Summer Plans 2023

It's weird though, like, burns, they don't hurt after, like, the, like, they're uncomfortable in the evening, the day of, and then the next day after, after that it's kind of like, yeah, whatever. I don't really notice it unless it's in the shower. If it's hot, then water, then the burn will be warm or feel warm. Other than that, like, it doesn't, I, I thought like, I'd remember them hurting for days. I don't feel that anymore. 

I officially get to welcome you to summer because this episode actually releases on June 21st, the first day of summer. Yes. It's a Tuesday. No, it's a Wednesday. So, come on on Wednesday. So, welcome to summer where I get nice and dark and Aaron gets nice and red like a zebra. But I'm, I'm getting better. Ok. I already had my first burn on my arms. So now they're ok. It was just my legs. 

My legs are suffering and they need to be done again. As you said, they look like a zebra. Whereas me, I don't burn. So, um, you lucky dog. 

I'll, I'll take it. Yeah. Look at that. Yeah. Well, you saw, no, I don't know. You gotta, you gotta get out and get some sun there. I know. I'm an indoor man. 

Iii, I freely admit it. I enjoy the indoors. I enjoy my ac, if I could make my ac, colder than this I would and Aaron's already going, it's cold down. He's cold, it's cold. And I'm like, oh, this is comfortable. Exactly how I like it. What is wrong with you? What are you doing? 

Just crazy how white I am. Oh, I've known how white you are. Don't worry about it. Well, I mean, I know, but just to see the difference, you see the, you're seeing the contrast and comparison between your, uh, between your, the top of your forearm and the bottom of your forearm. Yeah. Well, it's scary. It's like seeing a rock that's been out in the sun for ages. 

The, the top crusty brownness, you flip it over and it's nice and clean and that's exactly how your arm is. It's, it's nice and white underneath. It's, the top is dark meat. The bottom is like me. The ghostly white. Yeah. Well, that tends to happen to those of your genetic heritage. 

Well, that's what motorcycles are invented for. Yes, to get the top of your arm. Not the bottom, you know. But, yes. Happy summer. I didn't realize actually that this is coming out on the first day of summer. How exciting. And as they always say to people on the first day of summer. Oh, ho ho. Oh, ho ho. I just, yeah, I know your hat a while ago. So I just, I was like, oh, he wore the hoi hat? Yeah. Such a good phrase or greeting. It's a phrase. It's a phrase. It's a way of life. 

Oh, ho ho is a way of life. A wild one up there. It depends. Let's look at that. But anyways, yeah. So it's summer, it's starting out. 

We're at this point we're getting close to. Just, I guess you could call it summer chaos. At least I call it summer cast where, like, all the plans just start to jumble in together and you're like, wait, what, what, what, what? Oh, wait, now it's fall. I'm doing this. I, I plan, I plan to do this. Huh? But I wanna do this and then you go, oh, and now it's snowing. Sad day. If there, there has been snow in June before. 

Oh, not what I'm saying is you get so busy with all these things you plan to do and then all of a sudden it's like, oh, wait, we're already in December. What, what just happened? Good weather is gone. Yeah. Back to the sad, miserable, gross winter that it is. It's called Wisconsin. So this is normal weather for us. 

We should be used to this normal weather pattern and this normal weather change. Yeah. I just really enjoy summer and they just don't last long enough anymore. No, no, they don't. Surprisingly. But, but you know, this global warming thing so our winters will become summers. It's ok. Hey, you know what? 

Um, I'll tell you. Yes. Uh, I get yelled at and I get flak for this every time. But I go, you know what I want for Christmas? A brown Christmas. I want a dead depressing Christmas this year. 

It's better than snow on the ground. I mean, then I don't have to deal with it. And that's the thing, like, well, ok, yes, dealing with it and it being there, I guess are different things because it looks so pretty until the dog pees on it. And, well, it's like you still have dogs, then you don't have to worry about that. 

But, no, I, uh, winter can be pretty. It, it can be pretty. That's all I give it. It can be, but summer is so much better but it's gonna be so short. Just why is summer so much better, huh? Why is summer? So you can get out and do stuff, you can do stuff during the winter. 

You just put up enough insulation. No, no, both natural and artificial. I'm right there with you on that one. but like, well, I guess, could you go kayaking in the winter? Not all lakes are, like, frozen over? 

No, but you probably wouldn't want to do that because, you know, you go in and if you're not wearing the proper gear hypothermia. See. So you shouldn't go kayaking during the winter. I like going kayaking. You can go cross country skiing, you can go snowshoeing, you can go skiing, snowboarding, snowboarding. 

That used to be fun. I enjoyed doing that. Why did you stop the? Oh, I think I just grew out of the snowboard. I had, and I never bought a new one. Got you. I didn't know if it's expensive. It can be, I didn't know if there was a particular reason or not or like your accident stopped all sorts of stuff. 

I just grew up. I was like, man, that's, that's child's play. That is a lie. Do not listen to this, man. He is a liar. 

But, uh, I mean, I enjoyed crawling in the sewer tunnels in the winter. Yeah. What were you doing? Playing teenage mu and Ninja turtles? No, we just kind of climbed down the pipe to see how creepy it got with the writing on the walls and then eventually turned around. Uh, so maybe you're looking for the clown. 

