A Tisket, A Tasket, An Episode About Baskets

Coffins, AirPods, TSA, rom-com reboots, and baskets: we know, it sounds impossible to connect, but that’s exactly the fun. We kick things off with real-life catch-up, then stumble into a genuinely startling wellness trend from Japan called coffin laying, a meditation practice meant to sharpen your “gaze at life” by getting closer to the idea of death. It sparks a bigger question about what self-care is supposed to feel like, and where your personal hard lines are.

From there, we go full modern-life mode: sleep routines with noise-canceling earbuds, the very real choking-hazard moment of waking up with AirPods in your mouth, and the small tech annoyances that somehow become part of daily survival. Spring break travel brings up TSA lines and airport stress, and we react to the airline comfort arms race, including United’s plan to let passengers buy a whole row and turn it into a mattress-like setup. We also squeeze in a pop culture check on the 13 Going On 30 reboot rumor and when nostalgia crosses into “please don’t remake that.”

Then we settle into our main theme: baskets, not caskets. We trace Easter baskets back through spring equinox traditions, old symbols like hares and eggs, and how those stories shape what we still do with our kids today. We talk practical family traditions, why traveling makes holiday routines weird, and how switching to paintable plastic eggs can save your sanity. We also get into bike baskets, toy storage, gift baskets, Longaberger basket nostalgia, and the surprisingly dark (and likely mythic) origin of the phrase “basket case.” We wrap with a classic high-low, including a maddening Samsung beverage center pitcher fail and the peace that comes from decluttering and a quiet moment to yourself. If you enjoyed the ride, subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find us.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:07

Hi, thanks for joining us today. It's Nora. And Nora. To our longtime listeners and those just tuning in for the very first time, we're sure glad you're here. We are.

SPEAKER_04 0:15

And I am glad you're here. I'm glad to be here. Having an away game. Really? Yes. And joining uh at our satellite studio. Way down the street. Yeah, this is a nice little switch up. How are you? I'm fine. I'm just still beaming from our conversation with Dee Dee last week. Was that the best energy? Oh my gosh. She is fantastic. I just feel sad that we didn't connect with her sooner.

SPEAKER_01 0:41

Because I've heard her name in the neighborhood for years. Yes. But I've never put two and two together.

SPEAKER_04 0:45

And I was saying, like, I I know how good her food is. And then needing her, I was like, oh, this is what people talk about. Like when you, you know, it sounds cheesy, but I think like if you cook with love and like you have that kind of energy when you're making something, like it's gonna be great because what you put your mental kind of heart and soul you put into it.

SPEAKER_01 1:05

Yes, and everything I've gone to that she's done, it all makes sense now.

SPEAKER_04 1:09

Yes. Okay. Just the joy of it. I think we should host something there. Okay, it's probably that off airline. Should we have a party? We should have a party. Let's I'm always done for a party. How's the musical? Musical is coming along fine. Kiddos are doing a pretty good job of memorizing. I've done all my stuff. Like all my blocking on my choreography is finished.

SPEAKER_03 1:31

So now it's kind of up to them. And you know, I've choreographed, I think, 15 dances, and now it's to the point where they're like, what am I supposed to do here? And I'm like, I don't know. How do you remember? I don't. So that I have it all written down, but I'm kind of like, you need to ask a friend. You need to figure it out because you have it written down with like real dance words, or is it like twirl?

SPEAKER_04 1:53

One would say twirl would be a dance term. Um, it's probably a mixture of both. I this year I did something new where I started typing it out for them so I could like like a worksheet and send it home and post it on Google Classroom. Well, that was a good idea.

SPEAKER_03 2:06

So now I can also be like, you don't know this, you should go and look at the worksheet I gave you. And they're like, oh, rats.

SPEAKER_04 2:14

But how about you?

SPEAKER_01 2:16

Good, my family's all home.

SPEAKER_02 2:17

Oh, hooray. I was with my boys all weekend. And we had a boys' dinner on Friday night at Gibson's, which was fun.

SPEAKER_01 2:26

And then a boys' dinner at Luca's on Saturday night, which was fun. And Ryan had Catherine Grace in Michigan for a few games, and then Elle was away on a soccer trip with her team. That's right. Her team travel.

