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E-2….Humor's Healing Touch in Unpredictable Times

Zack Flynn/Chris Love/Eric Knowles Season 1 Episode 2

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What if laughter truly is the best medicine? Join us as we venture into the eerie, yet oddly uplifting, setting of the abandoned Chillicothe Hospital in Texas, where humor takes center stage as a natural healer. Through Eric's comical, albeit painful, medical mishap, we explore how laughter can release more healing chemicals than some medications. From cheeky discussions about future podcast episodes to tales of farm life and childhood mischief, we dive into the therapeutic power of humor and the joy it brings to our lives.

As the stories unfold, prepare yourself for a rollercoaster of emotions with tales of rebellious high school antics, amusing family gatherings, and the chaotic life on a farm. Whether it's a muscular cat showdown during Easter or a narrow escape from a Great Dane, these anecdotes capture the unpredictable nature of life and the laughter that often follows. With stories of loyalty, misunderstandings, and nostalgic school days, we reflect on the parallels between human and animal behavior, giving a humorous twist to everyday situations.

Our lighthearted journey continues with a look at how humor can be a guiding force in navigating life's challenges. Inspired by influential artists who broke boundaries, we emphasize striking a balance between seriousness and humor while remaining genuine. Through personal anecdotes and spirited discussions, we invite you to embrace an easy-going attitude, steering clear of sleazy habits, and finding laughter even in the most trying times. Join us on this comedic exploration as we celebrate the unpredictable hilarity of life and the healing power of a good laugh.

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Laughter Is the Best Medicine

Bucky

All right, coming to you live from the old, abandoned Chillicothe Hospital in Chillicothe, texas. This is the B to the E to the Z, and that is Be Easy. Be easy, baby. That's what we're here for.

Zack

This episode of the Be Easy podcast is sponsored by. If you're looking for a barbecue of mouthwatering steak, come down to L Love's Barbecue and make your own plate Of pulled pork, brisket, sausage and ribs, with appetizers from all over. Yeah, that's Love's Barbecue. Get a taste of Texas? That's Love's Barbecue. 13 miles west of Vernon, texas. Chilli Coffee, texas 79225. Are we?

Bucky

recording Zach.

Zack

Yes, we are Okay. Check one, hey, hey.

Bucky

Okay, straight out of Compton the chili, the chili. We are coming Straight out of Compton the Chili, the Chili. We are coming straight out of the Chili.

Earl

The abandoned Chili hospital.

Zack

Haunted, abandoned, haunted, I believe it is, which we will soon be giving to her. Yes, if you're brave enough to stay in the hospital side. Y'all need to call us.

Earl

I don't think you can do it.

Bucky

I don't know if I can do it. I don't think you can do it?

Earl

I don't think nobody can do it. I don't think nobody can do it. They come in blind. They might try, but I don't think most people would. You don't think most people would.

Bucky

Nah, you'd probably tell them a story or two. Yeah, Today we're going to talk about some medicine that we all need. Be easy, not sleazy.

Earl

Well, that could be your prescription.

Bucky

Yes, if that's what it takes Today, we're going to do something. This medicine is free. You can find it anywhere. You can create it yourself. You can create it with your friends, family, kids, anywhere you go. You can create it. It's a type of magic, and it is magic because it does something to the body and to the mind that, uh, people look for in other drugs. It does.

Earl

there's like certain things. More things are released by laughing than they are, you know it's a healer, it's a laughter, laughter. That's what we're talking about yeah, laughter is the best medicine.

Bucky

Yeah that's what they say. It's the old saying, that's simply put I.

Earl

I think there's a lot more to it. Yeah there's. You release 13 chemicals instead of six.

Zack

Well, I don't know why it's called dopamine, but Well, yeah, dopamine's different.

Earl

That's part of it. It is part of it, but dopamine's tied to a lot of. Lots behaviors.

Bucky

Yeah, lots of things. It'll make you do it again. Today we're going to do laughter, so we're going to have a few funny stories maybe and maybe a joke or two.

Zack

I want to hear about the time that Eric had to go get a shot in his penis. Yeah, see those who missed it, it just turned out that way.

Bucky

Those who missed it. We did this the last episode and we didn't record it.

Earl

That was bound to happen. Yeah, it was bound to happen. Sometimes we were going to get the best shit in the bus. It was. It was really good that happens whenever you're doing whatever.

Bucky

We was laughing our ass off, and that's what we're going to do today. And actually you're going to be doing it too with us, if you're listening to it because you can't.

Earl

That story. I didn't mean to be funny, I mean that just is. That's like one of my worst experiences that I can talk about Because I can, I know, but I can tell you know I've seen people as a patient go through some shit, but that was one that I was like that's like one of my worst experiences as being the patient.

Zack

It'll explain it once again.

Earl

Well, I have some medical problems, yeah well, I've had a lot of kidney stones. I quit counting at 10, 12. I quit going to the emergency room Because there's nothing they do but just give you pain. I didn't want to keep getting narcotics or whatever. Yeah, yeah yeah, because they quit working when you get older and if you need them, they're not going to work. But Goddamn, so I don't know.

Bucky

We can do it, though. It won't take a minute, I know. But this is what do you want, If y'all want to do that.

Earl

Narcotics what no?

Bucky

Not tonight.

Earl

Earl Up on the table, You're too comfortable with like a five-hour podcast dude.

Bucky

Hey, that might be the way we should do it, just like binge like three hours in a row and then make like five episodes out of it. Yeah, like the funny stories.

Earl

I mean, we could just we could just come and do this for like a week of you know like several weeks in a row, and just put them together.

Bucky

Yeah, take out this and put that yeah, we'll get it figured out.

Earl

It's probably gonna take that to edit it, if I can ever get.

Zack

You know, jerry flynn, we'll get it carter and yeah, well, gene's close. I tell gene's story I'll tell you the other day, gene would come right now.

Earl

Yeah, I'll call him right now if you want to, but the other day. I was talking to him about, you know, and I had like a can of. Well I stopped. I was like, hey, because I was talking to him about later in the week you still got to clean these two pig pens. It just would be. You know, two people makes it like 45 minutes instead of three hours. It's way better to have two people, and Gene don't mind the work, he works cheap A can of Husky or whatever.

Bucky

It works good.

Earl

Yeah. So I just stopped by and I was talking to him about we're going to do this, weather dependent, maybe Thursday, friday, we'll do this, yada, yada, and he's like man, take me to the stove. I was like what he's like? Take me to the stove. I got to get some Husky. I was like you got any money? He's like nah.

Earl

Nah, I ain't got no money but take me, I had some pouches. I was getting ready to go to work, I was trying to get to Children's. It was like 8 in the morning. I dropped the kids off at school, 7, you know, whatever I. I've already been to awesome since morning, like at six. I ain't going again.

Earl

No, yeah, I had this gene. I had like uh, whatever, the wintergreen patches you know. And he, he takes it, he looks it over and holds it up, looks at he's like nah. I knew he didn't like those. I was like you don't like the passion, he's like nah. He held on to it. We talked about cleaning pig pens and you know I will do it. Yeah, I guess we'll see with the weather if it's good enough. Now he's been sick man I don't know. He takes medicine and stuff. He had to go to the clinic and he didn't want to do it that day or whatever. Anyway, he'd been. It's thyroid. I didn't know he had takes medicine for that shit. But uh, anyway, so he's standing there, he just you know. All right, well, gene, I'll see you later.

Bucky

Yeah, he puts that shit in his pocket and goes on he might not have wanted it, but hey, yeah it his flavor, but it's like, did his brother pass away?

Earl

Not yet, I don't know he came over the other day. He was coming the other day. He lives like in Altus or somewhere. He's disabled.

Zack

Do you know that? There's a spray that you can use in restaurants, and it comes in a? You squeeze it and it fills up ounces on the top over here of how much you put in your, your mix, and I cannot think what it's called the co-op sells it. What's it for, though?

Bucky

clean. It's to kill.

Zack

It kills bugs, spiders, anything. Oh yeah, you know, I literally sprayed it in the uh shop there at the gas plant, in every unit it would. It'd been arachnophobia, dude, if you're scared spiders they all ran to the center because I went to edges, they ran to the center of the building.

Earl

What works that good anymore?

Zack

Was it Malafalo? Yeah, that's what it sounds like.

Earl

It sounds like that, that's the one you got to be able to get it, so the co-op had to stop.

Zack

It lasted like five years. I noticed that his brother was coming up there buying it like once a week. And that's a lot. They last you like four years.

Earl

That's what I'm saying.

Zack

Yes, and she noticed when he came up there one time that he was white. He had white, yeah, he was taking baths in it. Why, why?

Bucky

Because he thought he had bed bugs or thought he had bed bugs.

Zack

Literally was taking a bath. Yeah, that's some bad shit. That's how that's not regulated. When she said when she wouldn't sell it to him, he literally started crying, so there's no telling what it was doing to it no, you know he. It made him think that it was uh that's what he had to have.

