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March 16, 2025 41 mins

Episode 9: Everything Sucks Now… 🎙️

🚨 DOUBLE EPISODE ALERT! 🚨
After a long hiatus filled with illness, burnout, and an overwhelming sense of being over it, Jerry Pancake and the Miller Morning Madhouse crew are back with a nearly double-length episode (41 minutes of pure, unfiltered truth).

In this episode, we catch up on what we’ve been up to the last couple of months, and most importantly, we break down why travel—specifically flying—absolutely sucks now. From chaotic airports to airlines treating passengers like livestock, we leave no stone unturned in our rant against the skies. And if you think things couldn't get worse, just remember—the White House is now a Tesla dealership.

🎵 Music Featured in This Episode:
🎸 RockNStock – Wrecked
🥁 The Professionals – Flying Pots
🎤 Moons Over My Hammy – Jerry Pancake


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🎭 The Miller Community Theatre – The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee – Coming this April to the Marshall J. Gardner Center! Support local theater before AI takes over Broadway. Tickets on sale now!

All In Jest Trivia – Join Josh Scramble for a night of brain-busting fun and questionable knowledge at the Marshall J. Gardner Center on Friday, March 28th! Bring your A-game… or at least some alcohol.

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  • (00:21) - Introduction to the Madhouse
  • (01:33) - Return from Hiatus
  • (02:53) - Apologies and Updates
  • (05:10) - Health and Travel Stories
  • (08:01) - Canadian Adventures
  • (08:51) - Teachers and Their Quirks
  • (09:47) - Testing Season Shenanigans
  • (12:24) - Listener Challenges
  • (20:33) - Everything Sucks Now Segment
  • (21:45) - Air Travel Woes
  • (26:36) - Security Line Stresses
  • (34:10) - Funny Travel Stories
  • (37:55) - Closing Remarks
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about how fucking cool you are.

Josh Scramble (00:21):
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Jen Pancake (00:29):
Somehow less rage y today. Even though I know I seem
rage y most of the time.

Josh Scramble (00:35):
Rage y against the machine?

Jen Pancake (00:36):
Rage y against the machine. Always killing the name
up. Like today, for example, Ihad two students, a fourth and
fifth grader, and they didn'tknow how many brothers and
sisters they had because theyhave

Jerry Pancake (00:49):
so much We have situations.

Josh Scramble (00:51):
Is it because, like, they're out of the
household?

Jen Pancake (00:54):
I don't know. I didn't I I mean, what are you
what follow-up questions do you

Jerry Pancake (01:24):
What's up, my fellow burned out humans? We're
back from our extended hiatus,partly due to sickness, partly
due to being absolutely sick ofthis bullshit. But don't worry.
We've returned just in time totell you exactly why everything
sucks now. Travel, a nightmare.
Movies, unwatchable. Popculture, a flaming dumpster

(01:45):
fire. In the White House, it's aTesla dealership now. Great news
if you've got an extra 80 klaying around. Terrible news if
you were hoping for any kind offunctional leadership.
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(02:06):
down. Grab a T shirt, hoodie, orhat, and let people know you're
over it in style. The MillerCommunity Theater.
Tickets are on sale now fortheir spring musical, the twenty
fifth annual Putnam CountySpelling Bee, hitting the stage
this April at the Marshall jGardner Center. It's hilarious.
It's heartfelt, and it's one ofthe few things in life that

(02:27):
doesn't suck. Check out the shownotes for ticket links. And
finally, I'll ingest trivia withJosh scramble coming up on
Friday, March 28 at the Marshallj Gardner Center.
Get ready for a night of triviadrinks and Josh scrambles
questionable game show hostskills. Will you win? Will you

(02:48):
lose? Will you accidentallyorder a Tesla from the White
House? Only one way to find out.
Welcome back to the MillerMorning Madhouse. It's your two
favorite idiots, myself, JerryPancake. And your boy, Josh
Gramble. Bringing you the onlymorning show that gets worse
with age. And we have someapologies to make since we have
missed quite a bit of time.

(03:10):
Josh Scramble told me the otherday, almost two months since
we've recorded.

Josh Scramble (03:17):
It has been quite a while.

Jen Pancake (03:18):
Two months in blink of an eye.

Jerry Pancake (03:20):
And we also have my lovely wife here, Jenny
pancake

Jen Pancake (03:23):
from

Jerry Pancake (03:23):
In the

Jen Pancake (03:23):
blink of a nightmare.

Jerry Pancake (03:25):
In the blink of a nightmare. We are we are we are
back. We also have Jenny pancakehere.

Jen Pancake (03:32):
Hi everyone.

Jerry Pancake (03:35):
And she is ready to do some funny things today, I
guess. I don't know.

Jen Pancake (03:40):
Maybe.

Jerry Pancake (03:41):
But here has what has been happening. We, I got
COVID for Christmas from, I'm Ithink the Flamingo, which, you
know, people say that Wuhan,like, was where COVID started,
but I have other theoriesbecause

Jen Pancake (03:59):
It wasn't the Flamingo, it was the side
streets.

Jerry Pancake (04:03):
It was someone that was at Flamingo. I'm not
they're not pumping it into theair. But I also I've gotten sick
almost every time I've gonethere. And I think the last time
I got airborne AIDS, whichluckily they have like a a good

Jen Pancake (04:20):
Jabs.

