REWIND: Best Of The Laughs

Summary

Podcast Summary: Laugh With Me — "REWIND: Best Of The Laughs" (April 30, 2026)
Hosted by: Jeremy Odom

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Episode Overview

In this special "Rewind" episode, host and comedian Jeremy Odom looks back at some of the show’s standout comedic moments — including the sharpest jokes, memorable sketches, and genuine guest reactions from Season 1. Odom, a former grocery store manager turned sports writer, podcaster, and comedian, invites listeners (especially new fans) to experience the show’s signature mix of joke workshopping, observational humor about everyday life, and the laid-back camaraderie of friends riffing on anything that makes them laugh.
The episode skips regular interviews to spotlight a "best of" collection—especially the process of testing new material on air.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

What Makes Jeremy Laugh — The Kanye Stop Sign Incident

• Segment Starts: [03:21]
• Jeremy shares the viral video that typifies his sense of humor: Kanye West, distracted while walking with Kim Kardashian, walks directly into a stop sign.
• Audio clip features Kanye’s head hitting the sign, followed by his exasperated reaction towards paparazzi.
• Odom riffs on the incident:
  • “Is this how Kanye became Ye?” ([05:27])
  • “I mean, Kanye hit that sign like it owed him royalties.” ([05:43])
  • “That sign was like, hey, I’m gonna let you finish, but you gotta slow down first.” ([05:49])
• Sets the tone of the episode—taking the mundane and finding the humor in embarrassment and everyday mishaps.

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The Glorious Arrival of Nielsen Money

• Segment Starts: [07:54]
• Jeremy receives $5 in the mail from the Nielsen survey he filled out months ago, and marvels at old-school mail-in research still existing.
• Explains the legacy and gravity of Nielsen ratings.
• Jokingly laments that his social media posts about the $5 didn’t get enough engagement compared to old baby photos.
  • “There’s a TV show that’s going to get renewed for another season because of my work. I’m sure of it.” ([08:55])
• Wonders: Who actually funds Nielsen and why is it still around in the era of phone tracking and instant data?
• This segment captures Jeremy’s talent for observational humor about the intersection of pop culture and everyday life.

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Joke Workshopping Highlights — "Best Of The Jokes"

(The true heart of the episode: Jeremy runs untested material by guests, inviting “live” editing and reactions.)

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1. Magic Johnson Tweets "A Day Late"

• Segment Starts: [15:58]
• Jeremy and guest (his brother Kyle) riff on Magic Johnson’s charmingly late tweets congratulating other athletes.
• Frank Olmstead jokes: “I have to wonder if maybe that’s a symptom of the AIDS.” ([16:44])
• Jeremy: “As somebody who does not follow Magic Johnson, I thought it’s hilarious that he’s a day late every time. That’s just good stuff right there.” ([17:23])
• Meta Note: Jeremy underscores that guests shouldn’t be afraid to laugh—workshopping is a “safe space.”
• Links back to Episode 3: "Pepper Spray Attack Survivor".

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2. Gas Station Musical Sketch

• Segment Starts: [19:46]
• Frank pitches a musical (“Think Hamilton… in a gas station during morning rush.”) involving customers breaking into genre-appropriate song numbers.
• Unexpected dark twist: a robber shoots the scratch ticket winner and the cashier.
  • Guest: “It’s a little violent, man.” ([21:16])
• Jeremy pushes cheeky self-deprecation, “I swear to you, I’m not a violent person. I am. I’m a lover, not a fighter.” ([23:30])
• Conversation morphs into brainstorming about comedic plot twists and parody trailers.
• Concludes: some jokes land, some get (loving) roasted—truly capturing the spirit of live joke construction.

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3. “Mountain Dew Kids”

• Segment Starts: [24:54]
• Odom: “You know how kids with Down Syndrome have a certain look? ... I think kids that grow up drinking a whole lot of Mountain Dew are on that same level …” ([25:07])
• Frank and guests banter about how Mountain Dew kids “never sleep,” have “big mouths,” and can be spotted in a crowd. ([28:56])
• Risqué humor navigated with a loose tone and complete lack of malice.

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4. Grocery Store Sketch — “Unreliable Customer Narrator”

• Segment Starts: [30:40]
• Jeremy/Frank lay out a non-verbal, observational sketch: a woman shops without any visible drama, but at home complains about “how awful everyone was at the store.”
• Emmy-winner Stephanie Purcell (as guest) suggests: expand to show both perspectives—how events seem vs. how she retells them ([33:43]).
• Jeremy lauds the punch-up: “Genius, right? ... I think I’m ready for SNL at this point.” ([34:02])

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5. The “Found Milk Carton Kids” Joke

• Segment Starts: [34:53]
• Jeremy: “Remember back in the day, milk cartons would have the missing children … What about the kids that got found? … are they signing autographs?” ([35:23])
• Guests brainstorm “found kid” holiday themes (put ‘em on eggnog!), and meta-jokes about milk carton expiration dates ([36:06]).
  • “I thought it was a little morbid that all of them had expiration dates.” ([36:06])
• Jeremy encourages workshop-style joke building, promising to try these out at open mics.

