July 27, 2025 • 22 mins
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, calls in with his second and third vacation travel blogs.
Eric is a 2024 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:
-Eric vacation blog part two
-Eric vacation blog part three
-Stripper car wash a good idea?
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Speaker 1 (00:21):
Welcome back. It's a brand new episode. This is Laughing
the Heat Podcast with Jeremy Oh I'm I'm your home
Jo and we are on the road to episode one hundred. Johnny,
(00:46):
this is episode ninety eight. And you know, when you're
getting close to a goal, Okay, when you've got something
big head in your way, what's something.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
You should do.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Well, I'll tell you what you should take a little vacation.
Is that what's best? Take a little breather right before
or or to most people, Johnny, do most people do
that after the big thing? Do they grind?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
All right, most people grind up until the big thing,
then they take a break. That's what your boy's doing. Okay.
I just want you to know, no vacation for me
can't be said the same for our guy Eric. He's
still on vacation. We heard from him well over a
(01:33):
week ago. He was up in the Dakotas playing blackjack
at bars because you could play black jacket the bars there.
So there you go. Let's see the last Friday happy
hour that we had. That's where you could hear the
first vacation update from mister LARSI he has sent more
(01:58):
so I thought it'd be appropriate it. I haven't heard these, okay,
I have not heard how his vacation's going. All I
know is I'm working my ass off while he is
on vacation. We're gearing up for one hundred. We want
to make it special for the people and but Erica.
Hopefully you're enjoying your time. Let's see, let's check in.
(02:20):
I don't know, I don't know. I know at some
point he was planning on leaving the Dakota's I don't
quite know when that was. But let's let's check in
on air on vacation.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Hey, Jeremy, it's Eric calling in for check in number two.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I'm on day number three of my epic North Dakota,
Georgia adventure. I am calling you from Lake Audubon, which
is right in between Bismarck and might not for those.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
That are familiar with the area, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Audubon is adjacent to It's like the sister lake to
Lake Sakakawilla, which you probably know. Lake Kakawea is the
largest man made lake in North America, sitting right in
the middle of the great state of North Dakota. I
am about twenty miles north of the legendary Fort Mandan, which,
(03:19):
as I'm sure you know, was where Lewis and Clark
spent their winter when they were mapping out the Louisiana
purchase trying to find their way over to the Pacific Ocean,
is out with Sokakawea, which the lake is named after. Now,
fair warning, if you're using this this podcast as a.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
You know, travel planner for your next vacation, do not
expect to.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Go to Lake Mandan and or Lake Mandan Fort Mandan
and be in the actual fort that Lewis and Clark
stayed the winter in, because that fort is under this
is a replica fort. It's look at about three and
a half miles from the actual location. So just fair warning,
no lawsuits. Don't go there and tell them that, you know,
(04:11):
laugh with me podcast stars, you're wrong. You won't find
a very receptive audience. But in between going to you know,
legendary forts and not swimming in a lake because well
it's North Dakota and even though it's July, it's only
(04:34):
seventy four degrees today for the high. Woke up this
morning and it was fifty So, needless to say, I've
been wearing jeans and avoiding the water as much as possible. Literally,
I don't know how it is possible to live in
this climate, but hey, good on your North Dakota if
you can do it, God bless. But what I wanted
(04:59):
to up with tonight was just to get your thoughts
on Airbnb etiquette.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
And now what I mean by that is, for.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
The last century we've been we've been a pretty hotel
centric culture. Hey, we'll get a hotel, We'll all stay
in the hotel. If we're we need common areas, we're
just going to go down to the lobby.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Or we're in the breakfast area, We're going to hang
out there.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
But the Airbnb kind of throws that all out of
the window because how do you decide presidents when not
all the options are equal?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
So case in point, I'm here with my family, We're
an Airbnb.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
There's a room that has a king sized bed, and
there's also a room that has bunk beds. So like,
this is very easy in my mind, my mind, I mean,
I I revert back to shotgun rules. If the car's
in distance and I can see the car and I
call out shotgun that I'm going to sit in the
(06:04):
