Ep 39 - Embellished for Authenticity

Buckle up—literally. In this episode of The Cool Dad Shirt Podcast, Rich and Mike hit 126 mph in a Porsche, dodge a hornet in a vacuum cleaner, and debate whether game shows economics are stuck in 1987 prize budgets. From grocery cart vigilantes to the imperial system’s grocery aisle betrayal, this episode is a hilarious ride through dad life, nostalgia, and everyday absurdities.

Also on deck:

• Can soup pass as a urine sample? (Asking for a friend.)
• Is Norah Jones the most universally loved artist ever?
• Why your grill might be secretly covering Replacements songs.
• The great cowboy boot regret of middle school.
• And the eternal question: When should someone’s phone be taken away?

If you've ever worn a Wilson's leather jacket or whistled to Bobby McFerrin in aisle 5, this one’s for you.

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Transcript

Because I didn't see the countdown right.

We have solid 18 seconds of material.

Five. I'll already be editing out 18 seconds of editing already. Welcome to this episode of The Cool Dad Shirt podcast.

I waited till you hit record so I can comment on that super snazzy Pkwy music T-shirt. I love Parkway music. In fact, this episode is brought to you by Parkway Music, Clifton Park NY it is the coolest guitar music store in upstate New York. Yeah, love the place I bet.

And before we kick off the show, I already have a question. Do they sell anything other than guitars or are they predominantly guitars and basses?

No, no, they they are a full service upstairs. They do keyboards, pro audio and like half the building is drums. So you would have a field day.

Wow. Can I find them?

Time you can, they match every Internet price, and Tom and Matt are super cool dudes over there the.

Then.

Owners, let me ask you a question. I know we haven't officially kicked off the show, but if I wanted to see how some drumsticks sound, would you be willing to go there and use them for me for a couple of minutes so I get an idea before I. Make the purchase. Is this something you?

Do it's something not only I do I enjoy it. I will absolutely play drums on FaceTime for you if you need me to try anything out, I may be asked to leave. Not being a drummer, but you get a sense of what's going on.

Like.

Yes, that is outstanding. Thank you. I knew I could count on you and Parkway music.

Are we going back into the show?

Again, this this week. Yeah. What are we going to talk about on on this episode of the?

Cool Dad shirt podcast. Couple weeks ago I did 126 miles an hour in a car rant a little bit about the imperial system of measurement. Seriously, is there anybody on planet Earth that does not like Norah Jones? Have you ever looked for? Chuck.

We're also going to explore the idea if game shows are awarding less money to contestants. Why there was a Hornet in the vacuum cleaner dustbin and we're going to discuss at what age should your cell phone be taken away from? You know all this and more in this episode of the Cool Dad Shirt podcast.

Let's hit it.

I love being surprised by your topics. There's so much funnier too.

Yeah.

Let's hope we can pull.

It off like I already can't wait.

So we'll dive in. I will. I guess we'll start with my first one a few. Weeks ago, Eric's father. Owns a race car and it's a Porsche Cayman GT4 that he takes around the tracks all over. You know, the northeast, they're not actual races. They're like time trials. You kind of just race against yourself. You get out there, there's passing and stuff. There's no no flags and everything. There's there's no actual competition.

OK.

Get out there and I got to go for a ride along. So I sat in the passenger seat at Watkins Glen. It was something pretty awesome. So the the first time you go out, you get 3, three runs of a certain amount of time. The first time was kind of what they call the Recon. You get to go out and check it out. Hill took me around. We did about 60-70 miles an hour. Around the track. This is kind of cool. He goes. Alright, well, we're gonna. We're gonna hit it the next time around. And and we did. So this is not like NASCAR where it's just a big. Level Watkins Glen has eleven turns. It goes up hills. Downhills. There's hairpins at the bottom. So we were ripping through. Yeah. And we we hit 126 and later I said is that he goes on out without you there. I probably would have cleared 130 something.

Yeah.

In the car, but. Yeah. Jamming on the brakes into tight turns, ripping it up and he. Was narrating the whole thing. It was so cool. Dude. We had a we had the intercom system, so he was like, explaining what's happening is going to come up here. We're going to flatten out. You'll feel the camper disappear. The car is gonna behave entirely. Currently it was Super, Super cool going into the 4th lap. I was just about to say I cannot do another lap because this is not feeling good. Ohh dude it was terrible and as luck would have it they waved the checkered flag. The time was up and so I didn't have to embarrass myself.

