So they have the little libraries, and it's just like the like, a wooden little box for where people put their books in it, like, when they're done with their books. And if you're walking by, you can grab a book. And then the thought is you're supposed to take put a book back in return. There's a few of them in my neighborhood, but maybe, like, three total that I've ever seen in Dallas or whatever. But there are, like, a lot of them there. So there's little libraries just walking up and down the street, and my next door neighbor or the house we were staying in, my sister in law's next door neighbor had one. So, yes, to your point, we're play we're in chaos right now k. Redoing we were redoing our kitchen and backyard and then decided to redo all of the floors downstairs at the same time as we were doing the kitchen floors because I it just made sense to do it at the same time. So I was mentally preparing. And the last two days before we left, I got the call from my contractor that was basically like, okay. You have it in the budget. Like, the flooring guy can do it on Tuesday, and it would, like, in theory, be done before the kids start school, and you could move back in your house. So I said, yes. Let's do it. Not having any sort of plan for anything, but knowing that I was gonna make it happen. Yeah. So I started, like, my anxiety. Yes. I also do get anxiety about this stuff, but I I make the decision and then I get the anxiety and then I figure it out. That's how I work. K. But I reached into the little library at the house that I was staying in Canada, and this was sitting right on top. Okay. The life changing magic of tidying up. It's a sign. It's a sign and so it's amazing. I love this book so far. I'm only on, like, page forty because I only read it on the plane when I was forced to because I had nothing else to do. Yeah. Otherwise, I'm not very good at reading books and creating time and blocking everything out. But it I it's it's great. And so I'm also using this as an opportunity to purge. And so I had the ladies from the family concierge purging is so awesome. So great. And, like, you don't purge usually unless really purge. I mean, everyone has their different systems. But if you move, you have to purge.

Yeah. You have to

go through all your stuff. So I'm not moving, but I'm treating it as if I'm sort of moving out of downstairs and then moving back in. In. Well, because I am. But these ladies from the family concierge, I talk about her all the time. You know Lee. You've met her right or at least communicated with her because she reached out to, the mom game a long time ago, and I've been working with her ever since. But they came and I mean, I had nine to three with them two days and would have had a third day, but the movers had to come early. So we had, like, nine to three and then, like, nine to noon, and knocked everything out. Knocked out my whole downstairs. Went through I went through the office. I went through the living room. I went through we had already gone through the kitchen, went through my bedroom. Kelly, it was a little, like, rattled because we had had to go through his stuff some and but we knocked it all out, and they were amazing. And so the thought now is everything that goes back in is, like, everything that goes back in is, like, you want it there Right. Including my furniture. So I'm getting rid of my couch that I'd only had a year because it had stains that I can't get out, and it's just gonna keep getting stains. It was too light. So I'm currently looking for furniture, and all the things. But they started the flooring this week, today, and the thought is that we'll be back in Friday.

Okay.

And if not, I'll be bumming around.

That's exciting, though.

Yeah.

So how much did you get rid of? This makes me so excited.

Oh my gosh. I got rid of so much.

I got rid of a lot. Like, how did you get rid of it? Like, are we talking about trash bags, trash? Trash bags. Okay.

So I had a trash trash bag, and I had a giveaway. Giveaway trash. Okay. And we just went through everything and they would literally, like, look I was doing it on my own, they were one lady's here, one lady's here, and then they'd say, Julie, and I'd look and they'd hold it and they'd be like, do you want this? Like, just like that. They were just awesome. I was like, no. And they'd be like, okay. Every once in a while, they'd be like, Julie? And I'd be like, yeah. And they'd be like, do you want this? As they put it in the bag just to see that they're putting it. And I'm like, okay. I see what you're doing. I see you. But we had this just great system, and it was all it was just awesome. But, yeah, a lot of stuff got given away, and a lot of stuff needs to go to the dump, and it was great. So once we move back in, I'm hoping it'll feel just once especially I get my new kitchen, we're still gonna have about another month or so at least of not having a kitchen. Yeah. But at least I'll have my house with brand new floors and then hopefully, like, start working on the decor and some furniture. And it's kinda like, it's a forced move.

Yeah. I've always heard, like, living in a house while you remodel is, like, a nightmare. Yeah. But if you're able to remove yourself for a piece of time, so where you're not gone the whole time Yeah. It will help.

