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Top 3 Best Stories of Us
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🎶MACY GRAY, SAVE US!!!🎶
Today we take a break from our usual format, gather around the digital campfire, and tell our top 3 stories of US! No, not the United States, but WE, the co-hosts of the pod. Have we made ourselves clear? Do you understand now? Listen to this episode and bask in the blinding light of clarity.
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Introduction and Format Change
00:00:00
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Welcome to My Top Everything. didn't play the music. Thought we were just talking the shit. Mario was standing up because the hardest part about this for Mario is sitting still. I'm just girl.
00:00:14
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I am just a girl. am just a girl. I am just a girl.
00:00:29
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Just girl. I think you could have done your own thing and she would have just kept doing that. Yeah. It would have been nice. It's too late. Next time. Yes. Next time on my top everything podcast. Welcome to the duet of the opening noises.
00:00:48
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Of Eminem. Disbanded. Disbanded.
00:00:55
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Welcome to my top everything. Welcome to my top everything. I'm Marian. I'm Kara. And I'm Mara. And we are three friends who argue about anything and everything.
00:01:08
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ah Probably won't happen as much today. We've got a slightly different format today for our episode. We're doing top three stories of us. And we decided to just agree on three stories ahead of time. Yeah.
00:01:21
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Our stories. Our pre-approved stories. Yep. Of the three of us. Yeah, there are ones that wouldn't make the podcast. Correct. ah Let's go to our number three. Yeah.
00:01:36
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Unless we have updates. I don't think there are any updates. No, just that ASMR sucks. Oh, yeah, update. After our last episode, I made an ASMR noise and Kara didn't like it. But then Mara made one right after and then Kara started crying.
00:01:53
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it wasn't It was involuntary. yeah it was yeah my eyes just started tearing. I'm ready for her to get evaluated. Why she's crying out of ASMR. Should we each lead one of these?
00:02:09
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. This will be fun. Sure. Immediately, someone's going to take over for me. I tried telling a story yesterday when the three of us were together. Oh, my God. It's so wrong. It's so wrong. And Marianne was like, shut up. Let me tell the story. It's like this is its so disjointed and incorrect. Yeah. Over exaggerated. Yeah. I can try number three. You can.
00:02:29
Speaker
That feels like one of them is my element. So I have to tell that side. I'll try number three. I think number three is a good one for us to start with. Let's get into it. Okay. um Yeah, I'll start with number three.
The Double Lockout Incident
00:02:40
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So it's Marion dubbed it the double lockout during move, which I appreciated that.
00:02:44
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um So when we were moving from an apartment to a duplex, ah we were all moving different things at different times and whatnot. And we were supposed to meet at the new duplex at a specific time to clean, I think, yeah because they hadn't cleaned it.
00:02:59
Speaker
It was just disgusting. It was disgusting. as it was There was so much stuff everywhere. like I found like a barbell. It was like, yeah, there's like a doll head. Yeah. Did you say dog head? Yeah. there was like a doll. Oh, doll head. Yeah.
00:03:11
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Yeah. So it was really gross. We were going to meet there at a specific time. i was staying at a friend's house watching their pets. And so I had gone inside. How did that go? See, I'm already feeling. You walked to Pisa Luce? Sigh.
00:03:23
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Well, hang on, hang on. We're a shit head. I parked my car. should have gone over. This is going to be a really hard podcast for me. Yeah. So I had one of the, you know, like old cars where I had only a key. I didn't have a fob and there was only one key for this car. Yeah. And what was the car's name? Jerry for Jerry Butler. Yeah.
00:03:42
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And he was red. No. What? It's gray. Tan. Whoa. Jerry was silver, dude. I'm sorry. Yeah. We all force a different color.
00:03:53
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I think it was like a silvery tan color. it no it's like that old Honda color color that kind of looks like. Yeah, when like a room has been filled with smoke. Whoa. We'll post a picture of Jerry. Yeah. You can all say, because you said gray, you said i said silver, you said tan. I said red. I think gray is red.
00:04:12
Speaker
Gray and silver are probably like Yeah, you guys have seemed to agree. It was, I feel like tan is kind of in the middle of gold and silver. No. no um Metallic tan? What fucking rainbow are you looking at? Yeah.
00:04:24
Speaker
Okay. Well, so I locked my keys in my car, basically. Yeah. and This is not how, I'm sorry. It's like you've taken all of the suspense out of this story. i i wish we could start over, but there's been good, good moment we couldn't use the car thing if we do. This is not, no.
00:04:40
Speaker
here no sorry i think you know you just gotta remember they don't they don't actually know the truth you know the truth is what we tell the double lockout she told it right there that's the whole suspense of it all well you named it the double lockout i didn't think we were gonna say the titles of the names of things it's just a prompter for what the story is uh okay i will keep that in mind for the last two Do you want to tell the story, storyteller? We were moving.
00:05:10
Speaker
You got that part right. but Yeah, that's where we should start. We were going. We had a plan after work. We're all going to go clean the apartment, move a couple of things. And Kara was pet sitting at her friend's house in St. Paul. So far, I haven't done anything wrong. I agree. And yes, this is all this is why it was fine. And I stopped you when I stopped you because then it went off the rails.
00:05:31
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And Mara and I went to the place first and we're going to meet with Kara. We're doing some cleaning. Yeah. We realized that there's something in the car we need or no, we didn't even clean yet. We had just been like looking around. Right. And waiting. It's your idea.
00:05:48
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No, I think we were waiting. it our story Yeah. And we were like, where is Kara? I remember there was only one phone on us. Yeah, it would have been mine.
00:06:00
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And yeah And so we go down, we go down for some reason out the front door to get something. As soon as we go through the door it clicks and we turn around yeah and we try the the handle and it's locked. We did not know, it had not been explained to us that that door was an automatic locking door and neither of us had our key. i put We had put the key down, because you had one, no, you didn't have a key.
