The $200 Lemonade Stand

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0:04Yeah Hi, I'm Dave Barnes And I'm John McLaughlin. And welcome to Dadville. Dadville is a podcast where we talk about life, love, and the pursuit of awesome dadding. It's funny thoughts and deep talks. So please, enjoy your time here in Dadville and enjoy this episode with... Dave and me. John. Speaking of the biggest podcast in the world. We are back at Dadville, everybody. Oh, man. Oh, dear goodness. Dave, can I ask you a question? I love it. This sounds like we're doing an ad, but we're not. No, we're not. This is real, yeah. This is an ad for friendship. How are you doing?

0:51I was taking a drink when you did it. Oh, boy. God, it's early for you to be drinking that. Listen. Whatever. It's Thursday. It's weekend somewhere. My college roommates and I, in college, we had this joke that I don't know if it'll translate. So Jason, you can cut this out if you want, but we would always be like, it's kind of like the youth pastor who would visit the school at lunch. Yeah, at lunch, yeah. Hey man, how you doing? Not really. How you doing? Like arm on the shoulder. You know, one of my favorite bits, a buddy of mine, Andy Wilson, used to do this and it would get me laughing no matter the context he said it in.

1:28it would if anybody said anything that was funny and everybody was laughing he would immediately grab two shoulders and go God thank you for laughter thank you for a chance to be together and it would every time you know it's like jokes you can't it's just gonna get you every time that was one of them and they're almost funnier when they don't work yes oh yeah yeah yeah yeah sometimes it would be like one person would laugh and he would and you're like God now it's funny again so you know how am I doing and I'm gonna shoot I'm gonna shoot that right back at you too how are you doing and I feel like one thing we can answer don't deflect no okay don't deflect one thing we can both talk about that would have to do with how we're doing is this ice storm that we just navigated here in Nashville now this is gonna be tricky we wanna be sensitive yeah because you and I yeah I know I never lost power yeah we obviously John and I living across the street from each other, which doesn't necessarily matter.

2:28I know. Sometimes one of us doesn't have power. The other one does. Yeah. But we, in fact, both had power, which is such a blessing because how many people did they say? Was it 250 ,000 people or something? I don't know if it was 250 ,000 people or 250 ,000 households. I think it was in the hundreds, the households. But anyway, it doesn't matter. A lot. Let's not fight over it. There's a lot of people who didn't have power. I agree to disagree. And so, yeah, we never lost power like y 'all. But what a crazy week. Yeah. I mean, you know, the closest I know to that. Did y 'all ever deal with that in Indiana at all?

3:07Because y 'all would have snow, not ice. Oh, we'd get tons of ice. Really? In Indiana? Yeah. Oh, I just assume y 'all are north enough y 'all would get snow. Well, we got both. Okay. Yeah. It was very Arendelle-esque. Well played. yeah i remember as a kid in fact i was just talking with my grandmother the other day we were talking about ice storms like there was one in like the late 80s where like we stayed my family stayed at my grandparents for like it felt like a couple weeks because we didn't have power yeah ice storm of 88 or something like that there were there were multiple times where this would happen but i mean you know that's spanning like decades yeah but it was kind of fun thinking like this will be how I think of like the ice storm of 88.

3:57Yep. Back in the 1900s. This is how my kids are going to view last week. You know, and it was really fun. I will say for me, a struggle that I can have when we're having lots of people over at the house is like, and I feel like I have gotten way better at this. We'll have to see what Amy thinks about that statement, but I've gotten better at not tidying all the time. And one of my things that I can't stand is a grocery bag on the counter, an empty grocery bag. I know this about you. Well, you've texted me just pictures of empty grocery bags. I'll send you on counters. It's something about it. I just can't.