And they started on the kitchen when we went to Canada. Yeah. So that was part of the reason I wanted to stay so long in Canada too. So they got, like, three weeks full weeks of work done. So when we came home, they had already done all the demo, everything, electrical, plumbing was all done, and they're starting they're, like, on sheetrock now. We're waiting on cabinets.

Nice. Very exciting.

So a little bit of chaos.

Oh, and then one more thing I wanna ask you. How is dry August going?

It it it didn't really last very long.

Okay.

I was hoping you wouldn't ask.

Okay. Yes. For the record, it's August fifth, and dry August has already been aborted. No judgment. No judgment either way. I was gonna support you. That's why I didn't even ask you if you wanted a glass of wine today. I just did drinking my Oh,

I was excited to have one.

Just drinking my electrolytes over here, trying to be a good influence, especially after Jasmine scolded me, last week for not being supportive of her.

Oh, right. Uh-huh. Well, thank you. I appreciate your You're

welcome. Attempt. I agree. I know Mike informed me, I guess it was yesterday, but he's doing dry August. I was like, okay. Again,

well, fine. We'll see.

But, you know, enjoy that solo journey. Right. That's funny. Funny.

I didn't know dry August was a

It doesn't. I think that he's just he's been,

you know The summer went on a couple trips.

Yeah. Where you're like, but, anyway, okay. Well, that's okay. You can always try dry

August. You know what it is? It's more cognizant August. Okay. Because I have like, I think about it harder. And, like, we were in a pool with a bunch of friends, and I hadn't seen them in forever. I'm not gonna sit there and drink. I'm just sorry. I'm not gonna just say no. Like, I wanted to really just enjoy myself a little bit, but I I thought about how much I was drinking and I stopped and I switched to water. Like and or if I'm not at home and I wanna have one or two, I stop at two. Like, that's where my you know? And then if I'm home, the whole goal now is just to not, like, casually drink at home, and I didn't do much of that anyway. But so it'll be social drinking Cognizant August.

Okay. I like it. We'll start a new movement. Cognizant August. Yes. Okay. Let's do a little sports course brought to us by our

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they were rolling, when we shot last week. This week, it's a little bit of rough road trip on the West Coast, went two and five, but, now have a lengthy home stand, which I'll be working, I think, five of those games. And they're still in the thick of it. You know, it's is all you can ask. Like, just keep us in it. Keep us in it. And they're definitely smack dab in the middle of the still in the division. It's more of a long shot, but then, for sure, the wild card race. That's exciting. Yeah. It is. And it's meaningful baseball in August and hopefully into September and beyond, but, they're fun. They're fun to watch. They're kind of a little schizophrenic offensively. They seem to get in these grooves where they're going good, and then weird shit happens. But, yeah, they're they're fun. I'm excited to get out to the ballpark this week and next and, reconnect with the team, meet some dudes I haven't met yet. The guys we acquired at the trade deadline, I have yet to meet. So, excited to get back out there and

When is that?

See what they do. I'm working at the Phillies series and then whoever comes after the Phillies. So no Yankees, but I'll do the Phillies and the question marks. Oh, Diamondbacks, I think. Okay. So, yeah, should be a a fun

I made a fun one last night. Right?

You had a great one

last night.

Yeah. Against the Yankees, opener against the Yankees. Yankees go up three nothing, then the Rangers come back in, like, the next inning and score four, so it's four three. And then, Giancarlo Stanton hits a bomb, and it made it five four. So the Rangers are down, and it stayed that way till the bottom of the ninth. And then effing Jock Peterson, who, god bless his heart, just cannot hit. Like, I mean, he's batting one twenty six. It's real bad. But Boch puts him into pinch hit in the bottom of the ninth, and he hits a solo home run.

Oh my god.

Unbelievable. I

didn't realize it was, like, his average and everything was that. It's not good. Boch went with his gut.

Boch and maybe he got the Boch gut just like Wash used to have the Wash gut.

Right.

And then, in the tenth, the bottom of the tenth, Josh Young with a three run home run to walk it off. So good start to the home stand. They place so much better at home than they do on the road. It's insane. But, anyway, so, keep your eye on the rangers. They're definitely still in the midst of things. Quick mention of the Luca contract. So he gets a fat ass contract with the Lakers, which makes everyone sad, I think. Yeah. I don't know.

I have I feel so I like, the feel the stomach churning feelings, it's not fading, but I don't know that outside of him being here, there's anything that, I would make me feel better or worse. So I guess if he's happy, then that's great. Like, there's there was part of me that wanted it to fail with LA Yeah. Because I hate them. Yeah. But you'd I don't want him to be in the middle of any

Yeah. Him and LeBron don't get along. Unnecessary drop.

