Hello everyone!
Hello!
It's 2023!
Our first Monday Grub Bag of 2023!
Our first and our last.
(laughs) Oh my god. We've now spanned two years of Monday Grub Bag.
Have we really? Oh...
Well...no...
Yeah, in that way, yes.
We've been doing it for like six months but we've now spanned two years.
This is Monday Grub Bag and it's not our last episode.
No.
This is a series where we answer all of your most burning questions.
Still doing this intro in the new year?
Questions about our love. Questions about my...
Any questions.
Questions about my disability.
Okay.
Questions about the nature of things.
Any questions.
And we get those questions from the comment sections of our Monday Grub Bag videos so
if you'd like to ask a question you can do that below.
I have a few items of house keeping.
Okay.
That will be very very brief but they're very important. First of all I would like to issue an apology.
A few weeks ago in another Monday Grub Bag episode I made a comment that I regret.
I know what you're talking about.
Liz Aylward. Hannah's mom.
Oh man.
I am speaking to you.
This is heartbreaking.
I am sorry about the comments I made. The hurtful and wrong comments that I made
about your participation in the survival of our houseplants.
My mom watched the video where someone said who takes care of the plants.
Wait I'm gonna put my head down in shame. Go ahead.
She heard the question you know being asked and she thought aw, now my daughter and my son-in-law
are going to talk about me they're going to sing my praises and Shane immediately gave my dad credit for
the plants. If you watch the video you can see me be like no I think my mom does at least an equal amount.
You know like your dad is probably the main one.
My mom and my dad are pretty even.
Maybe they're even yeah. But I feel like the plants are your dad's hobby.
Yeah.
Your mom is a assistant in that hobby.
I didn't want to start a fight on camera because Shane seemed really sure.
So then I called her George's assistant.
My dad does very little with the plants like he has, like I said, his calla lilies,
his plants that he is like, they're his and he loves them
but my mom is very much like those are all of the houseplants are like hers
that she takes care of.
This resulted in a household fight disagreement.
People were taking sides. Factions were being created.
The four of us?
Yes.
And George is really loving the fact that we said, or that I said, that he was like
the plant master so now he's rubbing that in Liz's face whenever he has the opportunity.
That's his new title.
Liz I am sorry I did not realize how integral you were to the survival of our plants.
Yeah.
Thank you for everything that you do.
That's nice of you to admit that you were wrong.
Another very serious piece of housekeeping.
We've been getting some spam comments in our comment section from people pretending to be us,
they upload like a photo of us, they make their name our names and then they're leaving comments
telling people to message them on like telegram and other apps and like scamming people.
It's not us, we will never ever ever comment and try to get money out of you in the comments.
We will never like lead you to another app.
Yeah.
So do not engage with those people. I try to delete them as they come in but I can't be looking at comments all day.
All right, that was the house keeping be. Now let's get into the questions.
It's time.
(intro song) Hello, hello, welcome to the show, welcome to the show, welcome to the show,
It's time to talk about our lives (Chloe bark)
All right this first question is what are some baby names that are on your
absolutely no list. Shane what are some names you'd want but Hannah said nope to?
which I think is funny that they're asking you because that's a perfect question for you.
I picked it because it wasn't the standard like what baby names do you like?
We'd answer that, but I thought this was a unique way of asking.
So do we have names that are like definitely a no?
I mean there's a lot of names that like close friends and family members like names that we just wouldn't use.
And then some that I just like don't like names, but nothing specific except for me being like
I don't like the name...
Gerald?
To the nine Gerald's watching this. Nothing against you.
That's not really nice.
We're just probably not gonna name our kid Gerald.
I'm not gonna like pick names that I don't like because I don't want to offend anyone but there's just
names that I'm like eh. Like the name Gerald is nice I think for an older person, an adult, but the name
Gerald for a baby, you'd have to give it a nickname, little Gerry?
I picked a random name. I have no feelings about the name Gerald.
Shane has no feelings about any name.
About anything.
Like he doesn't really care what we name our children. So are there any names?
That is not true.
It is true. If I was like I really wouldn't name them this you'd be like yeah/ I cannot imagine me being like can we name our
kid this and you saying no.
No, I'd prioritize your desire for it.
Although, wait, when we named Chloe you were kind of a pain in the butt about it.
I did revoke some of your names.
So maybe that's not true. Okay, go ahead.
Okay, names that I know Hannah will not allow. Freaky Deaky. Real-time big shot.
Shane named our first pet rat.
He named one of them. Ratrophy Duckfort. So if that gives you... and I let him name a rat.
I named the other one Squirt. So if you have any, you know....
Megatron? Megatron.
This is the kind of names that Shane will come up with.
Fart Blaster.
Shane. Okay.
Any real names?
Naming our children is gonna be a fun process.
It's gonna be a pain in the butt. Alright next question.
Considering your relationship is so public have you ever been in a situation where you were bickering or
maybe even arguing but had to be really sentimental and lovey during a public event?
How do you guys handle awkward things like that?
So we have a specific example that is super cringy and you know kind of just embarrassing.
So embarrassing.
I can't really think of like arguing.
No, I think just generally like we do a lot of speaking engagements
and we attend events and things like that and there
have certainly been times when like, on the way there we've gotten in an argument
and we're not in the greatest mood and we just have to be professional.
Yeah.
