Baby Announcements, Rain, Survivor | Can I Riff? EP9 - w/ Erik and Bailey

🎙️ BIG LIFE UPDATE + Survivor Takes + Indy 500 Hype + Parenting Chaos 😂

In this episode, we’re sharing a HUGE personal announcement… we’re having a baby girl! 🎀👶💗 We talk about finding out, blended family life, pregnancy updates, and why announcing on social media felt weird 😅

Then things take a turn as we dive into our obsession with Survivor 🏝️🔥 — could Erik actually survive the island? (Spoiler: probably not without ravioli 🍝😂). We break down what would totally ruin Survivor for us: bugs, hygiene, food, and wild animals 😬

PLUS:
🏎️ Indy 500 excitement (because if you’re from Indy, you GET IT)
⚾ chaotic tee-ball parent life
🌧️ spring weather struggles
👕 maternity shopping frustrations
🌱 summer garden dreams
🤣 random married banter and total podcast chaos

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Transcript

Baby Announcements

SPEAKER_01 0:01

Can I riff? Permission riff. Permission granted. Clear to riff. What do you think about a riff right now?

SPEAKER_02 0:19

Man, I think we need a riff.

SPEAKER_01 0:24

Honey, can I riff? Permission to riff. Oh my OMG. It has been. It's been a little bit.

SPEAKER_02 0:32

Quite a while. We're so sorry.

SPEAKER_01 0:34

We're so sorry to our devoted fan base.

SPEAKER_02 0:37

So many subscribers at this point, right?

SPEAKER_01 0:39

Um, I often am pitching podcasts and I say something to the effect of like, hey, like 95% of podcasts don't get past episode eight. And guess what episode this is?

SPEAKER_02 0:49

Nine. Oh my G.

SPEAKER_01 0:54

Speaking of G.

SPEAKER_02 0:56

Oh, that's a good way to lead into it. Honey, can I riff? Oh, you sure can.

SPEAKER_01 1:00

Okay. I've been seeing a lot of baby announcements on the Insta lately. And it kind of made you and I jealous for a little while there. But honey, do you want to announce for the camera what our announcement is? Should we do it together? Yeah. You should stand up. All right. Show it off. Here we go.

SPEAKER_00 1:19

On the AP. On the AP.

unknown 1:22

Hey.

SPEAKER_01 1:22

She's expecting.

SPEAKER_02 1:23

Yep. We got a baby girl on the way. We're excited. Her girl.

SPEAKER_01 1:28

We got a little baby.

SPEAKER_02 1:31

Baby girl. September. We're so pumped.

SPEAKER_01 1:33

We're so pumped. If you know us, if you're friends with us, send us a message. We'll tell you her name. I don't think we want to say it over the over the over the podcast airways.

SPEAKER_02 1:44

You know, in the middle of the park.

SPEAKER_01 1:45

Too many Russians. We're in the middle of a park. I just keep wanting to do the podcast in cool spots. I thought this is a really beautiful park next to us. I did not expect, you know, this is like Sunday at like what three o'clock or something like that. Yeah, it's about three o'clock. There's so many people at the park. It feels weird. It feels like we're performing in front of people, and we did not intend that.

SPEAKER_02 2:09

Not at all. But you know what? We could get some subscribers.

SPEAKER_01 2:11

If no one's actually throw like sh throw a shirt at somebody.

SPEAKER_02 2:16

We we'd have to have merch.

SPEAKER_01 2:19

We should make some merch.

SPEAKER_02 2:20

Maybe if we can get like five followers.

SPEAKER_01 2:22

Yeah. Anyway, can I riff, honey? You sure can. So we so we're expecting this is our third. We're really excited. We we wanted a baby. We actually really wanted a baby, unlike a lot of people that we know that just kind of ended up having a baby. We really wanted a baby. And and um and it's funny because we as we tell people sometimes people come like people are like, wait, you guys are expecting I didn't see anything on your Facebook. I didn't see anything on your Instagram. You're like, well, maybe you and I should just be close enough that you know that I'm having a baby at some point. Because like if you had a conversation with me that lasted more than 10 or 15 minutes, truly, I'm probably talking about Oh, you're definitely already told him at that point. Yeah, so like what? Okay, like you expect to know everything just because you're what? You're you you know, you're like a following me on Instagram? Great.

SPEAKER_02 3:22

Yeah. We waited quite a while to announce on social media.

