So I have no problem with that. I have a problem
with the people that feel like this one day that
they splat out of their mom is the day that needs
to be celebrated over and over and over again.
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into this one? Yes. Okay. You know the format,
correct? Mm -hmm. What do half anniversaries,
plane landings, and May the 4th have in common?
Some notable times. Okay. Sure. Sure. Some great
things to be celebrated. Hmm. I don't know about
that third one. I'm not really into Star Wars.
So this is going to be a contentious episode.
After the one we just released was a little contentious
with my usual co -host, and now this one is going
to be just as, oh. There are, I'll give you this.
There are days that you can celebrate. There
are events that you could celebrate. There are
events that no adult. Human person needs to celebrate.
We've had this argument about half anniversaries.
I've never celebrated a half anniversary. Six
months. Nope. We have our date anniversary. We
have our girlfriend, boyfriend -iversary. And
we have our engage -iversary. There's no half
ones in there. Okay, but you've brought it up
before. Let's see. Oh, it's in six months. This
is our whatever and a half anniversary. Well.
What if certain things happen and you don't get
all the way to the next one? I guess. I guess.
What about plane landings? When's the last time
you were on a plane? Probably, when was that?
Two Novembers ago? For my cousin's wedding? Yeah.
Yeah. Did you feel like celebrating? Did you
feel like praising the fact that the plane did
what it was supposed to do? Not out loud. No?
I didn't ever clap. Well, I'm on record. in our
planes episode talking about how stupid I think
it is when people applaud the plane touching
down. And plenty of other hot takes on plane
etiquette. You can check that episode out. Last
one, May the 4th. Yeah, that means nothing to
me. I used to be big into Star Wars. Not since...
I didn't mind the... Was that episode 7, I guess?
I like the prequels. I wasn't a hater of the
prequels. But when they started the third trilogy,
not a fan. And I feel like ever since then, it's
just gone right down the toilet. And people that
celebrate May the 4th are pretty silly. Pretty
silly people. Including, I think it was the White
House posted on Twitter, an AI -generated image
of Rip Donald with a red lightsaber. It was a
great picture. I guess. I think it was more.
Hopefully it was more out of sarcasm than them
thinking that it was a good PR move. Not really
sure if Donald's the type to watch Star Wars,
but who knows? I don't think that the people
who are currently into Star Wars are big fans
of DJT. Probably not. Not sure who that audience
was for. But all these have something in common
with the topic of today's episode, which is the...
Narcissism. Narcissistic seems like too strong
of a word. What's a light version of narcissism?
Centered? Selfish? Self -centered, I guess. Attention
-grabbing? Yeah. Grabbers? Okay, there you go,
yeah. The attention seekers that feel the need
to celebrate their birthday for an entire week.
You know you can laugh on the mic, right? You
don't have to hide it every time. It's a great
topic, one that I'm recently pretty fond of.
Yeah, so you're a fan. Yes. Now, when you start
to get into the birthday months... Oh, that's
ridiculous. That's where it gets excessive. Birthday
week's a little bit more acceptable. I have my
reasons. Okay. Okay, what are they? Well, we'll
start off with a pretty simple one. We celebrated
my birthday, I think, on... Two or three different
days. One, you and I just went out to dinner.
The next time we celebrated it, we had a tea
party with the kids. And then we kind of went
out with the rest of the family to celebrate
again at dinner. So, I mean, when not everybody
is able to get together at the same time, you're
going to have to spread it out. Quick side note.
I was recently asked about our Chili's story
from... the last episode. And that story will
be forthcoming once other host is, is back at
the helm. So please stand by. Yes. That was one
of the times we were. Yes, that was, that was
the, yeah. Okay. But that wasn't, that wasn't
a plan. They just happened to work out that way
just with everyone's schedule. Yeah. You didn't,
you didn't set out and say, okay, we're going
to do this, this day, this on this day, and then
this on this day. And then if I'm not feeling
fully satiated in my birthday celebrations, then
we're going to do something on this day too.
Yeah, well, if everybody was available on the
same day, it would have just been a one -time
thing. But they weren't. They weren't. So I have
no problem with that. I have a problem with the
people that feel like this one day that they
splat out of their mom is the day that needs
to be celebrated over and over and over again.
