This That And The Other
This That And The Other
31. Storm Survival, Insurance Frustrations, Talladega Mishaps, And More
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Ever been caught in an unexpected rainstorm that leaves you with a pit pass mishap and a pair of overpriced sweatpants? Join us as we kick things off with a hilarious tale from our Talladega adventures, complete with unpredictable weather and nostalgic racing memories. Picture this: a cozy fire pit, an outdoor TV setup, and a classic Tennessee vs. Florida game serving as the perfect backdrop to reminisce about the days cheering for Dale Jr. and the races that kept us on the edge of our seats.
But our conversation isn't all sunshine and victory laps. We take a serious turn as we unpack the chaos brought by recent bomb threats and back-to-back hurricanes. Hear personal stories of friends navigating life without power and the incredible resilience of medical professionals working through the storm's aftermath. We also dive into the frustrations of insurance claims and the misconceptions about storm safety when a hurricane's category is downgraded, shedding light on the emotional and financial toll these natural disasters can levy.
As we gear up for future storms, the topic of emergency preparedness takes center stage. From unexpected lightning strikes to the infamous toilet paper shortage sparked by a port strike, we're sharing our tips on survival gear and supply chain disruptions. And amidst the seriousness, there's room for laughter as we recount our TV binge sessions with "The Middle" and a light-hearted tale of a lost dog rescue that ended on a happy note. Thank you for joining us in these reflections, and we look forward to hearing your thoughts as we navigate the ups and downs together.
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snap, crackle pop, we are back we are back some of y'all thought it wasn't going to happen again. You know, thought it was over, but it's not over. We just had to take a hike, guess who's back?
Speaker 2Guess who's back.
Speaker 1You know, we just start back like it's old times, like nothing ever.
Speaker 2Good old days. I'm going to say it again. I've said this before how come you can turn everything into a song? Some kind of words remind you of a song a lot of times. Why is that?
Speaker 1say that again words that you say remind you of songs or maybe are you talking about a phrase that you say maybe. Maybe, and not just a word. Maybe and that'll bring back up, yeah.
Speaker 2Guess who's back? Well yeah, Shady's back. It jogs your equipment.
Speaker 1There's a lot of times that might be a favorite song or something.
Speaker 2That is not a favorite song.
Speaker 1Sounds like it because you know the words.
Speaker 2That's all I know.
Speaker 1You look like an Eminem fan.
Speaker 2Elliott Sadler M&M fan yeah. They probably don't even know who Elliot Sadler is.
Speaker 1I'm sure there's a few rednecks out there that knows.
Speaker 2Are you saying I'm a redneck? I?
Speaker 1didn't say that, but you have been to Talladega, so so, and I had to buy pants.
Speaker 2We'll just leave that right there.
Speaker 1No, I think you better tell a story behind that and just not leave it where it's at.
Speaker 2No, let's make them wonder why I had to buy pants at Talladega.
Speaker 1Tell them.
Speaker 2Because we had pit passes and you had to wear pants and I had shorts on.
Speaker 1Because we didn't know ahead of time.
Speaker 2We didn't know, and so I had to go buy $50 sweatpants.
Speaker 1Yeah, you had to get whatever because it was like we're not going unless you did.
Speaker 2And I was going. They were blue. I don't remember who they were.
Speaker 1I don't think it mattered who they were.
Speaker 2I mean, it was something that you didn't want. It was the cheapest pair that I could find.
Speaker 1Yeah, something that you wouldn't normally not buy, but the bad thing about it was it had rained.
Speaker 2Yes.
Speaker 1And so we had a tour guide, and when we went down, is it Pit Road or Pit Row? I?
Speaker 2thought it was Pit Row.
Speaker 1Pit Row, whatever.
Speaker 2I don't know.
Speaker 1He told us that if it rains.
Speaker 2We're such big race fans yeah.
Speaker 1Well, I get that Row road.
Speaker 2I don't know, I know yeah.
Speaker 1So you go down there that he was telling us that, uh, were we on golf carts or did we?
Speaker 1oh yeah, we might have been for a little bit for just for just a little bit so he's explaining to us, because there's several of us and he says that because of the rain, a lot of times they or they won't bring the cars out because the rain, but a lot of times you would see the drivers, but if it rains they will normally won't be in the pit area or out and about like they are. So of course it rained, so we didn't see anybody we saw like the president of talladega yeah saw him, but I mean it wasn't raining when we was down there.
Speaker 2They could have come out for a minute yeah I mean, give us what we paid, don't matter if it had rained some I think it just rained some.
Speaker 1I think it just rained some. Yeah, I think that's why it was, I think. But when we did have the race, it did rain and it ended up getting postponed.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1Got postponed to Monday, so I don't remember how many laps we got in or anything like that.
Speaker 2Then we didn't get to go back. Or you and your friend went back, or you couldn't go back.
Speaker 1No, One time you went with a guy, didn't you? Yeah, he went with us. I'd forgot about that. We all went. Oh, okay, yeah, we went twice, wasn't it?
Speaker 2I thought we went three.
Speaker 1Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 2We don't know.
Speaker 1Two or three.
Speaker 2Two or three.
Speaker 1Well, I thought it was two Both times. Well, I guess it was three. I guess that was three. It was Because, if you don't count the postponed one because of the rain, I always remember the twice that we went. Dale Jr won both of them Right, so that would make three. One got postponed.
Speaker 2Maybe that's why I think it's three, then yeah you're right.
Speaker 1Well, that would be right.
