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The Bubble Lounge (Highland Park & University Park Texas)
The Rangers win the World Series, what happened on Halloween and where did our mailman go?!
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This episode was recorded Wednesday prior to the Texas Rangers winning the World Series. A big congratulations to the Texas Rangers for winning their first World Series title in the franchise history!
We have a lot to talk about in this episode. Halloween felt a lot different this year, the huge impact the retirement of our mailman, Jay has had on our community, Taylor and Travis, where to shop during Partner's Card, Nellie's new TV series and why you need to STOP using the honor system candy bowl on Halloween!
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Speaker 2Welcome to the Bubble Lounge . I'm Nellie Shudeau .
Speaker 1I'm Martha Jackson . Today . It's just us . We don't have anyone to interview Exactly , it's just us catching up on everything it's us unhinged . Exactly that sounds so crazy , right .
Speaker 2Like lunatics .
Speaker 1So we're recording this . On Wednesday , yesterday was Halloween , right ? Yes , and you were hanging out at a friend's house right , I did .
Speaker 2I avoided Halloween . I have to be honest , like you're not an empty nester , it's my first year being an empty nester .
Speaker 1It's weird , isn't ?
Speaker 2it and it just felt weird because you know we go out all out for Halloween Like we have a party . We have all the decorations outside . It was kind of sad not to put them out , but I just decided . I didn't want to be like that old couple in the neighborhood . It was like you look so cute , little girl . I just don't want to be .
Speaker 1I just felt like who am I now ?
Speaker 2That sounded really creepy . You would be the cute couple .
Speaker 1That was like oh , you're so adorable , not creepy like that .
Speaker 2No , Chris was with me . He was like turn all the lights out . We're going out to red sticks , we're going to go hide . He joined me and my girlfriend .
Speaker 1Oh well , that's fun . Yeah Well , I was feeling nostalgic last night too , like I actually brought my Halloween decorations out , like I had this giant blow up ghost thing and I asked Blake to put it in the yard , like at the beginning of October , and it sat on my dining table for all this time and finally I got frustrated and I just put it in the garage . So there was zero decorations .
Speaker 2You know what I saw ? I drove by because I was going to wave at you and I saw your two chairs sitting there Ready . I wasn't out there yet .
Speaker 1No it was fun . So many cute kids . I didn't feel like there was as much traffic as normal . We couldn't figure out if it was because it was cold or the World Series , or it was a Tuesday , or what the problem was . Well , you know what I noticed .
Speaker 2The neighborhood , our neighborhood , is such a holiday neighborhood . It was not done up like it usually is for Halloween , oh , so maybe other people felt like we did .
Speaker 2A lot of people said that because I said it to a lot of my friends and they said , no , our street is the same , like . I don't know if it's because the ages of kids are sort of like , maybe there are a lot of little kids moving in and they don't care as much about so many decorations and you know the older kids are moving out . I have no idea .
Speaker 1Well , our block has a ton of really young kids and they had a , but they weren't that decorated they had . They celebrated on Sunday with a bounce house , and that's when the weather was so bad , so I'm not sure that they got to enjoy their party as much as I would like to .
Speaker 1So my favorite trick or treat is because we did sit out in our lawn last night and our neighbors came over , just like the old days , and it was a lot of fun . Yes , we had this group . You know those funny T-Rex costumes that were so popular a few years ago .
Speaker 1Well , this was a version with pink pigs , so they're like this big fat head and a big fat body and there was like four or five of them and they came running around the corner over to my neighbor's house and it was just the way they ran was so darn funny .
Speaker 2They were like standing up pigs , yeah , yeah , on their high legs .
Speaker 1But the way they ran was so funny . And then my neighbor straight across . You know we've talked about this every year that we've done a Halloween episode . The honor system candy bowl .
Speaker 2Yes , oh yeah , I did not do that . I was not doing that because there's no honor system in our neighborhood .
Speaker 1I mean , you're really trusting kids to only take one or two pieces . That's just not going to happen . No , no . So they were straight across the street and they were over there for a really long time and Sean yelling over there , just one piece , guys , I'm like .
