This That And The Other
This That And The Other
37. Life in Space: The Unexpected 9-Month Mission, Tanning Beds, George Foreman's Legacy, And More
Two NASA astronauts recently returned to Earth after being stranded on the International Space Station for 286 days when their mission was only supposed to last about a week. We discuss the health challenges they are facing plus the shock of what we found out on how they are paid while in space. We also discuss the life and legacy of George Foreman as we find out of his passing at age 76. Amanda is starting to go to the tanning bed and it got her to thinking about the tightness of MRI's and why Jody has a problem with them. All this and much more. We thank you so much for listening.
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Welcome back, episode 37. How are you?
Speaker 2:37? That's almost how many years we've been married. Oh my bad, I'm at 27.
Speaker 1:Hey, first thing I'm going to get started in, I just heard that George Foreman died. He died yesterday, 76 years old.
Speaker 2:I told you that didn't I.
Speaker 1:You got some kind of I brought you that piece of information?
Speaker 2:You?
Speaker 1:got some kind of notification, and then when I looked on my phone, so I had it too. You just looked at yours first. I've got some facts right here about george foreman. Of course he was 76. I just said that he passed away friday, which was yesterday, because we were recording on a saturday, not on a sunday, after church. How about that? That's what I say, so I can get this thing done. No, I have to work so hard on sunday. He's a two-time heavyweight champion. I don't have my glasses on either, so I'm struggling, struggling.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's not good. So I really need this moved about. I see them right there. You could just put them on.
Speaker 1:These are like my old, they're not even dusted off.
Speaker 2:All right go.
Speaker 1:Hey, I can see he was a two-time heavyweight champion, 1973 and in 1994, when he was 45 years old, which was unheard of. If when he was 45 years old, which was unheard of, if you're 45 years old and you become heavyweight champion, you're old, boxing at 45?. I'm 45 and I'm a heavyweight something, but it ain't a champion. He lost his first title to Muhammad Ali in 1974. It was called the Rumble in the Jungle. Have you ever heard of that?
Speaker 2:Let's get ready to rumble, that's kind of different. Oh, that's wrestling's. Get ready to rumble.
Speaker 1:That's kind of different. Oh, that's wrestling?
Speaker 2:No, that's boxing.
Speaker 1:Oh is that boxing yeah, that's boxing.
Speaker 2:That's not the rumble, no.
Speaker 1:Oh, all right. He was an Olympic gold medalist. He won the gold in 1968. He retired in 1977, but made a comeback in the late 80s and then eventually regained the heavyweight title in 1994.
Speaker 2:After retiring in the 70s, he became a minister Did you know that I think I did know that a little bit. I did. I feel like I had heard that.
Speaker 1:This next one. I did know he had five sons. Yeah, I think he's got a daughter, but he's got five sons. You know what their names are.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm going to tell you George Jr, George III, George IV, George V and George VI.
Speaker 2:Why not?
Speaker 1:So I'm assuming that their middle name is what they would have gone by, because if not, I don't know how they communicated. Alright, and the other thing is probably the only thing Amanda knows him for what would that be?
Speaker 2:The George Foreman grill.
Speaker 1:We had one and it was good.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, we wore that thing out. Sorry, George.
Speaker 1:It sold over 100 million units worldwide.
Speaker 2:I knew he was a boxer Is that not crazy? I knew that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I knew more of the grill and that kind of stuff Because, you know, he was out of boxing when I was old enough to even care about boxing.
Speaker 2:Gotta keep checking on my groceries.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're waiting. If you get the call, we'll. If I get the call. I'm gonna be solo.
Speaker 2:Jody is flying solo.
Speaker 1:Let me take these glasses back off so I don't look so weird jody be flying, so what?
Speaker 1:would I do if you left right now. I would just be looking at the oh we're uh video on this, by the way. So check it out on youtube. Hey, I told you we really hadn't put anything on youtube there that much because I had video editing issues. I've had problems with my phone on storage. Now I've talked to amanda every day probably 10 times about the storage on my phone because I cannot figure this out, because I have got 256 gigabytes available on my phone. I'm gonna. I'm at 252 and then I went in. Now this has been going on for two weeks now. I have gone and deleted I don't know how many videos and today I told you I know it was last night I deleted 90 videos and 70 pictures.
Speaker 2:It dropped one gigabyte on my phone I know I keep telling you it's somewhere else, but when you deleted your GoPro videos, that took more.
Speaker 1:When I went in today and I only deleted four in each one it was a five second video apiece and it dropped 12 gigabytes just in those, so I don't know, and it was pulling that out of the cloud so it shouldn't have anything to do.
Speaker 2:If you know how to get us more memory on our phone, let us know. Below.
Speaker 1:Look, and we've looked it up, I have Googled it, I have gone in.
Speaker 2:He don't want a new phone.