front of that car, So I would assume that Airbnb
would work off the same rules I booked the Airbnb,
I get first pick of the rooms. But in observing
my parents and my aunt and uncle here on this trip.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
That is not how Airbnb is solved at all.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
There seems to be.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
You know, a aversion.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
To anybody claiming the bigger room.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
It seems like, you know, it's almost like one of
those now, don't say it out loud that you want it, so,
you know, how is what is the most fair way
to solve.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
You know, an impasse like that?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
You know, just so that people who are booking airbnbs,
people that are getting into these situations with their families,
that they can address this in a mature fashion and say, hey,
I do want that room.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
You know, what's it going to take for them to
get it? Rock paper scissors, game of uno. There's got
to be a better way, you know.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
The Fort Mandan with Lewis and Clark, you know, brought
up kind of this argument, almost almost an identical argument
to me, because there's a room in Fort Mandan that
was Lewis, of Lewis and Clark. He stayed there, but
(07:35):
he also had his slave with him, and they would
share a bed. And so you see that bed in
the fort and you're like, that's not a very big
bed like those you know, that's.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
A that's a very close sleeping arrangement. But we also
know from.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Accounts of like Abraham Lincoln's life and other notaries in
that that it was not uncommon that if you were
a guy traveling and you went to a hotel and
they were booked up, they might tell you to share
a hotel room with strangers. So then you think about
that and you're just like, well, man, all right, well,
(08:11):
if you got you know, two dudes.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Sharing a bed, you kind of know how it's going
to go.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
But if you're putting three to a bed, I mean
that's almost that's almost airplane rules right there. I mean,
everybody wants the window, everybody wants the aisle, Like who
gets stuck with the middle. Could you imagine going to
a place like you're tired. Obviously you can't make the
reservation in advance, so you don't know what you're gonna get, Like,
(08:37):
you just want a place to stay for the night,
And all of a sudden they're just saying like, oh, well,
these two dudes are going to be sharing a room
with you that you've never met. I mean, how do
you negotiate that without bloodshed?
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Ah h, it's.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
I'm I'm surveying the lake right now and it's very peaceful,
it's at dusk. But my heart is in turmoil, my
brain is in turmoil, and Jeremy, I'm really hoping that
you can shed some light and some clarity on this situation.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Thank you well, Eric, I don't understand why there has
to be bloodshed over having to share. I mean, it's
the hostile situation right where you're basically renting a bed
in a room in like a studio type room, and
you don't know who your bunk mates are gonna be.
(09:35):
But why does it have to end in bloodshed? You
think there'd be a logical way to figure that out.
There has to be a logical way to figure that
out that I'm sure he could ask around since he's
around this situation, because people aren't just randomly dying over
shared rooms, right. Something got me. You know, I'm sitting here,
(09:57):
I'm working, We're grinding to episode one hundred. He's on vacation,
and he's like, oh, the temperature in the morning is
fifty degrees. You know what the temperature was this morning
here when I got up went to work at two
thirty am, it was eighty eight degrees and humid as
hal drenched in sweat, jrenched in sweat. And you know
(10:23):
I wasn't like walking to work.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
You know you can hear you can obviously hear Eric's
walking around the lake. He's having a great time. I
was driving an air conditioning get to work, pick up
some trash, change some trash cans, drenched in sweat. Eighty
eight degrees to thirty am. Guys, it's not right. I
do like his idea about the airbnb thing. Look the
(10:47):
shotgun rules. Here's the thing. His family is not abiding
by shotgun rules. It doesn't even sound like he called.
If you, in my opinion, if you book the room
and you paid for it, you have the right to
decide if you want the bigger room or not. Here's
the thing. You also have the right to decide if
somebody else gets that bigger room, you get to make
(11:08):
that call. You could obviously then just make this just
quick side decision, which is now we're gonna give it
to the eldest group of the bunch, right, could be
his parents, could be his aunt and uncle Eric can
get the bunk bets, whatever, whatever makes sense for the group.
