The Math Shirt Moment

The fastest way to understand our show is to hear us do what we do: laugh hard, pivot fast, and still land somewhere real. We start with a brand-new side business and a T-shirt that probably should not be worn around polite company, then we slide into the kind of honest marriage banter that only works when there’s trust underneath it. Along the way, we share a recovery check-in after spinal surgery, talk about visible bruising weeks later, and how a bold hair change becomes a quiet line in the sand: I get to choose who I am now.

Then the surprises hit. We talk about why we treat celebrity status like a job title, not a personality, and we tease an upcoming conversation with Antonio Sabato Jr. That opens the door to a bigger theme: character over notoriety. A simple ice cream stop turns into a meaningful connection, a reminder of responsible choices, and a real example of paying it forward when strangers decide to help strangers.

We also widen the lens to heavier topics: a powerful 9/11 volunteer survivor perspective, fears about school shootings, and the uncomfortable reality that violence is starting to feel “normal” in the news. We wrestle with what’s changing in education, what fundamentals kids still need, and what community support can look like when systems feel strained. We wrap with updates on StrongerThanAMountain.com, custom apparel options, and the peer-to-peer support work we’re building.

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Transcript

Welcome And The Infamous Math Shirt

SPEAKER_00 0:03

This woman over here. Hey y'all. This is Michael. I'm here with Victoria. This is Cottage Smiles Unstoppable. And I tried to get her to bring us in because I know y'all are getting tired of hearing me saying, howdy, y'all.

SPEAKER_02 0:16

I love the red neck.

SPEAKER_00 0:17

Welcome to a Catagasmile Unstoppable. Here's Victoria. Take it away.

SPEAKER_02 0:23

No. No.

SPEAKER_00 0:25

This is your show, babe.

SPEAKER_02 0:26

No, don't say that. I no. Uh-uh. We're not saying all that.

SPEAKER_00 0:31

So, what's happening in the world of okay, before even oh shit, here we go.

SPEAKER_02 0:37

Before we even start, I have to tell everybody what my husband has on. Okay. So, no, so we have started another business. It's called Stronger Than a Mountain. And the reason, obviously, if anybody ever saw, was Faith doing her news anchoring uh story. And she actually said she's stronger than a mountain. Anyway, so that's a side thing. So my husband is wearing a t-shirt he created. And it says, sex is like math. So first there's a very cute, smiley little plus symbol. Okay. And it says add the bed. And then underneath it is a little cartoony bed. Then beside it, it is a little minus symbol with a frowny face. And it says subtract the clothes. And there's a pile of clothes underneath. Then you have the division symbol. And it's smiling. And it's brilliantly placed because it's the belly, the the torso, and I guess a hat or whatever of a man, go figure. And it says divide the legs. And then there is the multiplication. And it says pray you don't multiply. And someone is on their knees. Sex is like math.

SPEAKER_00 2:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:09

Did you come up with this yourself?

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At the bed.

SPEAKER_02 2:12

You didn't come up with this yourself. You freaking.

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At the bed, subtract the clothes, divide the legs, pray you don't multiply.

SPEAKER_02 2:19

Did you TikTok? Did you see this on TikTok?

SPEAKER_00 2:21

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 2:21

Because I know you didn't come up with that.

SPEAKER_00 2:23

This was genius. This was not me.

SPEAKER_02 2:25

And you wore it out in public.

SPEAKER_00 2:27

I sure did.

unknown 2:29

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 2:30

Stucco, I love you, but I had a shower and he is like having attention.

SPEAKER_00 2:34

And because I'm wearing our because it's got our brand on here, I got to talk to other individuals.

SPEAKER_02 2:42

But you wore that out in public around kids.

SPEAKER_00 2:44

I did.

SPEAKER_02 2:45

But you know what? Today's kids don't know what those symbols are for math.

SPEAKER_00 2:49

You might be right.

SPEAKER_02 2:50

Because in school, they're not taught grammar anymore. They're not taught you know spelling anymore. They don't know how to do cursive.

SPEAKER_00 2:59

So be taught manners.

SPEAKER_02 3:01

I I can't see this being something. What's that? Like I just can't. I can't see it. So I want

Spinal Surgery Bruises And Morticia Hair

SPEAKER_02 3:10

to thank people. I've had quite a few people write in and say, How are you feeling from your spinal surgery? and things like that. I have. And my husband I I saw, you know, my husband, I showed him last night. I still have bruises. It's been six weeks. And I mean, they're not like tiny. Right? I mean, they're they're pretty nice size bruises from them.

SPEAKER_00 3:35

No, my wife is not an Neme.

SPEAKER_02 3:37

No, I'm not. No, I'm not.

SPEAKER_00 3:41

She has lost a lot of weight.

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I did do something radical.

SPEAKER_00 3:45

Thank you, Melissa.

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I did do something radical.

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Changed her hair from red to like black chicken.

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Cherry mahogany, but it's more black than mahogany.

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A striking contrast.

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It's a huge difference.

SPEAKER_00 4:00

We'll have to uh post some new pictures of us.

