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Straight into it. I'll go straight in. Such like a softball there. I mean, you just threw it up, knock it right out. You know, a little Austin Powers throwback. It's not. In my belly. Of course I know that one. That's not my bag, baby. It's not my bag, baby. Okay, so yeah, no. Yeah, this is uncomfortable. Comfortable. You can't shoot, you can't make free throw, win game. Yep. And you know, it's more fun when you win. Everything in life is way more fun when you win. Winning.
Wow, you took us deep on that one. Wow. Right, and I don't know anything about it. Yeah. I'm so behind the eight ball. That's the one. I think some of that was to make sure I wasn't the crazy one. Like I said, it's your date night topics. It's interesting. We're chewing on it. Chewing on it. But what I was not chewing on was food. Oh, that was a great transition. I love the high, I love a good high five. You should probably work one in like every couple of episodes. We should.
It tastes so good in my mouth. And I was dreaming about eating. [LAUGHTER] Like your beautiful blue eyes. Yeah, my beautiful blue eyes. And I mean, I am this doppelganger, basically. You're this doppelganger. Coincidence? Yeah. I think that you just smell so good. He beats you by an hour. Yes, I know he's lying about this. You're excited for it. I am, yeah. That's a little masochistic, but OK. I mean, question mark? Question mark. For the next three years.
Yeah, so I'm-- Not the world I grew up in. I mean, is that just a Texas thing, or is that everywhere? Obviously. We performed at the Grand Ole Opry. I mean, it was so bad for them. You go out on a loss. That's heartbreaking to me. As long as you did your best. Yes. And if that's last place, that's great. I was like, that girl will lie, cheat, and steal to win. But that's when that competitive nature is on your shoulders, yours alone. I mean, my palms were sweaty. I was so nervous for her.
And she was like, I don't think that goes away. There's a weight. Heavy as the crown. Yeah, the pastor says this. There's no hurt like kid hurt. Some things have to be learned in the school of hard knocks. We do kudos to the listener out there who knows what-- That bad, but we just don't know what to do with down-hut. I don't know how to relax. But we're forcing you to go outside. That's where it's like, I'm just feeling as a parent. I need to let you get over your bad mood by yourself.
You're at 77 degrees. How old am I? OK, so for 30 years. You're 30? No. I've been-- Well, sooner than later, you'll be able to drive. And you can finish your own-- Purple. That work, kind of? Not really. Working really hard on that one. That was really bad. Got to come up. We're trying so hard for this terrible ending every time. Podcasts. Well, you finished it yourself. That's it. That's a wrap. Welcome to the "Mr. and Mrs. English Podcast." I'm Meghan. 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. That is crazy. Episode 12 into April. I knew it was episode 12. Oh, I got to move this. This little back thing right here, I realized, leaned me forward so much. Because these are very deep. They're very deep chairs. Chairs that we are in. You actually have one, but I felt like for me-- I know.
I felt like for me when I was sitting in it, like it punched me and I was like, "I look like I've got a belly the way it sits me." And you do not have a belly. I don't have a huge belly up, but I'm not bellyless. Well, especially after this week. And you're fast. Oh, straight into it. I'll go straight into it. Well, you mean you gave me such, like, a softball there. I mean, you just threw it up. Knock it right out. I didn't mean to do that, but yeah, I fasted this week for the first time ever.
Really, that I tried. Yeah. Right? Do we want to go into that right now? I do want to hit that, but gosh, I was like going to softball this into like, "Here's what we did this week. We're outside today. Beautiful day. Cleaned up the--" It is a beautiful day. Yeah. Let's do general. Let's just talk about how nice of a day it is. I mean, sun's out where we're at. Yeah. I wonder if it'll be out when this airs. I wonder if the listeners can, you know, if they can sympathize with our sunny days.
Yeah. Well, I don't know. I haven't really paid too much attention to the weather this week. All right. Well, I mean, the biggest thing was, I was going to talk about just the disappointment of my Jayhawks slightly, right? Just kind of what happened back this week. Wah, wah. Yeah, I knew it. I actually picked them in my bracket to lose to Arkansas. You did. You had them going out in the first round.
This is old news for everybody at this point in time, because now we're into the Sweet 16-ish Elite Eight. Yeah, we're Sweet 16 and Elite Eight. By the time this comes out, by the time people listen to it. So, yeah, that was frustrating. Yeah. But I knew it was coming. We just--we can't box out. We can't rebound. We can't shoot. We can't make free throw, win game. Yep. Yep. There's a lot of things we can't do. Our fifth-year senior, who won a championship?
Yeah, Ed. And, you know, he kind of peaked last year, maybe, in his career, and this year he turned the ball over. Yeah, yeah. He just--he wasn't the same player that we've seen, I think. It's funny. This is one of those things that's funny to me. Like, I know enough about the Jayhawks, because we watched the Jayhawks men's basketball team quite a bit, as much as we can. And the kids don't watch it that much anymore. Maybe because it was a boring year. Maybe.
And, you know, it's more fun when you win. It always is. Everything is in life. Everything in life is way more fun when you win. Winning. Yeah, yeah. You know, but what was I going to say about that? I don't remember now. Oh, I know what it was. Is the fact that--I don't watch a lot of other. No, no. Other than the teams like where we went. You know, we watched Iowa football. We watched Jayhawk football now, too, because-- Yeah, we did. Jayhawks have been okay lately.
But I am not the dad, and you're not the mom. Some moms are good at this, but a lot of dads are really good at this. They know everything about, like, every team. Like, I don't know where they have the time or what they substitute to listen to talk radio. Maybe they listen to talk--I know they listen to talk radio. Yeah, they must. They don't really get a lot of it from-- if it's on the way of commuting or what it is. But I have got to be--when it comes to sports-- and I'm a sports guy.
