Stay Grounded

Jen is running on fumes — wildfires on three sides, doing the work of two and a half people, and somehow still finding time to remember eat marshmallows in front of her partner just to watch him gag. This week's episode is a cozy, rambling conversation about hometown roots, a 20-year reunion with a beloved server named Corey, and why leaving your people behind is harder than any real estate deal. Jen and Dagda swap heights horror stories — Niagara Falls, the Columbia River Gorge, the Golden Gate Bridge, and a childhood fair ride called the Mouser that may have started it all. Plus: bib overalls are back, Dagda installs a ceiling fan, and a drunk driver gets a little instant karma on a Friday night.

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Transcript

Welcome

SPEAKER_01 0:03

Welcome to everyday life. Thank you for tuning in a podcast. Conversations of Catholics. My name is content right after that. Adult situations and adult language from time to time.

SPEAKER_03 0:22

I'm an angel. I never fucking talked about it.

SPEAKER_01 0:25

Okay. Anyway, you ready to go? Oh yeah. All right, let's go.

SPEAKER_02 0:37

You should tell what can you say. The way you hovered your hand, for instance.

SPEAKER_04 0:46

Yeah. This is like Are you gonna show me your secret power though?

SPEAKER_03 0:50

No, not today. Right. That would be a vulgar display of power.

SPEAKER_02 0:56

Like, look. So we all know what is Dagda. What is Dagda? Dagda is a god, right? So okay, he can be a good god, but what do they say is next to what do they say is next to godliness? Cleanliness. And so you can't be a god. Okay, sure. You're not a dirty person, but you're a hoarder. Well, you're not a hoarder. You make nests. You make nests. Okay. You make nests. Owning nest. Oh minus. It's probably something dirty. I like I'm sarcasmic meditation. Oh no, thank you.

unknown 1:34

No.

SPEAKER_02 1:35

I've got my brunette here, I've got my blonde there, and I've got my red head there. My oming nest. No, thank you. No, I I swear my brain is firing on half of a cylinder because between doing the work of two and a half people at work, I do it with a smile. I do it with a smile. And then the wildfires all around. Well, we're covered on three sides with wildfires. So, and even though I know you brought marshmallows, it's fine. Don't let my partner see them.

SPEAKER_04 2:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:08

So we were I was telling the story this weekend about the one time that I had marshmallows hidden in the house, and he found them because we'd used the spices that were in front of it, and I'd forgotten to move it. And he was just like, Why? This is evil. And he just got like really upset. And he goes, You should. I was just like, you know what? What were you doing? Snoop around. He looks at me, he goes, They were at eye level. I said to you, not to me. To me, they were hidden well. And you just, you know what? They'd been there a while too. And he was just like, So the other person that was at lunch with us goes, I was like, look, I hit it as high as I could. And she goes, So what'd you do? I was just like, he made me man. And I ate it in front of him. And she went, Oh, no, you didn't. I said, Yes, I did. I put it in my mouth and went, mmm. I was like, it was great because he started gagging. My partner, he cannot explain it. He cannot stand marshmallows. They're evil, they're rotten, get them away from him. And I'm just like, dude, it's literally just sugar.

SPEAKER_04 3:08

Yeah, basically.

SPEAKER_02 3:09

But I think there's something that happened when he, I'm imagining because he has an older sibling who's just a terrible shit. I don't like the individual at all. Um, and I imagine that that older sibling that at one point like they tried to roast marshmallows, and his older sibling was like, Look, it's alive, it's growing, it's gonna get you. Either that or he watched Ghostbusters when he was really young and Stay Puff Marshmallow Man. Yep. I I don't know. No, the gal who was at lunch with us, she goes, uh, she goes, Yeah, why were you snooping around? He goes, I was it. He goes, I wonder and it's true. He did just we had I'd used up the taco seasoning, I think. Because I used to I used to just do the taco seasonings in the packet, they were all standing up and it was hiding behind that. But like as high as I can reach, that's eye level for him. Yeah. Dirty tall bastard. But anyways, so yeah, I got I got to hear how evil I was bringing marshmallows into this house. Everybody at the table laughed. But what was interesting is I went to one of my favorite local restaurants, which I'm not gonna name the name on on this, but we went, and my server, who's been my server there for 20 plus years, I hadn't seen her for a while because we haven't

Hometown Roots

SPEAKER_02 4:30

been going as much since COVID. Um, just we work different schedules, you know, everything. So I said to the server who's been there about at the restaurant for about 10 years, because she's been my server before, she does a good job. And I said, Look, I've got this crazy question. Is Corey here? And she goes, Yeah, she's working right now. And I'm like, She went and told Corey, she was just like, You have this lady here who's like, you've been her server for like 20 years, and she thinks you're the bee's knees and you're fantastic and everything else. And Corey came over and she did not look. I know I don't look my age, but she really doesn't look her age. She's like 38 and she looks like she's 25, you know, and and she's lost a ton of weight, so she's she's not skinny, but she's lost a ton of weight. I'm like, girl, you look fabulous. And she's like, No, I don't. I'm so and I'm like, stop, stop, stop, you really do. I was just like, I've been, I was like, you've been my server for what 20, 20, 20, 25 and a half years. She's been there. She has been working there since she was 13. With I'm guessing, by the way, her manager talked about it because her manager saw this interaction and he came over to check on us. And I told him, I'm like, don't ever lose her. She's like the best server you've ever had. I said, I'm not taking anything away from any of your other servers, but Corey makes it feel like you're at grandma's house or grandpa's house or uncle's house having a meal. And uh, and that's as much description as I'm gonna give away to where we were. Yeah. Um, although I I I I want the place to be very successful and be around another 80 years, uh, you know, because I I love it and I love the atmosphere.

