Olympic-sized Dreams and Feline Schemes (aka: From Athletes to Antics)

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Childhood Memories and the Olympics

Speaker 1 0:06

Hello and welcome to Crushcast . I'm your host , Steph Lopez .

Speaker 2 0:11

And I'm your co-host , your co host , I'm the co-host , I'm a co-host Jess Lopez .

Speaker 1 0:20

And today we're going to be talking about some childhood memories and we've been talking about that a lot lately , but I think it's it's fun . Yeah , it's kind of fun to revisit . I don't know that we've talked about that a whole lot in the last few years , so it's nice to take a stroll down memory memory lane . I'm a good talker . That's the best talk I've ever . Those are the best words I've ever talked . You can tell we've been watching a lot of parks and recreation lately .

Speaker 2 0:57

Yeah , lots of references to parks and recreation .

Speaker 1 1:00

Yeah , and now that I'm getting hungry , it's like I want to drive up somewhere and be like give me all the bags , the bags . See how well this is going . Hunger affects your speech . Let's get into it . On the last podcast , we discussed unexpected things and I feel like one of the most unexpected things for most people who know anything about me would be for me to discuss sports . Would you think that's safe to say ?

Speaker 2 1:37

That's very safe to say .

Speaker 1 1:40

So , but I want to discuss them because I saw recently an ad or like a preview or something about the Summer Olympics and I had forgotten that we were there . You know that it's it's time and I have always loved the Olympics . I've loved watching them . I am a huge fan of the gymnastics especially . And then how much I want to go on a diet after watching the volleyball players , because , dang , those chicks look amazing and I've never really wanted to play volleyball and I still won't , but it'll make me think about it . For however long it takes them to get through a set or whatever that's called that they play , have no idea .

Speaker 2 2:30

I think there are some games you can play on the switch that are volleyball games .

Speaker 1 2:37

See that doesn't even sound appealing to me at all . No , the most sporty I'm going to get in a video game is going to be me driving like Mario Kart . But so I'm getting off topic . The Olympics . Then in the winter , it's all about the gorgeous outfits , and I mean the gorgeous outfits that they wear while they're skating . Anyway , I love it , I am a fan , and I especially like it when they use more modern music . That's just me .

Speaker 2 3:15

No , it's really cool yeah it is .

Speaker 1 3:18

Are you into any kind of ? Do you enjoy watching the Olympics at all , or do have you just watched it ? Because I do .

Speaker 2 3:25

No , I watched . I've been a fan of the Olympics as well . I'm probably not as big of a fan of it as you , but I still can respect and admire these people because they're like top tier athletes in their field , competing against the rest of the world , and that's really . That's really something .

Speaker 1 3:47

Well , we really did enjoy watching Michael Phelps in swimming . That was cool . And then also the what is that called ? The snowboarding , or I don't even know what it's called , the one guy with the red hair I can't even think of his name , that's all I know . Oh , yes , sean White . Yeah , we enjoyed watching that . Yeah that was pretty cool .

Speaker 2 4:11

Those are always really awesome . My favorite Olympics are the winter Olympics . Why ? Because of events like that and ski jumps and the slalom and the bobsled All of that is crazy and also curling . I'm a big fan of curling .

Speaker 1 4:30

What . Yeah do you even know what's going on ? Kind of , I don't know anything about what's going on and I start to cheer about something and people are like I know what's that ? About things I have no idea ?

Speaker 2 4:45

It's always funny when they start yelling and screaming during curling , but it's cool . I enjoy watching that . So yeah , my favorite Olympics are the winter ones and yours are the summer Olympics .

Speaker 1 4:58

I think they're all of the Olympics , because really what happens is every Olympic season I end up having dreams that I am an Olympian . So usually I am a gymnast and like that one time and you actually put it in a comic strip where this is a true story this actually happened . I was dreaming that I was at the Olympics and I was performing my floor routine and I fell off the bed . Yeah , like I actually fell off the bed in real life , fell off the bed .

Speaker 2 5:40

That's , that's awesome .

Speaker 1 5:43

It was not awesome because we had hardwood floors and you're like I don't even know that you got up . Probably not , it's just like she's fine , I'm going back to sleep . Wow , okay , my dear lead foot . It almost sounds like little foot . I always associate things with other things , so immediately I started thinking about the land before time . But maybe it feels like it was that long ago for you that you played soccer .

