Miller Morning Madhouse S2E5: Afterburners and Sunburners...
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Miller Morning Madhouse S2E5: Afterburners and Sunburners...

Josh Scramble:

Pancake and the scramble. Audio breakfast with your favorite guys. WSBR Super Beach Radio.

Josh Scramble:

WSBR Radio live from Miller Beach. We're here with Broadway Beth, star of recent Broadway show, Miller Community Theatre, Mad Women's Late Night Cabaret. Beth, what do you look forward to today at the air show?

Beth:

I mostly look forward to having jello shots with Josh and seeing the amazing Thunderbirds.

Josh Scramble:

Thunderbirds. And we're here with also her husband Joel, star of Nothing on Broadway. Joel, how are doing this morning? I'm good. Have no talents though.

Josh Scramble:

Oh, don't say that. You're talented in ways we don't know. Just ask Beth. Good morning, and welcome everybody in the brunch bunch. This is your boy, Josh Scramble, and welcome to another episode of the Miller Morning Madhouse.

Josh Scramble:

In today's extra special episode, we recap one of the holidays of the summertime, the Gary Air Show, giving you some tips and telling you some stories and doing the usual thing we do. Of course, we have to mention our sponsors. First off, so cool shirts, the place that has a wardrobe to match your personality. Also, the Miller Community Theater, always a proud sponsor and bringing you shows of the highest quality from our local actors. And, of course, All In Just Trivia starting off their fifth season with yours truly as the host starting the last Friday of most months starting in September.

Josh Scramble:

And with no further ado, let's get right to the action.

Jerry Pancake:

Welcome back to the Miller Morning Madhouse. My name is Jerry Pancake Pancocky, some people say. And I'm here with my brother, Josh Gramble in the house. Wow. We have had a, this is like the high ever since the July 4, I mean, just every weekend has just been nuts here.

Josh Scramble:

It's officially midseason. I mean,

Jerry Pancake:

it's it's the we are yeah. It's the playoffs. We are

Josh Scramble:

Oh, this for sure. This is the playoffs coming in, making that playoff push.

Jerry Pancake:

Playoff push. There there could be a Monday night band in someone's yard at this point of the summer. Like, I would not be shocked.

Josh Scramble:

No. There nothing is shocking at this point of the year. Anything is on the table.

Jerry Pancake:

It doesn't seem like anyone has any regard for their work. None. Or or being in, any condition to do their work. But, this past weekend, what was going on, Josh scramble, that we were all hyped up for?

Josh Scramble:

Well, this is a few people in the neighborhood Super Bowl. It was the Gary air show.

Jerry Pancake:

And for those not familiar with the Gary air show, it is adjacent to the Chicago air and water show. Yeah. And sometimes we get the same

Josh Scramble:

acts. This year, like, half of them overlapped.

Jerry Pancake:

And this year, everybody was really, really excited because so the last two years, we like, we had an f 35, I think, last year, but it was rainy and shitty and all that.

Josh Scramble:

Last two years have been quite crap.

Jerry Pancake:

Yeah. Crappy, cold, rainy. But we haven't had, like, a real, like, jet fighter acrobatic crew, like the, Blue Angels. And this year, we had the Thunderbirds.

Josh Scramble:

Yes. They were back in town, back in action again.

Jerry Pancake:

Who are those people?

Josh Scramble:

So the Thunderbirds are the air forces elite aero acrobatic team that is a show styling what they can do and even scared the hell out of me at one point because I thought I've seen a number of air shows around here and even at one point it took me out as it scared the hell out of me.

Jerry Pancake:

Yeah. They they are beautiful and terrifying. So Much like a lot

Josh Scramble:

of the women here in Miller. Beautiful and terrifying.

Jerry Pancake:

Yeah. They can turn on you in a second and and crash into each other, at any point. But it's I I some point during one of their maneuvers, I went fully underwater because it was, hot as, I don't know why people describe it as hot as balls, but it definitely met that threshold.

Josh Scramble:

Well, both moist and very hot. It may hit that threshold. I mean, you couldn't be on the sand. I mean, the sand like that that show the floor is lava. The sand was lava.

Josh Scramble:

Like, you couldn't sit up there, Matt Long, without digging, like, halfway to China.

Jerry Pancake:

I mean, if you wanted your feet to have third degree burns, you could certainly do it.

Josh Scramble:

Saturday was the day. I mean, so, so how many people do you know who've never been here before? Just start walking down? Oh, I'll be fine on the beach. Nothing's gonna bother me.

Josh Scramble:

And then they hit the sand. They're like, holy shit. It's scorching the hell out of my skin.

Jerry Pancake:

Yeah. You saw people just even people that have experience here just running from the beach path directly into the water. Oh, yeah. Like straight. It was crazy.

Josh Scramble:

Like they had forgotten what the sand does around here.

Jerry Pancake:

But this this episode is kind of a real treat because, scramble here. I was down there the whole time, which I'm surprised I made it. It was a long shift to twelve hours or so of a day, and we had been down there multiple times too watching the practices, which were phenomenal. We had really good weather for those. But we've got a couple, live clips from down there for that day, and we'll start with one of the our tips

Josh Scramble:

Yes. For sure.

Jerry Pancake:

For next air

Josh Scramble:

show. So to give everybody a little bit of advice, I was down there quite early kind of guarding my sand, saying get off my lawn, so to say. Was protecting our space. So I was down there to get the entire action from morning to evening. It was quite the day.

Jerry Pancake:

It's pretty territorial during these holidays. So we left a bunch of our shit down there the night before. But then, even though most of us were very hungover, the next morning, Scramble was out there bright and early, and here's a here's one of his tips for the the next air show maybe if you're going to attend.

Josh Scramble:

Ladies and gentlemen, this is your boy, Josh Scramble, live from Rust Street Beach in Miller on a early early 08:50AM day one of the Miller Beach Air Show. Hint for all those visiting Miller Beach, if you were going to see the air show, do not fuck with the locals. They will murder you. As I sit here hearing the waves lap up against me, I can see canopies and chairs all the way down the local streets, which is between Wells and Marquette for those of you who don't know. Another tip, bring plenty of water and do not mix your boozes today if you decide to partake.

Josh Scramble:

As you know from our one of our last episodes, mixing vodka and tequila, not a good move. Once again, this is your boy, Josh Scramble with a Miller Beach tip.

Jerry Pancake:

Excellent, information there. And that is, Josh, that is you early.

Josh Scramble:

Early. Early. Yeah. You might be able to tell as these clips go on the amount of alcohol that was well, it was more of us just hot. Like, I didn't drink

Jerry Pancake:

a ton, but it was it was like everybody was in a daze. Like, I felt like I was cooked, like, actually baked or smoked in, like, someone doing ribs.

Josh Scramble:

Someone was doing ribs that day, by the way.

Jerry Pancake:

Know. But I felt like I was doing the rib. I was the ribs.

Josh Scramble:

For sure. So the weird thing was I got there 08:30 ish. I picked up some of our stuff and, like, laid out my light or put our circle in and literally 08:50. Like I said, canopies and chairs all the way down the beach. Like, it was already set up.

Josh Scramble:

People were ready to go.

