Ep 37 - We Invent the "Fluffuccino"

In this episode of the Cool Dad Shirt Podcast, Rich and Mike bounce through a whirlwind of hilarious and thought-provoking topics—ranging from sugar-fueled nightmares and accidental identity theft to the mystery of Uranus’. They tackle fluff sandwich ingredients, Irish vs.Italian goodbyes, and whether a hole through the Earth would be a gentle fall or instant doom. Plus, they get nostalgic over FM radio hits, share tech upgrades, and explore the high-pressure politics of watching TikTok's your spouse sends. It’s unscripted, unexpected, and unapologetically entertaining.

 Topics Covered:

• Nightmare Fuel: How late-night desserts and HBO’s White Lotus collided into an identity-theft dream Mike can’t unsee.
• Uranus vs. "Yourness": A very serious (kind of) debate about the pronunciation of the seventh planet and space revisionist history.
• Gravity & Freefall Theories: Would you bounce at Earth’s core or die instantly? A surprisingly deep dive.
• Fluff Ingredients Exposed: A shocking four-ingredient list that starts with sugar and ends with sugar. Kind of.
• Irish vs. Italian Goodbyes: Quick exits vs. long family sendoffs—where do you fall?
• Rush's “Spirit of Radio”: Why FM radio hits different and how that song still rocks.
• New iPhones & Tech Anxiety: Rich and Mike compare new phone purchases and the panic of syncing in-store.
• Honking Regret: Do we need an “I’m sorry” horn? Yes. Yes, we do.
• Couples & TikToks: Navigating the treacherous world of when to watch your partner’s social videos.
• Knife Sharpening Confessions: Steel vs. stone—are you doing it right?

 Episode Extras:

• Mike’s theory that Neil deGrasse Tyson might be responsible for changing "Uranus"
• A lovable PSA on the delightful (and tasty) varieties of sugar inside fluff jars
• An actual call for a physicist guest to help settle the gravity debate

#CoolDadShirt #DadPodcast #DadLife #WhiteLotus #FLUFF #Fluffuccino #Uranus #Gravity #IrishGoodbyes #CouplesTikTok

Where to Find Us:

Subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you tune in

Follow us on Instagram: [@cool_dad_shirt] 

Send us your favorite Irish or Italian goodbye stories!

Transcript

*Music* 

This is what the ladies do. 

They always go like this, they always go. Are you going through the change? Changing to awesome. That's a good answer. 

Here we go. 

Welcome to this episode of the Cool Dad Shirt podcast. 

Rich, I have a bunch of categories this week. Oh, good. I've got a handful, but they're short. I'm gonna be talking about these are no particular order. Health, technology, food, music, and nightmares. I will take nightmares for 500, Mike. I was hoping you'd kick it off with nightmares. 

Let's dive in. I've been having a lot of crazy nightmares and I think it's because I've been having some sweets and dessert at night, and I think they're triggering something wild in my sleep. Could be. My wife watches that show "White Lotus." I'm sure you don't know it. Everybody's talking, we should watch it. Everybody's talking about it. I've heard a few people say I can't watch it anymore. It's too much. So I know it's very popular. Yeah, so she watches that show and sometimes we fall asleep and the TV will be on, and you'll be in and out of, I don't know, how many different episodes of various shows on HBO. 

Yeah. 

So that was playing in the background and I woke up in a fog. I watched a couple of minutes of it and then I fell back asleep and then this was the nightmare that I had. This girl or this lady at some of her friends came over and they were trying to hang out with me. She kept saying that, "Oh, I want to give you a kiss," and I kept saying, "No, no, I'm married." And then she said, "No, really, I want to give you a kiss." And the next thing I know, they completely stole my identity and now I'm in my dream sweating having a complete panic attack because these people have now stolen my identity. And I blamed my wife for this. Rightfully so. Yeah. It's funny how that works. It plants the seeds when you're dancing in and out of consciousness, right? And the episode was, it was actually these people at this club and they were dancing and it was late and then everybody went home and there was some shenanigans going on and craziness. So I guess somehow my mind inserted itself into the scene and then it ultimately ended with me having my identity stolen. 

Not a good ending. 

No, it was not good, it was not fun. Identity theft is actually a nightmare I've heard. 

