Deadly Gators & the Birkenstock Revival

Deadly gators are back in the news, as well as the footwear that's found its way back into the spotlight for cool kids after many years. Don't miss this week's Hunting Roots Podcast! 

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:07

Alright, welcome back to the Honey Roots Podcast. Brody Swiss, you're here alongside me. Rimbo, my boy. What's happening, my man?

SPEAKER_01 0:13

Oh, nothing much. Just chilling out.

SPEAKER_00 0:16

Chilling and a little let's be honest, you're a little bit, a little bit bitter right now because we've failed to get you a podcast drink, right?

SPEAKER_01 0:24

Like the last podcast that I've been on, too.

SPEAKER_00 0:27

Yeah, well, I mean, of course, you've been missing an action last couple episodes, but back today, and that is, for those of you who don't know, that is our kind of our standard operation uh here is is podcast drinks. You know what I'm saying? You've got to have some kind of podcast drink beverage. I've just got beside me a uh yeti tumbler with full of water, lemon water, but we didn't make the run today. Usually we make a podcast run before the podcast airs or before the podcast is produced, and uh we just load up on beverages of choice, uh, none of which are very typically very healthy beverages.

SPEAKER_01 1:03

They're usually what's mainly uh monsters for you, um Mountain Dew, lots of flavors of Mountain Dew for me.

SPEAKER_00 1:11

Yeah, I I hadn't done, let's be honest, I hadn't I hadn't done a monster in a while for podcast. I I usually save that. If I'm gonna go to the extent of drinking a monster, it's gonna be when we're kayaking. There's something something I like about kayaking, floating down the river. I guess it's what beer drinkers would equate to what they like to do. You know, sit back, drink a cold one. I I don't drink beer, but I mean the monsters kind of monster's like equivalent to your beer. That's just what I I I don't know. I enjoy I that or when I'm hot and sweaty. I think we've told the story before, but monster came about for me uh back in the days when we lived in Montana and we'd run over into Idaho and run bear baits. And I know I've told this probably recently, but that's where I first discovered a monster was the guy that I was running bear baits with, Jess Eidens. And uh and he he drank monsters maybe every day. I don't remember. He he drank them pretty pretty big time. Uh I, however, discovered them then, he introduced me with that, and that became my thing. We'd stop after running bear baits, we're soaked, sweating, just beat, I mean tired. And we come back down off the mountain, hit the valley right there in Lolo, stop at the gas station, and we'd get a monster and a big old hunk of pizza or two. And dude, that was living. I mean, that was the good stuff.

SPEAKER_01 2:28

Hunt Brothers Pizza and uh Dr. Pepper.

SPEAKER_00 2:30

Yeah, I think it probably was Hunt Brothers Pizza, you know, back then even. And so yeah, Hunt Brothers Pizza, Dr. Pepper or Monster. Ooh, son. That's good stuff. That's good stuff. Hey guys, this podcast is brought to you by our good friends at Onex Hunt. OnexMaps.com is the website. Go check it out, or the app store. Uh you can go and see what's shaking from those guys. You need this app in your phone, seriously. If you don't have it, I know we talk about that all the time, and it's hard to meet hard for me to fathom that anybody would not have Onyx in their phone, but some of you guys are holding out. Or some of you guys may be thinking, I've got this app. I don't need Onyx because I've got this other one called this or called that. And I've tried this and that, and uh, I've always come back down to the user-friendly, clean and simple design of Onyx Hunt. So go check it out, onxmaps.com or just at your app store. Pull it up, get it loaded, have it ready to go for your next outdoor adventure. And that's good. Man, that's a pretty good plug for not even reading it. You know what I'm saying? Some of these guys who do podcasts, they read, and they read the the like they read the ad. They read the ad. Yeah, an ad read. Not an ad read. Not an ad read at all.

SPEAKER_01 3:42

We don't even read it. We just like come up with some random ad read.

SPEAKER_00 3:45

I just dude, you don't have to read an ad when you're when you're just speaking from the heart. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, we're just speaking, well, you're just speaking from the heart. Just speaking from the heart. I I love the on X app. I've used it, I've said it a million times, I've used it back before it was called Onex and uh back from the original days. And uh it's a product we use, we love, and uh just want to let people know that we use it, recommend it, and everybody else. I don't want to say everybody else should too, but because I hate when somebody tells me you should too. I ha I use this product and you should too. I hate when people do that.

SPEAKER_01 4:16

They should though.

SPEAKER_00 4:17

But yeah, you should. It's kind of a no-brainer.

SPEAKER_01 4:20

It's not like a lifesaver.

