Caitlin K: 0:28

Yeah.

Jenny GK: 0:29

Hey Caitlin. Jimmy Buffett just called from heaven, and he's so excited because every day there is Cruise Day.

Caitlin K: 0:42

Oh, bless you, Jimmy Buffett. Guys, we're so glad you're here. It is a fun episode today because you're probably doing the things for Thanksgiving. Yes? Like we're probably just baking or cleaning or both or screaming at children or whatever it is. So we have a fun one today. It's all just Thanksgiving, fun facts, and trivia. And I assure you that as the elementary certified like social studies teacher, I probably don't know any of these answers. It's gonna be good. Really embarrassing. But first, we have to introduce everyone. Everyone meeting the two of us.

Jenny GK: 1:25

With us today is Caitlin, who's so hot, I need oven mitts.

Caitlin K: 1:31

Oh my gosh! How perfectly apropos. I love it. I also just used a fancy word. I'm proud of you. You did. I'm so proud of myself. Well, that's Jenny. She's my delicious stack of waffles. I know we love it. Oh, that's good. Thanks. I like that one too.

Jenny GK: 1:53

All right. Well, you sent me some pretty exciting information about our show.

Caitlin K: 1:57

I did. It made me laugh out loud. And I again, I don't know why I laughed out loud, but I was sitting at swim lessons as I do, and I um sent Jenny, I got this email and I sent Jenny this picture, and um I'm pulling it up right now. Uh, you guys, we are currently ranking in Apple Podcasts top 100. Hot 100 for Education How To in New Zealand.

Jenny GK: 2:32

So shout out to all my Kiwis out there. Thanks for listening.

Caitlin K: 2:37

Yeah, it's really awesome of you. And it to me it makes a little bit more sense, because it is an English-speaking country, like that they would that there would be somebody there listening. Yeah, because I don't understand how I mean I don't know what language aside from Polish is Polish the dominant language in Poland? Yeah, but I'd guess so.

Jenny GK: 2:56

Alright, so I have some Thanksgiving trivia questions. Okay. And I have blocked out the answers. So you can cheat if you want to, but don't. I won't cheat. The first question I have for you was or is how long was the first Thanksgiving?

Caitlin K: 3:25

I know how long they usually are at my house, which is several hours. I'm gonna I'm gonna guess more than that because it was like harvesting and stuff.

Jenny GK: 3:35

It was three days long.

Caitlin K: 3:37

Oh, who knows?

Jenny GK: 3:38

When did it happen? What year, do you know?

Caitlin K: 3:40

I don't 16. You know what I have in my head right now? Um, so in the Disney movie Pocahontas, in which Pocahontas is portrayed not historically accurately, there's that song in the beginning where they're like, in 1607, and I know it's like around that time. They sailed the ocean seas. That song.

Jenny GK: 4:02

Something, something twenty one.

Caitlin K: 4:04

Yeah, it's around that time. Virginia company That's so great. Oh, 1621. Okay, so I wasn't too far off.

Jenny GK: 4:13

Yeah, no, not too far off at all. All right, okay. Um, who were the native peoples uh with whom the pilgrims celebrated things?

Caitlin K: 4:22

I do know this one, um, but I'm gonna say it wrong. The wampanag or wampanag. Is that right?

Jenny GK: 4:28

I think that's how you say it. Yeah.

Caitlin K: 4:29

Oh.

Jenny GK: 4:30

Oh, yeah. I do know that one. Okay, this one's a gimme. What type of nut is in pecan pie? I believe they're pronounced pecans. Pecans. So I put this in there because one of the trivia question lists I looked up actually had this on there.

Caitlin K: 4:51

Well, that's like that question. Oh, I always used to show this.

Jenny GK: 4:54

Who's married or who's buried in Grant's tomb? Like it's pecan pie, guys. Walnuts.

Caitlin K: 5:04

Right yeah. Uh almonds, obviously. Um, there's that, there's a math video, uh, and I don't really like the video for what it is now looking back on it, but I used to show it to my sixth graders all the time. And it's if I'm driving 80 miles an hour, how long will it take me to travel 80 miles? And the the it's a husband asking his wife, and she's calculating it. Like she's like, Well, the timers rotate. Uh there's like a hundred rotations in a mile, and he's like, Yeah, a hundred rotations. Like, what? What? And then she's like, Well, and I can run like a seven and a half, and he's like, Yeah, okay. And then you like see her like fake running, and she's like, So it's gotta be like, you know, like 58 minutes, and he's like, pretty close, pretty close. She goes on for like it's like a solid three or four minute video, and he just sits there cackling at her while she's trying to think. Well, some people in our nation don't have maps, yeah. That one. Yeah.