Right. Yeah. So if he's happy, like, a true Luka Mavs fan, I guess, should be happy that he's happy.

I think it's just kind of you've reached a point where it's like, it is what it is. Yeah.

It's like, we we have to believe it.

And I think the Cooper flag thing helps. Yeah. Because that'll be a whole storyline to start the season how he's gonna transition to the NBA. And then one more, the hit on the Mica saga. Like, it is can we it's so unbelievable.

It's so unbelievable, but also believable that Jerry is not having normal conversations with a football player about signing him to a larger long term contract. What's just so interesting now is, like, social media. Right? Like Oh, yeah. Just a game changer.

Micah's just taking like, he's he's like, I'm gonna I'm owning this narrative. Yeah. No one's gonna, you know, mold it for me.

Freaking awesome.

Yeah. I agree. And it does always fascinate me to see the people who are firmly on the owner's side and then the people who are firmly on the player's side.

Mhmm.

Like, I I feel like as common people, we should absolutely just be on the player's side almost always. Right. Not almost always, but, like, in negotiations like this. Like, I don't know. I feel like I'm always on the player side in stuff like this. Same. Unless they're, like, jackasses and do dumb shit, I guess. But,

you know, like over there backing But in

contract negotiations, I don't know. Like, I it I it I don't know, but there's definitely a contention out there that is. That, like, you know That somehow are There's okay. There's this argument. I work with him in old or something. Got one year left on his current contract.

Mhmm.

Like, finish out your contract. Play your do your job. Your contract's not up yet, and then we'll discuss it. Now those people probably don't understand the way that, like, professional sports and major league major league National Football League works, whatever. And, like, that this shit tends to happen with big name players a year or two before their contract comes up, blah blah blah. But a lot of people will say that, like, he's under contract. Like, he should be playing Which and honoring his contract, which is a fair argument.

Not the way it But

it's also not the way it works.

And and players, it has gotten out of control. Like, it has gotten out of control where every player wants to be the highest paid at their position.

This is true.

Like, can we y'all are making so much money. Like Right. And you do you're playing a game. Right. So that effect, I am a little bit

I know. But then you say, yeah. You're making so much money and multiply that times one hundred, and that's what the owners are making. Mhmm. You know

what I mean?

Even on

that big scale, it's Right.

I mean, they're the I mean still

the have and have nots

in the world. I mean, it's like it's, you know, it's percentage points of what these owners are making Yeah. On these teams. I think

I'm just frustrated that, like, money has become such a big part of sports. You know? Yeah. Like, the we're more people are talking about contract shit than x's and o's and how the team's gonna do. I have no idea.

Yeah. And the apron and this and that and

supposed to be good. Like the cap

and the apron and the

It's stupid. It's sad because is it I think now as a parent, like, you have a perspective of kids growing up and what their experience is with the NFL and with a team and with their favorite player, Micah Parsons, and my kids' example, and Luca, by the way, poor writer. But it's just you you can't you have to hear about all this stuff that doesn't matter to kids, or if they don't know what this is or that is, and you just wanna

like sport. Yeah. Hopefully, they'll they can tune that out, though. Yeah. And they're not you know, I mean yeah. It's just it's the way it's the way it is.

It's sad.

That's just the way it is.

As we talked about infiltrating all the way down to kids' sports. It is. It's it's all Bring back real sports.

I know. It's all too much. Alright. Let's hit some feed stuff brought to us by our friends at Audrey Dollins Media.

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Okay. I wanted to talk about this article Jasmine sent us, that Google posted, the top five is it rude questions that people have been googling. And so I wanted to go through these and see if you think

Okay. They're rude. Oh, I wonder if we're gonna be different on these.

One, is it rude to refuse again? I I mean, I I This one is Just don't refuse it.

I think we're different on.

Don't refuse it. Just if you don't want it, just recycle it. Yeah. If not in the trash.

I've seen you politely refuse What have I refused? Lots of gifts. Like, what? Maybe not gifts, but, like, things from, somebody that's, like, we got you these or something. If it's, like, if it's candy, if it's food, if it's koozies, if it's

Oh, yeah.

If it's trinkets. I don't refuse it.

I just take it in time.

Wine glasses that aren't the right color.

It's true. This is very true.