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6. Disease Commercials — A Musical Wish

• Segment Starts: [38:57]
• Jeremy:
  • “I’ve been wishing a lot lately that I had diabetes, and it’s 100% based on just like the commercials I watch. … They’re in a musical, and I’ve always thought it’d be cool to be in a musical. If I had diabetes, maybe I’d have a shot.” ([39:24])
  • Instead, his Crohn’s medication Skyrizi only lets him ride roller coasters.
  • Guest: “Why, if these diseases are so bad, is everyone having such a great time all the time?” ([39:50])
  • More meta-commercial lampooning: “You must have this much intestinal stress to ride this ride.” ([40:15])

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Notable Quotes

• Jeremy: “Kanye hit that sign like it owed him royalties.” ([05:43])
• Frank Olmstead (on Magic Johnson): “He tweets sparingly ... but he’s always a day or two behind.” ([16:09])
• Jeremy: “These are just ideas that I think could become jokes. I’m very much working them out and saying them for the first time.” ([17:20])
• Stephanie Purcell: “…show her perspective versus their perspective. How we saw it go down and then how she thinks it’s going down.” ([33:43])
• Guest (on Milk Carton joke): “I thought it was a little morbid that all of them had expiration dates.” ([36:06])
• Jeremy (disease commercials): “If I had diabetes, maybe I’d have a shot [at starring in a musical]. Instead, I’m stuck with Crohn’s disease and my Skyrizi just lets me ride a roller coaster.” ([39:24])

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Timestamps of Notable Segments

• [03:21] — Kanye West stop sign story and riffing (“Is this how Kanye became Ye?”)
• [07:54] — Nielsen survey and $5 in the mail
• [15:58] — Best of the jokes: Magic Johnson Twitter bit
• [19:46] — Gas station musical sketch brainstorm
• [24:54] — Mountain Dew kids joke
• [30:40] — Non-verbal grocery store sketch with Stephanie Purcell
• [34:53] — Milk carton “found kids” joke
• [38:57] — Disease commercial (“musicals for diabetes”) bit

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Memorable Moments & Episode Tone

• Playful, sometimes edgy, always self-aware — the episode’s tone never strays from the rule: “It’s OK to laugh!”
• Jeremy encourages guests and listeners to embrace the revision process and not take the joke-building too seriously.
• Conversations go off-script, producing organic, genuine laughter and the occasional awkward pause — all in good fun.

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Final Thoughts

This “Best Of The Laughs” episode is a clever meta-nod to the creative chaos that comedians go through. For new listeners, it’s an introduction to the show’s heart: it’s not just about the punchlines, but also the spirit of trying, failing, and getting better—with a friend never hesitating to laugh, roast, or punch up your premise. Whether riffing on pop culture, reminiscing about retro survey mailers, or sketching out SNL-worthy bits, Jeremy Odom invites listeners into his world: relaxed, clever, occasionally absurd, and always open for another laugh “with”—never “at.”

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(This summary omits all non-content promos, ads, and network cross-promotions.)

Transcript

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[Tom Boger]

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[Tab Ramos]

The World cup is coming.

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Ramos sending on Ernie Stewart the chip.

[Tab Ramos]

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[Guest/Supporting Voice]

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[Jeremy Odom]

still joined at the hip, just a little bit bigger.

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This is a podcast. We're recording it as we tailgate our youth soccer games in the back of

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my Honda Odyssey with all the snacks and drinks.

[Frank Olmstead]

Why did you get hard seltzer instead of beer?

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Well, they had a bogo.

[Jeremy Odom]

Well, then you got them.

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[Jeremy Odom]

Right now, about 130.

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[Jeremy Odom]

No, I want to leave here with my original hips.

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[Jeremy Odom]

welcome back to a rewind episode of Laugh With Me, the podcast with Jeremy Odom. And I'm your host.

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

Jeremy stares at the stats, hand shaking over takeout boxes. Johnny's already mapping hotels on a napkin with greasy crosses. They quit jobs. They kind of hate it. Tell their bosses, catch the show. Boss just shrugs. Hope it's funny. Johnny grins.

[Jeremy Odom]

You'll never know. HJo. And thank you to the Pepper Spray Singers for that banger of an intro. Johnny, we've got. We've got a classic for you. This is the rewind episode. Specifically.

[Tom Boger]

We've got a lot.