Jenny GK: 6:10

All right. How many women were at the first Thanksgiving?

Caitlin K: 6:13

Oh my gosh. Well, they had to do all the cooking and cleaning, so there had to be at least a few, a handful, like ten.

Jenny GK: 6:21

It was five. Five. Ew. Now, the reason there were so few is not because they were all in the kitchen, but because many of them had died after coming over on the Mayflower.

Caitlin K: 6:35

Okay. Well. Alright.

Jenny GK: 6:39

So there were just fewer women in general.

Caitlin K: 6:42

Well, and they didn't bring that many to begin with, right? Right. Because it was mostly like single dudes who they were bringing.

Jenny GK: 6:48

Alright, so. Which president received a live raccoon as a Thanksgiving present?

Caitlin K: 6:57

Oh. Uh, Teddy Roosevelt.

Jenny GK: 7:02

Uh, that would make sense. It was actually Calvin Coolidge. Oh. This guy, Vinny Joyce from Mississippi, sent him a live raccoon that he was supposed to eat for Thanksgiving night.

Caitlin K: 7:16

No, no, no, no. No. Mm-mm. First of all, we don't eat trash pandas because they're too precious. Second of all, we don't eat trash pandas because they're rabid. Like what are we eating? Can you imagine being sent a live raccoon? Right. Like that thing would have clawed the inside of whatever you had that in.

Jenny GK: 7:38

Like a recipe book.

Caitlin K: 7:41

And a blade to skin it.

Jenny GK: 7:43

President Coolidge liked the raccoon and named her Rebecca.

Caitlin K: 7:47

Yay! Okay, so there's a happy ending. Okay, there's a happy ending.

Jenny GK: 7:51

He pardoned her.

Caitlin K: 7:52

What a weird name for a raccoon, Rebecca. Oh well, I guess Rebecca the Recco.

Jenny GK: 7:56

Okay, fine.

Caitlin K: 7:57

He pardoned her. How cute.

Jenny GK: 7:59

He pardoned her. So I want to know who was the first president to pardon a turkey on Thanksgiving.

Caitlin K: 8:08

Ooh. I feel like this tradition is probably pretty old, but I every time I have a hunch like that, it's wrong. So I'm gonna guess. I don't know. Eisenhower?

Jenny GK: 8:27

It was JFK. Oh. And then it didn't happen again for a while. You said this tradition is pretty old. Yeah. The person who started it as a yearly tradition was H.W. Bush. Oh. And if I'm not wrong, uh he was president after you were born. Yes. Mm-hmm. Sure was. So I would say the tradition isn't the only thing that we feel like might be, quote, pretty old.

Caitlin K: 9:08

I told you, this is not my expertise. I do not know any of this. This is I knew one answer.

Jenny GK: 9:16

Alright. Speaking of turkeys, how many turkeys are prepared for Thanksgiving dinner in America each year?

Caitlin K: 9:23

Ooh.

Jenny GK: 9:26

I don't know. Like there's 330 million Americans, if that helps you. And remember that a lot of them are sharing a turkey.

Caitlin K: 9:36

Okay, so somewhere.

Jenny GK: 9:38

And there's a hundred rotations when you go a mile.

Caitlin K: 9:41

10 and 25%. And I can run a seven and a half minute rotation. Right. So between like 10, no, between like, yeah, between 10 and 15%, maybe 20%, if we're sharing turkeys. I don't know, like thirty, thirty-five million. Forty-six million turkeys. Hey, that wasn't terrible, all things considered.

Jenny GK: 10:06

No, you were closest without going over. You're not playing against anyone, but if you That's okay. No, shh. You would go home with the showcase showdown.

Caitlin K: 10:15

4,501. Like Drew. Right, yeah, right.

Jenny GK: 10:20

All right. How many pumpkin pies are consumed each year at Think Speaker?

Caitlin K: 10:25

Okay, I gotta double it because if I said 35 million, because there are people who like pie is a big deal, although there's different kinds of pies. So I'm gonna say.

