Nestlé' CEO's "Swiss Miss", Stupid Work Mistakes, and "Phillies Karen"

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And now here's the man who has given a piece
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Welcome to my stupid world. I've got five stars stupidity
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My insane Florida ne f you, Pado Guero and I
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the realm of reality, you might notice on the podcast

(01:12):
art this week, Uh, pretty nice table. This is the
table that my insane Florida nephew Pancho Guerro has so
braggadociously talked about him, you know, stripping the paint off
and sanding it down and finding the right stain, and
then not finding the right stain and restanding it down

(01:35):
and then restaining it and all of this. You know,
he is such a handyman. Unfortunately, the gift I got
from my father was not the handyman. I remember my
dad trying to fix something one time, and he fixed
it so well we had to invite my cousin, who

(01:57):
was a carpenter, to come in and unfix it and
then refix it the way it was supposed to. My
dad was an accountant. He could crunch numbers, but could
not crunch a blueprint okay, or even a simple instruction
manual I mean, and frankly, that's the gift he passed
on to me. My mother in law okay, gave me

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years ago and we were first married, I don't know,
a few years after we were married. Because my father
in law, my late father in law, could literally fix anything.
He could do anything, okay, he would do it before
he would even call a repairman. Well, that's wonderful bully
for him, and my mother in law thought that I
should have the same qualities, so she buys me this

(02:44):
I don't know, twenty three pound Reader's Digest Handyman Fix
it All handbook. I swear the book itself was probably
five and a half inches thick. It's a doorstop, okay,
because I could, I promise you. I can look at
the instructions, I can see the pictures, and I can

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comprehend what it says. But that comprehension loses something, maybe
translation or whatever, when it gets piped down to my
fingers and arms, because my fingers and arms do not
obey what my brain is telling it to do.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
I ought to give you a piece of my mind.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
But now we have a survey that has involved about
two thousand gen Z and millennial homeowners, namely people like
Maya in San Florida, nephew. These homeowners and even some renters,
they have found that these DIY do it yourself home
projects significantly increase confidence and satisfaction. As you can tell

(03:52):
by Pancho Berto's braggadociousness, eighty three percent of respondents said
completing a DIY project makes them feel accomplished for about
six weeks, and eighty three percent find the process deeply satisfying. Now,
the average people have completed eight projects in their current homes.

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Renters average five homeowners probably ten. Most intimidating tasks include
flooring installation, tub calking, and then drywall repair. I'll tell
you one of my drywall repairs. I got mad at
my Grandma Ruby one time she did something and I
was just furious, will let me go outside and play?

Speaker 5 (04:37):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
I ran out of the living room or the family
room into the hallway, and let's just say I displaced
my anger with two boot kicks to the wall, one
on either side of the hallway, leaving two very prominent holes.

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My idea of home improvement was to go get electrical
tape and tape up the hole and then get some
white paint and paint over it, thinking nobody would notice.

Speaker 5 (05:10):
Well, it was just a matter of time.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
So look, I know, while this might be the case
for this particular generation, trust me, I have absolutely no
usable talent in DIY projects whatsoever. I like telling the
story when we first moved into the house that we
built in Central PA. It was a double wide modular,
but it wasn't built like a trailer. They actually used

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real drywall and everything, so it looks pretty much like
a home. But technically it's considered a double wide modular,
and so we ordered the home pretty much the way
we wanted it. We had had things designed and we
even designed a special nook for our computer area. We
had it all down. It was a great custom design

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home right to build home. Right, But guess one thing
we did not think about in the design process. We
got it built, we got it set, we got moved in.
We have no door knocker, we have no doorbell, so
when somebody knocks on the door, we're in the back
part of the house and can't hear anything. So I thought, well,

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we'll go down to the lows and we'll buy a doorbell.
What could go wrong? And we got the easy kind.
That all you need to do is it's like the
radio controlled doorbells.

Speaker 5 (06:32):
Right.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
You just hang the main unit and on the wall,
get the little sticky tape out, put the button on
the front door, plug in the receiver by the being
by the boom. No no, I you know, measured twice
and pounded the nail once and then twice and then
three times. Still didn't get the exact measurement the way

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it should hang properly. So now the useless doorbell, the
thing is hanging on the wall, covering two extra holes
in the wall and I decided I'm done.

Speaker 5 (07:06):
We just got one of.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
Those ones you can plug into the outlet and it
rings from the outlet, you know. So, No, I have
no usable DIY talent for me. DY stands for destroy
it yourself. Okay. The only thing I get from trying
to complete a DIY project is certainly not the feeling
of confidence and satisfaction or no, well, what was the

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other one? Deeply satisfying? No, no, no, I don't get
any of that. The only thing I get from it
is about a month of despair and agony. So look
for all of you de wires out there, stop harassing
me for refusing to participate.

Speaker 5 (07:47):
Oh watch a YouTube video.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Oh it's easy, you just do this.

Speaker 5 (07:53):
Just shut up, okay, because.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
I've been there, done that, and ruined a good T shirt.

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o RG. It's been quite the week, that is for sure,

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starting off with my.

Speaker 7 (09:52):
Football game that that I was talking about the last episode,
and the course joining me is with from the beautiful
metropolis of Jacksonville, Florida, my in sant Florida nephew, Punchack.

Speaker 5 (10:04):
Widow, who has had a wild week himself.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
As a lot of people who beg to differ about
the the I mean Jacksonville get it's like the butt
of a lot of jokes, but I think it's beautiful
with all the rivers, right River City, Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
Yeah, Hey, well look you've got deportation destination or whatever.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
That place is Alligator Island or no, that's the south.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
Right, No, no, no, you've got you've got one in Jacksonville.
Now they're turning as a deportation depot or something there
in Jacksonville.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
That's what we call build our own, I guess.

Speaker 5 (10:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
So well, well no, I will have to, you know,
give my my two cents on the big game between
Arkansas State and University of Arkansas. They did, in fact,
Arkansas State did, in fact play that game just like
they played the Southeast Missouri game. They started off just
kind of real pathetic, and within two minutes Arkansas had

(10:59):
already scored two touchdowns. So I mean, I mean really yeah.
I mean, if they had played the first quarter like
they did the second quarter.

Speaker 5 (11:08):
The score would be a lot different.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
Okay, But I mean I knew they were going to
be up against a formidable component, I mean an opponent,
and even the coach at Arkansas State had said that.
But combined that, I mean, you really can't get out
from underneath that as soon as you left one other team, Well.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
I'm here there's a lot of excuses right now, and
that you lost two cents on the game, I guess, yeah.

Speaker 5 (11:30):
Yeah. So anyway, that was the first thing.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
Okay, the second thing, you know, the refs were paid
by the Southeast Conference. Okay, let's just go ahead and
admit that, because we already know who they're pulling for.
There were a couple of times we could have had
a touchdown. One particularly that was even the announcers in
ESPN was saying they disagreed with the refs call because
they called the ball dead in motion as they were

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trying to get into the end zone. But you could
see in the video they were clearly still moving and
the ball did make it across the end zone, but
the whistle had already been blown. And there was a
couple of times that they challenged the ref ruling and
they got over rule. So we should have at least
had one touchdown, but we didn't get that, okay, and
then they just kind of like fell apart at the

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end of the fourth quarter. But the good news is this,
at least the Little Squealers were able to get out
of the little pig pen and fay at Bill and
come to Little Rock and take on Arkansas State. They
at least it took them ninety years to do that, Okay,
but they finally did. And secondly, Arkansas State did not
take a goose egg back to Jonesborough.

Speaker 5 (12:36):
So we at least got on the on the board
a couple of times.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
So it didn't matter what happened in the game, you
were gonna still leave the weekend feeling like a winner.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
Still, well, I think well, and yeah, I mean we played,
we played them, we got the itch scratch and the
best part, everybody had a great time. I mean, I've
heard comments about it. There was a podcast I listen to,
uh for our Intel State and even they were saying,
they said, you had Razorbacks and red Wolves side by side,

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tailgating with each other. They said, not a crossword was
ever heard between the two teams. They said everyone had
a wonderful time. The weather was spectacular, seventy degree kickoff
on that beautiful weather, and they said that, I mean,
everyone came away like it was a one of the
perfect football weekends basically, and and and then on to.

Speaker 5 (13:27):
Cap it all off.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
A few days later, Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders sent letters
to the Board of trustees to both schools requesting that
they consider doing this every year in a Little Rock.
So I don't know they're considering it, but it could
be a great, great tradition, I think. And I love
the fact that at the tailgate that the Arkansas State
Alumni Association put on, they rented the Little Rock Zoo

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and they had an entire tailgate inside the Little Rock
Zoo and they had a roasted I mean, they had
had a pig roast. They had a a roasted pig
on the table. I saw that. I'm like, that is beautiful.
I think everybody like, if they do this again, every

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barbecue place in Jones Bros. Should give you half off
any pull pork sandwiches the week of the Arkansas game.

Speaker 5 (14:18):
That would just be There's so much you can do
with this, you know.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
So yeah, it was really, I mean, to be honest
with you, I was. I would have been surprised had
we won. I would have been remarkably surprised. But I'm
at least thankful that we did not get skunked. Okay,
we we but I mean we have some work to do.
We were playing Iowa State this week, and if they

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don't get their crap together, they're gonna get mowed over,
so they got some work to do. So that that
was kind of how my week I started. And then
I just read this today. Okay, just came out to
date freshly. Okay, the Pennsylvania State University has decided their
board of directors they are pulling the plug on their

(15:03):
public radio station WP issue. They've been on the year
since nineteen fifty three, for sixty years, I think, and
they said we can't afford it, and they tried to
work out an arrangement with another public radio company out
of Philadelphia to buy it, and they didn't like that.
The board rejected it, and so next summer in twenty

(15:24):
twenty six, penn State will will get out of the
public broadcasting business. So they're yeah, and they're gonna probably
they're going to probably blame Trump because of it, because
he defunded the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
Oh well, if you if you need the government to
support your business, that means you probably have a failing bit.

Speaker 5 (15:44):
Well, look, let me just tell you this too.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
I'm gonna tell you they're no longer serving in the
public interest. I think you and I both know with
both of our you know, me being in radio and
your father being in radios. That is the modus operandiver radio.
You must serve the public interest.

Speaker 2 (15:58):
I would say, yeah, that's true, but a blame podcast
and Pandora.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
Well true, well, but but look I remember as a kid, okay,
I was sitting in class in grade school and they
would roll a TV and tune into the local educational
channel in Little Rock, and we would watch a thirty
minute educational program and then the teachers would receive material
from the TV station on how to teach based upon

(16:26):
that TV show.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
That's a little it's actually really creepy.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
Well, the thing is, though, I mean that that's when
they were actually doing reading, writing, arithmetic.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
One they said that about Walter too, and now that
it's like that guy was never right down in the middle.
He was.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
But but I will say, though, in all honesty, that
it was straight ahead educational television. And I'm thinking, if
if that's what they're doing, then that's one thing. But
they're no longer educating, their indoctrinating, and so that I
don't want government money and doctrinating people, you know, I mean,
this is the thing. So I mean, honestly, it is
said that WPSU is going to go off the air

(17:07):
next year or if somebody doesn't buy it or something.
I don't know, but they did their call.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
Sign, like their radio addresses is w piss on you. Yeah,
well you as I would stand.

Speaker 5 (17:19):
Yeah, I guess, I guess.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
But but really, I mean they they honestly, I mean again,
like I said, I'm sad that it's going away, but
they kind of asked for it, you know, they really
kind of asked for it.

Speaker 5 (17:33):
And and if they would go back.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
And actually just look and here's something talk about the
whole Charlie Kirk thing, this that happened this week. All right,
let me I'm just wondering, would yeah, but would w
PSU allow because there's a turning point USA chapter at
Penn State. Would they let the TPUSA people come and
do a program on public radio or public television about

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what they of course not, they would never do that, right, So.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
You're equal what was it like, equal size.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
Equal well, the equal time time, but then.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
Where it's like the equal time already started, they did.

Speaker 5 (18:17):
Away with equal time. They when they deregulated, they did
away with it.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
But the fact is they're not serving the public interest
they're serving a special interest and that special interest is
the Democratic Party. So I mean, in a sense, they
kind of did this to themselves.

Speaker 8 (18:32):
You know.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
I mean if you had been responsible and really been
unbiased and totally fair. Because radio is a medium, all
you do is provide the medium. You don't you're not
the policeman on what goes over the medium, you know
what I'm saying, And so you can you can allow opposing.
I mean, look, look the next time. What Charlie Kirk did.

(18:53):
He he loved to talk to people that disagreed with him,
and you did it. He could do it agreeably, you know.

Speaker 2 (18:59):
So I mentioned to think of like all those was
the big news agencies. This could be be because I'm
like young, but I don't know anybody that watched like
my age and younger. I don't know anybody that watches
of the big what three years four?

Speaker 5 (19:12):
They don't, they don't.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
It doesn't like this is nothing that you do well.
And then I've seen people leave some of these shows
because they get fired and they start a podcast or something, yep,
and they get like hundreds of views as opposed to
the the you know, oh yeah, thousands or whatever. They
would they're awful and they've got no talent. It's all
like whatever writers they had and producers.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
And right now with with with with growing up with
a parent in broadcasting. Have you heard of the term
yellow journalism?

Speaker 2 (19:42):
Yeah, I know, that's yeah. I understanding is it's similar
to how you don't eat the yellow snow.

