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Welcome to Dear Old Dads, the podcast that's still putting in the effort. I'm Tom Curry.

I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, gentlemen. So I got to tell you guys a quick story. And I'm curious if you guys do the same thing that I'm about to do as soon as this call is over and I hang up. Drink water. No, I'm not drinking any water. Fuck that. That's poison. If it's not coffee, I'm not drinking it. So a couple of weeks ago, a week ago, I don't know, I rented a Home Depot truck. So I wanted to buy some weights. I found a real good deal on a bunch of dumbbells, which by the way are insanely expensive and you have to like troll around. It's so crazy. Yeah. If you start to buy like the heavier dumbbells, they are like $400 for a pair of like 100 pound dumbbells. You're iron. They're just rocks, heavy rocks. Right. It's insane. But on the other hand, doesn't it feel good that like, oh, I'm buying heft? You know, nowadays everything's a plastic piece of shit. You know, it feels good to be like, I'm just buying weight, man, like literally weight. Like it feels good.

Yeah, I think that they juice.

I really think that they increase the price as the weights go up.

The price per pound goes up as the weight goes up.

And I think they do it because they ego stroke people.

I think a bunch of fucking ego stroke dudes like, I'm buying the big weights or whatever.

They're course more expensive.

And then they just charge you because they charge $4 a pound out here for the heavier weights. That's what you're going to end up paying for it. But I found a guy in the marketplace that was selling them. It came out to about 80 cents a pound. But he was way the fuck out and I needed something that could hold. I was buying about 1,300 pounds of weights so it couldn't go in my car. I went to Home Depot. I rented a van. I go. I get Cecil. We drive all over God's Green Earth. We get this stuff. We drive him back and the weights back and drop this stuff off. It's a whole fucking thing. It took like four hours, but I was very pleased. I got all this stuff in the new house and I'm excited to put my gym together. I return the van. I get a phone call yesterday at some point, I think,

and I pick it up put my gym together. I return the van. I get a phone call

yesterday at some point, I think, and I pick it up and it's a guy from Home Depot and he says, hey, you know, you left your garage door opener in the van that, you rented for us. We've got it here. Can you come pick it up? I said, oh yeah, thanks so much for calling me. Really appreciate it. didn't think anything of it. Leaving a garage door opener in the van is something I absolutely would do.

In the back of my head, I thought, I don't remember bringing my garage door. Yeah, that I was going to ask you that. But I thought, yeah, I can see myself doing something stupid. That's, like, it's not out of the realm of, like, I actually don't ever remember anything that I do. What I do is I look back and I think, is that something that I would do?

And if it's something that like I would do What I do is I look back and I think is that

something that I would do. And if it's something that like I would do, I'll be like, nah,

sounds like me. And so I was like, yeah, I'll come pick it up. So I'm running a bunch of errands today and driving stuff around. I was like, oh, I got to swing by Home Depot. I got to grab that garage door opener.

So I go to Home Depot and I'm like waiting in the fucking line or whatever.

And I get to the guy and I was like, hey, I'm Tom.

You know, I guess I'm the guy who forgot his garage door opener in your van from last week. He said, oh, yeah, yeah, I've got your paperwork. And, you know, he doesn't ask for anything. He's like, last name. Yeah, here's my line. So, and he hands me a piece of papers taped to which is a garage door opener. And I don't even look at it. I just, oh, thank you.

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