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The Ben Maynard Program
EP. 83 FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE! The Drunk Show Aftermath
The aftermath of a daring experiment makes for a powerful lesson. After completing "The Drunk Show" last week, Ben Maynard returns with a candid reflection on what happens when a podcast host deliberately gets intoxicated on air as a public service announcement. His shocking revelation? He doesn't remember approximately the last 45 minutes of his own show.
"Watching myself under the influence of alcohol was horrible," Ben admits, cringing at his slurred speech, impaired movement, and inability to recall basic facts about his favorite band, The Outfield. Despite feeling physically fine the next morning, the experience of watching himself fail a field sobriety test and struggle with basic tasks has left a lasting impression. The glaring cognitive impairment captured on video serves as a vivid demonstration of why responsible drinking matters.
With St. Patrick's Day approaching, Ben's timely message resonates beyond entertainment. "I did it so you don't have to," he emphasizes, hoping viewers will learn from his experience rather than repeating it. His friend and fellow podcaster Larry has already followed suit, incorporating breathalyzer tests into his own show to spread awareness about responsible consumption.
Between updates on his battle with sciatica and an exciting announcement about a new music podcast collaboration with Shannon from the Eddie Trunk fan community, Ben keeps the conversation flowing. When Tess joins midway through the episode, she provides valuable perspective as the person who witnessed Ben's transformation from sober to dangerously intoxicated during last week's experiment.
If you're planning to celebrate this weekend or on St. Patrick's Day, take Ben's advice to heart: arrange for a designated driver, use a rideshare service, or stay home. Your future self will thank you for making responsible choices tonight. Subscribe to the podcast wherever you get your shows, and follow Ben on Instagram at benmaynardprogram!
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Well, hey there, welcome into the Ben Maynard program. Thanks for being here. It's Friday night, we're live. Yeah, we are. We're a little bit late. No notice at all, and that's okay, and I'll get into why we're late and all that good stuff in a minute, but first we have a little business to take care of at the top of the show.
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Speaker 1:All right, last, well, I'm sorry. So after you subscribe, then you have to give me a thumbs up and then you have to leave a comment. All right, cool, greatly appreciate it. Thank you so much. Um, and then let's see. Uh, oh, yes. Last but not least, you got to follow me on Instagram. Okay, you got to follow me on Instagram. Simply, ben Maynard program, all one word. So plenty of ways to take in this show for your dancing and listening pleasure. And with that, again, it's Friday night, we're live, and there's only really one reason why I'm doing this live tonight, and that's because I kind of have to recap last Friday's show, which was the Drunk Show, as you know, and let me scoot this up a little bit and it truly was the Drunk Show, as you know, and let me scoot this up a little bit, and it truly was the Drunk Show. But before we get into that, before we get into that, let me see, wait, let me go over here. Let me do this. We're gonna do all the normal stuff we got going on. Let me see to do all the normal stuff we got going on, let me see.
Speaker 1:So today is March the 14th. It's a Friday. It is National Write your Story Day. I think that's really cool. This is the first time I'm seeing it right now, but I think that's really cool because that's kind of what this podcast is all about. When we're not talking music or we're doing silly, stupid stuff, it's about people just telling their story, right. So that's kind of cool. Write your story day. So you don't have to write it, just come on the program and you can sit right in the chair and tell it. How's that? What else is it? It's also National Dog Theft Awareness Day. How many out there have actually lost a dog to thievery? I haven't. I never have. I guess maybe I've been fortunate, or maybe my dogs have always been too big for somebody to steal, because I've always had large dogs, always. Uh, let's see what else. Oh, it's world sleep day. That's beautiful. That's beautiful. All right, what do we got going tomorrow? World speech Speech Day, buzzards Day, world Contact Day.
Speaker 1:I don't know, ides of March? Yeah, ides of March. All right. So what else? Celebrity birthdays, celebrity birthdays, let's get the glasses on here, all right. There's actually some people besides a bunch of sorry, a bunch of dumb YouTube stars, tiktok stars, that kind of thing. They don't count. I told you that last week. I think I even said it the week before. None of that stuff matters. Let's see Steph Curry. Steph Curry, nba player with the Golden State Warriors. He's 37. Simone Biles, gymnast yeah, simone, he's 28. And son of a gun.
