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SPEAKER_00 0:00

Welcome to another episode of Absolut Another Podcast. I am Mr. Momin, Mr. Mom from Lone Star. Shout out. And I'm regular mom Cassie. Yeah. Mr. Mom, the video, music video. The kids love it. Oh, yeah. They find it hysterical.

SPEAKER_02 0:18

It is kind of a silly video. I remember like when it came out watching it as a kid.

SPEAKER_00 0:22

They would, um, or the video.

SPEAKER_02 0:24

No one probably has any idea what we're talking about. Mr. Mom by Lone Star.

SPEAKER_00 0:28

Yeah. It came out as like a it was, you know, you smart shuffle your playlists, and it came up after like drive. I was driving one day. And I was like, well, pop this on like my play, my YouTube playlist of music videos that come on from time to time. Lo and behold, it's animated, and the dad is lost his job, blah, blah, blah. Mom goes to work, and the kids are just like really he's like seeing what the mom usually goes through. And he's going through H E double hockey sticks the entire day. And then she gets home from work, and then the kids finally strap up. Yeah. Like you got it. And he's like, I love you, honey, at the end. I don't. But the this episode is filming after the 4th of July.

SPEAKER_01 1:16

Happy 250th birthday. Happy birthday to America.

SPEAKER_00 1:20

Whether it's good or bad for you. Um, but it's also the World Cup is being played and not just United States, but in Mexico.

SPEAKER_02 1:28

It can still be going on this long. Oh, yeah. I don't know how long it is. I've no I have no clue about soccer.

SPEAKER_00 1:34

I think it goes till like through July or like middle, late July, something along those lines. They're playing right now. This is filmed a few weeks before. US has only won one game. They played Paraguay, and that's it. Okay. They play Australia, then they play Turkey. That's in their group. Everyone's in a group stage and they do a round robin within their group. And then two teams from each group advances to the non-scale.

SPEAKER_02 1:58

Didn't you say there's a chance that America and England might play each other on the 4th of July?

SPEAKER_00 2:02

There is a very like I don't know like the percentage chance. So like if it does happen, like what a showdown. What a showdown on the 4th of July.

SPEAKER_02 2:12

I might tune in.

SPEAKER_00 2:13

Yeah, it's like whenever United States plays uh Canada in hockey. There's like this rivalry about that. It used to be Russia before we were born, but now it's more so Canada. And we did claim the gold medal for that. We'll see if they actually played. America might not even make it out of the country. Yeah, I'm like, I have no clue.

SPEAKER_02 2:31

Are they good? No idea.

SPEAKER_00 2:32

They're good, but they're definitely not near like one of the top teams.

SPEAKER_02 2:37

I feel like other countries' football soccer is such a prevalent sport where America is like football with a football.

SPEAKER_00 2:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:46

Not a soccer ball. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:47

That and uh like yeah, it's probably maybe our like I would say yeah, football, baseball, basketball, hockey, maybe even NASCAR, and then it's soccer.

SPEAKER_02 3:02

I'm like, I don't know. Like, I really don't follow, I don't follow a lot of sports, and I definitely don't follow soccer.

SPEAKER_00 3:07

So, but it is cool to see like what's going on, and everybody's excited, and yeah, and people were coming in from all over the world and not realizing like how beautiful America is, but like beautiful to the point that they find Waffle House infatuating.

SPEAKER_02 3:22

They think Waffle House is cool.

SPEAKER_00 3:24

They like they was somebody went on a trip from like Birmingham, Alabama to Texas, and I've never taken that route before. No, but they also realize how vast the United States is.

SPEAKER_02 3:36

Well, America is so different, like in their different every like state has like a couple different areas, like even Pennsylvania.

SPEAKER_00 3:42

You have your cities, you have like more scenic nature areas, you have your colleges, your universities. It's yeah, we're like it we seem like a dull place to drive through, but once you get off like the turnpike and all the big major highways, there's there's some cool things to see. But it's great to see like it's a uh good coming together, even when things aren't so great in the grand scheme of things, yeah, happening.

SPEAKER_02 4:10

But there's a lot of negative things happening, but this is a this is a more positive thing, I think, for everybody.

SPEAKER_00 4:15

Yeah. This uh episode, the story that we have is good feelings, yeah, positive vibes.

SPEAKER_02 4:22

It's a feel-good story, it's a little bit different than what we usually tell.

SPEAKER_00 4:25

Yeah, I feel like it always like ends with like there's there's a dramatic instance that happens in like whatever transpired in the story. It doesn't always end bad, but it always ends bad for the villain. But there's really not like a villain.

SPEAKER_02 4:40

There's not really a villain in the story, and there's bad stuff that happens, and it's a little bit dramatic, but also ends good. So we're gonna dive into the story. I have a story to tell you that is a bit different than the stories that you usually tell. However, it still is crazy and it has a very happy ending. 17 years ago, I was planning my wedding to my still amazing husband at our dream venue. Like you usually call it, we'll call it ABC Venue. Oh, it's a good spot. Heard a lot of good things about it.

SPEAKER_00 5:08

Sometimes like crazy things happen at ABC venue.

SPEAKER_02 5:11

I always laugh when people are like in the comments. Like, I would never get married at ABC venue after the last 30 stories I heard.

SPEAKER_00 5:18

We like if we did ever own a venue, we should just call it ABC venue.

SPEAKER_02 5:24

Part of it would be like the ABC venue room.

SPEAKER_00 5:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:27

I would not call it ABC venue.

SPEAKER_00 5:28

Yeah, that yeah, it's a little I just call that people would think it's like a playhouse or something.

SPEAKER_02 5:33

Um another sidebar on this, I also think it's funny. People will travel and they'll take pictures of ABC something, and they'll be like, it's ABC Venue sister store. Because like there's a lot of companies that have ABC at the beginning. I think it's funny. Okay. Eight days before our wedding, a terrible storm came through our town and messed up a lot. Fences were knocked over, trees were down, power outages. It was somewhere between a severe thunderstorm and a tornado.

SPEAKER_00 6:00

Micro burst is the word that she's looking for. Probably.

