Hour 2: Don’t Piss Off The Mother Of Your Grandchildren

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Lisa Smote, the queen of San Francisco Bay coffee.

HRH if you'll remember.

Oh, that's right.

Her Royal Highness.

Sorry.

My bad.

My bad.

Sorry.

Your Majesty.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Except my-

Then I have to do this.

Oh, oh, boy.

Wait, you have to do that or I have to do that.

You have to do that to me.

Oh.

Curtsy.

You have to curtsy.

Okay, I'm not going to-

Oh, wait, I'm not going to curtsy.

Wow.

Lisa.

How about this?

We're not wearing this.

I'm not wearing this.

Oh, yeah, that's-

That's pretty good.

Yeah.

Um, you have brought your daughter along.

It does another guest advisor today.

Generation three sitting in the-

Sitting in the production office.

Morning, Katie.

Oh, that's the story.

So San Francisco Bay coffee started with-

By my dad.

By your dad.

You took over.

Yeah, and now generation three literally just finished their-

I have five of them.

They just finished their first year.

And Kate, you know, I take them everywhere I go

just so they can be exposed to different stuff.

And I said, Katie, guess what we're doing tomorrow?

You're-

You're coming with me.

That's great.

Yeah.

Were you excited?

Because we've known you are coming in for quite a while, actually.

Yes.

I was very excited.

I love this radio show.

So it's fun to be here since me and my mom always grew up watching this.

Oh, awesome.

So are you feel forced into the family business at all?

No, never.

There was never-

You had plenty of other choices that you could have made.

We would like to say that.

As long as my mom's not looking, oh, it was everyone.

I was never forced.

Like never.

Well, I think it's great.

I mean, a family run business.

Over several generations and did good from the beginning.

Like, you were part of the compostable pods before that was a thing

where people are like, oh, this will be sexy.

Yeah.

We were socially responsible before.

It was cool to be socially responsible.

That's cool.

I told you last time we've built, I think, 1700 housing units

down in South and Central America.

62 schools, medical clinics.

We've had doctor visits for the farms,

paid for scholarships for kids to go to college

and learn about coffee and stay in the coffee business

rather than going to the big cities.

So we did a lot and then COVID hit

and we had to pivot.

And now we do our farmer education.

So we teach them to grow more

and grow better quality so they can get more money.

Nice.

Yeah.

Super rad.

Yeah, it is awesome.

Lisa smooth, everybody.

Thank you.

All right, listen, Lisa.

You were great last time.

You had solid advice.

I think that we have a really hard one.

I think it's hard.

Personally experience.

You've been building this up.

And then we've got one that is so funny.

I feel like it could be fake.

So we're going to start with the hard one.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, we'll get you warmed up with it.

Hello, Morning Show.

In need of bad advice about making my 21-year-old stepson move out.

We asked him to move out at the beginning of February

and gave him until May 1st.

He just got laid off last week

and it took months for him to find this job a year and a half

do we remind him he still needs to go by that date?

Do we extend his deadline?

We're planning on buying a home this summer

but we don't want to live with him anymore.

He was paying rent but he was always late.

I was constantly having to ask.

When we asked him to move out,

he told, we told him,

save your rent money for a deposit,

stop paying us and we'll give you $1,000

towards your deposit.

They really want him out.

He's also, he's probably a slob.

He is always buying things online and eating out.

He's been budding heads with his dad.

This is her steps on too.

So it's harder.

I think it's extra hard for her.

He's been budding heads with his dad for months,

driving us crazy with breaking small things in the home,

a window, an outlet cover, a towel rack,

taking forever to do the simplest thing

like washing dishes or taking out the trash.

Played a lot of video games

and we constantly have to tell him to stop yelling.

Big pot head.

We have two small children under five

and he's not a good influence.

Things are always tense when he's home.

I don't want to be the evil stepmom

but dad can't talk to him without arguing.

I'm a feeling he was just going to wait

until the deadline and ask his grandparents

to live with them and take advantage of them.

Thanks for reading.

Hopefully it wasn't too long.

Feel free to shorten it.

Anonymous.

Okay.

I want to make Katie go first

just as I mean like that.

Yeah.

What do you do?

What, what can this person do?

Katie, how old are you?

