Happy Easter, Peeps!

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SPEAKER_02 0:00

All right, this is Brendan Stacy with Let's Wind with Brendan Stacy, and this is our Easter episode. We thought we'd come and talk about candy and the Easter bunny and maybe a few Easters past.

SPEAKER_01 0:09

A few Easters past, maybe a few Easters to come. I don't know. What so first of all, we looked it up earlier. What the hell is Easter Day about? It doesn't fall on the same time. It doesn't fall in the same. I'm just always confused. So it has something to do with the full moon and the Passover for that I don't completely understand. That's the week before, right? And then Good Friday. And then something about Good Friday. As a as a good Christian person, I should know these things. You I was gonna say, as a Jesus freak, but maybe I shouldn't have been.

SPEAKER_02 0:45

I'm not a Jesus freak. You had about a hundred Jesuses sitting around his house. That was though those were different.

SPEAKER_01 0:53

And your um grandson Lark goes, I've never met anyone who has a bowl full of Jesuses. I know, I'm sure.

SPEAKER_02 1:02

And then since you gave him a couple, I heard that they were found in the hallway at their house. They made it back to Florida with him.

SPEAKER_01 1:10

Well, good, good, good, good. I mean, it is a holy religion, but it baffles me. Corporate America doesn't recognize it.

SPEAKER_02 1:23

Some do.

SPEAKER_01 1:24

Some do. You're just mad because you have to work on Easter Sunday. I'm mad because my corporate job doesn't recognize it. And I may have to work on Easter Sunday. Um, but somebody's got to do it. And it baffles me the amount of people who come in and say, I cannot believe you're open. And I just want to go, I cannot believe you're shopping.

SPEAKER_02 1:44

Well, maybe they want that Easter discount. When do you start discounting Easter stuff? Is it the day after? The day after. So they can't come in there on Easter and get a discount. Stay home, people. Stay home. Don't come shopping.

SPEAKER_01 1:55

So I don't have to work every Easter for the rest of my life. I know. But um anyway, yeah, it's uh it shouldn't be a shopping holiday. It should be a like a family time holiday to reflect and enjoy each other's company and be around each other and laugh and love and all of those things.

SPEAKER_02 2:12

Well, I'll be working on Easter, but I work in a place that's open 24 hours to Easter.

SPEAKER_01 2:16

You do, and and also y'all celebrate.

SPEAKER_02 2:19

Yeah, and they'll have their Easter dinner. They've already done an egg hunt for kids and staff kids and yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:24

Yeah, so y'all be celebrating. And I know you working there, those people aren't like your family. They're an extended part of your family. So in a sense, it's I mean, yes, you're gonna be at work and earning money, but also you're gonna be celebrating with people you genuinely like to be on. I do.

SPEAKER_02 2:42

I like to be in their company. I don't know. I have people, I mean, I hate to say this, but there are people that come up to me and they're like, I don't know how you do it. I don't know how you do it. Because this is my first round with memory care, but it's been over a year now, and I love it. I don't know. It's a I don't want to tur use the term crazy at all because I'm probably crazier. But I think there's something in my personality that just it it works.

SPEAKER_01 3:04

Yeah. I'm worse.

SPEAKER_02 3:06

I can take it. I can take the being called names and being hit and everything else. Oh my god. And it doesn't bother me because you know you still get that gleam every now and then. They're in there. I still believe they're in there. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 3:19

I know. That's gotta be super cool for you. It is. It really is. Experience that and see that. And then when their family members like come to visit or whatever, do you share that with them? That little that little moment of like, oh, she was right there.

SPEAKER_02 3:34

Oh yeah. You know, you have that. Oh, I know. I do, and I love to tell them the good things like they were singing today or they knew all the words, you know. That's what that's what's amazing, I think. You know, I have worked with dementia before, and I think what it just blows my mind. I mean, I went through it with my mom. I could ask her, would you eat for breakfast? Couldn't tell you, but she could tell you what happened back in 1935, like it was happening now. And there's just that piece of that brain that just you know, it's shuts off.

SPEAKER_01 4:04

And I know I know you love the brain and how intricate it is and all the things it does. And I think I see that in you like to watch people Oh, I love watching people. How we how we survive and cope and oh you know how well we're doing with Easter facts. I thought this was gonna be about Easter, but we went off on a trail.