SPEAKER_00 4:20

Yeah, it can be a lifesaver. Oh show. So big thanks to those guys. Also, thanks to the guys at Mossy Oak, Mossy Oak.com. Uh right here in the office studio, we are surrounded by Moss Yoke, and it's kind of uh kind of nostalgic, man. You look around, there's bows hanging in here, turkey vests hanging in here, old school coveralls, uh, from the OGs that I used to wear to the new school uh coveralls and everything in between. And man, I'm already itching for hunting season. Velvet season. Velvet season. Is today July 1st? Today's July 1st. July 1st. So I said last night, I said, boys, you know what tomorrow is? And y'all just like, uh, July 1st. I said, tomorrow is the day when we wake up, we can say, bow season is next month. And that's it. It's July 1st. We can velvet hunt next month. And so fired up for that. And um, I am, I'm I'm I don't know, just uh I got kind of I got kind of tired and and weary from turkey season, and I was kind of like, ah man, I'm ready for a break. I'm ready to not do anything, not go into the woods, not battle the ticks and all the mess out there, and just chill, maybe do some fishing, work in the garden, do a little kayaking. But that doesn't take long, and I'm right back to hey, bow season. It's coming, it's coming soon, so we'll be talking more about that as we ramp up towards that. But today in this episode, what is this, 249? Or I don't know what 248, 249, somewhere. We're getting close, closing in on 250. Maybe it's 250, I don't know. But I want to talk just a few minutes uh about some posted stuff because we've got some pretty pretty hot posted things, Rimbo, that uh I think you're gonna want to know about. Um, and so uh let's talk about those and then we'll cover some other just some local stuff happening, uh different things shaking. So for all of you guys tuning in this week, this is your posted segment of the week. All right, well, the big happenings uh this time around, it's like, man, I just I've been seeing over and over. There's been several major alligator incidents happening. Have you been hearing about this, Rumbo?

SPEAKER_01 6:43

I have not, but the only stuff I'd really hear about is on YouTube, but I've really been on YouTube lately.

SPEAKER_00 6:50

Yeah, well, evidently there's been back-to-back deaths from one, an alligator, uh, and then two, a crocodile. So I'll get into those in a second. But four, and this has nothing, absolutely nothing to do with I don't even know if I want to go with this one. Um this has nothing to do with hunting in the outdoors, and you hate that, don't you? When I throw out something that's not hunting in the outdoors. Do you hate that?

SPEAKER_01 7:18

I do, but let's let's let's hear this one.

SPEAKER_00 7:20

We're gonna let this one rip. We're gonna let this one slide. We're gonna let this one slide. Well, I mean the alligators and the crocodile. I mean, they're not hunting, but they're outdoors. And that's that's the nature of it. It's it's the off season. Uh and so we got some extras. Uh let me find this again if I can. This is this is kind of messed up. Are you ready for this? Uh I saw old friend Ricky Shankle post this, and uh, this is uh story out of Memphis, okay? It says Memphis man allegedly spikes his own farewell cake with the laxatives. Okay? Now, Remy, I know you don't really know or understand what laxatives are. Um, but and let's just back up. Memphis man, dude from Memphis, my old hometown, stomping grounds, allegedly, so apparently, spikes his own farewell cake. So a farewell cake is you you've been working for the company, you leave the company, you're retiring, or you've been there for a long time, and they loved you and you love them, maybe. Uh a lot of cases, maybe no, they hated your guts, you hated their guts. But according to HR, human resources, the boss people, when somebody leaves after 20 years, we have to throw them a farewell party. We have to have a farewell cake, and they have a cake and some punch, and it's just like, hey, thank you for your service. You've been here all these years. We really appreciate you. Farewell. Jim Twilbeck the other day, our uh director of missions here in town that works with all the churches, he's been here for 20 or 25, was it 25 years?

SPEAKER_01 8:49

25 years.

