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SPEAKER_02 0:00

All right, welcome to another episode of Absolutely Not, another podcast. This is presented by Forever and More event planning. Use code Bride10 at checkout to save 10% off the top-tier 12-month planning pass. Kessie, we are in mid-July. It has been steaming hot.

SPEAKER_00 0:20

Steaming hot is the understatement of the year.

SPEAKER_02 0:23

We were down in Deep Creek the week before the 4th of July. Excellent time, but we were out on a boat for three hours. And if I would have been out on a boat for three hours in one minute, I could have been a dinner dish. Yes. I was toasty.

SPEAKER_00 0:38

I was gonna say everybody was very crispy on the boat. I feel like I fared the best because I was covered in like kid sunscreen and I was in the shade a lot. So I was fine. Everybody else was not looking good.

SPEAKER_02 0:50

Not well. Like I was wearing a tank top and I would take it off periodically. Like if we were jumping in the water, or if I realized, oh, I'm like, I want to even out a little bit. I saw myself in the mirror once we got back to the cabin, and it looked like I was still wearing a tank top when I took off my tank top.

SPEAKER_00 1:10

Yeah. But your sister, she was like lobster, the red lobster.

SPEAKER_02 1:14

Like spicy, very shiny, shiny red. It was bad. It was very bad.

SPEAKER_01 1:19

Shout out Allison.

SPEAKER_02 1:20

She was like, she was like, oh my gosh, it's pretty bad. And she acted like it wasn't bad at all. Like, no, like you gotta get yourself checked. Thankfully, the weather has gone down this past week. Yeah. And I'm not like in the sun as much. But now, in the next week and a half for myself, a little bit for you. I have I have two trips back to back. First trip I have is probably in the first episode I mentioned it of a bachelor party. It's finally happening. It's in Gatlinburg. Good luck. I am in my mid-30s. I don't know how many more I have in me. We're gonna I know I have at least two more to attend. Because I have a really close friend from college, really close friend from uh Belvern, and where I grew up, also from Slipper Rock University as well. That those two, one one of them is happening at the end of this year in Scottsdale.

SPEAKER_00 2:16

I might be attending.

SPEAKER_02 2:17

Might be attending.

SPEAKER_00 2:18

I hope I can go.

SPEAKER_02 2:19

Okay. Well, as at the Bachelor Party or the Bachelorette?

SPEAKER_00 2:23

Bachelorette. I got invited to the Bachelor Party.

unknown 2:25

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 2:25

And then the other one I'm getting it's probably gonna happen either next year or the year after. But the one that's in Scottsdale, this is my only like I'm gonna have a great time. I am an avid Pittsburgh Steelers fan. And on that Sunday, the whole reason why it's happening this particular weekend is because the Eagles, most of the people are from Philly, Eagles fans, are playing the Cardinals in Arizona. So we're doing a tailgate, we're going to the game. The Steelers play a night game that night, and I might have to miss it at home against the Texans.

SPEAKER_00 3:00

You're gonna be one of those people in the stands with like your phone out, just like the good thing is the as of right now, it's not at the same time.

SPEAKER_02 3:08

Okay. The Eagles, Cardinals play earlier, Steelers, Texans play at night, the night game.

SPEAKER_01 3:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 3:14

Yeah. But the again, Gatlinburg's happening this weekend. We schedule, we'll get in midday on the Thursday.

SPEAKER_00 3:24

This is the longest bachelor party I ever heard of.

SPEAKER_02 3:26

Yeah. It's a really nice place. That has an 18 like foot-long jacuzzi. It has the big duck hunter or big buck hunter game, a bunch of arcade games. My mission is to beat the high score of the Miss Pac-Man. Okay. That's there. We set up golf on the Friday morning and 8:04, 8:11, and 8:20 tea time, give or take. I think it's like seven or eight minutes difference. Call time. Call time.

SPEAKER_00 3:52

I'm like, that's not it.

SPEAKER_02 3:53

Call time. Tea time. Tea time. But at eight o'clock. We're getting in on Thursday. I know I'm probably not gonna be going to bed at like a reasonable time. I'm gonna have to be chugging energy drinks.

SPEAKER_00 4:06

It's gonna be an early.

unknown 4:07

Early.

SPEAKER_02 4:08

Early kickoff. And then we're there Thursday drive driving an eight and a half hour drive. Sunday, eight and a half hours back home. The following day, we got a 13 and a half hour. 13 and a half hour drive with our kids to the Ozarks. Branson.

SPEAKER_00 4:26

Can't wait for that drive.

SPEAKER_02 4:27

Family reunion. So we get to spend time with your side of the family, some of which we see frequently. There's others that we haven't seen since the last reunion or since a wedding has happened.

SPEAKER_01 4:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:38

So it'll be exciting to kind of get everyone together and wear our matching t-shirts one of the days. Go to a there's an amusement park.

SPEAKER_00 4:45

I designed the t-shirts and I couldn't tell you what they look like. I don't even know. I forgot.

SPEAKER_02 4:50

It wasn't until this past week that I didn't even know the name of the place that we were staying at.

SPEAKER_00 4:54

I shared it with you.

SPEAKER_02 4:55

I know, but I just didn't Google it. I assumed it was a good spot. So I'm excited.

SPEAKER_00 5:00

We'll do a resort review when we get back.

SPEAKER_02 5:02

Yeah. There is no gym, but it's all outdoor fitness stuff. So like kayak, paddleboard. There's gonna be there's every daily sand volleyball tournaments.

SPEAKER_00 5:13

I'm gonna be honest, I'm never working out on vacation.

SPEAKER_02 5:15

Most of the time, I'm like I try to get at least one.

SPEAKER_00 5:18

You'll probably go on a run or something.

SPEAKER_02 5:19

You're pretty fit.

SPEAKER_00 5:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 5:21

Probably not.

SPEAKER_00 5:22

You'll play in the uh putt-putt tournament.

SPEAKER_02 5:24

Yeah. And finish probably last. My son will probably beat me. But other than that, yeah, it's been hot. It's been fun. We've been busy. And halfway through summer.

SPEAKER_00 5:36

Halfway through summer. It's flying by. Um, our story today is kind of crazy because it's our first story submission with that's not wedding related. We've been telling people sending your stories, which we have gotten quite a few that are not wedding related, but this one has was one of the first ones that came in, so we're gonna dive in. Let's talk about how 23andMe gave me the worst and best birthday gift of my life. When I was 26, freshly married, my husband gifted me a 23andMe kit for my birthday. I had been curious about my genealogy and had tons of friends doing it, so I did it too. My hope was to find long-distance cousins or family in hopes to reconnect with them. I thought it would be a fun adventure. My family had moved states away from everyone when I was about four, and I really only knew my mom's family. My dad mentioned his family, but rarely, and we never ever saw them. The week after my birthday, I was at my parents' house and I was telling them how excited I was, and my mom showed genuine interest, but my dad was not happy about it. Pissed would be the word I would use. I explained that everybody was doing it, and I encouraged him and my mom to get one too, and he shut that down fast. I do remember when everyone was doing 23andMe. It was like a fad.

SPEAKER_02 6:46

Everybody was like, There's other like versions of it as well. I never signed up. Is there a cost?

SPEAKER_00 6:51

I'm pretty sure there's a cost, and I'm pretty sure there was like a big court case, like they went down, like 23andMe isn't even a thing anymore.

SPEAKER_02 6:58

How accurate is it? Like, is it based off of who has already done it or bas I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 7:04

I think you could get your you it's based off of who like participates in it. So there's like a lot of people that put their DNA into this system, and then you can find out if you have a relation to other people. But I remember there it was like they sold everybody's data and like it was it was messy. Yeah, I don't know when. I wasn't in it, so I was like, oh.

