Rolling Down Windows in the Winter

Welcome to the speaking of Tangent's Podcares! I don't know why I'm yelling, I'm sorry about that, I'm Jason. And I'm KJ, and in this episode, we discuss the flu, food, Iron Man, bridges, kickstarters, smoges, and almost manage to go into the deep end, all while still discussing how we can review. Then we'll play pro no one, say this, and KJ ambushes me with a quiz, sorta.

At some point, you'll find out if we have a guest, when we play, do we have a guest? Later, we'll get into some more First World problems, as I primarily complain more about insurance. And then we'll do some recommendations, where we talk about some of the movies, music, and TV that we've been into lately, or maybe not so much into, before devolving into a conversation about KJ's 4th. And we'll wrap it all up with feedback, and of course, more ridiculous Amazon reviews.

All that, plus, well, this whole episode is pretty much one big conversational tangent, so... In a week, things happen. Yes they do. And now we'll review.

Yes we will. Those things that happen. The things that have is the speaking of Tangent's. Week to review.

So howdy, Mr. Fuse, how you doing? Hello, what's up? Not much going on here.

What about you? How you been? My whole family's had the flu. Well, not my whole family's had the flu for the past couple of weeks, since it's been slowing me down.

But, you know, just not being able to sleep much at night, trying to take care of the other, them enough. But today, finally, everybody's back at school and work, and everything seems back to normal, hoping for some lack of sickness and disease for at least a couple of months here now, getting into the spring. So you have managed to avoid this so far? Fortunately, yes.

I thought yesterday that it could be coming on a little bit, but better today, so I may have dodged it. I hope so. And glad to hear everyone else's feeling better. Yes, my daughter finally got back to her usual jump around like a maniac ways this morning.

Or last night, really, so she went to school today. And it's been good. Speaking of speaking of her, I'm insane when I said what's up at the beginning. It reminded me that whenever I say what's up to her, like, you know, how you doing?

She said, or not how you know, what's up, what's been going on? She says good. Instead of saying how she's, I'm confused at myself. Because that lack of sleep you've had.

Yeah, it's been rough. But instead of saying, you know, what she's been going on, what's happening at the moment, she says good, like how she's doing, what's up. And so I'm thinking, you know, maybe she's confusing that. And then I started thinking, maybe when I say what's up, she's saying good as in good as what is up.

Or maybe right now. I'm saying maybe she's just giving a step because she knows you're going to say what's up, how you doing? Actually, I never say that though. I never do.

So I always say what's up, like, you know, what you've been up to. It's good. So what I'm thinking is good is what is up, like, what's up, good, good's up. So that's what I'm saying right now is since everybody is back at work in school and healthy, good is up.

Nice. What's up, good. I'm glad to see that bad is down. Yes, bad can suck it for at least a little while.

I'm tired of bad. Yeah. So because, well, not a whole lot. We are in day what, 21 maybe of our food.

You and I started on different days. Yes. I'm not 21 yet. I'm doing 20 days and it'll be over on Sunday for me.

So this weekend. So how are you? How's it going? How are you hanging in there?

Are you hanging in there? Good and bad. Good and bad are both up in this situation. Okay.

Okay. I'm at 23 days. I checked my times lies out. I was getting ready to say you should have it out for this, don't you?

23 days. And how are you doing with it so far? You know, it's not, it's better. It's definitely better.

I still have my sweet cravings, but I kind of, I kind of realized that there, it's not a, it's not really that I'm craving sweets as much as it's been a habit for me to eat, you know, and then an hour or two later have some sort of snack when I'm really not hungry. Yep. So. It's really a habit.

Yeah, it gets me. Yeah. And so now I'm trying to break that habit and it's tough. I will say that I miss my alcohol.

Yeah, I can see missing that sugar is still hurting me, but the carbs, the lack of carbs are really, that's, that's been the worst. Yeah. And I haven't had that issue because I really didn't eat much carbs even before I started this. So that hasn't been too much of an issue for me.

The, but I like to have a glass of wine when I, when I'm cooking. And so I'm missing that. Oh, yeah. And then of course with the meal, I like to have some wine and sometimes that's the sink.

