EMMA

Ever wondered what it's like to swap the serene streets of Stockholm for the wide-open spaces of Nebraska? Our lovely guest Emma from Sweden does just that, sharing her eye-opening experiences and cultural observations that range from the curious to the hilarious. Together, we reminisce about the once-bustling shopping malls of yore, now laid low by the rise of online shopping. With humor as our guide, we recall the holiday chaos of crowded malls and muse over peculiar modern-day shopping quirks.

As the holiday season edges closer, we get caught up in the whirlwind of last-minute shopping and the surprising speed at which holiday films hit streaming platforms. Our chat takes a funny turn with tales of celebrity antics, including The Rock's infamous punctuality, and the increasing popularity of digital gifts over traditional toys. Picture this: sneaking toys into carts and even "borrowing" from others—yes, we've done it all. The discussion extends to childhood gift preferences, from treasured action figures to the now-coveted gift cards for online gaming platforms.

Ready for a bit of whimsy? Our playful banter continues with quirky "would you rather" scenarios that will have you chuckling. Imagine choosing between sticky hands or slimy feet, or debating the merits of a floating house versus an underwater hotel. As Emma joins in on the fun, we also touch on the heartwarming aspects of Christmas traditions and the joyous bonds formed through cultural exchange. With thoughtful reflections on personal growth, seasonal traditions, and a teaser of more fun to come with Emma Hayward, this episode is packed with laughter, nostalgia, and insightful conversations.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
On this episode of the Powers Point Podcast, we
have a talk with Emma, who comesall the way from Sweden.
We get her thoughts on America,learn a little bit about Sweden
and throw some this or thatquestions at her.
Hey Scott, give us a Swedishbeat.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
There's a story of a girl from across the sea, emma
from Sweden, where the lakes runfree.
She packed her bags, left hertown behind for Nebraska skies
and the prairie kind FromStockholm.
The cornfields is quite a leap,trading icy fjords for a town.
That's sweet, emma.
Emma from the land of blue andgold came to Nebraska with a

(00:41):
heart so bold.
Now she's on the Powers PointPodcast too, telling her story
and meeting the crew.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Well, hello, hello, welcome to the Powers Point
Podcast, season 5, episode 35.
It's another fun-filled,action-packed episode and we got
our two favorite people backwith us.
We got good old Jim Banks Hello, I'm sorry I got good old Jim
Banks Hello, I'm sorry I got Jim.

(01:07):
Jim don't like his last namesaid as much.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
He said that's weird when it's like in the song or
Well, we're friends, we're allfriends, so we can you know, we
don't need last names.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
Right on, right on, and with us again joining us for
the fifth time.
We've got Keith, what's going?

Speaker 4 (01:25):
on hello everybody.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Thanks for having me back again with no mentions of
uh game creating or anythingelse, and the man from toledo
and just good old keith that wasthat work, that works, that's
good for me.
So what do you guys been up tothis week, anything?
I mean we're getting closer tothat Christmas date.
I mean the holidays are fillingup people.

(01:49):
You'd think they would be morecheerful out there, but it's
kind of like you drive by themand they're like up yours.
I almost got ran over by a car.
I was walking in the parkinglot and some old lady backed up
real fast and then yelled at meand flipped me off.
Well, you went to the mall lotand some old lady backed up real
fast and then yelled at me andflipped wood off.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Well, you went to the mall and if I know the mall
that last time I was there, youcan almost die every time.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Well, the mall today.
Man, I was just discussing thiswith Karen.
You know we recorded earlierwith our guest Emma.
I went to the mall with Karenand it was dead.
Really, it was not like themall from like 20 years ago, you
know.
Yeah, I mean they had Christmasdecorations out, but it wasn't

(02:35):
like they're so spread apartthat you don't really notice.
There's no Christmas musicplaying, and it's just weird man
.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Because the mall back when we were kids I you
remember, scott, the one that I,we both go to, that you went to
, it was the 80s and 90s youcould the week of christmas.
You couldn't go there to shopanytime because the whole
parking lot was all the way tothe back, all the way around it.
You, I mean, you were likedriving for for 10 minutes
looking for a spot.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
Now you got half the stores closed in the mall.
Wow, there's more jewelrystores in the mall than
everything else.
They try to sell fake goldstuff for overpriced rates.
Keith, you guys got a big mallin your Toledo area that you

(03:26):
used to go to.
Have you seen any changes?

Speaker 4 (03:30):
We used to have four major malls that we used to be
able to go to, yeah, and one ofthem was a place called
Southwick Mall that had a placecalled Old Town in it.
That was like kind of anextended arcade.
It was like a fun of anextended arcade that had it was
like a fun house and an arcadeand I can't remember.
I believe like there was likechild abductions here we go

(03:52):
again with with the happytalking, um, but so that's why
that ended up getting shut down.
But that mall was pretty cool,uh, in general, but that one I
think was the first one to goand then we had one that was not
necessarily walking distancefrom my house but when I was
think was the first one to go.
And then we had one that wasnot necessarily walking distance
from my house but when I was ateenager I would walk to.
It was another mall called theWoodville mall, which that one
got completely demolished, andwe do have one now that's called

(04:14):
a Westfield mall, which isabout 20 minutes from my house
and they have the movie theaterand, um, all the, basically, you
know, the foot locker andwhatever else like that, and all
the jewelry stores, stuff likeSears I think it's still Sears,
it may not be Sears, but thosekind of stuff like that and I

(04:35):
found that I would go Christmasshopping and every year I would
find that everything they hadwas the same stuff that I didn't
buy the previous year, that'sfunny they added like one more
phone case kiosk.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
Yeah, there's no good .
They closed the coffee shops inour mall.
Oh wow, half the food court aregone.
You know, when food courtrestaurants start closing down,
everything's going to startclosing down.
Everything's gonna startclosing down because online
shopping.
That's what's killing the wholething yeah, you know I like

(05:12):
doing online shopping, just so Idon't have to deal with gas,
with how much gas costs nowadaysI mean, it's coming down.
You know, I don't have to dealwith assholes out there like
bumping in the.
You hit me with cards because Iseem to be a magnet to those
and, uh, I always get ran overby the handicapped and the

(05:34):
motorized scooters, and like thegrocery stores, and it's always
my fault, you know.
And and they don't like beingcalled out when they're riding
the motorized scooters.
But yet they'll get out.
Look around.
They're like Ray on TrailerPark Boys.
They'll stand on top of thescooter to get the stuff off the
top shelf and then look againand sit back down.

(05:54):
Who are they kidding?
And then, like, if you're bythem, by yourself.
They're like can you help me?
No, no, no, I just seen youstand up on the top of this.
And after, like, can you helpme?

Speaker 4 (06:05):
no, no, no, I just seen you stand up on the top of
this, and that's the reasonScott's gonna have a team of
Christmas speaking of Ray, theinterview that you guys did with
him on the majors mess hall,the part that I thought was the
coolest was the fact that itseemed like you and him were
like lifelong friends, did younot?
Did you not get that vibe?

(06:25):
It seemed like you know what Imean.
It seemed like he was cool withGavin, but it was like when he
talked to you you know what Imean it seemed like you guys had
a had, like a thing to whereyou know I mean you, you guys
seem like you were.
You were really cool, like he'sa, he's a cool guy.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
Six shares next month for those listening that's cool
and again.
I don't like cake.
I'm already a fat boy dude, souh uh.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
For those listening.
Be sure that you're tuning innext week, because it's it is
the Christmas episode.
Jim already said he may not bewith us, but no, well, it's not
definitive yet.
If you, boys and girls, are allgood maybe Gotta check the

(07:11):
naughty or nice list you gottaput it on your Christmas list,
you gotta put Jim on yourChristmas list.
Hey, speaking of naughty andnice, you know we talked about
some movies last week, or RedOne's already on Prime Video.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
I don't understand how they do that with movies.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
It seems like it has only been out like three weeks.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
Yeah, I remember back in the day you had to wait like
six months for a movie to geton cable or something.

