IgNoble Awards, Bus Driver "Cooks" Students, and A FL Bear's Tale

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the realm of reality. You know, you've heard it said

(01:12):
many times and they didn't. No one's really wrote the
perfect book about parenting. I mean, trust me, hundreds upon
hundreds upon thousands of people have tried, okay to write
a book on parenting, and it goes all the way
back to you know, doctor Benjamin Spock. That was the

(01:35):
he was the guru back whenever I was a baby.
My mother picked up his book and was not impressed.
He did not he did not favor spanking. He said,
you shouldn't spank your kids. And of course, you know,
we have a new generation and a new method or

(01:55):
methods of parenting.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
You a piece of my mind.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
How many surveys have people done on parenting methods? Too
many to count. There's been a recent survey talking to
about two thousand parents, a little sampling who have kids
that are between birth and six years old. And I
guess the good news is gen Z the parents of

(02:28):
the gen Z generation, they're shifting away from the gentle parenting, Okay,
which is probably a good thing because I think the
politicians we have now are the product of gentle parenting.
They were gently parented by their parents when they were kids,
and they grew up being little brats. Okay, so Katanji

(02:56):
Jackson from Texas is a prime example. But they're shifting
towards styles like cycle breaking parenting. Okay, they're trying to
break a cycle, and trust me, we've got a few
cycles to break. What that really means is they're trying
to heal generational trauma. Let's ponder what that actually is.

(03:19):
Generational trauma. That's a pretty strong word, you know, to
have trauma between generations. Now, I mean, yeah, they're denying that.
There is some maybe child abuse of physical abuse, emotional abuse,
not discounting that, but sometimes it causes trauma when the

(03:39):
kids receive the answer no, it causes great trauma because
the kids have trauma. That causes the parents have trauma
because they have to tell the kids no, I don't know.
They're also moving toward attachment parenting that emphasizes on emotional bonding. Okay, yeah,

(04:07):
you do want to have emotional bonding, but look, your
parents are not your friends. They are until whenever you
get old enough to be your own parent. Well, then
your parents can be your friends, but not while they're
being your parent. They can't be your parent and be
your friend at the same time. Another style of this
gaining ground is what's called cause and effect parenting. Now

(04:30):
I like that because really it focuses on real world consequences,
which is probably a good thing, because that's what we did.
Our kids had real world consequences. We told them, don't
do such and such or such and such will happen.
And what do they do? They do the such and such,
and sure enough the such and such happens, and we

(04:53):
just smile and say I tried to tell you, you know. Yeah,
Cause and effect parentingocusing on the real word call worll
real world consequences, all right, Like my dad would say,
your mouth is going to overload your rear end. You know,
parents also are not just sticking with one method, which
is probably a good thing, because all kids are not alike.

(05:16):
In fact, even siblings are not alike. Once all a
parenting may work with one, it won't work with the other.
For instance, okay, with one of our children, putting him
in a room by himself is torture because he's isolated
from all the happening. He couldn't stand it. The other kid,

(05:37):
we tried it with him, he was looking forward to it.
I never forget the one time that with our second child,
he told a lie, and so we figured we'll teach
him a lesson. So my wife says, stick out your tongue,
and she put hot sauce on his tongue. Now you think,

(05:57):
you know that might teach him not to lie? Right?

Speaker 2 (05:59):
No, No, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Now he puts hot sauce on everything. He loves hot sauce. So,
but parents, they're kind of mixing three styles, you know,
the cycle breaking, the attachment, and the cause and effect.
Kind of doing a general mix. I guess you know so,

(06:22):
because there's really no one size fit Salt raised a
kid gen Z. Parents tend to aim to prepare their
kids for real life. What you mean, they're not going
to shield them? Better be careful, you might cause some trauma.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
You know.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Millennials also tend to lean towards supporting children's emotional and
mental well being. Okay, so whenever the two year old
pitches a tantrum in the middle of safeway, do you
decide what their mental well being is or do you
need to apply the board of education to the seed
of learning. Well, other findings were they found that forty

(07:03):
percent of parents want to be seen as fun parents. Now,
my wife she borrowed this from another parent that she
learned about this at school, and she come home and
decides she is going to adopt this. She wants to
be the fund sucker. I don't know about you, but
I don't think I want that put on my gradestone.

(07:25):
I mean, but forty percent want to be the fun parent.
You can't be a fun parent. You can't be a friend,
but you can't have fun from time to time. Twenty
six percent of these parents think that they succeeded being
a fun parent. Parenting style changes over time. Eighty four
percent said that their style has actually evolved as the

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child grows. Now what we've done. We started off really
strict when the kids were small, and got less strict
as the child got older and matured. Now seventy percent
also Taylor, how they parent show a specific child, which
is probably a good thing, you know, because, as I said,

(08:09):
no one child is the same. So yeah, it's an
interesting trend. And who knows, maybe after I'm dead and buried,
this upcoming generation would it be generation alpha maybe or
generation beta? Maybe. By the time generation beta gets to

(08:29):
the point they can actually have a real job twenty
one or above, our society might get back on track again.
I don't know. But nevertheless, the idea is this. I mean,
it's very simple. Don't follow trends. Parenting is not a trend.
It's a simple thing. Three words. Know your child's all

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and of course you know that actually requires you to
spend time to getting to know your child. If you
are a parent that is too busy going to work,
you're spending late hours at work, you are doing something else,
and you really are not investing, then doesn't matter what

(09:15):
trend you go with, you know because you don't know
your child. Okay, So I think that's probably the best
piece of advice. Forget the trends, just focus on the kid.

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Meet me in the shade of the sunshine tree, pretty
little Florida sunshine tree in the shade of a sunshine.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
All right, we are back with Pacha Guio, my white
Mexican insane.

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That means maybe, yeah, it doesn't signify Mexican.

Speaker 4 (11:15):
But.

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Well why not law, So it's.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
Mexican in law, right exactly. So I had a great
week myself up here. Your parents are up here, so
we talked a lot about you.

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I keep hopefully good thing.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
Well, of course it was. It was, and we were
all laughing because your your parents are telling me about
just how much they like how that you kind of
like react spontaneously, you know, because since you you don't
pre read any of the stories.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
So yeah, I work better that way. I tried that
one time. I tried reading like the the news stories.
That's like, that's the only I'm reading here, And yeah, yeah,
it's not as good as just uh.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
To fly fly. So so I have to ask though,
all right, I mean, because you know, my wife pointed
out when we were all sitting on the table at
the restaurant talking, she's she looks at your mom says, uh,
so do you like it better to have a visit
without all the kids here?

Speaker 2 (12:23):
Yeah, because there's a good chance they probably do like
a little work.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
No, And and you know, but we have to talk about,
you know, parenting, and you know how we parented, and
it's and and and how your mom loves to see
how you're parenting now with two boys and all this
kind of thing and stuff like. But kind of goes
into what I was sort of like ranting about in
this whole parenting trend. My mom now she I don't

(12:48):
know was she went out and bought it or someone
gave it to her, But she had that book of
doctor Spock that that was popular back in the sixties
that everyone swore he they called him the baby Doc,
and she didn't care. Yeah spots, doctor Spock, the baby Doc.
And my mother didn't care for him at all. So
she would always make some disparaging remarks about doctor Spock

(13:10):
and his crazy way of you know, parenting, But I.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
Just want to live long and prosper.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
Well, they want to live longer to take care of
mom and dad when they got old enough that they
couldn't take care of themselves.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
One day. Well, you're right, you don't take care of
their dad's the way that apartment.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yeah, this is true. So I mean, uh, what would
you call your parenting style? You're not like a you know,
one of these helicopter parents, but I'm sure you're also
not one of these ones either to try to you know,
protect the kids from any kind of you know, like
the gentle parenting trend.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
Oh yeah, well definitely not a gentle parent or that's yeah,
no gentle parenting, No helicopter either degree. You kind of
have to be a little Oh man, that's what's so hard.
But the two's like when when because my youngest is
not too and you have to helicopter a little bit

(14:12):
or else. So like just this week, we didn't have
our eyes on for like five minutes. Well, I was
finishing up working and I come out of my office
there and my wife's trying to cook dinner. And then
we realized that, like my youngest took permanent marker and
colored all over a side table next to a couch at.

Speaker 1 (14:32):
Least really, dude.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
I we were like, well it's done for and my
wife got a man took eraser out and that thing
came off like it actually looks like, oh man, thank
goodness for new technology that didn't exist with out there.
So like it works out so like to a degree,
because I want to keep our stuff looking relatively nice.
You have to be around there. But but like you know,

(14:56):
I don't helicopter, I don't.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
Do you do you child protect your house because we
did not child protect our house at all.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
We've got some things child protected. Something's not.

Speaker 1 (15:08):
Yeah, so the kid, if the kid stick a fork
in the electrical out, he'll find out what not to do.
You know. Well, so we.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
Got some of those. I don't think that we were.
I think we're out of that stage for things. I think, yeah, hope,
but there are some things like you don't want to
get into chemicals or anything like cleaning sometimes and whatnot.

Speaker 1 (15:27):
No, no, no, you don't have kids like I did
when I was about five years old getting into the
light sool.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
Yeah, that's exactly my youngest or my oldest I'm sorry,
when he was younger he he loved to like grab
spray bottles, Like there's like this spray bottle we would
use for the cat and you know, the spray or
if she gets into something, because she was still pretty
young at the time, and he would love to spray
the spray bottle. He'd sprayed in his face. And so
when they were cleaning up after dinner, and uh, there's

(15:53):
a bottle of lightesol sitting out that my wife like
she turned around quickly to grab something in the sink
and was gonna grab it, and he had just like
picked it up. He had it pointed towards his face
like you love to do with bringing the water bottle there.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
And oh man, my.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
Wife freaked out like like so much. He did not
spray himself, but he certainly cried.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
It hit him in the face with four nine.

Speaker 2 (16:15):
Yeah, for real, it was close. It was a close.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
So so we we've I guess in this whole parenting trend,
you got the gentle parenting, You've got the what is
the attachment parenting, which is emphasizing emotional bonding, and then
you got the cause and effect parenting on real world counts.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
It's a bunch. I tend to try to be a
little more cause in effect, because it's a better teacher.
I think for things like a good example, my my
oldest a couple of years ago, he puts his hand
on the hot burner and oh yeah, that hurts. It
hurts really bad.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
It does.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
Now we have told him before it's hot, don't touch this.
But you know, kids they grab him. Oh yeah, I
was gonna put and you can't keep an eye on them.
Twenty four seven. So like he burns his hand, we
take care of it. It was it was quick, he
was good, like you know, it took a week to
fully heal. He has not touched anner sense. And I

(17:16):
was thinking, man, couldn't everything have an immediate consequence like that,
because if it did, they would learn these lessons so quickly.
But well, you would hope, like right when you have
things like whining and complaining or you know, trying to
like kind of tease and push around your little brother
and stuff, like if you burnt your hands so how
hard it took a week to heal, you would do

(17:38):
that once and you would never do it again. But
when you've got these like nebulous things that are out there,
like you know, this cost benefit analysis where you're like, oh,
maybe the cost and the punishment's worth the thing like
it makes it it's the immediate Oh man, it's such
a good teacher, such a good teacher for that stuff
it is.

Speaker 1 (17:57):
Well, I mean, now, my brother in law, which would
be my wife's brother, my wife says that I guess
that didn't necessarily work for him because they said they
more or less could have had an entire wing of
the hospital named after him. So because he was there
all the time.

