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Speaker 1: Welcome back. It's a brand new episode. This is Laugh

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Speaker 1: with Being, a podcast with Jeremy Odem. I'm your home,

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Speaker 1: jo Oh, it's good to be back here. Post first

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Speaker 1: half of twenty twenty five. Does anybody else count the

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Speaker 1: year like that? You get to July fourth, and then

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Speaker 1: the first we're calling it the first half of the

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Speaker 1: year's done. Now. I'm not basing it one hundred percent

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Speaker 1: off the amount of days before the fourth or the

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Speaker 1: amount of days after the fourth I'm just one hundred

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Speaker 1: percent looking at as you know what ju life for.

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Speaker 1: It's a good, good middle ground. So first half twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five has been completed. You made it for some

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Speaker 1: of us. That's it's a pretty big dale. It's been.

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Speaker 1: It's been a go in uh, this first half of

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. So looking forward to the second half

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Speaker 1: to see what's up and if if you're just hopefully

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Speaker 1: you're listening to this episode right here, second or first

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Speaker 1: full week of July. Happy for July, Happy Independence Day,

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Speaker 1: Happy Birthday America to the there's a lot of it,

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Speaker 1: those of you that listen to the pod outside of

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Speaker 1: the United States. Whenever your birthday is your country's birthday,

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Speaker 1: you know, just go back to this episode and think

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Speaker 1: of it as your country's birthday and me wishing you

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Speaker 1: happy birthday, so you know what, to your country, happy birthday,

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Speaker 1: you know. Japan Uh starting to pick up the show,

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Speaker 1: starting to pick up a Japan which is uh, which

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Speaker 1: is different. That's that's a new one for us. So uh, Johnny,

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Speaker 1: I is it being like is the show like translated

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Speaker 1: is kind of like TV shows and other countries like

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Speaker 1: is the is the pod being translated in Japanese over there,

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Speaker 1: or is it we just have some Americans listening to

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Speaker 1: the pod or I don't know. Pretty cool though, Thank

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Speaker 1: you to the to the listeners in Japan, and happy

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Speaker 1: Birthday to America. I do about the same thing every

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Speaker 1: fourth of July, same thing. And I'm not saying that

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Speaker 1: with like angst. I'm saying that with you know, the

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Speaker 1: love of consistency and the love of the friends that

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Speaker 1: I get to enjoy it with our friend of the pod.

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Speaker 1: You've you've heard him many many times, Eric, who's given

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Speaker 1: us all his stories from Europe and everywhere else. He

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Speaker 1: his parents they throw a heck of a barbecue, so

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Speaker 1: we have we've enjoyed going there and hanging out and

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Speaker 1: the kids, I mean the kids have grown literally from

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Speaker 1: on the fourth July. So it's been a lot of

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Speaker 1: fun this year. New addition to the party, okay, actually

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Speaker 1: some darts out on the front porch. That was fun.

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Speaker 1: Never shot darts on the front porch before. Actually not

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Speaker 1: a bad place to do it too. Weather w wasn't

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Speaker 1: had any notes for you, they just maybe plug in

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Speaker 1: dart board, so we were running power. I could definitely

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Speaker 1: Not a joke, Johnny, that was real. Notes I wrote it.

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Speaker 1: the barbecue. Great food though we always get them chicken wings,

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Speaker 1: like I said, I didn't eat hot dogs. I didn't

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Speaker 1: long weekend. Good for you guys. If you can get it,

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Speaker 1: But here's the thing. I did work on the fifth.

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Speaker 1: Early in the morning on the fifth, so was I

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Speaker 1: Here I am loading up cheeseburgers, chicken sandwiches. Nobody bought

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Speaker 1: it to that day. They always sell, They always sell.

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Speaker 1: They did not sell on Saturday the fifth, but pizza slices,

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Speaker 1: holy cow, they were a flying and they normally do

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Speaker 1: It's just it was quite the spike, and I wasn't

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Speaker 1: you idiot? People were eating hot dogs and burgers like

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Speaker 1: fourth of July. That that's the last thing they want

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Speaker 1: Are you get a fan, get some circulation going outside

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Speaker 1: everybody's learning today? Is this? This is now? So we'reports

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Speaker 1: Because September, yeah, it's it's hot, but I don't quite

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Speaker 1: remember it being And that's the thing. Every year, you know,

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Speaker 1: At what point in the summer I start to really

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Speaker 1: it's like I'm enjoying summer. You know, the summer doesn't

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Speaker 1: technically start to the twentieth of June shout out me

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Speaker 1: happy birthday. But like, to me, I'll give me two

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Speaker 1: good weeks of technical summer and the heat and all that.

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Speaker 1: After that, man, it's the dog days. And this isn't

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Speaker 1: me saying, hey, I'm a winter guy. No, No, I

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Speaker 1: Despite living the majority of my life in the Midwest,

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Speaker 1: These these bones be shaken when it gets cold out.

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now, these bones be shaken. Johnny's

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Speaker 1: a winter guy. Though he's grew up Omaha, never lived

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Speaker 1: anywhere else except for you had that. You had that

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Speaker 1: short stint in Central Iowa. I don't even we're even there.

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Speaker 1: Two years short stint in Central Iowa. But otherwise, yeah,

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Speaker 1: told my family. Well, one of the things that you

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Speaker 1: know that was fun about the fourth and it's nothing

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Speaker 1: new with the barbecue. The barbcue is fantastic. One of

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Speaker 1: Dicka's gone forever. That was just part of his story. Well,

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Speaker 1: Season four coach Mike Ditka wearing the sombrero, looking forward

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Speaker 1: officially on you, buddy, all right. Happy Birthday America, Happy Birthday, Japan,

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Speaker 1: Happy Birthday, Australia, Happy Birthday, France, Happy Birthday, may Go,

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Speaker 1: Happy Birthday, Germany. Happy Birthday,