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39. What Happens When Life Interrupts Your Podcast Plans? Sickness, Hospitals, And A Water Leak
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Star IDs, passports, hospital dramas, and why we finally cut the satellite TV cord – this episode captures the chaos that derailed our regular recording schedule and kept us running for a full week.
The Star ID confusion affects everyone with a driver's license – do you really need that gold star to fly domestically? We break down what the requirements actually mean, why the deadline got extended to May 2025, and what documentation you'll need if you decide to get one. For those planning international travel, we share our surprisingly quick passport experience (under two weeks with expedited service!) and the bizarre "no smiling" rule for passport photos.
Our weekend adventures took an unexpected turn when a relaxing trip to a vintage market morphed into a medical emergency with a family member. The resulting hospital marathon revealed everything frustrating about modern healthcare: unpredictable doctor visits, poor communication between departments, security concerns in hospital parking areas, and the audacity of charging $4 daily for parking while visiting loved ones.
The wound vacuum technology used during treatment provided a fascinating glimpse into medical innovations – a constant suction system that dramatically speeds healing from the inside out. Meanwhile, amid hospital runs and sleepless nights, we finally canceled our satellite TV service, facing an onslaught of desperate retention offers that kept dropping in price with each refusal.
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Speaker 1Welcome back , episode 39 . We have two guests . Well , we have our regular guest , which is called Winston , the dog sitting beside me , and we have another guest called Coco . She's in her bed underneath the camera , ain't that right , coco ? Coco , you want to make an appearance ? Come here , come on , come on .
Speaker 2You're going to get them barking . Come on there you go .
Speaker 1Let's see if they'll stay up here .
Speaker 2See yeah .
Speaker 1Okay , stay up here , see . Okay , go back . All right , go back to your bed , get down , coco . Go get down . All right , go lay down , oh anyway . So let's go back to the podcast , anyway so he loves his dogs yeah last time we taught oh , we'll get into this here in a second , but we do want to apologize for not
Star ID Requirements Explained
Speaker 1a nice sniff sorry , I can't .
Speaker 2Y'all just gonna have to get over it because I got to crude man has got a cold and we couldn't go another week without recording . So yeah , so jody's gonna handle it .
Speaker 1Yeah , we apologize , for last week we had a lot of stuff going on . We'll talk about that here in a second , but I know on the last episode we talked about the star ID . For your driver's license you need a passport .
Speaker 2I got my passport today .
Speaker 1We'll talk about that in a second too , but you wanted me to research the star ID because we really didn't know the ins and outs .
Speaker 2Because you think it's not necessary . You didn't think I was right that you had to have it .
Speaker 1I think it's made up yeah . That's what I thought so , so I was reading right here , and so this is just the state of Alabama . I'll read this kind of verbatim , but it says the US Department of Homeland Security is extending Might have to give me that mute button . Yeah , might have to give me that mute button . Yeah , I need to hand you that , that's right Is extending the enforcement deadline for the real ID called Star ID in Alabama to May 7th 2025 . In response to COVID-19 .
Speaker 2However , start so does that mean in COVID ? We were supposed to have it done .
Speaker 1Well , that's it started . Or is that when it started . That's when it started Because you know they're trying to wrangle us in and control us . That's when it all started . Star IDs will be available for issuance after May 7th 2025 at any Aaliyah examining office . And in order to comply , I mean , I got to put my glasses on , sorry .
Speaker 2Of course you do .
Speaker 1I tried the print got a little bit smaller . Let me put my $3 spectacles on . That did not help . Let me just pull this thing up closer .
Speaker 2You can just pull that tray .
Speaker 1Let's just do this right here , all right . In order to comply with the Federal Real ID Act , the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency developed the STAR-ID program . The STAR-ID is a step beyond an ordinary Alabama driver's license or non-driver identification card and it meets all the requirements of federal law . Age 18 and over will need a real ID or star ID , compliant license or another form of identification for domestic air travel . So meaning in state or in country .
Speaker 2So the real ID is not a real ID without the star on it .
Speaker 1But it also says or another form of identification .
Speaker 2What's that ?
Speaker 1Passport If you got a military ID , stuff like that . So I'm just saying so you still don't need the star as long as you've got another ID .
Speaker 2I'm just going to get it .
Speaker 1Are issued ? How much extra am I ?
Speaker 2going to have to pay . Consider my license . Ain't it's not time to renew those ? So I'm just going to have to go in there and say , hey , I need the star on my ID if I decide to go to Arizona , where our girls weekend is .
Speaker 1Maybe it says star IDs are issued originally to qualified individuals only at Alabama Law Enforcement Agency driver license exam offices . County operated license offices will continue to provide renewals and duplicates for license ID cards and star IDs . Once the provision of the Real ID Act star ID goes into effect , individuals who do not have an unexpired US passport will need an Alabama star ID to board commercial aircraft for domestic flights or to enter certain registered or regulated federal facilities . Any Alabama license or identification card issued on or after April 25th 2022 that is not compliant with the Real ID Act will display not for federal identification across the top of the credential .
Speaker 2I don't know what any of that means .
Speaker 1you just read Basically it's saying you're not compliant if you're going to fly . But , let me go back to this right here .