SPEAKER_01 3:26

And part of that was like part of that was like we wanted people to not be like people that we know that we love, we wanted them to not be like surprised because they've heard about it. But then the other perspective is like, dude, why does everything have to just go up on Instagram? And I know that I am recording a podcast that is gonna go up on TikTok. Like I hear myself saying it out loud, but dude, it was refreshing to not have to like and we made a fun video to like We did.

SPEAKER_02 3:56

We went to the beach with our family and made a little video with the boys there, and it was super special.

SPEAKER_01 4:01

We should have done a podcast on the beach.

SPEAKER_02 4:04

I really just hate ourselves that we did not do that.

SPEAKER_01 4:06

Well, this would have been a lot of gear to lug.

SPEAKER_02 4:08

It would have been, but it would have been really fun doing that though. Okay, well, you know what?

SPEAKER_01 4:12

Maybe another time next time we'll pack the mics in the backpack. Anyway, um, I wanted to tell you this. In the previous administration, I had this brilliant idea because I like, you know, I was like what? Um I was like 28 and just doing a bunch of stand-up and stuff. And um I really wanted to do a gender reveal where just because like I hated I hated gender reveals.

SPEAKER_02 4:39

They are very tacular.

SPEAKER_01 4:40

They're very cringy.

SPEAKER_02 4:41

Some are it's fine to do them. It's the very cringy way.

SPEAKER_01 4:45

It's fine to do them like personally, you know what I mean? But like publicly. Yeah. Unless you're like somebody that everyone wants like Taylor Swift could probably do a good gender reveal. She better do a good gender reveal. People like you who think you're close to Taylor but aren't close at all to Taylor.

SPEAKER_02 5:02

Okay, well, that's really rude, but okay.

SPEAKER_01 5:04

Um like they need that.

unknown 5:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 5:08

That's it.

SPEAKER_01 5:10

In the podcast. And we've made it nine episodes, just one past the one past the stat. This guy. No, um, some gender reveals are cool, but like most of them are really tacky, especially like if you're doing it up for the camera. And then there's some on TikTok, I don't know if you've seen these, but like they're not pregnant, they're just making videos of themselves. I think I've seen them opening. Oh, yeah. There's so many of them where she's wearing like a pillow.

SPEAKER_02 5:34

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 5:35

And they're just doing like gender reveals to like go viral.

SPEAKER_02 5:39

I don't I don't even pay attention to that, but that is very cool.

SPEAKER_01 5:41

I was just so it was so cringy at that time. I remember thinking it'd be so funny if I would just paint it would just paint my like previous wife's butt like with whatever color the baby would be, and then just like depants her and then just spank her butt.

SPEAKER_02 5:59

I mean, you could have done that with the biggest.

SPEAKER_01 6:01

And it would like be so cringy. See, but that's the thing. Like, I wanted to pitch that to you, but I felt weird pitching it to you because I wanted to do it with the previous administration, and so now we're in this situation where we both like this is our third kid. First one together, but the first one together, yeah, and so it's like there are all these ideas of what I've done previously that I've wanted to do that I couldn't do, you know what I mean? And now I can do them, or I can do them with you, or whatever, or there's even things that I did with the first baby that I'm gonna want to do with the second baby, my second baby, which is actually my third child.

SPEAKER_02 6:41

Yeah, it's even hard, like knowing how to say that. Like they ask you at your OB appointment, like, what pregnancy is this? How many kids do you have? And you're like, Well, technically it's my second pregnancy, but I have three kids.

SPEAKER_01 6:52

Yeah, exactly. And you gotta explain basically, oh, hey, we're blended, that's why, you know, yeah, everything comes with the we're blended, yep, you know, kind of thing. And it's like, dude. So anyway, it's just kind of weird to have a baby. And like, there was even a point in which we had talked about maybe even just doing baby classes, um, not because you needed them, but because like I probably could use them, but then also we haven't had a baby together.

SPEAKER_02 7:17

Yeah, well, and I had a baby during COVID, and so did you. So it's different out there.

SPEAKER_01 7:22

And the baby during COVID is such a weird experience. It was such a weird experience. Like, my sister just had a baby. Shout out to Micah. He's he's a real one already. Um, and like she was able to like, she gave birth, and then like 10 minutes later, we were able to go meet him. Yeah, I was like waiting in the waiting room. Yeah, I waited like an hour for Micah. Like they said, oh, he's close, and we drove over.

SPEAKER_02 7:48

Yeah, literally drove over and got to see him.

