Cursed Sports Viewing, Dartboard Disaster, Goats

This is only his second season , so we put beginner , but there should be like a classification of beginners , because there are some very tiny people on his team .

First of all , both teams had eight kids and last season both teams usually would have like up to up to six but they're supposed to play five on five is what the what the , what the league says they play .

And how not good were they If Ted Lasso were their coach , he would have quit , he would have torn down the Believe sign , torn it in 100 pieces and left and , to add a twist to it , if you were listening to our synopsis of last season , he had a little boy on his team called Gunter and he was pretty good last season . Yeah , yeah , yeah .

The two of them together were , I think , the only ones who scored the whole season . Yeah , fire and ice is what I call them . Yes . Gunter has gotten better so I talked to his dad and they've been like training . Winthrop has not been training . I take that back . If playing Minecraft prepares , you for soccer then he is going to be a killer this season .

Otherwise , he has not really done any training . Gunter was on the opposing team and he smashed it . He scored like , I think , four times no , it's only twice , just twice .

Yeah , they lost two nothing it felt like so much more but the best part about it is he didn't care no , he didn't , he really didn't care the reason why I say , say it's the best part about it , is because we made him play . Yeah . And it's like when you tell your kid eat this broccoli because it's good for you and they begrudgingly eat it .

Well , we didn't have that reaction . Yeah . Which is what we could have had . He is just happy as Larry to go running up and down full speed . Didn't really care I think he clocked a little bit more that they lost . I'll tell you . I don't want him to care about winning and losing , because I just want

him to run around and get the energy out . I know you and I differ a little bit there , because I think he has a little bit of natural talent and I'd like for him to be able to hone that , to feel good about something like that .

I get the not wanting him to care if they win or lose , and I agree with that , but I also don't want him to get frustrated that he is able to do something and the rest of them are just running around like the wild things . Right , but that's what I'm saying .

I think he's happy in the moment and he's happy to kick the ball around , but I don't think he cares . Like I said , it's like a ferret at a book club he's just there and he's happy , doesn't necessarily know what's going on , and I think that that's the best . Did you say a ferret at a book club ? Yeah .

I thought you said an affair at a book club and then I had this whole narrative about I don't think that's a good thing , like .

I think he's Jamaican or something and he definitely plays right . He's got the build as if he has played . He is constantly calling out to him and saying you know , stay back , but he doesn't overdo it . He seems like too cool to hang out with us , yeah yeah , yeah , but I'd like to hang out with him . I'd like to like to hang out well .

And when we were leaving , gunter's mom said oh , you know , winthrop did really well . I think she wanted us to feel like like they were saying . But as we were leaving , the coach said winthrop , we're really glad we have you on our team . And then other the coach's wife was like winthrop , you're really good .

So I think because he's the only one who tries yeah , he tries yeah he does this thing where he goes to stop the ball , but he stops the ball by stepping on and doing some sort of like spin or something , maybe ballet is his thing . So , speaking of sports and of winning and of losing , the gators have advanced in the madness .

That is march , that's basketball for those of you paying attention , college level , and we watched the game . They played the Texas Tech . Whatever the hell they are . Red Raiders or something I don't know Texas Tech . I have not paid attention to game one . Yes , and you're a basketball fan . Yeah , it's difficult for me to get into college ball .

But historically you have been a basketball fan . Yeah , yeah . So we go to this bar and I'm like , okay , the Gators are there in Sweet 16 , I think is what that was . No , that was the Elite Eight . That was the Elite . Okay , so even better . I said I guess we should sit and watch this game . Now mind , I have not been paying attention .

They've been House of Fire , right throughout the season . We sit down , we start to watch it and , wouldn't you freaking know it , they start to lose , and then they lose their lead , and then they start to lose and the gap between the two teams grows . And I'm just like , of course , Of course , because you're invested in this game Because I have a curse .

I am cursed . Any team that I get into , any team that I watch and that I start to root for ,

they lose .

And really the pattern usually is like with the Miami Dolphins not last season , because they pretty much sucked from jump last season , but especially the season before they were doing really well at the beginning of the season I was like , okay , I think I'm gonna watch some games , and as soon as I did that , the Dolphins , their quarterback got injured and then

that was that right . But like throughout the years , the Dolphins and the Heat , when I get into them after having ignored them for the season , they start to do badly . But isn't this a thing ? That's like fabled lore coming out of Miami , though that , like you know , in Hootie sang about it , the Dolphins made me cry .

Isn't this just what being a Miami fan is ? Clearly it's not just that , because then we watch the Gators . They're playing basketball , they're doing great . We show up at the bar , watch the TV and all of a sudden they're melting like flan in the sunlight . So we say , well , forget this , and we leave the bar because it just gets too painful .

Okay , but hold on , it wasn't a bar , we were at a pub . We were at a . I'm just saying it wasn't like a sports bar . There's a point of this we were at a pub and the game was on , but we were not paying attention . We were playing darts , so the whole time they were winning . We were not paying attention .

We finished darts , sit down with food and go to go to watch it . It's when they started losing . This is my point to you . But I'm saying you can even be in the building and it's fine . You just can't look directly at the screen yes , yes , that's exactly what it is . And the quarterback will get injured .

The star player has sudden onset vertigo , and then I'm screwed . So I figured out how we can make big money off of this . Okay , opposing teams are going to pay you . No , I can't be involved . But see , that's the point of it . You have to start to place bets on teams that I'm rooting for , but never tell me that you're doing so .

Okay , because as soon as I know , then obviously I have a vested interest . Yes , and then it's all fucked up , then that's that . This is what you need to do . You need to bet on sports teams that I'm rooting for . Never tell me until we've made enough money that we can retire and just podcast for a living in Tahiti , right , I can never know .

I think that this gambling that you're proposing is illegal . No , there's legal . Is there a legal betting ? All right , that's fine . Well , okay , so tell the rest of your story . We left . They were down by a 10 point deficit . They were down by like 10 . We get home . I think it was like there was like three minutes left in the game or something .

We came home and we were both just we can't let . It was the lead eight and we have not been at the final four since 2014 , so we , we couldn't look at it . I you decided to take the dog out . I was cleaning up the kitchen . I thought you know what ? I'm just gonna check , I'm just gonna check .

And there was 40 seconds left and they were up by four and I was . You have got to be kidding me . So I'm running around trying to find the remote . I'm yelling Winthrop comes downstairs , mom , you know , I don't like it when you yell , which is very hypocritical . And so you opened the door and I said you're going to want to get in here ?

And I said you're gonna wanna get in here ? And you were like what ? And I was like look . And then , sure enough , if they did , you came in . They were up by five with three seconds left . So I guess there was nothing you could do at that point to screw it up . The question remains if we had stayed at the pub , would that have happened ?

Very different , no . The next question is do we watch the final four next week ? Well , it depends . Are you going to put money on the game and not ? Tell me about it .

The other thing we did at the pub is we did play darts . Now , we are both not great at darts . I enjoy it . I'm not good at it . It's great fun . I wonder , though , what it's like to watch us play darts , because it's not that we're funny , it's just that we're bad . Yeah .

It's just we throw it Like you've got this knack of throwing the dart and midair . I look at the dart and it's sideways . But then it still rights itself , it rights itself , and it hits the dart board , but a lot of times it'll bounce off . We are . Let me put it this way Stormtroopers could play darts better than we could play darts .

That's how bad we are . It's really bad . So at the very end of it all , we were playing the version of darts where you have to hit a certain numbers three times , right , Right . So you have to hit like 20 , 19 , 18 , 17 , 16 . 15 . 15 , three times , and then the bullseye three times and we had gotten threes on everything . Everything was closed .

Except for the bullseye . We both needed a bullseye and we just kept throwing it and just missing , and kept throwing it and missing , and finally I said what did I say ? I said you had said all right , because I said this is going to go on forever .

So you said all right , well , the next , whatever double , whoever can hit just any double , double ones , doesn't matter . Whoever can hit a double next wins . And I agreed to it . You turned around , threw your dart and hit a double bullseye . I mean , I could not believe it . You know why ? Because you had given up . You were like the pressure was off .

You shouldn't have counted it then , because this ties into my thing about how I can't win . Technically speaking , that didn't count because I just said that you had to get doubles right . Well , you hit the double bullseye . That's not my curse . No , your curse is making other teams lose . Do you think the next time we play darts we should wear body armor ?

Why the next time we play darts ? we should wear body armor . Why I don't throw it at you ? Because we're really that bad . No , I don't ever throw it at you or hit you with it . Or the people around us . No , I don't hit anybody . And the pub cat ? I don't hit the pub cat . Oh , you want to talk about this pub cat ?

Go ahead I love this pub cat so apparently pubs in the UK that we go to Black Outer Brewing . It's a Belgian-inspired pub . They have a pub cat and his name is Edmund and he's a big , fluffy black cat and he lives there and I love him with my whole heart but I don't hit him . His cat toy basket's right near the darts and I don't hit him .

I'm allergic to cats , that's all I have to say about that Nobody rubbed the cat on you . Is that a euphemism ? We got a letter from our friend in Germany . Shall I give you a part of it . Yes , please . She says she loves our podcast and she's been listening back through our episodes . She asked this question .

She said why are several of the earlier episodes missing from my listing ? Is that just my podcast or was that your decision Because in retrospect you did not like them anymore ? Is there another reason We've had problems with our host ?

Oh okay , so if you want to send me like oh number , whatever is missing , I can go see if I can find it and then see if I can make it re-upload or whatever . But we've also been podcasting for close to five years . Yeah , yeah , so that's a lot of episodes . Five years in March , oh , no , over , yeah , five years already .

Yeah yeah , but she does say this because I talked about my fascination with warm Guinness . Yes , Actually I should say hot Guinness and she is in Germany because you mentioned maybe or did I mention ? No , you said it was a German tradition . There's a thing at Christmas markets the warm beer markets yes , she says yeah , but actually no .

We've seen it two or three times over the last couple of years , but it's more like an attempt to have something different than the rest of the vendors and it's not very popular . It's also not just warm beer , which frankly sounds just disgusting . Well , I like it , but mulled beer spiced with things like nutmeg . I do not like nutmeg .

My husband has not yet met a beer he doesn't like , but so far even he is not tempted to try this stuff . I like mulled wine . She also says like most Germans and the tourists who visit these highly popular Christmas markets , we prefer the tradition of Gullwein , so mulled wine , which is had in enormous amounts .

Sorry , I cannot resist making Josh pronounce German words . How did he do Em ? How did he do I ? don't know . She talks about our son , daniel , who's learning German . Good on him , and actually no , german is not particularly angry sounding , although you can use it to say perfectly nasty things , but that seems to be the true about just about any language .

But I guess German does sound fairly aggressive to English-speaking people because of several of the sounds used , especially the G , which is pronounced extremely sharp and guttural . Yes , and a lot of you know a lot of that stuff too . As that sound is pronounced even sharper in Dutch , I am not bothered at all by it .

I wish Daniel much success in learning German , because knowing a foreign language broadens your horizon , which is always a great thing , and of course cognitively , as I've said before , it really helps you . I wonder if I would speak English better if I learned a different language or if I would just suck in both languages .

You just suck at all the things , no . Kudos to Jeff for calling me . What are you doing to me here ? Mevrouw In Dutch . What I don't know . That's not a word . You just gave up halfway through . Look at that word , say it gave up halfway through .

Look at that word , say it into the mic mevral okay in dutch , but the german frow line is not entirely correct , because I am married and thus officially I'm a frow . Dutch people are a lot less formal than germans and generally use first names , even for your boss or the teachers at school . Do you do that like as a student , though ?

Do you say hey , frank , I didn't bring in my homework . It's Mr Frank . Well , no , mr Frank is Anne's father , unheard of in Germany , who generally love rules , although the younger generations now are being a little bit more informal . She says I love that you call me M in your podcast .

Sounds deliciously mysterious , but using my first name , monique , is okay . So thank you , monique , our friend in Germany who's originally Dutch . There you go , that's super cool .

I had a student I taught preschool which here is four and five-year-olds for a really long time In the school that I taught at , we had a lot of visiting professors at the major university in town , so I've had so many students from so many different countries that I'm pretty proficient in lots of languages . But just saying hello , goodbye , and counting to five

and whatever they celebrate in the winter holidays because I would do holidays around the world but I had two German students .

It's super interesting to me to watch the language acquisition of what in early childhood we call them dual language learners , because they're still learning their native language while they're learning the school language as well or getting mastering their native language . And it's really fascinating to watch the process .

Because I had one student and her mom is still a good friend of mine . They live in Berlin and she's now like in her 30s . This child and she would not speak . I mean , did not speak and our office manager was born in Germany , so she would come in and speak to her in German , but the child would not speak .

Until halfway through the year she opened her mouth and spoke perfect English , like she would not . She wasn't trying to use her language , she just took everything in until she could speak English Like she would not . She wasn't trying to use her language , she just took everything in until she could speak English , like she did not try .

