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This That And The Other
36. Respect the Polygon: Tales from an Alabama Weekend
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Severe weather creates unexpected moments to pause and reflect on life's peculiarities while we navigate storms, strange hotel policies, and rediscover simple pleasures like card games. We share our weekend experience dealing with Alabama's tornado warnings and waiting out the storms with our emergency helmets ready.
• James Spann, Alabama's beloved meteorologist, and his catchphrase "respect the polygon"
• Local hotels allegedly refusing to rent rooms to residents who live nearby
• Airbnb safety concerns versus traditional hotels
• The horrifying story of a 32-year-old man held captive by his stepmother for decades
• Nostalgia for card games like rummy and dominoes during power outages
• Weather preparation including helmets, crank radios, and backup power banks
• The challenge of knowing when to cancel events due to weather threats
• Whether schools should send students home during severe weather warnings
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Weekend Recap and Weather Woes
Speaker 1Welcome back Episode 36, maybe.
Speaker 2And we made it.
Speaker 1We made it.
Speaker 2Barely Last night.
Speaker 1We did. I thought you were talking about, like the critical point of when this has to be edited and released. No, down to the wire again, sunday after church when we're recording this. We had bad storms Saturday evening. We had a weekend full of events, or mainly one event at church. Right, that we were involved with, and then we had to kind of I'm the gopher. Had to rearrange everything for the storms to come in Saturday evening Right.
Speaker 2Yes.
Speaker 1And it didn't hit us, it hit all around, kind of.
Speaker 2That was weird. It did hit all around, seemed like.
Speaker 1I think Friday night was worse to me because all the lightning and thunder and we had some hail.
Speaker 2That was Saturday morning at 4 o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 1That's true. That's true, that was not Friday 4 am 4 am. So if it was 1 o'clock in the morning, do you say Friday night?
Speaker 2No Friday night at 1 o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 1Saturday you say Saturday.
Speaker 2Saturday, that's Saturday, but that was rough, rougher to me. Yeah, but it wasn't nothing.
Speaker 1Yeah, we didn't have to deal with the tornadoes or anything like that, which was fine by me, but it's one of those four to five hour ordeals where you're just sitting there watching the weather.
Speaker 2Because they just keep popping up.
Speaker 1Watching James Spann. Yeah, because.
Speaker 2If you don't know, we live in Alabama.
Speaker 1Right, and James Spann, if you've never heard of him, he's the main weather guy, for it's a region I wouldn't just say Alabama, would you Surely he's known a little bit creeping into Tennessee, georgia, mississippi, that type of thing, I don't know it's got to have a following right. It's only one I watch Respect the polygon. That's what he says. Respect the polygon.
Speaker 2But I heard 32 people died from the tornadoes. I never heard a number. I didn't know. I was going to look that up today.
Speaker 1That's what they said on the news this morning.
Speaker 2I never heard a number.
Speaker 1And I can't remember how many tourneys they said, but it's a lot.
Speaker 2It seemed like a lot.
James Spann and Local Storm Coverage
Speaker 1So hopefully it'll be a while One's too many yeah. So, Alright, but other than that, what's going on?
Speaker 2I'm tired.
Speaker 1We were going to talk about a hotel situation and you said you were going to talk about a hotel situation. And you said you were going to try and look some information up on it, but it never happened. I was just kidding. We got our regular Winston here again In the chair, by the way, our regular guest.
Speaker 2Those dogs get treated better than I do.
Speaker 1Our regular guest. She wants to be petted anyway, back to the whole hotel he's looking at me through your legs yeah. So what was the deal that you was telling me about the hotel?
Speaker 2it said, if you were local you could not rent a hotel room. They would not rent to a local person. It was just on Facebook, so you take that with whatever you want to take it with, but that was the discussion people were having on Facebook was in our local town. It was all town people, so but it's a chain hotel.
Speaker 1It's not like a.
Speaker 2Well, they said none of the hotels would let you, so they're saying all of them. And then some of them would say, yes, they will, so you're saying like a Comfort Inn, a Holiday Inn?
Speaker 1you're talking about all of those.
Speaker 2I don't even know what we got.
Speaker 1I don't either, several.
Speaker 2The ones out what we call industrial, the ones out there. They said they wouldn't let you and and what's the reasoning?
Speaker 1I don't know, I don't have a reason, but I told you, though, if I call, if I know there's people that just get in whatever city it is even a big city they get a hotel room, even though they might live in the city, but they're getting a hotel for whatever reason.
Speaker 2Why does it matter? Just sell me a flipping room, that's what I'm saying A rent me room.
Speaker 1So if I call and say, hey, have y'all got plenty of rooms available for tonight, you know, if I come over there and rent a you know a single bed, whatever, and they, yeah, yeah, we're good. I mean, we got plenty of vacancies, all this kind of stuff, All right. So then when I get there and then I give them my license, they oh, I, I see that you live within 10 miles of the hotel. I'm sorry we can't reach you.
