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Brace Yourself for Alpaca Yoga
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Have you ever found yourself in a yoga pose while alpacas curiously wander around you? Or spent half a day tracking down a simple ankle brace through a labyrinth of healthcare facilities? This episode takes you on both of these unexpected journeys, weaving together two seemingly unrelated experiences into a delightful conversation about life's quirky adventures.
When Robyn (our special guest and first-ever visitor to the studio) describes her experience at Coleman Valley Alpaca Farm in Franklin, Tennessee, you'll feel like you're right there on the mat. Picture this: beautiful rolling hills, restorative yoga poses, and fluffy alpacas cautiously investigating humans in downward dog. The teenage alpaca with its freshly-groomed, doodle-like appearance steals the show, acting as the confident leader of the skittish herd. You'll learn surprising facts about these camel family members – yes, they can spit! – and why they were more fascinated by parked cars than people doing yoga.
Then our conversation takes an unexpected turn as we dive into the absurd odyssey of acquiring a simple ankle brace. What begins at a podiatrist's office spirals into a comedy of errors involving multiple healthcare facilities, unhelpful staff, missing prescription dates, and ultimately a revelation: Dick's Sporting Goods has an entire section of exactly what was needed all along. The frustrating yet hilarious journey perfectly captures the needless complexity of our healthcare system and the simple solutions hiding in plain sight.
Through both stories, we explore our relationship with animals, wellness trends, healthcare hurdles, and finding humor in life's complications. Whether you're an animal lover, yoga enthusiast, or someone who's ever been caught in bureaucratic quicksand, this episode will have you nodding in recognition and laughing along with us.
Welcome to hey Real Quick. How was your weekend last weekend?
Speaker 2It was good. Yeah, what did we do? Flag football.
Speaker 1Nice, more of that. Wow, it's still going. Huh, still going. We've got another week or two Still getting those flags.
Speaker 2Still pulling them. Pull them off and then, I think, friday. Mm-hmm no no, maybe it's saturday morning, robin, uh, she did something new.
Introducing Alpaca Yoga
Speaker 1She did alpaca at alpaca yoga I did not know that you were going to put those two words together. I thought it was going to be like like a petting A petting zoo or making a sweater out of their wool or something.
Speaker 2I don't know. I think it is kind of a petting zoo-ish.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2But you also do.
Speaker 1Yoga With them. Are they doing the yoga?
Speaker 2The instructor's name is Fluffy. Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1Downward alpaca.
Speaker 2What? Yeah, I don't know how many there are Wait a minute.
Speaker 1Do they have to herd them up?
Speaker 2I think they're just there. It's just like a farm.
Speaker 1Watch where you put your mat.
Speaker 2We're going to have to clean a place off. But yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1My brain is in a knot right now. Wait what.
Speaker 2Yeah, well, it's like yoga, but then there's animals, and those animals are alpacas. That's all I got.
Speaker 1They're not a giraffe, but they got a long neck.
Speaker 2Yeah, which are kind of like a. They look like a I'm trying to think what an alpaca looks like. Kind of like a llama had a baby with a. It's like a llama doodle. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1They kind of look, they're all like primped yes, do they groom them, are they? I don't know if they groom. You know what I should do? I should?
Speaker 2I should get an expert.
Speaker 3Oh yeah, I can go get Robin, Is she here?
Speaker 1Yeah, I think she's in.
Speaker 2Studio B Let me go.
Speaker 1Let's let her explain.
Speaker 2Because yeah, I don't know that much about it.
Speaker 1Guest in this studio, first one ever. It's the famous Robin, my sister-in-law.
Speaker 3Hey Robin, hello, you're too kind.
Speaker 1So Marty just told us about the alpaca yoga. Oh yeah, so I had too many questions and he was like I can't explain it, let me just go get Robin.