Speaker 2Sean Sean's like the candy police Like .
Speaker 1Sean , they're being pigs you know , they're pigs . No , they were so cute though . I mean , even if they stole all the candy , they were still .
Speaker 2Were they all attached ? No , okay , no , they were separate .
Speaker 1That would be funnier if they were like stuck together on the street . But I saw that somebody posted today that they put a bowl of mixed vegetables on their front porch and it says only one , that's so funny .
Speaker 2We should try that next year .
Speaker 1That is very funny . I bet no one takes that whole bowl of stuff . Only one broccoli , just one carrot . Anyways , halloween was fun , but it definitely felt different . I felt like because Blake was upstairs with a bunch of friends watching a Halloween movie , but I never saw him . So it's just weird not having a little kid like the old days .
Speaker 2Well , Charles told me they got dressed up and ran around Boston Common and they had trick or treating . Like you could say , I'm giving out candy . You had to like fill out a form so you could trick or treat in the dorm .
Speaker 2And some people like candy and then they just went to a party . He was out really late , but he went to his class this morning . That's all I cared about . But you know , I was checking on him , I was life , 360 , 360 in him and I was like geez , it's two o'clock in the morning , you know on a Tuesday , oh well yeah , alexis had multiple costume parties the weekend and , I'm pretty sure , last night .
Speaker 1It's every night of the week with the costumes . It seems like .
Speaker 2Yeah , that's what Elaine said , because I was with Elaine last night and she told me she was talking about her daughter's budget and she said I don't know what she spends it on and she goes , but she has to buy a costume or a dress every day , every day . Seriously , that's not an exaggeration .
Speaker 1Well , so you know , it rained a whole lot over the weekend .
Speaker 2Yes .
Speaker 1And the past week and CVS and Snyder Plaza , our favorite CVS the roof has caved in .
Speaker 2Well it's been closed for like a week and a half Not quite that long , because I've tried to get you know family medications and I can't . They keep saying that they're there and the phone doesn't say our roof caved , in which it should you know . It should say , by the way , we're closed , you know , temporarily or whatever .
Speaker 1Well , it didn't , because I've . It's my understanding that they're filling them at the Preston one , like that's over by the car wash , that CVS location and what . I don't know .
Speaker 2Okay , we'll figure it out .
Speaker 1It's like on the other side , right by the high school , oh , okay , okay , like on Preston Road , right in that area okay . But that's where your stuff should be .
Speaker 2Yeah , that's so crazy . Anyway , it seems like they should say something other than the yellow sign on the door .
Speaker 1Yeah , you know , but I've heard that they may be opening next week .
Speaker 2So well , the poor Halloween kids , because you know all they like to do is go to CVS and wander around . You know , when they were that age , like you know , like a few years younger than Blake , and they would be like we're going to CVS , oh yeah , like , why are you gonna go to CVS for three hours and walk around ?
Speaker 1No , it's just like quiet , just , they felt so independent that they could go walk around .
Speaker 2And then they buy something handy , you know , by something exactly .
Speaker 1Alexis's first purchases with her own money was makeup at that CVS . That's hilarious . She's independent woman . So what did you guys give out last night ? Oh , you know , the standard stuff twix knickers , immanums . We had good stuff . No , apples with razors no apples with carrots in a bowl . None of that .
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Speaker 2Taylor .
Speaker 1Swift and Travis Kelsey .
Speaker 2I I don't follow it , but it's hard to avoid .
Speaker 1Yeah , I didn't really want to get on board with it . I mean , I'm happy for them . They're a lovely couple and I I Think that they are cute together . But Alexis is so into it and she wants me to be into it so we can talk about it . That's hilarious . I have to kind of watch and follow along a little bit .
Speaker 2Well , I feel like everybody loves Taylor so so much , and I always say this look , I don't have a daughter , so if I had a daughter I might be into
Swift Concerts, Partners Shopping, Mailman Stories
Speaker 2it . I have a feeling that most of the moms that I know Would not be quite as excited about going to a Taylor Swift concert if they didn't have a daughter right , that's how it starts , yeah , and then you start to like the music and you say , I mean , I like her music , yeah , but I probably won't ever see a concert .