Speaker 2That's what people were saying. I don't know.
Speaker 1That doesn't make any sense whatsoever. That cannot be true.
Speaker 2I don't know they want your money. Right, right, so they're going to turn money away.
Speaker 1So they're trying to say it's because of a kind of like tourist type thing If you're from out of town, town you're coming off the interstate bam. These hotels are for those people, not for locals. No, they're saying something about drugs, was it not?
Speaker 2or yeah, or not being able to kick out that people come in and stay and stay and stay. Well, how can they if they don't pay, if you if you get, if they pay, who cares?
Speaker 1yeah, if they don't pay, kick them out. If they pay for three nights and on that fourth night they're not leaving, what do you do? You call the law, get them out.
Speaker 2You get them out.
Speaker 1They don't have the right to stay there, right? Isn't the law going to knock on that door and say, hey, y'all got to get out? I don't know, unless you're going to pay. I don't know, unless they can claim it for it's theirs. I don't know, I don't know how all that works. I would not be a tenant, because you hear people all these when you rent to someone and then you can't get them out of that, out of your house and they have legal right because they've been there for however long yeah, but it should be if I gave you every state's different.
Speaker 1You're giving them a notice, right?
Speaker 2You know hey you got 60 days. It's the act of Congress to kick somebody out when they're written.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2So squatters, Is that what it's called?
Speaker 1That's what it's called a squatter. But there's also people that's got a house that's vacant. Say, you've got a grandparent that passed away. All right, nobody lives in their house now, but you take care of it. You have to go over there and you know, cut the grass, just clean up every once in a while all that stuff. Next thing you know somebody's moved into it and you're like go over there. Hey, hey, hey, this is my house. You cannot get it, I'm sorry. No, we're here. You can't kick them out, you can't get rid of them.
Speaker 2It's not that easy. That is amazing yeah, that's theft.
Speaker 1Theft of property, that's what I call it. So if you wire the laws like they are and they can do it I know, if you get in my truck and then you won't let me get in my truck, yeah, or you lock the door and you crack the window so no, you're not getting one. So the cops will be like I'm sorry, there's nothing we can do maybe they wouldn. No, I mean, it's not that way for vehicles, that's what I'm saying. Why is it that way for houses?
Speaker 2I don't know.
Speaker 1We don't know about all this stuff. We're just speaking the way we feel right.
Speaker 2It's the truth.
Speaker 1It's on the old face bag I don't know about that If it's on this that and the other.
Speaker 2That's what James Bond calls it.
Speaker 1If it's on this, that and the other, it's true.
Speaker 2Oh.
Speaker 1Even though it's our opinion, it's true.
Speaker 2Take that with a grain of salt.
Speaker 1What do you think about Airbnbs?
Speaker 2I don't know, I'd like to stay in one. Since we're talking about hotels and that kind of thing, how about I stay in?
Speaker 1My thing is how do you trust he just shot that down? We're talking about Airbnbs. We're not talking about where we're going or doing anything, so what I'm asking do you feel safe?
Speaker 2It's a little weird to me.
Speaker 1I'm going to Chattanooga. Let's look up Airbnbs and let's find the cheapest one. There's one, $70 a night. We're going to stay two nights. It's actually a small little house behind these people's house. It's a one bedroom, one bath in a kitchenette. Say, hey, we'll do that. There's pictures, looks new, it's fine. Bam, we're there. Well, all these goofballs nowadays that have hidden cameras and stuff like that. The camera thing is where, I think Are you really going to trust going to some stranger's house and pay them money to stay?
Speaker 2It happens, especially if you're staying in their house.
Speaker 1If it's a house house and they've just got like an upstairs that's vacant and they rent out, no, I ain't staying in there you can they rent out. No, I ain't staying in I'm not staying that ain't how that works what's a bread and bread, bread and a bed and breakfast? Isn't that the same thing? The people live at the house, mainly, and but you're staying there also, and that would have well, they have their own little room but not like who the people that like that own it right.
Speaker 2So that's okay, yeah, okay. Well, it's the same as a hotel, it's not that much different.
Speaker 1It's a lot different.
Speaker 2You don't know I'm not in a house. You don't know that somebody.
Speaker 1I'm not locked in a house with strangers that I'm renting from for a day or two that we don't know.
Speaker 2At Airbnb? They're not. You're talking about just renters.
Speaker 1No, I'm just talking about.
Speaker 2An Airbnb, the people that own it are not there.
Speaker 1You need to get on that phone right there and look that up and see if they are not there. Can you not rent out an extra bedroom in your home?
Speaker 2That's for people that need it for a month or something.
Speaker 1No, no, this is like I know of, like, that's not an.
Speaker 2Airbnb. An Airbnb is when you just go rent a house.