[Jeremy Odom]

We've got a lot of new audience lately, so we're gonna give you one of our classic episodes. But before we get to that, before we get to that, I've been. I get asked sometimes, what, like, what makes you laugh, Jo? Like, what. What do you find funny? And a clip just happened to come across my feed recently that. This is exactly what I find funny. Take a listen. We're gonna play that back over time. Hear that? That. Don't sounds like. Like a church bell ringing, but what. Johnny, go one more time. That is. It's. It's an old clip, but it's Kanye west holding hands with Kim Kardashian. And they're. And they're walking up. They're walking up the street, and Kanye's looking down. He's just looking down at the ground holding hands with Kim. And, you know, obviously he's constantly, you know, followed by paparazzi and whatnot, but he. He's.

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

He's.

[Jeremy Odom]

He's not looking up at all in that. That sounds. Is his head hitting a stop sign. We're gonna play one more time. He just nails that stop sign. Fully embarrassed. He. He stops to collect his thoughts. But then. But then he starts going off on people. And in classic. In classic Kanye fashion, here's another.

[Frank Olmstead]

Played all the way through. Kanye.

[Jeremy Odom]

You okay? You okay? Are you okay?

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

Stop taking pictures.

[Jeremy Odom]

He's getting so mad. The paparazzi for taking pictures, which I get that, but, man, just the way he. Okay, you okay? On the back side says wrong way. Severe tire damage. Talk about severe brain damage. Is this. Is this how Kanye became Yee? I mean, this has to be how he. He. He turned from Kanye to Yee. I mean, it just has to be. I mean, Kanye hit that sign like it owed him royalties. That sign was like, hey, I'm gonna let you finish, but you gotta slow down first. I mean, come on, man. Oh, poor guy. I mean, I do. I. I do feel bad because it was. It was very embarrassing. It was in front of Kim Kardashian, of all people. Oh, bad.

[Frank Olmstead]

What a.

[Jeremy Odom]

What a banger from Ye. So we are gonna get to a classic episode, but I. I had to share that. That was something that truly made me laugh here recently as it came across. Came across my desk. And, you know, those are. Those are the things that give me a good chuckle. Johnny, one of these days we're gonna. We're gonna tell the world what makes you tick, but that today's not that day. Today we're going to give you a classic episode from the Laugh With Me catalog, so to speak. Make sure to follow, subscribe, and download every episode you possibly can. I mean, it. It definitely helps the cause when you do that. Thanks for listening. And if you are new, welcome to our world. This is Rewind, Laugh With Me, the podcast. Let me take you back. A couple months ago, I got a little, little piece of mail, and it came from one of my favorite surveys around, the Nielsen survey. You know, years and years and years ago, Nielsen surveys were a big freaking deal. This was how ratings are determined. This is how shows can determine how much money they get to advertise for it, how many people watch. And, man, people's jobs are on the line based on these surveys and that. Be invited into the survey and be able to say, yeah, this is what I watch. Yeah, this is when I watch it. This is who I watch it with, and this is how old I am. That's pretty cool. And when you fill out the survey, they're gonna send you $5 cash money in the mail. Well, guess what? I sent that in months ago. This weekend, your boy got an envelope with $5 cash money in it from the Nielsen survey. You damn right. You damn right. Johnny.

[Frank Olmstead]

Johnny,

[Jeremy Odom]

$5 cash. You don't get cash money sent in the mail anymore unless it's for the Nielsen surveys. I was excited. I put a few posts out on the. On the website. On the website. World Wide Web. No, I put. I put a few posts out on, you know, Twitter, on Facebook. Just kind of, you know, getting excited, you know, about getting the five bucks. And I have to tell you, I don't think the excitement was Reciprocated, people didn't really engage with it. I'll tell you what, if I put a picture on, on the old Facebook from 20 years ago or, or even better, from like 13 years ago with a little baby boy. Yeah, people will like that. Yeah. Even though it's something we've seen before, this is all new. This is $5 new cash from my hard work filling out the survey. There's a TV show that's going to get renewed for another season because of my work. I, I'm sure of it. Well, thanks to the Nielsen survey. That was pretty awesome. They stuck to their word. You know, I could have filled out that survey and completely forgotten about it and they didn't have to send me that $5, but they do. You know, else I'm wondering, where does that money come from? Who's like, who's funding the Nielsen surveys? For somebody who knows this, that may be a really dumb question and be like, come on, I've known this forever, but I really don't know. I know all about the surveys and I know their, their intentions and what their purpose is. I have no clue how they're getting paid, but I love them and I wish they had more purpose in 2024's world, but they don't. There's probably easier ways to get ratings and data on who's watching and who's listening to what. I mean, I'm sure it's as simple as tracking information from our phone. They probably have instant data of all this stuff, but there's nothing. More boots on the ground, more grassroots than the old Nielsen survey. So that's what we've had going on. This is a big weekend. It's a big freaking weekend for Laugh With Me.