I love sports. Oh, yeah. I played all the sports. Exactly. But, I mean, I'm the most boring person in the world to talk to about sports because people are all, you know, like, "Oh, the Big 12." Like, they'll be talking about things that are happening that I should probably know about. Like, I don't know if some of the conferences are changing or the portal and all that kind of stuff. Like, all these big topics. Yeah. Right? And I don't know anything about it.
Yeah. Not to mention, they can pick out a player at some college that they didn't go to, and you're kind of surprised they follow, and then name the stats of that one player. And it's like, "Wow, that's--that is--" In detail. In detail. Yeah, it's impressive. It is. I don't know. Isn't it just time of life for us that we don't have that? No, because most of our peers are in the same time of life. So, I mean, they're literally, A, smarter than me by far, which I probably say. I don't think so.
But B, they're substituting time that I use for something else to learn about that. Right. You know? It's not like I listen to a lot of podcasts. Like, I do listen to Smart List. Yes. But I haven't done that. I mean, like, this week was one of the first weeks I listened to it in probably three months. Right. Because I've just been busy. Right. So, it's not like I'm listening to just, you know, entertaining type things or, you know, I don't take in a lot of television and stuff like that.
No. But somehow they're spending time learning that stuff. Yeah. And I'm not. Sometimes I just feel like I'm so behind the eight ball. Well, I don't know. I think you're not behind the eight ball in a lot of other things. Of course. And you are ahead of the eight ball in all of the things that, at least for me, count, right? Yeah. With family, career. You're ahead of the eight ball on all of those.
Yeah. I'm up to speed on most, you know, domestic issues, things you'll find on, you know, in the news, the newspaper. Absolutely. I'm fairly educated when it comes to those things. But as we all know nowadays, those aren't really safe topics to talk about as much these days. We're not going to have a podcast around those things. We're not going to have, yeah. And people who are on the sidelines don't talk about it that much anymore.
No. It's just everybody's known it's been divisive for eight years or so. Yeah. Even if we kind of know where we're at, people don't really, they've learned. Early on, I think people are like hit you in the head, like hit you in the face with this is how I feel about this. And, you know, I'm standing by this or I'm totally against this, whatever it might have been. Thank goodness.
Most of that I feel like other than some of the diehards on Facebook or the diehards and other, you know, social media where it's not as in your face. Yeah. It's definitely not face to face. No, no. That's been nice that that's not as much of an issue anymore. We've all learned to just kind of ignore and keep it in real life, which is very small circles. Probably not great, but anyways, so. Okay. Well, you took us deep on that one.
Wow. We went into political issues like, not really like some of the current events, not really, but talking about how people don't talk about them nowadays. Because it's just too. Well, you know, as I mentioned to you earlier today, we're outside doing some of the cleanup in the backyard. And I've got there's three podcasts that I just I have I have a passion for. Right. Right. One is just the lighthearted. Let's get your day off to a good start.
You know, stay positive in life, you know, and you know, I am someone that I I'm not a guy that has to have a saying every day. Like I need someone to inspire me today to get out of bed. I don't need that. But I enjoy. Yeah. I mean, it's a good story, a good inspiring quote or something like that. You know, they just they can sometimes really resonate with you like.
Yeah. And it's not every time that you hear one that you're like, oh, that that's the one, you know, but every now and again, you get those that are really that resonate. But I mean, your podcast, you know, your morning serial podcast is such a great way to start the day on a positive note. It's funny. It's quippy. And yet you also talk about how to get better as you read through self-motivation books. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And my original degree was in psychology.
Yeah. Right. So I had a little bit of a interest in that because I got my initial undergraduate degrees in that. I think some of that was to make sure I wasn't the crazy one. Knowing the family I grew up in and again, not trying to dig up any old ghosts there or whatever. But but yeah, there was a little bit of that. Yeah. And obviously you're not going to make any money with a psychology degree unless you continue on in it. Right. You're going to be a doctorate.
But my point was, so I've got that one lighthearted. Yeah. You know, you're not digging into anything. You know, it's not super, super sophisticated. You know, it's not overly educational from, you know, I mean, I've been in finance for 25 years. So, you know, I don't it's not like I'm having a finance talk show. Right. I'm talking about leverage and debt ratios and, you know, syndicated deals and, you know, where the markets are at. None of that. Right.
And then we have this podcast, which I think is great for just kind of it's kind of light levity. Yeah. This is more of like the domestic type things, right? This is about family life stories. Yeah. You know, like I said, it's your date night topics. Yeah. Yeah. You know, what did you do this week? And sometimes you do have a serious topic or two in which we have got it.
Like last week, we talked a little bit about, you know, code reds and, you know, the kids, you know, being locked down in school. But I've got the third podcast, which is called Life Happens. Yes. And I haven't done anything with it because my initial thought of that was I want to interview people that have had like a really good story of overcoming an obstacle and continue on to persevere and be successful. And I haven't pursued it greatly.
I did put some things out there just to see if anybody, you know, wanted to be on that show and talk through some of those. Because the intent of that show is that that's a show I want to dig in on. Yeah. I want to have that show has teeth, like to talk about real subjects, you know, or I could unpack Maya bringing a little bit more. Right. You know, unpack some of these other issues a little bit more in there, but still in a positive direction and personal growth. Right.
