Sick of Myself

On this episode of the Norah and Dad Show, Norah and Dad rip through a variety of topics, including food poisoning, Norah’s sorority's philanthropy work, a preview of her upcoming trip to New York City, travel horror stories (including Times Square on New Year’s Eve and a very questionable museum couch), speed traps, and a preview of Norah's upcoming gig at Understory. 

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Sick of Myself

Jon: [00:00:00] Hey Norah,

Norah: Hey dad.

Jon: what do you call the number seven when it gets the flu?

Norah: Six, seven,

Jon: Six, seven. What are we talking about this week?

Norah: I don't know. I guess

Jon: Well, we're gonna hit the theme music.

 Welcome back to the Norah and Dad Show. I am as always dad. I am here as always with Norah. I thought that was a great joke

Norah: No, I'm with you. We are actually just talking about six, seven in my education class this morning. 

Jon: That came up, that came up on my Instagram and I decided I needed to save it for the podcast. So.

Norah: Do you have like a folder of dad jokes

Jon: No, I just took a screen. I just took a screenshot so I could, I could save it in an appropriate place, but I [00:01:00] was like, damn, that is a banger of a joke. I need to save that for the podcast.

Norah: Yeah, I, I got it. That's second time. I've

Jon: That's

Norah: So

Jon: how did, how did,

Norah: middle school

Jon: how did six, how did six, seven come up? What about middle school teachers?

Norah: my professor used to be a middle school teacher before she taught here. So she has like that middle school, hu middle school humor is how she was describing it. She's like, I still think six seven's funny, even if nobody else does. And

Jon: I don't think it's particularly funny, but I, I thought that joke, I, I thought that joke was very funny.

Norah: I don't know. I think it's funny 'cause it's not funny, you know.

Jon: Yeah. Yeah. So I was six seven on Wednesday when I was driving back from.

Norah: that mean?

Jon: I was, I was sick and I was driving back after seeing you for dinner.

Norah: I was like, what are you talking about? That

Not dinner.

Jon: Lunch. Yeah. I stopped on the way for back from Dayton at the beer conference I was at [00:02:00] to take you to lunch. And then as soon as we finished lunch the rumbles in my belly started.

Yeah. And I, I left the trail of tears between Delaware, Ohio in

Norah: Goodness.

Jon: It was a long, very uncomfortable drive home, but I, but, but. It's a longer drive when you gotta stop every 20 minutes to go to the bathroom.

Norah: Yeah. I had to do that when my, I thought my, I had a flat tire and I kept, filling my, I kept putting quarters into the air machines every 20 or so miles because I couldn't figure out what was wrong with my car.

Jon: But it was worth it. I would have lunch with you again and risk food poisoning. You're welcome. You are, you are food poisoning

Norah: poisoning, and we had the, we had the same thing.

Jon: No, I had the salad.

Norah: Oh, maybe they gave you bad lettuce

Jon: I think I got unwashed lettuce.

Norah: y.

Jon: Yeah, yuck is right. [00:03:00] Yeah. I ate some nasty stuff on the lettuce and paid the price. That's okay. Like I said,

Norah: So

Jon: like I said, I would, I would do it again. It's always worth it to see you. So even. Even that. Yeah. So, so when I left you on Wednesday, you were getting ready for your mac and cheese,

Norah: philanthropy

Jon: what was it called?

Get cheesy with deasy. Did I get that right?

Norah: dz. Yeah.

Jon: So how was the mac and cheese? You were, you were not a, you were not a baker, you were a taster and a judge.

Norah: Well, kind of, I was a floater actually, so I went around and made sure people were having a good time and explained what our philanthropy is. Actually I have a personal philanthropy page. I should link in the show notes. People wanna

Jon: Oh 

Norah: Dizzy's Philanthropy,

Jon: you should do that. Maybe, maybe you'll raise, maybe you'll raise from coin.

Norah: this semester, which is really cool.

Jon: Dear listeners of the Norah and Dad show, I am not going to shame you into donating, but this is now our, I [00:04:00] believe, 64th episode of free Entertainment. We've brought you. So maybe, maybe it's time.

Norah: for our 67th episode?

Jon: Think we should.

Norah: Okay.

Party.

Jon: but, but I think it's, I think it's time. Maybe you give back a few nickels to the Norah and Dad show by supporting Norah's philanthropy effort. What's your, what

Norah: to us,

Jon: what? I know that, what's the charity? Give it a.

Norah: well, so there's three organizations that we work with. the American, like Center for deaf children. money goes to them. That helps families who have children who are deaf. either helping them get hearing aids, if that's what they want, or cochlear implants, but more importantly teaching them sign language because a lot

Jon: Oh,

Norah: who are deaf, their parents actually don't learn time language,

Jon: question.