SPEAKER_02 7:23

My grandparents on my dad's side, they had this booklet. I don't know if my parents still have it or not, but growing up, I knew my lineage to a certain point. I don't know it anymore. I remember looking at it and like being fascinated with it as like a 10-year-old kid.

SPEAKER_00 7:38

Yeah. And you do your family tree in school, like it's like a you learn a lot about it.

SPEAKER_02 7:42

Sometimes I'll even Google search like the meaning of our last name and where does it originate from? Like the World Cup was just happening. So I'm like, ooh, if America gets eliminated, is there a team that I have a background in? I don't, they're all out, they're all of them out. Everybody's out. But I like when you search it, it takes you to sites similar to 23andMe. And it does give you people that are deceased or alive still that might have been related to you. But I think if you start filling things out, that's when it starts to say, I need some credit card information.

SPEAKER_00 8:14

I think you have to pay for it. I also think it's based on who participates because how would they have you in the system if you didn't participate? So this person's very excited about it, telling their parents, mom's like, cool, dad's like, absolutely not. He told me things were a joke and it's such a waste of time and money. And if I was smart, I would just throw it in the trash and move on with my life. Looking back on it, I should have seen some red flags about his reaction, but it makes sense due to the results I got. In the moment, I chalked it up to my dad being strict and old school and not wanting to have a relationship with his family, and I was fine with that. I submitted my kit and I could see some family members on my profile from my mom's family that were already in the database. Things went stagnant for a while, and then one day I randomly checked my profile and I noticed I had a message. I clicked the bell notification and it said I had a new match. I don't know how this thing works, so I guess you just get alerts. They swiped right. Yeah, they swiped right. I don't know. It said 25% match, which was odd to me. I thought it must be a mistake, so I logged out. I quickly logged back in and it was still sitting there. I had a 25% match with an Ava. I'm an only child, so it took me a minute to register how Ava would be related to me so closely. Her age was 24, two years younger than me. Would that mean she is a sibling or a cousin? I looked it up and yes, it is a sibling, a half sibling. I was shocked to say the least. There was no way my parents are happily married, and this had to be a mistake. I'm 26 years old and she's 24, so it didn't make any sense to me. I sat on it for a few days, but my husband could see something was bugging me, and I spilled the beans. He was shocked as well, and he encouraged me to connect further with her, which I did. At first we messaged each other in the app. I let her know I wasn't sure it was the right thing to dig further and reach out, but I couldn't help myself. She responded pretty quickly, saying she felt the same. She had been staring at my profile for two days and was relieved that I made the first contact. We then started texting outside of the app, learning that we had the same dad. That's right, we shared a father. We agreed to meet up at a coffee shop to just talk and see if we wanted to continue getting to know each other and figure out how to move forward. I feel like that would be such a shock to find out, like middle of your life. Yeah. Like I have a sibling.

SPEAKER_02 10:30

Yeah. And the sibling probably doesn't know her father. Right. And was using that 23andMe to source out maybe I can find either family or dad that's on that side. Crazy. I'm pretty sure. I'm not gonna out a person that I know that did that. I don't know if they want it shared. This is very similar to someone I know that did this and found out that they were they had siblings.

SPEAKER_00 10:52

Yes, and further in adulthood, too.

SPEAKER_02 10:54

Yeah, very good.

SPEAKER_00 10:54

That was a crazy story that they were telling us.

SPEAKER_02 10:56

I was like on the edge of my seat. They all met, they all got along. They had like a lot of cool similarities, but yeah.

unknown 11:03

Crazy.

SPEAKER_00 11:04

They had like an added layer too that this one does not have.

SPEAKER_02 11:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:07

Yes, I know who you're talking about. Before meeting her in the coffee shop, I decided I was going to confront my parents about what I found on 23andMe. My mom was in denial, stating, oh, it must be a problem with the system, and very confused why I would have such a close match on there. And my dad agreed with her. But then he went even harder into it, basically screaming at me. He told me that those things are so inaccurate and it was impossible to have a sibling. He was a devoted father, and there was no way the DNA DNA database was correct. How could she have another sibling? I knew then and there that he was the father of Ava 100%, because I never once mentioned if the shared DNA came from my mom or my dad. But my dad was so defensive about the whole thing. I could see my mom putting the pieces together and realizing that he must have a child with someone else because she only gave birth to me. She only has one child.

SPEAKER_02 11:56

Maybe like before you end the story, I'm just maybe he was a sperm donor.

unknown 12:03

No.

SPEAKER_00 12:04

Spoiler alert, no. The truth's about to come out. Two weeks from that conversation, I met up with Ava in that coffee shop. She lived about three hours away, so we met in the middle. When I walked in, I knew it was her because we looked so similar, both of us sporting our dad's jeans, dark hair, olive skin, buttoned nose, and a big bright and warm smile. As weird as this encounter was, we greeted each other with a hug, and we sat and we talked for hours at this coffee shop. Her mom had told her that her father had passed away in a car crash and never shared his real name. I brought pictures of my dad, which I think might have been a bit overwhelming. It probably hurt to find out that your dad was actually alive the whole time and just living a happy life three hours away with a different daughter and a wife. I asked Ava if I could speak to her mom one day to learn more about her encounter with my father, because clearly he had cheated on my mom. Had he known about Ava, had he tried to have a relationship with Ava, and the mom blocked it, I had a million questions. She did say yes, and she gave me her mother's cell phone number. I feel like it's it would be hard as Ava to be like, he's not dead.

SPEAKER_02 13:10

Yeah, he's been here the whole time. Striking news to find out that like early on.

SPEAKER_00 13:17

Yeah, I also have a dad.

SPEAKER_02 13:19

Yeah, he didn't he didn't die in a car crash. That's I mean, I'm sure that the mom knew what before she talks to the mom. The mom probably he didn't want anything to do with it. It was a mistake for him. He realized what he just did, and he was like, just tell her I died in a car crash. Let's be done.

SPEAKER_00 13:38

Well, I guess we'll see. Ava and I continued to grow our relationship as half siblings, meeting up every so often for lunch halfway and catching up each other on 20 years that we missed. About a few months into this, I finally connected with Ava's mom. I was reluctant to have this conversation, but I felt it was needed for clarification for both Ava and I. We will call her Mal. She shared that she bartended at a hotel that my dad's work frequented. He did traveling sales. She had no clue that he was married, and she felt for three months that they were dating. She never questioned the long distance because he was always traveling and lived further away. But he always made time for her when he traveled into town. Getting pregnant was not planned, but Mal was happy when she found out. She thought that she would tell him and they would make plans to get engaged and raise the baby together. But when she told him, his face went pale and he asked her to get rid of it and left. She never heard from this man again. She said she eventually traced him down. He had given her the name of Ed, but my dad's name is Rob. So it took her some time to actually find him. She finally had the courage to confront him, and when she pulled up in front of our house, she saw me, my dad, and my mom in the front yard playing and laughing, and she couldn't bear to do that to my mom. She moved on, she raised Ava alone, and eventually married a nice man ten years later, and kept Ava's real father out of being the topic of conversation and just said he was dead. It was easier that way because he was dead to her, anyways.

unknown 15:06

Burn.

SPEAKER_00 15:07

Get rid of it. Yikes.

SPEAKER_02 15:09

Get rid of it, walks away.

SPEAKER_00 15:11

Never to be heard from again.

SPEAKER_02 15:13

Oh my gosh. Like he went, he frequented the hotel bar that his business always took him to. He probably walked in, threw off the ring. Also, like how was he paying in cash, probably then?

SPEAKER_00 15:26

I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 15:27

Rather than like a card, because the card would show that his name wasn't it? I didn't look at the date.

SPEAKER_00 15:31

I'm like, when did this happen? It doesn't say 23 and me. 23 and me, so it has to be like decently recent. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:38

Since I feel like I don't know. Sometimes when I travel, I like using cash. It's a few years.