SPEAKER_01 7:50

With with COVID, it was like one person at a time. They had to like swap in, swap out. I remember my grandparents, like my mom and dad couldn't meet Sam together.

SPEAKER_02 8:02

My mom couldn't even come to the hospital.

SPEAKER_01 8:04

That's crazy. Oh, yeah, because you guys were in the NICU kind of thing.

SPEAKER_02 8:08

That, but that's how it was in delaborate delivery too, where I was at. Like nobody, it was just you and your partner. That's it.

SPEAKER_01 8:14

Another thing that's like come to mind is that we have like four, a four-year-old and a five-year-old, and they're like, you could be pretty brutal with them. Like you could throw them around, you can kind of like mess with them.

SPEAKER_02 8:27

You could banter with them a lot. Yeah, they might not realize we're bantering, but we are bantering. And sometimes, like, so Sam's Sam's crying a lot lately.

SPEAKER_01 8:36

And he's he shouldn't be. He's just being a little baby. And sometimes we'll be like, Stop crying, Sam, stop being a little baby. And I'm like, oh man, I'm gonna have to figure that out.

SPEAKER_02 8:47

Can't say that to a baby.

SPEAKER_01 8:48

Because that's an actual baby. Yeah, like it's okay if she's crying. That's like that's like how she communicates. It's like a positive way that she communicates, is just telling us she needs something by crying. I'm like, I can't look at that little baby and say, Stop crying. But I feel like I'm gonna start saying stop crying a lot sooner to say I did to Sam. Like in general, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:08

It's like the third child syndrome.

SPEAKER_01 9:10

Yeah, where it's like she's getting a more refined dad. We've got some practice. Did I just say her name? I might have just said her name. We might have to beep that. It's okay. Okay, we'll beep it.

SPEAKER_02 9:24

Um 10 minutes you get to talk to him, he'll tell you.

SPEAKER_01 9:28

Yeah, yeah. I can't even, I can't. I'm so excited.

SPEAKER_02 9:31

I know. We're so excited.

SPEAKER_01 9:32

Girl dad. I've always wanted to be girl. I've always wanted to do the like daddy-daughter dance.

SPEAKER_02 9:36

Oh, yeah. It's gonna be so cute.

SPEAKER_01 9:38

I've always wanted this out of that.

SPEAKER_02 9:40

I'll take all the pictures, so and I'll get her ready.

SPEAKER_01 9:43

I can't wait to braid her hair. I hope she's okay with that.

SPEAKER_02 9:46

Oh, yeah. I I kind of gonna have to learn how to braid.

SPEAKER_01 9:49

Yeah. I can do the simple braid that did.

SPEAKER_02 9:52

Yeah, we'll practice. It's fine.

SPEAKER_01 9:53

Practice on Rowan. His hair's getting kind of long.

SPEAKER_02 9:55

Yeah, we could.

SPEAKER_01 9:57

Man, I'm excited. Um, you were saying something about maternity clothes.

SPEAKER_02 10:01

I was actually complaining to Eric today about that. So back when I had Rowan, I could go to any store. Yeah, the routine. I could go to any store, Target Kohl's, you name it, whole maternity section of clothes. So I could try on, so I don't have to know if I fit or don't fit in it. I've looked everywhere for this baby, and I can't find anything. Nothing in store. So I've had to buy online, which it's okay to do that, but if I have to return it and all that stuff, and there's just nothing in person. So yeah, it's kind of funny.

SPEAKER_01 10:31

And this baby's big.

SPEAKER_02 10:32

She's already very big, so she's in the what? 80-something percentile at 20 weeks.

SPEAKER_01 10:38

So I got big babies. Pray for me.

SPEAKER_02 10:41

Pray for me.

SPEAKER_01 10:42

Anyway, we're so excited.

SPEAKER_02 10:44

Yeah. That's our life update. Girly pop.

SPEAKER_01 10:47

Girly pop. We are not ready for her room, is not ready at all.

SPEAKER_02 10:52

Oh, not at all. We are highly behind, but that's okay. Behind?

SPEAKER_01 10:57

For the third kid, I wonder. I I bet we're on time. You know.

SPEAKER_02 11:02

I'm going to be a beached whale in the summertime. Like, compared to how big I'm already getting, like, I'm gonna be literally shamu.

SPEAKER_01 11:10

Like no, I'm saying, like, I don't think we're behind with the nursery.

SPEAKER_02 11:14

I know, but I'm just saying for the kids.

SPEAKER_01 11:16

Every time like people have their third kid, they start to say, like, oh yeah, that comes together kind of quick.