So far, I've escaped that but I've heard it's terrible. 

I hope that you don't have any nightmares like that. 

Not like that but maybe when I start watching the series, not out of the question. 

For now, you'll just keep having the car up the hill nightmare. I had that in a while but it does seem to be, I just called back, yes. I would take that one over this stressful identity theft any day of the week. That's what we, so I jumped right in. I didn't mean to get started so quick. I don't know if you got anything teed up that you want to bookmark into any of these categories or maybe, you know, it could be create your own category on this episode. I think we're probably just going to wing it. Do you actually know and I did some research on this. I couldn't find an answer. When did society decide to change the pronunciation of the planet? Everybody now is calling it Uranus. It's not how they pronounce it in the past 50 years. But base exploration we're doing a lot more stuff. The astronomical community is really clamping down hard on its pronounced Uranus. But that's not how we pronounce that planet. Despite our technology and space maturity, we still can't say Uranus without giggling. That's exactly why they've changed that. Nope, because at the end of the day, we are still a bunch of immature 12-year-olds. Late fifties, and I still giggle at the name of that planet, yes. That would lead me to believe the sudden name change. 

So you want to talk about history of revisionism. 

I did some searching on the internet and nobody will acknowledge that that's how everybody said it for decades. They've completely erased 200 years. They have, exactly. It did not exist. The censorship industrial complex. Speaking of space, I read somewhere Neil deGrants-Tyson was saying that if you cut a hole anywhere in the Earth, it would take you the same amount of time to fall through it. I think 42 minutes or something like that. And all I thought to myself was that couldn't possibly be true, because wouldn't you only fall halfway through the hole before gravity would start pulling you back the other way? You would absolutely stop halfway through it, yes. That is the censor of gravity on this planet you would not continue to go. So I am challenging him on his hypothesis. He's a sheist, or we know it. He's probably the guy that changed the name to, what do you call him? You're an ass? 

Yes, he's probably the guy that changed the name. 

He's probably the guy. No giggling for Neil. No, no, he's all serious. He's probably the same guy that took Pluto off the list. It'd be kind of cool though if you think about it, right? It's almost like, you know, magnets react when they repel each other. 

I wonder if it'd be a very gentle fall. 

Because you would start slowing down and then you would go past the center, and then slow down and then you'd kind of move back and then back. It would probably be, it would probably be a great fall, wouldn't it? Because you would slow down unless it would be so extreme that it would just like rip your insides to pieces. But maybe it would be gradual. Yes, so the gravitational pull would start diminishing as you approach the center. However, the inertia, the speed you are traveling at may overcome. And you would definitely go past the center, question is how far, how fast, and then how many return bounces would you have until you settled into the core? Yes, to your ultimate death, of course. 

The ultimate demise. Is it there like a terminal velocity, like, couldn't you only go so fast? Like, you couldn't continue to pick up speed, could you? So this revolves pulling you though. Well, I guess it's the same as falling anywhere else. Turанс speed, I think, is related to air resistance. It's like 125 or no cold me on this. You'll look it up yourself. And it's like 125 miles an hour, but that may be air resistance. So as you're plunging to the center of the planet, is there air in there, or is that a vacuum? 

I don't know. There'd be air, but there may not be any any thermals, or breezes, or drafts, might just be stagnant air. 

So you'd probably be at the top end of terminal velocity, right? Let's get a physicist on the show. Where's Neil? I'll have our team reach out to him. I don't know why I'm so obsessed with space this week. These are the topics that cross my mind on a daily basis. And reviewing my list to see if I have any more space to find here, and I don't. 

Let me see if I got any more space topics for this week's category. 

This isn't even technology. This is a last-minute ad. I did do a little research based on last week's show. You might recall I referenced my love for peanut butter and fluff sandwiches, which you're now putting on multi-grain bread. Well, I exactly multi-grain bread. And as you recommended, I'm now using it as a creamer in all my coffee. 

It's so thick. 

I looked just at a curiosity to see what the ingredients are. 

