Dead Mom Scavenger Hunt
Welcome to Dead Mom Scavenger Hunt where cousins Christmas and Cara tick off the wild, sometimes ridiculous wishes from the bucket list of the late, great Bonnie—Christmas's mom and Cara's bonus mom. Every episode, we unpack grief and life’s absurdities through belly laughs, bizarre encounters, and the kind of soul-searching that only happens when you're half a bottle deep into questionable wine, munching on crackers and what-the-hell-is-this cheese. It's not just about where we go, but the oddballs we meet, the unbelievable stories we gather, and the existential crises we tackle together. Strap in and hold on —Bonnie's list isn’t going to complete itself, and things are about to get hilariously out of hand!
Dead Mom Scavenger Hunt
To Shout Out or Not to Shout Out
We tackle the topic of how to recognize and celebrate people and experiences without relying on the phrase "shout out." The episode explores creative alternatives to express gratitude and includes personal anecdotes and insights into the evolution of podcast recognition language.
• Reflecting on the frequent use of "shout out"
• Exploring playful alternatives for recognition
• The great alcohol debate: brown vs. clear
• Clarifying past confusions regarding family dynamics
• Encouraging listeners to engage in creative expressions of appreciation
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Welcome to episode two of the Dead Mom Scavenger Hunt, yes episode two, if you made it this far congratulations.
Speaker 2:I mean really well done Kudos to you. So we realized in our last one that we mentioned some things that we need to circle back and we will get to those, I promise you, promise you. But in this episode we need to really dial in to say shout out or not to say shout out, cause we said it a lot last time, because there are going to be times when we want to recognize things. We love people, we love places, we love podcasts, we love, I might say shout out, kara, for these bomb ass mics.
Speaker 1:So we had to make it. We have to make a decision and, um, maybe we'll, maybe we'll put a poll out, but we'll probably be able to make the decision ourselves but if someone has any grandiose ideas, as one does, we went down a rabbit hole, sure did, um, and we have some options here for alternatives to shouting out, yes, um, so we asked chatT. What do you call it, Sister cousin? No, Dr Sister.
Speaker 2:We asked Dr Sister Um, and he gave us some that were professional and polished Allah recognizing, honoring, uh, some such as tip of the hat, too, seems like a lot. But then I asked for some that were more, uh, light-hearted, and here's what she came up with. Don't look, cara, I don't want you to look. I haven't seen these yet, cara hasn't, and I haven't seen all of them either. So these were some of the light-hearted ones.
Speaker 1:Number one a big old yeehaw to I, I think, a big old yeehaw to seaborne adventures, yes a big yeehaw, a big old yeehaw we might have to say it like that yeehaw uh.
Speaker 2:Another one was rolling out the red carpet for sprinkling confetti. On sprinkling confetti. I don't like that, okay, uh, handing the mic to you. No tossing some glitter. Wow, they like glitter and confetti. No, air horns blasting for air horns blasting, for we could just go I'll hate us Giving a slow clap to See. That sounds facetious to me. Yeah, or snaps, for that's dating us Launching a standing ovation at. I kind of like that.
Speaker 1:I like that it's launching a standing ovation.
Speaker 2:Okay, here's some more options.
Speaker 1:Giving an aggressively enthusiastic nod to I like that. That feels like that feels like a so long. Giving an aggressively enthusiastic nod to dave ham, dave ham, deckhand, deckhand, dave, I'm giving his taco.
Speaker 2:I will give it to his tacos. I'm not going to give it to him. Don't get on her bad side. No, deccan Dave was great. He just seems he had some. I hope he never listens to this man. Child tendencies real Peter panic syndrome. You know, we were like what do you do? And he's like I hit the slopes, man, and when I'm not hitting the slopes, do you do? And he's like I hit the slopes, man, and when I'm not hitting the slopes, I like hit the trails and yeah, that's it. He didn't.
Speaker 1:Didn't seem like there was a really heavy eq you know, we he can never hear this, or we can never go eat tacos again that's not true, dave.
Speaker 2:Your tacos are delicious and I will pay top dollar for those tacos is. Is he going to sponsor us? Probably not, unless we get so famous that he's like I don't care that they called me a man child. Maybe he would take it as a compliment.
Speaker 1:I mean he's, yeah. I mean I don't know, he could maybe.
Speaker 2:Should we bleep out Peter Panic? No, Peter Panic. Okay, back to our options here Releasing the doves for no Popping a bottle for oh, bottle pops.
Speaker 1:Popping bottles no, I still kind of like tipping the hat too.
Speaker 2:Tip of the hat too. Breaking out the party kazoo, no, raising a questionable toast, no, we could just say cheers to I do like cheers to. I end all my emails with cheers you do. Yeah, you've never known.
Speaker 1:I mean, it's just automatically in there, I don't type it out each time I just says cheers I in mind with XOXO, ooh, just XO, so kissy so kissy huggy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm just toasting already, so we could I mean, okay, we're gonna put, we're gonna put cheers at the top of the list thus far, uh, throwing an interpretive dance in honor of nope caris is hard pass hurling a bouquet at, but nicely, it actually says that these are. Why are these also long? I mean because there just aren't many short options honking the appreciation horn, for I mean, that's cute honking the appreciation horn honks for okay, we have four more sending a beyonce level spotlight to. Are you reading these?
Speaker 1:you're not no, I'm not. I'm zoning out, I'm not reading them. I promise sending a beyonce.