Speaker 2 6:23

I played soccer with cavemen and a side note , I know that you associate things with other things . Yes , because whenever you're looking for something and you find it , you always sing what ? When you find something , I do , you always go . I found it .

Speaker 1 6:46

Oh yeah , more land before time , yeah , but what I want to know is did you play any other sports , others in soccer ?

Speaker 2 7:00

Yeah , I played some football in junior high and then one year in high school .

Speaker 1 7:08

Really yeah . What position tackle I ?

Speaker 2 7:12

always played tackle .

Speaker 1 7:13

Did you like tackling people ? I did , I mean , you know yeah , I did , do you remember the president's test .

Speaker 2 7:22

Yes .

Speaker 1 7:24

I could never pass the president's test . You know why ? The pull-ups , like that chin-up thing or whatever you had to do . We had to grab the bar and pull yourself up and you had to hold your chin like above the line . I couldn't do it .

Speaker 2 7:42

I remember that I couldn't do it . That was tough for me too .

Speaker 1 7:45

Really , yeah , yeah , I think there was like a rope climb to , or maybe that was just Another horrible thing they made us do .

Speaker 2 7:52

I don't think I had to do that .

Speaker 1 7:55

Maybe it was just something awful that happened In PE . My favorite thing , though , was it seemed like every time we had a fire drill Was when I was in my super cute PE outfit that just like said PE it . It was like they stamped it onto a shirt and it was just like . It just looked gross and like worn down and I don't know like it was from the 70s , I don't know . Anyway , it wasn't like cool , worn down , like vintage and cool .

Speaker 1 8:27

Just yeah , it was like oh no , I was distressed when I had to go outside In front of everybody in this . It wasn't the fact that I was in PE necessarily , although for some weird reason PE was kind of an embarrassing thing in high school .

Speaker 2 8:44

So what about you ? Did you play sports ? I ?

Speaker 1 8:51

Mean . No , I I Did play sports , but I wasn't like on a team . I think People would be surprised to know that I actually did run cross-country in junior high at Gatesville . It wasn't like on the team or anything , but I was . I we had to run pretty far and I actually enjoyed it and I Don't know what happened after that .

Speaker 1 9:23

I definitely am not a runner now and it wasn't something that carried on with me once I moved to Waco . But yeah , I , I did that and I always really enjoyed basketball , but it wasn't good at it and I wasn't trying to get on a team or anything . And then , when I was in high school is when they actually started the girl soccer team , because I'm at Temple High and that was started from some friends of mine and , I think , their dad , and so that's how that whole thing began and they actually asked me if I wanted to be on the soccer team . I was like , not if you want to win , but also at that point I was just very aware of how long the soccer field was and how much ?

Speaker 1 10:16

I was gonna be required to have to run back and forth and , yeah , that was just an absolute no for me .

Speaker 2 10:23

Yeah , my favorite part about playing soccer was half time when you got to get orange slices .

Speaker 1 10:33

See , that would not have been enough for me . It's like are those like those orange slices that are actually chocolate ? That ?

Speaker 2 10:40

are like oranges .

Speaker 1 10:42

You know that that's what would have done it for me . But it's funny because I Like very early on I think I might have mentioned this before my my sister was the athlete , my sister Becca . She was the athlete and so when we were little my mom put her in gymnastics and I really wanted to do gymnastics but I was afraid of everything , so like I wasn't even trying to Do like a cartwheel or barely even a somersault or whatever , and and my mom just kind of knew , and so I did not get placed in gymnastics . And looking back I think that's okay though , because I would have been Pretty scared to do any of that . So , but my sister , she enjoyed it and she went to cheer camps and all kinds of stuff and that's cool yeah it's pretty neat .

Speaker 1 11:42

So mom didn't put me in gymnastics but she did make me take swim lessons . Becca and I went to Ralph Wilson and I think probably the most Athletic thing I did was I played four square and I was good at it , and anyone who played four square at Ralph Wilson in the late 80s and early 90s will know that it was cutthroat . It was a very big deal and , yeah , I really liked it . And hopscotch , that was another thing . It was just all it was fun . But I had to take swim lessons back and I both had to , which was good , you know , it's good to know how to swim . And and the swimming instructor was like this 18 year old Brazilian dude and his sister also Taught there and and I loved them both because she was in the coloring class where we got to go and color and that was One of my favorite things .

