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Speaker 1: Welcome back. It's a brand new episode. This is Laugh
Speaker 1: with Being, a podcast with Jeremy Odem. I'm your home,
Speaker 1: jo Oh, it's good to be back here. Post first
Speaker 1: half of twenty twenty five. Does anybody else count the
Speaker 1: year like that? You get to July fourth, and then
Speaker 1: the first we're calling it the first half of the
Speaker 1: year's done. Now. I'm not basing it one hundred percent
Speaker 1: off the amount of days before the fourth or the
Speaker 1: amount of days after the fourth I'm just one hundred
Speaker 1: percent looking at as you know what ju life for.
Speaker 1: It's a good, good middle ground. So first half twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five has been completed. You made it for some
Speaker 1: of us. That's it's a pretty big dale. It's been.
Speaker 1: It's been a go in uh, this first half of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. So looking forward to the second half
Speaker 1: to see what's up and if if you're just hopefully
Speaker 1: you're listening to this episode right here, second or first
Speaker 1: full week of July. Happy for July, Happy Independence Day,
Speaker 1: Happy Birthday America to the there's a lot of it,
Speaker 1: those of you that listen to the pod outside of
Speaker 1: the United States. Whenever your birthday is your country's birthday,
Speaker 1: you know, just go back to this episode and think
Speaker 1: of it as your country's birthday and me wishing you
Speaker 1: happy birthday, so you know what, to your country, happy birthday,
Speaker 1: you know. Japan Uh starting to pick up the show,
Speaker 1: starting to pick up a Japan which is uh, which
Speaker 1: is different. That's that's a new one for us. So uh, Johnny,
Speaker 1: I is it being like is the show like translated
Speaker 1: is kind of like TV shows and other countries like
Speaker 1: is the is the pod being translated in Japanese over there,
Speaker 1: or is it we just have some Americans listening to
Speaker 1: the pod or I don't know. Pretty cool though, Thank
Speaker 1: you to the to the listeners in Japan, and happy
Speaker 1: Birthday to America. I do about the same thing every
Speaker 1: fourth of July, same thing. And I'm not saying that
Speaker 1: with like angst. I'm saying that with you know, the
Speaker 1: love of consistency and the love of the friends that
Speaker 1: I get to enjoy it with our friend of the pod.
Speaker 1: You've you've heard him many many times, Eric, who's given
Speaker 1: us all his stories from Europe and everywhere else. He
Speaker 1: his parents they throw a heck of a barbecue, so
Speaker 1: we have we've enjoyed going there and hanging out and
Speaker 1: the kids, I mean the kids have grown literally from
Speaker 1: babies to teenagers. Where are now going to this barbecue
Speaker 1: on the fourth July. So it's been a lot of
Speaker 1: fun this year. New addition to the party, okay, actually
Speaker 1: two new editions. We're gonna get to the second one
Speaker 1: later in the pod. But the first new edition shot
Speaker 1: some darts out on the front porch. That was fun.
Speaker 1: Never shot darts on the front porch before. Actually not
Speaker 1: a bad place to do it too. Weather w wasn't
Speaker 1: too bad. Got a little hot on the porch. You know,
Speaker 1: the air doesn't circulate quite as well there. It was
Speaker 1: kind of on the side of the house. Then there's
Speaker 1: you know, the neighbors houses kind of next to it
Speaker 1: there too, so you know, probably you know what, if
Speaker 1: I had any notes for you, not feed a jerk. Okay,
Speaker 1: first of all, not being a jerk, but if I
Speaker 1: had any notes for you, they just maybe plug in
Speaker 1: a fan over there. I mean it was an electric
Speaker 1: dart board, so we were running power. I could definitely
Speaker 1: see us hooking up a fan and just you know,
Speaker 1: getting uh, getting a little bit of air circulation going.
Speaker 1: Not a joke, Johnny, that was real. Notes I wrote it.
