What are your thoughts on bell-bottoms and landline phones?
Get ready to laugh and nod along as we unveil our "Parents Google Everything" segment, where we dive headfirst into the quirkiest corners of the internet. It's a weird world we live in.. with Gen Z dialing up on landlines and sporting mullets and people smuggling snakes across the border in their pants—yep, we're scratching our heads too.
Join our light-hearted debate over the allure of 90s fashion's comeback and why nostalgia seems to have a grip on the new generation, all packed with anecdotes to keep you company whether you're tackling chores or braving the daily commute.
From the lighter side of life to the pressing issues that spark national debates, we don't skirt around the big topics. We have a candid discussion on media bias, the hunt for unfiltered truths, and the critical role of upholding constitutional democracy.
The focus shifts to the financial obstacles that constantly trip up millennials, comparing their economic struggles with those faced by older generations. We discuss everything from the oppressive weight of student loans to the real value of college degrees in today's job market.
We wrap up the episode by sharing some recent embarrassing moments that remind us all to face life's curveballs with a hearty laugh. So plug in your earbuds, and let's get through this together—after all, life is too short not to share a giggle over our collective embarrassments.
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What are your thoughts on bell-bottoms and landline phones?
Get ready to laugh and nod along as we unveil our "Parents Google Everything" segment, where we dive headfirst into the quirkiest corners of the internet. It's a weird world we live in.. with Gen Z dialing up on landlines and sporting mullets and people smuggling snakes across the border in their pants—yep, we're scratching our heads too.
Join our light-hearted debate over the allure of 90s fashion's comeback and why nostalgia seems to have a grip on the new generation, all packed with anecdotes to keep you company whether you're tackling chores or braving the daily commute.
From the lighter side of life to the pressing issues that spark national debates, we don't skirt around the big topics. We have a candid discussion on media bias, the hunt for unfiltered truths, and the critical role of upholding constitutional democracy.
The focus shifts to the financial obstacles that constantly trip up millennials, comparing their economic struggles with those faced by older generations. We discuss everything from the oppressive weight of student loans to the real value of college degrees in today's job market.
We wrap up the episode by sharing some recent embarrassing moments that remind us all to face life's curveballs with a hearty laugh. So plug in your earbuds, and let's get through this together—after all, life is too short not to share a giggle over our collective embarrassments.
Episode Highlights:
Links Mentioned in Episode/Find More on A Force to Be Reckoned With:
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Speaker 2:Why don't you go first? Because I have one article and I'm really struggling with this. I get one.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Alright, some of them are just so awful.
Speaker 1:It could be lifestyle, it could be news, it could be like mom, finds woman wrapped in plastic. Ew, yeah, that's not do-do. I don't want to do that. Why are you fine? Why are you?
Speaker 2:Why? I don't know, I don't know. Alright, carry on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, it could be, it could be health, it could be parenting, it could be politics religion, anything. Pop culture whatever, alright, you ready for mine? Okay, mine is from the New York Post, ready for this Headline.
Speaker 2:Are you listening?
Speaker 1:Gen Z is bringing back landline phones because they think they look cool and I love to twirl the cord. Alright, here's a little little synopsis. It says the 90s called. They want their phones back. Gen Z has an affinity for making old things new again, in an enchantment with early 2000s technology Ditching iPhones for flip phones, bringing back digital cameras, using iPod minis as hair clips I've not seen that and buying out vintage iPods from 2007. Their next target is none other than a corded landline phone. So that's just a little synopsis.
Speaker 2:I mean.
Speaker 1:Hold on real quick. There's a little bit stats I like. I like. This says by the end of 2022, 72.6% of adults and 81.9% of children lived in households without a landline.
Speaker 2:So these are kids that did not grow up with a landline that are bringing back, they're bringing them back, yeah what do you think?
Speaker 2:I think that Gen Z is bringing back some things that, like I get, like I had a corded phone when I was young, you know, and I, my grandma has one and it's nostalgic, you know. Like she has it because it's nostalgic and she has like antiques and stuff, and I just think that if you didn't grow up with a corded phone, then you don't really need to bring it back, like I don't. I feel like Gen Z is bringing back stuff that they shouldn't be bringing back, and this is controversial, because I know that they're really popular and they're catching on. But, like so many of the outfits that are from that era, I'm like why? Why these were gone for a reason.
