This That And The Other
This That And The Other
Meeting Comedian Dusty Slay, World's Longest Yard Sale, The Art Of Not Noticing, And More
Jody and Amanda share their experience visiting the World's Longest Yard Sale, encountering comedian Dusty Slay, and Jody's complete obliviousness to Amanda's fall decorations that had been up for an entire week.
• Amanda has been slowly putting out fall decorations for over a week without Jody noticing
• Their review of Happy Gilmore 2 – they found it too long and couldn't keep their attention
• Early morning adventure to the World's Longest Yard Sale along Highway 127
• Discussion about rest areas and the mystery of separate vending machine buildings
• Jody's starstruck encounter with comedian Dusty Slay in Mentone, Alabama
• The one that got away – a heavy bronze dove statue Jody regrets not purchasing
• Despite spending all day yard-saling, they only spent $20 on food and came home with nothing
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Welcome back to episode 48. The age Amanda is.
Speaker 2:That's a negative and you better take it back.
Speaker 1:Oh, you're not 48?.
Speaker 2:No, sir, I won't even be 48.
Speaker 1:49. Really 47. Really 46. Thank you, so you admitted it. Well, 46.
Speaker 2:I'm not 48.
Speaker 1:So so what's up? What's going on?
Speaker 2:All right, it's a Sunday. I'm about to take the whole show over, because I've been hiding this from you all week long. Really, yeah, really, because you've not said a word about it, so I know you hadn't saw it.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Really Go ahead.
Speaker 1:I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2:Exactly.
Speaker 1:You or the house, or what no?
Speaker 2:the house?
Speaker 1:Exactly you or the house or what no the house. The house.
Speaker 2:So this is.
Speaker 1:August.
Speaker 2:We're in August.
Speaker 1:You put something out.
Speaker 2:And I have started putting pumpkins out. I did. I saw out in the red room on the thing.
Speaker 1:I saw a couple of things, I tell you. I'm like I actually thought it was left over from last year. When I saw it I thought so that's all you saw. I don't know, I guess.
Speaker 2:Really you don't pay attention to anything in the house.
Speaker 1:Look, I have tunnel vision. Really I'm only looking straight ahead to where I'm going.
Speaker 2:Straight ahead.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Straight ahead when you walk into our house is our fireplace, our mantel that our family picture is usually on. Family picture has been gone all week long has it really all week long.
Speaker 1:The family picture has been taken down when I said looking straight ahead, I mean, as I'm going, I'm like looking at the ground step to step, to make sure everything's good on my path to wherever I'm going. I'm not veering off. Looking to the right, to the left, straight straight ahead. Well, I mean you walk into house.
Speaker 2:That's the first thing you see.
Speaker 1:Look if it's not flashing or glittery or something to catch my attention, I just overlook it, Sorry.
Speaker 2:And your boys from the other pod didn't mention a word that. Don't let my wife know this. Your wife's already putting out fall stuff.
Speaker 1:Why would they know?
Speaker 2:They don't notice anything either.
Speaker 1:Because they come over here to podcast on other ones. Is that what you're saying? Yeah, Well they don't pay attention to anything. They're like me.
Speaker 2:If I'm going into somebody's house, maybe it's a woman thing. You're loud Well because I like this, because I got you all week Our. I like this because I got you all week. Our picture from the mantel has been gone all week.
Speaker 1:I don't feel like I've been got. I got you. You think you got me, but I don't feel like I've been got.
Speaker 2:Women. Put your fall stuff out because they don't see it. Go ahead and do it. I even have two pumpkins on the mantel that he made. He made us a couple of years ago these two pumpkins Me Actually there were three, but I can't find the other one. I couldn't find the other one off real fast. That I made. Yeah, they were just out of the wood and it looks like a pumpkin and I decoupaged it.
Speaker 1:Oh, I don't even remember that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, see. So, women, this is your cue Put the fall stuff out. Well, go ahead, that's fine. Whatever, it's August.
Speaker 1:I mean, as long as you're not putting it in the front yard at your mailbox. We're like happy fall y'all Stuff like that. No, well, I might. I mean I would definitely notice that because I'm cutting grass. No, you wouldn't. Yes, I would.
Speaker 2:No, you wouldn't.
Speaker 1:I would say take it down, and I'd run it over with a lawnmower. No, leave it at the house up at the top of the hill next to the. I'd be like what is going on. I'd look at my watch and make sure that it says August and not the end of September or the beginning of September.
Speaker 2:I don't know, it's now, I'm ready, I mean.
Speaker 1:I'm ready.
Speaker 2:Football I'm ready.
Speaker 1:Look, I could go out there and see like a St Patrick's something day thing up there, leprechaun or something I'd be like. Well, I guess we forgot it too, and I would just walk on by. I don't leave my stuff out, like that I think if you would have look, if you slowly went and see that's how they get you See, see, that's how they get you, that's how we get them women, you just slowly dribble it in.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this is your.
Speaker 1:Okay, women Put it out there and then one day you wake up and you go in there to fix the coffee and you have to blink a couple more times. You're like what is going on in here? And you now realize that the whole room has been changed to fall.
Speaker 2:And it takes you how long.
Speaker 1:Well, it's taken over a week, yeah, but if you hadn't, well, I mean you shouldn't have said nothing, you should have seen how long you could go.
Speaker 2:I couldn't hold it. I couldn't hold it anymore.
Speaker 1:That kind of reminds me of when we had the Christmas party over at someone's house and they have a bunch of nutcrackers.
Speaker 2:Oh, I can't do nutcrackers.
Speaker 1:I mean a ton of nutcrackers. It's crazy. It ton of nutcrackers, it's crazy. It'd be like if I was really into bobblehead dolls, I'd have as many bobblehead dolls as he has nutcrackers. But this is like over.