With ice cream? No, I can't mix wine and ice cream. I'm sure that those are mixed together and some, there's some sort of ice cream with wine in it or some sort of ice cream flavored wine, probably. They're probably as we should probably ask Rob that question.

Yes. Pumpkin cheesecake wine ice cream. Still, yeah, still the worst thing for me though is ordering my kids a pizza and not being, not being able to eat any of it. Yeah, that'd be tough.

Yeah. When it comes in it's hot and I can, you know, I go to the door and get it and I'm putting all blades for them and I'm like, you can smell it. Yep. Yeah.

You don't have that problem here because both of us are doing this, this meal plan. Oh, that certainly helps. And you know, it's good too. So that helps a lot.

Oh, okay. Yep. But she's not usually here from home from work. If I'm, you know, look, I'm up from school and I'll order them a pizza for dinner and it's just one of these things where I will be glad next week when I can, I might just eat a whole pizza on Sunday.

I don't know. Sundays the day for you, right? Yes. Okay.

Now you said you were pretty tired, exhausted. Oh, yes. Are you drinking coffee? And I guess more importantly, have you tried any new creamers or new sweeteners or anything like that?

Yes. Yes. And yes, I started, I used to only drink one cup of coffee in the morning, now I drink it one in the afternoon too, just to fight off the lack of, you know, energy from, you know, the car. Yeah.

And so I tried the sweetener that Jen tweeted out about. Oh, that you were advising? Yeah. The ecoplasm.

We'll get the name at some point. We need to tweet that out to link to that because it's actually, she sent me a link saying it's on Amazon. Like, you know, I should, we talk about Amazon every podcast and I didn't even check it because I tweeted her and said, hey, do you know where I could find this after last week? Yeah.

So I got it. I ordered it from Amazon came a couple days and I tried it a couple of times this week and it's actually pretty good. I could recommend it except for the fact that after like the second cup of coffee in a day that I had it, it's a little bit too much for me. And I don't know about you, but like a different kind of sweetener whenever I try something other than sugar.

I have to kind of like adjust to it. Yes. And my stomach has to like build up almost like a tolerance to it. And I was like, oh, this is natural.

It's not, it's country natural. It's not like aspartame or, you know, what are those other, um, yes, Linda. Yes, Linda. Things like that.

So I was like, oh, this will be natural. And no, it is natural, but it did not, it did not sit well with me. The second cup of coffee. So what I'm doing now is just, I've gotten in half the amount of it I'm using and putting a little bit of cream back in there.

So I'm kind of half and half right now. So I think the natural cream or the natural sweetener is called Stevia. And I wonder how this is different than Stevia. I have no idea.

Okay. I don't either. I don't know if I've ever tried Stevia. I have.

I'm not a fan of anything like that. I like sugar or honey, naturally. And that's about all I can take. But if I probably tried it, like you're saying build up a tolerance, maybe I, maybe I could, but right now I'm still living large and high on Sean Morrissey's cinnamon in the coffee.

Really? Coffee. Yep. I'm not there yet.

And I'm okay with that. Do you think that I could get away with like going into care of coffee and saying, yeah, I'd like to make a regular coffee, but could you throw a half a teaspoon of cinnamon in the grounds and make a new, make a new pot for me? You think that would work? I'm probably going to say no.

Because that's the only problem I'm having now. I can have black coffee, but only if it has cinnamon, which means I have to make it myself or go to a place like that and bring my own cinnamon shaker and we all know what happens when I do that. Yeah, that's bad news too. Yeah.

You get inadvertently entered into the cinnamon challenge. Yeah, exactly. Speaking of speaking of regular coffee though. Yeah.

Did you see that article that John Miller tweeted us about things in Massachusetts. Yes, I did. And I looked at that and one of the things in there was regular coffee. If you go in and ask for the regular, it's a certain, I think it was like a black coffee with two sugars or something like that.

