2025 Guest of The Year

Host Jeremy Odem is BACK with a brand new episode of the chart topping, world wide sensation, Laugh with Me Podcast. This week, Jeremy's buddy and frequent guest, Eric Larson, is in studio to discuss the 2025 Guest of the Year and so much more!

 

Eric is a 2024 & 2025 Guest of the Year nominee, 5th speaker at Central in 2001, multi-time Fantasy Football Champion, a giant in the transportation industry and a football expert. 

 

In this episode:

-Guest of the Year announcement!

-Eric tells a story from the Grocery Store

-AND SO MUCH MORE

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Welcome back. It's a brand new episode. This has laught
with me a podcast with Jeremy Ode. I'm your ho Jo,
and do not get fooled by the title of this episode.
Absolutely do not get duped here. Okay, this is not

(00:40):
a end of the year wrap up looking back on
the year that was with twenty twenty five. No, we
I mean, there's gonna be a little bit of that, obviously,
but we've got way more, way more in the tank

(01:00):
where that is, and we're gonna give you that end
of the year kind of wrap up in December, and
trust me, you're gonna want to be here for that.
It's not a clip show.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
I know.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
I in a couple episodes ago, I'm going on and
on about hell. You know, we need to do more
of these clip shows. We need we need more of
the reruns. Well, that's not necessarily what you're gonna get.
I mean, we may throw in some clips. Johnny loves
to throw in some clips, But what we will have

(01:34):
is an end of the year wrap up, a look back,
a little bit of moving forward, will look forward, even
welsome guests, So there's more to come in that regard.
But what we are doing today is pretty big. If
you've been following along, you know that the Laugh with

(01:58):
Me podcast Guest of the Year nominees have been announced.
Is announced about a month ago. The nominees are Dez Pierson,
Grant Pierson, Eric Larson, The Tiger King, Joe Exotic, and

(02:21):
of course Nathan Bob Roberts. Go back and listen to
the episode titled Guests of the Your Nominees. Great episode. Okay,
you'll get kind of a little bit of a taste
of what those five brought to the table this year.
But if you've already listened, I know a lot of

(02:42):
you have, and maybe even some of you have listened
on the iHeartRadio app which is free, by the way,
and you can go ahead and follow follow along with
Laugh with Me right there on the iHeart podcast network.
But if you've been following along, I know a lot
of you have, thousands of you have, then you may

(03:05):
have your own favorites on who's gonna win Guests of
the Year. And that is perfectly fine. That is what
is exciting about this. But here's the deal. Only one
can win, Only one can win the golden microphone. Only
one is gonna win a laughye in twenty twenty five
for Guest of the Year, and I just happen to

(03:25):
have this person in studio right now. Please help me.
Welcome our twenty twenty five Laugh with Me Podcast Guest
of the Year. Oh yeah, that sounded good.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Sit that time again.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
M hmm, it's that time. Well, it's time for your
intro here.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Do you remember how I introduce you this first time
I've been on the show.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
This is your first time you've been on the show? Yeah, Well,
if I was introducing you for the first time, I
would say Eric Larson, a giant in the transportation industry.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
That sounds correct.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Check out, a former fantasy football champion multi time by
the time.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Very important.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
Let's see what else my mom introduced me to.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
This is a former fantasy football champion.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Also my son, Also my son, Eric Clarson. Let's see
what else have you done. You are the former fifth
speaker at Central, which, by the way, as a former
third speaker at Central. I still Hattie thinks that it's
insane that that that I still talk about that this

(04:53):
is a big deal.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah, how could that be insane?

Speaker 1 (04:55):
This is a big deal, Like are you kidding me?
Like if you ever been third speaker and said, nope,
well there you go.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
You should you should start uh, you know, next time
she gets an achievement or something, just be like, you're
gonna be talking about this thirty years from now, so
proud of you.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
She's gonna say, I really hope I'm not.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
All right.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
Well, and then finally we're adding to the resume. Whoa, yep,
we're adding to the resume. Eric Larsen the twenty twenty
five Laugh with Me Guest of the Year congratulation.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
Wow is this Oh it's it's not sharp eat on.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
That is that SHARPI no, no, it's in great, it's
it's a laughy. It's a laffy. It's the golden microphone.
It's it is a laughy.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
This is thank you, thank you, yes, congratulating. Thanks Johnny
as well for booking me to my first show.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
He is your friend.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
Yeah, I mean within five minutes already getting the award.
I'm gonna hold this over Kyle's head, your brother's head forever.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah, he does not have one of those. In fact,
only two people currently own a laffy. It is a
twenty twenty four Guest of the Year Lavetty Vegas. And
then now, Eric Larson.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
Proud company right there. Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
This is coming with me to Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow. But
this is gonna be on the table when I'm eating
it should and.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
It's it's pretty mobile, like you. You could carry that
around and takeing place as probably I would think, well,
it's you could put a chain on it.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
I mean it's a little gun shaped. Yeah, so I
could call I might not want to, you know, pack
it in my bag so light or something like that.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's funny. Yeah, I didn't even think
about that. That would probably be a problem. You get
flagged and they open up your like, sir, we think
you have a weapon. They look well, actually sorry, mister Larson. Congratulations.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
I'd say this could be a great marketing tool if
really good, you know, if I had some stickers or
some stuff to hand out with that. Yeah, oh hey,
listen to the show.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
Oh yeah, you know, and just you know, I just
happened to have laugh with me stickers right here, so
you know, hit me up. Anyone listening right now wants
a sticker, I've got stickers. Okay, that's just the beginning
of the march. Now, now everybody gets a laughy. You
know you got to earn a laughy, But I got stickers,
that's for sure.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
I almost thought you were going to go into an
advertisement for the show, just like, Hey, I'd like to
encourage all listeners out there, listen to laugh with me.
Listen to laugh with me a podcast with Jeremy Odoms.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
That's right, Well we have we have a couple of
shots here. You know, it's dangerous because the last time
I had you in studio, that episode never aired. We
did do shots that I'm still going through the audio
from that one. I don't know how much is usable.

(08:06):
And that's on me.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
That's hand up.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
That's on me because I it was me. You sounded
great like you did, not sound like you went. Did
we go to brunch that day?

Speaker 2 (08:18):
That was Vikings Browns morning.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
Oh, that's right, so it was an eight thirty London
breakfast football game.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
I don't think we decided that we were going to
record until about three.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah. Yeah, that's on me. So we'll see how much
of that episode ever makes a little light of day.
But something that will come of it, I just I
just know. But either way, we got shots. Congratulations, We've
got Guest of the Year. Eric Larson, I cheer cheers.

(08:57):
I was like, hey, come on the show, Like, come
on the show. You're like, what are we going to
talk about? So that I, you know, told you what
we were going to talk about. And then but I
knew all along, you knew. I knew all along that
it was time to hand over this year's called a microphone.
Johnny was like, it's time. We've waited long enough. We

(09:19):
had the nominees out for nearly a month.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
Now, Johnny wouldn't have been able to keep the secret. No, No,
I understand, Like we uh, before we started recording here,
I mean we were socializing for a good twenty minutes
and it was like, well, where's Johnny?

Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah, and it was just, well, he's waiting.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
In the studio And it struck me as odd at
the moment, but you know, I just thought maybe he
was in the doghouse again.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
He's got those loose lips. He he's a lot like
a horse, you know where they got those lips? Like, yeah,
you know, did I do that?

Speaker 2 (09:47):
Right?