Speaker 2Ooh. Third one to spark, close to the TV.
Speaker 1We are outside once again, but we have changed locations. Close to the tv. We are outside once again, but we have changed locations. We are it's getting cool enough now to where we've got the first fire pit of the year we are in freedom square freedom square with no lights, our little fire pit. We do have a tv going out here and we've got the uh tennessee, I don't have my glasses on florida, tennessee, florida, tennessee. I took them off so I could read this right here oh, you got to have them on.
Speaker 2Yeah, take them off. Put them on. Take them off so you can't see the little writing. Or do you have your contacts out?
Speaker 1My contacts are out.
Speaker 2Oh, okay, okay.
Speaker 1So I can see there's a fire in front of me. I'm going to need you to put those glasses back on before you stand up. And just past that I see a wall with a TV on it and I see little things running around in orange. And on the other side of the screen I see white and I couldn't tell you. I guess that's blue on their bottoms.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, so, so.
Speaker 2So we've been. What did we say? Three weeks?
Speaker 1I think if we didn't release this one, it would be three weeks. We've just been tied up.
Speaker 2A lot's happened.
Speaker 1Life gets in the way. Life does get in the way we had gotten to where we were starting to. This comes out on Mondays and a lot of times it was getting to sunday night where we were having to record and we had to quit that and it was a big time was a little bit more of a hassle for me than for you, yeah, but there's just got like there's just stuff always going on and stuff.
Speaker 1so always you know, and we don't want to like if we release this on monday, we don't want to sit down on a Monday or Tuesday and record for the following week. That just seems so early, but then by the time of Thursday or Friday we're busy.
Speaker 2Yeah, we've got to let life happen a little bit for that week Stuff going on Busy, busy, busy. A lot of stuff's happened since we recorded.
Speaker 1Tell us.
Speaker 2We've had bomb threats around our county and the schools.
Speaker 1That's right. We have for some reason just constant for a couple of weeks for a couple of weeks it was two in one week.
Speaker 2Then they found one kid that done it yeah and I don't know about the other, and then it's just crazy then.
Speaker 1So you had the bomb threat so if you're a kid, pre-teen, teen, whatever, what makes you think that you're not going to get found out about by doing this, whether you post it on social media, whether you call the school with it, whatever it is, how do you think you're going to get away with it? Right, I mean I don't know why I got this light on by the way they can find out with the technology we have these days. And a kid can't keep their mouth shut, they're going to tell somebody.
Speaker 2Well, that's how they knew because kids was putting it on Snapchat.
Speaker 1Yeah, and wasn't this kid that we're talking in particular was on a bus going home. Is that correct?
Speaker 2Yeah, when they yeah this kid that we're talking in particular was on a bus going home. Is that correct? Yeah, when they well, yeah, so that was crazy.
Speaker 1I mean, I don't know why kids think they can get away with it. That's the bad thing about when you've got kids, is they?
Speaker 2do dumb things, and it's.
Speaker 1And this right here affects you.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1You know you get. I don't know what all the charges?
Speaker 2Because you've got to take it serious, because you never know if it's going to be serious or not. And then it gets all the parents in the T's. I mean it gets everybody in the T's because you never know, you just never know. Yeah, you just can't play like that.
Speaker 1Not anymore, not anymore.
Speaker 2You just can't do that, you can't be too careful. No.
Speaker 1I mean, there's no way to stop this? There's really not. You know, we put resource officers on campus. That's great, and all that will definitely help to having like an active shooter situation, right. But then, when it comes to what we're talking about, with kids that want to pull a prank by either doing something on social media or doing the phone call mom and dad can't even fix that problem.
Speaker 1You don't know your kid's gonna do that. No, I mean you can tell them right from wrong and they all. You know all kids do something. They're not, you know, perfect.
Speaker 2None of us are perfect but, I mean that goes back to that social media we talked about. You know how we didn't give nicholas media until he was 18. I'm sorry I don't have to be your friend right now. At that age when you're in high school, I'm your parent to guide you. We can be friends later.
Speaker 1Well, I think it's like if I'd have had social media when I was in high school or pre-teen or whatever, like that. Yeah, there's no telling which stupid thing I would have done and all my buddies would have done. So, yeah, I just think that's the right thing to do Give them a phone when they're 12, 13, 14, especially when they've got school activities. They need to call mama to come pick them up when their cheerleading practice is over, or whatever yeah but you got to get them off his social media crap.
Speaker 2Just my opinion yep yeah we all have our own opinions yeah, I mean, that might be harsh.
Speaker 1There's gonna be some mamas out there's gonna be like you've lost your mind, but that's just what we do little johnny and Susie's got to fit in. Well, I know we got to let them do it. You know, the only thing Nicholas missed out on is all the drama that you get off of the social media.
Weather Chaos and Insurance Woes
Speaker 1You know, of course he was not happy with us, and we've talked about this before, but he just knew it wasn't going to happen. And then, when he turned 18, it's almost like you know what. You're on your own now, that's all he does now I hope you make the best, but everybody's that way, so you can't just. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2He wakes up he grabs that phone, he's on it, takes it to the bed.
Speaker 1Well, that's what everybody does.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1No, from it for a minute. I make sure I ain't had no phone calls. I'm talking about people. Some people might not be on it in the morning times, but they're hot and heavy all day long into the night.
Speaker 2Some people work on it, though he don't, I'm just saying. I'm just saying so where are we going now? So we had bomb threats.
Speaker 1What else? We had two hurricanes.
