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Tim and Caitie dive into the why behind starting their podcast, sharing stories from their seven years of marriage while offering unfiltered relationship advice and travel adventures.

• Tim's wisdom tooth extraction marks a personal win despite years of resistance
• A lost bet about Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy's firing leads to car washing duties
• Creating a podcast to communicate more intentionally with each other after seven years of marriage
• Relationship advice on vacation planning—compromising between cabin getaways and luxury resorts
• Cruise ship adventures including making friends with strangers and the infamous lost suitcase story
• Finding balance between planned activities and spontaneous adventures while traveling
• How to maintain friendships with people who move away without feeling pressure
• What they would each hate about switching to the other's profession

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:18

Hello, everybody. Welcome to episode three of Outside the Shop. Woo woo. We made it back for a third episode. Let's do it. I'm all in. I'm all in. We got a good episode coming. We got wins. We got questions. We got stories.

SPEAKER_03 0:36

Yep. So let's start with the win. What was your win for the week?

SPEAKER_00 0:39

I got my wisdom tooth pulled on Monday.

SPEAKER_03 0:41

Nice. That was a win. Yeah, I think. Happen to get it pulled.

SPEAKER_00 0:45

I think it's a win because I've had like four dentists asked to do it. And I was like, no, I'm not, I'm not doing it. I refuse because it's the only one that's completely out. The other three are all still in my gum. But I love this dentist. I I in an odd way I trusted her. I'm like, yeah, do it.

SPEAKER_02 1:02

That's good.

Weekly Wins and Losing Bets

SPEAKER_00 1:02

It was pretty cool. I was getting a uh filling done on one of my teeth, which I was very happy about. And it was funny because as soon as we got done, she's like, We're pulling it now. And the uh dental assistant was like, now, like, right this second? She's like, right this second, we're doing it right now. Let's go. Yeah, I was I was like, I'm in. I'm doing it. Pull it. Let's go. She numbed me up and yanked that thing out with some pliers.

SPEAKER_03 1:24

Yeah, that's nice.

SPEAKER_00 1:25

I don't know if it's pliers, but I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 1:27

I was next next door getting my teeth cleaned in the room.

SPEAKER_00 1:33

Done.

SPEAKER_03 1:33

Good.

SPEAKER_00 1:34

And uh it's healing really nice. I don't really feel anything at all left. It's just a hole in my mouth.

SPEAKER_03 1:40

Yeah. Well, you did it right. You actually like followed the directions on what to do.

SPEAKER_00 1:44

Yeah, I feel like I cleaned it well and took care of it the way I wanted to. Because we're going on vacation. The last thing I wanted to do was get dry socket and then go on vacation in pain. What's your win for the week?

SPEAKER_03 1:55

Mine is a literal win. Um, I won our bet. You want to tell them about that?

SPEAKER_00 2:02

Indulge into the bet. No, I'll I'll uh go into this little bet. We had a bet. Um, it was an unfortunate bet, but it was a bet that if Oklahoma State lost to Tulsa, that I thought Mike Gundy would be fired by Monday morning. Monday at the end of the day, I could have sworn I said by the next game.

SPEAKER_03 2:19

I pinky promise that you said Monday.

SPEAKER_00 2:22

Sure. They decided Monday night they were gonna fire Mike Gundy.

SPEAKER_03 2:26

You we didn't know that.

SPEAKER_00 2:28

We did not, because they did not announce it until Tuesday. So I lost the bet, unfortunately. They did lose to Tulsa, by the way, which is very unfortunate. Mike Gundy has gave us a long time of greatness. I mean, 19 years of really good wins where they could be anybody in the country. It's unfortunate they had to move on, but he kind of did it to himself, right? Like you can't you gotta buy into the times or get left behind.

SPEAKER_03 2:50

And was this his 21st season?

SPEAKER_00 2:52

It was his 21st season. I do not like the way the school handled it. That's just me personally.

SPEAKER_03 2:57

It goes to show, though, like, even if you're a legendary coach, which I'll stand on that, he's legendary. Like, I love the way he stood up for his players. Um, you can get fired. Anyone's replaceable. I think it was kind of a nice little reminder because he did a press conference. I listened to it because you were listening to it beside me. Um, he was like, I'm 100% committed to staying. And then so obviously they hadn't had conversations with him about you know moving on or who like um the next coach would be because that was in his contract that he helps pick it.

SPEAKER_00 3:28

Yeah, he had to have a successor. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 3:31

So they were like, you know, you got to get with the times, and I guess he just wouldn't. And so they fired him.

SPEAKER_00 3:36

Well, in today's college football players get paid, they get paid. So you have to do your job, or they're going to fire you no matter how good you are. And I think that was the downfall of his career overall, anyways, is the NIL and transfer portal came into action and he didn't buy into it. He didn't believe in it. And if you don't believe in it and don't buy into it, you get left behind, and unfortunately, I think he got left behind.

SPEAKER_03 3:58

Well, yeah, and it's obviously a big deal to them because this is the beginning/slash mid season, and they're willing to take this big risk of saying, you know what, you gotta go. We're gonna get someone else.

SPEAKER_00 4:09

The school believes that they spent the money to have a football team where they have beaten Tulsa, and I'm gonna be honest. I don't care. I don't care if I'm the quarterback for Oklahoma State, they should not lose to Tulsa. Yeah, it's just that simple. It should no matter what, and they just don't feel like he's doing the job that he used to do. They don't feel the hunger, they don't feel the need, and it is what it is, you know. They had to move on, and it's unfortunate. Uh, it's gonna be weird tomorrow watching somebody else come out.

SPEAKER_03 4:35

Oh, wait, what was the bet? You didn't tell them what you have to do.

SPEAKER_00 4:38

Oh, yeah, I have to hand wash the inside and outside of both the vehicles, which not that bad of a deal. They kind of need to be able to do it. They need it.

SPEAKER_03 4:47

That's that's why we made that bet.

SPEAKER_00 4:49

So I'm not too upset about it. That's fine. And uh uh, it seems like a fun deal. I don't do that often.

SPEAKER_03 4:54

I, you know, it's yeah, I was like, and this was before anyone won or lost. I was like, they have to wash the cars. I was like, but you can't take it to a car wash, we have to, you know, buy the sponges, clean the car, but I'll compromise and um I'll like maybe spray it down a little bit and spray you.

SPEAKER_00 5:13

The um I haven't cleaned a car like that since your trailblazer in Claremore that time. I did it. So it's been five or so years. Usually I just take it to a car wash vacuum and out and call it good. So it'll be nice to get a good detail in on the car, man. They need a bad. So unfortunate. I lost the bet, lost a good coach, and uh it's unfortunate that I'm an Oklahoma State fan in general, but that's okay. I'll be that way forever. I'll ride with them whether they suck or not. And a good news for Oklahoma State, we did land the number one player in basketball out of a wasso.

SPEAKER_03 5:41

So I think like um today we're gonna talk about why we started a podcast, and I'm gonna try real hard to make sure this doesn't turn into a sports podcast on Tim's End.

SPEAKER_00 5:53

It it will not. I will make sure that uh I have plenty of people to talk to about sports all the time, all day long, but I can I can tone it back in here a little bit. Now, there could be some guests in the future that it kind of just rallies around that, but yeah for now.

SPEAKER_03 6:08

And I'll be smiling and nodding and probably asking dumb questions.

SPEAKER_00 6:12

No dumb questions, no such thing.

SPEAKER_03 6:14

And maybe you guys had the question too. Or you can say you did to make me feel better. You can be like, yeah, Katie, I was wondering the same thing.

SPEAKER_00 6:21

Exactly. Just smooth and rollin', smooth and rolling. But let's start off with why we started the podcast in the first place.

SPEAKER_03 6:29

I wanted to talk to you. I mean, no, we do. I mean, I think it's a good way for us to like get out of our day-to-day and just, you know, communicate with each other because we're gonna do it anyways, but this is almost like a more intentional way of doing it. And even though we've been married for almost seven years, I feel like you know, we come across certain questions or scenarios where we still learn something new about each other by doing this.

SPEAKER_00 6:53

I think that's a beautiful thing. One, two, I think I'm hilarious, and everybody needs to know that. I think you're the funniest person on this planet, and I think everybody needs to know that. And we get to do this with no filter realistically. And if you don't like that, don't freaking listen. I don't, I don't care, you know. A little bit salt, and that's a little salty, you know. I I want everybody to listen, whether they care or not.

SPEAKER_03 7:15

But yeah, there's gonna be lots of laughs. Um, you guys are probably gonna roll your eyes a few times, and then I just want to share some real life stories, you know. Um, Tim and I have been through some things, so we have some insight to give. Uh, we're gonna give some advice. We want you guys to ask questions, create a safe space where you can give us, you know, hypothetical scenarios, real scenarios, questions. Now we're not therapists. Let me start with that. So don't come suing us when we give you some crazy advice or you're like, it didn't work.