But I would Which is fine. Yeah.

I give it to someone else. Right. Yeah. I don't need any more koozies. Right.

I don't need any more koozies. Nobody does. Nobody just learned this from my Purge. Nobody needs more koozies. In fact, nobody needs no company needs to still be giving out koozies.

Koozies. Yeah.

Like, this has been going on from, like, since the seventies. Every company thinks they have to print a bunch of koozies. There's so many other options now.

Yeah, koozies are, I think, I agree.

Like you need your koozie when you're holding a beer, but you need like one or two.

Yeah, yeah.

I still like koozies, just not the company giving out too many koozies.

We're over koozied. We are absolutely over koozied in this country. Oh, we are. And, yeah, like, wine glasses that aren't the right color, that don't match the aesthetic of my bar. Yeah. I'm not I don't yeah. You could have those. I don't need

I did

thank you. Those. You're welcome. Home.

Everything matches my essence. Love it. You're right.

You've got quite the aesthetic, Julie. I mean, to look no further than our outfits today. Like, there's eight colors in your dress, and I'm wearing a stark white dress

You are.

Given to me by the Williams Athletic Club, by the way, which I love. Check out their clothes. But, yeah, I and I guess too, if I'm not if I'm not gonna use it and I know it's not gonna be used, it just won't ever come in the house. Right. Like, I'll get it I'll give it to someone or whatever.

Don't even give it a chance at life.

I don't give it a chance. I I don't give it a chance at my life. I'm open to it having a chance in someone else's life. That's true. And one man's chance is another man's trip.

You're not, like, stomping on the bug. You're moving the bug out Yeah.

To safety. For sure. Yeah. Yeah. Go go go go little bug. Go where you're wanted, outside with your people.

Right. Yeah. Every once in a while, something makes the cut. Yeah. Gets in in a little

world like that cute dress. Absolutely. Yep. This definitely got in it. Yeah. Also too, I got to pick it out. It's very key.

Okay. When I can pick these

up out.

You can't pick out your own gifts. No. But I That would defeat the purpose of

a gift. It would. But, like, for example, my girlfriends got me what I told them they should maybe get me for my birthday.

Uh-huh. They got

me a mahjong bag, which I've been wanting. And so we got one for my girlfriend, Lisa, for her birthday, and I announced at that point in time that I am I am missing this in my life, and this would be a great idea should someone want to give me, a relatively expensive gift and split it ten to fifteen ways. Okay. There's no shame in my game in that regard. I know. Like, instead of getting me a bunch of shit, you I'm not gonna use, like, let's get me something that I will love and appreciate. Right. You know?

Just and and they're good friends. You can say that. Same.

Yes. And, like, Mike was like, what do you want for your birthday? I'm like, let's not go rogue here. You see that Aviator Nation Texas Rangers sweats collab? Like, let's just hit that. Let's go. He's like, damn. That shit's expensive. And I'm like, it is, which is why I'm asking you

to buy it for me for my birthday.

My birthday.

And this is why you're not just saying to buy it.

I don't wanna spend my money out of my account to get it, but I would like for you to do that. Right. So yeah. Funny? I, yeah. I guess I'd if somebody says, what do you want? And I say, I don't want anything, it probably means, a, I don't want anything, but, b, I don't trust your judgment to give me something. Yeah. That I will actually use and enjoy. Right. I'm getting there are certain people who do know, you know, my taste and simple sense of style.

Husband apparently because you have to tell him exactly what I meant.

My husband. You.

No. Okay. Yeah. Does Would

a husband know exactly what to get their wife?

I don't think so. Again. I don't think so. They think they're just throwing shit against the wall. They're trying to check a box. They're trying to say they got He did

bring me he brought me flowers. Which was nice. Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. So, like, in an extended family Christmas situation where there's, like do do I don't know if you have those anymore. Had No. We just do the or whatever.

But Yeah. We just do the gift exchange. Okay. So hypothetical. Yeah. I'm pretty I'm pretty particular. Like, if but we don't really gift yeah. We don't do that anymore. But, like, my kids even now I mean, you've seen my kids, they just they're sending me links and stuff. Like Right. And I would prefer that. Like, give me a bunch, and I'm not gonna tell you exactly what I'm gonna get. But I wanna get stuff that, a, I'm not gonna have to returning Yeah. And, b, that I know you're gonna use. Like, I'm just not trying to get you shit that's gonna sit. Also, too, we know I don't like shit. Like, I don't like extra shit.