And I mean, what's your typical takeaway? Less ingredients in food probably suggests that it's less bad for you, right? When you think that it would be like more on the healthy side, if it don't, if it only had a couple ingredients. So, no, it's funny. You say that because I didn't think about this till now. The conventional wisdom, of course, is the fewer ingr- The closer to a whole food, the better. So if you're eating an almond, the ingredients are almond. Now that you bring- you bring up a good point. One ingredient that's good. But if the ingredient is arsenic, that single ingredient is probably not good. So let's say a list of ingredients approved by the FDA. It's probably good, right? And I'm going to be started with the government, but go on. Okay. So I looked at the ingredients inside fluff. And there's only four. There's four wonderfully delicious ingredients. Do you have a list? Of course, I have a list. You think I show up if you're empty-handed? People, you've said this before, I will say it again. The show does not write itself, Rich. Right? Tell our listeners, they know. No, we're not phoning this in. There is two to seven minutes of effort that goes into every episode. Absolutely. I mean topographical. Pop culture, commentary, research. I mean, I'm doing follow-up on previous episodes. You know, we don't sleep at night. So give us the list. What- Arthur's Ford, you want to take a stab just for kicks? I think the first three- I think the first two are sugar. 

Sugar, sugar, maybe some coloring, and then corn syrup. Dude, you are a genius. In order. Number one, corn syrup. 

Number two, the number two ingredient in fluff is sugar. The number three is egg whites. Okay. And if corn syrup and sugar do not have enough flavor, they've gotten added a fourth ingredient and that is artificial flavor. Artificial flavor, you say. Artificial, yes. Replicating what exactly? Because why not throw something artificial in there? This was definitely made in a Courten syrup, sugar, egg whites, and artificial flavor. Looking good on. The shortest equation to rich tasty goodness I've ever seen. That's got sugar addiction written all over it. 

It's got two sugars. 

The first two ingredients are two sugars. That's the fast-tracked diabetes. It's like when you bake. I have a couple white sugar. Three quarters of a cup of brown sugar. You can fetch an airy sugar. Right. 

Yeah. There's seven iterations of sugar. Trizzles confectionery sugar on the top when you're done. 

Then add some simple syrup like spoiler alert that is actually sugar. Should we compare and contrast the difference between an Irish goodbye and an Italian goodbye? Oh, of course. I know both of them very well. So I'm very Irish. You're very Italian. Actually, we should see how closely we line up to the stereotype. I am very much a fan of the Irish goodbye. Not just disappearing, but sometimes we'll just say, "I'm headed off to the bathroom and then I just walk out the door." That's happened many times. I do not like the prolonged goodbye. And it's nice that you're generous enough to even tip them that you're going to head to the bathroom because a true Irish goodbye is 45 minutes later. Has anybody seen Rich? Rich, we're going to do the cake now. Jeez, it's his birthday. Where is he? The good thing is most people don't even remember next week that you ditched him. No. They'll follow up with something like, "Oh, man. I didn't get a chance to catch up with you last week. What happened?" Oh, yeah, you know, and stuff. 

I said goodbye, but I had a run. Of course, in contrast, there is the Italian goodbye. 

That's like three rounds of gobyes, a minimum of 45 minutes to get out the door, some regabies, and then more food to take home in case you don't have enough already. 

Yes, that is you need to actually schedule an additional time to have the rounds. 

If you're not leaving it at the end of either. 

If you're planning on leaving at 9, you've got to start saying goodbye around 7.15, 7.30. 

You know you're getting pulled in. Pulled in to two more conversations. There's aunts and uncles that have stuff to talk about. I was driving in to work today, and I actually turned on the radio. It's been a long time since I've put on FM radio. As I turned the radio on, I tuned in one of the local rock stations. And I was about 20 seconds in to the Spirit of Radio by Rush, which I haven't heard in a really long time. And we've talked about this before. There is something so energizing about hearing certain songs when they come on randomly on the radio. As I tuned that in and heard the Spirit of Radio in the middle of it, it was as if I got a shot of B12. It was so exciting. It sounded so good. 

It's magical. That is an amazing song for a number of reasons. We don't need to go into the full breakdown, but it is very energizing. 

And what a great way to head into the office, amped up like that. It was so good. 

And without going into all the little elements of the song, there are some really, really tasty pieces of that entire song. 