SPEAKER_02 4:24

I know. We have been celebrating Easter at work and we've done like Easter songs and some Easter trivia has come up already. And we did Oh, yesterday we made little Easter ornaments. It was wooden, and you know, we drew on them, and then the week before there was a garland that was made with all their names on it, and they put little stickers on it as hanging in the office.

SPEAKER_01 4:42

Love that. I know. Love that. I love that for them. So what are we doing fun for Easter? What's an Easter fun thing we're doing? Eating candy. Okay. What are our favor I don't like marshmallow. I know that's a big thing.

SPEAKER_02 4:56

I used to love peeps until I realized what gelatin was, I think. I don't know. It's just now I can't eat the marshmallow.

SPEAKER_01 5:03

I know. I don't I don't like the peeps. I don't like the I mean, I don't like marshmallow anyway, but then to put that hard sugar on it.

SPEAKER_02 5:11

See, I think of sugar. I love that grit of sugar. No. I do. I love my sweets.

SPEAKER_01 5:17

I love sweets too, but what are we gonna do for chocolate. Dark chocolate.

SPEAKER_02 5:23

Just dark chocolate. I see you have your bunnies out.

SPEAKER_01 5:26

My little bunnies are out. I've been wearing my little Easter ears at work. The more ridiculous I look at work, I think people treat me better. They probably do. I know it's a personal theory, and I just run with it. It must work. I just like to look ridiculous with my face.

SPEAKER_02 5:41

There's nothing wrong with that. I do love Easter candy, and I went to Aldi this morning. And now some of their stuff has gone on sale already, and I think they're already starting to turn over else everything's been bought. The Isle of Shame from the back on the left side, it's like empty already. It's like candy empty and then Isle of Shame kind of stuff that's there year-round. So I think they're already starting to move things over or else it's been sold.

SPEAKER_01 6:05

And my new quest for Aldi is um they've have advertised an aloe plant. And uh, I want to dip my toe in growing an aloe plant. There you go. So uh Aldi, I'm ready for y'all to have them now. I think they're like$4.99. See, to me, I don't care to me, spending$4.99 on a plant, if I'm gonna bring it home and kill it, it's fine. All right. And it's gotta be in the house because you know I'm not gonna go outside and tend a nut. I know. It's hot out there. I'm not gonna mm-mm. I I'm not tending that outside growth of anything.

SPEAKER_02 6:40

Oh, me either. No, too much. Um, do you remember when we used to take our kids to Lakeshore Mall to have their pictures taken with the Easter bunny? Oh yeah. I think we did talk about the Santa Claus.

SPEAKER_00 6:50

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 6:50

But this Easter bunny, I don't know. I th I he moved kind of slow. So I always wondered what he was on. And when I think about it now, there is no way in hell I would let my children sit on those mall people. I mean, I'm sure some of them are very nice, but you know that the Santa Claus is the one that reeked of alcohol every year. So I'm thinking, and I had girls, and I just plop my girls on some man's lap that I did not know for a picture. I think about that now and I hate I'm sorry, Camille. I am sorry, Curry, that I did that to you. But I still have the pictures.

SPEAKER_01 7:26

I know the memories though, you know, of doing that, because we didn't we weren't doing it to put our kids on a creepy person's knife.

SPEAKER_02 7:35

But I wonder if they're in prison now.

SPEAKER_01 7:37

Well, that's none of our business. The purpose was we're gonna take our kids to go get a picture taken with a creepy person in a suit, and not all of them are. And we did. And we sure did. Every year we show up year after year after year. Happy Easter. Happy Easter, Christmas. I know, we're getting our pictures taken with the Easter bunny or Santa Claus or what have you.

SPEAKER_02 8:00

What makes it worse is the kid if the kids were crying, did you make them stay? Oh yes.

SPEAKER_01 8:06

Yeah, we're gonna buy this picture, even if you're screaming. Oh yeah, I have some screaming pictures of the kids. Yeah. I mean That was funny. It was a right of passage. I don't know. I know they're welcome. You know, these moms now probably wouldn't.