SPEAKER_02 6:05

Yeah. I think this is a woman that wrote it in. On the Sunday before our wedding week, I got a call from our venue. My stomach dropped when I picked up the phone. I thought they were going to say the back patio had a tree fall on it, or maybe the barn door flew off. But instead, they told us that they would not be able to host our wedding because the venue had caught on fire due to an electrical fire that was caused by a lightning strike on the back side of the barn venue.

SPEAKER_00 6:30

Yeah, things happen. Weather impacts, events.

SPEAKER_02 6:34

Yes. I was silent. I literally had no words to respond. And the owner, Steve, repeated, I'm seriously so sorry. The damage is so extreme, and there's no way that we can host your wedding day. I was in denial. My wedding was in eight days. 250 people were coming into town, and we no longer had a venue. Did I mention that it was peak season in June? I had had my venue booked for over a year, and I had never I never imagined something like this would ever happen to me. That it would be like stressful. Oh yeah. It would suck. Like getting that news would be like uh And how close was she from This is the Sunday before her wedding, so like she's She's a less than a week away. Yeah, less than a week. She said the storm happened eight days before, so it's probably like seven or six days now. Oh like I said, I was in denial, and I asked Steve if I could stop by to see the damage in hopes that it wasn't that bad. But when I pulled up, it was devastating. I thought that maybe it was a small fire, not that it burned down the whole barn. Several trees were down all over the proper property. Steve was not lying. There was absolutely no way that this place was going to be able to host our wedding. I realized then that we would need our money back because we needed to find a new place to get married. Steve shared that the funds are non-refundable at the time, but we could use the funds that we had paid for the venue for a future date once the venue was rebuilt. I spent the day crying and trying to decide what I should do.

SPEAKER_00 8:02

Which like that's tough to like business-wise, um, I get it, Neila, but it's touchy. It's very touchy.

SPEAKER_02 8:11

Yeah, because like she has to decide now is she gonna have her wedding, where is she gonna have it? And like, I don't know how expensive the venue was, but that could be thousands of dollars that you're out.

SPEAKER_00 8:20

And like there should be when it comes, it's now there's clauses.

SPEAKER_02 8:24

Like this was 17 years ago. So like I don't know. I feel like now there's force majeure clauses and everything where like it has it. Basically, if something like this happens, like they usually they get their money back and there's no hard feelings, like you kind of split ways, or the venue's protected and like insurance pays them out. Right. So like there is more protection now. Maybe this place like didn't have that. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 8:45

Yeah, that's like the scary thing about owning a venue.

SPEAKER_02 8:49

Yeah, and I mean we lived in a place where a hurricane hit, and like we had you had to pivot and like figure out what people were doing because I think I mentioned the story briefly, but of the hurricane hit, and then before the hurricane hit, we had a catamaran sailboats, two of them for a group.

SPEAKER_00 9:07

Well, when the hurricane hit, one was completely out of commission and the other one didn't have a sail. And like the you can still do one, but you can't do both. Like we there's no options right now. If you come back in a year, you will be good to go. Things will be back to normalcy in some light, but right now that's it's not in the cards for you. Yeah, which is like you gotta accept it for the face value that it comes.

SPEAKER_02 9:32

Yeah, which is like what the position this woman is in.

SPEAKER_00 9:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:36

Steve said he would call around and see if he could find any locations that would be open for availability for this upcoming Saturday, but so far he had had no luck. 250 people is a lot of people. My parents suggested about canceling or postponing until the venue was rebuilt, but I really did not want to do that. I had been dreaming of this day for the past year, and it was one week away. Now we were in the predicament with limited funds and on a time crunch. We spent two days calling nonstop to finally find an available venue. We will call it DEF venue. It was not at all like my barn outdoor property, but it was a it was a place that could hold 250 people. I was relieved and we moved towards booking. We started updating our vendors that we were moving to a new location. We started calling and texting family and friends, and then I received another call later that day that they had an issue in their calendar and they did not have the date open. Their system had an error when it had updated, and there was actually a bar mitzvah happening in the space on that date already, and they could not accommodate us. Another punch to the gut. What kind of venue doesn't know they have an event coming up? You know what I mean? Like when I read that part of the story, I'm like, hey, this date is available. You can actually have it. Psych.

SPEAKER_00 10:49

We have a bar mitzvah the set. Like it's all it has to be on your calendar. It has to be.

SPEAKER_02 10:54

That's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_00 10:55

Like that part, I'm like, You had to have had staff already scheduled to be there that day, too.

SPEAKER_02 10:59

So when I heard that part, I'm like, I don't think that place is organized. I wouldn't be trusting them. But also, how much that would suck to get your hopes up that everything's good and you figured something out, and then for them now for the second time to be like, Yeah, nope, you don't have anywhere. Again, my dreams were crushed. We are back to square one. We are now four days out, no venue. It looked like we were going to have to cancel. I was more than upset. I was an emotional roller coaster and snapping at anyone who tried to reason or give me ideas on what I should do. I just cried and cried. I was no help in trying to figure out what to do at this point. That evening, my mom comes in and says her friend knows someone who rented a lodge for his parents' anniversary party. It's about 40 minutes away. It was a two-story building, and they were using the top floor for the party. And if we needed a space, we could use the bottom floor. My mom said she said yes immediately because it was our only option. However, it was smaller than the barn we originally had, so we were going to have to cut back on the guest list or get creative on how we could celebrate. There was no way 250 people were going to fit in that room. It only seats about 150 for something formal. So a big cocktail party it was. Which I'm like, I to me, that would be to be able to have something better than nothing.

SPEAKER_00 12:21

Yeah, like if you want it to happen now.

SPEAKER_02 12:24

Which, like, you're four days out, you gotta make it.

SPEAKER_00 12:27

Yeah, you gotta be, yeah, you you are very much in crunch. Or in the crunch. People made plans, which I like also like there's probably a lot of people.

SPEAKER_02 12:35

Flying in, book hotels. I'm like thinking of like if you were on the other end of this waiting to hear, yeah. Like you're at the point where you probably can't get a refund on your flight if you're flying. You can't, you might be able to get a refund on your hotel.

