The Warning's Thunder at The Ritz

Take a wild ride through rock history and roadside adventures as Mike and Tom deliver another unpredictable episode filled with concert tales and travel mishaps.

Mike's musical heart is set ablaze after witnessing The Warning—three sisters from Monterrey, Mexico—deliver a face-melting performance at The Ritz in Raleigh. His VIP experience (which he didn't even realize he had purchased) granted him early access, signed memorabilia, and encounters with possibly the greatest bartender in North Carolina. Mike dives deep into the band's remarkable origin story: how these three sisters began playing instruments before age eight, learned on Rock Band video games, and accidentally went viral with a Metallica cover originally intended just for their grandparents. By the time they formed their band in 2013, they were just 13, 11, and 8 years old—yet their talent was already undeniable.

Meanwhile, Tom recounts his eventful journey to Cherokee that quickly spiraled into chaos. What started as a simple road trip became a traveling circus complete with two chihuahuas, an extra dog (who promptly got carsick), and mysteriously appearing birds. His colorful description of entering an Indian Reservation dispensary wearing "a cowboy hat and a red cannabis shirt" with camouflage shorts paints the perfect picture of culture clash. The trip home featured the special anxiety only car trouble three hours from home can bring—though somehow the vehicle ran better at highway speeds than when idling.

Between Mike's musical discovery and Tom's misadventures, the episode captures everything fans love about this podcast: authentic experiences, unexpected twists, and the undeniable chemistry between hosts who find humor in life's chaotic moments. Listen in as they prove once again that the alternative path makes for the best stories.

Transcript

Show Introduction and Weekend Plans

Speaker 1 0:08

Welcome to the MT Alternative Podcast, the show that proves anyone with a microphone and questionable time management skills can have an audience. So grab your earplugs and emotional support beverages, because Mike yes, our very own Mike ventured out of the studio and into the wild. That's right on July 15th 2025, he and his wife braved the blazing heat and the questionable parking situation in Raleigh, north Carolina, just to witness three sisters from Monterrey, mexico, melt faces and blow minds. The band, the warning, the venue, the ritz. The result a t-shirt, a few bruised eardrums and apparently the best bartender in North Carolina Coming up.

Speaker 1 0:57

Mike tells us all about his night with the warning and he is now convinced they should hire him as their fourth member, despite the fact he can't play an instrument and whether his old rock and roll heart can still handle the thunder. Tom has returned from Cherokee with enough tall tales to make you wonder if he went there or just binge-watched the Travel Channel. Hmm, casino or dispensary, you decide. And yes, because fate is cruel, pip and Squeak are in the building, ready to derail the show faster than you can say we should have locked the studio door.

Speaker 2 1:41

Tom's got the stories, mike's got the tunes. Roll down the windows and crank up those boom-booms. Easy alternative podcast. Let's ride. We're Mike and Tom, we're Southern Rockin'.

Speaker 4 1:55

Live Tom what the hell's going on. Not much, Mike man, it's just been a week.

Speaker 3 2:02

It has been a week, hasn't it? It has been. You were feeling a little under the weather this week.

Speaker 4 2:06

A little bit it just I think it was the long ride and everything we took last weekend.

Speaker 3 2:12

Which we'll get into later on. Yes, yes, I purposely asked you not to tell me any stories. There were no stories To save it for this.

Speaker 4 2:20

There were no stories.

Speaker 3 2:22

So what else has been going on?

Speaker 4 2:25

Well, we've had some beautiful weather lately.

Speaker 3 2:28

We have Temperature-wise yes, temperature-wise absolute.

Speaker 4 2:33

Beautiful in the 70s. The drizzly rain could go away, but hey, it's cooler, I'll take it.

Speaker 3 2:40

Yeah, no doubt. And today seems to be a great day yeah, it's cloudy but nice breeze out there. Yeah, it is Maybe mid-70s. Yeah, take that all day, man it's a nice day for the porch. After those 90-degree temperatures we had Nice day for the porch, actually, excellent time for porch time, yes.

Speaker 4 2:58

So then we'll just take a break and we better talk.

Speaker 3 3:01

Yeah, let's go break and maybe I don't like it. Good Preseason football has started. My Pats played last night. I was very happy with the win, but it's preseason. What are you going to do? You can't get all riled up over that. There's teams that have been undefeated in preseason and sucked in the real season.

Speaker 4 3:18

That's the way it usually goes.

Speaker 3 3:21

A running game looks good, special teams looks good, defense looks good. I wish maybe we had a passing game. Maybe, maybe we'll see what happens.

Speaker 4 3:30

We're going to see what happens tonight with my team.

Speaker 3 3:32

Yes, we get the Broncos playing tonight against the 49ers. Yep.

Speaker 4 3:36

Yep, yep, excellent, it's going to be interesting.

Speaker 3 3:39

Football is back. I'll take it right now. Is that a Super?

Speaker 4 3:41

Bowl replay or something.

Speaker 3 3:43

Of what? San Fran and Denver, yeah, and your dreams.

