Lydia Anderson

Sliceberg and Gator go to saucy's for chicken and talk about life and stuff.

Transcript

SPEAKER_04 0:00

Well, let's just start the podcast.

SPEAKER_09 0:02

I mean I mean isn't that what we what we're here for? Well, we're here just to hang out and eat lunch to have some classic male friendship.

SPEAKER_04 0:10

Yeah. So welcome to the podcast. It's number one podcast for people. I am Sliceberg. I am Gator. We're your hosts. I'm one of the hosts. Right. We're co-hosts. Yeah, we're co-hosts. Yeah, he's the other host. We're a couple guys. We do these thing every week where we get together and we we talk about stuff. You know, we don't talk about politics generally. We try not we try to avoid politics, but we try to do talk about um, you know, issues with the day, you know, uh where we've been, what we're doing, what's next, what's good, what's not good. Right.

SPEAKER_09 0:43

Well, maybe we'll run some errands.

SPEAKER_04 0:45

Maybe we'll run errands. And uh and and and we welcome to our new listeners because uh we're always getting new listeners, and uh we're happy that you're here. We're gonna we're gonna we're gonna make this a really we're gonna really try to make good time for you. This is gonna be a good podcast that you're gonna want to return to every week. Right. It's gonna be a good time for us no matter what. Definitely a good time for us.

SPEAKER_09 1:08

We're also cognizant of, you know, trying to make it a good time for you as well.

SPEAKER_04 1:12

Except that was a pro like we there's there's been some problems lately. There was a problem when I had the pinch nerve and we couldn't do anything. I had to sit on a couch, it was in so much pain. That's right. And you know, because we're getting older, you know, we're kind of getting a kind of a couple old guys, basically.

SPEAKER_09 1:26

Right, yeah. A couple that's more accurate to say we're a couple of old guys. So yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:31

But uh now um uh Sliceberg here is having hearing problems. I sure am. And we were just before we came on the on the airwaves to talk to your earwaves, we we realized that uh we don't really know. Like he feels fine, but he can't hear very well, which could make the podcast a little difficult.

SPEAKER_09 1:53

I could be talking at like a volume, you know, twice as loud as normal, but just I don't realize it, you know.

SPEAKER_04 1:59

Well, I'm gonna try, but I don't I'm trying to talk lighter instead of louder because I can hear you.

SPEAKER_09 2:04

That whatever whatever volume around now is good, I can hear you.

SPEAKER_04 2:07

So he doesn't know. He's saying like he he he so he got a doctor's appointment, which is really something because Sliceberg here doesn't like doctors, he's got a conspiracy theory that they're all out to get him, and the whole system is out to like get him. That's because it is. But but he made a doctor's appointment, and guess what? It's our beautiful uh healthcare system. They've made him an appointment for June the 6th, isn't it? June the 8th. I wish it was June the 6th. May so we have a month, so we have five weeks or so. And and if your hearing's still not working then, uh then the 'cause it's already been almost two weeks, already weeks already.

SPEAKER_09 2:50

So if it if it go if I'm going into like week seven, week eight, and uh that's bad news. But uh but realistically it's gotta clear up before then, right?

SPEAKER_04 2:58

It's gotta be I'm thinking that there needs to be a clinic that you go to, like a clinic down at the library or something that's like a health clinic, and you go in there and say, let them look in your ears and give you some advice or something.

SPEAKER_09 3:09

Well, that's that's that's realistically, that's probably what I'm gonna end up doing. Do you know about any clinics? Um, local clinics? Well, there's that there is that one, that mobile clinic outside the library that you refer to. That could be an option.

SPEAKER_04 3:21

What about the place on uh the new the new uh emergency room by our house? If you just went in there and said, Hey, I I uh can you look in my ears? Tell me what's going on.

SPEAKER_09 3:31

Well, that's my plan. Like if it gets worse, or if I can't make it five weeks or whatever it is till that appointment I have scheduled, I will I'm certainly gonna go to that that walk-in clinic.

SPEAKER_04 3:41

One of the things that happens is that we go through our lives having sort of problems with this or that. I got a pinched nerve for I was out for seven weeks basically, and I'm still, I'm still, I'm better, but I'm still not into the my mojo's not back. Okay. I'm better, but I don't have a mojo back yet.

SPEAKER_09 4:01

You're having post-pinch nerve malaise.

SPEAKER_04 4:03

I'm having some malaise, and then he's over here having his problems, and so part of it is just a couple guys getting older, dealing with his health issues, you know. I don't know what to say. I know what the cure for that malaise is, though. Fried chicken? How do you know? That's what I was exactly what I was gonna say. Well, there's a new there there was a PDQ chicken place in town that uh Tim Tebow was actually part of the uh owner of that PDQ.

SPEAKER_09 4:31

Now what does PDQ stand for? Does it even?

SPEAKER_04 4:36

It does stand for stuff, and I used to know what that was. I mean, obviously pretty darn quick, but that's not what it stood for. Uh instead of for uh we should know this kind of thing. We really should. I mean it seems like it it seems like we should. It did it did have something it stood for when I uh when I heard it, I thought it was clever. That's what I remember, but it might not be clever. I might just remember wrong.

unknown 4:56

Right.

SPEAKER_04 4:57

Um but they closed down. Um I think the name PDQ was just a bad name, and I don't know how they're I thought their chicken was okay. I I don't know. I don't know why, I don't know what happened to that place. It wasn't, it never did catch on. It didn't catch on. So now Kentucky Fried Chicken has bought the place and they're opening a place called Sausies. I K O C. Saucy's, which is I think a little bit of a better name. I hope they have a lot of different sauces. Well, with a name like Saucy, they better. I think it's the chicken tender place too. But anyway, it's new. We're gonna go check it out. So that's gonna probably help me a little bit.

SPEAKER_09 5:36

Maybe it'll help you hear better. If you went to the doctor, they would give you a prescription for chicken tenders.

SPEAKER_04 5:42

Okay. Okay. Um, you remember my so far the best chicken tender I've had had no sauce. Uh-huh. And it was from Kentucky Fried Chicken. That's right. And it had no sauce. It was just a sweet sweet chicken with the brining or whatever they do. Oh. Right. It stands on its own. You don't need to enhance it with any kind of I mean everybody knows Chip-fil-A's good. But I thought that was better than Chick-fil-A.

SPEAKER_09 6:08

I love Chick-fil-A. Like waffle fries. Yeah, the waffle fries are pretty much the I would say that's like the pinnacle of French fries. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 6:17

Pretty good. Yeah. So what's new, man, besides you can't hear. Uh yeah, that's pretty much it. What's going on? Uh yeah.

SPEAKER_09 6:24

Um my uh Georgia, my younger kid, is on a field trip to uh our nation's capital, Washington, DC, this week. Nice. So that's super fun for her. I'm sure I hope it's safe. I hope so too. Um is this her first time going to the nation's capital? Uh it would be her second time, although she probably doesn't remember the first time. She would probably she probably would have been like three or four then she was little. Probably doesn't quite remember it, but yeah, second time.

SPEAKER_04 7:00

Um well I went to my high school reunion last weekend. That's right.

SPEAKER_09 7:08

I want to report that as well.

SPEAKER_04 7:10

It was me and my two buddies. We went and we left the ladies at home, and we had a good time. We we we when we were hanging out by ourselves. These guys are so freaking funny that all we do, they all we do is just laugh about we tell stories, old stories, we laugh, we tell the same stories over and over, we still laugh at them. Sometimes they get a little better. It's so funny. I started recording these stories that I didn't tell them though. Because if I say, hey, I'm gonna record a story, then it's not as good.

SPEAKER_09 7:42

Yeah, because then they feel like they have to be performative and it sucks the magic out of it.

SPEAKER_04 7:46

So I would just turn on, and then but then after a couple days, I started playing some of them, uh-huh, and they're like, Oh my god, you were recording that? And so Charlie, he doesn't care. He's like, whatever, whatever, man. Jimmy, Jimmy's had his whole career as a as a in charge of the St. John's River Keeper in game in Jacksonville, Florida. With and that it's a you know, it's a nonprofit that's trying to like, you know, make sure that the river's clean and people aren't jumping. Mighty St. John's River. Mighty St. John's River. So he's been in the the the director of the St. John's River Keeper for 20-something years. And even though these stories we're telling that they're telling that are so funny that they could go viral in a moment and they could make everybody just unbelievably fun. They make them laughter completely all the time. Right. They 40 years ago, 40 plus years ago, these stories. He can't deal with these stories being told. He doesn't want them. He thinks it's for a private uh. I said I would put them on a podcast that nobody knows about and nobody listens to. Not even this one. I would put them on this one if I could, but I'm not allowed to. I said, I'll put them on another podcast that's like not even advertised. And but I said, the problem is if I don't, they're gonna disappear off my phone. They're not gonna be on my phone forever. I'm not gonna save them onto a hard drive. They're gonna just I won't know where to find them, they're gonna go away. If they're on the podcast feed, at least I'll know the the I I I the podcast will continue.