Speaker 1:Albert Einstein was born on this day in 1879. Albert passed away in 1955. So that's 45 plus 25. So that's 60. So he would have been another 60 years old. Holy, no, I'm sorry, 70. He would have been another 70 years older, so 1879. So 55 and 21 is 76. Oh, yeesh, albert would have been what? 130 something, yeesh. But yeah, albert Einstein, all right, good, good, good, good. And let's see.
Speaker 1:Well, what happened on this day, this day in history. Well, we all know that Albert Einstein was born. Uh, ooh, a U S Senator doesn't say which one. A U S Senator smears, smears actress Ingrid Bergman for her extramarital affair. That was in 1950, on this day. Okay, how about? Let's see? Oh, get out of the way here. Oh, get out of the way here, get out of the way. Uh, let's see. Ah, the 1958. The first gold record awarded to perry como for catching a or catch a falling star, all right. 1964, jack Ruby sentenced to death for murdering Lee Harvey Oswald. Okay, all right. And how about 1979? Judy Chicago unveils controversial feminist art installation, the Dinner Party. All right, well, that's fine. That's enough for this day in history. Yeah, march 14th, that's enough.
Speaker 1:What else we have going on? Well, as you can see, the Malort is on the table. It's here. I'm not looking forward to it. It's kind of ugly to look at the way I, yeah, even a week later, but we'll have the Malork Challenge.
Speaker 1:So if you call in and I will put I'll put the number on the screen in just a little bit, if you don't already know my number but if you call in, then the deal is I've got to take a drink of this absolutely awful uh, liquor malort, and I will drop a right here. Let's go with. Let's go with black, because black could be skunk spray or something else. I think they're just all awful. I think they're all nasty. I think that's what they are. I don't think there's any good ones in there at all.
Speaker 1:So I've got to take a drink of this Malort right in the bottom of my Mr Spock shot glass witha nasty skunk spray bean in the bottom of it. The glass, the shot glass, has been sitting here for weeks and weeks and weeks and months and it did not get rinsed out after last week's drunk show. So it's got whatever tequila residue is in there and along with that nasty bean and some malort. If somebody calls, that is the deal, again, not a drunk show. We did that last week. Okay, we did that last week. We're not doing it again, but it is a way to engage you, the audience, and get people to participate.
Speaker 1:All right so oh, let's turn the comments on. That's what we should do. Ah, let's see. Ah, let's see. It's Shannon. What is up? Shannon, I hope you're watching. All right, thanks for leaving a comment too. I'll leave the comments open. Let me change. Hey, let me do this. Let me put the number at the bottom of the screen, for there it is Okay. So now all you clowns can call in if you'd like. So thanks for thanks for commenting, shannon. I'm going to introduce everybody to Shannon right now. Let's talk about this. Okay, I think you all know and if you don't, you will know soon enough that I'm a big fan of Eddie Trunk.
Speaker 1:Eddie Trunk hosts a show on SiriusXM radio. It's Faction Talk. For those of you who have satellite radio, it's Channel 103. He does it five days a week, monday through Friday, let's see, just putting the kids down for the night. But wait, shannon, I can't even see. Let me see. But oh, but he's listening, all right. Well, that's fine, listen away. Listen away because I'm here for a little bit.
Speaker 1:But I'm a big fan of Eddie Trunk. I don't want to call him a former radio disc jockey, because he still has a show that he does once a week that syndicates around the country on various rock stations. Eddie's been in the business for over 40 years. He's like my well, actually Eddie's like almost a year older than me. Our birthdays are pretty close to one another, but Eddie's a little older. So we're like we'll say, you know, in our, our, our high school years I would have been like a junior, when he's a senior, so on and so on. Okay, eddie graduated from high school in 82 and I was 83. He graduated from high school in 82 and I was 83. So Eddie's got a lot of knowledge, a lot of experience in the music business. He worked in the music business, he worked for a record label, anyway. So I'm a big fan.
