A Boomer and GenXer Walk into a Bar
Wit and wisdom, some smart assery, and a Mother and Daughter questioning “Are we even related?”
A Boomer and GenXer Walk into a Bar
Unveiling Freaky Facts and Everyday Safety Sagas; Things You Should Know S:1E21
Unlock a trove of fascinating and practical wisdom as we spin tales of scurvy-induced scar surprises and the quirky midnight musings that refuse to let us sleep.
Ever wondered how safe your food and cleaning habits truly are? Navigate the murky waters of everyday safety with us as we lay bare the freaky truths about what might be lurking in your food, courtesy of the FDA's defect levels guide. Join us for a wild ride packed with essential tips, energy-saving hacks, and laugh-out-loud moments that promise to leave you both entertained and enlightened.
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welcome everybody to today's show. A boomer and gen x are walking to a bar, coming to you from our rabbit run studio on the road. Once again, uh. Today you, as a listener, will experience some wit and wisdom, some smart assery and a mother and daughter questioning. Are we even related? My name is Bobbi Joy and my co-host is my mom, jane, and we are here to entertain for as long as you'll have us.
Speaker 2:Because some people may be tuning out already. I hope not, I know right. People may be tuning out already. I hope I know right. I will say we've been getting some really good feedback, uh, back from from people and, um, we really appreciate y'all following us and liking us and if you would please share our podcast information with your friends. We're on facebook and, um, you can contact us through through gmail, gmail, and we just we really appreciate it so, yeah, and you can even leave comments on Spotify, you can rate and review us on Apple podcasts.
Speaker 2:I mean, there there's a lot of different ways that you can reach out to us a lot of different ways, and what we really love to hear is what topics you would like to hear us talk about. Yes, that's always interesting and we're up for the challenge all the time, so whatever you want to throw our way, that's what we'll accept. So today, before we get into our topic today, I was just getting ready to ask you what our topic was today, bobby well, I had said to mom um, before we started recording.
Speaker 1:I said you know I'm gonna give a little little fun fact that not a lot of people know and it it'll kind of roll into the um topic today. So you know how. You have those things that you kind of think about like every once in a while for me it's like daily or a few times a day and it's just random crap that pops into your head and you don't know where it comes from. Do you ever have those?
Speaker 2:oh, gosh, I don't know. Just like I know that I am, I must be adhd. I have got to be, because most of my thoughts come to me at 3 30 in the morning when I'm laying in bed. You know, did I turn off the stove? Oh my gosh. Did we lock the door? What happens if the dogs get loose, you know? I mean just, there's just so many different things. Did I wash that shirt today? Oh my gosh. Do we have to mow the lawn in the middle of winter? So yeah, there's a lot of stuff that I think about at 3 30 in the morning yeah, mine are kind of different, so I'll share with you one of the prevalent ones recently.
Speaker 1:Um, that pops into my head about three times a day and some people are going to hear this and go oh my god, so okay, buckle up, buckle up okay click, click. Did you know that? You know what scurvy is right?
Speaker 2:yes okay.
Speaker 1:So for those who don't know, it's a lack of vitamin c. Um it was, it was huge, you know, back in the the days of sailing uh you know they used to get it on the ships yep, right. So did you know that if you have scurvy, if you have a bad enough case of scurvy that your old scars will reopen? What?
Speaker 2:no way. What do you mean? Your old scars will reopen. You mean, like if I cut my arm, that my scars will reopen?
Speaker 1:them, even if they've been healed. Yes, because now listen to this. So vitamin c is um. It's vital for something called collagen synthesis, which is the primary protein responsible for wound healing and scar tissue formation. Now, old scars, they have to constantly have that in order to stay closed. It's not something that just closes and then, oh, it's done, it's healed permanently. It's a constant you know thing of where it constantly has to have this in order to stay closed. So if you get a bad case of scurvy, I would be like soup, because everything would break open. I have like a billion million scars, yeah, and it just. This thought haunts me at least three times a day.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh. So you'd be like a zombie, walking around with all these open scars, wounds and everything? Oh, it'd be bad. I would just be a puddle of soup. Oh my gosh, I've never heard such a thing. Now I have to look that up and find out if that's really true so I'm not going to do it right now.
Speaker 2:but I'm going to challenge you on this one, because I've never heard that before. Now I do know vitamin c obviously does a lot for the healing and I take vitamin C because I bruise easily. And since I bruise easily, I have to take vitamin C. So there's that, so I can see how they could be related. But wow, I've never heard of such a thing before. Well, and you wouldn't think about it.