Speaker 1:No, I don't need a new phone, I'm just saying I've gone in and done everything they've said to do. There's even a thing where you can go in and hey, I deleted. It's a year old. It deletes out of your phone not pictures, but say like text messages. So if me and you've been texting after a year stuff like that, it deletes it, so that saves I don't know if I like that well, I did that, and then I found out I didn't like that, but it didn't.
Speaker 2:But I did this a long time ago I'm pretty sure I have a voicemail from my mom. Yeah, it doesn't touch your voicemails or anything like that. Oh, just pictures.
Speaker 1:No, I just said it doesn't touch. This is mainly texting and stuff like that oh texting yeah, applications. I guess you'd call that, but I don't know.
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:I mean, I know you get tired of me talking about it, but I would think I'm. I have got some videos that are over an hour long Fishing videos, feeding the catfish. Delete, delete, delete, delete. To why I'm like I'm deleting stuff just to be deleting. I'm like I really don't want to get rid of this. There's nothing. Family.
Speaker 2:Well, I bought you that card to put them on.
Speaker 1:So we got, we ordered a memory stick, whatever it's called. Yeah, you stick in your phone. First you got to download an app, and then what does that do?
Speaker 2:Hold on Everything download. You got to download an app.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so what did that do when I downloaded it? I even have an app to the smelly good stuff we plug in the hall. That is crazy. Yeah, you've got this. Tell them about that real quick.
Speaker 2:It's called pura or something like that. So you plug it in the hall and it's just a little square vial of smelly stuff and you put it up in there and you scan whatever flavor it is and it's on your phone and you you control it by your phone. I can turn it on when we're not here. I set a timer on it. I can turn the light. I really like it for the nightlight because Jody gets up at 3 o'clock in the morning. So now I've got it set to where it comes on.
Speaker 2:It doesn't necessarily have to smell. I can just turn that light on.
Speaker 1:But it comes on and then, if you're probably within 20 feet, we've got our thermostat in the hall, I guess most people. So when I get up out of the bed there's a certain angle. I'm probably 15 or 20 feet from it. I'm in the bedroom and when I'm getting up that night the light on it pops on, which is good. It is good For me, so it helps me see, but it's not good for anybody else in the house.
Speaker 2:It's weird that it comes on and we're in the bedroom. You're not close by. But the thing about that smelly thing is it's strange because it comes on on its own by like 6 in the morning and 6 at night, or something like that. Yeah, I forget how it's set.
Speaker 1:But it puts out some smell.
Speaker 2:It's the best smelling thing I've had that lasts through the house.
Speaker 1:It does.
Speaker 2:It lasts. It cannot be on and I can come in the house and I smell it and anything else. I've tried. It doesn't. I'd have to say I'm happy with this.
Speaker 1:So back to my memory stick on my phone.
Speaker 2:Had to download an app.
Speaker 1:Download an app and, like I said, what does it do? Takes up memory because you've downloaded an app now yeah, all right. So now I'm defeating the purpose, but you gotta have it. So I've gone in there and I have all my honduras mission trip pictures, videos, all that. I have probably put a thousand pictures and videos on that memory card stick and I have dropped just maybe four gigabytes off my phone.
Speaker 2:I don't get it. That's another episode you need to do is Honduras.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can do that. You can go by yourself and do that one. Well, if you have to leave, I guess I'll start. All right, cut everything. We're going to talk about Honduras.
Speaker 2:Cut, we're going to Honduras. If I have to leave and go get groceries, you know that's been 10 years. Has it not been longer than that?
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:I feel like it has.
Speaker 1:Because there's an orphanage down there and the kids will, you know, you get attached to one of the kids or one of the kids will get attached to you.
Speaker 2:I thought he was going to bring us one home.
Speaker 1:I would have brought her home. If I could have put her in my backpack and snuck her out of the country, I would have. But cutest little girl, I'm we're not gonna, I'm not gonna go into this whole story, but they do get it they do get attached to you and I got attached to her big time, but she would be 19 or 20 oh, I guess. So yeah, yeah, yeah that's crazy, because she was probably 10, 9 or 10. Yeah, all right. So back to our story. We want to talk about these astronauts.
Speaker 2:Jody wants to talk about these astronauts. I have.
Speaker 1:It is strange.
Speaker 2:This is very strange. He thinks I'm going to read up on this stuff and I never do.
Speaker 1:No, I know you won't.
Speaker 2:But I know he'll bring out the facts. I'll bring out the facts.
Speaker 1:I bring out the facts because I'm interested, I'm going to knock this mic over. I wish it didn't make so much noise when I hit it.
Speaker 2:I think my glasses again. I wish you would move, quit moving.
Speaker 1:Anyway, the two astronauts Put your glasses back on. No, I'm good, you can read it. They were stranded. They were on the International Space Station for how long, do you think? How many days.
Speaker 2:Was it nine months?
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm 286 days to be exact, so from June 5th of last year.