Well, I mean, there's probably plenty in there for some of the writing on the, on the, um, of, of whatever the stone like piping or whatever concrete piping. Yeah, it was, it was weird. There's some weird stuff in there. All right. So, I like summer on Aaron's summer to do list this year. 

Aaron is going to go crawling through a sewer again. Yeah. But no, that's a winter thing to do, but it could be a summer thing to do, but it's better in the winter. So we have Aaron dress as a teenage mutant ninja turtle and run at kids as they crawl through sewers. 

That would, I would be on the news and not for good reasons. Yeah. Yeah. Would be funny though. As long as I don't get, like, in any serious trouble. Is that a lot of this? I probably, yeah, probably is, isn't it? Yeah. It's probably like trespassing or something. What? Yeah, I'll have to look into that. 

I'm kind of curious now. Interesting. Yeah, I'll look into that. Ok. New summer plan. So that is officially not on Erin, uh, thing. And if it is, well, I disavow, you suggested I disavow. But what is on Aaron's summer plan this year? What's on my summer plan? Yep. What is on your plan? 

Let me pull my calendar. Look at that, actually has a calendar this year. It's gotten that bad, man. What do you mean that bad? So, I'm always doing something, man that's called being an adult planning out your activities with people. But then it's, there's no, I want free time then exactly free time. 

That's not existent as an adult. It is. I have to plan my free time, like, on Friday nights when I play video games, I have to put that in my plan. That Friday night is game night and I don't get interrupted by that. So nothing else takes over that spot. So if I do something else other than game night on Friday night, that means it is agreed upon with other people that this is more important than game night. 

Uh, like if it's you and Josh who wanna do something on Friday night, like, all right, these two who I normally play video games with wanna do something else, although Josh hasn't been playing for a while. Um, yeah, Josh, so put that. So, so what's, what's on your plans, Mr Mr Calendar? Well, this will have already happened by the time this is out. But, well, I guess so then it's not even technically summer plans thing rough, I guess pres Summerer, it's the prelude, summer trip to Pennsylvania. 

Uh, there's that, yeah, more burning on the motorcycle. Well, hopefully we'll see. Hopefully I can take the motorcycle. I, I mean, unless there's gonna be rain out there. Right? I mean, out here there's not gonna be rain for like two weeks. I jeez. Ok. Um, well, of course, as soon as I look at my calendar it's like empty. Like, oh, well, what? 

Yeah, because you're not in summer yet. This is true, man. But once summer hits, I'm dog watching for my sister for a couple of weeks. Yeah, that's right. So the, there's about two weeks I'll be dog watching for my sister and then going to an NF concert. There you go. Which that should be fun. 

Oh, I'm going, I'm assuming I know what my gift is from Peter, but he said block off July 12th, which is a Wednesday. And I think it's a dream theater concert which I'm ecstatic for, and then the 25th of July uh-huh Classic Crime on a Tuesday night getting turned on a Tuesday in someone's home. It's, it, it, it's like, it's literally in someone's living room. That's insane. That's cool. So, definitely a few concerts in the July time otherwise. 

I mean, yeah, there's pretty much there. Well, there's always gonna be just random bands, project stuff that will probably take up every weekend, almost recording for this. Which band are you working with now? Yeah. So, as far as recording goes, I mean, we, we started recording, uh, gosh, stuff. What, back in March? Oh, you guys still haven't finished that? 

Oh, heck no, I think we've done, we, that's, that's for, that's after the afternoon, hangover, the country, afternoon, hangover country. Ok. Um, that we haven't even put drums down to you for anything yet. Like, I think they're probably on their second or third song as far as, like, vocals and guitar goes. 

Oh, that's going slow. It's super slow. Yeah. So that's always fun. Um, so I'll for sure go out through throughout the whole summer. 

I'm going on a camping trip with a few friends that just had a baby. That'll be interesting. Are they bringing the baby? I mean, it's a newborn. I don't know. I mean, I guess that's two months old. Uh, you leave a two month old with somebody that, I don't know. 

I'm surprised they're going, me too, actually. Maybe they'll get canceled then I might have a free time weekend. Yeah. I'm surprised they're going, I have a feeling either they're gonna cancel or it's gonna be miserable all night because you're just gonna hear a baby crying and screaming bo right there. Yeah. Yeah. So that, we'll see what happens with that other incoming phone call. 

Um, other than that, yeah, obviously. Oh, gosh, we'll see. What, uh, do you need to take the call? No, it's fine. It's just, it's just, uh, Anakin. Oh, ok. Uh, I thought I have that is his name. 

Oh, I still do too. Oh, yeah. Sick. But, yeah, there's what, there's the first Friday in August and first Friday in September where I'm having an afternoon hangover thingy. Oh, yeah. And then, man, yeah, we'll see what else fills it up. 

Oh, kayaking every other weekend. And probably hopefully that'll be the plan potentially if the weather is nice. Well, I'm just, thing is so right now I'm hauling two kayaks around. Yeah, because my other friend that I go kayaking with, he likes my kayak and it's better than his kayak for fishing in and he likes to fish. So hopefully next time he'll just keep my kayak and then when I don't know if I need it. 

