Welcome to Round five of the Parenting Roundabout podcast for the week of May eight.
I'm Nicole Ridicks. I'm here at Terry Morrow Hello, and Catherine Heleco
Hello. Today we're taking a break from talking and complaining and obsessing and instead
shouting out things that other people are doing that we think you'll find as useful
or enjoyable as we do. We call this our Roundabout round up. So
I will start first by mentioning a new series that my husband and I have
been watching, and Terry, close your ears. If you don't want me
to talk about AI rocking in the corner, you go ahead. There's a
fun little series called Upload on Amazon and Amazon Primer Amazon, but it's an
Amazon produced series, and it's a futuristic show about people who when they pass
away there I guess, their memories, their their soul, who they are
can get downloaded, and then family can then pay to have them uploaded to
a virtual kind of I don't know, I don't want to say heaven,
but some kind of virtual living space where they can exist and then the people,
you know, living people can go and go for a visit to this
place and they can interact and so there's the ideas that you know, your
life is extended in this virtual world and it can be skin fine, right,
it's all think about. But anyway, the story, as I mentioned,
is very light. It's um you know, if it's not, you
don't have to think too hard. It's it's kind of fun to see what
you know, how they've taken the show and what things you know to think
about in the future. So yeah, that's called upload. So that's my
little shout out. So Terry, what do you have? Well, as
we discussed earlier in the week, I had surgery on my neck which is
going to leave me with a incision that I need to keep out of the
sun for a while until it's it's all healed up because it will be new
skin. And from what I understand, if if you get too much sun
on it, it's going to turn red and it's going to stay red.
So you're supposed to keep it covered, keep put things on it to keep
it from the sun and whatever. So I went and purchased for myself a
couple of pieces of sporty neckwear and from a company called cool a Bar.
I actually got it through Amazon, but they have their own website. They
have a section on their website that says cover your neck, So whether you
wish to do that for scar preservation reasons or just because your neck ain't looking
so good anymore, you can have a whole section and these the fabric they
use for these neck coverings has an SPF protection in it. So I got
myself a gator which you can also pull up over your face if you need
a mask, but I shall just be using it to cover up my neck.
And also a performance sun bandana. I am using that right now.
What even though the bandage is still on, I'm putting it over and feeling
very sporty about myself, look like a rich lady about to go out and
watch a polo or something nice. I say to my daughter, We're going
out for a walk, darling. My sporty little bandana around my neck with
the knots sort of artfully arranged, and my my swollen and bruised up neck
mercifully out of sight. So we are going to be in times of year
winning long sleeve turnal like is not going to be ideal. So this is
my neck covering of choice for the next however long I shall be, I
shall be covered but fashionably and sun safely. I should be considered a coastal
grandmother. Yeah, yeah, it's that sort of look. And uh,
you know what, I don't mind. It ain't too bad. I'm an
old gal now I can. I can get away with neckwear like that rock
the Neck Qua how about you all about the newhere? Well, I'll go
back to TV and uh, like Unicole, this is a show that I'm
watching with my husband and there are fewer and fewer things that we both want
to watch, so it's uh, it works well. And it is the
latest version of Top Chef, which is Top Chef World All Stars. So
it's they're in London and the chefs are from the Top Chef universe from all
around the world. So they have the winner from Top Chef France, the
winner from Top Chef Brazil, UM, some finalists from the USA and winners
from USA, finalists from Germany, UM, winner of Top Chef Middle East.
You'd be a finalist from Thailand, like all around the world, and
it's so you get And there's a one woman who she won. She was
a finalist in Top Chef Italy. But she's originally from Congo and English is
her seventh language seventh and she's doing this whole show, you know, in
English, and she just learned English like four months ago, after having you
know, grown up with two or three languages and then learning of two or
three more and then finally she learned English to do this. So it's pretty
it's pretty amazing. So it's all yours to be on the Top Linguist Show.
Yeah, I mean it's all your your Top Chef you know stuff,
your quick fires and your challenges and you know, seeing it's set in London,
so like they're going to all these places in London. They even went
to the place where Down to Nabby is filmed and they had to have a
give a picnic, you know, present a picnic and so all kinds of
stuff like that. So I recommend it. It's it's a lot of fun
just meeting all these people and seeing what they do. So that is Top
Chef World All Stars. It is going on right now. It's probably two
thirds of the way through the season maybe, so you could always you could
always catch up. And that's it for another week of parenting roundabout. If
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