SPEAKER_02 8:22

You know, I used to be scared to go see Santa when I was little, and I had this big fear of the Easter bunny from a dream that I had where he was one of those mangled looking ones, and I don't know what's making me think of it now. The house we grew up in, I could look out my parents' window to see the front porch, and the dream seems so real as a child, and there's that demonic-looking bunny on the front porch at the front door that I could see, and I'm screaming to the other people in the house, which I assume are mom and dad, don't let him in. And the last thing I remember is that door opening. Oh my goodness. I know. And you still watch horror shit today. Love it. I know. I think my own dreams affect me more than the movies I watch. Wow.

SPEAKER_01 9:01

Yeah, I've never had a uh scary dream about a Easter bunny. Well, I hope you do tonight. No. Or Santa Claus. But no, I thought it was adorable.

SPEAKER_02 9:14

I thought you had a Santa fetish.

SPEAKER_01 9:16

Well, I mean, I do have that one baby picture where I'm staring at Santa like he's just gonna be the love of my life.

SPEAKER_02 9:23

And I think if I remember correctly, we were at the mall one time without the kids, and you were talking about let's get our picture taken with a Santa and you asked, Is it okay if I face him when I sit on his lap? That probably happened.

SPEAKER_01 9:36

I'm gonna say we probably have been at Chili's, but I wouldn't get one free margaritas. And Chili's was in the mall parking lot, so we just moseyed on over. And I was like, Look at that Santa. Like your leg up on his knee. I don't know, that's a cute picture. We should post that one too. Do we have a picture of you? We do when I'm like April.

SPEAKER_02 10:03

I think the difference is Santa could talk, whereas Easter Bunny couldn't. So maybe that's why I think there was something going on with the Easter bunny and the movements, and I don't know. The Easter Bunny just did all the things that I think.

SPEAKER_01 10:15

I think that was just an awkward fucking outfit to wear and to function in and to work. You know how we are with uh with our hair down at work. It's like, uh you're awkward and this is uncomfortable and you don't want your hair touching you. I know can you imagine having to wear a whole suit for hours and hours? My hair is always in a ponytail. All them screaming brats clopping up on you. And the parents are just like, just go with it. Just go, just take the picture and sign there screaming. I know you'll be grounded if you don't. You want some Easter candy? Easter buddy's watching you. You know you said that too. Santa. I know Santa's number. Oh yeah, I pulled that one. I had his 800 number. Yeah, yeah. I will call Santa Claus at the end.

SPEAKER_02 10:57

I will call Santa Claus at the North Pole right in there. Off the subject of Easter though, but were you scared of the tooth fairy? Or were you all about like, oh, they're coming in the night?

SPEAKER_01 11:06

No, I wasn't afraid of a tooth fairy, or I don't remember being afraid of anything mystical or I think I wanted things like I wanted a pet unicorn. I wish I had a pet frog that really wore a crown. You mean like a Prince Charming Frog? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, like one of those. You know, like that's how But frogs aren't like that in the wild. Neither are unicorns.

SPEAKER_02 11:34

No. I remember wishing that my stuffed animals could talk. Yeah, that's a thing. And I I was like, before even Toy Story came out, I thought they had some whole thing going on when I wasn't in the room. When you weren't home. Right. And I thought I was hoping my cat could talk too.

SPEAKER_01 11:48

You're hoping the cat and the stuffed animals were talking about you when you weren't there. Well, I don't know if they were talking about me. I wonder if they were talking to each other. Oh well. Somebody else thought that too. Thus we have the movie Toy Story. But they didn't talk to the animals.

SPEAKER_02 12:02

Were there animals in the house? Yeah, I don't Were there? Then you got me questioning there was mom, sister. I think there was a dog or something. Okay. Well there was Slinky Dog, but he was a toy. Surely. Now I gotta go back and watch Toy Story. Oh my gosh, that's what we're doing Easter night. That's what we're doing. Okay. Yeah. Stacy's birthday is coming up, so she's gonna have her Scotty here again.

SPEAKER_01 12:24

I know. My little baby Scotty is coming up from Florida and um try to spend uh a few days with Tyler Nancy while we're all together, and so definitely looking forward to that. Um, but we have a lot of things to celebrate, you know, coming up and anniversaries and um other birthdays besides mine. I can't believe I'm gonna share my month with other things. Like what? I know, I don't know, but I do know tomorrow's the first day of April, which starts my birthday month. I know. So I'm ready every day.

SPEAKER_02 13:01

I'm ready to celebrate. Jeff, I hope you're listening and you know this is an entire month. Entire month.

SPEAKER_01 13:09

Let those celebrations begin.

