This That And The Other
This That And The Other
42. Why Can't We Just Relax? Tim Tebow Proposal, Lewis Smith Dam Visit, Pay It Forward, And More
Jody and Amanda explore the frustration of being unable to sleep in on days off yet struggling to wake up for work. We share our wildly different approaches to morning routines and relaxation.
• The small "baseball bat leg" couch in our podcast room that came with a mysterious number of extra pillows
• Our recording schedule challenges and why we sometimes miss a week
• Visit to the Lewis Smith Lake dam to capture the turbine activation on video
• The phenomenon of waking early on days off but struggling to get up for work
• Tim Tebow's elaborate marriage proposal involving international flights and hidden microphones
• Drive-thru experiences and the etiquette of "paying it forward"
• Nostalgic discussion about Hot N' Now and other fast food chains from the past
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Welcome back, episode 42. It's me, jody. That would be Amanda, my sidekick, my better half, whatever. And then we we got Winston laying right beside me and he's the dog. If you're watching on YouTube, you'll notice that we've kind of changed position. I'm to Amanda's left. I'm usually in the leather chair beside her on her right side, but now I've decided to sit on our little couch that's on the other side of her. What's the story with this little couch? This is not a normal couch. This is like a baby couch that when we bought it, we got like 10 pillows that they threw in with it, and I don't really know why we took all the pillows, because now I've got them piled up like right beside the couch Told you.
Speaker 1:But I mix and match, Like I might use this one one week when we record and then I might get another. Why?
Speaker 2:do you need a?
Speaker 1:pillow, I don't know. It's like a security blanket. And you didn't give me mine.
Speaker 2:Do you want one? That one's hard. I don't like it.
Speaker 1:There's one right there.
Speaker 2:That one's even worse.
Speaker 1:Well, that one came with it. Which one do you want? I'll get you one, one that looks like a knot. It's like a bunch of rope tied up together, and I didn't come with it.
Speaker 2:No, I know it didn't, but I'm just saying it's over there now that I look at that couch, it looks like it's got baseball legs baseball bat legs really. Yes, it looks like a baseball.
Speaker 1:So it's just a small little couch. It's probably four foot wide. It's not deep at all. If you're a bigger person, you probably wouldn't want to sit on it because it just wouldn't be comfortable. I don't know if it if it'd hold a bigger person, but it almost looked like it'd be for decor somewhere that you would never sit on it, right why do we buy it?
Speaker 1:because we thought it'd look good in the pod room, and so we had it against that wall, which you would never see, we got it in here and it's so little yeah, we got it in here and had it on the back wall.
Speaker 1:It never was on camera and then when we started recording the other podcast, we had to figure out how to sit three people in the room. So this was my dedicated seat now. But when we were looking at buying it because it was inexpensive they the lady said, you know, it'd be a good. Did she say a dog couch? And she's right?
Speaker 2:and I thought you know what she's right, that'd be perfect for then you need to take that in there and coco can stay on that and not my.
Speaker 1:I know she needs to get off our couch coco sheds and then if y'all hear an earthquake, it's our son.
Speaker 2:He is so.
Speaker 1:He's got heavy feet.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna turn around one day and there's gonna be a hole in the floor.
Speaker 1:You say me and him both walk.
Speaker 2:Really he's worse than you.
Speaker 1:We walk on our heels. I don't know what he does. I don't know.
Speaker 2:The whole house shakes.
Speaker 1:That shook, though, when I just heard him just saying God, but yeah, this is the perfect couch for an animal. Hence that's why Winston is sleeping right now on it, but I like it. So yesterday we took we skipped Mother's Day.
Speaker 2:We took a week off. We took a week off, just because it's just hard, it's hard, hard to record.
Speaker 1:Sometimes it is it, just it really is. It is hard to and we don't even like say all right, we're gonna every thursday night at 6 30, we're gonna record. We can't do that. We cannot dedicate a certain day, because something always comes up.
Speaker 2:Well, last week was rough I.
Speaker 1:I know, but listen, it had been the week before, so we missed yeah. But I'm just saying is that so forget the dedicating a certain day and trying to do it because that don't work. So we're just like we're just play it by ear. Tonight is tonight.
Speaker 2:I don't like Sunday stuff and then it doesn't work.
Speaker 1:And next thing you know it's Friday, then we're tied up. Next thing you know it's friday, then we're tied up. Next thing you know it's saturday. And then it's like yesterday, which today is sunday, and we're recording after church, way after church now, because we, we, um, we're there for a long time because we had an event, so it's like three, four o'clock in the evening now. But saturday couldn't do it yesterday because we were tied up at church on and off all day. So it's like we've got to squeeze this baby in, but in between church services on Sunday and have it released again on Monday. You know, it's like down to the wire every week. It's rough, it's hard to do so anyway. So we didn't record week before last, it just wasn't working and that's fine If it's every other week, we put this thing out, that's fine, it's just the way it's going to have to be you right, you agree, you right, you right, you right.
Speaker 2:I'm always right.
Speaker 1:So yesterday we decorated the church. We had a funeral at the church, we had to decorate for our seniors at the church, just this, that and the other we had to do there. So it was an all-day process for the most part. I've been telling amanda that when they turned the turbines on at the dam, at lewis smith lake dam it's about eight miles from here. That is pretty cool to watch.
