(upbeat music) Are we done bop, bop, bopping? Yeah, we bop, bopped. Nobody got to hear it this time. Well, here goes another great idea. There's another idea. You should ask if maybe you could do a collab with them. I mean, you're Hollywood. What, our entire podcast embodies, right? Like the chaos train and-- If you saw her highlights on Instagram, for a sec, she's fast. Check it out. 48 hours from now. She was invited and bopped. Cause I'm weak. My body and brain needs downtime.
Yeah, you know, life throws those moments at you. So an hour and a half has already gone up in flames. We're just gonna hope that the rest of the house is on fire. We might have to put you on pause for a minute. He's gonna do it. Hopefully he won't burn down the house. I think the kids do take advantage of the fact that I can't make it upstairs very often. It's one of my favorite parts of the house. You have to delete this episode if there's any. You're enemies, like people come and go.
You're talking about some legitimate talent on here. There's a lot of ego in it for the parents. Yeah, the yips. Quick ass-lies. I'm never gonna give you up. Well, like the mom I was talking to this morning, and I won't use names obviously here, she's a terrible person. I don't want to sleep on the moms that are competitive. Oh, yeah. Because we do a lot of yelling, but-- Referee abuse. Probably one of the funniest people I know. Oh, for sure. Nice knowing you all, you know.
I kind of zoned out parents. It's a dumpster fire hearing. Mommy issues. They all have ego issues. Yep, you guys are being pretty. Yeah, this is our event session. Go-- In mouth situation. Total foot in mouth situation. I mean, I know you've got the beef and it's important to work your arm. Maybe you're not winning in life, because you're not doing this for exercise. You're not doing it because you're good at it. Hold on, I think we should do a little time out.
Okay, with daddy issues and mommy issues and ego issues. And he said, just for the record, my son doesn't work at our V's. Oh, no. The few ruin it for the many. One. That was very executive. Yeah, that was cathartic. This is just warm in my heart. Hard to do in the moment. We can't miss anything on the screens. But we're labor, we need to hurry. Flat out on your closet floor. Energy's hard to come by sometimes. Worked hard to get to where we are. But we haven't always been there.
Just be happy and a kind person. Happy and kind. People are gonna think I'm the biggest spoiled brat in the world. Don't regret it. God, just a bratty little rich kid. Yeah, the three McLarens, yes. Shove it in your purse, turning red. Oh, they were so embarrassed. They were like-- Put one of those steak knives in there too. His dogs are out. And I was like, that's just great pants. It really is. His tickets are pretty high, it was 7-11.
There's a reason why they measure you on your way in and out. Most of my funniest jokes are the ones you have to explain. Like a little puppy, kind of just like hyper around the big dog. Bankers don't golf anymore. But you're not a good golfer either. No. Not 1990, so if you know you know. It is. If I can make him laugh, I feel good. Yeah, you'll just kind of just smooth beat it. It's great. It usually pops out and it's the most funny when no one's expecting.
That was a good one and nobody got it. (laughing) Did Sean just say that made no sense? Why would he even say that? Anyways, we're way off subject here. We're way, way off subject. You know, here's the thing. Yeah, I'm ready. Phenomenal. Phenomenal, yeah. We are not goers on vacation, but in definitely getting through some Alabamram. We do that really well on vacation. Well, if you're drinking that, you can't buy it. The whale's tail, seeing the Coliseum. Judge all you want.
I'm excited to take you there because you've never been. So one of the coolest things I ever did, flying into Charles de Gaulle, the Arc de Trumpe right here, you've got the Eiffel Tower over here. I mean, it was, if I could only pick one place to go on vacation ever again, people would go. You wanna go to Rome or do you wanna go to North Dakota? Proud Minnesota. You've been dropped on your head, son. Why are you going there for spring break? And I mean, we're in March, people.
Let's all celebrate this race. At a medium pace. I love March Madness. I hate it. (laughs) My Jayhawks are just terrible. According to the Google. According to the Google. And now AI is so good that when you type a question in there, it almost finishes your. Sandwiches. See you all next week. All right, have a good one. We'll see ya. Bye. Bye, bye. 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. I think we're ready to. Are we done bop, bop, bopping? Yeah, we bop, bopped. Nobody got to hear it this time. Oh, darn. It's always such a great intro. Oh. It's kind of like a pop song I'm getting ready to make, so I don't want to give away the magic.
I don't know, Hanson may have already done that and capitalized on that a few years ago. Mm. Yeah, you're right. Well, here goes another great idea. Here goes another. A couple of them. Hey, but you know what? I'm sure Hanson, gosh, they're probably pretty old now, but I'm sure they retired handsomely. Actually, yeah, yeah, Hansonly. Hansonly, yeah. Yeah, well done. Yeah. I saw a video of them performing and all three boys still together, just older, all 30s and 40s. Right, right.
Just done the same thing playing bop. Well, did they have another song? Yeah, they had a lot of songs, but I don't know any of them. Yeah, okay. Do you know any of them? No, that's why I asked. I'm pretty sure Mm Bop was the only. Give you the Mm Bop remix. Yeah. Bop, bop, bop. Mm bop, bop, bop. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. You should ask if maybe you could do a collab with them. A collab, yeah. I mean, we're all in media and showbiz at this point, so. Right, I mean, you're Hollywood.