00:06:31
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We didn't. The key was inside the apartment. Yes. Yeah. We had put the key down on the counter and then come out. And so we're sitting there. We try to call Kara, but Kara's not answering. Correct. And we're like, where is she? She's super late and she's not answering. Yeah. So now go from your side of the story. I tried. so I had accidentally locked both my keys and my phone in the car because it was one of those classic situations where like I had put something in the front. Start from where you're in the house and then how did you like discover that? Like what happened? I don't i think I was just about to explain it.
00:07:08
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You gotta simmer down now. Yeah. but You know, I think it was one of those like I put my like purse things in the front seat because I had other stuff that needed to put in the backseat and the door closed. And I thought because it's one of the old cars, we have to hold the the the plastic bit up and down. And I think that I had thought that the plastic bit was the lock, the lock for our listeners. I'm trying to like and Grayson.
00:07:30
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But some of them are just like handles and you can't really see them. But this one was like you could see it in the window like it's up or down, you know. Anyway, i think I had put my like phone purse, all those things in the front seat. And then I had a bunch of other stuff and I moved into the back back seat and I closed the back seat and I realized that I had locked everything in the front and I had thought I had thought i had left the front door unlocked. Turns out I hadn't.
00:07:54
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It's also like 50 degrees and I had left my coat in the car too. Yeah, everything was in the car. am freaking freezing. The sun is going down because was... Is the house locked?
00:08:04
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Yeah. The house is locked because I had locked it getting stuff out of the house to come you guys. And so everything, i am just me and and I have like maybe a sweatshirt on and jeans and a pair shorts.
00:08:15
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I am sitting, so my friend's house lives, she lives across the street from her parents. And so I'm like, you know, and her brother lives down the street too. So I'm like, I know a lot of people on the street. Eventually someone's going to see me.
00:08:26
Speaker
They'll come help me. i can borrow their phone. You didn't just go knock on their door? They were home. I did. Okay. And so I'm just sitting. Eventually, i just sit on the hood of my car. I'm just like, okay, eventually someone will get home. No, it's like 30 minutes. I'm like, okay, this is insane.
00:08:40
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I walk to Pizza Luce, which is like a block away, and I ask if I can borrow someone's phone. ah They were super confused because it's like 2017 and they're like, what?
00:08:50
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Yeah, what do you mean borrow the phone? Yeah, it was a cell phone. They don't have like, you know, phone phones and whatever. So I had to borrow someone's cell phone. I can't remember what I must have called AAA then they came. But this is and you have no idea what's going on. It's like an hour this point, maybe an hour and a half past when I'm supposed to meet you.
00:09:07
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Yeah, you're late. You're not answering your phone. We're like... typical yeah yeah we're like oh man i can't even assume the worst yet i'm getting i'm getting yeah i'm getting flashbacks to the jc penny cat photo shoot i'm like oh my god like why isn't she here Yeah, I know, right?
00:09:28
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We're talking. Yeah. and We call. i think we try to call our new landlord. He doesn't answer. we're like. And I think my phone was dying. Like, I think we had one working phone, but it was is the end of the day. yeah So.
00:09:41
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Yeah, it was just like it was not a good situation. And then we're finally we decide, well, there is another entrance to the apartment, but there's two doors. There's the outer door and inner door. So we have to hope but or Both of those are unlocked.
00:10:02
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And so we went through the first one because I think the first one was a code. Yes. Just like the front front door. And we got through that. Okay. And it's just like this super like narrow. Creepy brown. staircase.
00:10:14
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Ill lit. Yeah. It's just a staircase. And so we walk up it and the back door was unlocked. Yes. Which is crazy to think about that that's just been unlocked. Yeah. That whole time. i know.
00:10:26
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But yeah. So then we would thank God it was unlocked because then we were able to get in. Yeah. Get the key. Understood the apartment now. Cleaned it. Still Kara wasn't answering. No. We're like, this bitch.
00:10:40
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Hardback.
00:10:43
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like and Like, how dare she? I that other that door locked me out more than once. Like, oh yeah, oh yeah ah three doors. There were three doors to get out the front. So it's a really easy door to close.
00:10:56
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wow
00:11:03
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But it was just really funny that we were both like in tandem locked out and eventually Kara got back into her car and she finally fucking called us and we just it was just so funny. Yeah, but we get on the call with her and we're like,
00:11:17
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hey, where are you? Like, you didn't show up. And she's like, well, I got locked out of my car. And then we were like, oh my God, we got locked out of the house.
00:11:28
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Yeah. Yeah. Wild times. Yeah.
Exploring Idioms and Girl Scouts Memories
00:11:31
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I thought that would land better. Yeah. The ending was a little flat. Yeah. It's because... We started out with double lockouts. we should have done is explained our side of the story first. Yeah, we gotta first. context with Kara and then go into Kara because that's how it was. Yeah. it it Nobody. Because the reveal that you had locked yourself out as well. Yeah. Across town.
00:11:52
Speaker
I think you also finished cleaning. Like I didn't help. Oh, no, no, no. we were done. Yeah. Yeah. We were done by the time. Correct. Like don't even bother. Yeah. I think I just went back to the to the apartment. Yeah. I was like, I'll see you home.
00:12:04
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Yeah. Okay, well, you guys got the gist of it, listeners. Yeah. Well, this is how it goes when we tell stories. They're getting a real experience right now. Oh, man. yeah Yeah. Usually I'll start a story and then Marion goes, no, no.
00:12:17
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This is the only one that really had any like but panache reveal. The other two don't have reveals. That's why I really... Really screwed the pooch on that one. Do you want to do what does it mean? Screw the.
00:12:31
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but I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I had to stop because I was like, this is gross. I don't know. I need an update on where screw pooch came from. Why is that a thing? probably like a purebred dog saying. Oh, God. I don't know. That's gross. It's pooch slang for mutt.