Speaker 2Two hurricanes and.
Speaker 1I've really not watched any news. When it comes to seeing pictures and stuff, I did see some of the Milton, you know, when it hit North Carolina. That's the first one, right, yeah.
Speaker 2I had a friend that buys nails from me and we follow each other on TikTok, so I had a friend. I had kept checking on her and during this time her husband had to be put in the hospital and they didn't have any power at the hospital. I think his appendix rupture or something. I think that's what it was.
Speaker 1That's what you told me.
Speaker 2Okay, and so they were in the hospital, couldn't do surgery until they got power back. And it's been 14 days and she just got power back at home yesterday. 14 days without power, that's crazy. I just can't imagine 14 days without power. That's crazy. I just can't imagine. I mean and he's been, you know, finally had his surgery or whatever. So I mean that couldn't have been fun being home with no power and you're not feeling good too.
Speaker 1Are we sure it's a ruptured spleen? If they sent him, they didn't send him back home, right? I said appendix, appendix, whatever.
Speaker 2No, they done the surgery. When they got power, they done the surgery.
Speaker 1Yeah, but I'm just saying if it was ruptured, you can hold off on doing the surgery for.
Speaker 2I don't know. I mean, they didn't have any lights, they didn't have any power.
Speaker 1I'm just saying, I mean, it just seems like that's yeah, I don't know, can't you get like sepsis?
Speaker 2and stuff like that. I don't know. I'm out to doctor, I'm just thinking of the guy. Oh, I know, Bless his heart, I've had some bad pains before and I can't imagine Surely they just morphine you up. Yeah.
Speaker 1Surely that don't affect. We don't have power, but I can give you a shot, I'll give.
Speaker 2I don't know, they can't clock it or whatever they do.
Speaker 1Book it. There's got to be something. They have to handwrite it. Yeah, there's got to be something. That's where that handwriting comes back in. You just don't shut down all procedures.
Speaker 2Yeah, I'm sure they had backup power for a little bit, but maybe not for the whole hospital. I don't know the whole story, so I mean I could have some of that I could have some of that, I could be leaving something out.
Speaker 1The bad thing is, you know you got doctors and nurses that have lives also. Oh yeah, they have people they got to check on. They have houses they need to make sure are still there.
Speaker 2So you know, yeah, I mean it shuts down everything. That was some crazy weather there for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1You know, that's the thing.
Speaker 2No, it was back-to-back, wasn't it? Was it in the same week what the hurricanes? Or like five days apart or something. It was like eight days, eight days apart, yeah, a gap.
Speaker 1So you did have at least a week gap in between, but right now you're finding out how good your insurance is.
Speaker 2Oh yeah.
Speaker 1When you have something like this Because I've seen all these stories, really heard them, where they're talking about people that lived in the mountains of North Carolina.
Speaker 1They didn't have flood insurance and stuff like that because you don't need it when you're up in the mountains, but you didn't know there's going to be a river of water coming down. Well, it was a resident in florida that they had flood insurance. Now I don't I'm gonna get part of this wrong, but I do know they said that the insurance company told them that if the front windows had been busted out because of the storm and caused the rain or whatever, it would would have covered, but since the water raised through the floor and came up, it would not cover it.
Speaker 2Oh wow, how crazy is that.
Speaker 1So this was a business and the guy lost everything and the insurance won't cover it. The insurance didn't cover it.
Speaker 2Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 1So I mean what do you do?
Speaker 2That's horrible.
Speaker 1That's the thing. When I mean, is it that time when you're sitting down with the insurance guy and he tells you, yeah, this is what you need, yes, this will cover it. Yeah, no, worries all this kind of stuff? And then you know, eight years down the road when it happens and you find out no, it doesn't cover it, what do you do?
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1I mean. Mm yeah, rough rough so there's nothing good about the hurricane we've had hurricanes you know, tornadoes in florida. That's what was bad was okay, I hadn't seen any anything. The tornadoes. There were like eight tornadoes right back to back they were just, I know they it was going to be such a big you know, storm category five.
Speaker 2Of course it went down to a three right when it hit but james spain said what's a few miles an hour on the wind when yeah, when you're already at that high?
Speaker 1he also has said like you know, when everybody hears it's gone down a notch to a four or three, people think that you know. Well, that's, that's better right, but he's talking about. You know, it's just the winds so if you. If it drops 10 or 15 miles per hour, that's still not a big deal, or, you know, you still got to take it serious but I hadn't, that's the thing.
Speaker 1When it hit. After that I've really I haven't seen anything. I hadn't seen any damage or anything or heard anything. I do know I always check when these storms come. If you go under poweroutageuscom, it gives you the list and it updates it every 10 minutes so you can get real time numbers. But it it tells you the states, uh, the locations in the states of the power outages. And when I checked it the morning of, uh, what I said mil, I mean together, hit North Carolina, I meant Helene. I was wrong, right.
Speaker 2Yes, helene hit first.
Speaker 1So Helene, yeah.
Speaker 2Helene hit North Carolina.
Speaker 1Yeah, did all that it was the first one, yeah, and Milton was the second one, so anyway. So when Milton hit that next morning I did check and it was 6.1 million outages just in Florida.
Speaker 2Wow.
Speaker 1So, and then when I checked that evening it was down to like three point something. So it's amazing.
Speaker 2It's amazing how they can get it back on so fast.
Speaker 1That's a neat little sight, just that you can just pop on real quick and see. Right, yeah, I don't know part of these storms. Me neither We've had a tornado that came through here that one time.