Speaker 1:I listen to him all the time and there's a Facebook page. It's called Fans of Trunk Nation, which is the name of his radio show on SiriusXM. And you know it's just fans of the show Just comment back and forth on stuff, come up with different ideas on things and so on and so on. There's a lot of engagement on it. It's actually really, really a cool fan page and even Eddie will get engaged in that page from time to time every once in a while.
Speaker 1:So a few weeks back, I'm scrolling down through the comments on the fans of Eddie Trump, our fans of Trump nation, and I see a comment that says I won't get it verbatim. It says something like hey, I'm thinking about starting a podcast talking about music, doing a little, maybe recap, uh, of uh Eddie show for the week, blah, blah, blah. So on and so on. And what do you guys think? And so people started commenting, leaving their comments on it, and I commented. I said, well, if you're looking for a partner, let me know.
Speaker 1:So, shannon, who has left a couple of comments here. Shannon reached out to me via messenger and we've talked a few times on the phone and really nice guy and I don't know how it is, but I seem to like hook up with people from Indiana. So I've got my good buddy, larry and uh, and now Shannon, and we've just been kicking around some ideas, um, as far as what we might want to do, and we're we're trying to arrange a time where we could do a uh, you know, a test show and it'll we'll do video and audio so you guys can look at our mugs and, um, yeah, just have some fun with it. Maybe bring a new perspective to some music. Just talk about the stuff that we like you know, and go from there and we'll see how it is. So that is who Shannon is, yeah, so I'm looking forward to that when we can carve out some time.
Speaker 1:I know we were trying to do it this week and I'm not sure if it's gonna happen and we'll see how that works, but we're going to get it done. You will know about it. Shannon has been doing some work on this stuff. He really has. He sent me a, he's already got a title for the podcast I'm not going to divulge that right now and he's got artwork for it. So I mean, it's great, it's great, it's great. He's very enthusiastic about it and I'm happy to get on board as well. So it's really cool and I think you know it'll take, you know, a time or two, but we'll get this test show out of the way and go from there. So it'll be some fun. So stuff to look forward to in the upcoming future.
Speaker 1:Yeah the not too distant future. All right. What else? Oh, okay. So, malort Challenge, new podcast, all that good stuff, all all right. Let's talk about last week, the drunk show. Um, wow, what a night.
Speaker 1:If any of you out there watching or listening, if you stuck around for all two hours and 37 minutes of that, thank you, god bless you. And what is the matter with you? Just because it's my show, I had to go back and watch it and I'll say, after about an hour 15, yeah, the wheel started to come off. For some of you, that's great, because I think I've said it before on the show here, if everything goes according to plan, it's awesome, and if the wheels start to come off, it's great. It's great, it's great. But, um, yeah, it first off.
Speaker 1:It took two days to post it on um, on buzzsprout, and to get it to the other streaming services. I don't know why. There was some kind of glitch. I had put it up on saturday morning and I started to to upload it and there was something going on. And, if some of you might remember that, I went to a concert last Saturday and when I left, my laptop was open and it was still uploading. And when I got back from the concert, it was still uploading. So there was a glitch in the system somehow and I was able to reach out to Buzzsprout. I don't know if we got it fixed, but the show finally got published. However, I didn't know until I was watching it that there was a 10-minute it's basically a 9-10-minute period where there's no sound, and that was when Tess and I had gone outside to the patio for her to conduct a field sobriety test. She had her phone on mute I don't know why, but she did and then she divulged it afterwards when we were walking back up the stairs coming into studio. So for those who were watching, or those who will watch in the future, great, you're at least able to see what's going on. Me, one of these days I'll know what I'm doing when it comes to editing.
Speaker 1:There's a 10-minute silent spot or whatever spot in the show that you can't hear. You can not. You can't hear it on the audio version. So I know people are listening to it. We're getting some downloads on that and that's great. I hope that people understand that. And it's about 159 to 208, I think it is, or almost 209. So it's almost 10 full minutes. So, knowing that, going forward. If you listen to it, when you get to 159, just skip, just skip ahead to 209 and you won't miss a thing.
Speaker 1:I, like I said, watched that mess and I never want to see myself inebriated ever again. I hope that well, first, I know that's never going to happen. And that was just a you know. Look, that was for the show, that was the PSA to you out there and I really hope you, I really hope it's an important message for you. I hope you take it in.
