Episode 22
Math is Math!
Episode 22: Math is Math!
Today, we’re diving into the chaotic world of parenting and the epic struggles that come with helping kids with their math homework. I mean, who knew that speed, distance, and time could lead to such mayhem? We’re feeling the pain of being parents trying to decode sixth-grade math, and let me tell you, it ain't pretty!
On top of that, we’re sharing some laughs about our recent adventures, like cooking for the Ronald McDonald House and a wild escape room experience. So grab your favorite snack, kick back, and join us as we navigate the hilarious ups and downs of family life!
Where to find and support:
Be sure to find your spot at Hammered Trivia
Listen to Thor’s Back story here on Casual Nonsense
Check out Stacie's Child Birth Education classes at www.Basicsofbbb.com
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Transcript
All right, everybody.
Speaker A:Welcome to Marriage and Mayhem.
Speaker A:I'm Mark, here with Stacy.
Speaker A:What's up, baby?
Speaker B:Hey.
Speaker B:I kind of miss, you know, it feels weird.
Speaker B:Like, I miss you guys, even though no one's even here listening.
Speaker B:Like, now that we've gone to like, two weeks, it's kind of like, what's everyone been doing?
Speaker A:I know.
Speaker A:I want more feedback from people.
Speaker B:Nobody listens or pays us any attention or gives us any feedback.
Speaker B:What is wrong with our listeners?
Speaker B:Get your shit together, listeners.
Speaker B:I mean, if we're boring you, then give us some shit to talk about.
Speaker B:Because clearly this relationship, we run out of funny shit.
Speaker A:We could get fired up.
Speaker A:We could talk about Trump.
Speaker A:That would really bring some mayhem to the table.
Speaker B:Let's just stay in our lanes.
Speaker A:Calm that down.
Speaker A:Listen, I just gotta say this morning.
Speaker A:This morning has been a.
Speaker A:I don't want to say a shit show, because it's not really the way to go.
Speaker B:Stressful.
Speaker A:But the time that, like, at the time of this recording, right.
Speaker A:Daylight savings just happened and so we've already lost an hour's sleep.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:So my day was already thrown out of whack.
Speaker A:And then I get up to an 11 year old needing help with math homework.
Speaker A:Let me tell you something.
Speaker A:That math homework sucks, right?
Speaker B:It's the worst thing that has ever happened to a parent.
Speaker B:It's awful.
Speaker A:It completely is.
Speaker A:And the fact that she comes over asking for help, and as we're like, we're trying to figure out these goddamn formulas, right?
Speaker A:Speed and pace and time.
Speaker A:Like, what is this?
Speaker A:I don't know, it's not useful for me.
Speaker A:And then you're trying to find the answer.
Speaker A:And then she's like, oh, forget it.
Speaker A:I'll just figure it out.
Speaker B:She's getting mad at us because we're not giving her it fast enough.
Speaker B:Or she just wants the answer and we're trying to explain it and she's like, I don't even know what you're talking about.
Speaker B:I'll do it myself.
Speaker B:And at this point, we're too pissed off that we're like, no, you're gonna sit here and listen how to do it.
Speaker B:And then she's tearing up and you're fuming.
Speaker B:I'm trying to sit here and Google how to do time, distance and speed algorithms.
Speaker B:And this isn't like just today, last week or a week and a half ago.
Speaker B:It was something with.
Speaker A:It's the same thing.
Speaker B:Parallelograms and finding areas of them.
Speaker B:Listen, they're in sixth grade, for fuck's sake.
Speaker B:If they're going to grow up and find out parallelograms and octagons and all kinds of stuff.
Speaker B:Good for them.
Speaker B:Let them learn it in college.
Speaker B:Right?
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:Now let's, like, just hit some basics.
Speaker A:Teach them how to write cursive.
Speaker A:Maybe, like, teach them how to balance a checkbook.
Speaker A:Maybe that's a thing.
Speaker B:Teach them, like, the value of money and it doesn't grow on trees.
Speaker B:Something besides, like, let's come up with these algorithms and fractions and all kinds of stuff.
Speaker A:It's all stupid.
Speaker B:I think we can do this in, like, more high school level now.
Speaker B:It's, like starting in third grade that, like, the math is starting to get challenging if it's too challenging.
Speaker B:That, like, adults have to be trying to research and Google how to do the math homework.
Speaker B:And, like, I find myself, you know, I'm relatively intelligent in some areas.
Speaker A:Relatively.
Speaker B:I'm dumb as a box of rocks in a lot of areas.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:But, you know, I have a postgraduate degree.
Speaker B:Is it math?
Speaker B:Absolutely not.
Speaker B:But if I'm struggling to do any sort of thing like this, this is ridiculous.
Speaker B:Anyway, it really set us off this morning.
Speaker B:So we're trying to, like.
Speaker A:Yeah, we're trying to.
Speaker A:We were about to come in and start recording, and we had our.
Speaker A:We had our plan together and we're like, okay, yeah, let's get this recording done.
Speaker A:And then this happens, like, literally 20 minutes before we hit record.
