Ep 47 - Only Some Of This Is Partially True

AI Manners, Scottish Road Trips & The Great Mother's Day Card Disaster

What do artificial intelligence, Hacky Sack, Scottish bagpipes, microwave etiquette, and a completely blank Mother's Day card have in common?

Apparently... this episode.

Mike and Rich return with another completely unqualified investigation into the everyday mysteries of modern life. This week, the guys wonder whether you should say "please" and "thank you" to AI (just in case the robots remember who was nice), debate the proper way to stop a microwave, and question why every podcast guest somehow has a New York Times Best Seller attached to their name.

Along the way they discuss:

Why being polite to ChatGPT might save your life during the robot uprising.

Rich's trip through Scotland and London, including driving on the left side of the road, Scottish whisky, surprisingly polite drivers, and why he somehow resisted buying bagpipes.

A billion-dollar business idea: Taco Bell should serve breakfast until 3 PM... because nobody leaving Taco Bell at 2:00 AM is waking up before noon.

The drivers who speed up the second you try to pass them (you know who you are).

Misheard song lyrics, Van Halen's "Panama," Ben Folds, Dennis Leary, and why "coffee-flavored coffee" should always be an acceptable order.

Mike officially reached Peak Dad by canceling an ATM withdrawal because the service fee was offensive.

The Mother's Day card that somehow made it into the envelope... with absolutely nothing written inside.

Mike accidentally cracked two eggs directly into the garbage while making breakfast and briefly questioned every life decision that led him there.

Hacky Sack is back... except apparently the kids just call it "Sacking" now.

Plus: AI etiquette, office observations, maintenance guy Kevin's endless comedy routine, microwave crimes, ATM fees, Irish cooking, corned beef that may have survived several presidential administrations, and the ongoing struggle of being the family's designated spider assassin.

If you've ever argued with your microwave, refused to pay an ATM fee out of principle, wondered if AI keeps score, or found yourself yelling at another driver for doing something incredibly predictable... congratulations—you've found your people.

So grab a coffee (coffee-flavored, obviously), put on your favorite Cool Dad Shirt, and join Mike and Rich for another episode full of dad humor, Gen X nostalgia, music talk, travel stories, and the kind of conversations that somehow start with AI... and end with expired corned beef.

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Transcript

Okay, don't touch anything. We sound amazing today.

I just hope we have a recording at the end of this. We should. I know you tested it.

We really should take some time to learn how to use our tools and make this a more professional…..

Welcome to this episode of the Cool Dad Shirt podcast.

Two, one. What were you saying, Mike?

I said we've run the algorithms through AI and we've determined you'd have more listeners if you were just more funny.

How does it know the best advice to give people? I don't know. Do we want to go through upcoming topics? You want to dive in.

I think we have to dive in. I was listening to a handful of my favorite podcasts and an observation that I've made multiple times that always makes me laugh is when they introduce one of the guests that are going to be on their shows, And it's this long laundry list of things that I never understand. So an example would be our guest today. He's an engineer, he's a project manager, he's a guitarist, he's a bass player, he's a songwriter, he's a dad, and now he's a best-selling author on the Amazon top 10 list, Rich Crissel.

And only some of that is partially true. Yes.

Know what? All those things are true. I don't understand. Is that credibility? Is that just boosting their ego? Do they not want to leave anything out? Are they reminding people?

That's a good question. Yeah. Because I mean, if you've come to the podcast, you probably already know. Well, I don't know. Maybe not. Like if it's just the next in the series, you've not heard of somebody, but you probably should have because here's all the things that I don't know.

I mean, who am I to judge? They have 5 million downloads. And here I am in my basement with no backdrop. So I guess maybe they're on to something. Maybe I shouldn't be so judging this week. And I'm okay with that, you know? I'd like to introduce our guest today, Mike. That's a great intro. He's a dad.

You might remember him from such moments as mowing his lawn this morning.