4:40But like, you know, our entire front room, the entry room into the house is covered in snow gear. Yeah. There's just boots everywhere. It looks like, you know, Patagonia exploded, you know. And I was just like, I'm just going to be fine with it. It's fine. Everything's going to be fine. It's totally fine. There's going to be tons of people. And it was really fun. It was a fun week. And clarify, and the reason was because y 'all were hosting people the whole time. Y 'all had people in there in your house that whole week. Yeah. which was I think last night was the first night since whatever whenever the the ice storm hit that we it was just the four of us that is crazy at the house because there were still some um families who you know they had lost power so they were kind of like shipping their kids off to just sleepovers and places so yeah we're definitely like out of our we're getting back into sort of our rhythm yeah but yeah it was a fun week I felt like Did you find, like, how did you do with kind of like, quote unquote, not having anything to do?

5:53Well, I will say it came at a pretty good time in terms of like my schedule. Or just, you know. Work-wise. Or just kind of feeling like, okay, this has been two days in a row where I've sat in the living room talking all day. Yeah, yeah. You know, did you ever get like twitchy? No, I really didn't. I mean, some of the friends that stayed with us, we have, you know, kind of gone on trips with them a lot. And so it kind of felt like we were just on one of those trips together, you know. And then there would be people coming over like midday where it's like a new, it's like the day kind of resets.

6:37Oh, like Kel and Matt are coming over because their house is 40 degrees. That's a great way to put it. It resets. Yeah. It's like round two. There's 2.0. Tuesday 2.0 starts at like 1.45. Yeah. That's how it felt. It's like they come in and, you know, yeah, you're hosting. So you're like, you ask all the, hey, can I get you anything? Have you guys eaten? What do you need to do? A friend of ours just came over and just showered, you know? Yeah. So you are constantly doing laundry and constantly sort of like cleaning and sort of prepping and all that kind of stuff. But I thought it was really fun.

7:13And when you say you, you mean I. You are constantly cleaning. Amy goes into host mode too. Yeah. But yeah, I thought it was great. How was your experience with all that? It was the same. I mean, it was really sweet. I mean, at the risk of sounding like, you know, a little maybe that guy-ish. but it really is cool to have a community where people... This may sound weird, but I think you'll know what I mean. It's such a blessing when people let you host them. Because I know that's a weird... Father, thank you for community. Just a chance to laugh, a chance to be joyful. While we're joyful, we also are thankful for hard times.

7:57But I know that sounds weird, but the older I get, I think the more I've realized that it's a gift to let people take care of you. And I think we can, God, this is going to sound like something from the night. We can withhold blessings. But, you know, we can really like, yeah, there's no way to say it. I think we can really withhold blessing people by letting us be taken care of. In other words, if you're in a situation, this is the best way to say it. But Brad, my brother, and Allie, his wife, and their son, Teddy, who's too, stayed in our back house in that room. The other room in here. And the whole week.

8:37And I think it'd be easy to just go, no, we're going to get a hotel. Like Brad, you know, Brad could afford it. And just do that way. But it just meant the world to me. He was like, hey, can we stay? Or I think I texted him and said, hey, if y 'all need somewhere to stay. And he was like, hey, I think we're going to do that if you're cool with it. And they were here, I think, five nights. yeah and and you know at any point he had brad's so sweet like there are two different times like hey do we need to get a hotel are we and it was like no like we loved having them and to your point it really you said that really well it really felt like we were on a trip somewhere because you know we brad never you know he would take a work call every now and then or i would have to jump on you know uh email for something but it was really minimal like super minimal and so you know you really are just spending all this time with these people with absolutely focused attention and in that and it just meant a lot to me that that he was he was like okay we'll come stay there instead of like you know because so many of our friends and mutual friends went downtown or nashville hotels were amazing to locals and letting them i think they gave them really good deals and you could take your pets in yeah which is great um and so i think it's a really i don't know it's cool to be a part of a community where where you have people that are Like, we will let you take care of us.

9:54Yeah, there is something really sweet about that. You know, it's really cool. And then, like, y 'all, we had a few days in a row where people would kind of, you said that so well, too. Like, kind of, you know, round two, where you're like, all right, so these two families are coming over, too. They're going to wash clothes. A couple of them are going to take a shower. You know, we'd have, you know, some game or movie on for the kids or whatever and the dads. And so it was just such a, it was great. It was like, you know, my extroversion was absolutely satiated, which I don't know many times in my life I've ever felt like that.