I have to go back and look at it. But it was a specific thing where you could just go into most diners or places in Massachusetts and say, yeah, I'll have a regular and they know it's like a thing, which I never heard of that before. Yeah, it says I looked up regular, also known as coffee with cream and two shudders. Yeah, that's lovely.

More commonly known as black coffee. So, wait a minute. I don't understand that then. Wait, wait, wait, yeah, I'm, I thought black coffee was just coffee with nothing in it.

Me too. Am I doing this wrong all the time? Yeah, we're supposed, black coffee means we can add cream and two shudders. Yes.

23 days in your television is now, John. I absolutely need a clarification on this, but that would change everything because that's what I've been putting in it basically. It would. I'm not drinking black coffee.

It would change everything. It would make life so much better. Yes. We need clarification on that.

Any other food stuff? Oh, yes. Definitely speaking of food. Last week I mentioned that I do not like, well first I used the word hate and then I scaled it back a little bit.

Watermelon. Yes. And you said I cannot stand. Oh, that's right.

I cannot stand watermelon. It says at Robin's underscore Jenny from Twitter says she agrees with me. She uses the H word. I hate watermelon.

Anything that even smells like watermelon yuck. Again, the only thing I can say is I'm speechless about this. I cannot. Well, it was followed up by Todd Takeda and Anita from Alaska.

Both of them said, yeah, watermelon's gross. Wow. And I was like, yeah. I was in support of watermelon, right?

Nobody did. Anybody say anything that was pro watermelon? No, there was no pro watermelon people. I'm flummoxed about this.

I don't know what to even say because I really thought that everybody just loved watermelon. No. No. People are not lying.

I don't think they're lying. They don't like watermelon. So it's three right now. It's three against one, really.

Well, well, actually, Ed said something about black and watermelon, didn't he? Or he had a story about watermelon? So Edbud, yes, at Edbud, 1947. He didn't come out and say he likes watermelon.

He said that his parents used to poke a hole in the watermelon and turn a bottle of vodka gin upside down into a hashtag coma. I'm going to say he likes. I'm going to infer from that that he likes watermelon. Or he likes the addition.

He likes the vodka soap watermelon. Yeah. Now I would say that in college, I kind of like something like that too. Is this watermelon jello shot story time?

I don't have a story about it, but I was known to partake in some of that. Oh, OK. So I've had that and that's way better than regular watermelon. See, watermelon is good.

I don't know what to say. I'm not frustrated or upset by this. I'm really just like, I never thought I would hear that sentence in my life that somebody can't say watermelon. So finally, Jason Fus has been perplexed.

I've been stopped, finally. Yeah. Not even for the million time, anyway. And also, Todd, to case, said that he doesn't like tomato sauce unless it's in pizza or pasta sauce, I think he said.

That I can absolutely get over with. Yeah, that I can as well. Now, I mean, I would kill a man for pizza right now. Let's move on before I just go into all the foods that I want to eat.

OK. Well, we have to make it stop though, because I think I'm a little confused because Jenny Robins said that she, I think John Miller said, but what do you have instead? Because she doesn't like watermelon. And she said, red velvet.

And then she said they are a pain to make. And she only does it once a year. But she said she'll maybe make one for the TK Jingle's bus tour, to which I say, yes. And now we're going to hold you to that.

And she's talking red velvet cupcakes. This is what I think. I think this is a red velvet cupcake situation. But is it because I didn't know though, I didn't know we were preparing watermelon to red velvet cupcakes because that's the case.

Or are they red velvet watermelon infused cupcakes? That I'm a little confused. Even I can't even imagine what that tastes like. I got a little bit lost in where that conversation went.

But I so more clarification. Yeah, we need two clarifications after that. And speaking of the bus tour, the TK Jingle's bus tour. Yes.

I believe the Kickstarter, the TK Jingle's Desolation of Song Kickstarter, Jingle Fest has been has met its initial goal, right? Yep, 100% funded, 100% funded. It's absolutely great. And now I think everything else now, the more people that back in the more people that buy the shirts and tickets to the bus tour, which I highly recommend, or any of the other packages on there, that money's above and beyond the initial goal of $5,000 goes toward venues.

