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Welcome to the Carpool Podcast with Kelly.
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I get citing your source, but to have to do it in, like, a certain format, the amount of headspace MLA formatting took up for me in grade school, that could have been filled with other things.
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A
And, Liz, do you have this kind of suit? And he's like, why? I'm like, well, your sister's wedding's in July. And he's like, you're already thinking about what we're wearing to her wedding in July? And I'm like, yeah, I should have been thinking about this two months ago. Your mom. Time off.
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B
Stop. Starts now. Welcome back to the Carpool Podcast with Kelly and Liz. Hey, Liz.
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Hi, Cal. How are you?
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B
I'm doing good. I'm doing good. We have kind of. Liz and I are headed to a funeral today.
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A
Yeah.
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B
Which is an interesting vibe. It's our great aunt and her and her husband. How long do you think they were married for? I guess we'll find out. They're both in their 90s, like, mid-90s.
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I think she was. I think she was 92 and he's 95.
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B
And our great aunt died this past week. And so it was our. It was our grandpa's brother.
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Brother's wife. Sister in law. Yeah, our grandpa's sister in law.
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Our grandpa's sister in law. And it is just truthfully a celebration of life.
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A
It's. They won the. They won the lottery. You know, they both lived into their 90s. They had seven kids. You know, I lived a happy, like, healthy life. It's just. You really can't ask for much more.
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B
I know. It's just so beautiful. But it's also the same feeling of, like, no matter how long it is, like, it still never feels like enough time, you know? And now I'm just, like, obviously really sad for our uncle. But again, it's like, you know, you. I think there's just, like, a level of, like, you know, how blessed you are, because. I don't know. I didn't mean to, like, start this episode off on that note, but it's just been, like, kind of on my mind. It's just. It's a weird feeling because, like, all day I've been like, oh, no. Like, I can't do that. Like, I have to reschedule. I have a funeral. And they're like, oh, my gosh, I'm so sorry. And it's like, it's okay.
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Yeah.
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B
Like, it's okay.
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A
Yeah. But you can. Yeah, yeah. You.
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You.
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You can be sad because you, like, miss them, but yeah, it's like, you know, you weren't ro. She wasn't robbed of any life. Like she was given more than most people ever get. So yeah, it's just like a celebration. And I am, you know, we've got some family coming in town for it. So like I am ex. I am kind of excited to like see everyone and talk and just like you said, celebrate. So that's what we're doing today. But before we do that, we do have a podcast to record because at the time that you are hearing this podcast, I am jet setting.
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B
Elizabeth is jetting and setting.
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A
Yeah, we're in our first vacation, our first family vacations. Literally. Since our honeymoon, Maddie has for the last two years has been getting his mba, which required him to be gone one weekend a month and also does marine things. So that requires him to be gone one weekend a month. So anytime we would plan our family vacations, like our sun trip family vacations, Maddie wouldn't be there. And the question was like, where's Maddie? And the question's always, where's Maddie? He's never, he was. The vacations. He's not coming up on our upcoming one that we have in August. He'll. He'll be doing marine things, but he's here now. He take a. He took a week off work. He's had a very stressful last two years. And we are going to Arizona.
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B
It's so fun. I mean, it's. We're ships in the night because like we went to Arizona and you guys weren't there. We couldn't have had worse weather. You guys are going to Arizona. You're going to have amazing weather. It's going to be hot though. I'm happy that it's just your little family because I think that's fun. I'm sad that we're not all going together, but I know like, I come with some major baggage, which is four kids. You do totally get.
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No, like it's. It's me and Maddie, mom and dad, the kids. Like it's four adults to two kids. Well, three adults to two kids. I don't really count my dad.
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It is.
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It'S gonna be, it's gonna be an actual vacation. So the flight, I'm a little bit nervous for a three hour flight with a two year old who's in the midst of throwing T, which. Whoa, that came out of left field. No one prepares you for the terrible twos. They just like come one day.
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B
Everyone prepares you, but you don't know.
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A
You don't know you don't know when it's gonna come.
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B
So here's my advice, and I'm really, like, leaning into my wise mom years because, like, I have done this now four times, and I just think I sometimes forget that. Like, sometimes I'm still.
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A
Well, you've done it. You've. Fred's. Okay, I guess Fred's out of them. You've done it three times.
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B
Okay, well, Ring pops. You needed to get a ring. Some Ring Pops.
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A
Okay.
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B
They'll solve anything.
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A
Okay.
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B
Ring Pops and fruit snacks.
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A
I wonder if I can Amazon a pack, a bulk pack before our trip.
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B
I don't think. I don't think you need a bulk pack. I think, like, three. I mean, because they're not to be used unless an emergency. It's a toddler binky, though.
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A
Okay, but what's an emergency?
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B
He's screaming on the plane.
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A
Yeah.
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An emergency is not like, he's being sassy at dinner. And, like, someone has to walk him around. They'll, like, go out there and walk him around. It's like.
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No, like, he needs an emergency.
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B
It's. I'm telling you, it's a toddler binky. I don't travel without ring pops. Okay, I have just found it is the best thing. It's. It's. And, like, even for Georgia, like, it's the shape, it's the size, it's the color, it's the taste. Like, it's an iconic pop. So it's just.
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A
Kel, that's what we call tangible takeaway, and I love a tangible takeaway.
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B
No, you weren't gonna tell. I wasn't gonna give you some, like, stupid advice. Like, just remember, only focus on you. Like, screw everyone else.
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No, bring your Focus on his deep breaths.
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Like, like, validate his feelings. No, bring a Ring Pop. I'm telling you, Ring Pops will solve your problems.
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A
Okay, that's really good to know.
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B
Yeah.
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A
No, the crazy thing about tantrums, though, is that he'll, like, start throwing one, and then I feel like I have to solve it. And I'm. I'm realizing for the first time that it's like, oh, you just have to. The wave. And that's. That's scary. And it is scary for an upcoming trip. But I guess that's where the ring pop will come in handy. But sometimes you just gotta. Gotta ride it out.
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B
No, you do have to write it out. And there's. I think what's hard about being a parent in today's day and age is there's so much advice that gets thrown at you. Like, other people just didn't get the amount of advice that we get that then we have to sort through. And I obviously, I see like a lot of content on reels about, like, you know, parenting advice, especially for like, toddlers and kids now. And the way I would be so nervous to ever, like, actually give parenting advice on social media because everyone has such an opinion on things and they go from, this is so helpful to your. The comments go from, this is so helpful to your horrible mom so quickly.
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A
Yeah.
