Armchair Anonymous: Cooking Disaster II

Summary

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Episode: Armchair Anonymous: Cooking Disaster II

Date: February 6, 2026

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Overview

This episode of Armchair Anonymous, hosted by Dax Shepard and Monica Padman, returns with a second round of real-life “Cooking Disaster” stories submitted by listeners. Dax, Monica, and their guests laugh, wince, and cringe through tales of burns, mishaps, bug-filled desserts, and kitchen gore—all told with the candid, irreverent, empathetic tone hallmark to the show. The episode highlights the messiness, chaos, and unpredictability of home cooking, as well as the resilience and humor people bring to recovering from their most gnarly culinary accidents.

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Key Discussion Points & Caller Stories

1. Seth’s Bacon Brunch Burn

[02:00 – 11:08]

The Story

• Setup: Seth from Brevard, NC, planned a pancake brunch for his daughter’s third birthday and a crowd of family, including a pregnant wife.
• Disaster: While bulk-cooking bacon in a sheet pan, Seth spilled scalding hot bacon grease onto his forearm. Initial shock and little pain quickly gave way to severe blistering.
  • “Entire pan of bacon grease spills down my forearm.” (Seth, 04:25)
  • His nurse wife cleaned and dressed the wound, preventing worse outcomes.
  • Seth’s young daughter took interest in nursing, “immediately wanted to take care of Daddy.”
• Aftermath: His burn blistered with “drip marks,” required scraping by a doctor, but healed surprisingly well thanks to prompt care and diligent aftercare.
• Reflections: Seth avoids cooking bacon in the oven and reflects on sheepish attempts at shortcut kitchen tools: “This is a PSA, because I would definitely try that… If I didn’t hear the end of the story, I’d be like, oh, that’s a hack!” (Dax, 08:18)
• Medical tip: Use oven mitts, not towels; burns are not worth convenience.
• Family Interlude: Seth’s wife emphasizes the importance of not fainting after burns and the chaos of tending to forty guests while someone’s injured.
• Quote: “You were less than a quarter inch from nicking your artery.” (Urgent care doctor’s warning, 39:33)

Memorable Moment

• Seth’s daughter helps with the ointment every day: “She wanted to help with that as well. So got a nice reminder every day to take care of your arm, Daddy.” (Seth, 06:48)

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2. Sarah’s Lemon Meringue Bug Pie

[12:26 – 20:30]

The Story

• Setup: Sarah from London, Ontario, is determined to impress her future in-laws with dessert—her boyfriend's favorite, lemon meringue pie—even though she detests it.
• Disaster: In a hot, non-air-conditioned kitchen, Sarah tries to turn on the ceiling fan, pulling on the light fixture instead, which collapses onto the pie plate. No breakage, so they proceed.
• The Twist: Upon serving, the family notices the bottom of the pie is “speckled with burnt.” Closer inspection reveals the pie is riddled with dead bugs that had fallen from the light fixture into the pie during baking.
  • “The whole pie is speckled with these burnt dots. And then I look a little bit closer and it’s dead bugs.” (Sarah, 16:49)
• Aftermath: One brother-in-law has already eaten his whole slice. The family quickly abandons the pie. Sarah is mortified, but the relationship survives—eventually, she earns a recipe request from her mother-in-law, a true mark of acceptance 12 years later.
  • “My youngest brother-in-law, Stu, had inhaled his piece of pie. But he still maintains to this day that it was a great pie.” (Sarah, 17:27)

Notable Quotes

• “I’d rather eat glass.” (Monica, 17:03)
• “Serve it up, they're cooked!” (Dax, 17:48)

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3. Emma’s French Press Catastrophe

[20:36 – 33:50]

The Story

• Setup: Emma from Honolulu, HI, with a 6-week-old baby and a perpetually sleep-deprived household, tries to make French press coffee for her husband.
• Disaster: While juggling a baby, a baby lounger, and the French press on a breakfast nook, the lounger accidentally knocks the French press—filled with boiling water—onto her husband’s lap, dousing his thighs and genitals in scalding liquid.
  • “The entire thing knocked over toward my husband. Glass shattered... and it landed right onto his dick.” (Emma, 24:27)
• Aftermath: Husband’s burns are severe—"his skin was gone" and it was "just red, burger, beefy burger"—and he is hospitalized for 8 days on heavy painkillers (fentanyl, morphine), nearly develops an addiction, and faces a grueling physical recovery.
  • “...he was having full withdrawal syndromes. He was waking up in puddles of sweat.” (Emma, 30:13)
  • $10,000 hospital bill, permanent aversion to French presses.
• Baby: Baby suffered only minor burns and recovered fully.
• Humor & Relief: Emma (“he’s so gorgeous, yes he is!”) and the hosts riff on accidental vasectomies, boner risk during recovery, and hospital “vacations.”
• Quote: “That was the last time we ever used a French press.” (Emma, 30:39)

Notable Quotes

• “No boners now.” (Dax, 29:03)
• “I'm still an advocate for the French press. I generally only get it when I'm at a hotel” (Dax, 32:15)

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4. Jen’s Cinco de Mayo Glass Gash

[34:08 – 46:47]

The Story

• Setup: Jen, a dance teacher and mother in the Bay Area, plans a fancy Cinco de Mayo dinner during peak COVID lockdown, determined to be a “cool mom.”
• Disaster: She lifts a corn-filled bowl, which suddenly flies, shatters on the counter, and a glass shard embeds deep into her wrist. In shock, Jen pulls it out herself, causing major bleeding.
  • “In my wrist is a beer arrowhead-shaped piece of the bowl. ...I just yank it out.” (Jen, 36:57)
• Aftermath: Amidst family panic, Jen endures an ordeal: visits urgent care in pandemic-era PPE improvisations, nearly nicks her artery, gets stitched, faces slow and painful healing complicated by infection, skin growing over stitches, and a warning she may never regain full mobility or sensation.
  • “I've never gotten 100% strength or mobility back... it's numb and tingly at the same time.” (Jen, 42:10)
• Discussion: Dax recalls his brother’s arterial wrist injury as a mini-PSA on kitchen glass dangers.
• Reflection: Jen’s story ends with a heartfelt note on sobriety and the support she and her husband have found in Dax and Monica’s openness about addiction.

