Shootin' Da Breeze

In this week’s episode we talk about a wide variety of things!

Here’s a few highlights:

Breaking things we own

Dolly’s day on Capitol Hill

The human brain and music

The amazing world of Milk Tea

Eating fish and their eggs

Our food poisoning stories

Erik wants to own a Sea Horse

Shoes vs sandals in warm weather

The California Coast

Things we love about the PNW

Dolly’s haircare secrets

Sucking on roots in the woods

And much more…

We’re joined again by special guest McCayla Butler!!!

And we talk about:

Crab Cakes: What are they made of?

Wishing someone “a Happy Mother’s Day” etiquette

McCayla keeps roasting Dolly

Dolly starts laughing uncontrollably

Blogging

We explain what a Blog is

Elder Millennials

Social media and it’s addicting elements

The varying degrees of being an addict

Erik’s instagram gets hacked and he has to delete it, losing all his “friends”

Our Podcast Instagram account is still hacked

The motivation of hackers

Is there a time you could smell what you just ate?

Hot dog breath

The right time to get a new dog

Having a pet as a kid

Time stands still once you get a pet

Old cats that still love to play

“Skeletor” the cat

The pain of having to choose to put a pet down

Choosing a puppy or a weathered dog

Erik messes up the term “Long in the tooth”

Owning a Sabretooth Tiger tooth

Dolly has something on her pants

Henry the cat cleans his butt and then drools on Erik

McCayla takes her headphones off, similar to Christine Bell on “The Armchair Expert”

Things we love about Dolly

We have a final quick question for McCayla

Life lessons

Dolly roasts McCayla as she tries to speak

Getting back to normal after Covid and burning out again just like before

Birthday euphoria followed by the blues

Withholding a surprise

And much more…

We’re joined by returning special guest McCayla Butler!!!

It’s Dolly’s Birthday, and we talk about:

Joan of Arc and the origins of McCayla’s middle name

Dolly’s Croquet story

How to play croquet

Is Lavender a flower?

British vs American ways of saying things

McCayla roasts Dolly for a few minutes

The podcast jacket for the 5 timers

Dolly didn’t grow up in Wenatchee

McCayla questions if Erik actually went to college

Colleges in Walla Walla, WA

The Whitman missionaries story

Walla Walla is now the Napa Valley of WA

McCayla’s connection to Kristin Bell

2010 TV shows with Kristen Bell

Birthday etiquette: When to wish someone happy birthday

McCayla’s Back to the Future California trip this summer

San Diego

Erik hates being late

Triggers for Enneagram 6’s

Astrology signs and generic characteristics

Disturbing discovery about Retinol face cream

Many supplements have meat products in them

Growing up vegetarian and accidentally eating meat

Erik still hates condiments

Saying words with a fancy twist

What the word “Forever” means

The concept of Heaven and hell

Different views on what happens when you die

What is time?

Linear timelines and the human brain

Being an Elder Millennial

Understanding Millennials

The original distracted drivers: fiddling with CD cases while driving

Thieves don’t steal Christian stuff

Joel Osteen’s motivational audio books

And much more…

Jake joins us this week!!!

And we talk about:

Drunk personas

Erik’s favorite happy hour drinks

People that used to drive drunk/buzzed

The OG podcast episodes

Jake and Michelle’s house plants

Plants create oxygen

The death of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

America’s painted rats in a bad light

The real lifespan of a turtle

Dolly’s beliefs on the Yakuza

The 90’s live action Ninja Turtles movies

The Coreys: Corey Haim and Corey Feldman

Corey Feldman’s live show @ Studio Seven

The beach is the only place people should wear bikinis

“She Shreds” goes to NAMM and discovers an inappropriate product

Companies that use women in bikinis

Baywatch’s ridiculously long body shot montages

Lotta’s “Big Big Energy”

Going to the casino and winning

Jake’s lucky Estate Sale find

The way people from England say “Z”

The origin story of the Clyde Hill neighborhood near Bellevue, WA

East coast cities named after European cities

The meaning behind the name Portland

How to spell “Mississippi” and “Bananas”

Our morning routine updates

Face moisturizer with SPF

Vitamin D from the sun vs suppliments

Jake’s face needs more moisture and forgot how to say “Milligrams”

Chemical names are hard to say, so we make up our own name “Florp”

