Speaker 1: I'm recording. Let me do an intro here. Okay, hey,
Speaker 1: they're fan of ritos. This week, we're taking some time
Speaker 1: off to spend with our friends and family. That means
Speaker 1: there won't be any new recaps or minisodes coming out,
Speaker 1: but we'll be up and running next week just like normal.
Speaker 1: And with that being said, I want to hear all
Speaker 1: about your plans for your week off.
Speaker 2: Jody.
Speaker 1: Tell me what you got going on.
Speaker 3: You know, as I've gotten older, what I've realized is
Speaker 3: the best plans are no plans. Yes, you see, I'm
Speaker 3: kind of just looking forward to, like laying in the sun.
Speaker 3: Mescalp put my little hammock back up in the backyard,
Speaker 3: so I get like, I love to lay.
Speaker 2: In a hammock and read a book.
Speaker 3: I think we're gonna barbecue, probably Cheeseburgers are literally.
Speaker 2: My favorite food.
Speaker 3: And we just talked about seedless watermelon in one of
Speaker 3: the episodes, Becky craving seedless watermelon, So now I am
Speaker 3: craving seedless watermelon.
Speaker 2: Basically I'm going to eat and read.
Speaker 3: A nap that if that Yeah, that's kind of got it.
Speaker 2: That sounds idea like you.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's almost your it's the day Hailey, just
Speaker 3: the day after Andrea's birthday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I continue the July I guess says the fireworks
Speaker 1: are really for me.
Speaker 2: It's not true the country. So yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be forty nine on July third. That's nuts, my.
Speaker 2: Last year in my forties. I don't know what I'm old.
Speaker 1: I realized just now how old I am because Michael's like, well,
Speaker 1: what do you want for your birthday? And I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know what I really want, sorry, slip on sneakers
Speaker 1: that so I don't have to bend over a time
Speaker 1: my shoes, Like.
Speaker 2: Like, that is it? Okay? That is I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 2: gonna have to reel you back. I'm gonna have to
Speaker 2: reel you back, okay.
Speaker 1: And it's not because I'm old. It's because I always
Speaker 1: have too many things in my hands. I live in
Speaker 1: a three story house now and I can't hold things
Speaker 1: and put on my shoes and walk down the stairs.
Speaker 1: So I need slip on sneakers with no shoelaces.
Speaker 3: Or put your shoes on before you grab all of
Speaker 3: the stuff to head out of the house.
Speaker 2: No, that doesn't shoes by the front door. But I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 3: I feel like there's a solution to this other than
Speaker 3: the slip on sneekers.
Speaker 2: Not that there's anything, but you do you. All I'm
Speaker 2: saying is.
Speaker 3: We love Janice Sweeten, but Janae Sweeten, where's the slip
Speaker 3: on sneakers?
Speaker 2: And Janet Sweeten?
Speaker 3: Janice Wheeton is in her mid seventies and can't tie
Speaker 3: her shoes. So I just I knowles, Janice, I'm just saying,
Speaker 3: don't don't give up on tying your shoes just yet.
Speaker 2: You know that's all.
Speaker 3: You're only forty nine, man, Like, don't don't throw in
Speaker 3: the towel with bending over just yet.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm not giving up all shoe laces.
Speaker 1: It's just for when I have my hands full and
Speaker 1: I need to just slip on my sneakers and go
Speaker 1: right out into the garage.
Speaker 2: We keep all of our shoes in.
Speaker 1: The little bedroom, Okay, to the garage because I don't
Speaker 1: want shoes in the house because I'm like, have.
Speaker 2: You heard of sandals? Well, yeah, that's why I had
Speaker 2: this is what have you heard of?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 3: I own lots of so I don't don't. I don't
Speaker 3: know what the people make fun of me going to
Speaker 3: make fun of you if you slight on tennis shoes. No,
Speaker 3: they made, they're they want and here we're doing the
Speaker 3: fourth of July and you, my friend, are giving up
Speaker 3: this freedom mean tying your shoes.
Speaker 1: I'm wearing okay. So I've asked for for sh shoelaceless
Speaker 1: shoes and binoculars so I can see the different hawks
Speaker 1: and owls.
Speaker 2: And birds in my name. Oh no, I want.
Speaker 1: To do worse than I thought, but I want special
Speaker 1: like night goggles too, because I want to be able
Speaker 1: to see the owls because there's so.
Speaker 3: Many owls in my Sure a tree with night goggles
Speaker 3: on looking for some poor bird that's getting ready to.
Speaker 2: Fledge, just hopping up with like night vision goggles on
Speaker 2: over the side of some nest.
Speaker 1: I am embracing my transition into middle age.
Speaker 2: I am here, I am.
Speaker 3: You might be transitioning into another era with all of this, but.