Speaker 2:Look, I don't, I don't want to, I don't, I don't say doesn't need us. Yeah, beyonce doesn't need us in here.
Speaker 1:there's also some things currently going down with jay-z and we don't want to. I don't, beyonce doesn't need us. Yeah, beyonce doesn't need us.
Speaker 2:There's also some things currently going down with Jay-Z and we don't know where this is all going to lead.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're going to stay away from anything. We're staying away.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Giving the and the Oscar goes to moment for I mean, if we could shorten that a little bit. Oscar nominations to G-a-o-s gals. No, no, guys gasms for wow, wow, okay, slow-mo movie. No, I'm done with movies okay, so far, like those.
Speaker 1:What were some of the first ones? Okay salute, I kind of liked that like salute or hat song, like tip of the hat too. I mean some of the first ones okay salute, I kind of liked that like salute or hat.
Speaker 2:Someone would like to have a tip of the hat too I mean, some of the basic ones were better.
Speaker 1:Cheers, big props. We're just looking for an option that's better than shouting out hat tip you know what?
Speaker 2:I just had an idea what if we got to use whichever one we felt in the moment, but we just tried to not say shout out?
Speaker 1:What if we got smacked every time we said shout out Like you just want to hit me, not not like really smack but make it like a drinking game. You have to take a shot every time you say shout out oh dear, no, I'm just kidding, I don't want to take shots. That sounds horrible Um you don't want to take shots. That sounds horrible. Um, you don't ever take shots?
Speaker 2:Not really, no, I would take shots of tequila if I was given the option to take shots of anything though I my first choice is whiskey, second choice, tequila.
Speaker 1:I literally am gagging right now, thinking about whiskey.
Speaker 2:I literally love whiskey.
Speaker 1:I was ruined for whiskey when I was 14.
Speaker 2:It was my fault I did that exact same thing. I think I was. Was it whiskey? Yeah, it was shitty canadian whiskey. Yours was probably canadian whiskey too. It was um jack daniels oh, so you don't have a relationship with jack anymore. I don't have a relationship with any whiskey anymore. Mine was Canadian whiskey and it did nearly kill me, but for some reason, like like, enjoy like a yeah, it's.
Speaker 1:I don't get it. I can't like if Jeremy Jeremy enjoys a nice whiskey and he'll have a glass or whatever, and if I get a whiff on the couch beside him or something I'm like who?
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're a complete house divided. My husband will not drink whiskey I'm with him and pretty much only drinks vodka, occasionally tequila. And also the man does love on vacation. He loves a pina colada which he will drink with his pinky out.
Speaker 1:Am I Hammer? Are Hammer and I the same person? Maybe?
Speaker 2:that's why we're so in love. Yeah yeah, he drinks the clear liquors and I like the brown liquors.
Speaker 1:Same jeremy I yeah, I mean I do. Did we marry each other? We married each other weird um, I find that happens, though, a lot like. Some of my best friends are very much like my husband and not not like. Like we're very different and jeremy like, and I'm very different, obviously, is tequila. Tequila is the only with um alcohol that doesn't make me like either want to vomit just thinking about it, okay, or rum.
Speaker 2:Does that close off?
Speaker 1:no, rum's actually fine too. I can drink copious amounts of rum and have nothing happen. Okay, it's kind of. It's been a while. Actually I cannot um, but tequila is just like normal, like I don't act crazy or anything. But those in my life who have been around for a long time discourage me from drinking vodka because you'll get nakey. I take my clothes off. Oh, I turn into a different person. I don't know what it is about.
Speaker 2:Vodka I'm kind of like that with gin. Okay, not that I take my clothes off, but gin makes me want to sometimes fight the bouncer.
Speaker 1:Okay, so we're not going to be drinking gin on our trips.
Speaker 2:Unless, unless it looks like, I want to go to, unless it looks like or it just looks like, I could take them.
Speaker 1:Okay, so situation will situation, situation.
Speaker 2:I don't love Jim, so it's it's a non starter.
Speaker 1:I don't love it either.
Speaker 2:I've had some gin drinks that are okay, I like a good G&T every now and then, yeah, all right. Well, I think we've solved our shout-out problem. We can say whatever the fuck we want.
Speaker 2:But I do think we're going to stay away from shouting out yeah, just because we did annoy ourselves, actually, ourselves, actually well, and I think we both have that thing with authority, where if someone's everyone else is doing it, we want to actively not do it. Uh, yeah, so, yeah, that's true, you don't much like podcasting, all right? Well, thus concludes this episode, that's a quick episode.
Speaker 2:We just wanted to nail what we were going to say for the shout out yeah, and next we are going to get to one of the stories that I told Kara she should tell last time. And then we strangely went off on a tangent oh and.
Speaker 1:I did want to clear up one thing really quick from the first. Oh right, this is just a little like sidebar, little piece of housekeeping. We mentioned that my mom was not around when I was younger. She's alive, she's. She's mom is alive and well. She lives in Canada. She just lived very far away. We're raising my younger brothers when I was older Right, she's just a country away. It was just not, yeah, she wasn't, uh, really around a lot. So, yeah, bonnie, there was a space to fill at that point in time.
Speaker 2:And bonnie, yes, filled it. So but hi, heather, but hi mom, um sorry about the lice.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there was a lot of confusion when we were on the trip and we were talking about, like our mom died, yeah, and I was getting all these messages like I I'm so sorry, kara, I didn't know your mom died and I was like, well, yeah, so yeah, just to clarify. All right, all right, cool, bye.