Speaker 1: I haven't written right in front of me notes for
Speaker 1: the barbecue. Great food though we always get them chicken wings,
Speaker 1: some smoke turkey. It's a beautiful thing. A lot of
Speaker 1: people it's hot dogs and burgers. On the fourth I've
Speaker 1: done that. It's just it's been a long time and
Speaker 1: that's one of the things that really threw me for
Speaker 1: a loop. The second day. Okay, so July fifth, So,
Speaker 1: like I said, I didn't eat hot dogs. I didn't
Speaker 1: eat burgers on the fourth of July. A lot of
Speaker 1: people do. So I'm at work the next day because
Speaker 1: your boy works in retail, doesn't get the holiday weekends off,
Speaker 1: you know, Great for you guys that you know the
Speaker 1: fourth falls on a Friday, and it's like, hey, long weekend.
Speaker 1: My jet out early Thursday, have Friday off for the fourth.
Speaker 1: Got the weekend off, like the hush, here we go,
Speaker 1: long weekend. Good for you guys. If you can get it,
Speaker 1: get it, Okay. I am one hundred percent not the
Speaker 1: guy that's been like if you you know, I should
Speaker 1: have it too. If I can't have it, known, tryworker retail.
Speaker 1: That's the business I'm in. So I get it. That's
Speaker 1: not a big deal. If you can get it, get it.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. I did work on the fifth.
Speaker 1: Early in the morning on the fifth, so was I
Speaker 1: was preparing food in our kitchen at our little gas station.
Speaker 1: Here I am loading up cheeseburgers, chicken sandwiches. Nobody bought
Speaker 1: it to that day. They always sell, They always sell.
Speaker 1: They did not sell on Saturday the fifth, but pizza slices,
Speaker 1: holy cow, they were a flying and they normally do
Speaker 1: It's just it was quite the spike, and I wasn't
Speaker 1: prepared to not sell cheeseburgers and chicken sandwiches, so um.
Speaker 1: Quickly I get home kind of like running through the brain,
Speaker 1: talking out loud, just kind of going through what's up? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you idiot? People were eating hot dogs and burgers like
Speaker 1: it's a bowl of candy on the table on the
Speaker 1: fourth of July. That that's the last thing they want
Speaker 1: on the fit. So another note, that's a note for me.
Speaker 1: Are you get a fan, get some circulation going outside
Speaker 1: on the porch for darts. I will make a note
Speaker 1: on the menu for the day after the fourth. Okay,
Speaker 1: everybody's learning today? Is this? This is now? So we'reports
Speaker 1: post fourth, We're in the second half of twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: This is the dog days of summer, right, because I
Speaker 1: was really I was trying to think, what actually is
Speaker 1: the dog days of summer? Is it not till we
Speaker 1: get into August where the heat and the sunny days
Speaker 1: are really starting to wear on us? Is it September?
Speaker 1: Because September, yeah, it's it's hot, but I don't quite
Speaker 1: remember it being And that's the thing. Every year, you know,
Speaker 1: you go through these the different seasons. You go through
Speaker 1: the year and you're like, man, it's it's so hot.
Speaker 1: It just I forgot how hot it gets. Or you
Speaker 1: get to winter and hey, I forgot how cold it gets.
Speaker 1: I even at my forty two years old, I forget.
Speaker 1: At what point in the summer I start to really
Speaker 1: get pissed off at the heat. When is that? When's
Speaker 1: the dog days of summer? I'm counting now? To me,
Speaker 1: it's like I'm enjoying summer. You know, the summer doesn't
Speaker 1: technically start to the twentieth of June shout out me
Speaker 1: happy birthday. But like, to me, I'll give me two
Speaker 1: good weeks of technical summer and the heat and all that.
Speaker 1: After that, man, it's the dog days. And this isn't
Speaker 1: me saying, hey, I'm a winter guy. No, No, I
Speaker 1: grew up. I grew up in southern California. Bring bring
Speaker 1: the heat. I don't like winter. Never got accustomed to it.