Speaker 1 (19:50):
Well, right, yellow journalism Back in the seventies and maybe
even the eighties, you could be fired and at a
station for doing yellow journalism. Yellow journalism is when you
insert your opinion into a newscast.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
Well, that's that's literally all news is pretty much all
everything is opinion based now, right, And something that is
fact based is usually you know, carefully crafted to be
to say what they want.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
Yes, yeah, so and and and I'll tell you where
this whole thing started. Okay, the whole thing started in
the nineties when the news divisions, the news divisions.

Speaker 2 (20:34):
In wait, wait, no, no, when what is it? A
Ford Bronco starts barreling down the street as well? Is
that right?

Speaker 5 (20:45):
Yeah? No, no, no, it's like this.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
So in the in the nineties, the new the news
divisions never made any money. Okay, they could never sell
any ads very much. It was a very hard sell
because the news was boring. So they all began with
the entertainment division. Oh yeah, that said, we need to
spice the news up a little bit to get more

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people to sponsor it. And that's where it started.

Speaker 2 (21:13):
Yeah, I don't know, most people aren't really interested. I
think in like a dialogue about stuff they or like
you know, true through things they want.

Speaker 9 (21:24):
And they want they want to be Yeah, yeah, you
know so, but yeah in this and honestly, I mean,
you know, Trump has made a lot of overtones that
he wants to yank the licenses from a NBC and
CBS and all this.

Speaker 5 (21:40):
I think they should go back and review everything.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
I already do, say hey, are you guys really doing
this in the public interest?

Speaker 5 (21:46):
You know, I'd check them up a little bit.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
I really would be all for it.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
I don't see why, well the government needs a fund
any of that, at least personally, that there's so many
options out there anyways, that like.

Speaker 1 (21:59):
Well it's that the radio that the media cannot police themselves.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
Well, anytime you give free crap to people, they're going
to find a ways to use that and be fraud
and yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:12):
So well I have to ask also, we haven't had
an update on the table.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
Yeah, yeah, I was gonna say the table is going
to be the podcast are today, isn't. I listened to
your peace of mind, and uh, I have to agree
it is a It is a good strategy for building confidence.

Speaker 1 (22:31):
But you used seem to get more confident the more
stuff you do around the house.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
Well, I think the goal for confidence is you have
to do difficult things. You have to do things that
stretch you and that like that might be scary or tough,
but if you're not stalallenging yourself, you're going to feel
unchallenged and uninteresting.

Speaker 1 (22:54):
Or the thing is I have challenged myself and have lost,
and I feel terrible, nothing but a puddle of despair
after that.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
That is that is true that some of my highest
highs and lowest lows all revolve around fixing my own
car gosh, which which sometimes the low leads into a
high after that. But like I the I dreamt, I
dreamt actual instructional YouTube videos in my head on repeat

(23:24):
for five nights in a row when I broke my
ad fixing my starter. The thing is so easy that
later though, using all those dreams, I could exactly what
to do because I dreamt it for five nights in
a row, on repeat all night.

Speaker 1 (23:41):
For me, it would be nothing but nightmares of me
breaking something, being stranded on the side of the road somewhere, you.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
Know, down here in Jacksonville. I know this is all Florida.
We've got uh coffee that calls the road rangers, funded
by by like the public transportation of them. Yeah, I
I happen to. So I keep the We've got like
a little little small pump for like a like an
air pump.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
For form car tires, right, but I.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
Always leave it with my wife because end of the day,
like if something happens with her, I want her to
be provided and taken care of. So I've missed the
brain over something. I got a flat and in my
my car. This is like the beginning of the year, Okay,
So I pull over. I'm like, all right, time to
go change a tire on the side of a busy
highway during rush hour. And and I realized, like, oh,

(24:32):
you know what, I haven't checked my spare in years.
And so I called my wife to like, come bring
me the pump and I'll just replace it. And then
all of a sudden, little road rangers pulls up. He's like, hey,
I got you covered. Man fills it out. I mean
I can change a tire, but like this guy had
tools to do it real quick, so I'll take it. Yeah.
It was great, Like I didn't have to pay anything.

(24:53):
I got home. I got a tire patch for free
at a local shop, and so they don't have to
worry about these things.

Speaker 5 (25:00):
That is very cool. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:02):
Well, you know, and you've got fairly decent weather you're around.
You wouldn't want the road ranger to come out there
in the middle of February with five inches of snow
on the ground.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
Well yeah, yeah, that is true. You know it might
rain a lot, but yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:16):
And you know, if you have an alligator in the
middle of the road, you can just call the guy
to come and wrestle that too, you know.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
Home like two projects. I think it's good. So is
the table going to be the podcast artwork? That? The
table's great?

Speaker 1 (25:28):
It looks fantastic, all right, I mean I I have
to get a good picture of it.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
You know, I said after right, oh yeah, well no
you sent me the before.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
You were wanting to wait till you get it in
the dining room to get the proper life.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
I'm gonna say, say, I've got it before and after.
Don't mind the chairs, right, we're still in the process
of finding the right but all right, yeah, no, here
you go. I've got to I've got to come with
you right now. All right, it's beautiful. If you're looking
at the artwork, I hope that you can tell what
the after is. The after doesn't have matching chairs. I
guess it's the one that's lighter colored.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
It is nice.

Speaker 2 (26:04):
All that is off it's on the right side of
that picture.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
Yeah, I see that. It's very nice, very very nice.

Speaker 5 (26:11):
Yeah, I said that.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
I can't believe I did not send that to you.

Speaker 1 (26:15):
No, you were going to you wanted to wait until
you get back in there.

Speaker 2 (26:19):
The chairs, the chairs, that's a work in progress. We're
looking for the right ones. That's that's at small whatever,
that's nothing.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
That's that's that's a perfect podcast arc picture, right, yeah, perfect, Right.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
There you go, you know, encapolate. I've been waiting for
that to pop up there until I get a picture
of the of the possum. I guess then that would
be the next one. I guess the possible any other
stupid story you've got.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
Yeah, so the possum is still under the deck.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
You're you're you're a little bit too interested in my possum.
It makes me a little uncomfortable.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
Well I'm sort I'm getting a little attached to it actually.

Speaker 2 (26:58):
So yeah, my week here at least, it's been a
weird week, I will say that. Yeah, the whole Charlie
Kirk thing, it is, it's unsettling and it's disturbing.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
We've gotten from being stupid to downrighte a nut.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
It is, it's it's I mean, it makes me, it
makes me feel sick, really a lot of it. My hope,
at least with with the podcast here is that we
could just move on with some stupid stories and and
uh and just like bring a little joy to to
your life here exactly. And so that's kind of what
my goal is at least for this. But just what

(27:39):
a loss and tragedy though, you know, we we have
you know, praying for for the country and the family
here for sure. But yesterday, the the other thing, yesterday
started out great, right to day off of work and
we went on a field trip. This is I say
days off so I could be the dad that showed

(28:00):
up on field trips home school, but he goes like
a co op and and I feel like it's the
most dad thing to do to have like or the
most homeschool thing to do to have a dad show up.
Like you need at least someone concealed carrying at any
homeschool any event. I feel like, oh yeah, like the
natural thing. So so we're out in the woods, you know,

(28:21):
going on a big hike, and it happened to be
it's in the Fort Caroline area, which they've got a
little ford out there. They've got some history. We learned
about some of the Timmakwan Indians that used to occupy
the area, and then went on a little hike. Part
of it was a little flooded, but it was fun.
I got to like kind of pick my son up
and throw them over the water. And my wife was

(28:42):
like nope, and so we kind of split for a
little bit. But this is the area that I proposed
to my wife. Oh wow, must have been close to
nine years ago, I guess.

Speaker 1 (28:53):
Wow. Well you know that when this podcast actually well,
when this podcast actually draws on Saturday, the thirteenth of September,
that would be our twenty eighth anniversary.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
Wedding anniversary. Yeah, nice, happy anniversary.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
Yes, twenty eight years.

Speaker 2 (29:14):
It's been eight years for us, and we got married
like twelve or thirteen months after meeting, and so really
if I went back nine years, it would really it's
probably eight and a half years of being proposed. But
there's a further out on the trail, so we had
to kind of drive a couple of minutes away to
park and go down this other trail. It was kind

(29:35):
of against a better judgment because we knew both kids
would be a little bit spent. But we took a
few mile hike down to like an observation kind of
tower stand up in the salt marshes down there, and
I mean it was a it was a it wasn't
like cold, but it was a breezy, cool, sunny day.

Speaker 1 (29:56):
It was, well you cold cold for Florida sto.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
Yeah. When I say cool, I mean like it was
not summer heat. It was a nice it was a
breeze that was was kind of cooling. It was hot
in general, but when you're into the canopy, when you're
when you're hiking though, and you've got a backpack and
your holding a kid, it's you're gonna get hot anyways,
but it was. It was just a beautiful hike, beautiful

(30:20):
time out there, just listening to the birds, feeling the breeze,
smelling the salt. We're watching fish jumping out periodically from
the salt marsh there and and it was a really
good time. Like being able to stand in the spot
where I proposed to my wife. That was kind of
our first No, it was like I think our second
date going out there where my wife at the time
girlfriend just wanted to share that spot with me that

(30:42):
she really liked to go to.

Speaker 6 (30:44):
And so that's cool.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
That was neat, it was worth you know, it was
a little bit of a drive to get out there.
We don't live on that side of town anymore. But
it was really a good day. I think that's good.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
That's good, and that it's always nice because you know,
I heard, you know, it's good to hear good story
like this, because I actually heard that the couple that
got caught on the kiss cam at the it turns
out the woman was actually at the time she was
maybe she was so married to her husband, but they

(31:14):
were actually kind of separated.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
Oh so did this like a best upper whole, Like divorce.

Speaker 1 (31:20):
I don't know whatever. That's just it just came out.
That just came out. She actually was separated, So you
didn't get you know, you didn't have any kind of
wonky relationship like that.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
Wife to various concerts Google Doll Yeah, never cold Play.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
Okay, never came good good.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
Maybe maybe maybe we could like do that on a
night where someone's watching the kids and we rolled play
or something.

Speaker 5 (31:47):
Oh, that would be fun.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
That would be hilarious.

Speaker 2 (31:51):
That would be absolutely hilarious. That's what we do. They
would actually feel comfortable during anything like that, like role play.
It's such a weird, such a thing. I don't know,
you know.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
I love couples that can actually poke fun at themselves
and stuff like that. I just think that's outstanding.

Speaker 2 (32:07):
All. I totally agree the problem. I would say that
we're the couple that could do that, But my wife
is so introverted and like, we're relatively kind of private people.
I'm arotroverted. I like to cause a scene, but yeah,
you know, we'll still being kind of relatively private. So
I'm always trying to cause the scene for the reaction

(32:28):
with my wife. He's or like I believe he's actually
doing this and apologizing for me. She loves it though
I like, she'll say that she doesn't, but like she
secretly loves it. I could see it.

Speaker 5 (32:41):
I know, yeah, my wife does not love it. She's
not secret about it.

Speaker 1 (32:47):
All.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
That makes it a little more fun, though my wife
to hit back. I'm like, hit me back, not not
literally hit me, but like yeah, it's like you know exactly, yes, yeah,
it makes it fun, but but so instant. What it
is the high roll that she gives me. That's that
ends up being the return that I'm looking for. Now,

(33:11):
that's good she has she has learned the best way
to to stop a behavior with me is no, no,
it is by giving me no reaction at all. It's
and I'm gonna I've got a friend who works at
the Jacksonville Zoo and he helps train the monkeys there,
the gorillas, the monkeys. He tells me, he's like, this

(33:33):
is exactly what I need to do when I trained
the monkeys. I don't know, but I don't know right well, welcome,
Welcome to the podcast. I don't know what we're getting
carried with small talk. I guess maybe it's just the week,
you know, we gets get thinking about things, and you know, yes, right,

(33:56):
and I want to enjoy life, enjoy the things we've
got and just you know, family and friends and and
just enjoy the laugh. I guess of the stupid, silly
kind of stories.

Speaker 5 (34:09):
Right, take yourself serious?

Speaker 2 (34:11):
No, no, never, Hopefully you can enjoy this with us.

Speaker 10 (34:14):
Here.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
I picked out seven headlines, and they are they get wilder.
Eric kind of he puts them in order and gives
me the most uncomfortable ones every time. Of course, of
course one I think I count of one time. Did
you give yourself?

Speaker 1 (34:30):
I gave one penis story to myself?

Speaker 2 (34:32):
Yeah, yeah it was. There's lots of of of lots
of the word penis and the penis variety to day,
so I was surprised. Other than that, I get all
of that.

Speaker 1 (34:46):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
In other words, Eric gives me the shaft.

Speaker 5 (34:51):
Well, yes, exactly.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
And the more uncomfortable you are reading it, the better
it is.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
Oh yeah, well.

Speaker 5 (34:58):
And let me also point out it does not proofread.

Speaker 2 (35:04):
I tried to, and I was awful. I don't I don't. Yeah,
we better on the fly. I think when.

Speaker 1 (35:12):
Reads the story, he's hearing it for the first times.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
So I'm a guess I don't have to, and I
guess maybe maybe we're I've been on here long enough.
No I deserve I deserve co host status.

Speaker 1 (35:32):
Look all right, well we're gonna jump in when you
take over the podcast, I.

Speaker 2 (35:37):
Do kind of take it over when I jump onto.
I just gotta have fun. I'm kind of fun with
you man jumping in on the first you mentioned Coldplay
concerts here, which is is gonna be a good job?
Maybe that could be a good like you got Halloween
costume for for us?

Speaker 1 (35:56):
Yeah, two and one if I'm yeah, it might be.

