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Love Languages
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What starts with Lori accidentally telling an Amato’s employee “I love you” quickly spirals into love languages, food, friendship, junk cereal, colonoscopies, lawnmower emergencies, and the dangers of naming farm animals.
Lori and Brett debate whether food deserves to be the sixth love language, confess their guilty-pleasure cereals, and somehow get from Costco hot dogs to Lori’s gold star for exceptional colonoscopy prep. Meanwhile, Brett’s 13-year-old calls mid-recording for lawnmower help, and a conversation about movies ends with childhood stories about eating the named animals Brett grew up with on the family farm.
Just another perfectly normal episode of Expect to Laugh!
Hey Lori, we're gonna could you just spit out your gum, please?
SPEAKER_01I do, I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_03Gross.
SPEAKER_01Got it.
SPEAKER_03Alright, thank you. Let's do this.
SPEAKER_01Let's do another episode of Expect to Laugh. I'm Lori Moris.
SPEAKER_03I'm Brett Williams.
SPEAKER_01Okay, I had to tell you something that happened to me the other day, and I found it horribly embarrassing and also incredibly awesome. Okay. And I've done it twice in my life that I can remember.
SPEAKER_03There are three possible ways this could go, and I hope it's two of them.
SPEAKER_01It probably isn't any of I went to Amato's on Washington Avenue in Portland.
SPEAKER_03I love Amados. And we lost our Amados in Sanford.
SPEAKER_01You did? Yes. How does an Amados go away?
SPEAKER_03Thank you. It was a long story, but it got acquired by a gas station, and then they took over their Amato. They took away their lease, and then we lost our Amados. Well, I'm sorry. I've been in mourning for about 15 years.
SPEAKER_01Every summer, you gotta have an Amados Italian.
SPEAKER_03You just have to. Yes.
SPEAKER_01It's a tradition. You can have an Italian anytime, but really they're a summer sandwich. Visiting some family in New Hampshire, I thought, all right, we're gonna bring Amato sandwiches down to them. So I go, and I thought, you know, it's early in the morning. I'm gonna order it, do some errands, come back. So I go to Amato's, not Washington Ave, India Street.
SPEAKER_03That was my Amato's when I lived in Portland.
SPEAKER_01All right, that's my Amato's. I live in Portland.
SPEAKER_03Oh, yeah, remember we were neighbors.
SPEAKER_01Bottom of the hill, right? Okay. So I go there. And and it's kind of like a crazy morning kind of thing. So I'm kind of running around and my phone, ding, and it's my Aunt Barb. Check in with Aunt Barb, who is Uncle Nikki's wife. And she wants a puzzle brand. She wants. Oh my god, I love that stuff. No, she lives in Georgia. Okay. You know, she's 80. So it's not one of those I can just text and get, you know, one and done. She wants to chat. And I hadn't chatted with her for a while, so she sent me a text saying, Hey, you know, haven't chatted in a while. Everything's good here. Just, you know, I hope you're good. I get this, and I, of course, I'm reading it while I'm at Amato's talking to the lady who's taking my order.
SPEAKER_03So did your phone like go to Siri mode and dictate Noah. Oh, okay, okay. Okay.
SPEAKER_01I thought, okay, I'll get back to Aunt Barb. But I had Aunt Barb in my brain as I finished up my order with the nice Amato's lady, and I say to her, Love you.
SPEAKER_03Wait, on the phone or in person?
SPEAKER_01In person. Love you. I'm standing in front of this woman who I've never met before. She's like, okay, and then no oil, oil on the side, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, that's great. Love you. And I'm okay. And how do you back out of that? Okay. She doesn't skip a beat. Love you too. So now I'm like, I'm horrified, right? I go into full explanation mode. I'm like, uh-huh, I'm on the phone with my Aunt Barb. And so I think I was thinking of Aunt Barb.
SPEAKER_03And then at that point you start digging the hole deeper. Like more, more is more. And so, yes, so I say to her, ma'am, I need you to stop talking so I can make you Italian.
SPEAKER_01And then, oh, this worse because I had to come back. Because remember, I was placing my order, but to swing back around and pick them up. So I swung back around and picked him up in about a half an hour. And there she is.
SPEAKER_03Did you tell her you loved her again?
