The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
By bye binkies, hitting a car & losing our luggage
Wed, 19 Mar 2025
Griffin’s binky is officially gone… In today’s episode, we talk about saying goodbye to his last baby habit, Abby accidentally hitting a parked car (while someone was inside), and the nightmare of losing our luggage. Plus, an unhinged interaction with an officer aggressively blowing a whistle at Abby. This episode is sponsored by RocketMoney, Chime an Nutrafol. RocketMoney: Cancel your unwanted subscriptions by going to https://RocketMoney.com/unplanned. Chime: Turn your everyday purchases and on time payments into steps toward your financial goals with Chime’s Secured Credit Builder Visa Credit Card. Get started today https://chime.com/UNPLANNED. Nutrafol: Visit https://nutrafol.com and enter promo code UNPLANNEDPOD for $10 off your first month’s subscription and free shipping! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: Why did we say goodbye to Griffin's binkies?
Yeah, I said, who are your people?
And he said Jack and Sonny?
He was listing all of his friends. And then he said Jack and Sonny first. That's so sweet. He's like, where are my friends at?
I love traveling to other people's houses because our kids... If they have kids. If they have kids, yeah.
Wait, that's actually a really big... Because then their house is baby-proofed already. They already have the things you need for kids. In general, pack and play, stuff like that. What the heck, dude? It just kind of reminds me of being a kid. You know, like the friend's house you went to where you were like, they have so much, like the best basement or the best toys.
Yes, but they were having so much fun at our friend's house that when Abby offered to turn on Paw Patrol for Griffin, he forgot. Like he just completely forgot about watching TV and he just played with toys.
Well, yeah, Addy did. My sister-in-law offered for him to watch a show because I had told them that when he woke up from his nap, he could watch a show for a little bit and he forgot about it because he was having so much fun.
Aber ich denke, wir müssen zuerst über diese Rentenwagen-Situation sprechen. Während ich in den Bergen snowboardete mit meinem Freund Derek Beeston, ging Abby zum Gym mit den Kindern, weil du... Ich weiß gar nicht, warum du zum Gym gehen musst, wenn du verabredet bist. Weil das ist, wo du das Auto des Menschen schaffst, richtig?
Okay, Matt, du musst verstehen, ich mag es wirklich, um zu arbeiten. Also warum würde ich stoppen, wenn ich verabredet bin? Okay, ja. Wenn es etwas ist, was ich wirklich gerne tue.
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Chapter 2: What happened when Abby hit a parked car?
Fair.
I love it and it makes me feel good. And I also think it's good for the kids to get out of the house and play with other kids too. Just like have an outing. So I went to the gym with the kids and my sister-in-law Addie. All four of us are in the car. Augie is doing his typical Augie thing, which is screaming a decibel. That should be illegal to drive.
If that sound is occurring in your vehicle, you should not be allowed to drive. Because that's the most distracted type of driving you could ever have.
No, I cannot.
Okay, I will. No. No, you have to think about people with AirPods or whatever.
Oh yeah, that's true. If somebody's listening to this with AirPods, that would like blow out their eardrums.
Yeah, it's unmatched. You guys have to trust me. Like if you're one of my friends listening to this, then you know Augie's scream.
And the reason we know this is because our sweet boy Augie, he is so happy or so sad. There's like no in the middle. And when we're ever at the doctor and we need to like change his diaper at the doctor or whatever, like anything that might like get him disjubbled, he lets out the scream. You know, the howler. Get him disjubbled? Dis dis shoveled. Like whenever he's dis shoveled.
Like you know when you have to like undress them and then put them on the weighing thing.
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Chapter 3: What was the luggage nightmare with Southwest Airlines?
Dis shoveled is what I'm saying.
Dis shoveled is the word.
What? I thought it's dis shoveled. Like a D-I-S and then like shoveled.
No, dis shoveled.
What? Wait, how do you spell this? Wait, spell it out for me. Wait, I thought it's dis shoveled. No, not dis shoveled. Dis shoveled. Like dis, D-I-S shoveled.
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Chapter 4: How did Abby handle the aggressive officer at the airport?
Dis shoveled.
No! No! Discheveled?
Discheveled.
Discheveled. It's not disheveled. What? Babe, I'm 26. I've never known this.
Why is this happening all the time with you?
How is it taking me 26 and a half years to find this out?
You still say nightmare. You say inevitable instead of inevitable.
I thought everybody says nightmare. Where I grew up in Missouri, everyone says nightmare.
No, I don't think they do. I don't think they do.
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Chapter 5: What creative method did we use to explain the binky situation to Griffin?
Because when, after it took me freaking like 30 minutes to file the lost bag claim with the Southwest lady.
Well, because the people on the other side, I thought were gonna like say something too.
Oh, well then, I thought I saw these like officer people walk by me when I got in the car after you guys took the lap. And I held up the piece of paper and I was like, see this piece of paper? It wasn't the same guy. Oh, different people. Okay. Different guy.
Yeah, well, because I told you. Maybe he cheered up. He's like, I don't care.
He probably cheered up after that. Honestly, you saying that to him probably made him... He probably changed his whole life around after that.
I know, I feel like it really made him happy.
I don't know, I just had to say something. And my mom is like cracking up. The first thing she says when she gets home, she's like telling my dad. She's like, you're never gonna guess what Abby said. She thought it was so funny. I was like... I thought I got my word in. I felt pretty spicy after that. You know what my line is though?
When we're with someone, if they're being a little bit on edge and we're like, it's usually always at an airport because I feel like tensions run high. Those workers don't want to be there. They're usually just a little bit on edge. If they start to say something, here's my little tip to you.
If someone is getting a little feisty with you in an interaction, like at a business or something, if you just say, okay, That was a little rude. It really makes them put themselves in check. They're like, oh, that kind of throws them off. I should have said that to that guy.
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