Four Raccoons Walk Into A Boxing Ring

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We set our new cadence, share two small wins that say a lot about adulting and mental health, and then tumble into a hilarious would-you-rather that somehow becomes a survival playbook. The cruise recap gets honest about joy, safety, and why some ports no longer feel worth it.

• moving to biweekly solos with guests slotted as available
• tire flat fixed, upsell pushback, practical consumer sense
• rainy-day reset outside as a mental health win
• humor’s place and limits in stressful moments
• kangaroo vs four raccoons thought experiment and strategy
• cruise highlights: Half Moon Cay bliss, Key West roaming
• Celebration Key impressions and crowd calculus
• Nassau safety concerns, vendor pressure, and boundaries
• duck hunting on ships, elevator hacks, stair wins
• TSA lock mishaps and YouTube problem solving
• post-vacation slump, energy management, and routine resets

Submit the questions, yeah. Keep you updated every Friday. You know how it is, gang gang.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:18

What up, everybody? Welcome back to the newest.

SPEAKER_02 0:21

Outside the shop. Oh, newest episode.

SPEAKER_00 0:24

Of outside the shop. It's still the same. It's still the same podcast.

SPEAKER_02 0:27

Just at it together.

SPEAKER_00 0:28

It's still the same podcast. So we haven't been here for a few weeks.

SPEAKER_02 0:36

I hope you guys had a good week because we had a good last few weeks being awake.

SPEAKER_00 0:41

We did. And while we're starting, let's just go ahead. I think we're going to switch to every two weeks on solos. If we have a guest, we'll try to alternate it every week in that case. It's just easier. We don't run out of things to talk about so fast. And uh it goes a lot smoother.

SPEAKER_02 0:58

Yeah, we'll have more to talk about in two weeks rather than just once a week. But maybe we will go back to once a week. We'll see. We'll just play it by ear. You guys are going along with us.

SPEAKER_00 1:11

Yeah, it'll be no longer than two weeks.

SPEAKER_02 1:15

Don't do that to them.

SPEAKER_00 1:17

That was fake.

SPEAKER_02 1:19

The last few cops were fake.

SPEAKER_00 1:20

It'll be no longer than two weeks. We would like every week, but it just makes more sense for every two unless we have a guess.

Wins Of The Week: Tire Drama

SPEAKER_02 1:25

It just How do you want to start?

SPEAKER_00 1:27

With our win of the week.

SPEAKER_02 1:28

Go ahead. What is your win for the week, Timothy Blake?

SPEAKER_00 1:36

Had a flat tire, had a screw in it, got it fixed, and got all the tires balanced for free.

SPEAKER_02 1:41

I thought it was a nail.

SPEAKER_00 1:42

It's a screw.

SPEAKER_02 1:44

Oh.

unknown 1:44

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 1:45

I was the last one to drive it, so.

SPEAKER_00 1:48

Uh it's okay. Justin said, blame it on Terry.

SPEAKER_02 1:51

Yeah, Terry. I know.

SPEAKER_00 1:54

Didn't have a nail in it.

SPEAKER_02 1:55

Terry, throw it in reverse and run over the screw.

SPEAKER_00 1:59

Yikes. It's fixed now. And all the tires are aired up and balanced properly. So it's good to go. All the tires. They tried to sell me four new tires while telling me the front two tires were six of eight and the back two tires were five of eight. He's like, I would recommend buying all four new tires today.

SPEAKER_02 2:13

I was like, I don't know what those numbers mean.

SPEAKER_00 2:16

Eight is the best. I was like, I'm based off what's going on. They go through a scale of eight.

SPEAKER_02 2:21

I think it's like they just want to upsell you.

SPEAKER_00 2:23

Yeah, I was like, six of eight's pretty good.

SPEAKER_02 2:26

I would say so.

SPEAKER_00 2:27

Well, those two will survive a while. The back two I'd recommend changing. I was like, they're five of eight, and on your scale, that's still green.

SPEAKER_02 2:32

Hey, we're in the green.

SPEAKER_00 2:34

I don't understand why you're trying to sell me four new tires when you're telling me they're all still good to go.

SPEAKER_02 2:38

Money, honey.

SPEAKER_00 2:39

They're not even in the middle. Just fix the freaking screw in it, dude.

SPEAKER_02 2:42

If they wanted to sell it to you, they should have told you it was like on the two.

SPEAKER_00 2:45

That's what I'm saying. Two out of eight. Well, they they scan.

SPEAKER_02 2:48

I'm glad they don't lie.

SPEAKER_00 2:49

They can't lie. They scan them with this little scanner and then print it off and then read it off the print off. So they don't even know until it's printed off after it's scanned.

SPEAKER_02 2:55

Hmm.

SPEAKER_00 2:56

Yeah, good freaking luck selling me on tires that are good. That don't make no dang sense. I was like, yeah, no, I'm good, man.

SPEAKER_02 3:03

I just know I'd be riding my tires till they are bald. I almost ended up in a uh crashing on a bridge when it was snowing.

SPEAKER_00 3:10

Oh yeah, them things were bad. That's on me. I should pay attention, but I should too.

SPEAKER_02 3:15

I'm a grown adult. Use my car.

SPEAKER_00 3:18

It's fine.

SPEAKER_02 3:19

I whenever someone suggested it could be my tires, I said, no, I just got new tires. I guess that was like two years ago when I said that.

SPEAKER_00 3:29

But then we got new tires, so it was good.

SPEAKER_02 3:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:31

Road great after that.

SPEAKER_02 3:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:33

What's your win of the week?

Mental Health Reset In The Rain

SPEAKER_02 3:36

Um, mine's kind of long.

SPEAKER_00 3:38

We got time.

SPEAKER_02 3:39

All right. It was a long week at work. I don't know if it's coming back from vacation. That's enough. Come and yank your mic away. It was just a long week, and then it's been just stressful. And today it was like cherry on top, you know, deep discussions with constructive criticism, but also like heated. Anyways, after they're like two hours of that a meeting, I was like, I need to take a second. So I usually go up to my office, but like that's usually where I am when I'm not on the floor. And so I asked myself, I was like, what would I tell my other nurses to do when they need to take a second? I would tell them to literally go outside and take a break. So I went outside the back door. It was pouring rain today, all day. So I was under the covered area, and I was looking at the trees by our parking lot, and I was like, the trees changed color. Like, that's beautiful. And then I thought to myself, how long have they been like that? And I just haven't noticed. Like I spend most of my time at work, but I just never took the time to notice that or go outside and take a breather. And so I just admired for that that for a second, took a mental picture, and felt rejuvenated while outside. I was able to return a call to a family member, had a good productive conversation, and it was probably a 15-minute break. I went back inside, I felt happy, rejuvenated, a smile, ready to take on, whatever the day had to bring me. So my win for the week is recognizing what I needed in that moment and actually doing it for my mental health.

SPEAKER_00 5:33

Well, your win of the week makes me want a cigarette.

SPEAKER_02 5:52

Honestly, the people at work who do probably notice the trees changing color before I did, though. Actually, should I take that up so I can go outside?

SPEAKER_00 6:02

I'd like to text Katie randomly. Like it'll be months at a time. And I'm just like, I need a cigarette. Out of nowhere. Like, okay. I'll text it to my mom sometimes. She's like, shut the hell up. I'm like, oh wow, okay. Way to be supportive, mom.