Speaker 1:You know today, because we have so many food enriched vitamin C sources that it's not even an issue you know today. But I mean it just. I don't know why, but it just pops into my head randomly like two, three times a day and I'm, yeah, this bothers you on a regular basis.
Speaker 2:Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. So two or three times a day, you're thinking about scurvy and that you hope that you don't have a vitamin c deficiency, that you're gonna burst open and bleed on everybody. Okay, okay, I think you've been watching way too many shows or something, I don't know, but I am going to challenge on this. I'm coming back. I'm coming back on that one because I'm going to look that up absolutely do it, do your research.
Speaker 1:But you know and that rolls into today's topic, which is going to be um stuff you should know but you probably don't hey, you know that's a good topic.
Speaker 2:That's a really good topic because here's why I think that's a really good topic and I'm why I think that's a really good topic and I'm glad you brought it up is because I've been watching a lot of these kids not know how to. You know we've talked about it before they don't know how to change a tire. They don't know how to write in cursive. They don't know how to read cursive.
Speaker 1:They don't know where to get a roll of quarters. They don't know they didn a roll of quarters they don't know.
Speaker 2:They didn't know that you could get a roll a quarter. Yeah, well, I'm gonna let you start it out. Then what? What's one thing that you think everybody should know and it's probably a common theme thing, but everybody should know it I think that you should know to never mix bleach and ammonia oh, that is good because I've done that before.
Speaker 2:It gets very toxic. And when you're yeah, because what you're doing is you're stacking chemicals and yeah, and it creates a deadly gas, it does, yeah, and it isn't just. It isn't just bleach or with ammonia, it's bleach or ammonia with several other types of cleaners, because I've used like comet and bleach before and just about passed out and did not know that that was, you know, a no-no.
Speaker 1:So, um, yeah, that is a good one purposes. We won't be getting into the the mix, but you can also create chloroform from cleaning products hey, sometimes you don't want to chloroform yourself so that could come in handy to have some of that in your back pocket.
Speaker 2:Okay, I'm gonna throw one out there, okay, uh, were you aware that the food and drug administration has a handbook on the food defect levels that are acceptable in the united states? And what I mean by that? And I, we can, we can post the the site for this.
Speaker 2:What I mean by that is the government allows, let's say, so many rodent hairs in being oh yes, pork and beans or so much larva in peanut butter or x you know X amount of um poop you know like rat poop in you know your your rice or whatever it is. There's, there's a whole booklet on this that the government has, yeah, and I got to tell you you had some interesting reading. It'll gross you out, but it's so interesting and it's hard to put down.
Speaker 1:Let's talk about the fact that there's even an acceptable amount of human flesh allowed.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, human flesh allowed in certain foods. Now, what I mean is that, like somebody cut their finger off while they were, I don't know, making elbow macaroni and it fell in there and it was like, well, that that doesn't put us over the threshold, let her go or maybe like they're, they're culling the field and they find a dead body and they don't find it in time and they're like, oh well, we might have run it over with the bay.
Speaker 1:You know the bailer for the hay or something that's funny right there.
Speaker 2:So let me give you another one, and I don't think everybody is aware of this, but when a lot of the vegetables on uh in corporate uh farms, a lot of the vegetables and fruits and things, when they're picked they're boxed up and they're put in boxes right away and they're not washed, what comes to mind is I want you to think about how many people crack open a head of lettuce yes, and don't wash it Gross Thinking that it's clean.
Speaker 1:No, I can't do that.
Speaker 2:Now some packaged lettuce will say washed and ready to use. Right, I don't trust that either. But yeah, so a lot of that stuff, whatever the toxins are on it, whatever the fertilizers are, whatever the uh herbicides were, whatever the pesticides were, they're all still on there and a lot of people don't recognize that or even realize that. So what? Even if you're going to peel those vegetables and fruits, wash them first, right, what else you, what else do you have?
Speaker 1:um, oh, here's one. So expiration dates, they're not just for your food, they are also on your tires, your car, seats for children and even your makeup.
Speaker 2:So I want to talk about that for tires, because I was in the energy business and we had a lot of trucks on the road and we had to determine how old our tires were. It isn't it wasn't always just a matter of wear and tear on the highway, it was do we have a lot of dry rot on these tires? Are these trucks sitting, you know? Is the sun damaging them? Right? And there is a way to tell, uh, what year and what month that tire was made. And I think what's really important for people to know on that is you go to a tire store and they pull them off the rack and it looks like a brand new tire, right, it's got all the labels on it, might have even had some wrapping on it, still got the little nubbies on it, um, but it doesn't mean that that's a brand new tire that could have been sitting up on the rack dry rotting for 10 years for all you know, unless you check that date.
