This That And The Other
This That And The Other
40. We Survived A Lightning Strike But Our TV Didn't, Twin Telepathy, Blue Origin, And More
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We tackle everything from viral twins speaking in sync to potential space tourism conspiracies while sharing our own lightning strike saga that fried our TV and mysteriously affected our home lighting.
• Discussing the viral TikTok of identical twin sisters speaking in perfect synchronization during a news interview about their mother's carjacking
• Questioning whether Katy Perry's Blue Origin space flight was authentic based on observations about the capsule door, landing, and passenger behavior
• Sharing our experience with a lightning strike that destroyed our 65-inch TV while making our kitchen lights mysteriously brighter
• Reminiscing about concerts we've attended from George Strait to Toby Mac, and how buying tickets has changed over the years
• Remembering Monster Jam traditions with our son and the guilty pleasure of attending once without him when he was grounded
• Comparing today's content moderation challenges on platforms like YouTube with unclear guidelines about copyright violations
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Episode Introduction and Bloopers
Speaker 1Welcome back Episode 40 ? Is that correct ? Is that what you told me ?
Speaker 2Are we recording ? Did you hit the button ?
Speaker 1Yeah , I hit it like five minutes ago . I actually did .
Speaker 2Okay .
Speaker 1So all this that you've been jabbering about it's out there . If I could put like the first five minutes of our recordings out there , they'd be like wow .
Speaker 2Bloopers , blooper , reel coming .
Speaker 1I don't know if it's bloopers or Blooper reel .
Speaker 2I don't know who grabs more me or you during that first few minutes I'd have to say me hey , I've got something that I want to play for you .
Speaker 1So I know you don't like putting on these headset things right here , but you're going to have to to listen to it , I'm not putting them on . You're going to have to .
Speaker 2I'm not putting them on .
Speaker 1Well , look , let me read what this is going to be about , and then I'll play it .
Speaker 2I'm not putting them on , so you don't have to put them on , I'm
Twins Speaking in Sync
Speaker 2not putting them on .
Speaker 1All right . This is about identical twin sisters . They go viral for speaking in sync while sharing their mother's scary carjacking experience . Have you seen this on TikTok or anything ? No , Are you sure ? Yes , Because that's like come across like . Is it called a feed on TikTok ?
Speaker 2Well , TikTok is stupid .
Speaker 1All right , australian . All right then .
Speaker 2Nothing good comes across .
Speaker 1Stupid TikTok , whatever You're on it all the time . Yeah , I'm watching nails , so you like watching stupid stuff Really ?
Speaker 2I don't get any of the good stuff .
Speaker 1Look , my algorithm is what I do when you do it live and I get on TikTok and I get on there just to support you for just a few minutes . Man , that messes up the algorithm for me .
Speaker 2Like I don't care about nails flipped by every sixth thing . Stop getting on it with that other podcast and get on it with this one .
Speaker 1All right . So Australian identical twins , bridget and Paula Power , spoke with 7 News Queensland about how their mother was caught in an armed carjacking in Queensland , australia , on Monday , april 21st . The thing about it is , during their on-camera interview , they spoke in sync , finishing one another's sentences and answering the interviewer's questions with the same words . They were also the subject of a 2016 Good Morning Britain segment , in which Piers Morgan laughed at their synchronized answers . Do you know , piers Morgan ?
Speaker 2Yes .
Speaker 1I listen to his . I've got his podcast that I listen to . It's on favorites . I just recently started listening to it , but I've gotten to where I can't hardly listen to it because the people he has on there argue and they talk over their self and he doesn't do anything . He waits a minute or two while sorry , put my hands down , he'll do it for a minute or two , and then then all of a sudden he said hold on , hold on , hold on , hold on hold . And they just keep saying , they keep talking and it just gets so aggravating . Hold on , was that loud ?
Speaker 3all right , do you want to hear what I go well , I'm gonna all right and we heard this big bang , we said oh , no , another car accident so we drop everything and we went running out the front .
Speaker 3We seen mum running out from the house up there and then other cars were pulling up and and checking to see if the person was okay , and one guy , he was up there with our mum and he went up there and he was coming back down towards us and he goes run , he's got a gun and , oh , our hearts started to pound and I said , oh mum , where's mum ?
Speaker 1It sounds like one of the sisters is the lead sister and the other one's trying to catch up and finish the scene .
Speaker 2It sounds like the recording is just on top of each other .
Speaker 3It's echoing . Mum distracted him to make him look the other way and he looked the other way and mum ran into the bush behind the fence and the guy goes to her . I'll find you and I'll shoot you . All I was thinking about when we were running . I hope he doesn't fire . Yeah , we were so blessed . How close to him do you think you were ?
Speaker 1Well , see , he was up there and we were past our drive drive Maybe a hundred meters , it's almost over .
Speaker 2I don't know .
Speaker 1It gets aggravating , does it not ?
Speaker 2Because I think it's staged .
Speaker 1So it does sound like one sister's , like I'm watching you talk and then I'm going to try , so you say something I know .
