

Oh. So that's too bad. That is too bad. Maybe he should go to a Viking wellness retreat place. Maybe that's what he needs. Why is David? Viking wellness retreat. So it's essentially like contrast therapy. Like you want to sweat, but then you also want a cold plunge and like barefoot walking, using the forest as your gym, communal dining, cooking of food over open flames, getting a social connection.

SPEAKER_00 9:23

Camp.

The $100 Hot Dog Debate

SPEAKER_01 9:24

It's camp. It's camp rebranded. It's a spa. It's a spotching shorts and t-shirts. It's spa camp. Letters from your parents. Flashlights. Oh, I got sleeping bags. It's spooky stories. Let's do that. We'll call it a spa. And then they'll get something. If you did that to me, if you invited me to something like that, I might send you a brand new emoji. Like the distorted face. What is that? Is that on our first already? Yeah, there's new. Well, I guess if you update it to iOS 26.4. I did. I believe I did. There's eight new emojis. What? I don't think I updated. Disport distorted face? Yeah, it's like, what does it mean? I guess whatever you want it to mean. Oh. So here it is.

SPEAKER_00 10:19

Oh. Viking camp. That's what it means.

SPEAKER_01 10:22

That's like all hope is lost.

SPEAKER_00 10:25

So then there's also this one that the chef could use.

SPEAKER_01 10:28

Okay. That's the fight cloud. Oh, that's like the cartoon fight cloud. Okay. Okay. I like that one. That looks more science-y to me.

SPEAKER_00 10:34

I thought like I might send it to a biology teacher. Cartoon characters are in a fight, you just see the cloud with the Nature Camp.

SPEAKER_01 10:45

Nature Cup. You might run into one of these new emojis. Oh, Sasquatch. The hairy creature? Bigfoot? Why not do use this? If you're like, oh, you know that person who never goes out, I saw them today. Maybe somebody who's like a recluse who's finally come out. And angry too. Oh, yeah. Well, they they're it's too bright. Do you ever look at your most used emojis? We do. Oh, there's another one. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_00 11:11

No, no, no. I want to look at that next. Put that in the parking lot. Okay. The ballerina. I'm surprised they took the bat that already.

SPEAKER_01 11:16

Oh, that's lovely. Yeah, I feel like that should have been here already. Yeah, now here. Oh boy. I sure wish I had that a couple years ago when she's gathering grace. She's trying her hand at the trombone. I love a trombone emoji. And then she came to me. And you would use that as wontwa, right? Because she came to Ryan and I and we're like, I'm not a trombone girl. Not a trombone girl. I'm a hangout girl. Much so cute. I like the trombone. I'm gonna use that one. Okay. As wontwa. Mm-hmm. For all the pirates out there. For your treasure. Treasure chests. I don't foresee myself using that anytime soon. Unless I was on a treasure hunt. But you know, you never know. You never know. Let's look at our emojis. So I think it's really interesting to see. So if you go into your little emojis and scroll all the way over. My most used are thumbs down, eye roll, shaking my head. And the eek face. Do they go down? Shrug. I don't know which way over it is. Mine is a party. Nice.

SPEAKER_00 12:27

A fire truck. Oops. Oh. A crying emoji? A laughing sword and crying. Oh, I do use this one a lot, though.

SPEAKER_01 12:37

I use that one a lot too. Yeah, 100%. Yep. Oh, I don't have that one in mind. But I have the heart eyes.

SPEAKER_00 12:44

What am I doing with the American flag so often?

SPEAKER_01 12:49

Oh, I do this one. So those text messages you're sending out to get people to vote on, too. True, true. The shrug I use a lot. What's I I lost the shrug and I couldn't find it. So I I've had to replace it with this. Like oh, the like hell. Yeah. That one. Yeah, I like in the eek face, like, oh boy. Oh, yeah, that's my number five. I use that one. Yeah, I use that one too. I think I use that in real life. That's interesting. I like to kiss. So these are our emojis. But then I also have made some of my own emojis lately. Wait, you can build an emoji. Oh yeah, Gen Emoji. How about that's like I have a taco birthday cake. Remember we went her birthday, a goat doing yoga. I've got blood sugar. I send these to my diabetic friends.

