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Welcome, millions, or perhaps billions, of faithful podcast listeners. We are your hosts, Jason Kimber and Dave Simmons. We'll bring you along with us as we share life stories from our experiences living in small towns. Or in Jason's case, an unincorporated community. That's true. Along with genius suggestions for solving the world's problems and a whole lot of laughs. This is the Small Towns Podcast. Hi again, everyone. Welcome to the Small Towns Podcast. I'm Dave Simmons joined by Jason Kimber as always. And um being here. We're in the groove. We're rolling right now. We uh we'll let's let people behind the scenes, shall we? Let's peel back the curtain. Yep, here comes. And the what we do a lot of times is record three or four of these podcasts at a time. And it's been four weeks about since we did the last one. Yeah. So it's good to be back. And we're back. And we're back. But um, I've been thinking a lot, Jason, and I thought this could be a fun idea for a podcast. For our listeners out there, we want you to know we we don't script this. No, there's zero script. We might visit for a few minutes about what we're thinking we're gonna talk about, but for the most part, like last night, Jason sent me an idea or two by text, and I have a list of things I've thought about that I was gonna send to him, and I don't want to. No, yeah. Because I want it to be real as far as the honest banter that goes back and forth from each other. And reaction is such a big part of it. I think that's a big part of it. One idea I had that I thought could be fun today, Jason, is this is the one thing we have done that we don't usually do is I asked Jason to write down a list of things that we live in a world right now where cancel culture is rampant. That's a new term, even within the last what? Year maybe? I don't know. But you sure hear a lot about it. You hear a lot of it. I know people can feel passionate one way or the other. And we're not we're not gonna get into that because it doesn't matter, you know. But like Yeah, it seems crazy to me. But that's to me, there's other things out there that really do need to be canceled. Oh, without a doubt. Very important things that really do need to. I'm giggling right now because this is Dave Simmons' vision of things that really need to be cancelled. So I asked Jason to write down a list, and we got them out in little pieces here. If you can imagine, like names in a hat, it's kind of the same idea. I got a bunch of pieces of paper right here for Jason, and no, no, but then the problem is I realize that there's no visual here, but like I slid over my stack of let me count these. One, two, three, four. That's a measly little stack. I could tell Dave is already one, two, this is three, four, five, I got a lot of problems with you people. Yeah, this is coming from the guy that can't wait to celebrate Festivals. Yes. You know, airing of grievances. Yeah, that's basically what this is. This might end up being a recurring type of podcast idea where I come in and I'm like, hey, I got some more things to cancel. We've got to add another thing to the cancel culture list. So let's just go through these lists. And again, to our listeners, he has not seen any of these. Uh and so I'm gonna read him a face value. Now, obviously, we're not gonna be able to go tit for tat, if you will. We're not gonna get too in-depth about all this stuff. Sure, and by virtue of like, I got a stack of like Dave, it's like a whole ream of paper in front of me, and Dave's got like four. So I got four. Um, so I would like to. Let's start with and just just read it and we'll kind of go from there. Okay, okay. Uh sticky hand toys. You know those things that the kids bring home that you have to get them a little bit wet or soapy, and then you throw them at the wall and they kind of crawl down. Yes. Those are bacteria traps, man. That's disgusting. I'm not even a germophobe. You're not a germophobe. But that is gross. Okay. I'm trying to decide if I want to get on board with you with this. Well, as part of okay, as part of this cancel podcast. Yeah. You can veto. Yeah, but I and I I'm gonna try and give it just a yes or a no, but on this one, I need just a little bit of qualifier. I want to cancel that after the second throw to the wall. The first one's fun. The first one's fun. It's kind of fun. You see that, and it's like, oh, look at that, it's crawling down the wall. I mean, if you're really skilled, you throw it and maybe you hit somebody in the cheek with a hand, you know, and you slap and pull that sucker away. That's funny.

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That's funny.