Bucky

It was here in his yeah, wow, that is, that is a wow, yeah, there's no telling dude.

Earl

That's like he's donate that body to science. Really study that that no he's tough.

Zack

I'm telling you right now yeah.

Bucky

He might not be right, or if I kill it.

Zack

Hey, literally Probably not A fly. You can spray it around your door frame and a fly will not fly through it.

Earl

Yeah, I didn't. Yeah.

Zack

Yeah, it's safe when I moved in, can spray it in restaurants and like dot directly on your food.

Earl

yeah, no, I sprayed it four years ago when I moved in that house. This dude told me he said let me spray this just around your foundation and shit, this will keep ticks out and just because and I've still had some bugs, scorpions and stuff for a thing that's they were already under the house yeah, yeah, but because it's hard, because I have a basement and a lot of shit like that. But he said you spray this stuff around your foundation, just go around the outside of your house and it'll last five years.

Zack

They will not cross it. They will not cross it.

Earl

It'll last five years, they won't cross it. But it's hard to get it's malafout Anyway we got lots of story.

Zack

Anyway, what we're talking about.

A Painful Medical Misdiagnosis

Earl

I had 10, 12 kidney stones. We were going with that, loosen it and take another bite on. I'd had a lot it's probably up there Around ten and I lived here in Chillicothe.

Zack

I've never had one that little duplex?

Earl

No, I don't wish them one. It's kind of like the shingles you don't want them Right. You can't imagine it's the worst ones. You have it no.

Zack

That and the bullheaded claps.

Bucky

But Kidney stones Do not sound good though.

Zack

No.

Earl

Yeah, I mean I've heard it's worse than childbirth and but people have had both, but I've had worse ones than others sometimes. It's just like man, you just gotta fucking grit your teeth and that's what I thought I was doing. I lived over there in that duplex and I was like two blocks from the hospital, right here, right, like right over there, right, I'm gonna call my mom. I couldn't walk that, come take me to the hospital.

Zack

I can't get to the car. There's no way I can drive anyway. So I me to the hospital.

Earl

I can't get to the car. There's no way I can drive Anyway. So I get to the hospital. They keep you know, I'm just in pain. They're giving me all kinds of medicine Mescal, morphine, demerol.

Zack

You weren't addicted to something. You were addicted to the lauded. Let's try this, yeah.

Earl

They tried, like several things.

Bucky

And then I was like, no, no, and I had peed for him there's blood, my pick, they just don't know.

Earl

I kept telling them no and they were like. Finally, they just like, okay, we'll give you a catheter. But if dr glidden was there and the southern nurse, I know I was just there. Man, nothing was working. Man, I was like man, I feel like I'm so full of pee, it's hurting so bad and I can't pee. Man, I'm telling them and they were like I don't think it's in your blood. And they, they gave me a catheter and I can't explain the relief I had at one time. And two liters, two liters of pee.

Bucky

Look at that sometimes.

Zack

You couldn't make yourself pee because it hurt so bad. It was blocked. I didn't know it, and the catheter broke it too.

Earl

Yeah, it just went through. It makes a tube go through it Because what it was my prostate turns out. They thought it was a kidney stone. Because you look at x-rays it lights up. The stones are calcium. They look like you just see them. They light up on an x-ray. And there was one right dead center midline in my prostate, right where the urethra goes through your prostate. They're like dude, this one just caught there and they kept on and kept on.

Earl

So they sent me to a urologist. Yeah, you don't see all kidney stones on a regular x-ray I just want to know was it in labien?

Zack

is that what's?

Earl

we'll get to that. We'll get to that. Uh. So they sent me to this, uh, dr mastagi. I'd seen like two, I'd probably seen three urologists at that time, like three different ones. Since I was 24 I had this problem. Uh, this, this was uh shit. That's probably 10 years in then, better. So I had my first stone in 24, and this is probably when I was like 35, 36. And so I go to Dr Mastagi and he's like just full of information and gives me, you know, tells me all this stuff to do, and, yada, yada, he does CT and he wants to do a cysto. So I go there and look because he can't figure out why this stone is just stuck in my prostate and won't move. You know, it's like three days now.

Zack

Yeah.

Earl

And so he wants to go there and look with the camera. It's a cystogram. So, you know, they stick a in your urethra. They stick a camera, whether you be male or female or or whatever. And uh, well, I've had one before. I'd had one at this time.

Earl

I had two before that actually, where they had knocked me out and done, and he says, oh, I'll do them in the office, let me, let me do one. You know, deal weight. Uh, we just give you a mild sedative, some value, remember, said, and you won't remember, it'll be all right. And man, I just wanted to be through with it. I'd had a bad experience with one before. But uh, I said, okay, you know, I scheduled it and I, we went that day and uh, my dad took me and we go to the office, you know, and I go in this room and it looks pretty much do you know a room like this, like a last office room had bookshelves and shit like that, uh. But then there's a table that looks like it's at a ladies clinic, got stirrups and shit. Yeah, he's like, and I'm in a gown. I'm they already had me changed into a gown, you know come in the room and they gave me a pill I arrived 45 minutes early here.

Zack

Take this pill so you're in there with no drawers yeah, yeah just a gown and you walk into this room. It's got stirrups up there. Yeah, I'm just sitting on the table, right now you're thinking I thought they were looking at my penis.

Earl

Well, I was man, I was in pain, I'd been in pain for some time to where I don't know. You can't just go in there and just go looking. You know you can't, and that's what frustrates a lot of people. And I'm in the same place as a patient and uh, so you wait, and uh, you do what they say, you hop up on the table and you get ready. For, okay, get ready, I'm gonna count to three and so your legs are spread, not in front. No, I'm just sitting there waiting.

Earl

I get you all ready at once. Okay, like he's there and he's getting everything. There's like a tv behind him. He's getting all this equipment set up, like the dentist. You know, when they have a little tray table, he's getting all this shit. And I know all those little trays they have little setups for whatever they're going to do. The procedure they're going to do is all the shit they need and he's getting his stuff out and he's got a little table there and there's a nurse in there. They gave me the pill and yada yada and then she leaves, which is, I thought, a little unusual, which it's not the end of the world, it's. Usually you keep somebody else in there, just this shit's fixing to be private.

Zack

Yeah, I mean you might.

Earl

You might have everybody step out to get your prostate check, but he's not gonna go at you, you know. So anyway, everybody gets out and this I'm thinking he might need some help. Dude, I've had this, like a certain you usually have, when I had one before. I had an anesthesiologist and the doctor doing it you know the urologist, but anyway. So he, uh, he's. He assures me again that he's. He's done these many times in his office and it's all good.

Earl

So I'm there in a gown sitting on the you know the paper, uh, table, the or what are the paper cover on the table. And uh, he's like, okay, go ahead and put your feet up here. They bring the stirrups up like a fucking ladies clinic. He's like, put your feet in here, okay, and then climb. He's like we'll move your butt down. They get you in the right spot. It's like a squat, you know, with your knees bent, you're like at a squat, yeah. And uh, he's like he don't say a whole lot. He's like, okay, he's, I'm gonna give you a local to deaden it. And he comes up with this like an old school syringe, like the old with the glass and the metal on it and shit, and it's got like a I swear to god, an eight inch needle. Like what do you need that for? Like to go to the spine from the front, like I don't know why you want one that long.

Earl

So I'm laying there exposed and he, like you know he's already, you know like put betadine, alcohol, disinfected the tip and he's gonna go right in your urethra, you know, with this camera. So he, he's getting ready and he said we'll give you a local. Local just means that area, you know they're gonna deaden that. So he comes at me with that needle and just grabs my with one hand and just shoves this needle in the end of it, right in the head of him. I mean like no warning.

Earl

Well, he goes like this. He looks at me, he's like we're going to do this, I'm going to count, okay, ready, I'm going to count from three, three. And he stabbed it. He knew better. Yeah, because if he had gone all the in his head, because then when he's got it in there and he's like injecting the shit, he's looking you in the eye like I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I know I know, I know, and it's like I know it's like such a he might, they might have done to him once he doesn't know, I don't know, uh yeah, it was terrible.

Earl

man, anyway, that's a story that I tell is a terrible experience.

Zack

I got shot in the so you know that's not like.

Earl

No, and then it was terrible after that. That shit didn't even work. He's in there with his camera all digging around and everything else, and that shit. I'm crawling out of that chair. I'm using the stair up to stand up, trying to get away. Yeah yeah, it was terrible. I've terrible. I've had three of those two of them. I was knocked out. I had that one. Never do that shit again. Knock my ass out.

Bucky

Knock me out yeah, I don't want to remember shit.

Earl

I don't even remember, man. Like I said, I wasn't concerned then. I was like in regular I couldn't sit in the car and drive. It was a big deal to go to wichita at that time, uh, and they had me on medicine and shit for a long time.

Zack

It was a weird deal, uh they better have me in a medically induced in Damn near.