Yeah, I'll ring them up, that's right. Great idea, you should do that. Well, this is our second attempt to sit down this morning. Now it's afternoon officially. To try to record this. Yeah, I would say the last two hours is really what our entire podcast embodies, right? Like the chaos train and. That's right. Life throwing things at you that you didn't expect. That's right. We had a very planned out Sunday, and yeah, the plans changed. Yeah, there's a saying, right?
That says something like, if you want God to step in, you know, just start planning everything out. Yeah, exactly. Have your plans set. Nothing bad happened this morning, it's just, being down to one driver is difficult. Yes. And we had a, what we thought was potentially a plan today to get somebody home, and we did not. That fell through, it was in the middle of us sitting down to start this. Yeah, so, well and then of course, shoes were supposed to, shoes were ordered, however. Track shoes.
Track shoes. Track shoes were stolen or mistakenly taken by somebody at our daughter's track meet this last week. She had to actually borrow a pair of track shoes for that. If anybody saw the Instagram ones, but we liked that though, because orange really kind of stood out. 100%, I loved it. If you saw her highlights on Instagram, first off, she's fast, check it out. But that helped us find her. You can just really see her kind of taking off. Yeah, loved it.
So in lieu of missing shoes, we ordered another pair. As one does. As one does, especially when there's a track meet 48 hours from now, and. See, I did it in butt. (laughing) Anyways, go ahead. It's like a high five moment. Can you high five? Yeah, I think we should high five on that one, that was good, that was good. Yeah, so wrong size. Actually, the store shipped the right size, but they were just the wrong size.
So now we are scrambling to find those shoes to be shipped in 48 hours so that she can, I mean, there's no chance that she'll have them for practice tomorrow. So here's what's gonna happen. We're gonna end up burning the one day that we had four hours of nothing to do, which we've talked about before. I need that, I have to have downtime. Because I'm weak. (laughing) My body and brain needs downtime. And this was a four hour period that I thought I might be able to get it.
Not that I was taking it down, I was gonna put some of our, you know, the last remaining holiday decorations up, the snowmen and wintery ones. The wintery ones that don't, they weren't holiday, yeah, they're the winter decorations. So I put those up, I was gonna put some of the stuff that's in the garage that needs to go up to the attic, I was gonna do that.
So not that I was gonna sit on the couch and have a yellow jacket, but no, I had some stuff to do, you know, some of those honey do lists are calming for me too. Yeah, yeah. No brain type stuff. Exactly, and they kinda, when you don't have time during the week, it's just, it's really nice to have a little bit of time to breathe to take care of them, and then you can go into the week feeling like you've accomplished something.
It wasn't running around somewhere, it wasn't driving somewhere, it wasn't on the sidelines of a tense track meter soccer game. It was just a calming, like easy honey do list. Afternoon. Afternoon for just a couple hours. No football, no basketball today that we're watching at least. Right, it's just that, you know, life throws those moments at you, and you're like, "I had really earmarked this day for something else." Yeah, so an hour and a half started going up in flames.
That's fine, that's life. But it's life. As I say on the other podcast, life is what happens when you're busy making other plans. Yep, yep. So you gotta make sure you enjoy this time too. Exactly. And make the most of those in between moments. Yeah. Yeah, we had lots of chores for them yesterday, so. We did, man, they had long lists yesterday, and I think they got through them. Again, this is a, we need to trust but verify.
I think the kids do take advantage of the fact that I can't make it upstairs very often. Yeah. Or wait, I can't make it upstairs, period, right now. Yeah. I think they take advantage of that a little bit. Yeah, we should have put the elevator in. I don't know what we were thinking. We kinda have an elevator, I don't think it'd be safe for me, but it's a lift for the record in the garage. It is the greatest.
So if you're building a house, or you're thinking about doing some additional work in the garage into your attic, we designed the house for this, but there's a lift that comes down out of the garage ceiling. Yeah. Straight into my garage, and so when it's Halloween or Christmas decorations that all go up into the attic and come down once a year, we add them onto this lift, and it just automatically comes down.
In fact, it can carry my weight, so I'll put it all on, and I'll just lift myself right up into the attic, undo him, and take him down. It's the greatest. It's one of my favorite parts of the house. It is a great idea, although it does say very clearly that you are not supposed to ride on the lift. That's true. So if any warranty issue comes, you'll have to delete this episode if there's any issue. Yes, yes, yes. For the record. Proof that I've been riding.
Yes, Shaun has never ridden on the lift. I would never do that. No, mm-mm. I would never do that. No, you walk all the way into the house, up the stairs, through the attic, every time. So we already had a soccer game this morning. Yeah. Got a W, which was good. It was, it was a great game. It was against a great team, really strong team, and so it was fun.
It was an interesting one, though, because it's one of the ones that's political to some degree, not political, it's the wrong word for it, but on both sides of it, people really wanna win because we had some ex-players on this other team that were loved on our team, and they have great parents that we miss having on the sidelines, so it was nice to see them down there, but it's one of those things that I was telling our youngest, like, hey, he can be your friend, but out there,
and you said it better than I did. I said, out there, your friend's been on the field, or the court, your enemy's, you're gonna, and you said-- You gotta compete against him. You're gonna compete against him. You're not gonna hurt him, but you're gonna compete, and you're gonna put him on the ground, and you're gonna put him on the floor, but after the game, everybody, we'll still be friends. Exactly, and that's important. It's tough, though.
It's tough, and it puts, I mean, I think mentally, it's good and bad for the kids, but I think the good part is that, you know, they do learn to compete.
