You Can't Top That!

Carol and Stacy welcome listeners to “Start a List,” thank fan Lori Sharp, and discuss feeling discombobulated, exercising, and everyday aches. Their topic, “You Can’t Top That,” explores how celebrations and public behavior have become over the top, sparked by Carol’s lunch with her dad where an extremely animated waitress curtsied, made a hand-heart gesture, and said “okie dokie pokie,” and Stacy’s experience at a loud high school graduation featuring huge banners, screaming, and air horns despite rules. They compare simpler childhood parties to today’s elaborate birthday parties, school invitations drama, gender reveals, kindergarten “graduations,” expensive weddings, and even an extravagant “celebration of life” with a float and spinning casket. They also mention designer “poop purse” bags, share ideas for simpler parties, and ask listeners to share the podcast with 2–5 friends to grow subscribers.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:12

Hey everybody, welcome to Start a List with Carol and Stacy. I'm Stacy. And I'm Carol. And we're so excited to be here today.

SPEAKER_01 0:23

Yes. Thank y'all for tuning in. We want give a shout out. We got some fan mail this week from Lori Sharp. Thank you, Lori.

SPEAKER_00 0:33

Hey Lori. We used to work with her. She's a in case you didn't know you guys, you can go to our website on Buzz Sprout, and I think it's linked. I'll have to check and see if it's linked anywhere. But if you go to Buzz Sprout, we have a website and I know it's linked on YouTube. And you can leave us fan mail there.

SPEAKER_01 0:54

Yes, I was so excited. I was like, Lori. So thank you. Yeah, that was fun.

SPEAKER_00 1:01

Leave us a comment and you'll get a shout out.

SPEAKER_01 1:04

She suggested we do synchronized swimming and videotape it. And I thought, oh Lord, that would look like a couple of I'm not really sure if I could finish that sentence. So yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 1:16

Well, she must have been listening to the one where we were talking about me turning 55 and us joining the me saying I was gonna join and go to the pool and this and that. So um I've never tried synchronized swimming.

SPEAKER_01 1:30

That's funny. Uh it would be fun to film it though. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. So have you been, Miss Carroll? I've been good. I'm checking stuff off my list each day. I'm still cleaning out, still going through stuff, but I guess I'll be doing that the rest of my life. Yeah, yeah. I did a little bit of that. That's good. It feels good, but yep, still helping dad. He's about to get a new roof.

SPEAKER_00 1:58

And so yeah. I felt discombobulated this week. I don't know if it was the holiday, the long weekend. Perry was off um last Friday because we had to go to my nephew's graduation, and then we had he was off Monday, and then he was off Tuesday. And so the whole week felt wack-a-doodle for me. And then um I've been I had gone and worked out a couple times last week and I felt great, and then I didn't get to it this week. So I'm going to do that as soon as we get done um filming this today. Well, I mean, it's nothing too exciting, but something's better than nothing, I guess. It is.

SPEAKER_01 2:34

You're at least you're doing something. That's right. Uh you don't want to get you don't want to go crazy and go over the talk, do you?

SPEAKER_00 2:42

No, I don't think there's much uh too much chance of that. But I get I go over there and it's it's uh the community, Jimmy Floyd, whatever. And there's a lot of older people in there working out. I mean, they I'm like, you should be ashamed of yourself. They're just getting it. And I'm like, I gotta get on the grind, man. There, these uh people are showing me out. Deep knee bands, and I'm like, I can't get up out of this chater. It's funny you said that. My left knee has been hurting this week. I don't know if I've like tweaked it, I haven't done anything. If I pulled something, I don't know. So I'm like, of course, old people aches and pains.