Speaker 2 (36:02):
Hard to explain to our kids though. But what happens though,
when instead of a Coldplay concert, you've got the Nesty
CEO being I guess what caught with his Swiss miss Yeah,
I'm uh. I'm surprised you didn't think of it. I

(36:22):
guess that's a that's what you know, that's what you're
here for. The Nestlei's ceo, uh Laurent freak. Was it
freaks not being fr e a k s. But you
might think that at the end of this, but it
was having a little too much hot chocolate when he
suddenly fired was fired after he came out that he

(36:43):
was having a secret relationship with the subordinate well already
involved with another employee. So yeah, this guy, I guess
he really likes to double dip. I don't know his chocolate.
I'm gonna I'm gonna figure this out again. I'm gonna
get a good No, I'm gonna get get something, a
good one liner. But by the end of this, alright,
I'm piecing it Togey Swiss. Miss that was my freebie.

(37:08):
His longtime mistress reported the affair through Nestley's anonymous hotline,
which led to an investigation. The company said Freaks broke
the rules by not disclosing the relationship with his employee.
He was confronted by the board. Uh called called a
liar and let go immediately without any severance. The the

(37:28):
two women involved left the company with severance. Philip uh Ralty,
it is a long time Nestli executive is taking over
a CEO right now. This is the second CEO change
at Neslie in two years. And it comes to men
worries about leadership stability. Right, I guess Nestlie isn't I

(37:51):
don't know. It doesn't have very good taste these days,
and it does you ever like I think it was
one of the preservatives they use. Do you ever smell
a Neslie bar and you kind of smell barf? Is
that the only one that does?

Speaker 1 (38:10):
Like, I can see where that's coming from.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
Yeah, it's not good.

Speaker 1 (38:15):
It's it's kind of very slight barfie it does.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
And I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure it's one of
the preservatives they used for but it's disgusting. Yeah. Well,
the board, I'm still working. It's like, I got I
gotta pad this. I was like, I come up with
my one liner the board that they made it clear
that that no one, not even the top executive, not
even the Nesley Bunny himself, is above the company's rules.

(38:41):
And sixty three year old former CEO apparently met the
marketing executive he was having an affair with at the
company's headquarters in Vevy, Switzerland in twenty twenty two. About
eighteen months later, the woman became vice president of marketing
for the Americas when Greeks was running that division, but
it's suspecting personally approved the promotion, although that has not

(39:03):
been confirmed it. Ultimately, it remains like unclear if the
two were in a relationship when she was promoted. The
board was told about the romance in May after reports
surfaced internally. During his short stints the CEO, Freak sought
to refocus the company on its core brands like Nest

(39:25):
Cafe Instant Coffee.

Speaker 1 (39:27):
And that is the nastiest stuff you've ever put in
your mouth.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
It really, it really is.

Speaker 1 (39:32):
Oh my gosh, I could tell you right there or
where his priorities were. If he's more interested in Est
Cafe Instant Coffee, he should have been taken out a
long time ago. You know, maybe maybe he can partner
with the current Cracker Barrel CEO and they just start
their own company somewhere.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
I'm just glad that, like to not find out that
he wasn't in bed with like Kinder or something, because.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
That yeah, you know, I mean on the weekend episode
or the midweek so I did the whole steel with
the whole Cracker Barrel thing.

Speaker 2 (40:04):
And you got to be a big Cracker Barrel people. Well,
you know, Cracker bl is trying to rebrand for people
like me or maybe younger, maybe just a little bit younger.
And it's like it's.

Speaker 1 (40:16):
They actually they've actually stopped with the whole uh redoing
the restaurants. They said, if your restaurant has not been redone,
it won't be. They back completely, back in completely.

Speaker 2 (40:27):
But how many millions of dollars do you think they
paid that?

Speaker 5 (40:30):
Seven hundred seven hundred million dollars?

Speaker 2 (40:32):
Do you think that that marketing company? Do they get
a refund at all? Or are they lying there? I
don't know.

Speaker 5 (40:37):
I think they didn't give it to that ceo.

Speaker 2 (40:39):
What a dumb what a dumb decision man? In history
books for.

Speaker 1 (40:46):
This would be, this will be in textbooks.

Speaker 5 (40:48):
This isn't.

Speaker 1 (40:49):
This has already been written.

Speaker 2 (40:50):
Right alongside with Bud light Man, like you got it.
I don't understand why people like it's like they don't learn.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
Well.

Speaker 2 (40:58):
I had a glog before actual.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
I had a manager, a professor of management when I
was in at Arkansas State. He taught just straight ahead management.
That there was a former former marine the square jaw,
I mean, broad shoulders. He was a big, commanding kind
of professor, and I just remember him telling us over
and again, if it broke, don't fix it, you know.

(41:25):
And I've never forgotten this, you know. So, But unfortunately,
some people just still don't follow common sense. And this
guy with nesslie obviously had no common sense and he's
messing with cafe instant coffee. He should have been caught
with his mistress, his Swiss miss somewhere you know.

Speaker 2 (41:44):
Is your mistress a boy?

Speaker 1 (41:48):
You know?

Speaker 2 (41:48):
I mean you know. Now, let's see this. I'm looking
at nesslie products. This should I should have done this beforehand.
This he's my joke. Okay, apparently they own they own
this products. Okay, So this guy that's the CEO, I
guess he was in trouble because he was getting too

(42:11):
involved with a couple of hot pockets. Maybe too much
fancy feasts, you know.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
Uh huh, there you go.

Speaker 5 (42:22):
Yeah, you'd be surprised.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
They don't everything from bottled water to chocolate. I mean, unbelievable, unbelievable. Yeah,
so maybe they should have had a different dating strategy,
maybe just start.

Speaker 2 (42:36):
They know the hot pocket that would have been it
would have been too good. If I made that, Joe,
no one would have gotten it. They would be like
what why?

Speaker 6 (42:42):
What?

Speaker 5 (42:44):
That's right?

Speaker 1 (42:45):
But I think I think maybe the former CEO probably
needed a different dating strategy, Like you know what's coming
up with now? People are dating till they're hating to
ease up the breakup. I mean, this is this is
really I don't know, it's it's it's really a toxic
dating trend.

Speaker 2 (43:02):
All right, what is this idea like as a bit? No,
it's such a good it's such a bad, such a
bad decision.

Speaker 1 (43:13):
Indeed, so it's going viral on TikTok date them until
you hate them now, this is an idea that was
coined by a creator, meg Neil. That's very simple obviously
if you have figured it out, stay with your partner
long enough for a little annoyances to build into effect
affection uh or intel. Affection fades into resentment, making the

(43:34):
breakup feel easier. So in the sense you just start
getting on each other's nerves more and more and more.
So here's the TikToker going by the handle the meg
Neil breaking it all down.

Speaker 11 (43:45):
Get ready with me while I tell you how I
ended my four year relationship and wasn't totally heartbroken after.
The reason I was able to walk away from my
four year relationship is because I dated him until I
hated him. Now, I know some people are to come
for me and be like, he should just end it.
It's not always that easy. Some people make it really
hard for you to walk away from a relationship, or

(44:06):
maybe you're really really comfortable with them. You've been with
them for forever and it is hard to walk away sometimes,
so again, date them until you hate them.

Speaker 1 (44:14):
So it's basically a breakup by slow burn. You know,
you starve the spark, you let it rot and watch
love curdle into disgust. You know, suddenly Neil says the
things that once gutted her, like his shrudging indifference and
annoying sounds of him breathing, became what center free.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
You know, we'll deal with the baggage later.

Speaker 1 (44:36):
It's like I can't stand to hear you breathe.

Speaker 5 (44:39):
That's pretty sad.

Speaker 2 (44:40):
Well.

Speaker 1 (44:41):
In the comments, the woman piles on with their own
war stories of loving a guy straight into loathing and
the brutal lessons that came with it. Some some users
are real fans. Okay, they say guarantees a clean out
and help them fully move on, not to mention the
fact it probably gives you ulcers and the process this.

Speaker 5 (45:00):
But the question here remains, do you.

Speaker 1 (45:02):
Really have to get to this loathing point to end things?

Speaker 5 (45:06):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (45:07):
I mean relationship experts warning that it's emotional neglect, leaving
a partner shut out and confused. I mean they said
that the trend avoids an honest communication and drags out
the inevitable, causing more harm than good.

Speaker 5 (45:20):
Obviously, of course.

Speaker 2 (45:22):
Certainly does not set you up for success in the future, of.

Speaker 1 (45:26):
Course not, you know. So in short, what really feels
like a painless exit to some is just a slow
motion breakup with extra damage.

Speaker 5 (45:33):
And I'm not sure.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
You if ever, if you went through several of these
slow burn breakups like this, would you ever date again?
You know what I mean, join a monastery, that is.

Speaker 5 (45:44):
What I would do.

Speaker 2 (45:45):
Well by the time, by the time the slow burn
is done, you might be forty.

Speaker 1 (45:49):
So yeah, yeah, Well, you know you don't.

Speaker 2 (45:52):
Realize like you're most you're you're most like precious commodity
this time, right, you know you're not guaranteed tomorrow and
and you don't know how long you've got but no
matter what, like you know, money, like you could be poor. Right,
we were poor and we got married and it was
some of the most fun times of my life. But

(46:14):
one thing you're never going to get back is time.
You know, there is a a clock that we have
like with life, like no every person's ever existed has
died at some point, right, So, and there's a clock
on when you can have kids, have a family.

Speaker 5 (46:28):
So do you want to wait unless, unless, of course your.

Speaker 2 (46:33):
Yeah, well yeah, and that's a whole other so the
moral great, but yeah, it's do you want to waste
your time? And like, let's say you're being selfish about this,
because it sounds like you are you want to waste
your time to that you could be finding something like

(46:55):
like the older you get, I'm sorry, like like the
less good your options are going to get. That's the
way it works. If you want to get married to
a good wife, like a woman who's going to be good,
a good mom, and who's going to be hot, you
gotta get married young. That's otherwise because I guess what,
all the hot women that want to have families and

(47:16):
have good hearts and want the right kind of things,
like all of them are going to get snatched up
and married young. And so the longer you wait, the
worse your options are going to get. A little baggage
you create, damage you create along the way for yourself.

Speaker 1 (47:31):
Yeah, And and baggage mean to your carrying, baggage mean
you've got more bags on you under your eyes too.

Speaker 2 (47:38):
Yeah, Now if you want to, like, if you actually
have any kind of moral you know, quality to you,
then you'd also recognize that the bigger deal is the
fact that you were doing the same thing to someone else. Yes,
so you're not only damaging yourself, you're damaging the other person. Yes, exactly.
That's something that you're going to have to answer to

(47:59):
at some point point.

Speaker 1 (48:00):
Right, absolutely, I mean and and and down that what
does it do to you just ongoing? It kind of
trains your whole emotional blueprint to just be a real
pain in the next who.

Speaker 2 (48:14):
Need to self evaluate and better yourself?

Speaker 1 (48:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (48:17):
Right, yeah, you want to be a relation Do you
want to be like Eric Lane with home projects but
in the relationship world for the rest of your life?

Speaker 6 (48:27):
No?

Speaker 2 (48:27):
No, that's it's such a good bit though, that's what
that's what makes you mad, Like it's such a good bit.
Just it's just for the joke. I love like, I
love this and concept and idea just as a joke.
An actual principle, it is such a dumb, self destructive thing.

Speaker 5 (48:48):
Absolutely, man, Well, look.

Speaker 1 (48:53):
You're you're in a sense, you're you're are you going
to say you're bankrupting the other partner?

Speaker 5 (48:59):
By doing that.

Speaker 2 (49:00):
Well, yeah, yeah, I mean you might be morally bankrupt
if you're doing that. Yeah, absolutely a coward, Okay, that's
for sure. But yeah, I was saying like, you know,
if you're if you're into making mistakes, right because because
sometimes when people think like that, you know, you're like, oh,

(49:21):
do you do you take the immediate hit or do
you let it drag out over time? And and that's
what that's what they're doing with their breakoups. Well, this
guy also got into a bad spot because he decided
to take his basically like lottery winnings just about right
as he used to choose to take his in the

(49:43):
the slow burn. I guess what overtime kind of dispersement
as opposed to just getting it done with all at once. Yes,
if you if you win a huge jackpot or like
a sweepstakes like that that one point seven billion dollar
power ball drawing, you usually have the option of accepting

(50:03):
it as regular payments over time or a smaller lump
sum right away. Right, and that small lumps on a
lot of it. It basically goes like taxes right now. Yes,
I don't know how you could get into a smaller
tax bracket with a one point seven billion lottery. I
think that no matter how you get that, you're gonna
pay taxes with it at this point inflation too. But

(50:24):
I want to take the paycheck and start investing. But look,
you usually have the option. You know again, these payments
are smaller love sum. Well, here's another case for the
lump sum. Right, there's a story making the rounds online
about a man in Oregon who won a Publishers Clearing
how sweepstakes back in twenty twelve, which pays him five

(50:44):
thousand dollars a week forever. You think there's there can't
be a catch to that. Forever is forever, you know, Well,
he was one of the lucky. Here's one of those
people are lucky. You see among the TV commercial getting
balloons a giant check on the front porch. Obviously the
payout was two hundred and sixty thousand dollars a year,

(51:05):
But this year the check never came, and apparently it
never will. In this spring, Publishers Clearing Outs filed for
bankruptcy and at least ten former winners of Forever prizes
will no longer be getting their payments. Oh no, the
exact number of winners wasn't impact that they wasn't reported,

(51:27):
So it's probably like maybe like the best gas estimate
I thing. You might think, now, well that sucks, but
at least you get some free money throughout the years.
But this guy is saying that he's having a hard
time finding a job because he's been out of the
workforce for so long. Here is pch winner Publisher Clearing

(51:48):
as right Winter, John Wiley talking about losing that money.
I thought, why didn't they give me a heads up?