SPEAKER_02 6:16

Also, anytime she's sick, Tim cannot be serious and be like, oh my gosh, like, I hope you feel better. What's wrong? He said, he's always like, Well, did you take a shot of whiskey?

SPEAKER_00 6:26

And she doesn't. So she keeps that doesn't work. It's like you haven't tried it. Try it. I bet it works. Don't knock it till you try it. That's all I'm saying.

SPEAKER_02 6:35

You know what? Why not? You don't know what the solution is till you try multiple things.

SPEAKER_00 6:39

I'm never serious when my mom is sick. Like that time she had kidney stones.

SPEAKER_02 6:42

You're not serious almost anytime. I'm actually, I was sorry, I'm gonna cut you off because I was thinking about this.

SPEAKER_00 6:50

Fine, I'm not serious enough to get mad.

SPEAKER_02 6:52

Because I saw a TikTok um and it was a labor and delivery nurse, and she was talking about like kicking a spouse out of a room. And I was like, I wonder if they're gonna want to kick Tim out of the room whenever we decide to have children, because he's gonna be the most unserious person, and I'm gonna be in so much pain, and he's gonna be over there cracking jokes. Like, I'm probably gonna kick him out. No, I'm not gonna do that.

SPEAKER_00 7:16

I'll be more serious in that moment. I'm gonna crack jokes. That's just who I am. Like, wow, it looks way different than what I'm used to.

SPEAKER_02 7:26

I love you and your humor.

SPEAKER_00 7:28

That was funny, by the way. I said, I'm gonna uh I'm gonna make a joke. Like, that looks way different than what I'm used to.

SPEAKER_02 7:38

Crickets. That's good stuff. They don't like those jokes. We don't like it. Unless you're screaming in pain, you don't get an opinion.

SPEAKER_00 7:47

All my friends that listen are gonna like that. I don't care. That's funny right there.

SPEAKER_02 7:50

Well, good.

Humor, Boundaries, And Relationship Banter

SPEAKER_00 7:51

That's funny right there. I don't care. I have a fun fact for you today, though.

SPEAKER_02 8:00

What?

SPEAKER_00 8:02

If a monkey has a baby that has a deform or a condition that requires extra attention, they kill it. Like no. Like an example, a heart murmur, they just dump the monkey far away, like really far away. So that when they would have another monkey, it doesn't take time away from raising the normal monkey. The deformed monkey, if it has a deformation, it has to figure life out on its own.

SPEAKER_02 8:25

So they just abandon it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:27

They get rid of take it and dump it somewhere. Like, oh, figure it out, dude.

SPEAKER_02 8:31

Yeah, I feel like humans used to do that.

SPEAKER_00 8:34

You know what baby monkeys are called?

SPEAKER_02 8:37

Um no.

SPEAKER_00 8:40

They're called infants. Like somebody's trying to press uh the big bang on us too hard, but whatever.

SPEAKER_01 8:49

It's fine.

SPEAKER_00 8:52

My science teacher used to she believed in it. My old science teacher.

SPEAKER_02 8:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:57

Yeah, she'd every time we came around, like in science class in high school, she'd be like, now come in this with an open mind. She was a hippie. And she's like, remember, if you come in it with an open mind, it could open your eyes to things that are true and real. Not some of the things that you learn at home or at church. I was like, wow. Oh wow, very inappropriate, but okay. You came from monkeys. I was like, that's it. I thought this was gonna be way deeper than that.

SPEAKER_02 9:24

She's like, that's it, believe it.

SPEAKER_00 9:26

Yeah. And she would really press it. She would want you to really believe it. Made that lady cry one time. Well, I didn't. Class collectively did me and a couple of friends.

SPEAKER_02 9:35

Yeah, I made my science teacher cry too.

SPEAKER_00 9:38

I wasn't a degenerate. I felt really bad.

SPEAKER_02 9:40

You yeah, you were.

unknown 9:43

No.

SPEAKER_02 9:44

Maybe not in that moment, but you definitely.

SPEAKER_00 9:46

Oh no, I was definitely in a degenerate in that moment. The reason we made her cry is because we were playing musical chairs in the first like 20 minutes of class, like randomly.

SPEAKER_01 9:53

That's fun.

SPEAKER_00 9:54

We would just get up and all change seats while playing music. And then when it ended, we had to sit down really quick. She's like, Where's the music coming from? And then she was like yelling. It's like, stop doing it. I can't handle it today. I can't. And one of my buddies is like, Isn't that kind of your job? Kind of handle high school students and know what you signed up for. And then she just started bawling like out of nowhere, like crying like really hard. I was like, oh damn, that kind of sucks. I didn't mean to make her cry.

SPEAKER_02 10:18

I could not be a teacher. Y'all put up with a lot of crap. I know. In eighth grade, Rachel and I, um, in our math, was it math? I don't know. I didn't pay attention, you'll see. Um, we used to sneak out the window, which was at her desk. It was to the side of her desk. You had to go behind it to get out the window. Me and Rachel would sneak out and go on the playground and just hang out.

SPEAKER_00 10:42

Well, when she was crying, she ran out, told us her dog of 18 years died that morning.

SPEAKER_02 10:47

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 10:48

So she just really didn't have the mental capacity to deal with this. And then we all felt bad.

SPEAKER_02 10:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:53

Well, then she came back in the classroom and we were like, We're sorry. No, we didn't we didn't know. We was just acting stupid, being dumb, like normal. And this other kid in our class, one of my other buddies, was like, Yeah, I don't I don't feel bad at all. He said, uh, that's literally it's still your job. If you couldn't handle it, you shouldn't have come to work today. I was like, Oh my gosh, dude, that's freaking brutal. I did feel bad.

SPEAKER_02 11:14

I feel like teachers they take on a lot of bullying and it's from like 20 people at a time.

SPEAKER_00 11:20

Oh, yeah, dude. I feel bad for him. Except Coach Walden. I don't feel bad for him. He gets everything coming to him.

SPEAKER_02 11:25

We gotta have him on. Tim's joking. He loves that.

SPEAKER_00 11:29

Cut his hair this week. That guy is. He is. If you want to talk about like levels of teachers, he's at the bottom.

SPEAKER_01 11:39

Stop.

Wild Fact Detour And School Stories

SPEAKER_00 11:43

I'm just kidding, coach. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. You know, he's uh got the girls and boys this year, and he told me some of the things he did for the team, and I'm just like, dude, people don't do this, they don't do that, you know. And uh I don't want to go out telling this business and what all he does because he he will not take credit for anything he never has, he never will, and that's awesome. But he uh I was like, You get some shoes? He's like, Man, I got so much for this team, like that they didn't have out of his pocket. It's like man, people don't do that, man. That's so cool. I can't wait to go watch him.

SPEAKER_02 12:19

He still has passion.

