On Our Best Behavior
On Our Best Behavior is a heartwarming podcast where Mom, Kelli and 16-year-old son, Maccoy delve into the complexities of school, life's struggles, highs and lows, and various challenges. With a blend of humor and sincerity, they navigate through these topics while sharing their own experiences and insights. Their conversations are not only relatable but also enlightening, offering listeners a fresh perspective on everyday issues. Alongside their engaging discussions, they welcome intriguing guests, adding a dynamic element to each episode. Tune in to join this duo on their journey of growth, learning, and discovery.
On Our Best Behavior
Dogs, Dips, and Detention
A casual mom-son conversation takes unexpected turns through life's everyday moments in this authentically charming episode. What starts as frustration over Minnesota's chaotic spring weather and an uncooperative pressure washer evolves into a revealing discussion about their fundamentally different perspectives on tornado threats – where mom's genuine fear contrasts sharply with her teenage son's blasé attitude toward potential disaster.
The conversation shifts unexpectedly when detention comes up, creating a perfect opportunity for some gentle maternal wisdom. Listen as mom drops profound nuggets about friendship that resonate at any age: good friends respect your boundaries, authentic relationships take time to develop, and you never need to maintain connections with people who are repeatedly unkind. There's something universally touching about these simple truths delivered without preaching, just woven naturally into their banter.
The lighthearted middle section brings surprising facts (did you know MLB baseballs only last about seven pitches?) and playful riddles before launching into a surprisingly philosophical debate about whether it's better to see ten minutes or 150 years into your future. Their contrasting viewpoints reveal fundamentally different approaches to knowledge, fate, and control that will have you questioning which you'd choose.
Throughout it all runs the thread of real family life – dogs leaving "presents" on the floor, chickens and bunnies navigating backyard hierarchies, and the quiet moments of connection between parent and child that happen amid the chaos. Join this mom-son duo for thirty minutes of unfiltered conversation that will leave you smiling, thinking, and perhaps appreciating your own family's quirky dynamics a little more.
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Hey guys, welcome back to Honor Best Behavior. I'm Mac and you're here with I messed it up. Kelly Sorry.
Speaker 2:It's okay. So, surprise, today Mac is in charge of the podcast. What do you got, mac?
Speaker 1:I'm not in charge of the podcast. What do you mean?
Speaker 2:Well, good thing, I came prepared.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like always.
Speaker 2:What's been new since last week? Anything you want to chat about?
Speaker 1:Nah.
Speaker 2:Nah, all right, I got a list of things. So on Friday I was really excited because I wanted to. It was supposed to be a decent weekend weather-wise, and here in Minnesota it can be 30 degrees one day and 80 degrees the next day, snowing one day, raining the next day, and the weather can just be chaotic, especially this time of year. So I was really excited. I was like I'm going to get so much done. I really wanted to put a. I want to fence in my patio so the chickens can't shit on my patio, so I can eat and have some peace without them being there. So I really want to do pressure wash off the patio, clean up the patio, get the patio furniture out.
Speaker 2:So, anyway, mackie and I pulled and pulled and pulled on that pressure washer and we could not get it to start. It was hard yeah, it was. I feel like it's always hard, like the first time of the season or the year, like we haven't used it for 10 months, and so it just kind of takes some time to get like the fluids running through it. Anyway, finally got that running the next day and then on sunday I just pulled it and it started right up.
Speaker 1:So I think she's ready to rock you mean after I pulled on it for whoever knows how many times.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I'm saying the next day oh, when I did it you weren't there, like I did it by myself, just to make sure it would still be first, try, maybe, try, maybe the second.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, it probably could have been the first, but I forgot to turn the switch to on oh, my underdeets. So anyway, on Friday we never got the pressure washer to work, so then we got the leaf blower out and I kind of leaf blew off the patio, which there was a lot, the driveway I did like the yard got all like the just loose end leaves that were left in the yard cleaned up. I bought a half face cord of wood for the season so that we can have bonfires, and so mac dog had to stack all that wood and he had so much fun. Nope, then this week monday was, was it Sunday? One day, anyway, we had a tornado watch and guess what, nothing happened. People were getting all crazy about the weather and it was totally fine.
Speaker 1:Yeah, nothing, even happened at all Nothing happened at all.
Speaker 2:It is raining now, which is more than it did that day that they said it was going to be terrible, but I was scared because tornadoes are like my biggest fear and I did not want to have a tornado, because it like takes everything, like it pretty much wipes out everything your house, all your belongings, possibly you, your pets.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you can avoid it.