And if you look at the website, you know, that's what it talks about. You know, it's just this hierarchy of, you know, kind of where you are in this self-improvement journey. Right. Right. Until you get to a point that's a very healthy individual. And we're all in there somewhere. Yeah. And I think it's fluid to some degree. Sometimes you make it up there and it's like sliding and then you have some slide back. Right. Life's like that.
But I talked about maybe you and I may be doing some of that and taking on some bigger issues and we're just, they were chewing on it. Right. And it's not that anybody needs more or wants more of us, but I do think there's room. And even if it's just for us, like this is fun for us. Yeah. But maybe that's also for us to, you know, get some of those bigger issue, deeper issue. Yeah. Type items out there. I don't know. Yeah. It's interesting. We're chewing on it. Chewing on it.
But what I was not chewing on was food. You were not chewing on food. Oh, that was a great transition. That's a high five. That's like a third or fourth high five. I know. I did feel I love the, I love a good high five. You should probably work one in like every couple episodes we should, you know, high five. But that was a great transition because you, you were, I was, I did tell you how proud I was of you that the morning when, when you actually broke your fast at breakfast.
But yeah, you went on a, was it 60 hours? It ended up being 60. Yep. 60. 60. Wow. I've been thinking about this for a while. Yeah. But you did not tell me you were on a fast until like, well until that evening and I was like, Hey, do you want me to get you something for dinner? Cause you were running out of the house with one of the kids. Right. And I was like, what do you want me to make you so that you can take it with you? Right. You're like, I'm fasting today.
You didn't even tell me about it. So what made you pick that day? I have to know. I knew I'd done it before to some degree for, you know, 18 hours at a time or whatnot. And it's fine if I'm not thinking about it. And then I've heard, and I did some research that there's some really great health benefits from it. Yeah. Right. So plus you and I have always talked. I mean, I talked to you a lot about like, I just, you need to help me watch my portions. I love eating. I love eating.
You know, you're a great cook. We eat very well, you know, and it's hard. It tastes so good in my mouth. So I want to put more. I want more in my mouth. Right. Exactly. So this time I did it and I didn't tell you because I don't know. I mean, I don't know that you're someone that would get on board with doing fast. And I didn't want to make you feel bad about eating around me because I was on a fast.
You know, so the longer I could hold off telling you, like, I didn't want you to feel bad eating around me because I don't think a fast, correct me if I'm wrong, but maybe you will do it in the future with me. But you're not. You like eating too. All 105 pounds of you prove that. Right. I mean, you're lucky. Some of us are not as lucky, right, to be able to eat whatever we want and still stay small. Well, I mean, you are not by any means like roly poly, honey. So I think it's OK.
I mean, I think you actually did it more for health benefits. I mean, yeah, there's a nice side effect of you could lose weight. And I mean, you were saying like water weight even just like. Yeah. Well, it's not about losing weight. Actually, it's about once you get past a certain point and I it's not exactly specific and I didn't do enough research. I didn't take the time because there's a lot of other stuff going on.
But I think once you get past a certain point, 24 hours or so, the body at that point has already burned off all the calories that you ate from your previous meal. Right. And then it starts, I think, burning glucose that's stored up in muscles and protein and whatnot. And then but that only lasts for a short period of time after that point. Your body then starts burning, looking for fuel in store fat. Yeah, which is good. So then it starts eating store fat, which is good.
And that's one good side ones because then so the body, you know, there's something with like insulin receptors and uptake and all this kind of stuff. So those either turn off, turn on or turn off. I can't remember what it is right now. So there's like these two benefits.
But one of the big benefits is that at some point, researchers believe after that 24 hour to 48 and further, because the body is no longer focusing on digestion, it turns its focus elsewhere and it turns its focus to cleaning up unhealthy cells, you know, cells that should be cleaned out of the body. So the benefits of like regeneration and clearing out dead cells. So there's been some, I think, research that shows like for it's helpful for like helping to prevent Alzheimer's.
And, you know, that's one of those indicators that I have when we took our blood tests and, you know, 23 and me and whatnot, you know, so I mean, like, those are one of those things that I'm thinking about. Is there anything I can do with living healthy? Yeah, to maybe prevent that, you know, because I don't want to be 74, you know, or 64, 54, you know, and have a disease catch me off guard if I if there's something I can do. That's relatively easy.
So I went 60 hours, it was hard the last 12 or overnight, and I was dreaming about eating. I was up a lot that night. I was hungry that night. And then I had that breakfast in the morning, I put it on Instagram, but I probably could have gone further that day. I feel like I'm talking, I am talking a lot. I've talked 80% of the time on this podcast. I'm sorry, everybody. But you know, but I think 48 hours is good, especially if you do it. A true I was on a liquid coffee. Yeah, one.
Yeah. And halfway through it, I figured out I was topping my coffee off with cream that I thought was non caloric. It's no sugar, but it does have some calories. So the fact that I probably had 80 calories in the first 24 or 30 hours. And don't get me wrong, that's a lot less than I normally eat. I was like, that's not enough to. But that allows the body it doesn't trigger some of those health benefit triggers if you have that. I think I'm going to try to do 48 hour.
A 40 hour fast every month is what I think I'm going to do, which was pretty easy. The first day was hard. Yeah. Yeah. If you get to the first day, the second day was cake. Didn't even think about it. Wasn't hungry at all. See, that's crazy to me that by the second day, you're like, yeah, it's fine. That's what most people say. I mean, from what I've researched. Well, we watched that show. It was really interesting. So I'm just going to start calling you Chris Hemsworth, right?
