Funny Together Pod
FTPod is an upbeat, hilarious hangout with host Rhonda Corey and fellow comics sharing funny stories, nostalgic memories, and relatable everyday moments. Packed with laughs and a unpredictable round of "Two Truths and a Lie," it’s your go-to show for good vibes and great banter.
Funny Together Pod
Phone Nostalgia And Comedy Truths
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We trade stories about how phones went from party lines and operators to brick cell phones, per-minute plans, and the texting chaos we all live with now. Along the way, we play Two Truths and a Lie about past jobs and end on a push to start the thing you keep putting off.
• meeting June Bug Colson and Brian Kohatsu through comedy conferences and road shows
• the first handheld cell phones and why early mobile tech felt unreal
• rotary phones, 411, collect calls, and party line eavesdropping
• paying per minute, roaming fees, dropped-call credits, and family plan fights
• T9 texting origins, predictive text quirks, and autocorrect disasters
• the panic of sending the wrong text to the wrong person
• Two Truths and a Lie with farm work, Andy Griffith ads, tobacco farming, and more
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Welcome And Meet The Guests
Speaker 1Hello, and welcome to the Funny Together Podcast. I'm your host, Rhonda Corey, and we have a great show. Let's get started. All right. Oh my goodness, I'm so excited. Um, our funny together podcast has finally begun, and we have like the most awesome guests ever on the tour with the funny together tour. We have June Bug Colson. And June is from June is I thought you knew. I do know. I know we are.
Speaker 2I'm from Bowling Green, Kentucky. Sorry, I was trying to see what kind of friend you were to me. Like, do you know Rhonda?
Speaker 1Where I'm from I've been there, I've been there and I've been kicked out. And we also have Mr. Brian Kohatsu.
SpeakerHi.
Speaker 1Hi, and Brian's excited. And Brian is all the way from Arizona. Arizona. And what's the temp today?
SpeakerWhat are we at? I think it's supposed to be 112.
Speaker 1That's it.
SpeakerOnly I wish I was lying. Yesterday it was 100 and whatever plus humidity because we had sprinkles, but it's enough to just make it horrible.
Speaker 1Wow. You have humidity? I thought there was no no humidity in Arizona.
SpeakerOnly when the rain comes in for two seconds.
Speaker 1Okay.
SpeakerAnd then it goes up really high, and then it rains really hard, and then it dries up really fast, and then it gets really humid, and then it blows out, and then you're back to just dry heat. It's really fun. I lost 15 pounds yesterday. Hydrate back, and then you're it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1That's how you do it. That's awesome. Well, we're super excited, and I thought we would start off by just telling everybody about how we met.
How We Met Through Comedy
Speaker 1And so, June, do you remember how we met? Our first meeting.
Speaker 2I do. Well, I you don't remember when we first met, but I remember when we first met. So my very first uh Christian Comedy Association, when I went to their conference in Nashville, I went like at night they did an open mic, and comics were getting up and doing their material, but I'd never done jokes before or anything like that. And so I just wanted to set and observe, but then Rick Roberts opened the floor to like, oh, you know, has anybody got a joke you want to work on? And I decided that was like my brave moment where I was like, okay, I had written one joke and I said it and it was terrible. And I remember looking over at you beside me, and you just put your hand on my knee and you go, Yeah, I kind of get it. That was it. And I'm like, I don't know who this woman is, but she made me not feel like a complete idiot in that moment. So and then the set then I officially met you at another conference called She Con. And I had to get like a step stool and boost you up into my pickup truck so I could drive you to your show like the rock star that you are.
SpeakerSo that sounds like Rhonda. She made you show for her the minute. No, 100%. All right. I want to be friends. Can you take me somewhere? What's your name? Juber? Juber? Uber? June? June bug. Sorry. I don't know.
Speaker 1June, you offered, I believe it was you did offer to um to bring us.
Speaker 2Well, Rhonda, you kind of have a way of making people believe they offered. By the time you're done with the conversation, it's like, wait a minute. Wait, how did I drive in this woman? But you have that like telepathic power to like, you know, take your thoughts and put it in someone else's thoughts, and the next thing you know, you're just driving Rhonda Corey.