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[Narrator/Announcer]

All of a sudden, I had hanging ness happening on my.

[Frank Olmstead]

I was like, what the hell is that?

[Narrator/Announcer]

I was married when I had her,

[Jeremy Odom]

so I didn't even consider how empty that nest was gonna be.

[Diana Maria Riva]

Mood swings, night sweats, fupas. Sex drive. Wait, what? Sex? Dating at 45. How high can it be? Getting naked at 50 with the new guy.

[Jeremy Odom]

That one's gonna kind of hard.

[Frank Olmstead]

No.

[Jeremy Odom]

Well, that's lighting.

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[Jeremy Odom]

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[Tom Boger]

American soccer is about to explode.

[Tab Ramos]

The World cup is coming.

[Jeremy Odom]

Ram sending on to Ernie Stewart the chip Score

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

usa.

[Tab Ramos]

I'm Tab Ramos.

[Tom Boger]

I'm Tom Bogart. On our podcast, Inside American Soccer, you'll get the real storylines.

[Tab Ramos]

I'm not worried about Pulisic. I'm not worried about Baligan. I'm not worried about McKinney. My only concern is what happens in the back.

[Tom Boger]

The biggest decisions.

[Tab Ramos]

You're going to look at stats and numbers. He has no shot at making this World cup team.

[Tom Boger]

And the truth about the US national

[Tab Ramos]

team, it wouldn't be a huge surprise if our team ends up in the quarterfinals or potentially a great run into the semifinals.

[Tom Boger]

The World cup is almost here. Experience it all with usa usa. Listen Inside American Soccer with Tom Boger and Tab ramos on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

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[Jeremy Odom]

So if you haven't listened to every single episode, this is going to be awesome for you. You're gonna hear the best of the jokes. So at the end of every episode, I pitch. I kind of go through some new joke ideas that I'm working on. They haven't been told on stage before. They're brand new. Some of them are just freaking ideas. But I run them by them, by the guest, and they tell me if I've got anything or not. And, you know, sometimes we freaking workshop it.

[Frank Olmstead]

We've got.

[Jeremy Odom]

We've got some better punchlines along the way, but it's a lot of fun, a lot of laughs to come. I'm about to give you Laugh With Me. Season one, Best of the Jokes.

[Frank Olmstead]

One of the funniest Twitter followers I. I've seen is Magic Johnson. He. You know who Magic Johnson is, right?

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

Yeah. He survived the AIDS Lakers. Great.

[Frank Olmstead]

Exactly right. But he's also a very good businessman. He's very prominent, you know, now he's an owner of the Washington Commanders. He's a part owner of the LA Dodgers. He's very prominent still in the Los Angeles Lakers organization. Absolutely. He. He tweets sparingly, but when he does tweet, it's generally in support of somebody or something. Right. But he's always a day or two behind. Like, you know, like when LeBron breaks the next record or whatever. Everybody is all over it that day.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, yeah.

[Frank Olmstead]

Magic will come in two days later as if it just happened. And I have to wonder if maybe that's a symptom of the aids. Like, is that something that maybe hasn't been diagnosed yet? Something we gotta look at, though.

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

Right? See, I like that.

[Frank Olmstead]

Is that good? AIDS Survivor.

[Jeremy Odom]

And you give me a sound like

[Tom Boger]

I should not have said AIDS survivor.

[Jeremy Odom]

And then you went there.

[Frank Olmstead]

I did go there. Well, I didn't want to show my cards, like, too soon.

[Jeremy Odom]

Oh, I didn't mean to do that.

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

That's good. There's something there, though.

[Jeremy Odom]

Is there something to that one?

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

Okay.

[Jeremy Odom]

As somebody who does not follow Magic

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

Johnson, I thought it's hilarious that he's a day late every time. That's just good stuff right there.

[Jeremy Odom]

So that was from the episode of Pepper Spray Attack Survivor. You can find that episode three from season one of Laugh With Me. So my caught. My. My Kyle. My brother Kyle was the guest on that episode. That was the first episode of the entire show that we had a guest, and it was Kyle, the Magic Johnson AIDS joke. I stand behind it, I'm still working it out. But one thing I do want to point out, and this is very important for anybody who has intentions or aspirations to become a guest on this show someday. It's okay to laugh, guys. When I'm pitching these jokes, it's okay to laugh. As you're going to see as we move forward here with the best of the laughs, Some. Some of you guys that were on the show were dead silent the whole time, and I wasn't quite sure if it was because it wasn't funny or if you were waiting for something else. And if you were waiting for a punchline, I delivered the punchline. So that's where, guys, it's okay to laugh. Let's have fun. Let's be. Let's be light about. And also just remember, these are just ideas that I think could become jokes. I'm very much working them out and saying them for the very first time for your listening pleasure. So thanks, Kyle, for. For at least laughing along for that Magic Johnson one, which I still think has potential. I mean, it's no thong song joke, but I mean, the guy's just so late. Like, it just doesn't make sense. Like, even LeBron, who's busy, busy, busy trying to win championships, I mean, shoot, he just won another championship in season this year. You know, he. He definitely gets the tweet out the moment something major happens. And Magic, he's just so. He's getting better at it, but he's so late. Have to wonder if maybe it's a symptom of the aids. But. All right, back to Best of the Laugh.

