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The Green Onions
Finding Wisdom in a World That Doesn't Want to Change
Noah and Common Sense Gurl explore the concept of shedding old habits and patterns to make way for renewal and growth, while sharing personal challenges and insights about transformation. The conversation weaves between profound wisdom and lighthearted banter, touching on migraines, self-improvement, and the frustration of encountering people who resist personal growth.
• Reading from "The Book of Awakening" by Mark Nepo on renewal through shedding old ways of thinking and being
• Discussion about the necessity of shedding versus "killing" older versions of ourselves
• Exploration of why some people actively avoid self-discovery and improvement
• Critique of social media's negative impact and how it functions as a modern "colosseum" for attention
• Updates on personal financial challenges and strategies for saving
• Sharing of ultimate birthday dinner menus, from calamari to carne asada
• Stoic wisdom on having a plan to avoid "cowardly retreat" and make purposeful efforts
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Speaker 2:We in.
Speaker 3:We in hoes. Welcome to the Green Onions Podcast. Hello this is the podcast where we throw out a little nonsense.
Speaker 2:A whole lot of sense.
Speaker 3:And a whole lot of laughter. I am Common Sense Girl.
Speaker 2:And I'm Noah.
Speaker 3:And if this is your first time joining us, welcome to the fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the calculated madness, the rambunctious? No, no, yeah, we're not going to start trying to the rambunctious, calculated rambunctiousness through mental elasticity. No, I know, that's my Spotify profile you literally just dropped off right I know I just heard four words.
Speaker 3:I had no idea were words and now I'm gone, let me google this, okay like okay, how are you doing good? How you? It's been a whole well week.
Speaker 2:Yeah, two, two. I think it was probably two. Yeah, life just comes at you fast, ferris Bueller, you know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't know if life came at me fast or I just, you know, it's just chill.
Speaker 2:I came at life, or wait. Came on life, no, or wait came on like no, where that's just bad all around.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, let's workshop that one, but I see where your vision was going, though I just don't know how we can work. We got to work on that.
Speaker 2:It's getting there.
Speaker 3:It's getting there. Yeah, I see the vision. Ooh, yeah, so how was your week?
Speaker 2:It was good this week kind of kicked me in the ass. Um, it's more of like just calculate, like trying my figuring out my own mind.
Speaker 2:We were talking about patterns earlier at therapy and just like trying to which for the new listeners. Therapy is the conversation me and Anna have before we get on the mic, the conversation me and Anna have before we get on the mic. So just like the patterns and the pitfalls of patterns and how, just the ones that I have that are like not pleasant for my mind or just not productive for like a beneficial situation. So I'm just trying to get through that and this week has been that's kind of veered its ugly head and I'm usually somebody that like buries my head in the sand and ignores it, but it has not been easy to ignore this week. So, if that makes sense, she's putting on lip gloss because apparently what I was saying was not. No, I'm oiling my ashy hands.
Speaker 1:Ugh.
Speaker 2:Because, unlike your non-melanated self, I have to oil my ashy everything.
Speaker 3:That can get away with no oil. I cannot.
Speaker 2:I have oily Hair. Yeah, let's go. Hair, let's go with that, let's do that. Yeah, jamie is a part of the podcast this week. Everybody yeah, we need to hire.
Speaker 3:Jamie again.
Speaker 2:Duck, duck.
Speaker 3:Jamie is like the most higher fire person we've ever met.
Speaker 2:They were standing outside. It was like a help wanted sign for, like one day they were doing the spinning outside. There was nothing after that. It was one day. It was one day we drove by, we were, we were like, yeah, just get in. Welcome back to the shit show, the circus get in uh we'll work for less well, I was talking about my week. How was your weekend?
Speaker 3:my week as overall was super busy. Last week was busy too, and now I have like a constant migraine, so yeah, A constant. Yeah, I've had it for three days.
Speaker 2:So, like your week was essentially boiled down to Busy as hell. And migraine. Now I have a migraine. There's no footnotes in that. Like I went on like a long two minute, three minute thing, and then now it's just yeah, my head hurts you know, at work we have our little events and stuff.
Speaker 3:So I mean, that's always like hectic and I'm normally like the one who is like going from store to store and you know, going everywhere and doing that kind of stuff, and then so that's, that's pretty normal, like to be that busy. Yeah, when it's an event, so it's not a big deal, but the headache on top no, I'm not.
Speaker 2:I'm not gonna lie to you. I as a kid, my, my sisters like, used to get like the really bad ones where she had to take the preventative pill before the migraine hit. And I just think, genetically in our family we have migraines, because I was at work last week and I know when it's about to happen because my eyes get blurry. Does that happen with you?
