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A volcanic eruption of laughter. It's, let's not say I did. Shane, I've been Cheyenne, I've been Shazin, I've been- Like, just Jack with the Jess hand. There you go. And here we are. She's- Well, it's the one thing you can't do. [MUSIC] The whole click on that one. Is that something people say? It's the one thing I can't do. I'm getting better quick. [MUSIC] Oh, awesome, awesome. I get it, buddy. M.I.P.'s, right? Most important person. What else makes us mad? This is great.
Grr. Yeah. It's just real nice. But my part, if this gets dead. And someone just slapped you in the face. Free health care for the rest of the year for us. Yeah, that's why I stopped eating potato chips on this show. [MUSIC] I am strong, I am capable, and I can do those hard things. Except hearing people chew. I can't do that. It's dew-opping your way.
Exploring as a kid and- I think Colorado's magical, just because, I mean, I grew up- You know, water from heaven that cooled the flames of our fight. My mommy's the only one that's cut my hair, so. Speaking of cuts, that whole segment's cut. Trust me, people, we just saved you 10 minutes of your life. You're welcome, listeners. That's right. Well, because we like the last- I'll try that again. That there is an RV. What is that personality that you get addicted, an addictive personality?
See how I walk myself into that? Yeah. It's madness, baby. Oh. [MUSIC] I actually heard Dickie V last week on a game. I'll shave my head if you make the finals. I've got the worst shaped head. Fate cannot allow me to lose my hair. Somehow I fell out of the crib onto my head. Looks like someone cut a cantaloupe in half and stuck it to the side of my head. Or the full- better out than in. Yeah. It's always fun when you're winning. It really is true. We always finish each other's- Sandcastles.
Yeah. It's not good. It's so bad. Good. It is good. And it only gets better. It is intense and it gets better. It's- yeah, it's super good. Welcome to the Mr. and Mrs. English Podcast. I'm Megan. And I'm Sean. We're here to talk about the wild ride of raising kids and growing careers, keeping life together in the middle of all the chaos. So buckle up because we're all in this crazy journey together. [MUSIC] Who's Bop?
Ooh. Bop. Yep. Well, you know, I always want to go to Hanson, but really, I mean, I think there were quite a few songs in the 50s that had Bop in them, like- Oh, I'm sure there were. Like, Bop feels like a 50s word to me. It does. Like a doo-wop kind of sounds like Bop. It does, yeah. I get that. Yeah. Mm-hmm. All right. Well- We're doo-wop-ing into the cold open. The cold open with a doo-wop. Yeah. It's good. We're gonna get better at our opens and our closes. Oh, yeah.
Although it is kind of a la- what's the one with Will Arnett? Smartless. Smartless, right? They do a cold open? They do do a cold open. Is it a little more coordinated than ours, though? It's coordinated. There are also actors and thespians and entertainers. And I'd be stretched to say either one of us are. And I know you don't take offense to that, right? No, no. I am a corporate person kind of through and through. Will Arnett can be pretty funny on that, obviously.
And I don't know that I'm going to compete with that. You might, though, hon. Give everybody your best Will Arnett impression. Let's not and say I did. Or Jason Bateman. Yeah, no, can't do that one either. I could probably do a, you know, like, just Jack with the Jess hands, but I can't remember his. Sean. Sean Hayes. Yeah, yeah. Oh, gosh. I can't remember the name Sean. That's a tough one to remember. But you're the only Sean that matters in my life. And he spells it wrong, as everybody knows.
Exactly. Everybody knows I spell it wrong. Oh, no, you have the only right spelling in the whole wide world. Yeah, I know. And one of the one of the point five listeners of this is my mom, obviously, not point five. We actually have we actually have nice numbers, which thank you, everybody, for tuning into it. I hope we continue to, you know, provide one or two smiles for you or a laugh here and there for entertainment. But my mom is one of them that listens to it.
And she probably knows this story to some degree. But my name spelled out. If you don't know that, then where have you been? I was going to say, is it even back there on the screen? It's not. It says no, I wouldn't do that because nobody could pronounce it. It's spelled S H A E N. It spells Shane, right? So my whole life had been Shane. I've been Cheyenne. I've been Shazin. I've been the craziest names, anything but Sean. Yeah. Right. Because it's seen as a and it's a WN and S H a U N. Yeah.
There are some, you know, what is it? Some variation. There are some derivatives of Sean here. Sure. That a lot of people accept as how you're supposed to spell Sean. Yes. But S H A E N is not one of them. It is not. And I've made it through 48 years without meeting any other Sean that spells it this way. Yeah. I mean, have you ever Googled yourself? No, I don't want to do that. Yeah. Let me just finish this story. And that's what we can talk about.
We can googling ourselves or other people Googling people. But well, I'm sure people always ask me, oh, what's the what's behind the spelling of that? Because they think clearly there's been a lot of thought put into how, you know, it was spelled. And I said, well, no, I said, this is what I always say, literally almost verbatim. I say, well, if you met my mom, you would know it's probably just spelled wrong. Sorry, mom. But that's what I go with. And then I tell them, I said, well, my mom.