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B
Like, how can two people be living in like, separate realities? It's just, it's crazy. So I know people are probably gonna think like, the ring pop is not the answer, but I'm telling you it is. But I saw a reel that I thought was like, I'm totally gonna start applying that to my life. And I looked at the comments and the comments were horrible. I can't believe you would ever do that to a child. Do you want to hear what it was?
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A
Yeah.
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This mom had like, kids probably like George and Hattie's age. Maybe they were a little younger and maybe that was what the hubbubaloo was about. But when her kids would be out somewhere and be like, hey, like, I need some water, or, oh, I want a snack, or, oh, did you bring me this? Or let's, let's, let's let me back up. If the kids would be like, hey, I want a snack. Then I'd be like, oh, did you pack one? Like, no. Oh, okay. Well, next time pack a snack. Or it's like, okay, I packed in this one. But you know, next time you pack one, everyone's like, you're gonna give your child anxiety because they think they need to be responsible for everything. It's like, or we were at the grocery store, it's a 45 minute errand and they want a snack and they didn't pack one, so we're not having a snack. Like, it's just kind of, it kind of puts a little bit of responsibility on the kid.
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A
Yeah.
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In a healthy boundary setting kind of way. I don't know. I liked the tip. But. But.
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Well, I also think it totally depends on where you're at in life too, because like, for me, with my age of kids, I can't ever imagine that happening because I can't see past right now. Now you have George and Hattie, who are older and who conceivably can think that far in advance and pack, snack and do that and would probably enjoy, you know, a little bit of responsibility in that sense, I can't imagine that. So I can see how people in the comments are like, who just have like a three year old are like, how could you do that? But yeah, I don't know. I think everyone's, I think everyone's different. I think every kid's different. And I think that if your kids are ready for a responsibility like that, and I actually think Hattie would really enjoy packing a lunchbox full of snacks for a 45 minute errand trip.
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Yeah, I think it's good for him.
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A
Yeah, I think so too. I like, God forbid you teach your kids responsibility.
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B
I know people don't like that. Yeah. So anyway, I just bring that up to say, like, I can't believe how I, I sympathize with any like, accounts who specialize in parenting because people also can't seem to think like, outside of like, context. Like, no one can. Again, it's centering themselves. So, like, obviously I'm not talking about you who have like three kids and your kid has like anxiety about snacks. Like, yeah, don't do that to them. My kids, George and Hattie, they could handle it.
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Yeah.
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And they will handle it. And they will pack snacks or, or they might be like a little hungry.
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A
Ah, yeah, yeah. That's also a good life lesson.
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B
Anyway, anyway, not here nor there, but.
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Anyway, you're jet setting, I'm jet setting, I'm gone, I'm out of here.
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B
I'm like looking at like a week. And I know I could like totally do most of my job, no offense, without you, but the way that it feels like a half vacation because you're not going to be here, Kel.
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Like the way that when you're gone, it actually is kind of a vacation for me because I do actually need you to work. Like, you have no excuse. Like maybe you can't get a tour.
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B
Done, you know, don't sell yourself short, Elizabeth. You know you're very valuable.
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A
No, I know. No, I know that I am. Specifically to you. I know I'm indispensable when it comes to your emotional support because you can't do anything without me.
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B
Well, we're kind of having a big week too, because tomorrow is George's birthday. He is turning 6, which I feel ready for. I'll probably cry tonight. I always think it's like, it's not a big deal. I'm excited for six. And the night before their birthdays, I always start, I always cry every night before my kid's birthday. And I'm setting up the house today a Little bit. Because one big tradition that we started a couple years ago, which I love, everyone take this, is I print off 8 by tens, like 5, 8 by tens of the kids. And I print off like a new one every year. And I hang them up all over the kitchen like for the week of their birthday. I sold for my sister in law. But it's just like really fun. The kids love seeing them at all these different ages. And then like I have the pictures that are so special to me and like the pictures that are silly and like, of course, like you wouldn't put in a frame maybe, but like for one week a year I have them out and they're hanging on my kitchen. And it's just like such.
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A
It's fun to take the trip down memory lane for the kids too. Do you remember the most. One of the most fun things we used to do when we got our school pictures?
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Yeah. So the changing of the guard.
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A
The changing of the guard. So whenever we would get our new school pictures, we had our school pictures all, all hung up in our house growing up. And what our parents did is they had one frame and they would just replace the picture. So they had all of the pictures. They wouldn't replace it, they would just stack it on top of it. So they had every single school picture hidden in these frames. I don't know how they all fit. And so what we would do is we would like all sit around the kitchen table and we'd like start with Kelly and we would go through from Kelly's kindergarten, first grade, second grade, and we would just go through it and it was hilarious every time. And it never got old because you only did it once a year.
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B
I know.
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A
And you somehow like forgot what was coming.
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B
I know.
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A
And it was so, so much fun to see how you change throughout the years. Yeah. And that feels very similar to the changing of the guard.
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B
It is. I know. I mean, I might do that with school pictures. We don't really like have school pictures yet, so we'll see. But I also think this is almost like a more fun version of that because it's just, it's the pictures that I love are the pictures like, of their personality at the time. So anyway, I'm hanging those up in the kitchen today. And then George has a birthday party in like a week and a half or two weeks. But I. We're obviously celebrating like just with our family tomorrow. And I asked George what he wanted for dinner.
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A
He said, he said chichi pie.
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B
Pie.
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A
Wow.
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Which I've always said I If you guys don't know, I have a really great chicken pot pie recipe. Like, I'm very. I'm very proud of it. And I have just decided that, like, chichi pai pie is my. And George calls it chichi pai pie. So now our whole family does. Chicken pot pie is my specialty. And, like, it's such a comfort classic. And I love it because it's. You can feed it to kids of all ages, so you can feed it to babies. Like, you can cut it up small for babies. It's still good for adults. It's got vegetables. It's warm. Like, whenever I'm feeling like a bad mom or like, you know, if we've had, like, one too many ring pops that week, I reset by making a chichi pie pie. Because everyone eats it.
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Makes great leftovers too. You're not really in your leftover stage, but I still am. Makes great leftovers.
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B
And I always tell Tyler, like, when our kids come back from college, I. And I'm like, okay, you're coming home. Like, what do you want me to make? I want them to say chicken pot pie because, like, I just want to have that feeling. So when I asked George and I thought he was gonna say, like, George loves chick fil A. So I thought he was gonna say chick fil a when he said Gigi Pie. Pie.
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Cry.
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My heart, my heart. So I'll be. And I'm gonna do it upright. I'm gonna get the sage. I'm gonna get the time. I'm gonna do the fresh time. Like, I'm gonna make this six year old, the most amazing chichi PI piece in the world tomorrow. And that's my love language.
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A
That's. It is your love language. You love preparing a meal for someone.