Speaker 3:Yeah, my left eye is blurry, it has pain behind it. I can't touch my hair. So, like I told noah when I came into his house although he was like oh, you look great. Like yeah, I haven't done this hair in like a few days. Um, just throw this headband on there because I can't touch my hair, my face hurts and my back hurts. And like I was telling jamie aka ducky that I looked up I looked up these different migraines and I diagnosed myself. Is this true?
Speaker 2:you, hypochondriac you right.
Speaker 3:I'm like this is what I have and she's like, yeah, her biggest thing is how many pills have you taken a day?
Speaker 2:Yeah. Quite a bit and it's not helping Yo like when I lived with my dad, it was the same thing. Like he would literally take a handful of like supplements, like vitamin C, all his stuff, not eat and then be like, oh, I'm about to throw up and I'm like, dude, yeah, because you just put all these capsules on an empty stomach. Maybe drink some water, like maybe, maybe, like that's not the hell, like the, the, the equation to a healthy lifestyle. Like, yeah, the supplement, sure, but maybe put some food on it, right?
Speaker 3:it all has to balance. Yeah, so I um, I've done pretty good today. I think I've only taken four, because I've taken two when I came to the studio and then two earlier, and none of it's working though, so I'm probably going to just be done for the night.
Speaker 2:Okay, so I need to be more quiet and chill.
Speaker 3:No, you can still be yourself.
Speaker 2:No it was funny because when you got here on the couch like I was playing music and just being all loud and then I was like remembered that she had told me on the phone before she got to the studio, I was like wait, she has a migraine and I was like I'm so sorry and I just made a call, like I said, just quiet at least you're nice about it.
Speaker 3:At least you're nice, because no one in my house I don't think anyone's taking me serious.
Speaker 2:Wait until they get migraines.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I wouldn't wish a migraine on my worst enemy.
Speaker 3:No, they're pretty bad. Yeah, my little ratchet five-year-old was just like yelling at me and I'm like why are you yelling at me? And she's like you know, I'm just loud. She's like I'm Yamika LeRae Because that's her ghetto name, and I'm just like girl, I need you to stop.
Speaker 2:I need Yemi to come up with a ghetto name for me. Is there potential for that.
Speaker 3:Yes, my little Wiga friend.
Speaker 2:Okay, cool.
Speaker 3:We were watching the game before?
Speaker 2:Yeah, we were. It is March Madness, so it's been very fun for me being a basketball person.
Speaker 3:He's like that's a wig.
Speaker 2:I was like you can just tell as a former one you can just tell.
Speaker 3:He's reformed. I'm reformed, that's what therapy sessions are all about.
Speaker 2:I found my own style. I do not identify as Literally. Oh my goodness, All right Anna you got something to read, I think. So, like I know we were just chatting it up, but we have like a start-off point, don't we?
Speaker 3:Jeez.
Speaker 2:At some point Noah's keeping me on track.
Speaker 3:That's cool.
Speaker 2:I know I'm impressed. Well, you have the migraine on track. That's cool. I know well you have the migraine. I'm just let's note this day in history. I'm just here, the migraine, the migraine day exactly.
Speaker 3:So I will be reading today with a little um wisdom on it. So we're gonna put a little wisdom on that's. So we're going to put a little wisdom on that's what we call this session. What is?
Speaker 2:it yeah, sex session, uh, segment Segment.
Speaker 3:I was like I knew where you were going. I was like this is what we call our segment. Put a little wisdom on it.
Speaker 2:I have no blunt. This is not a session, this is a segment. Yeah, this is a segment of a podcast.
Speaker 3:But I'll be reading from the book of Awakening by Mark Nepo, and this is titled the Gift of Shedding. From the beginning, the key to renewal has been the casting off of old skin. It is interesting that the earliest peoples believed in something that we, in our modern hive of manufacturing, have forgotten that immortality is attainable by shedding. The Dunsons of North Borneo have believed for centuries that when God finished creating the world, he announced that whoever is able to cast off his skin shall not die. But what does that mean? Not that we can live forever, but that the way to stay closest to the pulse of life, the way to stay in the presence of that divine reality which informs everything, is to be willing to change, still change. What To change?
Speaker 3:Whatever has ceased to function within us, to shed whatever we are carrying that is no longer alive, to cast off our dead skin, because dead skin can't feel, dead eyes can't see, dead ears can't hear. And without feeling there is no chance of wholeness, and wholeness remains our best chance to survive the pain of breaking. Of course, for human beings, dead skin takes many forms, the most significant of which remain intangible but suffocating. Intangible but suffocating, such as a dead way of thinking, a dead way of seeing, a dead way of relating, a dead way of believing, or a dead way of experiencing. In essence, shedding opens us up to self-transformation. Those of us who refuse such renewal will sooner or later be forced to undergo transformation anyway as a result of being broken or eroded by the world. Very often, both occur at the same time, that is, we shed from within while being eroded from without. What do you think about that?