SPEAKER_00 12:21

He's he's so humble. I said, you know, obviously you're a you're a boys' coach, you're one of the greatest, you know, in Oklahoma of all time. And then he deny and be like, I had a bunch of great guys, and that's cool. But he's like, how are the girls gonna be? You're the girls' coaches here. That's different for you. He's like, how are the girls gonna be? You know, last year they were they were good, they were really good. How are they gonna be this year? He said, We got a chance to be all right. I said, Coach Walden, I've known you since 2009. I've heard you say they're gonna be alright about 10 times, and you guys were state finalists. When he says they're gonna they have a chance to be alright, they're probably gonna have a chance to be really good. He said, Well, I mean, we got a defender, we got a girl that can shoot, we got a girl that can handle, and we got a big. I said, You just named everything in girls' basketball that it takes to be good. Like, that's literally it. You have everything you need to be good. He's like, Well, we'll see. We gotta put it on the court and do it. I was like, man, you gotta quit front, dude. We're gonna beat everybody. He won't never do it, but it's fine.

SPEAKER_01 13:17

That's good.

SPEAKER_00 13:18

It is good. I wouldn't be like that. Nah, we hear the whoop some ass, boy. Take names. That's what we're doing.

SPEAKER_02 13:24

No mercy.

SPEAKER_00 13:25

91 to 7. We're gonna make it 100. Get to a hundred. At least dude, that's crazy because uh, I know this is way off topic. The Jinx football or basketball team two weeks ago won like 92 to zero or something crazy. I was like, oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_02 13:42

No mercy.

SPEAKER_00 13:43

Well, they were showing mercy. That's what's even worse. Wow, dude, they put the beating on Enid. I was like, oh my gosh. I think the first two plays of games are pick sixes, and they're like, dude, we can't even play our string.

SPEAKER_02 13:54

They can't play worse, like they couldn't play worse.

SPEAKER_00 13:57

I was talking to somebody that was watching, they were like, dude, in the third quarter, they were just running it up the middle with their four string running back, and he's scoring, he's breaking 70 yard touchdowns. Like, yeah, dude, what a beat, dude. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_02 14:09

Oh well.

SPEAKER_00 14:10

That's crazy. Builds character for the losers. I don't even know how we got on that topic, but I'm not sure either. We went from fun fact. Oh, that's how. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:22

Oh, yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 14:23

Talking about teachers and high school experiences, and then it went into talking about bad teachers that really are bad.

SPEAKER_02 14:31

We got a question submitted. Boom! Boom. Did you submit it to him?

SPEAKER_00 14:39

No, I didn't.

SPEAKER_02 14:40

It's anonymous sound.

SPEAKER_00 14:41

I did not submit it. I didn't notice.

SPEAKER_02 14:43

We have not been getting questions, but we got one. It was uh I do not submit questions. I think it was by the time we got back from the cruise.

SPEAKER_00 14:49

Yes, which is we'll indulge in after our question.

SPEAKER_02 14:52

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 14:53

So let's let's answer the freaking thing, dude. Gang.

SPEAKER_02 14:57

Okay, what's the question?

SPEAKER_00 14:59

I don't know. I know. Okay, I don't freaking know. I have no clue. The question is do you eat yellow snow? That's not the question. I don't know the question.

SPEAKER_02 15:09

Would you rather fight a kangaroo or fruit? Whoa, I'm sorry, guys. Or four raccoons. So would you rather fight a kangaroo or four raccoons? But then they added with boxing gloves. So they're being nice and giving you boxing gloves, but also I feel like you're indicating you want us to fight the kangaroo. And my choice is raccoons. I love raccoons, I think they're so cute. I know that they're like scrappy though, but also I've seen some videos of kangaroos, and that'd be like me fighting a grown ass man, and I don't want to do that. I can get scrappy too. I will be kicking, punching these raccoons.

SPEAKER_00 15:50

No, it's with boxing gloves. So I would assume I'm gonna do whatever I want. That's not how that works.

SPEAKER_02 15:55

I'm gonna fight. I'm doing whatever I want.

SPEAKER_00 15:57

No, it's boxing gloves.

SPEAKER_02 15:58

Okay, you think the raccoons are gonna fight fair or the kangaroo? No. It's boxing. No, they're not gonna fight fair.

SPEAKER_00 16:05

Look, it it with boxing gloves.

SPEAKER_02 16:07

Okay, I still oh well.

SPEAKER_00 16:09

You can't kick them. It's boxing.

SPEAKER_02 16:13

But it says with boxing gloves, does that indicate that we have to be boxing or that you're getting a protective?

SPEAKER_00 16:21

I assumed it indicated boxing style. With boxing gloves. Here's the thing you box them.

SPEAKER_02 16:27

And okay, well, my answer stays the same. I don't, first of all, I don't know how to box. I'm not a professional boxer, but I do know I'm gonna win the fight, and so I'm gonna do what I need to do to fight a raccoon.

SPEAKER_00 16:38

How are you gonna? It's four of them, not one. How are you gonna you're gonna lay on the ground? No, you're gonna punch the ground?

SPEAKER_02 16:45

Well, it depends which way they start at me first. I'm telling, but I'm telling you, I'm not gonna just box them. The fights aren't.

SPEAKER_00 16:52

You gotta box them into a boxing gloves.

SPEAKER_02 16:54

Timothy, I'm telling you, I'm making my own rules.

SPEAKER_00 16:56

I think that's not the question.

SPEAKER_02 16:59

But it's my answer.

SPEAKER_00 17:02

Uh my answer is the raccoons. I need boxing. Okay, I need boxing no dang kangaroo, first off.

SPEAKER_02 17:09

Okay, Tim, how are you gonna do it with boxing kangaroo?

SPEAKER_00 17:12

I'm going to hammer fist them. Okay. One at a time.

SPEAKER_02 17:15

I'm gonna freaking one at a time, but all four of them are coming at you.

SPEAKER_00 17:18

I'm gonna whack them all. Dude, they ain't gonna mess me up that bad.

SPEAKER_02 17:22

I don't know. They bite, scratch.

SPEAKER_00 17:24

Good. The closer they get, the better I'm gonna do it. You're gonna have rabies. One jumps on me, bam.

SPEAKER_02 17:29

You're telling me your automatic reflex isn't gonna be to also kick them. You're gonna keep boxing rules. I have my own rules. We do not have rules. You have boxing gloves, four raccoons, and a fight. I'm gonna do what needs to be done.

SPEAKER_00 17:45

Look, if there's no rules and I can use my legs, it's easy, raccoons. I'm stomping one, I'm kicking one, I'm gonna pick one up, I'm gonna pick up and use it to hit the other time. And I'm gonna pick one up and I'm gonna drop it like a football, and I'm gonna punt that thing into the tree stand that I have. I got like six raccoons out there right now. And the only reason I ain't out there with the 22 is because you like raccoons, or them suckers wouldn't make it. I've I've been tempted to kill one and hang it from the tree above where the feet so the other raccoons know not to come and eat all my dang corn.

SPEAKER_02 18:15

That is dark.

SPEAKER_00 18:16

You dude, you think that's you should have heard what Dakota said about them.

SPEAKER_02 18:19

I it's all right.

SPEAKER_00 18:23

That's dark. This man Dakota said grab one while it's alive and skin it in front of its buddies and then just leave it there so they so they know, dude. They're freaking menaces that eat all of the corn, dude.

SPEAKER_02 18:36

I know a good therapist if you guys need a recommendation.

SPEAKER_00 18:40

We do. He had a joke with it too.

SPEAKER_02 18:43

I ain't saying that one, but yeah, it's not safe.

SPEAKER_00 18:47

It's not racist. I need to throw that out there. It is not racist because we're talking about raccoons. It's gonna be dark, but it is dark and it's not racist, though. In any way, shape, or form.

