This That And The Other
This That And The Other
38. Adventures in Costa Rica, Star IDs, and the Perils of Passport Bureaucracy
Amanda and Jody meander through a variety of topics from seasonal allergies and social media growth to the stark price difference between salon acrylics and press-on nails, while discussing an upcoming trip to Costa Rica won through a nail business.
• Flonase effectiveness for allergies and deviated septum breathing problems
• TikTok followers growing while YouTube remains stagnant
• $18 press-on nails versus $90 salon acrylics and winning a Costa Rica trip through Red Aspen
• Passport application bureaucracy and the $190+ cost for a 10-year passport
• The upcoming "Star ID" requirement for domestic air travel beginning May 2025
• Shocking story of a 30-year-old man imprisoned in his house for 20 years
• NCAA Final Four basketball tournament hopes and predictions
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Well, we're back. Looks like you all chilled out, laid out over there.
Speaker 2:Episode 38, if my memory is correct.
Speaker 1:Only because I had to look it up.
Speaker 2:That's right. That's our secret. I always ask you, look it up real quick and see what episode this is.
Speaker 1:You're chilled out. You're laid out.
Speaker 2:Me and the dog Winston is making another appearance as our guest.
Speaker 1:He'll let Winston sit with him, but I can't ever sit with him.
Speaker 2:Well, he jumps up in the chair, I jump up, and so when you get home, I don't let him get down.
Speaker 1:I'd like stay up here, buddy. Oh, he didn't like that.
Speaker 2:He's just a few weeks out from my haircut, but it's grown really quick. Hadn't been three weeks?
Speaker 1:yeah, it has has it. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's been almost a month maybe so time gets away from you pollen, pollen is everywhere oh my goodness by the way I've noticed I've been taking. I had to wash my car off before I could ever go anywhere yesterday. Yeah, because I couldn't see out the window, uh-oh.
Speaker 2:Been taking Window windshield.
Speaker 1:Is it window or windshield?
Speaker 2:What's that Windshield? Do you call it a window or a windshield? Your window is on the side, windshield's in the front. My windows are on the side, I was looking. Out your windshield, who knows where I live and windows.
Speaker 1:I just smash the gas and go.
Speaker 2:So I took a video when we left church just a minute ago. Did you look at it? Of course you didn't. Did you, did you not? I sent you a video.
Speaker 1:Oh no, I didn't.
Speaker 2:It's like a 10-second video.
Speaker 1:I did.
Speaker 2:Let me watch it. I'm watching it right now. That's fine. I'm going to tell everybody. I'll put it on YouTube. It's nothing, but it's where we had a lot of rain. It just looked like a pond. We had a lot of rain last night. In the ditch where it flows, it just looked like you have spray painted yellow in the back water?
Speaker 1:It sure does.
Speaker 2:It looks nasty.
Speaker 1:That's nasty.
Speaker 2:It is nasty. I was just bawling, and I just found it interesting. I watched it, didn't I? Yeah, I just saw you. No, so what I'm saying is I started taking Flonase. I heard that it thanks for sniffing Speaking of Flonase. Yeah you sniffing to the mind.
Speaker 1:All my babies have runny noses. I have a hard time the kids in nursery. Yeah, every one of them have runny nose.
Speaker 2:So I have a hard time breathing at night. Deviated septum my nostrils are pretty much closed up. I'm a mouth breather oh Lord, I smack when I eat, and part of that is because I can't breathe through my nose. Good, so he says so I try, If I'm aware I will not smack, but I don't ever think about it, so it's just happening until somebody tells me either you or Nicholas says you have got to stop smacking.
Speaker 1:That's the only time I know I'm doing it. He's just as bad as you now, nicholas. Yeah, he's getting there, is he yes?
Speaker 2:So my point being was I took this Flonase. It's helped my niece out with her. She's had sinus issues whatever my understanding is. She went to the doctor issues, whatever my understanding. She went to the doctor. She's got bad deviated septum, all this stuff. Instead of surgery he suggested flonase and he has like cleared her up to where she can breathe good at night and everything. So now word gets back to me about it so I'm like, hey, I'll try it. Two squirts each nostril every day for a week, then you go down to one and I've been taking it for probably three weeks now, no difference, but I think it's made a big difference.
Speaker 2:On allergies, when you know, I had allergies really bad, um, and now not as bad, but I still have them, but with all this pollen being out in it all day yesterday it's horrible uh, not a sniffle or anything. So I do think it's working on the allergy side of it. But that's for opening me up at night and stuff to be able to breathe out.
Speaker 1:Maybe you should take it at night instead of in the morning.
Speaker 2:You think that's what it is. Is it like a fix? Possibly you like bam, like within the hour. Within the hours I think so, should I not show my dirty boots? Maybe I should.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean, I got my dirty foot right here.
Speaker 2:Well, you can probably see it when I'm like this right.
Speaker 1:You can.
Speaker 2:Can you? Yes, so maybe I should just do this right here, sorry.
Speaker 1:I mean, you can see my foot if you watch us on YouTube.
Speaker 2:Yeah, check us out on YouTube and TikTok. Tiktok's grown a little bit. Has it yeah, youtube is stagnant.
Speaker 1:I got my fellows, my fellows. No, I don't have no fellows. Fellow followers my followers go into the TikTok.
Speaker 2:Are they?
Speaker 1:Every time I if you ever get on when I'm on I always tell them to go.
Speaker 2:Okay, follow. Yeah, if we can start doing a live, that'd be great, but I did put a video out there where we're talking about the astronauts that were stranded in space when they came down and did the splash down people love that well, I had a bunch of comments about you know whether it's stupid for me thinking that, or some people saying what's your point and others saying I agree it looks totally fake.