Speaker 2:That was really good. Can you repeat the last line? We shed within while being eroded from the out.
Speaker 3:Very often both occur at the same time. That is, we shed from within while being eroded from without.
Speaker 2:Dang, I love that. It's so weird that, like we really don't plan this and we just flip to the day, but I, I was having a conversation with someone, um, about how it just life as I'm getting older feels like, um, I just had a bad dream. You know, mine are never good. I've talked to you about that, but it's the killing of the older version of yourself, and that's a prevalent one in this phase of my life where it's a continuous like you have to kill this old version of yourself and it's like that, essentially, is what that's boiled down to, is it's like, okay, you're shedding that version of yourself. Shedding is a better word than killing, but I, I agree that, um, that that's uh, I do feel like that's a hard thing to do. Part of what, what did you think about it?
Speaker 3:before I get into my next little segue of thought, so for me, the word shedding is a great, not killing, and and I say that because, think about it, when animals shed their skin, it's like it gives.
Speaker 2:It's like a rebirth.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and so for humans, for us, when I think of shedding, it's like shedding some of those old habits. Yeah, so that we can grow to be who we're supposed to be, what God wants us to be Exactly.
Speaker 2:So, because think about our shedding is like necessary and I think that ties in like my segue of thought, where it's we've been on this like journey together of like self-discovery and really trying to tap into being the best versions of ourselves. Yeah, um, and I think part of the reason my week kind of kicked me in the ass is it's like really delving into my mind and seeing and trying to like pinpoint stuff that like is ugly to me and trying to address it. Somebody said something really prevalent, where people don't just do that Like people, some people like choose actively to ignore getting to know themselves.
Speaker 2:And that to me, when that like I was just waking up and thinking oh everybody every day is waking up and trying to be the best version of themselves, and if they're not being the best version of themselves, then they're trying to pinpoint monotonous and mundane, and that is something that, yeah, and it's not dangerous, because you always try to leave that door open for them of self-growth and improvement and X Y, z, but it's like geez. I like the insufferableness of people. This week I think that veered its ugly head where it's like I thought people cared about being better. I really Now not to write everybody off into the same category.
Speaker 3:They just don't want to do the work.
Speaker 2:Or they just ignore it because they don't want to do the work. The work is daunting. So like I get that, I get that. But to somebody who is attempting to do the work, even Kaizen, that 1% better it's like. Even that attempt to be confronted with people that ignore it is just, is it more? I think it's draining on like a human level, and maybe not even just a human level but a spiritual level too, for that person's soul.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but snake shed, I don't know. I was trying to bring it back To something Less on the ethereal plane.
Speaker 1:Snake shed.
Speaker 2:But scales, scales. Why does it feel wet? And it's not wet, it's a scale.
Speaker 1:Oh, my skittles.
Speaker 2:No, but my week's been really good, it's been a good week. I am serious, it's like me and Anna were driving over to pick up our duck.
Speaker 3:Our duck, our duck.
Speaker 2:That's actually pretty awesome. Our Jamie is a duck, no, but then we were just talking about how, like, what did I say? I said I missed you, and then you said something smart.
Speaker 3:I don't know, is it?
Speaker 2:She talks so much I do In the car. It's just like, is there an off button to this thing?
Speaker 3:There's not, there's not. I probably said yeah, I miss you too or something, or I miss me too.
Speaker 2:No, you said I miss you too, and then I think you went into this long. No, you said see, is this what codependency is? And I said to you I said nope, I don't think like if I go to my psychiatrist and I say I miss them, they're going to like automatically prescribe me with like something to make me miss them less. I don't think that's how that works. I don't think you get a medical degree by like missing something and then being like okay, yeah, that's not that. That's not codependency. Well, actually, maybe now, that's that is how it works. Covid, covid, covid fucked up a lot of shit. I don't know.
Speaker 3:Don't give the internet no extra help. Someone's already thought of that somebody's already thought everything because they ain't got nothing else. Better, no, nothing better to do.
Speaker 2:They're 90 pounds, soaking wet and just coming up with shit no reason.
Speaker 3:If you could rename yourself, what would your name be? Um I know that's so random jebediah gutenberg not jebediah. You went way deep, jebediah no wait.
Speaker 2:Do we want a serious answer? I actually not. I would not want to rename myself. I love my name.
