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
Why Love Isn't Blind
Ever watch your favorite book turn into a movie and feel both seen and slightly betrayed? We dive straight into that delicious tension with Regretting You and a wave of upcoming adaptations like Verity, The Housemaid, and Reminders of Him, unpacking why certain casts nail the voice in your head while others miss the mark. From there, the conversation widens into memory itself: how All the Colors of the Dark earns its big ending by building layer after layer, and how memoirs get written from fragments, ghostwritten structure, and the artifacts we keep.
Then the ground shifts. One of us is losing the family home—the place of Christmas mornings, tornado scares, daycare noise, and a deck built with a dad’s hands. We talk about the ache of letting go, the sibling politics of heirlooms, and why an Oreo tin can hold more meaning than a million-dollar remodel. At the same time, we celebrate small-house joy and local pride, trading notes on Anoka’s clean streets, historic houses, bookstores, and quietly excellent coffee. Practicality threads through it all: remote-work reset spots, budget beauty that doesn’t insult your wallet, and how to turn “pantry panic” into resourceful cooking and smart donations.
Pop culture interrupts with a jolt: a chilling Ed Gein series as actor’s masterclass and cautionary tale, and a Love Is Blind season where no one says “I do.” We debate money, image, and values that only reveal themselves under everyday pressure—service staff, work hours, family habits. Finally, we get honest about addiction. Memoirs remind us dependency can grow anywhere, genetics included. Our family policy is simple and firm: if you feel unsafe, text a pin, and we’ll come—no lectures, no questions, just the ride. We close with small abundance: backyard eggs with sunset-orange yolks, coffee you’ll side-eye then love, and the relief of friends who show up.
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Hey, hey, welcome back to Honor Best Behavior. I'm Kelly, your usual host, half mom, half chaos coordinator, joined today by my favorite co-pilot Ian Nonsense Mobile and the one and only Emily.
SPEAKER_00:That's right. I'm back. I know you tried to replace me, but like a bad penny or a glitter skill spill in Kelly's world. I always return.
SPEAKER_01:Well, I do try to replace you with McCoy. However, he uh, you know, he just doesn't have the energy that you have. And also, I love glitter, so please continue to return. Always. We're so glad that you do because today's episode is extra juicy. We're diving into the good, the bad, the hilariously awkward parts of life. Because who needs therapy when you have a podcast?
SPEAKER_00:Um, I still do. So buckle up, grab your snacks, maybe hide from your kids for 30, 60-ish minutes, and let's get on our best behavior. Emily.
SPEAKER_01:I was gonna say it's been a minute, but I did already see you with this week.
SPEAKER_00:I saw you on Friday. Yeah, so that was good. We went to dinner.
SPEAKER_01:Dinner.
SPEAKER_00:That was delicious.
SPEAKER_01:And we saw Regretting You. Yes. Colleen Hoover. Yes. So I this isn't the first movie that she's had.
SPEAKER_00:No, I yeah, no, the first one was it ends with us. Yes, yes, it's just but there's like so much controversy about that one.
SPEAKER_01:But I take the drama out, and that movie was really good.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. And I I yeah, I liked this one because it was not controversial. There were wasn't any drama or anything like that. I hope there's no pending lawsuits from anybody. They seem, I don't know. It was cute. I liked it. It was like the book, but not. Um, I think there were parts that even if you've never read the book will come off predictable just because it's that standard type of rom-com fall in love with someone type movie. Um, but yeah, it was cute though. I liked it.
SPEAKER_01:There was a huge gap for me from when I read the book to set seeing the movie, and I contemplated rereading the book like the week before the movie came out. I'm glad that I didn't because to me, I feel like they did a really great job of portraying how I remember the book.
SPEAKER_00:It had all of the plot points that I remembered from the book too. I don't remember the in like the specific details of certain things. Like I thought there was more with um the daughter and her boyfriend. I thought they were I just can't remember. It was like five years ago that I read it. So yeah, me too. It's been a long time. It was definitely COVID when I read it.
SPEAKER_01:But now there's like a whole train of movies coming out.
SPEAKER_00:I know. She's got Verity, The Housemaid from Frida. That one looks really good. The housemaid looks really good.
SPEAKER_01:It looks really well casted, too.
SPEAKER_00:Yes.
SPEAKER_01:I hate, I've talked about this many times, but I hate when they make a book into a movie and then whoever they cast for the character is nothing that I had.
SPEAKER_00:Sydney Sweeney is gonna make a good, what's the maid's name again?
SPEAKER_01:I was gonna say Nina, but that's not no, it's not right.
SPEAKER_00:See, people are probably yelling at us because I do that too. I yell into the radio like, You're so dumb. And like I've I've read all of the books, but it's been forever. Um, since I read The First Housemade, that was probably back in COVID too. It was before like Frida got really big. Um, but yeah, it'll it looks really good.
SPEAKER_01:And then did you read Reminders of Him? Colleen Hoover, because that's gonna be that's the next one to come out.
SPEAKER_00:Yes, that one looks really good. I liked that book a lot.
SPEAKER_01:So that's gonna be um a lot of dates, yep.
SPEAKER_00:So I thought, yeah, that'll be a lot of date nights.
SPEAKER_01:I read all the the ones that are coming out, so I don't feel like I have to Yeah, I don't feel like I have to reread them.
SPEAKER_00:Reminders of him for sure. I don't feel like I have to reread. I think I have re I mean I remember that one. Yeah, I remember I read it when it came out, which was like three years ago-ish, something like that, but I remember that one very well because I think I liked that one the most outside of Verity of her books.
SPEAKER_01:See, and I loved Regretting You, so when it was coming out as a movie, I was super excited.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I I I just so long.
SPEAKER_01:I just feel like that when I read that book, it just went in a direction I did not anticipate. Sure.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I could see that. I could see that. I don't remember what I thought or felt. It was so long ago.
SPEAKER_01:I just feel like when you read like your favorite book of by somebody, like it just is concrete in your mind. That's how I am with Kristen Hannah. Yeah. I know Wendy told me she started reading The Nightingale.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, I need to text her about that. I still need to text her about um all the colors of the dark. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:I was like, there's something else you were gonna text.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, my boss read it too, and she was like, it's one of my favorites, you're gonna love it. And I was like, it's just it's deep and it's thick, and I'm like, oh, it's taking me a long time to really like get in it. It's not a page turner for the first I would say 400 pages. That's what Wendy said too, yeah. But the last 200 pages, I was up till two in the morning finishing it on a Sunday night because I was like, I just got this is too good. And then the next day when I saw my boss, I was like, oh my gosh, just like you finished it.
SPEAKER_01:Sure did, like just she made it sound like it's so like just so descriptive and just so layered.
SPEAKER_00:It is, it's yeah, very layered. Like it's you know, when my boss and I were talking about it, it's like there's so many parts in the book where you're like, that would have been a good ending. Okay, that would have been a good ending. Multiple times, like, okay, this is where it ends. Nope. But you were you wanting more, or were you like, oh, I wish it was over? The 400 page mark of like the big long descriptive intros and details of everything. I was like, we need to keep going. I need answers. I need up to like real life, where are they now? kind of thing. Because it starts back in the 70s.
SPEAKER_01:Okay. It's like bright, it's kind of like a memo, it's not a memoir, but it's like going back on that person's life. Yep.
