Episode 40 Dads, This One's For You!

Thanks for stopping by! R.J. and Fred let you in on their week and how things went. After that they start to talk about Father's Day! This show has som fun lighthearted topics along with some deeper parts. They talk about the origin of this holiday, along with fun facts, and of course some buy, sell, or hold gift ideas. Lastly there's a two parter when it comes to this week's wildcard! Tune in!

Resources:

https://mentalbomb.com/fathers-day-fun-facts/#google_vignette

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/holidays/fathers-day/g71486643/best-fathers-day-gifts-2026/

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SPEAKER_01 0:16

Hello and welcome to This Is The Day Show. I'm your host, RJ Cole, and I'm Fred Graham. Thank you for tuning in to another episode. Feel free to watch or listen in to our show. We post our video casts on Rumble and on YouTube. Our podcasts can be found on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and also on iHeartRadio. If you like our show, we would ask that you subscribe, follow, and also write us a wonderful five-star review. If you choose to do so, you can interact with us. You can email our show at this isthedayshow at gmail.com. We also can be found on X at Thisistheday Show without the W. And we are also on Facebook. Find us by searching for This Is The Day Show. You also have the option to text our show. Feel free to send us a text or an audio message. To do this, select the episode that you're about to listen to. Look on the top left of the episode, and it will say send us fan mail. Click on that link and send us what you'd like to. We also can reply to you. Please send us any questions, feedback, or interest that you may have. Thank you for the continued promotion and support for our show. Here we go. Here we go. So Fred, how's your week, bud?

SPEAKER_02 1:41

It was it was a pretty good week. Um it's funny because when you do that intro, uh my second born, our second youngest, she goes, Oh, you're gonna go do podcast? Okay, and that's uh this is the day show without the W, right? And I was thinking, yeah, yeah, that's her our actual count. But um so this this week's been um I don't know, not terrible. Uh we're making the most of the evenings. Um we just kind of spending some time outside, I guess as a family. That's kind of what we did a little bit today. Um it's been a long week. It's it's been late nights, um just just wild. Wild. But yeah, uh works good, starting to near the end, so that's um the light is at the end of the tunnel, as they say, I guess. For your project, not your job, right? Yeah, no, not the job. Uh the project, um which is funny because when people start getting shipped off to other jobs, that's when I find it like it's slowing down and it's becoming um like hey, here's the one task we're gonna do today, and then we'll hope that like something breaks or something has to get moved, or that our technicians need help, or you know, something because it's like, yeah, we we really don't here. Let's identify what's what's the difference between these pictures, right? Or it's like, okay, let's go down and organize the conics for the 12th time this week and take these screws here and let's put them down here. So it's it gets well and at the start of that process, it's not terrible because you're running stuff back to the supply houses or um taking stuff back to the um part of the shop that rents out like equipment that like tools and stuff that for that job. Um so it I mean there's a little bit more running around, and then you finally get back into the job site doing the the little bit of task that you do have left, and then you know it's it's always happened where people are like, Oh, hey, yeah, we're gonna take that, and last minute we're gonna move it over here, and you're like, dude, that's been installed, hooked up, and running for like three weeks now, and you're just now deciding you want to move it, but it it's alright, it gives you something to do, so you're kind of thankful for it, and then yeah, you catch up on a lot of training that you may have missed, but it's it's not bad. It's uh sometimes you look at it and you go, Man, I wish I was moved along with these guys, but um, you know, especially when you're foreman in charge of stuff, you gotta kinda finish it and see it out. Um good and bad thing, but yeah, and then home life, um gonna have a busy weekend, uh obviously with uh Father's Day coming up and stuff, but trying to as bad as it sounds, get motivated to do these projects around the house, um, knock them out. But last week I didn't really do any of them because I was like trying to get the house back in order from the vacation and everything, but it's just it's taking longer. I don't know if it's I'm getting old or uh number of children. Just laundry.

SPEAKER_01 5:24

Laundry is ridiculous. Oh, I bet. So yeah, and I have half your half your family, right?

SPEAKER_02 5:30

So it's I mean, it's just non-stop. Yeah, you know. Uh I saw this thing where it said I didn't realize Miley Cyrus was singing about laundry when she was singing the climb, you know. Well, yeah. I was like, yeah, that's that's relevant. So it's 100% accurate, but yeah, good week. Um definitely um a couple weeks are in the ahead are gonna be pretty good. I'm hoping to get maybe some fishing in, but gotta knock out some projects so that way I can. Do you need a pole? I have one actually, it's pretty nice. So but the kids do your children need a pole? Freddie, Catalina, and uh Hose all have one. And under that, I haven't taken them. So but I have one and I'm not in need of one. So I don't go. I've learned I want to try, there's different ways to like set up your line. So I've always done it like the bobber weight hook. There's like a Texas rig or something where your like weight is lower than your hook. So I don't know, I'm gonna try it. See what happens. They claim that it's good. You got chatterbait or whatever where it's fake bait. Supposedly, bass love it. I haven't had any luck with it. Of course, the only place I tried was where I've never caught a single fish. Thomas Mitchell.

SPEAKER_01 7:02

So, with all that, how was your week? Uh it was okay. Uh worked. And then um cashed out my last three days of vacation this week. So, the one thing I think that job should, so I'm gonna get out of my soapbox, but the one thing I think job should bring is based on how many hours you work, is how much vacation you should get. Because I feel like I'm getting robbed at this point. I have dudes that can work for maybe eight hours or less a day every day, and their vacation time is the same as mine, even though I'm putting in way more work. Just my opinion. Um, so I have to cash out three days for two, so that way I can still make up what I'm working. And uh, yeah, so cash was out now get my, I think it's only two weeks still. I'll get that back July 3rd, so sure it'd be nice to have another week. I think I have to wait till I'm five years in order to get up to three.

unknown 8:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:08

Do you get to negotiate like during your reviews or anything? Or is it just like, yeah, you're doing great.