SPEAKER_00 15:43

Or maybe he had a business card that like didn't have his name on it or something. Just said Ed. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 15:49

Fake name Ed.

SPEAKER_00 15:50

I don't know. I didn't. It doesn't have those details on here. No. I was appalled. My dad, who I admired, was a cheater and a liar and didn't give a damn about the lady he knocked up or his child. I decided I was going to tell my mother first and then confront my dad, but had to find the right time. Is there ever a right time for this conversation? While waiting to break the news, I got two more alerts, and so did Ava. Two more 25% matches. A set of twin boys aged 21. You can't make this stuff up. You guessed it. My dad had two additional children that we were just finding out about. I was sick to my stomach.

SPEAKER_02 16:29

Oh my God.

SPEAKER_00 16:30

I couldn't hold it in any longer. But I just think about the time when everybody was doing this. So many stories like this probably happened. Yeah. And this is like one of the many. Like we know someone personally who had something similar.

SPEAKER_01 16:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:43

So I'm like, this would be crazy. I couldn't hold it in any longer. So I drove over to my parents' house and I laid it all out there, showing pictures of Ava and me, and the resemblance was uncanny. And then sharing news of the two other children. I watched my dad's face turn white and his fists curl into balls, and I watched my mother's heart break into a million pieces. It was the worst thing I ever had to do, but it was necessary. After that conversation, my mother left my dad, divorced his ass, and took half of everything as she should. My dad tried to deny the whole thing, claiming that 23andMe is made up and it can't prove a thing. All of the mothers confirmed it was the same man, going under three different names, Ed, Rob, and Greg, to conceal his identity. Only my mom knew that his real name was Rob. The other two given fakes. My dad won't won't own up to anything, but from what I gathered, he used his traveling job to confide and start relationships with women, and when he got them pregnant, he just ghosted them. Me and my three half siblings have an amazing relationship. We are navigating it in adulthood. It's weird but amazing. We all think there are probably more of us out there, but our father would never own up to any of it if he has more kids. I feel a little guilty that I got to grow up with a present dad, and none none of them did. But then I remember he was just a monster wearing a mask, and that makes me feel a little bit better about it all. So that's it. I hope you liked it. I know it's not wedding related, but it does deal with relationships, crazy drama, and the big reveal, your favorite type of stories to tell.

SPEAKER_02 18:10

Yeah. Thanks for submitting. My goodness. I didn't know that they were gonna throw a twin wrench in there.

SPEAKER_00 18:16

Twin wrench. I finding out you have one sibling would be wild enough. And then to find out, oh twins, there's twins, twins. And like he obviously knew about Ava. She doesn't share about the twins and like how that story went down, but it most likely was similar.

SPEAKER_02 18:33

Similar. I don't know if he protection. I don't know if the mother and the twins' lives said that he died in a car crash, but maybe.

SPEAKER_00 18:43

Maybe, or maybe they just maybe that person never told them.

SPEAKER_02 18:46

Yeah, so like DB Cooper and he ransomed the plane and jumped out of it.

SPEAKER_00 18:51

No, that is just so crazy to me because both of us have like close relationships with our siblings. Yeah. And like our families in general. So to just be like, here's another one, there's another one. It's been a one another one.

SPEAKER_02 19:02

Another one.

SPEAKER_00 19:03

I'd be like, what?

SPEAKER_02 19:04

Yeah. And it's good for her to tell, realize what happened and confront her mom about what her dad was doing. If there's like some shadiness going on with like a family member, you can't let that settle back. You got that you're gonna eat that's gonna eat at you inside knowing this information and not sharing it.

SPEAKER_00 19:25

Yeah. And the mom probably had no clue.

SPEAKER_02 19:28

No. The mom was just like happily living her life thinking like, oh well, he was going on trips, he was making money for the family, but he was also making other families. Making other families along the way, too, and doing nothing, like not even supporting it, clearly.

SPEAKER_00 19:42

I feel like this type of situation is more common, like not more common, but I'm sure it happens all the time.

SPEAKER_02 19:48

Yeah, because of things like 23andMe and other sources of ancestry. That's the other one. And have like a nice family tree.

SPEAKER_00 19:56

I feel like that one's still still going strong.

SPEAKER_02 19:58

There's probably an app that number one rated search for family app out there that we can get a sponsorship for. This one. You want to be on the you want to have an episode. No free ads. Go ahead and yeah, no free ads ancestry. But that was crazy. Good story.

SPEAKER_00 20:14

For the first time in all of our podcast episodes, we are not gonna do an absolutely not segment, and we're gonna throw in some new ones so you can give us feedback if you like any of these new ones that you'll see in the next two episodes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:25

The only thing when it comes out, we're not gonna, it's not retired, it's the podcast name.

SPEAKER_00 20:29

It's still gonna come in.

SPEAKER_02 20:30

But we've given a lot of wedding takes. And a lot of the time when we do absolutely not, 80%, if not more, we're absolutely not.

SPEAKER_00 20:41

And almost every st story we share is an absolutely not.

SPEAKER_02 20:45

Yeah, you can't.

SPEAKER_00 20:46

That dad should not be doing that.

SPEAKER_02 20:48

Should not be fathering other children with other women. Holy. All right. So this segment is called the internet court. We are honorable judges, and you will hear our bold internet or some you will hear today's bold internet statements, and we'll argue a debate. And if we agree or disagree with them. Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 21:12

I'm ready.

SPEAKER_02 21:13

The first one is breakfast for dinner is superior to dinner for breakfast.

SPEAKER_00 21:20

Breakfast for dinner is better than dinner for breakfast. I would have to agree with that. 100%. Like, I get it, you could have like a steak for breakfast, but you know when you're growing up and then mom's like, hey, we're making pancakes for dinner, like we're doing eggs. I love that.

SPEAKER_02 21:38

Yeah. I don't mind having a nice, like, I'll make a dippy egg and then put it over rice for a dinner. Very healthy. Oh yeah. Very rich in protein. Mr. Fit. The other when it comes to dinner for breakfast, I'm really only having dinner for breakfast if it's leftover pizza.

SPEAKER_00 21:59

Yeah. I guess like a cold pizza is good.

SPEAKER_02 22:01

So I don't mind waking up and having pizza. I'm not gonna wake up and have a burger for breakfast.

SPEAKER_00 22:04

Yeah, and I'm not like I want spaghetti and meatballs for breakfast. Our kids do that.

SPEAKER_02 22:08

They do.

SPEAKER_00 22:09

But I don't do that as an adult.

SPEAKER_02 22:10

I'm like I would prefer breakfast for breakfast. I think breakfast for dinner is a nice once every month thing.

SPEAKER_00 22:18

It's like a function.

SPEAKER_02 22:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:20

I also had a holiday like in my family for a short amount of time when this family member was alive. My nanny, they used to host Christmas Eve and we did breakfast for dinner.

SPEAKER_02 22:29

Yeah. And we did like around a holiday or surprising your kids for I mean, our kids also have like bre they mainly have waffles for breakfast, but they'll end up potentially wanting a waffle for dinner or have a little cinnamon roll.

SPEAKER_00 22:45

So my final judgment for that would be I agree.

SPEAKER_02 22:48

Yeah, yeah. Breakfast for dinner superior than dinner for breakfast. But the only time I would be like maybe so-so, pizza.

SPEAKER_01 22:56

Cold pizza.

SPEAKER_02 22:57

I can have pizza for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, late night bite, any of it.

SPEAKER_00 23:03

Pizza is the best.

SPEAKER_02 23:04

That is superior. Okay, next one. Parents should charge adult children rent. Ooh.

SPEAKER_00 23:14

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 23:15

Uh it depends on the age in the scenario.