Like Groundhog Day. Just over and over. My mom
used to tell me that she didn't think it was
fair that I was the only one that got to celebrate
because I didn't really do anything when I was
born. I just was born. And she did all the hard
work. And that is its own episode and its own
issue. Which, I mean, I don't think is wrong.
Like, she should celebrate herself, too. Yeah.
But it's my birthday. It is. She wouldn't have
anything to celebrate if you didn't exist. But
I mean, it goes the same the other way, too.
I guess. So, I don't know. But she has her own
day, so I get mine. Well, she gets her own birthday,
plus she gets Mother's Day. Yeah. That's not
fair. It is what it is. Do you say, hey, you
get to celebrate me, too, because without me,
you wouldn't have been a mother? No, I don't
say that. You should try that. Well, Mother's
Day is a little different for her. Okay. Probably
leave that one out. Okay. But under normal circumstances,
she's really got the trump card on you. Yeah.
It's fine. No. But you didn't set out to have
a full week celebrating your birthday? No. I
don't think up until maybe the last couple years,
I started doing more than just my birthday. It
was fun. The same type of people that... need
to have themselves celebrated for an entire week
are the same people that will have their bachelorette
party in nashville and drag everyone to a thousand
different things that no one really wants to
do yeah and have different themed outfit nights
yeah yeah me and your uh other co -host just
talked about this yeah not that long ago when
we were out doing some related things to that
Yeah, we saw some people getting real dressed
up in a theme. Probably like, I don't know, close
to 20 people just to go try on wedding dresses.
And that was a little much for me. Yeah? Yes.
I would never make anybody do that or stick to
a certain dress code just to go out to dinner.
Yeah, that's pretty bananas. So, it's not my
kind of thing. You want to celebrate me getting
married to somebody? Wear whatever you want.
I'm going to dress up and look real cute. You
don't have to. Yeah, so I think mainly our issue
isn't with the fact that you're celebrating a
birthday because I've never had a problem celebrating
my birthday. I've never had a problem celebrating
other people's birthdays. But I think it's just
the type of person that comes with wanting to
have 9 ,000 different celebrations. I think that
is the real issue that is at play here. Yeah.
Well, I think I'm coming at it at a different
kind of angle than that. Not having enough time
on one day to do all the things that you might
want to do. Okay, yeah. But you could also take
that day and just move it to a different singular
day. So maybe it's two weeks from your birthday.
And this is the day we're going to celebrate
your birthday because we can do all these things
with all these people. Because everyone's schedule
opens up and then... And then you can do all
the things that you wanted to do, one go. Well,
I am an avid coupon savings type of person. So
I sign up for all the e -clubs, for all the restaurants,
and all the places. And so you just don't have
enough time to use all the coupons that they
send out for your birthday. That's true. I got,
let's see, free meals from six different places.
You can't eat six meals in one day. That's too
much. That is too much. I agree. You got to spread
it out at least once a day. And we don't go like
we don't go out like super often. No. But when
we do, we do go out around someone's birthday
at least one time. More than that. I mean, we
we pretty much get the same coupons. So like
around your birthday and then around my birthday.
And then we get stuff for the kids. Then you
get your free appetizers. I get free popcorn
because we go to so many movies at three or four
different cinema places. Then you also get your
desserts. And sometimes they don't scan the coupon.
So you might just get to use it again. You never
know. And then so not only do you get all the
food coupons, you get the coupons for stores
too. Like Kendra Scott, you get half off. And
that's pretty expensive jewelry. So you better
use that coupon. It's a good one. What a deal.
One time a year. Where else? Bath and Body, you
get a coupon. Adidas. Different places you get
coupons. Don't have to use them all, but they're
there. They are there. So for all those coupon
queens out there, make sure you sign up for them.
They'll send them to you, I want to say, like
a week before your birthday starts. And some
of them, not all of them, are good for like the
whole month. So you've got to really, really
plan it out. Because some expire the next day.
Some expire like in a week. But the bigger ones
you get pretty much the whole month to use. The
worst ones are the ones that say, Happy birthday.
Here's a coupon. Use it this day or else. Yeah.
One of my, well. I'm not a coffee drinker, but
one of your favorite establishments for coffee.
You only get the one day, and last year I didn't
have time to get my free beverage and missed
it. But if there's any, as Taylor Swift would
say, Starbucks lovers in the audience, you can
use that for literally anything. Yes. Any drink.
