Riding the Laughing Lane: Cycling Culture and Comical Confessions

Speaker 1: 1:13

Well, it's time for Road Adventures with Cycling Men of Leisure, the podcast for cyclists who understand that riding is not just about getting to the destination, but the experience along the way. Now here are the original Cycling Men of Leisure Adam and Michael.

Speaker 2: 1:28

Welcome to Road Adventures of Cycling Men of Leisure. I'm Adam, and always across from me is my good friend, the co-host of Road Adventures of Cycling Men of Leisure across a time zone and hopefully my friend. You did not get hit with baseball sized hail today, michael Sharp.

Speaker 3: 1:47

Hello again, adam. No, no baseball sized hail here. So I mean we're supposed to have some severe weather and some hail? I didn't hear anything about baseball sized hail, oh yeah.

Speaker 2: 1:58

MSN in the Eastern time zone. We're a little bit worried about our, although it did say it was more close to I-70, but still I said Kansas City and of course when I see Kansas City I think of you. And it said Kansas City to see baseball sized hail today.

Speaker 3: 2:13

I thought that's some pretty serious hail. You are getting your weather from a news organization. Just leave it at that.

Speaker 2: 2:22

Oh man, 50% of the time they can be wrong.

Speaker 3: 2:26

All right, so you got a drone. You know when we have a little bit, you know generally when we have like an inch of snow we've got a blizzard a snowstorm has hit us. It's like really there's an inch of snow, so well good enough. They have a tendency to you know, build it up a little bit bigger than it is.

Speaker 2: 2:46

Well, sure, it's a. You know, they got to get more news, more people to click on it. It's clickbait. Oh sorry, I just got a little excited there. Hey, listen, I got to start the show with an apology.

Speaker 3: 3:03

Okay, what did you do now? Now, you're not apologizing for me, are you? Because I didn't do anything. All my facts have been in order, nothing.

Speaker 2: 3:14

Nope, okay, this one, this one's clearly 100% on me.

Speaker 1: 3:21

Okay.

Speaker 2: 3:21

Stop.

Speaker 3: 3:23

Yes, everyone heard that, 100% on. Adam Michael Duh did nothing wrong.

Speaker 2: 3:30

I'm sorry, did you say something?

Speaker 3: 3:36

So what'd you? What'd you screw up on?

Speaker 2: 3:38

Well, you know when, anytime, you're working on something that you're trying to plan for and obviously we plan for the shows to come out and we schedule the shows. And so I was going to go lollygag around the Caribbean on a cruise which we're going to get to in a minute, and so I said to you, hey, we need to do a couple of shows. I told you the date that I was going to be gone and so we kind of put this, this schedule, together to put out the shows, and one was going to be released the day I was leaving and one was going to be released the day that I was landing, but obviously wouldn't have time to record it while I was gone. So, nevertheless, landed back here on March 3rd and a show came out at 4pm Eastern, as it does every other Sunday. We really try our hardest and in that show I did a plug for hey, join our brag team. So during the brag I see where this is going.

Speaker 2: 4:40

Part of the marketing team is if you have 10 or more you can get the jersey, and so we were trying to get the ladies team pumped up and I put on a I put it on thick for a little plug to try to get the ladies to sign up and, as you do at times, I was doing a little research and I wanted to listen to our last show Not that I wanted to hear myself, but sometimes I like to listen to the show to make sure ideas that we can share things back and forth, how we should do it next time. And so I decided, driving back and forth to work, I got about a 20 minute commute to work. I know you have like 13 stairs, which is great that you're not going to get a lot of podcast time getting back and forth to work. For you, but for me it's about 20 minutes. So I said I'm going to listen to our show.

Speaker 2: 5:23

Well, while I was on my vacation, I saw that the brag team had ended March 1st. You had to sign up by March 1st. Well, our show came out on the 3rd and then we were like hey, join our team. And I'm like well, oops. So I want to apologize to everybody. That was not on purpose, that was just poor timing and trying to get everything planned before I decided to lolligag around the Caribbean and so I want to just send out an apology. But besides that, I'm screwed up.

Speaker 3: 6:01

Michael did not.

Speaker 2: 6:03

Hold on, check, one off Check. Adam made a mistake. Mark that up for 542 for the year 2024 so far, so we'll hope to not go above 1,000. But we had a good trip. Good little vacation, good little getaway Couple. Weird things happened, but nevertheless.