SPEAKER_01Said, hey, it's me, you know. The one who said I love you.
unknownOh my god.
SPEAKER_03So did you like sing her a famous Whitney Houston ballad?
SPEAKER_02Aye aye.
SPEAKER_01That was one time. And then I did it another time. I said, I love you to the wrong person. So back in my radio days, uh, used to do this charity, Cans for a Cure. Yeah. Where I would drive around like a maniac.
SPEAKER_03An amazing fundraiser. Amazing charity.
SPEAKER_01So I'm driving one big box truck. Meredith is in the Q-Van. This is when I worked for Q97.9.
SPEAKER_03If you can't picture Lori, if you don't know Lori, Lori's about, what would you say? You're up to three foot four now. And so to see her in the driver's seat of one of these box trucks, it looks like a child got away with grand theft auto. Grand theft box truck.
SPEAKER_01That's right. And when I first get in this thing, it's a huge 20-foot box truck. Yeah. You know, where you can't see out the rearview mirror. You have to use your side mirrors. It's a box truck, for Christ's sake. You know, it's it's big.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And I get in this thing, it's not like I've drive a box truck every day. So I get in this thing and I'm scared to death and I'm moving the mirror. You know, by the end of three days of driving this, I'm driving it like a sports car.
SPEAKER_03You are parallel parking that thing in the old port.
SPEAKER_01That's right. Passing on the left, passing on the right. I'm all over the place. I'm in the box truck. It's like probably day two or day three of this crazy fundraiser. And Meredith, I'm on the phone with Meredith and I'm coordinating, you know, where she's gonna go, where I'm gonna go, where we're gonna meet up. And then I say to Meredith, my partner on the radio, okay, love you. Like it was a right. No, I know it's not. That's like saying love you to it. It's just I've never, you know what I mean? It was a love you.
SPEAKER_03I'm kind of just trying to make you feel better about it.
SPEAKER_01It no. Oh my god. I was so horrified that I said, I mean, I could have said, you know, you suck, but I didn't.
SPEAKER_03I said love you. To a colleague. Exactly. To a to a co-worker.
SPEAKER_01And that's the only two times I can remember ever saying love you inappropriately.
SPEAKER_03I said it to a telemarketer once.
SPEAKER_01On purpose to F what them? Yes. Okay. That doesn't count, but have you ever accidentally said I love you?
SPEAKER_03I know I have, Lori, but I I haven't documented. Like it's steering to my brain as horrifically as it has for you.
SPEAKER_01You should have seen the look on that Amado's lady's face. She just looked at the city.
SPEAKER_03I can't believe he didn't double down when he went to pick up your order. Hi.
SPEAKER_01I love you.
SPEAKER_03Did you write your number on the paper of that sandwich wrap?
SPEAKER_01She was like, oh, God bless her. So it was like nine o'clock in the morning that I'm down at Imada's ordering sandwiches for lunchtime. And she couldn't find a pen. And I said, Oh, here it is. It's uh it was on her register. She's like, that's not a pen. It was that marker.
SPEAKER_03That wax pen pencil thing that you write on the order. No. Oh, those like the verified counterfeit. Yeah. Okay, yeah.
SPEAKER_01The counterfeit. And you need that in Portland. So especially at the bottom of Montjoy Hill. And I was like, oh, okay. So she took the big giant marker and was like writing, no oil at the back. I felt very, I felt very bad for her. I am infamous for like embarrassing things that I find really funny.
SPEAKER_03Kind of going down that road, and a lot of you know that I work at a high school, the performing arts centers in the high school, and kids throw around love you. Like our generation. It was it was like you are on the altar when you say love you. Exactly. Kids now, like my son said love you to his girlfriend, like in week one. Oh, wow. And I'm like, uh what changed? Like, and then I hear kids all the time, love you, just like to friends, even guy friends. Like, hey, love you, buddy, love you. It is just thrown around now. It's and so I think the Amatos lady, was she younger? No, no, no, she she really was horrified then. Okay, because I was gonna say, if this was the teenager, he'd probably be like, Love you too, sweetie.
SPEAKER_01No, no, this was a woman of a certain age, probably a little older than me.
SPEAKER_03Something has happened, something has shifted, and the words love you, I love you, whatever, like they're just tossed around a little bit more casually now.
SPEAKER_01Do you know that I was 25 years old before I said I love you to my dad?
