52. We Move Rooms, Cancel Subscriptions, And Try To Track A Rampaging Elephant

We pick up after a long break with a cozy room switch, a too‑long “not‑quite‑Christmas” tree, and a debate over streaming bloat that leads to a sobering story about a killer elephant and the trade‑offs of conservation. Along the way we kayak on Christmas, spot bald eagles, and care for aging pets with equal parts worry and love.

• shifting from cold living room to a warmer podcast room
• leaving the light‑only tree up and why it feels right
• mounting TVs and trusting the wall bracket
• cutting services and fighting clunky streaming guides
• kayaking on Christmas and watching winter wildlife
• hearing and spotting bald eagles near the lake
• Coco’s health scare and the realities of senior pets
• single‑tusk elephant rampage and human–wildlife conflict
• drones, tracking, and safety vs conservation trade‑offs
• tease for next story about 22 cars in a circle
• how a stuck‑cat video outperformed everything online
• invite for comments and questions through podcast apps

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Transcript

Cold Open And Welcome Back

SPEAKER_02 0:18

You ever get that song stuck in your head and you just can't?

SPEAKER_01 0:22

Yes, I'm starting. Oh, I start. I'm starting. I say, welcome back, episode 52. I'm starting.

SPEAKER_00 0:28

It's going in there. You're gonna put this in there.

SPEAKER_02 0:33

I'm starting. Why do you always gotta start?

SPEAKER_01 0:36

Go talk. This is episode 52, by the way. Go ahead, Amanda.

SPEAKER_02 0:41

No, you said you were doing it.

SPEAKER_01 0:44

Just go.

SPEAKER_02 0:46

Why do songs get stuck in your head? I don't even know where I heard this song from.

SPEAKER_01 0:52

I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 0:54

Something killed the radio star. What is it? Like I have the tune in my head.

SPEAKER_01 1:00

Yeah, I know what you're talking about. I can't think now.

SPEAKER_02 1:03

I know, see? It bugs me. Welcome back.

Post‑Holiday Reset And The Tree Debate

SPEAKER_01 1:07

Yeah, welcome back. We took a little hiatus. About a four-month hiatus. We had to get through the holidays.

SPEAKER_02 1:14

Oh wow, it took us that long.

SPEAKER_01 1:16

Yeah, so alright. So we we talk about this all the time about Christmas. All right, people, it's time to put your Christmas away. You know, I see uh Christmas decorations outside, all that, but I have decided, you know, I was giving everybody the first week of January to get it, and that's I think a enough leeway to get your stuff put up. But I'm gonna go ahead and say the month of January. At any point, put it up, but it's gotta be gone before February.

SPEAKER_02 1:44

Is that because your Christmas tree is still up?

SPEAKER_01 1:48

It might be.

SPEAKER_02 1:49

I've been asking for it to be a channel. I know, but I like the tree.

SPEAKER_01 1:51

But you gotta think. I think it makes a difference when you don't have ornaments on your Christmas tree and it's just a tree with lights.

SPEAKER_02 1:58

We never put ornaments on it.

SPEAKER_01 2:00

I know, I know. But I'm just saying it makes me feel like it's not really a Christmas tree.

SPEAKER_02 2:04

It's more just So you're saying we can leave it up and I can go in there and decorate it with Valentine's stuff?

House “Rooms,” Mounting TVs, And Cozy Setup

SPEAKER_01 2:10

See, I think I would be fine with that because I like walking in there because we have no leather lights on except it, and it's just enough light to where you can see around. And by the way, we have migrated out of our living room into another room in the house, which is what we call my room, but it's the podcast room.

SPEAKER_02 2:27

Isn't it crazy that we have our rooms?

unknown 2:30

No.

SPEAKER_02 2:30

I have a room, you have a room, Nicholas has a room, and we have a room. And we have a living room, a kitchen.

SPEAKER_01 2:39

I think guys would call it like a man cave. But that that reminds me of like a basement or like a Right.

SPEAKER_02 2:46

But we just have extra bedrooms because we just have one kid.

