Sour Patch Hour

28. Is it Break Time

Reeve Season 1 Episode 28

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Introducing our special guest, Sarah Cunningham.  (Reeve's outstanding wife. lol)

On today's episode we discuss all kinds of breaks.  Break time, Ice Cream Breaks, Camping Breaks, Bathroom Breaks, and Mental breaks (or breakdowns).

*Some adult language used.


SPEAKER_03

Hello, everybody. Welcome to another little show we call the Sour Patch Hour. This is Reeve and Sean. And today we have a little guest, someone that keeps me in line almost constantly.

SPEAKER_00

I was going to say I don't know that I'm a guest.

SPEAKER_03

You're a guest. We haven't had you on the Sour Patch.

SPEAKER_00

Nope, that's true.

SPEAKER_03

This is my wife.

SPEAKER_00

Sarah. Sorry. I didn't see the cue.

SPEAKER_03

Sorry. This is my wife, Sarah. And uh she's gonna sit in today and make sure that Sean and I don't talk about stuff we shouldn't. Keep you in line. No. So what should we talk about today, you guys?

SPEAKER_06

Oh no, we're gonna get silent.

SPEAKER_03

Well, it's been a busy ass week. We finally got the new machine that I've been I spent so much money on sitting here, and it had to sit here without being touched for a couple days because we didn't couldn't get to it. Well, today we finally got everything in line, and shebastian was able to cut a square anyway. Woohoo! A square. It's progress. And it's very it's uh aggravating to me because I've I've got a table that's very archaic, old. No, it's not, it's just old school. Yeah, old school, archaic is old school and uh easy to use, and now technology easy makes it so much harder just to move from here to there. So Sebastian said he was gonna go home and watch some videos on how to do some things, and hopefully he does. Otherwise, we'll do it tomorrow, I guess. Lucky guy. I told him he's gonna have to teach me because I don't have the patience to sit and do that kind of shit.

SPEAKER_06

I don't blue blue-collar guys and computers just don't I don't even do email very well.

SPEAKER_03

I can't if somebody sends me something that says forward, I don't even know how to forward something.

SPEAKER_00

That's probably why you keep me around.

SPEAKER_03

Well, no, I like other parts of Ethan Springs. I keep you around.

SPEAKER_06

I think I think one thing maybe we should start up with our uh with our fan base is uh reading questions from the audience.

SPEAKER_03

You have some?

SPEAKER_06

Uh absolutely. I don't know. But I mean, if they want to email in some questions, we've tried uh if they will.

SPEAKER_03

I've I've I checked the email yesterday and still nobody nothing, you know.

SPEAKER_06

So nobody wants to know anything about us.

SPEAKER_03

They don't care so much, I don't think. They just like to listen.

SPEAKER_06

Kind of hurt.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I agree. They don't probably if they're listening, they're working and they're not at their computer to sit down and write a question.

SPEAKER_06

Now that Sarah's on the show, now we'll get the questions. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

They're gonna question my sanity. Is that a lot of that? Is that what they're gonna question?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Well, they're gonna they're gonna say, How do you go to Sturgis with these two numerons?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. I do question that a lot. A lot, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

We uh to this is the week we get to spring forward.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, yeah. I seen that. I didn't I didn't even know until this morning. I was watching the news and I was like, oh, Sunday, uh I seen that yesterday, so that's yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Lose an hour of sleep.

SPEAKER_06

The big exciting thing when uh when I was younger was oh, the bar should stay open an extra hour. That's actually doesn't that happen at uh uh one o'clock? Midnight. Midnight.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, so you'll lose an hour. You won't gain an hour this time.

SPEAKER_06

In the spring oh yeah, in the spring spring forward. So yeah, in in the in the fall, he's fall back. And you should be able to drink an extra hour at the bar.

SPEAKER_00

I don't did they ever do we ever do that? I don't remember. No, we never did. We I don't think Low Ledge does it. I don't think so.

SPEAKER_06

I don't think a bar has ever let me stay in there an extra hour. I don't remember unless it was uh a little hole in the wall bar.

SPEAKER_00

They would have anyway, whether it was right for it. No, we didn't read. We we figured people were in there plenty long enough. Drunk enough by the time and we were tired of them.

SPEAKER_03

Everybody get out. I get out, gotta poop. Yeah. Um uh I remember there's a bar over by it was it what St. Bernard over here? St. Ben, yeah. St. and like by Lindsay. Yep. There's a guy that owned a bar over there, and when the smoking ban came through, yeah, he did not give two shits.

SPEAKER_06

Oh, yeah, there were a lot of small town bars like that that they said, no, I don't want to lose my customers.

SPEAKER_03

And you know what?