Speaker 1 (51:54):
Hey, we're going on a business, you know.

Speaker 2 (51:57):
But no, it's like somebody just cut the cord sold
like Yetski so portrayler. I had a little bit of
money left over, and that's what I'm living on right now.
You know, I'm pretty sure I'm going to lose my home.
He also thought he'd be able to leave money to
his children someday, and now there's nothing for them. Yeah.
Another winner in his position said, you promised to change

(52:18):
people's lives and now you've messed it up. Someone who's
did receive all their money. Those who opted for the
lump sum rather than the forever payments. It's unclear if
the every prize winner had the option for the lump sum,
but it sounds like many did. The company brought bought
Publishers Clearinghouse out of bankruptcy, and they'll continue running new contests,

(52:39):
but they're only paying the future winners. Yeah, the winners
under the It's kind of like when a when a
country goes bankrupt, right, like Soviet Union, right, any debt
that they owed, They're like, no, no, no, we're Russia now.
And yeah, so the deaths of the Soviet Union. That's
that's not mine man. I don't what was seen from

(53:00):
Austin Powers with this penis pup. Oh yeah, that's not
my bag, man. Yeah, yeah, I've never seen that in
my life. The winners of the previous business are being
left out unfortunately.

Speaker 1 (53:14):
Yeah, well, can we say that that was a stupid mistake,
that you should have taken the lump sum and paid
all the taxes up front. If I had ever gotten
if I'd ever gotten a monster sized jackpot on something
like this, you know I would probably I would not
want to have it, you know, spread out over time.
I'd want the full thing all up front, take out

(53:36):
the taxes, and then take what money I have left
and put it in the bank and live off the interest,
you know. I mean, that's that's easy. But obviously I
think look, we can all say we've made some pretty
much stupid mistakes, okay, and I mean everyone's got everyone's
got the goofs that work, all right, and some are awkward. Some,

(53:57):
you know, like repeatedly calling a coworker the wrong name.
You know, it can be more humiliating. I guess they're like.

Speaker 2 (54:05):
Story because oh, it'll make you feel better about work
in general.

Speaker 5 (54:10):
That's good.

Speaker 1 (54:10):
Yeah, yeah, I may maybe nodded off in the middle
of a zoom call. Okay, Well, there's a new thing
people are talking about on TikTok. It's the biggest, most
embarrassing mistakes.

Speaker 5 (54:20):
They've ever made. It work, and we've got some good
ones here for you. Okay, I love some of these.

Speaker 1 (54:25):
Someone said I killed the wrong person, okay, and this
is great. I work in death benefits and I received
a claim that you know, X y Z had died. Well,
it turns out there were two people with the same
name who had the same date of birth in the
same city, and he killed off the wrong one, all right.

(54:47):
Another one says, I sent a company white email about
my dog's vet appointment instead of the sales numbers. The
subject line was Lulu has worms.

Speaker 2 (54:59):
Okay, oh yeah, I'm glad to finish one. Sounds like
it was like a life insurance type kind of ye.
Not a yep man.

Speaker 5 (55:09):
No, no, not a hit man. Right right.

Speaker 1 (55:11):
Here's one. I accidentally used a free image that said
marry Chris mass Ass on the end of it for
our news there, and it was sent to hundreds of
donors of our Christian nonprofit.

Speaker 2 (55:29):
Okay, you use it, you like I meant sorry. I
meant to capitalize the m as well, so christ.

Speaker 5 (55:37):
Christ mass right exactly.

Speaker 1 (55:40):
Well, here's one said I thought I put my lunch
in the microwave for four minutes. Turns out a center
for forty I got distracted talking to someone and the
whole kitchen burn bound fourteen levels had to be evacuated.
I mean, hey, go big or go home, baby.

Speaker 5 (55:57):
That's all I got to say about it.

Speaker 2 (56:00):
You know.

Speaker 1 (56:01):
Here's one I wrote a profile for a teacher candidate
that said she enjoyed torturing students when I meant to
say tutoring, and it said it went out to hundreds
of schools, you know. Or another one that posted I
worked for a renewable energy company. I printed multiple large
banners for a conference that said fossil fuels are our

(56:22):
only chance instead of fossil free is our only chance.

Speaker 2 (56:28):
Honestly, they might have been right on the visper there.

Speaker 5 (56:32):
Yeah, that that's uh.

Speaker 1 (56:37):
Well, they maybe it was a Freudian slip.

Speaker 2 (56:39):
I like fossil fuels do too. Well.

Speaker 1 (56:42):
Here's one where the company had a remote all hands
meeting and this person said, I thought that I was
on mute while the CMO was talking. So when my
dog come up to me with the toy, I said,
good girl, such a good girl, not realizing everyone could
hear me, and then my absolute horror, the CMO said, well,
thank you. That's kind of like like when you would

(57:07):
you know, you get in the habit of telling you
your spouse I love you by until you tell it
to your boss, you know, and.

Speaker 5 (57:14):
That's all right. Well here's one.

Speaker 1 (57:16):
I work in retail. It was my turn to train
our new employees.

Speaker 5 (57:20):
So she walked in.

Speaker 1 (57:21):
I took her into the back to clock in and
started showing her around, only for her to tell me
after fifteen minutes of the tour she was just a
customer shopping.

Speaker 5 (57:29):
With her mother.

Speaker 2 (57:33):
I guess this is my job though.

Speaker 1 (57:36):
Okay, so here's one. Said I was in a meeting
discussing someone's job performance while sharing my screen. Now when
my boss started talking, well, I switched from notes to
teams chat and then all caps wrote girl the tea
on blank is piping. I was still sharing my screen
and also I'm in HR so oh yeah, yeah, that's it.

(58:04):
And so here's the last one. Whenever I was just
starting out, my boss asked me to call and order
dinner for someone in the office who had surgery. Okay,
so she gives me a sticky note. It had items
listed like this one caesar salad, two chicken parmechan three lasagna,
four chocolate cake, and five strawberry lemonade. Well, I ordered
the number of items listed next to each item, not

(58:27):
realizing she was just listing them in numerical order. So
the co worker got a ton of food and it
wasn't that terrible, but said my boss was not happy.
Let me, I have to tell you this because I
could never get away with saying this on the radio,
but I will say it on the podcast.

Speaker 5 (58:48):
But my worst mistake at work.

Speaker 1 (58:51):
My second job in radio. Okay, I was probably in
eleventh grade, and just sort of getting into the radio gig,
you know, and whatnot. So I was working on a
little daytime AM station, and you know.

Speaker 5 (59:04):
It got out fairly well.

Speaker 1 (59:05):
But it was a little AM station about thirty miles
north of my hometown, and it's not far from the
city of.

Speaker 5 (59:15):
My home. County. We have two county seats.

Speaker 1 (59:18):
We have the Southern District in the northern district, and
so my hometown was the southern district county seat. The
northern district county seat was like twenty miles away from
the city where the radio station was.

Speaker 5 (59:29):
I was working at, all right, and that.

Speaker 1 (59:32):
City was, you know, about twenty percent African American population, right,
So I'm talking on the radio, and the first mistake
I had was it was a Saturday afternoon. I thought
I would tell one of my dad's jokes. That was
my first mistake right there, all right. So the joke

(59:52):
was that this farmer wanted to divorce from his wife.
So he comes into the city and talks to the
attorney and he says, uh, you know, I want to
get a divorce from my wife. And the attorney says, okay,
sit down here, sir. Do you have to ask a
few questions. I mean, do you do you have any grounds?

(01:00:15):
And the old farmer says, well, I got about forty
acres outside of town. And the attorney says, no, no,
you're not following what I'm trying to say. I'm not
talking about acreage. Well, he says, do do Does she
beat you up? Old farmer says, I don't know. I
use him up about an hour and a half, or

(01:00:36):
she does I get up kind of early. Lawyer says no, no,
that's not what I'm saying either. He says, I'm trying
to funny. He says, look, is she a nagger? And
the farmer says, now, she a little white girl about four.

Speaker 5 (01:00:46):
And a half feet tall.

Speaker 2 (01:00:48):
Oh my god, I said that on the radio.

Speaker 1 (01:00:51):
Not about an hour and a half.

Speaker 2 (01:00:52):
My boss just singing a podcast.

Speaker 1 (01:00:56):
Yeah right, But my boss comes fucking into the studio
and he goes, I am going to forget you told
that joke on the air with the city twenty miles away,
this twenty percent African American, and they're proud, good, good
news that you're alive. Right now, I still had a job.

(01:01:18):
That was amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:01:19):
Thing about it, you know, it's a pretty it's a
pretty bad mistake. I didn't do that bad. I mean,
I've made some stupid mistakes that really made me sweat,
but nothing.

Speaker 1 (01:01:32):
Oh yeah, Oh yeah, I was sweating.

Speaker 5 (01:01:34):
I was really sweating.

Speaker 2 (01:01:35):
Yeah. There's earlier this week. I'm not going to get
into details because I don't I don't know. I like
it's not interesting enough nor shut. But there's like a
new software that's kind of being brought down the pipeline.
I was reading up on on the I guess what
the guidelines and the yeah, just like that like the

(01:01:57):
you know what was it? What the word for it?
Like you know, it walks you through like what it
is and how how it functions and works and stuff. Okay,
And so I'm reading up on these like kind of
key points about how this thing works. I get this idea, Hey,
let me pull this thing up side by side and
just kind of like you know, click along with it

(01:02:19):
as I'm reading to kind of better understand functionality. And
and then I ended up clicking something on there like
all right, I'm like, I that didn't do what I
thought it did. And then I get pinged on teams
Chad like like hey are you working with this account?
And I'm like no, but I was, you know, pulling

(01:02:40):
around with like I was like.

Speaker 12 (01:02:42):
Oh no, I did it's really quickly, like rushing to
undo whatever I did. I got it quickly, and I
made sure that it was the conversation was happening in
a public place where my my boss could see, so
that way, you know, I'm not trying to hide it
because oh man, yeah, thing you can do is just
is try to hide and sweep it under.

Speaker 2 (01:03:04):
So like all was all was well at the end.
And basically, you know, please make sure you're careful when
never whenever you're reading the playing around with this things
like that. I've done dumb things like that, and then.

Speaker 1 (01:03:21):
Your line of work that would be really really bad.

Speaker 10 (01:03:24):
It could know, the scope of what I could do
would be well, okay, it would be relatively limited, and
anything that would cause major damage would need a second
set of eyes on it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:37):
So that's the thankful thing. But but yeah, I know,
certainly there there are some things that could definitely be
no good. So yeah, no, it like it all worked out.
I'm surprised there were no no stories of their people
accidentally getting high at work from a mix up and
their their you know, tobacco bape or something like that.

(01:04:01):
But I've got a story of a of a mix
up here with a bunch of climbers who climbed real
high on a mountain and then got high on the
mountain Labor Day rescue in upstate New York. They happened
when four hikers were rescued in the slide of Mountain
Wilderness near Giant Ledge and an interconnected trail hiking ranging

(01:04:25):
hike ranging from one six feet in elevation. They got
lost while experiencing a debilitating psychedelic mushroom high, and said
the text message reporting that they were lost. According to
New York State Troopers, the text message, you know, like
we're lost, so that when the state troopers get back

(01:04:45):
to like where are you located, and they're like somewhere
in the fourth dimensional realm of like.

Speaker 1 (01:04:51):
You know, that's good.

Speaker 2 (01:04:56):
Yeah, that's not actually with the text rend This is
what I'm imagining, at least in my head. The caller
they told dispatchers that the group had consumed mushrooms, that
one individual's experience well, and that one of the individuals
experienced a debilitating high, uh being like altitude sickness or something.

(01:05:16):
I actually get that like the headline, group of hikers
got a high, getting high, needed to be rescued after debilitating. Second,
the mushroom experience with magic mushrooms. That's not that's a headline. Okay, yeah,
so they one of them. They get the debility high
for meeting too much magic mushrooms. The group was later
helped down the trail and escort to the trailhead where

(01:05:39):
they were elevated by bus shandakan ambulance.

Speaker 13 (01:05:44):
The group also lost their car keys during the incident,
so rangers provided a courtesy ride from the hikers rental
lodgic follow the officials returned to the area and located
the sling bag containing the missing keys under a log
and uh Paul Ferns.

Speaker 2 (01:06:02):
According to the Alcohol and Drug Foundation, stepends.

Speaker 1 (01:06:11):
Silo silo cybin.

Speaker 2 (01:06:13):
That's right. I know I've heard about these mushrooms before.
I just yeah, I can't today, man, Yeah, pilocybin. Mushrooms
can affect all the senses, altering a person's thinking, sense
of time, and emotions. Psychedelics can cause a person to hallucinate,
see or hear things that don't exist. I wouldn't think that,

(01:06:33):
like the higher elevation just made the high hit all
that that.

Speaker 1 (01:06:37):
Was lack of oxygen to for that matter, you gotta
try this two thousand and elevation. Bro oh man, I'm
telling you, well, let me ask you this. You might
be hallucinating or you might be on psychedelics if you
think that putting sunscreen in your ice cream actually tastes good.

(01:06:58):
All right, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:06:59):
Maybe I don't know. I'm not a beach bum. I
don't care for the beach.