Speaker 2:But to the person that said what's my point, I explained my point. I said that I believe that astronauts went up in space. I believe we went up there and got them, I believe they landed in the water and all that was true, my point was being that it looked fake. That was my point.
Speaker 1:So you just had to get that off your chest yeah, but anyway, so we've had.
Speaker 2:so we've had a lot of people like that pretty good bit, like 3 000, that,000. That's fine. Other people say like Stop.
Speaker 1:What You're being noisy.
Speaker 2:Am I.
Speaker 1:Yes, you are.
Speaker 2:I'm fidgety.
Speaker 1:You are very fidgety, I am fidgety.
Speaker 2:I got pizza waiting. I'm about to knock you out. Pizza is waiting on me.
Speaker 1:We just got out of church Once again earlier. He wouldn't do it.
Speaker 2:Couldn't record yesterday because you weren't dialed up and I worked outside all day.
Speaker 1:Don't blame it on me. I wanted to record Friday.
Speaker 2:Friday I couldn't.
Speaker 1:Why.
Speaker 2:For some reason I couldn't Thursday, I could have Thursday, I couldn't Wednesday, I could have Tuesday. But you know, when you record on Tuesday, it seems like you release on Monday and then Tuesday you go ahead and record. No, you're like I got all week to record, so you don't do it on Tuesday, wednesday, Thursday.
Speaker 2:Friday. So tell me what's your news, what you've got going on. I had several things I want to talk about, but you don't want me to talk about this stuff. You don't want me to talk about anything that's in the news. I'm not going to try and ever get political, which you know. Some things we could talk about Doge. We could talk about that cave that's got.
Speaker 1:Talk about what?
Speaker 2:Doge.
Speaker 1:What the heck's Doge.
Speaker 2:Doge you don't know about Doge.
Speaker 1:Doge or Doze like you, doze off.
Speaker 2:You've heard of Elon Musk, correct? No, I don't know who he is. Well it's Anyway. They're trying to get rid of the waste, all the money, the taxpayers money, that's going to all these places.
Speaker 1:You're just trying to get views, so you're going to go political.
Speaker 2:No, no no, no, no. You asked me what Doge was. I wouldn't even get into this, I'm just telling you. But anyway, and then there's a cave that legit. There's a cave that the government has all this paperwork in for all the people, like when you try and retire and all this kind of, and it is crazy but I don't get into all that.
Speaker 2:But no, what I'd like to talk about is topics like when things happen like every day, just weird stuff. I see in the news article and I want to bring it up, but you're like, I don't want to do stuff like that because you do it on the other one the other podcast. Well, but it won't be the same stuff, maybe sometimes. Hey, maybe we do it here before I do it on the other podcast.
Speaker 1:You talk about there.
Speaker 2:I know. But I like certain topics and I want to bring up certain things too that I know.
Speaker 1:I didn't think that you didn't know about Doge. Maybe you should just do one by yourself one day.
Speaker 2:A podcast by myself. No, just do an episode on here by yourself. I was going to say you're kicking me off our podcast. That's what it sounded like.
Speaker 1:No, you should just do one on here.
Speaker 2:Do an episode by myself. Just me, the dog and the camera.
Speaker 1:I'll be the camera guy Woman. I'll be the camera woman.
Speaker 2:I'll zoom in and out, you'll move.
Speaker 1:I'll move back and forth. You'll be professional Because I'm professional.
Speaker 2:So I want two cameras. Can we get two cameras? And then you've got to get a switcher that hooks up to that to do audio.
Speaker 1:I would rather our video be a little bit closer than it is.
Speaker 2:What do you mean? Get up and move it right now. Why don't you talk to the people and then I'll move the camera?
Speaker 1:closer how about no.
Speaker 2:Do you want to close up?
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:If we get a close-up, we're going to have to put these chairs closer together and not have them angled. They'll be like that and we'll be facing forward.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That would be awkward.
Speaker 1:To face forward.
Speaker 2:We're angled at each other so I can look at, but if we're sitting side, by side. I've just been watching people's and they just go closer up than let's like we're just gonna say you make it sound like we need like a love seat and we just sit on a love seat facing the cameras.
Speaker 1:It's only, it's kind of like one of these, these reality shows where we just need to hire somebody to be our production team and they just hold the camera and video well, I've tried to pay nicholas to do this kind of stuff.
Speaker 2:He don't want anything to do with it.
Speaker 1:He ain't going to do squat, no matter what. Squat, no matter what. You didn't turn your blue light on behind you. I know what kind of tree is that.
Speaker 2:I don't know A shrub.
Speaker 1:That is not a shrub.
Speaker 2:I don't know what you call it.
Speaker 1:You've told me, but I don't know what it's called.
Speaker 2:A fiddle fig leaf. That looks pretty good. You had a. We had a real fiddle fig leaf.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:But it died because a manna can't keep any plant or tree shrub anything A succulent.
Speaker 1:You can't kill a succulent.
Speaker 2:What was that?
Speaker 1:I can. It's those like little plants, like the little, just like a few years ago we went to not we, as in me, and you, we, as in the women's group went to the plant place on Airport Road. Whatever the name of it's called Plantique.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And made the little bowls and it had several different plants in it Succulent you can't kill a succulent. I don't remember anything. The little bowls, in it had several different plants in it, succulent you can't kill a succulent.
Speaker 2:I don't remember anything.
Speaker 1:I can't kill a succulent. I don't mean to, but I just did, and those other plants that they say you can't kill, like you get from funerals.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that's what most of our plants have come from. Is funerals, yeah.
Speaker 1:I did, I killed it. Well, most of our plants have come from is funerals. Yeah, I did, I killed it.
Speaker 2:Well, we don't have any plants in the house. We don't have any plants.