Speaker 1: Despite living the majority of my life in the Midwest,
Speaker 1: I've never gotten accustomed to it. I hate the cold.
Speaker 1: These these bones be shaken when it gets cold out.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now, these bones be shaken. Johnny's
Speaker 1: a winter guy. Though he's grew up Omaha, never lived
Speaker 1: anywhere else except for you had that. You had that
Speaker 1: short stint in Central Iowa. I don't even we're even there.
Speaker 1: Two years short stint in Central Iowa. But otherwise, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's uh, he's used to it. Not a big deal
Speaker 1: to him. Me these bones were striking gets cold, Johnny.
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Speaker 1: know that was fun about the fourth and it's nothing
Speaker 1: new with the barbecue. The barbcue is fantastic. One of
Speaker 1: the things we like, dude, you know, light up a
Speaker 1: few fireworks, nothing crazy. We don't put on the big show.
Speaker 1: We're in the driveway where the end of the driveway,
Speaker 1: middle street just lighting up if you here and there.
Speaker 1: More like I'm more of like go to the tent
Speaker 1: and look at the fun marketing on the fireworks because
Speaker 1: they're a blast. Thank you, Johnny. You were way too
Speaker 1: slow on that, but they are. They're fun to see
Speaker 1: you know, they had like flying pigs and it was
Speaker 1: like this kind of plane looking thing and there's this
Speaker 1: pigs with wings, and boy, that one was fun. You
Speaker 1: light that thing up and they go into three waves
Speaker 1: and they spin out of control and flight up in
Speaker 1: the air. That stuff you just don't know what you're
Speaker 1: getting yourself into. Like I know, each firework has QR code.
Speaker 1: We're it'll show you a little video of what it does.
Speaker 1: Who's watching all those? Are there people actually studying what
Speaker 1: the firework does before they make the purchase or do
Speaker 1: they buy them? And then they're looking at the QR
Speaker 1: coat like who's doing that. I only did to one,
Speaker 1: and that's because we we lit up like ten of
Speaker 1: them and they were circling out of control and I
Speaker 1: was concerned they was gonna hit the neighbor's house or
Speaker 1: our house or something. Can't be having that. It is
Speaker 1: fun to light the fireworks, though, especially when you have kids.
Speaker 1: Some people will be like, no, no, no, kids, they're
Speaker 1: I have teenagers. They're lighting fireworks up under my supervision,
Speaker 1: and I'm one hundred percent there hovering more for them
Speaker 1: to make sure it's all good, and I will I
Speaker 1: will throw myself in between the danger zone if I
Speaker 1: have to. I don't want to, but I will. But
Speaker 1: lighting the fireworks is always fun. I enjoyed a little show.
Speaker 1: Get that smoke going. Keep the Misa gquitos away. Proven fact,
Speaker 1: red haired people tracked mosquitoes more than anybody else. This
Speaker 1: is a fact. Google that shit. But yeah, no, I
Speaker 1: love I just love the atmosphere. You got all the
Speaker 1: other neighbors blowing them up, and it's all around the neighborhood.
Speaker 1: You know. The drive home from the barbecue is one
Speaker 1: of the best parts of July fourth, So all the
Speaker 1: fireworks high in the sky, it's it's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1: Love the fourth everybody selling a break America's birthday or
Speaker 1: in another day for your country, your birthday. But I
Speaker 1: will say the next day, you know, like I said,
Speaker 1: I worked on the fifth, so I'm driving home on
Speaker 1: the fifth. It was like three, three thirty in the afternoon,
Speaker 1: four o'clock something like that. Driving home, I'm driving through
Speaker 1: my neighborhood. You know those You drive through any neighborhood
Speaker 1: in America and see this the day after the fourth
Speaker 1: of July, and honestly, especially with it falling on a Friday,
Speaker 1: you can probably see it the days leading up to
Speaker 1: the fourth, but I know I saw it quite a
Speaker 1: bit on the fifth driving home next day afternoon, and
Speaker 1: there it is that the end of some driveways is
Speaker 1: the pile of the you know, the used firework stuff,
Speaker 1: which is great. They swept it up, they put in
Speaker 1: a nice little pile. I did the same thing. And
Speaker 1: I know you want to cool it down, right. You
Speaker 1: don't want to put hot anything super hot inside your
Speaker 1: trash can could become a fire hazard. Next thing you know,
Speaker 1: your trash can's on fire. Because I'm sure some of
Speaker 1: you were like I saw this video. I saw this
Speaker 1: TikTok and it had trash cans on fire or piles
Speaker 1: of whatever on fire because it was still too hot.