Speaker 2Years ago, 2011? No, no, it was around 2002 or 2003. Oh, sometime.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2That was crazy too 20 years ago just say that. At least 20 plus. Yeah, 20 plus yeah.
Speaker 1And we couldn't get to the house.
Speaker 2You had to walk the road.
Speaker 1Yeah, the trees were just laid all down the road and we had to walk.
Speaker 2Didn't even know if the house was here.
Speaker 1It was three-quarters of a mile, yeah. Well, you're climbing in and out of trees too, because you're going over and yeah, we had to go around them so you didn't stay on the road sometimes yeah, that was crazy too and our dog sadie, our chocolate lab, was home by herself no, we came back and got her, didn't we?
Speaker 2no we didn't come back and get her all right.
Speaker 1This is the story listen, this was back when you rented movies.
Speaker 2Oh yeah.
Speaker 1And I had to take a movie back.
Speaker 2Uh-huh.
Speaker 1All right. So I was going to go take the movie back and I talked you into coming with me.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Survival Planning and Solar Panels
Speaker 1All right, I didn't have to talk, I just asked. I said come ride with me, or whatever. Florida you came, otherwise you weren't coming. No, I wasn't going not to take a movie. I said come on, go with me, because it's just right down the road, five miles down the road. Yeah, so we get down the road or whatever. And I don't know, was it mom that called me or did we hear it on the radio?
Speaker 1I think we heard it on the radio that it was coming to curry right and so so we hightailed it well, I wanted to go back home yes, you did, but I don't know if I called mom or they called us.
Speaker 2I think it was too close for you to come.
Speaker 1So we had to go to Jasper, so we went to mom's house.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Stayed there while all this was going on and then, when it was over with, we rode back to town or back to Curry right, it was late, yeah, yeah, couldn't get anywhere close, so turned around and came back and spent the night at my mom and dad's and then got up that next morning not knowing if the house was even here right you know.
Speaker 1And so that's when we got and you just had to park on the road and you just had to walk. Like I said, it wasn't, it was, it wasn't a right at a mile, but it was just a little bit less. Uh, but it took forever. And then got here and then found Sadie and, uh, it had a tree on the roof, trees down everywhere, everywhere. We didn't really have any damage, but the boat dock on the right side of us was basically, if you pulled it up out of the water, turned it upside down and laid it back into the water, that's the way and I don't think last time I talked to him he never found his boat.
Speaker 1Yeah, I don't think so yeah but he had a pontoon, just a regular boat, and then, I think, a jet ski, Anyway. So then the neighbor to the other side of us. Their walkway was just twisted and turned the opposite way. But the funny thing was we had a centinella candle sitting on the banister of the deck. That just doesn't weigh nothing and that mug was still sitting in the same space.
Speaker 1I'm thinking you know it's picked and thrown everything up, turned all this stuff upside down, ripped things apart, but that center of the candle was still sitting in the same space. So but yeah, I don't want no part of that. The only other time I remember when I was living at home, oh, one came over and it sounded like the roof was going to be ripped off the house yeah and then just took trees down everywhere.
Speaker 2But other than that, I remember one when I was little. Well, I wasn't little. I was a teenager sitting in the living room floor at my dad's house doing a poster project and we had a big poplar tree right in front of our trailer. We lived in a trailer and the lightning hit that thing. Oh, my goodness Scared you. It scared me to death.
Speaker 1It'll pop a lightning real close to the house.
Speaker 2I mean you know how close that no, that tree. You didn't even know that tree was there. It was gone by the time you came along. So yeah, I mean like you walk out the front door and it probably wouldn't 20, 30 steps away from the house.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, it was close, that was bad.
Speaker 1You remember the tree that got hit by lightning right here next to the house. It's cut down now.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1It took out. What was it? Was it the computer Refrigerator? What all did it take out? I don't know, I don't remember it take.
Speaker 2You don did it take out. I don't know, I don't remember it take.
Speaker 1You don't remember that?
Speaker 2Maybe I don't remember it.
Speaker 1It even blew light bulbs.
Speaker 2I don't remember Really yeah.
Speaker 1Hmm, well.
Speaker 2I don't remember much. I don't know why. I just can't remember much anymore. I just can't remember much anymore.
Speaker 1Well then, you remember in was it 2011 that we had the one that came through Tuscaloosa. It killed 67 people.
Speaker 2Yeah, because I worked at the eye center and that's when it hit Dr David's parents. No, it didn't hit their house.
Speaker 1He was out working, his parents were out working Help cutting, and then he got in trouble and passed for that one. But that was when the power in the main town was out. Oh, yeah, it walked, there was only one gas station right here, close by. Yeah, it walked, we stayed in line one day for a few hours just trying to get gas yeah, crazy and then and now, now jody's had me order this week.
Speaker 2What have I ordered?
Speaker 1I don't even remember. I've looked at so much survival stuff this past week radio a crank radio. Just a hand crank radio some kind of well that's still hold on, it's still got a, it's got a solar battery, a solar cell on the top, so it can it can run off solar, it can run off the crank and it also has a place for three triple a.
Speaker 2So I've seen something about solar stuff and it takes 54 hours to charge this solar panel thing that somebody was trying to sell, really yeah. And he's like, well, we don't really want it for the charge, we want it, we're gonna plug it up in the house and it's gonna charge all the devices or whatever. I mean it'll charge, as when you plug it up in the house too, it can do solar or just like be a charger. Yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, well, that's what this is, but it's a hand crank also.
