Regular Good Stuff about off season relief, proposals & leaf blowers

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Stay close.
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Hi.
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No, that was terrible.
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Hello, welcome back to regular good stuff.
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I'm Ish.
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And I'm Joe.
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Hi, hi, hi.
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Hi, hi, hi.
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Well, first we have to talk about what you're wearing.
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For those of you uh not watching the video, I'm in a hoodie, which is a huge win for a personal victory for me.
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Yeah.
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It's finally c cold enough.
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How dare we say cold enough?
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I don't honestly don't even know.
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It's still probably too hot outside, but I was feeling it for a moment.
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It's like perfect weather in LA, but you are wearing a hoodie.
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Yeah.
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I just I I need it.
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It reminds me of my childhood.
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Yeah.
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You did grow up in San Francisco.
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So this is your natural habitat.
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It is.
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I think every episode I would like to remind people that I am not from Los Angeles.
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No, LA's not that bad.
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Uh, but San Francisco was better because I had a fantastic collection of hoodies, and I had all of my Nikes and sneakers that matched every hoodie.
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And if there's 365, there are 365 days in a year.
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Sometimes 66.
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Ouch.
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Uh how many of those days did you wear a hoodie?
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Like a lot.
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Honestly, probably the same.
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I think I would did not wear a hoodie the same amount that Hazel sleeps through the night.
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That's a tough comparison.
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Not very often.
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That's a tough comparison.
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But we're back.
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You're you're hoodied up.
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Feeling good.
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It's honestly a soft one.
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It's a new one.
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Unwash.
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Shout out to Garth for sending me this God hoodie and the reason behind it.
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This specific hoodie.
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So it's a white hoodie.
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I am not beautifully white.
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It honestly is beautiful.
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It's a little off-white.
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It's a little cream.
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But I am not adult enough to like have nice things like perfectly white hoodies.
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And I probably, I guess it's two years, three years ago, um, wore this as my only jacket that I brought to Unbound.
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Yeah.
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Didn't bring anything else besides like cycling stuff.
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Um and we went to IHOP the first morning.
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IHOP and Emporia.
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Love and iHop and Emporia.
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The best.
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I've eaten my fair share of pancakes at that iHop.
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Um they're fantastic.
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Um, but the first morning we went there and I managed to spill an entire cup of coffee on myself.
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The whole thing.
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Like, not even onto the floor at all, not onto the table.
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Just like this hoodie was a sponge and it the entire cup of black coffee.
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So it was like a slow motion thing.
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You just watched it happen.
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You were like, no.
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She was like, Do you need any napkins?
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I was like, honestly, no.
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Like, there's no besides what's on my hoodie, like, there's nothing else that was spilled.
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Um, so it looked pretty artsy.
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It's kind of like a tie-dye DIY moment.
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Um, and I had to wear it like that the rest of the trip because we didn't have a uh washing machine in our hotel.
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And and then when we went to the airport to look at the colour.
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Oh, on the way home, somebody was like, really cool hoodie.
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I think it just said thanks.
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I don't think I even was like, ooh, err.
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I was just like, thanks.
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I'm an artist.
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What can I say?
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Don't like smell it too closely.
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The finest burned iHop coffee.
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But it did end up washing out actually pretty well.
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So now I own two of these fantastic white ones.
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And this one is still super clean, and the other one is a little bit more well well loved.
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Post coffee.
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Post coffee.
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Post coffee.
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Uh well, welcome home.
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Thank you.
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Yeah, I did my first kind of first real trip.
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Okay.
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I think the first time I actually traveled away from you and Hazel um was a few weeks ago.
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I went to a baby shower up in San Francisco.
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Um, I was gone for about 18 hours, I think.
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So it technically I didn't sleep at home.
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So it counted as my first trip.
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Um, this one felt a little bit more real because I was traveling to Chicago and I was further away.
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Um, I think the first one was probably more emotional.
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Um, like you're walking around the airport.
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Like, do people know that my baby's at home and I'm just here with a carry on?
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It's crazy.
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Um this one felt similar, but I also think um, I don't know, I was a little bit more used to it.
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I knew you were ready or prepared for it.
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Right.
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I think the hard part is at risk of turning this podcast just into like a Hazel doesn't sleep podcast, but we appear to be in another sleep regression.
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Um and I was talking to a friend and she was like, has Hazel ever slept through the night?
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And I was like, she has.
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And I do think about probably right before we started this podcast, we were in like a really we must have been getting a lot of sleep because we were like, that's a great idea.
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Let's start a podcast.
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But to be fair, I don't I don't know if we're just complaining.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Or if this is a baby that, you know, isn't sleeping a bunch.
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But I'll go ahead and say that I'm not a complainer.
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I think that's probably not right.
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The general vibe in our house is like incredibly positive, but also exhausted.
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That's fair.
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Does that feel right?
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Yeah.
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Like I think both of y'all both you and I have or try to have like the best possible attitude towards it with the knowledge that we're both kind of operating under, like, I don't know, we're hitting a limit.