Speaker 1:so I thought, hey, and you've been there before when they didn't right once or twice we've only lived out here 26 years I know, but I didn't know we've been down there 999 times but I didn't know if I've ever got you down there, right when I thought, maybe once, maybe once. You've been down there plenty of times, but not right when they turned on, so yeah.
Speaker 2:So I thought, well know, now that we've got these, because you used to watch your phone a lot closer than you do now when you're going to turn them on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's an app, of course, for it. Let's go. There's people and I used to fish below the dam. You can catch rainbow trout, you know, and stuff like that. So I used to fish down there and you want to. You want to know when the what we call the water run. Is it, you know, is the generators running or turbines?
Speaker 1:generators yeah, well, it's a generous two generators what they've got. So because when it's running you don't fish down there because the water's swift, so anyway. So we thought it would be pretty cool. Hey, now that we've got these uh wireless mics, we can go down there and video going down there when they're going to turn it on. And when they turn it on there's a you know a loud, is it a horn?
Speaker 1:I guess you'd say it reminds me of when a tornado yeah, siren, that you have, you know, throughout the county. It's very similar to that and, uh, that goes off right before they turn them on. So, anyway, it was scheduled to go off at six o'clock so we squeezed that in yesterday to go down there, do that? It worked out perfect. And we wasn't there for 10 minutes. We videoed the water getting, you know, chopped up, starting to flow, starting to rise and all that stuff, and, uh, then we left and we went back to church and finished up decorating. But, uh, yeah, so we're gonna get that video. If I can ever find the time to, you know, splice it together a little bit. We'll put it out there, just so you can see what we're talking about. It is pretty cool, I, I mean, maybe that's a guy thing, I like the siren. It's pretty cool.
Speaker 2:I know.
Speaker 1:Swift water is about to happen, so get ready.
Speaker 2:But when you've lived here for 26 years?
Speaker 1:It gets old. Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I know you like it, so why do it?
Speaker 1:That's the problem. Living on a lake to where the water level fluctuates. You can be on other lakes to where that doesn't ever happen. The water stays where it is but because of the and that's an issue because of boat docks and walkways and stuff, you're having to raise them, lower them and then whenever it floods and the water level is really high, it's a big issue and just breaking loose and cables coming loose and boats floating down the lake and blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 2:What's your? Point when are you going with?
Speaker 1:that I'm just saying because it's on the water level, because I said it was so. I got a headache, by the way, so I might start rambling.
Speaker 2:You're rambling. You forget where I'm at. You're rambling now.
Speaker 1:I've taken too much Tylenol and ibuprofen today yeah, so what do you got? Um oh back to my board.
Speaker 2:He's got me things to talk about right here in front of me that's our secret weapon.
Speaker 1:You're not supposed to talk about that I like to tell everybody the secret, yeah oh, we're gonna say too is like you can take tours of the dam and we're talking about doing that, so you can actually go inside and maybe you get the person telling you all about it.
Speaker 2:I want to push the button.
Speaker 1:Push the button. That makes it go, makes the turbine turn on and off.
Speaker 2:Okay, no, I want to do the horn, I want to lay on it.
Speaker 1:That's why I'd want to be a train conductor or the engineer or whatever it is, just because you could toot the horn.
Speaker 2:Toot, toot, you could toot your own horn.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm going to toot my own horn.
Speaker 2:You got a horn in your truck. You can toot it any time you want.
Speaker 1:So did you see, and I didn't ever research it, but they think they have found the location, possible location of Noah's Ark. Have you seen that?
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Really, do you keep up with anything, any news? This is newsworthy to me, hmm.
Speaker 2:I do not.
Speaker 1:Is that interesting to you, though? If it's possibly true, that was not a truthful truth.
Speaker 2:Yes, it is so interesting to me.
Speaker 1:All right.
Speaker 2:next subject Quit your smirking, I'm not smirking. You're my news. I don't have to keep up with the news.
Speaker 1:All right. Well, what do you bring into the episode today?
Speaker 2:How you can't sleep late on your days off and you get up early.
Speaker 1:Me.
Speaker 2:People in general.
Speaker 1:What about you?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I can't sleep late on my off days.
Speaker 1:But you get up and you can go to the couch or the recliner. And fall back asleep sometimes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and relax, relax that way but I can't sleep in a bed, but I can sleep when I gotta go to work. I can't get up is it the mindset? I don't know. I can be up by six o'clock without the alarm on off days, and with the alarm I can't get up until 6.30 and I got to be at work at 7.
Speaker 1:See, but I don't have the opportunity. A lot of times, like this weekend, I did not have the opportunity to sleep late.
Speaker 2:But your sleep late is different than my sleep late.
Speaker 1:My sleep late is if I slept late it would be 6 o'clock.
Speaker 2:Right, right. I want to sleep till 8 or 9. But my body won't let me. I tried so hard and I can't.
Speaker 1:My back won't let me. My back is the problem.
Speaker 2:That's what wakes me up, but I can go to the couch but then you got heavy feet that comes walking through there. You can't sleep because heavy feet come through there.
Speaker 1:So the only time that I could possibly sleep late would be a Saturday. Sunday I can't, because I have to. At 5.50 is when I've got my alarm set every Sunday just to get up and do what I've got to do before church. No, we've got a whole routine or I do for that day. Saturdays sometimes I could possibly sleep in late, but I just don't. But, like this Saturday, I had to get up and do some stuff and then the funeral and all that. So I think I don't know what time I got up Saturday, but it wasn't late.
