Speaker 1: All I want to do is sleep. It's one more thing.
Speaker 2: Before we check in with Katie in the state of
Speaker 2: our pregnancy. I need to finish up my story.
Speaker 3: About being in assault mine on vacation. That thought Katie
Speaker 3: was describing my lifestyle. All I want to sleep hasn't
Speaker 3: been a moment in my life. I haven't wanted to
Speaker 3: lie down.
Speaker 2: So my kids and I toured a salt mine on vacation.
Speaker 2: There's a salt mine in the middle of Kansas. And
Speaker 2: if you're a film buff, you know this because this
Speaker 2: is where all the ancient, old, well known films are stored,
Speaker 2: like The Wizard of Oz, et cetera. Because way down
Speaker 2: in the salt mine, temperature controlled, humidity controlled, nothing decays,
Speaker 2: it doesn't deteriorate. That had a newspaper down there, a
Speaker 2: copy of the New York Times from the day after
Speaker 2: Lincoln was shot, and it was looking like looking at
Speaker 2: a newspaper from that day, Oh my god, you would
Speaker 2: have to go to settle the trouble to preserve that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know elsewhere on earth. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And there's all kinds of stuff down there, movie memorabilia
Speaker 2: like Batman uniforms and stuff like that, just stuff that
Speaker 2: they store so it won't decay. One thing I did
Speaker 2: learn about the salt mine that they opened up in
Speaker 2: nineteen twenty is you didn't want to work in a
Speaker 2: salt mine back in the twenties and thirties. Oh my god,
Speaker 2: that looked like a hard job down there in the
Speaker 2: pitch black except for your candles, hoping the thing didn't
Speaker 2: cave in on you. Right, that's funny. We were taking
Speaker 2: this tour and this guy was driving us around and
Speaker 2: the little train down there in these dark, dark, long
Speaker 2: tunnels in the salt mine, and then he's showing how
Speaker 2: the roof SAgs sometimes and sometimes the sag can break
Speaker 2: through and crush people. It was always I worry he
Speaker 2: said that one's sagging like Madonna?
Speaker 3: What appropriate?
Speaker 2: Whaty line from a tour?
Speaker 3: Guys in appropriate? AnyWho?
Speaker 2: I wanted to mention this because everything stays preserved down there.
Speaker 2: And I mentioned on the radio show all the garbage,
Speaker 2: anything that goes down in the mind stays in the mine.
Speaker 2: It's just too cost and effective to bring anything out
Speaker 2: of the mine other than you're losing money if you
Speaker 2: take anything out of the mind other than salt. So
Speaker 2: anything that goes down there stays down there. Any bit
Speaker 2: of garbage over the last one hundred and five years
Speaker 2: is still down there, and it's perfectly preserved because of
Speaker 2: the you know, as I described, with the humidity and whatnot.
Speaker 2: So there's all kinds of like really old like from
Speaker 2: the thirties, cigarette containers or whatever, or toilet paper from
Speaker 2: people who'd pooped one hundred years ago.
Speaker 3: A useful, invaluable historical lartifacts.
Speaker 2: But here's something I didn't know. So they started they
Speaker 2: originally they took donkeys down in the mind to try
Speaker 2: to help with the work, but they would go blind
Speaker 2: right away. And they found out human beings are this
Speaker 2: way too. If you aren't using your corneas and everything
Speaker 2: that you need to know, you've gotten your eyeball you
Speaker 2: need to use for light. If you don't use them
Speaker 2: at all for like three days, you go blind. That's
Speaker 2: how that's how quick the atrophy. Wow, isn't that something
Speaker 2: I'd never heard of that before? Terrifying it is, so anyway,
Speaker 2: the donkeys will blind, and then they kept argument and
Speaker 2: then they died down there because everything that goes into
Speaker 2: mind stays the mind. So there are dead donkeys around this,
Speaker 2: many hundreds of miles of minds various places, and they
Speaker 2: would be perfectly intact, like the wind they died.
Speaker 3: What like, are they still the same shape or are
Speaker 3: they like skinny located?
Speaker 2: No, they would look exactly the same. You got a
Speaker 2: ninety year old dead burrel there.
Speaker 3: The hell is amazing.
Speaker 2: I know, it's quite something. Anyway, that's the end of
Speaker 2: my down and assault my knowledge having to to dead donkeys.
Speaker 3: I mean, so like their internal uh you know, uh bacteria.
Speaker 3: Don't know. If you went up and like put your
Speaker 3: hand on it, it would just like turn to dust.
Speaker 3: But it looks exactly the same as when it died. Wow, yeah,
Speaker 3: I know in other dead donkey news, Wait, no, there
Speaker 3: is no other dead donkeys now.
Speaker 2: And then strangest transition ever to how Katie's pregnancy is going.
Speaker 2: Katie is pregnant. Yeah, case you didn't know, and we
Speaker 2: know who the father is to your husband, we do.
Speaker 3: Wow, Dad was inappropriate, It really was.
Speaker 2: I'm just fringing everybody else.
Speaker 1: Was never a question?
Speaker 2: Was enough of the air at any point?
Speaker 1: Nope?