SpeakerI 100% understood the story the first time.
Speaker 1I don't believe a word of that, but okay, whatever. Um, Brian, and we met at the Christian comedy association um conference, and you you I don't believe, I don't believe your story, your side of the story, but go ahead.
SpeakerMy story is a beautiful story about a young man lost in the world, went to CCA by himself, standing around, had one mutual friend through somebody else, kind of didn't even know them. Uh, was in a conversation with Sally Balkie, and then uh and then Rhonda ran in and said, Here, threw me a camera and her put it in my face and my hand at the same time. It was like kind of like one of these deals. And then she goes, Take a picture of us. So I was like, All right, I was at CCA maybe 10 minutes at this point, and then uh took a picture of Rhonda, and then they uh chatted, and then uh they and then Rhonda ran off into the darkness, and then um and then the second year, uh Mike James and I went, and then uh we were I think we were at the restaurant at this point, and hi, I'm Rhonda Corey. I'm like, Oh, we met, and uh she had no idea. I was her photographer at the time.
Speaker 1So you know, these you know what? These people are gonna think I'm a horrible person, and I am not.
SpeakerOf course you're not, or we wouldn't be here.
Speaker 1I'm not a diva or a horrible person, but you've made me sound terrible, and this was a bad idea.
SpeakerHow do we you're assertive?
Speaker 2Run it makes things happen, that's why we're here right now because you could have said happen, and and this is happening, this cool podcast. So there's a compliment. Hopefully, you feel better now.
SpeakerUm I could have said aggressive, but I didn't.
Speaker 1Thanks, thanks for
Recent Shows And Hosting Stories
Speaker 1that. Well, we did um we did just see each other recently, which um uh actually time's flying by, but we did just do some fun shows in Indiana. Um, so that was a blast. And uh we did wow, we did how many shows together? We did like four shows, four shows plus uh plus the conference, the retreat. And uh you guys hosted, and I have to say, Magic. You guys were amazing uh hosts and hostesses. I don't know if you're supposed to say the hostesses. I think you're both hosts. I don't I don't think there's a uh a feminine way we have to say it, but anyway, you can't say hostess, hostes.
SpeakerThat just makes me want to twinkie.
Speaker 1It does that the comedian comedian. I don't like the comedian actress. It's I think we're all comedians and we're all comics and we're all hosts, kind of anyway.
Speaker 2Well, you guys they make good snack cakes. We do, right? We like that.
Speaker 1We do like that. All right, we are gonna go into our first our very first segment.
The First Cell Phones And Costs
Speaker 1I love that little drumbeat thing, and we are gonna talk about cell phones, cell phones, and just a um a couple of fun facts about cell phones. The very first um the the first commercially available handheld cell phone was the Motorola Dyna T A C 8000X. And um, I don't what a catchy name that was, right?
SpeakerUm it rolls off the tongue.
Speaker 1It doesn't it? It's like well that was a that was great. I would have loved to be in the in the uh in the room for that, the conference room for that uh naming. But it was called the brick, and it was 1983, $10,000. $10,000. Did you have one, Brian? Did you have a brick for $10,000?
SpeakerEventually I did because somebody I know who was rich had one of those, and then after that became you know obsolete, he said, Do you want this? And I said, Yeah, so it's huge. It's probably not the actual one you're talking about, right? But uh, I used it as a foundation for a shed in the back for huge.
Speaker 2It's wild. It's probably worth a lot of money if you had one now, just be you know, the way people collected computers and things like that. I bet the cell phone would have been one of those you could have like sold now for probably big money. So yeah, you missed out on that opportunity, Brian.
SpeakerSorry to and I do think back in the day, according to my buddy, that you had to have like their credit check was in like you had to have like a million dollars worth in credit, you know, on your credit score to be the highest it was because it was just like so fancy to have this mobile brick phone. And those people actually you noticed in the day, their arms were like way bigger on one side than the other from just holding it up.
Speaker 1From holding it.