Speaker 2I just it's just not on my radar .
Speaker 1You know , most of us can't afford to go see her exactly .
Speaker 2There's that too .
Speaker 1Her movie . The air is tours out . It's the three hour long . It's like you're at the concert , I guess . Yeah , I haven't seen it , but it's making a ton of money too . Now she's a billionaire .
Speaker 2Well , my friends , just went to Kansas City game and and of course it was you know it was one of those .
Speaker 1Yeah , exactly like a frenzy , I'm sure . Was it just crazy yeah .
Speaker 2I think it would bother me if I was the other players , I think . I think in a way , it's a little distracting , yeah just put on a hat and Support your guy , but because she knows she's a huge celebrity right . Like you know , she can't , she has to hide , she has to hide , she's that famous .
Speaker 1She should put on a disguise and sit somewhere one of those little pig outfits .
Speaker 2She would look cute in anything .
Speaker 1Well , so have you done any partners card shopping ?
Speaker 2I have not .
Speaker 1I know I haven't either . And it ends this Sunday .
Speaker 2I was thinking that and I was like , well , maybe this Friday . It just it's the end of tennis season , so we got rained out a couple times , so I'm playing a lot of tennis , yeah , and and then it's over . It will be over by Friday , so maybe I'll do that Saturday .
Speaker 1I just never have my act together , Like in theory , I would love to do my Christmas shopping , but I never have my act together and my list together . So I yeah , haven't done anything .
Speaker 2Yeah , and there's something about it where it's like you need to shop in this these two weeks . Yeah , it's like a lot of pressure .
Speaker 1Yeah , it is a lot of pressure , like in one week has already gone by , yeah , but if you are out there shopping , go visit our website , bubbleloungenet , and go to our blog and check out all of our local businesses that we like to support . We have that ongoing list up there that we put together of our favorite stores .
Speaker 2So back to Halloween for just a second . I wanted to say that . So we went to Red Sticks big surprise , which was really fun , because Oona was there and had just gotten back , oh , from her wedding . Yes , so that was really fun to catch up with her . And she actually didn't have the wedding because Nabil , her fiance's father , is not well .
Speaker 1So they're gonna have the wedding here , so instead she made it like a girls' trip .
Speaker 2But it was fun to see her and just it was fun for us to sneak out the back , like Chris met me there . But I snuck out the back . I had parked my car in the back . I turned all the lights out and I was a real Scrooge . I was a Halloween Scrooge .
Speaker 1That's funny .
Speaker 2I'll do that someday too .
Speaker 1Yeah , that's exciting Congratulations . When will the wedding be ?
Speaker 2here she's trying to plan it . She has two dresses , so she wants to have a party . A party or two . That sounds like her , did they ?
Speaker 1make fun Halloween cocktails last night . They did , I could imagine .
Speaker 2So it was fun and it's just anyway . I wanted to escape it and I feel a little guilty about it , but , like you said , you can't leave Candy out in the front . No Two kids will come and take the entire bucket .
Speaker 1Yeah , who's your male man ? Is it Jay , mm-hmm , okay .
Speaker 2I love Jay .
Speaker 1Did you know he retired ? No , yesterday was his last day .
Speaker 2No .
Speaker 1Yeah , oh , that makes me sad , do you like ? I'm sorry . Everyone knows him and loves him . I have never spoke to the guy . Oh , I talk to him all the time .
Speaker 2Everyone does , why did ?
Speaker 1he not tell you ? How does he not get the mail delivered when everyone talks to him all the time ?
Speaker 2Well , for some reason he comes at like five or six , yeah , and it's usually when I'm getting home , so I'll be in my car and I'll be like , hey , jay , what's up ? And then I start talking to him and he asks me all about you know , charles , or movie making and things like that .
Speaker 1Oh my God , like he literally knows everybody .
Speaker 2He does .
