This That And The Other
This That And The Other
32. Fall Festival Fun, Fast Food Frustrations, Halloween Candy Debate, and More
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Can parking people for a fall festival really be as challenging as herding animals onto Noah’s Ark? Join us as we unravel the chaotic yet heartwarming experience of our church's fall festival, where nearly 1,200 attendees brought both joy and parking headaches. We’ll share tales of Belgian horse carriage rides, a gospel presentation that touched hearts, and our future plans of sneaking off to Little Debbie Park. After missing a week of recording, we’re back with more stories stuffed with humor and lessons learned from life’s unexpected turns.
Remember the thrill of spontaneous road trips and the internal debates over which travel snacks to bring? We take a sweet trip down memory lane, sparking a lively debate over Lemonheads versus Red Hots, and indulge in Halloween candy nostalgia. As our tastes have matured, so have our snack choices, but not without a chuckle at our peculiar past habits like cereal after dinner. Moving from the sweet to the salty, we tackle our fast food frustrations, reminiscing about the days when junior bacon cheeseburgers were a steal and sharing some hilarious mix-ups at the drive-thru.
Our household may seem a bit like a circus with its myriad of pets and planning mishaps, but it’s packed with laughter and stories worth sharing. Peek into our playful pet antics, from the unexpected arrival of kittens to the quirks of our miniature cat, "Itty Bitty." We also dip our toes into the eerie and suspenseful world of the "Teacup" series, pondering its strange twists and turns. Throughout it all, we extend our gratitude to you, our listeners, and promise more entertaining episodes on the horizon, perhaps even with a pit stop at Little Debbie Park.
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Well, we have disappointed our listeners again.
Speaker 2I am disappointed.
Speaker 1We missed a week. I know Life happens so bad.
Speaker 2Did we not promise that it wasn't going to happen again, or we would try hard?
Speaker 1Yeah, this time of the year might be a little hard From our fall from October.
Speaker 2I think we've proved that by not recording this past time. Yeah, so sorry, we'll try not to we had a fall festival had a fall festival that occupied a lot of time a lot of time.
Speaker 1My job gets really busy from here on out in a way kind of it used to. I'm not involved in it as much as I used to be. I got kind of cut out a little bit maybe. Nah, yeah, you're involved.
Speaker 2It's good not to be as involved sometimes, though. I miss it Because you were 100% in it and then I got dragged into it. So I'm like, don't be too mad about it Don't be my association, yeah, anyway.
Speaker 1So yeah, we had the fall festival, great turnout, great turnout. Really good turnout, it was fun.
Speaker 2I kept thinking in my mind 1,200 is the number I had for the people that showed up.
Speaker 1I think they're saying more, around 1,000.
Speaker 2Yeah, but I think between the ones that didn't register because you had a bunch of people.
Speaker 1Sorry, I got sick this week too Did you.
Speaker 2You know there's people that didn't register because you know you had a bunch of people. Sorry, I got sick this week.
Speaker 1You know there's people that didn't register. We're going by the numbers that registered and maybe tried to add more to it.
Speaker 2I guess for the ones that didn't register. Yeah, so I tried to count cars, you know, after we were parking them up there you were, the parking team yeah, and it just kept flowing, never ending, never got out of the field never stepped away from the field.
Speaker 2The trunk or treat team I was telling, uh, josh and spencer, you all right over there. Okay, I was telling josh and spencer that at one point, when it kind of slowed down a little bit, I had nicholas come over and kind of take my spot and I was going to go try and do a quick count on the cars. And I got over there and they asked me how many I got to and I said 32. I quit because I was like there's no way, there's no way I can count this. 30 is what it was in one row. You know we'd had it to where it was actually going to be. Yeah, that would have been right, but at one time I just estimated at one time like 300 cars we had up there. They just kept flowing in.
Speaker 1And every car probably had.
Speaker 2About four people At least two. Well, I'm going to say three.
Speaker 1Okay, three, because you've got two parents and a. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2So it was was, so that was fun and nobody knows how to follow directions when we're trying to pull them into a field to part, coming off of a major road. It was a disaster it wasn't that bad. Well, you weren't up there it shouldn't it should not have been you needed big signs. That's what.
Speaker 1Walter said you all right, sorry, yeah, I just can't. I don't know.
Speaker 2Walter said the funniest thing. He said do you think Noah had as much trouble getting the animals into the ark as we're having getting the people into the field? That's a good one. That's a good one, it was. It was ridiculous at some time, much trouble getting the animals into the ark as we're having getting the people into the field that's a good one, because it was it was, it was ridiculous at some time.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's good, so so that was our life last week and this past weekend it's amazing how you spend so much time trying to prepare and get something like this done, you know, and it lasts three hours prepare as long as some of them did no, oh, like, like. What I do is like last minute yeah like maybe a couple of days before all my. My main thing was the field had to get cut before I could do anything.
Speaker 2So you know mode, I guess you'd say mold it down mold it down and then we had to go in there and try and make some lanes and do some spray painting and stuff like that. So that was kind of like the day before a full day kind of. But then the day of you got all the jumps being delivered, food trucks coming in, you know they're getting everybody lined out on where tables go and chairs go. So they did a wonderful job with all that.
Speaker 1Something different we had this year was the horse carriage.
Speaker 2That's right. I keep forgetting about the horses. Belgium, belgian.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Horses yeah, it was Belgian something. Horses.
Speaker 1And you got to listen to the gospel presentation. Yeah, so it said if it was, we could drop that on here one day this week. Yeah.
Speaker 2We'll do that.
Speaker 1The prodigal son when we drop this.
Speaker 2we're recording this on a Friday and I might drop this right. When we get done, I edit it and I might just send it out there.
