Episode 56

#56. Bring Your Own Sombrero

Cake & Cookies. The Robb & Katie Show

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Now that wasn't your jaw, was it?

No, that was me flapping my...

Gums?

Yeah, this is me flapping me gums.

You ready?

Yeah.

Let us begin.

Da-da-da-da.

Da-da-da-da-da-da.

I was told there would be no singing.

Mike O'Meara, Radio Entertainment.

Hey there.

This is Katie with a very hateful thought of the day.

I hate fake helpers.

Any person who offers unsolicited advice to simply show the world how perfect they are

can just stop right now.

You can see shouting,

Cut the wheel!

As I am perfectly parallel parking.

In fact, just cut it out and let me park.

I spent 15 years parallel parking a stick shift Volkswagen on a hill in a spot the size of a golf cart in Washington, D.C.

Mr. I assure you, I've got this with room to spare and without your help.

If you'd like to assist me with my groceries, now that's another matter.

Thank you and have a nice day.

I hate unhelpful helpers.

And you, I hate you too.

Sometimes I wonder if we're connected somehow.

Mentally, maybe.

Why?

As I was leaving the Cappy Pfeiffer Studios today, I watched a lady parallel park.

Uh-huh.

Not good.

It was a big spot.

It was at least a spot and a half right there on Hall Place in Glover Park.

Yep, yep, yep.

And she was driving a Mini Cooper.

And she lined herself up and came in and cut the wheel and then did the thing where she rolled down the window to look how she did.

Oh, for Pete's sake.

She was about a foot closer to the curb than she was when she started parallel parking.

Now, was she parking on that curvy part of Hall Place?

No, no.

Just right in front of the door.

Oh, geez.

But keep in mind, it's a Cooper Mini.

Yeah.

And a spot that I could have parked the Tahoe in.

And I'm no pro at it.

And I couldn't say anything because the window was down because she checked.

But I looked at Pony and Pony just shook his head disapprovingly.

I should have hung around.