Speaker 4 (07:39):
If not longer.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
You know what that movie flopped in the theater,
but I enjoyed it.
Know, the rock wasn't.
He was the rock, but he wasn'tlike like.
I mean, chris evans did morethan he did.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
So it's a really good movie and they just got the
rock just to get like ratings orsomething, or thinking that was
gonna go good, good, but he'sbeen, I think, oversaturized and
everything.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
You heard about him in this movie, right, he would
always show up on set eight to12 hours late.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
Oh, I heard stuff about the Shazam debacle or the
uh, was it?

Speaker 3 (08:22):
black Adam black Adam .

Speaker 1 (08:23):
I heard all that like like bits and pieces.
I'm like, oh my gosh, no.

Speaker 4 (08:26):
Well, yeah, he was doing it on Fast and Furious.
I thought too.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
Yeah, and he pisses in these water bottles and then
gives it to his assistant, hispersonal assistant, to go empty
them out.
That's just weird man.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
I think they would have put somebody else, an
up-and-coming star that hasn'tgot to that top level, to be in
that character or something thatmight have been a launching pad
or something.
Wow.

Speaker 4 (08:50):
That's not the first time I've heard that rumor.
I heard the same thing aboutthe King of Pop, MJ.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
Uh-oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
Axl Rose does the same thing, man.
He shows up like two to threehours late for a concert.
It makes you want to go home.
Cory feldman, when he was aboutto come to south haven.
He was supposed to be there atseven.
He rolled up there at 12 30.
I had to wait for him.
Place was closed, man, and he'slike where's everybody at you
know?
And I had to tell him you werenot.
That was my only interactionwith cory, but what else you

(09:23):
guys doing to get ready for theholidays?

Speaker 1 (09:27):
Just finalizing shopping and stuff and tiny bit
of finalizing decorating.

Speaker 3 (09:36):
You still got a lot of shopping to do.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
Yeah, we just got invited to a party with her
family.
We didn't know about it untillike a week ago.
Family, we didn't know about ittill like a week ago and we
didn't know we were gonna.
We know there was kids there toget gifts for, but we didn't
know there was like a giftexchange with the adults.
Everybody had somebody.
We were told who we had and nowwe got to get gifts for that
and we're like, ah, we had, wehad the budget strategic with

(10:03):
bills and gifts and now we gottasqueeze in this that's just
like, depending on where I havethe blessing of making things.
Yeah, that's, that's always likethe popular toy amongst the
kids, like Jimmy's ages, and nowthese see that's what I've
realized that it's not reallytoys anymore a lot it's all

(10:25):
digital stuff like roblox or uh,what is that other one?
Fortnite or something or asteam, those uh, online gaming
things.
You just get them a gift card,that's all they want.
Stuff they don't.

Speaker 3 (10:39):
They don't really want like physical toys that
seems to be what everybody wantsnowadays is just gift cards.
Yeah, you know, because yougive them like an Amazon card
and they get what they want.
They don't have to go wait inline to return anything and they
don't feel bad.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
Me and my coworker we go down the toy aisle a lot and
we see the same toys andthey're all loaded up with toys
but nobody's really buying likethey used to the next generation
.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
You know, when I come to your store I always look
around, because when I reallywanted a toy back in the day,
I'd hide it on the top shelf orgo behind the Barbies and the
Legos to find like a actionfigure, like he man or something
.
And I still like walk aroundand look and I actually do find

(11:30):
things, man, and I'm like, ohman, somebody want this, I'm
going to move with it.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
And I'm just nobody.
No, it's just nobody.
Cleaning up is what it is.

Speaker 3 (11:42):
But there's been times man, I'm not going to lie
lie like I want something and Isee it in the cart of somebody
else's and when they're likelooking around, I just take it
out and keep walking, and then Ioh my gosh, you, you see, you
wonder why bad things happen toyou like.
When I see a gi joe figure, Iwant.
You know I had to get rid oflike, uh, 12 of them in

(12:03):
september.
If I see a GI Joe figure, Iwant you know I had to get rid
of like 12 of them in September.
If I see a GI Joe figure, Iwant, even though I'm 51, I play
dirty still man, that's neverchanged.

Speaker 4 (12:15):
What if you did that and then you went back in the
aisle and there was like 10 morestill sitting there?
It was completely unnecessary.
You hear someone cussing in thenext aisle.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
What the hell did you do with that toy?
You know, like yelling at theirkids.
I can only buy it if I do itthis way.
But hey, I feel better when Ido stuff like that man.
But you know what?
Also the opposite happens, likewhen I see a kid and he really

(12:45):
wants something or he's reallyeyeballing it and I'm like, well
, I don't really need it, I'llgive it to him.
You know, like I'll give it tothe parent and they're like, oh,
thank you, you know, but soit's a game of.
Uh, I don't know, it's a gamefor me.

Speaker 4 (13:00):
Yeah, come on, you guys don't do that stuff uh, you
told me a story about youfaking a kid out before.
I don't know if you rememberthat.
You said you showed something.
You said, hey, kid, did youwant to buy this?
And he says yeah.
And he says, well, it's too badbecause I'm getting it.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
Oh my gosh.
Oh, you just like messing withpeople.

Speaker 3 (13:18):
No, man, it's like I'm a collector man and you know
, like you got the Hot Wheelcollectors man.
They go in and they know whenthe store opens, man, and they
go straight for the aisle and ifthey still see the Matchbox or

(13:39):
Hot Wheels box is still sealedup, they just take the whole box
and then they take it and takeit to the front of the store and
they pay.

Speaker 4 (13:44):
No, they don't really buy them.
No.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
Not stout, I just had to remark down these 20-packs,
they're like holiday for HotWheels.
Yeah, someone the other dayopened up, opened the end and
slid it out and then took outjust one car from each one.

Speaker 3 (14:03):
Whatever they went over to chase to chase sir.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
Yeah, whatever the chase, the chase one was, they
took the one out of each one.
And I'm like you, you freakingidiots.
You're that low that you're?
You're stealing hot wheel carsat a walmart, you know you're.

Speaker 3 (14:16):
You suck, how low are you now I know how you feel
about me it's like it's dumb.
I don't always feel good when Ido it.
What else Decorating?

Speaker 1 (14:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:30):
You guys done.

Speaker 1 (14:32):
No, I'm still going to be doing it tonight.

Speaker 3 (14:35):
Yeah, you got to work tomorrow and you're still going
to do it tonight.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
Yeah, I'll probably get just a couple hours sleep.

Speaker 3 (14:42):
That's all you need.
You're still a young pup.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
Yeah, young pup Still wet behind the ears.
What about the Christmas Eveand Christmas Day food?
You guys planning it or you gotplans or anything?

Speaker 3 (14:58):
We got the menu.
You know we sit around and wehave like a ham we don't have
turkey on Christmas and a lot ofnibbling stuff like meatballs
and sausage and kraut.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
What about the figgy pudding?

Speaker 3 (15:17):
No figgy pudding man.
How about you guys for dinneror planning?

Speaker 4 (15:24):
We're having ham and the turkey I've um, we normally
don't get the ham because I'mpretty much the only one who
likes ham and uh, but this yearwe're getting one.
We get um, I got to pick it andso I picked like a pre-sliced
one usually.
If we, if when I used to go outto the in-laws and they would
have like the honey baked ham, Iwould enjoy that there's going

(15:44):
to be a ham there.
But I don't know somethingabout that honey baked.
It's like it tastes like, likeit has cinnamon or something
like on it that I didn'tnecessarily care for that much,
probably like clothes, yeah,something like that I hate
clothes.

