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Bonus Episode 31: Obscure Food Words Balderdash
Happy summer, fellow baked-bean fans! It’s Host Molly.
How’s the season going so far?
Have you gone on a vacation?
Have you gone camping?
Matthew hasn’t gone camping since I took him into the wilderness for a single night in 2019. But I’m going next week on our fifth annual camping trip with a bunch of families from my daughter June’s school. Last year, there were 29 of us: 14 adults and 15 children. We stay at the same campground every year, in a state park that features both old-growth forest and a beach. We reserve the group camp there, which has a dozen secluded tent sites and a picnic shelter that’s big enough for us all to use as a shared kitchen. Most of us stay for two nights, some for three. It’s the most relaxing camping trip a parent could imagine. There are so many children, and they’ve all known each other for so long, they basically form a self-sustaining ecosystem. Meanwhile, we adults lie on the beach and eat chips. Even Matthew might enjoy it.
Of course, Ash and I have ruined it for ourselves by having a baby, and now we don’t get to lie down at all, not for a few years and maybe not ever.
Last year’s trip was our first time camping with Ames, our then-six-month-old. As the trip approached, an outdoorsy friend of Ash’s told us about this tent thing they’d used when their own child was small, this little baby-tent that you set up inside your own regular-sized tent. It looked like a cheap nylon duffel bag with a doggie-door on one of its long sides. Bedtime arrived on the first night. We studied the little tent. Ames was half-asleep in Ash’s arms: how were we supposed to insert him into the tent/bag without rustling the nylon and/or waking him? Ash lowered themself to a prone position, still holding the baby, and then shimmied/army-crawled forward until they could sort of eject Ames into the darkness of his enclosure. It was just like in Battlestar Galactica, when they’d throw someone out the airlock.
Unfortunately, while there’s no sound in outer space, Ames’s cries traveled easily through the walls of his special tent – and ours. The second day, we packed up and drove home.
This year, we considered skipping the tent(s) entirely and renting an Airbnb nearby, but would we really be camping with our friends if we only spent daytime at the campground and retired at night to structure with walls and bedrooms? That’s not camping!
So we’re taking a Pack ‘n Play portable crib this time, the ole tried-and-true. And, from a different friend, we’ve borrowed a blackout canopy called the SlumberPod, which fits over the Pack ‘n Play. I feel hopeful, possibly because multiple friends have recommended the SlumberPod, and possibly because I keep mistyping it as SlumberPot or SplumberPot and giggling aloud to myself. Unlike last year’s contraption, this one promises to block “95%+ of light” – only 5% less than a black hole!
Upcoming episodes
Today (July 4), we’re talking about Enameled Cast Iron. This topic idea grew out of our June 20 episode, Cast Iron Skillets with Michele Norris – yes, that Michele Norris(!), formerly of NPR’s All Things Considered and now host of the Audible Original podcast Your Mama’s Kitchen. If you haven’t listened to that episode yet, do. Then come back for the enameled version, where unfortunately our only special guest is the word vitreous.
On July 11, we put on our astronaut suits and blast off for the Nerds Culinary Universe. I’m not sure where we got this title, but I think it’s explained in the episode? Anyway, speaking of space travel, there’s got to be a sci-fi film where the aliens look like Nerds, right? So cute!
On July 18, we talk about Burger Buns. Spoiler alert: not my late father’s backside.
And on August 1, join us for our most perplexing topic yet: Pudding-Like Products. You down with PLP? (Yeah, I’m sor-ry.)
July bonus episode
We’re calling this one “Obscure Food Words Balderdash,” a seemingly nonsensical title that sums up the episode quite sensically. Basically, we made Producer Abby play a word game with us! We forgot to keep score, but we’ll never forget what we learned: just say yes to tittynopes. Or as Abby described it:
Today Matthew shares a “beak of the dream” with us and we make Producer Abby play a word game full of LOTR, hoecakes, spurtles and tittynope before we are all diagnosed with classic Jekyll and Hyde Syndrome. Molly gets profound as we think up pinball designs and reminisce about birthdays and spin-offs past.
As usual, you can get this and all other bonus episodes at magnumbonus.com (password: magnumbonum) or subscribe to the RSS feed at https://www.magnumbonus.com/feed/podcast/.
What we’re into
Abby: I quite enjoyed Ripley on Netflix starring Andrew Scott/Hot Priest. Beautiful cinematography and is very slow and lovingly methodical in its murder vibes. This summer I’m drinking gin rickeys and orange wine. I’m having a ball with my book recommendation newsletter and just posted my Most Disappointing Reads of the first half of 2024 which may contain fiery rants.
Molly: I cannot wait for the Olympics. In the meantime, OMG, I finally read All Fours, by Miranda July, and OMG OMG. I’m also into cut-up watermelon with a squeeze of lime, wearing Tevas as much as possible (but only the “Original Universal” style), and, like last summer, red wine with a little chill on it.
Matthew:
TV: We Are Lady Parts, S2. Maybe even better than season 1?
Music: The Lovely Eggs, Eggsistentialism. It’s punk! It’s pop! It’s very, very English.
YouTube: Japan Carefree Solo Travel
As always, thank you so much for being a subscriber. Look for our next newsletter and bonus episode in October. We might even have an update for you about the SlumberPod! Or we might have gotten sucked into the black hole forever, in which case, oops?
