July 30, 2024 • 14 mins
After a quick USA Basketball update, today we dive into why it is Olympic athletes bite their medals. Plus, some encouraging news (and a new term you should know) concerning vacation days. And, what to do when the entire world rejects your life's work and passion. Hint - turn it into the best prank ever.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
I have a feeling today is going to be a little,
you know, different than yesterday's was. Apologies or not if
you listen to it and liked it or didn't. Truthfully,
it's an empty apology. I don't care at all. In fact,
for a long time, I have self diagnosed myself with
something called Chozheimer's, which is where you do a thing
(00:31):
and then almost immediately you forget about it. And so
I had to remind myself. He said, what did I
talk about? Yeah, oh that's right. I don't even think
there was music in yesterday's show. I just put it
up and was like, all right, I enjoy either way,
Today's going to be different, man. Welcome to it. USA basketball,
(00:52):
you know, and if you listen to the Friday's episode,
it was entirely USA basketball because it is my thing.
I have realized it is the closest thing I have
to a hometown favorite team. Right. I don't have a
college allegiance, I don't have a professional allegiance. I'm a
free agent and it's wonderful except when it comes to
USA Basketball. I'm all in. So we'll do a quick
(01:14):
update there not too much time. Then. Something you may
have noticed from these Olympic games. You know the athletes
that was biting on their medals, why do they do that?
The answer coming up? Plus encouraging news about vacation days.
And you know this is a big deal for me.
How much you're going to spend on back to school
shopping this year on average? And what do you do
(01:38):
when literally nobody else on earth shares your passion. I've
got a great way to get over it. Not just
get over it, stick it to them. We'll close with
that today. First up, USA basketball, next game is tomorrow
versus South Sudan. Currently want right now, it's I'm recording
(02:01):
France Wemby take on Japan. Dude, Japan, I mean super undersized.
This is the funniest looking matchup because you've got two
seven footers on France and Japan starting I think point
guard and shooting guard like five to five, and they're
hanging tough. I don't think they're gonna win, but good
for them. So after these and this is a small
(02:22):
sample size, after these first couple games, to me, it
is US is the favorite. Twenty six point victory over Serbia,
France and Canada. France is good, don't get me wrong,
but they'll be better because of the crowd. They have
the home field advantage and they'll need that against US Canada.
That's gonna be our biggest issue. I think, no doubt.
(02:43):
They're solid all the way down. However, I mean, if
you're looking for reasons why we'll win, besides the fact
that we are the most talented by far team, they're
gonna have a little tread on those tires by the
time they reach us, because they're not going to see
us in these first three games, at least probably not
(03:03):
until either the semi final or the final. You get
a little tired. They are not merely as deep in
talent as we are. But we'll see. You know, it's
do or I. Who knows what happens after these first
couple uh group play games. Speaking of the Olympics, you've
seen and they use these in the b roll shots,
the little packages they come out of breaks or into
(03:26):
breaks with one or fifteen different athletes biting their medals.
And it seems especially post twenty twenty. Hey, here's the
thing that a bunch of strangers have touched. Let's put
it in our mouth. It seems silly, but it's a tradition.
But why why do athletes bite their medals? Well, they
can't pinpoint the exact reason. For me. I think it's
(03:49):
because everybody else has done it for so long. It's
like the thing to do, you know. And that's actually
the third explanation they give. It's the one photographer's one
and if you do it, there's a good chance you're
gonna end up, you know, in one of these packages,
or your picture on the cover of whatever, or just
something to frame when you get home. They say, the
(04:10):
first reason athletes do it, maybe the origin of the
entire thing is because you remember back of the day,
and I'm sure you've seen Old West movies, the old prospector,
you know, looking at it, despite his varied experience with
you know, mining for gold and identifying gold in the
midst of every other mineral on Earth, they're pulling up.
(04:32):
Apparently the way to figure it out was just by
biting it. I don't know if that's true or not,
but that's apparently where this comes from. They want to test, like, Okay,
I just won that gold medal, but how it's early gold,
you know, carries over into these games. There is gold
in the medals. It's only six grams, but still there's
some in there, so it's become a tradition. And then
(04:55):
they say the athletes are following in the footsteps of
those like Michael Phelps and Simone Biles and others to
do it. So, yeah, a couple different reasons there. We'll
clean that up when we get on the air. But
it may be because of the old prospector. Who knows.
