Episode 150

Summary

Laugh with Me – Episode 150 (June 15, 2026)

Host: Jeremy Odom Guests: Eric Larson (“2025 Guest of the Year”)

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Episode Overview

For this milestone 150th episode, Jeremy Odom and returning guest Eric Larson deliver an unscripted, sharp-witted ride through tangents, nostalgia, and comic observations, all while waiting for Jeremy’s brother Kyle to call in for an anticipated “Top 5 Cereals” discussion that (spoiler) never materializes. Instead, listeners are treated to an hour packed with reflections on friendship dynamics, bygone pop culture, comedic timing, and, above all, the absurdity and charm of clowns.

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Key Discussion Points

1. Milestones and Missing Guests

• Jeremy opens with gratitude for loyal listeners and playfully shouts out the "haters" for not derailing his run.
• The highly anticipated “Top 5 Cereals” talk is introduced and then repeatedly delayed due to Kyle’s absence.
• The tone: warm, spontaneous, and self-deprecating throughout.

“Thank you so much to everybody who downloads, follows, subscribes and listens. And to the haters. Baby, we're still here.”
— Jeremy (03:17)

2. Pet Peeves & Quirks: Eating Noises and “Work Voices”

• Eric describes his aversion to hearing others eat, especially in close proximity (offices, pets).
• The co-hosts riff on workplace “customer service voice” versus real personalities, poking fun at their own habits and how friends/family perceive them.

“People are like, your voice goes up about four octaves... I think it's due to radio. When you're talking into a mic, you're talking past the mic.”
— Eric (09:28)

3. Friendship: Core Groups vs. Social Octopuses

• Jeremy and Eric reflect on different styles of friendship and popularity; one roots deep with a core circle, the other keeps multiple “arms” in various friend groups.
• They compare notes on being “the loud one,” popularity, and how home life/family intersects with these traits.
• Anecdotes highlight real-life group chat rituals and how people share inside jokes across circles.

4. The Disappearance—and Cultural Meaning—of Clowns

• A playful but nostalgic investigation into why we don’t see fun clowns anymore, with references to pop culture (Pennywise, Bozo, Krusty the Clown) and horror movies.
• Debates whether scary clown tropes killed the fun clown, and if “juggalos” or wrestling personalities like Danhausen count as modern clowns.
• Jeremy laments the loss of local clowns: “I'd like to see more clowns locally, but, you know, whatever... maybe they're all scary now.”

“You're going to smack yourself in the head when you think this through, okay? We live in a post funny clown age.”
— Eric (16:16)

5. Bygone Eras: Payphones, Ball Pits, and Diapers (Yes, Really)

• Nostalgic detour on extinct payphones, hygiene horror stories, and how tech “improvements” haven’t solved everything (e.g., sensitive smart phones flashing moisture alerts).
• Hilarious riff on ball pits as adult fun versus unsanitary nightmares.
• They recall pagers, calculator “boobies,” and pranks from their teen years, questioning what “the kids” do today.

6. Adult Life: Haircuts, Personal Maintenance, and the Pursuit of Freshness

• Jeremy confesses his “bad haircut lady” anxiety at Great Clips; Eric reveals his loyalty to the same hairstylist since high school.
• Extended comic fantasy: bringing clowns back by asking barbers or stylists to wear clown noses during haircuts.
• Eyebrow and chest hair woes, with debates about grooming choices and aging.

“So what I want you to do, next time you go to get your haircut, I want you to bring a... like the red clown nose. Like have one of those in your pocket... If they put the nose on, then you, you know, get your haircut like normal... You know they're game for anything.”
— Eric & Jeremy (46:00–47:00)

7. Absurdity in Relationships: Over-texting and the Astronaut Diaper Saga

• Deliberation of the “legal limit” of text messages before you’re a stalker. Consensus: three, after which, "by law," you’re crossing the line—except if you keep it as a bit.
• Escalates into re-telling the notorious “astronaut drove in diapers for love” news story, with Jeremy labeling the act “super romantic” and riffing on road trip hygiene.

8. Shower Songs and Unexpected Revelations

• Jeremy’s tradition: asking guests their go-to “shower song” (his is “The Thong Song” by Sisqó).
• Eric deadpans: he never sings in the shower, “just raw dogging it,” only even considers music after his first coffee.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments (with Timestamps)

• “Hey Siri, set a timer... three weeks.”
  — Jeremy & Eric, joking about limiting time together (06:55)

• “Whatever happened to clowns?... We live in a post funny clown age.”
  — Jeremy & Eric unpacking clown culture (15:39–16:16)

• “Maybe that's why clowns are dying, because there's... not as many circuses.”
  — Jeremy, tackling clown extinction (54:21)

• “There's no high better than getting that fresh cut by a clown. Like, that would be peak.”
  — Jeremy, on what should be the new barbershop experience (47:15)

• “How do you even find out something like that?”
  — Jeremy, contemplating whether calculator “boobies” jokes still exist for kids (41:06)

• “I like to think I’m a little bit more respectful of people’s space... sensory.”
  — Eric, on growing out of his public farting phase (24:36)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 03:28 – 150th episode shoutouts, special guests intro
• 07:12 – Teasing “Top 5 Cereals” discussion, group chat rituals
• 09:03 – Workplace “show voice” vs. real demeanor
• 15:39–17:32 – Clown disappearance, culture, and nostalgia
• 22:13 – Payphones, public hygiene nostalgia
• 29:00–29:49 – Fantasy baseball check-in, friendship banter
• 37:04–38:48 – Sharing texts and stories from other friend groups
• 41:02–41:30 – Calculator “boobies,” talking to kids about jokes
• 44:38–47:15 – Barbershop loyalty, rogue eyebrow/chest hairs, and the clown barber idea
• 48:37–51:43 – Absurd relationship stories, astronaut diapers, and comedy
• 55:49–56:31 – Shower song “tradition”: The Thong Song vs. no music
• 57:02–57:13 – Clown paraphernalia in the studio

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Episode Tone & Style

The episode keeps the same self-deprecating, slightly absurd, and irreverent comedic voice that is a calling card for “Laugh with Me.” Even when spiraling into 90s pop culture, bathroom humor, or friendship psychodrama, Jeremy and Eric keep things relatable and never overly mean-spirited. The frequent callbacks to clowns give structure to what might otherwise feel like improv gone off the rails, all while Kyle’s anticipated call acts as an ongoing but ultimately unresolved punchline.

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Takeaway for Listeners

If you were expecting cereal, you’ll have to tune in next time. Instead, enjoy 150 minutes of wandering wit: from clown culture to payphone bacteria, from “show voice” to public farting etiquette, and from the mythos of adult ball pits to the tragic decline of the classic clown. This episode is classic “Laugh With Me”—random, intimate, tangentially comic, and always ready to see if you’ll laugh with them, or just at them.

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Not to be missed for:

• Anyone nostalgic for the “before times” (paging, payphones, clowns)
• People fascinated by friend group dynamics and comedic banter
• Fans of meta podcasting—awaiting a segment that never arrives

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Next episode: Hopefully, all will be revealed about those top cereals—with Kyle.

Transcript

[Eric Larson]

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[Jeremy Odom]

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[Eric Larson]

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[Jeremy Odom]

welcome back. It's a brand new episode. So this is Laugh with me, the podcast 150 with Jeremy Odom, and I'm your host.

