This That And The Other
This That And The Other
55. Cemetery Lights, Oven Tie-Down Fail, Bad Bunny, Grocery Pickup Parking, And More
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We trade quick stories that spiral into bigger questions: why common sense slips under pressure, why fandom fades when loyalty is sold, and why small public courtesies matter more than ever. From a toppled oven to a glowing cemetery and chaotic curbside pickup, we laugh, vent, and look for better choices.
• gas station meetup and the oven tie‑down fail
• why bungees lose to wind and weight
• guilt vs boundaries when help runs out
• losing interest in NFL and NIL’s effect on college loyalty
• halftime confusion, language gaps, and aging taste
• 80s trivia and billboard nostalgia as shared culture
• cemetery lights, memorial design, and quiet spaces
• grocery pickup misuse and self‑checkout fatigue
• training gaps, teen workers, and critical thinking
• swearing in media, tone, and choosing better words
• release cadence, ratings, and live Q&A plans
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Noisy Intro And Podcast Beginnings
SPEAKER_01And welcome back, episode 55, as far as I can remember. Thanks for those of you that have listened to all 54 episodes so far. Plus our intro. If the intro was included, this would be episode 56. You know, I need to go back and change our intro because that was back in the heyday when we really didn't understand how to do things, and the music is too loud with us talking about, you know, what the podcast was going to be about. So the music's blaring a little bit too loud, and it's it really bothers me. I've always wanted to delete that and go back and go for it. Well then I'd have to get you to come back in. Well lord, that ain't gonna happen. And that's why. You know that ain't happening.
SPEAKER_00So you can't just come in and mute it down.
SPEAKER_01I meant to tell you a story a while back. We were uh me and Nicholas were at the QT. Or Amanda calls it the Q tip. Which is a quick trip.
SPEAKER_00I don't know why. I want to call it that.
SPEAKER_01And for those of you who don't know, it's uh it's a a bigger gas station that you see on Internet.
SPEAKER_00Not a Buckies.
SPEAKER_01Not a no, not as big as Bucky's.
SPEAKER_00Not a loves.
SPEAKER_01Not a loves, not as big as loves, but yeah, but nah, look, I enjoy being in there and that it's one of those things you just um it's not that they have stuff that you can not like a Bucky's you can go in and like find a t-shirt or a candle or a wooden cross or beef jerky or pickled eggs or we need to make a trip to Bucky's.
SPEAKER_00We hadn't been to Bucky's in a while.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, or a grill, or it is unbelievable with or a you know, a snowboard.
SPEAKER_00We've never even looked around in there. You won't let me look, you just pull me through the store.
SPEAKER_01Well, because you're trying to weave in and out of traffic, and so it's like it's crazy. Um so we were coming out of there, walking back to the truck, and I thought I heard somebody, I f didn't know if I heard somebody say my name or not. I heard something. And I just kind of let it go, and then I heard it again. I turned around and sure enough, somebody was calling my name. And somebody I know I you know from a grocery store that works at a grocery store that I've been was involved with. And she asked me, she said, Hey, she said, uh can you help us with these tie-down straps? And I'm like, Yeah. She said, We've got an oven in the back of my truck, and it is it is sliding around. Are you listening or are you? I am. Okay. Okay.
SPEAKER_00I'm listening, but when I get idea, I gotta I gotta write about it.
SPEAKER_01You may just wait a second.
SPEAKER_00No, I want you to go.
SPEAKER_01No, I mean I can wait.
SPEAKER_00No, go.
SPEAKER_01Because I want you to listen. I'm listening because I've already heard this story. No, you haven't. Yes, I have. I don't think you have. Well then tell it then. No. Because you don't know it.
SPEAKER_00I've heard it.