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B
I specifically a gigi pie by, like, you have a baby, you're getting a TG pie by. It is the best meal. It's. It's the best meal.
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A
It's also a meal that you can either do it up with, like, all the fresh ingredients or you can literally make it with everything out of a can. Huh. It just really depends on how much headspace and effort you're. You're wanting to put in that day.
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B
So my big goal for the week because people always ask me for my recipe, and I feel like it's such a gray area because I will be honest. I've taken. So I've definitely adapted the recipe, but the original recipe is from Half Baked Harvest Cookbook. But, like, she doesn't have the recipe on her blog. So it's like a cookbook specialty one. So then I feel bad like sharing a screenshot of the recipe. But I do feel like I've changed the recipe enough because she does hers with broccoli and like you won't catch me putting broccoli in a chichi pie pie. That's insane. So I do almost feel like mine's different enough where maybe I could like rewrite it and share it. But is that plagiarism? I don't know. There recipes feel like such a gray area because there's only, I mean there's, there's how many different ways to do a chichi pie pie. Like it's, you know.
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Right. No, I, I would say honestly this might not be the right answer but you get. You gave her credit. You said it was a half baked harvest cookbook. You said it's different. You said that's where it was adapted from. This is how I make it now I feel like you've, you've, you've cited your sources.
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B
I've cited my source. What it used to be called in grade school when you have decided. MLA format.
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A
MLA format.
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B
I'm sorry, what a worthless thing to put into my head. Why can't I'll include a link to the website.
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A
Yeah.
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Or like just. I mean I get citing your source but to have to do it in like a certain format. The amount of headspace MLA formatting took up for me in grade school, that could have been filled with other things.
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A
Huh. That's something like taxes.
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That's what I'm saying.
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Like how to fold a fitted sheet. I learned no tangible skills in school. So anyway, what a crock.
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B
Big birthday for George. And then of course we have a couple of. I think I told you had a couple of presents. He's getting the snake hook. It's very excited. And then we're all going to go around and say one word about George. So I've been thinking about my world's gonna be.
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A
Well I wanted to do give a. A little adaptation and you actually might enjoy. This is what my sister in law does on her kids birthdays. So we love a word. Everyone pick a word that describes the birthday person. What she does is she decorates their door and she cuts out like circles or stars or something. And then everyone writes their word on this construction paper, this big construction paper and they put it on their door so it'll be like George, adventurous, intelligent, like whatever. And everyone gets to pick the words which is cute.
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I'm.
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I'll probably, I'LL probably adopt that, especially when they're, when they're young as a kind of incorporating this, how we do words.
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B
That is really cute. I like that idea also.
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A
I just want to say I, when James turned one I was like on my stories being like what? I need to start a tradition right now for my son's birthdays. Like what am I going to do on everyone's birthday? Everyone send me your traditions. And they're, they were good ideas but honestly just like not worth my time to do as a one year old. And I just want to say if you have young babies, if you have a one year old, you don't need to start your tradition right now. You can start it in a few years and they will still say every year on my birthday my mom did this. And you don't literally have to do it on their, you don't have to fill their birthday, their room with balloons on their first birthday.
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B
No, Elizabeth, such a profound statement. And I want to come back to birthday traditions. But before I do that, I want to go off of what you just said because busy toddler has such an incredible mindset shift around traditions. And instead of saying every year we do this, you say yeah, some years we do this. Like it's still a tradition if you only do it some years like and that can be around birthdays, around the holidays. Like if every Christmas you go to see Santa on, at the mall on the third Sunday and it just like doesn't happen one year, the tradition is not lost. Yeah, some years we do that, you know.
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Yeah.
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B
So that feels good. Another tradition that my sister in law also does that I want to steal, I just need to get around to doing it is she went to the craft store, got a ton of ribbon and then tied a bunch of ribbons like to a string and just has the birthday banner and like similar thing. Like it's just a visual. Like when it's your birthday she hangs it above your door. It's the same banner for all the kids. It's like it's their birthday banner. Here's what you do. You don't have to blow up balloons or anything. That's all. There is another girl I follow. Who is it? I don't remember who it is. So I'm so sorry I cannot be MLA sighting you right now. But they have a tablecloth and every day on every birthday they bring out the tablecloth and then every year you add a handprint to the birthday tablecloth. Yeah, I'm not gonna do that. But I'm probably gonna make the birthday banner eventually. We hang the pictures. We have the birthday chair, which is like where the presents go. We do the word and I make you a dinner.
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A
That sounds like a lot.
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B
That's a lot. I've got four kids. That's plenty.
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A
Yeah, that's. That's more than enough. Love it. Okay, well, we have an episode we actually have to get to, which I guess we're already in. I didn't know we were going to go on all of these tangents, but today I was thinking we could like revisit last three transactions. Feels like it's been a minute. Feels like I've been transacting.
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B
I've been transacting. I also like, I have my site set on like Memorial Day sale, so I'd like to share, like what I'm hoping to buy on Memorial Day.
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A
Oh, I would love to hear that.
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B
Yeah, no, it's really interesting and I'm happy to do last three. Can I. I have something just quick on my dump. I don't know where else to put it in this episode, so I'd like to get it out now.
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A
Oh, yes, of course.
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B
It's a piece of marriage advice that my mother in law gave me this past weekend.
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A
Give it to me. What does Barb have to say?
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B
Oh, my gosh. And it's also, it's so fun to get marriage advice from your mother in law because she very much. She's married to obviously like a version of my husband and she raised my husband. So, like it's. I actually really do take what she says to heart because I'm like, that's actually probably like, that's an excellent idea. And she never, she doesn't do it in like a condescending way, obviously, but she told me, like, for example, there's a closet in our house that needs a new bar hung. And it's always, it's angel questions as a wife. It's like, how do you ask without nagging? You know? And Barb. And so I was. Barb was telling me, she's like. And Barbara was even like, yeah, I told Tyler to hang that bar in that closet so you can hang Libby's clothes up there. And I'm like, I know, I've been getting on him. And she's like, you know what I do with Kevin, who's Tyler's dad? I was like, what, Barb? She goes, well, he likes a list. So if I tell him it's nagging, if I write it down on a list and say, hey, when you get to it. Like, here's, like, just a couple of things I need done. He loves the list. And I know if I write down, like, three things that I would, like, tell her to do on a list and just, like, leave it on the kitchen table, he will enjoys crushing it off.
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A
Okay, that's a good advice.
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B
I thought it was a very tangible takeaway. I could see how. I could see how. Don't center yourself, because if your husband doesn't, like, listen, don't do it. But I've just never thought about taking it from the medium of voice to paper.