Speaker 3: 6:32

Let me stop you there, ok? Periodically, throughout your trip, you occasionally drop me a picture or give me a heads up what was going on. I appreciate Always fun to see what you're doing, where you're going. I, okay, I'm just gonna ask Okay, you work for the government, right? I do a form of the government. So what I'm wondering is if maybe you work for a different part of the government that I wasn't aware of, because it seems like maybe cycling men of leisure has gotten into the espionage, overthrowing small governments, coup d'etat activities. This is why I say this everyone he goes to Haiti Takes a beautiful picture of the beach. Him and his wife are having a lovely time. The next day or two days later, huge prison break and the prisoners storm the palace and demand the ouster of the leader. I Just think that is somewhat coincidental that you happen to be in Haiti following day prison outbreak, boom. So I'm thinking.

Speaker 3: 7:53

No I seems a little suspicious to me.

Speaker 2: 7:57

Well, listen, I mean that part of my life I can't talk about, I'm just kidding. No, I was. I'm not afraid to say I was on a Royal Caribbean cruise and they have the Peninsula of Labadi and Port-au-Prince was like seven-hour drive away, were the unfortunate.

Speaker 3: 8:18

Just craziness and or if you were a Agent, you would just hop on a helicopter and it would be a 30 minute flight. There you pass out your loaves of bread with the sawblades in them, hop back on Two hours. You're back on the beach secret.

Speaker 2: 8:42

No, I must tell you that I don't have a helicopter in my back pocket and it's kind of frowned upon, doesn't get through security on the cruise ship. But no, actually I, I cannot, I cannot take claim for that. I can't, can't confirm or deny, I mean can't confirm that I had nothing to do with the Haiti prison. Although many people have reached out to us and been like, are you guys in Haiti? I'm like, yeah, technically we're in Haiti, but I think we found out that Royal Caribbean has leased the Peninsula of Haiti in Haiti 1987. The guys hold us there.

Speaker 3: 9:24

So you seem to want to create some mystical thing that you were in Haiti. But you weren't in Haiti. Nah, which? I was just Just adds to the story of that. Just sounds suspicious. All I was in Haiti, but I wasn't in Haiti.

Speaker 2: 9:39

Either worry, or it's all I'm gonna say very suspect well, not only was a suspect in Haiti, but so we got back from the trip and my wife's on the treadmill and the here go huh, and I'm like what she's like I'll tell you in a second. And and so she gets off the treadmill and and comes downstairs and she's like, hold on, I'm gonna take a quick shower and I'll come outside and tell you. And I said, okay, what's going on? And she's like, look at this. And she holds her phone in front.

Speaker 2: 10:12

I mean, it was a story of a guy who was a state room attendant, who had placed a camera in a provocative way to watch women go to the restroom. He gets caught and, sure enough, it was on our cruise. Luckily that he wasn't our state room attendant. Now I keep teasing my wife that she's on the dark web. But Poor guys got a lot of sickness. It turned out to be a 10 year old and then they found child pornography. So it was kind of like I'd go back to work. And people like, weren't you on this boat?

Speaker 1: 10:42

Yeah, weren't you on this.

Speaker 2: 10:44

Yeah, so I hope that man can get some help.

Speaker 3: 10:49

But Adam goes.

Speaker 2: 10:51

Chaos follows. Yes, I mean, I mean no. Well, I did not mean that. What was I talking about? So Moving on, moving on. So the last time you and I got together, you gave some hints for something we're calling Cycling men of leisure listener spotlight. You gave some clues. I said I'm gonna text you and I had guessed, at that time, pittsburgh and st Louis, which you politely and ever so kindly told me that I was wrong.

Speaker 3: 11:31

And and you said I was I Alright and then I liked how you hedged your bets. Though I did give one answer, let's give two answers.

Speaker 2: 11:41

Well, sure, up by percent. But then you said. I said well, what is it you're like? You have to wait to a record, yeah, and so now? Now, I'd love to hear the hints again. If you don't mind, I do not know, I'll take one left.

Speaker 3: 12:01

All right, the settlers were drawn to this area due to two large springs. Okay, the current name is not its original name. It was originally named after something that was produced in the settlement, the town on site. Okay, it was renamed later after a revolutionary war hero and the town has a connection to Charles Lindberg, johnny Cash and a kids ballgame. And those were your hints.

Speaker 2: 12:49

You know, the Charles Lindberg is what made me go to st Louis.

Speaker 3: 12:54

Yeah, I figured that one.

Speaker 2: 12:57

But now that you just said kids ballgame, I'm going Louisville, kentucky, with Louisville slugger.

Speaker 3: 13:06

Let me first say that I do not believe st Louis was named after a revolutionary war hero. But that's okay, General st Louis, I'm just kidding. Little known revolutionary war hero. You went Louisville Because I said the children's ball yeah game, yes, that's solid, but that would be Incorrect oh man, that is no now you've guessed three times.

