Ep 40 - Happy Hour Healthcare

Welcome to Episode 40 of The Cool Dad Shirt Podcast – where award-winning content meets unexpected tangents! This week, get ready for a wild ride as we tackle everything from questionable spray tans to bizarre rental car upgrades.

Episode Highlights:

• Oompa Loompa or Orange You Glad You Didn't Self-Tan? We kick things off with a hilarious (and alarmingly orange) tale of self-tanning mishaps. Learn why hands and feet might be "naturally more absorptive" and if day three brings back normalcy. #SelfTanFail #OrangeSkin #BeautyBlunders
• The "Party Mobile" Rental Car Upgrade: You won't believe what our host found in his "upgraded" Audi A6 rental car – let's just say it smelled like a party and came with some "additional surprises"! Find out how a $50 discount made up for the unexpected "cleaning fee". #RentalCarHorrorStory #CarUpgrade #UnexpectedSurprises
• The Bionic Beaver - A College Concoction: Ever heard of a "Bionic Beaver"? Dive into the nostalgic (and terrible-tasting) college drink from Plattsburgh's Fillions bar. We even reveal the mysterious (and unappetizing) ingredients! #CollegeDrinks #Plattsburgh #BadCocktails
• Colonoscopy Calamity: A Plumbing Problem & a Lucky Break! Hear a truly horrifying (and thankfully, lucky) story about a colonoscopy prep weekend plagued by plumbing issues and a confusing appointment mix-up. It's a tale that will make you appreciate modern medicine (and functioning toilets)! #ColonoscopyPrep #PlumbingProblems #MedicalMisadventures
• iPhone Texting Pet Peeves & the Oxford Comma Debate: Our ongoing iPhone rant continues with a deep dive into the frustrations of speech-to-text and the controversial "6 o'clock" transcription. Are you in the Oxford comma camp? Let us know! #iPhoneProblems #SpeechToText #OxfordComma
• Bank Branch Bafflement: Where Did the Tellers Go? Experience the bewildering new bank layout with kiosks and an apparent aversion to immediate customer service. Is it a "power move" or just bad customer service? #BankingExperience #CustomerServiceFail #ModernProblems
• Cocktails & Pulmonologists: The Telehealth Triumph! Discover the winning strategy for doctor appointments: telehealth with a side of "cocktail mode". #Telehealth #DoctorAppointments #FrankSinatraVibes
• Google Maps Street View: Caught in 360! What happens when you encounter the Google Street View car not once, but three times in one walk? Learn about potential "legacy fame" and the software that blurs your face. #GoogleMaps #StreetView #AccidentalFame
• Fashion Faux Pas: Black & Brown Don't Mix! A candid discussion about fashion anxieties, specifically the uncomfortable sight of black outfits paired with brown shoes. Is it truly "frowned upon in the fashion industry"? #FashionPolice #StyleTips #WardrobeWoes
• The Analog Renaissance: Are We Over Digital? Explore the intriguing theory of an "analog renaissance" where people crave live music, human contact, and a rejection of digital isolation. #AnalogRenaissance #DigitalDetox #LiveMusic
• Marshmallow Fluff Meltdown: A Sticky Situation! Get ready for some relationship advice as our host grapples with telling his wife that her thoughtful purchase of "impostor brand" fluff just isn't the beloved Marshmallow Fluff brand! #MarriageAdvice #MarshmallowFluff #FirstWorldProblems
• Tree Removal Triumph: Avoiding the $8000 Shock! A surprising tale of tree removal costs that started with an "8" and ended with a delightful $950 total! Plus, hear about the monster crew that gets the job done in record time. #TreeRemoval #HomeMaintenance #UnexpectedSavings

Don't miss this episode packed with laughs, relatable mishaps, and questionable life choices! Tune in now! #CoolDadShirtPodca

Transcript

Hello I'm downstairs recording a podcast. This is. Yes and I thank you. I appreciate you pointing that out. I'm recording another award-winning podcast. Yes. Into this episode of The Cool Dad Shirt podcast.
All right, let's do.
The table of contents coming at you tonight. We are going to talk about a bionic Beaver, how I might show up in the Google Maps. Multiple times, unbeknownst to me at the time. We're going to want a little bit more about the iPhone texting. Seemingly, that's endless and Mike, are you related to Umpa Lumpa by that red? No, no, no, no, no, no. No, I promise it's going in a very different direction. I was just wondering if my light settings were a little too orangey or too warm for this show.