SPEAKER_02 11:20

Yeah, well, I mean, we'll figure it out, like we always do.

SPEAKER_01 11:22

But his room is kind of our storage room.

SPEAKER_02 11:25

Leap that out.

SPEAKER_01 11:29

Um right now, her nursery is is our storage room, and we really don't have any storage, so we're gonna start throwing like kids' clothes up in the attic and pray that bats don't start eating Sam's old underwear.

SPEAKER_02 11:45

Yeah, it's gonna be it's gonna be real rough. That's okay.

SPEAKER_01 11:48

That's okay.

SPEAKER_02 11:49

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SPEAKER_01 11:52

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SPEAKER_01 13:31

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Survivor

SPEAKER_02 13:44

Honey, can I riff? So we're gonna talk about one of our favorite shows and one of those reality shows that would be so cool to be on, but also no thank you for me. We're talking about Survivor. Um I knew about Survivor before Eric. I watched a little bit of it, um, but I was not a fan. I am now a diehard fan, I'd say. Yeah, like I'm totally in it.

SPEAKER_01 14:10

I've watched, I think I've watched over 35 seasons of the 50, and I think you're close to like 12 at this point.

SPEAKER_02 14:16

Yeah, I think maybe even more. We have a spreadsheet, don't worry about this. Yeah, I created a spreadsheet. But yeah, it's our thing we watched together. We've been watching Survivor 50. Yeah. Woohoo!

SPEAKER_01 14:26

It's been good, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:27

It's been good. Um, we're obsessed. We have a bracket with my sister-in-law and brother-in-law for picks, except my brother-in-law, you know. He's too busy. Darn it, Tom.

SPEAKER_01 14:38

He's too busy for us.

SPEAKER_02 14:39

Yeah. But kind of like leading into it a little bit, um, how it'd be a show I could it'd be cool to be on, but not. Um, Eric would love to be on Survivor.

SPEAKER_01 14:48

I would love to be. I've tried to, I like haven't made a video. I have somebody who's willing to help me make a video, um, but I just haven't been able to make the like audition video to to do it. And um, I think I I would have a lot of fun being on it. I my pitch to be on Survivor would be something to the effect of like, hey, watch this guy suffer. You know what I mean? Because I'm the like, I need like ravioli every night. I need like I'd love to have some chicken ramen. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_02 15:20

The food part would be very hard for you.

SPEAKER_01 15:22

Bad. I mean, I'm a chunky monkey. That's like part of this whole thing. Um, she likes it. I'm I hope that I can live past 70, but um, so it's you know, it's like I I can see I I would have a ton of fun every single time they start a new scene, and they always start it by like showing a snake slithering around.

SPEAKER_02 15:45

See, that's it.

SPEAKER_01 15:46

My honey is always like, oh no.

SPEAKER_02 15:48

No, I'm like, oh hell no. Yeah, not messing with that.

SPEAKER_01 15:52

Yeah, she's she could talk real proper, you know, like she never lived in Crawford's oil. She'll be like, oh yes, this is a fun day in the life of being a pregnant redhead. And then she'll see us a snake on the TV. She'll be like, oh hell no.

SPEAKER_02 16:09

It's so true. I absolutely cannot with the wildlife situation then.

SPEAKER_01 16:14

It's pretty uh there's a lot. Anyway, I would love to be on Survivor because I feel like I would have fun with the challenges. Oh, I feel like I would be this like good blend of like honest, but yet like if you're gonna cross me, you're going home.

SPEAKER_02 16:26

Oh, yeah. You've got the attitude.

SPEAKER_01 16:28

What kind of player do you think I'd be?

SPEAKER_02 16:30

If I could make you a cup player, I think that you would get the viewer laughs like a Tony.

SPEAKER_00 16:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:36

Like just being crazy, like running around looking for idols and just like not caring what people think. You're just like gonna go for it. But I also see you being like very competitive. Um, maybe it's like an Aussie type situation, except not the last episode.

SPEAKER_01 16:50

But my problem is I feel like my butt would always be out. Like Tyson. You know what I mean? Like, thank God my crack would always be showing.

SPEAKER_02 16:58

Oh, it would have been so juicy.

SPEAKER_01 17:00

Oh my gosh. They wouldn't they wouldn't give you the like raw footage, honey.

SPEAKER_02 17:04

You would it wouldn't. I would be the one that visits you though. Like the boys and I would come and a little girly should be.