Speaker 2:You I see these kids we were driving, we were in Arizona and we were driving through that college campus oh, yeah, and I was like literally every one of you look like you just rolled out of bed and you look like you smell bad, like your hair is grungy, your clothes are grungy, your your genes are baggy. Like you're cute and you're skinny and you're young and you have like a nice, but I don't know this sounds weird, but like you're not like overweight, like, and you're wearing these like dirty, baggy clothes and your hair is greasy yeah take care of yourself yeah, that's how I feel, yeah and the corded phone.
Speaker 2:I think it gets thrown right in there okay, all right, here's my thoughts.
Speaker 1:I agree with you on the fashion thing, the mallet like. Why? Why did you bring the mallet back? That was the dumbest haircut of all time. And you brought the mallet back. It's so nasty, dirty and stupid. Anytime I see somebody with a mallet you lose respect. In my book number one, number two, turtle necks why do you also like that? Turtle necks are terrible. I don't like turtle necks. They look bad. It looks like your shirt is trying to frickin choke you out. Like why would you wear a turtle neck? I wear turtle necks. I don't like them.
Speaker 1:I know don't like them. Bell bottom pants no, I like my wife in a nice yoga pant with that tightness where I can see what's going on.
Speaker 2:And I don't want. I'm getting sucked in because I have Bell Bottom pants.
Speaker 1:I know I made fun of you for it, you and Lisa like like. Why I don't like the Bell Bottom.
Speaker 2:Acceptable and some things that it's like I remember.
Speaker 1:I remember when those made because those were like what? From the 70s originally I remember them coming back in the 2000s. I had a pair of pants that were like dude, kind of Bell Bottom ish and like they ended up like I was stepping on them.
Speaker 2:You were wearing Bell Bottoms.
Speaker 1:Not like what you had. No, there was a moment.
Speaker 2:This before, after you had cornrows that was on a dare.
Speaker 1:That was on a day.
Speaker 2:Oh, yes, it wasn't. Yes, it was and so my dad told me, your dad told me you had a pain.
Speaker 1:He's not here, but he is a liar, because I got bet $20, which actually paid for me to get cornrows, but oh, like, yeah, that was on a bet and then I used it to embarrass my friend when we're not public. That's. That's a whole other thing. But yeah, the whole Bell Bottom thing. No, the mustache thing. Like no, dude, you're not Bert Reynolds. Like why are like 20 something? You're walking around with mustaches, like I don't like it, it looks bad.
Speaker 2:Okay, that's how you supposed to be a force to be reckoned with with a mustache. I'm all it. A turtle hair.
Speaker 1:What are you doing, dude? What are you doing? No bad, go away With. That being said, I'm gonna go back to the article here wait, we can't no, no, no, no because.
Speaker 1:No, because I didn't get my opinion on the on this phone thing, the flip phones, digital cameras, ipod minis and Corded phones. I'm completely cool with you know why? Because it's a rejection on this freaking over indulgence, consumerism of Technology like a corded phone means that you don't have to have your freaking iPhone on you and every time a notification goes off, you're freaking out because you didn't say they're getting rid of their cell phones.
Speaker 1:It says they're bringing back the iPhones because they look cool, I love to roll the cord. Okay, yeah, but they also are bringing back flip phones, digital cameras, ipod minis and Vintage iPods and if it's we're replacing with modern-day technology, I would be for it. Yeah, that's. That's where I'm at. So if that's your motivation, I'm completely cool with it, because we Consume way too much on our devices.
Speaker 2:It's a problem sitting here thinking my articles are Not good and there's no controversy at all this is fine of our personnel.
Speaker 1:They don't have to be controversial.
Speaker 2:Okay, all right.
Speaker 1:I mean, you said that wasn't even that controversial because here's what I have to say. I made it controversial oh.
Speaker 2:Caught at border with Python.
Speaker 1:Okay, come on.
Speaker 2:Caught at border with pythons in his pants. New York City man find in sentence to probation. So there was a man in New York City who admitted to. First of all, oh my gosh three. I feel like I'm gonna have nightmares. Yeah, I can't even say the okay, okay three Burmese pythons in his pants through the US Canadian border and he was sentenced to a year of probation and find $5,000.
