Nathan Bob Roberts

Summary

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Laugh with Me – Episode 103

Guest: Nathan "Bob" Roberts
Host: Jeremy Odem
Release Date: September 27, 2025

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Episode Overview

This episode of "Laugh with Me" brings longtime friend Nathan “Bob” Roberts to the mic, a legend within Jeremy’s circle for his unforgettable stories and unique approach to life. The episode dives deep into roommate antics, college living in questionable apartments, hilarious pranks, and medical misadventures. Bob shares humor, nostalgia, and honest reflections on young adulthood, all set against the backdrop of Park Wild (a.k.a. “Park Shitty”), a notorious apartment complex, plus tales of surviving medical mishaps abroad. With a tone equal parts irreverent and heartfelt, Jeremy and Bob reminisce and roast each other—serving up relatable laughs for anyone who’s experienced the chaos of early adulthood.

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Key Discussion Points & Stories

1. The Legend of “Bob”

[05:07 – 09:56]

• Origin of the Nickname:
  Bob explains how, despite his real name being Nathan, friends in Missouri Valley started calling him Bob due to his last name, Roberts, and the name stuck when he moved to Omaha, especially since the group already had a Nate.

  “It just stuck… the Bob name just stayed after we moved, and everyone called me that. New people get confused, obviously—it’s hilarious.” – Bob ([05:40])

• Double Life at His Wedding:
  Jeremy and Bob discuss the confusion at Bob’s wedding when friends called him Bob and family called him Nate—leading to a “double life” dynamic.

2. Colonoscopy Comedy & Medical Real Talk

[10:17 – 16:12]

• Jeremy recounts his recent colonoscopy prep, making light of uncomfortable details:

  “If you enjoy shitting your brains out all night... it’s awful. But if you enjoy that, I mean, if that’s your thing…” – Jeremy ([10:39])

• Bob hasn’t had one yet but is mentally preparing:

  “Every year my doctor reminds me. So I got two more years, and then it'll be that time…” – Bob ([10:18])

• Both discuss absurd hospital routines—being woken up for “rest,” having to confirm their name at all hours, and anesthesia amnesia.

3. Park Wild (“Park Shitty”): Legendary Roommate Chronicles

[16:12 – 44:50]

a. Moving Out (and Up?)

• Attempted First Apartment:
  Bob’s parents nixed his first apartment after police warned of its astronomical crime rate, to the point that they paid the boys to lose their deposit and “not live there.”

  “They paid us not to live there.” – Bob ([19:31])

• Enter Park Wild:
  The trio lands at Park Wild: two bedrooms for three guys, sandwiched between a jail, train yard, and a strip club (“Lipsticks”).

  • Living arrangements include sharing a room, bedroom hierarchy, and the infamous “shelf”—a loft ledge with a railing and makeshift styrofoam “walls.”

b. Ingenious (Dubious) Domestic Solutions

• Cooking and Cleanliness:

  • Used a gas grill filled with charcoal (to skirt rules), bought the cheapest cuts of meat.
  • Dishes were avoided at all costs; Totino’s pizzas cooked directly on the oven rack, slid onto the box, folded into “calzones,” no plates required.

    “If you’re really creative, you fold the Totino’s in half—now it’s a calzone if you have guests.” – Bob ([34:28])

  • Trash not taken out—instead, upgraded bin sizes to delay the chore.

• Bathroom Etiquette:

  • The downstairs bathroom was “men’s number one only”—never cleaned, never stocked with toilet paper.
  • Mysterious “penis enlarger pump” left behind—no one claims ownership.

• “Park Shitty” Name & Reputation:

  • Crime and DIY mess aside, the name reflected both external reputation and their own slovenly standards.

    “We called it Park Shitty just for the condition—it was you guys, you guys made it that way.” – Jeremy ([30:17])

c. Antics & Pranks

• “Shelf Warfare”:
  Roommate Eric lived openly on the shelf, used pennies as weapons, chucking them from above at unsuspecting targets ([43:23]).

• Mail Prank:
  Cody’s mail (ignored for years) was systematically stuffed between his mattress and box spring—until his bed collapsed ([47:29]).

• Garbage Disposal Horror:
  The source of a mysterious smell: someone puked in the kitchen sink, vomit later revealed by the garbage disposal ([53:10]).

4. Top 10 Sounds of Park Shitty

[45:22 – 66:40]
Bob delivers a hilarious, uniquely specific rundown of the apartment’s “soundtrack,” each with a story:

1. “What are you gonna do with those goldfish?” – Neighbor’s question when the guys buy fish to feed a piranha; their answer: “boil them and serve over rice.” ([64:28])
2. “This place is a shithole.” – Friend's dad upon seeing the apartment during move-out ([62:31])
3. “Goddamn birds!” – Roommate’s frustration during Final Fantasy 7 gaming marathons ([57:08])
4. “What the hell happened to my pop?” – Pranking strangers by shaking their sodas ([55:46])
5. Thundering footsteps – Bob’s steel-toed boots clomping after UPS shifts ([55:19])
6. Backed up garbage disposal – The return of last night’s binge ([53:00])
7. “We’re gonna burn this down.” – Attempting to dispose of years’ worth of mail in a fireplace ([49:36])
8. Cody’s bed collapse – The fallout of the mail-stuffing prank ([47:44])
9. “That ain’t no [expletive] otter!” – Neighbor’s outburst at TV ([45:34])
10. Miscellaneous apartment chaos – Pennies raining down, badminton, treadmill thuds, etc.

5. European Misadventure: The Czech Hole in the Leg Story

[68:16 – 82:00]

• Medical Nightmare:
  Bob recounts contracting a staph infection after swimming in a Nebraska lake, only for it to explode into a “gaping hole” in his leg upon reaching the Czech Republic. He describes:

  • Local clinics panicking and sending him to hospital
  • Language barriers (his Russian limited to “nyet”), being forcibly held down while doctors dig in his leg
  • Weekly wound cleanings, antibiotics wreaking havoc
  • Embarrassments of finding bathrooms in Europe (including paying for toilet seats)

    “Time is of the essence… finally, I just take a handful of change, and I’m like, toilet seat!” – Bob ([77:43])

• Aftermath & Recovery:
  Bob loses 50 lbs, picks up a staph infection in the hospital, relies on roommate Cody to change his bandages after returning home.

6. Reflections: Growing Up, Reunions, and Fantasy Football

[83:00 – 96:21]

• High School Reunion:

  • Bob in town for his 25-year high school reunion—recalls Y2K, Columbine, 9/11, and early 2000s anxieties.

• Fantasy Football Lore:

  • 19-year league, Jeremy and Bob are longtime participants.
  • Bob won during the 2020 remote/COVID season—“asterisk year”—and had to buy a new couch as part of his winnings arrangement with his wife.
  • Classic banter about changing team names, the “champions couch,” draft day rituals, and ongoing bragging rights.

    “Anytime in a draft recap there’s an asterisk next to mine—because you were remote during COVID!” – Jeremy ([87:13])

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Notable Quotes & Moments

On Apartment Living:

“We had a charcoal grill we weren’t supposed to have, because it looked like a gas grill, that we filled with charcoal.” – Bob ([20:55])

“We need a bigger trash can… that still no one will take out.” – Jeremy ([32:52])

On Pranks and Apartment Culture:

“So eventually, [Cody]’s like, Bob, this bed is so uncomfortable. I can’t sleep on it anymore. So he sleeps on the floor. Right? But so eventually… there was so much mail in between the mattress and the box spring, it had slid off.” – Bob ([47:44])

“Don’t burn your mail in the fireplace. Especially in a multi-story apartment building.” – Bob ([51:24])

On Medical Predicaments Abroad:

“They get like the biggest nurse they can find, like this huge lady… holds my leg down and this guy starts digging around with a dentist pick.” – Bob ([72:47])

On Growing Up (Sorta):

“Now every year I try to, you know, because this hashtag, never forget, right? … My kids think it’s my favorite holiday. And I’m like, guys, this is not a holiday.” – Jeremy ([85:14])

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [05:07]: The Origins of “Bob”
• [10:17]: Colonoscopy Comedy & Hospital Quirks
• [16:12]: Park Wild Living: Crime, Chaos & Cleanliness
• [25:19]: The Infamous “Shelf” (Loft Ledge Bedroom)
• [30:17]: Why It’s Called “Park Shitty”
• [45:22]: Bob’s Top Ten Sounds of Park Shitty
• [68:16]: Czech Republic Medical Nightmare
• [82:00]: Grown-Up Reflections (Reunions & “Adulting”)
• [87:01]: Fantasy Football League Lore
• [93:00]: Vikings Football & League Banter
• [94:03]: High School Reunion, Life Lessons, Midwest Jokes

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Final Thoughts

This episode is a nostalgic, vividly detailed trip through the wild days of young adulthood—equal parts hilarity and horror. Jeremy and Bob’s chemistry brings every prank, filthy apartment, and medical crisis to life, with insights on friendship, growing up (kind of), and the beauty of looking back and laughing.
Fans of cringe-worthy roommate stories, prank war tales, and slice-of-life Midwestern comedy will find themselves right at home in the world of “Laugh with Me.”

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Transcript

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[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

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[Jeremy Odom]

Foreign welcome back. It's a brand new episode. This is Laugh with Me, a podcast with Jeremy Odom.

[Ali Jackson]

I'm your host.

[Jeremy Odom]

Jo. Oh, do I have a treat for you. Not only. Not only do I have a special guest here, I've got a Special guest here who is bringing the heat. Okay. This is a guy, I've known him for 20, 20 plus years now. 20 plus years of stories from this guy. I mean, we're not even. We're just hitting the tip of the iceberg of what this fella can bring to the podcasting world. Okay. I know him as Bob. His name's. We talk about it. We talk about. His name's not actually Bob. I've always known as Bob. So in previous episodes when you know Eric for frequent guest of the show and he. We've sometimes brought up our friend Bob. This is Bob, guys. Bob Roberts, otherwise known as Nate. His name's actually Nathan. And it took a long time after knowing this guy, after hanging out, after being his friend, before I found out that was actually his name, I always knew him as Bob. And for a long time, even after I found out that his name actually wasn't Bob. Took me a long time to figure out why. We talk about it. We set the record straight on the name thing. But man, this guy, he. He's got. He's got some classics in here, stories for you. Just fun stuff. If you, if you have ever lived in kind of that, you know, many roommate situation in your 20s and you're like, yeah, I'm not living like that now. You'll be able to reminisce from that because we lived it and Bob's got. Bob's got the fun stories from it, but yeah. Special guest this week, episode 103 of Laugh with Me, Johnny. Please welcome Nathan Bob Roberts. Do you want to be called Bob or you want to be called Nate? Bob.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Let's do Bob.