Speaker 1:I nixed that a few years ago. I'm like, no, we ain't, I can't do it. I don't know why.
Speaker 2:You think you could keep a cactus alive? Surely you could keep a cactus.
Speaker 1:Well, once in a blue moon it died, I don't know, I don't know either, but that poor fiddle fig, I wanted that thing so bad. I think we just don't have a good place in our house to get a little bit of light, because you need a little bit of light, you don't need a lot, and I wanted it over in this one certain corner and we'd have to move it to the light every once in a while.
Speaker 2:Well, it's got. You know these big old. Well, you see the fake leaves on it, but they're huge leaves. They have huge leaves and they just drop off. Yeah, and they start turning Well, they drop off, and then some of them start turning brown, and then I'm trying to decide is this what it does? Is this one of those things. Because I didn't know what a fiddle fig tree. I've never known one before. This was a few years ago. And then I found out that no, that's not what they're supposed to do, and it died.
Speaker 1:It died. You tried to bring it back. It was too late Too late.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if I'd have realized what was happening, instead of me just thinking, hey, it's shedding its leaves for this time of year. If I'd have took action then.
Speaker 1:I like the one we got now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I just have to dust it every once in a while.
Speaker 1:Yeah, spritz it with some water.
Speaker 2:Is that what you do, sure Spritz, is that what spritz? Is spritz do you spritz stuff to keep it like a regular shrub or plant? Do?
Speaker 1:you spritz it. Are you talking about when you clean something? You spritz it. You gotta water those. They should just spritz and keep the dust off I've never used spritz well just saying welcome to the real world spritz it okay spritz it what do you got?
Speaker 2:I don't got nothing.
Speaker 1:What do you gotta talk about, since you?
Speaker 2:wouldn't got nothing. What do you got to talk about? Since you wouldn't let me talk about anything, I was going to talk about. What are you going to talk about?
Speaker 1:Oh, you talked about old Elon I didn't. Whatever you just called it Doge, moche, doge, yeah, doge.
Speaker 2:I didn't talk about it I just mentioned it Trace. Go Trace.
Speaker 1:Go ahead.
Speaker 2:Quattro, what news? What are you? I don't got no news.
Speaker 1:You said I couldn't talk about it.
Speaker 2:I said you could talk about it. You said I couldn't. My goodness you know, the longer we sit here, the more I think I didn't hit the record button. You know, I always in my mind, whether recording this one or the podcast, I always think I need to check and make sure I hit the record button. But I don't want to keep checking we were gonna taste, test the.
Speaker 1:What did you lay on the bar?
Speaker 2:we'll do it later.
Speaker 1:Go ahead all right, next episode we're gonna taste test we'll do a different video go ahead. Whatever it's called. I forgot what it's called.
Speaker 2:Anyway, I won a Tell us about your trip that you won.
Speaker 1:I won a trip to Costa Rica.
Speaker 2:Costa Rica. Where is Costa Rica?
Speaker 1:I don't know Costa Rica is far away Central America. It's far away, it's close to Honduras.
Speaker 2:Honduras is 1,700 miles away. Only reason I know that is since I've been there, but Costa Rica is like right there beside it.
Speaker 1:Is it?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That's nice. I won it, so it's free.
Speaker 2:So tell us, what does this mean?
Speaker 1:So I won it with Red Aspen, with my nail business. If you've been around then you know a while. You basically work your butt off to get so many points and they upped the points this year, or I would have earned it a lot sooner if they had kept the same points.
Speaker 2:What are the points based off of?
Speaker 1:Sales and your team.
Speaker 2:What's a team?
Speaker 1:A team of ladies I have. So this year I only want it for me. Next year I'll strive for you.
Speaker 2:Me. Yeah, I don't want to go to Costa.
Speaker 1:Rica. It won't be Costa Rica next year.
Speaker 2:It'll be somewhere different If it's Las Vegas to the Sphere. Count me in. I want to go to the Sphere.
Speaker 1:You will go if I win, put the word in that the next business meeting needs to be at the Sphere. No, this is a vacation.
Speaker 2:I don't take vacations. I know you need one, so I don't go.
Speaker 1:The next business meeting is actually in.
Speaker 2:Tampa.
Speaker 1:Arizona, that's close.
Speaker 2:Don't look at me like I know.
Speaker 1:It's called Girls Weekend. That's where we actually do business.
Speaker 2:Well, I would say, I would think that the whole thing is Girls Weekend, because if you're selling nails, I don't think it's a guy's weekend.
Speaker 1:That's just what they call it, though.
Speaker 2:Girls weekend.
Speaker 1:But this one I'm going on.
Speaker 2:I don't even think you really have to call it that. I'm just what I'm saying. It's like it's a given.
Speaker 1:But it's just something that we call it. It's called girls weekend.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:But this one's called cozumel. Nope, costa rica cozumel, mexico cozumel is where we we cruise cruise to yeah. So anyway, from december yes, december through the end of november, you have these different levels that you build up to so you're talking december of 23 to.
Speaker 2:November of 24?.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, no, no, no. 24 to 25. Okay, december, this past, december 24, to tomorrow, is the last day and I hit it last week you said November and you're saying tomorrow's the last day.
Speaker 2:That's why.
Speaker 1:I'm saying March, march, okay, did I?
Speaker 2:say November? You keep saying November. That's why I'm saying March, March. Did I say November? You keep saying November.
Speaker 1:That's why I'm what are you talking about? Why did I say November?
Speaker 2:Don't know, that's why I was trying to.
Speaker 1:My bad December through March, you got four months to earn these points. And then my director earned it's called active two. She earned a $10 dollar bonus.
Speaker 2:She busted her tail that's a lot of nails. Is that all you say?