Speaker 2: 13:42

Yes.

Speaker 3: 13:46

So do you want to know what our Spotlight listener, spotlight Community is?

Speaker 2: 13:53

yes, I obviously have taken now three guesses and I've been wrong all three times.

Speaker 3: 13:59

So yes, please um, well, I think I mentioned at some point that you I'm I'm pretty sure you've never been to this town. The town for this week is Starkville, mississippi.

Speaker 2: 14:14

You're right, I've never been to Starkville. I don't even think I've been to Mississippi, now that you say that.

Speaker 3: 14:20

We have had many listeners several, I won't say many, I'll say several listeners from from Starkville, mississippi.

Speaker 2: 14:28

Thank you listeners from Starkville Mississippi. Thank you all listeners, but especially this time that we're spotlighting Starkville Mississippi now Let me let me give you a little bit more detail here.

Speaker 3: 14:40

This city was created in 1834. Okay, it was originally named board town. Hmm, because they had a Good-sized mill there and they used to produce clapboard, which is what they would put used for shingles and put on the sides of homes, so used to be called board town. A few years later they decided that board town wasn't a great name for a community. I agree, town, yeah, mark marketing. Not a good idea on that one. So then they renamed it after general John Stark, revolutionary war hero, and he is best known for the battle of Bennington, which was in New York. Okay, the connection to Linberg cash in a kid's ballgame. I'll explain that. Linberg landed on the outskirts of Starkville In 1927 during his Guggenheim tour. Okay, it's touring around the country, landed there, starkville is one of several places that claim the credit of the invention of t-ball. Oh, wow, kids ballgame and Johnny cash. Johnny cash, in 1965, was arrested in Starkville for public drunkenness.

Speaker 2: 16:06

I would imagine the number would be up a lot higher. This now.

Speaker 3: 16:12

And it even inspired him to a song called Starkville City Jail, which was on his at sand Quentin album. So there you go.

Speaker 2: 16:28

All right, well, interesting. So Thank you, listeners from a Starkville, mississippi, we appreciate your continued support. Um, yes, well, all right. So at the end of the show we will do it again with another city. You, I hope so. I didn't want to put you on the spot. You prepared for another one, absolutely.

Speaker 3: 16:51

Perfect. We've got a lot, a lot of places listeners are listening to us from, so I mean it's Never ending.

Speaker 2: 17:00

Okay, so our friend trip told us that you and I have been looking at some elevation and I was wondering how's the training going?

Speaker 3: 17:14

Uh yeah. So yeah, I'll take a cycle training for 400, please. You know, haven't got out on the road yet, but I have spent some time in the Peloton, awesome. So it's not that I'm not training, um, I mean, I haven't gotten into hardcore or anything like that, but I'm getting some spins in, so I think that's. That's pretty good. Um, as far as elevation, you know, I live in Kansas, so, um, I'll worry about that later, but okay, well, I didn't, I was going to.

Speaker 3: 18:08

I'm going to give you a really smart, I like answer, and then I decided not to. So how was your training going, by the way?

Speaker 2: 18:14

Pretty good, actually, a much, much better. Well, after you go to the doctor and get a little bit of a scare, you don't really have a choice. But that's for another time, another day. Um, but, yes, uh, uh, got some, got some, uh, not such great numbers, and so I've been, uh, actually I've been working out every day. Uh, if we do have a Strava club I don't know if we've ever mentioned that on the show, but uh, we have a group called cycling men of leisure, kind of original there I know, uh, 37 members strong right now on Strava. On Strava it's pretty cool. We, uh, you can go find, you know groups and find cycling men of leisure and join us. And uh, you know, it's just a place to to share workouts and rides. Like last two days I've done well, five, five each day, but 10 miles hiking and uh, um, like to get out and do my hiking and uh, but on the treadmill a lot, uh, I will say our team member bill has been crushing on a bike.

Speaker 2: 19:15

Oh man, every time I turn around it's like chain gang 60 miles, 70 years. I'm like man, the weather in Georgia must be really nice, or he's a brave man. So, uh, or both, good job, good job, absolutely. Um trip had a funny thing today. He parked somewhere and it said, uh, um, something about premarital sex and smoking kills, so it was really funny. So if you, uh, if you saw a trip's workout today, so he had like 20 miles, and so, um, our good friend Juan Juan had like 50 miles. I mean, so those Georgia folks are putting in some miles, we are, aren't they? We never in Georgia, yeah, don't they realize? In Michigan it's going to be like 30 again tomorrow. Um, but, uh, you tell me something.

