Wrecks, rodeos and no Super Bowls

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From school closures due to "inclement weather”, meet the Highland Park Scots, Fort Worth vs. Houston rodeos, and the curse of Jimmy Johnson is still not lifted from the Cowboys'.

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Weather Complaints and Local Accidents

Speaker 1 0:00

This episode sponsored by Kathy L Wall, state Farm Agency. Learn more at KathyLWALLcom, and Stuart Arango, oral Surgery. Learn more at SAOeralsurgeonscom. Welcome to the Bubble Lounge. I'm Nellie Shudo and I'm Martha Jackson. And it is cold. It is damn cold.

Speaker 2 0:24

That's all I can say.

Speaker 1 0:26

I mean for days. Now I get my feet to warm up.

Speaker 2 0:30

No, and we were talking about this earlier Like our houses, like everybody's house is different, like you have different levels and high ceilings in one place and low ceilings in another place, or your bathroom floor, you said, was freezing, it's awful, yeah, I mean. Now I understand why people have like heated floors.

Speaker 1 0:44

Oh yeah, the next house is getting a heated bathroom floor. This is like a stone or something and it's literally like ice when you walk into it.

Speaker 2 0:50

Well, but the problem is that's for like six weeks of the year. I know the rest of the year is so damn hot and don't you know? It cost a fortune to have those kind of floors on the shirt.

Speaker 1 1:02

I don't care, I'm just a big rug. No, we're getting some slippers those aren't even cutting it right now. I feel like when you live in Texas, all you do is complain about the weather. It's true, I mean seriously. It's either too hot or too cold. There's like one or two days a year that we're like God, it feels awesome outside. Let's go outside.

Speaker 2 1:18

No, I agree, because I feel like it's about 110 for six months and then spring always like this is delightful and it's one week.

Speaker 1 1:28

Yeah, it comes and goes as soon as it happens, and so it's unfortunate, but we do spend a lot of time complaining about the weather.

Speaker 2 1:34

We do, and I have to say it makes me think of Charles, who went back to college this weekend. I know Alexis did too, and I know a lot of people who are at Arkansas, ou and UT and A&M and they're all freezing their butts off and meanwhile Charles is in Boston and it's like 30 degrees and snowy and beautiful.

Speaker 1 1:50

No, way, which is so funny because all I got him for Christmas.

Speaker 2 1:53

I'm sure a lot of people do this if their kids are going to school in the Northeast. I got him like every warm item you can imagine. Yeah right. Like a giant coat that makes him look like the Michelin man, Like I was. Like you need to be warm.

Speaker 1 2:04

What a plot twist. I mean, you wouldn't think the south was colder than up there, but I'm sure you know, sean went to school in Boston. He's always talked about the cold weather and the rainy weather and the snow and everything, so I'm sure it's coming.

Speaker 2 2:16

I'm sure it is. I told him that he's like I just love the snow. I'm like, get ready, I'm going to have it for two months. Every day is going to be so You're probably not love it so much after a little bit.

Speaker 1 2:26

Exactly so crazy thing. Highland Park School District was closed on Tuesday after MLK day and I was in my office working in Blake Cayman and he's like I heard there's no school tomorrow and I go look outside. Are you crazy? I was like let me just look this up real quick. So I went to the Instagram and I was like, oh my gosh, yeah, it is closed, You're right. And of course he's ecstatic, as any kid would be, to miss school.

Speaker 2 2:50

Of course.

Speaker 1 2:52

But as a parent, you're like nope, you need to go, Get out of my house.

Speaker 2 2:56

Get out of my house.

Speaker 1 2:58

Well, you know, the roads weren't bad, it was very sunny, it was just extremely cold. But it's so easy just to kind of look out your door and think that's insane. But you got to think big picture and think about some of the other people that don't live right here.

Speaker 2 3:11

Well for school what I wish they would do. Like going back to that for a minute, I wish they would just do online schooling again. They should be set up for it like they were after COVID. So if it's a snowy day like that, you can just do it, because otherwise they get behind. I'm not trying to take away from our children's days off, it's not that, it's just that in a way, it always kind of comes back and bites them.