SPEAKER_00 23:20

Yeah, age and scenario play a big part. Because I'm like, if you're above the age of 30 and you're just like mooching off them because you don't want to rent a place, you don't want to get a place, I'd be like, at that point. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:32

If I don't know. A lot of times parents will say, hey, you got to chip in for like groceries or toiletries, but not rent. Or maybe like if you're paying maybe parcel of like the bills, yeah. Like electric bill, sewage. If I notice, if I'm a parent and our parent kids later in life want to move back and they're struggling, I will take them in to make sure that they can get back on their feet. Yes. And I'm not going to charge them rent.

SPEAKER_00 23:59

Yeah. And I even think like when we moved up and we lived with your parents in their basement when we were house hunting, your parents weren't charging us rent because we were saving as much money as we could to purchase a home. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:09

And so, like we would help out here and that like with groceries. We would buy our own stuff, like things of that nature. We also kind of live separate. Like we lived in the basement, all their stuff was upstairs.

SPEAKER_00 24:19

I also love when parents do charge rent and it's like a low amount, you know, $250, $300, and they save it and then they gift it to them. And it's like, here, here's like a what do they call it? A nest egg?

SPEAKER_02 24:31

Something.

SPEAKER_00 24:32

I mean here's a a lump of money. Here's a lump sum of money.

SPEAKER_02 24:38

Nest egg.

SPEAKER_00 24:38

Isn't that what they call it when it's like a large money? They can just okay. Could be.

SPEAKER_02 24:42

I've never I never heard the term in my vocabulary, but I'm sure it's out there.

SPEAKER_00 24:47

Someone tell us if nested is a thing. I might be making it up. I want to look it up after this. Yeah. Um, but they give the money then and they're like, here, you can use it towards an apartment or like whatever you need. I do like that.

SPEAKER_02 24:57

The other, so end with this one. Yeah. They shouldn't be charging rent depending on the scenario. If they're just freeloading, you should charge rent.

SPEAKER_01 25:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:09

That's that. Here's the other. Whenever uh like you get old. We're older now.

SPEAKER_00 25:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:17

And you're doing a family vacation. And like, should it be split cost? Like I see sometimes people not paying for like big trips. I'm not talking us going to Deep Creek and then our parents are like, oh, there's a vi there's a sale, it was free, and then we like got the boat because we're like, well, we already planned to pay the money, so let's get this. I'm talking like you're going on a trip to Florida with your family, and they there are siblings now. You're going with your aunts and uncles and your parents, and your parents should you, as kids now that are in the workforce, be paying for your portion of the trip. I say absolutely yes.

SPEAKER_00 26:03

I say absolutely yes for that.

SPEAKER_02 26:04

Yeah. Like, like don't be moochin'.

SPEAKER_00 26:07

I also feel, or at least you should offer, like, hey, how much do we owe you? And then they might say, you know, it it's all taken care of. But if they're like, yeah, everybody that's taking up a room, it's $500. Yeah. Then everybody should be paying it.

SPEAKER_02 26:22

That's how I think I have for it too, is I see this in scenarios if there's a sibling trip going on and there's some siblings that don't have kids or some do.

SPEAKER_00 26:30

We both have siblings that don't have kids.

SPEAKER_02 26:32

Yeah. That do you still pay the equal amount, or I think it depends on the age of the kid. If it's a sibling that is now of age that should could have a job, that maybe that they pay less because their kids should be paying more.

SPEAKER_00 26:49

I also think about how much space is the family taking up. If I'm coming and our family's all sleeping in one room.

SPEAKER_02 26:56

Yeah. You're taking up two rooms.

SPEAKER_00 26:58

If you're taking up two rooms, then I think you should be paying more.

SPEAKER_02 27:00

Yeah. Or if you're getting if I get the like queen bedroom with uh bunk beds, and I don't get like the private bathroom and all of that, like add on touches to it, I don't think I should be paying the same amount.

SPEAKER_00 27:16

Evaluate. Just like at a hotel.

SPEAKER_02 27:17

I don't fight and argue over it, but I'm just kind of like, you know, I never actually been in that scenario. But no, if I were.

SPEAKER_00 27:23

We've been very lucky with our trips that like every time we go with family, it's been pretty equal. Yeah. Everybody has a good spot. But I do feel like if you're bringing four people and then one person's coming solo, I think they should be paying less. Less for it shouldn't be split evenly.

SPEAKER_02 27:38

How would there be one person coming solo if there's four people?

SPEAKER_00 27:41

If our family is a family of four and then a sibling doesn't have anyone coming with them, then I'd be like, Yeah, they should pay less. Yeah. They don't they're not gonna eat as much, they're not gonna take up as much space.

SPEAKER_02 27:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:51

So I'm gonna go.

SPEAKER_02 27:52

I would say though that like a rental car, if you're getting a rental car there, you should split it between families, maybe not necessarily like the people. Sorry, that was a long-winded one about rent with siblings, but okay. This one should be pretty pineapple. Belongs on pizza.

SPEAKER_00 28:12

I would say yes. I love pineapple on pizza.

SPEAKER_02 28:15

So there's it depends on the kind of pizza. Hawaiian pizza. Yeah, Hawaiian pizza or a I don't, like not a red sauced pizza. What are you talking about? Like there was a time, whenever we lived in Key Largo, Kyle would always want us to get Domino's for his pasta bread bowl, and we would get pizza, but we would get like a thin crust, gotta be thin crusted, can't be like a pan pizza. Thin crust, I'm like You're making me hungry with like a like a you know, like a garlic. What do you like a white pizza with pineapple on it? I would like.

SPEAKER_00 28:50

You would like that.

SPEAKER_02 28:51

Not anti-pineapple on pizza, but I don't want it as with red sauce.

SPEAKER_00 28:55

It's not the number one topping for sure, but like I would say it's fine to be a topping on pizza. I like it. I wouldn't red sauce or white sauce.

SPEAKER_02 29:03

I like it with um, like you get like green peppers or yellow peppers on it.

SPEAKER_00 29:06

That's what the other thing was that we used to get. Yeah. Pineapple, green peppers, cheese, white sauce, thin pizza. Yes. That that's what it is.

SPEAKER_02 29:14

That's how I would get a uh pineapple on a pizza. Crocs. They are a fashionable shoe.

SPEAKER_00 29:22

Agree.

SPEAKER_02 29:23

I love Crocs. Okay, I love Crocs. They're not fashionable.

SPEAKER_00 29:26

Yeah, but nowadays Crocs makes like like trendier ones with like a.

SPEAKER_02 29:30

Yeah, but they're not as comfy as the nice thick circular, curved circle shoe with the holes that you can put gibbets in. They're not fashionable. Classic Crocs are comfortable, absolutely true.

SPEAKER_00 29:43

Okay, then I'd have to agree with you. That statement is false. Classic Crocs are not fashionable, but they're like the trendy Crocs.

SPEAKER_02 29:51

But Crocs brand, yeah, they has some nice stuff. They realize, like, hey, we gotta tap into people that are fashionable.

SPEAKER_00 29:57

My sister wears them, they're like wedges and like they're super cute. Yeah, I'm like, oh, I like this.

SPEAKER_02 30:03

I used to Crocs inside, crocs in the house. That would be like my house slipper.

SPEAKER_00 30:07

Yeah, I'm packing Crocs for the vacation.

SPEAKER_02 30:08

Yeah. For the leak. But that's I wasn't a croc wearer until I worked at Key Largo and people were wearing Crocs on our team. Uh, very female prominent. But then I purchased my own as well. I'm like, this is revolutionary.

SPEAKER_01 30:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:24

Funny enough, not even two days ago, uh, co-worker Chris at Key Largo sent me a text and he said he was sending a text of the Crocs that I gifted him. They were trendier looking Crocs. Completely forgot I gave him these, but had them in the trash like they served a great purpose. These were the best crocs I ever had in my life. Shout out, Crocs. They serve somebody that I wouldn't expect to like Crocs, worn for eight plus years.