SPEAKER_00 7:47

It will always work.

SPEAKER_03 7:50

You know what? Yeah, I like that.

SPEAKER_00 7:51

But don't sue us if it does. If it doesn't work, it's because you executed it wrong. That's what I think.

SPEAKER_03 8:00

So they're the problems.

SPEAKER_00 8:01

Yes, exactly. And then find another podcast to listen to. How about that? Okay. If I get off topic, we know why.

SPEAKER_03 8:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:11

Because I took a Tylenol.

SPEAKER_03 8:15

You did though.

SPEAKER_00 8:18

Y'all know what that means.

SPEAKER_03 8:20

After he got his tooth pulled, I was it was like a few hours later. I was like, hey, you should probably take some Tylenol. Um, you're gonna be in pain. He was like, No, I'm not going to. I'm not in pain. I was like, but you're gonna be in pain later. So guess who didn't take any medicine? And then a few hours later, he comes over to me holding his mouth. He's like, baby, it hurts. I was like, I didn't feel bad for him. I'm I told you what to do. He didn't listen. I was like, Yeah, well, you better find the Tylenol. He's like, Where is it? And I was like, I don't know. I knew it was in the cabinet. I did tell you that a few minutes later, but I was like, I found it. I didn't feel bad for you.

SPEAKER_00 8:56

In my head, I was like, I know, bitch, I don't need no Tylenol. It there's no pain there. And then it really wasn't like excruciating pain when it came around. It was like just enough that I was like, I'm gonna be uncomfortable sleeping if I don't take it. So I was like, uh I'll pop a few, you know.

SPEAKER_02 9:10

And I wish you would have known.

SPEAKER_00 9:12

I know. Now I have autism.

SPEAKER_02 9:15

I can't.

SPEAKER_03 9:19

World news. Do you have any more like goals for this podcast?

SPEAKER_00 9:24

Well, I'm very much I have I think we both have just a lot of people that I think we can get on here and indulge in some really insane stories and get people really into what we have to talk about, what they have to talk about. I mean, some of the guests that I have planned, I mean, my uncle Jamie texted me today and said, Hey, I want to hear this, you know, send me the link. I send him the link. I'm gonna try to get him on here. It might take him a while, but I'm telling you, this man's stories and what he does, and his he's hilarious. And it's just people like that that just can express themselves a little bit the way they don't normally get to. And it's cool for me to hear. I love it.

SPEAKER_03 10:00

Yeah, we get to know, you know, our friends or family that we have on, we get to know them better and then, you know, bring people from other cultures. I mean, Tim comes across a lot of different people um with being a barber and just having them on, and we get to learn something new.

SPEAKER_00 10:15

It's crazy how many clients I have that are like, I want to do it because they don't get to do that, they don't get to tell their story or tell what they do or how they do it or what they've been through. And they just like it's just nice to just talk. And I'm like, I'm in. I I'm literally anybody that wants on, I'm in.

SPEAKER_02 10:30

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 10:31

Almost anybody. I'm in. I think it's a great thing, and I think it could be a lot of fun, and I think a lot of people will really enjoy it.

SPEAKER_03 10:37

Yeah, Theo Vaughn, he sent me a message asking if he could get on, and I was like, dude, we're too high profile for you.

SPEAKER_00 10:44

If Theo Vaughn's kid, I'm down asking to get on this podcast. Um I don't know what I would do. I I would say yes, obviously, and then I would say, can't we record it at your studio? I mean, I guess you could come into our uh humble abode studio, this beautiful makeshift studio we have. It's amazing. We did a great job.

SPEAKER_03 11:05

Oh, yeah. The mixture of my stuff, of like my crystals, my grandma's stuff from Britain. I got like some Princess Diana cubs in here. Um games.

SPEAKER_00 11:18

We got bullhorns, elk, a coyote, a rope. I mean, this is this is the room, I'm telling you. There's a little bit of everything. There's a gun safe, I mean, four, three or four bows in here.

SPEAKER_03 11:31

There's a pile, a whole big old like moving storage box full. I mean, full, it's overflowing of baby stuff.

SPEAKER_00 11:38

And we've got rid of so much of the baby stuff because everyone's having babies.

SPEAKER_03 11:42

So many people we know are having babies, and so it's like, I just have a constant collection. It's kind of great.

SPEAKER_00 11:48

It is great, and maybe one day we'll use it.

SPEAKER_03 11:50

Oh, I have some stuff set aside where I'm like, this is too cute.

SPEAKER_00 11:54

Oh, yeah, there's a whole corner in the closet full of boxes.

SPEAKER_03 11:58

It's one box, yeah. Maybe two or three. Yeah, they're not huge.

SPEAKER_00 12:03

No, they're a little box.

SPEAKER_03 12:05

They could make one huge box, though.

SPEAKER_00 12:06

Yeah, probably one tub. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 12:08

Our baby's gonna be so cute.

SPEAKER_00 12:10

Yeah, we got it on this makeshift desk that I bought and put together.

SPEAKER_03 12:14

That is one thing about Tim. He has many great things, but um, I told him, like, with my job, I was like, I'm gonna need, I was just kind of like ranting. I was like, I'm always doing work at home. I'm gonna need a desk like to do this. I always have my laptop out, sometimes like a double screen situation. And didn't I didn't talk anymore about it until like two days later, I just randomly brought it up again and he was like, Yeah, the desk is already on the way. I was like, thank you. I was like, it's so sweet, and he put it together as soon as it got here. I didn't have to wait. I mean, he just does stuff like that. Like I said, I wanted a vanity in the room, and the only reason I had to wait was because he bought legs for it that took some time to come in, but he's a good one. I guess I'll keep him around.

SPEAKER_00 13:03

Thanks. I'd like to stay around. I feel like I do a pretty good job. Our anniversary is next week.

SPEAKER_03 13:09

Really?

SPEAKER_00 13:10

Seven years.

SPEAKER_03 13:11

Seven years of blissfulness.

SPEAKER_00 13:14

That's why we get this podcast. We have seven years of enjoyment. I mean, seven years is doesn't feel like a long time until you start to think back of I mean, we do a lot. Yeah, we've been through a lot, we do a lot, and I mean we just spent a lot of money on a couch.

unknown 13:31

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 13:32

That's a good that was random.

SPEAKER_00 13:34

Yeah. I didn't know how expensive furniture was until we went to look at it.

SPEAKER_03 13:38

Yeah. I mean, my I feel like seven years gives us a lot of experience. Um, just because like we went through our hard times within like the first three years of our marriage. And so we have that insight, and then like here we are, still seven years later, and so we definitely have some some stuff we could tell you guys or give advice as long as you don't sue us.

SPEAKER_00 14:04

Yes, please don't do that.

SPEAKER_03 14:07

You want to start with a random question?

SPEAKER_00 14:09

Random question. Well, do we have any great random questions that we want to ask? R right off the bat?

SPEAKER_03 14:18

Um, well, we did get one. Literally one.

Travel Advice and Compromises

SPEAKER_00 14:23

One random question. Let's go ahead and read off our random question. Me and my girlfriend are planning our first trip. I want a cabin in the woods with hiking, campfires, and peace. She wants a luxury resort with bottomless margaritas and a swim-up bar. At this point, I feel like the vacation planning and more like I feel like less vacation planning and more like survivor. Do we flip a coin or do I do I just accept that I'll be drinking pina coladas and swim trunks I hate?

SPEAKER_03 14:55

Well, you can buy swim trunks you like. Let me start there.

SPEAKER_00 14:59

Yeah, dude, you don't need, you don't have to get ugly swim trunks. I mean, my favorite swim trunks are literally leopard print.

SPEAKER_03 15:06

And I bought them as a joke. They're like the shorter kind. I got them um off Shein as a joke for Tim for one of our cruises. And he ended up loving them and he always wears them. That's so great.

SPEAKER_00 15:17

Everyone loves them too. They're like, dude, that's what I'm talking about. I'm like, heck yeah.

SPEAKER_03 15:22

Do you want to give some advice first?

SPEAKER_00 15:24

Um, my advice would be stand your ground. If you don't want to go to a luxury resort, you tell her we're not going to that damn resort, and you go hiking on a mountain and woods with campfires and stuff.

SPEAKER_03 15:39

You want to give real advice now?