SPEAKER_01 17:16

Like for the family visit, like they'd be like, Jimmy, here's your here's your aunt Carol. Eric, here's your wife's boobies. And then you just like here I am. Yes, I would miss you, but I'd miss those girlies. Yeah, it's pretty ridiculous.

SPEAKER_02 17:39

But what's what's gonna hold you back from not doing survivors?

SPEAKER_01 17:42

Well, I mean, there's a lot of things. First off, I'm 35 at this point, so like you know, they don't let a lot of 40-year-olds on for first off. I feel like by the time I get through the process, I'd be something like 40. Um secondly, I've got diabetes. And I take like I take like a grip full of medicine every day for diabetes and depression and cholesterol and all this other stuff. That's why I'm saying, like, I don't think I'm making it past like 75. So get out of here. Uh oopsie have like, you know, a good 40 years of me.

SPEAKER_02 18:15

Okay, so we're gonna bleep that out again. No, we're not. That's funny. People at home are laughing. No, you said her name again.

SPEAKER_01 18:21

Oh, yeah. My bad.

SPEAKER_02 18:23

No, no, that's a funny keep saying her name.

SPEAKER_01 18:26

Um, yeah, I don't think they probably they probably don't let diabetes people diabetes. They have to do a strong medical check on everybody, and it's like they'd be like, no. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:35

Because can they take their medicines out there?

SPEAKER_01 18:37

I don't think so.

SPEAKER_02 18:38

Oh, then no.

SPEAKER_01 18:39

I don't because I think some because that one dude was kicked off for calcium or whatever you took.

SPEAKER_02 18:44

Oh, yeah. Zeke or whatever it was. It was something weird that he got in trouble for, but yeah, I don't yeah, I don't think he'd be able to make it bugging.

SPEAKER_01 18:51

He was like, he's like, no, I can do it. And then like three days in, he was like shaking and stuff.

SPEAKER_02 18:55

I think it was more than it was not calcium. It was like yeah, I think it was like an ADHD medication or something. Oh, really? Yeah, it was something way different.

SPEAKER_01 19:05

But yeah, I don't think they would they would let me on. So what would be the big whole hold up for you?

SPEAKER_02 19:10

Okay, so there's like many things. One, the wildlife, like the bugs, absolutely not. Like the spy they're showing all these kind of reptiles I don't even know existed. I don't know what they are.

SPEAKER_01 19:21

They sleep with their they sleep with their things over their ears so that bugs don't come in and get itchy thinking about it.

SPEAKER_02 19:26

Yeah, I'm I'm not sleeping. I got a bad back. I'm not gonna lay on that bamboo. Like the hammock better be ready for me, but then I'm gonna evolve off.

SPEAKER_01 19:34

I feel like you can't sleep on a hammock. Nobody sleeps on the hammock. Why? Because I think it just it it conforms to you too much.

SPEAKER_02 19:41

It's like I'd rather be up there away from them bugs trying to get in my ears.

SPEAKER_01 19:45

Yeah, but I think you would end up getting hurt.

SPEAKER_02 19:47

Okay, well, there so that's that. The third would be the hygiene. Like, don't even get me started. The fact I know there's a lot of people that we know that would be okay with like not showering for what let's say like 29 to 39 years.

SPEAKER_01 20:02

They stink. They stinky.

SPEAKER_02 20:04

Yeah, they're okay with the smelly cooch, but oops, they're okay with that stuff, and that's fine for them. But for me, I'm gonna flip out by day two that I don't get a shower, deodorant, shave. Like these these girls have these hairy, and you know what, women, I love my power of the females, and you can do everyone with your armpits. Like, if you don't want to shave them, that's fine. But I like to shave my armpits every day. Every day, every day I have to shave them.

SPEAKER_01 20:29

Like, we have to wait, like she wants to go to Target, and she says we should leave for Target. And I set a timer for my phone of like 55 minutes.

SPEAKER_02 20:39

Yeah, that's kind of like that. She's gotta like get everything ready.

SPEAKER_01 20:42

She gotta shave her armpits for Target where she's gonna wear a green shirt that covers her armpits.

SPEAKER_02 20:46

It just makes me feel better. So, yeah, the hygiene part is really rough. Like, they're wearing the same underwear for 30 something days and they're washing in the ocean. Absolutely not. So that the food would be real rough. Like, I don't like coconut, I think it's disgusting. Yeah. So what am I gonna eat? Or fish, you know?

SPEAKER_01 21:05

Like, you don't even really like fish. I like certain fish. They like fish, but like it has to be correctly seasoned.