Speaker 4 3:47

No, they played in the Super Bowl one time. Oh a replay.

Speaker 3 3:50

Yeah, oh, I thought you said like a prediction.

Speaker 4 3:53

Oh no, the prediction was the Broncos or the Washington, whatever they're called now.

Speaker 3 4:00

Commanders.

Speaker 4 4:02

Oh yeah, because we can't say Redskins. Oh yeah, because we can't say Redskins, pow-pow, indians anymore.

Speaker 3 4:08

Can't. Evidently not, oh, we can.

Speaker 4 4:11

Yeah, we can say whatever we want.

Speaker 3 4:13

And you know damn well Pip and Squeak aren't going to give a shit, especially Squeak.

Speaker 4 4:20

He's going to start coming out here and call them Firewaters, exactly Exactly the Washington firewaters, exactly Exactly the Washington firewaters. Anyway.

Football Season Begins

Speaker 3 4:29

But yeah, football season great Looking forward to it. I'm so excited you talking about the concert I went to.

Speaker 4 4:37

Yeah, the warning Talking about that, that's awesome.

Speaker 3 4:40

Then we'll get into going back to kind of our original days yeah. I myself have missed the.

Speaker 4 4:49

Tom stories. Tom has no stories. They're all true.

Speaker 3 4:54

And next week we will put out our 78 episode.

Speaker 4 4:57

Yeah, we do have a 78 episode.

Speaker 3 4:59

We'll continue our musical journey, but you know we had the passing of uh prince of darkness which still sucks, obviously. Uh, in the meantime, I've been to the morning concert right so, yeah, we'll be diving into that. Some healing, some healing not sexual healing no mental healing when you get that feeling.

Speaker 4 5:26

There's a mental feeling.

Speaker 3 5:27

Mental feeling, there you go, but where do you want to go from here right now? Well, anything else you want to add? You want me to jump into the concert review. I'm curious. Totally up to you how you want to go with this right now.

Speaker 4 5:42

I was just curious on how things went.

Speaker 3 5:45

It was pretty awesome. The band called the Warning. We've talked about them before on the podcast. Yes the Youngins Three sisters from Monterrey, mexico.

Speaker 4 5:55

The Youngins.

Speaker 3 5:56

A power trio. I want to tell you I went there with the wife, the old ball and chain.

Speaker 4 6:03

Oh yeah, the ball and chain.

Speaker 3 6:04

Three freaking hour drive to Raleigh.

Speaker 4 6:07

Is that it?

Speaker 3 6:07

At the Ritz. Yeah, that's it. It was definitely worth it. Definitely worth it, tom. First of all, the ride there sucked, of course. Three hours traffic, blah, blah, blah.

Speaker 4 6:18

I said the ride back was worse.

Speaker 3 6:20

It was a little surprise for me. I guess I could park right on the lot. I had a gold pass. I didn't know where I was parking, so I get that Go to stand in line.

Speaker 3 6:29

They go oh no, sir, you're over there. Okay, cool, cool, we're over here and it's like oh, you got VIP tickets. I didn't even realize A what VIP tickets? Not a meet and greet VIP. So we got into this back patio before everybody Got a little 8x10 signed by the gals Little lanyard to wear around your neck. It was cool. So we got there. The doors opened 6.30ish for us. We get in the patio. Great bartender, oh yeah, fantastic bartender.

Speaker 4 6:59

Yeah, anybody who pours drinks is good.

Speaker 3 7:01

She was awesome. Oh she, yes, it was a she. She was very awesome. Bonnie did not drink. Bonnie drank ginger ale, which was unlimited. Unlimited ginger ale, unlimited popcorn. There you go. We were both hungry. It sounds good.

Speaker 4 7:16

Yeah, let's have some popcorn.

Speaker 3 7:18

I had myself a couple of PBRs, Tom.

Speaker 4 7:20

Oh yeah the old PBR, good old PBR Tom. Oh yeah the old PBR, good old PBR.

Speaker 3 7:24

Yeah, the old redneck beer, so did that for a little bit. Then they finally the doors opened at 7 to actually go into the place. We get in there. Ticket everybody for lighting up the merch was already filled up, so I said now wait. But anyway, jay, anything you wanted to add before I keep going on?

Speaker 4 7:42

No, I was just thinking about PBR again.

Speaker 3 7:45

Good old days.

Speaker 4 7:46

Yeah, and I don't want to interrupt because you did ask me if I had anything, sure.

Speaker 3 7:51

I do.

Speaker 4 7:53

When you first introduced me to these girls, you had and I got to tell you if you guys are going to go in and go in-depth with these and check these singers out hit their young stuff.

Speaker 3 8:09

Yeah, check out the older videos.

Speaker 4 8:11

Because that will give you an appreciation for who they are right now.

Speaker 3 8:16

They were even this good when they were young, instead of just watching them now.

Speaker 4 8:20

Yeah, they were this good when they were young.

Speaker 3 8:22

But it was a journey. I ended up following them.