I'm 27.

Okay.

Do you live at home?

No, no, actually live in the city.

Oh, nice.

How exciting.

My brother just moved out from living at home.

So mom, I guess that's a similar situation.

I'm an issue.

Yeah.

Did you have to kick him out though?

No, no, no, no.

So they all left.

This guy's a loser.

He did leave Willie.

They all left.

He's a Lee 21.

They went to college.

They came back.

They couldn't afford to move to live anywhere else.

So they lived at home till they had enough money to move out.

Then they all moved out.

How old was the last woman?

23.

23.

He just left.

That's a decent age.

It is.

It's a good age.

21 is still college age and I'm,

you know, I give you crap about letting your son.

He's 25 moved back home.

Yeah.

But 21 is still kind of a kid, in my opinion.

Agreed.

However, he's college age and not going to college.

And not working and playing video games.

That's hard.

It is hard.

It's, I actually think this is a really hard thing

because I think a lot of people,

it is impossible to live around here.

You cannot live without a job.

You have to have, and not just a job, a good job.

You have to have a good job or 50 remates.

Like, seriously, I feel like this is a,

this, how do you make the,

because I feel like most people

don't just throw their kids out onto the street, you know.

I think you should, I think they should.

Put a stuff out.

Give them a date.

Last date, you're not here.

Stuff's going to be out on the sidewalk.

Boom.

It sounds like enabling them.

Yes.

It sounds like they're enabling them

by not sticking to their deadlines and not.

So what's the real issue?

Do you really want them out?

Or are you just, you know,

is he creating havoc in the, with the little kids?

So you got to set some boundaries

and hold him accountable.

And if he doesn't, you know,

then go to elevate it to the next level.

You know, if you don't do this, blah, blah.

These are ex, that's what I used to say to my kids all the time.

I'm very, very neat.

You may not put dishes in the sink.

You put them straight in the dishwasher.

You need to make your bed every morning.

I don't want to see towels on the floor.

I don't want to see any of that stuff.

And if they didn't do it, I'm like,

get your butt home and do this.

Now.

Oh, right, Katie.

Yeah.

As real as smart as that sounds, though,

I think most parents find themselves going,

now I have another job, which is to hound my kid.

It does become like you had to keep that line up all the time, right?

Yeah, although when you set the line and you set it early,

it becomes easier to stick with.

Yeah.

And I do feel like, you know,

this kid is just her stepson.

So here's a, you know,

their family, their original family breaks up.

He's got the kid that, you know, there's,

I think there's a lot of guilt and divorces where, you know,

you're trying to make it easier for the kid to get through it.

And that can sometimes soften them up.

And then now there's this whole new family

and this other person and these two new kids.

And I'm thinking that they let him slip through the cracks.

They he was it.

They never held his feet to the fire.

There was never any personal responsibility pressed upon him.

Um, so is as harsh as it is,

is there only option to say you're 21 years old?

Go, go join the, go join the army.

Yeah.

Or go with your mom.

I was just going to say written down in there is

or he'll just go off to his grandparents' house.

Right.

Then he should go do that.

Yeah.

Or go to his mom's.

I don't know where the mom is.

But I do think that if you've got little kids

that you're trying to raise,

that's a hard enough job without having a grown up

in the house, yelling,

smoking pot yelling, breaking things, right?

That's just a simple, you got to go.

It might be the best thing you ever do for him to get him out.

So go to your grandparents or go to your moms.

This is bad advice if you just dialed in

and this is about a kid who's lost his job

and living with his dad and his stepmom.

Yeah, 21 years old and his two young step brothers

or sisters or whatever that.

Half-brother sisters.

Right.

That's a recipe for disaster.

Yeah.

Because go, sorry, go ahead.

I was just going to say,

Can't wait to hear what I'm saying.

Then they just see how, you know,

the little kids are like, oh, I don't have to make my bed.

Oh, oh, oh, mom tells me to do this

and I don't have to do that.

So it sets them up for failure.

Yeah.

Going forward.

He's modeling horrible child activity.

He is modeling horrible behavior.

And I will actually say, for me personally,

I grew up with kind of a degenerate older brother.

He's eight years older than me.

He was in and out of college.

He was smoking weed in the basement.