Notable Quotes

• “Her face said everything.” (Jen, re: doctor seeing the wound, 39:33)
• “You were less than a quarter inch from nicking your artery.” (Doctor, related by Jen, 39:33)
• “It was very traumatic for my children and I’m careful in the kitchen, but I’ve had like five other accidents since.” (Jen, 42:45)

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• Dax, on kitchen hacks gone wrong: “This is a PSA, because I would definitely try that. If I didn’t hear the end of the story, I’d be like, oh, that’s a hack!” (08:18)
• Monica, on bug pie: “I’d rather eat glass.” (17:03)
• Emma, on French press fallout: “That was the last time we ever used a French press.” (30:39)
• Jen, on self-inflicted wounds: “In my wrist is a beer arrowhead-shaped piece of the bowl. ...I just yank it out.” (36:57)
• Monica, on gender and water bottles: "Women are really freaked... I do think women carry water bottles more than men." (44:08)
• Dax, to Jen: “Please tell him congrats from me. That’s so mega, man. 10 years is impossible.” (45:53)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [02:00–11:08] Seth’s Brunch Bacon Burn
• [12:26–20:30] Sarah’s Bug-Infested Lemon Meringue Pie
• [20:36–33:50] Emma’s French Press Disaster
• [34:08–46:47] Jen’s Cinco de Mayo Glass Gash & Recovery

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Tone and Style

Lighthearted, candid, irreverent, and empathetic. Dax, Monica, and guests use humor to process trauma, never shying away from gore but always returning to human resilience, connection, and healing. Occasional mature language and graphic injury descriptions are balanced by warmth and relatability.

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Takeaway

These cooking disasters are not just cautionary tales but reminders that even in chaos and pain, empathy—and laughter—can make the messiness of being human more bearable and even, sometimes, “sexy.”

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Transcript

[A]

Welcome, welcome. Welcome to Armchair Anonymous. I'm Dax Shepard and I'm joined by Randall Padman.

[B]

Hello.

[A]

Today we have cooking disaster stories. What do we say? Warning. Alert. Trigger. Warning.

[B]

Oh, trigger.

[A]

If you hate burning, this is not the episode for you.

[B]

Don't listen to this one.

[A]

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[B]

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[C]

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[A]

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[B]

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[D]

Hello?

[A]

Hey, where are you?

[D]

I think you may know the town that I'm from. Brevard, North Carolina, west of Asheville.

[B]

Oh.

[A]

Oh, I bet I've ridden through there.

[D]

The land of waterfalls.

[A]

Wait, is that where Looking Glass Falls is?

[D]

Yep. Sure is. About 10 minutes from where I'm at right now.

[B]

Oh, amazing.

[A]

We were just there.

[D]

Yeah, you've given some good shout outs to the area. We appreciate it.

[A]

Okay, so you have a cooking disaster story.

[D]

I do, yeah. So this happened about three years ago in March. Our daughter at the time was turning three and my wife was about eight months pregnant and she was going through a big pancake phase and so we thought we're gonna throw her a pancake brunch.

[A]

Nice.

[D]

We'll invite some family and friends over. Which seemed like a great idea. It was a great idea.

[A]

She likes straight flapjacks or she likes chocolate chip. What was her jam?

[D]

The weird thing is she doesn't like syrup still. We can't get her to eat syrup. But she loves a pancake, chocolate chips or fruit.

[A]

Keep her off the syrup. If she don't want it, that's great.

[D]

It's her one excuse to be able to eat a sweet. And she's like, nope.

[E]

Oh, yeah.

[D]

Day of everything is going to plan. Pretty much everything's done. The family arrives, surprisingly, going off without a hitch.

[A]

And can I ask quickly, like a mechanical question? If you put a big flat top grilling surface on something, what are we cooking on?

[D]

Yeah, we're cooking on a griddle primarily. And then we're in our kitchen, so we've got a stove. And so I decided I'm going to do some bacon and I'll cook it in a sheet pan sort of in bulk, which I wouldn't normally do. Being from the South. We make breakfast all the time. I grew up in a family where biscuits and gravy every weekend.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[D]

Wow.

[A]

Jealous.

[D]

No problem with cooking a great breakfast. But on this day, obviously there's more people showing up. Probably about 20 people or so. Kids, family. And so I thought, okay, I'm going to put this bacon in a sheet pan and cook it in bulk and that'll be the quickest way to get the job done.

[A]

How much bacon are we talking in pounds?

[D]

Probably two pounds, three pounds. Maybe not a crazy amount, but enough to fill probably two sheet pans. We're almost to the point of everybody having their brunch eating pancakes. The bacon is the last thing to kind of come out of the oven. And around that time the family shows up, kids are playing. It's a little bit of a compact kitchen. So, you know, my mother and mother in law are in the kitchen. Of course they're like, what can we do to help? Where does this go? Where does that go? And it just gets a little chaotic around family as it tends to do so. I go to reach for the bacon, open the oven, and I guess I'm just so focused. I pull it out probably a little quicker than I should and just ever so slightly tilted it back towards me. Entire pan of bacon grease spills down my forearm.

[A]

Oh, I can feel that.

[D]

Obviously there's the initial shock reaction. Drop the pan, immediately kind of freak out a little bit. There actually wasn't a ton of pain, which is also maybe a little scarier than you know, you don't really know what you've done in the moment. I rush to the sink, start to rinse my arm off, and this is where my wife swoops in to save the day. She's a nurse. Comes in handy on a lot of occasions. And so, yeah, she helps me get this thing washed off. And I think at the moment, I'm trying to just keep as calm as possible. You know, there's kids around. I don't want to freak my daughter out. And it sort of becomes evident what I've done almost immediately. My arm starts to, like, blister and bubble up. By this time, my daughter finds out, and of course, she, like, runs over, and, I mean, she's gonna have to be in healthcare like her mom, because she's, like, immediately interested, not scared at all, not concerned, just, like, wants to know what's going on. And she also shifts into take care of dad mode.

[A]

Oh, so sweet.

[E]

It is.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

If you had a boy, he would have been like, where's my baseball bat?

[B]

He would have, like, run his little trucks over your arm.

[D]

Totally. I think Rob may have sent you a photo.

[A]

Oh, he did. He did. Let's see. And we always wait before we. Yeah, he wants me to do a full. Like, a full what?

[B]

Horrible. Oh, my God.

[D]

The first photo is where my arm sort of bubbled up immediately. We got it patched and taken care of, essentially for the weekend until I could get to the doctor. Fortunately, the surgeon that works in our practice was there on that Monday or Tuesday and just had to scrape off the whole thing. It wasn't incredibly painful until that moment. And that's sort of when it, like, really got real, you know?

[A]

Can I ask why they have to scrape it off?

[D]

That's a terrible question for me to just clean it.

[A]

Maybe the back ointment on there or something.

[D]

I think that's essentially it.

[A]

I'm really sad that the listener can't see it, because what's so freaky about it? And I've never seen a burn like this. The burn has the drip marks. It looks like liquid, the burn. You see this mon on the right?

[F]

Wow.

[D]

It came up my wrist and wrapped around the wrist there, around the thumb.

[B]

Do you have a scar?

[D]

Shockingly. It healed up really well. I'll credit my wife for jumping into action quickly. We probably have more medical supplies around the house than the typical household, thankfully, and she just got it patched up quick. And I was pretty religious about putting ointment on it for six weeks. Of course, my daughter wanted to help with that as well. So got a nicer reminder every day to take care of your arm, Daddy.

[B]

Oh, my. That's rough for the listener. If you saw this, you would know to never cook bacon ever again.