SPEAKER_09 9:22

You you want them preserved for posterity. He said no.

SPEAKER_04 9:25

But even isn't it? He doesn't want to hear stories about how he's egging somebody or toilet paper in a house or stealing something. But does he come on the recording and say, my name is No, we say we say Jimmy and Charlie a lot. All right, well, Jimmy, like that's anonymous. I told him that we would just say that the names were made up. Right. Fake names, go names. Charlie said, Well, I'm not gonna be a part of it if you're gonna lie and say that they're not our real names. Now all of a sudden Charlie's not okay with it. And then I was like, all right, I'll say there that are real names. But we like anyway, it's just we had a good time. We laughed a lot. We had so much fun. And I and and it was great. Then the the the we uh the the actual event, well the Friday night we went to a uh they had a like a hotel bar we met at. Kind of like a cocktail hour. It was so loud in that bar. You couldn't, you were screaming just to talk to somebody. You're screaming because there's 50 people in this tiny bar, and there's no sound baffling, and we just I just was screaming all Friday night. So we didn't stay there too long and we left, went home, went out dinner, got home. Then the next day, they did like a whole pub crawl and everything. We didn't do all that stuff. We just popped in. We just popped in, popped out. We didn't do the pub crawl, meet later, da-da-da. I kind of wish we would have at some point, because there's more people I would have liked to talk to that I didn't get to talk to. Anyway, next night um they met at this at this ballroom or whatever in the hotel. 129 people. Okay. And it was, and then they had music going, they had the hot bar, they had the little, they had the hordeurs, they had the they had a photo booth, they had a DJ, they had a dance floor. It was so loud in that room that you're just screaming at everybody. I screamed at everybody. The next day, I had no voice. I couldn't talk for one whole day. The whole day of that was on Sunday. Wow, had no voice. Wow. Because all I did was scream. But the the I you know, a lot of these people, you know their names, you recognize the the name tags had their their high school, you know, senior picture on it. Well, that's helpful because and then you get and I'm and you I know these people, we uh it's I know I don't remember them, but I know them. I don't know if that makes sense. I don't necessarily remember Chuck Renfro. Me and Chuck Renfro didn't have like some kind of big bond, but I see Chuck Renfro, I give him a hug. Oh yeah, Chuck Renfro, yeah, Steve Ray, all right, whatever. I went by Steve Ray back then. Right. And uh I I ran for and one senior class president, so a lot of people knew me because of that. Right. But I didn't I didn't I didn't retain my title because before the 12th grade year I got kicked off um of that position by the principal. But so I didn't anyway, I they picked so I would see people, I knew them, they knew me, but we didn't, I don't remember having much of a relationship with them, you know.

SPEAKER_09 12:25

Well, you know, 40 years goes by, it's a long time, you know.

SPEAKER_04 12:28

Right. So I just you know, I'm saying hi to people, we're catching up a little bit. Then I go to um we're about to do the mail, because we always start with the mail, but we're just catching up real quick. We're at saucies now.

SPEAKER_09 12:41

Look at this pink, it's it's hot pink. Yeah, I like how they redesign the building.

SPEAKER_04 12:47

Let me just tell you this story real quick. So there's 129 people. There's about 15 black folks all sitting at one table, right? Or two tables, right? Right. And people are all milling about and walking about, but for some reason, all the black folks are kind of hanging together. Right. And then somebody said to me, like, ah, just like high school, it's always segregated. Right, it was like that back then, it's still like that. Yeah, they like they they all hung out and knew each other, and I mean, I'm sure I mean, like one of the people came up to me, the uh Barbara Gilchie, the uh a black girl, she was we were in yearbook together, so we were friends, but it wasn't, but for the most part, there's a little bit of a segregation happening. Right, right. So I look over, I see this group of African American folks, and I'm like, I'm gonna go talk to them. Because, you know, like why is it like this? Like, so I go sit down and I say, Hey, what I'm I'm Steve Ray, what's your name? And they uh name it's one, two, three people give me their name. Then the girl beside me, I look over to her and she says, I'm Lydia Anderson. I said, You're Lydia Anderson? And everybody's like, What's this about? And I'm like, Oh my gosh. I said, I have spoken your name dozens of times in the last 40 years. Dozens of times. And she's just like, okay, go on. What are you talking about? So I went on to tell this story to this group of people there. Her husband, her, her husband, a couple of her friends, and they're all in bated breath waiting to hear what is this, what is this guy, what is this, what is this white boy talking about Lydia Anderson. So the story goes that when we were in social studies class, Miss Russell, um, that she had a news game, and every week she had stories from the news, and she would, and you and then she would say, like, you know, this happened in the news. Somebody came from another country to see us this week. Who was it? And then you would say, Oh, King Charles or whatever, right? And so we had groups, we had four groups in our class. Um I was the I I was the uh I was elected one of the captains, so I picked Jimmy, my buddy Jimmy. Right. And then we started picking Purie Girls on our group, and our group was called the Cool Dudes. Okay? Of course. And when we wrote Cool Dudes, we had the two O's were a pair of sunglasses. That's our first it was. Then Charlie, he had a group, he was uh in charge of his group, his group was called the Garfield Wrecking Crew. Okay, like Garfield the Cat? Yeah. Garfield Wrecking Crew, I think is the cat. And then Bobby Fankhauser, who is a really good friend of mine, we played video games together all the time. We did the Rubik's Cube together. He was he he died actually, he died of a heart attack while mowing his grass about 10 years ago. Wow. He he his group was called the Warriors, which is a great name. Right. I don't remember what the fourth was.

SPEAKER_09 15:38

That's a great name for a social studies class, current events, quiz game.

SPEAKER_04 15:42

Yeah. So he was the warrior. So we we played every week. We weren't that good, but but it whatever. At the end of the year, Ms. Russell said, we want this class to go up against the gifted class in the news game. Right. It was just time, it was just chance, yeah. So we set it up where somebody distracted Miss Russell on the other side of the class, or she left the class, something happened. I go to her desk, I get all the answers for the news game.

SPEAKER_09 16:04

Is this the reason why you were kicked out of being senior class? No, no. Different reason.

SPEAKER_04 16:08

Different reasons. So I get I get all the answers to the for the news game. We decide to call our our um our team, which is the whole class. Yeah, the teeth. The chain gang. The chain gang. All right? So I make a chain out of paper clips, and it's and I'm slapping that chain on my hand as we walk in. Everybody's behind me, and it's like chain gang, chain gang, chain gang, right? We go into gifted and we play gifted, and guess what? We tie the gifted class.

SPEAKER_09 16:40

Do they also steal the answers? No, they're gifted.

SPEAKER_04 16:43

And it's like I didn't maybe I missed an answer. Maybe I didn't get all the answers. Whatever happened, we stole the answers and we still tied the gifted. So they had to have a tiebreaker.

SPEAKER_09 16:52

Oh, at least you tie it, because if you stole the answers and you lost, that would be unacceptable.

SPEAKER_04 16:56

Well, that's basically what happened because then we had a tiebreaker. When we tied that, then we had another tiebreaker and we lost. Okay. I was so mad that I took that chain of paper cut. That crudely fashioned chain. I threw it as hard as I could across the room because I was so mad. In a rage. In a rage. I was so mad that we'd lost. And I hit Lydia Anderson in the leg. Oh, yeah. And I drew blood. Oh. All I know is I got sent to the principal, I got sent to the dean because I had drawn blood from this girl. As you should have. A gifted girl and gifted. Even worse. So when I'm telling the story, I said, I said, I told these people, I said, there's a story. We had this news game, da-da-da. I said, then we had to play gifted. And I said, Who do y'all think was in the gifted class? And they all looked at Lydia. And I'm like, Lydia Anderson, exactly. So she kind of started to see where the story was going at some point. Surely she remembered it. She said that she remembered something happening. She doesn't remember getting hit. She doesn't remember getting blood. She doesn't remember. Basically, she got hurt, and I had to go to the dean, and all I remember is I didn't know this girl, Lydia Anderson, but she's the reason. And as the story got retold and told over the years, then Charlie would say, Tell that story about Lydia Anderson. Tell that story about when you hit Lydia Anderson with the chain. And so the story of Lydia Anderson lived on, and then there she was in the flesh and blood. The real Lydia Anderson. Let's leave your um let's leave it at the time. The real Lydia Anderson. So that was actually very exciting to me, uh, Slife. Getting that was well, that was the most that was a highlight for me. Getting to meet Lydia Anderson.