Speaker 1I feel bad , but I don't park in the front , so I , like , have never really crossed paths .
Speaker 2That's why . That's why yeah .
Speaker 1Everyone on my street parks in the front . So I guess that's the thing .
Speaker 2Yeah , well , I'm sad about that , cause I would have thought he would have given like a little card out saying oh he did , oh he did . He must have missed it . I never checked the mail , yeah .
Speaker 1Our block did a little gift for a collection and gave him something yesterday and one of the ladies wrote the sweetest poem and gave it to him .
Speaker 2Oh my God , I'm gonna have to ask if anybody has his contact information . I'm sure somebody does .
Speaker 1Yeah , I'm sure .
Speaker 2I mean wow , but you know what I always talked to him about . I was like , let me just ask you a question as a mailman , do you work out ?
Speaker 1Oh my gosh .
Speaker 2And he said no , I do not . And I said I imagine not because your job is a workout . He's just walking all the time I mean he walks like miles and miles and miles a day . And he's obviously in good shape . And I just think that's kind of funny , cause I did question that . Like , if you're walking all day , do you say , oh , I gotta go to the gym ?
Speaker 1You know , well , you gotta build some muscle . Yeah , that's true , he's getting his cardio in , that's good .
Speaker 2But still , I think you'd be like no , I just want to sit .
Speaker 1No , the new guy already came today , right before I came to the office . Yeah , I didn't get a good look at him though . So , we will have to . I'll have to make a point to try to get to know this one . I literally , but I don't park in the front , so I don't know how that's going to happen . So you've been working on a show I have .
Speaker 2I've been working on a show called Vindication and it's their fourth season , so they did the third and fourth season , so they're done with it now and it streams on everything . And it's a really popular show , and what I like about it is it's filmed in Texas . Oh , cool . So they film it outside of Texas sometimes too , but really it's a Texas show , okay . And , by the way , texas just got is giving some incentives to the film industry .
Speaker 2Oh , that's nice . Yeah , it got raised like maybe four times . Like I think they got 200 million , something crazy . 200 million dollars , something towards films , which is a really good sign because you know it's not a state that's super friendly to the movie industry , but it seems like it's growing . Oh good , good , good , good . So that show was great and I oh I can't talk about the plot because it didn't come out yet .
Speaker 1So I can't really talk about my role because I'm Dang . I was gonna say can you at least tell us about ?
Speaker 2your character . I can't . But then I also just booked something that I'm excited about a movie in Tampa , and it's a faith-based film . I'm working with Terry Kaiser and a group of actors I've worked with before , and it takes place in the 1800s . Oh , and I'm the town gossip , so it should be fun . The hair and makeup and they have like an old town with you know Chuck wagons and you know a saloon and all that kind of stuff that sounds fun . Yeah .
Speaker 1Tampa do . They do many films there .
Speaker 2Florida does a lot of films . Yes , the Southeast is really big , but I tend to work in like Arkansas , Oklahoma , Louisiana , South Carolina and Florida our states that are big , yeah .
Speaker 1Yeah , okay , well , good , we'll have to look for that , yes , and then the indication will be soon , and then when you can tell us the name of the other one then I don't remember the name .
Speaker 2Isn't that terrible , you don't remember the name . No , it's called like Gunfight or something .
Speaker 1Starring .
Speaker 2Nelly Shudo so . Well , you'll have to keep us posted so we can talk about it . I can actually talk about that one . I'm actually Annie Oakley's mom . No , yeah , oh , so yeah , when she's little , oh , that's cool . I'm not like a little lady in a rocking chair . Okay , good .
Speaker 1Well speaking of acting
Remembering Matthew Perry and Analyzing Baseball
Speaker 1for . Matthew Perry oh .
Speaker 2I know .
Speaker 1I can't believe he died 54 .
Speaker 2No , I can't believe it either , and I find it really sad because the most beautiful thing that he ever said was you know , he shared everything . He wrote that book and he went on all these interviews . I did not read the book , I don't know if you did . No , I've seen him in interviews and he he said I don't want to be remembered for friends or as an actor , I want to be remembered for helping people . I saw that and I mean that is how we should all think to be honest , definitely .
