<v Speaker 1>Jerry, Katie and Josh.

<v Speaker 2>Well, my morning is completely out of whack and screwed up.

<v Speaker 2>Every morning I put a little bowl of fruit in

<v Speaker 2>my lunch tote.

<v Speaker 3>Did I prepare the night before?

<v Speaker 2>Last night, I chopped up some pineapple and some strawbellies,

<v Speaker 2>put them in my little tupperware bowl in the fridge.

<v Speaker 2>This morning, I grabbed that bowl put it in my

<v Speaker 2>lunch tote. I just went over, opened up my lunch

<v Speaker 2>tote and pulled out that bowl and popped the lid off.

<v Speaker 3>And it is a bunch of old dry spaghetti.

<v Speaker 2>Oh no, I grabbed the wrong upperwar.

<v Speaker 3>It's just ry noodles. I hate this morning.

<v Speaker 1>That's not refreshing at all. Like pineapple sounds fabulous.

<v Speaker 3>Was already for pineapple. Damn it.

<v Speaker 4>That's not to be one of the most disappointing things,

<v Speaker 4>you know how.

<v Speaker 3>I was like, oh, well, this day sucks anyway. I'm

<v Speaker 3>an idiot.

<v Speaker 2>So I'm reading all the news stories here. It was

<v Speaker 2>crazy smoky in town yesterday, and I'm feeling it.

<v Speaker 3>Are you guys feeling it?

<v Speaker 4>Yeah? Taste it. I'm clearing my throat so much more

<v Speaker 4>than I usually do.

<v Speaker 1>I think that's a big part of why I was

<v Speaker 1>so sick over the weekend.

<v Speaker 5>It just got to me.

<v Speaker 2>Yeah, big fires in Colorado right now. The Aspen Acres

<v Speaker 2>fire is going on in Custer County. They're saying about

<v Speaker 2>twenty three thousand acres right now. Yeah, zero percent contained,

<v Speaker 2>and it's currently the largest and fastest growing fire in Colorado.

<v Speaker 5>Oh oh, it's so sad.

<v Speaker 2>Then we got the Snyder Fire, which is the Mason

<v Speaker 2>Grand Counties near the Utah border. Twenty eight thousand acres,

<v Speaker 2>zero percent contained. Right now, that's the one that's man,

<v Speaker 2>that's the scary one, right it's.

<v Speaker 1>Really close to Grand Junction. I mean, yesterday I saw

<v Speaker 1>the it switched directions. I think it made them, you know,

<v Speaker 1>like it it just took It was a positive finally

<v Speaker 1>in all of that, but still not out of the

<v Speaker 1>woods yet.

<v Speaker 3>I mean that's the one where the three firefighters were

<v Speaker 3>killed on that one. True, Yeah, that's horrible.

<v Speaker 2>And then now there's a Gold Mountain fire near your

<v Speaker 2>ray and that's seven one hundred acres zero percent contained.

<v Speaker 1>And again another one like from the town you could

<v Speaker 1>see it over the crest of the mountain and yes, yeah,

<v Speaker 1>they were happy that it turned away and started going

<v Speaker 1>away from the town.

<v Speaker 2>But it has doubled in size over the past day,

<v Speaker 2>they said, So that was really quick. But man, everything

<v Speaker 2>is so dry out there. The temperatures are high, single

<v Speaker 2>digit humidity, gusty winds, like it's just truly a perfect

<v Speaker 2>storm for all these fires right now.

<v Speaker 3>And how do you fight all that?

<v Speaker 2>You know, you don't have enough manpower or air power

<v Speaker 2>anything like that.

<v Speaker 1>Well even just outside of the flames of just being

<v Speaker 1>in the vicinity of it. I'll never forget when I

<v Speaker 1>lived over there, there was a big fire and the ashes,

<v Speaker 1>like you had to clean off a good centimeter of

<v Speaker 1>ashes from your every day because it was like that.

<v Speaker 1>And imagine what your lungs look like at that point.

<v Speaker 1>If your car's looking like your masks, what your lungs

<v Speaker 1>look like. So, yeah, it is I'm praying and you know,

<v Speaker 1>all my friends out there on the western slope just

<v Speaker 1>hoping that everything's okay.