SPEAKER_03 6:04

Um, but you know, I've never been to that place.

SPEAKER_02 6:08

You and I will make it a point to maybe we'll go next week or the week after. Maybe we'll go because I want to go back and see Corey. And if you've never had their food, it's fan fucking cat. You thought yesterday was pretty good, right? It was pretty good, yeah. Yeah, I think theirs is better. I think theirs is better. So it was it was an interesting weekend overall. Yeah, you know, meeting new people, having good good meals. Uh, and it was funny because sometimes you forget when you're in your hometown, right? And when you're in your hometown, and depending on the type of person you are, people may very well treat you differently. And it was funny because we're at this restaurant because it was a first-time meeting.

SPEAKER_04 6:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:52

And so we're at this restaurant, and one of the individuals says, We've been here a while. Do we have to? We're probably they're probably gonna want us to move on. Where are we gonna go from here? Because they knew that there was a Starbucks down the way. And I'm like, we're fine. And they look at me and they go, What? I was like, I was like, trust me, we're fine. I was just like, people who are from this hometown. And I was like, and there's a lot of us who who kind of know each other by the by. And I said, whether it's the industry we work in or it's we're neighbors or whatever, I was just like, but you get known in hospitality services for your behavior to customers and your behavior at restaurants and all of that around here, because there's not a lot of them that are still existing for the last 40 years. Yeah, I mean, they have just gone so quick since COVID. Yeah. And I said, I said, I don't know people, but I know people. And I was just like, we're causing no harm, no foul. I was just like, it helps the restaurant look good, we're being well behaved, we've we're generous with tip. Trust me, that individual was generous with tip. And um, I said, we're okay. I was like, I was like, I was like, it, if we're still here come dinner rush, I was like, then they'll probably say something. Yeah. But otherwise, no. I mean, we were there longer than our server worked. She had just started her shift when they had arrived at the restaurant and she left for the day before we did. But it's kind of interesting when you are in that hometown environment and you like you've seen these people before and you've seen them whether it's in if you're if you're if you're in your hometown and you work in your hometown and you live in your hometown and you have your whole life, it's kind of interesting how you end up crossing paths with people. And sometimes you see them on their best day, and sometimes you see them on their worst day. And it's I literally was people watching because we were at a restaurant just down the road from work. And like I'm sitting there, I'm enjoying the conversation. All of a sudden, middle finger would come up to somebody walking down the street, they'd see who I was, and they would cover their face and cross the street or walk faster. And one of the individuals was like, Who was it? I was like, That motherfucker just stole out of my shop the other day. Yeah, you know, but it but there was but there was also that flip side where you see the people who are really good as

Hometown Dynamics

SPEAKER_02 9:00

well.

SPEAKER_04 9:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:00

I don't know. It's it's it's it's it's so weird because they've moved a lot.

SPEAKER_04 9:06

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:07

Yeah, they've moved, they've lived in a lot of states and a lot of different places, Italy, Japan, Florida. Fuck those people. Yeah, see, yeah, exactly. But um, Arizona, Washington, Virginia, the whole California, all over the place. And it's really interesting because she very much was like, uh, when her and I were talking about it, I'm like, it's a hometown vibe. I was just like, and you can have it anywhere you go. I was just like, when I went to Lake Laudowana, Missouri, I felt so at home. Like I hopped in the golf cart, I went up and got my coffee every day from a little corner place before you get into where Lake Laudowana's private residence live and everything. I was just like, look, I was I was paper thin from moving there because I had found a duplex that was reasonable and it was like for it, the prices are ridiculous back there. I mean, like it was, you know, I it was it was at a time in life where I was really struggling with some stuff.

SPEAKER_04 10:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:06

And, you know, so when I looked at this 1200 square foot two-bedroom duplex with two-car garage, and that's how their duplexes were attached were by the garages. Yeah, I'm just like 950 a month. What?

SPEAKER_03 10:24

Yeah, that's unheard of around here.

SPEAKER_02 10:26

Yeah, but I mean it's been a few years as well, but it was just like, and I remember I was talking to somebody and they're like, they don't have an opening. They're renting now for six months out, and I'm like, oh because I thought about like what if I just stayed one more month? You know, I was there for a week. What if I stay a month? Would life feel any different? Would it become any different? And then of course I thought of Mama D. Yeah. And I mean, first I thought of my mommy, and I'm just like, hi mommy, hi mommy, hi mommy. Uh first I thought of mommy and I thought, you know, she'd be okay. As long as I was happy, she'd be okay, as long as I came back and saw her within three months. And then I thought about Mama D and I thought about you, and I thought about Chuck and I thought about everybody, and I was just like, man, I just can't leave my whole world behind. Now, if everybody was gone, I'd heartbeat. I'd like, I'd go where all my friends are, I would go where all my online friends are moving, which happens to be like Alabama board in Jacksonville area. I'd go. I'd drag you with me. We talked about you this weekend, so it was funny.

