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Speaker 3: Hey, it's JO, and I am here with I demand,
Speaker 3: I guess, requested guest. This guy has been on Laugh
Speaker 3: With Me one time. And in that one time, he
Speaker 3: caused a ruckus with the guest of the year nominations
Speaker 3: and winners. But let's see if you can guess it.
Speaker 3: He is a former Sprinkler customer service.
Speaker 1: Agent. Representative.
Speaker 3: Representative.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: I've known him for 20 plus years. He is a
Speaker 3: former fantasy football champion, which is what brings him here
Speaker 3: this weekend with me and is a guest of the
Speaker 3: year nominee. This is probably your one time on the
Speaker 3: show probably is the one that I hear about the most.
Speaker 3: And it's because they're like, how in the hell is
Speaker 3: Bob not the guest of the year.
Speaker 1: You know, thanks, J.O. It's great to be back. You know,
Speaker 1: I've often wondered that myself, but I understand. I mean,
Speaker 1: I live pretty far away. In fact, when I came
Speaker 1: into town, I'm in town for the draft, you know,
Speaker 1: our 20th year of the draft. It's a big deal.
Speaker 1: It is a big deal. And I think 15 years ago,
Speaker 1: we were supposed to go to Vegas for year five.
Speaker 3: Yeah, year five's Vegas.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And now we've come full circle. With that guy
Speaker 1: back in the league again.
Speaker 3: With that guy back in the league who was pushing
Speaker 3: Vegas at five. And we've kind of found a permanent
Speaker 3: home for the draft, at least for now. Here in Ashland, Nebraska.
Speaker 1: That's right. I don't really see a reason to move
Speaker 1: the draft.
Speaker 3: No, everyone loves it. It just seems like, let's just
Speaker 3: leave it. Everybody's pretty happy with it. It's a great facility, but...
Speaker 3: But before we get into that, this is, because Johnny
Speaker 3: wants to give you your applause, this is Nathan Bob Roberts.
Speaker 3: For the folks who don't know, Nathan's his name, and
Speaker 3: I know I touched on the name last time you
Speaker 3: were on. I'm going to call you Bob, because I've
Speaker 3: only known you as Bob. So it might be weird
Speaker 3: for other people who know you, but that's just how
Speaker 3: it's going.
Speaker 1: To be with me. Yeah, I get it. Like back
Speaker 1: in the other... Well, the episode, geez, almost a year
Speaker 1: ago now, I guess we touched on that and how
Speaker 1: at my wedding, people were confused as shit. Who's this
Speaker 1: Bob guy?
Speaker 3: Who's Bob?
Speaker 1: But, but we'll roll with it.
Speaker 3: Uh, on the flip side, I was, I was, uh,
Speaker 3: a little confused on who's Nate. Who's Nathan?
Speaker 1: Like, who's this guy? Who's that?
Speaker 3: We already have a Nate.
Speaker 1: Yeah. He's not here.
Speaker 3: But you are in town for the 20th year of
Speaker 3: our fantasy football league. Um, It's great that you make
Speaker 3: it in town, first of all. The year you didn't,
Speaker 3: you won the league. So maybe this is bad that
Speaker 3: you're here.
Speaker 1: That is bad. Maybe I should have stayed home. But,
Speaker 1: you know, whenever it's mentioned that I won the league,
Speaker 1: we have to say, asterisk, COVID year.
Speaker 3: COVID year.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: We've had a run, too. And I don't know that
Speaker 3: it started then. It may have been the year before.
Speaker 3: But the people who don't come to the draft have
Speaker 3: been winning the league.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So that's something, I don't know, that's a trend we've
Speaker 3: got to keep an eye on.
Speaker 1: Last year, someone didn't come to the draft, and they
Speaker 1: drafted their team with AI.
Speaker 3: That did not work out.
Speaker 1: That did not work out. People, AI is often wrong.
Speaker 3: In fact, the owner who used the AI to help,
Speaker 3: the guy who couldn't make it, uh, is now out
Speaker 3: of the league. So this AI thing did, it just, just.
Speaker 1: It just really fell flat. You know, it's funny about AI.
Speaker 1: Everyone loves AI. Like at work, we're like, we're trying to,
Speaker 1: they're like, you got to use AI and you got
Speaker 1: to tell us how we're using AI. So I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: I could tell you how I'm using it. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: ask it a prompt. It tells me something. Then I
Speaker 1: spend the whole, like half of the day fixing what
Speaker 1: it told me. Cause it's, Often wrong.
Speaker 3: So do you, so you use AI in your workplace?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: We got access to the clod. Okay.
Speaker 3: And then when you use it, that that's literally what
Speaker 3: you're doing. You're trying to like fact check it.
Speaker 1: Um, we often, we do a lot of like computer coding.
Speaker 1: So sometimes you don't know how to do something and
Speaker 1: that you use it as like a guiding force, but
Speaker 1: then it often doesn't do what you want it. And it's,
Speaker 1: A lot of times causes more time. And in fact,
Speaker 1: I asked Claude for, we have a keeper league, and
Speaker 1: my team was horrible last year. I had to pay
Speaker 1: my wife again the entry fee plus whatever the winner got.
Speaker 1: That's usually our arrangement. I'm really, really in the hole
Speaker 1: with this whole fantasy football league. But it's fun.
Speaker 3: How many years do you have to win in order
Speaker 3: to get back in black?
Speaker 1: I think it would be better. So if I win,
Speaker 1: or when I win this year. When you win. When
Speaker 1: I win. Although I believe one of my keepers I
Speaker 1: saw has an ankle sprain already. So we're starting the
Speaker 1: year off right. My first round keeper, in fact, Ashton Genting.
Speaker 3: I did see that when that first, because when that
Speaker 3: first report on that injury came out, it wasn't looking good.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: And I was like, well, he's obviously kept. And then
Speaker 3: I looked to see who, I don't know, it was you.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, didn't you have this happen before?
Speaker 1: The year I won the league, I had no keepers
Speaker 1: left in my starting lineup.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I thought. I was like, Somebody I
Speaker 3: know has had keeper issue as far as like you
Speaker 3: declared them and then you lost them before we even
Speaker 3: got to week one.
Speaker 1: For many years, I had Christian McCaffrey. And we know
Speaker 1: like maybe this is the year, right? Maybe, maybe this
Speaker 1: is the year. But.
Speaker 3: See, that is why, if anybody listened to the NFL preview,
Speaker 3: that's why I kept Christian McCaffrey off of my list
Speaker 3: of the best fantasy players from each division. Because he's
Speaker 3: barely on the field.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 3: So really, I didn't make a mistake. I should have
Speaker 3: gotten credit for that.
Speaker 1: I mean, I used to, on principle, never draft a
Speaker 1: Patriot running back.
Speaker 3: No, just because.
Speaker 1: But now, it's like you almost don't want to draft 49ers.
Speaker 1: I mean, they got problems in Ohio. They got, you know,
Speaker 1: we didn't know they were even from, I guess they're
Speaker 1: moving to Ohio. Is that breaking news?
Speaker 3: Yeah. What's he doing out there?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: He's like living out there.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Uh, and he was able to negotiate down to $ 140,
Speaker 3: which is.
Speaker 1: Uh, a big deal.
Speaker 3: Uh, cause is that the rate? Like we were, I
Speaker 3: don't know. A lot of information has come out about this.
Speaker 1: I'm not familiar with the rates or how that works, but, um,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I would think if you're worth billions
Speaker 1: of dollars, you could do better, if that is your thing.
Speaker 3: Literally what the cop said when they pulled him out
Speaker 3: of his car.
