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Lydia tak­ing her first shower by her­self, and en­joy­ing it im­mensely. I love you, Mommy.” Dancing to mu­sic af­ter­wards.

Melissa

Holland Farm with the fam­ily. The corn pit; strid­ing through the corn maze with Lydia and Ruth; the pic­nic by the car; send­ing Lydia and Amber on the zi­pline, each by her­self; rolling through the big pipe with the girls gig­gling and try­ing to stay up­right; the pic­nic at Bucee’s.

Melissa

Melissa: I mocked it at first, but I’ve come to ac­cept it.

Brian: Hey, that kind of de­scribes our mar­riage!

Melissa

Melissa: It’s Friday night, what do you want to do?

Brian: Curl up with a sexy…book. But not Facebook. Facebook’s a hussy.

Melissa

Folding the church laun­dry with Lydia. She helped be­cause she wanted to.

Melissa

Singing Do You Want to Be a Bullfrog?” as a fam­ily at the din­ner table (to the tune of Do You Want To Build a Snowman?“)

Melissa

My band: Wee Wee Wonky Bomb

Lydia
Harding’s Pompous Phrases
His [President Warren G. Harding’s] speeches left the im­pres­sion of an army of pompous phrases mov­ing over the land­scape in search of an idea; some­times these me­an­der­ing words would ac­tu­ally cap­ture a strag­gling thought and bear it tri­umphantly as a pris­oner in their midst, un­til it died of servi­tude and over­work.
— William McAdoo
Brian

In the an­i­mated movie Hercules, I won­der why Disney used the Greek name for the ruler of the un­der­world, Hades, and not his Latin name, Pluto?

Brian

Melissa: Ooo, I know what I’ll do for your fu­neral! I’ll re­lease a bal­loon to rep­re­sent your soul ris­ing to Heaven, and it’ll be teal be­cause that was your fa­vorite color–

Brian: No, don’t do that.

Melissa: But as we cel­e­brate your life–

Brian: Celebrate me now, not at my fu­neral! I want you to be sad when I die; I was a cool guy!

Melissa

Melissa: If I wear that, peo­ple will think I’m gay.

Brian: They won’t think that with a hunk like me walk­ing be­side you!

Melissa

At the Hutt house, play­ing with Amber and keep­ing Lydia com­pany while she used the re­stroom.

Melissa

Melissa: He’s got a sexy, smol­der­ing look.

Brian: Yep, that’s what you want in a doc­tor.

Melissa
№ 131 Cereals: Revisited

The first ce­re­als episode is jus­ti­fi­ably a clas­sic, but this time we’re do­ing it right. Lots of re­search went into this one, but don’t worry; there are still a lot of in­cor­rect choices.

The girls dressed in princess dresses, sweetly singing happy birth­day to me while I lay in bed ❤️

Melissa
№ 130 Mobile Sushi Restaurants

Do you live in Mobile, Alabama and need sushi restau­rant rec­om­men­da­tions? No? Probably skip this one then.

Brian do­ing a ridicu­lously en­er­getic and hi­lar­i­ous dance to Wiggle Through the Night”, a song on the girls’ mi­cro­phone

Melissa

Trying to guess the names of clas­si­cal mu­sic tunes; laugh­ing be­cause Brian tried to sound ed­u­cated so many times

Melissa

Laughing with Brian while watch­ing Baggage” with Jomboy and Jake on YouTube

Melissa
Github Archive Program

On 02/02/2020 GitHub cap­tured a snap­shot of every ac­tive pub­lic repos­i­tory. Those mil­lions of re­pos were then archived to hard­ened film de­signed to last for 1,000 years, and stored in the GitHub Arctic Code Vault in a de­com­mis­sioned coal mine deep be­neath an Arctic moun­tain in Svalbard, Norway.

Brian

A Leaf For My Boo, Adam’s au­to­bi­og­ra­phy

Melissa

Doing the sand­wich song with the girls, one par­ent hold­ing the feet and the other their hands

Melissa
№ 129 Cheeses

Melissa fi­nally hosted a cheese party. Brian got a new fa­vorite cheese.

Laughing with Brian while read­ing My Immortal

Melissa

Is that how we want to raise our chil­dren? As ele­phant racists?

Brian

Looks like you’re faced with Sophie’s Choice: do you shoot your peanut but­ter child, or your choco­late child?

Brian

Church soft­ball game–Brian hit re­ally well each time at bat, and later got Philip Wedge out be­tween first and sec­ond base.

Brian
№ 128 Conspiracy Theories (Part 2)

Brian and Melissa wrap up the con­spir­acy the­ory dis­cus­sion. Melissa re­veals the the­ory she be­lieved un­til this year and Brian re­veals the one the­ory he be­lieves.

Koserstag 2020

Brian, Melissa, Lydia, Amber, Penny
№ 127 Conspiracy Theories (Part 1)

Melissa and Brian dis­cuss con­spir­acy the­o­ries in gen­eral, and start the list of their fa­vorites. Part 2 will fol­low in a cou­ple week, un­less they get to us.

Daughter sand­wich song with the girls right be­fore bed

Melissa

Beating Michael and Esther at Wingspan on our first playthrough

Melissa
There’s only so many things you can care about in a day, and Josh McDaniels is never go­ing to be one of them.
— Michael Wilbon, May 12, 2020
Brian

Creating a con­spir­acy the­ory with Brian about Japan hav­ing faster-than-light space travel!

Melissa
Against the Octopus

If every an­i­mal is spe­cial, and each one has its own, unique in­tel­li­gence, then why should we be any more en­am­ored of the oc­to­pus than, say, the clown­fish or the clam?

Brian
№ 123 Pet Names

No, not cute names for each other: the best names to give a pet. Or a work­ing an­i­mal. Or a plant. Or any­thing, re­ally, who knows what will show up on this list.