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The Power's Point Podcast
EMMA
Ever wondered what it's like to swap the serene streets of Stockholm for the wide-open spaces of Nebraska? Our lovely guest Emma from Sweden does just that, sharing her eye-opening experiences and cultural observations that range from the curious to the hilarious. Together, we reminisce about the once-bustling shopping malls of yore, now laid low by the rise of online shopping. With humor as our guide, we recall the holiday chaos of crowded malls and muse over peculiar modern-day shopping quirks.
As the holiday season edges closer, we get caught up in the whirlwind of last-minute shopping and the surprising speed at which holiday films hit streaming platforms. Our chat takes a funny turn with tales of celebrity antics, including The Rock's infamous punctuality, and the increasing popularity of digital gifts over traditional toys. Picture this: sneaking toys into carts and even "borrowing" from others—yes, we've done it all. The discussion extends to childhood gift preferences, from treasured action figures to the now-coveted gift cards for online gaming platforms.
Ready for a bit of whimsy? Our playful banter continues with quirky "would you rather" scenarios that will have you chuckling. Imagine choosing between sticky hands or slimy feet, or debating the merits of a floating house versus an underwater hotel. As Emma joins in on the fun, we also touch on the heartwarming aspects of Christmas traditions and the joyous bonds formed through cultural exchange. With thoughtful reflections on personal growth, seasonal traditions, and a teaser of more fun to come with Emma Hayward, this episode is packed with laughter, nostalgia, and insightful conversations.
Thank you for joining us on today's show, as always, we appreciate each and every one of you! Talk to you soon.
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On this episode of the Powers Point Podcast, we have a talk with Emma, who comes all the way from Sweden. We get her thoughts on America, learn a little bit about Sweden and throw some this or that questions at her. Hey Scott, give us a Swedish beat.
Speaker 2:There's a story of a girl from across the sea, emma from Sweden, where the lakes run free. She packed her bags, left her town behind for Nebraska skies and the prairie kind From Stockholm. The cornfields is quite a leap, trading icy fjords for a town. That's sweet, emma. Emma from the land of blue and gold came to Nebraska with a heart so bold. Now she's on the Powers Point Podcast too, telling her story and meeting the crew.
Speaker 3:Well, hello, hello, welcome to the Powers Point Podcast, season 5, episode 35. It's another fun-filled, action-packed episode and we got our two favorite people back with us. We got good old Jim Banks Hello, I'm sorry I got good old Jim Banks Hello, I'm sorry I got Jim. Jim don't like his last name said as much.
Speaker 1:He said that's weird when it's like in the song or Well, we're friends, we're all friends, so we can you know, we don't need last names.
Speaker 3:Right on, right on, and with us again joining us for the fifth time. We've got Keith, what's going?
Speaker 4:on hello everybody.
Speaker 3:Thanks for having me back again with no mentions of uh game creating or anything else, and the man from toledo and just good old keith that was that work, that works, that's good for me.
Speaker 3:So what do you guys been up to this week, anything? I mean we're getting closer to that Christmas date. I mean the holidays are filling up people. You'd think they would be more cheerful out there, but it's kind of like you drive by them and they're like up yours. I almost got ran over by a car. I was walking in the parking lot and some old lady backed up real fast and then yelled at me and flipped me off. Well, you went to the mall lot and some old lady backed up real fast and then yelled at me and flipped wood off.
Speaker 1:Well, you went to the mall and if I know the mall that last time I was there, you can almost die every time.
Speaker 3:Well, the mall today. Man, I was just discussing this with Karen. You know we recorded earlier with our guest Emma. I went to the mall with Karen and it was dead. Really, it was not like the mall from like 20 years ago, you know. Yeah, I mean they had Christmas decorations out, but it wasn't like they're so spread apart that you don't really notice. There's no Christmas music playing, and it's just weird man.
Speaker 1:Because the mall back when we were kids I you remember, scott, the one that I, we both go to, that you went to, it was the 80s and 90s you could the week of christmas. You couldn't go there to shop anytime because the whole parking lot was all the way to the back, all the way around it. You, I mean, you were like driving for for 10 minutes looking for a spot.
Speaker 3:Now you got half the stores closed in the mall. Wow, there's more jewelry stores in the mall than everything else. They try to sell fake gold stuff for overpriced rates. Keith, you guys got a big mall in your Toledo area that you used to go to. Have you seen any changes?
Speaker 4:We used to have four major malls that we used to be able to go to, yeah, and one of them was a place called Southwick Mall that had a place called Old Town in it. That was like kind of an extended arcade. It was like a fun of an extended arcade that had it was like a fun house and an arcade and I can't remember. I believe like there was like child abductions here we go again with with the happy talking, um, but so that's why that ended up getting shut down.
Speaker 4:But that mall was pretty cool, uh, in general, but that one I think was the first one to go and then we had one that was not necessarily walking distance from my house but when I was think was the first one to go. And then we had one that was not necessarily walking distance from my house but when I was a teenager I would walk to. It was another mall called the Woodville mall, which that one got completely demolished, and we do have one now that's called a Westfield mall, which is about 20 minutes from my house and they have the movie theater and, um, all the, basically, you know, the foot locker and whatever else like that, and all the jewelry stores, stuff like Sears I think it's still Sears, it may not be Sears, but those kind of stuff like that and I found that I would go Christmas shopping and every year I would find that everything they had was the same stuff that I didn't buy the previous year, that's funny they added like one more phone case kiosk.
Speaker 3:Yeah, there's no good. They closed the coffee shops in our mall. Oh wow, half the food court are gone. You know, when food court restaurants start closing down, everything's going to start closing down. Everything's gonna start closing down because online shopping.
Speaker 3:That's what's killing the whole thing yeah, you know I like doing online shopping, just so I don't have to deal with gas, with how much gas costs nowadays I mean, it's coming down. You know, I don't have to deal with assholes out there like bumping in the. You hit me with cards because I seem to be a magnet to those and, uh, I always get ran over by the handicapped and the motorized scooters, and like the grocery stores, and it's always my fault, you know. And and they don't like being called out when they're riding the motorized scooters. But yet they'll get out. Look around. They're like Ray on Trailer Park Boys. They'll stand on top of the scooter to get the stuff off the top shelf and then look again and sit back down. Who are they kidding? And then, like, if you're by them, by yourself. They're like can you help me? No, no, no, I just seen you stand up on the top of this. And after, like, can you help me?