SPEAKER_09 18:35

That sounds like a fun reunion.

SPEAKER_04 18:37

And then I got uh I got a picture of Lydia and uh me and Lydia, and I'm gonna post that on her Instagram, number one podcast for people. Nice. And uh she looks uh about 35. I don't know how she looks so young, but she looks 35 now. She looks really young. She looks real young. Most people didn't look young, but she looked young. All right, let's get a little um what's our what's our initial feeling?

SPEAKER_00 19:05

Yeah, I don't think so.

SPEAKER_04 19:09

We'll we'll figure it out. Alright.

SPEAKER_08 19:13

I just want to stop and get our first impression of the place before we get into it. The decor is modern, white. It's modern, it's clean, it's um, I like the hot pink accents. Um I'm into that. It's white and hot pink, basically. Hot pink accents.

SPEAKER_04 19:29

And it it's the kind of place where you order on a screen, which I don't like.

SPEAKER_02 19:33

I don't like I did that yesterday actually. I went with my mom to steak and shake because I had to go to a doctor's point with steak and shake. Love steak and shake. But yeah. Alright, let's start ordering on this.

SPEAKER_09 19:44

No screen. I do like ordering on the screen. Why? Because I feel like I can take my time. I feel like I can take as much time as I want to explore all the time. Do you need a long time?

SPEAKER_08 19:56

Alright, they got tended. I like it that they call them tendies. What about this?

SPEAKER_04 20:05

Oh, those are like little burritos? Nice. Oh, they got two of them. Two little rats. Oh, they got spammy combos.

SPEAKER_02 20:18

So they got a lot of little chicken dishes. They got one tendy. You can just get a single tendy. A tendy rice bowl.

SPEAKER_08 20:31

Why don't you go first?

SPEAKER_04 20:33

Okay, well, since I'm at a chicken tender plate, I think I'm gonna try I'm gonna try three tendy combo. I'm gonna choose two sauces. And I'm not really a big big on the on the sauces, but I'll get um the first two. Thai, sweet and spicy, and fiery buffalo. That looks good. How's that sound? That's great. Alright, next choose a drink.

SPEAKER_08 20:57

They're Pepsi products here, huh?

SPEAKER_09 21:00

That's because um it doesn't like KFT on top of that. But it's like they have like a they're owned by Pepsi actually, I think. I think they're literally okay.

SPEAKER_08 21:10

Oh, you're right.

SPEAKER_02 21:11

I think you're right. So of course, they're gonna have Pepsi products because they're okay. I'm gonna add that to the bag. Now what you gonna get? My turn. I think I'm gonna get. The sandwich looks good though, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_08 21:24

That's what I think I'm gonna get. I'm thinking a sandwich. Oh now. But they have um Stanis. Okay, just a snack, Sammy, and a Sammy, Sammy. It looks like it's got all that. I like that, I like it. Oh man.

SPEAKER_09 21:43

Why didn't I get that? Alright, wow, look at all these sau I mean the place is called literally called saucy.

SPEAKER_04 21:48

Do you want to read off all the sauces all the sauces for everybody? Yeah, okay. That's the kind of stuff people come here for. I mean to our podcast. Right, right.

SPEAKER_09 21:55

They want to hear the they want to hear us read the sauce. You go ahead out loud. You go ahead and read the Alright, so we got saucy sauce, Korean sweet heat, creole honey mustard, chimichuri sauce, saucy ranch, smoky bacon ranch, salsa salsa ranchero, classic barbecue, fiery buffalo, jalapeno pesto ranch, high sweet spicy, spic sweet teriyaki, sweet and spicy barbecue, no sauce. No saucy.

SPEAKER_10 22:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:18

So I think um I think I'm gonna go with the uh pesto ranch. That's not good. Jalapeno pesto ranch. Spicy for good. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 22:26

And I think um upgrade to a combo. I don't want a combo though, but I don't have to get a combo.

SPEAKER_08 22:32

But you know what they have is uh I just saw that they had um what's that what's that thing? Uh look at it's a vegetable. Oh, uh oh, Brussels sprouts. Yeah, Brussels sprouts. Very healthy. I know. Very healthy. I think that's great. Yeah, they have brussels sprouts. I'm gonna get something that's less healthy from this side, but uh nice. I got King's Hawaiian toast. Wow. I got a half a Hawaiian King's Hawaiian toast? Drip fries. What's up? You're gonna try drip fries, but what's crinkle cut fries taste? I don't know. I'm just gonna get crinkle cut.

SPEAKER_09 23:17

Alright, 1857.

SPEAKER_02 23:19

Well, hold on a second. Let's go. You're not getting a drink? No. Alright, I'm gonna get everything I'm gonna pause so that we can uh figure this out.

SPEAKER_04 23:26

I'm not ready to check out uh we're gonna have to have music in the background because it's loud like they have a loud music here. Thanks. How does it work with the sodas?

SPEAKER_06 23:49

I got uh grab the drink. Okay, thanks.

SPEAKER_02 23:59

I guess it is fast too, that's why it's so fast. I'm gonna um I'm gonna pause again so we can eat. I just turned it on so we can do the mailbags. Oh yeah, yeah. Okay, come on. Alright, we're back on. We've been to saucies, we're back in the car. Back in the car, I got my Mountain Dew.

SPEAKER_04 24:18

You got a Mountain Dew. I um I said they're I think they're crinkle cut fries. They had crinkle cuts, but they weren't normal.

SPEAKER_09 24:31

They were skinny crinkle cuts. Right.

SPEAKER_11 24:33

They were like a cross between a shoestring and a crinkle cut.

SPEAKER_09 24:35

That's the best way to describe them. They're like, that's true. They didn't have like the bulk or the girth of a normal crinkle cut fry. That's true.

SPEAKER_04 24:44

They had to do something special, so they made a skinny crinkle cut, which were nice and crispy. They were fine. Yeah, they were good. Fries were great. I won't go back there. I don't like I don't like ordering on a screen, and I and I'm just chicken tenders, like it's not like is what am I gonna go there to get chicken tenders and fries? Like, I don't know. Yeah. Chicken was fine, but it's it's out of the way. Like, it's out of the way. Like, if if I I don't know. I don't I don't see myself just like being excited to go back to sauce these.

SPEAKER_03 25:16

Do you think I can cut through here? Do you think I can cut through in front of this? Looks like you're already out from this Mercedes. Looks like you are.

SPEAKER_09 25:24

Ooh, I just did it, didn't I? I have to applaud your maneuver. That was a well-executed maneuver in Jack.

SPEAKER_11 25:32

That was crazy.

SPEAKER_09 25:33

I wish I had that on film.

SPEAKER_04 25:35

Um, so it was fine. I don't it turns out I don't like the sauce. I don't like sauce with my chicken. So I had whatever. It's fine.

SPEAKER_09 25:45

You don't like sauce, so we're gonna go to saucies.

SPEAKER_04 25:48

I know, I know. Yeah, chicken was good. Chicken was good. After I got the sauce scraped, I got tenders and I changed around, I got a sandwich, and then I got the sauce on the sandwich. I shouldn't have got a sauce. I scraped the sauce off the sandwich, it got much better. But anyway, I guess um, yeah, that's what we did. We went there, we did that. It was fine. Uh it's the wave of the future, is where you don't talk to a person, you just order on a screen and they bring it to you. I think it's it it won't be long before there's a robot making that don't dunk in that chicken. True. So there isn't already. There is somewhere, but they don't need people to stand around and dunk that chicken and bring it to you. If they're not gonna take your order, then they don't need anyway, it won't be long. There won't be people in restaurants anymore. Except my restaurant, we're gonna have people. We're gonna be old school like that.

SPEAKER_09 26:34

Right, because I was just gonna say, we're not, you're not ordering on any screen over there. You're talking to a human being.

SPEAKER_04 26:38

No, we don't even have TVs. No.

SPEAKER_09 26:41

And that's on purpose.

SPEAKER_04 26:43

Let's do let's do a little duo real quick and then we'll do the mail, because this is the end of our introduction. Right. The introduction to the mail. We don't we have we actually have the windows up in our car because I would love to have them down. But uh Slice here can't hear good.

unknown 26:59

No.

SPEAKER_04 27:00

Putting the windows down just makes it worse.

SPEAKER_09 27:02

I I can't with the windows up, I I almost can't hear anything. With the windows up, you can't hear anything. How am I gonna hear my uh my recorder? My instrument. They do have crushed ice, which is nice. They have the good ice. They have good ice. They have a lot of good ice. That's what me and me and my kids say. Oh, they got the good ice there.

