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[SPEAKER_08]: Now here's Mike.
[SPEAKER_08]: Josh, we weren't here for Cinco de Mayo and we were both a little under the weather yesterday Who posted that we don't need to tell everybody one more sick I really don't think we do who posted that We don't really do that.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's just a little thing.
[SPEAKER_09]: I wanted to be there's the type of emails I get my
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, it's best off.
[SPEAKER_09]: Does that mean the show ended?
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, I don't care.
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't give a shit.
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't know why we have to, you know, I mean, there are, we want them to go up every morning at 15.
[SPEAKER_09]: OK, but I, if we know show on them without playing.
[SPEAKER_08]: I was, I was barfing.
[SPEAKER_08]: And unfortunately, there was another little person.
[SPEAKER_08]: So that's why we didn't have a show yesterday.
[SPEAKER_08]: But anyway, uh, and as you can tell, I'm really happy about that.
[SPEAKER_08]: Anyway, welcome to the show.
[SPEAKER_08]: Now, I, we weren't here for Cinco de Mayo, and, uh, I had sent you a, uh, a little, uh,
[SPEAKER_08]: a little treat for that and I was wondering whether we had that line around anywhere you didn't do any graphics for it but I wondered if the audio what's that yeah I don't have the graphics ready for it but I do know we hear the the the latest musical offering that that I had a couple of days ago
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[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, so yeah, clearly the best lyrics yet.
[SPEAKER_08]: Those are happy to see.
[SPEAKER_08]: You know, sometimes just sharing the audio because I know that the, well, it would just be my impression.
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't know what you do when you get those songs, but I would imagine it's a bit more labor-intensive than when I'm sitting in car line writing a lyrics and then describing a song.
[SPEAKER_08]: So, you know, don't feel that you need to do it every single time.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's perfectly cool.
[SPEAKER_09]: And what's fun is when we play them on the show, the audio only listeners get to hear it.
[SPEAKER_08]: This is true.
[SPEAKER_08]: The positive people.
[SPEAKER_09]: And we always use it as a countdown.
[SPEAKER_08]: And it's just the most here's the drill usually when I do it when I do it I've done a three or four of them and probably two of them I've done while waiting for my son for about 45 minutes that's literally how much time I invest in doing it and some that listen to it might say well it sounds like that no what it is is elaborate because the work is done by a robot here it is
[SPEAKER_08]: my son is the great arbiter he hops into the car and he immediately will let me know whether he approves there was a big grin on his face he liked that when he gets in the car is it just the words or is it the Miami sound machine as well it's the Miami sound machine uh... then i and i by the way if you want to know the process here i put in not Miami sound machine but uh... i think was it
[SPEAKER_08]: was just no boy band not Manudo but I put the one where you can only oh that's the one where you when you turned 12 they killed you right and I didn't put in a mambo number five which I wanted to because it was too big and I didn't put in a ricky eglacius but whatever I put it in that's right you wouldn't ricky Martin
[SPEAKER_08]: Ricky Martin.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's what I put in.
[SPEAKER_06]: I like Ricky Martin.
[SPEAKER_06]: I like him a lot.
[SPEAKER_08]: So Ricky Martin is what I put in there and and there it is.
[SPEAKER_09]: So I got a new way for you to use this talent.
[SPEAKER_09]: Really.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: Have you seen the little league videos where the moms change up the walk ups songs.
[SPEAKER_09]: No, what we're about to, well, what they'll do is they'll not tell the kids and they'll mix up the walk-up songs and then it's some embarrassing song as the kids walking up.
[SPEAKER_09]: Really?
[SPEAKER_09]: So you could make Michael his own walk-up song.
[SPEAKER_09]: Not tell Michael.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm pretty sure I didn't do the play.
[SPEAKER_08]: I am pretty sure because I've heard the similar one for so many different teams that they farm out, the walk-up music and they announce the leaders, which is right.
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't know why I feel so bad about it.
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't like it so much, but it's the same guy and no, because you know you can do better.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's what you feel about it.
[SPEAKER_08]: But it's just I don't know, you know, I think it's an app.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's an accept that people use the as far as the kids and the involvement my entire summer has taken shape recently because my son made the all-star team and now the potential is what it's all about in all stars where I have to I think my family really does think I hate them
[SPEAKER_08]: It is either the end of maybe getting of June or potentially the entire summer, depending on single-in-limination with these, with these, with tournaments where they go, it's a warm-up tournament, followed by districts, followed by state, and then if you, you know, if you do well in state, then suddenly you're up in Branson, Missouri doing what you could go
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't know if you'll ever get to Maine then, it's just, look, this is the last official, although it's not because he's going to play 13, you, but it's a joy, we love it, and I was really, really, I was surprised because he didn't hit as well, but he's a utility guy, so I think coaches want him on a team because he plays
[SPEAKER_08]: uh... catcher third base shortstop first base and he pitches so the fact that somebody told me a long time ago as far as little league if your kid is versatile a coach will want you on the team and that makes sense that's what he is so uh... yeah i uh... text of my sister is because we're coming up to we're going up to main probably mid-july and i said uh... just ahead's up and i i just can hear the shoulders go
[SPEAKER_08]: there he goes again.
[SPEAKER_08]: I want to I want to go.
[SPEAKER_08]: I want to be in the great white north.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's been too long since I've had any time up there.
[SPEAKER_08]: So we'll see we'll see what happens with that.
[SPEAKER_06]: What I'm getting from this is because of what could happen.
[SPEAKER_06]: You can't really make plans for your entire summer.
[SPEAKER_08]: There's one hard and fast rule, Rob, about little league.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay, when you get on one of these teams, the commitment is total.
[SPEAKER_08]: You have to, you have to make the practices and you have to make the games.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's it.
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, obviously, and he'll miss your family.
[SPEAKER_08]: You know, I ordered the t-shirts with the rosters on the back, which will be a keep sick for me till the day.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm pushing up daisies, which has his name on the back.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's just very, very, it's a big, big deal down here, and I don't mind being involved in your house, too.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, it is.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's a big deal.
[SPEAKER_06]: I've known you a long time and to see you put golf even off just a little to the left.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: This means a lot to you.
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, it's it's fun and it's great for him and it gets in the way of his e-bikeing, which in my opinion I was thinking about this early of this morning is the new skateboarding.
[SPEAKER_08]: You think?
[SPEAKER_08]: That's what I think.
[SPEAKER_08]: I just see the in other kids.
[SPEAKER_08]: His buddies that are also active in sports and do so but that when I when I come in and I drive up and I see my driveway Yeah, filled with these kids with their wrenches and their screwdrivers and then I And they're like 1950's grease monkeys.
[SPEAKER_06]: They're like fixing the old paniac
[SPEAKER_08]: But it feels that way and then Carl and I were the whole Carl and I were heading out together to the grocery store yesterday at about five o'clock one You know when when your tummy feels better you suddenly want to you know go out and get something right as we were driving out of the neighborhood
[SPEAKER_08]: I saw the three of these boys, and they're all sweet kids, they're nice kids, but I see him in a lie, I said there goes the motorcycle gang.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: There goes the motorcycle gang.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, I mean, you know what?
[SPEAKER_06]: You remember the classic episode of Andy Griffith of Nippet in the bud?
[SPEAKER_06]: That's what?
[SPEAKER_06]: You're having a Barney five moment there.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: If they break a street lamp next week, they'll be robbing banks.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think it's probably a problem.
[SPEAKER_09]: I think it's my problem with it is skateboarding, required some talent.
[SPEAKER_09]: It required some exercise.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_09]: These e-bikes, they just press a button and go.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, we used to pedal our ass off and that would be the only way a lot of kids got exercise and now it is it is what it is, but look I love kids I I I'm delighted to have this opportunity to be around them and
[SPEAKER_08]: You know, he is the center of my life right now.
[SPEAKER_08]: And we will see how far it goes.
[SPEAKER_08]: I think the earliest he could go be the end of May.
[SPEAKER_08]: And if he goes out, he gave it his best shot.
[SPEAKER_08]: And we'll see what happens.
[SPEAKER_08]: But yeah, the e-bikes, let me give you the drill.
[SPEAKER_08]: We've been living e-bike world here.
[SPEAKER_08]: So here is the very, very latest.
[SPEAKER_08]: OK.
[SPEAKER_08]: If you remember, he worked us essentially for six months.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, I remember to get one of these.
[SPEAKER_09]: Ross, it is to the point that it is all 12-year-olds talk about in the different models and the different brands and ones never good enough.
[SPEAKER_09]: Most important thing in the world, too.
[SPEAKER_09]: Let me offer this one.
[SPEAKER_09]: You're talking about the $5,000 model.
[SPEAKER_06]: Now, I know that and that's expensive, but is there any part of you and I would be this way if I had a 12-year-old still that they're doing something mechanical and real and not having their face in the screen?
[SPEAKER_06]: I think it's pretty cool that they're working out of the screen.
[SPEAKER_08]: think that holds water.
[SPEAKER_08]: I do think that that actually could be a trueism.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: The problem is that I'll give it to you straight.
[SPEAKER_08]: We go to the the neighbors over the weekend.
[SPEAKER_08]: And over the weekend, we hang out with friends of Michael that he hasn't seen it, and we love the mom and dad.
[SPEAKER_08]: OK. Let me see.
[SPEAKER_08]: How do I put this delicately?
[SPEAKER_08]: If we are the Pittsburgh pirates, the family we are visiting is the Los Angeles Dodgers.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, not only are they a better family, but they have better hats, but they are a better family.
[SPEAKER_08]: They have better that.
[SPEAKER_08]: Let's just say that they have been or the wife.
[SPEAKER_08]: They got you sick.
[SPEAKER_08]: Stop it.
[SPEAKER_08]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_08]: I didn't want to discuss.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't think that had anything to do with it.
[SPEAKER_08]: The essential difference is they can field any team they want.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: All right.
[SPEAKER_08]: We are limited in our ability to field the best possible team.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's the best way I want to describe it.
[SPEAKER_08]: They got to tag in the garage.
[SPEAKER_08]: And they will they have the Ferrari racing team.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: That is on the way hasn't been delivered yet, but when we arrive, another kid in the same neighborhood who is also on the Ferrari racing team has his Ferrari parked in the driveway.
[SPEAKER_08]: And when I look at it, and my son is just going to blip, blip, blip, blip, blip, blip, and then it becomes all encompassing because he essentially spends the bulk of the week in there Saturday and Sunday.
[SPEAKER_08]: And, and I, it's just, what are the, what's the tell when Michael comes up to me, dad, let me ask you something.
[SPEAKER_06]: And when I hear that, I know here it comes, you know what, he is a remarkably smart kid, which is an immediate, immediate disadvantage.
[SPEAKER_08]: He is super smart, didn't have that trouble with Robert.
[SPEAKER_08]: Very great.
[SPEAKER_08]: There is no off switch, but look what Robert's become.
[SPEAKER_06]: So he's just very proud of it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, he's very strong.
[SPEAKER_08]: Um, the, you know, my kid could be Jeff Bezos, but we all know he's not that great a guy.
[SPEAKER_08]: Here we go.
[SPEAKER_08]: The obsession with the next level up, and I Josh, I think if you know the bike I'm talking about, oh my god, I wish I remember the name.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's like a motorbike.
[SPEAKER_08]: Is it a swin?
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's not a swin.
[SPEAKER_08]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_08]: I had a, I remember Swins and Huffies.
[SPEAKER_08]: I remember those.
[SPEAKER_08]: I had an orange crate.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's a great way I ever had and it got stolen to it.