SPEAKER_03 11:30

I don't think I would ever want to live in Alabama.

SPEAKER_02 11:35

Why not? Don't you want to enjoy the Alabama slamma?

SPEAKER_03 11:38

I I I spent several months down there. Well, it was And that's in the Huntsville area. Is it is it a better area? That's so there's a lot of um big industry in that area and a lot of colleges. Um so like Raytheon is based out of there. A couple other um that's a computer thing, right? It is a parts thing, right? Uh supply.

SPEAKER_02 12:07

Okay. Oh, I'm thinking of radon. Never mind. Well so the end of the people we were with were just like, you guys can fly down anytime. We'll make time for you. I don't fly. I don't ever want to fly again. I hate I I hate flying almost as much as I hate I pity the food that puts gin on a plane. Like BA Brockets, man. You're gonna knock my ass out. Uh just the experiences were it's one of those things where the experiences were so horrible, but then at the same time, I'm like, I lived.

SPEAKER_04 12:45

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 12:46

You know what I mean? Did you die? But yeah, I know exactly. But did you die? Um, but it was funny because my partner had said she wants to travel background. She has this dream of her and me and her best friend

Hometown Keeps Winning

SPEAKER_02 13:00

all like driving around the states and in a motorhome and doing that. And I'm like, that's kind of the idea, but I was just like, part of it is not just doing that, but it's visiting these other places and everything. I was like, except for Niagara Falls, we're not doing Niagara Falls ever. And then I was telling them the story about how much you hated going to Niagara Falls.

SPEAKER_03 13:22

It was the whole sort of, yeah, it was just uh lot of water, let's fucking leave.

SPEAKER_02 13:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 13:29

That was my response to Niagara Falls.

SPEAKER_02 13:31

Yeah, I'm like, yeah, no, so we'll never do a Niagara Falls because it was like the time, the money, the rudeness for nothing.

unknown 13:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 13:39

It's water. Wow. It'd be different if you were there on a day somebody was going over in a barrel or something, maybe. And you hadn't spent all the time and the money to go there, and everybody was just rude.

SPEAKER_04 13:50

Yeah.

unknown 13:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 13:52

I mean, I have a an we have another friend who lives in Indiana, and he went to Niagara Falls, and I'm just like, pretty sure his reaction was the same as you. That's a lot of water.

SPEAKER_03 14:04

Yeah. Yours would probably be worse because you're way up looking down.

SPEAKER_02 14:09

Oh, no, thank you. I remember being a kid going to the Grand Coulee Dam with my dad and stepmom and siblings.

SPEAKER_03 14:18

Did you see the laser light show there?

SPEAKER_02 14:20

Or did they when they went there?

SPEAKER_03 14:23

I don't think they had it.

SPEAKER_02 14:24

I was kind of like, do you know how many years ago that was?

SPEAKER_03 14:26

I went there as a kid and they had the laser light show, although I was like 10 or 12, something like that.

SPEAKER_02 14:32

I was younger than that when we went to, you know, when we went that way. I was younger than that. I was between five and seven, so I don't remember. I don't remember anything other than God, please don't let us fall. That's all I remember.

SPEAKER_03 14:44

Yeah, because you are on the lookout spot at your above the valley, looking across at the dam.

SPEAKER_02 14:51

I had to drive across that stupid bridge by the gorge, and I literally got vertigo so bad. Psychological vertigo, I swear to Jesus, is way worse than regular vertigo because regular vertigo, you can prepare, you know, like you can feel it coming on, and you have ways that you can deal with it. But when it's mental, it's like when it's mental, I was driving a vehicle doing 75 miles an hour, and all of a sudden the person who was riding with me is like, Jen, Jen, Jen, Jen. I'm like, I'm driving straight, I promise. They're like, no, pull over. I'm like, I can't. We were on the middle of the bridge and we I couldn't pull over, but apparently I was just drifting, and it was just like slow-mo drifting. I'm doing 75 and I'm just inch by inch, almost hit the barrier, and I was like, Oh Did you know that there's actually a uh ferry that will ferry across the river?

SPEAKER_00 15:40

No, I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_03 15:42

And so Zach was telling me this. Because I was talking about the um Grand Canyon Indian tribe that lives inside of the Grand Canyon. Yeah. And the fact that it's a wagon, or not a wagon, a mule train that goes down there.

SPEAKER_02 15:56

I was gonna be so excited if you said wagon train, because I'm like, yes, life goal, yes.

SPEAKER_03 16:03

The trail's too small for wagons, it's just mules. Anyway, um, he was telling me that there was a fucking ferry that is part of the freeway system, so it's free to use.

SPEAKER_02 16:15

Uh to go across the the Columbia River at the gorge?

SPEAKER_03 16:18

Yeah. I was like, that's actually kind of cool.