Jerry Pancake:

People were down there early, and it, started around I think, I wanna say. Not as packed as previous years. So right before we moved here in 2007 or yeah. In in December 2017, that was the last, like, really big air show that they had.

Josh Scramble:

Yeah. Because we didn't have it for a few years.

Jerry Pancake:

Yeah. For a lot of years. And then somehow we found the money or didn't or borrowed the money or did a payday Gary did a payday loan.

Josh Scramble:

It was in a it was in a drawer behind some shoes that we didn't realize.

Jerry Pancake:

Gary went into the check cashing place, the city of Gary, and just, like, wrote a million dollar check, and they're gonna hold it for a month. But whatever. They got it done, and it was excellent. But this one, we actually like, we didn't have a lot of interlopers, would you say?

Josh Scramble:

No. It was shocking. There were not a lot of there were some, but not nearly to the degree of previous years. Usually, like, were next to 9,000 people you have no clue who have never been to the beach or at least our beach and are just like, you know, their heads are always up in the sky.

Jerry Pancake:

They're like, look, it's going on. Yeah. It's like it's like five people and they only brought towels and, like, tall boys of ice house.

Josh Scramble:

Well, there's

Jerry Pancake:

either. And, like, they're no cooler. They're just thrown into the saying it's immediately hot as, like, fuck. The beer is just warm.

Josh Scramble:

There's two times

Jerry Pancake:

And they're but they're already drunk somehow. Oh, yeah.

Josh Scramble:

No matter what time.

Jerry Pancake:

No matter what time they get there, they've been they've been somewhere else. And, it wasn't too much of that, really.

Josh Scramble:

Well, was shocking. But, yeah, there's two types of beach or, like, air show newbies. By newbies, I mean, people who never go to the beach except, like, air show day. And it's the people who bring, like, the six beers in the plastic bag and a towel or people who bring their entire house down. Like, you know, even all the even the little kids have, like, the backpacks full of shit that they'll never touch.

Jerry Pancake:

Yeah. Like, we I swear, like, I and I think these people actually live here, but they had, like, real patio furniture they set up down there.

Josh Scramble:

I saw them drop it down. Yeah. Like Like, shortly after I gave the tip of do not set your shit too close to somebody else, I saw them come

Jerry Pancake:

right next to us.

Josh Scramble:

Come down. And there was a good amount of space and dropped their patio furniture on the sand. And I'm like, well, this will be interesting.

Jerry Pancake:

It was like a sectional couch. And I thought at one point, I thought, well, we should just bring ours. Ours is really light. Like, we could just move it. It would have been super easy, but also trashy to me.

Jerry Pancake:

Yeah. And especially because, like, I don't know that I spent more than, like, ten minutes out of the water the whole day.

Josh Scramble:

You couldn't. I mean, every time you would go up to the sand and be like, okay, I've been in the water long enough. You sit up out there and like, it was the sun was baking down, the heat was coming out of the sand. You're like, I guess I'm going back to

Jerry Pancake:

the water. A sectional couch isn't gonna help you No.

Josh Scramble:

Not at all.

Jerry Pancake:

But, yeah, that was a we had some of that. But, also, there's one other category of people, and they tend to be local people. And there is a pretty big contingency of people here that do not go to the beach.

Josh Scramble:

Oh, there's a huge they're probably half the neighborhood doesn't go to the beach.

Jerry Pancake:

Yeah. Like, you never see them down there for but for this air show, they're down there. Then maybe they're wearing jeans.

Josh Scramble:

Oh, yeah. That would be brave this weekend, but there were some jean wearers.

Jerry Pancake:

There are some long sleeve shirts that I saw, and supposedly, the people wearing them were like, oh, it's a cooling shirt.

Josh Scramble:

No. It's not.

Jerry Pancake:

No. I like, I was a mailman for almost a decade. Like, I would've I would've delivered mail naked rather than wear, like, a long sleeve shirt. I normally, my clothes would be soaked, from sweat and me just pouring water on myself when it got

Josh Scramble:

this hot. Well, we had someone sitting next to us who was dressed in like full on black, like black baggy jeans, black long sleeve button up shirt, and we

Jerry Pancake:

He was black also colored.

Josh Scramble:

I mean, I don't

Jerry Pancake:

That's that's a terrible word.

Josh Scramble:

African American? No.

Jerry Pancake:

He I mean, he he's wasn't African American. I have a problem with my eyes. He was a

Josh Scramble:

black He was a dark dark complexion. And not that we gave a shit, but we all looked at him like, dude, you have to be, like, 9,000 degrees right now. He never never won the war. He's like, no. I'm good, man.

Jerry Pancake:

His voice was weirdly high too. He was just

Josh Scramble:

like He was like that announcer on Wheel of Fortune. You ever I'm fine. I yeah.

Jerry Pancake:

We're like those. Are those, like, denim heavy denim cargo pants that are black?

Josh Scramble:

And he's like, oh, yeah. I got they're, like, thousand dollar pants. I got them for $8 at the goodwill. He did have a weirdly high voice.

Jerry Pancake:

Yeah. It was weirdly wildly high. And Very nice. But A very nice fella, and he didn't seem to be sweating. So maybe it was like, maybe he has some sort of different temperature regulation.

Josh Scramble:

I don't know, but I I just looked perfectly calm,

Jerry Pancake:

and he was down there almost the whole time with us. So

Josh Scramble:

Well, near us, not with us.

Jerry Pancake:

Yeah. Well, I mean, he came over.

Josh Scramble:

He did. He was breaking the stranger barrier a little bit. My god.

Jerry Pancake:

Yeah. I mean and that happens with these air shows, where people just, decide that they're gonna come up and talk to you.

Josh Scramble:

Yeah. I don't need that in my life.

Jerry Pancake:

No. I've said this several times. Like, I could shed a few friends. Like, if I'm keeping a roster and I only can have 25 on there, like, some people are just gonna be off.

Josh Scramble:

I mean, hey. Sophie's choice.

Jerry Pancake:

It's just like baseball, you know, if you've got a professional baseball team. Some sometimes you send those people back to the minors or just out of your life.

Josh Scramble:

To play some triple a ball.

Jerry Pancake:

But, yeah, it's so all it was a fun weekend. We do have, another tip for you guys. Should we roll that

Josh Scramble:

one down?

Josh Scramble:

Go ahead. Once again, your boy Josh Scramble here from Miller Beach giving you another Miller Beach tip. If you do decide to come down to our beach at any time, please respect the sand. For example, if someone is set up by you, do not, I repeat, do not just set your stuff up right next to them if there was plenty of space available. Do not be that guy who walks into a line of urinals and pees right next to the only other man in the room.

Josh Scramble:

It's awkward as fuck. Just don't do it. So this was kind of what we were talking about a few and I might have mentioned this before, and this is my what I call the trillion grains of sand theory. There are trillions of grains of sand on our beach. If there is space, you do not need to be next to somebody, like, right next to them when they you walk down.

Jerry Pancake:

It this is why I moved here. I'm gonna tell you just a short story about our, like, origin story here in Miller. We moved here in December 2017. We were, Jen Pancake and I were living in New Buffalo, Michigan.

Josh Scramble:

Nice town.