You know, she probably told the doctor, I think the way the story goes is he said, that's not how you spell Sean. And she said, well, that's how I spell it. There you go. And and here we are. She's a woman who knows what she wants. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Strong from the get go. Yes, absolutely. Yeah. And now you're unique. I am. I mean, I constantly with our last name, too. That's hard. Are the whole things hard?
And there are people out there that have some weird just talking about that at one of the soccer games of people that have that we work with that have some of the worst names. Most of them are foreign. They are. And so we're probably pronouncing them wrong. Like if we put like Americanizing them, we're Americanizing these names. And and then it just did not work. Some of them we honestly can't even put on the air. We can't. We have to keep our G ratings. Right. We can't say any of them probably.
No, we can't. But you know, if you if you know, you know, and if you want to know, just text us. Hit us up. We'll share them. Just not not online. Yeah. Anyways, our whole name's hard because it's Shane Ingalls English. Anyways, other people have tough times with that. But they they do. I've never Googled myself. Have you Googled yourself? Yes. And the irony is that so there is a Megan. I think it was my maiden name. I don't know if I've done it.
I don't think there's any other I have done it since we've been married. I don't think there's many others or any others with my name. English is not a popular last name. It's not. But with my maiden name, I was like there was a seventh grade spelling bee champion or something. And if you know me, I'm a terrible speller. So I thought that was kind of ironic. Which surprises me that you're a terrible speller because you remember everything. And like that just seems like a picture.
Once you've seen that word, I feel like you should know that word. Do you dismiss spell words that you haven't seen? That's how it is for me. If I've seen I'll mispronounce words that I clearly don't know how to spell because I don't know the spelling of them. So then I'm just throwing in random letters. Right. Because you don't know how to say it. I think because I'm an auditory learner, if I hear a word, I can say the word.
But I don't maybe know how to spell it, especially if it has something phonetically. Unique about it. Because that's so weird that I mean, literally you remember everything, but you're a bad speller. That just doesn't add up. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's the one thing you can't do. Maybe that was the topic. Foot in mouth. Oh, that was so funny. You can start. You can tell that story. I will double click on that one a little bit. So double click on that one. Is that something people say? I don't know.
It's kind of a work phrase. Maybe I shouldn't have done that. It's like double click. Let's. No, I understand the premise of it. I just didn't know there was something people said. I don't know. I don't know. It could be a very. I can unpack that one. Let's jump into that one. But no, we were double clicking it. We're going to double click it. Yeah. I don't know. We're going to go with it. So I was asking some help from our daughter this weekend with laundry.
I needed her to carry a laundry basket to where I was going to fold the clothes. And as I was asking her, I was like, it's the one thing I can't do. Well, she decides to tell this story last night at dinner and the entire table erupts of all the things I can't do, because clearly there's more than one thing I can't do. It was a volcano, a volcanic eruption of laughter. It's at the table because we're like the one thing you can't do.
And this is people we've all, you know, it takes a village and it takes a family to help somebody with a knee issue. Yes, it does. You know, I have to carry your coffee every morning. You know, I don't have to make it anymore because Isla makes it now. But no, I make it or you do make it now. Yeah. I do all by myself. You're getting better. But three days ago, you didn't probably point being for what, five minutes, everybody will for at least a good two minutes.
Everybody's like, no, it was probably five. Everybody kept throwing in. The kids started just listing all the things that you can't do. You can't empty a dishwasher. You can't empty a dishwasher. You can't close the door. You can't. You can't close the door. You can't drive. You can't do it. They started doing all kinds. You can't dunk a basketball. You can't jump out of your believe. Yeah. So they started going through all these things.
And I joined in obviously too, because it was just hilarious because the overstatement of the century, it's the one thing I can't do. And you almost just did it again. I know. Yeah. Well, there's a lot of things I can't do. That's hilarious. There's a lot of things I can't do, but you're an amazing one. You can do a million great things, but that was just funny at this point in time. Yes. Yes. My favorite was you can't parallel park, which I think made the list before you can't drive.
Yeah. Yeah. Which was fantastic. Yeah. Because I can't do either right now. You can't operate a motorized vehicle. There was a lot of things, but it was like an avalanche of you can't do that. I just released and slid down the hill faster and faster. It was great. It was cathartic. I think for everyone to be like, Oh, I'm getting back at her for all the things she can't do for the last three months, two months. Yeah. Well, the kids have to, we've talked about it.
They've had to do a lot more things around the house. They've had to pick it up a little bit. Yeah. I have to, but yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Although is it a testament to just how much I did before I hurt myself? Yeah. We're all exhausted. Yeah. We need you to get better quick. I'm getting better quick. You are today. You've actually been documenting my progress. I am. I'm going to put it on Instagram.