So it would certainly help with getting a venue going earlier than, you know, getting into June because I think Jerry's still waiting on something like a head count as we get closer because what we don't want to do, and I know what he definitely doesn't want to do, is book a 500 person venue and we have 200 people show up. Right. Those are expensive. So I think anything above and beyond the initial Kickstarter fund would be great for that.

So keep buying that stuff. Yeah. So if you haven't, if you haven't back it and you can find it on tkjinkles.com, you can find it on Jerry Negreli Twitter page at Jerry Negreli, probably also on Facebook. You can also just go into Kickstarter and type in the search bar, even liver, not even liver, TK Jingle's and I bet it pop up.

Yeah. And I mean, it's endorsed by Smudge now. So I mean, what could go wrong? Exactly.

Smudge, smudge, smudge. Smudge, smudge, smudge. Smudge, smudge. I've got you.

Also, I've been saying, desolation of song incorrectly. I guess it's the desolation of Sange. Sange, yes. Yeah.

Yes. Exactly. You have anything else this happened this week? Oh, yes, actually.

So I was at the Y again the other day. I did not get hiccups. OK, so that's that's my theory of going to the Y. Gives you hiccups has been disbroken already.

Yes, it has. OK, but so I'm at the Y and I just finished my workout. I was getting ready to leave. And one of the directors of either programming or marketing, she comes up to me and asks me, Hey, have you signed up for the Iron Man Challenge yet?

So yep, that about sums up my week. She thinks I should go to the Iron Man Challenge. What is the Iron Man Challenge? Is this like a cinnamon challenge?

You get to eat iron? You know what an Iron Man is. Strathlon, right? Yeah, but it's like the it's a full marathon runs, a 26 point two run miles running.

I want to say it's two two miles swimming or two point five miles swimming and then 110 mile bike or something like that. Also, no, well, I did tell her, no, but yeah. Now, yes, she's marketing. So maybe she's just asking everyone, but it was sort of, you know, I'm going with the fact that she sought me out after seeing me and said, yeah, you need to be an Iron Man.

You're a perfect candidate. That's cool. You keep taking it. By the way, it was a I can't swim.

So I told her I don't do I don't do these things because I can't swim. She's like, well, you know what counts. That's my reason to only the only reason I don't do them is because I can't swim. Exactly.

That's my only reason. She said, well, you know what counts, you could put one of those aqua joggers on and. Is this like water wings or adults? Yeah, you put those as it goes around your waist and it's a floaty floatation device.

And then that counts too. So my guess is this Iron Man challenges. You have a certain time period where you log your miles. So you don't have to get all 26 miles running at once and all 110 miles running at bikes or biking at once.

So I don't think it's yeah, I don't think it's a real Iron Man. I didn't look at it because I told her no. So I could go like run a mile and then put that down and then do that for 25 days, 25 more days and I would be considered by 26 miles. That's my guess, but there's probably less time frame than that.

I don't know. There's something less Iron Man and more like, you know, aluminum man. Well, they just want you to get working out. Yes.

Yeah. Well, that's good. I am all for exercise, but not that I do it all that often anymore, but I'm offering. I told her that I have tried the aqua vest and that doesn't work for me.

Oh, can you really not swim? I can't swim. Oh, I didn't know that. I was I've tried many times to learn how to swim.

It never worked. I feel like there's a story in the back of my brain when I was three years old that I almost drowned. Yeah, that would that would discourage you from getting back in the water. I understand.

Oh, yeah, I failed Jim, the Jim section of swimming because I refused to do a Bob. You mean P.E. Yeah, P.E. Phys Ed, via Jim.

By Ed. I'll never use it. That fire is what they say here in Minnesota. Yeah, I don't.

But I failed that because they I wouldn't do a Bob. What is that? Like just floating the water. No, Bob is where you go under water.

You had to do 10 Bobs. So you you go under water and come back up and come back up, take a breath, go back. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, 10 of them. And I've heard about that. And I can't do a Bob first of all without without plugging my nose. Really?

I can't breathe. I don't it goes up my nose. Or if you're water. I like water in the shallow and I would go in there all day, just sit there.