Speaker 2Yeah, it charges, but like he was like.
Speaker 1It's got a three or four different devices.
Speaker 2Yeah, he's like you don't care. We don't really care nothing about the solar.
Speaker 1Well, the other one is is that solar? It's a small, four little panel solar energy thing.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1It's just a, a, it's like a. It's a charger, yeah, it's a battery for all your devices and it's got the usb port, all that so did I order two things from amazon and one thing from the tiktok.
Speaker 2This was when it was amazon, when it was prime days and tiktok had to sell too. Yeah, one thing from TikTok.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2I think Maybe. I can't remember.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's right. Uh-oh, got to look it up.
Speaker 2I got to look it up, I got to know.
Speaker 1No, that's fine.
Speaker 2Okay, was it a solar thing too? Is that what you said? Yeah, and then I think it's some kind of survival knife.
Speaker 1And then I think it's some kind of survival knife. Yeah, it's a sharpener. It's just got several things.
Speaker 2It's a flint I miss that field, though it's to make a fire and all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 1I'm telling you, if anything, you will need a few things. You know I'm looking right now, or wanting to look, for a solar panel, but I think they're $200 or $300 just for a panel what are you gonna do with that panel that look I've got. I've got to research it first, see how long it takes to get a full charge or whatever, because I don't know how solar works right so a big panel like that, if it takes eight hours but what's it gonna do?
Speaker 1if you'll let me finish, I'll tell you why did you hurry?
Speaker 2up, because you're letting my fire go out too, too, is it? Well, I can get up. You're letting my heat source go out.
Speaker 1Look, I can get up with a microphone.
Speaker 2Go stoke the fire, See I'm going to stoke the fire. Don't fall. Please don't fall. I'm going to rip my headphones off.
Speaker 1Let me throw this log Y this thing. Start burning down at some point now.
Speaker 2So, uh-oh, one fell outside. Yeah, do I need to throw another log on there? I don't know. We'll see I might be all right.
Speaker 1I think that's good uh, anyway, back to the solar. I'm just telling you, if you get the one panel, if I can find out how long it takes to charge it. But you're going to use that to charge other things. See also we need.
Speaker 1It has plug-ins you can get the adapter thing yes, that hooks to it, to where you can charge or run things. Not just charge things, but to run things. Like, if you just need that to run a certain thing, now you don't want that one that was one solar panel is not going to be able to like, run a computer and hook it to your refrigerator and stuff like. No, no, I'm not talking about that. You'll need, you know, several. You need them on the roof of your house if you want to do something like that.
Speaker 1I'm just talking about something you can use that and maybe you can uh, charge a marine battery battery, because you need a marine battery too that you can hook. You can have an adapter, an inverter, and you can run things off that too. If you just got a few smart, if you slowly put a few dollars into this, when something really does go down, at least you'll have some ways to charge stuff, just like the cell phone. It's great to charge a cell phone, but if the cell towers are down, your cell phone ain't worth nothing no but I also heard that uh starlink.
Speaker 1You know, up in north carolina and all that, they're all using starlink the, the uh police departments, all of them are using that to communicate, you know.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1So thank you, Elon, they said. But anyway, so you know that and I'll research that. I think it's $429 for all the hardware and the taxes to get that started, but it's $110 a month is what it comes down to just for their internet service. Nothing special. But I saw a few of the reviews on it, or not reviews. But it said on there that heavy rain can disrupt service. And then somebody told me or maybe I read this that uh, clouds can also, you know, affect it. So if it's a gloomy day or whatever, and it just ain't getting a good signal, so I don't know. So you don't want to have you know, especially on the Internet. I understand if you know what is our spectrum. Is that considered Internet off your TV?
Speaker 2Spectrum we have spectrum. Internet and we have spectrum cable.
Speaker 1Yeah so the KSSC would be different. Yeah, so it's different with your cable going offline for a few seconds or glitching for a second and coming back, but if it's your internet because there's a big cloud that came through that's jacked up.
Speaker 2Yeah, we have clouds all the time, don't we? Yeah?
Speaker 1But I'm just saying I would like to have the Starlink Because the neat thing about it is you can take it anywhere. You can take it on a boat, take it in a car, take it camping, do anything, and it works. So that's the cool thing about it. But it would be great if, when the grid went down or the power went down or you had something, you're not going to have power for a while. That would be a great investment to have. But you don't know, of course, if you knew nothing's going to happen, you don't need it Right. And if it was an affordable alternative to what we've got now, yeah, I'd say Starlink would be the way to go, but $110 a month, and then it's not possibly going to be 100% all the time.
Speaker 2Yeah, I don't like that.
Speaker 1I'm not crazy about that. You tell me 60 a month, then we might talk I don't know you don't think so. No, not for 60.
Speaker 2No, when in 40 maybe hey, 40, 45 auction I wish I could do that.
Speaker 1I don't even know how to. How do you get started then?
Speaker 2I got no clue with that one.
Speaker 1You'll look that up. Let's go After we get off this. Let's look up some YouTube videos on how to learn how to be an auctioneer.
Speaker 2Let's don't, yeah, let's don't, and say we did.
Speaker 1That'd be a cool job. I can't even spell my words out. Try to talk fast. No way, I'm done. Yeah, there's no way, so yeah. So eventually I'm gonna get all these slowly. I'm dribbling in these survival things just to have. Oh, my god, if you don't go crazy and just go out there and blow five hundred dollars or a thousand dollars all at once.