Speaker 1: Oh, that they released body cam footage.
Speaker 3: Body cam is out, and he had a pile of
Speaker 3: cash in his pocket, and so they counted it or whatever,
Speaker 3: and that was one of the comments was, why do
Speaker 3: these people, they could do anything, they could be anywhere,
Speaker 3: and here he is in an Ohio trailer park.
Speaker 1: I mean, he could, I mean, if he is in
Speaker 1: San Francisco, he could go to Nevada where it's legal.
Speaker 1: It's a lot more convenient, I guess.
Speaker 3: He's got options.
Speaker 1: He's got options.
Speaker 3: That's what everybody's saying.
Speaker 1: But also, aside from that, you got to be leery
Speaker 1: of this power substation by the stadium, don't you?
Speaker 3: Maybe that's why he's moving to Ohio.
Speaker 1: Oh, that could be.
Speaker 3: He's just protecting his health.
Speaker 1: He's getting out of town. Yeah. I mean, the trees died, right?
Speaker 3: Yeah. That's the thing. A lot of people don't know
Speaker 3: about those trees, and I keep preaching it, like, they
Speaker 3: had all an entire run of trees in between the
Speaker 3: power plant and the facility, the stadium and the training
Speaker 3: facility and that they're all gone. And it's not because
Speaker 3: of change of scenery. It's because they all died and
Speaker 3: it was a bad look for the Superbowl.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: What, what a deal they've got there.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So let's just, we'll avoid 49ers. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know. Eric will probably need to like pick up
Speaker 1: their kicker on waiver wires after he forgets the draft one.
Speaker 3: But, but, uh, Yeah, draft weekend, 20 years. It's good
Speaker 3: to see you. Thanks for coming in. And we're going
Speaker 3: to be golfing tomorrow. Draft day is beautiful. We get
Speaker 3: a golf 18 and then some lunch and some beer darts.
Speaker 1: Hopefully we bring extra darts this year.
Speaker 3: I heard that there's a mountain of darts. I have
Speaker 3: a theory on the dart thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay. So.
Speaker 3: Little back story.
Speaker 1: I don't remember.
Speaker 3: I don't think we've told the story. We had to
Speaker 3: have told the story on the pod at some point,
Speaker 3: but playing beer darts. So basically you've got a dart
Speaker 3: two on two. You've got a dart and you've got
Speaker 3: to throw the dart into a full can of beer.
Speaker 3: And if you hit it on the top, then the person,
Speaker 3: your crossroads got to chug that beer. Otherwise, wherever the
Speaker 3: dart ends up in the can, you drink to that point.
Speaker 3: But you're just trying to beat, get there before the
Speaker 3: other team, right? The end of the can. We lost
Speaker 3: the dart. I mean, we're literally sitting across from each other,
Speaker 3: maybe six feet, and sitting there in grass. And somehow, someway,
Speaker 3: we lost the dart, which is... It's tough to play
Speaker 3: beer darts without the dart.
Speaker 1: It is. Yeah. And someone who was not at the
Speaker 1: draft yet was able to get more darts and save
Speaker 1: the day.
Speaker 3: He saved the day, but... here's the thing. We did
Speaker 3: all the things. We were crawling in the grass looking
Speaker 3: for the dart. We were looking around us. Maybe it ricocheted.
Speaker 3: We were looking everywhere. We were looking into the dirt.
Speaker 3: We were looking in the cans, most importantly, the empty
Speaker 3: cans of beer. We were checking all the cans. My theory,
Speaker 3: tell me if you think there's anything to this because
Speaker 3: I'm going to go full detective mode.
Speaker 1: If I have to.
Speaker 3: Cody, who was playing at the time, had the dart
Speaker 3: the whole time. And he held on to the dart
Speaker 3: to delay the game because he wasn't playing well and
Speaker 3: he was having to drink a.
Speaker 1: Lot of beer.
Speaker 3: That's my theory.
Speaker 1: That could be.
Speaker 3: Do you think there's anything to this?
Speaker 1: Well, my question is, you would think we would be
Speaker 1: able to find the dart by the tail. Where's the tail?
Speaker 3: Where's the tail? Yeah. You can't find the dart. You
Speaker 3: can't find the tail. The entire thing, gone. Just gone.
Speaker 1: I mean, that might be breaking news. Cody has the dart.
Speaker 3: This is the debut of this theory. I would tell
Speaker 3: you right now, I believe he had it, he held it,
Speaker 3: and it got in so deep that he couldn't just
Speaker 3: be like, oh, guys, sorry, I have it. He couldn't
Speaker 3: come out with that.
Speaker 1: I mean, he could have taken my strategy, which is
Speaker 1: you slowly pick the can up and let most of
Speaker 1: the beer run onto the ground so then people who
Speaker 1: want to play can keep playing.
Speaker 3: There was a few people pulling off that move that
Speaker 3: you did. Yeah, you did that. It's just one of
Speaker 3: those things, too, where the teams who think they're the
Speaker 3: best are the drunkest, which means you're not the best.
Speaker 3: You've been sitting there pounding some beers. I think he
Speaker 3: had the dart. I think he was trying to slow
Speaker 3: down the game. It's really sad if that's what he did.
Speaker 3: I hate having to call him out like this, but
Speaker 3: It really did hinder the game. So this year, we're
Speaker 3: not going to allow that to happen.
Speaker 1: We're going to have eyes on him the whole time.
Speaker 1: So my question about the draft is, will the boat
Speaker 1: fall off the hoist this year?
Speaker 3: Well, so that was the thing. So you're there on
Speaker 3: a Friday night, right? And then on a Saturday morning,
Speaker 3: you're getting up and getting ready to go golf with us.
Speaker 3: And you go outside, and the boat's gone. There's a boat.
Speaker 3: It's just gone because this cabin's right on the lake.
Speaker 3: I was told we're not allowed to talk about the
Speaker 3: boat thing.
Speaker 1: Oh, we're not? Well, Johnny, we'll have to cut it.
Speaker 3: Johnny, cut that out because I know that there's.
Speaker 1: People listening who might be upset about that.
Speaker 3: So we're just going to stop talking about the boat.
Speaker 3: But the boat did disappear. We're going to give you
Speaker 3: the facts. We're going to give you what we know
Speaker 3: on this. So with the dart, I speculated. On the boat,
Speaker 3: we're going to keep it clean. The boat was gone,
Speaker 3: but they got the boat back and everything's fine.
Speaker 1: Everything's good. No harm, no foul.
Speaker 3: No harm, no foul. We're just going to leave it
Speaker 3: at that.
Speaker 1: So I got, you know, it's going to be hot
Speaker 1: this year at the draft. Yes, it is. And the
Speaker 1: draft is on a lake. Yes. I did bring swimming apparel.
Speaker 3: I thought about that.
Speaker 1: But my... hesitation is. And I think we touched us
Speaker 1: on this in the last episode. The last time I
Speaker 1: swam in a Nebraska Lake, I ended up with a
Speaker 1: hole in my leg. Yes, you did.
Speaker 3: Deadly bacteria.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I'm trying to figure out if like, I think
Speaker 1: it's probably been like 27, 25 years since I swam
Speaker 1: in Nebraska Lake. If we can roll it back a
Speaker 1: little bit and try again. Yeah.
Speaker 3: This is the time it seems. And honestly, you picked
Speaker 3: a great year to do this 2026. I mean, what
Speaker 3: are the chances of there being some kind of deadly bacteria?
Speaker 1: Yeah, right.
Speaker 3: I mean, what are the chances, right?
