This That And The Other

51. What happens when your hobby goes viral—and your life doesn’t fit the algorithm?

SquirrelGuy Media Season 2 Episode 51

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We trace how a quiet lake ritual turned into a TikTok live with tens of thousands of drop-ins, then wrestle with what to do when the fish leave and the algorithm wants more. Along the way we argue about clothes, leftovers, phone privacy, and the cost of dinner.

• going from passive scrolling to consistent creation
• two podcasts, time costs, and burnout risk
• catfish feeding lives, spikes to 26k viewers, retention
• mixing hobbies with the podcast brand on one account
• TikTok algorithm timing and late-night peaks
• are phones listening and how suggestions shape behavior
• fallback content plans when the lake season ends
• marriage micro-battles: clothes, ice, leftovers limits
• eating out vs groceries, apps, deals, and church dinners

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SPEAKER_01:

Welcome back. Episode 51. It's been a hot minute. I tried to beat into it. You did. So we always talk about doing this. This is a weekly podcast, by the way. But if you check last week, you check the week before that. You checked the week before that.

SPEAKER_02:

Nah, it was two weeks ago.

SPEAKER_01:

Okay.

SPEAKER_02:

Maybe.

SPEAKER_01:

I don't know.

SPEAKER_02:

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01:

But that's fine. We always talk about stuff's going on and everything. This is very strange recording. It seems like I went from recording all the time to where nothing's going on. So we are glad to be back recording. What are we talking about today?

SPEAKER_02:

September 23rd.

SPEAKER_01:

September 23rd?

SPEAKER_02:

It's when that one released.

SPEAKER_01:

Alright, so a couple weeks.

SPEAKER_02:

What day is it?

SPEAKER_01:

So we just got out of church. We get home. Amanda's mad at me. And why do you why are you mad at me?

SPEAKER_02:

And why do you say I'm mad?

SPEAKER_01:

Because I don't change my clothes.

SPEAKER_02:

How many women come home and take their clothes off and change into something more comfortable? Most women, I would say, from church, you're gonna come home and you're gonna change your clothes. I even change mine sometimes when I come home from work.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, I normally change well during the week I really don't have to. But after church, a lot of times I change, but it just depends on if I'm in a hurry, like I'm in a hurry to get this recorded. So I'm not taking the time to go change.

SPEAKER_02:

But you should because I'm taking the time to go change, so you got time to change.

SPEAKER_01:

You also know that I said, hey, when we get home, we're recording. So I'm I'm trying to let you know hey, don't change the channel.

SPEAKER_02:

And what did I do? I threw a load of clothes in the washer, I changed clothes, and I ate a bite.

SPEAKER_01:

Congratulations.

SPEAKER_02:

And you could have changed clothes.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, I was doing some other stuff.

SPEAKER_02:

You have plenty of time to change clothes.

SPEAKER_01:

But anyway, that doesn't matter. So I'm in my Sunday's best and you're in your comfies. Comfies. So we're gonna talk about not really social media, but going from Is this what we're talking about? Am I going on the right path? Where basically w you don't do any social media, you watch stuff, you know, you don't really participate anything, but then all of a sudden, next thing you know, you're doing videos, you're doing TikToks, you're uh on Instagram, you've got all these accounts, right? Set up for Who are you talking about? I'm talking about for just in general.

SPEAKER_02:

In general. Like, okay.

SPEAKER_01:

So you go from just watching people to where, hey, now we're part of it. Basically, like some saying, like when we started this podcast. You know, so I I started two podcasts at the same time. Like a goofball. Yeah. So it was like very, very time consuming. So we went jump in anytime, because this is what you kind of wanted to talk about. So the long level.

SPEAKER_02:

I was talking about you, not everybody.

SPEAKER_01:

Just me? Alright, we'll talk about me then.

SPEAKER_02:

How you never used to do social media and now that's all you do. I can't even get him to come in the house in the afternoons to watch anything because he's gotta go do a live.

SPEAKER_01:

Alright, so when you say social media, it's not like I'm on Facebook just scrolling and scrolling and watching, because I don't do that.

SPEAKER_02:

No, you all you you've got that stupid thing in your ear and you listen to podcasts all the time.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, I listen to podcasts. So I'm not doing social media all the time.

SPEAKER_02:

And you don't pay me attention.

SPEAKER_01:

But you're making it sound like I'm just involved in social media all the time. But I'm not.

SPEAKER_02:

But you got it and you do it more now.

SPEAKER_01:

I do. But that goes back to the podcasts, having two podcasts, and then doing the editing, and then trying to do a video and trying to do little snippets here and there and put it out there and trying to fit it on Facebook or Instagram or TikTok or what what am I missing? What else is there? YouTube. So and then setting up all these accounts, and it just took time and time. Why are you checking it right now? Because we're talking.

SPEAKER_02:

Because because I never have a memory and I never remember to check it, and I put a video on it not long ago.

SPEAKER_01:

So YouTube.

SPEAKER_02:

So I just wanted to see where it was at. So oh, I gained two followers.

SPEAKER_01:

But what has happened now is our so the other podcast that we've been doing has kind of gone away. So now we've just got this one, this, that, another. And so I have converted, you know, I I feed catfish on the lake every evening. We've done this all the time. This isn't nothing new, you know. So I was trying to decide, hey, I want to start videoing and let people see what I do. So I just decided to use the this, that, and other TikTok account. And so I started doing a live, in which you're telling me that you don't understand how I'm able to do a live because at the time You're supposed to have at least 500 followers.

SPEAKER_02:

Right, and I think And a thousand to put a link in the thing, but I mean you're not putting a link, so that doesn't matter. It used to be a thousand followers when I first started two, three years ago. You had to have a thousand followers before you could go live.

SPEAKER_01:

So I think we had maybe a hundred and fifty. Something like that.

SPEAKER_02:

When you started.