Speaker 3 (15:58):
It's like.
I love kentucky legend ham andthat's what we usually get like,
only me and karen it.
So I just buy a seven-pound ham.
That way I'll make a ham salad.
That is the one thing that Iwill eat leftover.
How about you, Jim?
Any kind of food?

Speaker 1 (16:17):
Christmas Eve will be like for Italian families.
It's the night of the sevenfishes, and you've got to have
seven different types of fish onChristmas Eve, and we usually
have like a cheese pizza orsomething for the kids if they
don't like fish, and thensomeone might bring like a
little bit of ham too.
It's like a real big thing.

Speaker 3 (16:39):
I've never heard of this.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
Yeah.
I've been doing it since I wasa kid my grandma and grandpa's
house.
I just was wondering of thisyeah, I've been doing it since I
was a kid my grandma andgrandpa's house.

Speaker 3 (16:47):
I just was wondering, like, who prepares this?
Like all the families.

Speaker 1 (16:51):
We've been getting the fish from that Johnson's
Fish Place in Lake Station.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
Oh, that's a good place.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
Yeah, we usually get.
We just pick out the differenttypes of fish and just get a big
like pound or two pound sizeand just we order it and then
pick it up that night and thenright before the everybody gets
there.

Speaker 4 (17:12):
Oh, I'm definitely getting, uh, one of those
Pepperidge farm samplers.
You remember, though they havelike the sausage and the cheese
and all those things like that.
My uncle Bob uh, got arrested,so I used to get one every year
and we probably haven't had oneman it's.
It's been a while, but uh, thatwas like kind of like a
tradition when I was a kid, waswe would go next door.

(17:33):
Uh, my grandmother and my unclelived next door to us growing
up and so that was always ourChristmas Eve.
Was, we would go spendChristmas Eve with my grandma,
my uncle and then my aunt Pattyand uncle Kurt, and, um, that
kind of ended when my you know,when my grandma and then my
uncle passed.
But uh, I think my dad andeverybody else would would
probably dig one of those andbring back, like, uh, some

(17:56):
little Russian nostalgia, youknow.

Speaker 3 (17:58):
Yeah, it's, it's like .
You like Pepperidge farms and Ilove Hickory farms.

Speaker 4 (18:03):
I, you know, I don't know, I don't know the
difference.
It might be Hickory Farms, Ican't remember which one it was.

Speaker 3 (18:12):
I love the summer sausages and the smoked cheeses.
And I said cheese, not Jesus,not smoked Jesus, oh my gosh.
So I had to make sure that thatcame.
People were like he's talkingabout smoking Jesus now.

Speaker 4 (18:28):
He smokes with Jesus every day.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
Now, do you guys celebrate on Christmas Eve, or
do you guys celebrate most onChristmas Day?

Speaker 4 (18:35):
The morning, usually Christmas morning.

Speaker 3 (18:38):
Christmas Eve is with the family like big family, and
then Christmas morning isusually just everybody's
individual houses, like we, usat our house, will do christmas
day yeah, we do uh nighttimewith like lynn and sean here in
carolina and they open up theirgifts and we open up what they
give us and then, and then backin the day everybody would open.

(19:02):
And then come Christmas Day,we're like, well, what do we do
now, you know?
So now we'd save the gifts for,like us, to open up on
Christmas morning.

Speaker 4 (19:13):
Yeah, yeah, we used to rumble.
Did I tell you that?
Before we used to, we made sure, even if it was something small
, when my parents were still inflorida there's myself, heather,
and our daughter and, uh, wewould pick rumble teams, 10
people a piece, and when yourguy got in the wrestling game
and when your guy got thrown out, you all just feel good, yeah,

(19:37):
you would open a present.
Yeah, so it went like that.
And then whoever ended upwinning, like there was like an
extra, like extra present at theend for whoever's, whoever
ended up winning, like there waslike an extra, like extra
present at the end for whoever'steam ended up winning, like the
whole rumble.

Speaker 3 (19:49):
It's cool.
It should like the big familystarted.
I pictured when we were talkingFree, so yeah, and we defeated
them.
Yep, Jim, when he startedtalking that they rumble, I was
thinking they actually likethrow down them dude, yeah, they
bite like the police academy.

(20:11):
The dad and the son right yeahno, but overall you guys looking
forward to Christmas, cause Iknow some people they get
depressed around this time ofyear because they miss their
relatives that aren't here nomore, you know, yeah, or their
pets, like I miss my freakingdog more than like anything and

(20:33):
my dad's mom.
Those are the two, you and me,you and me both buddy.
You and me both, you know andlike even the dogs get a
stocking here.
They're all hanging like rightnow and mine is connected to my
one that's gone.
In September they put mine andhis together just and I think we

(20:54):
can have better stuff in ourstocking than we do under the
tree.
I never had stocking until here.
You know, like my parents, theydidn't like really go out of
their way to like fancydecorations or anything.
So, and Jim, you're probably aweek.

Speaker 4 (21:16):
I had an uncle who had a hunger.
It must be over.
I'm sorry, buddy, I keeptalking to you, but I'll say I
had an uncle that hung up hiswork boots one year as the kids
stockings.

Speaker 3 (21:24):
It's funny, and it turns out he was just trying
them out.
Yeah, he was trying them outand people started putting stuff
in it.
It's like, oh well, but Jim,you've got to be looking forward
to Christmas being over just toget rid of the madness out of
the store.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yeah, because what it seems like is everybody brings
all the claims.
The claims that have beencoming back last two weeks have
been like online orders that Ididn't want that, I didn't want
that and it's just like a ton ofit just coming in.
I've noticed this year ispretty.
It's getting worse than theprevious years.

Speaker 3 (21:59):
Just tell them gift cards, gift cards.
Put that out on a sign out infront of the door.
Buy a gift card, be happy.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
Pretty much.

Speaker 4 (22:06):
Or do like Ricky from Trailer Park Boys says and just
get drunk and stoned with yourfriends and family.
It says if you don't get drunkand stoned, just spend time with
them.
My dad's majorly into that thisyear.
We watched that a few days agoand he's been repeating that
ever since.
He's like.
You know he's got that right.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
Like yeah, been repeating that ever since, like
you know, he's got that right.
Like yeah, he definitely hasthat right.
Hey, so we're going to take aquick commercial break and when
we come back we're going to haveemma hayward on the phone, and
on the phone, uh, on with us,and then we'll be back after
that to wrap things up or play alittle more, uh, this or that,
that, and then wrap things up.

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I want to say she's family tome because I've known her since
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Her mom was an exchange studentin my house and I consider her
like my sister and we got Emmawith us all the way from Sweden.
Welcome to the podcast.

Speaker 6 (24:34):
Thank you, I'm so happy to be here.
You ain't got to lie now, notlying, I swear.

Speaker 3 (24:45):
You've been to the States many times throughout
your life.
You know traveling with yourfamily and doing these month
long, two month long vacations.
And you've been to Florida,you've been to New York, you've
been to Canada like you've beeneverywhere but you never have
been by yourself for the periodof time that you were as an
exchange student in Nebraska.
Of all places, how did you likethat?

Speaker 6 (25:08):
It was very different from being on vacation, you
know, which I was prepared for.
It was truly the best year ofmy life.
I felt like it was just beyondwhat I had expected.
There were so many.
I didn't really experience likea culture shock, because you
know I have been to the US a lotof times, you know I've been,

(25:29):
but it's always been that kindof vacation experience and not
living there, which that wasjust like more than I could have
ever ever asked for.

Speaker 3 (25:41):
Now as a student and leaving your country for that
long of a time and living withstrangers that you didn't know.
How is that experience?