Speaker 4 8:25

But yeah, that's just my personal thing.

Speaker 3 8:28

What I'll do is a quick synopsis on who they are. They were formed in 2013. The Warning is a hard rock trio, compromised of Daniela guitar lead vocals, piano, paulina drums, vocals and piano, and Alejandra bass, backing, backing vocals and piano. Their rise to fame, which I told you about before, was that Enter Sandman video they did to show their grandparents and I'm probably repeating this, but couldn't send it through email File was too big, so they put it out on YouTube for them. Well, they went on holiday vacation and came back and they're getting all these messages and the damn video went viral Right On YouTube. That's awesome, but that was in December and that was in 2014.

Speaker 4 9:12

Right, but didn't you say even before that they had learned their skills and everything on a game?

Speaker 3 9:17

Well, they played rock. I think it was rock band.

Speaker 4 9:19

Rock band yeah.

Mike's Concert Experience: The Warning

Speaker 3 9:21

Danny and Paul would play on it. Of course, you know you hear the interviews. Ollie would sit there and clap her hands. Basically, that's how it started. Parents let them do that. But getting back to that at that age anyways, after basically that, danny first picked up a guitar and piano at age eight. Wow, paulina the drummer started on piano around age six and switched to drums at seven.

Speaker 4 9:47

Huh, well, it took her a year to figure it out Ale.

Speaker 3 9:49

Alejandra began on piano at age four. Wow, Then moved to bass at age seven. So you can see the progression here as they went down. Of course, the little sister wants to follow the bigger sisters.

Speaker 4 10:01

Right, right, right. Thank God they did.

Speaker 3 10:03

They began playing together as a band in 2013, when Danny was 13, pau 11, and Ale was 8. Wow, and that's basically the viral into Sandman Right? So, yeah, I mean you get that part of it Back to the concert though. Well, now, unfortunately I say unfortunately. The concert was great, but I was hoping to hear more of the older stuff too. They played. They were really heavy on their Keep Me Fed album, which is okay, it's fine. They played a couple. You know, they had a couple songs in there from the older times, maybe two. Then they did three songs in Spanish, which you don't even have to understand the lyrics, the songs rock, the music was rock, yeah.

Speaker 3 10:46

Bonnie had a great time. I had a great time. The bartender was awesome. This was at Raleigh, at the Ritz in Raleigh. Anybody ever go there? Think about going there. The place is pretty damn good. I know that night sound was awesome. They had an opening band Speed of Light. Another trio of family members.

Speaker 1 11:05

You had two brothers and a sister.

Speaker 3 11:07

Which, yeah, they rocked out. They're probably more grunge, 2000-ish type grunge, Right. But you know, if you dig that kind of music, they were good. They were very tight. You know musically wise. The female the sister is the singer. One of the brothers plays drums, the other one plays the guitar. I believe the female plays different instruments too. But they were a good band. The atmosphere was awesome.

Speaker 3 11:29

The place was packed, sold out, which no surprise. And if you don't mind, tom, I'd like to just read the set list. I wrote down the songs. I've got the set list here handy, so I'm going to read those quickly. This is what the music they played. We had started off with an intro blob. It's off. Their new album started off at six feet deep, sick, followed by satisfied choke. He must pass it's capism. Apologize more money. Consume sharks, disciple hell. You call a dream. Consume Sharks, disciple Hell. You Call A Dream Arterio, evolve, narcissista and Automatic Sun. So now 17 songs, pretty damn good, but all in all, great time. The venue is awesome. Anybody ever get a chance go check out the Warning. These three girls really do rock. They've opened for bands like Guns N' Roses, muse, evanescent, hailstorm, right. They're on to Metallica doing their Enter Sandman. They redid the version of Enter Sandman for themselves.

Speaker 4 12:38

Right.

Speaker 3 12:39

I guess anybody from Metallica, james Hetfield, whoever. Of course, lars, you can change the song, you can change the music, but you can't change the lyrics, right? Well, they knocked it out of the park With this girl from Canada I can't remember her name. She did that. It was like a duet type thing with them. Oh, okay, but they go on concert and do the song themselves. They do it justice. So it's on the. I believe the album is like a tribute to Metallica, with different bands on it, so there's songs on that.

Speaker 4 13:14

But anyway.

Speaker 3 13:14

Folks, you get a chance. Definitely check out the Warning.

Speaker 4 13:18

It's worth it. Yeah, they're great. I had no idea, but until I was introduced. So we are now introducing to you the Warning.

Speaker 3 13:27

So anything else going on. Tom, I'm glad you let me get that out. Yeah, I wanted to do that.

Speaker 4 13:33

Great, great. So where do we go from here?

Speaker 3 13:37

You know what?

Speaker 4 13:38

What.

Speaker 3 13:39

The little guys have been itching.

Speaker 4 13:41

We have done a little bit more than without, yeah well, you know it's a tribute for Ozzy was needed. Yes, it was.

Speaker 3 13:49

It was needed for both of us to get that off our chest.

Speaker 4 13:51

I wonder if the little dudes know anything about Ozzy.