(11:30):
But that seems like an easy pick.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
He sounds like he's got this stressful situation. Oh, I'm
in the lake and I gotta decide which big ass
room I got this Airbnb. And it's nice and cool
out in the morning, and I'm walking around the lake
and I gotta wear jeans. Johnny, it's not that bad.
(11:54):
It's not that bad. Oh, poor guy's got it rough.
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Speaker 5 (14:43):
This is travelog number three, day seven of my epic
cross country trip from North Dakota to Georgia. I apologize
due to the lateness of my updates, but on my
last night in North Dakota, I ran into a attraction
called the shot Ski.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Which I'm sure you're familiar with, but just for the benefit.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Of your audience, I'll fill you in. It's a little
ski that you would ski down a mountain in the winter,
but instead of being used for skiing, this ski is
used for shots, and so it has four shot glasses
mounted along it and it allows four people to take
(15:25):
a shot at the same exact time.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
My cousin owns one of these. I had a couple
of shot skis and YadA, YadA, YadA.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
It took three days to get this update out to you,
but it brought up an interesting question of you know,
shots are kind of unique in that if you're an
individual and you're at a bar, or if.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
You're just hanging out with friends and you line.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Up a shot just for yourself, you're on an alcoholic
and that's going to be you know.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
What's remembered out of this. But if you line up
a shot ski.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
With four shots and you say, hey, everybody, come do
a shot with me, then you're just a fun person.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
So it's kind of an interesting contradiction between you know,
one or all on that. But anyways, I digress.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I am in Atlanta now, and you know, I've been
to a Braves game.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
I've enjoyed some of the local cultures.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
I went to a metal brewery today, which is just
to say that they've played really loud music. When I
came in, I asked the bartender if he could shut
you know, play the metal music at a lower volume
so that I could pick up my beer. And he
looked at me like I was crazy. I had to
explain to him that it was in fact a joke.
(16:58):
But one of the thoughts that I had in here
while I was down in Atlanta is Atlanta's home to
a lot of gentlemen's clubs that are that are famous
throughout the country. You know, one of them was used
during the you know, when the NBA was going through
its COVID year and they had their famous bubble. You know,
(17:22):
a player violated the bubble to go to a club
in Atlanta, Magic City, and when confronted, he said that
he didn't go to see the ladies do get wings.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
The wings were what drove him to break the COVID bubble.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
And it kind of got me thinking, to you know,
what kind of businesses have like a side hustle that
they could really lean into Because.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
You think about that, I mean, not only do you
have strippers, but you also have wings. I mean that's
that's a real double whammy.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
And so you know, during the summer, you see a
lot of fundraisers that are car washes, or maybe you
have the cheerleading team doing a car wash, or you
have like different you know, college athletes doing car washes
or that kind of stuff. You know, what do strippers
do during the day where they just sleep, they get
they get ready for the next day.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Like, why don't you open.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
A stripper car wash where I mean, put these girls
to work during the day, get them clean enough cars.
I mean, that's that's double income.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
I can't believe nobody's ever.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Thought about that.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
So that's insane.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
You know, I don't know, I guess maybe give me
your thoughts on the stripper car wash.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
You know what, what do you think that that could be?
You know what could become of that?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
But you know what other opportunities are there for you know,
maybe an underutilized workforce that you know could pull a
double duty. AnyWho, I'll try to be better. I'll get
you another update tomorrow. We'll calculator.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
But here's the thing, dude, all right, I'm not like,
I'm not against the stripper car wash. Okay, I just
want to go on the on the record to saying
I'm not against the stripper car wash. What I'm questioning
is because it's a theme, and I'm not just to say, oh,
that's the only kind of cars we have the strippers.
Different cool car washes would be awesome, Like themed car washes,
(19:21):
like where's the rock and roll car wash? You know
where you go in and you get your car wash
and there's flashing lights and loud music. Let'd be sweet.