Jerry Pancake (04:21):
Jabs for that. Got seven jabs, right before we
went to Arizona. So we've beentraveling as well. And I got
them all in one arm. The nurseor you just get shots from the
pharmacist now.

Josh Scramble (04:39):
Think it's just the cashier.

Jerry Pancake (04:41):
Yeah. Like they

Josh Scramble (04:43):
It's a cashier and scrubs.

Jerry Pancake (04:44):
Yeah. They like have this cubicle they can set
up in, like, five seconds.

Josh Scramble (04:51):
Oh, when I

Jerry Pancake (04:52):
In the Walgreens in Lake Oh, that's where I go
for all my vaccinations is LakeStation. Because no one in Lake
Station you're not gonna wait inline there. No one is getting
vaccinated over there.

Jen Pancake (05:06):
That's offensive.

Jerry Pancake (05:08):
I'm sorry.

Jen Pancake (05:09):
Is it really offensive? It's a Lake Station
night.

Jerry Pancake (05:12):
Jay can't take us from

Josh Scramble (05:13):
Most people are at convenience stores or getting
cigarettes. I mean, there's9,000 guests.

Jerry Pancake (05:18):
Oh yeah. If you want

Jen Pancake (05:18):
to line up They've been to everything.

Jerry Pancake (05:23):
I got seven jabs all in one arm because I didn't
want to roll up my other sleeveand then immediately got super
sick once I got home frombeautiful sunny and warm
Arizona. Josh scramble, wherehave you been traveled to?

Josh Scramble (05:42):
I did not get COVID for Christmas. I stayed
healthy, but I did bring oversome food and wanted to stay
here to escape the, chaos thatwas going on at my house. But
you guys were sick, so that wasnot an option.

Jen Pancake (05:55):
Jerry was dead that day. I remember. I was. You're
like, woah. He's really sick.

Josh Scramble (05:59):
Yeah. I walked in and Jerry

Jen Pancake (06:01):
over the couch.

Josh Scramble (06:01):
Jerry was in a semi fetal position under a
blanket looking like deathwarmed over. But, we just went
skiing because, you know, we'rethose people who go from a cold
environment to a colderenvironment. So we've visited
the lovely country of Canada,which was interesting in the,
political times we're in right

Jerry Pancake (06:19):
Our fifty first state, I hear.

Josh Scramble (06:21):
But they don't yeah. It was very interesting
being an American abroad duringeverything. Yeah. They're kinda
banding together.

Jen Pancake (06:29):
Cue the Russian national anthem.

Josh Scramble (06:32):
If you ever want to unite another country, just
start throwing dumb shit atthem, and that'll do it because
they're, like, they areliterally pulling all the
bottles from the bar that areAmerican. I I ordered a Captain
and Diet, and they're like,well, if we still have any left
because once we run out ofanything American, we're taking
it off the menu. I'm like, what?Way to go. I mean, say it with

(06:54):
your money.

Jerry Pancake (06:54):
Good for them. I hope they reopen that Elsinore
Brewery, the one in strange brewwhere they were doing the mind
altering drugs in the beer.Those guys, the Mackenzie
brothers.

Jen Pancake (07:10):
Could have ordered a little more gown.

Josh Scramble (07:15):
Actually, the funny thing is they, on the
labels up there, I guess inFrench rum is spelled with an h
r h u m. So it's room. Well, youknow, the funny little
differences.

Jerry Pancake (07:28):
I love the French. They they're like
burning it down over there. Likewhen they get, when they want to
strike, they're just like all ofthem in the streets. Nobody
cares. They, they burned up aTesla dealership, set it on
fire.
Oh yeah. They're, they're notfucking around over there, man.
I don't know what you know, youthink of a French person like,

(07:50):
you know, whatever. I kind ofOnce

Josh Scramble (07:54):
they get motivated, they get motivated.

Jerry Pancake (07:56):
Yeah. They're not they will guillotine people in a
second. Like, didn't they inventit?

Jen Pancake (08:02):
The L's are silent.

Josh Scramble (08:04):
Guillotine? Yeah. Guillotine. Four years of
French.

Jerry Pancake (08:07):
I say guillotine. I'm an American. It's a
guillotine wire. It's guillotinearound here, lady.

Josh Scramble (08:14):
Around these parts, we call it a guillotine.

Jerry Pancake (08:17):
Portage. Definitely calling it a
guillotine in Portage.

Josh Scramble (08:21):
That's a that's a Port Gay guillotine. Port Gay
get proud.

Jen Pancake (08:25):
Shout out to miss McPherson, Portage Portage High
School.

Josh Scramble (08:28):
That's who

Jerry Pancake (08:29):
I had. Did you?

Josh Scramble (08:30):
I don't

Jerry Pancake (08:31):
think she likes You're not supposed to say real
names, but that's fine.

Josh Scramble (08:33):
Oh, she's long retired.

Jerry Pancake (08:35):
I thought you were gonna say dead.

Josh Scramble (08:37):
She might be dead.

Jerry Pancake (08:38):
Well, she will be now. So we we're good at when we
mention people they try

Josh Scramble (08:42):
to In twenty

Jen Pancake (08:43):
years, she didn't

Josh Scramble (08:43):
own a TV. She did not own a TV.

Jen Pancake (08:46):
Smart lady.

Josh Scramble (08:47):
Which mhmm. No. But this was like thirty,
twenty, well, twenty years. Freeinternet.

