Carol ReMarks
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Carol ReMarks
Elf on the Shelf Musings, College Football Drama, and Light-hearted Banter
Have you ever wondered if Elf on the Shelf is a whimsical delight or a sneaky little creeper? Join us as my wife and I jovially tackle this holiday tradition, all while navigating the ever-elusive quest for a good night's sleep as we grace the golden years. Our morning banter is peppered with the joy of spotting an amusing typo on the news ticker, providing a welcome chuckle amidst our lively chat. We also dive into the world of college football, where the tension and thrill of conference championships have us speculating on who will clinch the playoff spots and who might face the heartbreak of being left out.
As we muse on the idea of being a "bad habit" that listeners just can't resist, we reflect on the irony of indulging in things we claim to resist, much like a catchy tune that plays on repeat. Everyday routines anchor our conversation as we prepare breakfast and rally with a spirited "Go dogs, sick 'em!" We tease an intriguing trivia moment tied to a historical event, setting the stage for tomorrow's lively session. Whether you're here for the football analysis, the playful musings, or just a light-hearted chat, we hope you'll stick around for another episode of fun and reflection.
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Good morning one and all and welcome to the second, to the last of the podcast that my beautiful wife and I will be doing. How are you this morning, my love?
Speaker 2:Good morning. I'm fantastic, I slept great.
Speaker 1:That's a good thing. I slept great too, but it's weird, I guess, as we get older, as I get older, it's harder for me to sleep. Now I slept really good from like 11 to 4. But then I woke up a little bit before 4 and it was like all right, you're up. You know, I couldn't get comfortable laying there and turned over. It's like go brew the coffee, it's time to get up. I'll probably want to take a nap sometime during the day. But you know, getting eight hours of straight sleep oh, what a dream that would be. But it's impossible now. It is.
Speaker 2:I think I almost got eight hours, didn't I?
Speaker 1:You went from 8 o'clock no 8.30. No because I watched a little bit of gut fell 8, 30.
Speaker 2:Nine. They came on at nine 9 30.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you went 9 30 and then I guess it was five, a little after five. Yeah, so you got seven and a half good hours, good hours of sleep, because you went to sleep really fast when you turned over, yeah, so I don't know, that's my aging story for the day and I'll creak and groan and grunt and groan, but I'm just happy to be able to move around. What about you? Yep yep, yep, yep, Absolutely Well. What do we got going on today?
Speaker 2:Well, we got the Grand Cam Woo-hoo. We've staged the Elf on the Shelf in a way that I think he'll enjoy.
Speaker 1:Absolutely, and somewhere online you'll find pictures of what we've done posted. If you have nothing better to do, you can go check it out and see what we're doing.
Speaker 2:I have mixed emotions about this Elf on the Shelf. I feel like we're bribing him and it's propaganda and we're messing with his mind. I don't know if we should be doing this or not.
Speaker 1:Well, you know, I remember my parents always told us that Santa had elves that kept an eye on us and they might be looking in the window. So you better be careful that you're minding your peas and coos and go clean up your room.
Speaker 2:Well, how is that to tell a child you're terrifying the child? Oh my gosh, he's looking in at me on the window, but it's Santa's elves.
Speaker 1:you know Santa's elves, I know but you know, in today's age, and time all the crybaby snowflake liberals.
Speaker 2:You shouldn't be lying to your children that way. How terrifying.
Speaker 1:You're warping their minds, so I guess justifying it with an elf on the shelf is better. You know Now, not only is he not looking in your window.
Speaker 2:He's watching you.
Speaker 1:He's in your house now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, we've moved him right next to you Is it like creepy.
Speaker 1:I'd rather have him outside the window. That way, I know I got something between me and the elf. You know, all of a sudden you hear something scurrying across the floor and you think, oh God, the elf got off the shelf.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, terrifying the children. Let's terrify the children.
Speaker 1:Somebody's going to quote that. Oh my God. So it scurried across the floor and the elf got off the shelf. I was pretty good with it. Sometimes I crack myself up, even though she doesn't laugh at me.
