Our family trip to Georgia, conspiracy theory nights & the importance of gathering

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0:43Hello. All right, we're going to go. Okay, and I said don't talk to me because it's not. Oh, I'm going to talk to Jules. No, don't do it. It didn't really work the last time. Okay, we're going to mute Jules. All right. Okay. Welcome back to another episode of Two Parents in a Podcast. You guys, we are... I think you muted Nick so I can't hear you. yep we did that so we muted jules we muted and that's that's how you know we're doing we're remote we're doing our best we're doing our best we are but i and i need award a plus to you and jules for getting this whole situation set up remote in very short order while harrison took tate on the golf cart which trouble there to go find horsies golf cart golf cart horsey that's what she said to me when I went out there.

1:32Golf cart, golf cart. She loves it. The horses have been the theme of the weekend. So we are in, here we go. I'm already getting corrected. Serenby. No. Serenby. Serenby. Serenby. No, Seren. We're in Serenby. Serenby. Serenby. Serenby. Georgia, you guys. And let me tell you what, it is beautiful. So why are we here? Well, first of all, can we describe the town? Yeah, but hold on. Okay. If you're listening, number one, happy Monday, maybe Tuesday. Thanks for listening. We're recording Sunday night. We're recording Sunday night. So it's the night before I'm about to post an Instagram story after this saying, well, you know, actually I was going to say it was the night before Christmas, but apparently July 25th is actually Christmas in July.

2:26So some of the people at the birthday party today, they were like, what'd you do last night? And I was like, nothing what you guys do. And they're like, well, we went to a bar and there was a Santa Claus there because it's Christmas in July. And I was like, no way, because we saw the Christmas in July on the website when we were booking this hotel. But this to me, it's a real thing. It feels like a continuation of July 4th while acting as a celebration of the greatest country in the world. Also being New Year's Eve 2.0. Yes, a bit. You know, but I. Plays into that theme. It does. I'm going to be honest there.

3:01You lost me like a little, but. Like three weeks ago, I talked about how July 4th. Yes, was the new. That was a great time to reset and treat it as like your New Year's goals. Yeah. Right? Yeah. Following. Yeah. And so now we're tying. Oh, Christmas into that as well. The real Santa Claus for our listeners. Yes, because Santa is. Very well. So Santa, you know, as all of our little ears, because little ears listen to this, as they all know Santa only comes in December but to Georgia Santa came last night he just he paid a visit because Georgia celebrates um Christmas in July he was on his press tour he was on a press tour um and a lot of people saw him last night so number one if you're listening like and subscribe send this to a friend and number two if you're like why are you guys in Georgia I said this last on Friday, but I'll say it again.

3:57We were here for a friend's first birthday. Now we just went to the friend's first birthday. We were there for four and a half hours. Can I tell you it was so much fun. It was circus themed. Bubber had the one thing I'll say. Well, I'll say two things on the matter. Number one, we try to go to our friend's first birthdays if we can. Like, I don't know if you guys remember, I went to my friend Nuggets. Uh, we went to Tulsa and we went to her daughter's first birthday also circus themed actually correct um and so we're batting about 50 we're back i'm not making all the first birthdays that i want to i was really sad i missed my best friend sydney's because we were going to ask but like you do miss some of them but i we decided as a couple like a really fun thing to do was like if you can make your friends first birthdays let's make them and say like if you can make your friends birthdays go it's a great way to reconnect or it's yeah it's a great way to stay in touch with people that where you don't live in the same cities.

4:51And what was so fun about this one was when we decided to come, we were like, so we're about 45 an hour outside of Atlanta. And we were like, that would be a really fun trip to make because there's this place called, so there's Palmetto, Georgia, which is not the Palmetto bluffs. It's Palmetto, Georgia. And that's 45 minutes outside the city. And then there's this little pocket called Surinbee. And our neighbor told us about it. He said, if you're going to Palmetto, you should go to Serenby. And we were like, you know what? You only live once. We can do it. We have the weekend free. Let's go. So we came out here.