[SPEAKER_06]: I had a I had a huffy that was sort of the same color as Jim Rockford's car sort of like a golden orange it was nice and the rockford files would have been very timely when you were writing that bike around.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I was always going every day.
[SPEAKER_09]: Have you have you watched it?
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm trying to think of, do you have the issue?
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm blanking on the names as well, but when you're driving, Michael around, and you pass another, that's a kid on an evil, that's the brand.
[SPEAKER_09]: This is that, this is that they point out, well, that kid's got this one, that's better than mine.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: I am telling you that God if I could just remember what it was.
[SPEAKER_06]: I've got to claim ignorance here.
[SPEAKER_06]: When he says that, what makes the other bikes better?
[SPEAKER_06]: It's just, if it's not just more expensive, speed, speed.
[SPEAKER_09]: I would think it's good and look.
[SPEAKER_09]: If it looks more like a motorcycle or more like a dirt bike, then an electric bike.
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, that's, and then a kid had a, there's a second tier one.
[SPEAKER_08]: which, which it was still too expensive and I saw a little, I looked at him and I said, Michael, yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: You got this bike at Christmas time.
[SPEAKER_08]: you have gotten it like you got your other bike, you have torn it apart and modified it and now you want to get another one.
[SPEAKER_08]: I said is this this cycle and the one he wants to get is one two three four times more expensive.
[SPEAKER_08]: So which is not it's not even in this plan.
[SPEAKER_06]: So when you when you see the gang together, do they basically modify the bikes until they're unusable?
[SPEAKER_06]: No, no, they, they modify the pipe.
[SPEAKER_06]: I have different answers here.
[SPEAKER_08]: They modify the, in my case, in my sense case, he modifies the bike where it is not only usable, but desirable.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: Other kids are interested in it.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's got to make noise.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's got to have the good shocks because they all want to jump off the little curves and say they're getting air when they're not.
[SPEAKER_08]: Right.
[SPEAKER_08]: I know how Michael works and he's got to be pissed at me if you knew I forgot the name of the Iike he wants.
[SPEAKER_09]: I've heard the name of thousand times.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm short to same name.
[SPEAKER_09]: I've blocked out all all e-bike.
[SPEAKER_08]: You know the one that's like four grand, right.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, it's ridiculous.
[SPEAKER_08]: I mean, I'm not not playing.
[SPEAKER_08]: He won't get a you won't get a car when he's 20 from me worth four grand.
[SPEAKER_06]: Now because I'll be dead when he's doing all this stuff and I know that Mike Michael thinks it's sort of in a retail.
[SPEAKER_06]: Does he ever sell it?
[SPEAKER_06]: Does he think about like modifying a bike up to selling it?
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'll tell you the very latest.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yes, trust you.
[SPEAKER_08]: I mean, I think I had the Sirron the Sirron the Sirron and that's from all the time.
[SPEAKER_06]: Is that from Saudi Arabia?
[SPEAKER_06]: It's from China.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's from China and they even have the
[SPEAKER_08]: The black market, Chinese knock off, we're not, we're not taking a $1,000 chance.
[SPEAKER_08]: You talk about selling.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, as of yesterday, he has sold his e-bike to ace to a classmate.
[SPEAKER_06]: Did he take a loss?
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, I mean, obviously, he would be- He did not.
[SPEAKER_06]: All profit, but I'm talking about his grown-up profit.
[SPEAKER_08]: He did not.
[SPEAKER_08]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_08]: I mean, that's not a sort of a loss it might have been like 100 bucks.
[SPEAKER_08]: But that's got to sort of make you happy, right?
[SPEAKER_08]: He is telling me that he doesn't, he will not get the saron, he will get the one that's in between his bike and the saron that is essentially the same cost as his bike, meaning mommy and daddy are not part of the equation.
[SPEAKER_06]: Is it the key a soul?
[SPEAKER_08]: Didn't you have a time where you dealt with the Kiesel for a little bit realized where I can add it to where your family's needs?
[SPEAKER_06]: That the car that they had in the showroom was like a stunt car that wasn't the car I bought.
[SPEAKER_06]: Because it was so small that I couldn't put a case of water in the
[SPEAKER_06]: trunk unless I turned it this way.
[SPEAKER_06]: And then there was the time we took it on a small road trip.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I think the reason we bought it is carry was in love with the fact that they had changing ambient color lights inside the car.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_06]: Very nice.
[SPEAKER_06]: But after driving to, I believe it was water country USA.
[SPEAKER_06]: I told the kids to get in the car.
[SPEAKER_06]: But dad can't right now because his legs won't
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I mean, you're too big for it.
[SPEAKER_08]: And I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, of course.
[SPEAKER_06]: Why is a kid going to have money to buy you know a second hand?
[SPEAKER_06]: No, no, but why is he after buy it?
[SPEAKER_06]: Use it because it's been modified and because his father has to do with what do you see what our son has done?
[SPEAKER_06]: He's saved us a hundred dollars.
[SPEAKER_08]: I look.
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_08]: They're not that bad.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's my point.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, we can handle.
[SPEAKER_09]: Remember, we did not purchase any bike.
[SPEAKER_09]: So he has one over his dad's house.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's what I'd be trade Josh when Josh was commissarating with me about it was a big betrayal That was when Josh was commissarating with me about and we were both pitching about the e-bike world and then Josh's You know kid went to the ex's house and got one and I was I was moochos sympathetic and then
[SPEAKER_08]: to make matters worse for Josh.
[SPEAKER_08]: I bought my kid one.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's just a two months saying that you weren't going to buy one.
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, it's not just to him to us.
[SPEAKER_09]: Did you see the story in California of the mom getting charged with murder?
[SPEAKER_09]: Because the middle school kid ran into an old man on an e-bike and killed him.
[SPEAKER_09]: that's an air charging the mom you mean the bike killed the old man yeah the bike killed all the guy just some old man walking out in the neighborhood I some yeah 81 year old veteran and they're charging the mom because the kid was too young to be on the e-bike don't worry about them like there's no old people in your neighborhood
[SPEAKER_09]: I get the story sent to me all the time by the anti-Ebike coalition.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: Everyone loves to send stuff that strengthens their answer.
[SPEAKER_08]: So Michael was riding fast in our neighborhood and he was to, you know, do a,
[SPEAKER_08]: You know, knock somebody down right here's that how could and he but I just well I suppose you can die on a regular bicycle too, right?
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, I mean if you're not anyone down old and if they're old and fragile and you know come on to like the asphalt with a head injury you can fall off a regular bicycle and by the farm.
[SPEAKER_08]: I mean that's just the way that does I'm just enjoying a brief little fantasy about a particular individual in the neighborhood.
[SPEAKER_08]: No, I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's terrible.
[SPEAKER_06]: But you know what?
[SPEAKER_06]: It is sad that that happened.
[SPEAKER_06]: And we wish grace and calm to the family of Irv here again.
[SPEAKER_08]: Probably probably still probably not.
[SPEAKER_08]: I was he was 50 and when I was 12 people like that live forever, Mike.
[SPEAKER_06]: You think so?
[SPEAKER_09]: You know what the kid was riding?
[SPEAKER_09]: A Sir on Ultra B.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's probably like that was the first thing.
[SPEAKER_06]: Do they have like the bent her spikes on the wheels for knocking down old people?
[SPEAKER_09]: They would do it a wheelie and slammed into the back of the guy.
[SPEAKER_08]: They have pegs on the, you know, instead of like pedals, because the pedals, you know, pedaling, it's not a motorcyclist.
[SPEAKER_08]: I, as I watched these three other young, he's got two other buddies that he's usually with.
[SPEAKER_08]: And then he was with two other, but, and part of me looks at it and goes in this neighborhood where we've got, you know, different little blocks of, of neighbors, and he's got the wherewithal to get over there, and to the other kids that I'd be, but I like it because it's brought him,
[SPEAKER_08]: friends within the neighborhood, which is great.
[SPEAKER_09]: There's positive so being out and out and about.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, they are the ones and that's being the motors.
[SPEAKER_06]: The motor club.
[SPEAKER_06]: Like again, I can't help the thinking of like the old days when people would try to resurrect a really old car and they're all working at it.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm sorry that the initial investment is so much, but you can't hate the fact that they're learning something mechanical.
[SPEAKER_08]: Jail rates, he treats e-bikes like pop-abises, shoes, and multiples.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, that might be too big as problems I have is one, these kids think they're invincible.
[SPEAKER_09]: So they're not looking out for cars and they just want to have kids and then yeah, and then the bike is never good enough.
[SPEAKER_09]: Once Michael gets his bike, I give it a week until he's talking about the next one.
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't know when it's going to end and you know somewhere along the line, I suppose every generation has their expensive things.
[SPEAKER_08]: What was your generation do you think?
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: I like a motor like a real motor.
[SPEAKER_06]: Was a Chad Ram?
[SPEAKER_08]: Yes, it was.
[SPEAKER_06]: Was it?
[SPEAKER_08]: Yes, it was.
[SPEAKER_06]: What a dick.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, he's a duck.
[SPEAKER_08]: God, God, what do you want to.
[SPEAKER_08]: God, what do you want it?
[SPEAKER_08]: That's it.
[SPEAKER_08]: And my dad, my dad went so far as to, uh, in the backyard.
[SPEAKER_08]: And I look at it now, and it probably was so tiny.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yes, we didn't have a lot of lead, but I thought it was the biggest thing in the world.
[SPEAKER_08]: My dad who loved yard work, cut out a trail around the back part of the yard down by the ledge, which was, we, our house literally.
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, you say, underneath a rock,
[SPEAKER_08]: ledge.
[SPEAKER_08]: It was a very unique.
[SPEAKER_06]: Could you have, could you have taken the bike off the ledge if you didn't handle?
[SPEAKER_06]: Because I forget, you're at the base of the ledge.
[SPEAKER_08]: You go up a little bit of a hill.
[SPEAKER_08]: If you went up all the way, you could get on top of the ledge, but Mr. Masaki was done.
[SPEAKER_06]: I was going to say the crazy guy was up there, right?
[SPEAKER_08]: He lived on top of the ledge and he was, he had like, uh, he was a scientist.
[SPEAKER_08]: At least I was told.
[SPEAKER_08]: And he had like, uh, wires and antennae and
[SPEAKER_06]: have his misyocomoto.
[SPEAKER_06]: You're beautiful.
[SPEAKER_08]: And you couldn't see his house, but he literally lived on the ledge above us.
[SPEAKER_08]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_08]: It was kind of cool when I looked back on it right now, and I look on where I lived.
[SPEAKER_08]: I lived in what was called a center chimney cape, and you would walk down, you would come down the driveway, you go down a hill, and we were underneath the ledge,
[SPEAKER_08]: in an area of the ledge where smoke stains where it goes all the way back to to indigenous people that had actually there they did a dig before I was born they did a dig there to find the arrowheads and ax handles I mean ax heads and that type of stuff they only think they found were mini bikes.
[SPEAKER_08]: I mean, but the trail was cool.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, that is correct.
[SPEAKER_08]: Remember that was a big.
[SPEAKER_08]: But it was, you know, the best moment I ever had.
[SPEAKER_08]: I went into a store.
[SPEAKER_08]: Does anybody remember?
[SPEAKER_08]: No, you're not going to remember.
[SPEAKER_08]: No, you nobody will know this.
[SPEAKER_08]: If there's anybody in the chat group, let me know it was called Zair.
[SPEAKER_08]: Of course.
[SPEAKER_08]: Z-A-Y-R-E. You remember it?