SPEAKER_00 15:41

Yeah, probably. Do both. That's my real advice. Compromise. Do one now and do another one later. I I'm a firm believer in multiple vacations. One. Two, I believe you don't have to be miserable at one. Enjoy the one that you're taking and take the other one six months later if that's what it takes. I think that people overcomplicate the way that they vacation. They think there's more to it than there really is, and there's not. And you don't have to go to somewhere extravagant for like the camp trip that you want. You don't have to go in the middle of Wyoming in the wintertime uh around the buffalo and bears and stuff in the wolves. Yeah, you don't have to do that. Go to East Arkansas if you want, you know, whatever's closest to you. Go 20 minutes away and do that. I think that you can find beauty in nature anywhere. I literally can go hunting, sit in a stand and watch birds and animals. I can watch the deer, I can watch anything there is for hours upon hours, and it's it's beautiful to me. Like it's an amazing thing. And make what you want to be fun. I don't I don't think it has to be overcomplicated. As far as the resort goes, resorts are a blast. We do multiple cruises a year most of the time. Make it what you want and find something you enjoy in it. And when you find something you enjoy in it, it becomes a lot easier to and if you don't like that particular vacation, if you're not a resort person, enjoy it with the person who does.

SPEAKER_03 17:01

I mean that was gonna be my point. Is I like, yes, everyone needs a trip and a vacation, but that's not the point. It's like who you're going with, and so you guys have to compromise on that. And I feel like you could find a place where you can get a lot of both of those things together and just enjoy your time together because you're not going somewhere just because you want to have a campfire or just because she wants to go to a swim-up bar. It's about experiencing it together and compromising on that to where you guys can both have fun.

SPEAKER_00 17:33

And I promise that way, you you're gonna have so much fun either way. You're gonna forget that you ever wanted to do the other one versus the one, you know, the one you wanted to do versus the one you're doing, and then do the other one later. There's a fine compromise in that. I just I think that it's so overcomplicated these days. I'm just like, hey, do them both.

SPEAKER_03 17:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:51

When the world that you come back to is still gonna be there when you come back.

SPEAKER_03 17:55

And it's their first trip together, boyfriend and girlfriend. And so, you know, every everyone has a first. And so through this, you can learn what you guys do or don't like, and who knows, maybe he'll like going to a resort because it's with her, um, to where you know he didn't like it in the past, but he was with his family. Things are just different when you're with someone you love and can experience life with and go off the beaten path, you know. Take a random road somewhere and we do that on every trip.

SPEAKER_00 18:26

Yeah, we just do we turn left when we don't need to. It's like, why are we going here? It's like, why not? What what are we what else? Why not? You know, we did that in Hawaii. We just was like, let's keep going through the bike path. It ended, we kept going, found the most beautiful place we've been to. It's like, dude, I mean, just do do random things, have a good time. I don't, I think it's so overcomplicated. And if you're a a not dude, resorts are great because you have a non-schedule. You just go with the flow. And that's my kind of vacation. I do not like a full-scheduled vacation, it's not for me, but I get that it is for some people. Make a list of things you want to do, do them if you can. If you can't, yeah, don't be upset about it.

SPEAKER_03 19:04

Yeah. My compromise would be, you know, don't do one extreme versus the other. Like find the compromise in between it where you can have a little bit of both.

SPEAKER_00 19:13

Yeah, and if you want to flip a coin, flip it to where one goes first and the other one goes second.

SPEAKER_03 19:18

What do you mean?

SPEAKER_00 19:19

It it says, do we flip a coin, or do I just accept that I'll be, you know, drinking margaritas with swimmers drums? I hate.

SPEAKER_03 19:25

I feel like flipping a coin's gonna make someone feel like a loser. There's gotta be more like compromise. Because it's they need they gotta compromise.

SPEAKER_00 19:33

Well, me as a male, my compromise is like I will do whatever I want. I'm different, I guess maybe, maybe not. I don't know. I feel like a lot of my friends are similar to me, but it's like I'm gonna have fun no matter what. No matter what we do, I'm gonna have fun. I I have fun sitting here talking on this podcast right now.

SPEAKER_03 19:50

I'm like that too, but I don't know if they are.

SPEAKER_00 19:53

Go to the resort, enjoy your time, and then do the other one later. I mean, I think that that's the best case scenario. But yeah, to each their own. If you're absolutely like, no, I've been to multiple resorts, I hate them. I get sick every time, or whatever it may be. I feel like you're making excuses to not want to go to the resort, but I don't know, man. I think I think if you give, if you allow, if you go into it with bad expectations, it's probably gonna be a bad time. Yes. But if you allow yourself to have a good time, you're gonna have a pretty good time. I've never been on a vacation. That was not fun.

SPEAKER_03 20:22

You know, that's the thing, like we're just so go with the flow, and it might actually irritate some people, like who we try to make plans with, because we're really like, I don't care, like, whatever sounds good. And it's because we genuinely don't care. We can make fun out of anything or do spontaneous things with whatever is chosen. Um, it's just life is too short to be so picky, and also life is just gonna happen, things are not gonna go the way you plan. And so just go with the flow, man.

SPEAKER_00 20:55

I mean, we've had issues with like traveling before, like the when we went to Hawaii the second time, and our flights got all messed up. And I was like, hey, we'll just book new ones and we'll figure it out. We're gonna get there one way or the other. The big problem was is the flight that got canceled was out of Vegas to Hawaii, and they moved us, so our plane originally left at 2 a.m. out of Vegas, and we were supposed to land at midnight. Well, they moved our plane to leave out of Vegas at 10 p.m. and we didn't land until midnight. I was like, that's physically impossible. Well, that's we don't land until two hours afterwards, that's not gonna work. And then they switched our flight homes from we were flying home from Lahue out of Kauai, and they switched our flight homes from Honolulu. And I was like, hey, these aren't gonna work. We we're not even gonna be on that island, so we can't fly home from that island. So we just booked new ones and they were like, Do you want credit or you want money back? I'm like, I want whatever you can give us. If we're eligible for our money back, that'd be great. So I could go ahead and pay for these new tickets now. One of them we got money back, one of them we didn't. We used those flight credits when we went to Colorado. Got nice seats when we went to Durango, it was awesome.

SPEAKER_03 22:01

It all works out. Yeah, like just don't be a freaking caring about it.

SPEAKER_00 22:06

Yeah, just it's pointless, it does nothing for you. And if it's that big of a deal, you should probably find something else that you enjoy. I I mean, I I don't stress when it comes to those kind of things. Not not one bit.

SPEAKER_03 22:19

It's not worth it.

SPEAKER_00 22:21

Not at all, not in my opinion.

SPEAKER_03 22:24

I want to talk about the cruise. I'm in cruise mode. I feel like I've mentally checked out a little bit.

Cruise Ship Adventures

SPEAKER_00 22:30

It's coming up. I mean, it's next cruise. Next Thursday we drive to Dallas, Friday we drive to Galveston, and Saturday we're on a ship for a week, eight days. And I dude, I love cruising. We like I said, we do multiple of them a year usually. At least one, sometimes two, but man, it's it's a good time for us.

SPEAKER_03 22:46

What's your favorite part of a cruise? You know.

SPEAKER_00 22:52

I think just the freedom. The food is good, the freedom, they got great shows. I I love everything about them, I'll be honest. I I'm a big cruise person. I really am. Some people are not, and that's perfectly fine. I love being on the water, I love being in the open, I love just I love anything naturist, and there's something exhilarating to me about being in the water. I I don't know why. Uh because water is kind of scary, but to me, it's like I I don't feel that. I I enjoy myself and just the freedom you get to have on it to just relax. And the what I love about particularly carnival, because it's who we cruise mainly through, is there's the amount of activities they give you to do. So you can either do all of them, you can do some of them, or you can do none of them, and it's it's nice. And the stops, it's an easy way to get to other locations. We've been to, you know, Belize, Honduras. I mean, you've been to Jamaica, the Bahamas, Alaska, Alaska, Canada. Yeah, Canada. What's the one out of Miami? We did Puerto Rico, Dominican. That's nice. You know, so we've we've Mexico, obviously. I mean, it's it's a great way to get to places and kind of explore. Like, you're not going to get days upon days there, but you usually get a full long day and you can get a lot of things.

SPEAKER_03 24:04

And you can choose to go back. Like, there's places that we've been where I'm like, yeah, I wouldn't want to like vacation here, but then there's ones we've been to where I'm like, yeah, we could definitely plan like a seven-day trip here. You kind of, you know, get to learn in um places you'd want to go. And sure, on a cruise you'd do more of like the touristy things, but you can also choose not to.

SPEAKER_00 24:26

I mean, we've done a lot on cruises in a lot of places. Like Belize is one of my favorite places I've been to. Unfortunately, you didn't go on that cruise.

SPEAKER_02 24:32

I've been though.

SPEAKER_00 24:33

But exactly. And when we did the bus tour through up into the rainforest, it's about an hour and a half bus ride. So I mean, you see mass majority of Belize. It's not a very big country. You see a lot of it, you see how they live, you see their culture, you get to meet a lot of great people, and then you take a 45-minute hike in the rainforest, and then we tube back down through caves, and then they made us a Belize and lunch. That's incredible.

SPEAKER_03 24:58

Were you scared to eat food?

