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Start a List with Carol and Stacy
Our Sons Spill the Beans
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Stacy and Carol host an episode of “Start a List” featuring their sons, Will and Lewis, who discuss what they think about their moms having a podcast. Will and Lewis describe growing up as teacher’s kids at the same school, recalling privileges like access to the teacher’s lounge, pressure to behave, and after-school fun. They share funniest memories (especially their moms falling), favorite childhood foods and bus riding shenanigans.
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Hey everybody. Welcome to Start a List with Carol and Stacy. I'm Stacy. I'm Carol. And if you are watching this, uh, we have two special guests today. We have our sons. Hey Lewis. Hey Will.
SPEAKER_00Hey. Hello.
SPEAKER_03I'm so excited.
SPEAKER_01I'm Will. I'm Lewis.
SPEAKER_03Thank y'all for taking the time to meet with your moms and hang out with us for a couple minutes. We've been wanting to do this as a part of our podcast for a while. And Stacy said, Why don't we have our special guest this week? I said, Let's do it. Yeah, this had some time off, so that helped, and he was a little more available. And yeah, thank you guys. We're excited. We're gonna quiz y'all.
SPEAKER_02I've been asking mom to be on this for I think four weeks running now.
SPEAKER_03We finally made it happen. Well, what about uh a recurring moment this week? An old person moment. Have we had any of those, Stacey? Well, my blood pressure shot up yesterday. That's an old person moment, and I don't know why. Well, I had a random, well, you were sick, but I had a random 12-hour fever, couldn't move my mind. Yeah, y'all both have had cooties this week. So weird. And then I got up this morning, my eye was like killing me after I showered. Apparently, I've got some eucalyptus eucalyptus soap in my eye, and I thought I had pink eye. I'm like, oh well, eucalyptus that burns. Yeah, it was all red, and I thought, oh gosh, I'm gonna have to go to the walking clinic. But anyway.
SPEAKER_00Wait, wait, Will Will, what did you have at Chipotle that killed your stomach?
SPEAKER_02I think it was the chicken, but I mean, my sister was always talking about how the chicken there is just yeah, it's it's all right. Yeah, it's not the greatest. But the time before I had the chicken, I was fine. And then this time, you know, I was I had a great day at work coming home. I love Chipotle. Telling my friends oh, Chipotle's gonna be very good. I had for 40 hours.
SPEAKER_03Was it not eight minutes after he ate? He came in the den and sat down, and he was five shades of green. I've never eaten there, and I don't intend to. Stacy's like, you need to report them to the seriously, they're probably it's gross. Ugh. That's what you get for trying to eat healthy. Yeah, get fried chicken next time, you won't have that problem. Okay, we are gonna ask y'all some questions, okay? So we're gonna get started, so we have enough time because you know we're on the free versions, we're gonna get asking. So you can take turns. But the first one, obviously, is what do you think about your moms having a podcast? Louis, you got first.
SPEAKER_00What do I think? Oh man, well, first of all, it's awesome because it's I mean, it's entertainment, you know. I get to listen to stories that I may have heard of a bazillion times before, or and news stories, you know, and y'all have the like most perfect synergy, and y'all, it's like you're hanging out in the same room together, you know. And you know, once this thing goes big, since uh exactly. So once this goes big, that'll be even better. You'll be hanging out with the cool celebrities. I'll be seeing cool pics with mom and Miss Carol with I don't know who I don't know. Snookie, is that who it is?
SPEAKER_03Heck yeah, let's go. Just saying we'll do uh we'll do one of the you know how they come out for I don't know, is it NBA they say or the the draft or whatever it is, and they're all in a big room and they're all dressed up and wearing stuff, and then they walk out and announce that they're gonna go corona. That's what we'll know. Okay.
SPEAKER_00Oh, like yep, that's right. Like a brand deal going on.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, we need some brand deals. All right, Will, what do you think?