SpeakerI'm in my car right now driving.
Speaker 1Um, well, did you know that texting was an accidental afterthought um in 1992?
SpeakerI'm gonna believe that because it was clunky.
Speaker 2Yeah, I feel like that's what my mom called me when I was a kid. The choice is so rude, and but it's perfect that that like during this segment, I am gonna have to take this call. And I know that's like not very professional, but um just just grab this.
Speaker 1If uh if you're listening right now, um June has a dial, a dial phone.
SpeakerMake sure you do it right.
Speaker 1I loved those. You know what I miss about those phones is when you hung up on somebody.
SpeakerYou mean when you slam the ringer down on somebody 911 sticker on it?
Speaker 2Like like I'm dead by the time I get to nine one. Exactly.
SpeakerI like the fact that back then we couldn't remember nine one one, we couldn't remember three numbers. Like, uh, what is it?
Speaker 1I don't even I don't remember having 911. I remember just having to call like the police call the operator, yeah. Calling the operator, it's an emergency.
SpeakerHurry up on the phone and then you hit the receiver thing. Click click click click click click click operator. We have a medical emergency at 549 street. All right, send ambulances.
Speaker 1I remember the operator, and and do you remember like 411? Like, we don't have the need for that, yeah.
Speaker 2Information, time and temperature. This phone legit on this phone, like childhood phone on the we had a party line.
Party Lines And Payphone Memories
Speaker 2Do y'all remember party lines? Yeah, party lines where so if like younger people are not gonna know what that is, but on the party line, it you literally shared a phone line with other people in your neighborhood, and so you'd pick up the phone and you could hear people talking on their phone. So you would have to wait till they got off the phone before you could make a phone call. And I never had a phone, like growing up, we didn't have a telephone, but my grandma did, so that phone got me so many weapons because I would my cousin Angel and I would like be listening in on Mrs. Smith next door, you know, we'd find out all the gossip about everybody in town because of the cool party line.
SpeakerYeah, and then you had like the secret um phone ring for you. Yes, yeah, we had this up at our cabin. We had it was like three rings was us, so the phone would ring and you go, one, two, three, four, it's not for us, and then you go on with the rest of your life. So weird.
Speaker 1Wow. I remember I remember running the phone. Do you remember running to the phone when the phone rang? Like you ran to the phone, and you just couldn't wait to answer the phone because it might be for you, and now it's like no one answers their phone.
SpeakerYeah, I used to call it um, it was like phone Russian roulette when it rang. You're like, oh hello, mom.
Speaker 2You know, we had to, we literally had to walk up to uh the hardware store where they had a payphone, and my mom would call my grandma, like long distance. Um, and she would have to do a collect call, you know, from Ava. And she would like the operator, she would say, Um, yeah, I'm making a collect call, and they'd ask who the person was, and mom would say, Ava Vaughn, Ava Vaughn, V is an Victor, A is an Apple, U is an umbrella. Like we had the longest last time. And then my grandma would like pick up and they'd say, A collect call from Ava, but you can hear them on the other end. So my mom would just be like, We're coming for Christmas, and then that would be it. Like, she'd hang up really quick so that people wouldn't know, or so we wouldn't have a pay.
SpeakerThat's why we used to do person. We used to do person-to-person call. Have a person-to-person call from I'm running late.
unknownYeah.
SpeakerUh, no, I don't want to. No, thank you.
Speaker 1Because it costs money back then, like every single call costs money.
Minutes Roaming And Family Phone Fights
Speaker 1My first, my very first cell phone. I actually had it was a car phone, and it was installed in the car. It was a hand-me-down. Um, and it was installed in the car, and it had you know all the keys there, and it cost, I think, for the service, and then it would cost per call per minute, right?
SpeakerRight, right.
Speaker 1Do you remember? Do you remember when it cost per minute?
