Sergio Says It Straight

The Good, The Bad & The Husband

DLZ|Creator Season 1 Episode 13

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In this episode, I sit down with my wife, my sister, and one of our closest family friends (who's basically another sister) for a fun, honest conversation about husbands. We cover the little things that drive them crazy, the classic husband habits they've learned to laugh about, the things husbands tend to exaggerate, and some of the hilarious double standards that show up in marriage.

From relatable stories to playful roasting, this episode is full of laughs, good-natured banter, and plenty of moments that will have both husbands and wives nodding in agreement. Whether you're married, dating, or just enjoy hearing authentic conversations about relationships, you'll find something to relate to.

Grab your spouse—or don't, if you want to hear the "behind-the-scenes" perspective first—and enjoy this lighthearted episode filled with humor, honesty, and a reminder not to take ourselves too seriously.

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SPEAKER_07

This is Sergio Says It Straight. Straight talk. Real people, no filter. Say it straight or don't say it at all. All right, here we are. We're gonna do a very different episode today. We're gonna be, we're not gonna be bashing husbands, but we're gonna be talking about husbands today. So this is gonna be a husband episode. I have three lovely ladies here in the house. I got my wife, Miley.

SPEAKER_01

Hi.

SPEAKER_07

And then I got my beautiful sister Lily.

SPEAKER_01

Hey, hey.

SPEAKER_07

Second time guest.

SPEAKER_01

Second time.

SPEAKER_07

And then Esmi, which is, I'm not gonna just say friend because you are basically family. You're like a uh basically like a another sister, right? I would say beautiful. I was just gonna say also being a man. And I I was gonna get to that, but the feistiness is here. And I did say I have three beautiful ladies here today. Okay. So I did I did say that. So um we're gonna, like I said, we're gonna do uh, I don't know, just a little bit different today, right? It it's once again, not we're not bashing husbands, but we're gonna talk about things that drive wives crazy with the husbands, right? We're gonna talk a little bit about that. Um, and then if we kind of get sidetracked, we're gonna stay with the husband theme, but if we do get sidetracked a little bit, it's okay. Uh, we'll bring it right back and we'll we'll we'll continue to talk about maybe some things that are odd about your significant other. Uh maybe talk about things that drive you crazy uh and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_05

But my husband is perfect. I'm not gonna have anything to say.

SPEAKER_07

I don't even know what I'm gonna say.

SPEAKER_05

So should we just end it here? Should we just stop the episode here and say thank you?

SPEAKER_07

Thank you for those listeners for tuning in today.

SPEAKER_01

It's perfectly imperfect, perfectly uh short episode today, right?

SPEAKER_07

Uh so yeah, it's all about having fun today. Thank you for everybody for tuning in once again. For those of you that uh key tuning in every week, I appreciate the the listens, the clicks. Uh, if this is your first time listening, I I I please, please, please uh check out episode one all the way to today is episode is it 13? 13, yeah. Ooh, lucky 13. Lucky 13. It's not Friday, but it is episode 13. All right. So, ladies, are we ready?

SPEAKER_01

Ready.

SPEAKER_07

Okay, so real quick, I I gave you guys a quick introduction, but um, if you guys can kind of just talk a little bit about yourselves, real quick, just a quick little, you know, we don't want to hear a life story. Oh, we just kind of want to hear like well, there goes my notes. A quick intro, and then tell me about how long you've been married, uh, and where you guys met. How about that?

SPEAKER_05

Okay, so should I start?

SPEAKER_07

Yes, and yes, of course.

SPEAKER_05

Okay, so I'm Mirlaine Sergio's wife. We've been together for 26 years, and we met in Oceanside, California in the military.

SPEAKER_07

All right.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, we hated each other first side.

SPEAKER_07

We did, we didn't like each other at all. All right, Lila, I guess you're up.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, I'm up. So, um, what was the question? Who's with us?

SPEAKER_07

Uh kind of a brief description, a brief, a brief, real brief, like who you are, and then where you where you met your husband, where'd you guys meet? How long you been married? How long have you been married?

SPEAKER_01

Okay, we've been married for our anniversary just past this month. Um, congratulations. Yes, on July 10th on Milene's birthday. Oh yeah, my wife's Stephanie's birthday. Um, we've been married for wait 17 years.

SPEAKER_07

17. I don't know. Are you asking me or are you telling me?

SPEAKER_01

17 years. 17 years, yeah. Because Mia's 16. Yes. 17 years, and then we met in the Bay Area.

SPEAKER_07

Actually, shout out to the Bay.

SPEAKER_01

Um, with um, well, Esme's gonna introduce herself right now, too, but with um her husband. So went to school with him. So they're cousins, which is a fun side note. Um, we're best friends married to cousins. Best besties, yes, married to the cousins, okay.

SPEAKER_05

And you've been married for 17, but you've been together for 26. I was 21. So 25. Yes.

SPEAKER_07

I was gonna say the math is not mathing, but thinking he has 16.

SPEAKER_01

It was my 21st birthday weekend when I met him. He was a wingman.

SPEAKER_07

Okay, real quick, real quick. 21st birthday weekend. Do you remember anything about that weekend? What did you guys do? Jell O shots? Did you guys go out? What was the doing?

SPEAKER_01

We went out. Um, we ate we I I hop randomly. Um there's always an IHOP story.

SPEAKER_04

I know these upstairs, downstairs club.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, wait, wait a minute. Are we gonna talk about that later?

SPEAKER_00

It literally was just upstairs and downstairs.

SPEAKER_01

It's not a quote for anything else. It was upstairs downstairs, um, but it was that weekend that I was like, oh, I'm gonna marry this guy. Yes, really, surprisingly, yes.

SPEAKER_07

What did he know that?

SPEAKER_01

I don't think no, I didn't tell him, but on the way home, um in your mind, in your mind. I told Edmund, oh, I think I'm I'm gonna marry this guy.

SPEAKER_07

Wow, how bold.

SPEAKER_01

He didn't have an option, he didn't have an option at that point. And we were late to her barbecue birthday party.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, and we got in trouble by your mom.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, so my mom was like, Where you been?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, we were supposed to be home by 12. We got there in the whole barbecue.

SPEAKER_01

I've been barbecuing action.

SPEAKER_07

Was I there?

SPEAKER_01

No, probably not. You didn't invite me. No, you were not living there, but we got in trouble.

SPEAKER_07

We got in trouble, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

But that's how we met. All right, long story short, like you said, we didn't want the whole story.

SPEAKER_07

But I was like, I gave you the whole shebang. All right, Ez, you're up.

SPEAKER_04

All right, my turn. Okay, so yes, I am Lily's bestie, which we're comadres. Yeah, yeah. The hubbies are cousins. Um, we met in junior high.

SPEAKER_07

Okay.

SPEAKER_04

So seventh and eighth grade. I bullied the guy, and apparently he liked it. Okay, okay, okay, okay.

SPEAKER_07

When you say bullied, are you talking about like you physically were beating him up or like taking his lunch?

SPEAKER_04

That I would steal his ice creams. I did steal them. Like I would just tell him what flavor he should choose. He would buy it. And then you would take it. Yes. Makes sense to me. I mean, it makes sense.

SPEAKER_07

And he just was like, okay, here you go.

SPEAKER_04

I mean, he claims that I bullied him, but I tell him, I mean, at some point he had to like this. So that's obviously he liked it. And he stayed with it.

SPEAKER_07

That's debatable, right?

SPEAKER_04

If we ask him, it's gonna be it's open to interpretation, I'm sure. But lucky him, he got married too. All right. We will, we will fact-check. We will fact check. I've been holding him hostage for all these years.

SPEAKER_07

Shout out to my boy Edwin and shout out to my brother-in-law Jensen, if you're listening.

SPEAKER_04

But as seventh and eighth grade, and so yeah, of course we didn't, you know, that was we just met in junior high. Okay. Um, we were friends, we stayed friends all through high school, uh, reconnected at 21, went out to the bay, party. Yep. That's a good one. We met Jensen, yes, was in the picture. Um, and then we actually did our own thing again. We reconnected at 24. Okay. And so we've been together since we were 24. This um August 8th, we'll be celebrating 18 years.

SPEAKER_07

Damn, 18 years, just like that, huh?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, just like that. Blink of a knife.

SPEAKER_07

Wow, wow. It sure does.

SPEAKER_04

I mean, yeah.

SPEAKER_07

All right. So today, look, we're not gonna do any serious marriage issue talk, okay? We're not here to talk about like I don't want to know your deep secrets about your marriage. This is not a therapy session, it's not this is not a therapy session, okay? Uh we're not gonna adventure. We're not gonna talk about embarrassing stories, only if you want to share, though. If you have a little embarrassing one, that's not too bad. That's not gonna make him feel like, damn, I'm gonna get you for that.