But anyways, back to Eric's point, and it's not he's
been on vacation too long if he's at this point
where he's saying, not only do the strippers need to
come up with a car wash business, but they need
(19:43):
to also do their normal job at night as well,
like they need to work around the clock. Why why
is the workforce out there at such a point now
that Eric's solution is that strippers need to work more,
Why is that the solution?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Eric?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I disagree with that. With that, Big said he's onto
something with the car washes. Okay, so let's not throw
that aside. I just don't understand why we got to
work these poor girls around the clock just because of
the idea of the stripper car wash. Why can't they
choose one or the other. All right, there's there's labor laws. Eric,
(20:23):
there's labor laws, and the shot sky sounds awesome. Here's
the thing. If I go to the bar and I'm like,
you know, order me a beer and a shot just
for me, maybe that's just I want to, Like, I
just that's what I want. I want to I want
to have a beer and I want to have a shot.
(20:43):
I just want to kind of like chill, Like I
just want to like get the buzz going. Okay, this
is my way of relaxing. And then chilling at the
bar doesn't make me an alcoholic because I bought myself
a shot. Eric's over here calling me an alcoholist because
I'll buy a sh not just for me. That's ridiculous.
But I do agree that if you buy four shots,
(21:04):
you're like, hey, everybody, thet's who shot? You're social. That's huge,
that's a win for the entire group. I'm with you
on that, dude. But to call everybody who's to decide
because I have a beer at eight am, now I'm
an alcoholic? Like who makes that call? Huh?
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Not me?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Well, Eric has made it to Atlanta. He is in
Georgia for this what feels like it's been like a
mufflong vacation. But we'll hear more from him, and uh,
we'll catch up with them next episode. But it sounds
like he's having a great time. His mind is not
with it, guys. At this point. He's asking strippers to
(21:47):
work around the clock in various different businesses and anybody
who's ordering shots and alcoholic this is where this is
where Eric's brain's at. And he's in the cold in
the Da Codas. But now, I've been as hot as
hal in Georgia. I like how you didn't mention that.
He didn't mention how hot it was in Georgia. Don't
you dare bring out the temperature now when we're sweating
(22:10):
an eighty eight degree humidity feels like one hundred at
two thirty am. All right, Eric, we'll be back with
more vacation updates. I promise you the Vetti Vegas in
the next episode. Finally, it's been a long time since
we've had Vetti back on the show. I'm sure, I'm
sure we'll have some words in regards to that. Thanks
(22:35):
for listening, guys,
Welcome back. It's a brand new episode. This is Laughing
the Heat Podcast with Jeremy Oh I'm I'm your home
Jo and we are on the road to episode one hundred. Johnny,
(00:46):
this is episode ninety eight. And you know, when you're
getting close to a goal, Okay, when you've got something
big head in your way, what's something.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
You should do.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Well, I'll tell you what you should take a little vacation.
Is that what's best? Take a little breather right before
or or to most people, Johnny, do most people do
that after the big thing? Do they grind?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
All right, most people grind up until the big thing,
then they take a break. That's what your boy's doing. Okay.
I just want you to know, no vacation for me
can't be said the same for our guy Eric. He's
still on vacation. We heard from him well over a
(01:33):
week ago. He was up in the Dakotas playing blackjack
at bars because you could play black jacket the bars there.
So there you go. Let's see the last Friday happy
hour that we had. That's where you could hear the
first vacation update from mister LARSI he has sent more
(01:58):
so I thought it'd be appropriate it. I haven't heard these, okay,
I have not heard how his vacation's going. All I
know is I'm working my ass off while he is
on vacation. We're gearing up for one hundred. We want
to make it special for the people and but Erica.
Hopefully you're enjoying your time. Let's see, let's check in.