Speaker 2And I just feel badly for him because he was helping so many people and he had really turned his life around and we don't know what happened , but I would imagine it was a heart attack , just from wear and tear on his body .
Speaker 1Yeah , I mean that eventually does catch up with you and that can happen . I'm sure it will come out at some point in time . But yeah , very sad news .
Speaker 2Yeah , but he was very beloved , like you can see from the tributes et cetera . I don't think there was a person who didn't like him . I did not know him , so I just admired him , and he had a good reputation right In Hollywood .
Speaker 1So okay , well , have you been watching the World Series I ?
Speaker 2actually have been . I have been too , and it's so funny because last night we were watching it when it was 10 to one . We were like , oh my God , elaine and I , yeah , but like I actually I don't even watch baseball , but it's kind of fun to watch Me too .
Speaker 1It's making me learn more and watch it . Yeah , I feel the same . I mean , I just feel kind of obligated , since it's the Texas Rangers and they're right here in our backyard that we need to watch it . So , again , we're recording this on Tuesday , which there is a game tonight , hoping for the best . So by the time this airs tomorrow , it'll be a different story .
Speaker 2Could they have won by tomorrow ? Yes , right , because it's four .
Speaker 1If they win tonight , they could win so we might be having to talk about that next week . Where are they tonight ? Arizona , okay , yeah , that's where they were last night and then tonight too . Those games are long though , aren't they ? They're very long , and they're kind of slow moving .
Speaker 2They're very slow moving and that's one of the reasons I'm not a big baseball fan , because I like basketball . But I do remember going to like Mets and Yankees games growing up with my dad , and it's kind of fun to walk around grab a hot dog . Like you know , you don't just sit there for nine innings , you walk around .
Speaker 1You do , and most of the baseball stadiums are so nice Like that Yankee stadium is really cool . I went to a game with Blake there . We went on a third grade mom and son trip with a big group of us from UPL Elementary and we went to a game and it was just so neat being out there .
Speaker 2So , speaking of baseball , it's really fun to go to Fenway Park just to see it .
Speaker 1I could just imagine .
Speaker 2Because it's one of the few leftover original stadiums .
Speaker 1that hasn't changed . So many have been torn down , yeah .
Speaker 2And I think in Chicago they have one too that hasn't been torn down but it's fun to like walk by it . It happens to be a super trendy area with a lot of cool restaurants and a lot of young kids , I could imagine .
Speaker 1Boston is very .
Speaker 2Visiting Charles and Boston is fun because it really is sort of a it's a college city . Sean went to BU so he knows .
Speaker 1Yes , yes , you know , I've only been to Boston once and I would love to go to that part of the country again . I think it's amazing . We went during the summer , so I didn't get the feel of the students and the energy like that , but I thought it was really amazing .
Speaker 2Well , and there are such trendy , cool restaurants Like my favorite is because I did a couple of movies that had Whitey Bolger involved in them the big gangster the big mobster gangster . His hangout was called the Triple O Lounge , and so I was looking it up when I was watching the Black Mass , like a couple of weeks ago , and it turns out they turned that into this new restaurant called the Knife and Something , and it's really , it's really cool .
Speaker 1Like it's his old hangout , they turned it into a gourmet restaurant .
Speaker 2And just I don't know fun stuff like that . In Boston Did you go to Cheers ?
Speaker 1No , they moved it . No , they moved it .
Speaker 2So it used to be in Fannie Hall , which , by the way , is changing its name , which is crazy right , but they moved . Cheers to write on the Boston Common . And now it's nice . I have to be honest , I drive by it all the time . It's much nicer actually , so I'm sure we'll make it in there at some point . Still a tourist trap , I'm sure .
Speaker 1Yes , exactly .
Speaker 2But Fannie Hall is changing its name because of , I think , something about slave ownership in the past , something about it being a tarnished reputation . Okay , so I don't know what's gonna be called Good to know , maybe just Quincy Market , but I also have been watching Charles Run and going to New Hampshire and I've driven a couple of times to go see him run in different states , and this past weekend the leaves were gorgeous .