SPEAKER_02Man, it's the coolest thing in the world. I feel like if I was if I was in like middle school, I feel like I'd be embarrassed. Yeah, totally. But now that I'm in college, I'm bragging about it to my friends. I'm like, guys, my mom has a podcast. Like, go watch, go watch my mom. And once you get to a certain age, you don't find it embarrassing, you find it funny. Because like Wis said, you hear stories, you hear stories that you don't haven't heard before. And like the the first one that came to mind when I was thinking about it is Stacy getting hit with a on her bike, and it's like flattened. And every time I think of that story, I just died.
SPEAKER_04Oh, it's very funny.
SPEAKER_03Well, and he's you've witnessed me a million times following so all of our falling stories. And there's I can hear words out, Mom. Are you okay? And I'm very mom, are you okay? Well, we appreciate y'all. The what?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Well, we appreciate y'all because you happen to be a topic of a lot of our stories. So we hope you don't mind that that we tell stories that y'all are a part of. We sh I guess we should have asked.
SPEAKER_02Oh well, I love when mom gives me shout-outs and exactly. You know, free promo right there.
SPEAKER_00It's good content, you know, as long as we're providing good content, that's all that matters.
SPEAKER_03Well, we're waiting for it to go big, right, Carol? Just any minute we're gonna like we haven't had a new subscriber in a minute. So we're hoping, you know, we'll put you guys, we'll advertise that y'all are on here and some more people will tune in. Yeah, y'all gotta y'all gotta share with your all of your listeners and friends, all of your followers or whatever they are. Because our target audience is 20-something year olds. Not really, yeah. This is what was missing. Lewis's friends and Will's friends are actually engaging. Lewis had a few friends listen in the beginning, and I was like, oh dear. Yeah, okay, so this is kind of a big one. You might have to think about this for a minute. But growing up, obviously, both of you had moms that were teachers. So we want to hear like, what was your perspective or like your experience in elementary school with your moms being there as teachers? And you know, like, I don't know how it was for you guys because we aren't y'all. Will you go first? That's what we're interviewing.
SPEAKER_02I go first.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Well, now if you don't know this, listeners, I'll I'll interject here. Uh, Stacey and I did teach at the same school, and we were in the same building, and y'all were a year apart. So after school, sometimes y'all were able to play together or whatever. Okay, go ahead.
SPEAKER_02So the the first thing that comes to mind, I kind of there were times that I felt like a little bit invincible. Because like uh like a little bit of a step above everybody because normal students couldn't go in the teacher's lounge, couldn't go to certain parts of buildings. I would I thought it was the coolest thing in the world when the teacher would be like, Will, come here and give me a dollar, which is what it was back then, to go get them a soda from the teacher's lounge.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, okay, yeah.
SPEAKER_02And I just felt like and other teachers would see me in there and not think anything of it because it's like, oh, that's Carol's son, or like whatever.
SPEAKER_03Way back then it was a dollar. I don't even know how a corporate or hey, FI, nobody's getting Cokes now because they don't have a Coke machine, it's a Pepsi machine, and who even wants that? We don't have nobody. Then they then they changed the rule and they wouldn't allow um kids in the teacher's lounge, but uh teachers, children in the teacher's lounge.
SPEAKER_04Really?
SPEAKER_03When they turned that I don't know, I think y'all were shaking the snack machine or something trying to get freaked out. Will was did you ever like wish your mom wasn't there as a teacher? Like were you annoyed that oh god, I gotta I mean you were with us a lot. You rode with us in the morning, you rode home with us in the afternoon, you know, we were there all day.
SPEAKER_02There was times where I wish like that mom wasn't a teacher because anytime I wasn't the most perfect kid, my teacher would be like, Your mom's teacher, you need to set an example here, you need to like they would always bring that into the into the situation. And I remember I got in second grade was not a good year for me. I got in a lot of trouble in second grade, but I remember um business or she was the head principal at the time. Um, and I got had gotten ISS and she she came in there and was like, Do you know how much trouble you have caused today to the whole to the whole staff? We can't do our jobs today because you have decided to do what you have done. I have to stop working to come in here to supervise you. And yeah, and that was that's my biggest memory of you guys who I'm talking about.
SPEAKER_03I well remember that, but shoot, you were a little rascal in the second grade, huh?