Speaker A:And now we're just super pissed off.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And, like, I'm very irritable right now.
Speaker B:I don't even like Mark at this point.
Speaker B:Like.
Speaker A:Like, it's my fau that you couldn't Google fast enough.
Speaker B:All right, so here we are.
Speaker B:We had our little vent session.
Speaker B:Hey, we're back.
Speaker B:Hey, honey.
Speaker A:So listen, on a positive note, I gotta drop this plug here because this is something that me and a couple of my friends have been going to.
Speaker A:And I think I'm going to drag Stacy along at some point.
Speaker A:But if you're in the greater Raleigh area, in the surrounding cities, towns, whatever, and if you like trivia, even.
Speaker A:If you like it even just a little bit, check out Hammer Trivia.
Speaker A:These guys put on such a good show.
Speaker A:They're very organized, they're very professional.
Speaker A:There's probably about.
Speaker A:There's probably about five or six locations every night in different towns.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:So check out their website, hammered trivia.com.
Speaker B:Wait, are you saying hammer or hammered?
Speaker A:Hammered.
Speaker B:Like drunk hammered?
Speaker A:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:Hammered.
Speaker A:The dude's name, that is the owner, his name is Thor.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:Which is not a made up name.
Speaker A:It's short for Thorsten.
Speaker A:And so he's like Hammer trivia with Thor.
Speaker A:So it's a play on Thor, but it's also true.
Speaker B:I wonder if it's just me or if the audience right now keeps thinking you're saying Hammer.
Speaker B:Like, are you having a hard time saying Hammered?
Speaker A:I talk fast.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker A:Tell you what, I'm gonna make it easy.
Speaker B:I'm gonna put Stuttering Stanley.
Speaker A:I'm gonna put the website address in the show notes.
Speaker A:Hammeredtrivia.com figure that out.
Speaker A:But it's there.
Speaker A:Anyways.
Speaker A:Check it out.
Speaker A:And if you care even a little bit about Thor is his name.
Speaker A:You can.
Speaker A:You can check out his episode.
Speaker A:We had him on the casual nonsense podcast.
Speaker A:And you can get his backstory if you're interested.
Speaker A:I'll put that link in there.
Speaker A:Anyway, that's my plug for Hammer Trivia.
Speaker A:So check it out.
Speaker A:It's very organized.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:Oh, this is the one feature they recently added.
Speaker A:If you don't know which one is close to you, there's a Google Map feature on.
Speaker A:On their website.
Speaker A:You open up Google Maps, it tells you.
Speaker A:It shows you where you are and there's little dots all around that tell you the closest locations and where you can go and on what days.
Speaker A:So there you go.
Speaker B:Cool.
Speaker B:I like trivia.
Speaker B:I'm just not good at it.
Speaker B:Or I get so pissed off because you always get all the answers before I do.
Speaker B:So that's.
Speaker A:Listen, you think that's bad, go with Terrence and Pete.
Speaker A:No, Terrence and Pete are encyclopedias, these guys.
Speaker A:So I'm just.
Speaker B:Wait too.
Speaker A:But they're on my team, so like, I encourage.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:So if I do trivia going with some other people.
Speaker A:Yeah, it's fun too.
Speaker A:It's fun.
Speaker A:And there's prizes every.
Speaker A:There's top three prizes every time.
Speaker A:He gives away drinks and shots as it goes on.
Speaker A:There's different things throughout.
Speaker B:Hence hammered.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker A:See, there you go.
Speaker A:Bang.
Speaker B:Cool.
Speaker A:If you remember before when I think you had it on tape when Gavin had his wisdom teeth out and then you have a video of him in the car.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:On like.
Speaker A:Cause he was under anesthesia and he was just kind of babbling about stuff.
Speaker A:So I had the pleasure of having Stacy in this state of mind recently.
Speaker A:So she had a procedure done and they bring her into this little room when she's done and she's in a wheelchair and totally dazed and confused.
Speaker A:I didn't record it.
Speaker A:And I kind of wish you did.
Speaker B:So I could have watched it.
Speaker A:In hindsight, I wish I did, too.
Speaker B:So, yes, I had this procedure at work.
Speaker B:It was in office, but I have never in my life had been under any anesthesia.
Speaker A:Ever?
Speaker B:No, never.
Speaker B:When have you ever been under anesthesia?
Speaker A:When I got my wisdom teeth pulled.
Speaker B:You were.
Speaker B:Oh, okay.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:Well, I don't have wisdom teeth, so I've never experienced that like most people have.
Speaker B:So I was terrified.
Speaker B:You know, my anxiety is always through the roof, no matter what.
Speaker B:So I was crying and crying and crying.
Speaker B:I know.
Speaker B:Before I went in, I was crying about it.
Speaker B:Only thing I know is the anesthesia put oxygen in my nose.
Speaker B:My IV was in.
Speaker B:I was, like, sobbing.
Speaker B:My friend held my hand.
Speaker B:That's it.
Speaker B:The next thing I know, I'm fully dressed, shoes are on, because I was naked, waist down for the procedure, because it was a little, you know, woman procedure.