Speaker 2So you're going to try to guess what I'm saying and then you're just going to talk , right ?
Speaker 1over me .
Speaker 2They staged it . They staged it . See , not hard at all . It's like you know me or something it's like you know me or something . You're saying it right behind me .
Speaker 1That's what she's doing right now . Some of it , but the thing is like if , if me and you were talking we're gonna get flat because we're making fun of that well , um , it's interesting , interesting , but the more you listen to it it's like if me and you were talking about something , I need to fix this mic because it's like crazy . Uh , if we're talking about
TikTok Live and Space Conspiracy
Speaker 1something , we're being interviewed . Be like , I'm gonna let you talk and then I might cut in because you , you left something out , or whatever like that but I'm but yeah , you are exactly well , my point being well , you said , and I just agree with it .
Speaker 1But the point being is , whoever it is , you're not going to keep talking over one another . Let one person tell the story . Apparently both y'all know it . You know over one another . Let one person tell the story . Apparently both of y'all know it . You know what really needs to happen . Let mom tell the story , because mom got carjacked .
Speaker 2Where is she ?
Speaker 1I don't know . They didn't case the guy . I do know that , so you didn't finish . They have some kind of Pelican refugee , something over in Australia . That's what they're known for , or whatever . I just found that interesting Thought . You might get a hoot out of it .
Speaker 2A hoot A hoot . What's a hoot A hoot .
Speaker 1You ever got a hoot out of something ? I don't think so . A hoot nanny what's a hoot nanny ?
Speaker 2I don't know .
Speaker 1You ever heard of hootie and the blowfish ? Well yes , okay , did you know . I saw them in concert . Yeah , hold my hand .
Speaker 2Yes , I know you tell me everybody you saw in concert . You just like rub it in ?
Speaker 3No , I do not .
Speaker 2It was about two years before we started dating .
Speaker 1You was concert hopping . It was like 1996 , something like that 97 ?
Speaker 2Two years before , not 97 .
Speaker 1Excuse me , 96? .
Speaker 2Actually we started in 96 . We got married in 98 .
Speaker 195 . How about that ? I'll just go with 95 .
Speaker 2When did you graduate ? It was in Birmingham 94 .
Speaker 1But it seemed like it was a few years after that Were we dating when I went with somebody else Just kidding , that was a joke . That was a joke .
Speaker 2See ya .
Speaker 1Edit that . No , it was whatever time , it was 95 , 96 , but I don't remember who opened for him and I want to know . So bad and I need to look it up . I don't know .
Speaker 2How do we get on this ?
Speaker 1Because of Hoot , oh , hoot and Annie .
Speaker 2Hoot and Hootie and the Blowfish . Hootie and the Blowfish yeah , okay .
Speaker 1So Birmingham BJCC went to that and I don't know who opened for them and it drives me crazy .
Speaker 2You know what this is .
Speaker 1You know I did . I looked it up one time and it didn't really take me where I needed to go , so I gave up . I mean , it wasn't just a simple little no , it's not there . It was like about 10 minutes .
Speaker 2Who opened for Hootie and the Blowfish in 1996 .
Speaker 1And if you looked it up and found it like that , that's great and all I'm just saying , the time I looked it up did not find it , did not find it . You know , we didn't talk about it . We did a TikTok live a week ago .
Speaker 2So if you're listening to this and you don't follow us on TikTok , you need to follow us .
Speaker 1Yeah , because on Fridays we're trying to do a tick , talk live and just talk about stuff and take questions .
Speaker 2I think we should do the live and record and just make that our episode well the thing is about .
Speaker 1That is like you're gonna have these long pauses because you're trying to read a question somebody's giving you and somebody listens to this on a podcast , on Spotify or somewhere like that . It's gonna it's not gonna be good , so it wouldn't work . Keep talking . It'd be different if it's like we're reading emails that we received . Yeah , that would be fine , but not if you're doing a live , a TikTok live . But we had questions and then we got into conspiracy theories and then we got off into like JFK , and then what was it ? True crime , all kinds of stuff . But we started off with talking about the Blue Origin with Katy Perry and all her minions I say minions the other five women that went up in space , the edge of space , 62 miles up . I think it was an 11-minute ride that they took . Was it real or was it not ? Did you ever watch any of the ?
Speaker 2videos .
Speaker 1Did you ever see ?
Speaker 2No .
Speaker 1Even after we talked about it .
Speaker 2No , you didn't research it , it never was .
Speaker 1Hey , that was so interesting that when we talked about it on the live that you know I'm going to look it up when we get done .
Speaker 2Sorry , I didn't .
Speaker 1Do you ever do that ? No , that when you talk to somebody about something that's kind of interesting , you never go back and actually look it up and get more information about it . No , really , really that's very unusual why would I ? Why would you not ? Why would I ? When you find something that interesting that you you just want to , hey , I'm gonna look , look more in depth into it . That's what youtube's for that's what .