No. It it'll be entirely different, I promise.
We'll also talk about unexpected rental car upgrades, confusing the day of your colonoscopy. Ohh no. And Dad tell appointments with the pulmonologist. All that more, all these and more on this episode of The Cool Dad Shirt Podcast. Nice. I'm curious about the Oompa Loompa. It may not be your first story this week, but no, let's get into it. I I would be surprised if you didn't share the same story. Do your daughter spray tan? One does occasionally.
Alright.
For special events. Too, and my special events, I mean, I mean anything that's happening tomorrow.
You can guess mine and I can guess you. It's a special event.
We're not just talking Proms and weddings.
Was the slider the saturation slider bar moved a little too far and some.
And I don't mean to hijack your story. When my niece got married, she hired somebody to come to her house, and when they walked out, they were so dark and orange and they said, don't worry. It'll come off when we shower. A little bit, but it was a very. Very drastic transformation.
My daughter, that does that too is kinda she does it herself. And last week she came downstairs and said I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear it. She was alarmingly dark orange a little too heavy on the the tanning lotion. It seems to I I don't know if it's just the hands and the feet for some reason. I don't know if they're naturally more absorptive. Absorbative or?
It's just a technique. You're just close to them and I I don't know, but the extremities seem to really fall victim to be. How is she now? Has she normal normalized? Yeah. As you said, the shower chills that out a little bit like day three. We're starting to look like. Yeah, my daughter has gone. And she also uses the self Tanner cream that you can apply yourself. Occasionally for special events like like Wednesday like exactly like tomorrow, I have school Friday have a field hockey game.
Yes, you get it. I do. Yeah, that's funny.
What do you got? We recently needed a rental car. Just a short one day rental while our car was being repaired, I went to the rental car place that we normally go to reserved a car and when we went to pick it up, the nice gentleman at the rental car place said I gave you guys an upgrade. He pulled out a very nice. Audi A6, with about 15,000 miles on it, it was a gorgeous car. I thought, wow, this is, this is our lucky day, Rich. And he gets out of the car. All you could smell his pot. You could smell it from like 10 feet away. My wife was like, I don't think we can. I don't think we can rent this. And we said, like, what else do you have? And all he had was a minivan. I looked at her and I said maybe we could tolerate it just for the day. I said it's a really nice car. It's going to be fun to drive. So she agreed. She said. All right, maybe it won't be that.
No, you're gonna end up smelling. That.
Bad. Maybe it was just sitting and they didn't have a chance to open the windows. So we took the car for starters. The smell of weed never left the car. We also found some additional surprises rolling on the floor. The first one was a vape pen. Makes sense.
OK. Yep.
The second one. There were a couple of unused wrapped condoms, so clearly the car had not been looked over or cleaned prior to our receipt of the automobile. Our upgrade was more than just the make and model you.
Got the party mobile man.
My wife, she said. Who had this car before us? A pimp? Exactly. It was fun to drive, but it was not. It was not the cleanest of rental cars I've ever received, so I returned it. I gently commented on our surprises and he was happy to give me a $50 discount on the rental, so not too bad.
Alright, I bet they deal with stuff like. That all the time, I think.
So fun to drive.
Nice cars, nice cars, yeah.
Yeah, I I know you're a you're an Audi owner yourself, so you know exactly what I'm talking about. Does your smell like weed and have vape pens in them too?
I swear to God it came that way.
I know that's all I was thinking. That's why I called him right away. I said look, yes, I don't wanna return it and have the guy at the rental place for like, what's this guy up to? We're gonna have to charge him it. It smells and it's got stuff floating around. We're gonna have to hit him with the cleaning fee. So and make sure they didn't associate that stuff with me.
Yeah, Erica has had to do that as well as she drives for work sometimes and want to go back and be very clear about the current situation with the.
Car and when I called him, he said, you know, if you wanna bring it back, that's fine. But I didn't want to have to go through that. It was more time out of my day and. Who knows what the van would have been like, right? That would have. Been a pimp if that was a pimp mobile, I couldn't imagine what the. Van would be like it could have been worse. I really want to know who knows what being there. So that was my rental story.