Earl

They medicated about eight months Like on tramadol. They just had you take this and then I had to do a lot of shit Like I took well besides. That's why I started drinking cranberry juice and like pomegranate and all the dark berries and all this stuff you got to work on to keep Because I still got some in there. Dude, when they do an x-ray of me, I've got like three or four floating in there. It's like they'll come down sometime.

Zack

Nothing dissolves that shit, kind of Cranberry juice. You got to keep your stuff real acidic. You got to keep yeah, you got to just keep your system that way.

Earl

Catch me drinking out of a battery, that's what I finally did with that one that was in my prostate, that calcification in the blood veins called a fleabits they make just eventually you get red hot chili peppers.

Zack

You can get them whatever yeah like fleabits.

Earl

The pH is the fleabits. Actually it's a vascular condition that I'm prone to. My grandfather died from it. You can get a blood clot and stuff and it can go through your heart or lungs or whatever.

Bucky

Yeah, it's not good.

Earl

It usually happens in other places, like in your legs or somewhere far out, but this one was in my prostate. Your prostate don't get good circulation, that's like when it takes. I've been. I just came off. Uh, sunday was my last day on a month of antibiotics for similar, I just had prostate idols, because it's hard to get antibiotics you don't have to be careful, you can get um. Yeah, my dad see, I've seen him, remember we're talking about that. He's a 12 year. Uh, prostate cancer survivor.

Zack

Actually it's in my history, some other stuff we have you start taking antibiotics like that forever that's a 30 days worth you start being antibiotic resistant in the last six months I've had three different antibiotics for at least 21 days and I would 30, they couldn't make me take another one I've never dude.

Earl

I know, I know and about it dude.

Hilarious Jokes and Funny Memories

Earl

I went eight years out taking a pill, become an antibiotic resistant, then you're just yeah, well, that's what's wrong with, like, when you pour them down the drain and everything else yeah, everybody's taking or you don't finish them, you don't take them, like they say, for 10 days the duration, you take them for three or four. Or if you take them every other day during the 10 days or whatever, there's always to fuck it up and that makes them, that makes the bugs resistant uh, so is all antibiotics if you drink alcohol?

Zack

is that like null and void?

Earl

no I didn't think so no that's a lie my mama used to tell me, I think that you're gonna cancel your bill hey man it might cancel make the effectiveness somewhat different on a lot of medications that if you don't stop, you're going to go blind. Well, I'm pretty sure not, you've got to do quite a bit. Hit that line. There was something else I was thinking. What?

Zack

was the joke. I still want to hear the joke. Oh, let's see.

Bucky

Laughter is the best medicine, that medicine that you went through.

Earl

I was thinking, oh, the one Richie always told we can go with that one. Richie used to ask people because they would be somebody that didn't like cuss. Because, richie, you know, and some people would be like, oh, you want a clean joke, I'll tell you a clean joke. This one's clean, I promise you. No, it's clean, okay. So he would be like, okay, you know how to catch an elephant, you know how to catch an elephant.

Bucky

No, okay.

Earl

Well, you've got to dig a big hole. You dig a big pit, you know, and then on the outside of that in the hole, you want to put a bunch of ashes. You put a bunch of ashes down in the bottom In the hole, yeah, in the hole. And then around the outside of the hole you put English, peas, english peas. English peas Inside, outside All the outside of the top of the ring, just right around the top, and then when an elephant comes to take a pee, you kick him in the asshole.

Earl

There's nothing dirty about that.

Bucky

Nothing.

Earl

What else did we miss? Did we miss the one about the two ladies that went out drinking?

Bucky

Yes, I believe so.

Earl

Yeah, okay, well, I'll tell that one, though I was thinking of another one, don't let me forget the next one about the astronauts. But these two ladies had gone out drinking. They were both married ladies. They had ladies not out. They'd gone out, they lived out kind of far, so had a good ways to go home, and they were driving there's nowhere to stop and they both had to pee. You know, they've been drinking all night and uh, so they just pulled off on the side road.

Family Farm Animal Antics

Earl

There was a cemetery there and they just had pulled off there and uh, one lady peed, you know, and she didn't have no toilet paper. So she just, you know, takes off her panties and wipes with that and throws them off in the cemetery. Another lady she's standing there and they just had a funeral not long ago. There's some flowers and bouquets and shit there. She takes a ribbon off this wreath and wipes her ass and goes on. They go on, they go home, go to bed and everything. I guess they made the night that lady's not out, but the next day the one lady's husband calls the other and says hey, man, hey, we can't let our old ladies go out together, no more. It's like my aunt came home last night she didn't even have no panties on. He's like brother, don't tell me it's worse. At my house, my old lady came home and she had a card stuck in the crack of her ass that said thanks for all the memories. All the boys at the fire department.

Zack

You're welcome, my old dad we were talking about. He's naturally hilarious. So one time we were looking at tattoos he says I have 19,. However many he has, I was just smart-ass. I was smart-ass. I said what about that little bitty black dot that covers your teeth? He goes yeah, but when this gets angry it says eat it Joe's, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Bucky

Yeah yeah, oh yeah, we need to get him on here to tell some jokes I tried, he didn't answer.

Zack

Well, you did, you text him or whatever.

Earl

Yeah, yeah, he's doing it earlier in the day, it's way after dark. Yeah, it's late.

Zack

We're talking. 11 o'clock is the perfect time.

Bucky

In the morning.

Zack

Yeah, okay, it'd have to be like any day during the week, but, like on, you know, like any any day during the week, but I mean so? Monday would be like great, you know, we could set it up.

Earl

You know like if I just, maybe we can set it up, right, we can call.

Zack

You know he can call in too, like yeah, but you know you really don't want, I really don't want him around my mom. You know, because you know there's different things. Yeah, he'll say different stuff, yeah he used to not care when he drank, he just didn't care that's why, if we got him here, I think he'd tell you yeah, probably so. He got lots of good stories about your grandpa.

Bucky

Yeah, I'd like to hear them.

Zack

Yeah. Yeah, yeah he used to. You ever heard the one about the Kenworth?

Bucky

No.

Zack

I don't think. So. You know, my daddy drove for yeah, okay, for your dad and your grandpa, and your old grandpa used to always walk around with a matchstick in his mouth, right Uh-huh, and they went to the. He said Jerry, I want you to go with me. We're going to go down here, we're going to get a brand new Kenworth. We're going to go to Amarillo and go to the Kenworth shop.

Bucky

Yeah, cool trip, so they did.

Zack

They did that?

Bucky

Yeah, he didn't look like him.

Zack

No, didn't look like he had money, you know, an old hat on and a damn matchstick in his mouth and he said it's 1989. I remember, because that's how much the Kenworth cost was $89,000. And he said which one do you think, jerry? And he said that blue one over there it's not. And he explained it to him. He said how much is that one, sir, or whatever? He told the guy he goes that's $89,000. He said I'll take that one. He said what are you going to do? Write a check? He said you damn bet you, I'm going to write a check.

Zack

He said he said you mind if I call your bank. He said go ahead, look at my dad. So he calls the bank and the bank tells that. Dude, literally tells him sir, he could buy three of them if he wanted to.

Bucky

That was back in them old days yeah.

Zack

But yeah, he was the dude with the smart man.

Earl

But you know, your grandpa said a few choice things to him instead of just what I told you. Like I said he wasn't wearing nothing. No, different.

Bucky

It wasn't no money, yeah, and he got that truck to pull around the uh tractor that we pulled and then we actually painted the tractor the same color as a truck I don't remember it being blue yes I'll be damn the last few years.

Zack

That's how I didn't know it had. It had red letters with white on the inside like the the flag. Okay, no, it was blue.

Bucky

It was just blue and silver, kind of just like the truck. I got some pictures of it.

Zack

That's pretty cool I know that when we were kids you know we'd be out there playing around shooting basketball or whatever. Your grandpa used to think it was the funniest shit in the world to sick that dog he did that to everybody. But I'm talking, man, that when he said sick, sick him or get him or whatever he said, that dog meant it. Boy, he was coming at you and if he didn't say stop, your ass was going to get chewed up. I crawled up the side of a tractor, a tractor tire.

Bucky

Yeah, he thought that was funny.

Zack

He was hilarious.

Bucky

It was not that funny. No, not for you, but it's funny to watch folks run. That's what he liked. He just liked to see people ramble.

Zack

He thought it was funny as shit He'd get scared Because he knew he'd get that dog.

Bucky

That dog was not going to.

Zack

He might bite you. Yeah, if he didn't say stop.

Bucky

I truly thought if he did? But yeah, them dogs they used to my dad and them would work cattle, and them dogs would just mess that up.

Zack

Man, I'm telling you right now that was one of the scariest times in my childhood memories.

Bucky

Hey, I know you remember this, Zach. Remember that time y'all had that ram at your house.

Zack

Oh yeah, sam Sam the ram.

Bucky

That dude. I know one thing that's where I learned how to run really fast, Because that little.