SPEAKER_02 21:11

Yeah, and they're like cutting it right there in front of you. I don't want to see all that. Ugh.

SPEAKER_01 21:16

Yeah, I don't think you would do well.

SPEAKER_02 21:17

No, I wouldn't do all the challenges, would be fun, that's it.

SPEAKER_01 21:21

Yeah, I think you do well in the challenges. Well, who would I be?

SPEAKER_02 21:26

He's gonna be so mean on this one. I can feel it.

SPEAKER_01 21:29

I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 21:30

Oh, I wouldn't survive long. So someone who got cut out quickly.

SPEAKER_01 21:33

You almost you almost kind of remind me of like an Aubrey a little bit. Where I feel like I feel like you would be able to win a challenge or two. But for the most part, like nobody really looks at you as like somebody who's gonna wreck them in challenges. But you can betray someone who's about to wreck you. Like, as long as he's gonna hand you his game, you're gonna give it to him and you're gonna take it.

SPEAKER_02 21:53

I'm gonna have a lot of sass. I'm gonna pull a lot of sass there.

SPEAKER_01 21:56

Yeah. So anyway, I will definitely be doing a survivor. Tape and I will definitely be auditioning. And then when they accept me, my wife is not gonna let me go because you have to be away for like five weeks.

SPEAKER_02 22:08

Yeah, we're not doing that.

SPEAKER_01 22:10

And like recently, I was asked to do church camp for five days, and Honey was like, Honey, I don't want you to go because I I need cuddles.

SPEAKER_02 22:18

I didn't say don't go. I said the only drawback is I'll miss you.

SPEAKER_01 22:21

Which is hilarious because we have kids. You know, they also wouldn't see me. Well, I mean, we got the only drawback is that she won't see me.

SPEAKER_02 22:28

Well, yeah, we'll get it figured out with the kids. We always do. We've got to support access.

SPEAKER_01 22:37

But anyway.

SPEAKER_02 22:38

That's for another day.

SPEAKER_01 22:38

That's for another day.

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SPEAKER_01 22:42

All right. You hear that? That tiny metallic click. That's just not that's not just a toy. That's chemistry. That's what we have for Hot Wheels. Low profile, tight handling, curves that were clearly designed to make poor decisions. Some like them classic. Some like 'em exotic. Some spend all night hunting that rare one they just have to get on their hands on. No judgment. Maybe it starts with a cla casual lap around the track. Maybe twenty minutes later you're sweaty, fully invested in whispering one more run. It happens because Hot Wheels isn't about practicality. It's about desire. Speed. Control. The thrill of launching something beautiful at an irresponsible velocity.

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What was that about?

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Touch the orange track. You know you want to. Hot Wheels. Commit to the obsession.

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Oh, there's a track I want to touch.

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We did that one just for my dad. He's obsessed. Absolutely.

Rain

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Honey, can I riff?

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Permission to riff granted.

SPEAKER_01 24:18

Alright, so we live in Indiana. It's beautiful this time of year. I mean, we're sitting out here at a at a you know public park. Oh, it's gorgeous. It feels great. I I would like to be here no matter what. Like this date? No, like this park. This is a beautiful area. But here's the thing. Shut the door. Shut the door. Um why is it gotta rain so much? In the springtime. It's so wet. I'm not even talking about you. That's later. Um it's so rainy.

SPEAKER_02 24:59

It's like rain is does great things. We're not dogging on the rain in that aspect. We know we need it. But it's like it gets in the way of t ball, all these things we're trying to do. Yeah. Can you just chill?

SPEAKER_01 25:11

Like, so for the Indy 500, right? Indy 500 coming up next week.

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We'll probably get this episode out before you're gonna be Indy500 dad now.

SPEAKER_01 25:20

We gotta talk about that in a minute. Um, the Indy 500, we went to a practice yesterday. Was it yesterday? Friday. Friday. And uh it was we're walking around and it was it was pouring at the beginning of it. And poor buddy Rowan. He like he's like walking around in puddles and whatnot, and he's like, My sh my feet are wet. My feet are wet. And we go though the whole day, not really addressing his feet, not doing anything. And then we get in the car, and Rowan reminds us that his feet are wet. And mommy over here takes off his shoes, and oh my goodness, his feet are dripped, like his socks were soaking wet.

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I felt horrible. Like I could have cried.