SPEAKER_05

He looked at me.

SPEAKER_07

Feel free to share. Feel free to share. Um, and then uh we're gonna talk about husband behaviors, okay? Let's you guys want to get into husband behaviors? Let's go for this. Off the bat. Yes. Okay, so okay, obviously, you guys, we've all well, we've been married for X amount of years, right?

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, we're all married, yeah.

SPEAKER_07

And you guys, we just obviously discussed how long we've been married. So you should know your husband very well at this point. Um, what are some things that you think are like, damn, dude, I just I I just want to punch you in the face.

SPEAKER_06

Or or wait, I thought we were gonna get no bashing.

SPEAKER_07

There's no husband bash in here. But I have to set the tone as far as like I want to I wanna make you feel like it just drives you. I do hate that. I do hate that about my husband. Um but of course, men are men, right? Man or man have of course I'm a I'm a man here, so I'm I'm I'm the first to admit that there's certain things that we do that I know drive you crazy. Wait, okay some of the things that I can think of off the bat, right? Like uh taking a sip uh from the milk jug or and leaving it or not taking a sip, drinking milk, leaving the the gallon there with like one sip left, or leaving cabinet doors open, or leaving the toilet seat up, right? That's a big one here. No, no toilet. Am I the one that's gonna get crucified today?

SPEAKER_01

Come on, not even my boy.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, no, sorry, you're alone there. So he he's gotten better at it then. I have that's Mirlane's eaters, yeah, yeah. He's giving me notes.

SPEAKER_07

So think about something that you you question, and the wife's perspective is like, why does my husband do that? So, what are some things that drive you ladies nuts?

SPEAKER_05

Okay, so should I start? Go ahead. Okay, so once again, Mirlane here. Okay, one thing my husband does that drives me nuts is keeping track of the mileage in my car.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, I think my sister can take that too.

SPEAKER_01

He even keeps track of your mileage. I don't care about my mileage, he takes he cares about mine.

SPEAKER_05

Yes, so for example, my vehicle right now, not too long ago, the service required, you know, the light went on. Yes, and he started doing research right away like, how long can I drive before I have to get a service? And blah blah blah blah blah. So he put a limitation based on the information that he found on the internet. Yes, and he told me you cannot drive it this many miles anymore because you're gonna cause issues to your vehicle. So I seriously only been driving my vehicle to work and back, or maybe to store and back, and I haven't been able to really drive it since that light went on because of that. Luckily, it's gonna get serviced in a few days.

SPEAKER_07

So I can't I can't rebuttal, right? There's no rebuttal in here, it's just basically just like you're gonna give your perspective and that's it.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, yes, I'm sure he stresses out every time he sees my mileage in my car. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_05

Yes, and it was he secretly tells me, hey, uh, she has like $90,000. $90,000. Oh, yeah, that's uh miles on her vehicle, and it's only like two, three years old. That's right.

SPEAKER_07

That's right. My dad, I think, is the one that traumatized me in that way. The girls didn't care, but my dad would always preach to me, like, you better be careful the way you drive your car, don't be driving it so much because your only your engine's only gonna last you so long, etc. etc. So that's been ingrained in my head since then. So I think that's why I'm so picky.

SPEAKER_05

But it drives me nuts. It drives you nuts, okay.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, and he you're he's driving you nuts too. Well, yeah, because I'm like, it's what like what are you doing? Like, I I'm living. You're like, I pay for the car night.

SPEAKER_01

You like I have to go back and forth.

SPEAKER_07

I drop out with my kids, I have to go to work.

SPEAKER_00

You travel for tournaments.

SPEAKER_07

I mean I think I'm just I'm just paranoid when it comes to that kind of stuff. I don't know.

SPEAKER_04

Obviously, I mean, unless you're reselling it, drive the ship. Exactly. Like, you're reselling literally is what I'm doing.

SPEAKER_05

Tell the work. We're that family that gets always letters in the mail. Your vehicle has such low vehicle, uh low mileage, we'll buy it off of you. And then some people's like, absolutely not. Exactly.

SPEAKER_07

Um, but if if for you wives out there listening, if you go through something similar, please comment, let us know. Uh, because I know I'm not the only one. I'm sure I'm not the only one that does that.

SPEAKER_04

I don't know.

SPEAKER_07

No, no, no. I can't be the only one.

SPEAKER_04

Car situation. Okay. So this is gonna be a little off topic, but okay. We go to the beach. Okay, we go on to the beach, we have so much fun. Right, it's been a beautiful day. We're in Oceano. Birds are chirping. I mean, they've gone off-roading, they've gone fishing, everybody's had a blast. Yeah, we bonfired, we made s'mores. It's time to go home.

SPEAKER_07

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_04

Pack shit up.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, okay. Here we go.

SPEAKER_04

We pack up, we're driving out. Do we get to go straight home? No, we don't. No, absolutely not. We have to go to the gas station, drive through, make sure the truck gets washed from the bottom because it cannot have sand. No, sand will damage the car.

SPEAKER_07

Wow. I didn't do that. I don't know why he's saying wow.

SPEAKER_05

No, I'm surprised that Denji's not right behind us when we go there. I know.

SPEAKER_07

I didn't do that.

SPEAKER_05

That's because he didn't put dirt on the vehicle whatsoever.

SPEAKER_04

So see, we get to the point we drive it in, but we gotta go rinse it off. And it's so salt water and sand, just no way.

SPEAKER_07

And how long does that process take?

SPEAKER_04

I mean, it's not five minutes.

SPEAKER_07

No, no, so you guys are just sitting in the car.

SPEAKER_04

We we go through. And now again, like I don't know. Is this just a my husband thing?

SPEAKER_07

Or if I would have known, I'm pretty sure I would have been right behind him.

SPEAKER_01

I just facts the bouchons are sighty. We gotta go to the side too. I mean, I guess we have a lot of mileage and dirty car because we don't care. We're driving this car in the beach.

SPEAKER_07

We we have the sand in our my sister's enjoying, she she's enjoying life to the fullest. I mean she doesn't she's enjoying it.

SPEAKER_04

And don't get me wrong, it's been fun, but it's like I'm ready to go home and shower and get ready for bed, and it's just like nope, not yet.

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Wow.

SPEAKER_04

But at least there's appreciate, yes, and I get it. Appreciation for the car. I get it. Like, you know, you gotta take care of it. So it's I think it goes along that, right? The taking care of. But I'm like, oh man, can we do this tomorrow?

SPEAKER_07

I wanna say that we both are OCD. I would I would yes, I think so. And I know Edwin. I know Edwin.

SPEAKER_05

Yes, I I'm gonna agree with you, as me as we have a lot of similarities, very, very uh, but that's different because we're not even allowed to put a grain of salt in the car. Yes. So we have to take different shoes, towels to powder, that that's the secret that you uh powder, uh to rob out the throat.

SPEAKER_07

Take it off your feet.

SPEAKER_05

Any which way where sand does not get into the vehicle, and we never drive in, even if we have for a what do you mean?

SPEAKER_07

We once what are you talking about?

SPEAKER_01

Once this is one time, one time, once okay, and then we got stuck years ago.

SPEAKER_07

Remember in when we went camping and we were like there was a sand area, yeah, yeah, yeah. Twice.

SPEAKER_01

So it wasn't different, once this is a long time ago. Twice and 26, different vehicles when they have the vehicle that's perfect for the sand, yeah. Yes, by the way. And we're the ones that probably don't, and we're just all up in there, all up in there.

SPEAKER_07

All right, sis. What's what's your thing?

SPEAKER_01

My thing is probably the whole thing that I mean doesn't drive me nuts all the time, but depends if I'm in a rush when he can't come out and just get in the car. No, no, yeah, you know, he's getting in the come coming to the car and oops, he forgot something, or he has to go back to get something, or I mean, I don't know. All of a sudden he needs to use a bathroom and we're all in the car waiting. Yes, I think that's the one that's kind of my thing that kind of drives me nuts. Um, again, if I'm in a rush, which I feel like I always I feel like I'm always in a rush. Does but not because you're always in the early early early eye. But not because I'm always early, that's for sure.

SPEAKER_07

Does he okay? So let's say you're waiting because he has to go to the restroom, right? Before you hit on the lockdown. Is it that's gonna save you time in the long run, no? Or or do you continuously stop along the way?