Speaker 3 13:55

Oh, I'm sure we'll certainly find out. I can't imagine that Pippa, or definitely Squeak, has never heard of Ozzy, especially Squeak Squeak man, his crazy ways.

Speaker 4 14:05

What in the heck?

Speaker 3 14:06

But we'll let the little dudes come in. Folks, and I don't know what's going on with them, but we'll find out and we'll be back after this. Take care.

Pip and Squeak Join the Conversation

Speaker 5 14:21

Later. Here I go, here, I go, here I go again. What's my weakness, man? Oh boy, that's a song. Squeak, that's the wrong song. I just heard it. It's stuck in my head. Oh, my scrapbook, yeah, something like that. Something like that, buddy, hey, what a very interesting little story those guys had about Ozzy. Yeah, ozzy is the greatest of all time. Holy crap, squeak, you actually like something they talked about. Well, yeah, I don't agree with what they said, but I like what they said. Oh, so you're an Ozzy fan? Awesome, oh, wow, what do you mean? Wow, I figured you for like a. You know Harry Belafonte, something like that. Well, I am, but I do like some Ozzy. Every once in a while, ozzy kicks ass. Well, yeah, oh, he did kick ass, because every once in a while you want to just scream at your girlfriend, but Because every once in a while you want to just scream at your girlfriend, but then, every once in a while she needs your boot in her ass.

Speaker 5 15:32

Well, that wasn't very nice. Neither was Ozzy, but it worked. Oh, I know, but you know, ozzy, she's got me spooked. Are you Iron man? No, I'm Ozzy. Are you paranoid? Yeah, I think your favorite song is Fairies Wear Boots. Nope, nope, they don't. How do you know? Well, because Nigel told someone else at work, told me they don't wear boots and he's an expert on On fairies. Yeah, oh, geez. Yeah, he's an expert, all right, on fairies. Yeah, oh, geez. Yeah, he's an expert, all right, on fairies. Yes, well, why would Ozzy say fairies wear boots? He said you gotta believe. He calls them pixies. He saw it with his own two eyes. Yeah, well, this guy, I'm sure he didn't see it.

Speaker 5 16:22

Do you think there's some acid or some mushrooms involved in that? Either, or, oh, okay, maybe a little too much alcohol, either, or I knew you should know about too much alcohol. Huh, Squeak Right up your alley. Wait, wait. What do you mean? I'm just saying Do you see any alcohol around here? No, but I notice your hand is like conformed to hold a can or a cup. That's my other hand. Or, or hear me out, okay, maybe you're holding something else, not with both hands. You don't need both hands.

Speaker 1 17:02

That's what.

Speaker 5 17:02

I'm saying Not with both hands, you just need a couple little fingers, tweezers, I mean what, what Pepper and tweezers do help? Okay, well, wait a minute. Weren't we talking about something else? Yeah, you know how that goes. No, how does it go? It just went the way it did. No, no, no, it certainly did. Well, yeah, it certainly did, but that wasn't the way I wanted it to go. Did you find anything interesting about Ozzy? I did. What did you learn? I learned that you know most white people. Yeah, and this ain't racist. This is not Okay. Usually, when you say this ain't racist, it means it's going to be racist. Probably not Okay, but when they heard something mysterious and scary, like Boris Koloff, Okay, back in the day.

Speaker 5 17:58

Okay, he was one of the big monster guys, right, okay, he was one of the big monster guys, right, okay. Well, ozzy and him were kind of the same. How so? Well, because Boris Karloff, a lot of people didn't know, was playing in a movie called Black Sabbath. Now, don't that make your hair stand on end.

Speaker 5 18:27

I don't have any hair. Okay, don't that make your skin stand on end. But it tingled me somewhere else. Well, see, that's what I'm trying to tell you that my thing's gonna be twitchy. No that he knew what he was doing. He can make your thing twitchy. Oh who? Boris or Ozzy, Either one. But to bring that back, to get what significant thing that that had was Ozzy said, thing that that had was Ozzy saying hey, over there across the road, all these people are extremely excited about scary movies. Okay, so let's do some scary music. And that's how they decided that they were going to be Black Sabbath and just do scary stuff. Can I ask? A question.

Speaker 5 19:23

You can ask anything. Wouldn't it be better if it was Brown Sabbath or White Sabbath or Purple Sabbath or Green Sabbath Now? You just made it racial. How did I do that? All these colors? What's that got to do with anything? All right, yellow, blue, the colors of the rainbow. Oh so now he's a coward. Now he's a coward.

Speaker 1 19:44

What about the rainbow?

Speaker 5 19:46

Are you listening to this? He's yellow, what? Oh, that's not what I'm saying at all. And now you want to throw the colors of the rainbow. Why don't you just call him a? I can't say that, but we're rainbow Warriors, aren't we? Oh, that's, yeah, that's number 24.