SPEAKER_00 8:49

25 years and he retired the other day. So what did they do? They throw him a little party retirement party, very good cake. They had some cake, snacks. Okay. Well, this man, it says allegedly spiked, which means put uh something into. Like if you spike the punch, that means you put a little alcohol in the punch, or you put a little whatever in there to juice it up a little bit, right? Uh my lemon water. I throw some lemons, spike it with water. So it's lemon-spiked water, I guess. Well, he put something in the cake. A laxative. A laxative is designed to make you go doo-doo. Okay? You take a laxative if you're s if you're you know constipated, you can't go, and it's like, man, I need to poop, but I can't, my stomach's hurting. You need to take some laxatives to make you go to the bathroom and you can drop a deuce. It makes you doo-doo. Okay? So what he does, apparently he didn't like these people he worked with. Uh so they got the farewell cake, and he goes in there. I don't know, you know, if he had a hand in making the cake, or if he just went in there and dropped some laxative sprinkle, I don't know. But to get back at the people he didn't like, he goes in there and puts some laxatives. So anybody that eats the cake has to go drop a deuce. Okay. Uh Memphis man allegedly spikes his own farewell cake with laxatives, delivers emotional goodbye, and then it leaves before the stampede begins. A Memphis man decided the perfect way to thank his co-workers for 14 unforgettable years was by baking them a homemade red velvet cake loaded with laxatives. Now that's what HR calls an exit interview. According to police, Daryl Jenkins 49 spent three days taking, excuse me, baking and decorating what co-workers described as the best looking cake anyone had ever brought to the office. Across the top and cream cheese icing were the words, I'll miss y'all, probably. He personally handed a slice to every employee, smiled the entire time, and then delivered a heartfelt farewell speech so touching that several co-workers were reportedly wiping away tears. Little did they know those weren't going to be the last tears of the day. After hugging his supervisor, shaking everyone's hand, and thanking the office for all the memories, Darrell calmly climbed in his pickup truck, merged onto I-40, and disappeared into the Memphis traffic like a man with absolutely no intention of answering his phone for the next several hours. About an hour later, the office's two bathrooms became the most exclusive destinations in Shelby County. One employee reportedly sprinted across the parking lot to a neighboring insurance office, begging to use her restroom. Another was seen speedwalking through the hallway with the determination of someone who had just lost an argument with Taco Bell. This afternoon staff meeting canceled. Productivity gone. The break room closed until further notice by unanimous vote. Police later located Daryl relaxing at a cabin near Pickwick Lake, sitting in a lawn chair with fishing pole in one hand and a glass of sweet tea in the other, looking like a man who had finally achieved inner peace. When officers asked why he allegedly did it, Daryl reported the shug and said, Fourteen years of annual performances reviews and mandatory team building exercises finally worked their way into the recipe. You have to admit, most people leave behind a coffee mug. Some leave behind a retirement plaque. Daryl allegedly left behind a line for the restroom longer than the checkout line at Costco on a Saturday. His coworkers say they'll never forget him, mainly because they'll probably never eat homemade office cake again. Lesson learned.

SPEAKER_01 12:52

No, I don't do that.

SPEAKER_00 12:53

You don't do that, no.

SPEAKER_01 12:54

Why? I just don't really.

SPEAKER_00 12:57

You know something could be.

SPEAKER_01 12:58

And nobody's really come up to me and asked, hey, Remy, eat this piece of cake.

SPEAKER_00 13:01

Well, like when you go to the bathroom at your at the restaurant and you come back and everybody's snickering or smiling and they hand you the chips, or they say, Hey, try this salsa, and you know they've probably done what to the salsa. Put hot sauce in it. Put that habanero sauce in it. They spiked it up, and uh anyway. Goofy story. Thanks, Ricky Shankel, for uh sharing that. Um That sounds like something, honestly, that I would probably do.

SPEAKER_01 13:27

That would be a funny prank to do to some people you really hated, but maybe we'll try that in a youth group.

SPEAKER_00 13:35

Some of our favorite youth group students. We'll see. Here's the deal woman alligator woman killed by an alligator. This is uh another sad story. I know we talked about some alligator killings last year. You remember last year the the lady, I think it was a lady and a man, they stopped down there in Florida somewhere and they were just kayaking and uh went over a alligator and it bumped and it kind of came up and bumped their kayak, flipped them out of the boat or canoe or whatever, and then ended up killing the woman.

SPEAKER_01 13:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:59

Same kind of situation uh is happening again this year. Several of these bad news deals, alligator situations. It says a 31-year-old woman was killed by an alligator while swimming in a river in Florida, back in Florida again. Uh the victim, her boyfriend, and a friend were hiking on Sunday when they stopped to swim uh in the oh man, in the Conalocachee River in Seminola County, just north of Orlando. According to Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation, they were about in about three feet of water when an alligator bit the victim on both arms. Um the boyfriend was the one that made the 911 phone call. He was trying to get her from the alligator's mouth. The spokesperson said at a news conference Monday, 31-year-old lady just stopping to take a little dip, stopping to cool off with a boyfriend and some buddies. Can you imagine that? You go out there in the water and you're just kind of, ah, this fellow so good. So hot. Oh, this is refreshing. And then whoop, your arms are just sucked in by a gator, and then you're pulled in. You know what gators do when they get a hold of you?

SPEAKER_01 15:02

They like like thrash you.