Speaker 3:I love my name, Not because it has well, my middle name kind of has a lot of significance.
Speaker 2:Do you want to like pronounce your whole name, or is that still not?
Speaker 3:Oh, no, I can pronounce my whole name. Let me tell you Cause.
Speaker 2:I've always just said, anna, but it's Ananisha Stellarar Laverne Ross Moreno. See, I love that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I got like 900 names.
Speaker 2:Ananisha is such like a See, I have four you have five. What Ananisha Stellar Ross Moreno? Yeah, mine's Noah Emerson. Xavier Mace.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So like I wouldn't change it, because having like being that you do, you remember being the kid in school and it's like they would like announce your name and you'd be like, oh, I'm so different.
Speaker 3:No, bro, they didn't announce my name. They just looked at it and I just knew it.
Speaker 2:Not on like check, like you had to put your hand up to see if you were attendance.
Speaker 3:They couldn't pronounce it, so they would look, oh, and I'd be like that's me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I already knew. See, that was special in and of itself. I bet that's why you have that complex. I bet I do.
Speaker 3:You know the doctor's office to this day. I'm just like, I know it's a look. I'm like, yep, y'all look confused. Me too, that's me but I do love it how on my driver's license, see, I love how we like we chose that question and yet we're just like going right into.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I wouldn't change my name at all no, it's great, but I like that.
Speaker 3:I on my driver's license and social security card. My entire name is on it. They fit all 900 letters.
Speaker 2:I love that about my license.
Speaker 3:I was just like, yes, put all that on there, just throw it all on there and I use like I've never heard.
Speaker 2:I've always just like anna, like even in my phone. You're anna and like to like hear you say it.
Speaker 3:Say it one more time ananisha stellar, laverne, ross, moreno, that's so cool, I have some capital.
Speaker 2:And then Ross has a hyphen on it. So it's Ross Moreno, yes, and so does Stellar Laverne.
Speaker 3:That's so cool.
Speaker 2:And believe it or not.
Speaker 3:Stellar and Laverne is great-grandma and grandmother on both sides of my family's names.
Speaker 2:That's so cool. Mine's yeah, I wouldn't change my name. I think I wanted to go by Emerson for a while, like I think. When I got to high school I was like, okay, I want to be like Noah's girly. I think somebody told me that, and I think Miley Cyrus's sister was like a thing at the time.
Speaker 3:Oh yes.
Speaker 2:And I was like, yeah, I don't want to be like associated with that. So I tried, but it never picked up. No, it never like became a thing. And everybody that would say no, I'd be like, yep, that's me. And I didn't even commit to the bit, I didn't even. I was like, yeah, no, I guess I'm just Noah.
Speaker 3:No, you're just Noah.
Speaker 2:But I do love the history of my other names, my family being my last name, a's, and then Emerson being my grandfather, who RIP he's somewhere and then, well, I think, great-grandfather. Actually, let me talk to my family so I don't butcher my own lineage name. You don't even know where his name came from. I do, but I'm in a completely different stratosphere because we were talking about how you were shedding your skin and moistness and I don't know. It just was a whole thing.
Speaker 3:So I don't want to butcher my own lineage right now.
Speaker 2:Let's not put me on the chopping block to butcher my lineage. Let's not do that. I feel a lot of pressure right now To not butcher my own. What in Charles Dickinson's name?
Speaker 3:Alright, where'd you come up with this? Like that has nothing to do with nothing.
Speaker 2:All right, Anna, what is something that seems like it should be appealing, or what is something that seems like it should appeal to you specifically, but it doesn't?
Speaker 3:Facebook? I don't know.
Speaker 2:Don't expose your age like that.
Speaker 3:I'm the Instagram. Anybody who sees our episodes can tell where I'm posting from.
Speaker 2:Okay, honestly, though, what's the difference between every one of them? At this point, there's not one.
Speaker 3:Well, for me it's all swipes.
Speaker 2:They all figured out the dopamine algorithm. It's all the same.
Speaker 3:Well, for me, I just feel like, and maybe because I don't have everybody and their grandma on my Instagram. It's safer, I'm wrong. Well, for me it's safer. For me I don't see all the negative shit. But Facebook, I think, because in the beginning you're just adding people, You're like, yeah, everybody's on. Yeah, everybody's my friend you know Caitlyn from third grade, we're friends that I see a lot of negative stuff.
Speaker 1:About our podcast no not about our podcast.
Speaker 2:Nobody listens to us. Our 12 fans love us and they're all family. But shout out to every family member that's listening we love you and we're thinking of you fondly from our studio kisses but Facebook is a lot and that's the sucky part.
