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Speaker 2:With school ending and the temperatures rising, we're thinking about one thing Summer 2025, powers Point Podcast, season 5, episode 20. This episode should be called the Boys Are Back in Town because it's been a few weeks. This episode should be called the Boys Are Back in Town because it's been a few weeks. The last podcast you guys heard is Keith pulling off a solo Kiss album and knocking one out just to get us content. So it sounded good, People dig it and they appreciate the sound effects and the swearing that you bleeped out, because he made like a bouncing ball.
Speaker 2:You know, like every time that he would swear, he would censor himself and he edited the show. So all I had to do is upload it, man. So that was a great touch. But I missed you guys, man. And before I get to you guys, I'm Scott Powers, and if you're joining us for the first time, see, it's been so long since we've done it, man, I'm all out of whack. But if you're joining us for the first time, hey, we appreciate it and welcome to the family. And for those that are tuning in and following us and listening every week, we still appreciate you and tell your friends about us and let's get more family members in With me. As always, we got Jim Banks, howdy, howdy, howdy and Keith Mackey.
Speaker 3:It's good to have the boys back Seeking in the void.
Speaker 2:All right guys. What have you been up to, both of you?
Speaker 3:I've been recording podcasts by myself.
Speaker 1:You're sounding sad and echoey.
Speaker 3:Correct and no other than that. You see, we got us a brand new addition to the family. We brought Lord Julius into the family and, uh, we brought uh lord julius into the family, who's a beautiful little teacup. Chihuahua, little girl boy the little man. He's gonna rule the house even, even, uh dally's getting used to him the reign of julius has begun yeah, that's right, that's right if you think leaders are bad elsewhere, where do you see julius? Yeah, he's already dictating, that's for sure.
Speaker 1:Better not be breaking no treats man, he's going to be suing you.
Speaker 2:I told him that he should have named the dog Biggest Dickest from the life of Brian, but that would have been good too, and Keith got him on a whim. Right, it's totally on plan. You just threw that dog, uh, the little cute dog's picture, up on the thing and I was like whoa, that's not dally yeah, so yeah at the top of the hour, we didn't know he existed.
Speaker 1:At the top of the next hour, he was in the house oh my gosh, yeah, and, and he knew that you're like what's that stuck in my shoe?
Speaker 2:oh, it's a dog yeah, and he knew that if, uh, if he told me about it and they weren't going to get it, I would have swapped up in toledo area and grabbed it wow, yeah, so we knew he was.
Speaker 3:He was either way. I kind of feel like, uh, julius got the short end of the stick staying here.
Speaker 1:Aw, he should be somewhere else.
Speaker 3:Right, we'll show him pictures later, but here's where you could have wound up. Bud Chihuahua happened, but now you're here.
Speaker 2:So, as Jim said before, the intro temperature's rising grills are smoking Grills, not girls. Oh, and they are too. They are too, If you're.
Speaker 3:One that's beaking currently.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so we got all that going. We got the grass cutting. That's like two times a week for me lately.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And it's I don't know Karen likes keeping it pristine, so I I go out there and cut the fronts and uh, yeah, well, you gotta do what you can do so. We'll be talking about that after the commercial. But come on, guys, it's been weeks. What else have you guys been up to man so far? Jimmy, almost out of school.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's only got Monday and Tuesday next week, that's it.
Speaker 2:See, why not finish on a Monday. I always hated that, and you know you've already turned your books in and you just go there and sit there and BS or watch a movie.
Speaker 1:Well, they had, like, what was that recently? This whole last 10 days they've been doing like special days, like bring a stuffed animal day, or camping day or beach day, or like teach the teacher day. Like he just had, wednesday was Teach the Teacher Day and he brought, he wanted to teach her about the periodic table. So he had a poster with the periodic table, a book to show her what they look like. And he brought, like he has this plexiglass, this rectangle, and it has all the elements in there that you can have at home. They're literally in there. Yeah, there's little, tiny, little bit of everything. Wow, that is cool. It was a trust thing because it costs so much money. And I'm like, dude, do not lose. This, cost so much money. And I'm like, dude, do not lose this, because this is going to help him, like, uh, take steps to getting a uh what's it called? A uh cell phone in a couple years or whatever okay.
Speaker 1:I'm like this is a trust thing. You can't just say I don't know what happened to it because this thing costs like a hundred or more dollars. I'm like this is dude, you can't lose this thing right then, that's good, that's.
Speaker 3:That's's at least starting to teach the responsibility.
Speaker 1:Here's what it looks like.
Speaker 3:Okay, I don't die.