I can get it from them. Maybe. I don't know. But, so I'm always hauling two around, which is just, it's just fun. Just more work. You're not convincing me that it's fun. 

Oh, it's funny when you get in the water, I almost forgot to plug my kayak though. This last time we went out because I had just drained it from any of the water that was inside. Ok. I got in the water and, like, started my way out and I was like, oh, my plugs undone. And that's how I sunk the first time. Good job when I went kayaking because I didn't realize there was a plug on there and it was open and I was taking on water the whole time. Yeah. Kayaking is fun. It's relaxing though. I like kayaking. It's peaceful. Get some music, get some good old harmonica, you know, tunes going, you know, just nice, peaceful. Did you say harmonica tunes? Heck, yeah. All right. Just making sure I understood correctly. Got that right. I'm not, I'm, you know, I turned 28 and just things change. 

I like calm music now and kind of over the metal thing. Yes. Yeah. I still love metal. But, yeah, I know you're lying. Right. But, yeah, just a lot of music stuff for the most part. And any, I mean, dad's birthday is in July. 

Do anything special for him for that. So, I'm sure we'll do something with that. Man, it's gonna be his 70th birthday. Wow. He old. So, yeah, hopefully take a couple weekend trips out somewhere, take the bike somewhere and get away. 

I would say go to Vortex. But yeah, they're not open on weekends. Stupid. That's directed towards Vortex. Not you. Obviously. I know. Exactly. Just makes that. I said that a little too quick. So I was just like, oh no, I got it. I understand. Yeah. You know me. Not everybody on the interwebs know me. Yeah. But yeah, it's kind of crazy that they look at it. Like there's not a whole, I say listening to what you're saying right now it doesn't sound that busy. 

No, it's just gonna get really busy. You think so? Huh? Oh, yeah, it always does. Or always has at least this year I don't have weddings to go to so far yet. I ain't, I don't know nobody right now getting married that I know you'll get a random thing in the mail and just become friends with random people that are getting married and then I'll go to their wedding. 

Yeah, in some other state like I did last year. That was actually really cool though. But what do you got planned this summer? So, nothing really too much in June. Uh, June is kind of the quiet month, the quiet before the storm, I guess you could say, um, with everything else going on. Um, July is where it always, uh, holidays you know, July 4th always starts to get crazy. And then right after July 4th is Life Fest. Are you going to that or? You don't know. I might, uh, I guess it depends really if any music stuff goes on that weekend. 

Um, I just skillet is for sure. Not there. Right this year. Dang. That sucks. Yep. Uh, skilled is not there. 

Um, Toby Mac is the big headliner on Saturday. There's one band in here. I, I just laughed at their name but then I clicked on it and it takes me to a website that makes me laugh even more. 

Oh, no, you're like, oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Who is that? So, the name of the band is called Brutality. Ok. I already don't like this but then I click on to go to their website and their, uh, logo says bad metal heads. Behead, metal heads. Huh? Yep. I don't think I'm gonna like this. 

So, like, one of their albums is called The Woods Will End You. And it's like this weird, creepy, uh, like creature coming up out of the woods. Uh, so it's brutality dot ba dot band camp dot com. Oh, so they're not like out on, um, I guess like itunes or? Yeah, I, I don't know. I, I haven't, I haven't looked anything about them yet at all. So this is their tags, you know, that they put onto their music, heavy metal, metal, heavy, heavy metal. 

Old school metal, progressive metal Shredding Thrash Narrows. Yeah. I'm on the what? Uh, yeah, their, uh, their, their album covers look very much what I would imagine hearing from metal people. What, like you, you tell me, you tell me metal, that's what I think of. Something like that. Oh, Brutal. Oh, they are on itunes or Apple music, whatever it is nowadays. Weird. All right. I might listen to them just for another one that I saw that I was like, this looks me. 

I don't know anything about them at all yet at all. Um But it's called Blue Fire Horizon. They have songs such as cannibals. Oh, I like that name, Graveyard of Hope. Where Agony Ends? Fading memory, blah, blah, blah disease. The father's son. Nice. And then 13 minutes, another one that I saw I was like, that seems med. That seems me. Hey, you know what I mean? 

When I say that seems med just I keep hearing Medley Living Scars. That's another one. Rusty Ship. Just looking at their photo. It's like a giveaway. Yeah, it's, it's, it's a giveaway that um and their album is called Dark Side of the Ocean. Wow. Yep. Wow. Maybe it'll be Pink Floyd. 

I don't know like Trippy. It says read this story as you listen to the album Cosmic Innuendo volume One Dark Side of the Ocean Dissent. So you're supposed to read the story as you listen to the song Dissent on the I'm sort of intrigued. I dog side of the ocean. Yeah. Apparently they had a radio hit called Bottom of the Barrel. And what's cracking, what? Hold on. What, what do you mean? What, who's, ok. What's the name of this, this group that I'm talking about? Uh, Rusty Ship? Bottom of the barrel. Yeah. Mhm. Ok. I would play it but copyright. Right. So, you know, that doesn't work so well on being able to do that sort of stuff. 

I have to listen to that later and then um the other one, living scars. That one looks a little bit more hoppy based on just the things I've seen. What was the, what was the girl band um Was that last year or the year before? Oh, that, that Anakin want to join? That was a couple years and Frank. Yeah. And he was like, I could be a guitarist that did it. Yeah. No, II I give him this, he has gumption for going up and just like, hey, I play guitar. 

