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Satchel and guests Season 8 Episode 23

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Gator and Slice go to a restaurant that Slice has never been to- and he passes it 10x a day for 15 years! 

Sports talk happens as usual. We do the mailbag. Lots of great mail. 

We talk about other stuff too. 

SPEAKER_06

People have been missing that.

SPEAKER_01

You know what I mean? I'm sure that the mailbag is overflowing with uh messages. Hey, what happened to the duos? What happened to the duo? We didn't do a duo last year. Everybody's upset.

SPEAKER_05

I've been getting people on the street with despite like pulling me aside and stuff.

SPEAKER_01

I bet Eleanor especially hates it, right? As a music teacher.

SPEAKER_06

Oh yeah. I mean, she hates it when we play, she hates it when we doesn't play. Um we can't, we don't tell you who we are or what we're doing anymore. That's that was that that was back before we got this cutting edge, like super cutting edge. That was something we used to do. That was because all the all the podcasts do that. They tell you the name of the podcast. They tell you, they tell you the name of the people, right? The hosts and the and the co-hosts, right? It's like the first thing they do. Yeah, we don't do that. No. That's like that's 2025. Or too way too cutting edge to be doing that. Yeah, we're we're we're uh we're just I don't know. We're like, we're um breaking, we're breaking new ground.

SPEAKER_01

You could say that, and you could definitely say that.

SPEAKER_06

Huh. I wonder what all those are. Are those some sort of like a I mean it's obviously some sort of a weed, an invasive weed.

SPEAKER_01

I always I always called it pepper vine, but I don't I don't know if that's accurate. Like it's a good thing. I must have heard somebody.

SPEAKER_06

You can't get rid of them, dude. I'm trying to get rid of them. Yeah, there's no way we're gonna get rid of that. Well, I got a tractor and he dug a bunch of them up. I'm getting getting pretty, I'm almost got them eradicated in in a couple scenarios. That's good. Um, and then you just got like a magnolia right there in the woods popping out.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, you know, it's pretty out here, man. Sure is. It's pretty the lush greenery is very pleasing to the eye. Yeah. How you been? I've been pretty good. I've been doing good. Summer, summer is in full gear, full swing, and um but is it really? Well, for my kids it is, yeah. I mean, I guess you're saying that way.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I'm thinking like summer the season.

SPEAKER_01

Well, it's technically it's still like late spring, but in terms of like psychologically, yes, it's very much summer.

SPEAKER_05

Because the kids are home. The kids are home.

SPEAKER_01

Well, what are they doing? Well, actually are they going to camp or anything? Yeah, actually, this week Betsy is at rock camp. And Georgia is not. Or she just like paints rocks. It's not that kind of rock. But uh they do it. There's like a week for the older kids, right? So Betsy is old enough now. Actually, she's not even tight. That week is supposed to be 14 to 17 year olds. And Betsy's still 13. They let her in early. They let her in early. So Betsy's in the at Rock Camp this week, and then in two weeks. What does she play? Uh this year she's doing guitar. Okay. Last year she did drums. Um they switch it every year, yeah. How to play it. Yeah, exactly. That's part. Like in the mornings, they do um like uh lessons, and then the afternoons they get into their bands and they write and practice the song that they're you know writing during camp.

SPEAKER_05

I see. So they're gonna teach them one song. No, they have to write it.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, okay. That's that's the deal.

SPEAKER_05

They have to learn some chords.

SPEAKER_01

Right, they have to learn chords. They might learn three or four chords. Right. They have a teacher that shows them how to play or whatever. But um and then George is gonna go. Right, she's going to the same camp, but it's the week for the little kids, you know, 10 to 13. Uh-huh. And that's in like two weeks. Uh-huh. But yeah, they got other camps lined up, and they're, you know, it's summer. Summertime is here.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, so she's just hanging out, reading books, probably.

SPEAKER_01

It was funny you mentioned that because we uh I had a conversation with her about this very topic yesterday. And what'd she say? She said something like she's not good at reading or she doesn't like to read, and I told her that that was complete horseshit and that she should pick up a book for 10 minutes. I said, 10 minutes is like I said, add up all the hours you spend on your phone.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

And then compare that to 10 minutes.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

And I said, I said, I won't accept it. Like, you just gotta read. Yeah. And I think I guilted and shamed her enough that she picked up a book. And uh But do you help her find a book? I do. Uh as a matter of fact, she she read the book that I was reading, which was recommended to me by her sister. But what about young adult? Like well, that's what this book is. This is a very much a oh yeah, you gotta wait for this car. Actually, they're probably gonna turn in right there. Do you know that car? Yeah, I see I see them enough that um turn on the first time. Um this is a one-way road, yeah. Sure is.

SPEAKER_03

And most of the time it's pretty open.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, most of the time. So he's gonna go open the gate. He needs to get a little solar panel on his gate. Right. Like you got the gate with the buttons with the solar panel. Yeah, they just installed this fence in this gate, like not too long ago. Oh, he's got a gate opener. It's his kid. Right, right. It's not the kind you're talking about, but yeah, um Right, so this book is super good. It's called A Good Girl's Guide to Murder. I'm sure it's very well known in like the young adult fiction world. And um, and anyway, so yeah, Torgio has started reading that. Oh, good. And it's super good. It's really good. I'm glad I read it. You read it. I read it because Betsy recommended it. She said, Dad, read this book. Okay. And of course, at first I was like, oh, I'm not gonna read this, this kid literature. Uh but I was like, you know, I'll keep an open mind. And I'm so glad that I did because it was super good. Yeah. Uh and I can't wait to pick up the sequel. But I haven't started. I just finished it yesterday.

SPEAKER_05

Well, my daughter is also having a little summertime. She's been going to school, I think, pretty much non-stop since high school. Okay. And she graduated college in the but she went the last three summers and graduated college. Uh I guess almost early, really. I mean, anyway, I all I know is that she hasn't had a summer off since high school, which would have been right because she was she was probably going to summer term, even though. Yeah, she went to summer school. Yeah, she went to summer term because she wanted to get done. Right, she wanted to knock out the credits. And so now it's her first summer, but shh when she she's going to law school in the fall. Right. And then they're gonna have her busy every every summer. First, second, third summer. I mean, first, second summer, third summer, she's gonna get a job.

SPEAKER_08

Right.

SPEAKER_05

Doesn't mean she has to go into the job right away. She might be able to tell them, like, oh, I'm gonna take off a little time. But basically, like this is truly like her last summer, please. She works, she works better when when she has she does better when she has a a routine. Yeah. So she she you know, she's bored, yeah, which is fine, and it's good for her. And they told her at law school, they said, you really need to rest before you come here.

SPEAKER_06

You want we want you to rest, we want you to overdo it, you know.

SPEAKER_05

So she's going with me on this trip uh tomorrow, um, going to Denver and then LA, and so that'll be fun for us. So she's got something to do. But she said, speaking of books, she goes, see this book. I said, Have you been reading a book? I was sorry yesterday, I was kind of joking around because I didn't think she read too much. She said, She said, I read it this book during the semester, and it was like, you know, uh however many pages, 250 pages, 300 pages book, whatever. She said, It took me all semester to read that book because I was in school. Right. She said, I read a book 30 pages longer yesterday, like today. Like yesterday, which would have been the day before. Right. So now she's got so much. I read this book and I read this book yesterday that was even longer than that. Right. So she's got so much time she read a book, an entire book in a day. Nice. Which I think is pretty good. I mean, now you're basically just sitting in bed all day at that point, which I think is what she just loves to do.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, but there's no you can't beat that. A good book where you can escape into another universe, you know, for a day, like you know, that's you can't beat that. That's the best.

SPEAKER_06

So yeah, book reading summer, huh?

SPEAKER_05

You know it. My my sister joined the book club when she got out to her new apartment complex out there, and she's enjoyed it. I think she enjoys having no, you know, meeting people, hanging out, have something to do, and make some friends.

SPEAKER_03

But uh I I I should uh I w I I w I don't know. I would like to get a book, but I don't know.

SPEAKER_01

Kind of I kind of guess I would like to I'd rather listen to a book so that I could do other things. Now that's an interesting question because I I've been meaning to get on Reddit. I I don't really I get on Reddit and I scroll a little bit, but I'm not very like um I don't post anything really. Yeah. And I've always felt a little guilty about that. I want to, you know, I feel like I want to be more engaged with the people. Yeah, yeah, right, exactly. And I've been for like years now, I've been meaning to get on Reddit and ask this on the uh Oh, I forgot what subreddit it was, but it's the appropriate one. If you listen to an audiobook, can you say that you've read that book? Well because technically you have not know that you have to ask Reddit because I'm right here. Well, I could ask you too, but I want to also ask Reddit. My son is dyslexic. Okay, and he only listens to books because he can't read very well. Now, what he so when he finishes listening to a book, does he say, Oh, I read? He always says he read this book. But he didn't read shit. He listened to it. Yeah, well, it counts. You can ask my question. Yeah, yeah, it counts. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Now, it it grammatically, it might be easier to say I listened to this book.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

But I think that it's fine to say I read this book. Well, I should have. I think you're gonna find people on both sides of that argument. Right. Because my son is dyslexic and he's always read, he's read, he reads all these books, yeah, and he says he read them. Right.

SPEAKER_01

But I just think it's fine. If you're dyslexic, I feel like you're gonna be able to do it. You get a pass. But if it's like if you're if you're capable of reading.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, but what if like I read slowly and I don't have good comprehension? Uh-huh. And so if I listen, I can make tile, I can make spin glass, I can paint, I can do all these things. Yeah, but you don't read that book.

SPEAKER_01

You listen to it. You know what I would say? I would say I listened to a book on tape. That's what I would say.

SPEAKER_05

It's not on tape, though.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, I know, but I would still say that.

SPEAKER_05

See, you can't, like, but you'd say you listen to it on tape instead of saying you read a book. A book on tape.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. I I I think it's fine to say you read a book and you listen to. I think it's fine.

SPEAKER_05

But I I we I am, I guess I am gonna be curious what reading.

SPEAKER_01

I'm gonna take a poll. I'm gonna take a poll. I'm gonna see what people uh say about that one.

SPEAKER_05

So I have I've gone over to uh my buddy Sliceberg's house today and picked him up, and I told him we're going to lunch at an undisclosed location. And it's still not disclosed.

SPEAKER_06

And we're driving now and it's still not disclosed.

SPEAKER_01

And what do you what what do you think it's gonna be? Well, uh based on where you're turning, KFC.

SPEAKER_06

We're gonna go to the now can we go inside? Okay.

SPEAKER_01

I love it so much that we're going here because I have lived here for going on 16 years. Okay. For 16 years, I have been driving by this KFC. And you've been at least 10 times a day.

SPEAKER_05

Oh yeah. Easy.

SPEAKER_06

We drive by this KFC, we can't go anywhere without driving by this KFC. And guess what? Never once have been here. You've never eaten here? Never once. Okay. There is a drive-thru backup like you've never seen. Wow. It's just, they're coming from every direction.

SPEAKER_01

No, yeah, that's no wonder I've never come here. I've been waking this line. But we're gonna go inside to their dining room. Oh man, dude. I always think about how you said you had the best chicken fingers you ever had.

SPEAKER_06

Dude, I'm gonna get I'm that was a different one. That was in Palakka. Well, there's gonna, I'm sure there's some uniformity here. I hope so. And I thought, you know what I thought. You know what? I think they've changed it into just a di uh like a pickup window.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, yeah, it says no. Maybe that happened during COVID. We did order in there, but we can go in there.