The bad part is, it's like, it's against my friend, but that is very much just part of, I don't know about all the sports, but for sure, in the soccer world, that's part of it because kids switch teams quite frequently, actually, and so you're often on, you're competing against someone that you've played with or know, maybe you went to school with them or whatever, so it's-- And this is high level.
Some of you may not know, but our youngest plays on a team, he's been on this team for, literally, he's actually been the longest tenured player on this team, but it's the hand-picked team, it's the very top team in his age bracket for the Solar Soccer Club, and people have kinda come and gone, that's why he's, to your point, people come and go.
And the team is turned over here and there, but our youngest has been on it with another player that joined just very shortly after, so the two of them are really the longest tenured on this team.
So anyways, we've been on this team for a long time, watching very high level soccer because what I was getting at, as a lot of people may not know, they've been ranked number one in the state, this team, and right now, they're number two on this app that is, it's fairly accurate, some of the top teams, the top teams are accurate on there, I would say. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think so. Right, whether they're number five through number one, maybe there's some fluidity there. I think so, yeah.
But right now, we're the number two team in all of Texas. And we're one of the top teams in the country, so you're talking about some legitimate talent on here. And the team we played today is in the top five also, maybe they're like one behind us on this list. On this particular list. On this particular app.
So there's a lot at stake there, not only for the kids, but where I'm getting at on this long, and one of our bullet points kind of helps us get into it, is there's a lot of ego in it for the parents. Because it's so highly competitive, and at this level, wins and losses matter. In fact, the coaches turn over because it's their job. Like, one of the coaches turned over, and he made some decisions that some of the parents and the previous players that are no longer with us didn't like.
And they left, because he told them straight up that, "Look, you're not gonna get close to me. "I can't get close to you, because I have a job. "I have to come up with 15 pre-MLS players," which is Major League Soccer. And that's my job. If I don't turn, I can't get attached to your child, because-- I might have to cut them. I might have to cut them. And at this level, it is cut throat, and that's hard. It is, it is, and it's hard for the kids. In fact, you had a brilliant move here.
I think when our youngest first made it to that echelon. He's been on this team a long time, but as they get older, it just gets more intense. And he, for lack of a better term, he had the yips. He was getting, it was so intense and so focused that he wouldn't even allow himself to play free. And so for months, we did dance parties in the parking lot to Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up, because it just loosened it up.
And it's like, if you can't play free, and then it was just the reminder of like, he's just a kid. Yeah, so much pressure on these poor kids, but if you gotta know the Rick Astley song we're talking about, let's not skip over that. Watch that video, YouTube the video. The dance moves in that are just legend. Wait for it if you're lactose intolerant. You're in trouble because the next part's dairy. Dairy. It's incredible though, but we did. We tried to loosen them up.
There's just so much pressure on these kids. And the parents, including me, put a lot of pressure on them too. It's, I mean, I think that's natural, and especially when they do play at that level, and their teammates and their competition are all incredible. And so it's like, you know. Well, like the mom I was talking to this morning, and I won't use names obviously here, she's a terrible person. No, I'm just kidding, I'm kidding. I'm totally kidding. She's incredible.
She's incredibly competitive, right? She played high school, or she played college ball. She may even play beyond that. She was a big deal. Her husband was a big deal. He played semi-professional or whatever. It's a soccer family for sure, and they're kids, incredible player. Oh yeah. So you know it's just, that is hard. And I talked about it last week, and I was thinking about when I said it, a lot of the dads are so competitive, and they kind of keep that up.
But I don't want to sleep on the moms that are competitive too, because she's one of them. You know what I mean? And she could outplay most people on the sidelines. Yep, yep. Anyways, that's who we were playing against this morning, and it's funny because on our list here, we do a lot of yelling, but it's mostly at the refs. Yep. And so youth soccer, which this is a good thing, but we did all. This is not a team thing. Not just our team.
This is not aimed at any of our parents, but there was actually a-- An email. An email for youth soccer in the Dallas area that came out about referee abuse. And just how the repercussions, there's actually fines now and monetary, as well as I think playing time, your team can get kicked out. And it was an interesting, I mean there were a lot of comments from parents, like, "Uh, you know, we had--" We got one guy on our team that's hilarious. I mean, like, he doesn't miss a beat.
Probably one of the funniest people I know. Oh, for sure, yeah. We get this text from him going, yeah, nice knowing you all, you know, like, I'm gonna get kicked off. I'm immediately gonna get kicked out. And then they came today and he got kicked out of the basketball game yesterday. (laughs) So it's classic. It's right on. Oh wow, I didn't know that, yeah. Did you not hear that? Oh, you did. Yeah, I did hear that one, yeah. Yeah, I have to kinda sit at the end.
But if the refs would just be better, they wouldn't be in that predicament. I mean, there's a little bit of a chicken egg situation here. I don't yell at a ref when he makes a call that we've, if we've fouled somebody or didn't illegal, he calls the foul, that's fine. Yeah, that's what he's there. It's when they don't call it fair or miss it. Yeah, and people get hurt. Yeah, that's mainly, that's the main thing. But I mean, we've seen some shady things happen in this. We really have.
Anyway, politics and youth sports, it's crazy how just the emotions, it's like an emotionally charged thing, like especially at some of these levels, it's crazy. Was it the same, do you think? I know you were on the sidelines sometimes, you were too busy dancing to play sports, but-- It was not the same, it was not the same. I don't remember at my, I mean, I played all the sports, but I don't remember. I kinda zoned out parents, so I don't even know if I got yelled at or anything.