Right.

Like, I feel like we could never have another thing in our house. We could never buy another thing except for, like, food, and we should be fine for the rest of our lives. There's no need to keep adding stuff. Like, the decor in my house has not changed since October of twenty twenty three when we moved in. Like, we've had to replace a few things. The decor has not there's been no adding of, oh, look at this cute little vase.

Really?

Not one thing. Wow. Look at this I never look at something and be like, oh, that would look cute in my living room. Like, no. It wouldn't. There's already things in my living room. I don't need to add to it. Uh-huh. Same thing. There It's well, yes. It's yeah. I don't need to add anything.

Yeah. And and this goes back to the life changing magic of tidying up and what I learned even in, Canada, because you have to, like, specify all your weight, like, they compost, they

Oh. They

I mean, when you go to throw something away, there's, like, five colors. It makes my brain melt, And you think about everything that you're consuming because you have to then I started getting pre anxiety while I was eating about what I was gonna do with my trash. Like and I would pick things out based on do I know

you eat it all and, like Yeah. Start like, can I eat

the wrappers? I don't

eat this.

Like, this plate edible? Like, they dump leftover, like, soup or something in the toilet. Okay. And then it's it's this because they are so green. So I I was dealing with that, and we stayed in my father in law's house. I was trying to do it all properly. Like, their trash pickup is every two weeks. They're throwing they're putting soup in their toilet at home. Yeah. Yeah. Like, they'll cook and, like, throw the leftovers in the toilet

because Seems like a really bad accent.

They only have compost. You don't throw it in the trash. Like, they don't have garburators, which I only say because Kelly What is a garbage? I only say garburator because Kelly does because it's the Canadian thing that that's what they say, garburator, but that's a disposal. They don't have they they don't dispose anything. It's crazy.

That is crazy, and how's the plumbing situation in Canada? Is it I mean, it seems fine. I mean, you can't even put a Q tip down my toilet without people freaking Well, yeah.

You shouldn't put Q tips down.

I know. Well, you're you're talking about soup. Like Some liquid. Beef stroganoff headed down the toilet. Yes. I don't support this. Like, I That's insanity.

So I did all that. Right? So it made me think about everything I was consuming, buying, like, plastic cup, just and then we went to try to travel home, and we had sixty pounds

over. Sixty over? Yeah. Did you just have to eat that and pay it? You can't reorganize that.

No. Yeah. We did. We had to pay because you we also took a seaplane, so they weigh you on the seaplane. Anyway, I did the garburator stuff and then the the travel and then my house and saw all the crap in my house, and I'm reading this book. So all of that has added up to me trying to be very minimal. Okay. Just wait. So I'm gonna be a minimalist.

Back to the question, is it rude to refuse again? What? Absolutely. Yes. Okay. Is it rude to wear sunglasses indoors? No. I think it's weird. Well, I used to Remember Matt Mosley? Yeah. God. I used to clown on him so hard. He would wear sunglasses inside. I'm like, what are you doing? I think it's stupid. Stop. But he blamed it on its prescription, and I'm like, well, you need to get to you're a grown ass man. Get your life together and get you some clear, non sunglass prescription glasses.

He's my neighbor. But that is also what I was gonna say because I had until we had LASIK surgery

for our

friends at Tyloc, I would wear my prescription sunglasses way too much inside because they still helped me see more than no glasses at all. Yeah. Like, I'd go into the grocery store and wear my sunglasses and not realize it'd be an hour in or however long I'm at the store and be like, oh, I look like a total douchebag. But that's the only reason.

Yeah. I don't think it's rude. I just think it's weird.

Yep.

Is it rude to invite someone to a bridal shower and not the wedding? Yes. It is. How dare you? You cannot invite someone to your bridal shower expecting a gift that you're not going to refuse and then not invite them to your wedding? Right. That's brutal. Do people do that? I don't know, but that's ridic.

Yeah. That's that's ridiculous. That's just fishing for gift.

Yes. That is not okay. Shame on you if you do that. I hope to God I didn't do that.

If I did, it's just by acting.

No. I I know I didn't. I know I didn't. Okay. Is it rude to stare at someone? Yes. That's a no brainer. Don't stare.

It's hard when kids stare, like, because if they haven't fully learned, and then you're trying to tell them not to stare while they're staring, and that person knows that you're trying to tell them not to stare while they're

staring. Awkward. It's so awkward. Right. Stop staring. Is it rude to go into a restaurant? This is a good one. Is it rude to go into a restaurant an hour before close? So did you ever work in a restaurant? Did you wait tables? Yeah.