Speaker 2:But why can't you sleep late on your off days?
Speaker 1:When you say that I'm still asking, do you mean me or are you talking about in general?
Speaker 1:in general I think people can I can't I mean, I know some people that can will sleep till lunchtime. I think that's an age thing too, though these people are younger, but they might stay up till two o'clock in the morning too, on like a friday night, and that's why I'll sleep till lunchtime the next day. But I can't. There's no way I could sleep for like 10 hours. I can lay in a bed for 10 hours, something like that there's no way, yeah, but I just want to sleep late one day what time is I mean?
Speaker 1:what are you saying? Eight o' you saying 8 o'clock 7?
Speaker 2:7, 8 o'clock 8 o'clock.
Speaker 1:You've been in the bed until 8 o'clock.
Speaker 2:No no.
Speaker 1:Going to bed. At what time Are you talking about like a Friday going into a Saturday morning?
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's the only day I got. I can sleep late, mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:Hmm, I think people sleep. I think, whether you sleep late or not, you think they get up and just lounge have a cup of coffee.
Speaker 2:Jody don't. Even. Even if Jody don't set an alarm clock, he can't just get up and lounge and just drink his coffee.
Speaker 1:I've always got something going on. He is in and out Not always. It seems like I always have something going on.
Speaker 2:No, you make yourself have something going on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I've got something going on.
Speaker 1:No, you don't I just want to get up and chill. Let's take a couple of chill hours. The longest I'll spend in the living room or whatever, like I say, a Saturday morning, is I'll get up, I'll start the coffee, I'll take a shower and then when I go back in the kitchen, slash living room, I'm fixing my coffee and then I'm outside. Then I might be back inside, then I'm outside. Why can't you just sit down and chill a minute, or I'm leaving. There's none of this. Getting up, going to the recliner, fixing the coffee, lay back, watch some news, watch some TV, watch whatever. Then go take a shower. There's none of that. It's like get up, I get ready and I'm going.
Speaker 2:I don't want to get up and go straight to the shower. I want to get up and just chill.
Speaker 1:Well, I don't know and Jody don't. I'm just. I'm different than I used to be.
Speaker 2:I just, I just don't like it.
Speaker 1:I think too. It's like I want to go ahead and take a shower because it'll make me feel better you know if I get up, roam around or even if I got dressed and went outside or do whatever, if I haven't had a shower. I just feel nasty. I feel like my hair is everywhere all that hair you got is got to me. I've got a lot of hair. I need a haircut. I'm desperate need of a haircut I tried uh, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I think everybody. What is that you always say to each their own? I don't say that you said that on the podcast a long time ago and it's stuck with me about it stuck because we make fun about it.
Speaker 1:It's stuck with me. Everybody's different. You think so, but I think a large majority of people can relax, can get up, whether they sleep in or not, but they'll get up and they'll go relax in the recliner couch I want you to do that and they can stay there until 9 o'clock 9 or 10 o'clock, I guess, eat some breakfast and then I don't even know if you'd call it starting your day on a Saturday, because some people just like ain't got a whole lot going on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I just won't do nothing. Maybe they got ball games, softball games to go to, but why can't we just do nothing?
Speaker 1:Because I feel like there's a lot going on.
Speaker 2:Well, there is, and I'll get behind if I don't.
Speaker 1:Well, you're always behind. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2:I mean, there's always something to do, so you're always behind.
Speaker 1:So I need to try and stay caught up by staying busy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you wear your body out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 2:That's all I got that's.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I guess that's all I got. That's all you got. Is that all I'm bringing? What about? I saw that there was a what about?
Speaker 2:I carry my little blankie with me everywhere.
Speaker 1:Well, you, just it goes from the cast in here, it's like, hey, we're going to go podcast. You're like, hey, I'm bringing the blanket. And I was like that's fine because you nobody.
Speaker 2:I try to put pants on and he says, no, just get your blanket. So that sounds bad, even if it's.
Speaker 1:Say that, just realize what you said. So now it sounds like you don't have any pants on. And you're just covered up.
Speaker 2:I have shorts on.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I was cool and I said I'm going to put pants on.
Speaker 1:Nobody's ever seen your legs because you're always got a blanket on but I don't see.
Speaker 2:Even if it's hot, I have a blanket on I am burning up right now.
Speaker 1:I don't know how you've got a blanket on I'm comfortable right now.
Speaker 2:I told you to change clothes but I'm not.
Speaker 1:If I'm going back to church I'm just gonna ride it out, not me. So the other thing I saw was a female hispanic I don't know if you want to say mexican influencer that was doing a live stream and somebody broke into her salon or whatever. Why she's there and shot and killed her while she's doing a live stream did.
Speaker 2:Did you see that?
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, I saw not at that time but later on flipping through the old TikTok they've got. I can't believe it's out there, but yeah, there's video of her getting shot. I mean it's not gory or anything like that, but sure enough, you see what happens. That's horrible and it's horrible, they said. They said they've seen an uptick in uh females getting killed, women getting killed. I don't know if it's that area she's no, no, no, they're not pinpointing who's doing what females are doing.