SPEAKER_00 15:04

They start rolling, yeah, they thrash and they roll. They grab you and bite down on you, and then they roll. That's how they kill their critters or disorient or whatever.

SPEAKER_01 15:11

It's a really weird tactic.

SPEAKER_00 15:13

I might have to try that when we're wrestling next time I'm gonna grab you, and I'm just gonna stop drop and roll and uh do the deal. Alright, so that was a 31-year-old lady. Now the next one. Older, wait, wait. Older, I'm gonna guess.

SPEAKER_01 15:25

Older or younger? Yeah, you guess it's I'm gonna guess it's probably an older lady.

SPEAKER_00 15:32

Okay, you're wrong on both counts. It's a 20-year-year 28-year-old man was killed in a crocodile attack on a popular beach in Florida, or excuse me, not Florida, in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, on Friday. Because you've got to go out of the country to get any crocodiles, right?

SPEAKER_01 15:46

Yeah, you gotta go like really popular in Africa.

SPEAKER_00 15:50

Yeah, well, this is uh evidently a crocodile attack on Popular Beach, uh Puerto Vallarta in Mexico. It happened on Friday evening, according to the statement. Uh the victim, who was from Mexico, local boy, was on the beach in front of the Marriott Puerto Vallarta resort and spa when he was allegedly attacked by the reptile and dragged out to sea, Jalisco State Police said in a statement on Sunday. Uh what do you think's worse? Crocodile?

SPEAKER_01 16:19

Crocodile. I feel like crocodile's more vicious. You think so? And they're bigger though.

SPEAKER_00 16:26

Yeah, so um Yeah, that's a bad deal. And there's been several more popped up. I mean, I guess it's gator season. I don't know if not gator hunting season, but just gator, I don't know if it's mating season or what. I mean, obviously just midsummer, everybody's getting gutsy. It's hot, everybody feels like they need to be out in the water doing their thing and um whatever. Uh a lot of the crap going on. And then finally, this is this is really dumb.

SPEAKER_01 16:55

Is this another gator?

SPEAKER_00 16:56

No, no. I I'm gonna give you one guess of what is chewing on this guy's face. This would be that's what we're gonna start doing. We're just gonna have a segment that what chewed on my leg or what chewed on my face, or you're gonna have to you're gonna have to decide what kind of animal mauling we're fixing to read about.

SPEAKER_01 17:14

Okay, so is it like really small?

SPEAKER_00 17:16

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 17:18

Is it in the rodent family?

SPEAKER_00 17:24

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 17:25

Is it like a mouse or a squirrel?

SPEAKER_00 17:27

Why are you nailing this? Have you already seen this story? No. Okay. It's in the mouse like family. Nightmare.

SPEAKER_01 17:36

A rat.

SPEAKER_00 17:37

Yes. A renter woke up to rats gnawing on his face. This is according to the New York Post. Uh again. Take it for what it is. A renter woke up to rats gnawing on his face after complaining for months about infestation to the landlord. Okay? Now we're not gonna let people see that. Well, we might post this later, but here's a guy's face.

SPEAKER_01 17:58

Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_00 17:59

Face is all just red and chewy and his eyes swollen. And it looks like he's got major, I don't know, looks like he's been beastings. Yeah, it looks kind of more like beastings, but almost looks like acne, beasting, right eye swollen shut. Shot in the face with the shotgun pellets all into one. But woke up to rats gnawing on his face. Now look, he's got bites on his forehead, bites on his nose, bites on his lips, his eyes swollen shut. Dude, why would you why who in their mind or who in the world is that sleepy that you're gonna just sleep through a rat gnawing on your face?

SPEAKER_01 18:39

Or a rat like or even just a rat walking on you.

SPEAKER_00 18:42

Yeah, walking, that's what I thought about yesterday.

SPEAKER_01 18:44

Walking on your face, like a rat across your chest.

SPEAKER_00 18:48

Dude, you are flipping upside down and getting out of that bed. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. You got a rat crawling on your face, crawling on your neck, crawling on your chest, crawling on your butt. Ain't no way something's crawling on me. Like, I will feel a breeze blow across my leg hair and blow, you know, whatever. And I'm like, ooh, something crawling on me. You know what I'm saying? Like, what is that? And I mean, I've had times where in night I'm sitting there in my bed and I'm thinking, I'll just be itching. It's like, is that itching, or is that something crawling on me? I'll flip them sheets over and jump through there and turn my light up flashlight on my phone and I'm looking for a spider in my bed. Ain't no way I'm sleeping through a rat gnawing on my nose.

SPEAKER_01 19:31

I mean, I know that some people are heavy sleepers, but like, really, this is beyond heavy sleepers. This is dumb. Like, you I would wake up at the first little sound I hear.

