Carol ReMarks
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Carol ReMarks
Quirky Life Stories, Signature Sandwiches, and Solving Social Snafus
Ever wondered what the titles of our autobiographies would say about us? Join us for a bonus edition filled with quirky reflections and amusing hypotheticals. We kick things off by brainstorming hilarious and thought-provoking titles for our life stories—think "Duh" and "What in the World." The fun doesn't stop there; we also dive into the delicious realm of sandwiches named after us, discussing whether a Dagwood-style monster or a classic ham and tomato creation best represents our culinary legacies.
Next, we get real with some Dear Abby letters, offering both serious insights and laugh-out-loud advice on sticky social situations. From dealing with a friend's expensive taste in dining to navigating a relationship filled with red flags, and even settling a bizarre neighborly dispute over asparagus, we tackle it all. We've also got a juicy segment speculating on the potential fireworks of a Trump vs. Kamala debate, complete with thoughts on moderators and debate formats. Don't miss out on the spirited discussions and practical advice that will keep you entertained and enlightened through the weekend!
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Hello and good morning, happy Friday.
Speaker 2:Guess who's here.
Speaker 1:Yay bonus content.
Speaker 2:Bonus content. Today we got up early and started drinking coffee about one. We decided you know what, let's just do a bonus edition. Our fans deserve it. Okay, Absolutely.
Speaker 1:Well, speaking of fans.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:I put out a call the other day to have people submit topics for discussion or questions that they might have. I used to do an Ask Carol, anything Right, but here we go, we have giblets.
Speaker 2:Okay, well, this is an unrehearsed segment. I didn't know anything about this coming up and let's see we have.
Speaker 1:Let's go over here to my. Here we go from Giblets. Now he has two questions, I don't know. If you just want to, okay, you just lay it on me, all right. If someone wrote a book about you, what would it be called Now? Do you want to answer that now?
Speaker 2:Yeah, or do you?
Speaker 1:want to answer that now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, or do you want me? Okay, let's go one by one. All right, because if you ask two questions, I'll forget the first one.
Speaker 1:I get you.
Speaker 2:I wouldn't be able to answer the second one. Okay, all right, so what are we going to do? A segment on today? That's the joke, get it Uh-huh.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, all named a book about me. What would it be named? I think my book would be called duh, just duh, and I think it'd be because it'd be one of those things that more, the more you got into the book, it would explain. You know people always saying after the fact, after I've done things, they explain it to me and I look at myself and I go, oh duh, I should have known that. So you know most of the decisions I made. In hindsight I look back and go, duh, carrie, that was stupid. Most of them, not all of them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I get you.
Speaker 2:So duh.
Speaker 1:Yeah, mine would be kind of the same way, but I would call it what in the World?
Speaker 2:What in the World? What in the World was I thinking, yes, what in the World happened there?
Speaker 1:Or how'd that happen? Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 2:What in the World, how could somebody else do something that stupid? Right same yes, but the book is supposed to be about me, so it would be about my stupid decisions like that. What in the world, how could somebody else do something that's right? Saying yes, but the book is supposed to be about me, so it'd be about my stupid decisions in my youth also be about your experience too, by calling it duh or by calling it what in the world?
Speaker 1:or or title it don't do this don't do this like that, okay, all right. So the next part of the question, or a second question. I should say oh, excuse me, sorry, that came out of nowhere, yawning, all right, so let's see, here we go, here we go. Oh, if there was a sandwich named after you, what would be on it?
Speaker 2:A sandwich named after me. What would be on it? A sandwich named after me.
Speaker 1:What would be on the sandwich?
Speaker 2:Oh boy.
Speaker 1:See, I misread this the first time. I thought it read what would they if you? If there was a sandwich named after you, what would it be called? And I'm like what was named after me would be Carol. What would be on it?
Speaker 2:What would be be called, and I'm like what was named after me would be Carol.
Speaker 1:What would be on it? What would?
Speaker 2:be on it. Oh goodness Good, the first thing that I picture. I don't know if anybody's young enough on here to remember this, but the Dagwood. Anybody remember the Dagwood sandwich?
Speaker 1:I remember the cartoons, right Anybody remember the Dagwood sandwich.
