Brother Sister Whatever
Brother Sister Whatever is the cynical-but-lovable sibling podcast for GenX & Xennials navigating the messy middle of life—identity, aging, family roles, and all the weird in-between stuff that adulthood forgot to warn us about.
Hosted by Lisa & Josh, two grown-up siblings with opposite vibes and shared trauma, this show is part therapy, part throwback, and part unfiltered real talk about the messier side of life. Expect plenty of 80s/90s nostalgia and laughs as we dissect it all!
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Brother Sister Whatever
The Weekly What If: A Beautiful Mess Ends
Josh and Lisa say goodbye to their most chaotic segment ever, the Weekly What If, revisiting six favorite questions and debuting two brand new ones to open and close this beautiful mess.
• Josh would choose to live in Dragon Ball Z as Goku, while Lisa prefers Sweet Valley High books as a sidekick character
• Lisa would travel back to the 1990s which she calls "her decade," while Josh acknowledges he's happiest in the present
• If they could master any skill instantly, Lisa surprisingly chooses self-defense while Josh wants psychological profiling abilities
• They debate how social interactions would change if everyone wore visible meters showing their social battery levels
• Josh would smuggle physical comfort items like soft clothes if comfort things became illegal, while Lisa would smuggle comfort foods
• Both find appeal in disconnecting from technology, though Lisa has reservations about roughing it outdoors
• The episode ends with a nostalgic discussion about The Wonder Years' narrative style
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Speaker 2:I'm Josh, I'm Lisa and this is the end of an era.
Speaker 1:Yep, we are saying goodbye to the most chaotic segment we've ever done the weekly. What if so?
Speaker 2:today we're revisiting our six favorite questions and debuting two brand new ones to open and close this beautiful mess.
Speaker 1:Yep. So let's try a new one. Let's start with a new one, okay.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Okay. So, josh, if you had to live in one of your childhood imaginary worlds or shows or books or games, where would you be and what would your role be?
Speaker 2:I'd probably be like Goku and I would be on well planet Earth, saving the world once again from destruction. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what you would do.
Speaker 2:For sure. I mean, who wouldn't want to be a Super Saiyan?
Speaker 1:I would you know what I would be. I would be a character from Sweet Valley High books.
Speaker 2:I remember those books.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, Okay, okay.
Speaker 1:Maybe even Babysitter's Club. Just one of the books that I grew up with Nancy Drew, Solving Crimes.
Speaker 2:So you want to be like one of the popular kids.
Speaker 1:No, I'd be the sidekick. Actually I wouldn't be the main character, I'd be the sidekick. Why? It's less like pressure to be the sidekick. You know the sidekick. You expect them to fuck up and, like you know, say stupid stuff and not look great.
Speaker 2:Oh, my god, I'm not main character vibes.
Speaker 1:I'm not.
Speaker 2:Oh, you're too funny. You underestimate yourself.
Speaker 1:Well, maybe, but I feel like in my brain I would be just A-OK with sidekick vibes. Cool cool, yep, okay. So let's take a look at some of our favorite from this season. Okay, okay, all right.
Speaker 2:What if you woke up tomorrow in a completely different decade, past or future? Which one would you choose, and why?
Speaker 1:I'm actually that's pretty easy for me.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:I would go back to the nineties.
Speaker 2:Why.
Speaker 1:Because that was my decade.
Speaker 2:What do you mean? It was your decade.
Speaker 1:It, just it, the music.
Speaker 2:You were like your happiest yeah For me. I think, um, I think it just automatically has to be the past. I think, uh, the way, the way the world's going, I don't even want to look at going to the future, but I would. I guess I would probably see I'm thinking financially, I'm thinking like, okay, I'm going to go in the past because I'll know things that will happen.
Speaker 1:Of course, of course you would do that, yes.