SPEAKER_02 4:03

I have to tell you, when I went to get this done, my friend, I have a couple friends named Danny. This was a female friend of mine named Danny. And she comes up and she sees what I'm doing, and she goes, What the hell are you doing? And I was like, What? And she goes, No, no, no, no, no. You are a real redhead. Like you're a natural redhead, a color that can't be bought, redhead. Real red, what are you doing? And she goes, now you kind of look like Morticia. And I was like, and I kind of like it. And she was like, No, you're a redhead. You are a redhead. And I was like, I know, but it just needed a change. And she's like, no, people cannot come up with a formula for your hair. It she's a master hairstylist. And she's like, what have you done? I love you. I don't like it. And I was like, well, I like it. And you know, very impressive for me to say this, but I am at a point in my life that if somebody doesn't like me for my hair, too bad. If somebody doesn't like me because I'm gonna awaken your demons with the truth, too bad. If you don't like the fact that, you know, I expose the narcissistic realization of reality behind you, too bad. Like this is just, you know, I'm I'm growing while shrinking in size.

SPEAKER_00 5:32

And I, your husband, think I have just a t-shirt for you.

SPEAKER_02 5:37

What? Why you're quiet. That's like not advantageous for the podcast.

SPEAKER_00 5:43

I'll have to uh print it out for you tomorrow.

SPEAKER_02 5:46

Okay, so I was talking oh yeah, absolutely. Wear it on a tank top. I'd actually wear it on the tank. Okay, so while getting ready to walk into a meeting,

Why We Treat Fame Like A Title

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I'm checking messages and yada yada, and I happen to like pass over somebody inviting me to come on and host our co-host or whatever with them. And I was like, sorry, I can't right now, yada, whatever. So I end up like keep going. And the one thing people can say about me is that I treat anybody of a celebrity stature the same as I treat next door neighbors, right? We all put our pants on the same. Well, I don't because I only have one hand, but like we all we're people, right? You know, yeah, you're a celebrity and you've got whatever. But to me, just like when I was in corporate America, my assistant was treated like the CEO, right? It's a title, it's a thing. So I end up having a pretty nice conversation with an amazing individual. I'm not sharing the story yet, because I'm super excited to announce that we will be bringing Antonio Sabato Jr. And now that most women over the age of 45 have fallen off of the floor or hope to God not wrecked their vehicle. Yes, this is GQ's sexiest man alive. He was, what else was he? Sexiest man alive, GQ man of the year, all those things. Model this, model that, everything. Big time, like you know, women's what do they call it? Those passes they give their husband. If you like meet somebody that and you know, you know how like well, some married couples say, if I meet my celebrity crush, I get a pass and I get to go whatever.

SPEAKER_00 7:34

Oh, hell no.

SPEAKER_02 7:35

Most people uh like 50 or whatever, their go-to pass back like now would probably be like a Brad Pitt or you know, whatever, which I've never thought. No offense. I'm I'm not a Brad Pitt, like yummy thing, was Antonio Sabato Jr., right? So I was talking to Danielle and Sam tonight, and I was like, guess who I spoke with? And I'm meeting with this week, and they're like, Who? And I was like, I, you know, Antonio Sabato Jr. And she was like, Stop, stop, stop, stop. The way you said his name was as if you were just talking about your husband or your daughter or whatever. And I was like, Yeah, he's a really nice guy down to earth. And she's turning blood red, she's like fanning her. I'm thinking she's in a minopause hot flash or something. And her husband, Sam, is like, Vicki, what have you done to my wife? And I'm like, I don't, I don't, I don't know. And I was like, I'm sorry. She goes, This is why everybody loves you, is because you treat everybody with the simplicity of not notoriety of who you are and what you've become. And I'm like, you know, he's an artist. I'm supporting him and the work he's doing. I am super proud of his story, and that's the extent of it. It's like when we've gone places and people recognize me, I'm like, how can I help you? I don't want the notoriety, I want to be able to help, right? That's the thing, and that's the difference. So he will be coming on. I had no idea that he was like the guest pass or cats meow. And that is nothing to say against him. If he's listening to this episode, Antonio says nothing bad to say about you, but my husband will tell you back in the 80s and the 90s, I was not a TV person. I was watching the Golden Girls with my grandparents, I was playing golf, I was doing all the things that wasn't Melrose Place and General Hospital and all of those. And I've never been a big movie watcher, so she's a shaken, not stirred kind of girl. Well, right, but I'm saying I don't sit there, I can't even tell you any of the newest released movies. I can't, even back then, my TV of choices were Benson, oh yeah, Barney Miller, the Golden Girls, and like those were the shows I watched with my grandparents, right? I didn't do any of the normal 80s, 90s, whatever. I mean, I didn't even watch, like, I didn't see The Breakfast Club until almost 2000.

SPEAKER_00 10:14

The Jefferson Greeks Company.