SPEAKER_01 2:49

So I don't I don't consider this a man cave. I just it's kind of the it used to be like a collectile, you know, this is where I just put my junk or whatever, but now we did during Christmas, Black Friday, was it Black Friday? I got the TV. We mounted a TV on the wall in this room. This uh this room has had a TV on and off back and forth year, you know, over the years. But and ever since uh we started recording the podcast doing videos, you know, I'd I changed this into a podcast room and then did a little decorating and all that stuff, but then now we changed it a little bit again, had to move a little couch and all that stuff uh to make the TV look right. But yeah, the the Oh, and by the way, it's the first time I've ever mounted a TV on the wall.

SPEAKER_02 3:38

Yeah, you didn't really like that.

SPEAKER_01 3:41

I didn't like mounting it or didn't like the look.

SPEAKER_02 3:43

You didn't like the thought of it. You didn't like the thought of putting a TV on the wall.

Cutting The Cord And Streaming Frustrations

SPEAKER_01 3:46

It's like I don't trust it. And then now I've put three up. You know, we went from putting none to I've put three yours in your room, Nicholas's room, and then then this one and this. But hey, I really but now that we got this TV, our front room uh in the wintertime just stays so cold that you know we come in here now to this first room and uh I guess we hang out now in here. Is that what you'd call it?

SPEAKER_02 4:15

Hanging out?

SPEAKER_01 4:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:17

Do we hang out together?

SPEAKER_01 4:18

Well well I'm just saying we do we don't spend any time in the living room now. We come in here if we're gonna watch TV or do anything like that.

SPEAKER_00 4:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:26

And we're sitting in the chairs that we would normally podcast in uh but now we sit in them all the time just to watch TV. But anyway.

SPEAKER_02 4:35

Just to watch nothing on TV. Yeah, watch nothing.

SPEAKER_01 4:38

I just watch YouTube, that's the only thing I watch now.

SPEAKER_02 4:41

It's the only thing Jody watches.

SPEAKER_01 4:42

And now we're talking about we got it, what is it, sling? Sling. Now we're talking about doing away with sling again.

SPEAKER_02 4:47

The only reason we got sling was for news. Was for the Fox News.

SPEAKER_01 4:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:54

Then we had to get Hulu because we have a way, didn't have a way to watch football.

SPEAKER_01 5:00

Right.

SPEAKER_02 5:00

But we done canceled that one. Yeah. It's out of here.

SPEAKER_01 5:04

So now So now sling, we're gonna do away with sling. It's just too much. This is ridiculous.

SPEAKER_02 5:09

We don't use it. We really don't.

SPEAKER_01 5:11

I d I d I don't use it at all. At all.

SPEAKER_02 5:14

I forget about it really. I mean, I guess I don't think about it because I don't know. And I'm particular I watch TikTok as TV now.

SPEAKER_01 5:22

I know, but I'm particular on how the guide is on how it it's the same. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:27

If it's not looking the guide out, he's done with you.

SPEAKER_01 5:31

I mean, it is they some of these people or these companies have really made it a challenge to figure out how to navigate. You know, I don't want to have to go over to a subject uh a category like news and click on that and then scroll through all the possible news channels they have. Or if I want to go to the sport, you know, that kind of thing. And then trying to put it in favorites and all that. It's just too much. I kind of liked it back when you had cable and you just had channels. Channels. You know, turn it on five or thirteen or twenty-seven or ninety-three or whatever you knew.

SPEAKER_02 6:03

Like when you have the Roku TV, there's no numbers. You don't just put in a number.

Quirks, Kayaking At Christmas, And Winter Wildlife

SPEAKER_01 6:07

I don't like that. I don't like that. I don't like you scrolling to see it's almost it's like uh kind of like on the radio. If it didn't give you the like say 96.5, it just gave you their say W Z Z K or whatever, you know. You just had so you're having to go through all these letters, you know, trying to find that. That it don't make any sense. No sense. Well, I mean I guess it does, but to me it's just irritating. But that's just me.