SPEAKER_01:

When I started. So two weeks ago I decided I didn't know what account to do this under. I decided to do it under this podcast account. I went, I did a live. I'm out there at the water. I'm just talking it up, talking about how I feed these fish, and I've got these catfish pellets. I'm throwing them out there, and I've got a bunch of, you know, over a hundred catfish that come up. And this is on a lake. This isn't a pond. This isn't a private lake. This is a full-fledged, you know, lake. And uh it just grant gained like the first one we did, had like over 8,000 viewers. Now I understand too that that's people that's popping in there for five or ten seconds, you know, and then leaving, and then you got some that'll stay the whole hour and all that stuff. But then it got to where, you know, a few evenings ago we had almost 26,000 was on there. So it's almost like now I I can see how people get so involved in this because it's almost now like, oh, that's a lot of people. And now I feel like like last night I only had like 3,500. And then the night before that it was like 5,500, something like that, which is fine, but I'm like, can I beat that 26,000?

SPEAKER_02:

You'll never beat that.

SPEAKER_01:

I think that'll be not a fluke. Right. There was a fluke, I had 16,000 too, also, thank you very much. But what I'm getting at is so I never not and and the thing about that too is I'm not in front of the camera, and that's fine, because I I don't want that. But it's cool to be behind the camera and showing people just something I do as a hobby and people enjoying it because they're asking questions and all that. But the funny thing is, is I've it's on this account, our podcast account. And what I should have really done was set up like a nature type fishing.

SPEAKER_02:

Not really.

SPEAKER_01:

You don't think so?

SPEAKER_02:

No. Why don't you just I was gonna say twinkle? That's not the right word. Sprinkle, you need to you need to nourish your account, you need to be putting videos out there. You need to take some of your YouTube videos, slice them up, and put them on there.

SPEAKER_01:

I know, but it if you look at the account, if anybody that listens to this podcast and they go to our TikTok and then they're gonna be like, And they put and we put But I'm just saying the first thing they go to it now is they're seeing, hey, there's a guy that's throwing food out to these fish, and that's crazy. Well, no, you just put this my hobby. But before that is videos of us doing this. So I mean it's just it it kind of doesn't fit. It's almost like I just slung videos in there that shouldn't have been in there, so to speak. But that's okay. It didn't fit the criteria.

SPEAKER_02:

But that's okay because people are learning about you and what you like to do. People want to see.

SPEAKER_01:

I guess so. It's it is crazy how people want to see this, how they'll watch. And I'll have people that watch for the full hour. Hour and ten minutes. I now I'm doing it for like an hour and a half, but there'll be people that'll watch me feed these fish for over an hour. I'm thinking, that is I don't do any of that. I do not watch live. TikTok, I never think about watching a lie. I never go on it with an option at the top, is it not? You go to the lives and you can scroll through and see what there are. I never do that. Now if I go through and I see somebody is live and it might be something interesting, I might go on it, but that is very seldom. But so on the the studio part of these lives is telling me that m my viewers normally watch videos at eleven o'clock at night. That's when the biggest uh I guess I'm out. Does that sound right to you? Eleven o'clock at night.

SPEAKER_02:

Is that eleven o'clock your time? Eleven o'clock their time?

SPEAKER_01:

I mean o'clock our time. Because these shows at four o'clock it's low, it increases a little bit at five. I'm doing the videos between six and after seven. It's gone up eight o'clock a little bit, and then nine it starts increasing, ten and eleven it peaks, and then midnight it's about the same, and then it goes down at one a.m. and and all that again.

SPEAKER_02:

So I guess people's settling down.

SPEAKER_01:

But that seems very late to settle down.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, that's because you go to bed at eight o'clock.

SPEAKER_01:

But that doesn't matter. I'm just still thinking that people settle down at eight or nine o'clock, do they not? And when I say settle down, they're sitting in a recliner, they're sitting in front of the TV, they're on the couch, whatever with whoever, and they've got their phone out and they're they're watching stuff.

SPEAKER_02:

Maybe.

SPEAKER_01:

And Winston is sitting beside me and he's gonna be.

SPEAKER_02:

Winston's getting on my nerves. I need him to go out.

SPEAKER_01:

He will not stop biting my hand.

SPEAKER_02:

I want him to stop.

SPEAKER_01:

And I'm just trying to pet him to try and settle him down, and now when I stop, I'm I'm about to put him out. So I'm gonna leave him alone.

SPEAKER_02:

I thought the air was gonna come on, so I have my blanket right here. But it's a little warm, so I'm gonna put the blanket over there because the air hadn't kicked back on.

SPEAKER_01:

And it just kicked on.

SPEAKER_02:

Are you kidding me?

SPEAKER_01:

So anyway, so what about this about social media? Was that all you were gonna talk to this that right there? I used to never do Facebook or anything like that. Y'all have always been on Facebook, I don't care. I've got Facebook now. And I might get a notification or two from something that I'll might look at every once in a while, but I do not get on Facebook and scroll or anything. I'll get on there and post something that we've done, maybe, and that's once every two weeks, maybe if I do that.

SPEAKER_02:

Maybe.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. Instagram, never that's that used to be the one that I always looked at. I always enjoyed Facebook. Uh Facebook. Instagram. I don't even think about Instagram anymore. Do we have an account? Yes, we got it for both podcasts. We got our personal ones, all that stuff, but I never even go to it unless I'm gonna post some. And that's very seldom. YouTube was always the place here recently that I've would post a video or anything like that, because it started started to gain traction on that, and then it died. You know, because I like the shorts.

SPEAKER_02:

You gotta stick with it.

SPEAKER_01:

I know, but it's still. But so now it's like You gotta stick with it.

SPEAKER_02:

I I'm in that lull and you gotta stick with it, and now I'm seeing a little more and a little more and a little more.

SPEAKER_01:

But I would say the best social media for me personally is TikTok.

SPEAKER_02:

That's everybody.