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I was on Columbia Pike.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think here.
[SPEAKER_08]: You had Zair down here.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I didn't know.
[SPEAKER_08]: I didn't know a down in the DC area.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: There was one of those places that when you walked into, it smelled like popcorn and soap.
[SPEAKER_08]: And you walk in and they had a bargain bin.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, good job.
[SPEAKER_06]: There's there.
[SPEAKER_08]: That looks like the front is there.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: And I went into there and you know what I found?
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, I found a an easy rider style.
[SPEAKER_08]: motorcycle helmet like the one Peter Fonda wore.
[SPEAKER_08]: I believe it was Peter Fonda who wore it in easy ride or is it the like the star with the stripes it was the it was the American flag Yeah, yeah, yeah motor cycle apartment yeah, and I found it and it was five dollars had a red stick at one of those like fluorescent orange stickers on it Yeah, I know it had to be put there in an era.
[SPEAKER_08]: I got five bucks
[SPEAKER_08]: That's great.
[SPEAKER_08]: It was a it was weird.
[SPEAKER_08]: It was absolutely you don't still have it.
[SPEAKER_08]: Do you I had it for a long time I would love to do a show in hell with what's that?
[SPEAKER_06]: I would love to do a show in helmets because I have a helmet I've got a bike helmet out of your eyes Josh any helmets for you or do you just rely on the hair product?
[SPEAKER_09]: No, I'm sure I have helmets in the garage
[SPEAKER_06]: Like I'm sorry, you okay?
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's the entire thing.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: When you do that, it makes everybody take pause.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, my.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: So there was a big thing in the DC area.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: Realize that now.
[SPEAKER_06]: Kmart bought them out.
[SPEAKER_06]: They're not bought them out, but chased them out of town with better deals.
[SPEAKER_08]: So if the kid is going to have the initiative to, first of all,
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, the real company of Zaire was TJX.
[SPEAKER_06]: Very cool.
[SPEAKER_06]: That is cool.
[SPEAKER_06]: So if they're stole little Zaire in our lives That's we in the box stores.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, I mean the real phone.
[SPEAKER_09]: They also in B.J.
[SPEAKER_08]: The whole sale club.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah
[SPEAKER_08]: not the restaurant.
[SPEAKER_08]: No, no, the wholesale.
[SPEAKER_08]: And by the way, or do you have that, right?
[SPEAKER_08]: Do you have those restaurants up there called BJ's to an area?
[SPEAKER_08]: No, we don't have another one.
[SPEAKER_08]: There's one.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, and there's one in the area.
[SPEAKER_08]: There are BJ's in the area.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's kind of be how many square.
[SPEAKER_08]: What is the radius for you to know where there's something exists or not?
[SPEAKER_06]: Right, what is it?
[SPEAKER_06]: Keep it in mind.
[SPEAKER_08]: I expanded a little bit lately.
[SPEAKER_06]: The mind, I did just note that Zaire was in fall church.
[SPEAKER_06]: So I mean, that's that's 40 miles.
[SPEAKER_06]: So that's not bad.
[SPEAKER_06]: I've not seen a B.J.
[SPEAKER_06]: What kind of food do I see?
[SPEAKER_06]: I've seen a B.J.
[SPEAKER_06]: Plus.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay, here we go.
[SPEAKER_08]: Tell me if this is in your radius, not the B.J.
[SPEAKER_08]: Zaire, remember, was in Gainesville, Virginia.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, no, that's your radius.
[SPEAKER_09]: I wouldn't look so thrilled.
[SPEAKER_09]: There is one in Rob's radius in Vienna.
[SPEAKER_08]: There it is.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, but I hate that city.
[SPEAKER_08]: Hey, that city says five miles.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's a jail piece on it today.
[SPEAKER_06]: He's making me like what kind of a fair does BJs offer?
[SPEAKER_06]: Is it American fair?
[SPEAKER_06]: It's a sports bar.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: There is to rates as I get my BJs in buoy, then I go shopping.
[SPEAKER_08]: But that's just disgusting.
[SPEAKER_08]: So the deal is if he's going to show the entrepreneurship where he can upgrade to an extent and it's not the assuron, but he's upgrading to the next, the one in between that has closer price point to his.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm cool with it.
[SPEAKER_08]: I saw and by the way, I saw the one he's getting.
[SPEAKER_08]: I saw the one he's getting.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, you've already committed yourself to it?
[SPEAKER_08]: No.
[SPEAKER_08]: I just saw another kid.
[SPEAKER_08]: One of his gang members.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: The one he's getting.
[SPEAKER_06]: And good.
[SPEAKER_06]: Does he have any money sucked away from the squishy sales?
[SPEAKER_08]: Maybe he might.
[SPEAKER_08]: He might very well have that.
[SPEAKER_06]: Sounds to me.
[SPEAKER_06]: He's one Pokemon card away from getting a bike.
[SPEAKER_08]: we can only hope.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: We can only hope with that speed that's got.
[SPEAKER_08]: So yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: And but then you know, you'll say, Dad, I was in science class and I saw the grade sheet and he's at the top of the list with a 98 average in science.
[SPEAKER_06]: But that's his job.
[SPEAKER_06]: That should be expected.
[SPEAKER_06]: That shouldn't be rewarded.
[SPEAKER_08]: Was it expected for you?
[SPEAKER_06]: Mike, yes it was, and I never got anything.
[SPEAKER_06]: Except loneliness and a broken home.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh wow, that's sad, that's a very sad.
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't know if my parents had those expectations for me based on my track record.
[SPEAKER_06]: They were just happy when you got home before the street lights were on.
[SPEAKER_08]: This is my son has even at in sixth grade soon to be going into seventh, he has already academically
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I believe his average will, you know, in order for me to match him, he would have to flunk out for the next three years.
[SPEAKER_09]: And still it would be close.
[SPEAKER_08]: That would be.
[SPEAKER_09]: How my kids school is easier now than it was when I was a kid.
[SPEAKER_08]: Do you think it is?
[SPEAKER_08]: Do you really legitimately think it is?
[SPEAKER_09]: I think it is because of core and how they...
[SPEAKER_08]: 100% down so that as you know, I don't know enough about academics to have a legit.
[SPEAKER_06]: The county schools teach to the test.
[SPEAKER_06]: So when you take your core tests to see how you're doing, it doesn't matter about the stuff that surrounds it.
[SPEAKER_06]: If you're school test well, you're going to get your funding.
[SPEAKER_06]: And they don't teach it in like real ways.
[SPEAKER_06]: They teach it very specific.
[SPEAKER_06]: All right, I'm going to put one of them.
[SPEAKER_09]: We've got to do those fast tests because the fast test.
[SPEAKER_08]: affects the teacher salary.
[SPEAKER_08]: All right, since you two are poo pooing, the current educational system, I'm gonna play a game.
[SPEAKER_08]: Great.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm gonna have my son come in here because summers just around the corner, right?
[SPEAKER_08]: Get out of school.
[SPEAKER_08]: And I will have him maybe, maybe he can even grab some of the tests that he has.
[SPEAKER_08]: Don't they give him all back at the end of the year?
[SPEAKER_08]: Right, they give you all your test results.
[SPEAKER_09]: They sell them on the dark way.
[SPEAKER_09]: And I'm sure you can find them on, like the parents square, of course.
[SPEAKER_08]: And maybe we have a little, you know, a little test session.
[SPEAKER_08]: I think that would be just how easy it is.
[SPEAKER_06]: Also, we need a sixth grader.
[SPEAKER_08]: Are you smarter than a sixth grader?
[SPEAKER_06]: I've got to ask you this, Mike, when you are in school, did they ever say that don't worry if you don't do well on this test because there will be retakes?
[SPEAKER_06]: and they say that before the test, right?
[SPEAKER_06]: And I think what it is is you can retake and then average the two scores, this was never offered to me.
[SPEAKER_09]: No.
[SPEAKER_09]: And my kids get to retake with the old test in front of them.
[SPEAKER_09]: So they did wrong.
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, that's like that's then to come back to you.
[SPEAKER_08]: You know, do go to the gold.
[SPEAKER_08]: My son says does go to the gold brick chartered academies.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I wasn't going to bring it up.
[SPEAKER_08]: Right.
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, you know, you have to acknowledge that.
[SPEAKER_09]: But I feel a little bit for the kids now.
[SPEAKER_09]: because I would hide my grades from my dad because if it wasn't an A, I'd get in trouble.
[SPEAKER_08]: Now, you really?
[SPEAKER_09]: Now, parents can just go online and see their grades every single day.
[SPEAKER_08]: And since Chad Duke's impunes your intelligence all the time, let me ask this question, when you brought your grades, how often did they not meet these straight A expectations judge, just at a period of 10 to the time?
[SPEAKER_09]: There it is.
[SPEAKER_08]: But you did well on Chad's IQ test, right?
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: You came in third?
[SPEAKER_09]: I got a 124.
[SPEAKER_09]: I had a, like, NASA scientist ahead of me.
[SPEAKER_09]: And then, Jim Jester, which makes no sense.
[SPEAKER_09]: And that has to feel good.
[SPEAKER_06]: Who is Jim Jester?
[SPEAKER_09]: Because I don't know the man.
[SPEAKER_09]: I have not, uh, kept up on the, uh, the secret executive producer of the show.
[SPEAKER_09]: He's one of Chad's producers.
[SPEAKER_09]: He's going to be on forever.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's Jim Jester.
[SPEAKER_06]: You crossed his path at WJFK.
[SPEAKER_08]: A million years ago, no reason that you were telling him, but how many people you said you came in third?
[SPEAKER_08]: How many people were tested three?
[SPEAKER_09]: 12.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: A lot of people I can say, I'm better than.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: And you do all the time.
[SPEAKER_09]: And the score of 124 did come across as highly intelligent above average.
[SPEAKER_09]: So it was a good score.
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't know if I'd score that highly.
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't know whether I would based on my, we're meeting with our financial advisor today.
[SPEAKER_08]: So based on that, I fully expect to walk out and say, hmm, Mr. O'Mara, 83 IQ.
[SPEAKER_08]: Thanks for joining us.
[SPEAKER_06]: Because your financial advisor offer IQ test.
[SPEAKER_08]: No, and what he also doesn't offer is a way to borrow money, which is what we're looking to do right now.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, it's great, he's got a Josh's got an IQ of 124, and that's how much you owe, 124.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, so he also saw this video, say rich people don't just take their money out, they borrow it, they don't have a backpack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack pack
[SPEAKER_08]: No, but there's a lot of we could there's a lot we could sell like for example for the longest amount.
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, I can ask you guys this say because you're you're active selling stuff and we got Mr.
[SPEAKER_08]: Entrepreneur on the right and Rob sold a lot of, you know, what you've sold more stuff than just microphones over the years.
[SPEAKER_08]: No, TV's are too cheap now.
[SPEAKER_06]: Because you can go and get a brand new one for any, if you've got enough money to make it worthwhile, they could use that same money to buy a brand new TV.
[UNKNOWN]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_09]: All right.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm trying to think you don't have a lot.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm sorry, Josh.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, TV is on Facebook Marketplace.
[SPEAKER_09]: You have to assume are stolen because there's no sense to sell a TV.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: All right.
[SPEAKER_08]: The other answer is echo.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm thinking about your house.
[SPEAKER_06]: You don't have a lot of stuff to sell.
[SPEAKER_08]: Your house is pretty lean.
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't.
[SPEAKER_08]: We don't have a lot of stuff.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: Just make sure of yourself.