Speaker 1:How big were these pythons?
Speaker 2:That's it oh.
Speaker 1:Did they say how big these pythons were? Like, why did you think that you were gonna get? Like, how were they babies?
Speaker 2:Like when also okay the Queen's Resident purchased snakes which were worth more than $2,500 at a reptile store in Canada. So like they're they're one of the world's largest snakes. It's considered a vulnerable species in Asia and is invasive in Florida. Where it threatens native, the better not show picture this or anything else that's it, that's it.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, okay. Here's my Points on points on this, okay.
Speaker 2:I got a few different takes on this. Okay one there's so many inappropriate jokes.
Speaker 1:There's so many things. I mean I didn't know I'm not smuggling a, okay, so.
Speaker 2:I thought you were a baby, one Okay.
Speaker 1:All right, first off who, in their right minds, puts pythons in their pants? One Uh two. Could you imagine being the person that caught this like? I don't wanna think that it's freaking me out. It's like someone's moving in there Freakin me. That's not normal. I'm sweating and Then the other thing is is like why is that illegal?
Speaker 2:They're because they're not allowed in here in the United States.
Speaker 1:I think that's dumb because they're native.
Speaker 2:We have all kinds of snakes? No, it's like in Hawaii they don't have snakes at all.
Speaker 1:Okay, I get Hawaii, but the US has snakes.
Speaker 2:Because they're dangerous to Florida. They're dangerous. He's in New York. They're pythons. I don't want those here. Have you seen those videos in China of these massive pythons eating?
Speaker 1:people. Hey, canadians are allowed to have them. Why can't we have a couple of Burmese pythons down here and listen? This dude was bold enough to smuggle them in his pants. They should be able to stay.
Speaker 2:No, no, absolutely not. They should have found them. More than that, potentially the death penalty.
Speaker 1:Hey, listen here, buddy, I'll take one of your, I'll adopt one of your pant pythons All right.
Speaker 2:Next article All right, it's my turn.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all right, you thought the lesson was controversial. You ready for this one? Oh boy, Okay, this is a Yahoo News article.
Speaker 2:We're going to send you away with some type of positive positivity at the end.
Speaker 1:Are we? I don't know.
Speaker 2:Did we record?
Speaker 1:Oh thank goodness All right. Okay, we hit record on the video right. Yeah, okay, all right. Yahoo News Hillary Clinton calls Tucker Carlson a useful idiot in response to Putin interview. Do you know anything about the Putin interview?
Speaker 2:No, but I think I saw a video of Putin like trying to shake a bunch of people's hands and nobody would. Is that true?
Speaker 1:I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2:I'll read just a little bit in case people don't know.
Speaker 1:Politics All right. Hillary Clinton called former Fox News host Tucker Carlson a quote useful idiot. In response to the news that Carlson is interviewing he already did Russian President Vladimir Putin. He said this is her quote it says he says he says things that are not true. He parrots Vladimir Putin's pack of lies about Ukraine. So I don't see why Putin wouldn't give him an interview, because through him he can continue to lie about what his objectives are in Ukraine and what he expects to see happen. The former Secretary of State said on MSNBC.
Speaker 2:This is only too many words.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:So what's happening?
Speaker 1:So, Tucker. Carlson interviewed Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's in the middle of a war with Russia.
Speaker 2:Russia, Russia, Russia.
Speaker 1:And so Hillary Clinton said that, basically, vladimir Putin is using Tucker Carlson to be able to continue to lie to the world, and so Tucker Carlson is a useful idiot, which is a term that was used by communists Communists, it's part of the communism thing. So, like communisms would use people in the media and different people and they would call them useful idiots to spread communism.
Speaker 2:So what are your thoughts?
Speaker 1:You're not going to give your thoughts first.
Speaker 2:I mean, I do know that I don't know.
Speaker 1:I know you don't know a lot I don't like talking about this. Well, we're talking about it guys.
Speaker 2:Because I'm uneducated that's okay, and two because I don't. I mean, I know we're going to talk about it more this year and I'm fine with it, but I don't like talking about stuff that I'm not educated in, because I don't want to put ignorant statements out there.
