Hi, everyone. Welcome to the Golden Ratio Podcast. I am Jen, G.R. Mom, joined as always by G.R. Dad. Hi. How's it going, G.R. Dad? Good. I got to remember there are rules today. This is in fact a rules-based podcast. This is going to be restricting, this is cramping my style right now.

I'm sorry. Should we loosen that up? Do you want to do a no rules? We could. I can't change gears like that. Give me half an hour. Give me a few days and then maybe I can adjust. I've been preparing for this for a long time. I'm just kidding. This is rules and I got to do rules. Follow the rules. The cocktail of the week, this week, is the Jasmine's cooler or the Jasmine's cooler?

Jasmine's cooler. I don't think we've done this one. Jasmine. Jasmine. The finest dog I've ever seen. It's Jasmine. It's Jasmine. The finest dog I've ever seen. She looked nihilistic, but she was actually quite nice. I missed that girl. So this is probably called the Jasmine's cooler, but we're going to call it the Jasmine's cooler. It's Jin Campari Triple Sack lemon juice and then you top it with club soda. So it's like fizzy. It's red. It's kind of sweet. Pretty good. Fizzy red and sweet.

This is pretty nice. Actually, that describes Jasmine. She was sweet. She wasn't really fizzy. She was reddish. She was reddish. I guess that's true. No, there you go. Two out of three is not so bad. I'll take it. This is going to be a dog update light and Florida Keys news heavy podcast this week. Maybe ramblings heavy if I get my way. Why am I so loud? Could you just get the thing like way up by your mouth? Maybe I'm yelling. Am I yelling?

But also I have volume control issues. I would volume. I have volume. Supervision issues. I'd move the mic a little closer to your mouth and then talk not quite as loud. Like don't yell at it. That's not a good solution. That's a little too quiet. This is all very confusing. That's good. What you did just there is good. A lot of mailed sometimes have volume control problems.

Early in the days of the pandemic, when we were both like sorting out our working situation here, I would just work on the couch, which is where I always worked. And G.R. Dad was kind of freshly working at home in the office, which is, you know, it's the room with the octopus rug. So it's, you know, he's basically like 12 feet from me. And G.R. Dad talks very loud when he's on the phone with work people. I am. I somehow.

Practice got in my head learned to project, right? When I'm like talking in court, you project or when you're talking on the record, you project. Yeah. And I kind of do the same with the phone, especially when it's a like a tabletop or a, you know, not the phone with that I have on my ear. I mean, maybe, but you're also really loud even with headphones. I'm really loud. And I don't.

It's a weird like a yell on the phone. I think it my hypothesis is that like in an old school landline, you can hear yourself talking in the land line. Like your voice comes through the earpiece on a landline. So you can kind of hear yourself. But on a cell phone, you don't hear yourself. Like it, it doesn't put your voice into the headphones. And so you actually on a landline kind of get a sense of how loud you are because it's playing in your ear. Maybe don't get that sense.

On a cell phone, maybe. And I think I was ruined by like, you know, tabletop phones, too, where I was like yelling at the phone. Yeah. We had a lot of conversations where I was like, you don't need to talk that loud into your headset. Like you can just talk at a normal voice.

Just because you just not yell into your headset. I know it is kind of bear. I mean, it's very much like, do not know how phones work. Like, do I have to yell all the way to Singapore?

No. Then I just rented an office so I could go someplace else and the problem was solved.

Good still hear me. Yeah. Anyway, all right.

I'm trying to, I'll try to modulate in that project.

So before, shortly before the podcast, our neighbor called me, our next door neighbor. And he just has gotten, he was out of town

and he just got back to the keys today. And I was like, hey, and he's like, Ms. Jen, Zingo busy. And I was like, I don't think so.

I was like, I don't think so. Could you send him over here? I need some help on my doc. And I was like, okay.

And so I go to get Ingo. And I was like, Ingo neighbor needs him help. And then I hear the neighbor. I thought I'd hung up his phone.

He's like, Jen, Jen, Jen, right now. And I was like, I'm coming. So I'm like, Ingo's getting ready. And I like run out the front door.

And he's fishing. He's on his dog. Yeah.

And he's like, I got something big on the line. I'm going to need you to help me like net it. And I was like, okay.

I am a vegetarian. I don't fish. Obviously. I mean, I have fished quite a bit in my life. I was going to say you have some muscle memory.

Yes. But I have not fished in a long time. I feel bad for the fish. And so, but he's clearly got something big on his line.

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