Speaker 1: I mean, really, here's your two options. You can either
Speaker 1: get deadly bacteria swimming in a lake on a hot
Speaker 1: day on the best weekend of the year, the draft,
Speaker 1: or you can get deadly bacteria from having a salad.
Speaker 1: true like what what which way would you like to.
Speaker 3: Go exactly you're gonna get it either way you're gonna
Speaker 3: get at least enjoy yourself in the water that's right
Speaker 3: i i think it was last year the year before
Speaker 3: uh we were i was working on the draft board
Speaker 3: and i look up and cody was just coming in
Speaker 3: from swimming in the lake so i know some people
Speaker 3: do he did he so he has swum in the
Speaker 3: lake and he well i guess he's He's not very
Speaker 3: healthy anymore either. Maybe there's something to this.
Speaker 1: Maybe.
Speaker 3: I've told Eric last week on the NFL preview, but Cody,
Speaker 3: he's the big whale. He's the white whale. He's who
Speaker 3: I'm trying to get this weekend. I think it's time
Speaker 3: for him to make his debut on Laugh With Me.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 3: So we'll see what we can do.
Speaker 1: We'll see.
Speaker 3: Maybe even we'll get you both on there at the
Speaker 3: same time.
Speaker 1: Maybe.
Speaker 3: And clear all this up because... Last time you were
Speaker 3: on the pod, we had a lot of stories to tell.
Speaker 1: We did.
Speaker 3: And Cody listened to that episode, and he was very
Speaker 3: nice to send us fact checks where he felt that
Speaker 3: we were not correct or at least didn't tell the
Speaker 3: story right or maybe there's more to it. So if
Speaker 3: it's cool to you, I'm going to go through some
Speaker 3: of his fact checks, and then you can tell me
Speaker 3: whether or not there's truth to this or maybe Cody's wrong.
Speaker 3: I think it's possible that Cody misremembers. What do you think?
Speaker 1: Well, um, it's possible. It's fine.
Speaker 3: There you go. It's possible.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: So, um, also for, and also Cody called the episode
Speaker 3: something incredible. And I wish I had known this and
Speaker 3: I would have titled the episode that maybe I'll title
Speaker 3: this one, but he called it Bobisode. And I thought
Speaker 3: that was genius.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is genius.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's genius. So we're really going to have to, um,
Speaker 3: consider making that the title of this episode. Uh, okay.
Speaker 3: Here's some of the things he brought up that he
Speaker 3: thought were pertinent to what we were talking about. He said,
Speaker 3: you forgot to mention that frozen dead six inch or
Speaker 3: six plus inch piranha that we left in the freezer
Speaker 3: from the fish tank that he allegedly didn't have. So he,
Speaker 3: he's claiming he did have a fish tank. We're claiming
Speaker 3: it was a penis pump. Um, And he said there
Speaker 3: was a dead frozen piranha. I didn't know that story,
Speaker 3: so I don't know anything about that one. Is there
Speaker 3: truth to that?
Speaker 1: I think there is. I think I will own that one. Okay.
Speaker 1: But the other story is a lot funnier. Yeah, 100%. Yeah, yeah. Okay. No,
Speaker 1: he did. There was a fish tank and there was
Speaker 1: a piranha. And I think it started out, if I
Speaker 1: remember right, he had like a beta, which you're not
Speaker 1: supposed to put in a fish tank. Right. The piranha
Speaker 1: and like some little shark thing. And one day, I
Speaker 1: think the shark thing, only half of it was left.
Speaker 3: Well, because the piranha was eating it, right?
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 3: What did he think was going to happen?
Speaker 1: And then, now, this is triggering my memory about the piranha.
Speaker 1: So the piranha liked to eat other fish, right? So eventually,
Speaker 1: it consumed the beta and the other fish died. So
Speaker 1: we had to go out and buy fish. Like little
Speaker 1: like feeder goldfish for it.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: So we were walking up the stairs at Park Wild
Speaker 1: with a sack full of goldfish that are, you know,
Speaker 1: happily swimming in the bag about to be consumed by
Speaker 1: the piranha. And someone, one of our neighbors is like,
Speaker 1: what are you going to do with those goldfish? And
Speaker 1: I think Cody said, I'm going to boil them and
Speaker 1: serve them over rice.
Speaker 3: Oh my, Jesus.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so when the piranha eventually died, I think
Speaker 1: we did freeze it and we did leave it in
Speaker 1: the freezer for the next person.
Speaker 3: What was the point of freezing it? You just thought
Speaker 3: it was funny?
Speaker 1: I guess, yeah. Oh my. It was probably too big
Speaker 1: to flush.
Speaker 3: Well, that's probably true as well.
Speaker 1: And we didn't take out the trash, so the next
Speaker 1: best thing, just freeze it.
Speaker 3: I mean, as many things as you guys just threw
Speaker 3: over your deck, this wouldn't have been one?
Speaker 1: Well, yeah. I mean, hindsight. Hindsight, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Now, and just a quick reminder, these are stories, I mean,
Speaker 3: 20-plus years ago. I mean, these are, you're in your
Speaker 3: early 20s, your guys are, sharing an apartment that, and
Speaker 3: please go back and listen to the episode, Nathan Bob Roberts,
Speaker 3: because it's, the stories are wild, but that's kind of
Speaker 3: the time frame we're living in here, was we're talking
Speaker 3: about freezing piranhas.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the stories are so wild that I had my
Speaker 1: boss at the time listen to our episode, and she's like,
Speaker 1: I'm glad I didn't know you, and I never knew
Speaker 1: you when you lived in that apartment. Yes. But... Yeah.
Speaker 1: We've moved on. We've moved on.
Speaker 3: All right. So he also said about the pennies, because
Speaker 3: Eric would throw the pennies from his loft and everybody.
Speaker 3: It said, the pennies started because I was up late
Speaker 3: playing NFL 2K, and he started chucking them at me
Speaker 3: and realized he was a penny sniper. Then it just
Speaker 3: became a thing. So Eric did this as a joke,
Speaker 3: and then it turned into, oh, I'm pretty good at this.
Speaker 3: And he just starts sniping people with pennies, apparently.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh, yeah, probably so. And, you know, I think that's
Speaker 1: probably true. Um, and you know, now we don't make
Speaker 1: the pennies anymore because it was worth, it costs more
Speaker 1: to make the penny than the penny is worth. So
Speaker 1: now if we had all those pennies, it's possible we
Speaker 1: might be able to retire because there was a lot
Speaker 1: of pennies.
Speaker 3: There was a lot of pennies.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And who knows what penny you could find in there
Speaker 3: that would have been worth high value.
Speaker 1: So if we could ever get a time machine and
Speaker 1: go back to get the pail of pennies and bring
Speaker 1: it back to the current day.
Speaker 3: I'm working on a time machine.
Speaker 1: We'll get there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll get there. Cody then said, the best part
Speaker 3: about the mail under the mattress prank. So that's when
Speaker 3: you guys would put all your junk mail under Cody's
Speaker 3: mattress in order to Just to see how long it
Speaker 3: took him, right?
Speaker 1: To notice? So I think it started with he just
Speaker 1: refused to pick up his mail. Like Cody refused to
Speaker 1: pick up his mail.
Speaker 3: Of his own place, yeah.
Speaker 1: Of his own place. So then somebody just got frustrated
Speaker 1: and started putting Cody's mail under the mattress. And then
Speaker 1: it just kind of evolved into all mail under the mattress. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So he said the best part about the mail under
Speaker 3: the mattress prank was Dan starting it and passing it
Speaker 3: on for two plus years.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 3: And the joy on his face when he ran into
Speaker 3: the room pointing and laughing. I mean, that's quite the build.