Speaker 1You think I'm going to turn around and do another one, and then you might have to do another one. If you take me to the no, not the dairy queen, hold on, let me think about it a minute little debbie.
Speaker 2How'd I get? There little debbie well if you take me to the little debbie part tomorrow, I will record well, let's just go ahead and get the two recordings under our belt, and then we'll decide about the little debbie part. No, that is my second one.
Speaker 1I'm telling you, I will record I'm not going to drive three hours.
Speaker 2I don't think.
Speaker 1We told the people we're going.
Speaker 2It's not over with. I mean, it's not like we're never going to go.
Speaker 1I'll drive you, don't got to drive Just because we're not going to go tomorrow, I'll drive. Anyway back to the horses and the carriage, which I call it a trailer. Yeah, it wasn't really a carriage.
Speaker 2I don't guess. Yeah, I mean a wagon, it was a big, but I still call it a trailer just because of the length of it. But it was a wagon.
Speaker 1It was cool, but I think they said there's a duck family.
Speaker 2Yep Looking at those ducks. I can't see them. I got my glasses on.
Speaker 1I can't see them down there because I planned on reading something.
Speaker 2Uh, they said, if it was just kids, I think 40 around 40, yeah, but with the adults and all that you know, like maybe 30, something like that. So I mean it held a lot of people stayed full the whole time too so we had the prodigal son story. That lasted 12 minutes. That's about the the amount of time that the carriage ride took and uh, it was just a presentation that was pre-recorded and uh, it was very good it's real good.
Speaker 1Y'all done a good job on it.
Speaker 2So yeah, if, if it works out, if I sniff. I'm sorry, but yeah, if it works out, we'll try and put that out there. You just have to keep in mind mind, when we put that out there as an episode, that it is related to a hayride and it's giving you directions at the beginning of it to keep your hands inside, you know where to look as it's going, that kind of thing. So that's what it is, but the story is what's behind it.
Speaker 1That's the main point of it, the story that's good, it's very good. Yeah, everybody that did was part of the story did a good job yeah, so that was last week and I'm just glad to say there really was nothing going, yeah yeah, because you got to think after the fall festival oh, we had that other meeting after the fall festival.
Speaker 2It wasn't just like, alright, head to the house.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, you got to clean up.
Speaker 2You know, and we're talking night 8 o'clock at night, picking up cones and trash and you know, and everybody doing their own thing. You know, me and Nicholas had a trailer up in there, you know, getting the cones, while other people had a truck going around picking up tables and chairs and putting them back. You know where they go and had to help the guy with the jumps and the garbage. And, yeah, you're doing another transformation back to normal. So, yeah, but we do a wonderful job as a church.
Speaker 1Oh, yeah, everybody jumps in.
Speaker 2Yeah, we make it happen. I mean, we have so many volunteers that help, we make it happen, and then we get afterwards, we get it cleaned up. Can't even tell you know we had the signs are down, everything. Yeah, so the next day it just business as usual, I guess you could say, except we had to get ready for a meeting. That's right, we had a. Associational church meeting. Baptist Association meeting for the county.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2So yeah, so.
Speaker 1Y'all hear Nicholas hollering.
Speaker 2I think Call of Duty, the new Call of Duty, came out, or something like that it did Everybody's talking about, so I know he's. He was involved in that too.
Speaker 1Mm-hmm. So we done with that. I am Fall Festival yeah.
Speaker 2Like I said nothing.
Speaker 1We're just smooth sailing this week. This week has been yeah, yeah, I guess, so what? No, you had yeah yeah, I just hadn't felt good this week. Well, you got all this head cold well, just dry weather.
Speaker 2Yeah, you know, if you go out there, like if you cut grass or if you blow leaves or anything like that, you're blowing all this dust up and all that stuff, and so yeah, I've got it drained or something. Well you know, there's some allergies going around too. Yeah, Right now, or whatever is out.
Speaker 1Does that make your body hurt too?
Speaker 2Probably not.
Speaker 1It don't hurt, like it did at the beginning of the week. Well, probably not. It don't hurt like it did at the beginning of the week.
Speaker 2Well, I'd always say first thing when his body aches, I just say well, age, that's the first thing I'm talking about myself.
Speaker 1There you go because you're older.
Speaker 2Then the next thing is, if I do, if my head or whatever does hurt, then I might think well you know, this might be some kind of cold thing.
Speaker 1But the number one.
Speaker 2Thing is age, or did I overdo it the day before?
Speaker 1And normally that's not a no you do, you overdo it every day Anyway.
Speaker 2Anyway. So I got a question for you, uh-oh.
Speaker 1I didn't prep you for it either.
Candy Preferences and Fast Food Frustrations
Speaker 2No, because you came in here like nothing. Hey, I told you about four or five things ideas to talk about and you just shot me down and said nope, mine was like news related, I don't like news, I know, but I want to cover some topics. Well, maybe one day. This wasn't like the presidential race. I wasn't going to talk about nothing like that.
Speaker 1Oh, we should go live during the election.
Speaker 2No, that would ruin it for me.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, Because I can't concentrate.
Speaker 2I for me. Oh yeah, Because I can't concentrate.
Speaker 1I might be a bundle of nerves, I might not say a word. I might.
Speaker 2You'll just hear silence. No, if we record during that, you might hear me cuss, you never know. Uh-oh, uh-oh, depending on the way it goes.
Speaker 1Anyway, I doubt that, all right so. So she said we used to travel a lot Not a lot, but more than we do now. When we was in our 30s, 20s and 30s, it wasn't nothing for us to pick up on the weekend and go somewhere.