Well, for a lot of reasons. For a lot of reasons. Yeah. You look just like him. Like your beautiful blue eyes. Yeah, my beautiful blue eyes, my blonde hair. Actually, I don't even know if he has blue eyes. My Thor physique. Thor physique. I mean, I am 6'4", just like he is too. I mean, I am his doppelganger, basically. You're his doppelganger. Actually, we are friends with a guy that's close to his doppelganger. Yeah. Yeah. But it's, yeah. You get stopped all the time. Is his name Chris also?
Yeah. I just put that together. Coincidence? Yeah. I think not. Dun, dun, dun. No, I'm just kidding. Anyway. But he did a whole show, Limitless. And it's these things that are, yeah, they were to help him live longer and stuff like that. And one of the things. I think he had the same thing though. He saw that he had this like Alzheimer's flag or something like that. He did, yeah. In fact, they made kind of a bigger deal of it. Like he's coming down with Alzheimer's. He's not. He's not. I know.
It's true. We aren't friends with him, nor his doctor. So we don't know. But he was talking about the fast and he did say that first day was really hard. I remember there's actually a scene. He's like cooking bacon for his kids and he's like, I hate this. You know? Yeah. Which, you know, at least I didn't cook bacon while you are on your fast because that's one of those things that. Yeah. It just smells so good. Yeah. That dinner that night was really good that you cooked. So anyways, yeah.
That was interesting. That was my first one, really. It was funny because I've got a cousin that I sent an Instagram out to. Yeah. Or I sent an Instagram out saying 60 hours. I made it. Anybody up for the next one? Well, he texted me back almost immediately later that day. He was like, I just finished a 61 hour fast. He beat you by an hour. Yes, I know he's lying about that. I mean, oh, it just so happened. 61. 60 hours in five minutes. Yeah, exactly. That's five minutes more. Excuse me.
Anyways, but he's trying to do a hundred hour fast. Whoo. Which seems crazy. I mean, that seems too much to me. 48 seems about right. Yeah. Yeah. And I'll be curious if on the next one, if it's different because I can't cheat on that. That first 30 hours I had that creamer and I didn't realize it. Yeah. So maybe that maybe I would have felt a lot more hungry the first or second day if I hadn't done that. Maybe easier because you know what to expect more now. I don't know. I'm not sure.
Yeah, I'm excited for it. So I'll do one in April. You're excited for it. I am. Yeah. That's a little masochistic, but okay. Well, I mean, I always, I mean, as you get older, you want to take care of your body. Yeah. And we are not getting younger. You know, and I think that's one of the things that, you know, a lot of people, I think that listen to her in the same age group or they've been through this before.
And if you're even, even if you're at an older age, it's even more important probably to take care of your body and making healthy decisions, you know, just to try and make sure that those, you know, older years are healthy and enjoyable. Right. Right. You know? Yeah. All right. Well, I just talked for 20 minutes. So it's your turn to talk. I don't know. I told you that morning. I was like, I'm really proud of you. I didn't want to say too much at the time because it's one of those things.
Like if I keep bringing it up, like, oh my gosh, it's so cool. You're on this faster. I'm so proud of you. You're so great. Part of it's like, I didn't want to bring up food in front of you because I'm like, I don't want to remind you that you're not eating. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I did afterward. Yeah, it was fine. No, it was fine. It was interesting. So I'm excited. You know, I am excited to try it again.
Yeah. And hopefully some of those benefits that, I mean, the benefits are all on paper, right? It's nothing that really can measure. I didn't, I didn't, I didn't even weigh myself before or after. Right. So it's not like I was like, oh, I lost 10 pounds of water weight. That wasn't the point of it. Points just to be more healthy. I do need to eat less. Portions are way too much for me. Like even since then, my portions on those last, these last two days have just felt higher.
And maybe I didn't eat that much more than usual, but maybe I shrunk my stomach a little bit. Right. And it felt like way more because right now I feel like my belly is way out there. My belly. Your belly? Well, it's not. Get in my belly. You know that one? Oh yeah. I know you know that one. Of course I know that one. I think most people are a generation know that one. I think so. You know, little Austin Powers throwback. That's right. Such a funny movie. I wonder if that's appropriate for kids.
That's one family. That's movie we have not watched with a family. I wonder if it'd be appropriate for the kids. That's not my bag, baby. Okay. So yeah, no. Might not yet be. There's a lot of scenes coming back right now that are just. It might not yet be. It's not mine. It's not my bag, baby. Okay. Not probably appropriate for our kids yet. Great movie. But yeah, there's a couple of scenes in that that aren't ready for it. You know, movies I think have changed over the last few years.
Like what we watched in the 80s. I mean, PG 13 in the 80s. Holy cow. Not appropriate. I mean, that's easy and our rated our movie nowadays. Yeah. Easy ours. I mean, we've made that mistake a couple of times. Footloose was one like I do. I did not remember some of those scenes and I was like, Oh my. Like, cause we're like, Oh, it's a classic. You kids will love it. We're like, close your eyes, everyone. Close your eyes. Mm hmm. Yeah. Oh yeah. There's a lot like that.
If you haven't watched yet some classics, but they might, they might just have to watch those on their own. There are some things as a parent. Yeah. I don't want to be sitting there with my kid when they see it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, even as an adult, I remember one time watching Saturday Night Live with your mom or something like that in the room. And I was just like, yeah, this is uncomfortable. Uncomfortable. We watched.
Remember there was that one time we watched The Notebook and your stepdad was there. Yeah. And there was that one scene where it's like, yeah. Yeah. Cause I completely thought that was an innocent movie too. There is one scene in that. It's like, is your bed comfortable down there? I mean, are you saying warm enough? I get you anything like a water. Yeah. Do you want to get it? I'll call you back up when we're ready. Oh, it's funny. We'll call you back up when the scene's done. Yeah. Oh, well.
