2025 Guest of The Year

Summary

Podcast Summary: Laugh with Me – 2025 Guest of The Year

Podcast: Laugh with Me
Host: Jeremy Odom
Guest: Eric Larson (2025 Guest of the Year)
Date: November 27, 2025

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Episode Overview

This episode of Laugh with Me features the much-anticipated announcement and celebration of the podcast’s 2025 Guest of the Year. Host Jeremy Odom welcomes transportation industry leader and recurring guest Eric Larson to the studio, bestowing him with the coveted “Golden Microphone” (a.k.a. the Laffy trophy). What follows is a hilarious, meandering deep-dive into their personal lives, grocery store tales, football banter, and the hilariously drawn-out story of Larson’s “low point” at the grocery store. The banter is warm, self-deprecating, and peppered with witty quips, making for a signature “Laugh with Me” episode where laughter is shared, not at anyone’s expense.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Announcement of the 2025 Guest of the Year (03:29–08:38)

• Jeremy sets the record straight: This is not a typical year-end wrap-up or clip show, but rather a special episode to crown the Guest of the Year.
• Nominees Recalled: Five nominees, including DEZ Pearson, Grant Pearson, Joe Exotic, Nathan “Bob” Roberts, and Eric Larson.
• Eric’s surprise win: Jeremy reveals the award in-studio, with playful debate on the significance of the "Laffy" trophy.
• Eric’s Reaction:
  • "Within five minutes already getting the award. I’m gonna hold this over Kyle’s head, your brother’s head, forever." (09:16)
  • Only two people have a Laffy: Last year’s winner “Lavetti Vegas” and Eric.

2. Trophy & Show Banter / Running Jokes (08:38–13:16)

• Design and portability of the trophy: Jokes about bringing the “gun-shaped” trophy to Thanksgiving and possibly alarming airport security, paralleling it with professional wrestling champs who must carry their belts everywhere.
• Show marketing and merch: Jeremy jokes about giving out “Laugh with Me” stickers while Eric suggests using the trophy as a marketing tool.
• Shots in the Studio: A callback to a chaotic, unaired “drunken brunch” episode (10:59–11:44).

3. Football Talk & Segues (13:40–20:20)

• Minnesota Vikings woes: The conversation swerves to local NFL football, including injured quarterbacks, possible recruits, and coaching comparisons—typical of the show’s improvisational, topical style.
• Tangents on coaching and quarterback development: Touches on coaching differences, prepping game plans, and the fortunes of Daniel Jones.

4. The Infamous Grocery Store Story – Build-Up (13:24–14:27; 20:25–44:55, 53:38–61:45)

• Eric Teases a Humbling Experience (13:24): "At my highest moment, receiving this award—but this story is going to take me down to my lowest moment."
• Discusses shopping routines, basket/cart preferences, and insider knowledge from Jeremy’s time as a grocery store manager, including why little carts are positioned last ("get a big cart, you buy more," 21:27).
• Banters on bagging etiquette: Witty suggestions for training staff and how to properly bag groceries (“Jeremy-style”: 41:26).
• Blind Bagger Anecdote: Eric recalls a cashier–blind bagger duo and the endless “I’m twice your age” cashier joke (41:39–43:56).
• Grocery customs abroad: Eric shares stories of shopping in London, paying extra for bags, and unintentionally giving away their American-ness (44:53–46:13).

5. Grocery Story Climax: The Middle-Age Bombshell (61:45–65:10)

• After a sprawling preamble, Eric finally recounts his "humbling" incident. At checkout after a rough Vikings loss, a young cashier makes small talk (62:06):
  • "The cashier is just like, ‘Oh, have you been watching some football today?’ … She was just like, 'I figure, my dad’s middle aged and he watches football all day.'"
• Eric is stunned—this is the first time he’s been spontaneously pegged as "middle-aged," triggering a crisis of mortality and self-identity.
  • "Just all these things going through your mind." (62:39)
• He later gets asked if his White Claw and Oktoberfest are "alcohol," capping off his descent from “guest of the year” heights to mundane grocery store humiliation.

6. Cereal Tangents (47:00–55:55)

• Dissect the state of breakfast cereals—shrinking box sizes, evolving tastes.
• Eric details his go-to cereals, particularly Honey Nut Cheerios; Jeremy recommends adding bananas (49:04–50:23).
• Classic debate: how to pour cereal and milk, “second bowl” techniques, and milk-drinking habits post-Crohn’s disease.
• Memorable quote:
  • Jeremy: “I get excited talking about bananas. I’m not even a monkey.” (49:32)

7. Reflections: Personality, Age & Lasting Impressions (63:19–64:06)

• Eric recalls his father’s “not old, just a young punk kid” schtick and notes he’s inadvertently become that guy.
• Jeremy: “That’s a pure example of—you are, in fact, middle aged—because you’re throwing out those clichés and you believe them.” (64:06)

8. Classic Album and Artist Nostalgia (58:40–61:30)

• The two riff on the trajectories of bands like Eve 6, Everclear, Goo Goo Dolls, and Eminem—how musical styles evolve and influence personal nostalgia.

9. Jelly Roll's Beard – "Worst of the Year" (67:54–69:52)

• Jeremy laments country star Jelly Roll’s beard shave: “He looks like a ball sack. His face!” (68:10)
• The beard removal meets with both amusement and genuine admiration for Jelly Roll’s weight loss.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Winning the Laffy
  • “I’m gonna hold this over Kyle’s head…forever.” – Eric Larson (09:16)
• On Bagging Training
  • “Just train the people bagging it. Bag it right. And then they’re going to hand out less bags…an investment in this, and it’ll save your company millions of dollars.” – Jeremy (39:33)
• On "Middle Age":
  • “My dad’s middle aged and he watches football all day.” – Anonymous teenage cashier (62:27)
  • "[Being called middle-aged]—this is a tough thing, like mortality, just all these things going through your mind.” – Eric (62:39)
  • “You must think you’re just going to live forever.” – Jeremy (63:04)
  • “Anytime I call him old...he’d always be like, ‘Oh, it’s not old, I’m a young punk kid.’” – Eric (63:36)
• On Bananas in Cereal
  • “Slice up a banana and put it in your Honey Nut Cheerios and you’ll never go back.” – Jeremy (49:14)
  • “I get excited talking about bananas. I’m not even a monkey.” – Jeremy (49:32)
• On The Trophy’s Portability
  • “You’re like the…pro wrestling champ…you have to go everywhere with that belt…That’s you now.” – Jeremy (32:59)
• On Jelly Roll's Beard Shave
  • “He looks like a ball sack. His face! … That beard was cool. It’s kinda the look.” – Jeremy (68:10)

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• Golden Microphone Award/Intro: 03:29–08:38
• Trophy Banter & Stickers: 08:38–13:16
• Vikings & Football Sidequest: 13:40–20:20
• Grocery Store Build-Up: 20:25–24:00, 26:39–32:00, 41:26–44:55
• Grocery Store Story Climax: 61:45–65:10
• Cereal Deep-Dive & Pouring Rituals: 47:00–55:55
• Jelly Roll’s Beard, “Worst of the Year”: 67:54–69:52

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Episode Tone & Closing Thoughts

The episode perfectly captures the show’s ethos—self-deprecating humor, celebrating life’s “small” moments, and the comedic highs and lows that come with being a middle-aged guy with a passion for banter, football, and cereal. The chemistry between Jeremy and Eric shines, as does their ability to stretch a one-minute story into a winding, hour-plus comedic odyssey. For listeners craving warmth, authenticity, and real-life laughs, this episode truly delivers.

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Tip: If you love observational humor about mundane life, aging, and the universal grocery store experience, this is an unmissable installment of Laugh with Me.

Transcript

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[Jeremy Odom]

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[Jeremy Odom]

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[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. This is Laugh with Me, a podcast with Jeremy Odom. I'm your host. Jo and do not get fooled by the title of this episode. Absolutely. Do not get duped here. Okay? This is not a end of the year wrap up. Looking back on the year that was with 2025. No, we, I mean there's gonna be a little bit of that obviously, but we've got way more, way more in the tank where that is. We're gonna give you that end of the year kind of wrap up in December and, and trust me, you're gonna want to be here for that. It's not a clip show. I know, I, I in a couple episodes ago, I'm going on and on about how, oh, you know, we need to do more of these clip shows. We need, we need more of the reruns. Well, that's not necessarily what you're gonna get. I mean, we may throw in some clips, Johnny loves to throw in some clips. But what we will have is an end of the year wrap up, a look back, a little bit of moving forward, a look forward even. I want some guests. So there's more to come in that regard. But what we are doing today is pretty big. If you've been following along, you know that the Laugh with Me podcast Guest of the Year nominees have been announced. Was announced about a month ago. The nominees are DEZ Pearson, Grant Pearson, Eric Larson, the Tiger King, Joe Exotic, and of course Nathan Bob Roberts. Go back and listen to the episode titled Guests of the Year nominees. Great episode. Okay. You'll get kind of a little bit of a taste of what those five brought to the table this year. But if You've already listened. I know a lot of you have, and maybe even some of you have listened on the I Heart radio app, which is free, by the way. And you can go ahead and follow. Follow along with Laugh With Me right there on the iHeart podcast network. But if you've been following along, I know a lot of you have, thousands of you have, then you may have your own favorites on who's gonna win guests of the Year. And that is perfectly fine. That is what is exciting about this. But here's the deal. Only one can win. Only one can win the golden microphone. Only one is gonna win a Laffy in 2025 for guest of the Year. And I just happen to have this person in studio right now. Please help me welcome our 2025 laugh with me podcast Guest of the Year. Oh, yeah, that sounded good.