SPEAKER_02 6:34

That's just you. You got your quirks, don't you? Whatever. Everybody have their quirks. Everybody has quirks, don't they?

SPEAKER_01 6:40

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:41

What's quirks mean?

SPEAKER_01 6:42

Uh strange things they do. Strange things. Not necessarily strange. Odd, maybe. Odd to some people. Strange to others. The same for others.

SPEAKER_02 6:55

I guess so. We actually on Christmas Day we went kaycking.

SPEAKER_01 7:01

Yeah, we did. And I think that's been I don't know if it was last year or the year. It was not last year, because I couldn't kayak last year. Year before that on Christmas. I know I did, I don't think you went.

SPEAKER_02 7:15

Yeah, I think that's right. But I did this year. Yeah. Yeah, so this year, on Christmas Day, we were kayaking.

unknown 7:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:23

That's crazy to think. And now here we're about to have an ice storm.

SPEAKER_01 7:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:27

Well, depending on when this episode drops, I forgot what you told me.

SPEAKER_01 7:30

Well we've uh yeah, this will be dropped tomorrow. Uh so we kayaked like twice in the last couple of weeks, right? Two or three times. Yeah. We tried to find some warm weather when it hit and it just worked out. Not only that, you had to catch it when the wind isn't blowing. So it might be warm enough to go kayaking, but if it's gusting, you don't want to go. But you know, we saw deer. We got up in the house. And just kind of slowed down and followed them. They weren't really scared of us. Um seeing a bunch of deer and seeing a bunch of bald eagles.

SPEAKER_02 8:07

Why are we seeing more bald eagles?

SPEAKER_01 8:08

We are seeing a lot of bald eagles right here at the house.

SPEAKER_02 8:11

Why is that?

SPEAKER_01 8:12

I don't know. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 8:13

Is it bald eagle season?

SPEAKER_01 8:16

Uh I I don't know. What do you mean?

SPEAKER_02 8:18

But on the lake?

Bald Eagles, Bird Calls, And Pet Worries

SPEAKER_01 8:19

Yeah. Well, I mean you see them here all the time. We just I don't know. Maybe we're looking for them more.

SPEAKER_02 8:27

Maybe. Because you think you know their sound.

SPEAKER_01 8:30

Yeah, I do. I mean, if you hear it, they're a little screech. Yeah. Do you use the bird app?

SPEAKER_02 8:35

Is that how you know their sound?

SPEAKER_01 8:37

No, you can just tell. I mean, if you've heard a high.

SPEAKER_02 8:40

Did you ask Google what it sounds like?

SPEAKER_01 8:42

No, I'd not. I've heard them before. I know what they sound like. I've watched these Call of the Wild. I watched the Nature Channel.

SPEAKER_02 8:50

Yeah, yeah. Oh.

SPEAKER_01 8:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:52

Nature Channel showed you, huh?

SPEAKER_01 8:56

I'm just afraid they're gonna carry Coco off, you know, when they come back.

SPEAKER_02 9:00

Cocoa don't stay out long enough.

Coco’s Health Scare And Aging Pets

SPEAKER_01 9:01

She's our little chihuahua. Coco is uh we've we've always tried to figure out her age, and best we can figure out is she's maybe fourteen now. Probably. Uh and it seems like she should be eighteen or twenty. But realistically, she's about fourteen. She still gets uh you can tell you look at her at her eyes now, it looks like she's she might be older than that. I'll be I'll be at the church ten years. Yeah, I found a picture in the date on it when she was like it beatty. Okay and that's why it was thirteen years at that point, and now we should have just now dropped into her fourteenth year. But she really still gets up. Now she got up the other morning and was walking sideways and falling and her back legs crisscrossed like a pretzel and I had to hold her, hold her up, and she was stiff as a board, and I thought uh it's happening. I thought she was on the verge of being gone. But I'll be lost. I know. Um but we still got Winston. But she uh yeah, she snapped out of it. I don't know. You know, I was thinking a stroke. But but she's also had those little seizures too. I think she has seizures. And maybe that's what it was. But I went and laid her back in her bed that morning because she couldn't do anything, and it wasn't five minutes. She was just running around, went outside, I took her out before I went to work, and all that. But but anyway, so so yeah, she's got a bad rash on her legs, and then her eyesight looks like it's going. But she runs like crazy outside.