SPEAKER_01

No, you know what's funny? I we could probably continuously stop, but for other reasons, for other reasons, for the reasons, but like just actually getting in in the cart, and it can be just coffee stops, coffee stops, coffee stops, but this is just whatever. We're gonna go to visit you guys, we're gonna go get a get to eat down the road. It always constantly like we're in the car thing, okay. What did I forget? Or what is he gonna go back to get? Like, we're always guessing at what he went back for. So, I mean, I don't think I want to kill him, maybe sometimes, but like you know, it's more of a uh how we were leaving.

SPEAKER_07

It's it's so it's more like a a time thing, really.

SPEAKER_01

It's just a time thing, and I know, and everybody always makes fun of me, but you guys are always the first ones there, anyways. But once again, I think we're going back to how we were raised that's how we were raised being there earlier. If you're on time, you're late. You're late. Alice really is on time on this. Yeah, at least 15 minutes earlier, 10.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah. Okay, uh, now let's kind of shift it a little bit. Same kind of spirit, ladies. I'll keep keep the same spirit, all right. Um what do you think uh your husbands or men in general are dramatically worse at?

SPEAKER_01

Being sick? I was thinking that absolutely a hundred percent.

SPEAKER_07

Can you elaborate, please?

SPEAKER_05

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_07

Am I going to do that? I'm looking at you.

SPEAKER_05

Oh my goodness. Oh okay. So you know, if if we get sick, we cannot stop. No, like we still have a house to run, we have kids to feed, we have chores to do, so we push through. Okay, the majority of us do, and our body, I feel like it doesn't like it.

SPEAKER_01

It just keeps going pilot.

SPEAKER_05

It just keeps going, like there's no stopping unless like it's a really bad case, like once in the blue moon, right? Like the stomach flu. Exactly.

SPEAKER_07

Is that going around right now?

SPEAKER_05

It is going around.

SPEAKER_07

It's going around right now, yeah.

SPEAKER_05

But men, it could be, oh, I have the flu, and I they're out for like a week in bed.

SPEAKER_07

So you're saying that I'm out for a week when I'm sick.

SPEAKER_05

Without you're out for many days, yeah.

SPEAKER_07

Really? I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_05

You do?

SPEAKER_07

Okay.

SPEAKER_05

And he's out, and when I mean out, I mean he's in bed, he's stuck in bed, and he's having a hard time. He can't sleep, he needs this, he needs that, and you know, just like a it's it's like the worst baby, the biggest baby you've ever seen. If they could, they'd probably have a little bell next to the bed.

SPEAKER_07

I actually I actually do have a cowbell.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, you really have a cowbell, but we keep it in here, not in the house. Yeah, and then all of a sudden, you know, they need a blanket because it's cold. Sweat it out. The sweating.

SPEAKER_04

Let me put a hoodie on, let me put sweats on, let me put everything on. And then take it off.

SPEAKER_07

Let me put some uh vapor rub on the beef. Let me uh go ahead and overdose on NyQuil.

SPEAKER_05

Yes, yes, my hey, or my grandma used to put alcohol on my feet. My grandma used to put his feet, and and she used to put alcohol on our stomach, or the potato or the bread.

SPEAKER_07

On the belly button, for those of you that grew up in a Mexican household, you know what we're talking about.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, right? So yes, all of it. Filipino husbands that we didn't I didn't do the potato or anything.

SPEAKER_07

But okay, but now I'm speaking about Filipinos, right? So you guys are both married to Filipinos. Yes. Uh do they have similar customs? Yes. Yes. Okay. Yes. So do they do they believe in the VIX and the vapor rub and the all that stuff?

SPEAKER_01

We have another one like they have tiger bombs, and there's the lumpus. Yeah. That's yeah. So they have similar. Similar, but obviously different names for it, but it's the same thing. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_07

All right.

SPEAKER_05

So yes, men are crybabies.

SPEAKER_07

Okay, so being sick is one.

SPEAKER_05

Being sick. What else?

SPEAKER_07

What else are we thinking? If that's it, then okay, we we we got it easy there.

SPEAKER_00

No, that's a big thing right there. That's huge. Um, I think repeat the question.

SPEAKER_07

Okay, so what are we well men? What are we not good at as far as um like when it comes to life? No, no, no, no, no, no, life in general. What are we what are we dramatically what are we dramatically worse at?

SPEAKER_04

That's what I was the question about how about you guys would have to take the kids to school. Okay, now now we're talking. Now we're talking. Let's do the sports, drop offs and the pickups, different locations. Um, let's go home. Let's uh do a load of laundry, let's make some dinner, um, let's clean everything up. Okay. Let's go back and pick the kids up, then let's come home.

SPEAKER_07

So basically, chauffeur. Yeah. Uh the whole thing.

SPEAKER_04

That's what we do on a daily. That's what we do on a daily. So I don't doubt that it couldn't get done, but there might be a little complaining.

SPEAKER_00

There might be hard to adjust.

SPEAKER_04

Yes, yes. For sure. And we go into that autopilot mode, right? Where it's just like we're just go, go, go. And it's like, oh shit, on this side of town. Oh shit, another town, and you're just back and forth and go and go. And sometimes it's just easier to handle it. But would the husbands handle it? I'm sure they could.

SPEAKER_07

Uh we could, but we're gonna complain.

SPEAKER_01

You're gonna complain. You're gonna ask like 10 questions before, like, where do we drop them off? When and where? And where's the drop-off loom?

SPEAKER_07

Uh what time's her? Where's the dental place at? Uh, what's the doctor's name?

SPEAKER_01

No, we're not even talking doctor's appointment.

SPEAKER_07

We're just talking about it. I just did I just open up another can right now.

SPEAKER_01

And then on the way there, it's still um, they still call you.

SPEAKER_00

Yes. Is it here? Did you say here? Do I drop them off in the front and the back or do they know?

SPEAKER_04

So who's picking us up again? Because they're waiting outside now.

SPEAKER_07

Wait, what's my social? What's my social? Where's my passport? I know it's my passport, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, yeah. And that's another thing, like taking the kids to the doctor's office when they don't can't report back of what was said, you know, as the kids are getting older now, so they get to tell you, they get to tell you what happened, but other than that, you won't get a report back.

SPEAKER_07

Do you ladies think that this is something that okay, because we come from uh you know Mexican household, the we grew up Mexican households, right? Mexican Filipino. No, but I'm saying us as Mexicans here. Uh, do you think that was the expectation uh the mother has to do X, Y, and Z. Yes, exactly. So, but I think it's changing. I think it's changing.

SPEAKER_01

I think it is, but we also take it. I think we also give it to ourselves. Yes, we do.

SPEAKER_05

Like it can't be done unless we do it, or nobody does it as good as we do. Yeah. We want to be in control of it.

SPEAKER_01

But but I think I think in a good way. Let's not give them ammunition.

SPEAKER_04

Husbands um allow us to be controlled. Is that what it is? Is that what it is? No, no. They prefer it.

SPEAKER_07

Me personally, if my wife is taking care of X, Y, Z, that's less things I have to worry about.

SPEAKER_05

I know. So And it's more like A through Z.

SPEAKER_07

Okay.

SPEAKER_05

A through V. A through V.

SPEAKER_07

Okay. And I'm not even going to rebuttal because this is this is not my platform as far as to you know rebuttal and that's a whole nother episode. Um, I just kind of want to get the takes here. Yeah. Get the, you know, if if the audience out there wants to, like I said, leave comments and and give their perspectives by all means. Um so okay, we got the we got the being sick, we got the not being able to handle the drop-offs and doing all that on a daily basis. The doctor visits. The doctor visits. Um, anything else that comes to mind that you're like, yes, this is one thing that I do want to bring up today because this is your chance right now. This is your chance. I could put the little music on.

SPEAKER_05

What about okay? I know that we talked about what we do, but being able to do it, like the laundry.

SPEAKER_07

Okay.

SPEAKER_05

That's one thing that just until recently, you've been helping me with. But for the last 25 years, yeah, I've been doing it. And no matter how many times I would tell you this is how you work the machine. Oh my god, I do.

SPEAKER_07

I want a rebuttal so bad.

SPEAKER_05

You can't, but I can't.

SPEAKER_07

No, no, I can't. You can't. I can't. Not today.

SPEAKER_05

Not today. No matter how many times I told you this is how you do the machine, okay, you still have to ask me questions, or you just don't do it enough because you didn't know how to function.

SPEAKER_01

Like they just invented the washing. Yes, yes, today. But you're right. But like you said, I think it's I don't know if we're we're going through some stage in life and men are as well, because my husband's starting to hop out as well with that. But before it was kind of like it's just it's you, me.