[Eric Larson]

Is it that time again?

[Jeremy Odom]

Mm, it's that time. Well, it's time for your intro, Eric. Do you remember how I introduced you?

[Eric Larson]

This is the first time I've been on the show.

[Jeremy Odom]

This is your first time you've been on the show?

[Eric Larson]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. Well, if. If I was introducing you for the first time, I would say Eric Larson, a giant in the transportation industry.

[Eric Larson]

That sounds correct.

[Jeremy Odom]

Check. A former fantasy football champion, multi time, by the way.

[Eric Larson]

Yep. Very important.

[Jeremy Odom]

Let's see what else.

[Eric Larson]

That's how my mom introduced me to. This is a former fantasy football champion. Also my son.

[Jeremy Odom]

Also my son, Eric Larson. Let's see, what else have you done? You are the former fifth speaker at Central, which, by the way, as a former third speaker at Central, I still. Hattie thinks that it's insane that.

[Eric Larson]

That.

[Jeremy Odom]

That I still talk about that. This is a big deal. Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

How could that be insane?

[Jeremy Odom]

This is a big deal. Like, are you kidding me? Like, have you ever been third speaker, et cetera? She's like, no. Well, there you go.

[Eric Larson]

You should. You should start. You know, next time she gets an achievement or something, just be like, you're gonna be talking about this 30 years from now. So proud of you.

[Jeremy Odom]

She's gonna say, I really hope I'm not. All right, well. And then finally, we're adding to the resume.

[Eric Larson]

Whoa.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yep, we're adding to the resume. Eric larson, the 2025 laugh with me Guest of the Year. Congratulations. Wow.

[Eric Larson]

Is this. Oh, it's. It's not Sharpie. Donna.

[Jeremy Odom]

Is that Sharpie?

[Eric Larson]

No, I thought this would be a Sharpie.

[Jeremy Odom]

No, it's in gray. It's. It's a laffy. It's a Laffy. It's the golden microphone. It's. It is a laffy.

[Eric Larson]

This is. Thank you. Thank you.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yes. Congratulations.

[Eric Larson]

Thank Johnny as well for booking me to my first show.

[Jeremy Odom]

He is your first episode. Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

I mean, within five minutes already getting the award. I'm gonna hold this over Kyle's head, your brother's head, forever.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. Yeah. He does not have one of those. In fact, only two people currently own a Laffey. It is 2024 guest of the year, Lavetti Vegas. And then now Eric Larson, proud company right there. Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

Thank you. This is coming with me to Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow. Like, this is gonna be on the table when I'm eating.

[Jeremy Odom]

It should. And it's. It's pretty mobile like you. You could carry that around and take it places, probably, I would think.

[Eric Larson]

Well, it's.

[Jeremy Odom]

You could put a chain on it.

[Eric Larson]

I mean, it's a little gun shaped.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

So I might. I might not want to, you know, pack it in my bag or something like that.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, yeah. Y. That's funny. Yeah. I didn't even think about that. That would probably be a problem. They. You get flagged and they open up your bag like, sir, we think you have a weapon. They look and. Well, actually, sorry, Mr. Larson, congratulations.

[Eric Larson]

About to say this could be a great marketing tool.

[Jeremy Odom]

It's really good.

[Eric Larson]

You know, if I had some stickers or some stuff to hand out with that.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

Oh, hey, listen to the show.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, yeah. You know, and just, you know, I just happen to have Laugh With Me stickers right here. So, you know, hit me up. Anyone listening right now wants a sticker. I've got stickers. Okay. That's just the beginning of the merch. Now, not everybody gets a laffy. You gotta earn a laffy. But I got stickers. That's for sure.

[Eric Larson]

I almost thought you were gonna go into an advertisement for the show, just like, hey, I'd like to encourage all listeners out there, listen to Laugh With Me. Listen to Laugh With Me, the podcast with Jeremy Odom.

[Jeremy Odom]

That's right. Well, we have. We have a couple of shots here. You know, it's dangerous because the last time I had you in studio, that episode never aired. We did do shots that. I'm still going through the audio from that one. I don't know how much is usable. And that's on me. That's. Hand up. That's on me. Because I. It was me. You sounded great. Like, you did not sound like you went. Did we go to brunch that day?

[Eric Larson]

That was Vikings Browns morning.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, that's right. So it was a 8:30, London breakfast.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

Football game.

[Eric Larson]

I don't think we decided that we were gonna record until about three.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, yeah, that's on me. So we'll, we'll see how much of that episode ever makes the light of day. But something will come of it. I just, I just know. But either way, we got shots. Congratulations. We've got guest of the year, Eric Larson. I. Cheers.

[Eric Larson]

Cheers.

[Jeremy Odom]

I was like, hey, come on the show. Like, come on the show. You're like, what are we gonna talk about? So then I, you know, told you we were gonna talk about and then. But I knew all along.

[Eric Larson]

You knew?

[Jeremy Odom]

I knew all along that it was time to hand over this year's golden microphone. Johnny was like, it's time. We've waited long enough. We've had the nominees out for nearly a month now.

[Eric Larson]

Johnny wouldn't have been able to keep the secret. No, I understand. Like we, before we started recording here, I mean, we were socializing for a good 20 minutes and it was like, where's Johnny? Yeah, and it was just, well, he's waiting in the studio. And it struck me as odd at the moment, but, you know, I just thought maybe he was in the doghouse again.

[Jeremy Odom]

He's got those loose lips. He, he's a lot like a horse. You know where they got those lips? Like, you know, did I do that? Right? Is that, that was like a horse, right? Like, that's how he is whenever he keeps. Has a secret. So, yeah, Johnny has known about this, but we could not possibly have anybody who was nominated around before we handed out the trophy because he just, he would have spoiled the whole deal. So there you go, we got a winner.

[Eric Larson]

Thanks, gents.

[Jeremy Odom]

So, yeah, but no, when we were talking about, all right, come on, you know, let's, let's, let's do an ep. Then you were like, great, I've got a story I got to tell you. Like, something happened to me at the store. You're like, I can't wait to tell you. And I, I'm sure it's going to be award winning material.

[Eric Larson]

This is just to, just to frame this up a little bit.

[Jeremy Odom]

At my.

[Eric Larson]

Highest moment receiving this award. But this story is going to take me down to my lowest moment. I was at the grocery store.

[Jeremy Odom]

So how long ago was this?

[Eric Larson]

This was, this was about a month ago. Okay, so it was fall at the grocery store. Shopping for groceries as one does. I believe it was a Sunday afternoon, perhaps after a Vikings game, going to the grocery store to get, get my food for the. The following week.

[Jeremy Odom]

Did the Vikings win that day?

[Eric Larson]

Probably not. I mean, it's. It's been a good month since their last. Their last w. For.

[Jeremy Odom]

You know, 4 and 7 is nothing to scoff at when you're. You're stud quarterback.

[Eric Larson]

Generationally bad quarterback.

[Jeremy Odom]

When you're. When your quarterback is constantly hurt.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

I mean, he looks fine, but he's always hurt. So I. I don't know what to tell you there.

[Eric Larson]

I love the. You know, we're getting ready this weekend. We'll see. Max Brosmer, it sounds like.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

Who went to school for like nine years and is not a doctor.

[Jeremy Odom]

He's not a doctor. Famously. Not a doctor.

[Eric Larson]

Yes, Famously for not being a doctor.

[Jeremy Odom]

Famously. So not prepared to be a starting quarterback that they continued to wheel out the corpse of Carson Wentz, the crypt keeper of quarterbacks out there.

[Eric Larson]

Maybe. I mean, the one positive thing, you know, we say we make the jokes about how long he was in college. I mean, he could be the Tommy Boy.

[Jeremy Odom]

He could. You're right.

[Eric Larson]

Quarterback.

[Jeremy Odom]

You could save the season. I actually was. And I don't mean to, like, take your story into a completely other direction, but I was. I was doing kind of a Look at. All right, they're 4 and 7, but the games they have coming up, it's. It's there. There is some tough ones in there. You know, they got Seattle coming up this week. There's still another one with Green Bay. I think they still got another one with Detroit.

