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The Green Onions
Words, Whims, and Childhood Tales
Our childhood nostalgia takes center stage when we revisit beloved books like "Series of Unfortunate Events" and their various adaptations. We invite you to join our reading adventures while sharing amusing reactions to classic Disney tales and their darker origins. The episode is peppered with anecdotes about TV series like Breaking Bad and Dexter, capturing our engagement with gripping storytelling. We're also excited about our YouTube milestones, teasing an upcoming pot roast recipe video that promises to delight your taste buds.
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two welcome to the green onions podcast. I am common sense girl and I am noah this is the podcast where we throw out a little nonsense a whole lot of sense and a whole lot of laughter. So how's it going?
Speaker 2:it's going great. This, it feels like deja vu. Yeah, uh, we, we, we for full, yeah, for full transparency. We recorded it, a very good episode last night and our producer just dropped the ball, so we fired him and now we're moving on.
Speaker 1:We're the most firing producing people in the world.
Speaker 2:Firing people, rehiring people.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they probably don't want to work for us.
Speaker 2:W-2s through 24s In the world Firing people, rehiring people yeah, they probably don't want to work for us. W2s through 24s. We got Ws all over everywhere. How are you doing, Anna?
Speaker 1:Good, good, I can't complain, God is good. God is good.
Speaker 2:Incense are going very well. Yeah, this one's very smoky, smoky it is.
Speaker 1:I was like it's like we're in a hookah bar or something, yeah.
Speaker 2:I was like what kind of opium den is this?
Speaker 1:It's.
Speaker 2:Egyptian musk.
Speaker 1:I know it's my favorite one.
Speaker 2:It does smell. It smells amazing. We got a lot of scents going today.
Speaker 1:We do. We have, which you guys will see on our YouTube channel Noah's Pot Roast. You get all that good recipes.
Speaker 2:So good.
Speaker 1:And we're also dropping the mashed potato recipe, but we are not recording that because we're just lazy like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this is a Sunday to us, apparently. We've been literally relaxing all day.
Speaker 1:Literally in between everything. It's wild it's fun. We've got to get our life together.
Speaker 2:It's chill. It's a chill life that we have to get together Little pieces of a chill life.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:All right, well, we have like.
Speaker 1:This instant is just like vibrating by itself. It's like it's awesome. Yeah, yeah, it's probably cold is it?
Speaker 2:yeah, does it need incense warmers like hand warmers. Yeah, could you imagine like gloves on a piece of incense that's literally on fire itself yeah, it's shivering probably not the how was your week?
Speaker 1:It was a good week.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's Every week is just like I feel new tasks and new things to run into, and then it's like tacking all the stuff onto the stuff that already has to be done. That's how my weeks have been going, but it's really fun Still trying to wake up Anna woke me up this morning, yeah okay, let's kind of scale that back.
Speaker 1:He said this morning it was 12, 15 ish hey 30 ish it's this afternoon, honey, I guess.
Speaker 2:but like, if I like, I work a lot, so like it, it hits a point where these two days I just get why bears hibernate, honestly.
Speaker 1:I get why.
Speaker 2:this is the time that they're just like all right, I'm not, I don't want to do anything.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because you sure didn't do nothing yesterday to be tired for today.
Speaker 2:Okay, laundry Excuse you, madam. Oh, laundry Excuse you, madam.
Speaker 1:Ooh laundry.
Speaker 2:Whatever you say.
Speaker 1:I'm like laundry. Okay, you try doing laundry for a household of five.
Speaker 2:Oh, I forget Getting up making breakfast. I forget. That's what you do, you know, makes my problems pale. My problems pale in comparison.
Speaker 1:Yeah, telling the little children to be quiet, stop running around.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, not my plan.
Speaker 1:But you know what am I saying?
Speaker 2:How was your week?
Speaker 1:Good, good, interesting, but it was good as overall had a hard conversation with friend and, yeah, which you know me, I'm a walk away, cut you off kind of person yeah we, we don't have to address it. You, you're, you're grown up, you should know what's going on in life. But we did. We had a hard conversation. It was great because actually, once I left here because we did our episode, that didn't pan out so well well, the episode was phenomenal.
Speaker 2:It was just some recording issue being listenable. That was the thing that the process didn't want to proceed. On the process, the process didn't want to proceed but I ended up actually chit chatting with her.
