WEBVTT 00:00:01.360 --> 00:00:03.660 So I have no problem with that. I have a problem 00:00:03.660 --> 00:00:07.280 with the people that feel like this one day that 00:00:07.280 --> 00:00:11.259 they splat out of their mom is the day that needs 00:00:11.259 --> 00:00:14.060 to be celebrated over and over and over again. 00:00:14.380 --> 00:00:53.880 Like Groundhog Day. Welcome to the Cash Exchange 00:00:53.880 --> 00:00:56.719 Podcast. This will be a special episode because 00:00:56.719 --> 00:01:00.259 I have a guest host across from the table from 00:01:00.259 --> 00:01:02.840 me. Would you like to introduce yourself? Yeah, 00:01:02.880 --> 00:01:05.439 I've been called lots of things by lots of different 00:01:05.439 --> 00:01:09.019 people, but I think my favorite one most recently 00:01:09.019 --> 00:01:14.579 is your Sig Oath. Yeah? Well, I assume you listen? 00:01:14.719 --> 00:01:17.140 Are you a listener? Yes. So you know the format 00:01:17.140 --> 00:01:20.379 of the show? 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That's how you 00:03:17.659 --> 00:03:19.539 know that this is Genuine Cash Exchange Pod. 00:03:19.979 --> 00:03:24.240 As well as you could follow us, subscribe, Apple 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:27.379 Music, Amazon Music, Spotify, or wherever you 00:03:27.379 --> 00:03:29.099 get your podcasts. All right, you ready to get 00:03:29.099 --> 00:03:32.500 into this one? Yes. Okay. You know the format, 00:03:32.659 --> 00:03:36.319 correct? Mm -hmm. What do half anniversaries, 00:03:36.479 --> 00:03:40.740 plane landings, and May the 4th have in common? 00:03:41.080 --> 00:03:46.460 Some notable times. Okay. Sure. Sure. Some great 00:03:46.460 --> 00:03:50.400 things to be celebrated. Hmm. I don't know about 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:52.460 that third one. I'm not really into Star Wars. 00:03:52.719 --> 00:03:54.860 So this is going to be a contentious episode. 00:03:55.599 --> 00:03:59.400 After the one we just released was a little contentious 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:02.520 with my usual co -host, and now this one is going 00:04:02.520 --> 00:04:08.020 to be just as, oh. There are, I'll give you this. 00:04:08.120 --> 00:04:10.419 There are days that you can celebrate. There 00:04:10.419 --> 00:04:13.539 are events that you could celebrate. There are 00:04:13.539 --> 00:04:18.170 events that no adult. Human person needs to celebrate. 00:04:18.910 --> 00:04:21.250 We've had this argument about half anniversaries. 00:04:21.250 --> 00:04:23.790 I've never celebrated a half anniversary. Six 00:04:23.790 --> 00:04:27.629 months. Nope. We have our date anniversary. We 00:04:27.629 --> 00:04:31.149 have our girlfriend, boyfriend -iversary. And 00:04:31.149 --> 00:04:34.129 we have our engage -iversary. There's no half 00:04:34.129 --> 00:04:36.370 ones in there. Okay, but you've brought it up 00:04:36.370 --> 00:04:41.209 before. Let's see. Oh, it's in six months. This 00:04:41.209 --> 00:04:44.889 is our whatever and a half anniversary. Well. 00:04:45.610 --> 00:04:47.990 What if certain things happen and you don't get 00:04:47.990 --> 00:04:51.290 all the way to the next one? I guess. I guess. 00:04:51.529 --> 00:04:53.730 What about plane landings? When's the last time 00:04:53.730 --> 00:04:58.649 you were on a plane? Probably, when was that? 00:04:58.709 --> 00:05:02.730 Two Novembers ago? For my cousin's wedding? Yeah. 00:05:03.250 --> 00:05:05.509 Yeah. Did you feel like celebrating? Did you 00:05:05.509 --> 00:05:07.970 feel like praising the fact that the plane did 00:05:07.970 --> 00:05:11.810 what it was supposed to do? Not out loud. No? 00:05:11.910 --> 00:05:15.629 I didn't ever clap. Well, I'm on record. in our 00:05:15.629 --> 00:05:18.829 planes episode talking about how stupid I think 00:05:18.829 --> 00:05:21.990 it is when people applaud the plane touching 00:05:21.990 --> 00:05:25.850 down. And plenty of other hot takes on plane 00:05:25.850 --> 00:05:28.250 etiquette. You can check that episode out. Last 00:05:28.250 --> 00:05:30.529 one, May the 4th. Yeah, that means nothing to 00:05:30.529 --> 00:05:35.850 me. I used to be big into Star Wars. Not since... 00:05:35.850 --> 00:05:41.129 I didn't mind the... Was that episode 7, I guess? 00:05:41.389 --> 00:05:44.009 I like the prequels. I wasn't a hater of the 00:05:44.009 --> 00:05:48.149 prequels. But when they started the third trilogy, 00:05:48.410 --> 00:05:51.870 not a fan. And I feel like ever since then, it's 00:05:51.870 --> 00:05:54.769 just gone right down the toilet. And people that 00:05:54.769 --> 00:05:58.649 celebrate May the 4th are pretty silly. Pretty 00:05:58.649 --> 00:06:02.550 silly people. Including, I think it was the White 00:06:02.550 --> 00:06:05.990 House posted on Twitter, an AI -generated image 00:06:05.990 --> 00:06:09.329 of Rip Donald with a red lightsaber. It was a 00:06:09.329 --> 00:06:12.470 great picture. I guess. I think it was more. 00:06:12.920 --> 00:06:15.259 Hopefully it was more out of sarcasm than them 00:06:15.259 --> 00:06:19.079 thinking that it was a good PR move. Not really 00:06:19.079 --> 00:06:21.459 sure if Donald's the type to watch Star Wars, 00:06:21.579 --> 00:06:24.399 but who knows? I don't think that the people 00:06:24.399 --> 00:06:26.920 who are currently into Star Wars are big fans 00:06:26.920 --> 00:06:30.860 of DJT. Probably not. Not sure who that audience 00:06:30.860 --> 00:06:36.079 was for. But all these have something in common 00:06:36.079 --> 00:06:41.180 with the topic of today's episode, which is the... 00:06:43.479 --> 00:06:45.540 Narcissism. Narcissistic seems like too strong 00:06:45.540 --> 00:06:48.500 of a word. What's a light version of narcissism? 00:06:48.980 --> 00:06:54.160 Centered? Selfish? Self -centered, I guess. Attention 00:06:54.160 --> 00:06:57.240 -grabbing? Yeah. Grabbers? Okay, there you go, 00:06:57.279 --> 00:07:01.560 yeah. The attention seekers that feel the need 00:07:01.560 --> 00:07:05.079 to celebrate their birthday for an entire week. 00:07:05.399 --> 00:07:07.360 You know you can laugh on the mic, right? You 00:07:07.360 --> 00:07:11.259 don't have to hide it every time. It's a great 00:07:11.259 --> 00:07:14.180 topic, one that I'm recently pretty fond of. 00:07:14.399 --> 00:07:18.060 Yeah, so you're a fan. Yes. Now, when you start 00:07:18.060 --> 00:07:21.600 to get into the birthday months... Oh, that's 00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:24.740 ridiculous. That's where it gets excessive. Birthday 00:07:24.740 --> 00:07:27.720 week's a little bit more acceptable. I have my 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:32.699 reasons. Okay. Okay, what are they? Well, we'll 00:07:32.699 --> 00:07:36.379 start off with a pretty simple one. We celebrated 00:07:36.379 --> 00:07:39.839 my birthday, I think, on... Two or three different 00:07:39.839 --> 00:07:42.519 days. One, you and I just went out to dinner. 00:07:42.639 --> 00:07:47.160 The next time we celebrated it, we had a tea 00:07:47.160 --> 00:07:51.480 party with the kids. And then we kind of went 00:07:51.480 --> 00:07:53.920 out with the rest of the family to celebrate 00:07:53.920 --> 00:07:57.720 again at dinner. So, I mean, when not everybody 00:07:57.720 --> 00:08:00.660 is able to get together at the same time, you're 00:08:00.660 --> 00:08:02.579 going to have to spread it out. Quick side note. 00:08:02.680 --> 00:08:05.819 I was recently asked about our Chili's story 00:08:05.819 --> 00:08:10.490 from... the last episode. And that story will 00:08:10.490 --> 00:08:15.189 be forthcoming once other host is, is back at 00:08:15.189 --> 00:08:18.350 the helm. So please stand by. Yes. That was one 00:08:18.350 --> 00:08:20.810 of the times we were. Yes, that was, that was 00:08:20.810 --> 00:08:25.050 the, yeah. Okay. But that wasn't, that wasn't 00:08:25.050 --> 00:08:27.889 a plan. They just happened to work out that way 00:08:27.889 --> 00:08:30.649 just with everyone's schedule. Yeah. You didn't, 00:08:30.649 --> 00:08:32.470 you didn't set out and say, okay, we're going 00:08:32.470 --> 00:08:35.370 to do this, this day, this on this day, and then 00:08:35.370 --> 00:08:37.779 this on this day. And then if I'm not feeling 00:08:37.779 --> 00:08:41.600 fully satiated in my birthday celebrations, then 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:43.179 we're going to do something on this day too. 00:08:43.399 --> 00:08:45.860 Yeah, well, if everybody was available on the 00:08:45.860 --> 00:08:47.460 same day, it would have just been a one -time 00:08:47.460 --> 00:08:51.139 thing. But they weren't. They weren't. So I have 00:08:51.139 --> 00:08:52.860 no problem with that. I have a problem with the 00:08:52.860 --> 00:08:56.460 people that feel like this one day that they 00:08:56.460 --> 00:09:00.259 splat out of their mom is the day that needs 00:09:00.259 --> 00:09:03.059 to be celebrated over and over and over again. 