SPEAKER_00 13:34

Sometimes I accidentally make stickers and I don't mean to.

Noma Drama And Chef Culture

SPEAKER_01 13:37

Oh, so I have it's like weird cutouts of your children. I have John asleep with a blanket. Here's this. I have a vete crying. This is really fun for our viewers or listeners who should be staff overhead. A waffle with a smiley face. So a feed and like assaulting an Easter money. Or even. Oh, moving eyes. Do you know what's really popular right now? Deer print. Deer print? Deer print. Deer print. Like deer in like instead of zebra or like. I didn't know deers had a print. They sure do. It's brown with all white spots. Oh deer blow. Oh gosh, that's something else.

SPEAKER_00 14:26

That's headlights for little deer.

SPEAKER_01 14:28

It's cold in there. I wasn't sure how you felt about it. I don't feel great. Mm-mm. Not fair. No thanks. No thanks. Next animal. Do you have anything else to share with our viewers? Well, Nora, I this was in one of my newsletters. That men are getting Botox in their private bars. Ouch? Why? Sorry. To give a smoother appearance. Why? Or then they're getting they're also getting something called scroll tox. Oh god. I apologize to my father who listens to this podcast. But this isn't what is it? What kind of newsletter do you subscribe to? Is where my brain is at right now. This it was very funny because the woman writing it was like, I keep reading this out loud. My husband who just keeps cringing. It really only increases things by a centimeter. Wait a second. I thought it was smoothing. Well, smoothing, and I guess, you know. Elongates, if you will. But it's a centimeter. Yes. Wow. All that fresh centimeter. All that fresh centimeters. Where do they inject it? That I don't know. They were you they used some vocabulary. On the part? Yeah, well, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:51

I didn't know if maybe like above the part, and then it like.

SPEAKER_01 15:54

No, I think it has to be direct. A direct edge. Direct edge. There are some vocab words. I'm like, I don't know what that means. Like, but I was about to look on it up.

SPEAKER_00 16:05

Yeah, don't go Google searching.

SPEAKER_01 16:06

Specific uh locations. But I'm just like, why?

SPEAKER_00 16:11

Why? Remember when we talked about that? The micro, you know what?

SPEAKER_01 16:18

I don't know if we ever talked about. Did we talk about it on the podcast or was that after hours? But, anyways, but I just it was that. So this one man who was interviewed, he's like, oh, I've seen great results with Botox and shockwave therapy to improve your endurance and appearance and one centimeter. Oh come on. Shockwave? That doesn't seem though. Like really, really. They should talk to his partner to see. You should take all that money and donate it to a charity. Like leave your price alone.

SPEAKER_00 16:57

Yeah, don't touch it. Like, right? Don't touch that.

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SPEAKER_01 17:54

Will do. Thanks, Nora. And now back to the show. Thank you for coming back. Thank you for sticking with us after our. I'm sorry, I had to bring it up. It was too weird. Thank you for not to talk about. Patience. Tell our listeners what we're talking about today. Okay, we're talking about apps. Apps. And we didn't discuss this before we made notes. We did not.

Appetizers Versus Hors Doeuvres

SPEAKER_00 18:18

Did you go down the route of appetizers or applications?

SPEAKER_01 18:22

I did both. Same. Okay. Well, that's what I love about our topics is there, you know, there's two sides to a lot of our topics. Where do you want to go first? Let's go with appetizers. All right, let's do it. Oh, as you would start with an appetizer. Yeah. Which I learned is a three to four bite first course. Oh, okay. I didn't realize that there was a like a bite, a limit. Three to four, what if you eat it in one bite? I guess you get three or four options. Three or four of them.

SPEAKER_00 18:52

It's interesting that they wouldn't say like one to Well, they do say if you're doing hors d'oeuvres, it should be a one to two byte finger food.