Want want a guitarist that takes, that takes some gumption there. True. Grave Robber. Oh, they were there last year too. Sounds like a, you need to go see. Um I thought I sent you it uh when they were there. Yeah. So their website, right is called this Christian Molten metal bands dot dot weebly dot com that we bleed. 

We, we, I was like, we, we is just a website hosting company, but Christian molten metal bands. Christian Molten Metal. Uh, so they have, so this is, I don't know, I don't know what sort of thing is. Uh, but anyways, yeah, they have a little subside on here for Grave Robber. It's that horror punk metal band. Yeah. I don't like the sound of that. 

Grave Robber considers themselves a horror punk shock rock band. The shot comes from two different areas with the first, probably mean your reaction when you first laid eyes on the band's photo. Um The costumes are covered in blood which symbolizes being covered in the atoning blood of Jesus on the cross. My gosh. OK. Yeah. The second area where the band creates a shock factors within lyrics which often include dark metaphorical imagery in order to communicate their message. So OK, why are you going? 

OK, I'll find him eventually. Yeah. It says lyrics are thought provoking as one can see in the following excerpt from escaping the grave, you know, and, and that goes through um It's a very short song. Escape in the grave. I was born deceased, a lawless righteous ghoul wandering in the Myer sin of filthy black cesspool. 

Death words your victory. Death. Where is your sting? The reanimation changed everything, escaping the grave, escaping the grave, escaping the grave, capping the grave, escaping the grave, escaping the grave, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 

Probably sounds just like that. Yeah, probably. Um So, yeah, that's what you got over there on that wonderful stuff like that over there. Sick like, yep, that's a errand thing. So be there. It's good. That would be fun to go to and you, well, I'm not gonna hold you to it, but like last year when I messaged you, you said you would be interested. 

Oh yeah, like I said, I'm not gonna hold you to it, but also at the same time better freaking be there. Kind of put like $700 down for the spot. Uh, on, on, on the, on the concept that there would be more than just me and Davina there this year. Uh, oh, and Davina put like 2 50 down on the spot. Is she going for? Sure. I haven't messaged her but sounds like, yes, I would imagine. 

Especially because she helped pay for the spot. Yeah. So, yeah, so, you know, we got a big group spot. So, um, we need more people. Yeah, people I'd ask Amy and Josh, but then they'd have you dog sit, have a cute dog set for us while we go up to no, take him to your mom's house. Well, of course he enforce his mom's house. Yeah, exactly. I could watch them for a weekend. Can I can I really? I hope so. They seem to, well, I don't know who watched their dogs last time I was asked to watch them because they were told they had to fend for themselves. What I'm kidding? I was like what it's like, oh my gosh. So yeah, that, that's gonna take up like, that's the first and that's the first week of July essentially. But to be honest, like that's like last year, that's where I got COVID from and that knocked me out for a couple weeks after. So I'm just like, please don't do that again this year. Let's go Rona. So if you do end up coming, I'd recommend getting the family. 

Uh, it's like the family party package. The reason being you get two meals a day, two sodas a day and unlimited waters. Oh. And you get a porta potty with no line essentially because it's a port, a potty dedicated just for people who have this, that pass. Yeah, until everybody gets a pass and there's the line. So I, I, I'm not gonna get the onstage seating again. 

I'm just gonna get that because it was nice to be able to just walk up, grab like two waters and head out. Yeah. Nice. And I could walk in and I walk out and get the waters anytime I wanted. Oh, and popcorn, popcorn, unlimited popcorn too. Hm. So you do all that? It was worth the extra money on that. 

Especially because the two meals that I didn't have to worry about cooking or anything like that. I, I knew I had two hot meals every day that was included in the price and it wasn't like, oh, look here's a little burger. Here's this, you got to pick your entree and you got to pick your side. I'll just pack enough Taco Bell for the weekend. Oh, my goodness. He'll never be out of the bathroom. 

You'll never be out of the bathroom. I'll pick it up on my way out there and then just, it'll be good for the weekend. Oh, that stuff don't do that. Don't, don't go bad. Sure. Uh-huh. Right. Um, so that, that, that's the first week because I provided, I don't get Corona again. 

You know, it's always a possibility that it is a possibility. It's a thing we, you take dead, it's a, it's a possibility. It's a risk you take when you go out in public. It's just the same. If I go on public I might get the flu, I might get a cold. I might get this, I might get that. 

Guess what, I'm fine. I, I'll be fine. I lived through it and guess what? I didn't take any of Mike Lindell's magic medicines or what? Well, you could have gotten through it all the faster. Yeah. Yes. At that point it's just a mental placebo that's making people get over that faster. 

Well, they helped one way or another. Just a mental game. I just, what the pills made you think about it. What pill? I'm not? Well, I'm sorry, but never mind, never mind. Never mind. I say what pills, what, what he offered me. Wait what? Hold up, wait a minute, Michael Lin and I, you're good friends. 