Speaker 6 (25:54):
it was interesting.
I mean, you only get tofacetime them before you know.
I facetime them maybe liketwice before moving in with them
.
They turned out to be the bestfamily ever, the same kind of
experience my mom had with yourfamily, scott.
But when you're 16, it's quitea leap to take, for sure.

Speaker 3 (26:22):
When you got here, what was the first thing you did
, like that you wanted to do, toexperience, or you know what
did?

Speaker 6 (26:30):
they do with you the first thing I I spent a few days
in new york.
Um, it was like the part of theprogram you get like a couple
of days or a week or so which myflight there was just insane.
Like my flight to Nebraska wasjust you know, cause there were

(26:50):
tornadoes going on, so it alljust got canceled and I was
stuck at JFK and stuff for like15 hours.
But when I finally got there Ijust kind of settled in we, we
went to church the morning afterand then volleyball practice
was starting.
So I was just, yeah, throwright into it for sure.

Speaker 3 (27:11):
When you first got and started meeting people, was
it weird that like everybody waslooking at you like, oh man,
she's from Sweden, she's fromSweden, you know.
And then they ask you questionsthat you'll probably hear on
here.
But you know, like everybodywants to know about Sweden or
they think it's in the wrongplace on the map.

(27:31):
I know people that getSwitzerland and Sweden mixed up.
But was it weird being likethat object, like the new person
?

Speaker 6 (27:39):
Yeah, so my host sister that I live with.
She is the same age as me, soeveryone kind of knew that I was
coming there.
And there were also two othergirls at my school, one from
Thailand and one from Denmark.
So my school is used to havinga lot of exchange students every

(28:00):
year and so they're very like,used to not pretending, you know
, not making us feel weird or so, but you know, it was
definitely a you know, when youmeet everyone for the first time
and just over introducingyourself or whatever again.

Speaker 4 (28:18):
So that has to be, uh , kind of comforting, because it
puts you more on the same kindof same plane, as opposed to
being one person in like the seaof people who all know each
other and have all spent alifetime around each other, so
that had to have been some kindof relief.

Speaker 6 (28:35):
No, you're right about that, and it was never
like that.
We just hung out with eachother.
We were all good at, like youknow, really involving ourselves
and so the with all theamericas you know, in that kind
of friend group, but but it wasdefinitely a safe space to have,
in the beginning, for sure,someone going through the exact
same thing that's really coolyou.

Speaker 3 (28:59):
At least you had something your mom didn't video
chat, you know.
So like you can video chat yourmom, whereas we had we had when
we were young, regular male.
That's got to be a lotcomforting too that they're in a
touch of a dial.

Speaker 6 (29:16):
Yeah, for sure I did.
I did have a lot of reactions,though, because I wouldn't call
home that often.
Because I wouldn't call homethat often, maybe like every
other month, which I don't know.
It's just the way we are, likewe don't all of my siblings are
moved out.
We're used to like traveling.
My brother went on an exchangeto Wisconsin, it's just kind of.

(29:43):
My sister went to Iowa, like Idon't feel a to over-update them
on what's going on.
So I definitely had somereactions on me just FaceTiming
them six times.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
Do you experience any culture shock in America Like
in what kind that you're used toin Sweden?

Speaker 6 (30:07):
Yeah, only a positive one, and it was actually in a
way where everyone was reallynice, like everyone was really
inviting.
I definitely feel like that wasthat's just part of the midwest
kind of small town, you knowculture, like everyone knows
you're coming, they're allexcited to talk to you, like

(30:28):
they'll never not say hi or soum, which that's kind of
different from some parts ofeurope.
But if you take england, forexample, like everyone's just
really polite and I feel like Ihad to, like become more chill,
more cool.
When I got to the US, I kind ofrelaxed a little bit.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
And you heard scary stories of Florida or California
or the big cities and stuff.

Speaker 6 (30:53):
I mean, honestly, that's the only places I've been
to.
I've been to Lake Station andso with Scott's family, but
other than that it's kind ofbeen these big cities.
It's been Miami, new York,chicago and so with Scott's
family.
Yeah, but other than that it'skind of been these big cities.
It's been Miami, new York,chicago and so on, which it was
more new to me to be in a smalltown.
You know it was like 2,000people.

Speaker 3 (31:15):
So when you were in school there did any of classes
stand out?
And you know the differencebetween, like, daniel took me to
his school when I was there.
I just walked in and nobodyeven said anything.
You know that was weird.
Literally I just sat down withhim and Matt.

(31:35):
It was crazy.
But when you were in schoolthings changed, obviously.
But what classes stood out toyou?
That was a lot different thanin Sweden.

Speaker 6 (31:45):
So because of the size of my school we were about
like 500 kids it kind of camenaturally that everyone
participated in like choir andstuff.
Like kind of a lot of boys onthe football team would do choir
and like a lot of kids would doband, that also were like
really good athletes and stuff.

(32:05):
So definitely I took choir,which that was new to me.
I cannot, I would never havebelieved, to like take that as
an actual class and get grades.
I also did speech, which wasquite interesting, which was
really fun.
Yeah for sure nice.

Speaker 4 (32:23):
What grade did you get in choir?

Speaker 6 (32:26):
I did get 100.
Nice, awesome.
So it was kind of just you hadto be there and do what you were
supposed to do.

Speaker 3 (32:33):
So you tried out a lot of different fast foods,
like new restaurants, and whatdid you like that you don't have
over there.

Speaker 6 (32:42):
The single, like the best thing that I have been
craving ever since has beenraising canes, and that was,
yeah, the best thing ever.
I ate way too much chicken.
You know, food culture is justreally different from europe.
There's a lot of a lot of fastfood and stuff and I, I don't
mind, I don't my brother didn'teat either like I can't complain

(33:06):
what else was like a shot?

Speaker 3 (33:08):
you know like, like schools here they believe in
like the, a lot of dances, a lotof like getting ready for the
football games.
They would do like a round gymrally, or you know like, uh,
cheerleading and and just goingcrazy, you crazy for the
football games, which I don'tthink you have in Sweden yet, do

(33:29):
you?

Speaker 6 (33:30):
Not at all.
No, Our sports generally inEurope aren't even connected to
your schools.
So unless you're in Englandit's kind of like that, but
everything is just club.
So watching your classmatesplay football was just

(33:51):
completely new to me.

Speaker 3 (33:53):
Right on.
And what do you think aboutwhen teens they go crazy?
They just start yelling andcheering and it kind of makes
you really happy that you'rethere at the time.
You want your team to win.
Obviously, what would you taketo sweden if you could take
something from the school?

Speaker 6 (34:14):
I would take.
If I could take something backto europe with me, it would be
the school spirit.
Um, just the way everyone wouldcheer each other on, regardless
of what sport it was or if youwere winning or not.
And you know, I went to a smallschool, so it was a small

(34:35):
student section, but that didn'tchange the fact that just the
school spirit was just over thetop.

Speaker 3 (34:42):
Now, did you think when you were in school,
Americans stereotyped Sweden?
They thought they knew moreabout Sweden than they actually
did?
You know, like all Swedishpeople are blonde, All Swedish
people are blue-eyed.
I'm going to say Americans,they think we know everything.
Did you deal with that a lot?
I'm going to say Americans,they think we know everything.

Speaker 6 (35:04):
Did you deal with that a lot?
I think there's the kind ofmisconception, though, about
this whole geography that someyou know Americans aren't great
at geography, which I agree to acertain extent, but not fully.
Because they were, because myschool had a lot of exchange
students.
They were quite educated inEurope in general and I don't

(35:27):
blame them if they wouldn't knoweverything, because the US is
the big itself.
You can go on vacation to a lotof different climates and
places just staying within yourcountry.
So it's the size of Europe.