Speaker 3He did see a lot of pictures. But, yeah, to experience it it was, it was a true, uh, experience and I will say that, um, I'll try to describe it for you. So when you just kind of vision, you know Tennessee countryside, with a big barn and a nice little house, big hill, like all you see is land, yeah. It's crazy because you get off the interstate probably five miles before that and then all of a sudden you're just in beautiful Tennessee countryside. So that's amazing. It was right outside of Franklin.
Speaker 1Okay.
Robin Explains the Alpaca Experience
Speaker 3Close to Berry Farms. Really not far from that. So yeah, so driving to it, I was just like man, this is gorgeous, like I didn't even realize this was in her backyard. So when I get there I pull up and you know, this is the first time they've actually done this yoga class. Shout out to Coleman Valley Alpaca Farm. They decided to try this out and it sounded really cool. I have a really good friend that is obsessed with alpacas llamas anything in that family with alpacas llamas anything in that family, so she talked us into going and I was like, sure, why not?
Speaker 3I love yoga, I love animals, let's go. So when we get there, you know they got all the mats set up. They did all that for us. And then this big, beautiful dog comes to greet us. His name was Joe and he was just the biggest I guess sheepdog look, I don't know exactly what breed it was Just comes over there and just the friendliest thing, greeting us, like at our mats you know, just hanging out. Eventually, at one point he was like sitting on a mat. And it's just like he's ready to go.
Speaker 1Yeah, Like.
Speaker 3OK, get some downward dog going.
Speaker 1Yeah, literally Kind of reminds me of Peter Pan, exactly downward dog going.
Speaker 3Yeah, literally. It kind of reminds me of Peter Pan, exactly, exactly. So I was like this is a great beginning. So we had a great instructor that kind of walked us through. It was restorative yoga, because they did say that the alpacas are very you know finicky, so if you do big movement it might scare them and we did see that, like when they did eventually come closer to us. You know, if you did something really quick they would kind of jump.
Speaker 3Yeah, a little skittish, a little skittish, yes. So you know, we started. And then all of a sudden, one of the owners comes out with the feed and you just start seeing the herd coming our way and you kind of don't know what to expect, because you're like, okay, are they going to? Like literally come and like step on my mat? I mean you think about goat yoga and I'm like, okay, those things actually get on you and stuff. Right, alpacas are big.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3They're heavy so they did give us feed to have on our mats to try to lure them in because they were skittish. There was one teenager, alpaca, that was the cutest thing that had groomed it. It looked like a doodle, like its face was like no way so do they do that with all of them, some of them I don't know if it's just the certain types, because there were some that were a little more wiry hair, yeah, but then there were some that were more poofy and a lot more hair like almost like a sheep, like you needed to shear them.
Speaker 3So this one had just gotten sheared and it was just so cute, the poofy face. I think I showed you the picture.
Speaker 1It's the one I got the picture with. Yeah.
Speaker 3But it was a teenager. But it was abandoned by its mom and it actually like lived inside for a while when it was young. And so it was kind of the outcast, like the other alpacas looked at it like what's it going to do, but also see it as like you haven't kind of come up with us. So you know so that alpaca was actually pretty, you know, confident and would come around us more and was kind of weaving in and out from us and even kind of galloped.
Speaker 3It kind of made me nervous. Oh yeah, you know it's looking to charge over here. Yeah, but it was really, really cute and you could tell the other alpacas were were getting some cues from this one, and so it was the one that kind of came and got a little bit closer to us us, but the rest kind of just kind of circled us like the big group of mats.
Speaker 3They just basically walked around us, not necessarily through us, unless the owner was, you know, um coming through with the feed and kind of like getting them to yeah, if you had feed? Oh, they were definitely into that okay, and it was interesting because they only kept the females, Like the males, like when you get them mixed. I guess, there's a different dynamic. And so they just had the females that were coming around us.
Speaker 3We did see some males in the fence later, but they were super sweet and it was just one of those things that you know you felt like you were in a movie.
Speaker 1Oh, yeah, and.
Speaker 3I didn't realize they were part of the camel family.