Up to any amount. It could be like a $20 drink,
which isn't out of the realm of possibility at
Starbucks. So make sure you... abuse it i usually
be so egregious that next year they're not gonna
send you a coupon yeah i mean i either give it
to you to use or i just get the same thing every
year and it's nothing too crazy yeah i also have
a party at my work with my little humans that
like to celebrate things we make it a big deal
um to celebrate people's birthdays in my classroom
and we go all out You get to hold the birthday
bear, which is a cute little care bear that's
birthday themed. You get to stand on your chair
and everybody else sings to you. They say, they
give you a little shout out on the announcement.
Co -workers give me a little gift. So we go all
out at work too. So that's a whole nother thing.
Usually I would take my birthday off and would
spend it at home. Go do something with you or
just hang out. But the narcissist in you. It
has to be there so you can be celebrated. Last
year, I wasn't allowed to because of some state
testing. You weren't allowed to take the day
off. So I had to suffer through, and it was the
greatest thing ever. I got sung to. I mean, they
were more hype about my birthday than I was.
So I decided to do that again this year, and
it was pretty nice. I do a whole trivia set,
too, all about me. Gets pretty competitive. You're
really hammering in that narcissism now. It's
fun. I get it. I get it. Yeah. I like attention
sometimes. That's perfectly fine. And I mean,
I'm not really doing anything crazy to get the
attention. It's just my birthday. That's all.
I didn't have to act a certain way, do like a
crazy little talent to get the attention. It's
just given to me. The closest I've ever been
to being a beggar. was in the eighth grade. It
was my birthday. I took a, because I'd seen all
the other kids do it, so I wanted to try it.
I just took like a $5 bill and I safety pinned
it to my shirt. People were just handing me cash
like crazy the whole day. I wonder if that's
like a Texas thing or they do that in other places
because I've not ever seen it anywhere. But maybe
when I was in middle school or high school. Yeah.
But now, like, we were at Charles Entertainment
Cheese the other day, and there were these two
kids that had money pinned to their shirts. And
that's what we do around here, I guess. Huh.
So I'd be interested to know if that's just a
here thing, or does everybody just do that? I
don't know. I don't know. I thought that everyone
did mums and garters. No. No, they don't. Yeah,
I was real surprised when I found out that everyone
was shocked that... It was a tradition in Texas.
Funny story with that. So I went to high school
here freshman and sophomore year, and I got a
mom both years and moved to another state for
junior and senior year and around homecoming
time. I was on the volleyball team, and homecoming's
usually around, like, football, volleyball time.
And I asked one of my friends, so where... are
we going to buy our moms for homecoming? And
they looked at me like I was crazy and I had
to show them pictures and they had no idea what
I was talking about. So that was interesting.
The only time I did. So you bought them? You
bought them every year? No. Somebody gave them
to me. Okay. But you would buy the, would you
buy garters or? No. So who would you get them
from? My friend would give it to me. But. They
would buy it. Yes. Would you get one for someone
else? I don't think I ever did, no. What a crappy
friend. Well, because the friend that gave it
to me, so the drill team would like sell them
and she was on the drill team, so she'd buy me
one. But she bought another one for her boyfriend
and he gave her her mom. So everybody got a mom
that was involved. I didn't have to buy one for
anybody. The only time I ever. mummed someone
uh I remember because I wanted to do it up right
like I wanted to be handmade like you could go
to I guess this is a regional thing but you could
go to like craft stores around here and they'll
have local high schools and they'll have ones
that I'm assuming someone just like brings in
to sell I can't imagine that they make them in
store no You usually it's like the crafty people
who have like a side hustle that go and buy all
the stuff at the like craft stores. And then
you say like what you want on it. Like if you're
a football player, football stuff, cheerleader,
whatever, add some lights. It's gotten to be
real ridiculous. When I got a mum, it was just
the one one flower in the middle and then all
the ribbon. Now it's like takes up your whole
body. Your whole chest. That's a little much
for me. Drags on the ground. Because when I wore
them, we had to wear it all day long and then
take them to the volleyball game with us afterwards
and hold on to it and keep it in the locker room.
And then afterwards you would change and go to
the football game. So trying to keep up with
like a Texas sized mom seems a little crazy.
But I will say my favorite thing, and it's not
a good mum unless it has a whistle on it. I don't
know if they still let you have those, but we
would get in trouble sometimes. I doubt it. Kids
can't be trusted. But a whistle and like a bell
when you move. Like a cowbell. Yeah, it was great.