No way really. Nice.

He's like going back at 10. 30 I said, I think I'm good. Think I'm good. Little woozy.

That must have been such a great experience.

And he's a he's a nerdy engineer guy, so we pulled over, he pull out an SD card, stuck it in his computer. Not only. Did it film the whole drive? But it does all this analytical stuff about. Like, did you hit the apex exactly right. Did you accelerate coming off that point? And so you get all the details and you actually rewind the film and see, OK, that I hit that a little earlier. I wasn't doing this quite quite right.

I'm jealous. That sounds awesome. Nice car too, by.

The way? Yeah, I'll drop it. I took later. I took photos. I'll drop some photos in. Yeah.

Oh yeah. Drop them in my text message, not just the.

Show that's right.

Yeah, I was about.

It. Wrong.

To see them.

Yeah, it's it was. It was great. So you had a. Would you have a yellow jacket in a in a vacuum?

Well, I go to vacuum the other day and the vacuum cleaner. It's like a a shark vacuum and it has the clear dustbin and for whatever reason I just happened to look and see something moving in there.

It was alive.

Yeah. And I go, there's a Hornet in the dustbin in the vacuum. And then I hear from. Far away. Ohh yeah, Dad, I forgot to tell you there was a Hornet upstairs. And we were afraid to kill it. So we vacuumed it up so.

It'll sting you later when you open.

We got him good and mad for you, dad. You might want to empty that out. It's super hungry. So he's in there with all the dust and stuff. So now I gotta figure out how I'm gonna empty this thing out without him flying out of the garbage and stinging me immediately in.

The face? Yes, exactly.

So what'd you do? I had to get the garbage bag already, and I gave that thing like a a good shake. And then I pulled it out real quick and then sealed up the garbage bag. There you go. I don't know, Dad. Ingenuity comes through, but a little alarming, I guess. I'm glad I discovered him in advance of cleaning out the dustbin. Something stuck in there. You reach your your jam.

In your hand there tried to. Price something out. So I got a couple grocery store related. Topics here.

Ohh I got I got one too. You go first.

I forgot. Only last last week I went in at the typical terrible time to go grocery shopping, and I wanted. I was about to take a photo showing like 27 full size tractor trailer sized carts and none and like one guy getting the last cart that I was. I was going to go for and two people walked in front of me that I looked. I felt really weird that I was a. Creepy guy. So I didn't take the photo, but I I. Was thinking about that. It's very creepy.

Loan dude in grocery store takes photo of other man with big card.

Look at that possibly mean. Look at all sick. Who are you? So I've stumbled onto this this Instagram account and it gave me something about this guy. Films himself, confronting people who don't take their carts back after they drop stuff off at their car. Any any chance you've seen?

That no, I have not.

He it's obnoxious. He's got this big magnetic sign. He goes up and throws it on the car I didn't take. My. Car back. Be like, what are you doing? He's like, why did you take your car back? He's like, who cares? He's like, well, the next person cares. I mean, you're leaving. Here he goes. Look, you you you're occupying a spot. Nobody can park here now, like, just why won't you just take it?

Shane, that's all.

Again, it's one of those things. It becomes addicting. You can't stop watching confrontation after confrontation, and you're kind of on the side. You're like, just take your 7 feet away. Just put it over there. And so it was just a a weird, just satisfying this. There's two people in the world, right. There's two kinds of people. You. You take the car back or screw you.

I would suspect he must be slightly selective on who he decides to confront wrong guy, wrong time. Someone could get very aggressive or even have a weapon, right? It's different times.

That's a that's a different. You did go after. A couple of dudes, and like in full size pickup trucks and it. It got like. Lots of profanity, like I'm gonna get out. You know, the guy jumps out of the car and comes after him. Like, what are you doing? I'm just telling you, put your car back. But yes, one day, that account will.

Be closed and we will all know why quickly is trying to deescalate the situation over. A shopping cart. Wow, that.

Escalated.

Really, I think I told you the story on the last show that Eddie Vedder told while he was at the grocery store. Did I tell this story on the previous show? I'm not sure. Keep going. He was at a.