Speaker 1Oh, okay, okay. So does that mean, they spit, they do?
Speaker 3I did not get spit on, thank goodness, oh my gosh. But when I was taking a picture with one, it kind of was clear in its throat and I don't know if it coughed, but I literally thought it was about to spit at me and I kind of like darted this way Um because our yoga instructor said she came out before and got to meet them and get familiar Um she had done this before in Atlanta, and so she was like okay, well, you know, I want to get to meet them and things like that.
Speaker 3So she came out and met the teenager one and it spit at her and she like literally had to change her clothes so my goodness, yeah, yeah, come with a spare um yeah, thankfully nobody got spit on okay, you know they were pretty tame while we were there, yeah, so um, but yeah, after so we we got done with you.
The Curious Behavior of Alpacas
Speaker 3It was funny, though, because you know we're doing these restorative you know, yoga, which are supposed to be calming, and things which it was I mean it was a gorgeous day, beautiful like just to take in, like close your eyes, take in the birds, take in just nature yeah. And so that was really loved it. But of course then you had people giggling because they're like seeing the alpacas like around them and trying to feed them and stuff like that.
Speaker 3So it was. It was definitely one of those things where you know you didn't get probably as much yoga out of it as you did Right. Visiting with the alpacas.
Speaker 1Yeah, so this is an alpaca farm in Franklin, but that's the first yoga session they did with the animals and it was so popular it got sold that they're doing another one.
Speaker 3I believe it's next weekend.
Speaker 1I bet they'll be booked every weekend or as much as they want to.
Speaker 3Oh yeah, I think they said. I saw on their website. I think they said five spots left, like yesterday.
Speaker 1Oh, my goodness, yeah, wow. So did they have other animals on the farm besides alpacas?
Speaker 3They did so. Did they have other animals on the farm besides alpacas? They did so. I think they said they had some goats. I didn't see the goats. But then they did have some mini ponies or mini horses behind the gate. That was really sweet and cute. And then, when we got done with actual yoga, we walked over and actually got to be closer to the group of alpacas and feed them, and, okay, how was that it's so fun to feel like, because I think they only have like one set of teeth I can't remember exactly but it just feels like.
Speaker 3You just feel like they're little lips, you know grabbing grabbing the food now with the male, like it was. Oh, on the other side you felt his teeth, so I can see that that was a little more aggressive yes, um, but the other ones, you know, they, they would just kind of hang by you if you go to pet it. If you had food in your hand you could pet it, but if you just went to pet it without the food.
Speaker 1It still skittish you know, yeah, okay, kind of uh, but they did stay together.
Speaker 3Definitely you know, a herding. And the funny part was when we first started the yoga class to lure them, like I said, with the food, they were amazed by the cars, Like they just went and like we're checking out the cars in the field. Yeah, that's where they wanted to stay.
Speaker 1That is hilarious. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3So they all ended up being by one car and the yoga instructor was saying man, whoever has that blue car over there, they're, they're really digging, digging your car right now.
Speaker 1Oh my gosh um, so have you done goat yoga before?
Speaker 3I haven't. I've seen the videos. Yeah, but of course on your back and stuff, right, yeah, yeah, I don't know if I I don't know. The one thing I would love to see is when they do the whole just fall over like play dead. Yes, that's hilarious, it is funny.
Speaker 1Or I've seen the people do like puppies, where they just release a bunch of puppies and they climb all over people and that's what our friend sent us videos of.
Speaker 3Next she wants to do.
Speaker 1Oh my, we totally have to do the puppy yoga next.
Speaker 3Oh yeah, I was like I think I'll be down with some puppy yoga.
Speaker 1Yeah, oh my gosh.
Speaker 3So tell me the name of it again Coleman Valley, alpaca Farm.
Speaker 1Coleman Valley Alpaca Farm in Franklin or outside of Franklin, yeah All right, yeah, check it out.