Speaker 1:And it's got the little bit, little bits of elements inside it. It's like see-through.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that is cool.
Speaker 1:But he was so happy and they were impressed that you know he was. He's that passionate about the periodic table and like hydrogen and copper and all that stuff.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's killer man. You think he's going to go into some form of like chemistry or something?
Speaker 1:He wants to, but then again he hates like schoolwork and stuff. So I'm like dude, you got to do a lot of work to get into that stuff.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you know that's still. Though that's awesome man, you never know, maybe go into like pharmaceuticals or something like that.
Speaker 1:Something.
Speaker 2:So we're going to take a quick commercial when we come back. We're going to lighten up the mood, lighten up the grill.
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Speaker 2:You know being guys. Uh, summertime's here, man. We like to pull out the grills, like to have fun, like to put the tunes on, like to go to places. What's your guys' idea of summer, man? What are you guys wanting to do? And if you guys are staying home, what do you got on the grill?
Speaker 3:My dad's burger on the grill probably has to be my favorite burger that I believe I've ever had. He's in because he makes them. They're so big. You know, you remember when eddie murphy described the burger was like the big meatball. Yeah, that's kind of what my dad makes, but man, they are delicious nice, you eat these sides with it or you just eat the burger I guess that I don't know.
Speaker 3:I got they like, they like corn on the cob and uh, you know all that stuff and I guess the um we do a lot of macaroni and cheese oh man, I love it, I love the mac.
Speaker 2:What, uh, what do you got on a burger?
Speaker 3:uh me, I like, I guess. Uh, the fancy sauce. I usually I'm not a mayonnaise eater but I do like, like a, a skim of mayonnaise with some ketchup on it every now and then I have a pickle on, you know, on that so.
Speaker 2:So, basically, plain with a skim of mayonnaise pretty simple.
Speaker 3:Yeah, pretty simple, pretty plain, just because I don't know, I just I'm not into vegetable matter that much. I never really my taste never really matured like that you know right how.
Speaker 2:About you, jim, you, jim, what do you got on the grill man?
Speaker 1:Pretty much just cheeseburgers, hot dogs, sausages, maybe some grilled veggies, that's about it. Like peppers and stuff, nothing like crazy. Not like lamb or like T-bone steaks or nothing.
Speaker 3:Yeah, pop folks can get one of those big griddles.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what we want to get too. Yeah, possible to get one of those big griddles? Yeah, that's what we want to get too. Yeah, our, I'm tired of the grill, uh, the grill with the uh grate, and then the stuff falls through it. Right, we pretty much decided in about a couple weeks we're going to get one of those uh flat griddles at my work and stuff and just okay, those okay see like, like I got the grill that has the propane and the charcoal and then the smokers on the other side.
Speaker 2:But then Karen got me for Christmas, uh, the 32 inch electric griddle and uh, they don't like the smell of bacon in the house. So on the weekends, man, I go out at like four, 35 o'clock in the morning, fire up the griddle, sit in the it's like a hot box in here, dude, Like cause I don't, I leave the door shut and everything. So it's like nothing but bacon smell. Man, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:That'd be heaven.
Speaker 2:Oh, dude. And then I start making pancakes and then I start sending Keith pictures of the bacon, like super early in the morning. Man like look, and it's like, oh, it's bacon, you know like uh, but yeah, jim, get that man, because it's amazing man, you can make omelets, you can make uh, like great scrambled eggs on there and as long as it has little walls and stuff on the side and and it's got the the drain on the back, uh, just, it drips down into the grease pan, but, like for the blackstone, it has a uh, nonstick area.
Speaker 2:So, like you can make pancakes, I don't even take it upstairs to wash, I just wipe it down with a rag and it's back to normal. That's awesome. Yeah, what do you get on there? What the uh grill the burgers and cheeseburgers when you when they're when they're eating their burger, when they're eating like a burger man, what do you put about it?
Speaker 1:just, we all, we all, three of us like cheese on ours and then just, uh, pretty much the condiments, like we talked in that one episode, like a barbecue sauce, uh uh, ground mustard, stone ground mustard on one side, then the barbecue on the other, and then, um, like relish or cheese in the middle.
Speaker 3:Oh man, oh, that's, that's a construction there, that's the, uh, that's the institute. A1 is also delicious on a burger.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, If you like.
Speaker 3:I feel like I don't go to a one route enough, If you like. I feel like I don't go the A1 route enough.
Speaker 2:If you blend that in with like ground ground beef man and make patties and the A1s in it, ah, pretty dang good man.