SPEAKER_02 16:21

Now I want to do that too. Like, I should have a we should have a whiteboard in here bigger than why's it gotta be white because I can't read a blackboard. I don't have the right confidence for a blackboard. Okay, I'm sorry. We had a whiteboard at one point. I have no idea where it is, but we should have one. It's like every time we think about it, we should write stuff down. The ferry at the gorge. See, now I'm gonna have to like Wikipedia that shit or something. Yeah, but it's it's it's the strangest thing, you know. I've been over that bridge twice, once going where we were going on our vacation, and once coming back. Coming back, I did not drive. Coming back, they drove, and it was so funny because the person who was with me on that trip, he he just thought it was so great that I was terrified of heights. And so what ended up happening is I got that vertigo feeling like, whoa. Then I would go to San Francisco, and I got that thing, and I just started listing lazily to the left. I like literally couldn't get away from it because he stayed on that lane, so where I didn't have a choice but to see everything. I'm like, why do you think I was in the inside lane last time and then listed to the right? What the fuck, bro? And he was just like, it's okay. Do you want to sit in my lap too? And I'm like, no, want nothing to do with your lap, buddy. Uh you know, and yeah. Oh, I was we had to pull over so I could vomit. And he wanted to go look at it. So I'm like, you go ahead. I got within 30 feet of where you could look at things, and I I literally I vomited and I started shaking, and I'm shaking like so hard. And he was just like, What's wrong with you? I'm like, I can't. I

A Fear of Heights

SPEAKER_02 18:00

I don't I don't want to, I don't want to. Because I'd already had an experience with Colorado where I almost fell 3,000 feet. So I was just like, No, no, no, no, no, I can't, I don't want to. And he was just like, it's okay. I took one more step. I had no knees, they were jelly. I just I hit my knees. I was just like, you go do your thing, I'll wait right here. I'll be here when you come back. Oh my god, because he took my car because he was driving, so he took my car key, so I couldn't just go into my car and run away. So yeah, and I was there for I'm on my knees for 15 minutes because I could I just couldn't get the strength of my leg. So when he came back, I just shuffled myself forward a little bit to a little grass patch, or I don't know if you call it a weed patch or grass patch. And I remember he helped me get up and I was fine. He was like, Okay, now let's go. And I'm like, I'm not going to look at this shit. It's too sometimes going across the narrow's bridge, I'll have that same reaction. So I have to be really careful what I look at. It's not, you know, it's I've had a uh an extreme fear of heights for my whole life, and it's probably my father's fault for throwing me in the air and letting me vomit on him and then not catching me when I was a kid. I don't know. It could like my dad's a big dude.

SPEAKER_03 19:09

I mean, you vomited on him. I understand him not catching you.

SPEAKER_02 19:13

Well, I was like, I vomited in his mouth. What's the big deal? I mean, I was a kid.

SPEAKER_03 19:16

Yeah, and you tend to respond to fucking showers of fucking yuck and especially in your face.

SPEAKER_02 19:23

He brought it on himself. He he brought it on himself. It's not my fault. At at at like nine months old, I have no control over that. You're bigger than me, you're stronger than me, you're faster than me. Of course, you can toss me around like a football, you jackass. But but I I think I think where my actual fear of heights come is I was four or five, and they, you know, we have these fairs that go on. Well, they used to a lot more than they do now. They had not just like uh the Pierce County or the King County Fair or the Washington State Fair, you know, they would have like the Lakewood Fair, the Tacoma Fair. They would have these little, these little uh, you know, fairs that were like much smaller. Yeah, like you know, like maybe they'd have animals and like eight rides or whatever. So there's this ride out there, and it's intended for young children, um, and it's called the Mouser.

SPEAKER_04 20:12

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 20:13

And so basically it's a mini roller coaster and it's supposed to remind you of Mousetrap, the the board game, okay, where you go up and you twist and you turn and it's sharp turns. Well, when I was young, I wanted my you're supposed to have a parent or an older sibling go with you. Now, none of us siblings are tall, but I remember my dad did. And my dad was at the time about 50 pounds heavier than he was supposed to be. Because they were like, there is a weight limit here.

SPEAKER_04 20:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:42

And he was just like, We're good, we're good. No, we weren't good. We were not good. So we get on this little thing and it goes and it does the little spin down at the bottom, and then it quirks us up, and then we get to the top, and we're we're only about 12 feet in the air.