That was like a do you remember the movie? The movie started out very funny, and then it just got lame. It was a norm. MacDonald and I think, Artie Lang, they did a. Ohh, was the revenge business. Ohh dirty work. The the movie is called Dirty work. And so you can hire these two guys to get revenge on somebody. And that was their business and they want to get back. If this guy was a car dealer and he was doing a live event talking about a car and he's like, you know, look at this, we got this feature, we got this feature. Look how big the trunk and the trunk opens up. Norm MacDonald goes.
Is that a trunk full of dead hookers goes? No, he goes. I've seen dead hookers. That's a truthful and dead hookers. Turn the camera off. Turn the.
Camera.
Off I did not see.
That movie, it it really wasn't that good. It was. There were some, some funny, funny.
So please.
Parts to it.
Yeah, you've given me the best scene, haven't you?
I think I have. I hope I did. It faithfully.
Hey, have you ever heard of a?
Bionic Beaver? I've heard of the bionic man, the Bionic woman, and never a bionic.
Beaver. So it's a drink that they would make at a bar in Plattsburgh when I was in college back in the 1980's, the bar was called billions. I think it was a local favorite and they invented their own drink and. They would make it by the pitcher. You know, I totally forgot to call up the ingredients, but it's something like it's got vodka chicken. I think it'll be pretty clean. Vodka. Gin. Slow gin. Which is where the red comes from. Orange juice, Bush beer and something else. Dude, it's terrible. And it was such an institution that that people would buy this stuff all the time, and I'm here to tell you on the freshman floor it looked the same in the bathroom hours later, as it did in the picture.
Yeah. Hours earlier, it almost sounds like a challenge. Drink. Here's a bunch of unfinished drinks. Let's add them all together.
Yeah, it almost seems like this. This is extra stuff that we have in the back. How can we get rid of this?
Ohh, it might be in my hold on. Wait, we can did that bar have a downstairs like it was downstairs. You went there was a downstairs. Yeah, we we played at that bar. Shut up. Is that true? We played at the.
Yeah.
Did you go in? You walked in and went down? Yeah. Have you been there? Bar. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was like, brick walls. It was kind of a cool. Well, it was.
A. Cool. It was. Yeah, but you kind of went in and you went down. You went down, and it was it was.
Yeah.
Almost like a. Little basement, yeah. Like a little like.
That is speaking.
Almost easy. Ish. Yeah. What? Yeah.
It's OK. You bet there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We played there. Yeah, absolutely. We did. We did a show on campus, and we played at that bar.
That is very cool.
And we did an interview at the radio station. Was this while you were in college or after? No. It was post college. This was in mid mid 90s. Late mid to late 90s.
OK.
We played.
I was gonna say.
Could could we have possibly have met before? We thought we met? No, it was definitely post. I was already living on Long Island when we were OK when we played there. Yeah, got you. Do you think you have the ingredients or no? I thought it was still on my phone. Alright. Maybe we'll edit it. Maybe we could put it in the show notes.
No.
No, I'm. I'm going to.
Recite it as the as the outro. Alright. Have you got a colonoscopy ever rich I?
Have I have just one? Everything went well so I don't need to do it again for a while, but it it's an experience, yeah.
She's not.
That is excellent news. So if you have never went for a colonoscopy, this will be less impactful to you. But if you have you understand the horror in the story that I'm about to.
Then.
Tell you. My wife had a colonoscopy scheduled the same weekend. That required her to do her prep for the colonoscopy. Which we all know is the worst part of the colonoscopy. We had a plumbing issue in our bathroom. No, we needed to shut the water off. And because of several things that were going on, we couldn't get a plumber until the following Tuesday. So from Saturday to Tuesday.
Oh.
I was running up and down stairs all day and through the night to turn the main water line on and off so we could run water, do some laundry if we needed flush the toilet. It was a lot of up and down for me on a a regular weekend, let alone a weekend for a colonoscopy. Her colonoscopy was. What she thought was scheduled on Monday. So we came home Sunday afternoon after being out running some errands. My wife began her colonoscopy prep Sunday night. Sunday night, I ran up and down the stairs all night long, turning the water on and off into the early hours of Monday morning. This continued. My wife called to ask a question about her appointment and they told her that her appointment wasn't until next week. So you could imagine you could imagine the horror and not only her eyes, but mine for having to go up and down the stairs and not sleep at all that night. Thankfully, for what whatever luck we would receive for the entire year.