[Frank Olmstead]

It's a sketch. Think Hamilton. So it's a musical, but it's set in a gas station. Okay? The main character is the cashier, and you've got multiple characters just coming and going. I mean, it just takes place during, like, morning rush. And you've got folks coming in. You got the kids with the backpacks coming in, and they're singing about, you know, maybe like a Glee club, and they're singing together, you know, coming in to steal stuff. And then you've got the mom coming in on her way to work, and she's got the baby in one arm, and she's ranting raving about her busy morning. Maybe it's like a punk song. And you've got the. The businessman coming in, and maybe he's got something just a little more like metal. Maybe he's, you know, slick back hair, and he's coming to get his coffee. So it's. It's it's fun. There's. There's music, and they're. They're coming in and going. And then you, you know, you have regulars right, at the gas station, and you get. You get the folk. The fella comes in and he wants to buy his scratch tickets. And he's sitting there, he wants his smokes, he's getting his scratch tickets. He's at the counter, he's getting the scratch tickets. Songs are going, big musical number he wins. He wins this $10,000 scratch tickets. So now it's a big dance. Dance number. And then a guy comes in to rob the place, and he shoots the cashier and shoots the guy that won the money.

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

It's a little violent, man. I don't know.

[Frank Olmstead]

That's the punchline.

[Jeremy Odom]

People won't see it coming.

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

They won't, man. That's a little.

[Frank Olmstead]

I'll work on it.

[Jeremy Odom]

I'm not.

[Frank Olmstead]

I'm not a violent person. But I was thinking, what would be a great way to end this musical number? And that. That would catch people off guard.

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

I thought it would. That's. You know, it's funny. I did that. That's a little vibe. I don't know how. I don't know how that will catch people off guard, but it's a little. It's a little bus. But I. I had something like that actually was playing around. I did like, a fake trailer called Lost Son.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, I saw that.

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's a fake trailer. I was not. I was. I'm not. That film's never coming out. It's just me doing stupid and seeing that people be interested in a couple people. Like, hell, this movie coming out.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah, that's what I thought, too.

[Frank Olmstead]

I thought it would look fun.

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

I was bored, but I hadn't came up with an idea because it was like, oh, man, you look serious. Blah, blah, blah. So I was thinking, I can do that. And you talk about twists. You know, I'm looking for my son to be a short film. Looking for my son. You know, I. I saw that he was already, you know, that he never went to daycare and everything else. I can't get a hold of his mom. You know what I mean? I'm looking for my son, and it comes to find out, like, the investigators, like, hey, man, I found out where your son is. He's in this house. You recognize this house? I'm like, yeah, I recognize this house. And we walk up to the door, we knock on the door. A woman answers the door, and he's like, you know this woman? I'm like, hell, yeah, I know this woman. Mom. You took my son for real? My mom took my son because I owed her money for last time. She babysitted him. So she took my son without me knowing. And that'll. That'd be the plot twisted to be a joke instead of serious film.

[Frank Olmstead]

That's fantastic.

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

That's what I was gonna do, but I was like that. I. I really, honestly was just around with that. That trailer.

[Frank Olmstead]

See, that's. That's a twist that works. Not shooting a lot.

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

I swear to you, I'm not a violent person. I. I am.

[Frank Olmstead]

I'm a lover, not a fighter.

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

But you was like. And then he shoots the man. He shoots the catch. I was like, damn, Just scared me. It sounded happy. And I was like, where is this?

[Jeremy Odom]

I wonder where this was going.

[Frank Olmstead]

Like, man, this.

[Jeremy Odom]

I don't know. This is good. Maybe not for me, but this is good.

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

And then, yeah, shoot this and shoot a terrorist.

[Jeremy Odom]

I got problems.

[Frank Olmstead]

I don't tell you.

[Jeremy Odom]

I also pitched sketch ideas. I just. I didn't give you a heads up on that. You thought, oh, Jeremy's gonna give us some dumb joke ideas. No, no, no. I've got a couple sketches, too, so I'm. I'm pretty talented. But that was from the episode Lavetti Vegas. You can find that on Spotify and Apple podcasts. And I firmly believe that that sketch would be hilarious. It'd be a musical number. Maybe it's better to be like, I don't know, like an SNL sketch. I'm not writing a resume currently to write for snl, obviously, but I do think it would have some potential. Yes, I do. All right, back to the laps.