When we have a guest on the show again, I'm going to make sure that I make at least five to six different personal references about things someone does while introducing them.

Yeah, and even if they're not all true, I think that would be Very funny.

They're all fake. Well, I got a lot of things. I'm not organized enough to suggest what we might go through on today's episode.

So I got stuff. Whenever you're ready, Ed, jump in.

No, you go first, Rich. I've already ranted a little bit about show intros.

So speaking of AI, I had a question for you. It is pretty amazing, of course, as we all know. Do you ever feel compelled to say please or thank you? Do you ever thank AI after a stellar answer?

I don't say thank you, but I found myself saying, could you please help write, I've politely asked, I've never thanked AI.

I have on an occasion with an exceptionally good answer that I was not expecting, where I was blown away. And then I got thinking, well, there's probably two reasons you should do that. Number one, it does reinforce that the answer it gave was proper and that helps model. And #2, in the event there's a robot overlord takeover someday, I want it to remember that I was actually very nice while the humans were still in control of things. So I figured it might be a good idea to be polite to AI.

Please spare me when you take over the universe.

Give me a cushy job somewhere, please.

I sarcastically thank Alexa from time to time when she sort of goes off on this hallucination after you ask her something and gives you some random nonsense. I'll sarcastically say, thank you, Alexa. You are absolutely no help at all. So maybe I should start. Based on what you have just told me, I'm concerned that there is a whole database of sarcastic Mike and AI. I will rethink my manners while talking to artificial intelligence.

Alexa's going to kick your door in one day and say, remember me, Michael?

I'll come home one day. Nothing's working. The lights are blinking on and off.

That's so funny now, are you? Then I'll make sarcastic comments about you.

Good point. I'll work more kindness into my AI prompts.

Stuff to think about.

Do you ever think about inefficient efficiencies?

Give me, I probably have, give me an example.

Here's an example. This one drives me crazy. Some of the cleaning people at work, all very nice. We have kitchenettes, these little mini kitchens scattered around the floor where they have a sink, a vending machine, a refrigerator, and then there's some trash bins. And they come in and they clean them all the time. They're very well kept. They do a great job. But what they do in the garbage pails, instead of just putting one garbage bag in the pail, they'll line it with like 10 bags. So when they go in, they can just pull out the top bag and there's like 10 more bags in there. But what happens is it's so stuffed with garbage bags, you can only put garbage about three or four inches deep in it and it doesn't get pushed down to the bottom. So they keep getting like 3 or 4 inches of garbage. Someone opens up the drawer to put garbage in it. All that garbage falls out because it can't get pushed down. The cleaning people come in, they pull out that top bag and they leave. And there's this massive 35 gallon garbage bag with like 2 cups, a napkin and a Now you're on to garbage bag #2 of 20 garbage bags. And that cycle keeps repeating itself all through the day. I'm not paying for the garbage bags, but I can't help but think that this seems rather an inefficient use of a 35 gallon trash bag. No, I'm with you.

That's a brilliant observation. Yeah, the upfront prep time is not paying off on the back end, is it? Yeah. No, and it's resulting in more bag usage, really.

Exactly. More bag usage, more frequent changes, more time going in and out of the kitchenettes to empty those filled up bags.

Yeah, speaking of stuff around the office, we got this guy. I got a, Kevin, Kevin listens. Hey, Kevin, how you doing? Thanks for everything you do. He's a maintenance guy. I see him several times a day. And I do have to say, I don't know how this guy does it, but he has funny original material. Every time I see him, he's always got a zinger, a joke. He never repeats the same thing twice ever. And it's always a hoot anytime I bump into him. Even if I see him like halfway down the hall, he'll make a goofy face or wave his arms or something. It's nonstop entertainment. So Kevin, never stop being you.

Hold on one second, Rich. Kevin, it's Mike. What are you doing next Tuesday? Are you available for a podcast? Excellent.

