Wonderful! - Wonderful! 193: Hashbrowns Appendix

Episode Date: August 18, 2021

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Hi, this is Rachel McElroy. Hello, this is Griffin McElroy. And this is wonderful. This is a show where we talk about the stuff. The goods, baby. The good stuff. The goods. We got them.

Yep. This is a show which we didn't do last week. Yeah, thank you all for your patience. For your patience with us. We had a little vacay because we were a little family vacay family vacay we're having a pretty tough time i think it's easy to say for us uh you know we're all having a tough time right now it's not a competition though folks and uh yeah we took a little time off for ourselves well yeah griffin griffin hadn't

seen his bros in almost a year and they had not more importantly our new child right we uh we we there was a lot of stuff that happened kind of all at once and it turned out that our our plans that we had for them to meet gus uh like weren't going to happen and so so we hopped on this family trip and it was nice and hectic and stressful and lovely. But we're back now and we're ready to hit the ground running with the goods. You got any little goods?

Are we changing the name of our show? Small Wonders is now Little Goods. I like that. Yeah. Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man. Can you go first?

I can. Our friend Evan Minsker sent me and our extended fam a recipe on Food Network from Tricia Yearwood called Garth's Breakfast Bowl. And I can't stop thinking about it. Can I just read it? Yeah, please. It's a four-step recipe. I'm not going to read all the ingredients

because one of them comes at you so fast and furious in a way that, this is a breakfast bowl that Garth Brooks, that Garth Brooks made. Okay. Step one, in a large skillet,th Brooks, that Garth Brooks made. Okay. Step one, in a large skillet, melt the butter and scramble the eggs. Okay. So far we're in breakfast bowl territory.

Scramble eggs, yeah. Step two, in a separate large skillet, cook the hash browns according to package directions. I love that. It's like refer to ancillary materials. Go to appendix B to find out how to cook the hash browns. Yeah, you don't need to make hash browns. You've got a box right now that will tell you. Check this. Step three. In a third skillet. Whoa. That seems unnecessary. Break up the sausage with a wooden spoon and cook

until browned. Remove with a slotted spoon and transfer to a bowl. Cook the bacon in the same skillet until crispy. Drain on paper towels, tear into pieces, and set aside. That's all step three. You're supposed to be doing all that stuff at once in your three discreet skillets that you have going. Wow, I don't think we have three skillets. Are you ready for the fucking twist of a lifetime? Seems pretty greasy, by the way,

so far, but go ahead. Oh, that's gonna be the least of your concerns when we hit step four. Cook the tortellini according to package directions layer a large bowl with hash brown sausage bacon tortellini eggs and cheese and serve end of recipe ah pasta not typically a breakfast food uh but more i wonder is it supposed to be tortilla no the ingredients two tablespoons butter eight large eggs 160 ounce bag frozen hash brown such as tater tots thawed one pound pork sausage one pound bacon one nine ounce package cheese

and roasted garlic tortellini unreal unreal garth and Tricia? Garth! Why? Why? Why, Garth? Why? Why? Garth, you made some hits. Do you think maybe he sort of got very experimental with food when Chris Gaines was around? And this is like a whole, like when Chris Gaines was around,

Chris Gaines ate some wild shit. And this fancy boy who likes tortellini, which we all think is the fanciest. It looks like little beautiful rings. So it is, of course, the fanciest pasta. It's so strange to me that, you know, I could see in a pinch, let's say we don't have enough food items. Yeah. So maybe we'll have tortellini for breakfast. But there is more than enough food items. I. So maybe we'll have tortellini for breakfast but there is more than enough food items.

I can't see that. If we look around the house and this is a very privileged position to take and I get that folks but if we look around the house and it's like we don't got eggs

we don't got sausage we don't got hash browns we don't have bacon. We got tortellini though. Hon do you want to eat tortellini for breakfast? I would say no let's just run out

and grab something. I would do it. Because it's tortellini. I would do it honey. Okay. I think also I don't really like tortellini very much. Really? Yeah, I like a long noodle.

Huh. Yeah. So thank you, Evan, for sending that my way. And Justin, you both really put a spring in my step this time. I thought of my little good. Good, good, good. The chicken nugget at Burger King. Oh, God, yes.

Really paid off for us. Really, in a big way. When we travel, typically one thing we can count on is the chicken nugget. And typically this comes from an establishment called McDonald's. Yes. But at the airports we were at, for whatever reason, Burger King had the Monopoly. A stranglehold. And I was a little nervous because, you know, I mean, discerning four-year-old, I thought he is going to see this nugget and recognize it is not his beloved one.

