Mother's Day

Mothers get spa days while fathers get power tools—what does that tell us about how we view parenting roles? This candid, humor-filled conversation peels back the layers on Mother's Day and Father's Day gift traditions that reveal deeply rooted cultural assumptions.

Did you know Father's Day wasn't officially recognized until 1966, decades after Mother's Day became official in 1914? This surprising gap mirrors how differently we celebrate these parental holidays. While mothers receive gifts centered on relaxation and temporary freedom from domestic duties, fathers typically get gifts that involve more work or reinforce stereotypical masculine activities.

The gift-giving awkwardness around Father's Day deserves special attention. As we joke about men uncomfortably receiving presents ("You would think it was empty...and then put the top back on it"), we explore why finding appropriate gifts for fathers proves perpetually challenging. Not every dad plays golf or grills, yet these remain default gift categories year after year. Meanwhile, the perfect Mother's Day revolves around one simple principle: "I ain't loading a dishwasher...that's literally all I want."

Beyond gifts, we explore the brunch phenomenon that dominates Mother's Day celebrations and share practical advice for making both holidays more meaningful. Whether you're crafting homemade cards (saving $7 each time!) or seeking the perfect brunch spot, there's value in remembering that the best parental gifts often benefit the entire family rather than just the individual.

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Chapters

• 0:20 Mother's Day and Birthday Combos
• 5:15 The Origins of Parent Holidays
• 8:37 The Father's Day Gift Dilemma
• 17:17 The Art of Grilling Debate
• 24:03 What Mothers Really Want
• 29:44 Brunch Spots and Card Confessions

Transcript

Speaker 1 0:20

Welcome to hey Real Quick Hello.

Speaker 2 0:23

We have Mother's Day coming up.

Speaker 1 0:25

Two days people.

Speaker 2 0:26

Two days.

Speaker 1 0:27

Yeah, may 11th.

Speaker 2 0:31

Yeah, the second. It's always the second Sunday in May right, yes, it is.

Speaker 1 0:38

And sometimes it's the 10th, which coincides with my birthday.

Speaker 2 0:43

Oh yeah, your birthday, yeah, sometimes.

Speaker 1 0:45

I get the double, the combo, but not this year.

Speaker 2 0:50

Well, birthday's a legitimate.

Speaker 1 0:53

Yeah.

Speaker 2 0:54

I'm not saying.

Speaker 1 0:57

Being a mother is not legit. Yeah, I'm not trying to bash on Mother's Day, no.

Speaker 2 1:02

I'm just saying it's made up, but whatever.

Speaker 1 1:05

Yeah.

Speaker 2 1:05

But a birthday.

Speaker 1 1:07

A birthday? Yeah, we celebrate that.

Speaker 2 1:10

What are you doing for your birthday? I don't know Nothing.

Speaker 1 1:12

We are not celebrating. Yeah, I'm doing something. I think my daughter and I are doing something, Maybe like a little spa-ish apparently.

Speaker 2 1:20

Oh, that's nice.

Speaker 1 1:26

I think apparently that's nice, I think it's gonna be her treat. This is what happens when your kids grow up and go to work, um, and then just super nice, and then I don't know, I think we'll probably get. If it's not raining, we might go to cheekwood oh yeah, there you go you know I'm gonna be 52, so it basically means I want to put on ugly walking shoes and walk around and look at flowers, because that's where we are.

Speaker 1 1:49

Yeah, we have the bird app on our phone right now and we were on the porch the other night.

Speaker 2 1:54

Wait a minute. Wait a minute, is it called Twitter?

Speaker 1 1:58

Sorry, but I was like OK, because they were. Well, you've heard me when I've talked to you on the phone while I'm on my porch and you're like what is going on? Are you in a bird sanctuary? Yeah, I guess I am. And you hit the little thing and it was like you know, Robin, and then it was like Mockingbird, and then it was like something warbler, and then it's like it tells you everything and it's like a little.

Speaker 2 2:24

Oh, so you just have it on yeah.

Speaker 1 2:26

And you can watch it when they make the noises. It's as if you're in a sound studio or like watching a heart monitor or something where it goes beep, beep and the little lines go up every time. It's fascinating.

Speaker 2 2:39

Can you play it back, yeah?

Speaker 1 2:41

you can. I don't know if people are doing that or if they're being like hey, y'all listen to this.

Speaker 2 2:47

I don't think they're going to like flock to you.

Speaker 1 2:49

No Land on your arm while you're holding an iPhone.

Speaker 2 2:51

Who's that? Snow White or something? Yeah With all the birds.