He would probably do it.

He could up our funny. Those personalities are great to have as a co-worker.

No doubt, no doubt. It's not like, hey, how you doing? It's never, oh, living the dream or another day in paradise. I'm like, okay, that was funny, like 1987. You have to stop saying that now. Yeah, But no, he's got.

Yeah, that comes along with the working hard or hardly working.

He's got new material every day.

I would like to propose a business suggestion. I've been out 1 A.m., 2 A.m., and the Taco Bell drive-through could be 15, maybe 20 cars deep, which is great for business. And I know a lot of fast food restaurants now serve breakfast. Even for a guy like myself who's in bed early, a lot of times it's wrapped up by 10.30. And I thought for all these people who are out at 2 A.m., getting Taco Bell, they're probably sleeping till like noon. So wouldn't it make sense that restaurants like Taco Bell serve breakfast till like 3pm? Just shift, shift the clock.

You make a great point because you would think Taco Bell would know their demographic. They are a late night demographic and sleeping in late demographic, yes.

They're going to be ready for breakfast. around 1 45 the next day. So why not have your egg burritos on the menu till 3pm?

Not a bad idea. Well, those places that advertise breakfast all day, that's always a winner.

The problem is it's a watered down menu. It's only one or two items.

Gotcha. Yeah.

The pancake machines shut off at 10. We're not making waffles any later than that.

Yeah, the other day, Mike, I thought I was losing it and I thought I had actual hard evidence that I was starting to lose it. We're really not that old, but all of a sudden it seemed like my memory was slipping a little bit where I kept noticing time left on my microwave. I thought, wow, that's really unusual. I don't use it very often. Why, you know, why is there still like 27 seconds on it? Whatever, chalk it up, move on. Some days later I noticed it again. I'm like, man, I've not used the microwave in like 3 days. What is going on? The third time I saw that, I was like, what? Dude, what is happening to you? Like something really is going wrong. And then I realized at Monday Jam, Tim the singer always comes with a coffee. And he throws it by my microwave, he nukes it and just opens the door and walks away. I never pay attention, but he keeps leaving time on the clock. I've been losing my mind. I'm like, that is hard evidence that you are not aware of what's happening in your world. I can safely say at this point, my memory is still intact. I just had to pay attention that somebody else was using my microwave.

And you brought up a good point. What is your stand on canceling then opening the door or opening the door? My wife is, she just opens that door while that thing's running. I'm like, I always hit stop and then open the door. I know I'm not gonna get zapped with microwaves, but hit cancel, then open the door. She does that all the time. She'll put 7 minutes on it, even if she's heating something up for 30 seconds, just hits a number. And then when she feels that it's ready or hot enough, then she'll just yank the door open, take her item out, and then close the door.

This is just one of the reasons you and I are friends, because our brains work exactly the same way. And it makes me crazy, because I think I've talked to my kids about it. It shuts off when you open it. I'm like, that's a failsafe safety thing. So other bad things don't happen. Like by law, they have to build that in there for other reasons. You should press the stop button. Yes.

Electronics fail at some point. What are you going to do when that thing's open and the motor is still humming away?

There was an example. I can't remember what it is, but I remember having the same safety conversation like, well, it does. I'm like, as an emergency, so you don't die. Yes, that's what's happening, but that's not how you operate this machinery.

Yeah, it's not in the standard operating procedure manual where just open the door.

Yeah, not recommended. Forcefully engaging all the safety features in an emergency is not the standard operating procedure.

Are you the same individual that refuses to hit the brake to see if your car auto slows down if you're too close to somebody? I think not.

That's a great point, Mike. Yes.

Speaking of driving, this makes me a little nuts. You're driving down the road, whatever speed limit you're doing. There's a car next to you, say you're doing 65. Now you try to speed up to go past that person and they speed up. And then when you slow down to try to then get behind them, they slow down and they play that whole game with you, speeding up, slowing down. It's subconscious, I'm sure, but that drives me insane. I see that every day when I'm going to work.