[Eric Larson]

Jeremy stares at the stats, hands shaking over takeout boxes. Johnny's already mapping hotels on a napkin with greasy crosses.

[Jeremy Odom]

They quit jobs.

[Eric Larson]

They kinda hate it. Tell their bosses. Catch the show. Boss just shrugs. Hope it's funny.

[Jeremy Odom]

Johnny grins. You'll never know.

[Eric Larson]

Hey, it's J. O.

[Jeremy Odom]

And you heard that, right? This is episode one five zero. What an accomplishment, Johnny. Congratulations, sir. Something to be celebrated for sure. And we've got a good one for you. A very fun episode. We've got a couple special guests with us. We've got. Calling in via phone here in just a bit. It's gonna be my brother Kyle. Also, We've got the 2025 guest of the year, Eric Larson. And is this. It's gonna be. This is gonna be a really fun episode. That's all I gotta say. 150. Thank you so much to everybody who downloads, follows, subscribes and listens. And to the haters. Baby, we're still here.

[Eric Larson]

Ethan fits in front of me. I can handle it. But if it's like off to my side or if it's somewhere not visible, like, it drives me insane.

[Jeremy Odom]

So you can't even sit next to

[Eric Larson]

somebody who's eating it. And granted, I mean, you sit next to people.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, yeah, okay, I get what you're

[Eric Larson]

saying, but like, if I'm in an office, I hate having somebody sitting right behind me that's eating or doing any of that. I used to have somebody at work behind. Sat behind me and he would spit. He'd like do sunflower seeds and spit them into a bottle. And I about wanted to just murder him.

[Jeremy Odom]

Is it the actual, like the spit, like the. Or is it that.

[Eric Larson]

That was the repetitive stuff. But, like, that's one reason too. I don't know that I'll ever own a dog or a cat is because the sound of them eating is disgusting to me. Yeah. So I get used to it.

[Jeremy Odom]

Otherwise it's.

[Eric Larson]

And maybe, maybe that's the thing. Maybe having kids and, you know, animals around and stuff, like, it would just be like, well, I'm desensitized to that now.

[Jeremy Odom]

I think when you, when you have kids too Once you have had to wipe their butt so many times, them eating's not that bad.

[Eric Larson]

All right, let's get this thing.

[Jeremy Odom]

We've got Eric Larson returning. He is a giant in the transportation industry. He is the fifth speaker at Central, a former fantasy football champion, and 2025 guest of the year. Ladies and gentlemen, the return of Eric Larson. Yes.

[Eric Larson]

Yes.

[Jeremy Odom]

People thought maybe you'd been shadow banned from the show.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. Is there truth to that? I mean, there's no truth to the Shadow Band, but there's a truth that people have been saying this. It's.

[Eric Larson]

It's been a long time since I've been on.

[Jeremy Odom]

I really don't think it's been that long.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah, it's been at least three weeks since I've been here in the studio.

[Jeremy Odom]

Three weeks is probably legit.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

I was like, when's. When's the last baseball game I went to? But we. We didn't record that week because we just hung out at the game.

[Eric Larson]

So I was kind of. I mean, you know, just being kind of the introvert that I am. I kind of imagine that there's a timer that goes off in people's heads where they're just like, all right, two hours. That's all the Eric I can take.

[Jeremy Odom]

Two hours.

[Eric Larson]

So, you know, we come in and we record. I mean, I'm here for 45 minutes. I'm here for an hour.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

You know, we normally will do dinner or something, like, afterwards. I imagine that, you know, when you get in your car after the restaurant, you're like, at least three weeks. It's got. If I see Eric within the next three weeks, I'm probably gonna murder him.

[Jeremy Odom]

Hey, Siri, set a timer.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

Three weeks.

[Eric Larson]

And then, you know, about, you know, the. You know, distance makes the heart grow fonder.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

And about three weeks from then, you're just like, you know who I haven't seen?

[Jeremy Odom]

It's my good Buddy Eric.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah. 2025 Guests of the year.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. Let's monetize it. Where's he at? Let's get.

[Eric Larson]

Wait, what? Whoa, whoa.

[Jeremy Odom]

Get this bad boy going. We've actually. We got a good one for you today. We. We're talking top five cereals of all time, like, our favorites. These are five. Can't miss cereals. Obviously, that is personal. Like, personal choice there. And it's not just us. We've got the return of Kyle, My brother Kyle. Now, he's a guy who has been shouting from the rooftops. Shadow band. Shadow band. Shadow band. That he's been banned from the show. Totally not true. But it's been. Boy, shoot. You saying three. It's been a long time since he's been on the show. But we just. In our group chat, we've been talking about these cereals, and it's been a kind of an ongoing discussion for quite a bit now.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah, well. And, you know, just spoiler alert. Hearing his list of the cereals, I imagine that he's not available to the show because he spends so much time on the toilet. A lot. A lot of fiber. Yeah, a lot of fiber in his list.

[Jeremy Odom]

Well, there. There was certainly fiber action in your list, but Kyle did actually reach out right before we hit record. We figured we'd get it going and we would get. We get the. Get the show moving. He is going to be a good, what, 15, 20 minutes late? So he's busy guy. He is somebody who is. He's one of the more busier people I know. What would you say? Busy. Fake busy. Let's call him out on this. Oh, we're recording. Like, we. So he's late. We're gonna go ahead and just. Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes.

[Eric Larson]

I was taken back a little there because I was just like, you're. You're still kind of in projecting, like, show voice.

[Jeremy Odom]

Like, I'm. Yeah, showing, like, you're, you know.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah, it's still doing it. And yeah, I was a little confused by that because, you know, no, we're.

[Jeremy Odom]

We're gonna go ahead and start, and then when he finally shows up, then we'll talk cereals. Is that correct?

[Eric Larson]

Oh, so. All right. So don't talk about cereal.

[Jeremy Odom]

So don't talk about cereal. We're gonna save that for Kyle. We. You brought up the showy voice. When you're at work, do you, like, always. We talk about how you're a giant in the transportation industry when you're at work. Do you, like, customer service voice? You know, people. Oh, hey, do you have that. That you bring out whenever you have a client?

[Eric Larson]

Not necessarily customer service voice, but one of the things that I do get a lot of credit for at work is when I'm doing a zoom meeting or doing one of those. People are like, your voice goes up about four octaves.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, it goes up four octaves. Like it's loud. Yep.

[Eric Larson]

And I think it's, you know, due to radio, because when radio, it's like, all right, when you're talking into a mic, you're talking past the mic.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yes.

[Eric Larson]

You're. You're hitting, you know, like, two Feet behind it.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yep.

[Eric Larson]

You're speaking like you would in a very large, like, classroom. And so whenever I get on a customer call or a presentation call where I'm. I'm doing that, I instantly flip into that voice. And so once I close the meeting and I, I exited, I'll get people coming up to me and, you know, giving me notes like, oh, hey, that was a great call. Or, you know, who were you talking to? Like, that kind of stuff. And it was just like, you heard that? And they were like, I didn't. Didn't really have a choice.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. Second. Second floor. Heard that as well.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah. Yeah. So it's.

[Jeremy Odom]

That's funny.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah. You know, I think sometimes, you know, just transportation, they're just like, man, you just must be. This must be really important. He really wants these people to understand what he's saying.