He was even doing worse things than that

in our house at times.

And for me, it was a great example of what not to do.

It was like this example of,

if you don't stay within these disciplines,

if you don't focus on school,

if you don't get your crap together,

you could end up living in your mom's basement

until you're 25 years old.

And I didn't personally want to do that.

So these kids are, the age gap is much bigger,

but for me, I thought it was a great example,

a good perspective to have for my life.

Kind of a couple of texts, nine, two, five.

You guys sound like such boomers right now.

The concept of moving out and spreading into the world

once you hit 18 is such a USA stupid American concept.

Nowhere else in the world is it like this.

Like your kids stay at home

and you'll have a nice building caregiver

once you're too old to do it yourself.

Um, no, no, no, no, no.

If he was a model person, maybe.

Yes, you know.

That he's not a model person.

You've kind of presented after listening to Bob

and my own thoughts on this.

I think you may have presented the right idea,

which is the step mom.

So the dad can't deal with it, right?

The dad gets in an argument with them every time they talk.

So the step mom might be able to say to him

in an effort to raise up my two children,

your step sister and brother, we can't have you around.

You can't be here presenting, do be weed.

You can't be here playing video games.

Not what you've got to go.

So I do think there's nothing wrong with him

going to his grandma's.

There's nothing wrong with him hitting the bricks

and looking for a gig.

And so if you say, all right, go get your job.

You got one month or whatever.

However, whatever boundaries you set, I do think

use your kids as an excuse and say you can't be here

for that reason.

Right.

We can't have three.

You're a bad influence.

You might be able to just take a room

and just stay there until whenever you get motivated or not.

I feel like the only way to motivate somebody

is to shake the turn their life upside down,

maybe throw them out.

But if he's just gonna wind up over at the grandparents house,

like I don't think that really solves the problem.

You know, at least it's not your problem anymore.

I don't know how people hold a line today,

though, when it comes to like,

so they say, get out.

What if he doesn't, like with my dad,

when he said, you're outta here, I knew I had to go.

Like there was no, he was going to physically remove me

if they don't know what's gonna do that today.

No, but I think that what you can do is wait for him

to go outside to pick up his food,

lock the door, get the locks changed, pack up all his stuff,

put it out on the front.

That's, I feel like that's the only way.

Okay.

I hate to come around to what Maddie said so harshly

to begin with, but I do feel like this,

this is a kid who needs a kick in the pants.

Like you, it, this ends now.

All right.

Anybody have any final thoughts on that one?

Or do you want to move to the next one?

Okay, this one.

It's been brewing.

We're doing bad advice right now.

With our guest advisors, Lisa Smooth from San Francisco Bay

Coffee and her daughter Katie.

Okay.

This one, I'm just gonna read it to you.

Okay.

I'm so excited.

I don't.

Dear Sarah and Danny Maddie and Bob and Lisa and Katie,

I'll add that in.

I need your help figuring out whether I'm dating

into a charming family tradition or a cult

that thinks food has feelings.

I've been dating my, that food with feelings.

That's your takeaway.

I've been dating my girlfriend for about a year now.

Last weekend, she invited me to my first full family

dinner and talking to the whole crew, parents, two sisters,

and uncle who brought his own wine opener

because he doesn't trust other people's cork work

and a grandmother who stared at me the entire evening

like she was silently evaluating my credit score.

Everything was going totally normal.

We made small talk about work.

My girlfriend told a childhood story that made me sound

mildly incompetent with power tools.

Her dad asked what, what I do with computers,

which I tried to answer in a way that made me sound smartish.

Then dessert time rolls around except it wasn't dessert.

Right before anyone picks up their fork,

everyone at the table, table suddenly held hands.

I thought maybe they were going to say

grace or doing a quick family prayer,

but the mom said very calmly,

let's go around and say one compliment about the lasagna.

Not about dinner, not about the cook,

specifically about the lasagna.

Oh boy.

I'm paraphrasing, but these are the kinds of things they said.

Her uncle went first and said it had

excellent structural integrity.

Our sister said it had a really thoughtful cheese distribution.

Oh boy.

Her mom said it had confident flavor.

Grandma said it was bold, but respectful.

Everyone's going like they're all nodding now.