Jerry Pancake:

Yes. Very nice town. I swore that I would never live in Indiana. I'm from Illinois. I lived in Michigan for twenty five years.

Jerry Pancake:

I'm I'm I live here now, so I'm not gonna say anything bad, but we did not think good things about Indiana. Like, was meth and trash, and it smelled like bad when you drive. And it still does like, I've gotten used to the smell and the pollution now, but it does. Like, it like, if I ever travel, like, when we get here, like, there's that initial like, the BP plant is just venting natural gas right into everyone's air.

Josh Scramble:

Oh, it used to be worse when Lever Brothers was going.

Jerry Pancake:

Don't know who that is.

Josh Scramble:

So there used to be a soap company, Weaver Brothers. It was right at so the exit as soon as you get into Hammond, like, right where the horseshoe and all that is. Back in the day when you used to have, like, you have to throw your change in the basket for the toll. Yeah. You used to hate it because, like, if the wind was blowing the wrong direction, you'd be like, oh, damn it.

Josh Scramble:

Like, because the stench was so foul. I mean, like, Irish Spring before it becomes Irish Spring smells like rotten ass. Oh, man. Our old school listeners will know what I'm talking

Jerry Pancake:

about. I love Irish Spring. I wish I'm gonna probably pick up some. Can you still buy it? You absolutely can still buy it.

Jerry Pancake:

I mean, you'll smell like Irish Spring for at least six hours after after you use it for sure. And so I don't know. It's magical. Anyway, so, you know, we're I'm I told we were gonna stay up there in in in Michigan, but one day, you know, I didn't get a lot of time off at the time, a mailman. But one day, Jen Pancake and I decided that we're gonna go to the public beach in New Buffalo during the summer, and it's like a Tuesday.

Jerry Pancake:

Right? I because I had random days off, and it was like a Tuesday. So, we lived about six blocks from the beach. So we get our stuff, and we walked down there. And I swear to God, it was like a postage stamp size space.

Jerry Pancake:

Like, we had to put our chairs together, like, right next to each other, and then we still had, like, these shit kids. Apologize to anyone that has shit kids, but if you do

Josh Scramble:

You should have raised them better.

Jerry Pancake:

Yeah. They're, like, throwing sand at each other, and we're, like, in between them. And then, like, the parents are not doing shit. Right? Like, because they never do.

Josh Scramble:

No. They just let them

Jerry Pancake:

Like the modern I I I apologize to anyone that is a parent of little children right now, but I'm gonna say this, you fucking suck at what you're doing because you just let these kids do whatever they want.

Josh Scramble:

No. It's it's. Yeah.

Jerry Pancake:

And there's no consequences. I'm not saying you have to beat them at all.

Josh Scramble:

You don't have to hit them.

Jerry Pancake:

You don't have to hit them, but you can take their fucking phone away. Your third grader has a phone. You can take their fucking phone away or whatever. Like, do something, because they are running your lives. Anyway, so we're I'm just disgusted because all these kids are around us and they're throwing shit, and then the parents aren't doing anything.

Jerry Pancake:

So I'm just like, fuck this. Let's leave. So, Jen Pancake's like, she lived here in another life. She's like, let's go to Miller. You know, we got most of the day left.

Jerry Pancake:

It's gonna it'll take us, like, thirty minutes to get there. We get down here, and we were the only people on the beach for, like, I don't know, 20 blocks, I would say.

Josh Scramble:

Glorious, isn't it?

Jerry Pancake:

Yeah. And that's the magic that can happen. Don't let it get out. Thankfully, our podcast isn't very popular, so no one Yeah. All the all

Josh Scramble:

the tips we're giving are probably not gonna go that far because, you know, we

Jerry Pancake:

But but that that led me here because our beaches are way better, number one. And, normally, when we don't have these big events like the fourth of July or whatever, or this air show, sparsely populated.

Josh Scramble:

Yes. There are not many people down here.

Jerry Pancake:

Alright. We're gonna take a little break and pay some bills here, and we'll be right back.

Josh Scramble:

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Josh Scramble:

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Beth:

All you guys do is just sit up there and talk about how fucking cool you are.

Josh Scramble:

WSBR Super Beach Radio.

Josh Scramble:

Welcome back. This is your boy Scramble on the Miller Morning Madhouse podcast talking about Gary Ayers show. And, Jerry, we know that many weird phenomenon happened during the Gary Air Show, including weird requests.

Jerry Pancake:

You know, like this is a our neighborhood is like kinda unusual because a lot of people assume, because like, most everywhere, rich people just own the beach. Like in Michigan, like, they they put up, they're not supposed to, but they put up, like, little fences and signs and shit. And you're allowed to, like, traverse the beach, but you're not allowed to, like, sit down. So I think when people come to Northwest Indiana, they just assume, oh, it's the same shit. So, like, somebody could have a house on the lake and you can't Right.

Jerry Pancake:

Like, park your ass in front with your ice house and all that, like in your towel. But you can hear. But the problem is, if you don't know someone or you live further away from the lake than we do, you need to park somewhere. Very true. And the only two parking lots that we have that are technically public are Wells Street, which shout out to Wells Street, the greatest place to get burgers actually during the summer

Josh Scramble:

Without a doubt.

Jerry Pancake:

In town.

Josh Scramble:

Best honestly, I would put that burger against almost anyone in town.

Jerry Pancake:

Yes. It's fabulous place, locally owned for a thousand years.

Josh Scramble:

I heard when Moses, after he parked

Jerry Pancake:

the residence in the parking Moses actually operated, the Wall Street, parking lot for a period of time back in those days, and Jesus was banned.

Josh Scramble:

Yeah. Mhmm.

Jerry Pancake:

Yeah. Very true. He was one of the shitbags. And, speaking of shitbags, let's get a count on, the shitbags, from one of our friends live at the air show.

Josh Scramble:

Let's hear it. Josh scramble down here from WSBR, Super Beach Radio from the Miller Morning Madhouse. We are here with Gianna asking her what is the shitbag count on the beach currently in the middle of the air show, Gianna?

Beth:

Yo. Yo. Yo. This is G Eazy in the house. The ship bag is currently $4,220.69.

Josh Scramble:

There were a few too many digits of that, but you heard from our girl, G Eazy on the beach. WSBR Super Beach Radio live from the Miller Beach Air Show. She's not the best at math.

Jerry Pancake:

I mean, I don't know. It seemed like the ship bag count was lower than that to me, but, when we talk about this, like, we talk about ship bags and beach etiquette and parking and all of that stuff. So we were we were talking about parking, and this is what happens here. So if you live too far away from the beach and you live in Miller, like, have friends that might live closer. So the object is to, like, stay in good enough graces with those friends that they don't, like, ban you from parking at at their house or whatever.

Jerry Pancake:

So normally, people are really, really courteous about this. Would

Josh Scramble:

you so. Usually, you try and keep that relationship prime, make sure that they're not overstating Yeah.

Jerry Pancake:

Like, maybe get them a case of beer or something, like, whatever a year. I mean, something or just help them out if they need help with something. Jen Pancake and I are very fortunate to live, I don't know, probably less than two blocks.