Speaker 1Call it what you want to Take the Airbnb out, all right, and so I watched this on game day one time where they were talking about around some of these big coliseums. On game day or two days leading up to it, some of these houses that people own around it they are renting out now I can't remember if it's the whole house or partially, you know a couple of bedrooms or whatever it is for these people that's coming into these games from out of town people are drunk.
Speaker 2They don't know I'm just saying so it's a thing that's not like an airbnb. An airbnb, the people are not staying there. It's a house or a little condo thing that they're renting out.
Speaker 1I don't know if you know that for a fact. That's my question.
Speaker 2I do know that for a fact.
Speaker 1You're just saying that.
Speaker 2I know that for a fact. Some of our girls rent Airbnbs and the people are not there with them.
Speaker 1I'm not saying all of them, I'm just saying You're talking about something totally different than an airbnb. I'm just saying if I wanted to rent out, not written out your upstairs?
Speaker 2that's not an airbnb. I think it is part of the airbnb.
Speaker 1I think you can get on there and you can look for the whole apartment slash house that you want, or if it's like just a room.
Speaker 2I don't think so I think it is so.
Speaker 1are you saying you would stay or would not stay?
Speaker 2I would stay at an Airbnb, but I have thought about the camera thing makes me a little iffy, but I guess you just got to get over that.
Speaker 1I don't know, I don't think I'm doing it. I just feel like I've listened and watched enough of these dates.
Speaker 2That's your problem. You've got to quit. Enough of these date lines. You've got to quit that.
Speaker 1To where they've got their kid locked up down in the basement tied up, and then now I'm going to rent part of their house from them and think I'm safe.
Speaker 2You're not renting a part of the house for an Airbnb. You get the whole dang house All right on their property.
Speaker 1They have that small little studio apartment, slash whatever one room, a kitchenette and a bathroom.
Speaker 2And they just need a renter. They need somebody.
Speaker 1That's like a month renter or something. I'm asleep in there and I wake up and I creep my eyes open barely and somebody's standing at the foot of the bed. It's the owner of the house that's in front of me.
Speaker 2You're talking about like college, how they go to these dorms and you're staying with somebody.
Speaker 1You don't know when you get a roommate. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about I just rented an Airbnb.
Speaker 2You're not renting an Airbnb.
Speaker 1People have an Airbnb on their property. It's like if you had a guest house. This is the example I'm using now and I'm just saying as I wake up, dude is standing at the foot of my bed watching me sleep Because, guess what, he has keys to the place that I rented from him and it's an Airbnb. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2Well, that could happen at a hotel Because crazy people they have the keys.
Speaker 1But I trust a hotel more than a All right, when we're talking about hotels, the room on the outside or the room on the inside where the door is Does it matter?
Speaker 2It doesn't bother me.
Speaker 1I'm not really afraid of people having access to my hotel room from outside.
Speaker 2No.
Airbnb Safety Concerns
Speaker 1That's not a worry. But yeah, if you're going to talk about which is safer, of course being inside of a hotel and you've got hallways to where your room's at Agree or disagree, of course you're going to be safe, safer I don't know.
Speaker 2Somebody wants to get in. They're going to get in.
Speaker 1Yeah, but why are they going to pick me? Is it random when these people do this?
Speaker 2is it just random? Why is somebody going to rent an Airbnb and come be at the end of your bed?
Speaker 1Because people are jacked up in the head.
Speaker 2Okay, same thing for a hotel.
Speaker 1They could be hiding in there. You know there was people that had little corridors in between the walls. Okay, see that they could make like a peahole.
Speaker 2See, Make a pinhole in there and look at you. So there you go.
Speaker 1That brings me me the story I wish I'd have here we go.
Speaker 1I told you about it. I wish I'd like printed this off to talk about it, but it's, I think it's new jersey, new york. Well, I use my phone to record, all right, so my phone's not available, but I do have a laptop right here, but I don't have time to like get on it now and turn it on all that stuff, so I'll just speak of what I remember of it. I don't even remember where exactly it's at new york, new jersey, somewhere like that. A 32 year old guy was being locked in this house by his stepmother for over two decades and he weighed 68 pounds. He's, I think they said, five foot nine.
Speaker 1Either way, it's either five foot seven and he couldn't take her and get out of there 20 years ago, how old would he have been? 12 exactly. So he's been locked in his house since then. He was going to school and then he just stopped going to school and I don't think nobody ever really checked up on him. But she would give him How's that I don't know Well, how's anything?
Speaker 2If my kid didn't go to school. You got a phone call.
Speaker 1So he told them that he was hungry every day, all day, for years, because he never got enough to eat and she would only give him. What I remember reading about it was two cups of water a day, which was not enough, and he remembers drinking, sometimes out of the toilet. Getting water out of the toilet to drink. You've got to think, 68 pounds, 68 pounds. Who knows what this guy looked like. I haven't seen any pictures.