Speaker 5 (18:15):
Ye.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
Yeah, So some people don't learn whenever they h you know,
they say, oh, well, maybe this time it won't burn
if I hit the hot stove, you know.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
So yeah, I have heard before some people, some kids,
And that's where each kid's different, right, I've got boys,
so I can be like, they need to know there's
consequences to your actions. They need to sometimes get a
little bit of tough love, you know. And that's like
the thing too, is like justice and love and justice
and forgiveness, they're separate things like you don't sometimes be

(18:47):
like I want grace. I want grace, and I'm like, dude,
grace was the fact that it took three times in
three warnings before you got punished like you got grace,
and you continue to choose not to do that, and
so you need the tough love otherwise they will just
walk all over you, take advantage of of all that.
And so so there's a whole like I don't know,

(19:07):
just like there's like in this dichotomy. But but like
that's with boys too. I would probably do it differently
if we had a girl.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
Oh yeah, And then.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
There's some kids are just different. Some some kids or
some people. It really because some adults still do this.
They can learn from other people's mistakes or learn from
others and say, don't do this right. Some need to
touch the hot stove to learn, and others still need
to lick the stove before they really learn.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
Okay, that's hilarious. Uh well yeah, I've I've found out though.
There is a kind of a reason for this, you know,
because if you begin to train your kids doing good parenting,
it will give good examples to your kids, you see,
because then they will be able to use it to
not only you know, train their own kids based upon

(19:58):
how you know you trained them, but then they also
know how to treat you when you get so old
that they have to treat you like a kid in
your old age.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
You do reach a point in life where you start
Benjamin buttoning, right, that's right. Oftentimes it's rather quickly and
abrupt to like you're yeah, and all of a sudden,
oh not you go down real quick, I guess, yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
Yeah. But and and just say one day, one day,
you know you'll be putting diapers not on your kid,
but on your parents. So you know how that works.
So and you never you're never prepared for that. You
just really never prepared for that. I can promise you
that I was. That was one of my early let's

(20:48):
just say, moments of reality that I experienced, because you don't.
You just don't know the family bonding that goes with
with you when you have to help your naked father
in law off the toilet.

Speaker 2 (21:04):
Oh man, for some reason, like we say moment. That's
a good way of putting up moments of reality. It
makes me think about it. You remember those old Budweiser commercials,
back when they actually had good advertisers. You were advertising,
but it's like the real men of genius. Yes, it
makes you like a real man of genius commercial right

(21:24):
like Otherwiser prevents real uh, real moments of of what
do you call it again, of uh reality, real moments
of reality or yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
Yeah, yeah, so yeah really I mean that that to me,
I never in my life dreamed I would never have
to do something like this, but I found myself doing
that at one point early in our marriage because you know,
my my father in laws had health issues, so I'm thinking, yeah,
one day this will be me, you know, so one

(21:59):
can only hope, right, well, yeah, exactly, so.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
Knowing you you see the second dumb dumb and dumber
or whatever, the dumb and dumb, Yeah, like they were
playing like one of them was faking being like in
like a like a whole like old getting change and
everything like that would be you as an old man
like just wanted to get a laugh out of it.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
I would, I would. I would definitely do that at
Artbeat absolutely. Yeah. So well, we're we're preparing, uh well,
I should say my son is preparing his suite mates
at college for the arrival of his parents, because we're
going down to see them probably in a couple of
weeks or so, so that that will probably be a
week that we will have to kind of do a

(22:46):
pin a pitch hint for the podcast, because I'll be
in Lynchburg. But we're video chatting, you know, with him,
and of course his roommates come by and they wave
Edison this kind of thing, and so I, you know,
just say, well, prepare those roommates. But as Dad's coming
to visit, okay, so then he's he's doing that. So
but no, what's been having We had a lovely visit

(23:08):
with your parents. I mean, did you have any exciting
things happened? Did you find anything more about the poncho's
possum or anything like that.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
Yeah, it's not been a very eventful week.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
I think, well that's actually good.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
Yeah, well it's been. Yeah, it's just it's been a
tough couple of weeks or a few weeks. I don't
even know why. I'm you ever you ever have these
like rough seasons and you're like something's changed and I
don't know what it is, but it's creating chaos and uh.
And so you're trying to figure out like how to
get back into the sense of like normal and balance.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
To the rhythm of life.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
Right, I feel like I've I've been thrown out of
the rhythm of life. I'm trying to figure out get
back on it.

Speaker 1 (23:49):
Oh boy, well that happens not when your parent.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
Yeah, I'm sure a lot of it is. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
Wait, wait till they get to the age of like eight,
nine and ten and you got to shuttle them all
over town to various sporting and.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
Oh no right, oh oh, something we do have coming
up on Saturday. We're all going to be going to
Lego Land.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
Oh no, well, you're gonna have you be able to
take your shoes off the walk barefoot over a whole
bunch of them.

Speaker 2 (24:17):
This is going to be down in Orlando.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
Oh wow.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
And uh, it'll be the first amusement park, like big
theme park kind of thing that my my oldest son
has been to before.

Speaker 1 (24:27):
So is that right?

Speaker 2 (24:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (24:28):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
He's really excited that he loves.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
Leg So you're taking him to Lego Land instead of
Disney and you live in Florida.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
Yes, yeah, well I think Lego Land will have more
things that he can do in a sense. I mean,
Disney will have a lot too, but Disney is incredibly expensive,
and then we'd have to pay for tickets for all
of us. This one the tickets, I guess you also
get tickets to the aquarium. That's down there and so

(24:58):
we can Lego Land. They've got roller coast. I looked
at the roller coasters. It looks like it would be
the right size for him experience.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
For that you get on the Lego roller coaster.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
The actual roller coaster is made out of Legos. That
might be a little concerning.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
Yeah, so, well, that'll be fun. That's kind of like
when we took our kids to Sesame place here in Pennsylvania.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
Yeah, yeah, we when.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
We watched my youngest son go chasing after Elmo.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
Oh my goodness, I thought it almost seems like the
kind of you know, the kind of thing that chases
after you instead.

Speaker 1 (25:41):
Well, yeah, so yeah, we we we hit Sesame Place
and we went to the Creola Village and let them
spend some time with crayons. So that was our That
was the extent of our amusement parks. You know. But frankly, look,
if you really want a true amusement park in the
purest sense of the word, you really need to bring
them all up here some summer to Pennsylvania to Cannobyles.

(26:05):
Because Cannobyls has been voted the nation's most popular traditional
amusement park.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
I've never heard of Cannobyls in my life.

Speaker 1 (26:14):
You really need to come up to Cannobyls. I get.
What's the nice thing about it is everybody can enter
the park for free. Okay, you just pay for the
individual rides, which is nice, and so you can come in,
you can enjoy the park. They've got picnic tables. We've
left our picnic cooler and everything on the tables and

(26:34):
gone into the park for the day and come back
and they're still there. Oh oh that's it. So but no, no,
I mean they got the wooden roller coasters, they got
like a little splash zone. They've got all these guys up.
It's literally been voted by the Amusement Park Association of
America as the best traditional amusement park in the country. So,

(26:57):
and it's cheap. And all the local factories here, you know,
if you're like, if you work for like a manufacturing
company and you know you're in a union or something
like that, most all of them give you like a
roll of tickets to take your family to Kenobles because
they have like a company picnic out there or something.

Speaker 6 (27:13):
You know.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
So you got, I mean that place and it's not
super crowded, but it's like and you got trees everywhere.
It's not like wide open. We took our kids from
our church youth group last year to Hershey Park. That
is the most expensive, overrated, miserable park I have ever
been to. Okay, I mean it's a nice park, but
by the time I finished, I could not feel my legs.

(27:36):
I just literally walked from one end to the next,
and it was hot, and all it was was roller coasters.
And I'm thinking the price people paid to get into
this place, and everyone just thinks thinks Hershey Park is
the best thing in the world. Trust me, I've seen
much better amusement parks than Hershey Park. Not it is
so overrated. So but yeah, I mean that might be

(27:58):
something you guys can play next time you you know,
the kids are getting a little older and you want
to come from the summer. We'll all go out to Canobles.
I think you will have a delightful time. I guarantee it.
I don't think we can compete with Lego Land, you know.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
The theme park.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
Yeah, well, what what we're planning on doing. Also, now
this will be coming up at the end of the year.
We got invited My wife is invited to play for
a wedding of a good friend of hers. But they
live in Shreveport, Louisiana. So and they're getting married like
on New Year's Day or something like this. I'm not sure.
So we have to find a good plane flight at

(28:40):
the right price to get to Streetport from Pittsburgh. And
we're flying out of Pittsburgh, and so my wife is
asking me, you know what, what when do you want
to fly out? I'm like, I don't really care. Frankly,
I would rather not fly at all, because, you.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
Know, I just stories on this plot. Read enough of
the stories exactly, so then you could bring your own
first hand experience here.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
That's probably true podcast from the plane as it happens.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
Well, you could be part of this.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
Sorry, all right. So but so my wife asked me,
She goes, well, we could leave at five am. Do
you leave at five am? I said, are we driving
to Pittsburgh and then leaving, because that means we're gonna
have to leave here like at midnight, you know, to
get there. So so we're going through the process now
of trying to get the right time to fly in.
It's like you can you can either fly in at

(29:34):
a decent time and fly home at a weird time,
or fly out at a weird time and fly home
at a decent time. You can't get two decent flight
times to and from where you want to go.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
I mean, it's just too easy.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
Yeah, it's a nightmare anymore, just trying to schedule a
plane flight. Then you get to the airport and you
get to put up with all the idiots at the airport.
Then you've got to put up with all the idiots
on the airplane. And I'm thinking, this is just no.
You know what, I'd rather drive, I really would rather drive,
but she doesn't want to do that. So and Streetport's
a long way from State College, Pennsylvania, Franklin, so it'd

(30:09):
be like a fifteen hour road trip.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
Fifteen Yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
Oh, at least.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
Maybe you'll change your mind after our first story of
the podcast.

Speaker 1 (30:22):
Oh okay, I didn't realize I was setting you up there,
you go.

Speaker 7 (30:26):
Well, yeah, yeah, I didn't even have to use the
chat GPT to do that.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
I forgot about that. Oh my goodness, Oh gosh, yeah,
how many angry letters you get? About that? Do the
youth still write letters?

Speaker 1 (30:43):
Letters?

Speaker 2 (30:44):
Kid? I always hear people talk about when they when
they say something that might be controversial. They say, oh boy,
I'm going to get letters. Whatever. What about that means?

Speaker 1 (30:54):
Now it's emails, We're going to get email.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
Yeah. So well, look, welcome to the podcast. I'm ponto guido.
I hijack. Definitely don't make a plane reference for that,
Otherwise that would be like the stories that would show
up on this right, Yeah, you can't get kicking.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
Wait, you can't talk about hijacking on the plane because
that's an infringement of your freedom of speech.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
Okay, well no, no, I mean you. Well, the thing
that people always says you can't yell fire and a
crowded theater. But one thing is like, that's not true.
You can yell fire in a crowded theater when there's
a fire. Well, you just can't cause like a mass
panic and stampede like that.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
No, you can only cause mass panic when you speak
in public on the television.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
Well, that seems to be always Uh. I guess the
internet too. I guess I guess everyone's all about mass panics.
Let me we should create a mass panic today. All right, Well,
we'll figure out what this is before the end of
the podcast. We're gonna have you guys freaking out about something.
All right, all right, maybe maybe we'll just refer to they,

(32:09):
some some some entity or person out there and that
group of people that are after you only known as
they They're gonna get here or whatever. Well, yeah, first
story of the podcast, if you don't know, I pick
our headlines and uh, as Eric has said, I do
not read ahead. That's just the kind of guy.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
And uh this is this is all cold read right here, right.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
And the hope is that maybe this brings a little
bit of brightness to your week.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
Somebody else's stupidity is your entertainment.

