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"Chit Chat": Siblings Unleashed - Part One

• Nicole Williams • Season 1 • Episode 4

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In part one of our exciting four-part series, join the dynamic duo of brother and sister as they five into a fun-filled conversation brimming with laughter and nostalgia! In this episode, they share their silly thoughts on accents, exchanging impressions and the quirks that come with them. They also tackle the all-too-relatable topic of road rage, reminiscing about their own driving experiences and the hilarious moments that come with learning how to drive. With playful banter, this episode sets the stage for a delightful journey through various topics, promising more laughs and insights in the episodes to come. 

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Welcome to the life we live. I'm your host, Nicole Williams. Join me as I share my own life's adventures, sharing stories that are as funny as they are. Hopefully insightful. But that's not all. Tune in and hear from voices of everyday people, uncovering the rich tapestry of experiences that make up our lives, from hilarious mishaps to profound moments of clarity. Each episode is packed with entertaining tales that will make you laugh, think, and connect with the world around you. So whether you're tuning in during your morning commute or winding down at home, get ready to embrace the beauty and the humor in the life we all live. Let's dive in. Well guys, I am so excited today today's guest is the one the only, my little brother Ian, and he is joining me today and it's actually going to be split in a four part episode. That's right. Not one, not two, not three, but four part episode. Because when we get talking we don't tend to stop. So in this episode, we are just shooting the breeze and I hope you enjoy. Welcome, Ian. Welcome to the show. Thank you. So we have some really interesting and important topics to get through this evening. I have no idea what our topics are, but I'm sure they'll be interesting. Then I was trying to share with you, but I forgot to tell you it was a documentary and I really didn't give you any context except for. Have you heard about The Lost Children of the Amazon? Yes. Which then brought me on to that. Some say that the Amazon is manmade and not just Wikipedia folks. Some say this not not to take away from from your story. But yeah. So I answer is Amazon. The Amazon is a yeah. Wow. Yeah. So this is a rainforest. Um the rainforest is not entirely natural but has been shaped by human activity over thousands of years. And then that's followed by another form that there is a BBC documentary called A Natural Histories, uh, which explains that the Amazon rainforest is actually mostly created by native people living there before European call colour black colonialism, colonialism. Okay, I thought no. Reading's hard words suck words. So in counterpart to, like, being, um, inebriated as I can't see the small text that also has to do with your age because you're getting older. I know, uh, I refuse to go get my eyes checked, and I really know I need to. The last time I went, I went because I had this eye stye that would not go away. And I was worried. I side with my side. I spy with my little eye. This bitch wouldn't go away. And so I went to the eye doctor. Probably the first time in, I don't know, 15 years. And I was concerned this was prior to me being diagnosed with cancer. These were the concerns of my my world back then. I was concerned about my eye and I was like, oh my God, what's going to happen? And the guy's like, if it doesn't go away. We'll have to do surgery. And I was very concerned about a minor little tiny surgery on my eyelid because I was afraid of a mark. It would leave. Okay. So what is it like? Is it, like, on your eyelid or is it on, like, on the eye? So actually the I, I googled a lot because you know me, when I have something going on, I got to try to figure out, like, what the hell's going on. So actually there's different types of styes. So like some can be on the inner lid, but some can be more in the tear duct area. Mine was on. The mine was and some can be more exterior. My mine was interior on the lid, but it was really, really sore and it was like right by my eyelashes. And it got to a point where it wasn't going away and it got almost like it was a hard lump. It wasn't like soft and squishy anymore. And so anyway, long story short, he gave me medicine, but the dude insulted me when I was there. He's like, oh, I can see that. Uh, your 40th is coming up. You know what that means? Your eyes are going to go to shit. You didn't say shit, but that's essentially what he said. And I was like, um, thanks. Um, can we get back to my I sti so I was I literally walked out and I, I think I picked up the phone and called my friend, and I was like, you might have to do surgery. Like like I said, looking back, I feel like such a dumb ass because I'm like, that was what I was worried about. Then fast forward a couple months later, I found out I had cancer in the breast and I didn't care about the I sti anymore, but the I sti went away. It just took a really long time. Yeah. Just grew into a breast sti. Yeah, yeah yeah, it it fell. Gravity's a bitch. See, like that's the difference between like men and women. And a guy would just keep picking at it until it goes away and the woman will go to