Speaker 4:no, no, no, I just seen you stand up on the top of this, and that's the reason Scott's gonna have a team of Christmas speaking of Ray, the interview that you guys did with him on the majors mess hall, the part that I thought was the coolest was the fact that it seemed like you and him were like lifelong friends, did you not? Did you not get that vibe? It seemed like you know what I mean. It seemed like he was cool with Gavin, but it was like when he talked to you you know what I mean it seemed like you guys had a had, like a thing to where you know I mean you, you guys seem like you were. You were really cool, like he's a, he's a cool guy.
Speaker 3:Six shares next month for those listening that's cool and again. I don't like cake. I'm already a fat boy dude, so uh uh.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3:For those listening. Be sure that you're tuning in next week, because it's it is the Christmas episode. Jim already said he may not be with us, but no, well, it's not definitive yet. If you, boys and girls, are all good maybe Gotta check the naughty or nice list you gotta put it on your Christmas list, you gotta put Jim on your Christmas list. Hey, speaking of naughty and nice, you know we talked about some movies last week, or Red One's already on Prime Video.
Speaker 1:I don't understand how they do that with movies.
Speaker 3:It seems like it has only been out like three weeks.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I remember back in the day you had to wait like six months for a movie to get on cable or something.
Speaker 4:If not longer.
Speaker 3:You know what that movie flopped in the theater, but I enjoyed it. Know, the rock wasn't. He was the rock, but he wasn't like like. I mean, chris evans did more than he did.
Speaker 1:So it's a really good movie and they just got the rock just to get like ratings or something, or thinking that was gonna go good, good, but he's been, I think, oversaturized and everything.
Speaker 3:You heard about him in this movie, right, he would always show up on set eight to 12 hours late.
Speaker 1:Oh, I heard stuff about the Shazam debacle or the uh, was it?
Speaker 3:black Adam black Adam.
Speaker 1:I heard all that like like bits and pieces. I'm like, oh my gosh, no.
Speaker 4:Well, yeah, he was doing it on Fast and Furious. I thought too.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and he pisses in these water bottles and then gives it to his assistant, his personal assistant, to go empty them out. That's just weird man.
Speaker 1:I think they would have put somebody else, an up-and-coming star that hasn't got to that top level, to be in that character or something that might have been a launching pad or something. Wow.
Speaker 4:That's not the first time I've heard that rumor. I heard the same thing about the King of Pop, MJ.
Speaker 1:Uh-oh yeah.
Speaker 3:Axl Rose does the same thing, man. He shows up like two to three hours late for a concert. It makes you want to go home. Cory feldman, when he was about to come to south haven. He was supposed to be there at seven. He rolled up there at 12 30. I had to wait for him. Place was closed, man, and he's like where's everybody at you know? And I had to tell him you were not. That was my only interaction with cory, but what else you guys doing to get ready for the holidays?
Speaker 1:Just finalizing shopping and stuff and tiny bit of finalizing decorating.
Speaker 3:You still got a lot of shopping to do.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we just got invited to a party with her family. We didn't know about it until like a week ago. Family, we didn't know about it till like a week ago and we didn't know we were gonna. We know there was kids there to get gifts for, but we didn't know there was like a gift exchange with the adults. Everybody had somebody. We were told who we had and now we got to get gifts for that and we're like, ah, we had, we had the budget strategic with bills and gifts and now we gotta squeeze in this that's just like, depending on where I have the blessing of making things.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's, that's always like the popular toy amongst the kids, like Jimmy's ages, and now these see that's what I've realized that it's not really toys anymore a lot it's all digital stuff like roblox or uh, what is that other one? Fortnite or something or a steam, those uh, online gaming things. You just get them a gift card, that's all they want. Stuff they don't.
Speaker 3:They don't really want like physical toys that seems to be what everybody wants nowadays is just gift cards. Yeah, you know, because you give them like an Amazon card and they get what they want. They don't have to go wait in line to return anything and they don't feel bad.
Speaker 1:Me and my coworker we go down the toy aisle a lot and we see the same toys and they're all loaded up with toys but nobody's really buying like they used to the next generation.
Speaker 3:You know, when I come to your store I always look around, because when I really wanted a toy back in the day, I'd hide it on the top shelf or go behind the Barbies and the Legos to find like a action figure, like he man or something. And I still like walk around and look and I actually do find things, man, and I'm like, oh man, somebody want this, I'm going to move with it.
Speaker 1:And I'm just nobody. No, it's just nobody. Cleaning up is what it is.
Speaker 3:But there's been times man, I'm not going to lie lie like I want something and I see it in the cart of somebody else's and when they're like looking around, I just take it out and keep walking, and then I oh my gosh, you, you see, you wonder why bad things happen to you like.
Speaker 3:When I see a gi joe figure, I want. You know I had to get rid of like, uh, 12 of them in september. If I see a GI Joe figure, I want you know I had to get rid of like 12 of them in September. If I see a GI Joe figure, I want, even though I'm 51, I play dirty still man, that's never changed.
Speaker 4:What if you did that and then you went back in the aisle and there was like 10 more still sitting there? It was completely unnecessary. You hear someone cussing in the next aisle.
Speaker 3:What the hell did you do with that toy? You know, like yelling at their kids. I can only buy it if I do it this way. But hey, I feel better when I do stuff like that man. But you know what? Also the opposite happens, like when I see a kid and he really wants something or he's really eyeballing it and I'm like, well, I don't really need it, I'll give it to him. You know, like I'll give it to the parent and they're like, oh, thank you, you know, but so it's a game of. Uh, I don't know, it's a game for me.
Speaker 4:Yeah, come on, you guys don't do that stuff uh, you told me a story about you faking a kid out before. I don't know if you remember that. You said you showed something. You said, hey, kid, did you want to buy this? And he says yeah. And he says, well, it's too bad because I'm getting it.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh. Oh, you just like messing with people.
Speaker 3:No, man, it's like I'm a collector man and you know, like you got the Hot Wheel collectors man. They go in and they know when the store opens, man, and they go straight for the aisle and if they still see the Matchbox or Hot Wheels box is still sealed up, they just take the whole box and then they take it and take it to the front of the store and they pay.
Speaker 4:No, they don't really buy them. No.
Speaker 1:Not stout, I just had to remark down these 20-packs, they're like holiday for Hot Wheels. Yeah, someone the other day opened up, opened the end and slid it out and then took out just one car from each one.
Speaker 3:Whatever they went over to chase to chase sir.