Well, there is the crazy flanger-laden guitar riff going in. There are times signature changes in the middle. They go to reggae. There is that blues little walk up in the middle. It's so much happening. It's a masterpiece. And then there is the piano at the end. The piano. 

Wait a second. There is one more instrument here in the recording studio. Let's get a couple of seconds of this, the piano, which, despite everything that's going on, it's one of my favorite parts of the whole song, because it's out of left field. Throw the piano. Yeah. And the drum outro at the very end. I've actually heard, no, this is not verified, but I've heard they've actually used that to demolish buildings. 

I would have doubt it. Moving into the technology category, I got a new phone. What do you get to tell me? Yeah, yeah. What are you carrying around these days? I think it's a fourteen. I got the fourteen pro with, it's got the three lenses, because I pretend I'm a photographer. So yeah. Nice choice. Nice choice. Well, I had an eleven. And in my younger days, I wouldn't have thought twice about going for a sixteen pro max with one terabyte of storage space on it. You know, when you're younger, you can do that. But as we get older, and you got to buy a few of them and pay for a few of them each month, you start immediately downgrading your purchase. So I went. And I'm very happy with it, but I went with a fifteen. I treated myself to a little more storage on this, just because the last phone I had was an eleven, which I got in 2000, 2019. I keep them long enough to start using up a lot of space. But I won't get the latest in the greatest, but I'll at least give myself some extra storage. So over the course of the next six years, when I have this phone, I won't have to worry about it. Yes, I'm running out of storage space. At which point we hope children are on their own. There's no more buying a pile of phones for you. No. I can afford the really most cutting edge piece of technology they have to offer. But it's nice. I got a fifteen. I didn't get anything fancy. No pro, no max, no oversized. Just a standard fifteen, which is nice. And I got to tell you, I brought this thing home with as much care as I took when I brought my first born home from the hospital. I don't know what it is. Yeah, understandably. 

That's that's too small investment. No, even in the store as you're syncing the new phone and deleting everything on your old phone, you know, you're cupping the new one over the center of the counter, you know, making sure that you don't get it dirty or you don't drop the thing on the hard concrete floor in the Apple store. 

We let's not ruin something I just spent a gigantic trickload of money on. No, it's terrifying. 

I brought the thing to work today and I carried it in my pocket. 

When I got there, I said it off to the corner of my desk out of the way. The least amount of risk possible. No coffee or oatmeal spills on this one. Nothing. I remember, I don't know what triggered this memory for me, but there was, I can't remember if it was a meme or a comedian. If anybody knows, you can correct me on this, but this was a brilliant bit about, we wish we had cars that had an unhunk port. 

So if you're sitting in a light and you're the second car in position, light turns green and nobody moves. And you know, you pop the horn like, dude, let's go. And then you see a little old lady walking in front of the car in front of you. And you're like, Oh, I'm really, really sorry. We should have a mechanism that, a different sounding horn that says, sorry, didn't realize it. Am I bad? I thought that was a brilliant bit. 

If you could undo the last 10 seconds of your life with a little button. And I'm not even a road rage guy. 

I got, man, I lived in Detroit for many years and I very quickly got over any thoughts of road rage. So I'm pretty good at that department. But every once in a while, people are on their phones. They don't know it's greeny. You pop the horn a little bit and it would be a tragedy to encourage somebody to actually run over a person in a crosswalk. 

Let me know if you've ever played this game before. 

We'll be sitting up in bed and you know, my wife will have sent me a variety of Instagram videos to watch or TikToks or whatever, right? And my day's kind of busy. And I don't really have an opportunity to look at them. But she'll say, oh, did you look at those videos and you'll say, Oh, no, I didn't have But the second you do start to look at those videos. She'll say something like, you know, I don't know why you got to be on your phone right now. Why can't we just relax and enjoy movie? And I'm always like, you set me videos and if I don't reply to them, you think that I'm ignoring you. So I now's my only time to watch them. I'm really not sure what I'm supposed to do here. So I'm like, what can I do? What do you want me to do? When should I watch them? So there's a lot of pressure when your wife or significant other sends you a video. You need to carve out some secret time somewhere during the day where you can get caught up on some of these. So you can reply properly and comment and like and follow if necessary. And so on your work calendar and you block off some time, what actually do you type in for the reason that mic is unavailable? Yes. That's a good question. Let me start clearing it. 