I was very focused on the fields or the courts that I was playing on. But I just don't remember, until we got older, right? Playing basketball can get a little push come to shove at times. Yeah, yeah, I just think that it's a very, one of the coaches used the term in Dallas, he's like, it is, well, I'm gonna use a PG term, it's a dumpster fire here in Dallas.
It's just a different animal, because youth soccer specifically in Dallas, it just kinda plays by its own rules, and it is-- It's one of the three hotspots in the country. Yeah, so-- Here, Kansas City, and then SoCal. SoCal, yeah. So I don't remember it from Minnesota sitting on sidelines or anything like that. So we're just kind of in the fire of it. Maybe it's just because we have horrible refs, because they all have mommy issues, they all have ego issues. They have to be right.
And I hate to generalize like that, but all of them do. (laughs) Yeah, and if our coach is watching this, he's gonna be like, yep, you guys are banned from the team. Like you're even putting something out on there, yeah, complaining about refs. We gotta get it out here, just not on the sidelines. Yeah, this is our event session. I did that one time, I have kind of calmed down on the refs since the one time I yelled at a ref. Did I tell the story on here? I don't think so, and it is hilarious.
This is like foot in mouth situation. Total foot in mouth situation, but apologies if anybody listening works at Arby's. I mean, I know you've got the beef and it's important to work at Arby's. And you provide something to society. But that being said, I-- Great F meat, but okay. Great, yeah, great F. (laughs) Long and the short of this story is I would yell out, go back to Arby's, you know what I mean?
You shouldn't be a ref, you should go back to your fast food job because obviously, I don't know. Maybe you're not winning in life. I don't know, because you're not doing this for exercise, you're not doing it because you're good at it. So what are you good at, you know what I mean? So my comeback was always like, go back to Arby's, I don't know. So I yelled at this kid who was just terrible. In fact, he had turned around and said, you guys deserve it. I mean, he got snippy with the sideline.
He told us that our team deserved to lose, and it was the middle of the game, and that we would lose. He should not have said what he said. So I told him to go back to Arby's. And afterwards, his dad, and the kid was 20s. I mean, he didn't look like he was 18, I didn't think, or like 14, like some of them were. Oh gosh. I wouldn't have said it to a minor, obviously. I think we should, hold on. I think we should do a little timeout. And we are talking about fully grown adult refs.
Any child who is doing this, learning, we have never once yelled at. So I just wanna go out and say that. That's a good point, that's a good point. Ever have we yelled at a minor. These are grown men. Grown men and women, I do. And women with daddy issues, and mommy issues, and ego issues. So as soon as I told this guy, anyways, that person, dad happened to be at the game, watching his son ref, and he came up to me after the game, and he said, just for the record, my son doesn't work at RVs.
And so ever since then, I'm a little, I'm cognizant of maybe who may be there. It's like the last game, his kids were there. That sideline, the ARs, his kids were there. You weren't there at that game, but his kids brought him hand warmers and stuff. And so, I don't wanna, that made me even think of that again. I shouldn't be berating this guy, especially in front of his kids. I wasn't, he was fine. But I hadn't really done it since then.
There's honestly, I think this could be a situation where, just like, because there are ones that we recognize, as we get to the game, we're like, oh no. You know, that are just notoriously bad. And I wonder if they ruin it, the few ruin it for the many, because honestly, there are some really good ones that keep it in hand, that always seem fair, that basically we don't ever notice because they are good.
I wonder if that's just like the few that we know, because there are some where we roll our eyes the second we get to the field. Yeah, some are better than others. I wish there was a way to rate them after the game, such that if you got, you know what I mean, like anybody on Google gets five star reviews. If they're down to a one star review, you don't go to that restaurant, because they got a one star review. So all these refs should be reviewed by both coaches. Yeah. Right?
And if you end up getting so many ones, because one coach is gonna be like, oh, he was great. He called everything for me. But the other one gives them a one, and maybe you have to wait 48 hours, so you're not mad about it. Like, one. There should be something. But let's identify those few that you're suggesting, potentially, are ruining it for the rest. Let's identify those and weed them out.
Yeah. Or, you know, if we wanna be, you know, if we wanna turn this to more corporate America, let's get them the help that they need to be better at what they do. Oh, that was very executive. That was great, yeah. Executive, yeah. Yeah. That would be good. Anyways. Well, we're all growing and learning. Yeah, yeah. Growing and teaching. Yes. Also. Yes, exactly. That's a great idea. Teaching our way, so. Anywho, that's, I feel like that was, that was getting it off our chest.
Yeah, that was cathartic. That was really good. That was really good. Because otherwise, I mean, it's been like a really awesome week. We had a lot of fun things. We celebrated our oldest birthday. That's right. And we had a lot of really fun family time. Yeah, you're talking about steak. Last night, we went out to a nice dinner, because he didn't want to go bowling or anything like that, so we took the family out to a nice dinner at a really nice steak house.
And it's just, we've talked about it before. It's so fun, because they're at that age now where we can just have discussions. Yes. We have family talks. And you brought up the point that you love it because he's asked for it. Yeah. And that's what he wants to do, spend family time. He wants family time. He picked, like on his actual birthday, it was the middle, well, Monday. You know, it was school night, so he's like, I just want to do homemade pizza, which is usually a family event, right?
We all make a part of it, the kids' help, and eat at the table. I was like, this is just warm in my heart, because our 15-year-old just truly wanted family time. Yeah. I mean, we were at the restaurant for almost three hours last night, just talking, laughing, like, it was great. It was so much fun. Enjoying So much fun. Wonderful food, and enjoying wonderful company. Mm-hmm. I started talking college a little bit with him.