[SPEAKER_08]: Autograph pictures.
[SPEAKER_09]: You got those great feet.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh my god, the feet.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, by the way, I'm wearing my uphas right now.
[SPEAKER_08]: And I would not show my feet on.
[SPEAKER_08]: There's the out here my shoes possible.
[SPEAKER_08]: I would not show my feet on camera.
[SPEAKER_08]: I have to go to, you know, Pauli, Pauli Petty.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's what I have to do.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think there's certain people that are into your feet when they are in their roughest fall.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, not at all.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm looking at it.
[SPEAKER_06]: You're grizzly atomsfeet.com.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I don't know what was I about your eye out.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, no.
[SPEAKER_06]: We'll take a break and hang it.
[SPEAKER_08]: We've got some news later.
[SPEAKER_08]: Josh and Rob are going to talk to author chip latent author of dad.
[SPEAKER_08]: Can you not a dad's guy to being less cringy?
[SPEAKER_08]: I look forward to that and coming up, we've got tidbits, lovely little tidbits, but first let's do this.
[SPEAKER_08]: We'll continue on the mic.
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[SPEAKER_08]: How do they do with insurance when you're a dog's like performing MMA match every night?
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[SPEAKER_08]: Play the things I just thank you.
[SPEAKER_08]: Ladies and gentlemen, most slang disappears fast.
[SPEAKER_08]: Think about how many words sounded trendy for a couple of months and then vanished.
[SPEAKER_08]: But according to a linguist kind of of the linguist on the PBS series, other worlds.
[SPEAKER_08]: Excuse me.
[SPEAKER_08]: Do you look at that person?
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, my.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, no.
[SPEAKER_06]: Are you chasing breakfast?
[SPEAKER_08]: No, I just it's It's not right.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, hey, we hit a commercial button.
[SPEAKER_08]: No, no, no.
[SPEAKER_08]: I am not in that.
[SPEAKER_08]: No, it's been 10 hours
[SPEAKER_08]: It's been 10 hours since I booted.
[SPEAKER_08]: Anyway, then vanish forever.
[SPEAKER_08]: But according to a linguist on the PBS series, other worlds, one word has stood the taste of test of time.
[SPEAKER_08]: I would say it would have to be, there's one word that is through all the incarnations of slang, and it'll make perfect sense when you hear it.
[SPEAKER_08]: it could be a synonym for nifty.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, it's got to be cool.
[SPEAKER_06]: Cool.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I'm cool.
[SPEAKER_06]: My story.
[SPEAKER_06]: My funsie.
[SPEAKER_09]: I always check with the source of my material.
[SPEAKER_09]: What's that, buddy?
[SPEAKER_09]: Didn't Monday, didn't we say, or no, it's, you know what it is today on the interview.
[SPEAKER_09]: We talk about how the kids have all this new slang, but cool still works.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, it does come up, yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: Really?
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, man.
[SPEAKER_08]: So it's going to be redundant.
[SPEAKER_08]: Uh, she says cool has been popular for more than a century, which is pretty impressive for slang.
[SPEAKER_08]: What are Wilson used it all the time?
[SPEAKER_08]: Part of the reason is how flexible it is.
[SPEAKER_08]: Cool can describe somebody laid back or stylish or impressive or just likable.
[SPEAKER_08]: You can say cool it or ask are we cool or even eat some cool ranch Doritos?
[SPEAKER_08]: The linguist says,
[SPEAKER_08]: The very few slang words can adapt that well across generations.
[SPEAKER_08]: Somehow your grandparents, your parents, and your kids all agree on at least one thing.
[SPEAKER_08]: The word cool is still cool.
[SPEAKER_06]: I can remember one from my teen years or early teen years that just sounds so stupid now.
[SPEAKER_06]: If someone had something that was cool, you say, oh, that's decent.
[SPEAKER_08]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_06]: That sounds so stupid.
[SPEAKER_08]: We used to have one that we would say if somebody would come back from like a hot date in the high school would say, it's me do you get bald?
[SPEAKER_06]: And that's not B-A-L-D.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm sorry, that's not a problem.
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, in a different, in a different sense, you could use ball as a verb too.
[SPEAKER_06]: Did you fall her or did she fall you?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's actually that's probably the more common usage.
[SPEAKER_06]: But I like you usage better.
[SPEAKER_08]: I can go on a deal.
[SPEAKER_08]: Maybe on the bonus show.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'll tell the story.
[SPEAKER_06]: Wing with that.
[SPEAKER_08]: How that was explained to me by an older, older kid in the neighborhood and then hilarity ensued behind my back.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's like Albert Brooks buying the car.
[SPEAKER_08]: Anyway, Kellogg's is bringing back toys inside of cereal boxes, marital toys.
[SPEAKER_08]: No, stop it.
[SPEAKER_08]: The first run is already in stores, so you may have noticed them.
[SPEAKER_08]: If you've been down the cereal aisle this week, we aren't.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's the weight loss thing has begun.
[SPEAKER_08]: We've eliminated cereal.
[SPEAKER_06]: Let's do it.
[SPEAKER_08]: Kids who plow through cereal will notice this.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's an nostalgia thing, but it's also tied to the movie Toy Story Five.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, you know what?
[SPEAKER_06]: Sinai tablet, please right now.
[SPEAKER_08]: The toys are in special boxes of a lot of cereals, including fruit loops, frosted flakes, corn pops, apple jacks, frosted miniweeds, rice crispies, corn flakes and cocoa crispies.
[SPEAKER_08]: And by the way, I mentioned all those.
[SPEAKER_08]: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.
[SPEAKER_08]: Of nine of the cereals I mentioned, they're only two that I don't like.
[SPEAKER_08]: Which ones don't you, I thought they were all pretty good.
[SPEAKER_08]: Fruit looms, frosted flakes, corn pops, apple jacks, frosted mini weeds, rice crispy corn flakes and cocoa crispy.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, cocoa crispys would be one you don't like, right?
[SPEAKER_06]: Wrong.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: You like rice crispys, corn flakes, really?
[SPEAKER_06]: Why not?
[SPEAKER_06]: Right, right, because there's no sugar.
[SPEAKER_06]: but you can add it.
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't, but I don't want to.
[SPEAKER_06]: What about if you were to add melted marshmallow and butter and let them harden and cut into squares?
[SPEAKER_08]: Now that's a totally different animal.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's a really good speed treat.
[SPEAKER_06]: I love them.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I could eat a little bit of that.
[SPEAKER_08]: And cornflakes are the other ones.
[SPEAKER_06]: I always like to... Cornflakes are good with banana though.
[SPEAKER_08]: No, but I like my flakes with a little sprinkling of sugar dust on them.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: This is the first time Kellogg's just put toys in cereal in more than a decade, and for now, it sounds like it's just a limited time thing, but who knows if it's a big success, maybe they'll keep it going.
[SPEAKER_09]: Are they putting them in a cereal or just inside the box?
[SPEAKER_09]: uh... they are putting them inside the cereal box in a box i prefer that mixed in the cereal versus the real real being the outside of the of the plastic i think it might be a box in a box when you were kids did you ever like get cereal and come home and like port in a huge bowl to get the toy and then port the cereal back in the box
[SPEAKER_08]: Rob Spiewack doesn't, Rob Spiewack doesn't need a serial spends a night in the box.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's the thing.
[SPEAKER_08]: And they can't find the right toy spends a night in the box.
[SPEAKER_06]: When will we get a story about Tom Hanks doing something cute with serial now?
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay, remember he said that he's good at that.
[SPEAKER_08]: He's good at that, ladies and gentlemen.
[SPEAKER_09]: I believe the movie comes out in June.
[SPEAKER_09]: So he could get a plenty of time stories in the next month.
[SPEAKER_08]: All right, we'll have to wait and see what happens.
[SPEAKER_08]: The Rolling Stones announced their 25th album.
[SPEAKER_08]: Four in tongues.
[SPEAKER_08]: Have you gotten any previews of this?
[SPEAKER_06]: Have you heard the first single?
[SPEAKER_06]: It sounds like they're not trying very hard.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: The thing to me and I am a stone's fan.
[SPEAKER_06]: I've seen them in concert five, six times.
[SPEAKER_06]: Have their entire catalog on vinyl and CD.
[SPEAKER_06]: But the rolling stones stopped being the rolling stones when Charlie Watts died.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's well, uh, foreign tongues includes their late drummer Charlie Watts on one of the final recording sessions before he passed in 2020.
[SPEAKER_06]: It was a while he passed actually.
[SPEAKER_08]: No, I mean in 2021 they recorded so I'm I guess you got to look for the one that Charlie's on I guess but that but that they're This is like when the monkeys put on hard your horrors on the album who Paul?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, he doesn't have all the money yet.
[SPEAKER_06]: He wants all the money
[SPEAKER_08]: The album will include features from Paul McCartney, Steve Winwood, The Cures, Robert Smith, and Red Hot Chili Pepper's drummer, Chad Smith, another great award.
[SPEAKER_06]: You can't have a Rolling Stones album without Steve Winwood.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's like a funeral without a sous-safone.
[SPEAKER_08]: Foreign tongues comes out July 10th so far, they've released two singles rough and twisted and in the stars, rough and twisted was initially released only on vinyl under the band name.
[SPEAKER_08]: The cockroaches, the stones will each be taking their turn on the tonight show starring Jimmy Fallon.
[SPEAKER_08]: I think they'll do the little baby, the baby stones thing.
[SPEAKER_09]: That cockroaches are a bit they did with the vinyl.
[SPEAKER_09]: That sounds on the new album.
[SPEAKER_08]: If it is, you brought it to the show.
[SPEAKER_09]: You put it up, did you just say that song is on the new album?
[SPEAKER_09]: It'll be on the new album.
[SPEAKER_08]: It'll be on the new album.
[SPEAKER_08]: Initially released under the name of the cockroaches.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's stupid.
[SPEAKER_08]: So that was the key to the fan last time.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: So they go on the tonight show.
[SPEAKER_08]: Mick Jagger will be on tonight.
[SPEAKER_08]: Keith Richards on tomorrow and Ronnie Wood will be on.
[SPEAKER_08]: Let's see.
[SPEAKER_08]: There.
[SPEAKER_08]: No, I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_08]: This was an old story.
[SPEAKER_08]: So he's the last one is tonight, Ronnie Wood.
[SPEAKER_08]: You missed.
[SPEAKER_06]: You didn't miss much.
[SPEAKER_06]: No, you know what I understand Mike is that there are rats on the west side that bugs up town and look at me.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm in tatters.
[SPEAKER_08]: Look, you're shattered.
[SPEAKER_08]: The AMC theater chain that you know, I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm the messenger.
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't want to get any heat for these stories because they depress me as well.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: So be aware of that the AMC theater chain is going to start showing live concerts.
[SPEAKER_08]: What?
[SPEAKER_06]: And this is like 1970 when they used to put boxing matches in movie theaters, this is so backward.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, I've seen the ads where they're doing ballet and theater performances.
[SPEAKER_09]: So it seems like the next thing.
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, they've renamed it.
[SPEAKER_08]: So you know, it's got to be good.
[SPEAKER_08]: What a new venture is called arena one at AMC.
[SPEAKER_08]: The tickets will range from $40 to $75.
[SPEAKER_08]: And it starts next month.
[SPEAKER_08]: Is it BB RECSA?
[SPEAKER_08]: Did I pronounce that correctly?
[SPEAKER_08]: Or is it baby RECSA?
[SPEAKER_08]: I have no idea.