Speaker B:And I'm like, how did I get here?
Speaker B:Why am I fully dressed?
Speaker B:Who did this to me?
Speaker B:And did I even have the procedure yet?
Speaker B:And I know I couldn't keep my eyes open.
Speaker B:This is my vision of what happened, and it could be completely different.
Speaker B:I remember that the doctor was in there talking about it, and I was, like, struggling to keep my eyes open.
Speaker A:I kept being like, this is before you went under?
Speaker B:No, this was when I came into the room, was fully dressed, and woke up.
Speaker A:Oh, you were a mess when you came in.
Speaker B:I had no idea what she was talking about.
Speaker A:You were, like, an emotional.
Speaker A:So they said you either get emotional or angry.
Speaker A:I'm glad you went emotional, because I've seen angry Stacy, maybe with a little vodka involved, and that's not pleasant.
Speaker A:So I'll take the emotional.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:I'm very emotional a lot, too.
Speaker B:But you see a lot of the annoyed and anger.
Speaker A:Yeah, but I was glad for the.
Speaker A:Because if you came into this room angry, suddenly, it would have been my fault.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:So when you came into this room emotional, now, I could be supportive and just giving you moments like, hey, it's gonna be okay.
Speaker A:Like, we can do a lot of the.
Speaker A:The.
Speaker A:Let's get you back on track.
Speaker B:I don't remember.
Speaker A:No, you don't.
Speaker B:Any of it.
Speaker B:I remember being like, I'm dressed.
Speaker B:I see you.
Speaker B:Somebody's talking, but it's kind of like.
Speaker B:Like, nope.
Speaker A:Isn't that every day in that office, though?
Speaker A:That's.
Speaker B:Yep.
Speaker B:Next thing I know, I'm in the car.
Speaker B:And then I felt like I was waking up more on the Ride home.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:It was fun.
Speaker A:It was fun.
Speaker A:I'm glad you made it through it safe.
Speaker B:Well, yeah.
Speaker B:Thank God.
Speaker B:Geez, I'm glad you made it through.
Speaker A:I'm glad you made it through, babe, because I don't think we had our will totally squared away or anything, so.
Speaker B:No, we don't even have a will.
Speaker A:So, listen, a couple weeks ago, we had a couple of children have birthdays, and in typical birthday tradition for these two chaps, we did.
Speaker A:We do a birthday escape room, which we talked about on the last episode, I think.
Speaker A:But now we actually did it.
Speaker A:And this was a pretty hard one.
Speaker A:And I'm happy to say that we escaped with, what was it, 15 seconds left or 30 seconds left?
Speaker B:No, we escaped with 1 minute and 35 seconds.
Speaker A:I don't think it was that much time left.
Speaker B:I think it was.
Speaker A:I think maybe you were under anesthesia looking at that clock.
Speaker B:No, it was 1 minute and 35 seconds that we had.
Speaker A:Interesting.
Speaker A:Well, we got out.
Speaker B:Maybe it was 35 seconds, I don't know.
Speaker B:But there was a 35.
Speaker B:Either way, we got two dots on.
Speaker A:The clock on the digital.
Speaker A:That's not a one.
Speaker A:Oh, there you go.
Speaker B:It was.
Speaker B:This one was great.
Speaker B:I thought it was fun.
Speaker B:We went to Bull City Escape in Durham, and we've done one other one there.
Speaker B:And they're.
Speaker B:They're good.
Speaker B:They're challenging.
Speaker B:They're definitely like.
Speaker B:Their puzzles are.
Speaker A:Are tough every time.
Speaker A:So you go into this room and you see, like, just visually as you're looking around the room, you see, I think it was like six or seven locks or combinations that you have to set up.
Speaker A:But then in this particular room, another room opened up, and then there was another chest.
Speaker A:And in that chest, you had to unlock that chest.
Speaker A:And then in that chest, there was like another three.
Speaker B:Yeah, there was a lot of locks.
Speaker A:Every time you turn around.
Speaker A:Combinations and locks and puzzles.
Speaker A:Combinations.
Speaker A:They're so cool to do this.
Speaker B:This room was pretty cool because it was all about UNC versus Duke, which here in, you know, Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:Big rivals.
Speaker B:Huge.
Speaker B:Everybody's college football.
Speaker B:Are you a Duke fan, Tarel?
Speaker B:Whatever.
Speaker B:And so the theme of the room actually was really cool.
Speaker A:Yeah, it was fun.
Speaker A:It was good how they did it.
Speaker B:So we did it.
Speaker B:We got out.
Speaker B:It was challenging, but it was a fun.
Speaker B:It was a cool theme.
Speaker B:So I liked that.
Speaker A:So if you guys are doing an escape room and you need to add on a couple more people, we're in.
Speaker B:Or even if you just want to add on one More.
Speaker B:I'm in.
Speaker A:I might suggest, you know, vetting who you invite for one more.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Do some interview process to make sure they bring something to the table.
Speaker B:If you want to go with Fun Time, then pick me.