[D]

Yeah, it was a little while before I decided to give that a go. I still haven't cooked bacon in a sheet pan.

[A]

I mean, how is one supposed to remove that sheet pan with all that hot grease underneath?

[B]

Were you wearing oven mitts?

[D]

Had a towel in my hand, which is par for the course. I'm kind of act first, the second kind of guy, unfortunately.

[A]

Oh, I'm so lazy. I've used, like, paper towels on the counter. Like, oh, I can get it out in time before that cooks through a.

[B]

Dish towel is what the chefs do do. They don't use oven mitts, but you have to really be a chef, and you have to be confident in your skills.

[A]

You do I use oven mitts?

[D]

You do.

[A]

But you also like the decor of the oven mitts.

[F]

Yeah, they're cute.

[A]

The thing I live in the most fear of in these burn situations is when you hear people where the skin just rolls off.

[D]

Yeah, I was a little nervous. That was what I was in for. There's a few seconds that pass between when it happens and when you start to realize what you've actually done. I mean, it was rough, but it thankfully was not that sort of situation.

[A]

This is a psa, because I would definitely try that. Like, if I didn't hear the end of the story, I'd be like, oh, that's a hack. Cook the bacon in the oven.

[D]

Exactly.

[B]

No. Yeah, don't do it.

[A]

Get it all done. I was even thinking, while you're telling, like, oh, I'd even add a grate. I would add a little grate between the cookie sheet and the bacon so that it wouldn't be sitting in the oil.

[D]

I think I did have a grate on the pan, which I thought that's a great idea. But obviously the grease is still in the pan.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You know, underneath it sure is.

[B]

Oh, boy. Oh, boy.

[D]

Slowly and carefully remove and make sure it's level.

[A]

So how old's baby now?

[D]

She's almost six. And baby number two? Almost three.

[A]

Oh, congratulations. Another girl.

[D]

Two girls wouldn't have it any other way.

[A]

Now go get you a vasectomy, because you don't want three.

[D]

Yeah, already taken care of.

[A]

Okay, good job. Just pour a little hot grease down there. That could also might do the trick as well.

[B]

Let's do a prompt accidental vasectomies.

[A]

Ooh Unauthorized vasectomies not contribute to that.

[B]

Well, thanks for sharing.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Seth, it's lovely meeting you.

[D]

This is great. Thank you guys so much. Would you mind if I let my wife come say hey?

[A]

We'd love to meet your wife, the nurse. We love nursing.

[B]

We're gonna ask her some medical questions.

[E]

Hello.

[D]

Hi.

[A]

Oh, I'd be delighted if you were the nurse that walked in the room. Look how cheery she looks.

[F]

Yeah.

[B]

I have a question. Do you think I could maybe get my ears re pierced even though it's gone rancid twice?

[C]

That doesn't seem like a smart move. Oh, man, I would love to say yes as a girl. Like heck. Yeah. But, you know. Okay.

[B]

I trust you.

[A]

What's your name?

[C]

My name is Casey.

[D]

Casey.

[A]

You know the old adage, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice. Shame. We're already at the shame on me part. The third would be like, shame I'm a fucking dumb dumb.

[B]

No, that's like, third would be shame on Casey. That's why I asked.

[C]

Well, I mean, Dax has already had to operate once.

[B]

He did once or twice. Am I finger ear.

[A]

Always jewelry related?

[F]

Yeah.

[A]

How long have you been nursing?

[C]

It'll be almost 13 years.

[A]

You guys are the best.

[C]

Thanks. Well, I think one thing Seth forgot to mention was whenever the grease thing happened, you know, he's being very stoic. He's fine, he's fine, he's fine. And I look over at him, and he starts to turn that white yellow color. And I was like, no, you need to sit down. He's like, I'm fine. I was like, sit down and eat something. I probably handed him a pancake at that point.

[B]

Small.

[A]

Don't faint.

[B]

Good job.

[A]

I don't need to deal with a head injury.

[B]

I already have, like, 20 people at.

[C]

The house, and here we are with. With this pretty severe burn. And let's pass out on top of all of it.

[F]

Yeah.

[B]

What if you pass out onto the sheep?

[D]

Oh, my God.

[A]

Face first.

[C]

Oh, my gosh.

[F]

Jesus.

[A]

That was like a Mr. Bean movie or something. Well, thank you, guys. It's lovely meeting you.

[C]

Thanks. And I think we need to shout out Angie too. Angie is Seth's college friend who got us his arm cherries.

[B]

Oh, shout out, Andy. You're wearing a beautiful piece of merch.

[C]

He got me this for Christmas.

[B]

I love it.

[A]

Oh, good job, Seth.

[C]

I went to get him them a shirt and went on the website, and that's actually where we saw the prompt.

[B]

So I was like, this is perfect. Oh, my God.

[A]

Oh, my God.

[C]

Two birds out of shirts, unfortunately, at that point. But it's okay. I got one. So it's all matters.

[A]

We were sold out of shirts.

[B]

Yeah, we sold out.

[A]

Oh, my God.

[B]

But we might re up, so we'll keep you guys updated.

[A]

What do you mean we might? We must.

[B]

Okay, okay.

[A]

We're gonna.

[B]

We're gonna sidebar about this.

[A]

All right. Lovely meeting you guys.

[E]

Bye, guys.

[B]

Do you think it's sad? Like, they hand over their headphones to their partner and then they just have to sit and they, like, don't know what is being said, and it's like, I'm left out Now.

[A]

I do think that I don't want to get in another round of technical difficulties, but I almost want to say, like, just pull your headphones out so that you guys can now just chat and we can all be in this together.

[B]

Yeah, but we don't want to do that. We like when people are left out. Something to work through.

[A]

Too dangerous. Sarah, smile a while for me Sarah, if you want to be free.

[B]

Hi.

[A]

All you got to do is say, so how annoying are you? Or how much do you love Sarah, smile?

[G]

Honestly, I've never heard that one before.

[A]

A Hall and Oates.

[B]

I think you have probably.

[G]

It's probably just not a good rendition that Dax is doing.

[A]

That is definitely the case.

[B]

I didn't know what you were singing, and I know.

[A]

Sarah, smile wow. Won't you smile a while for me, Sarah?

[B]

I think it's cause there's so much other band stuff going on in that accompaniment. I was in that movie and that song Acapella's tough.

[A]

Well, especially when you're not a good singer. Sarah, where are you?

[G]

I am in the McDonald's garbage can. I am in London, Ontario.

[B]

Oh, my God. I literally was like, you're in a garbage can right now at a McDonald's. What is happening?

[A]

It's really funny you bring that up, Sarah, because I was just at my friend Kevin Zieger's house yesterday, and he grew up 10 minutes, I think, east of London, and his folks were in town for the holidays. And I got to tell him how I used to expel my rubbish over there in London. And he was saying that London is a wild place. When you're young and you go downtown, you can have a real raucous time.

[D]

Oh, yeah.

[G]

I went to university here and can confirm.

[A]

So you have a cooking disaster.