Speaker 1:Tiktok lives we're going after them no, I'm just saying that I don't know if it's that area that she lived in or if it's the whole Mexican area. I don't know.
Speaker 2:Where was it?
Speaker 1:Mexico.
Speaker 2:In Mexico yeah.
Speaker 1:She's a Hispanic influencer, so, and I don't know that's a loose term influencer you hear that term a lot. What does an influencer mean? You've got at least a million followers. Less than that, I mean. What's the amount that you have to have following?
Speaker 3:you to where you're an influencer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't care that much about it, but I don't know.
Speaker 2:I can't answer that one because I don't know.
Speaker 1:And what are you influencing?
Speaker 2:Influencing a lot. You forgot my stool and I can't prop my feet. I can't put my feet down. What if I?
Speaker 1:move this table up closer to you.
Speaker 2:I'd be all right.
Speaker 1:I just didn't know if you saw that, because I saw it, I didn't even hear nothing about it. It's all kinds of bad stuff on the news.
Speaker 2:I just stay in my bubble. I don't want to hear all the bad stuff. Just stay in my little bubble.
Speaker 1:Anyway, so you ain't got nothing else.
Speaker 2:I'm trying to think.
Speaker 1:I brought something to you earlier. I was talking about Tim Tebow. Tim Tebow did a three-hour I think it was a three-hour interview on the Sean Ryan show.
Speaker 2:It was very interesting the only thing with Tim Tebow, though I just wish he had a little bit stronger voice.
Speaker 1:What are you trying to say about Tim? He just needs a little bit more manly voice. Have you heard yours?
Speaker 2:He's really more manly voice. Have you heard yours?
Speaker 1:He's really soft-spoken.
Speaker 2:Have you heard yours?
Speaker 1:And every time Sean would tell him Wouldn't ask him a question. But Sean Ryan would talk about something or experience he had and Tim would be like thank you, sean, for sharing that with me. You know, almost every time I'm like God, just come on now, as big a guy you are, most can all just man up and be a little bit stouter on your voice.
Speaker 2:You've got us in trouble. Now talking about OT, no, I like.
Speaker 1:Tim Tebow Great guy he's just. He just needs a little bit stronger voice. But another thing that bothers Call him Timmy, and so he calls himself Timmy when he's talking about people.
Speaker 2:Why would I call him Timmy?
Speaker 1:I don't know, but that really bothered me, timmy.
Speaker 2:I don't like that, which I don't like people not calling you by your name. I'm not a.
Speaker 1:What do you mean?
Speaker 2:I'm not a Nick.
Speaker 1:Well, you call me Joe and my name is not Joe, but you call me Joe. And my name is not Joe, but you call me Joe, so you can just flush that down the toilet, but you're the only one I do that with Are you sure you didn't realize it yeah I did. We did that, but I'm saying you didn't realize that until it used to be jojo, and that's what that's jojo's, because all the kids yeah you want me to tell everybody what I really call you.
Speaker 2:I'm not sure. Look on your face, I know, I know, I know what it is, I don't care. What is it?
Speaker 1:It starts with a P, it's not that word.
Speaker 2:I think you need to redo that. What are?
Speaker 1:you thinking of?
Speaker 2:What I call you starts with a P Pookie, oh yeah, you don't even know what you call me.
Speaker 1:Oh my goodness, you don't know. You don't really. You hate people that call the nickname they call people by something other than their name or shorten or abbreviate their name. You hate that, but then you don't realize that you do that to me. And then now you're like you know, should I tell everybody what I call you? And I'm like I was.
Speaker 2:I was being mean, I was gonna call you a mean name.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, I just thought she was being honest and thought she was going to embarrass me. Pookie.
Speaker 2:So one time I was texting you and I text, I texted our preacher Pookie.
Speaker 1:Oh really.
Speaker 2:Brother John.
Speaker 1:Did he respond or he just like I know he just laughed laughed he just laughed that's funny so you know there needs to be another safeguard in there for texting. You know it's like when you hit that send button it asks you again. Are you sure?
Speaker 2:are you sure?
Speaker 1:yeah, just to make sure we read that yeah, because you know there's there's. Sometimes you might have some information in there or something that you're like it just needs to go to this one person, so I need to double check and make sure that's who I'm sending it to. Agree.
Speaker 2:I do that a lot here lately.
Speaker 1:What double check. Yeah, that you've got the name right.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know, I don't know why, but well, you want to make sure, because it just depends on what your text is about. You just don't want to accidentally send it not that it's like something horrible or anything like that, but you know information is needed for certain people and not for others. So yeah, I get it, you get it yeah, okay, pookie, let's go all right timmy, but when he was telling these stories about.
Speaker 1:So if I'm telling the story that you get it, yeah, okay, pookie, let's go. All right, timmy, but when he was telling these stories about it. So if I'm telling a story that would be like you know, say, if it was my sister and you know she's telling me something, I'm not going to say that she said Jojo, she's going to say she told me, and then I go into it. But he would always. So he says Timmy, throughout the whole thing. And it's just very strange, timmy, in a soft voice. Timmy, so I've got. Do you want to listen to his proposal to his wife?
Speaker 1:You're making me, let's go, I'm not going to make you, but it's a very interesting story. I just thought, because he went, he went way out and uh, and did this so it makes you look bad I think he, I think he heard all of mankind with what he did.