Speaker 1 2:54

Ha, ha, ha, ha. Oh yeah, snow White, yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 3:00

The bird app.

Speaker 1 3:01

No, but yeah. So me birthday, then the next day it's Mother's Day, so call your mother.

Speaker 2 3:08

Yeah, or go buy something.

Speaker 1 3:11

Yeah.

Speaker 2 3:11

Because they've roped you into that.

Speaker 1 3:15

Sorry, cards Hallmark. Yeah, oh, yeah you got to do all of it. It's the biggest selling card holiday.

Speaker 2 3:23

I think it should always be. I think any holiday, you should choose to celebrate it, but they should all just be. It should all just be food.

Speaker 1 3:34

There should be no gifts. That would take the pressure off Christmas. I kind of get a little bit Sure, yeah.

Speaker 2 3:37

But like Father's Day and Mother's Day, it should just be like what are you going to make or where are you going to go eat?

Speaker 1 3:43

Right, because those people should not have to cook. Somebody said what do you want for Mother's Day? I said to not cook anything or touch a dish.

Speaker 2 3:51

Yeah, I ain't cleaning up the kitchen.

Speaker 1 3:52

I ain't going in the kitchen except for get some coffee. The only thing that's touching.

Speaker 2 3:55

That plate is my fork.

Speaker 1 3:57

Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 3:58

I ain't loading a dishwasher.

Speaker 1 4:00

No, please, that's like literally. That's all I want.

Speaker 2 4:03

Or laundry. You shouldn't have to use an appliance other than a TV.

Speaker 1 4:08

Yeah right, that's basically it.

Speaker 2 4:11

Yeah, we're taking our mom to, I think, or the plan is.

Speaker 1 4:16

The plan is Uncle Julio's. Which is nice Mexican.

Speaker 2 4:20

Yeah, a little bougie-ish Fresh guac, if you like it.

Speaker 1 4:25

Yeah, it's a little bougie mexican it's our bougie mexican. Yeah, we get our special holidays.

Speaker 2 4:28

It's festive yeah it's fun I can always eat mexican food me too but, yeah anyway, yeah yeah, I was trying to think um, which I didn't know, because I said it's made up. It's not made up.

Speaker 1 4:45

It's not made up, it is a day.

Speaker 2 4:49

But what would you think came first, Mother's Day or Father's Day?

Speaker 1 4:55

Unlike a lot of other things, probably, mother's Day came first. Yeah, you got it right.

Speaker 2 5:01

So it was first observed in 1908 while Father's Day was first celebrated in 1910.

Speaker 1 5:09

All right.

Speaker 2 5:11

So yeah, I was just wondering where it came from.

The Origins of Parent Holidays

Speaker 1 5:13

Yeah, I don't know where it came from, the Old.

Speaker 2 5:15

Farmer's Almanac, which I don't know, I still don't understand that says that Anna Jarvis, shout out, driven by a desire to honor her own mother, spearheaded the movement for National Mother's Day, which was officially declared by President Woodrow Wilson in 1914.

Speaker 1 5:34

Okay, so it took her six years to get going. She stuck with it, yeah, she didn't have like Instagram and stuff to get the word out.

Speaker 2 5:42

And then somebody got mad because fathers weren't represented.

Speaker 1 5:45

Right, don't do it.

Speaker 2 5:46

So then good old Sonora Smart Dodd sought to establish a similar day for fathers. That was back in 1910. But the kicker was that wasn't official until 1966.

Speaker 1 6:07

Really.

Speaker 2 6:07

Yeah, lyndon B Johnson made the first proclamation honoring fathers. I don't know why that took so long.

Speaker 1 6:13

So that means that like when our parents grew up, it wasn't until after high school that they had a Father's Day for their dads. I guess yeah.

Speaker 2 6:23

My belief on that is somebody at like Ace Hardware or I don't know, the local hardware store or something, had too many grills or too many hammers or something.

Speaker 1 6:34

We gotta move.

Speaker 2 6:35

It was like this ain't, we ain't getting rid of none of this.

Speaker 1 6:39

Yeah, we got yeah.

Speaker 2 6:40

Call the Prez. We need a day where people feel like they have to buy their dad a grill. Right. We need a day where people feel like they have to buy their dad a grill Right.

Speaker 1 6:45

We are covered in golf clubs or something.

Speaker 2 6:48

These ties are just sitting on the shelf.

Speaker 1 6:50

And you know what I'll say this about Father's Day.

Speaker 2 6:56

It's the most awkward day to give a present, I think because they don't want it.