SPEAKER_00 25:01

No, not in Belize. Uh, there's been places like uh Cozumel when we did the Cozumel one with the Save the Sea Turtle. They offered us some food at a place, but it wasn't a part of the excursion. I didn't really like that. But typically, when it's part of the excursion, I'm not too worried about it. No. Uh Dominican, when we went, that was they had that little restaurant there after we did the Dominagua waterfalls. I I was not, no, I was like, yeah, I'll wait till I get back on the boat, you know, respectfully. You know, I just I don't but don't want to get sick. But but that one was part of the excursion. It's it's you know, in the area where you do the excursion, it just felt like everything's good now.

SPEAKER_03 25:36

It's so beautiful and just all the places.

SPEAKER_00 25:40

They live so differently, and they're I mean, everybody I met so happy.

SPEAKER_03 25:45

It humbles you. You're like, we do not like God, we're like we're spoiled.

SPEAKER_00 25:49

Even when we went to Dominican driving to the waterfalls, I was like, yeah, dang, man.

SPEAKER_03 25:55

It makes you realize just I mean, honestly, to just be more chill with life. Yeah, like it's not everything is so serious.

SPEAKER_00 26:03

And everyone always talks about how some of the places you go are so dangerous. I've never felt in danger in anywhere outside of Nassau Bahamas.

SPEAKER_02 26:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:10

That's it. And I think Nassau is a different kind of the Bahamas are different, but Nassau itself is just so I never felt in danger as much as I felt pressure, you know. I'm just like, ah, they just I don't like sketchy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't really like some of the scenarios in it.

SPEAKER_03 26:25

But hey, we still did stuff though.

SPEAKER_00 26:28

Yeah, long story short, I I there's nothing I really can't say I don't like about cruising. I mean, we've had all kinds of different rooms, portholes, interiors, balconies. I love it all. There's good things and bad things about all of them. Good thing about interior, you want to take a nap in YouTube. Dark. Dark. You turn the lights off, there's not a single bit of light in that thing. That's awesome. That's crazy. The bad part about that is you think it's 7 a.m. and it's noon.

SPEAKER_03 26:51

Yeah, you can sleep anytime.

SPEAKER_00 26:53

But luckily, we go with people who wake us up.

SPEAKER_03 26:56

What's your favorite things to do on a ship? Like, you know, a C Day.

SPEAKER_00 27:02

Yeah, I don't know. Probably comedy shows. Most of the time, the comedy's pretty good. I love the shows. I think they do a great job. I think that the usually I I mean, you hear like negative things about Chris directors. We've never had a bad one ever.

SPEAKER_03 27:17

About going off the comedy shows. Uh Tim and I had watched this comedian at the Looney Bin. It was like our first time going, and this guy just like he just wasn't it, you know. It was almost like a few pity laughs, and then it was just almost kind of awkward of it. He just wasn't funny.

SPEAKER_00 27:35

He wasn't funny, and it felt very scripted.

SPEAKER_03 27:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:38

I'm not a big fan of that kind of comedy.

SPEAKER_03 27:40

Yeah, I like when you can just go with the flow and do more um audience-based. But we get on the cruise ship, and Tim, who did we see one night?

SPEAKER_00 27:50

Well, we decided to go to the comedy show, and it is the same fella. When he walked out, I was like, there is no freaking chance.

SPEAKER_03 27:58

And then he starts with the exact same script.

SPEAKER_00 28:02

The exact same, not a single difference. So Katie decided to make a game of it. We had two friends with us, and I was like, hey.

SPEAKER_03 28:09

And a bottle of vodka.

SPEAKER_00 28:11

We know his skit, we know his whole the whole thing. Every time he laughs at a joke or he says this, we take a shot. The skit's 30 minutes long, the bottle was empty. Yeah, the bottle was empty.

SPEAKER_03 28:23

And we'd even stay for the rest of it because the bottle was empty.

SPEAKER_00 28:25

I was like, There's no point staying here, the bottle's empty. Let's just go, let's go keep having a good time. I mean, that was a good cruise too, because we met our lifelong friend on that cruise.

SPEAKER_03 28:37

Rhonda? Rhonda. I think we talked about her maybe in the first one.

SPEAKER_00 28:42

Oh, Rhonda. Yeah, what a nice lady. When I say lifelong friend, we've never talked to her since, and we had never met her before.

SPEAKER_03 28:50

We only met her, it was once in the hot tub. Maybe twice or three times and then saw her a few other times on the cruise.

SPEAKER_00 28:57

Once we found her in the hot tub, we realized that that's the time that she goes to the hot tub. So we were like, let's go to the hot tub at that time because well, Rhonda's Ronda's about it.

SPEAKER_03 29:06

Yeah, she's funny, she's relatable, she's loud, she's just fun.

SPEAKER_00 29:13

I decided to jump in a group message with the friend that went with this. It's also going with this one. I was like, dude, I'm I pray with everything in me, Rhonda is on this cruise. It's the same cruise we went on two years ago. Two years ago?

SPEAKER_02 29:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:28

Two years ago, around the same time frame. Like, what a coincidence it would be if Rhonda was going on this cruise.

SPEAKER_02 29:33

And we're like, yeah, speak it into existence.

SPEAKER_00 29:36

The likelihood of that happening with 5,000 people on a ship two years later. Pretty unlikely. You know, it seems really unrealistic. Lo and behold, Katie decided to uh go on a Facebook dive.

SPEAKER_03 29:48

I got on a Facebook group for the dates when we're going in the ship. And uh guess who posted about a cards against humanity party on Saturday when we leave? And I know it's her because I searched her Facebook profile when we got off the ship the two years ago. I was like, no freaking way. So she's actually going, guys. Like, that's freaking insane.

SPEAKER_00 30:13

Rhonda is gonna be on the ship. Not only are we going to the carts humanity, dude. I can't. Okay, the first time we went, we were poor. We didn't buy the drink package.

SPEAKER_03 30:22

Now they were giving us drinks out of theirs. What a sweet. Her and her husband.

SPEAKER_00 30:26

They're like, you guys want some? Well, just we have some left. And I was like, no, he has some left. You have well past your limit. You're drinking on his drinking his. Oh, we heard the person tell you you're past your 15 drink limit, and he was just buying you drinks. They started buying us drinks. I was like, dude, what a nice group of folk. Now that we're not poor, we actually have um no money. We're just a little less poor. We can buy our own drink package.

SPEAKER_03 30:52

Yep. So we have it.

SPEAKER_00 30:53

Dude, you know how much fun it's gonna be with our own drink package with Rhonda? Dude.

SPEAKER_03 30:57

You know it's gonna be great.

SPEAKER_00 30:58

I'm gonna be slapping that car down every five minutes because I don't know if I can keep up with Rhonda.

SPEAKER_03 31:02

Is she's the type of person to me. She seems like the type of person who's like so fun and like people love her. And so we remember her. She's memorable to us. I guarantee you, she will not know who we are when we're like Rhonda. And I start, you know, telling her, like, how's your home in Texas? And you know, replaying these stories that I remember she's told me, and she'll probably be nice and be like, Oh yeah, this and that. But oh my gosh, I'm just so excited. I don't even care. She's not gonna remember us.

SPEAKER_00 31:35

I'm gonna be straight honest with her and be like, You probably have no freaking clue who we are, but we went on a cruise with you two years ago, and all we talk about is how much fun we had with you in the hot tub with the same group of people that'll be on this one. And I hope she remembers us. She won't.

SPEAKER_03 31:49

It's okay.

SPEAKER_00 31:50

That's perfectly fine with me. I'm perfectly okay with that.

SPEAKER_03 31:54

I'm just the chances of her being on this cruise, I'm just so happy. I mean, that's just I mean, it's crazy. Yeah, life is crazy.

SPEAKER_00 32:03

What we gotta do on this one is make sure we know what we're packing and when we're packing it and where we're packing it.

SPEAKER_03 32:09

Well, I started packing.

SPEAKER_00 32:11

Yeah, well, not me. Uh, I'll probably start this weekend because I'm gonna be honest, most of the clothes I'm packing I wear on a day-to-day basis. So, I mean, not really, but like, you know, when I'm when I'm not at work, those are the clothes I wear. I don't really have like a lot of extra clothes I don't wear.

SPEAKER_03 32:27

I wear scrubs five days a week, so it's easy for me.

SPEAKER_00 32:30

Yeah, and so I'll start packing this weekend and uh I'm gonna put a bookmark on every piece of luggage that we take.

SPEAKER_03 32:38

A bookmark?

SPEAKER_00 32:39

Yeah. So I know how many pieces of luggage we take because I ain't having this fiasco again.

SPEAKER_03 32:48

On our Alaskan cruise, um, we splurged on this like suite balcony, and there was this big old window um with curtains, obviously. So once we unpacked all our luggage, we stuck the luggage behind the curtains. Well, the night when it was time to pack everything up, we got the suitcases from behind the curtains, and we're trying to get all the clothes back in there, and it's just not fitting. And we have to have it out in like 30 minutes, and we're trying to go watch a show. And so, like, we're getting a little salty at each other because Tim's like trying to shove all the clothes in there, and he's like, It's not fitting. And I'm like, dude, we got them all here. We didn't buy that many souvenirs like at all. So, like, what's the problem? And he's like jumping on it, sitting on it, trying to get it to close, and the zipper broke, but hey, whatever, it worked.