What do you got? We get new listener. Time, Mike. Yes, exactly. You tell the story.

He was at the grocery store and he said it happened to just be one of those days where he was buying some produce and he didn't really feel like chatting with anybody while he's picking out some produce, he notices some guy is looking over at him and he thinks, oh, here, here we go. It's him and his wife. And they're approaching me. And now they come up to me and they stop me and they go, excuse me, we think you took our shopping cart. And he looks down and realizes they got the same bananas, the same cantaloupe, and he took their shopping cart. They had no idea who he was.

Oh.

So he went from he went from. Oh, I hate being famous to well.

My bananas. They're bananas the same thing.

Oh, that's. I thought it was a great story. That is a great story. Yeah, well, at least he. Could laugh at himself, right? That was before they became.

Stone Temple Pilots.

And he's call back. That was. Yeah. Well, God, yeah. Maybe it was the reason why they just needed to start a new band and.

The name change they needed a name change.

Back in the spotlight.

Do you watch any game shows?

I my TV is close. To zero man. No, no, no what?

Do you got alright? I knew the answer would be no. I just have. So much fun. Asking. I love asking. I don't watch a lot. I mean, I don't really watch any. I don't watch any TV, but I happen to see them come on from time to time.

You.

And Wheel of Fortune happened to be on the other night. And man, they're spin and it's been in for 1/2 hour. I looked down and at the end of the show, the grand prize winner. Had like 12,000 or $14,000 and I thought to myself, it seems like 20 years ago people were winning ten, $12,000 and inflation has escalated in the last 2025 years and it doesn't seem like people are winning any money. And then I happen to see 1/2 an episode of the Hollywood Squares and the winner. At the end of the night one $1500, that was the grand prize.

The guy who cleaned house can make a.

I have.

Car payment and I scratched my head over thinking. Are they rigged down? Are they just deliberately not giving away a lot of money? I didn't know if there.

Was anything to it. They're holding a 1987 prices intact. Yes, they do not adjust for inflation.

Yeah, I think they are. If you think about it, Ryan Seacrest is probably getting $3,000,000 an episode. You know, if you win the bonus at the end, usually it's 25,000, so maybe. Getting $30,000 and I know that's not, you know, that's not small change for what they must receive in ad revenue.

That show is not hosting itself. Seacrest is, you know, that's somebody. 'S got to pay. All the he's going. No, it's it's. It's a commentary on society. I'm not sure what.

That commentary is, but it's Ryan Seacrest that's making all the money. We can't afford to pay the.

OK.

Contestants, any money? Actually, it's a pretty simple conclusion. I'm surprised I didn't catch that.

I think so. I've beat the game show discussion to death unless you have something else you.

Want to add? No, I'm going to take it back to the. Store are you like me? No matter what recipe you have and you go to buy a quantity of something, it is never, ever. This is the stupid imperial system. If you need cups, you buy it in ounces. If you need it in ounces, it's in pints. If you need it like it's it's never. How many times do you Google a translator at at the grocery store to somehow? Make sense of your recipe?

I do from time to time select a little conversion tool there. It drives me crazy. I it's never. It's never one to one. It it is interesting because if you go to the refrigerator section, you could buy a gallon of milk 1/2 a gallon of orange. Juice 1/2 a gallon of ice cream. But if you go to the soda aisle, you have to buy a liter of soda, a 2 liter bottle of soda.

I forgot they threw the. Metric over on the soda. Yeah.

All of a sudden they with the metric system on aisle 6, aisle 6 is very European. It's not even consistent in the grocery store.

But I do know a 1/2 a liter is exactly half of a. Liter it's not not.

It's true, it's not 12 something or three. Something. Do you remember when they had three liter bottles of soda? That was like an 80s thing?

I do think. I do. I think people were struggling to handle and pour those, so those were short lived, I believe.

That spills. That's like an oil tanker spilling on the three-way a three liter bottle of Coca-Cola.

It's your kitchen floor you're gonna injure. The cat man.

If I owned a grocery store, I would do a combo. I would do buy a three liter bottle of Coca-Cola and get a roll of paper towels with it. It's like the combo deal.

Trust us on this one, yeah.