Speaker 1 7:01

It's hard, and this is true for other kind of shopping. For men, I feel like, but like not every man and or dad plays golf or grills. My husband does neither.

Speaker 2 7:15

Yeah.

Speaker 1 7:16

And what's up with the like? Every man's got a grill.

Speaker 2 7:20

Yeah.

Speaker 1 7:21

It's kind of a stereotype. I mean, I know men, you know men have been first in lots of other things and some people are like, well, who cares? But, however, if you're trying to think of a good gift for somebody, yeah. I'm always like well, my husband doesn't need a grill apron or grill accessories. Now you know, he could use another wheelbarrow probably. And then you're buying like flowers and stuff.

Speaker 2 7:50

It's not just for Mother's Day.

Speaker 1 7:52

Yeah, exactly, I don't know, it's a little.

Speaker 2 7:57

Barbaric. It's like it's kind of caveman-ish. Yeah, it's like you're a dumb, go hit this ball or grill this meat. You dumb man, stand by fire. Yeah, it's like you're a dumb. Go hit this ball or grill this meat. You dumb man, stand by fire, yeah Right.

Speaker 1 8:07

Or beer steins or something like that. I don't know. It's weird. So yeah, I'll say this about grilling.

Speaker 2 8:16

Yes, there are people who are pros at it.

Speaker 1 8:18

Oh yeah, so there's Respect, there is an art to it.

Speaker 2 8:22

Yeah, I get it Like you do it for a living of competitions.

Speaker 1 8:30

Good on you.

Speaker 2 8:31

Right, but for the general stuff it's not hard.

Speaker 1 8:36

Right.

Speaker 2 8:37

It cracks me up. People are like oh man, that's good. It's like what'd you do? I put it on the fire.

Speaker 1 8:44

Lowry season's off, and then I flipped it over and then I took it off. And I just made sure it wasn't dripping blood.

Speaker 2 8:51

And yeah, we're good, it's men's excuse not to have to do everything in the kitchen, but you know what it's hot out there?

Speaker 1 8:57

Yeah, that's true, I don't want to do it, not in the summer.

Speaker 2 9:00

I don't grill.

Speaker 1 9:06

Well, I don't really grill much anymore, because I almost blew myself up with a propane tank one time.

Speaker 2 9:09

Oh, I wish we had a video. Yeah, I do too, but so I don't grill a lot.

Speaker 1 9:13

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2 9:15

But like 4th of July and all that stuff, like it's 100 out here. I know I can just put the burger on the driveway.

Speaker 1 9:21

The grill season should be from March to May and then from honestly like October, November.

Speaker 2 9:28

Yeah, even December if it's warm.

Speaker 1 9:29

That's nice because you don't mind being outside November, even December if it's warm. That's nice because you don't mind being outside.

Speaker 2 9:33

I think it should match up with. It's the same way as playing golf, or whatever 50 degrees to 80. Grill, play golf, do whatever you want. If it's 92, I ain't doing any of one of them.

Speaker 1 9:46

No, technically you should get a ticket, but whatever, it's too hot. However, our neighbor, next door neighbor, has one of those. Technically you should get a ticket, but whatever, but it's too hot, yeah. However, our neighbor next door neighbor has one of those that uses the pebbles.

Speaker 2 9:58

Oh, the pellet grill.

Speaker 1 9:59

Pellet and it's like hooked up to his phone. But his is a smoker.

Speaker 2 10:02

Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 10:03

And now granted. That's a deep dive right there People get into that I'm not going to go all the way in it, but like he's also a hunter, like he hunts for sport, he taught his kid how to duck hunt all this kind of stuff. So they're like in it from the beginning to the. You know they're getting the meat. But sometimes he just goes to Costco and gets like pork roast and does the barbecue, there's always a Boston butt.

Speaker 2 10:25

You'll be talking to a mid conversation like hold on. It's at 160.

Speaker 1 10:29

Yeah, and he like will bring us meat sometimes and it is unbelievable. He goes it's not hard, you just like hook it up and da, da, da, and I'm like okay, I just want somebody to go, can you just do? It for me and like, give me a lesson, I need a couple of videos, but anyway, which I love, that we're. I'm not going to do that. I love that.

Speaker 2 10:49

I'm saying I don't. Well, first of all, dads. I don't care what a dad says, they don't want anything, because I think men are awkward.

Speaker 1 10:58

When you receive like you get a gift and they're just like I remember giving my grandparents or something and you give them a gift, you would think it was empty.

Speaker 2 11:11

Like they would open the box and be like oh yeah, that's nice. And then put the top back on it, Put the top on, like, throw it back on the floor and be like so. Anyway, like I was saying, like dude, we spent three and a half hours trying to pick out what color shirt to get you.