SPEAKER_05

We're not renting. Yeah, no, we were gonna order in there, but I just wanted to sit down in there. I don't even think they have it stuck down. Look at what is all that kitchen down? Yeah, yeah, it's weird. Like I see what you're saying. Anyway, I thought it would be fun to go to the old school. Um we're not I'm not sitting in the sun.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, that's in the school.

SPEAKER_05

There we'll find some shit out. Alright, we're gonna go in here and order some food that's bad for you. Bad for you? What is it? I'm talking about fried food. Talking about fried chicken and French fries and they got table.

SPEAKER_01

It might be hard to we'll have to pause because I can't believe I waited 16 years to come here. It's gonna be stuck here.

SPEAKER_06

It is a little late. I got the AT maybe not working, huh?

SPEAKER_03

Hey now. Good, good. Uh I want some tenders. Uh today. Okay. Take that. If you like by extra five, you get too big to get too small a size. Okay. Yep. Mac and cheese and fries.

SPEAKER_06

I got extra tenders if you want some. Okay. I don't need that many. How many was it? Eight? I don't need eight. I'm only gonna need three.

SPEAKER_01

I want a spicy chicken sandwich.

SPEAKER_03

Sandwich only.

SPEAKER_01

Sandwich only. And I want a uh a small coleslaw.

SPEAKER_03

Y'all have pom pom actually? Because every time I was here, y'all didn't have it, but y'all got it now? Uh oh. I'm gonna stay with the tenders. I wanna try it one time. You're gonna play this to me today. Oh, I want to drink. You got a sweet tea?

SPEAKER_01

Well, you know, evens out for you know the time jeep.

SPEAKER_03

Pausing, pausing.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, how you feeling? Yep, feeling never better. Never you feeling good? I feel great.

SPEAKER_06

I feel a little bit like um, I don't know how I feel yet. I usually feel good when I eat a good meal, like vegetables and stuff.

SPEAKER_05

And when I eat a bunch of fried foods and stuff, I usually don't feel as good afterwards.

SPEAKER_01

Well, I don't know. I don't know what's going on with that, but I don't know. I feel great. That was that was one of the most enjoyable dining experiences ever. That you've had all day.

SPEAKER_06

That I've had all day. So this is pretty much the closest restaurant to our house, and we pass by it all the time.

SPEAKER_05

And uh you've lived out here how long?

SPEAKER_01

15 to 16 years.

SPEAKER_05

And you've never never been in there, never been through the drive-thru. Never once. Never once.

SPEAKER_01

But so I'm that's why I'm very happy to now I can say, oh yeah, I went there.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. Yeah, who are you gonna say that to?

SPEAKER_01

Probably probably no one. Just people.

SPEAKER_05

Just you who are asking.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Oh man. But it was really hot in there. So it would, they had no air conditioning inside there.

SPEAKER_01

They had a couple little tables. Right. So this is you know, Florida, mid-June. You know, they got the they got the grease fryers cranking in there. It's uh, you know, it's very hot, is what I'm saying. Yeah. It's a little room, all the heat gets trapped in there.

SPEAKER_05

There's a little chalkboard that said fresh farm chicken from, and then they fill in what farm it's from. Right. In this case, it was from KFC. It was fresh farm chicken from, and it's the KFC. Okay. I shouldn't have got the eight-piece. Uh I I'm gonna go ahead and say that like in public here. I know for the record. Right. You regret getting the eight-piece?

SPEAKER_06

The guy I said I want tenders, and the guy said, Oh, we got a deal on the eight-piece. But and I I guess part of me thought, like, oh, well, you know, you'll eat some, I'll eat some.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, but then of course you wanted a spicy chicken sandwich. Of course I did, yeah. Which then I think I should have gotten that. Right. Then I think, why didn't I get a spicy chicken sandwich?

SPEAKER_01

Well, I'll give my kid one of those tenders to fill it.

SPEAKER_05

There was eight tenders.

SPEAKER_06

I had two tenders, and I have mac and cheese and a biscuit, and I'm like, okay, that's enough. Like, I'm I don't want to keep eating that. Yeah. I mean, I do. I do, but like I need a break.

SPEAKER_01

I need a little break. Yeah, it's good to take a KFC break.

SPEAKER_05

So I I think that I think that we ought to get into sports talk now. I mean how how how is it surprised it hasn't we haven't done it yet. I mean, I think that we need to get into sports talk because uh because we're it's like we're pretty much a sports podcast, right?

SPEAKER_01

Well, yeah, not pretty much. Certainly you watched that game last night. Uh I have no idea what you're talking about right now. Although I could probably guess.

SPEAKER_05

That's right. You were up at 4 15. That's right. And it's and that's when you woke up.

SPEAKER_01

It's not when you were up after the game celebrating. Yeah, that's that's correct.

SPEAKER_05

So you didn't go to bed. You weren't staying up till practically midnight to watch the game.

SPEAKER_01

No, but I I I gathered from my Instagram feed that it was a very uh dramatic game. I saw that the Knicks came back from a huge deficit in the dramatic version.

SPEAKER_06

So I watched that first game, the Knicks and Spurs. I've been watching OKC and Spurs. I watch Knicks and Spurs. I decide, okay, it's a good game.

SPEAKER_05

They're you know, either team can win, they're both good, right? I don't really care one way or another enough. It's not the Gators. I probably won't watch it again.

SPEAKER_01

Okay.

SPEAKER_05

Then I started watching the second game. Okay. And I didn't watch the whole second game. I was a little frustrated because it looked like the Knicks were gonna win again. I'm like, I want it to be back and forth, right? That would be more exciting. And sure enough, the Knicks win the second game. Then I started to watch the third game, and I realized, like, first of all, these games are late for us out here on this coast, right?

SPEAKER_01

Oh, yeah. On this coast where we live on, this uh east coast. You mean the same coast where the games are played? In New York.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, but why do they play them so late? I mean, like if but if you were in California, you'd be watching those games at 5 30.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like, they think they wait until the people on the west coast are off work. Oh I think, right?

SPEAKER_05

They well on this east coast where they're playing the games. Yeah, it's gotta stay up till 11 30, 12 o'clock. Which is fine. I stay up that late anyway. But if I'm if I'm watching TV that late, yeah, then I my my eyes want to close just naturally. It's like a it's some sort of a it's some sort of a spell is placed on me.

SPEAKER_01

Right. I know about that. I know what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_05

So I third game I'm watching some of that, and I'm like, I went to bed at halftime. Where I I I went to the studio, I did something. Right. And I've come to find out the Spurs won that game, and I was like, well, dang. Okay, very good.

SPEAKER_06

I could have watched that game because I don't want to see the Knicks win three, four in a row.

SPEAKER_05

No, that's poor. So last night I'm watching the game because now I'm like, well, now the Spurs could win it. Now it's gonna be a good one. And the Spurs are going off. And I'm like, oh, the Spurs are doing good. This is gonna be exciting.

SPEAKER_01

There's no way they're gonna lose this game. That's what you're thinking.

SPEAKER_05

Well, and then by halftime, we were up by 29 points. Now, when you're up at 10, anything can happen. When you're up by 20, ah, pretty good. When you're up by almost 30, the game's over.

SPEAKER_06

It's not over, but it's over. It does, it's not over, but it does, you do feel pretty confident.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

So then I'm I during halftime, I'm listening to a podcast, laying on the on the floor of the you know, living room, whatever. Yeah, and I fell asleep. And I wake up and it's the third quarter, and it uh we're still really far ahead.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

And then I fell into sleep again. And I wake up and it's the fourth quarter, and now it's like it's like a two-point game. Like they've caught up somehow. Unbelievable. Oh my gosh. So I watched the last few minutes, and I can tell you, anybody out there, spoiler alert, the Knicks came back to win by one point.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

And in the last, you know, couple minutes of the game. And the the I guess I'm happy for the New York uh fans. Yeah, I'm not, but okay. The New York fans are like really excited. You got all the famous people that seem to be excited.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, I'm gonna hold this thought, but keep going.

SPEAKER_06

Well, my uh no, you go, you say what you're gonna say, because I want to say I'm gonna I'm gonna expound about the the f the the the the famous fans.

SPEAKER_01

The fa all right. Well, I find that New Yorkers in general, and especially New York sports fans, I find them to be the most annoying, loudmouthed, objectionable people on the face of the earth. They won't shut up, right? Now, the Yankees, you name it, the Knicks, whatever. So I just like I feel like when the when they're if you're a New Yorker and you're a sports fan and your team is losing, you already won't shut up about it. Like you're already talking about your team. But now that the Knicks are like, you know, about to clinch? About to clinch the the the finals, it's just like, you know, all right. I'm like, I can't I can't think about it. So obnoxious. So obnoxious.

SPEAKER_06

Well, what if what about if this happens? So you know who's sitting on the court there, I mean, on the floor.

SPEAKER_05

You know, on the floor is the fame most famous people. Right. Of course, you got Spike Lee.

SPEAKER_01

You got Spike Lee very famously. You know who else? Larry David. Oh, who else? Jerry Seifel. Who else? Uh Taylor Swift. Who else? I saw um Timothy Chalamet. I saw Timothy Chalamet. With his girlfriend. Right, yeah. Who's his girlfriend? I have no idea. Kylie Jenner. Okay, I have no idea who that is. Okay. Well, it's Bruce Jenner's trans daughter. Bruce Jenner. Bruce Jenner was the transfer. Bruce Jenner was like a the track runner, right? Yeah. And he and he's transgender, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Okay, yeah. That's all right. I think he still had kids. Okay. I think this is his kids' kids, maybe. Okay, yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_05

Like Caroline said she's like a Kardashian. I don't even know. I thought Kardashian was the difference.

SPEAKER_01

Certainly I've heard of the Kardashians, but I think. Who even are they?

SPEAKER_05

She's just famous, right? She's as famous as a Kardashian. She's like hangs with the Anyway, Tillamy Chamonet, Timothy Chalamet and the Jenner Girls. And and Taylor Swift, right? Right on the court. Like I think they probably paid they probably paid extra for those seats. Like they probably were like 350 bucks for those seats or something. All the seats were 300, those were like 350. A little more, yeah.

SPEAKER_06

But what I want to say to you, Sliceberg, is this. In my sports talk uh evaluation and um of the scene, what would it be like if Taylor Swift got hit beamed in the nose with a basketball?

SPEAKER_01

Right, which is entirely possible. It's entirely possible.

SPEAKER_05

What if they ruined her face? What about Timothy Chalamet and Kylie Jenner got beamed in the basket face in the ear with the basketball and they lost an ear? You uh you bring up a valid point. Nobody's talking about that. Right.

SPEAKER_06

We might be the only podcast talking about that. We probably are, actually. I think we're the only one talking sports talk today. Yeah. Well, you're probably right about that. I mean, we're the only one with a sports talk like section. Right. No, right. There's there's probably podcasts dedicated to talking about sports. There might be a couple of those. Right.

SPEAKER_01

But this is just like a section within the podcast.

SPEAKER_06

And then nobody's talking about the fact that they could get beamed in the nose.

SPEAKER_01

So it's a little risky to be sitting there courtside, right?

SPEAKER_06

What if somebody what if what if um Wimbiyama, the big seven foot-four guy, like flew in the air and then his elbow knocks Kylie Jenner's jaw out? Right.

SPEAKER_01

That would be um quite unfortunate. Yeah. Do you think the referee would call him for a foul? Like, uh, is that a spy a celebrity um I don't think that you can get a foul on a celebrity? On a spike. Right, you have to foul another player, right? You don't get that doesn't count as a foul.

SPEAKER_05

Are you are you guys thinking about just starting like a collection of smashed cards, like Subarus out here on your property? What do you mean thinking about it? We already got it. Like it it looks like, but you're now so when people say, hey, can I store my smashed Subaru at your property? You'll say, sure. Right next to the other one.