SPEAKER_02 18:56

I know y'all's humor is just gonna be dark. Y'all gonna be out here triggering people.

SPEAKER_00 19:00

Little freaking raccoons, man. They're little freaking hood rat little things, man.

SPEAKER_02 19:05

So if you're getting attacked by raccoons, you're seriously gonna stick to boxing roles because you have boxing gloves on.

SPEAKER_00 19:11

Well, that's what the question was.

SPEAKER_02 19:12

It said nothing about roles, it said with boxing gloves. Are you sure this isn't your question? Because you're getting pretty defensive about sticking to the roles.

SPEAKER_00 19:20

It ain't my question, but let me tell you, if I'm boxing a kangaroo, if that was my option, if I chose it, I I ain't winning.

SPEAKER_02 19:27

I would get beat up.

SPEAKER_00 19:31

I'm telling you, I'm getting my pieces in. I did one litter shot. They they might be able to hit me good, but they got them legs, they jump up and hit you as sober. I've seen kangaroo.

SPEAKER_02 19:42

Yeah, they got the kicks.

SPEAKER_00 19:43

I've seen kangaroo.

SPEAKER_02 19:44

See, that's the thing, too. Are you gonna keep boxing rules with a kangaroo because they're doing kicks? Are you telling me you're just gonna stick to the boxing rules?

SPEAKER_00 19:53

Well, I just assumed it was a boxing match.

SPEAKER_02 19:56

So, what are you gonna do? Are you gonna stick to the boxing rules when fighting a raccoon? Wait, kangaroo.

SPEAKER_00 20:02

Well, if they're sticking to the boxing rules, Timothy. It's a boxing rule.

SPEAKER_02 20:07

The raccoons aren't gonna sit there and punch you. So they are not going by the rules. The kangaroo's not gonna go by the rules. I didn't plan by going by the rules.

SPEAKER_00 20:20

Can I still wrestle?

SPEAKER_02 20:22

Baby, you can do whatever you need to do to win the fight. That's what I'm doing.

SPEAKER_00 20:26

We knew kangaroos are strong. We know they can kick. We know they can probably hit a little bit if they want to.

SPEAKER_02 20:33

What if it shoves your head in its pouch? Kind of like when like a bully, like you see on TV where they shove people's head in the toilet. What if it like does that sound to the pouch?

SPEAKER_00 20:43

Sounds like a king.

SPEAKER_02 20:43

And then it just starts like punching your rib pick.

SPEAKER_00 20:45

That's a kangaroo crucifix right there, baby. Oh, that's what that's called.

SPEAKER_02 20:50

That's wild.

SPEAKER_00 20:51

Look, we know kangaroos can kick. We know that they got fast little hands, like brrrrrr, you know, real fast at you with them hands. It's like, whoa.

SPEAKER_02 20:58

For real.

SPEAKER_00 20:59

You know what no one's checked? Islam said it best. No one's checked kangaroos grappling. Can they grapple? I get my hands around that neck. I'm choking that sucker out. Know that.

SPEAKER_02 21:11

It'll be worth a try.

SPEAKER_00 21:13

Sleep that thing.

SPEAKER_02 21:14

Would that baby be your first move?

SPEAKER_00 21:16

You gotta get close to them, and they they probably not gonna let you get that close. They're gonna kick at you, they're gonna jump, and they're pretty fast, and they're running in circles. Are we in a ring? If we're in a ring, if I got if it's like an enclosed area.

SPEAKER_02 21:29

I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_00 21:30

I get close to this sucker.

SPEAKER_02 21:32

I'm not sure that you're gonna get a kangaroo willingly in a ring and go by boxing rules.

SPEAKER_00 21:41

No, there's no rules. I just need to know if there's a ring.

SPEAKER_02 21:43

Oh, now there's no rules.

SPEAKER_00 21:45

Is there a ring?

SPEAKER_02 21:47

Tim, I read the question to you.

SPEAKER_00 21:50

You got the same words I think if there's a ring in there and I can get it and get my hands on him and I can get my hands around his neck. I like my chances. Know that.

SPEAKER_02 21:58

Why does it have to be in a ring? Because you need to pen on yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:01

I gotta get him against a fence, against a cage. Otherwise, out in the wild. He ain't catching a kangaroo in the wild. Australia done for, you're gonna die.

SPEAKER_02 22:10

Uh he's gonna suffocate you in his pouch.

SPEAKER_00 22:13

Raccoons in the wild, you got a good chance.

SPEAKER_02 22:15

I choose the raccoons. I stand by my first case.

SPEAKER_00 22:19

They climb that fence, they can jump at you from different angles. You gotta be a little careful. But a raccoon, I mean a kangaroo in a cage, you can get that distance on them. I can I'm gonna fake, I'm gonna fake out like I'm gonna punch him and I'm gonna jump on him.

SPEAKER_02 22:31

I would even in a cage, I would still choose four raccoons.

SPEAKER_00 22:35

I'm wrecking them both at the same time. Give me four raccoons and a kangaroo. Let's go.

SPEAKER_02 22:39

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 22:41

Let's freaking go. I'm gonna wreck that thing, dude.

SPEAKER_02 22:44

I'd like to see that.

SPEAKER_00 22:45

Give me some raccoons. I got I got about ten of them that's been eating my corn every night, so we'll go.

SPEAKER_02 22:50

But where do we get the kangaroo?

SPEAKER_00 22:52

Well, I'm out on the kangaroo.

SPEAKER_02 22:54

Tulsa zoo?

SPEAKER_00 22:55

I don't even think Tulsa Zoo has a kangaroo.

SPEAKER_02 22:58

I feel like they do.

SPEAKER_00 22:59

I ain't been long enough. I need to go see if they got a kangaroo.

SPEAKER_02 23:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:03

I'll ask the uh zoo person. Hey yo, I I need to do something. Can I go box this thing?

SPEAKER_02 23:11

That is so not gonna fly.

SPEAKER_00 23:14

I need a piece of a raccoon for the for the uh the clout. I gotta show the show the podcast listeners I can bang, bang, you know, give them a little one-two, jump on them, grab that neck.

SPEAKER_02 23:27

If we were in a zombie apocalypse, do you think I would be the group leader?

SPEAKER_00 23:33

Hell no.

SPEAKER_02 23:34

The like comic really or the one that like screams, runs away, and dies or none of them.

SPEAKER_00 23:43

I don't think he'd be any of those things.

SPEAKER_02 23:45

I'm the zombie.

SPEAKER_00 23:47

No. I think you're the analyzer.

SPEAKER_02 23:53

Dig into that for me.

SPEAKER_00 23:54

You know, we in a zombie apocalypse. Let's break it down. Let's set the scene. We got 15 zombies chasing us, it's a group of five of us.

SPEAKER_02 24:02

It's not zombie uh kangaroos, right?

Listener Question: Kangaroo Or Four Raccoons

SPEAKER_00 24:05

No. Okay. Normal zombies. We wouldn't make it we in a in an enclosed area. We got a solution, but we gotta get out of this area to get away from the zombies. You're gonna have the people that freak out, you're gonna have the people that fight, you're gonna have like the the leader that's like, I'll go first, I'm that guy. It's fine if I die, know that I did it. Know that I had y'all's back. And then you got the person that's like, here's how we're gonna do it. We gotta do we gotta find this route and this route, and we gotta know that they're they can't do this or this, but they can do this and this, so we gotta be better at it than this and this. That's you. You that person.