Speaker 1:When we say nutcrackers and a lot, we're talking wall to wall, wall to wall, extra rooms like storage bins they have their own house yeah the nutcrackers have their own house, which is cool and all that, but what I'm getting to is like so we played a game and started trying to turn as many around and put them in different positions as we could, thinking that he wouldn't notice, and I don't remember if he did or not. That night, I don't remember there is a life-size Nutcracker in his house and I think that was the giveaway. We did something to it. That was pretty obvious. So I think that was a giveaway, but it might have been the next day before we ever knew.
Speaker 2:I don't know Because you just got so many Ladies. Put the fall stuff out, Put it out.
Speaker 1:Look all we can do is take it down you ain't. Knock it off, hate it.
Speaker 2:You ain't going to bother it.
Speaker 1:I'm hoping I can remember, when we get done recording, to go in there and look, I can't even promise you that I remember to do that the next time we record. You'll be like you still haven't noticed. I'll be like, oh yeah, I forgot about that.
Speaker 2:I'll have the Christmas lights up by the next time we record.
Speaker 1:You might do it. Hey, let's talk about Happy Gilmore, happy Gilmore 2. We watched that last time we recorded. We had it on our mind to talk about it.
Speaker 2:Did we record last week?
Speaker 1:Yes, Okay, and we forgot to talk about it, but it wasn't nothing. I mean, the only reason we want to talk about it is like we just did not enjoy the movie, did you?
Speaker 2:No, I didn't like it. It couldn't keep my attention.
Speaker 1:But it was long. It was two hours long. It was way long and it was just like it drug on and on. Yeah it just I didn't like it.
Speaker 2:I don't know. I think it's just not our genre of movie anymore.
Speaker 1:I think I've changed. I think Adam Sandler has stayed the same Nothing wrong with that but I have changed on him.
Speaker 2:But I think you dress just like him.
Speaker 1:I do dress, just like him, you told me that, just like him, I told you, that's the style I was looking for, because I said he's on talk shows, he's doing late night stuff and all, and he's wearing gym shorts and, you know, a t-shirt, and then a man is like that's exactly what you do, that's how you dress, what are you talking about? You? Already, maybe the only difference is is he's wearing sneakers and I'm wearing slides. Yeah, so I'll give him that. Yeah, but back to the movie. It was just.
Speaker 2:Maybe our style of movie is I think we just weren't into that humor yeah, it's but it more it was like raunchy humor but it just kept on. Yeah, it was like enough is enough, yeah but it was just it was long. It was like the story was like I don't know if you don't grab jody in the first five minutes of a movie, he's done with you.
Speaker 1:That's bad, isn't?
Speaker 2:he is done with you, like like people tell us to watch these series or whatever, and if you don't got Jody in the first five minutes of the first episode, he don't want to keep watching. And I'm like they tell us keep watching, stick with it, just like Highlander, highlander.
Speaker 1:That's what I was going to say. Is that it? Yeah, highlander, is that the right one? Yeah?
Speaker 2:Like the first three episodes. We were like.
Speaker 1:I'm told that you, you have to stick with it, that it's rough, and when we mean rough, it's just hard to follow. Yeah, and not that great, but once you get like to the fourth episode, then it's a complete turnaround.
Speaker 2:It's like, hey, this is actually kind of I don't know. I saw comments about happy gilmore too, that people loved it, that it was as good as the first one yeah, it was not as good as the first one to me. Not at all.
Speaker 1:I still like the first one oh, I do too, and you know. I told you that we needed to watch the first one. Yeah, we didn't watch the second one yeah, watching back to back, but that would have been hard to do.
Speaker 2:I couldn't we could have watched the first one, no problem, oh no problem, but the second one, I I'd have been like out yeah, peace out.
Speaker 1:But you know the thing about when you make sequels there's a high standard that you've got to set. Sequels will always let you down 90% of the time. There's not too many sequels that I would say is better than the original. I would say Top Gun 2 is better than Top Gun 1.
Speaker 2:It's really close. I would say Top Gun 2 is better than Top Gun 1. It's really close. I don't think that. You don't think so. I like it and I think it is good.
Speaker 1:I think they pulled it off. I'll put it that way.
Speaker 2:I think they pulled it off, but I still like the original better.
Speaker 1:I mean.
Speaker 2:I don't know, I guess because I grew up with it and I liked it. Yeah, I don't know. So yeah, it was really hopped up it was.
Speaker 1:It was just so long. I think that's what it was. It was so, so long.
Speaker 2:But was it really long?
Speaker 1:It was over two hours long. Yes, was it? Yes, and it was like I want it to be more realistic. And then, when you get into the hole, when they were doing the new golf style, right, that tournament or whatever they're doing, it's just like nothing. You know, he's hitting holes in one, the ball's bouncing here and there and it's going in. I'm like you know, I guess, but that was just another thing.
Speaker 2:I was like I just you didn't like that part of it. No, I didn't like it.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:But I have the new golf style. They what did they do? They cut the some part of their hip so they could, yeah, turn, they could turn more. I'm like really that, what's that?
Speaker 1:yeah, that's funny yeah but I'm just talking about, like when they hit the ball and you see like smoke coming out the end of it, or fire, you know flame, because they've hit it so hard and then it's yeah, and you're hitting it a fairway to, where all you see is you're like on a mountaintop and you're just hitting out into it looks like the wilderness.
Speaker 1:You have no idea where this hole or the fairway is and everything. I mean just it's a little over the top for me. But that's just me. But yeah, I don't give many movies a chance. I think I've set such a high standard on things now. I mean, I don't know why I would say that, but it's like if I see any type of bad acting at all, he's done, I am done.
