Squared Away - Episode 46

Summary

The Musers The Podcast – Episode 46: "Squared Away"

Release Date: June 3, 2026
Hosts: George Dunham, Craig “Junior” Miller, Gordon Keith
Podcast Network: Cumulus Podcast Network

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Overview

Episode 46 of The Musers brings listeners deep into the famously hilarious, insightful, and relatable chemistry of George, Craig, and Gordon. This week’s theme: “Being Squared Away”—the act and feeling of getting your life in order with practical, everyday tasks. What began as Craig's "core four" list of must-do tasks to feel organized quickly flourishes into a community- and co-host-driven deep dive into the pleasures, anxieties, and absurdities of personal order, all wrapped in the Musers’ signature banter. The hosts also share listener letters, reminisce about their time as movie extras, and explore the quirks of adulthood, from lawnmower obsessions to colonoscopy etiquette.

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Key Segments & Discussion Points

1. Announcement — Live Show Coming Soon

• [01:20-02:42] The Musers announce the release dates for their special live show at the Kessler, celebrating their one-year podcast anniversary.
  • First live episode drops June 24th, followed by the second part on July 8th.
  • Sold out in three hours, with nearly 400 attendees.
  • “[The crowd] was really nice and into it. We had a really good crowd and it was a lot of fun.” – George [02:28]
  • “Sold out in three hours, which was amazing.” – Gordon [02:38]

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2. Musers as Movie Extras — The Jesse Owens Story

• [03:31-07:56] The hosts reminisce about acting as extras in a made-for-TV Jesse Owens biopic filmed at their alma mater, North Texas.
  • Craig had the most screen time (“maybe up near 30 or 45 seconds” – George [05:10]).
  • Craig describes a scene: “The camera is just on me running down the track for about five seconds...” [05:43]
  • Humorous anecdotes about being filmed in the presence of Nazi paraphernalia (“You’ve appeared with lots of Nazi paraphernalia as a member of Team USA.” – Gordon [07:49])
  • Segue to the current Jesse Owens "Game Changers" exhibit at the Bush Center in Dallas.

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3. Letter of the Week – Sports Fan Burnout

• [08:33-11:04] Brent from Austin (the "Eyepatch guy") shares how he quit following the Cowboys after decades of heartbreak, leading to better health and lower blood pressure.
  • “My life is incredibly better for it. My health is better, I spend more time with my family and my blood pressure has normalized. Being able to step back…really gave me a sense of peace.” – Brent [09:47]
  • “I love the letters that we get that tell me that I’m right.” – Gordon [09:57]
  • Conversation veers into how long-time fans cope with disappointment.
  • “If the Cowboys get in the Super Bowl, I’ll watch.” – Gordon [10:55]

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4. Main Topic – The Squared Away List

• Introduction [11:04-11:34]
  Steve from Waco requests an update on Craig’s "Squared Away List." Craig brings the list and expands on it with input from the team.
  • “This week’s topic is being squared away.” – Craig [11:26]

Craig’s ‘Core Four’ to Feeling Squared Away

• A. Get a Haircut

  • Universally agreed to provide a lift, unless it’s a bad cut (“Don’t you always feel so much better about life once you get a haircut?” – Craig [12:16])
  • Discussion about hair parting techniques and “political leanings” urban legend. [13:11-14:14]

• B. Professional Teeth Cleaning

  • “Getting your teeth professionally cleaned makes you feel great.” – Craig [15:00]
  • Gordon humorously laments old-school scraping tools: “That seems so medieval to me.” [15:09]
  • Jokes about at-home dental work: “I wouldn’t want to do that on myself.” – Craig [15:51]

• C. Mowing and Edging the Lawn

  • “That’s number one on my list.” – George [16:11]
  • Debate between George (big yard, riding mower) and Gordon (vintage push mowers, “Mr. Lawnmower”) [16:20-18:54]
  • Nostalgia for 90s-era machinery (“The ’90s was kind of a real sweet spot for life... the lawnmowers were great.” – Gordon [18:10])

• D. Replacing All Your Underwear

  • “Get brand new underwear. Across the board...” – Craig [19:00]
  • Jokes about how often to replace them; burning the old ones; “the eternal flame” [20:40]
  • “Take it from me. Switch them all out at once. You will feel so great.” – Craig [21:18]
  • Gordon: “I’m going to do that this week.” [21:27]
  • “Type Craig in and use the promo code ‘Golf’…get 20 new pair of underwear.” – Craig [21:41] (in jest, riffing on endorsements)

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5. Expansion – Listener, Host, and Community Additions

• [22:42-54:45] The list grows enthusiastically, both from the Musers and their listeners.

Cleaning and Maintenance

• Cleaning Out Garage/Closets/Attic

  • Organizers, psychological hurdles, and how donated or trashed items free the mind [23:04-24:53]
  • “You need somebody like [a professional organizer].” – George [23:56]
  • “The garage should be the place most squared away—and it is the least squared away in my life.” – Gordon [24:47]

• Washing Your Car (The No-Rinse Method)

  • Gordon details hyper-efficient car washing; team reminisces on learning “proper” washing vs. Dad’s “bad old ways.” [27:22-29:33]

• Four New Tires / Car Maintenance

  • “Every time I get my oil changed and my car washed, I swear the thing drives better.” – Gordon [29:42]

• Balancing the Checkbook

  • Craig’s old-school comfort in weekly reconciliation (“I love it... You can’t just completely trust what the bank says online.” – Craig [33:42])
  • Gordon playfully questions his sanity: “That is just crazy to me that you even waste time doing that.” [33:38]

• All Laundry Washed, Folded, and Put Away

  • “A chair is not a dresser.” – George (after learning Gordon piles clean clothes on a chair) [35:30]

• Clean Sheets / Made Bed

  • “When your sheets are clean and a freshly made bed…” – George [35:45]

• Cleaning Out Email Inbox / Deep Clean Grill

  • “I have 8376 messages in my inbox… I’m very bad about going back and deleting.” – Craig [41:41]
  • Deep-cleaning the outdoor grill; debate on whether the “gunk” is just seasoning or a health hazard [42:09]

• Power Washing

  • Shared joy in using power washers (“Men and power washers—that’s one of the greatest things ever.” – Gordon [50:48])
  • Safety tips, nostalgia, and jokes about power washing as a form of visual therapy (“There’s a whole subreddit...it’s so pleasing to watch it.” – Gordon [52:28])

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Medical & Health-Related

• Physical Exams / Prostate & Colonoscopy Checks
  • “A prostate exam or colonoscopy with good results.” – Craig [37:47]
  • Banter on nurses as witnesses, awkward moments, and the importance of getting checked (“...you’re really rolling the dice.” – Gordon [38:04])
  • “Jesus: the original power washer.” – Gordon, joking about religious absolution [54:50]

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Miscellaneous Pleasures of Maintenance

• Cleaning Out the Car, Weeding the Garden, Organizing Tools

  • Gordon: “The garage...should have your car and room to work...too many tools and everything’s in disarray.” [25:14]
  • “Weeding your flower bed or your garden makes you feel great... There’s something very satisfying about pulling a weed...” – Craig [53:27]

• Listener David on Church:

  • “I went to church on Sunday. Apparently my sins were washed away. And you can’t get more squared away than that.” – Listener David [54:45]

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6. Memorable Banter & Notable Quotes

• “Your hair always looks the same to me.” – Gordon, dryly ribbing George’s ideas of hair transformation [13:08]
• “Jesus: the original power washer.” – Gordon [54:50]
• “A chair is not a dresser.” – George [35:30]
• “Take it from me. Switch them all out at once. You will feel so great.” – Craig on underwear [21:18]
• “Rolling trash can…” – Recounting their parents’ vehicle hygiene philosophies [49:27]

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7. Listener Interaction & The Community

• Several recurring listeners prompted segments (“Eyepatch Guy” Brent in Austin, Steve in Waco, David on “squared away” through church).
• Active, humorous follow-up on inside jokes (“Hey Je, is my chicken ready yet?” story; “eternal flame” underwear burning, “promo codes”).