Speaker 2:Wait, how many were there?
Speaker 1:Two.
Speaker 2:Oh, I thought there were more than two. No, it's.
Speaker 1:Sonny Williams. I don't know if it's Sonny or Sonny. I'm going to say Sonny, sonny Williams and Butch Wilmore. Okay, so they're the two astronauts. Whoa.
Speaker 2:There wasn there wasn't a woman.
Speaker 1:Yeah, sunny is the one. Oh, sunny is the woman. Okay, okay, go ahead. That's what she goes. That's son of my, or something like. That's her first name, suny? Yeah, no, it's either s-u-n-i. Is that sunny or suny? I think it's sunny. Forgive me if it's not all right. So they were up there, uh, from june 5th of last year until March 18th, which was a few days ago, which was a Tuesday, I think it was. Their mission was initially planned to last seven to eight days.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 1:So your one-week trip turns into nine months.
Speaker 2:Nine months later.
Speaker 1:It was extended due to technical issues with a return spacecraft the Boeing Starliner.
Speaker 2:Did they prepare for that?
Speaker 1:I did.
Speaker 2:Like if you can't get back they've got stuff.
Speaker 1:So I did find this out. There is a spaceship whatever you want to call it pod shuttle.
Speaker 2:Oh, wow.
Speaker 1:That is in the attached part of the international space station. So yeah, I guess, I guess if they say, hey, the international space station has sprung a leak, we've got to get out, you can get in that thing and take it home. I just don't think they want to risk it because I guess they don't know if 100 percent of this okay. How long has it been out there? I don't know. Did it go up there when originally, or did they? I don't know? So the safest thing to do is to take a spaceship up there, get them and come back.
Speaker 2:Okay so.
Speaker 1:But I think me personally, I don't know I'm going crazy If I'm stuck up there.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I mean, how in the world?
Speaker 1:So I'm just saying you, better not let me know where the keys are to that spaceship, because one morning I'm going to wake up and say, hey, I'm getting out of here. Are you with me? You know, yeah. You ain't paying me no attention.
Speaker 2:Well, I was trying to say where our sun was. It just went off. Of course they're eating.
Speaker 1:Let's see. So they splashed down Tuesday off the coast of Florida In the water Yep, with the SpaceX crew of two aboard the Dragon Freedom spacecraft. So Elon Musk sent them mission up there to get them, which was good. And then he's saying it was all political that they could came down earlier. But for whatever reason and I don't know what, he means by saying it's all political elon. I think what he's saying is because he couldn't get permission to go up there and get them during the biden administration.
Speaker 1:That's from what I gather, why. I don't know. I mean you're. You're taking a chance on the safety and lives of two people.
Speaker 2:So what I want to know is how they had supplies for nine months up there.
Speaker 1:Oh, they've got it covered up there. That's a big place Now we did on the other podcast.
Speaker 2:I did For nine months staying straight up there nine months. They've got plenty of stuff. Well, I mean, I guess they do.
Speaker 1:They made it yeah, up there nine months they've got plenty of stuff.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, I guess they do. They made it, yeah, um, but I think I heard that like she was having problems walking or something she yeah, I've got all that too.
Speaker 1:Um, if you'll just give me a second, let me get this part out. So we did an episode on the international space station several months back me and the two guys and it was really into the whole shebang. You know how long it's been up there, how big it is, all this stuff. So, yes, there is plenty of supplies up there, all right. So if you're stuck in space unexpectedly, wouldn't you be well compensated?
Speaker 2:Yes, you better be paying me.
Speaker 1:Better Overt be paying me Better, Overtime too. So the annual salary for an astronaut, depending on your rank and your time with them, ranges from $125,000 to $165,000.
Speaker 2:That's all.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean.
Speaker 2:If you're not stuck in space, if you're on.
Speaker 1:The Most astronauts are on the ground, you know. So, while on missions, astronauts are considered to be on official travel orders. They receive a standard per diem allowance of around five dollars per day, which amounts to fourteen hundred and thirty30 in per diem payments. All right, so I think that's crazy. They should have some kind of pay structure for any kind of situation like this, right here. Right, don't you think? Yes, I mean because you know eventually something's going to happen. It's like, all right, you know your time's going to accrue, your overtime, something is going to keep adding up.
Speaker 2:So for the next two years they're going to be on vacation Because it's not like.
Speaker 1:I don't care if you're salary Paid. Listen, if you're salary, what do you still get? Two days off, right? So you're getting paid for 40. If you're scheduled 50 hours of your place of business, right, but your salary you still get your off time, right. They're not getting off time because they're stuck.
Speaker 2:Maybe they're clocked out up there and they go into this room and said don't bother me you hear me screaming, don't come.