I was at the grocery store at 7:00 AM on a Saturday morning. Umm. It was very quiet, very clean and I found myself whistling very loud because they were playing. Bobby McFerrin don't. Worry. Be happy. I was whistling it up, up and down the aisles. You feel of it? I was in such a good mood. I didn't even mind getting ripped off at the register 5 minutes later.

But sticking with the the music thing and and making people happy. Have you ever encountered anybody who had anything bad to say about Norah Jones? Whenever she is playing, whenever it comes up, ever, ever is God, she is so good. It's one of those universal artists, right?

I would agree, old, young. Despite your genre, I think she's America, sweetheart.

She. Yes, we're going to go on record as voting. George Jones is like this is a podcast. Sweetheart.

Yes.

Play along with Norah Jones. I've never checked it out, but I I wonder if she actually, it sounds like she does a musical performance with people. On the podcast.

Ohh rich and get.

Had I done some?

Research I would be able to. I could see it now. It's you, Lisa Loeb, Eric Jones, all sitting around playing guitar together. They're like, what do you want to play? Next, anything from the 90s, Lisa?

Oh, that would be a dream. Come.

True. Yes, that'd be so great. I'm going to see if Norah Jones does one of those. What do they call those? Those cameos? Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We got to see if she does the cameo. So. I'll have to hire her or Lisa Loeb for.

Your birthday, her universal appeal probably demands a very expensive. Fee.

Rich money is no object when it comes to you and your birthday. I saw something interesting at one of my dad's recent hospital visits. It was over the weekend. It was a bit of a rough crowd that night, and they had some guy on on like a little stretcher sort of out in the hallway, and he was sitting there and for whatever reason he seemed like he was OK, but they wouldn't let him. Ohh until they got another urine test at one point I saw him get up and he was walking around looking for stuff and then he came back and it looked like he had a container of soup. He said. OK, I'm ready for my urine test and he went into the bathroom with this little container of soup and when he came out he handed him the urine sample and he didn't have the soup in his hand. Anywhere and I wonder to myself, like, did this guy just fake a urine test and pour some broth from soup in it so he can get out of there? You know, we got called and we got busy and I I didn't get a, you know, my me and my dad are in the hospital. I'm.

Yeah, yeah.

Trying to crack a case over here. You know on the job. So I did not get the. Follow up on this on this case and I was so distracted by it eventually I think he left. I could just imagine someone upstairs. An analysis saying son of a gun. It's chicken noodle. I wonder. I wonder what Chicken Noodle would look like your analysis sample.

Oh.

I wonder how long it would take to determine that. Do you think it was when they first saw the noodle or did? They. Actually do some chemistry. Tiny bits of carrots in there. Gross.

I I I was so distracted by this whole this whole story.

Well, there's intrigue and potentially you know.

But it's true, it's true. My dad's like, come on, get somebody in here. I'm like dad. Dad. Just, just relax. Just relax, Dad, I think.

I think we can take our time on this one.

All right then.

Let me go back in the hallway and.

Actually, more holes on that.

Be in the hallway, checking on.

Things, yeah, there's just just get him some gloss. So he was gone. He he was a wreck to this guy was a mess. He had a lot going on, stealing soup to fake urine. Analysis is like the lightest one of his.

That's it. That's next level.

Day. Yeah.

But to have to do that is next level. Yeah, there's a there's. Yeah. There's a lot more.

To that story, there's a lot happening.

The other day I was firing up the old Weber Grill and we mentioned this song before for an entirely different reason. But it dawned on me the exact tempo of the clicker, not only the tempo but the sound is just like the intro to the replacement song within your reach.

All the sprinkler.

Their home. No, my grill, your grill click here.

Flickered. Ohh. When it? Yeah, the igniter Ignite is the same tempo.

To the igniter. I loved it. It took me very distracting.

You should make a tick tock of that you. Know how they do those? I was. Thinking about doing that. Yeah, yeah. They incorporate real life. Sounds under the song. Yeah. Just get your zoom recorder. Yeah. Get your zoom recorder out there and record it and then drop it in over a / a track on GarageBand.

Thank you. Entirely possible and likely.

I look forward to that. We talked about auto correcting your phones and in Word docs.

Yeah.