Speaker 2Is this recent?
Speaker 1Yeah, it was like last week, last Monday, the stepmom, I don't know Where's the dad, apparently they're hitting, I don't know.
Speaker 2If she was a stepmom.
Speaker 1He might be buried in the backyard If she's treating this dude, this kid, like that I mean, if she was a stepmom he's got to have.
Speaker 2Where's his mom, Where's his dad.
Speaker 1I don't think they dive that deep in. It was just a headline because of this happening At that time.
Speaker 2I don't think nobody knew Well, now I need to know.
Speaker 1Well, I'm sure it. Ask Nancy Grace. She's the one that'll check in on this oh never mind. Ain't she the one? No, she does the people that get murdered and killed right. She doesn't deal with just regular crazy stuff, which I don't care for her anyway.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1But what do you think about that? How would you like to be? Oh, and the way he got loose was he caught the house on fire?
Speaker 2He caught his room on fire.
Speaker 1Heck yeah, smart boy, he mixed some stuff up?
Speaker 1Not really, but and, I think, trying I don't know if he was doing that to try and burn, like what he was tied up with, or if he was actually just trying to start a fire so that he could get some emergency workers to the house, somebody to the house, to where maybe there's a chance to find out he was on his last leg. You got to think, year after year after year, what if you're in year three of this being locked at your house and you don't know, you've got 17 plus more years that you're going to be locked in there.
Speaker 2How do you lock somebody up for that long?
Speaker 1You got to ask her I need Netflix. Oh yeah, you're talking about some stuff that'll come out.
Speaker 2yeah, it'll be all over the place netflix, hulu, paramount, wherever I sent you a show last night that we needed to watch on hulu you already asleep. I sent you. I don't think I was asleep, but I did.
Speaker 1I did get the text, but I didn't reply because I thought it was gonna get to reply.
Speaker 2No, I knew you wouldn't reply, but we do that all the time.
Speaker 1If because we know we can't remember yeah all right, thank you.
Speaker 2We know we can't remember, so we text each other shows all the time. We'll just put the show and what it's on and we'll say nothing else.
Speaker 1Why did you think it would be good?
Speaker 2I can't remember you really. Yeah, really.
Speaker 1Did we talk about the one we just finished on our last episode?
Speaker 2Yes.
Speaker 1We talked about Zero.
Speaker 2We didn't finish that.
Speaker 1Day Zero yeah, we did.
Speaker 2Well then, I don't remember what happened.
Speaker 1Still can't think of the dude's name that's in it. Why can I not think of his? I never. He was in the Godfather, the original Godfather, Godfather 1. You know, when they went back in time he was. I can't even think of the Godfather's name.
Speaker 2You know, I don't know names. I almost said Cornholio, cornholio, cornholio, it's name. You know, I don't know names. I almost said.
Speaker 1Cornholio, cornholio, cornholio, it's nothing. Isn't that, babison Butthead?
Speaker 2Yes.
Speaker 1I don't know where that came from.
Speaker 2I'll keep that to myself.
Speaker 1So anyway, but what else I don't know. I just feel like we've been on the go.
Speaker 2I'm just I don't know. I just feel like we've been on the go. I'm just ready to lay her down.
Speaker 1I know it was almost like you gave me a deadline. I told you. I was like, look, it's a busy weekend, I don't know when we're going to squeeze this in. And then it didn't happen yesterday, which was Saturday, and then. So I told you earlier. I said you realize, like right after church we've got to do this.
Speaker 2And then we get stuck at church because we have to finish part of the event, and so when we got here you got here before I did and I'm like come on, or?
Speaker 1I'm done. Yeah, you sent me like a deadline 15 minutes. I'm in here.
Speaker 2I'm waiting. Get your honey in here and get this rolling.
Speaker 1And then you didn't even give me 15. The next thing I saw it said five minutes or I'm out, and I'm like what's up with that?
Speaker 2I said five-minute countdown, because I said 115, we're recording. Well, it was 110, so I was giving you a warning Five-minute countdown and I'm out.
Speaker 1So if we reversed that and I told you that, what would you do?
Speaker 2I'd just say bye.
Speaker 1You'd be like oh well.
Speaker 2Bye, I'm out. Why, I don't know, I don't know, I have to go back again tonight at 4.30.
Speaker 1So you just need a nap.
Speaker 2I just want to close my eyes.
Speaker 1You just need a nap to refresh, recharge your batteries and you'll be fine. You think that's what's gonna do it. I didn't even do nothing, so I didn't even do nothing and I'm so flipping tired. No, it's just like I can't hold my eyes open. You did, but it's a matter of being there, because there's only there's certain tasks that we have to do at certain times, kind of you know basically just behind the scenes yeah, and basically feeding everybody at this yeah so you've got a break in, but it's not like a break where you're going to leave and go somewhere.