Speaker 2I flew last year and it was fine .
Speaker 1Let's go back to this right here . I don't fly . Use me , for example . I have flown before , but I'm not somebody that every year I'm going on a trip I'm flying , or twice a year , or whatever like that . You have to love . Something happens , an emergency . I got to go to Oregon for whatever reason and I got to go tomorrow . I got to catch a flight in the morning . I'm not compliant .
Speaker 2Nope , and you're not . They're not going to let you fly .
Speaker 1What are you doing ? This is a crock I guess you're sol .
Speaker 2I mean , isn't that the way I'm reading this ? Is your passport out ? Yeah , we talked about 10 years .
Speaker 1It's 10 years , so you're right at it probably yeah , I think a little over 10 years since I've been out of the country . Uh , let's see . Let's do the frequently asked questions . Let me just skim over this right here . If it tells you you can talk while I'm reading this to myself , I don't know if they want to hear my raspy voice . Well , the new car looks specifically different . We don't care about that . What documents ?
Speaker 2So if y'all have any comments on this or y'all know any insight on it , let us know Comment . Let us know what's up with the star ID See , all this is Comment . Let us know what's up with the star ID ? See , all this is . So when I go get the star ID , you got to have three forms of identification your license , your birth certificate and something else .
Speaker 1What is that ? Something else ? Yeah , be more specific A bill .
Speaker 2I think most our bills are in your name .
Speaker 1How am I going ?
Speaker 2to do that ? What if I don't have a bank statement ? What ?
Speaker 1if my utility bills are in my spouse's or parent's name .
Speaker 2Oh , there you go .
Speaker 1Let's see If you present utility bills to verify the address of your principal residence and those bills are in your spouse's name , you must bring your marriage certificate .
Speaker 2Do we even know where that is ?
Speaker 1If utility bills are in your parent's name .
Speaker 2You may use your birth certificate . Well , your birth certificate is one form of proof or whatever , I think . I don't know .
Speaker 1Anyway , I'm just saying , you know , this will put people in a bind .
Speaker 2Jody just says it's a crock .
Speaker 1It is because it's putting here's's putting what's the point in it ?
Speaker 2That's what I want to know . What's the point it's ?
Speaker 1like you want me to go take an extra step to get this on my license for a reason that I don't need it . But when the time comes that I need to fly now , it's a hassle because I need it . So either way , it's a hassle . Jody , don't like hassles . I don't like hassles . I don't like . Leave me alone . That's all I want , Just leave me alone . Why are we doing this ? I don't know . I mean seriously . Why ?
Speaker 1Yeah , I mean , I don't know Look they don't even want you to show your ID when you vote .
Speaker 2You know , you know , I'm just talking about some states . They don't , they do not want your idea , that's the only time we show the idea , is it not ? Yeah , like you don't have to show it anymore and you should when you if well we used to write checks .
Speaker 1We don't write checks anymore if you're gonna vote in the great united states of america , I believe you should show your oh yeah and nobody . You should not be mad if somebody asks you to show your ID to vote ?
Speaker 2Absolutely not . I don't think that .
Speaker 1You know that's all right . So yes , I will show you my ID all day long , every voting place I go to that day .
Speaker 2They ain't going to get a star on it . They're going to kick you out next time because you don't got a star .
Speaker 1You didn't hear what I said .
Speaker 2However , voting place , you go to that day . Yeah , yeah , I got you . I'm happy to show .
Speaker 1I'm just saying so .
Speaker 2But I was right , you got to have it right .
Speaker 1Yeah .
Speaker 2Okay .
Speaker 1I don't know about you being right , but you've got to have it . Excuse me Because I don't really remember the conversation we had verbatim from the last episode .
Speaker 2You just didn't think I , because that was two weeks ago , you , two weeks ago , you didn't think I knew what I was talking about .
Speaker 1Well , sometimes you get mistaken about stuff , and so I just wanted to be clear on this .
Speaker 2Okay , you were right , you were right .
Speaker 1I think , I don't know . I don't remember what you said , though .
Speaker 2You've got to have the star ID . That's what I said To fly .
Speaker 1I don't agree with it , but whatever , whatever , all right , so go back . You had , a few days prior to our last episode , you had to get a passport , yep . So you went through that process
Passport Process Experiences
Speaker 1. You were talking about it a little bit more expensive than I was expecting or even thought of . You were talking about I don't know if you talked about this during our episode recording , but you said they told you not to smile , which I knew that , but I don't think we talked about it .
Speaker 2I did not know that , but you said they told you not to smile , which I knew , that . But I don't think we talked about it .
Speaker 1I did not know that , but yeah , they told me not to . Yeah , and you had a little bit of a smirk on that one . You did show me a picture , yeah , and you can't even have that .
Speaker 2Well , he said , don't smile big . So I didn't want to sit there just to nod on the log . Yeah , why can't ?
Speaker 1you .
Speaker 2Why can't you smile ? I'm traveling .
Speaker 1Well , why can't you just stand there and have somebody take a picture without you making a facial expression ?
Speaker 2I don't know , I can't do it .