Like, no, you and Mike Lindell can be as great a friends as you want. Uh, nope. Nope, nope, nope, dope, dope, dope. Um, yeah. No, hopefully. No, Rona. Yeah. So hopefully no Corona there and hopefully that doesn't then, you know, because that will put a damper in a lot of things and, oh, just because, you know, it takes me out for like, two weeks and it really took me, like, six months where I start feeling normal. Yeah. Like I was tired all the time. 

Oh, yeah, it sucked. Even working from home. Like, I would have to take naps for over lunch because I was just so dead tired. So I would literally finish with my morning of work, take a nap, get up and do my afternoon at work just because I was just so dead tired. It's that long COVID stuff sucks. 

But, but as we all know, you know, the stupid shot didn't do much to prevent transmission and that it just reduced the seriousness of the effects and there's questions about the side effects of it afterwards. So I'm just gonna get blood clots and die. No, it should have happened already. I think for me, if it could, it could still happen to either of us. But it's been too long, it's been too long, whatever. But what was funny is I was watching, um, a, a TV show Stargate. And they used an MRN A, this is written in film many, many years before COVID and Corona and all that. OK. So before this was even a blink in Joe Biden's eye on world domination. 

Hope I didn't say that. Um uh they, they did the show and they use an MRN A vaccine to essentially rewrite people's genetic codes. Oh my gosh. And I was like, oh, that's entertaining and interesting and something that they did way back then as science fiction. What are they doing now? 

I was like, oh, dang, maybe I was a little hesitant, a little too quick on allowing myself to get jabbed once me. Especially since my work removed all the restrictions on needing to get a shot to go back to the office. Jeez. I was, like, sit seriously. Yeah, I don't think it was, I mean, one of probably one of the only reasons I, well, I was asked to very kindly by my, because she highly recommended it. I was like, ok, I'll be the guinea pig and then, because she had gotten the, before she had gotten and he shot for it. Yeah. And, I mean, she was having a pretty tough time to some degree. 

I still think I got it before it hit widespread, I'm sure. And, yeah, if it was anything like that. Yeah. Well, she, she had gone to the hospital several times and, like they gave her, uh, some sort of inhaler and, uh, like an air breathing, like, I don't know, monitoring the thing, whatever little device that you'd Burt, well, you'd exhale into and see how, wow, this stuff. Yeah. But, yeah, so it's like you should do it, whatever. And I was like, fine and I was like, with all the concerts I'm gonna want to go to, they're all gonna demand, you have some proof of either vaccination card or obviously the negative testing, which is pretty much all gone away now. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm like, well, what the heck. Yeah, I know. And what a waste. 

I kind of look at it. I'm like, oh dang it. Yeah. But, and I'm, I'm just really curious as to what mine would have been, like, had I not gotten the jab because, I mean, it was so mild. See, mine was still pretty bad even with it and it, it, it wasn't, it wasn't anywhere where, any time where I was, like, I'm going to die. Yeah. But it was definitely, like, like it was, I was definitely teetering on the border of, at one point going, like, maybe I should go into the, er, but I checked it but then I just didn't, I, I took a nap and then he'd be thrown on the ventilators and then you'd be screwed. 

Yeah, that's part of it. And then my mother would be like, why did you let me give you the Ivermectin a good old horse medicine. So I was just like, I was like, you know what, just gonna not gonna do this. So, yeah, as long as I don't get COVID, um, and that won't screw up the rest of my July plan, my July plans, which really aren't that all? Like, oh, I must do these things in July. Yeah. Yeah. Yay. Maybe. I don't know. Do you wanna do it or not? 

So, you remember, um, I think it's in July. I gotta remember. I got to remind myself the date. You remember a guy at fellowship? But the church that was formerly called fellowship called Ambrose. Oh, yes. Oh, we had, when is that July? 22nd? Ok. So I haven't, I don't think I've seen anything on that. You are invited. I see you on the invite list. Cool. All right. I have to put that in my, it's on Facebook. Oh, ok. That's why um I know Andy Peterson was also invited. Nice. Uh So it's a private thing. 

Only those who are invited, you know, to go thing. Oh, what are you going on? You can't just drag random people and do it. I'm sure if you message Ambrose Peter was invited. Bryce was invited. Pastor David Sinco was invited. So all those are invited. Um No one's responded yet, but I 14 people in total have responded of the 119. 

Oh, I'm sorry, 14 said maybe 13 are going 109 are still invited. Wow. So it's not just a hop, skip and a job, a jump job job job. 

It's a, it's about two hours from here. Perfect distance from the motorcycle. Two hours north. Perfect. I'll probably try and go to that 22nd. Yeah. So I was planning on going to that as well and even if I get COVID I should be over by then definitely just gonna go and spread it anyway. Yeah. Make it a super spreader. 

I'm in, then I have to, then I can't go to work. It's fine as long as you got sick days. Oh, I suppose. Yeah, I got those too. I don't have sick days. I have combined PTO days, but that's ok. 

I'll live anyways outside of that. Uh, other things I got going on really nothing with in July, which is beautiful because tar nights, well, taco night, um, or unless something else takes over that night, you know, like if we decide first Fridays, like, if we want to do first Friday, if we want to do something else, like maybe watch American History at some point. Yeah. Yeah. It's a rough movie. It really is. It, it, it's, um, I played a couple of clips for Aaron and the opening clip really was rough. 