Josh Scramble:

It's a block and a half.

Jerry Pancake:

Block and a half. It's a two minute walk. We timed it. So you know? And we have the the other thing is that we have Ponson Park, where we play wiffle ball, has an abundance of parking.

Jerry Pancake:

Very much so. Probably a dozen people could park here.

Josh Scramble:

Probably.

Jerry Pancake:

Yeah. So what had happened was, when you when you tell people and Jen Pancake likes to tell people, you know, she's a people pleaser. She likes to you know, if people ask, hey, can I park at your house? What's she gonna say, Josh Scramble?

Josh Scramble:

Well, she will say yes. She will say yes. I would say no. But Shin is a people pleaser. She likes to keep the peace.

Josh Scramble:

She likes to be very nice.

Jerry Pancake:

And, you know, she says, no one's coming to our house anyway. So who get why do you give a fuck? Well, just because it's you should ask. Usually I'm a firm believer in that.

Josh Scramble:

Or just make sure, hey. We it's still

Jerry Pancake:

cool for the air well, at least these big events. Like, I don't give a shit if you're coming on a Tuesday.

Josh Scramble:

No. But big events like any all the people from the woodwork start coming out like, hey. Can I put I mean, people parked at my house, and I live several blocks from the beach?

Jerry Pancake:

Oh, yeah. And and, like, so are people asking to park, or are they asking for, like, oh, can me and 16 of my family members drive all separate cars and park at your house? And that is kinda what happened at one point at one, of the air show, and I was really mad about it. You were. I could tell.

Jerry Pancake:

And also what happened was, you know, it's indetermined at this time, but we have, you know, we don't have video evidence or whatever, but someone ran over one of our water safety signs. Investigation is continuing. And they are not low to the ground where you would not see them.

Josh Scramble:

They're pretty apparent. They're they're literally made to get attention.

Jerry Pancake:

Yeah. Like, we're displaying these signs because we have room to do it and, like, there's plenty of room in between these signs where you would not need to run them over to part. But the person that was accused of it, denied it. But also whoever ran over the sign, even if you didn't notice it when you were pulling in, let's say maybe you were on your phone or texting and, you know, luckily, wasn't a child that was walking around our yard and you just ran them over him or her. That would have been bad.

Jerry Pancake:

But you ran over the sign and then when you were leaving

Josh Scramble:

Didn't put a backup.

Jerry Pancake:

You you just saw that you ran it over. Right? Like, when you were pulling out, you should be able to see, oh, shit. I ran over that sign and text me or Jen Pancake and be like, I'm so I'm so sorry. I don't know what I was thinking.

Jerry Pancake:

I ran over that fucking sign. Cool. No. Denial. Denial.

Jerry Pancake:

No admitted. No one admitting anything. And so that just made me really mad. And so now it's like, okay. So if you're gonna park here, you should ask.

Jerry Pancake:

What's your opinions on this whole thing?

Josh Scramble:

Oh, well yeah. No. I'm sorry. There are a couple of very few natural resources in Miller Beach. One is ice.

Josh Scramble:

Two is parking. And yes, you should always ask. I mean and make sure that you're still in good standing. Like, you can't just if I ask you five years ago if I could park here once and then just keep going like, yay. Like you said, like, hey, are we still good with the parking?

Josh Scramble:

Is there anything you like you know, if I randomly just drop off a case of light or something for like, hey. Thanks for letting me use the parking. I always appreciate. You can't it's you know?

Jerry Pancake:

I'm always gonna let you park. Not saying it should be transactional. Like, if you're friends of ours and you need a place to park, of course.

Josh Scramble:

But you gotta keep that relationship strong.

Jerry Pancake:

But, yeah, like, if you've gotten, I don't know, divorced or you've broken up, like, as a couple, like, you kinda need to reset that because we might not like one of the people.

Josh Scramble:

Oh, well, I mean, it's natural. And then we split up like, hey. Like and It's always changing. You never know, and you need like, you need to check-in, hey. We still good.

Josh Scramble:

Always. But no. Like

Jerry Pancake:

And, like, we might have close friends or family that wanna park here too.

Josh Scramble:

Especially on big weekends like that. Like, hey. Like, you're kinda at the mercy of the people who own the house. Like, you might have seven relatives that wanna come in. I mean, you just had people visiting now.

Josh Scramble:

Yeah. It wasn't over the weekend. That would have been interesting. But

Jerry Pancake:

Oh, yeah. Well, we suggested that, but, no. It's very much more exciting to come right smack dab in the middle of the fucking week while we're working and expect us to entertain them, which is another this isn't actually a point I've been wanting to get to for a while. Like, when you live here or in a place such as this, your friends and your family, like, they're gonna come here expecting the Miller Beach experience. It's kinda like Vegas.

Jerry Pancake:

Yeah. It's like, you know the, like, you know the lay of the land. You're gonna show them around. You're gonna know. So, like, my father-in-law, is here.

Jerry Pancake:

They arrived yesterday, so I was really happy about that. And then, like, he's he's like, well, what are the what's the new hot restaurants or whatever? Like, how like, what's in Portage? I'm like, there's not shit in Portage. Like, there's less shit than the last time you were here.

Jerry Pancake:

Like It's every chain restaurant. I'm like, they had Pizza Terra. Shout out to them. Hopefully, they resolved their

Josh Scramble:

That was Prince Harbor.

Jerry Pancake:

Yeah. So but shout out to them. I hope they resolve their differences. Doesn't look like that's gonna happen, but we could just gave you a free plug. If they ever open again, it's a fantastic restaurant.

Jerry Pancake:

But that was about, like, that's the extent of it. It's like, oh, well, should I go to Texas Corral or Texas Roadhouse tonight? It's like, woah.

Josh Scramble:

Where should I go for dinner tonight? Applebee's, Texas Corral, Texas Roadhouse, Culver's. Culver's, McDonald's, Burger King.

Jerry Pancake:

Taco Bell, Panera. Yeah. Like, it's a clusterfuck of chain restaurants over there. And there's a handful of good, like, Mexican places, but most of them have good Mexican places are like Lake Station.

Josh Scramble:

Yeah. Sand and salsa here in town's decent.

Jerry Pancake:

Oh, yeah. We got sand and salsa. Shout out to them.

Josh Scramble:

Also, don't just use their parking and walk to the beach. That's a dick move too.

Jerry Pancake:

Dick move. That's another parking thing. A lot of people do do that.

Josh Scramble:

I know there were some people that parked by the Flamingo and walked up and didn't partake in any business at the Flamingo at all.

Jerry Pancake:

Here's my thing though. On Locust, okay, and I don't know if a lot of people know this. We're given another tip out here, free tip, just the tip. On Locust Street itself, between Rush and Shelby, they have public parking on the street on both sides.

Josh Scramble:

Mhmm.

Jerry Pancake:

And it's like really nice. The spaces are marked. Yeah. You can park there. Just because it's in front of someone's house doesn't mean you can't park there.

Josh Scramble:

You just can't block the driveway.

Jerry Pancake:

Don't block their fucking driveway because someone will kill you. Yeah. Like, we're all, like, at that point in the summer where it's like, motherfucker, I will smash every window on your car if you fucking block my driveway even for ten minutes. Yeah.