SPEAKER_01So she she's got like the tie-down strap, and she said, Well, I've never seen any like this, and we can't figure out how to do it. But anyway, so the oven she's got in the back, and they've got a small pickup truck, like a ranger. And so it it apparently like slid and fell over. So they pulled into the QT and just so happens they see me and uh tip. Yeah, the Q tip. So she she's got these tie-down straps, and I was like, 'cause they went inside and bought them out of QT. And I said, No, I said, those are for your regular 18-wheelers for the inside of the trailer that hook from one side of the wall to the other side. They've got little metal beams to go in, and this these hook into them and you strap them down, and it keeps cargo. I'm talking like pallets of like groceries and stuff from falling over and all that. They that is not these are not got the hooks that you use in your truck or whatever. So I told her that. But I told her, I said, I said, I don't think I've got a tie-down strap. I said, I've got some bungee cords. I said, let me let me dig them out. I said, we'll come over there here in a second and figure this out.
SPEAKER_00It was just women?
SPEAKER_01No, no. That was the problem. I guess it was her. Surely they don't listen to this. I mean, no, I'm not throwing anybody under the bus, but I guess it maybe it was her dad. I don't know.
SPEAKER_00So you know where my thoughts would have gone?
SPEAKER_01Well, I'll just put it this way dude was not helpful at all. It was like stood. Yeah, nothing against him. It was like hands in his pockets watching me.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. So the women's trying to get you to do this tie-down thing, and he's gonna come and he's gonna hit you over the head and rob you. Well, there's my thoughts. Why do I think that? Because that's a woman.
SPEAKER_01No, I didn't think that because I know this person.
SPEAKER_00Oh, you did know him?
SPEAKER_01If see you were not listening to the story because you were trying to figure out what you were thinking about, and you were gonna write it down. You was in mid-sentence, and then I saw you, your mind was rolling trying to figure out how to finish that sentence. And that's why I asked you to give me a stop with this story.
SPEAKER_00No, go.
Bungee Fix, Interstate Oops, And Guilt
SPEAKER_01Okay. I know this person. So get over that. I got I got the t some some bungee cords or whatever, and they will not. She's got a small toolbox on this thing, and where you can hook it up uh inside the bed of the truck. I can barely reach in there, but I cannot get the hook of my bungee cord. So I'm going back to the truck and I'm getting pliers and I am bending the end of these bungee cords trying to make them work. And I've I've already told them, I said, look, I said, this is not gonna be strong, this is all I got. But what you got ain't gonna work at all. I was like, but I'll you know, we'll get this and hopefully and I'm thinking, you ain't got they said we don't have far to go. Um and I was like, you know, surely they're not gonna drive fast, right? So anyway, so I do all this, get it. I said, that's fine. She's like, I'll get your bungee cords back to you. I said, no, keep them, that's fine, ain't no big deal. So that's it. So we go back to the truck and everything, and it was a few minutes before we left, and we got to be bopping, and we're gonna get on the interstate, and we're going down the ramp, getting on the interstate, and I'm trying to merge into traffic, and as I'm merging, I I noticed the car on the side of the road up ahead with its flashers on, but I wasn't thinking anything. But as I'm looking in my rear view, trying to merge, and I get into traffic, I look, and that's them on the side of the road, and the oven is on its side, you know, it is it has fell over already, and we're talking maybe a quarter of a mile down the road. They gunned it. Well, I was thinking you're getting on the interstate. You didn't tell me anything about getting on the interstate. I wouldn't have thought, because they live they they don't live far from there, but I would not have got on it. You can get to where they live without being on the interstate. If I've got something to take it up, because why am I all roads Yeah, all roads lead to the same place that we're saying?
SPEAKER_00What do you think? That's not what I said.
SPEAKER_01You've thrown me off. No. Take a road, it'll get you wherever you need to go. How about that?
SPEAKER_00That's not what you said earlier.
SPEAKER_01But I can't remember how I said I didn't say it earlier, I said on the last episode. Yeah, that's right. That's the problem. Well, my point being is like, if we're being so gingerly with this oven, then I'm not gonna get on and do 75 on the interstate with this thing and take a chance. But anyway, so I fell over. And so it was like once I got by 'em and I'm like looking and it's like it's like I made the eye contact like right when I passed him, it was like, oops. And then now I'm like, am I obligated to pull over? Nope. Or am I you know, is it on me?
SPEAKER_00Yep. Your fault. I'm sure they were blaming you.