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Like, I think we're doing okay now.
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It's fine.
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As long as there's two people, it's fine.
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Yeah.
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I think that was the hard thing about this weekend.
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Um, was Hazel has not been sleeping great.
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She's been waking up two or three times a night, and it's not really like a wake up and go back to sleep.
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It's like a wake up and like my teeth hurt, and she's getting her molars, and then also like, oh, now can we read some books?
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And like, actually, could I look at that duck in that book again?
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I love that duck.
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So we're doing a lot of like 3 a.m.
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story time.
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I I also don't want to blame you here.
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Oh, hit me.
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But I think you said before you left, I kind of hope.
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No, I kind of hope it's hard.
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I think you said that.
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No.
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No.
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False.
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I think we if we can go to the tape real fast.
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I'm I'm nervous that you're getting what you wanted.
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Fair.
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You did get a little bit smoked.
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Which is fine.
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Um and I think the hard part was I also went and had a fantastic time and came back uh a little bit more banged up than maybe I would have hoped.
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Yeah, you had one drink.
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I think the hard part is like I don't really drink anymore.
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I think last time, like I really had more than one glass of wine was at my bachelorette party.
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So that was like two and a half years ago.
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And I think it takes me every like two and a half years to remember that like it's very fun to have a night out, but like the next day, I am too old for that.
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One and done.
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Like so, what is it?
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It's 2026, end of 2026.
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So catch me in 2028, maybe January 2027, 2029.
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You're the not the party girl you used to be.
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I did use that fun, but that's okay.
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I honestly was never I could never stay out that late, but uh we had a great time.
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Um, this family wedding, as I mentioned last time, was like pretty important, and I was really excited to go.
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I think it was um everyone kind of like got after it on Friday, and I had gone.
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It's crazy when you fly from the West Coast to the East Coast.
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I left our house at eight and I got to our Airbnb in Chicago at seven.
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Flying flying east is hard.
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Like, and and that was my choice.
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I was like, he's not sleeping great.
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I'd rather leave in the morning, get there basically right in time for the welcome party and go into it rather than fly Thursday night and have the whole day there.
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But you nerf you nerfed the day.
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I nerfed the day in order to be helpful in the night previously, which she was up a lot.
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I appreciate it.
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And it wasn't great.
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Um but yeah, it was fun.
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So I basically like got out of uh got to our Airbnb change within four seconds, like didn't shower, went straight to the um to meet up with my cousins who like handed me bourbon espresso martini, and I was like, oh, that's how this is gonna go.
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Like, I okay, great.
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Um people were kind of getting after it Friday.
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Um, and I was, as I mentioned last time, I was like pretty nervous about um whether my back was gonna hurt going on the run with my cousin Lil, whose wedding it was um on Saturday morning.
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And so in retrospect, incredibly thankful that I like kind of had that in the back of my mind because I think it kept me reeled in um on Friday night and went to bed at a respectable hour and like didn't get too crazy.
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Guys, I have a run in the morning.
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I have to go for a run.
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Um, and I uh I went to the uh chiropractor last week and he was like, everything like it looks okay.
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Like one vertebrae is a little bit out of place still, but like it kind of is just like everything's really tight.
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Like, do some stretches, and I texted you and I was like, it's just muscular, because it's one of those like if it's just muscle pain, like I'm kind of okay with it.
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If it's nerve pain, like that's when it actually, yeah, we got a problem.
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So I asked him, I was like, Do you think I can like get back into running?
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And you he was like, Yeah, I think like start with like a run walk, do like a two-mile, like mostly walking, some running to see how it feels.
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So my plan was our Airbnb and her house were 0.8 mile away.
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So I like jog walked from our Airbnb to her house, and I was like, doesn't hurt, and then we went and ran six miles.
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Crazy.
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But it didn't hurt, which is great.
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Yeah, I guess.
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So I think that was also part of it.
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I was like, I was pumped that I got to do the run.
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I felt bad.
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We like sent a selfie to our group, family group chat, and everyone was like sideways in bed, still being like, How the hell did you finish a run?
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And it's like nine o'clock in the morning.
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Um, but that for me, I think it was really special to have the hour that I got to spend with her um in the morning before the wedding was great.
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Um, we got to talk through some stuff, and it was uh that part I think was really special.
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Um and then later, yeah, like I think I was it was a combination of being like, I'm with my entire family, like we're having a great time.
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I also like didn't re-injure my back.
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Um like generally was pumped about that.
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Uh so had more than one glass of wine at the wedding and then felt really, really bad coming home on Sunday.
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The other thing too is Chicago this time of year is really not.
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Like it was so nice.
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It was funny.
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I was looking actually like death going to the airport on like 6 a.m.
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on my end.
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At the end.
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On Sunday, Sunday.
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Going home.
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Um, and it was like 32 degrees or something outside.
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And the Uber driver asked me three times, like, do you want me to turn on the heater or do you need more heat?