SPEAKER_03I was too. Seriously? I would I might have been even later. And now I say it all the time, and we're a little bit more free with it. I say love you to my kids all the time. Well, that's smart. But night. I know because I'm an amazing dad. But I'm just kidding, you are not watching the security camera feed. True. I do end conversations with them that way, you know, because I never that just wasn't my dad's love language.
SPEAKER_01Right, exactly.
SPEAKER_03Do you know about the love languages? Of course. Like my dad's love language is acts of service, and like he will plow my driveway, he will bring firewood, he'll do all this stuff.
SPEAKER_01And so I think I know the like love language.
SPEAKER_03The love languages are what it's acts of service, doing deeds for people, right? See if I can remember all five. Um, words of encouragement, which is my love language. That's how I receive you receive love. I receive, and that's the thing. You've got to know like people to know like how do they receive love and how do I receive love. And then you have to speak their language. That's right, that's becoming bilingual.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_03Right? So it's acts of service, words of encouragement, physical touch and closeness. Right? Like snuggling on the couch, not necessarily hanky panky, all right?
SPEAKER_00Like we're just postroped polka. What do you call it? The posturopedic polka.
SPEAKER_03The posturopedic polka. It is that, but not necessarily just that. Okay. Okay, right. Okay, yeah, okay. And then um not mine. Right. It's words of twin beds like Lucy and Desi.
SPEAKER_01I do love my space.
SPEAKER_03All right, so it's words of encouragement, physical touch and closeness, acts of service, gift giving. You, I think, are a gift giver. You always come in with something. You always like you just came in with stale cookies for me, and that was really thoughtful. Hi, Brett. I found these in the back of my car when I was cleaning. I think they're left over from January. But that was really thoughtful because I didn't give you anything. That's that's would you like a savor performing arts center pen? It's got that little tip so you can control your phone. Yeah, okay. And then um collect them all. They're all the same. What's the fifth one? The fifth one is quality time.
SPEAKER_01What the hell? I don't know.
SPEAKER_03Well, that that'd be like gifts. Food is like gifts.
SPEAKER_01No, no, I think food is its own love language. How is that not a love language? That's part of my love language.
SPEAKER_03I think that food falls under two, right? Quality time if you're preparing food with somebody. Like meal, meal planning, and oh no, no. So you would so if you were to add a sixth love language, it would be food. It would be food.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, like Wayne and Scott are like my my my best buds.
SPEAKER_03And Wayne is You talk about them all the time, and I feel like I know them and I've never met them.
SPEAKER_01Oh my gosh. So I feel like you have met them. You I will bring them in here. They will be guests because they're Will they bring me stealth food too? Let me tell you a little something about Wayne. Okay. And how I know Wayne and Scott. And I've known him for about 20 years. I met Wayne because he was a listener who was emailing me and bugging me to have lunch with him.
SPEAKER_03Did you break the rule and you did it?
SPEAKER_01Right, exactly, right? Because and I thought, oh my God, I don't want to have lunch with a listener. You know, that is the last thing I want to do.
SPEAKER_03One, don't have lunch with a listener.
SPEAKER_01Two, don't eat listener food.
SPEAKER_03Don't eat listener food. And three, do not write letters back to the people that wrote to you from prison.
SPEAKER_01I have broken all of those rules, by the way.
SPEAKER_03No boundaries.
SPEAKER_01So he writes me, he emails me, and I think to myself, self, wow, these um letters, these emails are funny. And I thought, oh, what the hell? I'll have lunch with them. So we meet at Makuchi's to get us a piece of slap pizza. They have that. It's also Raimi Ramado.
SPEAKER_03There's a lot going on on that street, everybody.
SPEAKER_01India Street. India Street is where it's gotta go.
SPEAKER_03And then all of a sudden, they have a great coffee shop there.
SPEAKER_01I know, right? There's a new tie play. Anyway, okay, so I I meet him, he brings me homemade lemon curd with a blueberry compote, right?
SPEAKER_03Okay, so you broke two rules right out of the gate. Okay.
SPEAKER_01At that lunch, I found him to be so charming, so funny, so kind, so loving. And I thought, yep, we're we're friends for life now. So then I met his partner, Scott, and we've been we've been besties ever since. A listener. What was the point of this?