Dying your hair naturally doesn’t work well, you needs drugs/chems

Harry Potter hair styles

Beard comb-over

Random hair that can appear anywhere

Dolly gives her dad a haircut and it goes wrong

Erik’s dad cut his brother’s ear once while giving him a haircut

The Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield fight

Celebrities speaking truth and focusing on friends and family instead of fame

We’re all stand up comics in our own lives

Erik hasn’t seen Grease and gets confused by Dolly’s instagram story reference

Grease: the musical and The Outsiders

Book report hack: pick a book that was made into a movie

Jake’s daughter Molly joins us for the end of the podcast

We predict Molly’s future

Sweetheart vs Bless their heart

And much more…

In this week’s episode we talk about:

Doom Scrolling

Disassociation

Being the first person to like someone’s social media post

Neil Armstrong was the first person on the moon

The moon landing “studio” footage

Living an honest life or living a lie

Postal workers and the term “Going Postal”

Sammy goes to the groomers

The proper term for someone who grooms animals

Peeing from excitement

Selling your pet at the groomer

Puking in a car

Easiest ways to detail your own vehicle

Best car color to avoid it looking dirty

Erik’s dad gets a visit from some old friends

Staying connected to friends and family

Liam and Noel Gallagher: the brothers from the band Oasis

Erik tries using some “Millennial” slang

Dolly’s been ripping up the roof of her mouth

Erik experiences too much smoked salmon

The $60 shrimp salad

Fremont’s cool guitar shop “Dusty Strings”

Vegan desserts

Themed restaurants and Buffets

Frozen Yogurt vs Ice Cream shops

Popular Gelato flavors

Erik’s google searching issues and reading instruction manuals in front of people

The link between reading and speech

The English language is hard

How to properly say “Cochlear implants”

Knowing another language so well you begin thinking in that language

Robert Pattinson as the new Batman

The Twilight series and other great Robby Patti hits

Big budget movies and their picky audience

Dolly’s take on new super hero movies

The world of Marvel and DC comics vs their movies and TV shows

Lollipops: A great way to drink a ton of your own saliva

Ice Cream vs Suckers/Lollipops

Being tracked by bots online

We do a screen time tracking experiment

Music is the soundtrack to our lives

Leisure time is at an all time high

Not needing to hunt/grow your own food

Erik buys a bunch of survival food

The great Toilet Paper shortage of 2020

Buying in advance or when you need something

Fishing is a great way to always have food

We don’t encourage shooting whales

The movie that exposed Seaworld

Mankind is an orcas biggest threat

Our dilemma with Zoos

Face to face with a sea lion way down in the Puget Sound

Whale season in Hawaii and California

Erik’s favorite city grouping in CA: Monterey, Carmel by the Sea, Pacific Grove

17 Mile Drive and other cool attractions in that area

Bad weather on the California Coast during a Super 8mm film shoot

Dolly’s upcoming vacation

Traveling down the Oregon Coast

Best time of the year to have a birthday

Ways to get the best sun tan

Turning a burn into a tan

Movies about Albinos starring Sean Penn

Erik reads the synopsis of the movie “The Game”

Michael Douglas’s cancer controversy

Kirk Douglas lived to 104

Our cultures obsession with beauty and youthfulness

Going grey to start looking older

Dolly’s tips on how to wear a baseball hat with long hair

The Refreshments: one of Erik’s favorite 90’s bands

Supporting our local baseball heroes: The Mariners

Ivars Clam Chowder bowl

Unhealthy cooking habits from Erik’s childhood

And much more…

Becky Glaser returns as our special guest!!!

It’s the 50th Anniversary of “The Godfather” and we review it!

In this episode we talk about:

Becky’s alternative middle name

Godfather’s Pizza and other pizza chains

Trying to go to Italy next month, but neglecting to order a new passport

Sammy’s water drinking habits

Milkshakes and other dairy products that mess with us

Erik’s thoughts on The Godfather before reading about it or watching it

Our parents guide our paths and thoughts when we’re kids

A brief synopsis of the movie

Marlon Brando: An American Icon

Being above the law (a.k.a a gangster)

Like father like son

Young Al Pacino and James Caan

Marrying into a mob family

Kids have trouble watching dialogue based movies these days

Singers with ties to the mob

Horse heads in beds

Robert Duvall as Tom (the lawyer)

Other iconic gangster movies

Francis Ford Coppola

Sammy goes outside to pee

Moving from Casinos to the drug business

The brothers

Don Vito Corleone is shot

Why do people in movies always try to hide the body?