I had an incident the other day. It was very frustrating. I hate when you type a word correctly and it writes a different word and then it asks you if you want the word that you initially typed. I was so angry, I typed. I forgot what I typed. The word was Gatorade and it said when I wrote Gatorade. They changed it to cater aid and then it said do you mean Gatorade? And yeah, I I do mean Gatorade because that's what I typed originally before, you know, you changed it and then asked me if I wanted to. Like else.

You changed it to something that. Doesn't mean anything I. Don't even know what cater aid is cater and then ask me to go back to what everybody says. Yes, yes, I assist the caterer. I'm the caterer aid. The algorithms are picking that up all day long across the texting of people in America, yes.

I was angry.

Well, yeah, OK. Jeez, now that too. I don't know about you or it's just my cat like reflexes when I'm typing in something and it starts suggesting, you know, gives you like 3 suggestions just above. I don't know what the tipping point is, but I see the word and as I'm moving to grab the word to dead center where it should be, because that is the most logical thing. I don't know what happens. It shifts over one position. Have you ever done that and you?

Yeah.

Picked the wrong word. Just leave it there, man. It's it's the word.

Yes. Yep. Yeah, it's do not interfere. I got this.

You got it. I got it. I.

Want it? You take it away. Hey?

Do you listen to much country and western? I like to say country and western instead of just country, country, CNW.

You know both types. Yeah. Not really. My thing is this some of the pop crossover country, you can't avoid it and it's it's catchy. I I dig.

Some of it do you think it's all stick the way they talk because they all talk the same way. They all sound the same. Do you think they're like, what was that guy that played Elvis, the famous actor that continued to talk like Elvis? For year after, yeah. Do you think country and Western Singers really talk like that or do you think when they're amongst their friends they sound like, you know, squeaky from?

Right.

Laverne and Shirley. They have that heavy country sound and talk, and then when they're around their their buddies.

I guess if you came from, if you came from the heartland, I would say you probably sort of talk like that. I I think when you step up to perform you, you, you embody that. I mean that is the that is the sound of that genre. So I think it's probably embellished to keep it consciously or maybe subconsciously. It's just part of the just. Part of the deal.

So you think it's embellished for authenticity?

That's that's a logical fallacy. You just threw it. Being like.

Embellished for all they fake it to make it look real. I am not hating on any country Western. I'm really curious. I want to spend a couple days with like a country and Western artist and see if they slip up at any point in time. Start talking regular like the rest of us like an Italian idiot like me talking about cannolis and.

Tail zones and.

It's funny. Yeah. What? What's his name? Like Blake Shelton. I'm hanging out with Blake Shelton and all of a sudden, he's like, yeah, man, let's get some cannolis.

Which one are you, man? My good friend Tom. He's got this technique. If we're ever going somewhere grabbing some. Food out for lunch time or maybe popping into a pub or something of that. We we're not sure, or the vibe isn't right or it's unclear he invented this little thing and it's it's looking for Chuck. So if you step in and it's dead in there, there's nothing going on or it's a weird seeing you just go. I don't think he's here. He's not. No, Chuck said he's going to be here. He's not here. Let's get out of here. So at least you have a plausible reason for not just walking you. Going walking back. Out. Yeah, you're sort of coming up with. The. Story of yeah, there's a reason we're.

Leaving now you say it out loud, so others.

Can hear. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You you, you know, you look at you look, look around the corner at the pool table. No. He's he's not, yeah.

It's not in here. I'm going to walk into a a conference room when there's a meeting and I'm I'm going to do that. Like Chucky here. No, no. All right, Chuck.

'S like I'm over.

No.

Here, dude. Damn it.

And you are, uh. I was thinking about some comedians who would really develop a character, and that character would ultimately just become their persona. People like. German. Hmm and.

Andy Kaufman did that for a.

Andy Kaufman. That's exactly it. Yeah. Are there any comedians now that have developed a character that just becomes their life? That's a lot of commitment.

While didn't he? Right. Yeah. And there was speculation that Andy Carson might have been a little mentally unbalanced there and that was not just a show. He. He committed. Stuck. I don't know. Interesting lot of time comedy, A lot of times comedy goes through like eras and maybe that's just an era that came and went. Because you're right, you don't really see anybody kind of. I don't know how we would answer this question, but you know Anthony Jeselnik. Yeah, the, the the very. They're very rude and mean yes and very dark. Very dark comic. Yeah. When he goes to pick up some bagels, is he, like, you know, is he just laughing and giggling like a normal person? Or is he sure? Kind of that way? Yeah.