Speaker 2:I remember the cartoons, right. Well, dagwood had the Dagwood sandwich, which was a sandwich that was about four feet tall and had everything on it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It didn't matter what was in the house. They put it between two pieces of bread and that was a sandwich. Yeah, so I picture my sandwich being the Dagwood that has. You know, I open the refrigerator. It's like, oh, we got this, I can put that on there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that'll go on there.
Speaker 2:They're good. Oh wait a minute, this is leftover. Put that on there too, you know. So I pile this sandwich up six feet tall, and that would be my Dagwood, but if I had to just break it down, I guess it's more a question of what would be my favorite type of sandwich, and I think you can answer that yes, club.
Speaker 2:It's a club sandwich, but in a shorter, less pile-high Dagwood Club type thing. I would probably do a very simple mayonnaise, ham, lettuce, tomato sandwich. Okay, that would be mine. And somebody said well, you've got to put cheese on that. No, cheese is good for some sandwiches and I like ham and cheese sandwiches. But you know it would have. And then, of course, but you know it would have. And then, of course, you know the, the summer sandwich. If you know, if, if it came around to just this, the summer sandwich, which in the south is mayonnaise, salt and pepper on white bread with a big old beefsteak tomato, and that would be it, that you can put cheese on too. But I'd just say, just a good old ham sandwich with lettuce, tomato, salt pepper, mayonnaise. Chow down, that's my sandwich.
Speaker 1:Okay, very good. What about me? Well, I have a little bit different take. Sure, I'm not sure I haven't perfected it yet, so I would have to probably try different variations of what I'm about to say.
Speaker 2:What she's trying to say is how would you prepare it for me, carrie?
Speaker 1:Yes, that's exactly right.
Speaker 2:Okay, what sandwich would you like for me to make for you?
Speaker 1:Well, first it must be on pumpernickel bread.
Speaker 2:Okay, I know where you're going, but go ahead.
Speaker 1:But one of my favorite sandwiches is the Reuben.
Speaker 2:Absolutely.
Speaker 1:But here's what I think I would like to try. Maybe, I don't know, Hear me out. I'm just going to list some ingredients and then you can choose how you would put all this together.
Speaker 2:Okay, all right.
Speaker 1:We've got chicken.
Speaker 2:All right.
Speaker 1:We've got sauerkraut, we've got sweet, sweet barbecue sauce and then we got like some pastrami, some salami, some roast beef we have only the best meats Okay, that kind of thing. So what would you do with that? I'd call it a heartbreaker.
Speaker 2:Oh, I like that. All the cholesterol and that thing would be a heartbreaker. But no, what would I do with sauerkraut?
Speaker 1:It would be named after me, but sauerkraut and barbecue sauce. Yes, and they must be together. I think I don't know why, but those are the things that popped in my head With chicken. Maybe I don't know why, but those are the things that popped in my head With chicken. Maybe I don't know, but roast beef too, that would be. Does that sound gross?
Speaker 2:You're bordering on the hmm, or what was the?
Speaker 1:name of the book. What in the world?
Speaker 2:What in the world? I don't think that's a we've gotten back tool. Why carol's book is titled what in the world? And my book when I serve it to you and you go, oh my, and I go duh, yeah, I'm not sure, all those injuries, but we could try something. But you know you're looking at a sweet, of course. You know you're looking at sweet and sour. Yeah, from your sweet baby, probably sweet baby raised barbecue sauce with sauerkraut.
Speaker 1:Just a little. It doesn't have to be a bunch, right, just a touch, and then I don't know Well, and then to throw in a, let's throw it. Let's put some kind of cheese on it too.
Speaker 2:It would have to be a Swiss of some type. Yes, of course.
Speaker 1:But now, but again, we're borderlining on Reuben and I you know so, except the chicken part.
Speaker 2:And the barbecue sauce.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think I would like to try something like that. Okay, I don't know.
Speaker 2:I'd have to let you ponder it, see how you would put it together. Just make sure we've got the. That'd be interesting. I'll just say that, okay, that'd be interesting, but with all the ingredients you've just listed, I would think you'd have to put pickles on it too.
Speaker 1:Yes, I was thinking something like that.
Speaker 2:You'd have to put pickles on it too. Yeah, I can see it starting to come together now. Okay, yeah, I can see that a little bit more starting to come together.
Speaker 1:Talk about a dagwood.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that would be a deadly dagwood. Deadly dagwood, the deadly dagwood.