SPEAKER_04 2:38

So two boys. Aww. I was living. Have you ever spent that because they're your oldest and your youngest. So have you ever spent that much time alone with just them? No. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:52

They spend time together. Like Mike took John to the Big Ted Championship one night. Like they'll do stuff because they're the only two boys. Yeah. But I never have. Man, I was like, the three of us?

SPEAKER_01 3:05

Reservation for three? You know how easy that is?

SPEAKER_04 3:07

And I think, and I see this even with my oldest and youngest sometimes. So my they're similar. My oldest is a sophomore.

SPEAKER_03 3:14

Youngest is second grade. You're junior in fourth grade.

SPEAKER_04 3:17

But I think Rose gets so pumped to have that older attention from him. And then I think also for Aiden, it kind of like allows him to be a little silly.

SPEAKER_03 3:29

You know, like where he, if he can kind of like relax his 16-year-oldness. And I think he enjoys that.

SPEAKER_02 3:35

I just, I it was easy. There was so much less laundry, there were so many less dishes, there was so much less driving.

SPEAKER_04 3:44

It was but then it's also like your ecosystems. Then you're kind of like, well, now what do I do? Where are all my people? It was not that big of a problem.

SPEAKER_00 3:53

I knew it was.

Coffin Meditation And Other Hard Nos

SPEAKER_02 3:54

You adjusted pretty well. Oh my god, I gotta tell you. Have you been coffin laying lately? Coffin laying?

SPEAKER_04 4:02

Coffin laying? No. Have you heard about that? You? No, it's like this. So I've been re- I read about it over the weekend when I was doing some show notes, and I've been thinking about it since I read about it.

SPEAKER_02 4:16

It's meditating inside coffin.

SPEAKER_04 4:19

Nope. Uh-uh, nope, nope, nope. I even think about people in movies. When they get in a coffin for a movie, I'm like, nope, not me, not this girl, not this Nora. Mm-mm. What?

SPEAKER_02 4:30

People are meditating inside coffins in Japan.

SPEAKER_04 4:33

It's a gaze at life. Through being though being conscious of death. It's a thing.

SPEAKER_00 4:39

Oh no.

SPEAKER_04 4:40

That's so good. 30-minute session. No. Well, could you can you open it from the inside? I know that's probably a dumb question.

SPEAKER_01 4:48

Well, no, I mean it's open. Like you're not shut it.

SPEAKER_04 4:50

Oh, they don't shut it. You're like in a viewing. Oh, no. Do people say nice things about you?

SPEAKER_02 4:57

They just genuinely keep watching. It was a quirky offering from a funeral home, and it's blossomed into this full-blown.

SPEAKER_00 5:05

Would you do that?

SPEAKER_04 5:06

Would you ever do that?

SPEAKER_00 5:07

Why would I do that? I don't know! Psych. No, no, I'm like, I have so freaked out.

SPEAKER_04 5:15

I forgot. There's called Coffin Lounge. That is not okay. I mean, I'm happy for the Undertaker industry and the coffin makers. They're really but look. Oh, Sarah Pig. Designed by a company called Grave Tokyo. And can I also say something? Oh, no way. It's closed except for a little door for your face. Here's the other thing. I would not want to go with you to one of those because I would not want to see you, my very good friend, in a coffin. I think that would be too emotional. I would be really sad to see you in a coffin. So I misspoke. Oh. There is actually an option for open or close. Oh, oh, like in life and death, like in real world. And so then you can also opt for healing tunes. Or like total silence.

SPEAKER_02 6:09

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 6:11

Oh gosh. What if you had to go to the bathroom? Could you pause your session? Well, I guess you go before you get in. It's only 30 minutes. Do you think you wear shoes? I think you I don't. I guess it'd be like your feet are.

SPEAKER_02 6:26

I don't know. Do you think they have different sizes?

unknown 6:28

Probably.

SPEAKER_02 6:29

And how do they clean them when you're done?

SPEAKER_00 6:31

Oh God, I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 6:33

Next.

SPEAKER_02 6:33

Yeah, right? They spray it down like a pair of bowling shoes?