[Frank Olmstead]

But first, I want to run a couple jokes by, if that. Is that all right?

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

Yeah, for sure.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay.

[Frank Olmstead]

The first one. And these are just ideas that I'm trying to develop in a joke. So you just tell me if it's funny, if it has anything to it. But you know how kids with down syndrome have, like, a certain look.

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

Yeah.

[Frank Olmstead]

Okay. I think kids that grow up drinking a whole lot of Mountain Dew are on that same level. Like, you can. You could pick them out of a crowd.

[Jeremy Odom]

And you being in Missouri, I'm sure

[Frank Olmstead]

you see that often.

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

That's a good premise, man. I like that. I like that. That's good. That's a good comparison. And funny.

[Tab Ramos]

Yeah.

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

No, get the Mountain Dew drinkers pissed off of that.

[Jeremy Odom]

I like that.

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

You know?

[Frank Olmstead]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Odom]

Mountain Dew kids, they have a certain look, those fellows Be running around, eyes buggin, mouth wide.

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[Diana Maria Riva]

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[Narrator/Announcer]

All of a sudden I had hanging ness happening on my own.

[Frank Olmstead]

I was like, what the hell is that?

[Narrator/Announcer]

I was married when I had her, so I didn't even consider how empty

[Jeremy Odom]

that nest was going to be.

[Diana Maria Riva]

Mood swings, night sweats, fupas. Sex drive. Wait, what sex? Dating at 45. How high can it be? Getting naked at 50 with the new guy.

[Jeremy Odom]

That one's kind of hard. Well, that's lighting.

[Diana Maria Riva]

They say we can't polish a turd, but we're sure going to try. So let's get blunt with laughs, tears or tears of laughter and dive into it unfiltered and unbothered and ask how hard can it be? I cannot believe I'm about to say

[Jeremy Odom]

this out loud in public.

[Diana Maria Riva]

Listen to How Hard Can It Be With Diana Maria Riva as part of my Cultura Podcast network, available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Tom Boger]

American Soccer is about to explode.

[Tab Ramos]

The World cup is coming.

[Jeremy Odom]

Ramos sending on Ernie Stewart.

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

The chip score. Usa.

[Tab Ramos]

I'm Tab Ramos.

[Tom Boger]

I'm Tom Bog. On our podcast, Inside American Soccer, you'll get the real storylines.

[Tab Ramos]

I'm not worried about Pulisic. I'm not worried about Baligan. I'm not worried about McKinney. My only concern is what happens in the back.

[Tom Boger]

The biggest decisions you're going to look at.

[Tab Ramos]

Stats and numbers. He has no shot at making this World cup team.

[Tom Boger]

And the truth about the U.S. national team.

[Tab Ramos]

It wouldn't be a huge surprise if our team ends up in the quarterfinals or potentially a great run into the semifinals.

[Tom Boger]

The World cup is almost here. Experience it all with usa. Listen Inside American Soccer with Tom Boger and Tab ramos on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Narrator/Announcer]

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[Jeremy Odom]

Why are their mouths bigger? It's not like to drink Mountain Dew. You gotta spread your mouth wider, you know? But it sure seems like they got that big mouth. Got that big mouth. The eyes are bugging. They're running around. They never sleep. They don't mind their business.

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

I don't know.

[Jeremy Odom]

That's from the episode Anthony Rogers. I tell you what, the Anthony Rogers show is blowing up, and Anthony has set a goal for 2024 to earn a million dollars for the first time in his. In his career. And, brother, if you do, I'm for hire, buddy. I'm for hire. I have wanted to work for a millionaire that wasn't being funded by a corporation. Let's just say that I've worked for millionaires, but I would love to work for a millionaire that isn't funded by a corporation. We can create. I'm. I'm for hire, Anthony, is what I'm saying. I don't think you're listening to this episode, but if by chance you are, hit me up. Hit me up. And good luck on your path. But you got to check out the Anthony Rogers show. It's on every. I mean, anywhere that you can watch or listen to the show. They dive into some just deep topics, off the wall topics, things you. You would never think of. But it is interesting. And he's getting into the live. The live shows with it. They did a hot sauce contest in a theater just a couple weeks ago. So you got to follow Anthony Rogers. But back to the laughs.

[Frank Olmstead]

All right, the sketch I'm very proud of. I think this is gold.

[Jeremy Odom]

You know what?

[Frank Olmstead]

If you think this thing can win in some film festivals, maybe I'll film it. You tell me. But here's the. Here's the sketch idea.