Speaker 2You got to really research this stuff.
Speaker 1Yeah, you slowly get this stuff in.
Speaker 2That was a bobble ball, and then it was intercepted.
Speaker 1Yes, don't forget, we still got the game going on. Well, this is a different game.
Speaker 2This is Ohio LSU. I mean LSU and Ole Miss.
Speaker 1Since I'm not going to read what I had planned reading.
Speaker 2I don't know why I didn't put my glasses back on so I could see the tv. It's crazy, isn't it? These are low scoring games. That one was three anyway. Can we get back on the survival?
Speaker 1oh yeah, sorry so patriot supply yes of course I know we're talking about them and they're not supporting the podcast but that's fine, shout out, free shout out 25, you know last for 25 years.
Speaker 1But you're talking and I've researched it. I don't remember now, but you know you can get like a one week supply or a two week supply, four week supply. I mean you can get several hundred dollars into it. But I think if you bought a like the hundred dollar thing that just got you through for a while, would that not be worth it? Of course it's worth it if something went down and you've got it yeah, so passionate. But what's know, but I'm just serious about it. What's $100?
Speaker 1if it's life or death. I mean when something happens and then you go look at your pantry and you weren't prepared. It's not good. So I'd like to know.
Speaker 2You mean, like when the toilet paper ran out at the stores two weeks ago because a union strike or not union strike.
Speaker 1Well, there was a union strike, was it union strike? It's a port, but, yeah, a port strike. Yeah, but they're union, so that's why you strike.
Speaker 2So, yeah, we really needed toilet paper. Yeah, we were out, yeah.
Speaker 1I looked like one of those people that was part of the problem. Yeah, jody was one of the ones that was the problem. Yeah, but not really because we had to have it.
Speaker 2We didn't have any. It was my week to buy a toilet paper.
Speaker 1So I had Nicholas get a pack too. So they were already out of a lot of it, because I kept seeing in y'all pictures of like a Walmart size in.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Of the toilet paper aisle a bit demolished. So I grabbed a nine row pack, because that's all the biggest they had, and then I gave one to nicholas. So we got two of them. But I just made sure we kind of walked separate from each other so people wouldn't think hey, there they are. They're part of the problem they go hoarding that paper.
Speaker 2Yeah, when everything I've seen said your toilet paper, your paper products are made in the usa yeah, but you know what?
Speaker 1what as of now that's, has it been two weeks, week and a half, since I bought that week and a half. Yeah the paper towel aisle still jacked up. So you tell me, see, whatever the people did, everybody that did this little bit of buying, just because of the scared they had going on because of the strike. Well, they haven't, you know, been able to fill their shelf up yet, so the supply has been affected.
Speaker 2Somehow huh.
Speaker 1Yep. Well, well, I hate, I didn't get to talk about what I was going to talk about.
Speaker 2I like it when it just flows. I know, but I had.
Speaker 1We had talked about this, not on the live, but I don't remember talking about it. I think you just made it up and you agreed to it, you thought it was a good idea and everything. So here I've been reading and researching and got it, and I've got it pulled up right here.
Speaker 2We've already been on too long. They're tired of us now.
Speaker 1I'm not talking about it now? No, no, it was going to be. The whole episode was going to be about this.
Speaker 2I'm not prepared.
Speaker 1Well, you were just going to chime in every once in a while. I was going to do all the talking, so the next episode will be about what I was going to do on this episode? Jody by himself might be jody buys I might have to do some pre-recorded sayings from you, like hey stuff, like that, and I'll just add it in to make it seem like you're here, since you don't.
Speaker 2That's right, reek how funny.
Speaker 1Some people will know what that came up with, yeah some people will so we're on our last season of the middle oh, I'm so sad I am, but we're gonna re-watch it because you didn't watch it. You didn't watch the first three seasons probably, I don't know yeah, I got what, probably this closer to the sixth, fifth or sixth really that you really, yeah, honed in on it because you're watching.
Speaker 2Knock that mic over well, we'll we'll re-watch it. You will still enjoy it.
Dog Rescue Controversy and Negative Comments
Speaker 1Yeah. It's good so we tried to watch an episode. Last night we did watch one episode.
Speaker 2You kept falling asleep, and then I fell asleep.
Speaker 1Yeah, I got up at 2.55 yesterday morning, so that's why it was hard to keep my eyes open. And then I cut grass yesterday evening two places and I think I've stirred up so much did you cut it here too? I did cut the top of the hill.
Speaker 2I thought I was gonna come ask you if you cut it and I, because I noticed it when I came home from um getting groceries earlier today. So that's why I didn't notice it last night, because you done it when I was gone, didn't you? Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1So I cut it. And as I was cutting it, there's a lady walking down the road and I just gave her a nice little wave and she did too. But she looked weird as she was walking. She didn't I mean she looked like a normal person, she just it was. Her mannerisms were kind of weird, didn't really know. She stopped at a mailbox, kind of looked at a house and everything. I was like what's she up to? She had her cell phone in her hand Looked up. Like you know, sometimes when you're talking to somebody on earbuds you keep your phone up high anyway, kind of Cut. The grass came down, got the weeded went up. There was weed eating. There's a slow moving truck coming and there's like three kids standing in the back of it going around.
Speaker 2So I was like I don't know what's going on Rolling houses. Yeah, so I weed eating and I had my back.