That would ring every time you took a step. It
was real great. Real noisy. But yeah, I wanted
to do it upright, so I bought the supplies for
it, and I was going to do it like the next night.
Don't know what I caught, but I was just spewing
the entire time I was making it. No. I was sitting
on the floor trying to hot glue all this crap
together, burning my fingers, and then had to
have a wastebasket next to me to blow chunks
into. How romantic. Well, I think it was appreciated.
I don't know. Yeah. I got a garter. Had a garter.
Don't have it anymore. But that's definitely
one of those weird things that people are a little
baffled by. With Texas culture. And they say
we don't have culture. Yeah, there you go. Mums
and garters. Oh, I will say one thing I don't
like around birthday, around my birthday time,
is when we do go out to those restaurants, I
don't like to be sung to. Why? We also have an
episode about that. Yeah, why? I don't know.
I like the attention, but I don't want it from
random people at a restaurant. Or I also don't
want to have to do something silly. In order
to get the free dessert or the birthday recognition.
I think the worst one was, oh, there's two that
come to mind. My 16th birthday, we did it up
real big. We went to the spaghetti warehouse,
which is no more. And we all dressed up super
fancy. And they made me get up, put menus under
my arms, and flap them around while they sang
me happy birthday in front of everybody. Which
doesn't make any sense. And I hated every second
of it. There's a chicken restaurant around here.
That it's a wing place and it makes sense for
them to make you flap your wings. And put two
cups in your mouth. Because it's on brand. But
that doesn't make sense for an Italian. Yeah.
It's like the, I always thought of Spaghetti
Warehouse as like the chilies for Italian food.
Maybe. I mean, that's Olive Garden, kind of.
Yeah. I don't know. I think it was just a little
step above that. It's pretty expensive. It's
a cute little place. Um, so that one comes to
mind, hated every second of it. Felt like people
were just looking at me and laughing and not
celebrating. And then another one was when we
went to another chicken place and they make you
put on this gross looking hat that's in the shape
of a chicken. Uh, and then they give you two
of the little like snow cone looking cups. The
server cups. Cone thingies. So you can get water,
but you don't have anywhere to set it down. Yep.
I never thought of it like that. But yes, they
make you put them in your mouth and make a beak
while they sing to you. And then they give you
a biscuit, which you already get for free anyway,
as many as you want, with some honey on top and
a candle. And the honey is also on the table.
If I'm going to do all that, I don't want what
I already can get. Yeah. Yeah, they have like
cakes there, cheesecakes, that kind of stuff.
Well, this was a long time ago. I don't know
if they had any desserts at that time. Over 10
years ago? I've never gotten dessert there. I
have once. But again, if I'm going to do something
like that, you better let me pick something off
of a special kind of dessert menu. So what you're
saying is that you reiterate the fact that birthday
celebrations at restaurants are stupid? For the
most part, yeah. We were just at dinner last
night using a birthday coupon, and the Dallas
Stars are in the Stanley final now. Western Conference
Finals. Now. So it was before that. Division
Finals? Maybe so. I don't remember. Whatever's
before the Western Conference Finals. And it's
packed. It's a sports bar. TV's everywhere. And
there's just an entire half of the patio that
is sectioned off for this party. We couldn't
tell who the party was for, but we do know that
there were a whole bunch of people just drunk
as hell. And one dude is up there scream slurring
this birthday speech. We think it was to his
child, but we don't know. There was a big fireplace
and a pillar in the way. But just ruining everyone's
time because he has to make this impassioned
speech in front of all these strangers and then
his group of people. Yeah, and what we didn't
know until after he was done is that... Somehow
he got the restaurant to turn off the sound to
the TVs. And when he was finished, I don't know
if he gave like a little signal to the person
who turned it back on. But as soon as he was
done with the speech, the game was back on. Maybe
he just stole the remote. It was weird. It was
weird. But don't be that guy either. Yeah. Don't
be the one that begs your server to sing happy
birthday to you. Because they probably hate it.