Speaker 1 (09:48):
That was like a horse? Right, Like that's how he
is whenever he keeps has a secret. So, yeah, Johnny
has known about this, but we could not possibly have
anybody who was nominated around before we handed out the trophy,
because he just he would have spoiled the whole deal.
So there you go, we got a winner, Thanks gent.

(10:11):
So yeah, but uh no, what we were talking about,
all right, come on, you know, let's let's uh, let's
do it up. Then you were like, great, I've got
a story. I gotta tell you, Like something happened to
me at the store. You're like, I can't wait to
tell you. I'm sure it's going to be award winning material.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
This is just just to frame this up a little bit.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
Uh, at my highest moment receiving this award, but this
story is going to take me down to my lowest moment.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
Is at the grocery store.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
So how long ago is this?

Speaker 2 (10:46):
This was? This was about a month ago.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
Okay, so falluh at the grocery store, shopping for groceries
as one does. I believe it was a Sunday afternoon,
perhaps after a Vikings game, going to the grocery store
to get get my food for the following week.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
Did the Vikings win that day?

Speaker 2 (11:08):
Probably not.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
I mean it's it's been a good month since their
last their last w.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
Four you know, four and seven is nothing to scoff
at when you're you're stud.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
Quarterback, generationally bad quarterback.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
When you're when your quarterback is constantly hurt. Yeah, I
mean he looks fine, but he's always hurt. So I
don't know what to tell you there.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
I love the you know, we're getting ready this weekend
we'll see Max Brosmer. It sounds like, yeah, who went
to school for like nine years and is not a doctor.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
He's not a doctor, famously not a doctor.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
Yes, famously for not being a doctor.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
Famously so not prepared to be a starting quarterback that
they continued to wheel out the corpse of Carson Wentz,
the cripkeeper quarterbacks out there.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
Maybe, I mean the one positive thing, you know, when
we say we make the jokes about how long he
was in college, I mean he could.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
Be the Tommy boy. He could, you're right, quarterback, you.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
Could save the season. I actually was, and I don't
mean to like take your story into a completely other direction,
but I was. I was doing kind of a look
at right, the four and seven. But the games they
have coming up, it's it's there is some tough ones
in there. You know, they got Seattle coming up this
week there's still another one with Green Bay. I think

(12:27):
they still got another one with Detroit.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
Got giants.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
Some more in there. No Baltimore, they got the Giants.
You're right, that's a winnable game, Cowboys, but that's who
they can score. So it's like there there are some
tough games in there, but they're all winnable. Like every
single one of those teams outside of maybe Seattle Sale
has been pretty like solid on both sides of the ball.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
Well, and that's this weekend's game. It's in and it's
at Seattle.

Speaker 1 (12:52):
Yeah, and they're like a ten and a half point
favorite or something, so it's like it's crazy number. But
the but every other game it's like a right, they're winnable.
So let's real. They went out and then you know
they're kind of in the thick of it, you know.
But now you've got the QB three playing Q playing quarterback.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
So I don't know, the legend starts now, the legend
starts out. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
Are our mutual friend Cody, who's a big Colts fan.
He's he fell in love with Anthony Richardson when they
drafted him. But today he just had to share, you know,
Anthony Richardson named the Vikings as a potential team that
he wouldn't mind playing for in the future, and then
about an hour later, he said, because I guess Daniel

(13:37):
Jones that deal that he's got with Indy is only
a one year deal, oh, saying that the Vikings would
be a team that would be interested in bringing Daniel
Jones in there. And I'm just like, we brought two offensive.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
Linemen from Indy this year, Like, are we going to
bring their quarterback? The quarterback? Is their quarterback room worth
exporting in full?

Speaker 1 (13:56):
It's interesting because Dan, you wonder if, of all right,
the resurgence of Daniel Jones, is it just right place,
right time, you know, in Indie or did he just
have to get out of New York and when the
opportunity came up he's a good quarterback? Like, what way
could it be? I don't know.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
I feel like.

Speaker 3 (14:16):
The And this is weird for me to say, because
when the Vikings were looking and they hired O'Connell, I
really wanted Dable, Like Brian Dabell was the guy that
I wanted, you know, he offense coordinator for Buffalo, coached
up Josh Allen. It was just this seems great, like
aggressive passing, downfield, passing, running coach like this is great.

(14:38):
You know, he's been fired this year after he won
you know, I think coach of the Year for that
first year with the Giants and then has been awful
ever since. And you know, was fined earlier this year
for going into the tent when Jackson Dart was showing
concussing symptoms. You know, got Dart concussed again, so he
play calling.

Speaker 1 (14:59):
He's not only head coach, he actually is famously is
a doctor. So that's where we get that confused sometimes,
so sometimes they can also be doctors not just not
just want to put that out there.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
Yeah, no problem now, yeah, yeah, I'm thinking about doctors
and I'm like, what is the best way.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
To like, do I have an appointment next week of
it check up.

Speaker 3 (15:25):
So Daniel Jones was with the Vikings last year, went
to or for the last eight weeks or something like that, yes,
season with the Colts obviously this year when they asked
about his turnaround, one of the things that he said
was after working with Dable for those first you know,
three years of Dable's tenure and the Giants and then
going to O'Connell's, he was shocked by how much game

(15:47):
planning what was going on. So like when he got
to the Vikings, like he was just like, they're thinking
about the game plan, their brainstorming, you know, ideas, they're
talking to the quarterback, they're getting feedback. You know, we
would have rings of data on every team that we're playing,
tendencies on how to do this kind of stuff. And
the preparation aspect was night and day compared to what

(16:09):
the Giants was.

Speaker 2 (16:11):
So it's kind of like the high schooler that never.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
Learns how to take notes and all of a sudden
they get to college and natural ability can't do it
and they've got to like learn how to study and
learn how to do this stuff. But he attributed that
to some of his development.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
Interesting, So yeah, he would be pretty comfortable going back
and getting to be a quarterback. I mean, they're going
to need a quarterback. I mean, but nothing against JJ,
but he's not it.

Speaker 3 (16:40):
So nothing nothing makes me sadder than justin Jefferson looking
just dejected the last three weeks, Like he just looks
like he's not having any fun at all.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yeap, and what do you do? You know, you just
what do you do?

Speaker 2 (16:58):
You get him a quarterback.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
They're gonna work on that.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
You get them Brasmer.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
That's that's yeah, this is the hill I'm gonna die on.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
Now that's funny. Uh So the Vikings lost that game.
So you're at the grocery store.

Speaker 3 (17:11):
I'm at the grocery store, okay, And so you know,
I've got all my goods.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
I go to the cashier.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
Are you get a basket? A cart? What kind of
guy you'd hold it all?

Speaker 3 (17:22):
So I used to be a basket shopper, okay, And
that was always my thing, was I If I'm buying
a whole cart worth of groceries, that's too that's too
many groceries. Like once I fill the basket, I'm good.
But I'm a big fan of some of these stores.
They have the little cart, a little cart. Yeah, yeah,
little cart's key.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
So the little cart.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
It's funny. When I ran the grocery store in Creston, Iowa,
we had well I guess I did must of morning too,
but we had, you know, the little cart room, and
we had a row of the little carts and then
all the big carts. And I would put the little
cart at the end. So you when walked in, you
could get a basket or here's four or five rows

(18:04):
of big carts, and then you could get your little
cart if you want.