Like you go in the ocean or lakes or river ponds and stuff? No, no, Jason. How about driving over bridges? I do not like bridges.

So you would like to go like over the Golden Gate Bridge? Well, I've been over the Golden Gate. I've been over lots of bridges, but I sort of hold my breath. I don't scream out loud like Tony does, but I this is how irrational it is.

I roll down all the windows when I go over a bridge. How I would seem like that would put you closer to the water. Because here it is. Here it is.

Again, irrational. If the bridge goes down, I won't be the water won't trap me in the car because of water pressure. The windows will already be open, but I can't swim anyway. So I should start.

I should get in the car with a life jacket on at all times. There you go. And you know, like the race car drivers wear helmets. Well, maybe I should just put a life jacket on at all times and then always open your windows when you cross a bridge.

My daughter's growing out of her like safety car seat, like five way harness. If you let me to ship it to you. No, because I'd be stuck in there. I would like one point of relation, one button that just flies apart.

It's pretty good. Yeah, but I'd probably panic. So if you do realize that if you go if you're on the Golden Gate Bridge and it goes down, yes, you're you're pretty much nobody is swimming out of that because you're going to die from the fall more than likely when you get the water or be knocked out. Anyway, well, this is why I said it's irrational because I know that.

But I appreciate it. I definitely in 2008, one of the bridges in Minneapolis collapsed. Do you like a big one? Yeah, do you remember this on the National National News?

And actually, I don't think I do many. It wasn't OK. It was rush hour, but for some reason the traffic wasn't wasn't crazy. So many people fell into the plumage into the water, but not many died.

Really? Yes. I mean, that's good. But I mean, it's I would seem like it would be seems like it would be a catastrophic situation where nobody's surviving.

But that's that's good. It's not most people to die. Yeah. So that tells me that maybe depending obviously the height of the bridge, but it can occur where you do that and you survive.

So this is hence my rolling down the window. When I was in Bangkok in Thailand many years ago, I drove across. But at the time was longest bridge. I mean, you're on there for like, you know, 30 minutes on this bridge.

That's a long time. And even that, and I don't have any problem with that. And even then I was like, this is kind of weird. So I can imagine I can imagine I certainly understand how people have phobias of driving over bridges and water and stuff like that.

Well, I think the longest bridge that I have ever been on is probably either two two different ones. There's one in Louisiana, Lake Pontchartrain, maybe is it going like over like swamps and bayou areas? So it's like lower or is it like way up in the air like the Golden Gate Bridge? Well, I think it's no, I don't think it's way up in the air.

OK. OK, I'm looking at Lake Pontchartrain causeway. Bridges crossing Lake Pontchartrain in Southern Louisiana. The longer the two bridges is 23.83 miles.

Yep. So that must have been the longest that I've been on. But I also, it doesn't scare me as much as the bridge that connects lower peninsula of Michigan to the upper peninsula of Michigan. Oh, yeah.

I've been on that. Mackinac, Mackinac Bridge, I think it's called that one I want to say is only like eight miles long. But that one is way up and that scares me. And that I do not like that one.

I think I liked it when I was little. Yeah. Is it more a water thing or a height thing then? I don't think it's height.

I think it's the fact that I'm not afraid of heights. I like heights actually. But I think it's the fact that I know rationally that the higher that bridge goes, if I fall, I'm dying. But wouldn't you want, if you're going to fall, I mean hypothetically, if you're going to fall with a collapsed bridge, you would want to die, you personally would want to die before you get the water because it would be worse to drown in the car than to fall and just be not unconscious and gone.

No, because I think that if the bridge is lower, I won't die. And I'll have my windows open. So I, and if I have my life jacket on, I will survive. That's Gloria Gaynor says.

Yeah. Let me ask you this question. Do you have one of those little things that you keep in the car that you can break the glass and cut the seatbelt with? Those little hammers.

No. Oh, you need to get one of those. Well, I guess I can just roll the windows down. But what if it's the winter time and you're going across?

Oh, believe me. When that happens, if I have any passengers, they're like, come on, man. Roll that window back up. No.