SPEAKER_02 10:16

I sell those later on, like the repeats much, much later. Yeah, I once in a while I think I sell the load boat with my grandparents. But you know, the point is that whether he is, you know, world-known, which apparently he's very much so, or he's, you know, one of us, he is a genuinely nice person. And that's who I want to help. I want to help someone who's genuine and whatever, and has a good heart, good values, and morals. And so that's an interesting surprise for coming up.

SPEAKER_00 10:46

But like Deanna Reeves. No.

SPEAKER_02 10:50

Well, I'll find out when I get to know him better. So that's coming up. Claude Rashine, who has been with us before, who I think she's absolutely flipping, phenomenally gorgeous. And I've said that from day one. And I'm as heterosexual as they get, but you can still be heterosexual and say that's a beautiful woman. Like you are a heterosexual man, and you would say he's a good-looking guy, right? She was in the pussycat ball, she was a dancer, she was with Jay. She danced with Jennifer Lopez. She's beautiful. She's been on with us before, she's gonna come back. We have quite a few little surprises coming back. We got some nice, wonderful people coming back, and that's really super exciting. That's really super exciting. So we have that going on as well. You're just chipping at the bit chomping at the bit.

Ice Cream Run And Paying It Forward

SPEAKER_02 11:40

What?

SPEAKER_00 11:40

I won't say anything else.

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Since when?

SPEAKER_00 11:44

Oh, I got some notoriety today.

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I can't wait.

SPEAKER_00 11:48

Well, not me directly, but the uh the firearm that I carry got some notoriety. The judge. The judge. I carry a judge.

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Some people are not gonna know what the judge is.

SPEAKER_00 11:59

The judge is a revolver that can shoot either a big boy 45.

SPEAKER_02 12:04

Ladies, you go back to thinking about Antonio Savato or the 410 shotgun shell.

SPEAKER_00 12:13

I can't read that. Okay. Anyway, carry on. So I went to get some ice cream for my daughter at the cookie cake factory.

SPEAKER_02 12:23

And she eat coffee ice cream.

SPEAKER_00 12:27

Not exactly.

SPEAKER_02 12:28

What do you mean, not exactly? It's either you do or you don't. Um so okay.

SPEAKER_00 12:33

Go ahead. I may have eaten it. Anyway, and a customer in there noticed the firearm that I was carrying because of it.

SPEAKER_02 12:43

They didn't notice your shirt first, they noticed the gun.

SPEAKER_00 12:45

Right. And and asked me, they said, Hey, is that a judge? And I said, Yes. So, of course, you know, he said, I've got one too, and we started jaw jacking. And the jaw jack ended up being about 15-20 minutes, and we're slowing for you. I know. We invited them onto our show, and he has an incredible story. I hope he comes on. I won't mention his name right now. Uh, him and his wife, but they offered to help me out for my claims that I have going on, as they also received help from you know, certain people. So, what they were doing in essence was paying it forward, and that's something that my wife and I are big on, paying it forward. Isn't that right, babe?

SPEAKER_01 13:29

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 13:30

So and my daughter was just gloating up a storm when they found out she was out shooting me. Uh she was just all Cheshire cat smiles.

SPEAKER_02 13:43

That girl can shoot, she gets it for me.

Craig’s 9/11 Volunteer Survivor Perspective

SPEAKER_02 13:45

She does she gets it for me. But I want everybody to take a minute, go listen to an episode that was just released. Craig I don't want to mispronounce his last name. He is such you you talked to him for just a split second.

SPEAKER_00 14:02

For Yankee.

SPEAKER_02 14:04

Sure, if you want to call him that. He's from New Jersey. This man has such a story. You need to listen to it. I'm not gonna tell this his story. Let's just say 9-11. 9-11, but he was a volunteer survivor. Because when they say a survivor of 9-11, they're very critical about that. You can't say you are a 9-11 survivor because that makes you feel or that makes people think you jumped out of the towers or whatever. You have to say I'm a 9-11 volunteer survivor, which okay, but I did not know that volunteers were not supposed to spend more than four hours there at a time because they're breathing and all that debris and stuff. He spent two days just going and helping people. And I've spoken to him numerous times now, but when he said to me, Victoria, imagine this. I literally was standing on the top of the twin towers. Just take that in for a second. That he literally he was like, I literally what you know, a couple days before we're looking out and seeing the twin towers. And then not even a week later, I was standing on top of them. I mean, and what I couldn't believe is that this year is the 25th anniversary of 9-11.

SPEAKER_00 15:24

Damn.

SPEAKER_02 15:24

I cannot believe that's crazy that it's yesterday, like it's not long ago at all.

SPEAKER_00 15:30

Right.

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I mean, do you remember where you were at 9-11?

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Everybody delivery pizza.

SPEAKER_02 15:34

I mean, I was at work and like my office building could have just you know flooded and I wouldn't have noticed because I was glued to the television watching this transpire, and you can't even move, you are like paralyzed watching this, right? I mean, even like on the TV, and I can't imagine what it would be like in person, you know, to see everybody and the rubble and the, you know, and all of the dust and debris that he I don't remember, but there was an astronomical amount of cancers that were formed by 9-11. And, you know, he and I were talking, and he even says that he truly believes it's just a matter of time before it happens again, and that's really super, super

White House Shots And School Safety Tech

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scary. You know, in our country, you would think it's a little harder than that.