Speaker 3It's funny because once I posted it on my Instagram stories, everybody was just like it looks like AI. It doesn't even look real.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, when you showed me the picture of that one that looked like it had been to the Golden Doodle groomer, it was just like I don't even know what that is.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah, so it's an experience you need to check it out.
Speaker 1Well, thanks for telling us about it.
Speaker 3Of course.
Speaker 1So that was fun Learning um alpaca yoga with your sweet wife yeah, with an expert.
Speaker 2I know sorry, unpack no, it's good.
Speaker 1So yeah, she had showed me that picture and probably, if you go on their website, was it cole Coleman Farms.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1In Franklin, or just go look at some alpacas. They are cute Because they are the doodle of camels.
Speaker 2Or llamas.
Speaker 1Llamas, it's a llama. It always makes me think of Emperor's New Groove.
Speaker 2Oh, yeah, that's weird. Did y'all talk about Weird? Do they spit?
Speaker 1Yes, oh, did y'all talk about that Do they spit yes because they are in the camel family. She said one was about to hawk a loogie and she kind of well, she felt it coming. She was like I'm going to go over here now. I'm going to get down where dog is I'm going to get out of here, dog and that they were gravitating towards the cars.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, I did hear yeah.
Speaker 1Man, maybe they should sell cars. Yeah, probably not. It's like the bin of animals. My kid loves cars so much it's like he would bond with us. Yeah, he's like yeah, let's go check out these cars.
Speaker 2I guess you got to sign a waiver right, Maybe?
Speaker 1Trampled by. Yeah, I don't know yeah.
Speaker 2Because otherwise you're getting yeah. I guess, you have to. It's a live animal. Yeah, why do?
Speaker 1you need a rabies shot. Well, I was doing some yoga.
Speaker 2They are cute, but I do have Very angry alpaca. Yeah, they're cute, but I have petting zoo like a petting zoo phobia Me too. I don't let anything. I don't let my dog eat out of my hand. I mean maybe sometimes Like if I'm handing them a treat.
Speaker 1Yeah, she was saying that when they fed them you could feel their little lips and stuff and it's kind of cute. Now I have one friend, leanne. Shout out, leanne. She loves all animals and she would be all about that.
Speaker 2I love animals, but I'm not letting. I won't let a goat. People are like, oh, you want a pet. I don't trust none of that stuff.
Speaker 1I want to look at it, I'll look at it.
Speaker 2Yeah, got them teeth.
Speaker 1A horse, gosh, he could just lay down on you.
Speaker 2That's it.
Animal Yoga Experiences
Speaker 1Horses are beautiful. I ain't touching no horse, I ain't getting on it. I respect it. Yeah, I'm like, I respect it.
Speaker 2That's a majestic animal.
Speaker 1Thank you.
Speaker 2Please get away.
Speaker 1Yeah, I'm super nervous around horses. People that are comfortable around horses just walk up and know how to.
Speaker 2They make me nervous, yeah, yeah. I need to go outside.
Speaker 1I'm nervous right now talking about it.
Speaker 2Yeah, I would get injured in a heartbeat which, speaking of injuries?
The Quest for an Ankle Brace
Speaker 1Oh gosh, what did you do? It's not bad.
Speaker 2I looked it up, it was February 8th. We did the father and son flag football thing. We do it once a year.
Speaker 1That's your mistake, right there, right so.
Speaker 2I'm not a competitive person.
Speaker 1What.
Speaker 2When it comes to that, I kind of got competitive and it was toward the end of it and I was like I told this kid playing quarterback. I was like, hey, I'm going to run over here, slam on brakes like I was Maverick, you know, with a jet plane. As soon as I did it. I was like Al I remember like why did my foot try to come out of the side of my shoe?
Speaker 1No.
Speaker 2So it's just been kind of lingering, because you know, once you hit, Three months, once you hit 45, injuries don't really go away. It's just you're going to kind of this is where. I'm at now. So I waited, waited, waited.
Speaker 1Like you should.