Speaker 3:Does the burden taste like A1?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like I got to put like a big thick slice of onion on mine, tomato, mayo, sometimes no lettuce, I hate when lettuce wilts. It's just like, yeah, it's gross, and then uh like garlic pickles and then uh.
Speaker 1:You like dragging it through the garden.
Speaker 2:I do man, I do the rabbits. They fall behind. They know they'll go on the grill next. But for like, if I'm smoking man, because I always try, I'm not an expert smoker man.
Speaker 4:I am.
Speaker 2:It's kind of clear there right now, man, I don't see no smoke rising up.
Speaker 3:No, not this time though.
Speaker 2:But we got a. I like trying to smoke ribs or like some kind of. Sometimes we smoke cream cheese. We'll put the cream cheese in the smoker for like an hour with. It stays solid man. But if you put like this, yeah, I was going to ask that. If you put like seasoning on it, man it blends in. Seasoning on it, man it blends in, like if you put like a garlic herb seasoning on it and then uh, after like, the hour.
Speaker 2:It's like a spreadable man on crackers. Man, oh, it's so good, it's so good. You know, when I first heard that smoke, I'm like that shit's gonna melt, you know, and it stays solid, man, uh, it's pretty good.
Speaker 3:Now do you?
Speaker 2:guys have a garden at the house. No, no, I just started an herb garden at the house.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:You know, we got sweet basil, regular basil, italian seasoning chives. We got a couple other things that are growing outside. So if I want to fancy something weird, I'll pick something off of that and see what I can do.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we have stuff that my mom planted years ago that's like annuals, that keeps coming back, but we have a groundhog that pretty much eats it. Yeah, now my mother-in-law she has an amazing garden like, uh, it's, it's, it's has like columns and uh, like an archway, like all that you know.
Speaker 1:I mean, it's, it's decked out, pretty, pretty amazing we need to get like a fence for our yard. That way I can uh, because there we have the bike trail right behind us and if I put anything in our yard we're gonna have people like wandering right to us and we don't know you know for the people that that take all that time and they got like all these like bell peppers and tomatoes and cucumber awesome and amazing.
Speaker 2:Man, I like envy them. Guys like keeping the rodents out from eating the stuff you know, like like everything's perfectly lined up. I can't make a line. If my life depended on it, man, I can't see straight. But, uh, what else are you guys looking forward to this summer? Any plans for vacations or if the finances are great.
Speaker 1:That's our whole thing. We had like last summer we had plans and then, uh, merlene had the hospital thing there's a lot this spring and stuff so that we were, and then we're starting to get the bills now from chicago university and we're like, uh man, I don't know what uh summer we're to. If we planned it, we wanted to go to Tennessee. They have this in Chattanooga. They have this huge aquarium that has like saltwater and freshwater animals.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Because Jimmy loves aquariums and we wanted to go there.
Speaker 3:But we have a badass aquarium here, yeah.
Speaker 2:It's also right down the street from Lookout Mountain, so if you like Civil War man, that's like a huge part of the.
Speaker 1:Civil War. Like I said, with the finances we might not be able to go to Tennessee this summer. So we'll be looking for like small local attractions or like an hour or two radius from us, like if something on a weekend or something, because I don't know if we'll have time off and stuff with her. We took a lot of the time for her uh hospital stay.
Speaker 2:Jim, have you ever been to the blueberry fest? When I was a little kid, we did you check it out now, man, it's in plymouth, it's free to get in. Man, uh, lots of vendors, women like it, lots of food, guys like it and lots of things for like kids to do that's all free, like amusement park rides and it's, it's on now uh, it starts in uh on labor day weekend, so it's kind of like the end of uh summer, but that's like a huge thing and turning no damn blueberries there man.
Speaker 1:Doesn't your family go to? Like a lot of the events around here for the summer and that?
Speaker 2:We go to like a lot of festivals like Lynn and all, we jump in the car and go somewhere.
Speaker 1:You got to send me a list of that stuff, because I really want to do that stuff this year.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's actually a website, man, man, that shows like all the festivals in indiana and like the prices to get in and uh, you know like there's ways to get around. Like the county fairs man, you got the free before three. Uh, yeah, so like you dip in and uh, how are you guys like liking festivals and dealing with like crowds of people and my wife's hand.
Speaker 1:She, my wife, hates crowds. But I mean I, with the way I grew up with my family doing all that stuff, I mean I don't mind crowds. And then I'm the one that'll go out to big places and a crowded area and I don't, I don't really mind, but her, she, like it, drives her nuts yeah see, I say I don't like a crowd until I'm in one.