Speaker 1:He will not give it Because I think you are not up to par. It's like I'm thinking you're a B-rated movie. I'm thinking you don't have.
Speaker 2:But he will always go back to Gladiator. Oh yeah, he loves some Gladiator, gladiator.
Speaker 1:The Patriot with Mel Gibson, all those Godfather. One and two, not three. Three's terrible, three's horrible. They went to the well too many times. That's what three was. So that's our take on Happy Cure the Hunt for Red October.
Speaker 2:Never seen it. That's a good one. Never seen it.
Speaker 1:It's good. What else I was thinking the other day? You know, any of the Cannonball Runs or Smokey and the Bandit are classics, Classics.
Speaker 2:Classics.
Speaker 1:Exactly Cannonball Run.
Speaker 2:I don't think I've seen Cannonball Run Really.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because you had all these stars and they've got different types of vehicles and they're racing across the country to try and beat each other.
Speaker 2:Maybe I've seen a little bit of it. Well, that's what we thought about. Happy Gilmore, you were going to have all these stars. Oh, it had so many cameos.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all these appearances by these stars and it's still I guess.
Speaker 2:I guess All right. So we'll probably get some flack on that You're going to have.
Speaker 1:Oh well, but what did we do yesterday? We got up bright and early yesterday.
Speaker 2:Yesterday was Saturday.
Speaker 1:You had this idea. You've been talking it up a little bit, but this past week you've talked about the world's longest yard sale. Yeah, and we've done it before 600 and something miles.
Speaker 2:Did we go 600 and something?
Speaker 1:miles. Did we go 600 something miles? No, felt like it. It did feel like it. Yeah, I think yeah round trip.
Speaker 2:We did.
Speaker 1:No, we didn't but so so I guess friday night you talked about it we kind of did everything kind of depends on saturday. If anything's going on, you know just with church and stuff like that. But if I mean, if nothing really is on, you know just with church and stuff like that. But I mean if nothing really is going on, you know we're freed up.
Speaker 2:We like to take off. You just never know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're kind of obligated on knocking some stuff out on Saturday, but we can rearrange to do it later on on a Saturday or a Friday night or whatever. But so, yeah, so Friday night you're basically yeah, we're getting up and we're leaving by what time? 5, basically, yeah, we're getting up and we're leaving by what time 5 am. I said 5.
Speaker 2:5, so we weren't. It was about 5.20, wasn't it 5.15,?
Speaker 1:maybe 5.15, 5.20, yeah. So we headed out and we're going to go to Nakalula Falls, that's in Gadsden, and start there. That was going to be our starting point. If you've ever been to Nakalula Falls, it's just basically a big old falls there's a story statue of an Indian.
Speaker 2:I don't know it well enough to talk about it they need to redo the statue.
Speaker 1:By the way, you ever checked out the statue? Yeah, if I would make statues it would look like that one. I'm just saying they need more of a professional type of statue. No, they don't yeah that's fine. If you look at the hands and then you look at the feet and the heel, all this stuff, it's low.
Speaker 2:It's kind of like uh nick saban statue I knew you were gonna say that I couldn't think of his name. I was gonna say it in alabama yeah in front of me, so we were at the world's longest yard sale can I not talk about nick saban.
Speaker 1:His like his arms and his hands are like twice I'm trying to keep you on track because I'm hungry okay, go ahead you're really gonna get some hate.
Speaker 2:You talk about the old nick saban. I didn't.
Speaker 1:I nothing against nick saban is against his statue and he like approved it.
Speaker 2:I'm like how?
Speaker 1:does anybody like say yes, we'll take it, finish it? No, I'd have been like scrap this thing, melt it back down, start over those hands look hideous.
Speaker 2:Hideous Word of the day.
Speaker 1:Okay, so we were in Noclula Falls, started there.
Speaker 2:And so what you do is you're supposed to follow Highway 127. And so what you do is you're supposed to follow Highway 127. And it goes all the way up to. It goes all the way. Chattanooga. It goes Kentucky, ohio, I think. It goes into Ohio all the way up that way. So it goes through Tennessee, of course, if you're in Kentucky. But yeah, I mean, we know we can't do that yeah, but highway 127 goes all the way up through there, so they call it the world's largest yard sale.
Speaker 1:Highway 127 so we're basically going from south to north. Yeah, that's the way and then we were gonna do that yeah, we're gonna get up to like chattanooga, top a little bit above it, and turn around and just come back, and so we kind of just on highway. Well, right there at Nakalula Falls when we turned on 127, it's like so we got stopped, and like nothing is moving, jody, wouldn't?
Speaker 2:I think we should have skipped Nakalula Falls, the stuff at Nakalula Falls.
Speaker 1:So we ended up.
Speaker 2:I turned around, we went interstate we skipped half of Highway 127 and went to.
Speaker 1:Went past Chattanooga.
Speaker 2:What was it? Signal we were trying to find. Yeah, signal Mountain. We went on Signal Mountain.
Speaker 1:I almost said Signal Hill, but that is a golf course in Panama City. Sorry.
Speaker 2:And I was trying to find what was called Pickers Lot, pickers Lot.
Speaker 1:Oh, before you get into that, we will. Well, I was going to say if we were not videoing this episode, but we could have put the video of the house that looked like a spaceship.
Speaker 2:We did pass a house with a spaceship Very cool, but go ahead. Yes, we did. It was really cool looking. I feel like I wasn't prepared for yesterday.
Speaker 1:What do you mean? What do you mean Like?
Speaker 2:I thought I was. I wanted to get out and walk more and we couldn't find the picker field.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so what happens is just you go into the. There's people on the side of the road at their houses. Some have yard sales and some don't. But I feel like if you had stayed on the 127,.
