From the Middle - Sad Flopsicles, Sick Foods, and Sunsetter’s Fellowship

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From the Middle is proud to be a founding member
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of Bob Pots Media. Hello everybody, and welcome to episode
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number three hundred and twenty two of From the Middle,
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where we are just three regular guys who chat about things.
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This week, the things that we are chatting about has
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a lot to do with food. No surprise there, But
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for the you, is it a metaphobia? A metaphobes out there?
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If you like mac and cheese, you might want to skip.
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I don't know what the when we start talking about
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mac and cheese, take a break for a few seconds.
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But we do talk about other kinds of sick foods,
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such as flopsicles and chicken noodle soup and the like.
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We also talk about some a little bit of sports,
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taking back sports, youth sports. How were youth sports when
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you were a kid. We talk about how we think
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youth sports should be and what the Manning brothers think
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about that. We're talking about sick kiddos and aging parents
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and kids, birthdays and all kinds of things. We hope
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you enjoy it. Thank you, oh for the love.
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Sorry, just clearing my mountain. Behold, I got my tone
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hole came today.
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That's where you keep it.
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You're so cerebral and you're so developed, and you fol.
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From the middle after dark over here.
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Where are what you got in your glass?
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Buddy Jamison with the big rock.
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Jamison with a big rock. Yes, sir, man's drink.
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I don't know it's what was there?
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What was there? I'm drinking a grapefruit soda. So, uh, cheers, brother,
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you've got one on me. There we go, we're recording, recording.
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Yeah, oh wow. It was a big day, one of
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those days that you're like life huh. So we moved
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one of my grandfathers into assisted living today.
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Oh dude.
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Yeah, And it was just like it went really well.
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It went great, like about as good as drop off
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can be expected. But seeing him move out of the
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house he built in nineteen seventy, you know, yeah, and
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then taking some of his things to this place that
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he's only temporarily moving to because the plan is to
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move out again once he gets his health back up
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in the summer, which we absolutely absolutely believe can happen.
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But yeah, it was just one of those days, you know.
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And my middle daughter turned sixteen this week. Cannot believe it.
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Happy birthday, Chloe, Holy cow. So nineteen six sixteen and
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eleven year old kids. Bro, this is like, what is happening?
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M h Hence the jamis send in the big rock.
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Yeah, that's a lot happening, buddy.
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Coping is fun. Hey, what's going on with you guys?
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Well, we've got flew in the house and birds not
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just the birds, that's right. Well, you guys, remember anybody
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listened last week? I was hacking the whole time. I'm
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not hacking nearly as much anymore. But uh, and I
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don't think that we've had this happen to my memory,
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I don't think it's ever happened. All three kids at
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the same time went down and or at least overlapped enough.
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So today, well, okay, so the kids were off school
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on Monday. They also had school off on Friday, but
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Lydia her last day of school last week was Tuesday,
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and then all three of them were home from school
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sick on Tuesday this week, and then finally Wednesday we
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get to send one of them back but whilst I
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retaining too. So that's that's life in our house at
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the moment. Is just a lot of a lot of
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fevers going on at the same time. Trying to remember
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what medication I gave to who when and that kind
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of thing. I end up just like texting Amy every
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single time a kid gets medicine. That way, I've got
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something to like go back to and look at. And
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also she's informed, So.
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Yeah, well sorry for that. That's not super fun. And
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I realized my bird flu joke worked on two levels
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bird flu as in bird flu and also so anyway,
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I just wanted to revisit that it was a double joke,
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a double long tent, but not on tondrec. Yeah. That's
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a lot, man. Is it one of those where you're
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just like, it's a matter of time before I get
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hit with this.
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Well, I think I brought it to him what happened,
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So I'm pretty sure it's my fault. But I never
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had a fever that I'm aware of with it. But
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all three of them have had slash still have fevers.
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Amy is the only one who so far has gone unscathed,
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so she.
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Probably has superpowers from working in a lab.
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That could be good luck to Amy.
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Stay strong, Amy. Yeah, Dylan, how are you, buddy? Good good?
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You were talking about kids' birthdays, so your middle and
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our only have birthdays one day apart. Yes, different number
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of years of course, but this week our daughter Finley
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will be eight. We just had our party this past weekend,
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which was a lot of fun.
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It was stitched themed.
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She said it was her favorite birthday she's had so far,
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including the not limited to theming and food.
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So she had a grand old time.
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And yeah, on the sick kiddos thing, I think her
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class is twenty two, twenty one, twenty two kids, and
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over the last month there's been days where she's come
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back it's like, only thirteen kids were there today. Only
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eight kids were there today, So it's definitely the teacher's
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gone for three days. The teachers kids are all out
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for two days, you know, So there's been a lot
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of junk. So I feel that when I say stay strong, Amy,
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you can do it, you can do it. I was
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sick not too long ago, but he just got sick.
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I feel like it's definitely made its round. So it
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is no fun for sure.
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Yeah, no, but it's been. It's been. It's been fun
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for the most part. The kids have been in good
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moods or at least during the moments that they've been medicated.
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And I leave it up to them whether or not
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they want to be medicaid unless the fever gets like
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crazy high. I kind of tell them what you'd what
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I think you should tell people, which is that like,
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unless it's like dangerously high fever, if you feel like
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you can cope with it, don't medicate it. Let the
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fever do what fevers do. It's it's your part of
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part of your body's immune system fighting the virus. But
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then but if you're like you're absolutely miserable, then go
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ahead and take the medicine. But so that said, like
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they've been in relatively good moods and we've had we've
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had fun. We've still done some stuff just in the house,
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and Joel and I have been have been working on
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like turkey calling and things like that, which is which
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has been fun.
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Nice.
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That was not a turkey call.
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Okay, I was gonna ask with your mouths or with
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like the little wooden boxes or.
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So I have I have a diaphragm call. Okay that
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I'm learning you're gonna do some turkey hunting, not in
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the spring, but in the fall.
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Let's go gearing up.
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Me and him are going to go turkey hunting in
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the fall, and then we're going to follow that up.
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Isaaca and I are going to go deer hunting after that,
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so yeah, I'm so hyped for this. Yeah yeah, I
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mean we're totally preparing. We're going to go out there.
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We're gonna I'm gonna make sure that we're confident in
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uh in what we're doing. And I think I might
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have a track on on being able to hunt private,
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which would be good.
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So that's the only way to go in my book.
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So if you can swing it, that's awesome. That's what
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I'm trying to swing. I mean, I'll do public if
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I have to, sure. Yeah, And turkey hunting is weird
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depending on the county. Some some counties only have one
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season of turkey hunting and others have both spring and fall.
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But yeah, it's I've done that a couple of times.
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It's fun.
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Smart birds turkeys, I mean dumb birds, but like great vision.
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Yes, yeah, yeah, they're dumb, they're they're easy to call
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in the spring, they're easy to call at least. Yeah,
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I know you've done your story. I absolutely have, my friend,
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I absolutely have.
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They say they can see a human being blink at
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like one hundred or two hundred yards.
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Yeah, yeah, and then you don't have to worry.
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You don't have to.
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You could wear neon and go deer hunting, right, Turkey,
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you can't do that, And.
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They have the scouts around the outer perimeter, and yeah,
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that's that's an interesting animal to hunt. Dylan, talk to
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us about hunting.
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Nope, I had to make up for drinking grapefruit soda
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when you're drinking whiskey over there.
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So I get it.
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I break that up.
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You said bird calls, I imagine three amigo's bird calls.
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Like look up here, look up here.
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But back to the the sick kids, think, do you
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guys have other than the normal whatever brat diet like bananas, rice, whatever?
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Do you guys have like special sick foods? Like do
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you do any like like certain popsicles or certain drinks
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or anything that they're allowed to have.
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So I've a few times over the course of the
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past couple of days have found myself running out for
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slushies because sore throat has been a popular symptom with
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this whole thing. Other than that, No, not really. I
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mean as a kid, I certainly did, and Amy has things,
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but our kids are just like I just really don't
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want to eat. Usually when they're sick. But yeah, slushies
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and popsicles. Nothing in particular with the popsicles. Lately, they
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like the which I hate them. They have the like
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these is it trolley who's making? They're like weird, chewy,
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kind of gummyish kind of popsicles. Oh, they're floppy. It's weird.
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It's bossy popsicles. Flopsicles.
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This is probsticles. It is a problem. I'm not a fan,
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but the kids love them.
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That's going in the title immediately, flopsicles on the flip
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side of that coin. Do you have foods that, as
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an adult you can't consume without thinking of being sick
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because it's a food you used to eat when you
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were sick as a kid.
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Cranberry juice, brandberry juice. Yeah, it's like was it for
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an infection or whatever? It's like, drink this cranberry juice
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that'll make you feel gross.
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It's gross. Now for me, it's spright. I can't drink
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sprite without thinking of being sick, or seven Up or whatever. Whatever.
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Citrus Clear citrus soda without thinking of being sick.
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You can definitely understand that is.
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Any kind of chicken noodle soup too. Generic, like, is
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that something you eat on the rag or like you
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were only really eating it when you are sick. I
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will eat that and not think of being sick. But yeah,
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for sure, saltines, clear, citrus pops and probably popsicles too. Yeah,
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except for those outshine bars. I tear those outshine bars
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up in the summer. You guys know this.
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I leave pop I leave a trail of popsicle sticks,
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you know.
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Seven For us, it was specifically seven up in saltines,
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like when you have like a stomach bug. And what's
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funny is that I do think about being sick when
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I drink a seven up, but like, I'm still cool
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with drinking a seven up, So that's maybe a little
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bit weird. I think a lot of people I used
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to have foods that I remember throwing up shortly after
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eating and was therefore turned off on it for a
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long time. Yes, Taco Bell actually was one of those.