Zack

Little hell. No, he's big, he's a reserve grand champion, he was a.

Bucky

Ram like a full-blood Ram.

Earl

Cheap or whatever it was.

Bucky

I've seen him like that since then, but there are, there's some, and when you walk out there, you can walk out there and look at him. He never will touch you as soon as you turn your back, bro. Yep, let me tell you a story about how this started. I got that brown.

Zack

when I can't remember I was probably 4'8". It was before I was in high school and that sheep? It was a sheep at first, you know, that's all I knew it to be.

Earl

It was a little baby sheep we got it as a real young baby.

Zack

My dad would sit there. Of course my dad let a few things stay in the house. That was just insane. One of them was the sheep. Sam the ram Until yes, until my mom threw a fit. One of them was a pair of white-tailed doves.

Earl

That's better than the goat?

Zack

I think so. Anyway, my dad would sit there outside and inside at first, but then you know he had a diaper on it outside and inside at first. But then you know he had a diaper on it, you know it wasn't shitting in the house, but the dove did. That's why it was gone real quick Anyway so he'd sit there and he'd curl his fist up and that sheep loved him, so he'd just sit there. He'd push on his hand back and forth, just like this for hours.

Bucky

They love it, they love that, they do yeah, and.

Zack

But man, I'll tell you right now, it won Reserve Grand Champion. Of course I was a little kid, I couldn't sell it. We only won Reserve Grand Champion.

Bucky

Oh yeah.

Zack

So I kept it, and that's just stupid too, by the way.

Bucky

Well, at least I probably should have castrated it, because that sucker was like full blown oh man Pissed off so if you went out there, like I'd go out there and feed them.

Zack

he got me one time I mean like real- good, I know, I remember I went out there to feed the damn sheep. And of course you know it turned him from a sheep to a full-blown. You know, ram.

Bucky

Yeah like ram truck.

Earl

Well, I mean yeah.

Bucky

They're aggressive by nature. They're probably like 400 pounds. Dad, they're aggressive by nature. It's probably like 400 pounds. They're aggressive by nature.

Earl

Yeah, they're like 350, 400 pounds.

Zack

When they're yeah, they're big yeah, you know, in football you've been hit hard and stuff. But let me tell you something you turn your back on that thing yeah and I went out there and he tried to get me and I had there was an old water hose out there. So, man, he tried to get me. So I beat the hell out of this sheep with this water hose. Excuse me me y'all, but anyway. So after I did that he backed off me. I was like, because he was trying to get me, man.

Bucky

Yeah.

Zack

And at the same time we had this crazy rooster that would jump on your head for some reason. I mean seriously.

Bucky

It'd come off the top of the house. It would jump from the ground and it'd flap its wings.

Earl

It really was dude yeah.

Zack

It'd flap yeah, he flap its wings and try to get you. I swear it's going for your eyes.

Earl

I know, I know I've had that happen Not at the same time.

Bucky

I've had all those things happen, but then I do remember that we would tease it so we'd be jumping on the trampoline and they'd be over there and be like hey, let's go there. Yeah.

Earl

And see how close we could get to it.

Bucky

Chickens want to get under your head. They get on top and get to the the sheep. Yeah, yeah, he was fast, my dad had one called Boudreaux.

Earl

We had one for a while when Ryan was showing and same way you know he'd be looking at you all the time. You can't turn your back on him. He damn near killed my dad. He rolled him up into a fence. He got me one time, and the time he got me, he kept on for me like looking at me and I kept on, didn't.

Earl

And he wasn't out of my view. And you know what he did. He was like right here and he reared up on two legs and he came down at me and hit me in the ribs, oh shit. And I can't remember what I was doing, because I was looking I had a ball-peen hammer in my head. I took that and hit it in the head, yeah.

Zack

And he just kind of goes back and looks at me.

Bucky

Oh, I did that to one of my goats. I smacked the fuck out of him Because I had one, my male buck.

Earl

It made him just like back up and look. That's all it did.

Bucky

He reared up and tried to hit me. Yes, and I just picked up a piece of pipe and I bam I mean hard as I could dude. I seen his eyes like rolling, oh yeah, Like cartoons, yeah. This motherfucker still, he never messed with me again.

Earl

This one did this one attacked my dad One more time. No, but he was young. I got him when he was young. Yeah, that's this one. This was an old ram.

Bucky

Yeah, once they get old, you can't teach them Dude, you have to get rid of them. Yeah, this one.

Earl

This one was meanest, this one no. This was like a sheep on steroids?

Zack

He really was, I do remember that.

Earl

That's what this one was About 400 pounds. It got me that time. Like I said, it reared up. Yeah, I don't. It came to hit me like that, I was like what the fuck are you doing? Anyway, it would take my dad one more time. That was it I'm telling you right now. He went out there and shot it that time.

Zack

I hit him with the water hose. I turned around and tried to get out of the pen. It was a big pen too, you know, to the end of the football field before you can get away. Yeah.

Bucky

I know.

Zack

And I turned around, dude, and I took off running. And I promise you, actually, I didn't take off running because I was cocky. Yeah, you thought you could make it I beat him the hell out of him with this water hose. The water hose didn't do shit to him, so I turned around because he backed off. I turned around and I thought he broke my neck, dude.

Shotgun Cat Showdown in the Yard

Bucky

He hit me before I know, oh man, but he only took me once and I'm like I'm outrunning you. No, that's right.

Zack

I bet you still hit the ground and bounced up, because I promise you I did, yeah, yeah, because he was coming again. Oh, I promise you, you already knew before he was looking at you when he hit you, he's backing up and he's coming again. We sold that sheep to James Graham.

Bucky

God, really, Yo, you mean hey.

Earl

They had a bunch of sheep.

Bucky

Yeah, hell yeah, they had a bunch of sheep, oh, so he used it for breeding.

Earl

Hell yes.

Bucky

He was the top of the town. That's usually the ones that are real good. It's them.

Zack

You got them lined up out there bro.

Bucky

Yeah, them are the ones that you want to keep, but they hurt you.

Earl

They were waiting at the sheep gate for him, His name you know he came with papers, he was registered, His name was Boudreaux Boudreaux. Yeah, and I remember that one time, that last time, my dad came and was like hey, you ain't got to worry about Boudreaux, no more.

Zack

Good, Shoot, I hated that. I hated that.

Earl

He told me one more time and grown you go out there and he wanted to play fucking big and he did not play fair he was like 20 2 000 pounds, dude, yeah, solid black bull and so I it was in the pasture that we lived in down there on the river.

Bucky

Yeah, no, yeah, every time you got close to him you had to watch him, because he would come after you.

Earl

You ever been attacked by like an 80-pound dog? That's all muscle, oh yeah.

Zack

Oh, I've hey.

Earl

So he's got a bull. That's like 2,000 pounds.

Bucky

You know what I mean. I got a good story about dogs.

Zack

I've got a good story too, to fight off a 30 pounder. So you know, there's several times that I've done some things that you know I'm proud of but not proud of. So my brother was going through a divorce, right so, and he had this cat which was, uh, audrey's cat. So, uh, it was a long time ago but uh, so audrey was like maybe 10 or something like that, I can't remember when they got divorced, but he married her twice, but that's a whole nother story. But so, so Audrey's cat had this cat, but he brought the cat to the farm because where he was staying couldn't have it, and at that point in time you know the farm is, you know cats everywhere, but we had this one cat dude. You know the disease that it's not a disease really. You know when little bitty kids look like Arnold Schwarzenegger, because you know their muscles are just that way, I swear I promise you, we had a cat was like that and he had muscles on its ears, bro.

Zack

Hey, you know they had no skin. You couldn't pick it up by the back of the neck because it didn't have none, not enough skin to stretch it. That cat was literally like all you could see, every single muscle, even his like toes no fat and it was red it.

Zack

That was the scariest cat in the world, but he didn't bother us, of course, but any other cat like any other male. We had no males around there, so it was badass yeah like a super badass. I mean like super badass. So shannon brings this cat out there.

Bucky

He's like, hey, I'm gonna keep this out here for a day or two.

Zack

I said, said, man, do not put that cat down. He said what do you mean? And before he could even set that cat, the male cat, on the ground, that cat came out of nowhere and did ninja flips and shit and took him out of his hands, bro, and snatched him up, snatched the cat out of his hands and the cat got so scared they hit on the ground and I kicked that cat from here to the wall bro, some cats are like yeah, hey, I guarantee they are, I guarantee that that was not no normal cat that cat

Zack

weight it was thick and it was thick cat too, and I was like and the cat ran right up in my brother's pickup engine.

Zack

It wasn't running at the time and I was like man, gotta get that cat out of there, bro. I said you can't, you cannot, you can't, you can't leave that cat here. He said, man, I can't, you know. He said man, just please watch this cat. I was like, all right, it's easter, bro, so everyone, it's easter.