Speaker 1That is the easiest thing to do . It's hard when you say smile . That's hard for me to you know .
Speaker 2Just say stand there , I'm gonna take your picture , I'm gonna smile but it's a fake smile .
Speaker 1Mine will be fake I never fake it .
Speaker 2I never fake a smile so you .
Speaker 1But you said you've got your passport . You were worried because it could take up to like six weeks oh yeah what was the weekly thing you told me ?
Speaker 2well , it said four to six weeks . So here we are , april 11th today , right , yeah , yeah , and I put in for it like march , the let's just see what don't matter .
Speaker 1But I'm just saying , yeah , you got it within two weeks .
Speaker 2Yeah , I put in like march , the 26th , I put in for it and I got it today .
Speaker 1But didn't you pay to have it expedited ? I did .
Speaker 2Well , there you go . But still he said it'll probably be four weeks , even at expedited . So mine went to , so I got this tracking thing . So I told you that it .
Speaker 1Do we track everything , by the way ?
Speaker 2Yeah , so did I tell you that ? He said it don't just go to like one place and it's made and all that . It goes to one place and it's sent out to all different places . So he said it doesn't just go to like where's our main place , like atlanta , and it it's made there or whatever it goes to there , but then they send it out to other places to have it made . And mine I forgot where mine went . I was gonna try to remember that I forgot where mine went . But yeah , it was not around here , it was off somewhere .
Speaker 1Well , that's my stuff . It's a security thing , you know , and how come ?
Speaker 2how come they can't send your passport and your birth certificate and all that stuff back together ? I don't got that stuff back yet . They still got my birth certificate .
Speaker 1Your original . Yes , oh , I didn't know . I thought you've got to show it there .
Speaker 2No , I remember them keeping yours . Yeah , they keep your birth certificate . So yeah , they still got that .
Speaker 1I don't know , I wouldn't . I've never researched that to see about . You know passports , where they're made , because that , like I said , it's a security thing . Yeah , it's not .
Speaker 2They're not all made at the same place . They distribute them out through different to different places . Yeah , so I found that interesting , but I forgot where it said it was coming from .
Speaker 1But I wonder if the Secret Service is in charge of .
Speaker 2What are they checking ?
Speaker 1Because you know they're over the .
Speaker 2What are they checking ?
Speaker 1What .
Speaker 2They're doing background checking stuff on you . Why are they checking for your passport ? Why can't you just get it ? Why has it got to be shipped off and made here ?
Speaker 1Well , you can't I mean you can't go down to the copying place and they make you one real quick , because it'd be so easy for people with ill intent to get it To do bad things Well that's what I'm saying .
Speaker 2What are they checking when they're doing your passport ?
Speaker 1I don't know . I mean , yeah , they're going through the whole thing and make sure you don't have some kind of federal , if they're after you put it that way .
Speaker 2Okay , yeah , okay .
Speaker 1Yeah , I mean , yeah , it's a background check Because , yeah , if you've been indicted for , you know , smuggling stuff in from whatever , I don't think you're going to be okayed for a passport .
Speaker 2Because they don't want you to leave the country . That's the whole thing .
Speaker 1They don't want you to flee . I'm going to keep you here .
Speaker 2So today was the cutoff to send in my passport stuff to Red Aspen . How about that ?
Speaker 1How about that ? That's a blessing , yeah .
Speaker 2How about that ?
Speaker 1How about that ?
Speaker 2All right .
Speaker 1So to go back to last week , when we weren't able to record , we just had things transpire . All right , let's go back to last Saturday , or we can go back a few days before that . We had planned on going to a place called Decatur , which is in a neighboring county . Let's say , an hour away , roughly right at maybe a hair over . They're going to have like a flea market slash pickers , slash vintage , indoor plus outdoor booths .
Speaker 2What was it called ? I don't think I know what it's called now I don't know , it don't matter Trading Days or something . No , it's a festival , wasn't it no ?
Speaker 1Pickers
Weekend Trip Gone Sideways
Speaker 1Traders Festival .
Speaker 2Strawberry Festival is what I'm thinking of . That's not what it was .
Speaker 1I don't know what it's called that one's coming up , but it was pretty big , a lot of booths outside .
Speaker 2It was a girly thing .
Speaker 1It wasn't a Jody thing things . What's the deal with boutiques ?
Speaker 2there's a ton of them , is it ? Is it just ? Is there more of them today than there was five years ago ? Or five years ago was I just not paying attention ? I think there's more today than there were .
Speaker 1Yes because that's all I saw . I thought , hey , I'm gonna go here , I'm gonna see some some older stuff . Hey , I'm gonna see some glasses , you know some mugs , some old stuff . Hey , I'm going to see some glasses , you know some mugs , some old stuff that I can look up and see if it's worth anything , and we'll deal and we got a new toy that he wanted to play with and then we got there and then it's like you know , boutique boutique , next booth boutique .
Speaker 2I didn't realize it was going to be that .
Speaker 1Next one earrings . Next one earrings . Next one boutique , that's a boutique too Well , if it's just earrings . Oh , just earrings yeah , you know stuff like that . It was neat to kind of walk around , but then you go inside and I was . You know it was an hour , we were done in an hour .