Speaker 1:nails. No, we sell makeup and stuff, but I, um, I pushed the nails, but that's a lot. It was a lot like last week. Jody said you hadn't been live, are you not gonna do it? I think when I hit it I kind of shut down because I was tired, almost burned out of it a little bit.
Speaker 2:So when you say a live, what do you mean? So you're going on what?
Speaker 1:I go on TikTok and do lives and get new customers and push them over to Facebook.
Speaker 2:So what do you do? Do you just talk about nails on your live? I?
Speaker 1:put nails on. I show you how to use press on nails and save money so you're one of those that save money look our friend let me hold on, let me say that.
Speaker 2:So you're talking about, you have it to where it's showing like your nails it's called a flat lay you're doing a flat lay I do a flat lay, so you're like the camera's looking at your nails and you're just doing okay.
Speaker 1:So that's what the videos are the lives okay or you can do them face to face, but most people want to see what you're doing. So, um, my friend got her okay, so it's been spring break around here. Um, we'll go back to costa rica. I gotta tell this. My friend got her daughter's nails done acrylic nailsrylic nails. Ladies will know what I'm talking about. $90. You know how much mine were $14.
Speaker 2:$14.
Speaker 1:These are $18. $18. These are $18. $90.
Speaker 2:How long do they last?
Speaker 1:though Probably not long.
Speaker 2:I don't know what, probably not long is.
Speaker 1:Maybe a week.
Speaker 2:Really.
Speaker 1:It depends on how rough she is on them.
Speaker 2:So what does that mean? So you go to a nail place and they put and it's acrylic nails, that's what it is.
Speaker 1:They put on Yep. They put acrylic on your nails.
Speaker 2:Is that special rate for something special, or is that the regular? Surely it's not that much to have nails put on, is it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's why I'm trying to get women to change, Because I can get a two-week wear out of an $18 pair and they're reusable.
Speaker 2:How many times can you reuse a pair of nails? A couple, three?
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, it depends on.
Speaker 2:Wear and tear.
Speaker 1:Yeah, do I reuse them? No, because I got so many.
Speaker 2:So what do you do? You throw them away after you wear them one time?
Speaker 1:No, I can't throw them away. I give them to my friends.
Speaker 2:So you're swapping nails?
Speaker 1:I'm about to do a big old sale. Pre-worn nails you're giving to Not necessarily they're different sizes and the ladies that I give them to their nails are bigger than mine.
Speaker 2:So they'll use the ones that.
Speaker 1:I didn't use most of the time.
Speaker 2:How do you not use nails? I mean when I buy.
Speaker 1:There's 30 nails in a box.
Speaker 2:Okay, so I didn't know. I thought there was 10, since you have 10 finger, nails?
Speaker 1:Well, no, because everybody's nails aren't the same.
Speaker 2:So there's different sizes.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:So there different sizes? Yes, okay, yeah, so there's three different sizes per nail, like small medium. You said 30. I know because there's half sizes in there, because some fingers you might need a half size whatever happened to just painting the nails you have on your hands.
Speaker 2:Can you, can I not?
Speaker 1:like grow these nails out and then it flakes. It takes forever to.
Speaker 2:Is fingernail polish a thing of the past?
Speaker 1:For me it is because it takes too long.
Speaker 2:So what do they do when you go to a nail place? Is it like Most?
Speaker 1:of them get dip powder and stuff like that, so that dries like that when you're putting it under.
Speaker 2:I don't have a clue what I'm just saying. Is it? The fake nails like blah and they paint the nails when they put them on. Is that what they?
Speaker 1:do yeah, yeah, they put like tips on them. So anyway, I'm going to maybe go to Costa Rica if the passport gets back. I guess I didn't believe in myself, so I didn't get my passport early. They got to have the passport back because they got to have the number off of it.
Speaker 2:for their part, Red Aspen, red Aspen, yeah Right.
Speaker 1:So part red aspen, red aspen, yeah right, so so you're saying how long to get a passport back. I expedited it so he said that was on on the very front end of four weeks. And did you know that your passport don't just go to one central place like it goes to one place, but but then the one place which I think might be Atlanta, might be like the place, then that place sends it to other places to fix it, then they send it back and that place sends it back out.
Speaker 2:To fix it.
Speaker 1:To like whatever they do.
Speaker 2:Put it in the system or whatever.
Speaker 1:I don't know what they do, and then they send it back. I don't know what they do, and then they send it back.
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:But he said yeah, it's not. He said there's no telling where it'll end up, because I'm like is there a number I can call to make sure they get it? Is there something? I?
Speaker 2:can do? I don't think there's nothing that you can do, because it's the government for the most part.
Speaker 1:So you're just waiting. I don't like it.
Speaker 2:That's why, if you're waiting to the last minute, you're taking a big-time chance.
Speaker 1:I should not have waited to the last minute, but—.
Speaker 2:I think mine's out of date. It's 10 years and you said the other day that— it's been 10 years since I've been. It's been 10 years.
Speaker 1:so I thought that too. But you know what else we've got to do this year? No clue. The star, if we're going to fly anywhere. The star.
Speaker 2:You got to have a star on your license.
Speaker 1:Oh, what am I To fly.
Speaker 2:So if I don't, I can't fly.
Speaker 1:Nope.
Speaker 2:So just out of the blue something happens.
Speaker 1:No, this has been going on.
Speaker 2:Nope. So out of the blue, I have to fly somewhere for whatever emergency.
Speaker 1:I can't. I mean in the United States.
Speaker 2:You have to have one for the United States.
Speaker 1:You have to have a star.
Speaker 2:Is that like an extra payment? Probably. I don't understand.
Speaker 1:We'll talk about it next time. We'll have that discussion next time. I don't know. I have to look it up.
Speaker 2:Why don't you know? You're talking about having to have a star, but you don't know anything about it.