Don't be the... person at the table who wants
to embarrass the birthday person. And don't be
someone who makes a impassioned, misguided birthday
speech at a restaurant full of people during
a very important game. Yeah. I mean, give all
the speeches you want, but have your party like
at home or something. Like I need to reiterate
that this was an open patio. This wasn't a private
room. This wasn't a like separate area. This
was just among everyone else. Yeah. And, geez,
man, another time we were using one of your birthday
coupons. There was, this one wasn't a birthday,
I don't think. It's a giant group of women. This
one was in a quarantined off area of the restaurant
for a private event. And it was just the most
obnoxious, shrill, cackling. non -stop the entire
time we were eating there is no way that everything
was so funny in that room whatever was happening
whether it was a baby shower whether it was a
wedding shower whether it was a bachelorette
party which i mean it was a sunday at like two
in the afternoon so hopefully it's not a bachelorette
party because if it was then they had been drinking
since like nine in the morning uh or maybe it
was a birthday party i don't know But stop like
you already have these this area that is meant
for you. So just keep the volume in that room.
Don't don't be the pick me girls. Those are the
worst. Yeah. So until we until I really sat down
and thought about all of it, I didn't think about
all the times that just just celebrating your
birthday this time that we just ran into all
this nonsense. Yeah. But how do you feel about.
People who don't celebrate birthdays at all.
I don't like it. I think when you and I first
started dating, I liked to celebrate people.
That's how I show my care for them. Just to do
things for them, to get them things I know they'll
enjoy. And you weren't really about it. What
was I not about? You just didn't really do much.
I gave you your gifts, and that was kind of it
for the first one. Yeah, because I don't... really
expect much and then i think it was the next
one um i had a surprise party for you or maybe
i'm missing one in between but me and the kids
wanted to do it up real big for you and so i
decided to um use my connections that we have
you're a co -host's boyfriend who is a chef and
a really great one and he said i decided to buy
the food for you and that he'd cook them Cook
it. And everybody came over, and we decorated
while you were gone, and it was fun. I think
you had a good time. I did. I was very stunned
by it. I had no idea. Check out hatchetandwhisk
.com or at hatchet .ann .whisk on Instagram.
Great food. Great guy. But yeah, I was blown
away. I had no idea. I think it probably helps
that I wasn't expecting anything because I don't
expect anything. But, yeah, that was a real good
one. Yeah. And completely concealed it from me
until I walked in and just all these people are
at our house. It wasn't the best reveal because
we didn't coordinate before you walked in. Yeah.
But it was still great. It was. I think first
time, well. You've done a lot for me for birthdays.
First birthday is always memorable. We went to
my favorite place. You picked me up from my apartment.
You got me flowers. We had dinner. What was it,
two years ago? I woke up, and usually you're
either out of town or you're still sleeping when
I'm leaving for work. And you had, what was it,
the dining area all decorated. You had some of
my favorite. pictures out of myself and of your
lovely co -host one of my favorite pictures i've
ever seen of her was laying out to make the start
of my day great i just love looking at that old
librarian little girl yeah yeah we'll post that
picture on instagram it's a great one so you
can check it out and give us your give us your
honest feedback on on uh what decade do you think
that picture came from because it's probably
not the one you're thinking yeah but It really
brightened my day and started off my birthday
not in a way that I ever thought would be. Yeah.
That was nice. Now I think it's easier for me
to kind of have a secret little celebration for
you because the kids are older now and they don't
just spill all the secret plannings that I've
done. Yeah. And the gifts. I know a couple times
I've told them ahead of time what I was giving
you and they... They get real excited and they
don't like to keep it in until you open your
gift. But they're also not very subtle. No. So
they're getting better about keeping the surprises,
but then they'll be like, ooh, daddy. Yeah. I
know. Something you don't know. Do you want me
to tell you? I'm not going to tell you. But you
want to know because I know and you don't know.
Yeah. Which is fine. That's cute. Because I'm
not a snoopy person. Yeah. If you tell me. this
isn't for you, then okay, I'll take your word
for it. Yeah. I have something really close to
us right now. That's what I was going to say.
So there's something I'm not allowed to see until
a certain day. And this area next to me is pretty
much the only place we have to store it safely.
And you're freaking out like, are you sure? Can
you handle it being right there? It's going to
be right next to you when you're in here. Are
you sure you can handle it? And I'm just so befuddled.
Because I'm not the snooper. Yeah. It's not that
I don't care. It's just that if you say, hey,
this isn't for you, then okay, that's not for
me. Yeah, that's not how I am. I used to be.