[Jeremy Odom]

He loves moving goods. Do you. What's like, your, like your. I've never been to your office, but, like, what's your office, like, setting? Is it cubicles? Is it, you know, door and walls? Like, what's the situation there?

[Eric Larson]

Most of the calls I'll do in just a regular cubicle.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh.

[Eric Larson]

Area.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yep.

[Eric Larson]

So, yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay. So, yeah, there's going to be some crossover. Okay. But you're, but you're, you're bringing it.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah. No, and I mean, if it is a big presentation meeting, I will go to one of the offices.

[Jeremy Odom]

That's fair. Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

And I will get the same complaints because they're like, we could literally hear you through the walls of the office.

[Jeremy Odom]

Well, you need to keep everybody at risk. What's happening? Like, they didn't know what's up. The. I, I, you know, at the, at the store, I would do the same thing. It was, you know, oh, hey, you know, and try to bring it up a notch to the customer or whoever it was. But I don't know if I would call it. It's probably what everyone would call customer service voice, but it's. To me, it was just like, as

[Eric Larson]

you're saying, customer service voice. You're smiling as you're smiling, like, that is. That's a, That's a classic tell of sales voice.

[Jeremy Odom]

You can't unwrap.

[Eric Larson]

They can hear the smile.

[Jeremy Odom]

20 plus years of training or, or service or whatever you want to call it. But yeah. Yeah, that's funny. Do you get that way when you're just randomly on the phone chatting with whomever? Like, let's say you talk to your mom. I mean, are you. Do you ramp it up?

[Eric Larson]

God, I need to call my mom.

[Jeremy Odom]

Should we call her now?

[Eric Larson]

I guess we got time.

[Jeremy Odom]

I mean, we're just, just killing time right now.

[Eric Larson]

I mean, I don't, I don't normally have to, to think about that. I mean, I do speak loud to my parents. If I were to have them on the phone, I mean, do they, have

[Jeremy Odom]

they ever called you out and been like, don't raise your voice to me.

[Eric Larson]

They've known me long enough.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, okay.

[Eric Larson]

I feel like, I feel like I've got a reputation even among our friends group as, as the loud one.

[Jeremy Odom]

Do they? So we, you know, you, and you have a lot of friends, different friend groups, too, that actually before, before I asked my question, Hattie was just asking me today. She's like, so who's probably, like, the more popular or better friend, you or Eric, like, in your friends groups? I'm like, well, that's a weird question. I was like, I was like. But there's, there's really, we're two different types of people because, like, Eric's like, he's, he's got a lot of friend groups and a lot of different, like, area. So he's, he's spreading it out and he is like, got, you know, he's a octopus out there. He's just got arms all over the place. Right? And I'm, right now in my life, like, it's just more like I'm pretty honed in. I've got my core group. That's essentially it. Like, I'm, I don't really branch out as often as Eric. So Eric's probably got like, he's more popular. Like, he's more out there. And maybe what I am is just more like, okay, my core group. Here we are. You know, this is it. But yeah, she was asking that because she was just kind of like, relating in her, like, situation, like, who, who is she? And she saw herself as like, someone similar to you, where she kind of just arms. She's a friend in all these different groups versus her best friend who's just more like she's got home base and this is it. But I don't know. You see it that way. I mean, do you see.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah, yeah. No, I, I, I was really waiting to pounce on that if you would have answered it the other way around. Because I'm just like, I've gotten used to, I mean, you refer to your, your cats, your dog, you know, you tell them, you tell me what's going on with them, right? And you refer to them like, they're like, my Besties. Yeah. And, you know, I'm. Again, you know, as a good friend, as a good listener, I'm aware of.

[Jeremy Odom]

Of the situation. Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

Of the. The dogs and the, you know, the dog being scared and, you know, having beef with the neighborhood cat. I'm. I'm up to speed with these.

[Jeremy Odom]

But so to bring it back to where I was originally going, which is with your parents when. When you are friends, because you have a lot of friend groups, they come through and they all know your folks and. And hang out, and then you're talking to your friends and you ramp it up. You ramp up the octaves and you know, do they ever call you out and be like, you're different when you're around your friends? I mean, did they ever say anything like that?

[Eric Larson]

No, I would say that, you know, more common with the octaves. Thing is, my mom will be like, yeah. Because I do. The more excited I am, the louder I. I talk. So.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

Which is probably, you know, to bring it to your terms, when the dog's tail is like wagging like a ton. Like, if I got a lot of friends around, like, hey, hey, hey, everybody, listen to me now.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. So we're sitting here waiting for Kyle. I got a question for you. We're just killing time. Whatever happened to clowns?

[Eric Larson]

Clowns?

[Jeremy Odom]

Clowns. You know, like the. You know, the tie. The balloon. Balloon animals. Face paint. Like they used to be, probably before the 2000s. A big form of entertainment, like your rent. Not rent. You hire them for a birthday party. You see them out at. At the restaurants doing balloon animals. The grocery stores. You see them out at festivals and whatnot. And they're funny as hell. What. What happened to them? I haven't. I couldn't tell you the last time I've seen a clown.

[Eric Larson]

Oh, that's. That's a fallacy. You're making that up.

[Jeremy Odom]

I'm not. I'm telling you, I don't remember the last time I saw a clown.

[Eric Larson]

You're going to smack yourself in the head when you think this through, okay? We live in a post funny clown age.

[Jeremy Odom]

We do you. Then I.

[Eric Larson]

It became. It became such a trope of the scary clown that. Where have you seen the clowns? Well, oh, it's Pennywise and it.

[Jeremy Odom]

And the terrifying.

[Eric Larson]

The terrifier art.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yep.

[Eric Larson]

Like, it's scary now, but you've seen them.

[Jeremy Odom]

But I've seen around them. That's a good point.

[Eric Larson]

But I almost feel like the trope has become reality of people. Like when we were Kids, it was like a joke. Like, all right. No, no, no. Clowns. Like Ronald McDonald. He's. He's funny. He's just. He's a clown. And people were like, I'm scared of that.

[Jeremy Odom]

But who's that famous clown that was always on, like, wgn?

[Eric Larson]

Bozo.

[Jeremy Odom]

Bozo. Like, they used to have TV shows.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah. Like, you ever hear Bozo dubbed over?

[Jeremy Odom]

I have.

[Eric Larson]

That guy had some anger issues.

[Jeremy Odom]

I think he had some. Some anchor issues. Shout out to Robinson. Yeah, that's. I have. I have actually seen Boo dubbed over, but, like, he had. They had TV shows centered around the clown. You know, one of the central side characters of the Simpsons was Krusty the Clown. Like, there. There's some. Some big clowns that we grew up with.

[Eric Larson]

Do you miss clowns?

[Jeremy Odom]

I. I've always been a fan of clowns. My first store that I ran, grocery store, one of the events, actually, a couple of times, I had. I hired clowns to come and be a part of the. Of the festivities. Like, and magicians. I. I hired a magician to come and do, you know, street magic right in front of the customers around the store. Just because I thought it was fun. Like, there's things that are, like, in a bygone era. It almost seems like. And it really wasn't that long ago, and it just seems like they're gone now.

[Eric Larson]

I don't know.

[Jeremy Odom]

I was thinking about clowns, and I was just like, I don't see clowns anymore locally, because to your point, they are everywhere. Art the clown is terrifying. And I'm a huge fan of his.