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I threw up shortly after eating Taco Bell and for
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a long time couldn't eat Taco Bell.
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Didn't do it?
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Yeah, I did that for a whole bunch of family
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members with Ryan's buffet.
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Corey's laughing because he was.
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There, and I didn't have a problem going straight back
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to mac and cheese, but sometimes other people do.
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So if you remember, my mind is going too different.
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Like at a I'm thinking of you, did you vomit
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at the buffet? Yeah, at the table, Like at the table,
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I'm thinking of two things. One, the thought crossed my
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mind literally ate so much at the buffet that I puked.
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And b when you say I went right back, I'm
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like thinking, you had a big plate of mac and cheese,
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vomited and I was like, well that was a waste,
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and got up and got some more mac and cheese,
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came back. Yeah.
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The key, The key is to just chew through the gagging,
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you know what I mean. You just have to just
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muscle through. You know, the mac and the cheap buffet
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mac and cheese is worth it, you know what I mean.
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I really appreciate the book ends of my day today
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because I'm doing the Bible in a year reading plan
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and we're in Leviticus talking about semen and menstrual fluids. Okay,
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so I'm going to end the day now with thinking
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of Dylan's macaroni and cheese throw up at Ryan's Steakhouse
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in Limo.
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Ryan stodcast man. Buffets used to be the thing, huh.
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I remember the first time we introduced our children to
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a buffet. They had never been one to been to
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one before, and it was like, so, so we can
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just keep going back, which is what led to Dylan's story. Yeah,
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I'm a kid, they can have unlimited mac and cheese,
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and they're like, what.
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Of course they're going to do that, and I'm going
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to like do rounds of ice cream Sundays in between
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and just like alternate. In fact, it's been it had
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been so long since I had been to a buffet.
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The first time I did in a very long time, Corey,
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was with your daughter Lily. We went to the Asian
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sushi sever buffet place, and that's the first time I've
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been to one in a very long time. So not
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about not a bad option. You know, they didn't have
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mac and cheese, so it was safe. Are you looking
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up the restaurant now, yeah, Bryan's. I had to google
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Ryan's Buffet because I remember the logo as soon as
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I googled it and saw it.
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So first shout out to Tokyo Girl Sushi and Hibachi
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Buffet here in Columbus. If you're in the Polaris area,
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do yourself a favor. It is good. And if it's
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any indication, and I don't think it's wrong to say this,
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if it's any indication of how good the food is.
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There are a lot of Asian people there regularly. Well,
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there you go see all of all types of Asian
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so tokyo girl, sushi, and hibachi. Yeah, go ahead, ken.
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Now, I was gonna say it like when I think
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of like Chinese or Asian buffet, like I think of,
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you know, like your dingy little walk in take out
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Chinese place, only it's larger and there's a bunch of
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white people eating there, yep. And there is a section
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that has pizza and mac and cheese.
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This is not that. This is like an upscale version.
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This is a or it's just a really good one
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of those.
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It's it's a good it's an upscale version. And I
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didn't understand sushi and hibachi buffet. I was like, what
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does that is the buffet sushi and hibachi foods or
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is it sushi plus a hibachi buffet like hibachi foods on?
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So I was like, let's go and figure this out. Yeah,
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and it is. It's both and they they give you
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little the little fryer baskets of like one chicken on
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a stick, and then you take it for your tray,
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and then they just push the rest forward or sushi,
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same thing, couple on a plate. They push the rest forward,
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so it's hibachi items, sushi items, and then all the
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dessert and salad items in a separate buffet line. It
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is like, wah, so good. And then they give you
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one you guys remember like Beatie's Mongolian grow where you
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would put the raw meat protein with all your veggies
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and whatever. You also get one of those per meal,
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so you get like a make your own bowl and
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then all those sushi and hibachi buffet items. It is awesome.
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It is very good.
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I would The only thing I would disagree is I
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don't know that I would use the word upscale in
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the senses. It doesn't nothing about it feels fancy. Okay,
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it still feels fast casual. You don't. You wouldn't need
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to dress up at all. The interior is not fancy.
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There's like Neon led light strips around the buffet area.
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Yeah. I just meant one step more upscale than what
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Kendall was describing right.
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Yeah, so I don't want anyone to turn away thinking
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they need to throw on their you know.
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Tucks to go.
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Yeah, for sure, get their Asian buffet items, show up
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in a T shirt and shorts and you'll be fine.
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But you pulling up the Ryan's images, I thought it
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was called Ryan's Steakhouse. I guess it was just Ryan's.
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Yeah, it had a name, Ryan's, Remember bryan Steakhouse being
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a thing, separate thing. I don't know, like they had,
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or at least the one that I'm familiar with from
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Mary and Ohio had like a steak menu that you
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could order from and you had to pay specifically for
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the steaks, and so you'd get like that steak that
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you paid for and the buffet that you paid for.
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Wow.
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Now, which I don't know that anybody ever actually did.
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Ryan's Steakhouse brings up the exact same images as Ryan's Buffet.
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Yeah, it was the official name, And I didn't realize
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they called the bar the megabar nice fount it in
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seventy seven.
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Wow, makes it all the more a tempting to pile
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high that mac and cheese.
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Interesting. Yeah, so.
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Clear pops make us think of being sick, no special foods, Corey,
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do you guys have special foods for when kiddos are sick?
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No, we do the brat thing. It's funny you brought
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that up. We try to stick to the Brat thing,
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the brat acronym. Yeah, okay, same here, all right, there
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you go. Okay, speaking of buffets and favorite foods and
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sometimes being sick and aging grandparents, have you guys thought about,
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in the perfect world, how you'd like to spend your
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autumn years. Is this like a keep me in my
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house until I absolutely can't anymore? Or is it as
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soon as I can get to an assisted living facility
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where they're bringing me food and doing my laundry and
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I'm socializing with people like a glorified like vacation destination
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with other old folks playing shuffle? Like what is your
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current view at on forty or nearly forty about how
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you'd like to all things being you know, normally you
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don't have any special reasons why you would have to
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go anywhere if you could just choose, Or is it
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like a I'm I'm dying in my house and I'm
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gonna that's how I'm going.
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See there's a particular facility in Gahanna that made me
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think about this because of where it is located. It's
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kind of like tucked in the woods a little bit,
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and it overlooks a very large it's technically a creek,
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but it's very large for a creek, and it's beautiful.
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And I remember, like Amy and I had a conversation
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when we saw it and realized what it was that
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we were like, I want to get here like sooner
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than later. Yeah, if I can. Yeah, there is a
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part of me that says, like, like, man, I want
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I wouldn't mind getting into a place early enough that
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I can actually enjoy the stuff and the and the
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things and not have to worry about all kinds of
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other other things. And I don't know if that's a
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we'll find out what you guys think, but like I
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feel like there's a generational thing about that, or maybe
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we'll change our minds when we come of age. But
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I don't know what what are you guys' thoughts?
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Well, on the on the thing you just said, there's
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a place literally I could almost see it from outside
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this window, and it looks like a chalet style hotel
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in a ski town, like big stone columns wood and
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I think it's assisted living and nursing home. I don't
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know for sure what services they offer at this facility,
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but here's what I do know about it, having some
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friends who have parents there. It's got its own movie theater,
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it's got an Irish pub inside of it, a bowling
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alley slash arcade, and I'm like, even hearing about some
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of the benefits that my grandpa gets at the place
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we dropped him off at today, I was like, I
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would go here, now, Yeah, I mean it sounds pretty awesome.
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So yeah, I mean you're paying, you know, depending on
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the place, you could be paying a substantial amount for
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those things. And we've priced a few out just out
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of morbid curiosity, and it's wild, but yeah, I get that.
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It's like, if you can go that way, that's a
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way to spend your latter years. Dylan, what are your
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thoughts on the matter.
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I'll preface by saying I'm completely open to the idea
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that my mind could change at any time, and there's.
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Nothing wrong with that.
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But currently I feel like, in my brain, the whole
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point of tiring is to finally get away from people,
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you know what I mean? And putting myself in a
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situation where lots of people are around again doesn't sound ideal.
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So the whole die and home thing.
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Sounds kind of nice, but I'm open to I could
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feel different.
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You know.
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It's like you, if you're really lucky, maybe you have
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lots of retired years and you're like, hey, I've done
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the I finally rested after a decade of not having
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to see people. Maybe I want to see people again,
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you know, like maybe that's the thing. And it's like, now,
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I think I'm ready to put myself back out there.
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I've slept enough, I've watched enough daytime television. I could
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probably go back out now, so we'll see TV. But
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I'm leaning towards like just just leave me, leave me alone,
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just me, I hear you. Just I'll do my thing.
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I'm differentiating between like retirement and like needing help day
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by day. Sure, yeah, that's two different errors for me,
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and I'm thinking more of the latter.
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Yeah, I'm I don't want to be the kind of
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person that is stubborn.
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About needing help.
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I'd like to I'd like to think that I'd be like, yeah,
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I get it, it's just my time that like everyone
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needs help at some point. It's just my turn now,
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and that's okay. There's nothing wrong with that. I'd like
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to think that I'll have ano maturity to do that,
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but I think as long as that's not you know,
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it's not a need and it's like you have a choice.
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Yeah, I mean there's ways to like do that at home,
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like if you're able to admit that and then like
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hire the organization or whatever that sends somebody daily, Like,
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there's ways to do that too.
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Yeah, and give somebody access to my Lego collection.
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I don't think.
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To keep their greedy little hands off my mini pigs.