Speaker 1You can go home whatever.
Speaker 2Well, if it hadn't been the weather we could have recorded yesterday during that break.
Speaker 1Yeah, everything yesterday got pushed up.
Speaker 2Yeah, it all got shoved into, so instead of it lasted all night long it got pushed to where.
Speaker 1Hey, at 3 o'clock it's over.
Speaker 2Yeah, because we usually have a big break. Yeah, and then yesterday we didn't, so then we have people canceling on us before it even started.
Speaker 1Yeah, you know that's a thing too, when you cancel an event.
Speaker 2I know people are scared of weather, but I mean.
Speaker 1But when do you decide to cancel? Hey, schools are the world's worst. You get a little bit of.
Speaker 2With weather. I wish they would leave the kids in there, because to me some kids are better off at school. Oh you're talking about like a tornado, yeah, yeah, they don't need to release it, they're better off at school than they are at home when Mom and Daddy's at work, because they can't get off work.
Speaker 1Do you think it's the school not wanting to have the responsibility of having those kids?
Speaker 2there. I don't. You don't think that's it. No, I think it's. Yeah, I think it's because they've gotten, they've let them out before in the middle or not in the middle, but like when something was about to happen and then they get stuck and they're like, oh, we shouldn't have done that. So now they're just like at the drop of a hat. We just ain't doing it.
Speaker 1But that, that and then. So now they're just like at the drop of a hat we just ain't doing it. But that goes back to the whole thing of being responsible. So are they afraid if they leave them at school?
Speaker 2and if something that their responsibility falls on them if something happens well, it does how many times some of those kids are more safe at school than they are at home tornadoes hit anything right court, but you hear about houses.
Speaker 1How many times did they hit schools? I know they do yeah I get that, but I'm just saying I feel like, hey, if it's anytime during the day, unless it's just sitting in the hall with the book on the head. You know, but it's easy to say this, though, but if I was, you know, I might want to send them home to him if I was in charge of it, because yeah, I wouldn't want that responsibility of having them at school, no way.
Speaker 1But if you've got a, two-hour head heads up and they know, hey, it's gonna hit, it's gonna be rough. Then yeah, like send them out I still feel like they're safer at school than they are at home, some of them oh, there's no doubt you're sending them home when you get, if you live in a mobile home, a double-wide, anything like that great place to live, but terrible for when weather comes. I mean you get high winds like that, yeah, and we saw that in a town just down the road from yesterday. Oh, I see.
Speaker 2And that was— A bus had flipped up on a— yeah, like on a roof type thing. On a roof, yeah, a um, yeah, like on a roof. Yeah, I was gonna go back to church so the picture yesterday we're talking about that.
Speaker 1You were saying that it was trees down across the road and I said that looked like the bottom part of a trailer yeah, yeah, it was a trailer, was it? Yeah, so it got flipped on the side and was scooted across the road crazy.
Speaker 2It hit close to our youth minister, yeah, but he was good, so that's good.
Speaker 1But you've got people that are really afraid. You say storm, and they're like looking over their shoulder oh yeah, what is that? When is it supposed to be here? And they get prepared. And there's nothing wrong with that, right. There's nothing wrong with overreacting about it, because, hey, it's better to be safe, right. But I'm just not that way. I'm just like I don't want to get caught up in any kind of major storm.
Speaker 2But you may just get our helmets out yeah, I'll be prepared.
Speaker 1I got our, we got we do. We've got three helmets and I got a backpack, by the way.
Speaker 2you got to put them back up. I want them off the table.
Speaker 1Yeah, I've still got them.
Speaker 2They're on the table. We got to unpack.
Speaker 1Yeah, I was telling Amanda.
Speaker 2I packed the backpack. Jody packed the backpack.
Speaker 1Yeah, I told her yesterday when we finally got home and we're trying to like because we, Because we both wear contacts- I want to take my eyes out.
Speaker 2So bad last night or yesterday evening.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's like 4 o'clock and it's like you know, and with it getting summertime or spring, you know it got a little bit of pollen and all this kind of stuff and your eyes are just like, seem like they're fogging. I'm just ready to put my glasses on, but they're like what if we need to leave and go somewhere where it's safer and all this stuff? But go somewhere where it's safer and all that stuff? But I was telling you it's like. So I had everything set up, almost like a firefighter to wear, like because we changed clothes too. I was like, if we're gonna leave, I got it set up to where you know how the firefighters used to, would just like step into their boots and they pulled up their you know their outfit and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1But we had the three little helmets. Hey, now the helmets are a good idea oh yeah, I mean I put a? I don't. I put a helmet on yesterday a bike helmet and I look like a goofball. But hey, if I'm a live goofball, I'm good with that, aren't you?
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, hard hats, Two hard hats. We had two hard hats a bicycle, Well, I guess it's two. One of them kind of looks like a, maybe more like a skateboard helmet or something. So yeah, we had backpacks full of. I had battery chargers.