Speaker 5 20:05

Oh, jeff Gordon the Rainbow Warrior he was a Rainbow Warrior. All right, I see you caught that reference. Yeah, reference, that ain't no reference. That's real life. Yeah, little old gay boy. Anyway, yeah, reference, that ain't no reference. That's real life. Yeah, little old gay boy. Anyway, hey, hey, we're not supposed to say that, are we?

Speaker 5 20:28

Dale Earnhardt, freaking, appreciated Jeff Gordon. Yeah, he did. I appreciate you letting me win on them, damn times, you idiot. But he treated him better than he treated his own son. Sure, he did, because his son tried to beat him. Oh, he didn't like that. No, why not? Well, why do you think he liked Jeff Gordon so good? All right, I don't know where we went to and how we got here, but what about Mike's little review of his concert? Mike's little what? Oh, oh, oh oh.

Speaker 5 20:57

He went to see those three young ladies. The warning A blind squirrel will find a nut every once in a while. Of course he got to go see them. Well, it was a lucky thing. How was it lucky? He had to pay for it, but not all of us got to go.

Speaker 5 21:14

Well, nobody wanted to go. I did. I told him I would ride in the damn glove box. Squeak, he's not taking you. Squeak what? No, mike and I had a little talk. Well, troy would have took me in a heartbeat. And he and I repeat, he said you're lucky to even still be working here. That's what he said. That's what he said to you. That's what he said. I would walk a damn line then, because you don't want to get fired. Who's going to get fired? You said. He told you that you were walking a thin line. No, no, no, not me. Who was he talking about? You, me, that's right. Well, I'm the funniest thing that ever happened. If you remember, I had a little contract. You got a little upset about it. Well, well, well, well. Anyways, speaking of contracts, oh, here we go. You want to hear something racist?

Speaker 1 22:12

No, no, I really don't.

Speaker 5 22:14

This may be okay, though, oh boy, okay, go ahead. I'm just wondering Okay, when slavery was abolished back in the day, how did they continue to do slavery without anybody knowing? Well, of course they invented the NFL. Well, we'll trade this guy for that guy and that guy for this guy. Well, it's the same damn thing. So you sound like one of those football players, like Colin Kaepernick, dude, oh. Or like Bubba Wallace? Oh well, he's a race car driver. I think he's a race car driver.

Speaker 1 22:59

He doesn't know how to race.

Speaker 5 23:01

He knows race. All right, he sucks at racing. He's all the time talking about race. Anyway, let's not go there. Yeah, let's not go down there. See, you almost got me going on that. That's probably a lot of editing going on right there. You're very bad. You're a bad influence. Well, at least I see they left some snacks in here. Yeah, well, that must be something Tom didn't like, why? Well, because it's still here. Ah, so he's giving it to us. That shithead will eat anything. Hey, pretty much you're right, he doesn't eat anything. Have you seen him eat hot sausages at 5 o'clock in the morning? I've seen him eat cheeses at 5 o'clock in the morning I've seen him eat anything.

Speaker 5 23:47

Peanuts Well, he don't eat as many peanuts. No, he stopped eating peanuts. Well, he don't eat as many peanuts. No, he stopped eating peanuts. Well, he didn't stop the cartoon characters? No, he doesn't eat those. He never ate a scrotum. What about a Snoopy? Snoopy ate him. They beat him in the damn nose. Have they ate a Lucy? Well, I, I know what he's had A peppermint patty.

Speaker 5 24:16

I don't want to say I ate that Peppermint patty. I got the sensation of sledding down a hill, oh good, so are you saying it was moist? No, I'm saying it was peppermint. Where did that come from? You said you were sliding down a hill. Yeah, sliding down a hill got nothing to do with moist. Well, I think it's slippery. No, no, no, there's nothing slippery about moist. Well, sliding kind of. No, no, no. Okay, listen, let's move on. Okay, to whatever else you want to talk about. How's your buddy the squirrel doing? Okay, let's talk about something else. I'm trying to change the subject. How about Chicken Little? Or we could go with damn Marcel Ledbetter and the damn moped. I could tell that story to you.

Speaker 3 25:11

No, no, I don't want to tell that story to you.

Speaker 5 25:12

No, no, I don't want to tell the story you're going with. Uh, well, I think that's it for us, thank you. You know why? I have an Uber waiting for me. I'm taking a. It's bringing me to the airport. I got a very important business trip to go on. Business. Yeah, wait a minute. Wait, wait just a minute. What business have you got that? Don't involve me, I'm gonna take care of it. I'm the spokesperson for us. Sponsor for what?

Speaker 1 25:40

You don't need to worry about it.

Speaker 5 25:42

What's a wait, wait, wait Sponsor for what You'll find out. Trust me. No, oh, my God, I don't need to hear that. Last time, I heard that I had a sore butthole for four months. Trust me, this is going to be different. No, I don't want to hear that it's going to be different. No, now, that's what he said. The third time, we'll be fine. I'll tell you. Okay, now you're going over the sixth time. We're not even getting there. You'll know when we come back on next time. Oh yeah, well, I'm going to come back on. All right, this is it, folks. We love you. Thank you so much for listening, but we're probably done right now. Thank you, folks. Yes, we'll be back next time with a surprise for Squeak. I don't need no more surprises. That's it, folks. We're out.