SPEAKER_01 8:16

I'm one of those. Um, yeah, and uh it seems like with trucking everybody just follows along, and I don't like that either, because I know people aren't pulling their weight either. Um, so yeah, so eventually I'll get three weeks and that'll be cool. And uh yeah. But Thursday we went out to our family outing over at Omaha Zoo. Love the Omaha Zoo. Not like I've really been to many others because in Chicago had a fun aquarium over there. I don't know if we went to the zoo over there though. I don't know if there is one over there. I assume there is, but the aquarium was awesome over in Chicago. But Omaha, we went there Thursday, spent all day there. The Grams had a zoo at their house because they watched my dog. He's good, he's good. Cooper was a handful, he was just terrible. No, but um had a fun day with the family all together, and then today was a busy day of mowing and uh mowing, and then um trying to put up the trampoline, and then um we have the trampoline that has the safety poles on the outside, and then that. Well, last year I noticed that like I think it was four bolts had bent because we're we're not even oh on the hill, yeah. We're on the hill, so then kids will jump and fall into that a lot more often, so it's taken more of a hit. So four of them got bent, so I was like, oh, I I'll go get some bolts. So I got some bolts that pretty much match the same, they were the same like fit, you know. Um but then when I brought them home, like they're the same size and everything, but when I brought them home, the lock nuts, I think is what you call them. My two uppers, I could get screwed in by my two lower ones, could not, could not, hmm. I was like stripping the blue out of it. Really? Yeah. Were they metric or did you get standard? I got standard. I mean, I took the ones that they had and I spun it in the quarter slot and it was fitting in there. So it's like now I gotta go get new You can never make just one trip. I know, and I even in my head I was like, I'm just gonna buy them because it's only gonna be like four extra bucks for them, right? But I didn't. So yeah, so I got back home, was trying to fix the rest of the trampoline with only like 30 minutes to go, and all I have to do is put these two back in and then throw the net up. My kids can jump on it. But no, so um, then we had a father's thing at church today. A camp out. I'm not camping out, so um, yeah. Cold boy wanted to sleep, so we came home. Yeah, very understandable. So that is, I think, my week, and then this weekend, um, I'm gonna see if I can't hang out with my family a little bit, and then probably see my dad a little bit Sunday, maybe. I don't know how much time we'll get together because it's also VBS, so I'm not sure. It's always very busy. Yeah. Very busy. So it was it was it was an okay week. And then um, as you can see, I guess I'm the best dad ever. It's not like you can buy these shirts or anything. No, no, custom. You only earn it.

SPEAKER_02 11:49

You gotta earn it.

SPEAKER_00 11:50

Then you have to submit it and apply for those shirts. And I got it.

SPEAKER_01 11:56

What can I say? Anywho, talking about the world's best dads. You want to talk about Father's Day? Yeah. Alright, bud. If you didn't know, it's Sunday, Father's Day. It is, so make sure you buy something for that special man in your life. That's hopefully your dad or father-in-law or your Well, we're talking about Father's Day. I don't think I need to clarify what the uh 2026, duty. What the people we have watching. Yeah. Alright. So what would we do with our dad without our dads? Alright. Just think about that for a second. I've got a quote, especially for dads. Kind of hit me a little bit when I saw this last night. Wasn't even looking for it and it just smacked me.

SPEAKER_02 12:42

It's right there.

SPEAKER_01 12:43

A father is someone you look up to no matter how tall you grow. I like it. Yeah. Me too. So, as a dad, he should be known as the spiritual leader, protector, provider, and a person we can go to in all of life's storms. Somebody you're always looking up to. Yes. I hope our show has helped us dads in the way of bettering ourselves for our family. Hopefully, we have given some thought and insight on how we can be better at our roles of being dads. That being said, I just want to throw something out there for my dad. I uh this year, time, time, time, time, time, time. That has been a recurring theme in my brain. We only have a certain amount of time, and I'm already this old, my children are already two and four, and I'm not getting that time back, so there's time lost. So am I using my time wisely? Um, and not just for things that need to be done, or chores, or work, but when I get the time with my family, am I using it? Or am I losing it? So, time has been a big factor in my brain, and um God has really put I don't know if this is the same for everybody, or maybe I'm just more of the uh emotional type. I think I might be a little of that, but God has really put a sweet spot on my heart for my kids. They're just I I don't know, that's that's the best way to put it. You love them. I love them so much, just so much. They I'm like that little girl on Finding Nemo that just wants to squeeze the fish to death, right? Love my kids. Um and I just want to say thank you to my dad for just everything. Um as I'm a dad now and just realizing how precious time is with our families and him being in the Navy and serving, um, him being a pastor full-time. Um a lot of people might think it's just part-time work and you sit behind a desk, but his phone's never off and he's always on call. Um, so even when he's had those hard days where he has to keep helping people, or whenever he was in the Navy doing his job, being away from his family, I know where his heart wanted to be, and the sacrifice he chose was to be out at sea or doing ministry, which is more than just a job. Right. Um, so thank you, dad. Thank you for everything you do, Fred.