Speaker 2Yeah, but I wouldn't just say like travel, because that sounds like we hop a plane and head a couple of states over.
Speaker 1My travel is in the car going to another state.
Speaker 2Yeah, one state Like a weekend getaway.
Speaker 1So, so she said Jodi always has to have candy. What's your favorite?
Speaker 2travel candy. Have we not talked about?
Speaker 1this what's your favorite travel candy?
Speaker 2I'd say Lemonheads.
Speaker 1Or Red Hots.
Speaker 2I couldn't decide which you would say Lemonheads or Red Hots. But I think with Lemonheads I could eat more. I could probably overdose on Lemonheads, have some kind of diabetic coma, something happen. If it is it gets to where it starts tearing your mouth up. Well, yeah, yeah. So I think that's a plus. That's what keeps me from going overboard.
Speaker 1So we would always get us a snack bag yeah, candy bag, but I think that's mainly on the ride back, because it helps me stay awake.
Speaker 2I get very sleepy when I drive, especially coming back.
Speaker 1I usually just sleep, so I guess I never need.
Speaker 2Yeah, you don't ever hear me hit God's Braille on the side of the road, yeah, so that was my question. Or combos, yeah, combos. Would you rather have like candy, candy or just like a snack? Because there's just not. I wouldn't get like a bag of chips and eat going down the road.
Speaker 1You have, but not much of the time I'm not saying that I haven't ever done, I'm just saying, normally I wouldn't I'm a I don't know, it depends on if we've eat, I guess you know like, but I think I'm probably more of a candy girl. I like, I like the candy. I even like candy better than chocolate. Like I'd rather have candy. Oh yeah, like I have a bag of Sour Patch Kids right here. Yeah, I couldn't remember what they were called, so I had to read it.
Speaker 2But isn't Sour Patch? Isn't that all gummy type? Yeah, that's they don't have any kind of hard candy do they Mm-mm?
Speaker 1Sour Patches are gummy sour.
Speaker 2No, sour patches are gummy sour. No that, that kind of gummies okay, I don't like. Like gummy bears and gummy worms. That's a different to me type of gummy.
Speaker 1Well, I mean I think it's because you got the sugar on these and gummy bears and gummy worms, you don't?
Speaker 2it's just that straight gummy yeah, but it seems like the texture of the gummy is jelly Jelly beans. That's different than gummy.
Speaker 1Yeah, I like jelly beans, I mean they're gummy, but it's not like gummy gummy.
Speaker 2Ever since Sweet Tarts went with like gummy.
Speaker 1Oh, Sweet Tarts are.
Speaker 2I mean the jelly beans and all that.
Speaker 1Yeah, sweet Tarts, jelly beans those are our favorite, aren't they? I fill that candy jar up two or three times when those things are out what about for halloween, though?
Speaker 2I think?
Speaker 1we only got candy corn one time because I couldn't find it.
Speaker 2I know, but I haven't ate a single piece of candy I told you it was over there I never even think about the little dish that we have I tell him these things are everywhere.
Speaker 1I'm like you got honey buns in the cabinet, you got brownies in the refrigerator in the cabinet, you got cookie dough in the refrigerator, and it sits there for two weeks and I finally give up and start eating it.
Speaker 2I don't know I don't ever think about it. I've gotten where I'm snacking a little bit more than I normally do.
Speaker 1You used to snack all the time. I know you used to eat supper and then you'd get a bowl of cereal.
Speaker 2I could always eat a bowl of Lucky Charms after we ate a meal. I don't know why.
Speaker 1Back in our 20s.
Speaker 2That sounds terrible in the stomach. Go eat your big old thing of spaghetti and then go get you some milk and some Lucky Charms.
Speaker 1Mmm.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's nasty now.
Speaker 1Yeah, so that's what I got for you. What's your candy of choice? I think that. But back to the whole.
Speaker 2Halloween candy. Halloween candy. What the what's your candy of choice?
Speaker 1I think that, but back to the whole halloween candy halloween candy.
Speaker 2What the the individually wrapped? It's wrapped in like I'd call it uh wax paper. It's like the uh peanut butter orange and the black individually wrapped, isn't it peanut butter?
Speaker 1is it peanut butter?
Speaker 2it's different though but it's cheap, isn't it? Wasn't that always like the cheapest candy?
Speaker 1you could get. I didn't used to like it, but I like it now, Well, that's what I said.
Speaker 2I said I don't like it, but I don't think I've ever tried it. I think I just had the mindset that I didn't like it.
Speaker 1I don't think it's like straight, like I don't know.
Speaker 2I had one the other day, I think as a kid, because I'm basing it on being young and seeing it and I think as a kid, since it didn't have like a label, a brand name, snickers or something on it. I guess in my mind I just thought it was terrible, or maybe it was like that taffy type stuff, maybe it was just something that just didn't appeal to me. You don't like taffy, I do, but I'm just saying that a young you know how your taste changes when you're young.
Speaker 1Yeah, I like onions now and I didn't used to.
Speaker 2Well, you better not go to McDonald's and get the onions on the quarter pounder, because you might get E coli.
Speaker 1Well, I don't visit McDonald's.
Speaker 2I'm just saying because that's in the news, but where did I visit the other?
Speaker 1day place that I did.
Speaker 2We're supposed to be boycott we're supposed to boycott, but I can't help it, and burgers are so good sometimes, I know, but I've been, I've been he has not gone back. I have not and I'm not going back so I went back to know we had a bad experience at this one terrible two years ago, terrible, terrible, and those people probably ain't even there I'm sure they're not. They shouldn't be so, but anyway from that moment on. It's not that I'm not setting foot in that establishment. I'm not setting foot in any Burger King ever.