Speaker 2:So yeah, that's, that's a good one right there.
Speaker 1:Another one here, I got another one for all you teenage parents out there, the difference between deodorant and antiperspirant. So there is a difference. Okay, doesn't? One have mercury and one doesn't, so they're not interchangeable. So deodorant actually targets the odor and in a person, antiperspirant it combats the sweating. Yeah, so you can have both in one stick, but you can't, like, use deodorant for sweating. That's not what it's for. It's for the smell. The antiperspirant is to stop the sweating. So there is a difference there's a big difference.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there is a difference and I think some of them have. You know, like I said, I'm not sure if it's mercury or what it has in it, but it uh, I always used, um, uh, deodorant. I did not use antiperspirant. Um, I am braca positive, meaning that I am susceptible to cancer and I've had some surgeries because of that, and so anything that's even remotely close to something that could trigger that I stay away from. So I've always used a deodorant because it just makes me smell better. That's it. I don't use an antiperspirant ever.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:All right, what's another one from you? Okay, so another one from me is did you know that oh gosh, I just had it on the tip of my tongue Bottled water. The government doesn't regulate bottled water. Somebody could take their bottles and take them home and fill them in their bathtub and sell them.
Speaker 2:And the government bottled water as bottled water because the government does not have a regulation associated with bottled water Right now. You know people are concerned with bottled water because of the plastics um associated with, you know, the bottles themselves and a lot of times those bottles will sit out in the sun or they'll sit in hot warehouses and they could sit for a long time, and yeah, so that is one thing that I think people are not aware of is that there are no regulations as it relates to bottled water.
Speaker 2:I remember when I was a kid, somebody somewhere said oh, just wait, at some point they're going to be making us pay for water or our air, and I thought that's silly. You know why?
Speaker 1:would we pay for that Now?
Speaker 2:look at us drinking bottled water and you know most of us try to use filtered water out of our own homes now just to try to reduce the amount of plastics that we're using. But yeah, there's no regulation there. What's another?
Speaker 1:one that you have. Oh, let me think um here.
Speaker 2:I've got another one, so I'm not sure that everybody knows this, but it's not applicable to everyone. But if you move out to the country and let's say that you no longer are on a natural gas line, you don't get natural gas from a company. You have to have an LP tank or a propane tank. That your equipment that you brought from the previous house is not going to be applicable for the new house because the orifices have to be, uh, drilled out. Did you know that, bobby?
Speaker 1:okay, okay, so like yeah, because it's a different type of gas yeah, one's heavier right, yeah.
Speaker 2:So yeah, that makes sense, yeah so a lot of people think, oh, I've got a problem, I gotta buy a new stove. Or you know, whatever the situation is, or you know you're not going to bring your furnace with you. Typically it's just your stove, right right and when they bring a new stove maybe a gas dryer yeah, maybe a gas dryer, and those things have to be modified before you can actually use them. I think that's a good tidbit of information, even though it's not applicable to everybody.
Speaker 1:That is, though that is especially for people who are thinking about, you know, the homesteading or the moving out in the country, away, you know, off grid, and things like that. Yeah, that's something that you really have to think about.
Speaker 2:And more and more people are going off grid. It like.
Speaker 1:I mean I see a lot of shows related to it oh yeah, yeah, I mean that's honestly, that's ultimate goal for me. But, um, so on appliances, um and we had talked about this before because I asked you, did you know? Your washer and your dishwasher have filters that have to be taken out and cleaned?
Speaker 2:well, your washing machine. Let's talk about that, because when I built my house what's? It been five years now that I built my house somewhere around there and of course I got all new appliances, everything's brand new, and I noticed there was this little opening, this little hatch, at the bottom of my washing machine, because I've got front load, everything Right. And I noticed this little hatch and you know, my whole thing is is hey, you know if it's not causing a problem.
Speaker 1:Yeah, leave it alone, leave it alone.
Speaker 2:And you called me one day and said, hey, did you know you need to clean that filter in the bottom of your washing machine? And I go what filter are you talking about? And um, so I get down there with and and you, you warned me. You said, hey, you're gonna have to put some pan or something under it because it'll run some water out and it's going to stink and whatever else. And so, yeah, I did that. And uh, yeah, you absolutely have to clean those out. Same way with the dishwasher. Oh, how gross is that? That's the most gross thing. You open your dishwasher and you go why is this thing smelling so bad? Yeah, you got filters in the bottom there. Folks, you need to clean those out and see.