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A
And I just think that it's the question of what avenue will your husband respond to. And maybe it's lists, maybe it's not. Maybe it's something else.
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B
But I can tell you I've asked him a couple times to hang up the bar and the closet, and he. It's. He can't seem to remember or just.
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A
They forget.
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B
Can't find the motivation. Yeah. But I'm going to write it down, and I'm going to give everyone an update.
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A
Tyler likes. I.
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B
No, I'm telling.
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A
Tyler likes a list.
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B
Tyler likes a list.
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A
Yeah, yeah. Now, do you put harder things on there as well, so that's the first thing he does, or do you put easier ones on there?
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B
That is. See, that's the list strategy, I think. Here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna be really strategic about this. I'm gonna put one thing on the list that I know he's already done that. I've been asking him to do that. Like, I just haven't realized, like, for example, like, he needs to call the trash company about, like, something with our bins. And I heard him on the phone today with. With the trash company. Okay, so I'm gonna start call trash company, hang bar, and closet. And then I think I'm gonna shoot for the stars on, like, another one.
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Just, like, see what you can get.
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And just, like, see what I can get.
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A
Make it, like, a little. Make it like something you want, but maybe it's, like, a little bit harder than the bar. So at the very least, if you don't get it all done, you get the bar done.
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B
No, that's what I'm saying. So I think he's gonna feel good about, like, call the trash company. I did Cardi. Call the trash company hang bar. He's like, okay, I can do that really quick. And then the third one, I. I feel he. I feel. I fear he will ignore, but maybe he won't. And Maybe the list will solve all my problems. Wow. What should. I gotta think about what my third one should be. What do I want done around the house on landscaping, but I don't think that's gonna happen.
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A
That's a big one. That's too big. You need to, like, separate. Separate out the landscaping.
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B
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Anyway.
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A
Yeah, you have to think about that.
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B
I'll figure it out.
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A
I like that. I like that advice. I just like the idea of. I mean, they just really. Sometimes men just really don't remember things.
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B
Yeah.
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A
And I. I totally get that because it's like, I'm always thinking about it, and it's like, it's crazy being a woman, and it's crazy that women marry men more often than not, because it's like, we're so different. It's like, how do we. How do we. Like, how do we have anything in common? I'll be like, hey, do you have this kind of suit? And he's like, why? I'm like, well, your sister's weddings in July. And he's like, you're already thinking about what we're wearing to her wedding in July? And I'm like, yeah, I should have been thinking about this two months ago.
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B
I know. Elizabeth.
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A
Like. Or he'll be like, what are you. Are you okay? What are you thinking about?
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B
And then they're like.
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A
And I'm like, yeah.
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B
Like, chill out.
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A
It's like, yeah, are you kidding me? It's like, what? Are you okay? What are you thinking about? And I'm like, yeah, I'm just thinking about how I'm going to transfer breast milk in on the airplane. Like, that's what I'm thinking about. Like, I'm not mad, you know, I'm just. I'm just deep in thought. And I'm also, like, doing something while that's happening. Like, it's crazy anyway, so I'm.
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B
I'm the same way. And I think maybe. Maybe this is where. Maybe this is just us. But I'm. I'm always. I think this is just me being a mom. I'm always trying to plan, and I'm always into my fault. Tyler's credit. I definitely overthink situations.
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A
Oh, me too.
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B
And we were going to the lake this past weekend, and I was talking to Tyler, and I'm like, okay, well, you know, these people want to meet up with us. Like, when are we going here? Like, what time do you want to have dinner? Like, I'm asking him what time he wants to have people over for dinner five days from now.
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A
Yeah.
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B
And he's like, kelly, please, please, please, please just let me be in charge of the weekend. If anyone has, you know, if our friends want to get together, tell them to text me. If my mom asked what time we're eating, tell her to ask me. He's like, please, just try it this weekend. And I was like, okay, okay. So we get there. No, no. I had to cook the meal, so I had to, like, be a little bit. But, like, tell her sister, be like, hey, what time we're eating? I'm like, I don't know. Ask Tyler. And it was incredibly relaxing. And Tyler even complimented me. He's like, I'm really proud of you for just going with it and just letting me kind of like, just, like, plan the weekend and just kind of just go with it a little bit more.
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A
I don't think I could do that. You're better than me.
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B
I don't know. Yeah. I don't know if I really, really. I did enjoy it, though, when you guys travel. This is, like, such a. I have. I. Maybe you guys don't know because I haven't traveled a lot, but just like, maddie, hold the boarding passes and find the gate. Or, like, are you holding the boarding passes and finding the gate?
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A
We're both. We're both doing it.
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B
See, Tyler, I can't.
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A
I can't relax.
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B
No, see, Tyler, I'm like, I'm the one in charge when I travel. And, like, that's. I really wish he could take that off my plate. He just needs to learn to get better at traveling because I just do it more. Because dad, like, our dad was just the one in charge of the traveling. And then I had. Now I got married, and I had to be in charge of the traveling. I, like, wasn't okay with it, but.
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A
When you and I travel, I'm in charge.
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B
Oh.
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A
So I worry about you sometimes when you travel, I'm like, can you do it without me?
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B
It's Elizabeth. It stretches me and stresses me in ways you couldn't imagine.
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A
Yeah, no, I'm sure.
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B
Like, I don't even know how to add tickets to my Apple wallet. Like, Elizabeth does all of that when I'm with ihm. We go print off boarding passes.
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A
Wow, that seems harder, Cal.
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B
I know, Elizabeth. It stresses me.
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A
It's okay. It's okay.
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B
Okay.
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A
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B
Back to last three transactions. Yes, this might be a long episode, but I don't think anyone will mind.
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A
We only have one a week now.
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B
So.
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A
How's everyone doing with that?
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B
Is everyone okay? I think everyone. I think we're all busy, to be honest.
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A
Yeah. Gosh, I've bought so much lately. Okay, I'm gonna do. I'm gonna do an easy one. This is so niche. But I used it so much this weekend and honestly, if this need to go order it and I'm gonna, I'm gonna tell you the exact, the exact one that it was. Okay. So Maddie and I did some landscaping this weekend. We let our landscaping area get so overgrown with weeds, we really weren't prepared in this way for what was to come. And so I found on Amazon this weed polar tool. It's the Fiskers. Fiskars three claw stand up weed pole too.
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B
Tools.
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A
It's a Fiskars. Yeah, I got a Fiskers. It's insane. It pulls up weeds so easily. You kind of have to do one at a time, which is annoying when you had the amount that we had. Like you don't have to like break your back. You don't have to bend down. You and you can get like the deep rooted ones. Like we got some basic like they were like trees type of weed. Like thick, thick. And we were able to pull them out of the ground with this tool. Otherwise we would literally would not have been able to do it. So if you have weeds. $34. Incredible. We love the rest of your life.