Speaker 1 11:24

And we wrapped it yeah. With wrapping paper and then, like a bow and tape on the box, paid for it. We didn't even steal it, like yeah, yeah, um, yeah. And then the stereotypical ties and socks, socks and business socks, and first of all, them make his feet sweat, okay. Second of all, I don't know a ton of men that are wearing that many ties no, I don't wear no ties you know, I don't even tuck my shirt in.

Speaker 2 11:52

I'm at that point in my life I don't remember. I'm trying to think of the last time I tucked my shirt in. It's been a minute.

Speaker 1 11:58

A dinner? Yeah, no, I don't tuck my shirt in. Oh, I guess, if I go, if I wear a suit, yeah, I tuck my yeah, go back to Mother's Day.

Speaker 2 12:13

Sorry I derailed.

Speaker 1 12:14

No, also biggest flower. I think it's bigger than Valentine's for floral.

Speaker 2 12:21

That has to be where florists like Valentine's Day and Mother's Day.

Speaker 1 12:27

They got to be like Maybe they're tied, but I guess, I know, hallmark Mother's day is a little bit bigger yeah as far as cards yeah, dads don't want cards.

Speaker 2 12:37

I say I don't want anything. And then when you're we're talking about grills, I'm like it's not even that hard yeah and I'll I'm gonna go off on a grill tangent okay so I almost blew myself up one time with a propane tank I remember you telling me, so I got a charcoal grill.

Speaker 1 12:51

What's up, weber? I've been rocking that for a minute, yeah. However if you're like, let's grill some burgers. Let's wait an hour till they get white yeah.

Speaker 2 13:01

Sump the briquettes in there.

Speaker 1 13:03

These are old, ready to throw them on in 40 minutes.

Speaker 2 13:05

Nope, Gotta do all this stuff Meanwhile kids just want a hot dog that takes 17 seconds to grill, yeah, so now I want to get rid of it and I want to buy a charcoal grill. I want one of those Blackstone.

Speaker 1 13:21

What is a Blackstone?

Speaker 2 13:22

It's just the. It's like a hibachi grill.

Speaker 1 13:26

But it's flat. It's just a griddle, but for outside it's just a griddle?

Speaker 2 13:30

Yeah, exactly, but like gas powered or plug it in, it's just flat, it's a griddle. But for outside, yeah, it's just a griddle.

Speaker 1 13:32

Yeah, exactly, but like everybody does, is it gas powered or plug it in? Well, it's propane tank. You got to blow yourself up, but it's a. They scare me to death.

Speaker 2 13:38

But yeah, everybody does. Oh for smash burgers. Everybody does the smash burgers, or?

Speaker 1 13:41

veggies Grill veggies on them.

Speaker 2 13:44

You can do Volcano if you want Little choo-choo train.

Speaker 1 13:49

What's choo-choo train? What have you never been to a Japanese restaurant? It's been a minute, 20 years ago.

Speaker 2 13:55

Maybe you know the clang-a-dee-clang thing. Yeah, hibachi. Yeah, it's been 20 years, okay, but anyway.

Speaker 1 14:01

If you want to do that, your neighbors will bring chairs over and watch you.

Speaker 2 14:06

It Cool, easy, okay, and nothing can fall through the grill. That's my biggest beef with, like sorry, charcoal grills. Yeah, it's like you got a burger or fish or whatever it is Half of it.

Speaker 1 14:19

Yeah, there's half the salmon in the briquettes yeah.

Speaker 2 14:27

Also, let's do it.

Speaker 1 14:28

Let's do it.

Speaker 2 14:29

Making the sale there's too many accessories for charcoal grill, so it's the fish basket. There's the like.

Speaker 1 14:36

Ain't nobody using that stuff? Get a roll of Reynolds, y'all.

Speaker 2 14:40

I did have the fish basket.

Speaker 1 14:42

Lord have mercy.

Speaker 2 14:43

But it did make it easier. Did it Because it sticks to the wrap.

Speaker 1 14:48

Then you're like why didn't I just fix this on the stove? I'm basically using the pan on top of the grill. What is the power out?

Speaker 2 14:54

you know what we don't have in the house mosquitoes? Yeah, we have an air conditioner yeah, hvac is working beautifully.

Speaker 1 15:00

Why are we out here sweat bees, wasps anyway, mosquitoes, yeah.

Speaker 2 15:06

That's why we don't get mom's grills, yeah we already have.

Speaker 1 15:09

they're like don't get me a grills. Yeah, we already have a stove.