Speaker 1: I'm not debating that at all. I know that's the truth.
Speaker 1: I didn't have to watch your TikTok to know that.
Speaker 1: But with that being said, the next day, okay, a
Speaker 1: full fifteen sixteen hours after you blued up the fireworks
Speaker 1: and swept into a nice little pile at the end
Speaker 1: of your driveway, you could have thrown it away. I
Speaker 1: dislike those people. I dislike the people that leave their
Speaker 1: trash because what are they waiting for? Every single homeowner
Speaker 1: in the state of Nebraska. And I'm gonna go on
Speaker 1: a limit, saying the entire Midwest owns a shovel at
Speaker 1: least one shovel and a broom and has the opportunity
Speaker 1: to sweep up that mess and put it in the
Speaker 1: trash can. I'm a guy that does it. Night of
Speaker 1: fourth of July blowing up fireworks. Okay, it's all done.
Speaker 1: You know, we do pitcher of water, slowly, pour some
Speaker 1: water on it, cool it off a little bit, cool
Speaker 1: it all off, then we sweep it up. Then we
Speaker 1: see what's up. If it's too hot still, we'll leave
Speaker 1: it sitting a little bit. But you know what we're
Speaker 1: gonna do. We're gonna clean up the mass. Like how
Speaker 1: rude is that to your neighbors? And then who knows?
Speaker 1: You may not even clean up in the wind could blow.
Speaker 1: And here's the thing here in Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska, on
Speaker 1: the night of the fourth overnight it poured rain like
Speaker 1: poured ring So all those hot tubes and what not
Speaker 1: for your fire or excite, they were not warm anymore.
Speaker 1: But how much of that chunk blew and washed away
Speaker 1: into the sewers, into the streets just making a mess
Speaker 1: of your neighborhood. I don't know. Am I old guy
Speaker 1: shaking his fist at the clouds? Now? Am I getting
Speaker 1: to that point in my life? It really bothered me
Speaker 1: driving around seeing all these piles. And the thing that
Speaker 1: sucks is the one of the neighbors that had the
Speaker 1: pile of trash still sitting outside his driveway late in
Speaker 1: the afternoon on the fifth. I really respect that guy.
Speaker 1: He's got this like old vintage Coca Cola machine, like
Speaker 1: one of those old pop bottle merchandisers. It might even
Speaker 1: distribute cans. I'm not even quite sure what package it does,
Speaker 1: but it looks awesome. And he's got one right outside
Speaker 1: his garage. He's had old pinball machines in his garage.
Speaker 1: I was drive by that and they have the garage open.