Speaker 3 26:43

Peace Boy. What's going on?

Speaker 4 26:45

with Squeak's butt, I don't know, but he was very adamant about not having it happen again For the fourth time or something like that.

Speaker 3 26:55

I think he said four or five, Three or four.

Speaker 4 26:57

He said yeah, that's what you said the third time.

Speaker 3 27:01

I'm not like wait a minute.

Speaker 4 27:03

What the hell is going on with this.

Speaker 3 27:04

How did that?

Speaker 4 27:04

happen the second time.

Speaker 3 27:07

I guess he did enjoy the little Ozzy Osbourne segment we had.

Speaker 4 27:11

I think everybody respected the things that Ozzy Osbourne oh, yes, yes, yes, I think everybody respected, yeah, the things that Ozzy went through, right, I think everything was. You know, everybody loved Ozzy. Still do, of course.

Speaker 3 27:26

Again. I'll repeat myself again Soundtrack, yeah, soundtrack to our lives, yep, but on a different note. You went on a little trip last weekend.

Speaker 4 27:37

I did go on a little trip last weekend and we took a drive.

Speaker 3 27:43

Oh, two things can be true. Yeah, oh, cool. So you headed out to Cherokee, yeah, yeah we went Not to gamble, cool.

Speaker 4 27:53

So you headed out to Cherokee. Yeah, yeah, we went Not to gamble, obviously. Well, I kind of gambled.

Speaker 3 27:59

I was going to get home with all my stuff. Before we get into that, I want to know what little things have happened on this journey. Did anything happen before you got there?

Speaker 4 28:09

Well, let's just let's go here. Okay, I'm not going to get too in-depth but say you're having a pleasant ride through the mountains. I mean, it's always a pleasant ride through the mountains. Family was involved, not just my wife and I and the two pups. But Well, wait a minute, wait a minute.

Speaker 3 28:35

Getting back to who was in this vehicle. Yeah, I hear there might have been some chirping in the vehicle.

Speaker 4 28:43

Well, I was getting to that. But if you imagine driving down the road peaceful.

Speaker 3 28:48

I just didn't want you to forget it. No, I wasn't going to forget it.

Speaker 4 28:51

This part humors me, yeah, but I have backstories, you know.

Speaker 3 28:57

Okay, I'm ready for them.

Speaker 4 28:58

I have to get to that point. My wife and I always travel with our two little puppies. Okay, we leave the older dogs at the house because they're better at that. But, as you know, we've acquired two of these little chihuahuas which are very, very needy.

Speaker 3 29:16

Okay, that's most chihuahuas are Right.

Speaker 4 29:18

So we got to take them with us everywhere we go, almost. So we are loading these dogs up. Well, I noticed that a family member has his dog. I said, oh, we're taking him. Okay, no problem, they made him a bed in the back.

Speaker 3 29:39

Okay.

Speaker 4 29:40

No room, no problem, except for by the time we get just barely out of Caldwell County, the dog's sick now. He's puked all over the back. He can smell this dog puke, poor little fella. He just don't ride all over the back. He can smell this dog puke, poor little fella. He just don't ride very well, but maybe he'll be all right, you know. So I say, okay, well, when we stop to fuel up, I'm going to, you know, clean this dog, puke up, and then we can get it all kind of back to normal back there and maybe spray some stuff that's so smelly. Yeah, well, but before I can do this, you know we're traveling down the road and we're I'm a stickler, I, if I hear a weird noise, what's wrong with the car, kind of deal, you know, did you hear that? But you should be, that's fine. What is that? I hear something. It sounds like chirping. We also brought birds.

Speaker 3 30:35

Now, I do not understand this.

Speaker 4 30:37

Why? I wasn't sure why either, but I guess it's because we took our pets, they took their pets, and I was being very careful because at this point I was going to think maybe there's turtles in the car. Oh gosh, so if I open my glove box, am I going to get my finger snapped off by a damn turtle, because every other animal we own is in the car.

Speaker 3 31:05

I still look at the birds, but anyways, go ahead.

Speaker 4 31:08

Oh, but they were in this nice backpack that had the bubble on them.

Speaker 3 31:15

How did you not notice when you cleaned the back of the vehicle up?

Speaker 4 31:18

Well, that's what I'm saying Now that this all happened.

Speaker 3 31:20

the chirping happened before that Before you got the stop.

Speaker 4 31:23

That's right. Okay, my apologies. No, no problem, but it just was a weird situation Then. Okay. So we get to the Indian Reservation and if you can imagine a person going in in a cowboy hat and a red cannabis shirt I mean as red as they make them Red cannabis shirt, I mean as red as they make them Okay, Tennis shoes and sunglasses Into an Indian Reservation dispensary.

Speaker 3 32:03

Let's just leave it at that.