00:12:50
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but No, pooch is a dog. Period. What kind of dog? Nope, just a dog. ah dog What I'm saying, is it slang for like, you're shaking your head. You got it. It's about to strangle you.
00:13:02
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it's but You know how, how mutt. Don't shake your head. I'm out.
00:13:14
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Grayson did you look it up? I did. what's What is it? Wait I want to sorry pause. Here's what I'm trying to say before we go into that is like how when you say mutt is like a ah mudblood dog I don't know how else to What the fuck? From Harry Potter. That's best thought man. i'm I'm following what you're saying. go ahead. a mixed breed. Go ahead.
00:13:36
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mixed breed dog is mutt I thought maybe pooch was like another word for poodle mutt like it's a it's a it's a word for any dog but not like any dog pooch is any dog poodle is a poodle what's the poodle comment I was saying that like pooch kind of sounds like slang for I just thought that pooch might mean a certain type of dog not just any single dog in the whole entire world and okay
00:14:05
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Now you're going to hate this. yeah um So first of all, it means to make a big, usually avoidable mistake. And it originated in u S military slang around the forties and fifties, especially i hate among test pilots.
00:14:20
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The original phrase was fuck the dog, which meant to waste time or goof off. Screw the pooch evolved as a less vulgar, less vulgar, more publicly acceptable version.
00:14:34
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How did, okay, then how did fuck the dog come about? Well, and that's the way you waste time. That's time-waster. Why was that a phrase? Because they're men. There's no women around. Yeah, they're young men between the ages of, what year was it? What war?
00:14:50
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World War That'd be World War II. So like 14 to 30-something. um They're not around women. Yeah. Maybe there are dogs.
00:15:01
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No, no, no, no, no. I have other things to say, but you're right, Mara. No, no. Sex is to assume women can't be equally vulgar. what What do you mean?
00:15:13
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i I mean, you guys cuss. you're you're You're saying that like all these men are around. So, of course, they're going to fuck say fuck the dog. No, I'm saying that they were literally because there were no women around. dog Like there were no women to have sex with. But there were because there were wax in the military in World War Two.
00:15:30
Speaker
Oh, but that's... But there were lots of men That's like one in every thousand. Oh, sure. Yeah, it was still mostly men. And if you're married, like, you're not... yeah it's not cheating if you fuck a dog. but we do still exactly But we do still today say. Screwed the pooch. oh Because ah ah it was it meant to waste time or goof off.
00:15:51
Speaker
And to this day, we still say fuck around. Right. when we're When we're wasting time, you know, and that, you know, if you if you think about that, too, it's it's also weird. I need it to be I need the answer to be that they actually were fucking dogs or something, because like, if not, why dog?
00:16:07
Speaker
Why not? OK, there's a polite version from the 1910s that was feed the dog. why is that a waste of time? Well, we're going to to deep dive into this later, but it does not end with fuck the dog. There's stuff preceding it. so Okay. come Tune in next time where we talk about one word.
00:16:27
Speaker
Can we have a topic that's um origins of phrases? yeah Yeah. Idioms? Is that the word? Yeah. Sure.
00:16:35
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but Okay, the the gasp from Grayson. Grayson, can you make a topic that says that three idioms? Please. Anyway, origin of idioms. Our number two, the I'm going to say Mara is going to lead.
00:16:51
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Is called, per Marion, Girl Scout Amazing Race. Take it away, Mara. Yeah, that's not a spoiler. That is... That is what the event was called. Yeah. i I am a lifelong member of Girl Scouts. Me too. So is Marion. I am not.
00:17:07
Speaker
Correct. but Marion and I first met in Girl Scouts. Yeah. When she first moved, her mom was our camp, our council, our team, our troop leader. Troop leader.
00:17:21
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Lifelong Girl Scouts. Yeah. Thank you.
00:17:27
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ah You're doing really well so far. my best to be honest and fair, courageous and strong. on my honor, I will try to serve God and country. yeah Whoa. Oh, man. This is why I'm not a Girl Scout, folks.
00:17:41
Speaker
You think that's still how it goes? Yeah, I don't know. Anyway, and follow the Girl Scout law. Follow the Girl Scout law. And the Girl Scout law is...
00:17:53
Speaker
And then you just... Yeah. Then you go into it. It's nice. It's cultish. But that's how we first met. And there... For Girl Scouts, I would say that there are less, like, camping in wilderness. Or at least, like, with my experience with troop leaders and things.
00:18:07
Speaker
But the one... The show, the Amazing Race, was very quite popular when we were younger. Eighth grade? Seven? Nine? I think we were 14 or 15 when we did this event. Yeah. i think we were freshman. and And Girl Scouts was putting on an Amazing Race, but Girl Scouts edition. and so But we needed a third person because the other two people in our troop either didn't want to go or we...
00:18:37
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They didn't want to go. yeah They weren't as locked in as we were. No. No. They had. It was Patty and what was the other
00:18:45
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bleep Yeah. and No, no i but there was another one, right? Patty was from a different school. Yeah. And then wasn't there another one from a different school? Or was it bleep?
00:18:58
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doesn't matter for the story just for the record none of what we talk about on this podcast matters but it matters to us yeah i and only us sometimes but so we did the amazing race and we needed we needed a third for our little duet yeah don't know why but we needed a third that was the minimum size yes yes and so and our mom had to drive Yes, my mom.
00:19:24
Speaker
You know, she is. Yes. Mom had to drive. She ah did drive us. And Marion was like, oh, let's get Kara to do that. And I like that was probably my first time, like truly hanging out with Kara outside of school. Yeah. And stuff. And yeah, I picked Kara because we had talked about doing the Amazing Grace together. Yeah. Like and so I was like, oh, Kara would definitely be down. Yeah.
00:19:45
Speaker
Take this seriously. Yes. As it deserved. And I'll do almost anything. yeah At least once. Yep. Wink.