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8. Closing Segment: Merch, Fan Encounters, and Outtakes

• [55:21-END]
  • “Get your Musers merch at themusers.com.”
  • Gordon recounts being recognized in public while wearing his own podcast shirt: “They were looking at me going, ‘that guy kinda looks like Gordon Keith, but he’s way too old and heavy...’”

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [01:20] — Kessler Live Show Announcement
• [03:31] — Jesse Owens biopic reminiscences
• [08:33] — Letter about quitting Cowboys fandom
• [11:04] — Squared Away List introduction
• [12:16] — Haircut as ‘squared away’ #1
• [15:00] — Professional teeth cleaning
• [16:05] — Lawn mowing obsessions
• [19:00] — Underwear replacement
• [23:04] — Cleaning out the garage
• [27:22] — Washing the car/no-rinse method
• [33:29] — Balancing the checkbook
• [35:45] — Freshly made bed/laundry
• [37:47] — Prostate/colonoscopy segment
• [41:14] — Cleaning up your email inbox
• [42:09] — Deep cleaning the grill
• [50:48] — Power washing euphoria
• [53:27] — Weeding the garden/yard segment
• [54:45] — Listener David: “sins washed away”
• [55:21] — Merch and social media wrap-up

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Final Thoughts & Episode Vibe

“Squared Away” is classic Musers: deeply relatable, highly specific, playful, but also practical. Everyday upkeep is elevated into communal therapy, full of laughter, quirks, and at times surprisingly earnest encouragements to get your teeth cleaned, replace your undies, get your prostate checked, or deep clean something—just so you can feel, for one fleeting moment, truly on top of life. The group’s legendary repartee, crowd engagement, and talent for turning minutiae into shared experience are on display throughout.

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Notable Quote to Capture the Episode: “Take it from me. Switch them all out at once. You will feel so great.”—Craig, on the existential power of new underwear [21:18]

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For more Muser’s classics, check out the back catalog, and don’t miss the upcoming live shows.

Transcript

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[George]

Still love the laugh track. Really?

[Gordon]

Yeah, I still think it's funny on sitcoms. Are you talking about like our.

[George]

I guess just maybe I love it more with our use of it.

[Gordon]

Oh yeah. Making fun of it.

[George]

Yeah, yeah, I think it's really funny on radio. The crowd just gets behind a joke.

[Gordon]

There's war in Gaza. So I'm not really thinking about the laugh tracks and old sitcoms. Okay.

[George]

So sorry.

[Craig]

Welcome to episode 46 of the Musers the Podcast. I'm Craig.

[George]

Hey America. I love you. I'm George.

[Gordon]

That's way too much energy. I'm Gordon. Doing out there.

[George]

Way too little.

[Craig]

Thanks for joining us for what I think is going to be a very special edition of the Musers the Podcast. We've been getting a lot of questions about when listeners who were not at the Kessler the night that we recorded our live show are going to be able to hear that live show recording. Well, we recorded it a couple of weeks ago to commemorate our one year anniversary of the Musers the Podcast. So the first of the two live show episodes will drop on Wednesday, June 24th, which will be almost exactly our one year birthday of this podcast.

[Gordon]

We planned it that way and we

[Craig]

recorded two hours that night at the Kessler. So the second episode will release in two one hour episodes. The second episode will be released on July 8th, also a Wednesday. So June 24th. And yes, please, nice round of applause. June 24th and July 8th is when you'll get to hear the two hours that we did at the Kessler. And we didn't really talk much about this last week, but what a fun time we had that night.

[Gordon]

Magical.

[George]

Yeah, everyone was really nice and into it. We had a really good crowd and it was a lot of fun.

[Craig]

Sold it out. How about that?

[Gordon]

Yeah, sold out in three hours, which was amazing.

[Craig]

Which I think George thought we'd sell out. Gordo and I did not think we'd sell out and certainly didn't think we'd sell out in three hours.

[Gordon]

No, no. I thought there would still be tickets left over and we'd Be doing the panic pitch to people, you know, hey, tickets half off, man. Come on, it's free now.

[Craig]

Come on.

[Gordon]

I know. Or bring it in, you know, like a veterans group or something. For free. Fill out the seats.

[George]

But even if we only had like 100 or 150 people, I think it would have been fine.

[Gordon]

That's true.

[George]

I think that still would have been plenty of people, and we had close to 400, so it was great. And that, yeah, that venue, the Kessler, is just tremendous for doing either music or something like that. Like, we did a podcast, talked to

[Craig]

so many of our great podcast listeners that night. Everybody was in a good mood, happy to be there. So we can't thank you enough for being a part of that. And again, the first episode that we recorded that night will drop on Wednesday, June 24th. Yes. More applause of our choosing. A quick reminder that this podcast is brought to you by our friends at the George W. Bush Presidential center in Dallas and their Game Changers exhibit, which is running now through next January. And one of the featured athletes is the great Jesse Owens. And when I toured this exhibit last month, I saw, among other items, Jesse's personal photo books from the 1936 Olympic Games and two of his four gold medals that he won at those Games. His wins in 36 in Berlin, of course, may be the most historically significant achievement in sports history, as he defied the odds. He performed in front of Hitler and Nazi Germany, and he wins four gold medals. And as in keeping with the Game Changers exhibit, that performance demonstrated the power of sports to challenge injustice. George and I know firsthand about the Jesse Owens story because we starred in the Paramount Pictures made for television production, the Jesse Owens Story.

[George]

Yeah, it's almost like we know him just because we're so familiar with what happened all those years ago.

[Gordon]

When you say starred, what. What was your contribution to the film?

[Craig]

We were extras.

[George]

Extras. No speaking line.

[Gordon]

How much screen time did you. Do you think you got?

[Craig]

Very little.

[George]

Craig got the most. I got, I think 2.1 seconds. Craig got maybe up near 30 or 45 seconds.

[Gordon]

Really?

[George]

Yeah.

[Craig]

Yeah. So I was in. It was filmed at North Texas when we were in school there. And it was filmed there because Fouts Field, the old football stadium, still had a cinder track. In the 80s, it was the only cinder track in a big stadium anywhere in America.

[Gordon]

It's the only place that had not been updated.

[George]

Yes, it was it.

[Craig]

So I got to appear in about, yeah, four or five different scenes. There's one where they're coming back from commercial made for TV movie.

[Gordon]

Yeah.

[Craig]

And the camera is just on me running down the track for about five seconds. And then once the camera gets to Jesse and his coach, then it stops and I run out of frame. But that was probably my biggest moment.

[George]

Yeah, that was pretty big camera time there.

[Craig]

Another moment where Jesse's talking to his coach, played by Ronnie Cox, who I believe has passed away. I'm not sure about that.

[George]

Big Ronnie.

[Gordon]

What?

[George]

Wasn't that his name?

[Gordon]

Big Ronnie. What does Big Ronnie mean?

[George]

Big Ronnie Cox.

[Craig]

Don't know where you're going with that.

[Gordon]

I don't either.

[Craig]

But anyway, as the two of them are talking, I'm in the background stretching. Jerk.