[Eric Larson]

They got Giants more in there. Baltimore.

[Jeremy Odom]

They got the Giants. You're right. That's a winnable game. Cowboys, but that's who they can score. So it's like, there, there. There are some tough games in there, but they're all winnable. Like every single one of those teams outside of maybe Seattle, Seattle's been pretty, like, solid on both sides of the ball.

[Eric Larson]

Well, and that's this weekend's game and it's in Seattle. And it's at Seattle.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. And they're like a ten and a half point favorite or something. So it's like. It's crazy number. But the. But every other game it's like, all right, they're winnable. So let's say they went out and then, you know, they're kind of in the thick of it, you know. But now you've got the QB3 playing QB, playing quarterback. So I don't know.

[Eric Larson]

The legend starts now.

[Jeremy Odom]

The legend starts now.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah. Our mutual friend Cody, who's a big Colts fan, he's. He fell in love with Anthony Richardson when they Drafted him. But today he just had to share, you know, Anthony Richardson named the Vikings as a potential team that he wouldn't mind playing for in the future. And then about an hour later he said, because I guess Daniel Jones, that deal that he's got with Indy is only a one year deal.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh.

[Eric Larson]

Saying that the Vikings would be a team that would be interested in bringing Daniel Jones in there. And I'm just like, we brought two offensive linemen from Indy this year. Like, are we going to bring their quarterback room? Is there quarterback room worth exporting in full?

[Jeremy Odom]

It's interesting because Dan, you, you wonder if, all right, the, the resurgence of Daniel Jones, is it just right place, right time, you know, in Indy, or did he just have to get out of New York and when the opportunity came up, he's a good quarterback. Like, what way could it be? I don't know.

[Eric Larson]

I feel like the. And this is weird for me to say because when the Vikings were looking, they hired o'. Connell. I really wanted Dable. Like Brian Dable was the guy that I wanted, you know, he offense coordinator for Buffalo, coached up Josh Allen. It was just this seems great, like aggressive passing downfield passing, running coach, like, this is great. You know, he's been fired this year after he won, you know, I think coach of the year for that first year with the Giants.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

And then has been awful ever since. And you know, was fined earlier this year for going into the tent when Jackson dart was showing concussion symptoms. You know, got dart concussed again. So he play calling.

[Jeremy Odom]

He's not only head coach, he actually is, famously is a doctor. So that's where we get that confused sometimes. Sometimes they can also be doctors. Not just. Not just want to put that out there.

[Eric Larson]

I appreciate it.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, no problem. You lost your train of thought now.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah, yeah. Now I'm thinking about doctors and I'm like, what is the best way? Do I prevent E. Coli?

[Jeremy Odom]

You're like, do I have an appointment next week? Do I have a checkup?

[Eric Larson]

So Daniel Jones was with the Vikings last year, went to or for the last eight weeks or something like that for the season with the Colts, obviously this year when they asked about his turnaround, one of the things that he said was after working with Dable for those first, you know, three years of Dable's tenure in the Giants and then going to OConnells, he was shocked by how much game planning was going on. So like when he got to the Vikings, like he was just like, they're thinking about the game plan. They're brainstorming, you know, ideas. They're talking to the quarterback, they're getting feedback. You know, we would have reams of data on every team that we were playing on tendencies on how to do this kind of stuff. And the preparation aspect was night and day compared to what the Giants was. So it's kind of like the high schooler that never learns how to take notes, and all of a sudden they get to college and natural ability can't do it, and they've got to, like, learn how to study and learn how to, like, do this stuff. But he attributed that to some of his development.

[Jeremy Odom]

Interesting. So, yeah, he would be pretty comfortable going back and getting to be quarterback. I mean, they're going to need a quarterback. I mean. But nothing against jj but he's not it. So nothing.

[Eric Larson]

Nothing. Makes me sadder than Justin Jefferson looking just dejected the last three weeks. Like, he just looks like he's not having any fun at all.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yep. And what do you do? You know, you just. What do you do? You get them a quarterback, they're going to work on that.

[Eric Larson]

You get them Brosmer. That's. That's.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

This is the hill I'm going to die on now.

[Jeremy Odom]

That's funny. So the Vikings lost that game. So you're at the grocery store.

[Eric Larson]

I'm at the grocery store.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay.

[Eric Larson]

And so, you know, I've got all my goods. I go to the cashier.

[Jeremy Odom]

Are you a. Get a basket? A cart. What kind of guy are you to hold at all?

[Eric Larson]

So I used to be a basket shopper.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay.

[Eric Larson]

And that was always my thing was I. If I'm buying a whole cart worth of groceries, that's too. That's too many groceries. Like, once I fill the basket, I'm good. But I'm a big fan of some of these stores. They have the little cart.

[Jeremy Odom]

A little cart. Yep.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah. Low cart's key.

[Jeremy Odom]

So the little cart. It's funny, when I ran the grocery store in Creston, Iowa, we had. Well, I guess I did it west of mine, too, but we had, you know, the. The little cart room, and we had a row of the little carts and then all the big carts, and I would put the little cart at the end. So you. When you walked in, you could get a basket. Or here's four or five rows of big carts, and then you could get your little cart if you want.

[Eric Larson]

I want to clarify, by little cart, I don't mean like the customer in training.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. Not the kid car, because we did have those as well, but we did that. Because there is actual data and studies showing that if you get a big cart, you will buy more. So it's a sales technique. Right. So when you go to the grocery store. Look at that. It's a legit sales technique. This is why not everybody has those little carts, but this grocery store has those little carts because the customers love them, you know, so they. They're thinking about the people. But are you a doctor? I am, in fact, not a doctor.

[Eric Larson]

Okay.

[Jeremy Odom]

But I. I just.

[Eric Larson]

I love that surgical analysis right there.

[Jeremy Odom]

But with that being said, I have been to the doctor many times. So did some of that stuff rub off onto me? I don't know. You know, sometimes I'm on. I'm in a deep sleep when I'm at the doctor.

[Eric Larson]

You know, you've probably been to the doctor enough that in the waiting room, I mean, you probably have to stop yourself from just diagnosing the people, like, around you.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, I just sitting there listening, just hearing the.

[Eric Larson]

Hearing that breathing over there. That guy's a goner.

[Jeremy Odom]

So I just listen to the other patients complain about what's wrong.

[Eric Larson]

That's the fourth time that lady's gone to the bathroom.

[Jeremy Odom]

Been there, done that. Yeah. I mean, you just kind of gained. And, you know, I'd imagine when I'm, you know, in that deep sleep with anesthesia and the. And the nurses and the doctors, I would imagine, are talking while I'm sleeping, I'm sure I've absorbed some of that information. I'm sure I have. Now. Can I just recite it? No. It's going to be one of those things where it's just there. And then when the time comes to use it, I just use it. Like.

[Eric Larson]

Like just something unlocks in your brain and.

[Jeremy Odom]

All right.

[Eric Larson]

You have access to that knowledge.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

You might find success marketing the Laugh with Me podcast to doctor's offices.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yes.

[Eric Larson]

Maybe you, you know, give them a nominal fee for them to play the podcast while people are under anesthesia.

[Jeremy Odom]

So I'm now paying the doctors. Yeah, again, I. I already pay them. Let's be clear. They. They. I'm paying them for their service. You want me to pay them again, but this time to play my podcast, which, by the way, you can get for free on the iHeartRadio app.

[Eric Larson]

What if you did a live read for doctors as an exchange?

[Jeremy Odom]

What am I, like, just be. Just promoting, like my. My GI doctor's office, like Dr. Kaiser.

[Eric Larson]

No, no, no. Specific doctors. Doctors in general.

[Jeremy Odom]

Go see him.

[Eric Larson]

He's like, hey, I know that there's A lot of. You know, there's a lot of that talk in Washington about not trusting doctors. But let me tell you that my.

[Jeremy Odom]

Doctor is really nice, especially when I see him face to face. But sometimes when it's on the phone, if I can get a hold of him, it's not so nice. Is that what goes.

[Eric Larson]

When you were like, it's nice to see my doctor face to face. And sometimes I show his face. Something else.

[Jeremy Odom]

That guy's. That guy's seen it all, right. You know, he. I don't even know how many times he's seen my bare ass, you know? And that's not even from the, like, inside out. Dude. He said it from the inside out. That's just how it works.

[Eric Larson]

Yo. You're at. You're at the grocery store. Any service industry, you start recognizing, you know, those regulars that come in, you.

[Jeremy Odom]

I know you're going with this, and this is real. When I walk, I. I could not be, like, my hematologist. Like, I could not be there for a couple of months or whatever. So they. How many people do they see? And the second I get off that elevator and they see my face, they go, hey, Jeremy. Oh, hey, Jeremy. What's up? And it's not just one. It's. You know, there's many people just walking. Oh, Jeremy. Oh, hey. You got the. Like, either they are very good. Very good, or I'm just there way too much.