SPEAKER_02 10:41

She still jumps. She jumps up on all the furniture.

SPEAKER_01 10:44

Yeah, but to be her age, so I can't jump. I don't want to jump.

SPEAKER_02 10:49

I know. That hurts just thinking about it.

SPEAKER_01 10:52

I know.

SPEAKER_02 10:53

All right.

SPEAKER_01 10:54

What do you want? What else you got? This is the you should have all kinds of uh subject matter because we haven't. I mean, you should have had all kinds of stuff wrote down, jotted down to talk about.

SPEAKER_02 11:09

Well.

SPEAKER_01 11:10

I mean, I got some stories. I wanted to run a couple of stories by, or at least one.

SPEAKER_02 11:14

All right, let's go. Story time. You may run Jody's story time. All right, I I'll I'll do this right here. J-dub and his stories. Let's go.

SPEAKER_01 11:23

And my stories. Um I've got two stories. And by the way, we have turned the lights off in the podcasting room, so we just have uh the screen on the TV. So it is it's very dark in here.

SPEAKER_02 11:37

So Jody can't see.

SPEAKER_01 11:38

So I did write down a few notes on a notepad and I can't read it. You can't read it. Because it's too dark. And I'm struggling.

SPEAKER_02 11:44

Talking about getting old.

SPEAKER_01 11:46

Winston leaned up one.

SPEAKER_02 11:49

Winston's mad because you won't let him up there.

SPEAKER_01 11:50

Winston always sits in the chair. Come on. Come on.

unknown 11:55

Come on.

Story Time Setup And Options

SPEAKER_01 11:56

All right. So now he is right here under the mic. Like right there. He if he could talk, you'd hear him. All right, what do you all right? I'll give you two options. We've got a killer elephant on the loose in India. That's one of them, okay? Okay. You feel me?

unknown 12:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:18

I feel you. Alright. And then the other one is uh a study of cars driving in a circle to see what happens.

SPEAKER_02 12:27

Are you asking my opinion on what I want to hear?

SPEAKER_01 12:31

Well, I'm giving you two choices. Or I can do them both.

SPEAKER_02 12:36

Sure. Go. Let's do the elephant. You gonna do the elephant? Let's do the elephant.

SPEAKER_01 12:40

All right, are you gonna pay attention or are you gonna get on your phone?

SPEAKER_02 12:43

But did I see a thing today where there's a hundred car pile up?

SPEAKER_01 12:47

Yes, you did. Okay. Was it the fog?

SPEAKER_02 12:51

They were in ice. I mean the road looked snowy. It was like maybe it was fog, and I thought it was snow. I think it was fog. Maybe it was. Because I was gonna ask you and then I got on doing something else.

The Killer Elephant In India

SPEAKER_01 13:05

Alright, let's get off of that. Let's get on to the elephant story. Alright, a search for a single tusked elephant after 22 killed in India.

SPEAKER_02 13:15

They kill them for their tusk.

SPEAKER_01 13:18

Say that again. Did you misunderstand what I said?

SPEAKER_02 13:22

Yeah, go ahead. Maybe I wasn't listening.

SPEAKER_01 13:24

Let me let me read it again. Search for single tusk tusked. That's a hard word to say. Elephant after twenty-two killed in India.

SPEAKER_02 13:33

After twenty-two people or twenty-two elephants?

SPEAKER_01 13:37

It's gonna be people.

SPEAKER_02 13:38

People.

SPEAKER_01 13:39

But yeah, I I can see how you you know reading that, it it could go either way. Uh forest officials in India are on the hunt for an elephant that has killed more than twenty people in a days long rampage through the eastern state of what a word. I can't I don't know. Here you go. I don't even know how to say it. Well, how do you pronounce J H?

unknown 14:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:00

Jark Jarkhand?