Yeah. Well, the other big thing that happened this week was our oldest was in his second varsity game. Yes. Yeah. It was really cool. Um, they were in the playoffs. Yeah. It's playoff time now, which by the way, the first game of the playoffs is during spring break. I mean, question mark, question mark for the next three years. Yeah. So I guess no spring break trips for us for the next three years. I guess not. I guess we know that now. Yeah. And so we can plan accordingly.
Yeah. We should probably remind all the kids that, you know, spring break is not going to be like what it used to be. Although did you have that? Because I mean, you played all the sports, um, at least where I was from basketball was a winter sport. And so there was always basketball, like practices and games over Christmas break. And so, you know, the basketball, if you skipped one over Christmas break, you didn't play. Did you have that? Yeah, definitely over Christmas break.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you couldn't go anywhere at Christmas. It was never thought. Okay. Over Christmas. Got it. Maybe it was the thought. Oh, you guys did. You guys did some traveling. We never, yeah, we never had. We've always spent Christmas at my grandparents house. Yeah. So no, that was not a thing for us. I think maybe twice we went out, but we had one grandparents in town. Yeah. We did Christmas away twice, I think way before I ever played sports. I mean, okay.
I think I was eight the last time we did it, maybe. Got it. Well, and you did have family. You had quite a bit of family that was like in the area. We didn't have any family in the area. So to see family at Christmas time. Yeah, we did. We went to them. That's right. Yeah. Okay. So you never went out anywhere over Christmas because. Well, Christmas break is not at least the way I grew up is not a time when most people are like Christmas break. Let's go on holiday or let's go on vacation. Right.
Yeah. That's just not the world I grew up in. I mean, spring break was definitely a time to go. I think most people think about that now or over the summer. Right. Now we have fall break. Which is weird to me. I'm going to be honest. I don't know why all of a sudden this year we decided to give kids a week off in the middle of the fall. A whole another week off. I get a long weekend, but in October, right? I think it's October. Yeah. And then you get another week off basically in November.
Yeah. For Thanksgiving. Two weeks. Is that just a Texas thing or is that everywhere? I don't know. We always had like a long weekend. Like when I grew up, we had a long weekend in the middle of October and our kids up until this past year always had like a long weekend, right? You got two days off. You got that Thursday, Friday, and then the weekend that was usually that was considered the fall break up until this year. Now it's a full week.
And I think working parents are all like, Oh, why are we doing this? I just, again, I will say on this, I do not know. Kudos to those of you that work in an office or have to go or to, you know, I don't know how people, if you don't work from home, I don't know, and have a flexible schedule. I don't know how you do it. How you do anything. Especially the age our kids are. Yeah. You know, like I think people who have little kids, they still have to take them to daycare. Right?
Because you can't work at home and have a toddler, right? You got to actually watch your toddler. They can get into trouble. Whereas like I trust that our 13 year old is not going to stick her finger in a light socket. Right. So, but yeah, I don't, but the, but we're gone so much. We have to get them here and there. I don't know how we would do that if we had to go to an office. I have no idea. It's a different world now. It's a different animal. Totally different.
But back to the game, that was another thing. Yeah. Cause we had to leave it like five o'clock to get all the way, way far away. I mean, what we had to drive an hour to get to this game or something. It was felt like that. Well, I mean, yeah, it was a long ways. We drive forever. I mean, anybody that lives in the DFW area. So I grew up in Colorado Springs, which is an hour south of Denver.
And anytime we had to play in Denver, whether it was soccer or basketball or whatever the support was, that was like a long ways to go to go to Denver. It was a big deal. It's like, we got to go to Denver. I had an uncle that lived in there. We have to go to Denver. Yeah. It was like a trip. Yeah. Well, that's actually shorter than basically where we go every night to practice almost. Almost. For soccer. Mm-hmm. And then almost, what, 90% of our games are that far. Are that far.
So when you say we drove an hour, I mean, it was probably not that much further than we usually go, what, we go northeast a little bit or just more east. This time we went south of Fort Worth, which is just a way worse highway. It's a way worse community. Yeah. Community is terrible. It's just a lot worse, I think. Yeah. Yeah. But I mean, overall, it was super cool to see. And I was really proud. I think the whole team played so well.
But it was one of those games that it just, it broke your heart because you know that that could be the last game for those seniors. Yeah. And you're like, I just, my heart went out and I remember telling you in the middle of the game, I was like, I'm going to remember sitting here with my kid as a, how do you remember, as a freshman, feeling like, Hey, at least I still have three more years of this, like win, lose or otherwise.
Like I still have another few years of this, but when that's when I'm sitting here in three years, I'm going to be a wreck. I think it's a different, yeah, I think it's a different feeling when, because I'm not aware that any of those seniors are playing in college. Yeah, I don't know. I don't think so. Our oldest didn't tell us that any of them worked. I don't think any of them are.
So yeah, I think, you know, that's a closing of an era for someone that, you know, they've probably played soccer the whole childhood life through high school. And a lot of people play high school sports, but I mean, you know, if you're not going to, if you're not kind of that next echelon athlete playing in college, that's it for you. You're, you're done. And that's, that's gotta be a big deal to some people. I know you feel bad. Yeah. It's a closing of the chapter.
And well, even without that, right. I mean, like you, you were a dancer your whole life, right? So you danced and I mean, I don't think you danced in college that I'm aware of. No, I don't know that. I don't know. I don't know. I mean, I just don't even know if that existed. It was my, my point. Yeah. My point to that was, um, but I mean, like, how did you feel when you knew it was kind of your last performance? Yeah, I, it was sad. It was really sad.