Speaker 2:You would have parked your car, walked three or four houses.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then come back Because they were house, house, house house to where what we found. So we were hit and miss hit and miss Because we took the interstate. Yeah we were trying to find the one place that we found a few years ago. That's almost like just this huge field. That's just nothing but booths and tents and whatever, and then you can spend a couple hours.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, just in that one location.
Speaker 1:And you're not constantly getting in and out of your vehicle.
Speaker 2:And then I wanted to come back down from there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, so we should have. We just did it backwards.
Speaker 2:But the time we went before we went up Friday night and stayed in the hotel, which I think may be better too. Yeah, next year I'll have a different.
Speaker 1:But the dogs will have to go.
Speaker 2:The dogs do not have to go.
Speaker 1:Dogs can't stay by their self.
Speaker 2:You've got Nicholas.
Speaker 1:He'll be going to college, he'll be away to college and then, like I said, we'll have dogs that need to go with us.
Speaker 2:The dogs can stay by their self. He can come home on the weekend. He can come home on the weekend.
Speaker 1:Is that right, or the dogs can go with us.
Speaker 2:Or the dogs are not going with us.
Speaker 1:Or we're not going.
Speaker 2:See, he loves the dogs more than he loves me.
Speaker 1:Just proved it you got to think ahead.
Speaker 2:I am thinking ahead. Dogs are not going, dogs are aggravating.
Speaker 1:We've seen a lot of dogs, though. I saw a ton of dogs, more dogs than we should have. Hey, let me, hey, pet owners out there, let me. Let me get on my soapbox for a second.
Speaker 1:Oh lord, just because you have a dog oh, I gotta tell you something doesn't mean that dog wants to be thrown on a leash and put out there in the heat all day and be drug around. Just telling you that, that they don't necessarily want that. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe that's not the agony I see on that dog's face from you know it's like hey, I've got like half an hour to live before I'm gonna die out here. But I mean, if you're an owner and feel like your dog loves it as much as you think it does, and hey knock it out okay.
Speaker 2:So you know how we were talking about dogs, and the other day we were talking about dogs hanging their head out of the window of the car, you know. So I took Winston.
Speaker 1:I know he didn't Thursday. Don't tell me you wrote the window down.
Speaker 2:I took. Winston, thursday, and my front seat To the vet, Nope to the groomer. And my front seat had crap all in it and I'm like I ain't got time for this, Because I was taking him on my way back to work from lunch. So I put him in the back seat and he went over to the passenger side. He was just standing there looking out the window, so I rolled the window down. He hung his head out the window.
Speaker 1:Did he? Yes, well, that's what dogs do.
Speaker 2:He liked it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what we think.
Speaker 2:He told me yeah. I rolled the window up and he started whining.
Speaker 1:Whatever, that's a lie.
Speaker 2:Okay, he didn't do that. He's sleeping right beside me by the way, but after we talked about that.
Speaker 1:You just tested the water. I did which you did. Yeah, my back window won't roll down down all the way it rolls down with just this much left.
Speaker 1:If I'm a dog and you throw me in this thing that I don't know what it is and I'm staring at this. I'm staring outside and there's this partition in between it's called a window glass that I don't know what that is, and you roll it down and it's not holding me back. Of course I'm putting my head out the window, it's fur, which is the blowing in the wind.
Speaker 2:Hey, I have seen a german shepherd that was in the back of a.
Speaker 1:I'm putting my head out the window. His fur was just blowing in the wind. Hey, I have seen a german shepherd that was in the back of a guy's truck one time and you've seen there was a guy, a local guy, pretty local, that everywhere he went he used to have his blue healer in the in the back of his truck that stood on his toolbox oh, yeah, yeah everywhere he went and how that dog never fell.
Speaker 1:I have no idea, but anyway I saw this. A guy was going down the road and the doll, the german shepherd, fell out of the back of the truck and slid on it. So he's trying to get up, you know, but he's going 50 miles an hour when he hits the pavement and he's sliding on his side. And when he got up his tail was tucked and he took off running through this neighborhood like sorry, I guess he was in shock, probably I guess so I'm figuring he never found that dog, you know, because it was it was gone.
Speaker 2:But anyway, back to the.
Speaker 1:That reminds me of like when you're on the interstate and you see like a dead dog on the side of the road. Not a coyote, not a fox, nothing like that, but an actual dog. How does that happen? A guy told me one time. He said those dogs are in the back of people's vehicles and they accidentally fall out. That's why, you see, you know dead dogs.
Speaker 1:I'm saying I do not believe that one bit. I'm like you've lost your mind. I've never seen a dog in the back of a truck or, you know, an open vehicle going down the interstate going 70. I I've never seen that. Maybe it happens more than I think, but I'm just thinking a dog has wandered up and just ends up getting hit right.
Speaker 2:I guess, but on the interstate.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:You don't seem to be right, let's get back on track.
Speaker 1:I'm right where I need to be. If I'm talking, I'm where I'm at. All right, all over, yeah, wherever. Hey, my hands ain't going crazy like they normally are.
Speaker 2:Well, you could have fooled me because they're flinging everywhere. No, they're not All right, so did we buy anything.
Speaker 1:Absolutely not. We bought food, absolutely not.
Speaker 2:We bought a barbecue.
Speaker 1:We bought $20. We bought a barbecue. We bought $20, $19 worth of food and then $1 for a canned drink. So $20 for barbecue, nachos and a barbecue or a chicken sandwich.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Chicken sandwich.
Speaker 2:Barbecue nachos it was okay.
Speaker 1:Wasn't the best world but.
Speaker 2:No, it was okay it was fine. I mean, I'm not going to complain about food, but Speaking of food, what did you discover at the rest stops? We had to stop at every rest stop, by the way.