[Jeremy Odom]

Do you. So over here with my friend Bob, you. But your name's not Bob. So will you, like, tell us why we call you Bob?

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah, sure. So a long time ago in a little town in Iowa called Missouri Valley, I had some good friends and we. They just started calling me Bob for no apparent reason because my name is Roberts. And then when we came to Omaha and acquired even more friends, they already had a friend named Nate.

[Jeremy Odom]

We had a Nate. Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

You know, and then so I. The Bob just name kind of stuck.

[Jeremy Odom]

We've been kind of lucky with only having like a friend with one name, like not having many multiples. I don't know if there was I ever like. I don't remember there being like a situation where we just would unfriend somebody because we already had one.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah, no, I don't think so. But what's hilarious about being called Bob all the time is people new to the circle, they get confused as. Yeah, they're like, I thought your name was Nate, and everyone's calling you Bob. In fact, great story. So we have this friend who worked at a bank once.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, that is funny.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

And so I went because I need a bank account. So I went to his bank because he was like, really? I don't know if he was trying to sell upsell everything to get in the bank account. So I'm like, yeah, sure, sign me up. I need a bank account. The bank was convenient. It was in Walmart. So you're there all the time. So I'm like, yeah, sign me up for a bank account. So I went in and he set up the account, and everything was good. I went back to put money in it, and I endorsed the check that I was depositing from work. Nathan Roberts. Because that's my name.

[Jeremy Odom]

Y.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

And they're like, that's not your name. We can't put this money in your account. And I'm like, well, why not? They're like, that's not the name on the account. And I'm like, well, what could it be? And I'm like, I bet it's Bob. And sure enough, they open the account as Bob Roberts.

[Jeremy Odom]

That's awesome.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

And also the same guy. We were in fantasy football league, you know, with those pe. With his dad for a long time.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

And that fantasy league was awesome. So it was literally like some old dudes and then, like, us. And there was a room dividing us both. So us versus them.

[Jeremy Odom]

Well, it was a split. There was a living room, and there's a kitchen, and then there's, like an open window. Open window?

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah, so we could see in there. And. And you know what was great about that league is that we had a really good chance of winning it because they all were awful at football. It was draft, like one year. Someone drafted Brett Favre and Percy Harvin back to back after both working cussed for a long time. And so I won that league, like, a couple of times. And, like, they were old school. They sent, like, a check, and, like, my winnings check one year was made out to Bob.

[Jeremy Odom]

To Bob. Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Again, it was hard to cash.

[Jeremy Odom]

So your friend at the bank, when you open a bank account, do they have to, like, check your ID and like, basically copy straight. Nobody's just saying, you know, we're you and I just talking. Oh, what is your name? And then just typing it in. Like, this is what, a verification process, right?

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah, well, you would think, but I think, you know, this was like pre 9 11, when, oh, anything goes. Anything goes. Like, I could have said my name is like, whatever.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

And people would buy it, Right.

[Jeremy Odom]

Good old days.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah, the good old days.

[Jeremy Odom]

Fly planes in the buildings.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Oh, yeah, the good old days.

[Jeremy Odom]

The good old days.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

But, yeah, so that's how Bob came around. And, like. Yeah, it's a good story. It really confuses people. Yeah. To hear me call Bob. Like, for example, at my wedding, right? There was a lot of us there, people calling me Bob. And a lot of relatives were like, who's Bob?

[Jeremy Odom]

You live, like, two lives.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Like, do you have an alter ego or something? And maybe it is.

[Jeremy Odom]

I know from my perspective, your wedding was different for myself as well, because I've only known you as Bob. Then you get into a situation where you've got, you know, the other people of your life, and they're calling you Nate or Nathan, you know, and not only that, I've always known Bob as this kind of quiet, reserved guy, picks his points and when he talks, you know, with. With precision. And not somebody who's outgoing and smiley and, like, I've never known that guy. Right.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

And.

[Jeremy Odom]

But then at your wedding, you were just the most social and outgoing guy, and everybody's calling you Nate. And I'm like, who is this guy? Like, I don't even know this guy Bob. Somewhere else. And then, you know, you've kind of been that way ever since. Like, that's how I've known you. But, like, previous. Previous to wedding, it was like, that's a different Bob. So. Yeah, it was interesting on our end, too.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah. Well, yeah, the wedding is a whole different deal because you gotta be social with people, you know, walk around, you know, maybe swipe their drink tickets, even though you're paying bill. Things like that.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, you're welcome.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah. Yeah. Sorry about that, by the way.

[Jeremy Odom]

It happens.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

I probably will never live that one down. But. But have you.

[Jeremy Odom]

You ever had a colonoscopy?

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

I have never had the pleasure, but every year my doctor reminds me. He's like, 45. 45. So I got two more years. Two more years, and then. And then it'll be that time, I guess so.

[Jeremy Odom]

I had one yesterday. Do you. Are you familiar with the prep process?

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

I've heard it's really awful.

[Jeremy Odom]

Well, depends on how you, you know, define awful. If you enjoy shitting your brains out all night, all day and night, well, then, yeah, it's awful. But if you enjoy that, I mean, if that's your thing.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

I mean, there is Nothing more rewarding after, like, good day of drinking than taking a big shit.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. What if you do that like 30 times?

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

That would be pretty bad.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, no, I had one yesterday and it. It went pretty good. But the. The thing is, this was probably the best prep, like, time. Like, it was the easiest, I guess, for me. I don't know if I'm just becoming like an old vet of the game, but it seem I got some sleep in the middle of the night. Normally I'm up all freaking night. This time I didn't. The bed did. Not the bed. I want it to be known on record that everything went into the toilet this time.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

That's. That's possible. To the bed with the prep.

[Jeremy Odom]

It's possible. And something that was very much on my mind this time.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

That would be hard to sleep with that in the back of your brain.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But this time, no, I slept pretty good. And then, you know, you wake up and you. It's just. I. I think what helped this time is I was so sick. Everything from the get was all straight liquid. So that helped. So this is good podcasting. Just talking about colonoscopies.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Well, Well, I mean, like, there's a big giant billboard where I live. It says, nip it in the butt, Get a colonoscopy.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yep.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So if nothing else, this is a public service announcement.

[Jeremy Odom]

I recommend anybody who has the means to get one. It is certainly something that can be life saving, you know, for people. It is something that is. You know, anyone who listens to the show knows that it's something that's necessary. For me, with the Crohn's disease, this was a positive experience. This time the GI doctor came in and he couldn't have been more ecstatic with my colon. Not that it's in good shape. No, not by any means, but it's better. And the small intestines are actually starting to heal. So there's a lot of good things this time to celebrate after that that, you know. And I don't remember any of the conversation. You know, what's interesting about a colonoscopy is the doctor immediately talks to you when you wake up. Oh, yeah, you don't remember any of that. You're so out of it because the anesthesia. So it's important to have somebody important with you to take the notes because you won't know anything that happened there.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So I didn't happen to me, but maybe. So what kills me is like, after you have anesthesia. Right. So you're in the hospital Overnight. And they're like, get some sleep. You know, rest up. But then they come in every two hours and wake you up.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

It's like, like. Or like I was there with my dad and he had anesthesia or back surgery, and they're like, get some rest. You know, you got to rest up. And then his doctor rolls in at 4:30 in the morning to wake him up to tell him what happened. He doesn't remember shit. No one was there.

[Jeremy Odom]

Nobody's there. Yeah, there was a. There's been a couple of times where I was getting a colonoscopy, but I was there getting one as a part of what was a hospital stay.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Okay.

[Jeremy Odom]

And it's exactly that their way, you know, make sure you're getting some rest because I know this is. This is hard on you. And then it's, you know, you're getting woke up every 90 minutes. Be a. If not for your vitals but for taking some medicine, dude, something.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

You would think they could tell if you're alive by all the technology in the hospital, not have to wake you up to do vitals.

[Jeremy Odom]

You would think the beeping.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

The beeping would tell.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, that would tell you something. Because I know when. It's just a long stream.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah, that's bad.

[Jeremy Odom]

That's bad, right? Yeah. So there's definitely signs that they can.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Use without having to, like, wake up. Boom.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. And, you know, the bracelet that says my name and birthday might be enough so that they don't have to wake me up and get verification, but no, they need to wake me up and ask me what my name and birth date is. And a lot of times in a day, days, in the middle of the night, I don't know who I am. Like, how are you supposed to just look at the bracelet?

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

I mean, even in like, regular sleep, I don't know who I am. Yeah, I. I always, like, I disclaimer like, my son's old enough to know, like, understand things. Right. I say I don't own anything. I might tell you if you wake up me up out of a deep sleep.

[Jeremy Odom]

Exactly.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

And a lot of times I don't even know they come in.

[Jeremy Odom]

I got woke up this morning from somebody who was opening my store, you know, calling to ask if so and so had called into work. Like, I don't know. I was sleeping. You tell me if she's coming in.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Are they there?

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. Is she there? If she's not, you're gonna want to call her. I. I have no idea. You just woke me up. I Have no idea.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

Let me check my phone.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Getting back to your point, like, yeah, it's a rough deal getting woke up.

[Jeremy Odom]

It's a rough deal.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

But I'm glad that everything is on. Moving up for you.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, things are good. Things are getting better. So one of the things that, like, I was excited about when you were. You were like, yeah, yeah, I'll come on the show. One of the things I was really excited about was, like, the early, like, when you and I first met, and I couldn't even tell you what year that was, but it was, like, probably early 2000. Yeah, I think so maybe in that range. You lived in Council Bluffs?

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yep.

[Jeremy Odom]

And you lived with at least a couple of our friends, Right? In the friend group. But you lived in it. What's. All right. Without telling us the nickname of the place you live, what was it actually called? Because I don't even remember.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

It was actually called Park Wild.

[Jeremy Odom]

Park Wild.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Okay, but what's. But. But to think about Park Wild, right. You have to go back to another apartment complex in Council Bluffs to learn how we landed at Park Wild.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, so there was one. The previous one.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Previous to that.

[Jeremy Odom]

Tell me about that. Because I don't. I never went to that, so.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah, well, I didn't either. Oh, there's a good story as to why. Okay, so. So just for context, like, I lived at home my first year of college and commuted into Omaha, which is about how long? That's about 20 minutes.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, that's not bad.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah. But then after that, I'm like, all right, let's stake out on our own, right? Little three little pigs, get your sack and walk down the road to make your own way in the world. So I had some. Two friends from Missouri Valley, the small town where I live, both of them went to Iowa Western in Council Bluffs.