SPEAKER_03I don't know. You're talking about violating language. Okay, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Lane, thank you. You didn't help me at all.
SPEAKER_03Well, my son is out of gas in the lawnmower, and I'm trying to tell him how to fix it right now.
SPEAKER_01Let's pause. Let's fix this problem.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_01All right, we'll rewrite back.
SPEAKER_03Gas in the shed.
SPEAKER_01Okay, and we're back. My point of bringing up Wayne and how I met Wayne and and that he brought me 20 years ago homemade lemon curd with blueberry compote, that I remember that because I thought, who is this guy? And his l love language is food. He shows love by cooking. And I just spent a Fourth of July with those guys, and that food was pure love. You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, and it was abundant. Oh, yeah. And it was it all like homemade though, or was it at all? Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_01Well, no, okay. So, funny thing. Uh, do you go to Costco?
SPEAKER_03I do.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Have you ever had their potato salad?
SPEAKER_03No.
SPEAKER_01Okay, well, it comes in like a two-pound tub or three-pound tub or whatever.
SPEAKER_03Have you ever had their hot dogs?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, a buck fifty comes with chocolate. That's an incredible deal. And a and a soda? Are you kidding me?
SPEAKER_03Have you ever driven by Costco and just gone into lunch? 100%. Me too.
unknownBye bye! Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Cheap lunch. There's not a human being listening right now who has a Costco near them who hasn't done that. That's true. It's $1.50 for Christ's sakes. You can get, it's a giant hot dog.
SPEAKER_03With the Strait of Hormuz clothes, you have got to find ways to save. Hey, babe, you want to go to date? Have I got a 12-inch hot dog for you? Is it 12 inches? I brought a ruler. I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to measure that, Lori. We'll get back to you.
SPEAKER_01Okay, thank you. Anyway, so potato salad. Potato salad! Oh my god. You know what? I like to surround myself with people who know what the hell I'm talking about. I can't tell you how often I'm like, what why am I talking about that? All right, so potato salad. It's the only thing that wasn't homemade at this Fourth of July extravaganza food fest. And Scott had asked me, Have you had Costco's potato salad? And I said, No, I hadn't. He goes, Well, I bought some for the party, and then I ate the entire choice.
SPEAKER_03He just housed an entire like how big it was it? Was it like a pound?
SPEAKER_01No, like three pounds. Oh Costco. Did he have to go to the hospital?
unknownNo, he can't.
SPEAKER_03Potato salad is no joke. That's an intentional.
SPEAKER_01It's not like in one sitting. It wasn't like in one sitting.
SPEAKER_03Okay, I thought he like sat down to watch Judge Judy and just had some potato salad in it for it.
SPEAKER_01It was within a couple of days. Okay. I mean, it's still it's like a pound a day.
SPEAKER_03We have made food for events. Yeah. And then we've eaten it all ourselves before the event. Like, especially like basically.
SPEAKER_01You gotta be careful about how soon, how, how pre-cooking you do, because that's a danger in the house.
SPEAKER_03Especially around the holidays and stuff.
SPEAKER_01Exactly. Like your check's mix that I still haven't had.
SPEAKER_03Well, it's not check's mix season.
SPEAKER_01I'm aware.
SPEAKER_03But I um I didn't make uh what we call scotcharoos for the Fourth of July recently.
SPEAKER_01The hell's a Scotcharoo?
SPEAKER_03Uh it's like a a rice crispy treat base, okay, with like peanut butter stuff and then a chocolate layer on top.
SPEAKER_00You made me that. You gave me. I did give you that. Yes.
SPEAKER_03Isn't that good? Because I said this is what I make in the summer. Yes. It's not check's mix, but it is cereal based. We were going down east for the 4th of July, and I made a pan.
SPEAKER_02Oh.
SPEAKER_03But I secretly made a second pan. And I didn't tell anyone. Oh, that's brilliant. Because I knew that our family was just gonna house this. Oh, and I didn't want to, I don't want to be a jackass about it. So I'm like, listen, 4th of July. I don't make it often. Enjoy the Scottoroos. And then when it was time for the family party up on the pond, we brought out the fresh pan, and there was a whole second round.
SPEAKER_01It was great. Oh, that's awesome. So cereal. Can I ask you a question? Do you eat cereal?