Speaker 3:It's from everybody's algorithm. It's not even mine, because I don't have one.
Speaker 2:I never made one.
Speaker 3:I I made a fake one, I think no, I have a real one, but the stuff that's on there is not even like stuff like from me.
Speaker 2:It's like it's all ai, so I'm just like I don't want to hear about the political stuff?
Speaker 3:I don't want to hear about the political stuff. I don't want to hear about the over-religious stuff. Who? Cares, I don't want to hear about whose ass cheeks was hanging out at the Grammys. I don't care, so it's more negative than it is anything. So my Instagram is tailored to more positivity. I follow positive people. Positive people follow me.
Speaker 2:That's the best way to be. Yeah, like if you're looking at your phone. The consuming of the negative media is crazy to me that that's just become like a natural thing. Mm-hmm, and people are happy about it too.
Speaker 2:And that's why because you know I've taken a lot of breaks and like from just having apps where I can, like can, view what people are thinking, because, honestly, it gets even more lonely than not having the app to begin with, because it's like these people are so dumb that people get wrapped up in this. I just want to ask those people change it. Change it. Then, if you're so worked up, ask those people change it. Change it then, if you're so worked up by this thing, change it. Show me how you can influence it. I just think people like to be worked up for the sake of being worked up.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I was about to say that I'm like they like that crap.
Speaker 2:It's like tabloids. Remember going to the grocery store when you were well, when I was. I remember going to the grocery store when I was a kid and like seeing. No, but I was seeing like we had tabloids too. No, but I was seeing like the newspapers and like I would grab it and be like I want to read this and my mom would like be like no, none of that shit's real.
Speaker 2:And I was like, hmm, and like now it's basically Instagram. Like Instagram is like the new Roman Empire's version of the Colosseum, but instead of like fighting for lives, it's like we're fighting for attention.
Speaker 3:I love how you gave that analogy. It was such a great. You know I love analogies. Is that a good analogy, but-hmm. But we lost everybody that was born with a phone in their hand Like they have no idea. They're like who? Roman Empire, what?
Speaker 2:is that the new age Roman Empire's version of the Colosseum is Instagram.
Speaker 3:I have no clue. They were like that didn't make any sense.
Speaker 2:Good.
Speaker 3:No, it did make sense.
Speaker 2:Y'all need to go Old soul over here. I got it fucking tatted on me, bitch.
Speaker 3:No, I'm kidding I'm like shoot. But.
Speaker 2:I've had a lot of people, I think. I said somebody was checking out at the gym and they said, um, uh, you know how we have to ask for the last names. And he said, yeah, my last name is Davis. And he was older, like gray hair, and I said, oh, like Miles, and he said that's a good reference for your age. And I was like oh, hmm. Well, you've been calling me an old man all day you are an old man they've always called my whole family.
Speaker 3:You've been doing this old man hand talk thing, lady cross thing. I noticed it a few weeks ago and I was just like what is happening? Because I'm like aging backwards, I'm like a child at this point. I told him I'm one step from throwing a temper tantrum. So I'm like, and he's over here just like honey, baby, come here.
Speaker 2:No, can I give you a little insight about my family? When Rachel and my dad both lived here, they called me Peepaw because, like how I would like move and like my slippers and my outfits. I would like move and like my slippers and my outfits. I would just literally be like. So they still to this day will call me people and they'll mention it. They'll be like uh-oh, people's here and I'll like give some old opinion on how those damn liberals like I don't know yeah, yeah, he had the whole mannerism thing going.
Speaker 2:What was the question to begin with? I feel like I need to answer it for myself. What is something you would like? Just social media in general.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think social media, because I care less.
Speaker 2:That should appeal to you.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but it really doesn't.
Speaker 2:See, that makes it a complicated question for me, though, because I'm relating it back to myself, because we're over you at this point what fell? Okay, my phone, never mind what I should like.
Speaker 3:And unfortunately you have to market every darn thing through social media.
Speaker 2:I can't put this on the billboard, no you don't.
Speaker 3:Honestly, I't put this on the billboard no, you don't. Honestly, I should put it on the billboard.
Speaker 2:I could just run around with it painted to my body of whatever I was trying to sell.
Speaker 1:I'm trying to sell our podcast.
Speaker 2:Remember guerrilla marketing.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:We just need to do guerrilla marketing for this. We need to put stickers Enough people know about us at this point just in the area, they just don't know where to find it that if we just printed out like QR codes and like with the green onions, and I would slap them everywhere, vandalism go crazy. Like I will get arrested for it. I don't care, I'll slap it on everything. I'll slap it on everything. I'll slap it on cars. No, I'm kidding. If you find a green onion sticker on your vehicle, it was not Noah Emerson, xavier man. What is something I should like that? Thank you for asking, anna. I don't know.