Speaker 1 3:32

I just feel like we all have PTSD from online school.

Speaker 2 3:36

That's true. That's a really, really bad memory for all of us, I think. I just feel like, don't you kind of like that some meetings are zooms instead of in person? Oh, every now and then. For me, for some reason, I'm like, oh, that's kind of nice, we can actually schedule it for tomorrow instead of worrying about so-and-so's in Detroit and so-and-so's there. So I don't mind it?

Speaker 1 3:59

I don't know. We all learned how to do it during COVID, that's for sure. So, it's a little bit more easily accessible, I guess we know how to do it and all that.

Speaker 2 4:06

Well, speaking of this bad weather, etc. There was that big accident, right.

Speaker 1 4:10

Yeah, I don't think it was weather-related.

Speaker 1 4:14

There's been a couple of pretty bad car wrecks right here in the neighborhood On New Year's Eve I think, around 11pm, just like a block from you and I, there was a really bad wreck and I think there may have been a fatality. That's terrible. I know it was on Lovers Lane and Athens, right in that area, and was it like a kid, if I understand what limited things I've read, there was four teenagers in a car that were fine and then there was a woman driving a truck that I think was trying to pass maybe, and she hit them and I think it was maybe the woman that. Wow.

Speaker 2 4:52

It's so tragic, I mean awful. Well, you don't think of that because we all drive 30 miles an hour, right, so you don't think about that. But maybe she wasn't going 30 miles an hour.

Speaker 1 5:00

It sounds like she was driving kind of fast from what I know. And then there was another one Sunday night that was over in Highland Park and a car with four people in it ran a red light and hit another car and the four people fled on foot and they never found them. There were helicopters circling that area and they never found them. Why would they do that?

Speaker 2 5:20

I don't know, couldn't they see the car?

Speaker 1 5:24

Well, I'm assuming, maybe they stole the car and it didn't belong to them.

Speaker 2 5:28

I didn't even think about that.

Speaker 1 5:30

If they were just completely clueless and their registration's in there, then they probably stole the car.

Speaker 2 5:34

They're going to get busted soon enough, so it sounds like the car that they hit.

Speaker 1 5:40

it sounds like the people in that car were okay, so hopefully that's the case. Well with this weather.

Speaker 2 5:45

There have been some canceled football games. There's been all kinds of football drama, right, what was the big game that was supposed to happen? It was like Miami Somebody who was not used to the cold weather, and it was going to be like a minus 17 with wind chill. And they're like we can't do it. The seats were frozen.

Speaker 1 6:02

I think I've seen video that that one did happen.

Speaker 2 6:04

It did. Oh, my God it looked awful.

Speaker 1 6:06

It looked so incredibly cold. Now I've been so busy focused on the Dallas Cowboys that I haven't paid attention to any other teams, so I'm not sure what happened there. Okay, that was so disappointing.

Speaker 2 6:18

I know it was really disappointing, so disappointing, and I'm not even a big football person, but when it comes to playoffs, everybody gets involved and it's just fun because you want your state, you want your city to win, and so I was really, really sad when I saw that, because it was a really bad showing. I mean, it was like 40 to something.

Speaker 1 6:40

It was really bad end score was 43 to 32. They ended up scoring a little bit more towards the end. But you know, jimmy Johnson got inducted into the Ring of Honor just like a week or so before this game and it was a really big deal. He waited 30 years to get in there, lots of friction between him and the owner, jerry Jones, and 30 years later he's finally in there, and so a lot of people were hoping that the curse was going to be lifted.

Speaker 2 7:09

They made up. Yeah, I get it.

Speaker 1 7:11

I don't know if they made up, but he did put him in the Ring of Honor.

Speaker 2 7:14

No, I kind of saw him getting the. Don't they get a jacket? Um, I don't think so. Whatever, they were standing next to each other.