SPEAKER_02 24:44

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 24:45

You're welcome.

SPEAKER_02 24:47

Sweet.

SPEAKER_00 24:48

That's what I think.

SPEAKER_02 24:49

We'd make it together.

SPEAKER_00 24:50

Yeah, I can shoot, boy.

SPEAKER_02 24:52

That'd be fine.

SPEAKER_00 24:54

I'll fight a zombie too. Let's go. Boxing gloves on.

SPEAKER_02 24:58

Yeah, but you you gotta be real like if they bite you, you're screwed. To where like the raccoons, the worst that's gonna happen is a little bit of rabies. Who hasn't had it?

SPEAKER_00 25:08

Look, I seen Shauna the Dead, which is the uh movie that makes fun of Donna the Dead, and the zombie at the end becomes uh a cool zombie. So that's gonna be me.

SPEAKER_01 25:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:19

I'm gonna be the zombie at the end that you're taking care of. You got him chained up, he's still chained up because he sometimes like whoa, whoa, whoa.

SPEAKER_02 25:25

Let me get your food. Let me eat your brains. Do they feed him humans?

SPEAKER_00 25:31

No, they give them food.

SPEAKER_02 25:32

Regular food? Yeah, it's a funny movie.

SPEAKER_00 25:34

Zombie. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 25:36

Oh, it's like a parody. Oh, okay. I gotta watch that.

SPEAKER_00 25:40

Yeah, it's called Shauna the Dead. It makes fun of the movie Donna the Dead.

SPEAKER_02 25:44

I haven't seen either.

SPEAKER_00 25:46

No.

SPEAKER_02 25:46

There's so many different zombie movies.

SPEAKER_00 25:49

I'm not into zombie movies, man. I just or shows like I just I can't get into They're not fun to me. I don't really enjoy them. Yeah. I'm just like What's that zombie show everybody loves?

SPEAKER_02 26:01

Uh The Walking Dead.

SPEAKER_00 26:02

Yeah, I think that's what's so.

SPEAKER_02 26:03

I watched a lot of it, like when it was gosh, I don't even know how long ago this was, but when they were actually coming out like every week and stuff, they might still be. I don't know. But it was middle school, high school. Watched it throughout, and then I stopped because I mean we're on it to be dramatic, the 24th season, and we're just doing the same things.

SPEAKER_00 26:27

Yeah, I'm just I just can't get into it. It's not entertaining to me. But nothing against people who do like it, it's just not for me. I'm like, I just I know that you would be the closest thing to zombie that I like are uh the 100 grounders.

SPEAKER_02 26:44

They're just humans who had to adapt to radiation and living.

SPEAKER_00 26:50

Yeah, they're not zombies at all. Yeah, but that's just the closest I can get. I like that they do have the reaper. Yeah, it's more realistic, but they're still creepy, like the reapers are zombie-like, you know. So that's the closest I can get.

SPEAKER_02 27:07

But it's like drug induced and torture induced.

SPEAKER_00 27:10

Yeah, and it's like um it's not all the time, it's like randomly in the show. It's like, oh wow. Wow.

SPEAKER_02 27:16

Yeah, that's actually reapers are scarier to me than zombies. I feel like zombies are just stupid. They're literally just stupid.

SPEAKER_01 27:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:26

Um I know that you'd be the protective one.

SPEAKER_00 27:32

Like Which is why I'd probably die.

SPEAKER_02 27:34

No, we'd make a great team because like I'm not gonna let you die because here's the smart thing to do. You got my back while we do it.

SPEAKER_00 27:41

Look, no, this if there's a zombie apocalypse, I'm turning it into John Wick real quick. John Wick arrow mix, I'll take that crossbow right there and while pulling out the pistol sliding and stuff.

SPEAKER_02 27:55

I think it would be fine.

SPEAKER_00 27:57

And honestly, it's like if I get in close quarters and I'm on the ground, I'm just gonna cut their Achilles. Any moving after that happens, buddy.

SPEAKER_02 28:06

The way to kill them so you have to like stick a knife in their brain or two.

SPEAKER_00 28:12

Yeah, you should have in the head. Yeah, but you cut that Achilles, they can't walk. Don't matter. But what if I don't need to kill them?

SPEAKER_02 28:18

But we don't know the type of zombies we're gonna be fighting because we're going like based off movies. What if it doesn't matter wherever else you harm them? It's not harmful to them. Only the brain can injure them or kill them.

SPEAKER_00 28:32

If you cut the Achilles, their foot can't move.

SPEAKER_02 28:34

Timothy, it's a zombie.

SPEAKER_00 28:36

They can all walk with one leg, right?

SPEAKER_02 28:38

Yeah, it's a zombie.

SPEAKER_00 28:40

It's just why don't wash it.

SPEAKER_02 28:42

There's no living tissue, they're dead. They're a zombie. I don't know. I would rather take the raccoons. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:56

Yeah, that's an easy choice.

SPEAKER_02 28:58

With or without boxing gloves.

SPEAKER_00 28:59

That's an easy choice right there, right there, right there. But um on another note. We went on a cruise two weeks ago.

SPEAKER_02 29:09

Yeah, we did.

SPEAKER_00 29:11

It's weird, it's been two weeks already.

SPEAKER_02 29:13

Mm-hmm. In my head, it was one week ago.

SPEAKER_00 29:16

Yeah, I guess well, yeah. Obviously, he didn't go to work.

SPEAKER_02 29:21

I went to work one day after we got back and tested positive for COVID because it's almost a guarantee you're gonna get it on the cruise. And so I didn't go back to work for the rest of the week.

SPEAKER_00 29:34

Well, I didn't test positive for COVID.

SPEAKER_02 29:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:39

One time in my life that I did not literally.

SPEAKER_02 29:42

I think I've had it eight times.

SPEAKER_00 29:45

I did not get it. I don't know how, but I expected it.

SPEAKER_02 29:48

This time wasn't really that bad at all, but we just didn't want to spread it, you know, infection control even.

SPEAKER_00 29:55

I went to work, I was fine. I never I was like, dude, I'm gonna get it. It's fine. I expected it going into the cruise.

SPEAKER_02 30:02

I just cuddled our dog.

SPEAKER_00 30:04

Come back. I said, dang, dude. I got that good blood now.

SPEAKER_02 30:08

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 30:08

Shoot, I cut myself one too many times in the hands. Maybe it's maybe it's doing me good justice.

SPEAKER_02 30:13

Yeah, I'm the only one between us who was drinking the vitamin C packets, taking vitamins, and Tim's the one who doesn't get it.

SPEAKER_00 30:24

That's because I drank that liquor.

SPEAKER_02 30:25

Honestly, maybe I just needed that time off that I drank it too.

SPEAKER_00 30:32

The liquor.

SPEAKER_02 30:34

Did you get to hang out with Rhonda?

SPEAKER_00 30:36

Yo, dude, we saw freaking Rhonda, man. We played some cards. Katie played Cards Against Humanities. I kind of watched and ran and got drinks as they were playing, but got to meet the Rhonda.

SPEAKER_02 30:46

You know what I did? Don't meet your heroes. I was let down this time because she was sober.