[Eric Larson]

This. And I didn't even think about. Until you kind of were throwing us back memory lane. But you were always very defensive of the Juggalos. You know, when Eminem got in his beef with the Insane Clown Posse, I mean, you took a very contrary opinion of just, hey, maybe Eminem shouldn't be bullying them. And now that I'm even putting, like, I'm putting one plus one to equal two, right. I feel like when Eminem went after MGK, that's when you came to MGK's defense and became his number one fan.

[Jeremy Odom]

I. I didn't even know who MGK was then when they feuded. Now I've got his logo tattooed on my wrist. But I. I am. I. I've never been a Juggalo, but I appreciate their art. So maybe there's some truth to what you're saying, but I don't know that I don't remember defending them. But in today's World. I probably would. Yeah, I'd probably, I probably would defend them.

[Eric Larson]

What do you think of this Juggalo thing going on?

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, I'm for it.

[Eric Larson]

I've been asking for more representation of clowns.

[Jeremy Odom]

I have.

[Eric Larson]

We've got it.

[Jeremy Odom]

Give it to me in the music. Give it to me in wrestling. Give it to me, like, just give me the wrestler Danhausen, the modern day clown.

[Eric Larson]

No, he's not a clown.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay.

[Eric Larson]

What?

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay, I'm just asking. These are questions.

[Eric Larson]

Have you seen him tell a joke?

[Jeremy Odom]

No jokes. No. I've seen him curse.

[Eric Larson]

Yes.

[Jeremy Odom]

And I'm not talking about swear words. Yeah, he's, he's out and about right now, that's for damn sure. Yeah, I'd like to see more clowns locally, but, you know, whatever, they're out. They're out. Maybe they're all scary now. I don't know. That's the thing, it kind of goes in waves, right? People with knives used to be called chefs, now they're murderers. I don't know. Things go in waves, you know.

[Eric Larson]

Have you ever heard of like a self fulfilling prophecy?

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, yeah, I've heard of that.

[Eric Larson]

You know, just something that's just bound to happen.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

So I have to imagine that in your repertoire for comedy that if you,

[Jeremy Odom]

I'm take that as a compliment that I have a repertoire.

[Eric Larson]

But I'm guessing that if there was, you know, you were doing a set.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yes.

[Eric Larson]

And some heckler was like, sit down, you clown.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, I would eat that up.

[Eric Larson]

I'm assuming that you've now, like, you're planting the seeds now.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

So that you can watch those trees grow.

[Jeremy Odom]

Right.

[Eric Larson]

When you get on the stage.

[Jeremy Odom]

If, if somebody said that to me, it would just be the highest of compliments. Like, this is you.

[Eric Larson]

You have clowns at such high esteem.

[Jeremy Odom]

I have peace. Yes. I, I, I've never told this story before, but one time I was on stage and I was wearing kind of like a flannel, like kind of like a flannel shirt, but it had like a hood, you know, on it. Like one of those types of shirts.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah, one of those early 2000 shirts.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. And I thought it looked cool because that's just like, that's kind of my style. And as soon as I get on stage, I get somebody yelling out, oh, what you got, B Rabbit? You know, like Evan Emmett for eight miles. I'm like, oh, I lost them already.

[Eric Larson]

You should have just dropped mom spaghetti.

[Jeremy Odom]

Well, I should have. Yeah. It wasn't that quick. Yeah, I was. But when I heard that I'm like, oh, here we go. Yeah, I should have. I should have came, right? I laughed. That's what I did. Because I. I honestly thought it was kind of a funny line. I wish I would have thought about it before and I wouldn't wore that shirt.

[Eric Larson]

But you should have just been like, cut, cut, cut. All right, let's back this up. Say that again.

[Jeremy Odom]

Say it again. I got something.

[Eric Larson]

You look like b rabbit

[Jeremy Odom]

Y. I just had mom spaghetti for dinner.

[Eric Larson]

Boom, boom. Drop the mic set. Done.

[Jeremy Odom]

Just left. I was just. All right, next. Next comic up. Yeah. Yeah, that would have been good. Another thing that's kind of like bygone era is we're waiting for Kyle because he's how.

[Eric Larson]

What are we at now?

[Jeremy Odom]

We're at 17 minutes.

[Eric Larson]

17.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. He said 15, 20. And I really want to get to the cereal thing because it's actually. It's really good. What we've discussed. Forget. Forget what you think this conversation could be like with talking about cereal. What we've already discussed in the group chat that I think is going to come to life, you know, to life here is gold. And that's why I was like, we have to talk about this. And here we are. But we're waiting on Kyle. But another thing. I thought about another thing that's kind of bygone era and this one isn't so much. I need it now. Bring it back, because that. That would be stupid. And you're gonna call it out immediately. But payphones. Remember payphones? Did you ever use payphones? What the.

[Eric Larson]

What?

[Jeremy Odom]

When's the last time you saw a payphone?

[Eric Larson]

Well, they used to have them at the airport.

[Jeremy Odom]

They used to. I'm asking, when's the last time you saw a payphone? Because we all got cell phones. I get why they're extinct. I'm asking, when's the last time you saw a pave on?

[Eric Larson]

I'm thinking it might have been when I was in London last year because they got those famous those.

[Jeremy Odom]

Do they still have those?

[Eric Larson]

Yeah, you know, type of.

[Jeremy Odom]

And they're functional.

[Eric Larson]

I didn't go in it.

[Jeremy Odom]

I probably would have gone in just the jokes. So we've no idea if they're even

[Eric Larson]

functional for the jokes. What jokes?

[Jeremy Odom]

Like, oh, hey, I'm in the. I'm in the thing and just gonna make a call, you know?

[Eric Larson]

No, I was. The people I was with, I was with them for 10 days. So, I mean, they had the Eric timer as well, and so I had to make sure I kept moments like that contained to Use to maximum effect.

[Jeremy Odom]

So do. When you're in that situation, do you just leave unannounced? Sometimes. It's almost reset the clock.

[Eric Larson]

It's. It's almost like when you need to let a fart go.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

Like. All right, let me just kind of separate from the group. Eric, you're falling behind. I'll catch up. I'll catch up in a bit.

[Jeremy Odom]

You know, you separate from the group when you got a fart?

[Eric Larson]

I mean, I probably would.

[Jeremy Odom]

I'm here to tell you I'm not much.

[Eric Larson]

I'm not much of a public farter. I mean, if I don't know that it's going to be quiet, I. I normally will refrain.

[Jeremy Odom]

You've murdered people before with your farts.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah. That was years ago.

[Jeremy Odom]

So you. You've grown.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

I like to. I like to think I'm a little bit more respectful of people's space and sensory.

[Jeremy Odom]

Can I tell you my thoughts about the pay phone?

[Eric Larson]

Are we still talking about the pay phone?

[Jeremy Odom]

I never even got to my thoughts.

[Eric Larson]

All right, continue with the bit.

[Jeremy Odom]

How dirty were those? Like, who's cleaning those and when? Oh, I never ever in my life thought about that during the peak of payphones.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

But today when I'm sit. I was. I was thinking, I'm like, payphones, payphones. I've. I've. Who was cleaning those and when and how often. They had to have been disgusting. Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

Kind of like the. It's the famous George Carlin bit where he talks about how he never got sick as a kid.