[G]

Yes. So this would have been in the summer of 2013. I was dating my now husband then boyfriend, and we were about three Hours apart. He was close to London and I was living in Toronto, so I was going to visit him for the weekend. He was living with his parents. His dad was gonna do a dinner. All his siblings were gonna be there.

[A]

How long had you been dating?

[G]

About eight months.

[A]

So this is a high stakes meeting. This is the time for you to put your best foot forward 100%.

[G]

So the dad's making dinner and I'm like, well, we should do dessert. And so my husband says, let's make lemon meringue pie. That's like a real specific suggestion.

[B]

He just had a craving.

[G]

No, it's actually his favorite dessert. Given the choice, that's what he picks, which seems insane to me, but to each their own. So we're newly enough into this relationship that I just go along with it?

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah.

[G]

Okay, let's lemon meringue pie. I hate lemon meringue pie, but let's do it.

[A]

Early dating's so misleading because, you know, you wake up like two years later and you're like, lemon meringue pie.

[B]

And you're like, I hate lemon meringue pie.

[A]

Yeah, we're marrying now.

[G]

How long do you carry it along?

[F]

Yeah, exactly.

[A]

I'm insane. I'm not participating in that.

[G]

So we go out, we get all the things to make this pie. I find my mother in law's pie plate. We're using the refrigerated crust that you just roll out. We're preheating the oven in this hundred year old farmhouse that doesn't have central air conditioning. So I've got the oven going. It's really hot in the kitchen, and I'm like, no problem. Let's turn on the ceiling fan. Up to this point in my life, I've never operated a ceiling fan. So I reach up to pull the cord and the whole light fixture comes down.

[D]

Oh.

[B]

Oh my God.

[D]

Oh, Jesus.

[A]

On your head.

[B]

That's so scary.

[G]

It landed on the pie plate and just sort of like bounced off of it.

[B]

How big is this ceiling fan?

[G]

Just the light fixture in the center came down from the fan.

[A]

Okay. Not the fan blades?

[G]

No. So just the light fixture part came down and hit the pie plate vicinity. Nothing broke. We put the light fixture back up, carried on making the pie, and there's nothing else memorable that happened during that dinner. Until we serve the pie.

[A]

Uh oh, I have a. Terrible.

[E]

Me too.

[B]

I have a bad idea.

[G]

So I'm serving the pie. This is it. This is the first time I've made anything for this family to consume.

[A]

Quick question. How did it look. Visually did you guys feel like you nailed it?

[G]

The pie looked great.

[A]

Yeah. You're like, fuck, yeah. Time to show off.

[G]

Yeah. I've made a lemon meringue pie when I really should have been making chocolate chip cookies.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[G]

So serving the pie, one piece, two piece, I get to the third piece and the pie does the thing where it flops over onto its side. And my mother in law says it's really weird that it burnt like that. And I'm like, what? So I look at it and I'm like, oh, that is weird that it burnt because the bottom of the pie is speckled with burnt. And so I lift up the whole pie plate and I look and I'm like, oh, the whole pie is speckled with these burnt dots. And then I look a little bit closer and it's dead bugs.

[E]

No.

[A]

Hold on, hold on.

[D]

That's better.

[B]

I didn't know.

[A]

I know. You were ill prepared. You were expecting glass, right? Yes, me too. But this is so preferred. But not for you.

[B]

No, I'd rather.

[A]

You'd rather eat glass.

[B]

I want the glass cooked.

[A]

Bugs, dead bugs, all in your protein. Edible, not sharp.

[B]

No.

[A]

This is a win, I think, given the situation. That makes sense. So that thing had so many bugs.

[G]

In it, probably as light fixers do. And it just came down and we didn't check.

[B]

And it's so much that they could see them all scattered about and people.

[A]

Had already eaten other three pieces.

[G]

My youngest brother in law, as youngest brother in law, Stu had inhaled his piece of pie.

[A]

Yeah.

[G]

But he still maintains to this day that it was a great pie.

[A]

Yeah, sure. I can't imagine this would diminish the taste at all.

[B]

I would never be able to live knowing I ate all those bugs.

[A]

I'd be like, serve it up, they're cooked.

[F]

Ew.

[B]

Now, did you think when you saw and you were like, oh my God, it's full of bugs that I should just pretend?

[A]

Yeah. Oh, I think I spattered some Crisco at the bottom.

[B]

Oh, you're so nice and honest. You're such a good armchair. I think I would have panicked in the moment and been like, oh, no, you know what? The light fell. I'm nervous. There's glass. Let's not eat it.

[G]

But I knew that there wasn't glass. Bugs were so far away in my mind.

[A]

Yeah, the glass is a red herring. That's how it works. You're like so worried about an intestine.

[B]

I would just be, for some reason so much more embarrassed to serve a pie with bugs in it than a pie with glass in it.

[F]

Really?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Even though one's potentially life threatening?

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Oh, I have to imagine there's someone like me at this party that's like, give me a piece.

[G]

No, I think they were just trying to follow my lead of like, oh my God, if we can't eat this pie, there's bugs in this pie. Forget it. Nevermind. We should all go home.

[B]

Bug popping oh my God, that's so disgusting.

[G]

My mother in law asked me. I made pumpkin cookies about a year ago and she asked me for the recipe for the first time she'd ever asked me for the recipe I ever made for anything. And I was like, I've done it. It took me 12 years, but here we are.

[F]

That's great.

[B]

Did you add some bugs?

[A]

I was gonna say you should have put random insects, presumably mosquit and moths.

[B]

No, mosquitoes.

[G]

Don't listen, Monica. But the reason I knew it was bugs is cuz I saw a wing.

[B]

I hate this story.

[A]

It's so funny. I don't mind.

[F]

I know.

[B]

I just. I hate bugs and maggots. This is kind of like maggots everywhere.

[A]

But you got married and everything worked out.

[G]

We have two kids. No bugs are eaten in our household. Actually, that's not true. My oldest eats ants and there's nothing I can do about it.

[A]

Oh my God. God. No need to stop again. We're omnivores. We're totally fine equipped to eat ants.

[B]

I don't want to eat them.

[A]

You ever watch the chimps eat the ants or termites out of the line with a stick?

[G]

I attempt to stop her, but she's three years old so I don't stand a chance.

[A]

You should do real ants on a log. Do you guys do ants on a log up in Canada? The celery and the peanut butter and could be raisins, but in this case, yeah.

[G]

Okay, can I just do a quick shout out to my two co workers? So my coworker Caroline got me into armchair expert and my coworker John has been along on the ride as we both discovered this podcast.

[A]

Well, big thanks to her, she tripled our listenership in Ontario.

[F]

Exactly.

[D]

Good job.

[A]

Oh, well, Sarah, so nice meeting you.

[G]

Thank you. So nice to meet you too.

[A]

And I promise next time I drive through London, there will be no littering because I know better now. All right, take care.

[G]

Bye.

[A]

I sure love meeting these arm jerrys. Here's Emma.