Speaker 1Yeah, I was coming back kind of down the hill, cutting on the edge and everything. It just felt like somebody was watching me or something. So I kind of peeked around and she was like there halfway through the yard to me and she was kind of waving right there. So I put the weed eater down, turned it off, got my earbuds out because I sure couldn't hear because I had them so loud. And then she, that's where they were looking for their dog yeah their lost little dog.
Speaker 1and I don't remember what I told you it was a white.
Speaker 2Little white. Source of the M Maltese.
Speaker 1I think I told you Maltese, but it says something doodle. I think that it's something doodle. Source of the M.
Speaker 2There's no little doodle dogs.
Speaker 1Apparently there is. I don't think yeah, who knows?
Speaker 2Who knows?
Speaker 1So speaking of, last night.
Speaker 2But she hold on. But she said, let me finish.
Speaker 1Oh, you were, you weren't, I wasn't finished I didn't got back to me being having the sniffles I was trying talking.
Speaker 1So she gave me her. She said I said, well, I need. She said, if you see it, just let or can you put it out there on Facebook or whatever? She told me the whole thing and she was crying. I mean, she was upset and I hated it. Yeah, it bothered me because I hate somebody if you lose your dog, I mean because I love dogs. Now, if you lose your cat I don't care, but if you I got you one, if you.
Speaker 1I said well, I said let me get your number or something in case you know I find it. Oh, and that's when I told her. I said hold on. I said no, I said my son said that there was a white dog at the house that he tried to pet and I told her. I said I got home like 30 minutes ago, I said, and he was leaving, and he told me that there was a dog and I said let me call him real quick. I called nicholas because he, you know he'd gone to the gym and uh, he said yeah, he said, but you know it wouldn't come to me, and I told him his white and whatever kind of little dog it was.
Speaker 1He said, yeah, that was it and then I was like, which way did it go when he left? And he said it just went up the driveway. So I told her all that and so, um, I said, well, you know, give me your number or whatever. And she's like, well, it's got it on this color thing.
Speaker 2Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1But she said it's got the little.
Speaker 2The microchip. Well, it's got a thing on it no on its color.
Speaker 1It's got a that they can go online or they can go on their phone and kind of like an air tag.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1But it's on the thing, and she said it wasn't working. And I was like, oh my goodness, You've got to be kidding me. You know I'd be so mad. Oh, I would too, and so I don't know how those work.
Speaker 2Kind of like you can ping your phone, you know if you've lost it or something, so anyway.
Speaker 1So she said, well, let me give you my phone, Because I was thinking like, if I see your dog and it won't come to you and it won't come to me, how am I going to let you know?
Speaker 1hey, your dog's right here, come get it. I'll keep an eye on it. So she gave me her number, but anyway. So this morning I had a notification on my phone. You know I don't ever get on Facebook, but I tell you I always get these notifications from smith lake, the group that I'm on, or whatever. I went on there and it said lost dog. And it was a lady and she was lost on you know our road, what kind it was. And she also said I think it's max, he'll come to max, or if you've got turkey well, we're good.
Speaker 1Then turkey yeah, she should have told me that I'd have gone around with a turkey slice in my hand uh, but anyway. So underneath it, like two hours after she had posted I don't know when she had posted it, but it's two hours after that it said it has been found yay, so good, that's all I know. Good deal, it's a good deal but back to the dog, thing, all right we still got battery on this thing.
Speaker 2You said we was gonna.
Speaker 1Yeah, I think so I I posted up on the other podcast three wheels, no direction, here we go uh, it's on youtube. We've got a youtube channel and the same name. Three wheels, no direction.
Speaker 1I posted a we listen, we had talked and have we talked about this? The dog that's got a. I was in a neighboring county. It's been a while now. I think it was back. Actually might have been spring, I think it's spring.
Speaker 1There was a at a convenience store. There was a dog in the parking lot that had a water meter lid around its neck and you couldn't get close to it and people was trying to feed it. They're trying to catch it to get the water meter out. So apparently this dog had stuck its head down in a water meter, you know, in the hole right there, and when he jerked his head up the lid came off and now it's around his neck the the craziest thing. But I talked to one of the ladies there and they said, yeah, he's been roaming around for a week like that. At least a week that's been around his neck. That's terrible. So nobody can catch and everything. So I took a video of it and I showed I seen it to everybody, because you won't believe what I saw. Well, anyway, on that other podcast we talked about it a while back.
Speaker 1Well, when we did the YouTube channel a couple weeks ago, I posted a video on there and oh my goodness at the negative comments I got Because I'm such a piece of trash Because I did not do anything to try and help that dog. If I'd put my stupid phone down and stop video and try and save that poor dog, I'm like I agree, I don't know. You see if I build you another fire out here.
Speaker 2Well, you've let it go out, so I'm a little mad at you.
Speaker 1I know, but seriously I'm like, why in the world would you even comment on it? Do you not really think that nobody's trying to help this dog? I mean dog, I mean some people, not some people. These people it makes me mad.
Speaker 2I understand now why they say don't read comments. Yeah, I mean you can't handle them I can't handle it, so, no, I had to be.
Speaker 1So yeah, I tried not, but I had to be negative back at them. Jody cannot have to throw it back in their face. And then they start talking about karma coming back, you know, and all this kind of stuff. And then there's a lady that replied today that said it was the most disgusting thing she's seen on the Internet today. Oh my goodness, it's like a lid on the head of a dog.
Speaker 1And it's just because and apparently just because I'm not on video, I'm not showing that I'm trying to help it, so that makes it even worse yeah, that's bad.
Speaker 2I can't believe you I know I can't believe you we tried.