SPEAKER_00 12:48

Maybe like someplace, like if it depends on how you um booked, because some like uh certain hotel companies, when you book your hotel, you can like set the cancellation date. It could be the day before, it could be three days, it could be four days, seven days, or non-refundable.

unknown 13:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 13:08

It both party, I feel bad for both. Yeah, everyone involved in this. I'm like, this would suck. We visited the venue, which honestly had a ton, a stunning top floor, but remember, we were using the bottom, the bottom room. More bland and a little bit musty, but we needed a location. My mom helped me work out a plan to do a cocktail style tables, and it was going to be more of a standing party. There would not be seats for everybody. I would have to scrap some of the centerpieces and other items I was pretty excited about and designed with my floors so that we could fit in the people. The ceremony was going to have to be off site at a church. They were able to fit us in for a morning ceremony. I was very sad that my whole vision had changed, but also very happy that we had found somewhat of a solution. I grieved the wedding day I thought I would have, and we pushed forward with three days to go. Con contacting again all of our guests and our vendors with the final plans. Yeah, that's a lot to do. It's like your wedding week is so busy, and then for that to happen, and you're just like back and forth. I think I mean, I would, I'm not as like wouldn't have cared as much. I'd been like, cool, like let's just move forward with this plan. But some people are very particular about their wedding, and this would be like a no-go. Like they would be like, let's just cancel it at this point.

SPEAKER_00 14:20

And I feel like the there are probably family and friends. I think we've uh said it prior, but you like as a guest, and there is a lot of uncertainty, how many of them are reaching out to the couple about what's the plans and they're probably nonstop getting 250 people is a lot of people to be like waiting to get the information.

SPEAKER_02 14:46

And 17 years ago there wasn't services that could like text your guests. Like you're probably having to like call people and have people help you call people.

SPEAKER_00 14:54

Well, like 17. There's um they probably don't have everyone's email. So yeah, it would be and it's especially like I don't have my family members' email addresses. I have their phone numbers.

SPEAKER_02 15:05

And that's what I'm saying. Like 17 years nowadays, there's apps that you literally could have all your guests.

SPEAKER_00 15:11

Yeah, this is even before like pre-Flappy Bird.

SPEAKER_02 15:13

Yeah, like this is like not 17 years ago isn't like super. Yeah, 2009. But it's still like a lot of these things that we have that are so convenient nowadays to contact people were not in place, especially for a wedding.

SPEAKER_00 15:25

Facebook existed, but yeah, like our our uh the boomers did not have Facebook yet. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:33

So I'm like, I'm just thinking, like you said, the amount of calls and stress on top of your being at your wedding week, the wedding's changing. It would be a lot. Yeah, it would be a lot for people probably would just be like, cancel it.

SPEAKER_00 15:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:44

I tried my very best to be grateful the wedding was still happening, but I can't deny that I was upset about everything that had happened in the last seven days. My wedding day rolled around, and my mom said that she had a small surprise for the wedding reception. I assume that she made a slideshow or something to try to lift my spirits. We did our ceremony in the morning, and I would say about 150 people were there, way more than I anticip way more than I anticipated with it being such a big gap in the day, because I had to do a ceremony early. And later, when we arrived at the venue, my mom tells me to peek in and see how good it looks. I began to walk around the back to go to the bottom room, and she says, No, go through the main doors. I was teary-eyed at this point because I've come to the realization that they must have given up their space for us. I opened the doors and the room was stunning. My original plan was all there, but just at a new location on the top floor. All the flowers and centerpieces in the dance floor right in the middle. I started crying happy tears. How? How could this happen? What about her friend's anniversary party that was supposed to be going on? She then proceeds to tell me that her friends told his her friends told his parents about everything with our venue and our wedding day a few days ago, and they graciously decided to give up the top floor and to move to the downstairs room, saying that they already had their big day and every girl deserves to have bliss on their wedding day. People started to arrive and my day was perfect. I can't deny, maybe even more perfect than the barn that we had booked before. The best part was that the couple celebrating their anniversary party downstairs were outside on the lawn when we were taking pictures with our wedding party. And I got to thank them personally for how they impacted my wedding day. We asked them to come up and join during the anniversary dance, which they did, and they were one of the last couples left standing with my husband's grandparents. After our original venue had rebuilt, they reached out to let us know the dates that were available for us to do our wedding. And we let them know to keep the funds on standby for another couple who may be calling in in an emergency, like we had to do, and hopefully they would lend a helping hand. I have no idea if they ever extended a helping hand to a couple in need, but I really hope they did. So it was like a happy ending. Yeah. Like kind of like, oh.

SPEAKER_00 17:50

Good for that couple to like learn what was transpiring to then give up.

SPEAKER_02 17:57

Yeah, because like I'm sure it was, it seemed like it was a guy. So like the son probably had booked that.

SPEAKER_01 18:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:03

And maybe hadn't like mentioned it to his parents. And then maybe he started talking about it, and the parents were like, Well, why are we hogging the upstairs room?

SPEAKER_00 18:11

Let's just go downstairs. We can still have a good time.

SPEAKER_02 18:14

Yeah. I'm like, that was like heartfelt, sweet.

SPEAKER_00 18:16

And then yeah, maybe they did have a the other venue. Like it is tough as a venue owner to like go through something like that and break that kind of news.

SPEAKER_02 18:26

Yeah. And it wasn't just one couple, like the venue burning down. Like I've seen this recently in the news where I think it was a tornado, but it didn't burn down, but it caused the venue basically to be destroyed that for at least the upcoming months, they're not going to be able to host. And I'm thinking about like a peak season. Sometimes you have two to three weddings a weekend. Yeah. So that's two to three couples a weekend that you're having to help pivot and figure out.

SPEAKER_00 18:51

And it's probably wasn't just like that weekend. No. Multiple weekends.

SPEAKER_02 18:54

Oh, yeah. I'm sure like if I I don't know how long if something burns down, but I would say at least six to months to a year.

SPEAKER_00 19:00

Yeah, it'd be a long time. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:02

Like it wouldn't be something quick. So I felt for the venue owners, I felt for the couple for sure.

SPEAKER_00 19:07

Yeah. And it's good they got their happy ending, got to yeah, different place, but all the aesthetics were still there for her.

SPEAKER_02 19:14

It seemed for her that aesthetics were like very priority. More important than like some other people might be about what it looks like.