I used to be. For Christmas, I would usually
like, well, first off, I would go up there. I'd
see what was there, and I'd see which ones were
mine. And then I would just palm them to see
which one. Felt like it was more expensive. Which
one felt like it was maybe a Game Boy, maybe
a CD I was wanting, maybe a Sega Genesis. Who
knows? I mean, I feel like back then when we
were kids, the wrapping wasn't as disguised as
I know I try and make things now. Like if I have
given you like concert tickets in the past, I
don't just hand you a piece of paper. Put it
in a box and I wrap the box. Yeah. But no, I
would, I'd usually just stuff them in my pants
and then walk into the bathroom and then just
very quietly. Sometimes I'd be fully prepared
and I'd have like a little knife or a little
blade with me. I'd just slightly tear the tape
or pry it off and then I'd see what it was. And
then I would, you know, retape it, sneak it back.
And then. Just on Christmas Day or whatever it
was. What? Oh, what? Oh, my God. No way. But
then you can also get burned with that. So you
get something. You're like, what the hell is
this? And then you still have to act surprised.
You're like, oh, yeah. Oh, my gosh. I love it
so much. Thank you. Awesome. Yeah. Anyways, next.
You want to look? You can look. So you don't
like people that don't celebrate their birthday.
No. But that's more of a recent thing, I would
say, in the last 15 -ish years that I've changed
my mind on. Because before, I didn't really care
too much. Like, I still had a birthday party
or whatever, but I didn't make it. Can you really
say that it was recent when it was almost half
of your life? No. I don't know. I've been thinking
about things more in depth recently. Yeah. I
don't know. You don't know if you're going to
have another birthday, so live it up. That is
correct. Do all the things. That is correct.
Make people take all the pictures. You want to
hear your fun fact for this episode? Okay. So,
growing up, I lived on a cul -de -sac. Yeah.
We lived in the back of the cul -de -sac on the
biggest lot. Pretty great lot. With the biggest
house. There was, when we first moved in, I mean,
there was a lot of kids my age there. So, like,
there was a girl next to me that was my age,
like, in my grade. And then next to her were
these two brothers. One was a year older than
me. The other one was two years older than me,
I think. And then we had an old couple and some...
kid, like some smaller kids. And then, uh, we
had another one that this, it was a brother and
sister and they were, the brother was a year
older than me. The sister was maybe like, I don't
know, three, three years younger than me. The
Pepper family, Tony, Miranda, Sonia, and David.
Tony's no longer with us. But as far as I know,
the other ones are. Anyways, I remember we went
to a restaurant for someone's birthday and we
invited the entire cul -de -sac. Yeah. Because
back then, like, we were good with everyone.
Completely negates all my points from the last
episode where I said, love thy neighbors, stupid.
But now she doesn't even know her neighbors.
Different times. Yeah. I mean, you didn't have
all the technology and stuff, and you actually
had to have conversations with people, not through
texting and whatever else. Yeah. And those people
were all, they had all bought those houses, so
they weren't renters that were just filtering
in all the time. Yeah. Anyways, and so we invited
them, and they said no. And so we thought that
maybe we'd done something to offend them. And
so one conversation after another, and turns
out that these people didn't celebrate any holidays,
including birthdays, because they were Jehovah's
Witnesses. Yeah. I had no clue because they had
never witnessed Jehovah to me. They didn't knock
and say? They never came to our door, knock and
say. Is Jesus Christ your Lord and Savior? Yeah.
Yeah. So. Those are the only ones I've ever had
direct contact with. And I tried asking them
about that. I think I was closest to Sonia, the
mom, more than any of the other ones. Tony, me
and him, didn't see eye to eye on most things.
He was a very temperamental child. Anyways. Yeah,
so even asking them, it felt like they didn't
want to explain it, but I feel like that's a
pretty big thing, especially to a child asking
you. It just doesn't make any sense why something
like your birth, like it's a day that happened.
You want to say, I don't celebrate Christmas
because Christmas didn't happen, Jesus isn't
real, all this other stuff. Fine. Yeah. I can...
wrap my head around that but not celebrating
someone because they entered the world on that
day just seemed real baffling to me and i just
wanted to know why yeah i don't know why i've
worked with hundreds of students and there have
been a couple that have had to have accommodations
to abstain when we had birthday parties in our
classroom and they had to go elsewhere and i've
never really not that i didn't care to know but
like i've just never looked into it well i did
today for this episode and it turns out that
jehovah's witnesses look at celebrating a birthday
as a remnant of pagan traditions and it's they
see it as rooted in the worshiping of other gods,
and they're not based in the Bible. So I guess...