Speaker 1They just don't know that. Yeah, and then the other video of when we got the armadillo over here yeah with it.
Speaker 1Oh, my goodness, because I was poking at it with a stick, trying to get it out. Trying to get it out, yeah, trying to get it out, and there's I'm the most inhumane person that's alive. I'm like you. It's unbelievable, and I don't know why. That and that's on tiktok, by the way, and that thing has gone crazy. It's cruel, tiktok a week. I had like 1,000 views on that thing A week ago. I've got over 13,000 now and every Tom, dick and Harry has come out of the woodwork calling me names and everything because of what I'm doing to that poor armadillo.
Speaker 1Bless it my goodness, and because the neighbor's dog was with me and I was saying, get it, get it. You know, I was just getting the dog, the dog was just barking you know, and I'm terrible because I'm trying to get that dog to attack that thing. No, I'm just trying to get the dog riled up. My goodness, apparently, people don't understand what armadillo is. That dog is not going to be able to. That dog won't be able to tear that thing up, you can't even.
Speaker 2If you ever try to grab armadillo out of a hole by its tail.
Speaker 1I have no, and I'm not going, and you can't. You can't get them out of there because they dig in. You ain't gonna be able to get them, mugs, out of there all right. So for all you so have you ever commented on somebody's post or video or whatever, whether you liked it or not? I'm not talking about somebody you know like oh that's a cute baby.
Speaker 2Yeah, I comment on people's stuff all the time. I don't know them.
Speaker 1Like I'm not talking about nails.
Speaker 2It's not nails Like what then?
Speaker 1I'm just saying I don't know anybody that comments on things. If I saw a police interaction video that I like to watch and a guy's being a turd towards a cop, I don't send a comment to the guy saying. I don't send a comment to the guy saying you know what You're a jerk, you shouldn't do that to a cop, oh well no, I don't do that. That's what I'm saying. I just watch these videos and pass it on by, so Well, I think we're going to leave on that note, folks.
Speaker 1Yeah, I'm going to go check my blood pressure.
Speaker 2Because my goodness. I didn't mean to get riled up Got him Anyway so back to my sniffing and stuff, oh my gosh, All day long. This is the Jody show tonight folks.
Speaker 1So my nose has ran, my head's been stopped up, my eye was swollen this morning when I got up. He's got a man code. A man code, is that what it is?
Speaker 2Yeah, you're whining about it. I can't handle it. I had to find him some medicine. He's got a man you did have to find me something. Ladies, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1Oh, I'm so much better, though you know, I had some stuff to do around here and my nose was just terrible. It was just dripping. Sorry, I could just stand there and have my head turned and just drip if I wanted to let it drip.
Speaker 2You probably did, I did.
Speaker 1I watched it. I don't want to say how many times it dripped.
Speaker 2Gross D.
Speaker 1I did. I washed it. I won't say how many times it dripped.
Speaker 2Gross.
Speaker 1Dripped off the point of your nose Dripped Enough, nobody don't want to hear that they don't know if I'm telling the truth or not, so I'm better your medicine worked apparently Well good, suck it up buttercup, because now I'm just dry.
Speaker 2Now, I'm just Suck it up, buttercup.
Speaker 1I think I'm done, now what do?
Speaker 2you got to talk about. I went to trivia last night.
Speaker 1That's right, you did.
Speaker 2I didn't know none of it.
Speaker 1Gilmore Girls.
Speaker 2I've watched Gilmore Girls a thousand times.
Speaker 1Hey, if any of y'all out there but I cannot remember anything.
Speaker 2Y'all, it don't matter what it is Does, well, it don't matter what it is.
Speaker 1Does anybody out there watch Gilmore Girls? Do it have you, or do you still? Because Amanda is like crazy about them. We're down to 1%, like on our record. We've got to go.
Speaker 2So, we came in second out of probably about 20 teams. And if we had bought a book because the author of this new book was there, it was at a paper, um, it was at a bookstore, but it was in the square which is at our courthouse downtown yeah, um, if it hadn't took us an hour to get our sushi to eat yeah we could have bought us a book and we would have won. So we had like we tied with another team and, um, they got one of the bonus questions, right.
Speaker 1So what did you do? Did you have bragging rights? I guess so.
Speaker 2No, you won a basket, you won stuff.
Speaker 1It sounded fun, though Was it fun, it was fun.
Speaker 2Yeah, it was totally fun. You just take your chairs, girls, not out.
Speaker 1Was totally fun you just took your chairs and sit outside and did all that.
Consistency and Listener Feedback
Speaker 2We sat at the square, at the courthouse square, all right, guys. Hopefully tune in next week.
Speaker 1You're gone.
Speaker 2Nicholas is gone, I don't know. You probably had a good time without us here nagging.
Speaker 1Hey, we'll try and start back being here every Monday, but, like I said, when things are busy, things are busy.
Speaker 2Next week is Fall Festival. I don't know when we will record. I can't say that fast.
Speaker 1We really need to be consistent on Mondays and we've done a pretty good job, but now I mean it's just like hit and miss. We'll try better. Our apologies, but we do appreciate you listening.
Speaker 2Let us know. If you missed us, yeah, please Comment, let us know.
Speaker 1Only if it's a nice comment, no give us those hate comments.
Speaker 2I can't deal with hateful ones. It really bothers me and I don't know what.
Speaker 1I mean I kind of blank black out, and I've seen that I've hit the send button after something that I've. All right, guys, we'll talk at you later, All right? Bye-bye.
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