Speaker 3 (18:09):
I want to clarify by a little cart, I don't
mean like the customer and trading.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
Yeah, not like card because we did have those as well.
But we did that because there is actual data and
studies showing that if you get a big cart, you
will buy more. So it's a sales technique, right, So
when you go to the grocery store, look at that.
It's a legit sales technique. This is why not everybody
has those little carts, but this grocery store has those

(18:36):
little carts because the customers love them, you know, so
they're thinking about the people. But are you a doctor?
I am, in fact, not a doctor.

Speaker 3 (18:45):
Hmmm okay, but I just I love that surgical analysis
right there.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
But with that being said, I have been to the
doctor many times, so did some of that stuff rub
off onto me? I don't know. You know, sometimes I'm
on I'm in a deep sleep when I'm at the doctor.

Speaker 3 (19:03):
You know, you've probably been to the doctor enough that
in the waiting room, I mean, you probably have to
stop yourself from just diagnosing the people like around you.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
Yeah, I just sitting there listening, just.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
Hearing the hearing that breathing over there. That guy's a goner.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
So I just listen to the other patients complaining about
what's wrong.

Speaker 3 (19:25):
And that's the fourth time that lady's gone to the bathroom.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
Yeah, I mean you just kind of gain And you know,
i'd imagine when I'm you know, in that deep sleep
with the anasthesia and the and the nurses and the doctors,
I would imagine are talking while I'm sleeping. I'm sure
I've absorbed some of that information. M I'm sure I have. Now,
Can I just recite it? No, It's gonna be one
of those things where it's just there and then when

(19:55):
the time comes to use.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
It, I just use it like just something unlocks in
your brain and access to that knowledge.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
You might find success. Uh.

Speaker 3 (20:05):
Marketing the Laugh of Me podcast to doctors offices, yes,
maybe you you know, give them a nominal fee for
them to play the podcast.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
While people are under anesthesia.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
So I'm now paying the doctors. Yeah again, I already
pay them. Let's be clear they I'm paying them for
their service. You want me to pay them again, but
this time to play my podcast, which, by the way,
you can get for free on the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 2 (20:34):
What if you did a livery for doctors as an exchange?

Speaker 1 (20:41):
What am I like just be just promoting like my
my g I doctor's office, Like.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
No, no, no specific just doctors in general.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
Go see him.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
He's like, I know that there's a.

Speaker 3 (20:53):
Lot of you know, there's a lot of that talk
in Washington about not trusting doctors.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
But let me tell you, my.

Speaker 1 (21:01):
Doctor is really nice, especially when I see him face
to face. But sometimes when it's on the phone, if
I can get ahold of them, it's not so nice.
That is how it goes.

Speaker 3 (21:12):
When you were like, so, it's nice to see my
doctor face to face, and sometimes I show his face
something else.

Speaker 1 (21:20):
That guy's that guy's seen it all right, you know.
He I don't even know how many times he's seen
my bare ass, you know. And that's not even from
the like inside out, dude, he's seen it from the
inside out. It's just how it works.

Speaker 3 (21:39):
You know, you're at you're at the grocery store, any
service industry, you start recognizing, you know, those regulars that
come in.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
I know you're going with this and this is real.
When I walk, I could not be like my hematologist,
like I could not be there for a couple of
months or whatever. So they how many people do they see?
And the second I get off that elevator and they
see my face, they go, hey Jeremy, Oh hey Jeremy,
what's up. And it's not just one. It's you know,

(22:09):
there's many people just walking old Jeremy. Oh hey, you
got the like either they are very good, very good,
or I'm just there way too much.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
I'm taking by your tone, this is a confidence booster.

Speaker 3 (22:21):
Yeah, it's cool, Like it's not like they're like doing
that and then immediately like getting in a cluster and
like giggling.

Speaker 1 (22:27):
Right like it's just yeah, good to see you.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
See again.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
I think that there's something Doctors, yeah, receptionists, they're good people.
There could be something in here for you to exchange
this for laugh with me, anesthesia listening.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
Hey Jeremy, good to see you have your pants on
this time. That got messy last time. Huh You sure
you took all that prep? Yeah, that's that's it happens, man.

Speaker 3 (22:53):
I'm having flashback. So the the drunken brunt show.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
It's man that show. It's it's like I'm torn. I
just airic, like, just put it out there in its
entirety and no, it's not that good.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
It's it's me.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
It's one hundred. Or just continue to chop away at
it and we're gonna get something from it. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
Well, and that's where I almost feel like, you know,
you might need to find some thirty second splices. Yes,
and then maybe we come on and we do translation.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
Yeah, we may have to.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
Hey, let's let's expand upon this.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
Yeah, and then we are not on to the next clip.
All right, that's a future episode. We're we're gonna do that.
I'm gonna cut it up and we're just gonna have
to do cuts and explain.

Speaker 3 (23:40):
If I can make one request though on that, Yes,
can we do that in twenty twenty six.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
I'm already starting to make my reel for Yest of
the Year. Yeah, your next year.

Speaker 1 (23:49):
Yeah, that's I was telling Johnny. I'm like, we may
like we may have screwed ourselves by awarding the trophy
now to Eric because he's gonna just sit quiet for
December knowing he's done his work.

Speaker 2 (24:04):
Or I mean the Oscars. Does it necessarily follow the
calendar year?

Speaker 1 (24:09):
That is a good point.

Speaker 3 (24:10):
You could start the voting for twenty twenty six now,
we could start it now and you know say it
it's you do a November to November type of.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
Do I run the show now? Yeah? Like, am I?
Am I the guy?

Speaker 1 (24:24):
Now? Literally, as you were talking, I.

Speaker 2 (24:26):
Got busted, Jeremy, I'm buston.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
I literally I'm sitting here and I'm going I run
the show. I can set the time frame. And then
You're like, am I root of this show? And I'm like,
I just said that in my head, Like I already
I already know, Eric, I already know.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
Johnny is eating this up, by the way, eating this up.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
Meanwhile, you haven't even told us a damn thing about
the grocery store. So what you do in the store.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
We've established whattablish? What do we established?

Speaker 1 (24:55):
We've established that you've gone to the grocery store after
Vikings lost. You now have a basket, yes, small basket,
small car sorry sorry, small cart, and you're starting to
shop for your goods. What is it you're getting? Why
are you getting it? We don't know anything about that.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
Well, I don't think we really need that. Yeah, I
feel like it's it's meal press myself, that my story.
So I don't know, you don't know where the story
is going.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
I'm telling you what I know, which is you have
a cart, now, a small cart that? What do you
what we to do?

Speaker 2 (25:32):
Like that? Just this floors me, This floors me.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
I'm taking control of this show, please do somebody needs to,
which is just certainly not me.

Speaker 3 (25:41):
Yeah, I've been I've been digging into some historical records
here recently, just learning randomly, like well, you know, I
wouldn't say that I heard it on a history podcast.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
But maybe maybe I don't listen to any.

Speaker 3 (25:58):
Other podcast with me, but listen to this podcast about
history and they're talking about Admiral Nelson, you know, the
British Navy.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
Oh yeah, of course, yeah, how could I forget?

Speaker 2 (26:10):
Yeah? Well, I mean Victor at Trafalgar, right, But.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
You know they always have this thing, like you always
think about the ships and they always say like the
captain goes down with the ship.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
Yeah, And it's kind of the thing, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (26:24):
I think that's kind of how he struck me as
like kind of crazy, because like if you had, you know,
two armies that were fighting each other, and like one
of the armies loses, like you retreat, you live to
fight another day.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
Yeah, but like the captain, their ship goes down, it's over.