Speaker 1:Here's the thing I'm on the surface. I'm just curious to hear what your views are on this, because and there's so many people out there there's probably a lot of people that listen, that don't pay attention to a lot of stuff in the news, so they're going to totally relate to whatever you have to say, so let's hear it.
Speaker 2:I don't. I like Tucker. I really like him ever since that he got fired from Fox News because he? I think that I don't like mainstream media. I think that Fox used to be decent. I think that they're all pretty equal now. I don't. They all have agendas and I think that anybody who's getting cut from that stuff is a good. It's a good sign because they're speaking truth. I like Tucker and I don't know, like I don't.
Speaker 2:I can't really say whether I think he had motives behind it or not, or whether he just wanted to interview Vladimir Putin. I mean, I'd love to have Vlad on the show. I would love to have Vlad on the show. I think it would be great. So I don't know. Call me a useful idiot. I am an idiot when it comes to this stuff. But give me, give me Vlad's number and I will call him up. And yeah, that's what I have to say about it. I think Hillary Clinton, I just don't think she's a good person. So I don't know. I'm having trouble with this article because I have bias against all these people without an opinion about what's actually happening in the article.
Speaker 1:And that's okay we have bias towards people having mullets and mustaches. Okay, so here's my views. One the only useful idiot here is Hillary Clinton. Like how hypocritical are you? You are the ass. They say. Here's my thing is like I'm no, and I could go on and on, so I'm gonna keep.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna keep Cano worms with this episode.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna keep it short. Yeah with it, but I Don't believe in towing party lines. You know. Republican Democrat, I am a freedom-loving American, I believe in the Constitution, I am pro-freedom and I am pro-God. So, with that being said, that funds everything else. If, if there were, if the Republican Party gets out of hand, I'm a completely against it, and I think so many Republicans have got this whole thing in Ukraine wrong in the first place. We're I think that we're fun we're helping to fund a war, to funnel money back into the pockets of our establishment elite politicians. That's so. That's one thing. The other thing is is and that is why Tucker Carlson got fired from Fox News because Tucker was seeking truth, tucker was asking questions, and Fox News has gotten so Establishment stuff too that in my view, they're not any better than CNN or MSNBC, and so I'm against the mainstream media too. And the other hypocritical thing here is, if you go back, just go Google it Vladimir Putin, who is not a good person. I don't like Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 2:I don't think you have him on the show.
Speaker 1:I would have anybody on the show. Okay, I would have literally anybody.
Speaker 2:On Biden, I'd have Joe Biden on a show I would love to have Joe Biden I would have anybody on our show, and but here's so, and that's the thing, is that?
Speaker 1:why so? If you go back and Google this, you know how many people have interviewed Vladimir Putin. He's been on MSNBC, cnn, abc, fox News. He's been on literally everybody has interviewed him. And so because Tucker goes out and interview him all of a sudden, he's a useful idiot. No, you're all a bunch of hypocrites, is what you are like.
Speaker 2:It doesn't make him so scared.
Speaker 1:It's gonna be good. It doesn't make him pro Putin and if you listen to the interview, he wasn't pro Putin.
Speaker 2:He let him off. We could put this out in the world.
Speaker 1:So. But so here's. The thing is that it's hypocritical. We all need to.
Speaker 1:I think that if I truly had to run a poll, I think that 80% of Americans would Be on the same page with so many things and are against being controlled by our political class and our mainstream media, which is why so many people are turning to podcasts and other news outlets that aren't mainstream media, and I think it's okay to literally interview Anybody now if you give them some cushy little softball, pump you up. Interview when they're not a good person. I think that's that's different. But you know I'm not pro Putin at all. I think I don't think he's a good person at all, but I also think are we gonna get killed? I think that the world should be allowed to hear his viewpoint because, and be able to make decisions on themselves. I think that we're a better society when we have all the information. We've heard everybody's Everybody's viewpoints on things and then make decisions and we can make determinations as a weather when he's interviewed, if we think he's lying or not. But to just say he doesn't get to be interviewed is dumb. That's what I think.
Speaker 2:Okay, you set me up. You set me up, I give you permission. We've been podcasting for four years. Today is the day I tell you whatever you want to talk about, babe, literally whatever you want to talk, and we go right for it. Right for it.
Speaker 1:That's my point. You can agree with me or not, I love you anyway.
