August 20, 2025 • 20 mins
This week on The Daily Life of Frank, it all starts with bad lightning and wind and ends in a technician showdown 48 years in the making. The house flickers like a haunted house, the AC breaker taps out, and suddenly we’re living in a poltergeist sequel with a side of electrical roulette. Anxiety spikes. Power dips. Oh, and the kids are back in school. All this and more, this week on the podcast!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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The Oh Madone comedy special drops with more laughs than
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Speaker 2 (00:40):
Welcome to the Daily Life of Frank podcast. Sit back, relax,
and relate to Frank as he goes through his daily
life of being a dad, cat, dad, husband, and average guy.
A new episode drops on Wednesdays at six am Central.
Listen on Spotify, iHeartRadio, Apple, Google Podcast, and also can
(01:00):
be found on your favorite podcast player. Find out more
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Speaker 3 (01:23):
Well, hello, and welcome to the Daily Life of Frank
podcast Episode two hundred and ninety nine. Yeah to ninety nine,
close to three hundred. More details forthcoming about Labor Day
weekend and now I've said I'm taking it over. I'm
(01:44):
taking it over. Taking it over means you better listen
or I'll cry. Yes, I will cry. I've been the
emotional motherfucker as I'm late. Welcome. I have every right
to be. I have every right to be. Uh welcome
(02:05):
to the podcast. Yeah, what a we could spend? What
do we get spend? And sometimes when I tell stories
on this podcast, I feel like you're at home going not.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
True, bullshit, it's bullshit.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
And I go, uh no, it's not. I swear to God.
I swear to God, like I always said. Hopefully you'll
find some sort of relatableness to the podcast, or better yet,
if you listen to it, go God, my life, ain't
that fucked up? I ain't fucked up? Ain't that fucked up?
You could tell it. The week has been. We said
(02:39):
the f wort three times already. That is a new
record here on the podcast.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
So we had some bad storms, bad lightning, bad wind
the last week. Yeah, last week, bad storms, bad lightning,
bad wind, all of.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
That unfun stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
And uh, I was at the office and my wife
she texted and said, Hey, the power flickered, but everything
is okay and it's on. So you think nothing of
it when the power flickers and nothing, you know, happens afterwards,
like the power is not out, You move on, You
go on while about your day, right, don't even think
(03:19):
twice You're like, oh, we had a bad storm.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
But then then.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
The next day the the EC it's not the EC,
the AC the AC breaker goes out.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
It goes out.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
So that means the air conditioning shuts off in ninety
seven degree weather. That's that's exactly what it means. Well,
you know, the feuse pops boom, boom, it goes back on.
We're doing fine, and then a little later the entire
house goes out. So we thought, well, hell it's the
it's the AC unit that is doing something.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
And I'm not an electrician.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
I believe I got probably the best advice from my
father in law when I was helping him with building
out a basement years ago. He said, do you understand
how you can tell that if a circuit is still hot?
Speaker 4 (04:13):
And I said no.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
He said, lick your finger and put it up against
the circuit and see what happens. I'm not going to
do it, but I'm not going to do anything with electricity.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
I really don't. I don't.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I don't understand it at all. So we called our landlord,
who is a great person, and he said, we'll get
the AC guy out there. The AC guy couldn't find anything,
and we must have one of those you know, breakers
that blow the fuse only you know when we're here.
So we have a how do I put it, an
introverted breaker who does not like to show itself when
(04:49):
the right people are in the house. Aka, the technicians
couldn't find anything, couldn't find anything. So now the house
is what I could only describe as either some other
issue or we have a fucking poultry geist. That's the
only thing. I wasn't leaning too heavy on the poultry geist.
The reason being is none of the furniture was moved,
(05:12):
you know, like moved in a different direction, or there
wasn't things you know, on top of each.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Other or any of that shit.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
And if it was, it probably would have been my
thought would have been, Oh, the kids who didn't have
this in their plan and didn't ask are building a
fucking for today. You ever ever experience that at as
a parent, Hey, weren't we want to build a fort?