00:09:03.220 --> 00:09:07.950 Like Groundhog Day. Just over and over. My mom 00:09:07.950 --> 00:09:10.590 used to tell me that she didn't think it was 00:09:10.590 --> 00:09:12.590 fair that I was the only one that got to celebrate 00:09:12.590 --> 00:09:15.090 because I didn't really do anything when I was 00:09:15.090 --> 00:09:17.690 born. I just was born. And she did all the hard 00:09:17.690 --> 00:09:21.750 work. And that is its own episode and its own 00:09:21.750 --> 00:09:25.470 issue. Which, I mean, I don't think is wrong. 00:09:25.789 --> 00:09:28.690 Like, she should celebrate herself, too. Yeah. 00:09:28.970 --> 00:09:32.789 But it's my birthday. It is. She wouldn't have 00:09:32.789 --> 00:09:35.360 anything to celebrate if you didn't exist. But 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:37.620 I mean, it goes the same the other way, too. 00:09:38.019 --> 00:09:41.360 I guess. So, I don't know. But she has her own 00:09:41.360 --> 00:09:44.740 day, so I get mine. Well, she gets her own birthday, 00:09:44.820 --> 00:09:47.179 plus she gets Mother's Day. Yeah. That's not 00:09:47.179 --> 00:09:50.440 fair. It is what it is. Do you say, hey, you 00:09:50.440 --> 00:09:52.419 get to celebrate me, too, because without me, 00:09:52.480 --> 00:09:55.299 you wouldn't have been a mother? No, I don't 00:09:55.299 --> 00:09:57.340 say that. You should try that. Well, Mother's 00:09:57.340 --> 00:09:59.899 Day is a little different for her. Okay. Probably 00:09:59.899 --> 00:10:03.860 leave that one out. Okay. But under normal circumstances, 00:10:04.360 --> 00:10:07.220 she's really got the trump card on you. Yeah. 00:10:07.259 --> 00:10:11.659 It's fine. No. But you didn't set out to have 00:10:11.659 --> 00:10:15.299 a full week celebrating your birthday? No. I 00:10:15.299 --> 00:10:20.139 don't think up until maybe the last couple years, 00:10:20.360 --> 00:10:23.960 I started doing more than just my birthday. It 00:10:23.960 --> 00:10:27.470 was fun. The same type of people that... need 00:10:27.470 --> 00:10:30.769 to have themselves celebrated for an entire week 00:10:30.769 --> 00:10:34.610 are the same people that will have their bachelorette 00:10:34.610 --> 00:10:39.190 party in nashville and drag everyone to a thousand 00:10:39.190 --> 00:10:41.210 different things that no one really wants to 00:10:41.210 --> 00:10:44.169 do yeah and have different themed outfit nights 00:10:44.169 --> 00:10:47.970 yeah yeah me and your uh other co -host just 00:10:47.970 --> 00:10:50.769 talked about this yeah not that long ago when 00:10:50.769 --> 00:10:53.769 we were out doing some related things to that 00:10:54.730 --> 00:10:57.570 Yeah, we saw some people getting real dressed 00:10:57.570 --> 00:11:01.210 up in a theme. Probably like, I don't know, close 00:11:01.210 --> 00:11:03.529 to 20 people just to go try on wedding dresses. 00:11:03.590 --> 00:11:06.210 And that was a little much for me. Yeah? Yes. 00:11:06.330 --> 00:11:09.169 I would never make anybody do that or stick to 00:11:09.169 --> 00:11:11.389 a certain dress code just to go out to dinner. 00:11:11.629 --> 00:11:14.889 Yeah, that's pretty bananas. So, it's not my 00:11:14.889 --> 00:11:17.190 kind of thing. You want to celebrate me getting 00:11:17.190 --> 00:11:19.730 married to somebody? Wear whatever you want. 00:11:20.230 --> 00:11:22.669 I'm going to dress up and look real cute. You 00:11:22.669 --> 00:11:26.289 don't have to. Yeah, so I think mainly our issue 00:11:26.289 --> 00:11:28.789 isn't with the fact that you're celebrating a 00:11:28.789 --> 00:11:30.669 birthday because I've never had a problem celebrating 00:11:30.669 --> 00:11:32.649 my birthday. I've never had a problem celebrating 00:11:32.649 --> 00:11:34.850 other people's birthdays. But I think it's just 00:11:34.850 --> 00:11:38.210 the type of person that comes with wanting to 00:11:38.210 --> 00:11:41.250 have 9 ,000 different celebrations. I think that 00:11:41.250 --> 00:11:44.610 is the real issue that is at play here. Yeah. 00:11:45.019 --> 00:11:47.279 Well, I think I'm coming at it at a different 00:11:47.279 --> 00:11:50.559 kind of angle than that. Not having enough time 00:11:50.559 --> 00:11:53.980 on one day to do all the things that you might 00:11:53.980 --> 00:11:58.299 want to do. Okay, yeah. But you could also take 00:11:58.299 --> 00:12:01.519 that day and just move it to a different singular 00:12:01.519 --> 00:12:04.779 day. So maybe it's two weeks from your birthday. 00:12:04.860 --> 00:12:06.659 And this is the day we're going to celebrate 00:12:06.659 --> 00:12:08.519 your birthday because we can do all these things 00:12:08.519 --> 00:12:10.840 with all these people. Because everyone's schedule 00:12:10.840 --> 00:12:13.809 opens up and then... And then you can do all 00:12:13.809 --> 00:12:16.350 the things that you wanted to do, one go. Well, 00:12:16.509 --> 00:12:21.149 I am an avid coupon savings type of person. So 00:12:21.149 --> 00:12:24.169 I sign up for all the e -clubs, for all the restaurants, 00:12:24.490 --> 00:12:27.870 and all the places. And so you just don't have 00:12:27.870 --> 00:12:29.690 enough time to use all the coupons that they 00:12:29.690 --> 00:12:32.529 send out for your birthday. That's true. I got, 00:12:32.809 --> 00:12:37.789 let's see, free meals from six different places. 00:12:38.029 --> 00:12:40.669 You can't eat six meals in one day. That's too 00:12:40.669 --> 00:12:43.830 much. That is too much. I agree. You got to spread 00:12:43.830 --> 00:12:47.090 it out at least once a day. And we don't go like 00:12:47.090 --> 00:12:50.909 we don't go out like super often. No. But when 00:12:50.909 --> 00:12:54.429 we do, we do go out around someone's birthday 00:12:54.429 --> 00:12:57.029 at least one time. More than that. I mean, we 00:12:57.029 --> 00:13:00.899 we pretty much get the same coupons. So like 00:13:00.899 --> 00:13:02.620 around your birthday and then around my birthday. 00:13:02.679 --> 00:13:05.559 And then we get stuff for the kids. Then you 00:13:05.559 --> 00:13:08.279 get your free appetizers. I get free popcorn 00:13:08.279 --> 00:13:11.100 because we go to so many movies at three or four 00:13:11.100 --> 00:13:14.279 different cinema places. Then you also get your 00:13:14.279 --> 00:13:18.620 desserts. And sometimes they don't scan the coupon. 00:13:18.860 --> 00:13:21.480 So you might just get to use it again. You never 00:13:21.480 --> 00:13:24.320 know. And then so not only do you get all the 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:26.879 food coupons, you get the coupons for stores 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:30.580 too. Like Kendra Scott, you get half off. And 00:13:30.580 --> 00:13:33.220 that's pretty expensive jewelry. So you better 00:13:33.220 --> 00:13:35.519 use that coupon. It's a good one. What a deal. 00:13:35.679 --> 00:13:38.740 One time a year. Where else? Bath and Body, you 00:13:38.740 --> 00:13:42.039 get a coupon. Adidas. Different places you get 00:13:42.039 --> 00:13:44.360 coupons. Don't have to use them all, but they're 00:13:44.360 --> 00:13:46.879 there. They are there. So for all those coupon 00:13:46.879 --> 00:13:49.019 queens out there, make sure you sign up for them. 00:13:49.529 --> 00:13:51.690 They'll send them to you, I want to say, like 00:13:51.690 --> 00:13:53.830 a week before your birthday starts. And some 00:13:53.830 --> 00:13:55.870 of them, not all of them, are good for like the 00:13:55.870 --> 00:13:57.490 whole month. So you've got to really, really 00:13:57.490 --> 00:14:00.049 plan it out. Because some expire the next day. 00:14:00.190 --> 00:14:03.990 Some expire like in a week. But the bigger ones 00:14:03.990 --> 00:14:06.629 you get pretty much the whole month to use. The 00:14:06.629 --> 00:14:09.990 worst ones are the ones that say, Happy birthday. 