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SPEAKER_01 19:01

Oh, so an appetizer is different than an hors d'oeuvre. An appetizer No way. Typically served as the first course. An hors d'oeuvre is served during a cocktail hour. Or while you're like past. Oh, wow. That's cool. I don't know how to spell hors d'oeuvres, but I I'm gonna I'll know what that. Yeah. Exactly. Did you grow up in a big appetizer house? Well, my mom didn't cook a ton. Remember, we're mostly just Sunday nights. Right. Like for parties. But if we go out for dinner holidays and stuff.

SPEAKER_00 19:37

We don't have a ton of like family recipe apps, but if we go out for dinner, yeah, we'll start with an appetizer.

SPEAKER_01 19:45

My mom was like anti-appetizer, like for Thanksgiving. Oh, she was like, She wants I'm making all of this food. Why would I do more food before you eat the main food that I've been working on for like 24 hours? So maybe if she was hosting, could someone bring an app? Not really. She did not want that. So do you what do you do when you get there? You are like starving. You bring snacks in your bag. You put up like something in your packet. You eat before you go. We but then I think in high school, when there was market day, they had like this like focaccia bread, and that was allowed. That was okay. It was like focaccia bread. I'm using scissors. Okay, yeah. Because we cut it into then you dipped it in a like a marinara sauce. But that was really the only appetizer I could ever remember. What about like a veggie tray? No. Mm-mm. So I guess compared to you, we are a Yeah, you are an app family. Because Al's family is the total opposite side of the spectrum on appetizers. My first Thanksgiving, he was like, just get ready. Like, there's so many appetizers, but like control yourself, or else you're not gonna want to eat Thanksgiving. And I was like, oh, okay. And I was like, because his mom would host Thanksgiving and then his aunt would bring appetizers, and then it was the opposite for Christmas. Oh, I love that. So they brought basically a whole nother meal. Yeah. So many appetizers.

SPEAKER_00 21:14

Surely surpassing the three to four bites of appetizer. What about? Do you have a favorite go-to app? I just love guacamole.

SPEAKER_01 21:22

Chips and guac. Yeah, I put chips, guac, and pico. Chips and guac is just I love a good bruchetta. Bruschetta is good. Our local Casey's has the dip. Oh I'm a dip girl. Yeah. I do like arencini. Oh, I do too. Yeah. Like, how could you not love arancini? That's delicious. I'm not a huge calamari fan. I'll eat like one or two pieces. I'm not a huge fan. I'll eat it, but yeah. I'll have like a couple, but I'm not, it's not really in my jam. I love like a cheese, like a varata. Oh, you do like a cheese? I do. Do you like a board? No, that's what I don't like a charcuterie. Neither do I. It's too much meat. That's exactly what I wrote. Not meat. It's too much meat all touching each other. And how long has it been out? How long has your meat been out? Stuart and Clech. Gonna need some Botox. There is a great SNL that if you want to just, if you are having a tough day and you want to just laugh, Kate McKinnon and AD Bryant do this bit on SNL during weekend update where they're like advertising like a meat tray. Oh, but the actors who are in it, like they must have had the meat tray like all day because it was a prop. I cannot control themselves because it smelled so bad. So I always think of that skit and that sketch where I'm like, oh no, how bad does that meat tray? Meat is the main. Meat is a man. Meat is a main.

SPEAKER_00 22:55

I don't mind a pig and blanket. Well, I wrote that down. A Taylor fan fave pigs in a blanket. It's a classic.

SPEAKER_01 23:01

As a big fan, but yeah, I don't all those charcuterie boards, and it just looks like so much work. It looks beautiful. Does it though? I don't know. I think so. If you get like the different heights and colors and yeah. From a far away.

unknown 23:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:16

And once it's like picked at and like meaty, looks like just kind of meaty. Can we talk about a deviled egg? Sure. Those were big, I think, in like 70s and 80s. Yeah, because you would have like the deviled egg flatters. Like the dishes. Number one, if you are what you eat, whoa, watch out for eating the deviled eggs. Yeah, I don't get it. What is it?