SPEAKER_03 20:57

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 20:58

You know, because I'd I've seen the mouser since when I got older, I'd seen it again. We're only about 12, I mean, maybe 15 feet in the air, but it's not like you're definitely gonna die if you fall. But so we get up and we go across the back of this track where it speeds up and it hits a sharp corner, it hits almost a 90-degree angle. Well, my dad was, like I said, a little too heavy for it. So when we hit that sharp angle, we tipped. And he had to throw his full body weight opposite direction to get us back down. And I remember very clearly, and up until his uh health deteriorated, he would laugh about it. He thought it was funny. He did it on purpose. He said he always tells me, I did it on purpose, I thought it was funny. I am not the sibling that likes that kind of shit. I've never been that sibling. Yeah, I'm not an adrenaline junkie, uh, a thrill rusher. I want to be the good kid. And so he he's always told me all my life, he's like, I can't believe you remember that. I'm like, Oh, I remember it because I started screaming. Bloody murder. And I remember when we got done, the ride operator was just like, I'm so sorry. I think my thing had a malfunction. But my dad swears that he did it on purpose. And I remember when we tipped, losing that sense of gravity because it was so fast when it happened. It's almost like having whiplash because you just lose that sense of gravity for a moment. But I remember looking down, and all as I could see when I looked over on the left, because when it was a right turn, so we tipped to the left. I can remember looking down and seeing vomit on the ground and went, I didn't think it was vomit though. I thought it was somebody had fallen out and died. And and I remember when we came back, we hit so hard it made my ear pop. Like my because I was in front of my dad. And when we came back down, because his arms were stretched out, I literally hit his arm and my ear popped. And I don't know if it's because it was skin to ear contact and it made like a suction or what. But I remember thinking, oh my God, we're gonna die seeing the vomit, which I didn't know it was vomit until like after the fact, thinking it was somebody dead, and then my ear popping. I hated my parent. And I don't hate anything too much unless you know you're uh you hurt animals or children, you know. And I remember, I remember I sat there and I was so angry. He's like, What are you mad at me for? You wanted to go on it. I didn't want to go on it. He he wanted to go on it, and then I was just like, Okay. My dad used to be that guy who liked to do kind of he like he thought it was great to have us kids on the quad runners when we were kids. He he bought quads and they were small enough for he thought they were fantastic until we ran up a tree and got stuck, and he thought one of us was gonna get a broken arm, and my baby sister's crying and I'm screaming because we can't get down. We were way too young to be on those quad runners, yeah. Way too young, anyways. But yeah, no Niagara Falls, no, no heights. I'm good. I don't even want to go across the Golden Great Gate Bridge ever in my life. No, no, thanks.

SPEAKER_03 24:02

I'm like I walked across that thing.

SPEAKER_02 24:05

How how long was the walk again?

SPEAKER_03 24:07

It seemed like it was like five miles or some shit. I don't know. It it was long. So how many hours was uh was it like two for you guys? I don't remember. I just remember walking, getting like a quarter of the way and being like, maybe we shouldn't have done this. And then getting to the other side and being like, I kind of want to ride back. Like tour buses and shit that go across the yeah, but I guess the tour buses all start on the on the side we started on uh that we walked from. Yeah. And so there wasn't a place to buy a ticket to get on a tour bus to go back.

SPEAKER_02 24:45

You didn't even try to hook a ride with your thumb?

SPEAKER_03 24:48

No.

SPEAKER_02 24:48

Didn't think about that, did you?

SPEAKER_03 24:50

There's they're Californians.

SPEAKER_02 24:53

Yeah, they don't they don't I mean, we're we don't we don't pick up hitchhikers, they definitely don't because the i5 killer and all

Horror Stories of Heights

SPEAKER_02 25:00

of that.

SPEAKER_03 25:00

Yeah. So yeah. It was a long walk.

SPEAKER_02 25:03

I remember we talked about it before, and you're like, it's like five miles, it's not five miles.

SPEAKER_03 25:07

Yeah, it's not that long. It it's nowhere near as long as what it seems. It's a long way, but nowhere near as long as what it seems when you're walking it.

SPEAKER_02 25:13

And I and I kind of wonder if it feels like it's that long because of the elevation, because of the curb or curve, or just because of the noises. Because it's gotta be really loud.

SPEAKER_03 25:23

Yeah, it's pretty loud. The cars are zooming past you, and then it's all exposed, so this like straight up sun beating down on you, wind blowing on you. So it was not particularly warm that day. It wasn't it wasn't cold, but between the breeze and the fucking, yeah. Um I almost made a very bad joke.

SPEAKER_02 25:42

Do you want to pause?

SPEAKER_03 25:44

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 25:46

Sorry.

SPEAKER_02 25:48

Anyway, you kinda you gotta give me some necks. You are kind of proud because that was totally racist.

SPEAKER_03 25:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:54

And I don't ever do those.

SPEAKER_03 25:58

Allegedly.

SPEAKER_02 25:59

I don't. I'm an equal opportunity hater, okay? We hate everybody. That hey, I hey. I don't I don't hate anybody per se. Like I said, unless you're hurting animals or children, and yes, I understand how weird that sounds to some people. Do we have the same phone case?

SPEAKER_03 26:17

No.

SPEAKER_02 26:17

Wait, do we?

SPEAKER_03 26:19

You fucking copied me.

SPEAKER_02 26:21

No, I didn't. I just got on Amazon because I need a new case because my case fell apart. And this was the most recommended for Samsung. Stopped copies me. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 26:30

You suck.

SPEAKER_02 26:31

You swallow. That's how much I was I'm sitting here and I see this glint of filler, and I'm like, how the fuck did my phone get over there?

SPEAKER_03 26:41

Yeah. I had this case since I bought this phone.

SPEAKER_02 26:44

I had this case since I ordered it on Amazon, and it was the most recommended and the most affordable one.

unknown 26:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:49

But I didn't even notice that my my cameras go a different way than yours. Yeah, yours is a different phone, so you have different cameras.

SPEAKER_03 26:55

Well it's a Samsung. Mine's a fucking Google phone.