SPEAKER_00 19:42

Yeah, dude chewing on his face. Now listen, Aiden's a different story. Because I have messed with Aiden and I've flicked his nose and stuff before to kind of you know mess with him while he was sleeping, and he he didn't notice it. Um we do have this situation where I I say I, maybe somebody else shaved my buddy Peter's eyebrows off while he was sleeping. Um turns out it was a day before his senior photos. I know we've heard that story before. He was the next day was going for senior photos. Uh we shaved his eyebrows off while he was sleeping and never knew.

SPEAKER_01 20:14

Um never try that on me though. Don't get any ideas.

SPEAKER_00 20:18

Could be coming. Um but here we are, due to getting his face chewed on by a stinking rat or rats. It says woke up to rats. It says plural, rats, not a rat gnawing on his face. Woke up to rats gnawing on his face after complaining about infestation. So which one would you take? A squirrel chewing on your face or a rat? Oh, dude. I don't know. I've never seen I've never seen the teeth on a rat, so I really don't know. Squirrels, I mean, you look at the teeth on a squirrel, them suckers are an inch and a half long. They're big teeth. So I mean, I don't know if those whole teeth would be going in your face or if they're just gonna use like a little nut, like I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 21:02

The rats, they carry like so many diseases, though.

SPEAKER_00 21:05

That's what I was gonna say. The rat, I would say from a cleanliness standpoint, I feel like the r the squirrel would be a better deal. He's wild, he's probably cleaner, he's tree rat, but he just seems cleaner. When I think of a rat, I'm thinking of nasty and baby. New York Street. Well, yeah, but I mean that's just the stereotype. Yeah, that's just the stereotype. We always think oh rats are in the sewer system and all this stuff, and they are. But I mean, you know, you got rats, I mean, I'm sure there's rats right out here and uh we live in the woods, you know. Some if rats around, they may be just as clean as a squirrel. Might not be any different. I don't know. But I I guess I'm I'm I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 21:43

I think I would take the squirrel just for like the cleanliness.

SPEAKER_00 21:46

Yeah. I mean I'm thinking of those hickory nuts that are chewed in half and all chewed to pieces. I'm like they can do some work. I don't think you're getting out of that either way with the clean face. Um I don't know. I mean you're you're gonna get a chew. Chewed up face, but like I don't know. So I guess it's not about the chewed up face, like either animal, your face is getting chewed. Yeah. So I guess you have to think about okay, it's not about which one's gonna damage my face. You have to think more about, okay, that's happening. My face is getting chewed, either one of these, which animal's gonna give me some kind of rabies or some kind of disease. You know what I'm saying? Which one's gonna kill me? Maybe. They both could give you rabies, probably. Squirrels, you remember that you remember them worms them squirrels got like the big old holes?

SPEAKER_01 22:33

Oh yeah, but like the black death from the rats. You know, ever heard about that story?

SPEAKER_00 22:39

No, what is that?

SPEAKER_01 22:40

It's like uh rats went through it was like a long time ago, but like it was like forever ago, but like um rats went throughout like England or whatever, and like the uh they're carrying diseases and they would go in like people's homes and like they would die from the rats just being in their house and stuff.

SPEAKER_00 23:00

Dude, it gives me the willies. Gives me the willies. I I don't like it. Um I d I don't I don't like it. I ain't digging it. It's nasty. Nasty. Uh Remy, there's a a bad wreck. Did you see this wreck? I'm gonna just show you this to you. This was up there at 79 and 218, like coming away from Aprilwood Church. Uh a lady had a kayak on top of her little crossover vehicle. She hits a what is that truck there? She hits like a uh like a a van, like a work van that's got ladders on the top. The van is laying on its side and I mean she just smacked them hard. She must have T-boned the dudes, hit the side of the van, the van flips over, she's sitting there. And um, like I said, I she looked like she'd just come from lake. Maybe she's going to the lake, but she wasn't going the right direct. Maybe I don't know, maybe not the big lake, maybe she's going to pond or something. But she was uh smacked these guys, had a kayak on the top of her little crossover SUV thing. Kayak stayed in place. So she did uh props to her for uh getting the kayaks secured so well. I don't know if it was her fault or theirs, if they ran the light or if she ran the light. Either way, she smacked the fire out of them. Her airbag was deployed, her whole front end was smashed to pieces. Um what I I need to see what kind of I wish I'd have paid attention. I try not to rub her neck, you know, like there's troopers everywhere, and they're all trying to direct one lane of traffic at a time. So I took a picture, but I try not to be like, you know, I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_01 24:33

Wait, did you get a picture of the car that smacked it? Yeah, because it in the picture?