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Remember, there used to be like those sticky spiders. It was the same material, whatever that is. And you'd throw it, and it would crawl down the wall. Down the wall. And that's kind of a cool concept. But I'm with you. After like the seventh or eighth throw, they're all like gross. Gross, and they've got m almost like lint and dirt and grind. So let's just get rid of them. Cancel it. I cancel it. You cancel it? Cancel it. Cancel it. I love it. That's one for the cancels. One for the cancels. Just to make me feel better, we're gonna go through one of mine. They'll have to do it because. Okay, here it is. Well, see, now this could be difficult because there's a lot of them out there. Jason has suggested that we cancel stupid YouTube videos. Yeah, I want to just give a little bit of clarification because there are a lot of stupid YouTube videos, but the ones that I am honing in on on this one is that my girls, they will sit and they will watch YouTube videos of either a kid opening toys or like other kids playing the videos. Oh yeah, I can't stand those. I embrace the capitalism and the entrepreneurial spirit of those individuals. But why are my girls, obviously not just my girls, why are kids the world around watching these videos of other people play games? Why don't you just play the game? I my uh I go home and my youngest is watching people play games on YouTube. Yeah, why don't you play the game? Just play it. But you know what I heard one time that somebody said in it kind of it kind of made sense to me. They're like, Dad, if you watched people or you like to watch people on TV play a game, basketball or football. You're watching a professional that is really, really good at it, okay, do something that you're not to that level. And so they claim that watching these guys play these games online is similar to us watching a professional athlete play their game. Now, I guess I can wrap my brain around it, but it's a little bit crazy to me. I mean, I might give you that, and I can understand the concept as well, but what about I think there's a and I'm sure he's a nice kid, so I'm not trying to disparage these channels that have obviously done very well for themselves, but I think there's a kid where he simply opens up the toy. That seems nuts too, right? Let me open a toy that you don't have exactly. And guess what? You're probably never gonna have one because I'm making millions of dollars. If I can afford these toys, because you're watching me open these toys. These toys. These toys. Yeah, that one is struggle with that. Yeah, I'm with you. I those guys that are playing the games, you and I like to talk. Yeah. I mean, and and part of the podcast is you're basically speaking the whole time. But when I listen to those guys commentate their own game, oh my gosh, I can hardly handle it. Just stop talking for two seconds. Which are our listeners are probably saying the same thing. You're gonna say the same thing. Enough of it doesn't chatter, Jason. Yeah, I'm with you. So we're gonna cancel that? Yeah. I mean, let's be selective. We're canceling. Yeah, there's certain things that I feel like, like at a swimming pool. I should be able to decide who gets to take their shirts off and who doesn't. Yeah, absolutely. Like we, if we're in charge of the world. I'm in charge of the world, I'm gonna be in charge of everything. And you okay, fine. You no you cannot take your shirt off. And why are you again so suspiciously tan? Like it's the first day of the pool. Yeah, you shouldn't be. It's it's Memorial Day for heaven's sakes. All right, well, what do you got there