I I was a hostess.

Where were you? Where?

Texas Landing Cattle and Okay. Trattoria Stradanova in Columbia, Missouri.

Woah. Okay. Yeah. I was a waitress at Don Pablo's, and I think an hour is plenty of time. But I think too, it's on the restaurant to say, like, we stopped seating. Like, we close at ten, but we stop seating at nine. Should. I think they should too.

Put that on the sign.

They right. But, also, too, it's also on the restaurant that if you don't say that and if someone rolls in at night I think an hour is, like, fine. I mean, you should be able to turn a table in an hour. Yeah. But, like, if you walk in at nine forty five and they close at ten and it's a sit down restaurant

That's kinda weird.

It's kind of a dick move.

What about nail salons? Because I always come in to this problem. That because they mine closed at an awkward time. It's, like, seven thirty or something, like, all around my area.

But I I think yeah. I think that's I slide

in there right before.

Julie.

Well, they'll tell sometimes they turn me away.

They do. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like you gotta give that at least thirty minutes.

Well, I guess then they can decide Then then you if they want the cash.

Right. Or you say, like, hey. This is what I would like to get done. Do you wanna do it, or should I come back another time? Yeah. I think if you give them the option.

But I I've I've done it at this particular one, and then I also saw someone come in, and the people tried to turn them away. And they were like, it says right here, eight o'clock.

Here we go, Karen.

Alright. I didn't Karen.

No. But That ain't her. Yeah. I know. Okay. Let's do a little news desk before we go. And this oh, wait. I've got we have a new fun little sponsor. Our friends at Tailgate USA are bringing us the TMG News Desk. And so Tailgate USA I don't know if you know Justin Morrison. I've gotten to know him over the years. He is, part owner of Tailgate USA, and that's a Texas based company that offers turnkey tailgate party trailers and full event services. Yeah. So, like, they bring out this big trailer, they do delivery setup, catering, bartending, satellite TVs.

That's so smart.

And this is also a very huge component. They do RV style backpacks. Yay. No porta pot. Which is huge, especially for us ladies who, don't really enjoy the porta pot, not that anybody does. But, they support tailgating at sporting events, the NFL, college football, baseball, soccer, golf tournaments, charity events, festivals, concerts, corporate events, and all any and all special outdoor gatherings. Any event, any size, any location, just show up and they will do all the work. Tailgate usa dot com. Oh, no. It's not. It's tailgate usa dot net, I believe. Double check that. Let me double check that. I wanna give the ride because, also, I wanna mention that they are a huge supporter of the Do It For Durer Foundation event, have been for the last couple of years. Yes. It's tailgate usa dot net. Mhmm. Goodness. Not dot com, dot net. So they're a big supporter of the Durant Foundation, and they'll be on the golf course for our event on September twelfth, which I also wanna promote, September twelfth at, oh, I forget what golf course we're at. Just go to do it for do it dot com. I'll have all the information. So they'll be on the golf course, on September twelfth. Justin and his team will be they'll be serving, Bloody Marys, on one of the holes at the course, and they're huge, like I said, supporters of the Do It for Dirt Foundation. And with this promotion that he's doing with us, he will donate a portion of the proceeds to the Do It Foundation for anyone who books and mentions the mom game. So Cool. Double little promotion here, tailgate USA, tailgate u s usa dot net, and then also the do it for do it for do it for do it foundation event that's coming up in September, September twelfth. Is it Grapevine Golf Course? Grapevine Golf Course. There you go. Bingo. And then we also have the concert afterward at Texas Live. The Bird Dogs are opening for George Dunham.

For a double You know I've sang with them.

I know you have. So and then there will be a double acoustic set with, Rhett Miller of the old ninety sevens and then a surprise guest that we cannot mention, until, I think, a week or two, because of a radius clause. So, anyway, super excited for the Do It For Direct event. Super excited that Tailgate USA is involved once again and super excited that we're getting to talk about them on the mom game because I think it's kind of a hidden gem that people don't know about. The fact that you can, you know, have this giant trailer come up and, cater, bartend Yeah. All the stuff.

It looks really cool. I'm checking out their website. So you can do all different types too, like big tent, small tent, RV, little trailer that's smaller with, like, a couple bar stools. It looks very cool.