SPEAKER_00 24:38

Yeah, but you just can't tell what it is right there, you see. But I I was proud of the car because I mean she hit that thing hard enough to flip the van over. Um her front end was totaled, but it wasn't like I mean, it it put a nice lick on that car and still, you know, it wasn't up in her business. You know, she's not walking around actually picking up her stuff from the lake. She's getting her beach bag together and just kind of like, all right, I'm gonna pick up my stuff and I'm going to the lake. Get my kayak off here.

SPEAKER_01 25:02

Um, I mean, you have to have like a lot of force just to hit a car over there. And that's a big car. Like, that's a van.

SPEAKER_00 25:10

It's a van, dude. Full-size van, big old work van.

SPEAKER_01 25:12

So she must have been going really fast.

SPEAKER_00 25:15

Oh, yeah. I bet she, yeah. I mean, she put a hurting on him. Uh let's talk about the Birkenstock situation around here at the Switcher House. Um, some folks, some some folks have gotten some new Birkenstocks. So tell us about it. Who's got new Birkenstocks?

SPEAKER_01 25:29

Aiden has had his Birkenstocks for a while. Um, he's had them for about a month or two. And these are pretty cool. I've been always wanting some Birkin stocks, and when he got his new Birkenstocks, he gave me his off-brand Birkenstocks.

SPEAKER_00 25:44

So let's talk about let's back up before we get into that. I think the situation, how he got his Birkenstocks is kind of funny because he didn't buy 'em.

SPEAKER_01 25:53

He didn't buy 'em. Who bought them? Easton bought them at our local shoe store called Gwen's.

SPEAKER_00 25:58

Gwen's. Shout out to Gwen's and the the crew, the Gwen family and their factory outlet, Gwen Shoes. I don't know. Um they used to be Outlet. Did they take the Outlet sign off?

SPEAKER_01 26:09

I think they took the Outlet sign off.

SPEAKER_00 26:10

I think it's just Gwen's shoes instead of Gwen's outlet or whatever. But it's a select little store. I shouldn't be giving them a free plug, should I? Free ad. They're not a sponsor. But anyway, um now the Gwen crew up there used to be Gwen's outlet, and they used to have had, I think, probably like imperfects and scratch and dent stuff and you know, whatever. If they would get by truckloads and you come in there and you get it some killer prices. Uh the prices are still good. They're not as killer priced as they used to be. Um but I think the quality of the stuff better. And anyway, so Aiden, yeah, Aiden. But no Easton buys.

SPEAKER_01 26:45

Easton, so Gwen's gets this big shipment of Birkin stocks there, and Easton goes and buys him some. Um he doesn't like 'em.

SPEAKER_00 26:54

Hurt his feet. Easton thing.

SPEAKER_01 26:56

They like hurt his feet. He's really flat-footed.

SPEAKER_00 26:58

Yeah, he's got a flat foot, and which I thought Birken stocks would be kind of good because they do have the contour there. Maybe that's too much of a contour. Yeah, it is too much looking at it. He's probably too flat-footed for them. He he's a flat footed sucker.

SPEAKER_01 27:11

But Easton buys them. He doesn't like them. Aiden buys them for $50 back. Okay?

SPEAKER_00 27:17

And then So Easton basically makes ten bucks.

SPEAKER_01 27:19

So Easton basically makes ten bucks off of them. Um some time passes, about a month passes, and you got Aiden's old ones, right? And so once Aiden gave uh got Easton's Birken stocks, he bought, he gave me these off-brand Birken stocks.

SPEAKER_00 27:34

Um which actually look better than the Birken stocks, the real Birkin stocks. No, they don't. I think they do. They're they're darker looking leather.

SPEAKER_01 27:41

They're dark, darker, but like this the dark leather part of it is peeling off.

SPEAKER_00 27:47

So it's not real leather, maybe? I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 27:49

So it's not real leather, of course. Um when if you take them off, they like the end points up, which is really weird. But I guess that's what you get for off-brand Birkenstock.

SPEAKER_00 28:00

Dude, that's not a bad off-brand. I'll s I'll trade you. What are there? These are too small for me. That's real leather. I'm looking at that. That's real leather. It says uh leather upper. So that's real leather. They're just uh and they're not bad at all for them to be able to hold up. And I do like that darker brown. That's that dark leather. Like darker leather. I like that. Good pair.

SPEAKER_01 28:20

So you got Aiden's old ones to Birkinstock, not these old uh Birkenstock off-brand, and but so about a month passes, month or two passes. And Easton, he's Easton, he's an eBay kind of guy. He loves shopping on eBay. So he finds these n brand new Birkenstocks on eBay. He gets them. And he gets them, he wears them for like about an hour or three hours. And he doesn't like the color of them.