SPEAKER_01 3:19

I don't know. Well, um, our topic this week, listeners, is called uh you can't top that. So it's we're gonna start a list about you can't top that. Yeah, we're we we actually did start a list about all the over-the-topness in the world. You sent me a text the other day. I sent her a text and I'm like, um start. Uh I said, number one, you know, I did the whole the thing we do, the list making. And I said, uh she said, Where are you? Because I told her what happened and I told her, and she said, Oh goodness, but I had taken dad out to uh lunch. He wanted some whatever fish or fish and chips, and so we went to eat, and it was really delicious, and our waitress was just as nice as she could be, super bubbly, uh, very animated, and but just just a sweet young girl. And uh but she I could tell she kind of maybe she won from Nashville, let's just put it that way. Right. And I couldn't tell where she was from. And of course my dad was like, Where where are you from? And she told us but she was delightful, but uh by the end of the meal, I had all I could take. I was just I was um she was very accommodating. But um at one point it was she kept curtsying, she would cur she would curtsy and but she would ask us a question, can I get you something else? And we'd say, Yeah, we'll take some extra tartar sauce or whatever it was. And she would curtsy and leave the table and go get it, which was that's fine. But I mean I mean it's interesting. It's interesting. And dad said, Why do you think she's uh bowing or curtsying? I said, I don't know. I said, I'm certainly not gonna ask because I knew he was gonna ask, but he didn't. Um and then at one point, um she said, Does everything taste good? And we were like, Yes, it's delicious. And she did the millennial uh hand heart sign, and dad dad looked so confused, he had no clue what that meant. And I he said, What was that? And I said, Oh, it means I love you or thank you, or whatever hurt you, you know, thank you. It's like a sign of appreciation, and then the next time she came through and uh I said, You know what? We're gonna take a piece of that apple pie to go. And she said, Okie dokie pokey, and we just that's my favorite right there.

SPEAKER_00 6:05

I'm putting that in my vocabulary, FYI. Okay, well, I'm gonna I'm gonna use it as well. I'm gonna start saying okie dokie pokey.

SPEAKER_01 6:14

I was just a little taken back, and um Dan said, She's very, very friendly. I said, I know, but anyway, that was it was a it was over the top, but it was grail, it was great until it became like it was time to go. Obnoxious, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:31

Well, that is you can't top that. You had the the tippity top curtsying. I did. I heart you waitress. No, I sure did.

SPEAKER_01 6:44

I don't know. We left her a big tip, and she was very good at her job. It was just I just didn't know whether to to bow back or to to to thank you, Madame. High five or what part her back, you should have been like and then I I almost like did my dimples like twisted my fingers like cheese or something. Definitely interesting. Yeah, I don't know. But anyway, it was it was fine.

SPEAKER_00 7:12

Well, we got to talking about Carol said about the um the how do you top that thing because I was I had gone to a high school graduation and I've been to a couple in the past three years because you know my niece and and Lewis graduated, and now my nephew has graduated from high school. And I called Carol and I'm like, I just don't get it. Like, you know, you go, everybody's excited, their kid is graduating high school, and I know for some families it's probably been a quite the journey or the struggle, you know, or maybe it is it's a huge. They might even be the first person in their family to graduate high school. So I'm all for celebrating your student, your child, whatever. But right, but I'm easily I'm easily overstimulated by loud noises. Like I told her the other day, I said, I think I'm gonna get some noise-canceling headphones and start wearing them out in public. And um, because I just get overly stimulated and my nervous system reacts poorly. That's because you're a senior. Yeah, well, and so I just don't handle things like that well. And so we get in there, and the there's a family in a few rows in front of us, and the kids are walking out, and all of a sudden they stand up and they've got this giant long banner, and it's got all these pictures on it. I guess it says congratulations, and they were it took three or four of them to hold it up. That's how long it was. So they're standing up with their banner, and then as there were different kit pictures on there. I was there was more than one family member, I guess. And every time that person would cross the stage, they'd hop up with their banner, you know, so that they could see it, and that's fine. It just that whatever. And then, but then there were air horns started. And I hate an air horn more. And I think it's fine you want to cheer for your person. Well, the people behind us screamed so loud, I literally stuck my finger in my ear. It was just a reaction, and I'm like, I don't care if they saw that because I was like, My gosh, y'all, like, you know, no, yay, yeah, they were like, like they won something really exciting. And I was just oh, I don't know. So that got us talking about like just over the top, like the air horns, the colours, the I mean, we've all been doing sporting events where they blow the air horns and all of that, and that's fine.