Speaker 1:Yeah, whatever the chase, the chase one was, they took the one out of each one. And I'm like you, you freaking idiots. You're that low that you're? You're stealing hot wheel cars at a walmart, you know you're.
Speaker 3:You suck, how low are you now I know how you feel about me it's like it's dumb. I don't always feel good when I do it. What else Decorating?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:You guys done.
Speaker 1:No, I'm still going to be doing it tonight.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you got to work tomorrow and you're still going to do it tonight.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'll probably get just a couple hours sleep.
Speaker 3:That's all you need. You're still a young pup.
Speaker 1:Yeah, young pup Still wet behind the ears. What about the Christmas Eve and Christmas Day food? You guys planning it or you got plans or anything?
Speaker 3:We got the menu. You know we sit around and we have like a ham we don't have turkey on Christmas and a lot of nibbling stuff like meatballs and sausage and kraut.
Speaker 1:What about the figgy pudding?
Speaker 3:No figgy pudding man. How about you guys for dinner or planning?
Speaker 4:We're having ham and the turkey I've um, we normally don't get the ham because I'm pretty much the only one who likes ham and uh, but this year we're getting one. We get um, I got to pick it and so I picked like a pre-sliced one usually. If we, if when I used to go out to the in-laws and they would have like the honey baked ham, I would enjoy that there's going to be a ham there. But I don't know something about that honey baked. It's like it tastes like, like it has cinnamon or something like on it that I didn't necessarily care for that much, probably like clothes, yeah, something like that I hate clothes.
Speaker 3:It's like. I love kentucky legend ham and that's what we usually get like, only me and karen it. So I just buy a seven-pound ham. That way I'll make a ham salad. That is the one thing that I will eat leftover. How about you, Jim? Any kind of food?
Speaker 1:Christmas Eve will be like for Italian families. It's the night of the seven fishes, and you've got to have seven different types of fish on Christmas Eve, and we usually have like a cheese pizza or something for the kids if they don't like fish, and then someone might bring like a little bit of ham too. It's like a real big thing.
Speaker 3:I've never heard of this.
Speaker 1:Yeah. I've been doing it since I was a kid my grandma and grandpa's house. I just was wondering of this yeah, I've been doing it since I was a kid my grandma and grandpa's house.
Speaker 3:I just was wondering, like, who prepares this? Like all the families.
Speaker 1:We've been getting the fish from that Johnson's Fish Place in Lake Station.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's a good place.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we usually get. We just pick out the different types of fish and just get a big like pound or two pound size and just we order it and then pick it up that night and then right before the everybody gets there.
Speaker 4:Oh, I'm definitely getting, uh, one of those Pepperidge farm samplers. You remember, though they have like the sausage and the cheese and all those things like that. My uncle Bob uh, got arrested, so I used to get one every year and we probably haven't had one man it's. It's been a while, but uh, that was like kind of like a tradition when I was a kid, was we would go next door. Uh, my grandmother and my uncle lived next door to us growing up and so that was always our Christmas Eve. Was, we would go spend Christmas Eve with my grandma, my uncle and then my aunt Patty and uncle Kurt, and, um, that kind of ended when my you know, when my grandma and then my uncle passed. But uh, I think my dad and everybody else would would probably dig one of those and bring back, like, uh, some little Russian nostalgia, you know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's, it's like. You like Pepperidge farms and I love Hickory farms.
Speaker 4:I, you know, I don't know, I don't know the difference. It might be Hickory Farms, I can't remember which one it was.
Speaker 3:I love the summer sausages and the smoked cheeses. And I said cheese, not Jesus, not smoked Jesus, oh my gosh. So I had to make sure that that came. People were like he's talking about smoking Jesus now.
Speaker 4:He smokes with Jesus every day.
Speaker 3:Now, do you guys celebrate on Christmas Eve, or do you guys celebrate most on Christmas Day?
Speaker 4:The morning, usually Christmas morning.
Speaker 3:Christmas Eve is with the family like big family, and then Christmas morning is usually just everybody's individual houses, like we, us at our house, will do christmas day yeah, we do uh nighttime with like lynn and sean here in carolina and they open up their gifts and we open up what they give us and then, and then back in the day everybody would open. And then come Christmas Day, we're like, well, what do we do now, you know? So now we'd save the gifts for, like us, to open up on Christmas morning.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, we used to rumble. Did I tell you that? Before we used to, we made sure, even if it was something small, when my parents were still in florida there's myself, heather, and our daughter and, uh, we would pick rumble teams, 10 people a piece, and when your guy got in the wrestling game and when your guy got thrown out, you all just feel good, yeah, you would open a present. Yeah, so it went like that. And then whoever ended up winning, like there was like an extra, like extra present at the end for whoever's, whoever ended up winning, like there was like an extra, like extra present at the end for whoever's team ended up winning, like the whole rumble.
Speaker 3:It's cool. It should like the big family started. I pictured when we were talking Free, so yeah, and we defeated them. Yep, Jim, when he started talking that they rumble, I was thinking they actually like throw down them dude, yeah, they bite like the police academy.
Speaker 3:The dad and the son right yeah no, but overall you guys looking forward to Christmas, cause I know some people they get depressed around this time of year because they miss their relatives that aren't here no more, you know, yeah, or their pets, like I miss my freaking dog more than like anything and my dad's mom. Those are the two, you and me, you and me both buddy.
Speaker 3:You and me both, you know and like even the dogs get a stocking here. They're all hanging like right now and mine is connected to my one that's gone. In September they put mine and his together just and I think we can have better stuff in our stocking than we do under the tree. I never had stocking until here. You know, like my parents, they didn't like really go out of their way to like fancy decorations or anything. So, and Jim, you're probably a week.
Speaker 4:I had an uncle who had a hunger. It must be over. I'm sorry, buddy, I keep talking to you, but I'll say I had an uncle that hung up his work boots one year as the kids stockings.
Speaker 3:It's funny, and it turns out he was just trying them out. Yeah, he was trying them out and people started putting stuff in it. It's like, oh well, but Jim, you've got to be looking forward to Christmas being over just to get rid of the madness out of the store.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because what it seems like is everybody brings all the claims. The claims that have been coming back last two weeks have been like online orders that I didn't want that, I didn't want that and it's just like a ton of it just coming in. I've noticed this year is pretty. It's getting worse than the previous years.
Speaker 3:Just tell them gift cards, gift cards. Put that out on a sign out in front of the door. Buy a gift card, be happy.
Speaker 1:Pretty much.