SPEAKER_02 15:35

So with that, uh, I would like to thank my dad for being my dad and uh just being an example um of what a man and a dad looks like. Um I think some of the best advice I've ever gotten about being a dad has come from him, and it's not well, just look at what I did, you know. It's it's real advice, and he's like that would be your good response. Humbly spoken. Um, but no, uh just kind of like look, I just a hundred percent honesty and transparent, you know, as far as like, hey, just I mean, you don't know everything, you're not going to try and learn as much as you can and just do right by God and and love your family and your kids, you know, and um like that sounds really simple, but sometimes that's a lot harder when it, you know, you you spend your energy and and mental capacity, I guess, all at work or for somebody else, and then you come home and you're just beat, you know, and those kids didn't exhaust you at all. They they haven't been around you, they're excited to see you and no clue what you went through. And um I don't know. I think I think the biggest thing that I've been really, I guess, uh my thought has been uh no matter how I feel, you know, as far as when my alarm goes off in the morning, I'll wake up, I'll get myself up and go to bed or go to work, you know. It doesn't matter, like I could have had a really rough night, I could have dealt with craziness, but I'll get up and I'll go to work, and a lot of that is for my family, but it's like if I can do that in essence for the company or the the my place of employment, coming home, I'm very joyful, you know, to see my family and stuff, but it's like I need to just man up, I guess, and then I guess not let them see that I'm tired or whatever, because like, you know, that's why you're retired, I guess, you know, because you're always tired, and then you just retire and you can actually talk about it, I guess. I don't know how that works, dude. But just that's the that's kind of the thing, is it's like, dude, I'll just grin and bear it while I'm at work, and I'll I'll give I'll give them an honest day's work and I'll I'll give them my best, and then I'll come home and I'm like, dude, I'm beat, and I don't know if it's because I'm at home and I'm like this is my place, and I can just kind of lay back, which is nice, but it's like I gotta give my kids my best too, you know.

SPEAKER_01 18:30

So that's hard. That's that's another thing that's been playing in my head is I'm getting so mad that they like work fights to try to get your best. And a lot of times they probably will because it's starting your day and it's three-quarters of my day, you know? Nonstop, no breaks, nothing, just working so I can get home to my family sooner, and then it's just like they get the worst part of me some days. You like wear yourself out to get home to see your family, and then when you do deliver cardboard and cleaner and stuff, like it's just that's a thing that's really, really getting to me as well.

SPEAKER_02 19:10

Yep, yeah, yeah, it gets really bad. But with that being said, thank you, dad. Um, do appreciate all that you do, the advice you give, um, and honestly the example you set. Um, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:26

Happy Father's Day. And if your dad's worthy of it, go see him, go talk to him, wish him a happy Father's Day this weekend. Enough of that sensitive crap. Let's jump to the more fun stuff, shall we? Man stuff. Let's talk about the origin of Father's Day. So, not as Debbie Downer as Mother's Day was with that one lady. Um, the origin of Father's Day can be traced back to early 20th century when a woman named Sonora Smart Dodd in Spokane, Washington, USA, proposed the idea of a holiday to celebrate Fathers. Dodd's own father, a Civil War veteran, had raised her and her siblings on his own after their mother died in childbirth, and she wanted to honor his devotion to his family. I'm thinking he did a pretty good job. Um, the first Father's Day was celebrated in Spokane, Washington on June 9, 1910, and it quickly became a popular holiday in the United States. So quickly that in 1972, President Richard Nixon signed a law making Father's Day a national holiday in the United States to be celebrated on the third Sunday in June. Father's Day is now celebrated in many countries around the world. Although the day and customs may vary, it is typically a day for children to show their appreciation for their fathers and father figures through gifts, cards, and special activities. It is also a time for families to come together and celebrate the important role that fathers play in their lives.

SPEAKER_02 21:17

That's real quick. So somebody didn't look at their typing, yeah. I think uh it's interesting again, going back to seeing how many holidays of honor or thankfulness started with a woman.

SPEAKER_01 21:33

That's that's very interesting. And we must be getting pretty soft as people, man, because like Father's Day wasn't even introduced till the 1900s. I think Mother's Day was doing the 1900s.

SPEAKER_02 21:44

Dude, that's because like your dad got attacked by the bear while you were he was gonna go hunt, or he like got TB and just, you know. Tuberculosis? Yeah, dude. Like back then they didn't have any medicine. They're just like Like, uh I don't know what to do for you, buddy. Sorry.

SPEAKER_01 22:02

So you're saying they live longer than 42, so that's why they had to have a celebration for them. Exactly.

unknown 22:08

Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 22:10

Yes. Okay, well, with that fun fact from Fred, let's jump into some fun facts ourselves, shall we?

SPEAKER_02 22:16

That might not have been a full fact, but yes, fun fact. Alright, these are legit, all right. Father's Day is celebrated in case you missed on the third Sunday of June in the United States and many other countries.

SPEAKER_01 22:31

Yep. True. True. Father's Day is celebrated in more than 50 countries around the world. How many countries are there? I don't think 200.

SPEAKER_02 22:43

A lot. There's yeah, hundreds, but um the most common gift, the most common gift for Father's Day. Is a necktie. I knew this before I did the research.

SPEAKER_01 22:57

I did too. Because it's a joke. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:01

I could see it early on, you know, back in the day when people actually dressed up all the time and stuff. It it being nice.

SPEAKER_01 23:08

I don't mind looking sharp whenever I'm wearing my nice clothes, but come on. I'll buy that on my own weekend myself.

SPEAKER_02 23:16

Well, technically, most fathers buy their own I won't say most.

SPEAKER_01 23:22

I think what you and I do is rare than what I think. Yeah, definitely. Uh yeah, yeah. Yeah. I'm sorry. This also, this also is wait. Nope, I'm sorry. You'll get the next one. Number five will also chat my khakis along with the necktie. Open season if you haven't seen it. But anyways, Father's Day is the fourth largest card sending holiday in the United States. Do you like getting cards?

SPEAKER_02 23:56

Um like like just not because I know your mom makes cards, but like just like a store-bought card that you can clearly tell is a store-bought.