Speaker 3:You guys have seen me in a crowd yeah why you could see I I'm not bad in a crowd, I just I don't.
Speaker 1:I always say I don't like a crowd, but I guess I'm okay, you know it's probably that when you're, when you're in it and you're thinking about oh my God, I'm in a crowd, then you start in your head, start swirling and going out of control.
Speaker 3:But if you just talk to somebody and you're not really focusing on it, yeah, Like you can see, obviously, when we come to the back raker, I pretty much am holding court wherever I'm at.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, it's man. A lot of people ask.
Speaker 1:Like Krogie Fest a couple years ago when Jimmy was little. And where's that? At in downtown, the Whiting, whiting.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And it was pretty much like thousands of people in the road where you're like sardines just going down the road trying to get to the side and we had to push a stroller around and she was in living hell. She was just like freaking the hell out and I'm like oh my god, calm down.
Speaker 3:Yeah, have you know any uh dutch accident house? That's like about? I think it's about an hour away from you guys. We stopped there on the way up the last time. That place is pretty cool and I know it's. It's uh, it's free to go there. Obviously they have stuff that you can pay for while you're there, but it's a it's a pretty cool place. They got like horses and I think it's like an amish kind of thing not this.
Speaker 2:Oh, we got uh ship shawana, we got napanee okay big amish places, man, and uh, there's some good places. If you like food, you know I get shook around amish, oh yeah yeah, okay, I've met many.
Speaker 3:They give me the eyeball man oh, everybody gives you the eyeball they do, don't they? Why is that? I see them. It was always at the train station too. When I take the parents to the train station, there'd be the amish and I'd give like the, you know, the, the how you doing, not the how he's doing, and they would just like stare, you know, stare at me, fucking tough guy behind their beards they could sell evil you see it, I, I seen a motorhome, a motorhome pull up man and and when the door opened, man, all the amish just came piling off man and and like the teens that they didn't have shoes on.
Speaker 2:And then they went into the truck stop and they're like no shoes, no shirt, no service, you know, and and I almost, I almost didn't get that, you know. And then they're still trying to buy stuff and the jag behind the counter is like no shoes, you know, it's like just just let them go, man, they're not supposed to be in a v8 goal.
Speaker 3:And there they go, you know see, that makes me wonder is, uh, them being friendly a stereotype? You know I mean, was I, was I raised, you know, raised on a lie that they were all supposed to be friendly, when they're, just, you know, regular people? If you go to any normal place in east toledo and you start fucking saying hello to everybody is eventually somebody's gonna stare at you the wrong way yeah, especially curry gun.
Speaker 1:he's okay everywhere, it? You know, everybody gets bad reputations everywhere, right? Why are people not? They're supposed to be out every year, right? Hey, I mean everybody. We all know that we're all getting screwed. So I mean, we're all getting it equally. So let's just, you know, everybody calm down. Yeah it's definitely.
Speaker 3:He's the assholes. Right when you can disarm somebody by giving them the, the friendly gesture or whatever, and they're like oh okay, this, yeah, this dude's not giving me the eyeball. Fuck, come on, we're Midwesterners. Come on, I'll ball on that one.
Speaker 2:Oh, man, uh. So we got festivals, uh, and there's always a ton in the area. You got county fairs every week, starting in like June, yeah, and you can actually follow the fair people around. Holy cow, it is tomorrow, man. That's crazy. Wow, worst time gone, man. This is only the 20th episode. I'm like way behind.
Speaker 3:It's quality, not quantity, right.
Speaker 1:We'll keep them coming.
Speaker 2:What, uh, what tunes you guys got playing on the cookouts man.
Speaker 3:Oh geez For summertime. You got to go with Van Halen, right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you got. Uh, I made a list, I made a Spotify playlist. I called it dad bod, Okay, and it's a dad bod playlist and pretty much it's like classic rock and uh, hair metal for guys grilling and stuff right and, like I said, ran halen and zaplin right.
Speaker 3:Like zaplin is good summer, has it too some ccr or something on there oh yeah, yeah. And of course, the cars yeah, yeah, there's some good stuff, man uh.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's some good stuff, man Uh, I got like the tragically hit plan. I got, uh, I don't think. I don't think I have anything over the eighties other than the other than the hip plan. Okay, and you know, just kick back grill, Cause most of the time everybody's just in the house waiting for you to cook all the food. While they're having fun, You're out there working over the smoke. Yeah, so we got that, but what's like your number one summer song?