Speaker 1That's all I can say .
Speaker 2Like it was , really the height of that yellow and red and you know .
Speaker 1I always wanted to go to that part at the country at this time of year and see like an actual fall . Yeah , you know , last year about this time we had beautiful colors in our neighborhood . I remember I did a video because I was just so taken back , because you don't usually see that viral colors down here . You don't usually see it . So have you guys been going to Austin ? We have not gone once .
Speaker 2Okay .
Speaker 1But we're about to go next weekend .
Speaker 2Oh good .
Speaker 1Blake has a lacrosse tournament .
Speaker 2Well , Austin is such a great place for you guys to visit for college . That's what I think of , too , is another great city . Who doesn't want to be there , you know ?
Speaker 1She loves it . She is so happy there . She's really loving it . Charles's live in Boston . He loves Boston , adapting well .
Speaker 2It's a little different . I will say it was a little bit of an adjustment initially , because it's a city school , oh yeah , so you don't have the sorority and fraternity family that you have at like a UT or an Arkansas or whatever . But he's adapting to it , he's finding his group and you know he's on a team . So at least he has the team , yeah , and I think he's going to be very happy there . I just think initially , you know just learning to reach out to people when there's not an automatic party , you know a dress-up party , that you're going to dance at a fraternity Like that makes it easier you know , and fun yeah .
Speaker 1Well , that's good . That's good . You know what we missed , what Our five-year anniversary Like it's always around the Halloween .
Speaker 2I actually thought about that . I was like I guess we're not having a party this year .
Speaker 1I don't know I've been so distracted with everything .
Speaker 2Maybe we'll do like . Maybe we should do a party instead , when it's like the dead of winter and nobody has anything to do . Yeah , no , that's a good idea , you know ?
Speaker 1Well , if we do it , does anyone want to host us ? By the way , does anyone have a really amazing house out there that they'd like to invite us to , or a store or something ? I mean , I've thought about it , but we just haven't planned anything .
Speaker 2So we'll see what have we ? A happy five-year anniversary . Yes , to you too . I literally cannot believe it's been five years . I can't either . I can remember the day that you and Sean walked up to my driveway and said hey , would you be interested in doing this with us ? You know .
Speaker 1As if it was yesterday . I know and our old . Our original office was also George Bush's .
Speaker 2George .
Speaker 1Bush was in our office and so there would be the secret service in there . So it kind of made it exciting .
Speaker 2It was exciting and it was fun to see her , to see Laura Bush walking in See . You saw them ?
Speaker 1I never once saw them and Sean was like in the elevator with George Bush before . I never saw any of them . I was just kind of excited . I'd like to hear what Sean said to him . Sean , what did you say to George ?
Speaker 2Hello .
Speaker 1Oh , awesome , he said hello , Speaking of Sean
Fishing, Dallas Zoo, and Holiday Plans
Speaker 1over there . Sean has been in Cabo for a whole week and he's been catching fish .
Speaker 2Well , he showed us the picture . He showed us the picture of a giant . What is it called Striped ?
Speaker 1Marlin , yeah , it was like six foot and 200 pounds and it was pretty it was really cool .
Speaker 2Yeah , I thought that was amazing . I'd like to hear how you catch one Like how do you have the strength to hold on to that ?
Speaker 1Yeah , it takes a while to reel them in . They're very strong , obviously , and he said it took about 30 minutes and fighting the whole time . I would imagine he was exhausted after .
Speaker 2What do you do with it afterwards ?
Speaker 1Do you have to throw it back ? Well , I don't think most people do that . You take them in , you hang them up and take your little trophy picture with it , and then Sean was telling you earlier that you're like , did you stuff it ? Are you going to stuff it ? Yes , that way anymore it's a fiberglass shell , and then you send them pictures and they paint it with the exact markings of the fish that you caught and they make it look like the real thing . But it's not a real thing . But I wonder what they do with the actual fish meat .