No. But he gladly ate it and I had some as well. Good fucking nuggets, man. Good nuggets. Do you remember when they added chicken fries to the menu and America lost its fucking mind collectively? Those were not good. I mean, they're long nuggets, honey. Well, but because of the thinness of the chicken fry,

they became rubbery. There wasn't enough juicy meat inside. I disagree. You like them? I think the dip ability these bad boys yeah but they just didn't hold up and getting chicken fries with a side of fries fries is like yes give me long food exclusively small long foods please please i'm dipping them in the smallest container of barbecue sauce it's just weird to like a food because of its dippability. Is that weird?

You recognize you're saying nothing about the taste or mouthfeel of the item. Just the fact that you can easily dunk it in something else. Let me hit you with this then. And this could be the show. But then it would be my brother, my brother, and me. What do you like better, Fritos or Fritos scoops? When it's time to dip.

Yeah. Case closed. But I would never say first and foremost, I like a Frito because of its dippability. No, but you would say- I like the salty crunchy. You would say when it's time to scoop, I would like the Frito designed specifically for that function.

Yeah, but to look at a chicken fry and to say, oh, that's good dippability. Like first, first thing out of your mouth. Yeah. The taste, whatever. Maybe you have like a small flask. You have like an Erlenmeyer flask

full of barbecue sauce and a regular chicken nugget is not going to get past that narrow mouth. But I would say a chef at a fancy restaurant who doesn't provide you with salt and pepper and seasoning because the idea is that their food doesn't necessarily require additional elements, that if you are looking at a food anticipating a need to dip, perhaps the food is not good enough on its own.

Yeah. Maybe it's also, by the way, just because I haven't had Burger King in a while. Yeah, that's true. But their flame grilled burgers are good as fuck. Oh, yeah. See, I didn't have the burger. I like that smoky flavor. It's good in my mouth.

And that's all I got to say about Burger King. Our sponsor this week, the VK. It's just we all, as a nation, have slept on Burger King for a while. I know. McDonald's always doing its thing. And then Wendy's popped up and was like, we got a fucking bacon monster. And we're like, oh, that's fun.

Can I say we had basically stopped entirely eating Oh, sure. fast food until we had a son that was very, very picky and now it's like we are so intimately familiar with all of the fast food chains.

Yes, we don't, we still don't get food from them. We get food, like we don't, we're not, I mean, occasionally, it's been a minute though

since I've had a, you know, a Mac of any size. God, do you remember that Mac? What was it? The Mac Deluxe? What was it? I don't. You remember? I know so much deep McDonald's apocrypha.

This is why the Munch Squad segment is so successful on your show. I know. We're all very enthusiastic about it. Yeah, yeah. Okay, can I go and do my thing? Yes. Because my thing is sandcastles. I like sandcastles.

They're so fun. They are the premier beach activity in my book. I just had a really strong memory of a year where La Meyer Sculpture Park, my beloved St. Louis institution, did like a whole sandcastle exhibit. That makes sense. Where they had like multiple castles that you could visit, which seems very like, like a difficult decision to make because it is so,

yeah. Day two, it rains. Like, what do you, what do you do? Well, there's ways of, for like art exhibit sandcastles for preserving them, whether it's with a adhesive spray, which is what they do at a lot of sort of like big sandcastles for preserving them, whether it's with a adhesive spray,

which is what they do at a lot of sort of like big sandcastle competitions, or just mixing in sort of clay composite into the mix to give it a little bit more oomph. See, you know, I've never seen you make a sandcastle, I don't think. I don't even know your technique. I mean, I made them at this trip that we just took.

I know, but I didn't see it. It was gone by the time I arrived. Yeah, it was, yeah. time i arrived yeah it was uh yeah i mean that they were brutal tides and we'll we'll we'll get into that all right we we have fun building sandcastles henry got hit by a pretty like bonkers rogue wave that gave him swimmer's ear which sort of cast a shadow i would say yeah over the the the trip um but before that we made we made some good sandcastles and he was so devastated when i came back he indicated to me that the can't the castle had been lost and he

seemed really worried that you were going to be upset about it i know it was so sad yeah i wanted to tell him like it's okay buddy that's what happens with sandcastles yeah there's something there's something beautiful about that. But, okay, there's a lot about the process I like. When you find the right sand with the right moisture content so that it slides right out of one of those bucket molds. Oh, okay, okay, okay. Oh, that's good stuff.

