Emily
Appearances
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Sports Event
Wonder Garden. My family and I own an indoor playground.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Sports Event
I'm in South Florida. Oh, nice. South Florida.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Sports Event
It did. I just saw that in North Florida, they have eight inches of snow already. Yeah, that's wild. It snows in Georgia.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Sports Event
So this takes place in about 2005. I went to college down in Miami.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Sports Event
To be honest, I'm not a huge sporting person, which makes this even funnier. I started dating a bartender at one of the dive bars that we used to frequent all the time. The most fun part about dating him was his roommate worked for the Miami Heat, and his roommate was actually the guy who was in charge of the Jumbotron.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Sports Event
super cool. And we got to go to the games all the time. And I wasn't so much into it for the sporting of it, but really for the social aspect. So it was coming up on Valentine's day, which is also my birthday. His roommate came home one day, we were at their apartment and he was like, listen, I have this really cool idea. I wanted to see if you guys would be game for it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Sports Event
We're going to have you guys come to a game. And we're going to do like the kissing cam, you know, when the Jumbotron pans around and lands on different couples and they kiss. And he's like, but when we land on you guys, Matt's going to propose. And you have to say no, but you have to do it like super dramatically. Slap him in the face. Slap?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Sports Event
Yeah, he was like, really roll your eyes, slap him in the face and it'll be hilarious and people will love it and everybody will laugh.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Sports Event
He doesn't understand love. Yeah, tell me about it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Sports Event
You're foreshadowing this story. So I was young and stupid and I was like, sure, I'm game. That sounds so fun.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Sports Event
That's what I was thinking. You might be on the news after this. We even like went a few days early to lock the whole thing and meet with their AV team. They're like, okay, this is where you're going to be seated. And this is the camera angle. So you guys have to play to the camera. Just kind of a peek behind the curtain. They plan this shit?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Sports Event
Well, they certainly planned this.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Sports Event
Wow. Okay. That morning, I'm getting all dolled up because I'm going to be on TV. And I'm so excited. The game starts.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Sports Event
at one point the roommate like came over and kind of gave us a nod like okay it's gonna happen soon so be on the ready oh are you nervous strangely i don't think i was because i was young and stupid and i really saw this as your big break i would have been in the exact same state of mind i couldn't wait for this to happen this is my nightmare
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Sports Event
It comes up on the screen and they start kind of panning around to all these different couples and they laugh and they kiss and everybody's cheering. And then it comes to us. And just as we rehearsed, he stood up and he got down on one knee and he even had like a fake ring box. And he like presents this ring to me and I... tapped into my high school drama club training and I really went for it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Sports Event
I made a choice that I was going to go for like disgust, you know? So I'm looking at him and I'm like, no. And I'm rolling my eyes and what I wasn't prepared for was like, everyone in there to completely turn on me. They didn't just start booing. The place erupted in the loudest sea of boos. I don't know how many people fit in one of these arenas, but thousands upon thousands.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Sports Event
directed their hate at me screaming boo boo oh fuck not one percent of you had forecasted that this might happen so you're completely ill-prepared i thought i was going to be you were the hero yeah and i was the villain then were you like they made me do it i'll marry him I thought it was over. But no, throughout the rest of the game, they kept panning back to us. Oh, no.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Sports Event
At least three or four other times. And every time, all over again, it was like a running joke the whole place. They hated me. Ivan went to the bathroom at one point, and this group of old ladies, they were so mean to me. Oh, no. And they were like, what's wrong with you? Why won't you marry him? He's too good for you anyway.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Sports Event
It was so awful. And thankfully, this was 2005, so there weren't cell phone videos like there are now. So I never had to think about it again. I never had to see it again. I was begging them to leave. He was like, no, we can't leave. We have to stay. And then after the game, we meet up with the whole group and they're laughing and applauding us. And wasn't that great? Wasn't that the best?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Sports Event
And I was like, did you guys just experience the same thing I experienced? Because he became the golden boy. Everyone in the place loved him. The sweetheart who had his heart on his sleeve and got turned down by this bitch. It's very Munchausen-y.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Sports Event
I didn't hear about it. If it was.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Sports Event
If they knew that I was going to be the butt of this joke the whole time, nobody clued me in to it. I was just completely taken aback. What do you mean everyone hates me? I'm supposed to be the star here. And at one point, I even tried to say, like, it's a joke. It's a joke. And they were like, no, no, no. You can't do that.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Sports Event
Thankfully, I was 19. So probably by that night, I was fine.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Sports Event
Yeah, I was fine. But I did break up with that guy afterwards. And then we lost our connection to go to the game. Whatever. Fuck him. He was a bad guy.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Sports Event
I don't think so either. I was like public enemy number one in Miami. Who knew?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Sports Event
They were the worst ones. They were so evil. I couldn't believe it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Sports Event
Thank you so much. I've been like a day one arm cherry and my sister Eden and my best friend Esther and I always kind of recap each of the episodes afterwards.