Speaker 2: That is fine. Uh. You know what you do? You
Speaker 2: if that makes you happy, slide on those shoes. It does.
Speaker 3: Flap on those goggles and go find thems. You know,
Speaker 3: that sounds like the ideal birthday. There'sedless watermelon and a cheeseburger.
Speaker 1: It doesn't go better than that.
Speaker 3: Wow, Wow, we're you know, what we are is really cool.
Speaker 2: We're really cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I don't we don't really have.
Speaker 2: Any like holiday traditions.
Speaker 3: I mean, I the one thing was like watching fireworks,
Speaker 3: and now it's such a nightmare to find fireworks anywhere.
Speaker 2: And now I'm just like, oh, the poor dogs are scared.
Speaker 2: You know, my dog is oblivious to them.
Speaker 1: She could care less well on Holly's death for one
Speaker 1: day a year it works in her favor.
Speaker 3: Well two really two years, right, But now, like growing up,
Speaker 3: we I lived in Los Alamidos next to like a
Speaker 3: naval air base, so they would open it up on
Speaker 3: Fourth of July and they.
Speaker 2: Had like you know, big vessel war whatever.
Speaker 4: But really the best part was they had the best
Speaker 4: fireworks on the naval base. So well it sounded terrifying
Speaker 4: for like forty five minutes if you lived there, but
Speaker 4: it looked really cool.
Speaker 2: So that was fun. Okay, yeah, okay, yeah we what
Speaker 2: traditions did we have?
Speaker 1: Well, the tradition we have now is my brother always Darren,
Speaker 1: the lawyer who was on the podcast. He he hosts
Speaker 1: the Fourth of July party at his house every year,
Speaker 1: so we usually go over there, But now he's started
Speaker 1: having this party on July third, my birthday, because he
Speaker 1: wants the next day to recover before he has to
Speaker 1: go back to work on the fifth, right, so it's
Speaker 1: sort of a combined like Birthday July, the July party
Speaker 1: stuff like that.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: There's always like a little county fair in our hometown
Speaker 1: and Felicities Show Choir they run a booth. They run
Speaker 1: a face painting booth as a fundraiser.
Speaker 2: For the choir.
Speaker 1: So I'm sure I will be working a shift. Yeah, yeah, right,
Speaker 1: because you got a work shift always.
Speaker 2: But other than that, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think our neighborhood has like a little shindig somewhere
Speaker 3: down like several streets over. I do know that there is,
Speaker 3: Uh there's a small parade that they do around the neighborhood,
Speaker 3: which the only reason that I care anything about it
Speaker 3: is because people dress up their pets and the pets
Speaker 3: are in the parade.
Speaker 2: It's pet parade, really, and that's all I care about.
Speaker 2: I just it's so cute.
Speaker 3: If I don't see a Golden Retriever in a wagon
Speaker 3: like that's made to look like a tank rolling down
Speaker 3: the street, just with.
Speaker 2: A squeaky wheel. If I don't see that for the
Speaker 2: July is not Yeah, it's not made for me. Oh man.
Speaker 2: Just the small town parades are the best. It's great.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any around me. But when I
Speaker 1: used to go to Maine in the summer when I
Speaker 1: was married, right to my ex husband's from Maine, so
Speaker 1: we would take the kids to Maine and they would
Speaker 1: have like literally the small yeah yeah, East Coach right
Speaker 1: where you're like everybody, You're like, oh, there's.
Speaker 2: Like this is a Hallmark movie. Yeah. Yeah, it's so great.
Speaker 1: They dressed like as lobsters. It's like the Lobster Capital.
Speaker 1: They were leveled, and they dress their pets. The kids
Speaker 1: are dragging their wagons everywhere. It's Oh, I love small
Speaker 1: town periods.
Speaker 2: Very cute. Yeah I will.
Speaker 3: I will probably be just just chilling and enjoying the
Speaker 3: week off. And I'm also very glad because it means
Speaker 3: that Manny and Maddie and our our iHeart team also
Speaker 3: get the week off, which is really the important thing
Speaker 3: because they really work their butts off all year long,
Speaker 3: not only just for this but on all kinds of shows,
Speaker 3: and so yeah, they deserve a week off.
Speaker 2: Damn it. They do well well deserved.
Speaker 3: Eat some eat some watermelon, blow something up, I mean
Speaker 3: not you know, fireworks.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah not. I'm not suggesting anything.
Speaker 1: Most importantly, don't listen to our voices like you get
Speaker 1: away a week off.
Speaker 3: To ask everyone, is that we come back from this
Speaker 3: with as many fingers as we left with. Okay, so
Speaker 3: just be safe, be safe, yeah, don't, don't, don't.
Speaker 2: Be dumb, be safe. Uh, don't drink and drive, be.