The Pink Suitcase Mystery

SPEAKER_00 33:39

Dude, I was starting to get really mad. I was like, dude, there's no freaking way that we fit all this in this. There's it's impossible. There's no way. I'm telling you right now, there's no freaking way. Because I mean, I'm putting every bit of force I have. I'm getting so mad that I broke the zipper because I was putting every bit of force to close that thing. I was like, it's literally impossible. We didn't buy that many clothes, and we've washed our clothes on this cruise because that was the courtesy thing of having the uh balcony. The balcony suite is the suite was they wash your clothes twice while you're on the trip. So we I was like, it's impossible. It's not like we're just shoving dirty clothes in here, we're shoving them in here the same way we got here.

SPEAKER_03 34:18

Well, so we get it all, Tim gets it loaded, we get back, we get back to the Airbnb because it's in Seattle, our flights the next day, and just like middle of the night, I I'm like waking up, getting in the suitcase, and it just clicks to me. I was like, we left our largest suitcase behind the curtain in the room.

SPEAKER_00 34:43

And at this point, I'll be honest, y'all, I was so freaking sick. Not because of the suitcase, like literally, I was so sick that I did not care. I was like, I really don't care. Put clothes in other people's suitcases.

SPEAKER_03 34:53

Well, yeah, because we had to do like the 50-pound weight limit for um the flights. And I was like, how are we gonna do this? And so, you know, my dad was with us, my friend's uncle, her dad. So our belongings ended up in all these other people's bag. I swear, for like a week, I was like, Hey dad, can I come get, you know, my hat and this shirt from you? And then my friend's dad, I'm like, Hey, can I come get this out of your bag? Shoes everywhere, like it was a mess. Yeah, so yeah, it was our largest suitcase. It was like a new set that Tim had bought me. It was like a really pretty pink, and I mean this was like a big suitcase because I overpack.

SPEAKER_00 35:30

I've since bought a new set because obviously when I put in the thing to get that one back, they conveniently never found it. But I'm not even mad. My only hope is that I really hope our room steward kept it because we told the guy when we left, he was like, Don't forget anything. I was like, dude, he was so awesome, by the way. Probably our best room. We've been on seven, I think. Probably our best room steward is an awesome guy, really awesome from Bali. Nice guy, didn't speak great English, but could get the concept down. I mean, what a nice fella. We were just like, hey man, you know, we didn't forget anything. If we did, just keep it.

SPEAKER_03 36:06

We all had a nice little laugh. Yeah, we're all like, yeah, just yeah, just keep it, whatever we left. So he has a beautiful pink suitcase that I hope his family or his girls back at home enjoy.

SPEAKER_00 36:18

Yeah, and uh outside topic, dude. This guy had a sleeve, and it was the nicest tattoo sleeve I've ever seen in my life. He got it done in Bali, and then he told me he paid 250 for the whole sleeve. I was like, dude, I'm about to go to Bali. Oh my gosh, what 250 American dollars? Dude, send me to Bali, dude, for that. It was oh, it was so nice. But I hope he likes that pink suitcase.

SPEAKER_03 36:43

So I'm definitely an overpacker. Are you?

SPEAKER_00 36:46

No, I'm actually gotten better at at cruise packing because we've done it enough now that I'm perfectly 1,000% aware, especially if we're not flying, that it's okay to overpack. If you overpack, it's not okay to underpack. Yeah. I mean, you want more than less because I've gotten real better at it understanding what I'm gonna wear, when I'm gonna wear it, and knowing that even if I take a little bit nicer clothes, if I don't wear them, at least I have them if I want to wear them.

SPEAKER_03 37:14

I think that's part of why I always overpack, is I have clothes where I'm like, oh yeah, I'm gonna, you know, venture out and I'm gonna wear this outfit or that outfit. And then the time comes and I'm just like chilling and end up wearing my regular clothes instead of being all uncomfortable and cute all the time.

SPEAKER_00 37:34

Yeah, but yeah, it's I've gotten better. I've I do a good job of it.

SPEAKER_03 37:39

I used to pack extra clothes for Tim because I'm like watching him pack and I'm like, two shorts are not enough, bro.

SPEAKER_00 37:46

Our first uh Hawaii trip, Katie was like, let me see what you packed. I was like, I'm good, I did fine. And she's like, Well, let me just see, you know, I just kind of I'm kind of curious.

SPEAKER_03 37:55

He packed every single one of his OSU shirts, and all my t-shirts.

SPEAKER_00 38:00

That was all of them. That was all shirts I brought. No, I had button-ups, but the only t-shirts I had.

SPEAKER_03 38:05

Which you wear every day.

SPEAKER_00 38:06

The only t-shirts I had were all OSU. She's like, No, no, you only need like two of them. I was like, give me three of them.

SPEAKER_03 38:12

I think I like yeah, like three or four of them.

SPEAKER_00 38:15

You know, I want people in Hawaii who know who I'm a fan of, apparently, but that's all the shirts I wore at the time. I Oklahoma State shirts is pretty much all I had. But I've gotten a lot better. I I typically only take one now, you know, and then I do one Kansas City, and then then I kind of you have, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 38:34

I'll still like buy him like some uh nice button-ups or Hawaiian style stuff, or if you want to wear it, I'll make you wear it because I get it. I want to wear comfy stuff too.

SPEAKER_00 38:45

I actually like looking nice, you know. I like feeling good, you know.

SPEAKER_03 38:49

You always look nice. Oh dang, dang.

SPEAKER_00 38:52

Dang.

SPEAKER_03 38:53

All right, all right.

SPEAKER_00 38:55

I I like to I like to when I'm on a when I'm on vacation, a lot of people are like, I don't give a damn. I'm like, well, that's good. I'm glad because I do. I like to present myself like I'm on vacation. I like to feel good. So I feel like I look good, I feel like I feel good. So I mean, I'm not like wearing a button up and slacks, but you know, like a nice, like nice shorts and a nice shirt, you know, like a good setup, you know. Yeah, I'm good with that.

SPEAKER_03 39:19

Your short leopard print swim charts.

SPEAKER_00 39:22

That way different. Yeah, that's how that's when the party breaks out. That's when I start getting into them uh Jaeger and stuff, you know.

SPEAKER_03 39:28

Oh man, go past the Mickeloves and start doing the Jaeger and Red Bull.

SPEAKER_00 39:32

You did the leopard breaks out, or uh what we had last time.

SPEAKER_03 39:36

We were really heavy on the uh Amareto Sours. Yeah, I could go ahead and it ends up being a lot of sweetness. It is.

SPEAKER_00 39:43

I could I have to drink them in phases. I can't just down on them. They're good sippers, though. Good sippers.

SPEAKER_03 39:50

Also, one thing about your packing is I'm just trying to make excuses at this point, I guess, for overpacking, even though I don't need to uh make excuses. But Tim won't like take his uh like body wash or hair wash. He's like, I'll just use what's on the cruise. Okay. And then so I bring mine and it's not like special scented or anything like that. And he ends up using mine, and I'm like, listen, these are little six, I don't know, six-ounce bottles, four ounces, like you can't be using mine too now. So then I start just bringing his own with my stuff so that all mine isn't gone on day four.

SPEAKER_00 40:29

That's never happened.

SPEAKER_03 40:30

Yes, it has.

SPEAKER_00 40:32

I use on the wall, I just crank that thing. Now, I'm not gonna lie, what I forget what cruise it was. That that did happen on maybe uh all of them, but particularly one of them particularly. I know it happened because I was like, I'm gonna use the shampoo and soap they give me. Why not? It's here, it's free. I paid for it, I'm gonna use it. And it smelled horrendous. I was like, I did not like the smell of this, not one bit. I can't use it, so I did use hers, but that's okay.

SPEAKER_02 40:58

So now I just think ahead and I pack it too.

SPEAKER_00 41:01

And that's perfectly fine. What I've gotten better at too is shoes. I used to take one pair of shoes, that's it. Yeah, the first few cruises, I only took one, and I think on one of them I had to buy sandals.

SPEAKER_03 41:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 41:12

I did that in Hawaii.

SPEAKER_03 41:14

Yeah, but they're a great pair of sandals.

SPEAKER_00 41:16

Yeah, I take them on every cruise, every trip I go on now. Yeah, it's either shoes or boots, and it's like, okay, I can't wear these all the time. You know, now I've gotten better like getting hey dudes and sandals, you know. So I bring about four pairs.

SPEAKER_03 41:28

What's it like an essential for you to pack no matter where you're going?

SPEAKER_00 41:33

Hats.