SPEAKER_00:Yep. And it starts from the very like the early parts of so there's two main characters. Um, Patch is his name is Joseph, but his nickname is Patch because he only has one eye, so he wears a patch, like pirate. Um, and then Saint, who is his best friend, and he gets abducted. That's right. He saves a girl from being he saves like the popular girl from being abducted, and so it's this whole trials and tribulations, and he's trying to find this one woman that he was held captive with. So he escapes. Um Saint helps him escape, like and finds the the person who um basically. Yeah, and it's not just them, it's like a whole series of girls, and it turns out he was a school photographer, and that's how he was picking his girls that he wanted to capture. Gross. It's disgusting. Yeah. And so she saves him, but then he falls into this hole of like, I don't know where this girl is, I need to find her. And literally, he's like 12, 13 years old when they he gets rescued and he spends his entire life. And so the premise of the book is him trying to find this girl doing things, and her as the friend trying to support him, but he's also doing illegal things, and she's now in the FBI trying to it's this whole long story, and it is it is it is good. I was like reading it and like Wendy, what are you what are you having me read? What are you having me read? And then all of a sudden I was like, oh crap, all right, let's go. We're gonna go. Like, just hits you like a ton of bricks.
SPEAKER_01:I know I'm I'm intrigued. Yeah, it's it's it's a good one. It's on my list. I've been reading a lot of memoirs right now. I don't know why I'm in this hole of memoirs. I love listening to memoirs, yeah. But you know, I always thought that memoirs were written by people who were like super famous, or and I see anyone can write a memoir. I'm thinking about it. Are you? Yeah, because I've been thinking about like I don't know that my life is necessarily interesting enough, but I think even if I never published it, just having like my it's therapeutic. Yeah, and like helps you remember, right? Because when I'm listening to memoirs, I'm thinking, like, gosh, how do they remember their like how do you sit down and remember your life in order? Well, you don't. No, you don't. You have to write down memories when they happen to you, organize, organize them, and then you can make a memoir.
SPEAKER_00:And there's usually like ghostwriters involved to kind of like, okay, here's from a literature perspective how we can fill in the gaps without it being inaccurate and you know, things like that. It's funny that you say that because my so my parents are selling or have sold my childhood home. This is all within the last two weeks, and I'm still trauma processing all of this because it was, hey, we're gonna look at selling the house. Hey, we've got a place. Hey, the house is up. Oh, three days later, the house is sold, and we're closing in November. Like it just all happened way too fast. So my sisters were over on Sunday, and we were just kind of talking about it. And you know, Danelle and I are very emotional about it, and my sister Kelly is not, she's she's a not emotional person. She's very much like general. Yeah, she's very much like my dad, of just not like not in a bad way, yeah. No, not at all. Not at all. She's like, I'm sad for you guys because of how much it means to you. Um, and so we were talking about writing a letter, and so we were sitting down writing all of these memories of like what we would maybe want to include of like this is what we did in the basement before. So the new pictures, yeah. Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_01:Do you know if it's like a young family or no?
SPEAKER_00:We asked my dad and he said, I don't know, they're just offering 10,000 more and they want a quick close. That's it. So, you know, my dad just was important to him. Does not care. He just wants to get out of the Coon Rapids area because it's apparently so scary. Yeah, the ghetto. It's apparent apparently so. Jesus. I mean, it's just it's fine, whatever. It's that house is one of the only places that ever felt like home. Like, I don't have the best memories of my childhood. What about your house before that? I was five.
SPEAKER_01:You but you did you have a lot of memories of that house, or maybe you just remember stories.
SPEAKER_00:I remember stories, okay, but like not really. I I was five when we moved, so yeah, no, not that, no, not that one.
SPEAKER_01:My sister's- All of your memories are at this house.
SPEAKER_00:All of my memories are at this house, essentially, all like memories from Christmas and everything, and it's always been like the central gathering place because I have one sister on the west side, one sister north, and like being where they're located, it was always the quick, easy place for everybody to meet, but now they're gonna be 45 minutes north of me, and all of these things, and it's just it's hard because it's always just been the house, like, oh yeah, we'll just meet at mom and dad's, we'll just meet at mom and dad's, like for family gatherings and stuff, and like we don't even get to have a final one. When we had the party back in July, that was the last yeah, and you didn't even know it was gonna be. Um, it yeah, it's it's overwhelming. Like, it's just it's it's weird that um when I go see my parents, it's not gonna be at that house. And it doesn't, I think what's also so weird is I have a friend that lives in the same neighborhood. So when I pull into the neighborhood, if I go to my parents' house, I take a right and I'll always look left to see, oh, Nicole's home or one of the kids or whatever. And if I go take the left to go to Nicole's, I always turn right and I'm like, oh mom and dad, that's the you know, just like automatic, like it's like a comfort of like I know my parents are there.
SPEAKER_01:And now I've no that's I'm gonna go to that neighborhood and I think it's really bizarre and also I don't want trauma traumatic, might be like a really maybe emotional is a better word. Like when my parents moved from Minnesota to Oregon and sold their house, I never wanted to drive by my old house because it wasn't my mom. She put so much work into like our yard, she loved the garden. And with my parents, like they took so much pride in mowing the lawn and having green grass. And the people that bought our house, I remember like people telling us, like, oh, the yard is real tore up, or they put like a dirt bike track in there, or something like that. And I yeah, it broke my heart to drive by that house when I finally did years later, and just know what my what it I don't know that that house meant a lot to my mom, but just how much work she put into that yard and to just see it gone was it's heartbreaking.
SPEAKER_00:Get sad because my dad's blood, sweat, and tears have gone into that house. My dad, you know, was he he's kind of stopped now. He'd sold all of his stuff in his shop, basically, but like he would worker. And, you know, he has the built-ins in the office. That was all done by him. There's, you know, certain he redid the main level instead of having a computer room. They did a walk-in closet and they took out the bedroom and made it bigger and made it an office, and you know, he raised the living room. It used to be a step down and now it's flat. He did all of that, installed the flooring in the kitchen, and you know, just all of these.
SPEAKER_01:And then he doesn't even care.
SPEAKER_00:No, yeah, that's and like you know, he finished the basement. Like the basement was unfinished until my mom did daycare there. He finished the basement, he did all of that. The only thing he didn't do is electricity and plumbing. Otherwise, you know, he has done it all and he did a good job. Like, it doesn't look like some Joe Schmo did it. He knows what he's doing, he's good at it, and I was kind of upset because I was because for the last two years that Christmas, he's given us homemade woodworking gifts. One was a cutting board and one was a picture frame. I cherish those and I absolutely love them. And I was like, oh, so now that you've sold all your stuff, we don't get those anymore. And he goes, Nope, enjoy it while it lasted. Which that's how your dad is.
SPEAKER_01:I know. I mean, it's not gonna if he does change, oh I mean he does not go to church. So there's and he didn't before. So there might I mean there's hope, maybe, but I he's he sold my cousin's bought most of his. I also feel like that's how your dad like hides. It's his coping skills, yeah. Coping mechanism unhealthy coping mechanism.