next? I'm gonna do a couple of yours. Yeah, let's do it. This one word raisins. Yeah, they're gross. Yeah, I actually will cancel that right away. Yeah, don't put them in my cookies, don't put them in my cinnamon rolls. Raisins do not belong in anything. Without question, Dave, I'm 100% with you. If you ever read that cute little meme, it's like oatmeal raisin cookies are the sole reason I have trust issues. Because they look like a truck chip. Yeah. That's true. That's meme. You bite into that and you're like, oh wow, wow, that's a raisin. That's sick. Now, I I can't even think of a scenario, but like, if there were a bowl of raisins, no, I'm not even gonna go that. I was gonna say, like, I could maybe eat one plain. I don't like it, but for sure you put it in something and I am out. No, it's gross. Heather, my sweet wife, she will buy a box of raisin bran. Stop. Yeah, wait. Wait, that was enough. Oh. And she'll buy a canister of raisins. Then she will dump a bowl of raisin bran and then put like a half a cup of raisins in the same bowl. So the two scoops of plump juicy raisins and Kellogg's raisin bran is not enough. Not enough for her? I mean, the commercial flat out says two scoops of juicy raisins. Like, why do you need any more? First of all, it's disgusting. I need to have a stern talking to with her. I'm sure you've tried. I mean, it's like it's like, hey, everybody, let's take this grape. Let's just let it rot. First of all, the grape was delicious before. Yeah, just eat it when it's fine. I like a nice fresh grape. Yeah, with a little bit of crunch to it. Absolutely. You gotta really kind of maybe work a little bit to get through that outside grape skin. You're just gonna burst, you know what I mean? Yeah, say fine caviar. Yeah, well, I cancel that too. Yeah, let's cancel caviar while we're at it. Never tried it, but what do we know? But raisins are sick. In fact, even you remember back in the 80s when California raisins had that big promotion. Yeah, and those raisins were like animated and they would sing songs. Dance and stuff, yeah. I didn't really like them. Oh, turn the station. They're sick. And back then you had to get up and actually turn the station. You did effort. I will get up to turn the station when it comes to a raisin. My dad was so funny because my dad, we might have talked about this before, but his wardrobe consisted of boots, either work boots or dress boots. But we're talking about cowboy boots, right? Right. Lee jeans and a long sleeve button-down western shirt. He wore that all the time. Did it have to be Lee jeans? He preferred Lee jeans, but uh later on in his life, I don't know if Lee discontinued his brand or whatnot. He had to go to Wranglers, and he wasn't super happy about that. Well, you know what they say about Wrangler butts. Well I'm gonna have to talk to my mom about that later. Yeah, I was gonna say so. Maybe they drove her nuts. Maybe they did, but I'm gonna tell you, my dad, my dad, he was we were at a family party. This is late 80s when California raisins were a big thing. Just the most opportune time, he had a snap button-down western shirt. Yeah, he just went, he was like all super amazing. Like, boom, he just ripped his shirt apart. He had a t-shirt underneath there that said raisin hell. Did it spell it like raisin? Oh yeah, it had it had California raisins on it. California raisins on it. And then all of it said raisin and then hell, and like I think the raisins were like doing something nefarious. I'm not sure. I don't I wonder how long he had to wear that t-shirt underneath his button-down shirt to wait for that moment. You know what his timing was impeccable.