You're like, fuck every furniture, every blanket, you own, every pillow.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
It's craziness.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
So yeah, so no poultry. Guys didn't think okay, but
who knows because they were going off sporadic the lights.
You know, one moment it was the a c breaker, next
thing was the entire house, next thing, it was both.
It was just doing this weird thing. And it wasn't
on a schedule time, so it wasn't like every ten minutes,
every five minutes. It was literally like every four hour,
every six hours or eight hours, absolutely crazy. So that doesn't,
(06:04):
you know, shoot up your anxiety through the fucking roof. Okay,
can you imagine that just sitting in a house, in
a house and your lights and stuff will go off randomly,
like I don't know, it may go off right now
for all I know, it goes off randomly. Can you
believe that just randomly that you know, like it's like
(06:25):
being in a twenty four to seven haunted movie?
Speaker 4 (06:30):
When am I going to get killed? Yeah? So uh yeah,
off and on, off and on.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I did have a little bit of a chuckle because
you know, my son he means mister barren ass and
he's he's a great kid, but he actually talk sometimes
and just to hear how scared he was. You know,
this probably makes me an asshole, that's fine, But I
had a double laugh because when he was downstairs, the
power went out and he got so scared he ran
up the stairs and fell up the stairs. And the
immediate thing I thought was like motherlike son. That's a
(07:00):
story for a different day. But my wife fell up
the stairs and broke a wrists or something. I don't know,
have sprained it, I don't know. She wasn't on you know,
the injured list. And this was before I met her.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
And thank god, you know, because I really can't.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Have a clumsy woman in my life. I'm already clumsy
as it is, so that probably would have been a nice.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Breaker right there, or a deal breaker. No, it wouldn't have.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Yeah, So, And you know, honestly, like the last time
I really experienced a big power outage or just all
off was when I was very young, eight nine years old,
ten years old. We were at my cousin's house and
my cousin went to go to the bathroom and while
she was on the toilet, the power went out and
(07:43):
there was loud screens from the bathroom, which I remember
that vividly at eight or nine, because it was probably
one of the funniest fucking moments in my life.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
You know, it's weird because you know, you think your
power is fixed, and the next thing you're eating kso
and watching documentary on Netflix and your power goes out,
and then you're wishing that you had a futuristic recliner
with a toilet attached because you almost made wet seas.
That has to go on my list of words we'll
never use here on the podcast again. It goes wet seas.
(08:18):
It's yeah, moist buns into wet seas in that order. Yeah,
So that's what happened there. And then, you know what
I had hoped for was being at my house when
the electrician came, because he was coming on a three
three thirty on a Friday, and we all know in
our in our life that we all like to work,
(08:42):
you know, three four o'clock on a Friday afternoon. So
he came to the door. My landlord was there, and
they you know, he couldn't find anything. The electrician could
not find anything either, So we have this random power outage.
Have you ever been in a room when somebody puts
somebody on speakerphone to talk to somebody. Just think about
that for a second. How does that make you feel?
(09:03):
I feel like I'm a therapist right now. So, you know,
we got the AC guy back on the phone, and
the electrician and the AC guy had a showdown. I
didn't expect. I didn't expect. I didn't have my bingo car.
The electrician and AC showdown, and they were fine. They
were trying to talk through some things, and the electrician
he said something to the AC person, and the AC
(09:24):
person is all I have in my life is AC
and the.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Forty eight years behind it.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
If you ever have an argument with somebody, think about it,
if you ever had the argument with somebody and then
you start throwing out numbers, because when you start throwing
out numbers, it's really practically saying, hey, don't tell me
how to do my fucking job.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
So, then after they had that little bit of you know,
back and forth, they put me on the phone and
it was just horrible. We'll just say that I stuttered
over my words. I probably lied. I'm like, the power
goes out every thirty seconds. They're like, what, that's not true.