00:19:57
Speaker
It's employed. thought you said it's employed. She's employed? Yes. She's going to work?
00:20:09
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I can't say anything nice. And then, so we all three went about her employment. Okay.
00:20:19
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ah Oh, man. We show up and we are the oldest by like... Four years something. Yeah, everybody else feels like they're eight. Ten or under. Yeah. And we're 15.
00:20:32
Speaker
It was like immediately we're too old. But the first challenge. Where was this? Nebraska. Okay, it wasn't Nebraska. So we went there for the weekend? Yeah. Yeah. Overnight or something? It was two nights. Okay. I remember a lot about this. Wow, I don't remember two nights. I only remember the day. I think it started on a day. I think we camped the night before and then did it start?
00:20:51
Speaker
Oh, yeah. And then we left after it on Saturday and came home. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Um, and we had different tasks that we had to accomplish, like the amazing race. I remember it started out everybody. It started at the campsite and it was fire building and Kara built the fire. shipped Yeah. Like instantly these little fucking children. I know we were like, but you didn't know how to build fires because I was a campfire kid and i yeah, that's right.
00:21:18
Speaker
ah Shade throne. We didn't know how to build a fire? Probably not at that it You didn't because you were like if I remember vividly you guys being like if you hadn't been here i don't know how long it would have taken us to build a fire. That would be fun. Shit I wish we could go back in time and just you and I yeah start a fire together. Yeah.
00:21:36
Speaker
We could do it now. We know how to start a fire now. I still think I could build it faster. I want to do the you know in Survivor with the rope? Yeah. I want to do that. Sure. I just want to do all the With Flint?
00:21:48
Speaker
Sure. ah you I don't think you would be able to beat me at Flint. Have you had any experience in creating a Flint fire? What? Shit. But still have. How long did it take you?
00:21:59
Speaker
don't remember. How hard could it be? Boys do it. i want in on this. I've never done it in my life. It's pretty hard. Yeah. Anyway, I have a lot of Flint and I'm ready. But I crushed these eight year olds. And I remember us starting off the day by being like, wow, we're going to crush these eight year olds and it's going to be so fun. And we don't care how old we are. Yeah. And we had We did. Yeah, we did. We proceeded to run around Omaha. Yes. With my mom driving. And your mom is really competitive, too. And so it's really nice. Yeah. So she's like, yeah, let's kick the asses of these. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, she didn't. She would not use that word.
00:22:31
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But that was the vibe. Yeah. And we I don't remember many of the other geocaching was one by the bridge. I love geocaching. yeah i will I want to geocache. would love to. We should start that.
00:22:46
Speaker
Okay, so when we were young, we remember how we would do the scavenger hunts in Moines on like Friday nights because there's nothing else to do? I think we could make our own scavenger hunt up here with us that includes tasks like that. Geocaching?
00:23:00
Speaker
Or like an amazing race type? Yeah, but we it together. Yeah. The problem is you always have to have somebody else organize this thing. Well, geocaching already exists. so we Yeah, you can find one then. No one's yeah like, yeah.
00:23:12
Speaker
Was there labyrinth involved? Like just a regular labyrinth or is that a different? My mom and I also did an amazing race as the two of us. ah But it was anyway, I can't remember that.
00:23:25
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So i I do remember because of the picture, I remember we had to make the N for northern Nebraska. Yeah. At a certain like. uh sign place landmark whatever and then we did arrive to one of the tests before they were completely set up because they weren't expecting people to finish that fast yeah that's right yeah we had to make that we didn't have to i think at the end they were like and now you can make bags and paint them yeah and we were like i guess we're painting bags Yeah, we did that. And then we kind of we helped we helped set up or clean up or something because we were waiting for all the children correct to arrive after we had finished the race about like an hour an hour and a half later. It took so long for those little kids to show up. Suckers.
00:24:12
Speaker
And then we went there. We're having like a little festival. Yeah. Music and stuff. And I got ice cream and like sat outside the park. And that's the first time I learned that Marian likes the Spongebob ice cream. Yeah. I have bad news. have an update about the Spongebob ice cream. No.
00:24:27
Speaker
Which is that for some... I think a safety reason or something a couple years ago, they stopped putting gumballs in as SpongeBob's eyes. And I will say that does really affect how I feel about thing the possible. What are his eyes?
00:24:43
Speaker
They're now like the tiniest little weird chocolate chips as his pupils. And it still has the white. like in it um and it's really upsetting. Also because chocolate doesn't belong.
00:24:54
Speaker
In ice cream like that. In that type of Hawaiian shaved ice vibe. So it's like first of all you added something you shouldn't have added. Secondly like the gumballs are part of the fun. They're like frozen, they're hard.
00:25:06
Speaker
My mouth is watering thinking about how good it is. There it is. Yeah, because I was salivating. Okay, that's the only time you've salivated before? I mean, they could have gone with like a jelly bean or something that was at least a little closer to a gumball. Yeah. A chocolate chip.
00:25:24
Speaker
And not a chocolate chip. To be clear, not a chocolate chip. Like a tiny little chocolate disc. Like if you look it up, it's, you don't even need it there. He might as well have been pupil-less.
00:25:35
Speaker
Oh God. Well, that's just been blind. SpongeBob. Oh, cute. Blind people still have their pupils, right? SpongeBob cataract. Depends on why they're blind. Like, did they lose an eye or are they like if they're born? Yes. If they're born blind. Yes. You know, in, um, in movies, they always have like milky,
00:25:56
Speaker
Yeah, that happens. But that's like a cataract or something. Yeah. That's like a disease. I think we're talking about different types. You're right. It depends on different kinds of blindness. What caused it? If you're born blind because you have like a. I'm genuinely asking. Okay. Your what's the eyeball nerve?