Speaker 1:It's like nobody can compare their story or what they're gonna do to him. But too, when you've got money, it makes a difference too on how you can approach. Yeah, because you can do more well. You'll find out when, if you listen to what he did on his proposal also well, why do you got to do that?
Speaker 2:why do you got to go all out?
Speaker 1:special to make it special why, because it's a proposal is special was our. Is it Bizarre, is it not? I would say so A little rushed.
Speaker 1:A little, a little quick on the proposal side, but anyway. So the other thing that I recorded of course we're not going to listen to it, but it was his stats. You know, when he was in college, when he played for Florida you know the eye black under your eyes that some players wear you know he had John 316. At one time he had even talked about on there that he was trying to figure out what he could put on there because he saw other teammates putting their mom's name, he said in area codes and just different stuff. So he thought he'd put God bless on his eye black and he thought that was cheesy. That was his word, exact words, cheesy. So he's dead. Philippians 413, you know. Then he decided to do john 316 and he kind of stuck with that. And then, uh, one of his games it was well, it was when he played in the NFL, when they beat I can't remember who they beat. Anyway, it was a big game.
Speaker 2:Who did he play for in the NFL?
Speaker 1:He played for the Broncos for a short period of time, not long, right? No, I mean like several games, not like even a whole year.
Speaker 3:Right, okay.
Speaker 2:I think that's right.
Speaker 1:Okay, several games, not like even a whole year, right, okay, I think that's right, okay, um, so his stats on that was uh, everything added up to 316 we're talking about passing yards, rushing time of possession, all these things you know and then, like, the ratings for that night for that game was like a 3.16 share. I mean it was crazy how many things had 3.16 in it. And so he was telling the story of that. But also he said that it almost shut the Google search engine down because it was their highest. It was over 80 million people searched for John 316 on Google that night when he played. And he said what was shocking for him is that that many people didn't know what it meant yeah.
Speaker 2:Which is you know, a very popular yeah.
Speaker 1:You would think, whether people believe it or understand it, that still people would know. You know that verse, but I thought that was pretty cool anyway. So do you want to listen to his proposal?
Speaker 1:yeah, it's a few minutes, it's a few minutes long oh dear, but it, it, it'll the people may not want to hear yeah yeah, don't listen to this, but you'll have to put your headphones on. I'm not putting them on. I know I didn't do it. I did not even wear my headphones this time. I know Because I feel like a goofball since you won't wear yours, but you really need them to be able to hear each other.
Speaker 2:I'm proud of you, goof.
Speaker 1:Really, you're calling me goof now.
Speaker 2:Yep, your new nickname goof.
Speaker 1:Why does it matter which year you put it on? Because it does.
Speaker 2:Wow see, this is so much better now, so can you hear good? No, I don't like it can you hear?
Speaker 1:fine, before I hit the play button can you hear me now? I hear you just fine, all right, so here's the proposal. Uh, tim tebow did with his wife with as well.
Speaker 3:I proposed at my parents' farm, the place we moved back. We moved back from the Philippines. I wanted to do it so different and special. How can you have a special surprise? You base it all in lies. That's what I did. I had everyone in on it. I wanted it to be so special.
Speaker 3:So we, we had been gone in South Africa for Christmas and then doing football commentary stuff, so I and I was in South Africa to ask her family for a hand and we got back and I had to do that before I did. I just really wanted to do it that way. And so we are at our house for celebrating Christmas, even though it was in January, and our families together. And I gave her a ring for Christmas just to throw her off, so she wouldn't think that the ring was coming. And so we, we set up all these lies and my whole family was in on it and her family was in on it and I, I told, um, uh, I told her that we, you know, for every Christmas celebration we have a big dinner at my parents' house.
Speaker 3:Total lie, we don't. She had always told me hey, when you propose, I would love to be dressed up, but the only thing I really want is I want my nails done, and so my sister took her out because they were at a big dinner, so they just naturally bring up nails and did all their nails and dressed up, and and then, to throw her off the scent even more, I had one of our friends that has a car dealership to let me borrow a brand new truck, because I told her I was going to give the truck to my dad for christmas. Because if she's thinking, hey, dad timmy's giving this truck to his dad for christmas definitely not proposing wow, you really thought this one out, so we get in that truck.
Speaker 1:I hate his laugh. By the way we drive it to my parents' house.
Speaker 3:And what she didn't know was all of my family was already in the house and she didn't know her family. I had secretly flown in from South Africa but before we walk into the house I said, hey, you can walk out to the pond. That was very meaningful to me. That's where I just prayed many times. That's where I decided to try to figure out where I was going to go play college football. It's where we buried our dogs. It was just where it's a meaningful place and I had an arch built there and I had flowers all around it and I had a bench made for us there and flowers on the way out.
Speaker 3:So we're walking out to it and about halfway there she knew what was about to happen. And so we get there and I get on my knees and I propose to her but I was just trying to find other ways for it to be special and one of the things she just loves. Her family wants them to be a part of it. Well, she didn't know that in the hay bales that were all around I had microphones that were planted in there and so her family could hear the whole conversation. I guess it could have gone bad and my family could hear, and so I proposed to her.