Have.
It was granted to us because the lady said, oddly, someone just called and cancelled their 3:30 appointment. If you can get here right away, we will take you. Holy cow. We stopped everything that we were doing. We got in the car and we raced her appointment and they were able. To get her in, that is.
Wow, that is super lucky.
Yeah, it was so lucky because. She would have to repeat the entire exercise the following weekend.
Yeah, it's something.
It was a busy, busy evening. We got the plumbing. Fixed though it's.
Nice, nice.
Well, you know what?
To continue, right.
Oh, go ahead. Plumbing is something us dads don't mind tackling from time to time. I needed a mixer valve for my shower. I pulled the existing one out. I purchased a new one and put it in, and when I put. The new one in it was leaking worse than the old one, and I couldn't figure out why this was happening. So out of frustration and business I called the plumber and had the plumber come and replace it. When he came, I asked. I said it seemed like a pretty straightforward repair and he said yeah, it's not uncommon for Moen to have a bad. Mixer valve, he said. I had one last week. This is a bad mixer valve. You should return it. Wow, a $55 part wound up costing me $400 to pay somebody to come and repair it. So the entire plan was to do it inexpensively with your own labor and the exact opposite happened. So I paid for his time and parts. Plus the part that I had put. In. So I got double whammied.
That that negated the like.
Well, actually that was prior to the. OK. Well, no, wait a second. That was post that was post. Yeah. So that negated the luck. You're you're back to even is.
You're.
You're.
What you're saying I'm not.
It was a 0 sum for me.
Uh, you know, to keep to keep a recurring theme going on the show, I gotta. I gotta rant a little bit more about the iPhone and. The texting. What do you do? Speech. Text. I don't know why I'm I'm with some people call an over punctuated or I love using a comma a lot. The iPhone likes to.
Sure.
Even who doesn't?
OK.
I'm in the Oxford comma camp myself, so like it is some background, but it it overcomes me and I I think that's probably a problem #1 so. But the thing that really bothers me is when. You. Tell somebody like. Oh, hey, I'll be there around 6:00 in the speech to text it types up SIX space, O, apostrophe, CL. OCK. Wait, I don't know. Do it right now.
See do it wait a second. Wait a second. Spell that for me again, rich. I wasn't. What are you typing?
Say rich, but it's gonna be speech to.
Text. Sure.
So say and do it, you just say. I will see you at 6:00 and tell me what it does.
I gotta make sure I select you as my recipient.
Asking why you're asking some woman, you'll see her at 6:00.
I will see you at 6:00.
Is it 6 colon 00?
No, it's 6 space o'clock.
Yeah, don't most people like if you were to type it out. By hand you wouldn't type ohh go look. For the apostrophe, put that.
Oh, never.
In and then type out CLOCC if people.
Never.
Don't do that. That's ridiculous.
No, I I would just type C at six. Yeah, that would be.
It well do that. Does it say SIX or? Does it give you the number?
See you at six. It writes. Out. Yeah, you want to try something? Else.
What?
Else you got tell me a joke iPhone.
I don't know.
No.
The iPhone ranting is over now. We can continue with your next topic.
Yeah. Well, my next one is, I don't know where to go on my. Next one rich. Take your time, man.
Like the recording it.
I had it. I had. We went to the bank the other day. We walked in the bank. There's no one. No one in the bank and the new bank layout is these tall desk slash kiosks. There's no count or anything like that. It's just these little kiosks, like in the middle of the floor. So we walk in the bank and there's not even a teller.
Yeah.
At any one of those desks, and we're standing in the middle of the bank and then out from the back comes a teller. We said hi, we just need to have something noted. And she goes, oh, OK, have a seat. Someone will be with you in a little bit. I looked around, rich. There was one lady in an office and not a single customer. And I was. I was so perplexed by what warrants my weight right now. I shouldn't. I shouldn't I be able to be? Whisked right into the office and have my service provided immediately. So we sat down for me. Maybe 5 or 10 minutes like 3 or 4 more people came in and and they were waiting behind us and then we were finally called in and I'm glad we had beaten all those other people because it would have been that much more of a delay. I don't know if they if that's a power. Move or I don't know what was going on. Rich, the customer does not come first over there. No, not at all. The customer is when we get to.