Norah: yes.

Jon: Is it weird to use a podcast to promote philanthropy for deaf people?

Norah: There's transcripts on Spotify,[00:05:00]

Jon: Oh, good point. People can read along.

Norah: or reading

Jon: Okay. Nevermind then.

Norah: of you. They can enjoy

Jon: Never. Nevermind. Keep going.

Norah: And then there's also Flying Horse Farm. Not Flying Horse Farm. Serious fun. Flying Horse Farms is the one in Columbus. They support children who have specific medical needs or disabilities to where they wouldn't be able to go to a typical summer camp, but they still get to have that summer camp experience. And then also Starkey Hearing, which is like an international organization that helps people get hearing aids and then also learn sign language. So.

Jon: Very nice. Do you guys, do you guys pick different philanthropy every year or is that the stock.

Norah: Nope.

Jon: group of organizations that you

Norah: all

Jon: Oh.

Norah: supports that Yeah,

Jon: Oh, very cool.

Norah: yeah,

Jon: your chapter has raced $2,000 so far this year.

Norah: yeah. And there's like only 30 of us, so it's pretty good.

Jon: Is there like a national tote board, do you know how you compare to the rest of the Delta Zeta chapters?

Norah: I [00:06:00] mean, we're not as big as like Bama, so.

Jon: Oh, does Bama have a big chapter?

Norah: 'cause it's a big school.

Jon: Oh, 'cause you got, yeah, but they probably have more sororities though.

Norah: Yeah,

Jon: bet. I bet they have. I bet they have 75 sororities at University of Alabama.

Norah: 75 sororities?

Jon: I have. Why are you asking me? I don't know. Probably. I don't know.

Norah: see many, oh my gosh. Wow. There's 71 Greek organizations. That includes frats too.

Jon: Okay.

Norah: Bama

Jon: pretty close.

Norah: lytic community in the nation.

Jon: There was I've seen documentaries on sorority pledging or rushing at University of Alabama. It's, have you ever seen any of those, like YouTube videos? They're.

Norah: why I didn't

Jon: Bonkers. They are bonkers. Like the girls that like get dressed up to the nines and it's, it's, yeah, it's crazy.

Norah: Yeah.

Jon: [00:07:00] So I, I'm a much bigger fan of your more low key sorority experience.

I think it's a, I think it's more, I, I think it's, I think it's more Norah,

Norah.

But, but, but I wouldn't want you to like, have to beg and plead and be someone you're not to. Join some organization.

Norah: Oh, absolutely. Yeah, me too. I'm with you.

Jon: so yeah. So what else is new and exciting in the world of Norah? I was apparently, I'll give you an update on me. So I was out in Dayton for this beer conference and apparently I. I, I knew I missed the shooting. There was a shooting outside the hotel I was staying in on Tuesday night, which I knew I heard about Wednesday morning and knew I missed it 'cause I was out to dinner with your uncle Jerry.

And then I just came back and went to bed after dinner. But a group of people that I'm friends with were stuck in a bar. Because of the shooting, the police would not let them leave and then they had to get a police escort [00:08:00] back to the hotel from the, from the brewery that they were hanging out in.

Norah: That's not good.

Jon: No, it's not good.

Does not, does not speak well for the hospitality of the city of Dayton.

Norah: Yeah. Not at all, actually.

Jon: Yeah. Which I was not, I was not overly impressed with. Anyway. But that's, that's, that's okay. Dayton was, it was a little, downtown Dayton where I was, was a, reminded me of a little bit of the Walking dead, which is not, not a great, not great for your city's tourism.

City looks like the zombie apocalypse. So

Norah: It's not great.

Jon: yeah. So that, and the other exciting news is half our new windows went in the house today, so that is

Norah: that

Jon: super exciting. We had windows in the house, including one in your bedroom that started to crack after 21 years. No, no, yours cracked. But others were getting like ice inside, like the, the gaskets were all blown.

So after [00:09:00] 20, I mean after 20. Yeah, after almost 22 years of builder grade windows, it was, it was time for new windows, so that half the new windows, or actually two thirds of the new windows went in today. And, and the other, the, the Amish, the Amish wrecking crew came and ripped through those windows in no time at all.

I was very, I was very impressed with how quickly guys could put window, could put windows in.

Norah: Yeah.

Jon: So that is all the exciting news I have to share, which is honestly not really all that exciting. Oh, and I went to No Kings on Saturday.

Norah: Oh, how is that?

Jon: It was good, it was kind of low key. I mean, the crowd was about the same size. The only event to to point out was that while we were standing on the corner of 42 and 82. There was traffic was stopped on Pearl Road heading like past the Pomeroy house on Pearl Road, and this guy in a pickup truck [00:10:00] rolled down his window and yelled as loud as he could for the, the, the, the light seemed like it.