Speaker 4:Or do like Ricky from Trailer Park Boys says and just get drunk and stoned with your friends and family. It says if you don't get drunk and stoned, just spend time with them. My dad's majorly into that this year. We watched that a few days ago and he's been repeating that ever since. He's like. You know he's got that right.
Speaker 3:Like yeah, been repeating that ever since, like you know, he's got that right. Like yeah, he definitely has that right. Hey, so we're going to take a quick commercial break and when we come back we're going to have emma hayward on the phone, and on the phone, uh, on with us, and then we'll be back after that to wrap things up or play a little more, uh, this or that, that, and then wrap things up.
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Speaker 3:Joining us on the podcast right now. I want to say she's family to me because I've known her since before she was born. Her mom was an exchange student in my house and I consider her like my sister and we got Emma with us all the way from Sweden. Welcome to the podcast.
Speaker 6:Thank you, I'm so happy to be here. You ain't got to lie now, not lying, I swear.
Speaker 3:You've been to the States many times throughout your life. You know traveling with your family and doing these month long, two month long vacations. And you've been to Florida, you've been to New York, you've been to Canada like you've been everywhere but you never have been by yourself for the period of time that you were as an exchange student in Nebraska. Of all places, how did you like that?
Speaker 6:It was very different from being on vacation, you know, which I was prepared for. It was truly the best year of my life. I felt like it was just beyond what I had expected. There were so many. I didn't really experience like a culture shock, because you know I have been to the US a lot of times, you know I've been, but it's always been that kind of vacation experience and not living there, which that was just like more than I could have ever ever asked for.
Speaker 3:Now as a student and leaving your country for that long of a time and living with strangers that you didn't know. How is that experience?
Speaker 6:it was interesting. I mean, you only get to facetime them before you know. I facetime them maybe like twice before moving in with them. They turned out to be the best family ever, the same kind of experience my mom had with your family, scott. But when you're 16, it's quite a leap to take, for sure.
Speaker 3:When you got here, what was the first thing you did, like that you wanted to do, to experience, or you know what did?
Speaker 6:they do with you the first thing I I spent a few days in new york. Um, it was like the part of the program you get like a couple of days or a week or so which my flight there was just insane. Like my flight to Nebraska was just you know, cause there were tornadoes going on, so it all just got canceled and I was stuck at JFK and stuff for like 15 hours. But when I finally got there I just kind of settled in we, we went to church the morning after and then volleyball practice was starting. So I was just, yeah, throw right into it for sure.
Speaker 3:When you first got and started meeting people, was it weird that like everybody was looking at you like, oh man, she's from Sweden, she's from Sweden, you know. And then they ask you questions that you'll probably hear on here. But you know, like everybody wants to know about Sweden or they think it's in the wrong place on the map. I know people that get Switzerland and Sweden mixed up. But was it weird being like that object, like the new person?
Speaker 6:Yeah, so my host sister that I live with. She is the same age as me, so everyone kind of knew that I was coming there. And there were also two other girls at my school, one from Thailand and one from Denmark. So my school is used to having a lot of exchange students every year and so they're very like, used to not pretending, you know, not making us feel weird or so, but you know, it was definitely a you know, when you meet everyone for the first time and just over introducing yourself or whatever again.
Speaker 4:So that has to be, uh, kind of comforting, because it puts you more on the same kind of same plane, as opposed to being one person in like the sea of people who all know each other and have all spent a lifetime around each other, so that had to have been some kind of relief.
Speaker 6:No, you're right about that, and it was never like that. We just hung out with each other. We were all good at, like you know, really involving ourselves and so the with all the americas you know, in that kind of friend group, but but it was definitely a safe space to have, in the beginning, for sure, someone going through the exact same thing that's really cool you.
Speaker 3:At least you had something your mom didn't video chat, you know. So like you can video chat your mom, whereas we had we had when we were young, regular male. That's got to be a lot comforting too that they're in a touch of a dial.
Speaker 6:Yeah, for sure I did. I did have a lot of reactions, though, because I wouldn't call home that often. Because I wouldn't call home that often, maybe like every other month, which I don't know. It's just the way we are, like we don't all of my siblings are moved out. We're used to like traveling. My brother went on an exchange to Wisconsin, it's just kind of. My sister went to Iowa, like I don't feel a to over-update them on what's going on. So I definitely had some reactions on me just FaceTiming them six times.
Speaker 1:Do you experience any culture shock in America Like in what kind that you're used to in Sweden?
Speaker 6:Yeah, only a positive one, and it was actually in a way where everyone was really nice, like everyone was really inviting. I definitely feel like that was that's just part of the midwest kind of small town, you know culture, like everyone knows you're coming, they're all excited to talk to you, like they'll never not say hi or so um, which that's kind of different from some parts of europe. But if you take england, for example, like everyone's just really polite and I feel like I had to, like become more chill, more cool. When I got to the US, I kind of relaxed a little bit.
Speaker 1:And you heard scary stories of Florida or California or the big cities and stuff.
Speaker 6:I mean, honestly, that's the only places I've been to. I've been to Lake Station and so with Scott's family, but other than that it's kind of been these big cities. It's been Miami, new York, chicago and so with Scott's family. Yeah, but other than that it's kind of been these big cities. It's been Miami, new York, chicago and so on, which it was more new to me to be in a small town. You know it was like 2,000 people.
Speaker 3:So when you were in school there did any of classes stand out? And you know the difference between, like, daniel took me to his school when I was there. I just walked in and nobody even said anything. You know that was weird. Literally I just sat down with him and Matt. It was crazy. But when you were in school things changed, obviously. But what classes stood out to you? That was a lot different than in Sweden.
Speaker 6:So because of the size of my school we were about like 500 kids it kind of came naturally that everyone participated in like choir and stuff. Like kind of a lot of boys on the football team would do choir and like a lot of kids would do band, that also were like really good athletes and stuff. So definitely I took choir, which that was new to me. I cannot, I would never have believed, to like take that as an actual class and get grades. I also did speech, which was quite interesting, which was really fun. Yeah for sure nice.
Speaker 4:What grade did you get in choir?
Speaker 6:I did get 100. Nice, awesome. So it was kind of just you had to be there and do what you were supposed to do.
Speaker 3:So you tried out a lot of different fast foods, like new restaurants, and what did you like that you don't have over there.
Speaker 6:The single, like the best thing that I have been craving ever since has been raising canes, and that was, yeah, the best thing ever. I ate way too much chicken. You know, food culture is just really different from europe. There's a lot of a lot of fast food and stuff and I, I don't mind, I don't my brother didn't eat either like I can't complain what else was like a shot?