Speaker 1:I like that, but it's going to be named after me though Right right Absolutely. All right.
Speaker 2:Confused Carol. No, that sounds starting to. You know. When you first mentioned those, I think we'd have to not put chicken on there, though Maybe go with a roast beast, or you could do sliced chicken. I wouldn't do a. Yeah, no, no, yeah I would do a sliced chicken of some type? Yeah, not just a chicken breast.
Speaker 1:Well.
Speaker 2:I don't know. Well, I think it'd be too much, too chunky, too big.
Speaker 1:Yeah You'd need to layer that up. Yeah, I was thinking like a thin yeah, whatever.
Speaker 2:You went beyond thin when you said chicken roast beef pastrami. I'm like well, okay. Yeah, I want all of that, we hadn't gotten thin. So it was the carol wood, not the tag wood. Those are good, okay. So what else we got? I don't know, now that I'm hungry and I'm not going to eat anything today.
Speaker 1:Oh, we were going to do some. I want to let you react to some Dear Abby's. Absolutely, Let me go over here and find my Dear Abby's.
Speaker 2:We're going to have the gent react to. I wonder who's writing, who's answering these dear Abby's now?
Speaker 1:I don't know, that is kind of.
Speaker 2:Have they gotten to the point where they're young and woke and that we need to argue with them? And it used to be. You took the advice and said, okay, that's pretty good advice. Nowadays, some of these read I go oh, come on.
Speaker 1:You got to be kidding me, so let's see what I get to shake my head and go duh at today. All right, so here's the first one. Dear abby, my friend keeps making me pay for her pricey dinner with multiple cocktails. All right, first of all, nobody's making you pay for any making. You're allowing it. All right, Dear Abby. I'm part of a group of four girlfriends. We gather for all our birthdays and treat the birthday girl to dinner at a restaurant of her choice. However, one girl in the group orders several expensive cocktails and the bill comes out to be a fortune. She seems to have no regard when it comes to the bill. So this is the birthday girl. I guess I'm assuming this is the birthday girl ordering all the cocktails. Maybe the friend's birthday is coming up soon? Yeah, she's talking. You know you go out and take friends. Sure, I got it. The friend's birthday is coming up soon and she has chosen a very pricey restaurant where the bill would be a minimum of $900 for four people.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:What? Oh yeah, that's getting there. Oh ouch, I'm scared to think about it. How do we nicely tell her she has gone overboard? Or do we just not pay anything at all? All right, what do you think?
Speaker 2:Wow Okay.
Speaker 1:Well, that's ooh.
Speaker 2:So is she a friend? That's the first question, right? And the second one you know you probably would just get together with the other friends and say you know, amongst us, let's start limiting our dinners to this. Instead of hello, good morning, let's, you know, let's start limiting our dinners because you know we don't need to be spending a thousand dollars on these birthday dinners. Let's start living our dinners because you know we don't need to be spending a thousand dollars on these birthday dinners. So let's, let's start going. You know, here, and you know that way it's a group decision and you know you all can make the decision. And you know, if you're all friends, then everybody should say, ok, that sounds great.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't think you go confront the girl and say you know you quit doing this or you're taking advantage, or whatever. I think you just talk to you about you know, hey, why don't we start, you know, being a little bit more responsible instead of going out and doing that? I agree.
Speaker 1:I think that's a reasonable solution. All right, Dear Abby says what we say to the birthday girl is that her choice of this restaurant is going to cost more than any of you can comfortably afford and to please make another selection that will fit into your budgets order a bottle of wine and skip the cocktails yeah, I mean that's reasonable, but I think again to putting it on to the one person you, you know that's a gang up.
Speaker 2:I think you know it's like, as a group decision, let's do it.
Speaker 1:So anyway, that way they feel included in the decision. Right, all right, okay, so here's the next, dear Abby.
Speaker 2:Because you know it's all about inclusivity. Oh yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:My boyfriend attacked my brother. I won't break up with him. What Okay? I've been seeing a man, Barry, who worked with my younger brother. They had an altercation at work and Barry was terminated for misconduct. My brother, Rob, is upset with me because I still see him. Barry did reach out to Rob to apologize and see if they could move on. While my brother has forgiven Barry, he has chosen to have no contact with him and continues to want to control the narrative. Am I wrong for going against my brother and continuing the relationship? I was in prior abusive relationships that Rob wasn't concerned about, but when it is about him, he lets me know he's disappointed or worried about my well-being. I have set boundaries with them both, but the altercation was between them and not me. What do you think about that?