SPEAKER_00:It is oh, it totally is. He won't admit it, but it's his way of like the sooner he can get out of the house, the sooner he can move on. And like he's just ready for the next chapter. And that's fine. Like, I agree that they need to move. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:And like I said, I can that is a big ass. I mean, to raise three girls in that house, it's a big house. And your mom did daycare, so you needed the space. Yep. Exactly. It's a lot of yard work, it's a lot of upkeep, it's a lot of everything. So I understand that.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, but I'm health issues and stuff. So they're it's a one-level, like two-bedroom. I don't know if it's two bedroom baskets.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, right now they live in like a tri-split.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, it's it's a two and a half, it's like a modified two-story, is kind of how they label it. Like a full first floor, full basement, and then like a quarter upstairs with all the bedrooms and stuff. Yeah. Um, but I mean it's huge. It's like 2,600 square feet. Yeah, and so it's a big house, and it's just the memories. And so we were talking about, you know, Denalbert Austin home, you know, in there there. And like, so the first grandchild was brought home there. Like, I brought Hank home to that house. Like, and I brought Mackie to that house. Mackie was there all the time for a couple years. Like, so many kids were in and out of that daycare, and you know, there was one time where a couple, like a year or two after we moved in, that my grandparents from South Dakota were visiting, and there was a big tornado, and the funnel cloud hit right in front of us, and it knocked down this giant double like trunked oak tree. And I one of the memories is we're all sitting in the basement, and all of a sudden we hear the thud, and my grandpa goes, think tree just fell. Ugh. And my dad's like, Don't say that, Willis. And he's like, Which is so funny because now Willie. I know one of the cats, but I mean both of the cats are named after my grandpa. But I never hear stories where he's like, Don't tell me that, Willis. Oh, I call Willie Willis. Yeah, that's my mom laughs at me. I walk in and I'm like, hey Willis. Um, but so what that that and that was a big huge thing where like my dad's like, we bought this property because of these trees, and within two years the trees were gone. Yeah, you know, and they did so much yard work and like the deck. My dad made the deck, dang it. Yeah, like come on, he's rebuilt that deck like three times. It's hard. Even like my this little house here that we're in. Oh, I can't imagine you leaving here.
SPEAKER_01:I I'm fine. If I live here for the rest of my life, I'm fine. I can afford it, I'm fine with it. Unless we move to St. Thomas. I love it. I I love my little house. I love your little house. Because you I'm just one person, and I got Mackie, he's not gonna be here forever. I don't need a huge ass house. And like we talk about, oh, what if we won the lottery? Like, where would we go live right now? And I'm like, I'm fine staying here until whatever I build or whatever I find is ready.
SPEAKER_00:Like pay it off. And maybe have like a winter home somewhere. You know, you could be like one of my patients families where they go to the house.
SPEAKER_01:Definitely, I would definitely want like a bigger, more land and acreage.
SPEAKER_00:Farm farm stead, homesteading and stuff like that. Yes.
SPEAKER_01:But like and I would sell this place, but like it's special to me in I mean, because if you're a billionaire versus uh make a few hundred, or not, I don't make a few hundred. Or if you just make a few thousand a year, that's a big difference of enough. But but I do I do love my little house and it's been good to me and it it works for me. Yeah, and and that's the but I have so many many memories here. And there was a time when Mackie was little where I was like really wanting like a big fancy house, you know, because you see what and you need space for your own. Competitiveness, that whole like seeing what people what other people have my age and I don't have. And I'm over that. Yeah, and now I'm really glad like the whole tiny house, small, quaint homestead is in style because I'm there, right?
SPEAKER_00:Like my so my dad was saying, he's like, Oh, we found a couple places that would be great for you. And I said, first of all, I'm never moving up to Cambridge. Yeah, I said if I do move, it's gonna be closer to work. Yeah, like and I don't even like my co-worker, the co-su my other the other supervisor and my boss both live in Woodbury, and they're like, You should just go far Woodbury. And I was like, it's close for work. That's about it. So they jokingly are like, Oh, you're gonna move to Woodbury, and I'm like, I'm the construction is almost done. I have put up with Highway 10 construction for four years. Yeah, I deserve to live in Anoka and enjoy the pride and joy that is the Highway 10 review. It's gonna be so smooth and fast, it's gonna be lovely. I have worked my ass off of pay time and patience and not getting sat in that traffic. Sat in that traffic for years, not wanting, not killing anybody. Like, I deserve a lot of mean mugs given. That's fine. Especially with do you know how many people I have followed on that highway that don't have brake lights? Oh, I bet. That is the scariest.
SPEAKER_01:That was I if I was a cop, that would be my priority. Pulling those people over or drive in the dark with their nut, don't have their lights on. That drives me bonkers. You're gonna kill somebody.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, it's so dangerous. It drives me nuts. So, but yeah, I I am completely, I love living in Anoka. I love, you know, when I was forgot that the parade was going on on Saturday and I was gonna go pick up my crack.
SPEAKER_01:It's so funny because most people who live in Anoka don't go to the parade.
SPEAKER_00:I know. It's everybody else.
SPEAKER_01:It's everybody else. I want to talk about this a little bit. It's everybody else. People are fucking rude. Oh, yeah. Savage.
SPEAKER_00:I read that you could start reserving your spots at like 5 a.m. 4 a.m.
SPEAKER_01:You can. That's disgusting. The last time, the last time I attempted to go to that parade with my family, we set up our my brother went and set up everything.
SPEAKER_00:Was this when you did the run? Or after?
SPEAKER_01:No, because when I we did the run, we didn't even go to the parade. I we just went ran home.
unknown:Okay.
SPEAKER_01:Run! Yeah, just keep going home.
SPEAKER_00:Bye, Mickens. I'll have my own candy at the time.
SPEAKER_01:And that was like a hot ass day because I know you were in those candy bears. Thinking it was gonna be cold and it was hot as shit. Uh, but yeah, people just tore up our shit and put their shit up. They don't care. They just threw our shit to the side and put their shit up, and I was like, fuck you. This is not community. This is not what this is about. I'm done.
SPEAKER_00:Yep.
SPEAKER_01:Have fun.
SPEAKER_00:No. I like that it brings attraction and awareness to Anoka.
SPEAKER_01:Spend your money here, yes.
SPEAKER_00:Because I think Anoka is such a cute town. Yes. I it's clean.
SPEAKER_01:We were just talking about this.
SPEAKER_00:It's clean, it has a lot of cool stuff. The historic homes, like just driving in the neighborhoods and just seeing all the different types of homes. It has the river. Yep. They do that music in the park all the time. Yeah, two rivers that cly and run through each other.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. And um there's a lot of cute shopping. There's I mean, there's all my favorite things. There's an ice cream shop, there's a candy store, there's a bakeries, there's a bookstore, coffee shop, coffee shop. We've been going to that avant more often and they have good fucking coffee. Do they? Yes.
SPEAKER_00:Maybe I should work. And they have a huge, huge selection.
SPEAKER_01:Okay. And then they this is another thing I think is I hadn't been in there in years since my mom was alive. Yeah. They have like little people, not little people, but people can come in and like sell their stuff. And then they'll have like a little Venmo thing you can just like pay in Venmo and take it home. And there's like one lady that has like stained glass stuff, you know, stickers, buttons, art. Maybe I'll see. Or we can even go there one Saturday or Sunday or something.
SPEAKER_00:I've started going, if I work remote on Fridays, it's usually my like admin day to like focus and just get caught up on emails and everything from the week. Do you try to go somewhere? I when when my cleaning lady comes. Oh, yes. Yes. But I want to try and make it like just get out of my house and like new, because I you should go there.
SPEAKER_01:And there's another place in old Anoka, old downtown Anoka where Jelly Bean and Julia's used to be. There's a coffee place there. Have you been there? No, is it people green one?