[B]

I wish Allison Roman would have called in.

[A]

I wish our Emma was submitting she.

[B]

Never has cooking disasters. She cooks perfectly.

[E]

Hi.

[A]

Can you hear us?

[F]

Yes, I can hear you. Can you hear me?

[B]

Beautiful.

[A]

Now, did you have fun communicating with Emma as Emma?

[F]

Yes, I did, actually.

[A]

Where are you? You seem like a city girl. Just right away, I'm gonna say that.

[F]

I'm in Honolulu, Hawaii.

[A]

Oh, that's a city. How many people live in Honolulu?

[F]

I believe on our island, it's like a million people. And then in the whole state, it's like 1.3 last I checked.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

Okay. 90% of the Hawaiians are living on Oahu.

[F]

I know you guys have vacationed here a couple of times.

[B]

I love it. One of the best Four Seasons around.

[G]

Yeah, it's so good.

[A]

Have you been to that little restaurant with the tiki torches that are burning? It's Italian. It's, like, outside.

[F]

Yes, I have. I don't remember the name, but it's really good. And the Four Seasons on the big island in Kona is also really awesome.

[A]

I keep hearing that. Maybe now that we're talking about it, they'll invite us.

[B]

I think that might be the one that, like, charged me.

[F]

I think you're talking about the rosewood. Oh, you're right.

[B]

You're absolutely right.

[A]

Good job.

[B]

You're right. Thank you for saving the.

[A]

This merch. You know how I feel. And are you from there, or did you move there?

[F]

Born and raised in Honolulu. Yes. I've lived other places, but my whole family's here. My husband's here. My husband's family's here, so it just makes sense to be here right now.

[A]

Okay, great. Okay, so you have a cooking disaster story.

[F]

So this story took place back in 2021, when my husband and I had just had our first baby girl. She was about six weeks old.

[A]

Okay.

[F]

She was one of those babies, though, that didn't like to sleep. So we were really sleep deprived, and my husband was drinking coffee like a madman. So the cooking disaster takes place in the kitchen. I decided to make him coffee, and at the time, we were using a French press. Are you familiar with, like, how a French press would work?

[A]

We are, but I think we should say for the listener how it works.

[F]

Okay. So a French press is like a glass beaker of sorts, and it has a little handle, and you put ground coffee and you put boiling hot water into the French press, and then it has a cover that you put on top of that boiling water with, like, a plunger on top. The beaker's probably about maybe 8 inches, and then the plunger goes up maybe another 6 to 8 inches. And you leave it unplunged while the coffee steeps. And you plunge it when you're ready to drink that coffee.

[A]

Yeah. And it's got a screen filter on the top, so as it goes down, it gets rid of all the grounds and leaves the yummy coffee.

[F]

Exactly. So I poured from the kettle the boiling hot water into the coffee, and then that coffee made its way over to. We had, at the time in the house we were living in this little breakfast. No. And it was sitting on top of the table. I'm scared you're about to hear some questionable parenting decisions, but I just want to tell you, we were so deprived.

[E]

Of course.

[D]

Yeah.

[F]

We've learned our lesson. So that's just a little disclaimer.

[A]

You had been a parent for all of 42 days. Baby was six weeks old.

[B]

Yeah. Why do they let people just be parents? No training.

[A]

Pretty great.

[F]

I don't know. It was too soon for us. My daughter used to sit on this little baby lounger. I won't say the brand, but it was like this little baby lounger pillow. And I went to go hand the baby on the baby lounger pillow, which you're not supposed to do. And then I handed her to my husband, who was gonna put her down next to him on this nice, thick breakfast nook bench that we had. As I was doing that, the bottom of the pillow hit the top of the French press plunger over a foot tall, and the entire thing knocked over toward my husband. Glass shattered with water, coffee grounds everywhere. Because my husband's, like, 6ft tall. It landed right onto his dick.

[E]

Oh, thigh penis.

[A]

Wait, wait. I missed the third thing. Was it balls?

[F]

Balls.

[D]

Yeah. Okay, great.

[A]

Great, great, great. Oh, my gosh.

[B]

Oh, my.

[A]

Listen, we have photos, and if we have a picture of your husband's burnt balls. I'm gonna be three, okay?

[F]

So I didn't know the legality of sending that. I did send a picture to Emma, who I think forwarded to Rob. It's hiding his penis and balls, but you can see the entire thing. Can we look?

[A]

But before we look, so this big ruckus happens. What I'm immediately afraid of is, like, we don't drop the baby because we've knocked something over.

[F]

Okay. He didn't drop the baby, which I think is the only thing we did right in the story.

[A]

He's a good dad.

[F]

But the baby, unfortunately, also got. Got splashed with water.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Oh, boiling water.

[F]

And the baby is screaming louder than I've ever heard a baby scream in my life. My husband put her down. He ran to the shower. Luckily, he knew that you're not really supposed to put, like, ice water on a burn. You're supposed to put lukewarm water. So he went into the shower, put the shower on lukewarm, and he was just standing there. The baby is screaming, and I'm obviously freaking out.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And there's broken glass, everybody.

[F]

Broken glass everywhere. As Monica would say, it was scattywampus.

[A]

You have catchphrases, Monica.

[B]

You know what's so funny? I love that that's become mine, because I got that from you.

[A]

Yeah. And I got it from a gal.

[B]

At the Groundlings, because really, the word is caddy wampus. Well, but Jack says scatty. Now I do, and now it's mine.

[A]

My life mission has been to replace cattywampus with scatty.

[D]

It's slowly working.

[B]

I'm slowly working.

[A]

And you're not wearing shoes. Right. It's in the morning, not wearing shoes.

[F]

Luckily, I'm the only one who somehow came unscathed. But emotionally not, because this baby was so. But luckily she was fine. Ultimately, her burns were super, super minor, and she was back in action one day, but my husband was not. So I went into the shower to take a look at him, and it was like his skin was gone.

[A]

Oh, no.

[F]

The top layers of the skin had just shriveled up and disappeared. And it was just red burger, beefy burger. Yeah, you can look at the picture whenever you want.

[A]

Okay, let's do it. God, I'm bummed that there is one of the penis that I'm missing.

[B]

Ew.

[A]

Holy fuck. Okay, I know I bring this up way too often, but that great documentary, hot coffee.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

You think like, oh, why'd this woman sue over nothing? And this is what her thighs looked like.

[B]

This is horrific.

[A]

Yang. It's his entire thigh. It's like knee to. Well, cock and balls.

[E]

Oh, my God.

[B]

So his penis looked like that luckily.

[F]

Well, I don't know if it's luckily the majority of the burn. The worst part of the burn was on his thigh, but it was also the other areas, which I can imagine felt terrible.

[B]

Oh, my God. It's also his whole thigh. It's not just like a small part, it's the whole thing.

[A]

No, if I saw this without you telling me what had happened, my guess would be that you had made a bucket of hot coffee. Coffee. You know, like a couple literally just.