<v Speaker 5>So yeah, kind of hard to see though, a.

<v Speaker 3>Very hard to see.

<v Speaker 2>It sucks for you know, the nature and people having

<v Speaker 2>to be evacuated and lives being lost, and I guess

<v Speaker 2>it just it's one of those things. Don't want to

<v Speaker 2>be a parent here, but just think about it. You

<v Speaker 2>know what, the fourth of July coming up, shooting off

<v Speaker 2>the fireworks.

<v Speaker 3>And doing things.

<v Speaker 2>You know, be smart with your fireworks, absolutely, be smart,

<v Speaker 2>be careful this year because man, it could.

<v Speaker 3>Get a whole lot worse fast.

<v Speaker 1>Well, and I remember last year without all the fires

<v Speaker 1>and firefighters had to respond to like forty five different

<v Speaker 1>calls within like seven hours because of fireworks. So you know,

<v Speaker 1>our men and women in uniform, we don't want to

<v Speaker 1>put any.

<v Speaker 5>Extra pressure on them.

<v Speaker 1>So definitely hoping they stay safe this season as well.

<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so don't put any pop bottle rockets in your

<v Speaker 2>butts off.

<v Speaker 3>This is not the year to do it. Don't do it,

<v Speaker 3>year to do it really quick. I do have this story.

<v Speaker 2>I guess we're heading into July, which is National ice

<v Speaker 2>Cream Month, and National ice Cream Day actually falls on

<v Speaker 2>July nineteenth, but tomorrow is National Creative ice Cream Flavors Day,

<v Speaker 2>so it's all about ice cream.

<v Speaker 3>In the month of July.

<v Speaker 2>They went out and did a report and some polling

<v Speaker 2>data to determine the most popular ice cream flavors in

<v Speaker 2>every state.

<v Speaker 3>Where are we at here with Colorado? Oh? Chocolate chip?

<v Speaker 1>Oh?

<v Speaker 3>That boring, that's boring.

<v Speaker 5>One step up from vanilla.

<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Indiana got peppermint, Kansas got macha, Main got blueberry.

<v Speaker 3>South Carolina got peach.

<v Speaker 1>Kansas, the most boring state out there, gets macha?

<v Speaker 3>Should vanilla? Vermont got peanut butter? Which I am? A

<v Speaker 3>peanut butter ice cream? Which one got?

<v Speaker 5>Rocky Road? Does it say.

<v Speaker 4>Nope?

<v Speaker 3>No cookies and cream?

<v Speaker 2>If you want to go up to South Dakota, Hey,

<v Speaker 2>lavender in Oregon lavender ice cream?

<v Speaker 5>I do like lavender ice cream.

<v Speaker 4>What does that taste like?

<v Speaker 6>Like?

<v Speaker 2>The color tastes like Barney, the sweet lavender taste.

<v Speaker 5>It is something you gotta at least try it.

<v Speaker 3>What's up sweet lavender?

<v Speaker 1>You girl?

<v Speaker 2>I should make a shirt for my little shop that

<v Speaker 2>says ice cream sweat on it.

<v Speaker 4>I'd probably buy that one.

<v Speaker 5>It's funny, is I? I?

<v Speaker 3>Was that offensive?

<v Speaker 4>A little difference between a man and a woman right there?

<v Speaker 5>Cream sweat, but funny?

<v Speaker 3>Text me right now?

<v Speaker 2>Should I make a shirt that says that three zo

<v Speaker 2>three six nine one sixteen forty nine?

<v Speaker 3>Is that something you'd wear into the office?

<v Speaker 4>Probably? Okay, maybe not the office?

<v Speaker 3>Where would you wear a shirt this is ice cream?

<v Speaker 5>I know?

<v Speaker 4>Yeah?

<v Speaker 5>The only place you.

<v Speaker 6>Could give me your finest soft roll into cold Stone.

<v Speaker 3>Oh my god. That's okay.

<v Speaker 2>So anyway, that was totally sidetracked from what we wanted

<v Speaker 2>to talk about.