Then I had another student who would speak a lot in German and then like kind of switch back and forth , but she didn't think we knew what Scheisse was . And so she , this five-year-old will walk around . Ah , scheisse , and we were like no rock around and we're like no , no we know that one . That's not okay , that's very good .

So we made our way over to the farmer's market this past Saturday . I like me a farmer's market , although they're really like . It is such an experience and I don't know should we be paying more for this stuff or less . I don't know , because the only thing I buy at the farmer's market anymore is a cup of coffee .

It's the same vendors every time and it's fabulous people watching . It's not very big , it's what like maybe two blocks long ? yeah , I mean it's not long and but you made me walk it four times just so you could be amongst the people and and absorb the energy .

But I mean all I buy is a $2 cup of coffee , which is cheaper , because two cups of coffee for both you and me were $4 , which is good . Well , that's because it's just from the local coffee shop . It's not like organic coffee . It is organic coffee , yeah , but it's the same stuff that they . What I'm saying , though , back to my original question .

This is a legitimate question , like if I go in there and we've got this uh farmer who's who's got a lovely pair of overalls offering me his honey that is made by carefully massaged , singing bees like , should I be paying more for that because of the singing of the bees , or should I be paying less for that because it's not been , like , checked for any sort

of contaminants or all the things that happen when you buy food in the stores , what you're buying is not just the food , but you're buying the guarantee that it's not going to kill you yeah , um , I don't care if you gently massage your kale if it's if it's not had the necessary spray on it or whatever I'm gonna eat a larvae , and I definitely don't want to

pay more for that . This way , you don't wash your vegetables . What is wrong with you ? But this is where we get back to my point . This produce that we're buying here from this market , shouldn't it be discount Because we're not guaranteed of its safety . It's not been checked by anyone , it's not been washed , it's not been carefully packaged .

You know what I'm saying . Am I alone here ? yes , I mean I don't want the pasteurized milk , I mean the unpasteurized milk . That makes me nervous .

I'm not really looking to buy the shrimp out of the cooler that that one table is selling , but produce , I'm just gonna take it and wash it I , and it's comparable to what we pay in the store and I'm happy to support local business it's not comparable .

Most of the stuff there's more expensive was the last time you bought a bunch of kale in the store what I . I can look at the . I can look at the prices . It's it's more expensive . Most of the stuff is more eggs like nine dollars an egg or well , but also nine dollars an egg , not an egg .

Nine dollars for um a dozen eggs in the grocery store is not unusual either .

I certainly love to admire all the different creative canvas totes that everyone brings , but I like to know if you think that the experience of buying from a farmer's market is worth the money . Because you're paying extra money . Write to us familiarwilsons at gmailcom . You can tell me that I'm crazy . I don't care

, I'm fine with it . I'm still going to go people watch .

I bought this mug and it was a unique mug and I was so happy that this is mine . This is my mug . No one else has a mug like mine . And then I dropped the fucking thing and I felt like I dropped my baby . But I decided that it's better to have mugged and lost than to never have mugged at all . So I decided to buy a replacement mug .

It is lovely and I'm very happy with it .

So you aren't as attached to this mug at like your baby as you think you are is it still there ? yeah , I didn't pick it up , it's your mug . You brought me tea for this recording in this other mug . Yeah , I know , but I'm not touching that mug because if heaven . Yeah , I know , but I'm not touching that mug because if heaven forbid I break it .

I'm not doing it jackass .

love , I put them somewhere and then I can never find them again .

Maybe you've done this thing where you're searching , searching , searching for your phone and it's in your hand yeah , that , that's called middle age have you ever put stuff in the ? You've put stuff in the fridge that didn't belong in the fridge , haven't you ?

I was putting Gershwitz away and I had shampoo or something and I put it in there , yeah . But I mean it got really bad when Winthrop was little . I mean I couldn't find anything . I mean I kept track of him , okay , but like I couldn't find anything , and apparently menopause , which has afflicted me , which has afflicted me , does the same thing .

Fuzzy brain gives you fuzzy brain , fuzzy brains , you yep .

And it's just about him stumbling upon these , these murder mysteries , and being able to solve them because of puzzles , whilst he is unraveling the story of looking for his brother it's basically like sherlock holmes , but a little sillier but it's , it's really . It's really great . It drops uh every thursday on brit box . If you don't have brit box , it's 8.95 a .

I think you get the first month free . You might want to try it out . Check out , ludwig .

Until next week , I want you all to smile , to love , to laugh , to learn to live go be kind bye , thank you .