Welcome to the Parenting Roundabout Podcasts for the week of July tenth, twenty twenty
three. I'm Terry Morrow and I'm here with Nicole Heretics Hello and Katherine hell
Echo Hello. Every week we chat about what parents are talking, complaining,
and obsessing about right now. But this week things are changing. Nicole is
leaving us such a time of transition, kids going off to college and new
animals coming into houses and I'm back podcasters leaving just such a sentimental time of
year. And so this week we've asked Nicole to share some of her favorite
episodes from our years years podcasting together. Nicole, which back today, Well,
this podcast was I'm not even sure when it was originally aired. I
mean it was like years ago. Because the title of the pod cast is
celebrating two hundred episodes, and we have far surpassed hundred episode and going back
and listening to it is so fun just to hear what our thoughts were after
too, you know, after recording two hundred episodes together and so and I
think now we're over two thousand. So yeah, it's just kind of fun
to go back and hear about those those small changes that well we thought they
were very big, but in retrospect, we had no idea what we were
in for. So enjoy listening. This is episode two hundred of our podcast,
and you can tell it by the smooth and professional way we go about
this. We have this down to a science, y'all. So, well,
we thought we'd talk a little bit about our time podcasting and and uh,
Catherine, how are we going to do this? Well, we thought
we would talk a little bit about what's changed over these past couple of years
and these two hundred we say two hundred episodes, but really it's it's many
more than that when you fold in all the round twos, and we used
to do round three and round four, and we have speed round speed rounds.
So but two hundred of these you know, group chats, numbered group
chats. Yes, yes, so two hundred numbered episodes, I guess you
could say. And we thought we'd just kind of look look at how things
have changed and evolved over. Yeah. One thing that springs directly to mind
that has changed is that the origin of the parenting round About name was that
at the beginning, everybody who was on the podcast worked for about dot com.
And now I don't know if any of those people that started out still
working about dot com, but Catherine and I certainly don't. Nicole never did.
But the the about part has left, but we've kept the round about.
That's right, just because I paid for a domain name. So but
that actually, not only have we left about, but about has left about.
It's not even called about any so we we we retain the about and
now it's loving memory, maybe not loving, but anyway in our about.
Yeah, I mean, the ending was not good for anybody, but it
was a pretty great gig for a long time. So you know, I
have I try to retain the fond memories and not go on to see what
has happened to my former real estate. It's basically dumping or dumping ground for
odds and ends of things I wrote that have no particular reason to be on
a on a landing page. So every now and then I dig out something
that they no longer have up and put it on my own stuff. But
that was a big part of my life, and yeah, professional life,
and a big part of yours too, Catherine, I'm sure. Yeah,
for a lot of years. And yeah, we met a lot of people,
and that's a lot of them were on this podcast at yes, varying
times, um, and you know, some like Amanda, obviously we're here
for for a long time, right, and so you and I would never
have met. Catherine had very before about and especially them bringing people into New
York every so often to eat catered food and listen to them presentations. Listen
to them. Food was always better than the presentations, although there was that
one year in a warehouse somewhere where the food was a little icy, but
anyway, someone else. So for me, I know things have in terms
of my kids, obviously we've grown, but I mean when we started,
I think, Terry, your son was still in school in college, and
you were spending your days at the community college. I podcasted for my car
more than once, right, and my kids have finished elementary school and they're
in middle and high school now, so that feels very different. It feels
like a very different phase of parenting, I think, right. And I
think Nicole had the empty nest, the not the empty nest yet, but
the departure of your son for college, yeah, right around maybe right around
the time you started podcast. Yeah, I would have been because he lived
with us the first year of his university and then he the second year,
he moved into the frat house. I think I probably talked about that several
times. And yeah, so he left and then he moved in with his
girlfriend. Um, and my daughter started. Did she start high school or
was shardy in high school? I can't remember. I think she might yet.
Yeah, I don't think she was starting starting. Um. Oh,
and I wrote a book. Oh that I wrote and sort of finished a
book. I wouldn't say it's complete just yet. It is now being able
to death by aranhas. But yeah, some more standard remnant of it.
We'll see the lights eventually. Folks, let us make this public service announcement.