Like they're judging the Olympic figure skating

finals of Italian food.

And then it gets to him and they all look over at him.

And he says, I panicked.

I didn't want to disrespect the lasagna.

So I blurted out that it had great emotional depth.

Everyone nodded again.

Seriously, like that made perfect sense.

Then dessert continued like nothing weird had happened.

Sarah and Vinnie, I need to know,

is this a wholesome family bonding ritual?

Or is this as weird as I think it is?

My girlfriend was very nonsulant about it.

Like they just try to make them meal last a little longer.

This is our encamble listening on the app allegedly.

It's real.

It's too specific and weird to be made up.

This is a real one.

Let's vote if it's real or not first.

And then we can handle it.

AI.

AI.

AI.

AI.

So fake.

Real.

I think it's real.

Real, real.

The listener is telling the truth,

but somebody is lying.

Yeah.

I think the family can be playing a prank.

They're pranking.

Six five, oh, said that right away.

I think the family was messing with her.

They're pranking him.

This is the thing people do.

Yeah.

Oh, wow.

Or like people would say the pledge of allegiance,

like if their boyfriend comes over for dinner, like,

Is that really?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, my god.

What be what this is?

I love this family so much more now.

Think about it.

You're absolutely right.

I didn't think about that at all.

I can't.

I actually can't believe it.

I think that might be.

That's it.

So you're saying this guy is telling the truth,

but it's the family that it's a family bond.

And he should lean in.

He should, next time he sees them,

he should like bring up something

that he wants them all to compliment.

Like he should not think he's over and do it to them.

Like he needs to lean in.

He needs to get them back.

This is amazing.

This is such a great way to be welcome into a family.

You don't think that after the fact that I'll just go there.

I would just put you on.

Well, here's the other thing that I was thinking the whole time

as they, he's described.

There are so many more weird ways

that you could be like the things that happen

within a household can be horrifying.

Yes.

And everyone in the household thinks they're normal.

The fact that they talk to their food is nothing.

Yes.

In the grand scheme of things that could possibly go wrong.

It's a blip.

It doesn't even indicate like that there's deeper problems.

Like, you know, they're trying to be complimentary

about the food if that's actually what they were doing.

My advice to you is next time you go eat,

have some pre-thought compliments about whatever it might be

so that you're prepared to deliver

when it's time to talk about the meal.

I like the idea of inviting them over

and making them do it.

But put some like, you know,

making some weird space into the thing that you're making.

What's that thing on friends they made

where peas were in there?

Oh, the English trifles.

It's a dessert, but it is.

Oh, yeah.

Like do something cookie like that, so they've got it.

And be all like, yeah.

Well, I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts on the English trifle.

Oh, my God.

I can't make a joke.

That actually is the only answer that makes sense.

If this is a real letter and this guy really experienced that,

I believe that you guys nailed it.

I think that that's what this is.

So I don't.

I think they're just weirdos.

That's fun too.

I mean, I was trying to find it.

I don't even think it's that weird.

There's weird stuff.

There's hor-tragic things that happen.

This is just, this is nothing.

Six, five, oh, well.

Wouldn't you want structural integrity in lasagna?

You do.

And do we have to make comments about it?

It's the commentary.

I mean, it's, and it's fine to, you know,

if you wanted to give someone a compliment about a meal,

I think that's lovely.

I mean, my Italian aunt is fishing.

Like after she makes her nookie, she's, like, nookie.

What did you think?

Oh, yeah.

So she wants to hear.

So it's possible that this is, they truly do want to hear

the compliments about the lasagna that was prepared.

But it's not, I don't think it's that bad.

I, and if it was a joke, I really believe by now,

it is awesome.

But I would think that the girlfriend

would have by now said, it was, we got here.

Well, maybe they weren't expecting him to buy it.

The look on his face must have been hilarious.

They're like, let's keep it going.

Let's see if we can get them with the,

I love the rest of them at night, right?

They, you know, like the, I don't think that the comment

about the cork, you know, the opening of the cork

was necessarily part of like the whole show thing.

Like that, you know, that sounds like a funny,

weird, charming, eccentric family.

People are serious about their wine.

That is true.

They don't want to need a little bit of work in there.

This is the, I, I feel this a way about it.