00:14:10.149 --> 00:14:14.350 Here's a coupon. Use it this day or else. Yeah. 00:14:14.750 --> 00:14:18.000 One of my, well. I'm not a coffee drinker, but 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:20.440 one of your favorite establishments for coffee. 00:14:21.080 --> 00:14:24.700 You only get the one day, and last year I didn't 00:14:24.700 --> 00:14:27.840 have time to get my free beverage and missed 00:14:27.840 --> 00:14:31.360 it. But if there's any, as Taylor Swift would 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:35.840 say, Starbucks lovers in the audience, you can 00:14:35.840 --> 00:14:38.960 use that for literally anything. Yes. Any drink. 00:14:39.159 --> 00:14:41.820 Up to any amount. It could be like a $20 drink, 00:14:41.879 --> 00:14:43.899 which isn't out of the realm of possibility at 00:14:43.899 --> 00:14:48.639 Starbucks. So make sure you... abuse it i usually 00:14:48.639 --> 00:14:51.659 be so egregious that next year they're not gonna 00:14:51.659 --> 00:14:55.700 send you a coupon yeah i mean i either give it 00:14:55.700 --> 00:14:58.139 to you to use or i just get the same thing every 00:14:58.139 --> 00:15:01.039 year and it's nothing too crazy yeah i also have 00:15:01.039 --> 00:15:04.720 a party at my work with my little humans that 00:15:04.720 --> 00:15:07.039 like to celebrate things we make it a big deal 00:15:07.039 --> 00:15:09.720 um to celebrate people's birthdays in my classroom 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:13.440 and we go all out You get to hold the birthday 00:15:13.440 --> 00:15:15.980 bear, which is a cute little care bear that's 00:15:15.980 --> 00:15:18.659 birthday themed. You get to stand on your chair 00:15:18.659 --> 00:15:21.559 and everybody else sings to you. They say, they 00:15:21.559 --> 00:15:23.179 give you a little shout out on the announcement. 00:15:23.539 --> 00:15:26.480 Co -workers give me a little gift. So we go all 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:28.620 out at work too. So that's a whole nother thing. 00:15:28.840 --> 00:15:31.860 Usually I would take my birthday off and would 00:15:31.860 --> 00:15:34.639 spend it at home. Go do something with you or 00:15:34.639 --> 00:15:38.899 just hang out. But the narcissist in you. It 00:15:38.899 --> 00:15:41.159 has to be there so you can be celebrated. Last 00:15:41.159 --> 00:15:43.480 year, I wasn't allowed to because of some state 00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:45.500 testing. You weren't allowed to take the day 00:15:45.500 --> 00:15:47.799 off. So I had to suffer through, and it was the 00:15:47.799 --> 00:15:51.820 greatest thing ever. I got sung to. I mean, they 00:15:51.820 --> 00:15:54.799 were more hype about my birthday than I was. 00:15:55.139 --> 00:15:57.779 So I decided to do that again this year, and 00:15:57.779 --> 00:16:02.620 it was pretty nice. I do a whole trivia set, 00:16:02.720 --> 00:16:07.360 too, all about me. Gets pretty competitive. You're 00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:11.039 really hammering in that narcissism now. It's 00:16:11.039 --> 00:16:15.019 fun. I get it. I get it. Yeah. I like attention 00:16:15.019 --> 00:16:18.779 sometimes. That's perfectly fine. And I mean, 00:16:18.799 --> 00:16:21.679 I'm not really doing anything crazy to get the 00:16:21.679 --> 00:16:23.679 attention. It's just my birthday. That's all. 00:16:23.799 --> 00:16:27.480 I didn't have to act a certain way, do like a 00:16:27.480 --> 00:16:29.960 crazy little talent to get the attention. It's 00:16:29.960 --> 00:16:32.820 just given to me. The closest I've ever been 00:16:32.820 --> 00:16:39.389 to being a beggar. was in the eighth grade. It 00:16:39.389 --> 00:16:44.070 was my birthday. I took a, because I'd seen all 00:16:44.070 --> 00:16:45.629 the other kids do it, so I wanted to try it. 00:16:45.710 --> 00:16:48.889 I just took like a $5 bill and I safety pinned 00:16:48.889 --> 00:16:50.950 it to my shirt. People were just handing me cash 00:16:50.950 --> 00:16:53.769 like crazy the whole day. I wonder if that's 00:16:53.769 --> 00:16:56.590 like a Texas thing or they do that in other places 00:16:56.590 --> 00:17:00.110 because I've not ever seen it anywhere. But maybe 00:17:00.110 --> 00:17:02.750 when I was in middle school or high school. Yeah. 00:17:03.149 --> 00:17:06.589 But now, like, we were at Charles Entertainment 00:17:06.589 --> 00:17:09.710 Cheese the other day, and there were these two 00:17:09.710 --> 00:17:12.609 kids that had money pinned to their shirts. And 00:17:12.609 --> 00:17:14.650 that's what we do around here, I guess. Huh. 00:17:14.769 --> 00:17:17.829 So I'd be interested to know if that's just a 00:17:17.829 --> 00:17:21.950 here thing, or does everybody just do that? I 00:17:21.950 --> 00:17:24.269 don't know. I don't know. I thought that everyone 00:17:24.269 --> 00:17:28.529 did mums and garters. No. No, they don't. Yeah, 00:17:28.589 --> 00:17:30.410 I was real surprised when I found out that everyone 00:17:30.410 --> 00:17:34.029 was shocked that... It was a tradition in Texas. 00:17:34.329 --> 00:17:36.369 Funny story with that. So I went to high school 00:17:36.369 --> 00:17:38.950 here freshman and sophomore year, and I got a 00:17:38.950 --> 00:17:42.490 mom both years and moved to another state for 00:17:42.490 --> 00:17:45.650 junior and senior year and around homecoming 00:17:45.650 --> 00:17:48.869 time. I was on the volleyball team, and homecoming's 00:17:48.869 --> 00:17:51.430 usually around, like, football, volleyball time. 00:17:52.089 --> 00:17:58.059 And I asked one of my friends, so where... are 00:17:58.059 --> 00:18:00.819 we going to buy our moms for homecoming? And 00:18:00.819 --> 00:18:03.819 they looked at me like I was crazy and I had 00:18:03.819 --> 00:18:07.640 to show them pictures and they had no idea what 00:18:07.640 --> 00:18:10.259 I was talking about. So that was interesting. 00:18:10.440 --> 00:18:14.019 The only time I did. So you bought them? You 00:18:14.019 --> 00:18:16.500 bought them every year? No. Somebody gave them 00:18:16.500 --> 00:18:20.240 to me. Okay. But you would buy the, would you 00:18:20.240 --> 00:18:23.559 buy garters or? No. So who would you get them 00:18:23.559 --> 00:18:26.609 from? My friend would give it to me. But. They 00:18:26.609 --> 00:18:29.910 would buy it. Yes. Would you get one for someone 00:18:29.910 --> 00:18:33.670 else? I don't think I ever did, no. What a crappy 00:18:33.670 --> 00:18:36.349 friend. Well, because the friend that gave it 00:18:36.349 --> 00:18:39.950 to me, so the drill team would like sell them 00:18:39.950 --> 00:18:42.170 and she was on the drill team, so she'd buy me 00:18:42.170 --> 00:18:46.430 one. But she bought another one for her boyfriend 00:18:46.430 --> 00:18:51.250 and he gave her her mom. So everybody got a mom 00:18:51.250 --> 00:18:53.230 that was involved. I didn't have to buy one for 00:18:53.230 --> 00:18:56.190 anybody. The only time I ever. mummed someone 00:18:56.190 --> 00:19:00.609 uh I remember because I wanted to do it up right 00:19:00.609 --> 00:19:03.369 like I wanted to be handmade like you could go 00:19:03.369 --> 00:19:07.069 to I guess this is a regional thing but you could 00:19:07.069 --> 00:19:10.190 go to like craft stores around here and they'll 00:19:10.190 --> 00:19:13.390 have local high schools and they'll have ones 00:19:13.390 --> 00:19:17.250 that I'm assuming someone just like brings in 00:19:17.250 --> 00:19:20.150 to sell I can't imagine that they make them in 00:19:20.150 --> 00:19:24.460 store no You usually it's like the crafty people 00:19:24.460 --> 00:19:27.640 who have like a side hustle that go and buy all 00:19:27.640 --> 00:19:31.160 the stuff at the like craft stores. And then 00:19:31.160 --> 00:19:36.400 you say like what you want on it. Like if you're 00:19:36.400 --> 00:19:38.599 a football player, football stuff, cheerleader, 00:19:38.660 --> 00:19:41.079 whatever, add some lights. It's gotten to be 00:19:41.079 --> 00:19:44.980 real ridiculous. When I got a mum, it was just 00:19:44.980 --> 00:19:47.420 the one one flower in the middle and then all 00:19:47.420 --> 00:19:50.319 the ribbon. Now it's like takes up your whole 00:19:50.319 --> 00:19:52.559 body. Your whole chest. That's a little much 00:19:52.559 --> 00:19:56.500 for me. Drags on the ground. Because when I wore 00:19:56.500 --> 00:19:59.420 them, we had to wear it all day long and then 00:19:59.420 --> 00:20:02.259 take them to the volleyball game with us afterwards 00:20:02.259 --> 00:20:05.759 and hold on to it and keep it in the locker room. 00:20:05.819 --> 00:20:08.400 And then afterwards you would change and go to 00:20:08.400 --> 00:20:11.240 the football game. So trying to keep up with 00:20:11.240 --> 00:20:16.240 like a Texas sized mom seems a little crazy. 