Jenny GK: 10:37

I will tell you it is not one-to-one turkey to pumpkin pie.

Caitlin K: 10:40

No, it's more. It's gotta be more pies. Because turkeys are bigger, and yeah, and people want pie. Uh let's go 50. 50 million. 50 million is correct. Ding ding ding! Really?

Jenny GK: 10:54

Yes. Oh my gosh! Um, you're at two so far. Great job.

Caitlin K: 10:59

The number ones are the hardest. I so I the other day I tweeted about or I didn't tweet, because I don't tweet that much anymore, but I um threaded threads, threaded, whatever, about how um apparently I am now the person who not only watches Family Feud in the evenings, but also gets angry when the answers that the people give don't are not the right ones, right? Like don't make sense at all. Right. Where I'm like, why did you choose that? The answer is obviously head! Like what? You know what I mean? I completely lose my mind. And I've I've decided that when they do fast money at the end, which I just learned the name of because even though I've been watching it, I didn't know it was called Fast Money. Um, the number ones are the hardest. So if I'm getting a number one right, like the number questions, then I feel like I'm doing okay. So I got one number one right. Okay, cool.

Jenny GK: 11:56

All right, give me another one. Feather in your cap. What percent of Americans skip turkey on Thanksgiving? Percentage? What percent of America?

Caitlin K: 12:09

I mean, not I don't know. 20%? Uh 12%. Really? They skip turkey. Okay. So this is turkey, 12%. I'm okay. I'm just wondering if that includes people who also like don't celebrate it at all, or this is just the celebrators.

Jenny GK: 12:32

I think this is if you are attending a Thanksgiving event and not eating the turkey.

Caitlin K: 12:38

Oh. Oh, okay. All right. Yeah, mostly.

Jenny GK: 12:41

So if we were to say that Chandler was the only friend who didn't eat Thanksgiving foods, that would be one out of six, which is 16%.

Caitlin K: 12:50

Oh.

Jenny GK: 12:51

So they were close to average.

Caitlin K: 12:54

Yeah, they were. That's also they probably are, you know, uh, those are all probably kids, right? Who you spend all day making all the food and all they want is what is a roll. Yep, there it is.

Jenny GK: 13:04

Yep. That's probably it. Okay. In 2022, how much did the average Thanksgiving dinner cost per person? Oh my gosh.

Caitlin K: 13:19

Everything is so expensive. Um I was shocked by this one. We are looking for sponsors. If anyone would like to sponsor us, this is coming out of our pocket. So that helps out. Um I don't um it's 75 bucks.

Jenny GK: 13:38

64. $64.5.

Caitlin K: 13:42

Yuck.

Jenny GK: 13:44

Ewah. It's a lot. It's so much money. But it's not as much as the next question I'm gonna ask you.

Caitlin K: 13:51

Uh-oh.

Jenny GK: 13:52

What is the average number of calories consumed by a person at Thanksgiving?

Caitlin K: 13:57

It's gotta be like twice the daily amount that you're like recommended. It's like 4,000. It's gotta be.

Jenny GK: 14:03

It's 4,500, Caitlin. It's 4,500. Oh my gosh. That's so many. That's the average. That's the average. There's somebody out there eating 10,000 calories.

Caitlin K: 14:16

In one day. And it's not Michael Fowler. Alright, I was gonna say, and it's not an Olympic swimmer. Oh gosh. That's so much. See, like, I always feel like my eyes are bigger than my stomach on Thanksgiving, which is probably a good thing. But oh man, I just I I make it up in pie the next day. I love that. Oh, sure.

Jenny GK: 14:36

And um, I did see one statistic that 80% of Americans prefer Thanksgiving leftovers to Thanksgiving dinner.

Caitlin K: 14:45

I see, I don't really go for the leftover like meal part, but I love the leftover desserts. Like I feel like after it's all kind of settled in and yeah, I love it.

Jenny GK: 14:57

Okay, so. This one relates to the amount of food being eaten a little bit. Black Friday is the biggest day of the year for what trade profession?

Caitlin K: 15:13

It has to be plumbers. It has to be. Plumbers! Because I'm thinking about, okay, I'm when I was a kid, I remember this. Our garbage disposal broke on Thanksgiving. Every year after Thanksgiving. Yeah, every so, but like that's just the day. So then, but if everyone's if you're talking about eating, it's gotta be the day after, which is gotta be.