SPEAKER_06

Oh my gosh. I don't think that thing's going away. Anyone you know what I didn't think of this. What about if our listeners need a um like a Subaru for parts? Maybe they need a couple doors, maybe they need a back a back hatch. Come on and get it. Maybe they need some tires. You'll be doing me a favor. They can get the tires off of that thing. Why wouldn't you guys get the tires for your car?

SPEAKER_01

I don't know, because probably your tires are fine. Yeah, tires are good. They look good. I'm looking at them right now. My tires look good. They look fair. But you could go take tires off of that car. I could. But now I gotta like jack it up. It's a lot of work.

SPEAKER_05

Dude, we just it smells like chicken now in here.

SPEAKER_01

AFC.

SPEAKER_05

I got six tenders here and a biscuit and some French fries. Alright. And we could go in here and feed the kids good healthy food.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Well. Or the one kid. One kid, yeah. Your wife is at work, huh? I love it when your wife works and you get to stay home. Oh yeah. Imagine how much I love it. Oh, do I have my um I need to get my harmonica from the car?

SPEAKER_01

Forget it done.

SPEAKER_06

Here, I'm gonna I'll I'm gonna I'm gonna go get it.

SPEAKER_03

So I'm going back to the car to get my harmonica.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, I can't say that um that food left me feeling like really great. It mostly made me feel like I want to lay down and take a nap, which is not a bad idea, actually, except I have other stuff to do today. I'm leaving town tomorrow. So I do need to finish packing. I like to I got busy all day today, so I gotta try to finish packing uh before four. Between two and four. What's between two and four?

SPEAKER_05

I'm gonna try to pack because it's at four I gotta go meet Kat, and then I gotta go dinner with Caroline's parents, and then I gotta go to the show tonight with my friends. And then uh tomorrow's I'm leaving, you know, so I'm I gotta pack.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, we got a little, we gotta talk about some. She's in trouble, basically.

SPEAKER_01

It's a business meeting.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah. You're having a business meeting. It's a work meeting.

SPEAKER_01

It's a work meeting.

SPEAKER_04

What's on what's is that supposed to have brown on it?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, because it's a tortilla.

SPEAKER_04

Oh. A burnt tortilla.

SPEAKER_01

Right. It's a it's an enormous blanket shape like a fowler tortilla. There's some chicken tenders there.

SPEAKER_04

Chicken tenders! Chicken tendies. Chicken tenders, can we get a mic stand?

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, you get some standards.

SPEAKER_05

Like maybe you have like a um an actual microphone stand.

SPEAKER_01

I I don't, but I should. I should.

SPEAKER_05

Maybe. I mean, this is gonna be a hard one. If we I know I know that's something that's aren't they so good? Are they the best chicken tenders you ever had? Dude, I love their chicken tenders. I honestly think of all the chicken we've had, they've got the best. I still think KFC's the best.

SPEAKER_01

KFC is pretty good, I gotta say.

SPEAKER_05

I mean, I do I do like um Chick-fil-A, I gotta say. Chick-fil-A is pretty good.

SPEAKER_04

They got good, they got good waffle fries, that's for sure. Somehow I think I think it's where are you gonna sit? Right here? Right here? Yeah. All right. This is good. Yeah, let's do this.

SPEAKER_05

Center You don't have to lean over too much. Hey, let's so we're in sports talk. Sports talk. So we talked about the So we talked about the game. So now here's the thing. It's three so they won by one point. Yeah. And so it's three games to one. The only good thing is they're going back to San Antonio where the San Antonio lost the first two games. Right.

SPEAKER_01

But they're going back. So the first game, I think. I think they played one game. I'm almost positive. Oh, it's two. No, because they because I remember seeing it. Are you sure? Wait, what's the one?

SPEAKER_05

I think the first two were in San Antonio, then the next two were in in New York. Oh, yeah, you're right.

SPEAKER_01

Is it three is it is it three to one? Yeah, you're right. I did the math wrong. You're right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

It was two there, two here, and then one one one.

SPEAKER_01

One one, okay.

SPEAKER_05

If they go that far. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Well, we'll see. When's the next game? Like tomorrow?

SPEAKER_05

Saturday night at 8 30.

SPEAKER_01

All right.

SPEAKER_05

I'm not going to watch it, but I'm going to be in Denver. Okay. And I don't know. I I don't think it's a good thing. I don't you know what I just don't care. I don't really I really would like to see what I all I really care about is seeing game seven. Right.

SPEAKER_01

That's mostly mostly care about.

SPEAKER_05

And then at that point, I would pull for the Spurs because I think. But I don't like I d uh on vacation, I don't think I'm gonna care enough to really like you know seek it out. I'll just see who wins. Right. And obviously if if the Knicks wins, it's over. Well, that's true because it will happen because a lot of times the Spurs get ahead by far in the first half and then they they lose if it happened the first two games. Oh man. So what happened with the with the tennis? Did they finish up the ticket?

SPEAKER_01

Oh yeah, yeah, that's that's done. Um uh yeah, the uh the uh the women's uh champion, um Mira Andriva, she's like 17, eight, she's like really young.

SPEAKER_04

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, she won her first Grand Slam. And um the men's was uh uh Alexander uh Zverev, uh German guy. Um again, that was his first Grand Slam title, also. So um yeah, it was fun. It was fun. And then Wimbledon is next. Oh man. So And what about the World Cup? That's nice that starts today. Yeah. We need wow, we should have just a podcast, just like you were saying. We have four more podcasts we could do. Sports talk only. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. We got a lot, we got a short one. It'll be like, you know, the World Cup. Like you gotta watch some of that? Yeah, yeah. I love that. Yeah. Yeah, I like watching it. I love the World Cup.

SPEAKER_05

Those are games you can definitely fall asleep on. Oh, big.

SPEAKER_01

But you close your eyes for a minute and somebody might score too. Right, which is probably why I like watching it so much because it encourages me to take a nap.

SPEAKER_05

Well, I I I I I I'll get into it as it gets like further along, probably. Although I can watch any of it, but like it can be I do when the when the teams are good and well matched, it's fun to watch. But sometimes it just feels like no scoring. Zero to zero is a really boring way to spend three days hours, however long those games are.

SPEAKER_01

Well, you're you've been watching basketball where they score like every three seconds, so it's kind of the opposite.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah. But I I do I do like to watch it. Is uh George is still up there. How many are you on? Is that your second?

SPEAKER_01

Look at you.

SPEAKER_05

I would you can eat all six if you want. You sure? All right, just eat five and leave me one. There's fries in there too, and they're still kind of warm there. You can have a fry. You can even have the biscuit. Wow. What did you see what a generous guy? You can have the biscuit. It's really good. I already buttered it with butter. With the with the spread. Uh so yeah, I guess that's it for sports talk, huh?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, pretty much.

SPEAKER_05

I feel like that was a good one. Let's play two. I feel like that was pretty good. It was like a five out of eight. What's next? I think we should get into the mail.

SPEAKER_01

Mailbag, of course, because we do it first. All right, here we go. I'm gonna open up the email program and see. Do you think we got some fan mail maybe from Oklahoma, bro? You better see. We're about to find out. We're about to find out.

SPEAKER_05

Oh, there's a there's a just before you get going too far, there's Grummy and I are having a back and forth on that email chain. Oh, okay. About what uh and so you're making plans. Yeah. So when you get to that one, you don't have to read it, but hand it to me and let me read it, and then I'll give a recap of the case. Okay, there you go.

SPEAKER_01

I like that, yeah. All right. All right. All right. All right, here we go. Email from the one and only MBLou. Yes. Uh the title of or the subject of the email is bonus content.

SPEAKER_05

Yes.

SPEAKER_01

Teams call? Uh well, it's a he's uh she goes, here's a shorty bonus field recording. So maybe not a teams call, but a field recording. How long is it? It is coming in at three minutes and five seconds. I think we play it right now. Play it right now. Play it right now. Here we go. Let me get this. We have a real high-tech uh system for this. Speaker, I just line up the speaker to the final bonus field recording for me.

SPEAKER_00

I'm going crazy with these people. Anyway.

SPEAKER_05

All right. I need more information to give you advice. Well, it sounds like there's a couple of extremely annoying customers. But what are they doing? Like, what are they complaining? Like, what are they complaining about?

SPEAKER_01

Maybe that uh she changed the hours to the pool. Maybe uh yeah, that's a good question. Maybe they're complaining about the facilities. Maybe that that water fountain is still bright.

SPEAKER_05

What do you do? How do you do customer circuit? You want more you want more information? I need more information, but I mean, generally I would say, like, if I have more information, I could give a better answer, basically. And I know giving good answers is is one of the is one of the things that I'm keen for. Yeah, you're known for that. But generally, I say that you just have to play nice, you know, like you when you're dealing with customer service, you just have to be like, okay, like well, I'll make sure to tell the um management about that, or I'll make sure to tell the owners, or I'll make sure to tell you know, you just take it in and just take it in. A better idea is to try to turn it around and like find out something about them that they're interested in, and then when you see them, ask them about that thing. And at some point, you're gonna turn out to be like they're gonna want to tell you that they're they want you to be interested in they're complaining because they they don't have enough friendships or special, you know. I think that there's a way that you could turn it around and become their friend.

SPEAKER_01

It's funny when you first started saying that, I thought what you were gonna say was you find out about them and then you can complain about them.

SPEAKER_05

No.

SPEAKER_01

So now now you flip it, so now you're complaining about them instead of the other way around. But that's you went in a different direction.

SPEAKER_05

No, you need to find out about them and then befriend them, and then all of a sudden they be don't become complainers anymore because they're excited to see. Like you don't want to you don't want to give them pouty face, you don't want to g give off any vibes that you're upset. You don't want you just want to act like that you're really keen on what they're saying and that you're gonna do what you can to address their concerns.

SPEAKER_01

You uh you have a keen insight into human psychology. Trevor Burrus, Jr.

SPEAKER_05

We get people that my it's one of my favorite things. You get one of these nasty customers and they're pissed about everything, right? Right. It doesn't happen very often. But let's say once a year, once every couple years, you get somebody and I happen to be there when they're there and they're upset about the it's burned, it doesn't have enough cheese, the the my server's not nice, whatever. And I take it as a personal challenge to make sure that I'm gonna make those people leave happy. I'm gonna give them some food, I'm gonna give them dessert, I'm gonna ask them how they I'm gonna try to find out what their grandmothers may name it. Like I'm just gonna like do everything I can to like find out what they're doing in town, like how like how it's going. And I'm gonna really just I call it kill them with kindness. Kill them with kindness is is the what I do. And it works. Yep, it works slice burger. I kill them with kindness.

SPEAKER_01

You get more flies. What's the saying? You catch more flies with honey. Catch more bees with honey. That's right. I don't want to catch any bees, but but theoretically, you would catch more with honey.

SPEAKER_05

I'm telling you, killing them with kindness is the answer to that. And about this coughing business coughing like a toddler, when you're at your own home, you don't want to be coughing over all of your stuff. Like if you could see, if if all of the stuff coming out of your mouth, have you ever seen somebody and they're like sitting beside you in profile, and for whatever reason the lights behind them or something, and then they sneeze or they cough, and you see the like spray of spittle coming out of their mouth.

SPEAKER_01

Right. Like when uh probably when Emmy sneezed on Shell Dog's head. That's what happened there. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

You can see, and it's like it's a big, it's a it's a big cloud of of contagion. Potential contagion.

SPEAKER_01

Right, yeah. Bacteria.