[Eric Larson]

I'm taken by your tone that this is a confidence booster.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, that's cool.

[Eric Larson]

Like, it's not like, they're, like, doing that and then immediately, like, getting in a cluster and, like, giggling.

[Jeremy Odom]

Right?

[Eric Larson]

Like, it's just.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. Oh, good to see you.

[Eric Larson]

See, again, I think that there's something. Doctors.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

Receptionists, they're good people. There could be something in here for you to exchange this for. Laugh with me. Anesthesia listening.

[Jeremy Odom]

Hey, Jeremy. Good to see you have your pants on this time. That was. That got messy last time, huh? You sure you took all that prep? Yeah, that's. That's. It happens, man.

[Eric Larson]

I'm having flashbacks of the. The Drunken Brunch show.

[Jeremy Odom]

It's. Man, that show, it's. It's like, I'm torn. I just air it. Like, just put it out there in its entirety and know it's not that good. And it's. And it's me. It's 100% me. Or just continue to chop away at it and we're gonna get something from it. I don't know.

[Eric Larson]

Well, that's where I almost feel like you know, you might need to find some 32nd places.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yes.

[Eric Larson]

And then maybe we come on and we do translation.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, we may have to.

[Eric Larson]

Hey, let's. Let's expand upon this.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. And then we'll. All right, now on to the next clip. All right, That's a future episode. We're gonna do that. I'm gonna cut it up and we're just gonna have to do cuts and explain.

[Eric Larson]

If I can make one request, though, on that. Yes. Can we do that in 2026? I'm already starting to make my reel for guests of the year. Yeah. For next year.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, that's. I was telling Johnny, I'm like, we may. I, like, we may have screwed ourselves by awarding the trophy now to Eric because he's going to just sit quiet for December, knowing he's done his work. Or.

[Eric Larson]

I mean, the Oscars doesn't necessarily follow the calendar year.

[Jeremy Odom]

That is a good point.

[Eric Larson]

You could start the. The voting for 2026 now. We could start it now and, you know, say it.

[Jeremy Odom]

It's.

[Eric Larson]

You do a November to November type of.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, that's true.

[Eric Larson]

Do I run the show now?

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

Like, am I. Am I the guy now?

[Jeremy Odom]

Literally, as you were talking, I go busting Jeremy.

[Eric Larson]

I'm busting.

[Jeremy Odom]

I. I'm. I literally. I'm sitting here and I'm going, I run the show. I can set the time frame. And. And then you're like, am I running this show? And I'm like, I just said that in my head. Like, I already. I already know, Eric. I already know.

[Eric Larson]

Johnny is eating this up, by the way.

[Jeremy Odom]

It's ridiculous.

[Eric Larson]

Eating this up.

[Jeremy Odom]

Meanwhile, you haven't even told us a damn thing about the grocery store. So what are you doing in the store?

[Eric Larson]

We've established. What do we establish? What have we established?

[Jeremy Odom]

We've established that you've gone to the grocery store after Vikings lost. You now have a basket. Yes.

[Eric Larson]

Small basket.

[Jeremy Odom]

Small basket, small cart. Sorry, sorry. Small cartoon. And you're starting to shop for your goods. What is it you're getting? Why are you getting it? We don't know anything about that.

[Eric Larson]

Well, I don't think we really need.

[Jeremy Odom]

Does that matter?

[Eric Larson]

Yeah, I feel like it's. It's meal prep for that.

[Jeremy Odom]

My story. So I. I don't know.

[Eric Larson]

You. You don't know where the story's going?

[Jeremy Odom]

I'm telling you what I know, which is you have a cart now. A small cart that.

[Eric Larson]

You're.

[Jeremy Odom]

What do you want me to do?

[Eric Larson]

Like that just. This floors me. This floors me. I'M I'm taking control of the show.

[Jeremy Odom]

Please do. Somebody needs to. Which is just certainly not me. Yeah, I've been.

[Eric Larson]

I've been digging into some historical records here recently.

[Jeremy Odom]

Just learning randomly, like.

[Eric Larson]

Well, you know, I wouldn't say that I heard it on a history podcast, but maybe. Maybe I have. I. I don't listen to any other podcast.

[Jeremy Odom]

Podcast.

[Eric Larson]

Laugh with Me, but listen to this podcast about history, and they're talking about Admiral Nelson, you know, the British Navy.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, yeah, of course. Yeah. How could I forget? Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

Well, I mean, Victor at Trafalgar.

[Jeremy Odom]

Right.

[Eric Larson]

But, you know, they always have this thing, like, you always think about the ships and they always say, like, the captain goes down with the ship.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. That's kind of the thing, isn't it?

[Eric Larson]

Yeah. I think that's kind of always struck me as, like, kind of crazy because, like, if you had, you know, two armies that were fighting each other and, like, one of the armies loses, like, you retreat, you live to fight another day. Yeah, but, like, the captain, their ship.

[Jeremy Odom]

Goes down, it's over.

[Eric Larson]

Like, you lose. Like, you lost all those people. Like, hey, these were our. This was our best ship. It got sank. And we also lost our best captain and our best lieutenant and our best. You know, so.

[Jeremy Odom]

But they don't have to die. Like, couldn't they. Yes. Go down with the ship? But couldn't they still use the, like, emergency. Like, the inflatable. This is.

[Eric Larson]

This is war.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, I gotcha.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

I was thinking, like, a cruise ship.

[Eric Larson]

I wanna. I wanna clarify for the listeners out there that Admiral Nelson is.

[Jeremy Odom]

He's not fishing.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah. He's not the dude that drove the Titanic.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay, so what does this have to do with groceries? Oh.

[Eric Larson]

Oh, okay. All right.

[Jeremy Odom]

But you.

[Eric Larson]

So you don't think that's weird that the captain goes down with the ship?

[Jeremy Odom]

I think it's admirable. I think it's. That's his. Like.

[Eric Larson]

Even in.

[Jeremy Odom]

His job is to make sure that boat gets from A to B. And if it doesn't make it to B, well, that's on him.

[Eric Larson]

When they talk about, like, at that age of British shipping, the captain couldn't. Like, if they were getting shot at, he couldn't even duck. Like, he had to remain standing up. You just think you'd lose a lot of captains that way.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, but how easy is it to actually get a good shot? Like, a good view of, like, the captain?

[Eric Larson]

I don't know.

[Jeremy Odom]

Is it that easy?

[Eric Larson]

You couldn't get hit with cannonballs, like, splinters and stuff? Are flying.

[Jeremy Odom]

Because I will say I have played Battleship the game, like, a few times, and I can't see any. Anything going on on the other side. So I would just imagine that, you know, with the distance between enemies, you know, with boats, and then they had to try to shoot at another captain on another ship. It might even be harder.

[Eric Larson]

You ever cheated Battleship?

[Jeremy Odom]

No, I can't see anything over there, but no. Have you ever cheated, like, kind of taking a peek?

[Eric Larson]

Well. Or like, moved your ship around?

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, never even occurred to me that do that. Obviously you have. You look pretty excited about it.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

Geez.

[Eric Larson]

This is full confession mode here.

[Jeremy Odom]

This is wild.

[Eric Larson]

Anybody. Anybody who played me in Battleship in the early 90s?

[Jeremy Odom]

Johnny, we did the background check on this guest of the year thing, right? Okay. This is new information. We didn't know.

[Eric Larson]

This trophy's already in my pocket. You're not getting it back.

[Jeremy Odom]

Is that a. Is that a Golden Laffy in your pocket or just excited to podcast?

[Eric Larson]

I. I used to get a lot of crap from my friends because I had a work cell phone. And, like, when I go to, like, a restaurant, I. I'd lay it face up. So even after hours, if I got, like, a text message or if I got, like, an email. No, this is now my. This is my.

[Jeremy Odom]

This is it.

[Eric Larson]

This is my work cell phone.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yep. You're going to. It won't walk around. That would just, you know, just think people will talk. Like, there's no better way to get the people talking than if you constantly walked around with that.

[Eric Larson]

Excuse me, is there a guest of the year discount?

[Jeremy Odom]

You're like the. In professional wrestling, like, when you. When you're the champ, you got the belt. Like, and you have to go everywhere with that belt. Like, you're. That's you now. The next. The entire next year, you have to go everywhere with this trophy.

[Eric Larson]

Maybe think of, like, the Stanley cup and how those guys, like, you all get to borrow the trophy for, like, one day.

[Jeremy Odom]

One day.

[Eric Larson]

But you still have the handler that has to go, like, with it to make sure you're not, like, chucking in the lake or something.