Jenny GK: 15:31

Well, and the thing is, like, when your disposal breaks on Thanksgiving, you tough it out, right? You're like, okay, it's not guest wedding, it just won't go anymore. Exactly. We'll we'll scrape. We'll call tomorrow. Yep. So my guess is a lot of people call tomorrow.

Caitlin K: 15:47

Oh, please, for the love of all that is holy, do not put oil or like liquid butter or regular butter down your garbage disposal. Like, don't just liquid fat doesn't go down the disposal. No, put it in a put it, put line a bowl with some foil and then pour it into the foil and then freeze it and throw it away. And take it.

Jenny GK: 16:11

I do the same thing when I'm cooking on a cookie sheet. I line it with foil and then I just let it sit out and it congeals, and then I can just roll up the foil.

Caitlin K: 16:19

Mm-hmm. Just don't don't gross. Or bones. Don't put bones down the draining it. Oh, yeah. Yeah. People do. It's gross. Okay.

Jenny GK: 16:31

I'm like thinking of human bones. I know that's not what you meant, but still, like I'm hearing someone like putting it on the body.

Caitlin K: 16:36

There's a whole story about that. There's a whole story about a guy in England, I think, who was putting body parts down, the drain, and people were having plumbing problems. And that's how they figured out that he had done. Go find my favorite murder, go listen to that. Yeah, there you go. Yeah. All right.

Jenny GK: 16:55

I'm introducing you to a figure from American history named Sarah Josephina Hale.

Caitlin K: 17:03

Okay.

Jenny GK: 17:04

And she really campaigned for Thanksgiving to become a national holiday. Every year since George Washington, the president has declared a national day of Thanksgiving. The only president who didn't do it was Thomas Jefferson because he very vehemently believed that in separation of church and state, and he felt that Thanksgiving was a religious holiday in nature and did not want to make it a national holiday. It was not officially a national holiday until the 1860s when it became marked as a day every year. We didn't have to wait for the president to be like, will he or won't he? So Sarah Josephina Hale was the woman behind this big campaign. She also wrote a very famous song. What is that song? Okay.

Caitlin K: 18:04

Like what's the song? It is a song that's not even classical. Is it like a song, an adult song, like a patriotic song?

Jenny GK: 18:13

And it is not patriotic in nature. But you are on the right track.

Caitlin K: 18:19

It's not it's not twinkle, twinkle, little star because somebody else wrote that.

Jenny GK: 18:24

Or should I say you're in the right meadow?

Caitlin K: 18:27

Oh wow. Sheep farm. Um, um, is it Mary had a little lamb? Yes. Yay! I'm jumping. Sheep. Oh my god. Why did I go from meadow to sheep to farm and then back to Mary had a little lamb? Oh it doesn't matter.

Jenny GK: 18:49

You're gonna hurry. Wait, okay. So here's the deal. She wrote Mary Had a Little Lamb. She did a lot of other things. She was a magazine um editor and she was a staunch supporter of um gender roles in the home. Oh. In fact, she was um against the women's suffrage movement because she felt that women who got involved in politics wouldn't be available at home. So I don't necessarily agree to everything that she says. Yes. But she did use her power as uh editor for good, and she pushed and pushed and pushed for Thanksgiving to become a day. She wrote a letter to President Lincoln, and it is often praised as the reason that he declared a national day of Thanksgiving to happen every year.

Caitlin K: 19:35

So now I'm thinking if she's like so into traditional gender roles, well, did she just like want a day where she would just be cooking the entire day?

Jenny GK: 19:47

Like, I know how to be like, I am gonna declare Thanksgiving. And the women are not gonna cook. Right. Because the other 364 days a year, I want them to.

Caitlin K: 19:58

Right. Like, oh, that's my thanks. Is I'm not cooking and I'm not cleaning. Like, what? Why? Oh. And I'm fully aware for our male identifying listeners that yes, there are plenty of men who do the cooking on Thanksgiving. My dad is one of them. Yeah, my husband. He sews the turkey shut. Ew. My husband is one of them. Like, I get it. I mean, I don't and I only make dessert. I'm not good at making anything else. So that's all I do. But I traditionally, there are lots of women who are dealing with being the person. So kind of blame this. What's her name? Sarah Jessica Parker. What? Sarah Jessica. Sarah Josephina Hale. Oh, same. No, not the same. But still, I had the idea. Well, thank you for Thanksgiving. Also, there's probably some women who are mad at you. P.S. Also, Mary's damn it's a little bit of an obnoxious song, just putting that out there. But it did stand the test of time.