You. I'm in the middle of a strongly worded e-mail I'm sending to somebody and I gotta finish my thoughts. So I'll see you in 10.
I think that. Was and I think the other thing that happened was they probably check your account when you come in and see if you're a High Roller or not. And in my case.
I guess take your time, Sir. I'll take.
Yeah. Sarah was instructed to not rush. There's no no reason to expedite this customer.
I'm typing up a lunch order here. I'll see. You in a few.
Who wants Greek food today? If you're tuning in for insightful, discuss.
Once you've made a huge mistake.
My dad had a a doctor appointment last week. He actually had two in the same day and it's a lot to go to one, let alone 2, so I was able to schedule the earlier appointment and have it changed to a Tele appointment, which was great. So I just had to be on the call. The doctor Conferenced us in and we had the appointment. He checked on my dad and that was great. And then he had a second appointment and that one was with the pulmonologist. That's further away. Parking isn't so close. So it requires me to pull up, walk him in, get him settled. And then go park the car and then run back in. And sometimes there's a little weight and my dad, God bless him, has a lot less patience than he used to have. Mm-hmm. That's a bit characteristic of the age. And so I I convinced that doctor to do a telepoint. Also my dad. I get him all set up. God bless him. I love the guy. He's sitting at the table. It's post dinner time for him and I get the call all set up. We dial in. We're waiting in the queue. We're waiting for the doctor to come in. My dad is already starting to lose patients and he's making comments. Like, where is this guy? What's going on? I don't have all day. And I'm worried that just because the doctor's not on it, I don't know if he can hear us. So like that. Hang up and call him back. I I go, dad. No, it doesn't work like that. We got to just sit here now. My dad is in cocktail mode. Now, now he has a glass of vodka on the rocks. I.
Go on camera.
Dad. This is a video pulmonologist appointment and he goes. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's my dinner time. So he is on a tell appointment. With a pulmonology. Just surly and sipping a cocktail as she's going over his health care, I thought.
I think I'd like this.
I mean what a baller, right?
Frank Sinatra would have done.
It told Dean Martin Sinatra they they all would have done it. So he sat there and I don't think that Doctor noticed it or if he did, he didn't say anything but. Here we are. We're going over his oxygen level. His pulse ox meter. Readings all while he's sipping a cocktail on the call. And I I was just happy not to have to bring him all the way out to his appointment, which was a 40 minute drive.
Yeah. If we have to have cocktails to avoid the drive, then it's it's a win for. Everybody cocktails it is.
So that's how we handle doctor appointments. From now on it.
Might be a winning strategy. Yeah, that's soon.
He was so happy not to leave the house too. Oh, he was thrilled.
No need to put pants out today, Michael.
No, not at all.
Oh, at lunchtime I usually go out with my buddy. We walk, we work right in downtown Schenectady, so there's lots of options and stuff like that. One day he was unavailable, so I flew solo. I went and grabbed a sandwich and just said, you know, it's a beautiful day. I'm just. I'm just gonna walk around town a little bit. And as I was walking, I noticed the the Google car that does the Street View maps go by. And I was like ohh. Man, I hope I looked. Cool. Pretty sure I didn't. And then it turned down the street, went the other direction. And then as I continued to walk, it came up another St. it got me again.
Did you pose?
And then it went down. No. Did you stop with her?
Behind. Ohh you should. Have started like I'm not.
I'm totally not ready for it, I know.
I would have. I would have tried something funny. And then it got me a third time. So the The thing is it's a 360 camera, so it's gonna look like it's looking at me, but it went past me and it's probably. Looking disappointment like damn it, they got me again. Like an idiot. I yeah, I have my one chance at legacy fame and I I probably blew it.
I wonder if the software is intelligent enough to filter you out. If you were running alongside of it. If it passed you once and then you realized and then you ran up to get in front of it to pose.
Well, blurs your face. It does that. So yeah, it'll be hard to identify exactly me, but yeah, I think it does filter out moving objects. We do some laser scanning at work and it they those things know to get rid of moving things so.
Yeah.
I bet people would be trying to have a lot of fun with that. If they see that. Coming. Yes, exactly. Yeah, lot of inappropriate fun happening with the Google Maps car.
Yes.
I see them driving once in a while, much less nowadays.