Speaker 1Just don't go , just if you're gonna do like conspiracy theories and that kind of stuff . Yeah , you , if you go to , I just suggest don't go to youtube and start looking crazy stuff up . But back to the whole blue origin thing . The whole thing started was once they landed and I saw the video of when the door opened from the inside . So whoever was on the inside opened the door and it cracked open several inches and they're outside the door and it's Jeff Bezos . Bezos , is that how you say it ? Bezos ? Sure , amazon man and another lady . The other lady runs over to where the little steps are that's connecting , or they put right there at the door next to the capsule . When she sees the door open from the inside or whatever that they're opening , she kind of runs up to that door and she's like whoa , whoa , you know , close it , close it . You know that's not her exact words . That's me talking , so I don't know exactly what she did , so you can hear her say it .
Speaker 1No , oh , I just meant that I'm saying it . You can tell by her mannerisms .
Speaker 1Okay , you can hear anything Like shut that door , don't open it . That's basically what she's saying . So then Jeff comes around there . I'm just going to call him Jeff because we're tight . Is it Bezos or Bezos Bezos ? I don't know why can't I say his name . He comes bezos bezos , I don't know I used why can't I say his name .
Speaker 1He comes up there with his tool and it does look like a tire , iron in a way , because it's got like a little piece and two pieces I think it's chrome or whatever and you're like pops it on the door right there and does like a twist like there and bam , the door opens . But when the door opens and swings in , it looks like a screen door on a trailer . I mean , it looks like it just flaps in there like it's nothing . And when I saw that I was like okay , I don't know anything about space , but I'm just thinking like when you get on a jet airliner , whatever , the doors on those things are like four , five , six inches thick . This is like an inch and a half maybe , so , but anyway . So then that started the whole conspiracy thing . I kicked the recorder .
Speaker 1Let me make sure we're still recording , yeah .
Speaker 2If you'd be still .
Speaker 1I can't . I'm all excited . I'm excited when we're talking about this , so that kicks off the whole thing . Well , that's funny that this is all happening . Hmm , it's kind of strange . Why is this all just for show for him going up there and opening up the door and all this ? Then you start hearing things about well , why is the capsule not dark on the top , or kind of dark and black to where it's , you know ? Because any of these rockets or capsules that come back from space when they go through the re-entry they're traveling so fast and you know it burns . They've got tiles on it .
Speaker 2all burns up , got it okay , got , it makes sense makes sense , because you go 62 miles up .
Speaker 1Surely there's going to be a scratch , a mark , something on the thing right , surely it's used . You drive a new vehicle off the lot . When you get at home you might have a little something on there right just from the ride home , so surely this one would . Are you tired of me talking ? No , are you listening ? No , oh , my goodness , uh-oh , so you got that . And then they show where the view from the inside , from when they land . And when they land it looks like it's very soft landing from inside , but on the outside it's pretty rough landing .
Speaker 1Then you've got when they're actually up in space . Everybody's spending more time looking at the camera , doing their little thing , like Katy Perry's got her little daisy right there in front of her , her flower showing it to the camera , and all this kind of stuff . They're like why is nobody looking out at the earth , looking out at space ? Forget the camera . I'm taking it all in . I don't have much time because this baby's starting to come back down to earth , so I'm checking it all out , right . Plus , it ain't cheap to take this ride , okay . So you start adding all this stuff up and you're like is any of this real ? So I'm just saying , why'd ?
Speaker 1they do it well , it's some some kind of publicity publicity I almost said splint stunt , do you not think so ? Because they made it such a big thing , like it's women's rights or something I don't know . But it's like you know what , do this , you know what do a lottery .
Speaker 2I'm all for women's rights , but I still want a man to take care of me . Yeah Well , the thing about Because that's the way it's supposed to be .
Speaker 1Yeah , but the thing about this is well , this is great and all , but don't carry- . One of them called herself .
Speaker 2They're astronauts now You're not an astronaut , once you take that money and put Curing cancer .
Speaker 1Oh , you're going to be one of those now . Yep , you sound like one of those people that writes a comment in there . I'm writing a comment . You're so rich , why don't you use your money for something ?
Speaker 2Exactly , but my point being is like why are you going Space ?
Speaker 1My point is that . So if you're going to do this and all of them are big climate activists , you know do it for Mother Earth and all this . They got to take care of her . Well , how much carbon did you put in the stupid atmosphere from going up there to take your pretty little picture with your stuffed animal and your flower ?
Speaker 2What's the meme I sent you the other day ?
Speaker 1I don't remember . You have to look it up .
Speaker 1I got to look this one up because it was good , but if you go back to the whole thing , why the capsule is not darkened on the outside like it's burned up or anything , well , they don't get high enough to actually go through that whole experience of like a re-entry . So I get all that . I get all of it . I'm not denying that they didn't go to space . It's like I'm sure , but when's the door ? The whole door thing happened ? All that space , I know , but when the whole door thing happened ? When they're on the ground ?