Speaker 1 (01:07:03):
But maybe you know you've been out to the beach
and you just had this uncontrollable urge to lick the
person next to you.

Speaker 2 (01:07:10):
You know, I hate the smell of sunscreen.

Speaker 5 (01:07:13):
Man, Well I don't.

Speaker 1 (01:07:15):
I can't stand it myself. But yeah, you may not
need to worry about that anymore. Sunscreen, see doesn't you
know usually require a spoon. But there is a new
concoction out there that infuses ice cream with the scent
of the summer, although they don't include the spf. Okay,
but van Ewan has collaborated with Carnival Cruise Lines on

(01:07:41):
this dessert for a new sunscreen flavored ice cream. Now
this is real, folks.

Speaker 2 (01:07:47):
This is really well. I know you're not going to
agree with this, but unless it's like coconut scent and sunscreen,
no no, no, no no no no.

Speaker 5 (01:07:55):
Coconut for me doesn't do anything.

Speaker 2 (01:07:57):
Well.

Speaker 1 (01:07:58):
This includes ingredients. This's got coconut cream, cocoa butter, vanilla extract,
and sea salt.

Speaker 5 (01:08:03):
Okay, This cheeky.

Speaker 1 (01:08:05):
Creation aims to combat what carnival cruise lines caused the
end of summer scaries.

Speaker 5 (01:08:11):
You know that that bittersweet.

Speaker 1 (01:08:12):
Feeling when the season of sunshine and carefree moments are
starting to wind down. According to the press release, now
People magazine try to pint of this sunscreen ice cream,
and you may I don't know, you may have never
had the urge to consume, you know, sunblock that you're
slathering on at the beach. But they were surprised it

(01:08:34):
found it surprisingly delicious.

Speaker 5 (01:08:36):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:08:37):
Upon the first spoonful, they said, vanilla obviously was the
dominant flavor, but there were some notes of coconut, followed
by a very distinct salty kick. What's the salt supposed
to mimic? Maybe what sweat? I guess, I.

Speaker 5 (01:08:50):
Don't know, but.

Speaker 1 (01:08:55):
Yeah, well yeah, yeah, I know it's you.

Speaker 2 (01:09:02):
Look a random random on the beach, random.

Speaker 1 (01:09:05):
Stranger stranger, right, you can't, you can't publicly, you can't
purchase it yet in public yet, But the two brands
are asking fans to share reactions to this offbeat product
on social media to assess whether it, you know, could
generate enough buzz for a limited run. So, if you're
on a carnival cruise somewhere and you want to get
yourself some sunscreen ice cream, just the fact alone that

(01:09:26):
you're sitting there eating something that says sunscreen on it
is gross enough for me.

Speaker 2 (01:09:31):
Yeah. Oh my gosh, yeah, unreal.

Speaker 1 (01:09:34):
Yeah, I don't I'm going to pass on that.

Speaker 5 (01:09:37):
I'm definitely going to pass on the sunscreen.

Speaker 1 (01:09:41):
Well, where are they coming up with this? I don't,
I mean, have you turned around? There's some new bizarre
flavor out there.

Speaker 2 (01:09:48):
You know. As much as I hate like this idea,
I'm all for the idea of making weird, bizarre flavors
of things. Oh man, I love that idea and concept.
I think practice it's it's never good, right, But that's
that's the fun about it. You wouldn't catch me eating
sunscreen ice cream though.

Speaker 5 (01:10:09):
Not even a spoonful, not even a taste test.

Speaker 2 (01:10:12):
But the coconut cream makes it a little enticing, but
if they actually tastes like how sunscreen smells, absolutely.

Speaker 1 (01:10:20):
No way, no way.

Speaker 5 (01:10:22):
I'm totally with you on that one.

Speaker 2 (01:10:23):
Like I should wear sunscreen more, but instead I just
try to limit the time, like you know, go out
and mowes, that's not that long if I go out,
like for a run or something, but like I probably
should put on more. Maybe I hate it's awful. It
smells disgusting. I don't want to smell like that all day,
So yeah, I just don't do that. But yeah, you

(01:10:46):
I don't know. Look, I if I were to eat this,
it would steal my joy away for me, and uh
kind of kind of like how the phillies care and
stole all the joy away from a ten year old boy.
I'm assuming everybody knows about phillies Karen right now, but
it's such a good story. I think that it's worth

(01:11:08):
it's just worth covering on the podcast. If you're if
you haven't right, if you're the one person on earth
who hasn't heard about phillies Karen yet, here's a quick summary. Karen, Karen, Karen, Karen, Karen, Karen.

Speaker 1 (01:11:24):
Paren, Why did you do that? Why did you do that, Terry.

Speaker 2 (01:11:28):
She's alarming, but disarming and a really very charming Karen
was a female's Philly I already lost it it. A
female Philadelphia Phillies fan went viral after she stole a
home run ball from a young fan. Several fans were
seen going for a home run ball hit by Phillies

(01:11:50):
slugger Harrison Bader during the game at the Miami Marlins
Lone Depot Park in Florida. Drew felt Well the father
got the ball in the stands and took it back
to a However, Billy's careen got in the man's face
and claimed she took the ball, that she took the
ball out of her hands her hands. After a few
seconds of yelling at him, the man handed handed her

(01:12:13):
the baseball.

Speaker 6 (01:12:30):
All right. Well.

Speaker 2 (01:12:30):
The Marlin stadium staff saw the incident and gave the
boy a gift bag full of items. Vader also met
the young fan after the game and gave him a
signed baseball bat. Well, yeah, I know, that's awesome, Fallwell said.
He's still in disbelief over how the woman demanded the
ball from his ten year old son. He explained that
he handed it over only to avoid a bigger scene

(01:12:52):
in front of his child, saying he wanted to model
de escalation. Look, if you're a man, like you got
a model being like wrong and and like you don't
you don't beat up on a woman.

Speaker 1 (01:13:03):
But no, but would you actually if that that happened
to you and and little Pancho had gotten the ball
on his birthday, would you have actually taken it out
of his glove and given it back to the screaming woman.

Speaker 2 (01:13:14):
Uh? Well, if my wife was there, then I would
have told my wife stay, stay with my son. Well
I walk forward and create a barrier between her and Yeah.
I'm like, look, we're going to talk about this somewhere else,
you know, because we're not going to do this in
front of him and h And instead of addressing the ball,

(01:13:34):
I would be, you know, shame on you. Yeah yeah,
but look look the I guarantee you she's not getting
the last laugh and that ball was not worth the
car for caring. Oh yeah, I'm so Sorryed. It's like,
are you because I get like de escalating is good,
but also are you also modeling weakness? Because you don't

(01:13:57):
want to model weakness either, true, you don't want to
be aggressive or mean for that, for that sake, but
you also don't want to allow people to just walk
over you because they're being rude. Like you don't want
someone to take advantage of your empathy either, because correct,
that's right, people will do that if you allow them.
Like bad people, that's what evil wants. Right. Yeah, I'm not,

(01:14:18):
I said to say Philly's Karen was evil, but just
in general, like, you don't need to let people take
it like, I think that's not a good thing to model.
If it's so, it depends, right, I think that it's
a very thin line for me there. Well. He added
that while his son was upset in the moment, then
that ended well after Marlin's staff gifted him memorabilia and

(01:14:40):
Harrison Bader personally gave him the sign back. I think
the best gift of all of this was the means
of the backlash to follow. Yes, especially if you'll show
your son, hey, look, this is what happens when you
act like you might think, Oh, if I act like
a you know, like a like a b I h
you could get what you want. Well, you can show
your son, look, this is what happens when you act

(01:15:01):
like when you act like a bad person. People are
gonna look at you like a bad person. Well, he told,
he said, he holds no grudge, but hope the woman
eventually apologizes and returns the ball. I'd like to think that,
like the bad things are going to continue, you know,
like when people steal things from an archaeological site and
they claim it's curse and then eventually like eat like

(01:15:22):
they mailed it item back saying please take this. I'd
like to think that this is what's gonna happen for her,
for her right likes ball becomes cursed and she needs
to mail and return it because like everything goes out. Uh,
there's a there's video, it's gone viral of the incident.

(01:15:42):
You can you can find it easily if you go that.
We we've got more audio, though A felt well talking
about the incident.

Speaker 14 (01:15:48):
As soon as it cracked off the bat, it was
starting to head our way a little bit. It fell
and kind of bobbled between the two armrests, and I
picked it up, and I just walked away and held
the ball up high and put it in Lincoln's glove.
And then she showed up as she reached from my
arm she just yelled in my ear. That's my ball
like super loud. I jumped out of my skin and
she's like, those are from our seats. I said, there

(01:16:10):
was nobody in that seat. I pretty much just wanted
her to go away and be dad and show him
how to de escalate the situation.

Speaker 2 (01:16:17):
So that's where I went.

Speaker 15 (01:16:18):
I wasn't very happy that we had to give it
to her, but we can't win.

Speaker 6 (01:16:22):
She was gonna get it anyways.

Speaker 2 (01:16:24):
He added that putting the ball in his glove and
uh and then taking it back out killed me, but
we ended up having a good net because of good
people as well as for Philly's care. And he says,
I hope that ball means a lot to her. Maybe
maybe maybe Carr Philly's carried his life. Ball is a
lot here here are sports centers. I I guardee you.

(01:16:49):
It wasn't worth of her that there was Nicole Brisco
and Michael Eves going off.

Speaker 6 (01:16:56):
On the lady.

Speaker 2 (01:16:56):
The man grabs the ball, he's walking it over to
his son.

Speaker 1 (01:17:00):
Oh, she went after and what she married?

Speaker 11 (01:17:02):
She is big met like he went into her space
to get it. She goes on and on and the
dad immediately is like, well, okay, if it means that much,
to you.

Speaker 1 (01:17:12):
He takes the ball from his.

Speaker 16 (01:17:15):
Kid's glove and goes here, you can have it.

Speaker 1 (01:17:18):
Really, lady, I hate to call her a Karen. The Marlins.
They went out to the kid.

Speaker 16 (01:17:23):
They gave him like all of the goodies.

Speaker 6 (01:17:26):
To replace it.

Speaker 5 (01:17:27):
Awesome, make her feel terrible.

Speaker 16 (01:17:29):
Yet, please make her feel terrible, because here's the thing.

Speaker 8 (01:17:32):
You took it from a kid.

Speaker 1 (01:17:33):
And then wait, this is the best part.

Speaker 16 (01:17:35):
Paris Invader.

Speaker 1 (01:17:36):
Yes, she gave him a bat and assigned ball and
they met afterwards.

Speaker 2 (01:17:41):
That is how you treat kids. The identity of Philly's
Karen still hasn't been confirmed, but one woman who's already
been misidentified as her, and many think that the Karen
closely resembles you as Senator Elizabeth Warren. She does, yeah, right,
when you look like a Karen, like I think all
Karen's kind of look alike. Yeah, you bled into the
crowd of Karen's.

Speaker 1 (01:18:03):
Yeah, I mean somebody he actually put up a picture
of Elizabeth Warren and Phillies Karen.

Speaker 5 (01:18:08):
They look like they could be sisters.

Speaker 2 (01:18:10):
All right. It's pretty stupid that Philly's Karen. I thought
a home run baseball was hers and no one else's.
She didn't have a grasp on it, and probably not
on her own reality.

Speaker 1 (01:18:25):
And now the thoughts of the Phillies Karen, Hey, a
home run ball is coming my way. I'll just reach
up and whoa, that man grabbed it for his son.

Speaker 16 (01:18:37):
Oh good for him. I hope that little fella enjoys
his souvenir. But wait, as a white woman with an
inverted bob haircut that peeped in the mid two thousands,
I'm contractually obligated to be an entitled monster who throws
a public tantrum. You know what they say, with great
haircuts comes great responsibility. So let me roll up my

(01:19:00):
sleeves because it's showtime, Donna. At least nobody at the
ballgame will judge me. In Philadelphia, we have a term
for obnoxious fans.

Speaker 1 (01:19:09):
Fans.

Speaker 17 (01:19:10):
Hi, that ball was mine.

Speaker 1 (01:19:13):
And those were the thoughts of the Phillies.

Speaker 2 (01:19:16):
Cart Then the thoughts of the Phillies carried of maybe
maybe she hadn't grippled reality because she was also on
some some magic mushrooms.

Speaker 1 (01:19:26):
Magic mushrooms.

Speaker 2 (01:19:26):
Yeah, lots of audio here. This is we're milking Phillies.
Cared for everything she's got, you know it. This is
just one example of the rudeness that is being seen
in public by people. A Pew survey found that almost
half of Americans think rudeness is all in the rise,
and a third notice it often In public. Rudeness shows

(01:19:48):
up in many ways. Loud music, smoking, bad manners, Eric Lane,
making a joke, and online a lot of interactions can
make it worse because there's no face to face interaction.
Ye experts, They say that the best fix is empathy.
Understanding why people act this way and responding with patients

(01:20:09):
and kindness cannot make everyday interactions more respectful. Yes, I'd
say listen to the experts, But still the white people
take advantage of your empathy. I don't know. I'm still
pretty firm on that Karen behavior. They say it's gotten
so bad at the ballgame, and Stadians are making announcements
specifically for Karen's.

Speaker 5 (01:20:29):
Oh attention.

Speaker 18 (01:20:31):
Karen's Today's game is being televised using cameras with zoom
lenses capable of capturing your terrible haircut and behavior in
the bleachers. Also, instant replay can display your indefensible actions
over and over and over again in millions of homes

(01:20:53):
as well as on the stadium jumbo tron.