The red light seemed like it lasted for like three minutes. It felt forever screamed. As loud as he could for as long as he could till the light turned green, " you're all a bunch of effing our words," but he didn't say effing our words. He, he

Norah: the real

Jon: elo, he, he elongated the slurs. Yeah.

Norah: Oh,

Jon: Over and over and over again because that's. A gonna convince all of us that he's right, because of course, like he must be in the right, if that's what he says.

But o but other than that, it was a very, it was very uplifting, very peaceful. It was good to be in a crowd of like-minded people that don't like the direction of our country. I, at no point in time felt concerned that a car was kind of gonna come. Even that guy I didn't think was gonna turn his car on the crowd and run us over.

So, no, I just, he was just [00:11:00] a, he was just a, a mean. Wardly person who felt good yelling at things out of his car, but there were lot, lots of police around, so I felt really safe. Didn't see any, didn't see any ice or anything, so it didn't, didn't feel in jeopardy at all. Yeah,

Norah: right now.

Jon: I there at the airport.

Norah: Yeah,

Jon: Yeah. I will probably s.

Norah: in New York, and you'll see

Jon: Yeah. I,

Norah: in

Jon: I will see them. Yeah. Well, I'll see them at the airport next Thursday. I, your mom made me promise I wouldn't yell at them or get myself arrested or detained or anything by

Norah: don't do

Jon: causing a scene. I would not, I would like to get on my trip. I'm not,

Norah: yeah.

Jon: I'm not, yeah. I'm not gonna be yelling at anybody.

And, and are, are they at the airport in Columbus too.

Norah: Mm-hmm.

Jon: Okay. Oh, but you'll see 'em at, you'll probably see 'em at LaGuardia though.

Norah: I will.

Jon: Yeah, fun. Have fun.

Norah: Thanks.

Jon: in trouble.

Norah: Thanks.

Jon: And that's your, and that's your other big [00:12:00] news is that you're headed to New York.

Norah: I'm, I'm excited.

Jon: It, it's Home alone.

Norah: down the days.

Jon: Home alone. Two with Norah. Stuck in New York City.

Norah: Trump though. Was he in home alone too, right?

Jon: He, he was, he wasn't home alone too. Yes. Yes. Oh, can you, can you walk by Trump Tower for me and, and give it the finger for me?

Norah: Sure.

Jon: It's at like 50, like 53rd and

Norah: I'll tell Eli to put that on the itinerary.

Jon: 53rd and fifth I think. It's kind of as you walk up Fifth Avenue towards like Central Park, it's up there somewhere, but yeah, maybe 53rd, 54th and fifth.

Somewhere in that vicinity.

Norah: it's a

Jon: Yeah.

Norah: tower with his name on it. It's kind of hard to miss.

Jon: And in gold.

Norah: Oh.

Jon: Yeah. The letters. I think the letters are gold. It is definitely hard to miss.

Norah: like not real gold. There's no way.

Jon: No, I doubt it.

Norah: stupid. Someone would steal it.

Jon: Somebody would steal it. Yeah.

Norah: Yeah,

Jon: [00:13:00] Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, yeah, so if you can do that for me, I'd, I'd appreciate it. So you have no idea what, what is what you have planned in New York.

Norah: no, I have some plans.

Jon: Oh. So what do you, what do you, so do share. What are you gonna be doing? I.

Norah: do share. Okay. I get there on Friday. going to go back at to like he goes to school. I'm gonna get a little campus tour, have dinner, meet his friends, play some music. time. Friday's like chill Saturday.

Jon: you bringing are, are you, are you bringing a guitar with you?

Norah: no, but I'm gonna borrow somebody's is what I was

Jon: Okay.

Norah: could borrow

Jon: Okay, got it.

Norah: so that'll be fun. then Saturday. I think is the day that we're staying out later. So we're driving instead of taking the bus. 'cause the buses stop at like 11. Gonna, I don't know if we're doing the zoo [00:14:00] that day or if we're doing the zoo on Sunday. We're going to a zoo. We're gonna

Jon: Okay.

Norah: of Moving Pictures. 

Jon: I've never been there. That sounds fun.

Norah: I'm excited central Park. not supposed to rain on Saturday. It's supposed to rain on Sunday, although the forecast could change. It's still a few days out, but it's supposed to rain. Yeah, that's kind of the loose plans. We're gonna go see a jazz show I think, on either

Jon: Fun

Norah: Yeah.

Jon: in, in, in Manhattan.

Norah: I don't know.

Jon: You don't know.

Norah: I don't know. I dunno. I'm just there for

Jon: You dunno. You're just there for the ride. It sounds fun.

Norah: That's all I did.