00:20:16.730 --> 00:20:20.150 But I will say my favorite thing, and it's not 00:20:20.150 --> 00:20:22.609 a good mum unless it has a whistle on it. I don't 00:20:22.609 --> 00:20:25.450 know if they still let you have those, but we 00:20:25.450 --> 00:20:26.970 would get in trouble sometimes. I doubt it. Kids 00:20:26.970 --> 00:20:30.450 can't be trusted. But a whistle and like a bell 00:20:30.450 --> 00:20:33.650 when you move. Like a cowbell. Yeah, it was great. 00:20:33.930 --> 00:20:35.789 That would ring every time you took a step. It 00:20:35.789 --> 00:20:38.250 was real great. Real noisy. But yeah, I wanted 00:20:38.250 --> 00:20:40.730 to do it upright, so I bought the supplies for 00:20:40.730 --> 00:20:43.329 it, and I was going to do it like the next night. 00:20:45.049 --> 00:20:49.130 Don't know what I caught, but I was just spewing 00:20:49.130 --> 00:20:52.930 the entire time I was making it. No. I was sitting 00:20:52.930 --> 00:20:55.450 on the floor trying to hot glue all this crap 00:20:55.450 --> 00:20:58.470 together, burning my fingers, and then had to 00:20:58.470 --> 00:21:00.809 have a wastebasket next to me to blow chunks 00:21:00.809 --> 00:21:04.250 into. How romantic. Well, I think it was appreciated. 00:21:04.269 --> 00:21:07.230 I don't know. Yeah. I got a garter. Had a garter. 00:21:07.470 --> 00:21:10.430 Don't have it anymore. But that's definitely 00:21:10.430 --> 00:21:12.930 one of those weird things that people are a little 00:21:12.930 --> 00:21:16.099 baffled by. With Texas culture. And they say 00:21:16.099 --> 00:21:19.240 we don't have culture. Yeah, there you go. Mums 00:21:19.240 --> 00:21:22.819 and garters. Oh, I will say one thing I don't 00:21:22.819 --> 00:21:26.380 like around birthday, around my birthday time, 00:21:26.480 --> 00:21:29.140 is when we do go out to those restaurants, I 00:21:29.140 --> 00:21:31.880 don't like to be sung to. Why? We also have an 00:21:31.880 --> 00:21:33.880 episode about that. Yeah, why? I don't know. 00:21:34.200 --> 00:21:37.519 I like the attention, but I don't want it from 00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:41.059 random people at a restaurant. Or I also don't 00:21:41.059 --> 00:21:43.970 want to have to do something silly. In order 00:21:43.970 --> 00:21:47.670 to get the free dessert or the birthday recognition. 00:21:48.049 --> 00:21:51.670 I think the worst one was, oh, there's two that 00:21:51.670 --> 00:21:55.349 come to mind. My 16th birthday, we did it up 00:21:55.349 --> 00:21:56.990 real big. We went to the spaghetti warehouse, 00:21:57.289 --> 00:22:00.150 which is no more. And we all dressed up super 00:22:00.150 --> 00:22:04.150 fancy. And they made me get up, put menus under 00:22:04.150 --> 00:22:07.230 my arms, and flap them around while they sang 00:22:07.230 --> 00:22:09.190 me happy birthday in front of everybody. Which 00:22:09.190 --> 00:22:11.150 doesn't make any sense. And I hated every second 00:22:11.150 --> 00:22:13.109 of it. There's a chicken restaurant around here. 00:22:13.579 --> 00:22:17.339 That it's a wing place and it makes sense for 00:22:17.339 --> 00:22:20.480 them to make you flap your wings. And put two 00:22:20.480 --> 00:22:23.259 cups in your mouth. Because it's on brand. But 00:22:23.259 --> 00:22:25.900 that doesn't make sense for an Italian. Yeah. 00:22:26.180 --> 00:22:28.480 It's like the, I always thought of Spaghetti 00:22:28.480 --> 00:22:31.019 Warehouse as like the chilies for Italian food. 00:22:32.079 --> 00:22:35.220 Maybe. I mean, that's Olive Garden, kind of. 00:22:35.279 --> 00:22:37.619 Yeah. I don't know. I think it was just a little 00:22:37.619 --> 00:22:40.680 step above that. It's pretty expensive. It's 00:22:40.680 --> 00:22:43.549 a cute little place. Um, so that one comes to 00:22:43.549 --> 00:22:46.250 mind, hated every second of it. Felt like people 00:22:46.250 --> 00:22:48.309 were just looking at me and laughing and not 00:22:48.309 --> 00:22:52.509 celebrating. And then another one was when we 00:22:52.509 --> 00:22:55.309 went to another chicken place and they make you 00:22:55.309 --> 00:22:59.150 put on this gross looking hat that's in the shape 00:22:59.150 --> 00:23:01.829 of a chicken. Uh, and then they give you two 00:23:01.829 --> 00:23:05.730 of the little like snow cone looking cups. The 00:23:05.730 --> 00:23:08.309 server cups. Cone thingies. So you can get water, 00:23:08.410 --> 00:23:10.410 but you don't have anywhere to set it down. Yep. 00:23:10.720 --> 00:23:12.759 I never thought of it like that. But yes, they 00:23:12.759 --> 00:23:15.000 make you put them in your mouth and make a beak 00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:18.420 while they sing to you. And then they give you 00:23:18.420 --> 00:23:22.119 a biscuit, which you already get for free anyway, 00:23:22.339 --> 00:23:26.240 as many as you want, with some honey on top and 00:23:26.240 --> 00:23:28.380 a candle. And the honey is also on the table. 00:23:28.480 --> 00:23:31.579 If I'm going to do all that, I don't want what 00:23:31.579 --> 00:23:34.559 I already can get. Yeah. Yeah, they have like 00:23:34.559 --> 00:23:36.940 cakes there, cheesecakes, that kind of stuff. 00:23:37.119 --> 00:23:38.920 Well, this was a long time ago. I don't know 00:23:38.920 --> 00:23:41.970 if they had any desserts at that time. Over 10 00:23:41.970 --> 00:23:44.269 years ago? I've never gotten dessert there. I 00:23:44.269 --> 00:23:46.849 have once. But again, if I'm going to do something 00:23:46.849 --> 00:23:49.509 like that, you better let me pick something off 00:23:49.509 --> 00:23:52.569 of a special kind of dessert menu. So what you're 00:23:52.569 --> 00:23:55.309 saying is that you reiterate the fact that birthday 00:23:55.309 --> 00:23:59.349 celebrations at restaurants are stupid? For the 00:23:59.349 --> 00:24:01.730 most part, yeah. We were just at dinner last 00:24:01.730 --> 00:24:06.150 night using a birthday coupon, and the Dallas 00:24:06.150 --> 00:24:10.180 Stars are in the Stanley final now. Western Conference 00:24:10.180 --> 00:24:13.779 Finals. Now. So it was before that. Division 00:24:13.779 --> 00:24:16.619 Finals? Maybe so. I don't remember. Whatever's 00:24:16.619 --> 00:24:19.839 before the Western Conference Finals. And it's 00:24:19.839 --> 00:24:23.680 packed. It's a sports bar. TV's everywhere. And 00:24:23.680 --> 00:24:27.059 there's just an entire half of the patio that 00:24:27.059 --> 00:24:29.700 is sectioned off for this party. We couldn't 00:24:29.700 --> 00:24:33.380 tell who the party was for, but we do know that 00:24:33.380 --> 00:24:37.220 there were a whole bunch of people just drunk 00:24:37.220 --> 00:24:41.609 as hell. And one dude is up there scream slurring 00:24:41.609 --> 00:24:45.710 this birthday speech. We think it was to his 00:24:45.710 --> 00:24:48.829 child, but we don't know. There was a big fireplace 00:24:48.829 --> 00:24:53.150 and a pillar in the way. But just ruining everyone's 00:24:53.150 --> 00:24:55.509 time because he has to make this impassioned 00:24:55.509 --> 00:24:58.470 speech in front of all these strangers and then 00:24:58.470 --> 00:25:01.049 his group of people. Yeah, and what we didn't 00:25:01.049 --> 00:25:04.480 know until after he was done is that... Somehow 00:25:04.480 --> 00:25:07.480 he got the restaurant to turn off the sound to 00:25:07.480 --> 00:25:11.579 the TVs. And when he was finished, I don't know 00:25:11.579 --> 00:25:14.359 if he gave like a little signal to the person 00:25:14.359 --> 00:25:16.299 who turned it back on. But as soon as he was 00:25:16.299 --> 00:25:18.880 done with the speech, the game was back on. Maybe 00:25:18.880 --> 00:25:22.119 he just stole the remote. It was weird. It was 00:25:22.119 --> 00:25:25.119 weird. But don't be that guy either. Yeah. Don't 00:25:25.119 --> 