SPEAKER_01 24:06

Well, even with my mom's cards. So, like that, that ups the auntie a bit because it's her own personal hand.

SPEAKER_02 24:12

Right.

SPEAKER_01 24:12

The bad thing with cards after the fact, right? It's nice to get a note or a gesture from somebody or your kids' drawings and stuff like that. Um is how much I'm gonna end up storing. Like I I believe I have um my idea shoebox, and that's where I'd put that stuff in. But then it's just how many do you really go through, or maybe that's something that I just go through later and look at it and check it out and then sort back through it again? I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_02 24:46

But I know some people keep a lot of cards and they'll look through them periodically. Um I know like with store-bought cards, I'm I feel bad. I feel bad because I feel like I don't know, I feel like there's some sentiment to it. But like I don't feel bad if all you do is write your name. Like, and it's a store-bought card. Because then I'm like, okay. Like I appreciate it. Um but you just wrote your name. But if you wrote like something in there like personally addressed to me, then that it carries a lot more weight, you know. But um yeah, I'm not really good at giving cards. I can write in it, but I just I don't know. I just it depends. The fact that it's the fourth largest one for cards, I was like, man, I don't know. I guess are they counting like little kid cards, like personal customized ones, or are they talking store bot?

SPEAKER_01 25:45

Um, not just card sending in general, so probably bot. So that's go in the hallmark and send them out.

SPEAKER_02 25:53

So that's crazy.

SPEAKER_01 25:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:55

So fourth. Number five says Americans spend an average of $135 on Father's Day gifts. Weren't mothers supposed to get $240. Something around there, I thought it was neckties don't cost that much, dude. No, they cost like they're probably DAV neckties.

SPEAKER_01 26:14

I was gonna say $10 on the clearance rack.

SPEAKER_02 26:21

But only to you, father. I well, like not to dive in deep here, but like most mothers are around every home, you know, it's single mother family raising. It's more of an exception if it's a single dad raising. So naturally, I've I feel like our society honors mothers more. Um, and some of that is because like being a father is um you're just doing your job. Like, what do you want? You want a cookie? Like, right, just man up and do your job. Like, your job is to do this and do it quietly. Yep, you don't need the praise. And obviously, there is a daughter that thought so differently, so yeah, and that's why we celebrate Father's Day.

SPEAKER_01 27:12

So the most expensive Father's Day gift ever sold was a 1964 Ferrari 275 GTB slash C Special, which sold for 40 million dollars in 2014. My dad wouldn't even want that car.

SPEAKER_02 27:37

No, to give him 40 million dollars. Yeah. Um clearly it had to be somebody's dream uh dream car. Had to be. But the average age of a new father in the United States is 31. I didn't know that until I read this.

SPEAKER_01 27:56

Yeah, which that's I feel like that's pretty sad. I just had a thought um talking with my wife the other night and I said, I don't know about you, sweetheart, but I wish we would have had kids sooner. And I said, this is gonna be really dark thought, but if we would have had our kids sooner, then we would have more time with them because we're gonna die here at some point, and I could have had five more years with them, you know. Obviously, it's it's good to have one-on-one time and build your relationship with them one-on-one. Right. Yes, that's that's good. But I just thought about that and I was like.

SPEAKER_02 28:42

What ifs you can say that yeah, but yeah, maybe you just weren't ready yet, man. Like financially or whatever, you know, God knows. There's a reason. You're never ready. You should have kids right now. You're never ready. Never ready. Doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_01 28:59

Um the most common name for a father in the United States is James.

SPEAKER_02 29:05

So is it safe to say that the most common name in the United States for a man is James?

SPEAKER_01 29:13

Probably.

SPEAKER_02 29:13

Is that is that safe assumptions?

SPEAKER_01 29:15

Well, I'm thinking kids in my generation aren't having kids as often.

SPEAKER_02 29:24

Well, you gotta be at 31 or up, is what it's saying, because you know, on the average age of a new father is 31. Yeah, so count as Jim. Do Jims get a count as James?

SPEAKER_01 29:36

No. If I was a James, I'd want to be a James. I wouldn't want to be a Jim.

SPEAKER_02 29:40

No.

SPEAKER_01 29:41

James is distinguished. It's a book of the bigger. Jim Bond, man.

SPEAKER_02 29:46

James Bond.

SPEAKER_01 29:47

Yeah. Not Jim Bob. No, it's Jim Bob. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:52

We won't talk about Jim. Anyway, the average number of children per father in the United States is 2.5. Yes. Let me ask you this. Have you ever met a.5 of a person?

SPEAKER_01 30:07

Never met one, no. Hmm. You could probably It's an interesting statistic. Yeah. The oldest man to become a father was. Oh man, I should have made you evens. Ragambendra Rau of India, who was 96 when his son was born in 2010. No big deal. Just 96 years old over here. Making babies.

SPEAKER_02 30:40

Throwing his hip out. I'll just changing a diaper. Throw this away. Although gifts are wonderful, Thane. I'm sure that just like myself, most dads want more time with their families.

SPEAKER_01 30:58

Yes. I would assume so, Fred. Yeah. That was a good add-in.

SPEAKER_00 31:06

Do you want to go to the talk about add-ins? Or maybe buying stuff for people. Let's uh talk about gifts for dads. And let's do this with a buy, sell, or hold theme to it. What do you think? I like it.

SPEAKER_02 31:21

We should get a theme music for the buy, sell or hold. I don't know. I could get something.

SPEAKER_01 31:27

Just like a little like dun dun dun. The only bad thing though, I could do a little picture for it too. But what would I do? A picture? Wildcard cards. That's that's a gimme. But buy seller hold, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Alright, for buy seller hold. Well. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I, of course, have a list of gifts for dads on this Father's Day. I thought it would be fun to do buyseller hold. From a list of suggestions from goodhousekeeping.com. Let's check it out, friend! Check it out, check it out, check it out.