Speaker 1:I was fine. The next morning I woke up, I was fine. No headache, no, nothing. Everything was cool.
Speaker 1:But I honestly don't remember anything. I'll say this what we went like? 237. For sure, the last 45 minutes. I don't even remember. I'm watching it and I'm thinking to myself. I said that I don't even remember. I'm watching it and I'm thinking to myself. I said that I don't even remember. I don't even remember this. I don't remember what's going on. And I barely remember walking out of the studio, going outside to the patio for the field sobriety test. I barely remember that. I don't remember anything after that. I don't remember coming back into the studio. I don't remember the field sobriety test at all. Like I said, I don't remember coming back into studio.
Speaker 1:I think I do remember I started talking about because I was trying to keep, you know, a regular show with some regular content, just watching a guy get drunk trying to do it. But I remember trying to talk about the outfield and I, I mean I do remember that. I don't remember all the things that I said, but going back and watching it I just oh gosh, that was absolutely horrible and I I know the outfield inside and out. It's only three members, only three guys. You got to remember their names too, but I know the outfield inside and out. I love that band and yet when I was talking about the individual members, I couldn't get the names right in my head there's there's John Spinks, who's the lead guitarist, vocalist and the chief songwriter in the band, and then there's Tony Lewis, who's the lead vocalist and the bass player, and I said something about John Spinks at first, you know. First and then I was talking about Tony Lewis and in my head I was saying Tony Lewis and I, when I watched the video, I said Tony Spinks and I think I said like three times and it was.
Speaker 1:I look, I know I was drunk, but watching it and watching how, how terrible I was, I was like cringing. I couldn't believe it. It was terrible to watch myself under the influence of alcohol. It was to watch myself under the influence of alcohol. It was horrible. It was horrible to see you know my actions, my motion, my speech. I'm happy, look, I'm happy, I did it. I'm happy I did it Because, like I said, I did it so you don't have to, because learn from me, see what it did to me so you don't let it happen to you. Okay, so that's okay and and I'm glad that I was was Trying to bring you along as far as what I was feeling, how I was feeling, uh, what I felt like all those things.
Speaker 1:I I don't even.
Speaker 1:I don't even remember signing off on the show. I don't remember any of that stuff. I don't recall it at all. So just please, don't, don't, don't do that. I hope honestly for each and every one of you out there that you took my message to heart and you'll, you'll definitely learn from it. Look, if you're going to drink and have a good time, go ahead and do it. Just be responsible, be smart about it, about it. You know, have a designated driver, call a ride, share whatever it is you have to do. Okay, I mean, please, please, please, please. And we have St Patrick's day coming up on Monday. So, uh, that's the first of a big you know, big drinking. That's the first of a big, you know big drinking holidays as far as bars and restaurants are concerned. So, uh, just please take my words to heart, learn from what you saw on the show last week. All right, uh, but uh, and I'm sure I'll remind you all again before we get to Cinco de Mayo, but anyway. So that was really just man that was an adventure.
Speaker 1:That was something else. Last week I was crossing my fingers, honestly, I was crossing my fingers and hoping that I would be fine the next morning and thankfully I was. I was fine the next morning. I had to get up really early my grandson Maverick. He had a baseball game. It was, um, it was opening, opening day.
Speaker 1:And um, oh, what's happening here? Hold on, hold on, a second. Got something coming in here. Let's do this instead. Let's do this. Oh, here, let's do this instead. Boom, boom. I am going to hang on here.
Speaker 1:People, this is what happens when you go live. I'm going to invite someone in. Let's see. Oh, where's the keyboard? There, it is, keyboard's right here. There it is. Let's see. And let's put that there. And let's do this, boom, all right, and let's send it away. Send it anyway. There we go, all right. Sorry, I couldn't see you all for a while. Let me see, I got to send a text also. This is silly, but this is what happens when you're live. There we go, all right. Boom, all right. Good, yeah, we might have somebody coming on to give her version of what went on last week. We'll see how that goes.
Speaker 1:But just important stuff. Really, really really important stuff. The show's getting some pretty good traction, it's getting some pretty good looks, so we'll see how that goes. It was very serious, really. Honestly. It was an incredibly serious message that I'm trying to pass across to everyone.