Speaker 2Yeah, Went to a place got an x-ray still in whatever got an MRI, so I did all the things.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2So then I went to your podiatrist.
Speaker 1What's up?
Speaker 2First time at a podiatrist.
Speaker 1Yeah, god, your podiatrist first time at a podiatrist. Yeah, god bless him.
Speaker 2He said it was like the tendon on the outside of the ankle that connects to the cubode or whatever the bone in the middle of the foot.
Speaker 1Whatever Right and that was different than your other diagnoses, or I like that word diagnoses.
Speaker 2Yes, because the other people didn't find anything. Well, everywhere you go, they talk confidently and kind of fast and you're like that is what it is okay and you just kind of like okay, great, take it in now.
Speaker 1What do I do?
Speaker 2so that wasn't the part, that wasn't the interesting part of this trip. So they said oh so we're just going to give you this, like first of all. He said we can give you a steroid shot. And I was like well, I'm kind of, I'm like my sister, I'm kind of squeamish.
Speaker 1You should get out some smelling salts right now. So how?
Speaker 2about. I just take eight Advil a day and till I die. Let's talk about that brace you mentioned. So he gave me an ankle brace. So the girl comes in, throws on the brace and then she goes real fast. She goes all right, you're going to figure eight at the bottom, come up side, slap. Then you're going to do this. I was like okay.
Speaker 1Do you have a video that I can watch? So I think I got it. Oh Lord Okay.
Speaker 2But then she takes the brace off and puts it back in a box.
Speaker 1Uh-uh off and puts it back in a box.
Speaker 2And I was like, okay, maybe she just wants me to do it when I get home. I don't know.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2So then she hands me a piece of paper and says it's a prescription, so you got to. It's a the brace is prescribed, so here you go.
Speaker 1That one was for display only, yeah.
Speaker 2What so? I was like maybe it's the wrong size, Right you?
Speaker 1know I'm sure it's got to be multiple sizes. Surely there's a reason. Yeah, Multiple reasons.
Speaker 2So anyway, she said follow the yellow signs, go to checkout.
Speaker 1Follow the yellow background. Follow the yellow background.
Speaker 2Which I will say they had like seven signs within like 52 feet.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2It was very instructive. So I get up to the window hand the girl the prescription. Yeah, I said I just need to get this. The lady that told me where to go was on the other side of the window.
Speaker 1Oh, I know what you're talking about. You go around like in a U and you just end up on the other side, so I hand it to her.
Speaker 2I said I need to get this.
Speaker 1That's like service merchandise.
Speaker 2Yeah, so she goes. Well, that would have been great if there was service or they had merchandise. So she goes oh, we don't do that, you can go to one of these three locations. So it gives me a piece of paper with three locations, right? So, now I go to the car and I type in all the locations. One's 1.9 miles down the road and I type in all the locations.
Speaker 1One's 1.9 miles down the road.
Speaker 2How hard can that be? So I drive over to whatever it was called. It was like an old school.
Speaker 1Like a compounding pharmacy. Yeah, it looked like a CVS from 1971. Yeah.
Speaker 2They had rascals, you know.
Speaker 1Yeah, Is the pharmacist up a couple steps kind of higher than you?
Speaker 2No, I was the only person in there under 80 and then I went. I go to the counter. I was like hey, just need to pick this up. Lady was super nice. She goes that man over there behind that desk he's got all the answers, okay.
Speaker 2So then I take my piece of paper, I go to that guy and he goes well, we got them, but uh, insurance doesn't cover them here. So I don't know. I've never had a brace or a cast. I'm like they're probably going to charge like 500 you know, I thought it'd be something astronomical. Yeah well, I just panic and go like, okay, and he goes no, if you go to hanger hangar clinic, that was another location on there.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2You can get one there, they'll cover it.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2Okay, appreciate it, get my car, put it in the hangar clinic. That's like two miles down the road.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2Drive there. Sorry, this is a long, drawn-out process Drive there. Uh-huh, another parking deck Almost went down a one-way street the wrong way multiple times. I am not happy. There's multiple words being thrown around. So I park in the parking deck and then I go in a building. Looks like a hospital, like they all do, and got to figure out where that is. That's on level two, if you're wondering, suite 250. So I walk in there. I see a girl behind a window. There's no line.