Speaker 1yeah it starts to click with you Like man , this is like a publicity stunt . Is all this real ? What else ? If that's happening , they're staging how they open the door . Is anything else staged ? That's all I'm saying . I'm just glad they made it back safe . You know why don't you go to your photos ? Oh , we have a special guest . Winston is back with us . Winston has been with us . Yeah , he's been with us every episode . He has slept through every episode . How about that ?
Speaker 2Oh , here we go .
Speaker 1Is that a picture or just a ?
Speaker 2Breaking news Katy Perry has just stepped in a puddle and is there for now a deep sea diver .
Speaker 1Yeah , that's right . That's a good one . Yeah , but don't call yourself an if I go up in space , on the edge of space . Yeah , I'm not calling myself an astronaut , right ? I didn't go through the schooling , I didn't go through the training .
Speaker 1Years and years and years of all this you have to go through to call yourself an astronaut . So don't be going up there just because you spent two days training . And then you go up to the edge of space and now I'm an astronaut . The edge no . And then their outfits they're wearing it's like specially made from some fashion person . They probably cost a couple thousand dollars , I don't know A couple of thousand , I don't know A couple of thousand , I don't know .
Speaker 1I don't know Whatever it was , but I would think too , you know , michael Strahan , what's his name ? From Star Trek , old guy , I cannot remember what is his name Captain Kirk .
Speaker 2I was about to say Captain Hook , no .
Speaker 1He went up , you know . So I mean this stuff happens , but I would think if you're going up there , this is a especially the landing part and everything . Why are they not wearing like a helmet ?
Speaker 2Yeah , the whole time . They don't have to have a helmet . Yeah , for safety , did they wear a ?
Speaker 1helmet ? No , they did not .
Speaker 2So you can do that and not wear any of that . I guess so Well when you're in the capsule , you don't wear it . You wear it afterwards , right , when you get out , when you get out and jump in the capsule .
Speaker 1Oh , I'm not talking about like a space suit . I'm not talking about like you're getting out into space and you need the oxygen . No , I'm not talking about that . I'm just talking about , for safety , throw me on a you know , a motorcycle I mean we put our helmets on when the tornadoes are coming well that you know we talked about what .
Speaker 1I went back and listened to that and it made it sound like I was sitting with a bicycle helmet on the couch watching james pan when bad weather was happening . That was not what I meant . I tried the helmet on to see if it fit and that was Now . If James Spann says where we live at and gave me the address and it's like right on top , yeah , I am putting the helmet on and I'm wearing it because I hear the freight train coming . Yes , it's coming , but if you listen to , that episode .
Speaker 2It was like you in this past Friday . You scream like a little girl .
Speaker 1Oh my goodness , tell us about what happened Friday . This is Sunday . You're like a little girl . We just got back from church . I haven't changed clothes . Amanda has . She's ragged me because I'm in my dress clothes and church clothes and she's dressed down .
Speaker 2She thinks I'm making her look bad but I'm not trying to Slob , not trying to you make me look like a slob .
Speaker 1So two days ago , which is Friday now , it's rained , don't get me wrong . It has rained every day for the last six days , every day , some days heavier than others , some days all day long , some days on and off , whatever . So Friday rode around . What happened ?
Speaker 2It was raining .
Speaker 1It was raining . I got home from work . You were here , nicholas was here . I don't know how long it'd been , did it just start coming a storm ? Yeah it had been raining , I don't know . Anyway it started lightning really bad we were outside it started , yeah , when we were outside .
Speaker 1And you know how , when you , if you see lightning , you like you , you sense a flash , like from wherever you know , like from the left or right , in front of you , behind you , whatever . Well , this was one of that , a flash that's all around you . One of those things .
Speaker 1You saw it one way and I saw it the other way we were both turned away from each other , yeah , but it was all around just one of those things . So we went inside and I might have done it again . It was loud , yeah , before we went inside . How long have we been inside ? A couple minutes , or it wasn't even that long . I don't know , I don't either , but there was , it sounded like lightning .
Lightning Strike and TV Troubles
Speaker 1Got us it hit the house , hit right behind the house . I don't know , but when it did that there was a big old pop behind the TV , in the corner where all of our electronics and stuff is . But the power didn't go off , not at that point , remember , because the TV popped twice . Yeah , it was the second time the power went off Second time , and I don't remember how long in between the first pop and the second .
Speaker 1Not long 30 seconds maybe , I don't think it was a minute . So then there was another pop I don't know if it's the first part when I was like screaming to nicholas to like unplug every electrical thing . You got plugged in now , um , because I had that pop anyway . So it had two pops . That second pop power out and it's still raining , it's still lightening , all this stuff like good night . So you get on on the app and or the power company says they're aware of the outage . I reported it .
Speaker 1Yeah , you did report it , or it already said it was aware no , I reported it right when it happened then spectrum and then it sends a thing and says they're aware okay , and then spectrum , which we don't do tv anymore because we cut the cord , but we do get our internet through them . They had an outage , of course .