SPEAKER_07

And you know what though? Can I just say something here real quick? Growing up, and now this is this is our household, my my sister and I, I don't remember my dad doing much cooking or washing dishes, or even doing really anything in the kitchen, unless it's a special occasion, like he's preparing the barbecue, he's doing like a shrimp cocktail. It was really my mom in the kitchen, and and and now, but as he got older, yes, as he got older, I'm like, my dad's in the kitchen doing all this cooking, he's washing dishes, he's doing everything, mopping, everything. When did that change? I'm just thinking in my head.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, now that you're saying it is probably happening in the central midlife thing, and that's why I brought it up.

SPEAKER_07

Wow. Is it a thing? I don't know.

SPEAKER_01

It's a thing. I didn't think about that, but you're right. It was probably when he was in his mid-40s that he started doing it, but before that, it was literally my mom doing all the inside stuff with us girls, and the boys always did the outside stuff.

SPEAKER_07

My mom did the laundry and everything. Yeah, my dad had us outside cutting grass, washing cars, doing all that stuff.

SPEAKER_01

I guess we're thankful for that midlife thing for the helping house. Yes, yes, the switch.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, I mean, and it's not like we didn't learn how to clean our room and do that stuff growing up. We did, but really it was kind of like the expectations weren't as high, I think. Do your bed, do a quick little um, you know, vacuum, and that's it. There wasn't like clean the day the baseboard. I don't remember doing that stuff growing up. Yeah, I don't.

SPEAKER_05

No, in my household, we did.

SPEAKER_07

Okay, well, you but you grew up with a girls.

SPEAKER_05

We had two boys, yeah.

SPEAKER_07

So yeah.

SPEAKER_05

I want to say something about that too, though, but because it it's come it's happening at around the same time. We as women are also learning to let go. Yes, okay, like okay, I know that my husband and kids are not gonna clean or do things exactly as I would do it, and I'm getting okay with that. And I'm okay with that. Yes, agree. I think it's a combination of both. Like, we're allowing them to also do more because we're gonna be okay if it's not done perfect, and the house is not gonna come back. I thought this was in therapy.

SPEAKER_01

Now I'm totally because I totally thinking, like, you're right, girl.

SPEAKER_04

Like we're both going through some things and changing, yes, same, and I think we're putting more responsibilities on the children. Yes, yes, and they're not so children anymore, they're teens now, you know, but it's happening all around the same time. Yeah, all kids are all around the same time. We're all changing, yes, everybody's changing. We're morphing guys, we're morphing more guys, butterflies change, but we're evolving.

SPEAKER_00

We are look at us.

SPEAKER_07

We're being dramatic.

SPEAKER_00

Look at us being looking at the menopause and all that. No, no, no. I just it's just an observation. Menopause for men and women. Yes.

SPEAKER_07

That's a thing, right? Yes, it's a thing. Yeah, yes.

SPEAKER_00

Is that the is that the same term though for real? I don't know. I I don't know what the other term it is. I'm gonna say menopause.

SPEAKER_07

I guess well, I guess uh if you look, if you probably put Google that, I'm sure I'm sure something that affects similar to that.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, there is. There has to be. And probably the listeners are probably saying it out loud, like sis, but I can't think about it. I can't think about it. I know.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, so um any anything else, ladies, that we can think of before we move on to the next segment? Or is that it? Is that all you guys want to discuss as far as um things, you know, things that we think were that you know that were more dramatic?

SPEAKER_02

A little more dramatic on that, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

I think we're good for now.

SPEAKER_07

For now, for now.

SPEAKER_04

Until we remember something else. I know.

SPEAKER_07

Yes. Any any luck there with the with the search?

SPEAKER_05

Um, no?

SPEAKER_07

I'm we're very we're very curious.

SPEAKER_05

The the term male menopause is used. Uh in medicine, the condition is more accurately called late onset hypogas. Oh, that's too much. That's too much.

SPEAKER_07

I don't like it.

SPEAKER_05

Andropause. Andropause, yeah.

SPEAKER_07

Like Andropause?

SPEAKER_05

Andropause. Andro.

SPEAKER_07

Andro. Yes. And and what what's the age? What is the age? Uh you have a range there.

SPEAKER_05

Usually starting between the ages of 30 and 40. Starting.

SPEAKER_07

40.

SPEAKER_05

Oh, but that doesn't make sense because it seems like the change is more like 40, I think.

SPEAKER_04

Maybe as 40. Maybe as we go through our menopause, then they kick into gear, like, oh shit, we got a hand.

SPEAKER_01

Maybe it depends when we go through it.

SPEAKER_05

And that was according to Chat Chippy.

SPEAKER_07

I wish we had a doctor here or something that can answer the question.

SPEAKER_05

Compacha is uh is the compachas out there.

SPEAKER_07

Compacha didn't he didn't really help much, huh?

SPEAKER_05

He didn't. I mean, he didn't like the terms. Andrew Paws. Andrew.

SPEAKER_07

Okay.

SPEAKER_05

Andrew Paws.

SPEAKER_06

And some Andrew. And he drew a pause. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07

Okay, now let's let's let's go, let's let's change it up a little bit. So now let's talk about okay, your husband, think about your husband, obviously. And think about the things that he does that he in his mind, he's like, man, I'm I'm awesome at this. But you're like, no. But you're like, no, no, you're like, no, not really. But you don't want to you don't want to hurt his feelings. You know what I mean? I mean, it doesn't have to be anything like crazy, but uh, it could be fun. I mean, it could be it could be like um innocent, you know, something innocent that you're like, baby, okay, good, good effort, good effort, but you know, no, just don't don't do that anymore. Or I gotta tell you the truth.

SPEAKER_04

Good effort on trying to fold the clothes, but no, I wouldn't let it fold.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, okay, here we go. Let's talk about laundry now. Girl, now they're not gonna want to do the laundry.

SPEAKER_04

You see, we can't take it away. I appreciate that you did the laundry and that you folded the clothes, and then as we refold. Yes, we're refolding as we're putting it away.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, but I appreciate you. Like the other day, I was like, babe, well, you know, I have to go pick up practice. Can you make the, you know, the simple orange chicken? Can you go ahead and do the orange chicken? He's like, Yeah, no, yeah, you'll go and I'll start the orange chicken. I'm like, okay, cool. I come back, yeah, and I was like, What wait, what is happening here? Like, what is happening? You know, we usually you know, again, this is the easy, like, you know, the treaty's one. You put it in the air fryer, then you add the sauce, you know. All of a sudden I see him in the pan frying the chicken. And I'm like, he's like all happy making the dinner. And I was like, wait, what's happening here?

SPEAKER_07

He thought he was a chair for the babe.

SPEAKER_01

I thought you said to make the orange chicken. And I was like, Oh, not from scratch. I mean, since when did we do it in the saucepan? So I saw I read it afterwards that you could put it in the air fryer, and I was like, Oh, yeah. But he tried, he tried, but it was one of those moments. I mean, he thought he was all good there, but sorry, boo. Yeah, but it's easier in the air fryer.

SPEAKER_00

It is.

SPEAKER_01

We do it in the walk.

unknown

We do it.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, you do it in the walk. I do. No, girl, I just boom, boom, easy. Especially when we're in and out of getting the kids some practices and stuff like that. Okay, it's time.

SPEAKER_05

You do air fryer, you do walk, I do oven.

SPEAKER_07

Oven. Wait, did you say the same bag of chicken? Yeah, did you say wok?

SPEAKER_04

W-o-k, a walk. A walk.

SPEAKER_05

It's a deep pan for like Asian food. Stir fry. Stir fry usually in there. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_07

Do we have one of those?

SPEAKER_05

We did, but then we get them in different sizes. I know. We we did up to uh uh a few months ago.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, I know, no, because I I remember we used to do like uh we do the stir fry on that. Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_00

Once again, he didn't put the dishes away, so he didn't even know you didn't know we had it. And that was gonna be mine, Lily.

SPEAKER_07

Go ahead, go ahead. Let's let's you wanna you wanna go ahead?

SPEAKER_05

I mean, I'm loving that he's helping with the house a lot more, but what drives me crazy is when the dishes are not put back where they belong. And I'm looking for the can opener or I'm looking for a special spatula or something, right? And it's nowhere to be found, and there's nothing dirty in the house, and I can't find it. Where did it go?

SPEAKER_07

So you're 10-minute dinner became 30 minutes. It's the husband's fault.

SPEAKER_05

What I'm saying is pay attention.

SPEAKER_07

Okay.

SPEAKER_05

Where did you find it? Where did you get it from? And then put it back in the same place.

SPEAKER_07

But when we ask, we get in trouble.