SpeakerLike incoming was 13 cents, and then it was outgoing was nine or something. It was weird, it was that weird formula, yeah. And you're always having to keep track of your minutes.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, you had long distance. Yeah, you have long distance and how many minutes it takes. I remember being in Florida with my my youngest son, and we were just chilling out in the morning before we were going to the beach, and the hotel phone started to ring. And I was like, What in the world? And so I picked it up and I said hello. And Trey goes, Hey mom, what are you doing? And I go, hang it up, hang it up, it's long distance, buddy. Hang it up. And he was like, What? How is this long distance? You're sitting right there.
SpeakerYou just cost this household ten thousand dollars. How dare you?
Speaker 2Oh my goodness.
SpeakerWell, and then of course, roaming was a whole different thing, yes. I mean, yeah, and not like that, the weird thing about the technology with phones back then is it was not a hundred percent, but we all paid our fees and all that. I remember calling saying, Hey, can you go through for my drop calls? And they go, Oh, yeah, sure. And they'd be on the phone for like 10 minutes, going, Okay, I managed to credit back to you, you know, five dollars and eighty-three cents of dropped calls plus all, you know, and it's like, but you had to maintain all that, trying to make sure your numbers and you weren't going over your minutes, right?
Speaker 2And the family fights too, because you could see who was using the most minutes on your family plan. So you could see, like, oh my gosh, you know, Jason was on the phone for X amount and Trey and Ty. And so it'd always be that fight of like who caused us to go over. I remember Jason being like, I can't charge them, you know. If they if we have to pay, they're gonna have to pay. And I'm like, they're 12. You know, they don't have a job, they play baseball. Like, that's the only reason why they have the phone. My first cell phone call wasn't even on a cell phone, like, wasn't on like my cell phone, but I had gone with a friend who thought her boyfriend was cheating on her, and her mom was like one of those rich people like Brian's friend, who had one of the first bag phones like in her car. And my friend called and she was like, I think my boyfriend's cheating on me, and he's in Nashville at this dance club or whatever. And I was like, Okay, fine, let's go get him. And we drive up there, he's not there. So then I fell asleep in the car and I wake up on a military base, Fort Campbell in Kentucky, because she's now talked some guy into getting us on the military base so she can find this boyfriend, right? It's now like five o'clock in the morning, and her mother calls that bag phone because all my people were looking for me because I had to take the ACT test in bowling green at seven in the morning to get into college. So, for the record, I didn't go to college, so it was so bad. I'm like, that's the first call I get on a cool cell phone, and it's it's because I I was somewhere I wasn't supposed to be. And um, I finally I did go to college eventually, but I had to retake that test because I don't think it's supposed to be negative numbers on your score. I just slept, it was it's terrible.
SpeakerIf you're just joining us, welcome to how cell phones have ruined your life.
Speaker 2Um family fights, ACT. Oh my goodness.
SpeakerI too, because you know, you can throw a cell phone too. Those old phones, you know, you could clock somebody with them because you see that in movies a lot. Those fight scenes where somebody would like pick up a whole phone like June just had, and then like clang, you know, and that was always funny because the bell inside would ring bling.
Speaker 2I had a blackberry when I did finally get a phone, and like I had a blackberry cell phone. I really love that phone.
Speaker 1Yeah, crackberry, but yeah, I didn't have a crackback.
SpeakerThey're like all day long.
Speaker 1I had a phone that had like texting, like you slid and it had like the whole keyboard, and it it just like slid out and slid back in. And I realized even though I have very tiny fingers, we all know that. I have very tiny fingers, but from for some reason when I'm hitting the keys, they're huge. I don't know why, but I I could never hit the keys properly, and I still can't.
SpeakerSo I think people don't know this, but when you're using your cell phone, your thumbs grow because of the radiation from the phone back then. That's how it works. I got two, I have two really cool, little quick, interesting stories about texting.
T9 Texting And Autocorrect Chaos
Speaker 1I would love to hear it.
SpeakerDo you remember T9 texting? That's where you know you press the button multiple times to get the letter you want.
Speaker 2Oh, yeah, that was yeah.