I almost feel bad about that because, and we always say that we're busy and running from here and there, and I know everybody out here is in the same boat, but we do it for the kids. We're busy because of the kids and for the kids, right? And we love that portion of it, but are we missing the forest for the trees there? Not that we can tap the brakes on it, because schedule's the schedule.
Yeah. But I love the fact that he is looking for more family time, which is what, you know, you're kinda keying in on there, because he's not getting enough of it during the week. Yeah. You know, and that tells me that I probably need to, again, those in-between moments, you know, five minutes to put the stinking phone down or close the computer, and just stare at him while he's talking to me, or any of them, you know?
I think those are the little in-between moments that I gotta stop missing, and we've talked about that before. It's hard to do in the moment. It is. I'm busy, I'm busy, I'm busy, you know. Yeah. I gotta get some relaxation in time, I gotta fit this in, because I gotta go to this, to this, to this. Yep. Those five minutes, maybe they add up to 25 minutes in the whole day.
Man, if I can't give 25 minutes to the kids, just to do nothing, and I don't ignore them, but I'm just saying, just to give them, that's that. Medicated. Yes. Completely unplugged. Because that's the thing now. It's a screen. Everybody's got a screen. Yeah. Where we can't miss anything on the screens. Right. And it's like, we don't wanna miss life, because we didn't wanna miss something on a screen. Like, that's not life.
Right. So, yeah. And he's one, I mean, yeah, he just wants to listen to music, and talk to you about the music. He's just into a lot of different things, and like, I even felt bad, because he really wanted to tell me how he was gonna cook the steak while we're back here. Like, but we're late, or we need to hurry. I know, like, this way's on us. Yeah. You know, like, we're not gonna be able to sit there and enjoy that with you, if we can't get this done. Yeah. Because there's no other time.
We have another soccer game tonight. We gotta go get track shoes now. Yeah. You know, there's no time. Yeah. And at the end of the day, you know, I got to have some energy, because literally before the first one. You were laying flat out on your closet floor. Which, for the record, I do all the time. (laughs) I don't think I've ever done it before. I don't think I've ever done that before, but I was like-- You were tired, so-- I laid down on the closet floor, yeah.
Yeah, you were like, it's a nice carpeted floor. Yeah, it's clean. Anyway, yeah, I look over. Like most 48-year-old men do. Yeah. Is that the 48-year-old version of the fetal position when you're a three-year-old throwing a tantrum? Yeah, just prostrate to the ground. Yeah, yeah. You're like, I just need a moment. Oh my gosh. It was great. Gotta get that energy. Energy's hard to come by sometimes. Oh, it is a very, very rare commodity. Yeah. But we had so much fun there last night, though.
I wish it was fun. You walk out, the kids, one thing I did love is the kids have a good balance of like, they're starting to get that good balance of like, what is normal and what's not economically? Yeah. Right, like we've been blessed in our lives to have some, we've worked hard to get to where we are, but we haven't always been there. Right. Because of that, we've raised our kids, I think, to appreciate that this is not really the norm.
Yeah. Because I also don't wanna set a bar that's high if they end up living in an apartment when they're 35. Right. Like, you're not a failure because, you know, you're just, just be happy in a kind person. Happy and kind. That's all we care about. Exactly. But our daughter walked in carrying her purse. Yes. Right, and she's like, "I don't wanna, people are gonna think I'm the biggest spoiled brat in the world because you have a Louis Vuitton purse." Right. As people do these days.
Yes. You know, and by the way, that is not the most expensive purse anymore. It is not, and I waited until I was 40. It was, you know, actually my 41st birthday, I think is when I got it. Yeah, it was a big deal. And it was a big deal. Like, that's something that's a big deal to us. We sold our fourth kid off for that purse. Exactly. So we put a lot of thought into that. Oh, yeah. Don't regret it. No, I'm just kidding. There wasn't our fourth child, like I promise.
You know, but I love the fact that she was a little bit, like-- She was cognizant of it. She was worried that people were gonna judge her for being like just some bratty little rich kid. Because you walk in past three, what were they last night? Oh, some-- McLarens. Oh, yeah, the three McLarens, yes. Yeah, parked out front. Yeah. So I mean, there's money at that place. Yeah. And, you know, the other side of that coin is she walks in all like, "Look at me. I'm Miss Rich Little Kid."
You know what I mean? Right, right. So I love that. They're aware of that. Yeah, and she didn't wanna do that. It was like just me. So when we started joking with the waitress, because she's like, "Do you want some more bread?" Somebody else had already brought out two plates of bread. And she brought a third. She's like, "Oh, I didn't realize they'd already brought this out." And like, "Well, we'll take it." We started joking with her to bring more, and I was like, "Shove it in your purse."
Right, right, right. You know, at this fancy place. And our kids were like just turning red. Oh, they were so embarrassed. They were like, "Oh, no." But we're a little steak knives in there too. (laughing) Yeah, oh, it was just fun. We get a full set eventually. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Nice. But she was also cultured enough to know that the person at the table off to the side of us, he had slides on and took them off. And she's like, "Mom, his dogs are out." And I was like, "Oh my gosh, seriously?
Someone took their shoes off." So I mean, she's cultured enough to know you don't take your shoes off at a restaurant also. That's right. So like-- It's great parenting. That's just great parenting. Yeah, that's what it really is. (laughing) Of all the things, like we'll take pride in that. That's right. Wear shoes at a steakhouse. In fact, I'm pretty sure on any restaurant it literally says no shirt, no shoes, no service. Yeah, 7-Eleven it says it, it's a little of the steakhouse.