SPEAKER_00 19:22

Which is how people, some people are partial about that. Totally fine. All right. Our next segment is absolutely not. These are things that we should or should not be doing during a weather emergency. Did you see my tongue come out there? Weather emergency. No, that was even at the beginning, too. Um if you're watching it, you'll see my tongue in that part. Okay. Again, absolutely not things we should or should not be doing during a weather emergency. That time I kept my tongue in. First one, when sirens are going off, alerting you to the basement, choosing to watch from the porch instead. Like you see this all the time on like Facebook videos. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:09

To me, absolutely not. I get I'm not like scared of storms, but if the sirens are going off and there's like a pretty high chance that a tornado's coming, I'm not chancing it to go on the porch. Sorry.

SPEAKER_00 20:22

I'm not good. Like I might stay upstairs.

SPEAKER_02 20:25

I feel like you're more like we live on a hill.

SPEAKER_00 20:27

So I feel we have had like a micro burst come through. Yeah, it took our tent and or it took our yeah, we had a replace. So we had the original owners had a gazebo that was like st not staked to the ground, but it was met very uh heavy. And then we bought a makeshift one, like a cheap one off of Amazon, and I bought it literally the day before. We built it. And I'm waiting for the sandbags to come in. And the sandbags arrived a day late because a storm came through, and lo and behold, I look outside, and there is our makeshift gazebo, the very light one that didn't wasn't pinned down, it was only pinned down by the strings and like the little pin that goes into the ground, not like sandbags, and it was gone. And so it was like, we gotta buy an industrial one, we gotta do like this right if we're gonna do this.

SPEAKER_02 21:18

It was like over the fence. I remember we were like, we just bought this. But the thing was, it wasn't cheap, it was still like $500, but it just wasn't like it needed more things to like hold it down.

SPEAKER_00 21:27

It wasn't like our big pergola that we have now. Yeah, we just had so we bought it in springtime, and yeah, storms come. Storms come now, like I feel like spring showers bring Mayflowers. April showers bring Mayflower.

SPEAKER_01 21:41

April showers bring Mayflowers.

SPEAKER_00 21:42

But May and June are worse in terms of severe storms than like uh April is anymore. I feel like summer pushes back longer too. This summer this year didn't start until like the end of May. I can tell how weather is doing based off of our tree in the front yard and it's It's losing its leaves a month earlier than it usually does.

SPEAKER_02 22:03

Yeah. But yeah, I'm not going to the porch. I'll say that much. Go in the basement.

SPEAKER_00 22:07

Like we have any like cloud coverage, darker clouds. It's not even really gonna rain. It just and it might be windy. Rain is coming, but it's gonna be like I look at the accu weather and it says 30 minutes, rain's coming. And I look at the radar. We're good. But I'll go outside to get things tucked in, get to where they gotta go. He sees us out there.

SPEAKER_01 22:27

He's get inside.

SPEAKER_00 22:29

Like the dogs are outside using the restroom. He's like yelling at our dogs to come back in. Like he freaks out about it.

SPEAKER_02 22:35

I was in Ohio last week, and and when I was leaving, they had they had a tornado warning or watch. It came up and it was like, You you need to seek coverage downstairs. And I mentioned that to my mom. I'm like, I'm gonna wait it out because I don't want to get on the road. And then Tyson was like, Oh, a tornado's coming here. We can't go. And then finally, when it was safe to go, he was like, No, we can't go because the tornado's gonna get us. I'm like, buddy, it's going the other way now. We're safe. He's he's weary about the weather.

SPEAKER_00 23:03

Yeah, he loves weather, but whenever it's bad weather, he was a little he's four. Yeah. Okay, uh, pushing forward with your destination wedding plans, even though there is a pending hurricane on the horizon. So it's probably a hurricane like in the Bahamas coming up through Jamaica right now. And you have a wedding in Florida.

SPEAKER_02 23:23

It's like when people have like vacations and they still continue to go, even though like flights are being canceled and they're like, do not go there. Yeah. And then people still fly down there, and then they're like, Oh, my vacation was ruined. I'm like, it's it's warning you that there's something.

SPEAKER_00 23:37

Literally cannot control the weather.

SPEAKER_02 23:38

No, you can't out of all the things you can control, weather is not one of them. I would say absolutely not. Yeah, you gotta pivot at that point and be like, We're not doing it, or we're pushing it, or something like that. It's not it at that point, you're putting your own personal wants over people's safety. Yes, not worth it.

SPEAKER_00 23:54

We went through Hurricane Irma. We lived in the Keys. It originally was saying it was going in a direct path to Key Largo, and it ended up being down more so like uh between Key West and Marathon.

SPEAKER_02 24:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:08

So it was a solid hour away for where the like heart of the storm was at or the eye of the storm. We went up to Orlando in a typical four and a half hour drive to get us because they evacuated us. We had to leave, unless you were a first responder. I could have, or we could have stayed at that property, property, but we had to you know be the first ones to start putting things back together. Anywho, we went to Orlando and we went to Disney for like a day or two because we stayed with friends from college, and but the night of the but Disney was great to go because it really wasn't that busy, no one was coming in for that. But our friends live in the middle of the state, and it was the first time I got to like the first time I got to experience a hurricane, but the first time I got to hear a hurricane, and it sounds like a train through the whole night when it was passing through. Like that, those winds were no joke. And then after you moved back, and I stayed back for another month or so to finish up work. We had summer camps and making sure everything was peachy keen. My plan before I moved back was my friend was coming down and we were gonna make different pit stops along the way. We were gonna go to Disney for a day. We were gonna go to Amelia Island, we were gonna go up to Raleigh, like all these different places. And another hurricane was coming in at the same time. And I was I called him like, listen, you gotta cancel your flight. You'll get your money back because it's hurricane. Like, you you're fine. If it you can't get your money back, I'll just pay for it. And I just left on my like by myself. I drove up to Amelia Island and got dinner with a friend that was up there. Shout out to Bill Carroll. Bill and Carroll, and then woke up at like 5 a.m. and finished the drive. I remember going through the like Appalachian Mountains, and I was so tired past it. But I just at that point, I'm by myself. I'm not really like enjoying this trip. I just wanted to get up there, yeah, go see you guys. Yeah, wait, yeah. Hurricane, you gotta pivot. Pivot. Uh driving through standing water on the highway.