SPEAKER_00 16:26

No, dude, but it's not.

SPEAKER_02 16:27

But I was just gonna lead into that on the same page because I found out tonight, it was in the news, that some hoo-ha goes, and they think this is what the news reported. From their understanding, it was at the 17th gate of the perimeter of the White House. Somebody goes with a pistol and gets three shots off. Well, first of all, if you go to the gate, what what the hell do you think you're doing? I mean, Trump's not out there on the front lawn. He's not on the what whatever the lawn that is, you know. What do you think you're gonna hit? And then, I mean, is that like a death by suicide, you know, murder suicide kind of thing? Is that what you're looking for? Is that what this person's looking for? They said Secret Service returned fire. They don't know at that point when I heard the news story how many people, you know, or anyone that you know became fatal from this. But seriously, like back in the day, you never had to worry about any of this happening. And now this is just like we've become accustomed to it, and that's horrible. To know that we are like accustomed to hearing these things, that's awful.

SPEAKER_00 17:35

Yep. I've seen that where they're starting to come up with a concept and deploy or employ the use of drones in school shootings. I don't know if you've seen that. No, I haven't seen that. The drones can go inside and and deter, distract, maybe case, pepperball, the individual.

SPEAKER_02 17:59

The thing is, is like in the last week, school's only been in for a week. Some places just started and only two days, right? And every single day I've heard of school shootings. Like there was one for that was two, you know, 14, 15-year-olds that were in the bathroom, and one got shot, you know, literally. Then they showed a helicopter landing because it was a school in the middle of no, you know, it's in a non-real rural area that had to life flight somebody because of a school shooting. And it's like every single day now you you hear about this. And why? Why can't we get this under control?

SPEAKER_00 18:40

Well, I I have seen some new technology where they're doing fingerprint ID on the firearm along with video uh facial recognition before the firearm will work.

SPEAKER_01 18:52

Okay, but how's that work help with all the millions of guns that's out there now? It's not.

SPEAKER_00 18:57

It'll take generations before that's that's uh turnaround. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:06

But I just don't understand it. I d I I mean why, you know, first of all, let's get our school back in order, let's get the education back in order, right? I mean, when we were in school, we didn't get to take phones. I mean, granted, they would have been the size of a brick. Remember the first phones, they look like bricks. And we didn't get to take phones, we didn't get to do all those things. We they get to take coffee, they get to have coke, they get to have Dr. Pepper and all the drinks in the classroom. We didn't get to do any of that. If we wanted something to drink, where was our hand? And we'd have to go to the bathroom and get some water out of the water fountain that 500 other people drank out of and never got clean. You know, we drank out of garden hoses for crying out loud. And then they turn around and they get to have phones and tablets and and they don't write, they do everything on their tablet or their laptop or whatever now. And what happens if the grid goes down? You don't even know how to sign your name, you know. They don't even want to do PE anymore because they think that that's not teaching them anything. You're not teaching them grammar. Do you think that's not teaching them anything? You're not teaching them how to spell, you're not teaching the fundamentals of simplicity. Like, let's talk about teaching them just you know, bank accounting. Like, let's talk about how to maintain a bank account or how to write, you know, a check. If you're like, oh my god, what what is a check? You know, what is that? The fact that you know how to fill out applications, how to how to do certain things. Like when I was in school, you had your exploratories, and we got to choose what we wanted to do. And so, like, you had to do home ec and learn how to do certain stuff, and then I like home egg. I bet you did.

SPEAKER_00 20:47

It was full of ladies, girls. I learned how to bake muffins.

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You already knew how to eat a muffin.

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Easy greasy, keep it PG.

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Right or wrong.

SPEAKER_00 21:00

You're right, dear.

SPEAKER_02 21:03

See, look at this. Yes, you learn how to eat muffins. But when you were in in middle school, did you have exploratories for foreign language? Like I didn't.

SPEAKER_00 21:13

No.

SPEAKER_02 21:14

What?

SPEAKER_00 21:14

No. We had things like typing.

SPEAKER_02 21:18

I love typing. Back then I was doing like 90 something words a minute. I love typing. That was fun. But we had to take French and Spanish. You already knew Spanish. You study catalingues.

SPEAKER_00 21:32

Woman!

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Perfect. You have a now serving number that's greater than McDonald's. I'm just saying.

SPEAKER_00 21:42

You know what? What? You're gonna scrap this one. No, I'm not. You can't air this. Yes, I can. This is my show.

SPEAKER_02 21:51

You just said in the beginning on air, which I have, that this is my show.

SPEAKER_00 21:56

You're right, dear.

SPEAKER_02 21:57

So you have a degree in Catalinguas. Will you stop saying that? What pogo stick? Shut up. Why do you say that? Woman. What? Ah, you know, just saying. I brought worse fits. Got it. If you start talking to me in Spanish, so help me God, the Yankee is coming out full force. Just because it's dyed black doesn't mean the roots aren't red. So just remember. Seriously, don't talk to me in Spanish. Apologize. English.