Class with Mason
The Human Seasons by Keats: Summary & Analysis
That's true. Keats talks about how summer is about luxurious contemplation. He uses the phrase pondering honied cud, which is such an interesting metaphor. It makes me think of someone reminiscing about the sweetness of past experiences. It's a more introspective time, where we think about life on a deeper level.
Class with Mason
The Human Seasons by Keats: Summary & Analysis
right it's like in autumn there's a sense of being okay with life's transience we've reached a point where we can sit back and reflect knowing that not everything lasts but that's okay i think the line about quiet coves in this section really conveys that feeling of calm observation yeah and it's a big shift from the earlier seasons by autumn we're not so focused on beauty or dreams instead we're more focused on being content and that brings us to the final season winter
Class with Mason
The Human Seasons by Keats: Summary & Analysis
It's a sobering thought, but Keats presents it in a way that feels natural like an inevitable conclusion to the cycle. The idea that winter is the end, the season where everything slows down reminds us that life is temporary, but he doesn't present it with fear, does he?
Class with Mason
The Human Seasons by Keats: Summary & Analysis
That's what makes it even more impressive. Despite his youth, he had such a profound grasp of life's fleeting nature. Now, let's talk about some of the themes. One of the biggest themes here is obviously seasons and time, which Keats uses as a metaphor for the different stages of human life. Time passes and with it we experience these different phases each with its own challenges and rewards.
Class with Mason
The Human Seasons by Keats: Summary & Analysis
exactly and another key theme is youth and imagination spring symbolizes youth when the mind is bursting with ideas and creativity keats emphasizes how in our younger years we're eager to explore the world and its beauty everything seems possible then as we mentioned earlier contemplation and dreams are central to summer it's a time for the mind to indulge in its own thoughts almost like reaching for something higher maybe even a spiritual connection keats uses the warmth of summer to symbolize the comfort and richness of our dreams
Class with Mason
The Human Seasons by Keats: Summary & Analysis
And then we hit mortality and human nature in winter. Keats uses winter to remind us of our mortality, that we're not eternal and life inevitably reaches its conclusion. But like we said earlier, it's not a tragic ending. It's more like an acknowledgement that this is how the cycle of life works.
Class with Mason
The Human Seasons by Keats: Summary & Analysis
I agree, each season also has its own distinct mood. Spring is full of energy and optimism, summer feels more thoughtful and dreamy, autumn is calm and introspective. And winter is a little melancholic but also accepting. Keats really captures the full range of human experience in just a few lines.
Class with Mason
The Human Seasons by Keats: Summary & Analysis
Exactly. And even though Keats didn't live to old age, he seemed to have a real understanding of life's journey. That's what makes the human season so poignant. It feels like a personal reflection on life cycles from youthful energy to the quiet acceptance of our final days.
Class with Mason
The Human Seasons by Keats: Summary & Analysis
Right. The poem opens with a pretty straightforward idea. The year is divided into four seasons, but then Keats makes a deeper comparison by saying that just like the seasons, the human mind goes through its own cycle. Each season represents a different phase of life.
Class with Mason
The Human Seasons by Keats: Summary & Analysis
Thanks for joining us on this exploration of the human seasons. If you enjoyed today's episode, make sure to subscribe to classwithmason.com so you don't miss our next deep dive into another classic work of literature.
Class with Mason
The Human Seasons by Keats: Summary & Analysis
And I'm Emily, here to explore another great piece of literature with you all. Today we're diving into one of John Keats' shorter yet profound poems, The Human Seasons. This is episode three of our first season, and we're excited to talk about this one.
Class with Mason
The Human Seasons by Keats: Summary & Analysis
Oh, definitely. Spring is all about vibrancy and optimism. He's capturing that feeling when we're young, and everything seems within reach. The mind is eager, ready to embrace all the beauty and opportunities around us. It's like the innocence and excitement of being young.
Global News Podcast
Von der Leyen: 'Europe is at a watershed'
I mean, the mantra here, compared to growing up in the UK, here is very much like it's nature, baby. Or like they're embracing it in that they're already putting sandbags outside their homes and then we'll hit the surf in 30 minutes. Like we've never seen waves like this. Like this is insane. We've just got a message through saying Ocean Shores.
Global News Podcast
Von der Leyen: 'Europe is at a watershed'
People are being told to evacuate their homes and Oceanshore is just a little bit north from us. We're out on these like, water pushing through these winds and the sea is like, it looked like it was snow on the beach because there was so much foam.