Jenny GK: 20:57

It did. Yeah. Alright, fine. All right. What city has the oldest Thanksgiving Day parade? It's not New York. No, that would be obvious. I wouldn't ask if it was New York. Philadelphia? It is Philadelphia.

Caitlin K: 21:09

It's one of the older cities.

Jenny GK: 21:10

Ah, that was good thinking. That was good thinking. Philly's Parade started in 1920. The Macy's Day Parade in New York started in 24, and in 1928, they added balloons to the Macy's Parade.

Caitlin K: 21:23

Did you see the Bluey balloon last year? Yes. I loved the Bluey balloon, and it was so cute how they were promoting her being there.

Jenny GK: 21:30

I love when there's a new balloon. Like they always do such a good job with it.

Caitlin K: 21:34

I cry every year when that stupid parade starts. Every single year. I don't know why.

Jenny GK: 21:40

I think I've told you this before, but when I was growing up, we had a rule about the Thanksgiving Day parade. The turkey had to be in the oven before the Roquettes came on. And so they would say, like, coming up after the break, the Roquettes. And my dad's like frantically trying to fill the turkey shut. Get it into the oven. Otherwise, Thanksgiving would be ruined.

Caitlin K: 21:57

Yeah. Well, what time do you guys usually eat on Thanksgiving?

Jenny GK: 22:00

Like four-ish. Okay.

Caitlin K: 22:02

I know people who've eaten at like 2, 2.30. Like that to me, that's too early. I kids, I I I'm just gonna eat more.

Jenny GK: 22:10

No, I do not know. No, I want it to be more of a dinner-ish. Like it is a it at our house, it is a dinner. There we sit down around four-ish, take our time, eat. Remember, I said last week we go for a walk. Exactly. Then we come back and do dessert.

Caitlin K: 22:25

Yeah. That makes sense.

Jenny GK: 22:26

All right. Okay. How many people attend the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in New York City?

Caitlin K: 22:32

Oh, thousands. I don't know. 25,000? It's probably not right, but I don't know.

Jenny GK: 22:42

There are 8,000 people in the parade if that helps you.

Caitlin K: 22:45

Oh. Uh. Oh, okay. Well then 75,000.

Jenny GK: 22:53

Three and a half million people attend. Line the streets to attend the parade. Three and a half million.

Caitlin K: 23:00

It is long. I'm sorry. I'm just thinking about like just that square. Just that square. Right. Where it's like people are in buildings and stuff in the world.

Jenny GK: 23:07

The Herald Square. Is that the name of that space? I think so. Yeah. Alright. No, no, it's like 75,000.

Caitlin K: 23:15

Are you kidding me? Yep.

Jenny GK: 23:16

75,000 are sitting in the stands in front of Maisie's. Exactly. Um 27 and 7 tenths million people watch it on TV.

Caitlin K: 23:30

Oh, wow.

Jenny GK: 23:31

It's tradition. It is. And I mean, and it's played up against a lot of other things.

Caitlin K: 23:37

Yeah.

Jenny GK: 23:37

Right? There's other parades out there, and people are doing turkey trots and watching football and all those things. All right. At what temperature is your turkey safe to eat?

Caitlin K: 23:52

This is hilarious because I don't cook meat. I don't know how. Like, I have no idea. Um 200 degrees? I have no idea. 165 degrees Fahrenheit.

Jenny GK: 24:08

I would think 200 would be a little overcooked. Okay. And my last question for you. I am so excited about this question. I just learned this fact, and to me, it's going to be my new Thanksgiving trivia. Everyone I know is going to hear this before Thursday afternoon.

Caitlin K: 24:24

I love it.

Jenny GK: 24:25

What do Marilyn Monroe, Meryl Streep, Matt Damon, and Taylor Swift all have in common with Thanksgiving?

Caitlin K: 24:37

It's their birthday? No, because it changes every year.