[George]

And you're a jerk.

[Craig]

So, yes, we know a lot about Jesse because we starred in that movie.

[George]

We told everyone on campus that when they would ask what we did in the movie that we played Jesse's roommates. We almost made it sound like a sitcom that we were in with Jesse Owens.

[Gordon]

Very, very serious story.

[Craig]

Oh, there was another scene.

[George]

Punch you before this thing's over.

[Craig]

There was another scene where at a high school track meet, I'm one of the runners and I got in the lane right next to Jesse, who was played by Dorian Harewood.

[George]

Yes.

[Craig]

And so it's on me, because there were only three runners in the whole thing, just Jesse and the two on either side. So I got screen time there.

[George]

Yeah.

[Gordon]

Is that common for only three people to be running against each other?

[Craig]

No, there were eight, but the camera only caught three.

[Gordon]

The framing of it.

[George]

Yeah. And it was so funny. He was also in a scene where they filmed it at the Cotton bowl, and he was on a bus. And I think it was supposed to be the American team arriving in Berlin. And on the back of the bus, you could clearly see it was him because he was doing this crazy dance that he used to do. Is hand was going out, and he was really exaggerated on the back. It looked like Mick Jagger was on the back of the bus and it

[Craig]

made the final cut.

[George]

I can't believe they didn't say, okay, we can't. That guy's too ridiculous. No one would do that on a bus.

[Gordon]

And was there Nazi paraphernalia around?

[Craig]

There was in the background.

[Gordon]

So you've appeared with lots of Nazi

[Craig]

paraphernalia as a member of Team USA

[George]

in protest to it. Yes, yes.

[Craig]

So check that out. Jesse Owens. Not the Jesse Owens story. You can check that out, too. But check out all the Jesse Owens memorabilia and artifacts at the Game Changers exhibit. The Musers, the podcast Sponsored by the President George W. Bush Center's Game Changer exhibit. United by Sports. Visit today and learn more about the athletes and see the memorabilia that have changed the game. Now it's time for our letter of the week. And this comes to us from Brent in Austin. He says he is also known as the Eyepatch guy on our radio show.

[Gordon]

Huh.

[Craig]

Assuming he wears an eye patch and we labeled him the Eyepatch guy.

[George]

Okay.

[Gordon]

How creative of us.

[Craig]

He says. I love the podcast. Listening to episode 45 and you guys talked about the worry that a sports team puts on your life and how Gordo doesn't get involved in sports and because it takes too much out of him. The disappointment, the exhaustion, the wasted time, the absolute heartbreak of it all. Well, I'm 46 years old now, and I was lucky enough to grow up during the era of the triplets and those amazing Dallas Cowboys super bowl teams that won three in the 90s. You couldn't find a bigger or better Cowboys fan on the planet for 43 years of my life. When the Cowboys got steamrolled in the playoffs against Green Bay two years ago, I gave up. I now have four huge boxes of memorabilia sitting in my garage. I used to stand in front of the TV every game, just yelling and screaming either profanity or cheers. But I haven't watched a single game since. And my life is incredibly better for it. My health is better, I spend more time with my family and my blood pressure has normalized. Being able to step back and look at the ridiculousness of it all really gave me a sense of peace and well being. There are some days that I do miss the fun and excitement of game day, but I am so much better off without the worry.

[Gordon]

I love the letters that we get that tell me that I'm right.

[George]

That's one. That's one. There's obviously Jerry's still selling out a stadium. 90,000 barely at a time.

[Craig]

Right.

[George]

I do wonder how many Cowboy fans are like that. Maybe not that extreme that don't even watch anything anymore, but have just taken a big step back with their investment of time.

[Gordon]

I've always found like that you can find the score online the next day. So in most cases to watch the game.

[Craig]

Yeah, yeah, I think there are. It depends on the team. Of course, if your team is currently winning championships, you're probably all in. But For Cowboys fans, 30 years of heartbreak, I mean, that gets pretty old after a while.

[George]

Yeah, and I think they get fed up and especially where Jerry should be concerned about it on the on the money side of it, if people stop selling out the stadium, which we haven't gotten, seem to be a problem.

[Gordon]

If the Cowboys get in the Super Bowl. I'll watch.

[Craig]

Okay.

[Gordon]

For the commercials.

[Craig]

For the commercials and the halftime show.

[Gordon]

Yeah.

[Craig]

All right, Brent, thank you for our letter of the week. We also got this email from Steve and Waco. I'm surprised I even have to suggest this, but I keep waiting for an episode devoted to Craig's squared away list. I think it's been quite a while since the last update. Let's make that happen soon. Well, Steve, your wait is over because this week's topic is being squared away. Thank you.

[Gordon]

Thank you. Very limited studio audience.

[Craig]

Be seated. Be seated. Many years ago, I came up with this list and this idea of things that make you feel squared away. And we did this first on the radio show, and now it's ready to bring to the podcast. And I came up with my core four things that you do to make you feel like your life is a bit more orderly. And if you've never attempted to become more squared away, this is a good place to start with my core four. Just get one of them done. If you can get all four of them done over the next month, then you're in great shape. But the core four are getting a haircut. Don't you always feel so much better about life once you get a haircut?

[Gordon]

Yeah, and I'm struggling with that right now. I've been needing one for about three weeks. Keep putting it off. Yeah, I got horrible flop hair. It's way too long. I'm very Tom Hanks and castaway looking right now.

[Craig]

I mean, there is the odd time that you get a poor haircut and then you don't feel squared away.

[George]

Yes. And I guess I've been through that a lot of shared that when my dad used to cut my hair as a kid, and finally, remember I told that most embarrassing moments, you know, and the girl behind me taps me on the shoulder in eighth grade. Who cuts your hair? Yeah, my dad.

[Craig]

That was bad.

[George]

That was terrible. And I've had poor haircuts through the years. So, yeah, a lot of times you do feel good. And then sometimes you're just like, man, do they know how to do this? Or is my hair just eternally bad?

[Gordon]

Your hair always looks the same to me.

[George]

Yeah, it's okay.

[Gordon]

Do you ever change? Have you ever. When was the last time you changed a hairstyle other than the mohawk that you had for because you lost a bet?

[George]

The only major change I Think is when I started parting it on the left side. The left side instead of the right.

[Gordon]

How many years did you go with the right side part?

[George]

About 30 some. Odd.

[Gordon]

Really.

[George]

And then I finally said, seems like most people parted on that side. Maybe ought to do it on that side.

[Gordon]

I thought you were supposed to go with whatever your natural, more natural part is.

[George]

I think it is, but it seems like.

[Gordon]

But you went with the crowd. You said that most of your friends.

[George]

I just thought. I just thought, well, maybe my problem is I'm parting it the wrong way. So I started parting it on the left. I don't know if it's helped.

[Craig]

Have you guys ever heard that you parted on the side of your political leaning? Like conservatives parted on the right and liberals parted on the left?

[Gordon]

No. Is that true?

[Craig]

I mean, that's a thing people talk about.

[Gordon]

I bet you that's a correlation, not a causation thing. I bet you that, like, George, you partnered on the side that you, of the people that you see the most.

[Craig]

Yeah.

[Gordon]

And if you consort with people of the same leaning as you, you're noticing that everyone's kind of doing this. So you subconsciously parted on that same side.

[Craig]

Don't you also the way your hair grows, Don't a lot of people have a natural side?

[Gordon]

That's what I thought.

[George]

Yeah. Yeah, I think so.

[Craig]

Like, I've always parted on the right, but about five years ago, my barber said, why don't we do something different? Let's part it on the left. And I've been.