Zack

My dad's brother and all his 20, 30 grandkids and shit, they all come out there. It's a good time. But this time was a little different. Everybody, everybody's at a certain age. They're like 10, 12, 6, 4. But they all can comprehend what's going on. So after we got the cat out from the motor and shit, they show up. So everybody gets out and they're all over there, my parents' porch, rocking in the chairs and stuff, and my brother decides it's time to leave. And that cat, somebody opened the the door and that cat ran out again and this orange cat got in and they hit, went to a ball and my brother was driving off and literally that cat ran right up into the engine of that car that was driving off because he was trying to get away from that orange cat and I looked at my dad's brother and I said, jackie, you might want to take them kids somewhere else, it may.

Zack

I was so mad because you know it was his kid's cat. Please don't let nothing happen to it. It was. This was on my watch we're trying to save this cat.

Zack

So I said, jackie, you might want to put them kids up. That cat just signed its own death warrant right there. He said no, they'll be all right, dude. So I go inside, I get my dad's shotgun oh, shotgun kicks harder than a mule and I walk outside and there's about that time that this cat with all these muscles dude, comes walking across in the yard right there in front of all the kids, dude, and I shot that cat with that shotgun. Oh shit, and literally bro. This is how tough this cat was.

Close Encounters With Canines

Zack

Its neck laid over dude and blood started squirting from here to the ceiling and that cat stayed on its feet and was running around. Blood's going everywhere every time. It took us hearts beating boom, boom and all these kids are screaming, you know so you know what I did it. I went there and I got that cat shannon's cat and I put that cat in this bucket and I went over there, got that other cat and I put that cat on top of the bucket and he wasn't dead yet In the same bucket I said no, I want you to think about that in your last few moments, about that.

Zack

You know that's good, it's funny to me, but to all y'all out there that are trying, to.

Bucky

They're probably going to go to jail.

Zack

I mean this is all entertainment.

Bucky

None of this happened.

Zack

Yeah, this is all for entertainment purposes only.

Earl

This is just so long ago, it was past the statute, so go to jail. Speaking of animals.

Bucky

have you ever been bit by a dog? Yeah, I've never, had. You've never had Went through my hand, rob Waller. Thank God, I mean, I'm glad.

Zack

But then I got bit in the hand.

Earl

I was always pretty fast, so yeah, I know, that was the thing I didn't get caught, I ain't gonna say I didn't get chased by dogs, I didn't know that was coming Right when I got bit, good, it was like that son of a bitch Was like Something like the goat Son of a bitch came up behind me when I looked away.

Bucky

Well, I've never got bit, but I got. The best dog story that I have Is when it was when I worked for a telephone company and I was at a house. They didn't tell me nothing about a dog. I'm over there working on the telephone.

Earl

In the yard.

Bucky

Yeah, in the yard fixing the internet, whatever I was doing, and they had like a cinder block fence. It's about four foot you know, so I could see over it. Just fine, I could see past it. I didn't see nothing. Usually when I get to a house I get out whistling for dogs right, because I'd rather know. I'm there otherwise because you know they could be surprised.

Bucky

And then get dressed a bit so I did my normal routine walk up there, do my whistling, trying to see no dogs. Okay, I'm over there on the side of the house, I'm working. I mean I've been there for like 30 minutes, dude, working on this house In and out. I mean I look there's a garage back here behind this fence. I look back there and as I look back there, I see a dog looking at me. This is a four-foot fence.

Zack

Yeah, he's looking at me, yeah.

Earl

And he, he's looking, yeah, he's looking at me, yeah, and he's not like jumped up, he's just like we're eye to eye.

Bucky

He's over it. Yeah, I'm like okay, so all right, he's. He's behind the fence he started coming chilling.

Earl

Huh yeah, he's deaf, or I guess he was. He didn't hear me once he seen me he started coming.

Bucky

I was like, all right, I got time to make it to the truck, I bet he was deaf, and so I mean it was a pretty good ways. But when I seen him, I took off to the truck because I bet he was deaf, and so I mean it was a pretty good ways. But when I seen him, I took off to the truck because I seen him coming. I'm like this is a big-ass dog. If he's looking at me over the fence, he should have jumped over the fence?

Bucky

Yeah, no, no, the fence came around.

Earl

There wasn't a fence on this side, Like it was open.

Bucky

It was open on so all he'd do is come around the fence. So I ran to the truck, got away from him, no big deal. A couple weeks later I get a ticket on the same house. I called the lady. I'm like, hey, she's like oh, my internet's not working. I need you to fix it, whatever. Okay, I'm going to go over there. You remember the dog yeah a dog. I remember that dog. He almost got me that day dude, yeah this was a big ass great day and I swear he was like four foot tall and mean most of them are pretty mild, but this one was mean, so I go back out there.

Bucky

He's on a chain, that's all right, cool, I go out there. I'm working. Same way. I don't see him. I'm like all right, cool, working on the house, make some noise. I see him stand up again. I was like this motherfucker I said I ain't worried about he's on a chain, right, not no chain no, he's on the chain. No I couldn't see it. He was on the other side of the fence yeah, nobody, so he sees, me he sees me again, he takes off running.

Earl

I'm like they told you he was on a chain so I wasn't worried.

Bucky

I'm like he's on a chain, bro, I'm not gonna run this time he comes. You know, it's like I want to say about 50 foot fence this way, and then it curves back 90 degrees and another 50 foot. We started running. I think he's fixing to stop, he's gonna hit the long ass chain.

Bucky

He comes around the corner, dude I'm like there's no and I look at my truck and it's probably it's too far to make it now, so that uh, concrete fence is right there. So I'm just like, well, I'm jumping up on here. So I jumped up on this four foot fence. All I had was like this test fit test, uh, set telephone. It's got a cord like this long, whooped, yeah, and I just started swinging it as fast I could round round.

Bucky

And I mean he was like lunging at me. I was like, and I didn't swinging it as fast as I could round round. And I mean he was like lunging at me. I was like and I didn't have nowhere to go because I was against the house and the fence right there, you didn't have a lot of time to think no so I was just.

Bucky

I was just if he hit, if he came to me, he was going to get hit right in his lady because she was there or she showed up. She was deaf too, yeah and finally she comes out there and like, oh my god, you know, gets the dog off the dog.

Zack

Yeah, listens to her yeah, which held the what is the most touchdowns in one season record for I think like the russian yard one time he had national record or state so you were talking about super athletic dude went into the military and became, you know, airborne ranger. They called him knack, knack for a reason, but anyway he came out there one time, the pounds, they. They used to have a group of girls here. There was five girls and they were all decent looking, they were all pretty, but they, they. They came back after they moved away and now they're grown and he wanted to see them.

Zack

So he had a motorcycle like a kawasaki 650 or something, not big you know, and he comes out to the farm. We had this irish setter named duke, and he had the most fierce bark you ever heard, dude. And I start hearing him bark and I hear somebody screaming for bloody murder, murder, murder. And uh, I go outside. Dude, it's balanced on the gas tank on this motorcycle trying to get away from that dog. Yeah, I mean, he had the kickstand down, but he was standing on the highest tank on this motorcycle Trying to get away from that dog.

Zack

Yeah, I mean he had the kickstand down but he was standing on the highest point on this motorcycle trying to get away from the heat because he thought the dog was going to get him, and I laughed about that. I said that dog ain't going to do nothing but lick you.

Bucky

Well, hey, if you don't know the dog.

Earl

If a dog comes towards me, I'm taking it. He's going to bite me. I think he was real scared of dogs. I think I heard that.

Bucky

You know what I mean. Like if a dog runs towards me, I automatically think he's about to bite me.

Zack

Yeah, I have a dog this big that will tear you apart, yeah.

Earl

I was going to say it don't matter, it don't take a very big bite.

Bucky

No, I got a buddy one time and we walked in his house and this guy's like man, watch my dog, he'll bite you. He's a little bitty, you know, ankle biter yeah.

Earl

So I'd go by him and he'd come towards me and I'd kick at him.

Bucky

You know I'm like get the hell out of the way from me. Well, my buddy was walking out of the house and the couch. He had to walk behind the couch to get outside and that dog ran up off the couch and he you know he was hopping and jumping around like, oh, I'm like dude, that little ass dog, what did he do? Like he couldn't have done that much too.

Zack

He's like no man look Bleeding like a pig. He pulled his shirt up, dude.

Earl

That little. I mean, like he got him good, took some skin.

Bucky

I was like yeah, yeah, nothing to that dog. Yeah, no, they are.

Earl

They're defending their territory. That's exactly right, man.

Tales of Loyalty and Misunderstandings

Zack

I got my wife a Pomeranian. But this one was super nice, you know, and loved everybody, Dude. This is when she was pregnant with Lexi no, yeah, Lexi and so I had the dog right before she got pregnant and so she went through the whole term. This dog was like best friends with her, you know, like super best friends, and laid on her stomach and like put his ear up to the stomach and shit's crazy, you know. So we go to her mom's house and her daddy's not biological father, dad, but dad was there and he was older than Methuselah, Methuselah and so he wanted to see the baby. When he walked in and the dog was sitting right here and the dog had never even growled at, anybody drew blood on that old man in like 10 or 15 spots before he could get away from it because he reached in and tried to grab the baby. It was the first day she was out of the hospital, reached in already protecting that kid. Couldn't yeah, Couldn't have nobody touch it.