Speaker 3:I don't know, I didn't ask he asked the question.
Speaker 2:Well, I asked the question to you and then you never validated me back with the response I did Well. You gave me the response, but then you didn't ask it back to me.
Speaker 1:Do you want to ask it back to me? I didn't. You know what your turn.
Speaker 2:I'm so glad. Do you want to ask?
Speaker 3:about it.
Speaker 1:I didn't you know what your turn I was like is that how we've been doing this for me probably EDM.
Speaker 2:I can't stand EDM, but I feel like I should like it why do you feel like you should like it?
Speaker 3:see, I asked that question?
Speaker 2:yeah, I don't feel like I should like it. Enough females have told me that I should like it. See, I asked a question. Yeah, I don't feel like I should like it. Enough females have told me that I should like edm. That at this point I'm like I should. And then I listen to it and I'm like so you're telling me you're paying tickets to watch somebody mash buttons on a board that's sweaty and probably lives with his mother. That's, that's what we're doing. That's what we're doing, and that's an excuse for these stupid ass bitches to put fish nuts on and look like they're Rastafarian.
Speaker 2:That's so dumb you sound angry no, but yeah, I don't like that because people just assume I know what EDM is or care.
Speaker 3:Oh dude, I cannot.
Speaker 2:You know how easy it would be to learn how to push a button. I do, I push buttons, fucking anyway. But I'm like I don't know how Our fucking computers at my job are like from 1987. Do, do, do, jesus, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do do. Oh, wow, he really knew how to build up and drop that like yeah, that's all.
Speaker 1:EDM is wow, that, that 808 is really fucking.
Speaker 2:That's gonna change the game. No, no, edm has ever changed the game. It's all been the fucking exact same shit. Skrillex changed the game and then what did Skrillex do? Not fucking Jack. He's still the same weird pedo-looking motherfucker. Yeah, no, I don't like EDM. He said oh, I don't like EDM at all. I get worked up so much.
Speaker 3:Well, on a different note, this might work about too. How is the financial challenge going for you?
Speaker 2:It's been a struggle. It's been good because I'm pretty solid financially anyway. But just having to put that in the forefront of my life, that has been the struggle, knowing which. This is always how it works with me. Like before I figure something out, I'll have pitfalls on it, but that's always my first thought. So like, if I spend a little too much money, my first thought's been okay, I'm not doing well at the challenge, and that's always like my telltale sign in my own head that I'm on the right track of trying to fix it. So like, if it's something I think about currently and it's not just something I try to ignore or unintentionally ignore, it's always a good thing, so it's on the right path. I guarantee you, by the end of the year I'll be a trillionaire. So I'm joking.
Speaker 3:If that's the case, I'm not doing the challenge correctly.
Speaker 2:If that's the case, there will be no more Green Onions podcast and I will be on an island in Bermuda and nobody will hear from me ever. If you make it to Bermuda, oh, not the triangle.
Speaker 3:Right, just don't touch all three points.
Speaker 2:Oh no.
Speaker 3:But um. But yeah, it's, it's, uh, it's it's been on a like, it's been on the forefront of my mind. Well, so for me, great. However, on the flip side, got husband on it, but he's sneaky. So what I've done, I've shut off.
Speaker 2:Excuse me, whoa, no Is that why you're so far from the mic.
Speaker 3:But no, I for him I reallocated, like his paychecks and stuff. So he's saving, but he doesn't know he's saving Because also I cut off part of the car too, so I've been doing really well, yeah, no.
Speaker 2:Okay, how much are we talking about that? He may listen to this episode and then it be like a.
Speaker 3:He's behind. My own spouse is behind listening to us. Maybe, because I talk to him too much.
Speaker 2:Everybody I talk to is behind on listening. My parents thought it was Thanksgiving the other day.
Speaker 3:I was like I don't no one's over here texting me. Is it Thanksgiving? I was like I don't no one's over here texting me is it Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2:I didn't even say, I just said is it? Is it Thanksgiving right now? Of all the holiday episodes, christopher Columbus, you lied to me, is it in January? Is that one Thanksgiving?
Speaker 3:we actually have a Thanksgiving episode, so I did that. His parents were like yeah, I'm like.
Speaker 2:Oh, I was like I'm doing this wrong. When's Christmas? In February, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's in July, it's in.
Speaker 3:July Christmas in July.
Speaker 2:Do we have another question? Anna, Do you have a question?
Speaker 3:I do have a question.
Speaker 2:I feel like we might be getting to the time cap. I don't know.