SPEAKER_00 22:30

Yes, dear.

SPEAKER_02 22:31

That's not apology. At all.

SPEAKER_00 22:36

I love you. You shouldn't. I do. You shouldn't. Oh, speaking of I do, we have another marriage to do this year. It's your turn to ask.

SPEAKER_02 22:50

Wrong, Mofo. We go through this every year. So you're gonna let me pick the rings?

SPEAKER_00 22:56

And no, I'm gonna make the rings.

SPEAKER_02 22:58

No, we had this discussion.

SPEAKER_00 22:59

No, I'm gonna make the rings and you propose things.

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I don't want it to look where it doesn't look good.

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I can't help that. I can't help it.

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You can.

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I'm gonna make it look nice.

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Oh Lord hold me. I don't want my finger turning green.

SPEAKER_00 23:12

It's not gonna turn green or purple.

SPEAKER_02 23:13

Why don't you talk about

StrongerThanAMountain.com Merch Tour And Custom Orders

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the beautiful website and how it's shaping up?

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The beautiful website called StrongerThanAMountain.com. Produced exclusively by yours truly. Victoria Cure.

SPEAKER_02 23:32

A lot of allergies up in the channel.

SPEAKER_00 23:33

Anyway, Stronger Than a Mountain, it's almost done. It is live, but it's there's a few tweaks that my wife's putting in there. But y'all go over to Stronger than Stronger Than a Mountain and start perusing. Perusing? Perusing. Is that like Penalinguis? Woman? Y'all give us a holler.

SPEAKER_02 23:59

A what?

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A holler.

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What the hell's a holler? There is a section for rednecks, and you'll know why. And you'll understand because you'll hear a lot of Solomon's words are out there on the shirts.

SPEAKER_00 24:11

If you want t-shirts, hats, hoodies, things like that like that.

SPEAKER_02 24:15

But what's really cool is there's a whole bunch of sections, and we're offering not just the t-shirt and anywhere from small to 3x, I believe. Then you can also purchase the print and have it digitally downloaded, or you can buy the DTF.

SPEAKER_00 24:36

Yeah, if if you have your own printer, I mean, I'm sorry, Heat Press, and you have your own t-shirt business and you want to buy the prints from us, please feel free. My wife has several things on there that you can peruse.

SPEAKER_02 24:50

But you can also do corporate and business and events like family reunions and sports teams and things like that that we've done that we have some pictures above. And you can do personalized one. Like you can do ones that you know say, Hey, I want to make a shirt like this for this occasion, and we'll help you figure it out. But we have many, many, many different categories already. Like, of course, we have the dog for dog lovers, and it's all like golden retrievers.

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And no, there's some dominations.

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There, I was gonna get into that, but you always got cut me off.

SPEAKER_00 25:25

I like to get into it too.

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Cuddling list.

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Okay.

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So then we also have for the fire department, the boys in blue. Stop! I don't have chest and drawers, I don't have furniture disease. The boys in blue, boys in blue, we have the fire department, we have the first responders, we have a category for survivors and healing of abuse, which is amazing. Let's see, what else do we have? We have the squirrel, squirrel for it. We have family, we have camping, mountain life. There's a ton of them. I think there's like holidays, holidays are in there.

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And and if if you want a custom design, be sure to to fill out the form and email me the design that you want. And if I have to tweak it, I'll do my best to tweak it.

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If you have to look.

SPEAKER_00 26:32

If it's already ready to go, then we'll just print it out, slap it on a shirt.

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How can we forget American Pride with American Portrait? Which is beautiful. We have wonderful, gorgeous images for special needs.

SPEAKER_00 26:44

Um got a family portrait you want to put on there for maybe family reunion.

SPEAKER_02 26:50

Again, you did it. Again. So American Pride is beautiful. The special needs is amazing. We have everything from amputation to trach to feeding tubes to everything. We have a gothic, which is really gothic, but it has a gothic tense to it. We have fantasy holidays and special, like for our Halloween coming up, all of those big events. There is a lot of stuff, and we are adding more and more constantly. And it's not overwhelming or thumbnails.

SPEAKER_00 27:20

It's in great looking categories. I wonder who did that. That was my awesome wife. With my wife. With W-I-F-E-E. WAF. What? Waff.

SPEAKER_02 27:31

What?

SPEAKER_00 27:32

Waff.

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So what has our beautiful daughter, my beautiful daughter, done to you lately in pranks? Oh, you haven't heard any pranks lately.

SPEAKER_00 27:40

Nothing.

SPEAKER_02 27:40

Then you're due.

SPEAKER_00 27:42

I'm due. Oh thanks, Dr. Joe.

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Sure.

SPEAKER_00 27:46

I already had my baby. I lost 30 pounds. No.

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35.

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34.

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Well, you'll crap a turn.

SPEAKER_00 27:56

I'm 255 now. Or is it 289? Is it not 34 pounds?

SPEAKER_02 28:05

I don't know, math, man. You're wearing the shirt.