Speaker 2I had the computer. I had phone chargers, which I knew. If the power went off we couldn't use the phone chargers, but I knew, if it was even getting close, that I'd go ahead and plug mine up.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2And then I had the computer because I knew that you could run the computer from the hotspot on your phone if we needed to watch weather you know bigger, if there were several people wanting to watch or whatever.
Speaker 1And I've got that little power bank. Yeah, that you can charge three phones at a time off of it.
Speaker 2Yeah, so I knew, and then I've also got that. Then I packed tennis shoes, because I wore sandals, but I packed tennis shoes.
Speaker 1I've got the crank weather radio.
Speaker 2Where was that?
Speaker 1I had it in the backpack.
Speaker 2In your backpack Better.
Speaker 1I was ready to go. Gonna test it out for the first time. I don't know how much you have to.
Speaker 2Is it a weather radio? No, it's just a radio, right? It's not a weather radio.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's got a weather radio feature on it and it's a regular radio. Then it's got two LED, one's like a spotlight and one's like a regular light. It's a little thing that you twist out and it's just like a reading light. It's pretty neat for as cheap as it was, like 25 bucks or something. But hey, a little bit I fooled with it.
Speaker 2I'm gonna let you sit there and crank it, though.
Speaker 1Yeah, I don't know, I don't want to crank it can you crank it for like 30 seconds and it'll last for 15 minutes, or like every two or three minutes are you having to put a little?
Speaker 2you should have started cranking it yesterday morning probably.
Speaker 1I don't think you have to do all that I don't think it's happening. I don't think you can crank it for an hour and it's gonna last you for three days. It's not like that well, that's what I want well, I'm sure I want somebody to crank it for me, and so I don't want to be the cranker naughty it no nose goes what does that mean?
Speaker 2naughty it, nose goes. That first one touches their nose is naughty it. No, I've neverose goes? I've never heard that, oh my gosh, how old are you?
Speaker 1Old enough? I guess no, is that?
Speaker 2a kid's game. We do it all the time still.
Speaker 1No For kids.
Speaker 2No.
Speaker 1In the office. Is that an adult game?
Speaker 2In the office Will do Nose goes. You know what?
Speaker 1I wish I'd have thought of that. You're talking about adult games, you better clarify that one. Well, I'm about to, if you'll let me. Well, so we're at Walmart. Nicholas said you got to come over here to the board game section. They got it on the aisle right there and you go over there and I took a picture of every game. They've got over there and there's some questionable games for adults at Walmart.
Speaker 2Maybe I'll read off next time we do this Maybe not. Yeah, so I just wanted you to be aware of that. I know some card games they got.
Speaker 1Card games Mm-hmm yeah, but what's not bad.
Speaker 2Not nice.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, you talking about like Card games, mm-hmm, yeah, but what's Not?
Speaker 2bad, not nice. Oh yeah, you talking about like question games? I think so, some humanity, something. I don't know, because we don't.
Card Games and Dominoes Nostalgia
Speaker 1I just didn't know they had these. I mean, it's a big enough section. I was shocked, but anyway. Maybe that's a new thing but I said I don't ever even think about cards anymore, like that would be a great thing if the power's off. You ain't got nothing to do. Where's the deck of cards in this house?
Speaker 2but my friend told me yesterday. She said that she was packing their bag and they had games and I well, I'm not taking any games. She said y'all should take cards.
Speaker 1I'm like oh, yeah, oh really yeah, Brandy Shout out. Yeah, we ought to do that, because we used to play rummy.
Speaker 2You won't do nothing now.
Speaker 1Me. Yeah, busy, busy, yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2If the power's out and we can play cards and dominoes, because I love some dominoes and now you won't play them anymore.
Speaker 1Hey, we got on a kicker with dominoes several years ago. We had some friends that we started playing. Matter of fact, it was around my 40th birthday. That was how long ago, yeah it was actually nine years ago, thank you. So anyway, we had some friends move off about an hour away or a little further, and so we actually went to their house with some other couples and we played dominoes one night Several times.
Speaker 2We've done it several times.
Speaker 1Yeah, and that was fun.
Speaker 2That was a long way to go, but I don't even remember how you played.
Speaker 1You'd have to give me just like Rummy. I don't remember. You always have to give me a refresher on that. Is it rummy 5000 that we played? That's what we play, because that's what my mama taught me to play, but you can play to a thousand or play, oh yeah, you play to whatever you want to play, but it depends on the wild card, right? Yeah, what you want to put it at, or if you've got wild cards yeah was there another one besides rummy that we played?
Speaker 2there was another one right we play spades, but you gotta have couples. You gotta do that with couples. Rummy, you don't rummy, you have just two players spades you gotta have more than two yeah, because you have teams, you bid. You like bid like how many books can you get two? Well, I can get four, so menu's gonna do six and then they'll. There's like 13 altogether or something like that, I don't remember. It's been a while since that. I love to play card games.