Speaker 2: But so, how how is being pregnant? He said? You
Speaker 2: want to sleep all the time?
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I have never been this tired. In
Speaker 1: my life.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And.
Speaker 4: So I finally made the I guess the announcement on
Speaker 4: my social media the other day. And boy did I
Speaker 4: think I was getting opinions beforehand? Oh boy, oh the
Speaker 4: just wait and all that. But I had an interesting
Speaker 4: interaction with someone who would not get off me about
Speaker 4: telling them what his name's going to be. And yeah,
Speaker 4: and that's something that I'm going to keep until he's here,
Speaker 4: just because.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't want to hear it what some.
Speaker 2: People do and some people don't. But if somebody if
Speaker 2: I said, what are you gonna name them? And they
Speaker 2: say we're gonna hold on to that, you.
Speaker 3: Just say, okay, you don't like pride, Oh, unless you're
Speaker 3: a piece of crap is a human being.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 4: They just kept going on and on about oh, well
Speaker 4: this happened when I was naming my kid, and and
Speaker 4: so one of the things that she did, she went, well,
Speaker 4: I can just tell you that one of the names
Speaker 4: that I thought was awful was and she said a name,
Speaker 4: and so I wrote her back and I was like,
Speaker 4: that's the name that we chose, a perfect And I
Speaker 4: just waited a few seconds and I could see, you know,
Speaker 4: you see the little type bubble coming in and I
Speaker 4: finally hit her with that.
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding, that wasn't it.
Speaker 4: But I just felt like making her just sheer pants
Speaker 4: for just a couple of seconds.
Speaker 2: Indeed, Yeah, what an interesting personality quirk. Somebody tells you
Speaker 2: we're not going to announce the name until the baby's born.
Speaker 3: Come on, tell me and this tech.
Speaker 4: This text thread went on for much longer than it should.
Speaker 4: I should have just stopped responding. If you know I
Speaker 4: we're going to do the right thing. But it went
Speaker 4: on for an hour and a half.
Speaker 3: Good lord, how close are we in this scenarios?
Speaker 1: Relatively close?
Speaker 4: Okay, might be putting up the wall a little bit
Speaker 4: from from that experience though.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean friend points there.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, you're gonna You're gonna stick with the name regardless.
Speaker 2: I know some people pick multiple names and then depend
Speaker 2: on what the baby looks like.
Speaker 4: No, we we have landed on a name for him,
Speaker 4: and then when we plan to have our second one
Speaker 4: in a couple of years, we have her name as well.
Speaker 2: You don't look like a Brandon, you look like an Aiden.
Speaker 2: You're Aiden.
Speaker 3: Well that's funny. Good for you approaching in any way.
Speaker 3: You want. I think we kept our our options open
Speaker 3: until it was time to do the name, and we
Speaker 3: had a you know, a couple of things kicking around, ideas,
Speaker 3: and just we waited till it was baby time, and
Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, that's the one, but you know,
Speaker 3: teach their own.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we've we've got. I just I just wanted
Speaker 1: to get it out of the way.
Speaker 4: And like we we were talking about it back in
Speaker 4: fourth and then when we landed on one and we
Speaker 4: both went ooh, I like that, like perfect, let's just
Speaker 4: leave it there.
Speaker 2: You know, my son and I got on this conversation
Speaker 2: the other day about names. I'm amazed more people don't
Speaker 2: change their names.
Speaker 3: Because it's so cheap.
Speaker 2: It like it. It doesn't cost hardly anything to change
Speaker 2: your name. You'd think you'd think more people would decide
Speaker 2: I don't want to be Jack or whatever and would
Speaker 2: change their name to something they like better. But almost
Speaker 2: nobody does.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that is funny, because especially kids are all about
Speaker 3: eye and I don't like my name. I wish I wasn't,
Speaker 3: you know whatever, right, Yeah, it's funny. It'd be a
Speaker 3: pain in the ass, I think, you know, running into
Speaker 3: paperwork difficulties and fill out forms and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's it. There's paperwork involved. It's not the cost,
Speaker 3: it's the forms.
Speaker 4: You got to change your email probably and all your
Speaker 4: doctor descriptions.
Speaker 2: Yeah, i'd changed my name to Bob.
Speaker 3: You could spell it forwards and backwards the same and
Speaker 3: a good point a lot of fund kick ass. That
Speaker 3: would be what I go with. Now, some states you
Speaker 3: got to get approval for it, and in your more
Speaker 3: metalsome states it would probably say no, no captain, and
Speaker 3: I would spell it c a p apostrophe and captain
Speaker 3: kick ass.
Speaker 2: Cat be pretty good.
Speaker 3: Captain.
Speaker 2: Everybody has to call me captain.
Speaker 3: Uh you gonna tell us the name?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: No, No, I'll tell you.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you guys off the podcast.
Speaker 2: Jack, Joe, Mike, Mike is Jack. I don't want to know.
Speaker 3: I want your options open.
Speaker 2: I feel like I'd be invading your space if I.
Speaker 3: Know you guys.
Speaker 1: I talked to you guys, more than I talk to
Speaker 1: anybody else in my life.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's sad, isn't it.