SPEAKER_02 26:19

No, yeah, not safe. But what you can hide your plate, but also like sometimes it's like flooding, and then you could get stuck and like drown in your car. Like, what are you thinking?

SPEAKER_00 26:28

Yeah, I grew up in a flood town. Like, I lived on a hill, but whenever there was a lot of rain coming through, the river, the Manongahela River, would flood our downtown. And to the point it would sometimes come up a little bit on the hill, like going the road that would go up and down it. But the bottom part would just be completely topped off. And there had there were cars that thought, oh, this isn't too bad. Like, and then you can just see that they halfway through, like, I've I've made a grave mistake. Yeah messed up. Okay. Uh taking cover during a thunderstorm under a tree. What makes you like in a car by yourself?

SPEAKER_02 27:12

I don't know. I would say no. I mean, I think thunderstorm, you gotta get inside because of the lightning.

SPEAKER_00 27:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:18

I don't know anyone that's been struck by lightning, but like that is a fear of mine.

SPEAKER_00 27:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:23

Even when we're like outside in a storm sitting up, like, I gotta get inside.

SPEAKER_00 27:26

Gotta get in a car. The only like time I thought I was gonna get struck, I felt it. I really did feel it. It was at Amelia Island. We were doing uh jet skis and the intercoastal, and the storm was coming in, and we like we were hightailing it back to the dock, and I felt warmth, and I felt my hair like sticking up. Like I felt like the clouds were matching the electricity with me. And thankfully I'm here.

SPEAKER_02 27:54

My mom did that when we were in Amelia Island last time. She was like, there was like a storm rolling in, and we were out on the beach just like looking at shells and stuff, and she was like, My hair just got static. And I was like, Come on, kids, time to go to sleep now. We're done. I'm not messing around with lightning.

SPEAKER_00 28:09

Decide to still get married outside during a storm because the pictures are prettier outside.

SPEAKER_02 28:17

I'm gonna say absolutely not. Our friends got married out though in the rain. Mike and Sarah.

SPEAKER_00 28:23

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, like it was, but it wasn't like it wasn't a thunderstorm.

SPEAKER_02 28:27

It was just rain, it was just pouring on us.

SPEAKER_00 28:30

Yeah, it just got to the point. Like you can laugh about it.

SPEAKER_02 28:32

Yeah. I feel like if it's rain, fine. But if there's like an element of like a thunderstorm or where it could be unsafe for your guests, then like yeah, it's similar to what just happened a few weeks ago at the Morgan Wallen concert.

SPEAKER_00 28:43

Now this is over a month ago, but he canceled. And I think there is a little bit more to it, but there were also four tornadoes that hit near everyone's like, it really wasn't by Pittsburgh, it's within the suburbs, it's within the rural area of Pittsburgh. And he canceled the show out of but other times. I think he has done a show before that he was like, We're gonna keep playing until they tell us it's unsafe. And they could have done the show, it happened during the day. But like, yeah, a thunderstorm, high winds, there's a chance for things just like going all around that's gonna hurt somebody.

SPEAKER_02 29:18

You gotta be safe.

SPEAKER_00 29:20

You gotta always have a backup plan at a venue. Like, you gotta have a backup plan.

SPEAKER_02 29:25

Plan B.

SPEAKER_00 29:25

Yeah. And not the one you can get at Walmart pharmacy. Have a pool party during a severe thunderstorm watch. No, you can have a pool party, but hey, we're not gonna be swimming.

SPEAKER_02 29:38

What's the difference between a watch and a warning? Isn't it like watches the a watch there?

SPEAKER_00 29:43

Well, when it comes to tornadoes, not necessarily thunderstorm. Well, I guess both. But a like a watch, there is a thunderstorm happening, and a warning is there is potential of this happening. Got it. I believe that's correct. I think I looked it up because whenever it was the Sunday you're saying with Ohio, you sent that there was like a tornado that was nearby. But I'm 45 to an hour away. It the I was in Beaver, Beaver County, and it was saying that there was a tornado warning. But then as I got home, it said there was a tornado watch in these counties. So that means it's there. You need to watch out for it. Trying to get drone footage during windy conditions.

SPEAKER_02 30:33

I don't know anything about drones, but I would say no.

SPEAKER_00 30:35

You feel like you're gonna lose out on a lot of money.

SPEAKER_02 30:38

Yeah, drones aren't cheap.

SPEAKER_00 30:40

Yeah, unless you got a cheap one, but I feel like that would not survive windy conditions. Okay, last one. Uh delaying a wedding start because it is going to clear up.

SPEAKER_02 30:53

I'd say absolutely yes for that.

SPEAKER_00 30:55

If you felt like the weather, like any situation that's outdoors, not just wedding, and you see that, hey, it's gonna be raining from three to four o'clock and thunderstorming and bad weather, but at four be after four o'clock, everything's good and we can reset, we can strip what we got going on and reset and have this at starting at five, you just do it.

SPEAKER_02 31:17

Yeah, I feel like if it's like, oh, it's gonna be rainy all day and your venue doesn't have flexibility or the staff doesn't have flexibility, then no, you can't be delaying it because it's just gonna cut your wedding short. You know what I mean? But if it's like, oh, a 30-minute or one hour, and you're willing to give that time up so that you could get married outside to your original vision, then sure.

SPEAKER_00 31:36

Yeah, you gotta do it. Gotta do it. All right. This is ask us anything, but it's us asking a genie anything. For three wishes. For three wishes. We went three wishes. We got a genie. He's blue, and he likes to sing uh friend like me. My first one is if I had a like that some might be personal.

SPEAKER_02 31:59

Mine are all mine are all personal.

SPEAKER_00 32:00

Do one, you do one, I do one, you do one. Yeah, that's perfect. My first one would be um, I would wish the genie that um I would finally be cast on Survivor.

SPEAKER_02 32:11

Yeah, that's a good wish for you.