Speaker 3:What would be on the menu for your ultimate birthday dinner?
Speaker 2:What would be on the menu? Oh, um, I love this question. Well, not Like I've never answered it, but I just. That was.
Speaker 3:You flashed me neither. No, it's like I hate her.
Speaker 2:No, I love you In learning to cook and stuff. I think my menus Big surprise. I used to be super picky like eater, like it was just chicken I guess, as I'm sitting like the old man harping on 10 minutes ago. No, yeah, uh, I used to love just like chicken nuggets, very simple food and like my sister got me into. Like I'm sorry, boogers, sorry.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That deviated septum? Um, it was. But like in getting into cooking and like even with my family at this point, like every birthday or whatever, we're always going to like a fancy restaurant and like I love. So if I have to sit there and think about birthdays or like a dinner, I have to sit there and think about an appetizer. So my appetizer would be calamari, but like with the lemon and the Calamari is the.
Speaker 2:I'm going to get hungry just thinking about this. Oh, okay, it's fine. Calamari, a New York shrimp medium with like a Hennessy, with heavy whipping cream and pepper, like a steak au poivre, so like a very like with a gravy, and then on the like, as the side, charred asparagus with garlic potatoes, but like garlic, like pan seared on a cast iron with rosemary and all the stuff and butter, and then you let it sit in the butter so that the butter sucks up into the potato and then, um, dessert Uh, I probably wouldn't even ask for dessert, probably a brownie. My sister makes the best brownies. She replaces something with coffee grounds and then puts sea salt on it and it's like the Ghirardelli mix. But she like subs out stuff and like she golds the butter and then puts it in. And it's like the Ghirardelli mix, but she like subs out stuff and like she golds the butter and then puts it in and it's just so good. So, yeah, that's my probably birthday dinner. What about you?
Speaker 3:So mine is a little bit simpler than that. Should a birthday person answer this? Oh, so the duck wants to answer. Hit up the mic, go, go. Okay, you're not talking to the mic because we can't hear you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I will beat the judge because I have the headphones. I can hear you.
Speaker 1:Okay, am I going.
Speaker 3:Yes, app appetizers. What would you have for the appetizer?
Speaker 1:Appetizer chips and salsa, or like tips and salsa and pico.
Speaker 3:You're still from Arizona, okay.
Speaker 1:And then, main course, main course, it has to be cata and sata You're stealing mine.
Speaker 2:Is this yours too Kind of? It has to be cata and sata. You're stealing mine.
Speaker 1:Is this yours too Kind? Of it has to be kind of sata, like a kind of sata burrito with the rice and beans, but then on the side I want me an elote Because I love them and I just need one. And then for, is it like your?
Speaker 2:birthday soon. Is this why you're saying it yes, okay, cool. I'm sorry everybody, I feel very insensitive. I didn't know. I was like, why does she have the mic Carne asada, salote, pico chips and salsa?
Speaker 3:What about?
Speaker 1:dessert. Yeah what Dessert I think I want. Either it's a few things, it's either apple pie.
Speaker 2:Like homemade.
Speaker 1:No, wait, wait, Hold on.
Speaker 2:A peach cobbler.
Speaker 1:Homemade peach cobbler. Yeah With some ice cobbler, yeah, with some ice cream on it.
Speaker 2:Okay, good.
Speaker 3:So that's our 21 birthday dinner at home.
Speaker 2:That is going to be so good.
Speaker 3:But here's the thing.
Speaker 2:And where's my invite? Is it in the mail you? Have an invite. I know Are you coming to the dinner at the home or are you?
Speaker 3:going to do dinner at the restaurant or both.
Speaker 2:I might make, I'll do everything. He's doing everything he's like wait hold on, I want it all. Let me clear up my schedule.
Speaker 3:So in my growing up we did a lot of fancy dinners too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you might have to pivot on what your birthday like, what your meal would be, because you said while she was saying yeah, she did some of my stuff, but mine would probably do more so of a cookout now for us being from where we're from I love we are me and me and like we're me and my roommate and der Derek across the street, we're trying to get a grill Because I love, I want to learn how to like.
Speaker 1:Grill.
Speaker 3:You mean a grill. For what do you mean? You're trying to get a grill. Grills aren't that expensive.
Speaker 2:No, I know. But like for like when the pools open in the summer and then I have an off day and I can just sit out there and just grill shit all day, like chicken, and then just like try different rubs of things. I'm so excited for summer to like officially hit it's spring right now and like so continue. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off.
Speaker 3:So for us definitely a cookout. But I want not only carne asada, but I want a tomahawk steak and I want to do a board, and then I want potatoes. Oh, tamale sounds so good too.