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I mean, he brought the house down.

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I have always said I want all my clothes to be tear away so that underneath I can wear a wrestling singlet just in case a wrestling match breaks out. Yeah, like you need to go knock on Dan Grange's door. I know, I've told him a hundred times, I'm like, Dan, I gotta I got a singlet on underneath this just in case. It's a neighbor who loves wrestling. Yeah, and and he'd beat me up in two seconds. Oh yeah, I mean, I would I would love to witness you do it because I would never do that. He would throw me around like a ragdoll. Oh my gosh. An absolute ragdoll. He would have me pinned like in three seconds. I'd be tapping out as quickly as possible. Yeah, so so I whenever I tell him that he goes, Well, let's do it. And I'm like, I just kidding. Yeah, we know I know I really don't have a singlet on. But if your clothes were ripaway, that would be awesome. Yeah, I think so. Randomly have something funny underneath what you're wearing and just pull those babies off. Like a raisin hell t-shirt. Yeah, exactly. Your dad was a pioneer. He was ahead of his time. And I think I need to do that a little bit more often. I want to read a couple more of yours. I got more. Okay, what do you got there? Oh, this is I know you well, so this isn't a surprise. I think we've talked about this one. Face paint. Yeah, we gotta get rid of all face paint. Oh no. First of all, we're canceling raisins, though. And we're gonna be selective on the YouTube videos, but the stupid ones. The stupid ones. You know what? You'd be in charge of that. I'll be in charge of that. You be in charge of whoever you want to cancel, that's fine. Just for if you guys are keeping track of whatnot. Most everything is being canceled. So far we're canceling. And we're canceling face paint? Well, let's talk about it. But yeah, face paint. I don't we have to talk about it. It seems to me that you have actually have like a visceral response. There's a problem. Yeah, uh, this mascophobia thing goes deep. I get a little bit nauseous. If I had like a canister or a tube of face painting. Walk right out. Would you and if I open it up and you were to get a like if I were waft over the scent. That emoji with the little guy with the green face when his his cheeks are puffed out pre-vomit. Yeah, that's me. That's you. Yeah, I can't handle it. Face paint. Can we please yeah, we can cancel it?