Jenny GK: 24:41

Um and my daughter is now screaming at the radio saying, um, Taylor Swift's birthday is the 13th of December.

Caitlin K: 24:51

Oh. Then it's definitely not that. Their mothers all went into labor at the parade? I have no idea.

Jenny GK: 24:59

They are all direct descendants of passengers on the Mayflower.

Caitlin K: 25:05

Stop. Are you serious? Yes. That's so cool. I was like, their names all start with M, and then you ruined it with two or so. And I was like, oh man.

Jenny GK: 25:16

According to the New England Historic Genealogical Society, they are all descendants of passengers on the Mayflower. That's wild. Holy cow. So I think we should take a break to let that sink in. And uh when we come back, we'll have some circle time. Yes.

Caitlin K: 25:35

Sounds great. See you there. We're back. We're here. Let's do this. Sounds great. Okay, do you um have any obsessions right now? We're just gonna go right into it.

Jenny GK: 25:53

Okay. Um what I am obsessed with right now is trance music. Have you heard of this?

Caitlin K: 26:05

I mean, yeah, because we grew up in the like late 90s and and early aughts, and so yeah, I know what trance music is, but Okay. Do you know what's like coming back? Oh, what's old is new again. It's like a every 30 years. There's like a 30-year cycle, right? Like, why? Why? Why is it?

Jenny GK: 26:28

Spotify, like, knows me, right? It's a robot, it's figured me out. But like always coming up on my made-for-you page, like, hey, try this playlist, try this one. Okay, so they gave me deep house trance, and I can't stop listening.

Caitlin K: 26:45

Is are you listening to it like for productivity? Like, what's oh, okay, that makes sense. Yeah. Yes. You just put it on the background and you can just like zone out and work. Yeah, I have um like a binaural beats one that kind of gets it's sort of like house beats kind of feeling, and yeah, I I definitely find myself fixating for long periods of time when I do that.

Jenny GK: 27:07

Yeah, move away from lo-fi. Oh, really? Chilled cow and I might be breaking up.

Caitlin K: 27:14

Okay, well, send me this playlist and I'll see how I do with it because I'm curious now. All right. Yeah, I'm interested. Okay, well, mine kind of goes along with Thanksgiving and what you wear. Are you guys a fancy dress Thanksgiving group of people, or do you are you guys like we're cooking and then we're wearing sweats because we want to eat and then we're gonna do it?

Jenny GK: 27:34

We are change into clean clothes after you've cooked people. It is not fancy. Okay, but um, it is clean.

Caitlin K: 27:43

Okay. I'm more of a look presentable, but also wear stretchy pants kind of person. Oh yeah. I don't do hard pants very often anyway these days.

Jenny GK: 27:55

I will out my family just a little bit. Uh after the dessert, because you know the routine is eat, walk, dessert, there is another step.

Caitlin K: 28:07

Yeah.

Jenny GK: 28:07

And it is the unbuttoning of the pants.

Caitlin K: 28:10

Yes. Okay, and I've I skip every one step. Yeah, no, I skip it because I wear stretchy pants. So I don't even have to worry about.

Jenny GK: 28:18

Yeah, exactly. So um these are not maternity pants, these are my Thanksgiving pants.

Caitlin K: 28:24

These are my Thanksgiving pants. Yep, exactly. So I um I discovered, and these are not new by any means at all. So once again, just remember I subscribe to Behind the Times and I'm always late on everything. Oh, that's great. Yeah.

Jenny GK: 28:43

Although I brought up trance music.

Caitlin K: 28:47

But um I found you know, Carrie Underwood has a brand of like athleisure.

Jenny GK: 28:54

No, I did not know this.

Caitlin K: 28:55

Yeah. So like Kate Hudson has Fabletics. Yes. Kim Kardashian has Skims, and Carrie Underwood has athleisure stuff as well. And hers is sold at Dick's sporting goods stores and probably elsewhere too. But um, I went in there.

Jenny GK: 29:13

I hope it's at Bass Pro too. I feel like she could be a Bass Pro person.

Caitlin K: 29:16

She does seem like a Bass Pro kind of girl, doesn't she? Yeah. Um, but she has um her brand. I can't, I don't know if I'm saying it right, but it's Kalia or Kalia or something. But C-A-L-I-A is how I believe you spell it. And there's a pair of joggers that I bought while I was at Dick's for whatever reason, and they they have like the side pockets like leggings, which is key. I don't buy anything that doesn't have pockets anymore.