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And I was like, please, no.
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I was about to open the window.
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I was like, this is amazing.
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I was like, I need like some cool icy breeze on my on my face to keep me alive.
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So that was good.
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But I made it home, and I think the lesson learned is um 10 out of 10 would not recommend being hung over and taking care of a small child.
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Because I think with that, like you had been taking care of her all weekend.
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Um, your mom was in town, which was great.
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You guys got some quality time.
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Um, Hazel got to hang out with her grandma.
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But like you'd been taking care of a child.
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She woke up three times both nights that I was away.
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Um missed you, that's fair.
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Yeah.
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And so on Sunday when I got home, it was like, yeah, I feel really, really bad.
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But like Joe gets to like it's fair that Joe gets to take a break, and this is my own damn fault.
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So I get to um so Hazel and I went to the park and you took a nap.
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And it was great.
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That was great.
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It was great.
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That was great.
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Uh the other piece of this is people who live in Chicago, you gotta take advantage of the fall because when it gets the winter, I I I don't know how you live, but it's okay.
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That's why we live here.
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We went on a cool, we ran on the 606, I think it's called.
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It was like this cool running bike path.
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Um, it was like elevated above everything.
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It was beautiful.
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Um, my cousin Lil' is a savage, and like I will text her and be like, Lil, it's negative 13.
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Like, please tell me you're not going for a run today.
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And she'll like send me her selfie of her already running, but she was saying this path is very fun because like in the winter, she's like, it's only myself, and it's really I'm like, yeah, you're different.
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Like you're built different than I am.
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I would think that's probably less fun, but like I can see how it's beautiful.
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Yeah, that's a good point.
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I was researching gloves because it was recently 62 in the morning.
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My fingers, my fingies were getting cold.
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Your fingies got cold.
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So I can't I don't want to go back to living somewhere where I have to actually wear gloves.
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You're like real gloves.
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Yeah.
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So if you think that we're soft right now, that's okay.
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Because we are.
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Uh yeah, I don't think you pretend to not be soft.
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You're you've like embraced the softness.
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We can't possibly move because I am soft ace.
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My favorite part about this is when I would when I lived in New York and I was getting ready to move to LA.
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I was being very clear with people why I was going.
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And a big piece of that was I can't deal with this coldness.
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And everybody would say, but you grew up in Colorado.
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Like you should be used to this.
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And I just want to be clear, there's a reason why I choose not to live in the winter anymore.
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And it's a choice.
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And I want everybody to know that if you hate the winter, you can choose not to live there.
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Yeah, it's okay.
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I think it's interesting.
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Also, you say you grew up in Colorado, and everyone's like, Oh, you grew up in Vale or like in the mountains.
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And like, I think arguably the mountains are beautiful in the winter.
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Denver's a little bit different, and I think New York was definitely different for me as someone that grew up in California.
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Like when we went to the snow or when we experienced winter, it was for like it was on purpose.
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You went to go ski or like go be in the cold on purpose.
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And I remember even like I went to Columbia, so I was in New York in the winter, but we always got a month from December and January off.
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So I got to go home.
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And I remember the first year that I was working in New York, it was like negative whatever.
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And like I was, I'd slipped down the subway stairs, and just like my whole butt and my whole back were just soaking wet.
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And I was like, I don't have time to go back home and get new clothes.
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Like I just have to go to work and like hope that at some point in the day this dries.
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And I remember having that feeling of like, man, winter's like really not as fun.
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Living in it, living in it's hard.
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It's hard.
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I agree.
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Especially because New York, like, it's beautiful, beautiful for like one day when like the trees are all nice and Central Park is beautiful.
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But then it turns to this like black mush, and every corner has this like unrecognizable puddle that you're like could be 10 feet deep, could be one inch deep, and you like step with your boot being like, Hope this doesn't go over my boot.
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Oh, it doesn't soak me.
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But uh though I would like to point out that New York City actually does a pretty good job of clearing the sidewalks.
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I was when I lived um in New York, and we would go to other cities that didn't do as good of job as cleaning sidewalks.
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You're like, I'm just walking on snowbanks, like I'm going from the bar home over a snowfield.
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So it's okay.
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We don't have to talk about this anymore.
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So uh anyway, but Chicago is beautiful.
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Yeah, it was like prime fall weather, it was awesome.
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Uh but with that, it reminds me of my main gripe that I have currently.
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Oh god.
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Uh so we are technically in fall, even though it's hot here.
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And the falling leaves bring out the leaf blowers.
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Oh yeah.
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The I didn't know where you're going with this.
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So I swear to God.
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This is my new like personal vendetta.
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I don't even know if it's generally leaf blowers.
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I think it's our neighbor's gardener with a leaf blower.
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Like, you're not even solving the problem, you're just blasting the leaves into a new location.
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Like, this is crazy.
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So Thursdays are my day with Hazel.
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She normally goes down for a nap in the middle of the day.
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And at that exact moment that I lay her head onto the crib, our neighbor fires up this leaf blower.