I don't know what I said I got nervous, but
I thought I explained it pretty nicely.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
I thought I did.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
But there's a lot of work when that stuff goes out,
because you really want to make it the most convenient
for these guys that are coming in because honestly, the
electrician and also the person that runs the AC and
helps out with that, they're more experienced, a well more experienced. Hey,
you know, hence the AC guys forty eight years of experience. Okay,
forty eight years all right, All I know is turn
the light and on and off, and I'm not very
(10:25):
good at that ever. So you know, you got to
get the cats in the car because you want to
make a convenient for the person. The cats had to
play a little bit of incognito, you know, getting in
the car. Poor Nemo, he was scared shitless though, because
you know Neimo, he's an awesome cat. I love Nemos,
he's my dog. But Nemo sometimes can be a little
(10:47):
bit more, you know, more troublesome. I think it's those
orange cats. So you know, for the weeks, I would
jokingly say the same thing I would say to my kids,
I'm going to give you away. And I told Nimo
I'm going to bring you back to the shelter. I
said that a few times. So when we had to
get all the cats in the car, you know, big Moose,
you pick him up, you put him in the car,
and he wasn't very happy about either.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
He's like, what the fuck is going on? But that's okay.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I think Moose wanted to help out the electrician and
the ac guy, but Moose doesn't have forty eight years,
so that can't happen. And so you had to get
him in the car, right, So you had to put
Nemo into the crate. Uh, And I think he thought
for a split second, oh fuck, oh fuck, this guy
(11:32):
is literally taking me back to the shelter.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
What the fuck? No felt so bad. Cats had to get.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
In the you know, incognito mode. Moose asked if he
should bring out his top hat and a mustache and
I said no. I said, you don't even have a
jacket part of your your wardrobe, So what are you
going to just be all Harry And I said, Mose,
just get in the car. Yeah, you get the cats
in the cognito. That was a dumb joke and I'm
not gonna edit it out because I don't got time
to edit it out.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
That was a pretty dumb.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
So I won't go on any of the specials or anything.
We'll just pretend we never did this episode, so you
can kinda slow it down. The word I've jacked up
on vivans and coffee. Uh, and yeah, it's just you know,
a whole thing. A whole thing is so long story short.
You after that long winded discussion there, Uh, it's it's
(12:21):
not fixed. It's still sporadic, it's not as sporadic, and
we're still looking at other details and just really trying
to figure out, you know what, what's the next step
is what we can we do?
Speaker 4 (12:32):
What?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
What what are we you know, what are we going
to do? But it's no problem, like there's no like
electrical burning or fires or anything or you know, none
of that stuff.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
So it's good.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
The next step is we're going to talk some more,
I think probably with our AC guy who has an
idea you know we've called commed. H comed is just
like the power, you never know when it's going to
happen or come because tell you, if you're not a
power out and you're just having sporadic power issues, you know,
we'll come and you know soon there's no ETA, so
(13:07):
it's like a surprise. You know, who knows they may
be here right now for all I.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Know, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
So yeah, yeah, it's been crazy. It's been crazy. And
it's like, yeah, we've had we've had a crazy week.
And that was kind of like the icing on the
craziness of the week.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
And uh, yeah, I've been you.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Know, to my family, I apologize because I was in
a real shitty mood, really shitty mood. And I will
say this, My daughter is the best to get you
out of your shitty mood. She offers these awesome, awesome,
awesome hugs, h and she knows when you're, you know,
not feeling great, and she cheers you up with these
these great things of hugs and love. We hear that son,
(13:51):
hugs and love And I'm only kidding. He's a good,
good kid too. He was very nervous about everything and
was trying to walk us through some things, the the
uh the technical side of things with some stuff. I
was maybe that, really, maybe you haven't you haven't gotten
into the poultry going poultry guys thing yet. We should
talk about that first. Just make sure that we don't
(14:12):
have any ghosts running around here. But yeah, and you know,
I thought I thought we were gonna end the week
on a on a terrific note, because when I got
home on Thursday night, my daughter had on the board
she writes notes on my my whiteboard in the room
in the office, and it always cheers me out. And
(14:34):
this was your the best dad ever. And two, which
I love and it bakes my heart melt into a
million pieces, is when she writes on the board like
go bears. She wrote go bears, and it just just
puts me in a better place. And you know, sometimes
you need your family to realign and get you back
(14:56):
on track.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
So thank you, sweet Pee.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
That really, really he helped lift my spirits up. And
then the Savannah bandananas, they really made me happy. They
really made me happy. I don't know what the fuck
it was. It was the Friday night. It was a
rough week. Like I said, my daughter, I got a
lot of her hugs, and then all of a sudden
we got Savannah bananas. I've never watched the Savannaha Bananas live.