SPEAKER_02 32:03

A power up 4.0 smartphone controlled paper airplane kit.

SPEAKER_00 32:10

This is their number one. That sell does not sound like they're trying to sell that at all to you.

SPEAKER_01 32:16

It looked like um it looks like a cross, and then like, so you build your paper airplane, you put this thing contraption on it, and then probably has like motor or something on it, and then it's just an app on your phone. Like, no. No, yeah. Terrible. No. Um, number two, Tinker Mini Car Vacuum. So it's just a brand name.

SPEAKER_02 32:37

Shop bag for your car?

SPEAKER_01 32:39

Um, no. I think smaller thinner, probably something like this, circular, yeah. Yeah. No. Not for Father's Day. I'd much rather have a necktie. A meat delivery service.

SPEAKER_02 32:56

So, um, you order like like Omaha steaks or whatever. Yeah. Nah.

SPEAKER_01 33:05

Sale.

SPEAKER_02 33:07

Piresh.

SPEAKER_01 33:08

Unless you can figure out the perfect like bacon combination, then maybe. I mean, there's a piece of mind of like knowing your freezer stock. It's just peace of mind. That's not like you mean you can get that anytime, really. Yeah. Yeah, I can I can I can get it anytime. Anytime I can afford it. This one was dumb. A car heart shave bag. So think of every guy has not every guy, but the little black shave bags. Yeah. Slap car heart tan and a logo on it. Gotta gotta appeal to the blue collar man. No, I no.

SPEAKER_02 33:44

No, I sell that.

SPEAKER_01 33:46

Is it true that they're driving prices up because now hipsters are wearing a lot of carhart stuff? Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 33:51

Which is no bueno for me, buddy. Like, of course, I'm not I'm not really big into Carhartt. Like, I'm more of a Dickies kind of guy, and uh Ariot, when I can afford it. Dude, Ariot is expensive. But Wranglers right there, too, dude. I remember those jeans used to be like, uh man. Now everybody's like, yeah, man, it's cool.

SPEAKER_01 34:16

Yeah, all those kind of brands that were like, uh, or no. So expensive.

unknown 34:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 34:24

So, do you want that shaved back? No, I don't. Alright.

SPEAKER_01 34:28

So, rescue bomb and ointment. Yeah, so think of like Bert's bees and the little silver tin that you can put on your hands. Get out of here. Who made this list sell? It's garbage. I don't think I've said yes to one yet. And it's a list for me. It's good housekeeping, dude.

SPEAKER_00 34:50

This is why you get a necktie. Hmm.

SPEAKER_01 34:54

You said no to 25 things. Um, number six, TV backlighting. This LED that sits on the back, and I've always thought it was cool, but I don't think there'd be a use for it for me.

SPEAKER_02 35:07

Yeah, I think it looks nice in certain houses or even like businesses, but in my house, no. Like, in I already know that, like, even if I thought it was cool in my house, like, it would not be ever turned on. So what do we have? What brand is that? Breville. Breville smoking gun. It's a gun that looks like an air compressor that adds smoke to things like cheese, cocktails, or other things.

SPEAKER_01 35:41

And I should have been more detailed. Not like a big air compressor, not like a pancake air compressor. Um, maybe you're thinking of those like little safety ones that you put in your car. It looks like a DeWalt gun.

SPEAKER_03 35:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:55

But now the nozzle is like a tube. So then you would burn something up and shoot the smoke in something and let the smoke saturate it. Kind of like your pellet grills.

SPEAKER_02 36:06

Uh huh.

SPEAKER_01 36:06

But it's just it's shooting smoke out of this thing. So I'm gonna sell. Yeah, I'll sell that. It's too fancy for me. Um, number eight, a power bank. Is that like batteries? Yes, the batteries for your cell phone that you hold on to. I don't know. You sure, Fred? I'm sure it is. What about you?

SPEAKER_02 36:28

Give me two. I'm good. Alright, uh, a custom Lego family. Yeah, so it's like customized little figurines. I think that'd be pretty cool. Not gonna lie.

SPEAKER_01 36:42

I could I could probably do something.

SPEAKER_02 36:44

I could jump on that, yeah. Just here's I'd want that from my kids. Yeah. Yeah. Because my kids like Legos, they're at that stage. And I'd probably like glue them on my dash or something, and they would think it's so cool. Yeah. But they're also plastic, so I don't know how to hold up.

SPEAKER_01 37:05

Just duct tape them. You're good. No, that's not a bad idea. Number 10, an indoor putting green. No.

SPEAKER_02 37:16

I would never use it.

SPEAKER_01 37:17

No. I feel like they had these a lot in like 90s movies, don't you feel like?

SPEAKER_02 37:22

I think it's if you're really into golf, maybe. And if you're like an executive, I would say the equivalent of this, and I don't think it's on our list, would be a golf simulator. Where you have like a backdrop. Oh, I don't think that's an equivalent. That's I mean it's top notch, but like that would be I feel like we wouldn't ring. Yeah. Like, you know.

SPEAKER_01 37:46

Um, a muscle stimulator. Yeah, so not even a massage gun, but the muscle simulator. I've only seen these being used on one other place before, but I'm not. Yeah. It's like I think like you put it on, it's those patches that goes to a machine that makes it constrict. Oh, yeah, no. I I guess I don't even know what those are for.

SPEAKER_02 38:09

It's supposed to build your muscle while you're just sitting there. Like it it shocks your muscle to where it flexes and somehow it builds your muscle.