Speaker 1 12:41

And then going to the swimming pool . I liked the swimming pool . I just didn't like the diving part , and so that was one of the parts that you had to do in order to pass the class and I he just wanted me to even just at least jump from the diving board and it was just a standard one , it wasn't like a high dive or anything , and I Becca did it , no problem . I think she actually did dive I , but I did not and I don't think I actually passed because I did not and I was very sad because I'd spent all that time Only to not jump .

Speaker 2 13:23

That's a boomer .

Speaker 1 13:24

Well , but then I redeemed myself when we went to Lions Park once and he was there , I think , as a lifeguard , and I Honestly don't know what happened where , all of a sudden , I just got all this courage and I jumped from the high dive . I did not dive , I jumped and I was holding my nose .

Speaker 2 13:47

You're trying to show out .

Speaker 1 13:48

No , I was , I wasn't . I was , I don't , I just wanted to . I Really think I just wanted to prove that I could do it and I felt like to yourself . I really think so , and Because , listen , there was no boy cute enough To get me to jump off that diving board . I think it was just , really , I think it was something that I just needed to finish , and because he was the instructor , even though he couldn't like give me a certificate or anything , it's like look , I did this , and so , to me , I passed .

Speaker 2 14:24

You wanted him to see it , so he could vouch for you exactly .

Speaker 1 14:28

Yeah , well , that was good enough for me .

Speaker 2 14:35

So this pool ? Yeah , you were , you dove . I did not die if I jumped or you jumped . This was at the park right , the Lions Park .

Speaker 1 14:45

Yes .

Speaker 2 14:46

This is the same part where you were attacked by wild geese and ducks .

Speaker 1 14:51

I think they were wild but , yeah , that was the scene of their crime when they attacked us yeah , animals , animals are trippin Well their territorial . Yeah , well , except for like the sweet dogs and stuff that people would walk out there , and Maybe not so sweet dogs , but at least they were on leashes as much as we love dogs , it's weird that we don't have any .

Speaker 1 15:16

Well , I really like big dogs , but big dog means big poop and I don't want to have to clean that up . And my mom has told me for years Okay , just think about it , she doesn't really talk like that , but for some reason I always she was like okay , if you have big dog , and that means the big dog has big poop . So if you guys like to go and do stuff and the cats are , you know they can take her business While you're gone and you know they , they can fin for themselves . But a dog depends on you and a lot of places we go we can't take dogs . So but yeah , that is it .

Speaker 2 15:58

I do wish we had what more and more places are Allowing people to take their dogs now , which is cool .

Choosing Names for Pets

Speaker 1 16:05

Yeah , I think it would be difficult . That's I want like a really big dog . I .

Speaker 2 16:10

Want either a gigantic like great Dane , oh no . Or however big , Well , whatever . The largest breed of dog there is I want either one of those .

Speaker 1 16:20

What would be to ?

Speaker 2 16:22

or I want like a little tiny dog that will fit in the palm of my hand . Okay , either either or nothing in between .

Speaker 1 16:34

All I think that I can think of that would fit in the palm of your hand is Like a Chihuahua , and I do not want to own a Chihuahua . Mom and dad have three Chihuahua ish dogs and while I love them , I love them so much , but uh-uh , no Chihuahuas for me . They have so much personality , they , but they . A lot of times they choose one person in the house and I want to be loved by everything in the house . Yeah , I mean , it was my goal for the cats to to love me and I Kind of succeeded . I don't know , I feel like they love each other more than they Really care about us . But those are cats , right ? That's just . That's the rule of the dice with cats , you don't know what you're gonna get our cats tolerate us .

Speaker 1 17:24

I mean all cats tolerate everyone . Yeah , it's true .

Speaker 2 17:29

That's true . I think they probably Like spraying their eyes , rolling them at us all the time .

Speaker 1 17:35

Yeah , but they have cool names , so our cats are Fishy our cats do have cool names .

Speaker 2 17:43

I like our cats names fishy Is our female .

Speaker 1 17:47

She's like a , a Torby , and Then there's Jones , who is our ginger guy .