If I'm going to have dessert, and I'm going to take

the empty calories, I want it to be good.

Yeah.

So if you bring me dessert and I, or there's dessert there

and I look at it and I'm like, I don't like rhubarb pie.

How do you know until you taste it?

I haven't tasted it, but I don't want to waste my dessert.

All right, one bite.

But what I'm saying is delicious ice cream.

Let me just Alamode the plate.

Yeah.

Plate Alamode.

Yeah.

The listener needs to write in if he goes back

to their house and they do it again.

We got to hear, right?

We got to hear.

Right, because what if this isn't a prank,

and then he pranks them with some horrible,

and they're all like, oh, this was the poor,

poor spice distribution or whatever.

I almost parfed.

Yeah.

Right.

I don't think gravy is supposed to be in a dessert.

Here's one from 707.

Literally just saw a video this week

where a work meeting included compliments to the boss

to prank a new employee.

Oh, funny.

This does happen.

I like it.

I hope that is what happened.

I hope so too.

And if it's not, other families should take this

into consideration when they bring in the new partner.

It's good.

I actually love this now.

I've been very excited to share it,

but kind of like afraid that, oh, God, it's a fake.

I love that.

You guys have solved it.

And I want to thank you, Lisa Smute and your daughter,

Katie, for being here this morning.

Thank you for inviting us.

Being guest advisors.

Thank you.

And thank you for being a sponsor of the show.

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We love it.

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We're grateful to have them on board. Katie crushed that. Yeah, that was that was really good. The whole that whole

perspective was one that I hadn't even considered. And I hope it's the case. And Katie was saying on the break one of her

siblings had a new girlfriend and she wanted to do a prank like that to them. And Lisa said, no, we should be nice.

We shouldn't prank them. Oh, yeah, yeah, that's what I said. That would have been a good bad advice for us.

That's one of those things, though, where you hope someone's got the ability to take a joke. Yes.

And you don't want to piss off the mother of your grandchildren.

If you know what I mean, yes, that's one of those where suddenly,

they went all the wrong foot in the stupid prank that we had to pull. You really want that to be a good

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Like he goes nothing for me up there. Yeah, that's the surface. You know, he's teach lessons and

doing tours and doing all the stuff. And then if he's available and around, that means seasons

probably over. Yeah. All right. Here's what's happening. I started with this and then we never

finished it. So I'll go to the this story is called what is titled? What's an adult cheat code

that changed your life? I really liked this. And so I already did a couple, but I'll recap it real

quick. If you're just joining us, adult cheat code that changed your life, realizing most people

aren't thinking about you as much as you think. It takes away a lot of unnecessary pressure to lose

that idea that you're as important in their life as you are in your own. No, you're the star

of your own movie. And they all have their own movies going concurrently. And they are the star of

them. This one seems extreme, but I can see people doing it certainly people of a certain age,

dropping social media and not caring what others think. I've always been that way. So I don't know

how to click that in. Yeah. But I think social media can be fun. Absolutely. I see my friends

or see them, you know, with their kids or on a trip. And I think I want to like that. Yeah.

I'm happy for you. I hope you're having fun. Getting enough sleep and drinking water is on the

list. These that's not really a hack. But if you're not doing it, you should. Yeah. The water thing is

it's been made easier because we all have these non-disposable water jugs that we're bringing

around with us. And like, I have a thing at my house that I kind of carry around with me. It's

remembering to drink it. Sometimes the whole day has gone by. I'm like, I don't think I took a

one sip of this water. I understand that. Yeah. You should really be doing that regularly. And

it's especially as you get older, supposedly dehydration is like a big deal when you're older.