SPEAKER_01 38:21

I don't know. Well, I could definitely use that for these early mornings, my friend. Number 12, cologne.

SPEAKER_02 38:31

I dude, I I don't think that's a bad gift. I have a bottle of cologne that I've had since like probably 2010. And it's halfway gone. Dang, bud. That's how much I don't wear cologne. Dude, I work blue collar.

SPEAKER_00 38:48

Like I know.

SPEAKER_02 38:51

I'm gonna stink. I'm sorry. But would you buy like I yeah, my kids could get me some, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:58

Yeah, I like cologne. Um yeah, especially if they could find one that's been discontinued. I love that one. Is that is that a brand I can say on the yeah, very sexy for him.

SPEAKER_02 39:10

Oh, I thought it was Adidas moves. I like that.

SPEAKER_01 39:13

No, Adidas's not bad.

SPEAKER_02 39:15

It was a good one. Curve was good too. That's what I got curve crushed though. So yeah.

SPEAKER_01 39:21

It was probably there at the mall when you bought it.

SPEAKER_02 39:24

Maybe probably so uh number 13 is uh Wi-Fi or Bluetooth meat thermometer.

SPEAKER_01 39:34

Um, I mean, this wouldn't be high on my list, but sure, I'd be okay with that. Yeah, it's I mean that's something I I wouldn't mind having, although but Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, I have a Bluetooth one right now, and it's just not good. That's crap. Well, because I'm if I'm in my living room, it wants to drop if I'm because it's out of my deck. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 39:58

See, and most of the time I'm just right there, and if I'm not, then I'm in the kitchen. So I'm not really ever too far from it, but I mean, they're cool ideas.

SPEAKER_01 40:09

I like the idea. And staying on the food topic, why not a do-it-yourself pasta making kit? Yeah, no. The dream of every man. No. No. Yeah, that's gonna be a hard sell. You haven't had the noodle dream? Nope. No pastas in my dream. A multi-tool pen. Those like nine in one pens, yeah, leveler. Yeah, no. I they're so tacky, I'm sorry. I don't if I need a multi-tool, I'll buy a multi-tool. Otherwise, don't need it. Like who on my pen, don't need it. Is this like nerds are us that made? I thought like maybe a flashlight on it would be cool enough just for like my safety checks and stuff, but other than that, no. I I just need a pen for a pen.

SPEAKER_02 41:00

Yeah, I don't even like the pens with the stylus on the back. Nobody uses it. Yeah, and I've tried. I have uh the iPad, and I it's too big. Like, like I'm like, that's not what I wanted to do. Might as well just use my finger, but yeah.

SPEAKER_01 41:19

A men's skincare routine kit.

unknown 41:23

No.

SPEAKER_01 41:24

Kind of like that uh rescue bomb, you know. Yeah. Here's one, maybe a drone. I'm I could care less. I think it'd be kind of cool to fly those airplanes, but like those little airplanes that are big. But like, I'm not gonna go out there every weekend and get into it, so I wouldn't even want one.

SPEAKER_02 41:46

I think if if it was my job to fly drones, like they'll do that on construction sites, and like, yeah, clearly that guy's all he's doing is having fun and basically playing video games, flying a drone. But like, for me to own a drone, no a record player. I actually have wanted one, but I think I don't have any I don't have any records, you know, so but I I mean that would be pretty cool to have. I could see because we do I mean we do Bluetooth and string music and stuff like that, so it's like we'll have nights where it's just kind of like the kids are being silly and kind of dancing around and stuff, so a record player would be kind of cool, just because they they watch like old movies and stuff, so they they think they're cool, you know. I could go with one.

SPEAKER_01 42:42

Sorry, bad, bad uh video cast. Um a record player, heck yeah, bud. Um I had one, it broke, and uh it had a cassette player and a CD player with it, and radio and Bluetooth. No, not Bluetooth, it was Linin. Oh, yeah. Um I love that thing, but ever since I got married, like when I was not married, um, I was able to find uses for it, but ever since I got married, like not really. It just kind of got put away downstairs and we're never downstairs, so now I have some records that are just sitting there collecting dust. Nancy.

SPEAKER_02 43:22

Um, yeah, so a custom viewfinder. Is that what that is? That little Yes. Is that what that is? Yeah, that is what that is. Yep. I think the custom part is like you put your own pictures, so like you yeah.

SPEAKER_01 43:40

So for those of you listening and not watching, um when you were a kid, you had this red thing, and some of you would put your eyes oh yeah, yeah, like the next generation after us didn't have these. Um, but it's a red thing you put over your eyes almost like binoculars, in a way, and then you put A button, and there's this white wheel that would rotate on the inside. Yes, you'd see pictures every time you hit this thing. Well, that's what this is a custom viewfinder. So um it's a cool idea. I don't think it'd get much use. No, I think it'd be a cool idea for that one time. I'd say get me a digital um picture frame. I'd be okay with that. Over that.

SPEAKER_02 44:30

Yeah. Uh I don't I don't like I said, I think I'd use it one time and then it would probably just turn into the kids using it, playing with it about how everybody else did when they were a kid that had one.

SPEAKER_01 44:44

So 21. Sorry, no, 20. I'm screwing things up. Smartwatch or golf watch? Well, I would do screwed up because 19 and 20 are the same. Oh, okay, okay, okay. Yeah. My bad, dude.

SPEAKER_02 45:02

Okay. So um a smartwatch or a golf watch. I don't even know what a golf watch is. Um I don't I don't need one. Um I'd pass.

SPEAKER_01 45:18

Like a smartwatch I would maybe like, but I just feel like they could break too easy, and I don't want to pay insurance for anything, or get the ugly screen protectors on it. So I can I've lived life this long pretty much with that one, so I'm good. Uh soap on a rope. Yes, you heard that correctly. It made the list on the rope. Yes. Stupid. Stupid. No.

unknown 45:51

No.