SPEAKER_05

Is that a good name for a band? Potential contagion. And so you I really think that even at home, you know, carry a little a little bandana or a little handkerchief. There you go, handkerchief. And then just cough into the handkerchief, cough into the handkerchief, cough into the handkerchief, sneeze into the handkerchief, wash the handkerchief at the end of the day, like it's your underpants. I mean, it's good, your underpants are gonna be cleaner than that thing. When you're doing that all over your house, you're spreading that stuff all over your house. And now I'm all worried about grummy. I'm going, like, first of all, I know that Emmy Lou's all upset because I get to meet Eleanor and Grummy before I get to meet her. Right. But now I'm worried because I'm gonna be going out to eat with Grummy, and if Grummy starts coughing, I gotta like be careful and start covering. I might need to bring like a face cover or something.

SPEAKER_01

Maybe you should gift a handkerchief to Grummy. Ah, there you go. I feel like the handkerchief is it has kind of fallen by the wayside, but I think it I think it's due for a comeback.

SPEAKER_05

Well, you know what we make. I draw I draw these designs and we make bandanas with them. Right, there you go. This isn't one that I made, but this is a bandana.

SPEAKER_04

That's just a brake hand right now.

SPEAKER_05

And bandana can actually work as a handkerchief or as any kind of a rag. Like bandana's a good a good gift that way.

SPEAKER_01

Trevor Burrus, Jr.: I feel like a bandana and a handkerchief, one could argue that it's kind of the same. Interchangeable. Exactly.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, handkerchief's probably a little smaller, not as decorated. A lot of times handkerchiefs just white.

SPEAKER_01

Right. I would like a little simple embroidery on mine. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

I might I might have to do I might I like that idea. I think I need to get a a handkerchief. I mean a bandana as a gift of grummy. So I heard so let's go ahead, because I'm gonna tell you about Grummy, but let's see.

SPEAKER_01

I think that's the next uh so this oh wait, uh yeah, here you go. Yep.

SPEAKER_05

This is the aforementioned e-ma I'm I'm gonna meet I'm gonna oh okay. Well, so no, she didn't write me back. That's fine. So it turns out, from what I understand, Eleanor and the twins are gonna be in Denver at that time.

SPEAKER_01

At that same exact time. Yeah. Unbelievable. What are the chances?

SPEAKER_05

Well, Grummy probably called Eleanor and said, You gotta come here because this guy wants to meet me and I don't know who the stranger is.

SPEAKER_01

It is gonna be likely.

SPEAKER_05

And the thing is, I have to tell my sister and my daughter, who don't know yet that we're meeting them for lunch. So with the plan right now, as it stands, is we get there on a Friday night. We're gonna go out to dinner, we're gonna hang out, and then wait, is this tomorrow night? Yeah. Tomorrow night I'll be in Denver. Wow. And if going out to dinner, my sister made reservations at the Italian restaurant. Nice. And then we're gonna um we're gonna come home and watch Love Island. Of course. Of course you are, yeah. Because of course. So Love Island is this reality show, and it's not the same as Love is Blind. Love is Blind, they can't see each other, and they want to get married, and they go through this whole marriage thing. Love Island is a totally different beast. Love Island is just a hookup culture on an island with young people. Right. It's totally gross and totally like terrible, bad. It's like everything about it's bad. It's bad stereotypes of men, bad stereotypes of women, total garbage, hookup culture, all everything it's just awful. The way it works is for six weeks, these people are they make an episode a day and in real time. Okay, it's in real time. Two days a week. They don't show on Wednesday and Saturdays, they don't have the episodes. But every night they have these episodes, and you're it's an hour long, and you're following these s couples as they hook up with their people, and then maybe they switch and hook up with somebody different. So the guy's like, I don't like you, I'm gonna go this other girl. Right. A girl might be I don't like you, I'm gonna go to this other guy.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

They have all these dumb challenges and all these dumb things they do, and there's a lot of slobbery kissing. A lot of bathing suits. All the women's bathing suits have no butt, like there's nothing covering their butt at all.

SPEAKER_01

That's uh that's good for the ratings, you know.

SPEAKER_05

It must be. So anyway, I don't care about this show at all. Last time it came on, a year ago or whatever, my daughter was talking about it, and she was just like, Oh my god, I can't stop watching Love is Blind, Love is Blind. I mean, love Love Island, Love Island, and she's like telling about it. I said, Well, maybe I'll catch up with you. She said, No, it's it's it's every day. And I was like, it was like two weeks behind, and I'm like, oh, forget it. Yeah, I never know. So now it came on, she's oh, love island. And I said, Oh man. And I and I and then she said, You can catch up, you can catch up. It's only been four days. And the thing is, we're going on vacation, so she's gonna have to watch it every day because she's so into it, right? Right, because she's so good. She can't miss it. And these are like 20, she can't miss it. You can't miss one episode, she can't miss it, and so I was like, dang it. I I have to watch it because I want to be able to commit like commiserate with her and like talk trash about it.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, it's it's a good like uh bonding thing, even though it's trash.

SPEAKER_05

And so I um I had to catch up, so I had to watch these four, and I kind of would fast forward, I kind of like quickly kind of just who are the couples, what are the deals, right?

SPEAKER_01

Right, you are.

SPEAKER_05

We watched this for six weeks, like I mean I don't need to know every little every little conversation. Of course you don't so then I caught up, and now when we watch one at night, like I text her, like, oh my god, can you believe can you believe Melanie did this? And she's like, Oh my god, what do you think about that? And I'm like, uh, can you believe and then I go on social media and there's all this like commentary, so I can send her commentary and she can send me stuff.

SPEAKER_01

And she can react to that.

SPEAKER_05

When we're when the hotel, like I ended up getting a hotel instead of a B. It was like the B and Bs didn't work out as far as placement and everything, but the hotels are nice and you know, two queen beds, big TV. So we'll lay there and be watching we'll be watching that every night. Love Island. Love Island. But I don't even remember why I was talking about Love Island.

SPEAKER_01

Um, because you were talking about your trip, and you said you're gonna go to the Italian restaurant. So we're gonna say then we'll watch Love Island.

SPEAKER_05

Then the next day, um, I we decided to meet them for lunch. Nice at a pizza place now.

SPEAKER_01

So this is Grummy and Eleanor and Paul.

SPEAKER_05

And the twins and the twins.

SPEAKER_01

So maybe just Eleanor and the twins.

SPEAKER_05

She said Eleanor and the twins, and so she didn't mention Paul, which means. No, maybe not.

SPEAKER_01

I bet Paul's working.

SPEAKER_05

I bet Paul's working. Or I bet sh like if Paul is coming, they just don't mention him because he's just doesn't matter yet.

SPEAKER_01

Only the twins matter. And Eleanor.

SPEAKER_05

Um but I I kind of get the feeling it's gonna be Eleanor and the twins. So then uh so so I so she said we go to this go to this Pete's place, Bojo's.

SPEAKER_01

Bojo's, yeah, that's their spot.

SPEAKER_05

I don't know if it's their spot. How do you know? Is that their spot? Because they've talked about it. Okay. Well, Bojo's is where we're going. And she hasn't been to this particular location. The only thing I'll say about Bojo's is I'm always a little hesitant to go to a place that has a bunch of locations, right? Right. I would rather go to a pizzeria that's just like this one pizzeria. Yeah. Maybe they have two, but it's like, you know, but when I pressed her on, is this the best pizza? Like I'm coming to Denver and you're gonna take me to this pizza place. Is it gonna be good pizza?

SPEAKER_01

And she said, Oh yeah, it's gonna be great.

SPEAKER_05

She said, This has got it's the only one with the celiac friendly. Uh-huh. And I've forgotten that Grammy was a celiac. So that's their own. So that's why we're going to Bojo's because they got a good celiac pizza.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, right. And that's fine, though, because I feel like That's fine. Bojo's is um my not not that I really know, but just from like recalling what they said about it, it seems like it's kind of like the um the standard in Colorado. You know, or maybe that's not the right word, but it's like it seems like it's a it's a Colorado thing.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, I think it I think it is a Colorado thing. And I haven't really looked into it. I looked at some pictures and they had this really huge crust that was maybe folded over or something, and they call it I think it's like a Colorado style of something. I think they tried to make up so uh I'm that's fine, but I gotta tell my sister and my and my daughter that I'm meeting this this uh this woman, Grummy and Eleanor and these twins at this lunch because we're we're going to Meowwolf. Of course. You familiar with Meowwolf? Oh yeah. So we're going to this place called Meowwolf. And so when when Grummy saw how far away I was living out of town, I was staying out of town, and I said I was going to Meowwolf, she said, Oh, we could like I could live close to me. Like it's easier for us to meet near Meowwolf. Yeah, since you're Meow Wolf anyway, right? We're going to Meowwolf. So I figured we'd go to Meowwolf after lunch. So I said, Oh, meet at 11. But and then I realized that my daughter, I don't know, it it might be, but we have to wait till 12 because my daughter gets up late, she wants to have coffee, but it is gonna be later for us. Wake her ass up. You're still in the middle of the state. She doesn't easily eat in the morning. Well, is she gonna be hungry the whole time? Or meow shit. Anyway, I think it if it's not 11 grummy, or and Eleanor is gonna be 12, but I have I have a number now I can text her. And we're gonna dial in the n once once I see my daughter tomorrow and we're sitting at the airport, yeah. You'll figure out I'm gonna go ahead and explain to her. Right. And make sure she'll probably be like, that's fine. She she's she's pretty easygoing. So yeah, we're so so t so tomorrow I'll be in Denver and Saturday I'll be eating pizza with Grummy and Eleanor and the kids, man.

SPEAKER_01

That makes me so happy.

SPEAKER_05

I can't even And where's Emmy Lou for this? Why didn't Emmy Lou come? Right.

SPEAKER_01

Emmy Lou could have come. It's not too late, go camp. Go get on a plane.

SPEAKER_05

No, just go get in a car. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

How long do you think it takes to drive from Tulsa to Denver? I'm gonna say six hours. I'm gonna say I was gonna say eight, but let's see. I'm gonna take I'm gonna take out the uh map program.

SPEAKER_07

Uh let's see. Tulsa. Denver.

SPEAKER_05

See if if you were gonna be there, it would make more sense. Oh, it's way farther than that. It's 12 hours?

SPEAKER_01

No, it's uh nine hours forty-four minutes. What did I say? Eight hours? You said eight. Uh I You said six. I said six. I said eight, and it's nine, yeah. Ten hour drive.

SPEAKER_05

Well, so maybe it's a little late. A little far. A little far. But anyway, they're only meeting me. If they were meeting you, they'd probably be more inspired. But we're gonna be in Fort Fort something.

SPEAKER_01

Fort Worth?

SPEAKER_05

Fort Worth. Dallas, Fort Worth. We're gonna be in Fort Worth in uh in August. Oh in August.

SPEAKER_01

I can't remember.

SPEAKER_05

So that gives her time to make it to Dallas if she wants to see us.

SPEAKER_01

That's right. We'll be there in uh end of August.

SPEAKER_05

We haven't really we haven't sorted out what which uh where we're gonna if we're gonna get barbecue at heart eight or what, but we will. We'll figure all that out. We got all we got all that. Right now we're just trying to make sure we get this. I mean, this is so exciting and awkward. Oh, hey. And you know, we're not doing a podcast next week. Oh, right, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. And so Well, there but you could make a field recording. I think I need a field recording, and that'll be what it is.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, perfect. I think I'm gonna need a field recording of the awkward pizza meeting with the twins and my sister.

SPEAKER_01

And uh Emmy won't even have to send the Teams call because she better. Well, she'd be she still can, but I'm saying, like basically you're gonna be doing a real life teams call in real life.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, yeah. I don't even know what Grummy looks like. Well, you're gonna you're gonna find out after March. I've seen Eleanor, I think, on a um Instagram. Yeah. And maybe she'll be there. And the twins, they should be obvious.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. Well, I've seen the twins on this. How old are they? About a year? They're I think they just turned a year, like um a couple months ago. A few months ago, maybe. I don't know, time flies. What about more mail? Oh, yeah, we got more. We got more mail? We got more mail.