Jerry Pancake (08:52):
What she do? Read books?

Josh Scramble (08:54):
Yeah. Like a weirdo. Sorry. She only watched
one thing, the Olympics, whichalways like I don't okay. If you
don't watch a lot of TV, Iunderstand.
But if you don't watch any TV,it kind of like But the

Jerry Pancake (09:05):
she watched the Olympics though.

Josh Scramble (09:07):
She liked watching the Olympics. So for
two weeks every four or sorry.Two weeks every two years, she
would watch TV.

Jen Pancake (09:14):
I just have to

Jerry Pancake (09:16):
Where did she she rent the TV at the time? You
could right

Jen Pancake (09:19):
there and and lead with teachers are very weird. So
in general.

Jerry Pancake (09:25):
We know some. We are some.

Josh Scramble (09:27):
Because you have to deal with fucking assholes
every day.

Jen Pancake (09:31):
Well, that could be one reason.

Jerry Pancake (09:33):
Yeah. I see. But you have

Jen Pancake (09:34):
to be nuts to do this job. I've I think I've
realized.

Jerry Pancake (09:38):
I spent we've we've been out also very busy.
It's testing season. We are inthe education sphere.

Josh Scramble (09:47):
God bless you.

Jerry Pancake (09:48):
And so it's test state testing time. And that's
been an interesting situation.

Jen Pancake (09:56):
My were tested by Rusty the Railcat yesterday.

Jerry Pancake (09:59):
Yes. Jen is doing her testing at the Railcat's
stadium because we are virtual.

Jen Pancake (10:05):
And that is not a joke. One of the teachers put on
the y, mascot outfit. And taughtin it?

Jerry Pancake (10:12):
No. Trying to amuse the testing Did

Josh Scramble (10:18):
it stink?

Jen Pancake (10:19):
I don't know. I stayed far away, but I I can
tell you that once he was out ofit, he was completely drenched
and his clothes were soaked.

Josh Scramble (10:28):
Asking if the suit stink. Like, I would think
that, you know

Jen Pancake (10:31):
I mean, if it didn't, it does now because he's

Josh Scramble (10:33):
swept through clothes. The kid in that stupid
suit in the middle of, like,July and it's 90 degrees, 90%
humidity, this fucking kid hasto walk around in a bear
costume.

Jen Pancake (10:45):
I'm just gonna say they're they're gonna have to
dry dry clean it again. And it'sa cat. It's right in the name.

Josh Scramble (10:51):
Yeah. But he's not. Oh, I guess he technically
he is, but he looks like a bear.

Jen Pancake (10:56):
He does look like a bear.

Jerry Pancake (10:57):
Yeah. It's not a good rendition of a cat. For
sure.

Josh Scramble (11:02):
Just big and furry are also. Big and furry.
Yeah.

Jen Pancake (11:07):
I mean, I hope he's not listening. Surely, you know
what mean? Have probably way thevirtual school is I don't know
any of my coworkers.

Jerry Pancake (11:16):
Yeah. And I was over in on Ridge Road at the
Excel Center. I don't know ifyou're familiar with that, but
it's

Jen Pancake (11:24):
Lots of excelling.

Jerry Pancake (11:26):
Right next to the Goodwill outlet.

Josh Scramble (11:28):
I know where you're talking about.

Jerry Pancake (11:30):
And it's interesting. It's a school for
adult learners.

Josh Scramble (11:36):
Who messed up the first time around?

Jerry Pancake (11:38):
Yeah. Yeah. Or a place for homeless people to do
like business things, like setup their doctor's appointments
and

Josh Scramble (11:48):
Oh, I thought you meant like

Jerry Pancake (11:49):
Like use the microwave or whatever. And like
then after they close, they goon to wherever wherever they're
gonna be. So that has been aninteresting thing. And that part
of Gary is such a weird it'skinda on the border of Griffith.

Josh Scramble (12:05):
It's kind of another world.

Jerry Pancake (12:06):
Yeah. It's very it's very interesting over
there. Definitely different thanMiller here. So we've been busy
with that. And again, weapologize, but we're gonna try
and get a couple episodes out.
We're really gonna

Jen Pancake (12:23):
dazzle you today.

Jerry Pancake (12:24):
Dazzle.

Josh Scramble (12:24):
I do have a update, news update for our
listeners. I will say that Ionce challenged everyone one of
our listeners, if you could finda empty parking lot photo of
romantics, I would give you $20.I can officially call that
contest closed, andunfortunately, won by myself.

Jerry Pancake (12:43):
What lonely ass day that were you out there?

Josh Scramble (12:48):
So it was Sunday, January 18 at 09:52AM according
to the time stamp on my phone.Sunday. It was a Sunday. I had a
the fuck did you know it was aSunday just from the date?

Jerry Pancake (13:01):
So here's the thing with romantics. They're
competing with a lot of thechurches in the area. They
really are. So a lot of thosepeople, super religious people,
they go there, get their dildos,get the butt plugs and jack off
then get a fucking like the onereview. Then, yeah, like on

(13:22):
Sunday morning,

Jen Pancake (13:23):
go wash it all away on Sunday.

Jerry Pancake (13:25):
Yeah. They're going to go confess and that
priest is going to be like,alright, well, tell

Josh Scramble (13:30):
me what sins you did at the romantics this week.
You smell like a sex booth inshame.

Jerry Pancake (13:38):
Mister James, what bad things did you do at
the romantics this week, sir?