Speaker 1Well, I did and I do. So I was at Burger King a couple weeks ago.
Speaker 2Yeah, not quite Bea.
Speaker 1Yeah, the other couple weeks ago. Yeah, not quite, but yeah, yeah, and I'm just like these boys can eat some burgers. So I can't go to freddy's and buy them three burgers a piece because that's fifty dollars at freddy's, but freddy's has got some good burgers. So I go to Burger King and I guess I just had the wrong mindset. I get up there and I said, well, first of all, they had some new menu items and I like to try new things. Some kind of cheese, something, maybe, I don't remember what they were. But I asked them for two items that were on there. They didn't have the first one. I said, okay, well, let me try this one. Oh, I'm sorry, we don't carry that one. Either you don't have it or you don't carry it. We don't carry it. I said but it's right here on your menu. I said forget it. And I told her that I said just give's right here on your menu. I said forget it and I told her that I said just give me six junior bacon cheeseburgers.
Speaker 2And.
Speaker 1Did you get what I just said?
Speaker 2I did. I just let it sink in to somebody else, but go back to the you said two items that.
Speaker 1Yeah, two items that were like new items or, like you know, they're limited time items or something, and they were just like little snack items, some kind of cheese. I don't remember what it was Hot chicken fries or so she didn't say that they were out of it. No, she said we don't carry that and I'm like it's right here on your menu.
Speaker 2You might need to get the magic marker and scratch that off the menu. Then right.
Speaker 1So then I said well, just give me six junior bacon cheeseburgers.
Speaker 2Did she say all right, or did she say excuse me?
Speaker 1I just sat there a minute.
Speaker 2And you couldn't figure out why right and I'm like hello.
Speaker 1And a guy came back on and said okay, so you just want regular bacon cheeseburgers? I said yeah.
Speaker 2And you didn't think nothing of that.
Speaker 1I thought nothing about it until I got home and I'm like and then people might not realize that you're saying that that's Wendy's.
Speaker 2That is Wendy's Junior bacon cheese that you tried to order that I tried to order at burger king.
Speaker 1How many times you done that?
Speaker 2never, because I don't go through drive-thrus that's true.
Speaker 1If we go through a drive-thru, I order jody drives, and that's the thing that's funny.
Speaker 2But you know what? I've met a guy and I told you about it that, uh, we were talking Me and him are very similar with a lot of stuff and he told me he hates drive-thrus and if he ever goes through it that his wife orders across. You know he's driving Same thing I do. And I'm like that's the same thing.
Speaker 1I do.
Speaker 2So I thought that was funny.
Speaker 1I hate going in. I'd rather go through the drive-thru. Why I hate going in? I'd rather go through the driveway. I'd rather go in, I just hate going in.
Speaker 2I don't See, and that's the opposite for me. I don't like being around a lot of people.
Speaker 1So why do?
Speaker 2you like to go in? Yeah, I don't like. I'm not a, you know, a social butterfly.
Speaker 1But you have two podcasts.
Speaker 2To me it seems like I don't know.
Speaker 1The guy that never talks.
Speaker 2Yeah, it seems like I don't know the guy that never talks. It looks like it's to me. It's more of a hassle to go inside.
Speaker 1I'm doing just the opposite of everything that I stand for Right.
Speaker 2Why is that?
Speaker 1I don't know, I don't know. So yeah, that's my stories. Junior Bacon Cheeseburger at Burger King they don't have those, by the way.
Speaker 2But you got what they have.
Speaker 1Whatever they got, y'all got.
Speaker 2Is that not a rodeo burger?
Speaker 1I don't know.
Speaker 2I thought a cheeseburger or a burger with bacon on. It was a rodeo burger I don't know. That they used to have.
Speaker 1Junior bacon cheeseburger sounds good right now.
Speaker 2It does If we can store that. Well, you know you used to get it pretty cheap.
Speaker 1Yeah, for like a dollar right, and now it's like Probably three.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1At least At least they have those dollar menus anymore.
Speaker 2Can't find those anywhere, unless you want, like a sweet tea, a large sweet tea.
Speaker 1Well, they're not a dollar, they're a dollar fifty.
Speaker 2Yeah, they're not a dollar, they're a dollar fifty. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I think it's just drinks. Now they sometimes offer for a dollar. Yeah, any size, for you know you're not going to. Oh, let me tell you something else. Tell me, is it just for me or are you going to tell everybody?
Speaker 1I'm going to tell everybody, everybody. Okay, the last two weeks I have tried to go get a cookies and cream milkshake from our local Jack's and they're out of cookies and cream.
Speaker 2Is there some kind of recall? Well, they get their stuff from Blue Bell.
Speaker 1So it had to be from a Blue Bell issue. Well, it's been like two weeks.
Speaker 2I know you get a delivery in two weeks from them.
Speaker 1Yeah, they twice a week. Yeah, there's no cookies. It's the big five gallon right drum or whatever bucket that they there's no cookies and cream. I was very disappointed then when we got those sometimes these things happen, you know but for two weeks.
Speaker 1Then we got those six dollar meals that jacks does and I wanted a. They have a pot pie and it's made kind of like. They're like a lemon pie or an apple pie, you know the way. You know it's a long like. I don't know if people know what I'm talking about, but so so I ordered a pot pie. Oh, I think I did this for lunch. I didn't do this when we got those meals and so that was my lunch. I got that and a salad, and I get here and I'm eating my salad and then I open my pot pie and I bite into it. It's strawberries and cream yikes that was very disappointing.
Speaker 2When you're thinking you're getting something hearty like you're getting vegetables and chicken, yeah, and you need something sweet and I'm like what? Oh, I've been disappointed with jack's here lately yeah, that's why I'm not going back for a while.