A little bit of, I'm thinking through things to do with it, but just to show people, you know, the progress that you're making. Yeah. I mean, I can bear weight on my leg. I'm hobbling around, hobbling. I wouldn't say I'm sand scratches. Yeah. Yeah. Without crutches. Yeah. I've gotten pretty good with the crutches, but getting, I can hobble, which is, is really exciting. Yeah, it is. It is. And I, I won't make a lot of that because just why it's been, I feel bad.
It, it, it obviously isn't fun to go through. It's a nightmare. You know, I said last week at some point in time that the last time you actually normally walked was December 23rd. 22nd. The 22nd of December. Right. Yeah. As you're walking to put your ski boots on, that was the last time you've walked normal and now we're into March. Yeah. Yeah. Coming on to spring. And that was before Christmas. I mean, it's just such a long time to be.
Inconvenience is the wrong word for it, but I mean, just the frustrations, all that come along with it. Yeah. Yeah. I think, I mean, you have to be kind of, I try to be really positive about it because it's like, there's no use being upset, but I'm trying to be positive. And I think that's helped move things along quickly. Yeah. Like I'm pretty committed when it comes to PT and all of that, because I just want to get back to normal, but you know, you stay within the lines. You, you row straight.
So yeah, they tell you what PT to do. You've been doing it. I've been doing it. You've been, you want to be out. You want to be back on the ski slopes next year. So yeah, I think you will. No problem. I think I will too. It feels good. I mean, so it just, it highlights for me though. And I mean, this isn't truly inconvenience, right? This is an inconvenience. I know that I have a path to just totally walking normal like I have for the last 45 years of my life.
And it just highlights how strong people are that don't have that ability to, you know, walk normal or, you know, it's just, yeah. I mean, we talk about it cause we, I, I'm going all to games and all of that, like handicap parking, which we do have a temporary handicap, you know, sticker placard awesome. Yeah. I know the only benefit is when I'm in the car, you get good parking. Awesome. Awesome.
Also, um, but it's not always convenient and there are many people who park in those spots with no placard and really no business being there. Yeah. I never paid attention to it ever. Ever. Cause I, well, a let's just stay for the record. Clearly we've never parked in handicap parking spots because those are for handicap people, right?
Um, and yeah, it has opened my eyes to just how many people park in those spots that don't need them and don't have a reason to be in them and don't aren't legally allowed to even be in them. Right. And it, it is frustrating. I mean, it's just another thing to get frustrated at in this world sometimes, but it is frustrating when there's only four handicap parking spots. You literally cannot fall your one slip away from disaster and someone's just parked there because it's convenient for them.
Yep. And it's like, and it's still not that close. Like it is, but I get those last soccer games and they're like right there next to that. I get it. It's cold. It's rainy. It's right in front of the field. I get it, buddy. M I P's right. Most important person. So you go ahead and take that because, you know, who knows? I mean, there's people that are handicapped that do need it. They do need it, but you don't care because you're the M I P. Yeah. Anyway, sorry.
Yeah. You kind of see this is cathartic. Yeah. Oh yeah. It's frustrated. Yeah. Well, and we're seeing it. That's something that you and I would never consider doing is like, hmm, it's really, I'm just going in and out. Let me just quick park here. Yeah. No, someone needs that more than we do. Yeah. Yeah. It's just kind of what else makes us mad. This is great. Yeah. At some point this podcast would get to, we're just airing grievances constantly. I got a list.
So I mean, like when you're ready, if it's not too much of a problem, Clark, what a real surprise. It's just real nice. Real nice. I like this hashtag. If you know, you know, I've been, I've been using that like last week and a half. Right. Right. If you don't know those, I mean, come on. Oh yeah. That one, that one has to be one of those. Vacation. Come on. Oded movies. Of all time. Of all time. Yeah. It has to be. I still misquoted, but I'm close. I'm close. Very close.
You're close enough that everyone's going to know, you know, when you're like, but my part of this gets dead. My part just ain't gonna look right. My hair just not gonna look right. See, I messed it up too much pressure. Yeah. Do you really think it matters? I'd love that movie. Anyway, see again, welcome to Shawn and Megan's date night. This is, this is often how these go. It's date night, but we've had to move date night. We're late.
I don't know what's taking it up, but we're into the work week. Well, part of it, what we are in the work week, which is crazy. Sometimes we're like ahead in the work week. We're, we're on it and we get a free night and we're like, Oh yeah, we're going to be like a week and a half ahead. I think the one hour of a daylight save, like switching to spring forward. Losing that hour really did matter this weekend, but. Did it? Why do you say that? I just feel like Sunday was so short.
Yeah. We had a lot of soccer games. We did. We did. We added a couple of things to the schedule that just weren't there. And we weren't planning on this to be spring forward. At least I completely missed it. That's right. Goodness. We didn't mentally prepared for it. Right. Right. I think that's a little bit of my issue with this family because, you know, I always air my craziness on the show, which I hate that I do that sometimes.