[Jeremy Odom]

Me, too.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah. And. Well, I should rephrase that. They both were enrolled at Iowa Western, and one actually went to Iowa Western.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay. Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah. But he. He's good now. Yeah. So things we grow up and learn, I guess. But. So anyway, so we were looking for apartments, and we really couldn't afford very much. We couldn't afford to pay very much. So my one friend found this complex right off of the interstate. I don't remember the name of it. So I'm like, all right. I never. I went there, looked at it, you know, it looked like an apartment. I didn't really know what I was doing. So we put our. We put our money down, like, for a deposit, and my mom and dad wanted to see it. Right. Because they wanted to know when we were going to live. So they drove into this complex.

[Jeremy Odom]

Did they call you Baby Bob?

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

No.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

All right. Just checking.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

They might call me dumbass after seeing this apartment complex.

[Jeremy Odom]

That's fair.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

So.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So they came home and we already put our money down. Right. So we're committed to this apartment.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So like, like those were the days. Like pre. Cell phone, you know. So they get back home and they're like, you're not allowed to live there. Like, we did some checking with the Council Bluffs police and because the crime rate in that complex is astronomical. So this was like 2001. Right. So for a two bedroom apartment, it was going to be like $450 a month.

[Jeremy Odom]

Well, that's amazing.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Should have. I mean, I was like, sign me up.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, 100.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Like, I'm seeing ones for like 800amonth. This. This sounds like a good deal.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Like, I was always taught, like, take the good deal, but apparently you might have gotten murdered at this place.

[Jeremy Odom]

So. The art of the deal.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah, so the art of the deal, for sure. So we. My mom and dad are like, you're not allowed to live there. In fact. So I'm like, all right. So I called them up to try to get our deposit back. Well, they weren't giving us our money back. They're like, you committed? I'm like, all right. So I told my mom and dad that. And they're like, well, all right, we'll give you your money. Everyone's money back. So you don't live there.

[Jeremy Odom]

They paid.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

They paid us not to live there.

[Jeremy Odom]

In order to not live there. Incredible.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Y. So then my dad had heard about Park Wild. All right. So now we're at Park Wild looking for a place. So this is pre. Like, this is like people I know from Missouri Valley who are living there. So. So Park Wild is really incredible. So Council Bluffs has lots of hills in it, right. So you go to get to Park Wild. It's. It's kind of like a triangular type geography. On one side of the triangle is the Council Bluffs jail. So that. Okay, sounds about right. Then the other side, train yard. And the other side, one of the most famous establishments in Council Bluffs. Lipsticks, which you can imagine what that is.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, yeah. It is a makeup place.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

It's a makeup place. Yeah. Well, maybe never been there to know, but anyway, so it's not really the best type place to be, but it served its purpose. So we rented this place and we had a two bedroom apartment with three dudes. So I shared one of the rooms with another guy. And then one of our friends, he had the other bedroom.

[Jeremy Odom]

Two bedroom apartment, three guys.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

And so first of all, they told us, like, you may not have a charcoal grill for fire hazard reasons.

[Jeremy Odom]

So you got a charcoal grill, right?

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

No. Oh, we found a gas grill and threw charcoal in it. Perfect to look like. Yeah, yeah. So like being in the grocery business, you'd appreciate this. So we had a.

[Jeremy Odom]

We had to be out of spite.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

We had. Yeah, we had like this thing where one of us would go to Hy Vee because there was a Hy Vee right down the street to buy some meat to grill. Now we're not buying like the New York strips or the rib eyes. We buy like top round, like cut with a chainsaw steak. So like friend is like, look at how big this is. And it only costs like 50 cents. I'm like, that is going to be awful. So anyway, that kind of starts.

[Jeremy Odom]

Only going to take 30 minutes. Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

And we have. And we have a charcoal grill we're not supposed to have because it looks like a gas grill that we filled with charcoal.

[Jeremy Odom]

So.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So anyway, so that. So we started out well there, and then when we're outside grilling, we hear this choo choo boom. And we're like, what the hell is that? Sounded like a bomb going off. That was the train yard. Like the trains would back into each other at all hours of the day to like hook up. And trains don't like slowly back into each other. It's like. Yeah, they gotta like hit each other hard to get the cars hooked together. Yeah. So there's that. So we lived there for one lease. All right. And then while we were there, some other friends who had been in Kansas City decided to move back to Council Bluffs. So that's some other friends. They lived a little bit down the hill. Park Wild is a multi building complex on a. That's on a big hill.

[Jeremy Odom]

Big bluff. Can we call it that bluff?

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yep. So there's like the bluff has like park wide, like train yard at the bottom, then Park Wild, and then way at the top is apartment called the Heights. That's like the 1%ers of Council Bluffs live at the Heights.

[Jeremy Odom]

You never quite made it to that.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

We never made it to the Heights. No, no, we always. We knew our place at Parkwild. All right. So our lease was up and then all of us in the first apartment went our separate ways. We did not get Our deposit back on that one. Surprisingly, surprisingly so. Moved home. And then my mom and dad are like, we're gonna move to Pennsylvania.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

And so you can choose to come with us or not. I'm like, all right, so this is about 2003.

[Jeremy Odom]

So these are the same people that were willing to buy you out of Elise so that you wouldn't live there. They are now, like, we out pick a place to live if you'd like.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

They must have got a taste of the good life when you did, like.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Live outside of the home, I guess. But my brother was still there.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, okay.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

And I'm always been the responsible one, so maybe they were just exhausted from having him around. I don't know. So. So they were like, we're moving. As soon as my brother graduated from high school, they moved to Pennsylvania. So I'm like, all right, well, I'll see what I can do. Because I was going to University of Nebraska Omaha. And I'm like, all right, well, see if I can transfer into Penn State or something. So I did tried that. And I had like, I was really, like. I had like two years left at uno and Penn State was going to take only half my credits, so I'd have to do a bunch of stuff over. I'm like, all right, well, I guess I'm gonna stay. So in the meantime, our friends who had moved from Kansas City and lived below us at Park Wild had upgraded to this. It's almost like the penthouse of Park Wild. It is a two level apartment.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, yes.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah. So like, wood burning, fireplace, three bathrooms, three bedrooms, and a shelf. We'll get into the shelf.

[Jeremy Odom]

We'll get into the shelf.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

We'll get into the shelf.

[Jeremy Odom]

Because this is the unit that I know. Yeah, yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

This is the unit that you know, huh? So I'm like. So I. I get a hold of our friend Cody. The guy on the shelf is leaving, he's moving. So that's going to be opening soon. So I'm like, well, I've seen the shelf. I guess it'll do. So for. For context, the shelf is like, it overlooks this, like, cathedral ceiling, like living room. So it's like a loft almost.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. So ledge.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

It has like a hallway. So like a normal room, you have four walls and a door. Shelf had no door and two walls. All right, so it was big enough.

[Jeremy Odom]

And a railing.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

And a railing.

[Jeremy Odom]

And a railing.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

It's important to have the railing.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yes.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Because otherwise that would be really unsafe. Yeah. But so, so, so we. I'm like, sign me up for the shelf. So it's big enough to fit, like, everything you need, like a desk and a bed and whatever.

[Jeremy Odom]

What were you paying to live on the ledge?

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

I think I was paying about $250 a month to live on the shelf.

[Jeremy Odom]

That's not bad.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

No, no. But then I went to. I went to a local home improvement store and bought some Styrofoam to make a wall. So put it on top of the railing to make a wall and also made a door out of a tarp.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah. To make, like, a room.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yep.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So if you're sitting on the bottom floor of this really open living room. Right. And you see a bunch of Styrofoam up there, what do you think will happen?

[Jeremy Odom]

I mean, you're gonna throw.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

You're gonna throw shit at it.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. It's a dart board. Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah, it's a dartboard. Exactly. And you might find the dart if it hits the Styrofoam.

[Jeremy Odom]

Maybe.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah. So a lot of times, my Styrofoam would be knocked down in the middle of the night. And this was, like, pre wedding, like, pissed off Bob.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yes, it's a different Bob.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

And so also, there was no way on the shelf to, like, secure your belongings. So I had, like, a really. I had a bookshelf with a lot of books. So I came home from work one day, and all my books had been turned around.

[Jeremy Odom]

Well, fair to say you were the only one in the unit that read books.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

I didn't really read them. They were just kind of a conversation.

[Jeremy Odom]

So you owned a book?

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

I owned books.

[Jeremy Odom]

All right. Fair to say you were the only one in the unit that owned books.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Books, yeah. Okay. So it was just like, every time I moved, I'm like, God damn it, I got to move those books. And I really didn't know, so I just kept moving them around. And, yeah, once in a while, I'd pull one off and be like, all right. And it's a book because I'm paid to lead, not to read.

[Jeremy Odom]

That's right.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Like Simpsons Present Home or Arnold Schwarzenegger.

[Jeremy Odom]

Need to put that on a T shirt.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah. Paid to lead, not to read. Yeah, absolutely.

[Jeremy Odom]

I love it. So. So.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So I do my time on the shelf. So in the like. And then one of the guys that had a bedroom, he moved out. So I was next person up for a bedroom. So we get the bed. I move into the bedroom. That leaves the shelf open.

[Jeremy Odom]

Is the bedroom up upstairs?

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Upstairs, yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yep. So we got. So I move into the bedroom. And then our friend Eric Larson, who's been a frequent guest, he moves onto the shelf. His parents told him it's time to get out. Right. So. So he moves onto the shelf. But he did not enclose it like I did.

[Jeremy Odom]

So he's wide open.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

He's wide open. You walk by and like. I think he was supposed to go to Iowa Western too and maybe did once in a while.

[Jeremy Odom]

I don't know. He was. So he was there sometimes. He was there like. Cuz I. I went to I Western and he, he was there sometimes. Yes.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Okay. Yeah, yeah. So. So we, we. So he's like wide open on the shelf.

[Jeremy Odom]

He's not a builder. He's not gonna put up styrofoam or tarp or anything. This is my space. That's it.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

He brought his bed. Yeah. And not much else.

[Jeremy Odom]

I don't think I feel like he would have been content just having a couch downstairs and a blanket and a pillow. And if that was a space that was a space.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

That would be true. Except I don't think anyone would ever want to sit on the furniture at Park.

[Jeremy Odom]

That's a good point. So, yeah, I think it's fun. It's. It's important to note we, We've gotten the, the real name Park Wild.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

But everybody called it Park Shitty.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

That's right.

[Jeremy Odom]

Why was it called Park Shitty?

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Well, I think it was a combination of things. I mean, even though it was an upgrade from that first apartment that my mom and dad told us we weren't living at and gave us our money back.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

We weren't exactly at the Heights. Right, right. So I mean a lot of. Some people had their cars, broke into it. Park Wild. So there was still crime.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, of course. It's an apartment compliment.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

It's an apartment.

[Jeremy Odom]

There's always going to be crime no matter where you're at.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

And it's, it's right by the prison. So what are the prisoners going to do when they get out? They're gonna go break into shit.

