Sliceberg Loves Dave Mathews

Gator and slice talk about work and mulch and we react to the mail. It rains. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_05 1:05

Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. You gotta at the beginning of a podcast, everybody knows this. It's I was about to say it's the unspoken rule of podcasting, but it's probably spoken. You always got to say the name of the podcast, right? The host name. The host name, the name of the actual name of the actual podcast. And uh oh, you got your rain answers.

SPEAKER_04 1:27

Uh well, if you okay, so name of the podcast is number one podcast for people. Everybody knows. Everyone knows. You want to welcome your new listeners, right? And your old listeners. Old listeners, yep. But you've got some new people, so it's always good to get new listeners. Yep, absolutely. And then and then my name's Gator. My name is Sliceberg. Those are actually like um not our real names. They're not our given names. But those are they're they're given to us for our podcast. Right.

SPEAKER_05 1:51

G given, but not in the way that way, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:53

And uh we're a podcast where a couple guys hanging out, and uh, we just do whatever we want. So we might go eat chicken. That's right. We might eat pizza, we might eat eat a burrito. Yeah. We we might sit on a couch, um, we might skip stones, and we might go fishing. You just don't know. It's really uh you might hear some sports talk.

SPEAKER_05 2:13

We might talk about it. Oh yeah, usually there's a lot of sports talk on this podcast. Right. It's I would say it's the number one, the topic we talk about the most.

SPEAKER_04 2:22

When I was in uh that at that uh high school reunion, uh-huh, Charlie's really into the um Jacksonville Jaguars. Okay. So he was um there's a couple times where he was talking Jacksonville Jaguar talk, and I recorded one and I I actually forgot because what I want to do is uh I want to play it as our sports talk.

SPEAKER_05 2:45

Perfect, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 2:46

So I've got to, I guess what I'm gonna have to do in a minute is mail it to the podcast. Right.

SPEAKER_05 2:50

Because I don't think I can play it while I'm recording. Send it to the podcast email and then I'll play it on my phone.

SPEAKER_04 2:56

I wonder if I played it, if it would just keep recording while I played it. Because it's I'm playing something, I'm not recording something. Yeah, I see your phone.

SPEAKER_05 3:06

Should we try that? You're saying like uh You're saying like it might as well record it because that's what's you're not talking, so there's nothing to record.

SPEAKER_04 3:14

But I don't does it work. No, it doesn't, it won't work because when I go to the recording app, uh this this is on this recording. So it's not gonna let me go back to find the recording. Certainly not. Anyway, I think I'll have to send that another time. All right, because the because the nature of our podcast is that we make it and then we don't edit it, and then we you know, there's not a lot of I'm not gonna get into trying to find it and figure out how yeah what I'm saying. We're too we're too uh grassroots for that.

SPEAKER_05 3:41

We're too Luddite, really. Right. That is true. So true.

SPEAKER_04 3:46

Oh, it is what I'm hearing right now, uh Slicebird, is a spit or powder of rain on your metal roof in this porch that we're on.

SPEAKER_05 3:53

And it's uh I mean it's satisfying on a regular day, but it's extra satisfying now because we're so badly in need of rainfall.

SPEAKER_04 4:01

Over 20 inches below what we need to be right now.

SPEAKER_05 4:04

We are uncharacteristically dry. But it's raining right now, which makes me so happy. Yeah, that's huge. That's just huge.

SPEAKER_04 4:12

Do you think that um our voices are gonna come out okay even through through the noise and the rain and things?

SPEAKER_05 4:19

Well doesn't matter. We'll have to drop the episode and listen to it and find out. I find out yeah.

SPEAKER_04 4:24

So part of our podcast for the new people out there is this couple guys. We get together, we do stuff, we talk about stuff. Yeah, mostly we're for people, so we like to hear from the listeners, and that's really the meat and potatoes of our podcast. I would say is the listener feedback.

SPEAKER_05 4:38

That's the best, that's the best way to describe the uh the listener feedback is uh the meat and potatoes. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_04 4:44

That's the best possible uh the chocolate pie or or the the peach cobbler of the episode, yeah, is is our friendship and us getting to like vanter and and and and talk about things that which people are are are dying to know about. Yeah, absolutely. Peach cobbler. Right. So um let's do we gotta we gotta we gotta get into some stuff real quick.

SPEAKER_05 5:09

So first of all, should we go inside though because of the rate? Like I feel like it's loud. I mean, surely you all listening could hear that that pitter pattern. It's not even a pitter pattern, it's kind of like a rumble here, right? It's kind of like a steady down.

SPEAKER_04 5:22

Now, in my house, in my porch or my um studio, there's no plywood. So you just hear the metal. Here you're getting the plywood and the metal.

SPEAKER_05 5:32

Right, but it's still loud. You might take a picture of your ceiling. Right, our unfinished ceiling.

SPEAKER_04 5:40

Um I don't I don't know. I feel like if we pull the table closer, we'll be fine. Yeah, all right, let's pull it back. I like it out here. I'll just I don't know what's going on in your house.

SPEAKER_05 5:48

Well, I mean, you could see there's a 12-foot all glass, sliding glass floor. You can see yourself what's going on.

SPEAKER_04 5:55

Yeah, but I mean, are the kids in there?

SPEAKER_05 5:56

Uh Georgia is not mowing. She's at her friend's house, Betsy's home. In a room. In her room. There's Gizmere, you see VS Mo.

SPEAKER_04 6:02

Oh, yeah. Um and Sarah? Sarah does that work. She just warps all the time, doesn't she? She sure does. You work all the time, is what I heard.

SPEAKER_05 6:11

Now I do.

SPEAKER_04 6:12

Now I didn't used to. You're putting in, like, you probably put in a nine-hour day today. Yeah, I think that's a good one. Which is a lot for for uh, I mean, look, our regular day shift, you know, like if you're a manager, you come in a little early, you work an eight-hour shift. Right, that's the longest. Some people would be like 11 to 3. They might work a four-hour shift. At night, you might work five to eleven, you might work a five or six hour shift. Yeah. The prep shift is not normally nine hours, uh, nine hours, you know, but it's two, it's two people, you're doing two people's job.

SPEAKER_05 6:42

Right. It's super b we're just so busy.

SPEAKER_04 6:44

We're so we have been very busy.

SPEAKER_05 6:46

So busy.

SPEAKER_04 6:47

It's like you gotta keep up with it. I I can't, I'm I'm I I'm still surprised at how busy we are. Yeah. You know, it's just incredible. Because the gas is expensive. Sure, sure is. And um, I don't know. I just I I don't whatever. I mean, people gotta eat and they just give us their money. Yeah, I mean you gotta eat, might as well be pizza. So Sean had it it turns out that that that he didn't get the kidney stone taken care of yet. Right. It's a two-part process we found out. Yeah, the first part is the stint, which is spelled S-T-E-N-T. And it's a device which goes through some of the parts of your body and into your um organs, internal organs. Let's just put it this way the stent goes into your penis and into your kidneys, and it bypasses the stone so that you can pee without the stone getting caught. Ah, okay. Okay, nice. So you've got a stone sitting in your kidney, and we're gonna go past it. We're gonna bypass the kidneys and it's not gonna block up the the kidneys, right? Right. And so you do that now, the swelling can go down because everything's getting kind of agitated, which is why it hurts. Right. There's swelling and everything. Let's let that let's let you pee for a while, give you some medication, let you pee, let the swelling go down. Then I've heard different things. I've heard there's a way to go in with a laser back through the same hole and break up the stone. The stone and then drink flow max, whatever that is. Sounds like something that's gonna make you pee. I would say, and then you just pee and pee and pee. But my wife said there's another way that they do it now where you get into a bath and it's got waves in the bath and it's and it breaks up the stone from being in the water. That's pretty incredible. So you didn't mention that. That's pretty good, but maybe they don't mention that.

