S2E8 - Spam Calls and Missing Audio

In S2E8, we fight through a little technical chaos after part of the audio decides not to cooperate, but we still manage to cover a weirdly solid mix of topics. We get into spam calls, bank rates, random financial thoughts, weather, old memories, Lego builds, editing, backyard wildlife, scrap metal, and the usual side tangents that take on a life of their own. Even with the glitch, it still feels like us — half catching up, half wandering off into whatever comes up next. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:02

Welcome back everybody. I'm Ian.

SPEAKER_01 0:06

And this is Robbie. And we're both two assholes in a mike. A mike. Not to be mistaken with a mike. But a mic. A mike. Yes, a mic. Not Mike.

SPEAKER_00 0:24

A microphone.

SPEAKER_01 0:25

Yes, a microphone.

SPEAKER_00 0:31

Dude, my day was boring. Yeah? Yeah. I just didn't really have too much to do. Like, I was just. I mean, I take that back. I wa I had things to do, but it wasn't like busy work. It was just time consuming.

SPEAKER_02 0:50

Two hours later.

SPEAKER_00 0:52

Fucking spam call.

SPEAKER_01 0:54

Did you restart recording?

SPEAKER_00 0:56

No.

SPEAKER_01 0:58

Oh, just give me a timer. Something was something was definitely messed up on my end.

SPEAKER_00 1:03

Okay. I'll clip it in. It's all good. Cool. Cool, cool.

unknown 1:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:10

Yeah, dude. I'm I'm I'm enjoying the editing now.

SPEAKER_01 1:12

Well, that's good. I was so I've been thinking, I was like, when you finally get into your fucking house, yeah, then I can actually, you know, come visit and and learn. Yeah, it's I mean, cuz unless you just want to keep doing it, and then I don't get to do anything, but that's whatever.

SPEAKER_00 1:29

It's up to you, man. I enjoy doing it. Uh so I'll do it. I have no issue. It's just like with Lego for you. That's true. Yeah, like it's something something you enjoy doing. Like, I I enjoy the editing, so uh, I don't mind doing it.

SPEAKER_01 1:42

You see the set that Aaron built yesterday? Did she post it yet? I guess she probably didn't have time to post it. She built the Love Birds, it's a big ass tree, probably about this tall, and then a one branch. It's almost like a um a bonsai tree or whatever, where the branch goes one way really far, and then the birds are sitting, the little pink uh birds are sitting on top of that. It's actually a really pretty set. I hadn't seen it until we it was because yesterday was her birthday, so we I bought the lovebird set for her to build, and she built it last night. It's a cute set. The tree is actually really nice. Yeah. I almost want to try to incorporate it into the city and just have two giant lovebirds like guarding somewhere in the city, you know, because compared to minifigs, they would be big. You know what I mean? So I don't know, because the the tree is just so beautiful as a Lego set. I just I kind of want to build like a forest or something around it and have them as like some sort of guardian. So I've got an idea that I might do, I might not, just because it doesn't really belong in the city, but it could be kind of cool. I say I could put it in the water side too, so it's just coming out of the water.

SPEAKER_02 3:03

I can hear the birds tweeting on your side.

SPEAKER_03 3:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:10

It rained for about uh seen like thirty for thirty, forty-five minutes.

SPEAKER_01 3:17

Nice.

SPEAKER_00 3:18

And so it's like it's that wet, damp, cold temperature outside right now. And all the birds are out and sitting in the trees.

SPEAKER_01 3:30

Nice.

SPEAKER_00 3:30

It's nice and peaceful.

SPEAKER_01 3:32

That's what it's like almost every single morning out here when I when I come home from dropping off autumn. I'll sit out here for half an hour to two hours sometimes, just fucking listening to the birds and sm hanging out with the doggies. You know, you know, you know what I'm saying. Hanging out with dogs, just chilling with the birds. Anyways, my notes are written down. I'll send those, I'll send those pics whenever uh I go back inside. Yeah, so if I don't stick it in the water side of the city, because it won't it won't look good, I don't think, in the city city in Aaron's side. Plus, I don't think Aaron will let me put it on that side because she's the one in control of where everything is placed on that side. Um that's why I got my table so that I can actually start doing what I want, you know, instead of just doing the commands of Aaron. But uh I'll stick it on one of my like right now, it's on one of my new shelf piece shelves that are free and open because of the 224 sealed sets that are put away in boxes right now. Uh, I talked to old boy uh yesterday or the day before. And uh he's um he's pre-selling some of the sets that uh I'll be sending him so that he can raise funds. Personally wouldn't do that myself because what if I back out? What if I decided to back out? You know? What if somebody offered me fucking $10,000 right now and said, I got ten thousand dollars cash, Robbie, I'll give it to you right now. And then he he uh he gets fucked over. So I don't know. I now I feel like I can't back out, even if I wanted to, which I don't. But if somebody did offer me more, you know, he's he's he's getting $11,000 worth of Lego for $6,000. So I mean, yeah. All brand new sealed, you know. So I mean, if somebody was I hate to say it, but I think I would fucking especially if it was somebody here local where I didn't have to ship it.