But, um, I just, because of my type a personality, I like to be prepared for what's coming and also because, uh, you know, I'm an introvert, you know, I have to, if something is coming, that's social or something like that. A lot of times I have to work up my energy for that. I have to, or I have to be mentally prepared to have energy later for it. Right. Right.
So because of that, our whole family has kind of figured out and I don't, it's not like it happens all the time, but I do like to know we've just kind of live our lives that way that let's plan ahead. Let's prepare. We know what's happening. But when we don't know, and I know some of our kids are like that too, is like, well, I didn't plan on it. I had planned on, you know, relaxing. Right. Now I got to do this. I didn't plan on that.
Right. So I don't know if I don't know if that's my bad seed that I planted in them. Like, Oh, we can't be flexible. There's no malleability, you know, there. I think for our youngest, that is as inherent to him as it is to you. It is inherent. We've seen that from the moment he was a toddler, right? That he needed to know. I think our oldest has kind of grown into that a little bit. It's a good excuse for him. I think more so than.
Yeah. Whereas our daughter, Oh man, that girl just flies by the seat of her pants all the time, she doesn't necessarily need to plan it, which is more like me. Although I did really want to know about daylight. Like I, I mentally, I don't know. It's that, Oh, I'm going to lose an hour of sleep. Like I look forward to fall back. Well, that was the point, right? We got, we got to like three o'clock on Saturday. And it was like eight at night. Remember we were watching a show.
Yeah. And I think it was the coach that texted everyone and you're like, Oh my gosh, guys, it is spring forward this weekend. We had no idea. I don't know how that stuck up on us. It was literally like somebody, like you, it's like you turned around. And someone just slapped you in the face. You know what I mean? It's like, Oh, and then you react to it, you know, with just being dumbfounded. Yeah. That kind of deck put us off. That put us off a little bit this weekend. Maybe it did.
We probably would have planned a little differently because I think we could have snuck it in on Saturday, but we weren't planning on it. And so it was funny. Cause then after you realized it, cause you're the one that said it, it was like a mad dash to kids are like, I got a shower. I'm going to lose sleep. And I mean, sleep is king when it comes to a teenager. It is. And we encourage that. We do. Yeah. I don't know. Sleep is still pretty important to us too. For sure. I gotta have seven hours.
Yeah. You know what I'm looking forward to in three nights. I don't have to sleep with my big metal brace on. Oh, wow. That's three nights from now. Uh, yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. That'll be fantastic for you. That'll be incredible for me. Sleeping with a massive metal brace on is no bueno. Yeah. I don't sleep very well. I don't know how you could. Can't move. I lay there like I'm in a coffin and I lay bad that way. So inconvenient.
I mean, in hindsight, I just, you know, you probably shouldn't just blow your knee out. Easier not to have done that. I know it would have really been a lot easier financially would have been better. I mean, geez, if we could just, although, you know what? We had our deductible in January this year. So free healthcare for the rest of the year for us. Healthcare. It's like we're in Canada. I know. I think they have free healthcare or yes. I'm in Europe.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, Hey, we're, we're silver lining. We're trying to find the silver lining. That's right. That's good. That's good. Also silver lining. We officially booked our summer vacation. We did. I think I just smacked. I hate when I smack. I gotta be careful with that. I gotta edit those out. Nobody wants to hear people's mouth smacks. Now people are going to hear it the rest of the time. So don't listen for it.
Everybody's like swallowing or other weird sounds that people make. Yeah. That's why I stopped eating potato chips on this show. Can you imagine? It's like, it's like, what's the guy's name from? Oh, who, who, who's mastered the art of. Moving so slowly while he's eating drags. Drags of mastered the art. Those chips. So funny. When I was telling you the other day, I was like, I saw that thing on Facebook or whatever, and it's like, I sometimes have to remind myself that I can do hard things.
I can, I have, I'm strong. I am capable and I can do those hard things except hearing people chew. I can't do that. Like that is pretty true. Yeah. Yeah. It doesn't bother me unless I just, once you hear it, you can't unhear it sometimes if it's quiet. Totally. Totally. Yeah. Yeah. That's the only way to bothers me then though. How in the world did we get on this? I don't know. I got, I threw us off on that tangent.
Uh, but you were talking about the silver lining of we booked a vacation finally. Vacation. Yes. Yes. And I think we were going to talk about it and I think we both agreed on what our favorite vacation was, but we were going to talk about last week of what's our favorite vacation and maybe since we both mentioned Bora Bora as our favorite. Yep. What was your favorite? What was your vacation growing up? We didn't take a lot of vacations growing up.
Yeah. Um, we, uh, we made our way to, uh, Michigan. Yeah. Uh, cause the family had a family home in Michigan and then that got, and then, and someone passed away. Uh, it was right on Michigan lake. You've been there in the most magical place, Palisades park in Michigan on, on the lake Michigan on lake Michigan. Yeah. It's, it's just the most magical place. It's, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it is like you step back in time.