Speaker 4 32:04

Was he at least wearing jeans? No shorts, camouflage shorts too, good Lord. Yeah, it was a fashion statement to be made. We laughed at him all day, but anyway, it was a fashion statement to be made. We laughed at him all day, but anyway, the things that happened inside of that place was it was like Disneyland all over again.

Speaker 3 32:25

Yes, as a kid. Yes, dispensaries are great.

Speaker 4 32:29

Yeah, and it was so helpful because you had your. You know you'd go to your favorite bar because of what your bartender. I mean, you love your bartender, you have your bud tender. You have your bud tender and she was just amazing, the lady. She's like well, tell me what you're after and she showed me everything and so far spot on, wait so far, wait back up. She showed you everything that that she had available for sale okay, keep going no no, there, no, no, no what else you have for sale just this, just just the, the hemp products.

Speaker 4 33:08

Oh okay, no other products. All right that you had to go down the street on past the casino and stuff for that, thank you.

Speaker 3 33:17

From what I understand, Thank you for clearing that up.

Speaker 4 33:20

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 33:20

Well, we might have had some listeners be a little confused.

Speaker 4 33:24

I just wanted to clear that up. But I do have to tell you it's a damn well-oiled machine. They got going on up there and it's very clean, very professional. They're very helpful.

Speaker 3 33:37

That's what I was telling you when I went up north. It's like you feel like you're in this prestigious place when you walk in.

Speaker 4 33:44

It's like an actual doctor's office Not like a dump no, no not at all. Like most liquor stores over here.

Speaker 3 33:51

Walking into Dollar General in the aisles. What the hell, yeah.

Speaker 4 33:54

well, how do I get around this big cart? What the hell they got going on here? Oh, and the 7,000 pounds of cardboard boxes in the back that you cannot have if you're moving? No, we cannot give those to you. We have a company that comes and picks them. Yeah, so well, they're all sitting out back making you look like a dadgum second-hand store out here.

Speaker 4 34:17

what yep, but anyway that's so dispensary was cool oh, I loved it and I I have to tell you, when we got in there, the gentleman that that took us back to the bud tenders. He was really helpful and he well, we started in 2022 and blah, blah, blah and we were just for the medicine.

Speaker 3 34:40

Yeah.

Speaker 4 34:42

And while you waited for your bud tender and everything, you got a little story and a little history of it and there there is this. I can't remember exactly what it was made of, but there it's a skull that is a a pipe, and this thing is made. If you look up their, their website, there's pictures of this skull and it's $15,000.

Speaker 3 35:13

Holy shit.

Speaker 4 35:14

But it's beautiful. I would never I would put it in a glass case because my buddies would have it broke the first night.

Speaker 3 35:23

You probably break it the first night yeah.

Speaker 4 35:25

Oops, I fell asleep Exactly. Now I have $15,000 worth of glass laying all over my floor Me, barefooted yeah, I could have $15,000 worth of glass laying all over my floor me barefooted, yeah.

Speaker 3 35:34

I can imagine. See, I guess I'm more interested in now dispensary stories, excellent, I do like to hear people's first experiences in a dispensary. I want to hear about the ride.

Speaker 4 35:47

Yeah, did you have any other incidences, some malfunctions? Yeah, so what happened? We went up through the parkway and we were going to go do Cade's Cove. This is after you left, after we left the dispensary, we were all happy and whistling and you know just having a great time At that point because of everything that we had been through. It was a wonderful, wonderful experience. What did you have been through? It was a wonderful, wonderful experience. It's a safe. What did you have?

Speaker 3 36:14

been through. You had a great time.

Speaker 4 36:15

The ride after that. After I was shocked hell, there's birds in the car or there's, you know, an extra dog in the car. And then there was. I have to piss every 15 seconds, but no turtles. I did not never find a turtle excellent, but I still wouldn't put it past him in the underwear or somewhere like that, the back pocket or but anyway, so we're.

Speaker 4 36:47

We're gonna go to cage cove from cherokee, which is through the smoky mountain national forest, and it's a long ride. It's a couple hours from Cades Cove, from Cherokee, which is through the Smoky Mountain National Forest, and it's a long ride. It's a couple hours from Cherokee, but a scenic ride, yes, a very scenic ride all the way down to Cades Cove. And then by the time we got down there, we're thinking, okay, cades Cove is another couple hours, we're getting a little late. Maybe we ought to thinking, okay, cades Cove is another couple hours, we're getting a little late, maybe we ought to just skip Cades Cove and just go to the ice cream parlor at the end of Cades Cove, where we all always get ice cream and stuff. So we go in there and we spent another 35, 45 minutes in there. Then we headed down the mountain on toward Gatlinburg, which is where we were going to have supper. However, gatlinburg has become such a tourist town that to park anywhere, to go, to just run in and grab a hot dog at Fanny Farkel's or wherever you want, you got to pay 20 bucks to park. Oh gosh, so no, we just drove on through that sucks and decided, well, let's just get something on the way home and we'll, outside of Sevierville, stop at the new Buc-ee's, which is the second largest Buc-ee's I understand, texas being the first.