Speaker 1:And when I bought my house, um, back in 2018, was the first time that I'd ever had a front load high efficiency washer, and so I ended up getting an error code on it, because I go through like 63 million loads of laundry a week, and so I ended up running an error code on it and I'm like, oh my God, my washer's broke. It's only been, you know, six months and I'm going to have to get a new washer these dang kids, you know, and whatever. And I called a friend of mine and he goes no, he goes, check your filter. And I said, excuse me there's a filter, yeah.
Speaker 1:And he goes. Yeah Well, he didn't warn me. That's the, that's the funny part. He didn't warn me that when I pulled that filter out, there's going to be like a gallon of water comes spilling out onto my floor. Yeah, so you pulled that thing out and I was oh my God, there's a filter in here. I wonder how many people actually know about this.
Speaker 2:So okay. So here's another one I have mentioned multiple times. I worked in the energy business and for a short time period I worked for a distribution company, meaning that there's transmission companies and there's distribution companies, right? So the transmission are the big lines that come across country and they're either high voltage or, if you're, you know, if it's a gas line, it's a high, high pressure line. And when you get down to the distribution, that's every, every house, every, you know garage, every storefront, every. That's distribution lines. And a lot of people don't know this. But and they think, just because I shut my equipment off, it's not drawing electricity and it is.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm here to tell you it definitely is.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm here to tell you it definitely is. So if you are not using and I want people, I want our viewers to test me on this, because this wasn't something that we told our customers when I worked in the distribution side of the business right, but um, you can save up to about 33 percent on your electric bill if you disconnect everything. That's that's you're not using.
Speaker 2:So, I really want to want people to test me on this. I want you to think about what don't I really use on a regular basis and just walk around the house and unplug these. Like you know, I unplugged things that were in the guest room. I don't have guests there all the time. I don't need an alarm clock, you know, on all the time when they're not there. I don't need the TV plugged in the entire time when people aren't there, and so you know, just kind of look around and say what can I unplug, because it really and truly does draw on the electricity and it can save you some money, absolutely. There's my money saving tip. I'm usually not a very good money saver, so there's my tip. Let's go for one more good one, bobby, because I think we're running out of time here, oh gosh um, a good one.
Speaker 1:Uh, here's a simple one that a lot of people don't know and a lot of young folk don't know um, that little arrow on your gas tank icon that you know. You look down and you see how full your tank is and there's that little arrow. That's what side your gas tank is on when you go to get out to fill your gas tank that's right.
Speaker 2:A lot of people don't know that that's right. No, absolutely, I think that's a good one. Um, also, there was something else. Oh, your, your idiot light. You know, when your engine light comes on, there's a little engine that comes on your dash and it says it says I'm not feeling you might want to check me out, and so when that engine light comes on, you really kind of want to take care of your vehicle before that engine light comes on. But let's say it comes on. If it's steady light, it means it's not something critical. If it's flashing, it means you need to get the car in right away or the vehicle in right away. Did you know that?
Speaker 1:I did not know that, because anytime mine comes on, I go hook it up to a reader and find out what it is.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, and you know you can, and we have readers too, and so you can read what the error code is. Some of it is just you know something that the factory or the manufacturer put in there, that you know they want you to go change a filter out. That really doesn't make any difference to your vehicle, but a light comes on because of it.
Speaker 1:But yeah, Sometimes it's just because you left your gas cap off. That is true.
Speaker 2:Or you didn't let it click four times before you shut it, you uh shut it off, or before you uh put the nozzle back. Well, I think that's probably all we have for right now. Um, do you have any others, bobby?
Speaker 1:I mean, this was kind of a fun little yeah, I would say I do have a critical one, um. So listen, if you're ever in a scenario where you've been stabbed or impaled by an object, don't remove it, okay, okay, like if you ever get. You know you're out working and, let's say, a piece of a tree branch goes through your arm. First thing you're going to want to try to do is pull that sucker out.
Speaker 2:Don't do it yeah, because it could be very close to an artery, right could be very close.
Speaker 2:It's the only thing stopping that blood flow right, right, yeah, that's a good point and that's an excellent point. Well, I think that's probably all we have for today. Um, we really appreciate y'all joining us for this short little review of what people should know, and so we appreciate you being with us here in Rabbit Run. We're not at the Rabbit Hole studio because we're still on the road, on the road, on the road. So be sure to follow us, and we look forward to spending time with you every week. Please like us, and if you have some positive feedback or a topic that you want us to talk about, please don't hesitate to drop us an email at boomer and jenxer at gmailcom. If you have hate mail we're not interested in hate mail We'll take criticism. We've been taking some criticism from people, and that's cool, you know. Just be polite, be nice. It doesn't cost anything to be nice to people, but we'll be here and until next week, I'm Jane Burt and I'm Bobbi Joy, and you're stuck with us. Peace out Later.