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Please. Thanks.

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That was easy. Yeah, it's an easy one. It's a little interesting. I feel the same way. Um, when I was in high school, I loved, like, I love to be in plays. I love to be in theater. It was a lot of fun. Yeah. I mean, listen, senior year, I mean, and I'm happy to reprise this role if anybody should find the need. I was Adam Pontipe in Seven Brats for Seven Brothers. Oh, yeah? Yeah, I loved it. We're your brothers. Oh, that's so beautiful. We're your brothers. Your hypothetical brothers or whatever, the cast brothers. Anywhere near the size of you. Not even close. And they're like, somebody here is not like the other. But I was like, one of these the eldest brother. Big brother. But the point being is like I had to, when you're in a play, you usually have to wear makeup. That's the worst part. Yeah, so you don't, you know, kind of look too pale on stage under the lights. But I hate wearing makeup or face paint. And I we've talked about this. You hate Halloween. I like Halloween, but I would never wear face paint. I just it would get my eyes and then I feel like I could never wash it. So that's an interesting thing. You can't touch your face. I I would did you know I was in a musical too? I was in the music man when I was give us a taste. Well, I've I've met I'm meant to be Harold Hill. Even on the podcast, I think I've done some of that. But in that time, I was uh just a townsman, one of the kids that ends up having to play in the bands. I remember the smell of being in the back in the dressing room when they had to put all the makeup on the people's faces. Even then, I was like, oh, this is this stinks. Oh yeah. Yeah, it's no good. It's for sure cancelled unless you need it for like your profession, like if you're a theatrical stage hand. That's fine. That's the only That's fine. But we should cancel the case. I'm not gonna go and talk to those people after because what have you noticed? When you go talk to the cast afterwards and you get close, yeah, you see how much is caked on there. And you're like, ew. And you're like, yeah, when I was sitting, you know, at row 10, you just look like a nice old lady. Now you got these weird lines drawn on your face, and I can tell you're only 12. Yeah. But I'm sure that's the point. When you're on stage, you gotta okay, I'll allow it on stage, but for at a ball game, don't paint your face. Oh no deal. Yeah, I don't even want to put like the black. I hated that. And I I played a lot of sports where they did that, and I'm like, I'll be rubbing it, it'll be sweaty. I don't like it. What's the point of it though? They say it glare, like from lights, it helps with that, but I never felt like I had a problem. I can actually see better if I squip my. Some guys just think it looks cool, and that's why they're doing it. Well, listen, that ship has sailed from me. Me too. I'm not sure. There's not a lot I can do to look cool anymore. No, if putting a few black stripes under my knees my eyes, now I'm not gonna do it. I hate face paint. No, I'm gonna. So cancel. Back when I was in high school, and this might strike you as really? We had a class, we had to do a lip sync video. Okay. So most people were doing lip syncs in the classroom in front of the class. So you'd bring in a stereo or whatever, and you'd lip sync to it. Very awkward for a seems like a fun class. Yeah, but it for a lot of people that were just not those extroverted people that you could tell it was just so awkward. Not me. Not me, not any of my buddies. We went all out on this thing. And so we uh my buddy had a drum set, we found a guitar, we went and borrowed in the night a microphone stand from the church. Oh, good, good. Those are the best ones to borrow. And we did a lip sync to two twisted sister songs, which required face paint. Oh. And I face painted as a senior in high school just for that. And I remember it burning like crazy. I'm like, I have got to get this off. But those videos were awesome. I bet they were, but my face right now was like, what? I know I can't believe that you, of all people, Dave, would even do that. Now it sounds like it was worth it. We killed that thing. I mean, it was I've seen the videos since then, and it's pretty fun. I actually wouldn't mind seeing that. So see if you can find that. Yeah, I think Budge has that. I have to ask Gold's got Budge if he's got him, because when I was visiting, he's down in Texas right now. He had some of this old footage. And this these old footage was you know, it's more, it's a lot funnier thinking back on it than when you actually watch it again later. It's a little bit more embarrassing. But I'm picturing even the album cover to one of I had the cassette of Twisted Sister, and it had like the lead singer like chewing on a bone.