Speaker 3: 20:07

Yeah, I was going to say uh, peloton, um, we actually have a I wouldn't call it a group you can hashtag. So we're hashtag cycling middle leisure Um, we can go on there and support each other and and follow each other that way. So, um, we're kind of getting to be everywhere.

Speaker 2: 20:25

You could do the pound site. I'm just kidding. You could tag cycling middle leisure on Peloton or search for the group cycling middle leisure. You'll see our our logo there on Strava, if you're a Strava kind of person. So, um, one of the things I see at my office is these some of the employees have these quibbies and I didn't know what they were for QB or whatever, c, u, b, I, I but I'm talking to them. They look like. I know this is a podcast and and YouTube, but if you could see me right now, I'm like Bob, my head back and forth.

Speaker 3: 20:57

We're going back and forth, yeah.

Speaker 2: 20:58

What are you doing? And then they're like, well, I'm pelling my, I'm pelling my under the desk bicycle. I'm like, okay, all right, then, okay, I was shocked, though.

Speaker 3: 21:08

Shocked Cause I figured these QB things, yeah, okay, sure, great idea. You're sitting there, you know, maybe burn a few calories, keep the body moving. I think that's a great idea. But I'm thinking you know, the price of these is, you know, 29.95 plus shipping and handling, and I could probably get a second one for free. Just pay the shipping and handling.

Speaker 1: 21:30

We looked at the price of these things.

Speaker 3: 21:33

They're like 200, $250. I was like you know, don't forget the optional. Uh, yeah, expanded handle and uh telescoping handle, I guess, is what they call it. I was yeah, I was like wow, that's like a serious piece of workout equipment.

Speaker 2: 21:51

Yeah, that's wellness reimbursement money right there, baby yeah.

Speaker 3: 21:56

If you've got that.

Speaker 2: 21:57

Yeah, your company doesn't give you wellness reimbursement.

Speaker 3: 21:59

We don't get wellness reimbursement, but I don't care about your health. Huh, I don't directly work for a government entity.

Speaker 2: 22:08

Well, listen indirectly, but not directly I was going to say they I always joke with you like don't you work for the government, so um, but uh, yeah, we get a little money there, so that's definitely reimbursable. But you know, those things are really heavy, um one of my or handle on it.

Speaker 3: 22:27

I mean I'd I've got to be some weight there. That surprises me.

Speaker 2: 22:32

Well, one of my employees was moving from one office to the other and, um, I said, oh, I'll get this, and I was like holy macaroni. It's like a solid lead, but I guess I think the idea is being heavy that when you want to pedal on the ground it won't move on you.

Speaker 3: 22:45

So really jack up the resistance and it not go anywhere.

Speaker 2: 22:50

Uh, moving along. Um, I want you to know that, uh, I've been in contact with primal. Primal is the company that that Bragg is using for the Jersey for our team for big brag 2024. Uh, I sent in all the logos and uh got some ideas and and what they want on what we may want, what we may want on the on the Jersey, um, so what I'm willing to give away right now is I said that we really want to map from Atlanta to Savannah on the back, um, and then maybe with each overnight town and then uh, so that's something we're trying to get. Of course, the logo um always have to have it's a great day for a bike ride. Um, there's some, there's some requirements from Bragg. I think the Northside hospital has to be on there and Bragg of course and then, um, but uh, so give them a few color schemes.

Speaker 2: 23:49

gonna leave that a little bit of a surprise right now, just until we can get some mockups, but we'll do the same thing we did last year We'll put it on the uh 2024 big Bragg's Facebook page. If you're not joined that yet and you're part of the team, please request it. I'll prove it within seconds. Um, and we'll put the uh, put the rough drafts on there and get maybe a little voting going. I'd like to get some opinions. I wanted to just be you know what, what, what we say and that's it. So we'd like to get some you know what I think we'll.

Speaker 3: 24:19

We should also just throw it on a regular Facebook page too, just for the sake of people being able to see it, see as it develops, what, what it originally started out with, because I know last year when we did this, we had this idea started out. One way, we did allow the team to, you know, do some voting on colors and and designs and stuff, and it completely came out completely different than what we started with, which isn't a bad thing. Um, it's just all part of the process. But that brings up a good question. Yeah, speaking of jerseys, what do you think, now that we're in the process of designing a jersey again, what do you think makes a good jersey? What are you looking for for a good jersey?