Speaker 2 (32:42):
It is. It is pretty entertaining at times. Yeah, so
hopefully this brighten's your weak up. There's enough stupidity in
the week, enough bad stupidity. Sometimes it's cathartic. I think
it's the most cathartic podcast here for.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
You therapy therapists.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
So oh man, yeah, well I think both of us
could use a little bit of therapy.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
All right.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
First headline of the week here, airliner circles airport for hour.
Air traffic controller was found sleeping. Yeah, so let's talk
about the one job where you really shouldn't hit the
snooze button. An air traffic controller, you know, the person
responsible for making sure giant metal tubes full of people

(33:32):
don't crash in the mountains. Right, But an airport or
or an air Corsica flight from Paris discovered their controller
had gone night night. Some of my my youngest would say,
is a night night night. Yeah, that's well, that's right.
The only guy in the control tower fell asleep on

(33:53):
the job. Which, yeah, this one guy.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
You had one job, one job.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
Right, It's to be clear, it's is less oops I
knodded off in the meeting and more oops. I forgot
to land the plane pretty bad, like when I make
mistakes at work. It's not you know, like a whole
plane where the people worth of. Yeah, so the pilot
is making radio calls like hello tower, you up, puts

(34:26):
you up? Almost sounds like he knows the guy fell asleep.
Crickets rite, nothing coming up, no lights on the runway,
no voice on the radio. Just a very expensive game
of Marco Polo in the sky right where where where?
What you're what you're paying with it is is the
h I guess what you're gambling with? People's lives? He said,

(34:48):
It made me Marco Polo. Maybe I don't think it
was a game of chicken instead. Okay, anyways, at one
point the captain literally had to call the fire department
for help. Imagine being the fire chief, Like, sorry, I
usually deal with cats and trees, not passenger jets circling overhead,
because Chad fell asleep on a ship. Eventually, the police

(35:10):
get involved, which is never the kind of customer service
you want when you're landing a plane. When stuff finally
broke into the tower because security locks actually slowed them down,
they found the controller asleep at his desk, like full
on mass mode. Oh my gosh, no drugs, no alcohol,
just good old fashioned I'm tired and I don't care

(35:31):
if one hundred and eighty people are dangling above the
gulf of of adject CEO at Casios that's Eventually sleeping
Beauty wakes up, he flips all the runaway lights and
the plant lanes. The pilot, who deserves sainthood, tells passengers

(35:51):
we did a little sight seeing, which is captain speak
for yeah, we just risked our lives because some dude
thought midnight was a great time for r em sleep.
So in the end, an entire plane load of people
got an accidental tour of Corsica because the air traffic
controller decided to audition for the role of guys snoring

(36:12):
through armageddon.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
Oh man, that's that must have been a small airport.
If you only have one guy, yeah, then air traffic.

Speaker 2 (36:22):
Well, so my question is, let's say you had an emergency,
like if this guy had a heart attack or some
kind of medical event, what do you do, Like if
he's the only one there. That seems like a little
bit of a of a needless risk.

Speaker 1 (36:38):
It's kind of a security problem. You know. This literally
reminded me of a true story whenever I was making
because when my my my folks were still around, uh,
my dad would usually pay for me to fly back
to see them when we'd come home for for like
Thanksgiving or something like that. So uh, you know, and

(36:59):
not to I've had friends and say, hey, look, I'd
like to go to Arkansas as well. So they would
pay for their their plane ticket and come with me.
And it was kind of cool because it was kind
of neat to kind of have friends to take back
to see the home place in Arkansas. But true story,
when we lived up in Northwest PA, up in Saint Mary's,
you know, we'd have to take the little puddle jumpers
to get down to the Metropolitan Airport in Pittsburgh so

(37:21):
we could get on the big direct flight. So a
friend of mine was going to go with me, and
we normally would fly to the regional airport in to
the south of Saint Mary's. We'd be in do Boys,
but this time we got a better deal if we
went north to the Bradford Airport. And that's a smaller

(37:42):
airport than the one in Do Boys. So we had
like the first flight of the day. So we got
up there nice and early, and there was not a
soul in the airport. The entire airport was empty.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
I've been I've been to a couple of places like
that before.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
Yeah, And we said, well it is and and and
so we saw the plane that we're going to get
on land, come in, the folks get out. There is
nobody at the terminal. The captain comes out looking around
and wants to know where the people are. We waited
an hour because somebody overslept and did not make it

(38:21):
into the terminal. So because of that, that connecting flight,
we missed the main flight in Pittsburgh to go to Arkansas. Naturally, yeah,
and I was fit to be ted. It was one
of those trains planes in automobile movie moments. Okay. And
to this day, this guy laughed about the whole thing
what happened, because I was so tipped off because they

(38:44):
were going to make me wait like another day, and
I'm like, no, because the next day is Thanksgiving and
that's when my reunion is. And I said, I got
into this woman's face at the counter and said, if
you have to hitch up a mule and wagon to
the back of this airport, I want out of here today.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
You know.

Speaker 1 (39:00):
I was like livid, and he was. It was all
he could do to keep from cracking up laughing because
I was. I was losing it. But the best part
was our trip to Pittsburgh on the little puddle jumper
because you know these little things. You feel every pocket

(39:21):
of air on these little things, right, So and and
and this was this plane was so small. It only
had one row on each side of the aisle, all right,
So I mean it was just that was it. I'm sorry, Well,
one row, two seats, see, two seats on one side,
two seats on the other. So I was I was
sitting next to my friend we were across the aisle

(39:43):
from this poor woman who was slightly pregnant, and the
turbulence was not sitting well with her.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
Okay, I mean when you're when you're just slightly pregnant,
almost everything doesn't sit well with a pregnant that's.

Speaker 1 (39:59):
Right, So you know, and there's a point where you
do have to go through some turbulence until you can
get above the air the clouds, so you can get
it at the smoother airflow. So when we were kind
of bumping our way up through the atmosphere, every time
that that plane would take a dip. Have you ever
seen back in the I don't know how long ago
it was, but there's these little I don't know. It

(40:21):
looks like a bird on a test tube with red
liquid at the bottom, and supposedly if you set a
water glass in front of it, it tips to the
water glass like the birds tipping down to get a drink, okay,
and so like a little pivot. But this poor girl
looked like that's what she looked like to me, one
of these little things. Because every time the plane hitded
an air pocket and kind of bounced, she had the

(40:43):
airsick bag in front of her and she would like
dip into the air bag and ralph up at something,
and it was every time her head would go down
and start heaving.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
We would start laughing.

Speaker 1 (40:55):
Every time, and I tried. I tried to look out
the window so I could not watch her, and my
friend would start laughing, and then I would start laughing.
It was terrible. I felt sorry for her, but I
could not stop laughing in the fact that she would
puke every time that the plane took a dip in
the air. So yeah, so no, But in this case,
it's not a good idea. It's probably not a good

(41:16):
idea to fall asleep or take your nap. If you're
an air traffic controller, that's probably the best get a
good night's sleep. If you're working in the air traffic
control industry and come to work nice and rested. It's
probably also not a good idea to door dasher murder supplies. Okay,
I knew you were going to pick this, this one.

(41:37):
I knew it.

Speaker 2 (41:38):
This is when the headline talks about not a good
idea to door dasher burden supplies, it fills your mind
with so many different Oh, I guess, like I I.

Speaker 1 (41:52):
Mean yes, And you know now you can. I mean
there now you realize now Walmart is coming out with
what they call dark stores. You know what those are?

Speaker 2 (42:03):
No, I have no idea.

Speaker 1 (42:05):
They're they're they're they're building. There's they're starting a test
market of some of these dark stores. The Walmart. They're
not for the public to come in to shop. Okay,
you got a Walmart building.

Speaker 2 (42:16):
It's like a ghost kitchen basically for the yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:21):
Right, And so the only thing that the Walmart dark
stores are going to be used for is for like
drone delivery and delivery for the local thing. Right, So
this is you know, everyone likes the delivery stuff now,
you know, and and people are working on the drone
deliveries and saying you can literally order something now in
the morning and have it delivered that afternoon. You know.

(42:44):
So the same day delivery services are great. You got
food for same day delivery, last minute toilet paper, you know,
all this kind of thing, what inflatable unicorns for spontaneous
pool parties whatever. But look, they're probably not an ideal
thing for procuring murders plies. Okay, well, yeah, that's right exactly.

(43:07):
But this door dasher, he alerts the police after making
a rather strange delivery to a motel of all places,
in Sweetwater, Texas. This sounds like a movie in the
making right here. All right, The complete complete list of
items have not been completely released yet, but word has
it that the delivery included let's see, we've got trash

(43:29):
bags check zip ties check, bleach check, chick check. Oh
my god, I'd think that's fairly obvious. I think at
least try the disguise it. Maybe adding a unicorn pool
float or something. I don't know, but police police said
this forty two year old man named Neil Cooper places
his order on door dash for these like kidnapping murder tools.

(43:53):
All right, So the cops show up at the motel
room and Neil wouldn't leave and warned the officers that
he was armed. Okay, that's always a good sign to
let the police know that, right Well, of course, the
cops forced their way in, and what do they find
but a hostage inside the motel room. Hostages was rescued

(44:15):
but then later arrested on an outstanding warrant. This is
kind of an interesting twist. I mean, there's no word
on the identity, but it kind of sounds like the
warrant was all drug related. This kind of has this
kind of you know, possibility. So I meant Neil was
arrested for aggravated kidnapping, and of course there's probably going
to be some additional charges on top of that. But

(44:37):
it's really unclear what he planned to do with the victim.
But I think clearly it pretty looks like it looks
like it could have been a pretty bad situation. I
don't think it would end well if the cops hadn't
shown up. Unclear though, though, I mean, what would happen.
But the people did praise the door dash driver for
acting and he saw the red flags rather than just

(44:57):
kind of turn a blind eye. I mean, others weren't
so sh actually, and one person actually commented about it said,
I'm glad that it worked out for the best this time.
But do you really want your door dash driver deciding
your order is suspicious in calling the cops? I mean,
I mean that, yeah, the living.

Speaker 2 (45:16):
Stuff there is pretty bad.

Speaker 1 (45:18):
Well, but what if you're like filming a movie, you know,
or something like this. I don't know, but it's just
like I kind of want do you want to tell
the driver, look, you don't paid to think you get
paid to deliver things.

Speaker 2 (45:29):
Okay, so there's also you know the whole like see something,
say something kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
That's right, that's right.

Speaker 2 (45:37):
So you know, like I'm all for privacy, but at
the same time, like come on, man, that's that's ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (45:44):
Yeah, I mean what what works great one way could
end very badly another way.

Speaker 2 (45:50):
This makes me wonder, like what are the other weird
door dash things that people have gotten, Like, like imagine
someone you know, like what what door dashes? Ah, you know,
package of tissues, lotion and uh, I don't know, magazine
or something that would be a very uncomfortable delivery for me.

Speaker 1 (46:10):
Yeah, and a big package of condoms or something I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (46:14):
Oh my goodness, Yeah, yeah that would.

Speaker 6 (46:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:19):
I think that this person would probably win a Darwin
Award for his uh I guess door dash murder.

Speaker 1 (46:29):
Lack of lack of discretion, yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
Murder kit, I guess, or kill kit. But uh it
was something we talk about every year and it's the
time of the year again for the Ignoble Prize winners,
which yeah, if you if you don't know what these are,
maybe you didn't listen last year or the year before.
That we always love to kind of pick out some
of the top Ignoble Prize winners and basically like right, yeah, right,

(47:00):
they definitely are. The winners were announced recently. This is
what happened this year's Ignoble Prize winners. And it's like
the stupid Nobel Prize for the weirdest It's like the
Noble Press for the weirdest and stupidest insights science offered
for the year. And so they're these are all things

(47:21):
that actual scientists have basically like conducted a study for
or something. And I'm sure a lot of this, you know,
is thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars tens of
thousands for these studies. So keep that in mind as
we go through these. Here are this year's winners, so
in quotes, I know, right, yeah. The Wieners. Yeah, that's

(47:45):
I don't know I could put on my bad like,
you know, since I'm Mexican. Low. Yeah, the Wianers, the Wieners,
the Wieners, these near the Wieners. I can't not the
whole time, I can't. I mean, yeah, uh. This year's
Literature Prize was awarded posthumously to a man quote for

(48:07):
persistently recording and analyzing the rate of growth of one
of his fingernails over a period of thirty five years.

Speaker 1 (48:15):
Whoa, yeah, he.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
Was later found scratched to death. Kidding, this podcast is mustibiity.
It could happen, I guess.

Speaker 1 (48:25):
Yeah, okay, let me keep his fingernails from splitting.

Speaker 2 (48:29):
Yeah, oh dude, I don't know. Lots of conditioner, lots
of maybe maybe all the cocaine. I'm not sure.

Speaker 1 (48:35):
Well yeah, yeah, well of course I could date date
myself again. Talk about maybe he soaked his hands in
pal malla dishwashing liquid.