SPEAKER_00 30:50

My Crocs, too. My first experience buying Crocs was at South Seas. It was required for the uniform. You had to wear Crocs. And they said, fill up your Crocs with gibbets because the kids will want to trade you. And that was my first like, I was like, Oh, these are so stupid. I got them. I'm like, I love Crocs. And our kids, I love the Crocs. I like to get the charms to whatever they're into.

SPEAKER_02 31:09

It was almost every year for Christmas. Santa would bring me Crocs. Brilliant. Once I started wearing them. Couples should combine their finances.

SPEAKER_00 31:20

You probably know how I feel about this. I would say, like, I think it's okay to combine your finances, but I don't think it's mandatory.

SPEAKER_02 31:27

I think it's nice to have your own money that you like we share our financial in a pot of but we also have our own finances. Yeah. Like the things that we need together to support our house, to support the family. That's one pot. Yes. And then if you want to go do something or I want to go do something, we're not diving into each other's pot.

SPEAKER_00 31:49

Right. Like that's how I feel is like you have your own money. If you have hobbies or you're going on, want to splurge on yourself, fine.

SPEAKER_02 31:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:57

And at the same time, like at the end of the day, it's all each other's money.

SPEAKER_02 32:01

Yeah. Like if you want to get a massage for like your birthday, I'll get you something.

SPEAKER_00 32:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 32:04

Flowers or like that's not saying we don't gift each other stuff.

SPEAKER_00 32:07

But it's also just like, I don't think it's mandatory when people are like, you have to.

SPEAKER_02 32:11

Yeah, you gotta do it right now. You gotta get married and you gotta share all your money. Put your stuff on all the bank accounts.

SPEAKER_00 32:16

I'm like, yeah, you share, you still share it, but like I feel like it's nice to have your own little pocket of change.

SPEAKER_02 32:23

Pocket of change to go travel and go to a bar and have kids. All right. Ranch dressing is the superior condiment. I'd know your answer.

SPEAKER_00 32:36

Oh, 100%.

SPEAKER_02 32:37

No, no.

SPEAKER_00 32:38

Hidden Valley Ranch, 10 out of 10.

SPEAKER_02 32:40

Yeah. I you don't like certain ranches though. You only like Hidden Valley or if there's a really good restaurant that makes really good ranch.

SPEAKER_00 32:46

Yeah, like a house-made buttermilk ranch at a restaurant. If there is just some ranches that are not it. I'm a ranch connoisseur, I feel like.

SPEAKER_02 32:55

So I uh I don't mind ranch. I'd prefer I like it in salads and I like it for wings for dipping my wings in. Sometimes fries, like if I get wings and fries, but if I'm getting a cheeseburger or a hot dog cheeseburger, it's ketchup only. Maybe a little bit of mustard, hot dog mustard. I would say ketchup. Again, same thing with you with ranch, like it's gotta be Hidden Valley or like certain buttermilk. It's gotta be Heinz.

SPEAKER_00 33:23

It's gotta be Heinz.

SPEAKER_02 33:24

And I'm not like being biased to it being a Pittsburgh brand, which technically it's not. It hasn't really been in Pittsburgh for a long time. But Heinz is just the better.

SPEAKER_00 33:33

It is the best. It is the best for ketchup. Okay, but what would your number one condiment be if it's not ranch? Would it be ketchup?

SPEAKER_02 33:41

Ketchup or like um, I don't know if it's necessarily a condiment, but like when I go to McDonald's and they ask for like the sauces, like buffalo.

SPEAKER_00 33:50

I was gonna say like a barbecue or buffalo is what I would pick for you because that's what you use the most.

SPEAKER_02 33:54

Barbecue I like when it comes to very standard barbecue things. I I prefer a buffalo wing over a buffalo or a buffalo wing over a barbecue wing.

SPEAKER_00 34:04

Fair. So we have a we have a hung jury here.

SPEAKER_02 34:07

Hung jury.

SPEAKER_00 34:08

We do not agree on that statement.

SPEAKER_02 34:09

No, if someone asks nicely to swap seats on the airplane, you should. It depends.

SPEAKER_00 34:16

Uh I would say disagree. Especially now that you have to buy your seat.

SPEAKER_02 34:21

Yeah. Or a particular seat. Like if I discover that I have to move seats to a middle aisle and I'm gonna be super uncomfortable in that middle seat, and the person wants to switch because they purchased, they when they purchased their seats, they put their child next to me. I kind of feel bad and I'll move. But if I have to be uncomfortable, I might be like, hey. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:45

If kids are involved, I'm I would be more reluctant to like.

SPEAKER_02 34:49

But if someone if someone's like switching because they don't want to pay honey boo-boo's sitting next to them, I'm like, sorry. Too bad, so sad. I'm not switching. I like either aisle or window. I'm not a middle seat. If I have to move to middle seat, it has to be with people you know. It has to be with people I know. But it's yeah, and don't get mad if you if I say no.

SPEAKER_00 35:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:12

Sorry, too bad. Go ask someone else if they want to switch. Why am I the one to blame?

SPEAKER_00 35:17

If you see us at the airport, don't try to swap.

SPEAKER_02 35:19

Why am I the one to blame? Die Hard, is that a Christmas movie?

SPEAKER_00 35:23

I'm gonna be honest, I never really seen it.

SPEAKER_02 35:27

I haven't seen it in a long time.

SPEAKER_00 35:29

Oh my, I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 35:30

I'll tell you this much. I watched Die Hard, and then all of the sudden it was probably 10 years had passed since I watched it, and it's been probably 20 years since then, too. Sorry. It like it can be if you want it to be. Yeah, I don't even have to. I never knew it as a Christmas movie when I watched it. But all of a sudden, like 10 years after I watched it, it was like diehard's a Christmas movie.

SPEAKER_00 35:52

Some people feel very strongly on that.

SPEAKER_02 35:53

Yeah. Like it, they kind of make it their personality. Yeah, I'm like, I couldn't tell yet. Like Christmas comes along and they're like, what is it even about?

SPEAKER_00 36:00

What's diehard about?

SPEAKER_02 36:02

Okay, I'm not gonna like dive into it too. Christmas, actually. It's a Christmas movie. It's Christmas, yeah. See last one, water, it has a taste. Depends on like if you're at a if you're getting tap water, it definitely has a taste. And you probably if it has a taste from tap water, it probably doesn't taste good. You can I can tell when it's filtered because it has like that filtration sensation.

SPEAKER_00 36:24

You have like heightened senses because I would say water, it has a taste because it tastes like water.

SPEAKER_02 36:29

Like, you know, so that means it has a taste.

SPEAKER_00 36:31

But like it's not an extreme flavor. Only time is like if people have um like my parents have it, they have uh what is it called? A some uh like they have like a sub pump? Is that what it is? Sub pump? They have like water and then they they have to filter it to drink it because if you drink their water at from the tap, it tastes like rust.

SPEAKER_02 36:50

Yeah, it's like nasty. Well, that's what I'm saying. Like if I would drink tap water from the house I grew up at, it would be all like cloudy. Like you should not be drinking that. You gotta boil it.

SPEAKER_00 37:00

Like, I don't know. I'd love drinking from the tap. And everywhere we've gone, I've always just I don't even sometimes take it from the fridge.

SPEAKER_02 37:07

Like I'm drinking a bottled water from plastic right now. I feel like I do taste more plastic than water.

SPEAKER_00 37:12

But I I guess for the statement itself, I could say yes, water has a taste. Yeah, I could agree with that.

