S1E20: Car Chaos: Milkshakes, Bluetooth, and the Visor Debate

Pam had a blast at Universal Studios, Deb tackled Iceland, and somehow we ended up debating spilled milkshakes, visors, and a fourth dog. Plus, Unpopular Opinions—coffee smells better than it tastes, AM/PM beats military time… agree or disagree?

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And what happens is it passes that point. It's not even true. You know how it's got that magnetic point where it just reattaches back to the ceiling? Oh, my God. You are such a liar. It gets so far past that point that it just falls open and all the paper comes over and then it sticks on the milkshake that's on the car seat, which is a problem. Yeah, I don't want things sticking on it. That would be hard to clean up. You are such a liar. You admit you are a visor. I used to be much worse, but I don't put things in the. The only thing now that I will put in the visor is like the registration for the vehic so that if you need to get. And the insurance card. So if you need. Welcome back to she said. She said. It's been a little while. It has been a little while. I'm Pam Pryor, accountant, cfo, author, speaker, and I balance the books in the house. I'm Deb Reinhard and I am currently a corporate executive, also an executive coach. And most of the times I balance Pam in the house. That's pretty fair. So we're both back on the east coast again. We went different directions this last week. I know. Tell us where you went. Iceland. Just short version of why you're in Iceland. Yeah, work. I went to Iceland for work. Lots of work. And I found lots of snow and rain and ice and wind and an amazing, amazing country. What I found interesting when you were packing is that the weather is really pretty much just like it is here in Pennsylvania. It is, but it is also very windy. Okay. Because it's right on. It's right. A lot of ocean right on the water. Yep. And so we're going back in July for vacation. I can't. I'm really looking forward to it. I think it'll be beautiful in July. Yeah, I think it'll be beautiful anytime. I. I really can't wait. But it's kind of weird that you're also going there for work now. Yeah. And while you were there, I went out to the west coast and did a speech at a really cool. Did a really cool. Went to Universal Studios Hollywood. Very cool. First time I'd been there ever. Yeah, I think. I think when I was little little, we might have gone to California Disney World, but I don't really remember it. And stayed in a really. Shout out to the Marriott. There's a Sheraton there. Marriott on Sheraton now. And the service was amazing. Like from Everybody, you're really picky. Like the lady that. When I got to my room, the lady who had cleaned the room met me at the door to hold it open to ask me if everything was okay. Gave me a big hug. I mean, it was like really pretty cool. And then at the desk, they were nice. Everybody in the restaurants, anybody who passed in the hall was really, really good. So shout out to Marriott. I think it's called Sheraton Universal Studios. I think we should go as a family sometime because we haven't been to Universal Studios in a while. I haven't. I've never been to Universal Studios in California. But we've done it down in. Right. We've done it in Florida. The speech went really well. I introduced AI for the first time into how you can basically have a CFO without hiring one. So it was pretty fun. It was pretty. It had their attention a lot. It was really good. I think the technology is the technology. Pretty. Pretty crazy. Definitely making my job a lot easier. I know, I know. Pretty crazy. Other than that, what's been going on? Not too much. Lindsay show. Lindsay's show. Yeah. She's directing Mamma Mia. At Strathhaven High School. This is the last weekend. Well, not by the time they hear. They'd hear it, but it'll be. But it was amazing. But yeah, apparently you've already seen it once. I've seen it once. We're gonna go see it again. We're gonna go this weekend and. Can't wait to see that. That'll be a ton of fun. Now I want to start singing. But I won't. Don't. But I won't. Oh, gosh. You made me think of something else too. That's going on. Not Mamma Mia. It's gone. Yeah, I forgot. Just let it go. But it was pretty important. Just let it go. It'll come back to you. Darn it. I cannot remember. But while I was gone. First of all, I need to explain something. The day before I left, I got my hair done and it was a crazy day. Like, I got out of the house, they called me and said, could you come early? So I got out of the house a little bit late. I kind of threw everything in the car. I was like, I have to eat something, so don't listen to this Dr. K. But I got picked up McDonald's on the way up Route 1 and had hamburger, fries and a shake. And I was really late and I got to Princeton, which is where I get my hair done. And there was no parking to Be had. Like, I circled that entire town twice. I'm like, I've got to park somewhere. So I found a garage that actually said it was full, but I thought, there's got to be a spot so