Yeah. Basically, if you've ever hosted a tailgate, like, before a sporting event, it's a giant effing whip. I mean, it is a giant whip.

Because you wanna go to the game. Yes.

And you wanna have fun. You wanna have fun. Yes. And then clean up and all that stuff. So they do everything for you. It's, it's a great concept, and we're super appreciative of them for, getting involved with us here on the mom name and super involved with their involvement with the Do It for Direct Foundation.

Good peeps.

Yeah. Absolutely. So once again, tailgate u s a dot net. Check them out. Okay. So did you see this, that TSA is adding a family?

I love it.

So two weeks after the t s alright. Well, well, well, I don't need to see all that. So they're only available at a few major airports to start. Orlando, Charlotte, Hawaii, and John Wayne in Orange County. So the those are smaller ish airports. They aren't huge. More will be added in the coming months, but they're supposed to help mitigate the unique challenges families face when traveling and minimize stress while maintaining the highest level of security.

Trying to get all your boob milk through.

Here's not even that. It's like, hey. You with your fucking kids Yeah. Y'all go somewhere else. Things. Because the kids at a certain age are just they're ridiculous. Yeah. You know, trying to pull shit out and, you know, all the things that, like, if if I get behind a family with, like, three kids between the ages of, like, four and eight, I'm like, I I'll walk ten minutes to the next day. Because I'm like, I cannot

You just know this is gonna be a

You know it's gonna be a total and then and God bless them. Listen. I was there. No judgment. I was there. I was there. Oh, yeah. You're just like you've paid your dues though. And you're looking around and you're like, I'm just I'm trying to hurt. And then you're just like and you've got that clenched jaw and

you're like, come come. Just come on. I don't wanna go through the secure I don't wanna go through there. Just go through there.

And you're, like, basically shoving them through there.

I wanna take my Nintendo Switch out of that bag.

I know. My gosh. Oh my gosh. I know. I just did it. Yes. I mean, it's like Mine are older, but So I think that it's I think this is a smart this

I think it's really smart. Yes. And they saw a problem. Yes. They they've been doing something about it.

But then also too, I feel like they should make a separate lane for travel idiots. Like, oh, this is your first

time traveling? Kid lane. Yes.

This is the family slash idiot lane. You know?

But the idiots, it's gotta be, like, a self aware idiot. You can't just tell someone that they need to go. It needs to be like, I would go in the idiot lane.

No. Because there were so

many okay. This is another problem. I saw a lot of idiots traveling on the way back from Canada because bags now on American are fifty dollars a bag, so nobody wants to check their bag. Oh. So they carry the biggest carry on with all the liquid shit in it. I saw two ladies that I would put in this idiot category that were just, like, oh, I can't have my water and my nail polish remover and my body gel, like, and my shampoo and my like, I don't know if they don't fly much

or what Well, obviously, not like you're taking full bottles of shit that they

work through security. Just having, like, twenty of them, like, and then they were, like, borderline, were they small enough, and we were behind them, so yes, but it's also the airlines, making these bags cost so much to check. Like, just let us take our bags on a plane. Like, we have to have bags. We're obviously going somewhere, and we need stuff. I feel like it's a big asshole move to make bags cost fifty dollars. Well, and now it's We paid two hundred dollars just to check four bags. That's insanity.

Yes. That's crazy. Yes.

It was crazy.

I think because I fly relatively often, I don't I don't get charged for bags.

Yeah. I don't know.

Or because I have, oh, I have the American Airlines card, I think.

We are getting it, and maybe that's what they're trying to do is get you

to get a stupid card. Because I think I get charged for, like, after two or maybe after one. I don't know.

Yeah.

But remember Southwest used to not bags fly free.

Yeah. Not anymore. Not anymore.

Not anymore. I guess it's just too I don't know.

I was talking to one of my a friend who's a Southwest Airlines flight attendant, and she said that the a lot of it is the the employees asking for all this stuff. And in order to do all this stuff for the employees, they have to charge for bags.

They have to start, yeah, finding income elsewhere.

I don't know. It's just this Well,

I think kudos to TSA for the family line. Let's workshop the idiot line and see what happens next.

I love it. Families and idiots to the right. And then you just kinda look down. You're like, you know, you're like, that's me. And then I would very much admit. Like, I always f something up.

You do?

I mean, not like those ladies I was just talking about, but there's people who

get something.