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And it's not even our neighbor, it's our neighbor's gardener.
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And our lots are not that big.
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I don't think there's 45 minutes of blowing leaves worth of acreage square footage.
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I it's crazy.
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I like this too because when it starts, my phone explodes.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I text you immediately.
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It's still happening.
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It's still happening.
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And the good news is Hazel has stayed asleep.
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But the hard part is I am on my tw trainer, the sweatiest I've ever been, just staring at her and listening through my like soundproof headphones to like if you're listening.
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I doubt you're listening.
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We're choosing not to pick a fight over this because there's more political capital to be sp but if you want to ask your gardener to chill on the leaf floor.
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To come at like 7 or 8 a.m.
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Honestly, we're not asleep then.
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We've never been asleep at that hour.
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If you honestly, if you want to come at like three in the morning, we're also awake.
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Yeah, that's fair too.
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So, because the morning leaf blowing is fair game.
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But also, like, have we heard of a rake?
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Can we just be old school and just rake it into like a dustpin and put it in the trash?
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Yeah.
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Showing that two people who just don't own gardening tools, which is okay.
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Anyway, so that's my personal uh new vendetta against one specific because other than that, when Hazel's awake loves a gardener, loves watching them, like we're in.
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So are you pro-wall between No, we're not building a wall.
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I want to build a wall.
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But it's getting like soundproof windows.
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Okay.
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Or a soundproof wall.
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Or a soundproof wall.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Um so bike racing season is officially over for everybody.
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Yeah.
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Except for some of the crazy people that are like still flying back to New Zealand and uh doing some more bike races.
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But we love our crazy kiwis.
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Um but yeah, it was interesting.
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It's like I'm having like sympathetic exhaustion from all the Instagram posts where everyone's saying, like, we finally made it through the season or like the final weekend, big sugar was this past weekend.
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Um, and you can like feel the sense of relief coming from like the general gravel community, um, which is interesting when you have a job that's like so intensive all year, um, to kind of get to like take a sigh of relief and like just go for a walk instead of what does your training plan look like this day.
00:19:03.839 --> 00:19:06.960
So, what is your off season historically looked like?
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And then what is it gonna look like now?
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Yeah, it's an interesting I've I've almost felt like mine started this past weekend, even though the last race that I did, I probably would have raced Big Sugar if I would have raised Big Sugar if I didn't have this wedding, but I think because I had the wedding, Gravel Worlds was my last one.
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So I've been in off-season for two months technically, but I haven't really let myself kind of feel that way because everyone else is still racing and there is still that kind of feeling of like I should be there, which is interesting.
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And so it's almost a sense, and weirdly, I think I felt it last year, even though we were like in the absolute depths of newborn, and Hazel was two and a half months old or whatnot, like it's an interesting parallel that Gravel Worlds was like the same weekend that she was born a year later.
00:20:00.240 --> 00:20:05.039
So, like I have two comparisons, and I kind of have felt the same where you're like, you're still watching everything.
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You feel like you should be there, even though your life is like very much in a different place, and um, and so it's interesting now to be like, okay, you can take a deep breath.
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Like, everyone is gonna take a break, and there isn't I don't feel like there are events that I should be going to that I'm missing, which is nice.
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And I I also feel like you were almost the first one through the wall, meaning first one to have a baby.
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And now it feels like that's we've got another one because it's becoming more and more.
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Yeah.
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Maud is also pregnant.
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Hi, Maud.
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We love you.
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I'm excited for her and Steve.
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Um but yeah, it is one of those I'm yeah, oddly relieved that everyone else has done racing as well.
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And I think historically, I call this like the time of year that you do the regular person stuff.
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Um you always have about like a month and a half where you're trying to fit in.
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I did like within the next month, in the past six years, like I've done egg freezing, like we got engaged, we got married, we like had a baby, you know, like it's all it feels like all the regular things happen in this time of the year.
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Um we got engaged actually a few that's a few weeks after big sugar.
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Right.
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Um, because the plan Joe was planning on proposing when I got home ping big sugar uh three three years ago.
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Being efficient, I just knew you were thinking about it.
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And I told your mother.
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And you had told my mom.
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Yep.
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And you were like, hey, I'm planning on doing this.
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I have the ring, yada yada yeah.
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She got excited.
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I told her kind of when I was thinking about doing it.
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I came from rake sugar with a very large gash in my arm and a gigantic black eye.
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Big black eye.
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And so you uh we were sitting on the couch and my mom called you, and I was like, Oh, that's weird.
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Like, why is my mom calling you?
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And you You were like, oh, she's just like, she's checking to make sure you're okay.
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Like your family's worried about you.
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And I'm like, why don't she call me?
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Like, that's weird.
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It's fine.
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Whatever.
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And then a few days later, you're like, hey, like, it's pretty windy.
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It was kind of like this time of year.
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So there's a lot of Santa Ana's.
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And you were like, it's pretty windy.
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Like, I think we should go on a hike.