In the winter time. Yes. You just need to get one of these little hammers that you keep in the car. I can't remember what they're called, but I have one in both minds just because, you know, it's mainly got a seatbelt cutter in it.

If you get an accident and you need to cut a seatbelt off of you to get out, like the car's on fire or something like that, you can do it. And hopefully we'll never have to use it. But it's also got like a little hammer with a little pinpoint that is specifically made to just tap the glass and it shatters the glass and you can knock it out and get out. Well, that's way easier than rolling down the windows.

Certainly in the winter time. Yeah. But I need to make sure I had that in a place where I could easily find it where I'm not panicking. Yeah.

I keep it in the door in both vehicles that I have have a little slot inside, like the driver's side door. You can, like, maybe four or five inches deep that you can just put stuff in, lay stuff in there. So you just reach down and grab it. It's always right there.

Well, I'll have to look into that. And so how far just to get into how far the fear of water goes, are you ever ever been afraid of using a bubbler? No. Okay.

All right. Just put in some baseline on this. But speaking of bubbler, John Miller did tell us that he tweeted us at JKM563. Yes, as a child in Massachusetts, it was called a bubbler.

That solves that problem clarification. What we're all about here. No, I can't even get through that. I can't even get through that.

I can't even get through that. I can't even think of this. Not really. I mean, I went to the women's margin was cool and there was a drone there.

And now it's time for... Pronunciation! Yes! ATons!

Something like that. Yeah. I don't know how you say that though. Speaking of pronunciations, Bob Walsh on Twitter suggested one for us.

Bob Walsh at ADIDIH. Adeia. Okay. So this is Adeia.

Is he saying how to pronounce his Twitter handle? So I'm going to go with Edidiah. Edidiah. That's probably pretty close.

Okay. He said for our podcast. Oh, it was an actual pronunciation word. No, that's his Twitter handle.

Okay. Okay. So he said one of CNN's talking heads said that Sean Spicer's comments are quote, um, should I just say it the way that I would say it? Could I just say that you would say it.

Patently false. How is the word patently pronounced you wanted to know? I would say just like you did patently. Yeah.

So I'm wondering if one of the talking heads pronounced it in a different manner. All right. What would be your guess? Because I have a guess.

Mine would be patently. That's a good one. I could certainly see that. I'm thinking maybe patently where they really emphasize like a patent part of it.

Patently patently patently. A patent like what you register for a patent. Yeah, you file. Yeah, maybe.

I've heard patents in the medical field referring to, you know, an artery that's open. That's not obstructed. Yeah. Well, I've learned something for today.

I didn't know that that was called that. Yeah. So a patent artery. And so I think there's a term for if the artery is blocked.

It's a oh, some Latin term patent obstruct is or something like that. Okay. I was going to say our. A patent.

A patent obstruction. Or maybe somebody said patently false. Oh, I hope not. I know.

For the sake of their on TV, you know, TV and that. So I guess we'll go with paper. You'll go with a tent. Patently.

No, no, Patently. Yeah. What you said. Yeah.

Thanks Bob for suggesting that. Yes. And if we missed it, I would like to hear maybe send us a clip or something to it as a clip. If we did not get the way that they pronounce it on CNN.

Definitely. And then there was another word that I heard somebody pronounce this week somewhere. Okay. And it refers to a type of key.

It's on the keyboard. It's a it's a type of symbol symbol that it starts with an A. No, that's a really good guess. And percent.

That's also a very good guess. But no. I'll spell it. Okay.

As T-E-R-I-S-K. Asterisk. Say it again. Asterisk.

So you're not pronouncing the K. No, and it's not because I'm not trying it because I can't. Oh. I have a difficult to say in that word.

So that maybe where it comes from. Maybe. I could say asterisk. But that sounds like overpronunciation of the K to me.

Asterisk. How do you say it? If you were just reading this and saying I pronounce this word asterisk. How would you say it?

I pronounce this word asterisk. So you are in the middle. So you are hitting the K. See, that's how I would like to be able to say it.