5:30We had no idea what to expect. And cause we're just trying to like Harrison and I as a couple, we're just down to say yes. Sometimes like we're just like, you know what? Yeah, we'll go. So we came and please describe this place. I'm very confused if it's Serenby or Serenby. So why don't you say serenbee and i'll say serenbee okay okay uh s-e-r-e-n-b-e your comments are saying serenbee say it again jules serenbee is what your tiktok comments say okay serenbee so i i think i think that that that here here's what i'll go with okay is every state in this country has pockets of magic yep and some of those pockets of magic are you know very natural and all about the um the nature of things hold on h town yeah i have the headphones on yeah you got to talk to the mic okay i've just realized now i cannot hear you all right some of those some of those pockets of magic are about nothing but the topography some of those pockets of magic are more manufactured.

6:43Okay. Rosemary Beach, great example. And manufactured in beautiful places. Well, I mean, Rosemary Beach, for example, 30A, watercolor. It's on the beach and it's beautiful. The sand is white and the water is blue. And then they build these really cool communities around it. Serenby is in the ladder bucket where it has a beautiful location, but they built a very cool community around it. So it's a, you know, call it three little towns within a town. And each town is a mile apart from each other. And the main mode of transportation is golf carts. So that's the number one thing I think you should lead with.

7:20This is a golf cart community. Golf cart community. We didn't know it. It's not marked when you're, so you drive through these like Georgia highways, but they're actually two lane streets. They're not highways at all. Sorry. You get off the highway onto these sort of back country lined with green trees. It's hilly. It's beautiful. And then you turn off. It's very discreet. And it's called Serenby. And you turn off. And once you get back here, it is, it's incredible. Like I never knew this existed. So it's beautiful. And yeah, you get here. You park your car. Cute little restaurants, cute little general store.

7:55And yeah. And a bunch of new build homes. And a park. Yeah. and horses horses yeah very charleston meets watercolor style houses meets new orleans almost a lot of porches a lot of hydrangeas a lot of white brick i mean a lot of wood it's just beautiful yeah beautiful new community built in uh the rainforest yeah in in a phenomenal landscape Fun restaurants. They had a jazz night last night. It's really cool. So go ahead. Dang, we're trying not to talk at the same time. I feel like we're doing a lot of talking over each other. All right, guys, let's talk about Bodzheim. Bodzheim is a tasteless powder you sprinkle right onto your food.

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10:01That's Icaneatagain.com slash two parents for 30 % off your first order. Finally, you guys can enjoy your favorite foods without the pain. Just go to Icaneatagain.com slash two parents. So all that to say, I just want to ask you this. since you brought up the pockets of magic in the United States, where's next on your radar of where you want to go? I haven't been to a state that doesn't have a pocket of magic, if not several. Okay. Number one. But where do you want to explore next? And the delineation I want to make before is, like I said, some are more nature-based. Like some you can just hike, and there'll be nothing around you, and you stay in a tent, and that's all you need.

10:40Yep. Others have built these really cool communities, and so I'm just like on opposite ends of the spectrum, but both very cool. Yeah. I would say we're in the U.S. is a top of my list for places that I haven't been that I hear incredible. I would say the Northeast in the summer is definitely top of the list. And so that whole I and I've been there for a very short period of time. but like the Martha's Vineyard, Newport, Maine, Nantucket situation. Newport, Rhode Island, Maine as a state. Yeah. That looks phenomenal. It looks beautiful. Cape Cod, all that. Yeah. Yes. Yes. And then the second is, and I feel like the amount of charm in that part of the country is best in class.

11:38and then I think when it comes to areas less built out where you're relying just more on the natural beauty and not on the infrastructure would be Montana. Oh, okay. And when I say Montana, I know it's a big state. Big Sky. No, Big Sky is one of them. So we just got to talk right into that mic. Okay, I'm sorry. And we turn our head. But broader, I don't know. I hear good things about Montana. So, okay, I'm with you on the Northeast. I think it would be amazing. I would also love to go to Yellowstone National Park. That to me just seems like a beautiful, different type of topography. That's big on my list.

12:17But anywhere, I think my point is like, just getting invited to this, I'm like, okay, yeah, we'll go. We'll make a trip out of it. We'll be there for three days. And you can always find a fun, charming. You can always, we drove through cute little towns on the way here. I don't know a lot about Georgia. I haven't been here a lot. and it's just like now we know about this cute little place. My favorite part of San Francisco was driving the one north of San Francisco. So I think a lot of people when they talk about the Highway 1, they talk about it between LA and San Francisco and not necessarily going north towards like that whole Tomales Bay area and blanking on all the other really cute towns.