Yeah. Like, oh, I forgot my laptop's in there, or, you know, or Do

they not I feel like every time I'm going through the line, they're, like, screaming at everyone.

Yeah. It it's very

Take your shoes off. Put your take your anything bigger than an iPhone out of your bag, gotta be in a crate by itself, a bin by itself. Like, you're like,

Oh, and sometimes it's, like, seven thirty AM. And I always just look at those people. I'm like, how are you, like, dressed with your hair in a slicked back bun yelling at people at seven thirty AM? What is this like?

Know what else I think they should consider? Go ahead. Like, go okay. So you check your bag. You gotta check your bag, whatever. But then you can take your carry on and your personal item.

Yes.

They you should have your shit better fit in you get two bins. Right.

You

get two bins. That's it.

Well That's it. That's huge thing.

Your shit in two bins.

Oh my god. You would have died at my kids' backpacks.

Like, you can't put it if it can't fit in two bins, you can't, like, you can't

Yeah.

Go through security. Oh. Two bins. A two bin limit.

There is no worse feeling than getting to the airport and not, like, I kind of let my kids pack themselves. Okay. They were little backpacks at least for carry on. Like, put some books in there, and then and we were rushing out, and I didn't double check. You get to the airport, and you're I mean, you're locked and loaded. What you got is what you're traveling with. Ryder had put he has this, like, big this little pouch full of these squishy animals, and he had about one hundred of the squishy animals in the pouch, and it felt like a ten pound brick. And, like, within five minutes, he's like, Dad, can you carry this? And I'm like, What is in here? We open up his backpack. Why in the world did you bring ten pounds worth of squishies? And he's just kinda like, Oh, I just wanted to have them.

Yeah.

And you're stuck with it. We took that damn squishy bag all through the airport, and then on the way back, finally, we're still dealing with this squishy bag. So if it's anything, this is a PSA to check your kids' carry on Yeah. Before you get to the airport and you're stuck with a ten pound squishy

bag. Okay.

It was torture.

It sounds like it. And my rule is if if you don't I I'm not carrying your shit. I'm not a pack meal. You're old enough now. You carry if you if you then if it's too heavy, find something to get rid of because I'm not carrying it.

Yeah. And I say that. They think it's fine until they realize that you have to, like, walk for a while. Right.

Yeah. I know. But I'm sure we are Listen. I've been the pack meal of my family for You

know what else we are? Ever. We're garberators. We are disposals. We are trash. Oh. Kids hand us all their trash. Okay. It is, like, it makes me end. Point like this. We're garberators. Okay. We dispose of their trash, and I have had, like, that mom epiphany, like, recently. I'm like, I'm the person that Yeah. Other humans hand their shit to. Yeah. And I just have to deal with it.

Because if not, it's gonna end up, like, on the floor of a public place or in your space.

But, like, there could be a trash can right there, and Anna would give me her trash. Yeah. And I have to redirect her and yell at her Yeah. And tell her to go take it to the trash. Can you

use my line? Are your legs broke? Exactly. Can you do this? Are your legs broke?

And she'll just, mom, and throw her trash and walk off. Oh, but I I was I'm still giving my mom stuff, like, I probably when we travel, like, oh, can you hold this mom? Oh, can you can you put this in your purse because I don't have room? So I think it was, like, a big full circle moment when I realized that I was that person. Yeah. Because I don't wanna I'm I'm the person that hands other people shit. I don't wanna be the person that's collecting my shit. I'm the garburator.

You're the garburator. We all are. Okay. So word to the wise, TSA, family lane. We're big fans. Mhmm. Consider the idiot lane and a two bin minimum or maximum. Two bin maximum. Yep. Okay. Alright. Next week, what do we have?

We have a

I'll be talking about

that. The worm queen.

Do we have the worm queen? I started mine. I know you did. I'm so excited. Yeah. We'll talk about it.

I can't get my shit together enough to start it.

Can't wait to see all the parasites. Actually, I don't wanna see them. I can't wait to hear about. Yeah. So far, so good. We're a

parasite cleanse is what Emily's talking about. I know. We're gonna have the worm queen on. I do believe it's next week. It is. Yeah. Because I think this is a real thing. It is. Parasites in our body. I know. And I think there's Like, we don't have enough to worry about.

We have worms. That'd be excreting worms.

Good luck with your worms. Thank you.

Okay. Alright. We'll see you next week with the worm queen. Everybody have a good week. For those of you headed back to school, hang in there. Godspeed.

Mom game out.