Speaker 1:I'm just getting, you know, relief.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So yeah, that's crazy, all right. So prolonged weightlessness, physical rehabilitation that's what they're going to have to go through now, if I don't know. Going back to when they splashed down and if anybody out there watched the splashdown it looked very fake, very fake. Water's very still, and I'm not saying that it look, look, I believe here we go. This is not a conspiracy theory, but I do have more conspiracy theories coming out of me now as I get older.
Speaker 2:Oh dear.
Speaker 1:I'm not doubting they were in space. I'm not doubting we sent a rocket up there with Elon's signature on it, getting them, bringing them down. They landed in the water. I'm just saying, if you watch this video very sketchy, all right, hardly a ripple on the water. This capsule is just b-bopping. It looks like ai generated it really does. And then all of a sudden, dolphins come up beside and yes, no, this is like a drone that's taking this and like all around. And then the announcer, the person that's announcing oh look, it's some happy little dolphins coming up to meet our astronauts. Something crazy like that, and it really I don't know.
Speaker 2:How could they fake it?
Speaker 1:They can't. I'm just saying it looked fake, but it's got to be real right, or does it it? It's got to be real right, or does it? It don't have to be. How many times could they do something? To where they have a precautionary thing? To where they video something to make it look better than it really is? You know what I'm saying yeah and maybe it's something like that.
Speaker 1:Maybe they landed way over here in the water, had a hard time getting them, but we're gonna show them this video. You know I'm not gonna show them getting out. We're gonna show them loading up the capsule and all this stuff and it looks great. I don't know, just throwing that out there not saying that's what they are but I'm, when we get, I'm gonna.
Speaker 2:I wish I showed you this I can't believe you didn't show me that strange I can't believe it uh, oh, anyway.
Speaker 1:So if you, if you watch the video too, when they get them out of the capsule they can't stand. They have to help them up. All right, and she had iv. I don't know if you saw that.
Speaker 2:Well, I don't know yeah so she looks health-wise.
Speaker 1:She looks like she's struggling, which I can understand.
Speaker 2:Breaking news.
Speaker 1:What.
Speaker 2:Arkansas men beat number two seed, st John's.
Speaker 1:So those that have a bracket out there good luck to you. There's you some breaking news, even though this will be two days from now when it comes out, oops. So it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2:It's breaking to you because I thought you said you had st john's to win I don't remember anyway do you want me to go check real quick?
Speaker 1:you want to talk while I go check nope, I'll be right back. Nope all right. So we're talking about their rehabilitation, all right. So these are some of the things uh, bone density loss and muscle atrophy, cardiovascular and balance issues, sensory readjustment these are all the things that they're going to have to do. Right, radiation exposure monitoring. I'm sure I didn't think about it. I didn't think about that. There's radiation in space, supposedly.
Speaker 2:Supposedly.
Speaker 1:Now I don't know if it's when you're coming through the atmosphere or if it's actually all in space. I'm not sure. I think it's all in space. Why would that be? Why, I don't know? You know there's precautions when they're up there, but they're not expecting you to possibly be that long, so you're going to be exposed to more radiation, so it's more dangerous. But you do have some of these cosmonauts you know from russia that have stayed up there for like a year, you know. So is there not things in place to protect them anyway? Maybe they just monitor, just to make sure that yeah but they should be all right.
Speaker 1:I don't know look, look, just as we don't give facts, we try to do it the living room tv is loud yeah, but you can hear it because you will not wear these headphones. I'm not wearing it, I know, but you really do.
Speaker 1:So you know if you're in and out of the mic I'm in the mic, I'm all up, but you don't know like if you wander off over right here it sounds fine to you, but people that's listening can't hear me like they can right here. Anyway, all right. So psychological adjustments that to me you've been away from your family for almost you. You miss christmas, you miss thanksgiving, you miss birthdays you miss anniversaries anybody that passed away.
Speaker 2:What if you had?
Speaker 1:people. A phone call is a lot different than being around your loved ones oh yeah you know? So I don't. What do you do? How much is there to do? So you're telling me that I've got a plate full of stuff to do every day, when you only wanted me up there for seven to eight days. So they're just giving me things to do, are they not?
Speaker 2:I don't think so.
Speaker 1:I guess so. But my goodness man, that station should be Look you're up there long enough to where you could learn chess. Oh yeah, I hope they've got enough stuff up there that you've got. What about, like some kind of?
Speaker 2:you've got some kind of broadband, you can't play cards, can you, because they're just going to float around.
Speaker 1:If you've got some kind of internet that you can like look stuff up.
Speaker 2:Oh dear.
Speaker 1:You know, Because I'd have to. You know like, hey, give me TikTok, Let, Let me pass. You know, sometimes got to be passed away my free time.
Speaker 2:TikTok will do it Next thing you know, three hours have gone by. Hey, there you go. I'm not sure they have that.
Speaker 1:No, I don't either.
Speaker 2:I'm pretty sure they probably don't.