Speaker 1I've never learned how to play poker or anything like that. I think I would like poker if I knew how to play it, because I know guys that play poker. I'm sure it's fun and everything, but I ain't got it. When you're talking about a flush, a royal flush- Well, like some of that.
Speaker 2Well, like Yahtzee is when you got two of a kind, three of a kind.
Speaker 1That's a board game, though, isn't it?
Speaker 2Yahtzee's a dice game, but it's like you got a full house and you got a straight, and you got a small straight and a large straight.
Speaker 1I don't know what that is.
Speaker 2That's like poker too, ain't it?
Speaker 1Yeah, but I don't know what's a small straight. What's a straight?
Speaker 2One, two, three, four it's like in order.
Speaker 1What's that other thing? Did you say a flush?
Speaker 2I didn't say a flush, I said a full house.
Speaker 1What's a full house? I thought that was one, two, three, four.
Speaker 2A full house is where you have three of one and two of another, like if you have three fives and two twos. That's a full house, or at least on Yahtzee it is.
Speaker 1No clue. Yeah, I like it. No clue.
Speaker 2I get hooked on that on the phone, sometimes when I don't have anything to do.
Speaker 1Like well Blackjack, go play Yachting Really.
Speaker 2Mm-hmm, I like Yachting.
Speaker 1What about Blackjack 21?
Speaker 2Eh.
Speaker 1I like that.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's over too fast.
Speaker 1I don't like anything that lasts forever.
Speaker 2I know, I like, hey, you don't like, hey, you don't like it yeah. You win or lose and you want it fast-paced. You win or lose, you want it fast-paced.
Speaker 1Yeah, I don't like it.
Speaker 2I'm like come on you don't like it slow, don't think about it, yeah, just do it.
Speaker 1That's right. Just do it.
Speaker 2That's off the beaten path.
Speaker 1Yeah, we got two dogs in here by the way.
Speaker 2This is just a hodgepodge of I'm tired, let's go.
Speaker 1I think Coco's ready to go out. We locked her in here.
Speaker 2And I told you not to. You're right or the simple fact that she's wandering around. Yeah.
Speaker 1Maybe this is recording this time and you might be able to see on YouTube what Coco looks like.
Speaker 2Yeah, she's scared of you because you got on to her. Good, she needs to go get in her bed.
Speaker 1Man, there she goes.
Speaker 2I wish you mind like that.
Speaker 1Me.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Well, I mean, I don't, I do everything right, so I don't have to be told what to do.
Speaker 2Is that right?
Speaker 1That's exactly right.
Speaker 2Hmm, okay.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2What else?
Speaker 1you got on the agenda, on today's agenda, before we go, how long we been recording how long does it feel like I say 20 minutes? 32 minutes.
Speaker 2Oh see, we're right at it, we're good. Y'all don't want us no more than 30 minutes.
Speaker 1What's? One more topic.
Speaker 2We ain't done much this week, but ready for d now yeah which we didn't even get ready for it. All right, that's all we got, that's it short and sweet today.
Speaker 1Yep, we're just talking about life this is what this, these episodes are about. Whether you like it or don't like it, this is give us something to talk about.
Speaker 2Give us a topic.
Speaker 1You know, I come up with no, no, no, no, no, Because you tell me you don't like topics.
Speaker 2I don't like topics. I just want to get in here and talk, but not today, because I'm tired and I can tell it.
Speaker 1So you tell me you don't like topics?
Speaker 2but then you're going to throw it out there to anybody that watches or listens and say, hey, give me a topic, something interesting to talk about you, just want to talk about news. Look, I would you want to talk about news and stories, and no, if I could get you to talk about politics, we would start talking about politics.
Speaker 1I'm out and I would play you some, you know, some headlines, some some news footage, some just, you know, 20 minute videos.
Speaker 2I'm just not in it.
Speaker 1And then get your point of view.
Speaker 2That's your thing. That's not our thing. Politics is not our thing. That's your thing. I'm like Jody. Who do I vote for? Okay, let's go.
Speaker 1Not really. Yeah, really no, not when it comes to like the main ones, but when the other ones yes really no. Well, that's your fault. Ann, why don't you keep up?
Speaker 2with it, because I don't, I don't.
Speaker 1So if I'd have told you to vote for Biden, I'd have said no. If I said vote for Kamala, I'd have said no.
Speaker 2Well then, Maybe we shouldn't tell people who we vote for I don't care.
Speaker 1I voted for Trump. I don't care.
Speaker 2Oh Lord, Nobody's going to listen to us now. He's bad.
Speaker 1No, he's not.
Speaker 2Alright, we've kept them enough.
Speaker 1Well, uh, I think Did I say episode what?