Speaker 2 17:56

Did we ever determine like their full names ?

Speaker 1 17:59

No , but we . There were just so many different names that worked and I just don't really think that we ever agreed . But Jones , I really thought Jones's name was cool because that has like so many meanings . Like we thought Indiana Jones , yes , and then Jones from alien .

Speaker 2 18:19

Yes .

Speaker 1 18:21

Which was a cat .

Speaker 2 18:22

Yep , did you know that was Sigourney Weaver's actual cat ?

Speaker 1 18:28

No , actually I didn't know that I was today years old , just now years old . I was a newborn when I found that out .

Speaker 2 18:34

She brought it to this set and I think it was getting into a bunch of stuff and the director was like , well , just put him in the movie .

Speaker 1 18:40

Yeah .

Speaker 2 18:42

And so , yeah , he ended up being an alien , and in the In the sequel I'm not sure if that was actually the same cat Playing the same role , but yeah , interesting .

Speaker 1 18:55

Jones was in the character Jones , yeah yeah so , like we , then we have fishy , and we adopted these cats from an acquaintance of mine , and Fischi already had her name , though Her name was fish cake . This is what the Teenage daughter in the house named her after something . It's an anime , something or other , or manga , or something .

Speaker 2 19:21

I still love that thing . I still really like fish cake .

Speaker 1 19:23

I think it's hilarious , but we did drop the cake . I , I did . I mean , I never dropped cake in any other circumstances , but I , for her name , we did . And then we started calling her Fischy . And it's funny because , like whenever we would set her up at , like , the vet's office and they'd be like , okay , what's your cat's name ? Jones ? Okay , and Fischy , they always love it . Fischy , a cat named Fisch . That's so funny Because really her name is Fisch , her name is Fisch Lopez , but we call her Fischy and actually we call her .

Speaker 2 20:04

Fischy , fischy , fischy . So many names , so many .

Speaker 1 20:08

Fischy , yeah , fischy the fish Fischy . She is a gangster Like .

Speaker 2 20:14

Yeah , she's pretty hardcore Gosh .

Speaker 1 20:17

She's so bad . They're kind of like Yzma and Krok , yeah , from the Emperor's New Groove , where she is the one who comes up with all of the things , that , all of the master plans that aren't really all that well thought out , necessarily , but definitely evil and definitely she shouldn't be doing them . And then he's always like what are we doing today , fischy ?

Speaker 2 20:44

Yeah , she instigates everything and Jones is the one who takes all the heat when things go south .

Speaker 1 20:56

Yeah , she frames him . Yeah , she does . But yeah , I don't think they could stand having a dog , because Fischy tried to hurt Becca's dog when he came and she was just a kitten but she was like I don't think so pal . But if we had a dog like we're pretty good at naming our animals what works for them .

Speaker 1 21:20

Like Fischy , does fishy stuff and that just works for her . She's also the only one in the house between the two of them , the only feline in the house that can eat tuna , fish or salmon , because our Jones is apparently allergic . So how crazy is that ?

Speaker 2 21:40

But yeah , or at least super sensitive to it , and she's also very squirmy , like a fish .

Speaker 1 21:45

Yeah , it's crazy , like when she hops on my lap and that makes me feel really good because she just doesn't do that . I have the best dad joke where it's like oh look , I caught a fish . Yeah , but what do you think we would name a dog ?

Speaker 2 22:03

I remember we had a name picked out for an animal that we really liked and , for whatever reason , we did not use that name for Well , just made out of fit their personality , you know . Well , I don't think we would have known until this particular pet would have gotten older , because the name that we had , what ?

Speaker 1 22:27

are you thinking Was the ?

Speaker 2 22:28

name of a character from a show , and this character was an older woman .

Speaker 1 22:34

Oh , f O B R Slow , f O B R Slow . Well , that just I think that character would have . So she's from Parks and Recreation .

Speaker 2 22:43

Yes .

Speaker 1 22:45

So if that character , if the cat behavior was , you know what I think it would have . Any cat could fit Ethel Beavers because she's cranky , yeah , and she's like I do got a voice like kind of . You know what I mean .