<v Speaker 3>Gen Zers are putting up walls, Katie.

<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, I mean, if you like think about it,

<v Speaker 1>if you know a gen Zer, I do. I gave

<v Speaker 1>birth to one, and she has this whole thing where

<v Speaker 1>she doesn't like owe anyone anything. And it's not just her,

<v Speaker 1>it's people who age all across the board. They've got

<v Speaker 1>really strong boundaries with their friends, with their workplaces. They

<v Speaker 1>are very you know, in tune with their mental health.

<v Speaker 1>These are things that they have done that are you know,

<v Speaker 1>positive in a way. But now we're starting to see

<v Speaker 1>the negatives of this because everyone wants.

<v Speaker 5>A village, but no one wants to be a villager.

<v Speaker 1>That's kind of how they're describing this phenomenon with the

<v Speaker 1>gen Zers. So they talk about how like their work

<v Speaker 1>life balance, right, Like we've discussed how they talk about

<v Speaker 1>how they want to take a nap, How in the

<v Speaker 1>middle of the day, the gen Zers want to take

<v Speaker 1>a nap. They need days for their mental health.

<v Speaker 4>But now we're putting yourself first.

<v Speaker 5>It is putting yourself first. It's very selfish.

<v Speaker 4>Josh.

<v Speaker 1>That's kind of what they're saying here is you know,

<v Speaker 1>gen Zers, they have this whole protect your piece thing.

<v Speaker 1>I'm sure you've heard it. I'm sure you I have

<v Speaker 1>z siblings, Yes, exactly. And so it's often then they're

<v Speaker 1>saying this protecting your piece can morph into like a

<v Speaker 1>selfish or a bad friend, right. I just think when

<v Speaker 1>I go back to like having friends and like what

<v Speaker 1>they mean to me, I can ask a couple of

<v Speaker 1>my friends for anything at any time, and I know

<v Speaker 1>that they will show up and because they know that

<v Speaker 1>they can get that from me. But it's a you know, process,

<v Speaker 1>and it's a history of doing that for your friends,

<v Speaker 1>showing up, for your friends, being there for them that

<v Speaker 1>they know they can count on you. With gen Zers,

<v Speaker 1>it's now just you know, do you want to come

<v Speaker 1>to my party?

<v Speaker 5>Yes?

<v Speaker 4>I do.

<v Speaker 5>But then they don't.

<v Speaker 1>Show up because they're like, I am a headache and

<v Speaker 1>I just don't want anything to disturb my peace like that.

<v Speaker 1>They and they're so quick to use that as an excuse,

<v Speaker 1>like it's going to make them step outside of their

<v Speaker 1>comfort zone and they don't want to do it, and

<v Speaker 1>they don't have to do it. That's what they've been

<v Speaker 1>kind of taught, right, I don't know. It's like I

<v Speaker 1>don't like it either, And I think, honestly, you need

<v Speaker 1>to show up for your friends.

<v Speaker 6>Why you know, I'm a people pleaser, like to a fault.

<v Speaker 6>I have a very hard time saying no, and I

<v Speaker 6>always want to help someone out and be there for someone.

<v Speaker 6>So this is like polar opposite of what I'm used

<v Speaker 6>to at all. Yeah, I mean I overserved to the

<v Speaker 6>point where like I spread myself too thin, where now

<v Speaker 6>these people are just like, oh I can RSVP to a.

<v Speaker 4>Party, have you get ready for that?

<v Speaker 6>Make a table spot for me, and then just never

<v Speaker 6>even show up because I have I'm tired.

<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and that's it, Like this really so tired.

<v Speaker 5>Well this story I was.

<v Speaker 1>Looking at specifically, She was like, you know, I planned

<v Speaker 1>a potluck style party and several of the people bailed

<v Speaker 1>at the last minute, and then they didn't respond my

<v Speaker 1>invitation at all, some of them, and well before that.

<v Speaker 3>Because potlucks are disgusting.

<v Speaker 5>Yeah, but honestly, like when when you think back, like I.

<v Speaker 1>Just remember my friend's birthday parties, Like when I was

<v Speaker 1>in my twenties, I was.

<v Speaker 4>There for this so fun.