SPEAKER_04 27:18

They got the good ice. And I would have the good ice, but um from if you know it uh like in the restaurant business, when you look into ice, the good ice is quite a bit more maintenance than regular ice. It's a lot more trouble. It can cause when I asked the guy about it, he's like, you don't really say you don't want to do that. You recommend it against him. Don't do it. You know. Now, if we had uh if we weren't as busy as we were, I mean, I you'd think saucies would be who knows?

SPEAKER_05 27:44

I don't know. Maybe I should. I like our ice machine fine. Yeah, it's fine, but it's not the good ice.

SPEAKER_09 27:50

Crunchy ice. What do you what how would you does this does the good ice have a name? You know what I mean? Like how do you I think it's I think it's it's well it does have a name.

SPEAKER_04 27:59

It so there's different levels. Like this is there's like little pebbles like that are really tiny. These are a little bigger. These are bigger, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 28:08

But I don't know what it's called. Crush ice? Pebble ice? Yeah, pebble. Yeah, that's how we call it pebble ice. Pebbly ice.

SPEAKER_04 28:47

Somehow we know like how to come together when we play, like it's just such a fine way.

SPEAKER_09 28:53

Yeah, it's just a couple of skilled musicians. Yeah, and and good friends. You know? Right. There's that that that um intangible bond.

SPEAKER_04 29:02

That's an intangible bond. I don't know like the Beatles had probably.

SPEAKER_09 29:06

Very similar to the Beatles, yeah. Who would you be? Maybe Beatles, John Lennon.

SPEAKER_02 29:12

Um, I don't, I don't, I don't um have an opinion about that.

SPEAKER_09 29:17

I would be I would be the Rink of Star of the band.

SPEAKER_04 29:20

You would? Yeah. Oh so we let's check our mail. So we got mail, we got we got actual postcards. We got three postcards.

SPEAKER_09 29:29

Three postcards. We are such a popular podcast. What other podcast do you know of where they're just coming in here and saying, oh, we got three postcards today?

SPEAKER_04 29:37

I don't think any other podcast gets postcards like we do. Like three in a week? Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 29:44

Unbelievable. Just incredible. It's literally incredible.

SPEAKER_12 29:48

Wow. Alright. Alright, so should we start? Yeah, you I'm waiting for you. You tell me what they look like, tell me what they say. I'm driving over here. Okay, now here we go.

SPEAKER_09 29:56

This one on the front, it says Ski Colorado and has some stunning artwork of a uh a downhill skier. And it's got the moon on there too, the full moon. Of course, Colorado very much. Why is the moon down low?

SPEAKER_11 30:11

Is the skier upside?

SPEAKER_09 30:12

Like, what's going on? Looks like the skier's doing like a um like a freestyle type of uh, you know, like in the Olympics, they do the tricks, you know? Uh-huh. Looks like that's what's going on there. Now it's from it's from Colorado, which before we even look at the back, I'm already thinking rummy. And sure enough, grummy. Yeah. Yeah. All right, and okay, so Grummy's in Denver? I believe so. Or like in the Denver.

SPEAKER_04 30:36

You know, my sister is moving to Denver tomorrow. Tomorrow, don't she? She's driving to Denver. She can take a couple days, maybe three days. I don't know. She's driving to Denver tomorrow. And that they've already come and picked up her stuff in a truck and taken it out there. Okay, good. But she's gonna beat the stuff. Okay, but I've got to go visit her in Denver this year later. I need to go visit her. So I might be able to do a like a I don't know, saucies with Grummy or something. You've got a chicken with Grummy?

SPEAKER_07 31:05

Yeah, uh do a field recording. I can do it, yeah. I can go meet with Grummy.

SPEAKER_04 31:08

Anybody, hey, listen, anybody listening to this, any of the Babcocks, if you're gonna be in Denver anytime in this summer, let me know, and I might be able to plan my trip during that same time. Nice. Yeah. Because this is season eight. Anything goes.

SPEAKER_09 31:28

Never know what's gonna happen here. Alright, so right off the bat, Grummy makes a funny joke, right, about what you were just saying about the artwork on the front. Grummy says, This is how I ski. Only not intentionally. Upside down, like falling off the truth is I haven't skied for approximately 30 years, and it wasn't fun, but was memorable. I'm writing this card in DFW Airport, waiting for my Frontier Airlines spirit animal to give me a ride. I can relate to it. Waiting for what? Frontier Airlines spirit animal? Because you know, you probably don't know this because you don't fly on Frontier. And you shouldn't, but uh every plane has like a different animal painted on the on the I didn't know that. Yeah. Um okay, I flew to Texas on stretch, the Great Blue Heron. Right? So, for example, they got the Great Blue Heron. Uh plane arrived. I'll be flying with Hudson, the the big the turtle. Don't know if turtles fly, grummy.

SPEAKER_11 32:31

It shouldn't be a turtle, shouldn't it? That seems like the wrong animal to put on there.

SPEAKER_09 32:35

Well, I know they got a like a manatee on there. So that's obviously not a good one either, but maybe they should put a sloth on there too. Right. Well, actually they should really i if they wanted to be, you know, it would be more appropriate if they had all animals that don't fly. Because Frontier, you know, might not fly. Why do you mean they might not fly? Well, remember we talked about that my trip to Arizona, the plane didn't fly. Oh I'm just like, I'm just making a dig at Frontier Airlines. Do you know what your animal was? Yeah. Uh no idea. I can't remember.

SPEAKER_04 33:12

But um So is that it? That's it for that one. Oh, thank you, Grummy. Thank you, Grummy. Can I look at it? Thank you for the stoplight.

SPEAKER_07 33:19

Oh, yeah, the skier is definitely upside down. But then there's other drawings of the skier as they are doing some sort of a flip.

SPEAKER_09 33:26

Now, have you ever gone skiing?

SPEAKER_04 33:29

I was skiing as a 20-year-old or something 40 years ago. And I, you know, it was like some tiny little thing in North Carolina. Right. Wasn't real snow, probably. It wasn't real skiing. I don't know. Like, uh, it was just not, yeah, that wasn't something that we did. Like, my family wasn't like doing water skiing or snow skiing or any of that stuff that the rich in Florida.

SPEAKER_12 33:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 33:57

So yeah, the rich people did that though. Like the rich kids would go to skiing with their family to Vale or whatever. Sure, of course they would, yeah. You know, rich kids did that stuff. And if they had boats, they'd go skiing and done the water ski. Yeah, water skiing, obviously, that's more um Do you water ski?

SPEAKER_09 34:11

Uh no. Do you snow ski? I've never skied, but I have gone snowboarding. I mean, that counts, right? But I can't say I've gone ski. I didn't ski, I snowboarded.

SPEAKER_11 34:20

That's that's the same.

SPEAKER_09 34:21

Um, maybe like um so wait, I'm like I'm 47 years old now. This would have been 25 years ago. Okay. I was snowboarding. You and me and Grummy are all like a long time. Yeah. I haven't felt inspired to get back on a snowboard because um You break your leg. Oh. I I if I broke my leg, I would be doing good. Like that's that's the least, I mean, that's that would be the best outcome. Best possible outcome. Well, best possible outcomes is don't go. Right, exactly, which is what I've been doing. Alright, so we got one from Texas. This is this is another um now, of course, now you know what these blue wildflowers are called. Bluebells. Close, blue bonnets. Blue bonnets. Right. These are the the iconic Texas blue bonnets that bloom every spring around this time. And a Texas flag. And an enormous Texas flag with Texas. Everything's bigger in Texas. You know you're in Texas, uh, or you know this postcard's from Texas because Is it from Grummy too? Yes, it's from Grummy. This is from Grummy. Another one. This is a postcard from Texas, however, the postmark is from Denver, and Grammy goes on to explain why that is. Okay. I see the nice handwriting from here. Right, yeah, her penmanship is is unparalleled. Alright, so Grummy says, Sadly, Terminal E at DFW Airport does not have a postal drop box. So this card will be mailed from Denver. Saw a few blue bonnets while in Dallas, but never stopped to see the flower mount at Flower Mount, although I drove past it more than once. Grummy. And look what it says in the corner. Don't mess with Texas. That's right. That's right. Don't mess with Texas.

SPEAKER_04 35:54

Don't mess with Grummy, who's definitely in the lead of postcard game.

SPEAKER_09 35:57

Grummy is an undisputed champion of cardsman. Nobody can beat Grummy. No one can touch her. She is just on top of the game. She's way ahead. And she's trying to mail it from the airport. She's just using her time wisely, Slice, is what she's doing. Probably because her her frontier flight got delayed, so she had extra time. Maybe. And that's a cute postcard. Yeah, no, this one is very eye-catching. Yeah, the artwork. I would say it's not very um traditional for a postcard. No. It's got some beautiful artwork. Now, what would you call that? Um vehicle. A rickshaw? A little cart? It's like a it's like a cart, but it's like a rickshaw, but instead of passengers, it's like a car, it's it's meant for um somebody, yeah. Unless it's like an enclosed rickshaw.