SPEAKER_03I do sometimes, if I'm a bad father.
SPEAKER_01That's dinner?
SPEAKER_03No.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_03I'm not the president of Kellogg's. Did you hear about this? This president of Kellogg's recently went to his board of the city.
SPEAKER_01Oh, is he the one that pushed the case?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, and he's like, hey, times are so tough. People are eating cereal for dinner.
SPEAKER_01Good news for us.
SPEAKER_03What a drink. I don't eat cereal very often, but when I do, I alright.
SPEAKER_01That's what I want to know. When you do, what are you breaking out?
SPEAKER_03Uh like healthy cereal or not healthy cereal?
SPEAKER_01I want to know all the cereals.
SPEAKER_03I love raisin bran. Oh my god! Kellogg's. Yes. Not post.
SPEAKER_01No, Kellogg's.
SPEAKER_03Kellogg's.
SPEAKER_01Okay, have you tried Raisin Bran Crunch?
SPEAKER_03No.
SPEAKER_01Oh, Christ.
SPEAKER_03Is it just like stale?
SPEAKER_01No.
SPEAKER_03Because I could do that. I can leave, I can leave it out overnight.
SPEAKER_01You put enough milk in there. Right. No, no, no, no, no. So uh it's got like these little clusters. I don't know what it is. It's like little crack clusters. And it's oh I'm gonna try that. Okay, so that's my bad cereal. You know what I mean? That's my bad.
SPEAKER_03When you're being bad, you eat raisin bran.
SPEAKER_01With clusters, bad clusters.
SPEAKER_03I don't want to tell you what my bad cereal is, though.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I probably uh it's either it's either Fruit Loops or Captain Crunch or Oh, yeah, I knew it. I love Captain Crunch Berries. You look like a Captain Crunch Berry.
SPEAKER_02Oh my god.
SPEAKER_03That is hysterical. Um I had um Do you need to get that? No, I'm just gonna text him. I'm busy. Let's just make sure he didn't. Hold on. This could be interesting, actually. My 13-year-old is trying to fill up um. Hold on a second. He's trying to fill up the gas in the um lawnmower. In the lawnmower right now. And what could go wrong?
SPEAKER_01It's gas in a lawnmower. He's 13, he can do that. Well, right.
SPEAKER_03But I need to know, hold on a second. Hello. Are you having a hard time with the gas in the I'm in the middle of a podcast recording. But um Oh, okay. I'm looking at the gas pump. What's up?
SPEAKER_00Is this it?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that's it. And you can just, once you put it into the gas can, I've got that little pump, so you can just hit the little red button and it will fill right up, okay? Okay. And then when it's done, lift the hose in the air so the excess gas goes back into the can.
SPEAKER_00How do I know when it's filled up?
SPEAKER_03Uh it's a lawnmower. It's got a very small capacity. So you'll see that. When it goes, and that's that's the thing, Jonah. There is no clean way to fill up gas in a lawnmower. It will just overflow a smidge. And that's and just, you know, don't let it go.
SPEAKER_01Don't smoke.
SPEAKER_03No smoking near the gas.
SPEAKER_01Okay, bye. We got. I love you. Please.
SPEAKER_02Oh my god.
SPEAKER_03All right. So if I were to add a love language. Wait, we were talking about cereal. Okay. Stay back on cereal. What is your junk cereal?
SPEAKER_01My junk cereal would be either cracklin oat bran or raisin bran with the clusters. And then my go-to, like I'm sort of being healthy with cereal, is corn checks or rice checks.
SPEAKER_03Oh, okay. I like corn checks.
SPEAKER_01I like, I like I like them both.
SPEAKER_03But here's the thing. I like a raisin bran.
SPEAKER_01I like your little stupid berries.
SPEAKER_03Crunch berries.
SPEAKER_01And that's more of a I'm stoned out of my brains and no more. Your word's not mine. I'm in my underwear.
SPEAKER_03It's late. My wife is. I gotta keep this shirt tight somehow. And so I mean, I might have one bowl of Captain Crunch like every two years. Like just somewhere like clear about it.
SPEAKER_01I love that. That's how you keep your shirt tight. Not exercise, not muscles. Oh no, no, no, no.