Josh Scramble:

Well, funny enough. So missus Scrambo and I were getting ready to go somewhere a couple of weeks ago and it's right after work and like two Amazon, the new electric vehicles pull up.

Jerry Pancake:

They're huge.

Josh Scramble:

Like ass to ass. And I'm like, alright, well, maybe they're just, you know, exchanging like, hey, you gotta go drop this off here or whatever. So I'm sitting there for five minutes. I'm like, alright, I gotta leave and you're blocking my fucking driveway. So then one of them's like, oh, I'm like, hey, like, I'm leaving in five minutes.

Josh Scramble:

Are you guys like gonna clear out? He's like, oh, yeah, we had to let the engine had to cool down because it was electric or something like that. I don't know. It sounded like a bunch of bullshit, but I'm like, okay, well, I'm leaving. Whether you're there or not, like, need to get out of my own driveway.

Jerry Pancake:

Yeah. Like, can't just park in the middle of the street.

Josh Scramble:

Thank you for delivering my Amazon package, but now you can get out of the way of my car.

Jerry Pancake:

I do love how we all get mad about the Amazon drivers and all the people.

Josh Scramble:

It's such a

Jerry Pancake:

I mean, it's such a entitled thing. But now but, like, I get mad now because now Amazon's a bunch of liars.

Josh Scramble:

Everybody are liars now. The truth the truth is No.

Jerry Pancake:

But, like, you used to pay for that prime and, like, you would get, like, that shit would come, like, in a day.

Josh Scramble:

Still does.

Jerry Pancake:

They need to work on it because, like, it's like, I'll just get an update. Sorry. Your items aren't gonna arrive today. Do you still want it? Well, fuck.

Jerry Pancake:

Yeah. I still want

Josh Scramble:

it. Do you think it's because they can't find your house?

Jerry Pancake:

No. It's just, I think it's a thing where some of the vendors just aren't up to

Josh Scramble:

Ah, okay.

Jerry Pancake:

Snuff or whatever and meeting the deadlines. And and also, think Amazon, like, they have such a monopoly now that it doesn't really matter. Like, where else am I gonna go to order toilet paper online? Paper towels or golf balls. I ordered some golf balls for our upcoming

Josh Scramble:

golf trip. I get mine custom made because I'm a complete dumbass white person.

Jerry Pancake:

Do you get tacos on them?

Josh Scramble:

I have gotten tacos on them. I gave them to our friend, Jeff.

Jerry Pancake:

Taco ball. Well, what is your golf ball this year?

Josh Scramble:

My golf ball is always the, KC from the KC Chiefs.

Jerry Pancake:

Oh, yeah. You are a huge fan.

Josh Scramble:

Yes. They're easy to find when you're hitting them in the middle of god knows where with my golf game.

Jerry Pancake:

And me, I ordered all pink

Josh Scramble:

this time. Breast cancer awareness.

Jerry Pancake:

I mean, it was just cheap. Well 66¢ a ball. At the I'll take whatever color ball

Josh Scramble:

you wanna give me. At the same time, quote Jerry Pancake over the weekend, them titties.

Jerry Pancake:

Here's one thing I did think about with golf balls, though. How come there are no black golf balls? And I'm, like, kinda riding the edge. Have you ever seen a black, fully black golf ball?

Josh Scramble:

No. Because it'd be difficult as shit to find. You think? Yeah. I do think.

Josh Scramble:

It's hard enough finding a white golf ball.

Jerry Pancake:

I don't know. Anybody that, has an idea on how to make a black golf ball work, (209) 200-4280, give us a call or tell us why it wouldn't work. I think you could find a black golf ball on green grass.

Josh Scramble:

I think you're full of shit. Like, I barely find my white golf balls in deep grass half the time, and you're thinking you were gonna a black one?

Jerry Pancake:

I don't know. I think you're racist, probably. That's why you don't want black golf balls.

Josh Scramble:

Wow. Okay. That's a country club thing, Jerry, not me.

Jerry Pancake:

Yeah. They banned black golf balls long time ago.

Josh Scramble:

But anyway, back to the parking and the shit thing. Yeah. So, yeah, if you're coming, it's a lot of tips in this episode. If you're come if you're coming to Miller period, clarify your parking intentions before and also give a little heads up. Don't be like, oh, I'm gonna be there in five minutes.

Josh Scramble:

Can I park there?

Jerry Pancake:

Yeah. Because it's fluid, here. You can I can't just, like, save a spot for someone if you get here No? No. In the middle of the air show.

Jerry Pancake:

No. Because I'm not gonna come up here and yell at people if they're just random people are parking here and miss the air show, which does happen.

Josh Scramble:

Oh, yeah.

Jerry Pancake:

We get random people parking here all the time.

Josh Scramble:

Yeah. So like I said, this is some this is the Super Bowl to some people, which is why I was down there at 08:30. Like

Jerry Pancake:

I mean, we have Labor Day coming up.

Josh Scramble:

I mean, there are four major holidays in Miller. Memorial Day, fourth of July, air show, and Labor Day.

Jerry Pancake:

I would argue that this year's fourth was crazier than the air show.

Josh Scramble:

Oh, by far. Yeah. Air show was way more chill than fourth of July in my opinion, which is weird.

Jerry Pancake:

Yeah. And on Sunday, it didn't seem to be that busy either.

Josh Scramble:

Although driving to where we went, there was a line of cars getting into Market Park, which was like, thank God I'm not in that.

Jerry Pancake:

Oh, yeah. Because they did free parking somewhere. Right?

Josh Scramble:

They did free shuttle service.

Jerry Pancake:

You said Oh, okay. You had to pay like $60 or something for two days. Right?

Josh Scramble:

Yeah. Something. I don't know. Yeah.

Jerry Pancake:

But the roads aren't free. But yeah. So, I think it was the other thing that happened that I, was asked about, today, apparently, there was a shooting on Friday.

Josh Scramble:

Yeah. You're the third person I've heard that from. I I don't know how I didn't hear anything about this.

Jerry Pancake:

Well, next door is a if you wanna know anything that's going on.

Josh Scramble:

Speaking of shitbags.

Jerry Pancake:

Yeah. If you wanna know anything that's going on, here or more than you wanna know about shit that's going on here, go to Nextdoor because every lost animal is on there. All if you're interested in getting, like, food from people who just cook it at their house and then sell it, those people are on there.

Josh Scramble:

Wait. What?

Jerry Pancake:

Yeah. So you haven't heard of this, like, whole thing?

Josh Scramble:

No.

Jerry Pancake:

Like, people will post, like, I'm doing crab boils today, $12. And show, like, a Styrofoam container with, like, food that they cooked or, like, ribs or, like

Josh Scramble:

Because that's not sketchy as fuck.

Jerry Pancake:

And they, like, take Cash App and Venmo and stuff.

Josh Scramble:

Learning something new every day.

Jerry Pancake:

Yeah. So if you're on Nextdoor, you're gonna see that. You're gonna see a lot of lost pets and whatnot. But anytime there's a shooting, it's gonna be on air or any kind of crime.

Josh Scramble:

Yeah. For sure.