they didn't have it blocked. I went in, got a spot. I had about this much room because I parked in one of those that said compact cars. Your car is pretty compact. I actually said, back in, only not compact cars. But I. I had this much room on one side and this much room on the other side. I mean, it was tight. It was one of my best parking jobs. And I went to get out of the car, I realized it was going to be a little iffy. I did manage to get out and knocked the milkshake over in the seat. Well, I was already, like, 10 minutes late. And, you know, the McDonald's napkins that you get are not very absorbent, right? And I only had two or three of them. So I just like, well, all right, I'll blop up as much as I can. I'll clean it when I get home, right? I'll clean it when I get home. So got back in the car after haircut went great, blah, blah. Got back in the car, came home and thought, wow, this really needs serious cleaning. So I'm gonna order really good cleaner stuff and microcloths, which I did. In the meantime, I'm just gonna let it sit there and get hard and sticky and gunky and, like, work its way into the nice leather of the heated car seats. I had to. I had to leave for LA the next day. So I got the stuff and left. I thought, when I get home, I'll do it. Because I didn't drive my car. I got a ride. And sure enough, the first thing I hear. Yeah. When I talk is because I get. In the car to take my lovely bonus child out to breakfast and we're. I look over, it was a mess. It was a mess. And I'm like, I. I cursed. I got out, I pulled the car out, I shut the door. I said, when? We've got to wait. And I shut the door and I. You could have driven them. I found your stuff, right? You'd driven them. I was not gonna put them show first up. So then I'm cleaning that. Well, got it. It was sticky. It was, like, hard to get off. Because, you know, Pam, I get that you want to get, like, nice cleaner, but you should have just cleaned it at least once with, like, just. Why clean something twice that you only have to clean once? Because it was a pain to clean. That's crazy pants. Well, that's all right, because your USB C stick plug thing still has gunky chocolate crap on it. Because I didn't see that when I cleaned off your. When I cleaned off your seat. So my logic was when I get back. So it was, I'll clean it. If anybody needs to ride in the car, they can sit in the back and I'll clean it. And we only clean once. Why would you clean something twice that you can only have to clean once? Because I don't understand. Well, this is actually a little neurotic and funny on your part because this. This, the car must be impeccable story. Is the woman who uses the car visor as if it's the whole house's junk drawer. No, I do not. Oh, my God. Look, it's a. It's. Look, the reason that it. I guarantee you it even has, like, a little strappy thing so it can hold the pieces of paper. I guarantee you that after this weekend, there will be. Mamma Mia. Whatever you call those things. Leaflets. Nope, I will not up my. There will be no program in the visor. Oh. Oh, there will be. And it's really pretty funny because I'm. Doing so much better. One thing you are doing better at, but it's not that. So first of all, it starts out as one sheet of paper. Then another one goes up there, then another one, and like a couple days later, if we're using the car a lot, you basically have a sheet of paper in the visor. No, you don't. You are in it. And what happens is it passes that point. It's not even true. You know how it's got that magnetic point where it just reattaches back to the ceiling? Oh, my God, you are such a liar. So far past that point that it just falls open and all the paper comes over and then it sticks on the milkshake that's on the car seat, which is a problem. Yeah, I don't want things sticking on it. That would be hard to clean up. You are such a liar. You admit you're. You are a visor. I used to be much worse, but I don't put things in the. The only thing now that I will put in the visor is like, the registration for the vehicle. So that if you need to get. And the insurance card. So if you need to get those because you got stopped, you can pull those out easy. That is not the only thing. There was something in there the other day. No. Oh, my God, then you must have put it there. You have such a selective memory. Well, at least you have a memory, but it's selective, so. Yeah. So no, I'm getting better. And you have to acknowledge that while. We'Re on the car, because I'm just going to get it all out about the car. Do it. This is. We have. We do have a she car and a she car. Yours is on loan right now. It's not my she car. Right now we have a she car. And the story I'm telling is long before it was an us car, it was a she. It was my car. Yeah. And even on my car before, if you had a Bluetooth connection, these are what we called first world problems. I realized it is a first world problem. But I get in the car and the phone connects to the car. That's the way it's supposed to work. Deb gets in the car no matter what, no matter