SpeakerSo A A is two, B is two, C is two, so you'd had a beep beep beep to get to it. Yeah, okay. So that kind of took you know forever, but that's how we had to do it on the phone, anyways. Our good friend Mike James was part of the team that developed T9 texting. No way, it was a guy and Mike James, and then Mike at one point the guy refused to pay him, and Mike was like, I'm done, was right where it was almost done, or it was done, and then Mike left and never got paid for it, and then the guy became rich. So, um, and that guy recently died. Just Mike Mike texted him, his wife. Sorry.
Speaker 2Um Brian, no, all of that is that's that's amazingly terrible.
SpeakerGo ahead, but anyway, so um, so we are all closely to connected to the T9. Um, but I also want to throw in the fact that my friend was texting me one day on the phone and he went to write Brian and it auto-corrected to Asian because it's all the same letters, isn't that weird?
Speaker 2Stop.
SpeakerIt's a true fact.
Speaker 1Is that true? It's true, it's true.
SpeakerTwo A two is A and B. And then R, R S. Yeah. Yeah. Seven, yeah, R S right next to each other, and then I-A-N is the same.
Speaker 2That's crazy.
SpeakerIsn't that funny?
Speaker 2Jim Fud and Hillbilly are the same letters. That's uh you probably didn't know that, but those are the same. I love it. We've now discovered why we're all comedians because Brian could have been a millionaire off of that original cell phone that his millionaire friend gave him, and Mike could have been a millionaire from the texting, and uh I could have been a millionaire if I passed my ACT, right? And Rhonda could have been a millionaire if she could drive and start her own um chauffeur company. That would, but now we're all doing already.
unknownRight.
Speaker 1Can you hear my dog is just not behaving during this. No, it's fine. Just not.
The Accidental Wrong Text Confession
Speaker 1Um, anyway, have you ever sent have you ever sent uh a text, a wrong text? Um, I texted a picture of a um it it was it's like a not a mannequin, but like a what you would use for sewing. Do you know what I'm talking about? Like a anyway. Well it we were using it to put t-shirts on at the time, my friend and I. And I have to pause. Okay, so um, it was so the the mannequin, the form or whatever you call it. I did I texted a picture of that to my friend to show her that we could use that for our t shirt display. Only I texted it to a guy that was in my small group so it looked like I don't know. I call it like um like Christian sexting.
unknownI don't know.
Speaker 1Because it was like it was like a um a form, you know, with nothing on it. And how do you explain that? Like, here's this like what is that?
SpeakerWhat did it say below it? Like, what do you think of this?
Speaker 1And I said, we can use this, you know, and so that's embarrassing. So then I had to explain. Then when I realized I texted it, I was mortified. Anyway, all right, we we have to we have to go on to our next uh and our our final um segment.
Two Truths And A Lie Jobs
Speaker 1All right, you know it's game time, you know I love to play games, and so we're gonna wrap this up with two truths and a lie. Okay, so um our subject today is jobs that we've had. Jobs that we've had. So um let's start with you, Brian.
SpeakerOkay, two truths and a lie. All right, and uh okay. Uh here we go. Ready?
Speaker 1I'm ready.
SpeakerI was a uh uh farm worker working in the fields, working in the onion and lettuce fields. That's uh that's job number one. Uh job number two, I was an Andy Griffith impersonator for an HVAC company in New Mexico. And I was a uh manager of a bowling alley here in my hometown of Glendale, Arizona, uh at Lenora's, uh fun family bull.
Speaker 1Um so that's two truths and a lie.
SpeakerSo truth and a lie.
Speaker 1Okay, so that's you already did the two truths and a lie.
SpeakerYep.
Speaker 1Okay, all right, so Andy Griffith impersonator, a bowling um Alley manager, and a farm worker, and a farm worker. June. June, what do you think?
SpeakerYou may you may discuss.
Speaker 2I am guessing, gosh, it's tough. I'm thinking that not the farm worker. I'm thinking his dad worked on the farm, so maybe he just is using that. Um Andy Griffith, it's so very specific that I kind of feel like that's a that's a yes. I'm going with the farm worker.
Speaker 1Well, I know that he does a very good Andy Griffith impersonation. Um, so I I'm gonna say that's a yes, which is a weird job to have. And I would love to know the interviewing process for that. Um and the bowling alley. That sounds so like of course you worked in a bowling alley. I'm going with the bowling alley.