Back to school is busy enough. The last thing you need is shopping that makes it harder. Whether you're moving into a dorm, your first apartment, or just getting organized for the semester, Wayfair makes it easy to get everything you need in one place. Furniture, bedding, storage, decor, study essentials, all at prices you'll love with fast shipping before move-in day. Get everything you need for back-to-school season. Shop Wayfair.com today. Wayfair, every style, every home. Now that wasn't your jaw, was it? No, that was me flapping my... Gums? Yeah, this is me flapping me gums. You ready? Yeah. Let us begin. Da-da-da-da. Da-da-da-da-da-da. I was told there would be no singing. Mike O'Meara, Radio Entertainment. Hey there. This is Katie with a very hateful thought of the day. I hate fake helpers. Any person who offers unsolicited advice to simply show the world how perfect they are can just stop right now. You can see shouting, Cut the wheel! As I am perfectly parallel parking. In fact, just cut it out and let me park. I spent 15 years parallel parking a stick shift Volkswagen on a hill in a spot the size of a golf cart in Washington, D.C. Mr. I assure you, I've got this with room to spare and without your help. If you'd like to assist me with my groceries, now that's another matter. Thank you and have a nice day. I hate unhelpful helpers. And you, I hate you too. Sometimes I wonder if we're connected somehow. Mentally, maybe. Why? As I was leaving the Cappy Pfeiffer Studios today, I watched a lady parallel park. Uh-huh. Not good. It was a big spot. It was at least a spot and a half right there on Hall Place in Glover Park. Yep, yep, yep. And she was driving a Mini Cooper. And she lined herself up and came in and cut the wheel and then did the thing where she rolled down the window to look how she did. Oh, for Pete's sake. She was about a foot closer to the curb than she was when she started parallel parking. Now, was she parking on that curvy part of Hall Place? No, no. Just right in front of the door. Oh, geez. But keep in mind, it's a Cooper Mini. Yeah. And a spot that I could have parked the Tahoe in. And I'm no pro at it. And I couldn't say anything because the window was down because she checked. But I looked at Pony and Pony just shook his head disapprovingly. I should have hung around. Well, I wanted to hang around and see how it turned out. But I had to come home and do this show and hit this button so Dude Walker could say, Cake and cookies. Rob and Katie. It's the Rob and Katie Show. You know, today is his birth dude. Is it? Yeah, happy birthday, dude. It's Dude Walker's birthday. Although this probably will not post on his birthday, as they are fond of saying in podcast parlance, as we are recording, it is Dude Walker's birthday. Happy birthday, dude. He is truly the nicest man in broadcasting and one of my favorite people sending our love his way. Now, busy, busy, busy. He actually listens to our show. Never will. Never has. But, you know, maybe someone will tell him. Maybe Mike will tell him. Oh, you mean when Mike listens to the show for the third time? Yeah, when Mike loves our show. Just this show. He's going to listen to it over and over and over again. Well, this is his favorite episode so far. Every episode is his favorite episode. Exactly. Busy, busy, busy, Katie. Busy week. Yeah, and honestly, Rob, I got to tell you. Yeah? Okay, so we've been talking a little bit trying to do show prep. Yes, people, we actually do prepare the show. Yeah, what happens is as soon as we go live on Skype, Skype, the sort of attitude of panic sets in, and we say, well, what are we going to talk about? But it was a little, I don't want to, I don't know how to say this. So, right before we go on the air, Right. I make your screen full screen so I can see you, like you're right here. Uh-huh. I might go back down to the small screen because you looked so tired. I am tired. And there's a couple reasons. You're even wearing your glasses and I can tell you're tired. I know. There's a couple reasons. First of all, there was a last minute supper club on Sunday night, the, you know, last weekend. And you know what? I love everyone in the supper club. You know this. You know these people. They're great people. But personally, I can't do a Sunday night thing. I just can't. Because it's so easy for one glass of wine to become one bottle of wine. Oh, one bottle? Yeah, sure. A big, big bottle. To each his own. Sometimes it's a bottle that has a handle. I don't know. But it's, and I think that's what I was, I think I was drinking. I don't know. I don't even know. You know what? I can't even. But so when you start the week sleepy and maybe just a touch hungover, then you're playing catch up. Because really the way you want to start the week is at 100% and then decay. You want to, you know, finish on a Sunday at about, no, finish on a Friday after work and be darkening the door. Come in and darken my towels. Come in and darken the door at about, I would say about 60 to 65%. And you, you know, you've coasted to there. But I started. I think that's good. That's also like the good place to kind of ease yourself into a chair with a cocktail. Yes. And begin to recharge. Yeah. I'm, I don't, I'm sure you can tell as well. I am exhausted. Yeah. Well, you've got, we're both battling the same demons from different sides. Right. I'm, I'm hosting a bed and breakfast at this point. That and also we're both battling back to school. Oh yeah. Yeah. Just from, you know, different perspectives, but absolutely back to school is. And I think even for people who don't have kids in school. Yes. Your commute. Oh my God. It's, you know, you have to adjust it. Like Monday is going to be a different ball game. The roads are going to be full again. Back to school season is, is tough on everyone. If you're not really like, it's tough on retail. Yep. Workers. It's tough on grocery stores. Yes. I mean, you just name it. Back to school is like intense. Yep. It's