The baker and the hospital scene

The pregnant Corleone sister who gets beat up by her non-mob husband

An eye for an eye

The death of Sonny Corleone

The new Godfather that kills his Godson’s father

Diane Keaton as Michael’s wife

Death is currency in The Godfather

The corn pasture scene with Vito Corleone

Michael hides out in Italy

Gangsters with class

Erik reminisces about Scarf Juggling and that one Criss Cross song

Dolly notices something hilarious during the wedding scene in the movie

Singing at weddings: American vs European weddings

The dancing “cop” at the courthouse

Apollonia Vitelli-Corleone’s story

Movies that have quoted from The Godfather

Marbles in Marlon’s mouth

A country drive with “Marinara sauce” guy

Happy wife, happy life

The new show about the making of The Godfather: The Offer

Wine in pitchers vs bottles

Cannoli

And much more…

We’re joined by special guest Becky Glaser!!!

We give her a proper introduction, and guess her middle name!

And we talk about:

Zoolander quotes

Erik’s fishy movie

Dolly takes a trip to the dry side of the state

Spending time with family

Living with family

Putting the wrong age on a birthday card

Living by our own rules within other people’s rules

Erik’s Hot tubing and Go Cart building days

Peanut butter with white rice

Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail

Our traumatic childhood experiences…Erik’s Go Cart accident

Becky got stung by a Bumble Bee as a child

And Dolly fell down a lot

Rollerblading as an adult is still cool

Rollerskating vs Rollerblading

Youth Camps and PDA checks

Our childhood heroes

Steve Green, Keith Green and Greenday and other nostalgic artists

Musicians and plane crashes

Calling each other old based on cultural references

How to age backwards

Feeling grounded by being a parent

Being a good parent and the sacrifices

Having pets vs having kids

How to tell a girl horse from a boy horse

Foods that mess with our bodies

Erik’s new diet plan called “Food Poisoning”

Sober vomiting vs non-sober vomiting

Haystacks: The Adventist taco salad

Knowing when to leave a party

Socks with food on them

Severance: Ben Stiller’s new show

Girls

Mad Men

Things that didn’t age well

Becky gets compared to Don Draper’s wife

January Jones’ introduction to the Hollywood party scene

Sammi toots again…

Fake meat will give you some real bad gas

Erik eats canned hotdogs

Opening cans of Tuna in the office and microwaving leftover Salmon

Dolly loves hotdogs, but not a big Seattle Dog fan

Carne Asada and Hot dog combo

Reminicing about Dolly’s Grandma’s birthday party in Mexico

Local Seattle Mexican pastry shops

Bad toilet experience in Central America

Outhouses filled with unidentifiable bugs

IT: The toilet clown scene

Tim Curry as Pennywise

Being desensitized by watching horror movies as a kid

Wild Country: the documentary about a cult from Oregon in the 1980s

Cults are bad…M’kay

Becky goes to a PBR event

The movie “8 Seconds”

Erik forgets that Luke Perry died

Reaching out to famous people on social media

Speaking in definitives vs possibilities

Meeting famous people at their shows

90’s sitcoms

Becky’s questions for Erik & Dolly

Filling out dating site profiles

The meaning of life

And much more…

In this episode we talk about:

As a kid Dolly wasn’t allowed to join Chess club

Growing up anti-social

Care Bears class (aka therapy)

Being put in Spanish class, while only speaking English

Auditing classes vs attending college classes

Adam Sandler’s movie “Billy Madison”

People that look like animals

The Zodiac killer

Lake Berryessa and the Berryessa Beast

Seattle's Greenlake and Ted Bundy

Dolly’s hair reminds her of The Night Stalker’s hair

How the Night Stalker was captured

What’s the definition of justice?

Seattle’s vigilante superhero

What’s something fake in a movie that you wish was real?

The movie “What Dreams May Come”

Greek Mythology

Favorite college classes we took

Screenwriting class

The movie about the Enumclaw horse incident

Dolly spins out of control for a couple minutes

The writing process for professional screenwriters

Space technology

Traveling to Outer Space

Space Odyssey 2001

Interstellar and it’s deeper meaning

Want to age gracefully? Go to space!