Speaker 1:So when I had to look it up. Why don't you know You're talking about? We're having to have a star, but you don't know anything about it.
Speaker 2:Why so, when I go to Arizona, get in your mic oh. When I go to Arizona. See if you wear headphones, you'd know.
Speaker 1:When I go to Arizona, is it called domestic? When you fly out of the United States, what's it called when you just fly inside?
Speaker 2:Domestic is inside.
Speaker 1:Domestic is inside, okay, so you can talk.
Speaker 2:I thought you were going to talk while you're looking at that.
Speaker 1:Well, I can't talk in type too, All right. Why do you have to have the star on your driver's license? It indicates a real ID, a real ID compliance license license meeting federal security standards for identification and is required for boarding commercial aircrafts and assessing certain federal facilities. So you have to have it.
Speaker 2:So I still don't understand understand. So if I'm if I'm getting a driver's license, that's an official document for me, but it's not to vote, to do all these things, to do whatever. So why are you not automatically putting a star on?
Speaker 1:if your driver's license or state id has a star in the upper right hand corner, it's already a real id compliant. Nothing more is needed do I?
Speaker 2:I have a star.
Speaker 1:No, you don't, Because they just started it a few years ago and then year 2025 is when it's going to be mandatory to have it.
Speaker 2:What I'm saying is Can?
Speaker 1:I fly without a star ID. Beginning May, the 7th of 2025, every air traveler 18 years of age and older will need a real ID, compliant driver's license, state issue enhanced driver's license or another acceptable form of ID to fly within the United States.
Speaker 2:So my driver's license is not good enough.
Speaker 1:You gotta have that star on.
Speaker 2:But I can use another form.
Speaker 1:What is that? This makes no sense can I travel in the us without my star? If you are traveling domestically, you will only need one valid form of identification either your real id, which is the star, or another acceptable alternative such as, but what I'm saying is I know what you're saying, but I'm just telling you I don't think you do.
Speaker 2:My point is being am I having to do an extra step to get a star on?
Speaker 1:my yes.
Speaker 2:So when I go my driver's license is expired, I've got to go get it filled out.
Speaker 1:Is it not automatic? Nope, are you sure Nope? Is it not automatic? Nope.
Speaker 2:Are you sure?
Speaker 1:Nope, it wasn't last time when I got mine. Nicholas had to get his. Did he have to redo his?
Speaker 2:He'd just been 16, though, so this would have been a few years ago. Yeah, it would have been four years ago.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so if it's just now, starting. No, it's been going, it's just been mandatory. This year is when you've had to have you not heard about this no have you not heard about this? I?
Speaker 2:don't travel, so maybe that's why I tone it out. Tune it out. Do you tune it? Do you tune it out or tone it out? I do both I tune it out and tone it out so I didn't look. If they told me sorry, Jody, you can't get on this airplane, you don't have a star on your driver's license.
Speaker 1:I'd be like you got your wallet in your I was going to say your purse. You don't have a purse?
Speaker 2:No, my purse is in the truck.
Speaker 1:You don't have it.
Speaker 2:No, I just took it out before I came in here.
Speaker 1:I was going to wait to do mine because at our location where you get your license and stuff, you got to go to a different building to do the star. You got to go over to the basement of the courthouse, not the little annex where we just go and renew our license I'm gonna have to research this on my own, because I don't, I still don't understand you just gotta have it, I can go get a driver's license.
Speaker 2:That is good for anything.
Speaker 1:Put it on there now, but surely it is?
Speaker 2:I don't see you ask. Because it's a valid a driver's license. It's valid meaning as long as there's not the expiration date, you're still in when it's good, it's valid. But you're telling me that if I use my valid driver's license to get on a plane, I can't If you don't have that star on it.
Speaker 1:You can't Because it's not valid because I don't have a star. Yes.
Speaker 2:But it's valid for anything else in my life. I want to do with it.
Speaker 1:Nope, I don't know. I got him riled up now.
Speaker 2:I mean, if this is true, it's bureaucracy. Yes, that word.
Speaker 1:I feel you.
Speaker 2:I can't even say it Bureaucracy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I said it, so anyway.
Speaker 2:Bureaucratic crap is what it is.
Speaker 1:So you research the star and you tell us more next week.
Speaker 2:I wish you gave me a heads up. I'd have had it ready for this time.
Speaker 1:I really didn't think about it until a while ago.
Speaker 2:I feel like there's a star on my driver's license. I really do.
Speaker 1:I'm going to need you to pause and go get it Because you hadn't had. No, because I renewed yours online the last time it needed. Mine renews next year.
Speaker 2:Can you talk for two minutes while I go around and get it?
Speaker 1:Sure, without pausing, can we talk about nails? You talk about nails. I'm going to talk about going to Costa Rica without Jody. I'm really nervous.
Speaker 2:And you do that. You tell everybody why you're nervous, and then let's see if— I need you to run. Oh, I'm going to walk really fast. I need you to run.
Speaker 1:Okay, go, I'm timing you Two minutes. Go, we're going to costa rica. I'm excited but I'm very nervous. But I think my um, I think I will fly to atlanta and my uh director will be in atlanta, so hopefully we will be on the same plane, flying from Atlanta to. There's two airports at Costa Rica and I almost chose the wrong one. I can't remember now what it, which one it is, but anyway. So yeah, all because of nails, I am getting to go to Costa Rica. It is LIR Airport I can't say that Liberia, not the other one. They told us not to do the other one, so they have plans for us. We can do excursions, we can.
Speaker 1:I don't know if you've been to Costa Rica. Tell me about it. Tell me some things. I didn't get the upgrade to the pool side. I am going to be on the garden side, but that's okay. At least I made it. Well, hopefully I'll make it if I get my passport. If I don't get my passport, I'm not booking a flight yet, because if I don't get my passport, there's no sense in having a flight. So that was fast. What are you having to pay for? Huh?