Speaker 3:Oh jeez, I'd have to say Summer Madness by I believe it's the Commodores. It's a mostly instrumental song. It's real mellow. That might be my favorite summer song. They kind of do a knockoff of that song in the first Rocky movie. You know where he comes in in the beginning after his first fight and he turns the radio on and he's talking to his turtles. Yeah, first fight, and he turns the the radio on and he's talking to his turtles. Yeah, it's that. It's like. It's kind of a uh like, uh, uh, that song is kind of like a knockoff of, uh, summer madness I don't know what summer song I'd like.
Speaker 2:Yeah, how about eddie cochran's summertime blues?
Speaker 3:summertime blues is great. Yeah, uh, summertime rolls by jane's addiction. That's a great one, in my opinion. That's one of my favorites, for sure.
Speaker 2:I haven't heard Jane's Addiction in a long time.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, Summertime Sadness. Lana Del Rey, that's a good one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, some good stuff, mm-hmm. What else you guys do this summer?
Speaker 3:I'm hoping to do some swimming this year. I love swimming, I miss swimming, I miss swimming. I haven't gone swimming since I had a membership at the YMCA and I've been going because when I go in the morning to try and get laps, all the 70-year-olds would be lined up butt fucking naked in the locker room waiting. You know what I mean crowding the door so they can get a lane in the lap lane.
Speaker 1:Oh, my God.
Speaker 3:And it's like ridiculous. They're all like. I kid you not. These dudes are standing.
Speaker 1:Swimming around.
Speaker 3:One guy's sitting down, the other guy's standing up with his dick hanging about three inches from the other guy's face, while they're just discussing each other's lives and vacations and stuff like that, I'm like, all right, maybe the 5 am crowd at the Y ain't for me.
Speaker 1:Is this like an old person porn? What's going on around here?
Speaker 2:Oh, man why You're sitting on a bench drying off man. You got your towel like clean drying your hair off and the dude kicks his leg up on the bench. Man, he's like powdering his balls.
Speaker 3:And it's I'm working here Getting the undercarriage there. You tough Get a good dusting on the undercarriage.
Speaker 2:It's hotter. I've heard the balls is like drifting your way and it's just not as balls. He long fell to somewhere else. Oh, fuck man. You can always come swim with the dogs here. Man, they got like three or four pools in the yard.
Speaker 3:Oh wow, we have a dog pool. We swim with the dogs here.
Speaker 1:man, they got like three or four pools in the yard. Oh wow, we have a dog pool. We have one that like kind of folds open that's like this, this real thick vinyl, that bad boy is pretty cool. I gotta take jimmy to the beach every time I help. Oh man, yeah, because we? I don't think he ever was swimming.
Speaker 2:I used to love swimming at like, uh, in the lake, but, dude, I'm just rip tides man, rip currents man, like scared the shit out of me. Yeah, you know, because you you hear too many stories, man, and I've had a few friends they don't know how to like get out of that damn current man when you switch you out right, uh, now, jim, are you talking the dunes like in in the up?
Speaker 3:indiana all the dunes in ind, the UP Indiana. Oh, the dunes in Indiana, heels, heels.
Speaker 1:Right on the bottom lip there the Chesterton and Gary we don't know the Gary one we go to like Chesterton area and around there Michigan City.
Speaker 3:Oh wow, I didn't know there was dunes in Indiana.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a couple years ago, man, a kid ran up this place called Mount Baldy, which is like a really steep dune, man, and it's really big, it's over five feet.
Speaker 2:And dude, it was like a sinkhole man and the kid fell in through the sinkhole and the sand came over him, and a lot of sand. But the thing that saved him is because the sand, uh, when it blew up over the trees you know, is it over the the centuries that they was sitting there, you know, like the trees like kind of like overhang, they gave him breathing space. But, my god, now they don't want you on mount baldy, because I can see why. Damn, like, the kid just got swallowed, like, uh, the pit and return of the jedi man oh, could you imagine that shit?
Speaker 3:oh, my god, jesus do you remember the baldies from the wanders? You'll see that movie, the wanders not in a long time and wall and like, uh, I can't remember who else is in it, but yeah, damn that'd be messed up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's funny so make sure you tie a rope around Jimmy as he's going up the dunes and banging around his wet face.
Speaker 1:Well, it's gonna be funny because he's gonna be like he's gonna be walking with us the dune trails and he's gonna be like I can't do it. I'm like come on, man, I did this as a kid, just keep walking did uh, and he's going to be like I can't do it. I'm like come on, man, I did this as a kid. Just keep walking.