SPEAKER_01

But do you though?

SPEAKER_07

We do.

SPEAKER_01

But do you ask? Well, you know what though? Maybe because they asked like 10 times before, and we're like, what it is.

SPEAKER_07

Oh man.

SPEAKER_04

And anytime after three, the volume goes up.

SPEAKER_07

Any any other innocent things that we can think of, ladies, that you're like, yeah, good try. Good try, but nah, not quite.

SPEAKER_01

No, other than the laundry, some cooking, the sweeping.

SPEAKER_07

No, no, no, like singing in the shower. No, nothing like that.

SPEAKER_05

It doesn't bother. No, scrubbing the shower.

SPEAKER_07

Okay, scrubbing. That's yes, of course. There we go again.

SPEAKER_05

We're back to cleaning.

SPEAKER_07

We're back to the clean and our expectations.

SPEAKER_06

Yes, once again, letting go. Letting go. Like, I'm taking a shower. I'm like, oh, he didn't scrub there.

SPEAKER_07

All right.

SPEAKER_01

So moving on and on.

SPEAKER_07

Let's go to the next one. So, do your husbands have any weird or useless talents that you can think of?

SPEAKER_01

Oh, yes.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_01

So Jensen since I met him, he takes off his shirt and he can move his chest up.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, wow. That's I've never seen him do that. For real? I've never seen him.

SPEAKER_01

I mean, that's one of his talents. So and Kathy, we need to ask you.

SPEAKER_07

We're gonna make sure he does it in front of everybody when we need to fact check this.

SPEAKER_01

And he still does it randomly. He'll just come out, take his shirt off, and then tell the kids, and he starts moving his checks back and forth.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, so that's a useless talent, but well, some say you some would say use, you would say useless, but other people would say no.

SPEAKER_01

He's very talented, that's a talent.

SPEAKER_07

In the Philippines, I'm sure that he would be like, come check out the guy that does uh the chess movie, right?

SPEAKER_01

He's got talent.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_01

You never just go up and down.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah. All right, who wants to go next?

SPEAKER_00

Let's see.

SPEAKER_07

Useless talents.

SPEAKER_00

Um, you moonwalk.

SPEAKER_07

I do moonwalk. Oh shit, but how would that be useless though?

SPEAKER_06

Is it getting us famous money?

SPEAKER_07

If we're at a w if we're at a wedding or at a party or something, you don't do it at parties. It could come in.

SPEAKER_01

That's what is useless. He it's have you ever seen him? No. And hello, I'm related to you. Exactly.

SPEAKER_07

Hello, my sister and I used to break dance in the house.

SPEAKER_01

No, not moondance. Not moondance. Hey, I had to say when we when you guys had that little 4th of July party, Michael Jackson was on. I didn't see him. Exactly. I didn't even see him.

SPEAKER_07

I'm not out there.

SPEAKER_05

He like spontaneously does it here and like very random.

SPEAKER_07

I'll do it in the kitchen. In the kitchen.

SPEAKER_05

Well, he's wearing socks because it's a lot easier.

SPEAKER_07

Of course.

SPEAKER_05

But he can do it.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, is it the white socks that he didn't get to wash, but you did? Yes. Oh, yeah. Yes. Figured.

SPEAKER_02

The ones that are not sponsored by Nike.

SPEAKER_08

Fruit of the Lumen.

SPEAKER_07

Are we going to get into that, Osmi? Because I know exactly what you're talking about. We can get into that later. But yes, I know. Um, okay, so the moonwalk. Wow, babe. That's all you can that's all you can come up with, the moonwalk.

SPEAKER_05

Do you want to give me another hint?

SPEAKER_07

I thought I was really into like you, everybody always says, man, you know a lot of sports trivia and everything.

SPEAKER_05

Oh, yes. Oh my goodness. So Sergio can tell you every piece of facts about any sports team player.

SPEAKER_07

But it's never come in handy.

SPEAKER_05

But he's never like never used it.

SPEAKER_07

Never went on a game show, never went on a game. Not even at a trivia show when you go to the bar or anything. Nothing. No, no. Nothing.

SPEAKER_05

Just randomly he'll start speeding facts.

SPEAKER_04

I'm like, okay, so you know, I'd have to piggyback that Edwin is like that too. Yes. Edwin can have a conversation with somebody he just met. Yes. The person will mention a name, and Edwin will just be like, oh yes. I, you know, yeah. Oh, let's just say it's like a golfer.

SPEAKER_07

What do you think we talk about all the time?

SPEAKER_04

And I'm like, and I'm looking at the kids like, oh yeah, sure. He doesn't need golf or anything. Google. And then I'm like, oh shit. Let me Google that. He knows the stats. Yes. He knows what's happening. Ah, Cameron.

SPEAKER_08

Ah, Cameron?

SPEAKER_01

My husband impresses me. Like, wait, where did this? Desme's on the side, like some Google Jackie. He's like, damn.

SPEAKER_04

Is he just talking out of his ass, or is this for real? And this is like everything. I'm talking like sports that he doesn't play. Like, you know what I mean? Like, I would think, like, oh, if it's basketball, then yeah, like I get it's a good one.

SPEAKER_07

The Gold State Warriors only shot 53% from the line and blah blah blah, right?

SPEAKER_04

Players and information, but I'm talking like sports, rugby, rugby, something like just random like sports. I tell you, golf, he'll know stuff. Yes. And then he's talking about like different like music genres, and then he'll be talking about cars. And I'm like, Yes, where the hell did you get all this information from? YouTube. And I guess so. And I mean, he listens to podcasts as well, but yeah, how do you retain it all? Because I come to the point where I don't retain shit. Like that's a menopause. It's not even selective retention as a mercy. Selective retention. Because then I'll be like, babe, what did I say? And he's like, Oh, about what? Oh no.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, but that's a whole different story right there. Oh.

SPEAKER_04

But yes, so yeah, fun facts. Like he'll know all this shit about other stuff. And I'm like, Oh, yeah. How do we remember all this?

SPEAKER_07

Trust me, we we we've had some good conversations.

SPEAKER_04

I bet.

SPEAKER_07

Yes.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, fact that's a good thing.

SPEAKER_07

Spitting facts.

SPEAKER_04

Yes, facts. Just spitting facts. And I get it, like when they have stuff in common. You know what I mean? When you're talking with your friends or your family and it's stuff in common. But when it's with like people were meeting somewhere and stuff, and then it's completely something different.

SPEAKER_07

I'm like, dude, I didn't know you were an expert in, you know, whatever. In archery? Archery. Underwater basket weaving. What's that one um where they push the the thing with the with the in the oh the disc thing.

SPEAKER_06

What's that thing called? What's it called? So they're all moving their hands back and forth. I'm looking at it's a vacuum. I don't know. What are you doing?

SPEAKER_04

When they had the little shave, it was like the shaving the ice and they would normally go.

SPEAKER_07

I'm pretty sure he's an expert in that.

SPEAKER_01

I'm sure he knows. It's kind of hard to remember to watch. It kind of gives like when you take your kids to school, back to school night, uh-huh, and then you know your teacher says, Oh, yeah, your kid, this and this, and that you're like, Who is this kid? Yes, wait, what? What? My kid knew that? That's what it gives. Like, you know, what vibes vibes me? My kid's a poet? What? Right?

SPEAKER_07

He's a scientist?

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07

Wow, okay.

SPEAKER_04

I would say yeah. Impressive.

SPEAKER_07

Okay. So we all went, right? Yes, yeah. Okay. Now, what if you can think of something that your husband like owns that he just will not get rid of, like a shirt he's had from like 1998 or a pillow or a crusty ass pillow that my wife threw away when I wasn't looking? That I was like, where the hell was my pillow at? Oh, I threw it away. I got you a new one.

SPEAKER_05

I think, yes, I think that happened.

SPEAKER_07

It didn't know that's what I'm saying. Because it didn't happen.

SPEAKER_05

He's triggered.

SPEAKER_07

He's triggered right now.

SPEAKER_06

That's what he that's what he asked this question. Yes, yes. He wanted to talk about his question. He wanted to put me on bless.

SPEAKER_07

So is there anything you're asking?

SPEAKER_06

That your mom gave him. Oh.

SPEAKER_07

Is there anything that you guys can think of that you're like, oh no, he can't part with that. No way.

SPEAKER_01

I think Jensen kind of is hard to uh get rid of things in general. I think he's very like, okay, no, now this is gonna become my fishing sweater. No, this is gonna be my fishing shoes. And I'm kind of like, dude, you already have so many fishing shoes. You already have so many fishing sweaters. And then so I said, I think you can get rid of some. So I think in general, it's hard for him to get rid of things.