SPEAKER_03Because he's ripped. Have you seen him on the box? He's in shape. That man is It's all those berries, man. It's all those berries. And it counts as fruit. Yeah, I would say that. And also I enjoy a good uh Cocoa Krispie.
SPEAKER_01Oh man, that just Oh my god, or you would drink the milk from the Okay.
SPEAKER_03Why?
SPEAKER_01Because that's just gross.
SPEAKER_03Okay, I was gonna say, I'm like, why would you like look down on me?
SPEAKER_01Yes, I would. But Cocoa what is it? Cocoa Krispies. Cocoa Krispies makes me poop.
SPEAKER_03Really?
SPEAKER_01Ever I mean, as a kid, as an adult, if I have a bowl of that that is so is that like your No. It's that your colonoscopy prep? No.
SPEAKER_03Oh because that could be a really effective way to now I don't think that's an effective way of side note colonoscopy. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01You're not 50.
SPEAKER_03I know, but I have a family history, so we have started this. Oh wow.
SPEAKER_01Okay. My very first one, yeah. I was obsessed with the prep. And so you know they give you these amazing drugs. Yeah. And apparently I talked during the entire procedure, which I don't remember. It's actually pretty easy. And the prep's not that bad. Yeah. But apparently I just kept asking, How did I do? Is it clean enough? Did I do well? Right? I mean, to the point, Brett, I'm not making this up. The nurses at the end, because you're still high when you get out of there. Yeah. You're still loop-de-loop. That's why you need a ride home. Yes. They said, You did so well with your prep. We made you a star. And they gave me a cutout friggin' star and taped it to my chest. And I thought I won the Olympics.
SPEAKER_02It's like it's like, I was so.
SPEAKER_03What do they give? Is it propofol? Like what I can't remember. My wife knows because she used to work in a uh in a colonoscopy unit.
SPEAKER_01I mean, I think it's some type of fentanyl. Okay, yeah. But it is phenomenal.
SPEAKER_03It's wild. It's and I remember and you remember some things, and then you don't remember how much.
SPEAKER_01I remember seeing my colon. I remember seeing it on the street.
SPEAKER_03I don't remember any of that. I remember making a meal of a graham cracker. And it was so awkward. Good lord. Now what? There he is.
SPEAKER_01Okay, well, make sure he's okay. Get it.
SPEAKER_03Hold on. I have to because he's dealing with gasoline. No. One second.
SPEAKER_02It's not starting.
SPEAKER_03The pump isn't starting? Or the lawnmower is not starting? The lawnmower. Okay. See if your brother can help you. And if not, I'll help you out in a little bit, okay?
SPEAKER_00Okay. I'm just going to wait for you.
SPEAKER_03Okay, sounds good. Okay, bye. All right. Love you. Bye. There you go. Aha, you didn't know. There I did it again. I did it just for you. I was aware of it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, oh, totally. I was going to make you call back and say I love you that time. All right. You're adding a love language.
SPEAKER_03Um, if I were to add a love language, it would be, oh God, like movies. Like I enjoy, although that would be like quality time, but when I like to sit down and watch TV or movies with somebody, that's like that's like a love language.
SPEAKER_01Which is very nice. By the way, have you seen, because I just saw it, The Sheep Detectives?
SPEAKER_03I watched it on Saturday. Oh my god! It's so funny. It's so good. And it's like an all-star cast. Famous celebrity cheap voices. And it was a game. I'm like, that's Brian Cranston. That's Julia Louis Dreven. It's an incredible. They got like Hugh Jackman. Yes. They got Emma Thompson. I'm like, how did they get this cast? I'm like, how can that pitch go? Hey, listen, I have this idea for sheep who solve a murder. And you would be a sheep.
SPEAKER_01Sign me up! Like, how do you I loved every second of that? It was so funny. It was so funny and so sweet and so charming.
SPEAKER_03And the little bits throughout, like the every character was well developed, every sheep. I'm like, this is good writing.
SPEAKER_01And then at the end, you know, the winter lamb and the spring lamb.
SPEAKER_03Yes.
SPEAKER_01I eat lamb a lot.
SPEAKER_03And that's what the sheep discover in the movie. They discover that box. I know.
SPEAKER_01What did they do to that sheep? We're not clouds. I mean, all these movies are making me not want to eat things. Like, I can't eat octopus anymore. Now I can't eat lamb. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_03Oh, my octopus teacher. Yes. Oh, yeah. I never watched it because I didn't want to be turned off from calamari.