Speaker 1:I also read that for every day in space it takes a day to recover and readjustment could take up to nine months. Since they were up there for nine months Now, that doesn't mean that they're they're still in a medical facility right this whole time. Now they will be under care for I think they said 45 days in houston. So you know, I'm sure their family stuff will come out there and see them and all that. But then after that I'm sure they're released and then it's, you know, rehab every day, every other day or depending on how I mean how healthy they are after the 45 days.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:But you're. It's one to one and a half percent bone density loss every month, is what I read. So if that's the case, that's why you're not walking when you're getting back.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's totally right.
Speaker 1:I don't care what kind of exercise, because you you don't have, you're not holding up any weight right, of course when you have me exercise um, that's not. You have to extra exercise, probably 10 times longer a day than the normal person, just to try and keep your you know muscles and I don't think you could do anything with with your bones. I don't want no part of it would you go to space?
Speaker 1:I don't think so if they say that you can go up and be weightless for two hours, we'll get you just barely in orbit I don't think so free pass, you know. Now are they gonna pay me some money no, oh no, no, because the way it you pay them now to go up there, oh no, yeah, no, no, no, no, that's what you know Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson Right, you know they've got the two.
Speaker 1:They're trying to develop it to where people pay to go up and experience you know space for six, eight hours a day.
Speaker 2:I'm going to stay right here.
Speaker 1:And I'm perfectly fine with that. So if they gave you, say, a free ticket, To go to space. Yeah to do this. No, Not even with the celebrities. Name me a celebrity. What's a favorite celebrity of yours? Put you on the spot.
Speaker 2:I don't have a favorite celebrity, no, but who's somebody that interests you? George Strait, george Strait.
Speaker 1:George Strait yeah, pick a female.
Speaker 2:You ain't going to space with no guy. Oh, I can't go with a male. Sorry, I don't like any females.
Speaker 1:Well, you're not going by yourself with them. I mean, what's your name of all friends? Rachel?
Speaker 2:Jennifer Aniston.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you don't like her. I thought you used to like her. I I mean she's okay, but you wouldn't go to space with her.
Speaker 2:I don't think so. She's not going to be your. I don't think she's going to be my BFF.
Speaker 1:Probably not. She should give you the time of day.
Speaker 2:Probably not. She probably wouldn't go with me.
Speaker 1:Would you rather go with an actress or a singer Celebrity? We're still in the celebrity. I really don't care about any of them. Selena, no, celine Dion. I was going to say Celine Gomez.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was getting all these names. Yeah, no.
Speaker 1:She'd spaz out with her, whatever.
Speaker 2:Oh, I would go with. Oh, I would go with.
Speaker 1:I'll feel the free time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because you know I'm not going to remember their names. You're not going to spit this word out for five minutes. Shut up.
Speaker 1:Actress or singer yeah, get more girls.
Speaker 2:The I'll bar it up for five minutes. Shut up. Actress or singer yeah, gilmore Girls.
Speaker 1:The mom or Both of them.
Speaker 2:I want mom and daughter.
Speaker 1:You want to sit in between them.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You do realize that the mom and daughter are older. Now, right Off of Gilmore Girls. Yeah, I saw the mom and I thought, man, she's got an O. But then I look in the mirror and I say, hey, I, I'd go with them. What does the daughter look like now? Is she an actress, or is that a one-time?
Speaker 2:deal or anybody off of Steel Magnolias. I'll tell you this.
Speaker 1:I mean no, let's go back to what's that show? No, I don't watch Gilmore Girls but I've watched.
Speaker 2:That's a movie.
Speaker 1:Listen for a second. No, you got me on who I would go with, I know, but I've seen enough passing by that. The dude wears his hat around backwards. Luke, I don't know If he went on there. He better have that hat turned the right way or I'm going to knock it off his head.
Speaker 2:No, you're not. I love a hat turned backwards.
Speaker 1:That bothers me the whole. Every time he's got that hat turned, either don't wear a hat or wear it the right way.
Speaker 2:I love a hat turned backwards. It's something about a man with a hat turned backwards man, you mean business. It's something about my man with a hat turned backwards. Hey, turn your hat backwards the only time.
Speaker 1:Stop it, stop it the only time. Oh, you're turning red the only time we are recording I hope you know.
Speaker 2:I know this is like we didn't say it was pg, you know I could edit this out.
Speaker 1:What am I thinking? I ain't scared, I'll just edit this out. We didn't say it was p. You know I could edit this out.
Speaker 2:What am I thinking? I ain't scared, I'll just edit this out, we didn't say it was PG.
Speaker 1:I have to put an explicit content warning on if it gets too bad. If not, I'll get booted off this thing.
Speaker 2:How, when you can run half naked on TV and it not be nothing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but it's different when you're doing a podcast. If you don't warn folks ahead of time, you get a strike. I don't know what we were talking about.
Speaker 2:I got you flustered.