SPEAKER_04

I love it. I love this podcast. We got mail.

SPEAKER_01

Uh I love that one podcast where it's just mail.

SPEAKER_05

We don't even know what it's called anymore or who's the host, but they just read the mail.

SPEAKER_01

They do mailbag and then sports talk. That's about it. That's my fair. And then they go, they get chicken, chicken tenders. Uh that was a good chicken, though, maybe.

SPEAKER_05

Oh, was it spicy enough for you?

SPEAKER_01

It wasn't that spicy, but it didn't matter. It was delicious.

SPEAKER_05

Do you do you have you had the Wendy's spicy chicken sandwich?

SPEAKER_01

Uh yes.

SPEAKER_05

And is it better than that?

SPEAKER_01

Uh I feel like The One at Wendy's is probably more crunchy. The one at Wendy's is good, but I've I've uh that's a tough call. I would say the KFC slight edge. It has a better the chicken is more tender. Yeah, the chick, yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Then what about the spicy one from Chick-fil-A?

SPEAKER_01

Chick-fil-A. Yeah, I guess it's been a really long time since I've been to Chick-fil-A, but certainly I'm I've had the chicken, the spicy chicken from the chicken.

SPEAKER_05

I can't tell you anymore.

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I do.

SPEAKER_05

You don't even know. You can't even tell me if it's better than Chick-fil-A.

SPEAKER_01

I do like those waffle fries, though.

SPEAKER_05

You don't you probably don't get fried chicken all that often. Like you don't go to Chick-fil-a or Wendy's.

SPEAKER_01

No, I go to Wendy's sometimes. I like Wendy's. But you don't go to KFC right by your house. Right. But maybe I'm gonna start if they get that fish. Yeah, that was funny. You asked him if they had the pot pie, and he's like, oh, I got one back there. And the way you said it, it sounded like it's been there a while. Yeah, it's one sitting back there for a while. You know, I mean, maybe not. Maybe it was fresh.

SPEAKER_05

No, I think that they're frozen and they pull them out for the lunch rush or whatever, but I I do want to try their pot pie. You know what? A chicken pot pie? It's kind of hard to beat that. It's really good. Dude, it's gonna be delicious. It made with with Kentucky fried chicken. Oh yeah, you can't beat that. They got some Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

All right.

SPEAKER_01

When you come back from your trip, they got some research behind that. We need to go back again.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Where are we? Okay, we got an email from Satchel.

SPEAKER_05

Okay.

SPEAKER_01

Subject. Review. Oh. It includes a screenshot of a review. I saw a review. All right. Uh okay. This is a review. Five out of five, not bad. Okay.

SPEAKER_05

What is this on?

SPEAKER_01

Like is it on Apple? It looked I can't tell from the picture, but it looks like it's I think it's Apple. No, it is Apple, I can tell by the color. All right. So somebody reviewed uh it and and they say airboats are people too. Yes, airboats have aircraft engines. Airboat culture in Florida is rivaled by the V8 powered long tail boat culture in Thailand. If airboats listen to podcasts, it would be this one. Oh, do you remember when we had an airboat episode? Oh, I absolutely remember. We had to explain to the world what airboats were. Right. And then remember I remember Jared famously emailed in. Oh yeah. And then he said, Oh, yeah, the time I went to Florida, we went on an airboat. Remember, yeah.

SPEAKER_05

And my friend Mike said, Everybody knows where the airboat is. And he started asking everybody who's been they didn't know what airboat is. Now we've got airboats reviewing us. What's the title? Or what's the name of the person who reviewed us? Or is the title of the review?

SPEAKER_01

The title of the review is Airboats for People 2. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Okay.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. Oh, and this it's uh Sean Clemens. Sean Clemens. Do you know Sean Clemens?

SPEAKER_05

Uh I know who he is. Like he's a local guy. He comes to the restaurant sometimes. I saw him recently somewhere. Uh I didn't say hi to him. I should have said hi to him, but it was from afar. I saw him somewhere. This this movie is local, like it's a local guy who's into like local stuff. He probably I didn't know he's listened to our podcast, or he used to.

SPEAKER_01

Well, it was this is from almost a year ago.

SPEAKER_05

Oh.

SPEAKER_01

So it was from Sean Plemens.

SPEAKER_05

If you're still listening to our podcast a year later, please write to number one podcast for people at gmail.com and let us know that you're still listening.

SPEAKER_01

Because we know you were listening in August 2025, because you wrote the review.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Which we did and it took us a long time to find it. It's been almost a year since we talked about airboats, but we should maybe we should do a podcast just on airboats.

SPEAKER_05

A whole just a whole podcast about airboats. Do we have any more mail?

SPEAKER_01

Uh we got two more. Okay. We got two more. We got fan mail, of course. All right. Oklahoma forever. Our good friend Oklahoma Bro, who says, What's up, fellas? Game four is going to be a pressured to be a pressured AF tonight. Oh, yeah. San Antonio trying to tie this series at 2-2. I'm pulling for the Spurs. Yes. I gotta know. Who do you guys have winning this one? Well, we talked about that.

SPEAKER_05

Well, so he's late to the game.

SPEAKER_01

Well, that's one way to look at it.

SPEAKER_05

Well, he's I mean, uh But he sent it on uh he sent it because the game was happening yesterday. He probably sent it yesterday. We don't talk about it till we're gonna be able to do it.

SPEAKER_01

He did send it yesterday, yeah.

SPEAKER_05

But I I I I and you don't even know you you don't even watch it. So you don't hardly even count.

SPEAKER_01

But I know I know just from Instagram that the Knicks are up to. Exactly. Right. So he was so last night before the game, it was two to one, and he was saying, oh, the Spurs could even it up at two to two. And then they were going to, dude. By every uh by all indications they were going to.

SPEAKER_05

Okay, here's uh my prediction because he did kind of ask what we're predicting even of that game for the next game, whatever. Yep. I I I I predict I predict that the Spurs are gonna win on Saturday to break it two to three. Right. And then the next following game, which I think is on Monday, I think the Knicks are gonna pull it out. Right.

SPEAKER_01

So you think so game six, you're saying?

SPEAKER_05

I think it's gonna be done at game six. Knicks in game six. Knicks and six.

SPEAKER_01

I think Knicks and six is what's gonna happen.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, I I I don't want that to happen, but but it could be I mean, because you know, obviously Knicks can win in game five, but I think the Spurs is their last chance and they're gonna want to really learn from their mistakes, you know. I would hope so come back strong, and it's in San Antonio. Right, home home court advanced. So I think that I'm gonna say if you got money to put down and you got 10, 20 grand you want to put on it, put it on the spurs.

SPEAKER_01

That would be, you know, if I put 20, 10 or 20 grand on a basketball game, then I would actually watch it.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

That would be the only thing that would make me watch it.

SPEAKER_04

But yeah.

SPEAKER_01

But uh that would make it interesting.

SPEAKER_04

It would make it terrible. It would be awful.

SPEAKER_01

Well, as as I as I said earlier, I'm absolutely uh rooting for the Spurs.

SPEAKER_05

Well, I'm absolutely rooting for Oklahoma Bro to keep keep sending us more uh information. Uh uh keep keep writing in because we need that fan mail. I feel like that that Babcocks and Oak and Oklahoma bro have kind of like I mean, we you know, I guess we did get Jared and Wayne last week. So we sure did.

SPEAKER_01

I love it when Wayne was criticizing you for uh that is my favorite segment of the podcast, the segment where you get roasted by Wayne for planting non-native uh flora in your yard.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, yeah. And what about for letting my cats go outside and eat and eat grass?

SPEAKER_01

Wayne, you this is the like our pie. That's my favorite segment, is when you roast gator, so keep it coming. I don't know.

SPEAKER_05

It's not my favorite. It's not my favorite. But my I I'm very I I gotta say that I'm very happy about the things in my yard and how it's looking. I've got some beautiful non-native plants. And I've got a lot of beautiful native plants. I mean, I don't know if Wayne knows this, but I've got so many ravignia. I've got like Ravinia taken over. I'm taking I'm I'm gonna have I'm putting Ravinia is all over my property now.

SPEAKER_01

That's native?

SPEAKER_05

It's a native flower. He doesn't even probably know what Ravinia is.

SPEAKER_01

I bet he does. I bet he does.

SPEAKER_05

I got Ravinia taken over. I got um I got uh something, I got one other native thing.

SPEAKER_01

How about that? What about the Lantana though? You got that going.

SPEAKER_05

Man, the Lantana is doing great. They're so beautiful, there's so many butterflies, they're so listening. They're such a nectar source, you know. I mean, the guy that's uh the guy that helps me a lot and with plants and stuff, he he his his uh his landscaping is called eco-restoration, but his is like Florida friendly while like uh landscaping, right? It's Florida friendly. It doesn't mean it's native, it's Florida friendly. It's just Florida friendly, yeah, right? And so he doesn't plant lantanas normally. He he plants as much native stuff as he can, but some things are not native and they're still do really well here. But uh he's um he's also into butterflies, he goes travels the world to collect butterflies. So he loves anything that's a nectar source, he's really into things that are gonna draw butterflies. Right.

SPEAKER_01

So he's more geared towards the butterfly guidance.

SPEAKER_05

So every if he can plant anything that's gonna bloom and have butterflies, he's into it. Yeah, native or not. Yeah, right. But but we we we we get a lot of native stuff. We have a lot of native stuff, actually. But uh but I'm doing a pulling weeds slice burger. I've been pulling ragweed. We have so much ragweed. The good thing about ragweed, the bad thing is it grows everywhere and it's hard and it's and it's gets big fast. The good thing is you can kind of pull it right up. Okay. I like that. So I mean maybe you do if I waited another month or two, I don't know, but right now it's about knee high, and I'm out there just and I'll just I can spend hours pulling up ragweed from my yard. I bet you could. Pope weed. I pull up the poke weed. Um, I pull up the uh uh it's called uh what's that one called? Nightshade. Okay. I have to pull up nightshade. I have to pull up the the potato vine. Yep. There's so many things I'm eradicating from my yard that are really, really bad. Smilac. The smilac is that's the one with the thorns. Yeah. I hate that. It's a vine that we have smilacs coming up the size of my little finger, right? That are coming up in this field.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

And then when you dig up the root, I dug up one. I I shouldn't say I, because I didn't really dig it up, but I had this guy that works for me to it. That's like saying you read the audiobook. That, right. That that root to that smile was as big as this table. It was as big around this table. I believe it. It was two and a half feet by two and a half feet square. It was this in it wasn't a square, but I mean it was just this enormous, massive root. I wish I would have got a picture of it. It was but he's digging those up all the time. Every time we come to a smile, the roots have been down there for 40 years. They're enormous. Yeah. And you can't just pull them, you've got to dig them up. Oh, but it's a good thing. Can't even poison them. Why not? Anyway, uh well, because you you can poison the if you poison this tiny little vine, it's not gonna go down and kill a root that's as big as you know, uh a watermelon.

SPEAKER_01

You're saying it's not gonna absorb enough, right?

SPEAKER_05

You have to just dig it up, yeah. Right. Now you can you can if there's a vine and you spray all the leaves with poison, it'll kill it, but it'll just pop back up next year because it's too big of a root. Right. The roots are they're they're the size of three watermelons put together, some of them. A lot of them. Terrible. All right, but anyway, let's let's not remind me of like of my uh row. And you call it a row or a row? A row. Yeah, I don't know. Row. I would say row. It's a row, right? Isn't that an English word? When you have a row with somebody, row.