Speaker 1:Let me go back to this. Oh, we're going no, going back to not buying anything. So when we got to Nakalula Falls, right off the bat we had been there five or ten minutes I found a dove.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, a bird, was it a dove?
Speaker 1:Yeah, a dove. Oh yeah, a bird, was it a dove? Yeah, was it A little statue, it was life size. We'll put it that way.
Speaker 2:Of a bird, okay, life size you looked at me like I was crazy.
Speaker 1:I'm like what are you talking about?
Speaker 2:Life size. I'm thinking of a person when you say life size.
Speaker 1:No, I'm talking about a bird. I'm talking about life size.
Speaker 2:I don't have to say life size, okay. No, I'm talking about a bird, I'm talking about life size, life size. I don't have to say bird size.
Speaker 1:I say life size. Whatever you're talking about when you say life size.
Speaker 2:That's just not what I pictured when you just said it, but go ahead.
Speaker 1:So it's that size and I went to pick it up and it was extremely heavy. It was made out of bronze Bronze and so I did the old Google and it came up as like a Japanese.
Speaker 2:Screech owl.
Speaker 1:I don't think there is. Maybe there is a Japanese screech owl.
Speaker 2:I don't know. I don't know, it just sounded good. I don't know, it just sounded good.
Speaker 1:But it said anywhere from $70 to $700. And this picture, I mean it looked exactly like what I'm looking at, but I just couldn't get over the heaviness of it. I mean it had some weight to it.
Speaker 2:He was really impressed with the weight of it.
Speaker 1:I was impressed and why I was honed in on this thing.
Speaker 2:He was drawn to it, yeah.
Speaker 1:I was drawn to it. I picked it up and I was looking at it. I was like I really like this and I'm thinking, yeah, I think I want to buy this. Of course there's no price on it. Everything else right there seemed to be priced, except this one thing, and so I don't even know who to ask. And then you ask a lady that's close to you and she points at a guy that's closer to me and says it's him. So I asked him, and then that guy's like you. You know, I didn't price it because I really don't know.
Speaker 1:You know what to put on, it sounds just like you at a yard sale we had a few weeks ago all this and I'm like just tell me, just like, you, just like well, it was like he wasn't coming out and asking, but it was almost like he's waiting for me to throw a number out there just like you at a yard sale we had a few weeks ago. Right, and so he finally was like $30. And I said okay, I said I'll think about it and I put the thing down. I was like golly.
Speaker 2:If you know Jody, Jody ain't paying over $5 for nothing.
Speaker 1:But that bugged me the rest of the day. Because I really want that, I would give them $30 right now because I want that thing.
Speaker 2:I can't believe you didn't because you fell in love with it. I did, I did. I don't know why.
Speaker 1:I don't know either, but it was a cool little thing Because you're old and you like birds now, I think because it was bronze and it was so heavy.
Speaker 2:I mean, the detail on it was neat too, but I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1:But so we stopped by 25 rest areas because we're old and we just need to go ahead and stop, whether we gotta go or not I'm like you know like how you tell your kids let's get out, go try what do you gotta go or not?
Speaker 2:yeah, you don't have to tell me that I I just go ahead and tell you we're passing it.
Speaker 1:Let's stop, because I probably can go I don't miss up an opportunity to go to the bathroom. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:I'm like, hey, let's give it a whirl because we drink a lot of water. Now, look well, you drink coffee, I drink water.
Speaker 1:I drink a lot of coffee and you've got to start thinking it's almost all right. We're gonna be in a situation where there is no bathroom right we're talking about we're in people's. That's always my thing yeah, but we're, and it's different for women than men, but when?
Speaker 2:you're in a situation like this.
Speaker 1:It's no different because we're both in in somebody's yard and there's there's nothing. You're not going to an establishment, you're going to subdivisions in between that, you're going to your car, so there's not many options. So every we got we're stopping by, like a rest area or whatever. But our question, or my question to Amanda was about the rest area is why is the stinking vending machines in a building separate from the rest of the rest area? Why do you have this long walkway to get to the vending machines? Why is the vending machines, the bathrooms, the brochures?
Speaker 2:Are they all?
Speaker 1:like that. I think so. I think the majority of them are. Everyone we went to yesterday was why is that?
Speaker 2:Why is that?
Speaker 1:You've built a vending machine building. Why are you not having some vending machines in your building, next to your pamphlets?
Speaker 2:and brochures. Why doesn't it just connect? If you want them in a separate place, why doesn't it just connect?
Speaker 1:That's what I'm saying. Then it'll be, because if it's raining and you want to go, the vending machine so you're talking about just like a top over, like a walkway or something.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, still it's separate. But why is it separate? Is there a law that says no vending, no coat machines, no vending machines next to brochures? Yeah, I don't get it. I maybe, oh I'm sure an easy Google search would tell me, but I'm not willing to do that. I'm just asking because we were wondering. So if y'all know, tell us. I'm not going to look it up.
Speaker 2:How did they used to be? They weren't in a building like that.
Speaker 1:I think they've always been like that. What do you mean? How'd they used to be? They were just covered. They weren't enclosed like the ones were yesterday. Yeah, a lot of times it's just like a little like a brick building, like half of a building. Yeah, half of a building.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you don't have a front on it, but these were in a building.
Speaker 1:It was like the vending machine, oh, and the thing was that last one we went to because you were talking about getting some ice cream, maybe, or they had ice cream in there. They had ice, ice cream. You opened up the doors and we're talking about. This is like twice the size of a bedroom. That's about as big as this room. It was where the two guys that had the praying mats. When you opened up that door, it was 61 degrees in that thing? Yeah, it was, I'm like so as a taxpayer.