SPEAKER_01:

Not to uh have people watch, which it that it's the best right now, but I'm just saying in general for because the algorithm connects with you so good that it's throwing you videos that you actually want to see and like, and it just you know perks your interest and you just stay on it. So out of all of them, I I would definitely say TikTok is by far the the most interesting account if you're gonna get on it.

SPEAKER_02:

Well, Facebook and stuff, that's like your friends and stuff.

SPEAKER_01:

Yes, that's okay. Yeah, but that's making it but I don't care about. I guess you gotta have friends though, right?

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, you don't have friends, so that's your problem.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, I've just got acquaintances from the past, like what I went to school with and stuff, that you know, they might send you a friend request and then bam. But I don't care if I get a notification that, hey, so and so has, you know, posted what I don't well you don't get notifications.

SPEAKER_02:

I didn't turn those on.

SPEAKER_01:

I don't have my notifications turned on any either, and I've told you that. And saying I get these crazy Facebook notifications. It's almost like, hey, you're not looking at us, so we're gonna send you some stuff and try and get you drawn back in. That's what I think it is.

SPEAKER_02:

Facebook listens to you.

SPEAKER_01:

So we did a thing, you know, we've always talked about our phones listening to us and all that, and it's always kind of a running funny thing with people because you'll be, hey, I was just talking about, you know, that type of refrigerator that we're looking at buying, and now I'm getting ads for refrigerators, you know, it's something like that. Well, we know for a fact now because and you don't remember this until I start talking about it. Probably not. You don't know where I'm going with this.

SPEAKER_02:

But probably not.

SPEAKER_01:

So we had uh uh your father passed away a couple months ago. Um, and then we had a situation to where we'd found out that uh we were talking about death certificates that somebody had gotten a death certificate, had gone down to the what is it, health department and got a death certificate, his death certificate. So we started talking about this. Hey, can you do that? That don't sound right, all this. So um we were talking it up for just a few minutes, like I don't think this is right, and they're like, We've you've got some copies, why did they not ask you for a copy of it and all this? So I got on my phone and was gonna Google it and I typed in the first word for the Google search. I put can, because I was gonna put can you, you know, can or uh can a uh loved one get a a um death certificate from the health department without you know your knowledge or whatever like that. Anyway, it wrote it all out, you know how it suggests it automatically put that as the first suggestion. You don't remember that? No. And then I knew from that point on, like now I know that it guaranteed that everything that you were saying around your phone that it is it is how's it do that? It is just pulling in information, it's just gathering all this information. And a lot of times it's just to, I guess, help you if you want to be positive about it, because it since it's thinking ahead of what you might be looking at later or looking for whatever, so now it can it can already kind of have it in its archive waiting on you. But when that right there popped up, look, look, I've only typed in one word and it's popped up the whole sentence in the search bar that I'm gonna look for. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

So they're listening, it's what you're saying. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

And we normally have, you know, we al we just always make fun of it because you get that ad about that. Well, you get the ad on Facebook, that's where I was saying you talk about something and then you turn around and talking about, you know, like I need a new pair of boots or whatever, and then next thing you know, all your ads are uh, you know, a type of boot, type of hunting boot, and all that this, and you're like, this is crazy. And you're thinking, is this happenstance? Don't know. Well, we know it's legit now.

SPEAKER_02:

Legit.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

But we talked about my things. Now what are you gonna talk about?

SPEAKER_01:

You said you had enough to fill this whole thing.

SPEAKER_02:

You just took both of my things.

SPEAKER_01:

What a death certificate? No. That wasn't one of your things.

SPEAKER_02:

They change them when you come home from church.

SPEAKER_01:

But that wasn't nothing.

SPEAKER_02:

And the um the media stuff.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, but you didn't I thought you had a whole lot of stuff to talk about. I didn't know it was just gonna be about me and I do a you said come up with something.

SPEAKER_02:

That's it.

SPEAKER_01:

All I do is a TikTok live. I try and do it every evening at six o'clock, feeding fish. And it's crazy how people watch it. That's all it was. And it's crazy now.

SPEAKER_02:

By the way, because he's buying like 80 pounds of food a week.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, that's like a 40-pound bag of catfish pellets in four days.

SPEAKER_02:

They eat better than that.

SPEAKER_01:

But they won't laugh, but as the water's going down, these catfish disappear. If y'all have y'all need to just go to TikTok and watch one of these videos, but they disappear. And they'll be gone till the springtime. So here soon they're gonna be gone, so you can take a break.

SPEAKER_02:

So then what are you gonna do?

SPEAKER_01:

That's what my question next is What are you gonna do? So what will my videos do? How do I keep people watching if they're watching just because of these fish videos?

SPEAKER_02:

You're gonna be an old pawpaw and you're gonna go sit in the yard and feed you birds.

SPEAKER_01:

I don't think people would sit there and watch you feed birds, and it's not as entertaining because anybody can get a group of birds to come in your yard eventually and you feed them. But when it comes to these catfish, because people don't understand, until I raise the camera up and show them that it's a lake and not a pond, everybody thinks it's a small pond that you got these fish in. So what do I do in a couple of weeks when I stop doing these videos? And we've had all these views.

SPEAKER_02:

You go join your wife and you do videos with your wife.

SPEAKER_01:

But you do fingernail stuff, press on nails, and I I do come in there and I do show off my fingernails to your people that's watching. I don't have press on nails by the way.

SPEAKER_02:

I was gonna say that just sounded like you have press on nails.

SPEAKER_01:

Nope, I show them how bad my fingernails are.

SPEAKER_02:

So you're saying we should put some on you?

SPEAKER_01:

No, no. No.

SPEAKER_02:

That's what I just heard.

SPEAKER_01:

No. I'm just saying I support you. I walk in there and I'm funny because I put my hand up in front of you and show whoever's on your live my hands.

SPEAKER_02:

So we should start doing lives like this on TikTok while we record the episode.

SPEAKER_01:

We can do that.

SPEAKER_02:

Maybe. But you think all your people will come back?