Speaker B:If you want to go with.
Speaker B:Let's figure out this calculation and.
Speaker B:Da, da, da.
Speaker B:Well, fine.
Speaker B:Go with Mark.
Speaker A:All right, so listen, last time we talked to you, you were what, sending?
Speaker A:You were finding dates in a penitentiary you're writing letters to.
Speaker B:I wasn't finding dates, but I did sign up to be the pen pal, and I'd sent her a letter.
Speaker B:I still haven't heard any letter back, so I don't.
Speaker B:Because it said it could take, like, weeks for them to get it, but also, like, it could not.
Speaker B:They could not give it to her.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker A:Did you pick who you.
Speaker A:Yeah, like you said, I want this to go to, you know.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:There's only, like, a couple people, Whatever left to choose from, so you just pick whatever person you want.
Speaker B:And so I haven't heard back, so I was gonna write her again because what if, like, what do they call penitentiary?
Speaker B:What, the.
Speaker A:Sure.
Speaker B:Guards.
Speaker A:The correctional officers.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Like, whoever screens all this stuff.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:Maybe they didn't give it to her.
Speaker A:So you do know what this person was in for?
Speaker A:Or do we not find that out yet?
Speaker A:Because I'm curious of what they're in for.
Speaker A:Do they have nicknames?
Speaker A:Like, what's their.
Speaker A:What's their status?
Speaker B:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:I want to know these things.
Speaker B:I know what she's in for because I'm a detective online, so I found out, but I'm not gonna talk about it.
Speaker A:We'll let her.
Speaker B:And then her.
Speaker B:Her being incarcerated, I mean, I don't know her life in there.
Speaker B:I don't know if she's a name.
Speaker A:Like Nightmare Nancy or something like that.
Speaker B:No, I don't know.
Speaker B:I haven't talked to her.
Speaker B:Maybe she's gonna tell me about it if she writes back, but.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:I mean, so that was my outreach.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:You talked about last time, how you were volunteering, right.
Speaker B:For the Ronald McDonald House.
Speaker A:The Ronald McDonald House, yeah.
Speaker B:You and some friends or some co workers.
Speaker A:Some co workers.
Speaker B:So how'd that go?
Speaker A:So we went to the.
Speaker A:The Ronald McDonald House in Durham.
Speaker A:So it's near the Duke University campus.
Speaker B:And.
Speaker A:Yeah, there was supposed to be four of us.
Speaker A:Two of them kind of bailed to know one of them was sick, so I can't.
Speaker A:I'm not going to totally.
Speaker B:No, I thought only one.
Speaker B:I didn't know it was I thought the three of you were going.
Speaker B:And one wasn't able.
Speaker A:It was three.
Speaker A:We invited a fourth and he had some meetings and then the other one, all lame, got sick.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:So me and shout out to Keith.
Speaker A:Me and Keith crushed it.
Speaker A:So we cooked for about 48 people.
Speaker A:We did burgers.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:So I spent most of my adult life working in restaurants.
Speaker A:So I'm, I feel pretty good about.
Speaker A:I feel like that's my safe spot.
Speaker A:Like doing prep work, doing some like short term catering is what this was.
Speaker A:And yeah, we, we banged it out.
Speaker A:I got some pictures and stuff.
Speaker A:It was really fun.
Speaker B:Was it like a, like a gourmet kitchen area?
Speaker B:Was it like.
Speaker A:It was like three or four kitchens in one.
Speaker A:Like there was one big section with maybe like a, I don't know, like a 15 foot island which is where I laid everything out.
Speaker A:But then there was two or three like alcoves that had another sink, another stove, cabinets everywhere.
Speaker A:They have a lot of, a lot of items stacked around.
Speaker A:Like they had seasoning and plates.
Speaker A:They take a lot of donations.
Speaker A:I mean there's.
Speaker A:If you're not sure what the Ronald McDonald House is, I mean, look that up and see if there's a way that you can, you can contribute.
Speaker A:I'm gonna have the guy come on one of my other podcasts because he was a cool guy.
Speaker A:He was, you know, the way he explains what they do and you know, we met some of the people that came in there.
Speaker A:There was a little five year old girl in there and she was the cutest thing and she's watching us cut tomatoes or whatever and you know, she was cracking us up.
Speaker A:So yeah, it's, you know, it felt good to be in there.
Speaker A:So I was happy that we did it.
Speaker B:So I know what the Ronald McDonald House stands for, but I, I didn't even ask you this but like, is it a house?
Speaker B:Are you like in a house with this big kitchen and there's like rooms?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So where we get into, it's like this administrative area.
Speaker A:So they have some offices that they do their thing.
Speaker A:But I asked them the same question.
Speaker A:I said, is there an upstairs here?
Speaker A:Like it's like a hotel and you know these rooms.
Speaker A:So he showed me.
Speaker A:There's a, there's a couple, what they look like three or four floored apartment buildings that, that people stay in and there's, there's things for them to do because they do like people come and go depending on their situation, but they have a lot of people coming from out of town.