Speaker 3 (35:43):
Right Through your whole trip.
What did you learn aboutyourself?

Speaker 6 (35:47):
the main thing that I have learned truly about myself
was figuring out what I want todo in life.
That I want to.
You know I love the US and Ilove traveling and seeing all my
friends there going to collegeand, you know, making college
decisions made me realize that Iwant to do the same there.

(36:07):
So, yeah, just having a fullyear, just being independent.

Speaker 3 (36:14):
When your mom was here.
We became like family for life.

Speaker 6 (36:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (36:20):
And your grandfather and grandmother.
You know they were like mygrandfather and grandmother.
That was awesome, and Margaretwas.
Do you?
Are you bonded like that withyour host family?
You know where?
You've got to talk to them alot.

Speaker 6 (36:36):
My host sister.
I have two host sisters and oneis the exact same age as me,
which I'm so grateful for we goton really well.
She's my best friend and herlittle sister as well.
She's the sweetest.
But also not just the hostfamily the four of them but also
the, you know, like thegrandparents and the cousins.

(36:58):
They've all treated me like,like family, from the from the
beginning and yes, that is true,and you know that's for life.

Speaker 3 (37:07):
So I truly feel you know yeah, when it comes to when
I'm like really upset or reallypissed off at things and I see
your mom on online and I'm like,oh man, I gotta talk to her,
because your mom still gives mea lot of advice like a sister,
and I talked to her like quitefrequently.

(37:29):
Whenever she's on, you knowwhether she's on her way to work
or you know, just somethingquick.
I mean, your whole family'sjust always been great, so I was
always uh, wondering.
You know, I always told yourmom if you ever needed anything
when you're in nebraska, all yougotta do is call.

Speaker 6 (37:47):
I would have been there, you know, like oh that's,
that's just how I am yeah, ittruly gets carried down to like
me as well, and all the all mysiblings, and how close you all
are before we leave or whatever.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
Jim always asks our guests a little game like this
or that.
So he'll give you your twooptions and then you say which
one you like.
So, jim, we're kind of readyman.

Speaker 1 (38:14):
Okay, alright, first one Swedish meatballs or gravel
lex.

Speaker 6 (38:21):
I'm going to go with Swedish meatballs on that one.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
Okay, hold on just a second.
Okay or sorry?
Cowberries or Cloudberries.

Speaker 6 (38:31):
Cloudberries.

Speaker 1 (38:34):
Bungie jumping or skydiving.

Speaker 6 (38:37):
Can I say both?

Speaker 1 (38:39):
Well, if you had to choose just one, okay, I mean,
these answers could change.

Speaker 6 (38:44):
Okay, I'll go.
These answers could change.
Okay, I'll go with skydiving.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
Okay, um, let's see Swedish pancakes or kanelbullar.

Speaker 6 (38:55):
I'm gonna go with pancakes.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
Okay, Um pizza or burgers.

Speaker 6 (39:02):
Burgers.

Speaker 1 (39:03):
Okay, okay, ski in the Swedish.

Speaker 3 (39:11):
Alps or kayaking in the Gjarta Canal.
Wait, you said Swedish Alps.
The Alps are in Sweden.

Speaker 1 (39:16):
They have Alps, don't they?
Okay, alps, I'm sorry, scottFrickin' Rand McNally over here.

Speaker 6 (39:23):
I'll go with the apple.
Okay, let's see Brush yourteeth with peanut butter or wash
your hair with mayonnaise.
I'm allergic to peanuts, soI'll go with mayonnaise.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
Great Jim, let's see, okay, the Northern Lights or
the Stockholm Archipelago.

Speaker 6 (39:42):
Ooh Northern Lights.

Speaker 1 (39:44):
Okay, a time machine or a magic wand, magic wand,
okay Pop music or metal music.
Ooh pop, Save a hundredstrangers or save one loved one.

Speaker 6 (40:04):
Ooh, trying to be in this spot, saved one loved one.
Can I say a loved one?

Speaker 1 (40:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (40:15):
Let's see so all you listeners.

Speaker 1 (40:19):
Okay, a long summer night at a bonfire, or a cozy
winter evening by a fireplace.

Speaker 6 (40:24):
A long summer night at a bonfire.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
Okay, netflix or YouTube.

Speaker 6 (40:30):
Ooh, Netflix.

Speaker 1 (40:32):
Okay, swedish folk music or ABBA.

Speaker 6 (40:35):
Ooh ABBA.

Speaker 1 (40:38):
Okay, and sneeze confetti or hiccup bubbles.

Speaker 6 (40:44):
Hiccup bubbles.

Speaker 1 (40:46):
Football or hockey.

Speaker 3 (40:49):
What football, Jim?
Is it soccer or is it Americanfootball?

Speaker 1 (40:52):
Soccer, well, american soccer, it's called
football everywhere else.

Speaker 6 (40:58):
Yeah, either way, we're a hockey family big time.

Speaker 1 (41:04):
Cool, what's your guys' hockey team?

Speaker 6 (41:07):
My brother is a Flyers fan and then we're
Blackhawks fans, so I'm a lefto.

Speaker 1 (41:14):
Oh my gosh.
Okay, let's see Two more here.
Live in a movie theater or liveat a mall.

Speaker 6 (41:23):
Live at a movie theater or live at a mall.
Live at a movie theater.

Speaker 1 (41:26):
A cozy sauna or a refreshing swim in the lake.

Speaker 6 (41:31):
A swim in the lake.
I'm a swimmer, so I got to gowith that one.

Speaker 1 (41:35):
Okay, and then comedy or horror.

Speaker 6 (41:40):
I like comedy.

Speaker 1 (41:42):
Okay, that's about it , I think yeah.

Speaker 6 (41:44):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (41:45):
Were you on the swim team in your school or in the
States?

Speaker 6 (41:49):
They didn't have a pool, unfortunately.
I did write in my applicationthat I wanted to be on the swim
team if they had one, but I wason the volleyball team and track
team instead, so I made up forit.

Speaker 3 (42:03):
Okay, because I remember your dad used to post
all these pictures that you ownthe medals because you were.
You're winning like all overthe place and uh.
Again, I really thank you foryour time and just talking to us
about your experience there andwould you recommend teens or
whatever to venture out as anexchange student also?

Speaker 6 (42:27):
A thousand percent.
I feel like I matured wayfaster than I would have if I
hadn't gone.
And it's just, it's a once in alifetime opportunity,
especially when you're thatyoung.
So, a thousand percent, youmake friends for a lifetime, for
a lifetime, and really findyourself tell your family hello

(42:47):
for me and give them all a hug.

Speaker 3 (42:49):
You guys have a good christmas you too.
Thank you so much for having mehey, no problem, it's fun if
you, if you ever want to comeback on, just uh, just for the
heck of it, right on, I, I hope,you guys, I hope you had fun
and something different.

Speaker 6 (43:08):
Of course.
Thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (43:10):
Thank you, and we will talk to you later, of
course.
See you later, emma.

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Speaker 2 (44:37):
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Speaker 3 (44:49):
And, as always, I thank you for auto transmission
or accurate transmission.
Thank you for Emma for joiningus.
I know there's a seven-hourdifference between her and me
and Jim and just six hours forKeith.
It was really cool to find outthe differences between, like
their schools and the Nebraskaschool.

(45:11):
I've never been to Nebraska soit was all new to me.

Speaker 4 (45:16):
Yeah, he was a cool kid man, that's for sure.

Speaker 3 (45:21):
And Jim really good this or that.
That made me want him because,like, when you're sitting there
asking Emma the questions, I'mlike answering them, like my way
too, and I'm like man, jim'snever asked us this or that.
So now I'm asking you, jim, togive us some this or that's and
for the listeners at home playalong.