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And I was like, oh, great.
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Like, yeah, let's go on a hike.
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What hikes?
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Um, you're like, okay, like, let's go.
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And we have the specific like spot that we always hike to.
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Um, you're like, we should go like hike up Westridge.
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And I was like, okay.
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Or like we could do this other hike, maybe we could invite our friends Liz and Brandon.
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You're like, or we could not invite Liz and Brandon.
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Like, we could just do the hike that I want to do.
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And I was like, okay.
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And then the funniest thing I think was like you wanted to bring a backpack because you had some special cargo.
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And unbeknownst.
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I'm like completely oblivious.
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I'm like, it's a two-mile hike.
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Like, why do you need a backpack?
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Why do you need a backpack?
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We don't need and you were like, I want to bring water.
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And I'm sponsored by Camelback.
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So I'm like, okay, maybe we can like bring the backpack that has like the water built in.
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And you were like, can you just let me bring my own backpack?
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So we hiked to like in retrospect, it's the place that I always expected that you would ask.
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And how I didn't realize that like that was the moment is still crazy to me.
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But like we like stopped at the little rock that we like normally hang out at.
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And um I was like actively making fun of you and being like, oh, look at Joe and his backpack.
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And you had to be like, hey, can you like stop making fun of me for one second?
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Trying to like do something.
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Um but anyway, my mom previously had called you.
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Hold on.
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Okay.
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Just we do the engagement.
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You know, yes, whole thing.
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And then I think we're just gonna go back and like go to brunch or call your parents, and you're like, no, we're finishing the hike.
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And so we finished the six-mile hike, which was It wasn't that long.
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It was it was far.
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It was farther than you think it was.
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We'd only done like literally 400 meters from the city.
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Then I had to carry this back back with all the snags in it.
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We bring a camel back, that's tough.
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Uh yeah.
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Yeah, you're right.
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I did make you finish the hike.
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We finished the hike.
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Um, but it was great.
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And we said I said yes.
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But the funniest thing in retrospect was my mom had called you, being like, Hey, why have you not asked Iz to marry you yet?
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And you were like, Mardy, she has like a crazy black eye.
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Like, we can't even go out in public without like people looking at me.
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Like, I can't ask her.
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Do you need me to go ahead and somebody?
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It was a good shiner.
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Um, and my mom's response was there's always gonna be something wrong with her, just ask.
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Which honestly, mom, you're right, and I would have been fine with it.
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Yeah.
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It would have been in some tough pictures.
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It is.
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We did I think we realized pretty quickly that we didn't have a ton of like regular photos because we were given when we were married and engaged, like we were given the photo of ourselves getting engaged, like that one selfie.
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Great photo.
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Fantastic photo.
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I think we have it framed about six times.
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It's the only real person photo we have.
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Maybe we should take some like actual photos.
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Now we only have pictures of us with a child, so we'll still never have real photos.
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That's great.
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Yeah.
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I think it's fine.
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A few from our wedding.
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Just repost those forever.
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Forever.
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It's like the dating profile.
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It's like, you don't look like that anymore.
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Oh my god.
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Uh but so yeah, so normally in off-season.
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I like the image of you using your wedding photos on your dating profile.
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Sorry, sorry.
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Just recycle.
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Just cut the guy's head off.
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This is what it could look like.
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Yeah, you could you're insert your head.
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That's not what I meant.
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It's not what I meant.
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You know what I meant.
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What I said, but it's not what I meant.
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I meant you and I.
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She's off her game.
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Threw off her game.
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Anyway, this giggles is actually like what happened to me when we were getting married, too.
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So that's good.
00:26:25.519 --> 00:26:28.960
The other thing too is when Hazel gets tired, she starts laughing like that.
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Yeah.
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It's like very scary.
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Yeah, you're like, oh my God.
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We've got 20 minutes.
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We went out to dinner with some friends the other weekend or day, and uh, she was being the cutest she's ever been, and like thought our friend was the funniest person in the world, and you were like, We gotta get home now.
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And I was like, look how cute she is.
00:26:48.880 --> 00:26:51.359
And the whole restaurant was like, Oh my god, she's so cute.
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She was just like dying laughing, and you were like, No, no, no, no, no, no.
00:26:54.640 --> 00:26:55.680
This is like the final.
00:26:57.359 --> 00:26:59.839
And she collapsed shortly thereafter.
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Yeah.
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And that's okay.
00:27:01.039 --> 00:27:02.079
She's a baby.
00:27:02.640 --> 00:27:08.960
Our other so I guess the other challenge that we were facing in our lives, um, our nanny, who we love.
00:27:09.359 --> 00:27:09.759
The best.
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She's the best.
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She has decided that she has the audacity to be.
00:27:13.920 --> 00:27:16.720
She's the best because she only speaks Spanish.
00:27:17.119 --> 00:27:18.799
Hazel's getting really good at Spanish.
00:27:18.799 --> 00:27:21.599
And it's really the cutest, cutest part.