SpeakerSo we got bowling alley and we've got farm worker, yeah.
Speaker 1And so much of it.
SpeakerSo I I definitely worked as a farm worker because my dad was a farmer. So every summer I had to be in the field working, and then uh, and any uh if it was spring break, get your butt out in the field. So that's fun. Um, so that's a real job. Um, the uh the uh the bowling alley, I was not a general manager of a bowling alley. Uh I was not, but I did work at a bowling alley as a janitor basically, uh, when I was in high school and I hated that job. That was the worst three months of my entire life. Um, and that really put me off um people in general. Uh, and then yes, I did. I was an Andy Griffith impersonator for an HVAC company in New Mexico by doing uh it was a commercial, and I actually got the job, Rhonda, with uh because of um uh Rick Roberts. Oh so when we were doing our podcast, I had mentioned to Robert Rick that we've never done Andy Griffith together, so we did a little impromptu thing, and that was very funny. And then, like, it was like two weeks later, he called me and goes, Some guy's looking for an impersonator. So um, so yeah, we ended up doing, I think we did four ads.
Speaker 1How fun are you?
SpeakerAre you gonna be in New Mexico and it's a really small town? That's the funniest.
Speaker 1Can you do just a little Andy Griffith for us right now?
SpeakerUm, so well now. Um, let me hold on. Well now it's too many now, but well now, Rhonda and June bug gonna have a good time this weekend. Uh that's Andy Griffith with a cold. Um it's better than that.
Speaker 1Anyway, well, that I think you know, I was I did put you on the spot, so and I won, so I don't want to brag or anything, June, but I won.
Speaker 2So that all right, good June.
Speaker 1Do you want to go next?
Speaker 2Sure. Okay.
Speaker 1Two truths and a lie, two truths and a lie.
Speaker 2All right. Um, I trained uh miniature Mediterranean donkeys. I have been a why are you laughing? I've been a tobacco farmer and I worked for two years as an uncertified lifeguard. Life guarding.
SpeakerSo I like uncertified, okay.
Speaker 1My uncertified lifeguard, that's scary. I'm glad I didn't go to that pool. Um, we don't certify our lifeguard.
SpeakerI only lost three people, but I'll tell you, it's fine because I'm uncertified, it doesn't count.
Speaker 1Can't sue me. All right, so wait. So uncertified lifeguard. Yes, um what tobacco farmer, tobacco farmer, and what was the Mediterranean what?
Speaker 2Donkey, miniature donkeys, miniature donkey train them, yes, miniature donkey. Yeah, like simple commands, like like they have to learn to like let humans touch them so that they can like have like veterinarian care, like things like that. And it was a little farm, a petting zoo.
Speaker 1Uh Brian, what are you thinking?
SpeakerI'm gonna say I students led a really interesting life. That's why we don't know what I'm gonna I'm gonna say. The lie is I think you've done these all. I'm gonna say, I'm my for whatever reason, I'm gonna lean to God. I think you've done that too, though. Never mind. I'm gonna say I don't think you were a tobacco farmer. That's what I think. So it was I've never I've never seen you smoke or chew tobacco, so that makes me think quick laugh at that. That's a lie. Most people use their product, so okay. So what do you think, Rhonda?
Speaker 1All right, wait, what were they again? June same, really fast.
Speaker 2Oh my goodness. Donkey training, yeah, tobacco farming, uncertified lifeguard.
Speaker 1I'm gonna say the uncertified lifeguard.
Speaker 2Um that's you guys are both wrong. All right, so I've never trained donkeys. I just looked that up.
Speaker 1Why did I fall for that? I was like, that is so stupid.
Speaker 2I have been a tobacco farmer. My husband and I did that for several years, and actually, our last crop is what we made the biggest um profit off of, and we started a uniform company with tobacco money. So, and I may or may not have smoked Marlboro lights back in the day, right? So imagine the 80s hair. Have you not listened to my material? I literally do a bit about flicking a cigarette up the wall.