[Jeremy Odom]

But what about the ones who break out of prison? Where do you think they're going to hide?

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Well, they're going up those hills.

[Jeremy Odom]

Exactly.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

And what do. You're not going to go to the Heights. No, they got security.

[Jeremy Odom]

Exactly.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So you stop at Park Shitty.

[Jeremy Odom]

It makes sense.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah. And then also why we called it Park Shitty was just the condition of our apartment. So I think.

[Jeremy Odom]

But it was you guys. Yeah. You guys made it the conditions of it this way.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

That's right.

[Jeremy Odom]

So.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So like some. So there Was usually about four people. So we had one bedroom downstairs which was Cody's. Yeah, that's the main, the main master bedroom. It had an attached bathroom and right. Like that was like top shelf accommodation. Right. And then upstairs two bedrooms and then the shelf. But then sometimes we'd have somebody's girlfriend living with us. Right. Randomly, which cost us a lot of money to have her around for food costs, water costs and pay per view costs. Yeah, yeah, she was an odd duck. And then we had, and then we had, for a while we had a badminton net in the living room.

[Jeremy Odom]

I don't remember that. That would have been fun.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah, we played badminton. And then you know when you, when you jump and yell, the people underneath you are going to get pissed.

[Jeremy Odom]

So that was something I didn't really. All right, this is like a classic. Just a bunch of single guys living in an apartment and turning into a frat house. Yeah, I don't remember there you guys living above anybody, but I don't know how you guys didn't get kicked out because that would make a lot of sense that the people below you would hate you.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Right.

[Jeremy Odom]

So.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So they got. So the badminton net was early on in my tenure when I lived on the shelf. And then the person in the Ritz Carlton bedroom, Cody, he decided to get a treadmill. So he decided to be fit for a while. So he got his treadmill.

[Jeremy Odom]

For a while.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

For a while. And first of all we had to haul the thing up like four flights of stairs to this like apartment. And then like what, like people underneath you, an apartment are not going to appreciate you having a treadmill.

[Jeremy Odom]

No.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Cuz they're going to hear like boom.

[Jeremy Odom]

Boom, boom, boom, Constantly.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Constantly. So the treadmill went away too. And then also why we called it park shitty was no. 1, it was a bunch of dudes. No one's taking the trash out, right? Ever.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh no.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So we started out with like a simple kitchen sized trash can. Right. Well no one took it out. So then we upgraded to like a 45 gallon like leaf like barrel trash can.

[Jeremy Odom]

That was the solution.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

That was the solution.

[Jeremy Odom]

We need a bigger trash.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

We need a bigger trash can to hold to handle more trash that still no one will take out.

[Jeremy Odom]

Can I tell you, when I first moved out and it was like a one bedroom that was like. You know, there's certain things you have to do when you live on your own now, right? You've got to like now I got to do the dishes, I got to buy my groceries, I got to do laundry, I got to take the trash out. I. I always found, like, a sense of, like, I'm doing it. I'm really doing this on my own. When I took the trash out, you guys were like that, who's taking the trash out? Let's just live in the film. Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

We'll just live in the filth, and we'll just get a bigger trash can that no one will take out.

[Jeremy Odom]

Insane.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

But the good news is, is it didn't fill up very fast because all we ate were Totino's cracker pizzas.

[Jeremy Odom]

And you wouldn't. Which is funny because I. In my notes, I wrote down Totina's pizza because I remember you guys, like, you didn't want to. Like, I just mentioned doing dishes is something you have to do as living on your own. You guys refuse to do that as well. So you would put the Totino's pizza on, like, the. Just on the. The metal in the oven. And then you'd put it just at the edge so that you could slide it off onto there. Onto the cardboard, maybe onto the box. Yeah, yeah, onto the box. And then you would just eat it, you know, off the edge of the box. So that way you would avoid any dishes at all.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

That's right. And then if you. And then if you're. You're really creative, you take the Totino's pizza, you fold it in half.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yes.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

And now if you have guests. It's a calzone.

[Jeremy Odom]

It's a calzone. There you go. I've been a big connoisseur of the Totina's pizza, but I was never one to be afraid to use utensils and plates. I don't understand your guys's logic, but I do remember you guys being so proud of that.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

It was a big deal.

[Jeremy Odom]

It was a big deal.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

It was a big deal.

[Jeremy Odom]

So if you. All right, so I. I only went to this apartment, like, a handful of times, but I do remember specifically, like, to your point, we don't take the trash out. We don't do the dishes. I specifically remember being like, hey, where's, like, the bathroom? And you guys were like, oh, yeah, use that one down here on the. On the first floor. And I go in there. Can you imagine? Do you think these guys ever cleaned it? Like a bunch of guys? No. Not only did they not clean it, it was like a rite of passage to have to go in there and use it.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Well, it's funny. So you said, like, when you move out, there's certain things you got to do, right? Dishes, take out the Trash.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Buy toilet paper.

[Jeremy Odom]

Right, right. Yeah. That wasn't happening.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So we never bought toilet paper.

[Jeremy Odom]

I know.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

That was theirs bathroom. So the downstairs bathroom was like a half bath.

[Jeremy Odom]

Luckily I didn't have Crohn's back then cuz that would have been a disaster.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

That would have been.

[Jeremy Odom]

I would have walked out with my hand raised and been like guys, here it is. And just swung it so.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So we called that the men's number one only bathroom.

[Jeremy Odom]

That's right.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Had a name and then there was allegedly. So when someone had a fish tank, there was a.

[Jeremy Odom]

No, no, no. It was not a fish tank pump. It was a penis enlarger pump on the counter. I distinctly remember seeing that and be like, who's penis pump? Nobody would vouch for the. Oh no, we had a fish tank. No, you don't have a fish tank. Because if you had a fish tank, that's responsibility. And you would had to clean it and feed the fish. There's no responsibilities in this apartment. No, no, absolutely not. It was a penis enlarger and I don't know whose it was.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

I don't think anyone's ever claimed.

[Jeremy Odom]

We never, we never checked. We never.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

I think when we moved out we left it right where it was.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Somebody. Somebody, somebody.

[Jeremy Odom]

Somebody either maxed out or they just moved on from it. I don't know.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

But someone just abandoned it. Yeah, it's like one of those. Like it's not mine.

[Jeremy Odom]

And all, you know? Unless like. I think it was like the first time I ever went there. I, I remember that. I remember going in that bathroom being like, what, what happens here? And then Cody. This was like one of the few times or one of the first times I met Cody and he locked himself in his, his room and he was chugging this like gallon of orange juice filled with vodka. I think maybe he was going through a breakup or something.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

But he, he was going through it. I know that. So we all had a great time out. Out in the main like living space. But yeah, he was like chugging this big gown oj.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

I think that was one of the times that the roommate's girlfriend bought us something. Bought. Used our pay per view.

[Jeremy Odom]

She did, she did order the pay per view.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

Which was fun. But no, he. I can't imagine why Cody ended up with like stomach issues. Is he's chugging gallons of orange juice and vodka Bacardi and we. Yeah. Just wild.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

And then he chugs it and then some. One of our friends, maybe Grant opens the door.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

And Cody chucks His cup.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yes.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

And we didn't have like the best neighbors. No, no. So the cup hits the door and they get pissed. Like, they come out, they're going to like they want to fight Cody for hitting their door.

[Jeremy Odom]

Well, yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

And Cody's like, like, obviously he's drunk. He's drunk.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

But luckily we had the mediator. One of our roommates went over there and calmed him down. The neighbor. And then he's like, all right. Went back in and. But yeah. So it's a wonder that. No wonder. You know, I never thought of that, that maybe that's the precursor for Cody's problems.

[Jeremy Odom]

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[Jeremy Odom]

Another time I went over there, it was like during the day, I'm sure I was just like picking Eric up or something. But he's up on his, on his shelf and there's like this. He's chucking pennies down from, like, from the railing. He's just chucking pennies at people. Why why was that a thing? Like why were pennies just being chucked like around that apartment?

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

That's a good question. So Eric had no wall. Right. So, so. And he was up there and all of a sudden like you would just see like two fingers come over the edge and you knew that a penny was going to get chucked in your face. So he had like, it was like an ice cream pail full of pennies. Like imagine what he could have bought with that.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. At least a candy bar too.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

At least. At least. And that was like pre inflation days. He probably got three candy bars.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh yeah. Three for a dollar.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Easy, easy, easy. We're not talking like 250 today for a candy bar. This was like the good old days.

[Jeremy Odom]

The tariff on candy.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah. It's insane. Be that as it may. So. Yeah. And then once we got enough pennies, so he had the high ground up there.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So that's like always what you want to have in battle, the high ground.

[Jeremy Odom]

But battle, why is there battle? Like why is he up there with an ice cream bucket, pennies? What's he defending? He has nothing but a bed and a pillow.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

I have no idea. I don't know. It was just one of those legends of Park Wild, the petty wars of my.

[Jeremy Odom]

Of my entire life. That was one of the moments that I felt the most unsafe. Like he. I'm just standing down there, he's chucking pennies and I'm like, what is happening in this place? Park Shitty is living up to its name.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

It's living up to its reputation.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yes, it is. I know you have. You've got something special for us. Like there was a lot of crazy things that happened in this place. But you had said that there were some sounds.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

That were special that you, that you heard in this place that maybe you wouldn't hear anywhere else. So you were going to give us the top 10 sounds that would come out of Park Shitty.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

So you want. How do you want to do this? Do you want to start at number 10? Do you want. And work your way up.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

How do you want to do it? Top ten style.

[Jeremy Odom]

We're gonna do it top ten.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So I'll start with ten and go to one.

[Jeremy Odom]

Johnny's gonna give us the drum roll. Let's go.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Let's go. All right, so number 10. That ain't no otter.

[Jeremy Odom]

No fucking otter.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah. So remember our crazy neighbors that came out pissed when Cody hit the door and they like, someone should have called the cops. I was really worried for their safety in that Apartment. And we just didn't want to get involved.

[Jeremy Odom]

Sure.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So they were loud, lots of yelling. Kids.

[Jeremy Odom]

They have kids?

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

I think they had kids.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

And you could hear their tv. So they were watching, like, some, like, animal show. And all of a sudden you just hear, like, the guy yell, that ain't no fucking otter. And we're just like. So we were like, for half a second, we were, like, concerned about the welfare of whoever was watching this said program.

[Jeremy Odom]

Correct.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

But then we went back to our lives pretty quickly.

[Jeremy Odom]

Why not?

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah. So that's number 10.

[Jeremy Odom]

No.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Fucking. No. Fucking incredible. Number nine was. We were so. One of the kind of myths of Park Shitty was is you pick up your mail because we got mail there. But there was somebody, Cody, who never picked up his mail. So. So some. So.