SPEAKER_01 26:03

And it's funny because, like, you know, and I was like thinking in that moment, I was like, I've had lifetimes of having wet feet that I hate, you know, nobody elects a wet. But like, but like Rowan, he's only five, and he probably hasn't had this a lot. So he's trying to tell us like his feet are wet.

SPEAKER_02 26:19

He mentioned it once to me, like at the track, and that was it. And I was like, Well, buddy gotta stop, you know, stomping in the puddles so much, like just to stomp in the puddles. Yeah, and then he didn't mention it until we got in the car.

SPEAKER_01 26:29

I was gonna say, because my feet weren't that wet, and I know I was avoiding the puddles, but I was like, my feet really weren't that wet.

SPEAKER_02 26:34

No, mine weren't that bad.

SPEAKER_01 26:36

That's so funny. Wet feet, no more t ball. T ball's just like, dude, it's getting rescheduled left and right. Which I'm the coach again this year. We love T ball.

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Our boys are rocking it. They love Tall.

SPEAKER_01 26:47

And it's funny, did we talk? We talked about this last time, right? T ball. I think we talked about T-ball last time. Maybe you did a little bit. It's been fun, it's been really fun. I I will say this it was a little bit more fun when my kids were on the younger side. So like Rowan and Sam, it was like their first year last year. Um, and it was fun because like they were the worst of all the kids. You know what I mean? Like they were the ones that weren't paying attention, that were running around, not doing anything. And we had also just gotten married, so like they had a lot going on, you know. Um, and so whenever they did something stupid or silly, it was like excusable. It made sense, yeah. But like nowadays, they're the best ones on the field. Um, they're not the best ones. There is one kid. I'm not gonna say any of the kids' names out loud because there might be creepy people out there, but there's one kid that is like fantastic. Oh, he's really good. Yeah, it's funny because we're T-ball, no score, but I put him on first every time because I know that kid is gonna track that ball down.

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I'm already gets to the base as soon as he gets the ball, he's amazing.

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I'm already that coach that's like, no, he's great. Let's put him on first base. We need someone like the other kids are just errantly throwing it in the air, and and that kid will grab it and bring it up.

SPEAKER_02 27:58

Well, the other kids are in the playing with the rocks. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:02

Yeah, but he's not. So anyway, that's not one of our kids. I'd say he's the best, and then like all good. The rest of them are pretty good. Yeah, none of them are. Oh, we've been a really good team.

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We just have some younger kids, which was our kids last year, like we said. And yeah, I think it's harder because you are their coach, but you're not supposed to be their parent.

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Yeah.

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So it's hard.

SPEAKER_01 28:22

Yeah, and it's like I'll look at I'll look at Rowan every now and then and be like, dude, you know better. And the funny thing is he probably doesn't. You know what I mean? Like, like every now and then he'll like they'll hit the ball to him and he'll just like dive on the ground. And he loves diving on the ground instead of like uh just fielding it normally.

SPEAKER_02 28:40

He likes the the antics of it. He likes to go on the ground and be like a crazy catch, but and so we've had we've had a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_01 28:48

But yeah, our kids are are pretty good, and then and then the rest of the kids are pretty good too. Anyway, we have we've only I think we've this is like game seven coming up, and we've probably only played like three or four of them.

SPEAKER_02 28:58

Yeah, we're probably four. Five. No, we played like five now.

SPEAKER_01 29:02

Nine. And we've played five, because yeah, we've given out five balls.

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Yeah, it's he gives game balls to the each kiddo will get a game ball before the end of the season. There's also this year a very intense team.

SPEAKER_01 29:15

I we're supposed to play them yesterday, and my honey was happy that we did not.

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Yeah, we have to play him tomorrow, which sinks. But this coach, I kid you not, thinks he is like the minor leagues for these freaking T-ball kids. Like he is screaming at them. If they don't touch a base, they gotta go back and go touch it and then come back. I didn't see that. He's moving kids out of the way so his kids can touch.

SPEAKER_01 29:38

I did not see this, or I would have probably said something.

SPEAKER_02 29:41

Oh, I was saying things the whole entire time so that his other coaches could hear me. I'm like, this guy's ridiculous at this point.

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And it's funny because other coaches have actually said something about him too. So, like, I'll you know, you always go up to the other coach before the game, you're like, hey, we're all here to have fun, right? Yeah, yeah, you know. Um, we typically do two innings where it's like everyone bats through once, then you go out to the field, and then you go back and you bat through once, uh, you know, again, a second time, and then and then um you go out to the field.