I got some encouraging news about vacation days. If you
know me, you know I've only got two things i'd
(05:17):
like to leave this. I just dropped my pen on
the floor. I don't even need a pen, and I
hold one anyways, Hold on, where was I? Oh? Yes,
the legacy i'd like to leave. You know it is
my behavior. No, it's really not a big legacy. I
(05:37):
have no aspiration at all past what I'm about to
tell you. I do not find or believe my place
in this world to be one of the great importance
to the mass public. And I think my goals for
my legacy to leave after I'm done. I've already got
eighteen years in something like that. I'd like two things
(05:59):
to become public knowledge and enter the public consciousness. Number one,
use your vacation days every year, every single one. Don't
leave there yours, your business doesn't care about you. Use
your vacation days number two. Turn on your blinker before
(06:21):
you touch your brakes, Blinker before breaks, Blinker before breaks,
Blinker before breaks, or the people behind you just think
you're stopping for no reason. In fact, it's an unexpected stop.
If you don't tell them what you're gonna do, use
your blinker before breaks. The world will be a better place.
So the first of those, the vacation days thing, this
is pretty encouraging news Americans who can't afford to travel.
(06:44):
I understand that are now more than ever taking just vacations.
That's a term you might want to familiarize yourself with,
if for nothing else then to maybe push you over
the edge. I'm like, well, I'm not going to go
anywhere on vacation. Should I take the day? Yes? You
should make it a JUSTI vacation. Seventy three percent of
(07:07):
Americans right now say they are in desperate need of
a vacation. Two thirds were confident coming into the year,
which is the most since nine, that they would take
some vacation time. And even though half of those people
say they can't afford it. That same number is saying,
(07:27):
you know what, so what, I'm taking the days off anyways.
So half And this is where it gets a little
tricky because if you do the math on this, I
don't know exactly what it comes out to, and I'm
not going to attempt to do it. I'm just going
to say half of all the people who believe they
were going to take a vacation this year, which by
the way, more than it has been in the last
fifteen years, half of those people say, I don't even
(07:50):
need to go anywhere. I'm taking the days and I
like it. Back to school shopping is well, if you
haven't started yet, get to it. We are less than
a month away from the kids going back to school.
The average American will spend six hundred and sixty two
dollars cents, and this course it's dollars six hundred and
(08:12):
sixty two bucks on back to school shopping. To help
cut costs, ninety percent of the shoppers are using at
least one savings method like sales and discounts and coupons
and stuff. And I completely agree. I've been doing the
one save money where we don't buy it all at once.
I don't know if it saves money, but it helps
our budget pretty good, like a pair of shorts here,
(08:33):
or a couple of notebooks here and there. Or when
we sent my son to summer school, I was like,
let's just get what we think is going to be
on the school list, you know, so we already have
his taken care of for the most part nearly a quarter.
They'll wait for one specific weekend of the year. You
know what it is. It's the tax free holiday, by
the way, that's this weekend in Missouri. In fact, on
(08:55):
the third, the Saturday, which is a mere four days away,
we're gonna be given away five hundred bucks to the
Battlefield Mall for back to school shopping. Eleven to one
o'clock at the Battlefield Mall this Saturday. You can come
hang out with us. You don't have to stay the
whole two hours. Really, it's only going to take you
about fifteen seconds. But if you're going to back to
school shop on tax free weekends, stop by, you know
(09:17):
the entrance that faces Glenstone. That's where we'll be eleven
to one at one o'clock. We're giving it away. You
don't even have to be there. For it. We'll call
you drop it off on our way to Jersey, Mikes
or wherever we're going to go for lunch afterwards this Saturday.
Don't forget, do you know? Lady God guy's engaged. I
(09:38):
didn't preview this one before. It's a quick hitter, but
apparently she's been engaged for months. During the opening ceremonies,
she was seen introducing the Prime Minister to Michael Polanski,
who is her fiance. People Magazine did some digging around.
Turns out, before she even celebrated her birthday back in March,
they were engaged. So congrats to her belated But I
(09:59):
think purposefully, and finally, what do you do when literally
nobody on earth shares your passion? Right for me? For example,
this USA basketball thing, a fishing, golfing, those are per
I mean, I'm a white man. Those are white man things.
Maybe not the first one so much, but the second
(10:20):
two fishing and golfing. I mean the white guys around here.
It's shared amongst the all of us. It's not exclusively
a white guy thing. By the way, don't read into that.
That's just me saying that I'm a white guy. I
see a lot of other white guys doing the same stuff.