SPEAKER_00:There's a no no no no no no no no no no no no no.
SPEAKER_01:This is new, and I it's I want to say it's called like community coffee, but that's not right. Okay. But anyway, it's in that strip mall. Yeah, I haven't been there, but people rave about that. Okay.
SPEAKER_00:And I, and that's I when I remove myself from home, I don't have the distractions.
SPEAKER_01:And Avant has a bookstore upstairs. I've heard. Which I haven't been upstairs.
SPEAKER_00:Think I need more books? I know, but I think it'd be cool to go look up there. We should go there. Okay. We'll go there. Okay. I'm free this weekend. Me too. Apparently, I'm going over to my parents' house on Saturday to help pack people.
SPEAKER_01:I was gonna say, do you have to pack and move them?
SPEAKER_00:Um, well, they're getting movers. Oh, good. Um They're not, at least they're not cheap bastards. They know none of us are helping them move. Um, and no one's supportive, so no one's helping. No, exactly. Um, but we're afraid that, you know, my dad's just gonna be like, throw this, throw this, throw this, and it's like shit that we want. Yeah, like okay, I the first things.
SPEAKER_01:And so we're forcing ourselves. You're gonna end it come home with so much shit because it's when nobody else wants it, and it's like either the garbage pile, and then you're gonna be like, This is my sister. I'll just take it. I don't want anything to go in the garbage. It depends. Kate, I love you. Have you been in my sister's house apartment? It looks like my picture. Yeah, it's like my mom. It's just like all my mom's decor. She is just like, she's so much like my mom.
SPEAKER_00:I just got rid of so much shit this summer that like I can't do that. Like, I feel like I'm actually at a good clutter-ish, non-clutter place. Yeah, decluttering.
SPEAKER_01:And well, garage sale next year.
SPEAKER_00:Yes. And so I don't, you know, there's certain things like that I know if I'll see. Like if it was my grandma's or something like that.
SPEAKER_01:And you'll be well, your parents are still alive. I was really like surprised, like some things that I, you know, I really never knew what I wanted of my parents. Yeah. And then when my mom died, like certain things I would see. And my sister, I mean this in like the kindest way, Kate, when you're if you're listening to this, but she was just, you know, she didn't want anything to go in the garbage, so she would take anything, right? Like, if you don't want it, I'll take it.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:And there was this sign, and I have it in my room, and it says, like, take a deep breath, you're home now. And I just started sobbing because it made me think of my mom was home now. Yep. And I'm I told her, I'm like, Kate, I have to have this or I'm gonna be upset.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, she's like, take it. Yeah, we years ago started kind of going through some stuff and like writing our name on the bottom of it. Like, my parents have this um really nice handmade pottery bowl that was always the cookie bowl. Like, if we baked anything, we would use it and it had this like part of the bowl was like this over-the-lip handle. Okay. And so you could put your hand on the side and use it to pour over because there was a spout on the other side, and Kelly called it right away. Her name's been written on that. They got it as a wedding present. They just celebrated their 47th wedding anniversary yesterday. Have they ever used it? All the time. Oh, yeah, oh yeah, okay. But Kelly was like 47. So that thing is 47 years old. I know. But um, so there's gonna be things like the we there's a Oreo tin that was always our battery and birthday candle container. Okay. Like this Oreo tin has been in my life my entire I don't remember birthdays and celebrations without it. So I want that. I know Denelle wants the saltine cracker tin. So you know how we've gotten to the antique store. Oh, yeah, they have that stuff. They're so expensive. And so I know that Denelle. Yeah, I know Denelle wants that. My mom She's not gonna sell it though, right? No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No. Um, but there's other, like, I want the Oreo tin. I think out of those three things, like Kelly's getting the bowl, I want the Oreo tin. Denelle wants that. Um, and then there's certain things with my grandma that like Irene? Yeah, if I don't want my mom to get rid of, like, so we'll see. Because she won't care about it. She'll be like, ah, just throw it away. So my mom's like Kate of like, oh, if no one wants it, I'll take it. Okay. Because she doesn't want it to go. But are they in like the downsizing mind frame? They yeah. I yeah, they have to be. They're going from 2700s, 2700.
SPEAKER_01:But I'm saying, like, when some people are in the downsizing mind frame, they're like, throw everything away. That's what I'm afraid of. Then there's some people who can't throw anything away. So I'm just kind of wondering where you think that's headed. That's why we're going over there because I don't know.
SPEAKER_00:Because my dad is like, get out of this house, do it as fast as we can. I'm over it. He sold all of his tools to my two cousins. Didn't even ask John if he wants my brother-in-law. It was that was the whole thing. So, like, just he's like, get rid of it. I don't want it. I'm done with this. I can't wait to be out of this house. And yada yada yada. And here my mom and I are sitting on the couch, like, oh, we're so sad. I'm like looking at the cats and like, Ray, are you gonna like your new home? Are you gonna be? They're like, is there food there? I'm good. Roy, especially. That little fat thing. I feel like his belly's getting bigger. It hasn't touched the floor just yet, but he reminds me of when Flint used to be really fat. Oh, yeah, and then they got put on a diet. Yeah. And now there was one time I went out. I walked into Sam's and he was yelling at Sam because he wanted food. And she goes, You go yell at your auntie. And he looks at me and he starts yelling at me. And I was like, sorry, Flint, I'm not feeding you. Yeah, I was like, wait for your timer. If your mom wasn't here, I would. Like, I treat those cats like I treat my own niece and networks.
SPEAKER_01:You're supposed to spoil it. Exactly. Exactly. I like to spoil my nieces and network. Oh my god, how are they? I haven't seen them in a while. They're so cute. They're almost cute. Okay, right now, they have this like clarinet and they fucking play that thing. Hell yeah.
SPEAKER_00:They just have their own band going on. I love it. There's it's like amazing.
SPEAKER_01:You know, I don't know if it's when it's your family, it just seems so much more special than it is, or they seem so much more advanced than they are, but I think they're they're perfect. I mean, that little Theo. I mean he's so cute. But Adrian, she is smart as a whip. I know. My brother is in trouble. She's got and she's got him wrapped around his. Well, and he is already like, don't show your belly button, you know, like you will not. And my brother, sorry, you were he was a fuck boy, so like you're in trouble, boys. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:As someone who knew him way back in the day, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, Karma's my boy. Friends. They're almost one. Yeah. Is Adrian walking now? Yeah. Running. Oh, she's been. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Theo will take a few steps. He's so cute. He's like, no, I know you'll hold me, so why am I gonna walk?
SPEAKER_01:No, he's so cute. He's Mackie 2.0. I want to, but you know what? So I Abby sent me a video last week, and he looked just like her. Really? And it's just like he's changed a lot, he's lightened up a lot. Okay. So like I see a lot more of Abby and I'm like, Abby and Adrian. Yeah, I used to. I yeah, I see Abby and Adrian. This is really this is I d I'm not trying to be like trying to make it about me, but sometimes I see myself in Adrian. Sometimes I see Jamie in Adrian. Oh, I could see Jamie in Adrian. Sometimes I'll see like just a little wink of my mom and Adrian. I mean, you see me and Natalie. Yeah. Oh, well, that's not mine. That's not like But I'm saying, like, just it's when you s right, if you see a picture of somebody, it's scary. But when you see them, the mannerisms and like just the the body language, and it's just it's so it's just breathtaking. It's a miracle.