Speaker 2I never imagined being done in an hour , I know and we , just we , just , you know . We didn't rush through it . You know I'll let you go to . I looked in almost every one of them .
Speaker 1I stood outside a lot of the booths because you went in and looked the cow hides .
Speaker 2You like the cow hide ?
Speaker 1They had cow hide rugs and then Ashley had some some heads cow heads .
Speaker 2Oh , that's right . Like calf heads for $350 . We should have got one that could have went right there between us .
Speaker 1It was really neat , but it was kind of crazy . But why were they so little Calfs ?
Speaker 2They were calfs not cows , okay , calf head , calf , calf .
Speaker 1Miniature cow would be a calf . That's what I caught . Okay , no , it's a calf , yeah , calf . A baby cow . No , it's a calf , yeah , a baby cow . So if the recorder could reach up here and I could hold on , I would hit that .
Speaker 2I'm sorry , I know , I'm just saying I would hit the mute button every time you've got a cough . Sorry guys .
Speaker 1Sorry , people Just bear with her . Sorry , all right . So yeah , we got a new toy , or I got a new toy .
Speaker 2I was going new toy .
Speaker 1I've been wanting to ever since . We've been doing all this for a year now this podcast and then the other podcast that I do with two other guys . We've slowly tried to get lighting . You know , we're using our light . Now that's behind this camera From the TikTok shop . From the TikTok shop , which the Chinese steal all of our ideas and then they make this stuff cheaper and then sell it to us , and that's exactly what all this is .
Speaker 2Well , it works , and we do it works .
Speaker 1They got us . So we've , you know , between Mike's upgrade and Mike's stands here and there . You know we're just slowly getting a little bit of this and that and the other , and you know I hear that phrase all the time . I do too . Yeah , so what I'm getting at is we got some Rode clip-on .
Speaker 2R-O-D-E .
Speaker 1R-O-D-E Rode Rode , which is top of the line , you know , name brand clip-on microphones that you can clip on to your hat or to your shirt , collar , whatever .
Speaker 2They're a little heavy for your shirt . A little heavy you know ?
Speaker 1Yeah , it just depends on what you wear and how you .
Speaker 2It was fine for me because I've done a crossbody . I wore a crossbody , so it went on my strap , yeah .
Speaker 1And then with me . I just clipped it on my hat . But what it's got ? It comes three mics . One of them actually plugs into your phone and it's a magnet and magnetizes to the back of your phone and it's like the receiver .
Speaker 2But we can't get over being kind of shy , recording when we go out doing stuff yeah , so you know like how do you just go record stuff ?
Speaker 1so the plan was this is the first time we're going to use it . We're going to go to this pickers thing . Go around . If we see some stuff , I'll video and we'll talk about it . Maybe you know , look it up through google and all this kind of stuff really didn't get a chance .
Speaker 1We did yeah we record just a little bit but as we went along , it was like look , there's no way that we will have enough to make a five-minute video , you know , and put it on YouTube . It just wasn't there . So we tested it out and it comes with your little wind . What are they called ?
Speaker 2Windsock Like a windsock , it's not a windsock .
Speaker 1It just keeps the wind from blowing into the mic and you hear it and stuff like that , so it's pretty neat . So I really was hoping to , and it's got a seven hour battery life for each mic , so that was a positive , but really didn't get to use it .
Speaker 2We didn't even use it . 30 minutes did we ?
Speaker 1No , I kept them on the whole time we were there Until we went to the bathroom .
Speaker 2Johnny's like okay , we got to turn the mics off .
Speaker 1Yeah , I was like don't forget about the mic . So yeah , so we did that . And then when we left there , we got done so quick . We're like now , what are we going to do ? We're not just going to turn around and head back . So we went to eat , but it was a little early , it was just after 11 o'clock .
Speaker 2I think it was 1109 . I keep thinking it was 1109 .
Speaker 1So we were trying to find a place to eat , one of our other places that we go to . We were going to go to a shopping place called Martin's Clothing Stores . Got everything , and right next to it it was a used to be , oh , charlie's oh , charlie's . And we found out that , oh , charlie's is no longer there , it's marlins did they go out of ? Did old charlie's go bankrupt ? Or anything , or did that one just close ?
Speaker 2down . I don't know , I guess I don't know well .
Speaker 1So we weren't gonna eat there , so we went on down the road and we found a .
Speaker 2Applebee's .
Speaker 1Applebee's . We thought they were closed because there was nobody there , but there was two cars . So that told us right there that there was possibly a cook and a waitress , yeah , something . Two people were there , hopefully . So when we got there it's like , well , if they don't open at , surely open at 11 . Right , but if not , 1130 . Yeah , so we're getting there . I looked on the door and it said 11 o'clock and I thought , yeah , we're good . But as I was reaching for the door , I was like it's not going to surprise me because just the way my life goes , it'll be locked . But we went in there . Long story short , we were in there almost till 12 o'clock and nobody except one guy , but he went to the bar .
Speaker 2I know I was like . There was nobody showed up in there . Is it really good to eat ?
Speaker 1here and it was so cold . Oh my goodness , it was cold , it was cold in there . But we were like , hey , maybe we need to go check the score , you know .