(15:21):
I've seen them before, I've heard of them. I've watched
some of the interviews and documentaries and everything on them.
But to watch it live from rate field, it was
fucking awesome. They're throwing shit between their legs, they're diving,
they're doing backflips. God, ohmi, this is better than Chicago
baseball as of late. And yeah, it was cool. It
was really cool. The music's going. You just felt in
(15:42):
a good mood. You felt in a really really good
mood watching the Savannana Bananas.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
I'm not gonna say that anymore because I don't think
I could say that again. Play uh.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
And it was such a fun atmosphere, all the fun entertainment.
They had a baby race which was so cool and
so funny. Last night I believe they had well last night, Saturday,
was it. Yeah, Saturday night they had I think it
was a princess sing off or something or other. I
(16:17):
think there was a kissing contents where an old gentleman
got a little handsy with his wife. A lot of
a lot of a lot of ass grabbing. You know,
I how to close my eyes. That's how bad it was.
I had to close my eyes. But it was a
fun time, fun time, and just to see them and
kind of watch them and takes you out of your element,
which was which was great, and then quickly I went
(16:39):
to bed, and then I woke up in the middle
of the night realizing my kiddos have school their first
day of school, which has put me into another anxiety state.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
I know, the old joke is, yeah, back at school.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
It's clap, let's cheer, let's do it all. They're back
at school, and it's not true. And even though kids
could drive you crazy, and when it's the summer, I
will say, you know, being the dad, the rad dad that's.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
My next podcast name, you know, who's working.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
And my wife she has to put up with him
way more than I have to because she's home every
hour of every hour with them, are taking them places,
making sure that their summer is the best summer ever,
and even in moments where they're not the nicest two
kids in the world. So kudos my wife who does that.
But it's still sad. It's it's even though it's it's
(17:32):
a little hectic and crazy, and every parents can say that,
I'm not one who's like get out of the house,
like you know, celebrate.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
To do like I'm not doing that.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
It's still it's still it gets me because they are
great kiddos and yeah, I love them death.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
But yeah, so.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
It's it's one of those things, like I'm saying they're
going back, Like I enjoyed being home from work and
you know, be able to go downstairs and say, hey, kiddos,
how you doing?
Speaker 4 (17:58):
You know how your day going? You know, I loved it.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
I love hearing my son yell on the VR sat
and I love how my daughter talks back to my
wife when she won't buy her the right pencil case.
I love those things. I'm gonna miss those. Okay, a
little bit of satire and sarcasm right there, the last
two things. But honestly, it is a little bit of
the house feels empty. And then I start thinking, in
(18:25):
my anxious head, they're getting older every day.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Did I give.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Them the summer that they wanted? Did we hit on
all cylinders? Did how school going to be? You know,
it's just a lot of things. So I've been having
a lot of sleepless nights, a lot of sleepless nights.
That's why a lot of coffee, a lot of coffee.
But if there's any parents out there, you know, you
(18:52):
celebrate the way you want. If you want to celebrate
that your kids are going back you do that if
you want to cry in a corner with a galeon
of ice cream, which I won't participate in because I
don't want to be back in the hospital, but I'll
cry with you. It's however you want to feel. But
I know it's a little bit of a void when
they're gone for school all the way until the next summer.
(19:13):
So I know I'm not gonna end this podcast on
a sad note. We're not gonna cry anymore. Labor Day
weekend next not this, yeah, next weekend. Next weekend is
Labor Day weekend, and I have a couple of things
going on. There's a comedy special that I'm having, the
morning show gets debuted, and this episode right here, this
podcast is three hundred fucking episodes. So just keep it
(19:39):
on the day Life of Frank dot com and while
you're there, you'll be able to find out all the details.