Jerry Pancake:

So apparently, on Friday night, so the night before the air show, there was a shooting right at the corner of Shelby And Locust, which is where Flamingo. Flamingo and, Sand And Salsa is. But it didn't say like it didn't say someone got shot. It just said shots fired. Could it

Josh Scramble:

have possibly been a firework? I mean, they sound even tell.

Jerry Pancake:

Who can tell anymore around here. And stop it with the fucking fireworks, guys. Another tip. Pancake doesn't like the fireworks. It's and we're you know what?

Jerry Pancake:

It has calmed down in recent weeks.

Josh Scramble:

It has, but Labor Day is coming up, so we'll start again.

Jerry Pancake:

Yeah. I don't

Josh Scramble:

I'm fine with it. The week What

Jerry Pancake:

are we celebrating on Labor Day that we need fireworks? Like, we're we do Labor Day so you don't have to fucking work. That's the main reason for Labor Day. Right? Like, we've co opted it into, like, all these people that started unions and they got killed by police and all this shit, and then we've it's again, it's another barbecue holiday, which I argue nine eleven should be like that as well, which is coming up

Josh Scramble:

soon. Well, they're close together. Is it I didn't think of that last time we had this discussion. Do you think it's because it's too close to Labor Day?

Jerry Pancake:

Yeah. They don't wanna give us another day off, but they should. Like, more people died on 09/11 than, like, on Labor Day, which I don't even know why they made Labor Day the date that it is.

Josh Scramble:

So oh, that's an interesting one. Well, also, we always like, President's Day and New Year's are close together. Why not do the nine eleven Labor Day back to back?

Jerry Pancake:

I mean, it would be nice for everybody, I think. And just make it, like, I don't know. We'll do. I don't know if it's appropriate to do fireworks on 09/11.

Josh Scramble:

Not at all, but people are gonna do

Jerry Pancake:

it. Definitely not appropriate to fly, like, model planes into, like, models of the towers.

Josh Scramble:

Just ask the popcorn fest. They don't give a fuck.

Jerry Pancake:

That was

Josh Scramble:

By the way, for all any of our listeners who don't know what I'm talking about, look up Popcorn Fest nine eleven tribute. It's a terrible, terrible way

Jerry Pancake:

to tribute. But it's well crafted. I mean, so

Josh Scramble:

Well crafted. But the fact

Jerry Pancake:

that no one A parade float.

Josh Scramble:

If somebody it must be with floats where someone's just like, they have their idea. They know, like, what they're thinking, but no one around says, maybe this could be interpreted differently. It's gotta be a float thing.

Jerry Pancake:

Had that same thing happen here during Yeah. During the George Floyd protests.

Josh Scramble:

Yeah. That was not good.

Jerry Pancake:

One of our neighbors, decided to make a float for one of our other neighbors, a good friend of the show, and and it was a very exaggerated

Josh Scramble:

It was a caricature. Yeah.

Jerry Pancake:

And Not taken well. So it was a black woman, a caricature of a black woman, and they towed it through the streets of, the whitest part of Gary.

Josh Scramble:

It was in front of her house because it was during the

Jerry Pancake:

COVID era during had to move it from

Josh Scramble:

They did.

Jerry Pancake:

Here Yeah. Essentially to there. And so all these protests are going on. Cities are burning. Minneapolis is on fire.

Jerry Pancake:

And then, all these white people are, towing a big caricature of our friend, through the streets of Miller. And, people got, very upset with that. Yes. Very. So, this nine eleven float, same thing.

Jerry Pancake:

Somebody had

Josh Scramble:

a

Jerry Pancake:

vision. They they had a passion. It

Josh Scramble:

was well crafted.

Jerry Pancake:

It was. Like, these towers are smoking.

Josh Scramble:

Yeah.

Jerry Pancake:

I mean, it was very animated and

Josh Scramble:

A very too realistic recreation.

Jerry Pancake:

Also, like, most of the kids at that parade probably were not alive during nine eleven.

Josh Scramble:

Well, I mean, I graduated in no one. And now, like, there is a whole generation of people have weren't alive during that, which

Jerry Pancake:

is They don't remember it.

Josh Scramble:

No. Not at all. It's my favorite kids.

Jerry Pancake:

Joke is that they don't remember nine eleven because they weren't here. And the thing that I realized lately about things that happen when you're not alive, you don't really give a shit too much about it. Right? Yeah. I mean, I know, like, oh, God, I can't even go down this road probably, but

Josh Scramble:

Were you gonna say Vietnam?

Jerry Pancake:

I'm fascinated by Vietnam, but also, like, I was alive during a portion of it. Right? When did it end?

Josh Scramble:

The early seventies.

Jerry Pancake:

Yeah. I was born in '72.

Josh Scramble:

That was about right when I started that.

Jerry Pancake:

And my dad had a fantastic story of how he Dodge? Got out of it. Well, I mean, he was in the marines and his tour was up. Oh. And they tried to talk him into, like, renewing and going to Vietnam.

Josh Scramble:

My dad was like

Jerry Pancake:

he said, fuck off. I'm not

Josh Scramble:

My dad was as close as you can get to going without having to. Like, they announced that they were gonna stop sending people over right when he was

Jerry Pancake:

He was serving here stateside during Vietnam. And luckily, he was in a unit that was assigned to, United States, like air traffic control. So, like, he he got out of it, which is ironic because he never wanted to fly on a plane. Very ironic. Maybe because he knew that it was all just Did

Josh Scramble:

he know Ansmore said at all?

Jerry Pancake:

But maybe he, like, knew, like, oh, it's gonna be inevitable that these planes are just gonna crash into each other. But anyway, so, like, yeah, like, I have a hard time referencing, like, shit that happened in the fifties or caring about it or whatever. And I think with nine eleven, a lot of these kids are like, well,

Josh Scramble:

fuck it.

Jerry Pancake:

I don't care about that. They don't care about history anyway.

Josh Scramble:

Yeah. They don't. Anyway, to bring this back to Fort Juan

Jerry Pancake:

Yeah.

Josh Scramble:

Don't make racist or insensitive floats. And two, always ask someone if you're gonna park at their house.

Jerry Pancake:

For sure. For sure. Alright.

Josh Scramble:

We're gonna pay some more bills.

Josh Scramble:

And we'll be back. WSBR Super Beach Radio, the best station between Rush and Ripley. We love playing music, but right now we have to pay some bills.

Josh Scramble:

Oh, bro. It's air show weekend and official parking is for suckers. Slide into my driveway for just $20 cash or, you know, whatever else you got. That's right. $20 gets you a front row spot between my busted trampoline and that rusted out Camaro where my cousin keeps his special brownies.

Jerry Pancake:

Amenities include the sweet aroma of my neighbor's tomato plants in the garden, a complimentary whiff of whatever's hot on the skillet in the camper, and if you hang around long enough, you might get offered a bump before the blue angels fly.

Josh Scramble:

So park here, baby. We don't ask questions, and we don't call the cops.

Jerry Pancake:

Fuck no. We don't call the cops.

Josh Scramble:

Miller air show parking, $20. Cash, weed, or a story good enough to trade?

Josh Scramble:

WSBR Super Beach Radio.