SPEAKER_00 5:45

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You gotta think though, there's been no exchange of of money yet, has there? Not between me and him, no. That's what I'm saying. So technically, I mean, you're not in any any binding.

SPEAKER_01 6:00

No, it's just the way that I feel as a person. Like, I know now that he's starting to pre-sell some of these sets to raise the funds so that he can pay me. And I'm uh I just I don't feel guilty, but I I feel some sort of way that I don't know how to explain, I guess. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 6:20

No, I get it. Like, if he wants to buy him, then it he should have had the money ready to go.

SPEAKER_01 6:26

Like, if he's gonna offer you the money, he did too, and he was straight up talking to me like he had the money at first. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:32

That's what I'm saying. Like, if if that's how it was presented, and then now all of a sudden he's it was never said, it was never said, but his enthusiasm had me thinking that the dude was ready to to move.

SPEAKER_01 6:46

And I told him if it's gotta sit for a couple of weeks, that's fine, you know. But at the same time, if somebody again in those couple of weeks, somebody offers me fucking even eight. Yeah, I mean, even six, but again, it's right here in front of my face, you know, and I don't have to ship, I don't have to take it, you know what I'm saying? Like, yeah, okay, I wouldn't take six because that's just cheating myself more than I like it. I made a deal with this guy, you know what I'm saying? Um, I'm not that's not for everybody, especially since this is my personal collection. I sell it for whatever the fuck I want to, you know.

SPEAKER_00 7:26

Yeah, I can understand that being a tough situation.

SPEAKER_01 7:31

Yeah, it's just weird, I guess. It's just weird. And he told me about it yesterday. He's like, Yeah, I've already pre-sold some of the sets so I can help get funds. I was like, why would you tell me that? I wouldn't tell somebody that. Unless I was trying to make them feel a certain type of way.

SPEAKER_00 7:47

I don't think it's unreasonable. Well, I mean, because you said you're not in any big hurry to do it. Yeah. But I think it would be reasonable to try to set a deadline, though, right?

SPEAKER_01 7:57

Probably not, but for me, you know, I don't like bartering. I'm not a barterer, you know, and that and that goes into many facets of life, I feel like. If I have to like, I don't know, present myself in a certain way that I don't want to, you know what I mean? Like, I don't want to present myself in a way that's impatient and give me my money now. You know what I mean? And I feel like, even though it's not that way, if I was to go, hey bro, like you got a week. Like, even the way I just said that, I felt like an asshole. You got a week. You know what I mean? I mean, you can you can word it in a way. I probably could, but I say things so directly. It's hard for me to think outside of going around the bush. Like I I can talk around the bush around about certain things, but oh my god, it's a fucking mud dauber. Don't you leave me the fuck alone? I thought that was a hummingbird. No, it was a big it was a big wasp. It's a big ass, uh, I think it's a mud dauber. It's black and gold. Black wings. They're usually like not aggressive, but they usually don't fly that close to my face either. Yeah, you heard it though?

SPEAKER_00 9:11

Yeah, I saw it. I thought it was a hummingbird that flew by.

SPEAKER_01 9:14

Oh shit. I didn't realize it was that close that it went. Yeah, they they like to get into the holes of the garage door. Probably because I can't like there's the one here. Remember the one that had all the black dripping? Yeah, it's still there. I haven't cleaned that yet. It's still there like that. It's been over a year, but ain't nobody moved into it because they're scared. I left the evidence. Oh, sorry, I just kicked Slinky in the face. He literally has got to be so close to me that I went to go move my foot just a centimeter and I kicked him in the face. I'm solly, buddy. Solly. Yeah, so I think they go into the garage door because I can't get to him in there. I could still spray it with fucking like wasp killer or whatever else, but they're not bothering me. And they're kind they they're um this is the way I look at it. I try not to kill wasps and and other potential pollinators because of what's happening with bees. You know, bees are dying off and shit. So I'm thinking to myself, I know that bees aren't the only pollinators, they're big pollinators, huge pollinators for us. Um, but I also think to myself, don't kill anything that isn't directly bothering you. You know what I mean? Especially if they're pollinators.