Speaker 2 15:11

They're like don't get me a job, Something else to cook on.

Speaker 1 15:14

Yeah, I know, I mean, if anybody's going to grill in our family, it's usually me Randall will do it. But like I don't, I don't like it.

Speaker 2 15:22

It's too much work.

Speaker 1 15:23

I know I like the stuff about it, you know, like marinating and all that and putting it on there and kind of being like, hey, what's up? I don't know I'm dripping sweat, but then you go back in and you're a little bit stinky.

Speaker 2 15:39

But then the neighbors start grilling and you're outside and you're so jealous we should grill.

Speaker 1 15:44

I know, gosh, that smells good. You know, that's what I do.

Speaker 2 15:49

I think there was one time like I was grilling and I got done and we had some of those wood chips. I never really used them oh you know you like soak them and like it just makes stuff like smokier soak them okay.

Speaker 1 16:00

Yeah, that's another step.

Speaker 2 16:01

Okay, I got you but it's not that hard um okay but I didn't really use them because I don't love like real smoky, like I don't love like real smoky foot oh. Anyway, yeah, so, but I was done grilling. I was like I just threw them on there after I was done.

Speaker 1 16:15

Yeah, just smell up the neighborhood. Just smell up the neighborhood You're welcome.

Speaker 2 16:18

I bet people are like what is that? Ooh, is that brisket?

Speaker 1 16:20

What is that Hickory? What is that man that smells good Guess what? Learning stuff now.

Speaker 2 16:30

Anyway, all right.

Speaker 1 16:31

What's it called A smash grill? No a Blackstone. I think they just call it a smash grill, but Blackstone, there was a Blackstone brewery restaurant. Say that fast five times on West End for years.

Speaker 2 16:43

I can't say it slow one time.

Speaker 1 16:45

I can't say brewery, because it just sounds like you got B and an R.

Speaker 2 16:48

It sounds like you've been at one for a minute when you say it.

Speaker 1 17:00

Y'all want to go to the brewery? I don't think you need to. Um, you mean, go back um, um, yeah, so grills, okay, yeah, I bet you get one for father's day. Are you gonna be awkward when you receive it?

Speaker 2 17:05

or are you gonna say I'd really like some socks and a tie, but no, I won't be awkward, because if I get get one, I will have picked it out and told them which one I want.

Speaker 1 17:13

Oh yeah, I'm a big fan of.

Speaker 2 17:15

If you want it, just order it.

Speaker 1 17:17

Yeah, and then if you want to put a bow on it, and if you want to celebrate, we can go eat. Or buy some meat for the Blackstone, yeah.

Speaker 2 17:27

It's like when you get a link to something Like, hey, this is what I want, yeah, okay.

Speaker 1 17:32

Easy for me, yeah, free delivery.

Speaker 2 17:34

Sounds great. Do you want to wrap it too? Yeah, what kind of paper do you want?

Speaker 1 17:38

Yeah, how much effort Zero.

Speaker 2 17:42

Which I will say, with Mother's Day coming up, robin asked me. She was like, hey, are we doing? What are we doing for your mom?

Speaker 1 17:52

Oh right, and I'm like I don't know.

Speaker 2 17:53

I mean, I guess we'll you know what are we going to do?

Speaker 1 17:56

Yeah, yeah, take dinner, yeah.

Speaker 2 17:59

Maybe there's surprises.

Speaker 1 18:00

Maybe there's handsome surprises.

Speaker 2 18:02

Shout out mom, but I forget. I'm like, oh yeah.

Speaker 1 18:09

It's also your wife.

Speaker 2 18:10

I think she's also saying like hey, are we doing anything for? Your mother's birthday. Yeah, we have two children.

Speaker 1 18:21

Yeah, exactly. So what are the gifts for mothers? So let's go through that for a minute. Spa, spa, things, spa themed. Some people don't like the spa. They don't want people touching them. Whatever, get off my face, I don't want- Self-care. Yeah, but like the little items like hand lotions and scrubs and things like that, those are big.

Speaker 2 18:43

Flowers.

Speaker 1 18:43

Flowers, pajamas, robes slip like the summery because we're in May, but those are big mom gifts.

Speaker 2 18:51

I feel like everything for mothers is like here. You should treat yourself and relax and just be comfortable. And everything for a man is like you should go outside and sweat and make me something or put on a tie and go somewhere you don't want to be dressed up or go hit a golf ball if you like golf. Put on business socks. Where are we going?

Speaker 1 19:10

Yeah, or the hardware store. I'm going to go do a project. Yeah, yeah, tools, tools.