[SPEAKER_08]: No one knows.
[SPEAKER_08]: Now you're two of eight stars as well.
[SPEAKER_09]: Wait.
[SPEAKER_09]: But $40 is $70 and you're just watching this on the screen, right?
[SPEAKER_06]: Correct.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's in the room with correct.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's what you should be paying for the concert.
[SPEAKER_08]: This is what you look up a picture of music industry screwed up.
[SPEAKER_08]: Can you find me a picture of B. E. B. E. R. E. X. H. A.
[SPEAKER_08]: B.
[SPEAKER_08]: B. Rexha.
[SPEAKER_08]: She will be doing a show on June 17th.
[SPEAKER_08]: That appears to be the earliest show that's going to be if this new arena one at AMC for 40 to 75.
[SPEAKER_06]: Long range, long range prediction is that before we hit the fourth of July, the rolling stones will announce you can see them in a theater.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: Because that'll be the easiest way for them to get all the money.
[SPEAKER_09]: No, they can't do that because they need people to come to the concert.
[SPEAKER_09]: So then next year they can release the video.
[SPEAKER_06]: All right.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, maybe you're right.
[SPEAKER_06]: And here's this.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay, let's see.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, oh yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: You might need the big screen.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, follow me.
[SPEAKER_08]: You with the snack bar following BB it's Parasilton on the 18th June 18th like two nights in a row.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I'm the fam.
[SPEAKER_08]: I am and a Parasilton.
[SPEAKER_06]: I have her new album.
[SPEAKER_06]: I got it signed.
[SPEAKER_06]: When you get it signed through parasilton.com.
[SPEAKER_06]: What did it that way?
[SPEAKER_06]: She's very pretty.
[SPEAKER_06]: Don't you think she's pretty?
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm not going to say the K-word, you're so gross.
[SPEAKER_08]: Marin Morris on June 20th, who's Marin Morris.
[SPEAKER_08]: Did anybody know Marin Morris?
[SPEAKER_08]: No, I don't.
[SPEAKER_08]: No.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: More shows will be announced soon.
[SPEAKER_08]: The concerts will be beam to more than 300 A.M. Seethow Cations beams.
[SPEAKER_08]: This is the end of the world.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: Sorry, I can't help but feel that way.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's like, come on, enter to say, please.
[SPEAKER_09]: And at the same time, they're canceling concerts because there's ticket sales
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: What's the name of that?
[SPEAKER_09]: The free blue dot fever.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: A lot of musicians are blue dot fever, but I mean stadium tours are being cut.
[SPEAKER_06]: Mike, it's a may have those pussycat dolls scrapped the whole tour.
[SPEAKER_09]: postcasts cancel the whole thing post malone and jelly roll canceled the first month their tour.
[SPEAKER_09]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's going to wish your concert was canceled like mine.
[SPEAKER_08]: There is a strange new breakup trend making headlines overseas growing number of people in China are using an AI program called X dot skill to build digital versions of their former partners.
[SPEAKER_08]: users upload things like old text pictures, voice and social media posts, the AI then recreates and exes personality, speech patterns and shared memories.
[SPEAKER_08]: The creators say it's meant for personal reflection and emotional healing.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's not what it's meant for.
[SPEAKER_08]: not stalking her harassment, of course.
[SPEAKER_08]: No.
[SPEAKER_08]: Critics are worried it could create a major privacy issue, especially since someone's personal data could be used without their permission still.
[SPEAKER_08]: Some users say AI versions actually help them move on.
[SPEAKER_08]: Here's how you move on.
[SPEAKER_08]: Have to be an X.
[SPEAKER_08]: Can I tell you how you move on?
[SPEAKER_08]: You move on.
[SPEAKER_08]: Who would it be in your opinion?
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, I mean, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm just, I'm just thrown it out there.
[SPEAKER_09]: All right, you know, but it's better to come with your wife.
[SPEAKER_06]: I was going to say, don't you think, uh, you could, for example, you could, there's enough Paris, help them out there.
[SPEAKER_06]: You could build yourself a virtual Paris, help them.
[SPEAKER_08]: Rob, that's because could you build yourself a virtual carry?
[SPEAKER_08]: Why would it be Josh was getting you?
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, I guess they did shared memories.
[SPEAKER_06]: No, yeah, I don't think so.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I delete all her texts immediately.
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, but you guys could build virtual AI creations of each other.
[SPEAKER_08]: There would be nicer to each other.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, I guess there's no interest there.
[SPEAKER_08]: Sorry.
[SPEAKER_08]: I know.
[SPEAKER_08]: But it would be a wonderful state.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, no, actually could we use it so we don't have to roll a best of next time.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh virtual us virtual Mike.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, you know what as much as the you know it's a never not on my day Who gives a rat's ass?
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't care here is an adequate adequate
[SPEAKER_06]: By the way, when they build the virtual mic, there's going to be a lot of people pleasureing themselves, too.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm coming off of Refilmus.
[SPEAKER_08]: Here's an etiquette question for the young men out there.
[SPEAKER_08]: If you're driving, and if you're driving your girlfriend, and your mother somewhere, who is eating in the seat in the front seat, let me start again.
[SPEAKER_08]: I've had a little difficulty with this story.
[SPEAKER_08]: You're doing great.
[SPEAKER_08]: Not exactly written properly, all right?
[SPEAKER_08]: Here's an etiquette question for the young men out there, if you're driving your girlfriend and your mother somewhere, who's sitting in the front seat?
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, if you can change it, you can change it to wife instead of girlfriend.
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, I think that's totally different.
[SPEAKER_08]: I think this is a girlfriend thing.
[SPEAKER_08]: Maybe you have a dynamic where both your girl and your mom try to give the other the front seat, but sometimes the opposite happens.
[SPEAKER_08]: There's a viral video where a guy's girlfriend takes the front seat and closes the door.
[SPEAKER_08]: The mother walks up and says, I'm not sitting in the back seat.
[SPEAKER_08]: You need to get out.
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, that's the mother being an a-hole.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, that's okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: Right?
[SPEAKER_09]: The easy answer is let Mom drive.
[SPEAKER_08]: And then the girl could play.
[SPEAKER_08]: And then the boy friend and girlfriend get in the back seat and start doing it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_06]: No, just make it out.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: The girl refuses to get out in the viral video, but the mom doesn't back down.
[SPEAKER_08]: The guy tries to calm everyone down, but eventually the girl storms out, says she's not going and goes to get into her own car.
[SPEAKER_08]: The internet is torn some say that the mother was out of line for you for demanding to the girlfriend move others say elders get priority on the front seat.
[SPEAKER_08]: No, no, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_06]: You know who gets party on the front seat, the tallest person.
[SPEAKER_06]: So if we go somewhere, Robert gets the front seat because he's the tallest.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's a fatty cop out.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's a fatty McFaddy cop out.
[SPEAKER_08]: The biggest.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, no, no, I mean, I'm driving, so I'm already up there.
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, of course I'm back.
[SPEAKER_08]: But you were given shotgun all your life because you are a big man, right?
[SPEAKER_06]: Not always.
[SPEAKER_08]: You assumed it though, didn't you?
[SPEAKER_06]: But you know, but see, I come from a family of tall people.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm short for a speedwack.
[SPEAKER_06]: So I don't always get that.
[SPEAKER_06]: So the tallest gets the front seat and then my mom actually prefers the rear seat because she can get into a car easier from the driver's side.
[SPEAKER_06]: And then, you know, Carrie doesn't come because she's not interested.
[SPEAKER_08]: Your mom gets the rear seat not for any other reason than your mom is a nice person.
[SPEAKER_06]: No, you could see her getting into a car from the left to the right.
[SPEAKER_06]: And she has an easier time getting in on the driver's side.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's for your mom.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm going to reiterate that Sharon is just nice.
[SPEAKER_08]: That is not, I don't care how big you are.
[SPEAKER_08]: I know Sharon is average height for a woman.
[SPEAKER_06]: But she's a little, and she's actually a little below, I think.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm assuming saying your mom is a very cool lady.
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, she is.
[SPEAKER_08]: Getting behind the driver's seat is a pain in the ass.
[SPEAKER_08]: I would urge you to ask her and say, be completely honest with me.
[SPEAKER_08]: And you can stick to the assumed.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, my mom, I can hear you saying it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, my mom.
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, she's like, she volunteers it.
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, I'm not trying to go like this.
[SPEAKER_06]: Because she's nice.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, I'm not saying that's not part of it, but I'm saying also.
[SPEAKER_09]: Or it's because of how you parked a car, so it's harder to get into the other side.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm a great Parker.
[SPEAKER_08]: Let me you listen, Mr. Man, you have to appreciate your mother and know that she does that because she's super cool.
[SPEAKER_08]: Sharon thumbs up to you.
[SPEAKER_08]: All right.
[SPEAKER_08]: He's never going to admit to it either.
[SPEAKER_08]: She's going to say, no, it's what I prefer.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, I love her very much, but I also think it's true.
[SPEAKER_09]: I won't say my mother-in-law gets in the back seat as well.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's very sweet.
[SPEAKER_08]: my mom and all the women in the Omera family is where they're comfortable, which is strapped on top of the roof of the, of the, of the, of the, of the carrier.
[SPEAKER_06]: Like Anna, yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_06]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_08]: Finally, today, a 58 year old drunk woman in Washington State named Wendy Clemente.
[SPEAKER_08]: Hey, her name almost drives.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, and I almost did a, I almost did a poem, but Clemente was a little bit challenging.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, well, you can't force it.
[SPEAKER_08]: Wendy Clemente is Mwika Liente.
[SPEAKER_08]: Stop it now, you're creepy.
[SPEAKER_08]: She was caught on video driving down a sidewalk chasing a kid on a bike.
[SPEAKER_08]: They call it a motorized bike in this story because they don't know that kids like e-bikes.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's an e-bike that she's chasing.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's unclear why the video starts with her cruising down a street blaring her horn before turning toward the sidewalk and gunning it after the kid.
[SPEAKER_08]: It doesn't seem like the child was instigating her at all, not that it matters.
[SPEAKER_08]: The kid was on an e-bike.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's a quarter-older ride.
[SPEAKER_08]: By the way, that's what Karen's call e-bikes.
[SPEAKER_08]: motorized bikes.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's a good thing if they were peddling Wendy would have run them over.
[SPEAKER_08]: The police tracked Wendy down and she said, this is her quote, she took her dog for a ride and was, quote, looking for other dogs to socialize with.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh boy, fine.
[SPEAKER_08]: She denied knowing anything about the incident with the kid on the bike, including driving on the sidewalk, not surprisingly police say she was under the influence of
[SPEAKER_08]: uh... she was arrested one of the odds it was a dog that's for under arm yeah i'm gonna say about a hundred quite likely and i know she's not going to drive sheep her first to sit in the back seat uh... when the Clemente has a big bad temperate temperate when the Clemente has a bad temperamentate yes and an evil sent a
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: Now you're getting personal.
[SPEAKER_08]: We're going to take a break.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Is this for me, almost counts as a current record, Josh?
[SPEAKER_09]: I every time you play music, every time we have a guest or some type of segment, I try to figure out why did you pick out this song.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, it's father figure.
[SPEAKER_09]: I don't know that, that this song's before I was born.
[SPEAKER_09]: It is, but it's one with a dad.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's not like Elvis or anything.
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, it's not like ancient history for you.
[SPEAKER_06]: We're not playing Glenn Miller.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's George Michael.
[SPEAKER_06]: Welcome everybody to this segment of the Josh and Rob show.