Speaker 2Does somebody at the dock after you take your trophy picture say , oh , I'm going to go sell that to the restaurant down the street .
Speaker 1Well , I don't think most people eat Marlin , but he said that they gave it to the guys on the boat and they were going to eat it . So , it did not go to waste , that's for sure , but I mean that's going to feed an entire neighborhood .
Speaker 2I mean , Sean could have put it out for Halloween . Only one piece , only one piece , One piece of sushi Marlin sushi , oh , anyways .
Speaker 1Well , he had a good time and lots going on this weekend you and I . Zoot-a-doot at the Dallas Zoo for our second year in a row . I'm excited about it .
Speaker 2I love it , jimmy Contreras , and I'm looking forward to what they're going to be serving this year . I tasted the taco he's serving , and then he was in charge of hiring the other chefs .
Speaker 1So it should be fun . Yeah , so we went for the first time last year and they just have multiple chefs with their own little tables set up and you get to walk around and sample all the food .
Speaker 2There's nothing more fun than being like at a museum or a zoo or any event , any place like that , when nobody else is there .
Speaker 1Like for an event , because you kind of feel like you're sneaking in somewhere . Yes , it feels really special . It's like kind of like a night at the museum , in the movie or something .
Speaker 2And guys note that that Martha says museum what ?
Speaker 1is she ? Oh , I mispronounce everything .
Speaker 2No , I love when you say it , it's your Texas accent Museum . Museum .
Speaker 1No , I've really been noticing like I just don't enunciate things properly , and so I'm going to try to work on that , but right now my voice is raspy .
Speaker 2I was sick over the weekend . No , no , it's just a little Texas accent . It's a little Texas accent , there's nothing wrong with it . It's not an accent to drop .
Speaker 1You know , my dad used to mispronounce so many things and I think I inherited that from him and he yes , oh my gosh . One time he got mad at me and my best friend was over . He goes , martha . Why are you so damn impotent ? You told me that . Did I tell you that before and I wasn't even paying attention to how teenagers tune out their parents and she came running and laughing . She goes oh my gosh , your dad just said you're impotent and he goes . Martha , did I say that right ?
Speaker 2I said no , you didn't .
Speaker 1No , you didn't .
Speaker 2Imp , you didn't , so that's a really good example . That's what I'm talking about .
Speaker 1I didn't stand a chance with him as the role model .
Speaker 2I guess . Oh , lordy , so what else ? But that should be fine . I mean , I do love walking around petting the animals . Yes , like you feel like you have a bird's eye view .
Speaker 1No pun intended of looking at the animals , I come up with some more animal puns . There we're going to have a roaring good time .
Speaker 2Oh my God , we're like dads . Now , we're like dad jokesters .
Speaker 1That'll be our theme . Yes , saturday night we'll keep coming up with stuff as we're going . Yeah , I'm looking forward to it . I don't even know who the band is . I haven't really read up on it to see what's going on .
Speaker 2But it's going to be a good time . It'll be really fun and , for those of you who are out there , if you want to come join us , oh yeah , it's not too late . Yeah , it's such a great event . I mean it's great food , great drinks and beautiful animals . Yeah , it's worth it .
Speaker 1Well , that's all I can think of . What do you have coming up ?
Speaker 2Well , the holidays are upon us . I'm not into the grocery today , but I'm very curious to see if there's like Thanksgiving everywhere or if there's a Christmas tree . You know how they do that Like November 1st , they roll out the Christmas trees .
Speaker 1Yes , yes , yes , no . I started seeing a lot of stuff . And I'm like you know , as soon as Halloween is over , it's just like full throttle .
Speaker 2Yes , you know yes .
Speaker 1And I'm never ready . This comes up every year . We know it's coming , but I'm just never ready . Before you know it's Christmas and I'm freaking out .
Speaker 2Well , and like we're going to do Thanksgiving , I told my family not to come . I told Chris's family not to come .
Speaker 1Wait what ? Because Charles is coming home for the first time . Oh , you just want to be like oh , I don't blame you , because all my friends' kids have been home already like at least once . Yeah , yeah , yeah .