SPEAKER_03 41:34

Yeah, you always wear hats.

SPEAKER_00 41:36

I try on my vacationing, I try to limit to two, maybe three, even because I'm freaking insanely particular about them and not the way they look or the way they fit. I hate when they get misshaped in any way, shape, or form. I don't like things thrown on them. I don't want them in my bag throwing around. Like even the hats I take on the cruises, I put them in my carry-on so I can carry them.

SPEAKER_01 41:56

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 41:57

That's why I refuse to take a cowboy hat anywhere unless I'm wearing it. Because they the I mean, it's not, they're just doing their jobs, but they don't know what's in there and they don't really care. Their jobs are to just move these things as fast and efficient as possible.

SPEAKER_03 42:08

He has worn them on a flight so that he can have it with him without it getting destroyed.

SPEAKER_00 42:13

Absolutely. And on this cruise, I probably won't take it. I've came to that conclusion because it's they're just a lot. They're a lot on cruises, and I may I may wear it one time. But normal hats, yeah, I they're like my essential. It's like, okay, I've gotta have my hat. At least one. And I would like to have two so I can change it up a little. Three if I'm really feeling froggy.

SPEAKER_03 42:34

You know, something I'm surprised. Um only three hats.

SPEAKER_00 42:38

Yeah, I'll probably take three.

SPEAKER_03 42:39

Wow. I'm surprised you have not said your favorite part is ice cream.

SPEAKER_00 42:45

Oh, dude.

SPEAKER_03 42:46

You know that's your favorite. It slipped your mind.

Packing Tips and Pet Peeves

SPEAKER_00 42:49

24-7 ice cream. It's literally the first thing I do, and every time you walk by, I'm thinking, oh, why not? You know, why not? It's here, it's free. Yeah, dude.

SPEAKER_03 42:57

It's literally like his way. That's how or why he diets.

SPEAKER_00 43:02

Like that's his um, like what is it?

SPEAKER_03 43:05

Encouragement to keep going is the endless ice cream.

SPEAKER_00 43:09

Oh, dude. I could eat so much. I mean, god dang. And it's soft serve? Oh, yeah. Give yes, yeah. Um, I'm so stoked now.

SPEAKER_03 43:18

They've been like shortening their times lately, though.

SPEAKER_00 43:21

They need to stop. I'm gonna start turning them on manually.

SPEAKER_03 43:24

Yeah, last time I feel like we could do it.

SPEAKER_00 43:26

Last time they freaking closed them at like 11 p.m. or midnight. I'm like, I can't. How rude. Yeah, the pizza's open until 3 a.m. What am I gonna do when I'm done with my pizza and I want the ice cream next to it? But you've closed it down between us and Rhonda.

SPEAKER_03 43:38

We could convince them to open it back up.

SPEAKER_00 43:39

Oh, dude, Rhonda's not convincing nobody. She will listen to me turn it on and put it together herself. She's been on enough of them that I guarantee she's gonna be able to do it.

SPEAKER_03 43:47

She's like, it's my ice cream parlor now. Yeah, dude, yeah. I sorry, go ahead.

SPEAKER_00 43:53

Oh, I was gonna uh say, what is like a pet peeve of mine on like trips?

SPEAKER_03 43:59

A pet peeve of yours or a pet peeve that you do that I do, maybe. Um, you don't like to go to all the activities that I like. Like trivia. You're not really a trivia guy unless it's about sports.

SPEAKER_00 44:12

Oh, not just sports. If it's something I'm really interested in, like if with the 100 is is there's a trivia for 100, I'm going to that and I'm winning, by the way.

SPEAKER_03 44:20

It's a lot of the little things on C Days, not like the shows and stuff, but the little things that you just don't really like to go.

SPEAKER_00 44:28

Yeah, I'm not a friend's trivia because they have that on every cruise ship, and I'm like, I don't know anything about the dumb show.

SPEAKER_03 44:34

Well, Courtney and I are really good at it.

SPEAKER_00 44:35

And I let you go and you usually win.

SPEAKER_03 44:37

And you sit there and just don't know the answers, but you just sit there with us.

SPEAKER_00 44:42

Yeah, last time I watched an OSU football game on my phone. Yeah, all about compromise. Perfectly fine with that. Yeah, I'm not a big trivia person. I don't I don't know. And we tried bingo once. Oh, I was actually looking forward to it. That was not fun. I'm not doing it again. It's not real bingo, the intertwined games of bingo and bingo.

SPEAKER_03 45:01

And it's like there's just so many people, and like expensive, they're so competitive, it's really expensive, and they're so competitive. I'm just like, yeah, no, this isn't it. I was trying to have a good time. This is like pretty intense.

SPEAKER_00 45:14

Yeah, I think my only pet peeve of yours is probably the only one that's really not even much of a pet peeve because I completely understand it, is you don't like when I nap for a long time. I want to go do stuff, and then I'm like, I don't want to take a nap, you know. I don't do this ever, and I'm sleepy.

SPEAKER_03 45:33

Yeah, he never naps, but when we're on vacation, only the first few days.

SPEAKER_00 45:37

After the first few days, I can catch up. I'm pretty good. But the first few, particularly the first day, a lot of times I'm just like, I'm sleeping. I don't, I don't know. I'm taking like a five-hour nap if I want to. I do not care.

SPEAKER_03 45:47

And I'm so excited we're there. I'm like, yeah, let's go, let's get all the things, do all the things, go to all the shows.

SPEAKER_00 45:53

We're on this boat for seven more days. I'm I think I'm guot you with a nap.

SPEAKER_03 45:57

I don't think we've ever no, we've made it to one sell away party, which is like the evening.

SPEAKER_00 46:04

We did the dis yeah, December, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 46:05

Um, which is the evening of when we leave, and that's the only time we've done it because any other time we've been in the room sleeping.

SPEAKER_00 46:12

In my defense, not I think all of them besides that one and the Alaskan one, which the Alaskan one didn't have a sell away party because it was a different uh cruise ship, they don't do sell away parties, but in my defense, most of the time we're literally driving all night to get there in the morning to get on the ship. Yeah, and on the last one, we flew in a day early and we were able to get there a little early, and we weren't in such a rush that I wasn't so freaking exhausted by the time we got on the ship. That same way with this one, I think I'll be fine.

SPEAKER_03 46:40

You can do whatever you want.

SPEAKER_00 46:42

The sell away party on the last one was take all the naps, baby. The cellway party was a blast on the last one.

SPEAKER_03 46:47

That was early fun. Yeah, but they're all like that.

SPEAKER_00 46:49

Yeah, it's fun watching, it's people watching, it's a great time.

SPEAKER_03 46:52

That's like one of my favorite things to do. One of my favorite things about the cruise is I am not having my phone. Like, I'm I don't get the internet package, I don't want to talk to anyone.

SPEAKER_00 47:03

I decided today I'm not buying it at all.

SPEAKER_03 47:05

You're not?

SPEAKER_00 47:06

No.

SPEAKER_03 47:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 47:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 47:07

Well, good deal because I always tell people I'm like, you're gonna have to contact Tim because I'm not having my phone.

SPEAKER_00 47:14

I only thought about getting it in case there is some kind of emergency at home that requires someone to get a hold of us in some manner. They can message us on Facebook. So I may get the basic one, but I don't want to use it. Like I came to that conclusion today. I was like, I don't I kind of don't want it, you know. I'm ready to extract it.

SPEAKER_03 47:30

Yeah, the point is like get away and I'm sorry, but I don't really want to talk to no one else.

SPEAKER_00 47:34

I used to be really good at that. The first few cruises, not a problem. But the last few, for some reason, I'm just like, oh, I felt like I needed it, you know. But you don't. I mean, realistically, the only reason I feel like I need is to keep up with the sports world.

SPEAKER_03 47:48

That's usually what you did. You were just wanting to watch games because they play them, but they don't, it's not a guarantee they're gonna play your game.

SPEAKER_00 47:55

The one I want, yeah. Yeah. But you can usually find someone who is And like the fourth, Saturday night, the night we leave is like the the biggest fight night card of the year. And it's like, I don't really want to miss it. So I'm kind of hoping they play it so I don't have to get the freaking I don't want to have to try to watch it on my phone. You know, it's like that gum, man. So we'll figure it out. I don't know. I miss it.

SPEAKER_03 48:17

I'm not worried about it. I know like about um any of that.

SPEAKER_00 48:20

Like if we can get the package, it's only me thinking it's only me thinking now, you know. Like by the time I get on the ship, that may be a long distance in my head.

SPEAKER_02 48:27

It's like you might be napping.

SPEAKER_00 48:29

Yeah, I might be by midnight. My gosh. But I don't yeah. I I I don't want it this time. I think it'd be fun to not do it.

SPEAKER_02 48:38

I agree.

SPEAKER_00 48:39

I don't think we've ever outside of the suitcase, we've me and you have never forgotten anything, I don't think, though, which is pretty impressive to think of. That is impressive.