Jerry Pancake:

Alright. We are back on the madhouse. It's Pancocky. And scramble. Alright, people.

Jerry Pancake:

We're gonna get another, beach tip, live beach tip. Amen. From, on the scene scramble, I think.

Josh Scramble:

WSBR, Super Beach Radio. Your boy Josh scramble down here live from the Miller Beach air show, and I'm here with our friend Chrissy, Captain Crunch. Chrissy, what is the UV index today?

Beth:

It's about a thousand and six right now.

Josh Scramble:

And that is coming from a live friendly vampire. Once again, if you're coming out, wear your sunscreen, at least SPF 1,000. SPF powder if you've ever seen that nineties movie. Be careful when you're down here. The sand is hot as is the company.

Josh Scramble:

Take it easy. This is Josh scramble from live from the Miller Beach beer show.

Jerry Pancake:

So Your energy level is I mean, you were you were getting you were getting happy there.

Josh Scramble:

But as the day went on, like, the I that was right after a cocktail, but also I was, yeah, I was amped up. Well, you can tell

Jerry Pancake:

who the pros are because if you made it, like, to the night

Josh Scramble:

Oh, yeah.

Jerry Pancake:

That day. I know Jen Pancake was pretty wiped out.

Josh Scramble:

Yeah. There were it's a but we've talked about before. It's a professional level here. We're in the playoffs. There's no time for amateurs.

Jerry Pancake:

Yeah. If but but We didn't have any IVs.

Josh Scramble:

So No. That was positive. Good and No one even close, really. I didn't see anyone torn up. But I didn't see any people drunk tore up, but I saw some skin.

Josh Scramble:

Skin out. Some skin. Oh,

Jerry Pancake:

man. Like, people got burnt. Really I

Josh Scramble:

The worst sunburn I've ever seen in my entire life was this weekend. Really?

Jerry Pancake:

Oh, without a doubt. So let's get a lit give a little kind of description of how the weather was. I know we have one in this episode already, but I it was like full sun. Saturday was full sun. There was

Josh Scramble:

not a cloud in the sky on Saturday. So I got there at 08:30. I had cocktail at 09:30 because I'm like, I know how hot it's going to be.

Jerry Pancake:

Yeah. You just had a nice

Josh Scramble:

And I'm like Chill. Yeah. I'm like, if I don't drink this now, I'll probably not have another cocktail for a few hours because it's so hot. Like, it's not even enjoyable. Like, I know when I was younger, I used to just plow through it, but I'm at a point I don't need to pound drinks all day because it's it will put you in an early grave.

Jerry Pancake:

Well, you'll you'll you're, like, you're not only gonna have a hangover, but you could potentially, like, get heat exhaustion.

Josh Scramble:

That's the thing. It's like you're sweating so much and just pouring booze on that doesn't help.

Jerry Pancake:

But so let's get to the sunburn because I am not a witness to it. So I would like it described to me in the most creative way that you can.

Josh Scramble:

Oh, this was it was one of the most glorious moments of the weekend. Like, I'm sorry, but I'm one of those. If I see something great, I'm going to go and then immediately look for someone and be like, when you're at the opportunity, look at your 03:00, which is exactly what I did with missus pancake being one of them. So there was a gentleman a few feet away from us, probably 05:30 ish. Well, after the air show, I'll give him credit, but it had his child with him in his arms and he turns around and I was like, oh my god.

Josh Scramble:

That is a very unique sunburn. And I immediately looked for for my friends and I'm like, when you get the opportunity, don't make it. Don't look. Don't look. Don't look.

Josh Scramble:

Alrighty. He's turning around. Now look. This guy's back was tomato red. Just wrecked.

Josh Scramble:

Oh, I mean, but you could see exactly like, it's one of those sunburns, you know exactly what happened looking at it. So you could see he was wrecked red. I mean, beat red. He did not sleep well that night, but you could see like a streak of like graffiti like it looked almost like a question mark, like almost like the Riddler from Batman tagged him with his logo. But like you could see that someone in the morning literally went on his back and he didn't rub it in?

Jerry Pancake:

No. So it was like yeah. Was like swear to God,

Josh Scramble:

it was just like someone tagged his back with white and the rest of him was beat red. And that doesn't go away because I had an idiot. I called it my idiot tan when I first started coming back to the beach in, like, o '7. It was a cool day, and I put sunscreen on my shoulders. Like, did the, you know, boom, boom.

Josh Scramble:

Mhmm. And I was white on my shoulders and toasted from the chest down. And it took until the end of summer for it to even back out.

Jerry Pancake:

Oh, yeah. I mean, I I think the one time where I was the most sunburned, I went to San Antonio, Texas, the one and only time I've been to Texas, and I floated down, the river there because that was like a big thing to do. You would take ecstasy and float down the river back in the olden times.

Josh Scramble:

Okay.

Jerry Pancake:

And, I was, you know, floating down this river for nine hours. You know? Was a kid. I'm a kid. Like, I don't care.

Jerry Pancake:

I'm kind of half ass black anyway. But, like, I got home, and I lived in Colorado at the time in Denver, and it's super dry there. Like, the there's no humidity or whatever. And literally, like, layers of my skin were just peeling off and it was crazy. Like, I the sun in the sun here has been almost like that.

Josh Scramble:

It's almost like Florida sun.

Jerry Pancake:

Yeah. Like where our dew point is like 80% and like it's 95% humidity and then you're in the sun and there's no cloud, not a cloud in sight even though it's super humid. Yeah. It's weird. I don't know.

Jerry Pancake:

It's it might be a climate change thing, but I don't wanna I don't wanna get in a political make us a political controversy here.

Josh Scramble:

But something not political is I saw some even professionals catch some sun this weekend.

Jerry Pancake:

I got I got pretty

Josh Scramble:

I thought I was going to, but then I got home and I showered. And the next morning, I woke up and I'm like, oh, I'm not sunburned. So I think

Jerry Pancake:

My shoulders were pretty bad, but then they didn't peel or anything. So that's

Josh Scramble:

a Another tip, like sunscreen people. I hate it. I I am a beach sunscreen Nazi. Like, if I see also, if someone asks you if you put on sunscreen, don't be a fucking dick to them. Like, I'm literally looking out for your well-being.

Jerry Pancake:

Yeah. Someone asked me that and I said no. And then I think it was missus Scramble. And she said, so do you like cancer?

Josh Scramble:

Missus Scramble's been on a tear lately with

Jerry Pancake:

She asked me if I liked cancer and I said no. Wow. But I also don't like feeling greasy. I have a problem

Josh Scramble:

with that. I get that. And I I totally understand, like, the I don't like feeling greasy either, but I also really hate feeling sunburned.

Jerry Pancake:

And being dead is probably bad.

Josh Scramble:

Yes.

Jerry Pancake:

But Not good reviews on the dead.

Josh Scramble:

No. The dead From cancer? From everything I've heard, cancer and death, both kinda not great experiences.

Jerry Pancake:

They don't have good Yelp reviews.

Josh Scramble:

But yeah. So if you see me on the beach and I say, hey, you're looking red. Did you put on sunscreen? I'm not trying to be an asshole. I'm looking out for you because I don't want you to be like

Jerry Pancake:

You're a professional. You live here. You know how it works. SPF, man. Sometimes you gotta hit it.