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I just had to say, Lego, I don't have anything
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else valuable that anyone would want, so you know, get
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all up in my goodies.
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Well, you need to build a Lego vault.
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Yeah, you mean like a door out of Lego that's
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like a working mechanical vault of Lego.
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Well, no, one that's possibly more functional than that as
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a vault.
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One that can be disassembled brick by brick, I mean.
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I mean cost the same. So that's true. You stepped
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down a Lego brick. They're indestructible when you step on them.
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So I think you could build something pretty impressive. Uh yeah,
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we'll see. I don't know, see if they can be
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trusted around my fine goods.
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Speaking of fine goods, this feels like a really good
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We've talked about food quite a bit on this episode.
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I just want to kind of keep that role and
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because that's what we do, I've I've been influenced so
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as my wife who who listens to to her husband's podcast.
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That's nice.
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Two things that have been brought up have been crab
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ring goon dip, which spun off of our conversation with
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crabbering goon burritos, and Amy looked up and found a
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recipe for that, which our family has tried. We have
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also done all h Cory and Cherry hubble the egg
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roll in a bowl concept.
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Okay, yeah, unstuffed egg rolls we call him, but yes,
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is way better.
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Oh well, we called it egg rolling a bowl and
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we decided to take the step that came up during
484
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our conversation, which was we added the fried wantans to it, yes,
485
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which was a good choice. It was the egg roll
486
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a bowl was essentially, I mean, and to nobody's surprise,
487
00:28:23.240 --> 00:28:28.480
essentially kind of like tasting like stir fry, but more
488
00:28:28.759 --> 00:28:32.680
crumbly like because it's like crumbled meat and things like that.
489
00:28:33.119 --> 00:28:36.720
Delicious would absolutely do that. When again, the crab ring
490
00:28:36.799 --> 00:28:39.839
gun dip, I want to give another shot because the
491
00:28:39.920 --> 00:28:43.720
recipe was way too far out and left field where
492
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it's like, this is no longer crab ring goon dip.
493
00:28:45.759 --> 00:28:49.400
It had like celery in it, and and it had
494
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like five spice in it and things like that. I'd like,
495
00:28:51.920 --> 00:28:55.759
I want pretty much straight up sour cream or not
496
00:28:55.839 --> 00:28:58.640
sour cream, cream, cheese and crab do whatever you need
497
00:28:58.680 --> 00:29:01.720
to do to make it soft and dip. Like that's
498
00:29:01.759 --> 00:29:05.559
what I want grabbering goon dip to be, which is
499
00:29:05.599 --> 00:29:07.519
not what that recipe was. So I would like to
500
00:29:07.519 --> 00:29:12.559
revisit that one. Uh. And then I've been making lunches.
501
00:29:12.839 --> 00:29:15.000
Well, what did you use for the dipping for the dip?
502
00:29:15.960 --> 00:29:20.759
Uh? We had I think it was just tortilla chips
503
00:29:21.039 --> 00:29:23.200
that we have used, all right, So we didn't.
504
00:29:23.359 --> 00:29:23.799
We didn't.
505
00:29:24.240 --> 00:29:28.839
Yeah, we didn't try to go go authentic Asian with
506
00:29:28.920 --> 00:29:30.640
our crabb ring goon dip.
507
00:29:30.839 --> 00:29:34.279
Also follow up question advice normal crabbring goon for you?
508
00:29:34.319 --> 00:29:36.119
Do you if you have to go one way or
509
00:29:36.119 --> 00:29:37.960
the other, do you prefer a little saltier or a
510
00:29:37.960 --> 00:29:40.039
little sweeter crabbring goon?
511
00:29:40.960 --> 00:29:44.440
Oh? I guess I don't know of saltier crabbering goon.
512
00:29:45.400 --> 00:29:49.680
There's some of them are very sweet. Yeah, you bite
513
00:29:49.680 --> 00:29:52.720
in and it's very the inside is very sweet, and
514
00:29:52.839 --> 00:29:55.519
sometimes I find it's not very sweet and it's almost
515
00:29:55.519 --> 00:29:59.440
a saltier and I don't know the difference between recipes.
516
00:29:59.440 --> 00:30:03.039
Maybe one of very inauthentic and one is authentic. But
517
00:30:03.119 --> 00:30:04.400
I've had you know, I don't.
518
00:30:04.240 --> 00:30:06.799
Think there's anything authentic about grabbraing goon.
519
00:30:07.920 --> 00:30:12.880
From from a Midwestern point of view, less authentic or
520
00:30:12.960 --> 00:30:15.359
more authentic. But I feel like sometimes the inside is
521
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mostly saltier, like whatever they're whatever they're putting in it,
522
00:30:20.039 --> 00:30:22.519
or maybe it's that they're adding salt to the fried
523
00:30:22.640 --> 00:30:25.200
layer or something that makes it less sweet.
524
00:30:26.119 --> 00:30:28.359
It is highly possible that I have never had a
525
00:30:28.359 --> 00:30:30.599
bite of grabbrang goon without a first being dipped in
526
00:30:30.640 --> 00:30:34.680
sweet and sour sauce, And so that could be that's that,
527
00:30:34.680 --> 00:30:39.319
that could be wild an I usually don't either. I
528
00:30:39.359 --> 00:30:41.640
also think a bowl of sweet and sour sauce.
529
00:30:41.480 --> 00:30:45.079
I never use that. I don't love sweet and sour.
530
00:30:45.400 --> 00:30:46.000
It's fine.
531
00:30:46.160 --> 00:30:49.759
I'll use it sometimes, but I mostly just eat it
532
00:30:50.319 --> 00:30:51.359
plain without You.
533
00:30:51.359 --> 00:30:53.759
Guys like the triangle ones that are just dropped in
534
00:30:53.799 --> 00:30:55.720
the fryer, or do you like the ones with the
535
00:30:55.759 --> 00:30:58.240
four little wings where you kind of peel them apart?
536
00:30:58.359 --> 00:31:01.240
And yes, I see, like try are easier to eat.
537
00:31:01.519 --> 00:31:04.319
I do have an opinion there they don't they don't
538
00:31:04.359 --> 00:31:06.039
hurt my delicate mouth.
539
00:31:06.119 --> 00:31:09.119
Roof, my delicate mouth.
540
00:31:09.200 --> 00:31:09.440
Roof.
541
00:31:09.960 --> 00:31:13.079
That's the that's the new episode title. I gotta look
542
00:31:13.119 --> 00:31:13.480
this up.
543
00:31:13.480 --> 00:31:17.160
Now. Are there salt saltier and sweeter crabbrang goon recipes?
544
00:31:18.359 --> 00:31:21.799
I'm sure there are. I feel like you guys, your
545
00:31:21.839 --> 00:31:26.640
guys's taste on crabb rang goon is probably better than
546
00:31:26.640 --> 00:31:30.519
mine because I'm a sweet and sour sauce guy, which
547
00:31:30.640 --> 00:31:32.160
covers up a lot of things.
548
00:31:33.720 --> 00:31:36.680
Literly. My oldest really frustrates me because she says, like,
549
00:31:36.880 --> 00:31:37.480
I don't.
550
00:31:37.279 --> 00:31:40.440
Know what what's the word. She says, I don't know
551
00:31:40.440 --> 00:31:43.440
if it's sour. I'll have to ask sure. Okay, So
552
00:31:43.519 --> 00:31:47.920
here's what AI says. Both sweeter and saltier crabring goon
553
00:31:47.960 --> 00:31:51.839
recipes are easily achieved by adjusting the filling components and sauces.
554
00:31:52.279 --> 00:31:56.240
Sweeter versions often use powdered sugar, sweet onion, or fruit,
555
00:31:56.759 --> 00:32:00.799
while saltier, more savory versions leverage worse to sure sauce,
556
00:32:01.240 --> 00:32:03.559
soy sauce, garlic, salt, or MSG.
557
00:32:04.200 --> 00:32:09.119
I've never heard of fruit in a rangoon. Yeah that's wild.
558
00:32:09.759 --> 00:32:14.559
Yeah, interesting, And I want to see is there is there?
559
00:32:14.680 --> 00:32:17.279
Okay? Sweet, sweeter crab rangoon.
560
00:32:17.400 --> 00:32:21.359
Add one to three teaspoons of granulated sugar or powdered sugar.
561
00:32:22.759 --> 00:32:27.519
Incorporate finely dice sweet onion or even minced fuji apple.
562
00:32:27.240 --> 00:32:29.799
Pear into the filling. What never had that?
563
00:32:30.839 --> 00:32:33.200
Uh dipping sauce served with sweet and sour made from
564
00:32:33.279 --> 00:32:36.279
higher ratios of pineapple, juice, brown sugar, and ketchup.
565
00:32:38.079 --> 00:32:42.200
Interesting. Interesting, Interesting, there you go.
566
00:32:42.480 --> 00:32:46.559
I have no a zero preference on shape delivery method
567
00:32:46.599 --> 00:32:52.960
of just bring me that sweet sweet or savory savory.
568
00:32:53.599 --> 00:32:55.440
That's why I asked, because I feel like I've had
569
00:32:56.039 --> 00:32:58.960
different kinds of recipes on a scale of sweet and savory,
570
00:33:00.319 --> 00:33:01.440
a little more savory.
571
00:33:01.839 --> 00:33:05.079
But regardless, Kendall wants another round. He wants another crack
572
00:33:05.160 --> 00:33:05.759
at the dip.
573
00:33:06.279 --> 00:33:07.920
I do, I really really do?
574
00:33:08.000 --> 00:33:09.519
You got to get the dip right, because if it's
575
00:33:09.519 --> 00:33:11.039
gonna fill a burrito.