[Gordon]

You don't have any part, right?

[Craig]

Yeah, not really. I just kind of run my hair fingers through it every day and then it happens.

[Gordon]

Yeah. You're just so short. You don't have to flop it over to one side.

[Craig]

Right, Right. So that's number one on the core four that you can do to feel squared away. Number two is getting a professional teeth cleaning. Not doing it yourself, but getting your teeth professionally cleaned makes you feel great.

[George]

Yeah. It's supposed to be every six months, right?

[Craig]

Yep. Because they use all that professional toolage, that brush.

[Gordon]

Is it really professional when they're still using that scrape fork?

[Craig]

Feels like it.

[Gordon]

That is. That seems so medieval to me.

[George]

I know there's gotta be something they could do with. I mean, some sort of hydraulic pick or something that would work better than that.

[Gordon]

They use all this high tech, you know, water blasting with the latest and fine unicorn tears and all that kind of stuff. Like, I have a dentist that uses all the latest high tech stuff. But then at the end they go back over their work with that stupid pick to get any tartar that they find. And that just seems like, how is that protecting my enamel?

[Craig]

Right.

[George]

Do they not trust people to do that on their own? Have their own metal pick that they work on their teeth?

[Craig]

I wouldn't want to do that on myself.

[Gordon]

Gosh, it's so violent.

[George]

I know.

[Gordon]

Creeps me out.

[Craig]

Number three on the list is mowing and edging your lawn. Don't you feel great after that's done?

[Gordon]

After edging?

[George]

I think that's. I don't even know what that is. I think that's. I think that's number one on my list.

[Craig]

Is it?

[George]

Yeah. And some of it is. It kind of hangs over my head because we have a pretty big lot to cut and.

[Gordon]

Oh, boy, here he goes.

[George]

Well, it is bigger than any yard you've ever cut over there, Mr. Lawnmower.

[Gordon]

Yeah. I'm not as wealthy as you, George. Way to rub it in.

[George]

Okay. Yeah.

[Craig]

Gordo. Why do you insist.

[George]

Darn thing.

[Craig]

Why do you insist on calling yourself Mr. Lawnmower?

[Gordon]

George is labeled me that.

[George]

He's got 80 of them.

[Gordon]

Yeah, I. I have to get old dilapidated lawnmowers and fix them up because I can't afford these expensive riding lawnmowers that you. You're on all the time that you take from your living room to your kitchen to get another sandwich.

[Craig]

George's lawnmowers are all Bentleys.

[Gordon]

They are. They're so fancy.

[George]

No, no, no. Got a John Deere and a Toro.

[Gordon]

And a Toro.

[George]

Two high level one's a push mower and one's a riding lawnmower and a weed eater.

[Craig]

Aren't those each like $300,000?

[George]

No, they're not. You can get them much for a much reasonable price than that. Maybe a couple thousand.

[Gordon]

Much reasonable price.

[George]

Much more reasonable than the. The Roddy lawnmower is a couple thousand. I'm gonna start buying my push mowers from Gordo. Or stealing them.

[Gordon]

Wow. I've got a lot of great ones. I got some classics. The old John Deere series. Walk behind mowers from the 90s. They were fantastic machines and they were like $1,000 new back in the early 90s. So I don't know what inflation wise is, but can you imagine paying like $2,000 for a walk behind push lawnmower?

[George]

No, because it's crazy. Like, most back then were like 200 bucks, maybe even less than that.

[Gordon]

Yeah, but they're great. They're still around. And I always. When I see one, I'll buy one and recondition it and fix it up, put a new braid blade break clutch on it.

[George]

You were doing all that?

[Gordon]

Yeah, they're, they're great machines and they don't, they don't make them that well anymore. So you know, in a lot of ways the 90s was kind of a real sweet spot for life because you not only had the cars in the 90s and I would say on into the mid aughts, somewhere in there was, was when cars were less technical and loaded down with too much technology, but they were really, really well made and so they were really highly regarded that period of time and in our automotive history and the same with like lawnmowers and stuff like that. They were great back in those days and they built them very, very stout. So interesting. There's a little, little nugget for you.

[Craig]

So like we talked about a few weeks ago, you're like Gen Z, you want to go back to the 90s.

[Gordon]

That's right.

[Craig]

It's a sweet spot.

[Gordon]

Yeah.

[Craig]

All right. Number four on my core four list of things that you can do to make your life feel more orderly. And I think this is the most important, this is the most impactful. Get brand new underwear. Across the board you have. How many pair of underwear do you guys have? 15 or 20.

[Gordon]

I'd say about 15, 60 or 70. Really?

[George]

Yeah. Wow.

[Craig]

There's no way I've got about 20 because I have to wash every two weeks. And I think you should switch that out about every two to three years. I think if you're getting into five years with the same underwear, I think that's a bad thing. I think about every three years would be the sweet spot. And what I do is I order 20 brand new pairs, same kind. I've been wearing jockey briefs my entire life.

[Gordon]

You ought to experiment a new underwear, underwear technologies. There's a lot of great higher end underwear.

[Craig]

I have a little bit, I've got a few pairs that are. What's the boxer brief? It's the combo. Yeah, it's not a boxer, but it's a boxer.

[Gordon]

Yeah, but that's a style. I'm talking about like a, like a brand of underwear. Yeah, that's a little bit better than just your, you know, Target Special. Although Target actually I think has a good line of underwear with their, what's it called? Pair of Thieves or something like this is their upper end brand.

[Craig]

I'm very, I'm very comfortable with my Jockeys because they're just. That's what I'm used to.

[Gordon]

Yeah, but then you get the silk kind of fiber. That feels so good.

[Craig]

Keep talking.

[Gordon]

Yeah, no, not that way.

[Craig]

But what I do is every three years I get 20 new pair and then I take the old 20. 20 pairs and I burn them.

[Gordon]

Yeah. Turns into an eternal flame.

[Craig]

Yes.

[George]

You still burning three or three weeks?

[Craig]

Every three years. The eternal flame in my backyard gets more fuel with the three year old underwear that I put in there. But you have to burn those.

[George]

Well, I don't think I've ever gone like a full roster replacement of like 15. It seems like it's usually, you know, whatever. What are they coming up.

[Gordon]

You just address a need when there is one. No, no.

[George]

After a blowout, I would say like six at a time and then get rid of the six that are the oldest that you have and then kind of do it like that.

[Craig]

Take it from me. Switch them all out at once. You will feel so great.

[George]

Okay.

[Gordon]

Yeah.

[George]

Your entire roster.

[Craig]

The whole roster.

[George]

Okay.

[Gordon]

I'm going to do that this week.

[Craig]

Okay.

[George]

There's no way you'll follow up on that.

[Gordon]

Do you have like a coupon code or something? If you type Craig in, you get. Yes, 10% off your entire roster turnover.

[Craig]

Type Craig in and use the promo code. Golf.

[Gordon]

What?

[Craig]

And you'll get 20 new pair of underwear.

[Gordon]

I don't understand that reference.

[George]

Or try eternal flame. That may work too.

[Craig]

All right, we should tell that story for those that don't know the reference. We had Ed2 Tall Jones once.

[Gordon]

Who is that?

[Craig]

He's a Cowboys legend.

[Gordon]

Played football.

[Craig]

Played football for the Dallas Cowboys. Defensive end. And he was out at this golf tournament and he was promoting this golf tournament and he said if you would like a free round of bowling.

[Gordon]

No, it was. You can go to. It was like you could go to golf.com and type in Too Tall Jones and you get a free. A free coupon for bowling?

