I'm the Vocabulary Police

February 22, 2026·44 min·4 clips

Robert recounts a Texas Roadhouse hostess telling him the wait would be 'an hour and 57 minutes' instead of just saying two hours, sparking a hilarious rant about communication skills.

The first stop is breakfast. Corey and Robert open with friends visiting from Kansas and a trip to Jimmy's Roundup Cafe, a south-side place they describe as simple, crowded, affordable, and reliably good. The butter rolls get proper attention. So do the fried pies, the big portions, and the memory of a first visit that doubled as a hangover meal. Then the money talk shows up. Adoption sounds less like a sweet dream sequence and more like a spreadsheet on the kitchen table, with one option under fifty thousand and another Fort Worth possibility around sixty thousand. They joke about ACH, wire transfer, Cash App, Venmo, and PayPal, but the bit lands because the cost and the wait already feel heavy. A baby girl becomes the sticking point. One of them wants a daughter as a deal breaker, while the other admits he had pictured a boy, partly because old family memories made girlhood seem louder and harder to handle. It is messy in the useful way. The conversation never smooths itself into a perfect parenting statement, which is part of why it works. Foster care comes in as the cheaper path, at least on paper. They know people say it can cost little or almost nothing, but they keep coming back to the emotional price. That story hurts. A client cared for a little girl for nearly seven years, from babyhood, before the child's mother got clean and took her back. They do not treat that lightly. Packing up a child's belongings and sending her away with a counselor gives the foster-care question a weight the numbers cannot touch. By the end, they are still wandering. The close slides back into their usual household safety roll call: do not drink and drive, do not ride with someone who does, wear a mask, buckle up, use a blinker, and leave the extra stories for another day. Breakfast, adoption, money, parenting nerves, foster-care heartbreak, and a blinker reminder all fit in one conversation because that is how these two move.

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Butter rolls, adoption nerves, and a loose but honest chat make for a warm listen.

The episode opens at Jimmy's Roundup Cafe, a Southside Oklahoma City standby built on huge butter rolls, fried pies, big portions, good prices, and the kind of crowd that keeps coming back.

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Butter rolls first, adoption nerves second, and plenty of candid suburban chatter in between.

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