SPEAKER_05 8:44

They don't offer maybe they don't offer that at uh Shands or whatever.

SPEAKER_04 8:47

Maybe they don't offer it to people without insurance.

SPEAKER_05 8:51

You know?

SPEAKER_04 8:52

Yeah. So he's still recovering. He's gonna be recovering for a little bit, and uh, he's not gonna be there this week. We hope he's there next week, but we don't know. But anyway, in the meantime, this happened on Monday. Well, on Tuesday, Slice here, he makes dough and goes home. Now he's made dough to do the prep, all the rather prep. Dressing, pizza sauce. Let's see if we can name it all. Dressing, pizza sauce. You don't do it all on every day, but most you get do them all. Yeah. Dressing, uh salad dressing, and you make a lot. When you make you're making 10 gallons at a time of salad dressing. That's right. Uh pizza sauce. Right. I think we're going to be talking about 50 gallons at a time to 40 gallons. Yeah. Uh butter, garlic butter. Yep. Which is how many, how many pounds of butter? That's it. How many blocks of butter? 20 blocks?

SPEAKER_05 9:39

I think No, it's way more than that. 50 blocks. There's three layers, and each layer has like at least 12. It's a lot.

SPEAKER_04 9:46

I mean that's Yeah, I think it's 36 pounds.

SPEAKER_05 9:48

The whole case probably weighs 36 pounds. I think it's 36 pounds of butter. Actually, I got the sheet right here.

SPEAKER_04 9:53

There you go. So 36 pounds of butter, and then you mix that with garlic, powder, and fresh garlic, I think. Uh-huh. Yeah. 36, you're right. And it's fresh garlic and garlic powder, am I right? Correct. And parsley. Right. Yeah. I made these recipes.

SPEAKER_05 10:06

You're looking at me like, and what's the and then Well, I did it today. When was the last time you did it?

SPEAKER_06 10:13

Oh.

SPEAKER_04 10:14

It's been a while.

SPEAKER_05 10:15

It's been a while.

SPEAKER_04 10:16

And so then there's the dressing. With dressing, you're busting out honey, man. You're having whole things of honey you're having to pour in, mustard, all kinds of stuff. You know it. Olive oil. Then you're doing pizza sauce, there's uh the butter, then there's the mushrooms, which you slice thinly. Right. Button mushrooms that you're slicing. Right. The proper thickness. Um are you doing you're not doing onions. You're doing uh you're doing pesto, which we talked about. Basil, garlic, pine nuts, pecans. Um ranch. Of course. Ranch dressing. You did that today. That today, yeah. Yeah. Two gallons of mayonnaise in that. That's probably my favorite of the prep jobs. Is it? Yeah, I love making that ranch. I love it. How much you make two gallons, plus then there's a lot of uh buttermilk powder in there. That's right. Um let's see. Is that that what am I missing? Oh, there's cheese. Cheese, of course. Uh so we take um different kinds of cheese and we shred them together and mix them in. And you've got to do a lot of cheese. That's every day. Oh, yeah. Absolutely, that's every day. Cheese. And also the Romano cheese for the salad. The Romano cheese. We get big wheels. Yeah. And you're doing that for salad because they're putting that fresh Romano. This is like a nice pecorino Romano. This is good stuff. This is not cheese.

SPEAKER_05 11:31

It's like it comes in a huge wheel. A huge wheel that's order. It's not hundreds of dollars. No, it's not pre-sredded. Yeah. Uh did I did did I miss anything? Uh well, there's like um uh sausage spice. Oh, that's right.

SPEAKER_04 11:46

Sausage spice.

SPEAKER_05 11:47

Uh on Tuesday, I make the cookies. Ruthie. Right? You got to do that, right? But I like I do the last stage. I do cookies for Tuesday. Yep. We're not doing cinnamon rolls anymore.

SPEAKER_04 11:57

I know. That didn't work out. But it was fun, you know, fun to do it a little bit. Anyway, so yeah, there's a lot of there's a lot of stuff to do. And I mean, just the cheese and the sauce right there take hours. Absolutely. Hours to do that. Absolutely. So so um if I failed to mention for the new people, I have a pizza place and uh Sliceberg here works at the pizza place, and so we we sometimes talk about pizza place stuff, you know, stuff you do at a pizza place. Right. Yeah, right, like make pizza sauce or and so anyway, we we today is the day for the podcast. Are you tired of the podcast?

SPEAKER_05 12:31

Are you tired of doing it? No, honestly, like uh I felt like it's a good because I, you know, as you said, I worked this long day, been up since two, you know, basically four in the morning. Not basically, literally four in the morning. And uh yeah, I feel like it's a good way to like um it's like a fun diversion, like to to kind of like shut off work and come to like something that, you know, it's funny, ironically, we're talking about work, but it's okay, I enjoy it. It's like uh I don't know. Well, uh I was excited to do the podcast. That's what I'm trying to get at. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 13:00

Because well, you get off work and you come home, and then you know, you want to relax, but this is relaxing. I mean, that's the whole thing. It's still just part of relaxing. That's right. That's right.

SPEAKER_05 13:08

I find it it's like kind of like meditating for me, the podcast.

SPEAKER_04 13:11

Yeah. Well, and then you you what's your health check like? You got your ears fixed.

SPEAKER_05 13:17

Oh my gosh, I can hear again. Uh I have a new release online. I thought you had some appointment in like in June or July. I did, and amazingly, and it was funny, like like basically the day before I went, I saw I got a phone call the day before you went to the doctor. Okay. But I but you're right, the appointment was in June.

SPEAKER_04 13:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 13:35

And uh I uh I saw the number and I recognized the Shans. It was just a you know, she's got two number. But it didn't say Shans, but but they have this, all the Shans numbers have the first three digits. Yeah. And now, of course, I can't say what they are, but when I saw it, I knew. So I said in my mind, I was like, could this possibly be the doctor calling me to say, Oh, you you can't hear, come in early. And I'm like, probably not. I was like, but you know what? I'm gonna answer. I never literally never answer a phone call. I don't know the number, you know. I'm like, yeah, maybe once in a hundred years. I'm like, yeah. But anyway, sure enough, that's what it was. And uh they had a cancellation, yeah. Or not either that or they I thought they wouldn't even read on there because you when you make the appointment online, you obviously say what the problem is. So I I thought they weren't even gonna read it. But obviously they read it because she was like, Oh, well, you you're having hearing loss. Well, that's concerning. You should come tomorrow. Yeah. So yeah.

unknown 14:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 14:29

Where did you go? I went to the uh Shans on like North Maine, the uh the family, Shans Family Medicine on North Maine. Okay, about that one. They take my insurance. It's like the one, you know, the one here on Waldo Road. Yeah, it's like the same thing, but on North Maine. Oh, North Maine, huh? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 14:43

Why cannot I picture that one?

SPEAKER_05 14:45

Probably what realistically happened was like they were looking at their quarterly revenue goal and they didn't think they were gonna get it. So they looked and they said, Oh, that's a good billing code. He we we're gonna flush this guy's ears out with the water. His insurance, we know for sure his insurance, we can bill his insurance for that. It has the right billing code, so that's how they pick it. They go by that.

SPEAKER_04 15:03

You are in a conspiracy. Listen, the thing is, whenever that happened to me, I got the syringe and the warm water, and I just blasted my ear Carolina. I tried that it didn't work. It was your ear turned down and into a bowl.

SPEAKER_05 15:16

You know, because I did it in the shower with my ear. Yeah, it face.

SPEAKER_04 15:19

We would do it with a bowl so that you could see when you started to see things coming out, you're like, oh, keep going. And then you get warm more.

SPEAKER_05 15:25

That's a good idea, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 15:26

Anyway, uh we now you know you because you wouldn't think that you need to blast your ear that hard.