Speaker 19 (01:20:56):
In addition, everyone in the ballpark has a smartphone with
a video camera and the ability to post embarrassing videos
of you on the Internet. Failure to understand these basic
life realities may result in ejection, embarrassment, Internet infamy, and
eventual loss of employment. Thank you, karens and enjoy the game.

Speaker 2 (01:21:22):
More audio there, But it's all worth it. The dad
in the Phillies Karen fiasco is asking people to leave
her alone. I can't promise you that I would be that,
you know, morally on the high road for this. I
wouldn't be like enticing, like get more, get more, But
I also would be sitting back with the litt laugh

(01:21:44):
and smile on my face because it's.

Speaker 5 (01:21:46):
It kills jamming.

Speaker 2 (01:21:47):
It feels good to watch someone get their comeuppets right.
It does I really make other people do that? I
didn't make her do that. She is just getting her
just desserts, and I guess her just desserts tastes like
screen ice cream. Yeah. So, days after the viral incident,
a sports card company blow Out Cards, they've offered Philly's

(01:22:10):
Karen five thousand dollars for the ball. However, the offer
comes with a condition she must sign the ball with
the words I'm sorry. The company aims to return the
ball to the boy who had received it from the
father during the game.

Speaker 1 (01:22:28):
That is awesome, awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:22:33):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:22:33):
I mean maybe they thought of five thousand dollars will
bring her out into the public so we can all
shame it.

Speaker 2 (01:22:39):
Once, I know, right, yeah for real, maybe we can't
handwriting experts to try to diagnose it from the Ballah,
So don't steal things from kids, exactly, it's such a
public place to do that.

Speaker 6 (01:22:59):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:22:59):
Man, So this makes up an interesting would you rather gave? What?
Would you rather get caught on the kiss cam at
the coldplayoffs or get caught on the on the I
guess what home run ball? You know cam at at
at the Phillies game stealing from a ten year old kid.

Speaker 1 (01:23:18):
That's right, Oh, I love it.

Speaker 5 (01:23:20):
Yeah, you know. Here's the deal.

Speaker 1 (01:23:22):
Would would you rather uh get I have a Phillies
Karen in the face screaming things like it's my ball,
it's my ball? Or would you rather deal with an
annoying laugh from the.

Speaker 5 (01:23:37):
New date.

Speaker 2 (01:23:39):
Man? Uh? Because anything is better than Karen like that.
I haven't heard the laugh so.

Speaker 1 (01:23:48):
Well, yeah, this is this is true. This is a great
asked Pacho question. It really is.

Speaker 20 (01:23:55):
And and because this is, I mean, this is when
you're talking about dating to your hating. This would be
a great one for dating when you're you're hating because
it's like I can't stand his laugh, you know, this
kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (01:24:06):
So this is great. So this person's writing, Dear Pancho.
I had a blind date over the weekend. I got
set up by a co worker. So their cousin was
really great until he started laughing.

Speaker 2 (01:24:25):
Balls already. Who man, he's my cousin. That's great.

Speaker 1 (01:24:33):
Well, just because I'm the one of these I'm one
of these people who he gets easily annoyed. So his
annoying laugh really bothered me. Other than that he's a
really great guy, I'm not sure I can get past
the laugh. I don't know if it's my OCD or not,
but it really bothers me. Is someone's laugh a reason

(01:24:54):
not to date them? Oh that's beautiful?

Speaker 2 (01:24:58):
Unfortunately the answer is yes, if you really really can't
get past it, Like, if you cannot get past it
and it grow makes you resent him, better to not
even invest to begin with. It's not a big deal then, like, yeah,
that's kind of silly. Hopefully that laugh grows into something
else over time. But that's so funny, you know if

(01:25:22):
you can't stand it, and it really scratches in the
wrong way, like your whole life because of that.

Speaker 1 (01:25:28):
Well right, But to me, the fact is she's admitting
that she's one of those people who gets easily annoyed. Yeah,
that would be a red flag for me.

Speaker 2 (01:25:38):
Well right exactly. So you know, if you're easily annoyed,
you can either but figure out how to not be
more easily annoyed or be admit that you are, and
so you're gonna have to find a more niche kind
of person to be with, right exactly, Like those are
the two options, I think. So for me, I wouldn't
find it that big of a deal. I don't get
annoyed very easily, though, I would probably find it, you know,

(01:26:01):
funny but also endearing you know over time, like oh,
it's really silly and ridiculous, but also like it's you
and if they're a good person and everything else fits
and matches, like it's not a big deal. I think,
so isn't a big deal. No, but it sounds like
it's a big deal to you.

Speaker 1 (01:26:18):
Well, she's letting it turn into a big deal. I think.

Speaker 2 (01:26:21):
Yeah, Well, well it's the first date, so it's not
like you're letting it like it is a big deal
to her. Rather be it. Maybe it will stop, maybe
it won't. You can try out more dates. See what
you think? Well, well, like, I don't know, you know,
to a degree, like you, you're attracted to what you're
attracted to. You know, she should go I think that sometimes.

Speaker 5 (01:26:41):
Yeah, I think.

Speaker 1 (01:26:42):
Maybe she should say, look, you know, she should tell
him that his laugh is annoying and ask does that
bother you? And if it does, then let him be
the one to end the relationship.

Speaker 2 (01:26:54):
Yeah, I mean you could do you know, there's there
are ways you can go about this and be open
and honest without being mean either, you know. Yeah, yeah,
you got options I think with it. But it's funny.
Would you rather this sounds like, you know, would you
rather have a you know, an a whole boyfriend but
he's super attractive and you know, high paying job, but

(01:27:17):
he but you know, but he's an a holes it?
Would you rather have a guy who's just a great guy,
you know, really nice in mind? But you can't stand
his laugh, and he thinks everything's funny. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:27:29):
I mean I have been around people that have got
a laugh that you know, it does kind of get
on your nerves.

Speaker 5 (01:27:36):
I mean this one dude in college, his laugh.

Speaker 2 (01:27:38):
Was kind of.

Speaker 1 (01:27:42):
That drove me up the wall.

Speaker 2 (01:27:45):
He really did.

Speaker 1 (01:27:48):
I tried not to make him laugh, so i'd have
to listen to it.

Speaker 2 (01:27:51):
You know, I became a very serious person around that
gay I became the most boring person in the room.
Just whatever Joe was around, don't make him laugh.

Speaker 5 (01:28:07):
Whatever you do, don't make him laugh.

Speaker 2 (01:28:10):
Oh man, I love that. But I remember what I
want to know is I can't really make an honest
opinion on this until I hear the laugh. So I
that's true. I need you to record the laugh uh
doing under the table on your next day if you
need to send it in and begin making judgment all

(01:28:30):
of that. That's hilarious, oh man. You know, in my my,
as long as they don't seem like a donkey or
a chipmunk, I'm like, this is just like a wide
there's a wide bell curve. I think that like is
acceptable of But.

Speaker 1 (01:28:47):
My question is does he snort when he laughs?

Speaker 2 (01:28:50):
Too.

Speaker 5 (01:28:50):
I mean that could be a problem.

Speaker 2 (01:28:51):
Right when I was a kid, like I'm you know, five, six,
seven years old, I'm pretty sure my laugh was maybe
not always like if I was being like tickled or something.
As an adult, I don't know if it's just me, Like,
I'm not ticklish anymore. I just you grow out of
that when you become a man. But like as a kid,
I was tickled. I I had the chipmunk laugh, you know.

(01:29:14):
And and it's it's acceptable as a as a child,
right as a kid, Yes, a grown man with a
chipmunk laugh, like, shame on me. I'd be embarrassed for myself.
So yeah, it's there is it's a spectrum of laughter.
I think that I've got I've got another one here.

(01:29:37):
It seems like it's dating related also, they say, help,
I want to move out of the friend zone with
the girl I met, They say, if you're pancho. I
moved here in March and joined several social groups of
the found on Facebook. I met Marcy in late April.
I've totally fallen for She does not have the same
feelings for me and only considers me a friend even

(01:29:58):
though we're both single. My friends say once you're in
the friend zone, there's no way to get out. I
don't know whether or not I should believe them. Is
it true? Is there any way that I can get
out of the friend zone and start a relationship with her?
If so, how do I do it? Oh? Boy, your
friends are idiots. Don't listen to them. And yeah, so

(01:30:22):
this is a very I think it's a common misconception.
It's probably in a lot of movies and a lot
of people that just don't know anything about dating and relationships. Hey,
your friends, are any of them dating in a good
and healthy relationship? And have they had a girlfriend for
longer than like two years? You know? Actually, no, are
any of them married? Because if you've dated for someone
for two years, you should know them well enough for

(01:30:43):
them to know whether or not your marriage material. Then
they'd be married by then anyways.

Speaker 6 (01:30:48):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:30:49):
So yeah, and here's what woy okay I kind of
said earlier. You can't help what you're attracted to or not.
There are going to be times where you are It's
easier when you think about it from your right. There
are people that you know that you're just not attracted
to period. You know, personality looks the you know, there
are people that you really think they're great, they're really fun,

(01:31:12):
they're funny, they've got a good personality, but you're not
attracted to physically, and there's just nothing there, right, there's
nothing there. You can't even say why, just isn't like
there's not your type. And then there are people that
you're really attracted to physically and they open their mouth
and ugly pores out and you're like ah. And then
there are people that you're like, Wow, this person is
really nice. I'm attracted to the personality then as a person,

(01:31:32):
and I find them attractive as well physically. You need
both of those things. I have a healthy and a
good relationship and in a healthy, good marriage. Right, it's
not at all like people think. Again, this misconception of
like looks are the only thing that matters, which I
think is like that's like the shallow kind of thing.
But I think it's also just this I don't want
to say it's shallow, but like there's this kind of

(01:31:53):
like lie that people want you to believe that you
need to not worry about looks at all, and that
personality it's all about what's on the inside inside matters
more than the outside certainly, and what's on the inside
will change how you look at someone from the outside.
As you get to know someone more and get to
know their heart more, they will look more attractive to
you physically. But there are also people that you're just

(01:32:17):
not going to be attracted to, and that's like, that's okay,
it's normal. Like you don't want the girl that you
marry to not like, is it fair to her to
be married to someone who does not think that she
is beautiful? You know, true, and that can feel loved
and pretty or feel desired around that. It's not shallow

(01:32:38):
at all to think that looks bad. Looks do matter,
you know, like like some of how our soul matters, right,
what we do and our soul that matters. So we
are a soul, but we also are physical people, Like
our physical qualities of our person impact our soul and
vice versa. They both matter. It's not one or the

(01:33:00):
other or one and the other they but they are
equally there.

Speaker 5 (01:33:05):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:33:05):
But have you you've heard that people say, you know,
if you want to be a good husband or a
good wife, you've got to be a good friend first. Yeah, yeah,
something to kind of build on that.

Speaker 2 (01:33:17):
So yes, it's exactly where I'm going with this. So
you can't really help with your attracted to turn on.
So there, she's not into you basically right off the bat.
Like if you met someone that they liked you, and
you're like, I'm just not into you, you know, but
I like you're cool, You're good. But like, it's fair

(01:33:39):
to think that other people probably think the same way
about you. There are people that might like you or
be attracted to you that you're not attracted to it all.
There are people that might be attracted to you that
you're attracted back, and there are people that may not
be attracted to you that you're attracted Like, that's normal,
that's normal life, it's normal behavior, right, there's something weird
about that. Everybody he has experienced that at one point,

(01:34:03):
and so you cannot really change the first impression, initial
reaction thing. What you can change is being around this person, right,
making them feel important, making them laugh, and then getting
to know you more. It's like what I said earlier,
you get to know someone more, it will change how
you feel and how you look at someone, even physically.

(01:34:26):
And so if this person is not with you, being
in the friend zone is like what do you do?
You want to not be in the friend zone and
have an easy out, because that's what not being the
friend zone is being able to one night stand and
get out quick, keep one foot in, one foot at
Or do you want to like, have something that's long
term and meaningful. Long term meaningful I mean someone that

(01:34:47):
like you know, someone in there, there and present and
guess what, being around someone, if you're in the friend zone,
it gives you all kinds of opportunities to build relationship,
to get to know them, for you to see if
they would be a good fit, not just someone who's
hot or whatever, for them to see if you are
a good fit, and it gives you a chance to
be able to woo or win them over with good jokes.

(01:35:08):
Like my wife was not necessarily like I wasn't necessarily
my wife's type when we first met, and then she
had to know me a little bit more. I made
her laugh all the time. I made her feel really special,
and she didn't think I was unattractive. This wasn't like
the traditional type as you would think. Unfortunately for her,
she was exactly of my type, which is very interested

(01:35:31):
but like and I think with girls, especially like girls
who think are less physically inclined that way, where guys
are kind of more physically inclined in that way. Sure,
she grew very attractive based on all these other qualities,
and that changed how she viewed me in other ways
as well. And so so.

Speaker 1 (01:35:48):
She would be I guess she would be in or
you would be in her friend zone. But you've gone
beyond her friend I.

Speaker 2 (01:35:55):
Firstued friendship with my wife when we first met, and
and very quickly, you know, within a month or so,
we kind of realized that there was something there and
had started dating based on that. But if I had
pursued things from a relationship dating kind of thing from
the very get go, she would not have been interested,

(01:36:18):
not only just because like maybe that's the type of
like she would have like we You've not a beautiful girl.
They've they've been hit on before. That's not going to
be a way to win someone over, like a quality girl.
There's not gonna be one over with a pickup line.