So the only thing they do celebrate is what's
in the Bible? I guess so, but they don't celebrate
Christmas. Well, Christmas really isn't in the
Bible. Well, yeah, Christmas is based on the
pagan, what is it, Saturnalia? Something like
that. I mean, they don't know the exact date
of when Jesus was born. Probably it wasn't December.
Who knows? But, yeah, I mean, I don't know. I
still, as a grown adult, do not understand what
the problem is with just picking a day just to
celebrate a person. A day. Picking a day to celebrate
a person. Just for being alive. Yeah. For going
another 365 trips around the sun. Yeah. I don't
know. Don't know. The more, the merrier. But
they moved out. They went off somewhere and then,
yeah, lost touch. Looked them up maybe, I don't
know, six, seven years ago. And, yeah, so, RIP.
Tony, I don't know if that's a thing that they
would. I don't know anything about Jehovah's
Witnesses. I've never been a witness to. So if
you're a Jehovah's Witness and you'd like to
share your testimony with me, go for it because
I'm interested. Yeah, me too. Don't know much
about it. I know they can't have certain things.
But then that makes me wonder, like, do they
just not ever celebrate anything? Like, what
happens when a new baby's born? What happens
when you get married? What happens when you graduate
high school? Like, you just don't celebrate anything?
I have no clue. I don't know. Yeah. I don't know.
What do you think your favorite birthday was?
I think the only ones that stick out to me, there's
a couple that I think of that I can remember
pretty vividly. I don't know how old I turned
at some of them, though. I had one at Bowling
Alley. It's Powerpuff Girl themed. Don't really
remember a whole lot from that one. I have pictures.
Don't really remember. I had a birthday at an
indoor skating rink, which... was a place that
I went to a lot. Skating was a lot of fun for
me and I remember that one probably turned seven
or eight, I want to say. I don't know. Then my
15th birthday was a lot of fun. Had like a little
party at my house with cake and pizza and we
played music and games and played pool upstairs
at the pool table. That one was all right. 16th
birthday would definitely be Second place. Around
that time, my super sweet 16 was a big show on
MTV, and so everybody thought it was a thing
to do when you turn 16 is to have this huge extravagant
party. So I had a dress code. That's the only
thing I've ever done that has had a dress code.
What a hypocrite. Everybody had to wear black
and white, fancy, and I got to wear pink. So
I stood out. And we rented a limo and got to
go down to the spaghetti warehouse where I had
to do that embarrassing little dance thing. I
don't even think I got a dessert after that.
Then we had about an hour left on the limo time.
They didn't just pour some honey on some spaghetti
for you? No way. So then we went to the marble
slab creamery, got some ice cream. Went back
to my house, had some cake, opened presents,
and that was it. But it was really fun. 21st
birthday was memorable. Celebrated it with my
parents and my aunt. We went on a cruise, which
was fun. It wasn't really like a party. It was
more of an activity vacation, which now I'm kind
of leaning more to making memories and not getting
things. So that one was fun. For a few years
there, just went out to dinner with a group of
friends, had some type of dessert, I think. I
don't really know. And then just the ones we've
had here have been a lot of fun. I liked the
Kentucky Derby Tea Party this year. That was
fun. Spending time with people. Nice. Yeah, I
mean, I've done the usual suspects, just mini
golf, bowling, indoor. Roller skating. I think
probably my most memorable one was my 18th birthday.
So me, mom, dad, other co -hosts drove to Oklahoma
City, which is just north of, what do you say,
like almost three hours? Two and a half? Yeah,
I would say closer. Depends on traffic. Probably
three -ish. Yeah. We drove up there on my birthday.
We went to Bass Pro Shop and I got a wallet.
A wallet that I had for probably like seven,
eight years. And then went to the Oklahoma City
Bombing Museum, which if you're ever in the area,
you're ever going through, you should definitely
check out. It's real sad, but real interesting
too. It's a really, really well -done museum.
And then, to top it all off, we ended up at Toby
Keats' I Love This Bar and Grill in Bricktown.