Speaker 3 (26:41):
Like you lose, like you lost all those people, like hey,
these were this was our best ship. It got sank
and we also lost our best captain and our best
lieutenant and our best you know.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
So but they don't have to die, Like couldn't they yes,
go down with the ship, but couldn't they still use
the like emergency like the inflatable.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
This is this is war?

Speaker 1 (27:05):
Oh I got you. Yeah, I was thinking like a
cruise ship.

Speaker 3 (27:10):
I wanna I wanna clarify for the listeners out there
that Admiral Nelson.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
Is he's not fishing.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
Yeah, he's not the dude that drove the Titanic.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
Okay, so what does this have to do with groceries?

Speaker 2 (27:23):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (27:23):
Oh okay, all right, But you so you don't think
that's weird that the captain goes down with the ship.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
I think it's admirable. I think it's that's his like
because he's like his job is to make sure that
boat gets from A to B and if it doesn't
make it to be well, that's on him.

Speaker 3 (27:43):
Well, they talk about like at that age of British shipping,
the captain couldn't like if they were getting shot at,
he couldn't even duck, like he had.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
To remain standing up. You just think you'd lose a
lot of captains that way.

Speaker 1 (27:55):
Yeah, but how easy is it to actually get a
good shot, like a good view of like the captain.
I don't know, is it that easy?

Speaker 2 (28:03):
You getting get hit with cannonballs, like splinters and stuff
are flying.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
Because I will say I have played Battleship the game
like a few times, and I can't see anything going
on on the other side. So I would just imagine that,
you know, with the distance between enemies, you know, with boats,
and then they had to try to shoot at another
captain on another ship, it might even be harder.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
You ever cheated at battleship?

Speaker 1 (28:28):
No, I can't see anything over there, But no, have
you ever cheated like kind of taking a peek.

Speaker 2 (28:34):
Well, or like moved your ship around?

Speaker 1 (28:36):
Oh, never even occurred to me to do that. Obviously
you have. You look pretty excited about it.

Speaker 3 (28:42):
Yeah, jeez, this is full confession mode here, This is
wild anybody, anybody.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
Who played me in Battleship.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
In the early nineties, Johnny, we did the background check
on this guess of the Year thing, right, Okay, this
is new information. We didn't know.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
This trophy is already in my pocket. You're not getting
it back?

Speaker 1 (29:02):
Is that a is that a golden laughing in your pocket?
Or excited podcast?

Speaker 3 (29:10):
I used to get a lot of crap from my
friends because I had a work cell phone, and like
when I go to like a restaurant, I'd lay it
face up, so even after hours, if I got like
a text message or if I got like an email
your air two phone, No, this is now my this
is this is it?

Speaker 2 (29:27):
This is my work cell phone.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
Yeah, you're going won't walk around that. I would just
just think people will talk, Like there's no better way
to get the people talking than if you constantly walked
around with that.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
Excuse me, is there a Guest of the year discount?

Speaker 1 (29:46):
You're like the in professional wrestling, like when you when
you're the champ and you got the belt, like and
you have to go everywhere with that belt like you're
that to you now the next the entire next year,
you have to go everywhere with this trophy.

Speaker 3 (30:00):
Maybe think of like the Stanley Cup and how those
guys like you all get to borrow the trophy for
like one day one day, but then you'll have the
handler that has to go like with it to make
sure you're not like chucking in the lake or something.

Speaker 1 (30:11):
It's wild because the handler has the white gloves and
takes perfect care of it. And then the players are
literally doing what you just said. They're chucking in the lake,
they're drinking out of it, they're eating cereal out of it,
like they're going to clubs like it. There's no white
glove treatment there for sure, but the handler the utmost respect.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
So I was handling these drotries. Yes, oh, back they were.
They were in my small cart. Yep.

Speaker 3 (30:34):
I'm waiting in line at the cashier and I finally
get up to the cashier.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
It's younger kid. Looks like they're.

Speaker 1 (30:43):
Twelve illegal worker.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
Yeah, well, and I know you know they're probably not twelve.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
Oh, but it looks okay, gotcha, okay, And so you
know she's doing a little this small talk the banter
as cashiers.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
Do you know the good ones? Did you find what
you're looking for? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (31:02):
Would you like plastic or paper, except I think she
might have phrased it paper or plastic.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
I was I was literally about to ask you, is
that how they phrased it? The plastic or paper, because
that's gold if that's how, But it was probably paper
or plastic?

Speaker 2 (31:18):
Which would you give?

Speaker 3 (31:19):
You would have been satisfied if that was the story,
wouldn't it. I really want to if the story was
just going to the grocery store and then saying, would
you like plastic or paper?

Speaker 2 (31:30):
That's gold, that's gold.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
This is the highlight of my day talking groceries with you.

Speaker 3 (31:34):
Next time I see you doing stand up, you're probably
gonna tell a joke about getting offered plastic or paper.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
Yep. This uh, this is gold to me. I mean
I'm beaming with excitement talking about groceries. I don't get
to talk about groceries as anybody anymore.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
This is great.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
This is not the story is not.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
All right?

Speaker 1 (31:58):
So papers, So what do you get? You didn't answer paper? Plastic?

Speaker 2 (32:03):
Plastic?

Speaker 1 (32:04):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (32:06):
Oh I feel like the bags are thinner.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
Now the bags are thinner, and they're gonna get thinner
and thinner.

Speaker 3 (32:10):
Yeah, yeah, pretty soon they're just gonna wrap your groceries
in a kleenex.

Speaker 1 (32:14):
Can I give you a just a quick rant, a
quick rant, Oh please do Yeah, the bags. Just to
everyone listening, the bags are going to get thinner and
they're gonna be worse. And that's just the nature of
the beast because everybody's every company is trying to cut expense,
so you know, charges everywhere they can, right, So they're like, well,

(32:36):
we're handing out all these bags. We gotta pay less
for the bags. We got to get better deals. We
gotta do this, we gotta bit it out, we gotta
do this. We got this. I have millions millions of
dollars in savings for you. Here's an idea.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (32:49):
Just train the people bag in it, bag it right,
and then they're gonna hand out less bags. They're gonna
be more efficient. So one just give me. It doesn't
even have to be a year. I'm envisioning a year
long like rollout and training and everything to execution, but
it could be three months, it could be six months.

(33:11):
An investment in this and it'll save your company millions
of dollars.

Speaker 3 (33:16):
I send you a lot of text messages on unsolicited
grocery advice.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
Yes, you do.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
And one of them that I told you is go
through the self checkout.

Speaker 3 (33:24):
Yes, because you don't send up with all your products
individually bagged.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
Which I was excited to talk to you about, because yeah,
you get to bag it the right way. Because here's
the thing. If how all right, when we bag our stuff,
our own stuff, we bag it right? We just do
because we know. How is it that when somebody is
bagging other people's stuff they can't get it right, especially

(33:51):
when they're standing three feet next to you, And you
could just ask do you want this in the bag
or not? Do you want me to bag? It? Should
always be uh, plastic or paper?

Speaker 2 (34:04):
All right?

Speaker 1 (34:04):
Next question do you want a bagged ride or not?
And then if they wanted bag right, you just bag
it the way you would bag your own stuff.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
Yo. Hey, yeah you want this Germy style?

Speaker 1 (34:16):
Yeah you went to Jeremy style.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
Serve this up Germy style for you?