Speaker 2:When's the last time you've been to the dunes? Oh God, it was the 90s or something. They got a wooden board on all the trails. They have a wooden boardwalk around all the trails now. So now you can walk in the sand. Yeah, you're not even walking in sand. Walking in sand, yeah, you're not even walking in sand. And they have a uh in, uh in, uh. The chesterton area, man, they have like a preserve, a wildlife preserve, and it's got like snakes in there, like a little zoo. Uh, it's like a building, it's like a learning center.
Speaker 1:So you might like that, you know my aunt used to take us, me and my cousins all to the dunes. We would just dressed up in camouflage and we would just be walking the dunes forever, go to the beach and stuff wow, like you still like uh green camouflage, or like the desert camouflage green oh okay, yeah, that well, that was plenty. Yeah, back in the 80s.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, there's a lot of, there's a lot of forest. Been on the dunes too, you know, and it's it's really nice man like really nice indiana dun and it's really nice man like really nice Indiana Dunes, and it's our state park, one of the state parks here.
Speaker 1:And if you didn't like? In the 80s they only had green camouflage, unless your parent was like part of a desert camouflage. They never sold that desert camouflage or anything else besides green when we were kids, so we just all dressed in green.
Speaker 3:Oh, I got plenty of that yeah, I grew up with an army surplus store about two blocks away or about I don't know about, but about half a mile away that's actually still there. They got some great deals on it.
Speaker 2:Scott would go nuts, I'm sure well, dude, they got a bunch of uh. Well, they don't have as much as they used to, but there's a two or three in the area that I like to go to. Man, I just love the smell of the inside of it. Man, it's like musty. They all sound the same.
Speaker 1:Smells like freedom.
Speaker 3:There you go. That's the name of the episode.
Speaker 1:Smells like freedom. Summer smells like freedom.
Speaker 3:Summer smells like freedom.
Speaker 1:There we go man, go man. Summer, summer 2025. What about our dream, our goal, dream vacations?
Speaker 3:you know where I could take the dogs that would have would have to be at this point yeah, they still.
Speaker 1:They're starting to get the ground ready to build that dog park right at the end of our block.
Speaker 3:Oh wow, there's one about an hour away from here up in Michigan, that was like really nice, and we tried to take Dally there last year, but it was cold and rainy and it was nasty as shit. And then we, you know he hadn't been with us that long, so when we got him out it was like he wasn't going for it. And then when other dogs started walking by, he really wasn't going for. It was like all right, this is a bad idea. It's cold and so let's go well with this new guy.
Speaker 3:I mean, he's so small, you probably could have four bushes and it could be like a forest for him oh yeah, well, he fits in pocket, you know, I mean because he sleeps on my wife's chest, more or less inside her cleavage, and I always say that that little guy's living my dream. I've always won, I've always wanted to do that and I've been very vocal about expressing that.
Speaker 1:She knows hey, buddy, save some for me, man, I think my road trip for the summer.
Speaker 2:I'm trying. I'm gonna drive back up to canada. Uh, probably in august because, okay, if, if Natalie kicks off at the movie, I'm definitely going to be up there.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you'll be an alien.
Speaker 1:Well, after what you're going through, you deserve to go up there and be in a movie.
Speaker 2:Well see, then I would feel guilty because my dad's not to get back into that. You know, like if something happened to him then I got to come right back home.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but how long are you going to him? Then I got to come right back home. Yeah, but how long are you going to be gone, really up there, like a week maybe Dude Right, you did it outside 24 hours before.
Speaker 2:My time, my time is is like 24 to 48 hours. I'm back in.
Speaker 1:I'm sure.
Speaker 3:Make that record.
Speaker 1:I'm sure he could be on his best behavior and stuff for 48 hours. For the sake of you, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:You just tell Natalie to be waiting on the side of the road with your hand out for a handshake. You just drive by, shake her hand a bit, just turn around and go home Like oh, broke the record dude I, I did, man.
Speaker 2:It was almost 1400 miles in less than 24 hours yeah I drove and then my transmission went out on me when I got back, that's iron man's up right there now everything's rebuilt so, uh, it should be ready to go.
Speaker 2:I'm all ready to go back up, man. And then my dad's like man, I wish I can go with you. And I was like, dude, you got a passport right. He's like somewhere. I'm like man, you know, but with his medical I don't know all the pills and everything he takes. It's like, yeah, I don't know. It's just, I don't know I I kind of like a little road trip by myself, man, or with a friend man, just listen to some tunes, kick back, go to places that we've never been.