Speaker 1:You was. Oh we were talking about. Yeah, hey, I ain't got a problem with you wearing your hat around back. It's just not all the time. I ain't doing it all the time. I'm just saying like, if you're working, like if I'm outside, I'll turn my hat around backwards when I'm sometimes.
Speaker 2:I watch you yeah.
Speaker 1:Got you again. We have a. Our regular guest is in here with us, so if you listen to, the podcast.
Speaker 2:I feel like the blood's going to run to his head.
Speaker 1:I don't know what's going on with him, but if you are a regular listener to this podcast, if you would go on YouTube, or you can go on TikTok and watch some of the shorts or the videos we put out there, you will see Winston, the Yorkie that sits beside me and right now he looks like he. I don't know all the head.
Speaker 2:You just totally got off subject.
Speaker 1:I know Squirrel yeah.
Speaker 2:Don't say that loud, he'll be gone.
Speaker 1:Well, if Coco is in here, she's at the. We lock, yeah, we lock her out because she's very, she's the chihuahua, she's, she can be aggravating. And then nicholas is should be home at any time no, he's.
Speaker 2:They've gone to town now looks like to eat okay.
Speaker 1:So they've been hiking all day and so we knew he was close and we're like my goodness, they're gonna come here and coco is gonna have a fit barking and you'll hear.
Speaker 2:But I guess oh well, yeah, that's life, yep, that's, that's the, not the perks.
Speaker 1:That's the downside of recording in your home yeah, we've got a room set up for so this is nice oh yeah, but I mean it's not soundproof.
Speaker 2:I mean you still gonna hear the dog? If they go crazy you can't, you can't stop them from going crazy yeah, and let us know.
Speaker 1:If you do watch these videos, let us know about this window that's behind us. This window behind it bothers me. I want to cover it, I don't know why it bothers you just put, just write a comment, say cover it no or don't cover it.
Speaker 2:It's fine. He worked hard on this room.
Speaker 1:I did work hard on this room Probably four months, tearing that wall down right there and then putting all this trim, staining it, putting a floor down Well, y'all can't see it, but I put a new floor down and then we got the We've never owned these chairs right here that we're talking about. We're way off subject, by the way, but we didn't talk about that. These are recliners, did we? We'd never say that, did we? I thought we did. Okay, so they do recline back. I'm happy with these chairs. I'm just glad we didn't buy them new because they would have been expensive. They were expensive used, yeah. So anyway. That's why I've got winston on a uh towel right here sitting beside me, because I don't want him scratching up this leather man I shouldn't have touched him because now he wants me to pet him All right.
Speaker 1:So you were saying still magnolias.
Speaker 2:That's not what I meant. I can't think Sweet. What's the other show I watch?
Speaker 1:The Tomatoes? Sweet Magnolias, sweet Magnolias, sweet Magnolias. I thought you were going to say what's the tomato?
Speaker 2:Green fried tomatoes Fried green tomatoes.
Speaker 1:We're ridiculous, Ah shut up.
Speaker 2:I can't help it.
Speaker 1:If we drank or smoked, people would think we drink or smoke.
Speaker 2:People think that I'm sure.
Speaker 1:I just drink Pepsi and I'm about out. Will you go get me something? I'm done with my. I got my facts out, you got your facts out. Yeah, I've been dying to talk about, you know, George Foreman. I guess that's a bad.
Speaker 2:Really, I should have never said that. That was not even funny, no, I wasn't trying to be funny. Anyway. So today I went to the tanning band.
Speaker 1:Tanning band. Why are you going to the tanning band?
Speaker 2:I know all the haters are gonna come out, but I don't care. I'm tired of self-tanning and you gotta, you gotta scrape it off and you gotta redo it and it I'm done with it to me and plus red aspen's not doing their moose anymore and that was my favorite, and I don't want to hunt any stuff I don't so explain this the moose it's green, is it not?
Speaker 1:if you I mean in the bottle, it it's green, it's not green, it's brown. Is it Okay?
Speaker 2:It's brown.
Speaker 1:You just got like a mitt, yeah, and you just like put it on and it turns you dark, but it doesn't last long right it?
Speaker 2:lasts about seven days.
Speaker 1:Okay, it lasts longer than I thought.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, yeah, To me that's not enough.
Speaker 1:Fine, because you're trying to get it perfect. I mean like if I'm doing my, I had it pretty good, yeah. So just for example, if I'm doing my, my foot.
Speaker 2:You're gonna do it with a kabuki brush and you're not gonna put mousse on your foot, you're just gonna put some drops okay, but let's just all right.
Speaker 1:Let's just say, if I didn't talk with my hands, I know I wouldn't be hitting this mic. I cannot help it. I just I gotta have my hands and winston's occupying one of them because he's bothering me over here. That's a girl, yep. So let's just say, all right, my knee Is that.
Speaker 2:All right, you put lotion on your knee.