Speaker 1:as I was watching a movie last night which, by the way, blink Twice is a good movie by Channing Tatum, I got to say that's some of his oh, is that like the thriller? Kind of yes it's some of his best work it is. It's basically about power and control. So if you're and I'm talking about like diddy shit, like like just kind of you know brace yourself or don't watch it.
Speaker 1:But it is definitely Channing Tatum's best work. But anywho, we ended up talking. But you know we're getting back to that place where we used to be, slowly but surely. But that was a good conversation.
Speaker 2:I'm glad I had it, you know, yeah, I mean. Conversations like that are the bread and butter of just humanity, in my opinion. Like to get anywhere in anything, you're going to have to have hard conversations.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, yeah, apparently. Yeah, I think to just be like you're cut off, done.
Speaker 2:You remember, like did you have those friends where it was like it was always the same and when you see them, like once in a while, it's fine, because you know it's always going to be the same. Oh yeah, you get in the same kind of routine, mm-hmm, and they're still doing the same thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And like it's like I can't yeah we out, yeah we out. Like there has to be some push against the status quo to keep my mind a little entertained, mm-hmm, in a positive way, not in a negative way.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, no, I completely agree with you on that. But and then?
Speaker 2:of course you know just kid issues which you know, know, it's fine, it's a it's a, it's a growing pain as we.
Speaker 1:It's a process within a process, yeah, especially as we're growing as a family and then jerry and I are still growing as individuals and as a couple. Yeah, then you add, two little personalities are on a whole nother level.
Speaker 2:Just on top of the on top. Right, so, um, it's all good, but I, whereas I'm over here just trying to figure out my own crap. And then and you got like eight other plates to juggle. So if we were in the circus you'd get all the, you'd get all the attendance.
Speaker 1:That I hope not.
Speaker 2:It would just be me. Well like if we were plate jugglers, most of the people would cheer for you. I think that would be.
Speaker 1:I get another job in the circus.
Speaker 2:Can we do something that isn't just, oh my man. Well, we do have a reading today, don't we? A little bit of a reading a?
Speaker 1:little food for thought for y'all awesome. And it comes to you by the daily stoic by ryan holiday and steven hanselman which we have been reading yes, ever since passionately yes, and now we are still reading it.
Speaker 1:You're welcome. So on this beautiful day of January 25th, I'll be reading the Only Prize, what's left to be prized? This, I think, to limit our action or inaction to only what's keeping in with the needs of our own preparation. It's what the exertions of education and teaching are all about. Here is the thing to be prized. If you hold this firmly, you'll stop trying to get yourself all the other things. If you don't, you won't be free, self-sufficient or liberated from passion, but necessarily full of envy, jealousy and suspicion for any who have the power to take them, and you'll plot against those who do have what you prize. But by having some self-respect for your own mind and praising it, you will please yourself and be in a better harmony with your fellow human beings and more in tune with the gods, praising everything they have set in order and allotted you.
Speaker 1:That's Marcus Aurelius Meditations. Aurelius aurelius meditations. Warren buffett, whose net worth is approximately 65 billion, lives in the same house he bought in 1958 for 31 500. John urschel alignment for the baltimore ras makes millions but managed to live on $25,000 a year. San Antonio Spurs' Kawhi Leonard gets around in the 1997 Chevy Tahoe.
Speaker 1:he's had since he was a teenager, even with a contract worth some $94 million. Why? It's not because these men are cheap. It's because the things that matter to them are cheap. Neither Buffett, nor Urschel, nor Leonard ended up this way by accident. Their lifestyle is the result of prioritizing. They cultivate interests that are decidingly below their financial means and, as a result, any income will allow them freedom to pursue the things they most care about. It just happens that they became wealthy beyond any expectation. This kind of clarity about what they love most in the world means they can enjoy their lives. It means they'll still be happy even if the markets were to turn on or their careers were cut short by injury. The more things we desire and the more we have to do to earn or attain those achievements, the less we actually enjoy our lives and the less free we are. Wow, that was good. That was good. That was wow. Enjoy our lives. And the less free we are. Wow, that was good that was good, that was wow.
Speaker 2:Kind of sounded like if you have a job you love, you never work a day in your life.