SPEAKER_01Well, I'm sure they were. I need to not be able to do that. I didn't I didn't make I did say, you know, you know, basically like, maybe there's a hole, maybe a woman, is all I got. You understand, you know. And they were like, We don't have far to go. It should be fine. Who is it? What do you mean? Who was it? Oh, you don't know 'em. No, you don't know 'em. But I'm just saying it's like it really bothered me because I didn't pull over. But I'm like, there ain't nothing else I can do. But then next time I talked to him, oh, it's a week later. It's like, every everything was fine, you know, yeah, the thing works fine and all this kind of stuff. We just rode with it, laying on its side all the way home, and it's like, I mean, maybe that's the way it should have been. I don't know. On ovens it good to I don't think anything's good to lay it down.
SPEAKER_00I don't think anything's good laying.
SPEAKER_01But it didn't get laid down the way it was supposed to be.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Oven's heavy, so they had to gun it or something.
SPEAKER_01These bungee, I did the best I could and I wasn't happy with you know, with it, but that's why I was like to say, okay, you do what you gotta do, but but if I'd have had a little bit of help from another guy, you know, but anyway. Anyway. I mean it wasn't much of a story, but I just kind of thought once I made eye contact when I passed him, I felt really bad because I didn't stop. But I'd already been down that road. I've already had there's nothing all I can do is like pull over, stop, walk back there and say, I guess it didn't work out, sorry. You know, I'm not gonna do that.
SPEAKER_00But anyway.
SPEAKER_01Quarter of a mile down the road. So they gunned it.
SPEAKER_00They forgot it was back there. They forgot it was back there.
SPEAKER_01Well, no, the thing is taken off on the interstate on the nurse that you got up to speed and that wind got it and knocked it over.
SPEAKER_00Yep.
SPEAKER_01Well.
Super Bowl Apathy And Halftime Confusion
SPEAKER_00On the episode before this, we should have talked about this on the episode before.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_00The Super Bowl.
SPEAKER_01Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_00Did you watch the Super Bowl?
SPEAKER_01All right, so let's see, what was that?
SPEAKER_00Last Sunday.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, okay. I was kinda yeah, I wasn't all 100%. That's what it was. Yeah, no, you were not. Yeah. Um so yeah, yeah, Nicholas's close friend came and they watched the Super Bowl, but they didn't watch it in the living room with us. Um so we we didn't watch it. Um I went and done alive. I know what it w I had been in I had watched so much I was watching so much different stuff, YouTube and all this kind of stuff. Um, I didn't I didn't care about the Super Bowl. Right. I don't care about NFL football. Apparently this year is I did not care about college football.
SPEAKER_00Apparently not, because you didn't watch squat and I tried to get you.
SPEAKER_01And I'm telling you that all this is because the NIL. The changes they've done to college football has made me not a fan of football at all anymore. Because it's changed everything. There's no, you know, uh loyalty. The the players have no loyalty to the schools, the schools have no loyalty to the players. We're we're paying who who's got the most money, hey, I'm going there. And then if I don't like you or whatever, I'm gonna get in the transfer portal and I'm going some I can be at four different schools, you know, from my college career. Who cares? Right? And these players are making more money and ain't gotta worry about going to the pro. You know, but uh so I gotta tell you. So anyway, that's so that's why I don't I didn't care nothing about it, but I thought I would have turned it over there to try and watch some of the commercials because we you know that's what everybody Yeah, we didn't even watch commercials.
SPEAKER_00I done a live. I went and done a live. Yeah, I had it on back there.
SPEAKER_01And people don't know what that is, that's a TikTok.
SPEAKER_00Oh yeah, I done a TikTok live with my nails. We hadn't talked about much about my nails lately. So I didn't know who the halftime person was. Yeah. Bad bunny? Mad bunny?
SPEAKER_01Bad bunny?
SPEAKER_00Bad bunny?
SPEAKER_01I didn't either until they announced who it was gonna be.
SPEAKER_00So while I was doing my live, I was like, is that Jelly Row's wife?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, who is Jelly Row's wife? Bunny something.
SPEAKER_00Bunny something.
SPEAKER_01I knew something bunny or bunny something.