Speaker 2: Shut up?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Is that one of your Brandon aiden you know?
Speaker 1: No, they're both. They're both Irish names, Okay, Irish, I
Speaker 1: guess I am Irish and so is Drew.
Speaker 2: Okay, so Chauncey. Chauncey is Chauncy Irish.
Speaker 3: H it's certainly uh uk Ish British.
Speaker 1: Isle Zi, Yeah, it's not Chauncey.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Seamus, No, it's not Seamous. I like, uh, it's
Speaker 3: got shame in it. You can't go with it. Although
Speaker 3: I've known a couple of Seamuses in my life, they've
Speaker 3: been lovely fellas.
Speaker 2: I know, I've only known one and he should have
Speaker 2: been ashamed.
Speaker 3: Oh really interesting.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah about McGregor Gonor, No, it's not McGregor.
Speaker 2: We'll just keep guessing Irish names for like another forty minutes.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't think you guys will guess it.
Speaker 1: And also, I'm one of the other reasons.
Speaker 4: I was really happy about it is that Drew and
Speaker 4: I both don't know anybody with this name.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, just beware.
Speaker 3: This is why you keep your options open. Judy and
Speaker 3: I seriously had never heard of any girl named Caitlin
Speaker 3: when we normed, when we named Kate and then subsequently
Speaker 3: became one of the most popular names you know in
Speaker 3: the country for a long time, to the point that
Speaker 3: I think she at times she had two or three
Speaker 3: in each class. Yeah, ridiculous.
Speaker 1: I'm a Caitlin and that's that is acting.
Speaker 2: That's right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, And you know he can't
Speaker 2: win with kids because I was always the only in
Speaker 2: every class I was in, there was never another Jack,
Speaker 2: and I hated that. It seemed weird that I was
Speaker 2: the only one. And then there's kids that were two
Speaker 2: Mics and four Steves and everything like that. They hated
Speaker 2: that that so there's no winning.
Speaker 3: Yeah. How do you feel about if like your your
Speaker 3: your husband's mostly Italian, American whatever. I got a little
Speaker 3: Greek in there, and you're from wherever else but not England,
Speaker 3: not Ireland, not the British, and you go with Caitlin,
Speaker 3: which is the Irish form of Catherine. That that shouldn't
Speaker 3: be allowed. You shouldn't be able to get just seize
Speaker 3: a name unless you have credentials.
Speaker 2: Really, you know what I mean? If you don't have
Speaker 2: any Irish you don't think you should be able to
Speaker 2: name your kid Caitlyn.
Speaker 3: Yeah right, yeah, that's out it bounds Hull.
Speaker 1: Get your own names, Get your own names.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Don't you be trespassing on my ethnicity snatching up our
Speaker 3: groovy names? Huh?
Speaker 2: Never thought about that before.
Speaker 1: Name appropriation.
Speaker 2: We yeah, exactly, name appropriation. Well, I'm glad I didn't
Speaker 2: accidentally do it.
Speaker 3: Here's a little Irish name trivia because it always annoys me.
Speaker 3: The paddy wagon is not the paddy wagon. It's the
Speaker 3: pad d wagon with d's And it's not short for
Speaker 3: Patrick Patrick. It's short for padrig p A d r
Speaker 3: A I G. The paddy wagon a slur against my people.
Speaker 3: And if you want a drunk punch in the face,
Speaker 3: you'll keep saying paddy wagon.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's facts.
Speaker 3: Yeah, take that, you bigots. Hey Katie, have you had
Speaker 3: any weird food cravings that happened my sister, my mom?
Speaker 3: I have.
Speaker 4: I cannot stop eating salt and vinegar chips and I
Speaker 4: I see Sultan vinegar.
Speaker 1: I actually funny story.
Speaker 4: I went to the store the other day to pick
Speaker 4: up some stuff for my mom and dad, and I
Speaker 4: got the things, and then I also went down the
Speaker 4: chip aisle and bought four bags of salt and vinegar
Speaker 4: chips plus a Pringles container because I had other errands
Speaker 4: to run and didn't want to open a bag. But
Speaker 4: I knew that the Pringles container would fit in my
Speaker 4: cup holder in my car.
Speaker 3: It's just in your cup holder chip holders. Awesome. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's just good thinking. Well, you don't want to run
Speaker 3: out in inclement weather or something like that.
Speaker 4: So smart to stock up now, people there. That would
Speaker 4: be dangerous for other people if I ran out on a.
Speaker 2: Chocole bell kick when she was pregnant. What some particular
Speaker 2: thing at Taco Bell that she just couldn't get enough of?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's it's those salt and vinegar chips and
Speaker 4: then fro yo frozen yogurt.
Speaker 1: I can't stop eating.
Speaker 2: Well, you're eating for two.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's everything is Yeah, the thing the things
Speaker 4: the woman bought, the woman's body can do, Yes, amazing.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of showing. But where I'm really showing.
Speaker 4: Or the girls, like I've had to buy like new
Speaker 4: over the shoulder boulder holder and whatnot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the boob fairies come to visit.
Speaker 2: I do not want to hear another about this. Well,
Speaker 2: I guess that's it.