SPEAKER_00 32:12

Yeah, I've been trying it for gosh, over like 10, like I'm at the 10 year mark at this point. Not even an interview to be like, why do you deserve it? I actually would grant it just like for them to be like, look at me. I just looked up because this most recent show that's like blowing up. I haven't watched a lick of it, but it shows up on my algorithm is the Love Island. And then I saw a video of how many people audition for that or apply to be on that. It's over 100,000 on Love Island. Well, if that's 100,000, maybe that's my issue. A lot of people are applying at Survivor. No, 20,000 people apply to be on Survivor a year. You're telling me that I can't be one of the 20,000. There, I you can scrap away 10,000 quickly. I can't be one of the first scrap. I had to have been like making the second cut. Let me make the final cut.

SPEAKER_02 33:05

I feel like your wish should just be that you get on it.

SPEAKER_00 33:08

Yeah. It's a wish. It's a wish. That's a really good wish.

SPEAKER_02 33:13

I am asking the genie for my very first wish that I never have to cook dinner again. Oh, wow. I hate cooking. I love to eat. I don't like cooking. It's not enjoyable for me. And to have to like us to come up with things to cook. Like, I wish I could just I want something really healthy for dinner. I want lasagna tonight.

SPEAKER_00 33:33

Like, I like a private chef, or like you just want to put that all on me.

SPEAKER_02 33:36

I would say like private chef.

SPEAKER_00 33:38

But I gotta say, whenever I like I find out like a good TikTok recipe, I like make it my mission to make that really good.

SPEAKER_02 33:47

And I'm not saying like I can't cook good things. Like we I've made good food, but like I just hate it. Like I'm like, it's not enjoyable for me, which I'm like, I don't know if there's something wrong with me. I I don't mind baking. Yeah. But like cooking a meal, I'm like, no, I don't want to do it.

SPEAKER_00 34:03

There's all these dishes afterwards. It's like, oh my gosh. Like if you I will say if you do cook, I do do this, I do do the dishes. You do. Another wish I would have is if like rather than having a camera out or using my phone, that if I just wanted to take a picture of the moment, I just if I blinked, it would save to somewhere. Yeah, it's like the office when they mental pictures, mental pictures, like a moment like oh, this is a good moment to capture. I don't need to get my phone out. Like you go to a sporting event or you're at Disney World and watching the fireworks. I don't want to, I want to be there in the moment. And I typically don't have my phone out for those, but there are times I'm like, man, I wish I had this on camera. What if my eyes were able to save what I'm seeing? That's like the future of people. Like they're probably gonna make this in their own. There's gonna be like a contact that does that for us.

SPEAKER_02 34:59

Probably. Okay. Um, my next wish would be that if we were traveling anywhere, like anywhere out of the country, that like it was fast. You like you could teleport basically. Like I'm gonna go here, there. Maybe it takes like 10 minutes, but like it's not like what we have to do now, where you have to pack, drive to the place, get on the airplane, wait in the airport, get on another airplane. Like that travel for everyone was just easy. Like you could go wherever you wanted, whenever.

SPEAKER_00 35:31

That's a good one.

SPEAKER_02 35:32

I would love that.

SPEAKER_00 35:34

My last one would be if like I if I wanted to learn a skill, I just say I wanna learn how to play guitar really well, and then I just pick up a guitar and start riffing. I can play piano and I can play Beethoven symphony number seven. Like just like be if I want to do something and I it takes time to learn it, I just want to pass the you could speed learn. Speed learn. Yeah. That's a good one.

SPEAKER_02 36:04

I think my last one would be that the kids would never get sick.

SPEAKER_01 36:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 36:12

Like it is just the worst season. Like when we start getting towards like November, December, I I'm like anticipating that one of the kids is gonna get something. You know, it's strep throat. Other sickness, you just it's like back to back to back of like taking them to the doctors. It's all sickness.

SPEAKER_00 36:30

You're thinking of like low sickness.

SPEAKER_02 36:31

I was thinking even like major, even major, well, 100% major.

SPEAKER_00 36:35

Yeah, any sickness.

SPEAKER_02 36:36

But my other wish, and I was surprised you didn't say this, is that our dogs would never die. Yeah, like Bo could live forever.

unknown 36:43

Gosh.

SPEAKER_00 36:46

I didn't want to go on the cliches of like death, financial freedom, like the like falling in love. Isn't that like what aren't there like stipulations that can't bring back the dead?

SPEAKER_02 36:57

Yeah, the stipulations are you can't make someone fall in love with you, you can't bring someone back for the dead, and you can't wish for more wishes.

SPEAKER_00 37:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 37:04

But we've clearly seen Aladdin a lot.

SPEAKER_00 37:06

Yeah. The other thing though, when it comes to like making someone fall in love, isn't the whole premise for Aladdin to have Jasmine fall in love with him? So he was trying to find different ways, and lo and behold, it just all it took was a little bit of his personality.

SPEAKER_02 37:20

Well, no, she can only marry someone that's royal. So he wanted to be uh became a prince so he could make her fall in love. That's what the story is.

SPEAKER_00 37:28

Spoiler alert, he lost his royalty and then she still wanted to be with him.

SPEAKER_02 37:34

Yeah, because the Sultan changed his mind.

SPEAKER_00 37:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 37:36

Sultan changed the laws. Synopsis of Aladdin. If you need it, get it here.

SPEAKER_00 37:42

I would watch Aladdin so often growing up that the it was on VHS that I watched it so many times that the VHS film it started to like morph. It was started to be like black, black and white. It like some of the voice, but some of the voice like when people were speaking in the show, it was like bad. All right. VIP table. This is best feelings, greatest feelings that you have.

SPEAKER_02 38:22

Are you gonna go first or are you gonna make me go first?

SPEAKER_00 38:24

I will go first. Like I can do cliche ones. Mine, some of mine are so cliche. But I'm not gonna do one cliche to start. But well, it might be a little cliche, but it was it's I mean, it happens now that we have kids, but it's waking up Christmas morning when you are a kid, like that when you're like six to twelve, like there was nothing better than that Christmas feeling back in the day.

SPEAKER_02 38:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 38:51

Nostalgia. Christmas morning.

SPEAKER_02 38:53

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 38:54

You see all the gifts. I'm at the top of the stairs, my dad's going down at the bottom to check if Santa came or not. And then he did every year. And it was just like and then like yeah, like Christmas as a whole, it's still like I it's great whenever you lose it once something happens. Somewhere between the ages of 10 and 15.