Speaker 1:My buddy, my buddy Larry Reedy he did a podcast this week with some buddies of his where they were doing a whiskey tasting and so on. So what did he do? And I'm glad he did it. I don't consider it ripping me off at all. In fact he posted something on his Facebook page. It ripping me off at all. In fact. He posted something on his Facebook page. He bought a breathalyzer just like mine and they were checking their, their uh BAC. They did, they waited until the end of the podcast and then they stopped recording and then he's going to pick it up on the next podcast and I guess they're going to announce what their BAC was. But Larry posted it on his Facebook page and he talked about being responsible. So it's only a couple of us guys out there trying to get the message across, but I hope that between him and I we'll have enough reach to where we get it to enough people and it makes a difference. So that's the whole thing. What else is going on? I don't know if we're going to have our. I don't know if we're going to have a visit from anybody or not, so I'll share this with you.
Speaker 1:I have been in an incredible amount of pain all week long. It started Monday morning. I had the day off Monday and I don't know what it was. Well, I know what it was. I don't know why it happened, but I've been dealing with a wonderful bout of sciatica this week and for those of you who have experienced sciatic issues, sciatic nerve issues and lengthy bouts of sciatica, you know exactly what I'm talking about. You can't sit, you can't stand, you can't walk, you can't lay down. It's hard to do anything, and this week has been very challenging. I haven't been to work all week because I just can't do it. I cannot do it. Today is the best day. Today is my best day of the week.
Speaker 1:I've been to the chiropractor twice. I'm going tomorrow. Chiropractic therapy helps out. It really does. You don't feel it immediately, but it helps. I have a TENS unit that I put the little pads on my back here and get it going. It's like electric shock therapy, almost something like that. I'm against it. Oh, we do have somebody coming in Hold on a second. All right, where are you at? Oh, there you go, there you go. All right, hey, what's happening, girl? Hey, so Tess is joining us this evening.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 1:Oh, I don't want to see your cats.
Speaker 2:It's either going to be whiskey or it's going to be Juno, then yeah, tell me about it.
Speaker 1:Okay, so well, yeah, but get on the screen here. Get on the screen because obviously you're watching and give you know what I was telling everybody. I was telling the audience about last week's show, just kind of recapping it a little bit.
Speaker 2:Hang on, let me get AirPods.
Speaker 1:Okay, go ahead. And she left the refrigerator door open. I can't see from here what she has in there. Maybe something good, though, cause I'm hungry, oh in the fridge. You left the refrigerator open. Yeah, we, we were, you know, trying to figure out what you had in there. Maybe there was something good.
Speaker 2:Um, I'm unloading my groceries right now.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, okay, All right, but I'm unloading my groceries right now, oh okay okay, all right, but look at these bananas. They're nice and green.
Speaker 2:Have you heard of people eating ground beef and bananas together?
Speaker 1:I have not. They're doing it.
Speaker 2:Can you hear me okay?
Speaker 1:You're a little muffled right now. Yeah, whatever, just take it out Now. You sound good, you sound great what, uh? What's the thing with the uh ground beef and bananas?
Speaker 2:I don't know. I don't know why people are doing it, but it's like a thing right now, I guess.
Speaker 1:Um, and I tried it, it wasn't that bad, honestly well, if you like ground beef and you like bananas, yeah, okay, I suppose I could see that. So, so what do you do? So you fry up the ground beef, season it to taste, and then what do you do? Do you? Do you cut up a raw banana and just throw it in there, mix it up and eat it, or that's exactly what I did so you don't fry up the banana I didn't fry it at all.
Speaker 2:It's Ben. I'm on his podcast right now. Oh, I thought you meant Instagram live. Oh no, I walked away from the fridge. He was like oh, what do they have in the fridge? Anything good.
Speaker 1:Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. You're over here. This way, this way, I'm in a second.
Speaker 2:I'm chewing my food. So, did you see Juno over here? Hey come on One conversation, you and. I Sorry. I'm unloading groceries.