SPEAKER_00 10:37

Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense.

SPEAKER_01 10:40

Yeah. Or potential to yeah, then I just leave them alone. Yeah. Unless they leave, you know, like unless they're like in something, like the ones on the walls, close to because Aaron's allergic. So like I have to be caught. I I'll destroy their houses, you know, if it's in the garage, like that one. You know, I'll destroy it, but I won't I try not to kill it. Unless they get in the house, then I don't really have a choice because again, Aaron is allergic and she can she's got her epi pen, but still would rather not use it if we don't have to.

SPEAKER_02 11:19

It's either a cat in the fucking bushes over here or a badger.

SPEAKER_01 11:23

A badger?

SPEAKER_00 11:24

You guys got badgers in the wild right there?

SPEAKER_01 11:26

You motherfuckers can be mean, yeah?

SPEAKER_00 11:29

Yeah. Yeah, I've seen a couple walk across the street as we sit out here. Did you watch the badger song?

SPEAKER_01 11:36

The video I told you about.

SPEAKER_00 11:38

No. Badger, badger. Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger. Have you seen it? I no, I only remember that because of you.

SPEAKER_01 11:50

Yeah, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger. I don't even know if it makes like a bouncy thing. I think he's walking. It's a little cartoon of walking, but you know, it feels like it's you know, the badger, badger, badger, badger. So it just feels something awesome to bounce to. Yeah, I'll have to find it. You're gonna hate me for it because you're gonna be all like thinking about it at work. Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger. This is a good thing.

SPEAKER_00 12:20

I can see my co uh my coworker Kaylee laughing at that. Yeah, she'd probably look at me like, what the fuck are you doing?

SPEAKER_01 12:28

Shut up, Badger. Mind your business. Yeah. It's nice because I'll have to work today, so I don't even really have to get ready, ready. All I gotta do is throw a shirt on, and then I can go pick up autumn and then go drop off my packages from last night. Where? Because since I didn't normally I pack them up right after the show, but since it was 3 fucking 30 in the morning, I went I went to sleep it. Well, I went to sleep within 15 minutes and then packaged them up today when I dropped off autumn. Now I gotta drop them off still, because I like to be within 24 hours. I like dropping my shit off within 24 hours. I prefer to be like the same day within within a few hours of my show, but usually I plan it to where I'm doing a show before I go pick up autumn. Then I box up the shit real quick. You know, I got 30 minutes, I can box up my packages real fast, and then I go pick up autumn, go to the post office, and it's literally within like two hours, if that. You know, but anyways.

SPEAKER_00 13:34

That makes sense. I did that with the shirts. I'd always get my orders throughout the day. I'd start them and I'd get them done that night. And then we had a fucking post office right next to the building I worked at.

SPEAKER_02 13:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:45

So I'd just take them to the post office on the way to work.

SPEAKER_01 13:48

Dude, I think you'd have I think you'd do pretty well on whatnot over there, because you can get on whatnot over there and sell over there too. Yeah. You know, I think you'd do well, dude, especially if you're saying like you do the design and then while you're streaming, fucking press it and show it to them. Like, that's dope. Yeah. I think that'd be cool as hell. Because you have all the presses and all that stuff still in storage, right?

SPEAKER_03 14:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:14

Yeah, dude. You could do that on fucking whatnot, man. You see, they let anybody doing the shit now, at least in the Lego category. Yeah. I feel like anybody with a fucking 26 figs or less is selling on whatnot now. You know, you used to have to prove your collection or whatever. You know, I had to send pictures of all my fucking sets that I've been selling off for two years non-stop without fucking buying new sets, you know. No, I sell slowly. I don't sell at the speed some of these sellers do. You know, that's because I in I do it as a hobby versus as a job. Because obviously, so I don't need to do it as a job. But it is nice to do extra money. I got $670 sitting in my damn whatnot account ready for my trip.

SPEAKER_00 14:58

Just ready to go.

SPEAKER_01 15:00

And all of that was from my fucking collection that I've held on to for fucking since 2014, I think, is when I restarted collecting Lego again. We went to Legoland in San Diego, and boom, it just it just happened. Years of the dark ages gone. Us Lego people call it the dark ages when you go from a kid playing with Lego to not playing with it again, and then you re-rediscover it again, those were your dark ages. The time without Lego.