So long, earthlings,
Host Molly
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By Spilled Milk Bonus ContentHappy summer, fellow baked-bean fans! It’s Host Molly.
How’s the season going so far?
Have you gone on a vacation?
Have you gone camping?
Matthew hasn’t gone camping since I took him into the wilderness for a single night in 2019. But I’m going next week on our fifth annual camping trip with a bunch of families from my daughter June’s school. Last year, there were 29 of us: 14 adults and 15 children. We stay at the same campground every year, in a state park that features both old-growth forest and a beach. We reserve the group camp there, which has a dozen secluded tent sites and a picnic shelter that’s big enough for us all to use as a shared kitchen. Most of us stay for two nights, some for three. It’s the most relaxing camping trip a parent could imagine. There are so many children, and they’ve all known each other for so long, they basically form a self-sustaining ecosystem. Meanwhile, we adults lie on the beach and eat chips. Even Matthew might enjoy it.
Of course, Ash and I have ruined it for ourselves by having a baby, and now we don’t get to lie down at all, not for a few years and maybe not ever.
Last year’s trip was our first time camping with Ames, our then-six-month-old. As the trip approached, an outdoorsy friend of Ash’s told us about this tent thing they’d used when their own child was small, this little baby-tent that you set up inside your own regular-sized tent. It looked like a cheap nylon duffel bag with a doggie-door on one of its long sides. Bedtime arrived on the first night. We studied the little tent. Ames was half-asleep in Ash’s arms: how were we supposed to insert him into the tent/bag without rustling the nylon and/or waking him? Ash lowered themself to a prone position, still holding the baby, and then shimmied/army-crawled forward until they could sort of eject Ames into the darkness of his enclosure. It was just like in Battlestar Galactica, when they’d throw someone out the airlock.
Unfortunately, while there’s no sound in outer space, Ames’s cries traveled easily through the walls of his special tent – and ours. The second day, we packed up and drove home.
This year, we considered skipping the tent(s) entirely and renting an Airbnb nearby, but would we really be camping with our friends if we only spent daytime at the campground and retired at night to structure with walls and bedrooms? That’s not camping!
So we’re taking a Pack ‘n Play portable crib this time, the ole tried-and-true. And, from a different friend, we’ve borrowed a blackout canopy called the SlumberPod, which fits over the Pack ‘n Play. I feel hopeful, possibly because multiple friends have recommended the SlumberPod, and possibly because I keep mistyping it as SlumberPot or SplumberPot and giggling aloud to myself. Unlike last year’s contraption, this one promises to block “95%+ of light” – only 5% less than a black hole!
Upcoming episodes
Today (July 4), we’re talking about Enameled Cast Iron. This topic idea grew out of our June 20 episode, Cast Iron Skillets with Michele Norris – yes, that Michele Norris(!), formerly of NPR’s All Things Considered and now host of the Audible Original podcast Your Mama’s Kitchen. If you haven’t listened to that episode yet, do. Then come back for the enameled version, where unfortunately our only special guest is the word vitreous.
On July 11, we put on our astronaut suits and blast off for the Nerds Culinary Universe. I’m not sure where we got this title, but I think it’s explained in the episode? Anyway, speaking of space travel, there’s got to be a sci-fi film where the aliens look like Nerds, right? So cute!
On July 18, we talk about Burger Buns. Spoiler alert: not my late father’s backside.
And on August 1, join us for our most perplexing topic yet: Pudding-Like Products. You down with PLP? (Yeah, I’m sor-ry.)
July bonus episode
We’re calling this one “Obscure Food Words Balderdash,” a seemingly nonsensical title that sums up the episode quite sensically. Basically, we made Producer Abby play a word game with us! We forgot to keep score, but we’ll never forget what we learned: just say yes to tittynopes. Or as Abby described it:
Today Matthew shares a “beak of the dream” with us and we make Producer Abby play a word game full of LOTR, hoecakes, spurtles and tittynope before we are all diagnosed with classic Jekyll and Hyde Syndrome. Molly gets profound as we think up pinball designs and reminisce about birthdays and spin-offs past.
As usual, you can get this and all other bonus episodes at magnumbonus.com (password: magnumbonum) or subscribe to the RSS feed at https://www.magnumbonus.com/feed/podcast/.
What we’re into
Abby: I quite enjoyed Ripley on Netflix starring Andrew Scott/Hot Priest. Beautiful cinematography and is very slow and lovingly methodical in its murder vibes. This summer I’m drinking gin rickeys and orange wine. I’m having a ball with my book recommendation newsletter and just posted my Most Disappointing Reads of the first half of 2024 which may contain fiery rants.
Molly: I cannot wait for the Olympics. In the meantime, OMG, I finally read All Fours, by Miranda July, and OMG OMG. I’m also into cut-up watermelon with a squeeze of lime, wearing Tevas as much as possible (but only the “Original Universal” style), and, like last summer, red wine with a little chill on it.
Matthew:
TV: We Are Lady Parts, S2. Maybe even better than season 1?
Music: The Lovely Eggs, Eggsistentialism. It’s punk! It’s pop! It’s very, very English.
YouTube: Japan Carefree Solo Travel
As always, thank you so much for being a subscriber. Look for our next newsletter and bonus episode in October. We might even have an update for you about the SlumberPod! Or we might have gotten sucked into the black hole forever, in which case, oops?
So long, earthlings,
Host Molly