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B
You'll have it the rest of your life.
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A
That's the thing. Maddie and I realized since we've been. We've been homeowners for what, like four years now? We've collected a lot of garden tools over the years because we need it for like one project. Yesterday we had every single tool we ever bought from Home Depot. We had it out. We were using it.
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B
Yeah.
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A
So to include our Fiskers. So 10 out of 10 would recommend can't. Loved it. I loved it.
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B
Wow. Okay.
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A
Loved it.
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B
Try. I bought half cones off Amazon. I haven't stopped talking about them.
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A
Oh, yeah, yeah.
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B
And it was. Let me, let me tell you the price. It was 27, which was more expensive than I wanted it to be. But I bought the pack of a hundred because I wanted all the colors.
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A
100 feels a tad excessive.
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B
Well, and it is, but I wanted, I wanted the variety of colors.
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A
Yeah.
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B
They have. But also worth it because, I mean, you like put a dollar amount on your kids entertainment. Like, I'm easily. We're easily already six hours into these.
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A
Cones and we've had them for, oh, for 27. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What? Worth it.
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B
Yeah. The kids love them. I do think you have to have a creative kid. And I do, because originally I got them out with Hattie and one of our cousins and they didn't really go very far. And I sent George on the job and then George figured it out and next thing you know, then George was having some razzle and some dazzle with.
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A
Him, and then everyone else got into it.
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B
And then everyone else got into it. So I do think you need a creative kid. But I could also see if I gave it a little bit of headspace, I could have also come up, come out with, come up with a creative idea. Like, I'm thinking obstacle courses. I'm thinking, like, build like squares and like make the squares your houses and play like town. I'm thinking, you know, I mean, this was all without a ball. Imagine if you had a ball in all these cones.
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A
Yeah. I saw someone post someone many years ago, say that one of the best things that they have in the back of their car are cones. Because then it's like, oh, you're watching a soccer game. Pull the cones out for the kids. Let them go get creative and have fun.
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B
Yeah, that's a good idea. I could totally see how, like, if you are going to be like a mom who goes to a field a lot. I'm not. But like, if you're a mom at a field with your other kids, bring the cones.
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A
Bring the cones. They're so compact too. I mean, not if you have a hundred, but if you have, like, they're.
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B
So compact, they come with, like, a little. A carrying thing. No, they're really fun. They're really fun.
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A
I love it.
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B
So shout out to my half cones. I'm really, really happy with them.
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A
Okay. Something that I recently bought. This also goes along with your kids entertainment. Since we have gotten a nanny and James is, like, always at home, I've noticed he's kind of getting a little bit more sick of his toys. Like, he's not playing like he would because he's literally playing with the same toys all day. Whereas at daycare, you know, he would go and play with new ones and then come back. So I don't want to buy him more toys because that's not. That doesn't feel like the solution. But what I did buy was a six pack of colored masking tape, and this is the second time I've purchased the masking tape. You've had this as well? Busy toddler told us about this as well.
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B
Yeah, I should buy some.
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A
It's like, what do you want? Tie the toys up and have them pull the tape off. Hang the toys from the tape from a window or a shelf or something. Make. Make roads on the ground. I took a bin, and I just, like, put tape all over the top of it and filled it with, like, little action figures and water. He had fun trying to pull them out. He had fun pulling the tape off. He had fun with just, like, the toys in the water. And it's just. It is. How can I extend the. The fun in the life of the toys that he already has? And I also saw this thing on Instagram that was like, if you, like, before your kids wake up or when they go to bed, if you can take some tape and, like, some of their toys and just, like, have something set up for when they wake up, that buys you so much time, because it's something that feels new to them but actually is not new at all. It's just, like, a new way to use things and to think about things.
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B
Right.
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A
So Anyway, masking tape, 10 out of 10.
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B
No, I'm inspired. I'm absolutely inspired, and I need to do that. I'm like, I'm with you. I'm, like, staring down the. Staring down the barrel of summer break. And I'm gonna need. I'm gonna need some tools in my.
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A
Tool belt, you know, and that's the other thing we need. We need to figure out is what are we doing? A splash pad, sprinkler, like, what's the thing to get? What's the toy to have?
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B
What are the tool Well, I think the cones is a pretty tangible takeaway.
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A
The cones is a good. Is a tangible takeaway.
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B
Okay, next. So, I mean, I am. I am still on my fairy garden grind now. I do want to. I do. I'm a little sick to my stomach because I do feel as though I might have over per. Overspent on Amazon, because apparently they are at Dollar Tree. But I do feel good about the. I can't. I can't speak the dollar. Who's quality. I don't think you need to go to Amazon and buy these things. I think you need to hit up your local hobby lobby and Dollar Tree. But we have this really darling area of our house. It's, like, the only landscaped area we have right now. And it's a tree. It's got some bushes, and I. I always wanted a fairy garden growing up. We just never. We never got around to it. But I'm like, it's such a good destination. I love having destinations at my house. Like, different things to go do. And this is in the shade, and it's something for Hattie because Hattie is such a good sport. But, like, it's. You know, we have the reptile village up at the barn, and then we've got, like, the rock pit with the trucks, and Hattie needs her outside thing. So it's the fairy garden. So we got, like, two little fairy garden houses and a couple of figurines. And then a lot of it is, like, they have to make stuff. So they got, like, rocks, and they were, like, making, like, a path up to the houses.
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A
Cute.
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B
But if. And it's completely hidden because, like, I don't want to junk up my yard. I didn't want to, like, see it, but it's hidden, and I can. I'm, like, just excited for when Hattie has friends come over this summer or, like, someone comes over, do they want to go see her fairy garden? Yeah, I think it's a. I really think it was, like, an excellent idea. I'm very proud of myself for coming up with it.
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A
I think it's really cute. I like. I think I want one. I'm not gonna do one, because I should. I need to wait until my kids are older, but. No, it sounds fun.
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B
Well, and I'll let you know. I mean, I'll definitely let you know. Just set it up yesterday.
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A
Yeah. Let me know how it goes. My last transaction was actually something that's on our Amazon, but Maddie got. But I feel like I should share it. Maddie found some really good kid pajamas. Off of Amazon.
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B
How did Maddie find them?
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A
This. This came because James is really into horses right now, but for some reason, like, horses are stamped as, like. Like, a girl thing, because I had a really hard time finding, like, horse clothes or pajamas that weren't, like, unicorns or pink or girly. So Maddie was on the hunt for some horse pajamas for James, and he went to the only place that he shops at, which is Amazon, and he actually found these really, really cute ones. They're actually knights riding a horse. I want to show you, Cal. Like, that's the print.