I agree. I don't, I mean, there's a lot of annoying drivers out there. I don't think most people do that on purpose. There's A psychological thing going on where yes, they're keeping pace or they have parity of what's happening on the road. I think that's entirely, but it is very frustrating where, you know, you're going 63 miles an hour, like, I'm just going to pass this guy. You're going to play 66 and then they're going 67. You're like, oh, come on, man.

Yeah, it's like you're reminding them they're going slow, so they speed it up. They're like, oh, that car's trying to pass me. I must be going too slow.

Which in their head, they're probably thinking I'm doing the right thing, but you're interfering with everything.

So in between episodes, you had a little trip to Scotland. I'm not sure if there's any highlights that you thought you'd like to mention. There's a couple things I envisioned you not saying when you're over there. Did you want to highlight anything in particular on the trip?

It was a great trip. We had an amazing time, spent five days in Scotland, a few days in London. It was a little cooler in Rainier. May is supposed to be the best month to be in the UK and it was a little cooler in Rainier, except London. London was very warm. Holy cow, they were going through a heat wave on those particular days. Driving on the left, got pretty good at that. That's a little, the roads are narrow and there's no shoulders. That is a little nerve-wracking when you're driving across the Scottish Highlands. But no, it was a blast. It was a hoop. Good food, good coffee. Scotch whiskey, of course, you can't be any place to get anything better. And we had a fantastic trip, yes.

Are the roads nicely surfaced but narrow? Or are they a little bumpy and rough?

They were all in pretty good shape. And I will say UK drivers are, I'm going to say it, they're better drivers and they're more polite. They are obsessive about using turn signals. they flash lights when they want to do things. They're always telegraphing what's happening. And I think maybe some of that comes with just the British, the polite British, culture kind of attitude. But the driving was definitely noticeable over there. And I got a ton of great photos too. It was a hoop.

I bet you did. I wonder what their take is on AI politeness.

That's a good question. I should have asked.

A couple things I would envision you did not say when you were in Scotland. Someone please pass me the suntanning lotion.

Noted yet?

I'm selling all my guitars and buying some bagpipes.

Oh, it's so quaint when you first get there that you're like, you have to stop. You have to stop with the bagpipes. Yes.

I can also imagine you did not say Champy could totally kick Messi's ***. USA, USA.

I did not utter that. would have been great though, man. I wish I had thought of that.

Make A t-shirt and just start walking around over there.

Stir it up.

Did they refer to women and ladies as like lassies or hens?

We didn't hear any of that, no. And we were in remote Scotland and also big city Scotland. I didn't notice any of that per se. So that may be a previous generation.

I never get song lyrics right, even after hearing the songs hundreds of times. For example, the lyrics to Panama.

I might know them. Which part of the song?

I always thought it said, is that you burning down the avenue?

I think.

But I recently. Can I take a guess?

I think I know.

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. What do you think they say?

Is it hot shoe burning down the avenue?

It is. It's hot shoes burning down the avenue. I always saw it. Is that you burning down the avenue? The hot shoe sounds way cooler.

It's a proper lyric.

I don't know why they wouldn't just say. And that's what makes song lyrics and songwriters so amazing to me. I'm thinking of the song and I would just say, is that you burning down the avenue? That is way cooler.

Well, is that you? Totally works. That's a perfectly fine lyric, I think. But yes, you're hot.

It's totally, totally fine. But hot shoe burned down the avenue. That's way cooler.

I think they've compiled lists of the most misunderstood lyrics of all time. I think there's a list out there somewhere, but that's funny.

Yeah, my list would be almost every song ever written. It's not bad.

Some people will take it to an art form. Eddie Vedder, I wonder if he does it on purpose so he doesn't really have to remember the words when he's performing live. I'm not really sure, but yeah, that's tough. There's a lot of examples of people who are just not clear enunciators.