SPEAKER_02I'm kidding. For sure.
SPEAKER_03All right, Lewis. What's your take on being a teacher's kid?
SPEAKER_00Well, it's like, you know, it's hard to put into like a perspective of like someone who isn't a teacher's kid, you know, because like you go to the same, you know, you go to school with your mom. Like, you know, not everybody else's kids did that. But um, I mean, I never I feel like sometimes, definitely sometimes I kind of felt like I was above, just a little bit above all the other kids. You know, um, there was a kid in my grade who his father was the SRO, and I was like, dude, that's awesome. You know, my mom's teacher, like, you know, we're kind of cool like that. Um, but like it never, at least as I remember, it never really uh it didn't really like uh like I never like regretted, you know, going to the same school with my mom or having my mom as a teacher, you know. But I mean, I'm sure there were some times I'd be like, oh mom, you gotta get away. But I I always remembered I'm with my teacher and y'all are with your 20-some kids. So I, you know, there wasn't a whole, I don't remember a whole lot of interaction. I just remember passing in the hallways, or I think it was my third or fourth grade year that your hall was right across from mine. So I'd see you peek in sometimes and be like, oh, what's up, mom? You know, but I think that was third grade, something like that. But I think it was really cool. My mom's a teacher, all my friends are like, Oh, you you know, you got my mom as a teacher, you know. It's like, don't let me tell my mom on y'all, you know.
SPEAKER_02I do need to add something. I do need to have mom tell a story before we go to the next question because um I was I didn't have you in the first grade, but I was in the same classroom as you in the first grade. And so I I want you to tell that story.
SPEAKER_03Well, Lomas were banished.
SPEAKER_00Yes, oh yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Oh yeah. So you were you it you you liked it kind of. Okay, oh yeah. Well, basically we were building a second building because we were growing exponentially, and so two classrooms had to move into one giant, like the music room. And so there were two first grade classes that we were out in a portable building. Well, when they moved us mid-year into the music room, his teacher and my and myself just so happened to move into the same room. So for a half a school year, he was in the room with me reminding six, almost seven years old. And yes, I would have a Diet Coke on my desk or whatever. And he would literally, we had him sitting as far away from me as possible, and I'm like this anyway. And he would come over and be like, Mom, have some Diet Coke. I'm like, No, like he just thought he could do whatever that is hilarious. And Lewis was in first grade. Um, no, this was not first grade, second grade. He was down a different hall than me. And you went, I don't know if you were growing, but or you just wanted an excuse to come to my room, but you'd come down every day practically for a while, go, my legs hurt. Do you remember that?
SPEAKER_00No, and I'm like, I don't, I don't remember that.
SPEAKER_03I don't know if you had growing pain, you weren't growing, okay. And I'd give you some children's Tylenol, and you'd skedaddle on back. I'm like, okay. Which is funny. Well, as a teacher, as a kid in the building, I felt pressure to make sure you were good all the time. You didn't want to be the teacher with the rotten kid, right?
SPEAKER_04I mean, yeah.
SPEAKER_03I mean, you just did y'all remember any after school stuff that like anytime we played outside after school or anything? I know there was oh yeah.
SPEAKER_00I always remember like Will and then Jackson Hines. Uh well at the time the assistant principal's son worked. We'd always be doing whatever, running up and down the halls in everybody's classrooms, in the playground, whatever.
SPEAKER_03Run in and get a snack.
SPEAKER_00What incident are you talking about?
SPEAKER_03Somebody was throwing rocks, and I'm sure it was you, and somebody got hit with rocks, and then we all got in trouble, and then we got an email saying your children must be in your own classroom after school from now on. They sent that email a lot, though. I don't remember the rock throwing thing. I don't know who threw the rocks, but somebody threw it and got hit. Well, they didn't like y'all. Y'all don't remember they were we'd get in trouble when y'all ran the hallways like lunatics after school. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Oh yeah. Yeah, I remember hanging out before school started. Oh, sorry. No, go ahead. Well, I remember before school started since the teachers had to get there super early. We were there, and so we just dilly-dally or do whatever, and then we were off to class.