Yeah. And it helped that we, that last performance we did really well, at least, you know, for high school, we did really well. And so that helped that. But I mean, it's still just like, that's the last time I'm going to step onto that floor or that stage or. Were you thinking of it when you stepped onto it? No. Okay. No. After you were stepping off. Mm hmm. Yeah. And then it, then it's just kind of sad. Is that the swing choir? No. So we were, we did have show choir. That one was different.
That one night we did know. I don't think that actually was our last performance. I was the last competition, but we went to nationals. We were number two in the nation. Yeah. Um, and we honestly, the, the one that one should have. So I don't think, like, I remember being like, I'm super proud of that. We did really, really well. Do they base Glee off of your? Obviously. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Love Glee though. It was a really cool show. Yeah. I mean, that was super fun. It was so different.
And yeah, but that was a really close knit group. And yeah, it was really, it was pretty cool. Like I think we're all pretty proud of the fact that we did that. And sure. Second in the nation. It's nothing to snub. Not that all high schools have one and stuff like that, but it was for total. We performed at the grand old Opry. I mean, how many people can say that they've performed on that stage? Like that's pretty cool. Yeah. It's an awesome experience. I don't know.
How did you feel like when you knew it was your last game? I mean, I was aware of it for sure. You know, my, I remember this, I'm talking about basketball right now. I mean, I was aware of it, you know, but I was, I already knew I was going to college. So I knew I'd play more. But I was aware of, you know, like he, it was in a way game and coach pulled me out, you know, so that I could get innovation. Yeah. Innovation. So people could clap for me. Yeah, of course. They could clap out.
Yeah. So I did get, you know, a nice, you know, send off. For that, you know, and so I remember tears came into my eyes because I got a good send off. Yeah. You know, and that felt good that I was appreciated at that point in time. But I don't, I don't remember being sad that it was like, Oh, I'll never play, you know, high school basketball because I was going on to play college ball. So I wasn't, I wasn't sad about that. I was excited for the next level, I think. Yeah. At that point in time.
But, you know, I can, I can see how, you know, I mean, I never, I never really had that. So I mean, it's tough to, yeah. You know, if, if, if for my, for my basketball, quote unquote, you know, career, if, if I had known the last time I was playing was the last time I was playing, it would have been really emotional. Yeah. Because I was never there. I have no, I was never going in professional, you know, I was, I would have been a solid collegiate player. Player, yeah.
Likely would have gone whatever. But yeah, if I would have known, I think it would have been really sad. Yeah. And I'm sure that's how it is for these, these people that you're talking about and their parents and whatnot. And maybe it's more sad for the parents too, right? Probably the parents. It's a lot into one. It's a lot of stuff being wrapped into one, you know, it's this childhood for 18 years. It is slowly but surely wrapping up. That's wrapping up.
And, you know, and most people don't close on a win. Like I think that's, that's why it's like everyone wanted like Michael Jordan to retire after he won, you know, the last championship. Everyone wanted Tom Brady after he won his last Super Bowl. It's like, because you want him to go out on a win, but most people don't. And obviously because we didn't go on, it was their last game. It was kind of a winter go home situation for this particular playoff game. And went to penalty shootouts.
And it's like that kid who, you know, if it was blocked or missed, it's just like, oh, it feels so bad for them. You go out on a loss. That's heartbreaking to me. And we talked about on the way home that almost everybody goes out on a loss. Almost everyone goes out on a loss. Most people don't. I mean, my senior year, we went out on a loss for soccer too. We were favored in state that year and we lost first run. And that was like, whoa. Yeah. I think we were shocked.
So you didn't even have a chance to enjoy it. Yeah. Yeah. Oh my God. We were just kind of shocked at the, I had a quick upset. Yeah. So that was one, but, you know, soccer, I played for 13 years, whatnot, but it was not my love. Yeah. Yeah. I played soccer because I was athletic. Yeah. You know, but so I wasn't like sad about that. I don't think. And so most people do, most people go out on an L unfortunately. And that's what's, that's really sad to me. I don't know.
Maybe I'm just really emotional this week for some reason. I don't know why I would be, but you know, it hit me as kind of hard because I just, I will always remember sitting back there, you know, especially when our oldest is or any of our kids are seniors wrapping it up, at least for their high school career. And maybe, you know, there's, there's chance they go on and play more, but, or run more if it's, you know, our daughter, who knows.
But how, how, I mean, it was just a really cool experience for our oldest though. Right. It was, he was, if anybody saw the Instagram thing, they, they have a program for it and they listed all the players and their ages and their, their, their year in school and whatnot. And he was the, our oldest was the only freshmen. There was no, there's not even a sophomore, right? He was the only freshmen on both team that was there.
Yep. So he got to partake in and he got his name called out when they went out. He didn't play. He did not know. But, but I mean, just what a cool experience for him to see it. He's got three years that he will play in. He will. Yeah. You know what I thought was really cool. I think we've talked about this before. You know, he's more of our introverted kid, right? Like the other two will have friends over and he's like, no, I'm good. I'll just hang out with, you know, you guys or, or whatever.
But it was really cool to watch him interact on the sidelines with everyone. Yeah. And I mean, he's younger than the next person on the team by two years. Yeah. And he, he acted like he had been a part of the team forever. Yeah. And he was kind of joking with them. And he was one of the first people to go over to the kid who missed the shot, which is what was kind of that nail in the coffin in the penalty shootout. And our son was the first to go over to him.
Yeah. I took note of that and it was, it was pretty cool. Yeah. But he did that. It's like he knew. So it was good. It was a proud parent moment. Yeah. So. Yeah. And it was, it's like, you know, we can be proud of him even though he didn't play. Right.