SPEAKER_02 14:02

Sure. Why didn't you ask Google?

SPEAKER_01 14:04

I don't know. Uh since the beginning of January, twenty-two people have been killed by a single tusk tusked elephant that has been tearing through forests and villages in West. I can't say that, it's a district of this place, by the way. Uh the attacks have mainly taken place at night as the elephant has entered small villages. The first victim was a thirty-five-year-old man in uh this village on January first. Since then, those trampled to death or suffered fatal injuries have included a couple and their two young children and a forest department official. The region has been put on high alert and residents leaving in this district where the where the elephant was last spotted have been warned to stay away from the forest areas and not go out at night. No kidding. Can an elephant sneak up on you? If I'm going out at night, don't you think I can hear? I mean, I'm just not gonna turn around and bam, he's right behind me. I wouldn't think.

SPEAKER_02 15:03

I wouldn't think so.

SPEAKER_01 15:05

Uh this guy, and uh you pronounce this, I'm gonna spell it to you. A-D-I-T-Y-A-N-A-R-A-Y-A-N.

SPEAKER_02 15:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:14

Anyway, he's an official, you know, the forestry department down there. Said they believed a young male elephant had been separated from its herd and became extremely violent. He said three attempts uh had been made to tranquilize the elephant, but all had failed so far. Alright, this question right here. I've got an elephant that is it's a killer elephant, is it not? It didn't just it didn't just push over grandma, you know, and by accident and kill her. This thing is killing it's a killing machine, and we're just getting a tranquilizer gun out, and so we've tried three attempts. It hadn't been able to do it. Can we get a real bullet?

SPEAKER_02 15:55

So what kind of shot are you if it's you've tried three times?

SPEAKER_01 15:58

How big a tranquilizer do you need to take an elephant down?

SPEAKER_02 16:01

Or you've hit it and the tranquilizer just hadn't took it down, is that what you're saying?

Tracking, Drones, And Safety Questions

SPEAKER_01 16:05

Maybe so. Either that or if uh they need somebody that's got a better aim. I'm just saying.

SPEAKER_02 16:11

So we're letting it loose. It's on the loose, it's killed 21 people.

SPEAKER_01 16:15

Yeah, it's wild.

SPEAKER_02 16:16

I mean, this is you know And let's take care of the elephant more than we take care of people.

SPEAKER_01 16:19

That's what I'm saying. They probably got some kind of endangered species type thing going on.

SPEAKER_02 16:23

I understand that.

SPEAKER_01 16:24

I get it too. But I'm like, But all right, this is a little ridiculous. That's what I'm saying. It's an accident if maybe if one person got killed. Yeah. I g I get it.

SPEAKER_02 16:33

We're still So were all these people together?

SPEAKER_01 16:35

No. This is in different villages.

SPEAKER_02 16:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 16:39

So that's what they're saying at nighttime. You gotta watch it. I don't know. Are they do they roam at night? I don't know anything about elephants. Maybe they are uh they do their better work at night. They sleep during the day? Maybe so. Maybe they're nocturnal.

SPEAKER_02 16:51

That's what I was about to say.

SPEAKER_01 16:53

Is that what you're gonna say? Yeah. Okay. Alright, so they tried to try tranquilize them and failed so far. Uh our team is on high alert. You know, I don't think you really are if you're just uh, you know, loading down with tranquilizers. And efforts to tranquilize it will be resumed. Villagers have been strictly advised not to go into the forest and to remain vigilant. Uh, the elephant has been covering almost 30 kilometers a day. All right, so I looked that up. That's 19 miles a day. And more than a hundred forest department personnel have been assigned to the search operation uh to track him down uh but without success. All right. Let me let's go to this now. What kind of footprint does the elephant leave? Pretty good size, right? Where was the elephant last spot? Where's the last body? Find that last body and start there.

SPEAKER_02 17:55

We don't use drones?

SPEAKER_01 17:56

Fight Apparently not.