13:01Well, that's very Twilight, right? Twilight the movie wasn't that filmed up there what Jules Seattle but also wasn't it Oregon not Oregon sorry Washington State but I'm talking California north of San Francisco so my grandpa drove you know RIP but he drove all over the United States and he told me his favorite most beautiful drive was that area I don't remember exactly where it was but it was north of san francisco and he said it was unbelievably so people love the drive from seattle to san francisco i'm sure and that goes through oregon uh-huh uh never been to oregon oh i was thinking about this it's a fun state bend i don't want to say this i don't i don't want to say we're going to do this yeah i just i so this isn't something that i'm going to go home and do okay but i did think about how it would be nice to get a map for rocky and tate and put pins in where all the cities they've been to.

14:04Not going to do it. One of my favorite gifts of all time that was my favorite gift in theory but not in reality was a map. And it was like a map where you scratch out a global map everywhere you've been. Love that. I love a scratch off. Did you in Canada have the scratch offs of the lottery tickets? Of course. So you guys can gamble in Canada? Yeah. And you had the scratch offs. Yeah. Talk about like, I loved doing those. Never won. Well, maybe one time I won$25. I don't really remember. Another thing that's just randomly popped in. Wait, wait, wait. Where's your number one place to visit? Yellowstone.

14:41Okay, Yellowstone. Is that it? Yeah. I also think there's parts of Utah that I know are beautiful. And is Yellowstone in Montana? Wyoming. Jules? Does Yellowstone reach Montana at all? I do think it does reach Montana. Oh, no. Hold on. I'm Googling. oh also one of our neighbors her name just popped up on my phone invited Bubba and I today to go get mother daughter mani pedis with her and I was like we're not in town so nice of you to offer we've never done that before and now I'm imagining me trying to get Bubba to sit still to get her nails I think Bubba sits still selectively and I think it's worth a shot I'd love to take her to try because I think she'd love it but her fascination right now with these horses horses are big horses I mean it is so cute also her ability to say horse to us and caveya to Diana is like the best thing on the planet like when we were in Aspen there was horses in the parade and she was like caveya caveya and then we walked up but she's like horse I was just like I love that little brain of yours it is beautiful I think it's the cutest this little thing on the planet.

15:57Um, okay. So today also at the birthday, I want to give you a compliment because, well, a couple of things. Number, number one, we were supposed to take a present that wasn't actually a present. We were supposed to take a plant to plant in the garden. So the garden can grow, right? So it's like a pay it forward, start the garden, um, gift. We forgot the gift, not that we forgot the gift. We just didn't fly here with one and we're probably going to get one and then take it. And then you know how things go with two kids. All of a sudden you're in the car, you're 20 minutes late and you don't have the gift.

16:30And instead of us making it a thing, we just decided in unison, like we're not taking a gift. And you took that. Thank you for just like letting that go. Cause I know you love showing up to places with something in hand and like, I just didn't have that today. So that's number one. Number two, I love getting little tidbits of your combos that you have with people as we go around all these different places and listening to you talk to people because the things that you don't talk to me about them I don't even know you know them sometimes and I hear you talk to other people about them you're and I'm always like what what are we talking about just what do you mean well I'd love to hear what well I heard you were talking to one guy about Hong Kong and someplace outside of it and how drawing on these different and I know you've obviously lived in Hong Kong but that was one thing you were talking about the other thing what specifically well I don't know I wasn't listening to your whole conversation but you were talking about something in Hong Kong I don't know banking and then you were like I did banking before and I was just thinking wow it's really cool all these different experiences you have to draw on when talking to people thank you okay he doesn't like this topic no I'm just I'm curious what you're specifically referring to I just all day I wasn't like with you a lot I was just popping in and out listening to you talk about things there was like some boat in Europe that was happening I don't know no I think that he was talking about going to Samoa yes somebody was talking about going to Samoa where even is that I believe it's off the coast of New Zealand and I talked about that how that was on my one of the top my lists for places to go when I was living in Hong Kong.

18:12And then there was somebody else was going to Africa next month. And you were like, what part? I've been to this part. You need to see the gorillas. And I was just like, oh my gosh. Talk about. So somebody can be like, we're going to Africa next month as a family. That's a dead end for me. I've never been. Like, I can be like, what are you guys going to do? Are you doing a safari? I want to go. But for you, it's a different conversation because you're like, where are you going? I've been there. This is what's really cool. Just trying to draw relatability. Yeah, I thought that was really neat. You guys were exhibiting the thing that we talked about the other day.