Speaker A:They have Kids.
Speaker A:So they have like Xbox rooms and they do different.
Speaker A:I don't know if they do trivia night or bingo.
Speaker B:I want to stay at the Ronald McDonald House.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I mean, hopefully you never have to.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:But they try to entertain the best they can.
Speaker A:So we're going to go back there, we're going to find a dinner night to do next time.
Speaker A:Dinner is usually, he said, about 60 people or so, but again, like, people come and go.
Speaker A:Like, there's no set dinner schedule.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:But we did pretty good.
Speaker A:We did burgers.
Speaker A:Like, we made some coleslaw.
Speaker A:We had some chips.
Speaker A:We had a little dessert in there.
Speaker A:Pickle, you know, like, we.
Speaker A:We did it up as if I was eating a burger.
Speaker A:I put everything in it that I would want, and that's how I went at it.
Speaker B:You told Kira and I all the stuff that, you know, later that you had cooked.
Speaker B:And Kira and I look at each other and we're like, were there.
Speaker B:Were there any more to go boxes?
Speaker B:Like, did you bring any back?
Speaker B:It sounded great.
Speaker B:It sounded like there was a lot of stuff in there for them.
Speaker A:Well, he was telling us too, some of the volunteers, like, he came in and he was watching us and he's like, man, you guys got your shit together.
Speaker A:And like, you know, and I knew that to be true because I knew going into it what we brought.
Speaker A:But he said he's had, like, sorority girls come in there and they're on the phone.
Speaker A:Be like, hey, mom, how do you boil water?
Speaker A:You know?
Speaker A:And I'm like, I couldn't imagine, you know, but it went good.
Speaker A:It went really well.
Speaker A:So I was happy with that.
Speaker B:I'm proud of you.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:I bet you they really appreciate that meal more than, you know, some undercooked pasta.
Speaker A:Well, we asked them.
Speaker A:We asked them, say what.
Speaker A:What's something you want us to cook if we came back for dinner?
Speaker A:And he said, don't do pasta.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:So you got to think of it like, not everyone eats.
Speaker A:Like, we're not putting things.
Speaker A:It's not a buffet.
Speaker A:They're not putting things on plates for people.
Speaker A:Like, they're not serving dinner.
Speaker A:They're in to go boxes.
Speaker A:Some people might take the box and go, Sid does a table area to eat at.
Speaker A:But some people probably going to take it to the hospital and they're eating it in a waiting room or something like that.
Speaker A:So you want to make it as convenient for them as possible so that, you know, pasta is not really a, you know, will travel type of food.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:Extra Sauce, please.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, give me the.
Speaker A:No, forget it.
Speaker A:You got to have something.
Speaker A:Something simple and easy.
Speaker B:Cool.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I want to give.
Speaker A:It's not even a shout out.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:It's a half shout out, half on for Fred Anderson Toyota, right?
Speaker A:So we've been going to Fred Anderson for.
Speaker A:Since 06.
Speaker A:Since I've been here.
Speaker A:I don't.
Speaker A:I haven't gotten a car from anywhere else, right?
Speaker A:And you're talking.
Speaker A:You and I have had multiple cars.
Speaker A:The kids have their cars.
Speaker A:I referred them a couple people.
Speaker A:So, I mean, it's a Toyota.
Speaker A:You can't go wrong with the Toyota.
Speaker A:So this past year or a couple years ago, you switched and got a Nissan, which also.
Speaker A:Fred Anderson.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:So being the most incredible husband that I am, I.
Speaker A:I took your car down to Nissan to get its regularly scheduled oil change.
Speaker A:So I go down there, I do it, you know, and.
Speaker A:And they have a pretty good system, like their family plan, if you will.
Speaker A:You know, here's the oil change, tire rotation, whatever.
Speaker A:They throw in, like a car wash, and they do all these cool things.
Speaker A:I mean, you got to wait there for an hour and a half, which is completely ridiculous, but whatever, right?
Speaker A:You do what you got to do.
Speaker A:So I take your car in last week, and everything is great.
Speaker A:Your car's all shiny new.
Speaker A:Two days later, I had mine scheduled to go to the Toyota service center.
Speaker A:And I'm excited because your car came out so clean.
Speaker A:And my car needed a.
Speaker A:My truck needs a wash because of all the brine from all the wintry mix crap.
Speaker A:So I go in there, and the guy that's like, he's all right.
Speaker A:Like, he's fine.
Speaker A:He's doing his thing.
Speaker A:He's trying to, like, I have a.
Speaker A:Like, the family plan.
Speaker A:I have coupons, right, that says, okay, at this many miles, this is what your car needs.
Speaker A:This is what we do.
Speaker A:And it's already prepaid for.
Speaker A:I pay for it in the monthly payment.
Speaker A:So he's in there trying to upsell me, like, you know, like.
Speaker A:Like a rainbow filter for the.
Speaker A:For the car.
Speaker A:Hey, you need this.
Speaker A:You know, fuel, juice, you know, like, no, dude.
Speaker A:Like, I don't want any of that stuff.