SPEAKER_00 30:55

Yeah, we saw her in a hot tub once and we thought about it, but there was also about 14 other people in that thing. We'll find another one. I'm good. She probably hammered in there yelling at them people. I'm I'll go find another one.

SPEAKER_02 31:07

They renewed their vows on the cruise, so good for them. It was fun playing cards against humanity with them.

SPEAKER_00 31:14

Yep, got to see good old Rome.

SPEAKER_02 31:16

She just said hi and kept going after that.

SPEAKER_00 31:19

Yep.

Strategy, Rules, And Survival Talk

SPEAKER_02 31:20

Just say hi when we saw each other, and we found a lot of ducks. Duck hunting is a thing on the cruises. Um I'm actually really good at hiding ducks, so much so that the ones I bought for our cruise, I could not find.

SPEAKER_00 31:36

We found them when we got back.

SPEAKER_02 31:37

I found them yesterday. But we found two weeks.

SPEAKER_00 31:43

Dude, we found like 80 ducks on this cruise, man.

SPEAKER_02 31:46

No, dude. Like I think the total was 108.

SPEAKER_00 31:50

Dang.

SPEAKER_02 31:51

But it was ducks. Uh yeah, it was a probando stuff, yeah. Bat, like little bats, ghost, a rock. A mugshot. It was a little doggy. Yeah, we found we found a lot.

SPEAKER_00 32:02

We did. It was cool. Found some little Jesuses, of course. Everybody hides a little Jesus on there. We're like, hey, we're not gonna take the elevator this cruise. We're gonna stare at the whole time. We did, but day three, I was like, dang, man, I'm out of shape.

SPEAKER_02 32:22

It got better after that.

SPEAKER_00 32:23

Yeah, it was fine. Yeah, after like day three, it was like, okay, I'm good now. Got a little used to the stairs, but yeah, we we kept doing it. We kept doing all the stairs, partially because all the dang people in carts on the dang cruise, man, taking up half the dang elevators. Oh well, we needed to take the stairs, and we were on floor one, so which was actually really convenient. It was people think that's like road was like right above it, and then the shows were right above it on three.

SPEAKER_02 32:46

Yeah. The only thing you were far from was the Leto deck, which is 10. And just take the elevator up and actually wait for it.

SPEAKER_00 32:54

Yeah, which we most of the time we didn't.

SPEAKER_02 32:56

We just walked up because we're duck hunting.

SPEAKER_00 32:59

And um, with those elevators, they typically just stay from like 10 to 4, floors 10 to 4, and just rotate those floors. So sometimes you gotta wait till someone's going all the way down to one before you can get on it and go back up. So we were like, uh, we'll just take the stairs. And if we get to like floor five and we're tired, we'll just hop on one if it's open, but if not, we'll just keep going. It was a fun cruise though. It was good, it was relaxing, really relaxing, good stops. Um, we've done it before, it was a nice time. I enjoyed it.

SPEAKER_02 33:24

Yeah, we went to Celebration Key, it was new for us. Because it was a new island island resort, yeah. The carnival main.

SPEAKER_00 33:34

It is uh underwhelming in my opinion. It wasn't that great, but it's cool.

SPEAKER_02 33:38

Half Moon K is always a winner.

SPEAKER_00 33:40

Yeah, it I I love Half Moon K. It's my favorite beach. I said it the one time we went, then we just went back, and I still think that that place is so nice, man. It's a really, really nice beach. I don't know if you remember, I got sunburn on my head in one spot, literally one on my forehead up here. I almost blistered there. That's the only place I got well, I got a little sunburn everywhere, but I was wearing sunscreen really regularly. But that one spot it was like I never saw it.

SPEAKER_02 34:07

Put it on like once.

SPEAKER_00 34:10

No, I put on sunscreen like five, six times. Every time I went to get a drink, I put it on.

SPEAKER_02 34:13

Oh, okay. Then yeah, that was quite a bit.

SPEAKER_00 34:17

So I'm the one who did it like twice. Throw me under the bus.

SPEAKER_02 34:21

Well, because usually you don't put sunscreen on. I'm like, hey, put on sunscreen and like reminding you.

SPEAKER_00 34:27

Hey, yeah, shout out to freaking Joel, that little little the Joel.

SPEAKER_02 34:32

What is that?

SPEAKER_00 34:32

The guy who sold us the freaking bag of beers that told us it he was giving them to us for 18 bucks, not to tell anybody.

SPEAKER_02 34:38

Yeah, we had$33. He lied.

SPEAKER_00 34:41

Yeah, he freaking lied. Was not$18, it was$73 for freaking five beers, by the way. Now I ain't gonna lie, he did throw in three extra in our bag.

SPEAKER_02 34:52

And we had um free daiquiries, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:56

So we gave it I had a great time, it was a blast, but I was I got I saw that charge.

SPEAKER_02 35:00

I was like, mother and then you saw them on the cruise because the workers at Half Moon Cade.

SPEAKER_00 35:06

They work on the ship, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:08

A lot of them end up working or they're on the ship and work at Half Mooncade, actually, Will that saw them, and they take the same drinks.

SPEAKER_00 35:15

Yes, we'll saw them on the cruise, and he didn't say nothing, but we'll bought three of them bags, so that's why he noticed them. He's like, dude, they're$55 on the ship. They're only 18 here. That's awesome. So he bought three of them.

SPEAKER_02 35:28

I feel like he did not tell you guys 18.

SPEAKER_00 35:31

He did, he told us 18.

SPEAKER_02 35:32

That's not what I heard when you got in the ocean. You're like, you told me it was okay, 25. Never mind, that's not too far off.

Cruise Recap: Illness, Ducks, And Drinks

SPEAKER_00 35:39

Yeah, but it was 18. He told us it was 18. But you know what? I'm beginning to think, I'm beginning to think he was saying those daiquiries he was giving us were free were 18 apiece. That just just now in my head, I bet those daiquiries are 18 apiece, and he was giving us those for free. Saying, hey, these are 18, but I'm just gonna give them to you. And we uh mind you, most of the people on chips that work on them are not American, so they do have sometimes language barriers. He was a nice guy, he was not trying to like and now I'm beginning to think he was telling us those those drinks were he was giving them to us for free and they were 18 bucks, and then we were buying the bags, assuming that's what he was saying.

SPEAKER_02 36:14

But here's the thing we were gonna get drinks no matter what.

SPEAKER_00 36:19

Yeah, yeah. We drank that we drink them. We got back on the ship.

SPEAKER_02 36:23

It is what it is, and we have a little cooler thing.

SPEAKER_00 36:26

There was four of us, and we had four total bags. By the way, they're five apiece, and then he put eight in one of them. There was nothing left when we got on the ship, so yeah.

SPEAKER_02 36:36

I don't I don't think we made it to dinner that night.

SPEAKER_00 36:40

I can't remember, honestly.

SPEAKER_02 36:42

I don't think so.

SPEAKER_00 36:43

I just remember standing in line and it was it was really hot. It is it's about 95 degrees, and I was like to get on the what's it called?

SPEAKER_02 36:51

I want to say catamaran, but that's not degree. Yeah, to get back to the boat because they can't there's no port dock at Half Moon K.

SPEAKER_00 36:58

So you get on a you get off the ship onto another boat, a smaller boat that fits, you know, 500 people, and then they they take you to the small tiny dock on the island, but you stand in line for until the next one.