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We're not gonna take it.

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Or the other one we did, we did that one, and we also did I Wanna Ride!

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Rod!

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And then we just went nuts. I'll tell you what, we and then we also did a Guns N' Roses one, Jason old Peter, he put on, did you know that one of my buddies calls me Peter and I call him Peter? Nickname. Really? Isn't that weird? Yeah, it's because we had a ninth grade class where we were taking German and you had to listen to the tapes, and the tape goes, Allo Peter. And so we used to say that to each other. And now even we still call each other Peter, and now the next thing you know, I was with him. My son heard him call me Peter. Now my son calls me Peter. Oh my goodness. Wake up in the morning and say, Hey Pete. I think I would get you like a monogram shirt that said Peter. Yeah, you should. People are like, What? Oh there's only a couple people out there that know me as Peter, and that's if you're listening out there, love you guys. I've got three left. You've got one, two, three, four, five. We got you better open up. I'll do another one of yours. Because I'm thinking you're canceling most of my things too, so I'm just helping you out. Yeah, it seems like it seems like you and I are more alike than we've got. I think we are. Can you read it? I can read it. I can read it. I think you agree with me, I'm sure of it. Can I see that one? Sure, sure can. And I'm gonna read it. Oh, yeah, and that's not even the worst one I got on here. Oh, really? So, um, what Dave would like to cancel is the birthing room mirror. Yeah. First time we're going to have a baby. You know what the whole situation is. I mean, it's not. Do we need a mirror? No. Well, I didn't know. Okay. And they go, Do you want the mirror? And I'm like, oh, what do other people do? And they pull it over there. And I'm like, nope. Don't need the mirror. Take the mirror away. Take it away. Take it away. Take it away. And I think even for the mother, we don't need that. We don't need it. You know, present the baby like Simbo. Like Simbo with a leaf. I don't need to see all the other stuff. We don't need that. We don't need to get into this one. Let's cancel it. Now there might be some people out there that want it, but I'm sorry. I've canceled it. They can bring their own combats. Yeah, bring your own mirror. Hold that down there, will you? Oh. Again, we're on the same page. Loud, shrill, screaming children. Those are tough to cancel. They are hard to cancel. I'll be in charge of that. Okay. If I hear a loud screaming child, maybe I have to just go up and say, hey. You cancel. I know, but I have a hard time with just loud noises in general. Like when cars drive up the road and for some reason, why take the muffler off of your car? That would be that would be we should cancel that. Yeah, I think I might have had it on another list somewhere. I just randomly make lists of things we need to cancel. I mean, I understand the idea of a motorcycle needing to be loud because they say that it helps you see it or hear them if you don't see them. Man, when they're cruising up the road, just I I'm like an old man, man. I was gonna say, you're not really helping the image of like, don't go across old Ben Simmons. That's me. I think I'm that guy now. You're that guy. Yep. Let's run on it. Okay, good. You're a really good friend. You know that? Okay, here's another one. Jason wants to cancel the canceling of great TV shows after only one season. Yes, I there should be a rule. I realize that just because I think it's great, not everybody thinks it's great. But there should be a rule that if it is going to be canceled, every actor and director and producer is contractually obligated to do at least one, preferably two, preferably a whole season, that wraps it up. Wraps it up? I agree with you. There was a show called 1600 pen. It was great. Josh Gadd. Oh my gosh, Josh Gadd was wonderful in that. Do you remember the episode where he is having dinner in a f in a fancy restaurant and he's the son of the president? Yes. He plays it beautifully. He's kind of like an just a silly teenager. And I think a member of the Secret Service comes up to him and says, Sir, we need to go. It's your father. Josh says, What? Is Papa dead? Am I the president?