SPEAKER_02 39:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 39:20

Hopefully there's no kids watching, but something does happen, and then you kind of lose it a little bit. You gain it back just whenever you're like if you're away, you don't live close to home, and then you're home for the holidays.

SPEAKER_02 39:31

Yeah, that's special.

SPEAKER_00 39:33

Special, but then it like it cut the magic comes back whenever you become a parent yourself, and then you see the magic through their eyes. Oh my. And then you try to come up with different things to like build that magic. Like Santa does a lot, but the parents do it all.

SPEAKER_02 39:50

Yeah, oh yeah. Oh yeah. Okay, my first one's gonna be sentimental, and it also deals with kids. But it's like after a long day, you're either like sitting on the couch, just you know, being with the kids, or maybe you're laying in bed, and it's like kind of been quiet for a second, and then one of them says, like, Mama, I love you.

SPEAKER_00 40:09

Yeah, that's actually that was number one on my list. And I was like, I'll do that another time.

SPEAKER_02 40:13

I'm like, my heart, I'm tearing up thinking about it. It's like one of those things where you're just like, Oh, it's so pure and like unconditional love from your kids or to your kids is just like a very special feeling. Yeah, and it's like at I think back, like we had those moments with our parents at one point, yeah. Where they were like, Oh, my special little girl. But it's like that's how I am with Benny and Tyson. Like that is it is the best feeling in the world when the kids like say that or say something along those lines. Can't replace it. Yeah, can't okay. Now this next one's more superficial, but still something that is a very great feeling when you've been craving something, mainly food, in my opinion, and you've been talking about it or you've been thinking about it, like maybe you didn't say it to anybody, and then either the people you're with are like, I want this for dinner, or they're like, We should do this. But that moment where you like eat that first bite of whatever thing you've been craving for like a couple days or sometimes weeks, yeah. And then you're like, this is exactly what I've been wanting.

SPEAKER_00 41:21

It's like you with Taco Bell. I feel like I'm getting it.

SPEAKER_02 41:24

I get it with like Taco Bell or Chipotle. It's usually I'll start thinking about it. I'm like, man, I really want that. I won't go for a couple weeks.

SPEAKER_00 41:29

Yeah, I'm like gluttonous when it comes to pizza.

SPEAKER_02 41:32

Yeah, you like pizza pizza.

SPEAKER_00 41:33

Because I feel like I get it all that like once a week, I feel like I'm eating pizza, if not twice. But if I just hold back a little bit, yeah, it's a good pick. It's a good pick on my list as well. Uh my next pick, uh it feels like I'm like being nostalgic looking back on things. But whenever you're growing up, the last day of school, it's like you know it's gonna be a short day. You probably have plans to have like a field day or you're getting together with friends. Like whenever I was older and I had my driver's license in high school, last day of school, we get out, you know, super early, and there would be a group of us that would just go to Kennywood for the day. That's also on my list, but I won't pick it. But like a last day of school, you know you're just gonna have fun. There's no tests, you're done with everything, you're uh wishing everyone a good summer, you're uh shaking hands with your favorite teachers, thanking them, and then like you're still you know getting that last piece of your yearbook signed by that crush that you had, or like looking back at everything. You're like, oh, ooh, your crush. Um I'm gonna go back and look at my yearbooks. My third pick.

SPEAKER_02 42:50

Is it nostalgic again?

SPEAKER_00 42:52

It's another nostalgic one, but it you really only get this if you grew up at a place that like had this. It doesn't really happen anymore because of remote learning is whenever I would kind of still be asleep, and my mom would open the door and be like, hey, school's closed today. It's snowy out. So you know the snow day, you get to be outside the entire day in the snow. Like that feeling of learning that information. You knew it was potentially coming because you would watch Joe Denardo.

SPEAKER_02 43:24

Like the night before. Did you wear your pajamas inside out for good luck? No, that wasn't that was like a thing in our town. Like if it was snowy, you'd be like, everyone put your pajamas on inside out.

unknown 43:35

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 43:35

For good luck that when you wake up, you get a snow day.

SPEAKER_00 43:38

Oh, I like that. I like that. Yeah, it kind of stinks though. Like, I there are certain things growing up, clearly, that I look back on like, wow, that was great. And like the kids don't really get that anymore. I love it whenever like our kids aren't in um public school yet, they're just in preschool. But whenever I find out that like when schools just close, no remote remote. Remote learning. Let them just go out and have fun. They need that.

SPEAKER_02 44:02

I was talking to our nieces about that. They like slept the night and we were chatting when we were driving back and forth about how there's no longer snow days and how I was like, man, that really sucks for you guys. Like a snow day was so fun. Or like if there'd be a blizzard, you'd have a couple days off in a row. I'm sure my parents were pissed. Yeah. For us. But I was like, oh my gosh, it's a snow day.

SPEAKER_00 44:23

Like the teachers are probably scrambling, like, man, I got to condense this next lesson.

SPEAKER_02 44:28

Yeah, I don't know. They were explaining to me like virtual learning or like flex learning days. And I was like, that just doesn't even sound fun.

SPEAKER_00 44:35

What do you do? What do you do at that point? You got to be inside. Get out of here.

SPEAKER_02 44:40

No. Um, okay, it's my turn. Yep. My next one, and you kind of touched on this a little bit, is when you come home after being away for a long time. And so for me, that could be like when we lived away, we would come home for the holidays, or like we'd come on like a we usually did a two-week trip and we'd do like a week in at each person's house. Or if you haven't seen like your friends in a long time and you all go somewhere together or meet up, and it's like old times. Yeah. It's like you just get to like reconnect that feeling of like seeing people that you love a lot after you haven't seen them or you haven't all been together. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 45:16

Like you probably are texting with them and like keeping up with them online.

SPEAKER_02 45:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 45:20

But to actually get together and like be together. Yeah. We used to get that a lot whenever we lived in Florida. Oh, yeah. And then now we're here. We see we see them still, but it still happens for us.