Speaker 1Yeah, but you didn't say you farmed the you didn't say no, I did.
Speaker 2I farmed the tobacco, um, and then uncertified lifeguards. So there was an amusement park here in town who hired me to be the lifeguard at the end of their water slide. And I am not a lifeguard, but they're like, nobody's ever checked in 20 years, no one ever checked. They just left me at 16 years old at the end of a water slide. Wait, if anyone's drowning, all they have to do is stand up. You know what I mean? So it's not like it was gonna be out in the ocean rescue or anything. Just stand over them, stand up, kid.
SpeakerStand up, kid. Come on.
Speaker 1That is so scary.
SpeakerLegally, I'm not allowed to touch you, so just stand up, kid. Come on. I'm uncertified. Come on.
Speaker 1All right, I'll finish. All right, you ready?
SpeakerAll right, ready? You can't use donkey trainer because it's already been dangerous.
Speaker 1Right, it's already been done. Um, okay. I was a bartender. I delivered newspapers. And I was a uh nail technician. Okay. Writing nail notes down, Brian.
SpeakerI think June goes first now.
Speaker 2I'm gonna give that. Okay, so I know uh bartender for sure is a yes. Um because I make a mean iced tea. Yes.
SpeakerRhode Island Iced tea. That's right. That's right. What's the second one?
Speaker 2First one was bartender. Oh, delivered newspapers. Nail tech. I don't think you were in nail tech because unless you were like me as an uncertified lifeguard, you would have had to go to school because you can't do people's nails unless you have the certification. Unless you're like me and you don't need certifications, you can just lifeguard, do nails, perform surgery. I'm going with the nail tech. That's my goal.
SpeakerOkay. I know I know she bartended. I know, I know that in my heart. I know that.
Speaker 1My heart.
SpeakerBecause she mentioned how difficult the 80s were, anyways. Okay. So I'm gonna say deliver newspapers. I can't put I can't picture Rhonda at any any point in her life, even as a child, on a bike going. So I'm gonna call newspaper delivery.
Speaker 1Okay. So I went to school for nails. Um, however, I did not uh I never took my state boards. I finished the whole course and I never took my state boards. So um I wasn't a nail tech because I didn't take my state boards.
SpeakerSo wow, not even an uncertified one.
Speaker 1I was an uncertified one, but I didn't say that. And I did deliver new pay newspapers. I had a um I had a paper route with my friend Wendy, and um oh my gosh. There you go.
SpeakerPlease, please produce a picture of that.
Speaker 1I didn't do that. Um, and there are stories, but we don't did you guys ride bicycles? No, no, we would go, we would go to the store, our corner store is where they would drop off our newspapers, and we had paper, we had bags that we would carry um our newspapers in, and we would deliver them.
Speaker 2Did you ever intentionally like throw it in a bush or like out in the rain?
Speaker 1You had to actually put them in peep people's doors, you know.
SpeakerLike this is what I picture. This is this is Rhonda with her friend. Hey Wendy, what do you want to do? Huh? You wanna I say we just go home?
Speaker 1This is not happened. I did not throw them, I did not toss them.
SpeakerI think this is bad for my nails, and I want to be a nail tech, so let's get out of here.
Speaker 2Yeah, no, that just my dream of being a nail tech.
Farewell Song And Do It Afraid
Speaker 1Oh my gosh, you guys, this was so much fun, but you know, it's time to go. Um, I don't wanna I don't want to make these podcasts too long, and I don't want to take up your valuable time.
SpeakerSo let's sing the farewell song that Rhon has written for all of us. It's time to go, it's time to go. We have to say goodbye. It's time to go, it's time to go.
Speaker 1However, I do want to end with uh with something that um uh that is dear to my heart, something that I say to myself, if you're scared, if you're scared and your dog is barking, that isn't part of it. Um, but it is for him. He's gonna do this for me. He's so adorable. If you're scared and you want to start something, do it afraid. All right, you guys, it's good enough. You got you got a phone call, Jim?
Speaker 2All right, hello Jim. Hey Brian, how are we?