Speaker 3:And then I get my phone and I turn on our favorite song, which is by an artist called Matthew Mole from South Africa and it's called the Wedding Song. It's her favorite song, so it quickly became my favorite song and we're dancing to it from my phone. But then as we're dancing I had turned her and then Matthew Mole had flown in from South Africa and was walking out and so then turned her and Matthew Mole is playing her favorite song she's like oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:And then we keep dancing to it and they Bon Jovi, out on the water.
Speaker 3:And so her. She didn't know her family was there or George of her parents because they got divorced when she was like one and they remarried. So all four of them are amazing, they're all in her life. So then she turned around and there was her four parents that she's thinking they're in South Africa and they're there, and so she's crying and they're all celebrating, and then we're all hugging. And then, when her back was turned again, I had several of her best friends that had flown in. She turned around. There's her best friends.
Speaker 3:Oh, man and she's freaking out and there's my family and then so we just had an awesome celebration and then it's so funny. So then my dad's there and she's like, so wait, is that truck really for your dad? And I was like no, it was just to throw you off the scent. So she goes up to my dad and she's like Mr T, I'm so sorry that you're not getting a new truck, but you are getting a new daughter. And my dad's like it's so much better. It is just such a special day. Well done, well done.
Speaker 2:That is beautiful.
Speaker 3:I proposed, so if you're watching this on, YouTube.
Speaker 2:You just sat through two minutes of nothing.
Speaker 1:No, they can hear it. You still hear it. So Well, what did you think about that?
Speaker 2:I remembered it when they said the truck. I remember, I've heard that before.
Speaker 1:You've heard the story before?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I'm going to need you to.
Speaker 1:I'd say you went above and beyond.
Speaker 2:I'm going to need you to redo I'm talking about. I'm gonna need you to redo yours and not take me to feed pigs well, that's what I'm talking, yeah so is that what it was?
Speaker 1:yes, okay um but yeah, me to feed if you have money it makes it a lot easier because you can fly people in. You can fly a supposedly famous person, possibly that sings this song that's her favorite song in to finish the lyrics and then fly her family in and fly her friends in.
Speaker 2:That's a little bit much. Why can't you just keep it small?
Speaker 1:and out loud. That's cool though. But, I mean, hey, I do like the part that he's throwing her off the scent with everything he's doing. Like the ring for Christmas. If she gets that, she's not thinking she's getting anything else like a proposal.
Speaker 2:But now you really got to do a big old wedding now.
Speaker 1:Well, possibly, I don't know. Well, you're probably going to plan on that anyway, but you want the proposal to match up to, maybe, how big the wedding's going to be right. I guess I don't know I Proposal to match up to maybe how big the wedding's going to be right, I guess. I don't know, I just found that interesting and I thought you might. I thought of you when I listened to it. I thought you might just enjoy hearing about it. Whether you did or not, I don't know.
Speaker 2:I enjoyed it. Honey, okay, pookie.
Speaker 1:I'm just getting this look from you, honey pie, okay, she said, pookie, I'm just getting this look from you like Honey pie. Okay, she said.
Speaker 2:Pookie pants.
Speaker 1:What else you got Anything? I thought you were going to come in here a blazing. I thought you had several things that you wanted to talk about.
Speaker 2:I did, but I can't remember them. I really did have a couple of things, but yeah, I don't got a clue.
Speaker 1:What about another thing that was on my mind Drive-thrus and paying it forward.
Speaker 2:Drive-thru password no.
Speaker 1:Drive-thrus and paying for the people's food behind you or you getting up there and your food was already paid for. Have you ever experienced that? Has your food ever been paid for?
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Really, when you get up there, somebody in front of you and so did you like? Thank you, or are you like? Well, let me pay for the people behind me I just pay for the next one yeah, but what's the chances like? If I did this and it happened, I'll be like I'm paying for the one or you just give them.
Speaker 2:You give them what, what yours was gonna be anyway, and that just goes on the next person's bill. Okay, because I'm paying for the one, or you just give them. You give them what, what yours was gonna be anyway, and that just goes on the next person's bill okay, because I was gonna say, if I say all right, I'll catch the next person whoever's behind me, I'll pay for them.
Speaker 1:You just say, hey, well, here's my 10, just put it on but my chances of this happening would be like 19 kids and counting the duggars would be in their big bus behind me and may not realize it and they've just ordered. So I've got like a $200 breakfast meal.
Speaker 2:But do you have to pay it forward right then, like if somebody's doing something nice for you?
Speaker 1:No, but what does the image look like? I know Like the person at the drive-thru is going to be like well, that jerk just didn't finish it.
Speaker 2:They could keep going on forever.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this could go on, for you know you would think you wanted to go like at least, say, 10 or 12 cars, right, just keep it going until eventually it's like it's got to stop. Who's the person that it stops with? It's that person who's like, hey, I got a freebie.
Speaker 2:Just like I don't know. Sometimes I'll see something that my bestie likes or something, and I'll just be like, oh, I want to get that and give that to her. And she'll be like, well, let me pay for it. And I'm like, no, you're not paying for it, it's just a gift, just because I wanted to, just because I thought of you, or whatever, so why can't it just be a gift and you don't have to keep paying it for it? What?
Speaker 1:if you paid for yours and then gave the drive-thru person a $5 bill and said, hey, just put this on the next person. What if it never makes it to the next person, but it made it to that drive-thru person's front pocket?
Speaker 2:You hope not. You hope it don't work that way.