576
00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:14.559
Right, shove it in anomalt.
577
00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:16.359
You want to be sure about.
578
00:33:16.079 --> 00:33:18.519
That, Yeah, shove it in an omelet. That would be.
579
00:33:20.400 --> 00:33:23.640
It's so it's so fun that you guys that Amy
580
00:33:24.920 --> 00:33:27.319
got excited about the idea to try egg roll in
581
00:33:27.359 --> 00:33:33.400
a bowl. I told Cher about your will it omelet game? Yeah,
582
00:33:33.480 --> 00:33:35.880
and She's like, I'll do that for you with our
583
00:33:35.960 --> 00:33:40.519
leftovers whenever you want. That was like really, So now
584
00:33:40.559 --> 00:33:43.359
I can just play will it Omelet? With share here
585
00:33:43.359 --> 00:33:44.440
at the house because of.
586
00:33:44.960 --> 00:33:47.680
Dud So we're like sharing if no one else is
587
00:33:47.759 --> 00:33:51.920
listening to our podcast, we're sharing learnings with each other
588
00:33:52.319 --> 00:33:55.960
and enriching one another's lives, and that's all that really matters.
589
00:33:56.319 --> 00:34:00.920
Yeah, will it Omelet? Will it burrito? Fun? Little games
590
00:34:00.920 --> 00:34:04.599
we like to play, to play will it dip? Mmm?
591
00:34:05.119 --> 00:34:10.559
That might be another I do like that way to Yeah. Basically,
592
00:34:10.880 --> 00:34:12.480
just take whatever it is and then mix it with
593
00:34:12.599 --> 00:34:14.199
enough sour cream that it becomes a dip.
594
00:34:14.679 --> 00:34:16.119
Yeah.
595
00:34:16.519 --> 00:34:18.880
I'm a big fan of those little nons whatever that
596
00:34:18.960 --> 00:34:21.559
main brand of non that most grocery stores has is
597
00:34:21.599 --> 00:34:26.760
I forget fire Stone, Firestone something. The little mini nons
598
00:34:26.840 --> 00:34:29.360
that are kind of ovalish shaped are great for.
599
00:34:29.320 --> 00:34:29.679
You to big.
600
00:34:29.840 --> 00:34:30.599
I'm a big fan.
601
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Good to know dipment anything good, Well, you're welcome, Okay.
602
00:34:36.239 --> 00:34:39.280
So I forgot to explain the segue from from buffets
603
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to what we would like to do when we age.
604
00:34:43.159 --> 00:34:47.519
So the lady that's doing intake for Dylan and I
605
00:34:47.719 --> 00:34:51.800
Grandpa was like going through the menu for tonight's dinner.
606
00:34:53.000 --> 00:35:01.360
And she starts saying food items, and he's going yep, yep, yep.
607
00:35:01.679 --> 00:35:04.440
And then we realized as she was going through this
608
00:35:04.559 --> 00:35:10.880
list that she thought he was ordering those things, and
609
00:35:10.960 --> 00:35:13.960
he thought she was just asking do you like those
610
00:35:14.000 --> 00:35:20.280
things for future meals? Okay, So as his list gets
611
00:35:20.320 --> 00:35:25.320
to like thirteen fourteen items, my uncle, our uncle goes, Dad,
612
00:35:25.400 --> 00:35:32.719
Dad's she's placing this as an order now, and he goes, oh, no,
613
00:35:32.840 --> 00:35:36.400
I was just saying I like it. But I was
614
00:35:36.440 --> 00:35:38.079
just like, I can't wait to live in a place
615
00:35:38.119 --> 00:35:41.360
where they just bring you whatever you want every for
616
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every meal.
617
00:35:42.599 --> 00:35:44.639
I think that's just a personal chef. You could do
618
00:35:44.719 --> 00:35:48.039
that anytime. There's also food delivery people will make you
619
00:35:48.079 --> 00:35:51.480
things and drop them off at your house, which is easy.
620
00:35:51.679 --> 00:35:55.440
You just place orders. I think door Dash also has
621
00:35:55.440 --> 00:35:56.599
a subscription for that.
622
00:35:56.920 --> 00:35:58.920
So getting old is not a prerequisite.
623
00:35:59.199 --> 00:36:02.760
Nope, nope, you can enjoy food at any stage of life,
624
00:36:03.519 --> 00:36:04.320
as it turns out.
625
00:36:05.000 --> 00:36:08.440
So, were you asking because you wanted to know if
626
00:36:08.480 --> 00:36:10.840
that would be more exciting? Was that why you?
627
00:36:11.039 --> 00:36:11.280
Was that?
628
00:36:11.400 --> 00:36:12.159
Was that the segue?
629
00:36:12.679 --> 00:36:12.840
No?
630
00:36:13.000 --> 00:36:15.280
I just are you just telling the story. I used
631
00:36:15.280 --> 00:36:17.320
it as a seg I used food as a segue
632
00:36:17.360 --> 00:36:19.880
to talking about Grandpa, and then I never explained how
633
00:36:19.920 --> 00:36:22.480
food tied to it. So now I was just doing
634
00:36:22.519 --> 00:36:25.119
that just now so that I could sleep better tonight.
635
00:36:25.440 --> 00:36:28.519
And there's a little more information that we need to.
636
00:36:28.480 --> 00:36:32.400
Cover, because you said so many things speaking of and
637
00:36:32.440 --> 00:36:33.679
then like thirty words.
638
00:36:33.760 --> 00:36:36.760
Yeah, yeah, I thought that was a joke.
639
00:36:36.920 --> 00:36:40.079
I thought you were making a very funny joke about
640
00:36:40.159 --> 00:36:42.559
all the things that don't make sense together, but you
641
00:36:42.639 --> 00:36:48.559
were in fact trying to like thread the needle together anyway. Yeah, dude, Yeah,
642
00:36:48.840 --> 00:36:49.880
oh so funny.
643
00:36:50.400 --> 00:36:50.639
Yeah.
644
00:36:50.760 --> 00:36:56.800
Is this the same uncle that supposedly ate all his eminem's. Yeah, yeah,
645
00:36:56.360 --> 00:36:59.039
they share crushed it, by the way, she got him
646
00:36:59.079 --> 00:37:02.119
some on assort of many crumble cookies.
647
00:37:02.639 --> 00:37:07.199
She got six different kinds. Their flavor or their their
648
00:37:07.320 --> 00:37:10.880
kind of the day was the bisc Off cookie. So
649
00:37:10.920 --> 00:37:13.079
they take like a whole bisk Off cookie and shove
650
00:37:13.119 --> 00:37:14.599
it in there and then they crumble it and put
651
00:37:14.599 --> 00:37:18.280
it on top of the icy. Oh those were good,
652
00:37:18.639 --> 00:37:22.840
Buckeye chocolate chip, sugar, and a couple more.
653
00:37:23.519 --> 00:37:27.960
I like crumble, but it came in too fast and hard,
654
00:37:28.239 --> 00:37:30.800
and I think people ate too many too fast and
655
00:37:30.920 --> 00:37:34.880
kind of went ah, Okay, I'm good for it now.
656
00:37:34.920 --> 00:37:37.320
It feels like I've it's been so long since I've
657
00:37:37.360 --> 00:37:41.400
had them. Yeah, because we had it too many times,
658
00:37:41.440 --> 00:37:47.679
for too many birthday parties, holidays, fun just because whatever.
659
00:37:47.719 --> 00:37:49.960
And we had a great local pizza joint that moved
660
00:37:49.960 --> 00:37:54.079
to Columbus. Yes, May had really good dessert cookies and
661
00:37:55.000 --> 00:37:57.679
I would get theirs and it was much cheaper.
662
00:37:57.360 --> 00:38:00.840
Than Crumble and I like them very much.
663
00:38:01.280 --> 00:38:03.440
But you know, all good things must come to an end.
664
00:38:03.920 --> 00:38:07.079
There's a price point in calorie consideration. I forget which
665
00:38:07.360 --> 00:38:10.239
people take more umbrage with, but they're like between six
666
00:38:10.360 --> 00:38:14.239
hundred and eight hundred and fifty calories per cookie. Yeah,
667
00:38:14.519 --> 00:38:15.119
there's a lot.
668
00:38:15.559 --> 00:38:19.880
Which that's really tough if you're if you care about
669
00:38:19.920 --> 00:38:23.079
calories and you're like, that's literally my dinner entre. Like
670
00:38:23.800 --> 00:38:25.880
if I eat that, I'm kind of done for a
671
00:38:25.920 --> 00:38:29.760
whole meal. Yeah, that's a lot.
672
00:38:30.039 --> 00:38:33.400
Yeah. Anyways, but he settled in. He thinks this is
673
00:38:33.400 --> 00:38:36.199
gonna be a good new chapter. We're excited for him,
674
00:38:36.280 --> 00:38:38.480
and we can visit at one in the morning, I
675
00:38:38.519 --> 00:38:46.199
can confirm, so we if we would like to. Uh,
676
00:38:47.239 --> 00:38:49.920
I saw something the other day that I thought was interesting,
677
00:38:50.239 --> 00:38:52.960
this is a bit of a hard pivot, but might
678
00:38:53.000 --> 00:38:57.079
get us onto sports. So I saw the Manning brothers
679
00:38:57.199 --> 00:39:02.519
in a commercial and they're doing a fake like press
680
00:39:02.639 --> 00:39:06.599
junket in this commercial talking about something called take Back Sports.
681
00:39:06.639 --> 00:39:09.440
Have you guys seen this initiative or effort?