like, uh, was it Hillary Clinton? It takes a village. She wrote that book. Yeah. It does. It doesn't take a village. It takes the whole damn country. And everybody's tired. And because of back to school and I've got two, one going to intermediate and one going to believe it or not, high school. Crazy. I love that girl. We had to go to parents night at high school, which I thought was going to be about a half hour. Hey, what's up? This is what's going on. We get there. Did you just like, you just like, you just go and meet with a homeroom teacher kind of thing? Well, no, cause you do that at back to school night. That's in two weeks. I thought we were just going to sit in the auditorium and be told a few things to watch. Watch out for. Wait, what's, so what did you go to? Parents night. And I assume parents night would just be, we're going to be told a few things and be sent on our way. We got there at seven. I'll keep this brief. I told you I wouldn't. I will. We got there at seven, but then we had to go on a bell schedule. Like we were issued a schedule to nine different locations within the school to be talked to. We didn't get out of there until nearly 930. So did you go to like every class that Julia is going to have? See, here's the thing. No, they weren't classes. There was one guy that was. They tricked you. I know. They just cheated us. It isn't fair. He didn't get out of the cock-a-doodie car. We sat in the auditorium and we learned about like how many credits they needed. And then another guy told us about like special needs stuff. And another lady told us about the library. And so it's 930 when we get out of there. Was anyone upset? Everyone was miserable. Someone said, this is even worse than back to school night. And I turned with like Dracula-like fire in my eyes. And I said, worse than back to school night. This makes back to school night feel like Disneyland. They have stolen our evening. Now, when this was announced, Carrie sent out an email that said, parents' night is Wednesday. Kids' orientation is Thursday at the high school. It seems silly that we all drive. Does anyone want to carpool? Well, there wasn't a lot of interest in carpooling. But one couple said, would you like to come over? I think I know where this is going. Go ahead. Would you like to come over for drinks after parents' night? And everyone answered that. Who's a designated driver? But everybody answered that one. No one was into carpooling. But everyone was in for drinks. But that also, keep in mind, we all RSVP'd yes when we thought we were going to be out of the school at quarter to eight. We got out at 930. Now, is this pretty much like supper club-y people? There was one common couple to the supper club. The Chubbicks were there and we were there. The Chubbicks will never not be there until like 2020. It's... It's... So... Oh, as the drinks are at the school. The funny thing is, is when they came in... Children of the world. When they went into parents' night at the school, the principal said, why are you here? You could be speaking. You've done this enough. You should have organized this. And I bet if Kristen Chubbick was in charge, you would have been out of there at 820. That's right. It's exactly right. And so... That woman runs a tight ship. We went through and did all this stuff. You have to when you have 37 children. Instead of 745 cocktails, cocktails began at 930. And we were all upset because of how we had just lost an evening. And so we were... I would say we were shooting a pretty good stick. And by the time we got home and I got in bed, it was one o'clock. On a Wednesday. Well, you had the... How long is your commute? What's your commute? Well, we started... In the morning. In the morning. It's about an hour and 20 minutes. And what time do you... I try to get there at about, you know, 9. So... So... My alarm goes off at 510. Okay. How quickly did 510 come? Way too quick. Way too quick. And it was the kind of thing where your alarm goes off and you hit the snooze and you do this kind of thing with your mouth. Oh, no. And I was tasting Woodbridge Cabernet and just a little pepperoni. Because they were nice enough to put out light snacks. So it was... We tore it up pretty good. Not supper club good. You know who likes pepperoni? Who? Johnny Midnight. He does. Loose pepperoni. Loose pepperoni. I don't know. I don't know. Now, here's a question. I do... I want Johnny Midnight as if he listens to the show. I do have a direct question for Johnny Midnight and his loose pepperoni. Is it something I could possibly answer or is this something you're going to just put out there? You might be able to answer it. I'm not sure. I know he's been working very hard to lose weight with his crystallized mineral water. Yep. We all have. I haven't really been working. It's a bottle with like crystals on it. It's a magic... It's a magic Harry Potter bottle. Right. Which I have no issues with now. But the thing with the loose pepperoni, clearly like pepperoni, probably not so much on a diet. But there is... Boar's Head makes a loose pepperoni that is turkey pepperoni, which is quite delicious. Me thinks that Mr. Midnight is using a high protein type diet, in which case pepperoni is quite acceptable, as is the Swiss cheese. It's fatty though. What? It's very fatty though, whereas the... But you know what? If you go something that skews towards Atkins, fat makes no difference. Well, sure. Until the one second you put some sort of buttery cookie in your mouth and you blow up 35 pounds. So I can't answer this. Okay. Mr. Midnight... Send your midnight. Lady Foxwin would like to know, have you tried the Boar's Head loose turkey pepperoni? And also, please stop calling it... And this is not to you in particular, this is to everybody. Stop calling it loose pepperoni. There must be a better word for it. How about sliced? Loose pepperoni sounds like something digestive. I just don't want

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