SPEAKER_00 23:37

It's I'm not entirely sure.

SPEAKER_01 23:38

Hard-boiled egg. And then you scoop out the yolk. And then you fluff it up with mayonnaise, probably. And then pepper. Paprika is definitely involved. Um, and then do you really want an egg that's been sitting out? No, you don't. No. No, no, no. I think it's a recipe for like food poisoning. Yeah, your tummy is not gonna feel good. You know, I as a kid, like also in the 80s, it would be like celery and peanut butter. I did not care for that.

SPEAKER_00 24:05

We never had that.

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SPEAKER_01 24:06

But you've been in kindergarten. I don't care for celery. It's too crunchy. Just like I love peanut butter. I would lick the peanut butter. Oh, and the raisins, what they do. Uh pick pants on a log. Yeah. Yeah. That's a bad snack. Yeah. You know what is like guilty pleasure. I love it. And I honestly haven't had it in years and years and years. Is the chili con queso dip at chilies? Oh my gosh. Yes. Remember those nice thin ships, warm and like sold in. They come in a skillet. Yeah. Salsa was good too. Do we have a chili nearby? There's one in is it Lamont or Downer's Grove? Like 75th in Lamont. We should go. We should go. Get a will Uber and have a big giant margarita. I might have a beer. Queso dip. Okay. Yeah. That's actually a beer in the queso dip sounds good. And one of those mugs. Yes. Yeah. And then, like, I just remember like because we would drink a lot of water too. So it was like, because everything was salty. Oh, God. Oh, those mugs. And on the tile table, chicken crispers. Oh my gosh. Yeah. All right. We'll wear elastic pants. Yep. We'll wear sweatpants. We'll wear sweat. Yeah. We probably won't run into anybody's note, so that'll be good. Love that. I I like an appetizer. I think it's a nice little way to, you know, kick things off.

SPEAKER_00 25:24

A lot of times we I like to order a flatbread or a pizza as an app if we're out.

SPEAKER_01 25:28

That is a nice appetizer.

SPEAKER_00 25:30

Because everybody can get a little nibble.

SPEAKER_01 25:32

Yeah. How do you feel about single serve appetizers? Because some fancier restaurants, it'll be an appetizer for one.

SPEAKER_00 25:39

No.

SPEAKER_01 25:40

Yeah. I'd rather it be shared. Yeah, same.

SPEAKER_00 25:42

But I don't like to share my main dinner. Unless I I don't mind splitting. Yes. But I don't like if I go out for dinner and they're like, well, let's just get four main dishes and share them. I do not like that.

SPEAKER_01 25:55

Do not like that. I see now what you mean. Like if you because you and I have splitters. Because I was like, oh no. You and I have shared like a salad. I love thrives. I love thrives. I love splitting a salad and thrice. And then, but yeah, if somebody's like, well, we'll get four mains and there's eight of us and we'll share. Because then I feel like I can't take what I want. And then I'm like, I don't like that. But I Yeah, I like to order what I choose what I like best and I order that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:22

Yeah. But sometimes if it I like I don't mind sharing with you.

Best Appetizers And Charcuterie Gripes

SPEAKER_01 26:25

Yes. Because then I know like this is my portion and I'm responsible for the like a s a salad, a sandwich, and fries. We usually do. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. What about applications? Applications? I mean, they're here to stay. I did a little bit of research that the first one they really say was 1997 on a Nokia phone. It was the Snake game. Oh, that was an app? I guess, yeah, because I guess games are apps on your phone. Oh. And then the first iPod had solitaire, and then it had Brick, another game. But then Is Brick like Tetris? I forget what brick was. I think it was like Tetris Falls Down. Is brick I think it's like Break A Brick. Like you have to like pop all the different colors. I don't know. Okay. I could be totally wrong. But they said that Steve Jobs said he envisioned the app store in 1983. Wow. That he was like, I imagine a world where you can get software and applications like from a store instead of having to get like discs and stuff. That's insane.