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B
They're.
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A
Hold on. They're so cute. Oh, wait. Oh, yeah.
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B
Those are so cute.
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A
They're so cute. It has, like, an embroidered night riding a horse. And the reason I want to share these is because they're $20, and they're actually, like, very, very good quality. Like, I would order again. And they have, like, a lot of very specific animals that you might have a hard time finding otherware other places. Like a police dog, you know, a toucan, a shark, a penguin, a koala, a gorilla. Like, just piles. Let me see. No, no reptile, a wolf, no reptiles. But they're, like, very specific ones if. If your kids are into any of those. And I can vouch for the quality because he also ordered some other ones that weren't as nice of quality. But these were really good, and James loved them.
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B
Okay. That feels like a good hack. Yeah. I do agree. I feel horses. I don't know why they read so girl and can be hard to find. I would be. Until I came across Tea Collection, I could not find any of the right clothes for George. And now Tea Collection is, like, everything. I want every single thing for George. I don't think you'll.
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A
I'm just curious. For George, No.
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B
James likes animals, so he might like them. But I'm telling you, like, I would. I got their 30 off coming up for Memorial Day. They're part of my speech earlier, and I was like, oh, I'll order some for Fred. And I'm like, fred won't like any of these. Like, they're almost too reptily.
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A
It's TTA tea. Okay.
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B
Tea Collection. The quality is absolutely incredible. Like, and I'm just kind of in the business of trying to buy slightly better quality, because, first of all, when you have two and two, like, I do like the kid, the clothes will get passed down. So I know I just said, like, Fred's not gonna like them, but I do feel like when Fred's. I don't think I think when Fred's older, like when Fred's George's age, I don't think he'll care as much right now. Fred just, like, would love a tractor shirt, but they're excellent. Okay. But that wasn't my last transaction, so I'm gonna go.
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A
Yeah, yeah.
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B
Okay. So my last transaction is I finally, you know, those things that you just don't want to buy and like, you know, you should buy it, but you just like never get around to it.
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A
Yeah.
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B
Because it's just like $9 and like, you don't want to spend it. I bought an uncrustable maker.
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A
Oh, I have one of those.
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B
Yeah. I was very influenced by. Do you know who Aaron is?
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A
Yeah.
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B
Yes. So she has been posting the most amazing recipes lately. Like, she, she is just. She works, works, works, that girl. I look up to her as an influencer so much. She does excellent content.
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A
She grinds, she grinds content, she grinds.
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B
And I know that it's not easy. And she's been doing these, like, what I made for my kids this week, videos to eat. And she makes these uncrustables. So she made one peanut butter jelly one. Then she made like a pizza version that you put in the air fryer with, with her just with white bread and the uncrustable maker. But she goes, remember, save the crusts. And then she gives you recipes to make with the crust. She did a French toast muffin bake with the crust of the uncrustables.
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A
Oh, wow.
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B
And I was like, done.
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A
Yeah.
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B
So I'm very excited for my uncrustable maker. I'm very excited about it and I'm excited to use it. And then I'm also excited for just like all the future crust recipes I'm gonna make.
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A
Yeah. The nice thing about I bought that as well because it's like, it's. I've never bought uncrustables because it's the same thing, like a popsicle for me. It's like I feel like I can make a peanut butter and jelly at home, like, no shade. If that's. What if you do uncrustables, I just, I can't. I can't wrap my head around it. So I bought the uncrustable maker because I also saw someone made a bunch, did the uncrustable maker and then put them in the freezer. And I was like, wow, now I'm homesteading.
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B
And now you're a homesteader.
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A
Now I'm homesteading with my store bought white bread. Jelly and peanut butter.
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B
Yeah, totally. So anyway, those are my last transactions.
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A
Okay. So what was on your. Your list of things that you're looking out for from Memorial Day sales.
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B
Okay. So I feel like Memorial Day is like the first big sale you have since, like, the holidays.
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A
Yeah, right. Yeah. I mean, it sneaks. It sneaks up on me. I do not always think about Memorial Day as, like, sales are coming well.
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B
And I think that's what they like, because I don't think we're all thinking, like, don't be transacting right now. You need to wait because everyone will have a Memorial Day sale. And I feel like we're really, like, coming to you, like, at the edge of, like, when they're going to start advertising. Because I got that tea collection thing in the mail and it said you get to shop early because they sell out. So I have a special code that I get 30 off to shop early and I will be shopping early.
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A
Yeah.
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B
Okay. So first things first. I did something in our new house. We have a limited closet space. It's this house. I love it so much. It's so wonderful. It is just the weirdest design. Like, there's not a lot of closets. All. Currently, no one come for me. All four of my kids are sharing one closet. It's very strange. But I'm also okay with it because my kids, I definitely. Sometimes I think I have too many. I have. Sometimes I have too many clothes of what they don't wear, you know. So one thing I did that was very smart was I took. I. I used to not switch my kids out for the seasons because we just, like, had enough closet space for their clothes. Now we don't. So I took everything, winter and fall out of their closet. So now I'm just left with our summer stuff so I could kind of see what we need. You know, I started putting some outfits together. I took all this stuff. So all the kids need a couple of clothes. Like, George doesn't have any shorts. Libby stuff is all gross from Hattie that, like, I just don't want to. She doesn't want to wear. Fred needs short sleeve shirts and Hattie needs short sleeve shirts. So I'm kind of like, I'm. I'm starting to shop now because I want to see, like, what I want to buy. I want to see what kind of deals I can get. I also love seeing the total of my cart now and the total of my cart when Memorial Day hits. Like, I need that. Yeah, I need that, like, validation that what I'm doing is a good deal.
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A
Yeah.
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B
So tea collection. I'm on it for George. He's getting a tortoise shirt, two pairs of shorts, and then a rainforest animals graphic tee. That's only 12 right now.
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A
Wow.
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B
And the tortoise shirt's only 18, so I feel like I'm doing good there. So that's where Georgia's shopping. Fred's doing Gap. I think we'll go 50 off. I'm hoping so. Fred's getting three shirts and one pair of shorts. I should probably find one more for him. Okay. Libby is getting Hannah Anderson.
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A
Oh.
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B
Yep. Because she has. She needs a couple of like church outfits that aren't like. I mean, you know, for like play clothes and stuff. Like, I just like those little like Carter's bubble rompers. But these Hannah Anderson things are so cute. And then Hat is getting one matching dress to match with Libby.
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A
Cute.
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B
And then Hattie is. I haven't found anything for Hattie yet that like I'm obsessed with. She needs a couple of pair of short sleeve pajamas because she's a very hot sleeper. And like where I only have like the long sleeve, long pants or okay, shorts and shorts.