18:41Which is what? Oh, I know what it is. To people by asking questions versus sharing your own experiences. Ask questions. That's how you relate. There's the two ways. Okay, and I love this. And we were talking about it at dinner. And now we will segue into an update on how book club went because we had a breakthrough. But at book club, we were talking about how everyone has it in common. All the girls at the table. We were like, we love it. when we go somewhere and people ask us questions and we get to ask them questions, it's the best way to get to know somebody new. And then I said, okay, Jules taught us this, but there's the two ways that you can get to know somebody the best.

19:17Number one, drawing on your own experiences, but number two, asking people questions. And I think it's just the most beautiful thing. Okay. So that was, that was one thing at book club and it was something that we did a lot today with also at book club. Okay. We started talking about, I was like, Harrison's on to us. how we're not actually really discussing the book. And the guys decided, what's our new book? No, this was Jeff. It was Jeff's idea. Jeff, Emma's husband. He said, all right, each couple's going to pick a conspiracy theory. This was his proposal. Each couple's going to pick a conspiracy theory.

19:50They're going to research the conspiracy. And then each book, instead of a book, it will now be a conspiracy. They're going to present it. And then everyone's going to debate whether or not they think it's true. for example the the number one thing we were talking about at the table which none of us had researched so we were all just kind of like yeah i've heard of it did we land on the moon or not land mooning very very very top of mind for this discussion a lot of unanswered questions about land mooning the land mooning moon landing other other topics of discussion were um aliens yeah and what and everyone just went around and was like you know right off the cusp before we get into it do you believe in aliens or not one that i hadn't heard before that was proposed was that titanic the actual ship that sunk wasn't titanic oh i just saw the screen cut out oh yep okay hold on just keep going let me do it so i can uh because i think i can fingerprint it okay okay so we're still recording we're still rolling okay wait my mic isn't going up and down uh talking it hello yep there it is okay your mic too um yeah i didn't know about titanic that was news to me so yeah so the conspiracy theory there are you sure that we can hear me because it's not like going up very much yep okay your mic too i know i'm looking at that but you you have more pop when you talk yeah mine doesn't go up and down well i talk louder than you okay so titanic being that there was a prior ship.

21:24I think it was called the Odyssey. And the Odyssey was on a journey and the Odyssey got damaged and it couldn't keep running. And so... You can't... In order to collect the insurance money, they snuck the Odyssey, or similar name, and pretended that it was the Titanic and sent it out to sea to go and crash. That was the conspiracy theory that was presented at the table, which I'd never heard of. Jules have you heard of that conspiracy theory no I was going to ask if you guys have heard of the Avril Lavigne one yes that was also very top of mind for Canadians I didn't know that there was like a chance she wasn't alive her music is so good that you just wonder why has there been no new releases Skater Boy was an all time favorite simple there's one you made me so hot I think it's called hot I loved it but what's the deal with her Paul McCartney, I think that was suggested.

22:20That was me. And I was just saying, you know, I have heard that apparently maybe he died at one point and then they replaced him. And like ever since then it's been just like the not real Paul McCartney. Yeah. So that is, you know, you don't want to notice to give to give Jules some flowers that she hates to get. What? It's a really unique dynamic talking and not having her right there. Well, it's much more fun. Yeah. I love talking to Jules. Like it's much more fun when she's actually here versus on the phone. totally have you ever been doing your thing you guys and then all of a sudden a what-if thought comes into your mind specifically if you're a parent you know exactly what I'm talking about what if they trip and fall and hit their head or what if they fall into the pool or what if this what if that and the list goes on and on and on you guys and for millions of people that's not just anxiety that I'm talking about you guys that's OCD and most of them have no idea that it's OCD.

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24:42Well, have we discussed how we had a friend who has, we have discussed this, I know, how they have the traveling girls nights and they have the themed dinners and one of them was putting up a PowerPoint on the screen presenting, was that conspiracies? I can't remember what they were presenting but they've done something similar with like a PowerPoint night and I do think with these conspiracies it would be cool if each couple had to put together a PowerPoint and then we all sit down and like have to watch it and then you debate it because one thing about my book club which I love is everyone like there's a bunch of deep thinkers so when we do actually discuss the book it's very fascinating yeah I'm I'm like if this gets scheduled, I'm going into it with a 10 out of 10 attitude.