Speaker 1:That's right.
Speaker 2:Or kind of tying into our budget thing like priorities and stuff like the money doesn't have to be the sole focus of um, whether it be gift giving, saving, whatever it's more thoughtful.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, and that's definitely why, you know, I put out that challenge. You know the 50, 30, 20 rule, or, in some people's cases, because you know, put out that challenge. You know the 50, 30, 20 rule, yep, or, in some people's cases, because you know they, they need a little time to get there. We got the 55, 35, 10 roll brought to you by the green onions podcast, but, um, actually that was pretty amazing. Like I knew warren buffett because I have a book by him.
Speaker 1:So you you know, I'm definitely impressed by him, Kawhi.
Speaker 2:Leonard has been somebody I've been following forever. He was one of the only like players at the time when LeBron was on the Lakers that was able to defend LeBron and then he a very injury-speckled career, but he's always been one of the hardest workers and like an insane athlete, so I did know that about him. He's the guy that had the really bad meme laugh Like when he was with Toronto he was like the guy to deliver a championship to the Toronto Raptors, like off a one-off.
Speaker 2:Like that guy. I didn't know that, he was very well, not stingy, but he. That guy, I didn't know that he was very well, not stingy, but he he just didn't he didn't go with like beyond his means, and that's great, which I feel like. If you're going beyond your or not, because it wouldn't even be beyond his means, I feel like it hits a point. You're spending money for other people as opposed to like for your own happiness, and I feel like that's the difference there, because he doesn't have to.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Kind of understands that he doesn't have to put on a persona when he is the persona.
Speaker 1:I like it, I love it. Yeah, that was good.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I learned our yesterday.
Speaker 2:Yesterday.
Speaker 1:Actually, our yesterday was actually in February.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was in February. Yeah, yeah, okay, that was me then that was, I kind of messed that up yeah you're telling me there's 23 days in february too seriously, it wasn't a leap year so it just worked out very well.
Speaker 1:Have you ever heard of the impossible puzzle? No okay, so I was on the amazon. I don't know what I was exactly the amazon, the amazon, the bezos because you know darn good as well, my car on amazon is ridiculous.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like 4 000 things yeah well, it was actually 2 000 right. I wasn't even joking at four no, it wasn't two't two.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was about 2000. Jesus, but you know, I take off.
Speaker 2:I don't even know 2000 things that exist.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm going to have to have a Warren Buffett mindset going forward. It's like windowed down to one thing. But anyways, I've seen the Impossible Puzzle. It's a clear puzzle. Thinking about buying it, I would do it.
Speaker 2:Growing up I used to just puzzle all the time. I got the nickname the Puzzle Master and we used to have a ton of puzzles where it would get to the point where I'd just memorize them so I'd be able to just finish like an 1,000-piece one in like an afternoon.
Speaker 1:See, that's what's up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because my parents didn't let me have like a smartphone until a lot later, so it was like bike riding or if it rained I would have to like find other means so I'd read books also. Have you series?
Speaker 2:unfortunate events we were talking about doing something like book club wise yes, yes and, like cS Lewis, right, we had that conversation last episode. But I was thinking after our conversation last night on the podcast, the unknown podcast, that will never come out. I was thinking of Series of Unfortunate Events is a really easy series to get through because, they're super easy, but they're also like very good. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:Disregarding the Neil Patrick Harris show because that shows butt.
Speaker 1:But jim carrey's movie is good growing up I used to watch that. I watch that all the time, but yes that we have all the books yes, that will be our first one through 13 yes, that would be the first thing we will read, and because I always get to like book the misery mill or something like that I think, that's like six or seven, it might be four, yeah, it's four.
Speaker 2:Um, I I always get there if I'm trying to reread the series and I can't like. I'm like okay, I'm done, and I feel like, if I have, we can yeah, exchange, and we'll throw that on our website as well I love those on the instagram so on the insta yeah, and anybody wants to join us and talk about it and have a discussion?
Speaker 1:let's do it. Let's do it, let's do it and also look out for our episode kind of low stakes too, you know look out for our episode, for our um. Well, it's not ours, it's noah's recipe for his pot roast pot roast so so, but always look out every week for you know a new recipe on our youtube channel yeah, we're you, we'll get better, we'll get better.