SPEAKER_02 26:58

Oh, Google A.

SPEAKER_03 27:00

Google A.

SPEAKER_02 27:01

I know. I got I got it. You know, I gotta get a new phone or I gotta get more memory for a bigger memory card or something. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 27:09

Yep, you need a new phone.

SPEAKER_02 27:10

But but see, uh the thing is I just spent ten dollars on that phone case. And so if I get a new phone now, I just wasted ten dollars and I can't stand that.

SPEAKER_03 27:21

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 27:22

You're like, I'm just just saying. You're gonna need a new phone sooner or later anyway. I will. But here's the problem is if I get a new phone, uh I'm I'm on a grandfathered plan and it's super affordable. Like consumer cellular could beat that plan, but they can't beat the plan when you think about all the range I get, all the good stuff I get.

SPEAKER_03 27:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:46

And it's just like, uh, I don't want it, I don't want my plan to change.

SPEAKER_03 27:49

Yeah, I've had the same plan for a long time, and yeah, it's grandfathered also don't get new phones all the time. Right. Well Although I don't think I did get a new phone one time through them. Um, that was a long time ago, though. It was probably like 15 years ago.

SPEAKER_02 28:08

Well, I mean, I probably could Google it. I just don't want a refurbished phone. I don't want I it's so weird. I don't like getting rid of my old phones, and I don't want somebody else's old phone because I don't want it to be where I'm the third owner of a phone and somebody else is a pedophile and they try to drag me into it, and I'm gonna have to kill somebody. I don't want to have to do that. Look, my my shoulders have been having problems lately with all the overwork I've been doing at work, and I don't think I have the energy to dig a grave site because I'd have to kill a motherfucker. I just don't think I do. And I know your shoulder's not good enough for digging because you got your Michael Jackson thing going on today. Yeah, maybe that's why it seems like it's stuck a little bit up. No, you got your like thriller shoulder going on. Yeah. I'm telling you, this the left one is up at attention, and the right one's like, yo, man. Just chillax. Anyways. So, what all did you do this weekend?

SPEAKER_03 29:08

Um, what did I do? I hung out with you.

SPEAKER_02 29:12

Look, look, we both saw Agent Double H.

SPEAKER_03 29:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:17

That's not hanging out with me.

SPEAKER_00 29:18

Hi, Agent Double H. That's not hanging out with me, that's visiting with her.

SPEAKER_03 29:23

Um and then I went over to my buddy Marlon's and helped him install a new phone. New phone. A new fanslash light in his dining room.

SPEAKER_04 29:34

Nice.

SPEAKER_03 29:35

So I was standing there with my hands above my head for 75 hours. 75 million hours. As I rewired his shit and yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:45

Nice. But it's n it's nice that you did that because you know it's it's always great when you have a group of friends and everybody knows a little bit something different about something. So everybody can help each other, so it's always really good.

SPEAKER_03 29:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:56

And then what what are you doing tonight?

SPEAKER_03 29:58

I might be going to a dinner party for a friend's birthday.

SPEAKER_00 30:05

Well, happy birthday, friend. Yeah. Happy birthday. Happy birthday. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you.

SPEAKER_03 30:15

Marlin.

SPEAKER_00 30:16

Happy birthday to you.

SPEAKER_03 30:18

And well, he already had a birthday party, but I guess they're doing um because it was Saturday.

SPEAKER_04 30:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 30:28

Um, but his birthday is actually today, so he's going to dinner for the birth for the actual day.

SPEAKER_02 30:35

Good. I hope I hope you go. Yeah. I hope you go. I mean, I know I know you have to work early in the morning at the ungodly hour of a.m, but I actually wish it was earlier.

SPEAKER_03 30:46

Why? Because I prefer to be off earlier.

SPEAKER_02 30:50

Yeah, but that means going to bed even earlier than you do.

SPEAKER_03 30:52

Yeah. I still got an hour of leeway, really. I could go to bed an hour later and it would be fine. I can't.

SPEAKER_02 31:00

What are you gonna do? Be fine still. So what usually happens when the hours shift is you go in later. Um when they what you're gonna be fine, right? Yeah, it doesn't really you're just gonna pout about it.

SPEAKER_03 31:14

I mean, usually that happens on Sundays, right? And I'm fucking off on Sunday, so it doesn't. By the next day, it's fine.