Speaker 1: I'm like, that is cool. Like that guy's got his
Speaker 1: shit together, and then sure enough he ruins it all,
Speaker 1: leaves that pile of trash. If you're old enough to
Speaker 1: blow up fireworks, you're old enough to clean up the
Speaker 1: mess and do responsibly. We don't need any trash cans
Speaker 1: on fire, but clean it up your mess. This is
Speaker 1: the season three finale of Laugh With me. I just
Speaker 1: want to say thank you to everybody who listens to
Speaker 1: the show, who downloads the show, who comments, who who
Speaker 1: has maybe told a friend about it about the show.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of you, thousands and thousands
Speaker 1: of you listen every single episode, and Johnny and I
Speaker 1: just cannot say thank you enough. I hope you'll continue
Speaker 1: to listen, and I hope you're enjoying kind of where
Speaker 1: the show is going. We've got a lot of fun,
Speaker 1: exciting things for you coming up in season four, which
Speaker 1: starts with the next episode, so we are very excited
Speaker 1: about that. But again, thank you so much to every
Speaker 1: single one of you that listen. With that being said,
Speaker 1: one listener in particular, and this guy I don't know
Speaker 1: his I don't know his name, Okay, is his uh
Speaker 1: user name is CZB one two three. It could be
Speaker 1: made up, I don't know, could be an anonymous, it
Speaker 1: could be somebody I know, it could be who knows
Speaker 1: left us a comment, and you know what, thank you
Speaker 1: for listening, CZB one two three. I do appreciate you listening.
Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong. I'm thankful to be able to
Speaker 1: do this and that people actually listen to it. Franklin,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of surprised. I'm just I'm excited for that.
Speaker 1: But know what you're getting into when you listen to
Speaker 1: our episodes. It we're not surprising anybody with the content.
Speaker 1: We've never once, I think, put ourselves out there as
Speaker 1: too serious set of subject matters or tried to be
Speaker 1: anything that we are not. You know, for example, one
Speaker 1: of the one of the comments that we've got five
Speaker 1: star review at. One of the comments is very simple,
Speaker 1: kind of says exactly what we are here. It said,
Speaker 1: great podcast stories. Thank you. There you go. What's we do?
Speaker 1: We tell stories. Some are experiences, but some of them
Speaker 1: fabricated just for your pure entertainment. But the stories is
Speaker 1: what it's about. It's fun. It's a good listen. It's uh,
Speaker 1: you know, you're walking your dog and you get to
Speaker 1: listen to some funny stories. That's it, right, That's what
Speaker 1: we do. Here's another comment, this one dn DFU, So
Speaker 1: I don't know what that means. He's not a dungeon
Speaker 1: of draggers fan, I'm assuming, but the comment was a
Speaker 1: little funny. Hey, I'll take a little funny. That's better
Speaker 1: than not funny at all. I'll take it I'll take it.
Speaker 1: But this guy CZB one two three didn't get the
Speaker 1: memo on what exactly we do here. Here's this comment.
Speaker 1: Just listen to the episode on How I Got Crones disease.
Speaker 1: It was not informative, funny or dealing with crones. He
Speaker 1: droned on intermittably about CRT televisions. It's true. Go back
Speaker 1: and listen to the episode. If you haven't how I
Speaker 1: got Crones disease. I explained to you how I got
Speaker 1: crones disease, and that uh, in that episode, I blame
Speaker 1: my brother in his big ass old TV. I had
Speaker 1: to carry up and down apartment complex stairs over and
Speaker 1: over again as he was moving houses. This was a
Speaker 1: long time ago. I firmly believe that was the beginning
Speaker 1: of how I got crones disease. Now, I'm not scientifically
Speaker 1: proving this, and I certainly did not tell my doctors
Speaker 1: that this was how I believe I got crones disease.
Speaker 1: If that tells you anything, But why the guy have
Speaker 1: to do that like CZB one two three. Maybe give
Speaker 1: another episode to listen and uh, you'll kind of get
Speaker 1: the gist what we're doing here. A season four is
Speaker 1: coming up, and I promise you more stories about how
Speaker 1: I got croons the season. Sorry brother, Oh sorry, I
Speaker 1: add new addition to the pod as we go into
Speaker 1: season four. He just came back into my life at
Speaker 1: the Fourth of July barbecue. He's he's somebody that has
Speaker 1: was a big part of my life, somebody that I
Speaker 1: had to work hard to get back in two thousand
Speaker 1: and seven. And that's this life size cardboard standy of
Speaker 1: legendary Hall of Fame coach Mike Didga. But it's not
Speaker 1: just any Mike dick a standy's. This is a special standy.