Speaker 1:Just saying I've never experienced it way, just saying I've never experienced it.
Speaker 2:I don't know what, but you gotta remember how many you don't do drive-thrus.
Speaker 1:How many drive-thrus do I go through in a year's time?
Speaker 2:two maybe, a handful maybe and if we go through a drive-thru I have to if we go through and I'm driving which if we're together I'm always driving because, I'm, but I will not.
Speaker 1:I'm I'm willing to drive through the drive-thru, but I ain't talking and I hate going in so and and I'd rather go in.
Speaker 2:Jody would rather go in, so the way we battle.
Speaker 1:This is that amanda has to lean over me while I'm and she will order I will order, and then we get up there and they're like a female orders orders the food and when I get up there there's a guy in the driver's seat.
Speaker 2:Oh, one day we should do that and I should get out of the car. Yeah, and you drive up there.
Speaker 1:That'd be embarrassing. I don't know if I could do it.
Speaker 2:That would be funny.
Speaker 1:Oh, they probably, but nobody would probably even think of it. Probably not, Because you know, you know if they're handling so many people, especially like some of these breakfast places that are like they're so busy they can't remember who placed the order or whatever. If it was a guy or a female, whatever, yeah, hmm, but you know we did go to one of them. I'm not going to mention the restaurant's name.
Speaker 1:Your dad wanted this specific sandwich from a specific chain restaurant fast food place and, by the way, they didn't have it. He wanted it because it's sourdough. It's sourdough bread.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he liked the bread.
Speaker 1:And of course they're like I'm sorry we didn't have it. You know, don't have the sourdough, but it was the worst. You know there's this big thing about how we make fun of the way it sounds when you go through a drive through the speaker.
Speaker 2:you know you can't understand them oh, yeah, this was the by far the worst speaker I have ever heard, could not understand anything they said and you know, the next time I went back you couldn't use the speaker, you had to drive up. Remember? I told you that when he wanted that sandwich again yeah and I said, guess what?
Speaker 1:the speakers broke I know, but it was and that's probably a week later, wasn't it?
Speaker 2:Well, it must have been going out or something, I don't know.
Speaker 1:It must have been something, Because it was like I don't know the example to give you, but it would be like if they said no it was like Excuse me. Yeah, it was horrible. Yeah, that's exactly what I mean.
Speaker 2:I couldn't decipher it. Yeah, I'm like what?
Speaker 1:And that's the thing too. What year is this? 2025? Am I right? I think we're sending probes to Mars.
Speaker 2:We can't get good drive-through speakers.
Speaker 1:I mean, we send, you know, katy Perry up to space. You know now she's an astronaut, but we can't have a decent speaker at these chain stores. Come on.
Speaker 2:Come on, now Come on, I mean really Come on. Jody says you want me to talk. You're going to have to get better than that. Yeah, he still wasn't talking it.
Speaker 1:I don't like drive-thrus. Very seldom though, though, I'll just go through a drive-thru, I'm saying, but if you look a lot of times there is, you know, drive-thrus used to be the quick way. I'm gonna say not necessarily now. I think a lot of times you could probably get in and out quicker than you could do drive-thru. But there's so many options. If you go to mcdonald's now you can't park to go inside because every one of them stupid reserved for pickup orders, mobile, mobile app use or whatever.
Speaker 1:So where am I supposed to park? Because I know the one that we got in town and that was no lie. When I pull in, it's like everyone. It's almost like walmart with the pickup. You know all these 50 parking places they've got reserved for you to pick up your groceries. Yeah, well, that's the way it was at our local one, oh, mcdonald's, I had to drive around to the opposite side to where I found some freed up. I should just been a jerk and just parked in the mobile pickup.
Speaker 1:Well, they do at walmart I know, but I, I can't do it though, though.
Speaker 2:Guess what I heard we're getting. I try and follow by the rules. What Guess what I heard we're getting.
Speaker 1:What? I'll say it again. Guess what I heard, what?
Speaker 2:A crystals.
Speaker 1:A what?
Speaker 2:A crystals.
Speaker 1:A crystals. What's a crystals?
Speaker 2:That's what Michael calls it.
Speaker 1:Oh, a crystals.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:How many times have we had a Crystal's and they ain't worked.
Speaker 2:They've closed down Once Is it just once.
Speaker 1:We had a Hot N' Now Kind of like a Crystal's. Not really.
Speaker 2:They were both those little square burgers. Okay.
Speaker 1:Hot N' Now was like what? 39 cents.
Speaker 2:They were cheap. They were good though.
Speaker 1:Is it Hot N' Now or In-N-Out what?
Speaker 2:was I thinking of. That's two different ones. There's a Hot In-Now, hot Now.
Speaker 1:Hot In-Now is where rallies used to be. Is that what I'm?
Speaker 2:No, was it not where the donut store is right there?
Speaker 1:Crystals used to be. That was Crystals, yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay. Well then, maybe because it was in with the gas station.
Speaker 1:People were listening to this like what are y'all?
Speaker 2:talking about? We ain't got a clue what you're talking about baskin robbins was there with it too, yeah with the crystals I don't know why he calls it crystals the hunt now maybe it was right there, because you could go on both sides. Yeah, but it shut down.