(laughing) Come on. Standards are pretty high at a 7-Eleven. Yeah, that's true. I mean-- That's true. There's a reason why they measure you on your way in and out. The standards are high. They're high. Yeah, make sure you can hit those standards. Say his standards were about six foot. Actually, that was a thinker. That one was over my head at first. Oh, was it? Yeah. Well, you know anybody that knows me well, knows just how funny I am with an asterisk.
Because most of my funniest jokes are the ones you have to explain. Of course, always. That's right. In fact, I'm pretty sure I explained one of my jokes last week. And as we were doing our pre-watch, we always watch it before it goes out. Kind of one last viewing. I was like, oh, all the jokes you explained are definitely the funniest. Yeah, you can kind of tell. You just gotta go with it though. You do.
That's why I'm a little nervous for, I was supposed to go, I was at last second feeling to go golfing with that guy that's on our soccer team that's hilarious. Yeah. And he's also an intelligent guy, successful, but he's just so stinkin' funny. And he's one of these guys that I enjoy bantering with him. But it is like a little puppy, kind of just like hyper around the big dog, funny guy. You know what I mean? It's how I feel a little bit.
So I eventually, the other guy that was gonna, I was gonna fill in for the foursome could, because I can only do nine. So they let him go. And I haven't golfed in like 10 years. At least, yeah, yeah. Bankers don't golf anymore. Back when I started banking, we did golf, but that industry has changed. And I'm not a good golfer. I enjoy it. I love being out there, as do you, but you're not a good golfer either. No, gosh no. And we say that, because we both know we're not golfers.
You can't be a good golfer if you've gone twice in your life. Right, like I hit, I'm like 90s, I'm a 90s, I'm a 90s, mid-90s golfing guy. Not 1990s, so if you know, you know. Anyways, I'm a little nervous, A, that I'm just gonna embarrass him, because I'm bad. You know, I haven't swung, I actually haven't swung since my shoulder injury.
So I'm a little nervous about how bad I'm gonna be, and if he's gonna regret it immediately, that he asked me, because he knows he's gonna be out there for at least two hours, if not four with me. (laughs) And he's immediately like, he's gonna have his wife, like, you know, it's like that date, that blind date you go on, like if it's working out, you have your friend call you. Yeah, mm-hmm. If it's not. Yeah. I gotta go, it's an emergency. It's an emergency.
Anyways, I'm nervous, I'm a little nervous to go golfing with him, because like, you know, I gotta live up to that for a long time. I gotta get a lot of energy, and you know. But you've spent that kind of time with him, and you've been able to match the hilarity, and it's been always-- Not match, but yeah, I try to stay with him. Of course, feed, it's-- If I can make him laugh, I feel good.
Yeah, like, I've listened to your banter, it's really funny, and you'll just kinda just spoon feed it, and it's great. It's fun to have you two next to each other on the sidelines, because it's entertaining for me. Yeah, yeah. It's probably entertaining for his wife, too. Maybe, yeah, she's used to funny, so. She's like, he tries, he tries. But I know, I'm not, I mean like, I'm a di-- Whatever, I don't know how to say that.
I have humor, but it's not like, like your family's funny in a different way than I'm funny, you know? You have a very dry sense of humor, very sarcastic. He's very sarcastic, too. You might just like, up a notch a little bit, but you're-- He's just hilarious, yeah, I wouldn't take offense to that at all. You just have a very sarcastic dry sense of humor. It's funny, and it usually pops out, and it's the most funny when no one's expecting it. But it's also the most likely to fall flat.
(laughing) Is that true? I think so. Like if you don't catch the sarcasm of it, or just the slight little one, you know what I mean? Like, that was a good one, and nobody got it. (laughing) And they didn't get it, and because they didn't get it, it's like, what did Sean just say? That made no sense, like why would he even say that? So it's like, either you nail it, and it was funny, or you don't nail it, and it's like, just another, you know, notch, and Sean's a little weird.
(laughing) I don't know why he thinks that, but anyways, we're way off subject here, we're way, way off subject. Instead, it's, you know, shoot for the moon. If you miss, you land among the stars. That's kinda how I think about it. That's right, that's right. Yeah. Yeah, well. Oh, anyway, so that should be fun, because the weather's turning, and hopefully, I think we have a few more nice days here, but I don't know, we're still jonesing for a vacation.
Like, the weather, at least for the last week or so, has turned here, it's getting us that spring fever. In fact, I think a lot of people are dealing with allergies, so maybe it's hay fever, or whatever. But, man, spring fever's hitting, but. So I don't think we're gonna do a spring break. Yeah, I think we decided last week, like it would just not be great with. It's just a lot for you.
And, you know, you're getting around, we see the doctor this week, so hopefully you'll get kinda the green light to walk again, but do you feel confident enough to walk again? Without crutches. Maybe. Yeah, see, yeah. You know, here's the thing, like, it changes daily, like it gets, it is daily improvement, which is really cool to see. If you had asked me even four days ago, I'd be like, oh, I don't think so. But I'm at the point where I'm like, maybe.
And so by Wednesday, I might be like, yeah, I'm ready. I just took a step and it felt okay, kind of a thing. So I think it just makes it hard, though, because I would slow the family down so much. Even if I'm walking, I'm not at the same pace that everyone else would. I mean, we were talking about Costa Rica, because that was a fabulous vacation.