Speaker 1 (34:19):
Or do you want it the way I think I
should do it as somebody working right now, And in
that case, it's going to be awful for everybody.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
I will say one counter argument to that. When I
was down, I lived in Atlanta.

Speaker 3 (34:31):
And there was a gross store that I would go
there and they had a bagger.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
Who's blind.

Speaker 3 (34:40):
Oh, and I will say this, I didn't really care
how he bagged my stuff.

Speaker 2 (34:43):
That dude was so cool, Like they always paired him
with this this guy.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
And I know how old the cashier was because every
time he would card me, he would be like, I'm twice.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
Your age, same line every time, every single time.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
Yeah, because it was always paired with the blind sacker,
and I loved it.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
It was my little weekly tradition.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
But here's the thing, you're always going to be half
his age, Like, so he's always going to be double
that never that joke works forever, Like you're not gonna
catch up to him, Like you're not going to suddenly
be like I got you.

Speaker 3 (35:17):
I'm yeah, but no, let's use some math there, didn't
you That only worked for one year?

Speaker 1 (35:25):
Oh it only worked for one year.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
Well, he'll be double with me. He's not gaining two
years for every one of mine.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
He do you get what I'm saying. No, he's always
gonna have that gap.

Speaker 3 (35:36):
Every time you're saying he was put one over on me, Yes,
oh you put one over us.

Speaker 2 (35:42):
I did. I've been double put over.

Speaker 1 (35:44):
You've been double put And here's the thing I need
to know about the blind bagger because this as soon
as you said you have the blind bagger, I'm like,
this is nuts because normally the cashier throws the you know,
the goods down to the bagger you put it in
the bags. But you've added a step because now you've
got the blind bagger with his walking stick having to

(36:04):
hit every item to find out where it's at and
then put it in the bag. So that's a whole process.

Speaker 3 (36:11):
So you didn't have a stick, oh you know, and
you know the cashier was cognizant. You kind of push
him towards his hand. But yeah, every once in a while.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
Did he wear cool sunglasses, Yes, you're damn right he did.

Speaker 3 (36:22):
But every once trying to make that grab that you
could tell he was kind of feeling out the counter.
And i'd have to, you know, of course, just as
a concerned bystander, just be like, hey, that's it, you know,
or else maybe you know, you see maybe you see
that that jar.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
You know, to pasta sauce and you you know, you
roll it over towards him.

Speaker 1 (36:43):
Just knowing how people act, to like anybody, you know,
that helps you at the grocery store, like just the
most you know, some awful, awful people go to the
grocery store and buy goods and then just rip into
the people work there that are doing nothing wrong. I
can just imagine somebody having a bad day going in

(37:06):
there and being like, is this where we're at? We
can't even get people who can see to bag our
groceries and just go on this like they's just trying.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
Oh yeah, I could totally see it.

Speaker 1 (37:18):
And then the manager having to come over and be
like it's you know, there's Johnny's really good. He can't
see but he can feel, and like, you know, just
haven't explained it all. What is this the story the
bland kid bagging?

Speaker 3 (37:32):
No, but I did have one more bag. So you
gave us that idea, which is brilliant. It's brilliant, like
it can't fail.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
Uh. The other thing we could do is so in
Europe they don't give you the plastic bags. You have
to bring your own bags to the store.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
Bring your own bags.

Speaker 2 (37:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (37:52):
So last time I was in London, we went to
the grocery store and they were just like, oh, you
have bags, and it was just like no. They were
just like, well would you like to, you know, buy
a couple of them. They're like fifteen cents or something
like that for like a bag.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
It's just like yeah. And the next question after that was, so,
where are you from in America? Oh, because you know
they again one of those they knew one of those.

Speaker 3 (38:15):
Oh, well, obviously an American because nobody else would show
up here just expecting a bag, Like, yeah, how do
you show up unprepared to the grocery store? Like if
you didn't have a bag, why'd you buy more stuff
than you could carry?

Speaker 1 (38:28):
Only an American would walk into the supermarket and just
expect a way to take it home?

Speaker 2 (38:35):
Only an American.

Speaker 1 (38:38):
Did they have boxes like empty boxes they saved and
you could throw in the box. No, No, they had
costcos got that down.

Speaker 3 (38:43):
They had little eco friendly you know bags, oh like
the reasonable you know, so did you keep the breezeable back?

Speaker 2 (38:49):
No, we threw them in the trash? Really from America?

Speaker 1 (38:54):
That's good, that's good.

Speaker 2 (38:56):
That does remind me of that. I think that's a
Mitch Heapberg joke.

Speaker 1 (38:59):
It's just like, oh, you're stealing jokes now.

Speaker 3 (39:01):
Yeah, He's just like, oh, you know, I bought six
apples and they were like, you want me to bag them?
And it was just like, no, I'm a juggler, but
I can only juggle six. So if I ever buy seven,
fucking bag them up.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
Back them up. I can only juggle six. Rest in peace.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
That's a good joke.

Speaker 2 (39:21):
I like that.

Speaker 1 (39:23):
So what about the grocery store. You're at the store,
you were just assd paper and plastic.

Speaker 2 (39:28):
Oh so I am up at the checks, so we
already went through what I bought.

Speaker 1 (39:33):
Well, we didn't talk a thing about what you bought.
We decided you were getting plastic. So you your goods
are being bagged into plastic.

Speaker 3 (39:41):
Do you feel that Cereal now like the family size
that used to be just the regular size.

Speaker 1 (39:46):
I'll tell you what, I got a lot to talk
about in regards to Cereal. If you'd like to discuss
cereal with me.

Speaker 3 (39:52):
Yeah, absolutely absolutely, because I feel like the regular box
of cereal.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
Are only good for like two mornings.

Speaker 1 (39:58):
Yeah, so I think that. I mean, we could easily
look up the size difference from ten years ago, fifteen
years ago, twenty years ago, you know, and to now.
And but the thing is, not only is the box shrinking,
but the so the size of the normal size box

(40:18):
of you would you normally get like a fifteen or
sixteen ounce. They're shrinking it's like fifteen point twenty five
or fourteen point seventy five or whatever. You take a
look at that. But then they get these other sizes
that used to be the normal size, and then they'll
write family size or share size, or this one will
last three days, and those are the big boxes. But

(40:40):
then they can keep the higher prices. But my thing is,
not as many people are buying cereal anymore, right, because
there's so many other options of protein bars, of protein shakes,
you could say eggs, and have you heard of bacon? Like,
there's a lot of different breakfast things. Now, the cereal
aisle does not need to be as long as it is,

(41:04):
is my point. I think we can integrate some of
those other breakfast items together in the cereal aisle using
the cereal space that is now just sitting there. They
got too much variety in cereal.

Speaker 2 (41:21):
But when you're a kid, like you love going through the.

Speaker 1 (41:23):
Cereal aisle, Oh yeah, no, that was the best. But now,
but who's bringing kids to the grocery store anymore?

Speaker 3 (41:29):
But I get what you're saying, because as an adult.
I mean I am pretty much bounced between three different cereals,
like there's not much variety in there anymore, well, cereal wheat.

Speaker 2 (41:40):
I mean, I do a lot of cheerios, honeynut cherrio.

Speaker 1 (41:42):
I mean, I didn't mean to ask something too personal,
but I just thought we're talking.

Speaker 2 (41:46):
About a lot of honeynut cheerios occasionally, raisin brain, do.

Speaker 1 (41:50):
You cut up like a banana in it or anything?