Josh Scramble (13:43):
So but to give some context as to why I caught
this photo, I was repairing afaucet on one of our sinks. And
of course, one sink is not thesame size as the other. So I had
to go buy some, attachments forthe lines in. And on the way to
the hardware store, saw one carand was very disappointed. And

(14:04):
on the way back, took a browseover and was like, oh, crap.
And immediately grabbed my phoneand caught a live photo. So we
can we'll probably post it toour Instagram just to have the
actual proof.

Jen Pancake (14:13):
Was there a blizzard?

Josh Scramble (14:14):
No. It was just just no. If you look at the
photo, was a minor amount ofsnow on the ground. It was cold
and cloudy, but I mean, therethere was no weird

Jen Pancake (14:25):
No explainable reason.

Josh Scramble (14:27):
No. Just it was the time of day. I guess I
caught I mean, I looked up andthere was no eclipse going on.
So I just Maybe

Jen Pancake (14:34):
the cashier had a emergency of some sort.

Jerry Pancake (14:39):
No. I mean, I I just think it's probably not
it's probably not fun for justone person. Like, you gotta have
a lot of people in there for

Josh Scramble (14:48):
If you're looking for that, there's always gotta
be the first person to show upto a party.

Jen Pancake (14:52):
It is true. Even a circle check.

Jerry Pancake (14:57):
I mean, but also alright. Let's I have another
theory too. There's a lot oftruck parking right there. So, I
mean, people could walk. They'retrue.
But

Josh Scramble (15:08):
also if you That

Jen Pancake (15:10):
parking lot is never empty.

Josh Scramble (15:11):
But I've also seen a lot of full tractor
trailers just parked in there,like

Jerry Pancake (15:15):
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Just getting a quick jerk
in or whatever.

Jen Pancake (15:19):
Zero fucks.

Jerry Pancake (15:19):
Because I think you could jerk in one of those
trucks. They're pretty roomy.

Josh Scramble (15:23):
Oh, they've got that whole bed attachment. It's
like a minor bedroom.

Jerry Pancake (15:27):
But it's not as exciting that that doing it that
way.

Josh Scramble (15:30):
It would be difficult to put a glory hole in
the back of a semi truck.

Jerry Pancake (15:33):
I bet people have done it. Those truck drivers are
free.

Josh Scramble (15:36):
Just a little more more cramped.

Jen Pancake (15:38):
Get a get a sheet of plywood like I'm already
envisioning it.

Josh Scramble (15:41):
It's not even a, it's not even a wall. It's just
like a little, a

Jen Pancake (15:45):
very pro

Jerry Pancake (15:45):
glory hole. Jenny pancake glory hole design.

Jen Pancake (15:50):
Pro pro glory hole.

Jerry Pancake (15:52):
You could do, like, you know how they do those
home improvement videos?

Josh Scramble (15:57):
A flower. Glory hole makeover.

Jerry Pancake (15:59):
Yeah. Like, do those quick, like, home videos.

Josh Scramble (16:01):
That bus.

Jerry Pancake (16:02):
They'll do those quick little sped up videos
where they, like, build a wholedeck in, like, thirty seconds,
And yours is just, like, makinga glory hole.

Jen Pancake (16:10):
It's just a sheet of plywood, and I paint a flower
on

Josh Scramble (16:13):
it and

Jerry Pancake (16:14):
go all the through the center.

Josh Scramble (16:18):
No. Even need to speed the whole video up. It's
just Jen with a drill for thirtyseconds. And this

Jerry Pancake (16:24):
one is a clown's mouth.

Jen Pancake (16:27):
Hello kids. And

Jerry Pancake (16:29):
this is a gentleman from the eighteen
nineties.

Jen Pancake (16:32):
It's a fun house

Jerry Pancake (16:32):
with that looks like Charlie Chaplin.

Josh Scramble (16:35):
We call it the Old Glory Hole. You You see?

Jerry Pancake (16:39):
Yeah. That might take off. We gotta look into The

Jen Pancake (16:42):
old Glory Hole. That's that takes me back.

Jerry Pancake (16:46):
We got a lot of federal workers losing their
jobs. So, you know, maybe we canstart making glory holes and
doing you know, they can make alittle money that way, maybe.

Josh Scramble (16:56):
Tariff the glory hole.

Jen Pancake (16:59):
Make America glory hole again.

Josh Scramble (17:03):
Make America glorious again. Glorious.

Jerry Pancake (17:06):
Yeah. It's like yeah. We have to that is
definitely like, put that on ourlist. Side What list? What list?
The side gigs. Hustles.

Josh Scramble (17:20):
I love to see this business card. Jerry
pancake, gory, wholeentrepreneur. Although you are,
you do make fuck sheds. So Yeah.

Jerry Pancake (17:30):
And you That's an attachment to

Josh Scramble (17:31):
fuck shit.

Jerry Pancake (17:32):
I'm thinking renting is the way to go with a
glory hole.

Josh Scramble (17:35):
We we have a lease for

Jerry Pancake (17:36):
you. Because you don't sometimes you don't want
some of your people coming overto your house and being like, oh
god. He put that glory holeright in the front yard.

Josh Scramble (17:44):
Can I make one suggestion?

Jerry Pancake (17:45):
Like your parents come over, you wanna like hide
it or put it in the bank.

Josh Scramble (17:49):
Very high security deposit.