Speaker 3: Smart, have fun and uh and and treat each other
Speaker 3: kindly and remember remember what what freedom really is. And anyway,
Speaker 3: we'll just have slip on shoes, get some loafers, still
Speaker 3: slighter loafers.
Speaker 2: You've seen my shoes.
Speaker 1: I am not like a shoe person, like I wore
Speaker 1: those orthotic, those cushioned what are you those flip flops,
Speaker 1: but they're ufus.
Speaker 2: You're wearing them now? Yes, I yes, They're so comfortable.
Speaker 2: I wear those two work every single day. I'm all
Speaker 2: about comfort.
Speaker 1: Yes, it was always like I'm wearing those shoes again.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, yes, I too, am about comfort. I'm
Speaker 3: just saying, let's not slide into the into the the.
Speaker 2: The silver years too quickly. You just wait.
Speaker 1: Next time we podcast, I'm going to show you. If
Speaker 1: I get them for my birthday, I will show you.
Speaker 1: They are fashionable. Now, this is not like the old
Speaker 1: person orthotics of yesteryear. They make cute little sneaker shoes
Speaker 1: that are just slip on. It's like kids shoes. They
Speaker 1: can't tie their shoes, and so they make cute little
Speaker 1: kids shoes. They make cute little old.
Speaker 2: Lady's shoes for l You're neither of those things. I
Speaker 2: hate to tell you. I know what I'm always carrying. Okay,
Speaker 2: you know what do you do?
Speaker 3: You enjoy whatever it is that brings you happiness and
Speaker 3: freedom and oh, speaking of I actually did want to
Speaker 3: bring up though, speaking fourth of July.
Speaker 2: The bald eagles. Oh, I feel like that's that's a
Speaker 2: good tie in right there. Okay, there's the symbol.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's the symbol of them. Right now.
Speaker 2: I need an update.
Speaker 1: Oh they're so sweet.
Speaker 2: There's not much of an update.
Speaker 1: There's one in the nest right now, Like I keep
Speaker 1: this on while we podcast. I think that's sunny. They're
Speaker 1: very cute. They don't sleep in the nest every night, okay,
Speaker 1: but the family every once in a while they'll all
Speaker 1: just converge on the nest.
Speaker 3: Like hey, man, like Sunday come, everybody comes home for dinner,
Speaker 3: kind of hang out.
Speaker 2: And then they're like, yeah, they're so sweet. I know.
Speaker 1: I'm glad they're still coming back to the nest because
Speaker 1: there's gonna be one day where the fledglings we won't
Speaker 1: see them again. They will go off and start their
Speaker 1: own families.
Speaker 2: Do you think they have a call, you know, even
Speaker 2: on holidays?
Speaker 1: Probably not, probably not, but yeah, no, there's it's so
Speaker 1: wonderful to watch them look sunny side stopping.
Speaker 3: His indulgence and perhaps some bald eagle watching. That's there's
Speaker 3: there's my patriotic moment of the day.
Speaker 1: Well, and in January we start the egg watch again
Speaker 1: because Jackie in Shadow will begin there.
Speaker 2: That's their reproduction.
Speaker 3: Oh got it, same same same eagle time, same eagle channel.
Speaker 2: Sort of thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're mates for life, their mates for life. They
Speaker 1: keep the same nest and we're gonna try again. Fascinating things, fascinating, monogamous,
Speaker 1: they're loyal, Like, what's there not to like about them?
Speaker 2: I have no problems with the bald eagle.
Speaker 3: I am very happy for this, so hopefully you know,
Speaker 3: we all get through our Fourth of July.
Speaker 2: The bald eagles are still.
Speaker 3: There and everybody, if it's not wearing an Uncle Sam
Speaker 3: moutfit though in the nest on fourth of July and
Speaker 3: being really disappointed, I feel like.
Speaker 2: That's the ultimate stume. Yeah, I need the beer costume,
Speaker 2: top hats up on shoes. Yes.
Speaker 3: If I don't see a bald eagle and some slip
Speaker 3: on shoes on fourth of July, it's not America.
Speaker 1: If I get binoculars for my birthday, I am driving
Speaker 1: up to Big Bear and I'm gonna look for those birds.
Speaker 2: Okay, I promise you.
Speaker 3: Oh, I don't doubt that you will go stop some
Speaker 3: bald eagles. I have no doubt in my mind that
Speaker 3: that's how you'll spend your birthday.
Speaker 1: That actually sounds like you.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, enjoy everybody, enjoy your week off.
Speaker 3: Eat some food, have some fun, hang out with your
Speaker 3: family or your friends. If you don't want to hang
Speaker 3: out with your family or both.
Speaker 2: Who knows. But we will see you when this little
Speaker 2: break is over. And yeah, thanks for listening, y'all.
Speaker 1: Thanks guys, Bye, Happy for