Speaker 21 (01:36:32):
Typically Yeah you know, okay, yeah, because you're right, because
if you got a girl who definitely I mean, what
girl does not I mean, you got some girls.

Speaker 1 (01:36:43):
That are beautiful, but they don't think they are right. Yeah,
then you got girls that are beautiful and they know
they are, you know, and.

Speaker 2 (01:36:52):
So that's usually that's usually a red flag I think
for oh yeah, right, I mean, you want someone to
know that they're confidence is good, you know, right, but
there is like a vanity thing where whether you're in
your vein, that's a bad time. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:37:06):
But the thing is, though, if you if you're a
girl that you know that that you've been how about
your girl that you know you've been.

Speaker 5 (01:37:13):
Told that you're beautiful? So now that's kind of a
third category.

Speaker 1 (01:37:18):
And it's like, okay, so guys recognize this in me,
So now I'm looking at a guy who's going to
take me beyond the friend zone or you know, this
kind of thing. Then make it something more I don't know,
yea more of a connectivity kind of thing.

Speaker 2 (01:37:35):
You know, you cannot change people's attraction and change their
hearts and minds for things. You can wait someone over,
you're not guaranteed to uh. And so if someone does
not have the initial reaction of like being interested, because
like there are gonna be times someone to be interested
right away based on the first impressions and like like

(01:37:57):
your natural what like.

Speaker 22 (01:38:01):
Mannerisms, maybe your natural like like inclinations towards attraction or whatever,
like like for me, small frame, petite, dark hair, that like,
that's it right there, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:38:15):
That's why I had to find that hispanically.

Speaker 1 (01:38:17):
And of course you being being Hispanic made it easier.

Speaker 2 (01:38:22):
It made it easy of all those friends, you know,
so right off the boat, all right, you got you
got my attention, and uh, even more if you get
like slightly like like if you get like non non
like like non completely white features typically, I don't know,
this is gonna be a little bit of for me

(01:38:43):
at least. I was like, so, like, you know, perfect beautiful, Great,
she's got a nice Mexican nose. Beautiful. I said that
because it's just the prompt that gets the AI emoji
to look just like it's really the AI emojis will
not look like her until I put that prompt in.

Speaker 5 (01:39:04):
That's good, that's good, that's hilarious.

Speaker 1 (01:39:07):
That's hilarious.

Speaker 2 (01:39:08):
I know. But people have their own type. They got
the type. Yeah, obviously have a type. If she's not interested,
but you have the opportunity to be around this person
and potentially win them over. True, Yeah, I'm wife. I
don't make self deprecating jokes about my wife, Like I
don't make like wife demeaning jokes, you know, like I

(01:39:31):
don't know those. I don't. I don't you need it.
I think you're if you think your wife.

Speaker 1 (01:39:36):
You're not, Like you're not like a Ridney danger Field.

Speaker 2 (01:39:38):
You know. Well he was like a whole bit about that.
But like some people actually make like self demeaning jokes.
But like, you're an idiot for marrying someone that you
despise me, Like you hate it until you dated and
then you're married or what an idiot? Yeah, dating, dating
is intentionally to be able to find someone that like

(01:40:02):
a door and cherish.

Speaker 1 (01:40:08):
Exactly well, you know, having having having one foot in
the friend zone and one foot in the serious data
is that kind of like having one foot in the
insane game zone and what you know.

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Speaker 1 (01:41:50):
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Speaker 21 (01:41:53):
I'm starring his Insane Florida nephew Panchaguero.

Speaker 1 (01:42:07):
Well, we we've got we've got, uh got plenty of
new fresh games, so for you to take a shot
at here, so and and uh we we've got five
mind benders, and we've got basically, these are statistics that
are called out of the current events, and you have
to figure out what we're talking about, all right, and

(01:42:29):
so you're you're getting you're getting the hang of this.

Speaker 5 (01:42:32):
Like the third or fourth week. I think we started this.

Speaker 1 (01:42:34):
Whole new You're like, he's learning, he's learning, all right.
So last week you did get at least two out
of the five. So we're gonna see if we can
make it five out of five if you know.

Speaker 2 (01:42:47):
This a little bit of a handy though.

Speaker 1 (01:42:52):
Yeah, Okay, I may, I may. Just this time, I'm
just gonna give it to you straight and just see
how well you can do here. All right, So we
got we got well, okay, we we we have the question,
and we've got at least three clues that you get
until you can finally give me an answer. All right,
So your first mind bender is this sixty and remember

(01:43:15):
you got to listen to every detail.

Speaker 2 (01:43:17):
Okay, even the orient here here?

Speaker 5 (01:43:20):
Yeah, yeah, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:43:22):
Sixty percent more than half of people have forgotten to
do this before a flight.

Speaker 2 (01:43:31):
What is it? Sixty used the bathroom.

Speaker 1 (01:43:38):
Well that's actually pretty good. I that's very very very good.
But that's not it. All right, So here's your clue.
Nothing to do with your luggage.

Speaker 10 (01:43:51):
Okay, forgot sixty yeah, sixty sixty percent have forgotten to
do this before a flight.

Speaker 5 (01:44:00):
What is it?

Speaker 1 (01:44:01):
And there's nothing to do with your luggage.

Speaker 2 (01:44:06):
Forgot to do this?

Speaker 5 (01:44:08):
This really is going in an all new direction here.

Speaker 2 (01:44:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 23 (01:44:11):
Yeah, yeah, sixty to sixty percent of people have forgotten
to do this before a flight and nothing to do
with luggage.

Speaker 5 (01:44:26):
Think about what all you are doing?

Speaker 1 (01:44:28):
Well, just think what you have to do if you
get on a plane.

Speaker 2 (01:44:31):
Yeah, yeah, no, I'm I'm trying to think ud forgotten
to do this before a flight? Sixty sixty so more
so like there's a good chance that I have done
this basically, No, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:44:47):
You might or might not. If you're in the sixty
percent you have not.

Speaker 2 (01:44:52):
It's been like five years since I've flown, then maybe
six years.

Speaker 1 (01:44:55):
Since well normally what I mean, when do you don't
have to catch a flight?

Speaker 5 (01:44:59):
Yeah, when do you normally have to catch a flight?

Speaker 2 (01:45:03):
Well, the last time was pretty late. Set in alarm to.

Speaker 1 (01:45:10):
Ever talked about that. Yeah, it's not that.

Speaker 2 (01:45:14):
You never thought. That's not it's not a good sign
for this game.

Speaker 5 (01:45:17):
Well, but it's true.

Speaker 1 (01:45:18):
But okay, but the next clue it may invoke one
of the senses.

Speaker 2 (01:45:24):
May invoke one of the senses.

Speaker 1 (01:45:27):
Sixty people have forgotten to do this before he flight.
Nothing to do with luggage may invoke one of the senses.

Speaker 2 (01:45:37):
Are you talking about, Like do people smell on the airplane?
Is it like shower? I don't think that's the thing
that you typically need to do before a flight, unless
you smell bad. That's like a smell bad thing. You
do that whether you're going on a plane or not.
If you smell bad, may invoke one of the senses.
All Right, we got touch, we got sight, We've got

(01:46:00):
now we got hearing. Is it charge their earbuds or like.

Speaker 17 (01:46:08):
Knew you were going to say something like that. No,
it's not that, so your last clue. Others may notice
if you don't do it.

Speaker 2 (01:46:19):
All right, well we're gonna say shower.

Speaker 5 (01:46:23):
Can you be more specific.

Speaker 2 (01:46:27):
More put on deodorant? I guess that's it.

Speaker 1 (01:46:32):
There you go, sixty people have forgotten to put on
the odorant.

Speaker 2 (01:46:38):
I guess you got it packed in the suitcase there, Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:46:41):
Because you packed it in the suitcase. You but you
don't want to miss your plane.

Speaker 2 (01:46:45):
You know you got to get it.

Speaker 1 (01:46:51):
And you normally you're sitting n yeah, you're and you're
the one sitting next to the person in the middle.

Speaker 2 (01:46:57):
Seat and I'm in the I'm probably in the for
that one.

Speaker 1 (01:47:02):
Okay, that's good, that's good.

Speaker 2 (01:47:04):
Alread spelling nice.

Speaker 1 (01:47:05):
So you're you're, you're, you're, you're doing good. You got
the first one, and it took you all three clues
to get it. Now the idea is, see if you
can get it without even getting a clue that.

Speaker 2 (01:47:17):
That's really one though, I mean, how many it is?
That's true?

Speaker 5 (01:47:21):
That's true? All right?

Speaker 1 (01:47:23):
My bender?

Speaker 5 (01:47:23):
Number two?

Speaker 1 (01:47:25):
Nineteen percent, nineteen percent of people have tried to beat
a hangover by eating this.

Speaker 2 (01:47:35):
What is it by eating this?

Speaker 1 (01:47:38):
Yes, nineteen percent of people, nineteen percent have tried to
beat a hangover by eating this. So have you eve
never been drunk enough to have a hangover?

Speaker 2 (01:47:48):
Have you? No? I mean I felt bad after like
a night, but I haven't now because I drank so
much just because it turned thirty and had like no
to serve something that night. Ye, that's the worst worst thing.
I'm turning thirty. Whiskey so good taste delicious and not

(01:48:10):
that you're thirty. No, I'm thirty. I guess for me,
it gives me headaches. I don't even have all its.
Just give me other things. I'm fine. But like it's
it's the little.

Speaker 1 (01:48:19):
Joke you can there is there is a there is
something you can take, a pill you can take that
will actually kind of help your body adjust to the
effects of.

Speaker 2 (01:48:30):
My trick is pouring a pack of of liquid IV
and some water and drinking some electrolytes like before falling
asleep of the night. Not usually work. Yeah, this is
a good break. Yeah. So you have a hangover and
nineteen that's not that's not a lot of people.

Speaker 1 (01:48:48):
That's kind of load.

Speaker 5 (01:48:49):
But tried.

Speaker 1 (01:48:52):
They've tried to beat a hangover by eating this.

Speaker 2 (01:48:57):
Oh man, there's some weird hangover hacks that like that.
By eating I'm gonna say, a handful of coffee beans,
like you just.

Speaker 5 (01:49:13):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:49:15):
I mean, I can't understand why you want to drink
coffee because coffee kind of takes it. Well, here's your
first clue. They believe it will soak up the alcohol.

Speaker 2 (01:49:24):
Yeah. I had a feeling, is it? Is it like
eating a bunch of bread?

Speaker 1 (01:49:32):
Is it?

Speaker 21 (01:49:32):
That was?

Speaker 2 (01:49:33):
You know, I was my first guest thinking about it.
I thought, Yeah, caffeine. I feel like caffeine has got
to help. That's where I first go to.

Speaker 1 (01:49:40):
Yeah, so I I have actually have heard that every
people say that you just eat tons and tons of
bread to try to beat the hangover. I don't know why,
but your other clues were carbs and butter, So yeah,
yeah I would.

Speaker 2 (01:49:54):
Yeah, I didn't even need them. I don't even need it.

Speaker 5 (01:49:56):
Yeah, So that's good.

Speaker 1 (01:49:57):
So you got two and one you actually got.

Speaker 2 (01:50:01):
If I went with my first gout, I would have
gotten that hole in one like you were talking about.

Speaker 4 (01:50:07):
Good.

Speaker 1 (01:50:07):
Yeah, all right, might have been to number three. All right,
thirty four percent of women, that's almost over a third.
Thirty four percent of women say this is the worst
gift you can buy them.

Speaker 2 (01:50:26):
In a box? You know, got that old s and
l bit.

Speaker 1 (01:50:37):
Oh my god, no, no, no, I'm gonna I'm gonna let
that one slide.

Speaker 2 (01:50:40):
All right, okay, well all right, answer you think I've
tried this with my wife it alright, alright, alright.

Speaker 1 (01:50:50):
Thirty four percent of women say this is the worst
gift you can buy them.

Speaker 2 (01:50:55):
The worst gift, Well, you bought your wife a vacuum
cleaner one time. I'll say, try.

Speaker 5 (01:51:00):
It was not very popular.

Speaker 2 (01:51:04):
It didn't go well for you, so it.

Speaker 1 (01:51:07):
Was not was not a vaca your first clue.

Speaker 5 (01:51:10):
Not a scale.

Speaker 2 (01:51:12):
Not a scale? Yeah, well, woman wants to know their way.
What if it what if it was a scale that
was like adjusted though, like you you know, you said
it all right? Not a scale.

Speaker 1 (01:51:25):
Thirty four percent, almost one third of the women say
that this is the worst gift you can buy for them.

Speaker 2 (01:51:30):
The worst gift. This really, uh is good to test
my knowledge of women. But I'd like to think I
know women pretty well.

Speaker 1 (01:51:44):
But right, but remember only thirty four percent of the
women said it would be the worst. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:51:49):
Yeah, I don't know all women very well, and so
thirty four percent of women.

Speaker 1 (01:51:53):
So I do not sent three Well, seventy three percent
of the women probably would have a problem with it.
But thirty four percent of the women's this is the
worst gift.

Speaker 2 (01:52:01):
Man, The worst gift is it? Like like, I'm sure
that there's how can you go wrong with flowers? But
it's a common gift. I'm sure there's some people that
think it's worthless and would rather the money go something
that's gonna last. So I'm gonna say flowers.

Speaker 1 (01:52:18):
Well you're close, but well, actually maybe I'll just go
I'll go ahead and give it to you, all right,
because it is sort of a it's in the same department.

Speaker 2 (01:52:31):
It's a plant plant, okay.

Speaker 1 (01:52:34):
Yeah, because they first off, it's green and it needs
to needs to get attention and care.