Jen Pancake (17:51):
Oh. We can get some like decorative dividers for
privacy?

Josh Scramble (18:00):
I I don't know.

Jerry Pancake (18:00):
It sounds like a fuck shed now.

Jen Pancake (18:03):
Those When our when our fake school business
implodes, which

Jerry Pancake (18:09):
Well, maybe we can get a PPP loan for the glory
home business.

Josh Scramble (18:15):
A PP how about just a PP loan? PP loan.

Jerry Pancake (18:17):
Or a PP. Yeah. They're only doing the PP now.

Jen Pancake (18:20):
They need

Jerry Pancake (18:20):
to because there's no pandemic anymore.

Jen Pancake (18:22):
If there's any PP loaners out there listening.

Josh Scramble (18:25):
How long are my PP?

Jerry Pancake (18:28):
There's a lot of them in the world right now.

Jen Pancake (18:31):
Yeah. I can think of a few.

Josh Scramble (18:35):
Pee pee loners? Yep. Hate to see the interest
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Jerry Pancake (20:50):
Welcome back to the Miller Morning Madhouse. We
are gonna do a segment. We'veall been traveling recently.
Right?

Josh Scramble (20:59):
We have.

Jerry Pancake (21:01):
So we're gonna start doing a segment here,
called everything sucks now.

Josh Scramble (21:05):
Anyone who knows Jerry, it's a plentiful amount
of things.

Jerry Pancake (21:08):
Man, everything does suck. There's only, like,
four things I like doinganymore.

Jen Pancake (21:12):
We're gonna we're gonna make it a separate
podcast, but but we don't havethe capacity to

Jerry Pancake (21:17):
sell space. No. We thought about that and, for
just a minute or two, but we'regonna incorporate it here into
the madhouse. Everything sucksnow. We're this is kinda like a
almost a history historic kindof The

Jen Pancake (21:32):
historians will look back on Miller Moring
madhouse.

Jerry Pancake (21:35):
Yeah. Now that I'm in my fifties, I've there
was a time when everything waspretty awesome. Okay.

Josh Scramble (21:44):
Was it the eighties, Jerry?

Jerry Pancake (21:46):
It was the eighties. But our first first
segment of this, because all ofus have been traveling, is the
plane travel sucks. I can agree.Now did you go on some Canadian

(22:06):
airline or just a regular?

Josh Scramble (22:08):
So interesting. We flew Air Canada the way out
there, which is part of theUnited family. But the Air
Canada flight out seemed to havemore amenities than the United
flight on the way back.

Jen Pancake (22:22):
It always does.

Jerry Pancake (22:23):
That makes a lot of sense to me. I remember when
we traveled to, Mexico, was it?

Jen Pancake (22:30):
Oh, that was amazing.

Jerry Pancake (22:32):
I don't know if you've ever flown Aeromexico,
but I have not. Bro. I'm gonnastart saying that a lot now,
bro.

Jen Pancake (22:40):
Talk talk about breakfast.

Jerry Pancake (22:42):
Yeah. They gave us a hot breakfast.

Josh Scramble (22:45):
It was good.

Jen Pancake (22:46):
And it was delicious.

Jerry Pancake (22:48):
The stewardesses look like Stewart. They're all
dressed up in, like, fulllipstick. They fed us.

Jen Pancake (22:57):
I don't condone that, by the way. But it was
they were beautiful and and verynice.

Jerry Pancake (23:04):
Oh, yeah. Nice to

Josh Scramble (23:05):
look at. That just reminded me of our next
episode of everything sucksbecause I just thought of
something.

Jerry Pancake (23:11):
Perfect. But, yeah, like super way more room
on that on that Aeromexicoplane. So it seems like the
foreign

Josh Scramble (23:23):
markets, I think, have a much better idea of,
please do not just make this abus in the air.

Jerry Pancake (23:28):
I would gladly pay more Give

Jen Pancake (23:31):
us some Canadian amenities that you experienced,
Scramble. Just an

Josh Scramble (23:37):
extra treat. There was so they did two rounds
of the

Jen Pancake (23:41):
Oh, two pass throughs?

Josh Scramble (23:43):
Yeah. Well, it was a four oh, not a four hour
fight, but I think three and ahalf because it was here to
Vancouver.

Jen Pancake (23:48):
Oh, okay. That's pretty. So they

Josh Scramble (23:50):
did one round of the, you know, the snacks and
the drink, and then they didanother one. It was the first
flight that I had been on since,you know, remember back in like
the '9 no. No. Not that long.I'm just kidding.
But back in the nineties whenthey started saying like, look
at how much technology we'rethrowing in a plane, and they
always used to show the videoscreens. It was the first legit

(24:10):
flight I was on where it had thevideo screen and like it didn't
fucking suck ass. Like, Itactually worked. It worked. It
worked fantastic.

Jen Pancake (24:20):
It it made your travel experience better Yes.
Versus the opposite.

Jerry Pancake (24:24):
Oh, they gave you free headphones.