Speaker 2:I, yeah, we do, we do love you guys.
Speaker 1:And I mean if I fan of you, but your turtlenecks and mallets too. I still love you, even though you that's just like so much.
Speaker 2:Surface level than where we just went and I'm so uncomfortable good leg, but it's okay.
Speaker 1:It's good. I want to hear your other article you had. That last article was good. Why did you? You said expectations so low the python.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was a good one that's hilarious. All right.
Speaker 1:What do you got?
Speaker 2:Why millennials are poorer than their parents.
Speaker 1:Oh why. Why are we? I don't know.
Speaker 2:I haven't read the article yet Millennials are often scapegoated, but they really are up against some difficult odds. If there's one generation that has become the scapegoat for nations problems is the millennials. They don't get married and start families, they live in mom's basement, they don't buy their own house, they drift from job to job and school to school, trying to find their passion and, short, they can't adult. But while it's true that these problems can be attributed to serious character flaws which do need to be fixed, I wonder if we too often overlook the fact that millennials really are up against some difficult odds and, as a new study released by the young invincible implies, one of the biggest maybe student debt. Young adults work today earn ten thousand dollars less than a young adults in 1989, a decline of 20%. The study is quick to note that a college degree, with or without debt, is still worth it. It goes on. I don't agree with that.
Speaker 1:What was that last part again?
Speaker 2:The study is quick to note that a college degree, with or without debt, is still worth it, it goes, it said. That said, among those with a college degree, we find a strong correlation between those with no student loan debt and those with the least decline in income across two generations.
Speaker 1:I have enough, I'll just jump in here.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I think it's nuanced. I think that Okay, hold on.
Speaker 2:Actually, hold on. I might agree with this article. Observe the following two charts. The first shows the difference in earnings between boomers and millennials. Really, it's showing that millennials, substantially, are making less money, like 18%. Okay, a degree without debt they're making 18% less. Degree with debt they're making 25% less. No degree they're making 26% less. So, regardless, they're making less money across the board, sorry. And then the second shows the difference in net wealth between boomers and millennials. But I mean, millennials have 40% less wealth and if you have a degree with that, you have 92% wealth, and if you have no degree, you have 53% less wealth. Okay, hold on. Do you want to share your thoughts? And then I'll go.
Speaker 1:Sure, I think it's nuanced.
Speaker 1:I think that there's a lot of things and stereotypes about millennials that are completely true and a lot of millennials are being taken care of by their parents still on many things later on into their lives.
Speaker 1:A lot of millennials did go to school and get college degrees and things that meant nothing, and we're living in a time when college degrees are becoming not that they're unimportant, but they're becoming less and less and less important and people in the trades are starting to make significantly more money than people on degrees. But at the same time, it's true, if you think about even back when we started, the family started becoming two income family homes everybody thought it was great and they were living high on the hog. But then the economy adjusted and now people have to have two incomes a lot of the times most your average normal person to survive financially, and the income you're bringing in is significantly less compared to the housing prices and costs of living. So I think that the math is there, the data is there. We do have it a lot harder in that sense financially. I also don't agree that college degrees are worth it. I don't agree with that. I think I mean some are A lot of them.
Speaker 2:I think it depends on what you're going for. If you're going for general education, probably don't. College is expensive and don't waste your money. But the whole article is why millennials are poorer than their parents and, like you said, it's nuance. First of all, millennials. How long are we going to be victims?
Speaker 1:How long are we going to?
Speaker 2:be victims. I agree, the economy is much different, but also culture is so much different, and so I would say that a lot of us have student loan debt. We are just like our age of millennials. We were just coming off College was still very much. This was what our whole basis of our podcast started, as so many of us were like the question when we went to school where are you going to college? Where are you going to college? And now I would say it's more are you going to college? It's becoming more and more normal that people aren't going to college. When we were graduating high school, if you weren't going to college, you were kind of like a loser, and now there's so like, with the change of social media and all of that, there's so many different opportunities for people to make money online. You don't necessarily have to have a degree, and so that's shifting. That paradigm is shifting.