SPEAKER_02 37:10

Because everyone's leaving at like the same time.

SPEAKER_00 37:13

So we're standing in line, and I was like, I am really, really hot. And I just realized I'm really, really drunk. So I need a fan.

SPEAKER_02 37:20

We were fine in the water.

SPEAKER_00 37:22

Yeah, when I got out of the water and got in that sun, was saying, I was like, I need a fan. I am really hot, I'm sweating bad. And I was like, I might throw up, so I had to get that fan.

SPEAKER_02 37:31

Guess who packed a fan?

SPEAKER_00 37:32

And you were smart because the melted ice water that was in the bag put it in the fan because it's it's one of those mist fans, so it was praying that nice freezing water. Oh, I was good after that. After about five minutes of that, I was like, okay, I'm fine now. Could use a little snack, but dude, I got really hot really fast. But it was a fun time. Uh Nassau is Nassau. That's our four. Is that our fourth time?

SPEAKER_02 38:00

Easily.

SPEAKER_00 38:01

And every time we've gone, it's got worse. And this time we went, I think we learned that they built a new port area that's in closed that's enclosed, like caged in, caged in, fenced in.

SPEAKER_02 38:14

They only allow like certain vendors in. I don't know what process they have to go to, but um well they have it the the vendor workers have TSA.

SPEAKER_00 38:23

That building that's to the left.

SPEAKER_02 38:24

Oh, it's TSA.

SPEAKER_00 38:25

It's like TSA, you know, where you have to go through the metal detectors and put your bags through the scanners. So yeah, I don't think they actually have to have like clearance to get in, but they have to be uh just appropriate items brought in. Yeah. And there's a reason for that. And everything in those vendors are so expensive.

SPEAKER_02 38:44

Uh so and it's like basic cheap stuff. Like the t-shirts are just they're five dollar t-shirts for 40 bucks. Like my niece could make me one.

SPEAKER_00 38:53

Yes, and but you want to buy it from them, and you have the freedom to go outside of that fencing if you would like. And they tell you do not walk down random streets, don't walk down alleys, don't carry jewelry, don't carry large amounts of cash. If you go to the beach, stay on the sidewalk along the fence line.

SPEAKER_02 39:09

So many warnings for Nassau. It was only Nassau.

SPEAKER_00 39:12

It insane amounts. They announced much over the intercom and they sent you papers, paper, and on your phone, they give you a warning. And there's a lot of them, a lot of them. And it's like, we recommend not going outside of the fence line unless going to the beach, or if you're an excursion, because then you're guided and you don't have to deal with anybody.

SPEAKER_02 39:33

But there's this straw market outside of it that we had been to every time we've gone.

SPEAKER_00 39:40

We've had good luck there.

SPEAKER_02 39:41

We have. And so we went outside the fence, walked up to the straw market, got bombarded, and went to the room.

SPEAKER_00 39:52

It's literally right across the street.

SPEAKER_02 39:54

Literally, out the fence, you cross the road, and it's right there. And then you have to so is everyone else who is not allowed inside the fenced area. So it's worse now. Because, like, there's we've been in sketchy scenarios, like it's literally fine, but it was to the point, it was just so bad where it's not even worth it. I don't care if I get a good deal or not. No one's getting no gifts from me on this cruise.

SPEAKER_00 40:18

The area was surrounded by cops to the point that when we came back in the fence, there were other people coming in the fence and people following them that the cops had to kick them out. They're like, You're not allowed in here. And they got mad and stood along the fence yelling at the people that were walking in the fence. They're like, Go, you can't be here. You know that. You know that. Go, you can stand across the street and do what you gotta do.

SPEAKER_02 40:37

I can appreciate Carnival's initiative to make it a better experience because there's cool stuff in there, I guess. Like there is still like some restaurants and stuff. I don't know. I'm not gonna go back. Like, I don't care to go back to Nassau. If it happens to be a stop on an excursion we want, or I mean on a cruise we went, then great. But I don't really care.

SPEAKER_00 41:01

And I will tell you, as a woman, you're screwed.

SPEAKER_02 41:03

Yeah, that's that's just uh being out in public all the time.

SPEAKER_00 41:07

But it's so bad there. Like the second they see a female, it doesn't matter if they're with a male, it doesn't matter if they're 10 or 20 males to one female, that female will get cat called the moment that she walks through. The moment and you'll get touched, grab they are wrapping around you like hyenas. It's like, dude, this is not okay. We literally turned right back around and went right back in that gate because it's like I'm I'm not even going to attempt to walk into the straw market.

SPEAKER_02 41:36

I'm be honest, Tim didn't really want to go outside the fence. I did not, but I did because I mama didn't raise no B word. I'm going outside that fence. I'm going to the straw market.

SPEAKER_00 41:53

Yeah, it got us to across the street in front of the straw market before she's like, Yeah, I think you're right. We should be able to get the card.

SPEAKER_02 41:58

I was the one who said we need, I was like, let's go back.

SPEAKER_00 42:02

It's like I saw this one come in when I saw everybody standing here waiting for the female. Because you could see some males walk out and they don't bombard you as bad. They'll they'll yell at you and want you to buy stuff, but they don't surround you, they don't get around you. The I mean, the moment a female walks out, it's like bam. It's like, dude, oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_02 42:19

What a disgusting world we live in. And I'm not just talking about there, I'm I could get into a whole thing.

SPEAKER_00 42:26

And it's and I'm gonna go ahead and it's not only the men. The women will, they are like, hey babe, it looks so beautiful. Come, and then they run up to you and it's like it it's primarily men.

SPEAKER_02 42:36

They want to braid my hair so bad.

SPEAKER_00 42:37

It is primarily men, but the women are just as bad, they're just not as bad with the hands. They don't they don't put their hands on you. The men don't care, they're gonna put their hands on you. I was like, dude, kick fucking rocks. How about that? It just makes it it did make me very uncomfortable.

SPEAKER_02 42:52

I knew from the moment, like this is gonna make me just know that I I would have been okay, like I would have gone through that straw market, but I know how Tim is and how much he loves and protects me. I was not willing to put him in that situation because like I'm trying to get back on the ship and not have to like fly home after getting out of jail in Nassau because Tim put his hands on someone, rightfully so, for putting their hands on me. So I was like, you know what? Let's go into the fence area because I love you and want to continue our trip.

SPEAKER_00 43:25

I can handle the conversations, I can handle the bombardment, I can handle the buy this, by that. I don't like when people touch me, I don't like when people touch people I know. I'm like, don't don't put your hands off folks, man. You just don't do that. That's but there, that's not a thing. That's it's the opposite. It's like their go-to is put their hands on you. Like, that's the first thing. Because once their hands are on you, you can't really get away. You know, it's like, oh, they they'll buy it because they want me to let go of them or they want me to not touch them.

SPEAKER_02 43:51

I'm gonna act like they're four raccoons and I got boxing gloves on.

SPEAKER_00 43:55

Yeah, you're about to find out what a raccoon finds out. You know, and it's crazy because the beach there is actually a really, really beautiful beach. It's just trying the process of getting to it is not worth it.

SPEAKER_02 44:05

It's I I honestly they probably should have just stopped sailing to Nassau instead of spending money on this port.