It's do whopping your way back into the 1940s a hundred percent. There's a soda fountain shop. There's boardwalks. If I could afford it, I would love to buy a place there. It's just incredible. It really is. I have family now that lives 20 minutes from there and I don't know how much they make it out there, but that was really fun.
Cause we'd go there, you know, we went there two or three times probably maybe four times and then one time I think our grandparents paid for us to go to Disney world, but I was 16 maybe at the time. So I'd kind of outgrown Disney world. Yeah. That's interesting. You. Oh, you know, we, we were in Colorado most summers and, and we were in Estes Park. Yeah. Um, those were, were some of my favorite vacations.
Um, there were a couple of times we went just as our family, but a lot of times we'd go with my, my aunt and uncle and my cousins and you spend a lot of time with cousins out there. Absolutely. I mean, I grew up where cousins are like your, your siblings. Yeah. So it, it was just, I have some of the best memories. And in fact, we took a family vacation where, you know, even as, as my nuclear family grew and you know, we have my siblings all are married and have kids.
We went with my aunt and uncle and all my cousins who are also married and have kids and we got two big houses and that was fun just to kind of recreate some of those memories, but those were absolutely fantastic. We stayed on a cabin right next to the big Thompson. It was just exploring as a kid. And I think Colorado is magical just because, I mean, I grew up there, but I love the mountains. I love camping. I love cabining.
Maybe I like cabining more now than camping, but the boys love, like love to camp tent camp. Yeah, they do. Real camping. Um, I always wonder if, if you grew up like in, there's other places that there's mountains, you know, that are actually, cause Colorado is a desert climate, so it's really dry there. Now that I've made my way to the West coast and the Northwest and whatnot, even back East coast, some of those mountains are gorgeous, more green.
Um, I'm just curious, you know, what it would be like there. We went to New York with your family that one time in the finger lakes. That was incredible. Oh, that was incredible. Yeah. Worst fight of our marriage. Yeah, that one, the biggest rainstorm we've ever been in. Oh my gosh. Yes. Yes. And the pictures that we have, like after we got in the car, I think the rainstorm ended the fight. It did. It broke it. It broke it.
God, God saw fit to rain down what fire and brim, but I can't think of it. Yeah. Well, rain down, it wasn't fire and brimstone. It was just rain down. Yeah. He, he poured down. Hey, yeah. Yeah. It was, um, you know, water from heaven that, that cooled the flames of our fight. Yeah. Woo. That was reaching. Yeah. Yeah. That was not even floor. No, I'm just kidding. I honestly don't even remember what we were fighting about that. We really need to remember not that we need to resurface. I do.
And I was right, but aren't you usually, no, I'm just kidding. It wasn't about right or wrong. Oddly enough, it was odd. I mean, yeah, we don't even need to go into it. I remember what it was though. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I know. I know people who calls on this because we sometimes leave hanging, hanging stories like that and people are in some people, people that know us will call us and say, you got to finish that story. Yeah. What is that? Yeah. Oh, clearly it was reconciled quickly.
It was, but if I tell the story, it would dig a different hole. Oh yeah. Don't tell outside of our family. And I don't need to do that. Yeah, don't need to, I don't need to pick that. Yeah. No. Yeah. So anyways, um, we've done a lot of cool things. We've, we've been blessed to do some real fun things with our kiddos, but this next one is exciting because we're going over to Europe and you've never been there. So that'll be, that'll be incredible. Yeah. Yeah. I'm so excited.
And we tasked the kids with doing some research this weekend on, you know, cause we were out and about. So I was doing some things and, but I think, um, our two oldest spent some time on, on YouTube and found a couple of things that they're like, we have to do this and we have to do that. So helped plan a little bit, which is really cool. Yeah. I went to, uh, one of my, I ran. Some errands this afternoon. One of the things I went to do because I'm a planner, I try to get things done.
I'm efficient, pride myself on that. You know? Yes. So I went to the, I went to the bank, uh, to get our passports. Oh, good. So I can do my global intro to the security box. Yeah. Awesome. And, uh, I forgot the key for the social security box, so it didn't mean no good. Okay. Yeah. Need two keys for those. So note to self note to self. Remember the key to the social security bar, the security box. When you go, there you go. To the bank to open up the security box. Anyways.
Yeah. Yeah. Some of those. Failure. Details. Details. It's all right. It's all good. But anyway, so we're excited about that. Yeah. We actually had a really fun night last night. Your mom came by. It was so good to see her and she gave you guys some haircuts. Yeah. It was fun. Yeah. We're lucky. I think we've told this, I've told the people that know us too. My mom has been a hairstylist for her entire life. She, she retired from hairstyle from being a hairstylist.
But she owned her own, she owned her own company, her own salon for the longest time she had masseuses there. She had nail people there. You know, she, she did a really good job. I was proud of her for what she did there. Um, but because of that, for the longest time, a, I never paid for a haircut. In B nobody ever cut my hair, but my mom until I was in Chicago. Oh yeah. Yeah. And she couldn't. And I was 30 some years old.