00:25:28.799 be the one that begs your server to sing happy 00:25:28.799 --> 00:25:31.119 birthday to you. Because they probably hate it. 00:25:31.579 --> 00:25:34.930 Don't be the... person at the table who wants 00:25:34.930 --> 00:25:37.769 to embarrass the birthday person. And don't be 00:25:37.769 --> 00:25:43.410 someone who makes a impassioned, misguided birthday 00:25:43.410 --> 00:25:46.930 speech at a restaurant full of people during 00:25:46.930 --> 00:25:49.829 a very important game. Yeah. I mean, give all 00:25:49.829 --> 00:25:51.750 the speeches you want, but have your party like 00:25:51.750 --> 00:25:53.930 at home or something. Like I need to reiterate 00:25:53.930 --> 00:25:57.210 that this was an open patio. This wasn't a private 00:25:57.210 --> 00:26:01.049 room. This wasn't a like separate area. This 00:26:01.049 --> 00:26:04.500 was just among everyone else. Yeah. And, geez, 00:26:04.740 --> 00:26:07.240 man, another time we were using one of your birthday 00:26:07.240 --> 00:26:11.640 coupons. There was, this one wasn't a birthday, 00:26:11.819 --> 00:26:14.539 I don't think. It's a giant group of women. This 00:26:14.539 --> 00:26:19.859 one was in a quarantined off area of the restaurant 00:26:19.859 --> 00:26:24.859 for a private event. And it was just the most 00:26:24.859 --> 00:26:31.420 obnoxious, shrill, cackling. non -stop the entire 00:26:31.420 --> 00:26:35.000 time we were eating there is no way that everything 00:26:35.000 --> 00:26:38.480 was so funny in that room whatever was happening 00:26:38.480 --> 00:26:41.299 whether it was a baby shower whether it was a 00:26:41.299 --> 00:26:44.160 wedding shower whether it was a bachelorette 00:26:44.160 --> 00:26:48.480 party which i mean it was a sunday at like two 00:26:48.480 --> 00:26:50.740 in the afternoon so hopefully it's not a bachelorette 00:26:50.740 --> 00:26:54.220 party because if it was then they had been drinking 00:26:54.220 --> 00:26:58.119 since like nine in the morning uh or maybe it 00:26:58.119 --> 00:27:00.910 was a birthday party i don't know But stop like 00:27:00.910 --> 00:27:03.950 you already have these this area that is meant 00:27:03.950 --> 00:27:06.029 for you. So just keep the volume in that room. 00:27:06.490 --> 00:27:09.650 Don't don't be the pick me girls. Those are the 00:27:09.650 --> 00:27:15.890 worst. Yeah. So until we until I really sat down 00:27:15.890 --> 00:27:17.269 and thought about all of it, I didn't think about 00:27:17.269 --> 00:27:20.069 all the times that just just celebrating your 00:27:20.069 --> 00:27:23.329 birthday this time that we just ran into all 00:27:23.329 --> 00:27:28.230 this nonsense. Yeah. But how do you feel about. 00:27:28.779 --> 00:27:30.640 People who don't celebrate birthdays at all. 00:27:30.759 --> 00:27:34.680 I don't like it. I think when you and I first 00:27:34.680 --> 00:27:37.319 started dating, I liked to celebrate people. 00:27:37.460 --> 00:27:42.579 That's how I show my care for them. Just to do 00:27:42.579 --> 00:27:44.900 things for them, to get them things I know they'll 00:27:44.900 --> 00:27:49.180 enjoy. And you weren't really about it. What 00:27:49.180 --> 00:27:52.220 was I not about? You just didn't really do much. 00:27:52.400 --> 00:27:55.759 I gave you your gifts, and that was kind of it 00:27:55.759 --> 00:27:58.460 for the first one. Yeah, because I don't... really 00:27:58.460 --> 00:28:02.599 expect much and then i think it was the next 00:28:02.599 --> 00:28:08.039 one um i had a surprise party for you or maybe 00:28:08.039 --> 00:28:10.720 i'm missing one in between but me and the kids 00:28:10.720 --> 00:28:14.240 wanted to do it up real big for you and so i 00:28:14.240 --> 00:28:17.200 decided to um use my connections that we have 00:28:17.200 --> 00:28:21.319 you're a co -host's boyfriend who is a chef and 00:28:21.319 --> 00:28:25.220 a really great one and he said i decided to buy 00:28:25.220 --> 00:28:27.789 the food for you and that he'd cook them Cook 00:28:27.789 --> 00:28:30.609 it. And everybody came over, and we decorated 00:28:30.609 --> 00:28:34.390 while you were gone, and it was fun. I think 00:28:34.390 --> 00:28:37.029 you had a good time. I did. I was very stunned 00:28:37.029 --> 00:28:41.829 by it. I had no idea. Check out hatchetandwhisk 00:28:41.829 --> 00:28:48.210 .com or at hatchet .ann .whisk on Instagram. 00:28:48.750 --> 00:28:52.009 Great food. Great guy. But yeah, I was blown 00:28:52.009 --> 00:28:55.509 away. I had no idea. I think it probably helps 00:28:55.509 --> 00:28:58.109 that I wasn't expecting anything because I don't 00:28:58.109 --> 00:29:02.029 expect anything. But, yeah, that was a real good 00:29:02.029 --> 00:29:06.049 one. Yeah. And completely concealed it from me 00:29:06.049 --> 00:29:08.329 until I walked in and just all these people are 00:29:08.329 --> 00:29:12.250 at our house. It wasn't the best reveal because 00:29:12.250 --> 00:29:15.190 we didn't coordinate before you walked in. Yeah. 00:29:15.230 --> 00:29:18.890 But it was still great. It was. I think first 00:29:18.890 --> 00:29:22.130 time, well. You've done a lot for me for birthdays. 00:29:22.450 --> 00:29:24.970 First birthday is always memorable. We went to 00:29:24.970 --> 00:29:27.710 my favorite place. You picked me up from my apartment. 00:29:28.130 --> 00:29:31.589 You got me flowers. We had dinner. What was it, 00:29:31.650 --> 00:29:35.430 two years ago? I woke up, and usually you're 00:29:35.430 --> 00:29:37.849 either out of town or you're still sleeping when 00:29:37.849 --> 00:29:42.450 I'm leaving for work. And you had, what was it, 00:29:42.509 --> 00:29:46.950 the dining area all decorated. You had some of 00:29:46.950 --> 00:29:52.859 my favorite. pictures out of myself and of your 00:29:52.859 --> 00:29:55.220 lovely co -host one of my favorite pictures i've 00:29:55.220 --> 00:29:58.359 ever seen of her was laying out to make the start 00:29:58.359 --> 00:30:01.599 of my day great i just love looking at that old 00:30:01.599 --> 00:30:05.039 librarian little girl yeah yeah we'll post that 00:30:05.039 --> 00:30:07.039 picture on instagram it's a great one so you 00:30:07.039 --> 00:30:09.039 can check it out and give us your give us your 00:30:09.039 --> 00:30:12.960 honest feedback on on uh what decade do you think 00:30:12.960 --> 00:30:15.859 that picture came from because it's probably 00:30:15.859 --> 00:30:18.480 not the one you're thinking yeah but It really 00:30:18.480 --> 00:30:21.380 brightened my day and started off my birthday 00:30:21.380 --> 00:30:24.160 not in a way that I ever thought would be. Yeah. 00:30:24.259 --> 00:30:27.160 That was nice. Now I think it's easier for me 00:30:27.160 --> 00:30:31.000 to kind of have a secret little celebration for 00:30:31.000 --> 00:30:33.980 you because the kids are older now and they don't 00:30:33.980 --> 00:30:38.500 just spill all the secret plannings that I've 00:30:38.500 --> 00:30:41.819 done. Yeah. And the gifts. I know a couple times 00:30:41.819 --> 00:30:44.720 I've told them ahead of time what I was giving 00:30:44.720 --> 00:30:47.619 you and they... They get real excited and they 00:30:47.619 --> 00:30:49.920 don't like to keep it in until you open your 00:30:49.920 --> 00:30:53.599 gift. But they're also not very subtle. No. So 00:30:53.599 --> 00:30:55.740 they're getting better about keeping the surprises, 00:30:55.859 --> 00:30:59.440 but then they'll be like, ooh, daddy. Yeah. I 00:30:59.440 --> 00:31:02.299 know. Something you don't know. Do you want me 00:31:02.299 --> 00:31:04.759 to tell you? I'm not going to tell you. But you 00:31:04.759 --> 00:31:06.500 want to know because I know and you don't know. 00:31:06.640 --> 00:31:09.799 Yeah. Which is fine. That's cute. Because I'm 00:31:09.799 --> 00:31:15.829 not a snoopy person. Yeah. If you tell me. this 00:31:15.829 --> 00:31:18.230 isn't for you, then okay, I'll take your word 00:31:18.230 --> 00:31:21.829 for it. Yeah. I have something really close to 00:31:21.829 --> 00:31:23.769 us right now. That's what I was going to say. 00:31:24.349 --> 00:31:28.109 So there's something I'm not allowed to see until 00:31:28.109 --> 00:31:31.930 a certain day. And this area next to me is pretty 00:31:31.930 --> 00:31:33.950 much the only place we have to store it safely. 