SPEAKER_00 27:27

But did you see that TikTok is the most popular app for downloads right now?

SPEAKER_01 27:31

TikTok, ChatGBT, which is dumb because if you have an iPhone with Apple Intelligence, ChatGBT is built in. You don't need a separate app.

unknown 27:39

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 27:39

Do I so delete ChatGBT? Which iPhone do you have? I don't know. Okay, I'd have to check it out. YouTube and then Timu. Timu Timu. No. Del Timu.

SPEAKER_00 27:52

But I did read that Facebook dominates in monthly uses or you by monthly users. Oh, really? Three billion. And they kind of tracked because it does cover a larger age range, I think, thanks.

SPEAKER_01 28:05

It does. I use it a lot for uh reference. Oh, to like look at a business or look for like I use the Western Springs mom's Facebook page or to like search for if I need help with them.

SPEAKER_00 28:19

I use it to stay in touch with like family members who like in a different gener, like older family members, right? And friends too. I have a handful of friends from Scottsdale who are still pretty active on it.

SPEAKER_01 28:31

But yeah, and I like it. I like What are your favorite apps? What do you think you use the most?

SPEAKER_00 28:36

Is there a way to check?

SPEAKER_01 28:38

That's a great question.

SPEAKER_00 28:41

I use my Trace Bank app a lot.

SPEAKER_01 28:44

Oh fan. I use Directory Spot. Yes. I use is Photos an app? Yeah. I use photos often. Obviously the podcast app, so I can listen to two nours and a mic wherever I am. Oh yes, you can. To see your most used apps on your iPhone, go to Settings, Screen Time, see All App Activity. Settings. Settings. Screen time. Screen time.

SPEAKER_00 29:09

Pellet.

SPEAKER_01 29:10

Mine is Peloton. Oh, that's funny. Messages. Safari. Instagram. Wait, why can't I find mine? Here it is. Oh, mine looks different. For me, this pops up immediately. Oh, because I've got like screen time for my family.

SPEAKER_00 29:28

My screen time says it's up, but I was also Oh poop on a stoop.

unknown 29:33

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 29:33

Well, stay tuned. I would think mine would be I said I think I probably use messages for texting, but like Weather Channel, New York Times, and Marianos.

SPEAKER_00 29:44

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 29:45

So stay tuned for that really.

SPEAKER_00 29:47

That pretty much ch tracks for us. Like that's Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:51

But anyways. But yeah, I mean, I I also looked into can you anybody make an app if you wanted to like make an app and put it on the app store? And you can, but you have to join the Apple developer program if you wanted it on the Apple App Store. It's$99 a year, but your app and good for Apple, it has to meet certain guidelines. It has to undergo a review process. And it said most people use nine apps a day, 30 a month, and most people have about 80 on their phone. I wonder how many I have on my phone, but also I have Fortnite on my phone, and I don't use Fortnite. I've started deleting like apps that I had when they were little. Like I have a puzzle app on there from when they were little. So I don't play that. Yeah. Like I still have Kahoot on here, but multiplication flashcards, those are not for me. No. You're a whiz bang when it comes to members. Of course, clearly, as our listeners know. But applications. Appetizers here to stay as well. Do your do you prefer an app or a website? A website. Okay. How about you? It depends. Sometimes it is nice, like for shopping, to use an app. It's it's helpful. Especially if I want to look up an order I placed. It's way easier to go to like the Target app and just go into my previous orders and look. Or if I want to return something, my receipts are usually in the app.

SPEAKER_00 31:17

Oh, that's right.