Josh Scramble (24:26):
They they did offer free headphones, but I had
my own. The only thing that Idid not like is it offered
Bluetooth, but the Bluetoothsucked ass. But I'm like, I came
prepared. Radio Shack scrambleover here had his own wired
headphones he could use too.Well,

Jerry Pancake (24:40):
I mean, you don't wanna I it's my opinion. You
don't wanna really fuck aroundwith radio signals on today's
planes. Just, know, especiallythe Bluetooth. Bluetooth sucks,
but that's a whole othereverything sucks

Josh Scramble (24:54):
funny about you asked about the big difference.
So we flew out of O'Hare.Everybody on Air Canada was
French or French Canadian. AndI'm like, did you literally
bring these people down fromCanada to work for the airline?
But I mean, I'm talking theticket counter person, the
baggage person.
Oh, wow. Everyone was French orI'm sorry. French Canadian. So

(25:15):
maybe Quebec, it was funny. Iwas like, none of you are
American.
I didn't say this out loud, Ilooked at miss Graham, I'm like,
everyone on this crew isCanadian.

Jen Pancake (25:27):
So do they I mean, being that a flight attendant is
my dream occupation and has

Josh Scramble (25:36):
been since I was glad for punishment. You're a
teacher and then you wanna be aflight attendant? Are you trying
to hit, like, every bastardcategory there is?

Jen Pancake (25:43):
So you get stationed somewhere and that's
your that's your term.

Jerry Pancake (25:48):
Your whole Yeah. Your home base.

Jen Pancake (25:50):
Yeah. You have and you have to put some time in at
a place that is not your homesometimes. So I'm but but you're
even saying the ticket peopleand the

Josh Scramble (25:59):
Everyone. Everyone I dealt with from the
moment we At O'Hare? At O'Hare.It was weird. Like, from the
moment we walked up to theticket gate to weigh our bags,
check-in to the flight counterThis is a time on the plane was
all French Canadian.
This is

Jen Pancake (26:15):
a good time to ask our listeners if they have any
knowledge of this. Call innumber

Jerry Pancake (26:20):
Call in to 219. 1 9?

Jen Pancake (26:28):
Yeah.

Jerry Pancake (26:30):
420-8200. I don't think that's the number. Will I
will have to throw that inthere.

Josh Scramble (26:36):
Never mind.

Jen Pancake (26:37):
No one call in.

Jerry Pancake (26:38):
My brain is not

Jen Pancake (26:41):
Scrambled.

Jerry Pancake (26:42):
It's a little scrambled today. But like so
your experience was soundsfantastic, at least going there.

Josh Scramble (26:52):
Well, it was a long day because it was a full
day of travel. Like, our flightwasn't until one, and it was a
three and a half hour flight andthen a two hour shuttle from the
airport to the ski resort. So itwas a full all day, and we got
in late. So it wasn't that bad,but had we left earlier in the
day, it would have been a lotbetter.

Jerry Pancake (27:10):
Was it a full flight? Because I'm getting to
that.

Josh Scramble (27:13):
Yeah. I've never been on a flight once. Sorry.
I've been on one flight where ithasn't been completely full. And
that flight I was on, there wasfive people on and it wasn't
around 09:11.
But every flight I've ever beenon except that one has been jam
packed full of assholes.

Jerry Pancake (27:29):
Oh, man. Flying after 09:11 must have been like
paradise. Like, you're just likethree people on the plane and
you're like, hey. Yeah. We gotthis whole fucking plane.
You wanna smoke?

Jen Pancake (27:39):
Early pandemic. Early pandemic.

Josh Scramble (27:41):
We went skiing to another

Jen Pancake (27:42):
round trip

Josh Scramble (27:43):
to to another place and it was a giant plane.
It was like, not a seven eightyseven, but one of the bigger
Boeing planes. And I'm like,well, we gotta get a safety row
so I could get them more legroom. We got on, four people
passed us checking or getting onthe plane. They shut the door
and I looked around like, whatbizarre world are we in?

(28:06):
It was awesome.

Jerry Pancake (28:09):
Yeah. But they have I think the I I don't know.
I watched some stupiddocumentary on they have, you
know, this algorithm thatfigures out how to sell every
single seat on every singleflight and oversell some. Yeah.
So we our experience, we flewSouthwest and God love them.

(28:31):
God love Southwest, but they arepacked every flight. Cattle call
airline. And you can't pick yourseat. You could pay $1,000,000
and you nope. You're getting inthat stupid line with the

(28:52):
numbers, and no one's looking atwhat number they have.

Josh Scramble (28:56):
I actually got very shitty with some people on
a Southwest airline once. Notthe employees, but, like, other
people.

Jerry Pancake (29:02):
Where they lined up in the wrong place and then
some of the gate people check,but some of them don't care.

Josh Scramble (29:08):
No. It wasn't even that. So you're not
supposed to reserve or likeblock seats from people sitting
down, but I was on hour thirtyof being awake after a couple
people in my party ended up inthe hospital.

Jen Pancake (29:21):
Oh, jeez.

Josh Scramble (29:21):
Yeah. It was it was fun. And, there was this
group of women who were comingback from a girl's trip, and
they asked, like, hey. Is thereany chance you might be able to
help us save some seats? I'mlike, I am your guy right now.
And these people walked by,like, are those seats seeking?
I'm like, yes. They are. They'relike, well, I thought you
weren't supposed to. I'm like,they're taken.
I'm like, move along. These arenot the droids you're looting
for. Move along. This woman,what turns around, she's like,

(29:44):
wow. You were taking thisrequest very serious.
I'm like, it's been a long day,ma'am.

Jen Pancake (29:49):
I'm ready to fight. Baby, bro.