Global News Podcast
Von der Leyen: 'Europe is at a watershed'
They're already putting sandbags outside their homes. We're out on these like water pushing through these winds and the sea is like, it looked like it was snow on the beach because there was so much foam.
Lucky Boy | Tortoise Investigates
The school | Lucky Boy Ep3
He was a very cute looking child and he knew it. And therefore, as a result, he was quite spoiled and used to getting his own way, but he could be a little monster as well.
Lucky Boy | Tortoise Investigates
The school | Lucky Boy Ep3
I think what it's done is fossilized him emotionally. And not to have been able to move past it with therapy or whatever it is, that's a terrible damage to have happened to somebody.
Lucky Boy | Tortoise Investigates
The school | Lucky Boy Ep3
I didn't have a relationship with my mother at all, which is why I knew when she called me out of the blue, it was like, okay, something must be up.
Lucky Boy | Tortoise Investigates
The school | Lucky Boy Ep3
Absolutely. When I heard it, it was just like, wow, what kind of school is it and why is it not being stopped?
Lucky Boy | Tortoise Investigates
The school | Lucky Boy Ep3
I mean, you know, this woman was only a couple of years older than me. And the thought that somebody who was a couple of years older than me was kind of fancying my baby brother and sleeping with my baby brother was quite repellent to me.
Lucky Boy | Tortoise Investigates
The school | Lucky Boy Ep3
She asked to speak to my brother. And I went, oh, okay, well, you're speaking to his sister. And I know who you are. And I basically told her where to go. And I think I said something about, leave my little brother alone. And that was it.
Lucky Boy | Tortoise Investigates
The school | Lucky Boy Ep3
Ich versuche immer noch, mir vorzustellen, wer Frau Bowen ist. Auf einem Niveau scheint sie zu wissen, dass Sex mit einem Kind illegal und falsch ist, oder zumindest sozial nicht akzeptabel, weil Gareth sagt, dass sie ihn immer bemerkt, dass er vorsichtig ist und niemandem sagt, was er sagt.
The Ramsey Show
Your Overspending Will Eventually Catch Up With You
Hi, thank you so much, y'all, for taking my call. I appreciate it. Absolutely.
The Ramsey Show
Your Overspending Will Eventually Catch Up With You
Okay. So my husband and I, um, had gone through a financial piece, gosh, over a decade ago, but you know, life happened and five kids happened. And right now we're back on it, but finishing up baby step number two, um, we have no consumer debt, a little bit of student loans left that we expect to be paid off by the end of this year. Um, and then we'll just be left with our mortgage.
The Ramsey Show
Your Overspending Will Eventually Catch Up With You
We are in a 30 year veteran loan. Um, but we plan to pay it off early within hopefully 10 to 15 years. My question is, so right now we have, my question is kind of regarding my credit score. We have four credit cards right now that are open, but frozen. We have not used them in probably about a year. We're kind of, I guess, not sure what to do with those accounts.
The Ramsey Show
Your Overspending Will Eventually Catch Up With You
We're kind of leaving them open right now so that if we close them, they don't affect our credit score. Our hope is that if we have the opportunity in the next few years to refinance to get a lower interest rate that we would do that in order to help us pay off our mortgage even quicker. But we're just not sure. Do we close our credit cards and risk that affecting our credit score?
The Ramsey Show
Your Overspending Will Eventually Catch Up With You
Would that affect it drastically? Or do we leave them open and frozen and kind of maintain our credit score and We just don't kind of want to tank it and lose that chance to refinance in the future.
The Ramsey Show
Your Overspending Will Eventually Catch Up With You
Yeah. And I, so ultimately, like we do want our credit score to be undeterminable. Like that is our ultimate goal. We don't plan on taking out any more debt. Like you had said, like we have two cars, they're old, they're paid for. So we have basically, our credit cards are frozen in a safe. So we haven't even kind of activated the new ones that they send us all the time.
The Ramsey Show
Your Overspending Will Eventually Catch Up With You
But it's been more of a concern that Because that was our extended length of credit attached to some of these cards that, you know, with wanting to potentially refinance in order to get the house paid off, that we just didn't want to. What's your interest rate now?
The Ramsey Show
Discipline Is the Key to Building Wealth
Not necessarily. Actually, he moved here from Albania six years ago, and he just became a citizen this year. How old is he? He's 32, and I'm 30.
The Ramsey Show
Discipline Is the Key to Building Wealth
Yes, I appreciate all the advice. Thank you so much.
The Ramsey Show
Discipline Is the Key to Building Wealth
So, quick question. I've been dating a lovely young man for about nine months, and we had a random conversation that came up about retirement savings. I'm a big saver, so I'm really into it. I have 401K and a Roth IRA, and his response was, that all that matters is working and making money now and that 401ks are a scam.