[Jeremy Odom]

And the place. The place is in his name.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

The place is in his name. He's like number one on the lease.

[Jeremy Odom]

So. Of all the people who should be checking their mail. Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

It's Cody. So he never picked up his mail. So this was, like, even predated me at Park Shitty.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So one of the people decided, we're gonna put. We're gonna put his mail in between the mattress and the box spring of his bed since he never picks it up. Okay. So eventually, like, this went on for like, two years.

[Jeremy Odom]

No way.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah. So then. So. So like, like successive. Like people who lived on the shelf had come and gone. You know, they were all in on it. Right. In fact, we started putting our own mail under his mattress.

[Jeremy Odom]

Well, yeah. Why wouldn't you? So.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So he's like. Eventually, he's like, bob, this bed is so uncomfortable. I can't sleep on it anymore. So he sleeps on the floor. Like he. He moves to sleeping on the floor. Right. But so eventually, remember he got a treadmill. Yeah. So the treadmill had to go where he was sleeping on the floor. So he. He had to move back to his bed.

[Jeremy Odom]

You guys did not own a vacuum?

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

No.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay. I'm just thinking about this floor. Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

It's. It's not the best thing to sleep on.

[Jeremy Odom]

Correct.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Okay. Yeah. So one, one, one morning, we hear like, so this is the. The. No. And they're like, what the hell is that? You go downstairs and Cody is on the floor up against his treadmill, still on his mattress, but the mattress is no longer on the box spring because there was so much mail in between the mattress and the box spring. It had slid off.

[Jeremy Odom]

So.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So, so that's number nine.

[Jeremy Odom]

So did he. Is that when he found out about all that.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah. Then he's like, what the hell, Bob? And I'm like, hey, this is going on for, like, two years. Like, he had, like, Pottery Barn ads from, like, 2002.

[Jeremy Odom]

Did he not appreciate the prank?

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

I think he did, but. Okay, so this. This leads in this. This leads into the next sound. Number eight. Yes. Which is, oh, we're gonna burn this down. Because there was so much mail, like, in his room, like, he had to get rid of it. Right. So ordinarily you would, like, you know, after you've discovered the prank and learned that you should probably pick up your mail. Yeah. You would, like, bag it up and throw it in the recycling. I think even though this is, like, 2002, we did recycle.

[Jeremy Odom]

You guys refused to take out the trash.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

But you recycled well. You were good citizens.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Well, yeah, we tried.

[Jeremy Odom]

So.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So instead of, like, taking the mail to the recycling or garbage, like, one would do, like, now that we're responsible. Yeah. We're like, that's too much work.

[Jeremy Odom]

Right.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

We got this wood burning fireplace.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, no.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So, like, let's burn the mail in the fireplace.

[Jeremy Odom]

No, you did.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So we load up the fireplace with, like, a lot of mail. Paper, maybe even. I'm sure there is, like, some plastic with, like, the little windows that are on the envelopes. Just chucked it all in the fireplace, lit it up.

[Jeremy Odom]

And that's where some of Council Bluff's greatest minds. Right here.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So this is where we get into the, like, oh, shit. We're gonna burn this place down. Because the flames from all the burning mail are, like, wafting up the wall.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Out of the fireplace. Like, the containment of the firebox of the fireplace.

[Jeremy Odom]

And no chance, like, the fire detectors worked because you have to change batteries.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Well, yeah, we didn't.

[Jeremy Odom]

Right.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So, I mean, no one was alerted to us. That could have been a real tragedy. We burned down. We would add a lot of explaining to do for that one.

[Jeremy Odom]

I think so.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

But eventually, we just kind of, like, spread the burning mail out in the fireplace, and that seemed to allow the flames to go back into the fireplace. So we burned half the mail. And then maybe our first actual learning experience at Park Shitty was to, like, maybe we shouldn't burn lots of mail in the fireplace. So we did. In fact, that was one time that we took the trash out.

[Jeremy Odom]

Because you learned.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Because we learned from your airs that went from our air. So we did learn something in that.

[Jeremy Odom]

Good.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So, like, kids, don't burn your mail in the fireplace.

[Jeremy Odom]

Don't burn your mail at all. Yes.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Honestly, Especially in the fireplace in a multi story apartment building.

[Jeremy Odom]

That's funny.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So number seven is, is a great one. Like what the hell is this? And what that is from was we used to buy lots of terrible alcohol at Park Shitty. I'm talking whatever's cheap. Whatever's cheap. And we didn't really know what we were buying like, so we bought like lots of Bacardi flavored rums. We bought Smirnoff ice malt liquor. So really top shelf stuff we're talking.

[Jeremy Odom]

Here was you guys were 21, 22.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah. In fact, like I was older than everyone else, so I would not to incriminate anybody here. But.

[Jeremy Odom]

So you're the elder statesman. You should have been the role model.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

I should have been the brains of the operation, not the, not the enabler. So then, so where that comes from.

[Jeremy Odom]

Is it didn't help your case to let everyone know that you were the oldest one of the group. No, because you, you really should have been leading them.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Should have been leading them, like being responsible, like maybe saying, hey guys, maybe we shouldn't burn all the mail in the fireplace. And I was like that. I want to see how this goes. Yeah. Maybe I'll be in a podcast 20 years later. It'll make for a good story.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, it would. So.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So number seven. That sound comes from when one of our roommates went to turn on the garbage disposal in the sink. Right? Turned it on.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

We had been some drinking heavily the night before, so something bubbled up from the garbage disposal and it was someone's puke because they puked in the sink.

[Jeremy Odom]

What? In the sink and didn't run water or.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

No. Sitting in the containment vessel of the garbage disposal. And what's. Which always confused me is the men's number one was a lot closer than the sink.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So that must have been so disgusting that they didn't want to puke at it even.

[Jeremy Odom]

That's it. The game of what's that smell? Would have been incredible in that place. Because it's the trash. Is it the men's number one? Is it the sink, the fridge, the.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Fireplace, the barbecue spam we made in the microwave with eggs.

[Jeremy Odom]

The copper smell from all the pennies. There's so many ways you could go with it.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

It's a sensory overload type of environment. Oh my. So that was a good one.

[Jeremy Odom]

That's a good.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

The backing up of the puke and the oh my God sink.

[Jeremy Odom]

That's awful. That's awful. Who did it?

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

I'd rather not say. Okay, we'll protect their identity.

[Jeremy Odom]

All right, that's fair.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

All right, so number five. So when our. So our friend Eric moved to the shelf, I think he knew Cody from the. They worked together. Yeah. And I think he had known our other roommate from somewhere else. But you know me like I went to uno. I didn't work where they did, but I worked at ups loading boxes all through college and sorting boxes overnight. Daytime I was 4 to 9pm shift.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Except when it was Christmas time, which sucked. My policy every Christmas was to punch the first box that said Merry Christmas. But anyway, back to the noise. So the noise is like boom, boom, boom. And that's the. So Eric came over.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

To see, to meet me and like it was like a snowy day or something. And at UPS you had to wear these steel toed boots. So that noise is He. He said like the first. So he always says the story. The first time I met Bob, he came home from UPS all pissed, his boots covered in snow, stomping boom, boom, boom across the floor. And that's how he met me. And he's like, sign me up, I want to live here. This is great.

[Jeremy Odom]

This guy seems great.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

This guy seems great. So pre wedding outdoor, you know, outgoing Bob.

[Jeremy Odom]

That sounds about right. Yeah, that's the Bob I knew.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yep. So number four is what the hell happened to my pop? So some we had people like that would stay over, right. And they'd go to the store and get soda and chips and different things. And the soda would get mixed with like with, with booze usually.

[Jeremy Odom]

Sure.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

And this guy had a bag of jalapeno chips. So a little spicy. I think he ate the whole bag in one sitting. So his mouth was really. He needed something to drink.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So he had a 2 liter of mountain Dew on the floor, but when he opened it, there was no fizz. Like it was flat.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah. But that didn't stop him from drinking it. But he was kind of pissed that his pop was flat.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

But what he doesn't maybe not know is, is that when he wasn't there. Yeah, it was me. Like I'd shake up his pop and open it up and let all the carbonation out. So his pop was flat.

[Jeremy Odom]

Pranks are great. It is. That's a good one.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

That is a good one. Especially after you've consumed a whole bag of jalapeno chips.

[Jeremy Odom]

That's a good, that's a good prank. The male. The male. That those are good pranks.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

And then number three, goddamn birds.

[Jeremy Odom]

I'm assuming it had. Please tell Me, it's not anything to do with birds inside the unit.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

No.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Well. Well, in a sense, yes, but not in a sense, no. So we, we did a lot of gaming at Park Shitty.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Like school and work very much sub tier priorities compared to gaming.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. I remember there was like a whole like kind of corner room that was set up with like Tate desks or whatever along. All along the water L shape. And then we're just computers.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

Game TV's gaming and whatnot. Which I wasn't really my thing, but I remember seeing it and being like, you guys are. You guys are busy.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah, we used to have what you call LAN parties. Local area network party. All right, so what we would do is we would acquire all these computers or people would bring their own. So no one had laptops, right?

[Jeremy Odom]

Sure.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So we're hauling like big desktop computers and big. This was pre flat screen monitor. So everyone's hauling up their like 19 inch CRT monitor that weighs like 50 pounds up the stairs a Park Shitty. And we would daisy chain all these computers together to play computer games.

[Jeremy Odom]

You would not carry the trash out, but you would lug these giant computers up.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

So that you could play your game. Absolutely incredible.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So that's like number one priority is gaming. So where goddamn birds comes through is there's this game. I think it was on some council like maybe like the first generation PlayStation or Xbox. Final Fantasy 7.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, it's not Angry Birds.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

No. So it's like. So one of the quests was you had to ride this like ostrich or emu and go collect these balloons. But at the same time there were other birds that would try, that would pop the balloon, try to pop the balloons before you got there. So you're on like a. A time frame of trying to do it, right? So one friend, he sat there for like two days trying to pass this quest, right? So he's. So he's saying like goddamn birds. I can't believe. God dang. Because they keep popping his balloons, right?

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

He's getting really upset. Like he hasn't like showered or ate or gone to work or school because he's really hyper focused on taking care of this quest. To collect these balloons in Final Fantasy 7.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So then our friend Cody sits and he's like, finally, like, the guy's had enough. He's like, screw it, I give up, Whatever. So Cody sits down, takes the controller, beats it in one sitting.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh no.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

And then this guy's like, how the hell did you do that? So I think that got us another noise warning after that one, too.

[Jeremy Odom]

That's funny. I can't believe you guys lug all those computers up there.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

It's a good story.

[Jeremy Odom]

That is funny.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So gaming are very much our top priority, more than anything.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

All right.