Uh, but I think it's a good movie to watch, especially in light of our current political environment that we're in to see how real Nazis respond. Literally. Real Nazis and skis. And all that and all the fun that goes with that. Um, really the only thing besides life fest I got going on in July is dealing with good old mother and, uh, all the stuff around her house. Yeah. Don't, don't be like Josh now. 

No, doing, I got stuff to do around the house working on the yard today. No, this is more, my mom has grandiose ideas and I'm like, mother, just get the grass cut, just get the grass cut. That's all we need to do with this yard. So, unless you want me to do things my way or just gonna cut the grass. But that's a whole other conversation. Neither here nor there. 

Um, obviously August isn't August when the Alter Bridge. Is that the Alter Bridge concert? Oh, yeah, the 20 sixth. Yeah, I still haven't got my, I haven't got a ticket for that yet. Yeah. So I got to do that. 

Um, that I might head up the state fair as well just because the Wisconsin State Fair, I can't remember the exact dates off the top of my head. Why don't you know this, Aaron? I don't know. I don't go to the fair. Uh, I figured just go just to put around a little bit. Enjoy it. Why not? Hm. Depend on what's there. 

Now, you're talking about the county fair. No, the state fair. That's, oh, state fair. I'm sorry. That's August 3rd through 13th. Ok. Ok. Which is gonna be here way faster. 

A little faster than one would anticipate. Yeah. July will hit in like a week and then after we have a week of July it'll be August or what feels like a week now. Bryce, there, there, it's actually three things I'm actually interested in going to, at the state fair on the main stage. Oh, yeah. Yeah. What, why can't I remember his name now? Country Boy. No, it's not the Country Boy. 

Oh, it's not, boy. No. Ah, one is Jeff Dunham. Oh, he'll be there. August 5th. It's a Saturday and tickets start at $52. It's not bad. Mhm. Um, for King and Country it's a Monday night tickets start at 41. Ok. And then the last one I'm interested in, I've seen them in live before. 

I don't know how they do on a large stage like that. But, you know, obviously they're doing well enough to do it. Lindsay Sterling. Oh, I'm sure she'd be just fine, which is Saturday, August 12th. And she's with Walk off the Earth. You know who Walk off the Earth is? 

They do those youtube videos where it's like seven people on one guitar. Oh, that's cool. That's them. That's kind of cool. And like they're all playing different parts on the same guitar piece. Yeah, that's them. So she'll be with them on the 12th and no, he's, uh, the ye, ye, boy is not there. 

The, their country representation is uh Trace Atkins. Trace Adkins hailstorm will be there as well. What? Hailstorm? Yep. And then what that reminds me Fly Leaf is gonna be at summerfest with Lacy Stern. 

What, what they resurrected, I guess. Really? Yeah, I was not planning going to summer fest at all. I can't remember what day they're doing. But I was like, oh, that could be cool to go see. Well, obviously it's all weekends now. Yeah. So, yeah, I can't remember. 

I, and I was like, wait, fly Leaf with Lacy STM. I was like, what? I can't believe they resurrected that. Thank you. Wow. I don't know if I wanna go see it. 

I was trying to cross my fingers and hope that they play sick. I was trying to find their, can't find anything on this page. It like, redirected me back to their things to do this weekend. Uh, fly leave is at 2 p.m. on July 1st day. 

Uh, I'll see if I can make it son of a gun. You know what you do, right? Show up at the very beginning. Hi, I, right. I'll be back. No, no, no, no. 

What you do is you go, hey, Josh, I'm calling in a marker. Calling in a marker. Calling in a favor. What's he gonna do? Save me a spot. 

No, he's gonna let the dogs out. 00, I don't care about that. Oh, so that's even if I even start watching the dogs on the first. It's no, it's, uh, friends graduation, graduation party. So I can, yeah, it's, it's gonna be in Milwaukee so I'll still be close. Ok. So I could show up there. 

Stay for, like, a half hour. But I, I'll be right back. I'm going to summerfest for a minute and then I'll come back. It was very possible. Yeah, because it's at the American Family Insurance House. Ok. Hm. Because the next thing there is at four. So that's at two. 

There's probably a 45 minute set. Yeah, 45 to an hour. Although I'm really upset by this and I almost got fooled and now I'm really upset what I read. Red hot chili. Oh, it's not red hot chili peppers. No, it's not. Do you want to guess what the last word is? Uh, because I think I saw that and I was like, really, what is it? 

Red hot chili puppets puppets. Yeah. It's so stupid. And it's at, of course it is what the Northwestern Mutual Community Park brought to you by Northwestern Mutual. You gotta go to it now. No. No, I don't. No, no, I don't. 

That's just all for you. And they, they do that twice in the same day. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. I have to be careful what I say because, like, if I say too much, like they can construe it as me, well, um, advocating for Northwestern Mutual and then I can get in trouble at work. I'm like, really? I was like, you know what I'm done with you guys? 

I don't care, be gone, be gone evil once. But I did find something perfect for you at the Wisconsin State Fair on the main stage. It's on Tuesday, August 8th. Perfect for me. Take your nephews. Oh, no, no, I know this is good. And your niece. No, I ain't doing it. Why? What do you think it is? What it is? I ain't doing it. 