Speaker 2:I'm laughing, I'm just you know that's a good thing. Put healthcare wrong on UnitedHealth. I'm sorry. We got the news on in the background. They spelled UnitedHealthcare, healthcare. They got the little ticker thing spelled incorrectly Forgot the H.
Speaker 1:Yeah, wow, isn't that something Really?
Speaker 2:Sorry, I got off topic.
Speaker 1:No, that's okay.
Speaker 2:What else is going on?
Speaker 1:Well, today's a very big day for college football. A lot of conference championships going on, uh-huh. Georgia plays Texas rematch today. I'm nervous about that game.
Speaker 2:What time do they come on?
Speaker 1:3 o'clock, I believe, and then you've got the other championship games Clemson and SMU. That's kind of strange, I guess would be the best way to put it. Oregon's playing somebody who's Oregon playing, you don't know.
Speaker 2:They talked about it on Pat Gray. I forget.
Speaker 1:Penn State.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:That's right. Ohio State didn't make the conference championship game. Sorry, ohio State, but they'll get in the championship. They'll get in because they'll lobby for it and get in. So it'll be interesting to see at the end of the day. You know before it can get in. So it'll be interesting to see at the end of the day.
Speaker 1:You know who makes the 12 playoffs and who's left out. You know Alabama and South Carolina and Ole Miss. Somebody in that group's going to be left out and somebody's going to be bitching about it. So it'll be fun to hear the bitchers, you know. But it's like I've always said. You said if you had a two-team playoff, the third team's pissed. You had a four-team playoff, the fifth team's pissed. Now you're going to have a 12-team playoff and the 13th team's going to be pissed. So by the time we get said and done, it'll be 64 teams, like there are, or 66 or 68 teams, like there are in basketball, and the 69th team will be pissed because they got left out, even though they have no chance of winning it. They're pissed that they didn't make the playoffs.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So anyway. But you know, leaving that all aside, I don't know what today. Let me ask that question. It's not question of the day, but question of the day. What event happened in history today that's more important than all of that.
Speaker 2:You want me to say it, or do you want to?
Speaker 1:That's a question that you know. We'll pause for a second and let people think about it, Then we'll answer it. Today is a day which will live in infamy. There was a president that said that Go look it up and see who it was. But today was the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, which changed the world dramatically, Because had they not done that, we would not have gotten pissed off and we probably would not have bombed Japan like we did, and it wouldn't have ended World War II. Bombed Japan like we did, and it wouldn't have ended World War II. It may have been that you know, we're living under Japanese rule right now, who knows? But it's a day that changed the world.
Speaker 2:And I remember once upon a time, as I was growing up, that this day was talked about all the time, all the time. Not once has the news mentioned it this morning.
Speaker 1:Not yet. Not yet has it mentioned it, and you know it's something that, so maybe it's not going to live in infamy. You know it's something I hope that you know isn't part of the liberal. We've got to rewrite history and you know we can't think about that and all. And we just happened to watch Tokyo Joe last night movie. Last night movie and you know you got to see a 1950s movie that kind of portrayed what the Japanese thought about the Americans and how their social set was when Americans were in Japan after the war and it was real interesting that the way that they were being portrayed now it was a movie, of course, but it was very interesting the way they were being portrayed that the Japanese were humbled by the fact that the Americans were treating them so good after they had attacked and after we had bombed and after. You know it was like they weren't mad at them, they were humbled and almost in servitude toward the Americans.
Speaker 2:At least that's how it was portrayed in the movie.
Speaker 1:That's how it was portrayed in the movie and I just wonder if that was, if that, if that was true, that's such a different attitude than most people would have if you were being occupied by other people you've been at war with. You know what I'm saying. So it was a very interesting way that they started the movie and kind of struck my interest. Is this how they're going to react throughout the movie? Is this how they're going to react throughout the movie? But you could also see that there was a lot of non-trust amongst the Japanese characters and the American characters and back and forth, which you know. Ideally you would think there would be. So it was a good movie. I enjoyed that.