[Jeremy Odom]

And probably a lot of the. The late night sounds come from. Yeah, from.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

From gaming. Yeah. Because we would game until like, 4:00am oh, sure. And then be like. Like, I usually. I always tried to go to class, but like. No, I did.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay, okay. You did go.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

I did go. Yeah. But it's like, oh, we were up to like 4am gaming and I have a 8am class, so. And then you have to drive a half hour to get there and park and all that nonsense. And I'm like. But never convince us not to game.

[Jeremy Odom]

Till 4am well, you're young.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

You're. We're young now. Now we'd be dead.

[Jeremy Odom]

Can you imagine now trying to do that? I could never.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

I'm here for my high school reunion and there's still, like, people that are like, let's go to the bar and hang out. Mike, it's 10 o'.

[Jeremy Odom]

Clock.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

I'm going to bed.

[Jeremy Odom]

Kidding me? That's insane.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Like, like. No.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. Staying up to watch the end of like, a football game and then knowing I have to work the next day, it like, takes years off my life. Like, there's no way.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah. It's not like. Especially when you get like, those west coast double headers on Monday Night Football. Yeah. And we're in the central time zone. I know, but what about the people on the East Coast?

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, well, I never feel bad for anybody on the east coast, but.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah, but like, the west coast, like, Monday night games that start like, what.

[Jeremy Odom]

9Pm that's the West Coast. People sometimes will be like, oh, I can't imagine living on the West Coast. And the football game starts at 8am Are you kidding me? That's amazing. I would take breakfast football any day of the week. Like, give it to me. But I don't want these midnight ends. A game like, that's. That's where I draw the line.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

You draw the line?

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. I can't be staying up that late, but I'll get up early. Why not? You'd lay in bed and watch football. Got the whole day ahead of you. All right, number two.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Number two. Number two is. It's a. It's a great one, you know, for a change.

[Jeremy Odom]

For a change. Okay.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

And that is. This place is a.

[Jeremy Odom]

That's like, it should have been on the front Door.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

It should have been. Yeah. And. And that was when. When we moved out. Right. We were moving into a house that one of our friends bought.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So his dad was there helping us move out, and he said. Walks in, and he says, this place is a shithole. And I said to him, you should have seen it before. We cleaned for two weeks.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. Did you get the deposit back?

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So that's a good story. Okay, so actually, we did. And the reason we did.

[Jeremy Odom]

How.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

How we did it is when we moved in, or this was pre. Like, so Cody handled this, and they said, well, yeah, you can move in, but we want to, like, change out the carpet like they do in between tenants. And Cody's like, no, just leave the carpet. Like the old carpet.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

With the understanding we will get our deposit back at the end.

[Jeremy Odom]

Good call. You'll. You'll switch the carpet after we're out of here. That's actually. That's a. That's a smart move.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

That is a smart move.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So, yeah, that's. So at the end, we did actually buy a vacuum to clean, to try to get. But it was, like, one of those old vacuums that use the bag.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

But we didn't buy any bags. So, of course, the vacuum bag filled up in, like, with, like, 30 seconds, with, like, three years of dust, because no one ever vacuumed. Like, the carpet actually changed color after we vacuum because of the dust.

[Jeremy Odom]

I believe it.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

All the. The soot from the mail, all the. Just can't imagine the stuff in the air in that place.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So wild. So, number one. Johnny, drum roll. All right, Number one, what are you gonna do with those goldfish? So we were talking about the fish tank. There actually was a fish tank.

[Jeremy Odom]

There was a fish tank. Okay.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

And it had a piranha in it. And they used to feed him goldfish.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So we're walking in with our sack of goldfish for the piranha, and somebody in our building is like, what are you gonna do with those goldfish? And I think we told her, we're gonna boil them and serve them over rice.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, no.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So. So we're. Again, we're making good. We're making good. Making good inroads with our neighbors. Yeah. I think they were pretty happy to see us go.

[Jeremy Odom]

Anybody. So you had. You guys were up there. You had the neighbor across from you. Was there any other, like, anybody on the side of you, or is it basically just you and the one across from you and then the one under you?

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah. Okay. So, yeah, there was. So the one Side of the building. There was nobody. It was just the building. And then there was the people next to us. The. The people who we should have intervened with the police and just minded our own business. And then there was the people underneath us that complained about the badminton and the trampoline or, I mean, the treadmill.

[Jeremy Odom]

Treadmill, Yeah. A trampoline would have been.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

That would have been.

[Jeremy Odom]

Had room to do. One.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

We could have.

[Jeremy Odom]

We should.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

How come? We should go back and rent that place. In fact, like, a few years ago, I saw the complex was for sale, like, the entire complex, because it had been foreclosed on.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. No surprise.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

I'm like, we should buy it and host the draft there.

[Jeremy Odom]

That would be great.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

It could be the draft venue.

[Jeremy Odom]

That was a great top 10. I do want to point out I've never seen this before. You had asked for a notebook so you could have your top 10. You literally wrote on the notebook that the numbers 1 through 10, and that's it. So you were. You were checking off, going down the list, each one you were doing. But you. Most people would have a little note of what is at 4, what is at 3. Not. Not Bob. No. You just have the numbers 1 through 10. Just to keep you on track.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

That's right.

[Jeremy Odom]

That's it.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

That's it.

[Jeremy Odom]

That's incredible. Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

We got.

[Jeremy Odom]

Never seen things like it.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

I always feel like I do my best work without prep for anything.

[Jeremy Odom]

There you go.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So maybe I'll show up to my colonoscopy with no prep.

[Jeremy Odom]

No. Oh, Jesus. They will kick you out. I will tell you. They will kick you out. Not this time, but the time before when I went, because you're not really supposed to eat the day before. And. Well, I say you're not really supposed to. You're not supposed to. Okay. This is not a guideline of maybe you could eat a little bit. No, there's no eating. I did. I had dinner. I was hungry. I had a steak dinner. Here I am thinking, I'm gonna load up, and then I'm gonna go through it. Maybe that's why this time seems so much easier now in hindsight, because I didn't eat this time anyways. I ate a steak dinner the next morning. I go in and they're like, hey, when's the last time you ate? And I'm like, well, I had dinner last night. And they're like, what? What do you mean? What did you eat? I'm like, a nice New York strip. They're like, no, you did not. Yes, I did. They they definitely were prepared to kick me out of there without going through the procedure. And I'm like, guys, I went through the prep. Everything's clear. I'm good. Let's go. And they're like, no, no, this is going to be up to the doctor. And I'm like, okay, let's talk to the doctor. The doctor gave it a go because, you know, everything was still in line with what I. Where I should be at the end of the prep. It's not like, you know, he's still shooting bullets out there. Like, it wasn't that case. So. But yeah, I guess now that I really say it out loud, not eating, I think is probably the way to go, because that was. That was an easy, easy night of prep. Don't eat, don't eat, don't eat, don't eat.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Then you won't. The bed.

[Jeremy Odom]

Then you won't shit the bed. 1. One story I do want to hear from me, because I don't know that you and I have really talked about it too much, but it's a medical emergency that you went through in your life. You. You went traveling overseas, right? You was in Europe.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah. Czech Republic.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. Because, you know, you like, you're. You're very worldly. Like, you enjoy other cultures and. And I don't know, I'm not. So for me to say other countries, like, I don't know. What do you say? You, like travel? Is that, I guess, the way to say it? Yeah. You ended up with a hole in your leg.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah. And my back.

[Jeremy Odom]

And your back.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

Wow.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So this is a. This is an interesting story. So before I traveled, we rented a pontoon boat on something called Fremont Lake here in Nebraska.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

And I'm from Minnesota, so I'm used to pristine, crystal blue, clear lakes. This is not that at all.

[Jeremy Odom]

Top tier lakes of the world.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

This is not that at all. So we're like, there's a lake. It's hot. Run a pontoon. So we start jumping off of it, like swimming and stuff. Right. So then that was like a few days before I left. So it's my. It's time to leave. I got this little sore on my leg when I get on the plane, and I'm like, this is weird. Whatever.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

By the time we land in the Czech Republic, my foot won't fit in my shoe. Like, it's so swollen.

[Jeremy Odom]

Wow.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So I'm like, well, this is odd and somewhat alarming. Right. So that I'm like, yeah, baby, it'll go away. Right? It's one of those things that maybe if you just ignore it, it'll go away eventually. It certainly did not go away.

[Jeremy Odom]

I tried that with the Crohn's and the. That didn't. That didn't work.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

It's like, I'm not going to acknowledge this. It'll go away. Like, I'm not going to deal with this. I'm here to travel, right?

[Jeremy Odom]

So we.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So eventually, like, I couldn't tie my shoe, so I finally had to tell somebody, like, I think I might have a problem here. And by that, then I. That time, that little sore on my leg turned out to be like a big gaping hole in my leg.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, my.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So when you're in the Czech Republic, so I told, like, our leader, you know, they're like, all right, well, we'll bring you to the doctor. So they bring you to the doctor. It's like you go to, like, the private, like, clinic that people go if they have an ear infection or a sore throat, not a big gaping hole in your leg, right? So we get there and the person there was like. And, like, spoke really good English, right? She's like, holy. You gotta go to the hospital.

[Jeremy Odom]

You have a problem.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

I'm like, what? Like, yeah, you gotta go to the hospital. I'm like, all right, so the. The person, the leader lady, like, from the Czech Republic, she knows how to navigate all this, right? And I don't speak Czech and they don't speak English. Like, the Czechs actually learn Russian because they were in the Russian sphere of influence, right? So I don't. The only Russian I know is like, net.

[Jeremy Odom]

What does that mean?

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

I think that means no.

[Jeremy Odom]

You think it means no?

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

So it's not necessarily the Russian, you know?

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

No.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So I don't. I don't know. Like, I'm just sitting there like, huh? Okay, so we go to the hospital and they bring in like four or five doctors to look at my leg. And they're like, in Russian or Czech, I'm sure they said like, wow, this is up. We might have to amputate this or something.

[Jeremy Odom]

Take his leg.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah. So then they decide on another course of action. They're like, well, we're going to clean up the wound. So they tell me. And like, they write. They write like, this is like pre Google Translate, right? So they write on a piece of paper, clean out wound or something. I'm like, okay. So they. They get like the biggest nurse they can find. Like this like, huge lady. Yeah, like, imagine just like a Russian, like, huge lady, right? So she comes and like, holds my leg down and this guy starts digging around in my leg with like a dentist pick.

[Jeremy Odom]

And they're not get. You don't have any, like, pain?

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

No, no. Oh, no. That didn't feel the best.

[Jeremy Odom]

They give you Tylenol?

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

No. So they're like, all right, we're all done. And I'm like, holy, that hurt.

[Jeremy Odom]

They're just pouring alcohol off it.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So they. They wrap a, like a bandage on it and they're like, all right, you can go like. So they gave me. They did give me like Tylenol, which is a lot different than here. Like, they're really. They're like a thousand milligram Tylenol. So they're like really big pills.