It's the kid bop. Never stop live tour. Right. I think they'd be hurling with me. Tickets start at 26 bucks. Absolutely. No, I'm not spending that much on them for that. 

I was just sitting there watching. I was like, yep. Oh, that's still around. And they're live on tour. Yeah, I saw that and I was like, yeah. 

Ok, let's see what he does. Some things just need to die and that's one of them. But, yeah, I'm, I'm really looking forward to the summer. Just kind of being relaxing a little bit. Yeah. Um, it always seems that no matter how free my schedule looks, it gets slammed, it gets slammed. But I think this summer I might actually have some free time or I'm not doing much and I encourage everyone to do that because it is wonderful to do that. 

Take a break, just quit your jobs for the summer. Yeah. Don't do that. Don't follow the, er, plan that doesn't work. Out in life how it hurts financially. It gets to be. Really. Yeah, this is one of the first summers where besides Ambrose don't have any graduation parties to go to. That's nice. There is, uh, because this is still technically summer. 

But, uh, Grand Rapids. Oh, yeah, that's right in September. That is, that'll be entertaining on many levels. Why you follow your own art? It's weird. Yeah, it is. But it, it will be good, I think, and it will be fun. Oh, absolutely. And just visiting Grand Rapids will be a blast again. 

That, that is always a thing I look forward to and then lead Dr to fall, lead Dr to winter, potentially P A in the winter again, potentially depends if they call quits before then or not. Why would you say that? Because I like doing that to you and seeing what happens. That's why, but it's gonna be filled with me doing security at youth group all every other week. Um They're gonna put me on the soundboard rotation. So that's gonna busy up my Sundays really quick, especially Sundays where I do youth group and soundboard. 

That's a whole day. It literally is. I, I will get there at like 6 36 45. I'll leave at one and I have to be back by 6 30. Oh, wow. Yeah, I was singing earlier than 6 30 or you screw back. Yeah. Yeah. And the kids start arriving around 6 30. The leader, leaders, they had to be there at, what about, like, 5 30 5, 36? Because they, like, over the plan for the day and all that. But security, we just walk in and be like, ok, make sure no one brings the weapons, making it out in the back room. 

Make sure no one's leaving doors open for others to get in, doing that sort of stuff, you know, sneaky little Children. No, I'm sure you were a sneaky little child. I was absolutely not. Yeah, that's all a lie was angel. Really? No. Are you gonna try to pull that one off? 

I mean, I was good for a while then. What happened? What do you owe my mama for? Oh, it's just the joy of being the gear guy for music stuff. Oh. What all gear do you got to bring now? 

Well, hopefully just a single amb, just a single amp. Yeah, which is also at church. Oh, well, that'll be fun for you. Yeah, that's the kind of fun stuff the summer will bring upon just random last minute stuff. Hey, can you do this? Hey, can you do that? 

Oh, then open mic nights. I kind of want to hit up some more open mic nights this like to play or to listen and potentially play for sure. Listen. But potentially, or are you gonna play your own stuff? Some other stuff? I know you're doing one with Mr Anakin. Yes. Yeah. And I mean, she's gonna be hitting him up a ton or just open mic nights in general. So I'm sure he'll want me to play with him from time to time. 

It'd be, I don't know if I, like, if I had, if I had like, songs of my own just down and, well, if I ever had lyrics and someone to sing over it, then I would definitely do it. But why you saying yourself? Nope. Uh uh gosh, that's something my old man was asking me. Um, when I went to an open mic night thing and I got back, I was like, so would you sing? And I was like, no, it's like, oh, like, why are you, what I was like, why are you? So like, I don't know. So you're gonna sing tonight? How are you gonna, you can do some singing? No. So it's weird. I came out of nowhere now. 

No, I don't think it's terrifying. I can't, I will make you this problem. Promise, dear, problem. This promise this promise to your internet. 

I will go to Aaron's open nights, open mic nights. I will record it. No, you won't. Mhm. No, you won't because you won't know where I'm at. 

I know how to get this information, uh, from who, who's gonna tell you what, if it's my own stuff and you're singing the, but no, no, not me singing. Then I just had to find your singer. But what if you don't know the singer. Mm. All I have to do is Ping Lucas, Jonah and Andy. And between the three of them I should be able to have information. Oh, and Peter, between the four of them I should, I should be able to have information on who is doing it. And where, and at what time also I would probably ping you and be like, Aaron. When are you doing this? And you'd probably be like, oh, I'm gonna record it nowhere. 

I'm not, I'm not, I canceled. Mhm. I need to clip that. Mhm. We'll see what happens. It would be fun to do some open mics though. It's been, what, two weeks, you know? Oh, yeah. I can't, why, why am I, I can't think of who does that. But no. Um, really wait, isn't it? You know? Mhm. Yeah. What? No. Oh, come on, the, the name of the song is called one week or it's one week since you looked at me. Sorry. Yeah, it's not the bear. Is it really? The band nagged ladies? Yes, it is. Oh, it's on off their album. Stunt Stunt. Yep. Release date. 1989. A duration. Two minutes, 49 seconds. 

This is a short song that can't be right on the release date. That can't be right. No, no. 1989. That is not right. What if it is? 

That was way before. Yeah. And this, yeah, that sounds more right. What? 1998. How do they get, I guess, dyslexic, you know. 