[B]

Threw it on him.

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

Yeah.

[F]

It didn't miss him at all. It was so Bad.

[A]

Okay, now this is inappropriate, but it's crossing my mind because it just happened to me. I had this catheter in and I was like so nervous I would get an erection over the three days that I had the catheter. Like I didn't know what was going to happen if that happened. Was he so paranoid he would get an erection with all that burnt skin?

[F]

I didn't ask that, but I think he was so traumatized. I don't think that happened.

[B]

He wasn't.

[A]

Well, not obviously that evening, but no, the next day.

[B]

But if you're in so much pain, you'd hope maybe he blamed her. And so.

[A]

Oh, resentful enough. Yeah, that's mad at her long enough for it to heal.

[D]

Yeah.

[F]

Oh my gosh. So the story's not over. Well, since the baby was still crying, I called my mother in law, who lives really close. She zoomed over and she took him to the burn unit, the only burn unit on our island, which was smart of her to do. And he went into the emergency room. I very naively thought that he'd be back the same day. I thought that they would put some basitracin on it, wrap it up in gauze and that he would come home. But that quickly became clear that that was not gonna happen. They admitted him to the hospital for two reasons. He had second degree burns, which are the most painful because you know, in the case of third degree burns, it actually, actually burns the nerve cells and kills the nerve cells and you don't feel it as much. Second degree burns is like, the burn is so bad, but you can still feel it. They hooked him up to an IV drip of fentanyl and morphine.

[A]

No boners now.

[F]

I was like, this guy's not going to be trying to come home anytime soon.

[A]

No, no, he's got, he's got a six week old baby at home. He's like, take your time, you know.

[F]

Secondly, they were scared of infection because it was so large that if not cleaned properly every single day, that could be a really bad infection. Go visit him at the hospital after one day, two days, three days, we've been together for like 15 years. There's no jealousy left in our relationship. But when you go and you're six weeks postpartum, your hormones are not balanced. He would be being sponge bathed by like two nurses who, look, they had just graduated from nursing school, so an.

[A]

Erection is in danger. You thought it was going to be easy.

[F]

You're right, I didn't see one. It was like day Five, day six. And he was finally healing enough where we thought that he could come home. But unfortunately he got addicted to the fentanyl and morphine drip.

[D]

Stop.

[B]

What?

[F]

He needed to slowly wean him off in order for them to feel like he could come home and not have.

[A]

Have withdrawals.

[B]

Holy shit. This is a disaster.

[F]

It was such a disaster. They would wean him off slowly and he was having full withdrawal syndromes. He was waking up in puddles of sweat. After about eight days, they finally discharged him and then he was able to come home like a $10,000 hospital bill. And that was the last time we ever used a French press.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Peace out, French press.

[B]

Oh, no.

[A]

Wow.

[B]

This was a full blown disaster.

[A]

Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. You know what's great is I'm glad you told the end of the story, because it's like when you tell me he got hooked up to the fentanyl and morphine, I'm like, that sounds nice. But then I'm reminded, like, oh, right. That detox, it ain't worth it.

[F]

He still had quite a bit of recovery, even when he moved or when.

[A]

He moved home when he returned from vacation.

[B]

Oh, my God.

[A]

But he didn't have to have a skin graft or anything. That's a blessing.

[F]

And honestly, it looked. Looks perfect now he made a full recovery. That was five years ago. Now we're about to have our third baby.

[A]

Oh, my gosh. You won't stop.

[B]

That's great.

[F]

Well, after this, we'll stop.

[A]

It's time for him to return to that hospital and get a little snip. Snip.

[B]

Well, no, we're gonna do a prompt about accidental vasectomies. So, like, just see what happened. This could have been an accidental vasectomy if it had gone up a little higher.

[A]

Yeah, whatever. They cut in my testicles.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Which is simple. They cut one thing.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

And then you're good.

[B]

You're vast. Defer in.

[A]

No, that's your whole. Okay. Or whatever. In theory, you could burn through that.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

You could cauterize it.

[A]

Is he a handsome man?

[F]

He's so gorgeous. Yes, he is.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

I have a hunch you guys are.

[A]

Such a pretty hot couple. Yeah, you're a hot. Well, they're a hot couple.

[B]

And a pretty couple.

[A]

Yes, And a pretty couple.

[B]

And a hot couple.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah.

[B]

Well, they're a hot coffee couple.

[A]

Hot coffee.

[B]

Well, this was fun.

[E]

Thank you.

[A]

For us and not him.

[F]

Oh, of course we survived. And don't ever make the mistakes we made.

[B]

Cautionary tale.

[F]

Oh, only we could sue McDonald's.

[E]

I know.

[B]

Get a couple mil.

[A]

Sure, that would help things out, especially that $10,000 bill. I'm still an advocate for the French press. I generally only get it when I'm at a hotel, but if they offer it, I like.

[E]

Wait.

[B]

When we were in India, remember, you ordered a French press like, eight times a day because the coffee. There's different types of coffee there. I guess, like, you just wanted a French press. So you would always call to the front and say, can I get a French press literally every 15 minutes?

[A]

Because I'm gonna be honest, the regular drip brew coffee was not choice. I don't know what the method, the methodology was different. Somehow it didn't taste the same for me. And you know what else happened? To defend myself. The first hotel we were at had a French press.

[B]

I know.

[F]

And then it just.

[A]

I was like, oh, this is probably the Indian way. Makes sense. I think the French press is English. I don't know. You probably got stuck with that.

[B]

It sounds French.

[A]

Of course it's not English. It'd be called an English press.

[B]

Ex Britpress.

[A]

Boy, I really enjoyed talking to you, Emma. This was fun.

[F]

Oh, this was so fun. Thank you so much for talking to me today. My due date is in a few days, so I'm glad I didn't go into labor, and then I couldn't tell you the story.

[A]

Wait, is it inappropriate for me to ask you to stand up because you do not look pregnant? Do you have a big belly? Honey? Let me see here. Okay, there it is.

[B]

Well, wishing you a very easy labor.

[F]

I just want to thank you for doing what you guys do. I think you're changing lives with your vulnerability and how much you share and how much you just keep it real.

[A]

Thank you, Emma.

[B]

Have a good rest of your day.

[A]

All right, take care. Bye.

[F]

Bye.

[E]

Hi.

[A]

Hello. You have my favorite shirt on.

[B]

Really great stay. Sean.

[A]

Jen, where are you?

[E]

I'm in the Bay area. I'm like, 25 minutes outside of San Francisco, but I grew up in Burbanks.

[B]

Oh, down the street.

[A]

How did you end up up there?

[E]

I moved up here for college and had every intention of going back to la and then got a job and met my husband, and I was like, I guess I'm staying. So here we are 22 years later.

[B]

Did you go to Don Cuco's? Girl, you know I love Don Cuco's. I want it right now. What's Don Cuco's Mexican restaurant in Burbank.

[A]

Oh, in Burbank.