Speaker 2 23:05

I think Fushie would have fit the bill . She could have , yeah , but Ethel Beavers is a great name , yeah , I . Earlier today I was driving home from picking up breakfast and I made myself just randomly laugh because I thought up two great names for a dog .

Speaker 1 23:25

What , what Lay it on me ? Let's hear it . The first one was . The first one was I cannot wait . Bob Barker man , that's awesome , and the other one was which is not as funny but still the other one was Charles Barkley I love Bob Barker , so here he is . That's kind of good job , lopez . Thank you .

Speaker 2 24:06

Now we have to get a dog .

Speaker 1 24:12

Have you ever thought about what the cats would sound like if they could talk ?

Speaker 2 24:18

I think . Well , like you said earlier , I think Fushie would probably sound like Yzma .

Speaker 1 24:24

You think she would sound like her , or I kind of feel like she would sound like Regina George from Mean Girls .

Speaker 2 24:31

Yeah , that's even better .

Speaker 1 24:33

But with a gangster attitude . That's actually her in the background , making noise that people can hear it . She's like I know I'm going to get in trouble , but I'm gangster and I'm going to do it anyway .

Speaker 2 24:44

And I think Jones would probably sound like Owen Wilson .

Speaker 1 24:51

How would that sound ? Exactly like what we need to say ? I don't know for sure . I can't do Owen .

Speaker 2 24:56

Wilson Wow , you would say wow .

Speaker 1 24:58

Wow Watch me jump on the fridge .

Speaker 2 25:02

That sounds nothing like Owen Wilson .

Speaker 1 25:04

Absolutely nothing . I'm really starting to question my abilities . I used to be able to do voices , but maybe not so much dude voices . I can do chick voices and singers , but yeah , you do a pretty good sling blade because our cat Max that we had for 16 years , or we had him for 15 because we got him when he was a year old . But yeah , let's hear a little sling blade .

Speaker 2 25:42

I don't know where this came from , but one day I was just , I guess , just looking at Max and I mean he outweard yeah , he did . People who have pets probably won't admit this , but they give their pets voices .

Speaker 1 26:02

Pretty sure most pet owners would admit .

Speaker 2 26:06

Would your dad .

Speaker 1 26:08

Oh , no , probably not .

Speaker 2 26:13

What were you guys going to name Now ?

Speaker 1 26:15

I'm so curious if he would . I don't know .

Speaker 2 26:22

Your dad . When you guys first got Sophie , your parents were trying to think of a name for her .

Speaker 1 26:30

We were all trying to think of a name for her family name . Yes , and we were so excited when we got Sophie because they brought us like the food and everything and we didn't know and she wasn't a puppy , I don't think she . I don't remember that was ages ago , but I think it was either around Christmas or something . But and then here came Sophie and so , yeah , we're trying to figure out the name and we wanted to name her or mom , I don't think I did . Mom wanted to name her baby and I don't know why , because that's such a generic dog name , but she's mom and that's what she wanted to call her .

Speaker 1 27:17

And he was like I'm not going outside and saying come here , baby , or whatever . And he was like you guys , my dad is from up north , he's spent some time in Chicago , but he was , yeah , he's from Illinois , so he has those long as and you guys and Kyron Big and although he's been in Texas long enough now to where he's kind of dropped that , but because I messed with him for so long about his accent and I loved it so much that now a lot of times I have long as and people ask me where I'm from , and it's because , yeah , and it's not . I realize now it's , and I didn't make fun of him , I loved it Like I wished that I had that , but now it's kind of become , it's become part of how I speak . So , yeah , that's funny , yeah .

Speaker 2 28:19

So , getting back to Max , yeah , I don't know where this came from . He was in my lap and I was looking at him . He was looking at me and all of a sudden he said my name is Max Mm-hmm . And ever since then , whenever he and I interacted , that was the voice that I would hear coming from him . And so , yeah , he would be like give me some food , Jesse Mm-hmm . I don't think did Maddie ever have a voice ?

Speaker 1 28:56

I don't think we ever gave her a voice . I don't know she had one , like we had that comic strip and she was very like . To this day , honestly , I don't really know what her voice sounded like specifically , but she was always putting him down and like , but in a funny way , you know , like she did love him and she did love him in real life . She did , but she just never showed it . It was just like yeah , no , yeah .

Speaker 2 29:27

So you have a birthday coming up .