I know my passions are shared. There is a woman
who learned, maybe in the hardest way you can learn,
(10:44):
that nobody else cares about the thing you care about
when she put her collection up for auction, but she's
been working on since nineteen eighty four and nobody wanted
to buy it. This woman owns one thousand, six hundred
and thirty three bedpans, different ones, not the same one.
(11:08):
Different bedpans, but yes, if you're like a bedpan, the
thing you pee into, Yep, that's it. And realized after
thirty years she was running out of room, decided I'm
going to turn to these auctioneers to sell my collection.
Come on, come on, sixteen hundred and thirty three different bedpans.
(11:30):
Look at this life's work, and nobody wanted it, nobody
bid on it. It is a wholesale rejection of this
woman and her life's passion. Now where some may see
this as exactly that, just you're all alone on your
little bedpan island, lady, I think this has potential to
(11:52):
become one of the best posthumous jokes you could ever
hope to pull. It's a long game. You've already put
the time an effort into so nobody wants them, So
what leave them to your kids? With very specific instructions
in the will. I am fine if you'd like to
(12:12):
get rid of these. However, you can only give them
away one at a time, only one a week until
you run out. Or and this may be the best one,
because how many movies have we seen Find a distant
relative and then the mail or via telegram. I don't know,
these movies are pretty old. You get the cryptic. You
(12:36):
have a long lost relative who has passed away and
left you a sizeable collection. We'd like you to please
attend the reading of the will. Then they get there.
They're excited at the guy like they walk into the room.
A bunch of strangers in there they've never seen, and
everyone's dressed nicer than they are, you know, but they're there.
They're the relative from way out of town, and no
(12:58):
one will tell them what it is until the reading
of the will starts. And then the very last thing
and to my you know, second third cousin, John Smith,
I bequeath Sorry, I don't know why that word makes
me laugh. It's the only no one in the history
of bequeathings has ever bequeathed to anything while they were
(13:19):
still alive. Right, m you only use this word in
one context. I bequeath my sixteen hundred bedpan collection. It
will be delivered to your house next Tuesday. That turns
this woman's passion into one of the greatest pranks ever pulled.
(13:41):
So just when you think the world doesn't have your back,
guess what, they'll come around. You just got to get
creative with it. The reason I do this podcast. Eventually,
right people will come around. They'll bell No, I don't
blame it. We're gonna turn this into a shell. Maybe
not the bad pan thing, maybe the bad pan I'll
(14:02):
do it. I'm gonna do the bad Pan thing either way.
Thanks for being here for this today. We will talk
to you tomorrow.
I have a feeling today is going to be a little,
you know, different than yesterday's was. Apologies or not if
you listen to it and liked it or didn't. Truthfully,
it's an empty apology. I don't care at all. In fact,
for a long time, I have self diagnosed myself with
something called Chozheimer's, which is where you do a thing
(00:31):
and then almost immediately you forget about it. And so
I had to remind myself. He said, what did I
talk about? Yeah, oh that's right. I don't even think
there was music in yesterday's show. I just put it
up and was like, all right, I enjoy either way,
Today's going to be different, man. Welcome to it. USA basketball,
(00:52):
you know, and if you listen to the Friday's episode,
it was entirely USA basketball because it is my thing.
I have realized it is the closest thing I have
to a hometown favorite team. Right. I don't have a
college allegiance, I don't have a professional allegiance. I'm a
free agent and it's wonderful except when it comes to
USA Basketball. I'm all in. So we'll do a quick
(01:14):
update there not too much time. Then. Something you may
have noticed from these Olympic games. You know the athletes
that was biting on their medals, why do they do that?
The answer coming up? Plus encouraging news about vacation days.
And you know this is a big deal for me.
How much you're going to spend on back to school
shopping this year on average? And what do you do
(01:38):
when literally nobody else on earth shares your passion. I've
got a great way to get over it. Not just
get over it, stick it to them. We'll close with
that today. First up, USA basketball, next game is tomorrow
versus South Sudan. Currently want right now, it's I'm recording
(02:01):
France Wemby take on Japan. Dude, Japan, I mean super undersized.
This is the funniest looking matchup because you've got two
seven footers on France and Japan starting I think point
guard and shooting guard like five to five, and they're
hanging tough. I don't think they're gonna win, but good
for them. So after these and this is a small
(02:22):
sample size, after these first couple games, to me, it
is US is the favorite. Twenty six point victory over Serbia,
France and Canada. France is good, don't get me wrong,
but they'll be better because of the crowd. They have
the home field advantage and they'll need that against US Canada.
That's gonna be our biggest issue. I think, no doubt.