SPEAKER_00 28:08

Let me take off my shoes.

SPEAKER_02 28:10

I can give you one hand to help with the math. Not that math. Accounting math.

SPEAKER_00 28:18

Anyway, so be sure y'all check out Strong on the Mountain and forgive us if a couple of tabs or buttons don't work.

SPEAKER_02 28:25

There are it's getting done. It's it's a very tedious process building a website of this magnitude and doing everything else that I do.

SPEAKER_00 28:32

But it is very beautiful.

SPEAKER_02 28:37

That's so sweet, Pumpkin Catalinguist.

SPEAKER_00 28:41

Oh my gosh. I'm gonna make you that church tomorrow.

SPEAKER_02 28:45

Okay. That's fine. What else did you do do this weekend? You went bowling or you you chaperoned.

SPEAKER_00 28:56

Yeah, our daughter went out on a friend date. I don't know if it's a f date with her friend.

SPEAKER_02 29:02

Okay. Whatever, sure.

SPEAKER_00 29:05

Oh, you know, I'm getting the grass cut out here at 97 degrees here in Georgia.

SPEAKER_02 29:11

No, they're this weekend they're saying this thing over here is saying it's gonna be 109. Here 109. I'm ready for fall. So ready for fall.

SPEAKER_00 29:24

Yeah, we need uh if any of y'all school to teachers are listening, y'all want to come on the show and give us an update on what is and what is not being taught in school. You know, wherever you're at and what you know, give us the the skinny.

SPEAKER_02 29:39

Why is it gotta be skinny?

SPEAKER_00 29:42

Really?

SPEAKER_02 29:43

Yeah. Bra skinny. No, cuddling list. It's not.

SPEAKER_00 29:54

It's not size.

SPEAKER_02 29:55

What is on your brain?

SPEAKER_00 29:58

Seriously?

SPEAKER_02 29:59

Which head?

SPEAKER_00 30:01

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 30:02

What?

SPEAKER_00 30:03

I think you're dumb. No more drinky drinky for you.

SPEAKER_02 30:07

I don't drink alcohol. I have tea over here and I'm over here getting electrocuted. It's really kind of painful to me.

SPEAKER_00 30:14

You're gorgeous.

SPEAKER_02 30:16

You're cocoa buffs, cocoa buffs. You know, I got you those. They're in the cabinet. Cocoa buffs. Coco.

SPEAKER_00 30:26

I thought you got me the cornflakes.

SPEAKER_02 30:29

No, those are mine.

SPEAKER_00 30:33

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 30:34

You ate my cereal?

SPEAKER_00 30:35

I'll eat whatever of yours. You open it up.

SPEAKER_02 30:42

No, you spread it out.

SPEAKER_00 30:45

That's the division.

SPEAKER_02 30:46

That's what you did. You should really be a UN and a former UN ambassador because of all of the UN nations that you That's a good title. What?

SPEAKER_00 30:56

I like that.

SPEAKER_02 30:57

No, you've done enough.

SPEAKER_00 31:00

Hmm.

SPEAKER_02 31:02

You like a ring on your finger?

SPEAKER_00 31:04

I do.

SPEAKER_02 31:04

You want to keep it there?

SPEAKER_00 31:06

I have a ring on my finger.

SPEAKER_02 31:08

I'm still not used to it because it wasn't there 25 years ago.

SPEAKER_00 31:11

No, it should have been. Anyway.

SPEAKER_02 31:14

Wait, what do you mean it should have been?

SPEAKER_00 31:17

I didn't wear one back then either.

SPEAKER_02 31:19

So why do you say it should have been? Because then it would have been to someone other than me.

SPEAKER_00 31:23

Well, I had one other than you.

SPEAKER_02 31:25

Right. You're saying you should have had a ring on?

SPEAKER_00 31:28

No, I should have married you.

SPEAKER_02 31:29

That's not what you said. You said you should have been wearing a ring on the back.

SPEAKER_00 31:32

I'm backtracking here, woman.

SPEAKER_02 31:33

You ain't doing a good job at it. You said you should have been wearing a ring back then. It wasn't attached to me.

SPEAKER_00 31:40

That's kiki.

SPEAKER_02 31:42

That's disgusting. Did you like seriously? What did you mean?

SPEAKER_00 31:48

What what did you mean?

SPEAKER_02 31:50

That you weren't wearing a ring. I had no idea there wasn't even the tan line of a ring.

SPEAKER_00 31:54

Oh. No, you ain't playing that one. Oh, I see.

SPEAKER_02 31:57

No way, shape, form, or fashion. I am intelligent.

SPEAKER_00 32:01

You're just too smart.

SPEAKER_02 32:02

I am playing that one. You pushed one for English this time.

SPEAKER_00 32:06

I'll push whatever you want.

SPEAKER_02 32:08

Yeah, I hear you. Did you see the TikTok of this girl who comes in?

SPEAKER_00 32:12

She's watching TikTok.