SPEAKER_01:

No. See, the people I'm getting, I don't think care about a podcast with me, you. I think the ones because we've gained over was it, three or four hundred views in like a week and a week and a half or something like that. Followers. Yeah, followers, sorry. Um But it's fishermen and it's older folks that like these videos, so uh that's what I'm saying. It's like so once that's stops, and then me and you are doing our thing at a flea market or something like that, I put a video, they're not gonna want to watch that because they're they're wanting to watch fishing videos.

SPEAKER_02:

You never know. You never know. Can we talk about how it hurts so bad when you bite your tongue?

SPEAKER_01:

Sure.

SPEAKER_02:

So I bit my tongue last night.

SPEAKER_01:

Which is worse, your tongue or the inside of your lip or jaw or anything?

SPEAKER_02:

This was my tongue. Somehow I bit the underneath. I don't know what it did, but it I like bit the edge the underneath, and I have a um retainer. A permanent retainer and it is just like I was real gentle singing this morning because singing in the shower? Yeah, in the shower. In the church choir. I sang in the church choir. Um because it's rubbing. I don't know. I oh it hurts so bad. I bit that thing good last night. I wanted to cry. This makes you want to cry.

SPEAKER_01:

So are so on the tongue, which is worse, the side of your tongue or the tip of your tongue to bite?

SPEAKER_02:

This is on the bottom. I'm saying it's worse. No, I'm saying this is bad.

SPEAKER_01:

What's in the tip? I don't know. You bite the side of your tongue.

SPEAKER_02:

This is how did it get on how did I buy the bottom of it?

SPEAKER_01:

But the thing is, is when normally when you bite your lip or you bite your tongue, you're more likely to do it again pretty soon afterwards. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, when you bite your like your jaw. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Or something. Why is that? Is it because you got that? It's got a little skin tag or something in there or something.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. But the bottom of my tongue is hurting. Or it's not hurting, it's like bothering me because I can feel it. And I'm afraid it's rubbing on that.

SPEAKER_01:

So you're talking about biting your tongue. So last night I didn't sleep good because I kept getting a cramp behind my knee all night long.

SPEAKER_02:

We sound old.

SPEAKER_01:

I but I don't know. I have not got a leg cramp in forever, and I so was gonna get up. I don't know how many times. But then I'd look at the clock and I'm like, this is really gonna mess up. You know how it is. It's like you wake up in the middle of the night and you have to use a bathroom and you look at the clock and you're like, We don't want to get up. Well, the thing is, it's like, all right, my alarm's gonna go off in 30 minutes. You think I can still just lay here and maybe sleep for 30 minutes even though I have to go ignore it. Yeah, ignore it. Or do I go ahead and just get up, use a bathroom, go back to bed, but then you feel like that's just gonna ruin the rest of your your 30 minutes of sleep?

SPEAKER_02:

Well, I tell you, I have to get up and go. I can't hold it. I'm not young anymore. I've just come to that conclusion.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, you just need to stop drinking after five o'clock.

SPEAKER_02:

That's a negative.

SPEAKER_01:

That's how you solve that right there.

SPEAKER_02:

At least I don't go to bed with water. I used to.

SPEAKER_01:

Or ice. Crushed ice. That's crazy. I know. That's all you used to drink. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

I just now making ice and I hadn't made ice in So yeah, we have an ice maker that you make that small what kind of crushed ice.

SPEAKER_01:

Crushed. I was gonna say it's not pellet.

SPEAKER_02:

It's like sonic ice, if you know what's sonic, if you have sonic.

SPEAKER_01:

It's really good. But I don't eat but I don't do ice very seldom.

SPEAKER_02:

Right.

SPEAKER_01:

You know, I don't I've got a ice. I've got my Pepsi right here, and there's no no ice at all in it.

SPEAKER_02:

I don't know why, like, I'd rather have ice than the drink. I'm like, fill my cup full and put and I just need you to flavor my ice.

SPEAKER_01:

But you're the one that if you got a fountain drink at a gas station. I'm filling up. If you got the big one right there, you're filling it up to the top with ice.

SPEAKER_02:

Mm-hmm. And see barely any drink.

SPEAKER_01:

And see, and I wouldn't.

SPEAKER_02:

I just wanted a little bit just to flavor your ice.

SPEAKER_01:

I'm the opposite because I feel like I'm paying for the drink. I don't I'm not paying for ice, I'm paying for drinks. So I want as much drink as possible. A little bit of ice.

SPEAKER_02:

Not me.

SPEAKER_01:

But if the fountain drinks were cold when they came out, I wouldn't get any ice at all because it would be a cold drink.

SPEAKER_02:

But of course they don't do that, so and I I've learned that you don't like ice. Not that you don't like it, but you hardly ever need it.

SPEAKER_01:

No. Because I drink water. So how long have I learned I've drunk I've drunk bottled water what room temperature all the time. I don't drink cold water. I mean, the only time if it's like extremely hot outside, working outside, I mean a cold water is fine, but if I don't have one, it's fine because room temperature water is just as good. So how long what?

SPEAKER_02:

So how long have we been learning each other?

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, I don't know. I've got you figured out I figured you out a long time ago.

SPEAKER_02:

You don't get where I'm going with that?

SPEAKER_01:

Our anniversary was last year.

SPEAKER_02:

Ah, there you go.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

We hadn't been on here since then.

SPEAKER_01:

So you said 27? 27 years?

SPEAKER_02:

27 years.

SPEAKER_01:

And I'm probably still thinking it's 28.

SPEAKER_02:

It's not 27 years. We got it.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, we got into that whole debate, I think, last year of what year.

SPEAKER_02:

Well, we got married in 98.

SPEAKER_01:

Congratulations. That was 27. Okay.

SPEAKER_02:

That means I've been out of school 27 years.

SPEAKER_01:

I graduated in 94. So 31 years for me. 31.

SPEAKER_02:

How about that?

SPEAKER_01:

And I wouldn't go back for nothing.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh no, me neither.

SPEAKER_01:

I don't care nothing about it. I don't miss it. Oh.