SPEAKER_00I don't know. But it it got me about uh 10 to 12 new followers.
SPEAKER_01Did it just because you were talking about them? Yes.
SPEAKER_00Just because I was talking about them and I had no clue who it was.
SPEAKER_01We even talk about a bunch of characters, Jelly Row and his wife alone.
SPEAKER_00I mean, just I can't help I don't keep up with that stuff. I have no clue who it was. I can't say if I like them or not, because I still don't have a clue who it was. I didn't go back and watch it.
SPEAKER_01Well, all this is a generational thing. Yeah. So it's like when I was 16, 17 years old, say if you had uh these um even if it's a one-hit wonder, say when in country music that we're like you really was like into, if you'd asked your parents like you put Aerosmith or somebody out there, I'll watch it. Right, but I'm just saying if you asked your parents or something like that, I mean they've got a 25-year gap, they don't care anymore. It's like us now with these 20-year-olds, I don't care about their music and stuff, so I don't know what's going on.
SPEAKER_00No clue.
SPEAKER_01So I don't know about a bad bunny or nothing like that, but I do know that I'm not happy that you're not singing in uh English during a halftime show. How am I supposed to enjoy a halftime show if I don't know what you're saying?
SPEAKER_00I don't know. You know, you're supposed to learn English before.
SPEAKER_01Apparently, yeah, I mean, if you don't know it, you just watch the gyrations on the screen, apparently. And apparently we're not going there. Enjoy that or not.
SPEAKER_00I just wanted to put it out there that I had no clue who it was.
SPEAKER_01I don't there's a lot of people that didn't know.
SPEAKER_00And it was it was really funny. My the people on my live just they got they got a chuckle out of that one. Maybe I need to go back and start talking about that again. And then after I don't even know, Super Bowl still might have been going on. I don't know. Then what did we find on TV? I have no idea. We done TV trivia. Oh, we did 80s trivia, 80s sitcom trivia or something. It would show you the picture.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and you had like six seconds.
SPEAKER_00I think we did halfway good until we got to the last.
SPEAKER_01They started throwing in the British TV series and like, what was up with that?
SPEAKER_00Doing that. I don't got no clue on that.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but it did, it it jogged your memory, and there was a few that threw out there, like, oh yeah, I remember that.
SPEAKER_00I remember that after they put the thing up there. I remember.
SPEAKER_01I was shocked at some of the sitcoms on how many years they were on. Because some of them were like seven years, and you're like, I didn't remember that. And then some of the popular ones I thought was popular was like a year or two and they were on and they got cancelled.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Um was friends not oh, friends wasn't 80s.
SPEAKER_01No, no, no. But yeah, if if if you want something to do, go on YouTube and just look up trivia like something like that. And this was about 30 minutes, about a third.
SPEAKER_00It was a hundred questions or a hundred. But it was levels. Yeah, it was different levels.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so it got harder as you went.
80s Trivia, Billboard Nostalgia, And Rock Talk
SPEAKER_00But but we sat there for 30 minutes doing that. Yeah, it was fun. It was fun.
SPEAKER_01We also watched it was uh it was like 1982 Billboard Top 100. Oh yeah, we'd done that, yeah. So and that the reason I liked it is because it didn't get hung up on the song or the artist long. It was just like every three or four seconds bam, they went bam, bam, bam, yeah. So we went through it quick. Yeah. Um, so that was and that was another thing is a lot of these, even when you got and say the top twenty of that billboard, a few of them were artists I'd never heard of, or never even heard of the song. Yeah, and you would think if you're getting like top ten. If you're a top, we would have heard of it.
SPEAKER_00Especially from the 80s. Yeah. 80s and 90s. That was our genre, wasn't it?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that was uh that's the good time. Well, well, you you have to think like what I consider rock and roll. Um if is there rock and roll nowadays? If there is, I'm just talking it's the old artists that are still playing. Your Aerosmiths, your Metallica, which they're like heavy metal, but I'm just gonna say rock and roll. I don't know of any really new artists, and plus I'm out of the loop now, but right.