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A
You know where you should look? Where I just placed an order and now I'm going on their website and I see that they do have a memorial sale going on. And I should have waited. Burt's Bees Baby has such cute prints. I. That's where I actually gave my business for fourth of July pajamas.
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B
That's.
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A
They got. I gave my business to one place for holiday jammies and I chose Burt's Bees Baby and they have a sale going on right now.
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B
I didn't know that they made toddler size.
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A
Yeah. And they make toddler size and their prints are just cute. So I bought Sloan some fourth of July stuff I think I brought.
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B
Oh, James, are. These are $11.
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A
Yes. I know.
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B
They're darling.
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A
I know, I know. Burt's Bees Baby short sleeve pajamas though they don't have a lot. I know that they had some like.
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B
This is cute. This is like a lemon blue and white print. Like. Okay, done.
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A
Yeah.
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B
Okay. She just needs like two pairs. Like I don't need a ton. Like, just like, I just need some.
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A
Well, they think they have like a.
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B
Like a.
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A
Like a mermaid one too or something. The fourth of July ones, so.
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B
Oh yeah. Okay. And then the last thing is if there's any room left in the budget for me, you know, one thing I really want to splurge on.
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A
What?
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B
I really want another pair of lake Pajamas.
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A
Lake. Lake. The brand.
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B
Like, the brand. I got sent a pair. They sent me a pair, and they are unbelievable.
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A
Yeah. They sent me a robe, and it's my favorite robe, and it's the cutest robe I've ever put on, and I don't know why. It's just so much better than every robe I've ever tried. Were the. Were the shorts long enough on you?
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B
The shorts are long enough on me.
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A
Interesting.
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B
The material is very thick. I don't. Sometimes the pajama is a little thin, and then, like, if you like to only sleep with a bra and it's just, like, a little much.
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A
Sometimes you need a little bit more stiffness to, like. I like everything.
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B
No, I like a little bit more stiffness in my pajama. Like, I. I don't. I'm not in my. I want things clinging to me in a very thin material kind of way. So these are totally a thicker material while still being comfortable. I want a pair. I mean, they have five. They have over 200 reviews. Five stars. I like the. The Pima short set. They're $98. I simply can't.
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A
Yeah, but.
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B
And I don't think they're gonna go 50 off because, like, that's what I would, like, be able to stomach. They're amazing. Part of me kind of was like, I should just keep my pair for. Because I've only had my pair for probably, like, what, like, two months? They are washing really well, though. But I want to, like, make sure they continue to wash well, because if I really will have them for, like, 10, 12 years, I'd feel better about that.
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A
Yeah. Worth it. UK pajamas for so long.
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B
I know, but I feel like some of my pajamas just don't. And. Or they, like, they get. I. I've been buying too soft of pajamas, and then, like, they stain.
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A
Yeah. Okay.
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B
These don't stay. I'm telling you, they're unbelievable.
- [47:24]
A
Well, that's disappointing.
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B
So that's my Memorial Day. That's my Memorial Day plan. So George's tea collection. Libby's. Hannah Anderson. Fred is Gap. Hattie just needs. She has plenty of clothes. Just needs jammies. And I'm gonna do birds, bees, and that's what we're working with.
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A
Okay. You're, like, way more on it than.
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B
I am on it.
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A
I'm inspired by you, to be honest.
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B
You should be.
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A
You should be. Yeah. You're setting, honestly, unrealistic expectations for me right now. But for you.
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B
What can I say?
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A
Well, do you have any industry news? Yeah, I do. Okay. Well, now it's time for industry news where we saw the hot tea going on in the auto industry.
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B
I'm just like, yeah, I, there's, there's not a ton of stories happening except for like, I'm like really worried we're gonna come to some speculation. So get your speculating hat on.
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A
Perfect.
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B
I'm a little worried about Nissan.
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A
Why?
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B
I'm a little bit worried about Nissan. They are in big financial trouble. They're cutting jobs left and right. They just cut 20,000 jobs.
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A
Wow.
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B
They just canceled their battery plan. Sorry. Their battery plant. They're considering closures overseas. They closed a plant in Mexico. They were supposed to be bought by Honda and then Honda backed out. Remember that story?
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A
Yeah. Because they were asking for too much.
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B
Because they were asking for the moon and the stars. Toyota said they'd consider, but I don't think it's going to happen. Toyota offered to help Nissan after Honda talks. Collapse report says.
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A
It'S not a good look. And now Nissan's in like an even worse negotiation position. They screw the pooch on that one.
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B
And so now, yeah, so now like Nissan stock is like tanking because the merger didn't go through and everyone shook. And then I was trying to figure out like what went wrong. I was like reading some articles and it sounds like it's just, it's been of a part, poorly ran company for a long, long time. And it's like it's a point where it has nothing to even do like with the current cars or their current lineup. Like they just, it's not a profitable enough company. Like they're not, they just, they don't have, they're not, there's, they don't, they don't have enough sales to like float. And I am wondering if we will see Nissan close.
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A
That would be so sad.
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B
I know. I'm really sad for them. I'm just, I'm just telling you, I'm just saying I'm nervous for Nissan.
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A
It would be sad. You don't really see brands close like that.
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B
Well, with Suzuki, Mitsubishi, like kind basically closed and then like they like kind of came back.
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A
Yeah. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but like those were the two that I thought of too. It just, it doesn't happen often.
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B
But then people are saying like, their new c. This is an article from the drive. It says Nissan's new CEO just might be cutthroat enough to turn things around.
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A
Who's a new CEO?
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B
I'm glad you asked. Ivan Espinosa. It Says he knows the ins and outs of the failing automaker and he has the Moxy to hit the reset button. What a fun word is Moxy.
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A
Okay, well, I think if anyone's going to do it, it's going to be Ivan.
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B
It's all coming up Ivan.
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A
It's all coming up Ivan. So anyway, maybe they'll just pull like a Chrysler and they'll just get rid of all their cars except for the Pathfinder.
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B
They're a little car heavy. I mean they've got the Juke. Like what's the needs for the juke?
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A
Who needs the juke?
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B
They tried to do trucks, they still did the Frontier, they've got the Army Titan a lot.
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A
The Arma.
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B
I like the Titan a lot too.
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A
The Armada, it's like just do a little plagiarism and do what the other full size SUV's are doing. Like there's not a lot in the market and there is a big demand for them. So just like make it better.
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B
Like they should have gone more like Wagoneer approach instead of like they're trying to hit with the Sequoia, which is a bad idea.