Jon: You're showing up and you're gonna let it, you're gonna let it roll for the weekend. I mean, New York, New York City's a fun city to hang out in.

Norah: Well, and I was, this is so tragic. There was a giant pigeon statue and they just got

Jon: It's gone. It, it just, it just got removed. I saw that.

Norah: down. I'm really upset.

Jon: Yeah.

Norah: I was hoping they could [00:15:00] hold out until I was there.

Jon: Yeah. It, yeah, I just, I saw it. I, I saw it just got taken down. I didn't know they had cherry blossoms in New York.

Norah: Hey, do. In New Jersey,

Jon: Okay.

Norah: won peak cherry blossom season,

Jon: Beautiful.

Age as you when I took my first solo trip to New York City.

Norah: I'm terrified. Well, New York

Jon: Mine was

Norah: far away. You went to school in New York?

Jon: Well, yeah. But I went to school in upstate New York. It was still like a four, it was like four hours away from Manhattan.

Norah: Oh.

Jon: but I mean, where I grew up in Philly was only like an hour and a half away from New York. So that was actually closer. But my first trip to New York was for New Year's Eve at Times Square.

So

Norah: that sounds awful. It sounds like my

Jon: it was, it was the worst. It was below 10 degrees out. It was freezing cold. There was wall to wall people. We got there real, we spent the day in [00:16:00] New York, but then we got there I went to my, was my, me and I think two of my friends from high school. And then we stayed at my friend, my college roommate who lived in New Jersey.

Probably not too far from Whatley, goes to school. We, we stayed at his house and then took the bus in and spent the day in New York, then got to Times Square at like six o'clock. 'cause we wanted to be close to the ball for whatever reason. 'cause we were young and stupid and we stood outside in Times Square for six hours in like the four degree weather and froze.

There's no bathrooms anywhere. There were people just like peeing on the street 'cause there's no bat. You can't use a bathroom. There's just not to be had. And then the ball dropped and then we're like. Looked at our watches and we're like, oh shit. The last bus leaves Manhattan in like 20 minutes. So we had to make a mad sprint from Times Square to Port Authority, which is not close.

That's a good like 10 to 15 blocks from Times Square to Port Authority. So it was a mad [00:17:00] sprint through the streets of Manhattan, through the crowds to make, to get on the bus to make sure we weren't sleeping at a bus station for the night.

Norah: Yeah, that would be no

Jon: Yeah, so I'm glad to say I did it. I can't recommend it as a fun thing to do.

There was, there was, there was, there was zero fun to be had other than looking back like 35 years later, I can say I spent New Year's. Yeah, I spent New Year's. I can, I, I spent New Year's in Times Square and it gave me a story to tell on the podcast and that was. It. That was it. But yeah, but I was like, your age.

The first time I went to Times Square, or first time I went to New York City by myself. So

Norah: How

Jon: a good age to explore New York.

Norah: York City twice?

Jon: We have been to New York twice. We went with, when Sarah lived with us, we went up there I think over spring

Norah: with Sarah, but I couldn't remember if we also went to

Jon: we did go up. We went to Chicago first. Spring break in New York for fall break or the other way around. I don't remember. But we did, we [00:18:00] did take sorrow to New York. And then we went just for the day when we flew out to Portugal. 

Norah: No, I.

Jon: yeah. With an ex who will not be named in his family. We spent the day in, went to the museum.

Norah: was

Jon: We went to the Museum of Modern Art, which I thought was great. We had a good meal at some,

Norah: there now?

Jon: At MoMA.

Norah: Yeah.

Levi, who I used

Jon: Jones. Really?

Norah: Yeah. They moved out of Columbus and they're doing like they have full-time work at MoMA now.

Jon: What do they, what do they do at MoMA?

Norah: I don't know. I know, but they went to OSU for graphic design stuff

Jon: Oh,

Norah: little bit doing graphic design, so

Jon: that's a good gig for someone in like the art in like the artsy space.

Norah: Yep.

Jon: Very cool. Very cool. Yeah, so we went.

Norah: I liked MoMA.

Jon: Yeah, I thought, I thought MoMA was cool. I would, I would go back there again. There's so many good museums in New York. You can go to the, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is amazing. The natural side.

[00:19:00] The, the natural history or the science, what it, yeah, the Natural History Museum. The one with all the dinosaurs is also. Also amazing. I was on a field trip when I was in high school. 'cause we used to take trips up to New York a lot. Not a lot. Maybe once a year we'd take a trip up to New York City, we'd go see like a show or went to the opera once, which was awful.

Don't, do not recommend the opera at all. No. No. Do not recommend the opera. Listen to people sing for three hours in Italian. Not my, not my gig. But on one of those trips we went to the the, to the, metropolitan Museum of Art, the, the big art museum in Manhattan. And they had a, we had been walking all day and I was tired, so I went to sit down on a couch, but I didn't realize that the couch was like a piece of art

Norah: Oh my

Jon: and alarms went off everywhere, everywhere.