SPEAKER_04 36:43

It's a reclosed thing. Like, yeah.

SPEAKER_11 36:45

Anyway, uh maybe there's something to tell you what it is, or is it all right?

SPEAKER_09 36:48

Well, I don't know. We're gonna about to find out. And again, this postcard is from none other than it looks like it's from Grummy. Oh, it certainly is from Grummy. Okay, here we go. Right, uh, oh, absolutely. And right off the bat, she's explaining the postcard. So she goes, Found this old Japanese postcard I had since plus or minus 1990. The family was tent camping in the rain in Portage, Alaska, when a group of Japanese people came to our tent and gave us miscellaneous stuff. Flashlights, postcards, question mark. We didn't know what was going on since they spoke zero English. At the time we were f we were flummished. Flemed? Flem how do you say that word? Flummix? Flemmixed, yeah. Flemmixed. I would in my I know that's not the right way to say it, but when I see that word, I always say flummished. I know that's not the right film. Yeah, well, I know, but in my head.

SPEAKER_04 37:41

Don't do that.

SPEAKER_09 37:43

I almost said it out loud, but in my head, I said flummished, but I know it's flummoxed. It has an X in it. So it's obviously it's flummixed. Uh apparently they were just giving us all the things they didn't want to take back to Japan. I still have two more of these postcards, but don't call me a hoarder. Eleanor did give me a book entitled Nobody Wants Your Shit. We do Nobody Wants Your Shit. I love that. We want it. Send us your postcard. Send us all your old postcards. Grummy, I'm not gonna call you a hoarder if you got a couple of postcards laying around. Yeah, that doesn't. I mean, we want to hear more about this hoarding business though. Uh-huh. Yeah, we do. Now, and but this is a legitimate Japanese postcard because you I mean, don't you're driving, so don't really look at it, but uh but yeah, the the um there's a little stamp on the back? Yeah, and the uh well this is like it's it says something here, but it says it in Japanese. I bet that Google would tell you. Could you do that? Could you take a picture of that and Google could translate it? Probably.

SPEAKER_04 38:41

Oh, totally. There's a little thing on Google where it has the you know the little translate. Well, when you go to Google now, there's a little camera, and when you use that camera, whatever it sees, it'll tell you what it is. Whether it's a plant or uh that is so amazing.

SPEAKER_09 38:55

You haven't used that? Well, I haven't I haven't had a any reason to. I um I haven't like gone anywhere.

SPEAKER_11 39:02

Okay, see this Google? See this Google right here? Yeah, yeah. All we gotta do is hit that little thing, all right. Okay, we'll take a picture of it. And you don't have to take once you it it'll kind of uh translate.

SPEAKER_09 39:12

Holy shit, that's so cool. Okay, it says translated text. But then it didn't. Oh wait, no, no, no, it is so tiny.

unknown 39:23

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 39:24

Alright, so it only translated there's one, two, three, four. There's five characters, but for some reason it only translated one of them. And for some reason it's upside down. But it says convenient. Okay. So what so one of these characters says convenient.

SPEAKER_10 39:38

Okay, maybe.

SPEAKER_09 39:39

But that's that's funny that it only um did one of them. I'm gonna try again. Okay. Listen. Uh translate. There we go. Alright, select text. The closer you get, the better. Yeah. Okay, I see, I see. That is so cool. If it's not working, but if it worked, it would be so cool.

SPEAKER_11 39:56

Well, it's not working. It's tough because it does it those the stamp is kind of faded.

SPEAKER_09 40:03

Okay, now it's saying that it's it's blurry and illegible.

SPEAKER_11 40:06

Yeah. Alright. So that's anyway. We that's super cool.

SPEAKER_09 40:09

We we like the postcard. It's cool. Did you read it all? That's it. That was the last thing she said. Eleanor gave her a book entitled Nobody Wants Your Shit. Uh, which I love that so much. I love that so much.

SPEAKER_04 40:22

We're back at Satchels now from saucies. My stomach's a little upset. Well, you ate too much. You ate too much sauce, maybe. I don't know what I did wrong. Uh um, let's pull over to this, uh let's pull over into this parking lot. We can't go to Satchel's lot because it's too busy. It's the busiest week of the year, y'all. Right. Graduation. Graduation, the UF graduation. I'm gonna park in the shade. Okay, call it. Um actually, I'm gonna go around the block. So uh thank you. Thank you for the postcards that uh they are making it to us now that's working. What about um in the email program? I got the email program right here. Got it right here.

SPEAKER_09 41:07

All right, so Gmail stands for Google mail. It might. It just might. Why? Alright, so what do we got here? We got, oh look, we got fan mail. Right off the bat, you got fan mail. And I and I already know who it's from without even looking. Oklahoma, bro. Oklahoma bro, gotta be. Yep. Gotta be. Alright, here we go. Oklahoma, bro. Says, Alright, fellas, there's a few wild conspiracy theories I'm into at the moment, like UFOs being underwater, Tupac living in Cuba, Michael Jackson not really being dead, and the French Prime Minister's wife having a penis, and the NBA being scripted. That's probably all. Everything he listed is probably 100% true. Wow! But what I'm really into is Graham Hancock and the Younger Dryas conspiracy at the moment. Basically, 12,800 years ago, a comet shredded the ice sheets and hit the reset button on Earth. There's a literal burn layer of space diamonds in the soil worldwide to prove it. The crazy shit about about is that flood, is that flood it caused allegedly wiped out global, a global advanced civilization. Think Atlantis. Basically, we aren't we aren't the first version of humanity, allegedly. We're just the survivors with amnesia. The crazy shit is fun for me to see. See ya fellas. This crazy shit is fun for me. See ya fellas. Uh and then um another one says, first real recording teaching co-worker how to bench press. So far, all they can do is a bar, but we're gonna get them right. Oklahoma. So first recording is. No, it didn't have the recording on there though. It just says well, let me see if I hit view fan mail, maybe it'll take me to the recording. But the recording wasn't now I gotta log in pain in the ass. Let me let me try it. Yeah, but it there wasn't like a link or anything on there to the recording.

SPEAKER_10 42:57

Right, but you might have to be on Buzzsprout. Right?

SPEAKER_09 43:05

Yeah, we're about to find out.

SPEAKER_10 43:07

But I have to write to log in, I have to. Do you know what I have to write?

SPEAKER_09 43:11

You have to type out number one podcast for people at gmail.com. That's a lot of uh characters.

SPEAKER_07 43:20

Alright, so keep talking while I do. Okay, right. So um So talk about uh those conspiracy theories.

SPEAKER_09 43:25

Okay, so I'm gonna look into that one. I never heard of that one about the comment. The NBBA being scripted, I feel like that's probably true. Um because of the gambling. Uh-huh. I think I think I I mean I mean it would just be every you know, like people are just greedy and um money hungry, so if they see an opportunity to, you know, rig it or something in their favor, they're just gonna do it, you know. I mean that's that's not I mean, I don't really watch basketball at all. So I'd I'm not qualified in any way to weigh in on this, but if I had to guess, I would say yeah. That's probably true. Yeah. That it's fake. Um what else did he say?

SPEAKER_04 44:06

Look at this. Look at this. So we when when we're on this Buzz Sprout where the fan mail is, look at all the fan mail from him.

SPEAKER_10 44:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 44:13

That's a lot of fan mail. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Oklahoma, bro.

SPEAKER_11 44:18

But it doesn't does we didn't get a a recording.

SPEAKER_09 44:21

Okay. Maybe he gave it to uh well, let's check the rest of the email because maybe he gave it to uh but it's but but but Buzz Sprout said now you can leave recordings on here. Yeah, I remember talking about that.

SPEAKER_04 44:33

Yeah, so he didn't give it to nobody. Anyway. Um all right, so let's see.

SPEAKER_09 44:45

Let's go back to the email. I mean, unless there's more fan mail, but I don't think there is.

SPEAKER_04 44:50

UFOs being underwater?

SPEAKER_09 44:52

Well, that's like the theory of Atlantis, right? I don't know. Well that's what they think. Like that's I mean, of course, again, I'm not qualified to weigh in on this, but I I feel like that's one of the um theories was that Atlantis was actually a uh alien civilization. Oh. So if so if he's talking about UFOs under the ocean, that could be what he's talking about.

SPEAKER_04 45:13

Well, he could just be talking about that's where they store the UFOs. Um oh true.