SPEAKER_05 15:31

I feel felt so sorry for that nurse, that woman. For uh, it wasn't a syringe though, it was the spray bottle. It looks just like a standard spray bottle. Obviously, it's got a certain nozzle on it with the good pressure. And my right ear went pretty quick. She only had to do that one a few times. But the other one, oh like this poor nurse, her hand probably felt like it was gonna fall off. Did it hurt a little bit? I would say it hurt a little bit. I would say it didn't really hurt. I would say it was like mildly unpleasant, but it was easy to accept it because I kind of knew deep down that well, and the other one went so quick. Yeah. And it and it was just like it was, I couldn't even believe the difference. Like one minute I couldn't hear anything, and the next second it sounded like I had high definition headphones on. It was I love it. It was I love it. What is the cost for that? Well, like with my quote unquote insurance, it was like a $50 copay. Okay. But that's that's laughable because like it's I got it through Obamacare, right? So from the government, the federal government gives this like sketchy, shitty insurance company like I think twelve hundred dollars a month. And I paid like probably almost, I probably paid like 180 some. So basically they're getting say like $1,300 to $1,400 a month. Who is the insurance company for and they're and like we almost never like there they are it is a for-profit business. I get you see what I'm saying? I'm just I'm just complaining more about it. It's like so anyway, yeah, it was $50 copay, but it's way more than $50. Once you know about this sauce on your shirt, yeah. Betsy pointed it out when I picked her up from school. I can smell it. It's like pizza sauce on your shirt. I love it. Yeah, you know what I'm making for dinner tonight? Pizza. Pizza. Oh, it's Friday night. Pizza Friday. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 17:15

Well, that's very exciting. Your your health is good and or better. I mean, everything. So that's it.

SPEAKER_05 17:22

Yeah, so my ears are like completely, they're like new. They're like new. I'm um yeah, how's the pinch nerve?

SPEAKER_04 17:28

Well, the pinch nerve is gone. There's no more pinch nerve. However, I just don't have stamina like I used to. I don't know if it's because I'm just slowly still coming back from all the pain or if it's just um you're old. Uh maybe, but I mean, like, so my neck is kind of sore, and maybe it's from physical therapy. But I mean, I think part of it is I'm having to really pay attention to do better with my posture. So as I go and about my business, I'm having to be more aware and more slow, and it just I just feel tired. Yeah. So like doing normal stuff, like working in the yard, I feel like I'm just at a slower pace. But I wanted to report that these I have this little orchard and I have these long beds, and then there's one bed that I'm really fond of. It's got a lot of um, it seems to be really doing well for blackberries. The blackberries like it in there. I've got, I had a few last year, they did good, they're even growing up in new places, so I got a bunch more and I put them all together. So I've got this bed, but the thing about blackberries is they kind of branch out and like they go all different directions. Yeah. And the bed had a lot of weeds in it, and so it makes it hard to like, it's just visually, and when you got, you know, you don't really want weeds in your garden anyway. So I go through the whole bed and I weed it, and then I take those bags of leaves that I got on the side of the road and I dump them all through there. Uh-huh. And that gives me this beautiful bed. Then the next bed over, and that was a good one because it's one thing to put it around a tree, but this whole bed needed it because the way I've planted it, I want the entire 40-foot bed to be blackberries. Okay. And because if what if you like blackberries, you're gonna need more than just one bush. True. You're gonna need 20 bushes, right? That's the eventually we're gonna have all these bushes. And then the next bed over, it has some citrus, some orange trees and stuff. But then we planted Caroline wanted me to plant these uh watermelon in there. Okay, so there's three watermelon. Well, they grow out in these vines, obviously. Yeah watermelons. I don't know if obviously is the right word. For me, it would be, but I don't know if we're like people in Florida boys, yeah. It's obvious. So they grow in these vines and you get these watermelons, but again, the the weeds are kind of competing with the vine. So I weeded that bed and mulched it today. I did that one. So of those bags, I I got those 60 bags. I think I went and got another 15 from somewhere else. I had like 75 bags, like ridiculous. How can you use all these bags, you might say, Gator? But sure enough. Well, I've got I've still got some left, but what I did before I came over is I use my metaglasses to take a little video of these beds so that people can see that these leaves, how how useful these leaves are. So when they're driving down the road, whether it's Oklahoma Bro or Emmy Blue or Eddie, and they see leaves, they'll go, oh, they just think, oh, some people would go stop and get those people's leaves for a pro for to make a vet of blackberries, you know, or watermelon or whatever. Right. Um but and then besides that, I'm just I think I'm just tired of myself. Has that ever happened to you? You ever get tired of yourself? I'm tired of myself right now. Oh, but I mean, you're not always tired of yourself. Sometimes you like hanging out with yourself if you're normal.

SPEAKER_05 21:03

Uh-huh. So you that's what you would say, you're feeling tired of yourself?

SPEAKER_04 21:06

Um it's it's a new feeling, right? Like usually I'm just going along, I don't think about it, but now I'm kind of tired of myself. Like, I'm tired of hearing myself talk. I'm tired of my personality, right? I'm tired of all that stuff.

SPEAKER_05 21:18

I just want to, I just so this podcast is good for that because you're not hearing yourself talk.

SPEAKER_04 21:23

No, it's bad because I'm like, I'm tired of myself. I don't want to like I want to go do, I don't want to talk on the podcast. I want to go away and and and never come back and just go reinvent myself as a quiet person. How did he get out? Oh, there's a way to get out. Yeah, yeah. So anyway, that's where I'm at. But we should we should do the mail. Of course we should do the mail. Isn't that why we're here? Let's put let's play a little. I I only have my small harmonica today. It's only got four holes in it. Right. Let's see what we can do. Let's play it like a song to go with the rain. Okay, try to try to um vibe with the rain. Let's go rain song.

SPEAKER_05 22:44

I had to get that little rain shot. So good. You should take a picture of the cat too. She's super cute.

SPEAKER_04 22:50

Oh, yeah, she is cute. She's precious. So we got let's just go straight to the mailbag because we are um we always do that first. We always do that first. We now you know about our podcast. Oh yeah, we don't have any ads. Nope. It's one of the favorite things about us that people say when they write in is they say, We love that you have no ads. Um, what else do they like about us? Uh I think they're tired of me. They like you, but they're tired of me.

SPEAKER_05 23:15

Yeah, well, well, you're tired of you.

SPEAKER_04 23:16

If you're even tired of you, even tired of me.

SPEAKER_05 23:19

All right, here we go. Here we go. Mailbag, mailbag. Mailbag. Bud Sprout, your podcast received 77 downloads last week. Not bad. Respectable. Um let's see. What do we got? Bud Sprout newsletter. That looks like spam. Uh very boring field recording. That one was from last week. Uh here we go. Emmy Lou. How appropriate that our first uh email is from Emmy Lou.

SPEAKER_04 23:48

Emmy Lou Babcock, who's uh one of our I mean, she she might be our biggest fan.

SPEAKER_05 23:54

Alright. Subject line late August Denver trip. Body of the email. Sheldon and I, that's Shell Dog. Yeah, and I are going to Denver the last weekend of August.

SPEAKER_04 24:08

Well, it's funny you should say that because I'm going to Denver, but I'm not going the last week of August. I'm going the second week of June. Okay. So I'm going June the 12th, and I'm leaving on June the 15th.

unknown 24:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 24:25

I'm going to see my sister. It's a Friday. I get there on a Friday. I see my sister Saturday, Sunday, and I leave on Monday. 12th 15th. Now, my daughter's going too. Okay. My daughter's going to go with me. Okay. So if we're going to hang out with Grummy, and she's in Denver for real, and we're going to hang out, then it's going to have to be uh probably maybe it'll either be Sunday afternoon or Monday breakfast or something. I'll have to figure out to look into that. I'm going to have to look into that. Yeah, look at your calendar. Maybe. But you know, also, my sister got this apartment way out in the middle of nowhere, man. Was it in Denver? Yeah, but I was, you know, I know they're wondering like where are you going to be because Denver's big. Right. What part of town, yeah. Oh, shoot. What is it? Oh. All right. Everybody just hold off.