Speaker 1Yeah, you had bad experience too.
Speaker 2Huh, yeah, last two times Well, last time it was just insanely.
Speaker 1Slow yes.
Speaker 2And then I got overlooked with my order. Oh yeah, darn it, so that.
Speaker 1Then you dropped your fries.
Speaker 2Then I dropped my fries in the floorboard when I got in the truck and that just set me all off. I was like dang gum it.
Speaker 1See, you should have just ordered the drive-thru, maybe.
Speaker 2I should have. Well, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know. Well, maybe that's what they were doing, Maybe they were just servicing everybody in the drive-thru. That's what it seemed like, because I only had two people in front of I can't believe you stayed. Yeah.
Speaker 1I cannot believe you stayed.
Speaker 2Well, I mean, I'd already paid.
Speaker 1Oh, still, all right, that might be all of my.
Speaker 2And then they got my name wrong, cody.
Speaker 1Oh, Cody.
Speaker 2Well, she called me Cody when I went up there and said hey, I said the people that's ordered after me, I said seem to be getting their food before me or me. I said I think I'm getting overlooked. And the lady that's working at the register, she was older, she wasn't real good on the register. So I'm thinking second day, third day on the job. But then somebody else came over and looked at their little screen up there and she said are you cody? So I'm assuming I just thought, well, they did my name wrong, you know, because they they usually call me joey or spell my name or whatever.
Speaker 2And I said, yeah, and then so they started getting it together. So you're Cody, yeah. But I looked on the screen and it said Jody. So she just looked at it wrong and then I was like my goodness.
Speaker 1My goodness.
Speaker 2So, but it is where I could get it at it's convenient.
Speaker 1Yeah, especially a couple of days. That's the whole thing. Yeah, it's convenient for us On Monday.
Speaker 2I'm right there at it Right. Right around lunch. I could get in and get out, but the problem is I can't get in and get out because you can get in.
Speaker 1Right.
Speaker 2But you ain't going to get out with your food.
Speaker 1Right.
Speaker 2And I understand the whole thing about being shorthand and all that and I get it, I get it, but you know I'm done for a while.
Speaker 1You're done.
Speaker 2Yeah, I guess you got a text message.
Speaker 1Well, I'm trying to. I'm going live in my VIP group later later and I feel like nobody has seen it, so I was trying to bump it up well, we're podcasting right now, but I know, okay, I'm done, let's go. All right, what you got over there no, I'm, I'm spitting out.
Speaker 2You wouldn't let me talk about any of my news stories, so I was letting you control me.
Speaker 1Yeah, what you want to talk about space.
Speaker 2Did you say the rocket that came down um spacex about a week and a half ago, that the booster rocket that took them up? It came back down backwards, I guess you could say it almost looked like it was in reverse and it got. They call it chopsticks the little tower that it that it shot off of or whatever, came back down and it caught it. It was unbelievable. It looks fake probably is that's not fake you sure?
Speaker 2oh yeah, what would it be like to be Elon Musk right now? That's not fake, you sure. Oh yeah, what would it be like to be Elon Musk right now?
Speaker 1Oh no, but he sent me a message the other day.
Speaker 2Yeah, he's always sending you something on TikTok or something. He's a busy guy.
Speaker 1Well, apparently he Think about it Tesla.
Speaker 2I'm not talking about the fake accounts you're talking about.
Speaker 1Tesla. Oh, we seen a Tesla truck yesterday. I thought.
Speaker 2During the fall festival I saw it drive by.
Speaker 1It is ugly, ugly, ugly.
Speaker 2Ugly. So he's got Tesla, you got Starlink.
Speaker 1We're about to get attacked.
Speaker 2Does everybody hear that cat? We got a cat that's about to get attacked. Does everybody hear that cat? We've got a cat that's about to get attacked. Listen, SpaceX, Starlink, Tesla and then all of this other stuff he's got. What about Starlink? What about it? Do?
Speaker 1you know anything about Starlink?
Speaker 2What about it? Do you know anything about Starlink?
Speaker 1I know that it costs over $400. $429 for the hardware tax and all Get it set up and it's $110 a month for them to be your internet provider and you looked it up and it says when it rains it might not work.
Speaker 2So it ain't no different than anything else. Yeah, it says rain can affect your service, and also I heard that cloud heavy cloud cover could do it.
Speaker 1We have cloud all the time. I know.
Speaker 2Now, if it said $50 a month, maybe I'd be like you know what this might be worth it, but then I'd have to definitely go in and look at reviews and all that, just to make sure. But but then I'd have to definitely go in and look at reviews and all that, just to make sure. But the good thing about it is you can take it anywhere Out on a boat, you can take it camping in your car, anything like that. So that's the good thing about it. So you can get internet access wherever.
Speaker 1So if you're one of these people that goes on these hunting trips, you know. If it works, though what if it didn't work out there?
Speaker 2Well, it will you sure? Yeah, unless, apparently, if it's heavy rain or heavy cloud cover. I think I'm. I'm not, it's just an isolated. It's like anything else. You get mad when you know when, back in the day, when you had cable and your cable would go off for you know 10 minutes. But how often does that happen? Not very often. But the way I look at it, that's not an option $110 a month is not a good option. No better than what we got now.
Speaker 1Well, it's worse, is it not?
Speaker 2Yeah, not by much, jody's giving out on me over there. I'm just listening to you making all that noise with that. If you'd leave that microphone alone.
Speaker 1I can't help it. Well, stop touching it, I can't because it's back here and I can't get close to it.
Speaker 2Well, lean into it.
Speaker 1No, my back will hurt. I'll let it aggravate you.