SPEAKER_09 45:18

Oh, you mean like the ones that crash landed here?

SPEAKER_04 45:20

No, like that all the UFOs are under gr underwater and then they come out and fly around, then they go back down.

SPEAKER_09 45:26

Oh, that's like their parking garage.

SPEAKER_04 45:27

I mean, I'm guessing. I don't know. We really need to brush up on our conspiracy theories. All right, let's see. What else? Did you know Tupac is living in Cuba? Now that one I could believe.

SPEAKER_11 45:38

Really?

SPEAKER_04 45:39

He would was he supposed to be dead?

SPEAKER_09 45:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 45:41

But don't they know if he's dead or not? Well, I mean, is Elvis still alive? No. Michael Jackson not really being dead. That's right. I mean, he we might not be able to do that.

SPEAKER_09 45:51

You can say anybody's not dead, I guess. That's true. I mean, unless you like saw it with your tuna. But it's not, and even then you don't know.

SPEAKER_04 45:59

Wouldn't you wouldn't people be running into Michael Jackson and Tupac and being like getting their picture taken, like the Lochness monster or the dang Bigfoot or whatever?

SPEAKER_09 46:06

Right. You're like uh maybe we should go down to Cuba and see if we can find him.

SPEAKER_04 46:10

The French Prime Minister's wife having a penis. I did not know about that. I had not heard about that. I guess I'd she a hyrodisiac? Hermaphrodite? Hyrodisiac? Is she a hymerodisia? Is she a hermaphrodite?

SPEAKER_09 46:26

She might be. What about Jamie Lee Curtis? Is he a hermaphrodite or is that an urban legend?

SPEAKER_04 46:31

I don't know. I didn't know about that one.

SPEAKER_09 46:32

Have you ever heard of that one? No. I I mean, I feel like I haven't heard anyone say that since I was like in high school. But I wonder if that's true.

SPEAKER_04 46:40

What I'm really into is Graham Hancock and the younger Dryas conspiracy at the moment. What does that mean? Well, that's the comet he was talking about.

SPEAKER_09 46:49

Oh the comet that wiped out civil all the civilization.

SPEAKER_04 46:53

Oh, basically 12,800 years ago, a comet shredded the ice sheets and hit the reset button on Earth.

SPEAKER_09 46:58

That see that? I've never heard of that one, but I'm quite interested in that one. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 47:03

But yeah, it seems like it'd be hard to know.

unknown 47:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 47:07

Right? Yeah. Yeah, it does. Okay. Alright, well, Oklahoma Bro, keep Simmons stuff, man. You're you're blowing our minds a little bit right now. We're t we're totally uh having to like rethink our whole world view. I mean, especially with that French Prime Minister's wife in the penis thing. Like, I'm so confused. Now that one I'm definitely gonna look up.

SPEAKER_09 47:28

Who is the the the Prime Minister of France? Is it uh Emmanuel Macron? Yeah. Yeah, totally.

SPEAKER_04 47:35

Emmanuel Macron.

SPEAKER_09 47:36

Emmanuel Macron? All right, here we go. So here is a um very important email from Jared.

SPEAKER_04 47:43

Oh, Jared. You know it's gotta be important.

SPEAKER_09 47:47

The uh subject of this email from Jared is Sherwin Williams.

SPEAKER_04 47:52

Oh, oh, you know, since you mentioned that, you saw it. I saw it, and I'm like, there is a there is a red paint covering the globe, like dripping over the earth, and it says cover the earth in paint. Which I never realized was so offensive. So offensive.

SPEAKER_09 48:09

So if this is, I mean, obviously I'm just inventing this story, but I want to say Sherman Williams hired some prestigious hotshot PR firm or some ad agency. And they sat down in a meeting and they said, Here's what we came up with. We're gonna have a picture of the earth getting covered in red paint, and it's gonna say cover the earth. And the executives of Sherman Williams said, Oh, that's great. We love that.

SPEAKER_04 48:34

Are you kidding me? It was probably a long time ago, and they just there was no idea of like trying to uh you know save the planet. Environmental awareness or awareness, right?

SPEAKER_09 48:48

Yet there is they haven't changed it. And as Jared points out, what does Jared say about it? They still use the Red Globe logo in Canada, which is and he sends a picture. There it is. Look at that. Cover the earth. Oh He's mad too.

SPEAKER_04 49:02

He's probably mad about it before you said something about it. Right.

SPEAKER_09 49:05

You know what? Anyone in their right mind should be mad about it. We got a picture, and we can put we're gonna post that picture on our Instagram. Not too long ago, uh Kat from work put a picture of it, the logo on her Instagram and was talking about it. Oh, really? Yeah, and I and I saw it, and I when I saw her at work, I was like, hey, that's funny because me and Sarah talk about that all the time. That's all we talk about. Right. But um But that's funny, the uh the the AI like the suggested AI reply. Jared, good to know that. That's all he said. Right. Yeah, right. So thank you, Jared. That's good to know that. Good to know that. I wouldn't have said that if it was I wasn't prompted by uh Google Air. Do we have any other any other um uh we got one more? We got one more from the one and only Emmy Lou. Yay! Emmy Lou, the the original Babcock. Hopefully there's a um, okay. So the subject. Uh the subject is intriguing. The subject of this email is very boring field recording.

SPEAKER_04 50:00

Uh that's not how you're supposed to.

SPEAKER_09 50:02

But see, now now it's like if it said like exceptional field recording, I wouldn't like really notice it or give it a second thought. Now I want to see how boring it is. So now, ironically, I'm more interested.

SPEAKER_04 50:14

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 50:14

Uh okay, so Emmy Lou says only five minutes of very boring content. We discussed mowing the lawn. What's boring about that? I love talking about that. Broken washing machines, it just keeps getting better. And Paul's tires. Oh my gosh. Boring? This is boring now. I think we're gonna need to play that one at the end of this episode.

SPEAKER_04 50:31

Well, it's only five minutes. It's only five minutes.

unknown 50:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 50:33

So but that's it for the email. Thank you, Emmy. Well, let's go ahead and play it right now. Let's go ahead and play it right now. Thank you, Oklahoma, bro.

SPEAKER_04 50:39

Thank you, all of our fans. Let's play that. All right here we go.

SPEAKER_09 50:41

This is Emmy Lucefield recording. Uh very boring.

SPEAKER_06 50:48

Driving around. Oh, no. All right. You want to hang up on Roman deal. Don't you have time tomorrow? I had to work tomorrow. Don't just jump time to work.

SPEAKER_04 55:51

Okay, that's it. Well, Slice, I found this guy in town named Corey. Uh-huh. And he's applied, he comes to your house to do appliance repair. Okay. So he doesn't really call, but you text him. You text him to say, hey, I gotta my washer's bad or whatever. Like, so this happened to me over the weekend on Friday. Um, I have a tenant, and they text me to say, Hey, the the washer is the spinning is like wobbling so bad. It's unbalanced. It's unbalanced that happened. Something wrong with the spinner, right? So I text Corey. I say, Corey, this is the address, spinner's out. Can you get me on schedule? Normally, Corey will give you a date in the next week. He'll give you, he'll say 11, 1, or 3 on Wednesday or Friday or whatever. Right. And I say, I give him the earliest date, and then he shows up on time. I don't think he's ever worked on anything for more than about 20 minutes, and he's never charged me more than 100 bucks. Oh, I love that. So I said, Corey, this washer's out, and he said, it was 1120. And he said, Oh, I can, I'm, I'll just come over. Uh I'll just come over now. He goes over, and then at like a little afternoon, not even an hour later, he said, I fixed it temporarily. You need a part. Um, total fix $100. Nice. He fixes it temporarily. Then two days later, he come, he he texts me again, he goes, Okay, it's it's fixed now. It was a hundred dollars the most I'd ever had to spend for him to fix my washer. I love it. Now, it the dishwasher's gone out and he's fixed the dishwasher. I love it. The refrigerator, the dryer. I love it. There's nothing that he can't fix. The appliance wise, and he comes to your house, and he does it quick, and he's really friendly. Oh my god. He's super fun and fast.

SPEAKER_09 57:42

When's the other shoe gonna drop?

SPEAKER_04 57:44

Sometimes he does it in five minutes and he'll charge it. Sometimes he'll come out and go, I can't find anything wrong with it, or whatever. Like there was a lady cleaning the Airbnb, and she said, Oh, it's not spinning good. I called him out, he goes, It's spinning fine. I don't she had it overloaded, and he didn't charge me anything.

SPEAKER_09 57:57

Now, how much would he charge to go to Tulsa?