SPEAKER_02 31:23

No, no, no. I'm talking about so the way the budget works, everybody gets their hours cut in the fall. Oh, okay. I didn't know that. Yeah. Well, that that seems to be what everybody's telling me. That's that's one of the reasons why when she asked me what shift, uh, you know, how many hours a week I was willing to work, it's it's kind of where I stuck where I'm at, um, is to acclimate myself. So anything over that amount of hours I work in a week is bonus for me because uh my entire budget is based on working 32 hours a week. Yeah, and it's like every other week I'm working 38 to 40 hours. Um but no, that's just that's what everybody's been telling me. Like I and I don't know how true it is, I just know that there are people that have been there for like two years and they're saying, oh, once we get to once we get through Halloween, then we're gonna be down to our part-time schedules. Because the only people who actually work full-time is the production house, generally, the production side of it, you know, and I I mean, I don't, I personally don't care. I I think there's gonna, I I I think a lot of different things are gonna happen. And I don't really care. I'm just like, whatever. I know my partner wants to move. I don't think we're moving this year. But it was funny because we did discuss it this weekend with the visitors, and they were just like, why don't you just move? I'm like, I don't want to be that I I love my family, I don't want to be that far away from my family, and I don't want to drive 45 minutes to work, you know, and that's and that's the thing. The very he's very specific. Like, if you look at a map, right, and we're gonna pretend I five is our divider, right? Okay, I want to be here, and he wants to be here. Yeah, and there only one place to meet in the middle would be a 50-minute drive to work no matter which way you went. And I'm like, and I said, I don't want a 45-minute to 50-minute drive to work, it's not worth it to me. It's why I work at the location I work at, it's it's why I'm there. I can only get one closer location, which I'm still thinking about. And he was my partner was like, I don't want to drive 45 minutes to work, but you know, you don't. You drive about 20. At number one, most days you drive about 20, and number two, that's where you picked you wanted to work. I I'm like willing to move 95% there. I just don't want to like I don't want to live over the river and through the woods. Then like not at this point. There are plenty of places near and around the area where I'd like to be that have a little bit of property to where we could do a little bit of farming and not and not like animal farm farming, like not animal farming, like vegetable farming. That's what he would like to experiment with. Gardening, gardening, yeah. It's all farming though, you know. But anyways, yeah. Right. Could you imagine having overalls?

unknown 34:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 34:16

Do you know for women they're called bibs? I learned that this weekend.

SPEAKER_03 34:20

I mean, that's what the the bib overall is the one that's just doesn't have the sleeves, right?

SPEAKER_02 34:28

Yeah. I've always known them as overalls my whole life. I saw an ad on TV and they were talking about this is the best place to buy bibs. Bibs are bibs for women apparently are coming back in hot and heavy. And and they've got like so many companies out there that are like they're doing stretchy bibs and they're doing denim bibs and they're doing corduroy bibs, but I didn't know. I'm like, those are overalls. What the fuck? But apparently they're called bibs because they're bib overalls. Yeah, it's very specific because of the pockets or something. Apparently, they're

What Dagda Did

SPEAKER_02 35:00

like, I I I don't know. I'm like, why would you would have pockets on overalls, period?

SPEAKER_04 35:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:07

There there's no reason not to have the pockets. That's the whole point of them, is is is you've got a uh a little pouch right there.

SPEAKER_03 35:14

I mean, they got like pant pockets too. I I always they have cargo style bottoms and bibs too. I mean, it's just you just add two more pockets. Um I always assumed that the purpose of bib overalls was to protect your shirt. Oh. Um, because that's like the non-bib overalls, that's the purpose of them too, right? Is to protect the clothing that you're wearing underneath.

SPEAKER_04 35:42

Oh.

SPEAKER_03 35:43

But with most people, they don't wear pants under their overalls. Yeah. Unless they're wearing those ones that are like mechanics will be wearing the regular clothes under or whatever. Right, right. Um, so I always just assume that the purpose of the bib was to protect just like an actual bib for babies, to protect your shirt.

SPEAKER_02 36:03

Well, you know, and I just I simply don't know because I remember growing up, my grandfather would only wear the bib overalls when he was doing certain things, like when he was doing carpenter work or when he was working on the roof. And I remember asking him why he didn't wear the bibs all the time, like when we went down to do the garden, and he was just like, I I don't need to. The only time he would wear the bib overalls when we were in the garden was when we were planting, because he could carry all the seeds in the pockets.

SPEAKER_03 36:29

Yeah, it does have because at that time only the military used cargo pocket, basically. And so it does give you more pockets.

SPEAKER_02 36:40

Yeah, but I mean, it was it was just so interesting because I even have a picture of my grandfather, the last roof he ever roofed um on my dad's side, my grandpa, my grandpa Wilbur, just such a wonderful name, Wilbur Clarence. Love that man. Um, and you know, but he he wore the bivou overalls because he could keep the uh roofing shingle, the nails, he could keep the nails in one pocket, and he could keep his uh measuring tape attached to it on one side, and then he had all the pencils he wanted on the other side, and then he had like, you know, and he could hook his, it had the little hooky on the side of it for the hammer hook. A hammer hook. Yeah, I mean, so it's just like yeah, and so what I noticed when I was uh working doing some production work in the last couple work days I had. Um, I'm like, what is going on with all oh everybody's it's that time of year they're getting rid of their short bibs overalls and going to long bibs overalls, but we're seeing more and more come in, and it's like they're coming back around hot and heavy. I put a pair out on Wednesday and they were sold within two hours. And I'm like, they were they were priced kind of high in my opinion, but the brand, the regular price on the brand is like 55 bucks or something. So I'm like, well, okay, well, 15 bucks, I guess, isn't that bad. It was like, and they were they were like, I I would say they they probably were maybe worn five or six times because they still had the original uh it takes about 10 washing to get rid of when they're packaged and vacuum seals, takes about 10 washing to get rid of all the creases on it, unless you iron it. So, anyways, I don't know, bibs are coming back around, life's getting kind of weird, you know, just is what it is. But I mean, like exciting stuff, I guess. I've been running around teasing my partner for days now, and I'm so horrible about it. But, anyways, I'll be glad when this wildfire smoke. Well, we're not surrounded. We're we're in three quarters. Oh, if you think about it, we live on the ring of fire, we're surrounded by fire all around us now. Yeah. Uh we're never gonna get out alive, but you know, hey, yeah, hopefully we don't burn either. Well, the fire that's out by Mount Rainier went from being 200 acres, now it's over 300 acres over the weekend. So, you know, it's kind of scary that it's that fast moving. Same up in King County, you know, the King's homage lines having the same problem. It's just it's just going so fast.