SPEAKER_03 48:48

We've done well to bring like all our documents and stuff, although the one time the first cruise, the very first cruise. Your very first cruise. Yep. We uh went with my dad and this other friend group who we always go with. Uh family friends, yeah. And my dad held on to our passports and stuff because like he's really reliable. He will he's got stuff done, he'll make sure you have it. So we're checking out um of the hotel to drive to the cruise ship. And I don't know why we decided to look at the passports and stuff. We were just, I think he was handing them to us to make sure we had everything, and his face turned ghost white when he opened those passports. Because it wasn't mine, it was my stepmom's instead of Tim's.

SPEAKER_00 49:34

Everyone thought he was joking, but I knew looking at his face, he was not joking when he said he grabbed it. He is a joke, you can tell. I knew, and I don't know why. I was like, man, it is what it is, dude. You know, we forgot it.

SPEAKER_03 49:48

Tim's like, there's a car.

SPEAKER_00 49:51

I ain't gonna be mad about hanging out with all the freaking Corvette guys, you know. It seems like something I could get into. And uh, you know, it became one thing to another, and we called the cruise ship or the cruise company. They're like, hey, if you can get it, if you can get a birth certificate, we'll just use that. We'll just switch everything over when you get here. We'll scan it in and we'll you'll be good to go. And I was like, Cool. Call my mom. Can't find it. I called my dad, I was like, please tell me you have it. And luckily, my dad knew exactly where it was at in the safe, and he scanned it over to me, and I I ended up getting on the ship.

SPEAKER_03 50:21

Before that, my dad was like, You can take my car, um, meet us at Key West, because that was supposed to be our first stop.

SPEAKER_00 50:27

It's a good thing that that wasn't the scenario because there was a tropical storm that reversed the cruise ship that went, so it was supposed to be Key West, Nassau, Freeport, ended up being Freeport, Nassau, Key West. So it would have been on the day before the last before they ever got to Key West, and I would have been there for a week with no money, nowhere to stay.

SPEAKER_03 50:43

I don't do the internet package, so I wouldn't have told it.

SPEAKER_00 50:46

You'd just be chilling. So it's a good thing I got on the ship.

SPEAKER_03 50:49

Also, I don't know if uh the scuba roo, my dad's car, would have made it.

SPEAKER_00 50:53

Yeah, dude, not at that moment because going to the ship also, this is the craziest thing in the world. So the reason that there was a tropical storm, so all of Galveston had been pretty flooded. So there's only one main. We're trying to hurry to get to the ship because we're like, hey, we got to get there, make sure that he gets on in time, and everything is set in stone. And there's one main road that's open, and it is backed up for probably an hour or two. And it's and Sean was like, you know what? We're gonna take a side road. And me, Katie, Sean, and we were in the car, and we're like, sure, that's a good idea. It says high water on every side street. He's like, We're just gonna have to, we're gonna have to try it.

SPEAKER_03 51:31

And my poor dad, he's so stressed because he feels so bad about leaving the passport. He's just such a good guy, and he just felt so bad. He wanted to make sure that we got to him there on time to make sure that we could get his birth certificate shown and he could go.

SPEAKER_00 51:44

Well, we see a road where it's like, obviously, do not drive through. Like 1000%, don't drive through. The water is up to the doors, you don't drive through it. We're going through it. He wanted, he said, I I don't have any other option at this point. What else am I going to do? I've already started in the water, I have to keep going. And you could see the end of the road where it actually starts to go back uphill and the water's diluted down. We're puttering there, and that car is like I didn't know if we were gonna make it, man. I don't know if the muffler's gonna hold off. There's too much water intake. Oh my gosh, it can't, it's not spitting. And we finally hit a little bit of higher ground, and it just starts driving like it never happened, and he's never had a single problem out of that car ever since. Oh no, it is grass. And we get there and we get on, and I get on, and I was like, dude, I don't even care at this point. I'm on the ship, and he's still stressed and he's still feeling bad. So now anytime we do any kind of vacation, I'm like, hey, will you hold my stuff for me? He's like, I'll know if you want me to do that. He is, you know, he's like the big, he's a non-cusser. He's like, hell no. I am not holding anything of yours ever again. I'm like, you know what? I get it, I get it. But it was a good time, man. That was a great cruise, and everyone, it was kind of a rougher waters cruise. I didn't think it was my first cruise, so I thought it was normal. And they're like, no, this ain't normal, but I didn't care one bit. I had a freaking blast, and I was hooked after that. And now we've done a lot of them. I think we took like a two-year span where we didn't go on a cruise because we went to Hawaii, and then we went to Hawaii again, and then one year we didn't take a cruise, but we went to Florida where I magically got food poisoning. We both got food poisoning the day before we were coming home from it might have been salmonella, it was from freaking ice cream.

SPEAKER_03 53:35

I just know we were sick.

SPEAKER_00 53:38

Oh, it was reckoning. The drive home. We didn't make it. Oh, no, we didn't. We stopped in Arkansas and I had to get a hotel in Arkansas. I was like, oh, we can't make it.

SPEAKER_03 53:45

And I barely remembered the hotel. I barely remember that stay.

SPEAKER_00 53:49

I mean, we were like, so I was like, we can sit in the hot tub, maybe it'll help, but I almost passed out sitting in the hotel. Yeah, it was really bad. Awful, but that was a great trip too.

SPEAKER_03 54:03

Today off topic, we've never had a bad trip.

SPEAKER_00 54:05

No, not at all. It was a great trip. Much needed at the time frame that we went on it as well.

SPEAKER_03 54:10

What do you think is the best way to make new friends?

SPEAKER_00 54:13

Talk to people.

SPEAKER_03 54:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 54:15

What up? I I'm Tim.

SPEAKER_03 54:17

You should start by being their friend.

SPEAKER_00 54:19

Yeah, I I just talk. I'm dude just I'm just gonna go talk to folks. I'm perfectly fine. I I don't have like you know, any kind of uh any kind of like social anxiety, you know. So I just go talk. That's my easiest way.

SPEAKER_03 54:35

Yep, and you can catch on real quick if they're gonna vibe, you know, with you and talk to you or just walk away.

SPEAKER_00 54:42

Which I've I've we've never had a problem. Told story already in podcast two with Jeff and Katie about Garrett and Chelby, but that's how I make my friends. A lot of times just I just communicate with people at work, and then when I feel like we vibe, we become friends. I I feel like I'm a maybe I'm wrong. I feel like I'm a pretty friendly guy when you just talk to me, you know. I maybe sometimes come off not as friendly because I'm just drained because I exert energy all week, all day, you know, just communicating. So sometimes, particularly Fridays, I'm just not big on exerting that energy anymore. I'm like, I just want to decompress for one night and then I'm back to normal typically by Saturday. But I think that's the best way to make friends. I mean, I'm sure other people have other ways to do it.

SPEAKER_03 55:21

And it's easier when you're on vacation because like everyone's chill, relaxed, wants to have a good time, and it's okay. Um like we're never gonna see them again except for Rhonda, apparently.

SPEAKER_00 55:32

Yeah. And we made friends on our last cruise there, and we may never talk to them again, but uh once again we did the waterfall and they sent us the pictures, and all we did was talk to them.

unknown 55:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 55:45

Just communicated with them. Met the people in the hot tub, the other couple that had just got married. I think you might be friends with her on Facebook. I don't remember her name.

SPEAKER_02 55:54

Is that not not the same couple we got the pictures from?

SPEAKER_00 55:56

Nope.

SPEAKER_02 55:57

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 56:00

I feel like her name was Allie, but I could be wrong.

SPEAKER_02 56:02

I don't know, man.

SPEAKER_00 56:03

Yeah.

unknown 56:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 56:04

They were from one of them was from Indiana, which is the ones that sent us the picture. But the other ones were from like I don't know, who knows? Somewhere random, Tennessee or something. Maybe Arkansas.

SPEAKER_03 56:15

It was kind of all over the place because we went where did we go with that?

SPEAKER_00 56:20

Yeah, the other couple actually did the game. They did the live and marriage game. Yes. But I did not remember they went out of Miami.

SPEAKER_03 56:29

What's up? You look like you have a question for me.

SPEAKER_00 56:32

I do not.

SPEAKER_03 56:33

Oh, you don't?

SPEAKER_00 56:34

No.

SPEAKER_03 56:34

Well, I I got one for you.

SPEAKER_00 56:37

That's why I looked at you. I thought you had one. Great for me.

SPEAKER_03 56:40

How do you keep in touch with friends who live far away? You don't. No longer friends. They're goners.

SPEAKER_00 56:49

Peace out.

SPEAKER_03 56:50

Um out of sight, out of mind.

SPEAKER_00 56:53

I I really haven't had that scenario. I don't think so.

SPEAKER_03 56:57

I mean, even like two hours away.