Speaker 2We're outside again, of course, if you can hear the crickets and all the wildlife, it's dark.
Speaker 1There's no more action on the lake anymore.
Speaker 2No, it's gotten cool enough to where, like on the weekends, you will have some boats out there. There's a few people that you see, you know, being hauled behind the boat and stuff like that. But the water is getting cool and the nighttime is cool. Definitely. Mornings are cold.
Speaker 1I'm sitting out here with a blanket.
Speaker 2Yeah, just cool it off. I've gotten aware now that it's getting here, I'm ready for summer to be back. I just don't like cold weather.
Speaker 1I don't like cold weather, but I don't like hot either. I'm in the middle.
Speaker 2I guess when could you go? Where's the perfect place for the perfect climate year-round?
Speaker 1Is there Really?
Speaker 2I asked you first.
Speaker 1I asked you Pinch poke, you owe me a cup? Yeah, I asked you first.
Speaker 2I asked you, peach poke you on me a couple. Yeah, I don't know. I think there's always a trade-off. Wherever you go, kind of like now, you see, like Florida, you might have good weather, but you have to deal with hurricanes and that kind of stuff, unless you have to deal with tornadoes.
Speaker 1Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2Go to California, deal with wildfires and earthquakes, mm, but you don't have to deal with hurricanes or snow, unless you're up on the mountains and now you shut down.
Speaker 1I was thinking I hear the noise and I wasn't moving and you were blaming me for the noise. But I don't think that was me.
Speaker 2Pretty sure it is. See, that's you, that's not's you, that's not me that's not me. I'm not moving there's no noise coming from anywhere right now, cause you're being very still no, I'm not, I'm moving, that's you.
Speaker 1Oh, my goodness, gotta love us. You gotta love us folks. Alright, I guess, that's it. It's you. Oh, my goodness, gotta love us. You gotta love us folks.
Speaker 2All right, I guess that's it.
Speaker 1We wrapping around.
Speaker 2I reckon so.
Speaker 1I didn't let you talk about nothing you wanted to talk about, you shut it.
Speaker 2No, you didn't.
Speaker 1What did you want to talk about you?
Speaker 2ain't saying nothing over there, so I'm shutting it down.
Speaker 1What did you want to talk about?
Speaker 2Oh, it's too late now I can't go 30 minutes into it and then start talking about a topic. Why you need to like what you do is you go into it, you got small talk, whatever five or ten minutes.
Speaker 1We had small talk and then bam.
Speaker 2Then you go into your topic Not 30 minutes and then go into it.
Speaker 1Well, that was your problem.
Speaker 2Because what if I had 30 minutes or 45 minutes worth of a topic to talk about that would to talk about now will be over an hour To be continued. It's too late for that To be continued. No.
Speaker 1Well, guess what Next time we record, I'm just going to sit over here and not say a word, and you can just have it.
Speaker 2You want to do that, we can do that. I'll stay inside and you just record by yourself you want me to do solo.
Speaker 1There you go. I think you want to do it anyway.
Speaker 2Why do you say that? I don't know I try and come up with a topic and you're like absolutely not, I don't like topics.
Speaker 1I just want to go at it.
Speaker 2What.
Speaker 1I don't like topics. Do people like topics?
Speaker 2I think so.
Speaker 1How do you know?
Speaker 2Did you ask them? I'm pretty sure topics are the way to go on a topic that's fine well there's a very small percentage of people that actually comment or do anything when it comes to social media. Most people just listen or like, even when it's a instagram or it's called tick, tock or whatever out in the hall.
Speaker 1They're waiting out in the hall and they don't come in and talk. Everybody's in the hall.
Speaker 2You just swipe, nobody hits that like.
Speaker 1I didn't, and then swipe.
Speaker 2Well, I'm just saying a very small percentage, just like the comments and stuff like that, or leaving an email with anything like this. Just that small, and it's usually the ones that's got something bad to say.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2You know that'll do it, so that's where you look at it. It ain't like people don't care or nothing like that. It's just people don't care. People don't do it. I need you to do it. I get it.
Speaker 1I need to feel wanted Talk to you people. I try Tell them.
Speaker 2I try Well, tell them, there's the microphone. Tell them.
Speaker 1I did.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1Comment like share.
Speaker 2Follow, follow Notify.
Speaker 1Ask us some questions Give us some topics.
Speaker 2Tell a friend, tell a co-worker we just need you to go on where Spotify?
Speaker 1I don't know.
Speaker 2And hit follow. You don't even know do you?
Speaker 1No, you don't know where we're at, wherever you get your podcast at.
Speaker 2Amazon Music.
Speaker 1Apple.
Speaker 2Podcasts iHeart Six or seven more.
Speaker 1All them, you podcast people.
Speaker 2That's the top four.
Family Chatter
Speaker 1All right guys. Thanks for joining this hot mess this week. I'll let Jody have it next week, you think Well they can't trust nothing.
Speaker 2We say we can be like all right, yeah, Jody's going to go solo next week, and then next week comes, and then nothing happens, or we'll both be together and won't say anything.
Speaker 1Well, if you're going solo, then you can do it whenever you want to do it no, I'm.
Speaker 2You said I'm going solo if you'd take me to the little debbie park I don't like the whole spontaneous thing it's not spontaneous because we've been talking about it for months right, but we didn't plan, we just said one day, and then you come like eight hours from now.
Speaker 1You want to leave? I'm not leaving in eight hours heading to nashville I don't like to plan. Is that where it's at? Yeah, outside of nashville, okay, I think 20 minutes I don't like to plan. Just get up and go. Okay, that's, that's where we're at in our lives. We don't have to plan anymore. We could just get up and do it whenever we want to why do you say that? Because we're in that season where we ain't gotta do anything for anybody else.