SPEAKER_03 39:02

But, anyways, you know, they gotta go out there and rate them the woods. What they do in Sweden.

SPEAKER_02 39:11

Well, they were saying that western Washington and eastern Washington have very unique problems, they have opposite problems. What how we control things in our desert regions, we can't do the same in our wet regions, which yeah. I'm like, okay, so you guys can't do a back ditch or whatever, you guys can't backburn. Like, I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 39:32

Yeah, because I know that that they will um do the they'll basically cut a path um and like bulldoze it. It's called a fire break. Yeah, they do that out here all the time.

SPEAKER_02 39:44

Um yeah, I so I don't I I don't know why they're saying it's so much harder to control over here.

SPEAKER_03 39:49

I mean it kind of makes sense because there's a lot more stuff growing everywhere. So when it's dry, there's way more material to be burned than over in eastern Washington. I mean, in general, I mean there's some areas where it's not that different from here. Yeah um but those are relatively small areas. Yeah. Um yeah, I don't know. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 40:16

I mean I don't feel like I want to get burned to death at any point in my life.

SPEAKER_03 40:20

No, uh the shitty way to die. Yeah, but uh I'd much rather die falling out of an airplane. What a horrible way to die.

SPEAKER_02 40:32

Is that what you sang every time you went up to a jump?

SPEAKER_03 40:35

Um no. It did get sung a lot though. Well, I mean, especially after that one guy, I imagine. Actually, no, we didn't sing it after he died.

SPEAKER_02 40:44

That's amazing because the militar So you know, the military, we all, you know, love each other and all that, and you guys all love each other and all that, and it's something like that. But the the dark humor is off, it's just on a whole new world.

SPEAKER_03 40:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 40:58

I lose humor. It's what was it, Friday night coming home from work, and as I'm coming, there is a van, and I'm going, huh, uh, that's coming at my and the guy behind me who pulled it behind me to turn behind me was on my bumper so far, like I couldn't even see their headlights. That's how close they were to my bumper. And I have a small vehicle, and they had a small vehicle, so that really tells you how close they were. And so I tried to creep up a little bit as I see this van coming because I'm trying to, I'm like, I'm getting ready to try to hook it to the right, but there's a line of cars coming, I can't get out of my lane, but I'm trying to creep a little bit, and so the guy behind me can actually see me kind of with my anyways. This van's coming at me, and it's like I go beep beep, and the person behind me realizes what's happening, and they're like beep, and then I started laughing. And my partner goes, You're somebody's getting ready to hit you head on, where you're gonna die. What I have like 800 airbags. I'm not gonna, you know. I mean, it's not like they were zooming at freeway speeds, they literally was like, if I'd gotten to the stop and turn point five seconds earlier, I could have turned and I'd have never even seen any of it happen. But so my partner's just like, what's wrong with you? Why are you laughing at that? I'm like, if I don't laugh at shit in life, I'm always gonna be angry and always gonna be crying. So we're not gonna do that. And I said, and I wasn't laughing at the fact that they almost hit me head on, I was laughing at the fact that they overcorrected so hard because they were obviously a drunk driver. They almost jumped the curb and hit a pole. And that's what I was laughing at. Instant karma. I don't laugh at shit that happens to me. I'm just

Until Next Time!

SPEAKER_02 42:30

like, ooh, thank me, universe, because I didn't feel like it was my time either. And you know, but I laugh at people who get instant karma. Yeah, you know, I mean, they barely missed the pole, and it was it was over by our local safeway. So it was one of the big concrete and metal poles.

SPEAKER_04 42:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 42:44

So not like the wood poles that just break around here. Okay, we're talking about death to smoochy whack.

SPEAKER_04 42:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 42:51

Like I laugh at instant karma because nobody believes in it, but then yeah, here it is. I mean, I kind of feel yeah, I kind of feel bad for the person behind me because I think they pooped a little bit because they were bouncing in there seeing like I get that bounce when I'm like, I have to go to the bathroom, I have to go to the bathroom, get out of my way, get out of my way. But everybody was safe and sound. Pretty sure that van's wheel's not the same, but uh anyways. All right, well, we got some stuff to get on to do, so we should probably get on to do it. Yep, you know, so we should probably say goodbye to them. Yeah, maybe and no more racist jokes, right? Yeah, you have to admit it was funny though. Anyways, have a good day. Later. Bye. Okay, everybody. That's all the time we have for today. I want to thank you for stopping by to enjoy the conversation. Uh we're glad you're here and please share and share again and share some more if you haven't already discussed.