Jenny GK: 29:44

But also I am wearing pants without pockets today, and I am regretting it.

Caitlin K: 29:48

Yeah, I can't even do laundry without it because I want to have my phone in my pocket so that I can listen to something while I'm folding. It's just how I am. So um I bought these pants, they're so comfortable. They're like, they're the material is like legging material, but they're joggers. So they're like loose, but I also don't like I'm not a yoga pant person where the ankle flares out. I don't I do not like I don't like that.

Jenny GK: 30:15

It's the only of the dance team in the 1990s.

Caitlin K: 30:19

Well, but they only work too like if you're not wearing shoes. And if you're wearing shoes, it to me it looks funny and I like it. So I'm a very big job. Joggers person. And these are texture of leggings, but jogger pants. And they're so comfortable and they have pockets, and I just really like them. So if you're interested, if you need some athleisure pants, and they also have like that tummy, like big, love it, like strong band in the front, you know?

Jenny GK: 30:46

Very nice.

Caitlin K: 30:46

Very nice. Highly recommend. Wear them all the time. I also need support documentation. But no, but yeah, that and um I think I'm gonna go and get more colors because I just really like them that much. That's all super comfy. Yeah.

Jenny GK: 31:05

Okay. Let us transition. It is time for the gem of the week. Yes. And so often, this is a story that is embarrassing. Um, this one is only embarrassing uh because of anyway, I'll get into it and you'll figure it out. My school is about six-tenths of a mile from a big city park.

Caitlin K: 31:31

Okay, this is now the second time that you have made some sort of reference to numbers with a very precise fraction or decimal. You were like 27 and 7 tenths people. Yeah, you it is okay on a podcast for adults to say points. It's about half a mile. Or there you go. Like we all get it.

Jenny GK: 31:55

Um, and so we have 80 kids in second through eighth grade, and we walk them to the city park every day for lunch. And part of the walk is crossing a major boulevard in the city of Austin. Yes. It has a protected uh crosswalk, and we cross in groups, and we've got the safety down to a science. But it is a site to be held that you know, there you are, stopped, and then 80 kids are crossing the street, and not in a single file line, like holding onto a rope. We're we're clustered because it is safer to move in a big group than to have one straggler way behind everybody trying to stay in line. Yes. Um, so this is just a normal occurrence. Every day, middle of the day, 80 kids crossing this major street. The other day, I'm at the fish store, which, because we're reefers, is not where you buy fish to eat. It is where you buy things for your fish tank. We were at the fish store, and the guy who owns the fish store says to me, Hey, I saw you crossing the street with your kids the other day. Kate, this is embarrassing, Caitlin, because I've been to the fish store enough that the owner of the store can recognize me from his car.

Caitlin K: 33:23

This is like, this is giving like teachers stopping to do errands after um after spirit day vibes, right? Like you just me.

Jenny GK: 33:37

You know, the first time I ever went to therapy was on a Friday that was a spirit day, and I had painted my face like a tiger. Uh. And I had used marker, and I couldn't get it off. So I am meeting my therapist for the first time, and what I have to say to her is I'm not here because I think I'm a tiger.

Caitlin K: 34:03

She's like, okay, I'm gonna put the phone down because I was gonna be calling.

Jenny GK: 34:08

Like, I don't know if that makes your job easier or harder, but the tiger thing is not why I'm here.

Caitlin K: 34:17

Oh, that's yeah, that's hard. Yikes. Um mine is I'm just old. Like, I'm older than the tradition of pardoning turkeys. I am older than the tradition of pardoning turkeys. That's how you know that I'm old, right? I'm older than that tradition. So um this morning I I mean I mentioned this to you earlier. Um today is technically a day off for me, so I kind of took it easy. And I normally take my walk very early in the morning, and there's like, you know, the usual four people out, and there's very few cars, and all it's very quiet, and I can keep my earbuds lower because and I need to because it's dark and I want to like pay attention to traffic and blah blah blah. Yeah, yeah. Um, but I I went out later today, and I happened to be out during a time when school is starting for the middle school that's not far from us. Oh and so and I would gather that also means that the high school was probably gearing up too, which means that there are cars everywhere, everywhere. And it was so loud today on my walk, and I I can't have my earpods in because if I do that, then I can't hear the podcast that I'm listening to anyway, and I have to rewind it and I get frustrated. And today was cold, and I didn't want to keep taking my phone out of my pocket because my hands were getting cold, which is an it's a whole first world problems situation. Like, oh no, you had to take your phone out of your pocket, you big baby. Like, calm down. Sorry.