00:26:14
Speaker
Optic nerve. If your optic nerve is disconnected or broken or whatever, that's when it just looks like normal eyeballs. Okay. Okay. Yeah, think really confidently as if I know what I'm talking about for the record everybody ah We don't know.
00:26:29
Speaker
I don't know a single blind person. Yeah. Yeah, i know some legally blind people but not You can be legally blind and still have partial sight. and Yes, so I don't know anybody who's like fully Yeah, I don't think i' blind but I'm partially blind in my left eye Because you have glasses? No, because my ah optic nerve got all inflamed and badly damaged in 2015.
00:26:55
Speaker
From what? We don't know. Oh, right. Right? Cool. You're looking at the most tested man in the state. Ha ha ha! with absolutely zero answers. And you still got your pupils. so Yeah.
00:27:10
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Okay. Check. Damn. That's interesting. So yeah, that's how we won the amazing race. Yeah. We crushed a bunch of little eight year olds and it was the best, um, bonding experience for Mara and I. Yeah. It was nice. It was good. that It was a really good weekend. I remember very distinctly. We were listening to songs on the radio.
00:27:28
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my God. Yes. And that is when there's bubbles. Yeah. Bubbles. Our team name. Our team name was Bubbles because we were listening to a song maybe on the way to Omaha is when we heard it.
00:27:40
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And i don't know what the actual song is Running with Bubbles. No, that's not our song. Because the song, it's i think it's really hard to under, is it Natasha Bedingfield? It's one of those women from the 90s, early 2000s who's like, I'm dreaming of you, you know? Yeah, the the twang of the 90s with the vowels. Yeah.
00:27:59
Speaker
And she was like, I run bubbles when you are not here. yeah Try to say goodbye and choke. you're Macy Gray. Try to walk away and stumble. The word bubbles does not appear in that song. I try to hide It's clear.
00:28:14
Speaker
bubbles when you are not near. it's yeah and I blow bubbles. when This is my confession. But I think that was what I thought it was. i think the whole we all thought is some of us. I don't know. i don't know if it was you or me, but somebody thought it was I run bubbles. Yeah, I thought I still think to this day that it's I blow bubbles when you are not here, man. It's not. It's what I know. It's super. You said it.
00:28:39
Speaker
You said it right. My world stumbles when you know crumbles. My world crumbles when you are not here. You're. But we called ourselves like running bubbles or something. yeah And then we were like, oh, we ran bubbles around.
00:28:51
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yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This pulling up so many memories. Right. We made shirts. Yeah. but Like with the puff paint. Yeah. With the bubbles. Yeah. Run bubbles. Yeah. And it was mine was like a cutoff. And then we had like matching bandanas that I can't remember if they gave us. But we were total pride between us. I would love I'm going to go back and do that again. Yeah.
00:29:14
Speaker
What do you, we would have to be the mom driving now. we can, Grayson will set it up for us. It's fine. The producer. that's the but That's what I want for my birthday is an amazing race through the Twin Cities.
00:29:26
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I'm just kidding. What do you think it means to run bubbles?
00:29:31
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I think we discussed this in the band. I'm sure, yeah. Talking about a bubble machine. the From the bubble machine's POV. when the guy is gone, she just turns on a little button and she's just sitting there in the dark, I imagine, like straight face while bubbles like come She needs to try to smile because her world is a man.
00:29:49
Speaker
I rolled my eyes through that entire... you know and You know when you're a kid and you got the little bubble wand and instead of blowing it, you run? Oh. I run. That's better. just for the record, don't think that that's the lyrics. No, it's not. It's not. It's not. Okay. We just talked about it. We just covered We just talked. the The lyrics are, my world crumbles.
00:30:09
Speaker
No, that's a different part. no what My world crumbles when you are not here. Dear listeners, this is how every conversation goes. Macy Gray, reach out to us. on the show. Correct the record. My top everything podcast at gmail.com. You helped with a core memory for two of us. 2.5. Yeah.
00:30:32
Speaker
of our sponsors yes yes yes oh I liked that like stutter thing was cute we here bitches we're here at the sponsors and our sponsors for this week are ah my parents deciding to move to Iowa correct I was gonna Las Fargo Yeah, Wells Fargo. Thanks for offering my dad a job that he thought was interesting and would give him better work-life balance. yeah ah Because of you, ah I have two friends.
00:31:05
Speaker
And that's it. I have more. But he yeah. but and ah so yeah, the the move and Wells Fargo. ah Also, thank you to
00:31:18
Speaker
what else? What another sponsor? Two more sponsors. Unitarian Universalism. Right. Unitarian Universalism. That's how I met Kara was through church and then Girl Scouts for Mara. Greater America.
00:31:30
Speaker
I think also we could sponsor Girl Scouts Greater America. We could also, our number one sponsor could be Kara moving back to the U.S. That's what was going to say. Yeah. Right. Yeah, because then we got to live together. Yeah, that was when I locked in. Yeah, that's when we became a true trio. The Girl Scout thing was like a ah primer. But for well some reason that didn't extend it. did Well, but then the next year we had mar and I had. Did you get invited to Mara's birthday party? and
00:32:01
Speaker
And I didn't. yeah I was hoping that. I wasn't gonna mention. I don't know that you got invited to that. I don't think I was sad about it. i think we weren't that close at that point. I don't think you got now invited.
00:32:14
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ah Make yourself feel better.
00:32:17
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Lucas did. Yeah. where I feel like you and I were hanging out a lot more than you and Lucas. And I remember being like, why? I don't, I'm healed though. I'm healed from this. You are. And you told me that and you just got to take people at face value. Yeah.
00:32:31
Speaker
So believe their words. So sorry. You were saying you guys were, i think it was the year after we did the amazing race. Mara and i had rest period together, but it was first period. Yeah. And didn't know it wouldn't have been first period. I was in band. It,
00:32:43
Speaker
It was second period because you always. so I have such core memories of this because almost I would say like maybe two out of five days a week. You just never went to band and you would walk into our class second period late with a giant cup of coffee when we were like 15 years, 16 because you were driving. Thermos.