Bucky

Yeah yeah, dogs are animals. Period, they're territorial.

Earl

There's a reason they do things, yeah it confuses us at first, but if you think about it, there's a reason they do.

Bucky

But it's the same. Humans are really the same. If you go into somebody else's town I mean when you're younger and you start messing with your girls yeah, they're gonna whoop your ass that's it, you gotta watch it.

Zack

My wife has a dog right now. Ladybug is like an emotional dog for her, you know like yeah, emotional support yes absolutely yeah, yeah, I mean they are when, when she sleeps with it, it lays its neck on her neck like they hug each other and sleep all night long. Yeah, but if you walk in my house, bro, and you ain't supposed to be there, or if you try to come up to me while she's in the truck, I mean, she's gonna tear you and she's not.

Zack

But she's not a big yeah yeah but she is vicious dude, she don't play. I try to tell people that I had her with me at the co-op the other day. Just walked up to the window he said, oh, you got your own dog with you. I said, yeah, she's not nice. Oh, that little bitty dog stuck his hand in the window. Mm-hmm, yeah, yep, I said. I told you. He said, man, that's a good dog right there. Yeah, it is. That's the truth. That's a good dog, they're loyal.

Earl

They're about one person or a couple people and they're like I'm all with you. I'm with you, you mad.

Zack

I, he's trying to mess with you. I'm back. Dogs are very yeah.

Bucky

Yeah, if you they just get near us now. She didn't used to be that way, so she's in her older age, she's just getting a little bit it happened.

Zack

She's not even. She's not been like four, oh well, but it happened right after the girl. She's always been kind of that way, but after the girls just didn't come back. You know, that's how she got she she got to that's crazy.

Bucky

How animals are. They know some. Some animals know it, some people, some animals don.

Zack

They know some animals know it, some animals don't. You know, some animals are stupid, some animals don't understand.

Bucky

No, there are some animals that are dumb as hell.

Earl

Yeah well, they don't have no idea of nothing, they don't have the awareness.

Bucky

I got a few animals that are dumb as rocks. Some people don't have no awareness.

Earl

People don't have no awareness.

Bucky

Some people don't know what the fuck's going on. I know I mean they're walking around that way or they just got no idea what's going on.

Nostalgic School Days and Astronaut Tales

Zack

So here's another funny story. Let's talk about back when we were in elementary and we had this kid in elementary. That he was a pretty bad kid, but if you realized where he came from you would understand why he was so bad, but back in the day, talk about the difference between now and then. We had teachers that literally would put this kid in a box. Yeah, when he acted bad A box. I'm talking about a box, y'all.

Earl

Yeah, there was more than one. Kid got in a box. I was in the box. They used to do that.

Bucky

Hey speaking of that guess who I seen today.

Earl

I know two or three other what he's still alive Jinx. Yeah he's gone now. He's got to be real old 90?

Bucky

I don't know.

Earl

I didn't ask him.

Zack

I think he just looked that old. No.

Bucky

I seen him like 10 years ago no he retired in 1987,. He said or 89.

Zack

How old was he when he retired, though Well he had to be 60-something.

Bucky

Probably 50 or 60.

Zack

Probably 50 to 60.

Bucky

30 years, he's about 90 something.

Earl

I seen him a while back and he was old and moving slow.

Bucky

He was getting around. Okay, I told him.

Earl

I said damn, you're looking good, I seen him a little while back. He's old.

Bucky

Yeah, yeah.

Earl

I mean, he was principal. What?

Bucky

when we were in kindergarten. Yeah, 1980 to to 80 like almost our whole elementary, damn near.

Earl

We were in kindergarten in 80 he was principal right.

Bucky

Who was the principal when we was in 6th grade? Who was 6th grade who came after him in elementary who?

Earl

no, I don't know, it wasn't Palmer, was it?

Zack

Man, I don't remember any of our elementary. I do. That's the only one I remember.

Earl

He's the main one I remember, and then I remember some after that, when we weren't there. Well, yeah. Palmer lived up because he lived in that house the Marquards lived in. He lived like two doors down Because in the sixth grade.

Bucky

Who was it? I don't think so either.

Earl

Oh gosh, Because I used to get in a lot of trouble that year. Let me call.

Bucky

Kato.

Earl

That's part of the reason.

Bucky

I'll call his ass. What time is it? Damn 9 o'clock. Oh, is he awake? I don't know, he probably just got up. I ain't going to call him. I wouldn't put him on the spot like that. I would. Yeah, well.

Earl

He might. It was a good shot.

Bucky

Yeah, so any other good animal stories, funny stories, Animal stories.

Zack

I went to Mexico one time and saw no, that's a different story. What the donkey show the donkey show Different story, my bad.

Earl

Where were you at Acuna?

Zack

No, I've never been to Mexico. They didn't have it when we went Earl.

Bucky

Remember what, no, what no, I ain't been?

Earl

Which time I've never been.

Zack

Really You've never been. I've been real close, but I've never been.

Earl

To where there's different parts of Mexico. You can go to some man.

Bucky

It's like the part I went to was crazy.

Earl

It's just got a more varied thing than it's got a wider range. I've been to some places. I mean, i's some really nice tropical paradise places, and there is the barrio 88 years old. Told you Down there 90.

Bucky

Yeah, I figured he's 90.

Earl

Yep, and there's the barrio, anywhere you know, like the ghetto. Yeah, that's everywhere.

Bucky

That's what most places are.

Earl

That's the majority of the population, this whole world.

Bucky

Yeah.

Earl

Well, you want to talk about third world countries we still have first world problems. We're not.

Zack

Man, that's a whole other topic.

Earl

Yeah, if you're hungry, there's not going to be laughter about that.

Zack

No, that's true. It's getting to the point. I'm kind of nervous.

Earl

Yeah, what the way the world is set in the world, yeah.

Zack

Not just that part, I'm just talking about it. United States, yeah, I'm just talking about yeah, you ain't lying, yeah, you ain't lying.

Earl

I've think that for a long time.

Bucky

Yeah, that's not laughter stuff. No, it's serious, and we do get serious on the beat. Do you remember the?

Earl

show. Oh, I know another one. You know what about? I was thinking something. We're talking about the astronaut story, you know? I mean there was like crazy stories about they were figuring shit out. That you know same way. Yeah, they should shoot people up and just see what happened, see how high can we get. Yeah, you know, yeah and uh, there was different stuff they tried, you know, like the food, how you gonna do it in space, how you gonna pee, and shit. There's stuff they had to try have we ever been to space?

Earl

you remember? Huh, that's a good, that's a funny question that's a whole another. Yeah that's why they had, you know, you know what they had. That was uh they came up with like you know, like the freeze-dried food and uh like tang yeah and there was uh, you know there was a lot of kinds of tang. There was orange tang, there was other flavors. They had lemon tang, they had lime tang, they had other kinds of tang. You know what the favorite the astronauts back then you know what they said the favorite flavor was Wu-Tang.

Bucky

No, they had one made out of prunes. Wu-tang, you're saying, they had one made out of prunes, prunes, yeah, oh my God.

Earl

That's one everybody loved, so do you really think they made it?

Zack

into space or just to the you know high enough to get caught in gravity? No, never.

Earl

Well, maybe we didn't make it back then. I promise that was just a bike race. I think they did, but they added stuff to it. They tried to make it better.

Zack

Yeah, man ain't nobody going to get out of a spacecraft and say this is one leap for man.

Bucky

They'll be like oh, I really don't know what's fixing to happen.

Zack

That's what they're going to say.

Bucky

They're about to die. How many times did they do that? And they, just as soon as they hit, like explode, like well, we can't say nothing about that one Like oh, we can't show that one on TV.

Earl

Right Telling you right now yeah, yeah, no. I don't know, I think that we did some other stuff. We went around the moon and come back.

Zack

That's what they tell you, I know that's what they tell us and I don't know.

Zack

There's a lot of stuff they figured out that I can't answer Is the world flat this is the argument that I have to have with some of my friends and I tell them please do not get out in public and say the world is flat. Yeah, Because I mean there's some things that prove that, the horizon and how you see right, you know, if your sea level is zero, right, how you see in the ocean, as far as far as you can see is like 16 miles, then you, then you, they drop off well how you see in the ocean.

Earl

Yeah, that's how you see water. Well, once people started figuring out that they. That's how you figured it out, but it's still still traveling the ocean still I'm.

Zack

You know, they don't let us in antarctica. No, that's a crazy. Yeah, no, there's a lot of shit.