682
00:39:10.719 --> 00:39:11.920
I don't think so.
683
00:39:11.920 --> 00:39:17.679
So it's basically a if I've read the website correctly,
684
00:39:17.719 --> 00:39:25.000
it looks like it's a series of educational seminars, online
685
00:39:25.159 --> 00:39:36.320
courses to help fight over coached, overpriced, and overscheduled youth sports.
686
00:39:36.320 --> 00:39:39.559
Oh yeah, And this kind of goes to a topic
687
00:39:39.599 --> 00:39:44.199
we've talked about a few times, like how crazy youth
688
00:39:44.239 --> 00:39:47.920
sports seems to be getting at younger and younger ages
689
00:39:48.760 --> 00:39:51.800
and how hardcore people take it, and like, if you're
690
00:39:51.840 --> 00:39:53.719
not on the travel team, you can't play for the
691
00:39:53.760 --> 00:39:56.079
school team because the school assumes that if you were
692
00:39:56.119 --> 00:39:59.039
serious about it, you'd be doing the travel team. But
693
00:39:59.079 --> 00:40:01.639
it's a you know, thousands of dollars to join the
694
00:40:01.639 --> 00:40:04.239
travel team and you're going multiple states away and just
695
00:40:04.639 --> 00:40:07.599
all that craziness, right, And I was like, what is this?
696
00:40:07.679 --> 00:40:10.840
So I looked into it enough to be dangerous, and
697
00:40:10.880 --> 00:40:14.239
it looks like they're spearheading or at least the people
698
00:40:14.559 --> 00:40:19.280
spokespeople for this program, where it's essentially, like many other things,
699
00:40:20.719 --> 00:40:27.719
educating the parents on I vow to not coach my
700
00:40:27.880 --> 00:40:31.159
child from the sideline. I vow to not yell at
701
00:40:31.199 --> 00:40:36.480
the referees. I vow to not cuss out my child's
702
00:40:36.519 --> 00:40:40.159
coach during the like it. Like so many other things,
703
00:40:40.239 --> 00:40:45.719
it comes back to the parenting, right. But I really
704
00:40:45.760 --> 00:40:49.639
appreciated seeing that there's somebody out there doing that because
705
00:40:49.719 --> 00:40:53.960
I felt that having my kids in sports at not
706
00:40:54.239 --> 00:40:57.440
as serious as level as some people take it. But
707
00:40:57.519 --> 00:41:00.280
I was like, good for you. Manning brothers was like
708
00:41:00.320 --> 00:41:03.639
an important thing to be doing right now, because that
709
00:41:03.760 --> 00:41:07.000
does feel like a problem at least from where I sit.
710
00:41:08.360 --> 00:41:10.320
Have you guys thoughts on the matter.
711
00:41:10.760 --> 00:41:16.119
Yeah, it's definitely a different world today in kids sports
712
00:41:16.199 --> 00:41:18.920
that like I was unaware of. Like I heard people
713
00:41:18.960 --> 00:41:20.559
talking about travel teams and that kind of thing. We
714
00:41:20.559 --> 00:41:25.519
had travel teams, like they existed when we were that age,
715
00:41:26.639 --> 00:41:29.639
but it wasn't nearly as widespread to the point that,
716
00:41:29.840 --> 00:41:32.079
like like you said, if you're taking it seriously, you're
717
00:41:32.119 --> 00:41:35.559
expected to be on a travel team. You have to
718
00:41:35.599 --> 00:41:37.519
be on a travel team. But now it's like.
719
00:41:37.440 --> 00:41:40.199
There's summer league, travel league.
720
00:41:40.559 --> 00:41:44.519
Yeah, it's it's like if you're if you're nine years
721
00:41:44.519 --> 00:41:47.280
old and want to keep up with other nine year olds,
722
00:41:47.320 --> 00:41:51.079
you have to play baseball year round. Like that's that's
723
00:41:51.159 --> 00:41:54.960
just the reality of the day. And and the way
724
00:41:55.000 --> 00:41:58.400
you do that is with travel leagues. Yeah, And I
725
00:41:58.400 --> 00:42:02.199
mean there's tournament only leagues that are not leagues, but
726
00:42:02.199 --> 00:42:06.760
tournament only teams that just enter regional tournaments, and then
727
00:42:06.880 --> 00:42:09.960
others that play seasons within their own league or with
728
00:42:10.039 --> 00:42:12.679
other leagues and things that you just have to make
729
00:42:12.679 --> 00:42:15.000
sure that you're in one of those at all times.
730
00:42:15.159 --> 00:42:17.719
And then if your kid is a multi sport athlete,
731
00:42:17.719 --> 00:42:21.559
then they're on travel teams year round, multi sports. Like
732
00:42:22.760 --> 00:42:25.599
it's almost like the idea of having like the one
733
00:42:25.679 --> 00:42:28.320
kid by the time high school comes around, who's like
734
00:42:28.719 --> 00:42:32.119
your best basketball player and your best pitcher and the
735
00:42:32.199 --> 00:42:36.199
quarterback of the football team. Like in order for that
736
00:42:36.280 --> 00:42:38.800
kind of thing to happen these days, like that kid
737
00:42:38.840 --> 00:42:44.559
would have absolutely no life other than the travel teams
738
00:42:44.599 --> 00:42:47.440
that like in some cases his parents are making him do.
739
00:42:48.599 --> 00:42:54.119
And it's nuts. I'm a fan and this is the
740
00:42:54.159 --> 00:42:59.039
old guy talking of the way my generation had their
741
00:42:59.119 --> 00:43:02.440
childhood when it came to sports, that was you could
742
00:43:02.480 --> 00:43:06.039
try things, and there was lots of other kids who
743
00:43:06.079 --> 00:43:09.519
were also trying things, and and it was cool and
744
00:43:09.599 --> 00:43:13.239
it was fine. You could be multi sport and still
745
00:43:13.239 --> 00:43:15.360
have your summer available to like be a kid and
746
00:43:15.400 --> 00:43:19.559
play with other kids in the neighborhood. Like you just
747
00:43:20.320 --> 00:43:23.119
it's not that way anymore. Like, Isaac has a friend
748
00:43:23.199 --> 00:43:28.039
down the road who like nine times out of ten
749
00:43:28.480 --> 00:43:30.559
he goes down there and knocks on the door and
750
00:43:30.639 --> 00:43:33.360
he's not home, or he's at football practice or baseball
751
00:43:33.400 --> 00:43:37.440
practice or basketball or whatever it is, because he's just
752
00:43:37.519 --> 00:43:42.039
doing things all the time. Meanwhile, like I'm trying to
753
00:43:42.079 --> 00:43:45.440
raise my kids to like be out in the neighborhood
754
00:43:45.480 --> 00:43:47.519
and find other kids to play with and like do
755
00:43:47.679 --> 00:43:51.400
things like that. And and he's really the only one
756
00:43:51.559 --> 00:43:55.519
Isaac's age that that is around for him to play with.
757
00:43:55.599 --> 00:43:58.760
And it just it makes me sad for him, because
758
00:43:58.800 --> 00:44:01.559
like Lydia has people has a couple kids, but he's
759
00:44:01.599 --> 00:44:05.800
not as much into it. But it's a yeah, the
760
00:44:05.880 --> 00:44:08.360
idea of just like running your neighborhood as a kid
761
00:44:08.760 --> 00:44:14.119
isn't isn't nearly as popular as it used to be worse.
762
00:44:14.199 --> 00:44:17.679
But yeah, part of the language in their sort of
763
00:44:17.800 --> 00:44:21.280
rationale and value proposition behind this initiative is like that
764
00:44:21.440 --> 00:44:23.840
and I'm going to misquote the age or grade level,
765
00:44:24.360 --> 00:44:28.000
but they're like, on a national level, kids are dropping
766
00:44:28.039 --> 00:44:33.639
out of sports for good at age like ten or eleven. Yeah,
767
00:44:33.719 --> 00:44:36.159
like because they see how crazy it is and the
768
00:44:36.159 --> 00:44:39.280
commitment level, and they're like, this is nuts. I just
769
00:44:39.360 --> 00:44:41.880
want to like see if I like it or like
770
00:44:42.000 --> 00:44:45.719
do it for fun, not this crazy. And that's not
771
00:44:45.760 --> 00:44:49.000
even kind of getting into the like we know people
772
00:44:49.119 --> 00:44:52.039
firsthand who have told us the thousands and tens of
773
00:44:52.119 --> 00:44:57.159
thousands of dollars they've dropped on travel on like the
774
00:44:57.199 --> 00:44:59.880
travel Baseball League where it's like, well, you don't have to,
775
00:45:00.239 --> 00:45:02.519
but all the players are getting the bat bag with
776
00:45:02.559 --> 00:45:05.960
their names embroidered on them, and like you don't have
777
00:45:06.000 --> 00:45:07.880
to do it, but like all the other kids are
778
00:45:07.920 --> 00:45:11.519
like and then hotels, and then and then the adult
779
00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:15.880
partying that goes on at the hotels on tournament weekends.
780
00:45:16.400 --> 00:45:19.400
Like that's a part of the whole lifestyle. And these
781
00:45:19.400 --> 00:45:22.840
aren't like one off stories. That's like people we know
782
00:45:23.039 --> 00:45:25.519
in this life. They're like, oh, the parents get wild
783
00:45:25.559 --> 00:45:27.559
and you're like, what.
784
00:45:26.840 --> 00:45:30.360
What is Yeah, it becomes the parent's life now too.