SPEAKER_00:My aunt and her daughter are just like that. They my cousin looks just and acts just like my aunt from start to finish and her daughter. So when my cousin was younger, like we're like, oh my gosh, this is Mary's twin, blah blah blah blah blah. And as they grew up, like, oh, for sure, absolutely. Am I gonna add Jane? Whoa. We're like, there's no sperm in her. Like, how was she made with sperm? Right, right. She looks just like you. Like, as the Megan I remember, because Megan and I are only like nine months apart. So we used to have sleepovers, everything like that. And like the Megan I remember from those ages is in your daughter. Like, what? It's mind-blowing. Like the genetics. We've talked about this before.
SPEAKER_01:It's crazy. Genes are strong apparently. I don't really think it's for who somebody I know just had a baby. Anyway. Oh, this girl I work with. Yeah. She's got two kids. And she is like you, like dark hair, really dark eyes, really, really pretty. Yeah. And her husband is like blonde, blue eyes, fair. And both our kids are blonde, fair, blue eyes. And it's like, it's so weird to me when the blonde is dominant when it's not like two blonde people.
SPEAKER_00:And two blue-eyed people. I know, because when you put that together, like statistically speaking, blonde hair, blue eyes is not going to be the dominant gene. Yeah. The brown hair, brown eyes is like the more common ones. It's like my coworker, the other supervisor that I work with, um, she is a redhead and like very fair skinned and things like that. And her daughter, same exact way, like very fair-skinned, red hair, and more like, how, how? Like, you know, like I so she's her and her her and her wife used a sperm donor for both of their kids. And I'm like, Do you have any idea of what the you know biological the sperm donor looks like? And she said, Oh, we have a picture of when he was a kid. That's neat. Yeah, and so I saw it and I was like, I see neither of your kids in that at all. Like both same sperm same same sperm, different egg. Okay. I was like, I see neither of your kids.
SPEAKER_01:And like her What do you mean same sperm, different egg? Did they both use him? They both got pregnant one time. They both got pregnant. I worked with a lady who did that, and I thought that was really neat. So cool. Yeah. Yeah. Like she was pregnant one time and then her wife was pregnant one time. Her wife was the first one, and then my coworker was the second one, and their their four-year-olds. That's one thing I really like about a female couple is like you can both experience that.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, and I think that was kind of one of the things of, and let me tell you, both of those kids have their bio their you know, bio mom, their DNA moms, their personality.
SPEAKER_01:So both of the moms were the dominant gene. Yes. Yeah. In both of them. Which is crazy to me.
SPEAKER_00:It's it's mind.
SPEAKER_01:So then you wonder, like, if they could have had a kid together, then what would it have, you know? I know. Because when you both have dominant genes, then what happens? Maybe you just get one of each. I don't know. If I ever Because you know, some kids like look one will look just like the mom and one will look just like the dad. Yeah. And then sometimes nobody looks like the dad or nobody looks like the mom.
SPEAKER_00:See, I feel like in my family, Danelle looks like my dad. Or my mom. Yep. Kelly looks like my dad. Yeah. And I feel like I'm a mix of both.
SPEAKER_01:No, you look like your mom.
SPEAKER_00:I know you hate that. See, and I feel like if I'm with my dad, I look like my dad. I think you want to look like that. Yes, I do. I want to look like my dad.
SPEAKER_01:Danelle look very much like sisters, and Kelly looks like the odd duck.
SPEAKER_00:I know.
SPEAKER_01:It's not a diss.
SPEAKER_00:It's just, it is what it's just facts. I just don't want I'm doing everything to not lose my hair like my mom did. At least at my age, when my mom was my age. You have great hair. She had very thin hair. So I'm keeping it. I mean, I have thin hair, but I have a lot of it. And the lady that cuts my hair, she was telling me to use a tea tree oil. Okay. To like help with like certain because I have like just straight up essential oil. Um, I bought this thing off Ulta. It was like some tea tree tree oil hair mask thing. Um, but you yeah, just regular tea tree oil um will help with re hair regrowth. Oh, I need to I'll try anything. So I already have some in my cupboards. Mine came in the mail today, so I had to do an Ulta order, so it came in the mail today, so I'm gonna try it because I feel like right up front of my forehead where my colic is, is like thinner than it used to, and I feel like I have some bald spots.
SPEAKER_01:But that's because I love my hair lady because our hair is very similar, and she's much younger than me, but she also has like thin, fine hair.
SPEAKER_00:And so like when I got salon in downtown Anoka, right? No, this one right here, fringe.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, you go to fringe, yeah. Got it. Okay. And I love her. 40.
SPEAKER_00:I mean, I think it's 40 bucks, and then I give her a tip. That's kind of what I pay. I mean, I'll do it. Fantastic Sam's because I'm very picky. Like, there's two people there that I really like, and I'll do that in an eyebrow wax, and it's usually like 59. I'm so proud of you because I feel like I got you there.
SPEAKER_01:Like, don't spend$500 on your hair. And I know all the hair people on the market listen to this. Don't like us right now, but we can't afford you. I can barely afford to eat some days.
SPEAKER_00:I mean, that's not true. No, that's not true. But I was thinking I should go through my pantry and see what I can donate to the to the food shelf.
SPEAKER_01:Um I try to go through my pantry and what can we make for I'm like, hey, man, it's your trailer park, white mom making you some ghetto dinner. Let's see what we can whip up. Do you know how much I've had that growing up? There's nothing wrong with that. He loves it. He's like, huh, these ghetto dinners that you claim are the best.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, there's there's things where I'm like, I'm like, this has been sitting in my cupboard for a year. Am I really gonna eat the pasta rone or riceroni? Yes, right now I'm gonna make it. That's what I would do. Not me.
SPEAKER_01:I'm like, but donate it to like uh Hope for Youth.
SPEAKER_00:They're such a great organization. I'm gonna, yeah, I was gonna research kind of that's like the kids. Yeah, and that's yeah, and so I'm kind of trying to figure out where, especially with everything that's going on, um, where I could like donate some of that stuff. Because I'm trying, we're my sisters and I were talking about this. One of the traits I got from my mom that I absolutely hate is always afraid that I'm gonna run out of something when I know I'm not going to. Same. I'm a food hoarder. Food hoarder, I'm an item hoarder in general. Like razors, shampoo conditioner, like toilet paper. Get up a day. All of these. You really have to buy any toilet paper. I know. Here's the thing my cat will figure it out and it'll be a new toy for him. No, it's a knob. Again, he tries to lift the toilet seat the way it is.
SPEAKER_01:Well, it will make it heavier. I don't know. I don't know.
SPEAKER_00:But like, yeah, I'm a food hoarder and I hate it.
SPEAKER_01:I do not want to be. I am to a fault because I will like, for example, right now, my food hoarding is bagels. They have the best bagels at County Market. And I bought them, and I this is what my struggle is. I don't want to eat them because I don't want them to be gone. Yep. But I can go fucking buy more. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:But it not happens. And then they go bad.
SPEAKER_01:Then they go bad and I don't even get to enjoy them.
SPEAKER_00:And what happens if you go there one time and they're sold out? Yeah. Then your heart broke like the Aceago. Yeah, then your heart broke. Like I never fucking sold out. Have such a food hoarding tendency. But my mom was the same way. It was over buy, over buy. And it's like same with gushers.