Speaker 3: That's a hell of a prank when you can build
Speaker 3: it for that many years and pass on the prank.
Speaker 1: That's right. I mean, it's almost like Dan just decided
Speaker 1: to stay for two years to see what would happen.
Speaker 1: Because at the time, you know, like when you're like
Speaker 1: this age, like staying in like a place for multiple
Speaker 1: leases doesn't really happen.
Speaker 3: No, it's unheard of. Because you want a clean place.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, you're tired of living in the squalor
Speaker 1: or you move somewhere else or whatever. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's dedication.
Speaker 3: Then he brought up Travis puked in the sink. Now,
Speaker 3: I don't know the backstory on this, but I know
Speaker 3: Travis and I'm guessing large amounts of alcohol were involved.
Speaker 1: That's right. What did Bacardi and he would Cut it
Speaker 1: with flat Mountain Dew and eat jalapeno chips.
Speaker 3: And then just puke.
Speaker 1: In the sink. And then puke in the sink. Yikes. Okay. Yeah.
Speaker 1: All right. All right.
Speaker 3: We've all been there. No judging here.
Speaker 1: I mean, we did have that balcony, so, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: Could have puked off the balcony.
Speaker 3: That's my point in all this, is that you guys
Speaker 3: had options.
Speaker 1: There was options.
Speaker 3: And you did use that option from time to time.
Speaker 3: But why you didn't consistently, who knows?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Uh, and then you brought up in, and this was
Speaker 3: in a group chat, right? As Cody's unloading on us, he's,
Speaker 3: you said that you forgot to mention the time that
Speaker 3: we called because you thought you had a gas leak.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
Speaker 3: You obviously did not have a gas leak, but what
Speaker 3: did it end up being?
Speaker 1: Well, um, so we thought we had a gas leak. Um,
Speaker 1: we used to consume lots of taco John's six pack
Speaker 1: in a pound. Like, and when I mean lots, like,
Speaker 1: one six pack and a pound per person. Yeah.
Speaker 3: It's per person.
Speaker 1: Yeah. It was the best per person. And it was like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, like five bucks back in the day.
Speaker 1: So we thought we had a gas leak. We smelled
Speaker 1: like natural gas, like the egg smell or whatever, but
Speaker 1: the natural gas smell was coming from the area near
Speaker 1: the famous men's number one only bathroom. So, um, Anyway,
Speaker 1: we called the emergency number because we thought we had
Speaker 1: a gas leak. In hindsight, we probably should have went
Speaker 1: outside or something if we actually thought we had a
Speaker 1: gas leak. Instead, we remained inside. Living in it, yeah.
Speaker 1: And consuming more Taco Johns. Of course. And then the
Speaker 1: maintenance guy, he comes, he's like, I don't think there's
Speaker 1: a gas leak. And I think, maybe it was Cody
Speaker 1: said to him, well, does it smell like six guys
Speaker 1: sitting here eating Taco Johns six pack at a time? Yeah.
Speaker 1: And that's probably exactly what it was.
Speaker 3: That's so funny that the gas guy was like, well,
Speaker 3: looking around, I'll tell you what it smells like. That's fantastic.
Speaker 3: Let's see. He also said, oh, he wanted to bring up,
Speaker 3: and this is something that I've personally dealt with. In fact,
Speaker 3: I have a whole episode about it, about how I
Speaker 3: got Crohn's, which was from carrying Kyle's giant TV up
Speaker 3: three flights of stairs multiple times, right? Cody's claiming that
Speaker 3: lugging his big screen up all those stairs to that
Speaker 3: apartment gave him UC.
Speaker 1: So... I don't know. Not heavy.
Speaker 3: I think that's possible.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 1: I mean, the TV was heavy.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 1: It was old-fashioned projection TV.
Speaker 3: And that's what Kyle's was.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, one that... It was always.
Speaker 3: Did you help move it?
Speaker 1: Like maybe, yeah, I think I moved into his house. Okay.
Speaker 1: It was in the house too for a while. So
Speaker 1: we must have, but I think I might've helped because
Speaker 1: our apartment was on the top floor. So we're using
Speaker 1: gravity to get it down. Oh yeah. Like carrying it up.
Speaker 1: I think it was already there prior to me. Back
Speaker 1: in the day, like our kids will never know having
Speaker 1: to move. Like, the TV was always the last thing
Speaker 1: in the apartment whenever anyone would move.
Speaker 3: Because it sucked to move.
Speaker 1: It would, yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I know now the kids are like, oh,
Speaker 3: we'll get a TV, we'll just go to the store,
Speaker 3: pick one up. Like, literally, one person picks it up,
Speaker 3: throws it in the car, ready to roll. Man, it
Speaker 3: didn't used to be like that.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: Give people Crohn's is what it did.
Speaker 1: I mean, my first TV, I financed at the furniture mart. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, Also, they won't know, like, spending lots of
Speaker 1: money on the TV.
Speaker 3: Yes. Let's see. Cody. Oh, he was talking about the
Speaker 3: deposit at the end. At the start, you know, leave
Speaker 3: the carpet, don't paint, just write in there, I'm not
Speaker 3: liable for anything that's not smashed, was what he told
Speaker 3: him at the get, right? Okay, yeah. And he still
Speaker 3: had to fight them in the end to get his
Speaker 3: deposit back.
Speaker 1: Oh, he did.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what he said. But he did get it back.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah.
Speaker 3: He wanted to fact check you. He said that the
Speaker 3: staph infection happened at the house and not when you
Speaker 3: were living at the apartment. What do you have to
Speaker 3: say about that? Is he wrong? I would love to
Speaker 3: call him out on this.
Speaker 1: I think I'm wrong.
Speaker 3: Oh, you're wrong on that. Okay. I think you are
Speaker 3: too because I remember being at the house.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was after I came back from Europe in 2005.
Speaker 1: And yeah, we were at the house. Okay.
Speaker 3: It sucks to suck, but that's where we're.
Speaker 1: At right now.
Speaker 3: Got that one wrong.
Speaker 1: Should have asked AI.
Speaker 3: He should have. I think... All right, that's it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I saved that for just about a year because I
Speaker 3: was like, we're going to have to discuss this.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, the moral of the story is it
Speaker 1: was an interesting time. Yes. And not only did I,
Speaker 1: I guess... Cody fact-checked, but my dad also fact-checked. Oh,
Speaker 1: he did? Yes.
Speaker 3: What'd he say?
Speaker 1: He said that I might have been a little harsh
Speaker 1: in how I portrayed my mom and dad's... Because I
Speaker 1: think we talked about how there was an apartment before,
Speaker 1: and my mom and dad were like, no, you're not
Speaker 1: living there.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: So if I upset anyone the way I told that story,
Speaker 1: I apologize. This is.
Speaker 3: Shenanigans, really. You're just coming in here with stories.
Speaker 1: I guess we should just run all the stories through AI.
Speaker 3: Just see what's fact and what's not. But you said
Speaker 3: that you're fact-checking the AI itself.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 3: On a daily basis when you use it. So I
Speaker 3: don't know that I trust putting these stories into the AI.
Speaker 1: Well, eventually the AI is going to learn whatever you
Speaker 1: tell it, so it'll just agree with you that it's correct.
Speaker 3: This is the thing that I think people need to, like, Realize.
Speaker 3: Because people will get on my case because I'll make
Speaker 3: promotional pictures and flyers and stuff with AI. Well, it's easy.
Speaker 3: I'm a small business here. So I need to use
Speaker 3: the assets.