The Ramsey Show
Discipline Is the Key to Building Wealth
And I just want to know what the best way to approach this conversation is to try to help him maybe understand the importance of saving for retirement.
The Ramsey Show
Break the Cycle of Financial Self-Sabotage
I am just looking for advice. I'm in a funny situation. I, me and my dad were living with my grandmother and she recently passed away. I'm sorry. And, um, thank you. Um, the situation, I guess that we were looking to buy the house and, um, I didn't really want to buy it unless it was given to me and that wasn't conversation, but, um, we didn't quite get to it.
The Ramsey Show
Break the Cycle of Financial Self-Sabotage
And my dad, um, has always been supported by her and, um, He, since she's passed, is still not really going to work. The reasons why he never really went is because he's an alcoholic. My boyfriend, he wanted to buy the house, and I'm a big fan. I know you're not supposed to do that. So we did start the process of the mortgage lending, and...
The Ramsey Show
Break the Cycle of Financial Self-Sabotage
Now, my boyfriend doesn't make enough, and then my dad's credit is too bad, so it really would only work if all three of us were in on it. But now that my dad still isn't proving to me that he can go to work, I guess I'm just looking for financial advice what to do here.
The Ramsey Show
Break the Cycle of Financial Self-Sabotage
Yeah, because I'm still in debt, my boyfriend is still in debt. Think of it this way.
The Ramsey Show
Break the Cycle of Financial Self-Sabotage
Right. So this year was, we just got on the, you know, my boyfriend and I were like, hey, we're going to pay off our debt. We were going to, you know, get engaged and buy a house this year. But then when this happened, I guess now it just kind of feels like, you know, I know my dad has bad credit. And when he gets this money from once the house is sold, there's three other brothers.
The Ramsey Show
Break the Cycle of Financial Self-Sabotage
So he'll probably get like $50,000. I know if he gets that, he's just going to drain it. He can't go buy a house. So I guess part of it kind of felt like,
The Ramsey Show
Break the Cycle of Financial Self-Sabotage
an obligation to what's going to happen to him I know that's not my responsibility and I thought it would be easier to move on until it really came to like I don't know what he is going to do you know this is a really really hard thing for me to say yeah but you can't save your dad in this situation No, it's not my responsibility. I understand.
The Ramsey Show
Break the Cycle of Financial Self-Sabotage
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Me doing mine, Tim doing his. Perfect. Okay, good. Good. Yes.
The Ramsey Show
Break the Cycle of Financial Self-Sabotage
I make, I think it's like 35 after taxes.
The Ramsey Show
Break the Cycle of Financial Self-Sabotage
I have one auto loan and it was for my grandma actually to get her boat around. She bought a boat her last summer because she said life is too short and she spent her funeral money. So it's a truck. It's a $14,000 truck. Can you sell it?
The Ramsey Show
Break the Cycle of Financial Self-Sabotage
I haven't yet. I think this all kind of just hit me today of like, well, I'm not going to be able to do this.
The Ramsey Show
Your Income Is Your Greatest Wealth Building Tool
Hi guys. How's it going? You can hear me?
The Ramsey Show
Your Income Is Your Greatest Wealth Building Tool
Yes. So I was overpaid about $6,000 and since it's over a certain amount, I'm unable to repay it in full and they're only giving me the option to garnish my wages. Should I put this $6,000 towards debt repayment or should I store it in a high yield savings account until it's time to get my wages garnished?
The Ramsey Show
Your Income Is Your Greatest Wealth Building Tool
I have no idea. I actually have a colleague who's in a similar spot, and she's been waiting about a year for those wages to be garnished. And I don't know how much. It's usually between 10% and 20% of the paycheck.
The Ramsey Show
Your Income Is Your Greatest Wealth Building Tool
Yeah. Right now I'm putting almost everything extra onto debt repayment, so I would just have to scale that back a little bit. But I am living far below my means.
The Ramsey Show
Your Income Is Your Greatest Wealth Building Tool
Okay. That sounds good. I really needed the reassurance.
The Ramsey Show
Your Income Is Your Greatest Wealth Building Tool
Yeah, so I have $24,000 on my car, and I have $210,000 in a mortgage.
The Ramsey Show
Your Income Is Your Greatest Wealth Building Tool
It's my New Year's resolution, so I'm trying to get it paid off by next December. I really think if I buckle down, I can do it.
The Ramsey Show
Your Income Is Your Greatest Wealth Building Tool
Uh, right now I'm putting $1,000 on the car. However, I just thought like I moved into a duplex that I purchased. I just signed a tenant and I'm getting 1600 additionally. So that will all be rolling over onto the car as well.