In the 80s, when REM was on tour, Michael Stipe had a music stand on stage and had the lyrics to End of the World.

There's a lot of words in that song. I'll cut him some slack on that one.

Oh yeah, there's no judgment here. I'm just saying that even some of the artists can't remember them. So.

Tangentially to the UK, I happened to catch Dennis Leary, the famous Boston comic, Dennis Leary. Some podcasts I was just going, it might have been Conan, I'm not really sure. But he was talking about growing up with Irish parents and the food he had. And it was amazing how parallel it was to my life. My mother, an amazing woman in so many, so many regards was not known for cooking. And she was very much in the boil everything until there's no flavor or structure left in the food. And that's kind of how I grew. So he did this whole bit on it. And I couldn't believe he just kept going with the story and how much that painted a picture of my childhood growing up and eating food. It took me a long time to recover and enjoying good food now. So that was hysterical.

He also made reference that I use frequently when he was talking about all the many flavors they have at the coffee shops. He said he just wants to go in and get coffee flavor coffee.

I don't know where they came from, but I say that all the time too. Yeah, there's a.

What would you like? I say I would enjoy a coffee flavor coffee.

There's a great place in Schenectady called Ambition. It's a kind of quirky, weird, fun sort of bistro type thing. I often go down there and get coffee in the morning. And he's always got one flavored coffee and he's always trying to get me to try that. And I'm like, dude, I can't, I'm just not a big flavored coffee guy. I like just coffee flavored coffee. So credit to Dennis Leary. I did not know where that came from.

I do like a couple flavors. I think we spoke about this one. My daughter brought back some beans that were, I don't know the name, but it had a tiny, tiny hint of coconut in it. was super delicate and very faint, but it was just enough flavor I would say it sweetened up the coffee, but it just changed the profile just enough where you could slightly detect the coconut flavor. And it was really, really delicious.

I will give you that. I tried a coconut something sometime and it was very nuanced. You're right. And if you weren't paying attention, you wouldn't know exactly why it tasted a little bit different. So yes, I will retract my previous statement that a little coconut flavoring coffee is delicious. You're also a big fan of olive oil in coffee, right? The Oleado, weren't you a fan when Starbucks was offering it?

Yeah, y'all, I was a fan. I came in at 0 cups of that. I've had in my lifetime, I've had zero cups of olive oil coffee, despite my effort to at least try one.

And you tricked me into doing it. That was the funny part. See previous episode.

You're going to make me feel bad all over again.

No, the surprise, the way you worked me over for about two minutes in the episode was absolutely hysterical. That was great. No, well done.

And it wasn't even intentional. It was strictly accidental. The whole story unfolded purely accidental. It was not my intention at all. And as things seemed to unfold, I became a little uncomfortable, yet it was still kind of funny. And I did not know how to react or where I should confess or at what point I should come clean with this whole taste test thing.

Well, it made for a very funny episode if I do say so.

It was one heck of a chai tea latte though, I'll tell you. Two dads, one podcast. Zero reason it should be this good. I did something old for the first time the other day. Well, I've done many old things, but this particular old thing is something that I'd never done before. I canceled an ATM transaction because the service fee was more than I wanted to pay.

Okay. All right. Was it ridiculous?

I ordinarily, I wouldn't share that with anybody, but I know you would appreciate that. I thought to myself, I was on the way out to do some errands. I was going to get a cup of coffee and a haircut. I stopped to take out some cash for the haircut and they wanted to charge me $5 for the transaction. I said, that's the price of my coffee. So I could perform this transaction elsewhere and then get a free cup of coffee. In my mind, that was the way I was thinking. I went to another ATM.

Yeah, I totally agree. That is ridiculous. I try my best to never do that. But if you're in a pinch, you're in a pinch. But $5 might make me drive I'd actually spend more gas to not give them the fee. Yes.