SPEAKER_05 25:14

Hold on one second.

SPEAKER_04 25:15

Hold on. I'm going to look and see if I have it written down somewhere. I'm going to start with my sister. See if I added it. Nope. I have her old address on there.

SPEAKER_05 25:25

Well, that's not going to help.

SPEAKER_04 25:26

All right. Now let me. Tell them what part of Gainesville she used to live in. Yeah, I can tell them where she used to live in Gainesville. Let me look back at this one. Now you're just waiting for me to look at my long text with my sister.

SPEAKER_05 25:45

When we say cutting edge and grassroots, this is exactly what we're being talking about.

SPEAKER_04 25:49

Yeah, because this is what they want to know. Like they're dying to know like what part, oh, called Ridgegate. Ridgegate. Area of Lone Tree. What do you mean?

SPEAKER_05 25:59

Area of Lone Tree.

SPEAKER_04 26:00

Well, I don't know Denver, so I don't know what Ridgegate area of Lone Tree means. What if he said like uh I mean we can Oh Ridgegate, that's probably the name of the development. I think it might be the name of the area. Okay. Well I don't know. You'll find out. You'll find out. Ridgegate Lone Tree. Whatever, yeah. That's where we're gonna be at. So you can write in now and tell us how close are we are we gonna be to anything? Can we are we gonna hang out or what? Are we gonna get together for a meal?

SPEAKER_05 26:31

Yeah, maybe Sunday or Monday.

SPEAKER_04 26:33

Maybe everybody should just come.

SPEAKER_05 26:34

All the rel all the Babcots should come to Denver. Maybe I'll go last week of August. Is that what probably is? Are you thinking about going? No, not really. I mean, I don't know. Why not?

SPEAKER_04 26:44

All right, so anyway, that's that's uh that's good to know. That's where I'm going, Gene. That's just when it was the best way time for me to make it. Okay, what's next?

SPEAKER_05 26:51

All right, here we go. Now, this is an interesting email from Satchel. Okay. We get a lot of emails from Satchel.

SPEAKER_04 26:55

I like Sat.

SPEAKER_05 26:56

Now, this the first thing I notice about this email is that it's a link to an article from the New York Times. Okay. Now that was surprising to me because um normally you don't send an article from such a prestigious uh, you know, oh right. Uh uh source of reportage. It's more usually like Alachua Chronicle. I mean, not nothing, no, no, no shade on the Alachua Chronicle, a fine institution, but not as storied or as or as grand as the as the the New York Times, right? Yeah, but what is this article? Uh okay, headline. The widow of the firefighter slain by a would-be assassin speaks out.

SPEAKER_04 27:37

Oh, okay. This is I remember now. This goes back to our talk about conspiracy theories. Okay, right? All right, so we're finally answering Oklahoma Bros question. We're well well, we're not finally, I mean, we're just still on that, we're still on that topic a little bit, right? Right. So here's the thing there's an article in the New York Times where they interview the woman who is the wife of the man who got shot in Butler, Pennsylvania.

unknown 28:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 28:03

Okay, so there was an assassin. Right. The assassin whizzed by uh Trump's ear and hit someone else and hit someone else and killed them, a firefighter. How come this is the first I'm hearing of this? Because you're not following the news as closely as most people? Wow. This is what I told you. I said, how can this be fake? People are dying. You think these people are dying as part of this conspiracy theory?

SPEAKER_05 28:24

Right. So the so the widow speaks out and she's like, Well, the widow This is absurd. Obviously, he really died.

SPEAKER_04 28:29

This is this the widow is saying, it makes me so mad to hear people say that my husband is part of a conspiracy theory. Right. When he's a good thing, like that he like he that they're just they're just killing people so that they can for fun. Like this is a good thing.

SPEAKER_05 28:43

Not for fun, but yeah, but I see what you're saying. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 28:45

Like this is real. My husband really died. It's like this is not like like somebody really died. This was not an act. Right. Now, whether you know, people say, oh, he stood up with a catch-it packet or whatever, maybe so. Anything could be true, but somebody also died like there was a bullet there, right? So my point is, is I go back to my original point. It's like, I think it's crazy to think this was that this wasn't a real like that that this was staged. Yeah. Now, I've certainly have seen the videos where he gets shot and all of these people with cameras come around and the flag gets lowered and he takes a picture, blah, blah. But that doesn't prove anything. That's just America being America, right? Let's get a photo of this. Yeah. But the fact that somebody died, and the I don't know. I just think that was real. Okay. So that's just me. Yeah. And I'm thinking like that was when which leads me to the question. Um, the uh the the one at the uh correspondence dinner. Okay, staged or real? I mean, did somebody die in that one? Somebody got shot. The guy shot at one of the um one of the security guards.

SPEAKER_05 30:03

Bulletproof vests. Yeah. Okay, okay. So bulletproof vests.

SPEAKER_04 30:07

So is he is he doing this whole thing happening so that he can push his ballroom? Or is it or or like what is the what would be the point of like this guy runs through, he shoots at a guy, yeah, happens to hit him in the in the in the uh bulletproof vest, yeah, and then and I d the thing I don't understand, I've not looked into this one at all very much. Right. I don't understand why that guy's not dead. Uh like how did you get this guy and like why wouldn't you kill him? If a guy's running at you shooting, yeah, and there's ten guys with guns, that certainly doesn't work, why wouldn't the first thing happen is that guy gets shot? Right. How is he getting caught and taken to jail? Like, you know what I mean? It seems like you would shoot him. That's the part I don't understand. They shoot people for far less than that. So exactly. So anyway, uh you you you don't have an answer or you're not sure, you don't have enough information.

SPEAKER_05 30:59

Yeah, I get obviously I can't say like with all my heart, like, oh yes, definitely fake, definitely staged, but like I would absolutely believe it. Like I'm leaning towards staged, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 31:09

Okay, all right. Well, I don't think it stayed. I think it's I guess the problem is the conspiracy theories kind of just by name, they tend for you to make you you're believing something which isn't the narrative. Right. Like the the the accepted narrative, right? It's really hard for me to go down these conspiracy theories. Like I I usually, and and maybe this is uh my fault. Maybe maybe this is it's not something that's not good about me. I'm usually gonna go with the narrative to me that seems the most likely. The most likely seems like, yeah, some guy tried to shoot him, almost hit him in the ear, shot this other guy. Hey, this guy's wanting to shoot him, he runs in and they catch him and they and he goes, like this guy's in the woods, he wants to shoot him, he puts his bullet through, he puts his gun through, and they catch him. Like I'm always thinking, like, the most obvious explanation is that there's people that want to kill him.

SPEAKER_05 32:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 32:09

That it's not like all sort of right. But that but anyway.

SPEAKER_05 32:13

I love it that we're talking about politics right now.

SPEAKER_04 32:16

It's not politics, it's conspiracy theories. Right, that's how we get away with it. That's how we get away with it. Here's the thing we can talk about a conspiracy theory about Trump getting shot, and it's not politics because it's conspiracy theory. Did he get shot or did he not get shot? That's just fact or fiction. That's right. That's right.

SPEAKER_05 32:33

It doesn't have to do with politics at all, Sliceberg. Right. It's just in the arena of politics.

SPEAKER_04 32:38

But I you know, I think that Oklahoma, bro, is really trying to kind of push us towards politics with these questions.

SPEAKER_05 32:48

Right, talking about Jim Carrey's plastic surgery and all that.

SPEAKER_04 32:51

Well, maybe not. You're right. You did you did did bring that up. What was the other one? Uh the other one was uh workplace hazing. Yeah. Anyway, so yeah, that's all I have to say. That's why I sent that article because you it's a lady, it's a lady who's just saying, come on.