But it just never comes out that way. And I don't want to say asterisk, which I've actually heard people say before. Which is nothing wrong with that. I just don't want to be that to be me saying that.

You mean they slow it down. Asterisk. Like I do with Antarctica. Yes, exactly.

So asterisk. That's how I say it. Asterisk. But you say asterisk.

I hear. Usually I think it's because a lot of times in the south in the southern accent you will drop like the first or the last consonant or first or last syllable sometimes of words. Because I can talk about how you like doing this over here and that is actual. Some people talk regularly like that.

And I can fall into that. If I'm around a lot of people who are speaking with heavy southern accents and they're talking fast, I can fall into that method of just dropping syllables and phrases here all the time. Oh yeah. I think that's what I'm doing is by just when I say asterisk.

I have this terrible habit that I cannot control that I pick up the accents wherever I go. I would not call that terrible or habit. I think that's a really cool like maybe you should be a spy. But I think that the locals don't like it.

They can tell they can spot it. Well of course. But do they think that you're making fun of it? I don't know.

I think that people might think that. But it's just something that happens. Especially if I go back to the south having grown in my formative years there. I took it up really quickly again.

Yeah. And I kind of do the same thing. Like if I was living in Virginia or New York or New England for a while, my accent would kind of shift a little bit because it's shifted over the years. I used to have a really, really southern accent because I lived in the southern part of Virginia for growing up and really, I mean times I say really right there.

Really? Really? It was much heavier than it is now. And now I go back there and people say, why are you talking like you from New York?

I'm like, it's what we talked about while maybe last episode of few ago about your accent is really relative to where you are. If I'm around people who speak southern, they think I have an northern accent. If I go up north, like if I came to Minnesota they'd be like, wow, you have a really southern accent. Yeah, it's really all relative.

Yes. People here in Minnesota ask me all the time if I'm from the south. And when I tell you that you're like, what? Yes, it's crazy to me.

If you came and hung out with some of the people around here that I talked on a regular basis, they would be like, you have the most Minnesota accent I've ever heard in my life. Oh, yeah. I don't think that. But people who I've lived in one region, I think, or one accent dialect region, I guess that's a term for their whole life or a larger majority of their adult life.

When they hear an accent outside of that, it really sticks out to them. But me, it's hard for me to really hear accents as, I don't pay attention to accents anymore because I've been in so many places, I think that it kind of all blends together and unless it's a really, really pronounced accent, someone who's English is not first language and they're trying to learn to speak English and their accent is really heavy and it's hard to understand what they're saying. That's really the only accent that I go, oh, that person has an accent. Yeah, well, if I went down to where you live, at first they'd probably think that I was from the north.

But as the more time I spent with them, the more I started talking like them, that maybe like, oh, maybe she is from here. Yeah. Or they'd be offended. Or they'd be offended, which is why I said earlier it's not a great habit.

I mean, it's not a habit, it just happens. It's uncontrollable. It's a scale, I think. I mean, I should be as fine.

How do you know I'm not fine? I don't know what it's a name. Yeah. Well, wait a minute.

Let's move on to the next word. Do we have any other words? So this word is, I don't know when this word started to become popular and I have said this word mostly as a joke, but it's short for vacation. Oh, no.

When you're going to go on vacay, baby? Oh, no. You've heard this word. Oh, yes.

I have hatred for this word. Awesome. Like watermelon for me. Yeah.

You don't like the word watermelon? No, watermelon has come in handy when you don't know the lyrics to a song. You just say watermelon over and over again. Absolutely.

That totally works when you're like singing in a choir. Yes, it does. And you want to keep singing and you know the notes, but you don't know the words. You just say watermelon and people looking at the crowd, looking at it from the crowd.

They don't know or like you're in a singing group. They don't know the difference. Yeah, I know. It really is amazing how it works.

So in that context, I do like watermelon. I knew you'd come around. Yep. So vacay.

Vacay. That may be the first time in my life I've actually said that word. Really? I have a problem with these shortening of words that don't really say that much time.