And I was like, oh my God. I didn't realize it was art. I mean, it, it was behind the velvet ropes where I probably should have,

Norah: Did you

Jon: I didn't. I I, I was, I didn't see it. I, I wasn't paying attention.[00:20:00]

Norah: school?

Jon: I,

Norah: my goodness.

Jon: I didn't realize there was a velvet rope.

Norah: You that you would've been so confused at that one museum we went to in Boston where it was all chairs.

Jon: What museum was that? Oh, the,

Norah: but it was so many

Jon: yeah, there were, there were a lot of chairs. I made extra special care not to sit on any of those chairs. I learned my lesson

Norah: You learned your

Jon: full. Fool me once. Shame on you. Fool me twice.

Norah: guess better to

Jon: Shame on me.

Norah: when you're like in high school

Jon: Yeah, I was like an innocent kid. Yeah. Now as a 53-year-old dude, it's hard to say, oh, I didn't realize it was art.

This old looking hand carved chair sitting in the middle of an art museum. Oh,

Norah: Oops. I

Jon: So, I'm sorry, sir. I didn't realize it was art.

Norah: No, I like museums and mom doesn't like museums, so we never go to 'em.

Jon: We do not. We are, we are not, we are not museum people. I could have spent all day at the Tower of London reading every,

Norah: know. Me

Jon: like, every like [00:21:00] plaque on every suit of armor in that, in that one tower. I could have spent all day there. But your mom was standing in the corner looking at her watch. I'm like, well, I, it's time to go.

Norah: Yeah. I,

Jon: That's okay.

Norah: the same way. I like museums.

Jon: Oh, well you should find.

Norah: rain that Sunday, but that's also Easter Sunday, so I'm not sure what's gonna be open and what's gonna be

Jon: Oh, got it.

Norah: So, or maybe just nothing will be busy. 'cause people will be celebrating Easter.

Jon: Does he live in a dorm or, or does he have an apartment?

Norah: Storm.

Jon: Dorm. So are they gonna serve Easter, like Easter breakfast in the, in the, in the in the, in the dining hall.

Norah: know. I was told they have good omelets for breakfast.

Jon: Oh, there you go. I.

Norah: Yeah. I would never feed somebody the ooh dining. If you've been visiting, you would not be eating it.

Jon: No,

Norah: Can't do that. Actually at 1842, the food's pretty good. I'm getting sick of it 'cause I'm [00:22:00] eating it quite frequently, but.

Jon: that's like bar food, right? Like pizzas and burgers and

Norah: Yeah.

Jon: it's kind of hard to mess. It's, it's kind of hard to mess that up. Yeah. Get, you'll get good food. You'll get good food. Wednesday night.

Norah: I know. I don't

Jon: What's Wednesday?

Norah: sisters can come though because we have a mandatory DEI event.

Jon: Oh,

Norah: it. I can't go

Jon: well, yeah. You're, you're working, you're a, you're a, you're a working girl. You will be at understory in Columbus.

Norah: this week. It's awesome.

Jon: Playing, playing your music.

Norah: I'm doing that, but also my paycheck from the past two weeks.

Jon: Oh.

Norah: get paid on Friday and that includes my open mic gig, which paid quite nice.

Jon: That's good. Good timing. When you're going to New York.

Norah: it's perfect. Yeah. 'cause I worked about 17 hours the past two weeks.

Jon: Oh my god, that's a lot of hours.

Norah: It was more than that. It was 20 something hours. I worked 17 hours this past week

Jon: Okay.

Norah: [00:23:00] racking up

Jon: your is your foreign exchange, is that all your exchange? Is that all squared away now?

Norah: Kind of, I mean, I, there's stuff I have to fill out to figure out when I'm going to Chicago or New York, so that'll be

Jon: That's, that's kind of a pain in the butt. Why can't you do that over the, like, over zoom?

Norah: I don't know, but those are the closest centers.

Jon: Yeah. I guess we're road tripping to Chicago this summer.

Norah: Yeah. We can

Jon: To find out when, we'll have to find out when your cousin's gonna be around so we can go make sure that she's around when we're up in Chicago. Yeah, so I guess you have to do an in-person visa appointment for your student visa. What if you live?

Like what if you're like, what if you're like 15 hours away and, but.

Norah: Too bad.

Jon: But doing a, doing a foreign exchange is like your dream thing to do and you have all this like grants and stuff to have it done. You can't go if you don't go to to the, to the embassy in person and get your visa

Norah: me tell you where they are. Okay.

Jon: and is and, [00:24:00] and is and, and is this the French consulate you have to go to?