Speaker 1: See what it is is Back in the day, I
Speaker 1: worked for this grocery store. I was just a young guy.
Speaker 1: I didn't have much of a I mean, I had
Speaker 1: a role. Letna say. It wasn't an important role since
Speaker 1: I was a nobody. Okay. I wasn't even the buyer
Speaker 1: for this grocery store. I was the assistant to the
Speaker 1: buyer the grocery store. And I got to go to
Speaker 1: this food show. Right. It's just a big arena full
Speaker 1: of vendors and different items, and you get to make
Speaker 1: buys for your store and then try to sell to
Speaker 1: the people. I purchased a palette of Mike Ditka's salsa.
Speaker 1: Look it up. It was a real thing, Mike Ditka salsa,
Speaker 1: if I remember correctly. It had two different flavor profiles,
Speaker 1: probably mild and hot. And I bought the palette of
Speaker 1: salsa because they're at the vendor table, they had this
Speaker 1: cardboard standy of coach Mike Ditka in a full poncho
Speaker 1: Hanna sombrero holding a jar of his uh salsa. And
Speaker 1: it's just funny because he's got this sweet watch you
Speaker 1: can see coming out under from under the poncho. It's
Speaker 1: just so novel that I had to have it. And
Speaker 1: so I asked my manager and I'm like, I have
Speaker 1: to have that standy. He's like, well, you have to
Speaker 1: buy a palette of Uh the Dicka salsa. Let's buy
Speaker 1: a palate of Dike of salsa. He's like, well, this
Speaker 1: is on you, Like, you have to sell that salsa.
Speaker 1: So I did. I did, in fact, sell all the salsa,
Speaker 1: and I it took a while. Don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: I'm not some miracle worker. It took us a while
Speaker 1: to sell this salsa. And I'm not saying it was
Speaker 1: the greatest buy in the world, but it was proven
Speaker 1: to not be the worst buy in the world, because
Speaker 1: I've experienced what worst buy in the world looks like
Speaker 1: throughout my career, and that certainly ended up not being it.
Speaker 1: But the big thing is I got the cardboard standy
Speaker 1: of coach Mike Dicka in a sumpro. That guy I
Speaker 1: got to take him home. Okay, I owned him, and
Speaker 1: he was a feature at every party I think my
Speaker 1: friends that I had for years. He went to every
Speaker 1: Fantasy football Draft New Year's party like it was to
Speaker 1: Everybody had to get their picture with Dicka. It was awesome.
Speaker 1: So I roll up, I haven't seen him in years.
Speaker 1: Some at some point, my buddy Mike ended up getting
Speaker 1: Mike ticket. Well, then Mike got a job at Nike.
Speaker 1: He ended up moving across the country. He lived in Oregon,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, Dicka was gone. I just assumed
Speaker 1: Dicka's gone forever. That was just part of his story. Well,
Speaker 1: I roll up to the Fourth of July barbecue where
Speaker 1: Mike is not at and they're in the garage, this
Speaker 1: coach Mike Ditka wearing a somburrow. I couldn't have been
Speaker 1: more excited, Johnny, And uh, you know, thankfully I was
Speaker 1: able to bring him home where he's now in the
Speaker 1: podcast studio, so new permanent fixture of Laugh with Me
Speaker 1: Season four coach Mike Ditka wearing the sombrero, looking forward
Speaker 1: to that which just which just means we're gonna have
Speaker 1: to feature him. I mean, he's gonna have to. We
Speaker 1: gotta figure out a way to get Dick involved in
Speaker 1: the in the body for season four. Johnny, this is
Speaker 1: officially on you, for better or for worse. That one's
Speaker 1: officially on you, buddy, all right. Happy Birthday America, Happy Birthday, Japan,
Speaker 1: Happy Birthday, Australia, Happy Birthday, France, Happy Birthday, may Go,
Speaker 1: Happy Birthday, Germany. Happy Birthday,