Speaker 1 29:30

I do and I'll be celebrating all week , because we know how that goes .

Speaker 2 29:35

Oh yes , that's right .

Speaker 1 29:36

It's my birthday celebration Celebration . Good times , let's go . I like to sing wrong lyrics Me too , I do it , but that's a whole other podcast , yes .

Speaker 2 29:51

So what is the greatest gift you've ever ?

Speaker 1 29:55

received the greatest gift , the greatest , I don't know like the greatest gift , but , like for my birthday , I don't know . But I can tell you , for Christmas one year I got a Barbie Dream House and that was the raddest thing I'd ever seen in my life . It was so cool . I remember walking down the hall and the Christmas tree lights were on and the Barbie Dream House was already set up , which I'm sure was an absolute non-dream for my mother .

Speaker 1 30:33

But that was one of the coolest things ever . And then , not to drag this down or try to make this sad , because it wasn't sad , but there was one year where we just didn't like we didn't have . We went through ebbs and flows of having money or not having money , you know , in different times . But I remember we got like I think I got a tape and I'm pretty sure it was rock set , and then we got , and then I think Paula Abdul and then like PJs , and I remember that that was super special . That's cool Because I knew that like my mom had work to give that to me and that was a really that was like a really special Christmas and honestly , some of the best gifts have been stuff like that people made for me For my 40th birthday , my friend Kim made me this poster that had , first of all , there was lots of chocolate on it .

Speaker 2 31:37

So that was amazing . Oh yeah , this was a great gift .

Speaker 1 31:40

It was so great , but it was like a little story and with chocolate bars as some of the words and I can't remember like the story , but it was really funny and it was really sweet and it was delicious . Oh and no , okay . And then that same year I'm sorry I had way more answers than I have a favorite I just have things that like really excited me . My sister gave me a Care Bear and when I opened it I was like , oh , care Bear , and I felt like I was like seven years old .

Speaker 1 32:20

It was so amazing . I loved it so much .

Speaker 2 32:26

I remember that .

Speaker 1 32:27

Yeah , it was so cool and I still have it . It's in the bedroom right now . I love that Care Bear . And then , yeah , I just I love , I love being surprised with gifts . I don't like being surprised like jump scares and like you know bad things , but I love that kind of stuff . We're just like super thoughtful things . There's and there's so many things that I know that I'm forgetting . But I actually really love my birthday because it's it's a level up . I don't love it like Michael Scott loved his in the office . I'm not like obsessed with it and expect people to drop things for it , but I do .

Speaker 1 33:16

I do think it's so cool that I've been on the planet that long , even though I definitely don't feel like it . But I think it's great . I think it's an awesome thing to say yeah , I've been here for this long and and I'm doing all right . So the cats are here to say goodbye . Now it's time to say goodbye .

Spelling, Mickey Mouse, Imperfect Podcast

Speaker 1 33:43

Fun fact that's how I learned how to spell mouse M I C , k U I M O U I C . That's how I learned and I remember in elementary school I think it was kindergarten that I spelled it and I remember singing the song so that I knew how to spell it .

Speaker 2 34:03

Is that when , like Ryan Gosling , and . Britney Spears and all of them were making mouse club or whatever that was .

Speaker 1 34:13

Oh yeah , and I was about it because they did like , they did skits and they sang and I mean I , I think my goal was to be on the Mickey Mouse Club .

Speaker 2 34:28

Thanks once again for joining us here on Crush Cast . It's always awesome to have you listen to us .

Speaker 1 34:41

I'm just leaving it in . We're just , we're just going to go rogue here . We're going to be the most imperfect podcast that there is and we're just going to have fun doing it .

Speaker 2 34:53

So I think hunger is affecting my speech also .

Speaker 1 34:59

Yeah , so thanks , guys , and if you want to continue the conversation , please consider joining us on Facebook or Instagram . You know what ? Yeah , it's my birthday this week . I think that I'm going to maybe do a little something to step outside of my comfort zone . Do I know what that is ? Yet I don't , but we'll find out and I'll let you know next week . But whatever you're doing out there this week , I hope that it's awesome . I hope that it's blessed , I hope that you will get out there and do the creative thing , or whatever it is that you are wanting to do , and that you crush it .