SPEAKER_02 17:58

We don't fly overhead to see where it's at.

Human–Elephant Conflict And Stark Stats

SPEAKER_01 18:00

Apparently not. I d you know, I think I'd get one of these um I can't say it. I can't say this word. It's uh the self-harm word. It's a drone. It's a self-harm drone that they use like in Russia and you know, their attacks. It like runs into people and you know blows them up. Oh how about that? How about we get some of them babies down there where they find this elephant and they, you know, kaboom.

SPEAKER_02 18:28

But anyway.

SPEAKER_01 18:34

You've got to take the elephant down. Anyway, find the last person that killed and start there. Follow the footprints. That's all you gotta do, right?

SPEAKER_02 18:42

I don't think so.

SPEAKER_01 18:43

My goodness, where's it? It's not like a deer.

SPEAKER_02 18:46

It's not like a deer print.

SPEAKER_01 18:47

You know, uh a month or so ago there was some uh was it a a wreck, a uh vehicle wreck, and they had monkeys like on a bus or something like that, and they got loose, and so they were on the you know, they had to hunt the monkeys down and one and it's in one of the states. I don't know. You didn't ever heard well you don't you don't watch the stuff.

SPEAKER_02 19:07

I do not keep butt with the news.

SPEAKER_01 19:09

So they found them all, you know, they kill them. I mean a monkey though we will not let a monkey roam around in the woods, we're gonna kill it. But these people over here, if it's an elephant killing people, we're just gonna tranquilize it and move it somewhere. Uh my point being is that they were finding these monkeys. It took time. What what how big is a monkey? And it gets in trees, so it can hide pretty good, right? But we found them. Now we're talking about a And we took them down. I don't know, one ton, two-ton elephant. Where is he hiding? He ain't.

SPEAKER_02 19:44

Behind the tree.

Wrap‑Up, Tease For Next Story, And Social CTA

SPEAKER_01 19:46

Come on. All right. So wildlife specialists from three other states have been uh drafted in to try to locate the elephant, but officials said the animal's uh volat volatility, thank you, and uh erratic trajectory through the forest made it hard to monitor his movements. That is if he's on a rampage, I was about to do my elephant impersonation, but I'm not going to.

SPEAKER_02 20:16

Oh go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 20:18

Listen for that. Listen for that.

SPEAKER_02 20:20

What does it sound like?

SPEAKER_01 20:21

I don't know if I can do it now. But anyway, listen, listen for what the sound an elephant makes, right? And listen for what sound does it mean? Trees being knocked down. I can't do it. I really I don't feel like being contempted because I I feel like I more have a headache if I do try and do it. I should have practiced it. If I'd have practiced it beforehand, if I knew I was gonna do it, and then if it was good enough, I'd have do it.

SPEAKER_02 20:45

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 20:45

I'd have do it.

SPEAKER_02 20:46

Yeah to do it.

unknown 20:47

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 20:47

All right, let me finish this story. The rampage comes as deadly human elephants conflict. Hold on, let me start this. The rampage comes as deadly human elephant conflict is on the rise in India, attributing to rising deforestation, food and water scarcity, and increased residential encroachment in areas that were uh were once elephant corridors. Roughly 10% of the areas that were used uh by elephants as safe routes for their migration no longer exist. Elephants are also dying in high numbers from incidents such as electrocution. I don't quite understand that.

SPEAKER_02 21:27

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 21:27

And then when I heard this one, I I had an image in my in my brain. Uh train hits.

SPEAKER_02 21:34

What?

SPEAKER_01 21:36

So, you know, a train hit an elephant. You ever seen a car? You ever seen a car hit a cow? You know, a lot of times that'll kill the person that drives the vehicle. What in the world does it look like when a train hits an elephant? How bad can that be? All right, and uh Uh poisonings. And so I wish they'd have gone into a little bit because I need to know about the poisonings and I need to know about the electrocutions. How did how come elephants are dying at a high number because of uh electrocutions and poisonings? I I don't know. Alright, and this right here really got me too. Over the they've got a problem. After I give you this stat, this is a problem. Over the past five years, more than 2,800 people. That would be 2,800 people in India have died from deadly encounters with elephants. In five years. In five years.