Speaker 2: 25:07

If you're talking like a week-long event jersey, I always like like some sort of reference to what's going on or what happened, like overnight towns, like I'm wearing a rag-brite t-shirt today and like each you know circling the balloon here was each overnight town. I kind of like that. So if you want a reference point or it could be a defense mechanism for an argument, in a few years I could pull off the jersey, if I think you're wrong and I can prove it.

Speaker 3: 25:42

Let me go up in the ad. I can dig out that box of old jerseys and I'll prove you're wrong.

Speaker 2: 25:47

I told you we went to social circle. I told you that we did not go to you know whatever. But so, yeah, I like that like a reference to to what was going on during the week, and then I suppose, even so, a reference to where we were going, not what was going on.

Speaker 3: 26:10

Yeah, where we were going because if we were in Haiti, we wouldn't put a prison break on this day, or you know, it's where we were at.

Speaker 2: 26:18

No, but prison break was a good television show back in the day, so I mean you know it was so, but yeah, so that. And then my other opinion would be something just flows looks good, looks good with you know most, not all, but a lot of cycling shorts are black, so a jersey that would look good with black. And then what doesn't look good with black? Oh, I mean, listen, why do you think the uniform we have worked that we have as black for the drivers, who want the drivers to look good, and everything? So when I first started there, you had to wear black shoes, black pants, but I don't know if you ever tried to buy like black pants recently. I mean, first of all, they're all ripped up and you pay more, and so we let the employees wear jeans now, but but they have to have a let's, let's t-shirt on let's t-shirt, are they?

Speaker 3: 27:08

polos or t-shirts polos.

Speaker 2: 27:09

Okay, yeah, it's a little little higher end yeah but but I guess for me for a week long ride now, if it's just a single event, like I like, like malt, maybe like a multicolor, but I guess those are my answers for what I think a good jersey would look like or what it is. What about you?

Speaker 3: 27:37

you know, you know me, I like bright colors. No, yeah, I mean, even if I was in cycling, I still like bright colors like the gorilla century that was for us an orange yes, the gorilla century.

Speaker 3: 27:52

So, yeah, I like bright colors and I agree with you, I do like the map thing. I think that's cool for those week-long rides, kind of show our progression where we went, that type of thing. I also I'm kind of a snob when it comes to brands. Okay, I'll admit that, because we have had a lot of different brands and there's a couple brands out there that I like, that fit me well and that wear well, because the last couple years, we've came across a couple brands that they didn't wear very well. They were comfortable but they just didn't hold up from a wear point of view. So that's a big thing. I usually like those brands you know. Plus, you know what the fit is gonna be versus some of these other ones. Yeah, I also like things that have unique logos and I mean every Jersey's got a unique logo. But what I mean is something that like makes people kind of stop and go. What's that all about? Gotcha? Two examples of that would be what would it be? It would be bike right across Iowa 2018 oh the eagle

Speaker 3: 29:29

yeah, has this big eagle on it and I mean it makes people like stop and go. Oh, wow, that's cool. Yeah, brag 2022, the farm overall, yeah, yeah, that was good. You know, that was good. And also, last year on the 50th wasn't the official Jersey but the goat Jersey, yeah, for for rag brie, yeah, so I like, I like those kind. I mean yeah with this. You know, I mean a lot of jerseys will have mountains on them or this or that, but I like something that really stands out because, quite honestly, you know, I like it when people ask me about rides and then I can, you know, tell them about them, talk to them about them.

Speaker 2: 30:17

So right here is where we were. Yeah, we were right there, that's right.

Speaker 2: 30:26

We're curious now that we're getting into that process yeah, we're in the, we're in the, we're in the process. Speaking of brag, if you're still looking to sign up while they won't, you can't join a team. Can't join a team anymore and I want to get myself in trouble but you can still sign up and save a little money, because the next cost increase this is not a joke, it is April 1st. So you can still save a little money if you signed up for the week long ride before April 1st. Also, brag light, just real quick brag light, as you could do the first three days or the last three days. If you do the full week, you get a day off in between if you choose to take a day off. So that is their shoreline. Our other big week long ride August just spoke to the events director, neil, today. By spoke to, I mean text, to be honest, but says that he's getting a lot of sign up. So if you want to join us there, we got a little surprise going on there. We can do, don't we?

Speaker 3: 31:33

yeah, that's gonna be, that's gonna be cool.

Speaker 2: 31:35

I like it yeah, so please, if you're looking for another ride this year, shoreline, michigan, think, top of the lower peninsula, going from Alpina to Traverse City, but you can check out our other shows.

Speaker 3: 31:51

We definitely beat that horse, so, but with let me just say, with a layover in Mackinac Island, that's gonna be awesome, which is cool, and I you didn't tell me, but I found out on a TV show the other day that it is like the most haunted place in Michigan.