[Craig]

Yeah, something like that.

[George]

Really?

[Gordon]

Just a mixture of, I don't know, a football guy promoting golf where you could get free bowling.

[George]

He got a bowling alley to help him out with his golf tournament and a golf. Some sort of golf initiative. And they just threw that in there.

[Gordon]

Okay, fine with that. It's just. He confused us all. He said that.

[Craig]

All right, so over the years, as we've been talking about being squared away, the list has. Has grown. Started with those core four, but we've added a lot to it. So anything that you guys want to add, jump in with what makes you feel squared away. But some of the few Items that were immediately added once we started talking about this. Cleaning out your garage.

[George]

Yes.

[Gordon]

Oh, yes.

[Craig]

And I don't do this often enough.

[George]

Well, I didn't either until about two years ago. And I told you guys on our radio show, we hired an organizer, which she stays busy because so many people go through this where it's like, it's paralyzing to us. You go out and you think, gosh, I don't know, maybe three. Throw that away. I mean, that was my son's. Whatever. His first bat or, you know, his third bike or whatever it is. But she was so good as to keep. Donate. Throw away. And she was good in helping us make those decisions. When's the last time you used that yard tool? 10 years ago. Okay, let's donate it.

[Craig]

Okay.

[George]

And that's good.

[Craig]

You need somebody like that.

[George]

Yes, we did. Now, maybe some people can easily go do the same thing, but I think it really helps. And she helped us with our garage, our closets, my wife's office, which is a very small area, but almost broke. The organizer. There was so much stuff in there.

[Gordon]

What was in there?

[George]

Just pictures and files. And, you know, she does all the paperwork for her family, and she hangs on to things, schoolwork, and there was all sorts of stuff that was in there. It was just a dumping ground of things from our life from the last 30 years or so. But I would say since then, we've done a much better job of staying organized in our garage and our closets. We still have some more to take on. Our attic's another story. We got to do that at some point.

[Gordon]

Yeah. Just burn that. Burn the attic and just rebuild it. Yeah. The garage is, like, for. For a guy like me who loves old lawnmowers and crap like that, you know, like, the garage should be the place that is most squared away. And it is the least squared away in my life. I can't stand my garage right now because it is so chock full of things that are not cars.

[Craig]

Yeah.

[Gordon]

And that's what it should be.

[George]

Yes.

[Gordon]

Is you should have your car in there, and you should have room to work on your car and room for my tools. I've just got too many tools and everything's in disarray and disorganized right now.

[Craig]

Aren't you envious when you go into somebody's garage and they've got the tools mounted on the wall? Perfect order.

[Gordon]

And it's clean. Everything is in its place and readily available, you know, because. And this happens inside the home as well as inside the garage. But people will be able to identify with this experience. I can't tell you how many times that I'm just. All right, I'll just. I know I have four of this tool, but I can't put my hands on it. And so I just go and I buy another one at the store for a job that I got to do that afternoon.

[Craig]

Yes.

[George]

When we organized the garage, I found out I had five hammers.

[Gordon]

I wish I only had five hammers.

[George]

Oh, my gosh. But she's really good about that too. About how you organ. You can hang on to a lot of things, but if you organize them properly.

[Gordon]

Yeah.

[George]

Like hanging them on a pegboard or, you know this. She bought these shelves that have wheels on them so you could change and put it on another side of the garage if you wanted to. It just. It's very logical stuff.

[Gordon]

What are shelves that have wheels on them? What is that?

[George]

Like metal shelves? And they have. Yeah, they have wheels on them. And they're. They're. I'd say they're like a metal wire shelf.

[Gordon]

Okay. It's like 4D, not attached shelves.

[George]

Yes.

[Gordon]

I was thinking wall shelves.

[George]

Oh, no, no. Yeah, yeah. Non attached and. Yeah. So you can move them around if you need to. And the wheels lock. And it's really. It really helped us.

[Gordon]

It changed your life totally.

[George]

Well, it made us feel squared away for sure. And yeah, I'll probably wait till the cooler weather gets here to get to the attic. But we've got to get to the attic. That is just the biggest dumping ground of memorabilia, old furniture, old toys, and it's just a mess.

[Craig]

Cleaning things or cleaning things out. That made the list several times. Of things that make you feel squared away. Like washing your car.

[Gordon]

That's on my list. Yeah, washing your car. I've recently gotten a new car of my choosing. And. And I've been doing the craziness of. I wash this thing at least every week, Sometimes twice a week.

[Craig]

Wow.

[Gordon]

Boy. Because I've never done. I've never done these no rinse washes. Have you even experimented with this stuff?

[George]

No rinse.

[Gordon]

Yeah, it's crazy. I mean, you just. I mean, I can use. I can wash a whole car with just two gallons of water. And it's incredible. Looks. Looks fantastic. And explain this.

[George]

What are you talking about here? So you.

[Gordon]

You basically, I get two gallons of distilled water, put it in a bucket that has a grit catcher at the bottom, and you use, you know, the sponge that's recommended for the no rinse chemical. And and yeah, you just, you spray it down. You get a sprayer, you'll spray down your car with this, no rinse solution, which is I think dilution of 256 to 1. And spray down your entire car. And then you go through with that sponge and you just do a section at a time. You know, divide the car up into quarters or eighths and you wipe it just once across with the sponge. And then you wipe it with a drying towel. Microfiber drying towel. And perfect.

[Craig]

Wow.

[Gordon]

Looks great.

[Craig]

I didn't think that was possible.

[Gordon]

Yeah, yeah.

[George]

So you don't get the brush scratches from a car.

[Gordon]

You don't get brush scratches and all that stuff. And you don't get, you don't waste a whole bunch of water, which we used to do with the old way. It's a great way to maintain your car. You know, every once in a while you got to go in and I'm trying. I'm also going to learn how to do a proper foam wash as well. You know, I just think we. I learned car washing from my dad and I've since learned that all those things are bad. The brushes he used to use on the car is not good for the paint. And, and yeah, you just. And yeah, he would dry it with like house towels as opposed to microfiber towels. I still remember micro towels being a

[George]

thing people that I knew of not

[Craig]

until 20 years ago, way back in the day. Anyway, car related. What about putting four new tires on the car? Doesn't that make you feel great?

[George]

Yes, it does.

[Gordon]

Love it. Every time I get my oil changed and my car washed, I swear the thing drives better.

[Craig]

Yes.

[Gordon]

It just, all of a sudden the thing just feels completely different to me. Just having a clean car and knowing that you've done one positive act to take care of the engine, like changing the oil.

[George]

Yes. And even that next step, after you have new tires and then whatever it is, four or 5,000 miles later, you have them rotated. I can tell the difference when I do that because it's usually more than four or five thousand miles when I rotate them.

[Gordon]

A note. When you have new tires, just be warned, you know, the first couple hundred miles, you know, their traction is not correct. You just have to be a little bit more careful with it. Brand new tire, really? Yeah, until they get, you know, scuffed and their full traction will, will kick in.

[Craig]

Okay.

[Gordon]

You have to break in new tires. And also on the oil change thing, my little public services. Don't, don't go the 10,000 miles. I know that your manufacturer says you can go that long and maybe even the oil change place will try to tell you, oh yeah, if you get the synthetic, you can go 10,000 miles. Don't go that long. Get full synthetic, but half, whatever the recommended time is, go half of that. Okay, you'll spend more money, but you'll preserve the car much better. Like I just did an oil change in my driveway on a car that did go 10,000 miles and the oil that came out of that thing. No car should have experienced that.