Speaker 2:If you had a free trip, what are you?
Speaker 1:paying for you. Just pay for your flight, everything else is free.
Speaker 2:Let's see.
Speaker 1:All right, jody's going to pull out his.
Speaker 2:Oh, and by the way, if you're a guy out there and you're listening, and if you're a guy, if you're watching right here, the best thing for a wallet is see, I've got the little he loves these. It's the little insert. Is this the insert part?
Speaker 1:No, I think I actually bought that one. All right, you bought this like this, but the first time you knew about it, it was an insert in a wallet, in a wallet I had bought you.
Speaker 2:yeah, like it wasn't a trifold, it was a bifold and it had that, it had this piece that pulls out and it keeps your credit cards and everything. Well, now I saw I used that to a war. It was an auburn yeah uh wallet. So you bought me this one, and it holds all your credit cards on one side. Well, you've seen them. Now to where you can push a little button and it's good, and then?
Speaker 2:some, some of our metal. I don't think I don't ever carry a wallet. It's always in my side door. I don't. So. I heard a long time ago they said a lot of men's back issues is because their wallet being so thick and they're driving it affects their back. Well, so I used to have a thick wallet but I've gone to this. But I never wear a wallet while I'm driving or it's never in my back pocket.
Speaker 1:It's always in the side door.
Speaker 2:So anyway that's what I'm saying and, by the way, I forgot in this picture I've got long hair. I've just seen that, so I know yours don't have the star on there, so, for anybody that doesn't know, I used to have long hair for a short period of my life Three years. How long did it take to grow it out? Three years.
Speaker 1:It took a little minute.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'll never do it again, though. All right, all right.
Speaker 1:Do you need me to look at it for you?
Speaker 2:I can see it way, way down here. There's a heart on it, so I guess that's a, that's a donor way out there.
Speaker 1:Oh my goodness, so you're a donor, it's gonna be in the right right top corner, I think it said I don't have it. I didn't think you did. When do you expire?
Speaker 2:oh, that's that fine print on there. Uh, I've got till 27 okay.
Speaker 1:So if you're gonna fly before that, you've got to go get a new one are these good for two years?
Speaker 2:I mean five years, five years. Why didn't I say two years? It's been a while since I've been.
Speaker 1:Mine expires next year. Is it three years?
Speaker 2:No, no, because that's two years.
Speaker 1:He's had to already get one. So is it four years? Because I'm pretty sure I don't know, or he has, or Nicholas has to get one this year.
Speaker 2:I don't know. I don't know. We might better check his and make sure he's not out. I don't understand the whole license thing. Getting one sure Photo ID sure, paying for it every four or five years, that's a crock.
Speaker 1:What are we paying for?
Speaker 2:It's the same thing with your license plate, your tags. Did you?
Speaker 1:know, with a passport getting a picture, you had to pay extra to get a picture.
Speaker 2:And you got to have a picture.
Speaker 1:And you got to have the picture on it.
Speaker 2:It's an added cost.
Speaker 1:So if I would have but I could have took my own and took it to him. But there was all these specifics you had to do and I'm like forget that.
Speaker 2:They can just take it.
Speaker 1:And he says don't smile.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're not supposed to smile, don't smile real big, but, buddy, my eyes stood out. Is that what he said?
Speaker 1:Yeah, he gave me one of the pictures I need to give it to you.
Speaker 2:You got big eyes. I do have big eyes, but they were blue.
Speaker 1:The blue stood out like I got to show it to you.
Speaker 2:It is really blue. Your eyes don't stand out to me anymore.
Speaker 1:Because you're used to it? Maybe because I'm used to it.
Speaker 2:Probably I've been around you for all these long years.
Speaker 1:Excuse me.
Speaker 2:But I do remember you used to have big eyes.
Speaker 1:I used to have big eyes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know if you do anymore, because I don't recognize it Because you don't realize? Yeah, Realize. So you recognize, realize and what I say, man to go.
Speaker 1:This is just a hodgepodge episode, by the way.
Speaker 2:That's fine, I like it. I like to just go home. Jody does not.
Speaker 1:Jody wants structure, he wants to talk politics.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:I still hadn't heard that he's proud of me for earning this trip.
Speaker 2:How many times do I have to say I just didn't say it on camera. I'm proud of you.
Speaker 1:No, that's sarcastic.
Speaker 2:I am proud of you. I told you that that's a big deal for you to win something. I just think you screwed up not having a passport and now you're going to miss out on the free trip. Shut up, that's all I'm saying. Shut up. And I'm not going.
Speaker 1:You'll go next time.
Speaker 2:I'm not going. You'll go, I'm not going.
Speaker 1:If I earn it, I don't take a weekend off.
Speaker 2:You think I'm gonna take several days like a vacation to another state, or it'll make it without you maybe anyway, but no, I like structure on the episode.
Speaker 2:So if I've got it laid out, kind of like what we get, what I like to do is say, hey, here's some topics that I've got, hey, here's some stories that I've found, hey, or I really want to talk about this, we're going to talk about this, and if it never works out, because everything flows, that's fine. But I want that structure being there to worry when you start off. Hey, this is the plan, but we can deviate real quick instead of you're in a second.
Speaker 1:You're crickets because I like to just do it. No, we're not crickets. Could y'all hear the airplane?
Speaker 2:I couldn't, uh, could they hear that I can't do a cricket?
Speaker 1:so yeah, you're a noisemaker, let's hear you do the cricket no, I can't.
Speaker 2:I can't do a cricket okay noisemaker.
Speaker 1:I mean what is?
Speaker 2:Soundpad what Are you talking about? On the recorder that we use, or me?