Speaker 1: Johnny's busy. He's got to run that soundboard.
Speaker 3: Literally all he does. And so, yeah, we tend to
Speaker 3: use that from time to time. But with that being said,
Speaker 3: it only knows what it knows.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 3: It's not like it's creating... the idea for me, it's
Speaker 3: only doing what I tell it.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: So it's the same thing with everything. I mean, you,
Speaker 3: and even at work, you know, to use it, it
Speaker 3: has to have a baseline in order to be able
Speaker 3: to complete tasks. So, I mean, to me, it's like
Speaker 3: using a calculator that might sound dumb, but to me,
Speaker 3: it's like using a calculator.
Speaker 1: That's right. You know, you know, so I know you
Speaker 1: came from like the grocery background.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So we have a Hy-Vee and Marshall that I continually actually, I,
Speaker 1: I'm like, Kyle, why does my Hy-Vee always have bright
Speaker 1: green bananas? No one wants this shit. And he tells
Speaker 1: me to go to Marion to go buy my bananas.
Speaker 3: He's got the best bananas.
Speaker 1: And then I tell him, I'm like, well, I'm just
Speaker 1: going to go to Aldi. And then he freaks out.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, there's no sense in that.
Speaker 1: No, and then I go there and they don't have
Speaker 1: bananas because Aldi sucks too. But anyway.
Speaker 3: But going to Marion, that's where you'll get the best.
Speaker 1: The best.
Speaker 3: The best.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And it's proven.
Speaker 1: So I was at our Hy-Vee and Marshall and I
Speaker 1: was there for plastic silverware. And I couldn't find it.
Speaker 1: So I asked AI where it would be, thinking AI
Speaker 1: knows everything. And I asked, I think it was Claude
Speaker 1: on the Sonnet model. And Claude told me, I don't know,
Speaker 1: go find someone to ask, like to something like to
Speaker 1: that effect.
Speaker 3: Hell of an answer.
Speaker 1: And then I said, how do I find someone to ask? Oh.
Speaker 1: And then it was like, sometimes, I don't know if
Speaker 1: you find this with AI, but I find this with Claude.
Speaker 1: It'll argue with you. Like it said, I already told
Speaker 1: you that. And I think that's what it, like it
Speaker 1: just referred me. It said, I'm referring to my previous answer. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And it like hung up. It's like, Claude.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm ending this chat.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm ending. There's no hope for you.
Speaker 3: Just, you know, turn around and look for a person.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: What if I have any eyes, Claude? Now what?
Speaker 1: Yeah. So I think I ended up doing what I
Speaker 1: usually do is I look for, like, the person doing, like,
Speaker 1: the shopping for people. Yeah. They usually know where everything is.
Speaker 3: They certainly know where everything's at, especially if they have
Speaker 3: where everything's located right there in front of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I will say, and you obviously don't have the Hy-Vee app,
Speaker 3: I do, actually.
Speaker 1: Oh, do you?
Speaker 3: Well, in the Ivy app, if you put in the search,
Speaker 3: you know, where is, you know, Forks or whatever, it'll
Speaker 3: tell you the exact shelf spot that it's located.
Speaker 1: I think, so I think the reason I didn't do
Speaker 1: that is it wanted me to create an account.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, you gotta have an account.
Speaker 1: I don't want more, like, email shit from people.
Speaker 3: Well, then tell it you don't want to email.
Speaker 1: Shit from people. But I said, continue as guests. And
Speaker 1: it's like, you've got to log in to have that functionality.
Speaker 3: Well, they need to know who's asking these questions. Like,
Speaker 3: where are the forks? People need to know this.
Speaker 1: That's an important data point.
Speaker 3: That is important data that is worth something.
Speaker 1: Okay. Next time I'll log in.
Speaker 3: There you go. Download the Hy-Vee app. This is like
Speaker 3: an ad.
Speaker 1: For Hy-Vee? Yeah.
Speaker 3: That's the last thing I want to do.
Speaker 1: Okay. All right.
Speaker 3: It's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Sorry.
Speaker 3: Can't believe you brought me to this place.
Speaker 1: Johnny, delete this whole thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, cut this out as well.
Speaker 1: By the end, we're going to be down to like
Speaker 1: 10 minutes.
Speaker 3: There's going to be more cut footage in there, audio
Speaker 3: than there is actual use. I mean, so you're here
Speaker 3: for draft weekend. What are your go-tos right now? What
Speaker 3: are you thinking? Where's your head at as far as
Speaker 3: your feeling for the draft? What's your strategy? I've never
Speaker 3: asked you what your fantasy strategy is.
Speaker 1: Well, I used to listen to draft prep podcasts on
Speaker 1: my way down. So I live in Minnesota, so it's
Speaker 1: like a four-and-a-half-hour drive.
Speaker 3: Okay, so you wait for draft weekend, basically, to do
Speaker 3: your prep.
Speaker 1: That's right. Okay. And on my way down, I actually
Speaker 1: listened to the– I got through three episodes of your
Speaker 1: and Eric's preview.
Speaker 3: Yep, the Laugh With Me NFL preseason. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And that's where I learned to avoid the 49ers because
Speaker 1: of the power substation. Well, good.
Speaker 3: See, this is the stuff that people need to know.
Speaker 1: People think that the draft is all about strategy. It's
Speaker 1: really about dumb luck. Pretty much. To win. I mean,
Speaker 1: the person that won last year had no business winning.
Speaker 1: He did. He made like two moves the entire year.
Speaker 3: He's won two championships. One was the first year of
Speaker 3: the entire league, and he got extreme guidance from... from
Speaker 3: Eric for the draft, and he got lucky with the stud,
Speaker 3: LaDainian Tomlinson, in an all-time year. And then last year,
Speaker 3: first year back in the league, and he got extreme
Speaker 3: guidance from Eric, and dumb luck.
Speaker 1: Eric just needs to be sober during the draft, then
Speaker 1: he went off for advice. Or maybe he needs to
Speaker 1: drink more before the draft. Well, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's a good idea. That's probably not
Speaker 1: a good idea. Yeah, that's But anyway, about the draft,
Speaker 1: even my son, he's going to be 10 years old
Speaker 1: and he knows about the draft. I told him I
Speaker 1: was going to Omaha for the draft. And he's like,
Speaker 1: is that short guy still in the league? Like he
Speaker 1: even knows about the draft.
Speaker 3: How does he know about short guy? Like, how does
Speaker 3: he know?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I was confused too. I was like,
Speaker 1: that short guy won last year. And my son is like, how?
Speaker 3: How how does he even know this stuff does he
Speaker 3: is he listening to our the podcast i think he's
Speaker 3: a regular listener yeah he might be he's always first
Speaker 3: comment he just always just hits it hard yeah as
Speaker 3: soon as it downloads 6 a.m he's in yeah um
Speaker 3: does he play fantasy.
Speaker 1: No no no he does uh he's really into baseball
Speaker 1: oh baseball's his thing yeah and uh He's starting to
Speaker 1: watch YouTube videos on pitching because they get to pitch
Speaker 1: next year. And I'm like, let me show you the professor,
Speaker 1: Greg Maddox. Yes.
Speaker 3: Man, can you imagine if he learned how to become
Speaker 3: like a young Greg Maddox?
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 3: He would look so different than the rest of the league.
Speaker 3: Like nobody would see it coming.
Speaker 1: Nobody would see it coming. And like they... it was
Speaker 1: still like kind of like a coach pitch thing this year,
Speaker 1: but now they transitioned, like I said, to kid pitch
Speaker 1: and all the kids like were, you know, starting to
Speaker 1: throw and they're trying to throw really hard. I'm like,
Speaker 1: you don't need to throw hard. No, no. Look at
Speaker 1: Greg Maddox.