SPEAKER_01

It's having a row, having a row. Shell dog was cracking me up on the Teams call when he was doing his British routine. You remember that? Did you hear that? Yeah, when he was talking about Catherine or whatever. Yeah. She's having a wash, she in the live. He was Shell Dog, you're killing me. That was so funny. Um But yeah, no, I feel like if you're British, you say Rao.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, I think we're having a row.

SPEAKER_01

We don't say row because we're American.

SPEAKER_05

We're not really having a row. He can he's just he he's whatever. That's fine. You don't have to live at my house. I get to see what I want in my house, my property. Right. If he doesn't want to plant Lantina, he comes to the gate and knocks, I'll say sorry, we're full in here and can't come in. Nope. Nope, nobody comes in unless they uh agree with my planting and cat policies.

SPEAKER_01

Right. Unless they don't criticize my cat policies. Do you have more uh mail? We got one more. And it is from uh Eleanor, of course. It's from Eleanor. Uh okay, here we go. Bolo, postcard last seen entering a mailbox. Hey podcast friends. I mailed another postcard today, but who knows if it will ever make it. I hope to hear the sound of Sliceberg's voice reading it soon. So and so does he. I am off to Denver tomorrow. Maybe I'll run into Gator, question mark. And she sends the picture, she's photographic evidence of her putting the postcard into the mailbox. We could almost read the postcard right now. Right, but don't do that. That's not quite the same, but we could. Maybe she did that on purpose. So in case, or I I should say when it gets lost in the mail. We can still read it. We can still read it. Yeah, good good call, Eleanor.

SPEAKER_05

Good call taking a picture and sending us a um dil proof of proof of mailing.

SPEAKER_01

Proof right, proof of uh proof of mailing.

SPEAKER_05

Proof of mailing.

SPEAKER_01

Proof of mailing.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah. That's it, huh?

SPEAKER_01

That's it. That's it. That that yeah, that's it. That's all she wrote for the mailbag.

SPEAKER_05

All right, well, since we deprived him last week of music, I think we're gonna have to give him more music right now. Yeah. Some for some reason, sometimes fan mail or all the time, I think fan mail also comes to my personal email.

SPEAKER_01

You're talking about um like when Oklahoma bro, right?

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, and I think it's because when I set up the account, I set up my email, and then so instead of going it also it goes to it goes to number one podcast, it also comes to me as the owner of the account. Right, I got it. And it seems like there was one I saw. Recently where Oklahoma Bro asked us about a lawnmower. I remember somebody asking about a lawnmower.

SPEAKER_01

Was it on Instagram maybe? Uh yeah, yeah, this does ring a bell. Let me ask you about a lawnmower.

SPEAKER_02

But it wasn't, I don't think it's a good thing.

SPEAKER_01

Was it um was it would have been shell dog, maybe? It could have been. But I do I certainly remember uh ask uh here remember I remember the lawnmower uh question.

SPEAKER_05

But I don't think that we that was set I think it's been since last week that the lawnmower question came in. Could it have been fan mail that you saw and then it wasn't lit up? Is there two fan mails? Let me go each other fan mail.

SPEAKER_01

So you should so yeah, I guess if you saw it on your email, it would have been a fan mail.

SPEAKER_05

Are you on the email program? Alright, I'm gonna go look on the Instagram program.

SPEAKER_02

This is just yeah, I see the ones I see the ones from Oklahoma bro, but it's not the none not talking about any lawnmowers.

SPEAKER_01

Who was that that asked? Was it Jared? No. I think it was um No, it was Sheldon because remember he was talking about um we did cover it last week?

SPEAKER_02

It was from last week? I remember it. Maybe you know what? It could have been um it could have been he talked about it in the teams call. Really? It wasn't it wasn't Wayne.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I think it was I'm pretty sure you're remembering something that happened in the Teams call that Shell Dog was talking about, I think. Okay.

SPEAKER_05

Well, all I remember is somebody, one of our listeners, one of our gentle listeners, asked us to weigh in on uh on a on a on a lawnmower situation. Right. Riding lawnmower. Right. Yeah, and I and because is and and I had and and and and and I remember because today I was on my riding lawnmower and I was thinking of it. Oh yeah, somebody wants to know my thoughts on the lawnmower. And I started to gather them at that point.

SPEAKER_01

Right.

SPEAKER_05

So what are your thoughts? Well, I have a I have a a zero turn, right? Which you pay more for. Now that's the one that has this, right? Yeah, okay. Right? They have them with steering wheels now. Oh, okay. But he was doing his arms back and forth like it's two two sticks that you move to like a tank. Yeah. But the zero turn is great if you have to go around a lot of trees or you're going in and out. Like if you if you have a big just a big square yard, uh-huh, I feel like a regular riding lawnmower is fine. You go down, you turn around, you go back, you go to back. So you turn around, you go, you make a big square, whatever, right? But if you have a like my yard, which is full of trees and all kinds of things in the way, I need I don't that thing would just be inefficient. You want maneuverability. I have maneuverability. Now, I would last time I was at Lowe's, I happened to see the riding lawnmower out front, and they want about three grand for it. I'm sure it's like a three, three thousand dollar gas package riding mower, yeah. Right. Um, and if you want a zero turn, you're probably gonna spend four grand on one, you know, or five grand according to how at least, yeah. But I'm all for it. I love my I I love my zero turn. I got the electric one or the battery powered one because it was on it was a sale and it had a five-year warranty for batteries and everything. Yeah, covered everything five years. I'm like, I'd get a five-year warranty. Sure, yeah. So it does everything I need to do in a charge and it's quiet. And it's uh it will but it was five grand. It was five grand. I'm sure it was, yeah. But I'm on my third year now with it. And how's it working still? Today was the first day that I was just like, what is up with that? Like I went, I went to get in it and I turned it on and it came up to 76%. But it should have been full. It should have been 100%. I can understand if it's at 99 or 98 because of, you know, it's been a couple years, but it should be at 76. Uh-huh. So I'm gonna try check it again, and if it's if it doesn't, if it's does that again where it's in the 70% range, I'm calling my warranty in. Well, that's what it that's what it's for. Hey, dude, this thing ain't charging. Now, I went out and mowed everything I needed to mow, and I still had 25% left, so it's not a big deal. Right. But it should be able to charge. But anyway, I would hope so. Yeah. It's supposed to be a two-eight, it's supposed to be two to three acres.

SPEAKER_01

And one charge?

SPEAKER_05

Yeah. Wow, that's great. I have a couple acres. I do each other, and then one charge.

SPEAKER_01

But you were saying it's like uh multiple batteries, right? This one has can hold six, and I have and it comes with four. So you could theoretically get two more, have six batteries, and you could do probably more than three acres with eight.

SPEAKER_05

Well, I think the three acres would be if you had all six. Oh, okay, okay. And I'm doing like probably an acre and a half with four.

SPEAKER_01

So four is good, yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Um but yeah, I could get two more batteries. I just haven't needed them. And now I'm so curious as to why it didn't. Anyway, uh yeah, I say uh I say if you can get a a a riding mower, it's better than a push mower for sure. But what about you could use a riding mower?

SPEAKER_01

Well, I do, I've been for the last 15 years I've been saying that to myself that I could use one.

SPEAKER_05

And you and guess what, how much use you would have gotten of it if you got it 15 years ago when it was a lot cheaper.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, but in 15 years ago, they certainly did not have battery-powered ones. Would you get a battery-powered one? Like if I went to get one now? Yeah. Oh, absolutely.

SPEAKER_05

I think I think that'd be the way to go, man. Over here? Yes, absolutely. Now, here's the other thing. My I am really into my yard, like staying. Like, I like mowing it. I like keeping it down places. You want it to look manicured. I want it to look manicured. Even though nobody's out there but me, I enjoy like I well, I know for one thing, if it gets too big, my mower's not gonna really handle it at that point, right? Right. That's the other thing. So if I let it get too big, then it's the electric mower's not really gonna want to cut it. So but also you there's it just I I like to walk around in my yard. I just I like it much out here where you live. I don't know that you really you could probably let yours go all summer if you wanted to in places.

SPEAKER_01

That's what I do. Yeah, you just don't know it. I don't mow it.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah. And it kind of seems like what's the point?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I don't I don't know it. Well, I mean, I yeah, I just got that push mower. I could get out there without a little bit, but it's just a little yeah, place where the kids can play or something. Well, yeah. Oh, they're not playing outside. Yes. I wish they were. I wish they were, but they're not. They're not playing outside.

SPEAKER_05

I spend my whole day outside. It's great, but I gr I every day I come in and I'm like, oh, I'm so tired. I'm so worn out. But now they're pulling weeds. It's hot out there. I got stung by a dang bee today or while I hit a palm frond with my mower and then a thing stung me in it.

SPEAKER_01

Oh I hate that.

SPEAKER_05

Oh man.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

What else? What else we got? What uh uh what do you got? Are we done?

SPEAKER_01

Like we're done. I mean if we didn't have the mail, we'd really be stuck, wouldn't we? It would be sports talk and that would have been it. And it's only because the finals are happening. Right.

SPEAKER_05

Well, I guess we'll be able to talk about the We'll talk about the World Cup. Yeah. This is going to be one of the premier World Cup podcasts for sure.

SPEAKER_01

Tune into this podcast for all your World Cup updates analysis, updates, insight.

SPEAKER_05

And we'll tell you what you need to know so that when you go to your workplace and people start talking about it, you can chime in like you watched it. You'll be well informed. And you can just act like you know you'll be well informed and you don't you don't even have to watch the 90 minutes of torture.

SPEAKER_01

Of nobody scoring goals.

SPEAKER_05

Of nobody scoring goals. And you can just say, oh yeah, so and so. We're gonna give you the names, the great the the the countries. We'll give you everything you need to know.

SPEAKER_01

All the all the relevant information.

SPEAKER_05

You know, I really feel like I had a bunch of stuff to talk about that I forgot about now. A bunch of important stuff.

SPEAKER_01

Remember in the back in the day we used to put it on a Google Doc and we would kind of go use that. It's been a long time since we've done that. But that's how we used to do it, right? Right.

SPEAKER_05

And then yeah, you could just you could just add everything you think about it.

SPEAKER_01

Right. So that was that's what we need now, is all the all your ideas needed to go onto the journey.

SPEAKER_05

It's like we're I do you think the podcast used to be way better? Probably used to be better. I think it's better now. You think it's better now? I think we get better with Oh, I'll tell you one thing I did do this morning. I got up, I didn't really want to get up. I said, Oh, it's podcast day.

SPEAKER_01

Right. That's getting uh what's the point of even getting out of bed? Oh, the podcast. All right, let's go.

SPEAKER_05

I said, Oh, it's podcast day. Let me um ask a question of um let's do this. Right. This is like check in on the AI. What's going on with AI? People hate AI and I get it. Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_01

They really do. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

I saw this controversy today on Facebook when I was on there briefly about this local business called um uh the uh what's the game room called? Oh, oh, oh, I uh bragging rights.

SPEAKER_01

Did you see that? No, okay. Just right before you came over, I was on Reddit and I saw the thing you're talking about, but like then you showed up and I was like, Oh, I didn't have time to read it. Did they do it with the the wall right on 13th Street? Or on uh 34th Street, I meant. What do they do? Well, the picture I saw was that was you know the iconic wall on 34th Street? Yeah. It was like a it was like they painted a mural on there, but Bragging writes. Oh, they did? But well, I didn't know if it was AI or not.