I can't speak for, I mean, this is where we live. But around here, you see people with their

refillable water bottles. Yeah. And I'm happy to see that. I don't know if that's a case in other

places where they might be. I'll just get a bottle from the, from the palette in the garage

when they're walking around with plastic. A little less social or environmentally conscious. But

still water, you got to get it in you. You do. And the sleep thing is I'm sure everybody wants to

get a good night's sleep. That's not, that's easier said than done sometimes. Well, you know,

based on the stories I read, it's an epidemic. Yeah. In this country and but not only here with

the phones and the, I was going to say that actually figures into it because if you got off social

media and you weren't scrolling on your phone for an hour before you maybe fell asleep, that might

be a helpful thing. I don't think he realized it when he was here. Sarah's good friend village

was here recently. It was that earlier this week or was it was two staff either way he was here

and, and he as Sarah describes it used to be a voracious reader. And now he's like, I don't

breathe. I just death scroll. And he said it kind of shamed of himself. But I thought that's probably

unfortunately a reality for a lot of people. Yep. I get in bed. I rather than read a book. I just

flip around. Yeah. And I guess technically you are reading. You're looking at the photos people

have posted and reading comments or reading their captions or you read an article. You know,

whatever it is. But it's not. It's in the title though, Sarah. Doom scroll. Doom scroll. That's

not. You're doomed. Yeah, that's not good. Yeah. This is these are adult hacks. They say here,

the adult cheat code that changed your life. Saying, let me check my calendar instead of saying

yes. Yeah, buys you time and people respect it and it gives you a minute to decide, can I do this?

Do I want to do this? Do I want to do this? And it gives you the out. Now you're not being

stared at when you say, I cannot. Yep. Thank you. Sorry. I have plans. I'm busy that day. What are

you doing? You used to keep up all the things, the notes and all the stuff. I put a lot of

pressure on myself and baskets to thank people for stuff. And I used to sit, I know, but I used

to sit there and just be like, how can someone keep up with all this? Because a minute I thought

about it, I would do it. I didn't put it off. I didn't let them build up. I would just like,

that needs a thank you note. I sent off a thank you note. Now I'm like, I'm not going to do it.

I don't feel like it. I'm out of thank you notes. Oops. I ran out.

This is an interesting, I like this. Okay. If you have enough, you don't need more.

I might need a little more. Well, then you don't have enough. I might have enough.

Then you don't need more. But I might though. But if I want to come more bites or something.

One of the things I don't think we're talking about food, but you can interpret it any way you

want. What I saw was, and this is one of those, I just think it's so gross. When you see, and

who's the guy you'll think of his name while I'm while I'm trying to tell this story. Here he is

an accomplished actor making millions. He has probably women anywhere he goes. They're on

themselves at him, but he's got to start an acting school where he leverages people's desire to

become celebrities and to become star actors under his tutelage. And then he uses that that

position to get stuff off of them. James Renko that guy that I don't hate that guy, but that is

a so gross like bro, you don't have enough. Right. You need more. You don't have enough legs

up in the world. I do. Well, and it got him. It did. It wasn't even just that. It was the 15-year-old

who was trying to get to leave their parents weird too. That was really weird. I think that that's

one of those gross things though. When you see or something's free. Oh, take it all. Or just take one

and be happy. One of the 19 of the same free t-shirt in four different sizes. What are you doing?

I'm like that with shoes and sweatshirts. Like I have enough. I have enough. But it brings me joy.

So I still want to get more. Yeah, but you're not taking that. Well, all right. What I'm thinking

of are those people who like that's you want to spend your money on more shoes? That's your money.

You're not hurting anybody. But the thing where you're just you've got all the fame and fortune in

the world. But you've got to take that free chachki from the like why? Well, it's free.

Okay, it's free. It was a powerful word. Well, I mean, if everybody is a woman, I'll take them all.

Why? What is your deal, dude? It's like people who get into fights over the t-shirt that was shot

out of a t-shirt cannon out of concert. It's like it's a t-shirt. You're gonna you're telling me

you're gonna get assault charges because you needed to have that t-shirt so bad.

It had already fallen on the floor. It's stained. Right. Someone stepped on it. Like,

let it go, man. These are adult cheat codes that could change your life. Let people be

wrong. You don't have to change their mind. No, yeah. Just say, I don't know enough about that

yet to have an opinion. People respect this way more than half-baked hot takes.

A lot of people just parrot what they see on TV or they write. That's one of the political

things that bothers me. It's not that I don't think you should have an opinion or be a Democrat

or a Republican, but most of these things have way more faces than you realize. You were shown one

face on the news source you choose and someone was shown another face on the news source that they

choose and somewhere in the middle is probably the truth. Right.

