Episode 42: Enron Scandal

**Amador** (0:11)
How far should we let them go?

**Nick** (0:13)
I wasn't sure how long I should go.

**Alyx** (0:15)
I guess that was it.

**Amador** (0:16)
Hello, and welcome, everyone, to another episode of History & Herstory podcast. I'm your host, Amador.

**Alyx** (0:23)
I'm your host, Alyx.

**Amador** (0:25)
And we have our special guest. Say hello, special guest.

**Nick** (0:28)
The esteemed guest.

**Amador** (0:30)
Yeah, at this point, you're not even a special guest day where you're just a recurrent, well, you call yourself a recurring character, so that's what we'll call you to.

**Nick** (0:37)
Yeah, exactly. I'm pretty much a co-host at this point.

**Amador** (0:41)
Yeah, you really are.

**Nick** (0:42)
I take that with pride.

**Amador** (0:43)
You're the Toby McStuffins of this.

**Alyx** (0:45)
You've got an arc.

**Nick** (0:48)
Give me a nickname. Ain't she boy Nicky J on the mic?

**Amador** (0:52)
You have a nickname. It's Squirty Turds.

**Nick** (0:55)
That's true. Is she boy Squirty Turds on the mic?

**Amador** (0:57)
Which our daughter had tonight, so pretty cool.

**Alyx** (0:59)
She did have Squirty Turds.

**Amador** (1:01)
Pretty neat.

**Nick** (1:03)
She just kept saying poopy, poopy.

**Amador** (1:06)
Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
So this is episode 42
Do you remember? I know we ask this question every time. I'm gonna ask Galax again. Do you remember what we talked about last week? You talked about it, so you should remember.

**Alyx** (1:17)
I do remember, because it was something that was really near and dear to my heart, and it was something that I took a lot of pride in thinking about, and in researching.

**Amador** (1:31)
Right.

**Alyx** (1:34)
It was a good episode.

**Amador** (1:36)
Yeah, I agree. The Stone of Scone was pretty neat to learn about.

**Alyx** (1:39)
Thank you, yes. It was a great one, and I commend you for remembering.

**Amador** (1:43)
Yeah, so we learned about that rock, the King Charles, King Chuck. Oh, King Chuck is gonna be sitting on when he gets coronated eventually.

**Alyx** (1:53)
Tomorrow.

**Amador** (1:53)
Coronated?
Is that the word? Is that the verb?

**Alyx** (1:57)
Coronationized.

**Amador** (1:58)
Coronationized. Yeah, I think that's right.

**Alyx** (2:00)
Coronation-rated.

**Amador** (2:01)
Yeah, so that's tomorrow, you said?

**Alyx** (2:03)
Well, when this episode comes out, it'll be tomorrow, yeah.

**Amador** (2:05)
Okay, so, and we're recording this episode on May the 4th, so shout out to anyone. Well, anyone who celebrates, you know, May the 4th be with you.

**Nick** (2:16)
Star Wars Day.

**Amador** (2:16)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.

**Alyx** (2:17)
And also with you.

**Amador** (2:19)
And also with you. So.

**Nick** (2:22)
Vaya con Dios.

**Amador** (2:24)
We would like to extend a thank you to Nick for joining us on this episode again.

**Nick** (2:27)
Happy to be here.

**Alyx** (2:30)
Good.

**Nick** (2:30)
Love it.

**Amador** (2:31)
We are happy to have you here as well. Even though it usually ends up terribly for me with you guys sitting next to each other with a microphone.

**Nick** (2:38)
This side of the room is about to be fucking wild.

**Alyx** (2:40)
It's going to be good times. Good times.

**Amador** (2:43)
It'll be good.
We'll probably need it. We're getting some heavy stuff today.

**Alyx** (2:47)
Christ.

**Nick** (2:48)
The heavy segment.

**Amador** (2:50)
No, nothing quite like that.

**Alyx** (2:52)
Okay. You were talking about before we forget, because we're going to forget.

**Amador** (2:56)
Oh yeah, in the green room before the show.

**Nick** (2:58)
Yeah, no. Okay. I wanted to ask you about that time that you ate a bowl of cereal and put it under the sink. Oh, fuck.

**Amador** (3:07)
Please, please delight our listeners with the story.

**Alyx** (3:11)
Here's the thing.
It wasn't cereal. Your mother's crazy.

**Nick** (3:17)
What was it then?

**Amador** (3:18)
Shout out, shout out to Nikki. Shout out to her.

**Alyx** (3:23)
It was a bowl of beef stew.

**Nick** (3:25)
That's so much better.

**Alyx** (3:28)
Listen, it was...

**Nick** (3:32)
I think you're getting past the... Why was it under the sink, Alyx?

**Alyx** (3:35)
Well, because I didn't want them to know that I ate it.

**Nick** (3:39)
So who did you tell them did it?

**Alyx** (3:41)
I didn't. They found it. And I was like, shit.

**Amador** (3:44)
Someone broke in our house.

**Nick** (3:47)
So you're telling me the boogeyman broke into our house, ate a bowl of cereal of beef stew and left?

**Alyx** (3:55)
Yeah. Well, okay, listen. It was that point in my life where, like, I've never been a little person, not like a little person, but like a small person. You know what I mean?