SPEAKER_01 45:52

I'm not even gonna ask you, yeah. No, yeah, sorry. Portable speaker.

SPEAKER_02 45:56

Um I don't really have a use for one. Currently, I have one that came with my like tools, power tool kit. I never use it because if I want to, like we have portable speakers all over the house. So or I just played off my phone.

SPEAKER_01 46:12

I still have mine from my old warehouse job.

SPEAKER_02 46:17

You didn't have that really big one, did you? No. No, that was somebody else, yeah. Murky. But yours was the one that played uh it's Friday.

SPEAKER_01 46:25

Friday. Getting out on Friday. A nice bow speaker, and it's holding up. Nice. Yeah. Yeah. They should sponsor us. Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_02 46:37

Sounds so crisp. Uh a portable cooler. I'm good. I mean, as opposed to those stationary coolers that aren't portable.

SPEAKER_01 46:48

It's like I say if you just drill it into your house and it's not going anywhere. I think um, like I could find uses for it, but like it was like I might get one used once or twice a year.

SPEAKER_02 47:01

Here's how we should do this. We should go back through this list, maybe, and be like, necktie or this? Portable cooler or necktie? Where were you? That would have worked. Where were you? I was gone, dude. I'm sorry. Uh a portable cooler, I would take over a necktie. I just had that thought. Like, we literally just bought another cooler, so I don't need one. But if it was like, hey, you want a necktie or you want this cooler? I'd be like, I'll take the cooler. I'll take the cooler. Yeah. Over some of this stuff on the list, I'd take a cooler.

SPEAKER_01 47:34

And last but not least, a bidet. I I don't really want to pay for bidet. If it was given to me, I'd try it.

SPEAKER_02 47:45

Yeah, well, and I've never tried one before. Worst case, doesn't it increase the value of your house?

SPEAKER_01 47:52

I mean I use bidet? Chunks lying everywhere? I don't think so.

SPEAKER_00 47:58

I don't know, man. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 48:00

I was trying to sell it. I never had one, I've never used one, so I really don't know what I'm missing.

SPEAKER_01 48:08

See, that's the thing. I want to use one because I feel like I'm missing out. Oh man. I will hold on that. Oh no, you're a holder. I'm gonna hold. I'll buy it. I'll wait till I'm on the clock. Remember, 10 minutes a day, 40 hours a year. So now that we went through this list, what's something that you would like now that we've criticized goodhousekeeping.com's ideas? They're good housekeeping, terrible gift givers.

SPEAKER_02 48:44

Um, I actually, because the state of Iowa has passed that law where hands-free devices, my current vehicle does not have one. It does it, nope, so I actually asked for a uh Apple Play compatible hands-free device for the vehicle. So um yeah, and then I got asked a lot of questions today about what I wanted. And that's that's it. I think I think most ads, it's like I just want to maybe grill, spend some time outside, and then just sit back and relax. Yeah. I would love to watch an uninterrupted World Cup match. Yeah, we lost our viewers. They're gone. No, like it's I tried to watch, I watched a little bit of Scotland Morocco today, and the kids were like, ah, and I'm like, uh Yeah, good job, kids. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 49:58

Uh uh, myself, um, I want a this is gonna sound really bad, but let me clarify and say what it is specifically. A bidet. A weed torch. Dude, yeah. Um, it is something you hook up to a propane tank and then it shoots out flame and you take your weeds out that way instead of spraying Roundup on it. They're really cool. Really cool. You can use Or give me a Tesla flamethrower, I guess.

SPEAKER_02 50:27

You can use them to bend conduit. Oh. Like PVC. That's what we gotcha. They're fun. You'll burn the conduit because you're having too much fun.

SPEAKER_01 50:37

Oh. But I'd have to have conduit in order to have fun.

SPEAKER_02 50:42

Yeah, you can just burn weeds, burn other stuff. Yeah. It's pretty fun. Houses? Probably not not with a smile on legalists.

SPEAKER_01 50:52

Um, and there's something else. Kind of just escape. Oh. I don't get to do this a whole lot, but when I do, it's nice to do. But I like playing video games, and um, I really want to check out Halo. Okay, so.

SPEAKER_02 51:10

Yeah, they're remastering it, dude.

SPEAKER_01 51:12

Yeah, so they already remastered it once, and now they're remastering it again, and they're adding in three missions. Yeah. So, like, out of my own money, I don't want to pay for it. If somebody had me a copy I could play, I'd much rather do that because I just feel like those missions aren't gonna live up to the hype. Right.

SPEAKER_02 51:27

I heard they're also taking it out of first person options. You can also do third person, yeah. Which I'm like, and that was kind of the staple of Halo. Cause what was that one? OS ODS T O D S T, yeah. That one. That was that was a bad game. I didn't like it.

SPEAKER_01 51:48

Is that the one where it's like a board? Yeah, no. So they had quite a few games out there for a little while that did that, and I was never a strategy guy like that. Speaking of strategy, they jump into this week's wild card.

SPEAKER_00 52:08

Yeah, that was a good segue.

SPEAKER_02 52:21

Alright, this week's wild card. I'm gonna start with we have two. One's a listener's submission, but we're gonna speak of soccer, Uno Doe. Go! Alright, so I'm gonna pull a switch or we're gonna start with the last one. Okay. Uh, just because you know it's it's a little bit, yeah. Um, so like what we did on Mother's Day, what TV slash movie dad would you pick to be your dad?