SPEAKER_05 33:08

Come on. Obviously, yeah. Obviously, this was real. My husband died. All right, we got well, we got two more. We got two more. We got two more. We got another email from Emmy Lou. All right. Teams call and washing machine non-update. Oh, I don't I don't like the sound of that. All right, here we go. Sheldon, aka Shell Dog, woof woof, has his big knee surgery in the morning. His dad is here to help out. I'm going to enlist him to help me with the washing machine while he's in town. He's a retired surgeon and a kind of handy dude. I'm sure he can handle the assist. We're being appliance heathens and using it despite the leak. It doesn't seem to be an issue when we use the quick wash cycle. Who nice. Anyway, enjoy the team's call. We discussed travel plans, grummies lingering cough, and jam bands. Okay, here we go. Here we go. Jam bands? Here we go. Bye. Uh well, first of all, shell dog, uh, good luck with your knee surgery. Uh we hope everything goes well there. And and if you if you think it might be bad, just think at least it's not a kidney spin. Right. And shell dog's dad, good luck with your washing machine surgery. Well, what I was doing is gonna perform surgery on the washing machine.

SPEAKER_04 34:21

I told them what to do. I told them to put it in and find out what it is. And what I was expecting to get back was, well, it's 80% chance that it's the so-and-so seal or whatever. Yeah. They haven't done any of that work that I asked them to do.

SPEAKER_05 34:34

Shell dog's dad is gonna do that while he's in town.

SPEAKER_04 34:37

But see, here's the thing Shell Dog's dad doesn't know about these websites and stuff. He might know how about equipment, but I'm telling them, you guys tell him we think it's this, and then he can fix it.

SPEAKER_05 34:47

He's gonna do open heart surgery on that washing machine. He's gonna open it up.

SPEAKER_04 34:50

Why aren't they listening to me, Slicberg, and saying, like, putting into the computer what are the problems, and putting into the parts computer what is the problem and telling us right now what they think the problem is, and just instead of saying, oh, Shelldog's dad's gonna come fix it. So that's why it was a non-update. It's a non-update because I don't think Shell Dog's dad is gonna fix it unless he knows what the problem is. Right.

SPEAKER_05 35:13

And I think that that's where and and I'm not saying he can't diagnose the problem. Trevor Burrus, Jr. So he needs to go to the local appliance parts store, is what you're saying.

SPEAKER_04 35:21

Oh, you go to parts.com.

SPEAKER_05 35:23

And you say, Oh, it's you write in the computer.

SPEAKER_04 35:27

My my whirlpool white M99 washer when it's on a so-and-so cycle at this point leaks some some amount of water on the ground. And they're like, I'm pretty sure it's and then Google will tell you, oh, it's like even Google would tell you, but you can do it on a parts place too. Right. And the parts place the parts place will, the one that my wife uses will say it's 89% this is what fixes that. It's worth trying. But they haven't even gotten that far. The easiest part is to just research. It's the funnest part because then you know what it is, even if you can't do it. You're like, you know what it is. All right. You you're not on you're on their side. I just really on their side.

SPEAKER_05 36:07

Like just wait for the case. Well, we'll see.

SPEAKER_04 36:08

We'll see what happens with the watching machine.

SPEAKER_05 36:11

Maybe uh maybe he'll use your website here.

SPEAKER_04 36:12

I'm so sick of myself for being so out of mad at them right now.

SPEAKER_05 36:16

So you're so mad about the appliance parts.

SPEAKER_04 36:18

I'm so mad that they haven't figured it out. All right, what's next?

SPEAKER_05 36:21

Do you want to play the team's call now or do you want to do that? How long is the team's call? Six minutes and thirty-seven seconds. It's just you want to drop it separate, or you're gonna do it in it.

SPEAKER_04 36:28

We're gonna drop it at the end, we're gonna go inside and play it. Okay where it'll be quiet enough to hear it. All right, and we'll put a six minutes, we're gonna do it on this one. If it was ten minutes, we're gonna make its own episode.

SPEAKER_05 36:38

That's that's the cutoff. Maybe this week. All right, here we go. Uh yeah, I gotta listen to what they were gonna say about jam bands. Yeah, I'm just getting your arm out of the way of the speaker. Oh, oh, okay, yeah, yeah. All right, so here we go. You've got fan mail. Fan mail, yeah. You got fan mail.

SPEAKER_04 36:54

We need like a little jingle. Jingle fan mail, Oklahoma bro, fan mail, Oklahoma bro.

SPEAKER_05 37:00

Would you say that 100% of our Buzz Sprout fan mail has been from Oklahoma, bro? No, because um that Deborah in uh California was the first one that wrote his fan mail. Oh, that's true. Yeah, yeah. Okay, I guess Oklahoma bro did it so many times that I forgot about that. But I do remember that.

SPEAKER_04 37:14

Well, the first one was from Deborah, but now, but now I I kind of expect I think Debora stopped listening.

SPEAKER_05 37:19

I think she listened one time. Well, I'm gonna see her uh in June in July. Well, in June, probably, I think. Yeah. She's coming like last week of June. First week of July. Yeah. Yeah. So maybe we'll do an episode. Well, I don't know if she's well, whatever. Yeah. Uh anyway, back to the fan mail. Famail. All right, Oklahoma Bro says, What's up, fellas? You boys do any fishing? If so, what kind of setup are you running and what's the biggest fish you've caught outside Oklahoma?

SPEAKER_04 37:45

See, Oklahoma Bro brings brings all the good stuff, man. You know what I mean? Like, that's a good question. Because if Danny were here, Danny'd be like, oh, my setup is a so-and-so like boat with a so-and-so motor, and I got my my my reel, is a uh whatever you call it. I wear these one-waiters, and I got me these certain lures. Right. And I and I go to that one pond, and then I do that one thing, and I catch whatever. Bat bath, large mouth, largemouth bass. Bass is what he calls. 10 pound bass or whatever.

SPEAKER_05 38:20

Yeah, get that 12-pound bass.

SPEAKER_04 38:22

Oklahoma bro, I bet is a fisherman. And he's and here's the thing. What I want to know is, I want to know what Oklahoma's bro's setup is for fishing. Okay. Because we need to have fish time talk. Right. And it's gonna start with what Oklahoma Bro tells us about his fish setup and what the biggest fish he's caught is. Because if he's asking us, you know that he's thinking, I got this guy's beat. Oh, yeah. I'm on, I got that, that, that 10-pounder I caught last week, and it's gonna beat their biggest fish, right?

SPEAKER_05 38:50

Don't you figure? I uh I can't if I said I've never gone fishing in my life, that would be a lie. I obviously have gone fishing.

SPEAKER_04 38:58

I was gonna say, if you said that, you might get canceled.

SPEAKER_05 39:00

No, no, no. I've I I I've absolutely fished before, but it's just, you know, I'm I'm losing any like Florida man cred I have right now, but I don't really fish. And I but I know you fish on your point. When did you fish? The last time I fished? Yeah. I fish uh like uh we'll we'll go to like Matanzas River Inlet, uh fish there a little bit.

SPEAKER_04 39:20

Like when like when is my question. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 39:23

Yeah, maybe 10 years ago. Maybe not ten years ago, like more like eight four years ago. I don't know. Okay, who'd you go with? Uh Cody. Uh my friend Cody. Yeah. Or we'll go like we go out to the Gulf, like you know, um like Yankee Town, it's like south of Sierke, uh like out in the Gulf there. Yeah. We go fishing out there. And he he uses a cast net. He got fishes for mullet. He's got two girlfriends at the same time, right? Who? Cody. Cody? What do you mean, two girlfriends?