Speaker 2 (48:45):
Yeah, right, this one here, this is My wife has
a degree nutrition, so this might be interesting. Uh. This
is The Nutrition Prize was awarded to researchers who determined
rainbow lizards prefer four cheeses uh pizza to other varieties
of pizza, even even pineapple pizza.

Speaker 1 (49:06):
Yeah. I would do the four cheese over pineapple pizza
any day myself. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (49:12):
No, no, no, pineapple is is it belongs on a pizza?

Speaker 1 (49:16):
No? No.

Speaker 2 (49:20):
The number three, the Pediatrics Prize went to a team
who looked into what a nursing infant experiences when their
mother eats garlic. He definitely does play a role on
you know, the other things.

Speaker 1 (49:39):
I guess the next the next child that you have,
Missus Poncho needs to do that.

Speaker 2 (49:46):
Man. We're like, all right, let's try different foods and
maybe we could win a prize. All right. The Biology
prize went to a study that determined, quote, cows painted
like with zebra like stripes, we're fifty percent less likely
to be bitten by flies.

Speaker 1 (50:05):
Wow. Well, then you could probably win a new kind
of a prize at the County Fair.

Speaker 2 (50:11):
Right, I know. Or it just becomes a new exhibit
in a Chinese zoo.

Speaker 1 (50:20):
And a future story for our podcast.

Speaker 2 (50:22):
Yeah, I know, right, Yeah, any listeners will get the
joke because we've had a few of those. The Chemistry
prize went to experiments analyzing quote, whether eating teflon would
be an effective way to increase food volume without extra calories.

Speaker 1 (50:37):
Teflon yikes.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
Yeah, we have been trying to get away from these
nonstick things in our house cooking on them, let alone
just eating it.

Speaker 1 (50:48):
You're like, well, I guess they'll have their share of
they'll have their share of microplastics in their body.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
Right fulfiller? Oh my gosh, it's all right. The Ignoble
Peace Prize was given to a study that found that, quote,
drinking alcohol sometimes improves a person's ability to speak in
a foreign language.

Speaker 1 (51:11):
Yeah, I've heard. I've heard a lot of people speaking
in tongues too when they had too much to drink.

Speaker 2 (51:16):
Yeah. I guess the trick is you just got to
slur your speech or something. Let's see the Engineering Design Prize.
It went to a team who researched, quote, how foul
smelling shoes affect the good experience of using a shoe rack.

Speaker 1 (51:34):
Let me tell you something. My son he could he
could take his shoes off, and we would have the
entire inside of the house completely clean from any kind
of spiders or bugs.

Speaker 2 (51:45):
I love how the premise here is that shoe racks
are good, right, Well, how it can affect the good
experience of a shoe rack, Yeah, I find that fascinating.
Number eight, the Aviation for went to research on how
alcohol ingestion affects the ability of bats to fly and

(52:06):
echo locate.

Speaker 1 (52:08):
Interesting.

Speaker 2 (52:09):
Yeah, I guess there's a lot of maybe I don't know,
like like really right route out there. Maybe.

Speaker 1 (52:18):
Yeah, maybe they fly into a wall because they can't
I don't know. That's funny.

Speaker 2 (52:26):
We've got the Psychology Prize number nine that went to
a team who analyzed how receiving high IQ scores relates
to temporary state narcissism.

Speaker 1 (52:37):
I by that, I believe that for sure, I'm smarter
than you are.

Speaker 2 (52:44):
And then number ten, the last one, the Ignoble Prize
for Physics, was given to scientists who looked into the
properties of pasta sauce. Quote. Maybe this is physics, quote,
especially the phase transition that leads to clumping, which can
be a cause of unpleasantness.

Speaker 1 (53:03):
Yeah. I do not like clumpy pasta sauce at all. Yeah,
so I will say this. My wife makes some really
good pasta sauce, So I mean she's she's definitely got
that down to a science. Okay. And no clumps, definitely
no clumps. No, there was a big.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
I didn't realize she was such a good physicist.

Speaker 1 (53:25):
Yeah, that's right, that's right. But I'll tell you there
was a really big clump inside a Burmese python that
was found. Okay, this is in Florida. Of course, I
understand there's a python problem in Florida. I'm not mistaken. So,
but I guess sometimes when you stop think about it,
when you look across the entire spectrum of animal and

(53:47):
human kind, stupidity is not necessarily just a human specialty. Okay,
sometimes nature itself kind of gets in on the X.
So we have a case in point here in Florida,
you know, where scientists recently witnessed one of the most
ridiculous animal blunders I think in recent memory. Now just imagine, Okay,

(54:08):
you have a Burmese python, you know, one of those
invasive giants that have been wreaking havoc in the everglade
since the seventies, slithering its way into a free all
you can eat buffets like they come upon the python
version of the Golden Corral. I guess, all right, so
we have on the menu for today we have a

(54:30):
white tailed deer. Okay, now, for the record, these snakes,
you know, they can swallow some pretty outrageous meals, all right,
they're apex predators. But this particular python, I think his
eyes got a little bigger than his stomach. He swallowed
an entire dear hole. Okay, Now, at.

Speaker 2 (54:49):
First, like a dream come true for me?

Speaker 1 (54:53):
Well right, right exactly, So I mean, you know, at first,
like like you know whenever you've eaten, like, there's a
smorgas here in Pennsylvania that you really have to experience
called the shady Maple. It is the world's it's the
nation's largest smortgagsboard. It is. It makes a golden corral
look like a little pig trough. Okay, And you see

(55:15):
this and you go, wow, I can eat everything. And
it seemed good at first until you see and the
same thing happened to this poor python. Theys go by,
the snake still lugging around its supersized dinner. But then nature,
Mother Nature throws in a curveball a coal snap hits Florida.

(55:35):
That means it drops below sixty degrees. Okay, yeah, so
actually the temperature drop below fifty. So now we have
a cold blooded reptile digestive system shutting down. All right,
So the python's body basically said nope, can't do it. Okay,

(55:56):
And then one of the more revolting field moments ever
docu minted the snake was forced to ralph up the
whole deer. Okay, that's right. Scientists returned to the well. Right, So,
the scientists find a bloated snake that had slimmed down

(56:18):
remarkably overnight, and right there lying next to it in
all of its half digested glory, kind of looking like
Jonah after spending three days in a whales belly was
a deer. Okay, like some kind of a horrible wildlife
refund policy all right, Now, it wasn't just nasty, it
was historic, right. According according to the researchers, this was

(56:42):
like the first time a free ranging Burmese python in
Florida had ever been observed throwing up a deer without
any human interference. Now the translation the python pretty much
did this to itself. Okay, that's also worth pointing out
the deer population in Florida's Big Ziper's National Preserve has
kind of been shrinking, and pythons are the big reason why.

(57:05):
So these deer are also you know, critical food for
the endangered Florida panther you see. So, yes, this is
some serious science for talking about, but let's be honest,
it's kind of an episode of when your eyes are
bigger than your stomach. Animal addition, Okay, so in the end,
the snake pretty much lost its big giant meal. The

(57:25):
scientists didn't gain that rather grotesque but a very valuable discovery,
and Florida added another chapter in its long running saga
of bizarre wildlife news. So I mean, not only have
Florida men, we have now Florida wildlife. But look, whether
you're human or snake.

Speaker 2 (57:41):
Don't sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between the two.

Speaker 1 (57:47):
That's true. But the object I'll listen here is don't
bite off more than you can chew, or you just
might just end up puking up a deer in front
of a research team.

Speaker 2 (57:57):
What I love is the is like, look at it's
such a beautiful moment.

Speaker 1 (58:06):
Cool, this is cool highing each other.

Speaker 8 (58:11):
You know, this.

Speaker 2 (58:14):
Beautiful and the like you know, you're like like, you know,
crying like it's my God, expectively, like I'm thinking about
the the ace Ventura when nature calls. When when Jim
Carrey is in the like like a robotic rhino, and
he's sweating, he's down to his like he has to

(58:37):
strip down naked basically because he's so hot there and
he has to climb out of the only like the
door stuck. The only hole to climb out is a
small opening where the butthole is and uh, and he
slides out and like this family is looking on They're like,
it's so beautiful. It's giving birth, and it's it's like,

(58:58):
oh man, nature is not always beautiful.

Speaker 1 (59:02):
Okay, yeah, but this is not something you're going to
see on a Walt Disney wild adventure movie somewhere, you know, Like,
this is not like the what was a movie about
the penguins, you know, or something like.

Speaker 2 (59:15):
That, March of the Penguins or March of the Penguins.

Speaker 1 (59:19):
Yeah, yeah, nothing like that.

Speaker 2 (59:21):
This is this is more close to like one of
those those new kind of was it satirical kind of
horror movies, like Cocaine Bear or something. Yeah, I saw.
I didn't watch it, but I saw there's a new
one that came out. Not Cocaine Bear, it was it
was it was called, uh, there's a Crackcoon Crackcoon Crack.

Speaker 1 (59:43):
That'sip that was about a raccoon.

Speaker 2 (59:45):
There's a raccoon that got into a bad batch of
crack and it went off on some kind of killing
spree or whatever.

Speaker 1 (59:51):
Although you know, I would I did have the story
here on a recent episode of the podcast about to
take the coon that found in a peach soaked in
moonshine and.

Speaker 2 (01:00:03):
Forgot about that. Yes, yeah, so these are like half believable, right.

Speaker 9 (01:00:08):
Yeah, cocaine bears and uh crack, you know, raccoons, raccoons
and drunk raccoons.

Speaker 2 (01:00:20):
Right, and you got you know, cocaine riddled math teachers.
These are all in the r possibility. That's right, that's right,
which is what happened in Louisiana. This is not a
Florida teacher, even though I've got my own stories of
it was a substitute teacher being arrested for being drunk

(01:00:42):
in class. That was my uh freshman year of high
school biology honors. We never it was a test day.
All the guys got to do is come in there,
hand out tests and be quiet for the whole time.

Speaker 1 (01:00:56):
Yeah, I could not do it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:58):
He was off on some weird and we never made up.
That test was glorious. And we had a pottery teacher
that was arrested for dealing in growing pots, so it
seemed seems fitting. I think that it would be more
fitting if this math teacher was caught with meth called
the math teacher instead. But teachers, Yeah, okay, it's close enough.

(01:01:24):
I guess it's tough for teachers to keep up with kids,
all right, I get it as as a parent, like
kids are tough. Well, I guess that extra cup of
coffee doesn't always do the trick. A middle school math
teacher in LA is facing charges for bringing cocaine into
her classroom. Cops showed up to the school in Baton

(01:01:46):
Rouge to do a random drug SUITEP. They had a
canine unit with them. The dog zeroed in on the
bag belonging to a forty seven year old Virginia Summer,
so they searched it and found a small out of
cocaine in her wallet. She claimed it wasn't hers and
belonged to a friend, but she admitted she did snort

(01:02:07):
some of it. Some add an LSU tailgate the previous weekend.

Speaker 1 (01:02:12):
Okay, some teacher.

Speaker 2 (01:02:15):
They also searched for Honda cr V in the parking
lot and found a small amount of weed. She's facing
charges for possession of cocaine, marijuana, drug paraphernalia, and having
them in a school zone. Fortunately, students stopped coming because
they noticed so many things. From our list of the
top signs your teacher is a coke head? Oh yeah,

(01:02:39):
first sign here that your teachers a coke head. The
movie day is scarface and I'll take it over. Another
viewing of Finding Nemoka. Another one here you you attend
Robert Downey Junior Elementary or maybe Charlie Sheen High. When

(01:03:02):
you the number three, when you finish your juice box,
she asks you for the straw. Maybe if she's using
like a metal spoon at the lunch table, in the
plastic spoon or something. Your your field trip is to Bolivia.

Speaker 1 (01:03:22):
I like that one.

Speaker 10 (01:03:27):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:03:28):
Today we're going to the mountains of Columbia. Maybe you
would know your teachers a cokett if her name is
miss Lohan.

Speaker 1 (01:03:42):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:03:43):
Next thing, when you sniff markers, she says way ahead
of you you maybe you see your grinding down the
chalk instead.