SPEAKER_01:You know, I could never have gushers as a kid because they're too expensive. So it's the same thing. So then I go to Costco and buy the 50 pack. You have a gusher drawer in your card. Gusher drawer in my smart. And then when I see Gusher wrappers, I'm like, who fucking ain't my gushers? Even though Costco always has. And it's a 50-pack. Like, calm the fuck down, Kelly. Yeah. No, it's I think it's like I'm not gonna eat them anyway because I'm too busy hoarding them.
SPEAKER_00:I'm the same way. And like I struggle because like I don't, I am one person. So I don't need to buy five items, five vegetables and three fruits. Yeah, but it's cheaper.
SPEAKER_01:When I like you can buy all the fruits and vegetables you want because I have a yard full of happy. I know, happy.
SPEAKER_00:I know, but like I would rather like eat what I have. Like I bought a bushel of org because Target only had the organic bananas. You said bushel, no one says that. That's a like real term of like quantifying something. It was like that's a real term of quantifying something. But they go bad so fast. The bananas.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, and I'm like, ah crap. Now I gotta make banana bread, but or you just throw them over here. You know who loves bananas? Paisley. Oh, I'll give Paisley anything. Roll under the bridge. I can't believe that. That guy's gonna be. Shit! February will be two years. And he is just He is thriving. He's like, fuck yeah, it was meant to be okay. He's content living under my bed. Like he just hangs out there until it's time to eat. He was miserable for the first seven years of his life. He got beat up on. You said he was he would he could fight back. But you said he was the bunny that caused all the trouble. I thought he was, but he wasn't. It was Dusty and Bella.
SPEAKER_00:God damn it. And he just is like, I just love when you let him out. And he just hops over. Like he hops from the one end to the couch to another.
SPEAKER_01:I thought I'm like, Oh, yeah, I got some baby bunnies. I am down to two. Okay. Because I'm pretty sure my neighbor's cat killed three of the five.
SPEAKER_00:We still don't know who the mother is.
SPEAKER_01:Well, they're all very mothering. You know, they're a colony. Yeah, I know.
SPEAKER_00:So but I liked the idea of playing the Moripovich game of are you the mother, not are you the father?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:We know who the father is.
SPEAKER_01:Oh yeah. Milo. And Milo, he's Milo. Milo, he's always trying to chase after one of them girls, trying to chunk. What is the term? He's a sweet daddy. Like I was really worried. Which is because sometimes like the dad bunnies will try to kill the babies, but he kind of subtles them and loves them.
SPEAKER_00:So there's this hippo.
SPEAKER_01:I don't know if I told anybody since my my bunny had babies. I don't one of my bunnies had babies. I don't know which one, but suddenly there was five babies. Then I want to play the game. Now there's down to two. Who's the mother? Yeah. But they keep dying. So Danica, you are not the mother. So I told you. I don't know who it is. I mean, they know who pushed them out, but I can't tell.
SPEAKER_00:Is Mori Povich still on? I don't think so. But I could be wrong. I don't know. I mean, I don't watch even when I work from home, I don't know.
SPEAKER_01:We have cable, I don't even watch it.
SPEAKER_00:I don't watch daytime television. The only time I watch live TV is sports. Like that's that's it. Otherwise, it's all streaming. Yeah. Which speaking of, okay, so I watched episode one of The Monsters Ed Hill. Hey, yes. Oh my.
SPEAKER_01:I'm really glad that you watched it because I had been talking about it much.
SPEAKER_00:So I love Lori Metcalf. Okay. She plays the mommy. Jackie, but she also plays Sheldon Cooper's mom in Big Bang Theory. Oh, she does? I don't remember that. Okay. Shelly. Don't do that, Shelly. Um, she, I love that. I know when we were watching it, we're like, oh, it's Jackie. She did such a good job. Yeah. And then the scene where she dies. Yeah. And Charlie Hunnam, who plays Edgeen, the voice, sends needles down my spine. It is He's a good actor. He's so good. And he did, I heard, I watched a bunch of interviews where he did all of this research and like he's he wanted to learn Wisconsin in and of itself and all of these things. And I'm like, he killed his brother. Oh, his brother's like, nope, nope, he really did. He's just remembering it wrong.
SPEAKER_01:And I'm like, No, he's schizophrenic and he thinks he's alive and he truly thinks he died in the fire, even though he fucking set him on fire. Make it look like he died in the fire versus that the fact that he fucking killed him.
SPEAKER_00:He killed him.
SPEAKER_01:He took a log and smacked him upside the head and he's like, I'm just kidding. But I do like how they show like how the schizophrenia like just snaps your brain. Like you don't fucking remember. When you're watching it, like in a few. And the drama of what you don't want to remember and how you can actually really cover that up. It's just, Emily, it fascinates.
SPEAKER_00:And when you like, if you don't know the backstory, the first episode's kind of like a what the hell is going on.
SPEAKER_01:There's a lot of so like when we were watching it, there was a lot of like googling this and that, like fact-checking. Yeah. And there's a lot of like, it's a lot of fabricated information. But you get the gist of it. He did fuck dead people. And um and he did kill his brother and some other people.
SPEAKER_00:And he did in women's underwear.
SPEAKER_01:No one oh yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:I was thinking about the shoe guy, but that's that's a different yeah.
SPEAKER_00:No, that's another one.
SPEAKER_01:And then when his m when Jackie caught him, like I know. And she just was And he would always steal her bra and panties.
SPEAKER_00:And she was like, We're ready for dinner. Like just that. Get that whatever off in the middle. Teen men should never have children. She was just she was so when I was when I texted you, I was like, the acting, I meant her. Yeah. Like both of them. Both of them, yeah. It's just good. Insane. So I need to, I'll probably watch the second and third episode. Just watch it slow. I need to watch it slow. Um, can we talk about Love is Blind? Yes, I want to talk about All right.
SPEAKER_01:So there's probably a lot of spoilers if you're not caught.
SPEAKER_00:Spoiler alert. Sorry, Jen. I know you and Caleb take a long time to watch it because you've watched it with kids. Yeah, spoiler. Reunion tonight. Yes, I think at like six o'clock. So I might watch it. The World Series starts at seven, so I might watch it. No one's been talking about the World Series. What the hell?
SPEAKER_01:The other night I went to 18 innings. I know. And no one's talking about it. Oh my god. Have you heard anyone talk about the World Series?
SPEAKER_00:No, but No! It's nowhere. It's mind-blowing how no one's talking about it. I hate the Dodgers, like, cannot stand the Dodgers. And I have a whole conspiracy theory on Shohei Otani and his um agents like gambling shit and everything like that. Like Shohei totally knew all about it and he's getting away with it. And one day the MLB is gonna come out. Like the MLB is fucking rigged, just like the NFL. Like, I love sports, but god damn it, these things are fucking rigged, and you can tell. But yeah, and then the winter last night I did not watch it because you know how big of a wild fan I am. Yes. They had the first, so they're doing four, so it's their 25th anniversary, and they're doing four games of 25th anniversary celebrations. And last night was their first one. And so old players from like back when I was in high school, like Marion Gabrick, Stefan Vayu, Piermark Bouchard, they were all a part of the like broadcasts and things like that. So I was like, I gotta, I gotta watch this. And I was like, so we did ask my parents, I said, No, if you're gonna make any profit off the sale of this house, yes, you wanna buy me a wild jerk for Christmas? Yeah, and they were like, uh I'm if if my mom had a say she she would. Of course she would. But you know, I don't know, we'll see. But so that's kind of you know, sports. I don't understand how people are not talking about the World Series, but Love is Blind.