(02:20):
I don't know, I don't know. I know at some
point he was planning on leaving the Dakota's I don't
quite know when that was. But let's let's check in
on air on vacation.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Hey, Jeremy, it's Eric calling in for check in number two.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I'm on day number three of my epic North Dakota,
Georgia adventure. I am calling you from Lake Audubon, which
is right in between Bismarck and might not for those.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
That are familiar with the area, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Audubon is adjacent to It's like the sister lake to
Lake Sakakawilla, which you probably know. Lake Kakawea is the
largest man made lake in North America, sitting right in
the middle of the great state of North Dakota. I
am about twenty miles north of the legendary Fort Mandan, which,
(03:19):
as I'm sure you know, was where Lewis and Clark
spent their winter when they were mapping out the Louisiana
purchase trying to find their way over to the Pacific Ocean,
is out with Sokakawea, which the lake is named after. Now,
fair warning, if you're using this this podcast as a.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
You know, travel planner for your next vacation, do not
expect to.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Go to Lake Mandan and or Lake Mandan Fort Mandan
and be in the actual fort that Lewis and Clark
stayed the winter in, because that fort is under this
is a replica fort. It's look at about three and
a half miles from the actual location. So just fair warning,
no lawsuits. Don't go there and tell them that, you know,
(04:11):
laugh with me podcast stars, you're wrong. You won't find
a very receptive audience. But in between going to you know,
legendary forts and not swimming in a lake because well
it's North Dakota and even though it's July, it's only
(04:34):
seventy four degrees today for the high. Woke up this
morning and it was fifty So, needless to say, I've
been wearing jeans and avoiding the water as much as possible. Literally,
I don't know how it is possible to live in
this climate, but hey, good on your North Dakota if
you can do it, God bless. But what I wanted
(04:59):
to up with tonight was just to get your thoughts
on Airbnb etiquette.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
And now what I mean by that is, for.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
The last century we've been we've been a pretty hotel
centric culture. Hey, we'll get a hotel, We'll all stay
in the hotel. If we're we need common areas, we're
just going to go down to the lobby.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Or we're in the breakfast area, We're going to hang
out there.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
But the Airbnb kind of throws that all out of
the window because how do you decide presidents when not
all the options are equal?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
So case in point, I'm here with my family, We're
an Airbnb.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
There's a room that has a king sized bed, and
there's also a room that has bunk beds. So like,
this is very easy in my mind, my mind, I mean,
I I revert back to shotgun rules. If the car's
in distance and I can see the car and I
call out shotgun that I'm going to sit in the
(06:04):
front of that car, So I would assume that Airbnb
would work off the same rules I booked the Airbnb,
I get first pick of the rooms. But in observing
my parents and my aunt and uncle here on this trip.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
That is not how Airbnb is solved at all.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
There seems to be.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
You know, a aversion.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
To anybody claiming the bigger room.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
It seems like, you know, it's almost like one of
those now, don't say it out loud that you want it, so,
you know, how is what is the most fair way
to solve.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
You know, an impasse like that?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
You know, just so that people who are booking airbnbs,
people that are getting into these situations with their families,
that they can address this in a mature fashion and say, hey,
I do want that room.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
You know, what's it going to take for them to
get it? Rock paper scissors, game of uno. There's got
to be a better way, you know.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
The Fort Mandan with Lewis and Clark, you know, brought
up kind of this argument, almost almost an identical argument
to me, because there's a room in Fort Mandan that
was Lewis, of Lewis and Clark. He stayed there, but
(07:35):
he also had his slave with him, and they would
share a bed. And so you see that bed in
the fort and you're like, that's not a very big
bed like those you know, that's.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
A that's a very close sleeping arrangement. But we also
know from.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Accounts of like Abraham Lincoln's life and other notaries in
that that it was not uncommon that if you were
a guy traveling and you went to a hotel and
they were booked up, they might tell you to share
a hotel room with strangers. So then you think about
that and you're just like, well, man, all right, well,
(08:11):
if you got you know, two dudes.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Sharing a bed, you kind of know how it's going
to go.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
But if you're putting three to a bed, I mean
that's almost that's almost airplane rules right there. I mean,
everybody wants the window, everybody wants the aisle, Like who
gets stuck with the middle. Could you imagine going to
a place like you're tired. Obviously you can't make the
reservation in advance, so you don't know what you're gonna get, Like,
(08:37):
you just want a place to stay for the night,
And all of a sudden they're just saying like, oh, well,
these two dudes are going to be sharing a room
with you that you've never met. I mean, how do
you negotiate that without bloodshed?