[Jeremy Odom]

It's like the non autistic kind. Yeah, Tylenol. Okay.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Right. Yeah. The one that I. I know I kind of up taking that. Right. I mean, kids could have got autism, but that. But that's a. Just another conversation.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

We're not gonna get it. I mean, not to diverge, but Jimmy Kimmel. Awesome. Like, I don't know who had a bigger, rougher week. The CEO of Tylenol or Mel.

[Jeremy Odom]

He. He's never been bigger.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

He's never been.

[Jeremy Odom]

This is actually work.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

We watched the show last night, in fact.

[Jeremy Odom]

Because you were able to.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Because I don't have tv. Like, I don't get local channels at home. We're staying in a hotel. It's like, wow, local tv.

[Jeremy Odom]

Look at this.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Who knew?

[Jeremy Odom]

I saw us. It was funny. I saw a tweet this morning. There's a guy who's on a show, his co star or movie or something. His co star was going to be on Kimmel, and his co star couldn't watch the show that was about Tulsa because he was in Tulsa, and in Tulsa, Kim was banned. So he couldn't even watch his co star promote the show about Tulsa while he was in Tulsa because it was. It was just so funny. That's where we're at.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah, it's. It's strange times.

[Jeremy Odom]

It really is.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

But so we gave. We got the people now they're probably done throwing up after I told them that they were digging around in my leg with the dentist pick.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So then. So they gave me big Tylenol and Augmentin, which is an antibiotic.

[Jeremy Odom]

That's good stuff.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah, Big, big pills, like take like. Because it was infected. Right. So they're like, you got to come back every week and we got to change this bandage and probably dig around in it some More and all this. So I'm like, at this point, I really should have just left.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. It's time to go back to America.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Come back to America. Right. But I didn't. I'm like, I'm here. I can move around on one leg. Whatever. I'll stay.

[Jeremy Odom]

They don't have, like, those little scooters out there you can rent and just kind of ride around?

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

No.

[Jeremy Odom]

Like, they have it, like theme parks here.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

No. That would have been a good clutch move, though.

[Jeremy Odom]

That would have been huge.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah. Yeah. I think, like, maybe they were hoping all the Czech beer and alcohol we would drink would kill the infection, too. I don't know.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

But. So I went back every week to get this.

[Jeremy Odom]

Every week? How long were you there?

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

I was there for six weeks.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So I went back every week. I go out, I call a cab, and they'd be like, hospital. I'm like, yeah, you know who I am? You know? So I go back and we do this whole song and dance. Right. But you know, you mentioned, like, the Crohn's. Right. So they're giving me lots of Augmentin.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Which antibiotics. They really mess with your stomach, including mine.

[Jeremy Odom]

Right.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

You're in a foreign country that doesn't believe in accessible toilets.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, no.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So. And it's pretty much required when you're right.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So like, I happen to be by, like, the Ritz Carlton, which is like. That is like five star hotel doorman, and I just barge in the door and I'm like, bathroom? Where is it?

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

And they're like, are you staying? I'm like, doesn't matter where is it? Or you're gonna have bigger problems on your hand.

[Jeremy Odom]

Medical emergency.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah. So then they. They let me into, like, the. The behind the curtain bathroom or whatever. Take care of that. But. So that's one good story about the bathroom with the Augmentin.

[Jeremy Odom]

That's great.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

The other one was in a lot of train stations, they have bathrooms, but they're. You have to pay for them. So this one, after you paid Helga your money, Helga would give you the toilet seat because there was no toilet seat in the bathroom. Right. So I'm like, fumbling through a bunch of change to get whatever. It was like a hundred crowns, which is the equivalent of like $0.10American.

[Jeremy Odom]

It's like any American who complains about having to get the big key to use the. The bathroom at the gas station or whatever, just shut up. Yeah. Like, you go. You go there and you got to get the toilet seat. You got to pay in order to pay. And then it's like giving the shoe at the bowling alley in order to get your rental shoes, like, you have to give them your pants and $10 in order to get a toilet seat and use the toilet.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

And also, you're on augment. And so time is of the essence.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. You got to roll.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

And you're in, like, a foreign country where their change is different than what you're used to. So you're like. So finally, I just take, like, a handful of change, and I'm like, toilet seat.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. And they hand you five toilet seats. Because you just overpay.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Because I just overpayed. Yeah. Like, I. I bet Helga retired after I was here.

[Jeremy Odom]

All that money. She did. So. So I quit.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

I quit. God bless America. So. So anyway, that. That was. That was kind of a good story there. But then. So. So that I ended up with the hole in my leg, Right?

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So then, like, we're done. We're ready to come home. So I come. I. I fly back to Minneapolis, and I was living in Omaha. So I fly back to Minneapolis, and they had written. Because they had written, like, a note of what they had been doing for my leg when I was there. And it said, like, we treat with iodine dressing. Wrap one a day, blah, blah, blah. Okay. Something like that.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Okay. So that's all the information I got from them, like, about what was happening. So I go to, like, urgent care or something in Minneapolis, and they're like, yeah, this is a problem here. In the meantime, I developed, like, a sore on my back because it's spreading. Yeah, well, so. Well, it's not. So they never. So anyway. Yeah, so it might be spreading. It might be something else. Who knows what the hell is going on? So then I come back to Omaha. My dad meets me off the plane, and he's like, wow, you really look like. Because you probably lost a lot of weight. Yeah. So, like, the augmenting. Right. Anything you eat doesn't process. So I think I dropped, like, 50 pounds while I was there. Like, I really should have come home. Like, kids, if you ever have a hole in your leg in another country, like, go back to America.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. So.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So then we go to, like, my doctor in Missouri Valley, where we had been living, and he's like, yeah, you got to go to, like, med center, wound care specialists for, like, people who have wounds that don't heal. I'm like, all right. So we go there. We get all set up. I hand them the note of, like, where they Were saying, we've been changing this with iodine bandages, and they're like, holy. We haven't used that since 1950 in America. They're like, whatever they were doing, we're gonna start over. Right?

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So. So then by that time that I had a hole on my back, too. And what it turned out to be was I picked up a staph infection from their hospital, and that was the hole in the back. And then, of course, I had the hole in my leg. So we get all set up, and we. We get going, and my dad goes home. But I still got all these bandages to change and that sort of thing. Right. Dressings. And I can't reach the one on my back because it's, like, right here.

[Jeremy Odom]

Right.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So that's where Cody comes in. Cody put on gloves every morning, and he would change the dressing on my back for me.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yep. And that's how Covid was born.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

And that's how. Well, that in a few more years, another 10 years. Another 10 years, another 10 years. But yeah, that it's a. I have a constant reminder whenever I look at my lower leg of my time in the Czech Republic.

[Jeremy Odom]

Well, that's what I'm saying. You guys never took the trash out, all those bandages just sitting in that house.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

We might have by that time started taking out the trash.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Because one of the parting words from friend's dad when he said this was a hole was, I hope you slap asses have more pride in that house you just bought.

[Jeremy Odom]

Which you did.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Which we did.

[Jeremy Odom]

The long got mode.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

It was the long up mode. Maybe a roommate of ours backed into our neighbor's car once.

[Jeremy Odom]

Maybe allegedly.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Well, it pretty much happened. I was in the car.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, you were there.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

I was there. And she's like, what's that? Trash can? I'm like, no, no, it isn't a trash can. That's somebody's car.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So we had more. We. Yeah. Mowed the lawn. We planted trees at the house. So we really. And I think he might even still own the house.

[Jeremy Odom]

Does he really?

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah, I think he rents it out. It's part of his property portfolio.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. He's a re. Real estate mogul, so.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yep. Kids, if you ever get a hole in your leg in another country, Come back to America. Don't trust Helga and the iodine bandages.

[Jeremy Odom]

That's crazy. You had to just felt like hell that whole time.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah. It wasn't the best. And then, like, I went back to the Czech Republic a few years later, and I'm like, this Is awesome. Like, I can walk around, like, without, like. Like the stairs down to the subway. Like, I couldn't, like, was. My foot was all swollen, right?

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah. So it's, like, hard to walk down the steps. Like, they didn't believe in elevators. So, like, I can, like, what used to take me, like, all day to get to. Now I can get there in, like, 10 minutes. I can walk.

[Jeremy Odom]

That's awesome.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

Well, Bob, thanks for coming into the show. You're welcome. All the way to Omaha.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

All the way to Omaha.

[Jeremy Odom]

All the way to Omaha. You got the big high school reunion. How many years?

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

25.

[Jeremy Odom]

25.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So we were the class of 2000. So my mom fell for every marketing piece of crap that said class of 2000. Right.

[Jeremy Odom]

So there was plenty.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

There was plenty. We were worried about Y2K. Yeah, those were tough times.

[Jeremy Odom]

So I was class at 01. So we lived through Columbine. Yeah, we lived through Y2K. Well, you lucked out. You looked out. Well, I guess I was in college too, for 9 11. Is it safe to say you lucked out on missing? Can you say that? We all lived it, right? Hashtag never forget. I mean, yeah, we were there.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

You all remember, like, where. Where we were on 9 11. Like, I was on. So people in Omaha, like, I was telling to. To my wife, you know, we. Like the old Exarban horse track. Like, when it was an actual track, it was abandoned, but it was still looked like they. We used to park there and take the shuttle up to class at Uno.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Now it's like Hipster Bill. In fact, that's where we're staying this time.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. It's actually a pretty nice area.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah. And. And so I was on that shuttle bus when we learned about 9 11.

[Jeremy Odom]

So I was. I was in college. But before I would go to class, I would go in early to Hyvee and stock produce and, like, run the produce truck at the aisle ready. So I'm in there stocking produce, and the produce manager is running around like crazy, and he's like, they hit the World Trade Center. And I'm like, I don't even know what the World Trade center is. Like, I don't know what you're talking about. And then he's like, oh, my God, it's crazy. So he's, like, locked in on whatever is going on in the world. And I'm like, I got to go to class. So then I leave, go to class. Why? I'm at I Western, but I'm also part of the radio station there. So I walk in and it's just madness in the radio station because they're having to do like, news coverage instead of rock alternative music. And all the classes got canceled. So I'm like, all right, guess I'll go home for the day. Still not fully understanding what's happening. So then I'm driving home into Omaha, and it's like all the radio stations are just news, and I'm like, this is wild. So then I go home and turn on tv and sure enough that something much bigger than what's going on in my world's happening. And. But yeah, now every year I try to, you know, because this hashtag, never forget, Right. We're never going to forget what happened on US soil. So every year when we come up to September 11, I like to make sure my kids remember what happened. And now they think that it's like my favorite holiday. And I'm like, guys, this is not a holiday. This is a day to remember. A lot of people died. And they're like, yeah, you just seem way too excited about it. And I'm like, come on, what do we do?