00:33:01
Speaker
Yeah. And we were 16. It must have been it was the year after. So were 16 and you were driving and you would be like, yeah, I didn't make it this morning. And you would barely make it to our class. Yeah. um It's not my fault. They took away the same amount of points for being tardy or absent.
00:33:17
Speaker
What is my yeah incentive to show up yeah if the grade is taking the same hit? The system. So that's, I feel like we wouldn't have maybe hung out in that class had we've not done Amazing Race. yeah But then we drifted and then moved back. in like and It's an origin story.
00:33:35
Speaker
yeah And then the whole side quest shit in the middle. And then to the point where you moved back. Yeah. yeah yeah It's nice. yeah I really... You're going to tell us how much you love us? No.
00:33:50
Speaker
It's as nice as going back to the number ones.
The Madison Opera Trip and Mustard Museum Adventure
00:33:55
Speaker
Look at you. Okay. Now it's Marion's turn to lead. Yeah. I know.
00:34:00
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But I can't wait to jump in. Yeah. So ah our number one story of us takes place. Picture it. Yeah. does What does she say in Golden Girls all the time?
00:34:12
Speaker
Picture it. c Sicily. 1922. Picture it. Italy. 2018. No. Wisconsin. Not Italy. 2018. Mount Trumpe-Loe. Oh, picture it. Minnesota. 2018.
00:34:24
Speaker
Yeah. Because it. soda te yeah because When did you... 20 seconds. I don't think we went... 2018. It was in 2018. We started dating in 2018, so it would have been in 2018. Yes.
00:34:37
Speaker
But Mount Trumpello was different, right? No. was... was same trip. Yeah. Whoa. was a big trip. It big trip. Big That's where Mary Oliver happened. Yeah. So... Sorry. That was a laugh. I liked that.
00:34:51
Speaker
Yeah. and Yeah. So we had... We had kind of like a list of things we wanted to do ah just in general as a threesome, including like going camping, things like that. and we had decided like, oh, what if we went to see the opera? Yeah. And we didn't like anything that was playing in the Twin Cities. We said, you know, it sounds interesting, though.
00:35:14
Speaker
What was it? Love in the time of cholera. Cholera. Yeah. I decided it because it was in Spanish and it was like, can speak Spanish. Which was stupid because it took place in Brazil. Yeah. It does not speak Spanish. and It didn't make sense.
00:35:28
Speaker
It didn't make sense. Make it make sense. And it was kind of like a really convoluted. the storyline didn't grip me at all, but Kara was excited about the Spanish and we didn't find anything better in the Twin Cities. And it was playing in Madison, Wisconsin. We said that'll be a great weekend trip to go there and do things. And on the way there, we stayed overnight.
00:35:49
Speaker
Did we or no? We just went to Trump the law. Just for funsies? Yeah, on the drive there, we stopped to like take a small hike. At Trumpe de L'eau, which is French for... Mountain? I wanted to say it was like... thought it was just the name of a person.
00:36:06
Speaker
I thought it was like Mount by the Water. no it was like Giant or something like that. And we were like, that's ridiculous. This is the smallest mountain, quote unquote, that we'd ever seen. and before we went, I had this book of nature haikus.
00:36:21
Speaker
And i Had the idea. i was like, what if we started a hike by reading like one of these nature haikus? And it was the first time we'd ever done that.
00:36:32
Speaker
And so I stopped us, read and then we went up on the hike and we were walking. And oh, yeah, you were dating Grayson at the time because you were like we just started dating. Yeah. You were talking about Grayson and we got to the top of the hike and then we needed to take a rest.
00:36:48
Speaker
And then that's when I had Mary Oliver, too, and pulled her out. And we read our first Mary Oliver. i think we all cried. We did. we definitely all cried. Yep. um I was like one of her spring or summer And it was like the hike itself was fine. Yeah, it was still brown. There were no green leaves or anything. It was very plain Midwest like, you know, the snow had just melted. So everything was brown and whatever. But it was like such a core memory because we had we counted that the trains that you could see from the top were so long and crazy. And we were reading the and we were just together. So we were doing ourselves and was a great start to the trip.
00:37:29
Speaker
It was really, yeah, it was kind of like an average hike, but the the view was great, great vibes, lots of deep talks. like Good precedents for future hikes. And now we Mary Oliver comes on almost every hike. Yeah, and just reading poetry during it is a huge part of it. And it's all started right there. I can't believe I forgot. Yeah, me too. I didn't realize that was the same trip as the opera.
00:37:54
Speaker
yeah that It was a a fucking packed weekend. Yeah. So then we, uh, we got to Madison and we checked into our hotel. We were staying at the cheapest hotel we could find, like a super eight or something. And and and we, and a disposable cameras that we had been taking pictures of. And I had,
00:38:19
Speaker
gotten, uh, Marion had gotten like a naked pic of me in the shower or something and then I got one of her and then at home. Those are both at home. And then you brought the the cameras to the trip and then I was in the shower on the trip and you reached your arm over and took a picture and I didn't, I don't think I knew either about this previous reaction and so I was just like, what the fuck?
00:38:42
Speaker
Yeah, and that's the only photo that didn't come back. I printed it so you know that one was clear. Yeah. Ha ha ha ha ha. Yeah, the others were all like foggy and murky and didn't really. Not too delicious.
00:38:53
Speaker
No. So none of those really came to fruition. yeah Someone got to see that picture. carra also got hives. Do you remember? She got hives all down her like back. Yes, I forgot about the side her. And we didn't know why. Yeah, it was on your tummy. I remember it was was so insane.
00:39:09
Speaker
It was like everywhere. do that sometimes. My body just breaks out in hives and like is really intense for like a month. It just happens. I got i got a little mini rash yesterday and compared to the hives that you got, a very mini rash, but yeah. i Spiraled.