[Jeremy Odom]

It's wild because the handler has the white gloves, takes perfect care of it. And then the players are literally doing what you just said. They're chucking in the lake. They're drinking out of it. They're eating cereal out of it. Like, they're going to clubs. Like, it's. There's no white glove treatment there for sure. But the handler.

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Visita to Lois Masercano in.

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[Jeremy Odom]

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[Eric Larson]

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[Jeremy Odom]

Most respect.

[Eric Larson]

So I was handling these groceries.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yes. Oh, back.

[Eric Larson]

They were in my small cart.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yep.

[Eric Larson]

I'm waiting in line at the cashier, and I finally get up to the cashier. It's younger kid. Looks like they're 12.

[Jeremy Odom]

Illegal worker.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah. Well, I. I know. You know, they're probably not 12, but.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, it looks. Yo. Okay, Gotcha. Okay.

[Eric Larson]

And so, you know, she's doing a little this small talk, the banter as cashiers do, you know, good ones. Did you find what you're looking for?

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, good. Good question.

[Eric Larson]

Would you like plastic or paper? Except I think she might have phrased it paper or plastic.

[Jeremy Odom]

I was. I was literally about to ask you, is that how they phrased it, the plastic or paper? Because that's gold. If that's how. But it was probably paper or plastic. Which would you get?

[Eric Larson]

You would have been satisfied if that was a story, wouldn't it?

[Jeremy Odom]

I really would have.

[Eric Larson]

If the story was just me going to the grocery store and them saying, would you like plastic or paper?

[Jeremy Odom]

This is the highlight.

[Eric Larson]

You would have been like, that's gold. That's gold.

[Jeremy Odom]

This is the highlight of my day, talking groceries with you.

[Eric Larson]

Next time I see you doing stand up, you're probably going to tell a joke about getting offered plastic or paper.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yep. This. This is gold to me. I. I'm. I'm beaming with excitement. Talking about groceries. I don't get to talk about groceries with anybody anymore. This is great. Is this not the story? That is not.

[Eric Larson]

No, no, no.

[Jeremy Odom]

Dang it. All right, so paper or plastic? So what do you get? You didn't answer. Paper. Plastic.

[Eric Larson]

Plastic.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay.

[Eric Larson]

Although I feel like the bags are thinner now.

[Jeremy Odom]

The bags are thinner, and they're gonna get thinner and thinner. Yeah, yeah.

[Eric Larson]

Pretty soon they're just gonna wrap your groceries in a Kleenex.

[Jeremy Odom]

Can I give you a. Just a quick rant? A quick rant?

[Eric Larson]

Oh, please do.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. The bags. Just to everyone listening, the bags are gonna get thinner and they're going to be worse. And that's just the nature of the beast, because everybody's. Every company is trying to cut expense. You know, charges everywhere they can. Right. So they're like, well, we're handing out all these bags. We got to pay less for the bags. We got to get better deals. We got to do this. We got to bid it out. We got to do this. We got this. I have millions, Millions in dollars in savings for you. Here's an idea. Just train the people bagging it. Bag it right. And then they're going to hand out less bags. They're going to be more efficient. So one. Just gimme. It doesn't even have to be a year. I'm envisioning a year long, like rollout and training and everything to execution. But it could be three months, it could be six months. An investment in this, and it'll save your company millions of dollars.

[Eric Larson]

I send you a lot of text messages on unsolicited grocery advice.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yes, you do.

[Eric Larson]

And one of them that I told you was to go through the self checkout.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yes.

[Eric Larson]

Because you don't end up with all your products individually bagged.

[Jeremy Odom]

Which I was excited to talk to you about because. Yeah. You. You get to bag it the right way.

[Eric Larson]

Yep.

[Jeremy Odom]

Because here's the thing. If. How. All right. When we bag our stuff, our own stuff, we bag it, right? Yeah, we just do. Because we know. How is it that when somebody is bagging other people's stuff, they can't get it right?

[Eric Larson]

No.

[Jeremy Odom]

Especially when they're standing three feet next to you and you could just ask, do you want this in the bag or not? Do you want me to bag it should always be plastic or paper. All right, next question. Do you want it bagged right or not? And then if they want it bagged right, you just bag it the way you would bag your own stuff.

[Eric Larson]

Yo. Hey, you want to. You want this Jeremy style?

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. You want a Jeremy style?

[Eric Larson]

Serve this up. Jeremy style for you.

[Jeremy Odom]

Or do you want it the way I think I should do it as somebody working right now? And in that case, it's going to be awful for everybody.

[Eric Larson]

I will say one counter argument to that. When I was down, I lived in Atlanta and there was a grocery store that I would go there and they had a Bagger who's blind. Oh, and I will say this. I didn't really care how he bagged my stuff. That dude was so cool. Like, they always paired him with this. This guy. And I. I know how old the cashier was because every time he would card me, he would be like, I'm twice your age.

[Jeremy Odom]

Same line every time.

[Eric Larson]

Every single time.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

He was always paired with the blind sacker. And I loved it.

[Jeremy Odom]

It was.

[Eric Larson]

Was my little weekly tradition.

[Jeremy Odom]

But here's the thing. You're always going to be half his age. Like, so he's always going to be double. That'll never. That joke works forever. Like, you're not going to catch up to him. Like, you're not going to suddenly be like, I got you. I'm.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah, but no, let's use a math there. That only worked for one year.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, it only worked for one year.

[Eric Larson]

Well, then he'll be double of me. He's not gaining two years for every one of mine.

[Jeremy Odom]

He. Do you get what I'm saying?

[Eric Larson]

No.

[Jeremy Odom]

He's always gonna have that gap every.

[Eric Larson]

Time you're saying he was put one over on me.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yes.

[Eric Larson]

Oh, my. You put one over.

[Jeremy Odom]

I did.

[Eric Larson]

I've been double put over.

[Jeremy Odom]

You've been double put. And here's the thing. I need to know about the blind bagger, because this. As soon as you said you had the blind bagger, I'm like, this is nuts. Because normally the cashier throws the, you know, the goods down to the bagger. You put it in the bags and. But you've added a step because now you've got the blind bagger with his walking stick having to hit every item to find out where it's at and then put it in the bag. So that's a whole process.

[Eric Larson]

So you didn't have a stick. Oh, you know, and, you know, the cashier was cognizant, and he would kind of push him towards his hand. But, yeah, every once while.

[Jeremy Odom]

Did he wear cool sunglasses? Yes, you damn right he did.

[Eric Larson]

But every once, he would try to make that. That grab that you could tell he was kind of feeling out the counter. And I'd have to, you know, of course, just as a concerned bystander, just be like, hey, that's it, you know, or else maybe, you know, you see. Maybe you see that. That jar of, you know, pasta sauce, and you, you know, you roll it over towards them.

[Jeremy Odom]

I just. Knowing how people act to like anybody, you know, that helps you at the grocery store, like, just the most, you know, some awful, awful People go to the grocery store and buy and then just rip into the people working there that are doing nothing wrong. I can just imagine somebody having a bad day going in there and being like, is this where we're at? We can't even get people who can see to bag our groceries and just going off on this poor person. Like they're just trying. Oh yeah, I could totally see it. And then the manager having to come over and be like, it's he, you know, this Johnny's really good. He can't see, but he can feel and like, you know, just having to explain it all. What is this the story? The blind kid bagging?

[Eric Larson]

No, but I did have one more bag.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay.

[Eric Larson]

So you gave us, you gave us that idea, which is brilliant.

[Jeremy Odom]

Brilliant, brilliant.

[Eric Larson]

Like it, it can't fail.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

The other thing we could do is so in Europe they don't give you the plastic bags. You have to bring your own bags to the store.

[Jeremy Odom]

Bring your own bags?

[Eric Larson]

Yeah. So last time I was in London, we went to the grocery store and they were just like, oh, do you have bags? And it was just like, no. They were just like, well, would you like to, you know, buy a couple of them? They were like 15 cents or something like that for like a bag? Yeah, just like, yeah. And the next question after that was, so where are you from in America? Oh, because you know, again, one of those, they knew one of those. Well, obviously an American because nobody else would show up here just expecting a bag. Like, yeah, how do you show up unprepared to the grocery store? Like, if you didn't have a bag, why'd you buy more stuff than you could carry?

[Jeremy Odom]

Only an American would walk into the supermarket and just expect a way to take it home. Only an American. Did they have boxes, like empty boxes they saved and you could throw in a box? No, no, Costco's got that down.

[Eric Larson]

They had little eco friendly, you know, bags.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, like the reusable.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

So did you keep the reusable back?

[Eric Larson]

Yeah, we threw him in the trash.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh really?

[Eric Larson]

We're from America.

[Jeremy Odom]

That's good, that's good.

[Eric Larson]

That does remind me of the. I think that's a Mitch Hedberg joke.