Speaker 2I mean I know the score , you know . I mean I know 11's early . But people around our town , people started , people are eating at all times 11 30 should have had some cars rolling , yeah , and , but then . But when we were getting ready to go they were coming in , so people just got started late maybe . Yeah , they were at the thing we were at .
Speaker 1Maybe I don't know , decatur's not small . I mean , there's a lot of people .
Speaker 2Yeah , yeah so .
Speaker 1But then after that
Hospital Challenges and Frustrations
Speaker 1, what so the reason we ?
Speaker 2didn't record . Then after that's when the world turned upside down . I mean not really , but it went a little haywire .
Speaker 1Had a family member that got sick . Yeah , spent all night in the er , literally yeah till one o'clock in the morning was it one or two , I can't remember it was one . It was just after one o'clock when they finally , they were going to transport him to another hospital yeah and then got home , got in the bed after two .
Speaker 1The whole thing about this is now when it comes to hospitals , you can't trust anything they tell you at all , because we were told that nothing was going to happen the next day . Right , that's why we didn't go .
Speaker 2No , we were told nothing was going to happen . That night he had like a cyst on his back .
Speaker 1We're talking about your dad .
Speaker 2Yeah , so he had kind of like a cyst on his back but it was infected , so it was really big . The local hospital couldn't take care of it , so it needed surgery on it to get it out , to get all of it out of there , and so they're going to transfer us .
Speaker 1Transfer .
Speaker 2That just seemed like a weird word when I said it okay , transfer him , and um , they're like they won't do nothing today . Probably , really , this was saturday . Yeah , yeah , this was saturday . The doctor will probably come by sunday talk about what they're gonna do for it and then monday probably would be when they would do him , because , you know , on the weekend , of course , my dad always gets sick on the weekend . It seems like he's always a weekend person to go to the hospital and late evening and late evening , not when you're in the bed .
Speaker 2so so anyway , sunday Jody and Nicholas are already going to Jasper , their normal thing . We're going to go over . I wasn't going to church , I was going to go down to his house do a couple of things , let Jody go do his thing at church and then we're going to meet and go , because my plan was I teach Sunday school , so I feel like I've got to be there and you're the toast man .
Speaker 1Oh yeah , and I cooked the toast for the kids .
Speaker 2So yeah , so I had . I felt like I had obligations gonna do that .
Speaker 1I was gonna knock that out , not stay for church . We were gonna head on over back to birmingham I get a call as I'm getting ready .
Speaker 2Hey , they're gonna do surgery here in a little while . Let's excuse me , yeah , they mashed on it and done all this stuff on it last night or this morning . He was calling it last night because , bless his heart , he he didn't know . But um , he said they cut a little bit out last night but they're gonna go in there and , um , do the surgery on it here in a little while . I said what ? Okay ?
Speaker 1yeah , so this was a little after eight o'clock yeah call me , and so then my plans are changing so we got to get somebody to get somebody to teach and then . So I just finished cooking , cleaned up and then , uh , you came and picked us up and we headed to birmingham . Yeah , then , like five hours .
Speaker 2Yeah , it still took .
Speaker 1Yeah , before they ever took him to have the surgery .
Speaker 2It was crazy .
Speaker 1It was .
Speaker 2And he didn't eat . And then he had to have another procedure . They didn't know if they were going to do it Monday . They thought they were going to do it Monday . It got to be four o'clock , they hadn't done it . Yet he ain't eat all day , it just he hadn't eaten since saturday everything was late evening .
Speaker 1Everything they did was late , even that's crazy to me . I don't understand , and he just got out yesterday yeah , which was thursday thursday , so he transferred late saturday night or sunday morning , monday , tuesday and now he's got a wound back , which is really interesting how does that operate ? Is it battery operated ?
Speaker 2well , yeah , you plug it up , but you can unplug it and you carry this little pouch , because , should I say what he called it , we won't say what he called it okay , um , so't say what he called it .
Speaker 2No , don't say it . Okay , so you carry this little pouch that has the machine and then it's got a cord or a tube that hooks to the his is on the back , so it hooks to his back where the wound is , and that back there has got like a piece of foam inside the wound . Back there is got like a piece of foam inside the wound and then it's got a clear bandage on the top but there's a little circle thing like to hold that for the stuff to come out . So it just sits there and it sucks it out . Nice yeah , you wouldn't like it .
Speaker 2You would not like it . Can you hear it ?
Speaker 1it . Can you hear it ? You can't hear it , you can't hear it . Is it's a constant vacuum , or is it ?
Speaker 2like every team , it's constant . It's doing it constant . So from the time that he had it done sunday when did they put the wound back ? On monday , they come back and changed it Wednesday and then they changed it again Thursday . He said it was so much smaller . He said it had already gotten so much smaller . So that's how a wound back helps it heal from the inside out . He said that hole was not as big as what we saw .
Speaker 1The hole I saw was big , it was huge , it was crazy , it was crazy , it was crazy yeah so that's our excitement , so yeah . So between that and then you getting sick in the middle of all that , I know , I was like I need to go to the doctor .
Speaker 2I didn't go .