Speaker 2:You know I stay in the shadiest ass hotels because I don't, I don't plan on sleeping today. You know like I like to go out and experience. But you know like when me, kade and, uh, brintley alexander dawson, we went, went to Tennessee to wrestle, you know I booked us in a hotel and every hotel room had a hooker standing outside a door. Oh my God, it was good times, man, I bet. But that's my ideal man. I just love driving up there. It's like calm.
Speaker 2:You know, I do do what I want to do. I tell the wife when I'm coming back and she don't believe me. And the next thing, you know, I walk in two minutes late from the time that I send and I get the business. Oh, too many, yeah, but at least you had a good time. But you know, like I could spend, spend 300 on a hotel, but when I I could, you know, but I don't plan on being there. So if I can get a 30 hotel, it looks the same when my eyes are closed, man, you know. I mean I just make sure all my clothes and bags are like up in the air hanging. Oh my God, I don't want. No, and if the bathroom's clean, I'm cool man.
Speaker 1:Scott's Roach Motel.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I know $300 will get you one night at the Bellamere Inn and if you've never heard of it, maybe you should look it up. Bellamere Suites is in Perrysburg, ohio. There's one in Perrysburg and I think there's only one other in the States. It's an adult-only hotel that my wife and I have gone to I think four times. They have pools inside the room and all that. It's some of the you know as far as, like a couple thing, it's one of the nicest places I've ever been.
Speaker 1:Dude $300.
Speaker 2:Yeah, popped right up man.
Speaker 1:Well, get dude $300. Yeah, popped right up, man. Well, get you more. In canada, too, $300. Get you a poutine special and I'm not talking about food.
Speaker 2:Hooker is up there yeah, nothing wrong with that man. Uh, so what else, guys? What else you guys get excited about summer. I know, being a father of like young kids like Kaylee, kylie and Jimmy, I mean you get to kind of see summer through their eyes as well, you know. So I can only imagine you can reminisce like oh, back in my day, and then it starts sounding old. What else is like the whole family like really like looking forward to?
Speaker 3:um, uh, kylie might be a bad example because she's one of them today's kids where she lives for her, uh, her, uh, what do you call it?
Speaker 1:her tablet yeah, her tablet exactly yeah, he's watching youtube every second. I gotta get him off there and we're gonna start putting. The summer is gonna be like restrictions and stuff and it's a great idea he loves doing crafty stuff, though that's what, that's what it is. I mean, if you take it away from him or it's broke, he's like all right, and he just starts doing craft stuff.
Speaker 3:But I I agree with that and I believe, uh, my daughter is that way due to, uh, my, you know that's that's my fault. In that case, it, for exactly the same reasons, I haven't um come up with enough reasons to keep her stimulated in other places, so that's what she wound up, you know I mean resorting to so it's.
Speaker 1:It's. It's weird because the the newer generation, it seems like for our generation, you could leave us. Our parents did, leave us alone and we had to figure out and imagine and and create stuff our own and we didn't whine to them every second, saying I'm bored, I'm bored, I'm bored, play with me, play with me, right.
Speaker 2:Just never said that like for me, for me, me and like my friends. We'd always disappear in the woods, man, we'd build forts.
Speaker 2:We'd be climbing trees you know, just yeah, sports. But I was more of a. I'm hanging out in the woods all day and I don't care. That was pretty army days, so no wonder why I went in uh little scotty's building a bomb. We used to play like war games in the back and riding bikes. Dude, just having fun hitting the trails on the bikes, going down hills real fast, building really shady, flimsy ramps and jumping them, or taking your bike to the top of a slide a really high slide and riding it down and you got a bunny hop at the very bottom right before you hit the edge. Otherwise it goes like angles down and you rack your balls on the handlebars. Not fun, oh my God. But but it's God, man, just thinking of, like, how the generation is nowadays to the generation that we came from and how much more unsupervised fun we had and things that we did that we look back on and be like damn, we survived that yeah, and I mean summers.
Speaker 1:Back then they we would get on our bikes, me and my brother, and we'd go drive to downtown area and our parents did not know where we were. We had a quarter in our pocket to call for a phone call. That was it. Yeah, we just drove, drove around on our bikes downtown. That is unheard of nowadays.
Speaker 3:Yeah the distance from my high school in junior high school to where I lived was something crazy and through nothing but like, uh, you know deep dark parts of, of, uh, fucking east toledo, oh my god.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so I could only imagine as the kids you know I've asked my parents, as I could only imagine as a kid, you know. I've asked my parents. I said could you imagine putting Kylie, you know, at the corner, like where I used to have to catch the bus and fucking have it, you know walk? I'm like no, that would be so scary, whereas I did it every day.