Speaker 1 (01:03:53):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (01:03:55):
Uh. When when she's really cool, you know you don't
know my matches, she's really cool. Yeah. When the principal
visits she makes you hold her purse.

Speaker 1 (01:04:06):
Oh yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:04:09):
And then today's book, Oh the places you'll snort.

Speaker 1 (01:04:14):
Oh, yes, that's a dead giveaway.

Speaker 2 (01:04:16):
Apparently LC tailgates and yes, it might be in that book.
And then last in here she likes being a teacher.

Speaker 1 (01:04:24):
Yeah, that's probably more true than you know. Yeah, and
you you have taught in school, so you kind of
know a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:04:29):
About Yeah, maybe only only in California can a teacher
afford cocaine on their teachers.

Speaker 1 (01:04:36):
But well that's true. They get paid a lot in California.
But look, teaching is really hard on me. I hear
stories all the time. My wife comes in. She's a
teacher at school, at a Christian school. And if you
think that regular schools are crazy, it's just as crazy
at private Christian schools as well, I'm tell you. But look,
I mean the teachers, they get paid, some of them

(01:04:57):
not enough money, you know, to try to take care
of the kids. But look, the one people that get
the most abuse is school bus drivers. You know, they
are the bottom of the food chain, you know, and
they they really, I mean, they go they hire mainly
the retired people to be the school bus drivers, and

(01:05:19):
you know, I mean they're just they just want to help,
you know, just drive the kids home. But they end
up getting a busload of wild kids that are bouncing
off the walls. And sometimes you can't blame bus drivers
sometimes but still, I mean, I know kids these days
would probably appreciate a bus driver who cooks. But I
don't think we're talking quite in this particular method. There's

(01:05:44):
a seventy five year old school bus driver in Sugar Creek, Pennsylvania.
His name is Harvey Slicker, and I love that name.
Harvey's Slicker. He lives in Utica, PA. Well, he's facing
charges because the police said he threw the children when
he was driving in his bus and he punished somebody

(01:06:04):
up cranking up the heat. Okay, this is funny, but
still pretty sad. At the same time, parents said their
kids got off the school bus quote crying and extremely sweaty. Okay,
Harvey demanded the kids closed all the windows, then turned
the heater up on full blast. Now supposedly outside it

(01:06:28):
was only seventy four degrees, but inside the bus it
was at least ninety five to one hundred degrees.

Speaker 2 (01:06:35):
All right, Like this guy's punishing himself leve along with
the kids.

Speaker 1 (01:06:40):
Well, yeah, exactly. He allegedly told the kids, I'm gonna
cook you all and threatened to bring the paddle to
school the next day. So the investigators said the students
were between five and twelve years old. So police said
they were working with the school. The valley grew of

(01:07:00):
elementary school During the investigation. The school district confirmed the
incident in a statement to Katie KATV, saying that the
driver's actions included quote, using the heat on the bus
as a disciplinary action. I never heard of that before,
district officials said. The bus contractor replaced the driver immediately.

(01:07:20):
Now party was charged with simple assault, reckless endangerment and
I don't think he'll be driving for the district ever. Again,
not really sure what set him off in the first place, sir,
what he thought the mobile sauna would accomplish. But there's
no indication any of the kids were seriously hurt. They
were certainly miserable and probably puking by the time they
got off the bus.

Speaker 2 (01:07:42):
Oh my gosh, there's a bus driver from a.

Speaker 1 (01:07:46):
Hell then literally literally from hell.

Speaker 2 (01:07:53):
It's not funny because there's actually really best substitu to kids.
But at the same time, it's from some kind of
bad like comedy sketch or something.

Speaker 1 (01:08:03):
I like the fact. I like the fact that he says,
I'm gonna cook you all.

Speaker 2 (01:08:08):
I'm going to cook you cooked. I've had my own
weird bus driving experiences, not not not like me as
a driver. As a bus driver, I'm not weird enough
for that, believe it or not. But like, like you know,
taking the bus to school in the morning. But yeah,
this would totally change everything there.

Speaker 10 (01:08:31):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:08:31):
Look, while we've got a bus driver that was trying
to create hell in his bus, I've got a Florida
man that had all hell break loose whenever a bear
gets trapped in his shower. Okay, and you've been teasing
this a little bit, I don't know, have you earlier
on your half here?

Speaker 1 (01:08:54):
Yes, yes, this this this article actually came from your mother.

Speaker 2 (01:08:58):
She said, yeah, oh man, yeah, it's It's definitely interesting.
It definitely makes me think a little bit different about
how I need to take care and protect, Like, like
I've got to worry about more than just possums. I'm learning.
So a float of man was in for a shock

(01:09:18):
recently when he discovered that a bear had broken into
his rural Lake County home, and he was forced to
defend himself. Zeke Clark said the bear entered his house
through the opening garage door, and the animal quickly began
to panic when the door automatically closed behind it. Thanks
to the magic of the Internet, we've actually got old Zeke.

(01:09:40):
The man who found himself in a literal bear fight
inside his own house with us now to talk about it.

Speaker 1 (01:09:46):
Yeah, can you hear me?

Speaker 2 (01:09:51):
Yeah, Zeke, thanks for being on the podcast.

Speaker 1 (01:09:53):
Yeah, well.

Speaker 8 (01:09:56):
My grandson set this saying up for me. So can
can you hear me?

Speaker 2 (01:10:01):
Yeah? No, I hear you here. You're coming in here?

Speaker 1 (01:10:04):
That's good.

Speaker 8 (01:10:04):
Well, I tell you I was so shy. I appreciate
y'all having me because I'll tell you. You know, it
ain't ever day you get famous because cotton picking bar
uses your outouse.

Speaker 2 (01:10:18):
Yeah, well your outthouse. Oh you mean in your your bathroom.
Your bathroom's outside though, right, it's in your house.

Speaker 8 (01:10:26):
No, no, you got your door coumbing. My eyes just
still calls the outhouse.

Speaker 2 (01:10:31):
I said, Well, let's talk about that. A bear just
strolls through your garage door like it's wal Mart on
a Sunday.

Speaker 8 (01:10:39):
Oh yes, sir, ee bop tail right bine years it.
Did you know that door closed right behind him and
that bear went plumb crazy. I mean it knocked over
my best worm chair and busted up my brand new cooler,
tore that place up like a wine INDI.

Speaker 2 (01:10:57):
Okay, well, I mean lawn chair is a cooler. That
doesn't seem like it's that bad. I think so far,
I'll yeah so. And then instead of leaving this bear,
he decides to go deeper into your house.

Speaker 8 (01:11:12):
Lord, Yes he did, Oh, my lord, comes right into
the living room, right there where my mother in law
was sitting in there, I mean, and she starts hooping
and hollering and a carrying on bear in the house,
bearing the house and screaming and carrying on the dogs.
Well ever, the dogs was were marking. Everybody was screaming

(01:11:33):
and hooping and hollering, all like all hell fire broke
out place tided like one then their penny coastal revivals.

Speaker 2 (01:11:42):
Wow, yeah, Well where did the bear go next after that?
Hopefully your mother in law's okay?

Speaker 8 (01:11:48):
Well, that stupid bear went right down the hallway, straight
to the dead gum bathroom and looking jump right in
the shower, looking like he's about to worsho off all
them sins of breaking and entering.

Speaker 2 (01:12:01):
So a bear in your shower, you basically got like
the strangest episode of house Hunters ever. I didn't think
house Hunters referred to the people you know as well.

Speaker 8 (01:12:14):
I want you to know that crazy thing was pawing
at that shop like he's gonna do one then their
shampoo commercials or something like that.

Speaker 2 (01:12:24):
I guess I trusted may. I don't know. I'm looking
forward to those commercials when they come out. So and
usic you decided it's time for action, right.

Speaker 1 (01:12:35):
That gum right it was.

Speaker 8 (01:12:37):
I slammed bicking door shut and run up, grabbed my
shooting iron, come back in and crack that door like
I was playing peekaboo and bang, shut the door again,
and that bear trys busting out.

Speaker 1 (01:12:50):
So I went back.

Speaker 8 (01:12:52):
And bang and bang and shut the door again, real
careful like.

Speaker 2 (01:12:58):
So, so the battle plan was open, shoot clothes like
a kind of like a redneck version of whack a bowl.

Speaker 1 (01:13:07):
Dan't tooting, And it worked too.

Speaker 8 (01:13:09):
That drn bear didn't make it that as a doornail
shut full of book shot, and.

Speaker 2 (01:13:15):
Then Minders saying you you dragged it out of the house.

Speaker 8 (01:13:19):
On a tarp short It of course, ain't my first
time dragging something dead out of the bathroom.

Speaker 2 (01:13:27):
Okay, well you're not. You're not door dashing murder supplies,
are you. I'm not gonna ask. I'm not gonna ask.

Speaker 8 (01:13:35):
Well is probably best you don't course it take a
while to tell that story.

Speaker 2 (01:13:41):
You know, if you listened last week, I could have
given you some advice on where you could have brought
the bear to to clean. And then, uh, I guess
what you know?

Speaker 1 (01:13:52):
You mean to skin the bear?

Speaker 2 (01:13:54):
Skin the bear? Yeah, polage dorms. Apparently we talked about
this last week. All right, so wildlife bear in college.
You gotta listen last week? Okay? Uh, well, wildlife officials
they show up. They're like, Zeke, what actually happened in here? Well?

Speaker 8 (01:14:14):
I told him during revenue is y'all need to warning
folks about them bears using your name shower?

Speaker 2 (01:14:21):
Well, to be fair, they probably did give you some advice, right,
maybe lock your doors at night, don't leave out your garbage,
keep your grills covered.

Speaker 8 (01:14:29):
Well, yeah, underation. You know I dread the next time
they just lock it up. My mother in law in
there with that bear, you know, sure shave me some trouble.

Speaker 2 (01:14:39):
Yeah, then you don't have to get caught door dashing.
You know the stuff there. Zeke, you are a true
Florida man. Thanks for coming coming on the podcast and
for everyone is listening. Just know that in Florida, sometimes
even your shower is not safe.

Speaker 8 (01:14:56):
Oh no, well, I gotta get going, coach my garage
doors open.

Speaker 2 (01:15:01):
I don't want to have another bear, you know, take
care of that close. Like Karaji, you should have learned
your lesson the first time.

Speaker 1 (01:15:10):
Hopefully he was able to hear everything, all right. He
was a little hard on the internet connection there.

Speaker 2 (01:15:16):
Yeah, well yeah, it sounds like it may be a
little hard of hearing as well. Yeah, funny, I would
have thought that, like I could have sworn, the bear
wouldn't go to the shower. I would have thought he
would have gone to Z's man cave.

Speaker 1 (01:15:29):
Well, I don't know. I'm not sure, man, but maybe
I think maybe the garage and the house are all
on the same level. I think that's where that was.

Speaker 11 (01:15:38):
Okay, but so so now, just to be perfectly transparent
here on the podcast, all right, Pacho had no idea
what Zeke was going to say.

Speaker 2 (01:15:51):
Okay, so but.

Speaker 1 (01:15:55):
Zeke is my my, my, my alter ego. Okay on
the radio show. But but but you will be happy
to know the actual story which will be put in
telegram was actually put through artificial intelligence to generate a
great script for the podcast this week.

Speaker 8 (01:16:13):
Oh my god, so.

Speaker 2 (01:16:14):
You've got me.

Speaker 1 (01:16:15):
Oh I gosh, but but it's great. It came off fantastic.
I'm telling you, man.

Speaker 2 (01:16:24):
Lots of your darn too. And wow, all right you
are you are slowly losing your mind.

Speaker 1 (01:16:35):
That's right. That's why they call me insane, Eric Lane.

Speaker 12 (01:16:39):
You know, so, I uh, I want you to know
that it was one of the things when when your
your folks were visiting, was we were I was explaining
to them the all the backstory of what.

Speaker 1 (01:16:53):
We're doing with this, with this last, this last.

Speaker 2 (01:16:56):
Sorry, and I guess of Zeke your character.

Speaker 1 (01:17:00):
Course of course.

Speaker 2 (01:17:01):
Well I've never known or even heard about Zeke.