Speaker 2:We're heating and cooling those things You're like we're heating and cooling.
Speaker 1:You're like we're heating and cooling this one little building, this vending machine building vending building building bending building. What building? Bending vending building? I mixed some words and some letters up whatever, um, so I don't know. But interesting I do know, skittles are two dollars at one place and two and a quarter at another.
Speaker 2:So so you did buy Skittles yesterday, yeah, and my mouth.
Speaker 1:I paid for it too, because this morning, when I got up, my mouth was eating up. I was like I ate too many Skittles yesterday. That's another thing.
Speaker 2:I didn't quite plan out, because I usually take us if we're going on a road trip, we're having candy, whether we're going an hour away, or two hours away, or yesterday three hours away, I usually plan candy.
Speaker 1:Sorry, I didn't. I'll let you down some of those gummy rope, what are those ropes called? But anyway, those lemonade skittles. Yeah, but we did tear up some guardettos we did.
Speaker 2:You can't beat those either.
Speaker 1:No, they tear my mouth up oh yeah, the little wafer things but, they don't put enough, do they still make the ones where you can just get the wafers?
Speaker 2:yes, or Instead of the bag full of wafers yes.
Speaker 1:They're probably like $100 for a bag of those now. But they sure are good. They're good, though I would almost open up, pile some more salt in there, close them, shake them up.
Speaker 2:You've lost your mind. I think they need to.
Speaker 1:All right, as we wind down, because I'm hungry, I'm going to let you tell your story, my story, that's right, my story. So we're in a place, town whatever, called Mentone, mentone, alabama, nice little place.
Speaker 2:It is a nice little place. I like it.
Speaker 1:People are a little different up there.
Speaker 2:They are a little different.
Speaker 1:I feel like when I was up there I felt like not at a place, but I just felt than me, so I guess I did stand out, maybe so we're at the end. Where's mentone? It's close to the tennessee line it's um it's past scottsboro, all that stuff right you know scottsboro's got the uh unclaimed baggage place to go there one day. Yeah, we actually went through there too yesterday, but it was coming back and it was later in the evening and which we got home at 5 30 we did pretty good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, left at 5 20 to get off my story that I'm an interesting story story, by the way but I'm hungry I know, but amanda was telling me this whole time that you know, hey, the time that you're looking at it's kind of it does change back.
Speaker 2:We're not going to be getting home at 5, 36 like it did change one time and then I guess, we got back in it and I probably fell asleep and didn't realize it changed so you had me so I had you convinced that it was gonna change and it had already changed.
Speaker 1:I'm like I'm getting home at 4 36 today and it had already. This is great well as we change states and it didn't change and I still looked at the phone and it said arrival time 5 36, I thought, well, we're just not far enough that's what I kept thinking yeah, it just changed and we didn't notice it.
Speaker 1:Give it a little bit and it's gonna change. I don't know how many times I looked at that map to see what, and I was like nope, I guess we're getting home at 5 36, oops yeah anyway all right, so we're, we're at this one little boot.
Speaker 2:Well, this one was we walked around a lot.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we parked in one place and walked around a lot and they've got a little restaurant thing. What's the name of the restaurant? Wildflower Wild.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that's it Wildflower. And you said it's one of the bucket list it says it's one of the bucket list top 100 restaurants to eat at before you die in alabama I don't know, I just remember it said well, that's a big if you say top 100. It said top 100 restaurants.
Speaker 1:I don't think it said in alabama if you say in alabama, that's not impressive. But if you say in the us, I'm like, are you sure about that?
Speaker 2:because that's impressive and I don't I'll get us reservations in the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 1:Well, they need to weed it around the place a little bit. If it's top 100, I'll put it that way. So we're looking around at this stuff and I see a guy that's 10 foot from me and I recognize this guy. I think I recognize this guy and I'm looking at him. And I'm looking at him and I'm like I don't know, Hmm.
Speaker 2:And I have found something that I just know, jody will love and he's giving nothing to me.
Speaker 1:But I'm not there yet.
Speaker 2:I'm getting so mad at him.
Speaker 1:I'm not there yet. You're not getting mad yet, okay, because you haven't realized that I'm trying to figure this guy out.
Speaker 2:You're ignoring me. I realized you were doing something out.
Speaker 1:You're ignoring me. I realized you were doing something. No, you did not Not yet. So as I'm doing this, I'm trying to figure him out and I'm like I don't know, I get on my phone, I pull this guy up.
Speaker 2:And I'm trying to shove Abe in your face. You were on your phone when I was trying to show you.
Speaker 1:Did I get my phone call before or after that, when I was?
Speaker 2:showing you this Before.
Speaker 1:Okay, after that, when I was showing before. Okay, so you were trying to get off the phone, okay? So in the middle of me trying to figure out if this is really who this is, I'm, uh, my phone, my earbud dies, by the way, because I'm on my earbuds all the time and it had just died. So I put it in my pocket. My phone rings, I look and it's nicholas and I answer it. All right, let me backstory for a second. We're gonna be gone. I need an oil change in my truck. So I tell Nicholas while we're gone. I told him Friday night. I said look tomorrow. I said go, he's got to go do some work for me. You know, knock that out, go get the oil change in my truck. I've left my debit card, you know, in the console. Yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, all that stuff, all right. So here it is, my phone's ringing. Now it's next day, it's saturday, it's like 10 o'clock. I answer it and it's nicholas. He's lost my debit card, can't find it do we have to rehash this?
Speaker 1:don't know where it's at no clue. I mean why he needs me to tell him where to look. I don't know.
Speaker 2:But I bet I get that. I get, though I wouldn't have called and told you I lost it.