And I remember sitting in that first style, this chair being 30 something, being a little embarrassed to say, you know, my mommy's the only one that's cut my hair, so, you know, it felt kind of funny, but, uh, but now that we're back here, uh, when we built the house, we built a little salon kind of upstairs. Uh, and either way, I haven't cut my hair in a really long time. I should, I'm probably do a trim, but cut the whole thing. We should. Speaking of cuts that whole segment's cut.
So hopefully we mentioned the haircut and then like, Hey, let's talk about haircuts cause your mom, we gave us haircuts last night and then it's going to cut straight to me saying, speaking of cuts, we're going to cut that whole section. Trust me, people, we just saved you 10 minutes of your life. It's a good thing. You're welcome. Listeners. That's right. That's right. Right.
So with my mom here, I was telling my mom cause she was the one, remember she used to come to our house and watch Yellowstone. Yeah. Yeah. And the longest time, I don't know how long it's been out. It's in the fifth season, at least right now. Is it? Yeah. Yeah. I didn't even realize that. Which by the way, is the best way to watch like a Netflix series or HBO series, wait till it's done and then watch the whole thing. And then just binge it. Yeah. Cause otherwise you're just stuck waiting.
And I don't like that anymore. We did that with game of thrones. And that was like a nightmare because sometimes it'd go two weeks or God forbid there's a season ending and there's eight months in between. Yes. Ted Lasso's like that. Yes. We had to do that. Rexam is like that. Yeah. Man, we've watched some great series. Um, but yeah, we started it and we binged like that first one or two seasons. Cause we had a little bit of extra time. We did have a little extra time. This weekend.
Yup. Yeah. You seem like you were questioning that. We did. And we started binging a new series. Yeah. And we haven't watched a series of anything for five years. I feel like. What's the last big series watch? We did watch Ted Lasso. We watched Ted Lasso. Um, but I feel like that was over a couple of years. Yeah. And then, um, we never even finished succession. We never finished Ozark either. We finished Ozark. Yeah. But these were ones where it wasn't done when we watched it.
And so that long pause and then life got busy and so we didn't. Yeah. So we've never seen the final season of Ozark. We haven't seen the final season of succession. We did watch all of Ted Lasso. Yeah. Well, I've seen quite a few of them when I was traveling a lot for the bank. I would watch some of them on the flights. Oh, yeah. Right. So I got through Boardwalk Empire. Yeah. HBO One. Uh, the Wire. HBO One. Yeah. So what I did was I just, I, I Googled top series on HBO.
Yeah. And I just kind of started going down through them and they're so good. Yeah. I mean, some of these are old, but they're so good. And the funny thing about it is you see some of these actors from this show that you've seen later. It's like, that's probably where they got their start out of that show. And then they ended up in other movies. Yeah. After that. But like, what else did I watch? I watched the one with the movie star out in LA. Entourage. Entourage. Mm hmm.
I watched the one where they start a company. Oh, Veep. I watched Veep. And then the one. Silicon Valley. So there's some super good ones out there. Yeah. And there's so many more too, but this Yellowstone one, I don't know if anybody else has watched Yellowstone, but. It's so we just started watching it. You're a little bit ahead. Well, I started it over with you. Started over with me. That's really good. It is good. And it only gets better. It is intense and it gets better.
It's yeah, it's super good. So now I'm like hooked on a series and yeah, feel kind of bad because I'm like, should we stay up late and watch another episode? Yeah. That's why I know I've got, what does that personality that you get addicted, an addictive personality? See how you've walked myself into that? Yeah. Yeah. Got that. I've got an addictive personality. What kind of personality? I'm just trying to find that seat light lit up, you know, in my head somewhere.
And it's like, I just walked the aisle and I found it. Yeah. But because I'll start something like that and I'll, I'll, I'll be like, not sad, too strong of a word, but I'll be, you know, disappointed. Maybe it's a good enough word that I got to not, I got to stop and go to sleep. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I got to stop and go pick up the kids or whatever it might be.
Right. And I have to put it off because I want to, I want to know what happened in the next episode because I know the next episode and the next seasons are out there. Yeah. Yeah. It's I I'm, I'm the same way though. I mean, do you remember when we were watching game of thrones? It'd be like midnight. We're like, let's watch another like game of thrones again. We always talk about that one. That was so good. It's so good. Um, books are really good too. Oh yeah. The books are really good.
I'm actually waiting for Georgia R. Martin to finish the series, writing the series. Yeah. But I don't know if he will now that season eight came out before the book came out. Yeah. Yeah. So HBO finished his forum, but the books are just as good, if not better. Yeah. They're really good. I don't know. That's a book that I saw the series before I read it. And so generally I'm okay. I know you're different, but I'm okay to read a book in my brain being, you know, I'm more, what is it?