when. And the phone, the. My car will connect to her phone. It likes me that. And it stays connected to her phone. And so that when I get back in the car and she's not there, it won't find my phone. Yeah. And I have a problem with that. I think you've done something. No, I didn't. But I didn't do anything for that. But I will tell you that I have now corrected that for you. Do you know what I did? I have no idea. I have made it so that my phone only uses the USB cable connection for. For CarPlay. I still see a Deb's phone. It's all right. It doesn't matter. It will not use. It will not use Bluetooth in your car anymore. It requires the connection. We will test this on Saturday when I get in the car. I can tell you for a fact that that's the case because when I had my car, my phone in your car to drive to my voice lesson the other day, I didn't have it plugged in right away and I had no car plug. Is that because there's milkshake on the plug? I. There is milkshake on the plug and I still plugged it in. And I cursed at you when I plugged it in with the milkshake on the plug. You know, it's really. Speaking of those plugs, by the way. Yeah. So shout out to Travis Barker and easy it. Because he told me about this. I don't know if you have this problem, but with USBC cables, when you use them in and out and in and out a lot, a lot of times they twist and like the. The cable right up by where the thing attaches to the usbc, it breaks and wires come out and all that. I don't have that problem. You've never had that problem? No. Because I grabbed the little plastic dongle part to pull it out. Not just pull it out by the cable? No, it's not from pulling it out. It's from, like, bending it funny. Like you. You'll twist and it'll twist funny. And God bless you. Thank you. And those were like, the most little dainty sneezes you've ever done. Sorry. Anyway, so. Such a dainty person. There's another problem, though, too. And this happened to one of my computers. All of a sudden, the USB C cable stopped working in both of the outlets on my computer. And sometimes I didn't realize this because of dust and stuff. There must be dust that. Must be dust anymore. No, I don't know. I'm hoping not dust in your house, in the basement. The dogs. So anyway, so you can get gook in there in the little slot, and then it can ruin the connectivity. So these things are really cool. It's like there's a piece that's sort of like. I don't even know what to call it. It's just magnetic. It's magnetic. You put a little magnet in your. Phone, but you put a thing like that stays on your phone because then it's protecting the little hole. Here's the deal. I had to actually take my little thing out of my phone. Do you know why? No. Because the. Because the shake had gooped up the magnet and it wouldn't magnetize to my phone. Because you have. You probably had trouble with the. Yeah, Did. USB C thing. Right? So I pulled that out, but then now I just plug the cable. What did I put on your desk yesterday? I saw that. You put me. You gave me one. Thank you. New magnets. Hi, buddy. Do you want a magnet for yours? She's yelling at me. I know. Thank you for protecting me. No, those are. Those are really very cool. This is the. Bernie's dog and him. You know, they sit at your feet and protect you till the rescue team comes. Rescue team, help me. There's no rescue for you today. He's waiting. Okay, rescue me. What are we doing today? We're going to do something called Unpopular opinions, which is a Reddit thread forum, rather. And we're just going to read some out and you're going to agree or disagree with them and maybe offer your own unpopular opinions. Oh, okay. I have Selected a couple that I think would be good for you to. To. You know us way too well. You know us way too well. This is not good. Is there one about having four dogs instead of three? No. No. Oh, darn. Emily, we have some work to do. That doesn't have to do with dogs. I will give you the first one. Coffee smells a hundred times better than it tastes. Oh, I think that's true. I think that's true, too. I do. It's the smell I like. I had to really learn to like. The taste because there's a. There's like a. There's like a bitterness to coffee. I tend to put. Have to, like. I. I've gotten used to kind of drinking it black. I don't enjoy it, though. Yeah. But I drink it black because sometimes you just want to have coffee. But when I really like coffee, you have to make it sweet, and you have to look like khaki. I had a really good friend of mine who I. We have. Four of us lived in the house, and she said when I was, like, I don't know, 18. She's. Look, here's what we're gonna do. You're gonna drink coffee black for a week. You're gonna hate it, but by the end of the week, you're going to like it. And then you'll thank me for the rest of your life. Yeah. Because you can drink it black. And I'm like, she was 1000% correct. Because all I'd have to do is. I mean, I can do it, but I don't. I don't love it. I like it. But I will say, like, that. The smell of coffee. Like, I remember waking up in my grandmother's