It's a little too cute for me. I mean, I don't have a problem with people that do it. You're just never going to hear me say that. Let's see if that young man picked up on that.

Yeah. I think I tweeted that I even forgot what ice means. And I wouldn't get. You remember now?

Maybe I need a vacay, Sean. Or a staycation. I was going to bring that up if you didn't because that's another one that I heard it in a commercial the other day where a guy was like, I don't need a staycation. I need a vacation and I'm like, come on man.

Well, you know what though? That's kind of clever. It's a little too clever. I think it's my problem.

Hey, I absolutely admit that I can sometimes be a little bit more than that. I'd be a little too clever into the verging into dumb clever. That's a thing. Well, that's Saudi corny.

I like corny. Yeah. I can appreciate corny and pawns and stuff like that. It's almost like when people use it like vacay and they're not like you said you say joking around or you know, as a hey, I'm going to go on a vacay or a staycation.

It's when these words become normal like when the word vacation is replaced with staycation and people aren't trying to be funny or clever or corny or cute or anything. They're just that's a new vocabulary word that they use. That's what I'm like. Just stay vacation.

Just stay vacation. There's a word for this. Just stay vacation. And it has nothing against them.

It's the same thing with when people abbreviate stuff that actually takes more time to say than actually saying what they're abbreviating. So that's what I cannot think of an example right now, but that drives me nuts. Yeah, I can't think of one either. Maybe there's people who are unrelated by marriage.

That's different though because that's funny to me. So I guess it's how it's intended. But it's like I've seen it on the internet like especially in tweets because you have to shorten it down. I understand that.

But when people are tweeting stuff and they actually use that in language and actually in real life, going places for people to say things that I'm like and I'm an idiot because I can't remember. I'm going to blend this on a lack of sleep. But it's things that I'm like it would take you longer to say this abbreviated shortened version of it that's cutesy than it does to actually say the thing that you were trying to save time by doing. Explain to me why you're doing that.

Well, this is taking up way too much of my brain and time already. And now I'm thinking about this. Please stop. So you're basically putting out the hockey name argument where if the last name is Trotz, we say Trotzee.

That's adding an extra syllable or oats. Oatsy. Yeah. Totally.

I think that's what you're basically what you're saying. Yeah, that kind of fits into that. But I mean, this is like I've heard it with like much more egregious examples in that. And I can't I can't think of anything.

So I'm sure there's I'm sure that something's popping into somebody's mind right now. I think I'm not saying hey, this is what you're talking about or they can say I do this and you're an idiot for thinking, you know, there's a problem with this and I will believe that I'm an idiot. So yeah, I'm sure somebody will let us know I'd like to know because I would like some ridiculous example. So what normally will happen with the way we do this thing is after we're done recording this about five minutes later, I'll hear something on TV or I'll go to the store and I hear somebody say it and I'll be like, that's it.

Yeah, that's what happens way more often than I could ever I know we talk about this. We've emailed back and forth by this how some stuff we talk about on here like then we'd like as we're talking about it on the podcast with it. I mean, we're recording this. So there's no way anybody else has heard it.

People tweet about it or email about it or stuff comes on the news or go to the store and I hear a song that we talked about this, you know, from 20, 30 years ago. And I'm like, yeah, this is getting a little too weird. Yeah. And it happens a lot.

Yes. But I think one of the ultimate one was when we were talking about staying alive in a quiz with John Fitzpatrick and then I said that that's a CPR. Yeah. I said that's what you're supposed to sing to yourself when you're doing CPR and then Jolieton is that that same week she helped revive a gentleman by singing.

She said one slide. Exactly. And then heard the podcast. Wow.

Yeah. She said she almost fell off of her treadmill. Yes. It's amazing how everything comes and works together like that that stuff.

I mean, I've done a lot of study in college on, you know, quantum entanglement and nuclear physics and stuff. And quantum entanglement is an amazing thing where this one thing over here or this one electron or this one particle doesn't have any connection to this other one that's, you know, could be in relative terms, you know, way, way, way far away. But one changes and the other one just changes automatically at the same time to match. And there's no way that they can physically with their laws of art universe explain it.