All right, have a great week, and I will see
you guys back here next week for more of the
daily Life of Frank BA Everybody
This just in Summer refuses to end. Labor Day Weekend
has been upgraded by the Daily Life of Frank. The
Daily Life of Frank podcast hits its three hundredth episode,
The Oh Madone comedy special drops with more laughs than
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Spice can chill. This Labor Day Weekend belongs to Frank.
Visit the Daily Life offrank dot com before someone brings
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Speaker 2 (00:40):
Welcome to the Daily Life of Frank podcast. Sit back, relax,
and relate to Frank as he goes through his daily
life of being a dad, cat, dad, husband, and average guy.
A new episode drops on Wednesdays at six am Central.
Listen on Spotify, iHeartRadio, Apple, Google Podcast, and also can
(01:00):
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at the Daily Life Offrank dot com.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Well, hello, and welcome to the Daily Life of Frank
podcast Episode two hundred and ninety nine. Yeah to ninety nine,
close to three hundred. More details forthcoming about Labor Day
weekend and now I've said I'm taking it over. I'm
(01:44):
taking it over. Taking it over means you better listen
or I'll cry. Yes, I will cry. I've been the
emotional motherfucker as I'm late. Welcome. I have every right
to be. I have every right to be. Uh welcome
(02:05):
to the podcast. Yeah, what a we could spend? What
do we get spend? And sometimes when I tell stories
on this podcast, I feel like you're at home going not.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
True, bullshit, it's bullshit.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
And I go, uh no, it's not. I swear to God.
I swear to God, like I always said. Hopefully you'll
find some sort of relatableness to the podcast, or better yet,
if you listen to it, go God, my life, ain't
that fucked up? I ain't fucked up? Ain't that fucked up?
You could tell it. The week has been. We said
(02:39):
the f wort three times already. That is a new
record here on the podcast.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
So we had some bad storms, bad lightning, bad wind
the last week. Yeah, last week, bad storms, bad lightning,
bad wind, all of.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
That unfun stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
And uh, I was at the office and my wife
she texted and said, Hey, the power flickered, but everything
is okay and it's on. So you think nothing of
it when the power flickers and nothing, you know, happens afterwards,
like the power is not out, You move on, You
go on while about your day, right, don't even think
(03:19):
twice You're like, oh, we had a bad storm.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
But then then.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
The next day the the EC it's not the EC,
the AC the AC breaker goes out.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
It goes out.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
So that means the air conditioning shuts off in ninety
seven degree weather. That's that's exactly what it means. Well,
you know, the feuse pops boom, boom, it goes back on.
We're doing fine, and then a little later the entire
house goes out. So we thought, well, hell it's the
it's the AC unit that is doing something.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
And I'm not an electrician.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
I believe I got probably the best advice from my
father in law when I was helping him with building
out a basement years ago. He said, do you understand
how you can tell that if a circuit is still hot?
Speaker 4 (04:13):
And I said no.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
He said, lick your finger and put it up against
the circuit and see what happens. I'm not going to
do it, but I'm not going to do anything with electricity.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
I really don't. I don't.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I don't understand it at all. So we called our landlord,
who is a great person, and he said, we'll get
the AC guy out there. The AC guy couldn't find anything,
and we must have one of those you know, breakers
that blow the fuse only you know when we're here.
So we have a how do I put it, an
introverted breaker who does not like to show itself when
(04:49):
the right people are in the house. Aka, the technicians
couldn't find anything, couldn't find anything. So now the house
is what I could only describe as either some other
issue or we have a fucking poultry geist. That's the
only thing. I wasn't leaning too heavy on the poultry geist.
The reason being is none of the furniture was moved,
(05:12):
you know, like moved in a different direction, or there
wasn't things you know, on top of each.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Other or any of that shit.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
And if it was, it probably would have been my
thought would have been, Oh, the kids who didn't have
this in their plan and didn't ask are building a
fucking for today. You ever ever experience that at as
a parent, Hey, weren't we want to build a fort?
You're like, fuck every furniture, every blanket, you own, every pillow.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
It's craziness.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
So yeah, so no poultry. Guys didn't think okay, but
who knows because they were going off sporadic the lights.