Speaker 1:It was so cheap. But I had heard and never researched to find out if it was true, but I heard it was kangaroo meat. That's how they could sell their burgers for so cheap. It was good, but I thought Hot Now was not the mini, I thought it was regular burgers. It wasn't. Not the crystal size. Yeah, and that's why it was such a deal, because you could get these burgers for like $39, $49, $50, whatever it was $0.59. Let me see what this box says.
Speaker 2:Let's see what that box says. Let's see Hot N' Out.
Speaker 1:Because In-N-Out Burger is still a thing Hot.
Speaker 2:N' Out is a thing in the past. Yes, In-N-Out is still a thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, hot N'. Out.
Speaker 2:Burgers Okay, I guess they're a regular.
Speaker 1:Does it say why they close?
Speaker 2:Can you? The closest one to us is.
Speaker 1:So there's some that's open, or at least got that name.
Speaker 2:What's MI Sturgis, Sturgis MI.
Speaker 1:Is that Minnesota?
Speaker 2:Minnesota.
Speaker 1:Hot and now hamburgers. Fast food standby for burgers and fries. What's michigan? Is that mi?
Speaker 2:I don't know they close at 10. You think we make it.
Speaker 1:I'm just asking a few questions, simple questions like so they've got, so they're established. It's not the same company, I'm sure, because these went out in the 90s, I think the whole it went bankrupt, whatever.
Speaker 2:But I thought so yeah, there it looks like they're, but they were cheap, so that's what it was.
Speaker 1:They were cheap, right yeah, can you like look up? Why did they close in the? Why did hot now close in the 90s? Due to what?
Speaker 2:but they're still here did you hear what I just?
Speaker 1:But they're still here. Did you hear what I just?
Speaker 2:said they're still here. No, I wasn't listening.
Speaker 1:It's another name, but it's not the same company, I'm sure.
Speaker 2:Why did. Houghton now close Bankruptcy. Several ownerships change changed changes what it says. It was a combination of factors Several ownership changes, micromanaging and ultimately, Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2004. The chain's profitable decline in the mid to late 90s.
Speaker 1:But it doesn't say why Some restaurants were converted to Hardee's. I couldn't tell you last time I had Hardee's.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, Hardee's is just like a.
Speaker 1:Hardee's does not even sound good enough Now. Hardee's used to be known. Hardee's is just like a Hardee's does not even sound good Now. Hardee's used to be known for their breakfast. They were.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You know, like I don't know how many people out there.
Speaker 2:I didn't even think of Hardee's.
Speaker 1:We have a chain of restaurants or fast food called Jack's and it's basically it's Alabama, georgia, mississippi maybe South maybe. Yeah, it's the south, so they are known for their breakfast. They are covered up every morning for their biscuits, but that's what I'm saying. It used to be Hardee's, but that's no longer Because our Hardee's closed.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then it reopened, but I never see anybody there.
Speaker 1:I don't think it's a good location.
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:All right, let's get out of here.
Speaker 2:We out.
Speaker 1:We're out.
Speaker 2:We got a busy week this week. I do.
Speaker 1:What about this rain?
Speaker 2:Oh, every day.
Speaker 1:It's stormed every night, or say 2, 3, 4 o'clock in the morning. It's like where're just? Raining raining for two or three days, then it stops for a day, then a rain a couple of days and it stopped and it rained a couple of days, but it is unbelievable how much rain. I mean we do not need any rain. We need to hold off and save this for august, when we'll have about 40 days of no rain. But why is it busy this week?
Speaker 2:Because my dad's got two doctor's appointments.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, you've got stuff with him.
Speaker 2:So I'll be keeping a rose hot this week. Maybe I'll have something to talk about next week. Maybe. Maybe, so, when are you going to take me that we can talk about?
Speaker 1:Where am I going to take you? Probably nowhere. I have to relax.
Speaker 2:You're so not like Timmy.
Speaker 1:I know I can't help it. Timmy, soft-spoken. Timmy, do you not think he's soft-spoken?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean it's fine, or do you think?
Speaker 1:it's. If you listen to that whole interview, you'd really be like man. He just needs to man up a little bit.
Speaker 2:Maybe you need to calm down.
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:Maybe, so All right, I'm out, peace it.
Speaker 1:Check us out. If you hadn't watched us on YouTube, check us out on YouTube. You know. The only thing about YouTube is our sound quality on YouTube is not where it needs to be. When I edit it and do all this stuff, everything still goes through our recorder. It should be the same quality on YouTube as it is on Spotify, apple, iheart everywhere that you listen to your episodes from, but it's just not as good sound quality. I don't know Well that's not good.
Speaker 2:You need to fix it, Mr Ratliff.
Speaker 1:I mean, I don't know how to fix it. I don't think there's a way. I'm just saying it's just way. And even when I'm putting it on YouTube, when I listen to it it sounds fine, but when it's released on there it's just Check us out. We're at TikTok Facebook. We don't hardly do nothing on Facebook, but anyway, peace out, girl Scout.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're out.
Speaker 1:Check us out for episode 43 that hopefully will be out next week, if not the following week.
Speaker 2:Are we not doing episode 43 right now, coming out tomorrow? I?
Speaker 1:thought this was 42.
Speaker 3:This is 42. This is 42. This is 42.
Speaker 1:Yes, 43 will be the next one. My goodness, all right, I'm done with you. All right, bye.
Speaker 3:Bye.