Speaker A:I'm like, just give me what's on the.
Speaker A:Great.
Speaker A:So I go and I sit down, and then, sure enough, it gets done.
Speaker A:And they send you a text when it's done.
Speaker A:But it wasn't just, hey, your car's done.
Speaker A:Come get it.
Speaker A:Now I'm getting a text with additional upsells that they're trying to do.
Speaker A:And this is, like, built into their app.
Speaker A:It's the most annoying fucking thing I've ever seen because you can't just say no.
Speaker A:You have to, like, dive in.
Speaker A:And, like, so.
Speaker A:Because I get the text, and I just text him, and I said, I'm good.
Speaker A:Just do what I came in for.
Speaker A:And then he writes back a few minutes later, says, hey, I need you.
Speaker A:You have to fill it out on the app.
Speaker A:And I'm.
Speaker A:So now I'm going back in the app, and I'm thinking to myself, like, I'm in it, right?
Speaker A:So I figured it out after a few minutes.
Speaker A:You got to, like, slow down, read it if I'm like, If I'm Nana in there, you know, like, you're not figuring this out.
Speaker A:Like, you just.
Speaker A:You just got all this extra shit for your car that you don't need, you don't have.
Speaker B:I've never had that.
Speaker A:This is new.
Speaker A:I've never seen the text come through.
Speaker A:I feel like you've gotten to jiffy lube level where you're trying to come out and say, hey, ma'am, could I sell you this?
Speaker A:Like, come on.
Speaker A:So anyway, so I get in there and I say no.
Speaker A:And then I go back to him and I let him know because, you know, at this point, I'm irritated.
Speaker A:So when I'm irritated, I'm gonna make everyone else irritated.
Speaker A:So I let him know about this.
Speaker A:And then he rolls up with the car, and, you know, I'm waiting, and he shows up, and it's not washed right.
Speaker A:And I'm looking at this guy, like, really?
Speaker A:Like, was the car wash broke again?
Speaker A:And he's like, oh, yeah.
Speaker A:And I'm like, your car wash is broken more than the McDonald's damn shake machine, right?
Speaker A:Like, are you fucking kidding me right now?
Speaker A:So I just left, and I was pretty irritated.
Speaker A:And thankfully, I got a text from Fred Anderson saying, hey, how was your service?
Speaker A:And I let them know how the service was.
Speaker B:Okay, good.
Speaker A:You got me at an irritated time.
Speaker A:Forget it.
Speaker A:Just do your job.
Speaker A:Is it so hard?
Speaker A:I'm the guy who does his job.
Speaker A:You must be the other guy.
Speaker B:He did it.
Speaker B:Some of it.
Speaker B:The car wash was broken.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:I found it Hysterical.
Speaker A:Your car looks shiny new.
Speaker A:And now my car has Brian all over the wheel.
Speaker B:And now it's already starting suddenly with the pollen.
Speaker B:I mean, we're getting North Carolina some.
Speaker B:Some serious pollen showers here.
Speaker B:And so the car is starting to be that yellowy, yellowy green on top of the.
Speaker B:The brine Yep.
Speaker A:Yeah, it's a lot of fun.
Speaker A:It's a lot of fun with this pollen.
Speaker B:I never even had allergies until I moved to North Carolina.
Speaker B:And every year I feel they're getting worse.
Speaker A:I think that's probably right.
Speaker B:I have nothing to report as far as exciting TV stuff because I've just been laying around watching a bunch of random reality stuff, so.
Speaker A:Well, we gotta finish.
Speaker A:We gotta blow through Reacher.
Speaker A:What kind of stuff?
Speaker A:Yeah, because that's not all released yet.
Speaker A:The new Daredevil started, if you're into that, but again, not all released at once.
Speaker A:So I'm gonna slow that down a little bit till it comes through for me.
Speaker A:I just rewatched all of Justified.
Speaker A:Pretty good show.
Speaker A:Like, if you're into that.
Speaker A:If you like Timothy Oliphant.
Speaker A:He's a.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker A:Check it out.
Speaker A:It's a.
Speaker A:Just watch the first episode and you'll know right away if you gotta continue it.
Speaker A:But pretty good.
Speaker A:I have it on in the background, so I just.
Speaker A:I blew through it.
Speaker B:Traitors ended.
Speaker B:Mark didn't finish because he was too mad about that last episode we saw, but it finished.
Speaker B:I'm glad this season is done, and I'm hoping for something a lot better next season.
Speaker B:Otherwise, I'm not gonna be recommending it to anybody anymore.
Speaker A:No, the problem with that show is, like, everyone's trying to be friends.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:Like, you're here to win money.
Speaker A:Like, that's why, like, when Wes is on there and you, like, you got to accuse everybody.
Speaker A:And when they're interviewing these housewives women or whatever, and they're like, well, I'm not gonna vote for her because her and I are in a good place now.
Speaker A:And it's like, well, are you here for money or are you here to be in a good place?
Speaker A:Like, maybe you just.
Speaker A:You guys go to lunch later, but take the millionaire.