Jerry Pancake (29:52):
Here's a little pro tip when you're traveling,
because this is what hadhappened to Jen Pancake and
myself. My sister, Day DayPancake, has two small children,
my niece, my beautiful niece,and my handsome nephew. And they

(30:19):
didn't have to reserve anything.All they had to do was have
those kids.

Josh Scramble (30:25):
Because no one wanted to hear them.

Jerry Pancake (30:28):
No. No. No. They're watching their iPads.

Jen Pancake (30:31):
Automatic speaker.

Jerry Pancake (30:32):
Full fucking volume. Like no headphones. And
no one is go like, they werealmost, it was surprising that
anyone was even sitting in anyof the rows that were in front
or behind them, in fact. And sowe got seats saved, by them. So
we were able to even though weboarded the plane almost, like,

(30:55):
dead last.
That was

Jen Pancake (30:57):
Oh, we never board dead last because or here's a
here's a thing. Here's a starkdifference between me and

Josh Scramble (31:05):
Mister Pancake.

Jen Pancake (31:06):
Mister Pancake. I prefer to be the last one on the
plane. I do not like lines orwaiting in lines or anything to
do with lines.

Josh Scramble (31:16):
One day at the beach, we should just make a
fake line out of people. Yeah.We make

Jen Pancake (31:19):
fake lines all the time. I don't know if you're
aware, but people love lines.

Jerry Pancake (31:23):
They love The security, the TSA.

Jen Pancake (31:25):
The performing lines. They love lines. Here's
the thing though.

Josh Scramble (31:29):
You know what?

Jen Pancake (31:29):
You just wait until everyone gets on the plane,
there then you just get right onand

Josh Scramble (31:33):
you don't

Jen Pancake (31:33):
have put in a line.

Josh Scramble (31:34):
Next time you're somewhere public, just have you
and a couple people make a line,people will just automatically
start going behind you thinkingthat They

Jen Pancake (31:41):
will get behind you. It it happens in cars too.
It doesn't even matter. Peoplelove lines.

Josh Scramble (31:46):
So what is your most and I don't wanna say
terrible.

Jerry Pancake (31:49):
I know a lot of people that love lines too.

Josh Scramble (31:51):
Is your most stressful Stressful. Alright.

Jen Pancake (31:54):
Alright. Calm down, scramper, pancake.

Josh Scramble (31:57):
What is your most stressful moment in the entire
port part of air flight travel?I can tell you mine.

Jen Pancake (32:03):
It's I can tell I can tell you pancakes. So when
when we're getting ready for itto be our turn to go stand by
the dumb number, And I say, oh,you know what? I'll be right
back.

Josh Scramble (32:14):
Oh, yeah. She's gonna go to the bathroom, or I'm
gonna go get a coffee. And thenI'm like, can you get back here?
What the fuck?

Jen Pancake (32:22):
He loses his marbles every

Jerry Pancake (32:24):
She can see it in my face too because I know she
she does it every time.

Jen Pancake (32:28):
I do it every Just

Josh Scramble (32:29):
to fuck with you now?

Jerry Pancake (32:30):
Yeah. Oh,

Josh Scramble (32:30):
yeah. No. Yes. No. Come on.

Jerry Pancake (32:33):
She likes doing it. I

Jen Pancake (32:35):
can I don't like

Jerry Pancake (32:36):
doing She's, like, resisting? She doesn't
wanna be in the line. I followthe rules. I get in the line
with whatever

Jen Pancake (32:43):
This is his

Jerry Pancake (32:44):
dumb number.

Jen Pancake (32:44):
This is his dumb excuse that he that he that he
wants to be in the line, becausehe likes to follow rules. I
don't think any that I

Josh Scramble (32:52):
don't think Jerry loves order.

Jen Pancake (32:54):
Separate issues. The line and then getting on
last are two separate things.

Jerry Pancake (33:00):
Just think if you were only waiting in that line
to crash to your death.

Josh Scramble (33:06):
So well, that's that's the funny thing. So

Jerry Pancake (33:08):
Like, imagine that. Imagine how sad that is.
You're like, oh, I waited allthis time in this line, and
we're just gonna die. So Somaybe you have the right idea
because if you miss the planeand it crashes

Jen Pancake (33:20):
I've not. You're alive. I don't believe I've ever
missed

Jerry Pancake (33:23):
a flight. I think that's how it works.

Josh Scramble (33:25):
I've never missed I've never missed a flight on my
own. Like of my own cause.

Jerry Pancake (33:30):
My other pancake former wife did miss a couple
planes, two or three.

Josh Scramble (33:38):
In a row?

Jerry Pancake (33:39):
Not in a row. She's not someone else that we
know. But, yeah, the one timeshe had it, she missed her
flight, she had to spend thenight in the airport.

Jen Pancake (33:50):
Ugh. Alright. Pancake, do you have a stressful
moment?

Josh Scramble (33:56):
I thought we just

Jen Pancake (33:57):
Well, I mean, that was that would be my

Josh Scramble (34:00):
Your prediction? My prediction.

Jerry Pancake (34:02):
So I don't like security, but I will tell you a
very funny story about it. Oh mygosh. Is So my this is a couple
couple years ago when we weregoing to Arizona. Pre or post
09:11.

Jen Pancake (34:20):
You shouldn't have

Jerry Pancake (34:21):
Post 09:11. This is just a couple Oh,

Josh Scramble (34:23):
okay.

Jerry Pancake (34:23):
It was right after, like, the pandemic and
everything.