Speaker 2:So, but particular, like decade for me, I'm probably I have to say I'm probably my happiest right now, believe it or not, like in this era or decade, I guess. But if I had to, I think, yeah, I probably, I probably I miss, you know, my 20s, some I miss, some I don't.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But I miss the, I just miss the experiences. Then you know like the commercials, even though we hated them, but like the commercials and like having to wait, and you know just all of those things that like everything is now, now, now. So for me, even going back in the nineties or even even to that early two thousands, I don't think it was as cuckoo as it is now with the now now stuff?
Speaker 1:Absolutely not. Yeah, we definitely had to wait for a lot of things. There was a lot of like, I feel, like our growing up we had like a lot more imagination because we had to well, yeah, we had to wait for you know what I? Mean. It was like boredom leads to imagination.
Speaker 2:There was a lot of boredom yeah, so true okay, so you would pick your 20s yeah, so I guess that makes me what that's two decades ago yeah so uh, so 2000 mid-2000s yeah, okay all right.
Speaker 1:So what if you could instantly master any skill? What would you choose and why?
Speaker 2:Okay, you first on this one.
Speaker 1:Okay, I would learn all kinds of self-defense methods.
Speaker 2:Okay, Okay like kung fu, jiu-jitsu karate you know all that stuff Matrix, where they plug it in and it's just. You instantly know all this stuff.
Speaker 1:You know what, when I was thinking about skills, I was like who can forget that montage right?
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was awesome. That was awesome Like downloaded. I remember even when they needed to fly a chopper, it was like they download it boom.
Speaker 1:I know how to fly it now Exactly, yeah, exactly. At its base, it's all about, like self-defense, knowing how to protect myself if I need to, that kind of thing For sure. However, I think there's also a little bit of like a power, like I would feel powerful. I feel like it would be really great for your self-esteem to know how to take care of yourself In that way.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's actually a really good point, that's awesome.
Speaker 1:So what about you? What skill would you master?
Speaker 2:I'm very much into like just like profiling and psychology and that type of stuff. So I would love to just like become you know like a guru. Jordan Peterson. You know, like boom, just that knowledge is like in my head. You know, like that would be pretty amazing.
Speaker 1:Well, to read people better.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean, don't get me wrong, I read people pretty well because I work with people all the time. I guess I just mean more of like, like I'm able to like analyze them better. Okay, I mean psychologists. That's technically part of their….
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're analyzing, yeah.
Speaker 2:You know they're analyzing and like, oh, this is your problem or this is what's going on with you, or you know. So it would be fun to kind of have that skill. And you know, it's funny that now that I just I just literally thought of it, because wanting that skill is actually very close to what I do already. Okay, but for dogs, you know what I mean. So it's kind of funny how, uh, and and and also it makes me realize like, oh, oh, yeah, I guess it's not really far off from yours, is far off. You know, like I would have not expected that.
Speaker 2:I would have thought maybe something to do with like business or like Internet or like you know, like a webmaster or like graphic designer or something like that. But no, I did not think you were going to go for martial arts. So but yeah, I guess mine is kind of it's pretty boring. I guess it's like in the same category of what I'm already doing. I analyze dogs every day, then I mediate the families, the people, and in this case I want to have that Jordan Peterson mind. That would be the skill, though like to have his brain. You know, I don't want to be him, I don't want to be him. But yeah, just the skill, though, like to have his brain.
Speaker 1:You know, I don't want to be him, specifically for his brain. I don't want to be him.
Speaker 2:But yeah, just the way he you know, the way he like you know, just like.
Speaker 1:Okay, but so why that skill specifically?
Speaker 2:Like I said, you know, I think it would be really wonderful to just understand people a little bit more on a deeper level.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Not so much on just a surface level kind of thing.
Speaker 1:What if everyone had to wear a visible meter showing their social battery level? It's almost like a bracelet that says oh, I'm an introvert, extrovert, whatever, okay, how would that change social interactions?
Speaker 2:Whoa Well, I think it would change things a lot.