25:27Plain and simple. And do you have right now like what theory you would want to do? Very interested in the moon. Someone else is going to do the moon. That's the low hanging fruit. But we're going to need to allocate. But that's one that I want to go. Even if I don't present on it, I want to dive into. And the driver of that is, I'm not saying I don't think we've been. I'm just saying you think we'd be, have been back a lot more than we have been. Yeah. And so I need to understand that side of it. Well, and maybe we've been back, but they're just not talking about it. The Titanic thing definitely sparked my interest.

26:05And I was going to say aliens, but no, I would love somebody else to do aliens. There's something with the Denver airport underneath it. I don't know what it is, but that used to be interesting to me. 51. Well, that's not the airport, but yes. No, but kind of related between the Denver Airport. I'm very down to do Area 51. Have you ever seen people drive up to it? Drive up to the gates? No. Yeah, I've seen a couple TikToks on that. They drive up to the gates, and you can't see anything, like anything. But it is fat. It's just kind of like eerie to even be there. Maybe we'll make up a conspiracy theory and see if it gets traction.

26:47It could. I mean, I do think a lot of people, there was something with, I'm too far away from this, but there was something with Apple in college. And then the reason there was the bite out of the Apple, which was linked to Adam and Eve, which was linked to the Illuminati. I don't know. I can try and research it. It was very fascinating. I think that to use your example of you can't talk, we can't talk about dreams. I think we've gone too far in talking about conspiracy theories that we don't know anything about until conspiracy theory night exists All right. I will take us to things we DM'd. Okay.

27:24What have we DM'd this week? Well, what we were talking about there was this video that we discussed the end of it last time, but you were going to the bathroom Okay, so I'll recap it now Friday we did like a little Harrison had to pee and we were discussing Formula in the airport we've obviously had to buy diapers because when you travel with kids sometimes you pack 10 diapers for a three-hour flight and somehow you run out of diapers so you have to buy diapers at the airport and they sell diapers and I didn't even think about whether or not they sold diapers at the airport until we needed them remember and it was when Tate was like seven months old and I was like whoa we need diapers we went we bought them and it was it was an exhale moment for me knowing that they sold them.

28:07What I have not thought about is formula. And there was this video, the girl was on a United flight and they were delayed, delayed, delayed. And she had packed formula, but not enough for all day, just enough, more than enough for the flight, the duration of the flight time. So she runs out of formula. They're sitting on the plane and her baby's crying. So she starts asking everyone around her and then everyone around her and including the flight attendant starts helping her. And they're like, they're like, does anybody have formula? Does anybody have formula? They get off the plane. They're asking parents in the airport and a United employee comes back and says, my husband is going to the store right now and he's going to buy you formula and he's going to bring it to you.

28:47And that's what they did. And it sparked the conversation. Number one, incredible that everyone rallied around her to get her the formula and feed the baby. Of course, what you hope would happen happened. It was the best case. It was just people helping people that you love to see the heartwarming story. but number two it's like do that i've never seen them sell formula in the airports and i had some people say that they have vending machines in dfw i've never seen them um but i think they should sell it obviously obviously i mean we can't be the only people that would ever need it yeah so one love hearing that everyone rallied around her and and got her the formula the second thing here is i'm very concerned i'm not recording because when you talk there's a lot more bubbles than when i'm talking h you are mic number two i'm looking at mic number two but and look it's popping up but very small pardon are you sure because when alex is talking there's a lot more bubbles that are happening i know why it's always how it was okay all right As long as I'm not going crazy.

29:59And Jules, we trust.

30:03So this is very, very surprising to me. And it's something that I predict will change in the next 12 months now that we're getting more awareness towards it. The way all grocers and retail shops typically work is you have a buyer for specific categories. and so I'm just very surprised that the person buying the diapers isn't also at mass buying the formula and I'm sure it's happening in some cases but it feels like anytime you're selling diapers you should also be selling formula and I think it's a huge opportunity for the formula companies that and the airport shops that both of them will get in on if or both of them will will resolve if it's not today but i the thing that i think is interesting is like have you ever bought the diapers at the airport that section so you see the um i don't know energy drink section at the airport or the coffee yeah they're massive yeah you know the little pretzels with the hummus like there's a million flavors of that yeah this diaper section is buried in the back of hudson news and like there's two sizes diapers like there's no there's a large I feel like a large gap in the amount of babies and parents that are traveling versus the representation of like items sold.