[D]

Burbank.

[E]

So good. I think there's like another location now. But they used to have this like, really good bean dip. Monica, did you ever have it?

[B]

No.

[A]

I know exactly what you guys are talking about. It's right by Bob's.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

Yes.

[F]

Yeah.

[E]

I don't think they have it anymore. We were in LA last year and went there to get it because I like, hyped it up to my kids. They didn't have it.

[A]

Oh, no.

[B]

Sad.

[A]

What line of work are you in up there? Is it tech related?

[E]

I am a dance teacher and a dancer. I run a program and have a small dancer company.

[B]

Amazing.

[A]

Okay, so you have a cooking disaster story.

[E]

I have several, but this is the one I chose because it's the gnarliest and I had photos to back it up. So I am a little bit of a. In the kitchen counterintuitive.

[A]

Because you're a dancer, I would think. Great balance and agility on stage.

[E]

In the studio. No problems in the real world. In life, not so much.

[A]

Have you thought about hanging a dance bar in your kitchen? That might round you well.

[E]

During the pandemic, when I was teaching online, my countertop was my dance bar and the side of my couch. So we've made it all lessons here. So yeah, it happens May 5th. So Cinco de Mayo, 2020. So it happened in this house downstairs. It was the beginning of COVID No masks, no vaccines. I think California as a whole was maybe still on lockdown. Like, nobody knew what the was going on. So I was like, let me be the cool mom, which I'm not. Not and have like a big Cinco de Mayo dinner. I was gonna make tostadas and do all the things.

[B]

Have fun, Don Cuco.

[E]

I just should have been like, you know what? Forget it. We're ordering pizza, but I'm in the kitchen, everything's fine. My husband and I are in there and I don't even know how it happened. I pick up a bowl that had corn in it to like move it to the other counter so I could do stuff. And in the blink of an eye, the bowl goes flying up in the air, comes down, smacks. Our counter shatters. So there's like glass everywhere. There's corn everywhere. Where? Two seconds later, I look and there's blood everywhere. But I'm not registering that it's my blood. And I'm totally in shock.

[A]

You're like, oh, this corn was full of blood.

[E]

I look and in my wrist is a beer arrowhead shaped piece of the bowl. Picking straight up.

[B]

Oh, my God.

[A]

A shard.

[E]

I'm in shock. My husband's like, oh, fuck. And I don't even think. I just yank it out.

[A]

Oh, not good.

[B]

You're not supposed to do that. I don't think you're not.

[E]

It was all right already bleeding. And then it was like, bleeding, no.

[A]

Would we use the verb spurting?

[B]

Yeah, she's doing a spurting move.

[E]

It was like down the counter, on my clothes, on the floor. So I pull it out, the pain starts to set in and my husband like, grabs my arm, puts it under the faucet. And there's other, like pieces of bowl in my wrist. So we're like rinsing it out. I'm screaming at this point. I think I said every expletive there is. My almost 6 year old comes in. He starts hysterically crying because I'm crying. Then my 10 year old comes like, everybody's crying and screaming and yelling. And the dog's trying to like, eat corn in a bowl.

[A]

Glassy corn.

[F]

Yeah.

[E]

He's rinsing out my wrist. Finally get it sort of cleared. And you guys, you could see my tendon.

[B]

No, we have a picture of it.

[A]

I can't wait to see her tendon.

[E]

So I don't have a picture of that one. But the pictures I did send in are still gross. So, Monica, buckle up. But I didn't think to take a picture then because I was just like, oh, shit. So we see the tendon and I'm like, this is fine. Everything's fine. We're going to be fine. So my husband's getting like every rag, bandage. I'm bleeding through everything. And he's like, you need to go to the hospital. I was like, no, I'm fine. You know, it's Covid. You can't even just walk into the doctors or the urgent care. I don't want to bring my kids. I can't drive myself. And we went back and forth for like 20 minutes. I'm losing all this blood. We've gone through our whole emergency kit with like all the gauze, Everything, everything. And so he's like, no, you need to go. So I call my friend, thinking she's going to be on my side and be like, girl, you're fine. Stay home. And I was like, here's what happened. She's like, you're an idiot. I'm coming to pick you up. Like, okay. So she pulled up now, you guys. We had no mask, nothing. I hadn't seen her. We put on safety goggles from her wood shop. Painter's mask, bandanas. I think she had, like, gardening gloves on. And I had cafeteria lunch lady plastic gloves on because it's all I could get over the bandages. I had to call urgent care first and be like, can I come in? What's the protocol? I come in and I'm like, bleeding everywhere. And they're like, here, let me take your temperature. Here, change your mask. Here, stand outside. I'm like, can I get some fucking stitches, please?

[G]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[E]

Finally, I get in to see the doctor, and it was still wrapped, so she hadn't seen it yet. But she asked me what happened, and she's like, oh, this is the fifth kitchen accident I've seen this week.

[B]

Oh, Covid, people are cooking.

[E]

She comes over and takes it all off, and it starts gushing blood. Her face said everything. And she's like, okay, it's really deep. I'm not sure I'm going to be able to close this. You might have to go to the hospital. And I was like, no, we got to figure this out. She goes, well, you were less than a quarter inch from nicking your artery. So she tries to stitch me up, but it was so deep that the stitches just wouldn't work. So she finally gets, I don't know, some, like, heavy duty stitches. Gets in, him in, finally stitches it up. And she's like, okay, you have to keep your arm like this for basically the next three days. So I have to sleep with my arm like this. I can't lift my kids. I can't do anything. It's just excruciating pain. I'm bleeding through bandages for days.

[A]

Wow.

[E]

So she's like, come back in two weeks. It'll be fine.

[A]

Two weeks.

[B]

I know, I know.

[A]

Either you'll be alive or dead.

[D]

Yeah. Yeah.

[E]

So I come back, and I, like, knew something was up, it was hurting.

[C]

Oh.

[E]

And she's like, okay, it's not close, and it's maybe getting infected, but I can't take the stitches out. Cleans it up, wraps me back up. And then she's like, you need to go see an orthopedic wrist surgeon. I go to the orthopedist, and he's like, we need to operate today.

[B]

Oh, my God, no.

[E]

And so we go back and forth, and I'm like, I'll call you tomorrow. If I want to have surgery, I leave. I ultimately don't end up having surgery. I have friends who are a PT and an OT and the OT specializes in hand. So he was helping me rehab it, but I had to wait another Couple weeks to come back to get the stitches out. At this point, they've been in longer than they should have. I think they were in for five weeks total or something. I go in somehow. I didn't even know this was medically possible. My skin had grown over the stitches.

[A]

Oh, sure, yeah, yeah.

[E]

And my skin turned to, like, cement. It was the weirdest growing, grossest thing. There's a picture of him. So she's like, okay, I have to cut him out. We gotta take him out. It was excruciating because the stitches at that point, they were like sticks. So they just kept snapping every time she was cutting them. It's not even fully closed, but she's like, you can't keep these in. She finally gets them all out and she said, I don't think you're gonna get a hundred percent mobility and strength back. I was like, great, okay, bam. Fantastic. So go home. It's healing. I'm doing the rehab exercises and it took probably another three months for the pain to go away and be able to, like, close my hand. I've never gotten 100% strength or mobility back.