Speaker 2:I would tell my parents that I was going to my friends down the street. Then, uh, I knew this was going to be a long adventure, but for my parents house, I'd jump on the bike and go to this place in downtown hobert, not too far from jim. It was called a friendly frank's comic store and, dude, I used to hang out in the comic book store and I'd always come home with comics because they were pretty cheap back then, you know, and then it was like a whole different world. Man, kids got to use their imagination. We used our imagination, you know. Sure, video games were out, but a lot of people couldn't afford them. But it's like when it was play time to go outside, we came home, you know, we did our thing from school and then we disappeared. So it's just. And then there was nothing. We didn't carry cameras.
Speaker 1:That's worrying about selfies and and well, mainly thing you know, you didn't nag your parents. You didn't nag them at all. You would have got, you know smacked or something, if we're you know screamed at, if you would have said what are you doing, I'm bored? I'm bored and they're like no, shut the hell, you know, get away from me right, right, just be home before the street lights kick on and now I got stuff to do in my house and yard and all that stuff and I can't do it because I got him going.
Speaker 1:I want to do something, I don't do something. You don't take me. You know what? I'll freaking throw you in a second here, right?
Speaker 2:and then I mean it's like power is shifted and then you see a kid. Uh, the kid gets taken somewhere and they're on their tablet and after they just bothered you to get out of the house and then they just go to the tablet. Yeah, you know, or they're too busy taking pictures instead of like enjoying the moment right.
Speaker 3:have you ever seen that comedy? It was like a comedy sketch where somebody robbed a bank and they got away with it because nobody saw him do it, cause they were all looking at their telephones.
Speaker 1:That's hilarious, that's funny.
Speaker 3:I can't remember where I saw that.
Speaker 2:So this is like our summer episode smells like freedom and uh guys, got anything else for the summer plans or are we wrapping this up and uh and uh well if, if you know, we make do with what you got.
Speaker 1:You know, don't worry about other people bragging online that they're going here or there, you know, rome or wherever Right, just I. All I could say is just do what you can do for what you can afford and enjoy the food on the grill. That's it. And how does it guarantee being away from home is a good time a lot of times it's not right.
Speaker 3:A lot of times it isn't huh. A lot of times it's like you can't wait to get home. There's been, and I've been in in really fun shit. Be like all right, this is cool, but I'm I'm ready to go home. I'm sick of this shit.
Speaker 1:I really wish I would have had better options for when we were buying houses. I would have loved to have woods and stuff in the backyard and that. Yeah, so you can go. You want a vacation? Go out there. They're saying what's up there?
Speaker 2:My parents live across the street from the railroad railroad line. We used to jump on the train not not them, but me and my friends, you know because they would kind of like drive slow. And so you just jump on the train, man, and then, uh, wow, it takes you a couple miles down the road, jump off, then wait for the train to come back where's scott?
Speaker 1:he'd be in a he he's pretending to be a hobo. He's gone.
Speaker 2:But most of the time he should train to go to the woods. But that's all I got, man for this episode. And, like Jim said, man, just you know, like, don't try to keep up with the Joneses, man, do what you can afford, because a lot of times things are free, man, and you can have just as much fun. You know, when you drop a lot of money on places, you might not have fun, like Keith said. So you'll feel like you wasted that money. So that's why I don't stay no more like too long. Man, one day is good enough for me. I'm bending out, I don't care how far I got to drive, but, Jim, before we leave, man, what do you got for the quote which Keith gave you a tribute the other day on the podcast?
Speaker 1:That was real nice.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's, all right.
Speaker 1:Okay, here's the quote Be strong, you never know who you are inspiring.
Speaker 2:That one, that one hits me hard, me hard, man, from what we talked about just a little while ago, man that's what I was planning sir.
Speaker 2:No, that's, it's you know. That's why I like these quotes, man, because sometimes, just sometimes, you know, like whether it's from you or you might hear a quote from somebody else on TV and it's like talking directly to you, so that one talked directly to me. So we're good, so, but we thank everybody for joining us. We hope you had fun with the Smells Like Freedom Tour here, and I know you guys aren't going to, but, mo, I know you will and I know you will uh, tell us what you got planned for the summer, man, and and uh and mo, you know you got to come on the show soon. So, uh, that's all I got, guys, and with that from keith, jim and myself, man, we hope everybody has a good week. Hopefully we'll be back next week. I'll talk to you guys later. See you everybody. Bye, thank you you.