SPEAKER_01 9:42

And yeah, it's fun to celebrate, but I guess the thing is you're you know, you're blocking people behind you. You know how people stand up at a sporting event. Yeah, and and there are there's not a rule, you know. If you're if you're in a football stadium and people are standing in front of you, you have to stand up to see.

SPEAKER_00 10:02

I guess for me, like you I mean, I'm certain if you've brought a banner, you have scheduled a party to celebrate your student, right? So, like, I'm not a hundred percent sure why the banner had to come to the the state, you know, the arena. A really why did the air horns have to make an appearance? You know, I don't it said in the rules, like you couldn't bring noisemakers and stuff like that. I mean, I know, but we had to take clear bags this time, like we were going to a concert. So I'm not sure how they got the air horn in, but they because they looked in my little clear bag. But, anyways, it's it's fine. Celebrate how you want, but that just got us talking about how extra things have become now.

SPEAKER_01 10:47

There's a yes in different parts of the of celebrations.

SPEAKER_00 10:53

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 10:54

Uh there's a there's a air horn. I don't even know what you call it. I call it a it's like a tractor or a semi-truck horn, and it it's a looks like a speaker horn, and you just blow through it or pull the button, and it is loud.

SPEAKER_00 11:14

I've seen those has like three or four little horns on it or something. Right, right.

SPEAKER_01 11:19

And I'm thinking, why would you need that?

SPEAKER_00 11:24

Well, I mean, I think that I have definitely been guilty of um being over the top for certain things by all means. And I love to, I do love to throw a good celebration at a party, so I don't fault anybody for that.

SPEAKER_01 11:39

Um, no, but are you are you having the helicopter land on your neighbor's home? No, you haven't. I haven't done that yet. I'm just saying, if you're you know, because people do things like that. You're not affecting other people when you're going over the top with your celebration.

SPEAKER_00 11:58

Well, like think back when you were kids. So, of course, that means times are different. I get it. You know, we I had little birthday parties, but that it was just a homegrown birthday party. People came over. We probably only had cake and ice cream. And we played pin the tail on the donkey. My mom, we always had this game, and she put a big mason jar, and you would stand up and try to drop clothespins into it to see who could get who could get the most clothespins in there. Um, you know, we weren't um, I think I had one slower party and that was it, because those are difficult as a young girl.

SPEAKER_01 12:33

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:34

But now, you know, and I mean we've been guilty of it too with Lewis when he was growing up. You know, now you've got the the party places. I mean, the bounce houses, the do you remember? This makes me think of this, and I know you were there when this happened. Speaking of over the top and birthdays, one year, this has been many, many, many years ago. Like we only had one building, and there was a kid who got a big thing. I already know what you're about to say in the afternoon in a hot pink limousine. Do you remember that? No, it was a Barbie Hummer. Okay, yeah, but it was hot pink. That's all I remember. It rolled up to school and picked up a gaggle of girls, didn't it?

SPEAKER_01 13:18

It did. And we uh those of us that were on bus duty or car duty were just standing there with our jaws open going, Alrighty then. And I mean, again, that's their business, it's none of our business. I guess they bring it to school.

SPEAKER_00 13:33

You want people to see it, it's kind of performative, like kind of, yeah, kind of, but I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 13:40

It was kind of pitiful because it was sitting there and like the like you said, this group of girls go to get on it, and all the other kids are sitting on the school bus looking out the window.

SPEAKER_00 13:52

Yeah, or kids that weren't included, you know. It was just it. I remember that. I was like, now that is ridiculous, that's too much.

SPEAKER_01 13:59

It was over the top for sure. But you know, bad decisions make good stories, so we hadn't talked about that one.

SPEAKER_00 14:08

It just hit me the other day uh after we decided to do this. I was like, I wonder if she's gonna remember the hot pink limo that pulled up at store.