SPEAKER_02 13:11

It'll be fun. I guess for Easter though, I'm just gonna sit around and eat some dark chocolate that night. Yeah. I should get off at my normal time and Perfect. I know. Come home and do whatever it is we do. I'll be out in the corporate retail world. Doing your thing. I rem I mean, I always said Easter was my bad luck day. And here I am throwing the Debbie Downer on it, you know, I always do. This one is more my own fault. When I was eight years old, I was in the kitchen chair up on my knees, and we were getting ready to go to church. Believe it or not, I went, but I always went to church on Sundays with my mom and dad when my grandparents were still alive because we always went to MCL cafeteria afterwards in Indianapolis on 16th Street. So I'm on my knees, and my mother did tell me, quit doing that. You know how you grab the back of the chair and you start rocking? I rocked it over and had a big knot on the back of my head. It ended up at the doctor. So there was that. But then the worst thing, my grandmother, I must have been 11. She had her first stroke on Easter Sunday. I know, and ended up in a nursing home for a while for therapy. And so Easter, and I got a spinning ticket on an Easter a long time ago. Easter's just one of those days that there's like this vortex on it for me. Maybe it's because I quit going to church after my grandparents died.

SPEAKER_01 14:25

Maybe. I've had bad Easter two Easter Sundays in a row. My nanny slammed my hand, my finger in the um car door. Oh. Two Easter Sundays in a row.

SPEAKER_02 14:40

Wait a minute. She slammed your hand two Sundays in a row, or something else was the different Easter?

SPEAKER_01 14:44

No, she slammed my hand in the um in the car door, two Easter Sundays in a row. That sounds purposeful. She was like, that's right. I can't wait till next Easter. I know you want to act up on Easter. I'm gonna slam your hand in the door. Funny is you'd think I'd learn to move my hands out of the way. Well, yeah. You know, when you get out of the car, stop touching it. Just move. Well, you're promising there's no way my nanny would do that to me again. Not again. She had to eat two Easter Sundays in a row. And uh I don't think my hands are still ripe from it, but anyway, that happened. That explains those jacked up fingers. I know. And then it's a lot of times you uh you know, you I just sit in the restaurant and they would get me a bag of ice and I just wrap my hand in it. I mean, probably broken finger.

SPEAKER_02 15:30

So they went out to eat anyway? Oh yeah, we still went out to eat. I I don't think I got to go on the day I knocked knock my head out and went and busted out the back of my head.

SPEAKER_01 15:37

Oh yeah, we still had Easter Sunday dinner at a restaurant. Yeah, nice. And um they would go in and get me a bag of ice and just it was like they were like, Oh yeah, didn't you do this last year? Oh no. Yeah, I knew. They're like, there's that poor little girl there.

SPEAKER_02 15:54

Her grandmother just blessed her.

SPEAKER_01 15:56

Yeah, that's what happened. So Oh, that's funny. Have you ever told that story before? I don't think so. I mean, my nanny and people that went to church with us knew. They knew, yeah. People at the restaurant knew. What restaurant was it? It was uh one of the buffets, like a Quincy's or Ryan's or uh Quincy's. You get the good rolls, yeah, those rolls rolls. I know. I could just eat and make a meal out of that. But anyway, um, yeah, I would uh sat there two two Easter Sundays in a row, my poor hand wrapped up in the ice crack.

SPEAKER_02 16:31

I know it's awful, but it's funny because the same person did it to you.

SPEAKER_01 16:37

She loved me so much she would not have done that on purpose. But what are the chances? I know.

SPEAKER_02 16:45

I was like, I don't know if I like this Easter shit. Well, now that she has passed on, do you want me to slam your hand in the door this year?

SPEAKER_01 16:52

No, I'd rather that never ever happen to me again. How about in my car? No.

SPEAKER_02 16:56

That's a big door. That's a heavy ass door.

SPEAKER_01 16:58

No, I know. Well, you know, back in the day, I mean, I was what, seven, eight years old, that's the age of my car. Big door, I know. Those are big doors now. Ben then, and um yeah, so that's fuck Easter. Easter's hard.

SPEAKER_02 17:13

It is. I don't know, and I know a lot of people do celebrate because of the religious aspect of it, because um, that's when Jesus pulled his zombie thing and came back after three days. I know.