the doctor. I don't know, like I don't usually go to the doctor. I think the only reason I did was because it hurt. Like I think like I get like if it if it's something that's just mildly uncomfortable, I probably wouldn't go to the doctor before. But this is Pre-cancer pre cancer position after cancer. I feel like now I feel like I'll stubbed my toe and I'm like, should I go to the doctor? Which is like, what if what if I now have toe cancer. Um, so it's it's a very different place mentally that I'm trying to transition into. But before yeah, I never went to the doctor. Not recommended. Don't do it. Go to the doctor, do your regular checkups. But it's not as bad as Dave. Which is my husband, for those who don't know. But because Dave takes it to the extreme, like like Dave would operate on himself before he would go to a doctor. The dude, I don't know why I said I do, but I did because he's crazy. Like, I've, I've literally like, Dave, go to the doctor. He's like, nope, nope, it's fine. I'll just get the exacto knife. I think that's just like the mentality of, of guys, you know, like, would you get an exacto knife and operate on yourself? I'm more it's like, I would love personally to go to the doctor over any concern. But like for me, it turns in especially the older I get it turns into like how much money can I save by not worrying about it? Um, see, I, I haven't been to a lot more money, but I'm very different perspective because I feel like I have to pay for my insurance every month. I feel like I'm paying something that I don't get my money back if I don't use it as carrying you on as you said that one. Oh yeah, I get it. But like, I never it's a big mystery. What will it cover? Like you don't know until after shit's done. Read your plan. Document. What do you mean you don't know what's covered? Do you? I mean, we're back to the being a guy thing. Oh, you guys don't read either. Clearly, you can't read because you were trying to figure out what I said on Google. I was passing, I moved on to a article and actually by the BBC. Yeah. You know what? Like OG, before I did it for you, I like manually click the link. Oh look at you go. So ah question for you BBC. A serious question here. Do you feel like just because they have a British accent, that it's more trustworthy of a documentary than someone who is maybe not a BBC, maybe a Netflix documentary? Food for thought. What do you think? I wonder if that's like a Netflix documentary by BBC. Okay, fine. Whatever. My point is. Do you think the accent makes you feel like it's more credible than if they didn't have an accent? I mean, it's always been the exact opposite. Oh, really? Yeah. Anything that sounds foreign to me automatically is the first red flag. And I'm not meaning that in like a, you know, your biased form or. Yeah, like, it's just I don't know. I'm that like, uh, you're that American that on red alert all the time. On everything. See, there is something about an English accent where you could tell me. Something completely false, but it just sounds so credible to me that I'd be like, that's probably right. That's probably right. I should probably put a fork in the socket and see what happens. That's definitely I don't know what it is, but there's something so sophisticated and maybe not. Or I mean, I guess it depends on on where, where you're from and how that, that dialect changes. But certain English accents, to me I feel like, sound very credible. I definitely get the impression that they have their shit together more for some reason. And there's just a like that, I don't know. Yeah. Yes, exactly. There's a lot to like how people used to talk as a whole. I mean, you, when you come into a room and you say, I would like some herbs, bread with it, and they actually pronounce the H like it's just very credible because there's an actual freaking h in the word. Get it? Yeah. I'm they're much more elegant as aluminum over aluminum. Right, right. And not only that, I mean, like I said, dialect matters. Because if same scenario, if you came in in a room and you're like, we I probably wouldn't think you're very credible. But if you came into the room and you're like, excuse me, poor me, I'd probably be like, you know what? This this dude knows what he's talking about, okay, but take that same thought and apply it to an angry British person. Like, would you be able to take that serious? No, I wouldn't see. No, no, no, I'd have to go. I'd have to. I'd have to go to a different place if I wanted somebody to represent me from an anger perspective. Maybe, maybe, maybe some Scottish. Scottish, I think would put me on edge if they're upset. Yeah, yeah I mean. Those Scots they got, they have to lose. Really. It's just. Yeah, yeah. But if if you yelled at me properly, I'd be like such a proper bitch face down. I probably wouldn't take it seriously. It's just like when somebody flicks you off, you know, most of the time it's like, aha, whatever. Who gives a fuck? But like when somebody has, like the perfect form and it's just like most projected few like, yeah, it hits different. I feel like I'm sort of that person because it's taking me even though I have I can I can have kind of a hot temper sometimes, especially with, with stupid people on the road. I never I'm my reaction time is very slow. So like I'm the person that next intersection you hit your horn. Exactly, exactly. So I'm I'm I this is something that is a goal of mine to