[George]

Looks like tariff. Tomorrow morning is knocking. Stock your fridge now. How about a creamy mocha frappuccino drink? Or a sweet vanilla smooth caramel maybe? Or white chocolate mocha?

[Gordon]

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[Craig]

All right, here's one that's been on my list that I think you guys may disagree with. I think we all agree with the first part of this. Getting all your bills paid makes you feel squared away. But I've always also liked the feeling of balancing my checkbook. I know that's very old school.

[Gordon]

Just. I don't even know what that is,

[Craig]

but I still do that probably once a week. I go through and I balance my checkbook, and I love it.

[Gordon]

That is just crazy to me that you even waste time doing that.

[Craig]

Who's keeping the bank accountable if you're not doing it?

[George]

There's no way they'd mess it up.

[Craig]

Yeah, you can't just completely trust what the bank says online. You have to keep them accountable.

[Gordon]

Okay, so let's say you keep them accountable and you say, okay, I did some figuring, and I put a pen to paper in the back of this little dinky check register, and I figured out that you guys are 67 cents off over the past three months.

[Craig]

I wouldn't bother them for that, but if it was $6,700 off, you have

[Gordon]

never found them being off that much.

[Craig]

Or have I?

[Gordon]

You have not.

[Craig]

I just haven't gone public with it.

[Gordon]

You know that you haven't. And even if you found that they were $20 off, you're going to call them up and they're going to say, no, the system. We know exactly how much is in your account, and this is correct.

[Craig]

I just like knowing that I'm keeping them accountable. I've never had

[Gordon]

to do anything. If you did call them.

[Craig]

Oh, we'll. We'll let the judge handle that.

[Gordon]

There's no judge. I'm saying. I'm saying the. The flaw in your system is that you never do discover a discrepancy.

[Craig]

Not yet.

[Gordon]

Number one.

[Craig]

Not yet.

[Gordon]

Number two, even if you did discover it, they would not remedy it by just changing it to whatever figure you say is accurate.

[Craig]

I think they would. We'll just have to agree to disagree.

[Gordon]

Holy ways. No, I don't agree to disagree.

[George]

You like working on. He likes balancing his checkbook. It just. It makes him feel good and makes him feel squared away.

[Gordon]

Okay.

[Craig]

Yeah. Why can't you just leave me alone?

[George]

Yeah,

[Gordon]

because I'm paid to mess with you, that's why.

[Craig]

What about having all laundry washed, folded, and put away? Yeah, that makes me feel squared away.

[Gordon]

I can wash it and dry it, but I don't really fold it and put it away. I just put it in a big pile in the Chair and then I just sift through it.

[George]

You're one of those.

[Gordon]

Yep.

[George]

A chair is not a dresser.

[Gordon]

Everything's a dresser if you're imaginative enough.

[George]

Yeah. That's always a good feeling. And then when those. When your sheets are clean and a freshly made bed.

[Craig]

Yes.

[George]

I don't know why it gets so out of whack after two sleeps, but it doesn't feel as good as it does that first night of sleep.

[Craig]

Right. That's a good one.

[Gordon]

I think I'm a violent sleeper.

[George]

I must be too, because if I

[Gordon]

don't address the bed before I get in it, like if I go even just two or three nights and it looks like somebody. Somebody came in and had to do a paramedic rescue of someone on this bed because everything's in disarray and torn up and out of place.

[George]

Yeah. Well, you may be.

[Gordon]

There's blood everywhere and there's like cut

[Craig]

bandages and there shouldn't be blood everywhere.

[Gordon]

It's like someone cut the jeans off of someone. There's cut jeans.

[George]

Do you think you have restless leg?

[Gordon]

I don't know. What is that again? We've. We've talked about it before, but it's. It's not as stupid as we thought it was to begin with. Restless leg syndrome?

[George]

Yeah.

[Gordon]

We always thought it was just someone bouncing their leg up and down.

[Craig]

Right.

[Gordon]

And that's. It's not that.

[George]

No, it's not that. It's sudden movements in. In your sleep and I guess it's subconscious.

[Gordon]

Like you punt in your sleep. You'll grab a Nerf ball and punt.

[George]

Yeah, kind of.

[Gordon]

Huh?

[George]

Yeah. Look into it.

[Craig]

So you can wake up with a 42 yard average.

[George]

Maybe. If you're good. Yeah, You're a good punter.

[Gordon]

Didn't you get restless leg syndrome or something? Or you knew somebody who.

[George]

I know somebody who has it. Yeah. And it's. I can't tell you much about it now, but there's something to it. Look into it.

[Gordon]

Very vague and expert.

[George]

Like it's not like a serious thing, but it is something. Something you ought to pay attention to and it may be a sign of something else.

[Gordon]

Doesn't it also have like nerve neuropathy associated with it or maybe.

[George]

Yeah, it has some other. Some other medical condition that's attached to it or could. Not always, but could.

[Craig]

It's not anxiety related, where you're full of anxiety, so you're nervously.

[George]

No, no, no.

[Craig]

It's not working your leg.

[George]

It's when you're asleep and you're kicking 38 yard field goals.

[Craig]

Here's another medical one on my list of things that make you feel squared away. A prostate exam or colonoscopy with good results.

[George]

Yes. Yes.

[Gordon]

That's key.

[Craig]

That's the key.

[George]

That's the. That's the key on that.

[Craig]

But that makes you feel pretty good. You're like, ah, okay, now I've bought a few more years.

[Gordon]

Gosh. And I. You know, it's amazing how people don't take that seriously enough. I was talking to a woman the other day who had never had a prostate examination. I'm like, you're crazy, man. You're really rolling the dice.

[Craig]

Why? I'm glad you told her. Jeez.

[George]

Gordon enjoys them a little too much. He's been having them since he was 21.

[Gordon]

I pay extra for the extended prostate exam. And I even bring my own music and everything.

[Craig]

Your own music? How creeped out with the doctor be.

[Gordon]

I turn it into a rain.

[George]

Get a little music going right now. Okay. Go ahead.

[Gordon]

Electronic dance music And I'm wearing the. The surgeon's mask with VapoRub in it. And I'm just mollying my ass off.

[George]

All sorts of bingos in there.

[Craig]

You know what I think my most recent prostate exam. I think the nurse remained in the room. A female nurse.

[Gordon]

Yeah. And I have a problem with this.

[George]

That was awesome. You have to have a witness, right?

[Gordon]

Like, yeah, that's the thing. My doctor's office has that where they. Anytime you get your balls fondled or your prostate loved on, they have to have a nurse in the room. And isn't there a way to opt out? I want to opt out of that.

[George]

It's medical.

[Gordon]

I'm like, I'll take my chances with the sexual assault just to not have the hot nurse in the room.

[Craig]

So the hot nurse heard you moaning your last exam?

[George]

Yeah.

[Gordon]

And I didn't want to hear what kind of severe pleasure I was in.

[George]

Oh, my gosh.

[Gordon]

Well, are you comfortable with the nurse in the room?

[George]

It's medical. Yeah, it's fine. I was really comfortable that time I went in for heat exhaustion in the. Yeah. And the nurse was really hungry.

[Gordon]

This is a creepy story.

[George]

It's not that creepy.

[Gordon]

You said that she was absolutely the hottest.

[George]

She's maybe the prettiest woman I'd ever seen in my life. Yeah. Wow.

[Craig]

How lucky were you?

[George]

Yeah. And she spent basically all night with me, checking on me.

[Craig]

And gave you a sponge bath.

[Gordon]

No, he kept trying to stay in there.