Earl

I know we don't let us in Antarctica. No, that's a crazy. Yeah, no, there's a lot of shit. I know we don't know. There's a lot of stuff that.

Bucky

They only tell us that. Everybody's fooled dude Need to know basis To tell you the truth.

Earl

Everybody is fooled by their TV and their phone.

Zack

We have no clue, really, what's really going on.

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Earl

Well, you can have a clue. Come on they used to Our government used to Swap's disease.

Bucky

Your government yeah, let's get off that topic that has a military that has war?

Earl

Yeah, they give you reasons and excuses. One nation under God? We could talk about that, but it ain't funny.

Bucky

When we want to talk about the government, we'll get my friend Bill on here yeah. And tell you about his years of service.

Zack

Do you remember the time that we were in high school and I don't know if you were a part of the group that win? It was Denny Vargo and Chad Stevenson and me, and I can't remember who else we went to the state fair, Remember that, and we were supposed to leave at like noon.

Bucky

And we showed back up at like oh, that was Mr Stone. Yeah, we showed back up at 4. He tore our ass up for that. He was a part of it, right.

Earl

Remember he came into the new gym and he was like it was me too.

Zack

He got five licks each, yeah we did, I didn't, I got one. Let me tell you how.

Earl

I walked.

Zack

I'm going to tell you exactly how. He walked into the old gym during activity period. He said in that cocky attitude I'm sorry.

Bucky

Hey, before you say that, what was?

Earl

we even doing all that time it's not like we were with no, but we went to the Midway and we rode roller coasters and shit like that.

Bucky

We were just lost in time. We just lost in time, yeah.

Earl

Yeah, and you know what? We came back at 4 and he was in the middle of nowhere. He was about to call the cops. He was mad.

Bucky

I understand his spot too. Now I've never seen him that mad.

Earl

But we were having a good time and he was mad.

Zack

We got in trouble.

Earl

We were wrong.

Zack

How'd you get out of it?

Earl

No, I didn't get out of it. I don't know, I didn't know that.

Zack

No, so he comes in there and he goes. Who wants to go first? And I just stood and I had sweats on and I was like I'll go.

Bucky

Okay, I remember Because it was like as soon as we got back, right.

Zack

Yeah, I was thinking, everybody got back.

Earl

Yeah, I mean like as soon, was cool and got mad again. He never cooled off totally, but he was real mad.

Bucky

He had to have a witness.

Zack

I remember in the fairgrounds.

Bucky

You're right.

Zack

What happened was.

Bucky

Wasn't there like six right of us? Yeah, all in that dodge mobile. I think it was five.

Zack

But anyway that's not what saved me. Don't make me start talking about DWC.

Earl

No Go.

Zack

So anyway, don't.

Earl

He said please don't.

Zack

Yeah, I know, so I raised my hand, you know, and I went in there. I want to go first. A pair of sweats on. That's right. Damn it. He said. Put your hands on the table. Grabbed ahold of that board he had. He reared back as far as he could dude, and he hit me as hard as he could, and literally the only thing that kept me from going over the table was my feet caught him, he took me off the ground, bro on top of the table.

Earl

I got him then too, but you know, like five let me. You didn't get that.

Bucky

Table moves when they I know I got, like I know, that table you didn't get them like that.

Zack

I promise you do all right now.

Bucky

You probably got the hardest one, no doubt. And when he did that, yeah, why he gave us more? Because he was tired.

Zack

When he did that dude, when he did that man, I turned Zach you're done. Yeah, Face was the color of your microphone dude.

Bucky

He knew he got you good, oh man, because he did, we shut the door. I seen that shit in his face.

Zack

And all I saw was he. Was this close to him, dude?

Earl

I remember that being bad.

Zack

Dude man. I was literally bruised from right underneath my ass to my damn knees, completely black bro.

Earl

He hit me that hard. I remember that dude, I remember those licks, because that was when you had to grab across the table and that fucking table, like Every time it hit you. And he hit us five times I thought I was going to pass out.

Zack

At three I was 175 pounds, I tell you what?

Earl

Yeah, I thought I was going to pass out at three.

Zack

I remember those licks. He hit me so hard, though, and you?

Earl

know what he was so mad. I was thinking then that I was so glad he didn't hit us that day. Yeah, it was the next day.

Zack

It was.

Bucky

Yeah, you're right hard. I remember thinking that, even though he got too good, like I said, he had reason.

Earl

We were missing in Fort Worth for some hours.

Zack

We were gone. I can't remember what fair it was. It was at a stock show wasn't it? No, it was a fair.

Earl

Yeah, I know, but it was at the fair.

Zack

We were on the deal. We were on the fair. We were on the midway the stock show, but it was either Fort Worth or Dallas, was it not the?

Bucky

fair also yes they had, like they had all that together.

Earl

Yeah, it's what they had. Yeah, it was either.

Bucky

I don't know, I think it was Fort Worth dude, I think it was Fort Worth, I think it was. I remember because that's what I remember. I and he was like we're the three of you? No, he was so mad.

Earl

Yes, it wasn't even like that, it was just like.

Zack

I guess it was just us, wasn't?

Bucky

it. No, there was five of us. Danny Vargo was there. I know Danny Vargo. Chad Stevenson, there was five, or six of us.

Zack

Tommy French.

Earl

Was it?

Bucky

I don't know there was five or six of us Then us enough to win the trip but there was more people that went.

Zack

but we're the ones.

Bucky

We was riding with him and he was waiting on us.

Earl

We were supposed to be there at 12. And it was like 4 o'clock. Who else was there? Kato was with Stone. I think Kato was there waiting with him.

Bucky

Yeah he probably did, but we did not.

Zack

No, there were several people there waiting with him.

Earl

Yeah, that's right, but yeah we were the bad kids.

Bucky

Then Dude, the next year I don't know if it was the next year he didn't give a shit, no, so I think this was when we were seniors.

Earl

Had beers and the.

Bucky

Yeah, we had all that alcohol. We took suitcases full.

Zack

Oh yeah.

Bucky

And so we had plans.

Bucky

We was at the hotel and we seen this girl. She was I don't know if she's staying there or what. Anyway, she talked to that girl for us and tell her to come over here. We want to talk to her. We went over there and talked to her and we kind of forgot about it. We was drinking and we was in our hotel room and all of a sudden brings this girl back. We're like oh, he brought us the girl right, man, he went over there and talked to her and got her for himself. Didn't say we wanted her to come talk to us, he just took her for himself, which was cool. So she, we have her in the room with us, like four or five guys, of course her and over there making out whatever they're doing, had all that alcohol, dude. I mean, we had like bottles of beer, cheap vodka, several people your brother was one of them, earl and several other freshmen that drank and got drunk.

Zack

yeah, they never drank before. That was yeah, Belcher a bunch of them.

Bucky

Anyway, they were all drunk and they got us caught. And so come to our room like boom, kicks in the door, you know like comes in. We tell that girl to get under the bed. And so he's like she does, and he's over there like where's the girl at? We're like what are you talking about under the bed? Yeah, she's under the bed and he's like I'm gonna go, where's she at? And we're like oh, she's under the bed. So we told her to get out. She got out and uh she, he told her you got to leave. So she left and he didn't even like no, say nothing about the alcohol.

Zack

Yeah, he just wanted the girl out.

Bucky

So she got out and we they don't do that shit, no more no, no Well.

Earl

I don't know, there's been some other stories from the other side. There was a good one.

Bucky

So yeah.

Earl

Jared's told me like one where they went like in a motel, the school booked or whatever. They went there and he's like no, like they got the cheap one like in San. Angelo. He went in there and in the room was nasty. There was a dildo on the bed. Yeah, that's enough. How about you taking the kids in there to that? Yeah, and we're staying for a school trip. Uh, the sheets are dirty. There's a dildo laying on the bed kids just throw that away.

Bucky

Yeah, and there's been another one.

Earl

There's another time he went down there and they were in the parking lot, he's like speaking of dildos, richie brought the dildo once I'm up to the old gym.

Zack

It was hilarious. He did some funny yes, he did.

Bucky

Yeah, he was always. He was always doing something funny. Yeah, I mean, he always was like yeah doing a joke, a prank yeah, pranking on everybody, yeah always, that's always laughing I do that some, but I'm not like constantly in it like that. No, he did it all the time. You had to watch him because he would do some shit to you. Oh, you probably ought to watch me.

Earl

I think a lot of times I shouldn't, but yeah, he was just another level.

Bucky

Yeah, he was a professional jokester. Professional, yeah. If he was here he'd tell us some pretty damn good funny jokes Him and Tony Bradley both.

Zack

Oh, when they got in a fight it was so funny.

Earl

Yeah, they didn't really get along.

Zack

Nah, well, they did up to a point.

Bucky

Well, up until all that, I think they got along enough that they didn't kill each other but they'd bicker and fight.

Earl

I'm going to have some episodes on both of them at some point.

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Bucky

You know what?

Earl

Yeah, about them and life surprise we'll talk to.