Norah: I don't know if it's for France specifically. I mean I have like, I only have information about France 'cause that's what they gave me. 'cause I don't need information for anywhere else. But I think the center is probably do more than one country.

Jon: because I know like because,

Norah: Boston,

Jon: okay,

Norah: Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco

Jon: Washington DC Yeah.

Norah: Yeah, so

Jon: Interesting. I know, like, 'cause I,

Norah: would be happy if we went to Philly and then went to New York afterwards.

Jon: I mean, I know there's, I I've, I've done a lot of reading on visas for foreign nationals in Portugal. And so I know like if you wanna get a visa, you do have to go like, do this appointment in person. But I just think it's, it just, it's just strikes me as odd that they do that for student visas too. So.

But I guess it's good to know. I guess we have to do it for your brother too, if he ends up in college [00:25:00] over in London. Yeah, we'll have to do it for him too, so that, that's good to know what we, what the, what the rules of the road are. We'll get a, we'll get a dry run. Hopefully, hopefully you pass the background check.

Norah: I'll be fine.

Jon: France. Hopefully France wants you.

Norah: I've passed like five background checks. I have to do a background check, like I've had to do three of them for,

Jon: got,

Norah: stuff.

Jon: I got pulled. I got pulled over yesterday.

Norah: How fast were you going?

Jon: The cop said 41 in on Lewis Road, which is a 25, but I do not think I was going 41, but

Norah: think you were going 41. I've seen you drive on Lou.

Jon: said,

Norah: on Lewis Rope.

Jon: he said you were the only car coming in that direction. So I'm pretty sure I got your speed accurate, but he he let me off. He let me off with a warning.

Norah: are you kidding me?

Jon: Nope.

Norah: My first

Jon: Your mom.

Norah: ticket, I was shaking. I was so nervous, and they still gave me a ticket.

Jon: Your, your mom and I are headed up to Crocker Park. And I got [00:26:00] drove past the cop, and

Norah: This is

Jon: right before I drove past the cop, your your, your mom goes, you need to slow down. You're going too fast. And I'm like, no, I'm fine. And then he pulls up behind me and she goes, you're getting a ticket. And then the sirens go on and I'm like, oh, f I'm getting a ticket.

So I pulled over and I handed him my license and I showed him my insurance and he said, I'll be right back sir. He disappeared for like two minutes and he came back and he said, he handed me my license back. And he said please drive more carefully and more slowly from this point forward. And I said, I will do so.

Thank you very much. And off and off I went. No. He was right behind me. I was going 25. 25 on the nose.

Norah: It's stupid. It should be 35.

Jon: I think it's 25. 'cause of the horse farms, because of the horses that ride on the road. That's why I think it's 25. But I agree. 20, 20, 25 should be reserved for [00:27:00] strictly like neighborhoods and pure residential roads.

That road, it is a rural road. There's homes on it, but it's not, yeah, it, it should be 35.

Norah: Cops don't even

Jon: That

Norah: on that road.

Jon: No,

Norah: No

Jon: they, he was going,

Norah: that road by the IX center. That's 25.

Jon: oh, I go like 50 on that road. It's impossible to drive. Yeah. And that's, that's four lanes across.

Norah: Mm-hmm.

Jon: it's, yeah.

Norah: either.

Jon: Also, should it be 25, man, I'm gonna start a, I'm gonna start a writing campaign to like a ballot campaign to redo all the speed limits.

Norah: that no bottom shouldn't be 25.

Jon: Oh, I agree with you.

Norah: I think it should be 35

Jon: I, I agree with you. 25 is, no, what is 25 is too. Drive, is too drive to slow. Is too slow to drive. It is,

Norah: is. No,

Jon: it's so hard. It's so hard to drive. 25, we were coming back.

Norah: though. I

Jon: I do have a [00:28:00] lead foot. We were coming back after our shopping, we were coming back down the same road and in the other direction.

And I'm like, I I'll, I'm like, I'm going 25. 'cause there were a lot of cops out yesterday and it was so, I was trying so hard to drive slow.

Norah: the month quotas.

Jon: They are. And I'm like, oh, nope. Going 30. Gotta slow down. It's, it's really difficult.

Norah: of quotas.

Jon: They're illegal. They're illegal. You can't have quotas on paper, but you keep, but they probably have quotas,

Norah: Got it.

Jon: dumb rules.

Yeah. Whatever, whatever. Yeah. So we'll have to find a time to go to Chicago

Norah: Or New York

Jon: or New York, or you'll be an expert on New York.