785
00:45:30.280 --> 00:45:34.800
Right, yeah, yeah, So anyway I thought that, I thought
786
00:45:35.000 --> 00:45:37.280
I saw that. I thought it was cool. I was like,
787
00:45:38.000 --> 00:45:42.360
the Manning brothers seem wholesome, and I like what they
788
00:45:42.519 --> 00:45:45.719
are doing with that. So anyway, just one of you
789
00:45:45.719 --> 00:45:48.159
guys to take based on the way you described it.
790
00:45:48.199 --> 00:45:50.840
I like the premise, and then as far as like
791
00:45:50.880 --> 00:45:53.239
the hey, don't yell at other parents and be nice
792
00:45:53.239 --> 00:45:55.480
to the refs if at the very end that they
793
00:45:55.519 --> 00:45:58.639
could just say and also, this doesn't just apply to
794
00:45:58.679 --> 00:46:01.960
how you treat people at sport, yes, but also at
795
00:46:02.000 --> 00:46:05.079
your church or in your grocery store or like your neighbors,
796
00:46:05.239 --> 00:46:09.360
Like that's also how you treat people well those places too.
797
00:46:09.559 --> 00:46:10.159
Just FYI.
798
00:46:10.679 --> 00:46:15.480
That goes to the comical like thread between Like I
799
00:46:15.519 --> 00:46:17.519
always go back to this analogy of you. If you
800
00:46:17.599 --> 00:46:22.519
ever saw, saysar Chavez the dog whisperer, like every single
801
00:46:22.559 --> 00:46:28.000
time he was never the dog wasn't the problem. It
802
00:46:28.119 --> 00:46:31.440
was how the owners talked to the dog, the consistency
803
00:46:31.559 --> 00:46:34.360
with which they tried to train the dog. Books like
804
00:46:34.639 --> 00:46:37.079
have a New Child by Friday are never about the
805
00:46:37.119 --> 00:46:41.920
problem child. They're about the parents who have enabled a
806
00:46:41.920 --> 00:46:44.800
certain or allowed a certain behavior. What was the other one,
807
00:46:44.920 --> 00:46:47.519
Nanny nine to one one? How many times did Nanny
808
00:46:47.599 --> 00:46:50.880
nine one one go and talk to the parents like
809
00:46:51.599 --> 00:46:54.440
the kid actually isn't the problem, it's your inability to
810
00:46:54.480 --> 00:46:59.519
set boundaries and stay consistent with your parenting methods. Like yeah, so,
811
00:46:59.679 --> 00:47:01.840
I just I think it's funny that take back sports
812
00:47:01.840 --> 00:47:04.960
for kids is all about Hey, parents knock it off
813
00:47:05.119 --> 00:47:08.000
by t my kid, my kid. Corey's kid, Lily is
814
00:47:08.039 --> 00:47:12.880
going into education, and my biggest concern for her or
815
00:47:12.880 --> 00:47:16.320
thinking ahead is like not her ability to teach, and
816
00:47:16.400 --> 00:47:18.960
not how well she works with kids, but how much
817
00:47:18.960 --> 00:47:20.840
of a pain in the butt. I know parents can
818
00:47:20.920 --> 00:47:24.000
be who get mad at the teachers nowadays when their
819
00:47:24.079 --> 00:47:25.480
kid gets disciplined at school.
820
00:47:25.840 --> 00:47:29.119
So it's just like, you know, there are some consistencies
821
00:47:29.159 --> 00:47:32.239
with some of these things, is all I'm saying. Weird,
822
00:47:33.800 --> 00:47:40.400
What do you guys want to talk about? Find something?
823
00:47:40.480 --> 00:47:45.400
Dylan, Well, we talked a little bit about I have
824
00:47:45.440 --> 00:47:49.039
some upcoming travel. Coy have lots of upcoming travel. That's exciting.
825
00:47:49.119 --> 00:47:52.639
I'm hoping to have some good travel stories. Inevitably, things
826
00:47:52.679 --> 00:47:55.639
that I do wrong, I'm really hoping I can come
827
00:47:55.760 --> 00:47:58.360
up with a pitch if there's any good stories of like, hey,
828
00:47:58.400 --> 00:48:02.280
can we talk about what just happened in the world
829
00:48:02.320 --> 00:48:04.079
that I want to relay. So I got to figure
830
00:48:04.079 --> 00:48:06.639
out what that sounds like before I go, just in
831
00:48:06.719 --> 00:48:10.880
case there's any good stories. I'm headed to Austin next week,
832
00:48:10.920 --> 00:48:13.519
so looking forward to lots of good food, hopefully some
833
00:48:13.599 --> 00:48:17.800
funny social and travel stories. I haven't really been watching.
834
00:48:18.119 --> 00:48:20.119
I mean, it's been Olympics. I think we talked about
835
00:48:20.119 --> 00:48:22.559
that last week or the week before. It's like if
836
00:48:22.559 --> 00:48:25.239
we're watching something, it's been Olympics. With the birthday and
837
00:48:25.280 --> 00:48:27.280
the long weekend, we just had lots of other stuff
838
00:48:27.320 --> 00:48:29.440
going on. Father daughter dance.
839
00:48:29.519 --> 00:48:30.199
That was nice.
840
00:48:30.639 --> 00:48:33.760
Oh yeah, prep prep for the birthday, then the birthday,
841
00:48:33.840 --> 00:48:35.480
then the cleanup from the birthday, and.
842
00:48:35.480 --> 00:48:38.480
So that was so fun. By the way, you guys
843
00:48:38.480 --> 00:48:42.039
threw a great party. It was like perfectly decorated. It
844
00:48:42.159 --> 00:48:44.400
was so cool that you guys had gone to Disney
845
00:48:44.400 --> 00:48:47.000
and she had gotten to meet Stitch and had a
846
00:48:47.039 --> 00:48:50.880
framed picture of Stitch for the Stitch birthday party. Our
847
00:48:50.920 --> 00:48:53.519
sister did a great job on the cake, like it
848
00:48:53.559 --> 00:48:56.480
was just like every little detail was. It was really nice.
849
00:48:56.480 --> 00:48:57.880
We had a good time, you guys.
850
00:48:58.920 --> 00:49:01.760
That's kind Yeah, it doesn't feel like a whole lot
851
00:49:01.920 --> 00:49:05.480
when you're you know, it's kind of out, but it was.
852
00:49:05.760 --> 00:49:08.039
It was fun, you know. She she enjoyed it. That's
853
00:49:08.079 --> 00:49:10.800
what mattered. And it's funny. She really wanted We talk
854
00:49:10.880 --> 00:49:15.119
a lot about pizza here. She wanted Dominoes, which is fine,
855
00:49:15.119 --> 00:49:17.280
it's her birthday, right, but like that ended up being
856
00:49:17.320 --> 00:49:19.239
the worst thing for me. Not that I said that
857
00:49:19.320 --> 00:49:22.840
out loud, but it was like, you know, everything was great,
858
00:49:22.880 --> 00:49:23.639
but the pizza.
859
00:49:23.920 --> 00:49:26.800
So yeah, so I think you actually apologized to Dad
860
00:49:26.840 --> 00:49:27.559
and I about it.
861
00:49:27.719 --> 00:49:31.599
You were like, hey, guys, sorry about the pizzazza.
862
00:49:31.760 --> 00:49:33.320
This is this isn't what I would have picked.
863
00:49:33.360 --> 00:49:35.480
In hindsight, what I should have done was just gone
864
00:49:35.519 --> 00:49:38.239
to two different pizza places and had like adult pizzas
865
00:49:38.639 --> 00:49:41.920
and then the kids Dominoes pizzas, pizzas that they wanted.
866
00:49:42.159 --> 00:49:45.199
But hey, shout out, they had like six ninety nine
867
00:49:45.239 --> 00:49:48.159
medium pizzas and I read in a bunch of medium pizzas.
868
00:49:48.360 --> 00:49:49.920
So I will.
869
00:49:49.960 --> 00:49:52.000
I do appreciate the bill that came out of it,
870
00:49:52.079 --> 00:49:55.440
So that was useful. But yeah, when the worst part
871
00:49:55.519 --> 00:49:58.840
is like the pizzas kind of sucked. Uh, you know
872
00:49:59.719 --> 00:50:01.199
that's still pretty decent party.
873
00:50:01.440 --> 00:50:05.480
So you know, I hear about like when you say
874
00:50:05.519 --> 00:50:08.639
like fast food or pizza place like rankings like just
875
00:50:08.920 --> 00:50:13.280
sales and Dominoes is like always on the top, and
876
00:50:13.360 --> 00:50:16.599
I'm just like, who's who's ordering Dominoes all the time?
877
00:50:16.840 --> 00:50:19.440
Like this is this is not right.
878
00:50:19.880 --> 00:50:22.159
Everything has to be. It's got to be a value
879
00:50:22.199 --> 00:50:25.119
play right now, Like if anyone's feeling even remotely like
880
00:50:25.159 --> 00:50:27.679
a little bit like things could be more expensive. I
881
00:50:27.800 --> 00:50:30.239
just wondered the same thing. The last several times we've
882
00:50:30.239 --> 00:50:32.480
gotten Texas Roadhouse. We go through the drive through. I've
883
00:50:32.480 --> 00:50:35.199
talked about this before. They have a pull up window
884
00:50:35.559 --> 00:50:38.280
order carry out. The line is from their carry out
885
00:50:38.280 --> 00:50:41.559
window back to the road and so I just think,
886
00:50:41.599 --> 00:50:44.079
but then if we go to like McDonald's and we
887
00:50:44.199 --> 00:50:46.159
order a couple combos and a kid's meal, it's the
888
00:50:46.199 --> 00:50:47.760
same price as what we're paying.
889
00:50:47.480 --> 00:50:48.519
For Texas Roadhouse.