Speaker 2 19:16

It's the opposite. Yeah, men, get like. Here's a weed eater.

Speaker 1 19:19

Yeah, grass looks like garbage. Okay, I will say this Early in our marriage.

Speaker 2 19:26

You got a weed eater.

Speaker 1 19:32

Did you?

Speaker 2 19:35

Oh yeah, like yard stuff.

Speaker 1 19:36

Yard stuff and granted, our family enjoyed working in the yard, right, so I learned about watching that and we were married maybe I don't know seven, eight years, and I got Randall a power washer.

Speaker 2 19:57

Most dudes would be like he didn't like that.

Speaker 1 20:03

No, what do you say? I think I wanted to get him a power washer. Must be like he didn't like that. No, I think I wanted to get him a power washer. Well, there was part of it like well, it's a power washer, we can power wash our house and it's father's day, right, I'm and I'm in the tool zone, I'm thinking tools or nice whatever. And he was like you just want to power wash the driveway and stuff. And I was like you just want to power wash the driveway and stuff. And I was like, yeah, well, we need to. And he was basically I've never lived that down. He's never let me live that down.

Speaker 2 20:26

But I will say, when you're a father or a mother, I think if you are going to get a gift, that's my hot take on it. If you're going to get a gift as a mother or a father especially, in the ages of like, it's different when you've done your work, you've done. Yeah, it should be something that's practical and you're going to buy anyway.

Speaker 1 20:50

Yeah.

Speaker 2 20:51

You're a mother, it should benefit the family You're a father. It should benefit the family. You get a grill, you grill for everybody. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, benefit family. You get a grill, you grill for everybody.

Speaker 1 20:58

You know what I'm saying? Yeah, we're celebrating this because you made people.

Speaker 2 21:01

Yeah, so take care of the people.

Speaker 1 21:02

Yeah, I don't know, go figure, but, and then a few years ago he got me a hedge trimmer, Ryobi.

Speaker 2 21:10

Right back at you. Yeah, you want to back him. And then guess what?

Speaker 1 21:14

Okay, I'm going to talk about that for a minute. But Okay, I'm going to talk about that for a minute. But we pulled out all our hedges except for one, which we're going to have to cut down with a chainsaw Because it's so big and so overgrown. And it's embarrassing and I'm super sorry to my neighbors but it's on the side of our house and we haven't had a hot minute to do it. But now I don't need the hedge trimmer. He has never bought me a vacuum, but one year he did get me a crock pot for Christmas.

Speaker 2 21:44

That's the gift that keeps on giving it does, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 21:46

Because you cook it all day. But I also was excited about it Not because I'm Betty Crocker or anything like barefoot in the kitchen all the time, but like I like to cook a crock pot. And I still got that crock pot. And now I got two crock pots with a little mini crock pot, because sometimes I do big dinners and sometimes I have chicken and beef and whatever.

Speaker 2 22:07

Where's the Rotel going to go?

Speaker 1 22:10

Here's a side of Velveeta on top.

Speaker 2 22:12

A crock pot is an indoor pellet grill. That's all it is. Because you put it on there, you put the top on grill.

Speaker 1 22:18

That's all, it is Because you put it on there you put the top on, you set it, you forget it, you set it and forget it, yeah. You just smell it.

Speaker 2 22:23

Oh gosh, yeah, there's nothing better than leaving the house, coming back home and be like, oh man.

Speaker 1 22:30

So I gotta tell you sorry.

Speaker 2 22:32

By the way, don't put your pellet grill in the house.

Speaker 1 22:36

Soon, I'm gonna make some birria tacos. Do you know what those are? Birria B-I-R-R-I-A.

Speaker 2 22:44

Do they have those at Uncle Julio's?

Speaker 1 22:46

They might, but it's a regional variation of tacos, usually made with beef, but you can make it with, you know, whatever lamb, whatever, but you marinate it in vinegar, dried chilies, garlic, herbs and you put it in the crock pot, by the way, this is why.

Speaker 1 23:02

But you get a roast and you do that I want this now yeah, and then you make the little tortillas kind of crunchy, so it's almost like a french dip or an au jus sauce, but like taco version, and so you save, like the, the broth, and you can do like a bowl with rice or whatever, or you can like dip in the crunchy, like what is this called again?

Speaker 2 23:23

birria tacos b-a-r-r-i-a it's a lot of ours, it's just ours but we ate it first.