Speaker 2I have no clue. 136. I think this is 136. What did I say? 136?
Speaker 1Yeah, it would be if you hadn't made a stop for a little while. I think we should record twice a week.
Speaker 2You've lost your mind.
Speaker 1I think we should.
Speaker 2I can't go live every night and record twice a week.
Speaker 1Why.
Speaker 2I get more out.
Speaker 1Have you been watching any more of your girl and her husband, that podcast they've got?
Speaker 2Jeff and Jordan.
Speaker 1Jeff and Jordan. Yeah, do they come out once a week?
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1How does that work? How long is their episodes? Are they an hour long?
Speaker 2I don't know if they're quite an hour, maybe like 45 minutes or something.
Speaker 1But see, when you have those, see, there's almost basically a production crew that handles all of their stuff, so they don't have to do any editing or anything like topics. Well, I know they talk on their own, but there is going to be some little topics, because they play like a little game at the end or in the middle, don't they? Sometimes they do questions, yeah, um so it's a lot easier for somebody when they're doing that they.
Speaker 2They don't always do topics.
Speaker 1They talk about what they've done, the what during the week and that's what I say their kids going to do sports or whatever like that yeah, but some of the stuff is laid out there for them, so I I guess, I don't know. Yeah, I mean, I don't feel like it is well, just like they don't have to go up, he's a he's a.
Speaker 2He's a. He got a new job TV. He's a TV person, so I mean he knows.
Speaker 1My point being is like they don't go out and get sponsorships and stuff, but they already have it because they have a team behind them. They're probably hired by whoever to do this, like most of them are Must be nice.
Speaker 2We only know them from Big Brother.
Speaker 1From how long ago?
Speaker 2Oh.
Speaker 1Has it been 20 years?
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Speaking of Big Brother.
Speaker 2No, it has not been 20 years. No, no, not them, because I was trying to think how their kid was and I can't remember. Now, Well. And that was a couple of years after they got off of Big Brother. All right, we're out of Big.
Politics and Wrapping Up
Speaker 1Brother, all right, we're out of here. Appreciate you listening. Check us out on YouTube. We're having problems with the video, so let me tell you this real quick before we go. Okay, I know we're trying to wrap this thing up. So on TikTok, I put a video out for the other podcast.
Speaker 2I'm out.
Speaker 1And it's. Let me tell you what the subject is. No, we talked about this Jelly Roll. Jelly Roll picks his nose. They're at a UFC fight. You got President Trump. This is right. This is before President Trump was inaugurated, right? So this is probably October, november of last year. So you got Trump. You got Elon Musk, I think, kid Rock, all that, and then behind them, you've got.
Speaker 2What a great combination you got.
Speaker 1Jelly Roll, and he's just behind it. What do you mean?
Speaker 2Great combination.
Speaker 1Oh, anyway, he just starts digging in that nose right and picks his nose right in front of everybody and then eats it. It's horrible, anyway. I put a video of that out. Is it a template or a template how do you say it that you use off of TikTok?
Speaker 2A template.
Speaker 1A template. So yeah, it's Eddie Murphy looking up and it looks perfectly as he's doing and he's like, got this look on his face and there's just music playing, right, there's no words or anything like that. So so I'll put. I'll just put it out there and it had 900 views in like no time, right, and it just stopped. And then it I went under a little thing and it said that that video was restricted to certain audiences. And then when you go into it, it says audience of 18 years or younger can't view it because of the profanity.
Speaker 1Everything it was saying was about the language used in the video, so it gave you the option to uh appeal it, yeah, appeal it, and so I did that because it's it's music, it's just there's no words in the music, anything. Um, I was thinking they were gonna do it for, like, the graphic nature if you're sensitive and he's picking this, though, because you know how it is nowadays, whatever so so I, yeah, so I appealed it, and then, just a little while ago, I just happened to look on everything and I got approved and so they took the restriction off. So take that tiktok they just heard you.
Speaker 2I just found your whole account's gone, oops, I just found that interesting?
Speaker 1yeah, is it not? And I got blocked on one of the youtube videos because of the copyright infringement.
Speaker 2You've got to pay royalties.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, but you know what? But it was just on YouTube.
Speaker 2When I did the same video on TikTok or on Facebook, it was fine it has their own music that you can choose from, and then you go to a different platform and that music doesn't have different platform and that music's not doesn't have the right to that music. That platform doesn't have the right to the same music.
Speaker 1But this wasn't. This wasn't last name music. This was off of a movie.
Speaker 2A clip from a movie that I put on there.
Speaker 1Like a 15 second clip. I know I've done that before, but it was fine with all other social media, but YouTube said not today, jack, so I don't know I don't get it.
Speaker 2I don't understand. I'm going to take a nap.
Speaker 1All right, thanks for watching and listening See you next time.
Speaker 2Peace out, bye-bye, girl Scouting you.
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