Speaker 2: 32:10

I didn't know said this TV show? Yeah, well Said a TV show. Is that same weatherman that I watched with the baseball sides hail?

Speaker 3: 32:19

It could have been, I don't know, Maybe it is, they were doing a show on Michigan or something and they went to Mackinaw and at the wintertime the place is like dead yeah and yeah. Apparently a lot of creepy things happen in the hotel and things. Oh, of course it does. You're into that kind of?

Speaker 2: 32:36

thing, sure? The other thing I would love just to take a second and plug is Our friend, sarah, and we're gonna drop a link to her fundraising below. Sarah came on to one of the cycling women of leisure shows which we will have again. We're looking for some female guests. So if you're a female and you think that you would be a good interview on a podcast and want to have something to share or spread, please reach out to us. We'd love to hear from you.

Speaker 2: 33:07

But Sarah not only our friend, but we thought she'd be a good interview. She was doing bike and build before and she had Helped with habitat for humanities, while biking helped building homes, and she's doing something like that again she is. We'll drop a link to the show that she was on and we'll also drop her fundraiser link. She's about three quarters of the way to her goal, so I love to share that. So someone's looking to help out a great cause. This helps out people who need a little help in life with homes and Sarah needs to pedal more to help get to places, to help with people With those homes. So we'll we'll share all that information. So awesome Selfish. Plug our Facebook for the men 581.

Speaker 3: 34:02

But now, that's just for the men we have two Facebooks. We've got a men's and a women's. That's right, and so you kind of almost need to double that number for like the total Facebook.

Speaker 2: 34:12

Yeah, yeah, we're definitely. It's a growing, so we love that people are sharing and helping us out so and 100 on Instagram, which I think we've had for what?

Speaker 3: 34:23

Two months or something. Yeah, not very long.

Speaker 2: 34:26

So we're looking. We'll definitely be sharing some stuff as we're doing some events and actual cycling. No, we got to do that. You don't really have to if you have a good friend that can help you get the bike down the road and ride in the last mile and split yourself with some water.

Speaker 3: 34:46

No, I'm like you've done this before.

Speaker 2: 34:48

I mean, I Love, I left everything in the Haitian prison, so that's that's. That's the plugs there. But you said that you wanted to really bring something up that we've done before.

Speaker 3: 35:06

So yes, all right, I'm ready. You know, we did a little segment the end of last year, one of our episodes about Things that may be annoy us. Well, I have some stuff that annoys me. Oh wait, we need to bring that up. Hold on one second. Okay, is that what you mean? That was it? Yes, perfect, rants of dissatisfaction. I have a couple and I want to rant.

Speaker 2: 35:42

Okay, I'm ready, I'm so okay.

Speaker 3: 35:46

It happened to me a couple times. It's happened to me a ton. It's happened to everybody, I think, out there. But this last weekend I'm still working on some projects around the house need to go to the hardware store, had to stop by the grocery store. Things like that Happen to me twice.

Speaker 3: 36:00

Two stores right in a row, very agitating. People are leaving the store with their carts of Goods, okay, and someone is coming in the other way and it's someone they know. Awesome, hey, john, hey, whoever. Right in the doorway, they stop and start having a conversation. Now, Literally right in the way, right in the middle of, you know, the sliding doors, one's got a cart, the other's just walking. They're taking up, you know, five, six feet across and there's like two little Slits on either side that people can try to get through. But if you're behind them with a cart you can't get out. And they see that they're blacking people and they just keep talking Like, yeah, this is my base here exactly and use the other door and you know it's like, well, excuse me, I need to get through.

Speaker 3: 36:58

And Then they're like slow, like you're asking them to do. You know move mountains or something. It's like you know they act annoyed with you that you want them to slide out of the way so that this you know Store can continue doing business.

Speaker 2: 37:16

I can get behind that one. I got one for you too, so I am not a pompous beep. We promise to keep the show your name. Well, I mean not, not in this regard. Okay, so think that that I am only one who's right. What I mean is like when you're walking, we just got off that cruise ship and you'd be walking like down the aisle, and I know that Americans walk on the right and some of the different communities we're not gonna bash the British, are we?

Speaker 3: 37:46

no, no, no, no, just making some some.

Speaker 2: 37:49

But some people walk on the opposite side of the aisle and and and we can get along. I mean, we can be like, hey, how are you? You nod your head. You know, hey, I hope you're having a good day. You know you're both on vacation. But it's the people who walk like three and four wide and Make no room for anybody, and then it just makes me want to almost play like Red Rover.