00:31:34.650 --> 00:31:38.009 And you're freaking out like, are you sure? Can 00:31:38.009 --> 00:31:40.109 you handle it being right there? It's going to 00:31:40.109 --> 00:31:41.630 be right next to you when you're in here. Are 00:31:41.630 --> 00:31:44.170 you sure you can handle it? And I'm just so befuddled. 00:31:45.209 --> 00:31:49.589 Because I'm not the snooper. Yeah. It's not that 00:31:49.589 --> 00:31:51.869 I don't care. It's just that if you say, hey, 00:31:51.950 --> 00:31:54.529 this isn't for you, then okay, that's not for 00:31:54.529 --> 00:31:57.809 me. Yeah, that's not how I am. I used to be. 00:31:58.390 --> 00:32:02.069 I used to be. For Christmas, I would usually 00:32:02.069 --> 00:32:04.569 like, well, first off, I would go up there. I'd 00:32:04.569 --> 00:32:06.829 see what was there, and I'd see which ones were 00:32:06.829 --> 00:32:11.109 mine. And then I would just palm them to see 00:32:11.109 --> 00:32:14.809 which one. Felt like it was more expensive. Which 00:32:14.809 --> 00:32:18.769 one felt like it was maybe a Game Boy, maybe 00:32:18.769 --> 00:32:24.650 a CD I was wanting, maybe a Sega Genesis. Who 00:32:24.650 --> 00:32:27.569 knows? I mean, I feel like back then when we 00:32:27.569 --> 00:32:32.470 were kids, the wrapping wasn't as disguised as 00:32:32.470 --> 00:32:36.369 I know I try and make things now. Like if I have 00:32:36.369 --> 00:32:38.869 given you like concert tickets in the past, I 00:32:38.869 --> 00:32:41.589 don't just hand you a piece of paper. Put it 00:32:41.589 --> 00:32:44.849 in a box and I wrap the box. Yeah. But no, I 00:32:44.849 --> 00:32:48.750 would, I'd usually just stuff them in my pants 00:32:48.750 --> 00:32:51.410 and then walk into the bathroom and then just 00:32:51.410 --> 00:32:54.809 very quietly. Sometimes I'd be fully prepared 00:32:54.809 --> 00:32:56.529 and I'd have like a little knife or a little 00:32:56.529 --> 00:32:59.269 blade with me. I'd just slightly tear the tape 00:32:59.269 --> 00:33:02.970 or pry it off and then I'd see what it was. And 00:33:02.970 --> 00:33:07.109 then I would, you know, retape it, sneak it back. 00:33:07.509 --> 00:33:10.789 And then. Just on Christmas Day or whatever it 00:33:10.789 --> 00:33:16.250 was. What? Oh, what? Oh, my God. No way. But 00:33:16.250 --> 00:33:19.450 then you can also get burned with that. So you 00:33:19.450 --> 00:33:21.569 get something. You're like, what the hell is 00:33:21.569 --> 00:33:24.369 this? And then you still have to act surprised. 00:33:24.369 --> 00:33:26.589 You're like, oh, yeah. Oh, my gosh. I love it 00:33:26.589 --> 00:33:30.250 so much. Thank you. Awesome. Yeah. Anyways, next. 00:33:30.910 --> 00:33:35.450 You want to look? You can look. So you don't 00:33:35.450 --> 00:33:37.250 like people that don't celebrate their birthday. 00:33:38.609 --> 00:33:42.269 No. But that's more of a recent thing, I would 00:33:42.269 --> 00:33:49.150 say, in the last 15 -ish years that I've changed 00:33:49.150 --> 00:33:50.990 my mind on. Because before, I didn't really care 00:33:50.990 --> 00:33:53.410 too much. Like, I still had a birthday party 00:33:53.410 --> 00:33:55.990 or whatever, but I didn't make it. Can you really 00:33:55.990 --> 00:33:59.230 say that it was recent when it was almost half 00:33:59.230 --> 00:34:04.950 of your life? No. I don't know. I've been thinking 00:34:04.950 --> 00:34:08.639 about things more in depth recently. Yeah. I 00:34:08.639 --> 00:34:10.800 don't know. You don't know if you're going to 00:34:10.800 --> 00:34:13.840 have another birthday, so live it up. That is 00:34:13.840 --> 00:34:16.340 correct. Do all the things. That is correct. 00:34:16.699 --> 00:34:20.000 Make people take all the pictures. You want to 00:34:20.000 --> 00:34:23.400 hear your fun fact for this episode? Okay. So, 00:34:23.420 --> 00:34:28.119 growing up, I lived on a cul -de -sac. Yeah. 00:34:28.960 --> 00:34:30.760 We lived in the back of the cul -de -sac on the 00:34:30.760 --> 00:34:33.840 biggest lot. Pretty great lot. With the biggest 00:34:33.840 --> 00:34:40.130 house. There was, when we first moved in, I mean, 00:34:40.130 --> 00:34:44.289 there was a lot of kids my age there. So, like, 00:34:44.289 --> 00:34:49.429 there was a girl next to me that was my age, 00:34:49.449 --> 00:34:54.409 like, in my grade. And then next to her were 00:34:54.409 --> 00:34:59.489 these two brothers. One was a year older than 00:34:59.489 --> 00:35:01.150 me. The other one was two years older than me, 00:35:01.170 --> 00:35:05.610 I think. And then we had an old couple and some... 00:35:05.960 --> 00:35:09.139 kid, like some smaller kids. And then, uh, we 00:35:09.139 --> 00:35:12.360 had another one that this, it was a brother and 00:35:12.360 --> 00:35:16.159 sister and they were, the brother was a year 00:35:16.159 --> 00:35:19.059 older than me. The sister was maybe like, I don't 00:35:19.059 --> 00:35:21.780 know, three, three years younger than me. The 00:35:21.780 --> 00:35:29.099 Pepper family, Tony, Miranda, Sonia, and David. 00:35:31.099 --> 00:35:35.030 Tony's no longer with us. But as far as I know, 00:35:35.050 --> 00:35:39.650 the other ones are. Anyways, I remember we went 00:35:39.650 --> 00:35:48.309 to a restaurant for someone's birthday and we 00:35:48.309 --> 00:35:51.349 invited the entire cul -de -sac. Yeah. Because 00:35:51.349 --> 00:35:53.610 back then, like, we were good with everyone. 00:35:55.349 --> 00:35:57.969 Completely negates all my points from the last 00:35:57.969 --> 00:35:59.969 episode where I said, love thy neighbors, stupid. 00:36:00.570 --> 00:36:02.389 But now she doesn't even know her neighbors. 00:36:02.510 --> 00:36:04.820 Different times. Yeah. I mean, you didn't have 00:36:04.820 --> 00:36:07.219 all the technology and stuff, and you actually 00:36:07.219 --> 00:36:10.039 had to have conversations with people, not through 00:36:10.039 --> 00:36:14.780 texting and whatever else. Yeah. And those people 00:36:14.780 --> 00:36:19.519 were all, they had all bought those houses, so 00:36:19.519 --> 00:36:21.739 they weren't renters that were just filtering 00:36:21.739 --> 00:36:24.460 in all the time. Yeah. Anyways, and so we invited 00:36:24.460 --> 00:36:29.619 them, and they said no. And so we thought that 00:36:29.619 --> 00:36:33.849 maybe we'd done something to offend them. And 00:36:33.849 --> 00:36:39.389 so one conversation after another, and turns 00:36:39.389 --> 00:36:42.750 out that these people didn't celebrate any holidays, 00:36:42.949 --> 00:36:46.750 including birthdays, because they were Jehovah's 00:36:46.750 --> 00:36:50.710 Witnesses. Yeah. I had no clue because they had 00:36:50.710 --> 00:36:55.230 never witnessed Jehovah to me. They didn't knock 00:36:55.230 --> 00:36:57.329 and say? They never came to our door, knock and 00:36:57.329 --> 00:37:00.110 say. Is Jesus Christ your Lord and Savior? Yeah. 00:37:00.210 --> 00:37:04.599 Yeah. So. Those are the only ones I've ever had 00:37:04.599 --> 00:37:09.659 direct contact with. And I tried asking them 00:37:09.659 --> 00:37:15.780 about that. I think I was closest to Sonia, the 00:37:15.780 --> 00:37:20.000 mom, more than any of the other ones. Tony, me 00:37:20.000 --> 00:37:22.880 and him, didn't see eye to eye on most things. 00:37:24.059 --> 00:37:32.500 He was a very temperamental child. Anyways. Yeah, 00:37:32.559 --> 00:37:39.719 so even asking them, it felt like they didn't 00:37:39.719 --> 00:37:41.480 want to explain it, but I feel like that's a 00:37:41.480 --> 00:37:44.860 pretty big thing, especially to a child asking 00:37:44.860 --> 00:37:48.139 you. It just doesn't make any sense why something 00:37:48.139 --> 00:37:51.280 like your birth, like it's a day that happened. 00:37:51.360 --> 00:37:53.460 You want to say, I don't celebrate Christmas 00:37:53.460 --> 00:37:56.219 because Christmas didn't happen, Jesus isn't 00:37:56.219 --> 00:37:59.380 real, all this other stuff. Fine. Yeah. I can... 00:38:00.349 --> 00:38:04.909 wrap my head around that but not celebrating 00:38:04.909 --> 00:38:10.349 someone because they entered the world on that 00:38:10.349 --> 00:38:12.269 day just seemed real baffling to me and i just 00:38:12.269 --> 00:38:14.690 wanted to know why yeah i don't know why i've 00:38:14.690 --> 00:38:20.150 worked with hundreds of students and there have 00:38:20.150 --> 00:38:23.469 been a couple that have had to have accommodations 00:38:23.469 --> 00:38:27.650 to abstain when we had birthday parties in our 00:38:27.650 --> 00:38:30.230 classroom and they had to go elsewhere and i've 00:38:30.230 --> 00:38:33.949 never really not that i didn't care to know but 00:38:33.949 --> 00:38:37.250 like i've just never looked into it well i did 00:38:37.250 --> 00:38:41.289 today for this episode and it turns out that 00:38:41.289 --> 00:38:44.550 jehovah's witnesses look at celebrating a birthday 00:38:44.550 --> 00:38:51.730 as a remnant of pagan traditions and it's they 00:38:51.730 --> 00:38:56.019 see it as rooted in the worshiping of other gods, 00:38:56.199 --> 00:39:03.480 and they're not based in the Bible. So I guess... 