Yeah, I do. I'm clearing hour of my day. Technology exploration. 

Yes. 

Comforted banter. Stayed because you can't find the Stop button. 

Do you sharpen your own knives? Like kitchen knives? Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, on the stone right? 

Not the stone, but Do you have a device? 

No, I do it myself on that. I wish I knew the name for it. But you know, the long ride, the long ride that comes in the... Oh, yeah. What's that called? It's a steel. I think it's called a steel. A steel is a call steel? It's a steel ride? Yeah. 

So I finished with that. I tried my next door neighbor, let me borrow a stone, it has two different, oh yeah. 

Two different textures on it. I could never...that is an art form that I did not have the patience to master. So I did eventually buy a motorized one. You know, this way, this way, I'm slot number one. This way, this way, I'm slot number two. And then I do finish it with a steel and that seems to be the trick. So I'm in the mid-range knife price, and then sharpened it myself. So they are ridiculously sharp at a reasonable price. Yeah. So I never do that with a high end knife, but you know. 

No, no, because you go the other way with it. 

You just kill the blade on them. Yeah, that's best left to the pros. 

When I was in high school, I used to work at a paint store and we outsourced a couple things like screen repair and sharpening. And people would bring their, you know, their lawn tools, their lawnmower blades, kitchen knives, anything and everything. They would have, they would bring to our shop and we would outsource them to this guy that had a sharpening business. And he would always say the name of his business so fast. I thought it was the wrong name for so many years. He would always say, and if we called him, Rory, come in. He would say, yes, it's Marty's chop chop. And I, I always thought the business was called Marty's chop chop, but it was called Marty's sharp shop. But he would say it so fast, people would come in and they would be like, oh, yeah, we use Marty's chop chop. He does all the sharpening for us. 

I did it for years. 

I was like, yeah, we use Marty's chop chop. He's the best. Marty's chop chop. Hey, Marty's chop chop. That's actually better marketing in today's world. I would advise him in the field of marketing to run with that. People are like, teach karate, or see sharpen blades. What does he do? Yeah, Marty chop chop. And then, and then I felt like such an idiot when they're like, look at that. They're like, uh, are you being funny? And I said, what do you mean? And they said, it's Marty's sharp shop. And I said, I had no idea. That's not how Marty says it. That's not how I mean, you ask Marty, he'll tell you otherwise. 

Listen, I know Marty. He comes in, he buys paint and masking tape. Don't challenge that. 

I recently tried some content on LinkedIn. 

An attempt to be funny and put some interesting content on there. And as you upload your video, you are actually given the option to select the thumbnail. Like what comes up when it's still. And I changed it to something. I don't know if it didn't take something went wrong, but it was actually posted with my eyes And I had a number of people contact me and said, you know, your eyes are closed. I said, I didn't know that when I hit launch. Cause it was all good when I hit that button. I said, yeah, but you're talking about it now. So I think that was a marketing way. 

Oh, you're right. You're right. It's like when Starbucks spells your name incorrectly. 

And the talkice. So you take a picture of it to show everybody what an idiot the priest it was. 

Meanwhile, Starbucks is plastered all over the internet. So good for you Rich. Yeah, you said you set the logo to 27 people. No, if I could if I could undo. Okay. All right, here's a pet peeve. I post something like that. I get 490 impressions and three people like it like. So now you have a dilemma. I'm like, well, I could pull it down, fix the thumbnail and put it back. But 490 people have seen it. Now I look like an idiot just to change my clothes. Eyes. I'm not sure that's worth it. But for the for the three likes I got, maybe, maybe I should either. Uh, as you said, people are talking about it. And that's what you want. Yes. I don't know about LinkedIn. But I wouldn't say that I'm stingy with my likes. I use them differently on social media. I agree. Go on. Yeah. Facebook. I'll throw a like. I mean likes are no problem. I'll throw a like, whatever. Instagram, however, because it takes the post that you like and organizes them, I'm much more selective with them because I have a tendency to like something for purposes of revisiting. And I know I can save it, but I don't like a lot of stuff saved. I don't like a lot of clutter. So I like the things that I want saved by themselves on a page. So I can go back and check them out or revisit them or check in on them. So that's my behavior on Instagram. And, and if I, if I do like something that's somebody that I know posted, I'll go through the effort of commenting so they know that I liked it as opposed to just smashing that like button. 