Because it's hard. It's hard. If the sand's too dry, it just falls apart. If it's too wet, then it forms a suction in the bucket and it won't come out and you know you got to get that perfect that that perfect porridge um which is uh tough to do i don't even do it all the time you know when i make insane castles every every couple weeks or so in the basement we don't have a basement um what i like even more though and i think is true for

everyone more than just making the castle is the infrastructure, making like the the moat that goes around it or the the the swimming pool for the imaginary sand people to play inside of or the the flood walls that could potentially hold back the waves, although they almost exclusively are not effective at that because as it turns out when water hits sand the sand goes oh okay and just kind of goes and just leaves the water takes it and it's gone um but just like trying to trying to build defenses for it like getting into structural engineering maybe i'll build maybe i'll build a fence with little sticks that could be fun i'm just thinking about little sticks. That could be fun. I'm just thinking about this now. Wouldn't it be fun to build a... Well, actually, it's dangerous because somebody could step on that. Well, and also it's difficult to find sticks on the beach.

I guess so. I mean, driftwood. That's what I like is using reclaimed... It's a multi-medium project. Because you can use driftwood. You can use a bird. it's a big fish that you find uh i also like the decoration stage a lot like picking up like washed up kelp and draping that on there or uh getting a bunch of shells and kind of pressing that into the into the work or

using like a um like a fork or something to scrape some texture into the walls. Oh, that's good stuff. Poking holes, poking little windows in it. Like there's so many ways to get creative with sand castles. So for you, it's not necessarily about height. I don't care about the height. A lot of folks out there are really, they're interested in height no i don't that's not my thing like the castle is secondary the castle is the thing to protect and decorate with infrastructure and decor

it's not the it's not the star of the show for me um for me it's more about the the you know the utilities offered by the installation. And there's also something genuinely very zen about sandcastles in that you know while you are making it, unless apparently you are a four-year-old son, that it is inherently a doomed enterprise. It is very impermanent i have this very like vivid memory of a beach trip we took when i was like little uh with our family friends and we were staying at this hotel in myrtle beach that was like facing the ocean and we're like 10 stories up and i remember we had spent the morning building this huge sandcastle with all these sort of defensive structures. And then like in the afternoon and evening when the tide started to roll and we just sat on the balcony for hours and watched our sandcastle, our little sandcastle, like try to fend off the waves.

Until eventually like it was just all traces of it had been completely washed away. And it wasn't like, you know it's going to happen. And if you are okay with that, then it's just a question of like, how long can my brave old toaster like hold off the ravages of the world? And when like, not to get too like existential about it, but like. I think it's too late. It's too late, I guess. You could say the same for over the grand scope of everything, like any creative endeavor.

So if you think about a sandcastle and you think like, well, this doesn't have to be perfect because it's going to be eroded by the ravages of time at some point, you could apply that logic to a lot of creative endeavors that would make you not approach them with complete perfectionist attitude that would keep you from making the thing and having fun with it in the first place. I think there's a lot to learn from Sandcastle. It's a very glasses half full approach

because what you said to me now just sounded like a little depressing. Really? Yeah, the idea that you could put energy into something that is very fulfilling, but that has no permanence. Well, the energy has merit. That is the thing. It is the act of creating the thing that has the value,

not the creation itself. I know that that is a a maybe a challenging statement for this show but it is uh it is a i don't know it's a philosophy that i think serves me fairly well in my in my uh uh more professional creative endeavors yeah uh and also for sandcastles and all right i'll turn it around. I know the thing you've been wondering since I started talking about this is like, what's the history of sandcastles? And I'm here to tell you that I don't know that. But I can tell you what the biggest sandcastle ever made was because it was made earlier this year.

Whoa. In Denmark. There was a small seaside town called, I'm going to mispronounce a lot of things here in the next like 30 seconds. small seaside town called, I'm going to mispronounce a lot of things here in the next like 30 seconds, uh, Blokas and a dude named Wilfred Stijger and 30 other sculptors built a monolithic pyramid-esque sandcastle that stands nearly 70 feet tall. Oh.