Speaker 1I should have went , so you're back and forth to Birmingham all week .
Speaker 2Every day and when we say Birmingham , we're like over an hour from this , from Birmingham , from where we live .
Speaker 1And you had to pay $4 for parking . Every time Every time , you know , to me , that's another .
Speaker 2Why are we paying the park ? That's another .
Speaker 1I can remember years ago when we would have to go . I went with my mom and my grandmother and I don't know if my sister , I don't think it was my sister . Anyway , my grandmother's twin sister had health issues . She lived in East Point , that's in Atlanta , so every weekend we would have to go over there . For a while it was like every weekend that I can remember , but we would go over there and that was the first time I was introduced in paying for parking at a hospital .
Speaker 2You didn't always pay in Prince and I thought this was crazy .
Speaker 1I'm thinking this is the biggest . It's a sham . It's a sham , it's a scheme , it's a moneymaker . You know ? That's exactly what it is . So you're telling me I have a loved one that is in the hospital , that I need to be there for .
Speaker 2And I got to pay to see him . Yeah , Basically , you got to pay to see him Basically .
Speaker 1I'm coming on your property and to take up space in one of your parking places , you're going to charge me money . I want to start charging Nicholas for parking and I guess $4 is probably a good deal , because I think a lot of them are more than that .
Speaker 2Oh , a lot of them is more than that , yeah .
Speaker 1Let's start charging .
Speaker 2Nicholas , we're supposed to tell them thank you , since it's not expensive .
Speaker 1Yeah .
Speaker 2Yeah , so that it's crazy . Yeah , life gets crazy sometimes it does .
Speaker 1It's just you're tired and it's not when you go to the hospital and you see it .
Speaker 2It's not like you do anything and you're tired . You're just like , oh my gosh , we're just waiting and waiting and he couldn't eat , and that was horrible .
Speaker 1And you're afraid .
Speaker 2But then he would get food and he'd eat two bites . He'd be done .
Speaker 1Yeah , but you're afraid to do it . You're at their beck and call .
Speaker 2Oh yeah .
Speaker 1You wait and wait and wait . You're like , hey , I'm waiting on the doctor to make rounds .
Speaker 2It could be any minute .
Speaker 1now , five hours later yeah , say three hours in he still hasn't shown up . And you're like I really need to go down to the sandwich shop and get me a quick bite , like be back in 15 minutes . But you will not do it , no , because you're afraid that you're going to miss it . And guess what ? Two more hours goes by and you still haven't cut it . It's that kind of thing . It's ridiculous .
Speaker 1It's like have you know , these doctors have some respect for these patients and I'm not saying all doctors , I'm saying almost everyone I've ever had to deal with , though , and I understand they've got a lot on their plate and everything like that . But come on , man , you can give us a little bit of a window of when you're going to be there . Tell me , instead of between lunch and 8 o'clock at night , can you not tell me between 2 and 4 ? I mean , you know what I'm saying . Just pass it along something . We even had the nurse that kept calling this doctor that week was it sunday or monday ? And could not get a call back to find out when he was getting . That's just so frustrating . Calling that doctor out right now . I'm putting his name out there . I don't know his name . I never saw him so I don't know , but I was frustrated all right , so enough of that .
Speaker 2Yeah , tell him what I did yesterday . You don't even know what I'm talking about what you did yesterday .
Speaker 1I can tell you what I did wednesday water leak dealing with that . We won't even get into that , see we've had such a busy week . I was dealing with that , you was with your dad and I'm dealing with a water leak and I'm like scared I'm gonna get locked in the hospital .
Speaker 2I have to walk all the way around by myself in a shady place that we know people just got their car stolen from over there and I'm like asking everybody , how am I gonna get out of here ? And the nurse is like we can get the security to escort you down there .
Speaker 1You said the front door said that they locked those at 7 pm but you didn't know if you're going to be able to come out .
Speaker 2But then everybody's like there's a door right beside those doors . It says emergency and it says the alarm will go off . It really won't . But if it does , just go on out and don't worry about it , I'm like that's what I'm doing , then security probably gonna come tackle me or something . But I made it out , it was me and another . This was crazy . So when I came in , that was Wednesday , right , okay .
Speaker 2So when I came in Wednesday , um , oh , when he was back there in surgery or whatever , and I came down to get me something to eat , another lady had come in there and she was nicely dressed . So I just asked her you know , I don't like church clothes , what we call church clothes . I just nicely asked her . I said you don't happen to work here , do you ? She's like no . And then we talked for a minute and I said said well , I'm worried about getting out these doors at seven . She said me too . I don't know what I'm gonna do . And um , she said my sister don't want me walking out by myself and everything . So we talked a minute and then , you know , we told each other we hope you get out , you know you're both saying good luck to each other .
Speaker 2Yeah , we met back up when I was leaving , got on the elevator together and walked out . How crazy is that .
Speaker 1It was crazy .
Speaker 2That's not crazy , that's just the Lord working in his way . Because she said my sister really didn't want me walking out by myself . Yeah , and it was like we had like three minutes till seven .
Speaker 1So you're always trying to get there we were trying to get there .