SPEAKER_01 14:14

Well, and we've all again, we've all made bad decisions or whatever. We've all done it. I mean, you know, I've had the uh I bought the bounce house because it was cheaper to buy. Oh, I remember you did. I did. I bought a bounce house, it was in our living room for a while. We moved the furniture, and I thought, you know what, y'all just jump your guts out before you kill me. And they did. They jumped and jumped and jumped, and it was love. I mean, it was wonderful. Um, it was a great decision at at that time, you know.

SPEAKER_00 14:48

We came to well, when Lewis was little, I had a sort of a every other year friend party rule that I don't even remember like purposely doing this. Like I didn't plan it out, it just sort of kind of naturally happened that way. Every year we had a family get together, no matter what, you know, with the grandparents and aunts and uncles and whatever. And then I remember when he turned three, I invited a bunch of his little friends from the daycare over and they just played, you know, it wasn't really a party. And then when he turned five, now I am guilty of this. I had a I hired the balloon guy who is a former student of mine, because turning five, that's a big deal. And then at seven, we did the pump it up because everybody had to have a birthday party to pump it up.

SPEAKER_01 15:34

If you don't know about pump it up listeners, it's just was an indoor jumpy place. Yeah, it's not there anymore, but it had a ball pit and a slide and a like a jousting diamond wall thing, yeah. Yeah, and a jousting thing, and that was where all the middle schoolers went.

SPEAKER_00 15:52

I don't recall doing anything else big, and I could be wrong, until he turned 13. Because that's a big deal. And we had some guys over, and yeah, and then when he turned 16, he just went and played airsoft with some of his buddies. But like there are people that every single year have these elaborate parties with I mean, the beauty bus will pull up, and your seven-year-old can get a facial or what. Oh god, I think that's a real thing.

SPEAKER_01 16:23

And no, it is, and it reminds me of those giant dresses you get when you turn what is it? A quinceidera, a 15 yes, and you I mean, they're be it's wonderful and beautiful, and that's fine if if that's what you want to do. But it is, and that's great, but the dresses just keep getting longer and wider and bigger. I think they uh I saw something on TV, one of them had you know fish swimming between, you know, like it had water in it, and it had live fish swimming in it. And I'm interesting.

SPEAKER_00 17:03

Did you ever have anybody at school, like a parent, show up with a quote unquote birthday party at school for their kid? Yes, and then until they cut them out because yeah, because it I mean, like I've had one show up more than once with a full sheet cake. And this was before, of course, you know, we couldn't have that kind of stuff. But and I remember being like, this we were at school. Um but they were like, well, we're gonna have a free birthday party, and they would bring a whole cake in, not cupcakes. I'm talking a cake we had to cut.

SPEAKER_01 17:38

Now, as a child, yeah, and like I didn't have paper plates lying around in my half the time we took those scratchy old brown paper towels and slapped a piece of cake on it. But when I was little, you were talking about being little and not doing very much. Literally, my parents would send donuts to school for my classmates, and that was it. That would be like so, I like that, but that was a big deal back then, yeah, because we didn't just buy donuts every two days, and then I remember when I turned five, we had a dress up party, or I did, and I had four little friends from pre-K come over because we were heading to kindergarten, and they were neighborhood friends. We all dressed as our mothers, and I have a picture of it. I I found it not too long ago, and we're all just sitting there like and I vividly remember I took a Kleenex and put it in my mother's high heels and the toes. Oh, you wear all her high heels, yeah. And we got fun. Yeah, we put on lipstick and that blue Maybelline eyeshadow. It was lovely.

SPEAKER_00 18:51

My sister, I thought she always did a really good job of uh parties for her birthday parties for kids because she did a lot of it. Like one year, my niece just wanted, I mean, she was little, she just wanted to have a neon party, and so they I feel like they had, of course, they had you know, glow sticks. I feel like we put like neon, I don't know if we decorated shirt, and that's so fun. And one year my nephew had um, he loved sports, obviously, and he had it was the year of the Olympics, they had an Olympic party, and she did different things for that. I was like, Well, that's fun and creative, and um that does, yeah, but anyways, we were just talking about how different things have become as far as I think it starts, you know, at birth.