10:28Like, wow. Like, I. Like, you felt like you reached kind of the limit? Potentially, yeah. Yeah. By the end of it, I was kind of like, man, I think I need like a minute just to kind of, you know. Because as you said, you're not just having people over. You really are hosting. You know, you're making sure everybody's got what they need. And it's tricky because even though the whole time we were with people that we know really well, but you're like, do they probably want their space at some point? Yeah, that's right. They don't want us to just be like, hey, he's just refilling their water constantly.

11:04you know um but i mean thankfully for me i could go out to my little shed for a little bit and just kind of get yeah there would be some things i would need to do yeah just that's where i keep all the cigarettes um and so i could go out there and do it for an hour and then i would feel productive yeah yeah and also just get a little bit of alone time yeah you know there's something that I think helps with something like that in my brain where it's like, we have people over, so you don't really want to do too much of that. I mean, it's fine if you step out from in here and there, but you know, I definitely feel like I don't want to, cause then like, I didn't want Brad to feel like, Oh shoot, should I go do something too?

11:50Or whatever. Um, but, but there's something kind of nice about such a weird week like that because you can't really exercise. eyes it's too icy like i had a couple times i was like man i wonder if i could get like a run in somewhere and i was like i think i'd break my neck so you could just stay inside and just flex all your muscles which is until you pass out honestly i don't know if i do that anyway but um true but um and we don't have a treadmill so i couldn't you know and i could have done like a one of those um p90x or something workouts but it was just like so it's kind of nice to be like this we're just gonna chalk this week up to like yeah and once you know that sort of clicks in your brain you're like yeah then we're just you know well and there was something to the fact that pretty much everyone was forced to do that i mean it it felt kind of covid-esque yeah that's a great way to put it yeah like you know during covid like like you said it was it was um the neighborhood was covered in ice so we're not going on walks we're not going to run but just the fact that like you know we did one of the nights we did walk down to the corner and um the mexican place here was open yeah masero masero and so we went there but there's there are no cars out yeah barely any people out yeah and everybody's yeah like friends of ours who work all the time you never see them during the week because they're just you know in lockdown mode they're just hanging yeah it's amazing yeah so it feels kind of unifying and like a like a exhaling kind of way you know

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17:39last three things i'll say one and for people who are listening who either live in like miami huge i know we have a huge listenership there the miami slash tallahassee contingency contingency is huge the facebook group for that dadville group is just but like you know when we say it was icy i mean imagine literally like a skating rink outside of your house like ice skating yeah everywhere so so not snow which we got but like by that second day it was you you really couldn't walk without slipping most i mean it was yeah and you didn't want to go outside because a tree limb well okay second second point i was going to say that's exactly right and it's hard to paint this picture clearly but like that first day when so this all happened on a sunday um when when the trees started falling because it's dead quiet because there's no cars yeah and and those of you who've been in ice rooms you know this but it is just the weirdest thing because you know you'd be sitting there and a lot of people didn't have power so they're really sitting in silence or whatever um we were using all of our electricity so much and so we really couldn't hear it we just turned things on i was i was installing new switches just to flip them i'm sorry what what tell me what you're doing again i just want one more it doesn't have to beat anything it doesn't have to be connected to anything

19:13but you know you would hear branches break yeah you'd hear trees fall i mean you know this tree that there are two um hackberries right behind my studio here that split. They were kind of two trees joined at the bottom and they split opposite ways and fell. And it sounded like a train. It sounded like a plane crashing. I jumped up and we were watching, I think soccer games that morning. And I jumped up and ran, because you hear the beginning of it, and you're like, okay, but it's right here. And I watched it fall. And by the grace of God, it just barely, some of the branches are on the roof, but I mean, it could have crushed this.