00:39:27
Speaker
Probably but was going to die. Yeah. Until I reminded. But she's got some anti-itch cream. Yeah. And then it was fine. ah Yeah. so then we got ready and we decided to go to the opera.
00:39:42
Speaker
Yes. We had picked the cheapest tickets we could find for the opera because, again, we were poor. We were all broke. So we're at staying at the Super 8. That was, know, not great. And we go to the opera. We get there.
00:39:57
Speaker
Turns out why our seats were so cheap yeah because they're partial view. Yeah. Uh-huh. Which would be fine if we were watching a play or musical or opera in English.
00:40:09
Speaker
But two of us can't speak Spanish. No. Also, it's in Portuguese, I think. No, it was in Spanish. It should have been in Portuguese. Oh. And the partial view didn't refer to the fucking stage. It referred to the goddamn subtitles. Yes.
00:40:22
Speaker
So because when you go to an opera, there's a big like screen above the stage that has the translation. So that way you can watch and read and, you know, still understand things.
00:40:34
Speaker
And I had really wanted to go to the opera because I had fond memories of going with my parents as a kid and going to Italian operas and reading it. Yeah. Just the vibes. And so, yeah, we there was a pillar also in front of us. We're like trying to lean from the right. around the pillar to kind of see, like I had to crane, my neck was sore after. I was craning to try and like read the words of what was going on. Also the story was super boring yeah like not good. terrible, I don't like that. I tried written reading that book after. it's just as bad as the play. There were there were also seats, empty seats up above.
00:41:10
Speaker
Or not above, but further forward in front of the. And I think we decided we got brave enough intermission to move up. Even then, it still wasn't. I was bored. I was falling asleep in act one. Yeah, it's boring. It was torture. Yeah.
00:41:24
Speaker
I don't know what else we did that night, if anything. um No, that was the day we left. But the. Oh, that was the day we left. Yeah. Oh, so the day before was the continental breakfast.
00:41:35
Speaker
No, that morning. That morning was Continental Breakfast where ah I was really into, a couple of us were really into Key and Peele at the time. Yes. And we went to the Continental Breakfast as a Super 8. It was the most haunted thing I've ever attended. The people were soulless zombies.
00:41:55
Speaker
Everything did feel muted in color. Yes. Is the only way I could describe it. that's a really good way to describe it. And it felt like there was a filter just on the whole vibe. It felt so, i don't know, just slates like. It's like, because normally in a continental breakfast, you have, you know, like the big towers of cereal and you get to turn the thing and the cereal comes out and they have like pitchers with milk and it's like cute and glass and whatever.
00:42:19
Speaker
And this was like, you know, the kid's cereal that you peel back the top on and it's plastic. And here's your carton of milk. And yeah there's an apple that's been sitting there for God knows how long that's just been sitting there. Like a wrapped cake.
00:42:31
Speaker
chris red on or something. delicious. Red delicious for sure. Would have been better off at the gas station. Literally though. yeah And yeah we got when we finished or maybe I texted because I don't think we all came down at the same time. I was like just so you know this is like verbatim continental breakfast from Key and Peele.
00:42:51
Speaker
And Kara was like what? And so then we watched the video yeah a bunch and then it was just like a thing like that whole weekend of just the continental breakfast. Yeah, it was crazy. its entire joke And then we went. So that means the first day we went to the mustard. Yes, yeah because I remember as we were walking out, we were trying to find the opera.
00:43:11
Speaker
We were like, you know what the highlight of the trip was? Yeah. to me you Yeah, we were like, we don't regret this trip. Yeah, because it was a great trip. Yeah. Despite the fact that we came here specifically for the opera. And that was by far the worst part of the trip.
00:43:25
Speaker
But was all worth it because the day before decided... We had random time and we were trying to decide what to do with it. And so we were all looking at a map and was like, guys, there's this mustard museum. And Kara was opposed to going. Wow. How times change. And then think you just started driving to it and we just committed. It was like too late to turn back. Sorry. I was like mustard museum?
00:43:51
Speaker
Sold. And this place was... Chef's Kiss Amazing. It's owned by a guy. i think his name is Jerry. Sure. We'll call him Jerry. Jerry. A guy who just decided he really liked mustard. He was collecting mustard from all over the world and he wanted to create a museum and it had it was just an explosion of yellow everywhere and he had a statue of someone with a mustache a mustard mustache. It was of a milk mustache. Famous art with a mustard twist.
00:44:25
Speaker
Yes. To it. So he had a bunch of things like that around that there was mustard mustard. One of the most. So Coleman's mustard originated in Norwich, where I studied abroad in England. So they had the Coleman's mustard.
00:44:37
Speaker
And ah there was just that I don't even know what to explain what was going on in that. You have to experience it for yourself. Listeners. Yes, you have to go. Amazing. Anybody who talks about Madison, i ask if they've. Yeah. Been to the Mustard Museum. If they've gone to Middleton, it's just outside Madison. But it's worth everything. Everything. I think there was like a his history section in the basement. There was like multiple levels to this building. remember the yeah basement very clearly. then...
00:45:06
Speaker
We decided to get a poster. Who decided to get the poster? asked. You asked. The owner decided. think was me. and We all think it was. It is one of the most contended memories in our friendship. Why did we not buy three?
00:45:25
Speaker
Because we live together. Yeah. And the reason we bought it is because it was an explosion of color. was mustard on a rocket or it was the guy's face. Jerry's like face. He's like sitting on a rocket. I do have it.
00:45:38
Speaker
And it he's like blasting. He's on like a rock a mustard rocket ship and he's blasting into space. And it was all the colors that we had in our bathroom because our bathroom was space cat bathroom. It had Mara's space cat shower curtain with pizzas. Yeah. well, there's a cat's face and then like a floating pizza and hot dog. Yeah.