Speaker 1 7:22

It was a very awkward moment, oh yeah, yeah, but then with him, with the players Mike Lerving and Troy Aikman and Emmett Smith, that was so touching to me that the video of Jimmy was just so hyped up and so excited it literally I don't care how many times I watch it, but we get tears in my eyes because I was a part of that era. Back then I was in my 20s and the Cowboys were on fire and my friends and I would go to a restaurant Irving, and they would come in there after the games and have a big dinner, and so we just were around that whole scene a lot back then and so I was very invested in the team at the time and it's it's just heartbreaking to see that that's a thing of the past.

Speaker 2 8:02

And I think the biggest thing that was heartbreaking to me is in the past. I've watched it, you know, with my husband, who's loved the Cowboys since he was like out of the womb and and I've said, yeah, they're not, no, they're not making it to the playoffs this year. I actually really thought they would make it to the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 8:17

Like I really, because they are a really good team.

Speaker 2 8:19

They're doing great. 16 home games winning Like it was shocking. It was a shocking setback.

Speaker 1 8:27

I know it was very sad, but there's lots of speculation that Mike McCarthy and maybe Dak might be let go. Who knows? I've seen a lot of people say they should stay and our owner should go, which is never going to happen.

Speaker 2 8:41

No, that would be. That'd be kind of a problem, cause somebody would have to buy it. We could make a gazillion dollars.

Speaker 1 8:48

That's for I mean he already has a gazillion dollars, but you know even more. So, but anyways, every year it seems like they say there's a lease next year. So I guess that's what we got to hold out for another 30 years, 28, whatever it is, I don't know it's just I want it to happen for them so badly it gets. Just it's gotta happen.

Speaker 2 9:09

Yeah, no, I did too. I wanted it to happen for them.

Speaker 1 9:12

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Speaker 2 10:47

So you know, but now we're into rodeo season right Woo yee-haw, yeah, that's something we can wrap our brains around.

Speaker 1 10:54

Yeah, for sure, well you know I used to show horses back in the day and I was from Fort Worth and I used to have shows at the Fort Worth Stock Show and the Houston Stock Show. So during the rodeo they would have a little break and have like horse events and I would be in there amongst the rodeo crowd.

Speaker 2 11:13

Oh, that's great. It was kind of exciting. Did you ever date one of those crazy cowboy guys, bull riders? Yes, I was pretty young at the time but I do have a crazy story.

Speaker 1 11:22

When I was during my performance out there, a bull that was in the shoot waiting for the bull riding to come up. They kept him in the shoots during our little 13 and under classes and one of them broke out at the top of it right when I was riding by. His legs are like coming up, yes, over the top. And I'm this little 13 year old going, oh my god, I'm gonna die.

Speaker 2 11:46

There's a bull right there as I'm going by with my horse.

Speaker 1 11:49

Of course my horse completely freaked out and couldn't contain himself for the rest of the event and we had to stop. They had to clear the arena, they had to get all the cowboys came in and got the bull back in place.

Speaker 2 12:00

but we need to, sean. You need to do it like take a picture of Martha running with the bulls at pump loma, oh my and like to put it on the site. Like you terrified running down the street.

Speaker 1 12:13

That's what I felt like. I mean, I really was like a red dress on like it was so scary but yeah, so I was looking at the websites for both rodeos today and you know I'm a native of Fort Worth, like I said. So I hate to diss my rodeo, but you would not believe the comparison of entertainment versus the two rodeos.

Speaker 2 12:34

Oh, are you saying Fort Worth is better? No, oh, okay, that's what I thought I was like wait a second because you know, houston gets all the good, the good people.

Speaker 1 12:42

Yes, they do so Fort Worth apparently has tribute bands. Listen to this. Oh no, shania twang, tribute Twang done and Brooks instead of Brooks and done.

Speaker 2 12:52

Okay, the Shania twang. Is that a drag queen? I just want to know, because it really sounds like a drag queen.

Speaker 1 12:58

I didn't look it up, but you're right it does. But on contrast, listen to how Houston gets. They get Blake Shelton 50 cent.

Speaker 2 13:07

I don't, I can't figure out what 50 cent is no, I'm sorry, there's nothing rodeo about 50 cent.