[D]

Wow.

[A]

No.

[E]

The scar, which is pretty small, you can't even like see it anymore, but the area around it is like numb and tingly at the same time. I screwed up all the nerves in there. It was really bad. And that was my kitchen disaster.

[A]

Oh, my God. Okay, so now we're gonna look at the photos.

[B]

Oh, ew, ew, ew, ew.

[A]

Well, that one looks like a smiley.

[B]

Face, but it's still really.

[D]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

Here's you guys in your ridiculous outfits. You definitely look like you're on your way to paint a house.

[B]

The wrist, for some reason, really makes me feel really, like, heebjeebs.

[D]

Heebies.

[E]

It was very traumatic for my children and I'm careful in the kitchen, but I've had like five other accidents since.

[A]

I'm ask a crazy follow up question question. Were you on your period when I did it? Yeah. I don't know because my wife claims when she's on her period, she has something called energy hands. And it's things just fly up into the sky. Like you're describing, like this bowl was in your hands and then just took flight.

[E]

It's a possibility.

[A]

Do you have any period clumsiness?

[B]

I think I do have some pms. There's a franticness that kind of starts like a manic off kilter. Yeah, you're a little just off kilter.

[E]

I'd like to blame it on that and not my but maybe you just.

[B]

Had oil on the corn, olive oil. And some of the olive oil got on the bowl.

[E]

You know, my husband was in there, so I think I'm just gonna blame it on him and be like, this was your fault.

[B]

He knocked you out.

[A]

He must have tripped you a little bit.

[E]

Yeah, it was crazy. Enjoy those photos. Sorry that they're pretty gnarly since we.

[A]

Started doing this, which I don't know how many years we've been doing Armchair Anonymous, but we have seen some photos. We have quadrupled the amount of insane photos I had seen prior in the 45 years before.

[D]

It's true.

[F]

Yeah.

[E]

I've listened to every episode, so I can only imagine. I was re traumatized by the rat in the water bottle thing last week. I was like, oh, my God, you guys.

[B]

We were just talking about the rat. The rat got gendered.

[A]

It's really gendered. And my anecdotal feedback, how gross out they get. Yeah, like women are really freaked a. I do think women carry water bottles more than men.

[B]

I think that's why.

[A]

And then maybe women are afraid of mice more than men. I don't know.

[B]

No, it's not about being afraid. It's about drinking a dead rat.

[A]

No, no problem.

[B]

I remember how you were behaving during the episode. You were creeped.

[A]

Rob, roll the tape.

[B]

Roll the tape.

[E]

I didn't even see photos and just a visual in my head was bad enough.

[A]

You've not had a stress free sip of water since that episode.

[B]

And I didn't even like water to begin with.

[A]

Well, Jen, thank you for that tasty story.

[B]

Yeah, that was great.

[E]

My pleasure. My husband and I have been listening forever to every show, every offshoot, every everything. And I just really appreciate the conversations and the honesty and the vulnerability around addiction. Next month, my husband will be 10 years sober.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Congratulations to everyone.

[E]

We've been together for almost 20 years now. And the last 10 obviously have been a lot of work and he's done a lot of work, but I just feel like him hearing some things from you, Dax, and things that you've shared. You guys have very similar journeys and experiences. And I've listened to Dex a handful of times and having the perspective of Monica. When you love an addict, it's really lonely and it's really scary and you want to protect the person so you don't really share a lot, or at least I didn't with a lot of people. And so having that episode in particular and just for years, you guys talking about it has been more Impactful than you know on both me and my husband. And I think it's advertising that his 10 year anniversary is in a few weeks and I get to talk to you.

[B]

Oh, that's so neat.

[A]

Well, please tell him congrats from me. That's so mega, man. 10 years is impossible.

[E]

He's really mad that he can't be here. He is in San Diego for a work trip, but he told me to say hi.

[A]

What's his name?

[E]

His name is Justin.

[A]

Oh, that's my favorite name. Have you ever heard me say that?

[E]

Yes, I have.

[A]

My cousin Justin, who lives in the East Bay as well, who's the coolest dude I ever knew growing up.

[B]

Maybe that's her husband.

[A]

Oh, my God. Are you married to my cousin, Justin LeBeau? You do not look like Leigh Ann today.

[F]

No.

[E]

We're constantly annoying our kids. One of us will say, hey, y', all, from, like, across the house.

[B]

Oh, that's so cute.

[E]

My kids are gonna flip out when they hear this because I didn't tell them I was doing this.

[A]

What's their names? Let me shout them out.

[E]

So my daughter is Stella and my son is Beckett.

[A]

Beckett, great name. Stella and Beckett. Shout out solid guys. Raise as much hell as you can. That's my advice.

[E]

And they are. Don't worry.

[A]

All right, well, take care. Jen, wonderful meeting you.

[E]

Thank you.

[F]

You, too.

[E]

Have a good day, you guys.

[A]

Do you recall my brother's story? It was very similar to this one. We were out in the middle of fucking nowhere when my mom and dad were still married. So my brother couldn't have been more than eight because we left there when he was eight, all Coke and Pepsi was in these 16.9 ounce glass bottles. And they came in an eight pack.

[E]

Okay.

[A]

And my mom was, like, unloading the car, going back and forth from the driveway to the house. And unbeknownst to her, David had decided to help. And he had grabbed one of those eight packs of soda and he dropped it on the floor. And when she came in the house, he was lying on his back. And she said the blood had spurted and hit the ceiling. My brother cut his artery as a little boy.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

And we're in the middle of fucking nowhere. And she said the blood shot all the way up to the ceiling. And so she or my dad tourniqueted it with a dish rag. And then my dad drove 6,000 miles an hour to get to the hospital. And obviously he's alive, but he's always there.

[D]

Oh, my God.

[C]

God.

[A]

Even if next time you see him. He has a crazy gnarly scar right across his artery. It looks for sure his whole life.

[E]

People assume, yeah, it's hard.

[A]

It's a rough scar to have.

[B]

The wrist is tough. It's really.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Ooh.

[F]

Ooh.

[B]

Well, happy cooking, everyone. Be careful out there.

[A]

Be careful in the kitchen.

[B]

I've had a lot of knife injuries.

[A]

Yes, you have.

[B]

That are really, really, really, really, really bad.

[A]

Very bad. And everyone needs to come over.

[E]

All right.

[A]

Love you. Do you want to sing a tune or something?

[F]

We have a theme song.

[A]

Oh, okay, great. We don't have a song for this new show, so here I go, go, go. We're gonna ask some random questions, and with the help of. I'm Jerry Will get some suggestions on the fire rhyme dish. On the fire rhyme dish.

[D]

Enjoy.