890
00:50:49.039 --> 00:50:51.559
And I don't know if it's like I don't I
891
00:50:51.559 --> 00:50:54.360
don't know if it's the Dominoes is cheap, is it
892
00:50:54.440 --> 00:50:56.239
deals or something at Domino's?
893
00:50:56.320 --> 00:50:57.880
Is it what I just said? I think that's going
894
00:50:57.920 --> 00:50:58.519
to be part of it.
895
00:50:58.559 --> 00:51:01.559
I think international sales has to be a big part
896
00:51:01.599 --> 00:51:04.000
of it too, because like I even see like YouTubers
897
00:51:04.039 --> 00:51:07.880
who who are like who like because it goes off
898
00:51:07.880 --> 00:51:09.840
on my radar. They talk about their favorite piece of
899
00:51:09.880 --> 00:51:12.199
places and they're like, oh, it's not Dominoes, but it'll do.
900
00:51:13.039 --> 00:51:16.519
Like I couldn't wait to try Dominoes in Japan and things.
901
00:51:16.599 --> 00:51:20.440
I'm like, why, I have to remind myself that everything,
902
00:51:21.480 --> 00:51:24.840
even that's not great has some kind of cult following still,
903
00:51:24.920 --> 00:51:28.519
And I'm completely guilty with Taco Bell, right, like, objectively,
904
00:51:28.639 --> 00:51:30.119
eight out of ten people are going to be like,
905
00:51:30.199 --> 00:51:31.000
Taco Bell's.
906
00:51:30.800 --> 00:51:33.599
Fine, but I'm in one of I'm in one of
907
00:51:33.599 --> 00:51:34.320
the two out.
908
00:51:34.199 --> 00:51:37.159
Of ten that's like, I know that it's not awesome,
909
00:51:37.320 --> 00:51:38.800
but I love it because I.
910
00:51:38.880 --> 00:51:41.320
It's that's I mean, that is true. This is thee
911
00:51:41.320 --> 00:51:44.119
from the guy who like, if we're talking national pizza chains,
912
00:51:44.280 --> 00:51:47.679
little Caesars is easily in my top three, not just
913
00:51:47.719 --> 00:51:50.440
for value, but because I like them better than like
914
00:51:50.639 --> 00:51:53.320
most other national chains and.
915
00:51:53.280 --> 00:51:55.280
I and it's gotta be and I'm this.
916
00:51:55.440 --> 00:51:57.159
I was the same for a long time with Pizza
917
00:51:57.239 --> 00:52:00.000
Hut because I mostly just really like this tough Creuss pizza.
918
00:52:00.679 --> 00:52:03.079
I knew it wasn't great pizza, but I really liked
919
00:52:03.119 --> 00:52:05.639
the stuff Cress pizza, so I liked Pizza Hut.
920
00:52:05.920 --> 00:52:08.199
And it's got to be that. It's got to just be.
921
00:52:08.280 --> 00:52:10.239
The people that are the loudest are the ones that
922
00:52:10.400 --> 00:52:13.920
just really love Domino's. I don't know what else it
923
00:52:13.960 --> 00:52:17.199
would be. It was certainly not great pizza. I'm a
924
00:52:17.199 --> 00:52:17.840
little picky.
925
00:52:17.960 --> 00:52:20.280
I'll be it. Anyone who's listened for a while knows that.
926
00:52:20.800 --> 00:52:22.599
But like, I hate it, but it was fine. It
927
00:52:22.679 --> 00:52:26.320
was just fine. I don't know. I just pulled up
928
00:52:26.320 --> 00:52:28.199
an article. I put it in the chat. You guys
929
00:52:28.239 --> 00:52:32.639
can find it if you're listening. Making it mediocre. The
930
00:52:32.760 --> 00:52:37.639
perplexing success of Dono's Pizza. It's a five minute rate.
931
00:52:37.719 --> 00:52:40.119
I just love the first sentence. I'm not trying to
932
00:52:40.159 --> 00:52:43.239
come off at this with a sense of journalistic I
933
00:52:43.320 --> 00:52:45.199
am trying to come at this with a sense of
934
00:52:45.280 --> 00:52:48.880
journalistic objectivity. But as a pizza snob, I'll come right
935
00:52:48.920 --> 00:52:53.800
out and say it. Domino's pizza is at best shockingly mediocre.
936
00:52:56.840 --> 00:53:01.880
And I would CCS did take out, I would do
937
00:53:02.039 --> 00:53:08.320
that before Dominoes. Yeah, like Dominoes is the bottom. Dominoes
938
00:53:08.440 --> 00:53:11.920
is the one pizza place where if at a party,
939
00:53:12.800 --> 00:53:16.360
I would get the salad instead. Like, that's that's how
940
00:53:16.360 --> 00:53:17.400
bad Dominoes is.
941
00:53:18.039 --> 00:53:20.440
Didn't they have a whole campaign about what was basically,
942
00:53:20.519 --> 00:53:22.760
we know how bad our pizza is and we're sorry,
943
00:53:22.800 --> 00:53:25.599
we're going to try to do better. Wasn't that like
944
00:53:25.639 --> 00:53:27.079
a whole marketing campaign that they.
945
00:53:27.000 --> 00:53:29.639
Had years ago? And I tried it after and I
946
00:53:29.679 --> 00:53:30.960
was like, now you guys are liars.
947
00:53:31.159 --> 00:53:34.760
You got that again? Yeah, I don't know. I don't
948
00:53:35.639 --> 00:53:41.840
Happy birthday, Finn, Sorry using green party. I loved a
949
00:53:42.360 --> 00:53:43.440
happy eighth birthday.
950
00:53:44.079 --> 00:53:46.599
Man, She's gonna be twenty years old listening to this
951
00:53:46.679 --> 00:53:49.920
and tears and talk to her therapist.
952
00:53:50.239 --> 00:53:52.159
This is the thing we've already talked about with her
953
00:53:52.159 --> 00:53:54.840
because she'll say something like we don't get Dominoes very often.
954
00:53:54.920 --> 00:53:57.519
I'm like, it's great, we'll order for your party.
955
00:53:57.559 --> 00:53:59.159
I said, it's just not something your mom and I
956
00:53:59.199 --> 00:54:02.880
would pick, so it's and it's okay to have preferences.
957
00:54:03.320 --> 00:54:05.199
I think it's really good and we can just think
958
00:54:05.239 --> 00:54:07.840
it's okay, and I want to get it very often because.
959
00:54:07.599 --> 00:54:10.119
Here from the middle, we don't want to yuck somebody's young,
960
00:54:10.480 --> 00:54:12.440
you know exactly.
961
00:54:12.719 --> 00:54:15.559
Just let people like things. You know, people are allowed
962
00:54:15.599 --> 00:54:20.480
to like Domino's. I don't want to poopoo anybody for
963
00:54:20.559 --> 00:54:22.880
liking Dominoes, but I do want to know why.
964
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Yeah, why are you here? But explain yourselves? You know,
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00:54:27.719 --> 00:54:29.760
this goes back to your travel stuff, dal and like,
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I hope nothing bad happens to you, and I hope
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00:54:31.960 --> 00:54:34.760
you run into no annoying people, but if you do,
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you need to be prepared, Like I'm going to do
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00:54:38.400 --> 00:54:40.559
better on these. I've got a big batch of trips
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00:54:40.599 --> 00:54:42.719
coming up too, and I want to get better at
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00:54:42.760 --> 00:54:45.840
going like, hey, no big deal, I have no really
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00:54:46.079 --> 00:54:48.280
say in the matter, even though I do, but I
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00:54:48.360 --> 00:54:51.320
need to know, as a podcast a co host who
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00:54:51.360 --> 00:54:55.440
loves to like splice up these unique social situations, why
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00:54:55.440 --> 00:54:56.960
did you just do what you just did?
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00:54:58.039 --> 00:54:58.280
Yeah?
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00:54:58.559 --> 00:55:00.360
Maybe the way maybe part of the way to say
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it is my friends and I my brother and a friend,
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00:55:04.159 --> 00:55:07.480
and I love to like dissect social situations.
980
00:55:08.000 --> 00:55:10.400
Maybe if I don't say the podcasting yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
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00:55:10.400 --> 00:55:12.519
because then they'll think maybe that'll spook them.
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00:55:12.920 --> 00:55:15.320
And so it's like I'm not asking you to fill
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00:55:15.320 --> 00:55:17.360
out like a waiver with your name on it or whatever.
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00:55:17.400 --> 00:55:17.559
Yeah.
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00:55:17.639 --> 00:55:19.880
Yeah, yeah, so maybe you say, my friends and I
986
00:55:19.960 --> 00:55:23.039
like to dissect social situations, you know, pro or con
987
00:55:23.119 --> 00:55:26.880
plus or minus whatever. I'd love to know your thoughts
988
00:55:26.960 --> 00:55:29.400
on what like what I saw was this? Tell me
989
00:55:29.440 --> 00:55:31.800
more about what you Yeah, I'm not getting your name,
990
00:55:32.280 --> 00:55:33.800
you know, I'm not. I don't need your name.
991
00:55:33.840 --> 00:55:37.119
I just need to know your thought process. Yeah, behind
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00:55:37.199 --> 00:55:40.360
the choices you just made. Yeah, I'm gonna I gotta
993
00:55:40.360 --> 00:55:42.280
find a way to ask. Oh, this is gonna be good.
994
00:55:42.360 --> 00:55:45.320
I feel like there's I feel like we're gonna better
995
00:55:45.320 --> 00:55:47.960
equip ourselves on how to have these conversations and then
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00:55:48.000 --> 00:55:50.559
come back with some really juicy content. I hope.