Speaker 1:I understand. So, as I started to say, I was letting the audience, I was just kind of recapping them on last week's drunk show and kind of just letting them on last week's drunk show and kind of just letting them know that really like the last 45 minutes I don't even remember, and that I went back and watched it and it was, yeah, Watching yourself drunk watching well watching yourself drunk on video. It's, it's watching yourself drunk on video. It's not good. It's not good at all. It really isn't. It's not.
Speaker 2:Did you have some anxiety?
Speaker 1:No, I didn't have anxiety, but I was just thinking oh my gosh, this is me, this is how I am behaving. You know, three sheets to the wind.
Speaker 2:No Ben hangxiety, yeah Well Ben hangxiety.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, I didn't have any of that, though. I had no hang. I felt great the next morning, um, but uh, what from aside from the 10 minutes? You had your phone on mute, um, which I had no idea your phone was on mute until I saw the video.
Speaker 2:Well, I told you. I told you when we were up the stairs I'm like Ben, you're going to be so bad. I told you, I don't remember.
Speaker 1:I don't remember a thing. So what was your perspective of the show itself and then how it went? But also, how was it to see somebody, me okay, we'll just say me how was it to see me go from being perfectly sober to definitely not sober, and one who would be locked up, without a doubt? How was that for you?
Speaker 2:was that for you? You didn't get like super obviously intoxicated until maybe like at least the third shot. I feel like like the second shot. I feel like the second shot, there were like clues indicating it but then by the third one I was like oh, like I'm like, if I, if I didn't know you, I would like no, because your personality is already like so big and whatnot. Um, but then when you went outside and did the tests, I was like, oh, I was.
Speaker 1:I was a mess, Wasn't it?
Speaker 2:You did horrible.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was bad, even going down the stairs. When we had to go downstairs, I was was worried you were going to tumble down the stairs at one point.
Speaker 1:Right, right, right. Yeah, I was an absolute mess and it was a train wreck, but fortunately I had you there keeping an eye on me, aren't?
Speaker 2:you glad we recorded all the data too.
Speaker 1:Oh, I'm absolutely, yes, absolutely Happy that we recorded all that we, you know, and it's right here, obviously, still in the show log. So there's a record of of everything Whenever I took the shots, whenever we uh, uh, conducted breathalyzer tests, all that stuff. So it it's in there and and it's a good record of showing the progression.
Speaker 2:So, um, it's a document, it's always going to be there it is interesting, though, um, I think that because, like you're such a big boy, like I was surprised that you're being like a fatty fatty, no I just mean like, just like a, like your big, um, like I sorry henny's drinking water, um, like I would have expected your bac to go like a lot higher than what it was gotcha but it was just like interesting that it never, like, went higher than what was it like 0.13?
Speaker 1:uh, let me go back and look, let me go back I already recorded a show. Today I recorded one, I don't know 90 minutes. Let's see the last registered breathalyzer test was at 8.37, so we were two hours and 37 minutes into it and it was at 0.120.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's just I don't know.
Speaker 1:That's like a little surprising to me that it wasn't a little bit that it should.
Speaker 2:It should have been a little bit higher considering like right how much, like you know, alcohol you had, so that was interesting to me at least, to see like. I don't know like how it's reading as that, but you were obviously so intoxicated.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I was bad. I was bad, that was terrible.
Speaker 2:But maybe also there's something to do with, like, the fact that you, like, don't have much of a tolerance, right? So maybe that's like cause you don't drink. You know, you don't drink like that ever. No, so it's just interesting, like it was to see, like with all the data we had, yeah, and then along with, like you know how you were, I don't know. It was interesting.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I just, you know, look whether it gets, whether it gets any more views than it already has, or it gets any more downloads than it has, views than it already has, or it gets any more downloads than it has. I'm very proud of the message that we were putting forth. I'm really, really proud of that message. It's a very important message and you know, I'm not embarrassed of the fact that I was an absolute mess. It's just cringeworthy. It was just. It was just. I mean I cringed watching myself, you know, especially, like I said, especially that last 45 minutes. But, um, I'm not embarrassed of it because of exactly what the message was and uh, and I am, I'm proud of it and you know, who knows, maybe we'll do it again next year. But yeah, it was, it was something else. I just I hope that people really, really take it to heart.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was good, and maybe next time I'll do it. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1:It'll be a much shorter show. If we kept the same rules, it'll be a way shorter show. It'll be like a third of the show yeah definitely. You'll be on the floor in 45 minutes.