Speaker 2 (41:52):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (41:52):
Oh, you just scoffed at me with that one.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
Is that real? You never know that a banana in there?
All right? So what am I like? The TV?

Speaker 1 (42:00):
So I'm gonna like rock your world, slice up a
banana and put it in your honey nut ceios and
you'll never go back, or you'll do it every so often.
It's like a little treat. It's fantastic.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
Did you just that that was a little boyish grin
right there?

Speaker 1 (42:18):
Was? I get excited talk about bananas. I'm not even
a monkey.

Speaker 3 (42:23):
I've never I've never put cutlery to a banana. I've
never sliced one, i've never cut one up. I've never
used a fork to eat one.

Speaker 1 (42:31):
Just break it up with your hand. Then I don't
care how you get there, Just get there.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
Oh you you need a mushed banana.

Speaker 1 (42:36):
You could dip it, you could just take you could
peel it and then just kind of dip it and
then take a bite.

Speaker 3 (42:42):
And then everybody trying to get some of the cereals
stuck to the banana. Like is it important that the
cereal is in the same bite as the banana or
is it just the bananas so milk?

Speaker 1 (42:52):
So, yes, it does. That's the key. The banana in
the milk is a thing. Now is it better with
a bite of the cereal?

Speaker 2 (42:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (43:00):
Does it have to be with the cereal? No, because
the milk with the banana in itself is fun, but
with the cereal is like peak. That's a peak bite. Yeah,
you can't do with any cereal. I don't think. I
haven't tested that out. Maybe you can with any cereal,
but I haven't. I haven't tested that out. But I
know a Cheerios gold.

Speaker 2 (43:22):
So about twice a year, I will buy a box
of the og Captain crunch with crunchberries.

Speaker 3 (43:29):
Yeah, you gotta do that, and it will last me
all of about forty eight hours, So you say it'll
be I will eat it for breakfast and then that night,
I'll be like, you know, it sounds.

Speaker 2 (43:41):
Really good right now?

Speaker 1 (43:43):
You save the berries for the end or what?

Speaker 2 (43:45):
Oh yeah, you gotta do that well as much as possible,
Like I'm not that first spoonful. I don't care if
a couple couple of crunchberries get in there.

Speaker 1 (43:53):
Are you too excited or what?

Speaker 2 (43:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (43:55):
I mean, but once it gets starting down, getting towards
the milk level, then it becomes really easy to corner
those beige pieces.

Speaker 1 (44:02):
How much milk? Like you put your cereal in first,
you know? Then you do your milk? How how how's
your poor? Like? Do you fill it as full as
you can?

Speaker 3 (44:11):
I want one layer of dry cereal on the top,
yeah okay, and then the rest submerged in the milk.

Speaker 2 (44:17):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (44:18):
So have you ever had the second bowl? Like you
you eat one bowl and then you're like, oh, I'll
take another bowl. Have you done that?

Speaker 2 (44:23):
Oh yeah, okay many times? Me too.

Speaker 1 (44:27):
Do you put more milk in or do you run
it back with what's in there? M because I've done both,
But I I.

Speaker 3 (44:36):
See where you're going. I am more of a I
will drink the milk and I will start with a
fret like an empty bowl, okay, refill it with cereal
and then add more milk in.

Speaker 1 (44:48):
So I used to do that until I got crones
and then for whatever reason, dairy can hit me hard
if I have too much of it, so I tend
to not drink the milk. Now, all right, this is
gonna sound silly because I do end up drinking and
ingesting all of the milk. Because I won't drink the milk.

Speaker 2 (45:09):
America is so relieved right now. Yeah, we're so relieved.
And also like the way you're describing this sounds like you're.

Speaker 3 (45:16):
Doing something naughty right like this, Like, I don't know
how to say this, but I still drink the milk.

Speaker 1 (45:23):
This isn't something I'm going to like teach my children
to do. In fact, I may say, this is not
how you do it, but this is how I do it.
So I put I put the cereal in, I fill
the bowl up like you said you want one layer.
I put the milk in. Then I'll eat it all.
Obviously I'm taking in a lot of that milk. Well,
then sometimes I'm like I need another bowl, So then

(45:44):
I pour it in and then as long as it's
not too low, I'll run it back with more dry cereal,
this time on top. Just for fun. I'll eat that
and whatever milk's left, I will drink it, you know,
but there won't be much left. I mentally will feel
good about that because I didn't drink a lot of milk,
even though I did, in fact, put all of that

(46:05):
milk in me. So there you go. You're happy you
came over today.

Speaker 2 (46:13):
I'm floored. I'm floored. I got some i mean, some
new things to try out here.

Speaker 1 (46:18):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (46:22):
So you're at the grocery store, Yeah you bought. So
did you buy cereal on this trip?

Speaker 2 (46:30):
I would? I mean, that's that's a staple, a staple
good for me.

Speaker 1 (46:33):
You buy it every time pretty much, even if you
need it or like don't eat it.

Speaker 2 (46:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (46:39):
I'm also I have an unfortunate habit of I bet
you if you looked on top of my fridge right now,
there'd be three boxes of honey of cheerios, and in
my defense, only two of them are open.

Speaker 1 (46:50):
But how do you have two boxes of the same
kind open?

Speaker 2 (46:55):
Just you get you get excited. Sometimes in the morning.

Speaker 1 (47:00):
You just need a hit of that brand new box.

Speaker 2 (47:02):
Oh yeah, yeah, like a little cereal gremlin coming in there.

Speaker 1 (47:08):
I've known you for a long time and I didn't
know you were a little Cereal.

Speaker 3 (47:19):
Well, I mean, I just I've got the confidence from
this award. Yeah, I can feel like I can finally
show you.

Speaker 1 (47:24):
Finally tell people who you are, Like this is who
I really am.

Speaker 3 (47:28):
Next year, at this time, you're gonna present me with
the Razzie like the worst, the worst guest of the year,
like Eric, Yeah, yeah, overshared.

Speaker 2 (47:36):
You've told us too much.

Speaker 1 (47:38):
Yep. Twenty twenty five, hell a run. You gave us
a lot, you went on vacation. Uh, you gave us
your idea for a stripper car wash. You gave us
at all. And then in twenty six, you know, we're
kind of we're kind of tired of talking about Cereal.
I don't know why you suddenly.

Speaker 2 (47:56):
We're already is that we're already over Cereal.

Speaker 1 (47:58):
Suddenly Cereal has become your personality.

Speaker 2 (48:00):
Didn't even know you ate it. You go out, you
were filling out your dream journal last week, put your
goals and you were like five minutes Cereal talk max
for the year. You're already over that a lot.

Speaker 1 (48:12):
But I know, I know, And that's the thing you
can't ever get that back. You have a journal, I
have not consistently, not enough that it would like help me. Yeah,
but and it was a long time, I mean forever.

Speaker 2 (48:26):
It kind of feels like one of those like one
and done.

Speaker 3 (48:29):
Like you're like, I'm I'm going to get into journal
and I'm going to write something right now, and I'm
going to keep this up and a year from now,
I'm going to have three hundred and sixty.

Speaker 2 (48:37):
Five entries and it'll be just my life.

Speaker 1 (48:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (48:42):
But instead you write once and then you're like, the
next day, nothing interesting happens. You have a discussion about cereal. Yeah,
and you're, well, I don't need to write that down.

Speaker 1 (48:51):
Been there? Yeah, yeah, I uh, similar to that, I've
I've not actually, you know what, I'm be honest with them,
it's not similar at all. Okay, all right, But I
was gonna read twelve books this.