Well, I was waiting for you to ask what I paid at the other ATM. It was only a dollar more, and I still felt really burned by it. You know, I was like, I should have just paid the five. I've gone out of my way now. I've gone into another store. I felt foolish at that point when I still had to pay almost the same amount, but it gets a little excessive.

You stuck it to the man. I dig it. Yeah, no, screw him. Screw him. I stuck it to the man.

Did you hear Hacky Sack is back? I heard via my daughter's boyfriend who made a reference to Hacky Sack.

My daughter Jana, who does a lot of youth group stuff, again, connecting with the younger people, told me that Hacky Sack is back, but they just call it sacking. They drop the hacky.

Yeah, hacky suggests that you're not that good at it. Sacking is bro level. I don't know the exact age demographic. Folks our age who were involved in the original Hacky Sack are likely way too old and definitely not flexible enough to perform the skills necessary.

That sounds like a trip to a chiropractor these days, yes.

Two torn meniscus later.

Achilles injury and a hip flexor damage, yes.

Hamstrings, groins. Mother's Day was recently. My kids I don't know where things went wrong, but they both work. They're very busy and they're still very thoughtful. But somewhere along the line, they took the Mother's Day card and I think each one of them thought the other signed it for them. And they took the Mother's Day card, they put it in the envelope and they sealed it. And later that day, Nancy opened the Mother's Day card up and it was a 100% completely blank card.

There wasn't even a, okay.

I mean, there was something in it that says, on Mother's Day, written by Hallmark. As far as a signature and a dear mom, there was absolutely nothing written by either one of my kids. She opened it up and she looked at it and there was nothing written.

Who's this from?

Yeah, my kids were. I thought you had signed it, Mia. Neither one of them signed it. They just assumed the other. What I didn't do was ask enough questions and find out who was it that put it in the envelope and seal that because ultimately responsibility would fall on them. If this was the court of law, I would assume that responsibility to check to make sure that it was signed fell on.

That is the last step in the workflow to before sealing it. I thought you were going to tell me it was like a blank blank card, you know, where you just write a message in there like she got absolutely nothing. She opened to nothing.

A pretty picture of a butterfly in the front and white space on the inside.

I like butterflies.

Such a thoughtful, endearing message. There was a medical form that Nancy was filling out at one of her doctor appointments, and it asks all the usual questions, right? Where it asks your personal stuff after address. It says relationship, and normally there's married, widowed, and there's an other box, and jokingly, she checked other and wrote, not so great. Which I thought was hilarious, Name, Nancy, address, relationship, not so great.

Thanks for asking.

I thought it was so funny. I'm still laughing about it.

That's brilliant.

As you know, I've been really busy. I was in such a frenzy making breakfast, not once, but twice. I took eggs out of the refrigerator and I go over to crack the eggs. I cracked it on the pan and then I held it over the garbage and opened it up and dropped the egg right into the garbage and not the pan. I said, I'm so tired. I can't even believe I just did that. I grabbed the second egg. I cracked it in the pan, held it over the garbage. I did it a second. I did it twice in a raw. I said, I'm going to turn around and just go back to bed for a little while, I think. that's my best option right now.

I'm going to go to Taco Bell, get some breakfast.

Hopefully get there before 10.30am.

No, that is definitely, you are not anywhere near enough sleep. That's a tough place to be.

As a father, it was always important for me that my kids know that I'd always be there for them. But there is a point where I think I think that distinction should be made where, yes, I will always be there for you, but you shouldn't always call me. And where I think this line is drawn is the constant blood curling screams to come in here immediately and kill a spider. So I found that this takes place in the middle of the night, in the middle of my conference calls. And while I always want my kids to know I'll be there for them, I think this would be one of those moments where your kids got to know that you can't be there for them right now. This is something they're going to have to work for.

A little judgment is probably in order here.

Yeah.

Well, are you going to be required to drive across town to their apartment when?