Maybe they're all caught up.
I think I think they've got the entire the entire earth mapped. Speaking of mapping, have you noticed there's like no sightings or no talk or no mention of drones anymore? They just all of a sudden in one day just disappeared. And that was the end of it like.
They were never here. Yeah. No. Yeah, no, follow. No additional settings and no one's seeing them anymore, right? No, as you were actually seeing them out on Long Island.
I was seeing many daily large hovering, zooming and everybody claimed, oh, it's just drone enthusiasts and out of nowhere the hundreds you saw were suddenly gone. There's no longer any drone enthusiasts. They're all taking their drones out of the air. They have no. Interest anymore.
It was a fad.
What's the short lived fad? Yeah, we'll never know. We're still suspicious. Rich, you should be. You know, we haven't spoken. Ohh, man. I keep jumping all over you. Go ahead, you go first.
Now we could do it like we're trying to get our flow down and we, our timing is absolutely identical. Now what do you got?
Yeah.
Then you go. I was gonna say we haven't spoke about fashion recently and it makes me uncomfortable to see it, and I appreciate the fact that people have all black on, but it gets really bizarre when they pair it with brown shoes. Have you ever seen? That. Someone has a black shirt on. Black pants and then brown shoes. I think that's frowned upon in the fashion industry. For me, it just seems so uncomfortable to see it. It's so weird. I can't look at it. It it it creates this inner anxiety in me.
Weird. This clown knows you're not supposed.
Yeah, yeah, it's it's just so weird.
To do that. Yeah. That. That. Yeah, that's strange.
It made me very anxious.
I found some woman on, I think it was Instagram and she made reference to she was talking about AI. It's all the rage. It's probably gonna catch on, I think. And she was talking about how.
How?
It could go one of two ways, or a combination of both ways. We're all kind of scared of it right now and we think it will, you know, bad things will be done with it. But she said, you know what's going to happen, even as good as it gets, people are going to start getting fed up with fake, digitized stuff, even from trying to persuade you. With marketing or? Even, you know, fake news or AI generated music, she goes, I think an analog renaissance is coming. Where people are gonna start craving, going out and seeing live music, seeing performances and having actual, you know, human contact, going back to happy hours more and and starting to just a rejection of. This digital isolation and uh, even though it's getting better, we might start getting sick of it.
I think I.
Agree with that from the creative sense. Yeah, I it's a great tool for business. Like when you're when you're doing research or things or you're, you know, whatever the the stuff that you're doing. AI is it. It is truly amazing. But I think what it comes to creativity, I think people may get sick of it.
After a while I seen rendering and pictures and stuff and you know you could still tell that. It's it's generated through AI because some of it it's funny where you'll see you'll see a face with a pair of glasses and a a shirt that's someone with that face. And glasses would never wear. Yes, it still stands out. It's still obvious maybe if that gets a. Little. Better especially live or seeing something as it's happening. From performance.
Yeah. Because I mean, are they going to train the AI model to the the Bass player keeps missing a note over and over again like. Like. In real life, that never happens in.
AI, but it's part of it's part of Murray. It's part of Murray's.
OK, aye.
Arm, you know he can. Never seem to get the bridge.
Quite right. Marry the bass player. Ohh, there's Murray. He missed the D again this week.
He missed, but he owns all the gear so.
He goes, he goes right to that E string just refuses to play the D. Ohh I saw something on social media today and I got so excited for it. There was a posting for this jazz jam and it said funk soul, traditional modern jazz jam Wednesday night from 7:00 to 10:00. It sparked my interest and I'm I'm reading through the ad I'm getting more excited. By the minute. Where is this I have to make an effort to go to this. It sounds awesome and I finally get to the bottom of the ad and I look and it's at Cornelius, NC at the Old Town public.
Yeah.
House and I was so deflated when I read that I thought I gotta check this out. Sounds.
Like you're having a marginal week, so it was. Gonna kick you in.
The teeth. I need some advice on hand how to handle a situation with my wife. She was so sweet and while she was at the store, she realized that I was out of Marshmallow Fluff. So she. Bought some fluff, but it's not marshmallow fluff brand. It's another brand, an impostor brand.
Hmm.
I was very appreciative when she got it for me, but I don't want her to make the mistake and buy it again because she thinks that that's my favorite fluff when marshmallow fluff is the one and only. So I have to figure out how to break this news to her. Rich. What's your advice?