Speaker 1:No, I'm talking about you.
Speaker 2:Impersonator. Impersonations. Maybe I don't know what you're trying to say.
Speaker 1:I don't feel like that was the word I was looking for, but anyway, I don't know words here lately, so there's that You've lost your vocabulary. Words are hard.
Speaker 2:Words are hard now life is hard as you get older everything is hard. I don't when you can't find the word to yeah, I've always been that way, but it's gotten no, even more of a challenge.
Speaker 1:I'm worse than you.
Speaker 2:Oh, whatever with me, because I can't think of the word and I just walk out of the room I don't get the old lady, I'm just like I know what you're talking about, just whatever, just go on.
Speaker 1:No, I just gotta know the word. So in june I'm going to coast.
Speaker 2:Freak, let's go, maybe I'm going, but I don't know. That's what you're saying, right? Yeah well maybe so maybe that'll be expedited. Yeah, pay extra for expedition what is expedition? Yeah, what is the word for expedited? Yeah?
Speaker 1:that's right expedition is expedited no, what are you talking about?
Speaker 2:you don't understand.
Speaker 1:I was trying to be funny oh no, what I'm saying is uh so you pay extra or you didn't pay extra for them to speed up the process, I did thirty dollars really yeah that means nothing, they just got say extra hey, if you want to pay a little extra.
Speaker 2:It might make feel good yeah, that just means he'll put it in the mailbox one day earlier Instead of waiting until tomorrow to let it go out in the mail.
Speaker 1:Stop, pardon that Stop.
Speaker 2:He's putting it out there this evening. That's all. That meant $30. And he got 20 of it.
Speaker 1:Oh, is that right yeah.
Speaker 2:Was it cash? Did he say cash?
Speaker 1:I bought a money order because he said a money order would go faster. I said even faster than a paying with the debit card. Well, I paid with the for the money order with the debit card, but he had to send the money order with the passport. So if I'd have paid with a debit card, how does he send the money?
Speaker 2:he got you well, I did it, did you did you make the money order out to just a certain person?
Speaker 1:No, I made it out to whatever place he said yeah, here's my name.
Speaker 2:Make the money order out to this and I'll make sure it gets there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so he got it.
Speaker 2:How much is a total amount? How much is a passport?
Speaker 1:What did I pay Before?
Speaker 2:the $30. Let's just say what's the base price $190. $190 for a pass Wow.
Speaker 1:I did not know that it's for 10 years.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I used mine twice.
Speaker 1:You got one.
Speaker 2:I know.
Speaker 1:I really don't remember paying that for years.
Speaker 2:Well, that was 10 years ago, so it was a little bit cheaper.
Speaker 1:Well, that wouldn't go up. You think that goes up?
Speaker 2:Who knows? Yes, I do. Price of eggs went way up. Why wasn't a passport?
Speaker 1:I don't know. I was trying to rack my brain. I don't even remember getting yours I was not expecting, I was thinking $70.
Speaker 2:I was thinking $50, maybe $70.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 70.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was thinking 50, maybe 70. Yeah, hmm, that hurt. I'm speechless now.
Speaker 1:Uh-oh, I'm in trouble when we get off now.
Speaker 2:Jody's done, I'm done. I got nothing else to say. That's why I can't take off work, because I'm having to pay for stinking passports. That's right.
Speaker 1:But it's good for 10 years, so I won't need one when I win this trip every year.
Speaker 2:And I haven't needed mine in nine years.
Speaker 1:Well, that's your problem. You ain't going back to Honduras.
Speaker 2:I didn't think of where it was All right, you got anything else.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:You done talking about your trip. I guess we got stuck on.
Speaker 1:No, you talk about it, I was just, no, I'm good, got stuck on this passport. I know I can't get away from it. You're mad at me now, so you're ready to get off and holler at me what do you think, Winston? See, he didn't deny it.
Speaker 2:What do?
Speaker 1:you. He said, leave me alone All right, I got pizza to eat.
Speaker 2:No, you said you was going to talk about that one thing. What? The topic 20-year-old? Oh it's too. We're already like how far into this thing. We're like 40 minutes in, I can't talk, I don't even have all the paperwork. No, there was this guy that I'll just tell you a little quick about it, the paperwork. No, there was this guy that I'll just tell you a little quick about it, the highlights he was like 13 years old when he got basically locked in his house by his father and stepmother and he's locked up for 20 years, had very little he was very isolated of, of course, but he had very little outside his room. Time, put it that way, he had chores and all that stuff and they barely fed him. It was just sandwiches and like two cups of water a day and he ended up making a fire, I guess he was what did he get to make a fire with?
Speaker 2:oh, it was hand sanitizer. The alcohol out of hand sanitizer.
Speaker 1:There you go.
Speaker 2:And something else. Did you hear that? Yes, I did. My stomach just made the craziest noise.
Speaker 1:I hope you can hear it. I hope that didn't come through because that was bad. I hope you can hear it on the microphones.
Speaker 2:So he didn't have hardly anything to eat, he said. Sometimes he'd actually even drink out of the commode.
Speaker 1:Just crazy stuff like that, so he had a bathroom in his room, though.
Speaker 2:Well, I guess he had access to it, but as he got older, more padlocks and stuff got put on the door because he was getting older. But that's another reason why they started feeding them less and less, because he's I think he's he was at least 30, maybe 32, I can't remember the article now he did this fire. It was like his last resort. You gotta think about this. If you're locked in your house and you're at like year three and you know how bad it is, you're not realizing hey, I've got almost 20 more years of this to go Right. Yeah, you're thinking any day I'm getting out of this. So, anyway. So he got attention from the fire. That's what saved him. Firefighters came in police, all this stuff, and they found out his story. Anyway, he weighs. We're talking a 30-year-old. He weighed 68 pounds 68 pounds when they got to him. So I don't know. You know him being malnutrition and all that over the years.