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A
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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B
If I was Nissan, I. And like then you have the Rogue and the Murano. Like calm down. To have two five passenger SUVs is kind of insane to me. For that, for Nissan, like let's get a little, A little. And the Juke. Let's look up Nissan. Is that what you're doing? Nissan models?
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A
Yeah, yeah, they're a little Kicks.
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B
Wait, did I say Kicks? The Juke might be gone.
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A
Is the Juke on?
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B
I think the Juke is the Kicks. So I have the Rogue, Murano, Pathfinder, Armada, Kicks and Arya. Now this might be outdated.
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A
I'm seeing Kicks.
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B
Go to their site.
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A
Murano, Rogue. What's the Versa? Is that a sedan?
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B
Yeah, it's a sedan.
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A
And like kind of a lot of sedans too. Two minutes, two sedans, three sedans. Yeah.
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B
So they have, they don't have the Juke anymore. They have the Kicks, the Rogue, the Pathfinder, the Aria, the Murano, the Armada. Just the Frontier, the Versa, the Centra, the Ultima and the Leaf. Calm down. With all the sedans, they need to get a little, they need, they need to trim some stuff down. If I was Nissan, I would keep, I, I would keep a Sedan. I'd probably keep the Ultima. I think that's a solid car. I think we can be done with the Frontier if. And to be clear, I have. I'm making hard decisions Right now. But like you're asking the Nissan Frontier to compete with like the Ford Ranger. Like, that's not going to happen.
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A
Well, you're doing what Ivan has to do and you have to be cutthroat with moxie.
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B
No. Okay, here. I'm gonna get it down to. I'm gonna get. I'm gonna be super cut through. I'm gonna get down to like five models.
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A
Okay, let's hear it.
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B
Make it down to four models.
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A
Okay.
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B
Ultima.
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A
Yeah.
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B
Rogue.
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A
Okay.
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B
Pathfinder, obviously. I think that might cover it, to be honest. Leaf. Leaf. Leaf. And you're gonna be like the Leaf. Yes, the Leaf. Because there is a need for. It's like a Prius. It's like a really affordable electric car with low range for some people.
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A
Yeah, it's like. I think it's the most affordable. That was one of the first and.
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B
It was one of the first. No one talks about that. It had a range of 80 miles.
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A
Yeah, that's. That is for someone. Yeah.
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B
They need to get rid of the Armada. And then I'm just saying those folks.
- [54:27]
A
Well, either do it better get rid of it.
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B
You know, it's not even that it's bad. It's just like we don't have to. We don't have that margin of error.
- [54:34]
A
Yeah, there's. I still want to drive an Armada. Brands demo cars. I still want to get. I want to drive an Armada. I want to do my diligence, I want to do my homework and I want to do a carnival. Yeah. Oh, let's talk about our app. Killed it.
- [54:52]
B
The wrap. Yeah, it was okay. I didn't quite get the views I was hoping for. I'm going to be honest.
- [54:57]
A
No, it didn't go viral. Everyone delivered on their portion of the project, so it did well in the sense of everyone who is supposed to watch it and supposed to comment did do that. But it did not hit the virality that maybe we were hoping. But we have notes. It was too long.
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B
Yep. Yep.
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A
It was too long.
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B
And I don't know if we do it again. I'm not sure. There's no plans.
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A
No plans there. There's no other wraps in the works at the present moment. Yeah. But thank you everyone for going and commenting.
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B
Yeah.
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A
Appreciate you. Okay, are you ready for Ditch the Drive Thru where we give you an easy dinner recipe to mix it up to get you out of your dinner rut?
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B
Yep.
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A
And today's DTD comes from a listener submission. So this comes from Elaine. Got a dish of Drive Thru for You. That's a fave in our house. It's called. I might say this wrong. Salchi Papa Giving Gigi. Bye Bye. It's basically sausage over French fries. We make a variety of this, like hot dogs over fries with all the traditional hot dog hamburger condiments as toppings, or chicken sausage over sweet potato fries with the fun sauce. Cook the fries as normal and include the sausage or hot dogs sliced into coins right. On a sheet pan with it either from the beginning or sometimes halfway through or whatever. Okay. Depends on the protein. When it comes out of the oven or air fryer, top with things like cheese, onions, pickles, peppers, sauces, etc to mix it up. One pan, minimal work. Everyone's happy. Hope you try it. Now, what I like about this, it's giving burger bowl, but, like hot dog bowl.
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B
Bowl. It's given burger bowl, but hot dog bowl. It's just. It's changing out the starch. Instead of rice, you have fries and that sounds better.
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A
Yeah. And instead of ground beef, you have a hot dog or a chicken sausage and then Worlds or oyster. What do you want to do? You want to top it with ketchup and mustard. You want to do barbecue variety. You want to do like, sweet potato, like, like you said, a fun sauce. Like, I like that. I like a good base that then I can do a lot with. So salty. Papa again might be saying that wrong.
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B
Is that, like, from, like, a different country?
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A
Let me look it up. It's all she thought about. It is a South American Caribbean fast food dish. No, it's. But it's like, so Caribbean, like, so Louisiana. Caribbean hot dogs and French fries. Okay.
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B
What you talking about? Louisiana?
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A
Thinking like crawfish.
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B
No, Elizabeth, it's like, like Caribbean.
- [57:39]
A
Oh, I. I think of like, like Caribbean foods like jambalaya. What is Caribbean food? Food.
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B
It's like island food. Like, the Caribbean's a different country.
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A
Elizabeth. What's it? South American. Oh, I get. I see, like South America, like, not southern. I'm so embarrassed.
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B
Like, like Colombia, Argentina. Oh, that's South America.
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A
Like Jamaica. No.
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B
Maybe. No. What countries are in South America? This is. Here's the problems with, you know, what we were stuck learning in school instead of this.
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A
Huh? Okay, well, that's embarrassing for me.
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B
Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay, Bolivia.
- [58:40]
A
I was thinking New Orleans, but I guess that's different types of foods.
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B
All right, I fear.
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A
I fear I was thinking Cajun and not Caribbean, and I think that's what it all boils down to. So I'm sorry, for sure. I'm on. I let the record show I'm incredibly uncultured.
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B
That's the record. Church hasn't gone on a vacation in.
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A
A couple of years. Yeah. Goodness me. What do they serve in resort? I have a lot. Was desert food. I'm about to find out. Guys, with that, that's gonna be our episode. So thank you so much for listening to the Carpool podcast, and we'll talk to you next time.
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B
See ya.
- [59:18]
A
Thank you for listening to the Carpool Podcast with Kelly and Liz.
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B
Make sure you're subscribed so you never miss an episode.
- [59:25]
A
And if you enjoyed riding with us.
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B
Tell everybody you know there's room in the car.