I mean, it's just like the experience, just getting the call up on it, you know, and it's not that he's the only one that is cool, but I just, you know, it's, I keep trying to hammer to the kid, you know, win our love or our approval for us to be proud of you, you know? Right. It's great when you are like when I was, it's great when you are, when, you know, our, our daughter's destroying people, you know, but she's going to be, we're going to have the state champ or not this champ.
The city champ. Yeah. The city champion meet this week. This week. And she's going to go against the best of the best. And there's another girl that's close to her time. Yeah. So, you know, she, and she's been blowing people out. She has. But she may not, you know, and it's like, it's okay. That's okay. Don't, you know, you've got more time. You're going to race against the same girl for the next probably six years. Yeah. You know, you might race against her because she's also on club track.
Yeah. This girl might be in club track too. And you might go against her at all the national champ, you know, so get used to it. I remember the first guy that beat me. I told her that. I don't know if I mentioned it on here, but I mean, yeah, I was, I did. No, I don't think you did, but like, I was gonna say, yeah, I mean like I was, I was also very, I feel like a braggy docious now in my stuff here. I'm not trying to be, but I was being very factual. You were very fast.
Actually, I had never lost a race until I remember the first race I lost. I was in ninth grade because I was fast. I, you know, I held records and, you know, stuff too. But I remember the guy that first got a beat me and he and I were head to head and toe to toe, you know, in high school. And he went on to play, you know, at the Oregon Ducks as a running back.
His sister won an Olympic medal, you know, so it's like, you know, again, I'm not going to go professional at being a track athlete either, but it's, you know, it's one of those things where it's like, be proud of what you were good at as long as you did your best. Yes. Right. And if that's last place, you know, that's great. You do your best and that's where you placed. I will take that all day.
Yeah. I'm actually, I've started like trying to help our daughter because she is prepared for the fact that like, this is going to be the toughest meet that she's had. I just want her to do her best. She's the first time she's been pushed to. So I'll be curious to see how she reacts to that. She's super competitive as well. Like I, you, I thought our boys were competitive, which they are. She far and away beats them.
Like even though the games, the around the world game that you all were playing last night, I was like, that girl will lie, cheat and steal to win. She will manipulate the, manipulate all of the components to make sure that she comes out on top. Yeah. It's just a, it's a different factor though.
When it's like board games or like that game we were playing, opposed to when you're sitting there it's you because track and field is an individual sport for the most part, you know, and that's a different feeling. I mean, that is one I do get nervous about because I remember being in the blocks. I remember waiting for that starting gun. And you know, I feel that for, but that's one where that competitive nature is on your shoulders and yours alone, yours alone.
Yeah. You're ready in, you know, tracks one that you just, you just never know. Some days you're ready for that race. And some days you're like, I don't know. I don't know what didn't click, but I didn't run as fast. I've run, you know, so much faster than that before. Yeah. It just didn't click tonight. Yeah. It honestly, so in the last track meet, I was sitting, well, we were sitting, you had happened to walk away, um, to film at that point in time.
And I was like, I was talking to our friend who, she actually was a college track athlete and I was like, is it nervous that I, I mean, is it bad that, I mean, my pole, my pole, my poles were sweaty. I was so nervous for her. And she was like, I don't think that goes away. And I was like, dang it. Yeah. Cause it's different when they're part of a team and okay, if they mess up, there's other players on that team that could help fix that error some somewhere, right?
Before it goes against you, there's nothing else out there, but you know, the track athlete. Yeah. You know, I was just sitting here thinking to what it is for me is it has nothing to do with winning or losing. I'm nervous for how they hurt if they don't win because we're, we're blessed that we have athletic children and generally speaking, it's mostly blue ribbons in this house.
And again, we're blessed and I'm not trying to be braggadocious about that, but because of that, there's a weight, heavy as the crown, right? There's a weight to that, that if you were to consider and it will happen. There's always going to be somebody bigger, better, faster at some point as you get further along in this, but that's a, you know, that's a sour pill to take. I know there's a saying, but it is. And they're, our pastor says this, there's no hurt like kid hurt.
And when your kid hurts, exactly. That's what it is. I just, I get nervous for them hurting. I know. You know, I celebrate them feeling cloud nine when they win. You know what I mean? Cause I'm so happy that they are having that feeling and that experience. Yes. And it is devastating. And something that I didn't appreciate until I became a parent. Yeah. How much you hurt when your kid hurts. Yeah. Whether it's a loss, whether it's, you know, they feel sad about something.
I mean, it doesn't matter what it is. And everything you do is to protect them from it, which is so funny. It's a whole nother. I mean, we're getting long now because we're trying to keep it short on this shorter on this one. Everything you do as a parent is to stop them from hurting. Right. Right. Prepare, like get good grades and in school so you can go to a good college and get a good job.
So you don't have to hurt, you know, not making enough money to buy groceries or I mean, that's all these are everything builds. You don't have to hurt some way. You don't have to feel the pain some way. And that's the ultimate letdown for a parent is that some things have to be learned in the School of Hard Knocks. They do. Despite the fact that we could tell you the way to do it. Yes. Yes. But they wouldn't necessarily learn how to deal with it. Right. If they never hurt.
Right. And so it's just, I don't know how to balance that. I mean, that's something that I think I struggle with because it's like, I know I need to let them deal with that. You know, I need to give them space or whatever it is to deal with it in the way that they want to deal with it. But I don't want, I don't want the consequence. Like I don't want them even though they need it. And it's, I don't know. I wasn't expecting that. Yeah. But neither was Jamie Lawson. Neither was Jamie Lawson.