SPEAKER_02 30:10

Which is plenty. Like the kids are ready.

SPEAKER_01 30:12

Especially for the kids. Like, I don't remember. I like part of me is like it's crazy because like I don't remember how youth baseball happened, but I feel like I never remember it going much more than an hour. But like we did five innings or whatever. I'm pretty sure we did like five or six innings, and I'm like, if we did it at our pace, it'd be like a four-hour game, and there's no way every time we played youth baseball as a four-hour commitment.

SPEAKER_02 30:35

They would need snacks, refreshments, a nap. But yeah, this guy's insane. Um, I made a lot of cracks at him because he was being ridiculous.

SPEAKER_01 30:44

The other coaches have too. That's kind of the funny thing, is like it gets real catty when you have like a set system to do things. And it's funny, they've canceled like five or six games, and we're like, why don't you just cancel the game against the muscles?

SPEAKER_02 30:57

Seriously, cancel it. We will be so happy with that.

SPEAKER_01 30:59

Yeah. The other parrot, the other parrots too, were like, What is going on? Why are we doing four innings? And I'm like, I don't know. This guy's how do you tell a guy no? You're just like, I don't care, dude. Well, he would have listened if you told him no. Like, there's no way he'd listen to anything anyone else would say. Well, that's the thing. Like, as a coach, like uh the best I could do is that get him in position and don't let him get hurt. Absolutely. Yeah, like I don't think they're actually gonna like learn anything. They might like learn how to run the bases or something, like or they might learn how to like connect with the baseball, but that's it. Like getting upset about anything else is just silly. Oh, he's screaming at him.

SPEAKER_02 31:35

Hit the bass! Hit the bass. We're actually you with the bass. Get out of here, man.

SPEAKER_01 31:42

Rain is tough though.

SPEAKER_02 31:44

It doesn't rain much in the fall.

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It doesn't rain much in the fall.

SPEAKER_02 31:48

No, it's mainly like as soon as like April hits. It just goes crazy for a couple months.

SPEAKER_01 31:54

Yeah, that's crazy. The Indy 500, they had to like re- they had to like do their qualifications today. It's crazy. Anyway, it's good, but it's also bad. It's funny because people always say it's good for your plants, but you and I have no plants. She wanted to have a garden, but then she got pregnant, and now we're not gonna have a garden.

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Yeah, that might not happen this year, but that's okay.

SPEAKER_01 32:19

What would you grow in your p in your garden?

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Oh, bell peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers. Bell peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, skinny, strawberries, berries. Oh yeah. I would love it. I'd probably kill all the plants though.

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So yeah, that and I think I think our boys would probably start ripping them out. Like, hey mom, look how this is growing. Oh, yeah. Oh, look, mom, it's it's it's almost a little berry. That's supposed to be a tomato, but it might grow sometime. Or they'll eat it in the back.

SPEAKER_02 32:47

Yeah, or they'll just eat it off of the vine and not tell us. Or yeah, we don't know what our dog would do.

SPEAKER_01 32:53

Then little little peanuts gonna go out there and oh, we have a little baby in the way. She's gonna own me.

SPEAKER_02 33:02

Oh, for sure. She's gonna run your whole world. I thought it was a little funny. Last little crack is that I got last little crack.

SPEAKER_01 33:09

We were coming up on time. Our our sponsors aren't paying much more for this.

SPEAKER_02 33:15

Anyways, most people, so the winter time hits. That's when we got pregnant. So I I went into winter with all our neighbors. I was just my normal self, and now I'm walking around the neighborhood. This big old belly.

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Yeah, our neighbors are saying something.

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Yeah, that's a horrible crack, but that's okay. That's where my brain goes.

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Yeah, I'm sure all the neighbors are just scoping us out on our on their ring cams. They might be placed as we'd have a bigger belly.

SPEAKER_02 33:39

I know what they did this winter.

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Oh, yeah, you can expect that. Just check the podcast. Anyway, on that note, we love you. Sorry that it's taken three months.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:50

But hey, we cracked nine episodes. Get out of here.

SPEAKER_02 33:53

Get out of here. We're professionals now.

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Oh, and all the graphics look different because I totally like wiped my computer and lost all the graphics. So I have to remake graphics after this. But we'll look more to it, but we'll we'll make something fun.

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Yeah, it's gonna be fun.

SPEAKER_01 34:07

Well, everyone, honey, I'll see you when we see you.

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I love you too.

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I love you, little girly. You want to say something for the show? There she went. Okay. Bye. Bye