(02:43):
They're solid all the way down. However, I mean, if
you're looking for reasons why we'll win, besides the fact
that we are the most talented by far team, they're
gonna have a little tread on those tires by the
time they reach us, because they're not going to see
us in these first three games, at least probably not
(03:03):
until either the semi final or the final. You get
a little tired. They are not merely as deep in
talent as we are. But we'll see. You know, it's
do or I. Who knows what happens after these first
couple uh group play games. Speaking of the Olympics, you've
seen and they use these in the b roll shots,
the little packages they come out of breaks or into
(03:26):
breaks with one or fifteen different athletes biting their medals.
And it seems especially post twenty twenty. Hey, here's the
thing that a bunch of strangers have touched. Let's put
it in our mouth. It seems silly, but it's a tradition.
But why why do athletes bite their medals? Well, they
can't pinpoint the exact reason. For me. I think it's
(03:49):
because everybody else has done it for so long. It's
like the thing to do, you know. And that's actually
the third explanation they give. It's the one photographer's one
and if you do it, there's a good chance you're
gonna end up, you know, in one of these packages,
or your picture on the cover of whatever, or just
something to frame when you get home. They say, the
(04:10):
first reason athletes do it, maybe the origin of the
entire thing is because you remember back of the day,
and I'm sure you've seen Old West movies, the old prospector,
you know, looking at it, despite his varied experience with
you know, mining for gold and identifying gold in the
midst of every other mineral on Earth, they're pulling up.
(04:32):
Apparently the way to figure it out was just by
biting it. I don't know if that's true or not,
but that's apparently where this comes from. They want to test, like, Okay,
I just won that gold medal, but how it's early gold,
you know, carries over into these games. There is gold
in the medals. It's only six grams, but still there's
some in there, so it's become a tradition. And then
(04:55):
they say the athletes are following in the footsteps of
those like Michael Phelps and Simone Biles and others to
do it. So, yeah, a couple different reasons there. We'll
clean that up when we get on the air. But
it may be because of the old prospector. Who knows.
I got some encouraging news about vacation days. If you
know me, you know I've only got two things i'd
(05:17):
like to leave this. I just dropped my pen on
the floor. I don't even need a pen, and I
hold one anyways, Hold on, where was I? Oh? Yes,
the legacy i'd like to leave. You know it is
my behavior. No, it's really not a big legacy. I
(05:37):
have no aspiration at all past what I'm about to
tell you. I do not find or believe my place
in this world to be one of the great importance
to the mass public. And I think my goals for
my legacy to leave after I'm done. I've already got
eighteen years in something like that. I'd like two things
(05:59):
to become public knowledge and enter the public consciousness. Number one,
use your vacation days every year, every single one. Don't
leave there yours, your business doesn't care about you. Use
your vacation days number two. Turn on your blinker before
(06:21):
you touch your brakes, Blinker before breaks, Blinker before breaks,
Blinker before breaks, or the people behind you just think
you're stopping for no reason. In fact, it's an unexpected stop.
If you don't tell them what you're gonna do, use
your blinker before breaks. The world will be a better place.
So the first of those, the vacation days thing, this
is pretty encouraging news Americans who can't afford to travel.
(06:44):
I understand that are now more than ever taking just vacations.
That's a term you might want to familiarize yourself with,
if for nothing else then to maybe push you over
the edge. I'm like, well, I'm not going to go
anywhere on vacation. Should I take the day? Yes? You
should make it a JUSTI vacation. Seventy three percent of
(07:07):
Americans right now say they are in desperate need of
a vacation. Two thirds were confident coming into the year,
which is the most since nine, that they would take
some vacation time. And even though half of those people
say they can't afford it. That same number is saying,
(07:27):
you know what, so what, I'm taking the days off anyways.
So half And this is where it gets a little
tricky because if you do the math on this, I
don't know exactly what it comes out to, and I'm
not going to attempt to do it. I'm just going
to say half of all the people who believe they
were going to take a vacation this year, which by
the way, more than it has been in the last
fifteen years, half of those people say, I don't even
(07:50):
need to go anywhere. I'm taking the days and I
like it. Back to school shopping is well, if you
haven't started yet, get to it. We are less than
a month away from the kids going back to school.
The average American will spend six hundred and sixty two
dollars cents, and this course it's dollars six hundred and
(08:12):
sixty two bucks on back to school shopping. To help
cut costs, ninety percent of the shoppers are using at
least one savings method like sales and discounts and coupons
and stuff. And I completely agree. I've been doing the
one save money where we don't buy it all at once.