Speaker 1:You think?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I think it would. I'm kind of surprised, actually, now that I think of it, that there isn't like that doesn't exist on like Facebook, you know, like introvert, extrovert, or you know, like, think about it, it's true. It's true, you know, like, watch it be created. Now Someone's listening to us. But, yeah, I think it would change things a little bit. I mean, it's like anything really right. Yeah, I think it would change things a little bit. I mean, it's like anything really right. Like in the sense of when you know more than you normally would about the stranger, you automatically you know, like I don't know what to say. So, for example, if I meet someone and I'm like, hey, how's it going? And oh, okay, your bracelet, you know, and it says you're introvert, you know. And when you say like battery, do you mean like it shows how much energy they have, like right now, like I'm at like 20%. So it's like, oh, I'm not going to talk to this person. This person has no energy right now.
Speaker 1:Or do you?
Speaker 2:mean like Because, yeah, I mean that would obviously. You know, usually you find that out in a few moments after talking to the person.
Speaker 1:Right, Right. So that would kind of preemptively Like hey, my name's.
Speaker 2:Lisa, how are you? Yeah, I'm good. Thanks. It's like okay, their battery level is pretty low. Yeah, right, you know it might explain a few things, though. So, meaning, when you get that reaction, instead of maybe taking it personal, you might say oh well, okay, see the battery level.
Speaker 1:That's a good point. Didn't think of that. I think that, depending on the person that you're talking about, I think there's assholes everywhere, and so I don't think.
Speaker 2:I think we can all be an asshole a little bit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I mean, I think there's assholes everywhere in the sense that they don't give a shit about your social battery battery level. I want this or I need this or we're whatever. They're coming with their own yeah, for stuff right for sure so I think that would just be another another thing to like well, you know I don't want to spoil anything, but you know it could be a good weekly.
Speaker 2:What if then on that, on that kind of grounds okay, what now imagine if it showed a list of everyone's boundaries. Oof, there's a bracelet with all the boundaries there digital, you know, pops up like this, you know, and it's just like, okay, these are all the boundaries.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:Imagine that. What if every comfort thing in your life suddenly became illegal?
Speaker 1:Oh man.
Speaker 2:What would you smuggle? Would you join the underground? Weighted blanket resistance? Which comfort item would break you if it disappeared?
Speaker 1:Oh fuck.
Speaker 2:Those are some great weekly what-ifs.
Speaker 1:Yeah, some good questions to make you think Okay. So one of the things that I like comfy things that I love is physical right, like it's the comfy pants that, when you sit, don't cut into your belly you know those kinds. The blanket, the pillow, strategically placed, like I mentioned before, the nook right, the spot on the sofa, the best spot on the sofa. So those things. To me, if that got taken away, it'd be a depressing fucking life.
Speaker 2:It'd be sad.
Speaker 1:It would be sad I would. I would obviously be on the hunt for new comfort things. It would have to be replaced, because one cannot live without comfort things, don't you think?
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, for sure, right, For sure.
Speaker 1:Okay, what about you? Well, first start by saying, like, what's your thing, what it would be that you would be giving up if you lost it, If it became illegal.
Speaker 2:If it became illegal, something that's comforting, comfort of the comfort. For me, like food, okay, that's fine. For me it's a thing like meat lasagna, you know, like the old fashion, like, oh, that would be that would be tough. That would be a tough one. So you know there's something about, like you know, I can, I can really stick to my diet and be really good, but if I get sick I want to have those comfort foods, you know, and so I'd say that that's probably my thing.
Speaker 1:Okay, you know like yeah, so that would be something you could smuggle.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I would totally smuggle frozen lasagna.
Speaker 1:Right, yeah, oh man. What if you had to spend a full week completely offline, living in nature, but there's like no phone, no tech, just the outdoors? Would you thrive? Would you just survive, like what? How would you feel?
Speaker 2:I think I would feel pretty good.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's something about wanting to disconnect Like this is under the impression I don't have to think about my business or anything. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, like, like, or even like just like a week and like a week off, kind of thing. Right, yeah, yeah, I would, I would thrive, I would thrive.
Speaker 1:You, you, I would thrive, you, you would thrive. No. So here's the thing. Outdoors only, ooh, there's like lots of bugs.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, you have a tent and stuff.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, Like I like the concept of outdoors.