Speaker 1She looks like she doesn't want to help. So I go right up to her. I was like, hey, I need to pick this up.
Speaker 2Yeah and she goes. Do you have an appointment? I was like I had one earlier with the doctor. I said, no, I just need to get this brace. Yeah, doctor. I said no, I just need to get this brace, yeah, and she goes well um I knew right then it was a problem, like there was a side.
Speaker 2Yeah, she was like I and I heard a word I never heard she goes well. I don't know without a appointment if we're gonna have a clinician available I'd never heard clinician oh really, anyway, is it a brace fitter. Whatever. So I was like um, okay, she goes, I'll go check on it.
Speaker 1Great. Could you check on the clinician and the brace?
Speaker 2both of them you could just throw it from the closet, I'll pick it up off the ground.
Speaker 1Somebody already showed me how to do the figure eight, so I think I can still remember.
Speaker 2So I sit down and then she calls me back up. I was like, well, I was fast. She goes hey, we got them, but we're not going to be able to fill it because they left the date empty. There's no date on the prescription, so it's not valid.
Speaker 1I said it's from today. I said I just can't.
Speaker 2She was not going to help. No, she was not gonna help.
Speaker 1No, she was not gonna help I was like she wasn't gonna fudge the date on there or anything.
Speaker 2So I was like I was like meanwhile I'd been on my phone. I was like I told her. I said you know what? I'll just order one off Amazon, it's fine.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2So I get in the car, I'm gonna order one. I'm like you know what. I'll just go back to the first dude. I'll just buy it there.
Speaker 3He said they got them right.
Speaker 2Right yeah. So I get in my car, drive two and a half miles back over to Oz. Yeah right, Literally I was like, hey, I'm back, I'm just going to get it here.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2He said what size shoe you wear? Yeah, oh, and he goes yeah, we don't have that size. And I was like, and then he said these words he said but Dick's Sporting Goods has got them.
Speaker 1Dude, could you lead with that? Excuse me the first visit. I have been to multiple clinics, pharmacies we'll call them hospitals, some kind of hangar, I don't know.
Speaker 2Airplanes, I could have grabbed this and some athletic socks to be I could have got a brace, some jordans, a blackstone grill, maybe some nike sweatpants, like I could have gone to dick's sporting goods. So all that trouble and then I go to dick's sporting goods oh no, oh no, oh no, did they have them? Oh, they had them.
Speaker 1Oh.
Speaker 2Level one, level two there was so many options.
Speaker 1How many people are popping these tendons?
Speaker 2I don't know I was. So I was in Dick's Sporting Goods. I was that dude.
Speaker 3Oh yeah.
Speaker 2Trying on braces, which I don't care anymore. I'm just trying on braces. There's dog hair all over them. Now you know you walk around the house with two dogs.
Speaker 1You're just trying not to be Michael Douglas from Falling Down at this point.
Speaker 2Pretty much yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, which. If you're Gen X, you know what that movie is which.
Speaker 2Falling Down would have been less painful.
Speaker 1Than just popping the dent.
Speaker 2Throughout that whole process you get to the point of you know I'd rather just be in pain than just go through all this. But I started thinking I was like what if you're in a wheelchair? Or like what if I was on crutches? Or like had a serious injury, and they're like, hey, just drive over here.
Speaker 1I know it's not helpful. How about this? How about, if you don't have it, you mail it delivery one, two-day DHL or some biz like that, and send it to my house?
Speaker 2Yeah, I don't get like hey you need this brace Health.