SPEAKER_02 37:16

I'm super dehydrated, like, and I just want to I don't want to taste water, I just want to drink water. Yeah. Maybe it doesn't have a taste. No flavor. No flavor. Okay. Internet court. The we agreed on most. We were hung on a few. So court is adjourned. All right. Our next segment is Blind Ranking, new segment. I am going to read a couple to you. You can do the same back. We have four in total. Uh, two on my list. I'm gonna read one. You're gonna say whether you think it's one, two, three, four, or five. Then I'll read the second one. You might end up, like your least favorite might end up being stuck at one, or your favorite could be three because you don't know what's to come. Got it. Blind ranking. Okay. I'm ready. This category is going to be weather days.

SPEAKER_00 38:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 38:11

The weather on this day is 75 and sunny.

SPEAKER_00 38:16

Number one.

SPEAKER_02 38:17

Okay, number one, 75 and sunny. A thunderstorm day.

SPEAKER_00 38:21

Number five.

SPEAKER_02 38:24

A crisp fall day.

unknown 38:26

Oh, I love a crisp fall day.

SPEAKER_00 38:28

I'm gonna do number two. Beach weather. I'm nervous now. I don't know. Number three. And snow. That's gonna have to be four. Number four. Honestly, that's pretty accurate to me. I would have maybe swap.

SPEAKER_02 38:41

So you had 75 and sunny one, crisp fall day two, beach weather three, thunderstorm five, snow four.

SPEAKER_00 38:49

I would have swap snow and thunderstorm if I had to. But otherwise my top three would stick.

SPEAKER_02 38:54

You know, I wouldn't if I were to do this list, number one with knowing the ranking, number one would be a crisp fall day. Yeah. Like there's it's just something in the air. Whenever, not even like being outside during that day, but having a nice pumpkin apple scent in the house, cinnamon, going outside and the football and football, sports, sport, sports. Like a nice tailgate, watching the Steelers blow it, blow it, you blew it. And then I would probably do 75 and sunny because that's a great temperature. Like again, July this last few weeks was been miserable. I would then do beach weather. But like at this when it comes to a beach, if I'm at a beach nowadays, maybe even back in like it gets too hot. Like if I'm out in the sand and I I just gotta keep dipping in the water, coming back out, being in shape.

SPEAKER_00 39:53

Like 75 and sunny would be my perfect beach weather.

SPEAKER_02 39:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 39:56

But that's usually it's like 88.

SPEAKER_02 39:59

I would, I mean, snow, thunderstorm, I can go either way. Thunderstorm, it's more so if I'm like just having a relaxing day. But if it means me being outside, I would rather be outside with snow and not a thunderstorm because I don't want to get electrocuted. I also just don't like the cold, so that's why I would put s I would put snow last. Alright, my next category is going to be holidays.

SPEAKER_00 40:22

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 40:23

First one, Easter.

SPEAKER_00 40:26

Number five. Sorry, Jesus.

SPEAKER_02 40:31

Speaking of Christmas.

SPEAKER_00 40:33

Number one.

SPEAKER_02 40:34

Halloween. Number two. Fourth of July. Number four. Thanksgiving. Number three. Honestly, yeah. It's a good list. Yeah, I was like Christmas one, Halloween two, Thanksgiving three, fourth of July four. Yeah. Easter five. Yeah. Yeah. Like Christmas is just, it's not even a like it's a whole month.

SPEAKER_00 41:00

And we are in like a little bit longer. We are in such a magical time for Christmas right now with our kids. So it's like I always look forward to Christmas time.

SPEAKER_02 41:07

There was a moments, years where we would decorate for Christmas, like the day after Halloween, where those, but we would only decorate inside. Yeah. Not outside. Outside is still do like the weekend of Thanksgiving is when you decorate out. Like after Thanksgiving, you decorate that weekend. If weather looks like it's going to be bad that weekend, you can decorate the week before. I tried to make it out where like I'm born in mid-November. It's always like the week before Thanksgiving. And our daughter's now born two days before I am. It's like if we plan to decorate around our birthdays. Like if she she was into the Grinch. So it's Yeah, we did a Grinch birthday. So we had to decorate Christmas inside ahead of time because it was themed Grinch already. So we had to like get things ready to go for her. Halloween is Halloween has its moments, like you're a kid and trick-or-treating is a lot of fun. And then when you get to like high school, college years, post-college, Halloween parties, freaking blast. Oh yeah. And then there's like a lol. When our first Halloween here, it was nice to do, we had a Halloween party and giving out candy. It's fun to like be on that side of things. But now we're back in it because we're trick-or-treating. Trick-or-treating with our kids. Yeah. But the only thing I have, like, I want to go and watch our kids trick-or-treat. You want to go watch our kids trick-or-treat. And then we leave our candy for the moments that we go trick-or-treating with our kids. And people don't know how to respect respect the candy. The candy. Like they'll cut, even if I'm standing there anymore, they're ruthless. They'll grab, I'll just be like, oh yeah, take one or I'll be nice and like it's take a few. Take a few. Grab a whole handful. I'm like, I get mad at those kids. I don't say anything, but I'm mad at them.

SPEAKER_00 42:54

I think next year we should get a ring camera and just put it out by the candy bowl so we can see what all who takes all the candy.

SPEAKER_02 43:00

I should just hire somebody to pass out the candy. Like hold if you hold it and pass it out, that's when it's like done right.

SPEAKER_01 43:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 43:07

But I like to, you know, let them reach in for themselves. And we're good candy give outers. There's some people that I'm we're not like great candy give outers to mid-tier. Sometimes people that when they give out those large things of candy, like they're giving out an almond joy.

SPEAKER_00 43:23

I'm like, nobody wants that.

SPEAKER_02 43:24

No, I'm talking like if they're giving out like full Reese's bars, they must be rolling in the dough. Rolling in the dough. Rolling in the chocolate.

SPEAKER_01 43:31

Chocolate.

SPEAKER_02 43:32

And there's also the uh in our neighborhood, we do it on Halloween night in the evening time. There's a house on our sh in our neighborhood that does a haunted house through their um garage. Through their garage, and they come out, they do give out full size candy. Yeah. Pretty sure that guy's like a popcorn machine. Did they? Yeah, and they deck out their whole front yard with gravestones and they have a they're into it. They're very into Halloween. They would pick that number one. Thanksgiving, I just Like it for the meal. My mom, like, shout out my mom, love her to death. But there was one year that like she tried to have us go around the table of like, what are we all thankful for? A lot of people do that. Yeah. Like, well, eventually, like then it puts people that are a little camera shy on the spot.

SPEAKER_00 44:16

And like they want something sentimental, like, I'm thankful for everybody that's in this room.

SPEAKER_02 44:19

Yeah, there's a lot of repeat statements. Like just maybe one broad person can say, hey.

unknown 44:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 44:26

Like neither of us come from like super religious prayer families that do prayer. Does do prayer sometimes, some of the people.

SPEAKER_02 44:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 44:34

My family does not.

SPEAKER_02 44:35

Yeah. And it's like for those like 20 seconds, like we don't uh give a blessing, a prayer before our food. And then when we do it, like my family does it around the table. I look at our kids and just see like what how they're responding. It probably looks very cult-like.

SPEAKER_00 44:51

They do do it at preschool. Yeah. Tyson did. So nothing against it.

SPEAKER_02 44:55

I'm just saying, like seeing we don't do it, dude. I have lost my um how I I I haven't memorized it anymore. I've lost that memory. That's in my repertoire. Fourth of July, we just did it. It's great, but like I'm not fireworks, like they're cool, but I don't need it more than a day.

unknown 45:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 45:14

And Easter.

SPEAKER_00 45:18

Boring. Boring. All right. We're gonna do things that could ruin your day. Okay. Dead phone with no charger.

SPEAKER_02 45:30

Oh my gosh. That's I would put that. I feel like there's m worse, so I'm gonna put it number two.

SPEAKER_00 45:36

Okay. Wi-Fi goes out.

SPEAKER_02 45:40

That'll be three. Because I can do other things.

SPEAKER_00 45:43

Like coffee spills on a fresh outfit.