Speaker 1They have an outage when wind blows see smoke coming out of the attic , because I'm like if this thing hit the house , what if the house is on fire and we just don't know about it yet ? And by the time we realize it is too late . So went outside , waited to see if any smoke coming out the vents , nothing like that . Went around to the back side of the house to try and see . Hey , did it hit the ground , hit the tree hit , the antenna hit what we was .
Speaker 1Looking all over , looking all over the place and then all of a sudden you start smelling something burning , and so me and Nicholas tried to trace it out . Walked up the hill , walked here , all that , anyway , never figured out where the burning smell came from . But eventually it was gone . And then nothing . Well , power company came and changed that a little part right before you get to the transformer on there , ended all that powers back on , come in here and guess what ? What happens ? No tv no tv , it has fried speaker worked fried our tv .
Speaker 1The sound bar that we've got hooked to the TV is fine . All the other stuff that's around , it's fine .
Speaker 2But they were plugged . We got to get a surge protector , the .
Speaker 1TV was not in a surge protector .
Speaker 2And I have no clue why .
Speaker 1But a surge protector really does not help when it's a lightning strike . A surge protector helps when there's a surge of power , like if it's off and goes back on , but I still feel better . But why didn't it do anything else ? I mean , why didn't it ? Why not ? You said , it made our lots broader so , all right , I was getting to that point . So our tv is out . We've got a 65 inch tv which you can buy them pretty cheap now , 65 inch tv we could have lived with the one we were watching 65 inch tv gone I could have gone , and now I don .
Speaker 1And now I'm not doing this again . We'll get to the other story about the TV that went out one time and I lived with like an 18 inch for a year .
Speaker 2So and we tell y'all we don't watch TV . And here he is the very next morning .
Speaker 1I know , I know . No , it's like a comfort thing , it's like a comfort blanket . As long as the TV's there , it can be off , but it's got to be there , I've got to have a . Tv . It's got to be there .
Speaker 2We have one .
Speaker 1It's just not the right size .
Speaker 2It was fine .
Speaker 1So later on , I guess we didn't turn the kitchen light on until later , because when it got dark because this is 4 or 5 o'clock at night , 3 o'clock at night , no , it was 3 o'clock at night School was still in , yeah , so it was before 3 . But anyway . So I guess when it started getting dark or whatever , you turn the kitchen light on and the bulbs for our kitchen fixture , it's like the sun beaming down .
Speaker 2I think it's because the big TV wasn't on and there was no more light anywhere .
Speaker 1No , you're making it sound like power's being drained down .
Speaker 2It was because you and your big TV .
Speaker 1That TV does not take that much . That is ridiculous . Don't even think that . But no , the lights are extremely . It's like you change the bulb and put 10 times brighter bulbs . Don't know , I don't know anything about this . Somebody out there might be like , oh that's , you know an easy answer to that . I don't know , but it was crazy . But you go outside and we got two floodlights and one of those is not working . So all right , so their LED is supposed to last 20 years . Apparently not , so I I took it off . So the next day , saturday morning , we decided to go . We're gonna have to get a tv , so we buy the exact same tv didn't have to yeah , got it .
Speaker 1Okay . Well , let me go back . You would say hey , we'll move another table , we got in there . And what size is it ?
Speaker 232 . Is it 32 ?
Speaker 1Okay , half the size , but it seemed like 10 times smaller . I guess in that spot , I guess in that spot I was trying to make you hang it on the wall .
Speaker 1It looked like a small frame that you had positioned on your entertainment center . That's exactly what it looked like . It was fine . So like well , when we first started , the sound bar wasn't hooked up to it and the TV sounded terrible , and so it was like this , and you have to squint your eyes to see it . Where are you going , dog ? And he's gone . I must be making too much noise . I might have hit him with my hand . You probably did .
Speaker 1You can't be still . So the next morning , saturday morning , we go get the TV and I get a pack of bulbs for the floodlights . Do all that Get back Later on that Saturday night I notice I'm studying for Sunday school and we got the kitchen light on and it just gets like damn . I'm like what is going on ? It's almost like everything . The power is going away , you know , it's just seeping away and I'm like what is what's happening ? And I look and one of the bulbs is blown . It's LED , now it's gone . And the other one , you know , of course , is working . But so now I got one bulb out , I eventually go outside and then I notice that the two floodlights the one that I changed out is on , but the other one beside it now it's not . It's not working , it's just time . It's not time . There's no way .
Speaker 1So you're talking about a TV getting knocked out , light bulbs in your kitchen going extremely bright for 24 hours , one of those going out , and then a floodlight that got taken out got changed , and then the other one going out within 24 hours . This is not coincidence . What is going on ? Nothing , I know . That light we got right there is on , I know , because it's bright , it's hot , it is's my . That's my story . So the other thing we had a uh what kind of a plasma tv years ago when they it wasn't right when they first came out , but years later when it was a little bit more , a little bit more reasonable , but still expensive , expensive . So we got it . And those plasma TVs , if you ever had one back in the day , them things give off some heat , a lot of heat , and it went out . It finally got to where , when you turn it on or turn it off , it'd click .