This sounds like a great time to follow us on Instagram and smash that like button. 

Seriously. 

We're building something here folks. Yes. Or even better. If you like the show, please recommend it to a friend. Why should they not be enjoying this buddy, hilarity, yes. Spread the love, you ever have your daughter's gang up on you? Yes. I'm often torn in a good way. Yes. Sometimes, sometimes in the bad way, too. There's a little bit of conflict and I like, it's, it's a fascinating dynamic where they, they jump into joint forces, not a sisterly love. So I kind of appreciate, you know, as a parent, you know, my day will come and the two of them, I want them on the same team and feel like they've got that solidarity. So I sort of admire that camaraderie, even though it's often in the face of working through some conflicts. Those days are passed out. I might, the kids are kind of grown up. But through the teenage years, when it was a little bit challenging, it was always interesting to watch them rally together, no matter how wrong both of them were. 

Very torn between being proud that they were bonding and supportive of each other, but you wish that they were directing their focus elsewhere not on you. I wish they were actually right in their opinion. 

My kids, I don't have any examples right now. They do. They give me a hard time about some things and it's usually in good fun or good laughs. I am happy to see them share that sort of bond, that relationship, and not having, you know, a lot of siblings. I always try to encourage them to not become dependent on each other, but have a good relationship because as they get older on life, as a parent, you know, you want to feel better about knowing that they're always going to be there for each other. 

Yeah, life is hard. 

Yeah. They can team up long after we're gone. We need that relationship to just still be strong and thriving for sure. Yeah, we try to instill that in them and remind them of that now. It's tough to see that when you're young. You know, we keep reminding them. So it stays somewhere in their mind and as they get older, yeah, you hope that they continue to have a close relationship. It's funny along the same lines with the maturity I've noticed recently in both of my daughters. The conversations when you need to give some fatherly advice about things and they just say, wow, that's a good point. Thank you. What is happening? For the past decade, you've been angry at being the conversation short and called, you know, it's kind of nice to get past all that, where it's not like, dude, cheese, why are you saving it? Like, I'm offering you some good advice. You don't even have to listen. Can you just say thank you for? 

That's a nice turn. Where's your resistance? You're all prepared for that. It doesn't come. It doesn't happen. You're totally throwing me off with no teenage angst coming back at my face. You go to lean into the punching, it doesn't happen. You just fall right over. It's not happening to you yet. 

She stands up. Pull yourself together, dad. Your flies down, you're falling over. Yes. 

They're embarrassed to be out in public with you. Yep. 

That's perfect. 

All the above. Hey, my wife pulled something out of thin air the other day. I couldn't even believe it. Look at that. I don't know where to start the story to set it up. We used that, not used to, but often we have this fantastic product. It's called Neutrogena Sesame Oil. Okay. It's not a commercial here. It's just great in the winter when you have dry skin. You put it on when you're still damp from the shower. It's a great moisturizer. We haven't had any in a few months. I get out of the shower or get dressed. I bump, I bump in the air because our house is just so polacious. I get out of the shower mall dress and I said to my wife, "Do you know what I really miss?" And she said, "Neutrogena Sesame Oil." I am not making this up. 

I don't know how or where it came from. 

Out of the blue. I'm in the shower. I get done. I get dressed. I'm thinking, boy, Neutrogena Sesame Oil would be great. I'm my skin right now. No mention of it. I said nothing out loud. Out of the blue, she nailed it. I couldn't figure it out. The family has been missing in a collective sense, yes. 

We haven't spoke about it in months, so I don't know where it came from. I have no idea. I was shocked, though. I was really shocked. Along the same lines, all this AI predictive stuff, social media, targeted marketing, I think the phone microphones are on more than we think, even when we think they're off because it is funny. Sometimes you'll be talking about stuff and it'll manage the bishop. It's a legitimate question. 

