By the Rules
by Steve and Jenny Schaub
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Ep. 129 Candy Draft 2026
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A look at life through the lens of two GenXers who are notoriously good at making rules for people to follow.
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- Ep. 129 Candy Draft 2026 · 26 min · Season 3 Episode 129Tell us what you think! It's time for the second annual candy draft. We added some new contenders to the title. You can see if you agree that Steve is a cheater or not. Let us…
- Ep. 128 Rules for Injuries · 29 min · Season 3 Episode 128Tell us what you think! One of us is playing hurt again. I guess you will have to listen to figure out which one (Steve). We talk about what happened when you got injured as a…
- Ep. 127 Rules for Soap · 32 min · Season 3 Episode 127Tell us what you think! You can blame Steve for this topic. I think the itching has gone to his brain. You can hear what we have to say about rules for the soaps in your house…
- Ep. 126 Rules for Airports · 32 min · Season 3 Episode 126Tell us what you think! We have a couple of rules for airports that we wanted to share since Jenny and I have both traveled recently. Some of these are pretty obvious but there…
- Ep. 125 Rules for Amazon · 31 min · Season 3 Episode 125Tell us what you think! This is not sponsored by Amazon but that didn't stop us from making some rules about them. There are a couple of ideas in here that might be worth…
- Ep. 124 Rules for Shoes Part 2 · 33 min · Season 3 Episode 124Tell us what you think! We needed to revisit this topic since we left a lot of rules on the table last time. We start the episode with a little emotional recap of Iowa beating…
- Ep. 123 Rules for Shoes Part 1 · 31 min · Season 3 Episode 123Tell us what you think! It was finally time to talk about a topic near and dear to our hearts. Yes, it's time for you all to know what we think about shoes. Turns out this is a…
- Ep. 122 Rules for Celebrating Victories · 27 min · Season 3 Episode 122Tell us what you think! College football season is here and we have already seen some wild action across the country. In this episode we discuss the rules for celebrating your…
- Ep. 121 Rules for Beating the Heat · 25 min · Season 3 Episode 121Tell us what you think! We have both been outside today and we decided that we needed rules to help everyone beat the heat. There are a few things in there that might be useful…
- Ep. 120 Rules for Football 2026 · 29 min · Season 3 Episode 120Tell us what you think! It's almost football time so we wanted to share the rules changes for this year in high school and college football. There are some jokes in here so if…
- Ep. 119 Rules for Back to School · 33 min · Season 3 Episode 119Tell us what you think! It's back to school time here where we live. It made sense to share what our rules for going back to school look like. We went into the way back machine…
- Ep. 118 Rules for Office Automation · 31 min · Season 3 Episode 118Tell us what you think! A lot has changed since we first started working in the corporate world. Office tools and equipment has changed a lot, not all of it for the better. See…
- Ep. 117 Rules for Smoothies · 19 min · Season 3 Episode 117Tell us what you think! We needed to get this topic out there for you all to think about. It seems like there are more and more places to get a smoothie and we needed to share…
- Ep. 116 Rules for Generation X · 30 min · Season 3 Episode 116Tell us what you think! It's about time we wrote down exactly what rules we think Generation X needs to follow, or what rules our generation was responsible for creating. We…
- Ep. 115 Rules for Puzzles · 33 min · Season 3 Episode 115Tell us what you think! You might think that there aren't a lot of rules about puzzles but you would be wrong. It seems that one of us has quite a few rules, at least for jigsaw…
- Ep. 114 Rules for Traveling to Iowa · 33 min · Season 3 Episode 114Tell us what you think! Since we have been in Iowa most of our lives, we thought we might need to share our rules for coming here to visit. We have a guest visitor to give the…
- Ep. 113 Rules for Moving Across Country · 30 min · Season 3 Episode 113Tell us what you think! One of us just got done helping relatives move 1200 miles. There are some rules about that you might want to know. There are a few things that almost…
- Ep. 112 Rules for 4th of July · 29 min · Season 3 Episode 112Tell us what you think! It's America's 250th birthday today while we are recording. We decided that we needed to share our rules for the 4th of July and see what people think…
- Ep. 111 Rules for Soccer · 31 min · Season 3 Episode 111Tell us what you think! The US and the rest of North America are hosting the World Cup while we record this. We though we might have enough rules for soccer to fill up an episode…
- Ep. 110 Rules for Conspiracies · 31 min · Season 3 Episode 110Tell us what you think! I wanted to get this off my chest for a while so we finally did a podcast about it. There are way too many ways for people with goofy ideas to connect…