[SPEAKER_06]: We are joined today.
[SPEAKER_06]: This is exciting.
[SPEAKER_06]: A joining us today is a guy who is absolutely taken over the internet with some of the funniest parenting content you'll find anywhere.
[SPEAKER_06]: You've probably seen his viral TikTok videos where he perfectly captures the daily chaos, confusion, and comedy of being a dad in today's world.
[SPEAKER_06]: Dad, can you not, which I think is great because even the title is spoken like a teenager We all have a copy for the contest later.
[SPEAKER_06]: No, I'm kidding.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's basically required.
[SPEAKER_06]: We're reading if you've ever been embarrassed by if you've ever embarrassed your kids now Everyone has been embarrassed by their kids, but if you can embarrass your kids, that's next level Or been embarrassed by your dad.
[SPEAKER_06]: So thank you so much We are excited to have him here on the show chip latent.
[SPEAKER_06]: Thank you so much for taking the time.
[SPEAKER_06]: We love it
[SPEAKER_07]: Thanks for having me looking forward to it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: No, I have to ask.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm guessing that you are about my age.
[SPEAKER_06]: I know I can't ask a lady guest to age, but I can guess you're age.
[SPEAKER_06]: How old are you?
[SPEAKER_06]: 54.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: I just turned 55.
[SPEAKER_06]: So we're probably in a similar situation.
[SPEAKER_06]: What is your kid disbursement as far as I've got two kids.
[SPEAKER_07]: I got an 18 year old and a 22 year old.
[SPEAKER_07]: So one, one's in college, one's in high school.
[SPEAKER_07]: So yeah, I'm down to one teenager.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, that's good.
[SPEAKER_06]: Good for you.
[SPEAKER_06]: You've kept them alive this long.
[SPEAKER_06]: I also have to 25 and 23, but was weird because as they were making the teenager transition, it was during COVID.
[SPEAKER_06]: So it intensified all sarcasm and snark.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think I think it really did.
[SPEAKER_06]: And Josh, you have four kids.
[SPEAKER_09]: I got four kids right now to two 12-year-olds.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, 11 or 12, a teen and a 21, 19 and 21, I think.
[SPEAKER_06]: So a good spread there.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: So we all have kids.
[SPEAKER_06]: I want to start if I may by playing one of your TikTok videos because they're out there and this is funny.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's you're going to hear the Abba music.
[SPEAKER_06]: So I'll just read what is in the book, if that's cool, that pops up on the screen for audio and the screen.
[SPEAKER_06]: More of your teenager texts, it says my bus crashed, but we're in a ditch, so it's chill.
[SPEAKER_06]: By the way, there were two nails on the driveway behind your car.
[SPEAKER_06]: Hopefully you didn't drive over them.
[SPEAKER_06]: Is jury duty those people dressed in orange picking up trash on the side of the road?
[SPEAKER_06]: I have the WWE ones for my taxes.
[SPEAKER_06]: Can you come to our protest?
[SPEAKER_06]: We need more old people.
[SPEAKER_06]: Ouch.
[SPEAKER_06]: What's my print name?
[SPEAKER_06]: That's great.
[SPEAKER_06]: We are going to see a Harrowless Cat then spray Chan and then I'll be home.
[SPEAKER_06]: What?
[SPEAKER_06]: I opened a PayPal account.
[SPEAKER_06]: I knew you wouldn't give me your social security number, so my friend let me borrow his mom's.
[SPEAKER_06]: My professor said to invest in a Roth IRA, but I don't know who that is.
[SPEAKER_06]: Brough filling my tank was $50.
[SPEAKER_06]: Took out like half my net worth.
[SPEAKER_06]: Tough be in a kid these days all these things deal with especially if you've never met Roth IRA Now, I have to ask your whole book is about Things that parents have done to make a A cringey situation for their kids now Do you ever embarrass your kids on purpose or does it just come naturally?
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, I think it comes naturally like it does to most of us.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: We're good at leaning into it Yeah, no, I don't have to try.
[SPEAKER_07]: I just I mean, I'm obviously cringier than the normal dad because I'm like viral on social media Yeah, well, they got a hate the fact that you're on the social media, right?
[SPEAKER_06]: Right.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: No, it's because we belong only on Facebook and maybe not even that
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, that's my advice to parents is like just you're going to like post pictures of your kids or something like that.
[SPEAKER_07]: Just do not Facebook where they'll never see you don't ever say it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_06]: I've learned from experience.
[SPEAKER_06]: Uh, don't talk about your kids on a podcast.
[SPEAKER_06]: They get sore about that.
[SPEAKER_06]: So yeah, maybe best to just leave them alone.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm taking pictures and choose maybe health subjects.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: Um, it's also.
[SPEAKER_09]: with your kids being older, they've got to be at the age where they just roll their eyes and tell you later on.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's not like my kids being 12, my 12 year old, you know, it's at me all the time to just stop.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: I feel like the older kids don't, they just roll the eye and move.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's dad.
[SPEAKER_06]: Do you ever get a stamp of the foot and then an exit of the room, Josh?
[SPEAKER_06]: I used to get that a lot.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I get that.
[SPEAKER_06]: That happens a lot.
[SPEAKER_06]: But you see, just be quiet.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: See, here's where it gets complicated.
[SPEAKER_06]: I have always, always tried to embarrass my kids.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I think it comes from being, I'm an only child, but there were eight brothers and sisters of my mom that almost reached me.
[SPEAKER_06]: So I was like the ninth kid.
[SPEAKER_06]: And so there's a lot of teasing going on with your contemporaries.
[SPEAKER_06]: but not with parents but I brought that down here are some examples of things that I did not only once but continually that always made kids cringe and I want to know if you can comment on them we would have an award ceremony at the every time report cards came out and if you got like a B plus or better you got a pin right and because there was a thousand
[SPEAKER_06]: Rob Spiewak, Chris Layton, and that was the, but when my kids would go, I would scream as loud as I could, just to go above and beyond, and carry my wife notice that after three or four quarters of this, my son would leave the auditorium rather than be there when I screamed for his sister.
[SPEAKER_06]: He didn't even want to be there.
[SPEAKER_06]: So, but,
[SPEAKER_06]: in a way it was me showing pride but they hated it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Now I don't know if they would appreciate that as they got, have you ever seen any experiences like that?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, no that is that's actually very common like I've seen like so many funny teenager text messages about this that are like yeah basically try to stem that off like hey you can come to the swim me but don't cheer just sit there
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, I got that in my son's basketball too, and I should mention you had a previous book that was all texts, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: So if I first book, what time is new and was almost all like, funny teenager text.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right, text of this book as well, but yeah, I see stuff like somebody sent me one the other day.
[SPEAKER_07]: It was like, don't be the last one clapping, you know?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, it's stand out in that way, so it's your type of, I do think, like, you know, sometime in the future, like, your kids will look back on that and be like, oh, that was a kind of a cool thing he did.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I do hear that from some kids when I do something like a dad related content on social media, like, that, you know, people who were older or like, oh, I should probably call my dad to apologize for some of the stuff like that.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I will never say that I've been blessed with wisdom.
[SPEAKER_06]: Never, but I will say that I think somewhere down the road they will appreciate that and I'll say for middle school It's right now.
[SPEAKER_09]: My favorite way to embarrass them is trying to use their slang Oh, that's fun.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's fun.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's just fun because you know it's just gonna annoy them Yeah, they hate it and I'll always seem to be about nine days late on it
[SPEAKER_07]: I did like a glossary or like a yeah glossary of different teens slang in my first book and I'm like I know it's gonna be completely wrong week from now, but what the heck but you can't yeah You can't be talking about your ris or whatever else.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I stick with the word cool It was good in 1950 and it's good now We're talking to Chip Layton the author of dad.
[SPEAKER_06]: Can you not a dad's guide to being less cringy my daughter?
[SPEAKER_06]: used to and I don't drive around anymore so I don't get to do this anymore.
[SPEAKER_06]: She used to hate when I beeped the horn.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: And when I found that out, I started beeping it even when I didn't need to do it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Because dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, so but maybe
[SPEAKER_06]: the most heinous thing I did with both my kids growing up is whenever they had a friend over and they did, they unlike their father had friends.
[SPEAKER_06]: The kids would come over and I would make the friend come over and talk to me.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'd make them make eye contact, I'd ask them questions.
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, I'm not just small talk, I'd say like, so what are you studying in school?
[SPEAKER_06]: And all they want to do is to get to the PlayStation and I'm the guy that's stopping them.
[SPEAKER_06]: Do you have anything that equals that?
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, yeah, I mean, that's definitely a common theme.
[SPEAKER_07]: I see a lot.
[SPEAKER_07]: You see it also, if you have after drive, your friends kid somewhere in the car.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, all kind of ground rules.
[SPEAKER_07]: Like, what kid was like, if my friends are the back seat, don't check your blind spot.
[SPEAKER_07]: They might think you're looking at them.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, make eye contact.
[SPEAKER_07]: So it's, that is sadly that is a typical dynamic, you know,
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, it happens.
[SPEAKER_06]: It happens now.
[SPEAKER_09]: Rob, I'll tell you, you should get a dash cam because I learned that means it takes a picture every time you hunk the horn.
[SPEAKER_09]: So you get to get the kids reaction.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh my god, that's great.
[SPEAKER_09]: So it's a nice added feature.
[SPEAKER_09]: Tip, how did you become like the Crimson Dad guy?
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, how did you get on this path?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, it's a good question.
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, yeah, so a few years ago, I think it was actually like five years ago.
[SPEAKER_07]: I just, I started posting some stuff on TikTok that I thought might be funny, just because I thought it was a cool platform.
[SPEAKER_07]: And the stuff I did early on didn't really work, but eventually I like posted some stuff about marriage.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then these like funny text for my teenagers and it kind of caught on.
[SPEAKER_07]: I realized like, oh, people want to, I should just post about my own life and there's plenty of people that kind of relate to it and laugh at it.
[SPEAKER_07]: And it's, uh,
[SPEAKER_07]: And then it eventually became this huge platform where people from all over, like send me their teenager text messages and I feature those.
[SPEAKER_07]: And yeah, it's just been a while kind of ride it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, it came out like this.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's so amazingly relatable because everyone today, you know, you hold off as long as you can to give your kid a phone.
[SPEAKER_06]: And then it's off to the races and you're in the rear of your in the blind spot, like you mentioned before, we're now a longer part of that essence of their life.
[SPEAKER_06]: and everyone can relate to it now you've got two books your first book was New York Times best seller congratulations and before you wrote the first book were you writing or what were you doing
[SPEAKER_07]: No, so I worked at the corporate world for like 25 years and I started this TikTok thing and I did it for a couple of years and then eventually I was like I want to write this book and do some other things and so I made the decision to leave the day job and so now I do this and kind of related stuff full time so it's been this like cool just second chapter in my 50s and and a little bit weird you know like a little bit cringy I guess but
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, was it a cold water splash to leave the corporate world and become an author?
[SPEAKER_06]: Did you have a lot of stuff to learn fast or did it come easy to you?
[SPEAKER_06]: Not just the writing, but the production of the book.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I mean, everything's been new.
[SPEAKER_07]: So the social media stuff, the book, you know, I've done some like live performance kind of stuff.
[SPEAKER_07]: And it's all new and it's a cool adventure and it's been good.
[SPEAKER_07]: But I mean, it's, I mean, the first book was like,
[SPEAKER_07]: like literally a bunch of teenager text messages.