[George]

I don't think I should be released. I really don't.

[Craig]

He Was laying on the nurse call button the whole night.

[Gordon]

Yeah. Pressing the call button. She comes in. Yeah, can I help you?

[George]

I don't really know how to work this remote.

[Craig]

Yeah, I just.

[Gordon]

I don't know. I just called you. What are you doing? What are you up to? What's your situation? Married?

[George]

Yeah. My wife happened to be with me. She's the one who took me to the hospital. And she came in.

[Gordon]

She requested you nurse?

[George]

No. Darn near. When she came in the first time and then left, she looked at me and said, you have got to be kidding me. I didn't choose her. They assigned her to me. I can't help it.

[Gordon]

See, I think you scouted it out and knew the place to go to fake the whole heat exhaustion thing and just to where she would have to bring you back to health.

[George]

That is not true. But a friend of mine and I have talked about maybe going up there and having lunch in the commissary.

[Craig]

Just.

[George]

Hey, they got great Salisbury steak up there. It's a great place to go.

[Craig]

Hey, I'll go. You've built her up so much. I want to see her now.

[Gordon]

See her.

[George]

All right. Thursday is Salisbury steak day, so.

[Gordon]

Okay, yeah, we'll go eat at the hospital.

[Craig]

Hey, how about this one? This is also a cleaning one, but it's electronic cleaning. Cleaning out your email folder. Cleaning out your inbox. Do you guys ever do that?

[Gordon]

No, only when I told you at work.

[George]

Because it's full. I'm sorry, man. These things are bouncing back. Okay, yeah, go empty my folders.

[Gordon]

Gosh, I don't even know. Like, I think my Gmail account, it's like 76,000 unread messages or something like that.

[George]

Oh, my.

[Craig]

So I do crazy. I do an okay job of thinning mine out, but mine, I'm looking at it right now. I have 8376 messages in my inbox, and I've read, you know, almost all of them. But I very bad about going back and deleting the ones that I don't need anymore because it's too much of a task. Yeah, and you don't want to hit delete all because you're afraid you're deleting some important ones.

[George]

Yeah, that's just way too much.

[Craig]

Here's a deep cleaning one. Deep cleaning your grill. You guys ever do that? The outdoor grill?

[Gordon]

I don't have a grill.

[Craig]

Yes, I've done that recently, and it made me feel great.

[George]

It's a lot of work, especially if you let it go for a while. I'm thinking maybe you should do that once a year.

[Craig]

Yeah.

[Gordon]

I thought that was the seasoning.

[George]

That great taste.

[Gordon]

It's flavor in there.

[Craig]

There's something to that. I kind of have always thought that too.

[Gordon]

Yeah.

[George]

But now you have a built in grill.

[Craig]

No,

[Gordon]

you've got one of those.

[Craig]

God, he's got.

[Gordon]

I just. I don't understand your world.

[Craig]

Luxury items.

[George]

Baller's ball. I've been telling you.

[Gordon]

I've been to your place. You have that outdoor kitchen thing, but

[George]

a grill that's barely working because it needs to be cleaned. And I just hadn't gotten around to it.

[Gordon]

All that gristle's been dripping down in there.

[George]

It's a mess.

[Gordon]

Clogged everything up.

[George]

I think the last time it got this bad, I just went and got another grill.

[Gordon]

Oh, gosh.

[George]

Why don't you get into grill cleaning and come out and clean our grill?

[Gordon]

I've never been into grilling stuff. I know that's a real typical guy thing and guys get way into it and it's a whole fascinating topic, but I just. It never interested me and I never got into it and. And I feel better for it by not getting into it.

[George]

Yeah. Because much as you like hamburger, I

[Gordon]

think it would be too frustrating to me because it'd be some learning curve. And there is. And you spend so much money on great steaks and then you mess them up. And that would frustrate me.

[George]

Ye. Decent enough where I can do that. I've cooked enough over the years for kids and. And their friends and family members. I'm decent at it. But yeah, I got to get my grill going.

[Gordon]

Wasn't it when you were over your grill that time where some punk teenager said, hey, Je, is my chicken ready yet?

[George]

He did well. Called you by your nickname, sunglasses and smoking a cigar.

[Gordon]

You were shirtless and smoking a cigar.

[George]

He was. He was. It was a graduation party. Yeah.

[Gordon]

High school senior.

[George]

Taking these kids out on the lake. And we had a great day. And now it's the end of a day and I'm cooking them their second meal of the day. And he just wanted to ask me. Didn't call me. George said, job. Hey, Job. Chicken ready yet?

[Craig]

Wearing sunglasses and smoking a cigar.

[George]

Jeff, your chicken's not ready yet, but I'll be sure and let you know, chief.

[Craig]

So he was peaking in life. Yeah.

[Gordon]

Yeah.

[Craig]

He just thought he was top of the mountain.

[Gordon]

He was on the success mountain. He had just summited.

[George]

Right.

[Gordon]

And you were the Sherpa who was a little too slow for him.

[George]

Yes, Yes. I needed to let him know when chicken was ready.

[Gordon]

Yeah,

[George]

y' all love that story. I think that's Yalls favorite story is me getting served by an 18 year old.

[Gordon]

Owned you, man.

[George]

It was funny. And to this day he's in his 30s now. He's a father now and he still shakes his head every time he sees me and say I'm sorry.

[Gordon]

So he cringes at his former self he was having.

[George]

And I look back at as like, you know what, I probably shouldn't have told the story on the air. He was having a good day. He was graduating, he's going on to

[Gordon]

college and had he had a few brews or something?

[George]

No, I wasn't letting him drink or anything. He was just, he was drunk on life.

[Gordon]

Gordon. Hey Jeb, is my chicken ready yet?

[George]

I have several hats at home that some, some guys who own a hat company have made me some things like that like, hey Je, is my chicken ready? And still ski on the weekends and stuff like.

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[Craig]

guys have any on your personal list that we haven't addressed? Because I know we have a lot here.

[Gordon]

Yeah, you covered some of mine. The getting the car serviced and washed and cleaned. That's a big one for me. And you touched upon the prostate exam and all that stuff. I just put physical. I always feel better after I get a physical and see the blood work come back and, and realize that my cholesterol is not 1400 or something like that.

[Craig]

Right.

[Gordon]

When you, when you get the physical and you cross that off your list, it always settles my mind quite a bit.

[George]

When you get it back and see mixed results, you're kind of going, okay, yeah, change some habits.

[Craig]

Doesn't make you feel squared away.

[Gordon]

Comes back in with a Long printout. A lot of things that are highlighted in red.

[George]

About this reminds me of being in school. See me about this. Something circled. Yeah, that's not always good. And yeah, the. The car one's a big one about cleaning or in my case, a truck. Do you ever have those times where not only do you go a long time without washing or vacuuming out the inside, but you go a long time and whatever you're doing. Like, I recently was really busy with several events, including a charity concert. We had our live show and I looked around one day and I thought, I've been living in this truck for two weeks because you do something, you leave your gig bag in or you leave. I had several props for a silent auction, including fishing poles and all sorts of notes. And it looks like I've been living in my truck. Still does. I got to do something about it.

[Gordon]

And yes, the entire contents of a flea market inside your truck.

[George]

Yes. And it just makes you feel defeated. And just like the dirty garage, you don't. It's almost overwhelming. You don't know where to start. It's like, yeah, I guess I'll vacuum it myself. Or should I just take all my personal items out of it and let someone detail it? Because every have the detail. Rarely, but very rarely. Yeah, that.

[Gordon]

That is amazing.