SPEAKER_02 32:13

You're obsessed with TikTok who has green hair and she says, I identify as a tr as a triple gender or something like that. And they somebody said, What does that mean? And they said, Oh, I don't identify as a girl, a boy, or I I no, she's the individual said, I identify as a girl, a boy, and non-binary. And the guy goes on there and goes, Well, my two-year-old identified as a potato, but I'm not trying to get a chip and some sauerkraut with him. And it's like, why?

SPEAKER_00 32:50

Well, then you're gonna love this shirt.

SPEAKER_02 32:52

I'm asexual. It wasn't a choice. I was born this way. I'm homosexual.

SPEAKER_00 32:57

There you go.

SPEAKER_02 32:58

What would I be called since I've I love knives?

SPEAKER_00 33:04

Sharpie?

SPEAKER_02 33:05

No, that's a marker. They're cuddling wish.

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SPEAKER_00 33:10

Anyway. I think they're tired of hearing us talk about it.

SPEAKER_02 33:16

They love our banter. They love our chemistry. Last time somebody wrote in last week and said they love how we play around.

SPEAKER_00 33:23

You guys are horrible. Why are you putting this shit on the air?

SPEAKER_02 33:26

No, they don't know.

SPEAKER_00 33:27

You guys suck.

SPEAKER_02 33:28

Why aren't you talking about this book? I'm almost done.

SPEAKER_00 33:30

That is which one?

SPEAKER_02 33:32

Valid.

SPEAKER_00 33:33

About if I turn around, you got a well, you had a bookshelf full.

SPEAKER_02 33:37

It's in the hall now. It's from the top to the bottom. No, in the hall behind the door.

SPEAKER_00 33:42

And the last you told me you were up to 70 published books.

SPEAKER_02 33:46

Yeah, but they're not all on Amazon.

SPEAKER_00 33:48

I didn't say Amazon. I said publish. Yeah, but I'm doing the the another narcissist awareness uh have y'all have y'all out there in Radio Land, have y'all typed in my wife's name on Google? Google. Or Bing. I type in Victoria Cure.

SPEAKER_02 34:04

Have you ever Googled yourself?

SPEAKER_00 34:06

Yes. There's zero zilps, zip. I can fix that about me. I can fix it. You can fix it.

SPEAKER_02 34:12

Yeah, I can have you out there.

SPEAKER_00 34:13

You know what it says? It says You're my husband. That's right. It sure does. Michael is the bitch of Victoria Cure, the founder CEO of a contagious smile. That's awesome. But y'all, y'all, y'all, type in her name, Victoria Cure. And just count how many pages. Okay? I I got up to 27. I said, that's it. I'm done.

SPEAKER_02 34:38

Aww.

SPEAKER_00 34:39

Yah.

SPEAKER_02 34:40

No uh nuh.

SPEAKER_00 34:42

Who does that?

SPEAKER_02 34:43

Not me.

SPEAKER_00 34:44

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 34:46

No.

SPEAKER_00 34:46

Maybe if your name was Shakira.

SPEAKER_02 34:48

Here we go.

SPEAKER_00 34:50

Or Antonio Sabato.

SPEAKER_02 34:52

You have to do it with the accent. I can't.

SPEAKER_00 34:55

Antonio Sabato. I don't know how what accent.

SPEAKER_02 34:58

He's Italian. You made him sound.

SPEAKER_00 35:01

How's Italian sound?

SPEAKER_02 35:03

Not like that. We'll ask Jeff.

SPEAKER_00 35:07

Maybe like Tony Montana. Who? Oh blasphemy. Did you just say who?

SPEAKER_02 35:15

I did.

SPEAKER_00 35:16

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 35:17

This goes back to I didn't watch stuff in the 80s and 90s and whenever.

SPEAKER_00 35:21

Oh my are you serious? I'm about to have a coronary.

SPEAKER_02 35:24

Don't say that. That's not funny.

SPEAKER_00 35:26

Alexa. Who played Tony Montana? El Pacino portrayed Tony Montana in the 1983 film Scarface.

SPEAKER_01 35:38

I've never seen Scarface.

SPEAKER_00 35:40

Oh my god, are you shitting me?

SPEAKER_02 35:42

No, I haven't.

SPEAKER_00 35:44

Oh, you are you're done. Next Saturday, movie night is our movie night. We're watching Scarface.

SPEAKER_02 35:51

But I did when I was over at Alcatraz, I did go into Al Capone's like solitary confinement, but and they shut the door and all.

SPEAKER_00 36:00

You've never seen Scarface. Ever.

SPEAKER_02 36:03

All I know about Scarface is say hello to my little friend. Like that's all I know, but I haven't seen it.

unknown 36:09

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 36:09

I've never seen Untouchables either.

SPEAKER_00 36:12

Okay. I'll forgive you.

SPEAKER_02 36:13

There's a bunch of movies I haven't seen.

SPEAKER_00 36:17

Yes, I know. Starting with In a Galaxy Far, far play.

