Tamara talks about Bo Hamilton Longfellow, which yes might be the most obnoxious name for a dog. Then Rheannon and Tamara talk about razor blades, fly fishing, and bears. The bars happen to be the part of fly fishing that scares Tamara the most.
Tamara has wanted a dog for year and shares how she came up with the name Hamilton Longfellow. Rheannon and Tamara talk fly fishing all while drinking a poor man's Moscow Mule.
Tamara and Rheannon are back at it after a week break. Rheannon tells stories from her time in Seattle, which is a city she compares to the wild wild west. Tamara talks about the hitting traffic in Seattle and the nightmare of traffic when your maybe not used to it. Sitting in a bar Tamara thinks she is getting hit on...she wasn't. What could have been a pick up line, but it really really wasn't.
Rheannon does her best to teach Tamara about farm animals. She also tells Tamara all about the freeloading chickens she has on her hands. After a few days of eggs the chickens are now phoning it in. Tamara and Rheannon are really excited about having a listener from Austria, and Tamara ends up quizzing Rheannon on continents. Rheannon talks about her animals getting along and how that could relate to how she raises her future kids.
Rheannon shares that zucchini pasta is a glitch in the matrix, and Tamara of course loves references to The Matrix. We learn that Tamara watches a lot more movies than Rheannon which leads to some very vague descriptions of movies from Rheannon. Tamara is in a competition with friends with sharing apple watch workouts even if she forgets about it, but she is upset that her apple watch seems to be off with the distance. Rheannon tells about the problem of escaping chickens (Cow being the problem ...
Rheannon and Tamara catch up on their week and all the happenings. Big update is the addition to chickens at Rheannon's house. Tamara makes the recommendation of chicken vests to tell the chickens apart. Clearly Tamara has not spent a lot of time around chickens.
Tamara steps way out of her comfort zone to go swing dancing and takes the hardest dance class she has ever taken. Ok, it was the first dance class she ever took but even Rheannon agrees that it was a very advanced beginner class. On the drive home Rheannon and Tamara managed to freak themselves out as the stopped at a murder looking gas station. Gotta love a road trip!
Tamara and Rheannon talk about weeding, which Tamara has a unique tactic for weeding. Tamara watches a lot more movies than she does swing dancing. Rheannon on the other hand does more swing dancing than movie watching. This makes for interesting movies reviews and Tamara's missteps from dancing.
Getting an update on the how the dating profile went this last week. Tamara maybe didn't find her soul mate, but there is a story that ends up going downhill fast. Stories from camping, bears, 4th of July, and fly fishing.
The whole online dating thing can be challenging. Dating apps and dating profiles can be a lot of work. Tamara opens up about the difficulty of dating in a small town. Rheannon does her best to update the profile mostly looking for fly fishermen and swiping left on bro's. Will the update to Tamara's profile help her find her soul mate?
What do cats, bullshit, weddings, bears and go-go dancers have in common? Rheannon and Tamara tells stories about then all that go downhill fast. Tamara shares a story of the only time she has run for her life from a bear. To be clear that was no actual bear sighting, but the way Tamara tells it there was a grizzly bear closing in on her as she hurdled a camp fire.
Tamara attempts SUPing while in San Diego. After struggling with that she tries kayaking, and well that goes downhill fast too. Neither Tamara or Rheannon have children and they discuss the need for technology to alert when there is a dirty diaper before they have kids. Has to be a better system for diaper checks than just smelling your kids butt.
Tamara makes up a game called Bullshit. In the game they each take turns telling a story and the other has to decide if it is a true story or bullshit. The pair talk about San Diego and traveling.
This episode kicks off the podcast and there is a good chance we are going to share some stories that go downhill fast. We talk about how Rheannon proposed. Tamara learns about a feature on the iphone utilizing the nicknames T-money and Awesome Possum that blows her mind. We discuss what it would look like to have a SUPing Cat. And we wrap it all up talking about underwear.
Rheannon and Tamara talked about teaching a cat to go stand up paddle boarding. Making Siri call them by a nickname and life with a brand new kitten. Taking a kitten home for the first time has a lot more moving pieces that one might think.