What Mothers Really Want

Speaker 1 23:34

A few years ago, when we were out west, we were like, what is this? And they were like, oh, you want to, you want to probably get that one, and so they're amazing. Yeah, it's like lots of peppers, like I'm about to buy these dried ancho guajillo and something other kind of peppers when do you get? That? Where do you buy that? It says you can buy them at Kroger, which you probably can in the international section, but they're dried chilies. But I may go one of those little like local I don't know where.

Speaker 2 24:05

Yeah, I guess I ain't seen that at Publix, or maybe I'm just not paying attention.

Speaker 1 24:09

Well, you buy that. You either buy, like Chipotle, already in the can and you can do it, but I think I'm going to do it from scratch. Where you like, cut the chilies, you shake out the things, you roast them, then you make the beef sauce. I love how this yeah, sorry I feel like Splendid Table on NPR right now. Anyway, I'm excited.

Speaker 2 24:32

Yeah.

Speaker 1 24:32

Yeah, crockpot.

Speaker 2 24:34

Let's see, a crockpot is practical.

Speaker 1 24:35

It is the time to yes.

Speaker 2 24:38

I'm not saying every mom should get a vacuum cleaner.

Speaker 1 24:42

No, if you give me something to clean the house with.

Speaker 2 24:44

Yeah, I get it.

Speaker 1 24:46

I'm going to give you one look and you will know what I mean. But yeah, I just don't want to have to cook. I don't really need a gift for Mother's Day. If you want to give me a gift, you can give me a gift.

Speaker 2 24:57

But for your birthday.

Speaker 1 24:59

Or my birthday. Actually, can I not cook all weekend? I don't want to cook tomorrow or Sunday.

Speaker 2 25:06

Yeah.

Speaker 1 25:06

Because one day I'm celebrating my birthday, the next day is Mother's Day.

Speaker 2 25:11

That's a good weekend. You ain't got to do squat.

Speaker 1 25:14

No, I'm just going to lay around and eat bonbons. Yeah, let's watch. Lay around eat bonbons and yeah, that's one. Yeah, netflix, yeah, right um go to the spa.

Speaker 2 25:27

I don't know, not, not grill, somebody else grill, yeah, so I guess, if you, I guess people still do presents oh yeah, they do presents they do flowers, they do brunch.

Speaker 1 25:36

Mother's day brunch is big.

Speaker 2 25:38

Mother's Day brunch is big, I will say this, and my wife loves brunch.

Speaker 1 25:42

Yes.

Speaker 2 25:42

I think I've said this before.

Speaker 1 25:44

Yep.

Speaker 2 25:46

But it ain't gonna stop me, I'm gonna say it again Brunch yeah. And an earlier supper. I'm a big, I don't do it. But if I could plan, if seven days a week, I would have like a legit brunch.

Speaker 1 26:00

Yeah, and then I'd have like eat it like 5.30 or 6.

Speaker 2 26:03

Two meals.

Speaker 1 26:04

Yeah, donsky.

Speaker 2 26:05

Love it.

Speaker 1 26:06

Yeah, I could eat at 4.30 sometimes.

Speaker 2 26:09

And problem solving. That is oh, yeah, woo. But yeah, brunch is legit. I do love brunch.

Speaker 1 26:14

Okay.

Speaker 2 26:25

So where are your top?

Speaker 1 26:26

places that you have gone in the past for Mother's Day brunch.

Speaker 2 26:27

Okay, so as far as I guess, nashville, cool Springs, franklin-ish Franklin, I'm going to go blank right now, oh man Tupelo Honey. Tupelo Honey, and then I think there's I've never been there. Honeysuckle, honeysuckle.

Speaker 1 26:39

Honeysuckle Cafe, which is I think right.

Speaker 2 26:43

First Watch is good too. It's legit. We've done Mirabelle's oh. I've never done that. That one's like. It's kind of like an old house, it's like a what did I say, mirabelles?

Speaker 1 26:57

Is that right?

Speaker 2 26:57

Mirabelle, mirabelle, I don't know.

Speaker 1 27:00

M-E-R-E-B-U-L-E-S.

Speaker 2 27:02

Well everybody to be honest, everybody that says it goes like y'all gonna murmle?

Speaker 1 27:05

Yeah, it does sound like that.

Speaker 2 27:07

Well, go to mirror bellies, whatever it is.

Speaker 1 27:11

They shouldn't have named it, anything Frenchy at all.

Speaker 2 27:16

It's nice, but I felt like. I was at the buffet of a bed and breakfast downstairs in an old home.

Speaker 1 27:24

It's just, you go in a different room and there's a guy at the omelet station.

Speaker 2 27:28

I don't even bother him because I'm just like when I see him I'm like I can help myself right over here.