be a better badass and I, I that's so funny you say that because, like, I've literally gone down such an opposite road. And again, this comes back to probably just getting older. But like I used to be the same way I used to like somebody cut me off. I wanted to teach them how it wasn't okay. Yeah, like that was the kind of driver I used to be. And like, now I'm really, really putting effort into, like. Just stop, breathe and like realize is it really worth, like, reacting over and like, ever since then, it's become hilarious because now I'll see these people do this stupidest shit I've ever seen somebody try to do in heavy traffic. And like by the end of my trip to work, which is about 30 minutes, there are two cars ahead of me and it's just I die. I'm like, where did that get you? And realized, yeah, okay, maybe, maybe this is a better way of dealing with it. But that being said, I'm not perfect. I still have horrible things to say a lot of the times. But I live in Florida so well. I find this very fascinating that we came from the same mother, because I feel like old age has made me more bitter where old age is probably made you more calm because for me, I feel like I've always been take a deep breath. In the big scheme of things, it doesn't matter. And so, I mean, don't get me wrong, it starts and ends with driving. After that, there's no self-control. You gotta get all deep with me. I don't know. I just feel like. Like a car is a place, like where if it gets away from you, it's like life. All right, well, I'm not I'm not saying I want to retaliate, but I but I do I, I don't want to be the. Oh, that wasn't nice. I want to be somewhere in the middle. I want to be like, honk, fuck you. I'm over it. We can both agree that neither of us will want to get to the stage that mom isn't now moving, driving. What is that stage though? I mean, I mom gets in the car with me. The last example that she was in a car with me and we didn't make it. What? To the neighbor's house before she was like, oh my God, you got close, you know, like, but but mom is always been that way. That's not a new now I release make it a mile before. Oh, you should you should see her when she visits me here when I'm driving in the traffic here. Oh, it must be hilarious. She I you know how. Remember when dad thought it would be a really good idea to have a trail riding business? And then we had, like, 15 horses at one time. Remember that? So you know how some of the horses would get spooked, so you have to put blinders on them? Oh my God. I feel like I have to carry blinders in my car when mom gets in. Love you mom. But just to make sure that she doesn't know what's going on around her because she gets so nervous and I'm like, but I can't go 25 here and I can't be 14 car lengths away here because we will die. Yeah. You need to like, almost bring like an Oculus Rift or something with her. Like playing, like driving miss Daisy, you know? And she probably love it because it would be full immersion with, like, the car moving around and the bumps, but it'd be calm. Mhm mhm. Somehow you'd have to block it. How did that year have outbreaks during traffic. Did mom teach you how to drive I don't remember. No, I drove way before she thought. Okay. Sorry. Legally. Did mom teach you how to drive? I mean, I got my permit, and she just started having me drive. It wasn't like I don't remember. I think I remember her like initially talking about like, okay, you know, be a little softer on the brakes kind of thing, but not really any lessons. We didn't go to a parking lot and learn how to park or any of that. I was pretty sufficient when I started driving. Yeah. I mean, I think that was the luxury of growing up in Vermont because I was driving well before I had my permit. Yeah, everybody's going sliding around in snow. You have a pretty good understanding when it comes to real world, but yeah. Yeah, that was an interesting thought. I never. I don't think I remember really anybody teaching me anything. I think it was always a trial and error. You know who I remember? I think one of my first driving experiences on a actual classified road was with Darby. Do you remember Darby at all? Dad's act. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I Darby, I you crazy redhead. Well, she I mean, let's be honest, she was closer to our age than she was to dad's at that point in time. Um, which is a whole story in itself. But, um. Yeah. So she and she because she was, you know, she was young and maybe a little crazy. You didn't care. So like, she was like, she was like, chill in the car. So she's like, no, go faster. No, dude. And she taught me how to drive her stick shift so that that's my first memory of, like, on an actual classified road. I mean, I drove off road without saying. Your age. You just called it a stick shift. What do you call it now? A manual or standard stick shift? It's a stick, huh? I'm not that old. I mean, they called it a manual back then, too, but it's. It's a stick shift. It's a it's a shifter. It's a stick. I know because I know how to drive on it. And then I remember when, um, Mike let me drive his. Excuse me. Um. Let's get let's get proper here. Manual car? No. Was it. Was it his Toyota? That was. Was it a Toyota? Do you remember? It doesn't really matter. Yeah, but but but he let me drive it up Blush Hill. But I was in fourth gear trying to get a bloody shoe. And then I stalled out on the steepest part of the