Speaker 3: 38:14

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 38:18

So yes, my mind would definitely be People who I don't care where you are amusement park, grocery store Just paying your bills at the local whatever. People who walk like three, four or five wide and then don't leave any room for anyone else to get around To me. I think that's a person who definitely needs to hear ransom dissatisfaction.

Speaker 3: 38:44

You know, I bet those are the same people that go shopping, that stop right in the middle of the thing to talk to people.

Speaker 2: 38:49

I bet you're right.

Speaker 3: 38:53

We're ranting about the same people. Absolutely Okay, got another one here. Okay, everyone has that. You know pretty much everybody. You do projects around the house. You have your favorite big box Hardware, slash, lumber yard. You know Guard, sutherland's, home Depot, lowe's, whatever, it might be sure, over the course of the last couple years they, you know they do like all these type of stores, you can Order things online and pick it up.

Speaker 3: 39:27

The problem with it is is nowadays they take those big carts For like lumber and they'll like pile everything up there and they'll write like Dave's name on it and slap it there and Then down the timber section or the lumber section they will line those carts up, which is I guess I got to put them somewhere.

Speaker 3: 39:47

Sometimes they're too deep. The problem with it is is they always seem to be lined up there where I need to get in and and get sheets of plywood and things like that and I'm like, so then I have to spend time moving the carts out of the way so that I can get into by merchandise and load it up to my cart and, you know, leave the store, and so basically, this last time I went in there and they were too deep and I'm like pulling them out. And I'm pulling them out and normally I try to like, okay, pull them out and make it so people can get through. I was just done the other day. I was just like out of the way, get it out of the way, dave, stuff, move All this kind of stuff, because I had to get these big sheets of plywood. So I just like we're moving them out, there, loaded up my stuff and I was like you know what? Sorry, I messed up your system, but I'm just trying to buy a product that you have for sale.

Speaker 2: 40:45

I know where all this is coming from. What is that? You have a project going on and you're retrofitting your office, and you've been to the local big box stores recently.

Speaker 3: 40:59

But I'm just kidding. No, it's totally that and I don't, you know, it's just it's inconvenient. I hate being inconvenienced. Yeah, you know, I get it. There's going to be delays. I'm going to have to wait to get everything rang out, all that kind of stuff. But when I have to, like, dig through carts of stuff your employees have stacked there just so that I can buy the product that I'm there to buy, oh, very frustrating During this little stage in our life that was called the pandemic COVID.

Speaker 2: 41:33

That was huge, because people would put like these massive deck orders together and they would take like all the trucks decking right down the middle. And you know I was building a deck during that time and so you know our buddy Joe would send me the store and be like, okay, I need, you know, well, the nice two by six. I need, you know, eight footers, I need 10 of them. I'd be like, okay, well, go get my van. I drive over there and I'm moving these big carts of trucks decking just to be able to get, to get to the things that I just need to bring, to everyday items or whatever.

Speaker 3: 42:04

So I completely understand that and if it was down the middle, that would help. Yeah, what I want to know is why don't you put it over in the like the last row over? That's like roofing. You know why it's there? Because it's got like chain link fence and, I think, like roofing supplies. Yeah, well, it's at the very end because very few people go to that aisle. Why don't you all stack it down there? Well, because, quite honestly, I don't need roofing supplies and I don't need chain link fence. So maybe I'm just being selfish, I don't know.

Speaker 2: 42:40

I got one. All right, people call me to tell me my extended warranty has expired.

Speaker 3: 42:48

Is that the extended warranty that you never had?

Speaker 2: 42:51

Exactly I always. When they call me, I always say, oh, what would it cost me to warranty a 1985? This is what I drove, this is what I learned to drive on a 1985 Ford Escort. I called it the Chick Magnet. It was a wagon that was a rusted out tailgate, not a Chick Magnet, and my dad was a pilot who had 500 mile an hour tape, so he put 500 mile an hour tape in the back. So I always call it the Chick Magnet. So every time someone calls me I'm like, yeah, yeah, I've got a 1985 Ford Escort. Click.

Speaker 3: 43:24

What can you do for me on a vehicle that's got 485,000?

Speaker 2: 43:28

miles on it.

Speaker 3: 43:30

Not a darn thing, anything else I do have one more. All right, I guess I've been building up a lot of rants lately, or just needed to rant, I don't know. One of the two.

Speaker 2: 43:46

Well, when you don't ever get out of your house, so you don't get to like when I go to work, I get to release all this stress while my employees have to hear on my garbage, like I got getting stressed out about something I'm like. Well, since you guys can't get up from your desk and I can walk where I want, you're going to listen to what I have to say.