Speaker 1:Actually, yeah, y'all know how we started stuff up we don't know what we're doing, but hell, we'll try it'll, it'll figure it'll, it'll work itself out it always does exactly oh, grasshopper sohopper Little Jiminy Cricket. Talking about that.
Speaker 2:so Yammy watched Pinocchio for the first time, which isn't Pinocchio, like I think all the old Disney cartoons, are actually terrifying.
Speaker 1:Isn't that like?
Speaker 2:the Brothers Grimm, or whatever, actually terrifying. Well, isn't that like? Like the brother's grammar, whatever that the like the original writers of, like Hansel and Gretel, for example?
Speaker 1:and all these like old things are just that.
Speaker 2:They're terrifying actually.
Speaker 1:That's why it's easy to do like horror adaptation but are they terrifying really, or or are the kids nowadays sensitive as heck?
Speaker 2:no, I think when they wrote them I don't know if it was near or close to the Great Depression, but I think around the time of a lot of really bad things happening is where people came up with these fantasy stories and they were actually super dark. So when they got a hold of the new, it was a show I watched as a kid. It was an ABC show that jumped the shark way too soon Once Upon a Time.
Speaker 1:Oh, I love that show. Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2:So it's kind of like that when they originally wrote the stories it was a lot darker, like I mean. In a nutshell, you'd think, oh, a woman that leads kids to her cottage to cook them in an oven. That's dark to begin with, but then you like yes, it is. The Hansel and Gretel with.
Speaker 1:but then you like, yes, it is the hansel and gretel, but like you put a fun cheery kid like spin on it and it's like, oh, that's, let's sign up let's take my kids to watch that, but like I always thought that was interesting but yami watched pinocchio for the first time last night with jerry and it was actually super funny. He has a recording of her and pinocchio is sitting there like bsing around. He's on his way to school but he's talking with, I want to say, jiminy Cricket or something and she's like come on, pinocchio, go to school already, just stop procrastinating. And the way Jerry was like first of all I didn't even know she knew the word procrastinate. Yeah, I said that was pretty good, but he was just like she just kept cracking me up Because she kept talking to the TV. And she's like oh no, don't do that. Why you got to lie. Just tell the truth. You're making it so hard, no way.
Speaker 2:But yeah, my grandmother talks to the TV, but I don't think she's, I don't think she. Well, she thinks the people in the TV can hear her. So I don't know.
Speaker 1:I don't know. I mean, I talk to the TV too, but I don't really think they can hear me. But I am like yo.
Speaker 2:Maybe that goes with age oh yeah, Like the thought process of oh, I'm actually in the show.
Speaker 1:I can understand you comparing me to Grandma, but what's Ducky's problem? Yeah, no, that's hilarious, she's five.
Speaker 2:I sometimes like to Stuff will happen. I think there's only been a select few shows I've been like audibly, like what the holy? There's been a select few shows. I've been like that's insane, Like out loud I think it was Breaking Bad. There are moments in that show that are like that's just such a good show.
Speaker 2:Whoa, and then Dexter. There were moments in that which Dexter fell off. Bad Atlanta, the last episode. But there are a lot of shows where I was like what the huh? Like that one episode I got to show you, the episode of Atlanta with the boar. There's like a boar and he like goes out to the country and he like moves away from the city and is trying to like live a sustainable lifestyle, and then it just it's one of the I think one of the best episodes of TV I've ever seen. And then it just it's one of the I think one of the best episodes of TV I've ever seen. I think it's in the last season, I think the second to last episode. Don't quote me on that.
Speaker 1:No, no, Don't quote me on anything I was going to say. We're not quoting you on that one. But he got the show right. That's all that matters.
Speaker 2:Why don't y'all?
Speaker 1:watch it from the beginning and figure it out yourself.
Speaker 2:Yep, you can. You got to leave intrigue.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Room for intrigue. What's the worst thing? You stepped on in the dark. You have stepped on in the dark.
Speaker 1:A rat.
Speaker 2:Are you serious?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm from Arizona, so you know we got desert, we got little creatures that come in the house and he was dead. But like I just felt something grimy underneath my feet and I remember just yelling, like I just knew, as soon as my grandmother turned to light, my life was over was it dead like oh yeah no, he was dead already oh, okay, so he's already.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, good, he didn't make it to the room.