Speaker 1 (01:17:04):
Oh really, you've never heard about Zeke. Oh my goodness.
Ke Zeke. Basically he is from Possum Grape, Arkansas. Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:17:13):
He definitely sounds like.

Speaker 1 (01:17:16):
And Possum Grape is an actual place, okay. So I
mean it's like it's got its own exit off of
US sixty seven, one sixty seven north from it.

Speaker 2 (01:17:25):
It almost sounds like Possum ratee. No, no, which sounds
like something that happened in the country.

Speaker 1 (01:17:31):
No, no, well yeah no, but Possum Grape, okay. And
and then.

Speaker 2 (01:17:38):
Definitely something that would not happen at Poncho's.

Speaker 1 (01:17:41):
No, this would not happen at Pancho's house at all.
So but but the best part. I love this part
was when I worked in the radio is up in
Saint Mary's. I used Zeke on a lot and there
were actual debates going on in town on whether or
not he was a real person or not. And the

(01:18:02):
best part about it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:03):
Was that's always fun when you get Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:18:05):
The best part about it. They would people would call
the station and they would ask the general manager and
he would say, oh yeah, he says, this old guy
that comes in to take out the trash every weekend.
So but what what really threw people off one time
was when they called the station, I put Zeke on
the phone, and that was even more fun because then

(01:18:27):
you know, it's like my alter ego. You know, I
can I can do this. But but yeah, there was
stuff going on that that people never knew. But that
that's what makes radio so much fun is when you
can play people's heads like this, you know, but but yeah, lore,
oh yeah, yeah, yeah pretty much pretty much. But but honestly,

(01:18:47):
what what it is when when I do Zeke, it's
like I I channel my my Grandma Tuttle. She was
my mother's mom. And she is from Dry Work, Arkansas,
and she is as hill she was as hill billy
as you could possibly imagine. The only gene thing she
needed was a moonshine still in the back of her house.

(01:19:07):
That's all she needed to complete the whole thing. I
saw Grandma tuddle one of these ones. You know, you remember
those things that you know as a child you were
traumatized with the rest of your life. And I saw
my grandmother go out to her her the chicken coop
where she keeps certain chickens she wants to fatten up
for dinner. And she goes in, and I watched her

(01:19:28):
open up and the second's old rickety wooden chicken coop.
She opens up the door and just reaches in like
in the blink of an eye, and snatches one of
those chickens out and closes the door and walks back
to the house, carrying the chicken by the neck and
swinging it over her head.

Speaker 2 (01:19:47):
And it would be it'd be creepier if you had
like a young Japanese schoolgirl like that over one shoulder.

Speaker 1 (01:19:57):
But she's swinging the chickens and little I twists the
neck off of the chicken and the chicken runs around
headless around the yard until it finally falls over. Then
she takes it and she puts it in a pot
of boiling water outside on the back porch to get
all the feathers off of it. I watched her sit
and do this and pluck all the feathers out, and

(01:20:19):
we ended up having that for dinner.

Speaker 2 (01:20:23):
It tastes better or worse because of the show.

Speaker 1 (01:20:26):
I wasn't sure. I don't think. I think at the
time your mother saw it happen as well, and it
traumatized her so much she would not eat the chicken.

Speaker 2 (01:20:36):
Sounds about, Yeah, she would not eat it.

Speaker 1 (01:20:40):
So it's like, nope, I watched her kill it, I'm
not gonna eat it. And so she flat out would
not eat the chicken that we put on the table.
It was great. So yeah, just strange things like that.
When you grow up, you know, I'll tell you anyway.
So well, we've got some interesting ask Poncho questions here
this week, and what a mixed bag. And one is

(01:21:03):
something that I that was kind of interesting because my
son took a one of these when he graduated high school.
He took a gap year. Okay, this seems to be
a thing nowadays. Normally, you know, whenever I was a
kid growing up, maybe maybe with you, you know, you
finish high school, then the next fall you go to college,
or you going to a tech, or you get a job. Well,

(01:21:24):
here we have a person asking Pancho some advice, says
dear Pancho. Our son stunned my husband and I on
Sunday when he came home from college. He told us
he's dropping out and he's taking a gap year. My
husband wasn't mad at all. He said, well, you know,
he should use the year to rest, relax and kind

(01:21:46):
of find himself before he re enrolls. I think gap
years are a cop out, and my son needs to
go back to school and toughen out. I think taking
a gap year shows weakness. My husband does not. So
where do you stand on this?

Speaker 2 (01:22:00):
Oh man? Well, I so when I went to school.
This doesn't mean that everyone needs to do this. I
went straight from high school into four years of college
and then and in those four years I managed to
be able to eke out two bachelor's degrees. Yeah, and
I figured I'm on a four year scholarship. It does

(01:22:22):
not specify how many degrees. It just specified the number
of years, so I figured, all right, let me double
up on credit hours and places. But most, I think
most jobs, like at least half of the jobs out there,
if not more, do not require a college degree. Yeah,
I'm at this point where I'm almost wondering do we

(01:22:44):
even need to go? Like do most kids even need
to go to college? Period?

Speaker 1 (01:22:48):
Actually, to be honest with you, more people I'm thinking
should go to trade schools.

Speaker 2 (01:22:53):
You know what I'm saying, right, And that's kind of
what I'm thinking too. So I do think like, if
you're going to start it, you should at least finish it.
But but if you're gonna how much is he paying? Right?
Is he gonna leave with eighty thousand dollars?

Speaker 1 (01:23:07):
And that man, then no.

Speaker 2 (01:23:09):
He should probably not go unless he wants to do
something that's going to be worth eighty thousand plus. You know,
like you, if you want to be a doctor, you gotta.

Speaker 1 (01:23:19):
Go to college, right, right, special, I.

Speaker 2 (01:23:23):
Don't know what I want to do, and so like,
if you don't know what you want to do and
you're going out there paying, right, that doesn't sound very smart.
What else do you go out and spend tens of
thousands of dollars doing and not even tens of thousands,
tens of thousands of dollars where it's alone, so you're

(01:23:45):
gonna have interest add it on top of right, right,
those who went to so like I did the first
year living on campus and after that I decided I'm
going to get a job, I'm gonna I'm gonna pay
for my food in my room and board, so all
I'm paying for books in classes right and from there
really is just the classes, like I could afford the books,
you know, with whatever. But so because I realized I'm

(01:24:09):
paying interest for the next how many years on food
I know, and on just housing. So yeah, it's like
I was like, no, I'm not doing that anymore. And yeah,
so it really, I personally like it depends on what
your son wants to do, right and if he knows
what he wants to do or not, how much he's paying,
because I'm all about getting all the work done and

(01:24:31):
getting it done, pushing through and then moving on with
your life. But I don't know if college is the one.

Speaker 1 (01:24:37):
Thing you have to also remember if you do take
a gap year, you're also going to be the oldest
kid in class. You know what I'm saying, well, yeah, but.

Speaker 2 (01:24:46):
I've got a friend who is finishing up his bachelor's degree.
He's two years younger than me. He's like thirty two
years old. He's the oldest guy in his class. But
like my wife went to school. When she was going
to school, she she paid way as she went, and
so she was a couple of years older than I
was when she graduated. It took her six years to

(01:25:06):
graduate instead of fourth because she didn't go there and
take four straight years. She did, like, it took her
four years to get her AA, but she paid her
way through it, so she didn't owe a penny.

Speaker 1 (01:25:18):
Oh wow, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:25:20):
And then in the last two years she was like, all,
I just got to get this done. And so she
did to kind of like a full time school for
the last two years and and and she left with
like five thousand bucks and loans, which is like nothing.

Speaker 1 (01:25:31):
So really, I mean, do you think it's well with
today's school that that is actually better to kind of
take college and piecemeal rather than all in one lump sum.

Speaker 2 (01:25:43):
It depends, I think what you want to do and
how much. But there's there's other options and ways to
go about it that I think are a lot smarter
and can be very smart to do for that, and
so so yeah, like I love getting it all done,
But like, who cares if you're the oldest in school.
She went to school. She wasn't even the oldest in
her class. There were people that were like in their
forties and you know, they had a military career, they're

(01:26:06):
back from Afghanistan. I'm like, all right, I'm going to
get some school in because it's covered through you know, serving,
and so it doesn't matter like you're there as an adult.

Speaker 1 (01:26:14):
I actually saved for some reason. I don't know why,
but I just felt I want to save all of
the receipts whenever I went to college. This was nineteen
eighty one to nineteen eighty five. When I went to
Arkansas State, I decided I was going to save all
my receipts. Up back then, they did everything on computer cards.

(01:26:36):
You had computer cards. You give them the computer card
for your classes and all these kinds that they put
the computer card in process it and all this kind
of thing. So but I have all my receipts. Do
you know what my tuition, my in state tuition, Okay,
not through them in board, just the in state tuition
alone in nineteen eighty one fall of nineteen eighty one
at Arkansas State University. You know what it was for

(01:26:57):
full like fifteen sixteen hours credit.

Speaker 2 (01:27:01):
Man, like a couple hundred bucks.

Speaker 1 (01:27:03):
Seventy five Oh my god, seventy five bucks. People think
I'm lying. I pull out the receipt and I show
it to them and they're like, they can't believe they're
rubbing the rice. So my first semester, my first semester
roomen board tuition, not counting books to either the twenty
meal a week plan. Okay, come to a grand total

(01:27:23):
thirteen hundred dollars. Yeah, okay, So now just to kind
of keep this in perspective, my entire four year college career. Okay,
room and board tuition, four years. What do you think
the total the grand total was when I graduated?

Speaker 2 (01:27:42):
Four thousand bucks?

Speaker 1 (01:27:43):
Well, I wish it were that much, but it's close
to the ten thousand okay, ten thousand dollars oh for
a four year degree.

Speaker 2 (01:27:51):
I mean, now I will say, so that's actually not
I don't know what an inflation would be like from
when you're going to when I was going to school,
but around twenty ten when I was going to college
around that time.

Speaker 1 (01:28:02):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:28:03):
I graduated with my two bachelor's degrees four years and
it was about twenty thousand, all sudden done, right, wow,
at a big university, and I was there on a scholarship,
so most of it was covered and that's why. But
I thought that wasn't that bad compared to what most
people do.

Speaker 1 (01:28:21):
Wow. Wow, I'm just kind I'm just curious to look
up college tuition ten thousand dollars and what twenty twenty
five dollars? What it would be like, you know, and
just just kind of a curious to apply for tuition.

Speaker 2 (01:28:41):
You do that, Well, I'm going to go into the
next ass sponsor while you look at that. Yeah, this
that they say, help, Should a Florida law be the
law of the land. Well, look, you're talking to a
Florida man, right, Maybe not like like Zeke. But yeah,
I haven't killing the bear yet. Okay, maybe maybe one

(01:29:02):
day if I'm lucky. They say, I am eight months pregnant. Congratulations.
First of all, I understand I was wabbling into a
grocery store yesterday when I made a comment that pregnant
women should be allowed to park in handicap spots. There
were two other shoppers who heard what I said and
got angry with me. They said the spots should always

(01:29:23):
be reserved for those who need help and not for
those who are pregnant and lazy. Why would why would
you say that to somebody, especially when they're eight months pregnant.
That's that's pretty messed up. Apparently they've never had kids.
Being pregnant is a full time job. Having a premium
parking spot would be helpful. I saw in Florida that
it's actually legal for pregnant women to park in handicap spots.

(01:29:45):
What do you think about this? Should pregnant women be
allowed to parking handcap spots? Yeah, of course, I'm a
Florida guy. Okay, the Florida I declare, it's the law
of the land. Now you we want to support, we
want to support families, right and starting families, and and
and so. Absolutely, eight months pregnant, you don't. You shouldn't

(01:30:08):
be doing a lot of walking if you can, right.
And in Florida too, it gets so hot if you're
in the summertime. Yeah, that's you're already running hot at
that point on a under the air conditioning event. Hot,
so yeah, no, of course. Yeah, And why someone would
ever say that to eight months pregnant woman. Uh, they're

(01:30:29):
messed up, let's messed up. They're probably I don't know,
they don't sound like very good people. Yeah, so I
totally agree with you on them.