SPEAKER_02:

Me neither. Well, all right. You think that's about all we got to ramble off about?

SPEAKER_01:

Sure, if that's all you got. I'm looking at these ready-to-eat tamales that's underneath this thing right here. That something's got to be done with them.

SPEAKER_02:

I know. You need to throw them away. I don't even know why you come home with them.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, I was talked into it. I think I've talked about this before, but this guy guaranteed me these were like the best ready to ready to eat. If you're going down the road and can't microwave or anything like that, they're fine.

SPEAKER_02:

And they were on clearance. And if you ever put Jody Ratliff in front of a dang clearance that he thinks he can do something with, he's loading up on them.

SPEAKER_01:

Normally it's merchandise like when we had the booth where we had toys and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_02:

He don't know how to just one or two. He thinks he's got to get them all.

SPEAKER_01:

No, that's not true because I thought I thought this was a good deal. That's the only reason I got like four boxes of these things.

SPEAKER_02:

I think you had more boxes than that, and I've thrown some away.

SPEAKER_01:

No, you did not throw them away, no. Yes, I did. I need to get one and show them so everybody knows what I'm talking about. That's what I do.

SPEAKER_02:

Well, the the people listening don't know what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_01:

But if you watch this on YouTube or whatever like that, that's what it is. Let me talk into the money.

SPEAKER_02:

I was gonna say they did not hear you.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, I usually wear a headset, so I'd know if I wouldn't. So you have these little ready to eat that's called walking to the bottom.

SPEAKER_02:

I think you should open it and eat it. Yeah. I think you should open it and eat it.

SPEAKER_01:

So you got what, mild and hot? Yeah. Bean salsa.

SPEAKER_02:

Go ahead and try it.

unknown:

No.

SPEAKER_01:

I tried one of them and it's nasty.

SPEAKER_02:

It might it might help you with.

SPEAKER_01:

Put that right there. No, we don't want to advertise for that. No. No. Put that down there. I don't know. I might could feed that to the fish.

SPEAKER_02:

There you go.

SPEAKER_01:

There's something I can feed them today. So, yeah, if y'all are listening to this, check us out on uh TikTok, this, that, another podcast. And uh we do lives. I'm trying to get Amanda down there when I do these lives.

SPEAKER_02:

You do your lives when I do mine.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, I'm not fishing. Everybody can't believe that.

SPEAKER_02:

Everybody wants you to fish.

SPEAKER_01:

They want me to fish. They want me to hook them with these catfish. But yeah, it is when I tell people that I feed catfish, they just think a handful, whatever. But there is a ton of catfish down there, and big ones, you know, eight pounds. Maybe some ten pound ones in there, but but yeah. So, but as the water goes down, they'll uh they're getting to the point to where they're gonna be getting deeper and I'll be done.

SPEAKER_02:

Good. Now you can take that money and buy me steak.

SPEAKER_01:

Steak.

SPEAKER_02:

I like a good steak. Somebody else cook it. What else? Like I'm in that phase where I don't want to cook anything.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, we've gotten to the point now with the cost of everything that you do just as good for the most part.

SPEAKER_02:

Now when you're if you don't have a big family to go out to go out to eat.

SPEAKER_01:

And I thought you want to talk about that too.

SPEAKER_02:

It's pretty good.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, empty nesters type thing. Yeah. Um so if you can go buy the ingredients, you like you can get four bags of groceries for 60 bucks and you're like, what in the world? You know, and that's not saying that that's what it's costing you to eat. I'm just saying it's crazy how what few bags you're walking out of Walmart with and how much you're spending on. I don't walk out of Walmart. But no, you're right. You just drive in and you get the water.

SPEAKER_02:

I just drive in and get on Man.

SPEAKER_01:

You hit that button to open up the back hatch.

SPEAKER_02:

I open up the hatch.

SPEAKER_01:

I'm not going to get it. Are you Amanda? And you say yes, and then I'm not going to do that. All you do is say, hey, just don't smush my bread for the love, please. That's all we're asking. And let me ask Walmart if Walmart is listening right now. You think Walmart is listening? Sorry, probably not. So when you get your deliveries or when they bring this to your car, and we've talked about this all the time, why can we only put one item in every bag? We will get a, say if we got a hundred items, we're getting 92 bags.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, that's the stupidest thing. It's so wasteful.

SPEAKER_01:

I can get two cans of green beans, and I'll have one can and one bag, I'll have another can and another bag. So I got two cans, I got two bags, and that's how they do across the board with everything. There's very few items that you get more than one item in. And I don't know why. I have no idea why. I could understand the way they're picking it at the store, and it just so happens this is the only item on this aisle that I'm getting, so it's get going in this bag.

SPEAKER_02:

They're throwing it in the big little but when you get two of the same item, that's what you're saying. Why?

SPEAKER_01:

Well, I would think like if I'm getting two, why are they not in the same bag? Yeah, why are they not in the same bag?

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yeah. I don't know. If I'm on the same bag, it makes me ill.

SPEAKER_01:

I don't I don't get it.

SPEAKER_02:

I don't get it either. So yeah, we I'm in that phase. I don't want to cook. Jody will eat anything. So it really doesn't matter if I cook. We have a 20-year-old and I'm like, he can cook whatever he wants to do.

SPEAKER_01:

But if we go back to where, yeah, now it's I mean, why do you think it's a good thing?

SPEAKER_02:

So on certain days I've got it to where you can get hot dog chili dogs for$1.49.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, I can get Sonic because it's on. Yeah, they got something special.

SPEAKER_02:

I mean, I can get that cheaper than I can go buy grocery. So And who doesn't like a you know a I don't care for 'em, but I'll I'll deal with it. I'll eat something at home.

SPEAKER_01:

See, Jim and Nicks used to have like a kid's chicken finger snack thing. Yeah, that's a good thing. But you could only get it through the drive-thru. Yeah. You couldn't order inside. But it was just enough that it could fill you up and it was a good price.