house to the smell of coffee. Per. She had a percolator. That's nice. And I remember waking up to the smell of coffee in my mom's house. Like. Like. Yeah, I do like. The smell is definitely better. How about you? What do you guys think? You don't drink coffee. Oh, that's right. Do you like the smell? Yeah. Next one. AM and PM Is dumb. Everyone should use military. Yes. Absol. Freaking lutely. You know, I don't know. I like AM and pm. I grew up with AM and pm. It is extra military time. I always have to. I always have to do the math. I'm always having to subtract numbers. I can't know. I. I like AM and PM. There are 24 hours in a day. Why do you have to subtract numbers? There are two, 12, but there's also just 24. No, no. There's one happens two times. It would make clocks difficult. Like old regular clocks. No, I just am not like I. Don'T know how you do. I guess you could do a 24 hour dial the same way you do a 12 hour dial. No, no, no. A.m. p.m. What's your. How do you. Why? It's because you know it. Because it feels like it's about rhythm. Like there's two parts of the day. There's like the first 12 hours and the second 12 hours. It just feels like. It feels like that is a natural way to think about. Do you not think that if you'd grown up with 24 hours in a day and you

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12, it's just 24 hours that you might not feel differently? Like I want. They're both concocted. I. I get that. Right? Yeah. Yeah. And all right, so maybe I would. But. But I don't. But you don't. Because you grew up with it. Okay. Because I grew up with this. To me it's just so much simpler. It's. It's like. I don't know if you've seen the Nate Bark. Nate Bark goes he thing on. He did a great episode on. He was George Washington in the boat going across the. Yeah, yeah. River. And it was a whole thing on. Hey, we're going to make a free nation. And we're going to get to make up our own stuff. So we're gonna like have a thing called a ton that's£2,000. And they're like why? He said because we can. And we're gonna make up a mile and it's gonna have X number of feet in it. Because we can. There was so much logic in the 24 hour thing. I don't. I don't. I don't get why we changed it. Have it. But. But it's not mine. Yep. No, that one I definitely disagree with you on. And I know Wim probably does too too. Because I think you're probably a 24 hour clock. How about you? 12 or 24. I'm so used to 12. But I understand. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. No mistakes with 24. I don't set my stupid alarm for 4pm and get woked up at 4am because I did it wrong. Because you didn't set your

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00pm Right. But I kind of did. I meant to. Yeah. Anyway, if it was 16, I wouldn't have to worry about it. I could probably change that in my phone. You can change that on your phone? Yeah. You can. You can change your watch, too, if you wanted. Gonna do that. Okay. I'm good. All right, next one. Oh, tomato is terrible in a burger. Yes, it is. It does not belong there. I don't know who came up with that. Ketchup, yes. Tomato, no. If it's a really good tomato, I like tomato. I would just slice it and eat it if it were a really good. Tomato with a burger. And you know what? I think that's probably part of the reason that I also like that naked burger salad at Iron Hill that they got rid of. What? They got rid of the naked burger salad. I love the naked burger salad. Right. Because it was a naked burger. Well, I got it with tomatoes, lettuce. I got. I always, never got the lettuce. I mean, the tomatoes. I never got the lettuce. I never got the tomatoes. I just got the salad. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If it's a good tomato, I'm down with it. Yeah. I could actually see tomato with the burger without the bun. But once there's a bun, tomato doesn't make sense. Cheese, onion, relish, ketchup, mustard. But look. But I will say this. If I do. If I put tomato on my burger, then it's mayonnaise. If it's ruby. If I don't have the tomato on the burger, that's a ruby. Maybe Ketchup. Yeah, yeah, all three ketchup. Mustard and mayo. Mustard, ketchup, and mayo. No. Oh, that's kind of interesting. I do. Mustard and ketchup and mayo. So are you tomato on or. No? Oh, hell no. I don't even like tomatoes. How about you? I don't like slices. I am. I like to dice the tomato. Got it. With onion in the same, like, size. Oh. Almost like a little salsa. Without. Yeah. Now that's a tomato flavor. And you don't have the pain in the ass of having to open your mouth further to get the slice of tomato when they cut it, like, this thick. Yeah. So you really dice it small. Yeah. Like, it's almost a spread. I, like, need to be thinly sliced. I could do that. That feels more like ketchup to me. Well, it's like in a McDonald's hamburger, the onions are so small. Yes. That they're good. Yeah. Yep. Agreed. Yeah, Agreed. Okay, give it a shot. That's. I will. I will try that. That sounds really good. If I have the patience to do that kind of slice. Yeah, you're