Speaker 1 (45:44):
Okay, here we go.
This or that, a road trip or aplane ride, you got to pick one.

Speaker 3 (45:52):
If I was going to Seattle, I'd want to take a
plane trip, just so I have moretime there.

Speaker 1 (45:58):
Yeah, but it's what you like more this or that?

Speaker 3 (46:02):
You know what Road trip.

Speaker 4 (46:04):
Yeah, I double down on the road trip.

Speaker 3 (46:07):
What about you, Jim.

Speaker 1 (46:08):
Uh me Um Road trip.
You'd feel more trapped with aplane.

Speaker 3 (46:14):
I just always, you know, says the person that drove
a thousand miles in less than24 hours.
I was worried about the vehiclebreaking down, that's all.
Well, then you have the planecrashing too.
It's this or that the crash orthe crash.

Speaker 1 (46:29):
Yeah, all right, here's one.
Sticky hands, or slimy feet.

Speaker 3 (46:34):
Ooh.

Speaker 2 (46:37):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (46:38):
I think I would take the sticky hands.

Speaker 4 (46:42):
I think I would too.
I think I would too.
Isn't that a rolling stonesalbum?

Speaker 3 (46:49):
that's sticky fingers right or or it's, or it's.
When I walk through a store andand like we just talked about
man just grabbing things out ofpeople's cards, that's sticky
fingers, powers.

Speaker 1 (47:00):
Yeah, I'd choose sticky hands because, slimy feet
, you're just gonna.

Speaker 3 (47:03):
Every step you take, you're gonna be like ew you can
only walk when you walk withyour socks on.
It's only like squishing youmight fall.

Speaker 1 (47:14):
You're thinking about worse, but you could walk with
your hands moving and you're nottouching nothing, so I guess it
depends also on how sticky yourhands are and how slippery your
feet are.

Speaker 3 (47:27):
You know, am I going to be like Iceman and run down
the street on like a freshasphalt and just take my socks
off and just slide?

Speaker 1 (47:35):
Well, if anyone's an expert on sticky hands, it's
Scott Powers folks.

Speaker 4 (47:38):
All right, it's sticky to the level of like
Chevy Chase in ChristmasVacation where he gets all the
sap on his hands.

Speaker 1 (47:45):
Oh, All right, ice cream cone or milkshake.

Speaker 4 (47:52):
Milkshake.

Speaker 3 (47:53):
Milkshake 100% Yep milkshake, Because if you take
the cone you'll get the stickyhands.

Speaker 4 (48:00):
Yeah, which actually I probably should have chose the
cone, because I can at leasteat the cone.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
I can't have the ice cream or the milkshake, so all
right, here's one peanut butteron pizza or ketchup on ice cream
oh, my goodness, um, I'm gonnahave to go with the peanut
butter on the pizza.
I'm thinking.
I go peanut butter on pizza.

(48:28):
I've had that before.
Wow, I have not.

Speaker 3 (48:33):
I think I might do the ketchup, because I'm trying
to think of it's like the saltycream.

Speaker 4 (48:39):
That's weird, it's just gonna be salty acidy have
you ever had peanut butter onleftover french toast?
Yeah, oh man, that's amazing.
Have you ever had peanut butteron leftover French toast?
Yeah, oh man, that's amazing.

Speaker 1 (48:54):
All right, a floating house or an underwater hotel.

Speaker 4 (49:00):
Underwater hotel.

Speaker 3 (49:01):
I think would be cooler for me.
How high are we floating?

Speaker 1 (49:05):
On the water.

Speaker 3 (49:07):
Oh, okay, okay, I don't know what I'd like to
think.
I'd like to check it out.

Speaker 1 (49:15):
If I was protective, I had a shark suit on or
anything, but I would go I thinkI'd have to go a floating house
because I I don't know if Itrust the underwater hotel, not
like the leak, and then you'retrapped and right.

Speaker 3 (49:28):
That'd be too scared, I'd be too scared it's like
they're talking about buildingthat tunnel that goes from new
york to uk.
It's not three, three thousandmiles long, man, I would be
afraid like that's the road tripokay, here we go.

Speaker 1 (49:45):
Another one cheese sced soap or soap-scented cheese
.

Speaker 3 (49:54):
Screw it, man, I'll do the cheese-scented soap.

Speaker 4 (49:58):
I think I'd have to do the soap-scented cheese
because I don't know smellinglike cheese.
Wouldn't that be the end resultof the cheese-scented soap?
Because you would smell likecheese afterwards.

Speaker 1 (50:09):
Yeah, I don't think I could eat cheese that smells
like soap, though I'd have to gowith the cheese scented, or,
yeah, the cheese scented soap.

Speaker 3 (50:17):
But why does the soap smell like Limburger?

Speaker 1 (50:20):
Oh no, but I'd rather have it on me than like eat the
frickin' cheese and you'reeating your mind's thick and
you're eating soap and you startgagging or something.
Yeah true, true okay, um okay,I think we've done this before
time travel to the past or thefuture uh, to the past.

Speaker 4 (50:44):
Definitely that'd be fun.

Speaker 3 (50:48):
That'd be fun, yeah I think it would go past, because
I don't want to know the future, because I might not be in it.

Speaker 1 (50:54):
Yeah, I'd go to the past.
You don't know what you'regoing to see with the future.
But then when you come back, Idon't know, have a tail like a
squirrel or wings like a bat.

Speaker 3 (51:09):
Wings like a bat.

Speaker 4 (51:13):
You'd call me Batman.

Speaker 1 (51:15):
Yeah, I'd have wings like a bat.
You'd have the furry tail Scott.

Speaker 3 (51:23):
Yep, I could tuck it in my pants.

Speaker 1 (51:26):
Honey, check this out .

Speaker 3 (51:28):
I don't know about you guys in there Checking the
looking bat wings.

Speaker 1 (51:33):
Maybe he could fly, who knows?
Okay, here we go.
Sweet or savory snacks.
Sweet snacks or savory snacks.

Speaker 4 (51:43):
Oh, that depends what .

Speaker 1 (51:46):
No, I said snacks.

Speaker 6 (51:48):
Oh, is that the final on the daily what?
No, I said snacks.

Speaker 3 (51:50):
Oh Is that the bottle Savory man, Savory.

Speaker 4 (52:00):
Yeah, I'm gonna go with savory also.

Speaker 1 (52:02):
I'm doing savory too.
Okay, uh, a hat made offeathers, or shoes made of
bubble wrap, I think, or shoesmade of bubble wrap.

Speaker 4 (52:11):
I think the shoes made of bubble wrap would be
pretty fun.

Speaker 1 (52:15):
Check out these bubbles.

Speaker 3 (52:18):
Couldn't sneak up on nobody.

Speaker 1 (52:21):
Yeah, but the feathers like a baseball hat or
something with feathers.

Speaker 4 (52:27):
It'd be like a really cool.

Speaker 3 (52:31):
Kangol hat with feathers.
Yeah, do you like Kangol hatsback in the day?
I still do.
Yeah, I'll pop it on too.

Speaker 1 (52:45):
I think I'd have to do that.
Alright, I'll do the featherhat.
Fine, let's see.
Oh crap, I think I'd have to dothat All right, I'll do the
featherhead.

Speaker 4 (52:54):
Fine, let's see.
Oh crap, oh, I got it.
Well, I got it.
Can I do one real quick?
Yeah, sure, okay, I wasthinking about this before, when
we were talking about Christmas.
Would you rather play SantaClaus for 20 inner?

Speaker 3 (53:10):
city kids or 20 suburban wealthy kids.

Speaker 4 (53:12):
So poor suburban Poor like inner city poor the inner
city kid 20 inner city, likemore poor kids or 20,.
I guess 20 poor kids or 20 richkids, which would you rather
play, santa?