Speaker 2It was like 3 minutes till 7 and me and her both walk up to the door and it was slow to open and we're like and then it just opens Because at this hospital , fine hospital , you know , no problem with the hospital , great hospital .
Speaker 1But we've got , you know , friends from church that have been sick and that have been at that hospital several weeks back and got their car stole while they were there .
Speaker 2And that's all .
Speaker 1I could think about If a car , if somebody that you know's car got stowed in the parking lot at the hospital , I can understand why you'd be nervous to walk out . If you're a female , oh yeah .
Speaker 2So then you want to hear what the nurse told me . Sure , she's like yeah , all the time during Christmas all our cars always get broke into . Every year during Christmas we have so many employees and their cars get broken into can they not do anything ?
Speaker 1do you not have security ? Why we not got security driving around this joint there's a booth out there for somebody to sit in and nobody sits in it yeah , but I'm just saying , if you have somebody in there , are they not like watching and seeing ?
Speaker 2oh I I heard something .
Speaker 1Oh , that's glass being broke from a window because somebody broke into a car .
Speaker 2So if somebody's told that if their car was in that parking lot that we're talking about , it might not have been no , it was in the parking deck . No , I don't remember , I don't know where it was . They would have had to pay $4 to get out of that parking lot .
Speaker 1Which you feel safer walking out to a regular parking lot . That's just one level outside in front of the hospital or parking in a parking deck going out not a parking day parking decks .
Speaker 2I did not want to park in that parking day I don't feel safe that's why that next morning , when I knew I had to go by myself to start with , I got up , went early because I was afraid that the parking lot was going to get full and I was going to have to find somewhere else to park and walk in and out by myself . But it all worked out , it's all good .
Speaker 1Society . Man , I tell you , when you have to worry about coming out of a hospital and you're afraid you can get mugged or shot , whatever it is . I mean it's crazy . That's why I always say you know , be aware of your surroundings , especially when you get in your car .
Speaker 1We tell nicholas all the time all the time because what he'll he'll do , he'll get out of the gym and he'll go get in his truck and he'll crank it or sit there for a few minutes and be on his phone or whatever , like that . I think when you get in your truck , lock them doors first thing , then sit there , that's fine , but at least lock them doors . But you know , he came home one night . He called me on the phone coming down our driveway because somebody had he had noticed somebody had followed him . And then when he got turned into our driveway they followed him down the driveway . Anyway , we don't know what the story was like . I went out after the guy for words and he was back and forth through our neighborhoods . I don't know what to do . But anyway , just saying you've got to be aware ,
Canceling Satellite TV Adventures
Speaker 1when you walk out , make sure you're looking around . Don't see anybody . Look around your car .
Speaker 2It's crazy .
Speaker 1It is All right . So guess what I did yesterday ?
Speaker 2I have no idea , you don't remember .
Speaker 1Let's see . I worked most of the day .
Speaker 2I canceled satellite .
Speaker 1Oh , finally canceled satellite . Have we got it today ?
Speaker 2I haven't even checked .
Speaker 1Because we still had it yesterday . Well , the 11th was our cancel date or renewal , I guess for the month yeah , when it would go , but like when it cuts for your bill and cycle or whatever I guess is what it's called . So tell us the story of that , because you were texting me as you were on the phone .
Speaker 2Oh , my gosh , she kept on and on . Well you , we got mobile . I could get you in here with this mobile If you'll switch your phones , or I could get you this package . I see you have the sports package . Didn't even know we had the flipping sports package . I don't even know what that was and I'm not .
Speaker 1I mean , if that's the sports package , well , they need to do a little bit more work on it because I didn't notice anything great about it . Hey , we've got some ESPNs , great Right . I didn't say no . What's the NFL ? What's it called ? I don't know . The NFL ticket , is that what ? Sunday ?
Speaker 2ticket , oh yeah .
Speaker 1What is it Did you get ? You know you can have fun you know , we got that one time , one time right when we got yeah , because you got one year free , but then after that it's like 400 . You better make sure you cancel it . But yeah , it was like you turn it on there and it's like every game right plans up go ahead .
Speaker 2So , anyway , she's like we can do this . I'm like no , and in this point I'm texting jody everything she's telling me Well , I can give it to you for this and you can get these channels . No , well , how about this ? We up your Internet , so we're going to be getting one gigabyte instead of 600 , something I don't know . Oh , I didn't take that stuff back today . She said I didn't have to today , I didn't take that stuff back today .
Speaker 1She said I didn't have to today .
Speaker 2I got to take the receiver and the router because we got to swap routers . I can give you that and I can give you your local channels and you pick your channels . I said , no , well , let me see , I could probably do this . I just want internet , that's all I want .
Speaker 1Take everything away from me , but internet okay but you had me sold on , you know , like the last text you sent me on what she was promising . I was like , hey , they can guarantee us for a year , or , if they can come down , $25 more Because she kept coming down .
Speaker 2Yeah , but it wasn't . I don't think you were understanding what I was saying .
Speaker 1I don't guess so .
Speaker 2Yeah , yeah , and that price was only guaranteed for a year .
Speaker 1You only get that price for a year , so then it's going to jack back up , oh , that was going to be fine , because my point was going to be hey In a year I'll do it again Exactly .