SPEAKER_00 57:00

Yeah, I mean, Garrett and Shelby.

SPEAKER_03 57:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 57:02

I mean, they moved away. Those suckers.

SPEAKER_03 57:05

We're literally seeing them this weekend.

SPEAKER_00 57:07

We are. I can't freaking wait.

SPEAKER_03 57:09

How do you keep in touch? I mean, it's really easy these days, cell phones.

SPEAKER_00 57:12

Yeah, call, text. I mean, it may not be as often as I'd like. I'm yeah, not very good at just checking in besides my few people that I check in weekly or sometimes daily, whatever it may be. I pretty much talk to the same people all the time.

SPEAKER_03 57:25

But yeah, just say what's up. Social media, you know, you can usually know what's going on with people. And then just make sure to like be intentional with uh checking in on people, like genuinely asking, like, hey, how are you? And you know, how is this specific thing for you?

SPEAKER_00 57:44

I feel like I'm pretty authentic with my people that I want to be authentic with. So, like, you know, yeah, I just you know, it may take me a month, but I I just try to check in on a normal basis. I think that's the easiest way to check in with people that move away. I hate it, but social media makes things a lot. Facebook makes it a lot easier to keep up with how people are doing, what they're doing in life. And you know, you can't read everything into it, but just looking and seeing that someone's doing good or knowing they're doing good, I I'm very content with that, you know. That that makes me makes me happy, you know. Especially with people I consider friends. But I haven't had a lot of people that just moved away extravagantly that's like you know.

SPEAKER_02 58:22

Yeah, I don't think we have. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 58:25

You know, not not that I can think of. I mean, I guess Jonathan Taylor moved to New York, you know.

SPEAKER_03 58:32

But they're coming back.

SPEAKER_00 58:33

Yeah, so and you know, but they're also the kind of people that just like dude, when we see them or Matthew for that instance, when we see any of them, it's just pick up where we left off. It's like we never haven't talked to them, you know.

SPEAKER_03 58:44

Like no one gets butthurt that you know, we haven't texted, you know, in the last six months, besides maybe like a hey, how are you? or maybe nothing at all. But when you do get a text of like, hey, you want to come over this weekend? Like, we're having this get together, and then just like being intentional to showing up if you don't actually have plans, and it's I mean, just like starting right there.

SPEAKER_00 59:07

For everybody listening to this, the best way to get us around is to ask us because a lot of people just assume, and I'm like, hey, that goes for my family too. It's like, hey, if you just ask us, we'll be there. Because we get busy too, and like we just do things, we do things a lot, like a lot. We we I don't say we jam-pack our schedule, but we do things a lot.

SPEAKER_03 59:25

So And when we're not doing things, we just don't do anything, spend time together at home.

SPEAKER_00 59:30

We don't do anything, and that's that's our balance.

SPEAKER_03 59:32

But if you ask us, great, we're there, we got you.

SPEAKER_00 59:35

Last question for me. I do have a question. If we switched or if we woke up tomorrow and had to switch jobs, what do you think we would hate most about each other's jobs?

Making Friends and Staying Connected

SPEAKER_03 59:46

Um what you would hate about my job everything is well, yeah, probably. But I think just dealing with all the people. Um you deal with complaints from everyone, staff, patients, family. Family members, um, you're putting out about 50 fires a day. You never really know what the day is gonna bring you. And your biggest thing that you would hate is even when you know it's 5 p.m. and time to go home. Not only sometimes do you get stuck at work late, but I'm I'm working from home. I'm on call. I'm out. Like it's constant work. I'm getting calls at 2 a.m., you know, with a complaint or a call in.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:29

I ain't got those shade or anything like that. But some of the times, some of the stuff you have to deal with, I'm like, this is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard in my entire life.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:38

Yeah, because you're dealing with other people.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:40

This is so ridiculous, and I don't have that problem. I work, I deal with nobody besides my clients, and they're all really great.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:46

But like you gotta deal with it and you gotta do it right.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:49

Well, I'd be awful at that. Oh my gosh, I am not. I would be a horrible nurse. Everybody knows that. I'd be terrible.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:54

I think Tim would fight someone. Awful.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:57

I I dude, I would just tell people they're dumb. I'd be like, you're an idiot. Like you're just straight up dumb.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:02

You you have some compassion, but with what healthcare workers deal with, I think you'd fight someone, you'd catch a case, dude.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:08

Dude, I don't have compassion for dumbness though. I'm like, dude, yeah, this this is common sense we're talking about, and you're not using any of it. Just use a little bit of it. I mean, oh, dude.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:19

And then just people coming off route. I'm not here to complain, but I'm just saying that's some of the things you would hate.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:24

Yeah, that's I agree.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:26

What do you think I would hate about your job?

SPEAKER_00 1:01:28

I think that the attention span of conversation is very different from your conversation. My conversations can get really repetitive. There can be times where I get four or five clients in a row and the conversation's essentially the same.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:42

Yeah, because they like the same. They all know what you like. Or you know, if there was a fight or a game, then you guys start by, hey bro, did you see that game?

SPEAKER_00 1:01:50

I've been doing this 10 years. Most of my clients are seven to those 10-year tenured, right?

SPEAKER_02 1:01:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:56

So I know what they like, they know what I like. So the conversations can get a little repetitive. It doesn't bother me one bit. I love that. I love conversating about what I love conversating about. I love conversating about what other people love conversating about because sometimes it ventures off to vacations or food, or you know, there's so much extra.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:13

I love it. Depending on the topic.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:15

I have multiple clients that, you know, we agree to disagree on a lot of scenarios, but I love hearing that thing. I love that. I I love everything about that. That's fun to me. It's exciting.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:23

And I would I would hate the hair being everywhere, guys. I mean, I pull hair splinters out of Tim's ankles, his arms. Um I mean, when it's time to eat lunch, you can't like lean over your food because I mean, hair is getting everywhere.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:38

I mean, this may be disgusting, but the amount of hair I've eaten in my life without knowing it is extravagantly high. And people are like, that's so sick. It's like, well, it's I lit, dude. There's sometimes they're so what's the word finite? They're so tiny. They're just so you don't even see them. Like microscopic. Yeah, and you're eating it, and then it's it just is what it is. I do my best to not use my I don't put my hands over my food, I try not to eat boots. I yeah, but it just doesn't matter. It's it literally gets everywhere in my pockets, in my phone, in his socks. I mean, everywhere. It's just the amount of hair that gets in places. Yeah, that would like curiosity. It's insane. Yeah, by the end of the day, if we have anything to do after work, he always has always have to have an extra shirt.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:25

Yep, let me go change my shirt because it's just like poking him all day.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:28

Yeah, but uh you get used to it after a while, but it's still if I had to be honest, that's the only part about my job I particularly don't really like. You know, I don't enjoy that side of it. I'm used to it, I don't complain about it, but I don't particularly like it either.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:42

Yeah. Well, thank you guys for hanging with us.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:45

Yeah, three episodes in, and we're still zooming.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:48

And we will have another one out for you Friday.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:51

We will.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:52

We're gonna have them every Friday.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:53

We will have another solo episode. Well, solo us two, duo. I don't really know what we call that. No guest, duo solos with no guests next week. Um, but stay tuned because you never know if we have a guest the following week. It could or could not be.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:14

Us and our multiple personalities. That's the only guest you're getting.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:17

That's every week for me. I mean, there's gonna be episodes where I'm gonna just go off the ball and not even realize it. I'm just gonna say random things and have random noises.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:25

Well, yeah, that's the fun of it.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:26

Yeah, that's what I do on a normal day-to-day basis. So definitely. I felt like I was pretty focused in this one. I did pretty good.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:32

Thought the energy level was there for me.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:35

Turn up.

unknown 1:04:36

Gang!

SPEAKER_03 1:04:37

Squat. We will see or hear from you guys. Send in questions.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:43

Yeah, we're gonna, I'm gonna figure it out. I haven't figured it out. I gotta get into it and mess around, but we're gonna figure out a way to get anonymous questions into a questionnaire to a somehow, some way, to where we can answer those questions on the podcast. Because I think that that's the best part about this podcast is us being able to just be us and give our honest truths about how we feel. And particularly that's gonna be on the solo episodes. When we have guests on, it's gonna be way different because we're not gonna have them, you know, maybe once in a while. Yeah, and a lot of times it'll be two guests, sometimes one, sometimes two. But that that is a little bit different from what we will be able to do with just us, but we we will do all the questions.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:21

Yeah, for now we're just getting questions by text message, but that's not so anonymous. But feel free to still do that. We still won't call out names.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:29

Oh no, we'll make names up. But yeah, I'm gonna figure it out. I'll figure it out. Send them in, we'll answer them.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:36

Thanks for hanging in there with us, guys, and have a wonderful weekend.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:40

Have a beautiful weekend, and get ready for dear season October 1st, like I am.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:46

And for now, we out.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:47

We out.