Speaker 1I don't get. I don't get like, hey, you need this brace Health. We don't really care, we're going to show you how to put it on. We don't have them. Nope, can't have this one. Yeah, taking it back. Sorry, taking it back.
Speaker 2Nobody goes to Best Buy and like, ooh, I like that TV, I want it, and they go okay. Well, here's some addresses.
Speaker 1Yeah, by the end of that day you full on expect to meet somebody in like a Crown Victoria with the trunk popped in a parking lot, like it's the mafia, like, oh, you need braces, I got braces. I got lots of them. I got boxes of braces. The FIA came. Yeah, they don't have them. They don't quote unquote have them, we have them. They don't quote unquote have them, we have them.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's what.
Speaker 1Dick's is doing now. They're like just let us buy them all up, yeah.
Speaker 2Pretty much.
Speaker 1Dick's is basically the mafia.
Speaker 2But the brand I got, the brand that Dick's Sporting Goods has is called Shocked Shock Doctor, which I was shocked. I didn't have to go to a doctor, apparently, all I had to do. Maybe that's why they call it that unreal you think you're shocked. Come on into the exporting goods. We got all the doctor needs and you get a kayak and some golf balls like what. Just don't even go anywhere, just just start slinging, cast in the back yeah, that is crazy anyway, it was a lot sorry.
Speaker 2That was a that. It was a long sorry that was a that is. That was a long trip, got a brace, really.
Speaker 1Where'd you get it? At the sporting goods store.
Speaker 2Oh, and it's like anything.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2You look at, what size do I need?
Speaker 1Oh gosh.
Speaker 2And then they have like a measuring tape there, some paper measuring tape. You'll never guess what size I was at.
Speaker 1You're between.
Speaker 2I was right between.
Speaker 1Yeah, you're in the Overthinker's Anonymous size. That's where you are. That's where you and I are.
Speaker 2You have more than ligament problems or tendon problems. So next thing, you know, I got one shoe on in the exporting goods. I'm trying on a brace and I get on my phone. I'm trying on a brace and I get on my phone. I'm the guy going should you size up or size down?
Speaker 1on the ankle. Brace Shock, doctor, indecision, paralysis, is what that? Now you have another diagnosis.
Speaker 2I'm going to need a brace on my brain.
Speaker 1I tried on so many braces at.
Speaker 2Dick's Sporting Goods, An employee came up to me which they run for the hills, I mean they're nice.
Speaker 1They make Home Depot look like an old-timey shoe place. Would you like help driving those on? We've got them in this size. Have a seat, I'll bring them out. Nuh-uh yeah.
Speaker 2If you're a teenager and you like hanging out with the other teenagers get a job at Dick's Sporting Goods. They go to the back corner where the bikes are and the basketballs and just like cut up. And then they see you and be like, oh, you need a bike. And you're like no. And they're like, oh cool.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2So I was trying on braces and a guy comes around the corner. He's probably, let's say, 15 going on 20.
Speaker 1And Probably, say 15 going on 20. Oh gosh.
Speaker 2And he was like you need any help sir.
Speaker 1First of all, don't call me sir. I'm not that old.
Speaker 2I need lots of help and I was like I'm on my phone, Got one shoe on, I'm like I'm good, he's like I'm going to have to repackage all those braces.
Speaker 1Yes, you are.
Speaker 2I got boxes open.
Speaker 1Yeah, I.
Speaker 2I mean, I'm neat.
Speaker 1Yeah, but I'm still like I'm paying 50 bucks for this thing I'm getting the right. One Right Hanger of airplane hanger of there is probably going to charge you what? 300. I wonder what it costs. At the place First pharmacy.
Speaker 2I should have asked the guy with all the answers.
Speaker 1Behind the desk. He might have some answers. He don't have no products.
Speaker 2It was a strange store.
Speaker 1Do you know the name of that?
Speaker 2I got the piece of paper somewhere. It was Hanger Pharmacy.
Speaker 1Oh, that's what it was. No, no, no, that was the second one. Was it on Charlotte Pike?