We strongly considered going to Costa Rica over spring break, just in two weeks, because the place that we stayed at was available again, and that place was phenomenal. Phenomenal, oh. And I mean, we'd all love, but the way we like to do vacations, I don't know if other people like this, well, I don't know, a lot of people we know are goers on vacation.
We are not goers on vacation, but we figured out a good structure to vacation for us is go one day, and the next day we're at the pool or staying at the house or whatever, because we always have a pool at the lounge at, we're usually beach vacationers, too.
So one day go, we'll go on a long hike to that waterfall, or we went at ziplining, or we went on the boat, but the next day we're at the house, we're playing cards, we're playing around in the pool, we're eating guac and chips, and definitely getting through some alabou rum. Yeah, we do that really well on vacation. On vacation very well, it's water. And it's amazing, you don't even get a buzz. Yeah, yeah. Well, if you drink enough, you can, but.
So yeah, we decided to pass on that because we just thought it was just a little too much to get you down there, and we would have just had to sit at that place. There would have been no going anywhere. Yeah, I mean, even, so, and that was one of the coolest vacations, the whale's tail. So look at that, the uvida, it's right off of uvida in Costa Rica. It is one of the coolest things. That beach was the largest beach I have ever seen. The water was so warm, but it's like-- All to ourselves, too.
All to ourselves, I mean. Incredible. But I was just thinking, could I even walk in that water with that resistance on a knee that's still healing? I wouldn't want you to. That water, the way it was zipping in, depending on the time of the tide coming in, but yeah, we'd have to really time that out. It just isn't ideal. Yeah, so. But we'll save it up because we might take a longer-- A longer, so.
We still haven't decided on that one yet, but we're thinking about taking a cruise over in the Mediterranean. Yeah, which would be so fantastic. So fantastic. I think it would be good. I mean, our kids have seen, I mean, we've been to the, I mean, we've been to some of the more, like Central American Caribbean type locations, but I really do want our kids to start seeing other parts of the world, and I think that one, this one would be really cool.
Yeah. I don't know that they'd have the full appreciation of some of it that you and I have, but I do think that just seeing a different culture is really important. And there are more, yeah, that experience in Costa Rica was incredible for them, right?
They tried to speak a little bit of Spanish when we were down there and whatnot, and just seeing how other people live and how lucky we are to have some of the things that we have, I think it's just huge just to start planting those seeds so that they understand that. But one thing for them, watching soccer and some of the international, soccer is so international. I mean, it is the biggest sport in the world.
Most people don't realize that, I guess, but some of the international soccer players are from Europe and all these places, so to me, I think they're more aware of that than I was at their age. Yeah, because they follow these players.
Right, so they know where they play, they know where they live in Europe and stuff like that, so I think that they, for that reason, and this is one of the questions I posed to you just playing a little bit of bad cop was, where devil's advocate is, would they appreciate it? We know we'd appreciate it because it's three different countries kind of over in the Mediterranean, but would they appreciate it? Yeah, and this is probably a sliding scale, right?
Yeah. Like, seeing the Colosseum, they're gonna think it's super, super cool, but will they be in awe of the fact of seeing this ancient structure, or even in Athens, like that ancient structure, like, what the hell? Well, we even tried to start preparing them for that a little bit, like, we're watching Gladiator. Like, this is where it was, you know what I mean? But I mean, for a kid, that helps place them. So yes, do you have a 10-year-old that has watched Gladiator, just? It's not bad.
After we rewatched it, there's way worse. There's way worse, yeah, yeah. So, judge all you want, like. I don't think there's much judgment on that one. It's not as bad as I thought it was. Yeah, I thought it was pretty gory at the time, but after watching it, maybe we've just been decent. They haven't seen "Save It Private Ryan," or what was the one that we watched? Oh, 300, or? No, not 300. The one where the doctor kept going up over and saving people, or he wasn't a doctor.
Oh, oh, "Hacksaw Ridge." Yeah, "Hacksaw Ridge." Yeah, we have not introduced it. That was the most gory I've ever seen. That was probably, yeah. What a movie. But anyways, I think that seeing some of those movies, just to give them that history in an entertaining way, sets that table for, oh, that's what happened here. Yeah, yeah. It's really cool.
Yeah. Not to mention the architecture, which I just love, because I've been to Europe before, and I'm excited to take you there, because you've never been to Europe. Right, right, so we need to go. I mean. Yeah, I was lucky to do some traveling when I was younger. One of them was I worked for FedEx back when you could fly for free anywhere on a FedEx plane. You'd jump see. So cool.
So one of the coolest things I ever did in 96, I believe that's when it was, 96 I think, because the World Cup was in France. Yeah. And I flew in on this MD11 in the cockpit. So an MD11's huge. I mean, the cockpit, it's just 11 feet of windshield there, flying into Charles de Gaulle, which is the main airport there in Paris, and you got the Arc de Trumph right here. You've got the Eiffel Tower over here. I mean, it was incredible. Wow. Incredible.
Of course, you go see Notre Dame, and I mean, the history there, I mean, I just, I love that. It's just, to me, I don't know, I've romanticized it for whatever reason, but that's over a lifetime. I just don't know if the kids would appreciate some of that just yet, but I was lucky enough to do that. I got to go to Egypt, and I've been to, where else have I been? Israel, I've been to some of those places on a trip that I went with my family when I was younger.