Speaker 1:All right, so let me go back. So what I'm saying is to me it's too much of a chore, because when you start getting like when we said the ankle or your knee, your, knee is going to be darker right than like your calf or the front.
Speaker 2:I had it down pretty good. Did you think mine was darker?
Speaker 1:well, I'm just saying me being a guy. I think my knees would be rougher, so they probably you would you would have to really.
Speaker 2:Your knees are rough, so you would have to really put some lotion on them. You put lotion on your rough spots and you exfoliate them with exfoliant men I never would do this, I'm just going to go down here and lay in and all the haters can come out. Whatever, I don't care. I'm done with trying to find.
Speaker 1:But if Red Aspen had that lotion this year, if the moose came back out, I probably would do it. Even though it's a chore. Yeah.
Speaker 2:But anyway, back out, I probably would. Would do it, even though it's a chore yeah so, but anyway.
Speaker 1:So I was in there today and I got to thinking, so what? So what caused this? Just because of that, you're like I'm just done with it, I'm just gonna do it yeah, the fake way. Why can't you do it the real way, like? I am not gonna go outside and go outside and just no, just go outside and hang out.
Speaker 2:I don't get any, my legs don't get it, my chest don't get it.
Speaker 1:Why are you screaming?
Speaker 2:My nothing. Don't get it, because you're getting me riled up.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm just saying is, by the time you stay out in the yard a little bit peddling, you've turned enough times my face turns red. You've turned enough times. It's like putting something in the oven that you've got to flip.
Speaker 2:My face turns red and that's all that gets it. My legs don't get it.
Speaker 1:Well, my face is, I have to wear a hat.
Speaker 2:I know that's what I'm saying that's all that gets it when I'm outside. So yeah, so I just gave it up this year. Now, this is the first year I've been to the tanning bed in.
Speaker 1:How long?
Speaker 2:I don't even know, 15 plus. It's been. It's been a while and I really just wanted it to start a base tan, so when we can get outside I will, of course.
Speaker 1:So how? Let me ask you this then how is the tanning?
Speaker 2:since you've been out of the tanning, they're the same nothing has changed I bet they got the same beds lots yeah, surely the lights have changed over time. Oh yeah, well, I mean, I don't know, but, um, I like a stand-up bed, but this time I didn't. So anyway, where I'm going with this, until you got us all off in la la land over here, the bed that I laid in today, it actually closed all the way, and it got me to thinking.
Speaker 1:How far all the way are you talking? So it's like a clam, right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, you could say a clam.
Speaker 1:So I'm closing it.
Speaker 2:Tell me where my hands how far to Right there, really? Yes, oh, I was thinking like that. Well, every other one that I've laid in was like that.
Speaker 1:So this goes almost like an inch. So you're saying like an inch, inch and a half.
Speaker 2:Because I don't know, you know how you just get in your mind yeah.
Speaker 1:You know how you get in your mind. No tell me, how do you get in your mind I had to push up on it to make sure I could get out. Then I was push up on it to make sure I could get out. Then I was okay and I fell asleep. Have you seen those horror movies where it like locks? It's like the person locks in and then they like?
Speaker 2:well, which leads turn it on high. I want to know could you lay in a tanning bed, since you can't do mris?
Speaker 1:I can do a tanning bed. I can do this is very weird. All right, I think in an earlier episode we've talked about my issues with MRIs and these closed spaces that has just happened. Within the last few years, you know, I've never no kind of closed spaces. Look I've got. When we did this antenna and I went into the house with a coax cable, no problem, go in there, I don't know. No problem whatsoever, problem whatsoever.
Speaker 1:You know you can come out well, I think I know I can come out of any situation, but what I'm getting to is all right. There is, I've seen, on tiktok, there are some videos where some guys it it's, it's an animated thing where it's like, uh, people going down in caves and then what's wrong. Uh, my thing, where it's like people going down in caves and then what's wrong.
Speaker 2:My order says it's on its way, but I ain't got a text yet, so that means they probably are doing more orders.
Speaker 1:So how much time? You got Ten minutes.
Speaker 2:Maybe ten or fifteen minutes. We're good, we're good.
Speaker 1:So on this animated clip it's just got all right. So they're in the cave and there's three or four of them and the cave gets narrow and this is not real. I'm just watching it and it shows the guy he's going down and it's just really skinny and he's like really skinny and he's going to head first down this thing and then something happens and he gets stuck and he can't go and just watching that really creeps me out to where I about have a panic attack watching that.
Speaker 1:Another one was the guy was like on his back going down there and started going down the incline and in my mind I can see that and I'm so I cannot imagine getting stuck, oh no, he's like on the way my goodness I didn't get a text or anything, but maybe there is another stop so the whole thing about the mris in my pan I don't want to have to have some in the future um, just as a regular thing with my neck and back situation was that I feel that, since I've already got hardware in my neck six screws, two plates, and all that knowing that it's a magnet, and all this I have in my mind, that this is going to rip out of my neck and it just gets in my head and won't get out.