Speaker 2I don't know. I could go find out, but yeah, if you need a rascal, maybe an oxygen tank. Yeah, that's your place, maybe a brace for a foot smaller or bigger than mine.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2There's a guy behind the desk. He's real nice and he has answers. Yeah, but don't go to the girl at the hangar pharmacy.
Speaker 1She's like I have a date stamp but you can't use it. Who cares? Call Dr Bush. He just saw you.
Speaker 2Do you have a help wanted sign in the back? You might want to put it up because she's not much help. Yeah, I could tell I was like.
Speaker 1Oh, it's a bad. Yeah, you already know. To that first like four seconds of when they start speaking and you're like I could tell by her badly. I could tell by her face yeah, you didn't need her. I was like when she looked at me.
Speaker 2I was like this is going to be a problem. She's like the hostess at a restaurant when there's like you don't see anybody waiting. Yeah, like oh, we got three. Yeah, and they're like it. It's gonna be like 45 minutes, maybe an hour, and you're like what? You're like looking around, like where's the school bus with children that in front of us? Yeah, it was just gonna be a problem yeah right, so yeah, so sorry they should just have a qr code at that place. It takes you straight to Amazon.
Speaker 1Oh, yeah, yeah, totally.
Reminiscing About Local Stores
Speaker 2Anyway, I don't know who's.
Speaker 1Or at least DickSportingGoodscom, with a measuring attachment.
Speaker 2She should have worked at Dick's Sporting Goods. There you go.
Speaker 1Why don't you? Do you like bikes?
Speaker 2Do you need a shoe? I don't know why they're still doing that.
Speaker 1Just put them out. Just put them out like an outlet or a shoe station. Did you know shoe stations back, Speaking of what's up, what's up locale, what's up local shoe stores? So it used to be shoe carnival oh, by the mall.
Speaker 2Yeah, oh, I saw that by.
Speaker 1Cane's, I'm so country.
Speaker 2Raising shoes.
Speaker 1They changed it to a shoe station. Remember in Tuscaloosa they used to have a shoe station. I could find all my shoes there I'm pumped. I just forgot about that until just now. I might go after this.
Speaker 2Do they have ankle braces? Can I get one with shoes?
Speaker 1Yeah, I saw where I love that place.
Speaker 2I think we talked about this in a prior episode. Okay, you know how places go bankrupt, and then I'm like ain't bankrupt, they'll be back.
Speaker 1Joanne's, is it still going? It's still limping.
Speaker 2I think it's Big Lots, didn't they go out of business?
Speaker 1I thought they did.
Speaker 2They did on Nolensville Road no there's some locations that are popping back up. What?
Speaker 1Which I called it toys rs. Toys r us big lots no, they.
Speaker 2They hadn't announced it yet. Oh, okay, give it a year. Okay, they're gonna pop up before christmas. They're gonna look the giraffe, or is that alpaca? We don't know what it is.
Speaker 1Geoffrey yeah, whoa I love anyway, wonder where it is which one pop popped back up.
Speaker 2That's what they said. All right, it's like not just Nashville, I think it's.
Speaker 1Yeah, nationwide probably yeah, which I don't know.
Speaker 2They got a lot of stuff at Big Lots.
Speaker 1They got a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2You can probably buy an alpaca. They got lots or an ankle brace.
Speaker 1Probably not the kind you got. Yeah, shock doctor, surprised health care assistant. I don't know, it's an off brand, sorry no help wanted get out.
Speaker 2That's what she should have had up take a number, go to your car and drive home with your number.
Speaker 1That's what it should have been.
Speaker 2How about you take a number? How about them apples, yeah, anyway.
Speaker 1All right, oh, my goodness, I hope that brace helps, yeah, if not, I'm going to go do yoga. Yeah.
Speaker 2And have my hand eaten off by an aggressive alpaca Healed by alpaca yoga.
Speaker 1Oh my goodness. All right, have a good one. Take care guys.
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