Dispensary Experiences and Car Troubles

Speaker 4 38:07

Anyway, we get up to Buc-ee's and the car starts acting funny and the service engine light comes on. Wait a minute, your car acts, yeah, it acts. Well, it didn't act. It was in real pain, evidently. The service engine light comes on and the thing hardly runs when you're sitting still at a light or waiting on some idiot to turn when it's his turn and he don't understand the proper running this way and that way whenever you're light. But it just was frustrating because now, here we are, three hours away from home still and your car I mean that's one of the worst fears you have is on vacation. You're miles away from home and your car is messing up and you already blew all your extra money because you're on vacation, right, but anyway, or hear me out, I'll hear you out. You went to the Indian Reservation and you spent a lot of it there.

Speaker 4 39:10

There it is, that's where it is. But anyway, a bad person, good person, doesn't matter. I'm having a good time with this, but it just was an experience that then we okay. Our first thought was let's see if we can find a motel room, you know, for the dogs and everything, the birds freaking, whatever else. So what are we going to do? Okay, first motel no animals whatsoever at all. Second place oh yes, $25 per animal per night and then plus another $100 deposit for this, and you get that back in the morning. Blah, blah, blah after we check the rooms. This and that, like this, is ridiculous. So you want almost $400 for two rooms up front. You said it earlier touristy.

Speaker 4 40:09

Yeah.

Speaker 4 40:10

So anyway we're like you know, listen, if we're going to keep going back and forth to these motel rooms, let's just go on down the road and see if we can find a Motel 6, because we know they take animals for sure without any deposit. And so we get on down. Well, the next one's 20 miles. I said, if I make it 20 miles, I can make it home. So it's just going and sputtering and keeping it.

Speaker 4 40:41

But here was the good thing the faster we went, the smoother it rode. So it's a sensor of some sort, right, right, right, and I'm thinking sensor I can make it home, probably without it dying. Which, long story short, I did make it home. Make everybody in front of you go faster, move your ass. Well, no, I actually hit 55, 60 miles an hour and hit cruise and stayed at that because it stayed at one mile per hour and it just stayed there and it smoothed until we had to stop or slow down or something like that Must have been at least on a four-lane highway. Then, yeah, we were on interstate, okay, so we were coming down 40 out of Gatlinburg Because it didn't happen until Buc-ee's and Buc-ee's is right there on 40, where you get on to 40 coming back home the second largest Buc-ee's.

Speaker 4 41:36

Right right right right. Second yeah, Texas being the first Thank you, Texas, for having everything.

Speaker 3 41:44

Thanks for that info.

Speaker 4 41:47

But anyway, I enjoyed all the perks and stuff of the trip. You bought perks too, no, no, no, no, You're misunderstanding. Oh, oh, I didn't have to buy those, I already had them, but anyway, oh. So I don't know what else to say other than the perks. It is a perk.

Speaker 3 42:15

No, I get what you're saying. Okay, Anyway, you understand, but yes, the perks of getting yeah, when we go up to there, the perk. I didn't mean to confuse you but yeah, they, they're just right next to the casino and they you can gamble and get if I'm going to go up there and spend money, I'd rather spend my money on something I could have fun with and watch my money just disappear yeah, but see that's illegal there too.

Speaker 4 42:41

You can't just spend your money on things you have fun with and she would tell the law. Probably it's probably an undercover officer and that happened.

Speaker 3 42:51

Are we talking about two different things here? Talking about dispensary.

Speaker 4 42:57

Oh, oh, I thought you were talking about ladies. Oh, okay, oh no, never mind, oh, squaw babies Call girls.

Speaker 3 43:09

Wonder why they call them that Because you call them up and they come to your house. Oh really, I don't have no fucking clue.

Speaker 4 43:14

How do I know?

Speaker 3 43:16

I don't know. I think that's just an expensive name for a prostitute.

Speaker 4 43:22

Yeah, yeah, she's a prostitute. No, she's a call girl.

Speaker 3 43:27

Nope. Anyways, I think it was a little good session. I enjoyed this one and next week for sure 78 will go out. So, anyways, I think it was a little good session. I enjoyed this one, and next week for sure 78 will go out.

Speaker 4 43:39

Yes, yeah. We're getting back on track people. Yeah, Track is where we like to be. Summertime is tough Summer.

Speaker 3 43:47

We're doing stuff, everyone's doing shit Some summertime, but I think from here on in we'll probably be weekly. Yeah, that works.

Speaker 4 43:56

If the good Lord lets us. Yes, because weekly is every week.

Speaker 3 44:03

It is yes, I want to change what I said then. Why, I don't know. I thought I meant two different things.

Speaker 4 44:10

No, the good Lord wouldn't let you do that. It's weekly every week. We want you all to hear more of us, more of you than anything else. And on that note Anyway, hey, I always would love to thank God for the gift of Gab.

Speaker 3 44:28

Everyone thanks for listening, God bless.

Episode Wrap-Up and Next Week's Plans

Speaker 1 44:47

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