puzzle. And then I freaked out, and he was like, swearing, mister. He's like you said you knew how to drive, but I was like, I did, just not a bell. Yeah, I remember like, because he had the forerunner when when I would have to borrow a car or whatever, I was like, get to the end of the road and just pull out the traction control, cuz Jesus was just not gonna be good people about it. No. And then when I actually I remember when I bought my first, it wasn't my first car, but I bought a new car because I had this really bad habit for a while where I was, first of all, I bought a new car. When I was far, far too young because I tried the golf. The golf loved it. I don't regret the car at all, but I just got me in that cycle of oh, now I have a car payment like an actual larger car payment because I bought a brand new car. And so, like, I got into this really bad cycle because I was young and stupid and I don't know if I'm really over. You were rolling over. I kept yeah, I kept rolling over because I was like, oh, it's time for a new car. It was. And it was like only a year or two after I bought the car. So like, you can imagine what that cycle was like for me. But anyway, one of those cycles I ended up buying. Do you remember my Honda Civic? Oh yeah. Funny story about that. So I bought my Honda Civic, but I bought a manual because it was cheaper and I, I didn't really know how to drive it at that point, so I didn't even test drive it. I was just like, yeah, I'll buy it. It's cute. And I actually had Dave test drive it and literally I signed it, bought it that day. Dave spent maybe an hour or two trying to teach me how to do, like Hill stops and stuff in the car, and then that was it. And then the next day I had to drive it from where we lived in Berlin or or Montpelier, uh, to Waterbury to work. And then I called him. I called him and I told him that I was stuck in the middle. You know, when you, like, come off the interstate into Waterbury and from Montpelier. And before they put all the lights there it was. It was just hell trying to turn onto route 100. And so I called him in a fake panic, saying that I was stalled out, and I can't get out of the middle of the road and people are honking and yelling at me. And I was it was very believable. And I was in tears. And then he was like, freaking out about how he was going to help me. And then I was like, no, I'm just kidding. I made it to work. Like, he was so mad at me. But yeah, that's how I learned how to drive a manual car. Um, yeah, I think I think my first time was in a, like a an old, like Subaru, like a square body, Subaru, like push button, four wheel drive Subaru. And I remember, like, you could put it in fifth and it couldn't tell in the shift gate if it was a first, fifth, third, like it was so much slop in it and I hated it. But then, uh, you know, I just wanted to drive, obviously. But then I realized, like, it really helped me because I had to, like, literally know where to find the gears. And then when you had a car that wasn't a piece of shit, it made it really easy. So I think that's how I got lucky. Hmm. You know what car of yours I actually really liked? I loved your CRV. I was like a car that lasted a long time. It's still alive. What do you mean, it's still alive? You know who has it? Well, I mean, I think it was a few years ago now or whatever, but. Yeah. No, when I was in Vermont, I ran into. Because there's a couple distinctive things about it that I knew if it was mine or not. And, uh, I mean, totally different owner, but a lot of questions on that one. But continue. Ah. Um, no, it just I knew the car in and out. I knew that there was like, I deleted the the rear door spare tire in the mount to it. And like, the little things that would have been nobody else really would have done, but yeah. No. Anyways, I ran into the current owner or whatever and asked them where they got it and, you know, basically figured out it was from the person I sold it to. And, uh, yeah, it was still going. It had like 470,000 miles, but still. Yeah, yeah. On that one engine. Wow. Yeah, yeah, it was a good car. I got rid of it. Uh, 150,000. Here, which, I mean, I could see that, but 400. That's insane. Yeah, well. And it wasn't like it was, you know, a car from the 80s either. It was. What year was it? You remember 2000 oh one? Yeah. Yeah. So that's a, that's a that, that's that's a SUV on a Integra chassis. Every time I talk about cars, especially with car enthusiasts, I think of have you ever seen my weird obsession? My car lover did. Yeah, yeah. So when you were talking about the intimate details of your car that you just know made me think of that dude the way that he was talking about his cars. Thanks for joining me for part one of this lively episode. I had a blast sharing laughs and diving into some unexpected topics. But hold on tight, because in part two, we're picking up right where we left off. Get ready for more candid conversations about cults, health care, and a whole lot of random thoughts that are sure to keep you entertained. Join me next week with your favorite drink for some more random brother sister banter. Oh, and if you're enjoying this content, please subscribe and send me a note if you have a story you want to share. If you want to support the creation of more episodes, visit me at buy Me a coffee. Com forward slash the life we live. Until next time. 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