Speaker 1:I would have looked and looked and looked and looked.
Speaker 2:I never would have called and told you until you got home.
Speaker 1:I'd probably have been like oh yeah, about, well, no, I wouldn't have done that, because then I'd look really irresponsible, because you couldn't have told me at any point because I need to know, no, I'd have. I just kept looking and looking and looking and looking.
Speaker 2:I'm not ever going to call you and tell you I can't find something like that, that I just lost I just used it too, just used it so.
Speaker 1:I'm trying to tell him. Tell me what you did. Let's retrace your steps. After you got gas, did you pull it out? Is it still in the card reader? Did you throw anything away in the garbage? Could you have thrown it in there?
Speaker 2:Did you lay it on the side of the truck because you're trying to tell him where to look.
Speaker 1:I know, I'm trying to, because I'm just trying to, because I'm like I don't know what to tell. You called me, so I'm trying to help you out to find this. In the meantime I'm like this guy is about to walk away and I've got to figure out if it's him or not. So anyway, I finally get off the phone with him, tell you, so, like here we go. Then I get my phone, I look up this guy and I said is this who that is? Is that this guy and Amanda's like?
Speaker 2:I don't even know who you're talking about.
Speaker 1:I don't even know who you're talking about. I don't know.
Speaker 2:You're showing me a picture of the guy's name, carl, from our kids from our children's church we used to do, it looked like Carl.
Speaker 1:Carl, I have no idea.
Speaker 2:See.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I'm like I don't know. I'm like I don't know if this is him or not. Then I heard the guy talk.
Speaker 2:I just wanted you to look at Abe. I know At this point when I'm showing you, jody's always wanted something, abe. I know Abe Lincoln and I found it.
Speaker 1:Listen, listen. When I handed my phone to you to look at this picture of this guy you are so trying to get my attention. You're trying to get my attention to look at this figurine of this, abe Lincoln. I'm so mad at you. I am giving you nothing because I'm just like dead set on figuring out who this guy is right there and you just get so frustrated I'm done with you. You sling Abraham.
Speaker 2:Honest.
Speaker 1:Abe got slung down on the tape, yeah, and I'm like. I'm like I cannot deal with honest abe right now. I gotta deal with this guy. So I hear the guy talk and when I hear him talk I'm like that's him, that's dusty slay. For those of y'all that don't know who, dusty slay I have no clue who he is. He's a comedian, comedian and he's on the Nate Lamb podcast with Nate Bergetzi.
Speaker 2:You know how you say his name.
Speaker 1:Anyway, I should know because I listened to it Exactly. We've even watched his Netflix special and you still don't know.
Speaker 2:You must have been on your phone.
Speaker 1:You must have been on your phone, I don't know.
Speaker 2:You know if you're watching your stuff, I'm not watching it.
Speaker 1:Well, he's a comedian, I mean, so you couldn't watch. I mean he's not a filthy comedian, nothing like that. No, so I mean he's fine. So he's actually got. And the thing about it was I just heard him on a podcast on Wednesday, last Wednesday, adam Carolla. He's got a podcast. He's in. I think it's Glendale, california. Dusty was on it in studio with him and then listen.
Speaker 2:Jody was a little boy. You would have thought he is about to go talk to Santa Claus. Hold up.
Speaker 1:He's not that big now. Well, hold up.
Speaker 2:The way you was acting. So I had to tell Jody, suck it up and go ask him. No, listen.
Speaker 1:The way you was acting. So I had to tell Jody, suck it up and go ask him. No, listen, stop, stop, right now.
Speaker 2:Because you know I'm right. No, no, no, no, yes, you do.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, I'm just telling you look, this guy's like a big deal. To me he's a big deal.
Speaker 2:Right, and you're going to just cower off.
Speaker 1:The people he's been around, the stuff that he's accomplished, I thought I mean that's cool. And I'm like look, this guy was on a podcast in California four days ago and now he's in Mentone, alabama, at a yard sale and I'm right behind him and Jody thought it was the president of the United States.
Speaker 1:Sure. But I'm also like this right here all right, he's got his wife and he's got his two kids with him. So I'm like, do I want to be that guy that walks up to him and says anything or whatever like that.
Speaker 2:I don't know about that.
Speaker 1:But I'm also thinking, look, he's not covered up with like people asking for his autograph or anything. I didn't even think about his autograph. I mean that's fine, but I'm thinking he's not like Tom Cruise security people falling over themselves.
Speaker 2:That's not who you said.
Speaker 1:Huh.
Speaker 2:Who did you? It wasn't like Tom Selleck.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I used to think of like Tom Selleck, because I thought it would be funny.
Speaker 2:Why did that come to your?
Speaker 1:thought Mr Mustache.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So anyway. So I'm like I really don't think I'm going to bother this guy if I take 10 seconds of his time, you know, because, like I said, we are at a yard sale in Mentone.
Speaker 2:And then Jody's like can I get a selfie?
Speaker 1:Whatever?
Speaker 2:Whatever you did. Whatever you said do you mind if I get a selfie?
Speaker 1:That sounds terrible.
Speaker 2:It was terrible.
Speaker 1:It was terrible, I wish.
Speaker 2:I could have kid in a candy store, no, look.
Speaker 1:So when he bought like a toy for his daughter, can I get it? When he turned around, when he turned around, I like gave him, like, kind of like, pointed at him with a gun. I said, dusty, I love that. And he's like hey, how you doing? You know, like whatever he said, I don't know. Then I shook his hand and then I was gonna be like man. I, you know, I wanted to say man, I'll just find you, you know, hilarious, funny. But it was like man, he was at a loss for words.
Speaker 2:Y'all. He could not. Can I get a selfie?