Speaker 1 27:34

I just get scrambled.

Speaker 2 27:35

It's fine, you don't have to do a special, you know.

Speaker 1 27:39

And then I'm going to watch you do it All of a sudden, you're like, it's like a cooking show in front of you. The pressure I couldn't take it.

Speaker 2 27:45

All of a sudden he's like the jester You're just like I want ham and turkey and peppers and like uh-uh, just on demand. I'll just take some bacon. Yeah, I'll eat a donut. I'm out, that's so Southern.

Speaker 1 27:57

I'm not even going to go over there because I don't want to bother him yeah, he's working.

Speaker 2 28:01

I don't want to bother him, he wants to do it.

Speaker 1 28:04

It's less boring if he has an omelet to make.

Speaker 2 28:08

He's just going to make himself one.

Speaker 1 28:10

Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 28:11

But yeah, honeysuckle's pretty good. I think I've been there with y'all for.

Speaker 1 28:23

Mother's Day. One time I will say I don't know if it's, I wouldn't consider it brunch, but big bad breakfast. I've been there with you. That's a good breakfast place. That's a good breakfast joint. Good night.

Speaker 2 28:28

I get the mother of all biscuits which is not which is perfect for Mother's Day, which I don't think it's. It's not ginormous.

Speaker 1 28:37

Uh-huh.

Speaker 2 28:38

But it's got like a little kind of peppery green hot sauce on it. Mm or you can get it on the side if you want.

Speaker 1 28:45

If you want to dip it.

Speaker 2 28:47

It's not that bad. Yeah, that's good.

Speaker 1 28:49

Wow, I'm hungry.

Speaker 2 28:52

I know we always end up eating, just go eat.

Speaker 1 28:55

Yeah.

Speaker 2 28:56

And get a card.

Speaker 1 29:00

Or make a card, or go grow some flowers real quick, or go buy some meat to grill or something.

Speaker 2 29:05

We did. We used to make cards. We did. You know how?

Speaker 1 29:08

much money, you save A lot yeah.

Speaker 2 29:11

So I would get that construction paper.

Speaker 1 29:13

Fold it in half, baby. I'm about to drop some knowledge.

Speaker 2 29:16

Fold it in half right.

Speaker 1 29:17

Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 29:17

Tell the kids you draw your little stick people.

Speaker 1 29:20

Yeah.

Speaker 2 29:20

Love you, mommy. Draw a flower.

Speaker 1 29:22

Right Bamski.

Speaker 2 29:24

Every piece of paper just saved $7. Yeah, oh yeah, oh, this is bad. I feel bad saying this. Yeah, for like card stores.

Speaker 1 29:33

Yeah.

Brunch Spots and Card Confessions

Speaker 2 29:40

Stuff like that, I would be at a store and I'd be in the car dial and, first of all, when it's covered in plastic, don't even pick it up.

Speaker 1 29:45

It's $14.99. Yeah, got a piece of wood carved out on it or something like that, right? What is the payment plan for this card?

Speaker 2 29:51

Yeah, I'm just going to lease it. I'll bring it back in good condition, but I would open a card and first of all, you'd open some bougie card like that, yeah, and it'd have, like I don't know, like a fake dime. There's always like something that could fall off glitter, something attached with a sad ribbon and then you'd open it and it'd be like happy mother's day.

Speaker 2 30:14

You're the best or something just random and like that's that's all you wrote yeah, right, yeah but sometimes out of my open one, I'll be like man, that's good and I'm like it's really good and I would take out my phone. Oh, and just take a little shot of that and then I go home and grab a piece of paper pull that back up bam, bam, bam, bam. I'm just saying.

Speaker 1 30:41

No English teachers grading it. They don't know. Play your eyes.

Speaker 2 30:46

Wait a minute. Yeah, I mean, it's kind of.

Speaker 1 30:52

It's cheating.

Speaker 2 30:53

This will be a different episode, but that is very chat, gpt, write me a Mother's Day card or a birthday card for my wife, or whatever.

Speaker 1 31:03

You were just pre-Chet GPT in it, which that is so hard to say. Can someone do a rebrand on that name? It's.

Speaker 2 31:12

Chet.

Speaker 1 31:12

GPT.

Speaker 2 31:15

Anyway, sorry.

Speaker 1 31:17

Yeah.

Speaker 2 31:18

Anyway. Well, well, happy mother's day yeah, enjoy your cards or your crock pot or your brunch, or your flour enjoy, not cooking yeah, make people bring you food, yeah all day. Yeah, yeah, that's it all right. Have a good one, bye.