People like you, the people you hang out with, they can start making some educated guesses about what you might be interested in and it may just be coincidence. However, I'll tell you, I was in the car. I very rarely listened to music in the car, I'm much more podcasty these days. I can't do talk radio much anymore. I always want a thoughtful conversation or something like that when I'm in the car. However, I have never radio station 9 at one point, and wingers song 17 came on, that guitar, it right? 

That guitar intro. I'm like, damn, I got to check out how to play. That is so good. That was like two days ago. My YouTube, I'm not connected. I didn't say anything. I didn't do anything. This is broadcast radio. There is no connection to social media, nothing on the internet. YouTube there today, here's the correct way to play the intro, who wingers 17, I was like, this is getting scary. 

Yeah. Kip Winger and Rod Morgan-Stiner on your front doorstep too. 

I'm like, you've been playing it wrong here to have a seat. 

Do you think my wife has AI built in? I, I don't know how women work. Maybe I'm nervous. Maybe it scares me. Now, now what I'm thinking is what else does she know that I'm thinking without even saying it. Now I'm paranoid. Walk around, I got aluminum foil on my head now. No, great thing. I'm afraid to think of anything. 

She's reading all sorts of messed up thoughts on my head now. 

Oh, so you don't want to take out the garbage, huh? No, no, I never said that. I never said that. 

Why won't you go to Easter dinner with my sister? The chicken was dry, huh? I get it. 

Make your own. I never said that. So now my life is turned into, I was super impressed. I couldn't believe that I was like, wow, what a connection. Now I'm completely scared of paranoid. I'm tiptoeing around the house, terrified. [Laughing] That pigeon was swung violently in the other direction. You're not kidding. Kids are like, dad, where's all the aluminum foil? Oh, dad, why do you have aluminum foil on your head? Listen. I wouldn't put anything past your mother right now. Kids, go to your rooms. Listen, for your own benefit, she's hand to us. 

She's figured it out. Let me check my new phone to see if I have any other topics. Oh, okay. So I've gotten much better lately. So the key, like the most things in life, thoughts pop into your head. You immediately have to take note of them. So I've gotten much better at putting that into the phone. But truthfully, when I'm sitting here, I don't want to keep looking over my phone. So I actually transcribe back to paper. It looks blank, but I swear to God, there's like four topics on there. I may try to make a better point of that, too. I do have a couple of things, again, you can't really see. I can see some stuff. There it is. But I didn't get a chance to write it all down, and I wanted to take a look just to make sure I don't miss anything. There could be some comedy gold on that new 15. There's some hot tanks in there, some, some, some unqualified opinions, some reckless rants, you know, you never know. That windscreen is very distracting. It's like the size of Uranus. 

Sorry, it is. Uranus. 

Are you an actual radio broadcaster? I would say the Connecticut School of Broadcasting. I just could do it as reverb. I love checking out my notes on here. 

I have a note. It just says, crow magnum man. 

That's it. That's all I was on here. At the time, it made so much sense. Now I'm like, crow magnum man, what is that all about? It was a sign fell episode. Remember the episode where he wakes up in the middle of the night? He wakes up giggling. He has a note because he's a comedian. He writes it down out of a pad of paper. He falls back in sleep and the next day he has no record. It's the same thing. It was some random thing. He's showing people. Does this mean? Have I been talking about this? 

What does this mean? Lost. You know what the note underneath that one is? 

Dad, it's rich. Better talk about your podcast. 

That was, you know, if my phone rings, your photo comes up. They're just like, oh, dad, it's rich. Better talk about your podcast. The whole room can see my stupid face coming up. 

I prop up the phone too so everybody can see it. I have two historical cards, my business partner Vince and my cycling buddy Lance. I capture two amazing photos of them at different times and that is now my card. And sometimes the contact will say, oh, do you want to update the picture? I'm like, hell no. No, I said these are historical. 

Yeah, that's like what your kids used to do to us. They don't do it as much now but they would take such pleasure in just taking a random stupid photo of you like in the middle of, you know, the wind's blowing and you're chasing a piece of paper down the sidewalk like that's the photo they have of you to share. 

You're doing corn on the cobblers that like come on so spiteful. 

All right, I got to go upstairs and have my mind read. Okay. Good luck with however that turns out. Happy thoughts, dude. We'll catch you in the next one. Great show, Rich. 

[MUSIC]