<v Speaker 5>We had a big party.

<v Speaker 1>I showed up for them, they showed up for my parties,

<v Speaker 1>and I just so baby Nana her last birthday party,

<v Speaker 1>she rented a little space.

<v Speaker 5>She put out, you know, a good chunk of money

<v Speaker 5>for the food, the drink.

<v Speaker 1>She invited a bunch of people, and a lot of

<v Speaker 1>her friends didn't show up, and it really made her sad.

<v Speaker 1>And I was just like, that's kind of what the

<v Speaker 1>kids your age do now though, right, Like they.

<v Speaker 5>Don't show up.

<v Speaker 1>I texted you exactly, And so that's kind of what

<v Speaker 1>this whole thing is is they're seeing this whole loneliness phenomenon,

<v Speaker 1>but they're feeding into it, Like if you're not going

<v Speaker 1>to show up for your friend, they're not going to

<v Speaker 1>show up for you either. That's how it works, right.

<v Speaker 4>I don't like the mentality of I don't owe anybody anything.

<v Speaker 5>Yeah, and that's it.

<v Speaker 1>You don't know anyone anything is what they kind of,

<v Speaker 1>you know, just live by and you see it in

<v Speaker 1>the workspace, you see it in the friendship. But again,

<v Speaker 1>these phones are what's contributing to all of it, because

<v Speaker 1>we think that we can you know, communicate with people

<v Speaker 1>and have entire relationships with people just based on this,

<v Speaker 1>and it's really hurting the next generation they're finding out.

<v Speaker 1>So it's this whole new thing with gen z ors

<v Speaker 1>where you know, you don't have to show up for people, No,

<v Speaker 1>you kind of do. And I hope they start seeing

<v Speaker 1>that it's better when you show up for people versus

<v Speaker 1>when you don't.

<v Speaker 2>They're gonna, yeah, I hate gen zol.

<v Speaker 3>Awesome, go have anybody, Bears.

<v Speaker 4>I'll tell you that you're gonna slide it down.

<v Speaker 2>Listen, you need at least six friends, you guys, because

<v Speaker 2>they got to be your pall bearers, right, at least six.

<v Speaker 3>There you go, there's your advice from Jai Bear.

<v Speaker 2>Today, you should be wrapping up your vote for the primary, right, Yeah,

<v Speaker 2>we forgot last night we were sorting a bunch of papers.

<v Speaker 2>We're like, oh my god, there's our ballads. So sweet

<v Speaker 2>nick Knack did her due diligence, and she hopped on

<v Speaker 2>and researched everybody's into the elections. She she loves the

<v Speaker 2>research and watching videos zigs hunt and then she.

<v Speaker 3>Tells me who to vote for.

<v Speaker 4>Ye, it's a good way over her.

<v Speaker 2>Also, speaking of America, the two hundred and fiftieth is

<v Speaker 2>almost here, and a lot of shoppers out and about

<v Speaker 2>are asking where's all the patriotic merch? Bro There's a

<v Speaker 2>lot of people saying that the big brands when you

<v Speaker 2>wander into the stores, probably like the Wally Worlds and

<v Speaker 2>the Tarj's have plenty of World Cup merch, but there's

<v Speaker 2>not a lot for America's two hundred and fiftieth.

<v Speaker 3>Where's all the shirts at you guys?

<v Speaker 5>And you know what's unfortunate about it, I think is

<v Speaker 5>just because.

<v Speaker 1>Of how political everything is, that a lot of people

<v Speaker 1>probably don't want to wear that stuff because they assume

<v Speaker 1>that they'll just be lumped into that and start a

<v Speaker 1>conversation about politics they don't want to get into. Even

<v Speaker 1>though I know a lot of people who are really

<v Speaker 1>excited about it, like it's a big deal.

<v Speaker 5>Two hundred and fifty years, you know.

<v Speaker 2>Yeah, anyone who remembers the bi centennial back in seventy six,

<v Speaker 2>that was when you celebrated your graduation from high school?

<v Speaker 5>Are you talking about yourself?

<v Speaker 1>Yeah?