[Jeremy Odom]

Right.

[Eric Larson]

Because he was swimming in the Hudson river, which was like the dirtiest river in the world. It's just so, like, all that was was just another immunity challenge that your body would just, you know, was used to that much dirt.

[Jeremy Odom]

Right.

[Eric Larson]

Chew it up and spit it out.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, just.

[Eric Larson]

Plus, when there's a dramatic payphone scene in shows, they love to do them in the pouring rain. So you'd have to think that some of that rain gets in there.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

Or, you know, maybe there's some humidity in the air and somebody's going to use their sleeve to, like, clean the phone off a bit.

[Jeremy Odom]

You just. And there's another thought. The rain on those payphones and the moisture getting in there. But yet today's world, like, just like last week, my. My cell phone, all I did was, I'm. I'm out. I'm out walking around. It's not raining. I'm not wet. My clothes aren't wet. I had my phone in my pocket. I did have headphones, like a wired headphone, like, plugged in. And it was giving me an alert that there was moisture found in the. In the phone. So I had to stop using it, unplug it.

[Eric Larson]

Oh, wow.

[Jeremy Odom]

I've never seen that ever before, but Heat advisory. I. I've had that before, but. Yeah, but a million years of pay phones and I'm, you know, and they're getting wet and whatnot, and they still work. And then the cell phone one time maybe got a little bit of moisture somehow, and it's like, what are you doing? Like, come on. What are we doing here? Come on, Elon, fix it.

[Eric Larson]

Does Elon make phones now?

[Jeremy Odom]

I would assume. I don't know. What isn't he doing? I saw right before you came over, he was. Because he's putting his SpaceX public.

[Eric Larson]

Okay.

[Jeremy Odom]

And when he does that, he'll be the first trillionaire.

[Eric Larson]

Great.

[Jeremy Odom]

How crazy is that? What's he gonna do with all that money? Yep.

[Eric Larson]

Assume the same thing he's doing now. Just sit on it.

[Jeremy Odom]

Bitching on Twitter. Yeah, yeah, sit on it. You should do something with it. It's.

[Eric Larson]

It's kind of like, you know, the Lord of the Rings or whatever, where the dragons got the big pile of gold that he just sits on. I mean, that's. That's got to be it, right?

[Jeremy Odom]

Is he Modern Day Scrooge McDuck?

[Eric Larson]

He's getting close.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, that's. That's. And it's funny because as a kid, it's like, oh, yeah, I want to be Scrooge and Duck. I want to be swimming around in my coins. But, yeah, then when you're older and you, like, are doing this comparison of who Scrooge McDuck is, like, well, I don't want to be that. Like, that's. Yeah, that's wild.

[Eric Larson]

I mean, I just want to know how he swims in all those coins. That seems like the coins would be too heavy for him to dive into.

[Jeremy Odom]

They would be, because, you know, we all. We grew up. Another dirty ass thing. We grew up jumping in them ball pits. I would assume. You did. Did you go in the ball pits?

[Eric Larson]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay.

[Eric Larson]

Love the good ball pit.

[Jeremy Odom]

Dirty as hell, I'm assuming.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

And that was hard enough swimming in and out of and jumping in and out of. Imagine a whole big ass thing of coins.

[Eric Larson]

Now I kind of want to do like an adult ball pit.

[Jeremy Odom]

They have those. You want to go.

[Eric Larson]

Yes, yes, absolutely. 100.

[Jeremy Odom]

I want to do it while we wait for Kyle or. What do you.

[Eric Larson]

I don't Even know Kyle's. Kyle's gonna get on. He's gonna be like, all right, well, I'm ready to talk about cereal. New plan. Talking ball pit. Oh, I'm sorry. Are you. You on your phone? You're busy?

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, yeah, I was just.

[Eric Larson]

This is your show.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, it is my show, and you brought me here.

[Eric Larson]

You told me we're going to talk about cereal. Now we have to fill 20 plus minutes with conversation.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, you were going on about something. Ball pits. And I. So I was like, well, just. You were with.

[Eric Larson]

You were on the ball pit discussion.

[Jeremy Odom]

Are you saying that you were not checking my email? What do you want me do?

[Eric Larson]

What? Who could possibly be emailing you?

[Jeremy Odom]

Do you get busy? Do you ever get busy? I'm working right now. You. You said it. It's your show. I'm literally working right now. This is my time to check my email. What do you do when you're at work?

[Eric Larson]

Work.

[Jeremy Odom]

There you go. Here you go. I'm assume checking your emails.

[Eric Larson]

Checking my fancy baseball scores.

[Jeremy Odom]

You doing work?

[Eric Larson]

Yep. Set my lineup.

[Jeremy Odom]

How's that going?

[Eric Larson]

First place.

[Jeremy Odom]

There you go. Congrats.

[Eric Larson]

It's kind of a big deal.

[Jeremy Odom]

It's kind of a big deal. Hey, everyone, it's Kal Penn. I'm the host of Irsay the Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club. This week on the podcast, I am sitting down with Ray Porter, the narrator of Andy Weir's audiobook project, Hail Mary Massive sci fi adventure about survival and science and what happens when you wake up alone, very far from Earth.

[Eric Larson]

I really had to make a decision because I caught myself getting that frog in my throat and starting to get teary as I'm narrating some of these sections. And it's like, okay, yo, yo, yo. Is this in indulgent? And I really thought about it. I was like, no. At this point, it would kind of be betraying the trust the author and

[Jeremy Odom]

the listener have in telling this story

[Eric Larson]

if I don't go through it. But there's places in this book that. That deeply, emotionally affected me, and I left it on the mic. That's great because it served the story. People will say, like, oh, my God, I cried at the end. It's like, yeah, dude, me too.

[Jeremy Odom]

Listen to Irsay the Audible and I Heart Audiobook Club on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Eric Larson]

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[Jeremy Odom]

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[Eric Larson]

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[Jeremy Odom]

Hello, hello, this is Malcolm Glebel from Smart Talks with IBM. Today we're diving into a fascinating conversation with with Stefano Pallard, head of fan development for Scuderia Ferrari hp. Your pronunciation is strongly American. It's more Scuderia Ferrari. I'm still working on rolling my R's, but what I was able to learn from Stefano was the importance of engaging the Tifosi, the Ferrari superfans in the digital age. Ferrari fans and super fans want to be part of something, want to belong to something. So they want to be part of a community and ultimately they want to be part of a winning team. You've got Ferrari, which has a long history, design history, and now you're interacting in a kind of digital space. I'm curious how you balance those two traditions. When it comes to fan engagement, it's really digital technology. And digital channels, are they enabled to create a deeper connection with our fans? To learn more about how Ferrari and IBM are using technology to build deeper connections with fans, visit IBM.com ferrari have you started fantasy football prep yet? No. No. Me neither.

[Eric Larson]

No.

[Jeremy Odom]

I'm more hyped for like golf that morning of draft day than I am the draft right now. Well, and I'll get to that point where I'm excited for the draft, but right now.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah, I mean that this really explains your, you know, record in the league the last couple. Couple of years.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay, thank you for clarifying. Last couple of years I'm like, I'm a two time champion. What are you talking about?

[Eric Larson]

You know, you've, you've kind of joined the, the crew of just like loudly proclaiming. I've done zero prep.