If you have romantic notions about book authorship and publication, let us let
you down not so gently. We will not inspire you. Just publish yourself
online. You know what to get yourself a blog, write whatever you want,
tell people it's there. Be poor, but you'll be happy. You
won't get the tens of dollars you would get from writing a book, but
still with an Amazon link maybe. Oh. Yes, it's been quite the
learning curve. So I am not the person I used to be. You're
a shell of your form. Result. Go back and listen to the early
podcast with Nicole, and she's so different, she's so idealistic. We'll get
some of our go back to some of our inclusive of class podcasts Master in
the Universe. You know, Oh, it's so idealistic and now I'm just
jaded. And I kept saying I was the jaded one, and turns out
I was right. Yes, descended to my level. Yes, but let's
not talk about who encouraged me to write the book. We're not going to
go there. But that was fun. You can do it. I should
write a book. I think a man to share some of the blame for
that. Yeah, let's it's not here. Yeah, nicely to deflect.
That's something that's changed over two hundred episodes, is right? We lost people.
Yeah, I'm still out there and we're no longer talking to the podcast.
And Terry learned how to edit a podcast, did Yes. We had
the luxury of having Amanda's husband John edit us for quite some time, and
then it was left to me to do And I figured that was going to
be the end of anything audible but self taught. If you if you like
the way this podcast sounds, pat me on the back for having learned how
to do that all by myself. And if you think it sounds awful,
what do you want from me? I don't know what I'm doing, want
to see the way? Yeah, you can always volunteer to do it for
us if you'd like, right, if anybody out there is just looking for
practice, Yeah, this is a service that we've been willing to work free
and really quickly, right, especially when we're doing Dancing with the Stars and
then publishing a podcast the next day. Right, So no rush, but
get it done. We might have to switch to like Facebook Live for these
could happen. That's an interesting idea, Larry. Yeah, no editing require
We are all about the hip and happening technology, y'all. Yeah, for
sure it. Well, do you feel like you've learned anything about yourself,
or your abilities, or your your parenting during the podcasts? I've learned the
capacity. Even though I think I have no time for doing anything but work,
I still have time to edit podcasts, record podcasts, make quote graphics
for podcasts, tweet twenty four hours a day. But other than that,
my family, my family ever adds up how much do I spend on the
podcast? I'm gonna have to answer for that. It's a good thing you
do at all while they're sleeping, that's true. Yes, I have mastered
the fall asleep on the couch and then wake up at four am, grab
your computer and work. So that is when lots of that stuff gets done.
But it is fun and it makes me feel young to be doing something
new and unusual and not my same old, same old. So yeah,
it's been a good time. And I really you know, every having somebody
to talk to every week and laugh with is a valuable thing exactly. How
about your Catherine, what have you learned? Well? I mean I think
I probably knew this about myself before before this, from my days of about
dot com and even working for magazines. But you know, when you think
there is just nothing more to say, or no more ideas, nothing nothing
new under the sun, you can always come up with something. You can
always pull something out of your Yes, you just keep trying and something is
there. So I think that's going to be our new motto when you think
that every everything he's been said, Yeah, we can always come up with
something else, something out and you will listen. That's right, Because this
is a free service we offer. You can listen to us while you are
doing other things, we don't mind. You won't have to worry about missing
some clever term of phrase. It'll just be us yammering. Well, the
clever terms of phrase we pull out, and that's right and make into graphics
for you. Full service. You can leave you if you're thinking, what's
that one smart thing they said, you can go on Facebook and look at
all our photos. You'll find it there find Yes. Yes, I think
we do pretty good and I certainly have started listening to so many more podcasts.
Yeah, podcasts are fun, you know, just because certainly, just
in the time that we have been doing this, it's exploded, you know,
and it's Yeah, it's nice to feel like we're part of We're part
of that, even though we'd like to be part of it in this sense
of having more listeners and more you know, advertisers. But you know,
we start we start with just enjoying it for more grassroots first two hundred or
three hundred for free. After that, after that I need to come up,
how about you, Nicole? And doing this contrasted to doing a previous
podcast that was more yeah, that was actually people who knew what they were
talking about. Well, I feel like I can be more myself on this
yes podcast, Um yeah, I mean the other one was very serious,
So there was ever any sort of room for joking or other than meat was
saying that never happens. Yeah yeah, um yeah, it was quite.
It was definitely more of a different vibe to it. And we didn't have
to do as much talking, did we, Terry. So I've had I've
learned, I've learned how to talk on the spot. We didn't edit that
at all. We just recorded it on and oh we did it out on
blog talk. It was like live streaming. It was yeah yeah, well,
and when we first started this podcast was on its very first iteration was
blog Talk and was unedited and it was like me walking around in my backyard
with me. That's when it was a bunch of h a bunch of abad
dot com guides. I'm just gonna, you know, one of our dads
at a barn and we were gonna put on a show. Yeah. Yeah,
it's always a lot has changed and I learned a lot. Yeah,
it's been been a good ride. That's it for today's farewell memory from Nicole.
Tune in tomorrow for another walkdown memory Lane. Our last walk down memory
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