Incredible. And I don't, some of those places may not even be safe to go back to now. Yeah, quite possibly, but I think, yeah, you're very well traveled, so. I don't know if it's well traveled, but I've traveled. I'd like to do more of it, but taking you and the kids on it is like, it's like sharing it. I know you will obviously appreciate it incredibly. We've waited too long, honestly, but. Yeah, yeah. Well, we have taken some fun vacations. We went the other way, Boroboro was incredible.
Boroboro was incredible, yeah. That was the other way. I would, for the rest of my life, if I could, I would stamp the only, if I could only pick one place to go on vacation ever again, be Boroboro. Oh, that was, I mean, that was probably my favorite vacation. That was just hands down, unbelievable, unbelievable. The watercolor, we did one of the over the water bungalows at a smaller resort, so it was like we had a whole thing to ourselves over the watercolors with just.
Yeah, me and him, we would just sit out there and just watch the water. 82 every day. On my phone, I still have Boroboro up on the weather. I do too. On the weather. I do too, yup. Every day. For the longest time, I had the Bluetooth thing on there too, but I have too many phones now, it's got lost. Yeah, that was-- I wanna go back there though. That will be one to go back to, not obviously this year, but.
Right, right, but I mean, we're, yeah, there's gotta be a hallmark anniversary or something coming up. I know we're starting to get long and we're wrapping it up soon here, but I also want to do some of those things in the United States though. Like I just mentioned on morning cereal that I've never been to the Grand Canyon. Like you gotta go to the Grand Canyon at some point. No, I wanna go to see the Redwoods.
I wanna take the kids, I've been to DC and all that, but I wanna go see where our founding fathers, the East Coast is incredible up there as well, there's some history there to be seen. So there's places in the United States I'd love to get to. Yeah, I agree. Also, it's just finding the time and if you got a week, where do you wanna spend it? You wanna go to Rome or do you wanna go to North Dakota? Okay, North Dakota, no offense to North Dakotans. That's not a destination place.
Someone actually told me at work, they're like, "Hey, I'm going to Minnesota for spring break." And I was like, "As a proud Minnesotan, why are you going there for spring break?" One question for you, why? What the? Are you sure? Yeah. You've been dropped on your head, son. Yeah, exactly. I was like, "July, fine, go, have fun." Yeah, not spring break, it's not time yet. It's beautiful there when it's warm and not too humid. Right, but like-- There's like three good weeks there.
I'm just kidding, I like it. Let's all just agree that it is not a spring break destination place. We can all agree on that. I think we would all agree on that. I think so, I think so. So, I don't know, should we wrap it up and end on an agreement, or like end on an agreeable note of Minnesota not for spring break? Yes, we can all agree on that for sure. But what do we have coming up this week? That's always something fun to look forward to, right? Oh yeah, let's see, we have another track meet.
Oh, so please check out, if you haven't seen it, it's okay to brag every now and again, right? But check out the Instagram post on our daughter. We're being braggadocious on that, but she's been working hard for track. Six months. For six months, and it showed. She dusted some people, and it's on video, it's fun. So hopefully she keeps doing that. Yeah, I think she had fun. So we have another one of those which-- Assuming she has shoes, yeah. Assuming we can get shoes for her.
Yeah, a couple more games we have-- Another soccer game tonight. Yep, yep. Just tonight, and Tuesday, and Friday. Probably Wednesday too. Probably Wednesday too. And yeah, I get to go to the doctor, maybe find out a little bit more about my knee. That's good. And I mean, we're in March, people. We're like two weeks away from spring break. By the time this airs, we're one week away from spring break. Oh my gosh, that's crazy. Oh, let's all celebrate.
Yeah. So I might be going golfing for the first time in 10 years. So I'll give an update on that. I'm not sure about that. Yeah, that'll be fun. I'm excited for it actually. That'll be good. What else do I have? So I don't know, yeah, life's moving along. Yeah. At the normal pace here. Which is a frenetic pace, but it's the normal pace for us. At a medium pace. Oh. Remember that one. Yeah, Adam Sandler, right? Put a little SNL. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. That, you know, Lunch Lady Land.
March Madness is coming out too. I love March Madness. I hate it. I'm out. I'm just kidding. My Jayhawks are just terrible. We're bad on the offensive side and the defensive side. And I love Jayhawks. I mean, if this makes it to you guys, I love you guys. I saw Bill Self, we all, the family met Bill Self. Incredible man when we were up there for my graduation. He was so, so funny. Anyways. Witty, yeah. I'm going down a road, we've got Big 12, all the conference plays starting this week.
Conference plays starting this week. I mean, we gotta do the brackets. Yep, yep. I love March Madness. Great time. It just, any time you turn it on, you're gonna watch a great game. I'm saying it tomorrow on Morning Cereal, but so spoiler alert, oh no, it won't be because you guys are watching this in reverse. Yeah. Or in arrears. But it is also, because it's so well watched, March is well known as the least, what's the word I'm looking for there? The least amount of work gets done in March.
Are you serious, less than December? It's the most unproductive working month of the year. Because of NCAA. I'm just in December? Yeah. I mean. I mean, I don't doubt it. According to the Google. According to the Google, which we all know the Google's never wrong. You can believe everything. You're an expert. All you gotta do is just type it in. Now you're an expert. Now you're an expert, yeah. Google is never let anyone stray. They have not. Algorithms aren't.
And now AI is so good that when you type a question in there, it almost finishes your-- Sandwiches. There you go. Boom. Boom. All right. That's it. We were getting close. We gotta wrap that one up. All right. See you all next week. All right, have a good one. We'll see ya. Bye, bye. (upbeat music)