If it takes us in five minutes to do, do it now. That's on the list. I don't know that,

but I always tell my kids, like, you know, let's not wait. What's your saying that you do to them?

I don't even remember. Something like, when do we do it? No, when do we do things right now?

That's it. Is there another part to it? No, that's it. When do we do things right now? Right now.

I honestly, I will completely, I remember being in school and waiting till the day before

my term paper was due. I would just procrastinate, procrastinate, and I had an epiphany in college,

the one year I went to college. And I was like, I can't live like this. I have to do stuff.

And I've let that go into the rest of my life too. Like, if I've got something to do, I do it.

I make myself a list. I cross the things off. That feels good too. I don't let things simmer.

You both are really good at that. And I have been inspired and I've been working on that because I've

met you. Make your life easier. So much easier. And you feel so much more complex. You're done.

And if it goes wrong, you got plenty of time. I stopped saying that to them because Edie,

my youngest would always say, tomorrow, when do we do things? Never. Like, she's, she's got it

loaded and ready. She is funny. And she wants to come in, by the way. So we'll see her this summer.

Yes. And I think if you could kind of like let her sit near you while we're doing some of the

stuff. And then she can come in. But I, I, of course, I can't wait. We'll put them right on,

I'll put her on that mic. Okay. The camera on it. Super fun. But I don't know which one we'll get.

The size one or the one that I have been on a few times. And she's great. Especially when she

starts getting warmed up. And when she came in here, didn't we do smarter than a fifth grader?

And she beat me. Yes. That's great. We'll do whatever grade the kids are in. Okay.

I love it. You can clean your blender by blending soap and water. I do that.

That's so funny. I think I read that on like some life hack thing. It's like, I just put a

little bit of soap in there. Fill it with some hot water, little, little bit, because it is

going to foam way up. And then just put it back on your blender, put the top on it.

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great joy, but it also is surprising. You've heard about the retro thing in that kids are looking

at older stuff and kind of going back and vinyl is being sold in big numbers now.

There's also a resurgence in cassettes they're having their moment. I love cassettes cassettes are

becoming so trendy again that the electronics company maxell is bringing back its clat,

its classic personal tape player and they've even added modern features like Bluetooth and USB

C charging unlike some modern devices. They do not get rid of the headphone jack. The battery life

is decent at about 11 hours of Bluetooth play time and the player become comes with a belt clip

so you can play your cassettes. They aren't cheap. They say maxell's list price is 100 bucks.

Amazon has them for about 80 and if you want to get back into mix tapes, you can grab a five pack

of blank cassettes for about $15. I am completely jazzed. I'm going to show this to you. There's a

picture with it. That's the player. I know what I'm getting. Oh my god. It looks at the old

tiny players. I would love to have someone make a mix tape on a cassette for me and listen to it

on a cassette player. That sounds so thoughtful. It looks like a less disco walkman. Yeah. Yeah.

It looks like the early day walkman. It's just like a bulkier than a cassette tape because obviously

you fit one of those in there but it's the same thing. It's like a handheld thing and it's got the

start and stuff and you're saying it. It's also a Bluetooth speaker and but it has a headphone.

This is great. Where you plug in your cans and can listen to this directly from the player. I love

wireless cassette player. What's the name of it exactly? It's maxell wireless cassette player. It's

on the maxell website. M-A-X-E-L-L and they selling cassettes as well. The funny thing about cassettes

and I realized that as we listen to records and they would scratch and wear out and we would say

to ourselves, this has got to be a better way. Then we got cassettes. Cassettes were neat at first

but then you realized you can't skip songs the way you once could. You can fast forward but you got

to go fast forward. Stop play. No fast forward. Stop play and that's not CDs came along and that

I can skip that song and just hit point and go to the next one. So I kind of think tapes were

the worst of the ways we play music. They were just the most portable and even the CDs sounded

good. Remember the disc man? That was not. It didn't work. It just didn't. It would skip and

everything else. And the beauty of the cassette tape was that you could make your own mix tape.

You could make, you could put what you wanted. I would sit there and wait for the DJ to play the

song that I wanted and hit playing record. Oh yeah. Finally got it. When I was a boy, I would,

I would just take my records. This was actually the best way to save your records was and I'd record

them onto cassettes and I'd bring those to the skateboard ramp or the skate park and someone would

always have a player and we could just play. You'd maybe put seven records on one of those

those long tapes. Yeah. And punk rock was always like, you know,

15 minutes. Exactly. So you could get a bunch of stuff on one cassette. It was cool.