00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:22.319
Yeah.
00:27:22.319 --> 00:27:26.319
And then she's decided the audacity to take a vacation.
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Vacation.
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Like a long vacation, which is good.
00:27:28.559 --> 00:27:35.839
So she and her husband are going home because her husband is retiring, so they're taking like a real vacation um for two and a half months.
00:27:35.839 --> 00:27:36.480
Yeah.
00:27:36.480 --> 00:27:40.559
So we um have had to find a replacement.
00:27:40.559 --> 00:27:44.079
I think for a while I was like, it's off season, like I can just work out.
00:27:44.079 --> 00:27:45.039
I'll do, I'll be fine.
00:27:45.039 --> 00:27:51.200
I'll sit, I'll be and then like I do like one day with Hazel, and you're like, mm, we better find some job care.
00:27:52.000 --> 00:27:53.519
And you're a great mom.
00:27:53.519 --> 00:27:58.400
You're just a better mom when you have a little bit of time away from your baby during the day.
00:27:58.720 --> 00:27:59.039
Yes.
00:27:59.039 --> 00:27:59.839
I agree with that.
00:27:59.839 --> 00:28:00.480
I agree with that.
00:28:00.480 --> 00:28:01.839
And I will admit to that.
00:28:01.839 --> 00:28:06.319
And I think talking to other moms, I don't think that's like a crazy thing to say.
00:28:06.319 --> 00:28:11.839
Like, I think it's very much valid to love your baby and also need some space for them.
00:28:11.839 --> 00:28:12.240
Yeah.
00:28:12.480 --> 00:28:15.759
And interviewing nannies was an interesting process.
00:28:16.240 --> 00:28:20.160
I think it's been also because our current nanny was like a family referral.
00:28:20.160 --> 00:28:23.440
Like we already knew her family, like it it was very easy.
00:28:23.440 --> 00:28:25.440
Um this is interesting.
00:28:25.440 --> 00:28:32.160
Like we're trying to find one, and we finally have found one, and it was reminiscent.
00:28:32.160 --> 00:28:48.640
So when I was um younger, the when the dot-com bubble burst, we had like a really amazing string of babysitters um that had incredible check-tech jobs that like completely collapsed.
00:28:48.640 --> 00:28:50.000
And so we had this string.
00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:51.039
Sorry for your job.
00:28:51.039 --> 00:28:52.240
Sorry for your collapse.
00:28:52.240 --> 00:28:53.599
It was awesome.
00:28:53.599 --> 00:28:57.359
Like they they were like like in They're great.
00:28:57.359 --> 00:29:00.240
I think they were like probably in their 20s.
00:29:00.240 --> 00:29:01.759
I'm like, I don't know, I was 10.
00:29:01.759 --> 00:29:03.200
Uh, how old were they actually?
00:29:03.200 --> 00:29:06.400
I was about to be like, they were really old, but they were probably younger than I am now.
00:29:06.400 --> 00:29:09.680
Um, but they were great.
00:29:09.680 --> 00:29:19.680
And like we would have one that um basically would stay with our family until she decided to go to culinary school or like get another job.
00:29:19.680 --> 00:29:22.640
Like it, and then she, her friend who didn't have a job, would come work for us.
00:29:22.640 --> 00:29:29.119
And we had this string of like five really awesome um people in a row and one like an editor of Woman's Health.
00:29:29.119 --> 00:29:30.400
Like they were really inspiring.
00:29:30.400 --> 00:29:35.599
Um and then we kind of like ran out at one point.
00:29:36.160 --> 00:29:37.599
The job market got better.
00:29:37.839 --> 00:29:38.079
Yeah.
00:29:38.079 --> 00:29:42.480
And so we had to find a nanny, um, and I think we found him.
00:29:42.480 --> 00:29:45.759
It was a manny on Craigslist.
00:29:46.160 --> 00:29:48.240
This still blows my mind.
00:29:48.559 --> 00:29:53.599
And so he was really nice, but like my sisters and I there's three girls, three of us.
00:29:53.599 --> 00:29:57.200
We are in, I was probably in seventh grade at the time.
00:29:57.200 --> 00:30:01.839
So you're in kind of like like an impressionable time.
00:30:01.839 --> 00:30:02.000
Sure.
00:30:02.000 --> 00:30:05.680
And this poor guy, I hope he doesn't listen to our podcast.
00:30:05.680 --> 00:30:13.279
He was great, but he had this blue, bright blue Subaru that was like all souped up and it was really loud and it went.
00:30:13.279 --> 00:30:17.599
And I thought it was the most embarrassing thing ever.
00:30:17.599 --> 00:30:20.079
And he would have to like drive me to soccer practice.
00:30:20.079 --> 00:30:25.839
And we at the time, I was on the aftershocks and we practiced with the earthquakes, which was the boys' team.
00:30:25.839 --> 00:30:30.559
And I was like, I can't get out of this car in front of all the boys' team.
00:30:30.559 --> 00:30:31.759
Like, that's so embarrassing.