Speaker 2You have to unplug it you have to unplug it .
Speaker 1It's kind of like it resets , plug it back in and then you're hoping for the best . Sometime it'd come on . Sometimes it wouldn't . You had to keep doing it . Eventually it got to where , when you turned it on , it went click , click , click , click and that's all I'd do . So it's messed up . So we end up like I am not buying , because this is still when tvs were still fairly expensive , you know . So , at least that size . So we get a small one out of one of our bedrooms , and it's not a 32 inch was it .
Speaker 1No , it was smaller it was smaller than that , I don't know whatever size , so we put it in 24 probably . So we put that . And this was right during football season , I think , was it not ?
Speaker 1maybe maybe we put it right in front of the plasma tv on the entertainment series , popped it right there and then watched it . And it's terrible , absolutely terrible , did that for almost a year and then one day jody got the bright idea you know what I'm gonna google and see what it says about that tv . So I googled out , whatever it was , a sony rca , whatever tv it was . Uh , how do you fix a ? Or what's wrong with a sony tv ? That plasma tv that clicks when you turn it , all this kind of stuff . Well then it tells you I watched a video on youtube . It's capacitors . They look like small little batteries . If they're bubbled on the backside of it , that means they're no good and you just have to replace those . But it takes a soldering gun to take the old ones out and put the new ones in . The longest part about it was the three days it took for you to order them and get them through Amazon .
Speaker 2The longest part about it was unscrewing the back of it with 900 .
Speaker 1Oh yes , and these TVs a plasma TV weighed about 800 pounds , it seemed like . So we put a towel down on the kitchen table and me and Nicholas set it on the kitchen table and I take the whole back off . And you're right about that . You are exactly right about all those screws .
Speaker 1Took all that out , figured it out from the YouTube video , ordered the parts from China'm sure so the capacitors , which by I think it was three , maybe four , was probably a total of seven or eight dollars . Yeah , we'll just say ten . Just say ten . Got them in , sorted them in several days . Once we got it back sorted in , put the back , put the back on it , plugged it in . Perfect , worked fine . I went a whole year with a TV . That would work if I had just spent just a minute amount of time looking it up and throwing a $10 bill at the problem , but now he won't go without a TV for a day .
Speaker 1No , it's a different time , so that's my TV store .
Speaker 2That's your TV store , yeah , so we went to TVs , from Katy Perry to TVs .
Speaker 1And before that we went to Hootie and two Australian twins that talking scene .
Speaker 2Crazy . I had something I wanted to talk about , but now I done forgot .
Speaker 1Well , I figured you were trying to think of something while I was talking . I know you weren't paying attention .
Speaker 2No , I had something .
Speaker 1About TVs .
Speaker 2No , hmm , next time . That's the problem with me . If I don't jot it down , I'm not going to remember .
Speaker 1I guess it looks funny me sitting on one corner of this chair now that since the dog got down , now I can have the whole chair to myself . How about that ?
Speaker 2how about that ? Oh , last week was Easter and we didn't put out a didn't put out a video a podcast an episode episode busy , busy , we try it was busy .
Speaker 1We try , it was busy . We try , try , try , how busy was it ?
Speaker 2It was so busy I didn't get a Sunday nap .
Speaker 1You're not going to get one today either .
Speaker 2Watch me .
Speaker 1Are you ?
Speaker 2When I get in that and I'm almost there right now . Yesterday I had such good intentions to clean in my office back there . Jody , come get these boxes , burn them .
Speaker 3I was doing good .
Speaker 2Friday ? No , that was Friday when I got most of the boxes . Yeah , maybe that was Friday . But then when something hits me , it's some kind of switch that flips . I know it is why you can't keep your eyes open . I can't stand up . I got to sit down
Concert Memories and Narcolepsy
Speaker 2and you sit me down for five minutes . I was sitting in the back room back there with the TV on in a desk chair , dozing off Like why didn't I just go lay down and take a 15-minute nap ?
Speaker 1Well , I was pressure washing in between texts from you to come get more boxes to burn . And then I was cutting grass and I was weed eating .
Speaker 2And I'm back there trying to stay awake and I'm like I just can't give it up .
Speaker 1Yeah , I finally walked in one time and you're in the recliner sleeping .
Speaker 2Yeah , I finally went in there . I'm like I'm done , I'm giving it up .
Speaker 1And then the next time I came in you was in the recliner sleeping . No , because y'all were loud so I couldn't sleep , purposely .
Speaker 2That's all I got . That's it . I don't know .
Speaker 1You don't have nothing to bring to this episode .
Speaker 2I brought me , that's enough .
Speaker 1Input , that is enough . What was your earliest concert ? You went to .
Speaker 2I don't know . You tell me , because it was with you .
Speaker 1Really .
Speaker 2Mm-hmm , it was the all-day thing .
Speaker 1George Strait .
Speaker 2Tim McGraw , miranda Lambert , not her .