[Jeremy Odom]

I have done that the last couple of years and I'm not proud of it. I don't know why I even say it. I think I say as a preface of guys, don't expect much from me. I'm not your threat.

[Eric Larson]

I mean, we're big on the reverse jinx.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yes, the reverse jinx.

[Eric Larson]

The reverse jinx is a very real thing in that league. So to make yourself seem like you don't deserve it is just positioning yourself.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

To, you know, have those fantasy gods on your side.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. Well, what are you going to do? What are you going to, what are you really going to do? What are you going to do? What are you going to do?

[Eric Larson]

Recording a live show and you're checking your email like, Jesus, like, have you. So like, let's say you found like a really good Email.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

And then you'd have to, you know, share it with me. Like, hey, here's what I got on the email.

[Jeremy Odom]

Right.

[Eric Larson]

Like, you run into that before where, like, you know, we'll be at the baseball game, let's say.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

And you get, like, a really funny text, but it's from a different friend group.

[Jeremy Odom]

But then. But you laugh. Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

And I'm just like, well, what. What are you talking about? Like, what. What is happening here? So then it's like, you almost have to, like, share, like, the. The lore, the story. Like, you have to give, like a. You know, hey, I work with this guy. He once ran over a raccoon. And because of that, we always refer to it as, you know, flat raccoon. Anytime.

[Jeremy Odom]

Flat raccoon.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

So I love that because it's so true. And especially when you're in person with people, a gold topic that they're unaware of. They didn't live. They're not living currently. There's no monetary value to that. You just, you know, when you can bring something to the table like that,

[Eric Larson]

it's a bit of a humble brag.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. It really is.

[Eric Larson]

Hey, I'm hanging out with you right now. Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

But I've got.

[Eric Larson]

But I've got really good friends, so that's even, like, showing how much esteem that I hold you in is like, yeah, look at how cool these other friends that I have are.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

In comparison to you. They, like, I tell them this wacky. I tell you wacky stories from them

[Jeremy Odom]

and quick backstory on who they are and why. This is gold. But. And then after that, because you're holding court, then. And then after that, it's like. And then this is what they sent. And then it's big laughs. And then the anticipation of what else you got? Like, is there more? Like, is there more coming? Like, what's the deal here?

[Eric Larson]

This is almost now. Now that we're kind of, you know, discussing this, or I've got that out in the open. You know what this is? This is the adult version of, like, when you're younger and you're like, high school, college days, and just like, well, I'm going to text. I'm going to text that girl.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. I kind of.

[Eric Larson]

So you kind of get your boys around.

[Jeremy Odom]

You get your boys going.

[Eric Larson]

You're like, hey, I saw you in class today, thought your red shirt was really cool. All right, guys. What? Like, you workshop it, right? Well, no, no, no. Why? Why? You shouted like a stalker. Don't say that.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah,

[Eric Larson]

just say, like, Hey, I saw you wearing an AC DC Shirt last week. You want to listen to some.

[Jeremy Odom]

Last week. That's morb. Stalker to reference last week.

[Eric Larson]

I'm coming up with this on the top of my head.

[Jeremy Odom]

I don't. Red shirt. I. I thought it was funny. You're like, red shirt. And it's like, no, it wasn't red. It was blue. Like, that's burgundy. Because, you know, everybody's. Especially when you're workshopping it. Not everybody has the same, like, memory or. Or, like, situation of what happened. So then you get the different opinions, and then it's like, well, then, what the hell? What am I going to say? What are we going to do? And then. Is. Are you going to say anything? We grew up at a time where cell phones in high school were pretty nonexistent. Right. Do we. Any of our friends? We didn't. Right. It wasn't until college.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah, I mean, college. I feel like one of our friends had a pager.

[Jeremy Odom]

Pager. Yeah. Senior year.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

Did you ever have a pager?

[Eric Larson]

I didn't work or anything.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, I didn't either. I know how they worked, but I don't even know that I've ever even paged somebody.

[Eric Larson]

Oh, I. I had. My dad had a pager for years.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, your dad did?

[Eric Larson]

So, yeah, you know, if I needed to get a hold of him, I'd page him the home phone number, and

[Jeremy Odom]

you would just send the number.

[Eric Larson]

Y.

[Jeremy Odom]

And then he would call.

[Eric Larson]

He would see the number, and he'd just be like, well, that's my home phone number.

[Jeremy Odom]

I need to call home.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah, I'll call home.

[Jeremy Odom]

Did he. Did you ever do that as a prank and just like, what's up, dad? Like, I don't. What do you want? I don't.

[Eric Larson]

No, no, no, you don't. You don't prank Paige.

[Jeremy Odom]

It seems like something I would do if I knew about this.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah, well, I think if. I think if. Because there was codes that you had on the old pagers.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, okay.

[Eric Larson]

Because it was like. It was kind of like a calculator. I mean, you could type boobies in on there and send it to somebody. And I guess that would be kind of like a prank page. Like, they would look it up, and they'd be. And then they would go look to the people around them, and they'd just be like, oh, I got this really funny page. Let me explain this.

[Jeremy Odom]

Let me explain.

[Eric Larson]

I'm pretty sure this is from Jeremy.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

He ran over a raccoon about a year ago.

[Jeremy Odom]

Flatten the thing page me. Boobies. Do you think kids these days still do boobies?

[Eric Larson]

I hope so.

[Jeremy Odom]

I do too. I really do. I kind of want to ask my kids, but then I'm like, well, should

[Eric Larson]

I kind of approach from the side? Like say, kids, you guys ever seen a calculator?

[Jeremy Odom]

Because they're boobies in the calculator?

[Eric Larson]

Yeah. What about 80085?

[Jeremy Odom]

Is that funny to you?

[Eric Larson]

I mean, do you see where I'm going with this?

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, I do want to ask, but then I don't, like. I kind of want to just. I don't know. How do you. How do you even find out something like that?

[Eric Larson]

At some point you're gonna. I mean, this seems like a great lead in for the talk.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

So you should probably have that. That talk with you.

[Jeremy Odom]

Should I start it with. Yeah, that's the natural way to start it.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

Give her scene 80085 on a calculator.

[Eric Larson]

How did it make you feel?

[Jeremy Odom]

What an amazing way to start the conversation. That. That actually makes a lot of sense that I think that's how I'm gonna go about it. Because it's funny and it kind of breaks the ice. And then from there, you know, you get into the. The nitty gritty of it. Right.

[Eric Larson]

That's so much gritty.

[Jeremy Odom]

Too much gritty.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah, just skip that spot. Just skip that spot.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, we'll just let natural things happen, I guess.

[Eric Larson]

Hey, for right now, we're gonna keep the conversation above the waist

[Jeremy Odom]

one thing at a time. That's great. Speaking above the waist, I. I need a haircut, dude. Bad. How often do you get your haircut?

[Eric Larson]

Four weeks.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, you're on. Do you have schedules?

[Eric Larson]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh my. That's. That's legit. I think that would probably keep. I need a schedule. Do you have like a. Like a. Like a gal, you have like a person?

[Eric Larson]

Yeah, she's been cut my hair since high school, so.

[Jeremy Odom]

No. Yeah. Huh. Where do you go? Or you gatekeeping that? Cuz I've never heard of you having a schedule or a gal. I've known you forever.

[Eric Larson]

She just like rents a spot at one of those big salons.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. You go to the salon even?