SPEAKER_02:

You could eat$20 there. Jack's, if you're in the south where we are. Jack's we can eat for I can eat for nothing there. Under$20.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. But what did you get?

SPEAKER_02:

Sonic. I mean not Sonic. Subway, if I catch it just right, you can get half price uh footlongs. And I always have enough food left over for the next day. But y'all scarf y'all's down.

SPEAKER_01:

If I'm ordering a meal, that's my meal. That's not I'm not ordering a meal for two days.

SPEAKER_02:

I eat on a meal for two days.

SPEAKER_01:

Well that's fine. So yeah, we're at that point now. You know you always talk about which is cheaper. Well, I really do believe now we're at the point that if if you play your cards right, it's you're doing just as good to just go out and get something deep. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

What Pizza Hut back in the summertime, they run two dollar pan pizzas. So I got eight pan pizzas for sixteen dollars.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

And that was enough for two days.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. And then now with uh Domino's, the thing that I always get every time we go to Domino's, because you would get like four pizzas or five, or whatever it is, garlic sticks, whatever. I I don't know. What is the thing that I would get?

SPEAKER_02:

It was like it was marinara sauce. It was a round cheese.

SPEAKER_01:

Round tray of marinara sauce. And then you got the breadsticks that look like a like a bow tie. Garlic knots. Garlic knots. Okay. And that's what I got. And loved it. And now it's gone by. Now it's gone.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. That would be our weekend meal. Because those pizzas were$6.99 or$7.99. So I could buy enough for the whole weekend.

SPEAKER_01:

And this is back too when Nicholas's friend a lot of times was spending the night with us too, so we'd have to get a little extra, you know, food-wise. But yeah, but you can't do this like at say Zagsby's, like we ate there yesterday.

SPEAKER_02:

I mean, that's just too Oh, except they did give me a receipt to buy one, get one free. I need to fill that out. And we'll do that one day next week.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, yeah. I don't know if anybody knows this, but there's surveys that these are. Yeah, I gotta do that survey. When did we do that? When did we do Zagsby's? Yesterday. Even like McDonald's and things like that. They have these surveys that you can fill out and then you'll get a free whatever double chicken.

SPEAKER_02:

Or I use the app and get rewards on the app. Chick-fil-A, I've got a lot of see.

SPEAKER_01:

So I won't do the app at all, so I know y'all can build up your points. Yeah, I built up points.

SPEAKER_02:

I've started doing the gas.

SPEAKER_01:

But I think if you if you play your cards right and you actually your you do your due diligence and kind of look at these like on Tuesdays, this place has a good deal, on Thursdays they has this. Just like on Wednesday night at church, you know, we have you know meals, they make, you know, they cook meals. And so depending on what it is, and most of the time we get them. Yeah. You know, because they're good. Um we get that, so that's one nine. So I mean, five dollars, where are you gonna go for five dollars? Nowhere. To you know, and this will fill you up, except you're not getting a drink, and that's fine.

SPEAKER_02:

Um I'm fine with that. I'd just rather have water anyway.

SPEAKER_01:

So that's the other thing too, is like if we do cook, we don't cook to have leftovers on Tuesday because you're not gonna eat the leftovers on Wednesday. You're gonna eat church meals. So you have to do that.

SPEAKER_02:

I do like it getting cooler though, and I will start using the crock pot more.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, so we'll have chili and stuff like that. Chili and soup. And so that'll last us a couple three days. About three days is about as far as I'll go on any of that stuff.

SPEAKER_02:

I might have some chili.

SPEAKER_01:

What's your limit on leftovers? How many days?

SPEAKER_02:

It depends on what it is.

SPEAKER_01:

Uh so you got homemade vegetable soup.

SPEAKER_02:

I'll eat on it all week.

SPEAKER_01:

So we ate it today.

SPEAKER_02:

I'll get tired of it before we'll finish it basically.

SPEAKER_01:

So if we're eating it like right now, we put the leftovers in the fridge. You're eating it tomorrow, which is Monday. Tuesday?

SPEAKER_02:

Probably Tuesday for lunch. No, I might skip it lunch and eat it Tuesday supper.

SPEAKER_01:

Wednesday?

SPEAKER_02:

That's an iffy. Because I'm tired of it by the end.

SPEAKER_01:

Wednesday, I'm not even it's not even a question.

SPEAKER_02:

I might eat it for lunch.

SPEAKER_01:

No, I'm throwing it out. Because in my mind, that's like it's too long.

SPEAKER_02:

But it's not.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, it is.

SPEAKER_02:

It's not.

SPEAKER_01:

If we cooked it and you've ate it on a Saturday, or excuse me, Sunday, I'm eating leftovers on Monday. Tuesday is my last day of eating leftovers on it.

SPEAKER_02:

Then you're on your own because I ain't cooking. So I'm just, well, I mean, that's fine, but that's And see, he tells me that's fine, so I don't cook. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

I mean, I'm just saying, I'm not, I am not, I don't care what you say. There's nothing wrong with it. I don't care. In my mind that you can't, I can't eat it. In your mind, you can't eat it.

SPEAKER_02:

I can.

SPEAKER_01:

Nope, absolutely not. There is a fine line. I don't care refrigerated or not, that don't make it healthy or safe or there's nothing wrong with it though. There's so many days that you can go before that's like milk. All right. If you have milk, we've got a gallon of milk, it's sitting in the fridge, it hadn't been the seal has not been cracked on it, and it went out of date yesterday. I'm not drinking it today. I'm not cracking it open and doing the smell check and saying, well, it smells fine, it's still good because it hadn't been. No.

SPEAKER_02:

Well.

SPEAKER_01:

Now you cook with it. But uh, you are not, and I can't, I'm not smelling milk.

SPEAKER_02:

We don't even drink milk anyway.

SPEAKER_01:

You know, I used to do cereal and stuff like that, but I really no. But if you'd say, hey, smell this milk, see if it smells alright. I'm like, absolutely not.