Speaker 3:you know like, like schools here they believe in like the, a lot of dances, a lot of like getting ready for the football games. They would do like a round gym rally, or you know like, uh, cheerleading and and just going crazy, you crazy for the football games, which I don't think you have in Sweden yet, do you?
Speaker 6:Not at all. No, Our sports generally in Europe aren't even connected to your schools. So unless you're in England it's kind of like that, but everything is just club. So watching your classmates play football was just completely new to me.
Speaker 3:Right on. And what do you think about when teens they go crazy? They just start yelling and cheering and it kind of makes you really happy that you're there at the time. You want your team to win. Obviously, what would you take to sweden if you could take something from the school?
Speaker 6:I would take. If I could take something back to europe with me, it would be the school spirit. Um, just the way everyone would cheer each other on, regardless of what sport it was or if you were winning or not. And you know, I went to a small school, so it was a small student section, but that didn't change the fact that just the school spirit was just over the top.
Speaker 3:Now, did you think when you were in school, Americans stereotyped Sweden? They thought they knew more about Sweden than they actually did? You know, like all Swedish people are blonde, All Swedish people are blue-eyed. I'm going to say Americans, they think we know everything. Did you deal with that a lot? I'm going to say Americans, they think we know everything.
Speaker 6:Did you deal with that a lot? I think there's the kind of misconception, though, about this whole geography that some you know Americans aren't great at geography, which I agree to a certain extent, but not fully. Because they were, because my school had a lot of exchange students. They were quite educated in Europe in general and I don't blame them if they wouldn't know everything, because the US is the big itself. You can go on vacation to a lot of different climates and places just staying within your country. So it's the size of Europe.
Speaker 3:Right Through your whole trip. What did you learn about yourself?
Speaker 6:the main thing that I have learned truly about myself was figuring out what I want to do in life. That I want to. You know I love the US and I love traveling and seeing all my friends there going to college and, you know, making college decisions made me realize that I want to do the same there. So, yeah, just having a full year, just being independent.
Speaker 3:When your mom was here. We became like family for life.
Speaker 6:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And your grandfather and grandmother. You know they were like my grandfather and grandmother. That was awesome, and Margaret was. Do you? Are you bonded like that with your host family? You know where? You've got to talk to them a lot.
Speaker 6:My host sister. I have two host sisters and one is the exact same age as me, which I'm so grateful for we got on really well. She's my best friend and her little sister as well. She's the sweetest. But also not just the host family the four of them but also the, you know, like the grandparents and the cousins. They've all treated me like, like family, from the from the beginning and yes, that is true, and you know that's for life.
Speaker 3:So I truly feel you know yeah, when it comes to when I'm like really upset or really pissed off at things and I see your mom on online and I'm like, oh man, I gotta talk to her, because your mom still gives me a lot of advice like a sister, and I talked to her like quite frequently. Whenever she's on, you know whether she's on her way to work or you know, just something quick. I mean, your whole family's just always been great, so I was always uh, wondering. You know, I always told your mom if you ever needed anything when you're in nebraska, all you gotta do is call.
Speaker 6:I would have been there, you know, like oh that's, that's just how I am yeah, it truly gets carried down to like me as well, and all the all my siblings, and how close you all are before we leave or whatever.
Speaker 3:Jim always asks our guests a little game like this or that. So he'll give you your two options and then you say which one you like. So, jim, we're kind of ready man.
Speaker 1:Okay, alright, first one Swedish meatballs or gravel lex.
Speaker 6:I'm going to go with Swedish meatballs on that one.
Speaker 1:Okay, hold on just a second. Okay or sorry? Cowberries or Cloudberries.
Speaker 6:Cloudberries.
Speaker 1:Bungie jumping or skydiving.
Speaker 6:Can I say both?
Speaker 1:Well, if you had to choose just one, okay, I mean, these answers could change.
Speaker 6:Okay, I'll go. These answers could change. Okay, I'll go with skydiving.
Speaker 1:Okay, um, let's see Swedish pancakes or kanelbullar.
Speaker 6:I'm gonna go with pancakes.
Speaker 1:Okay, Um pizza or burgers.
Speaker 6:Burgers.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay, ski in the Swedish.
Speaker 3:Alps or kayaking in the Gjarta Canal. Wait, you said Swedish Alps. The Alps are in Sweden.
Speaker 1:They have Alps, don't they? Okay, alps, I'm sorry, scott Frickin' Rand McNally over here.
Speaker 6:I'll go with the apple. Okay, let's see Brush your teeth with peanut butter or wash your hair with mayonnaise. I'm allergic to peanuts, so I'll go with mayonnaise.
Speaker 1:Great Jim, let's see, okay, the Northern Lights or the Stockholm Archipelago.
Speaker 6:Ooh Northern Lights.
Speaker 1:Okay, a time machine or a magic wand, magic wand, okay Pop music or metal music. Ooh pop, Save a hundred strangers or save one loved one.
Speaker 6:Ooh, trying to be in this spot, saved one loved one. Can I say a loved one?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Let's see so all you listeners.
Speaker 1:Okay, a long summer night at a bonfire, or a cozy winter evening by a fireplace.
Speaker 6:A long summer night at a bonfire.
Speaker 1:Okay, netflix or YouTube.
Speaker 6:Ooh, Netflix.
Speaker 1:Okay, swedish folk music or ABBA.
Speaker 6:Ooh ABBA.
Speaker 1:Okay, and sneeze confetti or hiccup bubbles.
Speaker 6:Hiccup bubbles.
Speaker 1:Football or hockey.
Speaker 3:What football, Jim? Is it soccer or is it American football?
Speaker 1:Soccer, well, american soccer, it's called football everywhere else.
Speaker 6:Yeah, either way, we're a hockey family big time.
Speaker 1:Cool, what's your guys' hockey team?
Speaker 6:My brother is a Flyers fan and then we're Blackhawks fans, so I'm a lefto.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh. Okay, let's see Two more here. Live in a movie theater or live at a mall.
Speaker 6:Live at a movie theater or live at a mall. Live at a movie theater.
Speaker 1:A cozy sauna or a refreshing swim in the lake.
Speaker 6:A swim in the lake. I'm a swimmer, so I got to go with that one.
Speaker 1:Okay, and then comedy or horror.
Speaker 6:I like comedy.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's about it, I think yeah.
Speaker 6:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:Were you on the swim team in your school or in the States?