Speaker 2:All things considered, you handled it pretty well, like I would have been a mess.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, like I said, I mean I never got sick or anything like that. I didn't wake up hungover, didn't have a headache, none of that stuff at all. Um, I, you know, I did feel, I did feel a little bit slow until I got going, but once I got going I was fine, and then, of course, Wait, isn't that normal for you though?
Speaker 1:What to be slow Thanks. And then we had that concert. We had that concert last Saturday night and we took the breathalyzer with us. I didn't drink at all, but we did. We took the breathalyzer with us and between your mom and Christina they had beers, that's all they drank were beers and they were testing their BAC and yeah, there was that one point. I think Christina hit a 0.08, but we had plenty of time before we even got ready to go. I think we were probably three hours before we got ready to go, but she wasn't sloppy or anything, she was fine. But I think that's the message too. People don't realize it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But it was all good stuff. So, anyway, I'm going to see you this weekend. Right, I'm going to see you Sunday.
Speaker 2:On Sunday.
Speaker 1:Okay, all right, well, look, thanks for checking in. Thanks for hanging out for a few minutes and kind of sharing your perspective too on last week's drunk show.
Speaker 2:Okay, You're not going to ask me how my night is done.
Speaker 1:Well I, while you're putting groceries away, I don't want to hear that you're going to go out and party or anything like that.
Speaker 2:That is not. I was going to tell you how my night was, though.
Speaker 1:Okay, tell me how your night is.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, thank you for asking. So I did a spin class for the first time tonight.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, how was that?
Speaker 2:They are training for war, Like there's no other way to put it. Like you know, I've been an athlete my whole life and I like work out pretty regularly, but I have no words. It is humbling. Bananas it is humbling in there, yeah, like I was sweating so much. I haven't sweat like that in so long, but it was really fun and I don't know. I think you and mom would have fun if you tried it honestly but as like a one-off, if you wanted to do something different, because it'll get you in a full body sweat.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But it was cool and I did that. And now I got groceries and I'm going to get, do you know, pressed. We're going to get the pressed ice cream. We get that like at least once a week.
Speaker 1:All right.
Speaker 2:And we're probably going to like watch a movie or some trash reality show, I don't know yet.
Speaker 1:Okay, so you're, you're staying in tonight.
Speaker 2:We're staying in tonight. We have to prepare for tomorrow.
Speaker 1:Oh, oh, all right, do I want to know about that.
Speaker 2:I don't know. I just know, I just I don't even really like beer all that much these days, but I just really want to go get like a green beer from somewhere.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:So that's the mission for tomorrow Get get a green beer Green beer, okay.
Speaker 1:Well, you can go to the store, buy it and get some green food color. Make it yourself.
Speaker 2:you can have it at home you could have green beer at home. You're right if you're gonna drink.
Speaker 1:That's the safest way.
Speaker 2:To drink is right at home, so perhaps, but anyway I'm gonna go and I hope you have a good Friday and I'll see you Sunday.
Speaker 1:Yeah, say goodbye to everybody.
Speaker 2:Bye everybody.
Speaker 1:Bye, see ya. Oh, geez, there she goes. There she goes Two weeks in a row. She's been on the show, man, cool, huh, yeah, so it's good to get a little perspective from Tess too. Um, anyway, but um, I I don't. I think I told you I recorded a show before we went live tonight and that was why, uh, I was, and, yeah, just been feeling it Back's, feeling it right now too, starting to lock up a little bit. So I'll get everything posted tonight. It'll be good stuff. Check it out. All right, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1:It's Friday night. Yes, of course we're live, but we're going to let you go See outside of the drunk show which really, really went long longest show in the history of this podcast. Friday night. Lives are not meant to go forever and ever and ever. All right, try to keep it at our, you know, tops. I mean, if we're going more than an hour live, why don't we just record the show, right? So it's all good, you guys can get on with your Friday evening, the rest of it. I thank you so much for being here. It's a wrap.
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