Speaker 2:Okay, there's people who love it, there's probably people who, no, like it's not happening. Yeah, the one kind of outdoorsy thing that I can't do that people do just because we're on the topic is, like you know, the antarctic outdoorsy people, the ones who will have the pitch, the tent on a mountain with like minus 40 and stuff like okay, yeah, that's extreme like that's like, like those I don't know how those guys do it because of the weather yeah, it's the.
Speaker 1:It's because of the cold okay, I totally agree with that. Anything with the cold I'm like. No, no indoors for me. But here's the thing I want to clarify that the weekly would have questions said like outdoors right and would would I thrive in that. Everything else about it, like the no tech, the just relaxing, disconnecting, I'm there for it. If it was like an, a glamping experience where it's not necessarily like like maybe you're in a cabin in the woods somewhere.
Speaker 1:OK that I would be like, yes, sign me up, but the pitching of the tent and you know the fucking like cooking hot dogs on tree branches and shit, not for me, not for me.
Speaker 2:Oh, you can take a harpoon and try to catch a fish, yeah, no. What if you had to sit in a room with nothing but a chair for eight hours? No phone, no music, no distractions, just you and your thoughts? Who cracks first? What weird thoughts show up.
Speaker 1:That gives me like padded room vibes, you know, like in one of those asylums, you know, oh man, there's something about that. That kind of feels really like nice.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Do you know what I mean? Like really, oh okay, Like almost like I could breathe a sigh of relief and just like be, I think I don't. I'll be honest, though Like I don't know, like nothing, like not even like birds chirping kind of shit, I don't know. It seems a lot. I don't know if I'd be able to do a whole eight hours I mean, I guess technically it's kind of like a jail cell, right? Well, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Like it's giving, like so you don't really have anything to do.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, and, and no phone, no music tvs, don't they? Or books at least yeah right, so um yeah yeah, yeah, I think it would be nice to experience that once.
Speaker 2:Yeah, or it doesn't have to be in that context, right, like like, in that sense I mean it could be like what, like camping is technically not far from that, right yeah. I mean, yeah, okay, you can do stuff, right, it's not well. No, I'm not, we're not even saying that you can't do stuff. You just, you know, there's nothing.
Speaker 1:Well, that's like you can't, there's nothing to do, yeah, but like you can still move around or like pace. Oh yeah, you can exercise Right, I guess right. So yeah, I don't know. I think it would be nice to experience once. I don't know, I think it would be nice to experience once. I don't think it would be something that I would be able to first of all, would be able to do all the time, but also if it's something that I would really need or want to do all the time.
Speaker 1:And for like a full eight hours. Yeah, that's a lot. Yeah, without doom scrolling. Without doom scrolling, there's like nothing, right, that's a lot. Yeah, I'd be good Without doom scrolling. Without doom scrolling there's like nothing, right. So I would be okay with one time to try it out, just to see, you know. It'd be funny to see what you would come out of it with, like what revelations about yourself, what thoughts, because you have nothing else to do but think.
Speaker 2:It's true.
Speaker 1:In some scenarios it might not be the best thing. Sometimes you might not want to think be thinking too much you know you, you sparked something too.
Speaker 2:I remember there was, uh, I forget who said it, though, but there, you know, there's a certain hour, right um? Like a witching hour no, but there's a certain hour, like if you go past, that all of a sudden your mind like turns inwards you know, like like you, you start just thinking about other things, I guess, but it's all like from within, it's like a meditation, you know.
Speaker 2:so it's like after, like the 13th hours or something like that you know, all of a sudden, like you have like this enlightenment in the sense of like you know all of a sudden, like you have like this enlightenment. Uh, in the sense of like you know what you're thinking about or not thinking, yeah, kind of thing, yeah well, that's kind of cool, so that sounds like something I'd be maybe maybe the eight hours could do us some good yeah, exactly, exactly challenge challenge.