SPEAKER_04 39:49

I think he isn't that the guy with two girlfriends. Oh, he's a different guy, maybe. Must be a different guy. Must be a different guy. He doesn't have two girlfriends. No. Not the Cody I'm talking about. I'm thinking, I don't know if his name's Cody, the guy I'm thinking of. I'm trying to think of his name. He's a farmer, though. Cody's a farmer, right? Uh yeah. Yeah, this guy's a farmer too, but it's a different guy. We saw him at the restaurant, he had two girlfriends, and you're like, wow. Modern. All right. So the deal is I don't have a but like I have a John boat at uh because I live on a little lake, but I don't have any motor for it. Is it a lake or is it a pond? It's a lake. Okay. It's called Calf Pond.

SPEAKER_05 40:25

It's confusing. It's called Calf Pond, but it's really a lake.

SPEAKER_04 40:28

It's it's let's right now it's a puddle. All right, because it's it's it's practically practically dry. It's it's almost completely dried up. You could basically walk across it. And but it's oh, you can walk across it. You can definitely walk across it. Yeah, there's an island. You can walk right across it right now, but there's little puddles here and there. Yeah. But so because of that, I have a boat. But I don't if I'm gonna go fishing, it's because my daughter likes to go fishing, and we'd fish off the dock. Uh-huh. And we have a little rod and reel, a couple rod and reels, and and I usually, and what I've been doing lately, see, when I was a kid, I fished out that same lake, my grandparents' house, and I would catch catfish and bass and brim and speckled perch, right? Nice. And I remember catching like what was the biggest bass in the world. I think it was probably three pounds, right? Right? Big mouth billy bass. I would say the biggest fish I ever caught was when I was probably before I got to be 12 years old, and I probably caught a three-pound bass, right? And my at my grand at the lake I live on now. Nice. But I um but the lake's been going dry for the last eight months. Right. So I'm not fishing at all. And even if I was, when I do go fishing, the what I tend to use, because what I used as a kid that seemed to work, was a little ball of white bread, wonder bread.

SPEAKER_05 41:47

That's what I used to when I was a kid. We would fish on a cane pole. We would absolutely fish for brim with the ball of white bread. Ball of white bread and a little bobber. And the canals. We that's in South Florida. If you live like you would fish in the canals. You I was just pulling brim out of that canal for like. So that's when you were fishing as a kid. I was a kid, yeah. But not at the end. I had like the uh like the Zebco, you know, the reel with the cover on it, you know. That's cool. Yeah, yeah. That was fun, super fun with the white bread.

SPEAKER_04 42:16

My granddad had a bunch of cane poles around. And so we had the little orange bobber, and then you know, I he showed me how to put a weight on it, you know, with a little you slide it over there and then you squeeze it, and then he showed me how to put on a knee uh a hook. A hook, yeah. You know? Oh yeah. And so, and then we would do worms. A lot of time we would just do worms. Yeah, sure. I fished with worms when I was a kid, yeah. Now, when Danny came up to my place to fish a little, he brought these tiny little lures and he was keeping that thing moving and he was pulling fish in left and right, right? But I'm not I've not been that lucky. I'm not really catching fish in as an adult much. So I don't the only reason I usually fish is because my daughter comes over and she wants to fish, and we'll fish for five minutes and then she gets bored. That warms the heart of a father-daughter fishing. I got it, I got a fish feeder that goes off every day, and the fish were coming jumping like crazy at five o'clock every night looking for that food. And so the idea was once they get used to being here around 4 30, you go out there with your little white bread, and boom, you're catching fish. But then the it dried up before I could do that. It's dried up now. Anyway, I I we're we're not um We're a fishing podcast. We're we're well we yeah, we yeah, we're a fishing podcast now, and that's and we've just told you every fishing story we have. We even know that. Thank you for the question, Oklahoma bro. We'd like to hear about your fishing setup. That's that's what we want to know about. Yeah, definitely let us know.

SPEAKER_05 43:48

Is that all the mail we have? That's all the mail. We didn't get any postcards this week, but that's okay because gr we got like three from Grummy last time, so like that that more than makes up for it.

SPEAKER_04 43:59

Yeah. Yeah. And me and Grummy are going to be hanging out at the Cracker Bear Waffle House on uh Do they have Waffle House in Colorado?

SPEAKER_05 44:05

I bet they don't. I bet they don't. You know what they do have though, probably? Jack and the Bobs. I bet they got good barbecue. They got good barbecue. Any barbecue is good barbecued no matter where it's from.

SPEAKER_04 44:16

Well, I'm thinking of Texas, but then in the Colorado, they probably don't have good barbecue dudes.

SPEAKER_05 44:20

Yeah, no. But that's more like Texas barbecue. I mean, maybe they're gonna have pizza. What about Oklahoma? They got good barbecue. Oklahoma.

SPEAKER_04 44:27

I wonder if Oklahoma Bro knows anything about barbecuing. Like, because he strikes me as a guy who would be out there, you know, working his grill, working the smoker, smoking his butts and stuff.

SPEAKER_05 44:38

Smoking the butts.

SPEAKER_04 44:39

What are you smoking over there, uh Oklahoma bro? Yeah. What are you smoking? What are you fishing for and what are you smoking? What are you smoking in your smoker? Do you got a smoker? You like grilling out? Because this is guy stuff now. Now we should. Oh, yeah, guy talks.

SPEAKER_05 44:52

This is guy talk, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 44:53

Girls, stop listening. Grilling, fishing. All girls and women, you can stop listening right now while we talk about grilling, fishing, and sports. America's we're America's number one sexist podcast. I tell you what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna drop the sports talk as an extra bonus episode after this. And it's gonna be my friend Charlie. And then when I turn it on, he's talking about just so you know, yeah, but he doesn't say that at first. I think I mentioned it in the end, but I'm telling you up front. Because what he's talking about, we were doing our uh reunion, and there was uh the uh what do they call it when they um when they're picking their players? Draft. The draft was happening. Yeah. So he's going like, oh, so and so we drafted a third round, we drafted this guy. Five draft updates. He's all he was talking, he's really into the draft picks and the and ask him about the coach and things. Okay. So when you but then in the end I say you're talking about the Jags, because he we knew what he was talking about when I was anyway. So that's what that's gonna be our sports talk today, is gonna be about the draft pick for the Jags. Jags is the Jacksonville Jaguars, for those of you who don't know. It's like there's the Gators and there's the Jaguars, like the best teams around. The two best teams, two football, yeah. Best teams in in football. The best team in college would be the Gators and then professional pro is Jacksonville Jags. The Jags milk. Yep. I just call them the Jags. Jack's Jags, the Jags. That's what I call them. So tired of myself, Slice Bird. Tired of this podcast, tired of myself. I'm tired of all these people, tired of Emmy Lou Babcock. Just kidding. Cannot be tired of Emmy Lou Babcock. Of course you're not. It's the only thing that that keeps me going anymore. Yeah. They make our podcast fun.

SPEAKER_05 46:31

They just did.

SPEAKER_04 46:32

Well, if it weren't for them, I don't think our podcast would still be going.

SPEAKER_05 46:35

We had a whole season seven about them.

SPEAKER_04 46:38

You know, one of the things that happened was early on last year, you know, two years ago maybe, or it was probably a year, a year and a half ago, when I was just getting the orchard going, and we had the we had these beds, these raised beds that were made by a um a tractor, right? So it's like a swale, and you use the dirt from the swale to put up into the into the you know the berm, right? And then you're adding all kinds of stuff to the berm to make it nice, real rich soil. Well, right after we did that, I ran into uh Wayne, you know, our buddy Wayne, oh yeah, who's uh outdoors kind of uh outdoorsman. I bet Wayne fishes. I bet Wayne could tell us some stories about fishing, but he used to write to us and now he's just uh he probably I think he still listens too. And uh Wayne said, Hey, there's these pieces of this uh these pine trees. So these pine trees that got milled, but the edges were left. And what I by edges, I mean there's not enough to make a flat board out of, so it's just the rounded part with the with the bark on it.