Speaker 3 (53:23):
for Poor kids.

Speaker 1 (53:26):
I would think I would think poor too that would be my
guess, but I'm I'm sure theywould both have their.
You know what I mean, theirpluses and minuses.
I mean, all kids wouldappreciate it, but I think the
poor kids would.
It would really, it might, Idon't know change their life a
little more or something, Idon't know.
You actually see Santa Claus.

Speaker 4 (53:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (53:45):
Your royal convention .

Speaker 4 (53:46):
Right and the suburban or whatever.
Whatever the richer kids maynot be, like you said,
everything's digital.
They may not care.
Anyway they may, you know.

Speaker 1 (53:54):
Looking at their phone alright, here's one, a
treehouse or an undergroundbunker treehouse.

Speaker 3 (54:04):
I think I would dig the bunker, man, if it was like
one of those lavish luxurybunkers or you, you know, master
style trees man.

Speaker 1 (54:15):
Yeah, but if the tree house is in like Oregon or
something where they havenothing but acres and acres of
trees, you could really hide.
I'd still have to go.

Speaker 3 (54:27):
The tree could fall apart.

Speaker 4 (54:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (54:34):
You'd be fighting birds and anything else.

Speaker 3 (54:37):
Squirrels and my bushy tail.

Speaker 1 (54:41):
Yeah, your bushy tail , scott, You'd fit right in.

Speaker 4 (54:44):
We'd be all right.
We had bat wings, we could fallout of the tree and the train
is banned.
Oh, it is.
See again.

Speaker 3 (54:55):
That's how oblivious I am to them no, like I look up
every time we talk, this time init's always at 9 o'clock they
start oh really, huh, alright.

Speaker 4 (55:07):
Yeah, that don't surprise me.
Would you rather lick a frog orhug a?

Speaker 1 (55:09):
snake.
Oh really, huh, all right, yeah, that don't surprise me.

Speaker 4 (55:14):
Would you rather lick a frog or hug a snake?
Um, Mike Tyson likes to licksome frogs.
I don't know if that mightsound kind of scary, but that
might be the one I still endedup picking.
I don't know if I could hug thesnake.

Speaker 3 (55:28):
Maybe ride the snake, he might get nipple bit hug the
snake.
Maybe ride the snake, he mightget a nipple bit hugging a snake
.

Speaker 1 (55:33):
Yeah, yeah, but looking at a frog, it might be
poisonous or something.

Speaker 3 (55:38):
Or on the other side, he might be high as a kite.
Oh, I don't.
On the DMT.

Speaker 1 (55:43):
I don't want to catch nothing.
I'd hug a snake.
I've hugged a snake for years.
I call them family, so Allright.
What's another one here?
Here's an easy one Sunrise hikeor an evening stroll, evening
stroll yeah, definitely eveningstroll.

Speaker 3 (56:05):
You know, when I was in Haiti, I used to love even
nowadays man, I like going on mydeck and watching the sun rise.
Man, in Haiti I used to sit onarmy trucks and watch the sun
rise over the mountains.
You know, I like that, but Ithink I like the stroll man.
It's cool air sunset, but thenthe mosquitoes are out.

Speaker 1 (56:27):
Yeah, I go evening stroll but then the mosquitoes
are out.
Yeah, I'd go evening stroll.
Okay, toothpaste-flavored icecream, or ice cream-flavored
toothpaste.

Speaker 4 (56:37):
Oh, ice cream-flavored toothpaste.

Speaker 3 (56:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (56:40):
That's what I said.
Yeah, pretty easy one there,rocky Road, but it's basically
that would just be likepeppermint or, you know,
peppermint ice cream, wouldn'tit?
I mean, that does exist.

Speaker 1 (56:52):
Yeah, I think so.
Hold on, let me get some otherones here, okay, okay, a pet
cat-sized dinosaur or amouse-sized elephant?

Speaker 3 (57:10):
That's a hard one.
I'd be afraid to step-sizedelephant.
That's a hard one.
I'd be afraid to step on theelephant, a cat-sized dinosaur.

Speaker 1 (57:16):
It says pet cat-sized dinosaur.

Speaker 4 (57:20):
Which dinosaur.

Speaker 1 (57:22):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (57:23):
Yeah, is it Canaverous?
Are we talking a?

Speaker 4 (57:26):
T-Rex here.

Speaker 3 (57:27):
Is it going to go around killing all the other
animals in the house?

Speaker 1 (57:32):
Or an elephant.

Speaker 3 (57:33):
Wait, a mouse-sized elephant, oh my God, I think I
might do the mouse-sizedelephant.

Speaker 4 (57:40):
If you had something that you could build an
artificial ecosystem or whateverit is for them.
I think the mouse-sizedelephant would be pretty neat.

Speaker 3 (57:48):
Walk around the house like the rest of the damn
animals in this place.

Speaker 1 (57:52):
And do the elephants Alright trampoline for a bed or
a slide for stairs.

Speaker 3 (58:01):
Oh man, trampoline is awesome for a bed man.

Speaker 4 (58:06):
A slide for stairs would be really fun too.

Speaker 1 (58:08):
Yeah, but the slide for stairs, you can't how you
gonna go up.
And then the trampoline bedyou're gonna get so sore and
stuff that you're gonna be likecrippled the next day or two or
I don't know.
Anyway.

Speaker 3 (58:20):
Anyway, you turn it's gonna be like we used to have a
trampoline.
We used to have a trampoline atmy parents house and I would
just like camp out on it.
You know like, unless you'rebringing a friend home after
work, you know like it ain'treally like bouncing right, it's

(58:41):
hard to post when it's sospringy and if it's raining,
it's get up the stairs, man.

Speaker 1 (58:52):
All right, here's one Eat spaghetti with chopsticks,
or soup, or soup with a fork.

Speaker 4 (59:01):
Some soup is pretty thick, so I think I'd take the
soup with the fork.

Speaker 1 (59:07):
I'd eat spaghetti with chopsticks.
I don't send that hard.

Speaker 3 (59:11):
Are we talking about stew or soup?

Speaker 1 (59:15):
It just says soup.

Speaker 3 (59:17):
Alright, I think I would do the spaghetti
chopsticks Real fast.

Speaker 4 (59:23):
Are either of you handy with chopsticks?

Speaker 1 (59:27):
Hell yeah, I'll use one today Whenever we go to
Osaka.
He pretty much wants to usechopsticks all the time, so I'll
use it with him and I'mstarting to get used to it and
I'm like we're going to bemasters at this.

Speaker 4 (59:39):
I have no memory of ever using them, oh.

Speaker 3 (59:45):
Like I said, I was just at the mall the other day
shopping and eating was shopping, I was eating.

Speaker 1 (59:52):
Oh Okay, gummy bear pudding or no, gummy bear pillow
or pudding mattress.

Speaker 4 (01:00:05):
Oh man, them both kind of sound pretty good.
Sounds like a waterbed, though,and I just serve the waterbed.
Yeah, I'm going to take thegummy bear pillow a little bit.

Speaker 1 (01:00:21):
See, the gummy bear pillow is going to get sticky,
ain't it Probably?
And if the pudding mantras islike a little fire bed?

Speaker 4 (01:00:31):
Well, if it was actual pudding, you wouldn't be
able to lay on top of it, right?

Speaker 3 (01:00:34):
unless we're talking pudding skin you got like axe
and stripes.

Speaker 1 (01:00:41):
I'll have to take the pillow.
Then I don't understand thepudding.
Okay, would you rather walkbackwards or hop on one foot all
day?
Walk backwards all day or hopon one foot all day.

Speaker 4 (01:00:58):
Walk backwards.
I usually would do 15 minutesof walking backwards on the
treadmill when I would dotreadmill.

Speaker 1 (01:01:05):
I'd walk backwards.