SPEAKER_02:

You can't even smell.

SPEAKER_01:

I'm not smelling milk. You can't even smell, so it don't. Smelling milk is a turn off for me. I don't care if it, you know. I feel like you're setting me up. Like, smell this and see if it smells alright. Well, apparently you think it's not alright, because you're asking me to smell it, and so you're setting me up to I don't want to smell a bad smell if it is not alright. So I'm not doing it. So yeah, milk, whether it's cracked, the seal's cracked or not, even if it goes out today and we still got half a gallon.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, let's talk about the egg thing. We're talking about things that are old. 'Cause we could put that video out there.

SPEAKER_01:

I don't know what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_02:

The egg that I cracked open.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, duh, you cracked an egg after the fact, and then I got the phone or we videoed after the fact, right? You came and got I was outside.

SPEAKER_02:

No.

SPEAKER_01:

Are you sure? Yeah. I thought I was right outside and you came and got me, brought me in and showed me, but go ahead.

SPEAKER_02:

No. I was cooking eggs and you crack one open.

SPEAKER_01:

So I don't I might throw up.

SPEAKER_02:

I put my eggs in my skillet and scramble them up, put my milk in there and that kind of stuff, so I'm not messing up another dish. And I'm cry I've cracked two or three eggs. And when we eat eggs, we eat a lot of eggs. If I'm cooking it for like breakfast or supper, I I don't cook it for breakfast because I don't do breakfast. But I cracked the um one egg and it was blood runny.

SPEAKER_01:

It was nasty.

SPEAKER_02:

It was bad.

SPEAKER_01:

I would have to go back to that video to see exactly what we gotta find that video. Yeah, because I can't picture it exactly, but I do know it was nasty.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. So I was turned off from eggs for a while for that. I might be turned off now. Dang it. Why'd you bring that up? Thanks.

SPEAKER_01:

I didn't remember it all until you brought it up. I don't remember that.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, so that was crazy.

SPEAKER_01:

You know, it's funny how you just when you get a certain a smell or a certain taste, something happened. Say you got sick off something. Say you ate some kind of Mexican or whatever it is, and then you were like really bad sick that night, and you're like, even the thought of that food is a turnoff forever. You know?

SPEAKER_02:

Is it really forever? Well, just like if you find it for a long time.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, just like a hare. Just like I f a long time ago I found a hare in a um is it McDonald's and their what's their big it's got three or four pieces of bread in it? No, pieces of bread in it. Big Mac. Big Mac. Yeah. And this was back when they used the s the cardboard to wrap around the s you know the side of it to keep it standing up tall. And so when you took that cardboard off, there was a hair wrapped in there with that cardboard. Nice. Yeah. And so I didn't need a Big Mac for When's the last time we had a Big Mac? I might not have had a Big Mac since that.

SPEAKER_02:

I don't think so.

SPEAKER_01:

I was like 19 years old when that happened. So it's been a minute. So Oh yeah. Well Nicholas, matter of fact, it was when you were on your trip. Nicholas got us burgers from Whataburger.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, now you're telling on y'all. You said Taco Bell, so now y'all went to Taco Bell and Whataburger.

SPEAKER_01:

So he brought the burgers here, and so I'm I'm eating. And the next thing I know, he's coming, coming over to me, and he's got something in his hand. I look up and he's like this, and he's got this big old long hair that he found in his burger. And I'd ate like half my burger, and then that was enough to make me shut it all down. I couldn't even eat the fries after that.

SPEAKER_02:

You wasted it.

SPEAKER_01:

I wasted it. I threw it away. Because it just hit me that way. I was like, oh my you know, just the thought. And why is it? Why is a hair? How many women do you know that go up to another lady, you know, oh your hair's so beautiful? Or they might even touch your hair or something, what have you done? You know, anything like that.

SPEAKER_02:

Don't touch my hair.

SPEAKER_01:

But you know what I'm saying? But you let one of them dang hairs fall off your head and that's the nastiest thing ever. You know what I'm saying? If you find a hair, if there's a hair sitting on this the counter right here on this this table right here, like, ugh, you know, whether it's mine or whoever's, it's like, why does it it's uh it's fine when it's up here attached, especially on a woman, but if you find one anywhere else, why is that?

SPEAKER_02:

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01:

Why is a hair so nasty?

unknown:

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01:

Is it really that nasty? It might be just you. I think if I found a fingernail in my fries or on a countertop or on a countertop or something like that, that's nasty.

unknown:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

I mean if you want to compare the two, I know for some if if I know for some reason we think hair is the worst thing ever when you find on something, but if you want to do a comparison well if it's a hair or a fingernail, fingernail by far is the absolute worst, horribly thing I think I could imagine finding on something. Really? Yes. How'd that fingernail get there?

SPEAKER_02:

They bit it.

SPEAKER_01:

That's it. If they if they bit it spin it off and spin it off. So yeah, so now only do you have a fingernail that's got junk underneath the nail, whatever they've been digging in. Now it's been in their mouth, so you got all that.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. Why are we on this subject?

SPEAKER_01:

You started it. You started it.

SPEAKER_02:

I'm done with it. Bye.

SPEAKER_01:

This reminds me, let's go back in time.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh Lord. I thought we were done. We were done, Timmy.