Speaker 2Uh-oh, bless you, he's getting it now I had to mute my mic because I felt it coming on glad you.
Speaker 1you muted it, goodness.
Speaker 2I got it. I'll start talking like this right here.
Speaker 1Okay, yeah, so we're in that season and we don't have no kids to worry about.
Speaker 2I mean you really do. We got two dogs we have to worry about. We can't just leave them sitting idle in the house.
Speaker 1Yes, we can no.
Speaker 2We got five cats to take care of too. I don't care about no cats.
Speaker 1I'm not taking care of cats?
Speaker 2No, we have to protect the one little one.
Speaker 1I'm not. I'm not a cat person.
Speaker 2Maybe somebody out there can answer this question right here.
Speaker 1All right, free cats to get home.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's not my question. But yeah, feel free. If you want them, I'll send them in a shoebox to you, one by one or all together. I can squeeze them all in one box.
Speaker 1Don't take a video of that. You'll get some hate mail on that one.
Speaker 2Probably, just for saying that Probably, but anyway, so we've got like the last little litter. Well, it wasn't no, I thought you heard something what oh, no, no no, no, no. You ended up killing like the last litter what my fault? You ran over two with in one at one time that was not my fault it was.
Speaker 2It was when I had had my surgery, my back surgery, a month or two ago, and I just happened to walk outside and there's like two dead kittens in the driveway where you park and I'm like you took out two cats just by putting it in drive.
Speaker 1I'm not coming out and looking for cats under my car. I know when I'm ready to go to work.
Speaker 2I'm ready to go to work. But you know, we had two, two of them, uh took a ride with me. Well, yeah, we had five all together, then four, and then you killed the two, so we had two Thanks.
Speaker 1Now I'm getting the hate mail, yeah you're a murderer. Don't be under my car.
Speaker 2So they were still small, small, but I finally got them to where they were coming to me. I could pet them everything I'm talking little little, and then one day but they were just big enough to climb, I guess, into your, on your car, in your car, whatever. So just like one day they were gone. So all I know is they hitched a ride in your car and got flung out somewhere, I don't know.
Speaker 1Somewhere.
Speaker 2Hate that, but the litter. I know we're white trash if I'm talking about how many litters of cats we've had.
Speaker 1It's not our fault. We did not ask for these.
Speaker 2No, no we've never had a cat we've told this story for 26 years.
Speaker 2Well, we've had smoky is the one I named her I guess that was two years ago now, so at least 24 years. Every our, every doll we've ever had out here has never seen a cat, because, you know, neighbors don't even have cats out here. But anyway, so this one wandered up. Long story short, we got kittens and then we had more kittens and then just multiply, anyway the point I'm getting to the litter. Before last, two of them survived, I guess you'd say out of that. And so now one of them is a full-size. I can still tell it's young, but it's a full-size cat. Its sister is not even half the size of that cat.
Speaker 1I thought you said it's a boy.
Speaker 2The big one's a boy.
Speaker 1Oh, I got it backwards then I thought the little one was a boy.
Speaker 2So the little one is not even half the size you would think. They're two liter, that's what you would think, but they're brother and sister.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's like a, it's a munchkin, yeah.
Speaker 2I call it itty bitty because it's so small, but it is so weird. So is this normal? Is something wrong with the cat? Is it just not hit his growth spurt? I mean, I don't know, other than it being small, everything is fine and it's friendly, but it's just weird.
Speaker 1It's not friendly to me.
Speaker 2Well, no, no.
Speaker 2They run when I come out. But the other one is the one that got Nicholas called me one morning a week or so ago and he said hey, one of the cats are stuck in a tree. So I'm thinking the way nicholas is he's going to want to get the fire department out here because this cat's climbed up this tree. But no, there's a fork in the tree and the cat somehow had slid in between it, like so it was, its belly was hung in between it and I said what did I say I?
Speaker 2don't know.
Speaker 1If it got in there, it can get out.
Speaker 2Well, apparently not.
Speaker 1Well, that's its problem.
Speaker 2So when he got back home, when he went to school, he heard it meowing and went up there to it. I can't remember now if he said he heard it meowing before he left.
Speaker 1You tell me before he left, okay.
Speaker 2So he heard it meowing but he didn't think anything about it. When he got back two or three hours later it was still meowing and the thing it couldn't move its back end. There's no telling. That cat could have been stuck like that for hours and hours, and so he was needing me. If he couldn't get it he was going to have to wait until I got home from work to get it. But it it lost all of its feeling in its hind legs. You know he finally got, and the thing was mean too. I could hear it on my phone when he got close. You know it was doing this little.
Speaker 1How'd he go?
Speaker 2I was about to do it, do, it Do it. I'm like rew.
Speaker 1That ain't how you do it, r you did it?
Speaker 2Jody and his son? Is that not it?
Speaker 1That's exactly it.
Speaker 2But I told him to get a glove and all this kind of or son. I said, just push it's high end up over. And so he ended up getting it and he said it hit the ground hard. I mean it was what? Head high, so what? Five feet, five or six feet high, but it basically drug itself off because it didn't have it. But the thing still, it's been a week and a half and it's still walking, funny. So I guess it did something permanent to it. I don't know, but I bet that was terrible being stuck in a tree and then losing, feeling that cat would have died. You realize that now. So how many animals in the wild do you think weird things like that happen to that they die?
Speaker 1All the time.
Speaker 2I've seen pictures of you know two buck deers that get in a fight and get their antlers stuck together and they can't get loose and they end up dying Stuff like that. Or get caught in a fence and all that, right. So you just thought we got talking about animals and I just started. You want me to talk some more? No, I don't I. You just thought we got talking about animals and. I just started. You want me to talk some more?