SPEAKER_01 17:23

I mean he's risen. That's what the Christians say. He's risen. Well, what are the chances? I don't see if it can happen my hand two Easter Sundays in a row. Well, there's that.

unknown 17:34

He does.

SPEAKER_02 17:35

I know the day I see somebody I know though up popping around though, I'll I'll believe it. I will. I will give it every shot I've got. I'm still waiting. I don't know, still waiting.

SPEAKER_01 17:47

Oh. But in the meantime, we're gonna celebrate Easter accordingly to our beliefs and how everybody does it, how everybody wishes to do it or not do it.

SPEAKER_02 17:56

I don't even think you have any more Jesus out for me to go hide or take to the bar with me. Mm-hmm like I did at Christmas.

SPEAKER_01 18:02

No, because I hide them from you now. I don't want to leave a Jesus in the open in front of you. Well, he's thirsty. No. No. He might be thirsty. He's fine. That man drank wine. I do love him. He sits sits on the my car in a little I shouldn't tell you where it is. It's on your dashboard. Oh, you know where it is? Yeah, so bit in your car. I know. And he he just stays there religiously. He just stays right there. Why do you stick it down?

SPEAKER_02 18:31

Uh-uh. You licked it? No. I was gonna say, how is he still staying there though and not rolling off? Or does he roll off every time you make a hard break?

SPEAKER_01 18:38

No, he doesn't roll off. I left him off the other day at the car wash, and when I was wiping out down the dash, you know, and everything, and I just popped him back up there and He just magically sticks. Like I'm a believer. Okay. And I believe he's just gonna be there and ride with me and watch out for me. That's the main thing. You think he is? He's got me. Somebody's got me. It's gotta be him. We hope everybody does have a happy Easter. Whatever.

SPEAKER_02 19:07

Um whatever you do or whatever you celebrate, or even if it's just the joy of your kids, even if it's just Easter baskets and candy, I'm okay with that. Oh but I mean it's still kind of the celebration of spring. Yeah. You know, it's another season. I mean, I'm not a I'm not a big fan, but I do kind of there is a feeling that comes with it. Of course, I'm the one that waits around for fall and winter, but you know. Yeah, spring is spring. Yes, and there's a lot more crafts at work. Yeah, you can stick a flower in anything called a craft.

SPEAKER_01 19:32

Let's enjoy it, let's celebrate, however, we can. Eat some candy. Eat some candy. Maybe people stay at home and don't shop, so we'll start closing our store.

SPEAKER_02 19:42

Yes, please have mercy on Stacy. I mean, there's a lot of stores that I did read are closed, so why is World Market open? Poor Stacy.

SPEAKER_01 19:51

I know. God bless my heart. But I know. Okay. I'll be celebrating in my heart for sure.

SPEAKER_02 19:57

I wish Billy Idol would come celebrate with me real quick. I did watch his go to Churchill, Billy Idol. Oh, you just keep pushing it. With Billy Idol, I would go sit there. I would go sit there next to him and hold his hand and rub on his leg. And he would while he was praising the Lord. While he's praising the Lord. I did watch his documentary. I gotta watch it. Don't tell me any. Okay, I won't tell you anything. I would have all that. We'll do a little review about it. Yes. It's I mean, it was everything I thought it'd be.

SPEAKER_01 20:25

Nothing unexpected. No, nothing unexpected. I have to say the Prince documentary is really good. And I was not um disappointed. Everything I feel about him is just true.

SPEAKER_02 20:39

Okay. So I watched one on Devo too. There's a Devo one up. I think that was on Netflix. That's a good one too. Anyway, we gotta go catch up on some TV.

SPEAKER_01 20:48

So we're gonna wrap this one up. Okay. We got some holidays to celebrate. We hope you do too.

SPEAKER_02 20:54

I know. Oh, real quick, I think we might do another pet peeves episode because those keep coming in the emails. Oh yeah. We evidently have a lot of complainers in our lives, and I'm okay with that. Me too. Because we're I think we're natural born complainers. Well, just bitchers. So yeah. I mean it's the name of the show. We're whining. We're whining and bitching about everything. So if you have more pet peeves, send them to BS Studios at byyahoo.com. We want to hear what you're bitching about. Absolutely. I know. And by the way, happy Easter. Happy Easter. Unless wine.

SPEAKER_01 21:23

We're friend and Stacey. Bye.