Speaker 2 (49:03):
Year, yeah, and was finishing Jurassic Park gonna count as one.

Speaker 1 (49:08):
It was going to count as a book, and I
read a book immediately to start the year immediately, and
I was like, I'm gonna I'm gonna read twelve books
and then I'm going to talk about it each one
of those books, and it's gonna be a good content.
You know, I'm gonna talk about these books. And I
immediately read the one book, and I talked about how
I read a book. I read a book since so

(49:30):
I feel like it's very similar to your journal journal thing.

Speaker 2 (49:35):
I'm looking forward to getting caught up, to hearing that
episode about that book.

Speaker 1 (49:39):
Yeah, you should catch up. You're gonna be shocked when
you get to Guests of the Year an episode next year,
next year. When you get caught up, you're like, holy shit,
is that why I've been carrying this trophy around all here?

Speaker 2 (49:52):
So that you didn't get the second book?

Speaker 1 (49:55):
No, I've got plenty. I bought a lot of books.

Speaker 2 (49:57):
You just didn't read.

Speaker 1 (49:58):
I've got a lot of books, and I didn't read
the second one. I've started it. Actually, I take it.
I take that back. I've started three books and I
haven't finished any of those. And I was like, I could,
I could easily if I get a good start, I
feel like I'll be able to hit that. And I
got the one and got two cocky. I was just
so excited because then I felt like, well, shoot, I

(50:20):
got the first book done in like a week, like
I'm ahead of schedule, like I could read another one
this month, and then I'm gonna just blow right past
that twelve.

Speaker 3 (50:28):
That stuff when you set a goal and you're like,
I'm gonna beat this by so bad that I might
need to get a more aggressive goal.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
Yeah, and then it gets towards the deadline, you're just like, oh.

Speaker 1 (50:37):
Like, what did I do? Yeah, that's kinda that's kind
of where I'm at.

Speaker 2 (50:43):
Yeah, I set a goal when we started this episode
to finish the story.

Speaker 1 (50:51):
Nobody has taken longer. I mean, if the conclusion of
this story isn't great, like you have, just like Johnny
promised me, you will not take his trophy back. You
earned it, You earned it, You earned it. I have
to remind myself you earned it. And the story's gonna
it's gonna hit. It's gotta hit.

Speaker 2 (51:11):
This is like.

Speaker 3 (51:14):
A music artist that their first album is great, their
second album is awful, but you have such good feelings
from the first album you're still checked in on the
third album.

Speaker 1 (51:26):
Yeah, yeah, I've got you get I'm sure you've got
artists like that, like like some of your favorites, like
would you say like Eve six is kind of falling
a little bit of that.

Speaker 3 (51:38):
I would disagree on EVE six being that band. Okay,
I'm pretty much a big fan of all of their
of everything, but I do feel like, well, I would
say ever Clear, but I don't know that ever Clear
ever really bounce back.

Speaker 1 (51:53):
What album would you say is like their classic classic
ever Clear?

Speaker 2 (51:59):
Well, I mean probably the one that has the most
significance for me would be so much for the after Glow.

Speaker 1 (52:03):
Okay, that's the one I would pick, But.

Speaker 3 (52:06):
I think Sparkle and Fade would probably be the album
previous to that would probably be the definitive album.

Speaker 1 (52:13):
Yeah, I really enjoy it. Was it like is it
called a songs from American movie? Yeah? I really enjoyed
that one too.

Speaker 3 (52:19):
I feel like every Clear kind of went on a
similar trajectory as like Goo Goo Dolls.

Speaker 2 (52:25):
Oh yeah, where like yeah Gutter, what.

Speaker 1 (52:30):
Was the first gutfow.

Speaker 3 (52:32):
Was the first one that one almost lines up with
Sparkle and Fade, and then their next one which went
uh dizzy up the girl yep kind of lines up
with so much for the after Glow, and then after
that they were like, we're just adult contemporary and that
was about the same spot that you like when you
listen to Boy named Goo, when you listen to uh,
Sparkling Fade, you're just like, this isn't a adult contemporary band,

(52:56):
like this.

Speaker 1 (52:56):
Is a punk like a rock you know, Dizzy the
Girl that's.

Speaker 3 (53:01):
Sixty percent rock, like forty percent punk, like twenty percent pop.

Speaker 2 (53:06):
Like they're but they're definitely edgier.

Speaker 1 (53:09):
They they found themselves in a position where they're like,
you know, we started this thing and uh, we wanted
to play our We'll play our way, We'll play our songs,
our music, and then you know, then you some songs
pop off, you get an album that explodes, the tour's huge,
money's good, and now you're paying for a lot of

(53:31):
people to have jobs, and now you got to make
sure you continue that, you know, and it's then it's
just kind of your part of the machine now, which
is fine.

Speaker 2 (53:40):
The music.

Speaker 1 (53:40):
I still enjoy Google's music to this day, but I
don't listen to it like I listened to the old stuff.

Speaker 3 (53:45):
Yeah, that which described in it. This is probably you know,
the stratosphere. Like artists like Eminem his first like three albums,
like each one was just better than the other, like
you reached the l peak and then by twenty ten,
it was like he was back down in like the
like still producing singles, but like the albums, like everything

(54:08):
that got in a little stale. He got off the
drugs and then all of a sudden like made you know,
the resurgence that he's had kind of in the last
like six years.

Speaker 1 (54:16):
We're just gonna say he was sober after those first three.
I mean, that's not that you can't be sober and
create amazing art, but there was there was something there.
I don't know. So you're at the grocery store.

Speaker 2 (54:31):
I'm at the grocery store.

Speaker 1 (54:33):
I have my my goods paper and plastic, plastic paper.
You went with plastic, and then your bagger can see.

Speaker 2 (54:41):
Yes, yes, all right, thank you for the recap there. Yep.
So it's football Sunday. We've established that Viking's lost. Yes,
So the cashier is just like, oh, have a have
you been watching some football today?

Speaker 3 (55:02):
And I said, yeah, some, And she was just like,
I figure, I figure she's like my dad's middle aged
and he watches football all day.

Speaker 1 (55:13):
Oh no, oh no, you're middle aged. Huh.

Speaker 3 (55:25):
And I was just shocked. I mean, just even repeating
it now, I'm shocked. Yeah, like this is a tough thing,
like mortality. Do you like just all these things going
through your mind?

Speaker 1 (55:38):
Do you.

Speaker 2 (55:40):
Right?

Speaker 1 (55:41):
Two questions, One what do you consider be middle aged?
And two you must think you're just gonna live forever.

Speaker 2 (55:50):
Well, And so that got pointed out to me at
one point.

Speaker 3 (55:55):
Uh. They were like, do you think you're gonna live
in your eighties? And I was just like, yeah, but
probably not much after that. And they were like, it
sounds like you might be middle aged.

Speaker 2 (56:05):
It's like that got you. My dad used to have
a saying when I was a kid that used to
drive me crazy.

Speaker 3 (56:11):
He has most things your dad says drive me crazy,
but he used to anytime I call him old or
say like, oh that's that's old or old fashioned.

Speaker 2 (56:19):
You know, I'd be like, Oh that's not old.

Speaker 3 (56:21):
I'm a young punk kid, yep, that's And he would
always say something about that, and I would always just
roll my like my eyes would go back into the
back of my head as I was rolling them.

Speaker 1 (56:31):
Yeah, they got stuck that one time. They get that doctor.