And it's made from almost 5,000 tons of sand and clay. I was thinking as you were describing this, I was like, oh, I hope you can walk into it. No, you can't walk into it. It is a wild – look up a picture of it. If you search like biggest sandcastle ever made, Denmark, you will get there. But it is like a multi-tiered almost city. Like it is like a keep made out of multiple buildings and things like that.

But what's wild isn't just the intricacy of it and the scope of it, but also that it is about the role that COVID-19 has played in our lives over the last year and a half, which is wild. There is a model of the virus wearing a crown at the top of the sculpture. And in an interview, Wilfred Stichker said,

it's ruling our lives everywhere. It tells you what to do. It tells you to stay away from your family and not go to nice places. Don't do activities, stay home. He channeled his COVID anxiety. Wow. Into a 70 foot tall sandcastle made out of 5 000 tons of sand and clay that's so interesting all those people that are like hey look at the sourdough i made and he's

like oh interesting uh here's my thing that i had just a little 70 foot tall sandcastle uh yeah those sandcastles i really like them man i i i am afraid of a lot of the things that live in the ocean which maybe i've chosen a strange topic to do a whole season of the adventure zone around but i like but i'm also not a fan of like you know sunbathing or i like i like chilling in the shade on the beach and reading a book that's like my shit but if i'm gonna not be doing that i want to be building a sandcastle now i'm curious do you have opinions on beach sandcastle versus sandbox sandcastle i mean sandbox sandcastle you're not gonna get the the mixed media yeah you're not gonna get the you're not gonna get the water content like it's yeah it's it's i mean it's good practice i guess but um it's not the big show it's a big show yeah in the sandcastle community hey can i steal you away yeah

oh we got a couple blumper bones here. And this first one is for Joseph Lynn. And it's from Stephanie who says, Hey, sweets. I can't believe we have been married a decade already. So glad you were willing to be my blind date to prom 13 years ago. I like you and I love you. Our life together is the most wonderful thing ever. Let's get drunk, order a pad thai, and play some video games.

Happy anniversary. That's a fun night. We just had some pad thai last play some video games. Happy anniversary. That's a fun night. Yeah. We just had some pad thai last night. It was pretty good. That's true. So I'm feeling the pad thai part. Yeah.

No drunk, but definitely pad thai. The pad thai part. And if there's Griffin, there's always video games. Hey, that's not fair. I'm not always playing video games while we're hanging out. You know, having us time. Well, not always. Not always, but sometimes. Yeah. I almost figured out how to play

Free Cell, okay? Is that all you're doing over there? Almost exclusively. You see me playing on my phone or on the Switch, it's all Free Cell. It's just like, it's really complicated. It's like Solitaire, but it's not.

Can I read this next one? Okay. This is for Amy. It is from Austin. Hey, my dude, I bought a Jumbo John so you'd hear it and go, huh, those people have the same names as us. Then ponder that until I said something more specific

to our personal lives, but I guess you'll never unravel this mystery. Don't ask me about it or I'll just raise my eyebrows or something. Love ya and bless up. That's so good. That is so good. I love that. I love that very accurate description of how these things often go out into the world.

Which is like, I have that name and I know someone with that name. Yeah. Could it be? And it is. It is this time. It is, Austin and Amy. But Amy, you know, because you've got it.

But Austin, surprise, we got you. Mr. Robot Man, what are you doing? I'm just taking one last look at my co-workers. Every journey comes to an end. Remember, Plek, this space will be with you, always.

Sorry, who are you again? That's Master Kira, I know. Oh, right, right, right, sorry. Just calling in. Friendships will be tested. Dahl, you have to do it. You have to shoot Fleck. Okay.

You shot him so fast. Destinies will be fulfilled. I've become a complete bird. I'm flying. I'm flying. Guys, we don't have a choice. We have to put on a show. We can do it in no barn.

We've got the costumes. We've got a stage. We can do it, you guys. Mission to Zix. The final season on Maximum Fun. Hey, what do you want to talk about today? I want to talk about something that I am surprised i have not talked about before but according to my uh look through the index i have not and i think this is going to be a little contentious uh-oh tie-dye yeah you don't really like it do you i

do not care for it yeah i don't have okay i don't have anything against it it's just not something i i wear actively is it all of the color is it just this the so many color no i think that wearing tie-dye intimates a certain uh like a party lifestyle cultural lifestyle okay that and it's not just one there's several there's several different sort of i would say i i tie-dye identities uh-huh uh or tight entities if you will of course and uh i don't know that i necessarily apply to any of them right like you can you can have you can live that sort of hippie life. You can live that, I think it's got, there's a beach life for sure that's got that, like a casual relaxation life. Or I also think there's like a church mission trip life where you get that tie-dye.