Speaker B:Just slit everyone's throats.
Speaker B:I'd be like, wes, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker B:I'd be like, I don't trust you.
Speaker B:You're out.
Speaker B:Even if I already know that they're a good person and faithful, I'd be like, I don't know.
Speaker B:You blinked weird.
Speaker B:It made me suspicious.
Speaker B:You're out of here.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker A:But, yeah, 100%, that's what you gotta do.
Speaker A:I don't know about that game anymore.
Speaker A:I think they ruined it.
Speaker B:One bad season doesn't ruin it forever.
Speaker A:Hey, we have to schedule another date night, by the way.
Speaker A:Another scratch.
Speaker B:I know.
Speaker B:Kier Brought it up yesterday.
Speaker A:Maybe next weekend we do one.
Speaker B:Yeah, this weekend I had class.
Speaker B:So I taught my birth like childbirth labor class.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And it was good.
Speaker B:It was a good group.
Speaker B:It was fun.
Speaker A:It was part one of like your three part series.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:So I did this one.
Speaker B:It was funny because they said, one of the couples said, so when is the next class?
Speaker B:And I said, oh, it's the zoom for the postpartum.
Speaker B:I'll have to look it up, I'm not sure.
Speaker B:And one of the, one of the other ladies is like, it's Wednesday.
Speaker B:I said, this Wednesday?
Speaker B:And she was like, yep.
Speaker B:I'm like, oh, okay.
Speaker B:I guess I'll see you guys this Wednesday.
Speaker A:So you do one in class, one zoom and then one in class again.
Speaker A:Yeah, that's your, that's your cycle at this point.
Speaker B:Yep.
Speaker B:Two weeks from now is the baby newborn 101.
Speaker B:But this a good group and they're all doing the next ones, so it'll be the same, same people.
Speaker B:So that was good.
Speaker A:So if you're in need of some childbirth education, Stacy's got you.
Speaker A:Stacy's the man.
Speaker B:Or anybody who else that you know.
Speaker A:There you go.
Speaker B:Maybe you're not expecting.
Speaker A:Basicsofbbb.com is where you wanna go.
Speaker A:Check out the schedule.
Speaker A:Or you can just reach out to Stacy.
Speaker A:If you're in need of a good lady doctor, she can see what's going on down there.
Speaker B:Oh, check it out.
Speaker B:Make it shine.
Speaker B:Yeah, I'll give it a car wash.
Speaker A:Give it a car wash.
Speaker A:Maybe upsell a few air or something in there.
Speaker A:Yep, I know a place you can go.
Speaker A:Sweet.
Speaker B:The only other thing I have is my book reads.
Speaker B:And I'll be honest, I haven't really read tons because I've been watching so much trash tv.
Speaker A:Trash tv?
Speaker B:A friend of ours, co worker of yours, Natasha as well.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:And we're gonna have her coming on the podcast in a few weeks or next episode.
Speaker A:She'll be there.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:And she's great.
Speaker B:So I don't know how she does it.
Speaker B:She works full time at your company.
Speaker B:She's a mom.
Speaker B:She is like a wife.
Speaker B:She's busy but she finds the time that she just is going to be an author and write books too.
Speaker B:So I don't know how she does it, but this is her second book that's come out.
Speaker A:You can ask her how she does it.
Speaker B:Yeah, we will, we'll ask her.
Speaker B:And of course me being supportive and a fan.
Speaker B:Love, Natasha.
Speaker B:I.
Speaker B:She gave me a pre copy signed.
Speaker B:I keep those And I just finished it and it was great.
Speaker A:So what's the name of the new book?
Speaker B:The name of this book.
Speaker B:Because it's not a.
Speaker B:Connected to the last book she wrote.
Speaker B:So it's her second book series.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker B:So this one is called Flame in the Forgotten Garden and it's got a good like fantasy.
Speaker B:It's got some witching, like witches that have just been like.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:You know, put in a closet for years and years and years.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:So they're like shoved away, can't contribute to the world.
Speaker B:But then it also has this whole like firefighters.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:So this small town with a group of firefighters.
Speaker B:But that's not paranormal.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:So it's real life.
Speaker A:She's been obsessed lately with firefighters.
Speaker A:So this is.
Speaker A:That's her jam.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Me or Natasha?
Speaker A:Natasha.
Speaker B:Oh, okay.
Speaker B:Yeah, they.
Speaker B:I mean in the book they seem like really good, hot looking firefighters.
Speaker A:Yeah, I think that's the session that she's going with.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:So, yeah, it was great.
Speaker B:And there will be more of this book, like this series she started.
Speaker B:So sweet.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So we're gonna have her on.
Speaker B:She can talk about it more.
Speaker A:Talk about that a little bit.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker A:One thing that I'm gonna just touch upon it a little bit.
Speaker A:I gotta do some more research on this for you.
Speaker A:But you know, we talk a little bit about like AI in our world and I wanna, I wanna see if I can get you to use AI more because I think it can help you in some everyday tasks.
Speaker A:I'm saying you as in you, Stacy.