SPEAKER_03Or breakfast.
SPEAKER_00I never really ate breakfast that much, but yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. I just remember we yeah. Um, well, Lewis, I have the next question. Um Stacey, were you gonna say something else? Nope. Oh, okay. The next question I wanted to ask was as a child, what was one of the um the funniest things you remember about your mom? Any something that happened, or something you shaped it, or you did, or I don't know.
SPEAKER_00I feel like as bad as this sounds, mom's pretty notorious for falling, and like, not that's funny, but like as mentioned previously, the corn maze. Um like you just I don't know. I mean, that's funny. You know, people falling's funny, it's not funny when it's your mom, but just uh I don't know how to say it. Just like I don't know.
SPEAKER_03Well, how explain that day from your perspective?
SPEAKER_00You were what seven or eight, or yeah, it was a while ago, but we were in this corn maze, and I remember there was like this big knot from a tree or a stalk of corn or something like that, and mom was just on the floor. That's what I remember. I'm turning around, mom was on the ground, and we were just there, and there was another time. This is not her falling, but just she was where were we? Georgia, is that what it was? Jekyll Island. We were mom was doing uh one of those slides where you're gonna the inner tubes or whatever. And so she hits the bottom of it and she's like she just goes flying, and she doesn't go flying off of it, but she's just up in the air, boom, then goes right under it. And my aunt Aunt Carol was like freaking out, and she was like, Where are you? Where are you? And we were all just there, just you know, howling at it because it was funny, but just just funny, yeah, just like it could be funny, just funny moments, not necessarily not necessarily mom or mom falling, is what I remember, but just like just all the funny moments, just this the silly incidents and the funny accidents, I guess.
SPEAKER_03Well we're glad we could be clumsy. Glad we could be clumsy to entertain your mom.
SPEAKER_02Um I yeah, there was a lot of falling stories with mom as well. I mean, it just I would just call one of my sisters would pick me up from school, and it would just seem like almost a monthly thing, like, oh mom fell again, and it's like a trauma.
SPEAKER_01Oh, okay. Like this week.
SPEAKER_03Stacey and I both have one of those. We just kept the boot in the closet. Oh my gosh. I've been in that thing a time or 20.
SPEAKER_02Yes, you were just trying to cursel that week. You would just give the boot.
SPEAKER_03Can I burn your boot?
SPEAKER_02The other thing I vividly would be us coming home from school, and this had to be like a weekly or a bi-weekly occurrence, but we would we'd come home from school and you'd you'd have to stop at the wine store and you'd come out with your boss of wine. You know, that had to be like once a week or once every two weeks. And that was that was a big surgeon here.
SPEAKER_03Well, that's what I'm gonna teach you to listen. If you wanna if you wanna pass a time store once, don't get your education to the group. Oh, they're wet. That's a great childhood memory. I'm so proud.
SPEAKER_01Moving on to the next question.
SPEAKER_03Now what the hell is that? I wasn't the only person drinking clarifying. Okay. Go ahead.
SPEAKER_02But I would also, and the as a as a mom, as a teacher, summer is great because you don't have to be around so many kids, but summer's also a nightmare because your kids are home all the time. So I do remember specifically, I had friends that were triplets growing up, and so mom would get this like beach bag, like giant bag, and just throw five days worth of clothes in there and would just send me off to there. And I'd be there for like four or five, six days at a time.
SPEAKER_03Okay, okay. Let me clarify to our listeners they would call and they would call and invite you out. I did not do all we could they would invite you and I would say, Oh, of course.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, for some reason they never came over here for that long.
SPEAKER_03I mean, I would invite them and they would one of them would be like, I want to go home. And oh shoot, well there, buddy. I'm sure it was something I was doing. I loved summer and I never minded having you home because we didn't have to get up early, we didn't have to have bedtimes. You know, I hated the Schedule was probably my least favorite part of it, but yeah. Um, all right, I know you have another question. Yeah, uh, real quick, what's the favorite childhood meal that your mom prepared for you, Lewis? Or dad, or just as a family.