SPEAKER_02 22:39

So we let elephants run.

SPEAKER_01 22:42

I'm leaving if I was there.

SPEAKER_02 22:44

Yeah, I'm not.

SPEAKER_01 22:46

I can't go out at night because it's dangerous. And I can't go in the forest because it might be.

SPEAKER_02 22:51

It sounds like our priorities are in the wrong spot. Yeah. We're letting the elephants run.

SPEAKER_01 22:56

Well, India, what are they? India, they don't like worship elephants, do they? No clue. They don't. Alright, uh, let's see. They've got AI early warning systems that have been introduced in some villages to detect elephant intrusions and protecting.

SPEAKER_02 23:15

So then why can't we get if they got AI crap, why can't they get a drone and find this elephant? Why can't they go from the skies and look and see? Because the elephant is gonna make a path.

SPEAKER_01 23:25

Calm down, calm down.

SPEAKER_02 23:26

Is it not gonna make a path?

SPEAKER_01 23:30

That goes back to my find the last person it killed and followed the footprints.

SPEAKER_00 23:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:36

Why don't they ask us?

SPEAKER_01 23:38

I have been in the woods and I know I can find a trail where deer go down. It's called a deer trail because they use the same trail and it's padded down.

SPEAKER_02 23:47

Little prints.

SPEAKER_01 23:48

So if you've got one elephant beating a path in the woods, I think you're gonna find it. Well, that's my elephant story, but I really couldn't get over the 2,800 people or 2,800, whichever sounds worse or better. Um that's extreme.

SPEAKER_02 24:07

That's ridiculous.

SPEAKER_01 24:09

I don't know if anything else, you know, I heard that uh well, hippos. I think hippos more people are killed by hippos every year than any other thing, like shark attacks or anything like that. I'm thinking that maybe elephants are giving the hippos a run for their money.

SPEAKER_02 24:26

I guess. Why are you with hippos?

SPEAKER_01 24:28

Why am I with the hippo?

SPEAKER_02 24:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:30

I'm not with a hippo. I just know my hippo information.

SPEAKER_02 24:33

You know your hippo hippo information. Yep. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 24:36

Sure enough.

SPEAKER_02 24:38

And that's Jody's TED Talk.

SPEAKER_01 24:41

Yeah, what is a TED talk?

SPEAKER_02 24:42

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 24:44

I don't, you know, I hear people say TED Talk all the time. I too. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:49

Well, I I like that story.

SPEAKER_01 24:50

You like the elephant?

SPEAKER_02 24:51

I thought you might the elephant story.

SPEAKER_01 24:53

Yeah, you didn't like it. Is that not kind of interesting though?

SPEAKER_02 24:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:57

I mean, something you didn't know. I mean, and and now you know there's one, you know, just one loose. Out loose. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:04

It gets me riled up. I don't know why.

SPEAKER_01 25:07

Hmm. Okay. That's my story.

SPEAKER_02 25:10

That's your story and you're sticking to it.

SPEAKER_01 25:12

Yeah, I I'll tell my other one. I'll do the uh car driving in a circle next. On the next next episode. Which I find it very interesting too.

SPEAKER_02 25:21

I guess I'm just not a story person. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 25:25

Cause this is gonna be about cars. Yeah, see this y'all have got to tune in on our next episode. Um hopefully it'll drop thirsty. We'll see.

SPEAKER_02 25:33

Oh my. He's asking for a lot the first week back. My goodness.

SPEAKER_01 25:39

But they're just testing to see. It's 22 cars, they're driving in a circle, they're going to be a little bit more. Okay, well, you know, certain they want to see what happens. Is it gonna be smooth or not?

SPEAKER_02 25:49

Okay. Don't tell.

SPEAKER_01 25:52

Well, I had to, you know, let people know. Because if you say cars driving in a circle, it's like, I don't understand. What do you mean? How big's a circle? How many cars? Exactly. So I had to give a little bit of information.