[Jeremy Odom]

Where he's just like, oh, you're stealing jokes now?

[Eric Larson]

Yeah, he's just like, oh, you know, I bought six apples and they were like, you want me to bag them? And it was just like, no, I'm a juggler, but I can only juggle six. So if I ever buy seven, fucking bag em up.

[Jeremy Odom]

Bag them up. I can only juggle six.

[Eric Larson]

Rest in peace, Mitch.

[Jeremy Odom]

That's a good joke. I like that. So what about the grocery store? You're at the store. You were just asked. Paper, plastic.

[Eric Larson]

Oh, so I am up at the check stand. So we already went through what I bought.

[Jeremy Odom]

So you. Well, we didn't talk a thing about what you bought. We decided you were getting plastic. So your goods are being bagged into plastic.

[Eric Larson]

Do you feel that cereal now, like, the family size that used to be just the regular size?

[Jeremy Odom]

I'll tell you what, I got a lot to talk about in regards to cereal, if you'd like to discuss cereal with me.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Because I. I feel like the regular boxes of cereal are only good for, like, two mornings.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. So I. I think that, I mean, we could easily look up the size difference from 10 years ago, 15 years ago, 20 years ago, you know, and. And to now. And. But the thing is, not only is the box shrinking, but the. So the size. The normal size box of you, you would. You normally get like a 15 or 16 ounce. They're shrinking. It's like 15.25 or 14.75. Whatever. Take a look at that. But then they get these other sizes that used to be the normal size, and then they'll write family size or share size or this one will last three days. And those are the big boxes. But then they can keep the higher, like, prices. But my thing is not as many people are buying cereal anymore. Right. Because there's so many other options of protein bars, protein shakes. You get eggs, and have you heard of bacon? Like, there's a lot of different breakfast things now. The cereal aisle does not need to be as long as it is, is my point. I think we can integrate some of those other breakfast items together in the cereal aisle using the cereal space that is now just sitting there. They've got too much variety in cereal.

[Eric Larson]

But when you're a kid, like, you love going through the cereal aisle.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, yeah, no, that was the best. But now. But who's bringing kids to the grocery store anymore?

[Eric Larson]

But I. Yeah, get what you're saying. Because as an adult, I mean, I pretty much bounce between three different cereals. Like, there's not much variety in there anymore.

[Jeremy Odom]

What cereal you eat?

[Eric Larson]

I mean, I do a lot of Cheerios. Honey Nut, Cherry.

[Jeremy Odom]

I mean, I didn't mean to ask something too personal, but I just thought.

[Eric Larson]

We'Re talking a lot of. A lot of Honey Nut Cheerios.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay.

[Eric Larson]

Occasionally Raisin Bran.

[Jeremy Odom]

Do you cut up, like a banana in it or Anything? No. Oh, you just scoffed at me with that one. Is that real? You've never done that?

[Eric Larson]

A banana in there? All right, so what am I, like the TV family?

[Jeremy Odom]

So I'm gonna, like, rock your world? Slice up a banana and put it in your Honey Nut Cheerios and you'll never go back or you'll do it every so often. It's like a little treat. It's fantastic.

[Eric Larson]

Did you just. That little. That was a little boyish grin right there.

[Jeremy Odom]

It was. I get excited. Talk about bananas. I'm not even a monkey.

[Eric Larson]

I've never. I've never put cutlery to a banana. I've never sliced one. I've never cut one up. I've never used a fork to eat one.

[Jeremy Odom]

Just break it up with your hand then. I don't care how you get there. Just get there.

[Eric Larson]

Oh, you. You'd eat a mushed banana.

[Jeremy Odom]

You could dip it. You could just take. You could peel it and then just kind of dip it and then take a bite. And then by trying to get some.

[Eric Larson]

Of the cereal stuck to the banana. Like, is it important that the cereal is in the same bite as the banana? Or is it just that the banana needs to be milk? So.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yes, it does. That's the key. The banana in the milk is a thing. Now, is it better with a bite of the cereal? Yes. Does it have to be with the cereal? No, because the milk with the banana in itself is fun, but with the cereal is like, peak. That's a peak bite.

[Eric Larson]

Okay.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. You can't do with any cereal. I don't think. I haven't tested that out. Maybe you can with any cereal, but. But I haven't. I haven't tested that out, but I know a Cheerios Gold.

[Eric Larson]

So about twice a year, I will buy a box of the OG Captain Crunch with Crunch berries.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, you got to do that.

[Eric Larson]

And it will last me all of about 48 hours.

[Jeremy Odom]

So you say, like, I will.

[Eric Larson]

It'll be. I will eat it for breakfast, and then that night I'll be like, you know, it sounds really good right now.

[Jeremy Odom]

Little Captain Crunch.

[Eric Larson]

Captain Crunch.

[Jeremy Odom]

You save the berries for the end or what?

[Eric Larson]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

You gotta do that.

[Eric Larson]

Well, as much as possible. Like, I'm not that first spoonful. I don't care if a couple. Couple Crunch berries get in there, get.

[Jeremy Odom]

Too excited or what.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah, I mean, but once it gets starting down, getting towards the milk level, then it becomes really easy to corner those beige pieces.

[Jeremy Odom]

How much milk? Like, you put your cereal in first, then you do Your milk. How. How. How's your pour? Like, do you fill it as full as you can?

[Eric Larson]

I want one layer of dry cereal on the top.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. Okay, that's. That's good.

[Eric Larson]

And then the rest submerged in the milk.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay. So have you ever had the second bowl? Like, you. You eat one bowl, and then you're like, I'll take another bowl. Have you done that?

[Eric Larson]

Oh, yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay.

[Eric Larson]

Many times.

[Jeremy Odom]

Right. Me too. Do you put more milk in, or do you run it back with what's in there? Like. Because I've done both, but I. I see.

[Eric Larson]

I see where you're going. I am more of a. I will drink the milk, and I will start with a fret, like, an empty bowl, refill it with cereal, and then add more milk in.

[Jeremy Odom]

So I used to do that until I got Crohn's. And then for whatever reason, dairy can hit me hard if I have too much of it. So I tend to not drink the milk now. All right, this is gonna sound silly because I do end up drinking and ingesting all of the milk because I won't drink the milk.

[Eric Larson]

America is so relieved right now. Yeah, we're so relieved. And also, like, the way you're describing this sounds like you're doing something naughty.

[Jeremy Odom]

Right? Like this.

[Eric Larson]

Like. I don't know how to say this, but I still drink the milk.

[Jeremy Odom]

This isn't something I'm going to, like, teach my children to do. In fact, I may say this is not how you do it, but this is how I do it. So I put the. I put the cereal in. I fill the bowl up. Like you said. You want one layer. I put the milk in, then I'll eat it all. Obviously, I'm taking in a lot of that milk. Well, then sometimes they're like, I need another bowl. So then I pour it in, and then as long as it's not too low, I'll run it back with more dry cereal, this time on top, just for fun. I'll eat that, and then whatever milk's left, I will drink it.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

But there won't be much left. I mentally will feel good about that because I didn't drink a lot of milk, even though I did, in fact, put all of that milk in me. So there you go. You're happy you came over today.

[Eric Larson]

I'm floored. I'm floored. I got some. I mean, some new things to try out here.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. So you're at the grocery store.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

You bought. So did you buy cereal on this trip?

[Eric Larson]

Oh, 100%. I would. I mean, that's. That's a staple. A staple. Good for me.

[Jeremy Odom]

You buy it every time.

[Eric Larson]

Pretty much.

[Jeremy Odom]

Even if you need it or, like, don't eat it.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah. I'm also. I have an unfortunate habit of. I bet you if you looked on top of my fridge right now, there'd be three boxes of Honey to Cheerios. And in my defense, only two of them are open. But two.

[Jeremy Odom]

How do you have two boxes of the same kind open?

[Eric Larson]

Well, just. I don't. You get. You get excited sometimes in the morning.

[Jeremy Odom]

Sometimes you just need a hit of that brand new box of Honeymoon.

[Eric Larson]

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Like a little cereal gremlin coming in there.

[Jeremy Odom]

I've known you for a long time, and I didn't know you were a little serial gremlin.

[Eric Larson]

Well, I mean, I just. I've got the confidence from this award. Yeah. I can feel like I can finally show you.

[Jeremy Odom]

Finally tell people who you are. Like, this is who I really am.

[Eric Larson]

I'm going to win. Next year at this time, you're going to present me with the Razzie. Like, the worst. The worst guest of the year. Like, Eric, you overshared. You told us too much.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. 2025. Hell of a run. You gave us a lot. You went on vacation. You gave us your idea for a stripper car wash. You gave us it all. And then in 26, you know, we're kind of. We're kind of tired of talking about cereal. I don't know why you suddenly.

[Eric Larson]

We're already.

[Jeremy Odom]

Is that.