But we do have a very specific and embarrassing example of the time when
this happened. So we were at a speaking engagement and it was a conference so we
were there for multiple days and while we were at this conference one of our very
close friends passed away unexpectedly and obviously that really affected us
emotionally. The whole conference is like a blur because we were so just shocked
and upset but one night of the conference as we are kind of like
processing this loss and like getting through it, we're out at dinner and we
begin to cry and we're laughing now because you know we were able to get through it and like...
No, just that we began to cry since it's at dinner, this was a pizza place.
It shows you how it was really tough news that we were processing and during dinner, Hannah and I we were talking
about our friend and we just began sobbing.
Like it wasn't like we were chatting and like wiping tears, we began...
I don't do like cute crying, I'm either not crying or I'm sobbing, it was like...
I mean I'm like almost crying now thinking about it, but we were a mess like snot dripping like eyes puffing.
I was just like laying on your lap literally just like sobbing.
Just, you know, not something that you normally see in public.
No.
But we were kind of tucked away, like I don't think many other patrons in the restaurant saw us.
Yeah.
But...
And there was nothing we could do about it, it was happening.
We were against a window that's a very crucial part of this story. We were like facing a corner,
no one could see us but there was a window and right during that time...
Like mid like (crying) ... making noise like, it's not looking too good.
Oh my god. Go ahead.
A fan of our channel walks by the window, does a double take and then begins... like they don't really realize that
we're crying. They realize it's us and they're freaking out and like waving and like oh my god like outside the window.
Our heads are like kind of down, like if we don't hide they're gonna see like snot coming out of our noses.
So we're kind of waving and I'm like hi, hey, thank you.
Oh god.
So we weren't able to pull it together. We just kinda...
No, the poor waitress that served us during that dinner, she must've dropped off... like we ordered like four things
and it came all separately and the whole time we were just crying.
She had to think we were like breaking up.
Yeah, I mean it was it was more than breaking up.
It was rough.
It was something. So that's one example of a time when someone recognized us when we were...
Something was happening.
We weren't in a great mood.
We were indisposed.
Alright. I used to work with a teenager with SMA and
his diaphragm was too weak to produce a proper cough. Shane when you have a cold
or have congestion in the chest does Hannah have to assist you or are you
able to produce a big cough on your own?
So Shane has gotten a stronger cough in the past five years since he has been on a treatment for SMA.
That's not why. It's because I've made it my resolution every year.
Oh it's the New Year's resolutions that just come true.
This year I will cough harder than any year before.
Okay.
So his cough has gotten stronger. He used to have, I guess we still have it in the basement, a cough assist
machine which is like a thing that goes over your mouth
and it helps pull, like pushes air in and then pulls it out.
It's essentially a vacuum.
Yeah and it never really worked great for Shane. He hated it. He felt like it just got the stuff deeper in and like it was a whole thing.
So I would do like thumping where I just like bang on his chest.
Chest percussion is I believe the medical term.
To try to like loosen stuff up. But now he doesn't really, unless he's really sick, which hasn't happened in years.
He doesn't really require anything and he can get stuff up on his own.
I do use a nebulizer with Ibuterol when I'm really sick.
Yeah.
And that is just to help break up whatever in my lungs. But yeah my cough has been pretty good lately.
I mean it still takes me way longer to move something than like Hannah. It might take her like
three coughs and it takes me a hundred. But you know compared to like five years ago
I'm a coughing machine nowadays.
Wow. All those resolutions.
All right.
Do you think it would be harder for this relationship to work if Hannah had to
get a job or she was out of the house for eight plus hours a day? Like what if
she was studying in college to be a teacher? Would she have had to give up on that?
So I did go to college. Shane and I lived together for two years of my
college experience and during that time I was also on the swim team so I was gone
for eight plus hours a day every day for two years and...
I was fine.
It was no more difficult than now.
And prior to living together I worked from home when I
lived in Pennsylvania and often went eight plus hours alone.
I mean Shane's parents have always worked so he's never had someone with him all day.
Yeah, as long as I have food and drink within my reach for eight
hours I'm fine and I'm very good at holding my pee so that's not an issue.
But yeah I'm self-sufficient once I have my laptop and computer or whatever I need for the day.
Yeah like me doing work here isn't that different than me doing work at a job, we're still just doing our own things.
I will say yeah, it is definitely a big benefit that we work together at home because I can do a lot more with Hannah's assistance
So in that sense, yeah, it would be harder if Hannah was gone all day I might have other people like
helping out here and there and I love that I can use the bathroom whenever I want.
Yeah.
But yeah it's fine even if she did have another job.
Yep. Alright this is the last question from Hazel age, seven.
Big fan, do you know any good knock knock jokes?
Oh Hazel, thank you so much for watching our videos, we're really thankful for that. Knock knock jokes...
I feel like this is Shane's territory, I'll let you bring up some knock knock jokes.
Alright, knock knock.
Who's there?
A little old lady.
A little old lady who?
I didn't know you could yodel!
(Hannah laughs)
Good one Shane.
Okay, one more.
Knock knock.
Who's there?
A broken pencil.
A broken pencil who?
Never mind it's pointless.
That's a good one, I like that one.
And that is how we are ending our first video of the year.
Maybe this should be our new thing for the year is we end every video with a joke.
Oh, a knock knock joke.
Yeah.
I could get behind that.
I think you could.
Alright everyone, thanks for watching, our next episode of Junkyard Mayhem
podcast comes out on Wednesday.
Yep.
Check it out.
We will see you on Wednesday.