Speaker 2And I think he's home sick and he's bringing a guy who lives in Shanghai because he can't go home .
Speaker 1Oh wow , that's cool .
Speaker 2And I told him look , this Thanksgiving can just be friendsgiving . You can do whatever you want . I'm sure people will be with their families for a little while . And I said I'll do whatever you want I could do . You know Cain's chicken and , like you know what I mean , kids will eat a little bit of turkey and then they'll come over and , you know , have something else . And I just kind of wanted to be a revolving door for people to pop in .
Speaker 1That sounds good .
Speaker 2Yeah , no , what about you guys ?
Speaker 1Um , you know , we haven't even talked about it . I don't know what we're going to do . Do we know what we're gonna do ? Sean , is everybody home ? Well , alexis will be home . Yeah , okay , so she was supposed to get her wisdom teeth taken out .
Speaker 2Oh , they're impacted .
Speaker 1They're not really bothering her , though , she said . But they they want her to get him out as soon as possible and she has an appointment Scheduled . But she doesn't want to do it on Thanksgiving because that's like her first time back with all the friends and it's a big going out time .
Speaker 2Yes , exactly . I mean they're all gonna be out the whole time now .
Speaker 1She wants me to switch it to Christmas break , which is gonna be the same thing . She's gonna say the exact same thing , and when I postpone it , I promise you the only thing is at least Christmas break is a month . Yeah , it's a lot longer so you could pick it like right after the holiday or something , yeah there's an opening December 13th and then one two days before Christmas , and she said either of those , I was like the 13th .
Speaker 2I want you to feel good for Christmas . You know , yeah , able to eat , you know .
Speaker 1Yeah , I don't think the recovery is as bad as it used to be , but it sounds like she'll be kind of out of it for a week or , you know , not in full Back to normal .
Speaker 2Well , and didn't you guys ? She worked at Sevies this summer and isn't Sevies your Christmas Eve hangout ? Well , we have gone there before .
Speaker 1We don't have a set thing , but we have done that several times so we may do that again . I really don't know .
Speaker 2Yeah , I kind of want to be just by the seat of my pants , fly by the seat of my pants for Thanksgiving . Yeah and I'm glad not to entertain people . I didn't want my whole family coming into town because everybody has kids that range in age from , you know , 29 to 7 , and they take over all the rooms and then Charles sleeps in our closet and I don't want him to come home and be like you know , oh well , push , you know , you just want to focus and do it on him .
Speaker 1I haven't had him in the house in so long . Yeah , and you just know I don't blame . You , don't need to be hosting all those people .
Speaker 2No , but can you believe ? The Thanksgiving is really just three weeks away . No , would you stop it .
Speaker 1I know I thought about it that way I know it's coming .
Speaker 2It was coming . I didn't know it was that soon .
Speaker 1Yes , oh , my god , thank you for stressing me out .
Speaker 2What's kind of fun catch-up ?
Speaker 1You know , it has been fun .
Speaker 2Go Rangers Rangers .
Speaker 1I know , I hope that . I hope , by the time this air is , that we're celebrating . I mean , that is gonna be amazing , right
Hoping for an Underdog Victory
Speaker 1.
Speaker 2Yes , I'm always a fan of the underdog and they haven't won right . They won once , many years ago .
Speaker 1Oh , I mean , they were in it many years ago and then they lost , yeah , but I feel , like they won like 40 years ago , they , they went , but it's kind of a big deal . They've never won .
Speaker 2They've never won . Okay , and I really want them to win .
Speaker 1Yeah , by golly , mm-hmm . So hopefully , when you're listening to this , we're all like woohoo .
Speaker 2They're job . Oh , I thought you meant to them . Hey guys , to your job and win because this will come out Thursday and we'll know by then what's going on ?
Speaker 1I just I don't want to sit through any more games like tonight's it for me . Yeah , well , I think that's it . That's another episode of the bubble lounge .
Speaker 2I'm Martha Jackson and I'm Nellie chudeau , and we'll catch you next time , you .