Speaker 2:And you don't have to go to school. But some of our parents are still stuck in their ways Like, no, my kid absolutely must go to college. But I will say, us families who are raising kids, now that paradigm has finally shifted and we're not. We want our kids to Do what God is calling them to do, to live a life of purpose, and we're not like shoving college down our kids' throats. But that doesn't mean that we get to be victims and say, like because of my parents, I'm poor. You need to own up, and own up to the choices that you made. And also like, sorry, as much as Social media is providing job opportunities and remote positions not even just social media, but just like the whole technology era Also like it's also causing major, major consumerism keeping up with the Joneses. Is that an all-time high materialism? And that leads to discontentment, unhappiness and Overconsumption and debt. Yeah, so like there's. So this is, this was our, what our whole podcast Originally started about. Right, so we can talk about this.
Speaker 1:I just want to just hit on a couple things. One, the trades too. Like people like that, people that getting into trades whether it's concrete or plumbing or electricians Like they're making good money and they're starting out with no college debt Right. Like so that's something to look into. I don't think you should be like all Extreme one way or the other. Like you don't need to be completely pro college, you have to go to college. But you also shouldn't be so far where you're like bashing somebody because they choose to go to college. Like if it makes sense to go and get a degree and something that you're passionate about you feel like God is calling you to do, then do it. But if you don't need to, then don't, because why would you get into debt if you don't need to? I Agree with that.
Speaker 1:And then I just wanted to hit on to the whole victim thing. At the end of the day, guys, it doesn't matter. Like our how about the, the, the great depression Generation? Like they had it pretty rough you know what I mean. Like they had it worse than we did.
Speaker 2:Like how about the Olden days, when I mean that probably that was still a great. Like the colonial days when went.
Speaker 1:When men were having to hunt for their meat, women were washing their laundry with the yeah, how about all the people that from the Mayflower that died because you know, in that in those winter seasons because they didn't even have Frickin housing and stuff? And now we watch TV shows about people Called alone getting dropped off in Alaska and they got to survive for 60 days or whatever you just have it too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're so soft, so soft, but we're so soft.
Speaker 1:So, at the end of the day, the the environment's gonna be what the environment is. So even if we are poorer than our parents generation, like that, I'm guarantee you we're not poorer than the Great Depression generation and it doesn't matter. Don't play a victim. Don't like, don't just be. Oh well, we got it harmed all. I'm just gonna cash it in like, no, like, suck it up, get out there and be the best version of yourself and make good, try to make make good choices, be the best person you can be, and just, you got to live with the cars that you're dealt, dude.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and like one thing our parents I feel like did do really well is they had good work ethic. Like our parents generation, they work really hard. I would say one thing they didn't do well is like talking about Emotions and struggles and I think that our generation is getting that right, but it can be way. So, like again, it's that me in the middle type of thing. But like also, our work ethic just sucks and we need to get Accept the fact that, like you might start a podcast and be four years in and you're still not like wildly famous or millionaires and we need to stop doing things for fame hey, wait, hey, that's us fame and recognition and money. And like when we start doing things for purpose, then I think the discontentment starts to go away. So, yeah, I don't know, we could talk about that a lot.
Speaker 1:At the end of the day, you still need to make money too. Like don't just go chasing off your passion. You like underwater basket weaving and like you're not gonna be able to support your family. Like don't be an idiot. Don't be a useful idiot.
Speaker 2:Yeah, all right, so those are the articles let's just send people off with with One embarrassing moment that's recently happened to you, because I feel like you and I are kind of strangers.
Speaker 1:Wait, a minute. Do you know the embarrassing moment?
Speaker 2:Did something embarrassing happen. You're saying to say I have to come up with literally I am like a ball of embarrassment, but you just don't care what people think, so you don't ever get embarrassed. Anything recently happened that's embarrassing.
Speaker 1:Do you have something that I need to say? No, okay, yeah really. Yeah, nobody said anything, nobody even saw. I'm sure somebody saw it oh. Where was I at can I go? Yeah, you go ahead cuz I gotta try to remember where I was at.
Speaker 2:I could tell you a hundred. Every day something embarrassing happens. I should have a TV show. I'm just I don't know, I don't know, I just it's the law of attraction and embarrassing stuff. I was at the accountants office and I was like you know, yep, I'm a business owner. No, I'm just kidding, I didn't do that.