Speaker 1:yeah, Challenge Challenge yeah, wow, talk about a blast from the past. Some of those were pretty funny, have to say All right, so how about we close it out with another new one?
Speaker 2:All right. So if your sibling had to narrate your next big life milestone in Morgan Freeman style? What would that sound like.
Speaker 1:So if you were Morgan Freeman's voice and you had to narrate a part of my life, yeah. Shit. It'd be something like and I'm not going to even bother imgan freeman because he's classic and you can't even touch him, but it would be something like and there she goes, sad again, eating another cookie oh my gosh something like that. I don't know, I don't know, I don't know. Something random. You know, oh, planning another event that's going to fail, oh come on Jesus Murphy.
Speaker 2:What is this the negative podcast?
Speaker 1:The negative ninny.
Speaker 2:Jeez.
Speaker 1:No, no, I don't know, man, that one's's tough. It's just like if somebody was narrating your life, it'd be pretty mundane.
Speaker 2:I'd have to say, just be like you know, it's the same shit every day, pretty much you know who popped into my head, but I don't remember the show and I don't remember like I don't remember the name of the show, but I remember we were really young okay, what but there was that um family show. It was always a narrator talking about like something that happened. It like like speaking about the boy. You know, oh man, it's gonna drive me crazy, that narrator voice. That's the narrator voice I would choose for you, as opposed to Morgan Freeman.
Speaker 1:Okay, and what would it say I?
Speaker 2:can't remember the freaking.
Speaker 1:we were young, young Like I vaguely remember it, so it had to have been the 80s.
Speaker 2:And it was that iconic bigger guy. He's always angry and he was that iconic bigger guy. He's always angry and he was the dad.
Speaker 1:Yes, Kevin.
Speaker 2:Kevin, yes, kevin rings the bell.
Speaker 1:The Wonder Years.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, I have goosebumps.
Speaker 1:The Wonder.
Speaker 2:Years.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, that was such a good show.
Speaker 2:Am I right? Yeah, there was a narrator. Yeah, yeah, yeah, who was that?
Speaker 1:It was Kevin, as an adult, narrating himself his life.
Speaker 2:But who's the actor behind the adult voice?
Speaker 1:Oh shit.
Speaker 2:Okay, because it wasn't him, was it? No, I don't think so. It wasn't the kid.
Speaker 1:No, okay, hold on, let me look this up. Hold on, let me look this up. Wonder years narrator, isn't it?
Speaker 2:funny how that voice kind of daniel stern, that guy, oh my gosh, yeah, daniel stern who was voicing the adult version of kevin arnold that's it, the wonder years, and that dad man he was so good he was so good that fucking show, holy shit yeah the wonder years. I wonder if I can find it. Yes, how many?
Speaker 1:seasons in the last decade. I wanted to re-watch it and I did oh, did you. Yes, I will, I will find out where I got it nice.
Speaker 2:How many seasons? A lot of seasons.
Speaker 1:There's like five or six, I think, nice okay, and so what would I say as this narrator?
Speaker 2:I don't know, but it would be something. I mean I kind of remember it being relatively negative. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Like you know, like so what is this the negative show? I guess yeah.
Speaker 2:He's just staring at his dad. You know, because his dad said something and then the narrator dad. You know, because his dad said something and then the narrator speaks you know and you're just like oh well, shit again, shit again.
Speaker 1:You know like oh, I love it. Oh, now I want to go watch that show, damn. Okay. Well, that was a good one.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That was a good one. Okay, let's see All right. Well, we's see All right. Well, we lay you to rest weekly. What if segment? It was fun while it lasted.
Speaker 2:It was.
Speaker 1:But new season coming soon and you know what that means new segments.
Speaker 2:New segments, new lots of things. Yeah, yeah, and we're really excited to get started, so you'll have to stay tuned, and we have some really cool things that we have not shown you yet. So, trust me, you're going to want to stick around.
Speaker 1:Yep, All right, guys. I hope you have a great week and we will see you soon. Take care.
Speaker 2:Bye.