Speaker 1:What was the reasoning? I don't know. Why did they do?
Speaker 2:this. His father passed away last year. I thought it was just a stepmom and before I found that I was thinking I bet the dad's buried in the backyard apparently, because I'm thinking the stepmom was the main role player in this, but it was the father and the stepmother, so the dad had just as big a thing.
Speaker 1:I don't even know why they wanted to do that.
Speaker 2:Well, if I had the article, I could have read the whole thing to you. Oh yeah, let's not do that yeah, well, she's not gonna, you know, admit to any of it because she's got a lawyer, all that kind of stuff, but anyway. So I just thought that was interesting and you find you hear these things, you're thinking there's no way. You know, people do this to other people and sure enough.
Speaker 1:I mean, you think, why couldn't he get out as he got older?
Speaker 2:but he had no strength if he wasn't eating stuff I guess they keep you to where you're not getting many calories, you're not gaining any weight.
Speaker 1:And you're not using muscles.
Speaker 2:And you're probably being just threatened. Well, I mean, if they threaten you, you're like well, if you think it's bad now, if you try and escape, I can make it ten times worse. I know that's horrible when you don't have have any energy, it's hard to get motivated to try and escape or do anything to get out right.
Speaker 2:I feel you yeah all that so I mean, it's not like you can get a burst of energy and kick down the door or overtake your stepmother, whatever cause you're. You know she's two or three times your size and she's caused it that's caused it.
Speaker 1:That's horrible, it is.
Speaker 2:I hadn't heard anything else about it since they got him but, what is the protocol in trying to get somebody back to health? That weighs one-third of what their average weight should be.
Speaker 1:And you'd think it probably stunned his growth.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:You know like he's probably not top-line.
Speaker 2:I think all of his teeth were rotted out, things like that, because you know he hadn't had any kind of care whatsoever. I mean what do you do? But there's nothing he can do. He's just going with the flow. So I think he was allowed like outside.
Speaker 2:No family member or anything like, anything like well, there was the day there was like an uncle that says that he just knows that one year that he came around at christmas every year and then, like one year, you know, the kid wasn't there and ever since that year he just never was seen. Just like school, he stopped going to school. Yeah, there's a few times that the the police got called for like a wellness check for and all this kind of stuff and everything. Just how it just gets kicked out of the rug, you know. And then I found out too, if it's, I think if they get called to the house and if it was proven, there's nothing there, like after five years, they destroy the records of any kind of call to the house, so there's no records at all. So I don't know, it's just one of those things that you know. It just happened. It's horrible. How many other people are like that right now?
Speaker 1:All right, is that all you got?
Speaker 2:That's all I got.
Speaker 1:I think you're ready for pizza.
Speaker 2:I am.
Speaker 1:Maybe we won't hear that noise again.
Speaker 2:Winston, you ready for pizza? Let's go. Get pizza, let's go.
Speaker 1:Really he's ready. See, he's ready, let's go get a bone.
Speaker 2:You want to get a bone? Let's go get a bone, and he's gone.
Speaker 1:Now you got to give him a bone.
Speaker 2:I'll give him a bone.
Speaker 1:Oh, my goodness.
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Speaker 2:Yeah, if you go to Spotify, if you go to the description, in the description there's a link to all of our social media. If not, just go to these sites and punch in this, that and the other, and you'll see our logo. It's purple and our two mugs on it.
Speaker 1:Call me a mug.
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Speaker 1:I'm just saying, if they go follow us on TikTok, we get more followers, we can go live.
Speaker 2:Correct If they will do that or YouTube.
Speaker 1:Oh, YouTube yeah.
Speaker 2:YouTube will be quicker. If you'll do that, then we'll start scheduling this on like a Friday night and we'll record live. And we we'll start scheduling this on like a friday night and we'll record live and, uh, we'll even do like, uh, some questions and stuff, whatever.
Speaker 1:However it works oh, I know what you were gonna talk about. You want to talk about those games you found at walmart that's right that's next episode all right, so no, we done talked too long yeah, I know so our.
Speaker 2:So our next episode we'll talk about I fan the game section at Walmart If you haven't ever looked, there's adult games like drinking games, party games, stuff like that. Nothing too too bad. But I was really shocked when I started looking at all the type of games.
Speaker 1:I need to write that question down. I just thought of yeah.
Speaker 2:And I've got to. I've got to. I took a picture of every game. It's on my phone and my phone's not available right now. Y'all have to send it to me, so I'll have to send it to you and go through it, and then we'll post those pictures, as we're talking about it, on our YouTube as the video goes along Next week.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we'll talk about that next week, but the other thing I was going to, so look.
Speaker 2:I already have you a topic. You didn't. Let me start off by saying welcome back.
Speaker 1:I didn't want you to, because we always do that, and you were kicked back, so I wanted to start it.
Speaker 2:But it threw me off because I was going to talk about the Final Four NCAA basketball and you didn't even let me say that. So Auburn is playing in approximately two and a half hours from our recording. Right now they're playing Michigan State. You all right over there, yeah. So I need them to win.
Speaker 1:You need Auburn to win.
Speaker 2:I had Alabama in my final four. They lost Last night. I've got Florida in my final four. They're still good. If Auburn wins today, they'll play Florida. I had Kentucky in my final four and they've gotten beat. So of course my bracket got shot a long time ago. So we'll see. We need auburn to pull this off the way they play.
Speaker 1:The other night start with it didn't look like yeah, but they don't matter how you start off, it's how you finish that's true, and we're finished that's right, uh, see you on our next episode.
Speaker 2:Thanks for listening. Bye, adios.