[Eric Larson]

We're already over cereal.

[Jeremy Odom]

Suddenly, cereals become your personality. Didn't even know you ate it. You.

[Eric Larson]

You know, you were filling out your dream journal last week, putting your goals, and you were like, five minutes cereal talk, max, for the year. You're already over that a lot.

[Jeremy Odom]

I know. I know. And that's the thing. You can't ever get that back.

[Eric Larson]

You ever.

[Jeremy Odom]

Journal. I have. Not consistently. Not enough that it would, like, help me.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

But. And it was a long time. I mean, forever.

[Eric Larson]

It kind of feels like one of those, like, one and done. Like, you're like, I'm. I'm gonna get into journaling. I'm gonna write something right now.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

And I'm gonna keep this up, and a year from now, I'm gonna have 365 entries, and it'll be just my life.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

But instead you write once, and then you're like, the next day, nothing interesting happens. You have a discussion about cereal.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

And you're. Well, I don't need to write that down.

[Jeremy Odom]

Been there.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. I. Similar to that. I've. I've not actually. You know what? I'm gonna be honest with you. It's not similar at all. Okay.

[Eric Larson]

All right.

[Jeremy Odom]

But I was gonna read 12 books this year.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah. And was finishing Jurassic park gonna count as one?

[Jeremy Odom]

It was gonna count as a book.

[Eric Larson]

Okay.

[Jeremy Odom]

And I read a book immediately to start the year immediately. And I was like, I'm read 12 books, and then I'm going to talk about each one of those books, and it's going to be good content. You know, I'm going to talk about these books. And I immediately read the one book, and I talked about how I read a book. I read a book since. So I feel like it's very similar to your journal thing.

[Eric Larson]

I'm looking forward to getting caught up to hearing that episode about that book.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, you should catch up. You're going to be shocked when you get to guest of the year announcement episode next year. Next year when you get caught up, you're like, holy. Is that why I've been carrying this trophy around all year?

[Eric Larson]

So you didn't get the second book?

[Jeremy Odom]

No, I've got plenty. I bought a lot of books.

[Eric Larson]

Did you just didn't purchase these books?

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, I've got a lot of books, and I didn't read the second one. I've started it, actually. I take it. I take that back. I've started three books and I haven't finished any of those. And I was like, I could. I could easily. If I get a good start, I feel like I'll be able to hit that. And I got the one and got too cocky. I was just so excited because then I felt like, well, shoot, I got the first book done in like a week. Like, I'm ahead of schedule. Like, I could read another one this month, and then I'm gonna just blow right past that 12.

[Eric Larson]

That. That stuff when you set a goal and you're like, I'm gonna beat this by so bad that I might need to get a more aggressive goal.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

And then it gets towards the deadline, you're just like, oh, like, what did I do?

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, that's kind of. That's kind of where I'm at. Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

I set a goal when we started this episode to finish the story.

[Jeremy Odom]

Nobody has taken longer. I mean, if the conclusion of this story isn't great, like, you have just. I. Johnny, promise me you will not take his trophy back. You earned it. You earned it. You earned it. I have to remind myself, you earned it. And the story's gonna. It's gonna hit. It's gonna hit.

[Eric Larson]

This is like a music artist that. Their first album is great. Their second album is awful. But you have such good feelings from the first album.

[Jeremy Odom]

You just keep going.

[Eric Larson]

You're still checked in on the third album.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, yeah. I. I've got you. I'm sure you've got artists like that. Like. Like some of your favorites. Like, would you say, like, E6 has kind of fallen in a little bit of that?

[Eric Larson]

I would disagree on Eve 6 being that band.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay.

[Eric Larson]

I'm pretty much a big fan of all of their.

[Jeremy Odom]

Of everything.

[Eric Larson]

But I do feel like. Well, I would say Everclear, but I don't know that Everclear ever really bounced back.

[Jeremy Odom]

What album would you say is like, their classic?

[Eric Larson]

Classic Everclear? Well, I mean, probably the one that has the most significance for me would be so Much for the Afterglow.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay. That's the one I would pick.

[Eric Larson]

But I think Sparkle and Fade would probably be the album previous to that would probably be the definitive album.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, I really enjoy. Is it, like. Is it called Songs from American Movie?

[Eric Larson]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, I really enjoy that one, too.

[Eric Larson]

I feel like Everclear kind of went on a similar trajectory as, like, Goo Goo Dolls.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, yeah.

[Eric Larson]

Where, like. Yeah, Gutter.

[Jeremy Odom]

What was the first gutter flower?

[Eric Larson]

That was a Boy Named Goo.

[Jeremy Odom]

Boy Named Goo was the first one.

[Eric Larson]

That one almost lines up with Sparkle and Fade, and then their next one, which went Dizzy up the Girl.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yep.

[Eric Larson]

Kind of lines up with so much for the Afterglow. And then after that, they were like, we're just adult contemporary. And that was about the same spot that he. Like, when you listen to Boy Named Goo, when you listen to Sparkle and Fade, you're just like, this isn't a adult contemporary band. Like, this is a punk, like a.

[Jeremy Odom]

Rock, you know, Dizzy of the girls.

[Eric Larson]

That's 60% rock, like 40% punk, like 20% punk, 20% pop. Like, they're. But they're definitely edgier.

[Jeremy Odom]

They. They found themselves in a position where they're like, you know, we started this thing, and we wanted to play our. We'll play our way. We'll play our songs, our music, and then, you know, then you. Some songs pop off, you get an album that explodes. The tour's huge, money's good, and now you're paying for a lot of people to have jobs, and now you got to make sure you continue that, you know? And it's. Then it's just kind of. You're part of the machine now, which is fine. The music. I still enjoy Google Doll's music to this day, but I don't listen to it. Like, I listen to the old stuff.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah. That you. Which book described. And this is probably, you know, the stratosphere. Like, artists like Eminem, his first, like, three albums, like, each one was just better than the other reach that peak. And then by 2010, it was like he was back down in, like, the, like, still producing singles, but, like, the albums, like, everything had gotten a little stale. He got off the drugs and then all of a sudden, like, made, you know, the resurgence that he's had kind of in the last, like six years where.

[Jeremy Odom]

Just gonna say he sober after those first three. I mean, that's. Not that you can't be sober and create amazing art, but there was. There was something there. I don't know. So you're at the grocery store.

[Eric Larson]

I'm at the grocery store. I have my. My goods.

[Jeremy Odom]

Paper and plastic.

[Eric Larson]

Plastic. Paper.

[Jeremy Odom]

You went with plastic and then your bagger can see.

[Eric Larson]

Yes. Yes.

[Jeremy Odom]

All right.

[Eric Larson]

Thank you for the recap there.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yep.

[Eric Larson]

So it's football Sunday. We've established that.

[Jeremy Odom]

Vikings lost.

[Eric Larson]

Yes. So the cashier is just like, oh, have. Have you been watching some football today? And I said, yeah, some. And she was just like, I figure. I figure she's like, my dad's middle aged and he watches football all day.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, no. Oh, no, You're middle aged, huh?

[Eric Larson]

And I was just shocked. I mean, just even repeating it now. I'm shocked. Yeah, like, this is a tough thing, like mortality. Like, just all these things going through your mind.

[Jeremy Odom]

Do you. What? All right, two questions. One, what do you consider to be middle aged? And two, you must think you're just gonna live forever.

[Eric Larson]

Well, and so that got pointed out to me at one point. They were like, do you think you're gonna live into your 80s? And I was just like, yeah, but probably not much after that. And they were like, sounds like you might be middle aged.

[Jeremy Odom]

Sounds like that. Case you got you.

[Eric Larson]

My dad used to have a saying when I was a kid that used to drive me crazy. He has most things your dad says drive you crazy, but he used to. Anytime I call him old or say like, oh, that's. That's old or old fashioned, he'd always be like, oh, it's not old. I'm a young punk kid.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yep, that's.

[Eric Larson]

And I. He would always say something about that, and I would always just roll my. Like, my eyes would go back into the back of my head as I was rolling them.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, they got stuck that one time. Yeah, they get that Doctor.

[Eric Larson]

I think that was when we first met.

[Jeremy Odom]

Shout out doctor. Yep.

[Eric Larson]

Let's round of applause for the medical community. But yeah, you know, that, that was a tough thing for me to hear as a kid. And yeah, now, now I feel like that would be something I would say and not even realize the irony.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yep, that's. That's, that's a pure like, like example of you are, in fact, because you are throwing out those cliches. You are just hitting them. Boom, boom, boom, boom. And you believe them. Like, you don't just. Sam, you believe them.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

I'm there too, man.

[Eric Larson]

I know that. I sent, I sent, you know, a text to our group. Text. It's just something like, guys, I'm having, I'm having a tough time with this. Like, you really, really use some support.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, man. But here you are. You survived.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh.