Jenny GK: 35:57

So you could push the button to rewind 15 seconds that you like put it on your arm when you went to the gym in college. And like it was never really, it never really worked, like the touch screen part through the plastic.

Caitlin K: 36:10

So you'd be like holding your arm in a weird angle because you didn't want to take it off and like oh annoying. Um and I actually wore one of those for a long time until I started wearing shorts to run in that had a pocket where my phone will stay, or I wear like a tight like waistband kind of thing that will hold my phone. Anyway, that's neither here nor there. Then as I'm walking, I take the AirPods out and I couldn't listen to anything because the traffic was so loud and there was construction and like people jackhammering into the sidewalks and all this stuff. And I after like the third time taking my AirPods out, um, and you know, like when you take them out and your music auto-stops and then you put them back in and it auto-starts. Okay, yes. The app that I was listening to this podcast on, I'm not gonna like say anything negative about uh this app because it's a very popular app. However, it is glitchy and the only reason I was using it is because the podcast I was listening to is ad-free on this app. So otherwise I don't normally use this one. And um, when you take your AirPod out, it will stop, but it will not restart when you put it back in. Again, first world problems. But I was taking it out constantly because it was too loud with all the traffic and the jackhammering and everything. And as I'm walking down the street, I was like, oh, everything is too loud. And I said that out loud on the street. Yeah, I was walking by some leaf blowers. There were two leaf flowers on the street. I thought I'd gone to a quiet spot. Nope, two leaf blowers, and I screamed out loud, oh, everything is too loud. Because I was I had walked down the street. Right. I had walked down the street with my AirPod out for almost the entire block because it was too loud. And I was annoyed that I had to do that because again, first world problems. And I just said out loud to myself that everything was too loud. And I didn't realize it was like that loud until like I was like, oh my God, I said that out loud. Like I've yelled, oh my god, everything is too loud! Like a like an old lady, get off the lawn sort of thing.

Jenny GK: 38:30

Someone like offer you some metamusle, like as you're saying.

Caitlin K: 38:33

Right, right. Miralax. I don't know. What else do they what other stuff is like that? Uh dinner at 4 30. Polydent. Like, I don't know. Yeah, like or polygrip. Polygrip, that's the one where it keeps them in your mouth. Um, I was just like, why like why is everything too loud? Everything is too loud. So, like, clearly I was having some like noise sensitivity issues this morning, but also just like, why did I why have I become that person where I'm like, I just want to walk in the quiet, in the dark with my ear pods in so I can hear my podcast? Is that too much to ask? Losing my mind over this stupid sounds of people being outside. Like, what is just living their life, just doing their thing, most of them doing their jobs, you know, dragging around the street, going to school, getting dropped off, and I'm like like just so grouchy. So that's terrible. That was just me losing my mind this morning. Gosh.

Jenny GK: 39:37

Okay. Yeah. Well, with that, I hope that you have a great Thanksgiving. Thank you for listening. If you would like to thank us, you can do it um with stars.

Caitlin K: 39:47

Stars. Um, or a review. Or subscribe to our Patreon. That's also an option. Thanks.

Jenny GK: 39:54

Yeah. Um and I have in my back pocket for you one little surprise.

Caitlin K: 40:02

Oh yeah?

Jenny GK: 40:05

If you like, I can send you the recipe for maple bourbon raccoon. It's a great Thanksgiving recipe. I'm good. But thank you.

Caitlin K: 40:22

If Rebecca starts to bother you. Oh wait, did I tell you we had a raccoon in our roof last year? Or Tracy? Uh Tracy? Is that her name? Tracy. Tracy. Tracy. But you just reminded me of it because I thought it was Becky, but no, it was Tracy. Anyway, Tracy the trash panda. Okay, guys, it's time to go.

Jenny GK: 40:41

Make good choices.

Caitlin K: 40:43

And uh we're thankful for you guys, and happy Thanksgiving. Okay, Thanksgiving. Bye.