SPEAKER_00So if they are new artists, we don't know because we don't listen to that.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but I we still just but I don't really think there's just like because they're not on the radio. I don't think you're gonna have like rock and roll. We don't listen to the radio. But what new singers are rock and roll and are charting hits? I don't think they all listen to the radio. I don't think they are.
SPEAKER_00I listen to the 80s and the 90s and Christian and O Next M, and that's all I listen to.
SPEAKER_01I know, but I'm saying I just think rock and roll is kind of a term of the past because everything's gone towards rap. Your country music to me is not country music. It nah, I see they're tr it looks like they're trying to trend back that way. But it was it was tending more towards a rapish type thing because you would have rap lyrics in there, and it was like that's the worst thing you can have in a country song, I think. But what do I know? Because I'm I'm gonna be able to do it. I don't think so. Um it's just you know, once you it is funny how when you're in your twenties, you just know everything that's going on. And as you you know, your priorities change as you get older and you just lose all that, and then plus you don't like any of that stuff that's coming up. That's just how it's always gonna be. It's kind of like your elvis generation, the people that liked it, but the moms and pops of that day, he was he was evil, you know. Yeah. Because of him up there dancing and doing everything.
SPEAKER_00Yep, that's right. Well, that's my things that I had to bring. I thought I had one more thing, and now I done forgot it.
SPEAKER_01I know what it is. Yeah, I'll do mine first.
SPEAKER_00Oh, oh yeah, I know what it is.
SPEAKER_01I know what it is. I wanted to uh I don't know if I'm wording this right or not, but uh lights in graveyards or in cemeteries or on tombstones, however you want to put it. I'm starting to have an issue when I go by and see tombstones.
SPEAKER_00It's a little creepy if you think about it.
SPEAKER_01What we've got solar powered spotlights, we've got solar-powered whatever, we've got crosses, we've got butterflies, we've got whatever it is that's that is glowing after dark now. And when you look over in the cemetery, which used to, you could barely make out the sign that says cemetery. Now you're looking out there and you're seeing lights all over the place. And I just don't get it anymore. I like the concept, and maybe it was because you know, hey, I can put a light on there. You know, it's just you know, because you've gone by, you're paying your respects, you think this would be cool, especially if it's a close family member. You know, you you're the one that changes out the flowers or you do whatever.
SPEAKER_00Why do we do that? They're not even there.
SPEAKER_01I know, but it's too that's a whole nother story. Almost like it's still a celebration of life though. You're coming there to remember the person and um you don't want to turn it into a uh Yeah, I don't know what you call it. I can't think of the the right word, but uh Yeah, I think I think we've just gone a little bit far with these lights.
SPEAKER_00It's a lot. And the one that we go by all the time.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Um I think because there's so many options now with solar lights and all that kind of stuff too. Yeah. Solar spotlights and you're shining it on either the tombstone or at a decoration you've got in there. And it's like and I mean really. And I like I said, I used to think this kind of stuff was kind of cool. Even like a bench, you put a bench out there. Uh but now I'm I'm just I'm totally against all of it. I'll put it this way, at my dad's gravesite, it has gotten so boxed in, you know, to where it seems like you got the you know your neighbor over here has a a bench now or a stick in the ground with a shepherd's hook and all that. And I, you know, that's fine. People do whatever you want to do. I just think if we're kind of getting carried away. Okay. It's creepy. Vanda wanted to get off of that, so next. Vanda thinks I'm stepping on somebody's toes or people's toes, I guess.
SPEAKER_00I didn't say that.
SPEAKER_01Oh, do I need to remind you of what you were? Is it my turn?
SPEAKER_00Yeah. No, I think I know. Walmart grocery pickup. Is that it?
SPEAKER_01That is what it is. You had a flipping cow yesterday, isn't it?
SPEAKER_00Jody never goes with me to pick up groceries, but let me do this. Let me see. We were going. I was going to a couple of places I want him to go in.
SPEAKER_01I just want you to go inside Walmart and buy up and go. I don't want to go.
SPEAKER_00I can't.
SPEAKER_01Go in and buy groceries like the stuff.
SPEAKER_00I don't want to. I'll spend way too much money. I don't I don't want to. I know what I want. I want to go in. I would just want to go to the city.