SPEAKER_07

Okay, but not in a not in a hoarder kind of way.

SPEAKER_01

No, no, no, not in a hoarder, but um but you notice it. But I notice it like you know, in the drawer, hella shirts, but he only wears the four, and it's like, can we get rid of the other ones? No, but just in case, you know, it's always like a just in case.

SPEAKER_07

Right? Yeah, well, because you never know.

SPEAKER_01

You never know what you need a random Mexico uh Mayata shirt that we went like on a trip a long time ago, like 10 years ago for our graduation. From senior night. I mean, where do you random shirt, right? Yeah, no, and then in the end, um when he take again, he uses them for fishing. Right, right, right. So in the end, he of all the pictures, it seems like it's the same trip. It's like always the same fishing sweater. Yes, it's like the same fishing sweater.

SPEAKER_07

You know what I mean? Yeah, but Jensen, uh, do you have any other clothes, dude? Do you own another tank top or same cutoff? Hey, like give me the signal if like you're you need help or something. Like if you're in distress.

SPEAKER_01

I know. And remember, let's not forget the old school corduroy pants he had. Oh, yes, the corduroy pants. He was so famous. He had them all colors, and it took him a minute to get rid of them.

SPEAKER_05

No, he still had them when they came back in style.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, he he never got rid of them. He didn't know.

SPEAKER_01

They've come back a couple times.

SPEAKER_07

I remember that's the first time I met him, he was wearing corduroy pants.

SPEAKER_01

Hey, that was a sneezel back then.

SPEAKER_07

That was not to get sidetracked, but you guys went to TJ that night and parted, right? Yes, yes, plenty of times. Plenty of times. Oh, yes. I remember like you guys showed up, um, you guys he picked you up, you guys left, and then when I came back, I was like ironing my universe.

SPEAKER_04

When we came back, I was talking about you were getting ready to go to work, and we were barely coming back.

SPEAKER_01

Yes. I think we even took a nap in the parking lot before we had to drive back together. Yeah, because we were not okay to drive.

SPEAKER_07

But hey, but the corduroys, the corduroids were the corduroys basically.

SPEAKER_01

But they were present.

SPEAKER_07

The corduroys were there. Black, gray, and black and brown. Never forget the corduroids.

SPEAKER_05

Yes.

SPEAKER_07

All right.

SPEAKER_05

Uh you hats. Hats.

SPEAKER_07

Okay.

SPEAKER_05

Shoes.

SPEAKER_04

Shoes and hats.

SPEAKER_07

Shoes for Edmond. Yeah. Are we agreeing there?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, I would say, and I would add too, I'd say hats, shoes, bikes, and s and boards. Okay.

SPEAKER_07

Skateboards.

SPEAKER_04

Skateboards. Yeah. And now we're adding a lot more um equipment, like a tool. Let's get started on tools.

SPEAKER_07

Does that sound familiar or yeah?

SPEAKER_05

Very here's your similarities. Hello, he needs his own place to store things here.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, okay. This is this this is a studio now, by the way.

SPEAKER_05

But it started out as a storage room.

SPEAKER_07

It was, then it converted to the story.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, so that should say everything. Yes.

SPEAKER_07

Okay. Yeah. Now, what about things that your husband collects or has? I know you kind of mentioned a little bit, but too much of. But useless. Like uh too many extension cords. Random cables. Random cables or something. Is that a thing still?

SPEAKER_01

Cables are still a thing because who needs that little USB drive that I don't even know any computer? I don't even know how a computer where you can fit it in. With that thumb drive, you might need it. We have, I think in our living room, we have like a like a little basket full of just random little cables and little things. Yeah. That he does not throw away. We don't throw away because we might need it.

SPEAKER_07

But it's so it's being stored.

SPEAKER_01

It's being stored, which you can randomly just buy on Amazon any cord you want. Yes. But we have a basket. And the moment you do get rid of it, you're like, damn, I have to order one from Amazon. I mean, not so long ago. I remember seeing it. Yes. Not so long ago. I went through them, but I he was present and it was like, yes, no, yes, no. I mean, we still have a lot of people. Is that difficult? Yeah, I mean, we still have a basket.

SPEAKER_07

Wow. But did the basket get smaller?

SPEAKER_01

It did get smaller. Okay. Because he noticed that we had like multiples. Yes. So we still have one of a kind, but not multiples anymore. Yes.

SPEAKER_07

Okay.

SPEAKER_05

We had a box too. I think we got rid of it not too long ago.

SPEAKER_07

You know, I think we got tired. We just said, you know what? Let's just freaking throw it away.

SPEAKER_04

We're like, we've had this cable for 20 years and we've never used it once. And then the next weekend, you need it. You need it.

SPEAKER_07

Where's that cable that we have?

SPEAKER_01

I told you. I told you. Oh, you don't got another situation. You know what else? CDs.

SPEAKER_00

C D Oh, I got rid of that. You still have CDs. You did. Oh, we still have 'em. We still have 'em.

SPEAKER_01

I donated boxes. It's like, why do we need 'em? No. This past time when I took stuff to the thrift store, my babe, um, ready.

SPEAKER_08

No, no, not really.

SPEAKER_01

Now you can look up any song and but I get when it's a mix because I mean back in the day I'll be.

SPEAKER_08

Right.

SPEAKER_01

Oh but not just your regular CD, but like the mixes I get, but the other ones come on.

SPEAKER_04

Oh no, he still has his little books with the CDs.

SPEAKER_07

You had those, babe, for a long time.

SPEAKER_05

Heavy so many. Oh, we still have two books. And it did take me a while. Actually, I got rid of them maybe five years ago. Probably about five years ago. It took me a while. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07

They they they traveled quite a bit.

SPEAKER_04

They did, yeah. I mean, tell me what can you play them in, though? Our car, maybe. Oh, that PlayStation? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_07

PlayStation.

SPEAKER_05

PlayStation. Yeah. DVD still. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Yep. But my husband's a collector. Yeah. I am a collector of anything, anything, and it drives me nuts. Anything that he discovers or becomes a fan of. A new hobby.

SPEAKER_00

A new hobby.

SPEAKER_05

A new hobby. He just collects and collects all the accessories, every gadget.

SPEAKER_07

I need to have all the colors.

SPEAKER_05

Every color. I mean, that's what he does.

SPEAKER_07

But I I would say that Edwin and I are very similar.

SPEAKER_05

In that sense.

SPEAKER_07

Because if we are wearing the the blue shorts, we gotta have the blue hat to match it.

SPEAKER_04

And the blue shoes. Right? It will look like you're not matching, but you're matching because you can't match match. You just have to kind of put it in the colour.

SPEAKER_07

It's gotta be, it's gotta blend in, right? But it's gotta go.

SPEAKER_04

But if you highlight pop a color, yes.

SPEAKER_07

If you're not feeling it, then you're not gonna you're not gonna go out. You're like, I gotta make sure that I look presentable.

SPEAKER_05

He changes more than I do, but for we go somewhere. I believe that. Yes.

SPEAKER_07

And which which I you mentioned one thing earlier, as me. You said like the the logos, like Nike or Adidas. So I don't know about Edwin, but I I I think he kind of is that way, but I'm not sure. If I'm wearing Nikes, I have to wear the Nike socks. I'm not gonna wear Adidas socks with Nike shoes.

SPEAKER_04

No, that's just like a even if the logos don't show, because he's one that's very low-key with his logos, it's kind of like a if you know you know what it is, but he himself, yeah, very similar in that sense.

SPEAKER_01

I think that's more old school mentality because the kids nowadays they wear like three different kids. They don't care. But I think it's more of the old school mentality of the whole brand thing.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, and it doesn't matter which brand can be. There was a time he was Kirkland from the edge with the even the slippers. I know he had the slippers.

SPEAKER_07

I don't I rock Costco Gear. I'm gonna rock Costco Gear.

SPEAKER_01

Colorado, he came out with the Kirkland socks, the Kirkland sliders, sweater, everything.

SPEAKER_07

But and I thought that Kirkland, if you know what Kirkland is, of course, if you're a Costco shopper.

SPEAKER_01

And we're all hardcore Koskly.

SPEAKER_04

Yes, we are. Yes.

SPEAKER_07

I thought Kirkland was gonna blow up like champion. Um the champion.

SPEAKER_04

So you were getting ahead of the trend.

SPEAKER_07

I was, but Kirkland never blew up. Not in that sense.

SPEAKER_05

Except if you're a Costco fan, yeah. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_07

I still have them. I was gonna say, did you get rid of them?

SPEAKER_05

No, I've been fighting for five years.