AirPods Sleep Habit Gone Wrong

SPEAKER_04 6:38

Lysol? Sick. No, thank you. If I go to Japan, I will do other things. Oh, I thought I was gonna say I'll do this. No. Can I tell you something so it's kind of creepy as well? Not this morning, but two nights ago, I woke up in the middle of the night because I was putting my airpads in my mouth like I must have, I don't know if they fell out. Okay, so I wear airpods every night to fall asleep. And so I woke up and I had both of them in my hand and I had them in my mouth. Do you know how dangerous that sounds like you're real choking hazard?

unknown 7:19

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 7:20

If you couldn't find them, I wonder if you could place something and they would have been like, Find my valley. Yeah. I think I could have joked. Oh, isn't it crazy? Like what was I wondering how in your sleep you were able to have that fine motor to pick up those tiny pieces and I don't because sometimes I do wake up with them in my hand.

SPEAKER_04 7:46

So I don't know if while I'm sleeping I take them out. So every morning, is it just something extra you have to do? Look for your iPods? Or they're in my mouth. Open wide. Sometimes they're in my bed and I have to look for them. Sometimes they're right like on my pillow, or sometimes they're in my hands. Do you ever forget to look for them when you wake up? Sometimes.

SPEAKER_03 8:12

I mean, I've been doing it for years, so now I'm kind of used to it as part of my my thing.

SPEAKER_00 8:16

What if your kid like what if I ate that?

SPEAKER_01 8:23

Crunchy knife? But wait, so you can hear, you don't do it for to reduce noise. You can't I do it to fall asleep. You do it so you can listen to music like listen to something before to a story.

SPEAKER_04 8:34

Yes, however, my husband's a loud breather. And since and I do do the noise canceling now, and it's amazing. What's the difference between a loud breather and a snore? Ohce through the mouth, once through the nose, I guess. So you don't even have to hit him with a pillow because you don't hear it? I'm just like, you breathe away. I mean, I want him to breathe. I'm thrilled he's breathing, but just maybe. But now it doesn't matter to me because I hit the little airpod thing. It's like zunk. And it everything goes. I don't have AirPods. I have a lot of people.

SPEAKER_02 9:11

But you have a different type of Yeah, and I don't really know how to use them, which is frustrating because I called you yesterday while I was on a walk and I didn't know how to I said, hey Siri, call Nora Taylor. And then it called you, but then I didn't know how to hang up.

SPEAKER_04 9:27

Oh, you can tap your airphone or air what are they called?

SPEAKER_02 9:32

I forget what they're called. The pizza. It would have mattered better.

SPEAKER_04 9:34

Oh that yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:35

So is there weird decided to shovel for my phone real quick? You might have had a little uh message.

Spring Break Travel And TSA Lines

SPEAKER_04 9:39

Oh well, not that I know it. Are you traveling for spring break? Are you going anywhere? Are you Yes, we are going to California. Are you worried about TSA? Have you been reading about this? Yeah. No, you're not worried. Okay. I don't really get worried about that kind of stuff. Okay. Are you gonna get to the airport early? Uh no. Our flight is at 7 a.m. Yeah. Oof. Are you gonna get there early? I think we're gonna well, we're getting picked up at 4 45. Oh, that's yeah.

SPEAKER_03 10:09

And so we're flying out of O'Hare, so probably be there at 5 15.

SPEAKER_04 10:12

Yeah, that's early. So that's I hope so. But some I I don't think Knockwood, Chicago is as bad, but like so either. But like Houston, Atlanta, they said people are waiting for like five or six hours. Yes. I know. And I kind of, I mean, it's kind of bad for the passengers, but I'm also like the TSA people aren't getting paid. And it's something I think about where I'm like, would I show up for work if I wasn't getting paid? I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 10:38

I don't know. I don't know. I thought you were gonna go in a different direction. I thought you were gonna ask me about the relaxing girl on United.

SPEAKER_02 10:45

Wow.

SPEAKER_04 10:45

Did you read about that? No, I'm flying United.

SPEAKER_02 10:48

Okay, so it's not up and running yet. Oh.

SPEAKER_04 10:52

But passengers are soon gonna have the option to purchase all three seats in a row, and they'll replace the seat with like a mattress pad. With a coffin? Yes. And AirPods for your dining pleasant. So you can snack on them. What? The replacement with a mattress? Like a mattress pad? Like a Oh, so then you don't have like the cubes. I would hope still a seat belt. I would imagine somewhere.

SPEAKER_02 11:19

Pillows and blankets, which I was kind of eh about. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 11:22

There was no price released. They said it was ideal. I don't like this part. For people traveling with small children, yes.