Right brained. Oh yeah. Yeah. Oh, I don't know. Yeah. Anyways, I have a creative side of my brain as well. Yeah. And I can, you know, I can walk when I read a movie, I can see it like a book. I could, let me try that over again. I'm going to try that one over again. When I read a book, I can see it like a movie in my head. I have no problem just making up the characters and the scenes in my head, but you are different. Oh, completely.
So it's helpful when you actually maybe see the series first, because it paints that picture for you and then you go back and read the book. I don't know. In certain circumstances. I mean, there's certain books where, no, it didn't matter, but, but like Lord of the Rings is one where that movie, because it is so different and other worldly, um, I have a hard time putting that together.
So I reading or seeing the movie before I read the book really helped Harry Potter's one like that, because they're just so out of this world kind of a thing. If it's more concrete, I don't have, I didn't have a problem with it, but it's funny because you, for me, you know, I build the character in my head and then when I see it on the screen, I'm like, Oh, that was nothing. Like I was picturing or it was similar, whatever it might be.
But, um, yeah, with Game of Thrones, I mean, because I'd already seen the series reading the books after that, I think, um, you know, you just, you just put those, you just substitute in the characters that John Snow and the actual actors for them. Right. So, to Nara Star Garian, like, yeah, you just, it's pretty easy, but yeah, I am. I am happy that we're watching a series right now. Yeah. Cause it's, I don't know. There's just something interesting about it. We don't watch a whole lot of TV.
So when we do, we have to make it count. Well, it's mostly sports and we probably won't watch much in the next two weeks too, because we got the NCAA tournament. March Madness, baby. Oh, March Madness, baby. We actually heard Dickie V last week on a game. Dickie V. We were just telling our kids about Dickie V. Yeah. Uh, he's sounding older, but I mean, gosh, talk about just a guy that's bringing sunshine into people's lives. No, he really is such a positive person.
He's left such a, I mean, he's such a positive light. There's a couple famous people that are like that and he falls in that. For me anyway. I don't know. This, this year's will be different for me. I mean, my Jayhawks are not good. They might struggle. We're not good this year. So we got the big 12 tournament starting tomorrow, which already have happened by the time this airs.
Yeah. Um, actually when this airs, we'll be the big 12 final that night and I'm guessing we're not being, we won't be in it. I'll shave my head if we make the finals. There's no way. We're not bad. I've seen you in a beanie, maybe not. I've got the worst shaped head. I, thank God I won't lose my, I mean, if I get my grandfather's head of hair, I'm not going to lose my hair. You're golden. Yeah. Yeah. Um, how do you know that? Oh, because you could see it in a beanie. I can see it in a beanie.
Yeah. I mean, I don't know. I like you with hair. Yeah. Well, when I shaved, when I, when I did that too, before I went to college, I had long hair and then I shaved it with like a two razor, which is very short. Eclippers. Yeah. And my coach, Damon recognized me when I walked by him because I didn't have any hair and even my mom just said yesterday, she's like, she was making fun of just like, I've got a badly shaped head. So I cannot fate, cannot allow me to lose my hair.
I'll just be a hat where I got his wear hat every day, everywhere. Yeah. There you go. To bed everywhere. I wasn't blessed with a good shaped head, which is weird, but. I don't know of all the things that like. Clearly I was dropped and it explains a lot. I actually did fall in my head as a baby. So let's not make fun of me. Then we have a picture of it. Oh my gosh. That was perfect. Oh, there was a picture of Megan. She was, you tell the story. I, well, I was only six months old or so.
So I don't really, I have no recollection of any of it, but there were hardwood floors in my bedroom and somehow I fell out of the crib onto my head. And it looks like, I mean, I'm only six months old and my parents put me in a green like dress. I don't know why they would have done this. And I had this like, look like someone cut a cantaloupe in half and stuck it to the side of my head. Or the full cantaloupe just stuck on the side of your head green.
I mean, it was, it was awful better out than in, I guess. I always say, but you don't have a big head to begin with. So maybe it was a little off sized, but a little perspective there, but I've never seen, I've never seen a bump like that. No. That's not like, it wasn't a bump. It wasn't a bump. It was like, I have a growth or, or I have a half a head growing out of. I was going to say it was like your twin growing out at the side of your head. It was, that was rough.
Luckily, your parasitic twin. Yeah. Luckily, luckily I think for the most part shrunk back and you're still able to live a normal life. For the most part. Yeah. Like, man, I could, maybe it, maybe it's dumped your head growth. That's why your head is slightly small. And by slightly small, I think you mean really small. I have a abnormally small head. Now that's all people are going to see. Sorry, everyone. That is so funny. I hope not.
You're a small person to begin with, but, um, yeah, but I mean, Liam's head's been as big as yours for two years and he's only in fifth grade. Yeah. And he doesn't have a big head. Yeah. It's going to start noticing now. They are. Yeah. See, I think you've been shaped. That's evolved. That devolved quickly. Yeah. Evolved quickly. Don't shave it and keep your hair. That's right. Got to keep my hair. Got to keep my hair. Just keep your hair. I'll be good. Well, I'll do my best.