SPEAKER_02 45:32

But I mean, I just I feel like when I saw my friends this past weekend, I had that feeling. Yeah. Like we're back, like we're different. We have kids, we're older, but like we're catching up and just it's like old times. Yeah. It's special. It's a good feeling. Um, and then my last pick, right? I go one more time. Yep. My last pick is when you have saved up or planned a big trip and you like land in your destination or get to your hotel, and you're like, okay, we're here. Like, we're gonna have a really fabulous trip. You only get that feeling like that your first day.

SPEAKER_00 46:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 46:07

I mean, the whole trip is usually fun, but like the feeling of like, all right, it's here, it's finally here, it's time to relax, or it's time to for us, it's usually Disney. Like, do all the stuff that we've been planning. Yeah. Um, that feeling I love that.

SPEAKER_00 46:22

Yeah, it's a good one. My my last pick is actually similar to that.

SPEAKER_01 46:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 46:27

I can go two ways with it, but I think it more so happens for the one or two. I'll say my honorable mention after, but my pick would be after a long trip and you go back home and you finally get the sleep in your own bed and sleep with your pillow. Like if you didn't bring your pillow, like if you're flying, you're not gonna be able to get it.

SPEAKER_02 46:49

I even had on there like seeing the dogs after the trip.

SPEAKER_00 46:52

Yeah, like just getting home and being back in your home, but that first night sleep after a long trip, because a lot of the hotel's pillows aren't as good. No matter how nice of a hotel you're at, like the other the honorable mention I have is the the shower, seeing your dogs, like that that first shower. Like the showers are good at a hotel, but there's nothing better than be back in your own like space.

SPEAKER_02 47:15

Yeah. To do that, it is a good feeling. It's like a reset, refresh.

SPEAKER_00 47:19

Yeah, I did have um just like whenever your dog is you're just laying down, and your dog comes up and like cuddles with you. Like not just not going to bed, our dogs get up on bed and like they cuddle with us, but one in particular, but when I get a nice cuddle with him, I'm like, oh that's nice. Other ones that I had is canceling, like there's plans that get canceled that you didn't want to attend. The um you know, cliche ones, your wedding, the birth of your kids. Your when you grew up, or growing up, and it was your birthday, your birthday party. Oh, like everyone's all together. Singing happy birthday to you. Um, whenever like you do something good, and then your parents are like, Oh, I'm so proud of you. I have that one.

SPEAKER_02 48:06

People telling you how proud they are when you worked really hard for something.

SPEAKER_00 48:09

This is like, I don't want to get all upset saying it, but like I don't have any of my grandparents, but then like you dream about them.

SPEAKER_02 48:15

Oh, dream.

SPEAKER_00 48:16

And then like you wake up, like it's sad that the dream's over, but you're like, Oh, like I think they visited me. Yeah, and they were like there. Like, and I feel like, and it's always happens in like a moment that isn't warranted for them to like show up in my dream.

SPEAKER_02 48:29

You need a little like touch from grandma and grandpa in your life.

SPEAKER_00 48:32

Yeah. It's like, oh, I feel awesome.

SPEAKER_02 48:35

Those were good. I honestly had the same exact ones. I had not wanting to get on a meeting or do something that gets canceled last minute, having people share how proud of they are of you, or that feeling of your last day doing a sport or activity that you did your whole entire life that you're no longer gonna be doing anymore. Like it's a sad feeling, but it's also like you're really proud of like all the stuff that you've done. Like in in a show or something like that. Yeah, the show would be one thing. It's like a special thing.

SPEAKER_00 49:02

Like a sport, you're like, I don't know, you're playing football or basketball and you lost in the playoff game. It's pretty sad. But if you win, it's a great feeling. It's a win's great feeling. It's a good feeling. But yeah, doing like a musical. I remember like coming out for like my last encore and you know, like bow with your friends. Like that was gets emotional, but it was felt like gratifying.

SPEAKER_02 49:22

Yeah, like I remember the last time I danced almost all of my last dances, like my solos and my duos, and then like you go out and you do your final bow. It's like it's a sad feeling, but it's also like this chapter's closing, like it's like happy, like people got to see you perform. So I'm like here's all the work I put in.

SPEAKER_00 49:38

Yeah, it's like a while and get them proud of you after. You get a nice like meal afterwards with people. Eaton Park. Eaton Park, you go to Eaton Park later.

SPEAKER_02 49:47

Shout out Applebee's.

SPEAKER_00 49:49

Yeah, yeah, that like nostalgia. Here it comes again. But like after any like football game or after a show or after a practice, a lot of us growing up, like, yeah, we would go and like hang out and have like we meet at people's houses that parents probably let us have booze in, like the story from a few weeks ago. But um, like we would wrap up stuff and we would go to Eaton Park or we go to a Denny's or just like one of those local or national chain restaurants, and we get like mozzarella sticks and a milkshake. And that's that. Yes, like Bill's Golf Land, another good one too. Shout out, Bill's. They had some really they have I forget what that like it's not a milkshake and it's not ice cream, but it's like I was like a cookie dough blast in a cup. Oh my gosh. And you go like hit golf balls and play ping pong and mini golf.

SPEAKER_02 50:44

That sounds fun. I gotta go to Bill's Golf Land.

SPEAKER_00 50:47

We never segment is brought to you by Bill's Golf Land. I never take any. I honestly, my appearance right now with my wig and everything, I feel like this is what I looked like in high school when I would go to Bill's golf land.

SPEAKER_02 50:58

Probably with the long blonde hair.

SPEAKER_00 50:59

Yeah, long blonde hair. I never looked like this. Sometimes glasses kind of was a dork at some phase of my life. I'm still a dork, but it is what it is. A handsome one. Ooh, okay. All right. Well, then that let's end on that note. Other things like honorable mentions that is not on there are very they're for other podcasts to say or other people to say, but I don't know what you're saying. I'm saying raunchy things. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 51:28

Oh yeah. It was best feelings you've ever had, non sexual. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 51:32

We should have like yeah, said that at the start. Yeah. Because otherwise it would have been like one, two, three, four.

SPEAKER_02 51:37

Yeah. All right. If you have a funny story or a crazy story or something dramatic, email it in at infowdingprocast.com. Make sure you title it story submission, keep them coming because they're fabulous. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 51:48

And we will see you all next week.