good. You're only 10 minutes late. Yeah, we have. We have a Couple more. Time for a couple more. This is an interesting one that I saw. Preheating the oven is a scam ran by the government to take your money. No, no, no, no. That is like. That is some. That is some, like, conspiracy theorists say the government is trying to steal your money. I don't know that preheating is necessary. I mean, like, it is. I don't know that there's. It is. It's got to heat up to temperature. But I don't think there's any problem necessarily with putting your food in when you turn the oven on. So I'm okay with that. But I'm trying to run a line of. From that being the government taking my money. How are they sucking it out through. No, they're just charging. They're charging you for the government electricity. That's what somebody's saying. That's hysterical. I do sometimes I will. If, like I'm busy or whatever, I'll just put it in. When I turn the oven on, I'll do that. Like if I'm reheating a piece of pizza or something, I might do it that way. But if I am. But if I'm baking something. No, you got to get to temperature. Well, if it's got to get crispy. Because then you know how long it's supposed to be in, like chicken. I won't. Cuz I want it to get crispy. So you don't want to slow heat something like that. But a casserole, those kind of things. Absolutely. Absolutely not. Wow. No wonder I like my food better. Really? No, just kidding. Joke, joke. Okay. All right, the last one. All right. Diego's helping you pick. Caller id. Should be mandatory. If they're calling me. Yes. If I'm calling out. No, no. You know what? I think caller ID is a good thing because then I know which calls to ignore and which calls I need to pick up. I hate when I just see a number and I don't recognize the number. I most of the times just let those go. I always let them go. Sometimes then I find out, oh, like, like that's the hospital. I didn't know that. If I had known that it was. You know, they'll leave a message. Yeah, I kind of really don't care because the people I need to talk to are in my phone. So their names pop up. Yeah. If somebody calls that I don't need to talk to and they need to talk to me, they can either leave a message or text me. I have a lot, I guess I have like now A lot of new people in my world that I don't have their phone number. That's true. So I really do. Like, like the caller mandatory. Like, what if I wanted to be private and I need to call people? I don't want them to know who it is. What if I want. Yeah, then you can, then you can use the little, the little code thing to like, bypass it. The mandatory part. Yeah, that goes away. It's against the law. But, but why would you want to be secret? Like, look, if you're going to call somebody, then they should know you're calling them. Like, I don't, I don't. I don't know. I don't. I don't think I would only be for illicit means that you'd need to be secret. Right. If, if you don't have anything to hide, why do you need to hide your call? That's true. But should it be a law for everybody? Isn't that like, don't we get into. The whole wear your seatbelt people now think that they don't care about laws anyway, so who does? The whole. Doesn't matter. Cut that, for God's sake. But like, it's the seatbelt thing all over again. Should it be mandatory? Yes, yes. I mean, if you think about it like, seatbelts are. Seatbelts are, are affecting, like, deaths in car accidents. Right. Which affect your insurance premiums. Everybody complains about insurance premiums. That's an interesting thing. So other people not wearing their seatbelts makes my insurance premium go up overall? Correct. I'd never thought about that argument. I know. That's very interesting. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So just everybody wear them. Yeah. I don't think it should be mandatory. You want to take yourself out, take yourself out. Like. Well, how do you. No, no phones. I'm not talking phones. I was going to say motorcycle helmets. Like, there's another one. I'm not jumping there. You should wear them. I ain't jumping. Well, if you want to live, you should, but that's your choice. Again, matter again. If you want to live, do it. If you don't, do what you want. I guess that is when we argued about in the day. I remember. Argued about. Yeah, yeah, I do absolutely remember that. All right, well, we're not going to solve those problems on this show. No. However, I do think we should rename it because today there were a few cases where it was I'm right, she's wrong, instead of she Said, she Said. So let's think about the title. No, other than that. We hope you all have a great week. Thanks for joining us. If there's any topics you think we should discuss on the show, you be sure to let us know. We're glad to argue about just about anything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely. And drop us a little note. Hit like hit subscribe. Tell us what you think about the caller id, but even more importantly, about four dogs versus three. No. See you next time. Not four dogs. Not four dogs. It.