997
00:55:50.599 --> 00:55:54.599
So because we are milking this notesless, you know what
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00:55:54.639 --> 00:55:54.960
I mean.
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00:55:57.840 --> 00:56:00.280
I just didn't want to talk about sports again like
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00:56:00.360 --> 00:56:04.679
I've been I found and talking all about food. I
1001
00:56:04.679 --> 00:56:06.360
was like, well, let's talk about sports, because that's the
1002
00:56:06.400 --> 00:56:07.159
other thing I'm doing.
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00:56:07.559 --> 00:56:10.239
I feel like we teed up a note that sayspect
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00:56:10.519 --> 00:56:12.840
on it, but maybe it's not a note.
1005
00:56:12.840 --> 00:56:16.039
We talked about no pizza from Kroger.
1006
00:56:16.360 --> 00:56:19.280
Oh, actually that's what we did talk about that last week. Oh,
1007
00:56:19.400 --> 00:56:20.440
I just didn't check it off.
1008
00:56:20.599 --> 00:56:22.000
Oh okay, all right.
1009
00:56:22.320 --> 00:56:26.320
But the pancakes part of that is that just real quick.
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00:56:26.400 --> 00:56:29.559
So the following morning, so that was the story from
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00:56:29.760 --> 00:56:32.559
like the level three snow emergency, and my daughter, Oh,
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00:56:32.840 --> 00:56:34.679
I had a couple of the neighborhood girls over for
1013
00:56:34.800 --> 00:56:36.840
a sleepover that night because there was no school in
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00:56:36.840 --> 00:56:37.519
the morning.
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00:56:37.320 --> 00:56:38.239
Kroger was closed.
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00:56:38.320 --> 00:56:40.679
Kroger was closed, couldn't get frozen pizzas, and so we
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00:56:40.719 --> 00:56:42.079
just kind of made do with what we had for
1018
00:56:42.159 --> 00:56:45.679
sleepover ish kind of dinner food for them. But the
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00:56:45.679 --> 00:56:47.360
following morning, I promised them that I was going to
1020
00:56:47.360 --> 00:56:50.760
make them pancakes, and I did. But I made them
1021
00:56:50.760 --> 00:56:53.239
the pancakes, and I knew that this could go awry.
1022
00:56:55.599 --> 00:56:59.320
But the pancakes that my family and I typically eat
1023
00:56:59.440 --> 00:57:03.039
when we have pancakes, which isn't very often come from
1024
00:57:03.079 --> 00:57:06.639
a box. I do know how to make pancakes myself,
1025
00:57:07.159 --> 00:57:09.480
but no, just you know, just add water kind of
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00:57:09.519 --> 00:57:14.039
mix and and it's it's the power cakes, if you
1027
00:57:14.079 --> 00:57:17.880
guys are familiar, the Kodiak brand power Cakes, which are
1028
00:57:17.920 --> 00:57:25.440
like they're like whole grains healthier option kind of thing
1029
00:57:25.559 --> 00:57:27.920
that we tried once and actually we're like we kind
1030
00:57:27.960 --> 00:57:32.719
of like these. But my mistake was when I told
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00:57:32.800 --> 00:57:35.800
the girls, don't worry, I'm making pancakes in the morning
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00:57:36.840 --> 00:57:39.039
for two girls who are not part of our family
1033
00:57:39.159 --> 00:57:42.639
and are not familiar with the power cakes from Kodiak,
1034
00:57:43.519 --> 00:57:48.639
the one whole grain pancake option. They were not given
1035
00:57:48.679 --> 00:57:52.760
what they were expected, and as I was serving it
1036
00:57:52.760 --> 00:57:55.159
to them, that was crossing my mind. That's like, hey,
1037
00:57:55.320 --> 00:57:57.880
you guys don't actually have to eat these, because these
1038
00:57:57.880 --> 00:57:59.760
are kind of what we like in our family and
1039
00:57:59.880 --> 00:58:04.639
you guys might not like them as much. And and
1040
00:58:05.079 --> 00:58:07.440
they didn't, and it was a big lit down.
1041
00:58:08.000 --> 00:58:12.000
And that's just that's a curveball at that age. Yeah,
1042
00:58:12.159 --> 00:58:16.239
you know, speaking of sports, that's a curveball if you
1043
00:58:16.280 --> 00:58:21.400
don't have very standard, name brand pancakes that look exactly
1044
00:58:21.519 --> 00:58:24.119
like the ones that they've likely had a bunch of
1045
00:58:24.159 --> 00:58:24.800
other times.
1046
00:58:25.840 --> 00:58:27.960
Yeah, I mean I told them that, like, you know,
1047
00:58:28.719 --> 00:58:30.880
I do know how to make Like we have everything
1048
00:58:30.960 --> 00:58:34.920
here to make pancakes. I should have just made normal pancakes.
1049
00:58:35.880 --> 00:58:37.719
You know, I've got the flour and the baking soda
1050
00:58:37.719 --> 00:58:40.360
and the sugar. Like I could have just made pancakes.
1051
00:58:41.280 --> 00:58:45.199
I chose not to. I did these instead, and next
1052
00:58:45.239 --> 00:58:47.079
time you have a sleepover. Because now I'm speaking for
1053
00:58:47.159 --> 00:58:49.400
my daughter who doesn't like I don't want her to
1054
00:58:49.400 --> 00:58:52.159
be embarrassed by our crappy pancakes. It was like, we
1055
00:58:52.280 --> 00:58:55.880
know we're not We don't have to be weird about pancakes.
1056
00:58:55.880 --> 00:58:59.079
Next time this happens, I'm making normal pancakes for you guys,
1057
00:58:59.760 --> 00:59:01.199
and it'll be better.
1058
00:59:02.199 --> 00:59:04.559
It feels it feels like the story of like somebody
1059
00:59:05.039 --> 00:59:07.599
like having friends over and they they're served like their
1060
00:59:07.639 --> 00:59:09.719
parents serve some ethnic food and it's like we thought
1061
00:59:09.760 --> 00:59:11.920
we were just going to get pizza and it's like
1062
00:59:11.960 --> 00:59:14.719
some cultural food that's like but it's lotcas you know,
1063
00:59:15.280 --> 00:59:18.559
and it's just not you know, it's it's not what
1064
00:59:18.639 --> 00:59:22.039
kids were expecting. Kids are fickle. I don't know. Pour
1065
00:59:22.079 --> 00:59:25.199
pancakes are delicious if they try to bite, especially, put
1066
00:59:25.239 --> 00:59:27.639
some whipped cream on them, or sprinkles.
1067
00:59:27.159 --> 00:59:32.000
Or I made a strawberry compote, okay, well to go
1068
00:59:32.079 --> 00:59:32.480
with them.
1069
00:59:32.679 --> 00:59:35.960
That's a little fancy on the power protein pancakes, Just
1070
00:59:36.199 --> 00:59:38.000
big doll up a cool whip or a can of
1071
00:59:38.000 --> 00:59:41.119
whip cream or something, and yeah, you know, to throw
1072
00:59:41.159 --> 00:59:42.079
some sprinkles on there.
1073
00:59:42.119 --> 00:59:45.159
They wouldn't care. I just imagine these girls running and
1074
00:59:45.199 --> 00:59:47.639
screaming out of your house, and you're like, but I
1075
00:59:47.760 --> 00:59:55.599
made a compote yelling after them with your apron on. Yeah.
1076
00:59:55.679 --> 00:59:59.280
So anyway, that's an experience that happened. I didn't know
1077
00:59:59.320 --> 01:00:02.519
if my daughter was embarrassed by our crappy, weird family pancakes.
1078
01:00:02.719 --> 01:00:06.039
But they're not crappy and weird to it to the
1079
01:00:06.079 --> 01:00:07.719
five of us who live in this house on a
1080
01:00:07.760 --> 01:00:08.599
regular basis.
1081
01:00:09.320 --> 01:00:13.880
So everything's normal to somebody, you know, that's right, that's right,
1082
01:00:15.320 --> 01:00:17.280
because we don't want to uck somebody else's young.
1083
01:00:17.599 --> 01:00:20.440
Well, thanks for listening, middlers. It was good to have
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you for another week of From the Middle podcast, where
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we just you know, we just hope that you feel
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ordered just one can of beard balm because that's all
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that like it it said it was being There was
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a UPS package thing made long story short, some kind
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of kerfuffle happened and UPS never ended up with the package.
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So many places that is a problem that seems insurmountable,
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and even for me, Like I could have texted Jeff
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and said hey, and Jeff would have taken but I
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didn't want to do that. I wanted to see what
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would happen here, So I just emailed, like seriously, just
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like the order confirmation thing. I found that in my
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email and just replied straight to it. It didn't go
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to anything automated, It didn't go to anybody overseas. It
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went to a guy named Michael, and I like very
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quickly got like a pouring over apologies email back from Michael.
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That wasn't just like you know with ampersand whatever. Answer
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customer's name here kind of email like it was actually
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personally written by this guy and and they refunded the
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shipping and said, I'm going to make sure that this
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goes out like now. And I must have all but
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overnighted it to me. I don't know, because it showed
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up the next day, maybe two days later. It was.
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It was in my mailbox. That is how you want
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your companies with US made products to operate. Is you
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want to have a guy you Knowah's name on the
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is man.
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That's awesome. I will say this to I use artius
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I was walking from the customer's office back to my
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hotel where I saw a very nice looking Indian man
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vaping and walking his dog. And he yelled at me
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and said, hey, man, nice beard, you are shaping it well.
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next week for another rousing episode of From the Middle.