SPEAKER_05 47:41

The bark, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 47:42

Yeah, but it's of all these trees. There was like, I don't know, five or six trees. So there's like 10 or 12 pieces. So, or 20 pieces, like a lot of pieces. So we got him on his truck and we took him to my house, and he had this spike, and he would hit him with the spike and it would go into the wood and then yank it off the truck. And then we hauled him around to the front of these beds that I have, these berms, and we kind of lined them up to kind of like just keep the dirt from just spilling down and kind of like a bed, you know, the edge of the bed. They're like they're so nice. And then I I I took little pieces of bamboo and I and I hammered them in to kind of keep them turned sideways, to kind of keep in place. Very nice. And and the bark side of the tree is out. Yeah. And it's just they make the nicest edges to these beds. So uh you can check those out when you're looking at our video. You can look at these when I'm showing you the beds. Well, uh you probably see it, because it's only on one side. It's not on the side with the swale. It's on the side. Put it on the insta. Take a picture so you can put it on the it's a story. Take a picture of this cat right here, huh? Well, gives more. I'm gonna get a picture. I get a picture. She's hiding under the couch. Um look at that cat carrier. I'm gonna get a picture of that cat carrier.

SPEAKER_05 49:01

That's not a cat carrier. We should talk about cat carrier.

SPEAKER_04 49:03

Cat carrier. Cat what do you call it? Cat cat hotel? Cat we it's like her castle.

SPEAKER_05 49:08

Cat castle. Yeah, she's like the queen. She goes to the top level, the top the highest one, and just reigns over her kingdom. Does she ever lay in the hammock on the bottom or goes? No. I don't think I've ever seen her in the hammock. She goes in the the one, the one right under the top one. She goes in there. That's the only ones I've ever seen her. Yeah. She's neglecting the other three layer levels. You still like having a cat? I love having a cat. She's amazing like, honestly, she's a good cat. She's a great cat. She's very sweet, very affectionate. That's nice. Does she scratch? Uh in a playful manner, yes. But not, you know. She rarely draws blood. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 49:49

All right. Well, we can't have talked about everything and the world, right? But we do have to play the field according. Yeah, yeah. But before that's the last thing. So is it what else do we have? Like, what else is happening? What else is happening? We we we there was Sean was in the hospital. Right. She's home, thank thank goodness. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 50:07

And then uh yeah, but you're not sure.

SPEAKER_04 50:10

I'm still reaping the benefits of Wayne giving me those wood. I was trying to point out that Wayne gave me that wood. I'm still enjoying it quite a bit. The bags of leaves I've been very excited about. I want people to understand how much how when you see when you see this little orchard, you're gonna be like, oh, how nice.

SPEAKER_05 50:26

Such a resource, right? Other people's garbage that they literally put out on the street. What a resource.

SPEAKER_04 50:31

What a resource. Trevor Burrus, Jr.: Because I just pick up two bags and walk where I'm going and dump them and I'm done. It's like so much easier than scooping it into a wheelbarrow, dumping it out of the wheelbarrow, paying for it. The leaves are better anyway, because they're way thicker. If I dump a bag of leaves on a tree, it's about I don't know, eight inches thick around that tree. But if you go put mulch on, you're gonna just put a little mulch. I don't get that. That red mulch.

SPEAKER_05 50:56

Well, I don't use that stuff. That's dyed. I think that stuff's dyed. How else does it get that bright red color? Force is dyed. Yeah, we don't need that in our I like natural mulch.

SPEAKER_04 51:06

I'm into I'm into nature. Yeah, of course. I'm into nature. My um daughter is graduating from graduating from UF. She got straight A's this semester. Nice. Her GPA went from a 3.89 to a 3.92. Nice. That's her final GPA from college. No wonder she got into law school. She's in law school. She's uh and we did um photos. So we're like, we're gonna have a little party at the house, catered to some food and some friends, and then graduation party. And uh so we needed an invitation. Like, hey, we gotta get photos for the invitation. Well, she had bought a little dress. Hey, look who it is. Yep. The old gal. You're off early, huh? Or is this when you usually get home?

unknown 51:57

Are you referring to the case?

SPEAKER_04 51:58

Of course we are. Yeah, you can come join us if you're doing just hanging out.

SPEAKER_05 52:02

Yeah, you think we just sit around and hang out and talk to each other? Well, we do, and we call it a podcast, but yeah.

SPEAKER_04 52:08

Um, it's a good thing it was me and not your girlfriend. If only. So uh what was I getting at? So she put on this little dress and she got her get like her cap and her little banner or little sash that you hang, and it says UF on it. She did the photo shoot. And we and we and uh she did her makeup and her hair, and then she did her friend and they did photos around the house. Yeah. And then but she wanted to go out and her friend had to go to work, so I said, I'll go with you. So we went around town and found little places to photo. It was fun, man. It was so many good pictures now of her. I have like a hundred pictures.

SPEAKER_05 52:49

I saw the one you put on your Instagram.

SPEAKER_04 52:51

Oh, and I that wasn't even the best one.

SPEAKER_05 52:53

That was a great picture.

SPEAKER_04 52:53

That was a good one, though. Yeah. I got a personal Instagram too where I post little other little things people don't know. And so do you. Acres of dogs.

SPEAKER_05 53:00

Acres of dog shit. The best Instagram handle there is.

SPEAKER_04 53:03

So if anybody out there, Oklahoma Bro included, Jared, if anybody knows of a better Instagram handle than Acres of Dog Shit, please write in and let us know what's the best Instagram handle you know of. Mine is uh Lightning Savage Enterprises, so not that great. Um I have another one, Sasha's Pizza. Number one podcast for people is pretty good.

SPEAKER_05 53:23

Yeah, that's that's my that's probably my favorite Instagram page.

SPEAKER_04 53:28

But uh but uh Acres of Dog Shit here. Yeah. Post Yeah, at Acres of Dog Shit. He's at Acres of Dog Shit. But there's no dog shit here. Well, at the time there was.

SPEAKER_05 53:38

We had two big dogs. Uh I'm so glad. I don't I don't think I'd want to hang out with you as much. Just because dogs are so dogs, we had greyhounds, and honestly, they were far more like cats in personality. Okay. Like they are so cat-like.

SPEAKER_04 53:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 53:55

They were not like the the classic dog personality. Yeah. Not like not like that at all. They would be they would just be sleeping on the floor over here.

SPEAKER_04 54:03

Yeah. Well, that that that that's good.

SPEAKER_05 54:07

But they would it sounds like they left a lot of dog shit around. Oh, yeah. Well, big dog. That's what my grandmother said that to me many years ago. She's that big dog, big poopies. Big poopies. Small small dog? Small poopies. And what about the cats? You don't even have to deal with their poopies.

SPEAKER_04 54:22

You just scoop it constantly. Uh my cat just goes outside, digs a hole, covers it. Nice.

SPEAKER_05 54:28

Nice. Look at that. I gotta take a picture of your cat.

SPEAKER_04 54:30

Has your cat ever been out of the house? Yeah, she gets out. I mean, go in the yard.

SPEAKER_05 54:34

Yeah, she gets that. You let her out finally? No, no, she gets that. Yeah, she's uh she escapes. Oh.

SPEAKER_04 54:44

Okay, Slice is going over there to get a close-up picture of his cat, which I hope he's gonna post on our Instagram. So, yeah, well, it rained a little bit. Yeah, and it just kind of got everything wet anyway. Take it. Yeah. So your wife is home, and I think we should I gotta I gotta do I gotta I gotta do some stuff, man. I got some stuff to do, bro.

SPEAKER_05 55:12

Oh, can we talk about this? On the podcast? Let's not. Let's talk about that in uh in private. Okay. So yeah, I don't know. Is it time to play the field recording or what? Yeah, I feel like it's good. Let's just do it here.

SPEAKER_04 55:28

Then I'll go in and talk to your wife.

SPEAKER_05 55:30

All right. My wife, who is a human being in her own right. Barely. A whole human being in her own right. All right, here we go. Field recording, teams call.