SPEAKER_02 11:28

Yes. Couples.

SPEAKER_04 11:30

Ew. No. No. Ew. No. Keep your hands to yourself. Yes, not an airplane. No BDA, right? No. Okay. No. No making out on an airplane. Girls. Just snoodling on your sleep. You're on your way to go somewhere. You're probably staying in a hotel safe. Save it for the hotel room.

SPEAKER_01 11:50

Agree. Agree.

SPEAKER_04 11:51

No, no, no. Okay. Or take care of it before you get there. Go to the airport lounge. I don't know. It's better than in front of me on my on my flight. Yeah. Groaty.

SPEAKER_01 12:02

I I don't think that's clearly not the the target article.

SPEAKER_04 12:06

Whoever wrote the article, I was like, really? Also, I don't think that I would want someone like snuggling with me on an airplane. I mean, I maybe it's because for years we had children on our laps. And now I'm like, No, I don't want anybody snuggling. I mean, I also would probably kindly say no thank you to the pillows and blankets. I will use sometimes I keep the pillow in the plastic just to have like for my back or like Okay.

SPEAKER_03 12:31

You know? On international flights, I'll use them. I like to have my lap cover, especially international flights, because if I'm eating something like that.

SPEAKER_04 12:39

You are sewing. Or somebody I'm like wrapping it all. I'm eating chopsticks with two hands.

SPEAKER_01 12:46

Do a smoke. You're so hungry, you eat with two hands. The plate got on my lap.

SPEAKER_04 12:55

Does the keys spill all over myself? A fork in each hand. Let's go, international. It's my favorite time to eat on an airplane. Rose. That's how you work out. It was very similar. That's so interesting.

unknown 13:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 13:14

Norigger is someone who loves rom coms.

SPEAKER_00 13:17

I don't like where this is going. It's not rom coms. I do. I like rom coms. You're rebooting. This isn't even funny, I don't know why.

SPEAKER_04 13:44

Well, how do you reboot a rom com? Well, this they're rebooting 13 going on 30. And I don't know. And I feel like that. What? Well, what's so funny about that? I think I was just my horrendous transition. Okay. No, I mean maybe. Oh my god. Jennifer Garner is a producer on it. I don't know. I just feel like Is that when they sway switch spots? Yeah. Yeah. She, yeah. Well, didn't that just come out? Uh it's probably like 20 something years old. Who feels like it? But anyways, I just I wasn't sure if you're like, yeah, yeah, I'd love to see that or no. Watch. I'd rather just watch the original. Yeah, what's wrong with the original? I don't know.

unknown 14:25

Oh.

SPEAKER_04 14:26

I feel like that it's a classic. It's too soon. Yes. Because I think about movies like Father of the Bride. That was a remake, I guess. But there was a but yes. Although if you think about it, when was Father of the Bride? Was that in the 90s? Probably 90s. Yeah. I'd say 96. 93. It was a play first, so I know that.

SPEAKER_03 14:46

Steve Martin one came out in 1991. Okay. And then the original came out in 1950. Alright. So it was 41 years.

SPEAKER_04 14:57

Oh. Okay. Well, it was time for a remake. So I guess 40 years, that's the limit for remakes instead of 20. Cause 13. This fit. This felt right. Yeah. But now we came out in 2004, the original. So it's not even that old. Well, it's 20 years old. So wait. That means then Father the Bride could come out with a new Father the Bride. Oh, good grief.

SPEAKER_02 15:25

Right? Yeah. Oh, I do not. I'm not for that. I'm not ready for that.

Should Classics Get Remade

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708-423-5000. And there's nothing mad about that. And now back to the show. Our topic today is baskets, not caskets. As you might have thought from our little first ads. That was very clever. I just thought of that on the fly. My brain is still working. Hooray for baskets.

SPEAKER_01 16:39

One may wonder, what are these girls thinking?

SPEAKER_04 16:42

We're gonna talk about baskets? Baskets.

SPEAKER_01 16:44

But I find that even on the most random topics, we always have something to say. There's only yeah.

SPEAKER_04 16:50

Well, because you can kind of come at it from a lot of different angles because you know, the time of year it is, you know, you think Easter baskets. Let's start there. Okay. Did we go back? Way back to the eighth century? I was hoping so. Yes. Travel with me. Okay, so I was looking in like why Easter baskets? Why is this a thing? Well, the spring equinox, which happens, which I learned something new. I always knew that equinox was the change of season, but equinox is because of you have equal parts, light and dark. I heard that on the radio. And in all my 44 years of life, I never knew that. I never knew. Were you listening to the radio? No, I well, no, I read it in an article, but I just was like, how did I never put that together? I don't know. Yeah, same.

SPEAKER_03 17:34

Oh my god. Okay. So, anyways, and they were that was a big deal, and they would pray to the gods for a good harvest. And there was an Anglo-Saxon goddess, and her name E-O-S-T-R-E. I'm not sure how to pronounce that. Easter.

unknown 17:47

We go perfect.

SPEAKER_03 17:49

And in the eighth century, there was a manuscript about this festival, and there was a picture of her with a basket. She was, you know, the goddess of spring, and and also in medieval times, hares hopping was a symbol of fertility.

unknown 18:05

Of course.

SPEAKER_04 18:06

Speedy and gross. And eggs are a symbol of new life. So you had the hoppy hair and the goddess holding a basket.

SPEAKER_00 18:15

They were like, we'll put the eggs in a basket. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 18:18

Don't put all your eggs in one basket, they say. But not just a hair, but a hoppy. A hoppy hair.

Easter Basket Origins And Symbols

SPEAKER_04 18:26

It's just a horny hair. What's a horny ignora? Anyway, so that is a little bit why uh we have Easter baskets. That's okay. Let's move on. Yes. Do you have Easter baskets? Do you do Easter baskets in your family? We do Easter baskets. But we I don't hide them. The baskets. The bunny doesn't hide them. Okay. No. We hide the eggs so that the kids have their here's the thing. I've got beautiful personalized pottery barn Easter baskets for my children. But the holiday we tend to travel for the most is Easter. And I rarely get to use them because we're typically out of town. So the bunny you know, champagne problems.

SPEAKER_02 19:06

We're on vacation, but the bunny doesn't get to fill those beautiful baskets.

SPEAKER_03 19:10

Beautiful baskets. But we put eggs in the basket and then the bunny hides the eggs.

SPEAKER_04 19:16

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 19:16

And then the gifts are in the basket.

SPEAKER_04 19:17

Oh, so then the bunny takes the eggs from the basket and replaces them with gifts. Yes. I love your bunny. Oh no, I still have my eggs from last year. Oh. Because Nora does not use real eggs. Yes, I do. Wait. For the first time. Hard-boiled eggs? For the first time. What? This is so gross.

SPEAKER_01 19:38

What? Why am I telling them? I don't know. I guess I'll keep going.

SPEAKER_02 19:42

So for the first time last year, we dyed eggs per a conversation we had on the podcast. So the six of us dyed eggs. And then I didn't want the kids to eat them because there was like dye all over them. So I put them back in the container and then put them in the fridge. And I was like, well, maybe they'll eat them. I don't know. So then after about a week, I was like, well, I'll take them out to the garbage. Yeah. But I didn't want to put them in the garbage can until garbage day. So I was like, I know, I'll just put them in the fridge in the mud room. And then they're wearing.

SPEAKER_00 20:22

So when I looked at what I've been doing, well, they haven't hatched.

SPEAKER_04 20:28

They're not, they're probably not moldy because they've been in the fridge. They're probably in moldy in there. I would not eat it. Oh no.

unknown 20:35

No.

SPEAKER_01 20:36

I'm not saving them for like, I'm not making deviled eggs.

SPEAKER_04 20:39

Wow. I just because I know you always notice them on a Saturday in our garbage day as well. Or like a Tuesday. Yeah. Tomorrow is garbage. Should I throw them out? Seize the day. I don't know. Or do you want to save them for Easter?

SPEAKER_02 20:52

I think it's so gross. I know. I'll send you a picture. Yeah. But that's so gross. I don't know why I chose to admit that on the case.

SPEAKER_04 20:59

Thank you for your honesty. Yeah. I appreciate that. I don't know if we're going to die in this year.

SPEAKER_03 21:04

We will not be dying in this year because we're going to be staying at a hotel and I just didn't feel like that was the right thing to do to a hotel.

SPEAKER_04 21:10

But I found at Target plastic eggs that you can paint. Oh, that's funny. So I figure, so I bought enough for my kids and my nieces, and then I figured we can paint them like outside by the pool. That's nice. Because I I really like that tradition and I don't want to stop. So the kids club has a selfish? Yeah. Oh, you like to do it too? I like to do it too. And I think it's fun. And they actually get into it. Right. So, anyways, we'll be painting eggs this year instead of dyeing them. Sometimes people paint pumpkins. For Easter?

unknown 21:38

No. For all.

Our Easter Basket Traditions

SPEAKER_04 21:41

I was like, what? Like instead of carving pumpkins, people paint pumpkins. I did that with my kids when they were little. Oh, you did? Before I let them use a knife. Carv and guts. That was great. I'm talking about bike baskets because I love a good bike basket. You have the perfect front basket. I have a good Back basket. I have like a saddlebag, like side basket, which I love. I got it from the Kate Spade collaboration with Target. I remember when you got it. Mine came from the Nantucket Bifebasket.

SPEAKER_02 22:14

Oh, and they know a thing about basketball. It's just cute. Now it doesn't fit, well, Matt anymore, but it does fit a bottle of wine.

SPEAKER_03 22:21

Hey, well, there you go.

SPEAKER_04 22:22

There you go, yeah. That's handy.

SPEAKER_03 22:24

And when your kids were little, I was all about storage baskets, bins, organizing all their toys and stuff. Was that a thing for you? No. No. Like you complimented baskets in my mud room. Those are leftover like toy baskets.

SPEAKER_02 22:40

Yeah, I was big on I'm not big on baskets. Okay. I have baskets in my mud room. Mm-hmm. Where'd you put all their toys? They're in. I have those two big closets downstairs in the playroom. Everything went there. And everything went in there. And then I could just shut the doors.

SPEAKER_04 22:58

Because I had a bin for like cars, a bin for like toys. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:04

They had bins, not baskets. Okay. Like the lid with a lid, a nice lid on it.

SPEAKER_04 23:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:08

But you all used your lid versus.

SPEAKER_04 23:10

I'm a bin versus a basket. I did for a long time.

SPEAKER_03 23:13

I quit now. I used to have little bins of heads, bins of shirts, bins of pants, bins of hair, bins of weapons, bins of other accessories, and I had them all separated by color through. There's no color groups, but the minifigure bins, I had to, I quit. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 23:30

Build your own figure situation. Now you can rummage.

SPEAKER_02 23:33

Um, what do you think about a gift basket? Because I love gift baskets. That isn't it is a treat. I love building them for the NASDAQ. Oh, you have a gift for that. You ladies do a beautiful job. I love to arrange a gift basket, and it's fun to, you know, to I don't think I've ever arranged a gift basket.

SPEAKER_04 23:50

To kind of zhuzh it up a little bit. Good bows. Yeah, I love gift baskets. Cellophane and all. Oh, yeah. You do it.

SPEAKER_03 23:57

Do you remember? I feel like there was a thing in the 90s where people are like, oh, you're an athlete. What is your major? Underwater basket weaving? Did you ever hear that phrase? No.

SPEAKER_04 24:07

No.

SPEAKER_01 24:08

Yes, in Arizona there is different majors.

SPEAKER_04 24:11

Like there was like a It was like a joke. It's kind of like, oh, you're not that smart, but you're at this really good school.

SPEAKER_03 24:17

What's your major underwater basket? Like a pretend major.

SPEAKER_01 24:21

That seems like it would be difficult to weave a basket on the show. I feel like it would. Like maybe they should joke and be like, what's your major land basket?

SPEAKER_00 24:31

Overwater basket? I don't know. Have you ever woven a basket?

SPEAKER_04 24:37

Out of paper.

SPEAKER_03 24:38

Like a little crafty project? Yeah, no. But not like a real sustainable, like you can hold anything in it.

Bike Baskets And Gift Basket Joy

SPEAKER_01 24:44

I was talking to a friend about our topic and she mentioned the Longa burger baskets.

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What are those? I said, a what? They're these heirloom hand woven baskets that are Longa Burger? Yes, Longer Burger. And I guess they were really big in the 90s. Huh. So I Googled them and sure enough, they're a thing. Longer burger. And they're not afraid to ask for it. These are expensive baskets. Have you heard of them? I remember seeing people having like their mail in these. So for example, listeners, there's Easter baskets for 287 pounds. And they just look like an Easter basket. They are pretty. They're darling. Oh, you could get a a tote. A basket tote. But I had never heard and the eggs are cute, the woven eggs. I see that. But I'd never heard of this company before. Never heard of it either.

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Okay.

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Well now we have. And now we're sharing it with all of them. And it would be cute. They have like outdoor stuff. Oh. But I don't know if I could justify it. Yeah. I don't know. Oh, I see. Curb appeal.

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Yeah.

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Oh, okay. So send us a message if you have a Longa burger.

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Yeah, I think it's interesting to see one out in the wild and like how they hold up. Yeah. They're worth, you know,$230. Yauza. Good for them though. They're putting all their eggs in their own baskets.

SPEAKER_04 26:07

Have you heard that term um basket case? Oh my god, did you look up where it comes from? Yeah, unfortunately. But it's all it's it's a myth though. That made me feel better. Yes. Um should we share or should we just talk about it? Uh no, you can share. Go for it. Go ahead. You brought it up. Well, you can share, and then I'll f I'll do the modern. So the term basket case, which I definitely use that quite a bit.

SPEAKER_03 26:29

I looked we both looked up where it came from, and it came from a World War I rumor that they were amputating people's all their limbs and then pushing them around in baskets.

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Yeah.

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And like the amputees were transferred or transported in these wicker baskets.

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In these wicker baskets, like pushing them around. And thankfully they have found no evidence of the military like doing this to soldiers. Because I guess if they were injured, they would, you know, obviously that happens to soldiers. Like you have to have a leg amputated or an arm. Yes. There was a rumor going around that they were amputating everyone, like all of their limbs, and these people were surviving and they were pushing them around.

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But then later it expanded to refer to like organizations or countries in severe financial trouble and people who were emotionally overwhelmed or incapable to cope, which is how I use it. Yes. See, yes.

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And how I think most people I often use it in regards to myself. I don't know if I've ever called anyone else a basket case.

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Huh. I feel like I use other terms to describe people who are driving me crazy. But no, I think I I would often call myself a basket case.

Where Basket Case Comes From

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Yeah. But you know, happens. Yeah. All right. Hooray for baskets. Wait, did you have something bad happen to you? That's my low. Oh, it is? Are we ready for that? I'm ready as I'll ever be. So this is something that drives me totally nuts. I love well, first of all, I love my refrigerator. Yes. I have a Samsung refrigerator and it makes me very happy. It's blue, it's gorgeous, and it has a beverage center. And it has nice eyes. It has nice eyes. They're not a sponsor. But in the refrigerator, it's called the beverage center.

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So you open up the secret door and there's a little pitcher in there that fills up automatically whenever you close the door.

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Oh, it does? Yes. That's really nice of it. I love the beverage center. This pitcher is a home run. Because in the morning you're filling up four water bottles. You don't have time to stand there like you know, it just knows to fill itself up. Yeah. I love this picture. So the other day I was like, you know what? I need to clean this thing. And I was like, I wonder if it's a dishwasher safe. Or if it would melt the pitcher. So I looked on the pitcher and there was a little logo on there. It says DW safe and a little picture of a dishwasher. Bingo jackpot. Tossed it in, took it out. It's the handle is melted. Oh, the top is melted, and the lid doesn't quite fit on right. Did it still fill? Yes, it's it still fills, but I feel like it's only a matter of time. Guess how much this pitcher is? Your plastic pitcher. It holds 48 ounces. It is$48.$165. I could buy a basket for that much money. Oh, that thing's$168.$165. So I called Samsung and I was like, listen, you put on the picture that it was dishwasher safe. And you drew a picture. Brented on there. DWC. Oh, I see that D. In a little picture. And they're like, you're out of warranty. I was like, I followed the directions. So like, well, in the user's manual, I was like, why would I look at the user's manual if it is printed on the picture that it's dishwasher safe? And they were like, hold, put me on hold, put me on hold. Then they said, well, we'll send you one and we'll take$100 off.

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No.

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And I said, I'm not spending$65 on a pitcher that is broken because I followed the directions. And they're like, okay, well, we can't send you a free one. We have to make a service call and have a repair company come to your house and replace the pitcher. So so someone's coming out? So someone is coming to my house today from an appliance company to hold. I was like, well, they have the picture. They were like, hopefully. Do they just carry these pictures on their trucks? I don't know. They're like gold bars. They're 165. What's he gonna come out here and look at it? And then I said, Well, he's gonna look at the picture. Do I like it? And they're like, no. I was like, okay.

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So he's gonna come out. He's gonna be like, let me take a look at the phone.

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This is like the easiest job in the world. And they're like, yeah, that stinks. But I'm keeping this one. I'm not giving this one. What's my next question? Yeah, no. Because it it would actually be helpful to have.

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Because then you put the spare in if you're having a party or whatever and you need to fill up stuff. But isn't that insane?$165.

The Dishwasher Safe Pitcher Disaster

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For$165, you should put the right directions on it. Or just don't yeah. Oh dummies. Ah, dummies. Anyways. Okay, well, that's a nice picture. That's my really long low. Sorry. I don't have one. Oh no. Yeah. What hot your high then? Just even Stevens.

SPEAKER_01 31:29

My high is I cleaned out our playroom.

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Oh.

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I'm still in the middle of it. I started yesterday and I spent all day yesterday doing it. And it was so fantastic. Oh man. And I am getting there. I'm purging. Yeah. Toys that my kids don't play with anymore. T sets. Like I don't have any.

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Yeah.

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I don't have any emotional attachment to this stuff.

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Oh, see, I do.

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I have a whole bin of like cars from the movie cars that I cannot get rid of.

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No, because other wild crats, animals. I can't do it. I don't know what are you gonna do with it. I don't know. Throw them away when we move out of this house. I don't know.

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Or maybe give them to your sons when they get older and they're gonna be like, oh, my mom saved all this stuff. And then they can throw it away. Okay, there you go. Here we go. Ryan has a bin in his room that his mother gave him last February or March. Yeah. In his room.

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In our room. My parents brought me a lot of stuff. And he keeps saying he's gonna move it. It has been sitting there for over a year. Oh, Al has a box from when we moved in that he hasn't unpacked. It's next to his nightstand. You win. We've been- I'm sorry, I wasn't trying to one up. No, but that's what I'm saying. Like, I'm like, do you feel like we're gonna stay here? Like, she's herself, I shouldn't know. What's in there? I don't even know. Dead bodies? Like, I don't know. Does he it doesn't bother him? It's like my nightstand and then our bed and then his nightstand, and then this box that has been there now, it'll be five years in April. Similar, okay, so yeah, that's doesn't bother him. It's just stuck there. Yeah, like it's just on his side when I make the bed, and I'm like, same. Hello Vice. Maybe I should this wop. Al can give Ryan whatever. I know it's in Ryan's box. It's like newspaper. And like it's momentum. Memories.

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I know.

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My parents gave me all like awards from like grammar school and high school.

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I was like, I'm just gonna throw these out. I have no record of my childhood. I'm sorry, mom. I know you're listening. Thank you for always keeping the cleanest house known to man.

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That is true. Um, I think I just have like a folder.

Decluttering Wins And A Quiet Church

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Oh, there you go. It's all in here. It's all in your brain. It's all in here, it's all in your mind and your heart. Yeah. So, all right. Well, all right. On that note, shall we land the plane? Let's do it. Oh, my high was that one church by myself. Like Kevin was alter serving, and I just sat in the pew by myself. It was like the first time I can remember that I was like, I listened to the readings and the homily. I actually felt like I prayed. It was very nice. A lot of distractions when I'm with my feet. A lot of distractions. So it really, really was nice. I was like, I like I left there feeling like comb instead of underwriting.

SPEAKER_02 34:23

Go on Sundays. That's nice. And then grabbed breakfast afterwards, but the little girl in front of us had a backpack and a backpack on a backpacking stuff. So I paid zero attention because I was just watching. Like, how many more backpacks does she have? Or like bags and chotchkis. And I'm glad I was paying attention because toward the end, she pulled out a pair of underpants.

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And gave up to her dad.

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What's he like? He looked at him, he shoved him in his pocket.

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Can't wait for his wife to find those in the line.

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I had myself a bad laugh and a little entertainment.

Final Laughs And Goodbye

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Oh my god, that's so good. All right. Well, let's get out of here. Well, thanks for listening. And we'll see you next time.

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