Norah: in July. He's going back to

Jon: You, you will be. You will be. We might, well, we might, we might, we might be in Portugal in July. We'll have to figure that out. So,

Norah: The whole month of July,

Jon: no, not the whole month of July, but there's a possibility that for at least a week in July, we're gonna be in Portugal. So

Norah: go to[00:29:00]

Jon: put a, a. Put a, put a thumbtack in that on your calendar. We might, I think we're gonna wait for your brother to get back from London and then make him boomerang and fly back, which is mean, but make him fly back across the ocean.

I know. We just, we, we just booked his flight.

Norah: you right next, next year. You guys loved traveling over Christmas, Uhuh. want Christmas at home after being in France. I wanna see everybody.

Jon: Oh. All right. We'll figure that out.

Norah: You guys could visit me over fall break, but I would like to home. I wanna see

Jon: Okay, we'll we will, we will sort that out when the time gets closer to that.

Norah: I should probably start looking at my flight soon.

Jon: Yeah, we, yeah, we booked, we booked Adam's flight for London, so I booked the round trip. I was thought about booking from like one, like from here to. London and then from on the way back London to Lisbon. But then, I don't know, like, I dunno what the timing is or where we're gonna be.

So it was easier to have him come home. [00:30:00] So he has like a, he has like a 10 hour layover in Philadelphia.

Norah: flights.

Jon: Yeah,

Norah: Did you get like

Jon: but I think.

Norah: or whatever?

Jon: Yeah, I think they're changeable, but he has like a, he has like a 10 hour layover in Philly coming home, so I think Grandma's gonna get him at, I think grandma's gonna meet him at the airport and he'll spend some time with, with, with, with your grandparents.

Yeah. So, which is nice.

Norah: Yeah, I don't, I don't,

Jon: I,

Norah: I don't have any layovers 'cause I have short flight. I'm hoping that everything goes well. I'm hoping I can put my bag on the plane that doesn't have to get checked.

Jon: I'm hoping your plane takes off and lands.

Norah: Yeah, that too. I'm

Jon: La LaGuardia has been having issues.

Norah: I know

Jon: I mean, like LaGuardia specifically has been having issues, so Yeah, so I'm, I'm hopeful that your, that your plane is Yeah, don't, please don't forget to send me your, please don't forget to send me your flight information.

Norah: How do I do that? Where do I find that?

Jon: Well, [00:31:00] you better have it so, you know, like when you're going,

Norah: Oh, I do

Jon: what, what?

Norah: there like a number I need to send you or like.

Jon: What, what, what, what airline are you flying?

Norah: American Airlines.

Jon: Yeah, send me the, send me the flight numbers.

Norah: Oh, okay.

Jon: It'll start with like an aa, that's American Airlines, and there should be like a three digit, or a four digit number

Norah: yet

Jon: after it really?

Norah: because I didn't wanna pay an extra $20

Jon: well, it's just, you're just fly. You're, you're just flying yourself, so you.

Norah: Yeah, I don't

Jon: Yeah, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't book seats for Portugal because it cost money, cost extra money, and I'm just going myself, so I didn't feel the need to spend the money. I don't really care who I sit with, so

Norah: My flight status. Yeah.

Jon: long as there's no one weird next to me taking pictures of me.

Norah: Did we talk about that? I don't think we did in the pod.

Jon: I don't think we did talk about that last time on our way, on our way to London. Your brother had some guy next to him taking pictures of him. You saw it? I didn't.

Norah: did see it. It was [00:32:00] weird.

Jon: So he was taking selfies.

Norah: Is that the number I need to send you?

Jon: Does it say, does it say confirmation number?

Norah: One second. Confirmation code.

Jon: Yeah, that's what I want.

Norah: Okay, I got you. I'm

Jon: No, I want the flight number. I want the flight number.

Norah: have the flight number yet.

Jon: Yes, you do.

Norah: I don't.

Jon: Or, or send me the, send me the times that you're flying. How's that?

Norah: I can do that.

My watch is

Jon: If you,

Norah: to stand up.

Jon: Oh,

Norah: Mom just

Jon: I need to, I need,

Norah: on the

Jon: I know it's my, I need to, I need to go exercise. I will have, for the month of March, I will have walked 350,000 steps and exercised for 2000 minutes for the month of March.

Norah: London.

Jon: It's a lot of it's from London. Yeah. So I'm, I'm gonna go.

Norah: project in my classroom management course is behavioral intervention. So I'm, my [00:33:00] behavioral or my behavior that I'm trying to change is I wanna get 10,000 steps a day, but my data is kind of skewed, like my baseline data from London. 'cause we were

Jon: Yeah, big. We walked like 20,000 steps a day, big time. Anyway, so we, so we didn't finish the story, so that guy was taking pictures, pictures, picture, pictures.

Norah: picture I

Jon: Picture of, of your brother who was sitting next to him and it freaked him out. And so I guess it freaked you out too. So I called the flight attendant.

Oh, it freaked your brother out. He said he, I.