SPEAKER_01 19:38

So you're you're born, and that is a wonderful miracle, huge celebration. Um, but I don't need a blow-up stork on the top of my house to let me know. You don't know, okay. To let the world know that hey, I just had a baby or whatever. Um, you know, my dad was like, why don't why don't the guys ever give out cigars anymore? And I don't know if that's coming back or if it just died out or whatever, but I always liked the little uh bubble gun cigars they would give out.

SPEAKER_00 20:15

Some people well no, because now Carol, they have gender reveal parties. See talk about something else over the top.

SPEAKER_01 20:26

This is why this is what I'm talking about. So then you're born. Well, before you're born, you you gotta party. Let the world know I'm coming and I'm gonna be this, and then you shot off smoke bombs, fireworks, uh yeah, whatever. But cut the cake open, which it is cute.

SPEAKER_00 20:47

Do you think a lot of this got started because of the pressures from social media and Instagram?

SPEAKER_01 20:53

Everybody wants everything to look and listen, I I think I like looking at it, and absolutely, and I'm guilty of well, have the ideas I still like them offline, but but it is just super reveal parties. But then you go from that to uh you graduate from kindergarten, and that's a big deal.

SPEAKER_00 21:14

Which you don't graduate from kindergarten. I don't I hate what you don't don't call it a graduate. You ain't graduated, you just started. I know graduated from anything.

SPEAKER_01 21:23

We saw uh TikTok the other day, and I sent it to Stacy and I said, Look at this. Oh yeah. Literally, the parents had reserved the front row for the grandparents and the kindergarten guys, kindergarten. And they got there early, and they had, you know, the well, here somebody came out of the corner of the screen, starts ripping hair, they are full on in the floor, fist fighting.

SPEAKER_00 21:52

It's it was all over social fighting over kindergarten.

SPEAKER_01 22:00

This is no, we're we're gonna have a discussion about this. It's ridiculous. It was. I'm like, holy moly. From that, then you then you had you know sports events, dance recitals, all of that. You have yeah, piano recital. I mean, those are all those seem fairly calm, but I don't know. I guess they can be over the top. But uh, I did see it where a kid, and kudos to him, he graduated with I don't know how many he had ri he was it was hunk hunkered over. He had so many ribbons and cords and honors. He had gotten over eight hundred thousand dollars in scholarships. Oh wow, good for him. And I was like, Yeah, good for him. I just seemed excessive. I don't know. I mean darn you. I'm all for education, but dang, he took it right on over the top there. Well, then you know, you go to like I said, it starts at birth, and then you then you get to middle school and you graduate from middle fifth grade, and then you go to middle school, then you have the high school graduation. That's over the top. How do you what do you do? How do you finally talk about it?

SPEAKER_00 23:16

That's why people are having you know, weddings that cost $50,000, $60,000 these days, you know, because they've got to have all the things. I yeah. Um I don't know. I mean, I do like it to an extent. I do like it. I love a theme. I love a I love having a party and I love celebrating somebody. I want to try to keep it somewhat, you know, reined in. Like what, you know, I mean, I don't know. Like, I'm just trying to think.

SPEAKER_01 23:47

Well, you'd rather the ponies not be used in the bathroom in your den, right?

SPEAKER_00 23:53

I can say we never had live animals um at a party. Uh but yeah, I don't know. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 24:01

I don't know how they top it because then after the after the high school, then you have the college graduation, then the wedding, and then the baby showers. And then I saw recently, I sent it to you, Stacy. This poor woman had passed. They were, and it it was, it was a if I've ever in my life seen a celebration of life, this was it. They had a marching band, they had the woman on a float like it was homecoming. And they were and they're, you know, playing the instruments and cheering and doing the casket was spinning on the float. And I literally was like, I cannot believe what I'm seeing. And that it was blamed out, it was beautiful, all the things. Um I said, I and the guy was commenting, he goes, I'm not real sure if he said it looks like they're having a good time, but I think her their grandmom is in there doing this, like she kept hitting her head against the side of the casket because it was spinning. But I've never in my entire spinning.