I don't know if it saves money, but it helps
our budget pretty good, like a pair of shorts here,
(08:33):
or a couple of notebooks here and there. Or when
we sent my son to summer school, I was like,
let's just get what we think is going to be
on the school list, you know, so we already have
his taken care of for the most part nearly a quarter.
They'll wait for one specific weekend of the year. You
know what it is. It's the tax free holiday, by
the way, that's this weekend in Missouri. In fact, on
(08:55):
the third, the Saturday, which is a mere four days away,
we're gonna be given away five hundred bucks to the
Battlefield Mall for back to school shopping. Eleven to one
o'clock at the Battlefield Mall this Saturday. You can come
hang out with us. You don't have to stay the
whole two hours. Really, it's only going to take you
about fifteen seconds. But if you're going to back to
school shop on tax free weekends, stop by, you know
(09:17):
the entrance that faces Glenstone. That's where we'll be eleven
to one at one o'clock. We're giving it away. You
don't even have to be there. For it. We'll call
you drop it off on our way to Jersey, Mikes
or wherever we're going to go for lunch afterwards this Saturday.
Don't forget, do you know? Lady God guy's engaged. I
(09:38):
didn't preview this one before. It's a quick hitter, but
apparently she's been engaged for months. During the opening ceremonies,
she was seen introducing the Prime Minister to Michael Polanski,
who is her fiance. People Magazine did some digging around.
Turns out, before she even celebrated her birthday back in March,
they were engaged. So congrats to her belated But I
(09:59):
think purposefully, and finally, what do you do when literally
nobody on earth shares your passion? Right for me? For example,
this USA basketball thing, a fishing, golfing, those are per
I mean, I'm a white man. Those are white man things.
Maybe not the first one so much, but the second
(10:20):
two fishing and golfing. I mean the white guys around here.
It's shared amongst the all of us. It's not exclusively
a white guy thing. By the way, don't read into that.
That's just me saying that I'm a white guy. I
see a lot of other white guys doing the same stuff.
I know my passions are shared. There is a woman
who learned, maybe in the hardest way you can learn,
(10:44):
that nobody else cares about the thing you care about
when she put her collection up for auction, but she's
been working on since nineteen eighty four and nobody wanted
to buy it. This woman owns one thousand, six hundred
and thirty three bedpans, different ones, not the same one.
(11:08):
Different bedpans, but yes, if you're like a bedpan, the
thing you pee into, Yep, that's it. And realized after
thirty years she was running out of room, decided I'm
going to turn to these auctioneers to sell my collection.
Come on, come on, sixteen hundred and thirty three different bedpans.
(11:30):
Look at this life's work, and nobody wanted it, nobody
bid on it. It is a wholesale rejection of this
woman and her life's passion. Now where some may see
this as exactly that, just you're all alone on your
little bedpan island, lady, I think this has potential to
(11:52):
become one of the best posthumous jokes you could ever
hope to pull. It's a long game. You've already put
the time an effort into so nobody wants them, So
what leave them to your kids? With very specific instructions
in the will. I am fine if you'd like to
(12:12):
get rid of these. However, you can only give them
away one at a time, only one a week until
you run out. Or and this may be the best one,
because how many movies have we seen Find a distant
relative and then the mail or via telegram. I don't know,
these movies are pretty old. You get the cryptic. You
(12:36):
have a long lost relative who has passed away and
left you a sizeable collection. We'd like you to please
attend the reading of the will. Then they get there.
They're excited at the guy like they walk into the room.
A bunch of strangers in there they've never seen, and
everyone's dressed nicer than they are, you know, but they're there.
They're the relative from way out of town, and no
(12:58):
one will tell them what it is until the reading
of the will starts. And then the very last thing
and to my you know, second third cousin, John Smith,
I bequeath Sorry, I don't know why that word makes
me laugh. It's the only no one in the history
of bequeathings has ever bequeathed to anything while they were
(13:19):
still alive. Right, m you only use this word in
one context. I bequeath my sixteen hundred bedpan collection. It
will be delivered to your house next Tuesday. That turns
this woman's passion into one of the greatest pranks ever pulled.
(13:41):
So just when you think the world doesn't have your back,
guess what, they'll come around. You just got to get
creative with it. The reason I do this podcast. Eventually,
right people will come around. They'll bell No, I don't
blame it. We're gonna turn this into a shell. Maybe
not the bad pan thing, maybe the bad pan I'll
(14:02):
do it. I'm gonna do the bad Pan thing either way.
Thanks for being here for this today. We will talk
to you tomorrow.
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