[Eric Larson]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

Did she trim your beard?

[Eric Larson]

No.

[Jeremy Odom]

Eyebrows?

[Eric Larson]

Yes. Yeah, about every other time.

[Jeremy Odom]

How do you feel about that when they ask?

[Eric Larson]

Oh, I love it when they do it.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, really?

[Eric Larson]

Yeah, it's.

[Jeremy Odom]

Every time I get asked, I instantly feel old and know there's a problem and I just decline.

[Eric Larson]

Why would that be a problem? Because obviously something's Going on with your eyebrows?

[Jeremy Odom]

Do you not get the long ass ones that just like the, like the, the stranglers, the, the ones that go rogue and they're like three times as long as the rest of the hair on your eyebrow?

[Eric Larson]

Never on the eyebrow.

[Jeremy Odom]

I've got three that get wicked and you know, that's how I find out they're wicked.

[Eric Larson]

I get, I get about 4 of those on the chest.

[Jeremy Odom]

That's your chest hair?

[Eric Larson]

Yeah. Well, I'm not. And I'm not very like hairy on the chest. So I always hope that those hairs would grow long enough that at some point I could do like a comb over.

[Jeremy Odom]

I've never heard the chest come over. That's incredible.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

And so it's never happened, but this is what you're hoping?

[Eric Larson]

No, no, no. As soon as I become aware of them. Yeah, I'm normally like, what the hell is this 6 inch hair that's growing up?

[Jeremy Odom]

So does your, does your, does your gal cut that too or do you take care of that?

[Eric Larson]

It's, you know, it's a public building. But I, I strip down you right when I get in there and I say number two, whole body. She takes care of just clippers.

[Jeremy Odom]

And it's not even needed. It's. You're not like in a wax situation. You're in a pluck situation with your chest hair.

[Eric Larson]

Well, I mean, I grew up with Seinfeld like you did. I was always under the impression that the more you shaved it, the, you know, more hair would grow.

[Jeremy Odom]

More comes back.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah. Still, still wait for that to kick in.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, you'll be proud of this. I was talking to Hattie today and she yada yada, yada. Being in a, in a, in a story she was telling.

[Eric Larson]

Did you. Were you like, you skipped the best part.

[Jeremy Odom]

I know I was like, you skipped it all.

[Eric Larson]

You can't. Yada yada yada yada.

[Jeremy Odom]

She, she yada yada yada me and I'm like, that was incredible. Yeah. The girl, she's growing up when you can yada yada yada with the best of.

[Eric Larson]

Well, here's your other opening. Now you don't even need to get to the below the waist talk.

[Jeremy Odom]

True.

[Eric Larson]

You could just do the above waist and then yada yada yada. Don't ever do this.

[Jeremy Odom]

Don't do this. Yeah, yeah. No, that's a real thing. No, I need a, I need a haircut, cuz I need that fresh cut feeling. It's, it's like a.

[Eric Larson]

You really somber there.

[Jeremy Odom]

That's a high. I chase like you. You get that fresh cut, you just. You get it for a good day or two, day and a half. You riding that high, nothing could stop you.

[Eric Larson]

Do you get your haircut by the same person?

[Jeremy Odom]

No.

[Eric Larson]

Or you just go in there.

[Jeremy Odom]

I just go to grand great clips. And there's one specific gal we call her bad haircut lady. And when she's working, it's a gamble. You're going to get her. You're not. If you get her, you know what's up. You just know what's up. You're going to get a bad haircut, and it's going to take forever.

[Eric Larson]

So I'm. I'm concerned. I'm concerned about your inconsistent haircuts.

[Jeremy Odom]

Thank you. I am too.

[Eric Larson]

So what I want you to do, next time you go to get your haircut, I want you to bring a. A big, like the red clown nose. Like have one of those in your pocket.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay.

[Eric Larson]

So assuming that you get matched up with the non bad haircut lady, Assuming. Hand the nose to the hair technician and say, hey, I'd really appreciate it if you wore this clown nose while you cut my hair.

[Jeremy Odom]

Why?

[Eric Larson]

And if they say, yes, I will do that for you, the customer. They put the nose on. Then you, you know, get your haircut like normal.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

You say at the end, like, hey, I really like if you cut my hair all the time. They'd be like. Because you know that they're game.

[Jeremy Odom]

They're game now. They're game for anything. They put the nose on.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah, yeah. So then they're obviously going to be flattered. They're going to be like, this is the appreciation, the recognition that I've always wanted from my art.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

And so the next time you come four weeks later, you bring them some white face paint.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, yeah, I see where you're going with this.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

We're gonna bring the clowns back.

[Eric Larson]

You're gonna bring that clown back.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yep.

[Eric Larson]

Because what could be better than getting your hair cut by a clown?

[Jeremy Odom]

There's no. There's no high better than getting that fresh cut by a clown. Like, that would be peak.

[Eric Larson]

You know what else would be peak?

[Jeremy Odom]

If Kyle would call.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah. Yeah. I'm kind of out of angles to pursue on the clown.

[Jeremy Odom]

I think it's interesting that you chose to clown this instead of giving me the number of your cut lady, like your haircut lady. Like, you are seriously gatekeeping this gal. I've never heard of her. All the years we've known each other and you still were Talking haircuts. You're still not even proposing the idea that I get my hair cut by this gal. You are. Can you going to the point of suggesting I clown my current ones?

[Eric Larson]

Not even your current ones. They're just the people that you rent.

[Jeremy Odom]

Just people that work there. Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

You don't have a relationship with these people.

[Jeremy Odom]

That's a good point. I keep texting Kyle. How many. How many times in a row you suppose I can text a person before I'm a psychopath?

[Eric Larson]

So I think three.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay. I'm well behind.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah, I think if you text them five times, you're pretty much, like, restricted by law. Like, you can't text them again.

[Jeremy Odom]

Like, they're gonna block me until they acknowledge you for harassment. Yeah, yeah. Okay. There's. There's probably a black and white law on that somewhere. It's got to be a precedent.

[Eric Larson]

They had that. That gal that got charged and found guilty of, like, stalking because she sent. It was like138,000 texts, like in the space of a year.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, my guy. Like after one date and with zero responses back. Yeah, Jesus.

[Eric Larson]

Like, what would you do in that situation?

[Jeremy Odom]

Which side am I on? Am I the person texting or the person not texting? Because if I'm the person texting and it's that much, I think I keep the bit going.

[Eric Larson]

Well, that's. That's what I'm saying. Like, if I was receiving them, I think I keep the bit going.

[Jeremy Odom]

Right.

[Eric Larson]

I think that would be my. My contribution to the show would just be like, all right, Eric, it's been three weeks since you've been on the show, you know?

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

What's she talking about? Meal prep. She's sending me a lot of stuff about her meal prep. You know, apparently I'm a son of a.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, yeah, that's. Yeah. And that's the thing. I totally get both sides of it, of you kind of just keep it going with zero response from the guy who's not responding or gal, whoever it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Eric Larson]

I mean, well, it makes sense that you have that because you're kind of a little bit of hopeless romantic. Like, I remember you. I remember you going crazy for that. That story about the. You know, that astronaut and that love triangle that, like, wore diapers so that they could drive for like a thousand miles. Yeah, there's nothing.