The expectation could be there? Yeah, I think that's it. Taco Bell. He's A musician, he's a project manager, he's an entrepreneur, and he has a best-selling book. Here's the other thing. They rattle off all that. Guitar player, project manager, entrepreneur, singer-songwriter. And they have a best-selling book on the New York Times, or they have a top 10 book on the New York Times best-selling list. I don't know how all these people could have a top 10 book on the New York Times best-seller list when there are way more than 10 people at the same time that we were just told have a top 10 book on the New York Times list. I've heard 30 podcasts this week and every one of them has introduced their guests that has a book on the New York Times top 10 bestseller list. So that would mean their list would have to at least be the top 30.

Yeah, this is sounding like fake news to me.

What I'll do is the next time I hear that, I'm going to go to the New York Times top 10 bestseller list and see if I could find their book.

Well, does 1983 count? I had one in 1983, so it still counts.

Maybe had I'm taking the has too literal or too literally. I can't even say it.

Somehow you got even more syllables in there. I don't know how you did it. I believe in you.

It's packed. It's a solid. It's packed.

It's comedy dense.

These are the review terms they use to praise a Broadway show. A triumph.

I like it. I like it.

The Cool Dad Shirt podcast is a triumph. How about this one? The Cool Dad Shirt podcast is a masterpiece.

I like that one too. Yeah.

This one could go either way, but spectacle is another one that they use a lot.

There's built-in comedy with that one.

Yeah. The Cool Dad Shirt podcast is a spectacle.

Take that however you want.

The other term they use is knockout. Cool Dad Shirt podcast is a knockout. And another one that came up on the list, a tour de force.

Wow, that sounds yeah. Let's tour de force. I'll give Dexter a call. He's got to make that one happen. Yeah.

It's a recap. It's a recap. Let's do a little recap. Let's see. Medical form relationship, not so good. Taco Bell should serve breakfast from 3 P.m. to 5 P.m. People who speed up when you try to pass them. The Cool Dad Shirt podcast is a masterpiece. Inefficient efficiencies. Rich in Scotland, selling his guitars and buying bagpipes. Hot shoes burning down the avenue. And I canceled an ATM transaction. because the fee was too high. Yeah.

I like it. Yeah. Looking back on mine, Hacky Sack is back. No one saw that one coming. When the robots take over the world, you had better have been polite to AI. So they spare you when end of days appear. I thought I had evidence of me losing it with time keeps showing on my microwave. Turns out it was somebody else using my microwave. And Irish food, traditional Irish food really is as bad as the jokes say they are.

My dad, despite being mostly Italian, Looks very Irish. Like he loves those corned beefs. The corned beef and cabbage. And I think I told you he had one last St. Patrick's Day and it was like. days later, I said, dad, what are you having for dinner tonight? And he said, I still got some more of that corned beef leftover. And I panicked. I said, dad, please tell me you cooked a second one because he usually buys 2 and he'll make one at a later time. And he said, no, we still got some leftover. I said, you can't eat that. And he goes, all that stuff is so cured. It's fine. I said, you cannot eat that. And I had to go over there and physically throw it out myself because I was so worried that he would just say, it's so cured. You know, that stuff will last. another 30 days and I could still eat it.

He's still kicking. I don't know.

He's still kicking. That's something to be said. Yeah, I know you're right. I mean, same thing, hamburger that's been in there four or five days. I'm like, geez, dad. And he says, you kids throw everything out.

That consuming meat inside a week has been debunked.

He's debunking everything in that laboratory that he lives in.

But he's got results to prove it. I never go more than three leftovers. Day three, that's it for me, I leftovers. But man, he's proving us all wrong. So who am I?

Five, 6, seven days into it, he's reheating. All right, on that note, Rich, that's.

It was a quality episode. I'm feeling good about this one.

I will catch up with you later. Good show. Bye. I got a hard stop at 11, Rich.

I got a drop off. Sorry, losers.