SPEAKER_07

I still wear my Kirkland uh slides and my shirts.

SPEAKER_05

We just got new Kirkland slides.

SPEAKER_07

No, these are not Kirklands.

SPEAKER_05

Oh.

SPEAKER_07

These are Adidas babies.

SPEAKER_05

Okay, we got slides at Costco's. Okay, and did you notice the socks? Adidas socks.

SPEAKER_07

Because if it's not the the universe, it just doesn't feel right if if I'm not matching the same brand.

SPEAKER_03

It's the generation even the kids laugh at themselves now. Mom, and then I had an Adidas shirt on, under armor uh sweatpants on, and Nike chum glass.

SPEAKER_04

No, they don't care. They didn't care. But now the parents do. The dad does.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah. All right. Um, so yeah, we talked about the collecting and stuff like that. Um, do your husbands insist on shortcuts, by the way? Just a quick shortcuts. No, not at shortcuts.

SPEAKER_02

No, I'm the one that's shortcuts.

SPEAKER_04

Yes, and we actually joke, a running joke in our family is if dad can find the long way, he'll find the long way home. Wow, because if it exists, he'll find the home. Yes, get somewhere. That's I'm like every minute saved is a minute extra time. And not my husband.

SPEAKER_07

Is he trying to as I was gonna say, is he enjoying the scenery, taking in the sights? I want to stop here and get a mango from the mango cart. I want to stop there and see that big dinosaur that I've seen 35,000 times.

SPEAKER_04

I don't know that he's necessarily gonna stop for that, but he wants peace when he's driving. Uh so he's gonna find the right tune or podcast, he's gonna prepare. It's a you know, it's a it's an event spirit. It's a process, it's a process.

SPEAKER_07

But I think that we are like that too. We like to set the mood when we're driving. Oh the music.

SPEAKER_05

If you're driving, I have no choice. Okay. Well, the driver, I mean, I believe in that because I'm usually the driver.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, and it depends on where we're driving to or where we're driving. How long it's gonna be. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Like I I tend to be uh a passenger, and not a backseat driver, but a passenger driver. Um, and if he I hate it when we're there's two lanes to turn left or right. He gets behind the longest lane, and I would go to the shortest one.

SPEAKER_07

She would kind of like go in and out of traffic just to save the city.

SPEAKER_05

We're not talking about me right now.

SPEAKER_01

Hey, remember, there's no rebuttal here.

SPEAKER_05

There's no rebuttal, no rebuttal, but it drives me crazy because I'm thinking like I could have been there five minutes ago. Yeah. Or this is not the route I would have taken. This is not the route, I would have taken the shortcut.

SPEAKER_01

I would have taken the shortcut. I'm totally the GPS girl, and we are I drive because I get car sick, so I'm usually the driver. I mean, Jensen will just fall asleep. I mean, so I'm the driver. And he's if he starts complaining, he won't because he knows that so you are the driver, obviously. I'm the driver because I get car stick, and I feel like I don't know if he does it on purpose, actually, but because I can be like uh the passenger with certain people, yeah, but I feel like his driving is a little bit more like uh aggressive, so it gets me car sick quicker. Okay, so then usually, I mean the kids, if he gets on the um the driver's seat, they they're tripping because I'm the one usually what's going on here, mom? So I'm the driver, which I'm kind of used to now, and I like it because I'm in control. We go back to pick the music.

SPEAKER_07

Imagine that. A woman that wants to be in control. Wow, surprise.

SPEAKER_01

I pick the music, I pretty much pick when we're gonna stop, you know. It works out in my favor.

SPEAKER_07

And Esme, does your do you usually do the driving or does Edwin do the driving?

SPEAKER_04

I'm a horrible driver. I will be the first to admit it. The older I get, the less I like driving at night. Okay, he's usually the one, especially if we're doing something like if we're going further, you know, long distance, then he's definitely the driver.

SPEAKER_07

And I've been on a trip with him, and he is he's a good driver.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, he's he likes to drive fast.

SPEAKER_07

He does, but he's a careful fast driver.

SPEAKER_04

Yes, he is.

SPEAKER_07

He's caught well from my experience now. I don't know.

SPEAKER_04

Let's talk about insurance. Insurance, here we go. But again, he's got the music to go with the tune, you know, to the speed. Yeah, yeah. Everybody's having a good time. If we're going long distance, it's gonna, it's always a whole vibe.

SPEAKER_07

It's a vibe, absolutely.

SPEAKER_05

Since we're on the vehicle topic, one thing that drives me nuts is parking the furthest spot away. Oh, oh Lord, yes.

SPEAKER_07

Is that similar? I know my sister's gonna say no, we don't care about that.

SPEAKER_05

Or we don't know he parked the farthest away from the front door because he doesn't want to be parked around other cars or gonna accidentally, yes.

SPEAKER_07

Because it it's ha it happened so much in the past where I was always getting door dings and it's irritating because and then what happens when you come out?

SPEAKER_04

There's a car parked right freaking next to you, and then it's like three inches away from your car.

SPEAKER_05

All that trouble still gets surrounded by vehicles.

SPEAKER_07

Yes, and there's like 60,000 spots over there available, but they have to park right next to your car.

SPEAKER_05

And no parking spot is good. I'm like, there's one right there, there's one right there, there's one right there. Nope.

SPEAKER_07

We have to like so I just end up dropping them off. Uh thank you, and then I I go park.

SPEAKER_05

I mean, it works for your favorite in midland. Yes, it does. It does.

SPEAKER_07

We had date night.

SPEAKER_05

He sees my face.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, we had date night last Friday. Last Friday, right? We went to oh, should we give a shout out to La Ventana Grill?

SPEAKER_05

Laventana Grill. Yum yum.

SPEAKER_07

Uh, Mexican food, fantastic. Um, Micheladas, the quesavir. Anyways, I'm gonna do it. Great view of the views. Great view. So I dropped her off in the front because there was no parking.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, and that parking there is the tightest.

SPEAKER_07

There was no parking, so I had to go find my own parking up in the hill somewhere. So I was like, you know, instead of me driving around with her, I'm just gonna drop her off, go check us in, and that way she doesn't get frustrated.

SPEAKER_01

Well, that one makes sense. Yes.

SPEAKER_07

So by the time we had a reservation too.

SPEAKER_01

So yeah.

SPEAKER_07

So by the time I got, I found I made I basically created my own parking spot and came back that she was on the table, you know, already, you know, talking to the waitress eating chips. So it works out. It works out sometimes. It worked out, and then and then I'm not stressing out during the evening, like thinking about the car and somebody gonna ding it. Yeah, so it's it's irritating for a little bit, but then at the end of the night, it's worth it because I have a good time. But there's that about it.

SPEAKER_05

But there's an issue there because there's times where he has parked.

SPEAKER_07

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_05

We get all the way in, and he's like, no, no, I have to go move it. I didn't like that parking spot.

SPEAKER_07

Yes.

SPEAKER_05

That's why it's OCD right there. That's OCD.

SPEAKER_07

Because there's people like leaning on your car.

SPEAKER_05

Oh no, I I they were standing too close to my car. I need to go move it.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, I don't like that. Well, maybe because they were trying to get away, and your truck is the one all the way over there.

SPEAKER_05

So they're like, hey.

SPEAKER_07

Once again, I'm OCD. Once again. Yes. Once again. It's not a excuse for everything.

SPEAKER_05

I'm OCD.

SPEAKER_07

All right. Uh should we should we change it up or or do you want to keep talking about that? Okay. Umards. Okay. Double standards? Okay. Or not?

SPEAKER_08

All right. Yeah. Yeah? Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_07

Okay. Um why is it okay? Just an example. Why is it okay when he has 20 fishing rods, Jensen?

SPEAKER_08

Jensen Edwin.

SPEAKER_07

Edwin. But you have too much target decor or too many Amazon packages or whatever. You order too much. So there's a double standard, right? Do you deal with that at all?

SPEAKER_04

I I feel like in ours, I have to, when he gets something new and it's it's cool, like let's just say it's another new, it's another new bike.

SPEAKER_02

Right.

SPEAKER_04

And, you know, and then I'm gonna go find something.

SPEAKER_02

You're traumatized with the bikes.

SPEAKER_04

And then and then I and then it'll be like, but babe, you already have that. And I'm like, oh, but babe, you already have a lot of bikes too. Everybody, every bike has a purpose. Right. Oh, you're right, you're right. And I'm like, I know. So I have to relate it in order for him to get it sometimes. Reminders. Very easy to be like, oh, but you already have one of those. Oh, you already have that. Yes. Before I say purses was my thing, I liked purses, you know. Then after kids, you kind of whatever outgrown. But there's other things where I'm kind of like, oh no, no, no, no, no. Remember, everything has a purpose. Right. So you have to relate it.