Speaker 2 (56:34):
I think that was when we first met.

Speaker 1 (56:35):
Shout out doctor, let's.

Speaker 2 (56:40):
Rap a lot of the medical community. Yeah, you know
that that was a tough thing for me to hear
as a kid. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (56:48):
Now now I feel like that would be something I
would say and not even realize the irony.

Speaker 1 (56:53):
Yep, that's a that's that's a pure like like example
of you all are in fact no way because you
are throwing out those cliches. You weren't just hitting them
boom boom boom boom, and you believe them like you
don't just Sam, you believe them.

Speaker 3 (57:10):
Yeah. Yeah, I'm there too, man, I know that I
sent I sent, you know, a text to our group texts.

Speaker 2 (57:18):
It's just something like, guys, I'm having I'm having tough time.
You really really use some support.

Speaker 1 (57:26):
Oh man, but here you are you survived?

Speaker 2 (57:29):
Yeah. Oh so then you know, just to kind of emphasize,
you know, how young this cashier was. So in my cart,
I had a.

Speaker 3 (57:37):
Twelve pack of White Claw and a twelve pack of
october Fest, so I threw them up on the conveyor
belt and she was just like, are these alcohol? And
its just like I just want to crawl under the
cart now, like and just die, like, haven no use
to society?

Speaker 1 (57:56):
Did did she say it just like that, are these alcohol?
Please tell me what you.

Speaker 2 (58:04):
Did for you? Yes?

Speaker 1 (58:07):
That's incredible. Yes, it's incredible. What a what just so innocent?

Speaker 2 (58:12):
But I'm you know, I mean, I'm a middle aged
man apparently so a bit of a coward. I didn't
even have you know, she had to call her.

Speaker 3 (58:20):
Manager over to ring up the alcohol and the manager's
doing again the small talk thing, and did you find everything?

Speaker 2 (58:27):
And I had my chance that I could have just
laid this kid out.

Speaker 3 (58:31):
Yeah, physically, you just just knock brought the hammer on
her and just talked about how unprofessional it was to
compare me to her middle aged football watching father.

Speaker 1 (58:43):
Right, but you did you did? Do?

Speaker 2 (58:46):
I feel like, you know, I couldn't do that, because
who knows, I might know her dad, I might work
with him, I might hang out with him already.

Speaker 1 (58:54):
You probably do. You guys freak with the same grocery stores.
It's a tangled Yeah, you're in the same community, even
you know, the grocery store is the community hub to
where everyone in the community goes. It's one of the
few shared things that everybody in the community.

Speaker 2 (59:14):
Are you middle aged datting me right now?

Speaker 1 (59:16):
I am? Yeah, you are wearing a quarter zip.

Speaker 3 (59:25):
And really, when you're looking at the community, you can
really look at a rage around the grocery store of
Fi No.

Speaker 1 (59:32):
Six seven Blocks six seven. That's that's how you know
that you have a like or how you can tell
kind of the vibe of a community, of a neighborhood
is based on its grocery store. You know, is it vibrant?
Has got energy? You can feel the energy when you
walk in. You know, you've walked into some highvy stores

(59:54):
and you've felt energy. You've also walked into some and
you're like, I don't know how they designed these doors,
Like how did they design these doors to get people
in that here? Like, I know you've done that.

Speaker 2 (01:00:06):
Those are the things I worry about.

Speaker 1 (01:00:07):
Yeah, I worry about if they ask plastic or paper
which one was first? And where do they put the
little carts?

Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
We're on the food Chaine.

Speaker 1 (01:00:19):
Oh man, I'll tell you what. We were actually going
to do an entire episode on like our top and
worst lists of the year, and instead we talked about, uh,
you go to the grocery store firm.

Speaker 2 (01:00:38):
Well, you did say one of the worst things.

Speaker 1 (01:00:40):
Oh, I'll tell you what. Yeah, I'll tell you what.
One of the worst things of the year was jelly rolls.
Shaving that beard off. Have you seen him?

Speaker 3 (01:00:50):
I can only imagine, Oh, where's my phone. I will
look it up here, but describe it for the for
the audience.

Speaker 1 (01:00:57):
Well, it looks like a ball sack his face. I
mean you he and I know why he did it.
And again it he's losing a lot of weight. Have
you seen how much weight jelly Roll has lost? I
mean it's in he was on game day earlier this year.
He looks amazing, like, good for him, continue to work, man,
And it's you know, he's doing it for him. You know,

(01:01:17):
he just wants to keep going.

Speaker 2 (01:01:19):
I put in jelly Roll shaved oh no, and clicked
on images and Google gave me the are you a robot?

Speaker 1 (01:01:31):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (01:01:35):
It's even more wild with his tattoos, just because it
does it makes him look like Appalachia.

Speaker 1 (01:01:41):
So he's yeah, he just right, that's the thing. He
just looks so normal now. And then he did it.
He want to show Kase how much weight he sauces,
which is awesome. That beard was cool. It's kind of
a look.

Speaker 2 (01:01:53):
So jelly Roll is at in actual food.

Speaker 1 (01:01:56):
A jelly roll, I don't know, is that like a
jelly donut called Roll.

Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
I mean, I don't know what.

Speaker 3 (01:02:03):
Kind of bake good would you compare him to now
that he's they shaved like a baguette.

Speaker 2 (01:02:08):
Yeah, yeah, I could see.

Speaker 1 (01:02:10):
That, maybe Eve an Italian loaf, because I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:02:12):
That's the thing too.

Speaker 3 (01:02:13):
I mean between the tattoos, the big beard, the hair,
I mean, those wrinkles are on display.

Speaker 1 (01:02:19):
They are there. Yeah, shown his age a little bit. Yeah,
he I'm I'm a Jelly roll fan. I disagree with
shaving that beard that. I'd say it was one of
the worst shaves of the year.

Speaker 2 (01:02:35):
So and there you go, and.

Speaker 1 (01:02:37):
That's our episode that concludes a year in review, and
that was it. Well, congratulations Guest of the Year, Eric Larsen. Uh,
thanks for all the work you did. I'll laugh with
me this year. You know, I was thinking about it.
I'm like, man, what was like some of my favorite
moments of when you were on the pod. It's got

(01:02:59):
to be when you weren't even here and you were
calling in and you called in and you had your
idea for the car wash and you were like, what
what does strippers do at night? We gotta we gotta
get them working, and it just I still can't. I'm
still not like thinking about that, because like why do
we make them work day and night? Like, just let
them be.

Speaker 2 (01:03:19):
You gotta respect the hustle man. Just let them live
their life straight. Cash homie ye.

Speaker 1 (01:03:26):
Car wash by day, poll by night, the A. If
you ever write a book, that's got to be the title.

Speaker 2 (01:03:37):
I can't name the book, laugh with me.

Speaker 1 (01:03:41):
Oh yeah, you can certainly do that.

Speaker 2 (01:03:42):
That'll help promotion.

Speaker 3 (01:03:43):
Yeah, like the author the author bio will be my
introduction transportation to the giant uh fifth speaker at Central.

Speaker 2 (01:03:53):
Former multi time fantasy champion.

Speaker 1 (01:03:56):
Hopefully never champion again.

Speaker 2 (01:03:59):
Probably not not the probably not.

Speaker 1 (01:04:04):
All right, all right, Well, thanks for being on the show,
and congrats again on guests of the year.

Speaker 2 (01:04:09):
Happy to be here. I heart laugh with me. iHeartRadio.