Speaker 1:that's what it was like I was in the middle of a sentence to tell you like I wanted to say like hey, I just saw you on Adam Carolla, or listening to Adam Carolla, and I'm like I can't get nothing out. I was like, hey, can I get a selfie? And then Amanda grabs my phone out of my hand and she takes a picture and then that's it. And then Amanda's like, oh, I don't need to take a picture, because your daughter, because his daughter, was latched on to his leg you know, because that's daddy, you know.
Speaker 2:But he was all nice about it. No, he was fine. He was fine, yeah. So I was trying to be respectful and I didn't want to get his kid in there. Well, that's how I was going to be.
Speaker 1:That's why I don't want to even bother this guy, but I thought this is strange. I just wish I could go back and redo this, because I would have changed it was. I was like because I think I went from I don't need to bother him to like, yeah, I'm going to. And then I was like Was your heart beating just?
Speaker 1:so fast? No, no, no. I think I still had in my mind that this is not going to be, not gonna be. I had a feeling like when I pointed and said dusty, I mean, it felt like it's like, hey, it's that 30 years ago I went to high school with this guy and you like go dusty. You're like, yeah, you know, I was thinking he's gonna be like who dusty's not a common name either is it?
Speaker 1:I don't even know any dusties so, and I will say this, he had a good handshake, you know, because I always like to engage guys on their handshake and he had a good handshake, you know, because I always like to gauge guys on their handshake and he had a good handshake. It wasn't a fish, you know. Whatever.
Speaker 2:Whatever?
Speaker 1:But I thought that was cool.
Speaker 2:That was cool. That was the highlight of Jody's day. Oh it was.
Speaker 1:No, it was not.
Speaker 2:Not riding with your wife seeing amazing views nothing like that.
Speaker 1:Oh, that was amazing. It was meat and dusty. It was all amazing yeah. It was cool. I think it was just cool because of where we were at and I was like I can't believe this guy's up here with his family at a yard sale Where's he from. He's from Opelika.
Speaker 2:Oh, so he's from Alabama. He's from Alabama, okay. So see, I didn't know that.
Speaker 1:Look, I've listened to him all the time. It might be this town over from Opelika, but I think it said Opelika down around Auburn, all that stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And on the podcast, the Nate Lynn podcast he's talked about. You know they bought property and he grows stuff and all that.
Speaker 2:So yeah, he's just a. He's just a normal human being.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he used to sell chemicals no, for that Home Depot and like Lowe's and stuff like pesticides and that kind of stuff. Yeah, so he's got, I mean, a little bit of background on that right there. I mean he just had a normal job and so now.
Speaker 2:So now.
Speaker 1:So now I guess you could say he's made it.
Speaker 2:All right.
Speaker 1:That was cool. That was so yeah, so we, so that was the highlight of all Just, we saw this view. We went to this. We wanted to know when we're on that signal mountain, when you came down or when you went up it and came down, on one side there is an opening right there. That is just a marvelous view, just an awesome view. You can see forever and all that. And I'm like how come you can't pull over to the side of the road? There were several pull-offs before that and after that, but not right there. But this one spot you've got like a 20-yard cleared-off section where you can actually see past through the trees. You know, and see this wonderful view and like you can't get to it. You just have to drive slow if there's nobody on your bumper to be able to get it. So, but yeah, we spent. So we spent gas money.
Speaker 2:Gas money.
Speaker 1:And $20 on food and met a celebrity and it took all day to do that. But it was nice to get away oh yeah, I just wish we'd have walked away with some.
Speaker 2:I know I wish I had bought something.
Speaker 1:I saw a lot of junk, a lot of junk, yeah, junk that I could have got around here at a yard sale. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, you know. When you walk up to them and say everything's a dollar Because I'm trying to get rid of everything, I'm like well, that tells me right there that you've got junk. It's been picked over. Do I need to even look at?
Speaker 2:it. Well, this was day three of the yard sales.
Speaker 1:So it goes Thursday. I thought it was just Friday.
Speaker 2:Some will start Thursday, but I feel like most of your yard sale yard sale people can't start on Thursday because they still got work to do.
Speaker 1:It was fun.
Speaker 2:I think your vendors and all like the big picker field. I think some of those start on Thursday.
Speaker 1:That's my story. I'm sticking to it. And I did not sound as bad as a man who made it sound like when I met him.
Speaker 2:You weren't standing there listening. I wish I could have just recorded you.
Speaker 1:You've lost your mind. You've lost your mind. This is the first I've heard it. If this was a true story.
Speaker 2:Can was a true story? Stop it, stop it. If this was a true story, you would have said that from the get go. When we walked away, I did tell you that and you, you was not hearing it, jody, you turned into a little boy, what are you?
Speaker 1:such a liar, such a liar no, I'm not. Why are you turning red now? I'm not turning red. You won't see, I'm frustrated. That's what it is.
Speaker 2:Can I get your autograph? Whatever Did you wash your hand?
Speaker 1:after that no, I haven't washed it yet. I didn't figure you did. No, not yet, not yet. I should have told people today at church I was like, hey, you want to shake this hand?
Speaker 2:They'd be like who's that?
Speaker 1:Yeah, they. Nobody knows, hey Sunday school class Spencer came in there and was talking about it, and then none of the boys in there had a clue.
Speaker 2:Of course, but there's an age gap.
Speaker 1:They don't know, I mean they're teenagers. They ain't got a clue. All right, hey, we appreciate you listening. Check us out on TikTok YouTube. If we ever post a video or anything, that's where it's at here lately I haven't done nothing, but maybe I can post that picture of me and Dusty or is it Dusty and me?
Speaker 2:Which one is it? Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 1:Which is it I'm going to eat. All right, see y'all next week. Bye, bye, thank you.