Speaker 6:They didn't have a pool, unfortunately. I did write in my application that I wanted to be on the swim team if they had one, but I was on the volleyball team and track team instead, so I made up for it.
Speaker 3:Okay, because I remember your dad used to post all these pictures that you own the medals because you were. You're winning like all over the place and uh. Again, I really thank you for your time and just talking to us about your experience there and would you recommend teens or whatever to venture out as an exchange student also?
Speaker 6:A thousand percent. I feel like I matured way faster than I would have if I hadn't gone. And it's just, it's a once in a lifetime opportunity, especially when you're that young. So, a thousand percent, you make friends for a lifetime, for a lifetime, and really find yourself tell your family hello for me and give them all a hug.
Speaker 3:You guys have a good christmas you too. Thank you so much for having me hey, no problem, it's fun if you, if you ever want to come back on, just uh, just for the heck of it, right on, I, I hope, you guys, I hope you had fun and something different.
Speaker 6:Of course. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3:Thank you, and we will talk to you later, of course. See you later, emma.
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Speaker 3:And, as always, I thank you for auto transmission or accurate transmission. Thank you for Emma for joining us. I know there's a seven-hour difference between her and me and Jim and just six hours for Keith. It was really cool to find out the differences between, like their schools and the Nebraska school. I've never been to Nebraska so it was all new to me.
Speaker 4:Yeah, he was a cool kid man, that's for sure.
Speaker 3:And Jim really good this or that. That made me want him because, like, when you're sitting there asking Emma the questions, I'm like answering them, like my way too, and I'm like man, jim's never asked us this or that. So now I'm asking you, jim, to give us some this or that's and for the listeners at home play along.
Speaker 1:Okay, here we go. This or that, a road trip or a plane ride, you got to pick one.
Speaker 3:If I was going to Seattle, I'd want to take a plane trip, just so I have more time there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but it's what you like more this or that?
Speaker 3:You know what Road trip.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I double down on the road trip.
Speaker 3:What about you, Jim.
Speaker 1:Uh me Um Road trip. You'd feel more trapped with a plane.
Speaker 3:I just always, you know, says the person that drove a thousand miles in less than 24 hours. I was worried about the vehicle breaking down, that's all. Well, then you have the plane crashing too. It's this or that the crash or the crash.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all right, here's one. Sticky hands, or slimy feet.
Speaker 3:Ooh.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 3:I think I would take the sticky hands.
Speaker 4:I think I would too. I think I would too. Isn't that a rolling stones album?
Speaker 3:that's sticky fingers right or or it's, or it's. When I walk through a store and and like we just talked about man just grabbing things out of people's cards, that's sticky fingers, powers.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'd choose sticky hands because, slimy feet, you're just gonna.
Speaker 3:Every step you take, you're gonna be like ew you can only walk when you walk with your socks on. It's only like squishing you might fall.
Speaker 1:You're thinking about worse, but you could walk with your hands moving and you're not touching nothing, so I guess it depends also on how sticky your hands are and how slippery your feet are.
Speaker 3:You know, am I going to be like Iceman and run down the street on like a fresh asphalt and just take my socks off and just slide?
Speaker 1:Well, if anyone's an expert on sticky hands, it's Scott Powers folks.
Speaker 4:All right, it's sticky to the level of like Chevy Chase in Christmas Vacation where he gets all the sap on his hands.
Speaker 1:Oh, All right, ice cream cone or milkshake.
Speaker 4:Milkshake.
Speaker 3:Milkshake 100% Yep milkshake, Because if you take the cone you'll get the sticky hands.
Speaker 4:Yeah, which actually I probably should have chose the cone, because I can at least eat the cone.
Speaker 1:I can't have the ice cream or the milkshake, so all right, here's one peanut butter on pizza or ketchup on ice cream oh, my goodness, um, I'm gonna have to go with the peanut butter on the pizza. I'm thinking. I go peanut butter on pizza. I've had that before. Wow, I have not.
Speaker 3:I think I might do the ketchup, because I'm trying to think of it's like the salty cream.
Speaker 4:That's weird, it's just gonna be salty acidy have you ever had peanut butter on leftover french toast? Yeah, oh man, that's amazing. Have you ever had peanut butter on leftover French toast? Yeah, oh man, that's amazing.
Speaker 1:All right, a floating house or an underwater hotel.
Speaker 4:Underwater hotel.
Speaker 3:I think would be cooler for me. How high are we floating?
Speaker 1:On the water.
Speaker 3:Oh, okay, okay, I don't know what I'd like to think. I'd like to check it out.
Speaker 1:If I was protective, I had a shark suit on or anything, but I would go I think I'd have to go a floating house because I I don't know if I trust the underwater hotel, not like the leak, and then you're trapped and right.
Speaker 3:That'd be too scared, I'd be too scared it's like they're talking about building that tunnel that goes from new york to uk. It's not three, three thousand miles long, man, I would be afraid like that's the road trip okay, here we go.
Speaker 1:Another one cheese sced soap or soap-scented cheese.
Speaker 3:Screw it, man, I'll do the cheese-scented soap.
Speaker 4:I think I'd have to do the soap-scented cheese because I don't know smelling like cheese. Wouldn't that be the end result of the cheese-scented soap? Because you would smell like cheese afterwards.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't think I could eat cheese that smells like soap, though I'd have to go with the cheese scented, or, yeah, the cheese scented soap.
Speaker 3:But why does the soap smell like Limburger?
Speaker 1:Oh no, but I'd rather have it on me than like eat the frickin' cheese and you're eating your mind's thick and you're eating soap and you start gagging or something. Yeah true, true okay, um okay, I think we've done this before time travel to the past or the future uh, to the past.
Speaker 4:Definitely that'd be fun.
Speaker 3:That'd be fun, yeah I think it would go past, because I don't want to know the future, because I might not be in it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'd go to the past. You don't know what you're going to see with the future. But then when you come back, I don't know, have a tail like a squirrel or wings like a bat.
Speaker 3:Wings like a bat.
Speaker 4:You'd call me Batman.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'd have wings like a bat. You'd have the furry tail Scott.
Speaker 3:Yep, I could tuck it in my pants.
Speaker 1:Honey, check this out.
Speaker 3:I don't know about you guys in there Checking the looking bat wings.
Speaker 1:Maybe he could fly, who knows? Okay, here we go. Sweet or savory snacks. Sweet snacks or savory snacks.
Speaker 4:Oh, that depends what.
Speaker 1:No, I said snacks.