[SPEAKER_07]: So there's, you know, writing was a little bit of a light lift, but it was, but yeah, I mean, it was, when I started this, like TikTok wasn't like super mainstream.
[SPEAKER_07]: So I remember people at the office being like,
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, all you want tiktok, like what's going on is everything you can do with it.
[SPEAKER_06]: They clicked on something wrong.
[SPEAKER_06]: And then all you want tiktok.
[SPEAKER_09]: And how did your kids handle that transition?
[SPEAKER_09]: Because I did a similar transition where moved out of like the corporate type world and normal jobs for dads and moved into this.
[SPEAKER_09]: So your kids didn't really get a soft launch to it.
[SPEAKER_09]: right.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, they're, I mean, they're not definitely not impressed with me the way that some some people might be, but like, but yeah, for a while, my daughter was calling me, like after I left my job, I was just calling me the unemployed middle-aged tick-talker, you know, which, but well, you really, that's correct.
[SPEAKER_06]: But you, I mean, yeah, it is, you know, statistically correct.
[SPEAKER_06]: You were very brave.
[SPEAKER_06]: You let your kids write the forward to your book, and it's not very
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, so there's the the book has a forwarded that little sections at the beginning of each chapter They're like from the latent kids and they're straight link.
[SPEAKER_07]: I kind of put them together based on things that they've said to be a real life And so like there's a there's a bit in the in the forward that's like, you know Hey, our dad, you know left the solid paying corporate jobs We could film in sufferable tiktoks, you know, it kind of
[SPEAKER_06]: My favorite thing, and I think I got this right, it says, uh, the first book was funny, allegedly, and then, you know, it's just like, they're not handing you anything at this point.
[SPEAKER_07]: So, no, no, well, what I told him, when I told my daughter, my first book can become a New York Times best seller, she was like, every book says that.
[SPEAKER_09]: But it's the perfect response from a kid, right?
[SPEAKER_09]: What's the big deal?
[SPEAKER_09]: Are you then, you gotta be, if not, your kids' favorites, you've gotta be the teachers' favorites to call them.
[SPEAKER_06]: The teachers love you, yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, yeah, that's been part of the funniest and cringiest of sure thing of like, you know, the kids' teachers following me and their friends, you know, like actually my son graduates from college a couple of weeks and he's like, I was a bunch of people actually want to meet you
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I've, you know, I've, in one sense or another, this is not trust me.
[SPEAKER_06]: This is not a humble brag.
[SPEAKER_06]: I've been on the radio for 33 years.
[SPEAKER_06]: I still can't make my payments, but I've been on the radio for 33 years.
[SPEAKER_06]: Um, and the kids would hate it because I've got a pretty recognizable S name, spewak.
[SPEAKER_06]: And they'd say, are you related and you could see their heads drop?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, he's my father.
[SPEAKER_06]: So that, and sometimes just being is cringey.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I mean, you can't win.
[SPEAKER_06]: Now, I do have a question.
[SPEAKER_06]: You did dedicate the book to your dad.
[SPEAKER_06]: Your late father.
[SPEAKER_06]: I just lost my father this year.
[SPEAKER_06]: So I can relate to that.
[SPEAKER_06]: You know, it sucks.
[SPEAKER_06]: But when I thought back,
[SPEAKER_06]: I can never remember my parents embarrassing me on purpose or being cringy is being cringy a modern thing because, you know, in the early 80s when I was, you know, 11, 12 years old, I don't remember them being cringy, I thought they were cool.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, that's a good question.
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, I don't think it's modern.
[SPEAKER_07]: Maybe you just have a really cool parents about it, but yeah, I was embarrassing them.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right, right, yeah, we're just more fine by you.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, no, I, I don't think it's due.
[SPEAKER_07]: I do include like what are two stories from my.
[SPEAKER_07]: that my dad, of my dad, when he was alive and kind of psyched some silly stuff there.
[SPEAKER_07]: But I kind of think it's like, it's kind of like genetic or like part just part of being a dad.
[SPEAKER_07]: Like when I told some people out some dads, I was writing the book, they were like, well,
[SPEAKER_07]: why would I want to be less cringy like that says that like half the fun of being a dad.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, it is.
[SPEAKER_06]: It really, and I can't imagine back like Robert Lincoln saying, oh my dad, the president.
[SPEAKER_06]: He sucks.
[SPEAKER_06]: He's talking to everybody and get his burgers.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, I'm so important.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm the president.
[SPEAKER_09]: But it's not just here.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, it was just a different approach.
[SPEAKER_09]: And every generation has a different approach.
[SPEAKER_09]: Because I remember as a
[SPEAKER_09]: We head into my grandmother's house and drive him past the cemetery every week and it was the same joke by my dad every time we go in there Oh people are dying to get in this people are dying to get in the typical dad joke everyone knows that my childhood I remember hearing that every week Oh, it is a rock.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's a good joke.
[SPEAKER_07]: I literally like filmed a tick-tie I haven't posted it yet.
[SPEAKER_07]: I filled a tick-tock with some dad jokes in it.
[SPEAKER_07]: I used that like just the other day.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's a yes
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, it's classic one.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's been there for 40 years.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think dad jokes are so deep in my structure I think I made dad jokes when I was a kid anyway, but like there are some and our co-host Mike He gets mad.
[SPEAKER_06]: He says can't you have something in your head that you don't speak?
[SPEAKER_06]: I said no, I can't because it's bouncing around in there.
[SPEAKER_06]: It has to get out and I think
[SPEAKER_06]: We as dance are sometimes conditioned like almost like a reflex action got to do the cemetery joke.
[SPEAKER_06]: You got to do it because it's there.
[SPEAKER_06]: So you know, I think that happens and maybe the kids will take a shine to it with extended exposure.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, and Rob, if you remember, I think, with year ago, two years ago, I decided that since my kids aren't around much throughout the house, we're going to just text them every morning.
[SPEAKER_06]: Right.
[SPEAKER_06]: I remember that.
[SPEAKER_09]: Every morning, they said they'd put my number of spam if I didn't stop.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, wow.
[SPEAKER_09]: I stopped after two weeks.
[SPEAKER_06]: No.
[SPEAKER_06]: Being a cringy death chip, and I'm talking of all of us.
[SPEAKER_06]: How do you do with texting and emojis and clever memes and stuff like that?
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, that is a dicey area for day.
[SPEAKER_06]: It really is because I can't even get there, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I do have a chapter of the book with advice on texting and social media.
[SPEAKER_07]: One area I've noticed is problematic for dads is acronyms.
[SPEAKER_07]: They kind of get some of the acronyms mixed up.
[SPEAKER_06]: Can you give us an example?
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, so LOL would probably be the biggest example, which stands for laugh out loud, of course, you know, but yeah, some dads think this stands for lots of love.
[SPEAKER_07]: So you get like a text like a grandma Pat was just a bit to the ICU LOL dad.
[SPEAKER_06]: Not good.
[SPEAKER_06]: No, no, and but I would have to think the kids would sort of accept it because they know that dad's just a moron.
[SPEAKER_06]: He's not really rooting against grandma.
[SPEAKER_06]: No, again, and I want a step back one, you said in your book you had a couple little stories about your own father.
[SPEAKER_06]: Could you share one of those?
[SPEAKER_06]: Because again, I'm still thinking about this whole, is it a recent development thing?
[SPEAKER_07]: yeah yeah so my dad was uh he was a swimmer for fitness and uh war speedo which most people were at the time and he also he traveled a lot for business so uh one time he was at this like very nice hotel and he's he asked the front desk hey where's the where's the pool and they're like oh it's on the third floor and so he
[SPEAKER_07]: We got a speedo on.
[SPEAKER_07]: He got in the elevator and got off on the third floor as the as the doors close behind I mean realize he stepped into a black tie cocktail party.
[SPEAKER_07]: That was good.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's around the pool That kind of stuff.
[SPEAKER_07]: So you know, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_06]: You know, well, that's that's fairly cringy for everybody because I mean obviously he's mortified the people at the party don't like it and then when he comes back and tells the story You're like dad
[SPEAKER_06]: Or as my daughter could turn it into three syllables.
[SPEAKER_06]: Dad, why are you doing that?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, yeah, I can see that.
[SPEAKER_06]: So maybe it is, or maybe we're just a cooler people now.
[SPEAKER_07]: Maybe, and also it's just everything is preserved now because it's text messages.
[SPEAKER_07]: So I mean, I get across a lot with funny things that teenagers say, it's like, I'm sure we said crazy stuff.
[SPEAKER_07]: It asks crazy questions, but they're not preserved for us.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, when you talk about all the cringy stuff,
[SPEAKER_06]: did this, you had an advantage on your first book because all the texts were there.
[SPEAKER_06]: But when you have to write down the cringy stuff, did you have, I know the answer to this before I ask it, did you have any trouble coming up with a book's worth of cringy stuff?
[SPEAKER_07]: No, there was quite a lot, so it was, especially for some of the sections it was more about, how do I edit this down?
[SPEAKER_07]: So, right, then some like, you know,
[SPEAKER_07]: crazy dad story like content on social media so people have sent me stuff related to that and so it's Just to get people a sense of it.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's like most of stuff is like accident also like I have a chapter on food and so like there's a dad who He ate an entire bowl of thousand island dressing because he thought it was soup all those those those kind of dad moves I've got listed listed those kinds of things.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, I've got one for you.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay, this past Christmas
[SPEAKER_09]: My dad went into the kitchen and grabbed a handful and you have dinner's mouth and it was those little orby things, the little balls that you put in water and they inflate.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, a little bunch.
[SPEAKER_09]: He just thought they were candy around.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, I support.
[SPEAKER_07]: So many stories like that.
[SPEAKER_07]: I thought you were going to say, Pope Marie.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's like the most common one.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, it's just diving into that.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, Pope Marie.
[SPEAKER_07]: But yeah, there's a lot of food ones.
[SPEAKER_06]: My dad was a huge eater, and so is his son.
[SPEAKER_06]: But he one time made a salad for himself when we had company over.
[SPEAKER_06]: And when people came into the kitchen, they started serving themselves from his salad.
[SPEAKER_06]: Because they assumed that was the salad for the entire place.
[SPEAKER_06]: Right.
[SPEAKER_06]: A little crunchy, a little bit, a little bit.
[SPEAKER_06]: Do you have a favorite passage or part of the book?
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, I know there's so much love and labor and sweat that goes into a book.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_06]: Make that Sophie's choice for me.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_07]: I've made there's a lot of, I mean, you're like the food chapter.
[SPEAKER_07]: I will bet I will mention I have this this thing in the book.
[SPEAKER_07]: I call it the dad meter, which is there's a bunch of quizzes where you can rate kind of how cringey you or the dad and your life are on this meter.
[SPEAKER_07]: So it goes from like basic to mid to extra.
[SPEAKER_06]: I did not take that quiz on purpose.
[SPEAKER_06]: I didn't want the answers.
[SPEAKER_06]: So yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: I think that's where you have the
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, I think the the meter is where you had the if you tied the pony tail with a zip tie Which I haven't done I've been tempted to do many times for little heroes.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I think that's that's like mid on the meter like another one And I'll take you high on the cringe meter is when I had a pony tail
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, for sure.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's no good.
[SPEAKER_06]: When I donated my hair to locks of love eventually, my wife said, somewhere there is a child with cancer with a graying receding hairline.
[SPEAKER_06]: The thanks.
[SPEAKER_06]: So, the book is Dad, can you not, a dad's guide to being less cringy.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's by New York Times, bestselling author, Chip Layton, and we really appreciate you coming on.