Speaker 1She was barely born . Hey , look , before you say that , hold on , I went through .
Speaker 2Gretchen Wilson yes .
Speaker 1In Sunday school . Today I went around the class .
Speaker 2And we're talking about Gretchen Wilson .
Speaker 1I said tell me what year all y'all was born . It's like 2014 , 2011 , 2009 you know . And then nicholas was last one , 2004 . I was like , oh , old man , I was like gray hair , because he shouldn't be in there .
Speaker 2Yeah , because we need to separate it was funny .
Speaker 1Funny , though , because we were doing some trivia questions before we get started on sports trivia , and some of the questions is like you know , I said some of these stuff y'all ain't going to know . I said before your time , and I was . You know , it was like early 2000s , so I'm thinking it was before their time . It's crazy to think that . And then that's what got me . I said tell me what you know , just don't tell me your birthday , just tell me that you , you was born and went across . I was like my goodness .
Speaker 2I'm surprised . They all knew it .
Speaker 1I know , I know didn't have to think about it , but it was fun . But anyway , did we see what were her name ? Gretchen . What was her name ?
Speaker 2Gretchen Wilson . Gretchen Wilson , was it Gretchen ?
Speaker 1She was like a one-hit wonder , wasn't she ?
Speaker 2I think she's had some more times . Well , I don't know .
Speaker 1We saw Tim McGraw in Faith Hill .
Speaker 2Tim McGraw in Faith Hill .
Speaker 1We've seen George Strait several times .
Speaker 2Yeah , but you said the first one , and I'm talking about the first one .
Speaker 1We saw one at Legion Field .
Speaker 2That's the first one .
Speaker 1Okay , it was an all-day thing I think it was like a 10th row center stage .
Speaker 2Yeah , we were close .
Speaker 1Yeah , it was . I mean , we were close enough , it was perfect for me .
Speaker 2I consider it close .
Speaker 1And I had to work that night . That was back when I worked night shift . That was terrible , by the way . That was horrible , horrible night .
Speaker 2But we didn't get done till night .
Speaker 1I go into like 11 , 12 o'clock . I work that night . I don't think we stayed that long .
Speaker 2We stayed long .
Speaker 1It was dark . We're thinking about different things .
Speaker 2It was an all day thing .
Speaker 1Maybe I don't know .
Speaker 2That's the first one I've been to .
Speaker 1I don't remember any concerts after that Toby Mac , toby Mac , yeah it was Toby Mac , toby Mac , yeah , when was Toby Mac a few years ago . Who'd you think ? What other Toby Mac is there ?
Speaker 2I don't know what I was thinking when Toby Mac . I wasn't thinking singer . I don't know what I was thinking .
Speaker 1I can't think of anybody else . I mean , I can tell you everybody that I've ever seen , but I don't .
Speaker 2We've seen .
Speaker 1I've seen Alan Jackson on Miami Seen George Strait on Miami , touched George Strait's hand twice . He gave me the old slapper room . Blah , blah , blah , blah , blah . My seats adjoined where he walked in at to the concert and so my hand out there and he what about ?
Speaker 2how you used to get concert tickets .
Speaker 1You had to stand in line , oh yeah . Right , mm-hmm , yeah , camp out .
Speaker 2I used to camp out , and now , what do you ?
Speaker 1do . I didn't know this . They're trying to change this . I never even thought . I've been out of the concert loop for a long time . Don't care about it , don't matter . I'm kind of like my dad . He'd be like I don't going . That's kind of the way I feel right now about concerts .
Speaker 2And then I get mad at you and you go .
Speaker 1The hustle , yeah , the hustle and bustle . I don't know part of that . So what was my point , ben ? I don't know . Just like that Gone , I don't know .
Speaker 2See , that's like me , Just like that , and I'm asleep . I think I got narcolepsy .
Speaker 1You got something ?
Speaker 2No , I that .
Speaker 1and I'm asleep . I think I got narcolepsy . You got something ? No , I don't have narcolepsy , but I feel like narcolepsy . You just like fall asleep . Oh yeah , you just yeah .
Speaker 2I feel like I could do it right now , like I'm really trying to hold my eyes open and not go to sleep and there's no cure for it I don't know , you can't drive , you're not supposed to drive or anything like that .
Speaker 1Well , I know a guy that's had it . This . I mean , I've gave him rides to work because he can't drive , and then , as of a couple of years ago , he's driving , he's got his driver's license . So I'm like I haven't ever asked him Did he grow out of it ? Is he healed ? I don't know . Did they say , hey , I hadn't experienced it in a long time .
Speaker 2You're not a singer .
Speaker 1Oh , our little dog coco . We have a gap under the door . She's got her nose in her nose . She's laying there .
Speaker 2And then winston is right here they're , they're looking at each other , yeah he's not right at the door , he's probably three or four foot away .
Speaker 1But if you get down on their level it's like you're seeing eye to eye . They're like looking at each other . She's so sad because she's not in here . So sad , I'm sorry . Coco .