First time I ever went. I still have the menu
around here somewhere from that night. I've been
there. It's a great place. R .I .P. TK. Pour
a red solo cup out for him. Yeah. I think that
was probably my most memorable one. My 16th birthday,
I got... to go to school late so that I could
go get my driver's license. I remember I went
home after school, got in the car and drove off.
Then I just went and picked up some friends,
and then we just drove around. Other than that,
I don't think that there's anything really that
sticks out that much except for the surprise
birthday party because I think that was the first
surprise party I've ever had. Yeah. Yeah. We
had fun celebrating you last year with the different
cards. You got to pick one. That was fun. That
was fun, yeah. No, I think my worst birthday
is I think my sophomore year in high school.
We had our state test on my birthday, and it
was my least favorite subject, social studies.
My most favorite subject. Yeah. We get split
up by last name and I didn't really know anybody
in that room. So that was not fun starting off.
And then, I mean, a subject I didn't really like.
So I didn't really care a whole lot. And then
after that, you're not supposed to get checked
out of school. But for some reason, my mom. Had
some connections at that school. And they called
me down to the office to leave for the day. And
we went out to lunch at our favorite Mexican
restaurant. And so that was nice. But also, majority
of that day was not fun. Yeah? Yeah. Huh. That
happens. Can't win them all. When you had 33
of them, there's bound to be one that's worse
than the rest. Yeah. I don't remember my second
birthday, but it was Barbie themed, and I got
a Barbie that my grandma was not approving of.
It was a different time. Yeah, different time.
But it's all on video. Yeah, it's one of my favorite
home videos to watch. Because at the time, maybe
it was two or three when I turned. I think I
had Barbie theme for a few years there. But it's
one of my favorite videos to watch. my birthdays
so i guess it makes sense that i wanted to do
this episode and have just always loved celebrating
my birthday there you go and before we go quick
little tale about when we first started dating
we hadn't been together for that long and then
your birthday was coming up and so i was like
oh man like i don't i didn't really know like
everything about you so i just had to say so
what would you like what kind of stuff would
you want to do for your birthday and your suggestion
no i forgot you're the thing that you said to
me you asked me where i wanted to go to dinner
yes for your birthday and you told me in a text
message. So there's no, there's, there's no subtext.
There's no like being able to read your face
or anything like that. Like, Hmm. I don't know.
Maybe like Perry's, which is a very expensive,
a very, very expensive steak restaurant. And
I was talking to a guy that I was working with
at the time and I was telling him what was going
on. And I was like, the audacity. Of this woman
that I don't even really know wanting me to drop
that much money on her birthday. I was questioning
things. Yeah. I was questioning things. Well,
I don't come from a lot of money. And so growing
up, we would go to Chili's and have the chocolate
little volcano thing. And I was completely joking.
And he didn't know that because we. I feel like
we had been talking for a couple weeks, not even
a month, and we had been on two dates before
then. And he didn't understand my humor yet,
so it's fine. We ended up going. Yeah, I think
you're gaslighting me now. We didn't end up going
to Perry's. You were just throwing out a line
and seeing what would happen. Haven't. Haven't
been there yet. To be honest, the food's not
worth the price. I believe it. But still a cool
place. I've been there once. We went to another
steak restaurant, which is my favorite. And we
had a great time. We practiced winking at each
other in the booth. Made sure that you didn't
tell them it was my birthday because I didn't
want to be sung to. Yeah, you picked me up. You
wore my favorite color shirt. And you brought
me flowers. Here we go. Those are pretty great.
And that's the story of how she almost ended
everything before it even began. And here we
are. All right. Do you have any words of wisdom?
No, not really. But if you are one of the people
who like to take a whole month to celebrate you,
nothing wrong with that. Just maybe keep it to
a couple days. And if you're a person who doesn't
like to celebrate your birthday, I would say
maybe you should try. Give it a trial run, see
how it feels? Yeah. I mean, everybody deserves
to be celebrated. And, again, you don't know
if that will be your last birthday. So do it
big. Well, I will say that I'm not as, after
this conversation, I'm not as hard -nosed on
people celebrating multiple days for their birthday.
But, but. I definitely don't think that you should
set out with the intention of wanting to make
it about you for as many days as you can before
people just say, you know what? No. So. Yeah,
that's fair. Celebrate your birthday in whatever
capacity that you want to, but keep it reasonable.
Yeah. Last thing I would like to say is a quote
from the great Aziz Ansari. Treat yourself. There
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