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It was good.

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I remember watching that too and thinking he was so good in that show. I loved, I loved, loved, loved that show. Um so your idea is if the TV execs are gonna cancel it, they have to do a two, a one, two, or three or some episodes to wrap the season up. Or wrap the wrap the series up. Yeah. And even if I want to say that 1600 pen, it might have lasted a couple of seasons. I'm not 100% sure, but but at any rate, you can't just cancel. Like, I don't know. Like, is is Josh still going to be the president one day? I don't know. Well, you they've left you hanging and it's not fair. I hate to keep thinking about it, but I should we should cancel that. I will allow it. Canceling the canceling of shows until we can wrap the thing up. Wrap it up. Good, love it. Seems fair. Love it. And in this day and age. And we're seeing this a little bit. Like uh there was a show called A Designated Survivor, canceled on the networks, but Netflix picked it up and I think kind of wrapped it up.

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Thank you. Thank you, Netflix.

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That's all we ask you. That's all we ask. Yeah. Dave, another one for you. This one might be a little bit petty. We should cancel kazoos. Yeah, I don't see any reason we should have kazoos. That's just a noisemaker. You you definitely have an ear for music and things of that nature. Is there any group that you can think of, any musical benefit of having a kazoo? I see none. You? No, not at all. I might just hum. If you're just trying to make noise, you just go ahead and hum or whistle. I Peter Paul Mary never used a kazoo, and if anybody was going to it, so it'd be them. Yeah, I would think so. If you're gonna use a kazoo. If kazoos need to be used as musical instruments, why don't we hear them in bands? Music on radio. You never hear anybody like you go to a concert and they play a few songs, they're like, hey, we'd like to introduce to the band on keyboard and Dave and and on bass drum is you know Mark, and then all of a sudden on the kazoo is Jason. Oh no, don't say Jason. Oh yeah. Little kazoo riff. Is that what you mean? You can't even riff on a kazoo. Yeah, it's ridiculous. Yeah, I cancel them. Cancel him. I love it. You're you're the best friend. Um I got You got two, you got three. You go one. Okay, I'll go one here. Yours. This one might be controversial. This could be very controversial, however, it is not controversial with me. Yes. Play-doh wants to cancel Play-Doh, so do I. I hate Play-Doh. I hate it. Let's buy a bunch of play-doh for the kids. Do you know what kind of mess that stuff makes? I mean it gets in the carpet, and then and you always say, Don't play with it on the carpet. And they're like, sure, Dad, we won't. On the carpet. And then it gets hard and it's it's not worth it, man. And then and then I don't mean to be too mean here, but who was the mom that said, hey, I got an idea. Let's make Play-Doh. Oh. And then even better, let's make it edible. I'm like, oh that's just there's no, in my mind, there's no reason for Play-Doh. The worst part about Play-Doh to me is the smell. That's right there with face paint. Yeah. The smell is tough. There's a smell to Play Doh that I'm not on board with. Me neither. Can we cancel Play Doh? Unequivocably, yes, cancel it across the board. Yes. We are scared. I am loving that. Not one of our things have been vetoed. No, not. But we still have four left. Let's get cracking. I shouldn't have said what I just said. You want to cancel shelled pistachios? I do. I do. Because you're lazy if you can't shell your own pistachio. That's part of the fun of eating a pistachio. Yeah, I don't want to take a whole handful of pistachios and throw them in my mouth like they're MMs. I want to work through each pistachio. You can still do. Have some patience, man. Have a little bit of I thought I might get you on this one, but I still stand by it. Like I I love pistachios. Me too. Salt and pepper pistachio. Oh, those are too close to me when we're golfing whatnot. So good. But think about it, you're out golfing. I don't want to shell them. That's the worst. We'll actually take time as a family to shell them and put them in a baggie so that later when we're out and about, we can just grab. You don't have to grab them like popcorn and shove them all in at the same time. I just, for me, part of the fun of the pistachio has some self-control. It's the journey, the joys in the journey, Dave. By that logic, if somebody's peeled an orange for you, isn't that nice? You think part of the orange is that I don't want anybody's grubby paws on the orange. By that logic, you're saying you shouldn't be able to have somebody else peel the orange and hand you the orange. Well, I mean, I realize that that of all of my canceling requests is a little bit on the fringe, if you will. So I'm expecting a veto from you, and I'm gonna take the veto like a man. Like a man. Look, and and but the thing is, is we can't go through however many we did and not veto a cancel. No. That's an easy veto for me. Yeah, and you know what? Next time we do go golfing, because I do remember you had a nice baggie full of those salt and pepper pistachios. We didn't have to peel them. And because they were yours, I wasn't like sticking my whole meaty pop in. It was just one or two. It was quite nice. Yeah, it's nice. It is good. So we'll do that. Okay, another time for you. Handkerchiefs? First of all, is it a handkerchief or is it a handkerchief? I think it's a handkerchief. What did I write? I read it correctly. Did I spell it right? Do you how do you is it a handkerchief? Is it a D? I don't know. Handkerchief? All I know is if you're blowing your nose in a cloth thing and you're stuffing it back into your pockets and then pulling it out later and doing it over and over and over. I agree with you that sick. Whatever it's called. But I totally agree with you. And I still want to cancel that. Just keep a roll of like a small package of tissues in each pocket. Makes sense. I do think the reasoning behind, and I think you're Googling this, handkerchief, handkerchief. It's a hand. I don't think maybe I didn't spell it right. You spelled it with a K, but that makes me feel better. But there is a K in there too. Oh, there is? It's a handkerchief. Handkerchief. Yeah. That feels better. I think the secret. She called handkerchiefs? Handkerchiefs? Could you pass me the handkerchief? If you did, you might need a handkerchief. Would you hand me your handkerchief? I think the concept being, I think a proponent of a handkerchief. That felt better. It is a handkerchief. The secret is in the fold. Like you blow, then you fold. You fold over the mess. All of our grandpa, my grandpa carried one. My wife's grandpa carried one.