[Jeremy Odom]

Okay.

[Frank Olmstead]

The location is grocery store. The main character is a female, and she has a grocery cart, and she's walking into the grocery store. So everything you're seeing is her trip through the grocery store. She does not talk. The only sounds you hear or the normal sounds you hear at a grocery store. So there's the hustle and bustle, there's the carts rolling, there's the. The Muzak playing. You might hear employees, you know, asking people if they need help or whatever. And she's going about the store shopping. She's in produce. She's checking the melons, and she's grabbing what she wants. She's getting lettuce, she's getting apples. Heads back to the bakery, maybe get some buns. Throws it in the cart. She's having a great time. She's going to the meat department. She's getting a couple pounds of ground beef from the meat counter. The meat employee is fantastic, smiles, says thank you, hands it back to the. To the customer, and she keeps rolling through, goes to the dairy, gets some eggs, checks the eggs.

[Jeremy Odom]

Right?

[Frank Olmstead]

She gets the eggs, heads up to the front, checks out, no issues, bags it up, puts it in the cart, goes out to the. Her car. Then we see her in the car. She's listening to music. Seems to still be having a nice little day. Heads pulls into her driveway, pulls into the garage, opens the trunk, gets her groceries. Husband comes out, grabs the groceries too. They go inside. As they're unloading, he goes, how was your trip at the store? And she just unloads on him, on how terrible everybody at the grocery store is and how awful of a job they do there and how they had nothing that she needed.

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

Oh, interesting. That reminds me of. Do you watch 30 Rock?

[Frank Olmstead]

Here and there.

[Tom Boger]

Yeah.

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

Okay. There's an episode because, you know, I'm a huge Tina Fey fan, where she. She remembers high school as like, everyone was so mean to her, and she was like the misfit. And then she goes back to the reunion, and then we as the audience see and realize that she was actually the bully and everyone didn't like her.

[Narrator/Announcer]

That's awesome.

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

I love it.

[Frank Olmstead]

Yeah.

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

So funny.

[Frank Olmstead]

See, she. The customer, had a normal experience, but in today's world, you never know what somebody's thinking. And the complaints come rolling through. And a lot of times those complaints come through social media anymore, you know, and. And you don't even know there was an issue, if there was an issue. But all the people we see at the store, and everybody seems fine. Like, we're doing our job and then.

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

Right.

[Frank Olmstead]

Complaints flying in.

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

Yeah, I think it'd be funny too if you showed like her perspective versus their perspective.

[Frank Olmstead]

Oh, yes.

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

How we saw it go down and then how she thinks it's. It's going down.

[Frank Olmstead]

Yep, yep. Like, we, we think she grabbed all the produce that she needs and it's just fine. But when you go to her perspective, you know, there's, there's a moldy apple or.

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

Right.

[Jeremy Odom]

Yeah.

[Frank Olmstead]

Oh, that's, that's a great idea.

[Jeremy Odom]

See, this is the deal. You get Emmy award winning producers like Stephanie Purcell on the show and you can find her in that episode, you know, appropriately titled Stephanie Purcell, and she'll give you a punchline that just knocks your sketch idea out of the park. The. To do the other side of it where you, you know, go through my idea and then give the other perspective of the person at the end and just everything's a nightmare. Genius. Right? So, yeah, I, I think I'm ready for SNL at this point. I have just given you two sketches that are going to produce ratings on the Nielsen. We got to get Stephanie back on the show because I think I've got a few more sketch ideas that I need to pitch and her give me punch lines for back to the joke.

[Frank Olmstead]

Remember back in the day, milk cartons would have like, the missing children, like pictures on them and like their name and what they looked like so you could try to find them. What about the kids that were found, you know, do you think they like them and their parents tried to like, grab all the milk cartons they could and that kid's just like signing autographs for, for.

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

No, no, that's good.

[Frank Olmstead]

That's good.

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

Okay. I thought there was more.

[Jeremy Odom]

No, that's that.

[Frank Olmstead]

Literally, that's it.

[Jeremy Odom]

I got, I got nothing.

[Frank Olmstead]

I, I need more with the milk carton kids.

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

Or maybe you should put the, the found ones on. Eggnog.

[Tom Boger]

Yes.

[Jeremy Odom]

For the holiday edition.

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

Yeah, for the holiday. Hey, Merry Christmas. We found. We found Trevor.

[Frank Olmstead]

I love that.

[Jeremy Odom]

That's fantastic. Or you got the kids, you know, with the, you know those big electronic

[Frank Olmstead]

signs for Amber Alerts on this, on the interstate. You got kids that, you know, get found or saved from the Amber Alerts and they're taking selfies in front of it for the gram. You know, you got to post it for the gram.

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

You got it. Yeah. Is there now, is there something with your milk carton one where you could be like. I thought it was a little morbid that all of them had expiration dates.