Speaker 1:He was just right there. He's like, yeah, I'm dying. He didn't make it crunch, but I was like snap crackle. Oh my gosh, I just uh, I'm just thinking about it now, like my feel the look cold little body.
Speaker 2:Oh, the little one claw. That's nasty. Remember the scene in uh home alone when he like he's trying to get into the house and he goes through the window.
Speaker 1:And Kevin.
Speaker 2:McCallister has laid out all the ornaments.
Speaker 1:Right as a kid.
Speaker 2:That was my least favorite part of that movie, when he was popping the glass ornaments under his feet, I don't know, it just made my innards crawl up. I was like, oh, that's got to be the worst feeling.
Speaker 1:The home alone.
Speaker 2:Or the nail when the tar up the stairs.
Speaker 1:I love it.
Speaker 2:I don't know, when you read that question, I just put myself in the shoes of the guy that loses his shoes and then steps on a nail.
Speaker 1:I feel like you would be Macaulay Culkin. That would probably be you.
Speaker 2:I always looked up to him Pre-Michael Jackson. I looked up to him, yeah you would Pre-Michael Jackson.
Speaker 1:I looked up to Michael. Yeah, you probably Right, you'd probably be the Kevin Pre-heroine.
Speaker 2:I looked up to Michael. Like, oh my gosh, that's hilarious, probably for me, worst thing I ever stepped on. I'm trying to think I have, I had something, and it wasn't like something stupid or like Legos, it was like dang, what am I trying to? I had something, I'm glad. But then I was. I was thinking I had something, I'm glad.
Speaker 1:But then I was. I'm glad we all have something I was thinking of Home Alone for too long. He was like I had something it was right here it was at the tippity-tap in my tongue.
Speaker 2:Like wet socks. I hate stepping on wet socks.
Speaker 1:Please explain or wet anything Like anything wet like why is there wet stuff on the floor just?
Speaker 2:wet anything I I care not to go into. I'm like why is there like wet? Socks and what anything slimy did you pee on yourself and your socks got wet. What is the deal? I have my diapers on. It depends.
Speaker 1:Not at all Depends.
Speaker 2:It depends.
Speaker 1:On the day.
Speaker 2:And whether or not I have my Depends on Exactly.
Speaker 1:No, it was shit.
Speaker 2:I think I had it you had it and now it's gone, or like stuff that like smooshes.
Speaker 1:I like to wear shoes too, so you're definitely not going to a winery and smashing grapes underneath your feet.
Speaker 2:No, no, I hate that sound. Everything about that makes my innards curl. I think, um, like at one point, anything like because I like to wear shoes, I collect them right and so like I have a ton and they're all pretty clean. And if I ever feel like my foot sink into something like if it's like, you know, like mud shit, that like that feeling when you know your shoe got mud on it and you're just like God, I hate that feeling. I don't like stepping on stuff.
Speaker 1:Okay, I mean I don't think anybody loves.
Speaker 2:Don't catch me somewhere muddy.
Speaker 1:No, I'm not going If I think it's muddy. I'm not wearing the good shoes.
Speaker 2:I'm going to wear something I don't care about. You won't catch me around the dirt creatures.
Speaker 1:Or I wear a pair of shoes that I have like two pairs of or three pairs of.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no. Because I have multiple pairs of what's up with, like Teemu shoes. Like what Do you have Teemu shoes?
Speaker 1:Hell no.
Speaker 2:Yeah, people are. Everybody I know is buying these.
Speaker 1:No, I don't Cheap ugly. No sir.
Speaker 2:God, awful looking.
Speaker 1:Like I'm like you. I love shoes, but we're on two different spectrums of liking the shoes.
Speaker 2:You're more of a sneaker head, I'm a Well, what did that girl say at the work? She said something about brands, I don't know. It was like something about brands. I was looking at sunglasses.
Speaker 1:Oh, I probably said something about the whole brand thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm like a brand dude.
Speaker 1:Well, I have brand shoes too, but I mean, yeah. I have this thing like certain shoes, I buy two pairs of.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, that makes sense so well with me.
Speaker 1:I will buy two of the same shoe too, but it's just got to be different colors and then like, if, like, I buy a dress, like I'm gonna buy a sneaker, a sandal and a heel to match the dress, and that makes makes sense.
Speaker 2:Versatility.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I kind of was thinking about that in my closet yesterday. I have so much shit and I'm trying to do like the 90 thing, like if I don't touch it for 90 days, get rid of it.
Speaker 1:That's nice.
Speaker 2:It's never going to work, and so we haven't even made 90s. But I was thinking about how people like actually plan outfits and stuff. And I'm a big like I will just get stuff and it'll fall into my lap and I'll be like, okay, I'll wear it. And then like, do people plan out their meals, I mean what they wear for the week? Because when I kind of go to the closet every morning, I'm like yep, yep, yep, and then I go.
Speaker 1:I do it for the kids. Every morning I'm like yep, yep, yep and then I go, I do it for the kids. I don't plan my actual outfit, I plan my shoes, just shoes yes, I plan my shoes. That's it was important, um, and making sure I have appropriate undergarments, of course, but the outfit it is what it is, I don't I kind of throw a bunch of shit at the wall and sees what sticks. Yeah, exactly, I don't really care as.
Speaker 2:I'm getting older, I'm starting to think more about fit, like I really don't care about what it is as much anymore, necessarily, it's more just like how I feel in it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, clothes should be your and not a crop top. Yeah, as I'm wearing one, great Thank you? No, you had that diss on the last one but um, yeah, it's, and I think that's why some people wear certain things so confidently, but when we look at them we're like, ah, that's so ugly, but they wear it so well, anything sheer dude like what's up with guys?
Speaker 2:like where wife beaters won?
Speaker 1:and then, first of all, can we just be honest wife beaters are under shirts. They are supposed to be worn under uh and not seen. Worn and not seen I mean even cholos wear them with their you know button-ups, their flannels. Yeah, but also this guy had on that.
Speaker 2:And then a jersey, but one of those cheaply made Timu jerseys where the holes in the jersey. You know how football jerseys.
Speaker 1:You can see the pads, yeah.
Speaker 2:He had that on over it in a double XL and I was like bruh, cause you could see how skinny. And then the two X Jersey, just with holes in it, and you're just like I laughed.
Speaker 1:You see too many people with this team. I didn't even know, I know people talk about it, but I didn't know. It was like a thing Like people actually are buying, like full outfits and shoes it's bad, like I would understand, like someone buying, let's say uh when did team a lunchbox?
Speaker 2:or uh, when did team come?
Speaker 1:into coven.
Speaker 2:So now everybody's hooked on the bat teamu I was into wild teamu slash coven I was into crazy shirts.
Speaker 1:Well, they weren't crazy, but like that stood for something, or funny shirts. I was not into hell, I'm wearing pajamas, like come on now.
Speaker 2:Well, I also think how many? How many shirts can you have? Damn judgy a lot?
Speaker 1:well, I have a ton too, and I'm trying to get rid of them because it's like I know I don't need all this, I really I mean I don't need what I have, but I want what I have and I'm probably not getting rid of it yeah my chances of me getting rid of it means it doesn't fit me for whatever reason it's the worst thing.
Speaker 2:I stepped on in the day Squish, just squishies. Oh, I figured it out Cattails, anything animal-wise, like if something was running around. As a kid, if I like, accidentally stepped on like a cattail or a dog because, like I'm tall and like most of the dogs I'm around are like small, and then like, if I move and accidentally and accidentally like kick it because I can't see it. I always feel really bad about that.
Speaker 1:As you should, because you should be Well. Yeah, I know you're tall, but I mean you should be kind of aware I'm showing remorse for it now, okay.
Speaker 2:Oh, now that's the worst feeling, I think. I don't like the feeling of that Okay. Or when they kind of like whimper and like they should cause your big old foot.
Speaker 1:Don't stepped on them.
Speaker 2:They ought to whimper, they ought to try. And then I try to pet them and make up for it. They never they never seem to be about it.
Speaker 1:No, cause they're, like he, full of crap they should have ankle bites you.
Speaker 2:I'll look up to him for how long. And then he just steps on.
Speaker 1:Right, what a poser. I even cuddle to him, he's welcome.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I like how cats choose when they get to be cuddled like it's a monarchy and you're like their peasant. Right, I'm feeding you that, stroll up Rub you hey you pet me now, and then they leave whenever they want.
Speaker 1:Yes, them little dirty sludge bugs.
Speaker 2:I think cat like cat as a person is what I aspire to be.
Speaker 1:I identify as a cat. Let's not open that can of worms.
Speaker 2:Listen, there is.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of people that identify as worms now we can't open that really. No, I was like probably I know there's furries, like, but well, there's, there's probably.
Speaker 2:What are, what are worms considered? Slugs Not mammals, animorphs, little amphibians. They don't have a spine. I think worms are insects.
Speaker 1:honestly, that sounds good.
Speaker 2:There are certain moments I get Anna on a question that she will actually pull up her phone to look up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because I'm a little bit curious.
Speaker 2:Knowledge is power everyone. Yeah, I'm like I don't know and with a friend, like Google in your pocket.
Speaker 1:But not only that, but we already know what's the point of not knowing. We know Papa Joe is going to call us out on it. He's going to be like come on, y'all Get your lives together, referring to both an invertebrate Animal and a computer program. No, stop it. What is a worm? Damn it. Oh yeah, it's an invertebrate. It's an invertebrate.
Speaker 2:Because it doesn't have a spine. Are snakes? No, snakes have a spine. He's going to make me do this again.
Speaker 1:Sn. No snakes have a spine.
Speaker 2:He's gonna make me do this again snakes do have a spine though, so they're not. I think those are do they because?
Speaker 1:I'm gonna sound real stupid right now according to eve, they do not have a spine well, she didn't have a spine eating that damn apple. That's why we're in this mess thanks eve, yep damn women you're welcome don't worry, we get us into trouble and we get us out we're still in the trouble well damn I don't want to say amphibian, because I'll sound dumb. It's like xylem or something yeah, but their class is reptilia right, it's a reptile.
Speaker 2:Okay, amphibian is like frog yes, okay.
Speaker 1:That's why, when you was saying, I was like okay, I forgot about reptiles.
Speaker 2:I think that's what I was confusing. I mean, science was a really long time for me.
Speaker 1:I know yours was like last week, but mine was really long.
Speaker 2:How's that AP bio?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, I was too, which is hilarious that.
Speaker 2:AP bio is like learning about things and then you get to like the ACT or whatever standardized test you had, and it wasn't like that at all. It was like, okay, but now can you read graphs. Yes, take the spleen out of this poor toadstool and can you read graphs. Now it's like, no, that doesn't correlate at all. Can we get a graph on how much this correlates Like, because they're two separate graphs.
Speaker 1:Literally, literally. What is one of?
Speaker 2:those overused words that you are tired of hearing. All of them, not all of them, just all of the words. Good God. All of them, not all of them, just all of the words.
Speaker 1:Good God. All of them. He's like all of them words. He stopped talking, yeah.
Speaker 2:I need people to be more intentional with their language. Coming from me is wild.
Speaker 1:Literally.
Speaker 2:Yeah, just all of them. If I could put half of what people say to me into a distill thing, I'm only getting two drops of them. If I could put half of what people say to me into like a distill thing, I'm only getting like two drops of liquid. So all of them.
Speaker 1:Okay, all of them. For me, the word literally.
Speaker 2:Literally. We've been saying that a lot, yes. But it drives me crazy because, and duh, duh, Well, you do that, you do do duh, you do duh to me I do the duh and the literary, but literally and the literary literary, literary well, that's the way yammy says it and she'd be like no, no, literally, monty, literally.
Speaker 1:And I'd be like yeah, literally, go take your clothes off and let's get ready for bad time. Like literally, like I'm like why are we using it, this word?
Speaker 2:well, okay, I don't think I'll say all of them, that was me being. Whatever, I think I'll say yeah, we're just um, when you ask somebody for something and they say they need it, like I need it. Like, if somebody's buying something, they're like, yes, I need this. And it's like, no, you don't need that, you need food, you need water, you don't need a tank. Like you don't need this thing.
Speaker 1:So the way they respond, their literal response, is what?
Speaker 2:irks you. Their literal response is what irks?
Speaker 1:you. Their literarily response. I don't know how to get past that word or misuse of adjectives.
Speaker 2:I don't hate it, obviously, Having English teachers for parents, because I'll sit there and I'll get pissed based on the lack of knowledge Because me. Obviously I'm going to mess some words up because nobody's perfect, but at least I lean into it. A lot of people lean away from and lean into thinking I don't know as much as I do about the English language and it's like some stuff I'm just not gonna let slide and that pisses me off. So misuse of adjectives are certain things. Also, coming from me is crazy.
Speaker 1:Well, duh? No, I'm just joking. Oh, my goodness Well.
Speaker 2:That like flew by. It feels like.
Speaker 1:It sure did, it sure did.
Speaker 2:We're not even like almost done with the incense Fine.
Speaker 1:Like sure did, but.
Speaker 2:No, I think With our discussion of reptiles that yeah, it kind of veered I don't know where it veered into. So mammals are the thing like lions and stuff. Mammals are like walking.
Speaker 1:Things that nurse their babies.
Speaker 2:Like with teats.
Speaker 1:Not so much. I don't know if a whale has teats A whale has teats yeah but whales are considered mammals. What about sperm whales? Do they nurse their babies Her face? Do they nurse their babies Her face? After I said that that's how we can determine a mammal, she was like you just wanted to say sperm, you weirdo. You did, he leaned into that y'all. You did, he leaned into that y'all.
Speaker 2:I did not lean away, I leaned direct. I glided actually Not he glided, I slid into home base. I glided into home base, all right.
Speaker 1:I think I have an outro here, you do, from the Book of Awakening.
Speaker 2:Book of Awakening Mark Nepo. You do from the Book of Awakening. Book of Awakening Mark Nepo, today's reading.
Speaker 1:Are we on the right date? It's the 25th of January. Yep, we're on the right date.
Speaker 2:I was like oh snap, this one is from Martin Buber and it's Loving Yourself. I begin to realize that, inquiring about my own origin and goal, I'm inquiring about something other than myself. In this very realization, I begin to recognize the origin and goal of the world. The excerpt from Martin Ebo In loving ourselves, we love the world. The excerpt from Mark Nepo In loving ourselves, we love the world. For just as fire, rock and water are all made up of molecules, everything, including you and me, is connected by a small piece of the beginning.
Speaker 2:Yet how do we love ourselves? It is as difficult at times as seeing the back of your head. It can be as elusive as it is necessary. I have tried and tripped many times and I can only say that loving yourself is like feeding a clear bird that no one else can see. You must be still and offer your palm full of secrets, like delicate seed, as she eats your secrets no longer secret secret. She glows and you lighten, and her voice, which only you can hear, is your voice. Birthed, barefoot of plans b-e-r-e-f-t. Birthed, yeah, I think birthed, but birthed me over here talking about don't know how to use adjectives. Come on and the light through her body will bathe you till you wonder why the gems in your palm were ever fisted. Others will think you crazed to wait on something no one sees. But the clear bird only wants to feed and fly and sing. She only wants light in her belly and once in a great while, if someone loves you enough, they might see her rise from the nest beneath your fear.
Speaker 2:In this way, I've learned that loving yourself requires a courage unlike any other. It requires us to believe in and stay loyal to someone, something no one else can see. That keeps us in the world, our own self-worth no one else can see. That keeps us in the world, our own self-worth. All the great moments of conception, the birth of mountains, of trees, of fish, of prophets, and the truth of relationships that last, all begin where no one can see, and it is our job not to extinguish what is so beautifully begun. For once, full of light, everything is safe, safely on its way, not pain-free but unencumbered, and the air beneath my wings is the same air that trills in my throat. And the empty benches in snow are as much as part of us as the empty figures who slouch on them in spring. When we believe in what no one else can see, we find we are each other and all moments of living, no matter how difficult, come a fine moment to live and a fine moment to die.
Speaker 1:All right, y'all can sit on that for this week. Sit on it. We thank you wholeheartedly for joining us for another episode on the Green Onions podcast.
Speaker 2:And in the words of Mark Nepo love yourself.
Speaker 1:Yes, love yourself, love others, treat others the way you want to be treated.
Speaker 2:Exactly, and me and Anna are going to go fill our stomachs with some delicious, glorious food?
Speaker 1:Yes, we are, and we are out.
Speaker 2:Howdy, howdy for out Out Out Out Out Out Out Out Out Out Out Out Out Out Out Out Out Out Out Out Out Out Out Out Out Out Out Out Out.