00:30:31.759 --> 00:30:39.440
So I made our Manny drop me off like around the corner from practice, and I was like, You wait for me here, I'll be back when practice is over.
00:30:39.440 --> 00:30:41.599
Like, I don't want to be seen.
00:30:41.599 --> 00:30:47.599
So, when looking, when I was looking for a nanny for Hazel, we had a lot of people.
00:30:47.839 --> 00:30:49.519
First question was what color suit?
00:30:50.480 --> 00:30:55.440
We had one guy that applied, and I'm sure he was incredibly qualified, but I instantly was like, Nope.
00:30:55.920 --> 00:30:59.440
There's a lot of things that we would do before we hired a male nanny.
00:30:59.440 --> 00:31:01.599
Yeah, I would probably just hang out with him.
00:31:01.599 --> 00:31:03.039
Walk across colors.
00:31:04.640 --> 00:31:07.359
Anyway, he was a great nanny, but I his car was embarrassing.
00:31:07.359 --> 00:31:08.000
That's fair.
00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:10.720
And I was at the time that it was Yeah.
00:31:11.039 --> 00:31:17.119
I would hope that Hazel would be really embarrassed now if we had an embarrassing telling a story.
00:31:17.119 --> 00:31:21.440
I was 14 months old, my parents hired this really embarrassing guy.
00:31:23.119 --> 00:31:23.599
I don't know.
00:31:23.599 --> 00:31:27.680
When do you think is the first time that she's gonna like remember anything?
00:31:28.079 --> 00:31:28.400
I don't know.
00:31:28.400 --> 00:31:32.480
I'm more interested in when the first time she says something really mean.
00:31:32.480 --> 00:31:36.880
I think it's it's gonna be the most proud and sad moment of my life.
00:31:36.880 --> 00:31:38.480
Like when she like really mean.
00:31:38.799 --> 00:31:42.400
Considering right now her her language repertoire is dada.
00:31:43.279 --> 00:31:44.000
Which is perfect.
00:31:44.240 --> 00:31:44.799
Uh-oh.
00:31:45.440 --> 00:31:46.160
Also great.
00:31:46.400 --> 00:31:48.480
And she's recently gotten rah.
00:31:48.480 --> 00:31:49.359
Rah.
00:31:49.359 --> 00:31:51.599
What does what does the lion say?
00:31:51.599 --> 00:31:52.240
Rahr.
00:31:52.240 --> 00:31:55.119
It's so well.
00:31:55.119 --> 00:31:56.400
One day we'll get a mama.
00:31:56.400 --> 00:31:57.839
Honestly, that's my my point.
00:31:58.240 --> 00:32:00.079
Well, she does say mom.
00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:00.720
She does.
00:32:00.720 --> 00:32:05.359
So the way that she says dada, it's like throughout the day, she'll just kind of be like da-da-da-da.
00:32:05.359 --> 00:32:07.839
And if I'm like dada's coming home, she'll be like, da-da-da.
00:32:07.839 --> 00:32:09.119
Like she knows it's you.
00:32:09.119 --> 00:32:13.359
She gets pumped, you come home, and she's like da da da da when you're like driving up.
00:32:13.359 --> 00:32:19.119
The only time she ever says mom, she's like, like it's so angry.
00:32:19.119 --> 00:32:22.240
And it's like she also has like no, no, no, no.
00:32:22.240 --> 00:32:29.839
So like she has like a sound for no, and it's incredibly similar to the and muh are like I need you to open this.
00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:30.160
Yeah.
00:32:32.640 --> 00:32:36.640
So we haven't gotten like a mama, just a very sweet dad dad.
00:32:36.640 --> 00:32:38.000
Uh oh.
00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:38.720
Mam.
00:32:38.720 --> 00:32:42.880
That's all we got.
00:32:42.880 --> 00:32:43.920
Yeah.
00:32:44.799 --> 00:32:46.400
It's probably the bilingual, you know, accent.
00:32:46.400 --> 00:32:47.039
Yeah.
00:32:47.039 --> 00:32:47.359
Yeah.
00:32:47.359 --> 00:32:47.920
It's just waiting.
00:32:48.160 --> 00:32:48.640
It's delayed.
00:32:48.640 --> 00:32:48.880
Mama.
00:32:48.880 --> 00:32:50.480
Mama is harder.
00:32:50.480 --> 00:32:54.000
She can't figure out quite figure out the accent yet, so we're waiting.
00:32:57.680 --> 00:33:01.839
Uh the other thing too is I appreciate that Halloween is coming.
00:33:01.839 --> 00:33:05.200
Oh my god, it's been it's been coming for six months.
00:33:05.200 --> 00:33:10.160
Like, I feel like people decorate their houses so far in advance.
00:33:10.160 --> 00:33:13.759
It's gonna get here and I'm gonna be Halloweened out.
00:33:14.000 --> 00:33:16.240
Well, first of all, our Halloween costumes came.