Jen Pancake (34:26):
It was You should have held off talking about when
it was until after the storybecause it's it's funnier to
think that you were young anddumb.

Jerry Pancake (34:35):
Oh, no. This was very recently, like two years
ago.

Josh Scramble (34:39):
Old and dumb. Who cares?

Jerry Pancake (34:40):
So 20 let's say twenty twenty three. So we're
going on this trip for mybrother. He's stressed out. So
we're kind of having like aguy's trip going on like a golf
trip to Arizona. We had all thisstaying in this beautiful home
and, you know, I decided I'mgoing to bring my golf clubs.
Right? Like, you know, we're weplanned on golfing, like, three

(35:03):
or four times. So I'm like

Josh Scramble (35:04):
It's gonna be cheaper to just bring.

Jerry Pancake (35:06):
Yeah. And Southwest does not charge you.

Josh Scramble (35:08):
Really?

Jerry Pancake (35:09):
If that's your only checked bag. Right?

Josh Scramble (35:14):
I'm sorry. What? Just thinking of like, this is
what just the image of this ismy checked bag. Don't mind don't
mind the driver.

Jerry Pancake (35:21):
No. They like I

Josh Scramble (35:22):
get I get what you're

Jerry Pancake (35:23):
You have to they have to be in a, like, a special
bag.

Josh Scramble (35:26):
But you could check it, but I'm just thinking.
What are you bringing to wear?Oh, my 15 clubs and a T shirt.

Jerry Pancake (35:31):
So, yeah, I had a backpack that I brought on the
plane.

Josh Scramble (35:35):
I get where you're

Jerry Pancake (35:35):
going. And so we're going my brother and I
are, like, we're very excitedand we get in the security line.
I got my golf clubs and we justwent straight to try to get
through security. And theyactually put my golf clubs on

(35:59):
the

Josh Scramble (36:01):
On the on

Jerry Pancake (36:02):
the conveyor belt.

Josh Scramble (36:04):
How would they even

Jerry Pancake (36:05):
fit on the wall? Laughing. They were all
laughing, by the way. And wejust had no idea. Wait.
Like, we just weren't thinkingabout it?

Josh Scramble (36:13):
Like, through sick like, it was your carry on.
Yeah.

Jen Pancake (36:16):
Yeah. Like that.

Jerry Pancake (36:17):
I thought that maybe they would take it.

Josh Scramble (36:20):
Right.

Jerry Pancake (36:21):
They he tried to put in a special place.

Jen Pancake (36:23):
Like, Like, was I

Jerry Pancake (36:24):
put it through the X-ray. Put the guy

Jen Pancake (36:27):
through the X-ray machine?

Jerry Pancake (36:28):
Oh, he put it through there. Come on. And he
said Sir And they were alllaughing at us. And everybody in
line must have been like, whatthe fuck? Idiots.
These fucking two idiots. Andthe guy put it through, and he's
like, you know, this can't be afucking carry on, the TSA guy.

(36:50):
And then my brother and I justlooked at each other, and then
we're like, oh, fuck. And he'slike, by the way, you have three
full beers in there. Like, sawhe's, like, in the X-ray, and
all those guys are fuckinglaughing.
And he's like, you might wannatake those out because they will

(37:11):
likely explode. And sure enough,I was so embarrassed that when I
checked it, I did not take thebeers out.

Josh Scramble (37:20):
Oh, good. They exploded.

Jerry Pancake (37:22):
One of them did explode, and my bag was full of
beer. I ruined my brother inlaw's golf bag because you put
him in this special travel bag.Oh. Because I saw that he had a
new one when we were justtraveling now. I'm like, what
happened to the old one?
He's like, well, it smelled likebeer.

Jen Pancake (37:38):
Just when I think he's very smart, then I hear the
and then, you know, what like,what I just heard this story for
the first time when we were inArizona. And I assumed it was
when he was like, maybe, I don'tknow, in his twenties

Jerry Pancake (37:52):
or something. Like, ago. Never flew on a plane
before.

Jen Pancake (37:56):
Or whatever, but nope. It was just the other day.

Jerry Pancake (37:59):
Just in 2023.

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Jerry Pancake (38:20):
Alright, folks. That's it for today's episode of
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(38:40):
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It's the only trivia night wherethe questions are just as
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And a shout out to the Miller Community Theater
also at the Marshall j Gardner Center, where
the local stars shine bright.Big thanks to the MBACD for
hosting these awesome events andmaking Miller Beach the place to

(39:04):
be.
Thanks for hanging out with us, Miller
Beach. We will be back nextSunday, hopefully, with
a brand new episode. That is if we are not
too hungover. No promises. Butstay cool, stay crazy, and keep
supporting the madhouse. Catchyou next time.

SoCool Daniella (39:30):
All you guys do is just sit up there and talk
about how fucking cool you are.

Jerry Pancake (39:38):
Bam's a bam. What's a bam? Well, you wouldn't
even know. She
laughed and said, I know just where to begin. She
said, I know you like breakfastfood. I'm about to blow your
mind. I have a sandwich that wasmade for your kind. It's the

(40:02):
Moons Over My Hemi.
It's got cheese and egg. Eat iton sourdough as you check out my
leg. It's Moons It's the moon'sDo you understand the words that

(41:28):
come

Josh Scramble (41:28):
out of my mouth?

SoCool Daniella (41:30):
You speak it in English?
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