SPEAKER_01I don't think you do though. I think because if you would go inside the store, you can.
SPEAKER_00We tried that one time and I got the same dang things.
SPEAKER_01But listen, you're going down the aisles and you're seeing new items.
SPEAKER_00I don't think so.
SPEAKER_01You're seeing different stuff. The impulse items, you're like, oh, I didn't I've never seen that before. I'd like to have that. Oh, they got a different size than this. Oh, it's raspberry flavored now. Let's get that, you know.
SPEAKER_00They show me that stuff online.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but you're not getting the full picture because you're not going aisle, aisle to aisle.
Cemetery Lights And Memorials Debate
SPEAKER_00Anyway, I'm not going into Walmart to buy groceries because it gives me anxiety too much. It's your first problem right there. It's two people. It's too people-y. Now, if you put me on the other side, I'm okay with it. But I the grocery side, I just I just can't do. I don't know why. Don't ask me. It's just something about it.
SPEAKER_01I think I can go in and don't have a problem with buying a buggy load of groceries. And I do have a problem if I had to go to self-checkouts.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah. See, that's another thing. I wouldn't do that. I am not, I'm not going to self-checkout. I am not checking my groceries out, putting them in the car, getting them out when I get home. I'm not doing all that.
SPEAKER_01And a self-checkout to me is designed for$50 or less or whatever. Exactly. Six bags.
SPEAKER_00But when you're buying$200 worth of groceries, I am not self-checkout checkout.
SPEAKER_01I don't have a problem going there and getting a buggy load as long as they can guarantee me that they've got enough cashiers that's going to offer me to get in their line so they can bag my groceries and skin at their self. That's what I want. If I'm going to get a if I'm going to get a whole buggy load.
SPEAKER_00I want somebody to have a job. People are jobless. Why are we putting self-checkouts in there? And this is not where this was supposed to go. This wasn't even about going in Walmart.
SPEAKER_01The self-checkouts.
SPEAKER_00Put me a person up there and give somebody a job.
Walmart Pickup Rage And Self‑Checkout Rant
SPEAKER_01I have a love-hate relationship with them because Walmart does not like my my card. You know? Yes, I know. The master card I use. I know. Uh it likes it today, it won't like it tomorrow. I don't know. And there's no guarantee it likes it the next day. I don't get it either. I mean, I can sh I can do it five times and on that sixth one it'll take it. Or I can do it twenty five times and then never take it. Or I can just barely put it I I don't even have to put it close and it reads it. You know, it's so it makes no sense. Um yeah, I I What I wish everybody would do would band together and not go through the self-checkouts. Just stand strong and stand in line. No, no, no, no. Don't even do that. I'm saying get rid of these stupid machines. Let's get these Americans back to to work. Let's get some cashiers out there. People will have jobs.
SPEAKER_00Yep.
SPEAKER_01Band together. It might hurt, but stand in line to show these these retailers that hey, we want to You still gotta stay you're just because it's a self-checkout, it doesn't go fast.
SPEAKER_00So it's people there's still a line waiting.
SPEAKER_01Well I tell you, since I'm in Walmart all the time and buying a few things almost every day.
SPEAKER_00Every day Jody buys something from Walmart.
SPEAKER_01Every day. So you gotta have a snag. Gotta have a monster every once in a while. So it keeps my youthful appearance. Mm-hmm. Um but yeah, you go in there and there's they've got eight self-checkouts on one side. Well, four of them is doing their computer upgrade up to the side.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so see, they ain't even worried.
SPEAKER_01And there's no money in two of them. So and then hey, let me tell you one time we came in there and one side was shut down. I mean, we went to everybody was going to the this main side, and then you get over there. There's no ropes, there's no nothing letting you know. You just go in there, and when you walk up to it, then there's a lady over there. So, oh, they're these are closed. And I will show me a sign before I get up there. So now I'm walking to the other side of the store, and now everybody's piled in over there because that's the only option, and it's early in the morning. Yowsers. All I gotta say is yowzers.
SPEAKER_00And that's why I don't go in Walmart. But that's not where this story was going.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. All right, so go.