SPEAKER_00 28:53

Hates them.

SPEAKER_01 28:54

So they're like a really they got a hint of green in them, and so that's why he didn't like it. So like he I think maybe you can return on eBay or something. So he like returns them or something, or tries to resell them.

SPEAKER_00 29:07

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 29:08

And then like a few days ago, he goes to this has been this has been like a week that has passed. He goes back to Gwen's, finds out that there's a new shipment of Birkenstocks again, he gets him some Birkin stocks, and he loves them.

SPEAKER_00 29:24

Well, no, I don't know. I don't know that he loves them. Was that yesterday?

SPEAKER_01 29:28

That was like a couple days ago.

SPEAKER_00 29:29

A couple days ago. He goes back and gets the same pair that he sold to Aiden, right? Yeah. Yeah, it's the same pair. And these are just the little two-strap Birken stocks. They're not the clogs, they're just the little two-strappers. Um, super popular when I was back in high school. Uh I wore them, my buddies wore them. Everybody wore them back in high school. We didn't wear socks like y'all do nowadays, wearing socks with them, unless it was wool socks in the fall or when things got cooled off. You wear your socks and you can wear them with jeans and stuff. Nowadays guys are wearing them like they're sports sandals, and they're wearing like white socks with them, and it's like, oh, that's so ugly. And um, but they have come full circle. That's been, let's see, when I was in high school, that's been 32 years old.

SPEAKER_01 30:11

So they're they're like ancient.

SPEAKER_00 30:12

Yeah, they're old, 30 plus years old. But um Easton, he goes back and gets him a pair the other day, and like you said, and he he got the eBay ones and whatever. He goes back and Gwen's has got another shipment and he buys the same exact pair. That he sold to eight. That he sold eight. And I asked him, I said, dude, what's the difference about him? He said, Nothing, it's the same exact pair. And I said, Well, what same size? And yep, same exact size, same everything is the exact same pair. And I was like, Well, what's the deal? What's different? He goes, Nothing. I'm just gonna I'm just gonna make them work or I'm gonna suck it up or something. He just like he wants he wants them so bad.

SPEAKER_01 30:45

I've heard that the real barking stocks are really heavy, and they just feel like I've heard that you're like walking on bricks.

SPEAKER_00 30:52

No, it's not any heavier than yours. Feel that same same weight.

SPEAKER_01 30:56

I mean, it's a little bit heavier, but it's just better material.

SPEAKER_00 30:59

It's just better material, but it's also bigger size than what you got. So anyway, uh he wanted them so bad that he's willing to just suck it up. He said, I'm just gonna make them work. I'm gonna suck it up because why, he wants to have the cool shoes everybody's got right now, and and I get it. So he comes home with those and he tells me he gets them at Gwen's and they're whatever the price is, and I thought, man, that's pretty good. And you get inspired. And I'm inspired because I put them on. I was like, oh man, I forgot how nice Birkin stocks are when they break down.

SPEAKER_01 31:25

And these are kind of like a trendy shoe right now, so like it's kind of natural for Easton to have them. It'd be kind of I mean, Aiden, he's kind of on his way out of being cool enough to have trendy stuff. I'm perfect age for having trendy stuff. So and then we have dad right now.

SPEAKER_00 31:44

I was gonna say if Aiden's on his way out of being You've been on your way out. I'm I'm way out. But here's what I told y'all earlier. Y'all are like, Dad, you're not you're too, you can't be cool enough to wear you can't be doing trendy clothes, dad. You can't be wearing cool stuff.

SPEAKER_01 31:57

He just buying all these trendy things mainly because he's a youth pastor.

SPEAKER_00 32:02

Dude, I I like I told y'all earlier, I've been wearing these long before y'all are ever even a thought in your mama and daddy's mind. I mean, God knew about you coming, but I mean, before, shoot, I was wearing these before I was ever with your mama. You know what I'm saying? I this is back before I got married, back before even I'm in high school. And so don't come to me with like, you can't wear those. I I I wore those the first time they were cool. And I can wear them again. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_01 32:30

So needless to say, dad goes to Gwen's, gets him a pair of Birkenstocks, and I am not gonna wear my Birkenstocks anymore because everybody in the family overwears them.