You know, one moment it was the a c breaker, next
thing was the entire house, next thing, it was both.
It was just doing this weird thing. And it wasn't
on a schedule time, so it wasn't like every ten minutes,
every five minutes. It was literally like every four hour,
every six hours or eight hours, absolutely crazy. So that doesn't,
(06:04):
you know, shoot up your anxiety through the fucking roof. Okay,
can you imagine that just sitting in a house, in
a house and your lights and stuff will go off randomly,
like I don't know, it may go off right now
for all I know, it goes off randomly. Can you
believe that just randomly that you know, like it's like
(06:25):
being in a twenty four to seven haunted movie?
Speaker 4 (06:30):
When am I going to get killed? Yeah? So uh yeah,
off and on, off and on.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I did have a little bit of a chuckle because
you know, my son he means mister barren ass and
he's he's a great kid, but he actually talk sometimes
and just to hear how scared he was. You know,
this probably makes me an asshole, that's fine, But I
had a double laugh because when he was downstairs, the
power went out and he got so scared he ran
up the stairs and fell up the stairs. And the
immediate thing I thought was like motherlike son. That's a
(07:00):
story for a different day. But my wife fell up
the stairs and broke a wrists or something. I don't know,
have sprained it, I don't know. She wasn't on you know,
the injured list. And this was before I met her.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
And thank god, you know, because I really can't.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Have a clumsy woman in my life. I'm already clumsy
as it is, so that probably would have been a nice.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Breaker right there, or a deal breaker. No, it wouldn't have.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Yeah, So, And you know, honestly, like the last time
I really experienced a big power outage or just all
off was when I was very young, eight nine years old,
ten years old. We were at my cousin's house and
my cousin went to go to the bathroom and while
she was on the toilet, the power went out and
(07:43):
there was loud screens from the bathroom, which I remember
that vividly at eight or nine, because it was probably
one of the funniest fucking moments in my life.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
You know, it's weird because you know, you think your
power is fixed, and the next thing you're eating kso
and watching documentary on Netflix and your power goes out,
and then you're wishing that you had a futuristic recliner
with a toilet attached because you almost made wet seas.
That has to go on my list of words we'll
never use here on the podcast again. It goes wet seas.
(08:18):
It's yeah, moist buns into wet seas in that order. Yeah,
So that's what happened there. And then, you know what
I had hoped for was being at my house when
the electrician came, because he was coming on a three
three thirty on a Friday, and we all know in
our in our life that we all like to work,
(08:42):
you know, three four o'clock on a Friday afternoon. So
he came to the door. My landlord was there, and
they you know, he couldn't find anything. The electrician could
not find anything either, So we have this random power outage.
Have you ever been in a room when somebody puts
somebody on speakerphone to talk to somebody. Just think about
that for a second. How does that make you feel?
(09:03):
I feel like I'm a therapist right now. So, you know,
we got the AC guy back on the phone, and
the electrician and the AC guy had a showdown. I
didn't expect. I didn't expect. I didn't have my bingo car.
The electrician and AC showdown, and they were fine. They
were trying to talk through some things, and the electrician
he said something to the AC person, and the AC
(09:24):
person is all I have in my life is AC
and the.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Forty eight years behind it.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
If you ever have an argument with somebody, think about it,
if you ever had the argument with somebody and then
you start throwing out numbers, because when you start throwing
out numbers, it's really practically saying, hey, don't tell me
how to do my fucking job.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
So, then after they had that little bit of you know,
back and forth, they put me on the phone and
it was just horrible. We'll just say that I stuttered
over my words. I probably lied. I'm like, the power
goes out every thirty seconds. They're like, what, that's not true.