Speaker 3 (01:01:08):
Yeah me too, man, two layers of the hop.
I just couldn't, I'd gobackwards.
Yeah me too, man, two lanes ofthe hop.

Speaker 4 (01:01:12):
I just couldn't.
I'd go down for sure.
My balance is terrible.

Speaker 1 (01:01:18):
Okay, oh, you're right, that messes the next one
up.
Okay, how many more of these,scott?

Speaker 3 (01:01:29):
You're the game host on this.

Speaker 1 (01:01:32):
Oh, okay, then Let me get a good one here.
You could edit this out.
Okay, I got a couple of these.
These are like thinkers, okay.

Speaker 3 (01:01:42):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:01:44):
Here's one the smartest person in the world or
the richest person in the world.
What would you want?

Speaker 4 (01:01:53):
The richest person.

Speaker 3 (01:01:54):
If you're the smartest person in the world.
If you were the smartest, youcan make stuff to become the
richest.

Speaker 4 (01:02:02):
I don't Elon Musk, I think the mob rule mentality.
I don't know if I would trustit.
You know what I mean.
You could be smart, but youcan't trust that you would be
able to get enough.
You know what I'm saying, thatyou would make like idiocracy.
You remember that?
You ever seen that movie?
I believe that couldpotentially.
Yeah, that you would be sosmart that you scared the other

(01:02:23):
people, and you know, usuallywhen scared people, they want to
get violent.
So I don't.
I think I would definitely takethe richest.
Before that.
It would be nice to be thesmartest, but it would also be
uh, I don't know, man, that'd bea rough way to go.

Speaker 3 (01:02:38):
Just see a lot of lawsuits happening.

Speaker 1 (01:02:41):
Or maybe every day I'd be the quietest, smartest
person.
I wouldn't say, I wouldn't tellpeople I'm smart.

Speaker 4 (01:02:47):
I'd be the most anonymous, richest person.

Speaker 3 (01:02:52):
All right, the most vanished person richest person
Right.

Speaker 4 (01:02:57):
See, I thought Prince changed his name to a weird
symbol.
Wait till you see my name.

Speaker 1 (01:03:01):
All right, here's the final one.
Scott, this mainly goes to you.
Would you want success orhappiness?

Speaker 3 (01:03:12):
Happiness, happiness.

Speaker 1 (01:03:17):
Happiness, that's what I would pick happiness.

Speaker 3 (01:03:20):
Because if you have happiness, you're successful.

Speaker 4 (01:03:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:03:26):
That's what another one was.
It was poor and happy.
Poor and happy or rich andmiserable was.
Another one was it was Porn,happily Porn, happy or Rich, and
Miserable was another one.

Speaker 4 (01:03:32):
Yeah, I know Porn Happy pretty well, I think we
all do.

Speaker 1 (01:03:37):
I'm going pretty steady right now.

Speaker 4 (01:03:39):
Right, but I've known Rich and Miserable.
I believe I've met one.
Yeah, I think I talked about aRich and Miserable person A show
or two ago, so I have met rich,miserable people.
But those are the this and thatwell, them were good questions,

(01:04:02):
as always.

Speaker 3 (01:04:03):
You're good this and that host and try to keep them
fun and serious for thoselistening at home.
And you made it this far.
Hey, like I said, I tell youguys every, uh, every week.
We appreciate you tuning in andlistening to us, so be sure to
tell your friends.

(01:04:24):
If you like us, us follow us onFacebook.
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I don't even know what my ID ison there.
Oh my gosh, find Jim.
Or you can go topowerspointpodcast at yahoocom.
Or you can go to FAKE Radio onSoundCloud and find us there too

(01:04:48):
, because there's our otherproject that we've done and
we're going to continue doingsoon, and podcast Scott on X and
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So you can find us over thereand I put this out every week

(01:05:11):
and no response.
If you guys want us to cover asubject, emailing again at
powerspointpodcast at yahoocom,put in the subject line idea,
show, idea, and we'll cover thesubject, but no religion and no
politics, because that's notwhat we're about and we're not

(01:05:33):
giving you world peace, so we'renot about that either.
You can't do it, sorry.
So you guys got any closingthoughts, jim?

Speaker 1 (01:05:46):
Oh my.

Speaker 3 (01:05:46):
God, quote, quote.

Speaker 1 (01:05:48):
Yeah, and this is for the Swedish listeners.
Okay, here we go.
You and her know Vin Fjader.
That means don't make a hen outof a feather.

Speaker 6 (01:06:06):
What Okay?

Speaker 1 (01:06:09):
Don't make a hen out of a feather.

Speaker 4 (01:06:10):
It means small problems are unimportant yeah,
don't blow things out ofproportion yeah, no, just just
so I I got this right.

Speaker 3 (01:06:18):
You said you're hearing it don't make fun of the
language.
I'm not making fun of it.
What?
What did you?

Speaker 1 (01:06:25):
part swedish.
Don't make fun of it.
Okay, it's, it's, you're in her.
No, vin Fjeder.

Speaker 3 (01:06:34):
All right, I get that .

Speaker 1 (01:06:37):
Who do you think you're dealing with here?

Speaker 3 (01:06:39):
So that's a good quote too.
And, man, I appreciate you guysboth joining me again I know we
split this up twice today anduh taking the time to do this,
and I appreciate you guys and uhagain for those listening.
Next Friday we are doing theChristmas episode, because it is

(01:07:00):
December 20th.
Jim may not be here, so, uh,just prepare yourselves.
Oh, man, but Keith is, and Ithink I got a few other guests
coming on with us too.
So just prepare yourselves, ohman, but Keith is, and I think I
got a few other guests comingon with us too.
So, looking forward to thatepisode, we're going to be
talking Christmas songs,Christmas TV movies, Christmas

(01:07:22):
memories.
Last episode I cut this out,but Jim said that there hasn't
been really no Christmas lead up, so I'm just going to throw
everything at everybody at oneshow.
So, and that's why he's notgoing to be here, because you
know, now you're making me realbad.

Speaker 1 (01:07:42):
Don't know yet.
I don't know yet.

Speaker 3 (01:07:44):
No, no, you got family things and that that
comes first man.
So, but we will talk to younext week.
And again, if you got any showideas, hit me up.
And if you want to be a gueston the show, you don't have to
be famous, you don't have to berich.
Everybody's got a story to tell.
That's always been my motto, sowe'd love to hear from you, no

(01:08:05):
matter where you're at in theworld.
That's all I got you all.
Have a good night and a goodweek.
We'll talk to you later.

Speaker 4 (01:08:13):
Bye Take care everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:08:14):
Bye.
That's another wrap on thePowerspoint pod.
We laughed, we learned itwasn't that odd.
Emma from Sweden gave us thescoop about life in Nebraska.
What a fun group.
So thanks for tuning in.
We're glad you came.
Scott, jim and Keith you knowour names Playing this, or that
was such a blast.
We'll see you next week.

(01:08:35):
This pod's a smash.
So keep on smiling, don'tforget.
There's more to come, but notjust yet.
From Sweden to Nebraska, it'sall so rad.
Till next week, friends, don'tbe sad.
That's another wrap on thePowerspoint pod.

(01:09:05):
We laughed, we learned itwasn't that odd.
Emma from Sweden gave us thescoop about life in nebraska.
What a fun group.
So thanks for tuning in.
We're glad you came.
Scotchen and keith you know ournames playing this or that was
such a blast.
We'll see you next week.
This pod's a smash.
So keep on smiling, don'tforget.

(01:09:25):
There's more to come, but notjust yet.
From Sweden to Nebraska, it'sall so rad.
Till next week, friends, don'tbe sad.
So keep on smiling, don't besad.
Till next week, friends, don'tbe sad.