00:39:03.480 --> 00:39:06.659 So the only thing they do celebrate is what's 00:39:06.659 --> 00:39:11.400 in the Bible? I guess so, but they don't celebrate 00:39:11.400 --> 00:39:14.420 Christmas. Well, Christmas really isn't in the 00:39:14.420 --> 00:39:16.820 Bible. Well, yeah, Christmas is based on the 00:39:16.820 --> 00:39:20.139 pagan, what is it, Saturnalia? Something like 00:39:20.139 --> 00:39:22.199 that. I mean, they don't know the exact date 00:39:22.199 --> 00:39:24.619 of when Jesus was born. Probably it wasn't December. 00:39:25.019 --> 00:39:30.900 Who knows? But, yeah, I mean, I don't know. I 00:39:30.900 --> 00:39:36.099 still, as a grown adult, do not understand what 00:39:36.099 --> 00:39:40.619 the problem is with just picking a day just to 00:39:40.619 --> 00:39:46.000 celebrate a person. A day. Picking a day to celebrate 00:39:46.000 --> 00:39:51.900 a person. Just for being alive. Yeah. For going 00:39:51.900 --> 00:39:57.679 another 365 trips around the sun. Yeah. I don't 00:39:57.679 --> 00:40:01.420 know. Don't know. The more, the merrier. But 00:40:01.420 --> 00:40:06.019 they moved out. They went off somewhere and then, 00:40:06.119 --> 00:40:11.559 yeah, lost touch. Looked them up maybe, I don't 00:40:11.559 --> 00:40:17.159 know, six, seven years ago. And, yeah, so, RIP. 00:40:17.869 --> 00:40:21.449 Tony, I don't know if that's a thing that they 00:40:21.449 --> 00:40:24.929 would. I don't know anything about Jehovah's 00:40:24.929 --> 00:40:27.469 Witnesses. I've never been a witness to. So if 00:40:27.469 --> 00:40:29.849 you're a Jehovah's Witness and you'd like to 00:40:29.849 --> 00:40:34.610 share your testimony with me, go for it because 00:40:34.610 --> 00:40:40.780 I'm interested. Yeah, me too. Don't know much 00:40:40.780 --> 00:40:43.460 about it. I know they can't have certain things. 00:40:43.599 --> 00:40:45.940 But then that makes me wonder, like, do they 00:40:45.940 --> 00:40:48.980 just not ever celebrate anything? Like, what 00:40:48.980 --> 00:40:51.440 happens when a new baby's born? What happens 00:40:51.440 --> 00:40:56.280 when you get married? What happens when you graduate 00:40:56.280 --> 00:40:58.820 high school? Like, you just don't celebrate anything? 00:40:59.300 --> 00:41:04.960 I have no clue. I don't know. Yeah. I don't know. 00:41:05.579 --> 00:41:07.320 What do you think your favorite birthday was? 00:41:10.280 --> 00:41:15.119 I think the only ones that stick out to me, there's 00:41:15.119 --> 00:41:18.340 a couple that I think of that I can remember 00:41:18.340 --> 00:41:20.500 pretty vividly. I don't know how old I turned 00:41:20.500 --> 00:41:23.980 at some of them, though. I had one at Bowling 00:41:23.980 --> 00:41:27.300 Alley. It's Powerpuff Girl themed. Don't really 00:41:27.300 --> 00:41:30.340 remember a whole lot from that one. I have pictures. 00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:33.840 Don't really remember. I had a birthday at an 00:41:33.840 --> 00:41:37.099 indoor skating rink, which... was a place that 00:41:37.099 --> 00:41:39.460 I went to a lot. Skating was a lot of fun for 00:41:39.460 --> 00:41:44.400 me and I remember that one probably turned seven 00:41:44.400 --> 00:41:47.420 or eight, I want to say. I don't know. Then my 00:41:47.420 --> 00:41:51.519 15th birthday was a lot of fun. Had like a little 00:41:51.519 --> 00:41:55.000 party at my house with cake and pizza and we 00:41:55.000 --> 00:41:58.659 played music and games and played pool upstairs 00:41:58.659 --> 00:42:02.260 at the pool table. That one was all right. 16th 00:42:02.260 --> 00:42:08.789 birthday would definitely be Second place. Around 00:42:08.789 --> 00:42:13.949 that time, my super sweet 16 was a big show on 00:42:13.949 --> 00:42:17.769 MTV, and so everybody thought it was a thing 00:42:17.769 --> 00:42:21.150 to do when you turn 16 is to have this huge extravagant 00:42:21.150 --> 00:42:24.670 party. So I had a dress code. That's the only 00:42:24.670 --> 00:42:26.929 thing I've ever done that has had a dress code. 00:42:27.250 --> 00:42:30.409 What a hypocrite. Everybody had to wear black 00:42:30.409 --> 00:42:34.429 and white, fancy, and I got to wear pink. So 00:42:34.429 --> 00:42:39.900 I stood out. And we rented a limo and got to 00:42:39.900 --> 00:42:42.340 go down to the spaghetti warehouse where I had 00:42:42.340 --> 00:42:44.900 to do that embarrassing little dance thing. I 00:42:44.900 --> 00:42:46.639 don't even think I got a dessert after that. 00:42:46.760 --> 00:42:49.519 Then we had about an hour left on the limo time. 00:42:49.739 --> 00:42:52.039 They didn't just pour some honey on some spaghetti 00:42:52.039 --> 00:42:56.719 for you? No way. So then we went to the marble 00:42:56.719 --> 00:43:01.190 slab creamery, got some ice cream. Went back 00:43:01.190 --> 00:43:03.309 to my house, had some cake, opened presents, 00:43:03.389 --> 00:43:06.530 and that was it. But it was really fun. 21st 00:43:06.530 --> 00:43:10.110 birthday was memorable. Celebrated it with my 00:43:10.110 --> 00:43:14.030 parents and my aunt. We went on a cruise, which 00:43:14.030 --> 00:43:16.750 was fun. It wasn't really like a party. It was 00:43:16.750 --> 00:43:21.389 more of an activity vacation, which now I'm kind 00:43:21.389 --> 00:43:24.670 of leaning more to making memories and not getting 00:43:24.670 --> 00:43:28.260 things. So that one was fun. For a few years 00:43:28.260 --> 00:43:30.079 there, just went out to dinner with a group of 00:43:30.079 --> 00:43:33.840 friends, had some type of dessert, I think. I 00:43:33.840 --> 00:43:37.139 don't really know. And then just the ones we've 00:43:37.139 --> 00:43:39.539 had here have been a lot of fun. I liked the 00:43:39.539 --> 00:43:42.179 Kentucky Derby Tea Party this year. That was 00:43:42.179 --> 00:43:46.960 fun. Spending time with people. Nice. Yeah, I 00:43:46.960 --> 00:43:53.300 mean, I've done the usual suspects, just mini 00:43:53.300 --> 00:43:59.619 golf, bowling, indoor. Roller skating. I think 00:43:59.619 --> 00:44:03.639 probably my most memorable one was my 18th birthday. 00:44:04.159 --> 00:44:10.980 So me, mom, dad, other co -hosts drove to Oklahoma 00:44:10.980 --> 00:44:15.659 City, which is just north of, what do you say, 00:44:15.739 --> 00:44:21.480 like almost three hours? Two and a half? Yeah, 00:44:21.480 --> 00:44:24.139 I would say closer. Depends on traffic. Probably 00:44:24.139 --> 00:44:26.900 three -ish. Yeah. We drove up there on my birthday. 00:44:27.440 --> 00:44:32.159 We went to Bass Pro Shop and I got a wallet. 00:44:33.699 --> 00:44:37.800 A wallet that I had for probably like seven, 00:44:37.940 --> 00:44:43.340 eight years. And then went to the Oklahoma City 00:44:43.340 --> 00:44:46.579 Bombing Museum, which if you're ever in the area, 00:44:46.679 --> 00:44:47.940 you're ever going through, you should definitely 00:44:47.940 --> 00:44:51.260 check out. It's real sad, but real interesting 00:44:51.260 --> 00:44:54.280 too. It's a really, really well -done museum. 00:44:54.940 --> 00:44:58.659 And then, to top it all off, we ended up at Toby 00:44:58.659 --> 00:45:00.960 Keats' I Love This Bar and Grill in Bricktown. 