SPEAKER_02 45:47

Now, scenario-wise, if I am somewhere and I can't change a shirt or I have to go purchase a shirt, that would be higher, but I'll put it number five.

SPEAKER_00 45:55

Okay. Flat tire.

SPEAKER_02 46:00

Four. As long as I have a spare and I have the equipment to change it in my vehicle, I can probably do it.

SPEAKER_00 46:06

Okay, so the last one has to be number one. Number one, oversleeping your alarm. I feel like you ranked that bad. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 46:13

I wouldn't put that number one.

SPEAKER_00 46:15

Okay, what would you put oversleeping your alarm?

SPEAKER_02 46:17

I would put the phone dead. Because it's just like I don't have a house phone. Yeah. If someone tried to get in touch with me, they can't get in touch with me. Wi-Fi, I would probably move the three. I think I have it at three. I keep it at three. I'd put flat tire at two. Yeah. What did I have at five?

SPEAKER_00 46:38

You had at five coffee spills on first.

SPEAKER_02 46:41

Yeah, I put coffee three and then um oversleeping your alarm five. Oversleeping my alarm alarm five. Because I have more I don't even make an alarm anymore. I more I have an internal clock in me. Unless I want to wake up earlier than I typically do, that's whenever I set an alarm. There was a weird thing that happened maybe six months ago. I think they fixed the bug on iPhones, but I would set alarms and they would never go off. And it's like my biggest fear when you have like a flight, like an early flight. It's like stress.

SPEAKER_00 47:19

I wasn't, I don't ever set alarms because the kids just wake me up. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_02 47:22

Like they're that's my internal clock anymore. Mom, boom, okay, I'm up. Or they just waltz in the bed with us. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 47:29

My only thing that I would change is I would put flat tire number one.

unknown 47:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 47:33

I'm like, that would just ruin my day. I have no clue how to change a tire. I should probably learn. Okay. And the last one for you is embarrassing moments. Okay. Falling in public.

SPEAKER_02 47:46

This has happened to me before. I would put that three. It's pretty embarrassing though. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 47:51

Sending a text to the wrong person.

SPEAKER_02 47:55

It depends on the text. Yeah, it depends on the text. I'm just gonna, if it is a bad text or if it's about that person, I would put that at two.

SPEAKER_00 48:02

Okay. So falling public three, sending a text to the wrong person two. Yep. Having bad body odor, but not realizing it until you get home.

SPEAKER_02 48:11

Oh, that's gotta be one. Like, I'll even know that I have bad body odor, and I'm like, I can't fix the situation. Sorry, I smell bad. Yeah, you gotta warn them. You gotta send a warning, like, yo, yeah, this isn't good.

SPEAKER_00 48:31

Um introducing someone as the wrong name.

SPEAKER_02 48:35

Yeah, it's I would put that at five. You can easily get around it. Get around it. A little workaround.

SPEAKER_00 48:43

Um, and then what's your last then? Is it number four?

SPEAKER_02 48:46

It would be four.

SPEAKER_00 48:47

Introduce uh walking into the the wrong restroom.

SPEAKER_02 48:51

Yeah, that would four.

SPEAKER_00 48:54

I feel like you ranked those pretty good.

SPEAKER_02 48:55

Yeah, that might be three, but four, just be a quick oops.

SPEAKER_00 48:59

Body odor number one.

SPEAKER_02 49:00

I think it's harder for like well, it'd be easier for a woman to tell whether or not they were in the well, actually probably for both ways, because the secret whenever I grew up was like the girls' restroom had couches. Oh, dancing school.

SPEAKER_00 49:14

Probably didn't I never walked in the one to like know girl most restrooms, women's restrooms do not have couches.

SPEAKER_02 49:18

Yeah, that was the maybe at Macy's or something. Like at a normal like at a school, everyone was like, the the girls' restroom has a couch in there. Like, why wouldn't you?

SPEAKER_00 49:26

Was there a couch in your restroom? You never went in there. Yeah, that's all.

SPEAKER_02 49:30

You could probably tell though if you went into the wrong one, if it has how this happened like a month ago, but the guy that was mad at the father that was traveling with his daughters.

SPEAKER_00 49:38

Oh pish posh to that, maybe.

SPEAKER_02 49:41

Yeah. Like, respect to the worker that would like shut the door and was like, I'm so sorry about this. Like, and he's trying to call the cops on him. Like, get out of here. He's with his little kids. Let him.

SPEAKER_00 49:52

I'm sorry, but Tyson comes into the women's restroom more often than not if he's with me. Yeah. He's not old enough to go in the men's restroom by himself and me trust that he's gonna wash his hands.

SPEAKER_02 50:01

And I'm sure that that guy walked in there and sent, like, a hey, father bringing his daughters in to the restroom type of thing.

SPEAKER_00 50:07

The women are in stalls.

SPEAKER_02 50:09

Yeah. Yeah. And the guy, it's worse, I feel like, if it's the opposite thing.

SPEAKER_00 50:13

Yeah, because they're in the urinals. Oh, he was in the he was in the men's restroom bringing up.

SPEAKER_02 50:17

No, he was in the women's restroom taking his daughters, and the guy was mad that his his mom or his wife in a wheelchair needed to get in there, and like both of them were going to the bathroom in the big bathroom. Well, he wasn't going in. Yeah, also, by the way, the guy was in the restroom too because he had the door open and he's yelling at him.

SPEAKER_00 50:35

I can't with that man. But like that story was bad.

SPEAKER_02 50:38

Yeah. But the mom probably was complaining too. There's just bad people. You can't be doing that.

SPEAKER_00 50:43

No.

SPEAKER_02 50:44

Like I, yeah. If I had to bring my kids, like my daughter into a men's restroom. Then it would be like pointing. That ain't happening. Like, unless it's like a separated restroom where there's like stalls on one side and urinals on another, and there's like a wall between it. But other than that, either community bathroom that's like the single stall or if I come in for a second, I have a daughter with me. Yeah. It is what it is. All right. Our next segment. This is VIP table. This, since it's around 4th of July, we're in the summertime. A lot of people are having cookouts, get togethers. We're outside, we're grilling, we're cooking, mixing it up. We're doing the best cookout foods. You can go first.

SPEAKER_00 51:31

Okay. This might be like a local thing, but I'm putting number one strawberry pretzel salad.

SPEAKER_02 51:39

Yeah, it's on the list. It's on the list. That was my actually my only dessert that I have on the list.

SPEAKER_00 51:43

I can't like not have it.

SPEAKER_02 51:45

Yeah, it's kind of a letdown whenever you go to a party and it's not there.

SPEAKER_00 51:50

Yeah. Like I was kind of sad we didn't have it at 4th of July.

SPEAKER_02 51:54

Well, the other di the other like desserts there, the jello that they had was phenomenal. And the like strawberry shortcake type of dish, that was pretty good. But again, a strawberry pretzel salad. Like when I go to a uh and I think it might just be local, but burgatory, they have the strawberry pretzel salad milkshake.

SPEAKER_00 52:13

I gotta get that.

SPEAKER_02 52:14

It's phenomenal. Phenomenal. All right. My first pick, very traditional. Sorry, I'm gonna have to just take it off the board. It is the classic cheeseburger. Yeah. I need a cheeseburger if I'm outside grilling. That's like a mandatory has gotta have it. Need it. I feel might even double down and make a double cheeseburger.

SPEAKER_00 52:36

I love, I love cheeseburgers.

SPEAKER_02 52:41

Sorry. You love them. I love cheeseburger. I love cheeseburgers. No, a like if people if people don't just not saying people are cheap, but if you're just having it for like a couple people, like I'll do it if I know that I'm just serving for a few. I'll get like a nice little brioche bun. And as the cheese is melting on top of the burger on the grill, I'll just throw the throw the bun on top, on the top part of the grill, and then let that thing toast up a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 53:12

And I love the burgers that have like the cheese and the bacon in them.