Speaker 2:Well, I don't know anything about the altercation.
Speaker 1:Right, and at work too, yeah.
Speaker 2:You know and all that stuff, but I would think that if, regardless of whatever altercation it was, it shows that this boyfriend is capable of altercations in some way, shape or form and that may extend to you yes, so I would probably. You know, like I said, this is only from what we know I would think more about terminating it with this guy than terminating it with the brother.
Speaker 1:Especially when she admits that she's been in previous abusive relationships. So obviously she's not good at picking out the men.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1:So I don't know if she can't recognize that or what I'd be like. Oh yeah, we need to break up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that would be a concern I would have.
Speaker 1:But she probably won't do it. Well, you know that's true.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's true. But yeah, that sounds like I think we're on the right track on that one. What she does is what she does, but yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all right, so you want to do one more, and then we'll end it with I don't know do you want to do a question of the day?
Speaker 2:Yes, definitely a question of the day.
Speaker 1:All right, dear Abby, I have a neighbor I truly love. I garden and she does not, despite my asking her two years ago not to take any of my asparagus. Yesterday she mentioned in conversation I love your asparagus. Sometimes I pick some for myself, abby. Last year I was left with only enough for one meal for myself. How could I say to her stop raiding my food source? I live on a limited budget. Many times I can't afford to buy vegetables, which she is aware of. I'm very hurt by her behavior. Thank you for any insight you can give. Well, my first question is why can you not afford vegetables? What else are you spending your money on? I don't know, but what do you think about her neighbor taking her vegetables?
Speaker 2:I would say, dear whoever this is that wrote this, are you missing any cats or ducks from your pond? Oh God, If so, that's a bigger threat than missing a few asparagus.
Speaker 2:Maybe, plant more Booby, trap them or something like that. You know I think I make a comment. Like you know, I've got a great new crop of experience. I'll bring you some. There you go, I'll bring you some, but you know I've put fertilizer in there and I don't want you to burn your hands in there, so I'll pick it for you. You know, if you want some, let me know, I will get it for you, that type of thing.
Speaker 1:She can put like a camera thing on it and like some of these cameras you see, sometimes you walk by and smile, you're on camera. The cameras talk to you.
Speaker 2:Yes, absolutely, hello, you are being taped.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And that's when they look up and go hi and just keep picking your speakers. But I think I would say in a nice way you know, let me get that for you. You know, yeah, so I can make sure it's, you know, perfectly ripe and ready to go.
Speaker 1:And I'll take that you just let me know if you need some that type of thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know all right, let's see what dear abby how dear abby answers it. She all right. This is what dear abby replies with. Sit your light finger neighbor down and remind her of some facts of your life. Tell her again that you are on a limited budget and grow vegetables because they have become too expensive for you to buy. Also, remind her that you have asked her before not to do what she has been doing, and tell her how hurt you are that she would steal from you. It is the truth and she needs to hear it. She should be ashamed of herself. Sometimes people can't do that. That's why they're writing to you, dear abby, exactly for, maybe, an alternative answer right again we're, we're correct and dear abby's not.
Speaker 1:So yeah, you know all right, that was our Dear Abby. The gent reacts to Dear Abby and I thought it was pretty good. All right, we need a question of the day. All right, I have the question of the day and my question is should Trump debate Kamala again? I don't think he's going to. I think he's put statements out that he's not going to do it. I think he should, though I it.
Speaker 2:I think he should, though I definitely think he should, and I think it should be in. You know, I think we ought to put it in a vacuum and let Fox News do it and let me choose the moderators for it, because of the way the last one happened, and we'll see. But I have thoughts on you know, megyn Kelly came out with some thoughts about how we should do debates, and I think I'm all for that, but that's for another episode.
Speaker 1:Okay, I think Megyn Kelly should moderate it. She's very good at removing herself from anything. She's good. I like Megyn Kelly.
Speaker 2:Well, in regards to what she said she would, I think she'd be good to sit back and introduce it and let the format which we'll go into at a later time happen, and I think that'd be great All right Sounds good.
Speaker 1:You guys have a great day. Thanks for listening.
Speaker 2:Go Dawgs.