[George]

Feel squared away because you don't have to invest two hours or whatever that takes. Someone else does. And then you have what looks like a new car. Yeah.

[Gordon]

Boy. My mom frustrated my dad so much because, you know, his famous line about her was, your mom treats this car as a rolling trash can.

[George]

I have reused that.

[Gordon]

And he could not stand that I worked so hard and spent so much money on these cars and she treats it as a rolling trash can. And. And yeah, I remember one time my mom opened up the trunk to put something in it and it was completely full. And she had been carrying around these newspapers. She was going to drop them off to recycling, and she hadn't gotten around to it yet. And I'm talking about there was so much paper. Newspaper. Because they used to take the physical newspaper and all that. And I guess we didn't have recycling at the time. So this is a while back. Anyway, she'd been driving around for a year and a half with about 200 pounds of newspaper in the back.

[George]

How much?

[Gordon]

And things. Yeah, she was just. No Wonder she's getting 16 miles to the gallon.

[George]

Yeah. You used to take your. Your newspapers to the big recycling thing.

[Gordon]

Yeah.

[Craig]

Forgot all about doing that.

[Gordon]

Take two seconds for her to drop them off and she didn't. She drove around that way.

[George]

The whole trunk.

[Gordon]

The whole trunk just full of them. Yeah.

[Craig]

You know, one thing I did a

[Gordon]

couple trip in that car, if we tried.

[Craig]

One thing I did a couple years ago that really made me feel squared away. I borrowed my neighbor's power washer.

[Gordon]

Oh, power washer. There's a whole man. Men and power washers. That's one of the greatest things ever. Is when we discovered those we take on the world. Yes.

[George]

It's one of those things.

[Craig]

I power wash not only the bricks and mortar lines on the house, but I power washed the driveway. And my God, what a feeling.

[Gordon]

So great, so pleasing to watch. Watch that wand go across it and just that gleaming white concrete show up again.

[Craig]

Yes.

[George]

Yeah, I love the power washer. I. I think I told you that when I first got my first one. I don't know, I was in my 30s or something and I felt that same way. And I felt the same way ever since. You may have 87 lawnmowers. I have three different power washers.

[Gordon]

Wow.

[George]

Yeah, one's like a. Like a. Not quite industrial grade because it's not gasoline powered, but it's bigger and yeah, I can take. I can take on the world.

[Gordon]

Wow.

[Craig]

Yeah, that sounds great.

[George]

I thought about notifying our US Military to see if they needed any help. One of my power washers.

[Gordon]

I'm about to get me a couple other power washers. I only have the big industrial grade Honda engine with a cat pump on it and all that kind of stuff. I have that.

[George]

So you can really.

[Gordon]

Yeah, but I want to get an electric one too.

[George]

Yeah.

[Gordon]

And I want to get a smaller one for car detailing and things like that. But yeah, the electric power washer. A lot of people just move to that and that's enough for most people's needs, I think.

[George]

Or battery. Batteries becoming a factor now in everybody's world. In the power washing world. Anyway.

[Gordon]

Yeah. You ever watch power washing porn?

[Craig]

No.

[George]

No.

[Craig]

Sounds good though.

[Gordon]

Yeah. I think there's a whole subreddit of people just posting videos. Patio that just various things that are cleaned with power washers go on YouTube. Watch some of it. It's great. It's so pleasing to watch it.

[George]

Okay.

[Craig]

Interesting. I got to get my own. I borrow my neighbors all the time, but I got to get my own.

[Gordon]

Oh, yeah.

[Craig]

I want something fairly powerful, but not so powerful that it takes the paint off the house.

[Gordon]

Yes. That's the other thing. Control the flow of those things because you can. You need to do have the appropriate amount of pressure for what you're washing.

[George]

And don't do that in sandals either.

[Gordon]

Do not do it in sandals. Absolutely not. You need to protect yourself because if you ever cross your foot with a power washer, you can get the worst infection of your life. Because that stuff just. It blasts right into your foot. All that. All that non sterile water and it boils up under the surface. It is so gross. That is one of some of the grossest injuries ever, those power washer injuries.

[George]

Yeah, you don't want.

[Craig]

That sounds awful. Are you guys gardeners? Because weeding your flower bed or your garden makes you feel great. I have a very small vegetable garden. It's six by six or something.

[Gordon]

Yep. That's going to be run over by a lawnmower at my.

[Craig]

Oh, man, I love it. And I love weeding it. Once you get all the weeds out and it's just the fresh soil and the veggies feel so good.

[George]

Yeah, we've really let go our garden. We had it going during the pandemic and we've just kind of let it go. And as for flower beds, I've. I've outsourced that.

[Craig]

Okay.

[Gordon]

Really?

[George]

I have someone messing with weeds now. Weeds drove me crazy. Yeah, I hate picking weeds. That's the one thing in the yard that I just. I don't do anymore.

[Craig]

There's something very satisfying about pulling a weed, knowing that you got it all the way down by the full root system and yanking it out, but you really don't.

[George]

The darn thing pops up again two weeks later.

[Craig]

Yeah, sometimes you don't.

[Gordon]

I just don't like ending their lives. They didn't deserve that.

[Craig]

And finally, we got this one from one of our listeners, David, talking about being squared away. He said, I went to church on Sunday. Apparently my sins were washed away. And you can't get more squared away than that.

[Gordon]

You can do all the sins you want and just go to that church and then they're all gone.

[George]

Reset.

[Gordon]

Yeah. Jesus. The original power washer.

[Craig]

There you go.

[Gordon]

Just rinse them all away.

[Craig]

All right, so that was for listener Steve and Waco. We got around to talking about things that make you feel squared away. And that's it for episode 46 of the Musers, the podcast. Thanks to Peter Welpton, our producer. Don't forget, you can always get muser's [e-mail]. that's our website. Themusers.com Go there. Get t shirts, hats, sweatshirts, hoodies.

[Gordon]

I've been shocked at how many People have bought merch and they'll tweet us pictures of it or post it on the gram. It's good looking stuff. So good to see people out in the wild wearing their stuff. Matter of fact, this weekend I wore my the Musers the podcast shirt out and about when I was running errands, which is a little bit weird, isn't it? Because it's a shirt you're asking for. A mini pod has me on it and it was shocking. I got stopped so many times. I think it was five or six times in just these two errands that I ran with someone going, hey, hey, yeah, man, love the podcast.

[Craig]

Great.

[Gordon]

And people mentioning it because they'd seen the shirt. And I guess they, you know, originally they were looking at me going, oh, that guy kind of looks like Gordon Keith, but he's way too old and heavy to be Gordon Keith. But then they saw the shirt and they realized, oh, same guy.

[Craig]

Okay. So, yeah, get your musers [e-mail] and don't forget to check out our back catalog of episodes on Spotify or Apple or wherever you get your podcasts. And we'll see you next week on the Musers the podcast. One night with Steiny.

[George]

One night with Steiny. Shout out. Full send now. Hey, bro. What's your name, bro? Sonny.

[Craig]

What the hell?

[Gordon]

We've been sitting here for like an hour together.

[George]

I don't know your name, my brother.

[Gordon]

I can't guarantee anything.

[George]

All I can guarantee is that you're

[Gordon]

going to be entertained.

[Craig]

I'm a professional.

[Gordon]

I'm here to interview.

[George]

So the whole interview, you didn't ask

[Craig]

me what I like better, burger King or McDonald's. All right, and we are going to wrap up on that note.

[George]

Thank you, Steve, so much. That was amazing.

[Craig]

Burger King.

[Gordon]

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[Craig]

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