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SPEAKER_00:Spoilers. We have watched every season. Yep. You remember people way better than I do. Okay. And I generally fast forward through a lot of the pods. Okay, Wendy. I find it so boring.
SPEAKER_01:See, I feel like if I don't watch that, like that's like the character development for me.
SPEAKER_00:No, it's all fake because their true colors come out later when they go on their honeymoon.
SPEAKER_01:I feel like I can relate I I've never been on Love is Blind, but I feel like when every when you are put in a nirvana situation of just feeling only the people in your group, like the people that you're rooming with and the people that you're quote unquote connecting with, yeah, you are gonna lose sight of who you truly are and you're in this like romanticized cloud. That is true, and you're and you're and everything is clouded because that's all you're seeing. That's not real life. That's not real life. Yeah. So with that, yeah. I So I don't think it's fake.
SPEAKER_00:I think it's I don't think love is blind is fake.
SPEAKER_01:I think that if you're put in that situation, that's what's gonna happen to anybody.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, and then you just realize that outside of the pods, how different are you, or how more compatible are you?
SPEAKER_01:I you're not seeing people living their normal life, having their phone, you can have having other relationships with other friends, family, how they treat work.
SPEAKER_00:My biggest thing is how do they treat weight staff, how do they treat people at the stores, like things like that. I want you to be respectful.
SPEAKER_01:People can tell you whatever they whatever they quote unquote thinking.
SPEAKER_00:Exactly. And or what you want, or what they think you want to hear.
SPEAKER_01:Like about someone with perception people have of themselves.
SPEAKER_00:And that's why I think this season in particular, there were no weddings. I mean, there was two. Okay, no one said I do. No one said I do. Well, I take that back. First time, right? Ever? First time ever. I take that back. The guys said I do. Yeah. But both women said no. Yes. Go girls. And then Melissa sparkles. She annoys me like no other.
SPEAKER_01:See, I I would go back and forth on her, but Jordan was not the one for her.
SPEAKER_00:No, Jordan was not the Jordan is totally my type. He's gay. No, he's not. He is gay. He eats shh blended up chicken, which is disgusting. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:But like from a looks perspective. And his teeth are yellow from somebody who's like crazy about teeth. Yeah, that's true. Don't don't focus in on how your teeth are crazy when your teeth are yellow, brother. The tattoos are hot. Yeah, but they don't look right on him. Emily, that's not your type. I think it's kind of my type. I can't believe you think he's cute. I do. I do. I do.
SPEAKER_00:I but I am a sucker for dark hair.
SPEAKER_01:She was honed in on her. It was a sign from her dead dad that he was the one.
SPEAKER_00:Diabetes. His son has diabetes and her dad died because of his diabetes. And she was honed on. And whatever, type one juvenile. Yeah. Totally different then. She also.
SPEAKER_01:But he also was insecure about her money.
SPEAKER_00:I think she made him insecure about it. No. See, I'm saying that. No, we're gonna fight right now.
SPEAKER_01:That's fine. He wouldn't talk to her about his everyday life because he felt inferior to her. She didn't do that to him. She wanted to know about his everyday life. She did this experiment because she wanted somebody who wasn't a bougie bougie ass motherfucker like everyone else she dated.
SPEAKER_00:She did love Jordan, but he wouldn't open up to her. But I also felt like she flaunted her money to him when they went and looked at that one point whatever million dollar house and things like that.
SPEAKER_01:And she's like, if somebody wants to go take me to look at a$1.1 million house and they want to buy it for me and my kid, fuck yeah, I'm moving in. But as a If I love you, get over it.
SPEAKER_00:I know. I you and trust me. I as a big thing.
SPEAKER_01:If she wants to have a baby, then you know what? Give her a baby, be a stay-at-home dad, let her fucking be her boss ass bitch self, and that is a fine life. Guys don't think he will regret it. Guys can't.
SPEAKER_00:He's gonna regret that. He's gonna look back and be like, I fucked up. Very much are like, that is emasculating. I can't be the breadwinner in the house. Like that is there, I don't agree with that. I trust me, you know me. I think that's it.
SPEAKER_01:You need to what is best for your family is what's best for your family. I totally agree. You can make more money than I can. Amen.
SPEAKER_00:I totally agree. It's all going to the same honey pot. Absolutely. I totally agree. But in that situation with who Jordan is, I think for him, it made him feel insecure. Yeah. That's go to therapy.
SPEAKER_01:I totally agree because I don't disagree. I think that I don't know what you're looking for in a woman, but it it don't get better than that. She was kind. I I saw her as did when she introduced herself as Sparkle Megan, did that annoy me? Yes.
SPEAKER_00:I wanted to punch the screen. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:That I didn't like her off the bat. But and I didn't like like when at the very beginning, when Vanessa was like asking her what she was looking for, she's like, Oh, I have so much money and I'm just sick of dating these old men with money. Like I thought that was I didn't like that. Because there was another episode, there was another season of Love Is Blind when the person like had a lot of money.
SPEAKER_00:Like I told you, she reminds me of Izzy, the girl that was with Ace Stacy.
SPEAKER_01:No, there was somebody else that had a lot of money and they ended up not going to Mexico.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, so Izzy, yeah, Izzy and Stacy did. And like she reminds me of Stacy.
SPEAKER_01:But there was somebody and they went on their own vacation and he had so much money or something, but it ended up not one of them had so much money and it ended up not working out and they didn't get married. I don't remember who it was. But that person was always flaunting, like, I'm rich. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Not the Minneapolis one, but then there was one where like they all they talked about was a prenup. And she never talked about that. And I I hope that she would have had him sign one because I just think that's what's smart. Rumor is though. Okay. She's had a baby with another man. I saw something on social media where it was like sparkle Megan spotted. Yeah. And I saw on the teaser for the reunion that she's like, she's like, I have something news and she looks real puffy like she's pregnant.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. So I mean it brings me back to DBD. It brings me back to the 90-day fiance episodes where Jasmine revealed she was pregnant and she was married with someone else, and it was she got pregnant during an open marriage type situation. I'm telling you, I don't know how you don't watch 90-day fiance. Because I just can't watch everything. Oh, I I make I make it a vital thing.
SPEAKER_01:It's getting to be wintertime now, so I will have a winter time. Yeah, you will hibernate away. It will be too cold to be outside or too dark. Why not the perfect savings is this weekend? Yes, I know. I'm not ready. I like fallback. I hate spring ahead.
SPEAKER_00:I do too, because like I like spring ahead because it's summer, but I like fallback because I gain an hour. I'm tired. So I'm going to Arizona in a couple weeks. And the one thing I love, one of the things I love about Arizona, there's a lot of things that I do really like about Arizona, but one thing I love is they don't have daylight savings. Yeah. And it's so nice. Yeah. I do have to say there's this coffee place. I feel kind of like as who I am as a human being, I feel wrong for liking this place. Oh, okay. Because it's like called bikini beans or something like that. Something super sexist. Super sexist, and the women are in bikinis. Oh. When they serve you coffee. Okay. Like it's drive-thru only. It's like Hooters, but coffee version. Basically.
SPEAKER_01:Okay. But god dang it when I tell you the coffee is delicious. However, if it's hot there all the time, then they probably feel better in their bikinis. They really do. Absolutely. But when I tell you the coffee is so good. And I know that you know a good coffee. Because you have given me the best coffee I've ever had. Oh, I need to order more.