SPEAKER_02 26:01

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 26:02

All right. Well Alright, check us out everywhere. If you go to TikTok and go to this, that, another podcast, uh, I've kind of taken over that account with fish videos. So if you look it up, don't think, oh, this is the wrong place. You're actually in the right place. I've just kind of uh I don't know. I don't know what's happening. I got a crazy cat video that's on there that's people view what 42,000 views? I don't know. Is that not crazy? Yes. We had a cat that got stuck in a tree. And the now this is back when we had like eleven cats at one time, you know, because we I thought Jody was turning into the cat lady. I know. Well, no, no. I didn't want this to happen. Well, you didn't Well we had we had the stray cat that I felt that I felt sorry for. We didn't we'd never see cats here at all. I felt sorry for for fed her a little bit. Next thing I know, and her light went out. I was on TV. I got scared for a second, got really dark. Um next thing I know, she's spitting out kids. And then next thing you know, we've got like eleven cats. But anyway, one of them, it's a big gray tomcat, I guess you'd you'd say. He's a he's a big boy. Anyway, he he got caught in the fork of a tree about five foot up in the air in the air, and uh he couldn't get down. And we don't know how long he was there. I know he's there for at least 24 hours. We do know that. Because I heard him meowing when I left for work that one morning, and then uh Nicholas found him at some point. But it's funny. So anyway, so I so the the reason we got the video of it is Nicholas was trying to tell me, he said, How do I get this cat down out of this tree? And I'm like, Well, I don't explain to me how he's stuck and all this, and of course he was not explaining very good. I told him, I said, look, just take a video and send it to me and I'll tell you what to do. Uh he did that, and so anyway, I posted it on our uh TikTok page, and yeah, it's like 42,000 views now for that, which is crazy. Couple of thousand likes. How about that? How about that? It's all those weird, weird things. You know, we can talk and do something funny we think would be really good to put out there, and we'll have like ten views and no likes, but you by golly, you put a cat out there that's stuck in a tree.

SPEAKER_02 28:35

Because they want to criticize you.

SPEAKER_01 28:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:38

Cause you're the worst person ever because you won't get it down.

SPEAKER_01 28:40

I know they said we put the cat up there. I mean, how how stupid is that? But I think that's people just trying to rile you up to it in the comments, you know, and I'm not good. Rage baiters. Yeah. Yeah, they get me. Yeah. Yeah, I can't. It makes me mad.

SPEAKER_02 28:55

You fall.

SPEAKER_01 28:56

I know I fall. Yeah, yeah. Hey, uh, by the way, uh, if y'all want to comment, you can text us. There is a texting option when you listen to this. So if you go to Spotify, you go to Apple, anywhere like that, there should be uh a texting ability where you can ask us a question, give us a comment, give us an idea, anything like that. So uh yeah, y'all don't forget that. But we gotta get out of here.

SPEAKER_02 29:19

Alright.

SPEAKER_01 29:20

Because I gotta go eat supper. Oh, and there's a national championship game tonight, by the way.

SPEAKER_02 29:25

Oh, really? Yeah. I don't even know.

SPEAKER_01 29:27

Indiana and Miami. So it's not like we gotta rush away and watch that. I'm just saying I forgot about it. It just hit me.

SPEAKER_02 29:34

Didn't even know.

SPEAKER_01 29:36

Just hit me.

SPEAKER_02 29:36

Oh, because it's up there on the TV.

SPEAKER_01 29:39

Look, I don't have my glasses on.

SPEAKER_02 29:40

National Championship January 19th, 7:30 p.m. Eastern ESPN.

SPEAKER_01 29:48

No clue. See, I can't read that. I had to take my glasses off so I could read this right here in front of me. I can't see far. You and your glasses. I know.

SPEAKER_02 29:57

All right.

SPEAKER_01 29:57

Uh yeah, uh, check us out everywhere. Appreciate you listening. Uh, thank y'all, and we'll see you next time. Bye.