[Eric Larson]

So then, you know, just to kind of emphasize, you know, how young this cashier was. So in my cart, I had a 12 pack of White Claw and a 12 pack of Oktoberfest. So I threw them up on the conveyor belt. And she was just like, are these alcohol? And it just like, I just want to crawl under the cart now, like, and just die. Like, I'm no use to society.

[Jeremy Odom]

Did. Did she say it just like that? Are these alcohol? Please tell me she did for you.

[Eric Larson]

Yes.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, that's incredible. Yes, it's incredible. What a. What? Just so innocent.

[Eric Larson]

But I'm, you know, I mean, I'm a middle aged man apparently, so bit of a coward. I didn't even have, you know, she had to call her manager over to, to ring up the alcohol and the manager's doing again, the small talk thing and. Did you find everything? And I had my chance that I could have just laid this kid out.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

Physically, you know, just.

[Jeremy Odom]

Just knocked.

[Eric Larson]

Brought the hammer on her and just talked about how unprofessional it was.

[Commercial Announcer]

Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

To compare me to her middle aged, football watching father.

[Jeremy Odom]

Right. But you did, you did do that.

[Eric Larson]

I feel like, you know, I could do that because who knows, I might know her dad. I might work with him. I might, I might hang out with them already.

[Jeremy Odom]

You probably do. You guys frequent the same grocery stores.

[Eric Larson]

It's a tangled web.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. You're in the same community even, you know, the grocery store is the community hub. It's where everyone in the community goes. It's one of the few shared things that everybody in the community does.

[Eric Larson]

Are you middle Aged daddy me right now.

[Jeremy Odom]

I am. Yeah, You are wearing a quarter zip.

[Eric Larson]

And really, when you're looking at the community, you can really look at a range around the grocery store of, I don't know, six, seven blocks.

[Jeremy Odom]

Six, seven. That's. That's how you know that you have a. Like. Or how you can tell kind of the vibe of a community, of a neighborhood is based on its grocery store. You know, is it vibrant? It's got energy. You can feel the energy when you walk in. You know, you've walked into some Hy Vee stores and you felt energy. You've also walked into some and you're like, I don't know how they designed these doors. Like, how did they design these doors to get people in and out of here? Like, I know you've done that.

[Eric Larson]

Those are the things I worry about.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. I worry about if they ask plastic or paper, which one was first and where do they put the little carts?

[Eric Larson]

We're on the food chain.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, man. I tell you what. We were actually going to do an entire episode on, like, our top and worst lists of the year, and instead we talked about, you go to the grocery store first.

[Eric Larson]

Well, you did say one of the worst things.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, I'll tell you what. Yeah, I'll tell you what. One of the worst things of the year was Jelly Roll shaving that beard off. Have you seen him?

[Eric Larson]

I can only imagine.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, where's my phone?

[Eric Larson]

I. I will look it up here, but describe it for the. For the audience.

[Jeremy Odom]

Well, it looks like a ball sack. His face. I mean, you. He. And I know why he did it, and I get it. He's losing a lot of weight. Have you seen how much weight Jelly Roll has lost? I mean, it's incredible.

[Eric Larson]

He was on game day earlier this year.

[Jeremy Odom]

He looks amazing. Like, good for him. Continue to work, man. And it's, you know, he's doing it for him. You know, he just wants to keep going.

[Eric Larson]

I put in Jelly Roll. Shaved.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, no.

[Eric Larson]

And clicked on images.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

Google gave me the. Are you a robot? Holy cow.

[Jeremy Odom]

That's what I'm saying.

[Eric Larson]

It's even more wild with his tattoos just because it. It does. It makes him look like Appalachia.

[Jeremy Odom]

So, yeah, he just.

[Eric Larson]

Down on his luck. Farmer.

[Jeremy Odom]

Right. That's the thing. He just looks so normal now. And then he did it. He want to showcase how much weight he's lost, which is awesome. That beard was cool. It's kind of the look. So is it.

[Eric Larson]

Is Jelly Roll. Is that an actual food?

[Jeremy Odom]

A jelly roll? I Don't know. Is that like a jelly donut called a jelly roll?

[Eric Larson]

I mean, what.

[Jeremy Odom]

I don't know.

[Eric Larson]

What kind of baked good would you compare him to now that he's, that.

[Jeremy Odom]

He shaved like a baguette. Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah, I could see that.

[Jeremy Odom]

Maybe even an Italian loaf.

[Eric Larson]

Because, I mean, that's the thing too. I mean, between the tattoos, the big beard, the hair, I mean, those wrinkles are on display.

[Jeremy Odom]

They are there. Yeah. Showing his age a little bit. Yeah, he, I, I'm, I'm a jelly roll fan. I disagree with shaving that beard. And I'd say it was one of the worst shaves of the year, so. And there you go. And that's our episode.

[Eric Larson]

That concludes the year in review.

[Jeremy Odom]

And that was it. Well, congratulations, guest of the year, Eric Larson. Thanks for all the work you did on Laugh with Me this year. You know, it. I was thinking about it. I'm like, man, what was, like, some of my favorite moments of when you were on the podcast? It's gotta be when you weren't even here and you were calling in and you called in and you had your idea for the car wash and you were like, what do strippers do at night? We gotta, we gotta get them working. And it just. I still can't. I'm still not like thinking about that because, like, why do we make them work day and night? Like, just let them be.

[Eric Larson]

Gotta respect the hustle, man.

[Jeremy Odom]

Just let them live their life straight.

[Eric Larson]

Cash, homie.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yep. Car wash by day, pole by night. The Eric Larson way. If you ever write a book, that's got to be the title.

[Eric Larson]

Like, I can't name the book. Laugh with Me, Guests of the Year.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, yeah, you can certainly do that. That'll help with promotion.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah, it's like the author, but the author bio will be my introduction.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yes.

[Eric Larson]

Transportation giant.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yes.

[Eric Larson]

Fifth speaker at central, former multi time fantasy champion.

[Jeremy Odom]

Hopefully never champion again.

[Eric Larson]

Probably not.

[Jeremy Odom]

Not this year.

[Eric Larson]

Probably not.

[Jeremy Odom]

All right. All right, well, thanks for being on the show and congrats again on guest of the Year.

[Eric Larson]

Happy to be here. I heart Laugh with me.

[Jeremy Odom]

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[Eric Larson]

What a matchup we got, y'. All. This is that classic HBCU vibe. Non stop action. The band is rockin' and the crowd lit. Chance echo drum beat everybody showing that school pride. Game like this.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Eric Larson]

It calls for an ice cold Coca Cola. Ah, Crisp and refreshing. That's a game changer right there. Yeah, that taste always hits the right note. Just like the band at halftime. And just like that, we're back at it. Asheville fans, school bus, colors everywhere. And an ice cold Coca Cola. That's a winning combo no matter the sport, no matter the yard. Everybody knows fan work is thirsty work. So grab a Coca Cola and keep that HBCU pride going. So usually on okay story time, our audience will send in their relationship problems. And the okay storytime squad gives some good advice. Goofly.

[Jeremy Odom]

But today we're not giving out our usual advice. Our producer Riley says we're giving something else.

[Eric Larson]

So what are we doing today, Riley?

[Jeremy Odom]

Today we're playing a little game. Says the man.

[Eric Larson]

I bought special gifts for you guys from ebay. Each one picked with one of you in mind. Yeah, Dakota, if you want to guess. All right.

[Jeremy Odom]

There is a gift at my feet. Open that thing. Now it is in my hands.

[Eric Larson]

Oh, I feel like it's got to.

[Jeremy Odom]

Be our resident gamer kiosk. This is the rectangle of childhood. It's a portable game console.

[Eric Larson]

I used to have this as a kid.

[Jeremy Odom]

This game console I used to play all the time. And you know when your mom came into the room when you're a kid and like you're pretending to see sleep. But Riley, what a thoughtful gift.

[Eric Larson]

Yeah, R. Thank you so much, Riley. You're crushing it.

[Jeremy Odom]

But we have one more gift. Let's open it.

[Eric Larson]

Oh, camera. An old timey camera. That's right.

[Jeremy Odom]

Classic.

[Eric Larson]

This is awesome because you know how.

[Jeremy Odom]

I love to take pictures of my travels. Yeah, you're always somewhere, whether it's in.

[Eric Larson]

Kyrgyzstan with some nomads or just New York, you know, with a nice little A piece of trash or a rat.

[Jeremy Odom]

Taking pictures with the birds.

[Eric Larson]

So, Riley, you got all of this from ebay, dude, ebay. It was really fun finding it with you guys. Like, I had very specific things for each one of you.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, it was all there.

[Eric Larson]

Thanks, Riley. And thank you, ebay. And guys shop ebay for millions of fines, each with a story.

[Jeremy Odom]

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[Jeremy Odom]

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