I don't know what I said I got nervous, but
I thought I explained it pretty nicely.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
I thought I did.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
But there's a lot of work when that stuff goes out,
because you really want to make it the most convenient
for these guys that are coming in because honestly, the
electrician and also the person that runs the AC and
helps out with that, they're more experienced, a well more experienced. Hey,
you know, hence the AC guys forty eight years of experience. Okay,
forty eight years all right, All I know is turn
the light and on and off, and I'm not very
(10:25):
good at that ever. So you know, you got to
get the cats in the car because you want to
make a convenient for the person. The cats had to
play a little bit of incognito, you know, getting in
the car. Poor Nemo, he was scared shitless though, because
you know Neimo, he's an awesome cat. I love Nemos,
he's my dog. But Nemo sometimes can be a little
(10:47):
bit more, you know, more troublesome. I think it's those
orange cats. So you know, for the weeks, I would
jokingly say the same thing I would say to my kids,
I'm going to give you away. And I told Nimo
I'm going to bring you back to the shelter. I
said that a few times. So when we had to
get all the cats in the car, you know, big Moose,
you pick him up, you put him in the car,
and he wasn't very happy about either.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
He's like, what the fuck is going on? But that's okay.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I think Moose wanted to help out the electrician and
the ac guy, but Moose doesn't have forty eight years,
so that can't happen. And so you had to get
him in the car, right, So you had to put
Nemo into the crate. Uh, And I think he thought
for a split second, oh fuck, oh fuck, this guy
(11:32):
is literally taking me back to the shelter.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
What the fuck? No felt so bad. Cats had to get.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
In the you know, incognito mode. Moose asked if he
should bring out his top hat and a mustache and
I said no. I said, you don't even have a
jacket part of your your wardrobe, So what are you
going to just be all Harry And I said, Mose,
just get in the car. Yeah, you get the cats
in the cognito. That was a dumb joke and I'm
not gonna edit it out because I don't got time
to edit it out.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
That was a pretty dumb.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
So I won't go on any of the specials or anything.
We'll just pretend we never did this episode, so you
can kinda slow it down. The word I've jacked up
on vivans and coffee. Uh, and yeah, it's just you know,
a whole thing. A whole thing is so long story short.
You after that long winded discussion there, Uh, it's it's
(12:21):
not fixed. It's still sporadic, it's not as sporadic, and
we're still looking at other details and just really trying
to figure out, you know what, what's the next step
is what we can we do?
Speaker 4 (12:32):
What?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
What what are we you know, what are we going
to do? But it's no problem, like there's no like
electrical burning or fires or anything or you know, none
of that stuff.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
So it's good.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
The next step is we're going to talk some more,
I think probably with our AC guy who has an
idea you know we've called commed. H comed is just
like the power, you never know when it's going to
happen or come because tell you, if you're not a
power out and you're just having sporadic power issues, you know,
we'll come and you know soon there's no ETA, so
(13:07):
it's like a surprise. You know, who knows they may
be here right now for all I.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Know, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
So yeah, yeah, it's been crazy. It's been crazy. And
it's like, yeah, we've had we've had a crazy week.
And that was kind of like the icing on the
craziness of the week.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
And uh, yeah, I've been you.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Know, to my family, I apologize because I was in
a real shitty mood, really shitty mood. And I will
say this, My daughter is the best to get you
out of your shitty mood. She offers these awesome, awesome,
awesome hugs, h and she knows when you're, you know,
not feeling great, and she cheers you up with these
these great things of hugs and love. We hear that son,
(13:51):
hugs and love And I'm only kidding. He's a good,
good kid too. He was very nervous about everything and
was trying to walk us through some things, the the
uh the technical side of things with some stuff. I
was maybe that, really, maybe you haven't you haven't gotten
into the poultry going poultry guys thing yet. We should
talk about that first. Just make sure that we don't
(14:12):
have any ghosts running around here. But yeah, and you know,
I thought I thought we were gonna end the week
on a on a terrific note, because when I got
home on Thursday night, my daughter had on the board
she writes notes on my my whiteboard in the room
in the office, and it always cheers me out. And
(14:34):
this was your the best dad ever. And two, which
I love and it bakes my heart melt into a
million pieces, is when she writes on the board like
go bears. She wrote go bears, and it just just
puts me in a better place. And you know, sometimes
you need your family to realign and get you back
(14:56):
on track.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
So thank you, sweet Pee.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
That really, really he helped lift my spirits up. And
then the Savannah bandananas, they really made me happy. They
really made me happy. I don't know what the fuck
it was. It was the Friday night. It was a
rough week. Like I said, my daughter, I got a
lot of her hugs, and then all of a sudden
we got Savannah bananas. I've never watched the Savannaha Bananas live.