SPEAKER_01Here's my love language. I just killed an octopus. Oh my god. All right, listen.
SPEAKER_03I can't nibble on those tentacles.
SPEAKER_01Oh my. What the hell does that mean?
SPEAKER_03That's calamari. I know it. Oh no, it's not. What? Calamari's squid, technically, but still, like you're eating tentacles.
SPEAKER_01It wasn't squid the teacher. It was octopus.
SPEAKER_03Okay, but okay, and what else can't you eat now because of a movie? Lambs. I can't eat sheep. Yeah, that's hard. And then what else? That's it. Okay, great. I'm good with cow. I'm good with my kids are hunters. I never got into hunting. I'm from a hunting family. I learned that you eat what you eat. What you hunt. What you hunt. You don't just kill for sports. I was never a fan of like deer, and venison was like a little too like not enough fat on those poor deer. Like, I want an 80-20.
SPEAKER_01And deer are all muscle.
SPEAKER_03This is like a 99. My kids like to hunt, but they also like to eat the meat. We'll have Taco Tuesday with venison. Lori's like, I need it. She's writing down. What are you writing down? Don't go to breath. Okay, great. All right. The other animals that I'm just not a fan of are a bear and moose. Okay. You've had them both? Of course I have. I haven't. Because my father I grew up on a farm. We had to eat the animals that we would raise in the barn. So we had cows. Okay, well, cows. Yeah, we had cows, we had pigs. Um, and we had um chickens. We didn't have chickens. Nah, I grew up with chickens. But we had rabbits. Oh, you ate a rabbit. Of course I ate a rabbit. Oh, you ate a lot of rabbits. But you learn really young not to name these animals. Who are we eating tonight? Oh, this is Opie. That was one of them, Opie.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah, I named the chickens.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. You named your chickens. Oh, yeah. And you would have to like who are we having for dinner?
SPEAKER_01I had no idea we were gonna kill them. Oh, this is Clara. I was like, oh God. There's kink.
SPEAKER_03Kink?
SPEAKER_01He had a little kink in his neck. He had a kink in his neck.
SPEAKER_03We're nibbling on SNN tonight. Sandra and Mike.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, don't name your don't name your pets, kids. It could be dinner.
SPEAKER_03We grew up on a legit working farm. Like I would have to feed the cows in the morning and the pigs.
SPEAKER_01That's impressive. That's why you have such a good work ethic.
SPEAKER_03It might be, actually.
SPEAKER_01Oh, it's not. Might. It's a hundred percent. Kids grew up on the biggest thing.
SPEAKER_03Like we had a bucket of feed I would put on my left side and I would rattle it with my right hand and call the cows in from the pasture. Mom babe! Mom babe! And he and they would- Why are you screaming Ma babe? Ma come on, babe. It was babe, and I don't know. That's just what my dad taught me to say. I was too young to know better. Come on, babe. And so, like, they would hear and they would amble down through the pasture with the little cowbell with the bell. And they would come in.
SPEAKER_01How many cows did you have?
SPEAKER_03At a time, only like four or five, just enough to always have the freezer full. One time a cow got out of the barn in the winter and land and like walked into our uh in-ground pool.
SPEAKER_02Oh.
SPEAKER_03And I have this memory of lassoing a cow and herding it out of the pool cover in the winter. Wow. I think we ate that one as punishment. My dad was not happy with him.
SPEAKER_01You know what's great about these podcasts is that we started with me saying I love you inappropriately to an Amato's worker. Right. And then we ended with you eating a cow that fell in your pool.
SPEAKER_03Sorry. And that's why we have both listeners.
SPEAKER_01And thank you both for listening. All right.
SPEAKER_03Well, thanks for spending time with us today.
SPEAKER_01Yes.
SPEAKER_03You may or may not hear all of the conversation, depending if we leave the parts in about my son needing to fill the gas can.
SPEAKER_01You gotta leave the son parts in. Okay, great. All right. Thank you very much for listening to Expect to Laugh. We hope you did. Cue the music. I know we did cue the music. Fade in the music. And but I you know what, Brett?
SPEAKER_03I love you.
SPEAKER_02Oh damn it, you beat me just not there!