So that's what I was going to ask you, because I'm wondering if you have participated in tie-dye and or had any tie-dye items at any time. It will not surprise you to learn that the latter of those three examples I just gave was one that I had. That's what I was going to say. Because so tie-dye for I feel like our generation is really just more about like camp life, you know? Interesting, yeah. Like that was my experience was like one year at art camp, we like all tie-dyed shirts and shoes and whatever we could get our hands on.

And so for me, like my nostalgia for tie-dye is like a very artsy crafty one. See, and maybe that's part of it for me is that I am 34 years old and I don't actually know how you do tie-dye. Oh. I have tie-dye shirts, but I've never really successfully made one

and I'm not really sure how it works and I'm too afraid to find out at this point. Yeah, so I have quite a few tie-dye items, and I find myself always kind of seeking out more. My banner pieces of tie-dye clothing right now are like overall, shorteralls that I love. We also have a little onesie that my friend Krista made our oldest son that now our youngest son can wear. If I could save time in a bottle. You sing that, but you just did the Sandcastle segment and so i i don't even know where you stand really i can i can feel both things oh that's beautiful i know complicated man uh i love it i love it i love the artsy crafty element as i mentioned i love the colors

i love that they're always a little different like if you get like a real hand handcrafted item sure uh and there is a rich history there that goes back before the 60s. Oh, I don't doubt it. This is actually- To the roaring 20s. Even before that. To the zany 10s. So tie dye is a little difficult to track because textiles decay faster than a lot of other mediums.

And so it's difficult to say, like, this is the first piece of tie-dye. But they can date Chinese pieces from the 5th to 6th century, which is kind of incredible. Peru is another place where there has been a lot of early tie-dye. In Japan, tie-dye has been around uh since 552 ce uh you can also find some tie-dye in india done as early as 4000 bc yeah uh those are the places i would assume like places that have a history of like very colorful like art and yeah with things like dye it's like a lot of different civilizations figured out how to dye things yeah it came out of a lot of different kind of like cultural uh ceremonies and and religious ceremonies uh and also just you know

the availability of the items that you could use. Well, they didn't have rubber bands. Dye fabric, true. So I don't know what, was it like some sort of like awful, like entrails or something like that? I mean, I can tell you that string is something that's been around for a while. Oh, yeah. And you can also bind with string. I was thinking like tinned, like, like you know sinew i mean maybe okay

um so in the u.s uh it was actually the great depression when women were learning how to tie dye uh at home that doesn't sound depressing at all um there were some shelf dyes available like the one used today which is the writ r.i.t dye was created in 1918 that's a lot what a lot of people use to tie dye today um but you could also you know use blackberries your Janis Joplin, you know, your Joe Cocker on stage at Woodstock wearing the tie dye. There is some, because everyone like associates it with the 60s, but it's like, well, how did it come back? And there's an interesting theory that the Peace Corps showed up in 1961, where people were traveling all over the place and that potentially volunteers in West Africa brought back kind of this knowledge of dyeing fabric with them.

But so tie-dye has this huge like surge in the 60s and 70s and then the 80s gets super preppy and it disappears. in the 60s and 70s and then the 80s gets super preppy and it disappears and then i feel like right around when i was like middle school high school there was like a resurgence like mid to late 90s there was this kind of like re-emergence of this like hippie well it's i genuinely think it was because that's when we got into like wild hypercolor shit. Like that mid to late 90s aesthetic was like. True. Overwhelmingly neon like bonkers. Well, there was also Woodstock came back in the 90s too. I guess so, yeah.

That might have been part of it. And then as recent as like this year, there has been this huge like tie dye movement. I don't know if you remember this i had actually forgotten about it until i was researching this but in the olympics team usa had this whole like line of like red white and blue oh yeah tie-dye including these like bucket hats that i guess you can purchase now as a you just showed me the copy of the article again not the there we go oh yeah the pictures see yeah those are nice those are nice i guess it was ralph lauren that did the whole like tie-dye motif um but yeah it's like all over all over the place again i mean it's a

hobby everyone got hobbies that's the thing a lot of people are kind of associating it with the like pandemic, you know, home activity. You know what's wild? Quick sidebar. Yeah. Last year I got into electronics. It was like my hobby was like modding controllers and switches and old Game Boys. And then I kind of fell off of it earlier this year because things started to get a little bit better. And now that we're starting to turtle up a little bit more, I've been getting really

interested in doing it again. I wonder what that is. I don't know. It's almost like a reflex. It seems reflexive. Yeah, our friend Cassie, I know, got real into tie-dye and gave us some tie-dye socks very early on in the pandemic. And it was actually it was something I was planning to get into at the beginning of quarantine.