Speaker 1:You know it wasn't one of the higher-rated Bogart movies, but anyway, going beyond that, you know take a moment to remember today and you know, if you're out there listening to us pass it along on your social medias, that you know today's a day to remember all those great people. You know and I took it down, but I posted a picture of a gentleman that I was fortunate enough to meet, who was a Blue Angel pilot and flew for a famous coach when he was in law school, but he was after he was. You know he was a Korean War person, he was in World War II. But I go back and you know it makes me think of the service they gave and then the service that my parents gave and the friends of my parents and their generation. They were all World War II. That's one of my favorite periods of history and I would hope that it doesn't get forgotten. So if you go back, take a look at it. Very interesting, very humbling, and it's something that I hope we never forget.
Speaker 2:Yes, amen.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. Well, that's my thinking of the day Grand Cam football and remembering Pearl Harbor. Well, that's my thinking of the day Grand Cam football and remembering Pearl Harbor. Well, okay, that's a lot to think about. Really, when you think about it, that's a lot to think about. That's two lines that I can be quoted on when you think about it. That's a lot to think about, and tomorrow's going to be our last episode.
Speaker 2:Tomorrow's last episode. We've got to go out with a big bang. I don't know what we're going to be. Our last episode? Tomorrow's last episode. We've got to go out with a big bang.
Speaker 1:I don't know what we're going to do.
Speaker 2:I have nothing planned.
Speaker 1:Oh, we have the big idea.
Speaker 2:Okay, all right, we have the big idea.
Speaker 1:The big idea will be dropped upon all of you tomorrow. Yes, the big idea.
Speaker 2:Well, do you want to go on with the question of the?
Speaker 1:day. Yes, let's do the question of the day.
Speaker 2:Are you?
Speaker 1:oh, you've got one I don't have one, oh, all right.
Speaker 2:I think I do All right, do it, but I'm not ready for it, oh, all right. All right, I have the question of the day. You want me to ask it, or do you? Yes?
Speaker 1:Sure, because I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2:All right, I have a question of the day that I think everybody is going to love and participate and have a definite answer.
Speaker 1:Okay, tell me what is the question.
Speaker 2:All right, Should the gent start his own podcast.
Speaker 1:Oh, that would be. You have to put the kids in bed and go into your closet and make sure that your other devices aren't listening. Then they'll come to your door and want to. Okay, well, that's an interesting question. I have no answer yet. I think I have an answer, I think. Interesting question. I have no answer.
Speaker 2:yet I think I have an answer. I think you should.
Speaker 1:I have no answer yet.
Speaker 2:I've actually thought about this and I think you should.
Speaker 1:Well, you know.
Speaker 2:What else are you going to do?
Speaker 1:Clean house, make food, you know, just the normal things.
Speaker 2:There's all kinds of stuff you could talk about. You told me a fantastic story this morning. I think you would have a lot to talk about.
Speaker 1:That was a pretty good story.
Speaker 2:I'm not talking about that one. I'm talking about the other one, with checking into the hotel and having your three characters.
Speaker 1:That's an interesting one, yeah.
Speaker 2:Anyway, I think you have a lot to share, not just about your life that's happened, but also your take on football and life in general, and I think it would be good.
Speaker 1:Well, there you go. Folks Make your suggestions. Do you want it? Seven days a week, five days a week, two days a week, one day a week? Could you handle it?
Speaker 2:I think in the beginning maybe just a couple of times a week for you until you got used to it and understood how it worked and all that.
Speaker 1:You think they could handle it? I'm talking about you, you think you people could handle it.
Speaker 2:They could handle it. I'm talking about you handling it, no.
Speaker 1:I'm talking about you think they could.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they definitely could.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, I can't listen to this anymore, or I'd be one of those. I can't listen to this anymore as they keep listening Like I can't do this anymore, but they keep doing it. I'm like a bad habit.
Speaker 2:I think you should, and then I could be a guest on your podcast.
Speaker 1:That'd be my intro. I'm a bad habit, but you keep coming back for more.
Speaker 2:That's your tagline.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm a bad habit, but you keep coming back for more. I like that, all right. Well, we gotta wrap this up, because I'm getting hungry see, that's something I have to do.
Speaker 1:I have to go fix breakfast now.
Speaker 2:Go dogs, sick them all right, we'll be back again tomorrow, god willing for our last episode.
Speaker 1:Stay tuned woof, woof, woof.