00:45:01.800 --> 00:45:03.559 First time I ever went. I still have the menu 00:45:03.559 --> 00:45:06.539 around here somewhere from that night. I've been 00:45:06.539 --> 00:45:12.079 there. It's a great place. R .I .P. TK. Pour 00:45:12.079 --> 00:45:16.380 a red solo cup out for him. Yeah. I think that 00:45:16.380 --> 00:45:19.780 was probably my most memorable one. My 16th birthday, 00:45:20.019 --> 00:45:23.809 I got... to go to school late so that I could 00:45:23.809 --> 00:45:27.789 go get my driver's license. I remember I went 00:45:27.789 --> 00:45:32.070 home after school, got in the car and drove off. 00:45:32.389 --> 00:45:34.650 Then I just went and picked up some friends, 00:45:34.730 --> 00:45:38.750 and then we just drove around. Other than that, 00:45:38.769 --> 00:45:40.829 I don't think that there's anything really that 00:45:40.829 --> 00:45:45.510 sticks out that much except for the surprise 00:45:45.510 --> 00:45:47.949 birthday party because I think that was the first 00:45:47.949 --> 00:45:50.570 surprise party I've ever had. Yeah. Yeah. We 00:45:50.570 --> 00:45:53.289 had fun celebrating you last year with the different 00:45:53.289 --> 00:45:56.469 cards. You got to pick one. That was fun. That 00:45:56.469 --> 00:45:59.349 was fun, yeah. No, I think my worst birthday 00:45:59.349 --> 00:46:03.409 is I think my sophomore year in high school. 00:46:03.489 --> 00:46:07.329 We had our state test on my birthday, and it 00:46:07.329 --> 00:46:10.650 was my least favorite subject, social studies. 00:46:12.449 --> 00:46:18.750 My most favorite subject. Yeah. We get split 00:46:18.750 --> 00:46:21.329 up by last name and I didn't really know anybody 00:46:21.329 --> 00:46:27.349 in that room. So that was not fun starting off. 00:46:27.829 --> 00:46:30.849 And then, I mean, a subject I didn't really like. 00:46:31.469 --> 00:46:36.989 So I didn't really care a whole lot. And then 00:46:36.989 --> 00:46:39.750 after that, you're not supposed to get checked 00:46:39.750 --> 00:46:44.760 out of school. But for some reason, my mom. Had 00:46:44.760 --> 00:46:48.659 some connections at that school. And they called 00:46:48.659 --> 00:46:51.139 me down to the office to leave for the day. And 00:46:51.139 --> 00:46:53.900 we went out to lunch at our favorite Mexican 00:46:53.900 --> 00:46:58.960 restaurant. And so that was nice. But also, majority 00:46:58.960 --> 00:47:05.820 of that day was not fun. Yeah? Yeah. Huh. That 00:47:05.820 --> 00:47:09.139 happens. Can't win them all. When you had 33 00:47:09.139 --> 00:47:12.000 of them, there's bound to be one that's worse 00:47:12.000 --> 00:47:15.570 than the rest. Yeah. I don't remember my second 00:47:15.570 --> 00:47:20.250 birthday, but it was Barbie themed, and I got 00:47:20.250 --> 00:47:23.769 a Barbie that my grandma was not approving of. 00:47:24.590 --> 00:47:26.949 It was a different time. Yeah, different time. 00:47:27.150 --> 00:47:30.150 But it's all on video. Yeah, it's one of my favorite 00:47:30.150 --> 00:47:33.969 home videos to watch. Because at the time, maybe 00:47:33.969 --> 00:47:37.170 it was two or three when I turned. I think I 00:47:37.170 --> 00:47:41.230 had Barbie theme for a few years there. But it's 00:47:41.230 --> 00:47:44.360 one of my favorite videos to watch. my birthdays 00:47:44.360 --> 00:47:48.460 so i guess it makes sense that i wanted to do 00:47:48.460 --> 00:47:52.559 this episode and have just always loved celebrating 00:47:52.559 --> 00:47:57.940 my birthday there you go and before we go quick 00:47:57.940 --> 00:48:02.420 little tale about when we first started dating 00:48:02.420 --> 00:48:06.559 we hadn't been together for that long and then 00:48:06.559 --> 00:48:09.280 your birthday was coming up and so i was like 00:48:09.280 --> 00:48:11.559 oh man like i don't i didn't really know like 00:48:12.030 --> 00:48:14.789 everything about you so i just had to say so 00:48:14.789 --> 00:48:17.349 what would you like what kind of stuff would 00:48:17.349 --> 00:48:21.070 you want to do for your birthday and your suggestion 00:48:21.070 --> 00:48:27.550 no i forgot you're the thing that you said to 00:48:27.550 --> 00:48:30.070 me you asked me where i wanted to go to dinner 00:48:30.070 --> 00:48:36.969 yes for your birthday and you told me in a text 00:48:36.969 --> 00:48:40.869 message. So there's no, there's, there's no subtext. 00:48:40.869 --> 00:48:43.289 There's no like being able to read your face 00:48:43.289 --> 00:48:47.210 or anything like that. Like, Hmm. I don't know. 00:48:47.250 --> 00:48:50.949 Maybe like Perry's, which is a very expensive, 00:48:51.230 --> 00:48:55.929 a very, very expensive steak restaurant. And 00:48:55.929 --> 00:48:59.050 I was talking to a guy that I was working with 00:48:59.050 --> 00:49:00.550 at the time and I was telling him what was going 00:49:00.550 --> 00:49:05.960 on. And I was like, the audacity. Of this woman 00:49:05.960 --> 00:49:10.420 that I don't even really know wanting me to drop 00:49:10.420 --> 00:49:15.400 that much money on her birthday. I was questioning 00:49:15.400 --> 00:49:17.360 things. Yeah. I was questioning things. Well, 00:49:17.539 --> 00:49:23.380 I don't come from a lot of money. And so growing 00:49:23.380 --> 00:49:26.719 up, we would go to Chili's and have the chocolate 00:49:26.719 --> 00:49:30.260 little volcano thing. And I was completely joking. 00:49:30.599 --> 00:49:35.239 And he didn't know that because we. I feel like 00:49:35.239 --> 00:49:38.159 we had been talking for a couple weeks, not even 00:49:38.159 --> 00:49:42.079 a month, and we had been on two dates before 00:49:42.079 --> 00:49:45.320 then. And he didn't understand my humor yet, 00:49:45.460 --> 00:49:48.920 so it's fine. We ended up going. Yeah, I think 00:49:48.920 --> 00:49:53.139 you're gaslighting me now. We didn't end up going 00:49:53.139 --> 00:49:55.159 to Perry's. You were just throwing out a line 00:49:55.159 --> 00:49:57.500 and seeing what would happen. Haven't. Haven't 00:49:57.500 --> 00:50:00.440 been there yet. To be honest, the food's not 00:50:00.440 --> 00:50:03.239 worth the price. I believe it. But still a cool 00:50:03.239 --> 00:50:05.539 place. I've been there once. We went to another 00:50:05.539 --> 00:50:09.519 steak restaurant, which is my favorite. And we 00:50:09.519 --> 00:50:11.679 had a great time. We practiced winking at each 00:50:11.679 --> 00:50:14.539 other in the booth. Made sure that you didn't 00:50:14.539 --> 00:50:16.460 tell them it was my birthday because I didn't 00:50:16.460 --> 00:50:19.480 want to be sung to. Yeah, you picked me up. You 00:50:19.480 --> 00:50:22.460 wore my favorite color shirt. And you brought 00:50:22.460 --> 00:50:24.829 me flowers. Here we go. Those are pretty great. 00:50:25.010 --> 00:50:26.969 And that's the story of how she almost ended 00:50:26.969 --> 00:50:29.949 everything before it even began. And here we 00:50:29.949 --> 00:50:32.389 are. All right. Do you have any words of wisdom? 00:50:32.889 --> 00:50:36.750 No, not really. But if you are one of the people 00:50:36.750 --> 00:50:39.690 who like to take a whole month to celebrate you, 00:50:39.789 --> 00:50:43.309 nothing wrong with that. Just maybe keep it to 00:50:43.309 --> 00:50:47.050 a couple days. And if you're a person who doesn't 00:50:47.050 --> 00:50:48.929 like to celebrate your birthday, I would say 00:50:48.929 --> 00:50:54.320 maybe you should try. Give it a trial run, see 00:50:54.320 --> 00:50:57.099 how it feels? Yeah. I mean, everybody deserves 00:50:57.099 --> 00:51:00.559 to be celebrated. And, again, you don't know 00:51:00.559 --> 00:51:04.239 if that will be your last birthday. So do it 00:51:04.239 --> 00:51:09.500 big. Well, I will say that I'm not as, after 00:51:09.500 --> 00:51:11.699 this conversation, I'm not as hard -nosed on 00:51:11.699 --> 00:51:16.179 people celebrating multiple days for their birthday. 00:51:17.219 --> 00:51:22.190 But, but. I definitely don't think that you should 00:51:22.190 --> 00:51:26.909 set out with the intention of wanting to make 00:51:26.909 --> 00:51:31.349 it about you for as many days as you can before 00:51:31.349 --> 00:51:36.349 people just say, you know what? No. So. Yeah, 00:51:36.469 --> 00:51:40.449 that's fair. Celebrate your birthday in whatever 00:51:40.449 --> 00:51:46.210 capacity that you want to, but keep it reasonable. 00:51:46.429 --> 00:51:50.179 Yeah. Last thing I would like to say is a quote 00:51:50.179 --> 00:51:58.519 from the great Aziz Ansari. Treat yourself. There 00:51:58.519 --> 00:52:02.739 you have it. And before we let you go, make sure 00:52:02.739 --> 00:52:07.320 you check us out on Instagram at CashExchangePod. 00:52:08.079 --> 00:52:12.659 How do I keep forgetting it? Podcast. You can 00:52:12.659 --> 00:52:15.780 send us an email at CashExchangePod at gmail 00:52:15.780 --> 00:52:20.460 .com. You can find us on Twitter. 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