Speaker 3: Hit your spots.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Keep them all out.
Speaker 1: Learn knuckleball. That's where it's at.
Speaker 3: Bring them, bring them the heat, but when they won't
Speaker 3: expect it, like that's, there's just times you can do
Speaker 3: it and times you don't.
Speaker 1: So what did, Greg Maddox, he's like, I have three pitches.
Speaker 1: I don't throw faster than 89 miles an hour, but
Speaker 1: all the pitches look the same.
Speaker 3: Yep, and that'll get him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the professor.
Speaker 3: The professor. I loved him. I especially loved him because
Speaker 3: he's a former Padre.
Speaker 1: He was at the end of his career, right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, but he still lights out. He's still winning gold gloves.
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, defensive. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Like nobody could win a gold glove as a pitcher
Speaker 3: because he was just winning them all. That's right. I'm
Speaker 3: sure I knew back then, and then now I'm looking
Speaker 3: at it, you know, just going, oh, yeah, Hall of
Speaker 3: Famer Greg Maddux. But why did he ever leave, like,
Speaker 3: the Braves? Like, he was such an asset even years
Speaker 3: beyond his time at the Braves. Really, and he was never, like,
Speaker 3: the highest paid guy that I remember. So it's interesting
Speaker 3: that he didn't end up just being a legacy guy,
Speaker 3: you know, and staying with the Braves.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because he went back to the Cubs after the— Yeah, he.
Speaker 3: Did a couple times with the Cubs, with the Padres.
Speaker 1: Dodgers?
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, he was a Dodger.
Speaker 1: He was. Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 3: Because I think he was a Dodger after the Padres.
Speaker 1: Okay. Hmm. I don't know. That Braves pitching staff. Epic.
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. I used to love that. I'm sure you
Speaker 3: watched TBS and was just eating up Braves baseball.
Speaker 1: But, you know, I'm a Twins fan. Our greatest moment,
Speaker 1: you know, 1991. Against those Braves, yeah. That's right. Game seven.
Speaker 3: How many times have you watched that game seven?
Speaker 1: It's on YouTube, so I watch it a lot. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And The last two years, my son has been number
Speaker 1: nine for baseball, who number nine was for the Twins
Speaker 1: in 1991.
Speaker 3: I'm going to guess it. In 1991?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Because Chuck Knobloch wasn't around yet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was there. He was there? He was number one.
Speaker 3: It was Chuck.
Speaker 1: Oh, he was number one? Yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh, nine.
Speaker 1: Nobody's going to know. Okay. So Gene Larkin.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I never would have guessed Gene Larkin.
Speaker 1: Never guessed, yeah. Okay, so Gene Larkin, bottom of the
Speaker 1: 10th inning, game seven. Dan Gladden gets a single. But
Speaker 1: then he just keeps on trucking and makes it to
Speaker 1: second on a base hit. And then, you know, you
Speaker 1: got Kirby. So they walk him. They walk Herbeck to
Speaker 1: load the bases. Gene Larkin, number nine, the unlikely hero.
Speaker 1: A single over the infield's head. The Twins win the
Speaker 1: World Series.
Speaker 3: Oh, so I should have known that because he got
Speaker 3: the game-winning hit. Yeah. And I remember walking Kirby there
Speaker 3: because Kirby had hit the game winner, like the walk-off
Speaker 3: the night before.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 3: Or two days before, whatever it was.
Speaker 1: And he climbed the wall in that game for the catch, too.
Speaker 3: That was definitely the Puckett game. And then game seven, oh, man.
Speaker 3: I just love it for Jack Morris to pitch the
Speaker 3: entire game and just.
Speaker 1: Shut out baseball.
Speaker 3: And he's from St.
Speaker 1: Paul. He's from St. Paul, went to high school in St. Paul.
Speaker 3: Was his number retired with the Twins?
Speaker 1: No, I don't think so. He's only there one year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but look what he did.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's true.
Speaker 3: I know he was only there one year, but he's
Speaker 3: a legend.
Speaker 1: He is a legend. I mean, as a Minnesota sports fan,
Speaker 1: we still reminisce about 1991. Of course. Because.
Speaker 3: It was incredible.
Speaker 1: I mean, I gave up on the Vikings in 98.
Speaker 1: You know, Gary Anderson. He's automatic.
Speaker 3: So then you just... You're like, well, I remember the
Speaker 3: time that the Twins were great.
Speaker 1: You remember the Twins.
Speaker 3: You should always go back to that, yeah.
Speaker 1: So it's on... I mean... Watching Randy Moss torch the
Speaker 1: Cowboys is always fun, too. Oh, yeah. Yeah, and mooning
Speaker 1: the Packers. It's disgusting.
Speaker 3: Joe Buck. A throwback to the last time you were
Speaker 3: on the show, right before we were going to record,
Speaker 3: you said, do I still have my notebook? And I did,
Speaker 3: and I flipped to the page that you used, which
Speaker 3: is just a series of 1 through 10, and check
Speaker 3: marks as you went, because you had this top 10 list.
Speaker 3: With nothing written. That was your notes.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And it still blows my mind. And I love when
Speaker 3: people come into the studio and do a show, I
Speaker 3: like to show them your notes.
Speaker 1: It should be framed.
Speaker 3: It very well could be. That actually is a good point.
Speaker 3: We might frame that because we also have Eric's notes
Speaker 3: from last week's NFL preview, and it's the inside of
Speaker 3: a beer carton, but it's just full of words, right?
Speaker 3: Yours is 10 numbers.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 3: One through 10.
Speaker 1: And maybe, I mean, after being fact-checked, I should have
Speaker 1: maybe wrote some things down.
Speaker 3: That's what I was thinking. That's what I was thinking.
Speaker 3: Because we've never had an episode fact-checked quite like yours.
Speaker 3: And your notes were the numbers one through 10 in
Speaker 3: check marks.
Speaker 1: That's it. But I think we did all right.
Speaker 3: We did good, yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, there is, I don't, maybe there was one
Speaker 1: fact check, but maybe some forgotten stories. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: so many stories. It's hard to remember.
Speaker 3: Do you got a story? Do you got a story
Speaker 3: that you didn't tell last time that maybe came up
Speaker 3: after the fact? And you're like, Oh, I should have
Speaker 3: brought that up.
Speaker 1: Um, yeah, I, yeah, there was one. Yeah. Let's hear it.
Speaker 1: Let's do it. We, I don't think that was in
Speaker 1: the fact check text. It was like a side text. Oh, okay. About, um,
Speaker 1: I think I hit like, so one of the people
Speaker 1: had their girlfriend living with us, you know, and she
Speaker 1: bought the pay-per-view, you know, and cost us a lot
Speaker 1: of money and so on and so forth. Um, um,
Speaker 1: so I'm trying to remember back.
Speaker 3: So this is the girl that you guys called squat bug.
Speaker 1: Yes. And then Cody used to call her, I think
Speaker 1: squat thrust because like I, came home from school one
Speaker 1: day from college and was minding my own business, probably
Speaker 1: getting ready to go to UPS to sling some boxes
Speaker 1: or whatever. And I heard, put it here, Dan. I'm like,
Speaker 1: to each their own. Yeah. So that, that, uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a unique situation.
Speaker 3: Squat thrust.
Speaker 1: Squat thrust.
Speaker 3: Squat thrust.
Speaker 1: I think Cody called her squat thrust and call her
Speaker 1: squat because she liked never left and cost us a
Speaker 1: lot of money. Yeah.