Speaking of comedians, did you see any of Jays posts, by the way, for his birthday?

Ohh, I don't think I did.

No, go back and look. He's poolside with, like, a woman's one piece bathing suit on.

I'll have to. That's weird, I did.

I did one shot, one shot. Let's just say it's a little cheeky.

Yes, I think I repressed it from my memory because that was startling. Yes, yes.

Poolside with Jay Woman's one piece. I mean that might. That might answer our comedian question is it is it by choice or is it an involuntary personality trait?

He walked by the house. Once in a while, he's out with the the kiddos. I see him periodically. He seems remarkably normal outside of that, but he does have to commit.

He was full on around the pool at even one point. He did a risky move by jumping off the top of a slide to catch a football or something like that. I thought he was going to hurt himself. I got. I honestly got. Very nervous, I thought. To myself is. Could you imagine if he got hurt and the ambulance had to come and they picked him up?

Ohh.

And a women's a woman's one piece bathing suit.

I'm a comedian. Sure you are. Dude, your callbacks are on fire tonight. Oh, Speaking of other neighbors I had, I think you saw the videos I made with the with the wisemans.

We got to get him. On the horn. Yes, the wisemans, yes.

Yes, I we got the all, all three men in the family came down and helped me out with the. So for for my company and they were silly and fun and they were pros. It was it was quick and easy and just plug my business. Then of.

Of course, of course. That's why I'm silent.

Hop over to LinkedIn. You were waiting for me to go. I was waiting. Yeah. Hop over to LinkedIn and go to Avant industrial marketing and Scroll down. You'll see some fun new videos that we posted there. Really. So you actually get to see what Mike Weissman. Looks like in person.

Throw him a like too while you're there. And my daughter, I told you, she's way over 15,000 views on a video she put together. And.

I don't like this story. I don't like this story.

And I love her. She's.

God bless her, yeah.

Yeah. God bless her, I thought to myself. You know, it's it's OK. I mean, I thought some of the stuff that we're outputting supersedes that a little bit. I mean, there's it's written, it's produced, it's aesthetically pleasing. It's a lot of work, goes behind the stuff. It's not just, you know, rolling off the hard drive.

Edited yes.

On its own.

That's right.

Did you ever have a leather jacket?

I I don't think I like the word the. Past tense did.

I do. OK. OK. Well, I was thinking more like in the 80s when we were in high school. It was the goal of so many kids to save up and finally go to, like, Wilson's suede and leather at the mall and get a leather jacket. You could see everybody like talking about. This is the weekend. I'm going to go and then they show up at school.

Yes. OK.

You could smell the leather from down the hall. You knew.

That is very funny. I can totally relate to the story. I was never cool enough to even think I should be cool enough to buy a leather jacket. So that was really not on my. Later these days, I just feel confident enough that I pretend I'm cool and that inhibition went away. So I do have one. Yes, mine. Mine is very, very simple. It's just that kind of Moto couple zippers and.

Ohh. Yeah, I bet you're you're challenging your inner edge. Yes, indeed. Wilson, suede and leather.

I I remember, I think it was in the I think it was in middle school. I was obsessed with getting cowboy boots, and there's some older kid who had cowboy boots and whatever reason I thought that was the coolest thing in the world when I was in 7th grade or whatever. And so I remember I eventually got up here. I don't know if I saved up and bought them or got them for Christmas or something. I I can't remember, but. For about 3 months I was way into cowboy boots.

No interest in country and Western music, but obsessed with cowboy boots.

I I I cause, I just think I just like the older kid was so. Like he was just so cool. I'm like, I wanna be like him and it must. Yeah, yeah, definitely the boots.

Nice. Did you go with black or brown? Do you remember? Ohh. There's gotta be a picture of you somewhere.

I think they were brown. I think it was. I don't know. It was short lived. I'm like, what are what are? You doing dude? You know that age you go through identity thing.