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Ah h, it's.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
I'm I'm surveying the lake right now and it's very peaceful,
it's at dusk. But my heart is in turmoil, my
brain is in turmoil, and Jeremy, I'm really hoping that
you can shed some light and some clarity on this situation.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Thank you well, Eric, I don't understand why there has
to be bloodshed over having to share. I mean, it's
the hostile situation right where you're basically renting a bed
in a room in like a studio type room, and
you don't know who your bunk mates are gonna be.
(09:35):
But why does it have to end in bloodshed? You
think there'd be a logical way to figure that out.
There has to be a logical way to figure that
out that I'm sure he could ask around since he's
around this situation, because people aren't just randomly dying over
shared rooms, right. Something got me. You know, I'm sitting here,
(09:57):
I'm working, We're grinding to episode one hundred. He's on vacation,
and he's like, oh, the temperature in the morning is
fifty degrees. You know what the temperature was this morning
here when I got up went to work at two
thirty am, it was eighty eight degrees and humid as
hal drenched in sweat, jrenched in sweat. And you know
(10:23):
I wasn't like walking to work.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
You know you can hear you can obviously hear Eric's
walking around the lake. He's having a great time. I
was driving an air conditioning get to work, pick up
some trash, change some trash cans, drenched in sweat. Eighty
eight degrees to thirty am. Guys, it's not right. I
do like his idea about the airbnb thing. Look the
(10:47):
shotgun rules. Here's the thing. His family is not abiding
by shotgun rules. It doesn't even sound like he called.
If you, in my opinion, if you book the room
and you paid for it, you have the right to
decide if you want the bigger room or not. Here's
the thing. You also have the right to decide if
somebody else gets that bigger room, you get to make
(11:08):
that call. You could obviously then just make this just
quick side decision, which is now we're gonna give it
to the eldest group of the bunch, right, could be
his parents, could be his aunt and uncle Eric can
get the bunk bets, whatever, whatever makes sense for the group.
(11:30):
But that seems like an easy pick.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
He sounds like he's got this stressful situation. Oh, I'm
in the lake and I gotta decide which big ass
room I got this Airbnb. And it's nice and cool
out in the morning, and I'm walking around the lake
and I gotta wear jeans. Johnny, it's not that bad.
(11:54):
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Speaker 5 (14:43):
This is travelog number three, day seven of my epic
cross country trip from North Dakota to Georgia. I apologize
due to the lateness of my updates, but on my
last night in North Dakota, I ran into a attraction
called the shot Ski.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Which I'm sure you're familiar with, but just for the benefit.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Of your audience, I'll fill you in. It's a little
ski that you would ski down a mountain in the winter,
but instead of being used for skiing, this ski is
used for shots, and so it has four shot glasses
mounted along it and it allows four people to take
(15:25):
a shot at the same exact time.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
My cousin owns one of these. I had a couple
of shot skis and YadA, YadA, YadA.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
It took three days to get this update out to you,
but it brought up an interesting question of you know,
shots are kind of unique in that if you're an
individual and you're at a bar, or if.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
You're just hanging out with friends and you line.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Up a shot just for yourself, you're on an alcoholic
and that's going to be you know.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
What's remembered out of this. But if you line up
a shot ski.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
With four shots and you say, hey, everybody, come do
a shot with me, then you're just a fun person.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
So it's kind of an interesting contradiction between you know,
one or all on that. But anyways, I digress.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I am in Atlanta now, and you know, I've been
to a Braves game.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
I've enjoyed some of the local cultures.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
I went to a metal brewery today, which is just
to say that they've played really loud music. When I
came in, I asked the bartender if he could shut
you know, play the metal music at a lower volume
so that I could pick up my beer. And he
looked at me like I was crazy. I had to
explain to him that it was in fact a joke.