Speaker 3: 44:01

Just do your QB or whatever and listen to what I've got to talk to you about. That's right. Yeah, I live in my house, so there's nobody here for me to rant to. All right, we are in the month of March. Yes, that is a couple of months after Christmas, if my math is correct.

Speaker 2: 44:22

I would concur, thank you. This show, if you're listening to, the day that comes out, is on St Patrick's Day, the 17th of March.

Speaker 3: 44:32

So we are a ways away from Christmas. Yes, I was driving around the other night and in my big burgh here and there's still people that have their Christmas lights up. Now I understand there are going to always be people who refuse for whatever reason, don't care, refuse to take down their Christmas lights. Yes, I'm not that guy. I think it's, you know, kind of tacky, Not whatever. It's your house, I mean, you want to leave them up? Great. What drives me insane is two houses I went by have their Christmas lights up and they're still turning them on at night. Why I don't need to see you know your nativity scene lit up or your you know strings of lights around the roof of your house. It drives me insane. It's like, okay, you didn't want to take them down, You're going to be putting them up in 11 months, but why are you still turning them on?

Speaker 2: 45:42

I got one for you. I better be careful how I tell the story, but in my neighborhood there is a I'll just say a house that still has Christmas lights. This person, you know what the next door app is.

Speaker 3: 46:02

Yeah, yeah, yeah, handyman and plumbers and things like that. Yeah.

Speaker 2: 46:07

Okay, so this person advertises that they do handyman work and the willing to come to your house and fix things and everything. And I have been so tempted to set up a fake account and then, just like, go fishing and be like do you help people, take Christmas lights off your house? And if they reply back, yeah, we can help out with that. Well, why don't you start with your house? That's not a very good reference.

Speaker 3: 46:37

Let me tell you.

Speaker 2: 46:39

I mean, I haven't done that. And if they happen to like podcasts, I'm sure they're going to think, well, go blow out a casue yeah exactly, but I have been so tempted to do that but I figured somehow some way IP addresses or someone would know it was me. So I have decided that I would refrain from doing that.

Speaker 3: 47:00

So, okay, well, I'm done ranting.

Speaker 2: 47:02

Okay, well, there you go.

Speaker 3: 47:04

That's all I got.

Speaker 2: 47:05

But I think we're going to officially close.

Speaker 3: 47:08

It's closed.

Speaker 2: 47:13

We'll open it back up in a few months. But you know what? It's time for everyone's favorite time. It's time to end the show, and now it's time for the listener spotlight.

Speaker 3: 47:28

All right, and this is our opportunity to spotlight a community that we have listeners to our podcast from Okay. It gives an opportunity for us to learn a little bit more about the places that our listeners are from, I'm ready for some hints. That's okay, you're ready. You want to do a guess before I even do the hints? You might be more successful.

Speaker 2: 47:55

Okay, I'll give you a hint. St Louis Missouri.

Speaker 3: 48:00

Actually, one of these could work for St Louis Okay. It is a town heavily associated with beer.

Speaker 2: 48:09

Oh, all right, Good work for St Louis.

Speaker 3: 48:11

So far, st Louis is up there. It is the home of over 750 drinking establishments. Could still be St Louis. Could be St Louis. I mean that seems like a lot, though I mean even for a large. I don't know what the Guinness Book of World Records is for most drinking establishments. I would be curious to find out if that's close to the top. Okay, maybe it did back in the old days have a couple of witch burnings. Probably not St Louis. It has an association with a famous lion that I am pretty sure that most everybody out there has seen or is familiar with.

Speaker 2: 49:00

Oh, the MGM lion. Okay, go ahead, is it? I don't know.

Speaker 3: 49:07

There's a lot of lions. What about Lion King? Whatever his name was, Simba or whatever. The name can be translated into something concerning water in some language, and it houses a park that is one of the largest in the region.

Speaker 2: 49:31

Wow, what he gets is.

Speaker 3: 49:37

I mean I think you're going solid there for the first two on St Louis, but it's not St Louis. Beer witch burning, famous lions large park.

Speaker 2: 50:00

I'm going with St Louis.

Speaker 3: 50:09

Okay, well, we will find out in our next episode what our Spotlight listener, spotlight town, is. So all right.

Speaker 2: 50:22

That's all I got, All right. Well, in that case, I will end the show by saying today in Michigan it was like 72 degrees and it was a great day for a bike ride.

Speaker 3: 50:42

Well, it was indeed here in Kansas too.

Speaker 2: 50:46

So there you have it. All right. Well, until next time, my friend, see you later.

Speaker 1: 50:54

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