Speaker 2She says bye .
Speaker 1She left . Anyway , I wish I remember what I was going to say you were saying Crowder I was saying saw Crowder , I'd like to see Crowder again .
Speaker 2I think I could do the concerts more than I could do . I started to say Space Jamams .
Speaker 1That ain't right . You got Talladega today .
Speaker 2Only because I told you .
Speaker 1I would have not known . You told me late last night and then this morning I heard it on what is it called Monster Jams . Monster Jam yeah .
Speaker 2I could do a concert before I could do Monster Jam again . I don't know if I could do that Outside . I would totally love it , but in there and that smell .
Speaker 1Is it the smoke and the loudness ? I think so . Monster Jam extremely loud , Louder than any concert you can go to .
Speaker 2Yeah , it was fun , though , back in our younger years .
Speaker 1Monster Jam yeah , yeah , because you're taking a kid with you every year , it's a good excuse . I liked going because you could use him as an excuse to go .
Speaker 2Do you remember one year he got in trouble and he couldn't go and me and you just went ?
Speaker 1I kind of remember that now .
Speaker 2That was so mean .
Speaker 1Hey .
Speaker 2I don't care If I told you something .
Speaker 1It made you serious .
Speaker 2Yeah , and he had to stay home and just me and you went because we'd already had tickets right , because he always got tickets at christmas for monster jam , because monster jam , where we live , was always january . Yeah , so they changed that now . So santa would always bring monster .
Speaker 1Now they push it to march , march or april . I think it's actually april that they the last couple years , yeah , really yeah , but yeah , it was always in uh , january it was always january yeah , that's fun those are fun and then he wants to stand in line and get autographs at the end of it . That is crazy .
Speaker 2That is like , oh my goodness willie done that two times , or did we do it twice ?
Speaker 1I know one time for sure . I know one time for sure I don't think I would have done it . I think I still have that shirt , though .
Speaker 2Oh , if I , if I have that shirt , we should take a picture . It's a green shirt and it's got everybody's signatures on there .
Speaker 1Cool .
Speaker 2I might know where it's at too , because I have a bag of kid shirts .
Speaker 1Remember what I was going to say now .
Speaker 1Oh , there you go Going back to the whole . You know I told you that I don't care about . You know I've been out of the loop with concerts for a long , long time and you know used to camp out first in line trying to get us tickets . Or you call that number as fast as you could . You know you just can't redial . You know that's how it works . I didn't know this . They're trying to do legislation on it now . Now I'm not all about regulation and all this with the government , but this makes sense to me . They have bots that buy these tickets , go online , and they're bots that go and get all these tickets for a concert or venue whatever , and then they can resell that on some of these ticket places .
Speaker 1Oh , ticketmaster , yeah on like what's some of these ticket places ? Oh , ticketmaster . Yeah , so they adjust the price to where they can make more money selling them at a different cost . So , I did not know that , but it makes sense , you know . You start thinking about what all AI and all this stuff could cause . Yeah , Crazy
Monster Jam and Closing Thoughts
Speaker 1. All right , I got to go , I got to go , I got to go , finish cutting grass and doing some stuff .
Speaker 2You got to take , your , you got to get your beauty rest . Yes .
Speaker 1And then I've got to get this thing published , another one published and some other stuff .
Speaker 2I just noticed something . By the way , I'm going to watch Dateline .
Speaker 1Can I say something ?
Speaker 2Am I going to stop you ? What do you think ? Have I have to watch Dateline ? Can I say something ? Am I going to stop you ? What do you think ? Have I ever stopped you ? I ?
Speaker 1just noticed that we've got three guns within eye shot . I've got a shotgun . In that corner I've got a .22 rifle in that corner . And then I've got a 12-gauge laying on the ground beside me right here , and it's an old , like 1914 model .
Speaker 2So I guess they're coming to get us . We got guns , we got our guns . I just thought that was crazy . I noticed that the other day and I was like , Because I can't .
Speaker 1I would put one in that corner , but I'd get like something .
Speaker 2You'd get banned .
Speaker 1YouTube is good about copywriting stuff that I put out there . They like to shut stuff down that I put out there . I don't know , and I'm hoping that you should obey the rules Now when it says copyright , when you put something out there and they shoot you a thing about copyright infringement or something . Now when you go against their rules , it's almost like a three-strike deal .
Speaker 2You can't copyright something .
Speaker 1Do you , I know , do you get a warning ? Do you get this good message about everything that you did wrong ? No or is it like a guessing game ? So I'm just wondering one of the things that I've done .
Speaker 2You're about to get booted .
Speaker 1Am I about to get booted ? I don't want my YouTube channel to get booted . I'm about to boot you , maybe not ? I only got three more . You know , that's the thing about it . When they boot you , they got all your information . So if you go out there and try and open up another account or do whatever , it's like nope , not going to happen . All right , thanks for listening . We're out of here , see ya . Thanks for listening . We're out of here . See ya , bye-bye .
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