Speaker 1 (01:30:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:30:40):
I think it's simple simple. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:30:43):
Well, you know, so you would you think that there
would be a good idea to have that as the
law of the land.

Speaker 2 (01:30:50):
I think it's the least hot take of any of
the ask ponchos we've probably ever had that.

Speaker 1 (01:30:55):
Right, wow? Oh yeah, wow. So all right, my according
to just a quick search, ten thousand dollars in nineteen
eighty five for contuition when averaged out would be about
thirty thousand dollars in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 2 (01:31:13):
There you go. But the thing is, inflation happens and
your bill marginally does not change.

Speaker 1 (01:31:21):
True, and so yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:31:23):
You're paying back slowly and slowly, but as well as
the dollar becomes That's where the government loves to spend
money r When they take out a bunch of debt
and then inflation happens. It's not like the debt is
inflation adjusted. You basically while your money gets less, spending
and buying value, their loans get cheaper basically.

Speaker 1 (01:31:49):
So basically this though, there'll be a two cumulative price
change from the ten thousand dollars intuition nineteen eighty five
to the same amount in twenty twenty five. So it's
a two hundred percent cumulative price change, so which an
average inflation rate of two point seventy nine percent, So

(01:32:10):
they would convert it to about thirty thousand dollars basically.
So that's that's that's interesting. Yeah, it is a very interesting, indeed.

Speaker 2 (01:32:20):
You know. So now the problem I think is most
most colleges now are like people leave with it with
eighty So there are people out here that leave with
literally six grand worth, oh like the six figures worth.

Speaker 1 (01:32:34):
Of well of like loan.

Speaker 2 (01:32:37):
Honestly though, I mean them, I.

Speaker 1 (01:32:39):
Mean right now, I mean you're you're looking at just
a basic ten thousand dollars to thirty thousand dollars. I mean,
if you were to actually consider right now, I mean
just tuition alone at Penn State is like forty thousand
dollars a year, yeah, first semester, first semester trial. Yeah,
so mess, I mean right now, I would think, really,

(01:33:02):
you know, in my just rough calculations. I would think
that to go for a four year college degree would
cost you a quarter million dollars. Oh my goodness, that's
just what I'm thinking. Yeah, well, I mean, are you
Are you good at crunching some facts and figures for

(01:33:22):
our Insane game show?

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Yeah?

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It's time to play Eric Lane's Insane game Trip Pop,
starring his insane Florida nephew Ponchoweto.

Speaker 1 (01:35:00):
Now we've got some We've got some great, great insane
game show mind Benders for you. And as you know,
this is kind of the new version in our seventh
season of the podcast, where we give you it's a refresher,
it's a little more challenging, and it's all based on

(01:35:21):
current statistics. So we give you five mind benders, we
give you three clues, and we see if you can
get it. Ideally, if you can get it on without
any clues at all, that's the ideal thing. But the
few of the clues you can use the better. All right,
So are you prepared and ready to put your mind
in a statistical mode?

Speaker 2 (01:35:43):
I'm ready, all right, Yeah, I'm.

Speaker 1 (01:35:44):
Ready, all right, all right, so you're for your first
mind bender here, all right, and you have to consider
every aspect of these particular scenarios. All right, thirty percent,
thirty percent of people would give up love making for
five years in order to do this.

Speaker 2 (01:36:05):
What is so in order to do this? That's tough.

Speaker 1 (01:36:12):
Thirty thirty percent of people would give up love making
for five years in order to do this.

Speaker 2 (01:36:23):
Okay, Well, clearly this group of thirty percent of people
is going to be heavily female dominance. So I'm basically
to think what would women be willing to give? Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:36:42):
My, they want let's they want to do this, They.

Speaker 2 (01:36:48):
Want to do this.

Speaker 1 (01:36:49):
Yeah, I'm not sure if it's women. I think it's
just people in general. This is people.

Speaker 2 (01:37:01):
I can't think of a guys that would be willing
to give up love making for five years. I don't know.
But win the lottery, I don't know. That's the only think.

Speaker 1 (01:37:15):
My goodness, Well, believe it or not, your first clue,
not win the lottery. That's right. Thirty people would give
up love making for five years in order to do this.

Speaker 2 (01:37:35):
Not travel the world?

Speaker 1 (01:37:37):
Oh wow, well I guess you could. That could be
included in No, that's not your second clue, need money
to do it?

Speaker 2 (01:37:47):
I need money to do it, but it's stop.

Speaker 1 (01:37:49):
Winning the lottery. Okay. Thirty percent of the people would
literally give up love making for five years in order
to do this. Your problem not?

Speaker 2 (01:38:02):
Yeah, probably not. That means it's not going to outer space,
let's see, in orders to do this, I dude, I
do not know. Man, I do not know. Requires money
and not and not win the lottery. I don't know what.

(01:38:26):
Get their dream car or something.

Speaker 1 (01:38:28):
I would love that, absolutely.

Speaker 6 (01:38:31):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:38:32):
Actually my dream car would be give me it. It'd
be too sporty, but it would be a car designed
with the Arkansas state red wolflowgo on it somewhere. That's
right now? Oh my goodness. No, your final clue, age
sixty five is normally when it occurs.

Speaker 2 (01:38:50):
Okay too. Would it be to postpone menopoms? No way,
that would have happened before sixty five. Oh, to my
entire early, to retire early, that's what.

Speaker 1 (01:39:04):
It is, Yes, menopause.

Speaker 11 (01:39:07):
I cannot believe you said.

Speaker 2 (01:39:12):
I assume that maybe nothing's happening during anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:39:15):
When you said menopause, I'm shaking my head. I'm like,
what is he doing?

Speaker 2 (01:39:21):
I wasn't thinking it too very well. Okay, that's good.

Speaker 1 (01:39:24):
All right, we'll give that to you. We'll give that
to you, all right, So that's good. You're your second
mind bender. Now this is one percent less. Twenty nine
percent of people have tried adding this to their morning coffee.
What is it? Twenty nine percent of people. Yeah, they've

(01:39:48):
tried adding this to their morning coffee. Your coffee? Your
coffee snob, aren't you?

Speaker 2 (01:39:56):
I am, Well no, I'm not a snob, but we
I make good coffee though, pour over. Yeah. But the
thing is, I don't add anything to my car, right.

Speaker 1 (01:40:06):
So people have not tried this. So people have tried
adding this to their morning coffee. I've added amaretto once.
That was fantastic.

Speaker 2 (01:40:20):
Yeah, I mean well, yeah, I've done. I've had a
whiskey to it before, but it's a little early for drinking. Yeah,
let's see, they've tried adding Oh man, what would you
add to your coffee? All right? This is no listen,

(01:40:40):
I mean this as weird as it is. I one
time bought the cold brew coffee. Okay, it was at
a store. It was like in a can or something, right,
and it was a cold brew coffee.

Speaker 1 (01:40:53):
That had.

Speaker 2 (01:40:55):
Had like lemon with it, lemon, and I thought that
was kind of weird, but tried and it wasn't bad.
So I'm like, oh, maybe like when people add lemon
to their coffee.

Speaker 1 (01:41:05):
Yeah, I don't think there's your clue.

Speaker 2 (01:41:07):
It's sweet, that's sweet. Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:41:11):
You know, you know there was a trend your while
back people added butter to their coffee.

Speaker 2 (01:41:16):
Butter.

Speaker 1 (01:41:16):
Oh that's right.

Speaker 2 (01:41:19):
Obviously cream and milk. That's gonna be much higher than
twenty nine percent.

Speaker 1 (01:41:22):
Oh yeah, the people have tried adding this to their
morning coffee. I mean, think of some things you could
add to it that would kind of give it a it's.

Speaker 2 (01:41:31):
Sweet, it's sweet like instead of sugar, like what stevia
or something.

Speaker 1 (01:41:38):
Okay, what do you think, Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:41:43):
Gosh, half percent adding something sweet?

Speaker 1 (01:41:47):
Honey? Okay, Well it is sweet, that is true, So
it's not okay, your next clue not sugar.

Speaker 2 (01:41:57):
Not sugar. You said, I figured it couldn't be an okay,
So I'm like, oh, maple syrup.

Speaker 1 (01:42:03):
Ooh, that's a good answer, but not the correction. Although
your final clue is that it is brown. It is
people have tried adding this with the money coffee it's sweet,
not sugar, but it is brown.

Speaker 2 (01:42:19):
Man. Okay, well I want to be thinking maple syrup
at this point too.

Speaker 1 (01:42:22):
So so this is this is this is pretty tough,
but you're gonna die when you find out what it is.

Speaker 2 (01:42:28):
Oh man, adding this to morning cofor it's sweet but
it's not sugar and it's brown chocolate.

Speaker 1 (01:42:37):
Ooh, that's a good answer, actually, so me. But the
answer is cola.

Speaker 2 (01:42:45):
Cola. Yes, oh that doesn't sound good at all.

Speaker 1 (01:42:49):
Yeah, I would have never thought adding cola to my coffee,
but I'm gonna try that the next.

Speaker 2 (01:42:55):
Time, like carbonated Yeah, cola cola.

Speaker 1 (01:42:59):
So this sounds so that mean it could be like
Coca cola, RC cola, pepsi cola, some kind of cola
to their coffee.

Speaker 2 (01:43:08):
I would never have got this, but I wouldn't.

Speaker 1 (01:43:11):
Either, but I'm now my percent.

Speaker 2 (01:43:14):
Yeah that's a lot of people.

Speaker 1 (01:43:15):
Yeah, so I'm gonna have to try this now. I'm
literally gonna have to try this to see what it
tastes like. I really am. I've never had I've never
tried to put carbonated cola in my coffee before, but
now my curiosity is peaked. All right, all right, here's
your next mindvendor number three. All right, this is a
little higher percentage, fifty one percent, so a little over half. Yeah,

(01:43:39):
fifty one percent of people say this is the first
thing they notice about someone else. What is it?

Speaker 2 (01:43:51):
All right, this is the first thing they noticed about.

Speaker 1 (01:43:54):
The first thing they noticed about someone else.

Speaker 2 (01:43:57):
I'm gonna throw something out there. Is this something like
fifty one percent of the population.

Speaker 1 (01:44:04):
People?

Speaker 2 (01:44:05):
Yeah, well, yeah, I get so. I was saying, is
all ladies, Oh my gosh, make up this because lump
sum Grouping people in the lump sums is always a
good idea, right. And my wife, when she looks at people,
like she always notices, she'll notice things that I don't
ever think too. The first thing she notices is someone's eyebrows. Really,

(01:44:28):
every time she'd be like, oh, I like this's eyebrows.

Speaker 1 (01:44:30):
You're like, oh this.

Speaker 2 (01:44:31):
So I'm going to say fifty one percent. I think
that that's not a random statistic. I think that that
is because fifty one percent of the women make up
our population. I think that the first thing fifty one
percent of people notice is someone's eyebrows.

Speaker 1 (01:44:44):
This sounds like a kind of a personal problem. She
looked for a unibrow or something.

Speaker 2 (01:44:50):
No, no, no, no, if it was the brow, oh, that's
the first thing I would know this too.

Speaker 1 (01:44:53):
And to be fair, well it's not eyebrows. But your
first clue is neck up up.

Speaker 2 (01:45:03):
See they noticed someone's man. I was hoping for a
better clue than that.

Speaker 1 (01:45:11):
Fifty people say this is the first thing they noticed
about someone else.

Speaker 2 (01:45:18):
Is it like their hair or their haircut?

Speaker 1 (01:45:21):
It is it is their haircut, that is correct. So yeah,
your next clue is with their smile and out their eyes.
So yeah, yeah, I think you, Bobby would have gotten
that one. But true, yeah, if you got a different haircut,
I think we definitely noticed, that's for sure. Okay. In fact,
my my son got a different haircut this time. He
decided to get kind of a mop top on top

(01:45:41):
and cut shaved on the side. That's the new style,
I think, I guess now. So yeah, all right, so good,
good one on my mender number three? All right, going
for my mender number four and even higher percentage, now,
all right, ninety percent of people do not know how

(01:46:02):
to properly install this what is it?