Speaker 1No, I don't.
Speaker 2I want to go watch the middle, I want to talk about the video I got of the doe that tried to jump over the fence and didn't quite make it, got hung up in it and did all kinds of.
Speaker 1I want to go watch the middle.
Speaker 2I can post that video.
Speaker 1Do you remember that video? I want to go watch the middle.
Teacup Series Initial Impressions
Speaker 2No. We got to middle. All right, I guess we've only got like two episodes, three episodes left, right and it's over, and then we'll start it over from the beginning, because I never started watching it from the beginning. Everybody that's listening to this knows, and we've talked about this everybody knows.
Speaker 1I started hold on hold on, we're.
Speaker 2Let's talk about teacup, isn't that the name of it? Yeah little it's uh, is it on peacock? Teacup is on peacock yeah, oh, I said that's what you say. No, that's how a chicken goes, whatever. But but if you listen, if you slowed it down, they would be saying peacock oh, okay, see, and that's a chicken sound. Yeah, it's not a, I don't think, a peacock, I don't know what. If you let me research that, I'll get back next week I will do a peacock.
Speaker 2I don't know. Let me research that and I'll get back Next week.
Speaker 1I will do a peacock sound for you. Stay tuned for the peacock sound. Oh my gosh, you get it, you finally understand. I did the first time.
Speaker 2It's like you're blushing over there for some reason. You act like it. So this is like a scary, not a thriller. What is it? No?
Speaker 1So this is like a scary, not a scary, not a thriller. What is it Weird?
Speaker 2Weird Suspenseful Maybe.
Speaker 1I don't know. Oh, the guy got jerked down in the basement yesterday, didn't he?
Speaker 2Yeah, thanks for giving that away to people that haven't seen it. Well, they don't know, they don't. All right. So if you want to watch Teacup, that's on pop, don't listen because we're going to talk about the first three episodes and it did say Early, I thought we was getting off. We were, but not now. It only take two minutes. Anyway, it's just this family. They live on this farm or whatever. Something kind of weird happens. I don't really remember what Something happens to the little boy.
Speaker 1They catch that fly in the cup, the bug or something remember and then that don't mean anything, though.
Speaker 2They let it out anyway, the boy I think that means something I don't know anyway.
Speaker 2So their young son like wanders off into the woods looking for a goat, their pet goat. That wandered off and something happens to him and he comes back. He's almost like somebody. He keeps saying there's a man inside of him in his head or something like that. Anyway, next thing, you know, there's a guy in a car that comes down their long driveway and like parks, and he gets out and he's got a gas mask on and a spray and a gun and a spray canister and he paints a line down all the way down the driveway it's not straight.
Speaker 1It's not a straight line well, oh my goodness. So it's weird now when people come up well, it's a lot.
Speaker 2If you bent over and started walking and you're spraying the ground, it's not going to be straight.
Speaker 1You might be trying, I mean he went way over here on that one part and then come back, whatever, whatever I think it's got something to do with it.
Speaker 2Okay. So anyway, he's boxed them in apparently this line that he had spray painted.
Speaker 1Well, he said he wasn't there to hurt them, he was there to help them.
Speaker 2He holds up a sign.
Speaker 1Yeah, something.
Speaker 2He ain't talking, he holds up a sign that tells them don't cross the line, or whatever like that. Well, we find out a little while later. If you cross the line, you basically like You're in trouble. You like, burn up and melt.
Speaker 1Disintegrate. Don't say nothing else. That's all they need to know.
Speaker 2It's very weird, not real great. Why are we watching it? But we're trying to. You know how those movies are that you, or series that you. It takes two, three, the fourth episode and then finally it starts getting good yeah that's what I'm hoping for.
Speaker 2I think I can go one more episode and if it don't, really I don't like the fact that the guy went. You know they're looking for like survivors. They went to like their neighbor's farm and they found out everybody that lives there's dead, like laying around. You know, somebody has shot all of them. Yet he goes in the house and the basement door is open and he keeps going hello, hello, hello, and he starts walking towards the basement. Why are you even doing that? And then he gets dragged down there by something that comes out of the shadows Just stupid stuff like that. I'm like use your common sense. I know it's a movie, but I'm thinking, if you're going to make a movie, make it a little bit more common sense stuff right, yeah.
Speaker 2Just like if I had a guy with a gas mask that showed up and was drawing the line that night, I'm going to shoot you. Well, no, that night. Get off my property, all the kids aren't sleeping in beds separate from the parents and they're just acting like nothing's going on. Well, good night, honey. See you in the morning, that kind of thing. No, we're all ganged up together in one room and I got all my arsenal of weapons and we're hunkered down.
Speaker 1Hunkered down. Yeah Woo, that one was sour.
Speaker 2Sour.
Speaker 1That was yeller.
Speaker 2All right. So that's my two cents worth for teacup on All right.
Speaker 1We gotta go.
Consistent Release Schedule Promised
Speaker 2It's time to go eat and watch the middle. Hope you enjoyed this episode. Sorry, once again we weren't here last week. We'll try harder. I guess I'm just going to apologize every week, Every Monday from now on.
Speaker 1Don't say that, except for this one.
Speaker 2Because this one might come out here on a Friday, here in a few minutes.
Speaker 1No.
Speaker 2Why you don't want this one to come out Monday.
Speaker 1Yes.
Speaker 2You don't want to record again.
Speaker 1I don't know. That's why I said no.
Speaker 2If you don't take me to Little Navy Park. I'm not recording, All right, then See you all Monday Exactly. Appreciate you listening.
Speaker 1We'll catch you on the flip side.
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