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

And then right after 9 11, we had the anthrax attacks.

[Jeremy Odom]

We had the anthrax.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Like I was working at ups, right. So naturally we were.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, that was a big deal.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

We were kind of worried about anthrax.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

But you know, UPS cared a lot about us. They're like, we got to keep working, even with the anthrax, to show people we're not scared. I'm like, okay, okay, we'll keep working.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yep.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Hopefully no one dies.

[Jeremy Odom]

We put up metal detectors at the doors at Hy Vee. That's what our answer was, really. Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

For anthrax.

[Jeremy Odom]

Nobody was coming to the. No, for 9 11. That was our answer to it. Yeah. Not for the anthrax. We weren't concerned about anthrax. I was more personally, I was more concerned about the spiders coming in the banana boxes in the protozyle. But that was a whole other thing.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Neither here nor there. Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. So we're. We're both in the same fantasy football league. It's something that if you listen to the show, you know, you know, Eric and I have talked about it many times. We've talked about this league and just kind of the shenanigans of it. You are you a day oner? You've been in it from the beginning, right?

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

19 years.

[Jeremy Odom]

19 years, yeah. Going on 20.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Going on 20 years. And. And I know Eric gets introduced as multi year champion.

[Jeremy Odom]

You're a one time.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

I'm a one. But. But also, anytime in a draft recap, there's an asterisk next to mine.

[Jeremy Odom]

Because you were.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Because it happened. It happened in the COVID year.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, that was funny, because the. There is truth to anybody who's done a draft remote and not been at the draft in person generally has a good season. Yeah. Like, you won that year, 2020. You were via Zoom, you know, on the TV.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

Kyle has missed the draft a couple times for various reasons, and he's won those years. There's something to it.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

There is. This year we had a team draft, allegedly with AI. So, yeah, we'll see how that goes.

[Jeremy Odom]

Or he's in last place. I don't.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Well, I mean, yeah. So we have this arrangement at my house that whenever. What? Like, I'm permitted to play in the league, but I have to pay my wife the winnings regardless if I win or not.

[Jeremy Odom]

So you. So you paid double?

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

I paid double. Well, no, like, what the winner gets.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, you pay what the winner gets.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

The winner gets.

[Jeremy Odom]

No.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, no, you are in the hole. You. You got to win the league a lot.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, you're in trouble.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So. And we also have this thing at the draft, the champions couch. Yeah. Where they, like, I've never. I never sit on it because, you know, Covid year asterisk, it doesn't count.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

But what's funny is, is with the winnings, we bought a new couch at my house.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, that's the champions.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So I have champions couch at my house now.

[Jeremy Odom]

That's legit.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah. It's like the only couch. I don't let the dog on. Champions.

[Jeremy Odom]

Champions.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Champions. Only couch.

[Jeremy Odom]

That's funny.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

But what's great about the draft is when you're making your picks. Right. You can always anticipate someone saying, like, good luck with that guy. What the are you thinking? Lots of. And. And as the. The, like, the. The drinking goes on during the draft, it gets more annoying.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So you'll notice that I always come up to you and whisper my pick.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. You're a guy who likes to walk from the back of the room to the front, whisper the pick. As I'm. I type in the pics.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Because that's my goal of keeping it moving.

[Jeremy Odom]

But then that's also gets the room all worked up because they're like, come on, Bob, can't you just say it? And then, even though we have this giant draft board, you know, on the. On the wall that you can. Yeah, you can Actually see who you've chosen. Probably faster than listening. Probably. And hearing over all the noise.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Well, at that point people can't see because they've had too much to drink. So. So maybe that's why.

[Jeremy Odom]

Champions couch.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

But the. But, yeah. And I got my custom bob shirt. It's 20 years old, so you ever need a T shirt, I had this printed by a guy I worked with at ups.

[Jeremy Odom]

Really?

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

For the league we were in before our league.

[Jeremy Odom]

So was that. So what came first? The name? The Bob's or the T shirt?

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

The name.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

And the name is so like. Right, Bob. Yeah, my name. But also I've really idled. Bob Porter and Bob Slidell from Office Space.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

The. Like what would you say you do hear? Yeah, people.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh yeah. I use that at work constantly.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So like. No, I'm busy. I got a meeting with the Bobs. Yeah. So it's kind of like. That's why the name.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, so the name. Is it just because of your nickname? It's. It's.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

It's also related to the Bobs from Office Space.

[Jeremy Odom]

You just blew my mind.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

Because I've always thought it was just, you know, a take off your nickname. You know, like mine's Jeremy O's All Star Band. Well, I'm Jeremy. But you're. It's because of the office, I think.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

Incredible.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

And I think you and I have been had the same name for 19 years.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, I don't like to.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Every time I play someone the name has changed.

[Jeremy Odom]

I know.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

I didn't even realize. I played Kyle last week like the first.

[Jeremy Odom]

And basically COVID ruined everything because we were pretty consistent with the names all the way up until Covid. And then for whatever reason, and I don't know if it's the COVID brain that people got from getting it, but they started. Yeah, they started changing their names every week. Every week, every. You know, it's. It's a mess. I don't know who's who. I just, you know, I continue to set my lineup and hope to win.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

But that's ordinarily like. I would usually talk a lot of shit to Kyle during the week and then lose to him. So it was ineffective shit talking.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, sure.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

But my Minnesota vikings had a 30 point week in defense.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So I managed to beat him this year and I never heard from him all week.

[Jeremy Odom]

He's had a busy week. He was in Washington D.C. this week.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Oh, he was.

[Jeremy Odom]

He was. He was on one of those honor flights. Oh, not because he's a vet. He Was a. He was a chaperone. He was a part of a deal where they took a whole plane load of vets to DC to check out all the memorials. It was pretty cool, really. Yeah, he's had a. He's a busy week.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Well, all right, I'll give him a pass.

[Jeremy Odom]

No, don't give him a pass.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Don't give him a pass. No, no. But. So I sent him, like, a text after I realized that I had beat it was him, because you can see, like, the people's name under their name. Right. But you have to look my Kyle. I didn't realize I played you. He's like, yeah, my team sucks and fuck off. And, like, Johnny would beep him.

[Jeremy Odom]

Right? Yeah, exactly.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So I guess he's pretty depressed with his team, but.

[Jeremy Odom]

And he was at that game. He was at the Vikings. Oh, yes, he was. He took his. He took his two sons, and they were just had the worst time. Like, they had the best time, but it was, like, the worst time during the game because their team was just getting manhandled by Carson Wentz and the Vikings defense.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Like, my favorite thing to say is, like. Like, I know there's other podcasts. I don't want to overreact, but now with Carson Wentz, we're winning the Super Bowl.

[Jeremy Odom]

You're gonna take it all.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah, we're taking it. We're going all the way.

[Jeremy Odom]

People forget he used to almost be an mvp.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

So you've got that going.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Maybe we should get Nick Foles, too, just in case.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. Have him to be the backup.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

I mean, I think that the Vikings coach could teach, like, me to play quarterback.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

I mean, I can't throw very far.

[Jeremy Odom]

He's a guru. Yeah, he'll. He'll. He'll take a guy off the street, two days worth of practice, and they'll be able to go out and lead your team to a win.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

What was that guy? The pasternut.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

And he's like. He's like, well, number 18 is going to run straight, like, on the play call number whatever is going to run it out. Just throw it to 18. Justin Jefferson. Just chuck it down the field. He'll get it.

[Jeremy Odom]

That's funny. Yeah. Well, Bob, we got to get you to your reunion. Yeah. This is going to be a big night.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

It's a big deal.

[Jeremy Odom]

So, like, what is there, like, a. Like a dance? Is, like, old school? Like a dance and there's a band. So is there going to be, like, a king and queen? Like, what's the.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

What Is this the reunion?

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, the reunion.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

It's prom. No, like, so the death of small town America has come to Missouri Valley, Iowa. There's, like, no venues to go to. So what we're doing is we're going to the country club.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

And allegedly, we might have food. It's the end of the season, so we'll see. We might have cracker pizza. I don't know.

[Jeremy Odom]

We are prepared for that.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Well, I'll show everyone how to eat it off the box and their mind will be blown.

[Jeremy Odom]

Eat a protein bar or something ahead of it, just in case.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Just in case. And I bet they'll have. Since it's small town, they'll have lots of bush light.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, of course, of course.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

But I imagine we'll just be standing around talking. Yeah, but. But we'll see. Went to the football game last night. Never heard the band. They never scored a touchdown. Never scored. They got smoked. But hey, I mean, when you're defeated, there's always nowhere to go but up.

[Jeremy Odom]

Nowhere to go it up. Well, make sure to tell them to listen to this episode.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

I will. Okay, Maybe we'll. We can use it as some motivation.

[Jeremy Odom]

Maybe. Hey, maybe you guys can pipe it in and you can just play it at the reunion.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

At the reunion at the country club. There you go.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, this will be great. Well, we'll.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

We'll. Maybe we will.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. You're like, this is impossible.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

But it is also is Iowa, so it's possible they don't have broadband Internet.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, that's.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

It hasn't come there yet.

[Jeremy Odom]

Make it fun. Iowa never gets old.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

It never does.

[Jeremy Odom]

It never gets old.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

It's like them in South Dakota. I could make fun of them all day.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

I mean, what does South Dakota have? Mount Rushmore.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, it was like the Mount, like, really cool things to look at, but that's about it.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

My favorite, though, I think, is North Dakota because they have so little in their state. If you see their tourism commercials, it's just people dancing around a fire. And it says, legendary North Dakota legend, home of Eric Larson.

[Jeremy Odom]

Did you know you can play blackjack in the bars there?

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

I did not. You can like charity gambling.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yes.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Wow.

[Jeremy Odom]

That's exactly what it is.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

So it's like two dollar a hand blackjack.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. Is there a man like the Boy Scouts of America running the table or something?

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Well, you know, that might be a way to make money for the Boy Scouts of America.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

I mean, screw selling popcorn. Let's.

[Jeremy Odom]

Let's let them just run a blackjack.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

I'm gonna run a backroom blackjack game.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, yeah. No, it's. I've never seen it personally, but Eric. Eric's really hyping it up. He lost his. Lost his ass at the tables there.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

He lost his short.

[Jeremy Odom]

But it's a. It's a donation.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

But it's charitable. Yeah, exactly. So it makes you feel okay with losing.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. You gotta feel good about yourself after.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Like, you just help that fire department buy new helmets.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. Or at least the pizza.

[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah. That's awesome.

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[Jeremy Odom]

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[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

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[Bob Roberts (Nathan)]

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[Jeremy Odom]

They are? Yeah.

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