(16:58):
But one of the thoughts that I had in here
while I was down in Atlanta is Atlanta's home to
a lot of gentlemen's clubs that are that are famous
throughout the country. You know, one of them was used
during the you know, when the NBA was going through
its COVID year and they had their famous bubble. You know,
(17:22):
a player violated the bubble to go to a club
in Atlanta, Magic City, and when confronted, he said that
he didn't go to see the ladies do get wings.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
The wings were what drove him to break the COVID bubble.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
And it kind of got me thinking, to you know,
what kind of businesses have like a side hustle that
they could really lean into Because.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
You think about that, I mean, not only do you
have strippers, but you also have wings. I mean that's
that's a real double whammy.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
And so you know, during the summer, you see a
lot of fundraisers that are car washes, or maybe you
have the cheerleading team doing a car wash, or you
have like different you know, college athletes doing car washes
or that kind of stuff. You know, what do strippers
do during the day where they just sleep, they get
they get ready for the next day.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Like, why don't you open.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
A stripper car wash where I mean, put these girls
to work during the day, get them clean enough cars.
I mean, that's that's double income.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
I can't believe nobody's ever.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Thought about that.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
So that's insane.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
You know, I don't know, I guess maybe give me
your thoughts on the stripper car wash.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
You know what, what do you think that that could be?
You know what could become of that?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
But you know what other opportunities are there for you know,
maybe an underutilized workforce that you know could pull a
double duty. AnyWho, I'll try to be better. I'll get
you another update tomorrow. We'll calculator.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
But here's the thing, dude, all right, I'm not like,
I'm not against the stripper car wash. Okay, I just
want to go on the on the record to saying
I'm not against the stripper car wash. What I'm questioning
is because it's a theme, and I'm not just to say, oh,
that's the only kind of cars we have the strippers.
Different cool car washes would be awesome, Like themed car washes,
(19:21):
like where's the rock and roll car wash? You know
where you go in and you get your car wash
and there's flashing lights and loud music. Let'd be sweet.
But anyways, back to Eric's point, and it's not he's
been on vacation too long if he's at this point
where he's saying, not only do the strippers need to
come up with a car wash business, but they need
(19:43):
to also do their normal job at night as well,
like they need to work around the clock. Why why
is the workforce out there at such a point now
that Eric's solution is that strippers need to work more,
Why is that the solution?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Eric?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I disagree with that. With that, Big said he's onto
something with the car washes. Okay, so let's not throw
that aside. I just don't understand why we got to
work these poor girls around the clock just because of
the idea of the stripper car wash. Why can't they
choose one or the other. All right, there's there's labor laws. Eric,
(20:23):
there's labor laws, and the shot sky sounds awesome. Here's
the thing. If I go to the bar and I'm like,
you know, order me a beer and a shot just
for me, maybe that's just I want to, Like, I
just that's what I want. I want to I want
to have a beer and I want to have a shot.
(20:43):
I just want to kind of like chill, Like I
just want to like get the buzz going. Okay, this
is my way of relaxing. And then chilling at the
bar doesn't make me an alcoholic because I bought myself
a shot. Eric's over here calling me an alcoholist because
I'll buy a sh not just for me. That's ridiculous.
But I do agree that if you buy four shots,
(21:04):
you're like, hey, everybody, thet's who shot? You're social. That's huge,
that's a win for the entire group. I'm with you
on that, dude. But to call everybody who's to decide
because I have a beer at eight am, now I'm
an alcoholic? Like who makes that call? Huh?
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Not me?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Well, Eric has made it to Atlanta. He is in
Georgia for this what feels like it's been like a
mufflong vacation. But we'll hear more from him, and uh,
we'll catch up with them next episode. But it sounds
like he's having a great time. His mind is not
with it, guys. At this point. He's asking strippers to
(21:47):
work around the clock in various different businesses and anybody
who's ordering shots and alcoholic this is where this is
where Eric's brain's at. And he's in the cold in
the Da Codas. But now, I've been as hot as
hal in Georgia. I like how you didn't mention that.
He didn't mention how hot it was in Georgia. Don't
you dare bring out the temperature now when we're sweating
(22:10):
an eighty eight degree humidity feels like one hundred at
two thirty am. All right, Eric, we'll be back with
more vacation updates. I promise you the Vetti Vegas in
the next episode. Finally, it's been a long time since
we've had Vetti back on the show. I'm sure, I'm
sure we'll have some words in regards to that. Thanks
(22:35):
for listening, guys,
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