SPEAKER_00Favorite childhood meal.
SPEAKER_03I mean, you can still like it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. Oh, man. That's a tough one, you know.
SPEAKER_03You can pass and we can come back.
SPEAKER_00Because I got mine. No, I've got I got one. It's the um, it is the chicken and rice casserole, the classic. It's been y'all's been eating it, mom and dad have been eating it for what? Forever? Yeah, since y'all first got together.
SPEAKER_03It was the first pill berry ever cooked for me, and we it's still in the rotation today. Chicken and rice casserole with cheese and good stuff.
SPEAKER_00Easy, yeah. Yeah, it's easy. It's like what, like six ingredients, boom, toss that together. Easy peasy.
SPEAKER_03Sounds good. All right, Will.
SPEAKER_02My favorite, my favorite definitely it would it would be. She would always jar it up in a mason jar, and so it'd be that sausage with nanny's jelly.
SPEAKER_03They called it nanny's jelly. It was straw, homemade strawberry jelly. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Also, I don't like any other form of grits other than the form that mom makes me because it's two packets of instant grits. What's his name? The the pilgrim guy.
SPEAKER_03Quaker? No, Quaker oats. Quaker grits.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it would be that brand of grits. It'd be two packets of that, and with water, sugar, and then she would fold a slice of cheese into a fourth and push it down in there and microwave it. And it was the best thing.
SPEAKER_03That's the only form of grits that I and the sausage was just literally the pre-cooked Jimmy Dean or whatever, but they were already cooked, but I would sear them in a skillet and make them brown. But yeah, my mother made the world's best freezer jam, and I've tried to duplicate my granny. Made that too. I loved it. You kept it in the freezer. It was we called it strawberry jam. Yep, that's it. But he called it nanny's jelly growing up. I wish I could have some again. I do too. I wish I could duplicate it. Yeah, I tried to make some and I just it just poured out of the case. It had it was it had that thicker consistency to it. Yep. I used to keep a jar in my freezer when my nanny was still living.
SPEAKER_02Like mom, mom would make it and I would try it, and she'd be like, it's horrible. I was like, I appreciate you trying, mom.
SPEAKER_03It was what I should have done is gotten some smackers and just put it in one of mom's old jars and just pull it out of the freezer. Well, while we're talking about food, I'm gonna tell a story on Lewis. So um when he was little, he loved Chick-fil-A. I guess you still like Chick-fil-A. And we had a really bad habit when we still lived on the other side of town that we passed by it every morning and he'd want chicken minis every morning on the way to school, right? And I don't remember if I had something at school that day, but he had been with me throughout a course of an entire day. He'd been with me, my mom and dad, and then Perry. And I'm sure I fed him Chick-fil-A that morning. Okay. Mom and dad, at some point, like, you want to get some lunch? What do you want? Not knowing that I've already fed him Chick-fil-A, he's like Chick-fil-A. So they're like, Okay, they take him to Chick-fil-A for lunch. And then that night, Perry had him say, Yeah, and he's like, We're just gonna drive through and get something. No, because Perry doesn't know what's happened all day. What do you want for dinner? Blue sleep chick-fil-a Chick-fil-A three times that day. Like, oh my gosh, never that's another thing I remember was when Yep, yep.
SPEAKER_00Another thing I remember was when um when uh White Castle was where the noob or the panda is now, we'd always go through and I get some some sliders or the um like the cheesy ranch fries. Is that what it is? Like the bacon ranch fries. I don't remember that.
SPEAKER_03Remember that I remember going there and taking the phone.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, we go through all the time and snack. Yeah, yeah. It was like a little box, and you like open it up and it was like cheese and ranch and bacon. It was like fries or something like that.
SPEAKER_03Maybe I miss why we'll always like those are good. Will always liked the um was it the granola cup or the fruit granola parfait at McDonald's, right? In middle school, he liked that for some reason. Yeah, yeah, the parfait type of it.
SPEAKER_02Man, yes, yes.