SPEAKER_00 15:35

Yeah, it's crazy how that shit works.

SPEAKER_01 15:37

Yeah. Yeah, Autumn's never liked it. The kids never, Justin liked it, but I guess I was so harsh on him about following the instructions. Like, it's not that hard. Why can't you follow the instructions? So, you know, Justin doesn't really care for Lego too much anymore because of that. He's got PTSD about it, me yelling at him about Lego. Oh, you scary bitch.

SPEAKER_00 16:06

It's gonna be once an episode.

SPEAKER_01 16:09

Bruh! The same people are gonna be listening for it. Kind of like the snail in adventure time. Like look at the kidnail, they're gonna be waiting for when Slinky fucking barks.

SPEAKER_00 16:20

We'll have people comment on the the time, the timestamp on which she barked. Oh, yeah, he barked.

SPEAKER_01 16:26

Sorry, he's got a big old he got a big old fucking Dotson Weiner. Now the deep bark, that's she. Yeah, and then somebody is rolling over him. Are you scrap pickup? You this dude's got like a garbage truck. He's driving around. You want to pick up some scrap metal? You don't see me? Fuck me, then I guess.

SPEAKER_03 16:49

Fuck you.

SPEAKER_01 16:50

I still got all the fence fucking stuff just piled up over there in the by the shop. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I tried. I tried to on uh I contacted a few salvage people, a few salvage people, and they never contacted me back. I'm all like, why the fuck do you even have a fucking post on marketplace if you're not answering people back? At least tell me to fuck off. Maybe I'll strap it all down when I get my trailer back and take it to the dump. I don't know. Because the only reason it's sitting there is I don't personally have a way of taking it. And my trailer probably won't work either because it's a car trailer. It's not, it doesn't have walls or anything to hold anything down.

SPEAKER_00 17:34

How far is the uh the dump from you?

SPEAKER_01 17:38

I have to go to a different county because the county here requires you to buy helmets and shit like this that you gotta pay for and stuff to go to the dump and dump shit. So I just go to fucking Andy's, Uncle Andy's um dump. So it's in Terran County, I think. And we just I just go with him and we dump stuff there at that dump. Because if you don't live within the area, they don't like you to dump shit. But Parker County is a fucking pain in the dick about it. At least they were when we first got here. I haven't attempted to call them to see if anything has changed. I probably should because then I could see if um if I could just drop it off myself. I'd only I'd have to take it in small bits because again, I don't really have a way to do it in the entirety of the load. Or I can just call the damn Parker County waste management and see if they'll fucking drop off another dumpster for me and if I could just put it in there. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:38

You want me to call Sarita and see if she has any fucking cousins or anything out there that would come grab it. I mean, she got family out here? Hell yeah, she got family out there. Oh, really?

SPEAKER_01 18:51

Yeah. They're from here then. Yeah. Oh, I guess I didn't catch that. I don't know why I didn't catch that.

SPEAKER_03 19:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:01

I thought they just moved out here and just yeah, shit. I mean, sure. If she's got some family that needs scrap metal or whatever, or just wants to turn it in and sell it or whatever, because they can take it to like some place and probably sell it. Yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_00 19:17

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 19:20

It's not much, it's just the fencing and a couple of poles.

SPEAKER_00 19:26

Yeah, take some pictures of that. Send it to me.

SPEAKER_01 19:28

Alright. Well, hell, you won't be able to see all the fucking metal because all the grass has grown up in between it.

SPEAKER_02 19:40

You lazy piece of shit. I'm all around it.

SPEAKER_01 19:46

I'm all in weed whack around it. I just don't weed whack. I'm not gonna go stepping through all the metal weed whacking and stuff. I'm just lazy. I know these motherfuckers hate me, dude, because the way the grass looks coming up through the fence. Because I don't weed whack around the fence line. Much as weed whack around the house in the shop. I don't weed whack around the fence line at all. I like the way that it looks. It's like a barrier or something, you know. It's natural. You know me. I like seeing a natural fucking yard growing as it is, you know. Like I I like the way it looks. Aaron hates it, and I know the neighbors hate it. They don't say nothing, but they haven't said anything, but not to me at least, anyways. I'm sure they you see that fucking stupid retired Air Force guy with his fence? Oh man, I thought they had more discipline than that. I used to. No, I just don't give a fuck.

SPEAKER_03 21:00

All right It's not that time.

SPEAKER_02 21:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:07

Same time tomorrow? Same time tomorrow. All right. You guys take care and stay safe. Be safe, make good choices. Bye.