SPEAKER_07

Okay.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah. I do the same.

SPEAKER_07

Yes.

SPEAKER_05

I do the same. So if I'm because I'm into technology. Not as much as I was before, but like you still are.

SPEAKER_07

You still are.

SPEAKER_05

Um, so if I say, Oh, I want to get this, and he'll be like, Well, how much is it? And I'm like, Well, when do I ask you how much DJ equipment is? Double standards. True, true, true.

SPEAKER_07

True. Okay, yeah, double standards. You're right. Yeah, and okay.

SPEAKER_05

DJ equipment is very expensive. They're investments. They're investments.

SPEAKER_07

But it's an investment, and it has made us money, though. It has made us money.

SPEAKER_05

Oh, well, the DJ equipment, yes.

SPEAKER_07

Yes, it has made us money.

SPEAKER_05

It has made us money.

SPEAKER_07

Okay.

SPEAKER_05

But that's what I always say. Well, do I ask you how much this is? No, okay. Well, there you go.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_01

But I'm over here thinking though. I don't know.

SPEAKER_07

No double standards on your end.

SPEAKER_01

I'm sure there's plenty, but that I can think of.

SPEAKER_07

Nothing. Like, how about the way he spends money versus the way you spend money? Like lunches. How about lunches?

SPEAKER_05

Oh, good one. How about lunches? Oh, smoking. And cigarettes.

SPEAKER_01

Cigarettes. Oh, cigarette. Okay. Smoky. I mean, the lunches, you're right. No, you're totally right. I mean, it's every little um lunch out is like 20, 21, 22 for like a sandwich.

SPEAKER_02

Yes.

SPEAKER_01

And then, I mean, I we go out every Wednesday to go have some dinner. Yes. But it's not like we go out every day for lunch. No. And he does Monday to Friday.

SPEAKER_07

He Monday to Friday. Monday to Friday.

SPEAKER_01

It's a complete lunch, like a full-on $20 meal. $21. It's more like $30 now with the price for sure.

SPEAKER_07

Three-course meal. Right? Three-course meal. I'm just kidding.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, because it comes with the cookie. Yeah. Dessert. You gotta have dessert.

SPEAKER_07

So any other double standards that we could think of?

SPEAKER_03

Double standards.

SPEAKER_07

I mean, it doesn't have to be like, oh my gosh, that's horrible. It could be something innocent if you want to say. Nothing innocent, huh?

SPEAKER_05

That's a hard one I have to say. It is a tough one. It is.

SPEAKER_07

I'm gonna say yes, it's a tough one, but um, you know, if you Once again, this is your time to to vent, to express.

SPEAKER_05

I'm feeling better already. Oh yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07

So we're good, ladies? We're we're good with how we're feeling after after venting a little bit.

SPEAKER_08

For sure. Definitely.

SPEAKER_07

So now last last thing I want to talk about here before we before we end the episode. Um time time time off to yourselves.

SPEAKER_00

That's a good one.

SPEAKER_07

I know the three of you go out on Wednesdays. Yes, every Wednesday. You guys call it ladies' nights. Ladies' nights, it's not like you guys are out clubbing or anything. No, no, it's just like ladies' night, go have a nice little dinner, have a maybe a glass of wine every now and then, right? Every now and that's what I said every now and then. I'm not trying to say you guys are like like alcoholics or anything.

SPEAKER_04

But if anybody wants to give us some wine, I mean.

SPEAKER_07

So do your husbands do the same? Do they go out? Do they do their boys' night?

SPEAKER_01

Um, I think before used to be more of a thing.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Um, but actually, Jensen still does because on Thursdays he goes bowling. So he does have his night. He goes bowling on Thursdays. Everybody knows that's his day. Wednesdays mine. So yeah, he does. He has his Wednesdays. I mean, it's Thursdays. Wednesdays are mine.

SPEAKER_07

So Thursdays is his.

SPEAKER_04

Edwin will go riding sometimes too as well during the week, but then also, like, especially if he takes um, you know, Eves with him, they call it Dirt Church Sundays.

SPEAKER_07

Dirt Church.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, so they go to they go to the dirt church. That's that I like that.

SPEAKER_07

I like that. I like that.

SPEAKER_03

They do dirt church, yeah.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, and babe.

SPEAKER_05

And for you, no. No, you don't have to I don't go much.

SPEAKER_07

I don't I don't no no, I don't have a set day.

SPEAKER_05

I you don't have a set day, but you do have the studio, and sometimes you're like, baby, I'm just gonna go in there and do my thing.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, I'll be in here for hours work working on music or whatever. But what I was gonna get to is um d do your husbands when they do like boys, boys' day or boys' night, whatever it is, does is how much time is enough time and how much is too much? Is there like a limit to let's say, for example, you ladies go out for an hour and a half, two hours, and you guys are good, right? Do you think boys take advantage more of going out?

SPEAKER_01

I think depends on what the depends on the go out.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Fishing is a long time.

SPEAKER_07

Yes.

SPEAKER_01

I mean, bowling is at night when he goes, so it's kind of like we already kind of finished what we needed to finish, so it's all good. Yeah. Um, I think it's sometimes the fishing one that sometimes is like, okay, we were supposed to do this and you're not home yet. But yeah, other than that, the bowling one, we're good.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. The the the writing is usually a few hours. Yeah. But again, it's already been planned for.

SPEAKER_04

So it's kind of like, oh, it's good, it's gonna be happening.

SPEAKER_07

So then there's there's there's it doesn't seem like there's like anything that would kind of you would question. It's like, you know, have your have your time. Yeah, go vent, uh, I mean, go I mean you know whatever. Re-envice.

SPEAKER_04

That would be a double standard though, huh? They take more time though. Okay, that's more time than our time. All right, but we don't go tick for Tad, but that's right, right, right, right, right. Yeah, but you're right, yeah. Yeah, but we don't think of it that way.

SPEAKER_01

But since you mentioned it, I know, but I think it got easier because now our kids are older. Yeah, but I think it was a different story when they were younger. Yes, yes. And now that the kids are older, it's kind of like okay, do your thing, I'm do my thing. It's easy, yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Again, we're we're kind of morphing into a new tie, into a new young adults, yes, yeah.

SPEAKER_07

The kiddos, yeah. All right. Well, ladies, thank you so much for um coming on here today and kind of like you said, a little ventine.

SPEAKER_01

I think it was it was a nice little.

SPEAKER_07

If the guys are up to it, we can have a rebuttal episode, only if they're up to it, and we can talk a little bit about wives, we can talk a little bit about wives, and how great we are, and how awesome we are, how much we do for the family, keep the world going.

SPEAKER_05

They might be scared, I don't know.

SPEAKER_07

And then uh we can we can I don't know, we can talk very nicely about you, ladies.

SPEAKER_03

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_07

Only good things, but you know, just basically give us a chance to rebuttal because there's also obviously the husband perspective. Um, I think I I kind of held back today. I had to hold back today.

SPEAKER_05

I mean, you did not have the platform today.

SPEAKER_04

I did not have the platform today. Lane, try for us too. Yes. When when the boys come on, you're gonna need to be the one. I will be hosting that.

SPEAKER_07

If we do have it, if it if it does come through, yes, you will be the host. So yes, all right. Any any last thoughts? I'll like for me, it's basically you know, um, husbands are not perfect, obviously. Um be kind to your husband. If if he's trying, you know, just just give him the benefit of the doubt. Um, there's a lot of things that we obviously can't do that women do better, but uh at the same time, you know, we do try. We do try.

SPEAKER_04

Yes. Uh and it's noted. It is as long as you note it. Yes. I mean, we're still married, is there? Absolutely. Obviously, I don't think we would be married if we didn't see the exact.

SPEAKER_07

We're not perfect, we're not perfect, but perfectly imperfect.

SPEAKER_05

And we and we like that. Yeah. All the jokes aside, uh, you guys are good. Yes. Love you, boo. Love you, boo. All right, love you, babe.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, I'm right here, baby. Thank you. Um, until next time, guys, thank you for tuning in. Uh, appreciate it. Um, and if you have any, like I said, if you have any comments, uh, go ahead and drop them. And thank you once again. If you're enjoying the podcast and want to help support future episodes, you can check out the link in the show notes. Your support helps keep the podcast going, and it's greatly appreciated. Also, please leave a review and share with friends. That's Sergio says it straight, where the truth comes out. Whether we planned it or not, catch you next time.