Speaker 2 (01:46:07):
Ninety percent of people do not properly They don't.

Speaker 1 (01:46:11):
Know how to properly install this.

Speaker 2 (01:46:14):
Oh man, there is a lot of things.

Speaker 1 (01:46:18):
Well, you should really know this, you should really know this.

Speaker 2 (01:46:23):
Yeah, I'm very much assuming I'm in the ten percent.

Speaker 1 (01:46:26):
No, no, I don't think you might be in the
ten percent. I don't know. You're you're you're pretty smart,
but I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:46:34):
People who don't know how to install this. Oh oh,
I'm gonna say, like software or computer program.

Speaker 1 (01:46:42):
Well that's actually a pretty fair question. I don't know,
do so, but that's not it, but that is.

Speaker 2 (01:46:47):
I guess i'd be higher. That wouldn't be quite as high.

Speaker 1 (01:46:50):
I know my wife wouldn't know the first thing about
installing software, that's for sure. But your first clue their car.

Speaker 2 (01:46:58):
Okay, I was I was one doing about car because
I was thinking, this is the first thing I thought
about was my car. I was like, well, I don't know,
there's a lot of parts in the car, so they
people do not know how.

Speaker 1 (01:47:10):
To properly install.

Speaker 2 (01:47:12):
This, properly install this. I would hope this is higher.
Is it the battery? Well that more people know how
to do this, but to properly do it, Okay, yeah, no,
I would hope all right, like there is you gotta
go positive and then negative is true? Like the people

(01:47:34):
just like to put off randomly.

Speaker 1 (01:47:35):
I don't know that's right. Now. Your next clue not
a filter?

Speaker 2 (01:47:42):
Not a filter? Okay, that's great? Is it? There? Is it? There? Oil?
Most people don't do that.

Speaker 1 (01:47:51):
Well, you don't install oil, do you? I think? I'm
not sure if it installs how you would.

Speaker 2 (01:47:57):
Use well, but I guess.

Speaker 1 (01:48:01):
Okay. Your next clue is a back seat.

Speaker 2 (01:48:05):
The back seats to install is a car seat.

Speaker 1 (01:48:11):
It is a car seat, that is right. I can
attest to that. It took me forever to figure out
how to install a car seat. We have state police
in Pennsylvania that have instructions on how to teach people
to put a car seat in a car.

Speaker 7 (01:48:27):
That yeah, yeah, I mean they they periodically you will
have an announcement on the radio saying the state police
will be having car seat installations for people that don't
know how to put a car seat properly in their car.

Speaker 1 (01:48:40):
And then they do that, Karon pa so and then really,
I mean what people fail to do is that you
put the knee into the car seat to push it
into the seat to get it to get to fit properly.

Speaker 2 (01:48:52):
Did you know that you push your knee into it.

Speaker 1 (01:48:55):
Yeah. Yeah, because so when you put the car seat in,
you put your knee and push it into the seat
and then get it snug so it's tight, so it
doesn't move at all. So I mean, it's it's crazy.
So that that that's really not surprising at all. All right,
So that that was an honest struggle on that one.
So your your final your final mind midder number five.

Speaker 2 (01:49:18):
Sometimes I need the clue, Yeah, right.

Speaker 1 (01:49:20):
Your final mindmner. Now this one's a little lower percentage,
all right, this one. Twenty one percent of people have
two or more of these what.

Speaker 2 (01:49:32):
Is it, two or more of these nipples?

Speaker 1 (01:49:38):
I'm kidding, I would if you got three, you've got
a problem. There have been people that have had three nipples.

Speaker 2 (01:49:45):
Four. Most people have two or more of these. Yes,
twenty one percent people have two or more.

Speaker 1 (01:49:52):
Twenty one percent.

Speaker 2 (01:49:54):
Yes, okay, so that's actually that's a lower thing.

Speaker 1 (01:49:58):
All right, So.

Speaker 2 (01:50:02):
Twenty one percent have two or more of these. Let's see,
I'm gonna say cell phones. Really do people do people
keep a.

Speaker 1 (01:50:16):
Well, yeah, there could be a work phone.

Speaker 2 (01:50:18):
How many people you have like a work wander personal
or if you got one, you know for your your
your cheating.

Speaker 1 (01:50:26):
The burner phone. Yeah, it's not that cell phones. Your
first clue is not.

Speaker 2 (01:50:32):
Children, not children, okay, well, yeah, for the record, I
don't approve of the second phone. I just I need
some clues here, is all right, And I can't choose
an obvious thing that's going to become the second clue
or the next clue. All right, So they got two
or more of these twenty one percent of people. Now,

(01:50:53):
I would think that for not children, I think that
they'll be higher than twenty one percent, would have at
least two of them. True, two or more of the
twenty one percent. I don't know what we're talking about here.

Speaker 1 (01:51:13):
Hm, jobs, two jobs, Well, that's good. I mean my
wife's got two jobs. That's good. That's not it. Your
next clue is.

Speaker 2 (01:51:24):
Not pets, not pets, okay, so not.

Speaker 1 (01:51:28):
Pats, not children, obviously not jobs.

Speaker 2 (01:51:31):
Yeah, these have all been very.

Speaker 1 (01:51:34):
So basically eighty eighty one percent of people does not
apply to this. So twenty one percent of people have
two or more of these.

Speaker 2 (01:51:45):
One percent of people have two or more. We do
not have two or more of these anyone.

Speaker 1 (01:51:49):
But they know that they do. They do have twenty
one percent of people have two or more of these.

Speaker 2 (01:51:58):
Let's see two or more a car would be higher
than that. Most people have I think more than people
have two cars. Yeah, so it's like it's not a car. Oh,
you know, this is I feel like this is high.
But at the same time there's investment or or like
you know, winter homes. I'm gonna say house.

Speaker 1 (01:52:18):
Oh yeah, okay, well but now that I'd say, maybe
it may be even lower than that if people have houses.

Speaker 2 (01:52:27):
Okay, so probably, But there's some weird rich people out true.

Speaker 1 (01:52:32):
True, I don't know, clue. Some may be seen and
some may not.

Speaker 2 (01:52:40):
Some may be seen and some may not.

Speaker 1 (01:52:46):
Not pets, not children have two or more of these,
some may And I don't think you're in that twenty
percent at all. I know I'm not.

Speaker 14 (01:52:59):
Yeah, many, Yeah, I mean compared to some people that
I've seen around, I might argue with that figure.

Speaker 2 (01:53:13):
But that's the statistic. Some may be seen, some may yeah,
is it.

Speaker 15 (01:53:28):
Gosh man, he said, it's not kids, it's not pets,
and some may be seen and some may not. That's
what we're talking about there, and we're talking about the
things that we're Yeah, but we're talking about twenty one
percent of people have two or more of these.

Speaker 1 (01:53:48):
Some may be seen and some may not be seen.

Speaker 2 (01:53:52):
Oh man, this is quite the riddle. Gosh, man, I
what what what?

Speaker 1 (01:53:58):
What?

Speaker 2 (01:53:58):
What do you have that's not scene?

Speaker 1 (01:54:01):
Maybe hidden, some may not be hidden.

Speaker 2 (01:54:06):
Moles, rashes?

Speaker 1 (01:54:11):
Goodness, that's great. I would have never thought about that.
Now we're talking about.

Speaker 2 (01:54:23):
It about Austin towers and a big bowl on my face.

Speaker 1 (01:54:28):
We're talking about tattoos.

Speaker 2 (01:54:31):
Oh, tattoos. Yeah, okay, I would.

Speaker 1 (01:54:36):
Probably cover up a mole and a tattoo at the
same time.

Speaker 2 (01:54:39):
That's they're both things found body. I guess.

Speaker 1 (01:54:47):
Oh, that's great. I love it. I love it. Well,
that's I mean, you made a fair, fair effort at that.

Speaker 2 (01:54:53):
You really, that's that's.

Speaker 1 (01:54:57):
That's great, that's great. That's a little tough for this week.
So that's that's good.

Speaker 2 (01:55:02):
Well, we've got I feel like I got a couple
of them.

Speaker 1 (01:55:05):
You did you did well? No knows, but that molds.
Sometimes the wrong answer is the best answer. Sometimes that's great.
All right, Well, here's a few of the things that
we I tell you that the stupidity has been a
little bit hard to mind this this last week. There's
not much stupid stuff out there, but we have found
a few. This is great, okay, of course, you know,

(01:55:28):
being the you know a coffee fan that you are,
and I like coffee. We have a hospital that is
uh I think this is in Arizona. This is coming
up next week. A hospital booted a death themed coffee
truck from its parking lot.

Speaker 2 (01:55:48):
Okay, okay, and.

Speaker 1 (01:55:50):
You may have heard of it. It's called Graveyard Shift coffee.

Speaker 2 (01:55:53):
Okay, I think I've heard of it.

Speaker 1 (01:55:54):
Yeah, so they got they got booted from a hospital
parking lot. Okay. So another one. I love this. It's like,
oh no, nursing home, right right, right right? I like this.
Oh no, this could be the next big thing. And
it's called stretchy yogurt. You ever heard of it? No,

(01:56:15):
stretchy yogurt. This is a new thing that people are
kind of getting into. All right. And another headline here,
Florida man was arrested for dui after doing burnouts to
impress the girls.

Speaker 2 (01:56:29):
Oh yeah, well yeah, I'm pretty sure that I've heard
some of it.

Speaker 1 (01:56:34):
Yeah, it's like that's like that, that's like an inter
the occurrence. All right. So, but the best part about
it was though the guy did it with a cop
sitting right nearby, so he was easily picked up. Okay,
So and then here's one. I love this. This is
another really super gross one here. Okay, an inmate gets
an additional fifteen years tacked onto his sentence for throwing

(01:56:59):
dire rhea in a CEO's face.

Speaker 2 (01:57:04):
So you're anything dial why it's just funny? It is?

Speaker 1 (01:57:09):
So this is this is really gross.

Speaker 2 (01:57:14):
Do you think when he finds out how many people
now know that this guy had on his face? Do
you think he thinks it's worth it?

Speaker 1 (01:57:19):
I don't know. Sometimes some of these correctional officers aren't
paid enough. But yeah, this is pretty This is a story.
You don't want to have anything to eat before or
after you hear the story. All right, So it's pretty cross.
We have one this is something that you might be
interested in. There's an Iowa couple that has crafted a

(01:57:40):
mushroom mocktail that revolutionizes beverage options. So you talk about that.
You get headaches from drinking whiskey sometimes. Okay, Well, we
have an Iowa couple that is put together a mocktail
made with mushrooms.

Speaker 2 (01:57:57):
A mushroom. You know, I've been drinking some new tea. Yeah,
black d it's it's called lopstain so chong oh Chinese
black da that's smoked over over pine needles. Interesting and
it's it's good. It's almost feels like I'm stipping on

(01:58:17):
some kind of scotch, but it's like a black tea,
kind of smoky scotch. I got that.

Speaker 1 (01:58:22):
Well, I'm reading a little bit about this mushroom mocktail.
This might be something you might find interesting, you know,
I mean with your kombucha and all this other stuff
that you have.

Speaker 2 (01:58:35):
You know, I think I start bringing that again. My
wife has tried mushroom coffee once, is that right? Yeah, well, yeah,
I can see it working.

Speaker 1 (01:58:42):
Yeah, so so yeah, and it's always usually some of
the better stories show up after we record the podcast,
but uh, and definitely, I'm sure we'll be there's there's
still been falling from the whole Jimmy Kimble stuff too,
so I mean there's still a few good stories about that.
But yeah, So that's a few of the things we've
been able to get so far, but we'll have I'm

(01:59:05):
sure a lot more for you to pick next week.
So it should be should be good. But yeah, it's
nice to be able to have you interviewed Zeke this
week for a first time. Absolutely so, all right, well,
enjoy your week and hopefully we will get an update
next week on the possum under the deck. If anything has.

Speaker 2 (01:59:25):
Changed, I'll go looking forward for you.

Speaker 1 (01:59:28):
Yeah it will, yeah, bro.

Speaker 2 (01:59:38):
Go to.

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