Speaker A:There's things you can.
Speaker A:It's not just, hey, let's make my email better.
Speaker A:I mean that is a nice feature, but there's a lot of visual AIs.
Speaker A:There's a lot of like, they can create images and see images.
Speaker A:There's AI that turns.
Speaker A:Like I was just showing you one the other day about.
Speaker A:That's called NotebookLM.
Speaker A:It's Google's AI.
Speaker A:And I plugged in like a three or four sentence commercial for a podcast just to test this out.
Speaker A:And it spit out a three or four minute commercial of these two AI voices having a conversation.
Speaker A:Not even reading what I wrote.
Speaker A:They're just, they're interpreting it and turning it into their own thing.
Speaker A:And I'm like, I want to air some of this later.
Speaker A:Because it was really cool.
Speaker B:And they were, it was wild.
Speaker B:And it didn't sound AI at all.
Speaker B:It just sounded like two people chatting.
Speaker A:Two people chatting.
Speaker A:The guy in there, I was like, I would buy a car off this guy.
Speaker A:Like he was like, he was smooth.
Speaker A:The girl was very, like, inquisitive about what was happening and she had information, so it was really cool.
Speaker A:So I'm going to.
Speaker A:I'm going to showcase more of this later, but I'm just going to give a little precursor to that with this conversation because there's a lot of stuff that you can do with AI.
Speaker A:And so anyone, if you're not.
Speaker A:If you're not sure, play around with it.
Speaker A:Because I really think it's the future.
Speaker A:And regardless of what your job is, if you're not familiar with AI, you're going to be kind of rubbed out in the long run.
Speaker A:Like it's only going to help you get better.
Speaker A:It's not going away anytime soon is what I'm.
Speaker A:Is what I'm saying.
Speaker B:I mean, yeah, it sounds like pretty soon AI will be rubbing you out.
Speaker B:Come on, AI.
Speaker A:So before the show, I went on the ChatGPT and I said, I asked ChatGPT if I'm gonna call it a he, if he would survive a zombie apocalypse.
Speaker A:And he's like, oh yeah.
Speaker A:He's like, I could help with this.
Speaker A:And he would listen stuff.
Speaker A:And he's like, I don't have a body, so unless you give me a killer robot body or plug me into a mainframe, I can help you survive.
Speaker B:But did he sound like a.
Speaker A:It was no voice in this.
Speaker A:This one.
Speaker A:You can.
Speaker A:This was just me typing.
Speaker B:I mean, if you don't have any friends, I mean, you could actually become best friends if you create one of these AI things.
Speaker A:So if you.
Speaker A:There's a paid version of CHAT GPT and, and we can talk to Natasha about this because she was showing me hers.
Speaker A:She has an AI friend on her phone, a British accent.
Speaker A:So I'm gonna try to create some sort of podcast co host that can have some AI stuff.
Speaker A:I want to do something cool like that, just to see what we can do with it.
Speaker A:Teach it to do things like as it.
Speaker A:As it learns, it adapts to your personality.
Speaker B:Kind of weird and crazy and wild.
Speaker A:It's totally creepy, but it's awesome.
Speaker B:You know, maybe we, maybe we can have one of the AIs on the show.
Speaker A:Well, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker A:I want to.
Speaker A:I want to exactly do that.
Speaker A:I wonder if we could do that and do a live show.
Speaker A: So that's my goal before: Speaker A:I don't know how long it'll take to produce such a thing, but anyways, cool.
Speaker A:Do you want a dad joke?
Speaker B:Oh, yeah, dad joke time Hit me.
Speaker A:Hit me.
Speaker A:Pick a card.
Speaker B:Let's see.
Speaker B:Let's do a eight of spades.
Speaker A:Let's see if you did eight of spades.
Speaker A:You did eight of spades already.
Speaker B:Dang.
Speaker B:How about a seven of clubs?
Speaker A:All right, seven of clubs.
Speaker A:Here it is.
Speaker A:What?
Speaker A:Concert costs just 45 cents.
Speaker A:Ready?
Speaker A:This is going to be corny, as all of them are 50 Cent featuring Nickelback.
Speaker B:Oh, my God.
Speaker B:I was thinking 50 Cent something, but then I'm like, Nickelback.
Speaker B:Funny one.
Speaker A:I love it.
Speaker B:That one's tricky.
Speaker B:All right, well, you know, shout out, send us messages.
Speaker B:If you want to be on the show, let us know, because you got to be getting tired of listening to us all the time.
Speaker B:So if you want to bring in some.
Speaker B:Some topics or some funny things, hit us up.
Speaker A:Yeah, it's either you or bringing an.
Speaker B:AI, you know, so we're clearly struggling.
Speaker B:We're going to bring in fake people on the show pretty soon just because.
Speaker A:We'Re talking Elmo up in here.
Speaker A:Just see what happens.
Speaker B:Yep.
Speaker B:All right, well, have a great rest of your week.
Speaker B:Check in, tell your friends, share it.
Speaker A:All right, later, guys.
Speaker B:Bye.
Speaker A:Race.