SPEAKER_01 52:50

And then are you doing part two too? Yeah, we'll do that. Okay. Yeah. So to be your dad, if I had a pick, I mean, there's some crazy dads out there, but my pick was gonna be Tim Taylor from Home Improvement. Solid pick. Um, yeah, he fun guy, comedian, um, who fixed things and he was very hands-on with his kids, I felt like, and um I mean he just taught him in a fun way, I felt like. Like the lessons in life, you know. So, um wasn't beating his kids, wasn't a drunk, not a drug addict, so he pretty cool dad, in my view. Yep. How about you?

SPEAKER_02 53:37

Um, yeah, I'm gonna have to try and think outside the box here, because yeah, Tim, which is funny because from my mother's day was the Jill Taylor. Um, but uh definitely not Mufasa, because that's pretty sad. Um I'm just trying to think of the dad that you're just like uh I'll go this one. It's a wonderful life. His dad. Because he he acknowledges and gets to tell his dad that his dad's a good guy and he did a good job.

SPEAKER_01 54:15

It's been so long since I've seen that movie. Is that the one that's in the um drugstore that hits him? No, no, that's Mr.

SPEAKER_02 54:21

Gallery and then uh it's Maxim Gun. Anyway, no, this is uh Yeah. Different era. Anyway, the uh the the dad he ends up dying, which you know kind of sucks. Um spoiler alert. I'm sorry if you haven't seen this super old movie. Well, according to some things, that's a real quick time. You know, 62 years is a real quick turnaround for you know honoring fathers. But um I just think he learned a lot from his dad. He got a work ethic instilled on him from his dad, and I think the coolest part of that he was able to see that, acknowledge it, and thank his dad before his dad passed away. And uh I think that's something that you know a lot of a lot of people hopefully get that opportunity. Um wow man, I'm turning this show like really right back to how I started. But just like I think a lot of dads do sit in the background, like they're very active in the fact that like they're they're literally I don't know, my wife and I've had have had conversations like this where it's like, what are your dreams? And I was like, dude, when I got like not dude, I told her when I got married and had kids, like my individual dreams kind of died when I got married. Like we became one flesh, we now had dreams, and then had kids. Well, now I have dreams for my kids, and I've almost like I haven't given up on my dreams, it's just definitely back burnered to where it's like, yeah, I'll do some of those things if I everything else is done, but I'm actively working toward these things for my children. I have goals for them and stuff, so um it's just I don't know, that's kind of where it's like to see that your dad sacrificed a lot. Like I've heard somebody say, like, laugh at your dad's dad jokes because he used to be one of the funniest guys you would have ever met when he before he had you. So like I was like, man, that's a way to look at it, but it's like your dad was somebody before he became uh a dad, you know, and and he had ambitions and stuff, and then they've changed a little bit because he he's got responsibility and he's taken care of and he's providing for you. So it's like to acknowledge that before they slip out into eternity is is something that I I think a lot of people don't realize and acknowledge and thank them for because being a dad can be a thankless job, you know. Yeah, so with that, let's take the show even more deep into that. We have a listener submission for the second part of the wild card.

SPEAKER_01 57:23

Can I stop you? Yes. Hey, so what TV movie dad reminds you of your own dad? Reminds me of my own dad? Yeah. I can go first. You can, because I've talked about Andy Taylor from the Andy Griffith show. It's a solid one. Yeah. High on morals, values, always doing the right thing.

SPEAKER_03 57:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 57:43

Yeah. Yeah. I think uh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 57:48

Mine would be Tim Taylor. Good dad, always doing a project, always somehow hurting himself a little bit, and uh more power. So he didn't jump on the lions, though, that's for sure. He uh but the listener submission question is what do you hope your kids learn from you as a father?

SPEAKER_01 58:11

Um, to have a stronger faith than I ever did. But then last but not least, I've heard this kind of like another saying that you hear. Um, your dad is truly the only other man that you know that wants you to become greater than him. Like, truly. Like, just wants you to have more, able to do more. Um so I mean other than having a stronger faith in what I did, but also teach him kind of like how I did. Appreciate the small things in life. You if the big things come, you're gonna you're gonna love it, you know. Um may not have much in this life, but you know, the one thing you do have is your integrity, your honesty. Um that can't be bought. And uh yeah. A lot of virtues and morals and values. High on my list. What about you, sir? Well, ultimately I hope they learn that they have a need um for salvation.

SPEAKER_02 59:32

Uh that they realize that they're a sinner and that they cannot go to heaven without the Lord Jesus Christ um asking him into their heart and to forgive their sins. Um and then how to live a life that is pleasing to God. Um and just um hopefully, hopefully they learn how to be a good dad. Like, I mean, I only have one son, but just how to be a good spouse, a good parent. Um I guess before that, you know, a good Christian. Um which all three of those I feel like I have miles to work on. Um that's why I I like the question saying, hope your kids learn. Um yeah. That's just you know, trying to make daily self reflections to where I I see, okay, this is where I've failed in this, and trying to make and implement the change. These are areas I need to step up in. And if I think if our kids learn that, then they'll hopefully be do better than me, you know. Um I don't I don't think it's that hard to do better than me, but you know, uh I feel like my kids and I I don't think this is just uh a parental bias. I think my kids are good kids, and I think they will do really great things. Um I think it's gonna be easy for them to pass me. Um they're really smart, they're very talented kids, so yeah. That's I guess three areas, you know, be a better Christian, spouse, and a better parent. So yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:46

With the heavier note, let's get out of here, guys. Happy Father's Day, all the fathers, happy father's day. Yes. If you're doing what you're supposed to be doing, providing, helping out, putting yourself last, putting your family first. Well, technically second, but putting them before yourself, have a happy Father's Day. If you're not, we can always do better, make tomorrow a better day. Thanks for listening to This Today Show, and don't forget to stand. Thank you.