Norah: was a Tottenham fan he took a picture

Jon: Donovan was, he was wearing his Arsenal shirt. Probably. Probably was. But it made Donovan uncomfortable. So I called the, I called the flight attendant over and I was like, I don't wanna make a big deal. But this guy just took a picture of my son and, and he was like, sir, you're right to be concerned.

We'll keep an eye on him. Don't worry about it. And then I went to sleep, so, yeah. And everything was fine,

Norah: too.

Jon: right?

Norah: The one of it had no

Jon: I slept,

Norah: Poor

Jon: I [00:34:00] slept like a baby.

Norah: Me too.

Jon: Hurdling across the ocean.

Norah: flights than I did on the long flight. I slept on

Jon: Oh, give, give, give me a glass of wine and I'm out. I'm good to go.

Norah: of wine on the plane

Jon: No, before we got on the plane,

Norah: at like 12:00 AM or 12:00 PM

Jon: our flight was No. At the air when we were at the, yeah, no, we were at the airport. We were at the airport lounge. I had a little, a little cocky tail and then a glass of wine. And then by the time I got on the plane I was a little cocky tail. And then I was ready, I was ready to sleep. It was night, night time for me.

I was good to go.

Norah: Did,

Jon: Yeah.

Norah: sing Sweet Lullabies into your ears?

Jon: They did. The woman, the woman next to me, used my shoulder was a pillow. It was a little weird. I always seem to get people that wanna sleep on me and strangers that wanna sleep on me.

Norah: Not even mom wants to put her head

Jon: I had the, [00:35:00] I had the, that's not nice. I had the, I had the,

Norah: She doesn't, she doesn't

Jon: I had the guy.

Norah: when she sleeps. I don't like being touched

Jon: No, she doesn't. No she doesn't. I had the guy,

Norah: mom.

Jon: I, I had the flight with the guy who knocked back four vodka ojs in the first, like 15 minutes of the flight and then fell asleep on my shoulder for three hours. That was awesome. 

Norah: You also saw the woman

Jon: yeah.

People like to use my,

Norah: one time.

Jon: I had that too. I must, I must, I must have soft shoulders.

Norah: Good for you.

Jon: It's, yes it is. Yes it is. Alright, with that, I'm gonna wrap up this episode of the Northern Dad Show. People should come see you at understory on Wednesday.

Norah: So there'll

Jon: Yeah.

Norah: in the show notes. There will be on Wednesday, understory in Columbus, five to eight. The weather's supposed to be nice. I think so. It should be outside in theory.

Jon: They're very nice. You're, you're not gonna get rain. We're, we're supposed to get, we're supposed to get rain up here.

Norah: Oh, and I didn't check, I just assumed it would be nice. 

Jon: You just assumed it was going to be nice. [00:36:00] Well, now let me look.

Norah: right now.

Jon: In rain.

Norah: well then I'll be inside.

Jon: Showers you're gonna be inside,

Norah: fine.

Jon: but the inside, the inside there is also lovely.

Norah: it

Jon: No, the inside there is also lovely. And the, the food is good. The beer is good. 

Norah: I

Jon: 10 stars outta 10, highly recommended. No, you cannot. 'cause you're underage and you can't drink.

Norah: and I'm driving

Jon: Yeah. So understory and then your philanthropy.

Norah: my philanthropy. Yeah, that would be, 

Jon: yeah,

Norah: thing. Yeah.

Jon: we will. We will.

Norah: that to the family group chat too.

Jon: That is a squeaky door

Norah: Yeah. Lily was

Jon: in loud footsteps.

Norah: downstairs.

Jon: It's very nice. Oh, bunk. You get better reception down there, so.

Norah: Do I? Okay. Well I'm on my

Jon: Yeah. Yeah, you still get better reception. So

Norah: Interesting.

Jon: or it could be the new software, maybe the processes the better. I don't know. Anyway. [00:37:00] Okay. With that, I'm gonna leave us, have a good time in New York.

I will talk to you before you go, but the listeners will not. So I,

Norah: long break because I'm gonna be in New York and then you're gonna be in Portugal,

Jon: I'm gonna be in Portugal and so it'll be three weeks.

Norah: without an episode,

Jon: Before, before people hear from us, but we'll be back in three weeks,

Norah: and

Jon: Which might be our last episode. We will have travel stories. That might be our last episode of this season. We might have one more after. We should try to squeeze in one more

Norah: We can do

Jon: after that.

Norah: I mean, I'll be

Jon: Alright,

Norah: home, so

Jon: alright, so we may have two more episodes before we take a break and then nor joins us from France in the fall.

Norah: Yes.

Jon: Ula la Okay.

Norah: Yeah.

Jon: Alright have a good trip. We'll talk to you. I love you.