SPEAKER_00 44:17

I do believe their future terms is to build Celebration Key so big that one day you stop on one side of it and the other day you stop on the other. And just eliminate Nassau.

SPEAKER_02 44:27

Probably.

SPEAKER_00 44:28

I really do. I mean, they have I mean, you when we pulled up the Celebration Key, it's a small amount of area right now. It's not super big. It's big enough.

SPEAKER_02 44:37

Is it for a day? It's bigger than half moon.

SPEAKER_00 44:40

It is, yeah. It is big.

SPEAKER_02 44:41

It has a like it's like a whole like castle, it looks like sand castle. I mean, it's cool.

Nassau Safety, Vendors, And Boundaries

SPEAKER_00 44:46

I'm not saying they didn't do a good job. It's like a resort, it's just a little underwhelming to me. I was like, ah, it's it's okay. It didn't help that it was storming the day we were there, but that didn't even bother me. We got in the pool, we had a good time in the pool and stuff. It's just a lot of people in kind of a smaller area, and it's multiple ships at that stop. So we only have it was only us halfway. There's two ships there that day. And there you could see they're building another port on the other side, so it's like if they have two more, that would equivalent to four ships in that small of area. It's gonna be crazy. But behind it is nothing but land, nothing but land, and you see where they're already wiping out half of it. So I think they're gonna build it so big. It's a pretty big island, so I think they'll build it so big that you can literally wrap around to the other side the next day and do that half.

SPEAKER_02 45:30

Here's my thing though. I want to travel. If I want to go to a resort and swim in a pool and go down water slides, well, there's places in Oklahoma we can do that. I don't want to be doing these cruises where it's like, let's take you to these places that are just like places you have at home. No, I want to immerse myself in culture, preferably not where I get multiple men's hands put on me. But I want to get immersed in culture and find beauty in these other places, not just go to some place that they've made. Now, Half Moon K is the exception because it's a beautiful beach, and I'll take a beach day there anytime.

SPEAKER_00 46:11

It's a perfect day for like a beach day. If you want a beach day, that is the most perfect. Like if they if you told me I could take you can only get there by carnival cruise, but if I could get there and actually stay like four days, I'd probably do it.

SPEAKER_02 46:24

Oh yeah, put me in a shack. Actually, I don't need the shack. I got the beach.

SPEAKER_00 46:27

It's such it's so beautiful. It's a beautiful beautiful, it's a really beautiful beach, and it's like the it's just a perfect thing for a beach day. Yeah, I love having beaches.

SPEAKER_02 46:36

Oh my gosh, Tim. We got locked out of our suitcases. Before we when we got out of so we did our podcast um before we needed to leave, we're like, yeah, we still have stuff to pack up. Well, was it then? Anyways, we got locked out.

SPEAKER_00 46:54

Yes, before then we forgot the codes to the TSA locks. Well, I don't remember when they're typically covering they're typically set at 000. Hers was not, it was already preset to a code. We didn't know the code. Mine, I didn't forget mine.

SPEAKER_02 47:10

I just had it, I had it backwards. So mine, we could not get in it. And Tim had already packed his, like checked his lock, and I was like, we could not get into mine. And I was like, okay, well, let's do yours. He's like, Yeah, I've already got into it multiple times and it's locked right now. So he went to get in it, and he's like, I can't get in mine. My immediate suggestion was, well, maybe it's like the opposite of what you thought it was, like it's backwards. No, and so he just like keeps going, tries different numbers, frustrated, doesn't know why it works, is looking up YouTube videos on how to break into these TSA approved locks. And then he finally does my suggestion and it works.

SPEAKER_00 47:55

You know what? Let me try it.

SPEAKER_02 47:56

Because he did set it upside down.

SPEAKER_00 47:59

So okay, I didn't set it up, I said it like standing up, and when you lay it on its side, the code reads different from when it's standing up, right? So I it I guess technically it's backwards, but it's well, it's just yeah, whatever. So when I laid it on its side, I was like, dude, I've done it like 10 times. This makes no sense. It literally worked every single time. I did it five minutes ago, and now it's not working. And then I was like, you know, I'm gonna try what she said. So I turned it on its side, tried it, it opened the first time. I was like, dang.

SPEAKER_02 48:27

Crazy business, yeah.

unknown 48:28

Dang.

SPEAKER_02 48:29

But he did find out my code by uh looking up on how to do it. You just go by each number and you'll feel it like slowly loosen while you're pressing on the lock. So he got it, and then we remembered the code afterwards, but uh that was fun.

SPEAKER_00 48:45

Every time I'm gonna do it. Every time I looked up how to figure it out, I was like, you gotta take it to a TSA agency and have him use the master key. I was like, nah, nah, nah. So I I I got into some deep dive on YouTube, and it took me about 15 videos. And I saw this dude, I ain't being funny, he was from Middle East, he was like Afghanistan fella. He's like, you got to put the numbers in the locks. I was like, I can't understand him. I was like, I can't understand the fella. He watched it, and uh, I watched it, and then I was just watching it, and I was like, I don't know what he's saying, so I don't know what I'm doing. So I just did what he was doing and it worked. I was like, it worked, you know what?

SPEAKER_02 49:28

It freaking worked, and we had a wonderful cruise.

SPEAKER_00 49:31

We did, and our last stop was Key West, so golf cart, always fun. Rented a golf cart, had a beautiful day at Key West. It was nice, drove through some water, went to a lot of different places there. It was a good time. All in all, it was a great vacation.

SPEAKER_02 49:45

I hope you guys had a good week while we were gone because we had a good week.

SPEAKER_00 49:49

Yeah, it was great. We came back. I felt really refreshed. I will tell you the week afterwards, it was really hard for me to get up in the mornings to get to work, be motivated. I uh haven't even got back in the gym yet. I don't know, maybe I was a little alcohol deprived the first week. I don't know because it was so hard. Yeah, it was so hard, and I don't know why. And I was like, uh, it's the only thing I can really think of at this point. Maybe I just need some alcohol. So before work, I started popping a cold one and headed to work.

SPEAKER_01 50:16

No, you didn't I did not.

SPEAKER_00 50:18

I did not. I will say though, shout out to freaking Will on the dang cruise. That's like it got me uh addicted to nine milligrams on the daggum. What's it mic called?

SPEAKER_02 50:29

I don't do them, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 50:31

On the dang pouches, I was doing a sixes. I started doing a niners, and I tried to go back down to the sixes. Like, well, this sucks.

SPEAKER_02 50:39

Yeah. Anyways, we had a good cruise, nicotine milligram increase in all, apparently. So many ducks, it was great. We feel rejuvenated, done with the sickness, back to our baby dog who loves to cuddle. He's so happy we're back. And um, I just want to remind you guys to like submit the questions, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 51:03

And uh, we hope you guys enjoyed it. Katie's got a piss, so I gotta pee really bad, guys.

SPEAKER_02 51:10

I gotta go.

SPEAKER_00 51:11

So I hope y'all enjoyed this, and we can't wait to see y'all in two weeks or a week, but probably two because we got a guest, but he hasn't confirmed time frame yet.

SPEAKER_02 51:21

So just check back in and ask questions.

SPEAKER_00 51:23

Yeah, keep you updated every Friday. You know how it is, gang gang.

SPEAKER_02 51:27

But for now, we out. We out.