Speaker 3: She essentially lived there, but she couldn't say she lived
Speaker 3: there because then you guys would have expected part of
Speaker 3: the rent.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 3: Just the house, I guess. You had told me at
Speaker 3: the top of the intro, I referenced you as a
Speaker 3: former sprinkler customer service representative.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 3: What was that like?
Speaker 1: That, so I've had, So one of the things that
Speaker 1: I do, well, used to do, is give tours of
Speaker 1: my current employer. Like, because we do a lot of
Speaker 1: cool stuff, like geography, land stuff. And people are like,
Speaker 1: how did you get this job? And I'm like, let
Speaker 1: me tell you about my past career. Start with the sprinkler. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, UPS, that was through college, slinging boxes.
Speaker 3: Slinging boxes.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And then I ended up going to like a
Speaker 1: job service because I needed like work. And they set
Speaker 1: me up at a sprinkler company, a place that installed
Speaker 1: lawn sprinklers, which I am very environmentally conscious. And also like,
Speaker 1: so pouring drinking water on a lawn seems like the
Speaker 1: dumbest idea I think I've ever heard of.
Speaker 3: Especially on a, on a cycle and it may or
Speaker 3: may not need it.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Like the green lawn is like the most unsustainable, like,
Speaker 1: plant in the world. It has a root depth of
Speaker 1: like three, like an inch.
Speaker 3: What color is your lawn right now?
Speaker 1: Mine's dead.
Speaker 3: Oh, okay. So to your point.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So it's not dead because you don't want that
Speaker 1: because then you have to redo it, but it's dormant
Speaker 1: because we haven't had any rain in Minnesota in months.
Speaker 1: But then also they don't have to mow, which is
Speaker 1: also brings a smile to my face. Gift. Like you
Speaker 1: won't be finding me out like spraying weeds in my
Speaker 1: lawn or any of that. So back to the sprinkler company.
Speaker 1: So they installed like lawn sprinklers for people. And I
Speaker 1: was customer service person, which is hard to do when
Speaker 1: you don't believe in the product you're supporting.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: It's key. So I remember like.
Speaker 3: They should have asked you in the interview.
Speaker 1: Well, I think like I came there from like a
Speaker 1: temp service.
Speaker 3: Oh, so you were locked in.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: You just showed up.
Speaker 1: I just showed up and was like, do with like
Speaker 1: data entry and filing and stuff. And they were, you know,
Speaker 1: so they, um, they, so they would, they would install
Speaker 1: these lawn sprinklers.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: So like I answer the phone one day and someone's like,
Speaker 1: we got new sod at this house. And I'm like, congratulations.
Speaker 1: Like good for you. It's like, well, we got to
Speaker 1: have someone come out and get the sprinklers working or whatever.
Speaker 1: I'm like, why? I guess I didn't realize that new
Speaker 1: sod is also even more unsustainable than an established lawn.
Speaker 1: It needs to be watered constantly.
Speaker 3: Constantly.
Speaker 1: Or it's going to burn up and die.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you have to flood it. Just soak it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So if there's one thing I learned is that
Speaker 1: if someone calls you and says they got new sod,
Speaker 1: you got to get the sprinkler people out there right
Speaker 1: away to water the shit out of it. Or it's
Speaker 1: going to... I'm going to burn up. But anyway.
Speaker 3: But internally you, you hate that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. But I'm like, I, I, this is like dumb.
Speaker 1: Who cares? Like lawn. But anyway, like if I had
Speaker 1: my way, I would just have a bunch of like
Speaker 1: prairie plants. That's what this was. It was prairie. Like,
Speaker 1: like prairie plants, big root depth. Don't have to worry
Speaker 1: about watering. Self-sustainable. Not to get on a tangent, but
Speaker 1: I guess I am. But anyway, so another fun story
Speaker 1: about the sprinkler company was, is that my boss and
Speaker 1: She unofficially dated her boss and they fought constantly. So
Speaker 1: when he would call and she didn't want to talk
Speaker 1: to him, she wouldn't pick up the phone. Oh, geez.
Speaker 1: So then I'd pick it up and then the guy
Speaker 1: would ask for her. Yeah. And I'm like, hey, your
Speaker 1: dude's on the phone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, answer the phone.
Speaker 1: Yeah. But. So then I think eventually they hired me
Speaker 1: away from the temp service only probably because it cost
Speaker 1: them less money. They weren't paying the temp service anymore.
Speaker 1: So then it got to be like the end of
Speaker 1: the year, right? And I'm like sitting there in October
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I wonder what you do at a
Speaker 1: sprinkler company in the winter. Oh, you probably get fired.
Speaker 3: You just spit all over me. And the table and everything,
Speaker 3: your coffee, everything as you said that.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just like, it was like an epiphany.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like it hit you in that moment. That you're
Speaker 3: about to get fired. It's like you're reliving that thought
Speaker 3: for the first time right now.
Speaker 1: And that happened probably like.
Speaker 3: And you spit across the entire studio.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I have a lot to apologize for. Sorry.
Speaker 3: If you're listening and you're wondering, what was that? What
Speaker 3: was that sound? It was the flow of water coming
Speaker 3: from Bob's mouth.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm like, well, I bet you get fired. They
Speaker 1: didn't really ever tell me that. Yeah. But, and then like,
Speaker 1: I'm not dumb. Like I was supposed, they were open
Speaker 1: on Saturdays, like for like a few hours, but. they
Speaker 1: had one person there only by themselves. And they're always like,
Speaker 1: we're going to train you in, you know? And then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden they're like, well, don't worry about
Speaker 1: that anymore. I'm like, well, I see where this is going.
Speaker 3: I'm not dumb. I'm on borrowed time here.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So then I got a new job after that. And
Speaker 1: that was, that was a lot. That was, that was
Speaker 1: a good call on my part. Nice. But, but I,
Speaker 1: like every once in a while I see Facebook ads
Speaker 1: from that company and I'm like, get the hell out
Speaker 1: of my feed.
Speaker 3: You don't want to run it back?
Speaker 1: I don't even know. I don't even like, Would I
Speaker 1: come to Minnesota from Omaha and install a sprinkler?
Speaker 3: Just think, like, you've got experience. You could roll in
Speaker 3: there not as the temp that they just brought in seasonally.
Speaker 3: You could now come in with experience.
Speaker 1: Well, funny you should say that because the last two
Speaker 1: houses I've owned had in-ground lawn sprinklers. Oh, did you
Speaker 1: use them? Never.
Speaker 3: That's why your lawn's dead.
Speaker 1: That's right. And, you know... So whenever it gets hot out,
Speaker 1: people are like, you need to turn on a sprinkler.
Speaker 1: I'm like, hell no.
Speaker 3: Yeah, forget that.
Speaker 1: You know what's going to happen when you turn on
Speaker 1: a lawn sprinkler that hasn't been used in like 10 years?
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: You're going to end up with like sinkholes all over
Speaker 1: your yard because all the pipes are broken. Yeah. Best
Speaker 1: thing to do, leave it off.
Speaker 3: Well, and that's the thing. Like you, if you don't
Speaker 3: take care of it and flush it before winter. That's right.
Speaker 3: I mean, especially in those cold, cold Minnesota winters. I mean,
Speaker 3: that's going to be brutal.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: There's.
Speaker 1: I mean, if there's one thing that people should take
Speaker 1: away from this is that water freezes in the winter. Yes,
Speaker 1: it does.
Speaker 3: Have you ever had a burst pipe?
Speaker 1: Especially in Minnesota. No.