Speaker 6:Oh, is that the final on the daily what? No, I said snacks.
Speaker 3:Oh Is that the bottle Savory man, Savory.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I'm gonna go with savory also.
Speaker 1:I'm doing savory too. Okay, uh, a hat made of feathers, or shoes made of bubble wrap, I think, or shoes made of bubble wrap.
Speaker 4:I think the shoes made of bubble wrap would be pretty fun.
Speaker 1:Check out these bubbles.
Speaker 3:Couldn't sneak up on nobody.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but the feathers like a baseball hat or something with feathers.
Speaker 4:It'd be like a really cool.
Speaker 3:Kangol hat with feathers. Yeah, do you like Kangol hats back in the day? I still do. Yeah, I'll pop it on too.
Speaker 1:I think I'd have to do that. Alright, I'll do the feather hat. Fine, let's see. Oh crap, I think I'd have to do that All right, I'll do the featherhead.
Speaker 4:Fine, let's see. Oh crap, oh, I got it. Well, I got it. Can I do one real quick? Yeah, sure, okay, I was thinking about this before, when we were talking about Christmas. Would you rather play Santa Claus for 20 inner?
Speaker 3:city kids or 20 suburban wealthy kids.
Speaker 4:So poor suburban Poor like inner city poor the inner city kid 20 inner city, like more poor kids or 20,. I guess 20 poor kids or 20 rich kids, which would you rather play, santa?
Speaker 3:for Poor kids.
Speaker 1:I would think I would think poor too that would be my guess, but I'm I'm sure they would both have their. You know what I mean, their pluses and minuses. I mean, all kids would appreciate it, but I think the poor kids would. It would really, it might, I don't know change their life a little more or something, I don't know. You actually see Santa Claus.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Your royal convention.
Speaker 4:Right and the suburban or whatever. Whatever the richer kids may not be, like you said, everything's digital. They may not care. Anyway they may, you know.
Speaker 1:Looking at their phone alright, here's one, a treehouse or an underground bunker treehouse.
Speaker 3:I think I would dig the bunker, man, if it was like one of those lavish luxury bunkers or you, you know, master style trees man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but if the tree house is in like Oregon or something where they have nothing but acres and acres of trees, you could really hide. I'd still have to go.
Speaker 3:The tree could fall apart.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You'd be fighting birds and anything else.
Speaker 3:Squirrels and my bushy tail.
Speaker 1:Yeah, your bushy tail, scott, You'd fit right in.
Speaker 4:We'd be all right. We had bat wings, we could fall out of the tree and the train is banned. Oh, it is. See again.
Speaker 3:That's how oblivious I am to them no, like I look up every time we talk, this time in it's always at 9 o'clock they start oh really, huh, alright.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that don't surprise me. Would you rather lick a frog or hug a?
Speaker 1:snake. Oh really, huh, all right, yeah, that don't surprise me.
Speaker 4:Would you rather lick a frog or hug a snake? Um, Mike Tyson likes to lick some frogs. I don't know if that might sound kind of scary, but that might be the one I still ended up picking. I don't know if I could hug the snake.
Speaker 3:Maybe ride the snake, he might get nipple bit hug the snake. Maybe ride the snake, he might get a nipple bit hugging a snake.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, but looking at a frog, it might be poisonous or something.
Speaker 3:Or on the other side, he might be high as a kite. Oh, I don't. On the DMT.
Speaker 1:I don't want to catch nothing. I'd hug a snake. I've hugged a snake for years. I call them family, so All right. What's another one here? Here's an easy one Sunrise hike or an evening stroll, evening stroll yeah, definitely evening stroll.
Speaker 3:You know, when I was in Haiti, I used to love even nowadays man, I like going on my deck and watching the sun rise. Man, in Haiti I used to sit on army trucks and watch the sun rise over the mountains. You know, I like that, but I think I like the stroll man. It's cool air sunset, but then the mosquitoes are out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I go evening stroll but then the mosquitoes are out. Yeah, I'd go evening stroll. Okay, toothpaste-flavored ice cream, or ice cream-flavored toothpaste.
Speaker 4:Oh, ice cream-flavored toothpaste.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:That's what I said. Yeah, pretty easy one there, rocky Road, but it's basically that would just be like peppermint or, you know, peppermint ice cream, wouldn't it? I mean, that does exist.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think so. Hold on, let me get some other ones here, okay, okay, a pet cat-sized dinosaur or a mouse-sized elephant?
Speaker 3:That's a hard one. I'd be afraid to step-sized elephant. That's a hard one. I'd be afraid to step on the elephant, a cat-sized dinosaur.
Speaker 1:It says pet cat-sized dinosaur.
Speaker 4:Which dinosaur.
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, is it Canaverous? Are we talking a?
Speaker 4:T-Rex here.
Speaker 3:Is it going to go around killing all the other animals in the house?
Speaker 1:Or an elephant.
Speaker 3:Wait, a mouse-sized elephant, oh my God, I think I might do the mouse-sized elephant.
Speaker 4:If you had something that you could build an artificial ecosystem or whatever it is for them. I think the mouse-sized elephant would be pretty neat.
Speaker 3:Walk around the house like the rest of the damn animals in this place.
Speaker 1:And do the elephants Alright trampoline for a bed or a slide for stairs.
Speaker 3:Oh man, trampoline is awesome for a bed man.
Speaker 4:A slide for stairs would be really fun too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but the slide for stairs, you can't how you gonna go up. And then the trampoline bed you're gonna get so sore and stuff that you're gonna be like crippled the next day or two or I don't know. Anyway.
Speaker 3:Anyway, you turn it's gonna be like we used to have a trampoline. We used to have a trampoline at my parents house and I would just like camp out on it. You know like, unless you're bringing a friend home after work, you know like it ain't really like bouncing right, it's hard to post when it's so springy and if it's raining, it's get up the stairs, man.
Speaker 1:All right, here's one Eat spaghetti with chopsticks, or soup, or soup with a fork.
Speaker 4:Some soup is pretty thick, so I think I'd take the soup with the fork.
Speaker 1:I'd eat spaghetti with chopsticks. I don't send that hard.
Speaker 3:Are we talking about stew or soup?
Speaker 1:It just says soup.
Speaker 3:Alright, I think I would do the spaghetti chopsticks Real fast.
Speaker 4:Are either of you handy with chopsticks?
Speaker 1:Hell yeah, I'll use one today Whenever we go to Osaka. He pretty much wants to use chopsticks all the time, so I'll use it with him and I'm starting to get used to it and I'm like we're going to be masters at this.