Jerry Pancake:

I mean, maybe what we should do is get a, sunscreen Canon or make that. Yeah. And just we'll just, like, attach it to a leaf blower and just, like, just blow it on everybody.

Josh Scramble:

I think you have to mix, like, while they're shotgunning a beer, then you just, like, hit them with it. That way they don't realize what's going on. Like, you know that scene

Jerry Pancake:

I just had a weird thought and I'm not gonna go into it.

Josh Scramble:

Maybe like that scene in Shawshank Redemption when they're delousing the inmates coming.

Jerry Pancake:

Mine was similar.

Josh Scramble:

You just hit them with the sunscreen.

Jerry Pancake:

Where they have I don't know. But, yeah, people and people come like, people come here and it's like, you're not even wearing swim trunks, but you don't, like, you're you you don't think you're gonna get sunburned?

Josh Scramble:

My my favorite is when you're like, hey, did you put on sunscreen? Like, it was just a check. And then people are like, no. I'm good. Like, they're almost proud that, like, yeah, I'm gonna get burned.

Jerry Pancake:

I mean, and we got some white people here.

Josh Scramble:

Oh, shit. We like Chrissy said, there there are some powder motherfuckers in here.

Jerry Pancake:

Like Yeah. There's some people that should never go out in daylight.

Josh Scramble:

Like, if there's a power outage, just like, hey, dude, can you take off your shirt and they'll light up the room? Like, there are some pale motherfuckers out here.

Jerry Pancake:

But also, I didn't know this before I became a mailman, but black people get sunburned too.

Josh Scramble:

Oh, yeah. They totally do.

Jerry Pancake:

Oh, yeah. They, like, almost worse.

Josh Scramble:

It's I've heard it's like they their skin gets like a deep purplish look.

Jerry Pancake:

Yeah. And, I mean, you're absorbing heat, so you, like, you have to I don't know. It's it's fucking miserable out here. What are we gonna do about it?

Josh Scramble:

Sunscreen and booze? I don't know. Sunscreen, booze.

Jerry Pancake:

I don't know. Can we air condition the outside somehow? Because do you remember being a kid where, like, you would accidentally, like, leave a door open and, like, your parents would be like, what are you trying to do? Cool the whole town or whatever? Yes.

Josh Scramble:

I am.

Jerry Pancake:

Like that. Like, no. I'm not trying to do that. You fucking animal. Also, it costs, like, whatever.

Jerry Pancake:

Electricity was, like, 2¢ a month Now it's back when our parents were, like, doing electricity. Right?

Josh Scramble:

Yeah. Now it's, like, $50,000,000,000

Jerry Pancake:

a kilowatt hour. Jewel and, like, oh, I'm writing a check for $8 for my electric bill. Shut the fuck up about like, I'm I mean, my dad is not alive anymore, and, my mom probably will not be alive soon, but, like, not to get dark, but don't bitch about your lives. Like, you guys had it good. Yeah.

Jerry Pancake:

Like I don't think we Let the kids open the door and, like

Josh Scramble:

As a general PSA, I think a lot of us shouldn't bitch about our lives because when you really think about, like, shit going on the world, like, if we this is where

Jerry Pancake:

Like, imagine if you were had to live outside. Like, you didn't have a home.

Josh Scramble:

You don't have to go that far to see that.

Jerry Pancake:

I mean, you can see it all over here. Yeah. But almost every city is gonna have homeless people. So it's like, oh, well, you know, you gotta fix these potholes. Well, fuck.

Jerry Pancake:

At least you have a house to like like a place to live.

Josh Scramble:

Like, your road sucks. Like, your road should

Jerry Pancake:

It does. They should just, like, I don't know what. Repave it? Yeah. They should repave it.

Jerry Pancake:

Like, so they came out and they did it just to

Josh Scramble:

It was a very

Jerry Pancake:

half is like, I hate to be like that person, but, like, they just did a fucking half assed job, and they took way too long to do it. Like, literally, scramble and I could have gone out there with, like, a wheelbarrow full

Josh Scramble:

of Asphalt.

Jerry Pancake:

Asphalt and did

Josh Scramble:

it In a tan.

Jerry Pancake:

Like, in an hour. It took them, like, two full days and they're like, oh, are you gonna seal that after you patch it? No. No. The so so the minute you hit that, like, the gravel just goes everywhere, and you have a full new

Josh Scramble:

pothole. Yeah. There Mercedes fucking doomed.

Jerry Pancake:

Alright. Well, this is about it for today's well, this might be two episodes probably.

Josh Scramble:

Who knows? One, two. Who gives a shit?

Jerry Pancake:

Alright. Love you. Love your show.

Josh Scramble:

Love you. Love our show.

Jerry Pancake:

Love our show. Everybody take care. Put some fucking lotion on for that sunburn.

Josh Scramble:

Ask people to park at their house.

Jerry Pancake:

And please, yeah, just like we're willing to work with you, but like throw a pizza or, a case of beer Or both. Every or both every once in a while.

Josh Scramble:

I mean, think of what you would pay in the city. Millions. Millions annually. Adios, peeps.

Jerry Pancake:

Love it. Adios.

Josh Scramble:

Alright. So there you have it, our special double episode for Air Show Recap. Me and your boy, Pancake, are gonna be out for a minute. We are happy to travel to the other side of the state to visit Kendallville to have a few rounds of golf with our friends, and also check out the backstory on Billy Naylor to investigate the true details of what happened when God spit him out and broke his legs. So you don't gotta go home, but you can't stay here.

Josh Scramble:

Hope everyone has a good time, and check us out on the next episode when it drops sooner than later. Love you, Miller Beach. Do your thing.

Creators and Guests

Jerry Pancake
Host
Jerry Pancake
Co-host and resident personality on SoCoolPodcast, Jerry Pancake is equal parts entertainer, storyteller, and small-town legend. Hailing from Miller Beach, Indiana, Jerry brings his unique blend of local flavor, humor, and unfiltered thoughts to every episode. With roots in a community that’s as gritty as it is endearing, Jerry tackles everything from obscure trivia and wild local tales to sharp, laugh-out-loud commentary on anything under the sun. Known for his off-the-cuff insights and a knack for capturing the “what if” moments of life, he’s the heart of the SoCoolPodcast.
Josh Scramble
Host
Josh Scramble
Josh Scramble, the man with the voice that sounds like your favorite diner’s third cup of coffee—strong, a little gritty, and just the right amount of warm. Scramble isn’t just a co-host on the Miller Morning Madhouse, he’s the ultimate sidekick and instigator. With a knack for digging up Miller Beach's wildest stories, he's known for his quick-witted comebacks and unique comedic edge. Beyond his mic persona, Josh moonlights as a creator of beloved characters like Chuck Roundsteak, a voice that’s been gracing airwaves and kitchens for a decade. When he's not stirring up a laugh or two, you can find him diving deep into the latest Yelp review drama or holding court at local trivia nights with his All In Jest event series. He’s here to remind us all that life’s too short not to laugh at the absurd—and Josh has plenty of it in store.