Space diapers and the inconvenience of going to space

Astronaut salaries and sacrifices

Being clostrophobic and going Spelunking/Caving

The Ape Caves on Mt St Helens

Avoiding dangerous situations

Being dehydrated at all times

One lane roads on the side of cliffs

Dangerous tour bus adventures

Erik’s brother visits Machu Picchu in Peru

Crop circles

Doing projects that feed your soul, not deplete it

The amazing world of dating and putting “Spiritual” in your religion preferences

The definition of “Spiritual”

Dolly’s attracting the satanists on dating apps

Erik’s very narrow dating app potentials

Walking the road of online dating is a delicate path

Judge not lest ye be judged

Are we programmed into our beliefs?

Religion is man made

Community is a big part of humanity

Forced belief systems

Erik’s favorite spiritual quote

Dolly doubles down on talking about the Enumclaw story and spins out again

That one time Erik grew a weed plant in 8th grade

Seeking our parent’s approval

One more disturbing true story

And much more…

Dolly’s Back!!!

And we talk about:

Insane asylums

Busy Philipps

People with animal names

Feeding Ducks

Erik raised ducks, Dolly wants to eat them

Boi vs Boy

The Oscars 2022: The Good, the bad…the ugly

Shoutout to Hannah!

Kanye West & Taylor Swift vs Will Smith and Chris Rock

Inequality in Hollywood between actors and actresses pay

Dolly reviews the 2022 Oscars

Afro-Latina representation in film

Ariana DeBose wins!!!

The slap heard/seen around the world

Amy Schumer kills at the Oscars

Will’s acceptance speech

Rachel Zegler’s path to The Oscars

Seeing legendary heroes in their later stages of life

Definition of Ableism

Liza Minnelli and Lady Gaga’s cute moment

Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga’s relationship

Her documentary “Five Foot Two”

Famous people being bombarded by Paparazzi in their normal lives

Erik sees Jerry Cantrell at Burgermaster, and his friend meets Jerry in LA

Taking photos with famous musicians

Jim Carrey’s wise words about meeting people

Getting terrible surprise photos taken of you

How you can become a Paparazzi

Erik tries to capture Brian Wilson singing “Love and Mercy” in concert

What’s the purpose of posting photos/videos on social media?

Going social or going non-social?

Motivation…the enemy of indifference

Dolly’s sees Norah Jones live

Self reflection

Our biggest insecurities/fears

Erik reflects on being the concept of being “a bull in a china shop”

Satisfaction

Constantly looking for the next big thing

Joan of Arc commanded an army when she was 17

Be kind to yourself

The songs that are playing in our heads right now

And much more…

Our special guest Brandon Dannals is back!!!

And we talk about:

Poparazzi

US Weekly’s “Celebrities are just like us” section

Febreeze and Poo-Pourri

Brandon’s opening thoughts

Hail Caesar! (The movie)

Erik’s feature length film “Triple Bogey” starring Brandon

Filming on the set of Bandits with Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton

Having the same name as a famous guitarist

The meaning of “You know what I mean”

Brandon’s film career and potential future projects

We use some big words for a minute…then quickly return to small words

Anthropomorthic: our last big word

Being college dropouts

BS degrees

Dreams of traveling and filming

Learning about other cultures and their music

Tongue drums

Experience Music Project vs MoPop

Things change as time passes

Knowing when you’ve found your calling in life

That one summer Brandon was a tour guide on the Olympic Peninsula

Most people don’t enjoy their jobs/careers

Words of wisdom from Mike Tyson

The girl who quit a 6 figure career job to sell Boba Tea

Brandon’s “3 week” trip to Mexico

What’s the definition of a hippy?

Having a hippy mindset without trippin’

Tour guiding and living on the Big Island of Hawaii

The meaning of Waimea

Don’t take things from Hawaii

Ceremonial blessings from the native people of the islands

The troubles with living in a tent on the beach

Our collective history of buying cheap vehicles

Driving a 49cc scooter around the entire Big Island

Brandon’s story about the “naturalist” in Kona

Variety is the zest of life

People that are scared to leave their “bubble”

Traveling to Zion National Park

Liquid courage

Losing our mom’s to cancer at a young age

Turning into a social butterfly

College days

Goofing off in college

Latchkey after school program

Erik’s dad picked them up 3 hours late every day after school

The non-cell phone era

Living as a positive person

Da Kin and Ono Grinds

And much more…