Speaker 2:See, I had potatoes too.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but potatoes and onions and the foils on the grill.
Speaker 1:You can never go wrong.
Speaker 3:But I want all of my food to be grilled.
Speaker 2:The char from a grill is something that is unparalleled.
Speaker 3:Well, because I would do charcoal and then I would wet some apple wood and then, put it in. Oh my God.
Speaker 2:Okay, so you're going to teach me how to do yes, yeah, because I'm in. I'm in on that.
Speaker 3:We had Ducky when she was younger, although she said I made her eat what?
Speaker 1:did you say she made me eat? 13-year-old?
Speaker 3:butter, but we would do like once a week. We would have like Sunday mornings would be like pancake breakfast and then Saturdays we would do a cookout like every single weekend, invite like a whole bunch of people over to our place when we lived in Knoxville. So I learned a whole lot and then, being from AZ, I mean you don't have a choice but to really grill and not have a lot of fried foods anyway, especially with our year-round summer.
Speaker 2:So which I want to be a part of, a place that has the year-round summer Because, like I know, it's like partially here, but those months of seasonal, a year-round summer?
Speaker 3:There ain't no year-round summer here. What the hell are you talking about?
Speaker 2:I know, but those months of seasonal shit is like awful.
Speaker 3:Oh see, we enjoy it, we love it. No, I mean like the winter. I love the winter.
Speaker 2:It makes me happy. Okay, I'll reframe my mind to it.
Speaker 3:I'm the Aspen chick. I'm going skiing, damn it.
Speaker 2:Alright, snowboarding and all.
Speaker 3:He's over here tanning. I don't want to tan. I'm already melanated enough.
Speaker 2:I'm not tanning. What do you think this is?
Speaker 3:What do we think? This is Willis, but Noah, yes, don't you have a little sit on this?
Speaker 2:I do, and the sit on this today is from the Daily Stoic by Ryan, holiday and Stephen Hanselman.
Speaker 3:And where there Get him in his credit for writing this book Stepping on my toes.
Speaker 2:What day is it today? The 28th Sure For the Daily Stoic. The reading today is Cowardice as a Design Problem. The quote from Seneca, Moral Letters 95.46 Life without a design is erratic. As soon as one is in place, principles become necessary. I think you'll concede that nothing is more shameful than uncertain and wavering conduct and beating a cowardly retreat and beating a cowardly retreat. This will happen in all our affairs unless we remove the faults that seize and detain our spirits, preventing them from pushing forward and making an all-out effort. And then the little excerpt from oh, what's his name Petticus.
Speaker 2:No, you said what's his name Petticus. No, you said what's his name? Stephen Hasselman. Yeah, he sounds like he should be in Hansel and Gretel. I think every time you've said that name to me that's what I have immediately thought of.
Speaker 3:Is that why you forget this man?
Speaker 2:Yep, he's forgettable, but Ryan Holiday.
Speaker 3:Wow, we follow them on Instagram too.
Speaker 2:Oh well, he's amazing, though. Well, I know Ryan Holiday's amazing. Email me. Steven, I know you're not forgettable, you're just the second name on the book, which is usually forgettable. Wait, should we cut that? That? No, I think you would appreciate it. We're reading, okay, wait.
Speaker 2:Um, the opposing team comes out strong, establishing an early lead, and you never had time to recover. You walk into a business meeting, are caught off guard and the whole thing goes poorly. A delicate conversation escalates into a shouting match. You switched majors halfway through college and had to start your coursework over and graduate late. Sound familiar.
Speaker 2:It's the chaos that ensures from not having a plan, not because plans are perfect, but because people without plans, like a line of infantrymen without a strong leader, are much more likely to get overwhelmed and fall apart. The Super Bowl winning coach, bill Walsh, used to avoid this risk by scripting the beginning of his games. If you want to sleep at night before the game, he said in a lecture on game planning have your first 25 plays established in your own mind the night before that you can walk into the stadium and you can start the game without a stress factor. You'll also be able to ignore a couple of early points or a surprise from your opponent. It's relevant to you. You already have your marching orders. Don't try to make it up on the fly. And have a plan and that's it, I think.
Speaker 3:Well, thank you all for joining us on this week's edition. Yeah, this wonderful week On our podcast. We appreciate all your support and, of course, you know yeah, thank you so much.
Speaker 2:Have a beautiful night, day evening, winter's nap, whenever you're listening to this winter's nap.
Speaker 3:Have a great weekend y'all, and you know, tell your friends and family about us, amen amen and God bless America.
Speaker 2:Do you have any other thing you want to say, anna? No,