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SPEAKER_01 31:17

And I feel like I don't have to save as many emails. Oh yeah, I'm I'm old fashioned like that. But anyway, should we launch into highs and lows? Yes. My low is a very strange. Oh my gosh, then gulp. I had so for the musical I'm directing, it's SpongeBob. And so Spongebob works at the Krabby Patty or at the Krusty Crab. I needed to get fake hamburgers as a prop. So I ordered 12, a box of 12 fake hamburgers. Here we are at meat again. I know. Wow. And they came individually packaged, vacuum-packed. Okay. And so when I took them out of the package, they were like shriveled up, kind of like a stress ball material. And I was like, and I left one out and it wasn't doing anything. And then Aiden was like, oh, you probably have to heat them up. Like, so I tried a hairdryer, and then I left them in like a warm spot in our house, and they've started to rot. But I have two hamburgers that won't like reach their full potential. Why maybe they need Botox? Yeah. Why did they why did he think to heat them? I think because heat is like makes things expand. Yeah. You have a smart cookie on your hand. It's been a week. I'm waiting for these things to rise. I'm like, the buttons go. I have them on top of a heating vent with a stool over the heating vent. Oh, did you try the heat? I'm like, because I'm like, I'm not gonna stand here with a hairdryer anymore and heat up these hamburgers. Ridiculous. Anyways, that's my low. The strangest low. My low is that we have a leak in our roof that we knew about in the fall/slash winter, but they can't get out to fix it until the weather warms up.

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SPEAKER_00 33:13

So that started leaking with the rain in the kitchen. And then at that night with the big rainstorm, I went to bed.

SPEAKER_01 33:22

Ryan went to bed. I tried to talk to him a little bit, but he was like sleeping. So he didn't respond. But then we heard drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, and he got out of bed really fast, which makes me wonder does he just hear dripping water or was he responding to me? That's funny. It's funny. That'll be a topic for a different photograph. Yeah, yeah. So there was a leak in his closet. And we have a newish roof. I mean, we put it on when we moved it in. So then I was like, well, we can either move your closet now or in the morning because we have an empty closet in our guest room. Oh. That's no longer empty because we moved Brian's closet. But yeah, two roof leaks. Two leaks. Oh, what a mess. Sorry. I know. That was some storm. Our power went out. Oh, it did? Uh, the power on the other side of the block went out, but. Isn't that funny? Yeah. Huh. Yeah. Yeah. Ours was out for about an hour, so it wasn't too bad. My high is look what I got. The Nora shoes. Shoes. Oh, they're great. I can't believe I didn't notice them. I don't know if I like the way they look. I feel like they make my feet look. They're perfect for seeing St. Patrick's Day. Yeah, they're cute. They're Adidas makes shoes, and they're the style is called Nora. And it says Nora on it. We tried to get them a while back and they were sold out. And then we saw a fellow Nora at the NASBASH who had them. I really like the green. I took out the white laces and I put the green laces in because I figured to season. Oh, that's a great high. I think I've never had Adidas before. So they're definitely different from what I'm used to from New Balance, for sure. But this is really my first day wearing them outside. They're really cute. But I I just like that they say Nora. I'm so bad making Nora look good. Even if they aren't comfortable, I'm gonna wear them. That's fine. I get that.

SPEAKER_00 35:16

My high is that I spent the weekend in Scottsdale with my parents and friends and went to my cousin's wedding, which was beautiful. But I had so much fun with my parents.

SPEAKER_01 35:27

Oh and I had so much fun with my high school friends. And submission. It's a little bit of trouble, but sometimes it's just good to go like home. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:38

And my mom was a wonderful hostess. It was just nice to be home.

SPEAKER_01 35:43

And by yourself.

SPEAKER_00 35:44

By myself, yeah, Ryan. It's nice to be.

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SPEAKER_01 35:48

It was just good. Um happy for you. That's it. Yeah, and then home and back to reality here. Two homes. Two homes. So there you have it. It's nice to feel like a daughter again and not the mom. Yeah, right, isn't it? It's a good I know. I was hoping to visit my parents in Florida this year, but I don't think I'm gonna be able to swing it. But we'll see what happens. But I know. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I'm happy for you. I'm happy for your cousin. And maybe we should use an app to order some apps. Okay. Bye.