SPEAKER_05

Oh, that's what it was. So that the the post I saw on Facebook said we are we use AI in our advertising, and that's been great for us. We we it's really cheap and we we use AI and it it doesn't cost as much money and it increases our business.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, this is a I know you just said this, but this is a video game arcade. Yes, local in Gainesville, right? So that's what we're and they have a lot of games. The place is amazing. I love it.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, you pay one price, which is $25.

SPEAKER_01

Unlimited gameplay. They have pinball machines. So many pinball machines.

SPEAKER_05

They have everything.

SPEAKER_01

And they have all of the important video games of my childhood. Yeah. So any Gen Xer is it's like it is just like their wet dream. It's amazing.

SPEAKER_05

So okay, so that's the user AI in our advertising. So obviously on their Facebook or Instagram or whatever, they're using AI to maybe it looks like they painted a wall they didn't paint. Right. I think that's what it was. And they're like, but honestly, like we are we we the get the prizes we give away are by local artists. The owners aren't making any money here. They do this as a labor of love, they haven't been paid. Okay. We're all about local, but this is what it's coming and we're using it and just get over it kind of thing, right?

SPEAKER_08

Sure, yeah.

SPEAKER_05

And but they have this long post on on Facebook, and then and then I just noticed it said 161 comments.

SPEAKER_01

I was just about to say about the comment section is pure gold.

SPEAKER_05

Dude, that I want to go back and read it. I didn't because I was like, I don't have all data. But I would like because you know there's people who are like, you shouldn't use AI if you're people hate AI. Oh, I know, yeah. And then there's people that are like, yeah, good for you, whatever. Like right. They're trying to be upfront and honest, say, hey, we do this. Yeah. Whatever. Yeah. I don't I when what let me see. When do I use AI? I can look at my my history and see when I use it. I don't use it very much. Oh, a friend of mine uh has a painting company and she wanted logo and stuff, and so she was going on AI to do it, and I just helped her like by prompting, like, okay, I'll help you make a logo. Like, I can draw her logo. It's not gonna be as good as the logo that they make her, it's quick and easy and done.

SPEAKER_01

Like, I don't she doesn't want to pay me by the time you got the piece, it would have been.

SPEAKER_05

But anyway, that was good. Um oh, I had I I had this drawing. There's a there's really good uses for it. I had these drawings I did uh many years ago, say 15 years ago. And you you you know the the the the joke uh uh uh business in the front, party in the back. I'm familiar with that joke, yeah. So have you so I don't know if you've seen this shirt. So it's a a drawing of me, it's supposed to be me with a handlebar mustache. Right. And it says business in the front, satchel's pizza, and I have this like tight up top hair, and you can see it's long in the back. And then on the back side of the shirt, it says party in the back, lightning salvage, and you can see the back of my hair, and it's just like long flowing hair, right? Because we have the the front is the restaurant, it's business, the back is the party, it's the bar. And so, but it's a picture I drew, I drew myself. It's kind of goofy looking. Yeah, and so I've seen this shirt. I could not find where I where this drawing was or where the print was. Like I went to the t-shirt printer and I went through their because I have them keep all my original stuff because I don't keep up with stuff, and it wasn't in there, so I was like, I don't know what I'd do with so the only copy that I have is Caroline's t-shirt from 15 years ago. So I took pictures of the t-shirt because I want to make a koozie. Okay. And I want the koozie to have these drawings on the front. The back of the koozie.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

And so I took pictures, but the back of the shirt was so faded that you couldn't see parts of it.

SPEAKER_07

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_05

And it was really faded. So then I said to my son, like, hey, will you clean this up? He goes, Okay, like, that's not going to be easy. He's trying to think about how he's going to clean it up using Photoshop or whatever. So three days go by and he doesn't do anything. So I finally just plug it into Chat GPT. I said, Can you clean this up? And I think boom, I get back with this perfect thing. It looks totally perfect. It just cleaned it, it just took the fade of it out. Yeah. It made up what went. So that was super useful for me. And so now I'm just waiting for those.

SPEAKER_01

I think doesn't Danny use AI on those posters anymore. No, he doesn't.

SPEAKER_05

He makes those from scratch. Okay. Making those posters. And they're beautiful. They're so good.

SPEAKER_01

There is my band was saying that he uses AI.

SPEAKER_05

No, he doesn't.

SPEAKER_01

But I wasn't sure.

SPEAKER_05

He doesn't. Yeah. He doesn't. He he was showing me six of them the other day, and he like had spent he spent two days doing them recently, and he makes a match, like the same color schemes and some to put up at once. Okay, yeah. But he no, he gets the picture, he grabs the different fonts, he does all that himself. And if it was in if it was AI, it wouldn't look they wouldn't look that good. Yeah, like AI stuff ends up looking like a little more like you can always cartoony or something.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

It's not no, he doesn't actually. That's the amazing thing about it. Um, anyway, I had some questions about air purifiers because my mom had some mold in her house. So these are the things that I use it for, but I don't use it very often. But anyway, this this read my question at the top, this from this morning. So this is you asking AI.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, just because I it was podcast day. All right. So here we go. What can you tell me about number one podcast for people? Oh my gosh. Can I read it? Yeah, well, that's the point. All right, AI says number one podcast for people.

SPEAKER_05

This is this is Gemini. This is a this is Gemini.

SPEAKER_01

Number one podcast for people is a delightfully unpolished, free-flowing comedy and news commentary podcast created by Satchel and Guests. True to its name, it brands itself simply as, quote, a podcast for people who want to hear about, quote, stuff.

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Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01

Oh my gosh. Okay, oh, this is too funny. Okay. Here's what it gives, here is what gives the show its distinct grassroots charm. The vibe. It trades high production polish and panache for authentic, unedited, and beautifully chaotic conversations. Episodes are completely unscripted, if I got that right, and feature recurring hosts and guests like Gator, Slice, Sliceberg, in parentheses, Eric, Pat, and Danny handling the sound evolution. That was that one episode that Danny did like two years ago. The content. These guys hang out, respond to listener mail, and chat about everyday life, work, mulch, and sports. Like Charlie talking about the Jags. Episodes range from a quick five-minute Teams call to nearly two hours, uh two hours of the crew grabbing subs and just shooting the breeze. It's true. We did grab those meatball subs that time. The structure. There isn't much of one.

SPEAKER_05

What are they talking about?

SPEAKER_01

And that is exactly why its listeners love it. It completely lacks a rigid, produced feel, allowing conversation to develop naturally with no set length. It is a refreshing, cutting-edge slice of audio for anyone tired of hyper-produced corporate media and just looking for a good laugh with people talking about life. Isn't that good? That is so good. Thank you, Jim and I. You know what? I I have come around. I am pro AI now. I am so for AI.

SPEAKER_05

Well, the thing is, the AI, Jim and I, can like go in there, look at everything we've done, and give you that so quickly. I have to do that.

SPEAKER_01

That's a good that's a that was a really good. That was a good idea. In in a hundred years, I could not have written a better one than that. We talk about mulch. That's amazing. It's amaz that is actually quite amazing, I have to say. It's impressive. I want to hate AI, but I am super impressed by that.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah. Well, anyway, so that's our AI section for the week. Sorry, because I know some of you hate AI. You know who's one of them. Who you know who hates AI the most. Who? Wayne. Wayne, oh, of course, yeah. We were talking about AI one time, and he's like, come on, guys, talk about real life.

SPEAKER_01

Right. Well, I get you know what? I get his point.

SPEAKER_05

You think he's out there on a tractor right now listening to us on his tractor? Uh on some kind of big piece of equipment. I hope so. I bet he's got like a long sleeve button-up shirt on. And some fat, some thick jeans material, like some car heart style pants. That is 100% true. Yep. He's got a hat on, glasses.

SPEAKER_01

Actually, I did see Wayne um early, like it was last week, I guess. They were doing that control burn down there toward the bottom of the loop.

SPEAKER_04

Okay.

SPEAKER_01

And I and I had drove by and I had known about it because Carmen, our friend Carmen, had texted the the neighborhood group text message about it. And sure enough, I drove by, there was Wayne wearing that exact outfit that you just described. No, I was driving like 60 miles an hour down there. So yeah.

SPEAKER_05

So I I guess that's about it this week. If you have an a of a Smash Subaru that you would like to send here to make to make uh to our new Smash Subaru lot. Yeah, just reach out to us and reach out to us and we will we'll make sure to get that over here to sit next to this other Smash Subaru.

SPEAKER_01

We got plenty of room for it. We already got at least one Smash Subaru.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah. And I'm real excited to be meeting Eleanor, the twins, and Grummy. Possibly Paul. Why would Paul's it's the weekend? No, he's working. It's the weekend. He's working. He's working. He's the weekend. He's gonna come.

SPEAKER_01

Well, we'll see.

SPEAKER_05

Do you think that he okay? So she's leaving with the kids to go see Grummy. Solo. At Paul's staying home and partying?

SPEAKER_01

Well, I don't know if he's partying, but he's gonna see. I mean, he's gonna go see his girlfriend. I mean, what I don't know about that, but he he he the important thing is he would get to like clock out from parenting. I bet that she's letting him do.

SPEAKER_05

I bet my my wife would let me do that sometimes. I got a little bit of that. She let you clock out. I would go off for a couple days and leave her with the kids sometimes. Yeah, that's true. And sometimes she'd do the same thing.

SPEAKER_01

Well, yeah, of course, of course, of course, of course. It needs to be equitable and needs to be fair.

SPEAKER_05

Well, uh, we're gonna we're gonna um we're gonna be eating some some Colorado style pizza. This is happening the day after tomorrow? Yeah, that's my block. Right around the block, dude. I'm gonna be rocking with Eleanor, the twins, and Grummy and my sister and my my daughter.

SPEAKER_01

Send me a picture or at least put it between Instagram. We need to get a picture. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

We need to get a picture. We're gonna put it on our Instagram. Yeah. We're gonna have to, even if it's just a five, like so when when I come into that restaurant, yeah, I'm gonna be recording. And I'm telling them I hope so. I'm gonna be recording. Yeah. And I'm not gonna, you know, I'm not gonna have a big fuzzy microphone and big lights and everything, but I'm gonna have some fuzzy microphones. I'm gonna I'm gonna throw my phone down on the table and we're gonna have to record some of this initial awkward conversation where these people meet that have that have spent so much time together.

SPEAKER_01

You know what? I bet it's I bet it's not gonna be awkward. I bet it's not gonna be a good one. I bet it's gonna be like me and family. Right, exactly.

SPEAKER_05

But but but what's what's weird is like they we they listen to us so much.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

They listen to us talking so much of their lives is now wrapped up with all whatever stupid crap we have to say. That's because on this podcast we do talking. I we you know, on this podcast we have names and we do talking.

SPEAKER_01

We do talking, that's what we do.

SPEAKER_05

Uh those kids, Theo and Jonathan, we're gonna watch them grow up and they're gonna be they're gonna have to be podcast guests. They might even have to take over the podcast.

SPEAKER_01

I was just it's funny you said that. I was I was just about to say we should hand it off to them and we can hand off them the podcast.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, yeah. And they could take over.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, that would be that would be great.

SPEAKER_05

But we're still doing it. I don't know if we're gonna keep doing it because we're getting tired of doing it.

SPEAKER_01

And also, they're only one year old. So they're only one year old. Yeah, they gotta grow up a little bit. They don't they don't even talk yet.

SPEAKER_05

So you know are we gonna keep doing the podcast? Of course.

SPEAKER_01

We are not well, not next week, but the week after that, yeah.

SPEAKER_05

All right, we're gonna come when we come back, we'll keep doing it. Yeah, sure. I come back on the 22nd. Do you know what day that is? I think I come back.

SPEAKER_01

Isn't that the uh summer solstice? That's the longest day of the year.