Speaker 2 (01:52:40):
We yeah, I give it to you, but I've gotten flowers.

Speaker 1 (01:52:44):
Yeah, the other clues needs attention and care and it's green.

Speaker 2 (01:52:49):
Okay, so I would have gotten there from those for sure.

Speaker 5 (01:52:53):
Yeah, right right now.

Speaker 1 (01:52:54):
Now the thing is then, and my wife like loves flowers,
ye know.

Speaker 2 (01:52:57):
And what she doesn't plants flowers anything from like nature
from the earth.

Speaker 5 (01:53:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:53:03):
Well I thought chicks love that shit.

Speaker 5 (01:53:07):
Well you don't listen. I mean, my wife says she
likes it. She she just doesn't.

Speaker 1 (01:53:12):
When it comes to trendsplanting out into the flower bed,
that can get a little tricky.

Speaker 5 (01:53:18):
She goes to gets the.

Speaker 1 (01:53:19):
Plant food and keeps the vibrant as long as she
can keep them there so she can look at them
in the in the kitchen or something, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:53:25):
So, I know, I use a choice word for it.
It's not actually no, it's not crap. I also love
plants in general, makes life feel so much better. I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:53:38):
Well, yeah, but some women just flat I don't like plants, Okay,
all right, yeah, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:53:44):
Women are being emotional idding.

Speaker 1 (01:53:47):
Well again, that's why seventy three percent of the women
wouldn't have a problem with it.

Speaker 2 (01:53:51):
So women are correct.

Speaker 5 (01:53:53):
That's right, that's right.

Speaker 1 (01:53:54):
So all right, your fourth mind bender, twenty one percent
of men have done this after getting drunk at a
work event eating bread.

Speaker 2 (01:54:08):
I'd I've done this hit on a coworker.

Speaker 1 (01:54:12):
Oh wow, that's that's pretty revealing.

Speaker 5 (01:54:16):
All right, I got that thumb.

Speaker 2 (01:54:20):
Got twenty one perspect that that would actually work. I
think for the hit on the coworker.

Speaker 1 (01:54:27):
Thing, I try to Well, your your first clue, nothing
to do with attempting to kiss a coworker.

Speaker 2 (01:54:33):
Okay, well you know.

Speaker 1 (01:54:37):
All right, so twenty one percent of men have nothing
have have done this after getting done at a work event.
Nothing to do with attempting a kiss.

Speaker 2 (01:54:48):
Perfectly unhelpful hints. Now this is classic. Yeah, is it
passed out?

Speaker 1 (01:54:55):
Oh yeah, well they I think that kind of everyone
does that. You know, we're talking only twenty one percent,
all right, so probably the other seventy nine percent will
pass out, you know.

Speaker 5 (01:55:07):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:55:08):
Your next clue embarrassing.

Speaker 2 (01:55:11):
Yes, I definitely think that. Oh oh my gosh, I
have twenty one percent of people that pissed their pants.

Speaker 5 (01:55:23):
That's that would be embarrassing.

Speaker 2 (01:55:25):
But that's not it all that. That's a little high.
But I don't I don't drink enough to know these things.

Speaker 5 (01:55:34):
But yeah, all right, your final clue.

Speaker 1 (01:55:36):
Few know it?

Speaker 2 (01:55:39):
You know it? Oh god?

Speaker 1 (01:55:42):
All right, So twenty one percent a man have done
this after getting drunk at a work event, nothing to
do with attempting to kiss a co worker. Embarrassing and
few know it?

Speaker 2 (01:55:53):
Oh man, Oh you know it? That I mean, I
bet that's helpful. I feel like, for where my brain's at,
that's not doing anything for me, you know it? Hmmm?

(01:56:14):
Called her? Like do they call their boss by like
a nickname that everyone gives them?

Speaker 5 (01:56:19):
Oh, I'm not sure that would work.

Speaker 1 (01:56:22):
But the answer they revealed an embarrassing secret.

Speaker 24 (01:56:27):
Oh yeah, yeah, like they confess the fact that they
actually slept with the you know, somebody in the office
or something like this.

Speaker 1 (01:56:37):
You know, I don't know. So all right, so that
was a little tricky.

Speaker 5 (01:56:41):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:56:41):
So your last mind bender so far, I'm gonna say
you've done pretty good.

Speaker 5 (01:56:46):
You've gotten at least three.

Speaker 2 (01:56:48):
Yeah, So I feel like I feel like I finally
can prove that I have got some level of intelligence.

Speaker 1 (01:56:53):
Yeah, with with one of the nine menders, you you
kind of nailed it without even any help at all.

Speaker 5 (01:56:59):
You know, just one thing.

Speaker 1 (01:57:00):
So all right, your last mind bender, This is good.
Seventeen percent. So get that figure in your mind. Seventeen
percent of dogs have one of these. Seventeen percent of
dogs have one of these.

Speaker 2 (01:57:17):
Oh goodness, I have. I don't think yours is going
to be in this category. My dog's great, Okay, I
know the best dog. God.

Speaker 1 (01:57:34):
Seventeen percent of dogs have one of these. That's got
to be that's going to be the fewest percent, the
smallest percentage of the whole insane games here. Yeah, I
mean seventeen percent.

Speaker 2 (01:57:51):
Do they have? Look like, I've got some thoughts. Is
it like a food allergy or something like like chicken
or something.

Speaker 5 (01:58:03):
No, not a food allergy. And the first clue is
not a bone.

Speaker 2 (01:58:08):
Not a bone.

Speaker 1 (01:58:10):
Seventeen dogs have one of these hump toy.

Speaker 2 (01:58:14):
No, I'm just kidding them. There's a lot of plug
owners out there, they know what I'm talking about. I
don't have a pug, I've never had, but I had
a friend who had a pug grown up he humped
a lot of stuff down. He did. They've got one
of these, man, Oh man, I mean, I mean, I

(01:58:37):
think a caller, but this guy, that's gotta be higher
than seventeen percent. It would be more like that'd be
the opposite way. My dog doesn't have a collar because
because he whistle and he's there. Yeah, he's loyal, unlike
all these other dogs.

Speaker 25 (01:58:53):
Actually, most dogs are oil. They have they have one
of these twenty one percent. No, seventeen percent have this.

Speaker 1 (01:59:04):
Seventeen percent of dogs one.

Speaker 2 (01:59:06):
Am I making up percentages a personality disorder like like
neuroticism or separation, anxiety.

Speaker 1 (01:59:17):
Or something work. Nope, not, it's not a favorite toy.

Speaker 5 (01:59:22):
That's your next clue.

Speaker 2 (01:59:24):
Every dog is a favorite toy. What in the world.
I'd be higher than seventeen percent.

Speaker 1 (01:59:29):
Seventy percent, Now, seventy percent of the dogs have one
of these. Not a bone, not a favorite toy.

Speaker 2 (01:59:37):
Okay, a dog bed, I mean I think that would
be higher, but.

Speaker 1 (01:59:43):
True, not a dog bed. Your last clue. This might
give it away. I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:59:50):
Owner will take pictures.

Speaker 2 (01:59:53):
Oh man, owner will take pictures. Okay, they have one
of these.

Speaker 1 (02:00:01):
Your your your dog is so far from this, it
is not even funny.

Speaker 2 (02:00:07):
Oh my gosh. So do they have like their own
social media profile?

Speaker 5 (02:00:14):
I never thought about that?

Speaker 1 (02:00:16):
Is that your answer?

Speaker 6 (02:00:17):
Store?

Speaker 2 (02:00:17):
Why not?

Speaker 1 (02:00:19):
Oh my god, seventeen seventeen percent of dogs have a.

Speaker 2 (02:00:26):
Costume besse, Oh my gosh, yeah, we this is don't
you Florida?

Speaker 5 (02:00:33):
Yeah, don't you have dog walkers in Florida walking dogs
with costumes?

Speaker 2 (02:00:36):
And oh yeah, there's there's one of our neighborhoods's got
this tiny chihuaba. It's just like the most pointless dog.
And I think you didn't call it one. And they
like walks around with the toutu.

Speaker 1 (02:00:46):
Yeah see there you go. See.

Speaker 2 (02:00:50):
There were a couple of times, like the Halloween, Yeah,
and Halloween. There are a couple of Halloween. But this
is before we had kids where we had to walk
around with us. Now that like we don't have time
for that stuff.

Speaker 1 (02:01:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:01:03):
Fourth of July, we might tie like an American flag
bandana around them.

Speaker 3 (02:01:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:01:09):
Like I've got a Shetland sheep dog man. He's got
this like a Maine in front of him.

Speaker 1 (02:01:14):
Yeah yeah, right right, Well that that was good.

Speaker 5 (02:01:18):
That was good.

Speaker 1 (02:01:18):
Well, let me give you some some stuff that we're
getting prepared. Yeah, some stuff we're getting ready for next week,
the next episode. And as it always happens, like the
whole story with the Phillies, Karen, this this case, I
got this story after we recorded last week's podcast. So
it seems like all the better stuff happened after I've

(02:01:39):
kind of told you what I found right now, but
this is.

Speaker 2 (02:01:42):
This is yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:01:46):
So so this is bizarre. You know, most of the bizarre.

Speaker 1 (02:01:49):
Stuff we've talked about have either taken place in Thailand
or China.

Speaker 5 (02:01:53):
Right.

Speaker 1 (02:01:54):
So, in China, their public bathrooms make you watch ads
to get toilet paper?

Speaker 5 (02:02:07):
Can you believe that?

Speaker 2 (02:02:08):
Now?

Speaker 5 (02:02:08):
Now here's another one?

Speaker 2 (02:02:09):
Have you heards? So?

Speaker 1 (02:02:14):
Yeah, chocolate's a perfect one too, right.

Speaker 2 (02:02:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:02:18):
So you've heard of the comedian Nate Burghetsi, right yeah, yeah, yeah,
Nate's hosted Saturday Night Live a couple of times. Well,
you know, he's going to be hosting the Emmys.

Speaker 5 (02:02:27):
Do you hear about that?

Speaker 2 (02:02:29):
Nope? Who watches the will?

Speaker 1 (02:02:32):
This might be this might be worth watching this year
because Nate Barghetti is deducting money from a charity if
Emmy speeches go too long.

Speaker 2 (02:02:43):
Okay, since so this this might be worth to self
grandize with charity, not for charity's sake, but for you know, public.

Speaker 5 (02:02:57):
That's just the tip of the ice break.

Speaker 1 (02:02:58):
There's other things Nate is doing in this, in this
for hosting, this is gonna be outright outrageous. I mean
I might even watch it, and I don't even care
about the Emmys, so this would be kind of funny.

Speaker 5 (02:03:08):
All right. Here's another great one.

Speaker 1 (02:03:10):
A gambler jumped off a cruise ship to avoid his
debt and now he owes fifteen times as much.

Speaker 2 (02:03:18):
That's exactly where the loan sharks live. What's right doing? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:03:22):
Exactly.

Speaker 5 (02:03:23):
So here's another great story from China.

Speaker 1 (02:03:25):
A couple in China file for a divorce after being
unable to agree on a name for their child.

Speaker 2 (02:03:35):
You're like, we have a baby, this is great, and
then the naming of a child is.

Speaker 1 (02:03:41):
That well, but let me add one caveat this is
even until the child is two years old.

Speaker 2 (02:03:48):
What, oh my gosh, are you sure that that's the
I don't know if that's the root cause.

Speaker 1 (02:03:54):
Okay, Yeah, So then we have a guy who found
out his ex was cheating on him, so he hires
a mariachi performer to sing while he makes his roommate
move or his partner move.

Speaker 2 (02:04:09):
Oh my gosh, I appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (02:04:12):
Yeah, and the mariachi performer follows him around everywhere.

Speaker 2 (02:04:15):
All right.

Speaker 5 (02:04:16):
So here's one.

Speaker 1 (02:04:19):
Here's what a Long Island woman shoots her neighbor in
the face with a flair gun in a retirement community.

Speaker 2 (02:04:29):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (02:04:30):
But it's all over a pet, over dogs.

Speaker 2 (02:04:33):
Over the dogs. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:04:35):
So that's just some of the bizarre stuff that's coming
next week. And of course, as always, there'll be something.
I'm sure there'll be a lot more than that. After
we finished recording for this week. All the good ones
come later on.

Speaker 2 (02:04:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:04:50):
So, but nothing could be any more crazy than Philly's
careen this week. That was true, absolutely outrageous, and that
was all over the internet.

Speaker 5 (02:04:59):
That was all.

Speaker 1 (02:05:00):
And maybe next week we'll find out whether she takes
the five thousand dollars offer.

Speaker 2 (02:05:04):
Oh I know, is there like a time limit on
that offer?

Speaker 5 (02:05:09):
You don't think there is? I don't think there is.

Speaker 1 (02:05:11):
I think when she just has to come out of
he Freddie hold and claim it, then they'll give her
the but she has to sign the ball.

Speaker 2 (02:05:16):
Imagine being married to that woman, How embarrassing that would be.

Speaker 1 (02:05:22):
I'm the husband of Phillies Karen.

Speaker 2 (02:05:26):
This would be horrified.

Speaker 1 (02:05:27):
Man oh man, Hey, all right, buddy, We'll have yourself
a great week and enjoy that new table.

Speaker 2 (02:05:34):
Oh my gosh, we love it. Thank you so much.
Maybe maybe you could build some confidence this weekend.

Speaker 1 (02:05:41):
Yeah, bro, you know, I'm open to talking about anything,
but I love talking about SVI in the stupidity that's

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