And then for various reasons, just didn't. Largely because it is a pretty lengthy process. By various reasons, you mean you grew a child? Yeah, I started growing a child. And also, it's like it's a very kind of time-intensive process. So there's the wrapping of the rubber bands. Oh, sure. And then there's the soaking of the dye in various like segments, you know, depending on what pattern you want.

And then there's like washing and then soaking. You know, there's like a multi-step. I don't know. You can say all these things. I don't know. I don't know. I do not know. Well, do you remember the birthday party we went to where tie-dyeing was involved for the children?

Yeah. Did I do it? No. No. I guess I did. I don't know. I don't know how it works. The trick is to let the dye soak long enough and then uh wash it i believe in cold

water uh so that you don't lose all of the but it's just the way it's cramped that it makes the crazy yeah you kind of swirl it and then rubber band it so yeah like the spiral of it can create kind of like a spiral pattern or if you can fold it certain ways to create different types of patterns. It's kind of like origami in that way. It's the chaos I think I don't like. I think it's the chaos. The chaos of tie-dye. I like instructions, you know, connect point A to point B to make C happen.

But tie-dye is like, just twist it up, baby. Dip it in. That is true. There is something to be said for the fact that you do not know what it's going to look like. I don't know. I don't like that. Until you take everything out. I have made quite a few tie-dye items that just look splotchy. There is no discernible pattern. Yeah, I can't.

I just like the multicolor. I think I might actually like the chaos. I think I might actually like the chaos I always say that but that you know I'm the dharma to your Greg stop saying that you know we're both Greg Rachel and I have this conversation a lot when one of us when one of us wants to say or do something fun and the other one's not necessarily in the right headspace for it we will accuse one another of being the greg and we're the dharma ultimately we're both greg but the whenever we talk about it for more than two minutes we come to the realization that

we're both greg we're greg and greg and that if one of us was a dharma this relationship probably would not work that's true probably would not i always think about this scene and i don't know if it actually happened but this like this uh commercial or whatever preview or teaser for an upcoming episode where dharma is dancing on a table and greg is standing on the floor looking up at her and i think yeah i wouldn't be on the table both both you and i would be on the ground looking up at this phantom dharma in our relationship i'm imagining like oh yeah i did tie-dye on your business papers oh man you're so free-spirited i would be like my business papers dharma i need these for business tomorrow uh hey thanks to bowen and augustus for the use of our theme song money won't pay

you find a link to that in the episode description and thank you to Maximum Fun for having us on the network there's so many great shows on MaxFun that you should go check out and listen to like Fantai and if you haven't checked out Tiny Victories I feel like there's a lot of crossover potential between us and Tiny Victories

yeah for sure and Mission to Zix whole bunch of shows for you to go listen to. We, and by we, I mean Montaigne, just put up the music video and full song for it. Oh, it's so charming. The MaBimBam theme, My Life is Better With You. You can find that at our McElroy Family YouTube channel. And yeah, I think that's about it. We got stuff at McElroyMerch.com that you can go check out now.

But that's it. Thanks We got stuff at macroymerge.com. You can go check out now. But that's it. Thanks again for being patient with us. And, you know, we'll be back next week. The regular old episode. But this is a fun one. I really enjoyed doing this show with you today. I always enjoy doing it. But this is one that I've just delighted in.

I delight in your presence. Oh, thank you, dear. Yeah, we took a week off. That's not it it's I just I'm full of love I'm overwhelmed with love we also haven't had a conversation this long in in that's true in over a week not because we're fighting but because our children are conspiring against us there were so many times this past week would turn to me and ask me a question and want to talk about something. And I would be like, can we do this later?

Yeah. Because we would have each, each one child clambering all over us, but that's the life we chose. It is, you know, it is, it is. It's a long game.

Parenthood. Yeah. I still imagine a time where both of us could sit with our young children at a restaurant and enjoy a meal together as a family. It can't be that far away. It can't. But it is? But it feels like it. Oh, no! Thank you. Hey! Hey!