Okay. Kudos to the listener out there who knows what we that inside joke that we just said. Jamie Lawson. So anyway, well, we are getting long, but we kind of talked about what's coming up next week. I mean, we have the meat of champs. You have champs. It'll be a big one. Yep. It'll be a big one. And the kids are going back to school. The kids are going back to school. Yeah. Hallelujah. It hasn't been that bad, but they just, we just don't know what to do with downtime. It's like me.
I don't know how to relax because I've always got so much to do. I just, I don't know what to, I don't know how to relax, but our kids don't know what to do when we don't have soccer practice and we don't have somewhere to go. No, they don't. I mean, they, video games, unfortunately take a lot of that time. One of our kids was mad today because we're like, it's super nice. Get outside. You're forcing me to go outside. That's where it's like, I'm just failing as a, you know, a parent.
No, because I think that's pretty common. Like, I don't know. They don't get a whole lot of downtime to do that. Although he did go outside and then like the second time he went out, he actually was in a good mood. So again, this is one of those things where it's like, I need to let you get over your bad mood by yourself. Right. Right. Right. Um, so I don't know. Yeah. That's the big thing this week. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's, we're finally turning a corner. It is getting nice out.
Yeah. It feels like it's been a long winter. I'm eating every meal this week. Your back is better. My back's better. Your knee is healing. It's healing. You're at 77 degrees. 77 degrees. So, um, you know, I'm starting to bend it and. You're walking around everywhere without crutches, which is fantastic. Which is like, that's a whole new lease on life. Yeah. You're probably two weeks away from driving, which will be another whole new lease on life. Oh, it really will.
I, it's such a burden or not a burden that you don't want to take, but like it's a lot for you. There's a lot of driving in our household and I am excited to actually be able to drive because for, uh, how old am I? But okay. So for 30 years, you're 30. I've been driving for. Wow. You're going to sell that one to the team. I've been driving for 30 years. And so it's, there is something that's like, I don't know.
You just feel handcuffed when you're like, I can't just run to the store because I, I need to get something. Yeah. So now I need to ask you to go to the store to get something that I forgot. You're very homebound to now that's getting nicer out. It's just like, you want to go outside. I kind of just, yeah, I really just kind of want to drive to CVS and like, I don't know. I'll pick up some deodorant. I don't know. I don't care, but I want to be able to do it. Right. Right.
Well, sooner than later you'll be able to drive and you can finish your own carpools. Carpools. Does that work kind of? Not really. Working really hard on that one. That was really bad. Yeah. I was trying to, you know, finish your own. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we've got to come up. I'm just saying we've got to come up. We're trying so hard for this terrible ending every time and it's terrible. We got to find a better one. I think. I, you know, people should comment.
Listeners, I was just going to say, have this. Let's comment and, and, and come up with a better ending because closing. Yeah. We want to be able to finish each other's podcasts. Well, you can finish it yourself. That's it. That's a wrap. Sign off, sign off on it. All right. Well, I think we should let it go, right? All right. We should, but have a great week everyone and we will see you back next week. See you. [MUSIC] Straight into it. I'll go straight in. Such like a softball there.
I mean, you just threw it up, knock it right out. You know, a little Austin Powers throwback. It's not. In my belly. Of course I know that one. That's not my bag, baby. It's not my bag, baby. Okay, so yeah, no. Yeah, this is uncomfortable. Uncomfortable. You can't shoot, you can't make free throw, win game. Yep. And you know, it's more fun when you win. Everything in life is way more fun when you win. Winning. Wow, you took us deep on that one. Wow. Right, and I don't know anything about it.
Yeah. I'm so behind the eight ball. That's the one. I think some of that was to make sure I wasn't the crazy one. Like I said, it's your date night topics. It's interesting. We're chewing on it. Chewing on it. But what I was not chewing on was food. Oh, that was a great transition. I love the high, I love a good high five. You should probably work one in like every couple of episodes. We should. It tastes so good in my mouth. And I was dreaming about eating. [LAUGHTER]
Like your beautiful blue eyes. Yeah, my beautiful blue eyes. And I mean, I am this doppelganger, basically. You're this doppelganger. Coincidence? Yeah. I think not. You just smell so good. He beats you by an hour. Yes, I know he's lying about this. You're excited for it. I am, yeah. That's a little masochistic, but OK. I mean, question mark? Question mark. For the next three years. Yeah, so I'm-- Not the world I grew up in. I mean, is that just a Texas thing, or is that everywhere?
Obviously. We performed at the Crandall Offrey. I mean, it was so bad for them. You go out on a loss. That's heartbreaking to me. As long as you did your best. Yes. And if that's last place, that's great. I was like, that girl will lie, cheat, and steal to win. But that's when that competitive nature is on your shoulders and yours alone. I mean, my palms were sweaty. I was so nervous for her. And she was like, I don't think that goes away. There's a weight. Heavy as the crown.
Yeah, the pastor says this. There's no hurt like kid hurt. Some things have to be learned in the school of hard knocks. We did kudos to the listener out there who knows what-- That bad, but we just don't know what to do with downtime. I don't know how to relax. They're forcing me to go outside. That's where it's like, I'm just feeling as a parent. I need to let you get over your bad mood by yourself. Your knee is healing. It's healing. You're at 77 degrees. How old am I? OK, so for 30 years.
You're 30? Well, sooner than later, you'll be able to drive and you can finish your own-- That work, kind of? Not really. Working really hard on the toy. That was really bad. Got to come up. We're trying so hard for this terrible ending every time. Podcasts. But you should finish it yourself. That's it. That's a wrap.