00:45:57
Speaker
And then I had previously bought like a, um, a really crappy knockoff poster that said like, believe in yourself or something, but it was Mufasa. Yeah. Yeah.
00:46:14
Speaker
But it was also like galaxy space colors and everything. And so we had those. And then our friend Jen had painted another space cat thing that said said like blood, blood ah and yeah blood coven.
00:46:29
Speaker
And ah so we had those things. And so we saw this mustard museum space. It was all the right colors, all the purples and blues and everything. and we were like, oh, we got to get this for the bathroom. ah And then one of us, somebody yeah had the idea that we should ask Jerry to sign Because he was in our the house. sir Yeah.
00:46:50
Speaker
And so he he came over. he signed it. We were like, oh, my God, this is the most amazing thing yeah that we have ever required. Like, yeah, the sign poster by our hero, the mustard museum guy, yeah because it was such an amazing experience.
00:47:05
Speaker
And then we walked out, shut the door. We're like all on the steps. And I think Kara says, wow, I'm so glad I had that idea.
00:47:16
Speaker
And then it was just shouting. Yeah. Shouting about who had the idea, like whose idea was it to get the poster in the first place? Whose idea was it to get it signed? Because I think also some of us were like, oh, we shouldn't ask him. We shouldn't bother him. That was me.
00:47:30
Speaker
And then I are definitely asked. And then like, Yeah. Mara asked him to sign. and yeah. And I don't remember anymore. Honestly, it's been so like hotly contested between the three of us. i can. I we will never know. that No, that memory doesn't exist.
00:47:48
Speaker
Because all I remember is yeah how many times we've gotten knockout drag out yeah shouting matches yeah about whose idea it was and whose poster it actually is. did you end up with it?
00:48:00
Speaker
What did we trade you to get? to i think I think I traded quite a few. You got the fates. ah Yeah. What did I get? i think you got blood coven, the painting.
00:48:14
Speaker
The silence. And I think you got something else as well. You got... All my furniture. Yeah, you had a lot of, like, furniture deals and stuff. And then I feel like there was probably something else that you got. I am sad about, like, those two keepsakes. Yeah. Because they're both, like, I can't think of anything that, like, all of us used yeah or whatever.
00:48:39
Speaker
Well, the blood coven the poster are in same place.
00:48:43
Speaker
spot of the house. Yeah. Yeah. But, um, yeah, I don't know how, I know there was a lot of negotiating. It was very like the, what's going to happen to the poster was a huge question for us. yeah I don't know how I ended up with it, but I believe I believe I traded a lot of things in order to have, that feels great. Also, so I got your furniture because you ruined my table yeah and that was payback for that. yeah I know. Also, you were the only one staying.
00:49:11
Speaker
Yeah. So you, it didn't make sense for us to keep rancher anyway. Well, she was going to sell it. Oh, right. And i said, no, thank could I said, thank you. If I don't have to help you get a new table, then you can have all my shit.
00:49:25
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was a great trip.
Mustard Museum Poster Dispute and Episode Conclusion
00:49:28
Speaker
Why do we not do annual trips to the mustard museum? Maybe that would ruin the magic. trips to the same thing. Yeah. But we should do stuff like that more often because it was great. And the spontaneity of all the places we went to.
00:49:39
Speaker
So what we what I've learned is we need to, oh it's so similar. oh my God, Mara wasn't here for this, but it's so similar to the time we tried to go to the rodeo. yeah Yes. But yes, having an event where you're like, Oh, I got to go try and relive this glory day. And then yeah the rest of the weekend is a good part.
00:49:56
Speaker
Yeah. That's how it should be. Yeah. and The rodeo, we got there for the last 10 minutes and it was a gender reveal. It was a gender reveal. We missed, we literally walked up as the last person was finishing then it was just the gender reveal. And we were like, what? We didn't realize the right rodeo was going to be a literal hour. We thought it was like a whole evening. Yeah. that makes sense.
00:50:15
Speaker
I still want to go to a better rodeo. Yeah, we will. Maybe. yeah, I hope you guys all enjoyed those stories. I hope you go to the Mustard Museum. If you take anything away from this, please go to the Mustard Museum. Enjoy the glory.
00:50:28
Speaker
Talk to the owner. Get a poster. yeah we'll throw We'll throw a link in the show notes. For sure. Oh, yeah. Oh, it's the National Mustard Museum. As it should be. And it's in Middleton, Wisconsin. It's not in Madison technically. yeah Oh, did you?
00:50:43
Speaker
she said outside of. I was having a Kara moment. Did you? Great job. hey It's got 2,000 reviews on Google. That is amazing. The website says, welcome to the condimental divide. I love them.
00:50:58
Speaker
Fuck, it's so funny. America's favorite condiment museum. We got so many little trinkets. I didn't know I liked mustard. This is probably why i didn't want to go, because I didn't like mustard until that trip. And then we got I remember we got a spicy mustard, and we got a curry mustard, which I was obsessed with. I bought so many mustard. And then you let me try them, and I was like, holy shit, do I like mustard?
00:51:20
Speaker
yeah I would go back. I would go back. I think it's worth a backseat. It will never be as good. But we know that. And that's okay. Alright.
00:51:31
Speaker
Well, this has been another episode of My Top Everything. Go ahead and hit us up in the emails. MyTopEverythingPodcasts at gmail.com Tell me about your favorite mustard.
00:51:44
Speaker
Or your favorite condiment in general if mustard's not your thing. Or continental breakfast. we're judging you oh yeah oh second thing you should do go to key and peel watch continental breakfast best skit that they have in my opinion i have cried laughing when he bites into the banana oops ruined it and then listen to that messy song no who is she macy gray yeah the messy gray i run bubbles when you are not here song yes Enjoy it. All right. We'll see you next time.
00:52:25
Speaker
Nailed it. That was good. I liked conducting. I was a part of that. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you.