Speaker 2But how could they give us that and not do it before I was leaving ? What do you mean ?
Speaker 1That price . They're just trying to hold on to you . Look , these places like that are losing people left and right when it comes to satellite companies we got too much streaming that way oh , that's what I'm saying . So there's too much , two nights this week .
Speaker 2Now , of course it was late , we didn't even turn the tv on I didn't sit in the recliner until last night , out of the whole . That might have been the whole so that was last night , was , I guess I probably can't use this week for an example but yeah , because we , if we were home , we got home late every day this week I just been going to bed because I didn't feel good .
Speaker 1But no , you've got so many options on streaming and just like YouTube . I'm not talking about YouTube TV , I'm talking about YouTube on your phone . Now you get the app on the TV , you just pull it up and watch whatever , and that's what I do I don't .
Speaker 2That's all . Jody watches , he don't watch I don't ?
Speaker 1we've had spectrum for five , six years , maybe , maybe , and I'm I don't know any channel numbers , nothing . Yes , you do , I know fox they're 39 , that's the only one and I know like our local channel or like the NBC's and stuff is like at 5 or channel 10 . It's somewhere around there .
Speaker 2So did we tell them we did get that antenna .
Speaker 1Yeah , we did , we talked about it .
Speaker 2We got the antenna so we got the antenna . Oh yeah , because we talked about you put it together on the table and it was big yeah , the 200 mile range , and I'm still want to get started on this . No I don't want you started on it . No , because we already been on here long enough .
Speaker 1My voice is how long we've been on here I don't know , I don't know when we started I gotta just look down there at the recorder and I can't see it where Well you're moving stuff around and making so much noise as it is , it don't ? Matter 44 minutes , 44 minutes . So they're tired of us . Now we can go an hour . I think we got it in us . No , I don't want to .
Speaker 2All right , they don't want to hear him . I guess I'll be singing Alto Sunday .
Speaker 1I don't even know what that is .
Speaker 2It's low alto is alto is low , soprano is high , not high , but yeah , so alto is low .
Speaker 1What's in between ?
Speaker 2alto is not low , low , alto you got so .
Speaker 1Soprano is high . What's next ?
Speaker 2soprano alto tenor soprano soprano tenor alto basses bass , bassist bass .
Speaker 1Low , low , low . Do we have any bass at church ? Wade is he ? Yeah , he's just considered that , but he's not like . Well , I've heard some of these guys that don't , what is it ? Oak ridges , boys , that kind . What's the guy ? I don't know his name , but I don't know . That's what I consider . Is it , would you say , basses , or just bass , bass , bass . So if you ain't that low , I don't consider you bass , I don't .
Speaker 2Oh well , it is . I mean basses yeah .
Speaker 1Stop licking ,
Closing Thoughts and Social Media
Speaker 1all go . Alright , check us out on YouTube . I need to say that at the very beginning , instead of waiting to the end oh , check us out on YouTube . If you want to see us , if you want to see Winston , you definitely need to watch the video on YouTube . Plus , coco makes the short little appearance at the very beginning of it . So , yeah , check it out . I wish our YouTube had a lot of followers .
Speaker 2Go follow us , subscribe , we'll go live .
Speaker 1Yeah , because we want to start doing YouTube lives when we record on Fridays . It'd be nice .
Speaker 2It'd be nice .
Speaker 1But yeah , check us out TikTok Facebook . Do we have Facebook I ?
Speaker 2don't know , you're in charge .
Speaker 1Just go to YouTube . Youtube and TikTok . That's all you got to do .
Speaker 2Don't worry about nothing else , that's all you got to do .
Speaker 1Listen to us on Spotify . Yeah , yeah .
Speaker 2Give us a like , follow and a share .
Speaker 1And rate the show . Please for the love .
Speaker 2But don't let me look , because I'll get ill . What If people don't like us ?
Speaker 1No , Look , if you ain't got nothing good to say , don't comment . You know we find out that people comment that don't have good intentions .
Speaker 2You know , you can just keep scrolling .
Speaker 1Yeah , the person that . Hey , when I listen to something and I didn't like it , I just keep going , I don't go . You know what I'm going to do . I'm going to hit that comment button . I'm going to tell them how bad they are .
Speaker 2No , you don't do that . I mean they're doing what they want to do .
Speaker 1Let them do it right and if , if I don't , like it , it's okay if it's a podcast that I don't like , they don't need to hear from me . I'll just go to the next one . I won't be back , right ? That's the thing like rating , too . Even though I always harp on , hey , please rate the show please . We'd appreciate it helps us out . But you know what I don't do ? You don don't rate , I don't rate shows . So all of these that I listen to , I haven't rated a single one of them .
Speaker 2Then why should anybody listen to you and rate ?
Speaker 1That's what I'm saying . It's like I'm begging these people to rate our show , but I don't rate nobody's show , golly .
Speaker 2Slacker .
Speaker 1Don't do what I do , slacker . What is it I'm leaving ? Do as I say . Oh , I'm just rambling . I know let's go All right , we appreciate you listening and we'll see you next week . Bye-bye .
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