[Jeremy Odom]

There's nothing wrong with that. How cool would that be to wear

[Eric Larson]

an adult diaper while driving a car? And you just go, yeah, that is super romantic.

[Jeremy Odom]

You just go, like.

[Eric Larson]

Like, you get the boombox. Like, you get there, you get the boombox, you lift it over your head, you play the song.

[Jeremy Odom]

Right. And then ask for a shower.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah. Yeah. Ask them if they got a place for you. You to what, what would be.

[Jeremy Odom]

You get the big hug. You know, she.

[Eric Larson]

Let's say, let's say that the situation did end in that way. Yeah. You get the big hug and everything. Yeah. I mean, you can't tell them. Or could you. Is that part of the, the stick. Would you find it romantic if somebody,

[Jeremy Odom]

you don't tell them until they've. They've forgiven you for whatever's happening. So then you get the big hug. You've ever, you've done it right? You, you've done all the driving all these miles, you've pissed yourself. And depending on the situation, like, I would have had to shit myself. I mean, we know this. And then you get there and then you give the big speech. You're working on the speech. You give the big speech, she comes out, she hugs you. You're gonna smell. You apologize for the smell. Ask if you can use the shower.

[Eric Larson]

Right? Yeah, but what do you do with the diaper then?

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, you take it outside. Yeah. You may get hosed off maybe.

[Eric Larson]

Hey, now that all is forgiven, I'm gonna strip down. Yeah. You think this isn't sexual, but I'm

[Jeremy Odom]

gonna strip down the house.

[Eric Larson]

You think? Get a little bit more spray. There still feels. She'll feel a little.

[Jeremy Odom]

A little more spray.

[Eric Larson]

Where is Kyle?

[Jeremy Odom]

He's. You know, this started as a very fun top five serial talk and it's very quickly driven into, you know, wearing diapers and clowns and it's, it's really concerning for the pod. I don't, I don't know where to go.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah, I really don't know how you end this one.

[Jeremy Odom]

And I was, I really wanted to save this for later to tell you cuz this is kind of a big deal, but this is episode 150.

[Eric Larson]

Oh, wow.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. Which is a major milestone for, for any podcast, let alone this, this little guy. And 150 is being spent talking about diapers and clowns and waiting for Kyle. I. Is this, is that good? Is that bad? I, I don't know where to go with this.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah, you know, there's been some highs in those 150 episodes.

[Jeremy Odom]

There has been. What's your favorite. What's your favorite moment of 150?

[Eric Larson]

There's been some lows here with.

[Jeremy Odom]

No, you know, you give me your highs. That was Exciting. You give me some highs. Yeah, that. This is a low. I. This is a low.

[Eric Larson]

When Tiger King gets out of jail, when he finally gets his pardon and he's on again, you're gonna have so much to catch him up on.

[Jeremy Odom]

We're gonna have to. Do you even know what has happened since you've been gone? And then Kelly Clarkson will walk in.

[Eric Larson]

God. He would. He would have opinions on clowns.

[Jeremy Odom]

He would have opinions.

[Eric Larson]

You know, out of all the guests that you've had.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, I think.

[Eric Larson]

I think Joe Exotic would probably have the most well developed.

[Jeremy Odom]

So he used to tour. He would take his zoo. Right. His petting zoo. And he's probably employed a clown.

[Eric Larson]

He could probably tell you what a clown makes.

[Jeremy Odom]

Well, he probably could, but that was my point is, like, he. He used to tour and go to malls and stuff. And, like, people would pet. You know, he'd do his show and people would pet him. And this is like in the 80s,

[Eric Larson]

you would pet the tigers. They wouldn't pet.

[Jeremy Odom]

They would not pet.

[Eric Larson]

Okay, that.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, that's the only. That's. Yeah. Only his husband's. But the. He would. He would take his animals. Right. And do a show in the 80s and 90s. But then you would think he had clowns opening for him. Maybe. Like, to your point, he probably hired clowns. That would be a perfect opener. Like, that's a circus. You think a clown. Maybe that's why clowns are dying, because there's. No. Not as many circuses, you know.

[Eric Larson]

Oh, I thought you were gonna go the angle that maybe jugs that have been feeding the clowns to the tigers.

[Jeremy Odom]

No, I. That's. That's that Carol Bask.

[Eric Larson]

I was talking about Valleys. I. I think we've definitely. What would you say that these. The theme of these 150 episodes have been. Well, bringing up 2020 Covid pop culture references. That's the astronaut in the diapers, the tiger king, Juggalos.

[Jeremy Odom]

That was the first thing that popped in my head after I said that Carol Baskin was 2020. Jo, That's so funny. Well, I don't know if Kyle's calling, but serial, though. I don't even want to get into it at this point without Kyle. So do we shelve it?

[Eric Larson]

I think we're gonna have to.

[Jeremy Odom]

I. Yeah. Because otherwise we're gonna go on for another hour either waiting for Kyle or talking cereal with Kyle. And I. I just don't have it in me.

[Eric Larson]

Really, really poor. Really poor form on Kyle's part.

[Jeremy Odom]

You got anything to promote oh, let me ask you this. I've been asking everybody at the end of the episodes lately. I famously. My shower song is the Thong Song by Cisco. What is your go to shower song that you sing?

[Eric Larson]

Excuse me?

[Jeremy Odom]

What's your go to? What song do you go to in the shower that you sing often when you're in the shower?

[Eric Larson]

Yeah, I don't normally sing in the shower.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, you're just. You get down to business. You don't. Do you play music at all?

[Eric Larson]

No.

[Jeremy Odom]

You. So you're just. You're raw dogging it?

[Eric Larson]

I guess you could say that I am.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay.

[Eric Larson]

I've never normally not even in the mood for music until I've got at least a cup of coffee in.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay. Oh, so you only shower morning time. So you've never had, like. I guess you've probably showered outside of the morning before.

[Eric Larson]

I have.

[Jeremy Odom]

You know, You've never turned on some tunes?

[Eric Larson]

I've never felt like singing.

[Jeremy Odom]

You've had a shower beer before?

[Eric Larson]

I have, yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay. And you've never thought about singing then?

[Eric Larson]

No.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay. All right. Well, there you go. It's not for everybody, I guess. I'm. I like to belt out the Thong song. I don't. I don't know. I just. It's different for everybody.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah. Other people answer this question.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. And they. They generally give me songs. You're the. Pointing at.

[Eric Larson]

You got a clown statue in your.

[Jeremy Odom]

In the studio here. Yeah, I know. That's. That's Art the clown, the terrifier. And then right behind him is the Dan housing.

[Eric Larson]

Not a clown.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay, thanks. Thanks a lot, Kyle. Oh, now he calls.

[Eric Larson]

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[Jeremy Odom]

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[Jeremy Odom]

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[Jeremy Odom]

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[Jeremy Odom]

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[Eric Larson]

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[Jeremy Odom]

M&M's popped caramel do sound different.

[Eric Larson]

Oh no.

[Jeremy Odom]

People are going to be obsessed. What do you mean? H? People hate the sound of chewing. Maybe they won't like the crunch.

[Eric Larson]

Maybe we're saved.

[Jeremy Odom]

Wait a minute. Yellow. Have you been eating them this whole time? Mmm. So tasty. Hands off us.

[Eric Larson]

M&M's popped caramel. It's more fun together.