SPEAKER_00So we have at our local Walmart, we have about 20 something spots for grocery pickup.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, this Walmart is one of the bigger Walmarts, so this uh it's sure enough got plenty of parking places.
SPEAKER_00And you know, they've they've moved it behind where we were parked yesterday, too. I didn't know if you knew that. Uh so we're driving down through there, and and yesterday was not as bad.
SPEAKER_01By the way, COVID caused this. This is what all this is about. COVID caused this.
SPEAKER_00Totally. Yesterday wasn't as bad as the time before. I drove down through there, down that aisle, and there was at least six to seven cars that had nobody in there, and they're parked in the grocery pickup.
SPEAKER_01Man, it was fired up.
SPEAKER_00I was so mad. She was gonna that makes me so mad. It's not. Oh, I can park here because it's close and go in and get my groceries. Crap, no, you park here to have your groceries delivered to your car. And then we're sitting there.
SPEAKER_01But as we were going down there, it was like, look at that one. That one right there, there's nobody in it. There's one, then two, I just started counting.
SPEAKER_00There's another look.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00This is what gripes my butt when I get here and I can't find a parking place.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. And I mean, and then when we were leaving, we'll go back to all this again, but but as we were leaving, this really, I mean, it really got fired.
SPEAKER_00I really got mad. Well, as we were leaving, this lady in this big truck pulls in and I see her getting her handicapped parking sticker out. All right. First of all, she was in two parking places. Hey, she straddled. She straddled it. So she took up two stinking parking places. She got her handicapped sticker out, put it on a rearview mirror, got out, and went into Walmart. I was I was hot.
SPEAKER_01Do you think that they need to change the signage from blue to another color because that's reminding maybe this older folk personality?
SPEAKER_00I can see that on a on an older folk, but it's not a handicapped sign.
SPEAKER_01But realistically, this was not a close.
SPEAKER_00No, she was not close. You're right. She was on down a little bit. So I don't know. It's not grocery pickup or handicap parking. It's grocery pickup. You check in on the app and they bring you your groceries to your car while you sit there and scroll Facebook and TikTok.
SPEAKER_01That's what I did. Because I wasn't used to it. I was like, I hate this. I'll just keep my head down. Jody hates it. Jody hates it. Yeah, I feel like I'm on the front lines in the war. I'll just keep my head down and whatever's happening happens.
SPEAKER_00But I tell you, if if I could tip these people, I totally would. But you can't tip them, but you can tip them when they deliver. But like when they bring the groceries, like I'll be at work and I'll put me a grocery order in and I'll have groceries by the time I leave work. When I'm off work, my groceries are being delivered.
SPEAKER_01But that's smart.
SPEAKER_00I love that.
SPEAKER_01I mean, I would say that's smart.
SPEAKER_00But it's like But if I'm going to Jasper or if I'm going to town, I'll do I'll make it where I can do my other errands and then just drive by there and pick them up. Right. So yeah, I was hot yesterday at grocery pickup. But I do. That makes no sense. I mean, why don't take your lazy ass and go park somewhere else?
SPEAKER_01I'm going to have to bleep this out. I'm going to have to put explicit content on this. How did you how did you do that?
SPEAKER_00Oops. Well, I was mad.
SPEAKER_01Oh my goodness. Let it roll. We're going to start this whole episode. Just let it roll. We're going to stop this now, pray, and we're going to start it.
SPEAKER_00We let it roll.
SPEAKER_01But I enjoyed uh watching because I get caught up in like the I almost I I say newbies because it's these people that have that, you know, it's their first job and all that. And I'm watching the one kid just how he's he's unloading these groceries out of these totes into this guy's car. And then the bread's got two loaves of bread in this one bag, and I just see like half of it sticking out.
SPEAKER_00Well, what about our bread?
SPEAKER_01I know, but I'm like watching it, I was like, how do you not you're holding it in front of it and you just don't have enough common sense to realize that you know, put a little bit more effort into it.
SPEAKER_00And then the dude that didn't know how he's gonna get somebody ordered TV.
SPEAKER_01Somebody ordered TV.