Bucky

Uh, maybe we can get sue on here to talk I bet, so I don't know have you talked to her?

Earl

I mentioned maybe just talk to that we do it and how many we done now I don't know I've only listened to part of one yeah, we're gonna have to do some major uh wording.

Zack

We don't even know how much time we have left on the car left.

Earl

What do you mean?

Bucky

I mean it's, it's got like 600 hours dude that car.

Earl

I was going to say oh really, I think it's big. Yeah, I didn't think it was that far.

Zack

No, we've already been on here an hour and four minutes. Oh yeah, today.

Earl

Yeah. Yeah, that's all right. I don't think we're done quite yet. No, this episode was about trying to laugh and trying to have a little bit different. We can't always be serious. I mean, you know we are serious, yeah, but you can't just go along that way all the time. It kind of brings you down sometimes. There are some people that do that shit.

Bucky

We're going to kind of mix it up.

Earl

Change it up.

Bucky

As far as us, episode to episode, you just got to be easy about it.

Zack

That's the main idea. Be easy, not sleazy. That's the main idea. That's a goal. That's a goal.

Earl

Be easy, not sleazy. That's one goal? Yeah, it is. It's something to keep in your head.

Zack

It's a goal of ours Take it easy, be easy.

Earl

That's a goal of all of ours. Hey, this I'll show you. I've got it written in books. You've seen two, I've got it written in books many a days. Be easy, take it, easy Take it easy.

Bucky

Listen to the song. Which one, which one, take it easy. All that shit Easily.

Earl

I approach the mind, just I don't know. It's just it's kind of funny that it works out for us Be easy.

Zack

It's kind of funny that it works out for us. B-e-z. That was a brilliant idea, by the way, cause uh, yeah, what's that when you?

Bucky

came up with that.

Zack

I don't know how I even came up with that well, I don't know, I didn't look at that, I just wrote it down one day I'm like I've drawn like ten different things.

Bucky

I mean, I just wrote our names and I was what the hell well, it's caught on good enough for that hell yeah, eazy-e. Hey, I mean okay this is for this is not for kids nah well, we knew that already. I mean Eazy-E and NWA was not for the well, it was about other things, they pretty much uncensored at all, yeah censorship and pushing the envelope.

Earl

That's what it was about, yeah.

Bucky

That's what their whole deal was was to break the censorship. And they did, and they went to jail over it.

Zack

Yeah, the insane clown posse came around. Yeah, a lot of shit.

Earl

Yeah it's too, much they changed music basically. Yeah, they did At that time, at that time. That's crazy.

Bucky

Yeah, but man I used to. I loved Eazy no.

Earl

Eazy, they had some beats, dude, they sampled from a lot of shit, the shit they had, oh their music the Well, I don't know who all's talents.

Bucky

Ice Cube. Yeah, that whole group NWA was like.

Earl

I think some of them carried on.

Bucky

Easy, e was crazy.

Earl

They all did what was it Eric Wilson was his name. Yeah, he was nuts dude. He was the one that was really a gangster and shit. That's why he died.

Bucky

That's why Easy E died too.

Earl

That's what I'm talking about, Easy E Eric but uh yeah, that's why Eazy-E died too.

Bucky

That's what.

Earl

I'm talking about Eazy-E Eric Wilson. Well, he was the different one, but he was probably the other ones could carry on that artistry. He was the one that was like a flaming like he was just like. He was more of a criminal than the artist you know just happened to be. He could put in, he was just yeah but that, yeah, but that was. Shit was real. I mean, it makes it real.

Zack

That's it. That's what we're trying to. Well, you talk a lot of shit.

Earl

That's why some people called me that before? Because I could talk a lot and you know, just talk shit, yeah, or. But I wasn't always that way. Sometimes it's just being easy. Be easy, you gotta be, easy, cool, I tell you. I am usually for years and years.

Bucky

It may not be all the time, but for now in our, since we all shit easy got your 30s in our 30s. 30s, yeah, since I got 29, you gotta take it easy. Like look at the clock, like what time is?

Earl

like damn, it's almost bedtime yeah, time to take my meds hey, whatever you gotta do, I need some laughter in my house right now, cause my wife's had a bad week.

Zack

She's had a bad week, yeah what work or what some other family shit kids yeah just a bad week dates and shit no, it's a she, she, she, she has the type that's uh, she has dreams yeah yeah yeah, well, it's not always easy.

Bucky

Dreams are another thing.

Earl

That's another subject. It's not always easy we can talk about.

Zack

It's not always easy, but we're gonna be easy right now.

Bucky

Well, okay yeah, that's for that's for another episode.

Earl

Hey, it's something to navigate hey, I did.

Bucky

The last time I did see her. I said she should come on and talk maybe one day I don't know.

Earl

You talked to her about that, I'm not so sure she even thinks this is real.

Zack

Yet I think she may think that we just go hang out. You know, really, nah, who knows? You know, yeah, I know but I did mention it.

Bucky

I was like hey, I know I ain't listened to it. Like I said, I ain't listened to many others. I hadn't listened to many since yeah, I mean what? I don't know yeah, I don't know what I'm doing when I do that.

Zack

Yeah, google Drive. Yeah, I don't know.

Bucky

It's such a large file I don't know how.

Earl

What's that? You sent that song at one time by yeah yeah, but that was just a short.

Bucky

It was just a short piece of that.

Earl

It wasn't like an hour.

Bucky

Oh yeah, it's that long out how to do it. We'll get it done. Oh yes, we can do it, but as long as we got it on here is that what it is, the amount?

Earl

yeah, it's the time.

Bucky

Yes, the time once we get it. Oh man, three minute song's a lot different than us the whole time. I'm just kidding, I'll be like not again. I know it'll be like give it up, give it up, give it up?

Earl

nah, well, we're bouncing. You brought out some hiccups, and that'd be one of them.

Zack

We didn't record I eat I eat hot things, I get hiccups. Well, you know what I mean. I really do like a hot. If it's really hot, yeah, right too fast.

Earl

You ever eat too fast. I'm like I can't do that. I'm too hungry and I eat too fast. I get hiccups, but no, I just hiccups like any. What do you call it?

Bucky

the hitch and your giddy up, you gotta be just something that has you gotta be easy with what you eat. Well, you Well you do that.

Earl

Most times it don't happen, and then one time it does and it's a problem.

Zack

Yep you gotta be. That's it, you gotta be easy. What's that? One NWA song? Which one, oh which one. It's a stick up.

Earl

Everybody get face down.

Zack

I thought you were going to say give me that Put the hands down.

Bucky

What did you say? Yeah, that's that. Pull the panties down.

Earl

Hey, he has some damn good songs, that's boys in the hood right yeah it is.

Bucky

Yeah, this is kind of their breakthrough Be easy, always hard, baby Hard in the county hard.

Earl

Hard in the county hard. Yeah, I know that's some other shit. You, I know that's some other shit. You know what I need? My book. I didn't bring nothing in, hey.

Bucky

I got you that whole Bible. I got a lot of shit just there.

Earl

I know I know it's in the car. You want me to go get it?

Bucky

No, I got some other shit. I got another little set. Next time bring it, next time no it's in the car I got all that shit I do too. I just have to write that down. That's why I had my shit here. That's why I catch it. Let me see what.

Earl

I it's a good idea to do that For a lot of reasons.

Zack

It's like a shot in the dick.

Earl

No, you don't want a shot in the dick.

Bucky

Yeah, that's what I wrote.

Earl

Like I said, that's the story I tell at my house and my kids are like you know about dad. He got shot in the dick, yeah, and then I told another story like I was telling some like rj or some of the older kids like, yeah, you need to 40, he's gonna check. You know it's a different thing, you know it's like, but once you got, it's like man cancer.

Earl

Check me again, yeah you don't want that no, but uh, so you that story, and I was telling that to one of the other kids, and then Indy's telling Leo and then I'm like, hey, you know what Dad sees his balls put back in. I didn't know my balls were out.

Bucky

Yeah, oh, they were out.

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Earl

Yeah, it's like I didn't know it's possible. I think I was talking about, you know, talking about the hernia check, Because I do have an inguinal hernia. That's what they do. They put a finger there and cough. Turn your head to the left and cough. You feel that strength, but anyway. So I was probably telling one of the older kids this is kind of don't hurt yourself.

Bucky

It's like a story.

Earl

But anyway it spread to all the people who were like, hey, daddy got shot in the dick, Don't let him.

Bucky

Well, that too.

Earl

They just know anything with a doctor. They don't want a shot, you don't want a shot in the dick. It's a terrible story, very.

Bucky

It's a very terrible story.

Earl

It was number.

Zack

I, I cringe when I hear it Bye for another episode. This is the Be Easy.

Bucky

And we are going to be.

Zack

Be easy, not sleazy.

Bucky

Easy, not sleazy.

Earl

It's hard to do. Easy to be sleazy.

Bucky

Alright, so until next time. Next time we will see ya Be easy.

Zack

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