00:33:16.559 --> 00:33:17.279
They did.
00:33:17.680 --> 00:33:23.279
This is why we weren't allowed to buy store-bought costumes because mine came and it already has a hole in it.
00:33:23.359 --> 00:33:23.680
Yep.
00:33:23.839 --> 00:33:32.160
But like I'm not willing to go through the hustle of sending back like a $15 Halloween costume and I refuse to buy another one because they don't, they're not worth it.
00:33:32.160 --> 00:33:37.599
So I'm gonna be sewing this Halloween costume back together out of the box.
00:33:37.839 --> 00:33:38.160
Right.
00:33:38.160 --> 00:33:42.480
Do you think the problem was ordering a Halloween costume?
00:33:42.480 --> 00:33:43.039
Yes.
00:33:43.039 --> 00:33:44.559
Or spending $15.
00:33:44.559 --> 00:33:45.839
Ordering.
00:33:45.839 --> 00:33:46.480
Okay.
00:33:47.119 --> 00:33:47.759
Got it.
00:33:48.079 --> 00:33:51.119
Um, you haven't tried yours on yet, so I'm worried about that, but it's fine.
00:33:51.119 --> 00:33:54.799
I I appear to have gotten you an extra, extra, extra large.
00:33:54.880 --> 00:33:58.640
It looks like yeah, your muscles will live out.
00:33:59.440 --> 00:34:01.759
Joe's mad because I didn't get a week.
00:34:01.759 --> 00:34:02.640
Yeah, I have a week.
00:34:02.799 --> 00:34:03.519
You get bulky.
00:34:03.759 --> 00:34:04.799
I didn't get you the Mr.
00:34:04.799 --> 00:34:07.359
Incredible costume that had the built-in muscles.
00:34:08.480 --> 00:34:09.199
B-Y-O-M.
00:34:09.360 --> 00:34:12.079
And then Hazel's came with like a like a mask.
00:34:12.079 --> 00:34:12.480
Okay.
00:34:12.480 --> 00:34:14.639
There's no scenario that she wears this mask.
00:34:14.639 --> 00:34:17.840
So people are just gonna know her identity, and that's gonna be a problem.
00:34:18.079 --> 00:34:18.800
It's yeah.
00:34:18.800 --> 00:34:23.760
It's a problem if your superhero baby is revealing your identity.
00:34:24.239 --> 00:34:27.280
Yeah, she's gonna give us away when we're out in the public.
00:34:31.840 --> 00:34:37.679
Uh so you're traveling again soon, leading me to single parent again.
00:34:38.079 --> 00:34:41.119
I have two weekends of obligations this entire year.
00:34:41.119 --> 00:34:41.519
Right.
00:34:41.519 --> 00:34:43.119
And they just happen to be back to back.
00:34:43.119 --> 00:34:48.239
So yeah, you're gonna be solo, solo, dolo, actually without your mom this year this weekend.
00:34:48.239 --> 00:34:48.960
That's true.
00:34:49.119 --> 00:34:50.000
Like the true test.
00:34:50.159 --> 00:34:50.400
Yeah.
00:34:50.559 --> 00:34:50.800
Yeah.
00:34:50.800 --> 00:34:52.320
Well, pray for me.
00:34:52.559 --> 00:34:53.760
Everybody pray for Joe.
00:34:53.760 --> 00:34:54.559
He'll be great.
00:34:54.559 --> 00:35:00.079
As my uncle said, I was like, yeah, Joe's like home alone with Hazel, and he just goes, Man, I met Joe loves that.
00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:01.920
And I was like, honestly, he does.
00:35:01.920 --> 00:35:03.599
It's a great time.
00:35:03.599 --> 00:35:04.320
Yeah.
00:35:04.320 --> 00:35:05.679
But yeah, it's gonna be great.
00:35:05.679 --> 00:35:09.519
So if Joe's not here next time on the podcast, uh why?
00:35:09.519 --> 00:35:19.280
It's not because I got another guest, it's because I will get another guest.
00:35:19.280 --> 00:35:23.679
I've had a lot of good uh yeses, but I just haven't we haven't organized to get them together yet.
00:35:23.679 --> 00:35:25.920
So if not, we're keeping you guys dangling.
00:35:25.920 --> 00:35:27.760
You guys have to deal with just Joe and I for a while.
00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:29.440
Yeah, well, the suspense can continue.
00:35:29.440 --> 00:35:31.519
Will he make it through the next weekend?
00:35:31.519 --> 00:35:32.159
Yeah, exactly.
00:35:32.159 --> 00:35:32.639
Nobody knows.
00:35:32.800 --> 00:35:33.199
Nobody knows.
00:35:33.199 --> 00:35:33.760
Nobody knows.
00:35:33.760 --> 00:35:34.480
But I believe in you.
00:35:34.639 --> 00:35:35.280
Thanks both.
00:35:35.679 --> 00:35:36.480
See you guys next week.
00:35:36.719 --> 00:35:37.599
Okay, bye.