SPEAKER_01:

I'm trying to think of some weird things. You know, I remember working at a grocery store when I was in high school. I was I guess I well, I'd have been 16, 15 or 16 years old. And we'd got a loaf of bread in from the you know, bread guy. And there's a shirt sleeve caught up in the where they had like tied it up. It was very strange. I don't even know how this happened and why he even brought it in, but it's just the weirdest thing. And I but besides that, we had somebody brought in a jar of pickles that they had bought. Hadn't been opened. The seal hadn't, you know how you can tell when the tops pop? So you're talking about the glass jar of pickles, and there was a big old safety pin on the inside of it. And how does that happen? That was definitely intention intentional at the at the factory? Yeah. But the worst thing, the worst thing of all is, and I've I don't know if we've talked about this before and I don't think so. Um so in our meat department, you know, when you do when you grind, you know, ground beef, anything like that, your grinds you throw you you've got hamburger meat you throw in. It's in the the top of this thing, it goes down this little chute and it's grinding it up and it spits it out. You tray it up, so you got hamburger meat on your tray, right? Okay. So it starts, so it's thrown thrown in the top of this little machine. All right. So what they do too is you throw your uh your your scraps, your cutting, anything that you've cut off of meat, some you know, fat, anything like that, anything that you can use that you're not throwing away, you can use that in your in the ground beef. So you throw it in there and it mixes it up and all this kind of stuff. So the guy's trayed up all this ground beef that evening, right? And he's he's trayed it up, he's weighed it, he's wrapped it, he's put it out there on the counter, it's been selling, all this kind of stuff. Well, then he notices he's got a cut on his finger. He had a cut on his finger and he had something on that cut called a band-aid. The band-aid is gone. The band-aid is missing. So at some point during the process of him doing these grinds and all all this, that band-aid got thrown in there, mixed up with all that ground beef, and it got trayed up somewhere. So so there's exactly very nice. Well, I'm done.

SPEAKER_02:

I'm done after that.

SPEAKER_01:

But it'd cook out, will it not? Sure. That hair won't cook out. That hair's in there.

SPEAKER_02:

That bandaid ain't gonna cook out, doofus.

SPEAKER_01:

The stuff on that band-aid will.

SPEAKER_02:

And the stuff on that hair will.

SPEAKER_01:

That grease, it'll burn it all out. Yeah. That hair though.

SPEAKER_02:

Burn it up.

SPEAKER_01:

No, that hair's still there though. That hair ain't disappearing.

SPEAKER_02:

That band-aid ain't either.

SPEAKER_01:

I think that's the problem with hair, is because it will not disappear.

SPEAKER_02:

You think?

SPEAKER_01:

I think so. But the worst thing is like if you bite into something and then you got the hair in your mouth.

SPEAKER_02:

No, no, I don't like that. I can't do that.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, who likes that? Nobody likes that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay, I'm ready. Because I have to be back at church at 4 30. Well so.

SPEAKER_01:

I mean, you've got three hours.

SPEAKER_02:

I got clothes to wash. I'd like to go eat a little bit more.

SPEAKER_01:

And then you gotta take a nap.

SPEAKER_02:

Don't then I won't take a nap. I doubt it, but okay.

SPEAKER_01:

All right, well, thanks for listening to episode 51. We didn't celebrate our last episode, the milestone of episode 50. 50 years. So we've been doing this for a year and a half now. Should have been around April of last year when we started doing this. So we've been doing this a while. We try to be regular. Kind of like, you know, if you go to the bathroom, you try and be regular.

SPEAKER_02:

Really?

SPEAKER_01:

Once a week is all we plan on doing a bunch of.

SPEAKER_02:

That's my regular, if you want to be honest.

SPEAKER_01:

So we're not, yeah, I'm not talking about once-a-day podcast regular. I'm talking about once a week podcast regular.

SPEAKER_02:

Once every two.

SPEAKER_01:

But we have a hard time doing that. So we are gonna try better, and we've promised, and we have promised. But uh, we've had, you know, I was telling you last night, we've had one at episode seven of our podcast is taking off for some reason. It's getting some kind of attraction. We've got a the room that we're in right now, our podcast room, we've got Winched and the Yorkie sitting beside me. Squirrel. And then well, I know I was gonna mention that we've got a little chihuahua. You're squirreling. We've got a little chihuahua named Coco that she keeps sticking her nose under the door that we're looking at right here past the camera, and you hear she's that's what you hear.

SPEAKER_02:

That's disgusting. I'm glad I'm not using your mic because your nose just got all up in it.

SPEAKER_01:

Nobody uses my mic.

SPEAKER_02:

Disgusting.

SPEAKER_01:

Absolutely nobody except me.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

So I just think that's funny because nobody can hear or see that. But she keep you hear her keep walking past the door, and the next thing you know, you see a little nose or a paw, and then you hear her sniffing like, are y'all gonna come out or are y'all gonna let me in?

SPEAKER_02:

Nope.

SPEAKER_01:

I think it's because she misses Winston. Yeah, no. She don't like Winston. All right, let's go. Where was I going with this though?

SPEAKER_02:

I don't know, but let's go. I'm leaving.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, anyway, so episode seven for some reason is getting a little bit of traction. I don't know if it's getting thrown out there or what, but it's weird how episode seven is like we're heavy every day we're getting listens on it. So that's strange. Because hey, you know, why would a a year old episode be doing that?

SPEAKER_02:

No tell.

SPEAKER_01:

So, anyways, yeah, so check us out uh next Monday for our next release. Don't know what we're gonna talk about. I thought we were gonna talk about rest area vending machines, but apparently Amanda said we've talked about that.

SPEAKER_02:

We already talked about that.

SPEAKER_01:

We've talked about Dusty Slay encounters, we've talked about Netflix, the Unknown Number.

SPEAKER_02:

Yes.

SPEAKER_01:

Growing up in the 80s? Yes. No, we didn't talk about that.

SPEAKER_02:

Yes.

SPEAKER_01:

Um do people still wear robes?

SPEAKER_02:

I'm done.

SPEAKER_01:

Let me ask you that question. Do people still wear robes?

SPEAKER_02:

Yes.

SPEAKER_01:

They do after they get out of the shower or just like around the house when they get up.

SPEAKER_02:

Women wear robes all the time.

SPEAKER_01:

Do they really?

SPEAKER_02:

Yes. I'm done. Bye.

unknown:

All right.

SPEAKER_01:

Nine. See y'all next week. I guess we're done.

SPEAKER_02:

Already told you I gave you plenty of warning.

SPEAKER_01:

Already said bye.

SPEAKER_02:

Bye.

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