19:48And so it's just that in that day, you heard them about every 10, 15 minutes, a branch fall or a tree. Amy and I were just sitting in the front room while you're watching soccer. We were doing prayer. And every 15 minutes, we would hear something. And you just kind of brace for it. And then we would go outside and go window to window to see, like, okay, where was it? That's right. Yeah. So that was harrowing in its own way. called Al Andrews, friend of the pod, and Nita was in their room and heard it, screamed, ran out of the room, and a tree went into their bedroom. No way. And crushed their bed.

20:30Are you serious? So, I mean, you know. Wow. And I have another friend, Micah Talks, who mixed the record. A tree fell on his house. No. So, you know, it's such a weird, and then power's out, obviously. So it's like, and then again, And the last thing I'll say, I've never in my life as a human experienced how bizarre it is to drive around Nashville at the amount of trees and branches that are on the ground. In one way, you can literally pick any street in this city, especially Metro Nashville, and drive, and you're going to see downed trees and limbs literally everywhere. And now what's happening is you kind of can't go down a street without it looking like the entire side of the streets are covered in cut and organized or just kind of cut and thrown by the side of the street so people can pick them up.

21:29I mean, I've never experienced anything like that. It looks like 30 tornadoes ripped through Nashville at one time. And by the grace of God, I still haven't, and this is a huge blessing, I still haven't seen a lot of houses that have been hit, which is great. but I mean they are down trees it's I've never seen anything like it I know it's really bizarre yeah and trees were literally like exploding yeah that's right that's right because the sap yeah the sap would like expand or something and then did we text about how they have you have many earthquakes because of that oh that's right that sound I think we texted about that you would hear just like and it felt like somebody kicked your house like a giant kicked what is that for example I mean, there's something there you can dig into if you want.

22:18Thank you. But it really was bizarre. Like, there were just all these things. I didn't know about trees that explode. That's the real thing. Basically, what happens is the sap, what happens? It expands, I think. Yeah, because it freezes. Because it freezes. So it's bigger. Yeah. And the trees just explode. Yeah. Because all this ice is on the tree, which can add like 500 pounds to the tree. Yeah. And then, you know, it explodes from the inside a little bit. And then all that tension just gets away. And then there are such things as the ground. I forget what they're called, freeze earthquakes or something, which sounds like something I'd get at Dairy Queen.

22:57But literally, I mean, I texted David next door, our neighbor, because I was like, did you feel that? Because I ran around the house because I was sure that a pipe exploded. or I didn't know because I'd never felt that. Yeah. And then looked it up and it was like, oh, yeah, yeah. In fact, Nashville Severe Weather tweeted about it like almost immediately. I saw that. It was like, hey, if you're feeling these. And I was like, that's the – so it was just a weird week. It was really – It felt like the earth like – it was like Halloween and the earth was like, you know what? We're going to be like another planet for a little bit.

23:33Just for a one night. What is end times like? Let's just do a preview of end times. um and i'd say in in conclusion the thing that was also really weird about it is then you know because we had um teens weather for a while like i mean it was like you know we had overnight one night was like seven or five which is really unusual for nashville and then so it wasn't just that it you know we got this ice and the snow it was that then it doubled down and froze because Because we had cold, you know, like teen, a couple of those days, the highs were in the teens, a couple of days in a row after that.

24:07So it was like bedded in. It really, and so, but what was really bizarre was the beginning of this week, it got up to the 50s. And then the next day, it rained and was 50. And so all of the ice was just gone. It was like over about 24 hours, it was just completely gone. So weird. It was just such a bizarre, like you said. And it was gray. And I got to say, it was, you know, it's like one of those days. you know on like dreary gray days it's like everything just looks kind of gross yeah it was definitely like that and then add on like oh all the trees have exploded yeah it's you know it felt it's so weird post-apocalyptic yeah and this is where we take a hard right hand turn okay because we've that's yeah it's a little heavy that was that was like that's stuff's going on that's like you know this is this is like when you do check-ins you don't want to keep it heavy and dark, but that's kind of tough.