Speaker 2:How, if it is on top of you like, I don't think there's any avoiding. That Is there yeah.
Speaker 1:How? I don't think there's any avoiding that yeah, is there. Yeah, how I don't know you should do I'm gonna punch you in the face. I don't know. I don't think a tornado is that scary to lose your house.
Speaker 2:Have you seen like bad tornadoes, what they do, how they level your property? Yeah, and you don't think that's that bad. Where would we live? No, no you just have a very I don't give a fuck attitude right now.
Speaker 1:No, like dude, the government would give us stuff that bitch toured on our house trust. I don't know about that.
Speaker 2:But what about all the pictures? What about all the I don't know? What about the animals? You can't replace them. I mean, you technically can't they're not the same soul, I guess, but you technically can't replace it. Don't get me wrong but you don't want to. I think it's terrible anyway I know it is, but like you can still live it, okay. Well, you don't. You're not a grown-up, so maybe you don't have as much I'm not scared of that.
Speaker 1:That's all I'm saying. All I'm saying is I'm not scared of no freaking tornado one time we.
Speaker 2:Do you remember when we were at the Coney Fair and we had to like get under the bleachers?
Speaker 1:and.
Speaker 2:I was like I thought, oh my gosh, I'm gonna die and my baby's gonna die, and I'm just like on top of him, holding him, like please don't take us. I was scared you weren't not really, even when I was like on top of you under the bleachers you weren't scared. You're like get off me, I'm fine.
Speaker 1:No, I wasn't like that, but I was like what are we doing? Like nothing's gonna happen.
Speaker 2:Do you want to talk about how you had detention this week? Nope, okay.
Speaker 1:We can, I don't really care.
Speaker 2:So you've been suspended from school. Yep, but now you had your first episode of detention yep why did you have detention?
Speaker 1:yep, okay, I'm kidding, I just want to see all. I say yep, why did I have it? I skipped my last hour and was it worth it? I don't know kind yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Did having detention make you want to avoid getting detention again?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't want to go there again.
Speaker 2:How many people were in detention?
Speaker 1:I don't know A lot, a lot Like 10-ish people.
Speaker 2:Wow, what happens? If you don't go to detention, then do you get suspended.
Speaker 1:I don't know what happens.
Speaker 2:It doesn't say oh, what we have low energy today guys I'm sorry, I mean both of us. I feel kind of like we're only five minutes into this I know, that's what I, I'm just only looking at time, not even gonna lie dinner plans. Tonight, pulled pork all right for you. I know I think I'm just gonna have like a peanut butter sandwich. I'm not super hungry, but I had a really amazing lunch today. I had turkey Swiss avocado.
Speaker 1:Avocado.
Speaker 2:Sandwich on one of those buns. Those buns are so good. And then we had dip day at work yesterday because it was my co-worker Shelly's last day. She retired and so everyone brings in dip. So I brought in salsa top the tater guacamole. But then people brought in like chili cheese dip. They had that like spicy Velveeta Rotel cheese dip. Somebody made like it was like sour cream, black beans corn. I'm trying to think what else was in there like a dip. What else did we have? And there was some like somebody brought like this like mousse dip and then you dunked like um teddy grams in there. Or they had like a bunch of like graham crackers, but that wasn't my thing, but anyway.
Speaker 2:So then there was leftover dip today, so then I had some chip and dip with my sandwich and it was good. And then I came home and there was moo on the living room floor and shit in my bedroom because the dogs. I don't know what the hell they did today.
Speaker 1:It was that. Did you feed him pulled pork? Yeah, yeah that's what it was.
Speaker 2:Gross.
Speaker 1:Never again Like the the shit, the shit at the bottom of it.
Speaker 2:Yeah that, never again like the the shit, the shit at the bottom of it. Yeah, that's what it was. That's what that throw up was. Well, they're not getting any more people food just not pulled pork.
Speaker 1:That shit was massive.
Speaker 2:Oh my god, I know, I saw it and I was like fuck my life it was so mad after I just cleaned up a pile of puke. I was just like why could? Right, when I walked in the house, I'm like so guilty. Smell the shit too was her, I think the shit was tyson really she doesn't shit that big.
Speaker 2:She puked. She's that. She's not a shitter, she's a puker. Tyson is a shitter. I don't even know. I hate them right now, so gross, just talking about it it's. I can just smell how nasty that was. It was a big. Gross, gross.
Speaker 1:So, gross.
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Speaker 2:Maybe why Mackie doesn't have a lot of energy or why he's a little drained, but I felt like it was a really good opportunity to kind of tell you some things, some small life lessons that I just want you to keep in mind okay.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Not everyone will like you. Oh no, it's not that, and that's okay. No, it's not even that Okay. Second, good friends will always respect your no, what? So that means like if somebody has a bad idea and they say, hey, mccoy, let's do this, and you say no, and they're like, don't be a pussy, let's do it, that's not a good friend.
Speaker 2:A good friend would respect the fact that you said no the first time and not try to pressure you or name call you or bully you into doing something that you don't think is a good idea. Never change yourself to fit in.
Speaker 2:Find friends who love the real you okay okay, you don't have to be friends with someone who is repeatedly unkind, okay. So, like, if someone is just mean and rude and um, I'm having a hard time with the word, I'm trying to find right now demeaning, like is demeaning to you, like talks down to you oh, okay you don't have to be friends with people like that, and making good friends can take time and it's really worth the wait to find those good friends.
Speaker 2:A lot of the friends that I have today that I would consider my best friends or my favorite friends or close friends or people when I initially met them I never thought like, oh, in 20 years from now we're going to be best friends. That takes time to grow and you have to build trust and loyalty and respect and support and all these things, and over time you kind of figure out who's good people and who's not, and so that's why some people like to have a million friends and sometimes it's okay to have five really great friends. Okay, okay, okay, I don't have a ton. This might be the shortest podcast ever because you're not really. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:Usually you piggyback onto my stuff. But today I look at you and you're just staring at me. All right, five fun facts. Okay, major league baseball, baseballs, what so? Like the baseball they use in like a professional?
Speaker 1:game Okay.
Speaker 2:Last, an average of only seven pitches. A baseball From like getting smoked with the bat. Oh that's interesting. I know I was really surprised because you would think that they baseball has been around forever and you'd think that they would have perfected the baseball so that it lasted longer than that.
Speaker 1:That's weird.
Speaker 2:Fingernails can grow four times faster than toenails, which makes sense. That does make sense, but it's weird, right, like why? Yeah, it is because they're like the same thing faster than toenails, which makes sense. It does make sense, but it's weird, right, like why yeah?
Speaker 1:it is because they're like the same thing.
Speaker 2:I wonder, just a different part.
Speaker 1:It's probably something to do with it being in different parts of your body. It's probably why.
Speaker 2:I wonder what the comparison is of fingernails to hair. Like which one of those grows faster?
Speaker 1:Your hair.
Speaker 2:You think so. Yeah, I don't know. Actually, I bet you you're right. I feel like I clip my fingernails more than I cut my hair or my toenails.
Speaker 1:I don't know, but it depends on what you think too long is. But your nails get too long before your hair gets too long. I would say yeah. So probably your nails grow faster. But if you want your nails to take forever to grow, you had to like cut them all as hard.
Speaker 2:Like you have to make it hurt. Oh no, I don't like doing that. It's not worth it. That's why you have to keep trimming them, because, like they're only at a perfect length for like a couple days.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for like a week.
Speaker 2:Eyelashes live for about 150 days before they fall out. Actually, yeah, because then you're always growing new eyelashes. I didn't know that Challenge. Can you breathe and swallow at the same time? No, no, you didn't even try.
Speaker 1:I already knew that.
Speaker 2:No, I tried to. When I read that I tried to do it, I'm like, oh no, yeah, you can't. No it like plugs that, yeah it does, it's because yeah just like you can't keep your eyes open when you sneeze yeah, you can't all right.
Speaker 2:Number five fun fact and I didn't know this and it's still really bizarre to me and if you know anything about this, if you work in like ent holler at your girl, your nose and ears never stop growing what? But I don't understand like how they would keep growing it must be super slow if that's true.
Speaker 1:I think that's bullshit Don't make no sense. All right, then I'd be fucking Pinocchio or something, because that don't make no sense.
Speaker 2:Because you lie a lot.
Speaker 1:No, because your nose doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 2:I know I'm confused. Trivia Okay, ready. I want to see which ones. There's supposed to be things you should already know, but some of them I didn't know today. So let's see what you got. How high can coyotes?
Speaker 1:jump don't know. Take a guess over 10 feet, no, eight feet. I was close what?
Speaker 2:what is a baby bear called a cub? Good job, you got it right. You were gonna change your answer.
Speaker 1:I was for a second what did you think sound right?
Speaker 2:I don't know, it just didn't sound right what is a baby bear called mackie and I'm your mama bear mom.
Speaker 1:Okay, why did you have to do that?
Speaker 2:you're not like did you like that one? Better okay, no, okay. What is a cat with no hair called?
Speaker 1:Like an ugly ass cat Sphinx. No, an ugly ass cat.
Speaker 2:I always thought they were just called hairless. What animal sprays a bad smell?
Speaker 1:A skunk Good job.
Speaker 2:What Last one, what? What do pandas eat Bamunk? Good job. What Last one, what? What do pandas eat Bamboo?
Speaker 1:Good job, you knew most of them, I didn't know one.
Speaker 2:You didn't know one. Well, you didn't know Sphinx. You called us that ugly-ass cat.
Speaker 1:Oh, that shit is an ugly-ass cat All right, I have a riddle.
Speaker 2:Okay, I have a riddle. I have a, would you rather? And I have a joke. Why do you have a, would you rather? And that's it Because I found one that I thought was good to ask Riddle. Now I thought I knew this one, but I was wrong. All right, I am a game that bakers play on their lunch break. What am I?
Speaker 1:Wait, what Say it again?
Speaker 2:I am a game that bakers play on their lunch break. What am I?
Speaker 1:I don't know. I don't know, I thought it was patty cake.
Speaker 2:I don't know. Do you know the song, patty cake?
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I don't know what it would be Did you play patty cake when you were a little baker?
Speaker 2:Yes, of course I did and you roll it, and you roll it. You loved that and you would go, hee, hee hee, okay, yeah, okay yeah, All right. The answer that they're looking for is tic-tac-doe Get it yeah, no. Dumb, so dumb. All right, do you want to do your? Would you rather? Or do you want me to do mine? No, you go first Okay, would you rather spend a year living at sea or a year living in a space station?
Speaker 1:Yep A year living in a space, Nah in sea.
Speaker 2:I say sea Because you could live on a yacht right Don't? I can't handle that right now. Puke noises or poop. Why? Because that's all I can smell when I think about that.
Speaker 1:You know how? There's some people where if you go, they're like that's fucking hilarious. It is funny, I can't even think of that.
Speaker 2:No so gross Fucking violet V Fucking violet.
Speaker 1:Vile vomit violet.
Speaker 2:The dogs yeah, they start doing that thing. And you're like get to the door, get to the door. And they never make it. As soon as you try to get them to the door, they're like yeah, I know.
Speaker 1:As soon as you open the door, I hate it. I hate puke and poop. Are you ready for mine? Yeah, I've. As soon as you open the door, I hate it. All right, I hate puke and poop. Are you ready for mine? What are you ready?
Speaker 2:for.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've been waiting all day.
Speaker 2:I did it right there, ams, sorry.
Speaker 1:No, would you rather be able to see Wait, all right, sorry. Would you rather be able to see 10 minutes into the future, or 150 years into the future? Are you high? I'm like that ass.
Speaker 2:No, because you keep stuttering. No 10 minutes into the future, or 150 years. Well, I guess I'd rather see 150 years into the future, because I'm not going to be here to actually see it, like no one going to be here to actually see it, like I'll be. No one lives to be 150.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you can keep seeing in the time, in the future.
Speaker 2:That's fine.
Speaker 1:Why would you want to see 150 years? You're going to be dead anyway. That's the point.
Speaker 2:Because it doesn't affect me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you being able to see 10 minutes in the future, it helps you, bro. What do you mean? How does it help you? Because you can know what happens next.
Speaker 2:And then you can prevent it. Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1:Okay, as in 150 years, doesn't do shit.
Speaker 2:Except for that, you know what happens 150 years later when you're dead and can't do it. 10 minutes isn't?
Speaker 1:enough time, I mean, I guess I mean what if you just check every minute? All, you just check every minute, all right, valid, that is a good point, like come on, okay, you didn't think hard enough about 150 years.
Speaker 2:So what would you have done recently that you would?
Speaker 1:have changed? No, but there's nothing. But, like I'm just saying, I think it would be more valuable.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I see your point, it makes sense.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like dude, I got that from like because like our teacher gives us like, would you rather? Oh, like you taking them. And this guy was like. He was like why the fuck would I want to see 150 years? I'm going to be fucking dead? And I was like, yeah, real, there's no point. Well, see, I'm dead.
Speaker 2:What.
Speaker 1:I don't like to know the future. Why? What if you're about to get hit by a car and you're like, oh shit, I'm not going to get hit by a car, no more. Think about it.
Speaker 2:Okay, maybe, if you can change the trajectory, it would be different. But if I know in five years you're going to die, I don't want to know that. Or if in three years from now I'm going to get cancer, I don't want to know that.
Speaker 1:But then you could figure out how I die. If Tyson is going to get hit by a car tomorrow, I don't want to know that.
Speaker 2:Well then you could prevent it, if you knew it.
Speaker 1:That's what's good about it. Yeah, I didn't know that you could change the trajectory, so if I was going to get hit by a car, you could just be like don't leave the fucking house, Okay. Okay, it's not like the fate's going to come to me. What?
Speaker 2:Do you know what fate means? Yes, like death, what's meant to be will be. Yes, it doesn't have to be bad. Fate could be like.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you saying it's going to come to me, which means I'm going to die, then Well I'm saying I don't want to know the bad news.
Speaker 2:I mean, yeah, tell me, I podcast is gonna take off tell me all the good things. Sometimes you need to know the truth I just, I like to just try to take things as they come but then you know how much time you have and I also try to make decisions now that I'm not going to regret, so that I don't have to know 10 minutes into the future I know, know, but it's still valuable.
Speaker 1:What if you physically are fucked and you need it.
Speaker 2:No, I get what you're saying.
Speaker 1:Like you could literally go and be like oh, I'm going to try this route and if it fucks up you should redo it again. I get it Like what if there's like four ways to go?
Speaker 2:Did anyone in your class say they'd want to see 150 years ahead.
Speaker 1:I don't even remember. It was like a week ago, I don't know.
Speaker 2:All right, are you ready for a funny joke, or is there anything else that you want to chat about?
Speaker 1:No, there's nothing.
Speaker 2:Where do bad rainbows go? I don't know. To prism. It's a light sentence but it gives them time to reflect what Prism yeah. Not prison, but a prism, yeah, prism. They go to prism. It's a light sentence. A prism is light.
Speaker 1:Yeah, jail is a sentence. Yeah, like a sentence, but it's not as bad.
Speaker 2:It gives them time to reflect. Prisms reflect light. One more time when do bad rainbows go To prism? It's a light sentence, but it gives them time to reflect. I know it wasn't as funny as the nuts and bolts one I told last week, but I was trying to keep it light for the kids. Nuts and bolts For the kids, for the kids. All right, we want to take this time to remind you. Please follow us on social media. We are on instagram at honor underscore best behavior. We're on facebook on our best behavior. We're on tiktok not mostly my chickens.
Speaker 2:It is on our best behavior but, mostly my chickens. It is on our best behavior, not, but mostly my chickens are on there. Oh, was I going to give you a homestead update? My baby chickens are outside still and they have been just getting more and more brave. What happened? Why are you making puking noises? I'm sorry, I'm done.
Speaker 1:And they've been getting more brave and exploring the yard and making friends with the bigger chickens and the baby bunnies.
Speaker 2:I've been letting them out in the yard too and they've been binking around and running around and the chickens are very unsure about the bunnies, the babies, and the babies are fine bunnies and chicks, but the older chickens are like what the fuck is that bunny like? What is that?
Speaker 1:they get all puffy and they want to peck it.
Speaker 2:What the chicken yeah, like the bunny, yeah, yeah I think it's a rodent yeah, maybe I mean technically it's not in the rodent family. Yeah, that's right, and then they like they do this, like they want to peck. Too bad that you guys couldn't see my chicken impression.
Speaker 1:That's funny.
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Speaker 2:I was just trying to. You made me ruin my train of thought I don't know what I'm doing.
Speaker 1:What stop? Don't be all quiet, I'm just looking.
Speaker 2:I'm looking at you because you just keep doing weird things and then you say weird things and then you keep talking. Coping mechanism. Are you coping? No, what is that? Do I have a double chin?
Speaker 1:No, you're like this.
Speaker 2:You're like I don't know how to do it. It's so bad Mine. You're like this Is it bad? Yours is bad. Why are you trying to make me look like a beaker? Do you know who Beaker is from the Muppets? No, we'll be back next week. Thanks for listening to On Our Best Behavior, please support us like, share, comment on our social media posts. It's free to do and it really helps us be found. Okay, bye, I thought you were gonna say something but you just coughed.