I mean, you know what? You're 48. It looks fantastic. It's not thinning. You're good. Yeah. I'm not thinking yet. I don't think that would be weird. I know there's a lot of guys that are my age that have already thinned or been thinning. Some guys that are thinned by this time, they started thinning in their 30s. Yes. So kind of used to it, whatnot. And it might not. I don't know if it hits them as hard because they're, you know, they just, like, I've got a good friend.
He was receding in his 20s. Yeah. You know, not badly, but receding in his 20s. You know, so, I mean, I wonder if they don't think about it as much because they're just used to it. I think so. You know, whereas me, I've had a full head of hair and a lot of it. I mean, I've got great 80s hair. You do. I mean, Patrick Swayze. You know, you got the wave going. Yeah, it's long.
So if I were to lose it in quick succession or quick form, I would that would probably be a little traumatic, especially when it uncovered that ghastly shape of my head. See, now people are going to just be looking at our heads when they walk by us. I know. Just judging. Judging. It's all right. Yeah. I don't know. Of all the things, of all the things you're going to judge me for, if it's the size of my head or the shape of my head, you go for it. I'll own it.
Yeah. Somehow you'll still sleep at night, right? I will. Yeah, I will. And hopefully someone else got a laugh out of it. Well, we've got NCAA coming up. Yep. I, we haven't watched, we have not been into it much this year. We've just, this has been a crazy year. We always say it's been, it's just been busy. It has. It has. Jayhawks have been terrible. So we haven't been that much into it. We've watched them. The kids don't even watch them anymore. Right.
They go up and do whatever they want to do. They don't even, nobody watches the Jayhawks play because it's not fun to watch. Yeah. It's always fun when you're winning. And the Hawkeyes, I don't know anything about what they're doing. I don't either. Generally not a basketball school, but as of late, they've had a few good teams here and there on the men's side. Yeah. Women's side we watched for two years. Yeah, exactly. So it was fun, but it was a great time watching Caitlin Clark just dominate.
So that was always fun. But you know, it's still fun to watch. It's always just good basketball, right? It's good sports. It's, it's entertaining. Yeah. I think I said it last weekend when we had some game on that we didn't even care about. Right. But it was just on in the background. I was like, and that's why sports are so exciting. Someone hit last minute three to win the game. Yeah. I mean, it was just an overtime. You can't, you cannot fabricate that type of drama.
And the big dance always provides it too. I mean, there's just constantly great games, generally speaking. And the blowouts are usually my team. They just don't show up. We'll see how they do this year. Yeah, we will. I'm not looking forward to it. But anyway, so we got that coming up. I don't know what else is coming up. You know, spring break, staycation, but it's a staycation for us. So, um, you know, I think it'll probably be a nice quiet week.
Kids will probably drive us bananas, but that's all right. Yeah. Everyone will be ready to go back because just on top of each other in the house, but it'll be nice. At least the weather's nice. So and get out. Yeah. Yeah. It's a little bit supposed to be the best Christmas present possible. Yeah. Not gonna win. Oh yeah. Gosh, I just said that out loud. Didn't I? Yeah. From an entertainment perspective, it always provides entertainment, getting some energy out entertainment.
Yeah. Stay safe kids. Yes. Stay safe. And they all like to play on it together. It's, it's more fun when they're together out there. So yeah, it's always good. They're like, Oh, but it's not fun without our, not a lot of fighting when they come in either, which is good. So well, I gotta start planning for spring. So we got spring cleaning, you know, everybody gets their yards in shape for spring, so I gotta get the sprinkler system on. Yeah. Got to fix all that.
I got a, there's a couple of things we got to get ready. We'll probably have a soccer parties at our house. Maybe again, if we, I think a couple of people have mentioned us hosting it again. I'd be happy to be happy to. Yeah. So we built the house. We got to get the backyard cleaned up and all that kind of stuff. One thing I can't do. It's the one thing you can't do.
Yeah. Welcome. But anyway, I think we're, you know, about, about at time, but we have some fun things coming up, so we hope all of our listeners have some fun over spring break and that this message friends you all well. That's right. Is that how we're going to end it? Usually we try to get into our like little, like, that's what the smart list does smart list. They always back into the worst. Bye. Right. So they all go by, but they try to be like, Oh, I'm going to go for a bicycle ride tonight.
And that's it. Right. They just, they work into the, and it's horrible. Sometimes it's horrible. What was the time it's horrible. And that's what's funny about it. Right. Right. Right. And ours is pretty horrible too, but. But it's fantastic. I mean, like, I am a huge fan of it because I mean, it really is true. We always finish each other's sandcast. It's not grafted so bad. I actually almost hate it, but I love it. It's a strong word for you. Love it. Then we'll go. All right.
Well, I guess that's it for this week. All right. We're signing off. All right. Hey, have a great week. Rock talk Jayhawk.