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Yeah.

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But if you were to say, Grandpa, did you have a Kleenex? And he pulls that out, you're like, oh. Whoever thought that this is a good idea. It had to have been before you could just get. Well, there had to always been toilet paper. Yeah, no, I think I this could have just been an old movie that I watched, but um Victorian era, maybe England, like they got the guys doing a snuff of the nose, and they'd have a little handkerchief like in their sleeve. Oh. And they'd pull it out, I think, to, you know, dab up a little bit. You can still use clean it. Usually well, this is well before it. Well before clean it actually. I don't know. I mean, sure they did, but it was probably not like on a handy roll that you not squeezing the sharmin back in the 1700s. Huh. I'm sure you're right. Will you uh get on that for us? Doesn't really matter because handkerchiefs really should be canceled. Cancel them. In today's society where you can buy a flat, nice, I mean, if you've got some nasal issues, just carry in your pocket 10 or so nice, you know, Kleenexes. Yeah. I agree. And as you use them, throw them away. Throw them away. Just out of there. Why are you gonna use it more than once? I don't know. Sick. It's disgusting. But handkerchiefs are done. We each got one more. Canceled it. Okay. Videos of pimple popping.

unknown 27:21

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:22

Sick.

SPEAKER_01 27:23

That is disgusting.

SPEAKER_00 27:25

I got a niece, Abby. I love her dearly. Abby, a little shout-out to you. She listens, so I'm so this is kind of fun. Hey Abby. And um, she is actually in PA school right now. They don't come any better than Abby Hobbs. I love her dearly. And her husband Andrew is a great guy. They just got a new puppy uh named Lulu. Lulu Hobbs. Yeah, what Lulul Married name? Lulu Thomas. Lulu Thomas. Lululemon Thomas. That's who is named. He's named after the Lululemons. Huh. Because we're all fans. But she loves that stuff. So she'll send videos like on this little family thread we got going on, like Instagram feed. And I'm like Oh pimple popping? I can't even watch them. That's disgusting. It's disgusting. And it's have you ever heard of a carbuncle? Is that what's stuck underneath the boat? Yeah, no, I but I think that's a carbuncle. We're gonna have to look that up. We're gonna have to look that up. The carbuncle is a Zit's ugly cousin. Oh, I don't like this. And they're they're enormous. Oh, and they have like three different cores in there. I don't I'm even getting a little bit more. Look, look, I I know you don't want to watch them. Yeah. But if you ever want to see that, you can Google that, I'm sure. And that is pimple popping to the extreme. I'll never Google that. Okay, don't do it then. Because it won't it won't end well. We shouldn't be recording videos of people popping pimples. No. I mean, sometimes they gotta happen. I think every dermatologist out there would say, enough with the popping. I don't think you're really supposed to, unless I mean there's a whole TV show about it. So and she is a doctor, so I guess there must be some reason to do it sometime. How about this? But don't video it. Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. How about if for medical purposes only, there should be pimple popping? Yeah. That is recorded. But if it's in the comfort of your own home and you have to take care of some of that, let's not record it. Let's not record it. Cancel it because it's bad enough that you're doing it in your bathroom and you shooting one and it splats on the mirror, and that's just sick. Sick. Okay, now this was the last, and I know what this one is because we've gone through all the other ones. So deductive logic tells me what it is. This is gonna be should not be controversial, but you've seen it and it's gotta stop. There's not an E by our um so before I read this, I just I I I hands down canceled this because I think this speaks volumes of the people who use these. I know. Okay, I'll just read it and I'm gonna try not stick her testes that people hang from the trailer hitch on their trucks.

SPEAKER_01 29:43

Why on earth do we need that? Yeah, I don't. They're sick.

SPEAKER_00 29:47

Is it supposed to say this is a really tough truck? It's a tough truck.

SPEAKER_01 29:51

Well, so is my uncle Fred. But we don't, he doesn't wear those around his neck. We don't even see it.

SPEAKER_00 29:58

No, that is a crazy, I don't know where that started. My truck is tough. I'm gonna hang these from the trailer hit. I don't even get it. And sometimes you're driving down the street and you see them and you're like, wait, and you look at it like, what is that? Yeah, and then you look a little harder and then oh no good.

SPEAKER_01 30:14

And your kids say, Dad, what's that?

SPEAKER_00 30:16

I don't know. And I don't know, and you don't need to know. You don't need to, but if they were canceled. Let's just get rid of them. Just cancel them across the board. Just off the thing. Wasn't there a movie one time where oh, it was that movie um about the Beatles yesterday? Do you remember? We went to that. It was a great movie. Great movie, love it. But there were certain something happened and certain things just ceased to exist or never did exist. Like the Beatles. The Beatles. And that was the premise behind the whole thing. That this guy would, anyways, go watch the movie. I already spoiled the old yeller for people in the last podcast. I'm not gonna spoil this one. It's a really good movie, but the idea is that there's certain things were just never existed. If that never existed, the life would be great. The world would be a better place. Better place for it. If all those things we just went through that we canceled to help the world today, the world is a better place. I have thoroughly enjoyed this. I felt like I've learned something from this podcast. So we ought to bring this back. Um again, we're still trying to wrap our mind around this concept, but go to Instagram and drop us a comment about things that should be canceled. Let's not get political here, folks. This is not the podcast to get political. Obviously. Obviously. And listen, we embrace it, but this is we're just having fun. So if you got something to cancel, let us know. Absolutely. Thanks again, folks, for listening to another episode of the Small Towns Podcast. We're pretty sure we've changed your life for the better. If not, well, we'll try again next time.