Speaker 1 13:13

Okay, I'm so confused about that. Luke Bryan, who is really one of my favorites.

Speaker 2 13:18

Very good, love that guy Hank.

Speaker 1 13:20

Williams Jr. Laney Wilson, are you kidding me?

Speaker 2 13:23

Oh my god, wait, now I'm gonna go. I know let's go to Houston. I would like to. You know what I love Hank Williams and I would go anywhere to see him. I know let's take the bubble lounge to Houston rodeo that would be so fun.

Speaker 1 13:34

Nickelback Sean, that's one of his favorites Nickelback why?

Speaker 2 13:38

is he at a rodeo?

Speaker 1 13:39

Nickelback's not really. Yeah okay, jonas Brothers no.

Speaker 2 13:43

Why is he there? Why are they there? No?

Speaker 1 13:45

And then Brad Paisley. I mean, look at that.

Speaker 2 13:47

Well, that makes sense, but not having a country person, I mean, I get it it draws people, you know.

Speaker 1 13:52

But they're not tribute bands. I don't care who they are, that's true. They get the legit bands in Houston. So I have two cousins. I have.

Speaker 2 13:58

I have 27 cousins on my mother's side, oh my gosh. And a bunch of them live in Houston and so one of them he's been retired since he was 50 and so for like 10 years he's. They work the rodeo and they love it.

Speaker 1 14:11

Like they just love doing it.

Speaker 2 14:12

They greet people, they're all dressed up and their cowboy wear etc. I mean it really is like cattle barons of Houston. Yeah, you know, if you think about it, it's really fun, like I've bought great boots there, I've bought all kinds of things there.

Speaker 1 14:25

But I'm gonna look into Hank Williams Jr because well, the date is awesome for Houston our February 27th through March 17th andI 'll include a link to both rodeos and pretty much everything we talk about in the show today. But I think we should. I really wouldn't mind going to Houston.

Speaker 2 14:39

I wouldn't either.

Speaker 1 14:40

You know, yeah, so you went to Austin recently. I did, and you had quite the experience.

Speaker 2 14:47

Well, I went to Okay. So I happened to like political art. That's funny, okay. So I think you've seen I have a picture of my house by this guy, jason Archer. It's called world class daycare and it has like all these tyrants sitting in baby high chairs. I don't recall that. It's very funny. So I contacted him again. I was like I'd like a piece of your art and I got something it's called like campfires and marshmallows and ghost stories or something. It has all the presidents not all these political people standing around the around a campfire. It's just, it's just sort of tongue in cheek, yeah, art. So I went to go pick it up and Charles was like I kind of want to look at like Austin and see Austin and UT. And so we did. And, by the way, as I said to you, I was really surprised at what a city school UT is.

Speaker 1 15:31

It's just plopped right down in the middle, right next to the state capital. It really is.

Speaker 2 15:35

And I said to Charles what's interesting is Austin is very similar to Boston. It's like a walkable city, it's a manageable city, you know, like it's kind of a if you want to go to a city school. I didn't realize UT was a city school.

Speaker 1 15:46

I know it's just right there. I know it is surprising.

Speaker 2 15:49

Yeah, and we stayed at this hotel called Hotel Ella, which used to be somebody's mansion.

Speaker 1 15:53

I've seen it driving by, so it's beautiful, beautiful place.

Speaker 2 15:55

It's beautiful. It was freezing so we couldn't sit on the beautiful front porch and all the stuff Stuff for Rand and have your mint juleps.

Speaker 1 16:01

That makes it very southern.

Speaker 2 16:03

You know, but but then it became a sorority house. Anyway, it's just, it's a beautiful building and Charles and I went to dinner at Peche and then we went to the Carpenter Hotel, which I really like I wanted to show him that to have dessert and a cocktail. And we came back and we're walking down the hall to our room. Yeah, and I swear to God, we saw a ghost.

Speaker 1 16:26

No, yes, we did. What did the ghost look like? We?

Speaker 2 16:29

literally saw it and like we were both like looking at it, it wasn't scary, but it was like white steam or whatever, in a shape moving down the hall and then it went up into the ceiling.

Speaker 1 16:41

Okay, that's crazy, it's crazy. I've never seen anything like that. I've heard plenty of people talk about things like that.

Speaker 2 16:46

And then the next morning we saw the same thing. Oh my gosh. So, and we actually asked the friend to ask. I said, listen, you're gonna think I'm really crazy. Like, does anybody like? I swear to God, I saw this white thing, a figure, moving down the hall Does anybody say that? And she said, yes, people do what? So anyway, it was fun, I don't know.

Speaker 1 17:03

Well, did she say who it was? Like that was Annabelle Jackson.

Speaker 2 17:07

She, you know, here's what happened.

Speaker 1 17:10

Like I feel like there's a good story there. Did you look it up online?

Speaker 2 17:13

Surely there's, like I did, but there wasn't like a lot of information. There were more haunted places in Austin, but Charles and I once stayed in Gettysburg At this sorry, talking about ghost tours we stayed at this hotel. We were looking at different colleges along the way and it was an old haunted hotel that used to be a Union Soldiers Hospital, oh wow. And so it was kind of like in the movies where you get the bed and breakfast lady who wants to show you everything and she was like see that blood on the floor, oh God, that's from Union Soldiers.

Speaker 2 17:46

Like literally like an hour later we were like could we just go get a meal? We're done with the tour. Oh my God.

Speaker 1 17:53

We're very travelers.

Speaker 2 17:54

We don't really need a history lesson right now. Give me that story. Oh my gosh, but we didn't see anything there.

Speaker 1 17:59

Yeah, so anyway, it was kind of fun, that's so interesting, I'll have to ask around. Yes, well, alexis went back to Austin on Sunday. We were trying to get her back before the, you know the blizzard hit that never happened. And she had her first official day at UT yesterday. Great, super excited for her to be in there and have that behind us.

Speaker 2 18:18

Yes.

Speaker 1 18:20

So far, so good.

Speaker 2 18:21

I think it's great and she always wanted to be there, so it's the perfect place. Yeah, she couldn't see herself anywhere else. Yeah, and I think that's. I think you have to honor that with your children, right? When somebody really says this is what I want, I always admire that in kids.

Speaker 1 18:34

Knowing what they want. I agree.

Speaker 2 18:35

Because a lot of kids don't.

Speaker 1 18:36

And then especially at this day and age, when this generation is not used to getting things immediately and she was willing to prolong it a semester, and then, of course, with Sordi Rush, it'll be a whole year that she, you know, waited to do it.

Speaker 2 18:53

Well, and she probably got some great classes under her belt. She did To get them out of the way.

Speaker 1 18:58

She's gotten a lot of hours Smart, yeah. So I mean, I think, all in all, everything worked out for the best. It was kind of hard to get on board with it initially, just because I wanted her to jump in and have, you know, the normal college experience, but she was just determined to do it this way and it all has worked out so far Well it's interesting how UT does that, because Charles has a friend, teddy, who goes to UT Tyler, so I forget what this is called.

Speaker 2 19:24

You probably CAP, yes, cap, right. So he had to go to one of the campuses, so he picked that campus and then he gets to go as a sophomore.

Speaker 1 19:30

Yes, when you do it, when you do it that way, you're guaranteed to get in. When you do it the way Alexis did, by going to Austin Community College first and transferring in, you are not guaranteed. It's a little bit of a risky move, but you know what?

Speaker 2 19:46

I feel like any school, like I'm talking to all you kids out there if you want to go to Harvard, apply sophomore year Like because they know you're committed.

Speaker 1 19:54

I'm not saying it's easy.

Speaker 2 19:55

I'm not saying that, I'm just saying you get through the red tapes gone and they really know you really want to be there and I think that's the most important thing but having good grades, obviously, being a good candidate, but if you really want to go somewhere and they know that, they take that into consideration.

Speaker 1 20:09

I think you're right, because, as the scene goes, it's not where you start, it's where you finish, exactly. So that's what people look at, yeah. So yeah, I think that's really really good advice.

Speaker 2 20:18

It's exciting for her and I can't wait to see all the pictures of the sorority stuff. It reminds me you said highlights is coming up this weekend, which I'm not like a part of anymore, but I just love all of our Texas Dallas-y stuff that we do. And when I had my moms, lonely moms whose kids went off to college for my kindergarten group this summer, September, Annie Stampton, my friend, Rachel Wallace, was showing my friend from LA I swear to God, Rachel, if you're listening about 75 pictures of all the dances that our kids had been to.

Speaker 2 20:52

And I was like, trust me, in California they don't have this right. I mean, Charles misses that, because in Boston they don't have those kind of big dances and the Texas Tuxedo. I mean really, this is very just Texas.

Discussion on Restaurants and Driving Habits

Speaker 1 21:08

I know, and they actually cut out the fall highlights. This is the spring one, so we're down one, which I think the parents really like, but the kids miss having the other one as well. The theme is anything but human, so what does that mean?

Speaker 2 21:25

Just what it says, which is very tricky. Ok, what's everybody wearing To figure out like?

Speaker 1 21:31

Minnie Mouse, mickey Mouse, minions, scooby-doo. That's how you dress.

Speaker 2 21:37

Yeah, oh my god for the girls that are listening. If anybody saw Rosamund Pike's dress that she wore to one of the awards shows where she had that beautiful thing covering her face, she was very, not human, but beautiful Like. I loved that look. I thought about that, so that's your suggestion. Yes, well, it's still a human Do some weird fascinator or something.

Speaker 1 21:59

Turn yourself into an animal through the hat. I guess It'll be fun to see what the kids come up with. They're always so creative. Are you doing like a party or anything? No, the girls are in charge of highlights.

Speaker 2 22:11

Oh, that's right, I forgot to highlight the girls, the boy moms, the boy families just show up. Yeah, that's kind of nice. You take pictures and have a cocktail yeah, my kind of party. Yes, well, I had some news. I don't know if you ever went to this restaurant, but you know what Urbano Cafe is.

Speaker 1 22:26

I feel like I've heard of it, but I don't know that I have ever gone.

Speaker 2 22:30

So when I first moved to Dallas, Urbano's on Fitzhugh, next to Jimmy's Market you know where Jimmy's Market is yes, we went over the holidays. Ok, so that's right next door. Oh, ok, it's been a restaurant and when I first moved here it was listed as one of the top gourmet restaurants in Dallas.

Speaker 1 22:45

Oh, OK, Because the food is amazing but it's also BYOB, so they're closing.

Speaker 2 22:50

Oh no, which makes me so sad, so I'm going with my friend Elaine tonight to sort of just toast it.

Speaker 1 22:54

Oh, that makes me so sad. I hate when unique restaurants, family owned, can't make it.

Speaker 2 22:59

Well, and I started to wonder why didn't I go for the past several years?

Speaker 1 23:03

Like it was such a fun place. Yes, I'm part of the problem.

Speaker 2 23:06

And it was like, if you think about it, it's nice to have a restaurant with gourmet food that's affordable. If you're bringing your own booze, it's affordable. I know I kind of like it when they do the BYOB thing, me too.

Speaker 1 23:17

Because you have what you want at the price point you want and you're not getting that upcharge. But that's probably why they didn't make. It is because that's how restaurants make. Their money is through alcohol.

Speaker 2 23:27

Yeah, and I think it's the location. And listen, we all know this. I'm calling myself out on this too. Every time I try to do something different, like I took Charles to Taco, Evino in Bishop Arts, et cetera. We did a bunch of fun things over the holiday, but we all do like our bubble.

Speaker 1 23:44

I know I am so guilty of that and Alexis wanted to kind of branch out and try some different things over the break and we didn't make it quite as much as we had intended. Life gets in the way, but I am so guilty of that and I'm really tired of it because there's so many great places. Bishop Arts seems to have all the good places.

Speaker 2 24:05

They do. I think it's called Il Morito. There's a place it's an old Mexican restaurant and they have Elvis impersonations coming up. But I'm gonna go see it with my friend and the guy was heavily into Elvis. There's Elvis paraphernalia all over the walls and they have seven days a week mariachis. Oh, the whole place looks like day of the dead like skulls are hanging and it's red and it's crazy.

Speaker 2 24:30

and real Mexican food, real Tex-Mex, I should say. But the fact that they have mariachis every night of the week is kind of fun. That is so fun, I know.

Speaker 1 24:38

Okay, we need to create a guide to outside of the bubble, you know.

Speaker 2 24:43

That's a good idea.

Speaker 1 24:44

We focus so much within the bubble, we gotta get people to go branch out and see what's going on outside of the bubble.

Speaker 2 24:50

We do so. Those are two people that look spound on those. But it's like, if you're willing to drive 10 extra minutes, I know you know that's real.

Speaker 1 24:58

It seems so far, but it really is not. It's not. And I mean no wonder people in other states and cities make fun of us because we do. We complain about a 20 minute drive all the time. Well, guess what?

Speaker 2 25:10

Guess what you can drive to Snyder Plaza, two blocks from your house and my house, and spend 45 minutes trying to park. So what does that say? You might as well drive 10 minutes and there's a giant parking lot.

Speaker 1 25:23

That's right, guys. It's the same time investment and you can try something new. I mean, doesn't that drive you crazy when you go to Snyder?

Speaker 2 25:29

Plaza and you're driving around for hours and I don't know how they're gonna do all the new restaurants that are all gonna open this spring. Like, where are people gonna park?

Speaker 1 25:38

They are going to park in that paid parking garage over there by Rambo Room I guess, but people like it's not gonna hold everybody. There's a lot of parking in there. People aren't utilizing it right now there's a lot of spaces in there, but people are so used to just driving right up, depending on what time you go, driving right up and parking that I think it's going to be very hard to train people to get their brain around having to walk from the parking garage down to Snyder Plaza.

Speaker 2 26:07

Well, I've lived a couple blocks from Snyder Plaza for how many years now? And I said we'll just walk and I drive.

Speaker 1 26:12

We're good and I drive, which is so lame.

Speaker 2 26:14

I'm like it's time to just I can walk a couple blocks. It depends on I don't know you're in New York or you're used to walking a lot. And I always say it's so great because we can walk to so many restaurants and then I drive.

Speaker 1 26:27

I'm like well, you're not.

Speaker 2 26:28

Love being able to walk, even though I don't do it, I know Well we should well, not right now, but when it warms up we should walk down there, exactly, exactly.

Speaker 1 26:36

Well, we were talking about those car wrecks earlier today and just as a mom, I know you're the same way it just when you hear of those things, you start getting really worried about your own kid driving. I feel like once you have a teen driver, your whole perspective of driving and the potential for wrecks is just like so.

Speaker 1 26:55

it kind of for me, it kind of consumes me, especially after these two recent wrecks, and so I reached out to Kathy Wall this morning our show sponsor and our good friend and just asked her if she had kind of a little quick, bullet-pointed guide to keeping your car, of what you do when you have a wreck. And she is gonna get that to me and I'm gonna share it for you all. So I think it's just something good to have on hand, because when you do have a wreck you're so flustered and you can't think straight and you don't you just kind of forget the steps of what you should do.

Speaker 1 27:26

So just something you can keep in your car, maybe laminate it, and so that's coming.

Speaker 2 27:31

Like a bottle of wine, like a bottle of wine. Just joking, Kathy Wall.

Speaker 1 27:36

Well, you know it.

Speaker 2 27:37

Just I'm gonna sit here and wait for the police officer. Oh my goodness. So I mean, honestly, you'd have to think about it. All the stuff you really needed an accident? Yeah, I would buy that kit in five seconds Just because I don't know what I'm doing.

Speaker 1 27:49

You get so shaken when something like that happens, you know.

Speaker 2 27:53

I have a question for you. With Alexis at UT, where do you drive when you have a car there? Because it seems like there's no parking. So what do you do?

Speaker 1 28:02

That is very much a problem there. Like I think if you're just kind of concentrated to around the campus, you don't drive. She is very fortunate and she has a really nice garage that's attached to her apartment, so she ends up just keeping her car in there quite a bit if she's sticking close to campus. But beyond the downtown area it's just like every other city. There's all sorts of interesting neighborhoods, shopping areas, tons of cool restaurants, lakes.

Speaker 2 28:31

So she uses the car for fun, not to go to class? That was my question. I wonder what people did.

Speaker 1 28:36

Yeah, no, I think every college has parking issues, because I racked up some serious parking tickets at OU back in my day. My dad was not happy because someone told me oh, they're not real, they don't count, just throw it away.

Speaker 2 28:50

And oh, that's hilarious, I kept throwing them away.

Speaker 1 28:54

Then I go home for Christmas break and he's like Martha, let me show you something. And he gets out fresh new $100 bills. He's like see all this, this is what you have racked up in parking fees right now. This could have gone to something fun and our savings is very big into savings, but here it's going to have to go to your parking tickets. So, yeah, I think it's a problem at every school. Does Charles have a car there? No, I didn't think he did.

Speaker 2 29:25

No because it would be like me paying for an apartment to park his car in Boston.

Speaker 1 29:27

Yeah, I mean, think about it. It's like in New York, like would I?

Speaker 2 29:30

pay like $800 a month to park his car oh god. That's awful, and the thing is he doesn't really. I mean, the problem is kids can't rent cars. That's the problem. It would be great if he could rent a car occasionally to leave town Right right Like to go to Salem or to go to Newport, rhode Island or something like that. So that's the only big issue. But there's public transportation. He's got friends with cars who live near the school.

Speaker 1 29:55

I think that's good. Friends with cars are like having a friend with a boat you don't have to have the overhead and the maintenance which you can go enjoy the fun. When are you getting your boat, martha and Charlotte?

Speaker 2 30:07

I think we have decided to never have a boat.

Speaker 1 30:09

My dad tried to give us his boat several years ago and we declined it because it's a lot of maintenance.

Speaker 2 30:18

It is a lot of work.

Speaker 1 30:19

And so yeah, for now, no boats in our future right now. Ok. One last fun thing that I was going to mention is this Saturday is a final countdown. Is playing right next door to Bubble Lounge headquarters at the Barley House Saturday night, and why that's exciting is because two of the guys in the band are Park City's dads.

Speaker 2 30:44

Oh, that's hilarious. I've never seen them play. What do they?

Pre-Party and Event Announcement

Speaker 1 30:46

call them Vinyl countdown. Ok, so see another tribute band. But I love that idea. No, they play 80s and 90s, so it's right up the alley for people of most parents' generation. So it'll be super fun. Sean and I are going to go, we'll have the pre-party in pictures and the kids will go off to dinner and then we will head over there at some point in time. They start at 9 o'clock.

Speaker 2 31:10

I think that's really cool and I always admire when somebody does something they want to do. In LA, everybody I know does. They're like oh, I just wrote a book about wine. I decided to take up cooking on the side, whatever, and it's kind of fun and artsy. Or they're in bands and I think that's great that they're doing that. I do too why not?

Speaker 1 31:26

But what's funny is they don't play around here very often. They actually do little tours and they're gone out of town quite a bit. I've looked at the schedule because I've been dying to go see them, so finally they're right here. Yes, right around the corner On SMU Boulevard from our family's office. So come join us if you feel like it.

Speaker 2 31:45

Well, I mean, that's all we got this week, so it's been fun catching up, as usual.

Speaker 1 31:50

Yes, there's been a lot that happened in the past week there has Everybody stay warm. Good luck. Yeah, sit by the fire. Yeah, it's above freezing, so there's hope out there.

Speaker 2 32:00

Yeah, there's hope. With it, Tomorrow's going to be pretty so. Anyway, guys, it's been another episode of the Bubble Lounge.

Speaker 1 32:05

I'm Nelly Shudo and I'm Martha Jackson, and we'll catch you next time.