SPEAKER_00 25:13

Oh, that's funny. Well, back to birthday parties, I want to, I've got a story, and it's not so much over the top. Well, it ended up over the top because um if any of my oh my if my kindergarten friends are teacher friends are listening, they're gonna know what I'm talking about. But two years before I retired, we politely asked every year at the beginning of the year in kindergarten that if you were going to have a birthday party, we requested that you either A send invitations for everybody in the class, or if it's a boy, only invite the boys, and if it's a girl, only invite the girls. Just because nobody likes not getting handed an invitation when somebody's passing them out, right? And so, um, and every year somebody didn't follow the rules. And if if the parents sent invitations and they had names on them, I would discreetly put them in the kids' folders and tell them not to take them out until they got home. Because they wouldn't have, I typically wouldn't send them back if they had them labeled. But one year I had a student and he handed me some invitations. Number one, they were just printed photos that somebody had made with an invitation on it. It didn't have an envelope, it didn't have anybody's names on it, and there weren't enough for everybody. So I said nicely to him, you know, honey, I can't give these out. I don't have enough for everybody. There's no names on them. If you want to take them home, put names on them, send them back. I did not reach out to the parent because we had had several issues that I was keeping my communication with this parent strictly school related. I'm not a birthday party planner. Yeah, she works. It's not my job. So I told him that. Well, anyways, I never got the invitations back, and then about a week later, I get this scathing email and she's mad because she didn't know they were in the bottom of his backpack and the party was the next day, and now people weren't gonna get them, and blah, blah, blah. So I said, Well, send them back. And they had sort of scribbled some names on the back, and then because they were a photo, it had smeared, I couldn't read half of them. The reason I'm telling you this is this woman had put her TikTok handle on this invitation, and it was going to be held at one of these trampoline places, and the attendees had to pay to get in. Probably 25 bucks. Now, I've never been to a birthday party that somebody was hosting at a location where I had to pay my for my kid to go do it, right? Like if we hosted a birthday party somewhere, we paid it. So if you're going to have an over-the-top party and you're gonna host something, here's a little friendly tip don't charge people.

SPEAKER_01 28:10

Well, you know what though, since we're talking about going over the top, maybe that's what we should do. Start trending that. And so, all right, we're having it like my grandson's about to start turn two in October. I'm gonna say, Okay, we're having a birthday party. I need everybody to bring $80 worth of pizza. I want you to bring $80 worth of pizza. I'll just start well, I won't come then. Well, then you won't see my grandson turn two, will you?

SPEAKER_00 28:39

It just we're I was like, that is so weird. I've never heard of that in my life. It's a ever it really puts people in a bad position. Well, I think that this lady couldn't stand me at all.

SPEAKER_01 28:54

And it's fine that my feelings were not hurt, but um well, that'll lead me to one other thing I saw this week being over the top. I don't know why it popped up or why I was looking at it. I was looking for something on Amazon. Well, this pop oh, I know why. I was looking for a dog leash to put on the wall, a let out leash, so my dad could hook his dog while he's standing up so he could hold his cane where the dog won't knock him down. Well, I ended up tying it with a bungee cord and got the same result. But anyway, and this these designer poop bags came. Designer, do I need some? They were they were it was very cute. You would I I they did not come in pink. They were it was leather and it had the cute little handle, and you clip it on the whatever while you're walking your dog, but like after you, you know, you pull out the side and tie up the little treasure, then you can put it in the little purpose.

SPEAKER_00 30:02

It was I was like, Are you kidding me? Well, I guess you got to get it back to a location where you can dump it.