SPEAKER_00 32:42

Well, the thing about it is I was I was sitting there at the store earlier and I was trying to decide. I had a I had a brown pair and I called them tan, but then I looked at them a little closer and I think they were more grayish. I I sent a you know, I sent a picture of both of them. I was like, which one do y'all think? And he sent fires back, he's like, get the not the brown ones. He said, I like the tan ones better. And I'm like, I said, You're just saying that because you brought the brown ones, you don't want me having the brown ones too. And I knew he was just trying to throw me off, and I thought the brown ones, you know, they just look better. I mean the brown ones are kind of the OGs. Well, then I start looking around at other people, and I see a high school girl over there, and I'm like, She's got the brown ones. And then I see another person, brown ones, and I saw several people had the same color, and I thought that's where it's at.

SPEAKER_01 33:24

See, you're just a follower.

SPEAKER_00 33:26

Like No, I I didn't know. No, hear me out, son. I was using them as confirmation. I'd already had them in my hand. I'd already picked them out, I was already holding them. In fact, I had one of them on my feet when I foot. When I looked over and I saw this girl wearing them, I was like, Yep, I made the right decision. Yep, I know what's up. Yep, I'm I'm I'm down with the trend. And it wasn't like, oh, she's doing those, I'm gonna find those. I already had those. And that was just confirmation that I was spot on, nailed it.

SPEAKER_01 33:56

Know how bad it is, Dad? You know how bad you are about this? It's like we have to tell you what's trendy right now.

SPEAKER_00 34:02

Like you didn't have to tell me nothing. Again, wore these shoes, these sandals. And it's not just the shoes like long before.

SPEAKER_01 34:13

Those are trendy right now.

unknown 34:14

Hey.

SPEAKER_01 34:14

Parkin's socks, trendy.

SPEAKER_00 34:16

I'm not saying they're not trendy, but I ain't doing it. I ain't doing the white socks and sandals. White socks, brown sandals. Next thing you know, y'all be wearing white socks or socks with flip-flops. If I ever see you wearing socks with flip-flops, like thong, sandal, flip-flop, you know, where the little tassel, the the thong goes up in your up in your toes. If you had socks on like that, forget about it, man. That's crazy. Ain't happening. No good whatsoever. Hey, let me share a uh word from the Word today as we wrap things up here. Romans 12, 12 says, Rejoice in hope. Be patient in affliction and be persistent in prayer. Rejoice and hope, man. We ought to be doing that. Rejoicing in the hope that we have as Christian people. Um and that's not a hope so like I hope so. That's like, hey, Jesus is our hope, and I'm hanging on to that. We rejoice in the fact that He is our hope. We be patient, we be patient. Be patient, and uh we are patient in affliction, and that means in the times of tough times, uh be patient, man. God's doing something, God's at work, and uh it's tough to be patient. It's tough to be patient in tough times. Uh when life stinks, it's tough to be patient. That's what we need to do. Be patient in affliction and be persistent in prayer. Persistent means keep going. Stay after it, keep after it. Um if you want to lose weight, you gotta be persistent, you gotta keep running. If you want to kill deer, you gotta be persistent, you gotta stay after it, keep after it. Be persistent in prayer. Um relationship with the Christ, our relationship with Christ, we is just that. We need to have that relationship. We need to be in prayer with Him. And just like anybody, you want to be friends with somebody, you gotta talk to them. You wanna stay close to your uh your wife or your girlfriend, you gotta talk to them. You wanna stay close to God, you gotta be in prayer. Stay persistent in prayer. That's a word from the word this week. Always uh appreciate you guys checking things out. This is an exciting weekend going into the 4th of July. What big plans do you have? What are you gonna be doing this weekend? Shoot us a message and let you let us know what your uh 4th of July traditions are. We're gonna be asking folks that tonight at the big shindig. If you're listening to this and you're in the Paris Henry County area, come on out to the Maplewood Independence Day celebration going on tonight, Wednesday, July 1st. This is uh kind of a last-minute post, but if you hear this ahead of time, want to come out, it's gonna be awesome. Food trucks, good times, cornhole competition, nine squares gonna be out there. Huge firework show, probably. Probably the best firework show in town. I don't say that braggingly because it doesn't have anything to do with me, but Joey Boyd or local legend, Joey Boyd, uh, does about as good a job as anybody bringing the heat, bringing the fire, bringing the boom. He's passionate about this. That's his that's his element, man. That's his niche, that's his thing, that's his Super Bowl tonight that's going down. So uh seriously, one of the best fireworks show, if the not the best fireworks show. I've been to some of the ones around town, been to some of the big ones uh between here and the lake, and uh this one's hard to beat. So come on out, it's all free. Bring you some money for the food trucks, and hope to see you there. Guys, you be sure to chase him with all your heart, soul, and strength. And we'll see you right back here next time. Shoot straight. God bless you.