25:02Yeah. It's kind of tough, right? Even though we had great times, great week. It was a great week. But, you know, I have friends as of today, which today is the recording of this is the 5th of February, who still don't have power, by the way. Yeah. And some have been told it's going to be like this weekend. Yeah. And it's Thursday. What I want to do, what we did for the second half of this episode, what I want to do and what we've done is I've had some bits. Some stand-up bits. And let's not call them stand-up bits because they're not fully fleshed out. They're ideas. They're funny ideas. One of my favorite Dadville episodes we've done was when you and I went through those first ones that I had.

25:44That earthed maybe one of my favorite moments of this podcast where we talked about the Home Depot slip and slide, which I still think is one of the funniest things ever. and I will still have numerous random people grab me and say I think about the slip and slide at Home Depot all the time and if you don't know go find that episode it's episode number but

26:10okay so I've got a few here we're just going to do these and then we'll call it now what is this this is a note that you have in your phone that just whenever you think of something it's called stand up okay And so if I'm somewhere and I think of something, I'll just type it in there in the event that I do another stand-up show sometime. Or sometimes they'll make it into the music shows where I'm like, oh, that'd be funny just to intro this song with this thing. So these aren't in order of funny to not funny. I want to be really clear. So if we start slow. Now, is this the first time that you've publicly said some of these?

26:43Yeah, these are brand new. Okay. And so I'm just going to read what I have. And I think that's really important. So these are not... You're not punching these up? Yeah, there's zero punch up. Okay. Zero. We'll start with that. They're all going to make me laugh because I think they're funny. So I just want to warm up. I think these are funny. That's why I put them down. So if you hear me laughing through them, here's the first one. Does anyone else here... Sorry, I'm going to do this a lot. Does anyone else here just not want to make the Kroger meat cutting lady mad? Do you ever go get... Wait, wait.

27:21Let me read it again. The way that you... That was terrible. The grammar in that sentence is... Does anyone else here, this is like me talking to a crowd, just not want to make the Kroger meat cutting lady mad? You don't want to make her mad. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Have you experienced this dilemma at Kroger? Yeah. Most recently, I went to Publix. Yeah. And this was under the direction of our mutual friend, Barrett Ward, who is a... Incredible cook. Meat master. Yes. and so I'm already nervous because he's very particular. I don't know anything about meat. He is very particular. You're on an errand for him.

27:57Yeah. Oh, that's terrifying. Like he's going to grill some steaks. Yeah, this is nope. And he always grills them, and I'm like, well, at least let me go buy the steaks so that I feel like I'm contributing in some way. And he texts me what I need, and I'm like, is that exactly what I need to say? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you're always like, I want him to see that I'm reading this. I'm signaling to him, I don't know anything. I've never even seen me. Is this me? I don't know. I'm the messenger. Don't shoot me. Don't shoot me. But then I say what he's written. And of course, the first look on his face is like, these are all words.

28:35Apparently, he's never heard. I mean, you can read it. Do you want to read it out loud? Let's read it together. Yeah. Yeah. I feel that. There's an elder woman. Let's call her elderly woman. She's definitely in her probably 80s, late 70s. And then a younger man who both work in the meat department at this Kroger that I go to in Nashville. And I have had to wonder if I have killed someone that they're related to. Because when I walk up, the face they give me. I feel like you would know. Well, I don't know. Because the anger that they have makes me think I've missed something. because I will walk up.

29:15Yeah. So both of them are angry. One of them won't talk. I don't know that I've ever heard him say a word. Yeah. He kind of looks at you and he's like, oh, hey. You think he's a hostage situation? I mean, this is, so now this is my personality. Not a lot of people are like this, but this is how I am. I'm double, I'm, you've never met a kinder, more, what is it, penitent, repentant? What's that word? Pertinent? Penitent. Penitent, man. Oh my God, I'm so, hey. How are you? Okay. And then I know what I want to say, but now I'm super flustered. And I'm like, boar's head, horse bed. Nope. No, no, no.