SPEAKER_04 58:00

Well to fix that. He would probably charge enough to for an airline ticket. But on Frontier. Here's the thing. There's another answer to their problem. And what it is is if you go to let's say Parts Town, right? Or any of these like appliance parts repair, like a but just type in appliance parts repair, right? Yeah. You go in there and you say, or and I I'm not sure which I think a lot of them do this now, and you might not even need to go to a specific site. You might be able to just ask Google. You say, My Whirlpool washer is leaking water. Uh da-da-da. And then they go. So my my wife did this for a long time before we met Corey. And she would be into this, and she would go on to a parts place and she'd say, My dryer, this is what's happening. And it would say, It's 80% chance that you need this. Uh-huh. It's a s and it's a and it's a 5% chance that it's this, and it's a 5% chance that it's this. So you go with that. So you go with 80%, you buy the part from them, they're a parts place, and then and then you can watch a video on, and then they have a video on how you install it, because they want to sell parts. That's right. Washers and dryers are a lot easier to fix than you might think. Totally. Now we've taken dryers apart to replace belts and stuff. We've gotten pretty deep into it where you've got the thing pretty pretty hard, yeah. And you're just like, God, this sucks. But and just because you don't know what you're doing. Yeah. But there I would I don't the worst part is obviously that you have to get your washer, load it, take it somewhere that's going to repair it, wait or get them wait for it to be repaired, take it back home, right? Pain in the ass. You need to look for one, you need to start by saying uh uh you need to look for uh appliance repair, mobile appliance repair. Those are the three words I would type into your Googler. Right. Mobile appliance repair, Tulsa. Right. And then if if you don't and they and it and then you tell them, call them, say, hey, look, it's a whirlpool, it's leaking, they probably know right what it is. The other thing you can do is just try to Google it and find out you might just need one little washer or ring or something that they can you turn it upside down, you chain, you take these four screws off, you put this washer on, and you're good to go. Like it's it's really it's really something that you shouldn't need to get a new washer for. It could be a very simple fix, it could be, it's likely a very simple $20, $30 fix for a part, yeah, is my guess. Yeah. You're probably right. All right, let's do this, Slice. I'm not, I know I'm right.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:33

All right, probably right.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:45

A lightly leaking whirlpool washer is commonly caused by a worn water pump, damaged tub seal, or leaky door gasket. Okay, it's front left. Leaks often appear from the bottom front, usually during the spin cycle. Other causes include loose water inlet hoses or excessive suds from using too much non-HE detergent. The video shows you how to check for a common leak in the water pump. Water pump, most common. Now that's not the same as the parts plates, we'll tell you the actual percentage.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:15

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:16

But if the leak is from the bottom front, the pump itself may have a crack or a bad seal. And let me tell you, if you have to change a water pump on a washer, it is not a big deal. It has a couple electrical things that are plugging into it. Yeah, but you're just unplugging it. You unplug them and you unscrew the water pump, you screw the new water pump, and you plug the thing back in. Good to go. Dude, I want to follow up on this. I want you guys to tell me that you fixed your, you got a new water pump and you fixed your whirlpool washer for all right. Let's let's look at uh let's let's let's go take it one step further, slice.

SPEAKER_11 1:01:53

Let's see how much you d that's gonna cost.

SPEAKER_09 1:01:56

I say it probably costs $150.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:00

$29.99. $29.99. And that's a at Walmart Blue Star Parts Repair Clinic. That's the place you want. Repair clinic? Repair clinic. It's $57. But these are the people that that'll tell you that'll give you a video on how to install it. It's right there, yeah. And it tells you enter the model number, and it tells you, and it would if yeah, I would I would go to repair clinic because that's a repair clinic. It says find, fix, finish. That's the repair clinic. Repair clinic. Track order your construction. Okay, repair help right there. Apply. Have your model number, great. Enter it here. And then it's then you enter your model number, and then you tell them what it's doing, and they're gonna tell you the part you need, and they're gonna give you a video. Did I just help them a lot or what? You basically just fixed the washing machine. I basically just fixed it, Slice. I don't know why they're over there going, oh, $500, oh, I gotta get a new washer. You got a bad water pump, bro, $30, $40, $50. This is a less than $100 problem, and think how good you feel when you look at the video and you change your own water pump. The self-satisfaction is literally priceless. You can also get a plumber to come out and put a drain in the floor under your washer and drain it to the outside somewhere.

SPEAKER_09 1:03:16

Yeah, that's uh interesting approach, but yes, you could do that.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:20

Oh, I'm so glad I fixed their washer. I'm so glad. Hey, I'm I'm done. Like, I'm done. I don't I here's the thing. My sister's leaving for Denver tomorrow. My niece is coming from LA today. I've got to pick her up at the airport in a couple hours, and she's gonna we're gonna eat dinner at Satsville's Pizza. Then she's gonna spend the night at my house because my sister's house is empty. And then in the morning, they're gonna go move. Also, I've got to help my sister get crap all out of her house so we can so the cleaners can come clean it uh in a day or two, and then we and then we can put it on the market. Uh-huh. And I'm just I'm just trying to get my mojo back, you know? Like, here's the thing. I think the reason I have this malaise. Even though I had a good time at um my reunion and everything, is because I haven't been in my studio for almost three m months now.

SPEAKER_09 1:04:16

Maybe two and a half months. You gotta get back in there.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:18

And when I go to the studio, I'm making tile, I'm painting, I'm making stained glass, and there I I I'm engaged in the world, you know? And what I've been doing is I've been trying to get better, and then I've been working in the yard, I'm trying to get things like today, I've been working on this irrigation problem. I'm trying to work on irrigation because it hasn't rained here in so long. I think I don't want to jinx it, but it looks like there's some rain out forecasts. Oh good. Well, I'm still gonna have to get the irrigation going because what I've got is a because of our well water, it's got so much iron in it. It sure does. We can't the the irrigation with the little dripping doesn't it gets clogged in the f in the in the um filters. Too much minerals. So then I'm using um sprinklers. Which they get clogged eventually too, but they work for usually a year or two. And but they water everything else. You're like I'm watering these rows of fruit trees. Yeah. And I've got to water this entire grove, which means all the rows of weeds between the rows, I'm watering them too. You're watering the weeds. And then I have to mow them. So what I really want, and we have the irrigation, they go down each row, and you can just drip on the plants for as long as you want. That would be good, except that didn't work because it clogged. So now I realized, I don't know why I didn't think of this before. Because I didn't need to, because it was raining for a while, and now it hasn't been, and now I'm I'm trying to rethink it. I took the filters out of that system. Right. So it's just and when I turn it on today, it was working. It was dripping. Which makes me think, just forget the filters. Forget them, yeah. And and will it will it come out those little holes and and drip? It seems to be so far. I don't know if that's gonna clog all those holes or not. But I but When I went to turn it on, it had been a year or two since I turned it on. So there's some the drips are in the wrong place, and there's some that are s there's a a crack in the line. Like I've got to go repair everything. And and then and then I'm gonna try and but if it if it were rain, I wouldn't have to worry. But anyway, I've got so these things, like I don't feel like I can go to the studio and have a good time until I got my work done. And some of the work is like, let me get my my orchard in order, let me get my my yard is crazy, let me get some stuff mulched, let me get a few things dug up, let me get some of that done, then I go in the studio and I feel better.

SPEAKER_09 1:06:33

You feel you don't have it hanging over your head yet?

SPEAKER_04 1:06:35

I'm trying to get my mojo, and today is in the in the next few days, but then at work, at work it's it's graduation week, it's busiest week. Our water heater's kind of um working on and off intermittently. We need a new water heater, which we're gonna try to get on Monday. Now he's saying the oven went out, it's super busy. So I'm just it makes me nervous.

SPEAKER_09 1:06:57

But let's not talk about it now, but hold that thought about the water heater, because I have the same exact water heater at my house that we have here, and recently I fixed it. What did you do? Well, let's not talk about it on the podcast. About water heater repair? That's why we're here. I've got a water heater guy, and he's come out many times. Is the problem that it doesn't you turn on the water, but it doesn't turn on?

SPEAKER_04 1:07:19

So the problem seems to be that it's not firing up to heat the water. You gotta clean the flame rods. We we've got new flame rods. Okay, dirt right now. We clean the flame rods, we've got big ones. This has been going on for years. This thing is about 15 years old. Yeah. And it gets used constantly all day and night. Okay, so we have two. So we got one, we you it might be more than 15, it might be 20 years old. We got one and we used it constantly, and then we got busier and I said, I want two. And they put them in together and you get twice the one, and then if one's broke, you got the other one.