But you can't skip songs and find your hit. The one. The one you want to play. Right.

Our text number is 800, 400, 3697 and Maddie's on the show. We had a big bad advice and

all kinds of stuff. I imagine. Yeah. Hey, so from the 707, advertising works after hearing Sarah

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cup of French roast this morning. Delish. My favorite one. Going back to the bad advice. 415,

we've played a trick on my sister's new husband meeting him for the first time and presented him

with a 200 page document to read and sign if he was to stay married to her. The look on his face

was priceless, but didn't let go on for too long. Fun times. Yeah, that, um, that's the thing

about a prank. The longer it goes on the less pranky it feels. Right. It could actually ruin

everything. That's why I would be surprised if it were a joke. The one you read because I would

think the girlfriend on the way home would be like, we got you. We got you, you dork. Yeah.

But either way, I still don't think it's an of all the things happening in all the households

of the world. The complimenting the lasagna is not that good. It's not the duggers. No, it's not

the duggers. Wow. 925 adult cheat code by all the same kinds of socks put the dirty socks in

an intimacy bag and wash drive the socks and bag finally put the bag in the drawer where socks go.

Well, buying all the same kind of socks is I do that. I have all the same kind of socks. I have all the

same kind every day, but that bag is that smart. That is smart. Yeah. That's really smart. So

like that's like a lingerie bag with a zip so that things don't get all coiled up or something like

that. Yeah. So that, well, so that all the socks. No, they're all just right in one price.

707. It's that hard to like, I don't think so, but I do realize that laundry is it's time consuming.

It is. So anyway, to trim that down, I imagine people, well, you can buy one of those folding machines

all the robots. They're only 4,000. I mean, that's worth it. I mean, think about all the time you

save. Right. It takes them all day to fold six things, but you know, from the 707, I still have my

yellow sports walkman and still use it. Happy Friday, everyone. Minneapolis Mary. Hey,

Minneapolis Mary. I do one for one. If I good morning, Alice, my daughter has been fortunate enough

to listen to you every morning of her life as I have been a listener since the 90s. Today marks

the day of her becoming a teenager. I'd love to do a little shout out to Mia. Happy birthday,

Mia. She's turning 13 today. Oh, Mia. That's a big number. We are dedicated listeners in this household

and you make our mornings fun. Thank you. Sean, we make it real fun. We make it real fun in the city.

Sean, Sean and the city. Sean, I have a 12 year old. I feel you, bro. Happy birthday. I'm

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Yeah. Well, get coffee.

And then two more adult cheat codes from 707. Don't believe everything you think

and what people think of you is none of your business.

Yeah. Don't believe everything you think. I like that. Yeah. I've heard those.

And then let's see here. Should I believe that? Or is it AI?

Five, one, oh, wait, wait. There is a Bluetooth cassette tape player. My bestie of over 30 years

and I still have to mix tapes. We made each other in the 90s. We need that. It's Max L, M A X E L L. It's

for sale and it's kind of cool. I'm still finishing up from the two four eight. I'm still

finishing up Project Hail Mary. My husband hijacked it after I told him how good the first chapter was.

Thank you all so much for the recommendation. I love the book and can't wait to see the movie. And

I'm X. And yes, go see it in I'm X. Amazing. I think I'm going tonight. Oh, are you taking

Ila? No. Well, she I think she would like it. But she has to watch the other kids. So me and the

misses can go. Oh, she made me sense. Baby. I love it. I love it. That's so cool. That's the best.

Done. I don't know. You know what I mean? It's gonna happen. Oh, poor you. You got to go on the date

with your wife. No, I mean, you know, the whole day. Dinner to the whole thing. No way we can do it. If

she stays, if she comes with, then we can't go. So she's got to stay home with the young one.

I love it. Yeah, I can't wait. And I don't know what else is happening. I just know that

you're doing hold like dinner. I don't know. I know we're going to the movie tonight.

Oh, yes. Nice. And it's I mean, this is such a good book. Yep. And the movie

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