SPEAKER_05

Or is it the 21st? I never know. Oh, June 22nd. Okay, cool. That's a Monday. So I'll be back for the following, the next podcast. All right, so yeah, so next week it's gonna be um field recording. Oh, I do have one more thing to talk about before we do our final uh uh outro. That's the um the the the the movie. What movie? The Happy Birthday to me. Oh, yeah, I saw that. Did you that a joke, or did you really No, so the the thing is. Is like I had applied to submitted to these movie festivals, and I I don't know how much of this I've explained. Maybe I've explained it to you, maybe I have explained it on the podcast, maybe not. When I was doing that, I was just like, ooh, I want to go to Paris, I want to go to Barcelona, I want to go to Ontario, Toronto, Toronto, wherever. And so I'm applying to these places. I'm not really even looking at the festivals. Well, most of the time, if you're in a big city, these are big time festivals, right? And so they're not just showing like weird sh experimental shit that I'm making. Yeah. I'd I'd I'd submitted to all these festivals, and I was trying to pick ones that were like the date was soon because I don't want to wait till December to find out if I got into some festival or not. This project is over. It's not that big of a problem. It's not like I spent my whole life making this movie and I gotta get it out there. I'm gonna, you know. I was basing on where it was. My friend who's in Oi, who does movie, like film, they make movies. She was visiting right when I was done smitting. I was like, I can't submit to anymore. This is crazy. And she goes, Oh, I talked to her about the movie. She said, Oh, you need to apply to verticals. What you're doing is verticals. Have you heard of verticals? So verticals is the new thing, right? Verticals is movies that are in 169 that are for your phone.

SPEAKER_01

Phone movie, right?

SPEAKER_05

Right? And verticals is all the rage. So people are making little short little movies that are like four minutes and they'll do a series of them. Right. And you watch them on your phone, like a TikTok thing or whatever.

SPEAKER_01

Right.

SPEAKER_05

And they're the the thing she was saying about mine is because it's 12 months, you could break it up into 12 seven minute sections, right? And it would be you could it would be easier to place and stuff like that. Right. But there's whole festivals that are about verticals. Okay. She said there's also festivals that are about art, making art. Mine's about making art. Yeah. So there's festivals where you just, it's just like we want to see what art you're making or whatever. Right. So I was like, oh my gosh, you tell me that now. But I didn't, I was, I had been spent a couple weeks doing it, and I was just like, I spent a bunch of money because you have to pay to for the festival. Sure. I said, uh, forget it. It doesn't matter. I don't have any energy to be like putting into this. I don't even think like I didn't even realize well. So as time went on, I realized like, and you're getting rejected from festival, rejected for rejected, rejected. And I was like, oh, like these, and I look at these festivals like, oh, these are like these are like canned. Film festivals, right? And so I'm like, my film is like made on a phone, it's real like thrown together or whatever. And so I was like, whatever. I'm not gonna so I decided what I would do is at some point, maybe around my next birthday, maybe I rent the Hippodrome, I invite people in town. I'm gonna have a show. Great idea. One of the things about my movie that I think is interesting is when you you know, like when you go to a movie, everybody's like, put your like, put don't have your phones out. Like the last time I watched a movie, like don't have your phones out, don't talk, blah, blah, blah. They're real strict. My movie's the opposite. It's an experimental. Hey, if you want to talk, you can talk. Sure. If you want to have your phone out, take your phone out. Like, this is because it's a silent film, there's you can have a conversation with person next to you, you can pull your phone out and check. I don't care. Like, that's the kind of movie it is. So, so I think that that is just another thing that makes it interesting. Anyway, um they so the these festivals are happening. I'm not, and I'll but I but I haven't if I have it in town, I would tell people, like, hey, whatever, just no, no big deal. So I had given up on the festival thing, and then all of a sudden I get an email. It's like you've been selected to be in this festival. Yeah. I'm like, whoa, and it's in Toronto. I thought that'd be cool. Yeah. And so I went to um I went to the place where you um I went to the it's it it the it's a site where you fit you're looking, you submit to festivals and they tell you about festivals and stuff. And um, and so that's where I and and I said, let and and you can read um you can read reviews of the festival, right? This is called the Toronto Arts and Entertainment Film Festival. Okay. The Toronto has like a big film festival. This is a new festival, it's only in its second year. Okay. We're two years running. So uh I went to read a review, actually, my wife did, and she read to me, and I it's such a good review. So here's a review of this festival that I'm going to, right? I know nothing about these festivals. You don't know what you're getting into, right? The festival is a two-day festival, June the 27th and 28th. So at the end of this month. This June. Yeah. So they're telling me right now, you've been selected to a festival in two weeks, right? Now you don't have to go to the festival. You can do your movie can get shown. You don't have to be there, right? But I the whole point of me submitting to festivals is so I could go to a place and be like, hey, you guys can you guys can do whatever you want during my movie, and after the movie, let's have a discussion about time because it's about time. What do you do with your time? Da-da-da. And uh, and so I thought that would be the fun part is is that part. So I um so then Caroline looked into it and she found out that she's like, okay, this festival is happening in this theater. She, I don't know where she found this information, not from the place I'm about to read, but she just found it's happening in a theater that usually only shows Bollywood films in Hindi or whatever, right? And they've rented this theater for two days. Yeah, they have like this festival supposedly has like 15 categories experimental, horror, sci-fi, whatever, shorts. How are you gonna show that many films in two days? You know, you've got 15, 20 different categories, right? And then you've rented this Bollywood theater, which is fine, but it's like it's just it it that's just that it's not like it's all over town at different theater, it's at this one theater two days, right? In two weeks, right? Right, but this is the this is the um, it says why this guy writes, while I am grateful always to have a film accepted by a festival, I'm sorry, but this festival was not a good experience. In order to do better next year, the showrunners of the festival would need to, you ready? Oh, I'm ready, stop talking to each other constantly in the theater during the screenings. Stop using brightly lit cell phones in the theater during the screenings.

SPEAKER_01

It sounds like this is perfect for your movie, right?

SPEAKER_05

Exactly. Stay to watch films other than their own, made by themselves and their friends, recruit an audience, their statement of audience size is vastly exaggerated, providing networking with other films provide networking with other filmmakers, provide better food options, answer email communication in a more timely fashion, upgrade the technical quality of the image and sound. This was a first-year effort. Here's to better results next year. So that guy was not impressed. Well, uh so it sounds like the people throw in the festival potentially make films and and their friends make films, sure, right? So here's the next review, right? The effort and excellence offered from the team presenting this festival is unparalleled. Driven to create an avenue for filmmakers and viewers alike, this outreach recognizes creativity as its highest form. We appreciate the kind acknowledgement of our film and the encouragement of our message. Thank you to everyone involved for your efforts on the behalf of others. Nice. So it sounds like it's written by AI, doesn't it? Totally. Um so anyway, I I wrote, so they say you've been accepted, and then the the email said, you know, send an email to the info at film festival, whatever. So I wrote and I said, Hey, um, do I need a certain like DCP file for this film? Because I don't have like I would have to get a pop file made if they're gonna try to show a certain file. I was like, are you screening my film? Right. Is it gonna be screened? Like you can accept it, doesn't mean you're gonna show it, I guess. I don't know. Right, you want to make sure. Um I was like, uh, and then I was like, if if I need if I'm gonna be I can come there, but I need to know if if I'm gonna come, I need to make a plan. You know? And then I was actually very surprised to get a response the next day that said, We're making the schedule up tomorrow and we'll get back to you. Okay. I was like, okay. And so then I'm I was doing something yesterday and I thought, oh, I know they're about to make the schedule. Let me like, let me, let me butter them up a little bit. So I wrote back and I said, Hey, look, I'm a full-time artist. I have a lot of time on my hands. I made a silent film, but I'm not a silent person. I have plenty to talk about. Love to talk about my movie and how what we do with our time and how that it's that we think about time and how what we do with our time. And we stare at our phones all the time. But here I want you to stare at your phone while you watch my movie. But I'm like, uh, I, you know, I said, I can, I I want to, I would love for to do a QA or to talk about stuff. I give me a good time slot. That would give me, why don't you give me a good time slot? I'll come up there. Yeah. And then I'm like, um, I um I'll help you guys, whatever you need help with. Because I'm looking at it like, and I said something like, you guys are obviously organizing this at the last minute. So if you need any help, I can help you. So my thing was look, this is uh this is just up my alley. This is a rinky dink festival and a rented theater, Bollywood theater. Right. And and and let and they've picked mine as an experimental in the experimental category.

SPEAKER_01

I say it is experimental.

SPEAKER_05

So let me go up to Toronto. Even if there's 10 people in the film, I'll have fun. You have a weekend in Toronto. I'll have fun in Toronto. I show the film, I I did what I wanted to do. You know, that was two days ago. Yeah. They didn't write, have I heard have I heard anything? I don't think they're gonna I think I might never hear from them again. Like, there's a really good chance that I will never hear from these people, and they'll decide not to do the festival.

SPEAKER_01

But as you pointed out, the fact that it's June 11th, and they're just now making up the schedule. I feel like that tells you everything you need to know about this festival.

SPEAKER_05

Like, well, that person who reviewed it honestly told me everything I needed to know about the festival. True. Like they don't have an audience size. Like, but I'm also thinking, like, okay, you're in Toronto, you have the a potential ability to bring a crowd in for something like an ex uh a film festival. So who knows? I I I've never been to Toronto. I don't know if I'll be going when I get back from this trip. I might turn around and go somewhere else.

SPEAKER_01

But might as well just go straight there from straight to Toronto.

SPEAKER_05

But I really true I it's just I'm just gonna leave our listeners and you hanging on this thread because I really think that nothing's gonna come of this. That's my prediction. That's what it seems like. And then uh, but there was there is, I will say, there is one more film festival that I once she told me that about finding the right festival, uh, my friend, I did find one and apply to it that I'll find out in the next week. And it is in Poland, and it is on art. And it is the whole they want to see films about painting or about sculpture or about making art. Perfect. And my movie is all about making art and it's a festival. And they're in Poland, so they'd probably love to have somebody from America come out there. I would go to totally go to Poland.

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Yes.

SPEAKER_05

I would go to Poland, so I might not get accepted to that one either. I I'm that's the one I got my hopes up. Like I really just want to go to Poland.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, well, it is a movie about you making art, so I feel like it's perfect for that, you know. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

You never know. Yeah, you never know. But anyway, it might just be at the Hippodrome next January. That sounds fun too. Yeah, that'll be fine. Free popcorn.

SPEAKER_01

Right. Hippodrome with the free popcorn or Eastern Europe. You know, it's yeah, international or just local. Right, or yeah, downtown Gasville.

SPEAKER_05

All right. So anyway, that's the uh that's the news. That's the news. So we take them out with a uh a Diddy. Of course. Yeah. Of course we should. This will be available on Spotify later today, this new song. This is a new song we've been working on called uh uh called um Washed Up Film Festival. See, I don't want to say that because I I did I did include links to my social media and links to my podcast when I wrote it back. Wait, wait, did I did I link to my podcast?

SPEAKER_04

I don't think I did I where did I link to my podcast? Oh, where did I link?

SPEAKER_05

Oh, you know what happened? That was some there was like a Jacksonville magazine that was interested in doing a piece on me for the restaurant and everything. Uh-huh. And uh they asked me for links, and I didn't link there to the podcast. But it wasn't. But so I don't think that these people up there are listening. Probably not. Yeah. Probably not. So we can call this song Washed Up Washed Up Film Festival.

SPEAKER_06

I'm gonna let you start.

SPEAKER_05

Uh an hour and forty two minutes. That's good. That's good. Let's stop it at hour forty three. See if I can sit right at the exact second three seven, eight, nine.

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