Speaker 3: I had one in my first house. We did quite
Speaker 3: unhook one of the hoses and it popped one in
Speaker 3: the basement and we ended up having to replace our carpet,
Speaker 3: repair a wall. Wild times. Now we know better. We
Speaker 3: haven't had it since.
Speaker 1: But you learned.
Speaker 3: But we learned, yeah. We didn't make the same mistake again.
Speaker 3: Now it's something you think about every October.
Speaker 1: Get the hoses in. It's still 80 degrees out in October,
Speaker 1: but we're putting that hose away.
Speaker 3: But it's coming.
Speaker 1: It's coming.
Speaker 3: It's coming.
Speaker 1: It's getting later and later. It's coming eventually.
Speaker 3: Well, Bob, what do you got to promote? You want
Speaker 3: to promote something?
Speaker 1: Well, I want to talk about I'm away here. I
Speaker 1: live in Minnesota. I showed up at my hotel last
Speaker 1: night and handed them my ID to check in. They're like, ooh,
Speaker 1: you came from Minnesota. I'm like, it's only a four-hour.
Speaker 3: Away yeah they have to get more people from Minnesota.
Speaker 1: But on the way here you have to drive through
Speaker 1: the great state of South Dakota which I don't know
Speaker 1: if we hit on this but I drive a Prius
Speaker 1: and the speed limit in South Dakota 80 miles an
Speaker 1: hour you know what the Prius doesn't do 80 miles
Speaker 1: an hour.
Speaker 3: It's no way it's going to hit that 80.
Speaker 1: I mean, first of all, your efficiency goes way down
Speaker 1: and that's not the point of a Prius. So, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm driving like South of Sioux Falls and, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm holding a steady 75 miles an hour cause there's
Speaker 1: no wind. Something else you got to be conscious about
Speaker 1: in a Prius cause they're very light.
Speaker 3: And, uh, You put sandbags in your trunk in the winter?
Speaker 1: Never. Wow.
Speaker 3: And you're like Prius, huh?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: You just need to know your limits as a Prius owner.
Speaker 3: So you're a good driver.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. All right. That's impressive. I drove the Prius home
Speaker 1: one time from work in Sioux Falls in a blizzard.
Speaker 1: I just threw on my four-way flashers and drove 25
Speaker 1: miles an hour for 72 miles. You made it home?
Speaker 1: I made it home. And guess who was in the ditch?
Speaker 1: all the pickup trucks and I just tooted my horn
Speaker 1: as I went by. But anyway, so I drove through
Speaker 1: South Dakota on the way here, 80 miles an hour, ridiculous. Like,
Speaker 1: so even though the speed limit's 80 miles an hour,
Speaker 1: people are going to go 85, 90, the minimum's 40
Speaker 1: miles an hour, like ridiculous range of speeds here, probably unsafe.
Speaker 1: So the one thing that South Dakota loves to do,
Speaker 1: and Minnesota gets a lot of crap for being like
Speaker 1: the state flower is the construction barrel because there's always
Speaker 1: road work all over the place. South Dakota loves to
Speaker 1: just randomly close lanes of freeways for no reason. And
Speaker 1: they drop the speed limit from 80 to 45 miles
Speaker 1: an hour through the construction zone.
Speaker 3: And is there construction going on?
Speaker 1: No. No. But then, so there's like no evidence. There's
Speaker 1: like maybe like a port-a-potty, like someone might be coming.
Speaker 1: So eventually I did find what they were doing is
Speaker 1: they were digging little trenches in the lane that was
Speaker 1: closed and then refilling them with cement.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I've seen that.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what are they doing? I don't understand. Like
Speaker 1: someone needs to come on and explain.
Speaker 3: Like, Yeah, I'd love to find out because my neighborhood,
Speaker 3: most of the summer, was having that done throughout the
Speaker 3: entire neighborhood. They were digging holes, going in deep, doing something,
Speaker 3: and then they just filled it back up.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: What were you doing?
Speaker 1: I mean, it almost reminds me of my favorite public
Speaker 1: works joke. Public works, like city street workers. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: two guys go to a job site and they forget
Speaker 1: their shovel, right? So they call back to their boss,
Speaker 1: and it's like, oh, we got to come back. We
Speaker 1: forgot the shovel. And the boss is like, all right,
Speaker 1: I'll bring it out to you. And they're like, well,
Speaker 1: what are we supposed to do until you get here?
Speaker 1: And the boss says, don't worry, just lean on each other.
Speaker 1: That's good. So anyway, I just don't understand what's going
Speaker 1: on in South Dakota with this, like, random, like... digging
Speaker 1: holes and then filling them back in with cement.
Speaker 3: There's gotta be a reason.
Speaker 1: I mean, people think that like they know Mount Rushmore
Speaker 1: and all that in South Dakota. That's way out in
Speaker 1: the West. There's like 500 miles of like abyss before
Speaker 1: you even get there. Yeah. It's, uh, I don't know,
Speaker 1: quite a thing. So you drive through South Dakota, then
Speaker 1: you get to Iowa and then like the first, uh,
Speaker 1: So I stopped, well, I mean, you have to drive
Speaker 1: through Sioux City, which speaking of road work, like Sioux City,
Speaker 1: people used to call it the government conspiracy because it
Speaker 1: was always under road work. Like for the last like
Speaker 1: 20 years, there was road construction in Sioux City. And
Speaker 1: they love to have like, they have these like video
Speaker 1: speed trailer things on the side of the road that'll
Speaker 1: mail you a ticket. No, I drive a Prius, and
Speaker 1: nobody's ever gotten a speeding ticket in a Prius. Nobody?
Speaker 1: I don't think it's possible.
Speaker 3: There's got to be some science behind that. But Johnny
Speaker 3: did get me some information on the roads in South
Speaker 3: Dakota so that hopefully we can get to the bottom
Speaker 3: of this. So crews in South Dakota, they dig these
Speaker 3: test holes in roads, and it's a practice called potholing.
Speaker 1: So they do? They don't have enough potholes. They have
Speaker 1: to make their own.
Speaker 3: So they like to visually verify the exact location and
Speaker 3: depth of underground utility lines before starting major construction or
Speaker 3: big projects. I am now realizing that's what they were
Speaker 3: doing in my neighborhood because next to my neighborhood, they're
Speaker 3: putting in a big old shopping center and apartments and everything.
Speaker 1: Oh, I saw that on the way here. Right.
Speaker 3: So that's probably... why all the holes in my neighborhood
Speaker 3: this summer? Just refill them back up, fill them back up.
Speaker 3: So there you go.
Speaker 1: Yeah. You know what?
Speaker 3: If you don't get a laugh today, you've, you definitely
Speaker 3: learned something.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 3: So that's what we do here.
Speaker 1: We're here to teach people.
Speaker 3: We're, we're educational, educational.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, Bob, thanks for coming on second time. Uh, we'll
Speaker 3: certainly have you back on again.
Speaker 1: All right. Thanks for having me. It's great to be here.
Speaker 3: Guest of the year. You think this is your year?
Speaker 1: Maybe. And I mean, if that award ceremony is in
Speaker 1: the winter, I won't get here because I drive a Prius.
Speaker 1: Might have to do virtual.
Speaker 3: You'll be locked in.
Speaker 1: Hit that intro, go!
Speaker 2: Laugh with me When the rent's past due and the
Speaker 2: car won't start Laugh with me When the only sponsor
Speaker 2: is my broken heart We're hanging on this janky stream
Speaker 2: Two weird voices in the glow of a screen If
Speaker 2: the world won't sing Then let it laugh with me