SPEAKER_03It would become really expensive. You just make me remember something. You just you just he would say, go ahead. Oh, he would say, Well, can I uh can I get a grappuccino? Of course. I mean, what am I gonna say? No, I should have said now.
SPEAKER_02I don't okay. I've seen most episodes, I haven't seen every episode. Have y'all talked about our adventures with McDonald's?
SPEAKER_03No, but all right, we'll we'll get to that after Stacy knows this is what she just remembered. It just made me when you said that it made me think of something. Did you guys both hop on the middle school bus from Rutland in middle school? At least one. I know Lewis did it one year. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Y'all so this it would have been mid-grade. No, it would have been no because we would have gone to middle school, sixth grade. So I was in sixth grade. You had you had JDK's kids, and you had like there was a group of us, like we were we were a gang.
SPEAKER_03That was our you were a gang. No, you were the bus gang, the teachers' kids, bus gang.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah. So there was, and the biggest, my biggest like issue was the end of the day, how I had to be the last stop. The last stop was the school every day, and I didn't want to wait on the bus that long every day. And one of the stops, it was like the fifth to last stop. So I could have saved like 15-20 minutes, and there was a cut through right to Rutland, like I could see Rutland.
SPEAKER_03Oh, the bridge behind the school into that neighborhood. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02I had I I became friends with this bus driver, and but we weren't friends the day that she told me I couldn't get off at that stop. And I it had gotten so bad to the point where I had one of my friends at school forge a note as my mom to say, hey, Will's allowed to get off at this stop.
SPEAKER_03I don't remember kids riding it back to school because I always picked Lewis up in the car rider line. I didn't know they did that.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03No, that he would ride the bus back, and most of the year it was fine. He could get off in the neighborhood behind us, just cut through on the bridge, and she would not let him, and she whipped that bus in the parking lot and called my cell phone, and I had to go out there, and you were already there. Oh, I was in the car already, yeah. Like she would drop him off and then we would leave. He was seven shades of red, he was so mad. He was like, She was about to suspend him off the bus and all this stuff. He had acted awful about it.
SPEAKER_02I I this was not a proud moment, but I pulled the do you know who my mom is?
SPEAKER_04You know who my mom is.
SPEAKER_02I I was like, I was like, my mom can get you fired, which was like not the case at all. But I was just I was trying to desperate power.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, oh my gosh, that's it. I'd like to see your face when she said when you said, Do you know who my mom is? And she's like, No. Or she said, I don't care who your mom is. You're gonna back up on this.
SPEAKER_02No, she was being really nice. She was like, Well, well, honey, I gotta follow the hour, is my job. Aww.
SPEAKER_03Ridiculous. Okay, we have four minutes. So we may end up having to do a part two sometime because if we could keep going for a long time, but you know, again, because we're on the free version, we haven't hit it big yet.
SPEAKER_01We don't have any sponsors, and maybe after this episode, we can give unlimited time.
SPEAKER_03We're gonna get we're gonna launch this right. It's because Zoom Collab. It's because Lewis had Chick-fil-A three times in one day. We're still trying to recover. Well, right now we need Chick-fil-A and McDonald's to sponsor us.
SPEAKER_02What's the what's gonna be the title of this one? Our Sons Are Funnier Than Us, Episode Three.
SPEAKER_03I mean, I don't care what you call it if it goes viral. Uh that is the truth. Well, my my goal is guys to get it. I got a busy weekend, but my goal is to have it ready by Sunday. I don't have anything going on tomorrow. I gotta get ready to go to a graduation tonight. So yeah, RJ's graduating, William.
SPEAKER_02Yep, Pitts was talking about it last week. I wish I could say that I've seen them this week, but I've seen I've seen more toilets than I have workout equipment.
SPEAKER_03Yup, well, keep that over there. Yeah. Thanks for sharing.
SPEAKER_04Yep.
SPEAKER_03Well, you guys, thank you so much. We love you both. And um, Miss Carol has to take us out. Oh, yes, okay, uh listeners. Remember, don't make a piss start a list. And we'll see you guys for comments, like us, and share. All right, see y'all next time. Bye.
SPEAKER_00See ya.