Speaker 2:So it's not the thought of it closing, it's the thought of it.
Speaker 1:Well, it's not closing, since you're being squeezed into it?
Speaker 2:Well, that's part of it. I mean, it goes in and out. Yeah, that's part of it.
Speaker 1:And the last one that I had. Well, it was last year. They put me in it and once they got me all the way in there, I said, nope, get me out. And they had to get me out because it was this was at St Vincent's Right, and they had to pull me out because there was no way. So then, when I go to the other one, what did I do? What did I leave in my pocket?
Speaker 2:Your phone.
Speaker 1:I left my phone in my pocket and I was going, there was zzzz wheeling me in there. I'm almost in and I reach and I feel my phone in my pocket and I say, oh, I've my phone. Like you know, I'm real loud like that. And the guy I guess he was standing right there puts his hand on my hand and says do not. He stops some things. He says do not pull that phone out, he said, because that thing, he said it will be slammed on the top of that that mri. Oh.
Speaker 2:So he brings me out. I will keep your phone next time.
Speaker 1:So the last one that I had was they had to prescribe me medicine but, one pill, whatever it was to take before I go. So yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2:I was just thinking about that when I was laying in there. I'm like is it that I can control? I can open the lid and get out myself, and you can't do that. Somebody else is controlling whether you can get out or not. I don't think so.
Speaker 1:On the MRI I think there's too many factors, One being is it so loud? Another one is they're barking orders at you. Yeah, Especially on my neck. They'll say all right, this one is going to last for six minutes.
Speaker 1:Right, I then you just stay completely still. So after so long of like it's almost like this, I'm trying to stay so still it gets in your, your head, to where you twitch, you know, and then I can't stop doing that. So I had to do it and then the guy said we're going to do that last one. The last one I did it was nine minutes and I had to do it over and it was just. This is this is so painful and stressful for me and I've never experienced that. I have never had an issue with anything like that.
Speaker 1:And MRI is like a nightmare. It's like the worst, like anything else. We're getting old. It shouldn't bother me though.
Speaker 2:Well, a lot of things bother me that didn't used to bother me.
Speaker 1:But the thing about this. They'll say well, jody, they do make a thing as open MRI. Well, guess what? I have to have stinking contrast. And you can't get contrast on open MRI, at least not with what the doctor needs from me, the way that you had the olive gravy. But let me tell you though, if you ever go to St Vincent's in Birmingham, they have the tightest MRI I've ever been in my life. My shoulders were scratched. I'm a little guy and my shoulders were scratching both sides when they wheeled me in, yeah, so.
Speaker 2:So that's my story. That was my thing today. I was just laying there thinking is this how juddy feels when he gets in that mri, because that probably that was the it closing. So I usually like to stand in a stand-up one and that's where it. It's a tanning bed.
Speaker 1:It stands up if you, you hold your hands up, yeah, you stand there and you hold your hands up if you got something to hold on to or you just yeah there, yeah, there's um handles, like ski handles, you know that is straight. I don't know. This is a.
Speaker 2:I'm out of loop on tanning beds anyway that one closes all the way, but it's big inside when it closes, so that one didn't bother me, but the one today it bothered me just a little bit because it was closed all the way. Oh, and I kept hearing something and feeling the top of the tanning bed just like going up and down. Like right by the tanning bed there's a jumpy place, a kid jumpy place. Oh, so that's affecting the and that is totally affecting it, or at least in my mind that's what I said.
Speaker 1:It was so so how hot are these beds? I don't like, I don't, I don't sweat. Yeah, oh, totally. But you know, could you sweat?
Speaker 2:if you, yeah, oh, totally but, you know I don't sweat, so hold up. But um, so that's, that's my tanning bed story and I love you. I gotta go get my groceries.
Speaker 1:Thanks for listening I'm into it too. I've just got one of these cookabird things on his thing and I had to pull it off okay, all right. All right. Thanks for checking us out on TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram. We try and put things out there, but we're so busy.
Speaker 2:We might do different videos than just this. Right here We've got some older videos that we've done an Oreo taste test or something, and then we've got another little candy thing we might do.
Speaker 1:When we go to all these, like Scottsboro to the yeah, unclaimed baggage. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah videos and stuff like that. We'll start putting that out on some of these things, but if you will just follow us on youtube and on tiktok so we can get the, the number that we need that we can start doing a live.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we'll do a live on tiktok. We'll start live on tiktok anytime and especially on youtube.
Speaker 1:If you follow us there, we will start doing our recordings live. Maybe on Friday nights, we'll start scheduling and it'll record it.
Speaker 2:Oh okay, bam, knock it out. Sounds good to me. Thanks for listening. All right guys. Thanks for watching. Thanks for watching. See y'all next time. Gotta get groceries. Bye-bye, bye-yah.