SPEAKER_00:I need to order more of that.
SPEAKER_01:Christmas is coming, wink wink. I know. Which I already got all my Christmas presents done for you and Jenna. That's why you were in Abbey. That's why you were asking about winter coats, colors. Not that it meant didn't help me. But I figured it out on my own damn self. I haven't even thought about Christmas shopping yet.
SPEAKER_00:Although my Christmas shirt will probably be showing you.
SPEAKER_01:I try, I try to start in September. Yeah. Because I have uh twins that have a one-year November birthday. I have a Casey who has a December birthday. I have a special man in my life who has a December birthday. Damn him. I have Christmas. Yes. And then I have a January baby of my own.
SPEAKER_00:God dang it. You really plan that one poorly. Cash money. So if you want to buy some eggs at triple the price.
SPEAKER_01:We take tips. I might sell it. They sell out so fast. My eggs sell out in hours. And I am so thank you. If you buy eggs from me or you can follow, you can follow my egg stand at four hen homestead uh on Facebook. I love it. But um, thank you. I I'm so appreciative of the outpouring of support I've had for the phone.
SPEAKER_00:You usually have like two dozen at least a day.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, I only have four hens, so I only get you know about four eggs a day, so I gotta kind of stack it.
SPEAKER_00:That sucks.
SPEAKER_01:But and I try to always keep some eggs, you know, for your dogs. You don't have to buy.
SPEAKER_00:But they're the best tasting eggs.
SPEAKER_01:Like they're rich and good.
SPEAKER_00:So good, so good. And I'm a yolk person with eggs.
SPEAKER_01:And they're their yolks are like so dark and rich. And that's how you know it's a good egg.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Like, oh, so good. I love my girls, they're great. Um, what else? I think that's really good. I'm gonna watch the Love is Blind Reunion tonight, probably, and then the World Series. What are you reading right now?
SPEAKER_01:I am reading a memoir about uh what's it called? It's called um It's called like something quietly. It's about addiction. Oh, okay. That's interesting. And this is like I've been on this memoir kick. Yeah, you have been for a while. Of things that I've been reading. Um, and I don't know if it's called Pretty Quiet. Okay. And it's about uh addiction. This kid like it's it talks about how he like grew up and he had um, you know, like a perfect childhood. Like nothing, nothing to blame anything on. Yeah, just life and how he felt and how against drinking and drugs he was, and then situation that he got in where he tried it for the first time, and it kind of was just like a a gateway. And I think it just really shows like sometimes it doesn't matter if you had childhood trauma or you didn't, or what happened in your life or didn't, like addiction can get the best of us.
SPEAKER_00:It's a disease, and I I wholeheartedly believe that I do believe there's a genetic component to a lot of addiction, but it's gotta start somewhere.
SPEAKER_01:That's what I you know I try to talk about to Mackie. Like I understand we're all gonna try to do things. Been there, yep. But I just want you to know that you have a very strong genetic addiction component on both sides of your family. So you just really need to be aware of that. I understand you're human. I understand like we like to relax or have fun or whatever that brings for you, but you just gotta be really careful. And my biggest thing is just be safe. Yep. You know, like I don't directly. I always like always call me. Any kid in my family, any person in my family, I'm usually sober. Call me, I'll just come get you. Nine times out of ten. And I tell you, sober, call me. I tell Mackie too. Like, if you feel unsafe, if you know you shouldn't get in the car with somebody, if you know you shouldn't drive, if you call me or text me and say, Mom, can you come pick me up? Here's my location. I'm not even gonna ask you any questions. No, I don't care. As long as you do the right. Everyone who needs a ride, I will be a school bus driver and I will get everyone home. Yep. No questions, no nothing. Thank you for making a good I'll assume that I need to know that I know what I already know. Yep, and that's I don't need to know I made the right decision.
SPEAKER_00:Exactly. I don't need to know more than you made the right decision. That I don't care.
SPEAKER_01:Like and even like I Emily, I appreciate you so much that you've even been like, Mackie, if you don't want to call your mom, call me. I'll come get you. 100%.
SPEAKER_00:I've done that with a few of my friends' kids of like, I get it. Like, call me. Like, I don't care. It's none of my business.
SPEAKER_01:Because I remember feeling like I'm not calling my parents, like when my parents was well, my my parents didn't say that because they were offline. But if they did, I uh I sure wouldn't have called them.
SPEAKER_00:So I get that. No, I got threatened with AA the one time I got caught drinking in high school. So but you know, once I turn drinking age, my dad was like, Call me whenever you want.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, no, he loves drinking with you. Yeah. But I get it. I like to indulge here and there. I don't know. I mean, but just I just want you to be safe about it, and I just don't want you to become an addict. Yep. Exactly. So I don't know if I'm like mentally in this capacity of like watching for my child because make sure he's not becoming an addict. I there's nothing wrong with creating self-awareness. I think it's I think when you listen to people's memoirs of addiction, it makes it really steers you from not wanting to do that.
SPEAKER_00:Speaking of that, I've been listening to Charlie Sheen's memoir. Okay. So I watched the documentary on Netflix and I just became like so interested in his story from start to finish. One of my favorite shows of all time is The West Wing, and Martin Sheen is his dad. Yeah, I just find Charlie Sheen so fascinating in everything that he has done and what he has put himself through and his family, and how he is now seven, eight years later, come on the other side and is finally ready to share the story. It is so interesting to hear it and the way he narrates the book. The book was very well written and he narrates it very well, and it's it's very just interesting to to hear how they got him clean from crack without him knowing. Like they were in contact with I just remember like the big HIV deal. Yeah, and they were gonna talk about that. Yes, I it will. I haven't I'm not that far in, but they had his dealer decrease the amount of like whatever it is within his crack. He he didn't give a fuck. It wasn't that. It was like one of his friends was like, Hey, I know you're a drug dealer. When you make it, I need you to start decreasing it. And they kept decreasing it to the point where like But didn't he just want more?
SPEAKER_01:Didn't he realize did he not realize that he wasn't getting as high?
SPEAKER_00:He had no clue, and then he was like, Oh, it's not working for anymore m working for me anymore, and then he switched to alcohol. Oh, sorry. So it's it's very interesting.
SPEAKER_01:All right. Well, I'm gonna read that and then we're gonna talk about it.
SPEAKER_00:Always. Absolutely. Okay, so I told you about Charlie Sheen. You're gonna you're gonna read it, listen to it, read it, whatever, and then we're gonna talk about it. So we let's give ourselves like two weeks. Okay. And then because I still need to finish it. So same. Well, thanks everybody. That's gonna do it for today's episode of On Our Best Behavior.
SPEAKER_01:We covered a lot. What we've been reading, what we've been watching, how Emily's parents are single-handedly destroying her life by moving. Ugh, honestly, it is tragic. Said thoughts and prayers, lots of them, please. But don't worry, we're coping the best way we know how to by heading to Boston's for the best nachos and probably a few too many martinis. I mean priorities. So we'll see you next time, though it might be a little bit because Emily's got a crazy November ahead of her.
SPEAKER_00:I'll be back when my life settles down or when I run out of wine.
SPEAKER_01:Either, well, we have run out of wine, which is why we're gonna go to martinis. Exactly. Either way, thanks for hanging out with us. Make sure you're following Honor Best Behavior wherever you listen, and we'll catch you next time.
SPEAKER_02:Goodbye.
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