(15:21):
I've seen them before, I've heard of them. I've watched
some of the interviews and documentaries and everything on them.
But to watch it live from rate field, it was
fucking awesome. They're throwing shit between their legs, they're diving,
they're doing backflips. God, ohmi, this is better than Chicago
baseball as of late. And yeah, it was cool. It
was really cool. The music's going. You just felt in
(15:42):
a good mood. You felt in a really really good
mood watching the Savannana Bananas.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
I'm not gonna say that anymore because I don't think
I could say that again. Play uh.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
And it was such a fun atmosphere, all the fun entertainment.
They had a baby race which was so cool and
so funny. Last night I believe they had well last night, Saturday,
was it. Yeah, Saturday night they had I think it
was a princess sing off or something or other. I
(16:17):
think there was a kissing contents where an old gentleman
got a little handsy with his wife. A lot of
a lot of a lot of ass grabbing. You know,
I how to close my eyes. That's how bad it was.
I had to close my eyes. But it was a
fun time, fun time, and just to see them and
kind of watch them and takes you out of your element,
which was which was great, and then quickly I went
(16:39):
to bed, and then I woke up in the middle
of the night realizing my kiddos have school their first
day of school, which has put me into another anxiety state.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
I know, the old joke is, yeah, back at school.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
It's clap, let's cheer, let's do it all. They're back
at school, and it's not true. And even though kids
could drive you crazy, and when it's the summer, I
will say, you know, being the dad, the rad dad that's.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
My next podcast name, you know, who's working.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
And my wife she has to put up with him
way more than I have to because she's home every
hour of every hour with them, are taking them places,
making sure that their summer is the best summer ever,
and even in moments where they're not the nicest two
kids in the world. So kudos my wife who does that.
But it's still sad. It's it's even though it's it's
(17:32):
a little hectic and crazy, and every parents can say that,
I'm not one who's like get out of the house,
like you know, celebrate.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
To do like I'm not doing that.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
It's still it's still it gets me because they are
great kiddos and yeah, I love them death.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
But yeah, so.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
It's it's one of those things, like I'm saying they're
going back, Like I enjoyed being home from work and
you know, be able to go downstairs and say, hey, kiddos,
how you doing?
Speaker 4 (17:58):
You know how your day going? You know, I loved it.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
I love hearing my son yell on the VR sat
and I love how my daughter talks back to my
wife when she won't buy her the right pencil case.
I love those things. I'm gonna miss those. Okay, a
little bit of satire and sarcasm right there, the last
two things. But honestly, it is a little bit of
the house feels empty. And then I start thinking, in
(18:25):
my anxious head, they're getting older every day.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Did I give.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Them the summer that they wanted? Did we hit on
all cylinders? Did how school going to be? You know,
it's just a lot of things. So I've been having
a lot of sleepless nights, a lot of sleepless nights.
That's why a lot of coffee, a lot of coffee.
But if there's any parents out there, you know, you
(18:52):
celebrate the way you want. If you want to celebrate
that your kids are going back you do that if
you want to cry in a corner with a galeon
of ice cream, which I won't participate in because I
don't want to be back in the hospital, but I'll
cry with you. It's however you want to feel. But
I know it's a little bit of a void when
they're gone for school all the way until the next summer.
(19:13):
So I know I'm not gonna end this podcast on
a sad note. We're not gonna cry anymore. Labor Day
weekend next not this, yeah, next weekend. Next weekend is
Labor Day weekend, and I have a couple of things
going on. There's a comedy special that I'm having, the
morning show gets debuted, and this episode right here, this
podcast is three hundred fucking episodes. So just keep it
(19:39):
on the day Life of Frank dot com and while
you're there, you'll be able to find out all the details.
All right, have a great week, and I will see
you guys back here next week for more of the
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