Speaker 4:I have no memory of ever using them, oh.
Speaker 3:Like I said, I was just at the mall the other day shopping and eating was shopping, I was eating.
Speaker 1:Oh Okay, gummy bear pudding or no, gummy bear pillow or pudding mattress.
Speaker 4:Oh man, them both kind of sound pretty good. Sounds like a waterbed, though, and I just serve the waterbed. Yeah, I'm going to take the gummy bear pillow a little bit.
Speaker 1:See, the gummy bear pillow is going to get sticky, ain't it Probably? And if the pudding mantras is like a little fire bed?
Speaker 4:Well, if it was actual pudding, you wouldn't be able to lay on top of it, right?
Speaker 3:unless we're talking pudding skin you got like axe and stripes.
Speaker 1:I'll have to take the pillow. Then I don't understand the pudding. Okay, would you rather walk backwards or hop on one foot all day? Walk backwards all day or hop on one foot all day.
Speaker 4:Walk backwards. I usually would do 15 minutes of walking backwards on the treadmill when I would do treadmill.
Speaker 1:I'd walk backwards.
Speaker 3:Yeah me too, man, two layers of the hop. I just couldn't, I'd go backwards. Yeah me too, man, two lanes of the hop.
Speaker 4:I just couldn't. I'd go down for sure. My balance is terrible.
Speaker 1:Okay, oh, you're right, that messes the next one up. Okay, how many more of these, scott?
Speaker 3:You're the game host on this.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, then Let me get a good one here. You could edit this out. Okay, I got a couple of these. These are like thinkers, okay.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 1:Here's one the smartest person in the world or the richest person in the world. What would you want?
Speaker 4:The richest person.
Speaker 3:If you're the smartest person in the world. If you were the smartest, you can make stuff to become the richest.
Speaker 4:I don't Elon Musk, I think the mob rule mentality. I don't know if I would trust it. You know what I mean. You could be smart, but you can't trust that you would be able to get enough. You know what I'm saying, that you would make like idiocracy. You remember that? You ever seen that movie? I believe that could potentially. Yeah, that you would be so smart that you scared the other people, and you know, usually when scared people, they want to get violent. So I don't. I think I would definitely take the richest. Before that. It would be nice to be the smartest, but it would also be uh, I don't know, man, that'd be a rough way to go.
Speaker 3:Just see a lot of lawsuits happening.
Speaker 1:Or maybe every day I'd be the quietest, smartest person. I wouldn't say, I wouldn't tell people I'm smart.
Speaker 4:I'd be the most anonymous, richest person.
Speaker 3:All right, the most vanished person richest person Right.
Speaker 4:See, I thought Prince changed his name to a weird symbol. Wait till you see my name.
Speaker 1:All right, here's the final one. Scott, this mainly goes to you. Would you want success or happiness?
Speaker 3:Happiness, happiness.
Speaker 1:Happiness, that's what I would pick happiness.
Speaker 3:Because if you have happiness, you're successful.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That's what another one was. It was poor and happy. Poor and happy or rich and miserable was. Another one was it was Porn, happily Porn, happy or Rich, and Miserable was another one.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I know Porn Happy pretty well, I think we all do.
Speaker 1:I'm going pretty steady right now.
Speaker 4:Right, but I've known Rich and Miserable. I believe I've met one. Yeah, I think I talked about a Rich and Miserable person A show or two ago, so I have met rich, miserable people. But those are the this and that well, them were good questions, as always.
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Speaker 1:Oh my.
Speaker 3:God, quote, quote.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and this is for the Swedish listeners. Okay, here we go. You and her know Vin Fjader. That means don't make a hen out of a feather.
Speaker 6:What Okay?
Speaker 1:Don't make a hen out of a feather.
Speaker 4:It means small problems are unimportant yeah, don't blow things out of proportion yeah, no, just just so I I got this right.
Speaker 3:You said you're hearing it don't make fun of the language. I'm not making fun of it. What? What did you?
Speaker 1:part swedish. Don't make fun of it. Okay, it's, it's, you're in her. No, vin Fjeder.
Speaker 3:All right, I get that.
Speaker 1:Who do you think you're dealing with here?
Speaker 3:So that's a good quote too. And, man, I appreciate you guys both joining me again I know we split this up twice today and uh taking the time to do this, and I appreciate you guys and uh again for those listening. Next Friday we are doing the Christmas episode, because it is December 20th. Jim may not be here, so, uh, just prepare yourselves. Oh, man, but Keith is, and I think I got a few other guests coming on with us too. So just prepare yourselves, oh man, but Keith is, and I think I got a few other guests coming on with us too. So, looking forward to that episode, we're going to be talking Christmas songs, Christmas TV movies, Christmas memories. Last episode I cut this out, but Jim said that there hasn't been really no Christmas lead up, so I'm just going to throw everything at everybody at one show. So, and that's why he's not going to be here, because you know, now you're making me real bad.
Speaker 1:Don't know yet. I don't know yet.
Speaker 3:No, no, you got family things and that that comes first man. So, but we will talk to you next week. And again, if you got any show ideas, hit me up. And if you want to be a guest on the show, you don't have to be famous, you don't have to be rich. Everybody's got a story to tell. That's always been my motto, so we'd love to hear from you, no matter where you're at in the world. That's all I got you all. Have a good night and a good week. We'll talk to you later.
Speaker 4:Bye Take care everybody.
Speaker 2:Bye. That's another wrap on the Powerspoint pod. We laughed, we learned it wasn't that odd. Emma from Sweden gave us the scoop about life in Nebraska. What a fun group. So thanks for tuning in. We're glad you came. Scott, jim and Keith you know our names Playing this, or that was such a blast. We'll see you next week. This pod's a smash. So keep on smiling, don't forget. There's more to come, but not just yet. From Sweden to Nebraska, it's all so rad. Till next week, friends, don't be sad. That's another wrap on the Powerspoint pod. We laughed, we learned it wasn't that odd. Emma from Sweden gave us the scoop about life in nebraska. What a fun group. So thanks for tuning in. We're glad you came.
Speaker 2:Scotchen and keith you know our names playing this or that was such a blast. We'll see you next week. This pod's a smash. So keep on smiling, don't forget. There's more to come, but not just yet. From Sweden to Nebraska, it's all so rad. Till next week, friends, don't be sad. So keep on smiling, don't be sad. Till next week, friends, don't be sad.