It's amazing how you could go from love to hate in a matter of 1/2 a day you show like you love them every day. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Monday, Tuesday. By lunch time on Wednesday, you're coming home barefoot. You're humiliated. You're questioning why? I. Ever bought these? You want to erase the last two and a.

Half weeks? That sounds like my high school. Experience, yeah.

It's every it's every kid's high school experience at one time or another.

Yes. We've all been.

There, we've all been there. You wonder like you are so committed and convinced that this is the most ideal choice you've made. And in minutes one random day you've decide the epic fail you've just committed.

You know, it's not so much the laughing Mike. It's it's the pointing. That kind of kind of gets to you.

Uh, hey, I'm almost out of topics here, but the last one I had on my notes where is there an age similar to driving where you think it's probably about? Time to take someone's cell phone.

Away I I think that could apply to almost any human being. Yes, that's probably true. I'm sure it's age-related. It's probably the way you use the phone is probably the determining factor there. What?

You got. I was trying to do something. I couldn't figure it out. I just felt like at some point in time this is going to happen more often and I'm going to age out of the phone. I'm thinking our phone seems so modern right now. What are the phones going to look like when our phone is considered the Motorola flip phone?

Good question. Yeah, that's a.

Good question. Can you believe Grandpa is still walking around with an iPhone 16? It's so embarrassing.

He's actually carrying it.

It's not implanted. Or anything. It's exactly you're. Right, I'm a bit old school with my iPhone 20.

You look like an idiot carrying that thing.

You.

Plug it into the base of your. Neck. No wonder.

Why you keep falling? Your your one hand. You got the phone and you gotta hold. On to the railing, grandpa. So that's my list, rich.

Yeah, we had some nice overlapping topics.

I think we overachieved, right? Yeah, we did. Bonus for our listeners this episode.

You guys are welcome.

Constantly giving we are given. Now, if we could only receive some likes and follows this is this is the ask portion of the show we've given for. You know, 52 minutes right now, and now we're going to just ask. It's quite simple. Smash the like button. Give us a follow. Write a little review.

I do have to say I I was chatting with my sister-in-law. I Matt's wife actually, and and she listens to the show. And she made a comment or she we were talking about how you steal all my bits. From Tommy boy, David Spade, she actually sent me. She did? I send it to you there. There's the Tommy Boy fest in Sandusky. OH, coming up this fall.

Yes, she's.

You did not. No. Sandusky. OH, too.

Yep, Yep. So it's very industrial industrial parks kind of stuff. And Tommy Boy Fest is coming. I think it's this fall. So she said that to me. So I called her up. I was like, you know that that was really funny, you know, thanks for listen, she goes. No, no, it's good. I said, well, you know, it's kind of a she goes. No, no, no. You guys get the dad thing going on, she said, but. It's your stuff is super relatable just to regular people, to parents and stuff like that. So we're not just for.

Dads, how do you like that? There you go. Cool moms dig us too. Shout out to Keira. I found myself on weekends now, making a full pot of coffee and then with whatever's leftover, I pour it into a big Mason jar and put it in the refrigerator. And then I drink it iced in the afternoons of the weekend.

That's that's great. Economy of scale, resource management, that's well done.

Mike, I put it in a Mason jar and then later put a little ice in it just a little bit because I didn't want to water it down, put a little milk in it, and I shook it up, made it a little frothy. And then I had this delicious iced coffee. Frothy. So good. Drink it right down, rich.

Summer summertime is here and you no longer have to think about the ways you should reheat your coffee.

No. Microwave the oven. That's not on my mind at all. I'm going right to the ice.

You go. Magnifying glass. Solar. Yeah.

Right. So. That's total David Spade solar.

I get all his royalties. I hope he's. Not listening I. Hope he is listening. I hope he is.

So. I think that's a wrap, yeah.

Alright, yeah. Yeah.

Great show.

Ask for head by all.

I think so. Some great topics. There's something for everyone in here.

Who doesn't go to the grocery store? Alright, man, we will catch you on the next one and hello summer. We're finally here. Can't wait. So a couple of weeks ago I went 126 miles in a car miles an hour, miles an hour in. A car. I just do that one again. Screwed it up already.

Yeah, I already got questions. Hit me with that one again. I want to know is it distance or? Speed. We're talking, so make sure you clarify.

I've screwed up the whole show, all right. Take 2.