Yeah, because 1998 and then there was a 20 year album, the 20th anniversary edition of Stunt released. Yeah. Ok. In 2018. That makes more sense because it was like, 89 that's too early for that style of music. Yeah, that's true. Because 89 like, in my head they're still doing, like, you know, little, uh, four man choir pieces and that, like, I still felt like that, that old. No. But yeah, I have a feeling a lot of music is going to be playing in my ear holes this summer. Oh, yeah. Whether they live or in concert or well, isn't live in concert kind of the same thing? 

Well, I mean, open mic is not a concert. It's just, no. Ok. Yes. If you're going to open mic night stuff. Yeah. Oh, we already go on June 21st, the first day of summer, the day this episode comes out we're gonna go see you and Anakin perform. Josh. Lovely. Well, we'll see how practice goes tonight, by the way. I love that. Both me and you have him as Anakin. 

Uh, that was completely unintentional. Um, yeah, that was entertaining. I was like, wait, what do you have? Do you have as Jonah Anakin the last name? Ok, me too. And I bring, I bring Proof. Wait, I can't. Ok. That's awesome. That is so funny. Oh, ok. Well, then Um, yeah, man, I'm just looking forward to summer to relax outside. 

I just want nights at a bonfire, you know. You know, you know what we should do. What? Just screw with my mother a little bit. Ok. Have a fire at my place, at my mom's place, Mike Book burning. What? While smoking a cigar burning, Mike Lindell books. She still asked me, what did you send to the, to someone about my book? 

I said nothing, mother, nothing at all. Uh, but yeah, that would be fun. That's actually something that I do want to do. I just don't have schedule. If I have to put it on the schedule with you, we'll put it on the schedule. 

She's like, because I got more than enough wood at my mother's place to do a fire and it's gonna be ages until Josh is ready with the fire. Him. And why did he tear down the fire pit? I mean, I know why, but, hm, he's gonna build a new one. Better be good. And then he's building a potty pit. Wait what? Yeah, for the dogs, what? In the far corner where the gravel is? 

It's gonna be a spot for the dogs to go potty. So it doesn't get over his grass. We'll see how long that lasts. He has to train him to use that spot. Yeah, that, that's, that's his plan. 

At least that's not gonna happen. You know, enough electrotherapy. Think anything's possible. We'll find out. That's so funny. I know. I'm just looking forward to the summer, just relaxing, enjoying a little more time outside, having a good time and just not having to deal with the crazies. 

You know, there's enough crazies out there and next year we'll be knee deep in political ads 24 7 by the time we hit summer. Yep. Because elections coming in 2024 and you know that what that means? A nightmare. Yeah, I, it, yeah, nightmares come off. Shapes and forms already. Yeah. Is it what I just say, like, is every presidential election this wild or is it just literally getting more and more crazy? 

It's just getting more and more crazy as we go through because I was like, I was too young to like, really be aware of all the political stuff for like Bush and Obama. And what wasn't it? Uh, wasn't it Bush versus well, no, not, not Bush and Obama. That, that would have been, uh, John mccain and Obama. But, yeah, like no as Bush and John, uh, John carry the whole Florida election stuff. Hanging chads. Yeah, when they're using paper ballots, you know, it's supposed to punch all the way through and leave no, like area. 

The chad is like, you punch it but it's still stuck onto the paper. And so the, there was a big legal thing of should that count or not because it's hanging. Chad. Got you. So all all the fun stuff going on there. But, yeah. Yeah. So what are you looking for to most this summer? And how many videos of Aaron should I upload of him singing at his open mic nights? What make, what makes you think? 

I'm singing at my open mic nights. All I have to do is run it through something like talking heads and it can make you sing. Remember I did that one song. Make you sing. But it's not me singing. No, I, but I could record whoever's singing and put it, having me mouth, make it look like I'm mouthing in. Maybe. Yeah. What I do is use like one of those A I voice generator. I see. That's where I was getting nervous right there and make you. 

It's not like I don't have enough voice samples of you. Yeah. You've got way too many. So I could destroy my life with all the voice samples and you could destroy my life with all the stuff, you know about me. So, we're good. We're even probably not. 

I don't know how to go about it. Speaking of which I found the talking head that I created a long time ago, but I can't play it right now. But yes. So, so how many of those should I make of Aaron as he, uh, sings? Yeah. At his open mic nights. 

If they even happen now, they should, they should, I'll come and support you still. We'll see what happens. I have to figure out what, what nights they are. We're coming to support you and Anakin on Wednesday. Yeah. The 21st. Yeah, because they normally, maybe I should tell the Venus so she can come too. 

Uh, she doesn't want to see that. Oh, I'm sure she would, she would be like, Anna can make Erin sing. Oh, but she's gotta help out with, like, youth group or something. She can't make it, she can take off for a special reason. 

It's always allowable, allowable. Yeah, allowed. It's allowed. So, how many should I do with a singing quote unquote at is open mic night? And I have to work. Should we post the open mic of him and Anakin? 

Oh, I'm sure he wouldn't care. I'm sure he would actually love it if someone recorded his open mic night. If he does. Well, uh, I have faith in New York. All. I have faith in you all. Well, anyways enjoy your summer and we'll catch you later. Bye.