SPEAKER_02 53:15

Yeah. Those are the best. Oh, yeah, yep, yep. Just standard cheeseburger, you can put whatever else you want on it. I wouldn't mind bacon on it. That would be great. Okay. Second pick is uh antipasta salad. Like you can't go wrong.

SPEAKER_00 53:31

You can't, and like people make it all different kinds of ways.

SPEAKER_02 53:33

Yeah. Like whenever if you're slicing up a little bit of pepperoni, a little like whatever the meat you decide to put on it in on that, so good. Noodles, like there's nothing in there am I skipping when I'm eating it. I'm not trying to like fizzle out anything, everything's gonna be in my mouth.

SPEAKER_00 53:51

That is one that I don't pass up, like regardless of who made it. Like sometimes I'm like, who made this?

SPEAKER_02 53:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 53:56

Because I will or will not.

SPEAKER_02 53:58

And I'm not talking about a like, yeah, yeah. I it's yeah, some people don't know how to make certain things, but that in particular, yeah. Even if I'm to the point, like sometimes how people display their food, like you might have the meat first as you're like filling up the plate, and like you get to the end and it's there, the antipasta salad, it's fitting in, whether it likes it or not. It might have to kind of become neighbors with whatever's next to it. I try to sort it out where it's not getting messy on something, or like when I'm eating it, yeah. It's not like some people do make good I'm not gonna say other dishes, but like if I'm mixing in between certain side dishes, it's okay. But there's certain side dishes like that can't touch anything.

SPEAKER_00 54:41

Yeah. I get that.

SPEAKER_02 54:43

You're like Yeah, that needs to fit on the plate. And most of the time, if I'm making a second plate, that's hitting the second plate. Both actually the cheeseburger and the antipasta salad.

SPEAKER_00 54:53

All right, am I up?

SPEAKER_02 54:54

Yep. You got two.

SPEAKER_00 54:56

Two. Okay. So I'm taking hot dog next. Classic. You took the cheeseburger, I'm doing the hot dog. I do not like bratwurst. That's not on the list. It's just a classic hot dog, full bun length.

SPEAKER_02 55:10

I like them when they're like a little bit thicker. Like the jalapeno.

SPEAKER_00 55:14

I don't like them super thick. I just want like a normal.

SPEAKER_02 55:16

Yeah, I like the jalapeno, like a nice little jalapeno cheddar hot dog. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 55:20

You know when someone gets the jumbo hot dogs, I'm like, that's too much hot dog. I just I want to be able to take a couple of things.

SPEAKER_02 55:24

I've got a nice little, like, I'm at the turn golfing. I need a nice little glizzy.

SPEAKER_00 55:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 55:29

Are you a mustard person? Are you a relish?

SPEAKER_00 55:31

I like ketchup and mustard, but your mom did a trick, I think like maybe a couple years ago, we had a cookout at our house, which kind of turned me on to this. And it also is my next my next cookout dish. She put mustard potato salad in the inside of her hot dog. Wow.

SPEAKER_02 55:49

Revolutionary.

SPEAKER_00 55:50

So my number three pick is mustard potato salad, specifically the one from Aldi.

SPEAKER_02 55:55

Mustard potato salad mustard. Not just potato salad.

SPEAKER_00 55:57

And it's like, I don't want the homemade potato salads. Those are always nasty. It's mustard potato salad from Aldi.

SPEAKER_02 56:03

It has like And it's not grandma's mustard potato salad.

SPEAKER_00 56:07

Well, the grandma's one from like a giant eagle isn't that bad. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 56:10

It's not my favorite. Could be Kroger soon enough.

SPEAKER_00 56:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 56:13

Good picks. I knew you were going to pick mustard potato salad. It wasn't even on my list.

SPEAKER_00 56:17

I hope you don't take my last pick.

SPEAKER_02 56:19

All right. I have two. I'm going to go with like this is a staple at a high school reunion at a like a large get together. We you were going to make it at our 4th of July get together, and then it got oused. Yeah, I don't know why my mom did that. No, yeah, you your dad doesn't like it. And he said, take it off the list. It's on this list. It's cheesy potatoes.

SPEAKER_00 56:42

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 56:43

I I can have that. That is something we were in the other segment about breakfast, food, dinner foods. That's something that could be breakfast. And it could be superior.

SPEAKER_01 56:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 56:55

So good. I prefer. You like to buy like the frozen hash browns and then make it. I like it where you get like the cubed potatoes. There were like a high school reunion when I was in high school. I haven't really frequented much. Like, you know, there's like wedding crashers in the orchid.

SPEAKER_00 57:16

High school reunion crashers.

SPEAKER_02 57:17

Yeah, high school reunion crasher. Like, where's the cheesy potatoes? I need them. There was a place called DD's back in the day that made the best cheesy potatoes. And my last pick. You know, I gotta do it. We had it for this one. Ribs.

SPEAKER_00 57:35

Oh, okay, good.

SPEAKER_02 57:36

Like me a nice little rib.

SPEAKER_00 57:38

I only eat ribs like once a year. So I don't eat them frequently, but they are good when I have them. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 57:44

Like it if you make them correctly and you could just grab the bone and it just comes right off. Don't mess up. You can't mess it up. And I don't know who cooked them, whether it was your mom or your dad, or they co-opt on the cookie. The tag teamed it. Tag teamed it. Outstanding.

SPEAKER_00 58:01

They were very good.

SPEAKER_02 58:02

And then she like gave us some to go back. Even like reheated. It's delicious for it. I I don't mind if they're dry, but like I even had to go and get some like different barbecue sauces. Like I don't really know what's like the good sauces. Like Mission Barbecue was at the wedding we went to, we worked at a few weeks ago. I like put a little bit of each on. On it wasn't a good one.

SPEAKER_00 58:30

I forgot to do the sauces and I was kind of mad at myself.

SPEAKER_02 58:33

Really good. Really good. All right. Your last pick.

SPEAKER_00 58:35

My last pick, deviled egg. Oh, a deviled egg. Oh, yeah. I know if it's there, it better be worried because I'm coming. I'm coming for it. Yeah. At least two. I like I get sad when it's only like one per person. I'm like, Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 58:49

Well, like you're you try to be nice and get one and let everyone go through. You go, and then I'll go back through the line. Like this happened actually at your uh parents' house. Went back in the line to get ribs and more honeypasta salad. There's no cheeseburgers. I would have got that too. But there was only one deviled egg left. And I didn't want to be the last one.

SPEAKER_00 59:08

Probably because I took four.

SPEAKER_02 59:09

Oh my gosh. I just took one, one and one, and I'm done. Not saying they're but bad, but I like know how popular they are. It's a good pick. I feel like that's more of like an like a holiday of like Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas. And cookouts. Yeah, cookouts too, I guess you can say. Okay. My other picks I had that uh did not make it. I didn't have much. I uh I've had beer as a good cookout dish. Good, good uh cookout.

SPEAKER_00 59:38

I had mac and cheese, but it depends on who makes it.

SPEAKER_02 59:40

Yeah, mac and cheese. I put particularly smoked mac and cheese. Yeah. Like it's it can't just be like craft.

SPEAKER_00 59:46

No.

SPEAKER_02 59:47

I don't want it from I need it smoked. If I'm having a cookout, brisket was also on the list. Beer.

SPEAKER_00 59:54

Fair. That was good. I didn't have anything else on my list. You had all the other ones that I had.

SPEAKER_02 59:58

Small, smaller list because they're it's just the classics. Yeah, those are the classics. So all right.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:03

All right. And again, if you have a story, it doesn't have to be wedding related. I love that we did one that wasn't. You could send it into info at weddingprocast.com and title it Story Submission.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:13

All right. We'll see you next week.