SPEAKER_10 1:07:50

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:51

So the other one's only seven or eight years old. Well, the old one is the one that's just like doesn't work. It's and so we've replaced parts and we replaced parts. The last guy that worked on it said, You're gonna need a new water heater soon. But he was always complaining and complaining and complaining. So I got rid of him. I didn't like him complaining. The reason I didn't like him is because everybody that works for me, I have their cell phone. I can text them or call them and say, I got a problem except that guy. I got a problem. Can you can you help me? And they go, sure. And they know that I'm a it's a restaurant and it's a commercial account, and that I'm gonna need uh you can't wait around. You gotta have your. That's how we do business. So this guy, he every time I called, I have to call his office and it'll be an answering service, and they'd say, What's your name? No, what's your social security number, what's your email address? It is not 1987. Come on, man. And I'm like, dude, just let me like, I just need to talk to the guy and ask him a question. So I got rid of him, I got the new guy, Calvin. Calvin, he answers the phone, he answers my text, he's trying to help me out. He's now he's saying you need a new water heater. The last guy, two years ago, said it. And now this guy's saying it. We keep fixing it, and it's just too, it's just it's too old. It's just too old. We put a new flame, we did the new flame uh we did all we replaced parts, we did everything. They don't last forever. They don't last forever. Uh they should. Well, they should, but they don't. They should. But but but Corey doesn't do uh the like those that are Renai, it's a special kind of on-demand water heater. Oh, yeah, no, yeah. Corey does dishwashers and fridges, washers and dryers. That's a specialty appliance. But he doesn't do those. So anyway, I got Calvin. All right, and Calvin, Calvin, whatever. All right. So I just get nervous when I when we're when we're the busiest week of the year, and I know I got new people, and anyway, at least I got good dough. The dough is looking good, right?

SPEAKER_09 1:09:32

Well, you got you got one thing going for you. I got a good dough guy. The dough is is on point.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:37

The dough is good. But uh, yeah, so I think that's it for this week, honestly.

SPEAKER_09 1:09:42

That was a solid episode, I gotta say. If I say much solid episode.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:46

You think it was good? I was about to tell the new people that it's usually much better than this. Well, you I feel like you say that every episode. I don't know. I didn't I didn't have the full um, I just I wasn't full I wasn't full, I don't know. I didn't have the full excitement today. I don't know. We're having a little uh malaise, yeah. But you hear, you seem to be hearing okay.

SPEAKER_09 1:10:05

Well, that's because you're literally screaming in your ear four inches from my ear. Like that when when we were playing that uh field recording from Emmy Luke. I couldn't hear it. I okay, that's good. That's that's reassuring.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:16

Yeah, but hopefully the the people heard it. Yeah, I heard it enough to know that their washer was broken and we could fix that.

SPEAKER_09 1:10:22

Yeah, I heard I yeah, I heard bits and pieces. I definitely heard the washer, but I'm gonna listen to it again. When you drop the episode, I'm gonna listen to that part and I'm gonna hold the phone right next to my ear. So you want to hear it. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:33

Yeah. All right. Or you could put headphones on. Does that help?

SPEAKER_09 1:10:36

Yeah, that would be probably work even better, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:39

Do you have earbuds? Yeah, I got earbuds. What kind you got?

SPEAKER_09 1:10:41

Just the ones that the ones that come with the the with the uh iPhone. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:47

All right. Well, I guess all that's left is for us to play a nice song for these people. I mean, we we didn't, I mean, the only thing that's keeping this whole podcast afloat is the is the mailbag. The mailbag, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:10:59

I have uh I I mean I feel similar similarly.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:03

I think that it's thank God for the mailbag. Right. It's it definitely makes the podcast. Yeah. If we if we how about we do this? Don't anybody send us mail and let's see if we have if we can even have an episode.

SPEAKER_09 1:11:16

Oh no, everything's the wheels are gonna come off.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:18

No, don't do that. Send us mail.

SPEAKER_09 1:11:19

Yeah, Oklahoma Bro.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:22

Uh we gotta have a question for him. He's always asking us about stuff. What do you think about health insurance? Health care. That's that's that's Slices thing. He he thinks that they're all out to get him. That's because they are. Yeah, he thinks he thinks that all the whole health thing is rigged.

SPEAKER_09 1:11:39

That's because it is.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:24

And then she opened a second one called Reuse Planet. That's right. Then she opened a third one called Renovator Reuse. That's right. And now she's opening a fourth one I saw on the internet. Can you believe it? You know what it's called? Oh, I know what it's called. The Dystopian Dollar. Dystopian dollar. And it's right in front of us. We're parked at the dystopian dollar right here. You're parked at the Not Oak the future home of the city. I want to get a dystopian dollar t-shirt. Do you know what? Do we have a logo yet? Uh have you been approving the logo, checking logos?

SPEAKER_09 1:12:52

The logo has not been finalized.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:54

No, but has it been started? You've seen some I don't think it's even been started, honestly.

SPEAKER_09 1:13:00

I need to text your wife. Yeah, unless unless she's done it in secret. I haven't I haven't seen that.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:04

I need to text her. I need to text her. She's always really good at naming and really good at logos. I thought the Repurpose Project was such a great logo, and then the Reuse Planet came in, and I was like, what a good name, Reuse Planet, and she's got a good logo. But then the renovator reuse has the best name and the best logo because there's two lightning bolts. Right, which is Dystopian Dollar. But all renovator reuse, repurpose, and then dystopian dollar. We've got to D's all the stuff.

SPEAKER_09 1:13:30

Yeah, she she um she strayed from the formula.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:32

Well, the formula was R P R P and then it was R R. Right. And now it's D D. Do you remember what you wanted to call the new store? Yeah, junk nugs. Junk nugs.

SPEAKER_09 1:13:41

Junk nuggets. But junk nugs for short and U G Z. I did make an effort to get her to name Dystopian Dollar Junk nugs. Junk Nugs.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:50

I think she likes the name junk nugs. I think dystopian dollar is a better name. What's not to like about junk nugs? She went R P R P R R D D. That's pretty good. Yeah. R R P R P R R D D.

SPEAKER_09 1:14:02

I mean, it would have been satisfying to stick with the RPG. I would have loved that. Yeah, because like there's only so many words in the English language.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:09

Yeah, but didn't what was the other one we came up with? Radical Rabid Possum? Rabid Possum. The rabid possum.

SPEAKER_09 1:14:17

That doesn't make sense. It's not uh it's not like um, it doesn't reveal when she was anything about when she was coming up with a name for renovator reuse.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:26

I was 100% sure. 100% slice that it should have been another RP word. Repurpose project, renovate re reuse planet. And I've and I said renovators paradise. Yeah, there you go. Renovator's paradise. It is it is a paradise with it. It is a renovator's paradise. But no, she went with the renovator reuse. And you know what? She nailed it, man. It's great. She knows a dystopian dollar. It's gonna hopefully be green. There's gonna be a green, it's gonna be green and white, maybe are gonna be the colors. Like why why green? Because of the money?

SPEAKER_09 1:15:01

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:02

I see it as being green because renovator reuse is black and yellow.

SPEAKER_09 1:15:06

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Reuse planted is um turquoise. Turquoise. Yeah, well, turquoise. But the first two were like turquoise and yellow.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:14

Yeah. Anyway, so that's the exciting news from Gainesville, Florida. Be looking out for the dystopian dollar t-shirts in the thrift store near you. Yep. And they might make it out there. Also, look out Denver, because I'm coming to town just to visit my sister once she gets settled out there. My guess is would be in June or early July, mid-July. Hot time to go, but that's probably when I'll go. Okay. I might wait till later. But I got a busy fall. I got my daughter's move moving to school in July and or August, and then I don't know. We'll see what happens. You're busy. You're busy. I just want to go though. I want to go out there. Yeah. I want to go see her in Denver. I want to go see her when it's fresh. You got to promise, though, you're going to fly on Frontier Airlines. I'm not flying. I'm going to fly on Delta. I'm going to fly on American. You're going to fly in a legitimate airline? I only fly on American or Delta. Well, that's and I fly out of Gainesville. They don't have flies. Well, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:16:04

If you're flying out of Gainesville, that's the only I'm not flying up.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:06

I'm only flying out of Gainesville. I don't care how many times I have to stop. I like to leave five minutes from my house and get home and be five minutes from my house. That is nice. All right. Well, I thought we were done, and then I had all that. I remembered look I looked up at the dystopian dollar. Right. Which I can't wait to see the logo. I know she's gonna nail it. I'm gonna call her right now.

SPEAKER_09 1:16:25

Yeah. Yeah. All right. She's probably working on it.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:28

Gainesville, Gainesville, man. Gainesville, Florida. I didn't send any emails in this week, did you know? Oh, that's true. Yeah, I didn't know. I was busy with my buddies at the beach. Yeah, you were busy. All right. All right, Lydia Anderson, if you're listening. Thanks for listening.