<v Speaker 2>No was They said there were special products and decorations, collectibles,

<v Speaker 2>school supplies with patriotic designs everywhere. But this year, fans

<v Speaker 2>are saying the selection is pretty darn limited.

<v Speaker 4>It makes me sad.

<v Speaker 2>I know, right, It's just you're celebrating America. I pushed

<v Speaker 2>the politics to the side. Just celebrate mirerk.

<v Speaker 1>Nobody can push politics to the side anymore though. It's

<v Speaker 1>just it's so hard, Like I really think that's why

<v Speaker 1>people don't want to celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth.

<v Speaker 1>I saw a shirt that was SpongeBob font and it

<v Speaker 1>said two hundred and fifty years later.

<v Speaker 5>I wanted to get that.

<v Speaker 3>One's fun.

<v Speaker 2>That's fun, and Cheerios has a birthday cake cereal for

<v Speaker 2>the celebration.

<v Speaker 3>If you want to get that.

<v Speaker 2>Cheerios, Cheerios and a Mountain Dew did temporarily become American?

<v Speaker 3>Dude?

<v Speaker 4>You know what? I had some of that the other day,

<v Speaker 4>just like freedom. It was good.

<v Speaker 3>It was good, So you have to put it out.

<v Speaker 2>Josh, you might remember the red white and do Oh yes,

<v Speaker 2>is this.

<v Speaker 3>The same American?

<v Speaker 6>Do?

<v Speaker 3>Is it the same flavor?

<v Speaker 4>Yeah?

<v Speaker 3>The red White and.

<v Speaker 6>Dew was awesome. That was like they had the code

<v Speaker 6>red and then the blue one too, right. They had

<v Speaker 6>the different cans.

<v Speaker 3>That you could buy, Yes, yes, yes, yeah.

<v Speaker 6>This one was just the actual normal Mountain dew, but

<v Speaker 6>it was the can is really cool. It's like a

<v Speaker 6>collector's edition and it's all stars and stripes, American flags

<v Speaker 6>and stuff. But I think the World Cup has helped

<v Speaker 6>a little bit in the fact that so many Europeans

<v Speaker 6>have come over here and they love it. They're like,

<v Speaker 6>America's awesome. They've getten their meals paid for and stuff

<v Speaker 6>like that. But you're right with Jeffrey Refilmed. Yeah, in

<v Speaker 6>terms of merch.

<v Speaker 2>It's been kind of a bummer about you said something

<v Speaker 2>off there. I think it was you what the Europeans

<v Speaker 2>are saying. If you want to hate America, watch the news.

<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I love America. Come here.

<v Speaker 6>And that's what they've said, because they've said, again Katie,

<v Speaker 6>the whole political tension that has been happening for so

<v Speaker 6>long now, news stations that's what they cover. Unfortunately, it's

<v Speaker 6>a lot of doom and gloom, and they're like they've

<v Speaker 6>that's what they get over there, you know, on the

<v Speaker 6>BBC and everything.

<v Speaker 4>That's that's the doom and gloom.

<v Speaker 6>But then they came here for the World Cup to

<v Speaker 6>support their team and they're like, we have not paid

<v Speaker 6>for a meal here. Americans are so kind they've offered

<v Speaker 6>us places to.

<v Speaker 3>Sleep, they're drinking our beards.

<v Speaker 4>They really are.

<v Speaker 6>And so that's what I love about this is then

<v Speaker 6>we can kind of see how good we actually do

<v Speaker 6>have it and how patriotic we can be. And I

<v Speaker 6>think that's the bright side. But in terms of buying merch, yeah,

<v Speaker 6>I haven't seen anything. No.

<v Speaker 3>I had to pick up a couple of shirts. I

<v Speaker 3>bought a couple of shirts for.

<v Speaker 2>The fourth and I had to get them off this

<v Speaker 2>but I did. I was digging through, uh my shorts

<v Speaker 2>drawer and at the very bottom I did find my

<v Speaker 2>American flag shorts.

<v Speaker 3>Not gonna lie out.

<v Speaker 4>I don't even have those.

<v Speaker 2>Now's your time to shine, shorts, This is your time

<v Speaker 2>to shine.