SPEAKER_02 36:21

I saw one Star Wars. I slept through it in the theater. I woke up to seeing Yoda kick ass, and then I was like, I'm so disinterested in this. It was around the time that Dukes of Hazard or whatever came out with like it was that's it. It's the only one I've ever seen. And I haven't seen any of Star Trek, but I can do the hand thing like this. I can do that. And then you know, no, I I have no interest in sci-fi at all. Like that's to the cure to the insomnia to me. Like not, but I haven't seen let's see. I haven't seen Untouchables. I haven't seen Heat. Of course I saw ET.

SPEAKER_00 36:59

That's sci-fi.

SPEAKER_02 37:00

I was a kid. So I put it in the big like VCR thing. That's something you all have to Google where you like put it up and then you and then it and stop it. What's the one? I know you're gonna be like, what? What's the one? I think it was Pacino or De Niro where the daughter's getting married and Meet the Flockers? No, it's older, older, older. I don't know. It's like a huge movie. I can't even think of the name of it. And they I don't know. When I figure out the name of it and I tell you, I'm hoping we're not on air because it's like huge. And I I don't I know I I've not seen it. I saw the beginning of it, and then I stopped it because the daughter got sexually assaulted. She was raped on like her wedding day or something.

SPEAKER_00 37:55

The general's daughter?

SPEAKER_02 37:57

No. The daughter who the one who was getting married. On the I haven't seen any of the godfathers.

SPEAKER_00 38:14

With Barna Grendo?

SPEAKER_02 38:15

I haven't seen them.

SPEAKER_00 38:16

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_02 38:18

I haven't seen Serpico.

SPEAKER_01 38:21

Uh I can't think of what movie it is.

SPEAKER_00 38:26

So while my wife is giving it a tank over here, y'all reach out to us on strongerthanamountain.com and get your shirt, get you a hat, get it ordered, and we'll get it out to you as soon as possible. Like today, I had an order come in this morning, early this morning. And of course, being Sunday, I I couldn't send it out, so it'll get there a couple days. Look, there's I mail, but it gets out. I'll try to do it within the same day. So strongerthanamountain.com. Please visit it and show your love, support. You still got our main website, uh contagious smile.com. Buy coffee, show your love and support to this program. And what we try to do, we try to pay it forward, try to help out others. Like that nice couple I met at the ice cream shop today. They, you know, they were paying it for it. And so I hope they come on our show and share their story and be a light and inspiration to somebody else. So I think I'm gonna wrap this show up.

SPEAKER_02 39:41

I can't think of the name of it.

SPEAKER_00 39:43

All that brain power.

SPEAKER_02 39:46

Don't start. It's a older, older movie. Three It's an older movie. Because I don't brag about it. It's an older, older, older. My wife has three doctors. I've never seen Cape Fear. Three doctorates. I've never seen Cape. I've never seen Good Fellows.

SPEAKER_00 40:02

Degree significant.

SPEAKER_02 40:03

I've never seen Good Fellows.

SPEAKER_00 40:05

And we're gonna let y'all go to sleep. It's now 10:30 at night.

SPEAKER_02 40:08

But this doesn't go out at night.

SPEAKER_00 40:10

Well, in the morning? Good morning. Good night. Good evening. Who said that?

unknown 40:15

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 40:16

Good morning, good night, good evening. Was that uh the Truman True Show?

SPEAKER_02 40:21

Wasn't that Robin Williams?

SPEAKER_00 40:24

No, that was uh Good Morning Vietnam.

SPEAKER_02 40:25

I never saw it.

SPEAKER_00 40:26

Oh my gosh. I just seen you have to watch Patch Adams and Robin Williams.

SPEAKER_02 40:31

Patch Adams. I Patch Adams partner. I had Patch Adams.

SPEAKER_00 40:35

Don't you partner woman?

SPEAKER_02 40:37

I had Patch Adams partner come on the show. Patch Adams is now an amputee.

SPEAKER_00 40:41

Did you just tell me to shut my mouth with your hand?

SPEAKER_02 40:43

Sign language. Patch Adams now an amputee.

SPEAKER_00 40:45

Did you read the sign language?

SPEAKER_02 40:47

No, I'm no I'm number one in your book. But Patch Adams partner, the clo one of the clowns, came on to talk to me. And Patch Adams is now an amputee. So there you have it. Well, I don't know the name of the movie.

SPEAKER_00 41:01

You can mention it next one. Thank y'all for listening to Contagious Smile. We appreciate you. Right, Victoria?

SPEAKER_02 41:10

What?

SPEAKER_00 41:10

Vicky.

SPEAKER_02 41:11

It's like that now.

SPEAKER_00 41:12

Hey, that's what that buddy of yours called you. Vicky.

SPEAKER_02 41:15

That's fine.

SPEAKER_00 41:16

Stam.

SPEAKER_02 41:17

Danny calls me that team.

SPEAKER_00 41:19

Oh, and don't forget, my wife has started something phenomenal called peer-to-peer support. It may not be original, but it's original for us, and we've seen several copycats here recently. But check out peer support. And if you have something to offer, get with my wife, Victoria, and let's get help where it's needed. Thank y'all for listening to Potato Smile Unstoppable. Good night, y'all.