SPEAKER_00He didn't know how he was gonna get it off the cart into the uh truck. And he made the woman help him, and she had the bigger part of it. And I'm like, yep, I always gotta have a woman to do it.
Tippers, Teens, And Lost Common Sense
SPEAKER_01But the thing is, is critical thinking, things like that, these these young people now they don't have they d they don't have to make decisions like we used to. They're not put in these situations anymore. Um so when they are put at odds at a at a task or something, it takes them a little bit longer, or they really will make a bad mistake that makes them look foolish because they haven't thought it out. And because they don't know how to think it out. You know what I'm saying? That's that is true, that's the truth. If you agree with me, follow this uh podcast. Hit that hit that uh what is that rating? Give us a five-star rating on Apple Podcasts, on Spotify. You can go to YouTube. We don't do the videos right now, but uh you can still listen on there. But give us a follow. Hey, we need if y'all will start following us on YouTube, we can uh we'll start doing lives on there.
SPEAKER_00Um that'd be fun.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00We take questions.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. But yeah, I just I thought yesterday I was gonna have to, you know, swap seats with Amanda and drive home because I thought she's so mad, she's gonna kill us on the way home. She it might turn into road rage and get me shot. I'm just the innocent bicep. I just went for the ride. That's all I did. I just wanted to listen to Megan Kelly and hear what she had to say about this Nancy.
SPEAKER_00I'm gonna call in to Megan Kelly and ask her what she thinks about this.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, she does.
SPEAKER_00I'll see if she can get it.
SPEAKER_01Well if you can keep her from saying a F-bomb, you know. Yeah. She's got a potty mouse.
SPEAKER_00She's got the potty mouth.
SPEAKER_01What is the I don't understand too. There are several podcasts that I like to listen to, but the cussing is so unbelievable. It's like, do we do we have to cuss?
SPEAKER_00Sometimes we do.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I know.
SPEAKER_00Just sorry. Forgive me.
SPEAKER_01But I'm just saying this, I everybody um will let one, you know, slide every once in a while. But I don't understand and and then the people that I really respect, I'd say I respect or thought I respect, and either what they do or what they stand for, and if they're an entertainer or anything like that, and then uh, you know, they let some of these words fly out of their mouth. I'm like, really? I'm like, where did that come from? Because I didn't know you were that way. Now that makes me say what's in the Bible. Now that makes me think a little bit different about you because of that. Now look, 25 years ago, 30 years ago, with my potty mouth, I didn't care. You know, I can only imagine anybody that heard the way I talked. I mean, I looked like a goofball. You know, that's because that's how I feel about people when I hear them talking when they're cussing, you know, in front of people and all that stuff. That was me back then. I couldn't imagine doing that nowadays. That's one but that's one thing in society I wish would change, is the cussing. Yeah. I mean I really do. Every once in a while. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00You get me riled up though.
SPEAKER_01Well, that you mean you're using ten. This is what I I a tender cuss word. That was tender. That's a soft cuss word, yeah. Almost not even a cuss word, you know? That's that's how soft it is. Yeah, okay. You know, but it escalates from there. Uh whether you escalate or not, I don't know. But I guess we're just gonna be able to do it.
SPEAKER_00If I hadn't had a parking place, I would have escalated.
SPEAKER_01We'll find out on the next episode. I'm losing my voice.
SPEAKER_00All right, we out.
Ratings, Lives, And Sign‑Off Laughs
SPEAKER_01All right, thanks for listening. Uh, check us out on our next episode. Should be episode 56, I believe. We're releasing these on Mondays and Thursdays. Uh, everywhere that you can possibly hear of a podcast, that's where we're at. If you would, though, please give us a follow on whatever platform. And if you would give us a rating. Uh, we talked about this a few episodes ago that you we have the texting ability. I need to go back in there and see which platform that is or if it's on all of them. But yeah, if you have any ideas or suggestions or comments, text us to us. We'll get it. And uh we'll call you out on the next episode if we have to for something bad. No, I'm just kidding. Uh, but yeah, uh, thanks for listening, and we'll see you next time.
SPEAKER_00Don't park in my parking place to pick up groceries. Yeah, and don't make eye contact.
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