[Frank Olmstead]

See, you would be really good at this.

[Jeremy Odom]

You definitely need to get on stage.

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

I can spitball with you. I'm trying to help you out here.

[Jeremy Odom]

That was Frank Olmstead. He's on the episode title, Frank Olmstead. I think you guys understand how I'm titling these episodes now, but, you know, Frank, a morning show host in small town Iowa for, wow, what do we do? 20 years now, inspired, wants to hit the stage, tell some jokes. Frank, let's get to writing. Let's, let's, let's workshop some stuff. And when we go to the mic, I'm, I think I'm gonna do the milk card joke so you could see it live in person. And the thong song joke, because that's, it's kind of a staple of mine at this point, but yeah. All right, one more. Hey, thank you everybody, for listening to this episode. It's the best of the laughs. These are the jokes that I was working out. I know how I'm recapping as if we're on live radio and somebody might just be tuning in. Nobody's just randomly tuning in right now to a podcast, but yeah, you guys get the GS. One more.

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

Foreign.

[Jeremy Odom]

This week's episode of Laugh With Me is brought to you by the Nielsen Corporation, self referentially known as the Nielsen Company and formerly known as A.C. nielsen or A.C. nielsen. They're a global marketing research firm with worldwide headquarters in New York City in the United States. Regional headquarters for North America are located in Chicago. And yes, that was verbatim from the Wikipedia. They'll send you $2 in the mail to fill out a survey. Once you send the survey back, they will in return send you $5 cold hard cash to your mailbox just a couple of months later. You're helping them understand who's listening and who's watching what and who is available to also be exposed to those things within your household. And they're willing to spend $7 per household to find out this information. This week's episode of Laugh With Me is brought to you by the Nielsen Corporation. Now back to the show.

[Narrator/Announcer]

I have type 2 diabetes, but I manage it well.

[Diana Maria Riva]

It's a little pill with a big story to tell.

[Narrator/Announcer]

I take one Staley Jardiance at each.

[Frank Olmstead]

I've been wishing a lot lately that

[Jeremy Odom]

I had diabetes, and it's a hundred percent based on just like the commercials I watch. Like, just the other day I saw this Jardiance commercial where they're, you know, singing and dancing about lowering their A1C and, you know, like, they're in a musical, and I've always, like, thought it'd be cool to be in a musical, and I thought if I had diabetes, you know, maybe I'd have a shot.

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

Right, right.

[Jeremy Odom]

Instead, I'm stuck with Crohn's disease, and my Skyrizi just allows me to have a great time on a roller coaster.

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

I like it. I like it. I think you should enter in from the. Like, I have Crohn's disease. I wish I had diabetes because their commercials are more fun.

[Jeremy Odom]

There you go.

[Frank Olmstead]

All right.

[Jeremy Odom]

I like that because, like, I love

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

riding roller coaster, but I'd rather be in a musical. That's. There's a.

There.

Yeah, I think that's really funny because also, I mean, why, like, if they're. If these diseases are so bad, why is everyone having such a great time all the time?

[Jeremy Odom]

That's the thing. They. They run through, like, all the side effects, all the. The things that you're going through that are just painful and hard to live with, but they are having the time of their lives.

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

Right.

[Jeremy Odom]

I don't know.

[Guest/Supporting Voice]

Yeah, it sounds like a good time. I'll get Crohn's disease and go on a roller coaster if that's how. Yeah, you might. You must have this much intestinal stress to ride this ride.

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[Diana Maria Riva]

Hey, I'm Diana Maria Riva, and on my new podcast, how Hard can it Be? I call on my Gen X squad. From Ohio to Hollywood as we navigate midlife's most fantastic bs. Unfiltered conversations. From night sweats to fupas to scheduling sex. Wait, what? Sex? Is it just me?

[Narrator/Announcer]

Or does every woman my age want to look at Pinterest instead of having sex?

[Diana Maria Riva]

Sometimes they say we can't polish a turd, but we're sure gonna try. So let's get blunt with laughs, tears, or tears of laughter. Listen to How Hard Can It Be With Diana Maria Riva on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Tom Boger]

American soccer is about to explode.

[Tab Ramos]

The World cup is coming.

[Jeremy Odom]

Ramos sending on to Ernie Stewart the chip.

[Tab Ramos]

I'm Tab Ramos.

[Tom Boger]

I'm Tom Vogue. On our podcast, Inside American Soccer, you'll get the real story, the biggest decisions, and the truth about the U.S. national team.

[Tab Ramos]

It wouldn't be a huge surprise if our team ends up in the quarterfinals or potentially a great run into the semifinals.

[Tom Boger]

Listen to Inside American Soccer with Tom Boger and Tab ramos on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast.