Let Me Ask You a Question...

John and John sit down with their wives and ask and answer random questions with each other. Recorded from the patio of John Avera's home, where his encounter with the Bigfoot calls were. 

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:28

I'm John Aver.

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And I'm John Hall.

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And this is the conversation.

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We are joined on the patio tonight by our wives.

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You can probably hear the birds chirping in the background.

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And the dogs. And the dogs. Well, the neighbor's dogs. The neighbor's dog has just discovered your cat, by the way.

SPEAKER_01 0:53

Anyway. I'm sure they know each other pretty well.

SPEAKER_07 0:55

Oh, yeah. They've met.

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I'll tell you a funny cat, the story on that cat here in a minute. Casey, you want to introduce yourself for those that don't remember?

SPEAKER_08 1:04

Hi, I'm Casey.

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Short and sweet. Short and sweet, yep.

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Like me.

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And I'm Katie, John's wife.

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John Avra.

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I got I forgot. I gotta clear that up. There's more than one. We got a lot of Johns around here.

SPEAKER_07 1:21

So tonight we're doing a uh different episode. We are live, well not live, but we are outdoors and uh on the patio with our guests. Um we've decided to do maybe some talk, just some questions and answers, some random stuff. So it'll either be good or terrible. Um with that being said, John, you got anything you want to add? Not really. I guess we'll just keep it rolling. Alright, Katie, you want to start us off with some of the random questions? We'll start with some of that.

SPEAKER_03 1:52

Sure. So we to kind of get our questions, we went, everybody uses AI these days, so we decided to go on ChatGBT and see if we could come up with some good funny questions for you. Just random talk.

SPEAKER_01 2:08

I got something funny. I've lost my phone. I don't even know where it's at.

SPEAKER_03 2:11

Your phone is right here right here. So to kind of talk about this episode, we've been trying to do this for three hours. We've had some uh technical difficulties, but we got that figured out. But um, on to the question here. The funny one that John Hall brought up that he found first was I think it was him. What was a thing that you should not say at a funeral home?

SPEAKER_07 2:37

Oh, yeah, yeah. Things to not say at a funeral.

SPEAKER_03 2:41

So the first I'll I'll start that off because I've had this conversation before. The one thing that I really hate is when you're at the funeral home and somebody looks in the casket and goes, boy, they sure do look good. And I'm like, they're so dead. They're dead. How do they look good?

SPEAKER_07 2:57

That was even a Rodney Kerrigan skid. He's like, they look like crap.

SPEAKER_03 3:03

You're dead. How can you look good? It's not a good thing. That's what I want to know.

SPEAKER_07 3:07

You're dead, you're there, but I know I also feel that way about newborn babies. Everybody's like, oh, they're so cute. No, they're like tiny aliens, they're awful.

SPEAKER_03 3:15

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:16

Now, I don't really I always say I don't like it when they say that too, but I have said that myself, and I've thought it when I go to funerals. I'm like, oh, they look they look pretty good. They did a good job.

SPEAKER_08 3:29

Well, I always catch myself, Well um, how are you? Well, duh. Yeah only and then I say it, I'm like, why do you ask that?

SPEAKER_07 3:39

Literally at at somebody's wife's funerals. Well, how you doing?

SPEAKER_03 3:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 3:43

How's your mom and them?

SPEAKER_03 3:46

Well, that's I it's an awkward silence. Like we were talking about when it's doing that podcast. You always worry about that awkward silence, and I hate it when you go up to people and you're shaking your hand when you really don't know the other ones in the processional, and you're like, Hi. Sorry. And then they just look at you and it's like, oh well, you know. Trying to make conversation, but it doesn't plug too well. John, you got one you want to ask over there?

SPEAKER_07 4:14

Well, I kind of let my phone lapse, so um, what is the weirdest habit you have?

SPEAKER_04 4:24

The weirdest habit.

SPEAKER_07 4:26

Myself, I don't have one. Like I'm not weird. I got habits, I'm just not weird.

SPEAKER_08 4:32

Oh, none of them are weird.

SPEAKER_04 4:37

What are you talking about?

SPEAKER_03 4:39

Make the clicky noise for us, Casey.

SPEAKER_04 4:42

Yeah, what are you talking about?

SPEAKER_03 4:44

I can't do it.

SPEAKER_04 4:46

I'm confused, clicky.

SPEAKER_01 4:49

I've never heard a clicky sound from you.

SPEAKER_08 4:52

I can't do it. Like with his lips? Like what is his and it's not your cricket sound either.

SPEAKER_04 4:58

Oh well, I don't know then. Apparently I am weirder.

SPEAKER_03 5:03

You are.

SPEAKER_04 5:05

What was the question?

SPEAKER_03 5:07

What is your weirdest habit habit?

SPEAKER_01 5:10

Weirdest habit. I don't know that I have any weird habits.

SPEAKER_03 5:12

Oh, yeah, you do.

SPEAKER_01 5:14

The wives will tell all.

SPEAKER_03 5:16

I don't know if it's weird, but it's how you sit.

SPEAKER_01 5:20

Oh, yeah. Oh yeah, that's hand over the head thing. If you don't have video, it's kind of hard to Yeah, I lay my forearm on top of my head. And from photos, I've seen it's hereditary. It may be. I don't know, but it's too late to do that. And they make fun of me in youth group and stuff a lot of times for doing that. I'll have pictures of themselves on our uh group chat. Sitting there with sitting there like that.

SPEAKER_03 5:47

John Aver with all his hair.

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Like when you have ear surgery and somebody puts a cup on the side of their head, like, oh I didn't take picture.

SPEAKER_06 5:55

That was a good one. It was hilarious, though it was. I think Max did like a belt with his wallet under or something on his ear.

SPEAKER_03 6:01

What'd Shelby do? A cup?

SPEAKER_01 6:03

I don't remember.

SPEAKER_03 6:04

You had the dock, the cup, didn't you?

SPEAKER_01 6:06

Oh yeah. Yeah. The sports cup. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 6:11

But it did look just like it, I have to say it did.

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And I actually had people message me, and one of them, you know, and he's like, I've had all kinds of injuries and been around sports my whole life. I know what that is on the side of your head. And I'm like, bro, that is literally like a ear cup surgery, like a surgery cup. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 6:28

I'd never seen one before my life.

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I hadn't either, and I even cracked the joke to the doctor, but when he came out and I saw him for a first time, I was like, What?

SPEAKER_07 6:36

It was the same.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 6:40

I would say my weirdest habit would have to be I sit around with heat on all the time. Like as soon as I sit down on the couch, I don't care if it's a hundred degrees outside, I have to turn on the heating blanket.

SPEAKER_07 6:53

Yeah, see, if I have a heating blanket, I'm the same way. If it's 110 degrees outside, if I get in my truck, the first thing I do is turn the seat heaters on.

SPEAKER_03 7:00

I do too.

SPEAKER_07 7:00

And the air conditioner all the way down.

SPEAKER_03 7:02

Yeah.

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Literally all the time.

SPEAKER_03 7:04

I'm addicted to heat, I have to say. I think.

SPEAKER_01 7:09

I don't know if I can stand the seat heaters in summertime. I do.

SPEAKER_07 7:13

100%. And the steering wheel. The steering wheel heater.

SPEAKER_03 7:16

Now that I can't do, but now like the back heater. Oh, I love it. Like when that seat, like the back of the seat gets warm, I put my back up on it. It feels good. I love it.

SPEAKER_01 7:25

The truck I have now does have the heated seats, but the one before her had the cooled seats. I always liked those, but Katie didn't. Katie hated those because she said she felt like she peed her pants when they came off.

SPEAKER_03 7:38

It feels so weird. Like I hated them. It's weird. It does give you a weird feeling on your butt. I'm sorry. I thought I had an accident or something. I don't know what I'd done.

SPEAKER_07 7:49

Have I hit the age that I peed my pants and don't realize it? No, just a seat air conditioner.

SPEAKER_03 7:54

Well, I got a new car and I automatically, I guess, when it like the temperature, like if it's a certain degree outside, the the cooler would come on the seat. So I didn't know that. And so I got I turned the car on, and it all of a sudden I was like, oh my gosh, my butt is like there's something weird, like cold on my butt. And I'm looking around. I thought I had dropped ice or something. Then I looked, I was like, I don't have any ice. And then I was like, oh, the blue lights on. That means the cooled seats are on. So it was, yeah, it was kind of it's just freaky to me. I don't like it.

SPEAKER_07 8:26

I don't, I I can't stand them. Love the seat heater, not the air conditioner so much.

SPEAKER_03 8:31

So then another good question that we found was, and this was another John Hall question that I think he found was what reality TV show was it you would thrive in?

SPEAKER_07 8:42

You would do good on or thrive in, yeah. I actually that one's pulled up on my phone right now as well.

SPEAKER_03 8:46

So So who wants to answer to that one?

SPEAKER_07 8:50

I think uh I think Casey had a good answer for that one.

SPEAKER_08 8:54

Yeah, you said it wasn't a reality show, a thousand years.

SPEAKER_07 8:56

Well, it is a reality show, but we were thinking we were thinking along the lines of Big Brother or Naked and Afraid or whatever, but the question actually doesn't state that. It just says reality show. What what would you thrive on? So I mean literally that one would thousand pound sisters. Thousand pound sisters.

SPEAKER_08 9:15

I mean Amy and Tammy.

SPEAKER_07 9:17

Those are my people. I can survive on that show, absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 9:20

They do crack me up.

SPEAKER_07 9:21

They're hilarious.

SPEAKER_03 9:25

John, what would you well?

SPEAKER_01 9:27

I'm still trying to think of some reality shows, but we had talked about this a little bit earlier. The biggest loser came up, and I really think I could actually kill it on that show because well, when it was out, I really needed to lose the weight. And two, I was youth pastor, so I was always keeping up with youth kids. So I was probably in better shape than a lot of people on there, you know. I don't know, I just feel like I could have probably done pretty well on that show.

SPEAKER_07 10:00

I feel like I could have killed it on a loan. You know, the one where they put you like on an island or whatever, and you gotta I feel like I could kill that. I don't mind.

SPEAKER_06 10:09

Like quiet and peace, and I get to fish for my own food, I'm good.

SPEAKER_07 10:15

I feel like I could do good on that one.

SPEAKER_01 10:17

It's according to what I was on that at.

SPEAKER_07 10:19

I don't know that I can handle the like Grizzly Island now. That might be a little different, but take the bear out of the situation.

SPEAKER_01 10:26

Yeah. I'd kind of have to know what island we're going to and what kind of wildlife is there.

SPEAKER_07 10:32

That's the thing. You don't they don't tell you that. It's like, surprise, you're sleeping with the grizzlies tonight.

SPEAKER_01 10:37

It's like that naked and afraid of the water.

SPEAKER_07 10:41

Yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 10:44

One, I it'd be weird to do it, but two, it you'd kind of want to know what all was on that island before you went out there like that.

SPEAKER_07 10:50

All jokes aside, wildlife, whatever, I could not handle being out there in the middle of the summer and getting a sunburn in my crack. Think about it, you're used to having clothes. When you get sunburns on your shoulders, could you imagine getting your butt sunburnt?

SPEAKER_01 11:08

I'll tell you the worst sunburn, and this has nothing to do with the topic, but the worst sunburn I ever got was on the tops of my feet.

SPEAKER_07 11:14

Mm-hmm. Yeah. I've had some babbles on now I've the I've had blisters in my head before. Like fishing like an eight-hour tournament in the sun. I've had blisters in my head. I've come on with blisters several times, haven't I?

SPEAKER_03 11:26

I tell you the worst I was ever sunburnt. We went to Hawaii or no. Yeah, it was Hawaii. I was down there with my mom and I. My dad was at the show, he was at a conference, and my mom and I were at the pool. And down there, it's like a beautiful, I mean it's constant, like 80 degrees, you're not hot, it's not humid. Well, we sat at the pool all day long. No sunscreen eyes. I'll be fine. I never burn, I'll be fine. We got up and I walked down to the ocean, and I stepped in that ocean, and that water hit me, and I felt like a thousand needles just going through me. And that night, by the time we got back and was to the mirror, my face had swelled up. I was shaking. I was shaking so bad, it was like the whole bed was just I'd gotten some poisoning.

SPEAKER_07 12:11

And then you had that freezing sugar.

SPEAKER_03 12:13

Oh, it was miserable. We tried to go out to eat, and my dad had to ask him for tablecloths. And I wrapped tablecloths around me while I was sitting there eating because I was so cold from it. Oh, it was it was awful. But I man, I had a tan that rocked forever.

SPEAKER_07 12:29

I bet people in the restaurant had the weirdest craving for lobster.

SPEAKER_01 12:34

She's sitting there looking like a lobster. So I guess the next question is uh what's your worst sunburn?

SPEAKER_06 12:43

Well, we think she just told them we already told those.

SPEAKER_01 12:45

Yeah, I've got two actually. One of 'em uh was when I started working at a car wash there in Somerset, Kentucky, and it opened up and it was one of those where you go through, but then there's like people outside too that clean it, they either cleaned it out or uh wiped it down. Dried it. And I was hired, I guess, to uh dry or something, I don't remember, but it it was outside. And so I got really sunburned on that on my very first day. Never went back.

SPEAKER_03 13:19

I was gonna say wasn't another job you went for one day and you quit.

SPEAKER_01 13:22

Yeah, and then um the second one was when I went to the pool and I got the bright idea instead of just staying in the pool the whole time, I was gonna do what everybody else did and just sit on the side and kind of just lay in the sun. That is a big mistake. I guess I don't know how to lay in the sun, but later on that day I had to go play at a graduation ceremony and it was outside at the high school, so it I felt every bit of that. That was a pretty bad one.

SPEAKER_08 13:54

I think my worst sunburn was I was pregnant with Mackenzie, and me and my friend went to Sweet Hollow, and I thought I'll be alright. My little belly got burnt so bad, and then she came out with red hair and I blamed it on the sunburn.

SPEAKER_03 14:13

Okay, so I'll tell you a funny story about pregnancy and sunburn. So if you don't know, we have an adopted daughter, and she's from the Marshall Islands, and she's got, of course, you know, brown skin. She's dark skinned. And we were at VBS here when she was a little bitty baby, and I had her in a carrier, you know, I mean, she that's how little she was. She was strapped in a carrier. Well, a couple of John's students had come to VBS that year. And they were looking at Rayleigh and everything. And Rayleigh had, she's always had a lot of hair, jet black, stuck straight up. And this little boy was over there looking at her, and he says, Now she looks a lot like you, but she don't look much like Mr. Ray. And I just sat there and I said, Well, what makes you say that? And he said, Well, she's got dark skin, and he doesn't have dark skin, and you kind of got some dark skin. I said, Well, I said, No, I'm gonna tell you, I said, that's what happens when you lay in the tanning bed too long when you're pregnant. Uh I said, the baby gets really dark skin. He goes, Really? Really? And I was like, No, no, no, I'm just kidding. I said, that that's not the case. I was like, she's adopted.

SPEAKER_02 15:23

So yeah.

SPEAKER_03 15:24

It was pretty funny.

SPEAKER_07 15:28

So if you were the opposite gender for one day, what would you do?

SPEAKER_02 15:35

I was the opposite gender one day.

SPEAKER_05 15:44

That's a tricky one.

SPEAKER_07 15:47

One day, what would you do?

SPEAKER_01 15:54

I don't really know.

SPEAKER_03 15:59

I know what I I would celebrate. I didn't have to go to twenty-five different aisles of the store. You all have one aisle to go down. One aisle.

SPEAKER_07 16:08

There's two things I would do.

SPEAKER_03 16:10

What what are your two things?

SPEAKER_07 16:12

My main number one one would be go through a purse. Because there's things in a woman's purse nobody needs to know about, but like to actually sit and go through a purse, it's untelling what is in there. Secondly, a group to the bathroom. Because what happens in there?

SPEAKER_06 16:28

Like there's like nine women that go to the bathroom together at the same time.

SPEAKER_07 16:32

Are you guys gossiping? Because that's where the good T's at. I guarantee it.

SPEAKER_03 16:38

Women do go to the bathroom a lot together. I will have to say that.

SPEAKER_07 16:42

And if we tried that, it would be weird.

SPEAKER_03 16:43

That would be kind of weird. That would be weird.

SPEAKER_01 16:46

So I'm kind of interested in figuring out where you were going with the one aisle thing. I don't get it.

SPEAKER_03 16:51

Because men, you all get up, you get, you, you take a shower, you throw on some deodorant. You don't even have to comb your hair. You don't have to shave your legs, you don't have to do it.

SPEAKER_07 17:02

We don't have to comb our hair.

SPEAKER_01 17:03

That's pretty rude to say to two bald men.

SPEAKER_03 17:08

But you get up, you sit on some deodorant, throw your clothes on, and you go out the door and you're good to go. As women, no. We get up, we have to, you know, you gotta take a shower. If you want to shave your legs, you gotta sit here and shave your legs. Takes forever. Then you gotta shave underneath your arms, and you gotta put on your makeup, then you gotta put on, yeah. Then you gotta fix your hair so people don't talk about you. So yeah, it's a lot of work.

SPEAKER_07 17:36

Do you know how much work it is? Trimming your beard, shaving your head.

SPEAKER_03 17:39

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 17:40

Speaking of trimming some beards. Oh Lord, here we go.

SPEAKER_07 17:43

Speaking of something I shouldn't have done.

SPEAKER_01 17:46

So I went in there to trim mine because Katie said you need to trim that beard, it's getting out of control. All right, I'll go in there and try.

SPEAKER_07 17:54

Well, you were looking a little like Tim the Toolman Taylor in the Santa Claus movie.

SPEAKER_01 17:58

Well, I went in and got my hair clippers. And uh I put a guard on there thinking it was about a nine, it was a six, but it looked big. I thought, you know, it's gotta be pretty big. So I shaved my whole beard with that six, and I thought, that looks horrible. And I think it's where the upper hairs closer to my lip had grown longer and were going straight down, and when I shaved them all the same length, they were shooting out.

SPEAKER_07 18:30

Straight out instead of being laid down.

SPEAKER_01 18:32

And I thought, that looks terrible. And there wasn't anything I could do, so I just had to keep trimming until it looked right. Then it looked like I had about five chins. So I had to chin I had to trim the bottom part. I had the trim the bottom part, you know, that's on my neck, and then by then, by the time I got finished, it made my head so round, and I've lost weight, and it I ended up looking like one of them shrunken head guys out of like a cabbage patch kid. Yeah, out of Africa or something.

SPEAKER_07 19:09

Oh my god. I feel that though, because I got this turkey neck thing going on. I can do this, and it tightens up. But then a couple minutes later, I'm like, ah, there it is. I catch myself all the time, like, is that an exercise?

SPEAKER_03 19:25

We're gonna have to get them one of those things for women they talk about.

SPEAKER_07 19:28

You're supposed to They have them on the TikTok shop, those little things that yeah, I wanna supposed to tighten your neck and stuff up.

SPEAKER_03 19:37

Alright, so the next question that I had that I thought was was a good one, and this is kind of more of a debate, I guess. Are boneless wings actually just chicken nuggets with better marketing?

SPEAKER_01 19:53

Yeah, they are. That's exactly what they are. They're just chicken breasts, breaded.

SPEAKER_08 19:58

I know at work. Every time they say they have boneless wings, I'm like, it's just chicken nuggets with some seasoning on it.

SPEAKER_03 20:04

That's what I always thought about them. I don't know why they call them wings, boneless wings though, because it's not Yeah, it's it's it's chicken nuggets, 100%.

SPEAKER_07 20:13

It it doesn't even taste like to me.

SPEAKER_03 20:15

It doesn't taste like the wings.

SPEAKER_07 20:17

Any good cut of meat you get is gonna have a bone in it. That's where that bone marrow is gonna give it the flavor. Like a lot of people, and don't get me wrong, I like a ribeye, but every time I'll choose a T-bone over a ribeye.

SPEAKER_02 20:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 20:32

Because of that flavor. But that's just me.

SPEAKER_01 20:37

I got one. What's a random fact that you know that sounds made up, but it's actually true. I have a fun fact right now. We're actually sitting right here where I had that Bigfoot experience.

SPEAKER_07 20:54

In episode two. Episode one. Episode one.

SPEAKER_01 20:58

Uh and I know people out there can't see it from a podcast, but you all can. But that first sound came from the end of the driveway down there towards the big ravine. And then right after it, the second sound came from right on the other side of this house right here. And a lot of these houses back here weren't here yet. So it was all, you know, wooded area, Daniel Boone Forest.

SPEAKER_07 21:28

Well, I'll tell you one that I learned a while ago, and that's that wombats are the only animal that poop square cubes. I don't know why I was Googling that, but wombats are the only animal that pupes they poop square cubes.

SPEAKER_01 21:43

Never, never I've never seen a wombat, so I like it.

SPEAKER_07 21:45

Me neither, but also the human head weighs eight pounds, and I know that because of Jerry Maguire.

SPEAKER_01 21:50

I remember that fat from there too.

SPEAKER_03 21:52

What is a wombat?

SPEAKER_07 21:53

It's a bat that wams.

SPEAKER_03 21:58

I don't know, I'll have to look at that. I don't think I have any weird facts. Not that I can think of off the top of my head. Well I did learn the other day that seahorses now see this is all in how people word things to try and I don't want to get into political discussion, but how they word things to try to get try to get people to side with them. But they were talking about male seahorses and they said that they're the only species that the only how was it they were the only male only species that a male gets pregnant. Well that's not the case. What happens is is that the female puts the fertilized eggs inside of a pouch on the front of the seahorse, the male seahorse, and he carries the eggs until they hatch and then they release. But the way they had it worded, it was that a male seahorse got pregnant. And it's like, no, no, no, no, it's not that. It's the female, the eggs are already fertilized, and they're they just the male just carries them for her. So yeah. That's the only really weird fact that I know.

SPEAKER_01 23:11

Well, I got another I got a weird story that doesn't sound true. Uh we went to the movies in Corbin, not recent, but a while back. I always have to go to the restroom when we leave, of course. So I'm standing there at the urinal and I look over and there's a what looks like a woman standing next to me using the urinal. I thought, okay, this is odd. That doesn't sound true, but it is. What useless facts? Anybody here know a useless fact?

SPEAKER_07 23:52

Useless? Every fact I know is useless. I know another one from that J. McGuire movie, but I'm not gonna repeat it.

SPEAKER_01 24:00

I don't really know any useless facts, but I had a friend that knew Oh my gosh, Chris. Every useless fact that you could ever imagine.

SPEAKER_04 24:11

Listen, did you know that he does.

SPEAKER_03 24:14

He knew some weird things. It was it was crazy, some of the stuff that he knew.

SPEAKER_01 24:20

Chris Wooten, we're talking about you if you're listening. But in college, we would play what was that game we played? Trivial Pursuit. Trivial Pursuit. Dude, I loved it. He was an absolute master at that game. He knew every useless fact that you could ever know. And I thought, man, he would dominate on Jeopardy or something.

SPEAKER_03 24:43

He did know a lot of dumb stuff. Stuff that nobody thought that was. Useless information? Yes. Alright, so the next one here is if you had to come with a warning label on you, what would it say?

SPEAKER_07 25:08

I don't even know where to. Beware of my husband.

SPEAKER_03 25:10

Beware of your husband. I think mine would have to be if you don't want to know, don't ask me, because I'm just gonna tell you.

SPEAKER_07 25:19

Probably not responsible. For anything, literally, that comes out of my mouth. Just not responsible.

SPEAKER_03 25:26

What would be yours, John?

SPEAKER_01 25:28

Don't tell me you won't remember.

SPEAKER_03 25:34

That is a pretty good one there.

SPEAKER_07 25:36

Random fact.

SPEAKER_03 25:39

Oh Lord, here we go.

SPEAKER_07 25:40

Even though Fruit Loops are different colors, they're all the same flavor.

SPEAKER_01 25:44

I've always heard that too.

SPEAKER_03 25:47

If we have any Fruit Loops, we'll go test that theory out. I don't think we have any Fruit Loops in there.

SPEAKER_01 25:52

Speaking of flavors.

SPEAKER_03 25:54

Oh gosh. Seven brew, did you bring Seven Brew?

SPEAKER_01 25:58

No, I did not bring Seven Brew. I thought about it when I saw that Free Win coupon in your seat when I left. Um but when I buy a bag of candy, like for myself, let's say you know, old man candy, like no, not that old.

SPEAKER_04 26:18

I love orders.

SPEAKER_01 26:20

Orange slices, but I I like by the assortment pack. For some reason I buy those, and then like the next day or two days later, there's only green and yellow in it. How does that happen?

unknown 26:35

I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 26:38

We have a mouse.

SPEAKER_01 26:39

There's a mouse that lives in the sweet tarts, same way. I didn't even know they made any other colors but green and yellow on sweet tarts. That's all I've ever eaten.

SPEAKER_07 26:46

So you buy 'em and you come home the next morning, there's only two colors in the Yeah. I got a pretty good idea what's happening there, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:56

I didn't realize it. I didn't realize they had blue and red and purple in those sweet tarts.

SPEAKER_03 27:04

Those are the best flavors. These are the best flavors.

SPEAKER_07 27:07

It's like those icy like popsicles. And you're like, you the blue, the red ones are good, but you come in and the only thing left is like the coconut flavor.

SPEAKER_01 27:16

I actually like that one. So I'd be good with that.

SPEAKER_03 27:19

I don't know why anybody likes anything, the yellow flavor. Now I like lemon. The only thing I like, well, okay, I like two things lemon. I three. I like lemonade. I like lemon pie, like lemon mering pie.

SPEAKER_04 27:33

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_03 27:34

And I love, absolutely love those Girl Scout cookies that they I don't even know if they still make them, but they're the short bread with the lemon icing on them. Yeah, they make it. Those things rock. But now, like lemon drops or those lemon sweet tarts, like he makes fun of me. Lemonheads. I hate those things.

SPEAKER_07 27:51

Now that lemon bread from like Starbucks.

SPEAKER_03 27:54

Well that's pretty that's not too bad.

SPEAKER_01 27:56

Pretty good. And I tell you what, Kim makes a lemon cake at church that is really good.

SPEAKER_07 28:01

Dude, I love anything lemon. I like lime too. Um also, did you know that a single strand of spaghetti is called a spaghetto?

SPEAKER_01 28:13

No, I didn't. Just throwing it out there.

SPEAKER_03 28:16

I had no idea. Spaghetto. This I think this is a funny question right here. What's the funniest thing you could yell during a wedding ceremony?

SPEAKER_07 28:27

Oh, I can't say it.

SPEAKER_03 28:32

What would be the funniest thing?

SPEAKER_01 28:39

Um was this one better than your last four?

SPEAKER_10 28:51

Oh my. Anybody else got anything to say?

SPEAKER_01 28:58

John, you've been married four times?

SPEAKER_08 29:00

I'm number five.

SPEAKER_05 29:03

So anyway.

SPEAKER_01 29:08

Nailed that one.

SPEAKER_09 29:10

Nailed.

SPEAKER_07 29:13

You can do better.

SPEAKER_09 29:16

Are you sure?

SPEAKER_07 29:19

You've done better.

SPEAKER_03 29:23

Wait a minute, that no, never mind.

SPEAKER_01 29:25

That's a pretty bad thing, I did. You've done better.

SPEAKER_03 29:30

Doug, you did have one of your friends say you that one time when they met me. I don't know if you remember that, but we were some, I don't remember. They worked somewhere and you went up and introduced me. It must have been one of those days I didn't fix myself up. And they looked at you. You told me that they said that, and it's like, why are you dating her? She is not a very attractive person.

SPEAKER_04 29:50

I don't remember that.

SPEAKER_03 29:51

Yeah, it was a long time ago.

SPEAKER_04 29:52

You could do better.

SPEAKER_03 29:55

You still have time to run. So, well, this isn't really on that same subject, but it made me think about it. The weirdest thing I've ever had happen, being like on a job, it was just a random thing. I went to the Hinkle Quarry there in Somerset. That's the one that's in Somerset, right?

SPEAKER_01 30:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 30:13

And I walked in there to when I worked for the rental place. And so I went in and introduced myself, and I was talking to them. It's like I'm Katie Averra and I work for RSC Rentals. I worked for them then, and I was like, you know, just here to show you, but blah, blah, blah. Well, anyways, this lady kept looking at me and like staring at me, and I was like, What is this woman staring at? You know, I'm like looking at my pants, make sure my pants are zipped. I'm like, you know, I'm like, what are you kind of doing? Like, she goes, What's your last name? I said, Avera. She goes, Are you from here? I said, No. I said, now my husband is originally from here. I said, you know, she's like, oh, she goes, well, who's your husband? I said, John Avera. Oh, well, let me tell you about John. John dated my daughter. She goes and gets pictures of her dad.

SPEAKER_10 31:05

Out of her dad?

SPEAKER_03 31:06

Of her dad. And brings pictures up of them too from like prom or some dance or something. And like, weren't they the cutest couple? And I just love them together so much. And I just really wish that he that they could have worked out between. Oh, how is he doing? Please tell him. I said, huh? Oh, he's fine. He's happily married. Well, I said, well, we've been. Apparently he could do better. Yeah. Yeah, we're good. We've got a son. And then I, well, you tell him that I was thinking about him the other day. And I thought, yeah, you must be keeping a picture of him in your desk at work. I mean, this is a little awkward.

SPEAKER_07 31:43

You know, the daughter's probably married too.

SPEAKER_08 31:47

Mom's still thinking about dying.

SPEAKER_07 31:51

I don't even get that because you're not even that good of a person.

SPEAKER_01 31:55

I know.

SPEAKER_03 31:59

Oh my goodness gracious. John, you got any more fight questions over there, John Aver. John A?

SPEAKER_01 32:07

I've got some on my phone here.

SPEAKER_03 32:09

Alright, read us one.

SPEAKER_01 32:11

Um. If you could witness any event in history, what would it be?

SPEAKER_03 32:18

And past history?

SPEAKER_01 32:20

That's the only history there is. Oh, yeah, that was a dumb statement. I ain't seen much future history.

SPEAKER_03 32:28

That was a dumb question right there. Sorry guys. That was a blind moment. I'm not even blind. Uh let's see here. I've always I've always thought it would just really be neat to see the very beginning of time. Just like Adam and Eve and just how it just really all started. I think that would just be cool. That is what I would like.

SPEAKER_07 32:57

I always thought, and this may sound weird to you, but I always thought I would love to have been there for the crucifixion.

SPEAKER_02 33:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 33:05

I know that probably sounds weird. But even watching the thing with the sheets, you know, behind the sheets, like I cried during that. Like cause you really died.

SPEAKER_03 33:14

I got cheery ideas.

SPEAKER_07 33:15

When you when you read the story, you get an idea of it, but when you physically see it, it it hits different. So that would be uh probably one I would I not necessarily want to, but I would do it.

SPEAKER_03 33:28

I well, I think now that you say that, I think the aftermath of it too, I would like to see, like when everything started happening, you know, the the veil torn and the earth shaking and you know the earthquake, and just to see what a lot of people's reaction was was like, oh man, I was wrong.

SPEAKER_07 33:45

When they stabbed him through the ribs, I'd be like, Yeah You done messed up now, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 33:53

I think that would that would be pretty It would be wild.

SPEAKER_07 33:58

I mean there's a lot of stuff, but and that may sound like I said, that may sound weird, but it's I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 34:04

No, I don't think it's weird.

SPEAKER_07 34:05

I'm weird.

SPEAKER_03 34:06

John, what would be yours? John A.

SPEAKER_01 34:09

I'm still trying to figure that out.

SPEAKER_08 34:11

Casey, you got one? You all named some pretty good ones.

SPEAKER_07 34:17

I mean and it doesn't even have to be that.

SPEAKER_03 34:19

There's a lot of stuff that I think would be great, like to go, you know what I mean, to physically see, like I've always I've always said if trees or if nature could talk to you, because like when I I drive a lot, you know, from my job, and so I get on some of these roads where there's just nothing but woods and like big forests, and to be able to go back and just see like the pioneers and the Indians coming through and how like if you look out there in those woods right now and you think about how old that landscape is.

SPEAKER_07 34:50

That was one of my favorite things at the ARK encounter when we did that thing. You it's like you're riding in a spaceship and it takes you back through time like that. I loved that.

SPEAKER_10 35:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 35:00

I don't know if everybody else did or not. So it was pretty neat for seven bucks. Yeah, for the money especially, but I loved that because it was like I look all the time, um, because there's some Facebook pages and stuff. Like we were talking the other day, we were at the park walking, and I was like, Have you ever seen the photos of this park in the 1800s? And she was like, Huh? I was like, Yeah, there's you know, the gravel roads going through the park up the hill, like there's photos out there floating around. But I like stuff like that, so no, I think it I I do.

SPEAKER_03 35:29

I always kind of wonder when you look out around and just to see like all the crap that we've put on this earth and what it was like.

SPEAKER_07 35:38

Like if you think about the change from when you were a kid till now.

SPEAKER_02 35:42

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_07 35:43

I think back and it's like I remember Thunderboat and all that, and then now it's like that big huge shopping center and all that.

SPEAKER_03 35:51

Well, that's like the road where I grew up at. It was mostly horse farms and just really open land and that, and I was up in Louisville for a show and went down to my where I grew up at my parents' old house, and went down the main road there, and I didn't hardly recognize it. I mean, it was like so much stuff has been added in that short a really short amount of time, it just changed the whole landscape, you know, of everything. It's just it's wild.

SPEAKER_01 36:19

Well, when we another big change when we were in college is when the internet was invented. Yeah. And we had classes to learn about the world wide web.

SPEAKER_07 36:29

Do you remember those first computers? You had to like to boot it, open Apple control C like it was so ridiculous.

SPEAKER_03 36:36

C prompt run, yeah, whatever.

SPEAKER_07 36:39

Can I just hit power?

SPEAKER_08 36:42

So the hospital, we've we are celebrating our centennial this year, and we've been going through a lot of stuff, and it's been neat to pull out a lot of the history with the hospital. And one of the things that I was really amazed with was the hospital was sold, I can't remember the amount of money, but it will also included so many chickens and donkeys and horses was included in the sale. Oh, cool. Like the bill of sale says, and included chickens and donkeys or something like that. So it that's neat.

SPEAKER_03 37:10

Well, when I like I said, when I was working for the rental place, they were building the hospital in Corbin. They were doing something. I forgot. I don't know if they was building the hospital, there was something they were doing down there, but they were digging where the that's what it was. They were putting a medical office where the roof was. The old hospital was in Corbin. Well, I went into the guy's trailer and he had all these like glass bottles and all this stuff up there, and I suppose. He said that he dug that when they were digging, they were finding this stuff that was buried, and it was like the old like glass IV bottles that they would hang up and some like instrument surgical instrumentation.

SPEAKER_07 37:45

They just walked out, like there was scaffolds laying in there, the X-ray machine, like all that stuff that was in Corbin. Oh, in Corbin. The old Corbin Hospital.

SPEAKER_03 37:53

Well, I walked in the one in London when they were shutting it down and stuff, and I tell you what, it was freaky. I was like, I don't I don't necessarily believe in ghosts and all that stuff, but it was just like walking through there and it did being dark, and I'm just like there was a whole paranormal thing on Mary Mount up there.

SPEAKER_08 38:12

They wanted to do that. They actually someone contacted us and asked us if they could do it, and of course, with our risk and stuff we couldn't do it, but we were just actually talking about this the other day. Um, when we were having to go back up and still tag some of our equipment because we donated a lot of stuff to offseas. Um, there's still a phone number that works if you call it.

SPEAKER_03 38:34

I saw that the other day.

SPEAKER_08 38:35

It still works, but you there there was a phone, and we thought we had everything cut off, and there was a phone for the longest time. When you go in, it was always ringing. And it was I think they said it was up in the OR, but yeah. It's it's creepy to be up there with everybody gone and they don't call it murder mount for nothing.

SPEAKER_01 38:52

Murder mount.

SPEAKER_08 38:53

Oh, let's not go there.

SPEAKER_07 38:56

So listen, speaking of random numbers that still work. I don't know if you guys ever called this one when you were young or whatever. Is that the time attempt?

SPEAKER_00 39:06

Time attempt. Holland notes. Your emergency hollow notes helpline. Please press one to hear it's going. Please press two.

SPEAKER_07 39:19

You had to press what key you wanted to hear the song. It was for your fits in hollow notes. Like it still works. Um there's a hollow notes hotline.

SPEAKER_03 39:34

All right, John. You gotta think about this when you're ready, John Ivor. If your alive had a mascot, what would it be?

SPEAKER_01 39:47

A stallion.

SPEAKER_07 39:54

Okay, boy. You know what? Let's rephrase that question. Spouses. What would your spouse's mascot be? You get to pick hers, she gets to pick yours.

SPEAKER_01 40:09

This really not fair. This is kind of this was kind of a pre-show question I was talking about earlier, and I already know the answer that she came up with.

SPEAKER_04 40:18

Yeah, well, I don't know it.

SPEAKER_01 40:21

Well, it's it's a lot like what a donkey would be called. Oh, a burrow. You'll have that.

SPEAKER_02 40:29

Same. Are you talking about mine when I said mine would be? So yeah, I am kind of that way.

SPEAKER_07 40:34

Yeah, but you get I'm saying you say what his would be, and he says what yours would be. You get to pick hers. She gets to pick yours.

SPEAKER_03 40:42

Sometimes I would say it would have to be a sloth.

SPEAKER_07 40:45

Oh, see, that would be your brother. Sorry if you're listening.

SPEAKER_03 40:50

We love you guys something. Not anything mean, but he says sometimes John, I don't know if even sloth is the right one, because he gets you can tell when John gets in La La Land.

SPEAKER_07 41:00

No, he kind of reminds me of the one from the what's that movie, Officer Hops? Zootopia. The one that works at the DMV.

SPEAKER_03 41:09

He'll be sitting there and yeah.

SPEAKER_01 41:15

Yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_03 41:17

I know what Sarah Clark would say if she was on this show.

SPEAKER_01 41:21

What?

SPEAKER_03 41:21

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.

SPEAKER_01 41:23

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 41:24

Because I never will forget it. Where he he shaved his beard completely off and everything, and his head was completely shaved, and he doesn't you can't really see his eyebrows, and he came up. Sarah turned around the corner and saw him, and she started dying, laughing. She's like, You look like a teenage mutant ninja turtle.

SPEAKER_01 41:42

The ones from the like live action movie, not the cartoon.

SPEAKER_07 41:46

There's also a difference between mascot and spirit animal.

SPEAKER_03 41:49

No, we said animal. Well, okay, so we'll let you go with either one. What Casey, what would you give John? What would you tell?

SPEAKER_08 41:55

I don't. I'm blank. I I mean I don't know.

SPEAKER_07 42:01

And don't say wombat because I don't know what that is.

SPEAKER_03 42:07

I gotta figure out what a wombat is while you've all heard as shit. She's gonna Google Wombat. I am gonna Google Wombat because I wanna know what it is.

SPEAKER_08 42:15

What's mine, John?

SPEAKER_07 42:18

Well, I'm still waiting. If you can't think mascot, even like I said, spirit animal, what would I probably be like a honey badger. Honey badger don't take no. You know what I'm saying? Whatever it is would have to be like a really shy, bashful thing. Because I am. Like I'm super quiet and bashful.

SPEAKER_08 42:46

Far from that.

SPEAKER_07 42:49

Super quiet.

SPEAKER_08 42:52

Oh, wombats are cute. That's not him.

SPEAKER_07 42:56

That is not him. He's definitely not a wombat.

SPEAKER_03 42:58

Those wombats are cute. They look like a cuter groundhog, almost. That's what they kind of look like. So if you're listening, Google a wombat and they'll show you what it looks like. That's kind of cute. I like that. Alright.

SPEAKER_01 43:15

So Katie's not due this to the size or anything, but from other aspects, would be a polar bear.

unknown 43:23

Why?

SPEAKER_01 43:24

So she's always it freezing cold and would wear a fur coat at all times if possible.

SPEAKER_03 43:30

I get that. I was gonna say, I thought you was gonna say because they're so mean.

SPEAKER_07 43:34

See, I would say to be a hen.

SPEAKER_03 43:38

A hen?

SPEAKER_07 43:39

Yeah, she's always mothering everybody.

SPEAKER_02 43:41

Oh well. Well, that's a good quality. Yeah.

unknown 43:44

Yeah, I like that.

SPEAKER_07 43:45

It can be annoying.

SPEAKER_09 43:47

It can be annoying.

SPEAKER_07 43:49

But she's she is. She's always trying to make sure everybody's taken care of. She's always trying nobody's left out, and I'm like even the kids and I'm like, they're grown. They have their own houses.

SPEAKER_03 44:01

Well, I though but I think it's like we've talked about before, your kid you never get you never quit mothering your kids. It's like my mom said, you know, I don't care how old you get, you're always gonna be their kid.

SPEAKER_02 44:14

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 44:14

You know? And that's it's uh I think that's what makes a good parent, because like we've had people that's been in our youth group and we've had some of them oh something up there. Um we got we're getting attacked by the bugs up here. But we've had people that's had the attitude once they're 18, they're gone, they don't have you know, they don't worry about it. But I'm like, how do you do that?

SPEAKER_09 44:36

You know.

SPEAKER_03 44:37

I mean that's like, you know, with Leighton and Shelby and all the challenges they've been going through lately with, you know, him having his surgery and him trying to get moved and graduating and his car wreck and him trying to find a job, you know. I've worried more about it probably than they have, because I'm like, I sit up, I'm like, what are they gonna do for money? What about this? What about that?

SPEAKER_07 44:55

Oh, we constantly Yep. We constantly talk about and and it's not even I mean, as parents, it is our problem, but it's not our problem. We worry about it probably more than they do.

SPEAKER_03 45:08

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 45:09

So Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 45:11

Alright, so here we go. Would you rather have unlimited tacos? This is just a very random question, or unlimited ice cream.

SPEAKER_08 45:19

Unlimited ice cream.

SPEAKER_03 45:20

Unlimited ice cream. What would be yours, John?

SPEAKER_01 45:24

I think tacos for me.

SPEAKER_03 45:26

Tacos? What would be yours?

SPEAKER_07 45:29

Unlimited tacos or unlimited ice cream?

SPEAKER_03 45:32

I know. Well, I think I know the answer to this one.

SPEAKER_07 45:33

Well, it's definitely going to be unlimited taco meat.

SPEAKER_03 45:37

Okay, so I don't know if I've ever told John the storm and this is a random taco story, but so we were known there could be random tacos stories. Uh oh, Leighton just texted me, speaking about our kids. Sorry, I had a text. So while while we were waiting for our technical difficulties to get solved, my son calls us, and while we were talking, his fire alarm goes off. And he just texted and said, We're good. Though these apartments, like most, have very sensitive smoke detectors.

SPEAKER_07 46:06

Katie said, What's that noise? I said, Shelby's cooking.

SPEAKER_01 46:11

Probably was somebody cooking. Ours goes off in the house just from take uh Rayleigh taking a shower.

SPEAKER_03 46:18

Yeah. That's crazy. So my random taco story. So we were at a show, we were at a conference, and we were all hanging out. Usually, like when we go to these shows, especially like we'll go to the state show uh cabins and stuff like Jenny Wiley, and we'll all were in cabins, hang out. Well, we were all sitting outside one night. It was up in Prestonsburg. Uh and you've never been to Prestonsburg, there's nothing there. But we were all hanging out playing cornhole, everybody just kind of sitting out like this. We had a fire going. Well, it was about one o'clock in the morning, and somebody's like, Man, I'm hungry. And I was like, Well, I'm kind of hungry too. And so we said, Well, what are we gonna eat? And it's like, well, only thing in Prestonsburg that's open is Taco Bell. So I was like, Well, I'll go get tacos. Well, one of the guys was like, Well, I'll ride with you because you know I don't want you driving by yourself. I was like, All right. So he gets in the car, we go up to Taco Bell and we pull up, and I order, I'm like, lady comes across and she's like, Well, what can I get you? And I was like, Well, I want like five cases of the Crave cases, you know, tacos. So we pull up to the drive-thru window. This guy can do anything. I mean, he can go into a character and not crack a smile, you know, nothing. So we pull up there and I'm getting my money out, and he turns around, he goes, That's just really great. And I'm like, What? What are you talking about? And he's like, all this money that I spent for you to go to that fat farm, and now here we're sitting at Taco Bell at one o'clock in the morning, and you're getting five boxes of these tacos to sit here and stuff down your face. He's like, There, there just went all my money.

SPEAKER_05 47:57

I've really done nothing for you.

SPEAKER_03 47:59

Yeah. And I'm sitting like, oh my gosh. You know, my face, I mean, I could tell it's just getting red. And the poor lady at the drive-thru was like, uh, honey, uh, do you want these tacos? And I said, Yes, I want the tacos. And he's like, Oh yeah, I'll get them to her. So here she'll sit here and gorge herself with these tacos, and then I'll have to hear about how much she hates herself and the way she looks, and then I'll she'll make me feel guilty, and I'll have to send her to the fat farm again. And well, here we go. Yeah, just eat them. I don't care. Just eat them. And I'm like, Oh my lord. And I mean, her hand is shaking when she's handing it and she looks just. He goes, Yeah, here she goes again, trying to defend it, eating her tacos. And I was putting it in the back, and he looks, he goes, Don't you grab one of those tacos out of there? I told you not to grab one of those. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_06 48:54

At least wait till you get home.

SPEAKER_03 48:58

We got back. I said, please just take these tacos. I said, I've never been so embarrassed in my whole life getting tacos. I was like, never again. Never again am I doing this. But yeah, it's our random taco story. John, any other questions over there?

SPEAKER_01 49:15

No, oh you, John?

SPEAKER_03 49:16

Yeah, John. I got I kind of I can't.

SPEAKER_01 49:18

Can't ask me because everything I own is dead. My phone's dead, my watch is dead. It's all dead.

SPEAKER_07 49:25

If you had one piece of advice to give to the whole world, what would it be?

SPEAKER_01 49:29

It'd be bring you a charger if you're gonna do a phone thing on the podcast.

SPEAKER_06 49:35

Never leave home without a charger.

SPEAKER_03 49:38

I think my would be not take life so seriously. Yeah. Try to enjoy it at some point.

SPEAKER_07 49:47

For me, it would be honest to God, it would be just don't hang on to hate. Let it go. Like it it's ruined a lot of my life.

SPEAKER_08 49:57

Everybody needs some Jesus.

SPEAKER_07 49:58

Hanging on to hate.

SPEAKER_03 50:00

That's a good one. What'd you say, Casey?

SPEAKER_08 50:02

Everybody needs Jesus.

SPEAKER_03 50:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 50:04

Get you some Jesus.

SPEAKER_03 50:07

It does make a big difference.

SPEAKER_01 50:15

I think so.

SPEAKER_07 50:16

Everybody's life changing wisdom, you're like, phone charger.

SPEAKER_09 50:20

Everybody charger.

SPEAKER_03 50:25

What oh here's a good one. What is something that you thought was cool that definitely was not?

SPEAKER_07 50:33

The mullet.

SPEAKER_03 50:34

The mullet, yeah, that's a pretty good one.

SPEAKER_07 50:37

I don't know, it actually was kind of cool.

SPEAKER_08 50:44

Say it again.

SPEAKER_03 50:45

What is something that you thought was cool that definitely wasn't cool?

SPEAKER_08 50:50

According to my kids, everything I think is cool is not.

SPEAKER_03 50:53

So just ask your kids. Yeah. John, what do you got over there?

SPEAKER_07 51:00

Keyboard.

SPEAKER_01 51:03

I don't I really don't know.

SPEAKER_03 51:06

I'm gonna say the stripes in your head.

SPEAKER_07 51:10

Yeah, I had the eyebrows too.

SPEAKER_01 51:11

Mine was cool because I had two I had two stripes on each side of my head that went past my ears and crossed in the back. And where it made the little diamond cross in the where the cross went in the back was my rat tail that came out. So mine were pretty daggone cool.

SPEAKER_07 51:29

I never had the crossing in the back, but I had the lines and then it went back to this sweet Kentucky waterfall mullet.

SPEAKER_01 51:35

I never did do the mullet.

SPEAKER_07 51:37

Yeah, you miss it out.

SPEAKER_01 51:41

I always wanted those real tight fern mullets, though.

SPEAKER_07 51:43

I did have the line eyebrows. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 51:48

Did you have no you couldn't?

SPEAKER_01 51:50

I think I did it maybe one time.

SPEAKER_07 51:51

You went through a vanilla eyes phase pretty hard there. So how and when would you like to die?

SPEAKER_03 52:02

How and when would you like to die?

SPEAKER_07 52:04

That's a hard question. Not for me.

SPEAKER_03 52:07

Well, what's your age?

SPEAKER_07 52:08

Straight up. I want to die at the age of 80 in my sleep. 80 is plenty enough. Like, honestly, I mean I I I always thought like 50 to 60 previously, but now that I'm getting closer to that age, 80 is maybe more appropriate. I feel like 75 to 77, and no offense to anybody, but then at that point is where you start needing help with other people. You know what I'm saying? Other people to help you with things. I don't want to be a burden at any point in time to anybody, especially like my kids. So 80 in my sleep, I'm good. Let's just do it.

SPEAKER_03 52:44

I'd have to say I think I would want to go when, like you said, when you're starting to become a burden. But you know, because like I look at my my my mom and dad. I mean, my dad's eighty-six and he wouldn't know it. And my mom is eighty, she's eighty-one.

SPEAKER_05 52:59

That's pretty rare.

SPEAKER_03 53:00

Yeah, and it is rare. And then I mean, but you know, mom, you know, she was talking the other day. I mean, like, she's really told a big difference because my mother fell down about 14 flights of stairs. So she was very fortunate that because she like cracked part of her back, her pelvis, her sternum, you know, and for her at her age, she bounced back better than what you know a lot of people would do. But I'm like that. Once I became a burden, if I were if I was able to get around and live on my own and do stuff, I'd be fine to get. I mean, you look at Eileen.

SPEAKER_04 53:32

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 53:33

You know, Eileen's what in her 90s, you know, and she's still going strong. The guy that how old was the guy from church that passed when he passed away, Harmon Daniels.

SPEAKER_01 53:42

10.

SPEAKER_07 53:43

But now also 100 or 101. I feel like at 80 I've got a good shot of not outliving any of my kids.

SPEAKER_03 53:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 53:53

Because I don't want to go through that either. No. You know. So I think 80s.

SPEAKER_03 53:57

But I think too, like you said, just go to sleep and just not wake up. I think that would be the best thing.

SPEAKER_07 54:04

I want to die at 80 flying an airplane. Oh my god. Full of passengers. No. Stop.

SPEAKER_03 54:12

I always heard the weirdest thing, and I don't know if you heard the if I was always afraid because I would have dreams like you were like in a car wreck, like he was in the process of a car wreck, or I had a I had that dream and I never will forget it. I was in a plane and it was crashing, and then I woke up like right before it crashed, and I always heard, and I've that if you dream, if you see yourself die, you die. And that's I was always afraid, like, to dream of that. Like, I don't know who told me.

SPEAKER_01 54:39

I've always heard that too. Did you ever if you die in your dream, you actually die?

SPEAKER_03 54:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 54:44

Or if you dreamed a baby was born, somebody was gonna die.

SPEAKER_01 54:48

I don't know. I've never heard that one. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 54:50

Really? No, I've always been told if you've had a death of the family, somebody's going to have one.

SPEAKER_07 54:56

But see, like the if you die in your dream, you die and you're you die in your sleep or whatever. Like, how many times are you asleep and like about to die? Yeah, that's why I did that the other night.

SPEAKER_03 55:07

I was sitting there and I had some dream. Somebody was like chasing me or something.

SPEAKER_07 55:10

And I was that thing where like you wake up and you're like pinned to the bed and you can't move and it's like you can't scream or nothing. Yeah. I used to do that a lot.

SPEAKER_01 55:18

I do wake up sometimes after a dream, yeah, believing it. Like I've been mad at Katie before me too. Over something I've dreamed.

SPEAKER_03 55:28

He did. He woke up one morning and he was sitting there and me. He was kind of like biting my head off and stuff, and I was like, straight up.

SPEAKER_01 55:34

Who's Earl?

SPEAKER_03 55:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 55:36

I was like, That's usually what it is.

SPEAKER_03 55:39

What did I do? You know, and he's like, I had this dream that you were cheating on me. And I was like, I've been laying here all night long. I was like, What did I do?

SPEAKER_07 55:49

That's hilarious, though. But now the weird. I mean, I've had some pretty realistic dreams. Like, yeah, and then you wake up and you're like, was that real? Like, should I be mad?

SPEAKER_03 55:59

I had a dream one time, I never forget when I was a kid, and it was I don't know why it has stuck with me, but I had the weirdest dream that I was a Hershey bar. And I was running around in this Hershey bar, and people were trying to eat me, and I was screaming and trying to run away from 'em. And I but I don't I mean, I was like, I will never forget that dream. I mean, it has stuck with me for years. My dream of a Hershey bar. I was like, this is weird.

SPEAKER_01 56:26

So when you jerked up like that a minute ago, it made me think. Never are you more awake than when you're late for work and you wake up.

SPEAKER_05 56:37

Like straight up, just and that's pretty much me every day.

SPEAKER_01 56:41

It's like I wake up and my eyes like they almost bulge out. I'm so awake. And I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm late. Or you know, oh, I've overslept. I don't know why, but you're so awake when that happens.

SPEAKER_08 56:55

Or when you're laying there, what day is it?

SPEAKER_01 56:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 56:58

I've done that. I hate that. No, it's Friday. You've got to go to work.

SPEAKER_07 57:02

Dude, there ain't nothing no worse than waking up at like 6 a.m. on a Sunday thinking you're late for work. You jump up, get dressed.

SPEAKER_03 57:12

I know, Bluffrian. We've sitting there practicing at church, and we were like, I had my like something like this on, you know, and stuff, and we were all just practicing, and a c couple from church comes in and sits down and they're bringing their stuff in, and and they go and sit. I think I've heard this before. Yeah, and finally John listened to the channel.

SPEAKER_01 57:30

Yeah, I was like, Well, that's odd. They're gonna come listen to his practice.

SPEAKER_03 57:33

Yeah, and finally John was like, You do know it's Saturday, right? And I'm like, It is? We were like, Yeah, it's not Sunday, it's Saturday. But our dreams, the funniest dream, I think. It wasn't funny, it was weird. Like John, when we lived in Richmond, he had a dream one time, and he actually got up, it was like two or three o'clock in the morning, and it woke me up. And he was had gotten up out of the bed and went over and was in the dresser getting out his underwear. And I said, John, what are you doing? And he goes, I'm getting I'm getting ready. And I said, What are you getting ready for? Well, I gotta go to work. I said, John, go back to bed. I said, It's two o'clock in the morning. I said, You don't I said you're not going to work at two o'clock in the morning. He's like, No, okay, I gotta get ready to go to work. I was like, John, it is two o'clock in the morning. And he looks over at me, he makes eye contact when he looks at me. It was really freaky because it was like that look like nothing's there, you know. And he looks at me and he goes, Okay. And he lays his underwear down and gets back in the bed and lays down. And I asked him, I said, Do you remember any of that? And he's like, No, I don't remember any of that happening.

SPEAKER_07 58:47

How do your stories involve you and your underwear?

SPEAKER_01 58:50

No, I was getting it up to take a show.

SPEAKER_07 58:54

He's out here chasing Sasquatch through the neighborhood. Yeah. He said, I even called the Bigfoot Society or whatever, and I was like, Did you tell them you were in your underwear? Maybe that's why they didn't call you back.

SPEAKER_01 59:07

Not even on that. But I was thinking about it last night because I forgot to put that. We smoked pork today.

SPEAKER_08 59:19

No, uh I've never eaten this one again.

SPEAKER_01 59:23

Uh but last night I forgot to put it on and it's. Oh crap, I gotta put that butt on for coming over tomorrow. So I was out here last night, is what I was saying, thinking about that. It was the same situation.

SPEAKER_07 59:47

At least you got one, bro. I don't even got one.

SPEAKER_08 59:49

No, we don't.

SPEAKER_01 59:51

You don't have a butt? Uh oh, I thought you knew the smoker.

SPEAKER_06 59:56

A smoker, I got just got no butt.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:00

Well, he said the other day, he said he could hope nobody's saw him because he was sitting there running down through the subdivision chasing the trash man down in his underwear.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:09

No, I I had my shorts on leaning. That's all right. I just didn't have a shirt on.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:14

I'm an outside peer. Alright. So I don't care. Like outside off the porch. We were out there one night and I I went out there and I peed, and then she came out a couple minutes later and she was like, What are you doing? I was like, I just came out to pee. I looked over her and I said, You think that red light on their front porch is a camera facing this way to my neighbor? And she was like, Yep, yep it is.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:39

I was like, oh hey, how's it going? No wonder she's always so weird to me.

SPEAKER_08 1:00:48

It's because you ask her for a sandwich at the hospital.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:51

I did ask her for a sandwich when I come out of anesthesia. I was like, You got a sandwich in your pocket, I'm hungry.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:56

Well, that's like when John, when he had his sinuses operated on, it's the first surgery he had ever had. And we were sitting there in the recovery room, we go back there, and you know, John's pretty quiet and pretty nut docile, doesn't ever say anything. And that nurse, he had this tampon stuck up his nose because you know, trying to keep the bleeding and stuff, and that nurse comes up and is like, sir, you're gonna have to get up, you know, so we can see if you can go to the bathroom and stuff or we can release you. And I was sitting back there with him, and she said, Do you want me to help you get up? You know, and he goes, Why in the world would I need you? That's why my wife is here. And I was I looked over. I don't think he ever remembered saying that. I think he was still half out of it.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:39

He probably was.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:40

Yeah, it was funny. Any other questions we want to close this out with? I think we're we're getting close to what we're like I said, I don't have any more questions.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:54

Everything I've got is dead.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:56

How about one last thing for me then? What would you want your last legacy to be?

SPEAKER_01 1:02:19

I guess that I help the people.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:22

Help somebody personally I wanna be that guy that at my funeral there's like at least one person that you know, that guy is the reason I this, or that guy was the reason like he's like Yeah, that's what I'm reading. Yeah. If it if it's if it's that guy led me to church, or if that's that guy whatever. You know what I mean? Just something positive, really I guess.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:53

Casey that would be yours.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:59

Also, for people to walk by and say, Oh, he looks so good. You know they're gonna be like, he looks like crap.

SPEAKER_08 1:03:07

She survived him.

SPEAKER_07 1:03:09

What is it?

SPEAKER_08 1:03:10

I don't know. I guess that I was nice and took care of things. She was an old hand. I was an old hand, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:19

I think mine would have to be, even though because Leighton has told me this, I come across kind of abrasive with people or harsh.

SPEAKER_07 1:03:29

I I make that joke all the time.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:31

I'm like, you're abrasive and hard to like I I I do come across that way sometimes, but I hope people I think my what I would want people to know is that I do I do care, you know. I'm not I've told my mom this before. I'm not the most bloody. I don't show a lot of emotion, you know, about a lot of things. But I genuinely care, you know, and I'm like I just want people to be able to say she was honestly there and I knew it wasn't fake, you know, that she cared enough to talk to me or try to include me or you know, and that did make a difference. Because I think that's a lot of people's problems. I think that there's a lot of people that would they would get involved, they would do things, but they don't feel like they fit. You know, and they just need somebody to make 'em feel like that they fit. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:04:23

I mean, not not like changing subject or nothing like that, but anyway. Um I mean, I felt a lot that way. Like when we first started coming to to church over here and stuff. And literally, like, I mean, I knew some people in the church and it I just kept staying, you know. But when you come up to me that day at the cookout and started talking about we started talking about mini trucks, and I was like, okay, this guy might be okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:45

What brought that on was that tattoo you?

SPEAKER_07 1:04:47

Yeah, one of my tattoos you saw.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:50

So I wished I could find that picture of my old truck, but I looked through our stuff the other day and I never could find it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:00

I thought there was one in that chest.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:02

Wouldn't it be funny if I had a picture of it?

SPEAKER_01 1:05:04

It would be. It'd be weird if it was yours, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:11

Well, I think though, I don't think John yourself, I think you don't give yourself a lot of credit because on things, and I think your legacy would be with the with the kids and stuff, because there's a lot of kids that I've talked to that you just your attitude, you know, with them and stuff. You've I think made more of an impact on them than you think, you know.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:35

Well, I hope so.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:37

Mine would be to be as popular as Mr. A.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:42

Don't everybody wish that. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:44

He that day we were before the ark and he was like, you can't go nowhere. And then we run into somebody I knew at the arc, and I was like, dude, it's just as bad with Mr. A. It's not even. Like you he's like, Yeah, but mine are kids. I was like, I hear it from the world. It's multiple generations of kids though.

SPEAKER_08 1:06:01

That worked. My kids love your youth, Pastor Mr. A.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:06

They love him so much, come church over. But any words of wise wisdom they want to close out with?

SPEAKER_01 1:06:16

I don't think so.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:20

John, at Hall, you got anything over there? Words of wisdom?

SPEAKER_07 1:06:25

I I think it's pretty much been a done deal here, wrapped up. Um, I know sometimes John likes to close out with a verse, but I don't think he's got anything prepared.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:34

I didn't bring anything with me this time, and guess what? My phone's dead.

SPEAKER_07 1:06:37

And his phone's dead. So I can't even. So falling back to that, bring a charger.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:42

John Aver's life advice, bring the charger.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:45

I will say that this has been the longest episode we've ever recorded. We're currently at about an hour and six minutes. It's gonna be okay. Yeah, it's alright.

SPEAKER_08 1:06:56

It's been fun.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:57

My face hurts from life and like I said, just remember John's juicy butt.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:03

How could we forget it?

SPEAKER_03 1:07:06

I think we have a title.

SPEAKER_08 1:07:07

We got it.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:08

I think Katie told that to some one of them old ladies out at church when I made that for a fundraiser or something. I did.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:15

I told it, I told it. Well, I won't I won't say who well I can say she made Debbie Gillam. And she was talking about how good the pork was. And I said, Well, I said, just remember John's juicy butt. I said, it's always good. And she started dying laughing.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:35

Mr. Ray, you're so red right now.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:39

You need to start an underwear line. That could be your juicy buttons.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:44

It's already been started. I'm pretty sure I see it in the store.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:47

I ain't got no butts, so mine would have to be like a thong line. You could have the juicy butts and I could have the tongs. Yeah. See what I did there. All right. That's been this episode. I'm John Hall. And I'm John Avery. And thanks for stopping by.

SPEAKER_11 1:08:05

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