SPEAKER_01 30:08

Well, you don't want it all over your hand, it was very cute. That's funny. I don't have one of those for my dog. I know. So I guess the theme of today is keep it simple, people. Let's let's calm it down. My goodness. Calm down. Y'all calm down. Like, no more blow up. Uh I don't even know what. Oh, I saw today. I was at work and I saw it said, and which I I'm sorry, this was cute, but it said, happy or congratulations, you're a big deal, you know. And it was a giant dill pickle. And I thought, okay, now that's cute. What was that on?

SPEAKER_00 30:51

It was on a balloon. Oh, on a balloon, that's funny. Yeah. Speaking of birthday parties, really quick before we go, has um Ginger planned his second birthday party and is it going to be over the top?

SPEAKER_01 31:03

Not planned it yet, but it's sports themed, I believe. And no, we're gonna have it in my basement. Okay, like that. That's the that's the plan right now, because I have a kind of open concept basement. Gonna cut just have family and I don't know, a couple of cousins, and that's gonna be it. Fine. And hopefully, if it's warm enough, they can do like a water table or something. Yeah. Just because I mean, two-year-olds don't do much. They don't do much, yeah. He sat in this high chair when he turned one and just looked around like he was in a state of shock.

SPEAKER_00 31:44

My brother-in-law has uh owns a business and it's called um 615 Sports Training in Mount Juliet, and he does you can do birthday parties there. Yes. And has Will ever worked any of the birthday parties? He works, he works a lot of them. In fact, he's working them this summer. Well, he keeps they stay booked up because it is a bargain for the price. And the kids love it. The kids love it, and they go in there, and the parents have to do absolutely nothing. And he will provide plates, he sets up table, and then he's got young kids there that run the party, and the kids are doing what different sports things, and then they kids with a big um dodgeball game.

SPEAKER_01 32:28

Yeah, they do dodgeball and they do yeah, I I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 32:33

Whatever it's a bargain for what you get, and I I told him it's like you're gonna have to up your price because you're a you're a good bargain in town. But yeah, they he states sorry, UPS is pulling in. What have I ordered? Oh, maybe a food purse. I haven't ordered anything, it might be her dog food. Um, but yeah, so anyways, I thought Will did work some of those parties sometimes. He does, and he he loves it. But I have a friend and she has birthday parties there, she'll do the baseball team parties there because you literally show up with your cake, you can have pizza, whatever. And um, and then you just wait till it's over. You have to do absolutely nothing that everybody takes care of it. That's my kind of birthday party.

SPEAKER_01 33:15

See, that's what I'm talking about, people. Now we have a favor to ask all of our listeners. Yep. Stacey, you want to tell them about we have a we're having a contest with ourselves that we're trying to go ahead and try them. Well, we want to ask all of our listeners to please just pick two between two and five of your of your friends to share our podcast with. So we're trying to come, we're trying to uh beat our record of subscribers. So yes, I thought if you if all of you could just share it with at least two of your contacts or more, I we would appreciate links to all of our sh podcasts on Apple, Spotify, and also YouTube.

SPEAKER_00 34:04

Um, and I post links to them every week on my Instagram. And um if y'all see that in the stories, if you want to share it, you have to be following me or Carol because I'll tag her, but um, and share it to your Instagram or your Facebook. We're just trying to get some word out, and our goal is to try to start getting some more followers, some more listeners. I mean, yes, we'd love some more listeners because we get a lot of feedback that people I have a friend, as a matter of fact, that was listening. She was like behind listening, so she was getting caught up, and I just got a text out of the blue, and she's like, they still make the orange popsicles and they're still cardboard because we talked about the the push-ups because we buy them at Mike's Foodland, they're 99 cents. And so that made me laugh. So we laugh. It's fun to hear stuff like that, and we try to just be relatable. I mean, so we would yeah, we would love it if you would share it. I love that, Carol. Two to five, just two to five friends, just between two and five.

SPEAKER_01 35:14

Now, if you would like to go over the top and share with 10 of your friends, we're not gonna be mad. That you can be over the top about, okay? Yes, yes, and we won't talk about it. All right, I love talking with you today, Carol. I love talking with you and appreciate all the listeners. Remember, don't make a fist. Start on a fist. All right, see you next time.