Wow, I'm not sure I have advice and. That's that's a. Tough one. Maybe she'll just happen to listen to the podcast. Hi, Nancy. And you're doing a great job.
Ohh.
You were so kind. You are. And I do that. No, she is kind and compassionate. She is a loving soul for sure. But seriously, next time get. The right stuff.
Please, it's only marshmallow fluff brand. Yeah, those are all my notes. I feel like this is not a not a winning. Show this week, rich.
See, I thought that last time and last episode was awesome. OK, I I was off my game. I was sleep deprived. I I dreaded the ending of that recording and then listening, listening back. It was it was really good. In fact, anybody listening now should go back and listen. To that one. Again, especially if you're disappointed with this one.
That's.
I don't even have anymore topics which I don't know what to say for myself.
Here I have one more. All right. I didn't get a tree taken down in front of my house. It just it was just old and it was becoming problematic. And so my neighbor Nick gave me a guy. He's like, oh, call Kevin. You know, he's great, blah. And he comes over and he's he's checking it out for me and he says. He's looking at it, he's sizing it up. He's like, yeah, I'm going to have to have another guy over here, man. That's kind of hanging out over the road. That's a that's a little concerning. Yeah. I'm gonna have to say, what do you think? And he's like, I'm thinking. I'm thinking eight. I was like in my head. That's a little bit more than I was expecting and he goes. Do you want the you want the stump going too? I'm like, it's right in my front yard. The stump has to. Go. Yeah. What? Would you charge me for that? He's like, it'll be 150 for that. So all in, you got $950 and I was trying to contain my joy that he meant 88, not 8. OK. What he's I thought he was going to say $8000. It's like, wow, I've had a tree work done in a long time. I really expensive. I thought he was going 8K. And he said 950 all in. I was like, dude, that's brilliant. Thank you. Yes, This is why I hired you. You are?
Ohh.
Oh really? Amazing. Thank you. You should have said, man. You should have pretended to be a little taken by it and then and then say you know what? OK, alright.
Normally I normally I do throw some negotiation in there. I I was so stunned me $7000 I was like done work is expensive, yeah.
So happy that it was so. Yeah. Yeah, we had a bunch of stuff taken down several years ago and he gave us an estimate and we didn't need it done at a particular time. So he was going to piggyback us with another job that he would get in the area. So we said that's fine. You can, you know, you don't even have to give us a huge heads up when you're coming. He took a look at it, gave us a price a few weeks later, he came and they did a great job.
That's very good.
Those guys are like monsters. They showed up. They had like 3 or 4 trucks and there must have been six or seven guys with them. I swear the trucks had not even stopped, and those guys had where they were already, like in the air jumping out. Of the trucks.
Time is money, yeah.
Starting across our lawn, running up our trees, chainsaws humming away, cut down, clean up all within like 3 or 4 hours. They were in and out, gone. It looked like they had never been there. It was amazing.
Wow, they got it right down.
Yeah. You know, my wife's outside with Dunkin' Donuts coffee, three dozen Donuts. She loves to, you know, she loves to. Take care of milk or sugar. You need. Like like, let him get the job done. They're gonna think we're rich. They're gonna think they're gonna think they're. They're gonna think they should have charged us more. Come on. Just call it good. We're good.
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Alright dude, we've included my list as well. So yes, stand by for the ingredients to the bionic Beaver. Alright, we'll pull the music behind it while I.
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Bionic Beaver recipe phillians Plattsburgh. Alright, ladies and gentlemen, this is the recipe to the Bionic Beaver. 2 ounces of absolute vodka. Arguably the worst tasting vodka ever. 12 ounces of Bush lager, 2 ounces of Southern Comfort. Peach liqueur. Oh, no. 7UP soda 2 ounces of slow gin, orange juice 2 ounces of gin, 2 ounces of grenadine, and you make it by the pitcher. It tastes terrible. It's really bad.
All right, that's a wrap. I don't know what to make of it, but I'll string something together and hopefully it won't be our worst show ever. Give our ears the rest. A few days, I'd say. What if this show sucks? I'm going to put episode 2 on it and then upload it. So it'll be like, oh, no.
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Wonder it was one of the early ones. Those guys were just getting their feet. Wet. All right on that. I will end.
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