[SPEAKER_06]: This would be a great gift.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's available at Amazon wherever books are sold.
[SPEAKER_06]: For Mother's Day, which is coming up because you can use it to make for a fun of dad.
[SPEAKER_06]: And next month, is Father's Day be a great gift then, too, right?
[SPEAKER_09]: It's a great father's day gift because how many fathers's day gifts are really just making fun of the father?
[SPEAKER_06]: Of course.
[SPEAKER_09]: Straight to his face.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, I'd rather say gifts are terrible, so this is like a win-win.
[SPEAKER_07]: They're worse, you know, I don't wear a tie around it.
[SPEAKER_06]: And also, I don't need barbecue tools.
[SPEAKER_06]: I've got them.
[SPEAKER_06]: I've got them, so thank you very much.
[SPEAKER_06]: Chip, a true pleasure.
[SPEAKER_06]: I hope you stay in touch and let us know how the book does.
[SPEAKER_06]: We wish you all the best.
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[SPEAKER_08]: Welcome back to the Michael Maris Show every body.
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[SPEAKER_08]: Welcome back to the show.
[SPEAKER_08]: Great great interview with the author, Chip Layton and in that book, one segment of it's something like the dad's guide to the stages of a dad home project, which a great to me.
[SPEAKER_08]: because it is me real quick.
[SPEAKER_08]: We're really short on time.
[SPEAKER_08]: I want to get to this quickly because I always bus rob's balls about what he drinks and that he's taking in these calories.
[SPEAKER_08]: These calories are the worst and what is this called?
[SPEAKER_08]: This is the 10 unhealthiest drinks.
[SPEAKER_08]: that are on store shelves.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm going to go through them this way as I can.
[SPEAKER_08]: Number 10, this will surprise you.
[SPEAKER_08]: Arizona green tea kind of sounds like it might be green tea.
[SPEAKER_08]: I thought the green tea would be healthy.
[SPEAKER_08]: No, it is not the green tea.
[SPEAKER_08]: Let me see this here.
[SPEAKER_08]: It do do.
[SPEAKER_08]: It has it's packed with the anti-oxidants and zero calorie energy.
[SPEAKER_08]: uh... normal green tea turns into an absolute trash barrel here uh... forty two grams of added sugar why a honey and some taste and uh... and hook it to our vans i fructose corn syrup that's true three tea is not particularly strong so you know it's good to have a some flavor i guess number nine is barks root beer
[SPEAKER_08]: uh... let's see if that above all other roots for the four grams of added sugar and that all comes from high fructose corn ship most of it yeah high fructose corn syrup uh... let's see they do have a barx zero now if you're a interesting i wonder i think barx also has caffeine it's one of the few repairs that has caffeine
[SPEAKER_08]: This has been all over recently and they're they're varying degrees of differences on these lists, but the one that's consistent, and this was at the very top of one of the lists that I read, Welch's grape juice.
[SPEAKER_08]: Why do you think grape juice?
[SPEAKER_08]: It's the, uh, let's say I have more grape juice.
[SPEAKER_08]: Don't buy the label hype.
[SPEAKER_08]: Whatever is good for you about one of the country's most iconic fruit juices is here raised by the president's, by the way, this comes from the New York Post.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, he's erased by the president's of 44 grams of sugar in a 10-ounce bottle.
[SPEAKER_08]: Go eat some fresh grapes.
[SPEAKER_08]: One cup gives you just 16 grams of sugar according to experts.
[SPEAKER_08]: And the next one on the list, I think this thing with Arnstuce.
[SPEAKER_08]: Or it's just kind of very similar to the same.
[SPEAKER_08]: Mountain Dew.
[SPEAKER_08]: Mountain Dew is, yeah, it says simply put it down for that.
[SPEAKER_08]: Surely you can find better ways to add 46 grams of sugar to your diet that a bunch of processed sweetener.
[SPEAKER_08]: Think about it over a nice lemon cell syrup, perhaps.
[SPEAKER_08]: Now we move into the Starbucks world.
[SPEAKER_08]: Number six is Starbucks Frappuccino coffee.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, 47 grams of sugar approximately 12 teaspoons at the time anyway with putting 12 teaspoons of sugar in your coffee every morning.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's I mean You might do you put any sugar in your car.
[SPEAKER_06]: You just do some milk, right?
[SPEAKER_06]: I have black coffee.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, you can't you don't put any sugar in
[SPEAKER_08]: No, let's see, and let me give these the relative overly sweet Starbucks serves in store.
[SPEAKER_08]: We'll tell you, 60 grams in a gronday.
[SPEAKER_08]: Make it green tea juice machine.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's another Arizona.
[SPEAKER_06]: Juice machine.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, I thought that isn't next to me.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's not supposed to add anything.
[SPEAKER_08]: Right.
[SPEAKER_08]: Uh, hopefully better than everyone knows better, but in a case not naked juices, many of them made from relatively cheap apple juice concentrate.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_08]: Are not actual smoothies.
[SPEAKER_08]: This so-called green juice has 53 grams of sugar.
[SPEAKER_08]: We're almost better off drinking in the Arizona green tea.
[SPEAKER_09]: I think they should have to call it green juice.
[SPEAKER_09]: All right.
[SPEAKER_09]: So this is the list
[SPEAKER_08]: Monster Energy drink at number three.
[SPEAKER_08]: Here's naked again naked blue machine juice.
[SPEAKER_08]: Blue machine juice.
[SPEAKER_08]: Another scam smoothie.
[SPEAKER_08]: Let's see.
[SPEAKER_08]: This time promising a blast of cherry, berry goodness.
[SPEAKER_08]: But once again delivering a bottle of mostly apple juice concentrate, that seems to be the bad one here.
[SPEAKER_08]: And at number one, the cheap.
[SPEAKER_08]: Let's see, committing the same as the naked juices coming up for their lashings on the naughty list.
[SPEAKER_08]: One manages to be that much more wrong by finding room for a wumping 67 grams of the white stuff.
[SPEAKER_08]: Don't you give into the lure of one and a quarter mangoes here.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's just not worth it.
[SPEAKER_08]: So there they go.
[SPEAKER_08]: Wow, that's I knew we were running.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yes, that
[SPEAKER_09]: and then they changed their change their 100% food per bottle to the amount of food per the illusion is so strong when you see that that it's going to be healthy for you.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh my gosh, do we match up today?
[SPEAKER_06]: Are you drinking Kirkland lime?
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, I am.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, thank God.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, it's a clean water.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, it's so good.
[SPEAKER_08]: Perfectly good for you.
[SPEAKER_08]: We won't, we won't die.
[SPEAKER_08]: We'll be right back to everybody right after this.
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[SPEAKER_08]: All right, we, we, we've, we've time for like a half of video here.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's, that's what we've got a lot of long ones.
[SPEAKER_06]: My God, a lot of love.
[SPEAKER_08]: Sorry.
[SPEAKER_08]: Sorry about that.
[SPEAKER_08]: Let's get to a, let's do it.
[SPEAKER_08]: And then we have to call it that some beautiful video.
[SPEAKER_08]: Jerry time.
[SPEAKER_06]: Mike today's beautiful video is brought to you by the Paris Hilton album Infinite Icon that you can get autograph There she is Paris Hilton dot com inshi love looks like a Barbie doll She does I don't think there's any air-brushing done there.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's just a natural.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, yeah Very surprised trivia question for Michael Mera what was the name at the time of his death?
[SPEAKER_06]: What was the name of Jack Kent Cook's little dog?
[SPEAKER_06]: I blank, absolutely blank.
[SPEAKER_06]: He shares it with the star of this video.
[SPEAKER_08]: Coco, Coco, hello, Coco, and the chimpanzee, or the gorilla, Coco.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, that's true.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's very true, shattered.
[SPEAKER_06]: But this Coco is in Argentina, and he walked 30 blocks from his home and walked into a soccer stadium and was having the time of his life.
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[SPEAKER_06]: They never caught him.
[SPEAKER_06]: He found his way out of the stadium and walked back home.
[SPEAKER_06]: Walk.
[SPEAKER_06]: Or he ran back home.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, he'd be so tired, but man.
[SPEAKER_06]: I love it.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think that's a great hooray for Coco.
[SPEAKER_06]: All right, Mike.
[SPEAKER_06]: I want to talk to you about Dolly Parton Stones.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, she's not kidney stones?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, and she was the health issue.
[SPEAKER_06]: She's better, but she's still not on stage, but she did take the time to put up a video for all of us to see and let her know that she's gonna be okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, hey there, it's Dolly.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm here to give you an update on a few things going on in my life.
[SPEAKER_01]: First, it's concerned in my health.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I have some good news.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm a little bad news, but the good news is I'm responding really well to marriage and treatments and I'm improving every day.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now the bad news is, it's going to take me a little while before I'm up to stage performance level because some of the marriage and treatments make me a little bit swim-heated as my grandma used to say and of course I can't be deasy carrying around bandels, guitars and
[SPEAKER_06]: So, man, she looks good.
[SPEAKER_06]: She really, that's the thing, I mean, I know I give her, I don't know why you hate her so much.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't hate her, I don't, I just have trouble with her loose-fitting dentures.
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, everybody gets old, Rob, that's just the way it works.
[SPEAKER_06]: I know, Mike, but it's sad, but she does look great and I don't think there's any performer that would do an apology video that would do hair makeup and a proper set.
[SPEAKER_06]: I really give her credit for her.
[SPEAKER_08]: She's a pro, baby.
[SPEAKER_06]: She's a pro.
[SPEAKER_06]: Meanwhile, uh, this comes from the Josh Schroke library, and I'd never seen it.
[SPEAKER_08]: Uh, this is a Josh, uh, did, did I mention that we're short on time?
[SPEAKER_08]: Uh, no, you did not.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, we got to wrap it up, Rob.
[SPEAKER_08]: Mike.
[SPEAKER_06]: This is the last place.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: You didn't say finally.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: Finally, this is from the Josh Shroke Library.
[SPEAKER_06]: On local news when something goes wrong, you can either totally handle it right or punt it.
[SPEAKER_06]: This lady handles it right.
[SPEAKER_06]: Let's see what was going on in the weather in Minnesota.
[SPEAKER_03]: See eight right now in the Twin Cities, it's a comfortable Tuesday 946 and Hinkley 57 and Marshall 50 is the current temperature right now in what no now.
[SPEAKER_03]: Ooh, that's funky!
[SPEAKER_03]: What is going?
[SPEAKER_10]: Ooh!
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't really know what's going on!
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh man, get one for one, Jennifer, or two for six.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, this is having a technical moment.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's fantastic.
[SPEAKER_06]: Can you believe that train off the line?
[SPEAKER_06]: It was a great line.
[SPEAKER_06]: I believe that train off the line.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's awesome.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's the way you're doing it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Great.
[SPEAKER_06]: The thing I like about it is that each continual image was just a little bigger.
[SPEAKER_06]: So it was like a monster movie.
[SPEAKER_08]: It did a great job with that.
[SPEAKER_08]: We got to get out of here.
[SPEAKER_08]: Want to thank Tray for late in the book.
[SPEAKER_08]: His dad can you not.
[SPEAKER_08]: And thank you guys for doing that interview.
[SPEAKER_08]: We really appreciate it.
[SPEAKER_08]: We will be back with a brand new episode tomorrow.
[SPEAKER_08]: For Rod to Spiewack and Josh Morocco.
[SPEAKER_08]: Michael Maris saying, so long, everybody.
[SPEAKER_08]: Love you, pop.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Michael Maribosa, radio entertainment.