Speaker 2:But I went to the account's office it was snowing but Talked to the accountant, came out, was getting in my car, got a new car. The running board was really slippery. I jumped on my suburban's up really high and I freaking flew back Into this know like an old old Lady and I just sat there like shaking my head like you've got to be kidding me. Hopefully nobody, thankfully nobody's in the parking lot. I turn around, there's a guy like my age I think. He thought I was an old lady because of how I fell. He rolled down the little window and he was like are you okay? And I think he saw the back of my head and I think he was thinking like an old lady was gonna turn around and I just turned around. I was like, yeah, I'm okay. I'm so glad that you saw that. Gotta laugh. Yeah, it was really embarrassing.
Speaker 1:I Feel like that wasn't even the most embarrassing but so this, I this maybe was embarrassing, maybe not it had the potential to be. It could have been, but no one said anything to me so I will never know. I was at a work thing with I did. Recently traveled on trip, was with some clients and Was your zipper down? No, it's worse. I went to the, I went to the bathroom and I was actually wearing these pants. I'm gonna stand up for the video. People, these are some gray.
Speaker 2:Did you have dribble on your?
Speaker 1:pants Lightest gray pants. I went in to the urinals, being lazy and didn't undo the belt and the top button. I just undid the zipper.
Speaker 2:Well, I went to the bathroom but like.
Speaker 1:So if there was some, this is. There was some pressure there and so everything didn't evacuate out into the urinal, and when I zipped up and put away, oh my gosh, this is like. I went to go wash my hands and I had a like good, I don't know couple inch wet spot on my pants.
Speaker 2:So what are you doing in that situation? Get the rest of your pants wet.
Speaker 1:I thought about doing that, but I was like, ah, that might draw more attention. I was like, I'm just gonna go.
Speaker 2:Oh. I think there was no hand Did you have to speak in front of people.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, this was after. So, oh yeah, that was. Oh my gosh, could you imagine?
Speaker 2:I would have taped a post it to my pants.
Speaker 1:But I didn't splash more on. I'd be like, oh, I'm spreading that water on my pants. Didn't do that, Actually. I probably could have put water on the counter and I think I leaned on it. So there was like a line all the way across. That would have been good. There was no hand dryers, all paper, towel stuff and I was like, well, I can't wait for this, so I'm just gonna go. And I just I walked out with a good two inch size, you know wet spot and went out and interacted.
Speaker 2:So I don't know if anybody nobody Did anybody interact with your dribble spot?
Speaker 1:Nobody, I didn't catch anybody's eyes, you know, drifting down there.
Speaker 2:Well, that is good, because I'd have to make a couple phone calls.
Speaker 1:I didn't. Nobody said anything to me, so yeah, if you were there and you're listening, you probably aren't. You saw a wet spot on my pants. Yeah, that was urine.
Speaker 2:This is the difference between me and you. Like that kind of stuff happens and you're just like oh yeah, I don't know, I buried it in the archives, probably never think of it again. Stuff happens to me and I'm like I'm laying in bed at night quivering, like, oh, I'm that guy. He's probably still. He's probably telling his wife about me right now.
Speaker 1:No, I'm just kidding, but sometimes I was like, hey, I got pee on my pants. Like what am I gonna do? I can't do anything about it.
Speaker 2:I got pee on my pants, All right. Is there any anything like inspirational, motivational, like encouraging you to send listeners off with today?
Speaker 1:Don't wear turtlenecks, don't have a mullet, don't be a victim.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that's pretty good. I just wanna say that we love you guys, thanks for being our friends, that we appreciate you, and life is weird right now, so Let us know if you enjoyed this new segment.
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Speaker 1:You can DM it to me on Instagram. That would be the easiest way to get to send something to me. It's at Mr Corey Adkins, ur-ey ADK-INS.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I mean, the world's just crazy right now. It's kind of gone to hell on a hand basket. But we can still have fun in the midst of it, we can still get together with community in the midst of it, we can still raise our families in the midst of it and we can be a force to be reckoned with.
Speaker 1:And you know, there's one thing we can't do. What we absolutely cannot do. You can't smuggle Hermes pythons in your pants without getting some probation and a fine. So don't do that, guys. This is just not. Let's we learned anything. Let's not smuggle pythons in our pants across the border.
Speaker 2:All right, we'll talk to you guys next week. We'll see you guys next week.