SPEAKER_01 55:43

That's fine. Okay, we have this now. What we talked about.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:17

I'll just stop recording.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:19

See, they started talking politics and then they and then they stopped. Did the politics come up? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:26

Um Well, it's raining right now, so I guess that's a lot of humidity, right? What kind of humidity are we looking at?

SPEAKER_05 1:02:35

I would say that the humidity right now is in somewhere in the 60s, 60-something percent. Where do you find that out there? You've got to scroll down. For some reason they don't put that on the top, but it's there. You just gotta keep going. You know you know this app? Uh Weather Underground? Yeah. Yeah. I used to use that. I use weather bug now.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:53

Can you find the humidity for me on one of your air quality index is 76. Well, I was just that's because we had a um that's because we have a a fire smoke everywhere. Humidity is not 60-something percent. Well, it just rained. Usually it's not been like that much, but yeah, we're at 90. So we I think we beat in Houston. Uh yeah, what did you say, like 36? Yeah. So um let's uh let's talk about a few things. I missed a little bit of it. Right. But I did hear mention of Dave Matthews band. That's right. And I saw you smile. Yeah, it was very strange. What's your connection to the Dave Matthews band?

SPEAKER_05 1:03:36

Uh when I was in high school, I was I uh I was into Dave Matthews band. You know I like wore out the CD. I saw them in concert once. Uh but I was like 17, 18, you know. Yeah, I was in high school. But yeah, I don't really but fish, I love fish. What about the t-shirt that you wear? Trevor Burrus, Jr. The t-shirt you got me for Christmas? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:57

Dave Matthews Band. Dave Matthews Band on tour, right? Right, exactly. I did not really realize Dave Matthews Band was a jam band. It's a man. I just don't really know.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:13

It's not a jam band like that, like fishes, but it's definitely in the jam screen.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:17

Trevor Burrus, Jr.: So fish will go for three weekends, you said, at the sphere. Three nights each weekend, nine nights.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:23

And the same people go every night? Uh a lot of them probably do, yeah. Or probably realistically, people go for a weekend, right? They fly in for the weekend. Go to three nights. Aaron Ross Powell Right. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:34

And they do drugs every time?

SPEAKER_05 1:04:36

Uh maybe. I think it has never happened in recorded history where someone at a fish show was not on drugs.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:44

I just I just can't imagine that you're gonna do that for three nights in a row. Like it seems like you would just tire yourself out. I mean the the noise level and the drugs and the I don't know. That's so fuddy, duddy, man.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:59

Have you ever seen Fish now? No.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:02

Have you seen any jam bands?

SPEAKER_05 1:05:03

No, you said that's not true. You saw you told me you saw Santana and the Grateful Dead. Trevor Burrus, Jr. No, the yeah, but the dead I was at the parking lot. Oh, yeah. You just went to Shakedown Street. You're on Shakedown Street. Trevor Burrus, Jr.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:14

Is that what you call that? Yeah. So I I'll say this. My friend said we just hung out at the re a reunion, a high school reunion. And then the next thing you know, they're like, hey, and it's right next to the amphitheater where bands play. Yeah. And then so they dialed in like, oh, here's a spot to stay near the amphitheater. Once everybody dials that in, then that's your spot. Then everybody's like, oh, can you know, blah, blah, blah. So then I get the text that says Hey man, me and you know, Amanda and Jimmy and Jenora are all gonna go to Tadeshi Trucks bands. Like, do you know, do you want to go? We're sitting in the 300 level, blah blah blah. And so then I go and I look it up and it's in October, right? And I'm like Tadeshi Trucks, I've heard of them. I don't know Know that music. And so I'm like, oh, they're coming to so they, you know, obviously want to stay at the house. I mean, they're not asking, but obviously that's the idea. Sure, yeah. And then um I go and I listen, and um the song kind of goes on for a while, which which seems like a while, and then I listen, I was like, Oh, this is one song, I listen to another song. It seems going on for a while. And I look and they're like, and and when I look, it's like five minutes or six minutes. I'm like, that's not very long. No. And then I'm start listening to one, and I look down and it's ten minutes. I'm like, this is a jam band. It seems like a jam band.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:29

This is a jam band. They're a jam band, but they're a blues jam band. That's the distinction. They they they play blues, but they jam.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:35

So I listened to it a little bit and I realized, Slicebird, I don't really like jam bands. It's not my thing, right? I don't, it's just it kind of drives me a little bit crazy. Yeah.

unknown 1:06:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:47

So I told him, Yeah, man, like I'll maybe stay at the house, like I might come too. Right, you know, like and I can be at the house and not go to sleep. You don't have to go, right? Yeah, right. And so I thought that's what I'll do. I'll go and hang out with them while they're there. And then uh, and then Theo, who was also at the reunion and stayed down the street at the hotel because he didn't know how to place there, he was like, Hey man, Tadashi Trucks is coming. Like, can I come over there? And I'm like, Yeah, come on over, man. It seems to be your thing. So now if I go, it's basically I, you know, there there's a there's a there is, let's see, one, two, three. There's still a little single bed I can stay at or stay on the couch if I want to go. And your own house. Caroline's not gonna go, but I might go and hang out with them. Yeah, why not? That'd be fine. I'm not into jam bands.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:31

No, no. I uh I saw a jam band last month. And uh I had so much fun there that when at the end of the second the next day, my friend that I saw with you, he said, Oh, let's go to the sphere and see fish next weekend. We really obviously didn't go, but yeah, but uh yeah, yeah. I haven't seen fish in years, but I back in the day I I saw fish. You did? Yeah, oh yeah. You're a hippie. Oh, I'm absolutely I'm unapologetically a hippie. You're a hippie, yeah. You're total hippie. Totally.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:57

Um, okay. What else did anything else come up in there that we need to discuss? Uh the jam band.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:03

I think that's it. I think we covered all the bases. Yeah. I'm sure there was something else. Probably forgetting something. They mailed the postcard. We got to watch out for that. Let's watch out. All right.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:13

All right. Well, uh, thanks for listening. Uh you guys are the best. Tell your friends and neighbors. Yep. Uh spread the word. Follow us on Instagram. Yeah, number one podcast. Uh unless you're Wayne and you don't do those sorts of girlish things, little kiddie things. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, a lot of people do. I don't you know, I don't know. I kind of forgot to post stuff, and then I remembered and I went and posted those postcards. Did you see those? Um Grummy's postcards from last week.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:38

Oh, yeah, I saw that.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:38

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:39

And and you what did you post? I posted something I can't remember. I can't remember. I already forgot. But it's probably a picture of my cat. Well, that's on my personal Instagram.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:49

Right. Um Okay, well, yeah, good times. Um we'll see you next week. Uh thanks for listening. If somebody wants to meet a meet do a meetup with Gator in uh in Denver on June the 12th to 15th, maybe maybe the 14th or the 15th, then let me know. Uh this is fan mail. We love that fan mail. Write to us. Yep, thank you for everyone who wrote to us. Yeah. Um don't forget to uh write to us. Yep. Number one podcast remote gmail.com Jared. I don't know if Jared's still listening. Jared's listening. Of course Jared's listening. Of course he's listening. Yeah. I got you. I know he's listening. He's listening. Oh who else is listening? Tell us about it. I'm not even listening to the podcast. We need here's the thing. Right. Here's the thing. It's for people. You knew what I was gonna say. Oh, absolutely. It's for people. I read your mind. We need some like, okay, Emmy Lou, we know you're out there. That's great. Keep coming. But we need other people too. We need to know we need some new people.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:45

We need some new people to add to it. It's not number one podcast for certain people. It's number one podcast.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:50

Number one podcast for bad people. I mean, it is, but it is actually, but okay. All right. All right. How fun. Yeah. Fun times. Good times. Good times. How long was that, you think? Like an hour, maybe? Hour, ten minutes, pretty.