SPEAKER_00

Believe it or not, that affected it. Yeah, very much so, yeah. Yeah. A little bar like that, it's it's like a handful of people, nobody nobody's gonna join anybody in or rat anybody out.

SPEAKER_06

Unless a cop comes walking in and the cop probably sits there in the bar too and smokes with him. Yeah. You'd be surprised.

SPEAKER_00

Pretty sure that was the same one that played poker all the time and they didn't worry about hiding the money under the table.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, probably. Yeah, yeah. I don't even know what the jabbar was named. I don't either. I think the guy that owned it died or something. If I I I might have that completely wrong, but I think he died. He was an old guy. Yeah, I think, and he ended up dying.

SPEAKER_00

That's uh I that's one that uh we've never even been to. No, we have never been there.

SPEAKER_03

Is it? I don't know.

SPEAKER_06

I've never been to it either.

SPEAKER_03

So I might I might be wrong about him dying.

SPEAKER_00

I don't even I don't know. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03

I but yeah, we've never oh I lost a snap on my damn shirt. Snap!

SPEAKER_00

I hate that that's a new shirt. What the hell have you been doing?

SPEAKER_03

I didn't wear a jacket today because I wasn't welding. So he was working so hard he busted his buttons. He said, I ate too much for lunch. One or the other.

SPEAKER_00

What did you have?

SPEAKER_03

I didn't have anything.

SPEAKER_00

Oh well, see.

SPEAKER_03

So he didn't eat too much.

SPEAKER_06

Well, now that's point proven. You work too hard today.

SPEAKER_03

Well, I sat in here, Sebastian took a lunch break, so I sat in here and talked to him for lunch.

SPEAKER_00

So just because you didn't eat doesn't mean you didn't take a lunch.

SPEAKER_03

No, this is true. Yeah. I took an hour, I'll say that. I had to get my sanity back.

SPEAKER_00

I don't know. Does your boss allow lunch breaks?

SPEAKER_03

I well, I kind of have to now that I have somebody working for me full time.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, but your boss doesn't allow lunch breaks.

SPEAKER_03

I did I didn't ask her, so I just said if she finds out, I ain't gonna care too much.

SPEAKER_06

It's it's interesting how your day changes when you got a full-time person around.

SPEAKER_03

Well it does.

SPEAKER_06

Because they want to take that hour break and and you know when we're working on it. Exactly.

SPEAKER_03

They're tight, and we never tightened up about it, you know.

SPEAKER_06

No, the the guys I got working for me, they're like, you know, I'm so used to my other job where we got a half an hour break here and and we take breaks there, and I'm like, you fucking take breaks all day. You take it. Yeah, you're smoking cigarettes, you're taking phone calls, and those kind of add up too. And uh so now we've gotten into this routine of taking lunch every day, and and we we take breaks throughout the day where we just sit and kind of think about something and just sit there, and then the conversation leads to other shit. And we're sitting there and we're talking, next thing we know, we look 45 minutes. It's been 45 minutes, so don't know that you don't get your 15-minute break.

SPEAKER_03

And they do that on purpose. They they know that you get Sean talking, then it'll be and actually Sebastian's really good about he comes in, he starts working, and I've I have yet to see him on his phone, to be honest with you, maybe once, twice. And so he's usually working. And when I hired him, I gave him the option of you know, if you want to take like two 15 minutes breaks throughout the day and take a half hour lunch, or if you just want to take an hour lunch, I'd rather, you know. And he said, Let's do an hour lunch and we can work all day that way. So yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Sometimes when you take a break, you forget what you're doing, it slows you down, it slows your way down.

SPEAKER_03

And we don't, it's not like we hunt the dog so hard, or it's not like we're on a line where you're constantly moving and you want to take the get away from it. Right. Like you said, plenty of breaks in between, and we'll bullshit once in a while just to like you said, you're talking about something you're doing, and then it leads into a longer conversation than what you thought. And today at lunch we got to talking about religion, and it took we took a lot longer lunch hour than what we usually do.

SPEAKER_00

You're supposed to stay away from religion and politics.

SPEAKER_03

So him and I were on the same page. So our bar our bike shop should be opening hopefully within the next week or so.

SPEAKER_00

So I'm customer number one.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, no, Elizabeth. Oh, Elizabeth. Oh, yeah, I see the post. Elizabeth is number one.

SPEAKER_00

Do not tell her that.

SPEAKER_03

Her boyfriend thinks I spoil her.

SPEAKER_06

So are they gonna build you a motor?

SPEAKER_00

Me?

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

No, I don't need one yet.

SPEAKER_06

Oh.

SPEAKER_00

I got it.

SPEAKER_06

I thought you were gonna get a souped-up motor with uh maybe a turbo on it. Oh, geez. Supercharger.

SPEAKER_00

No, it's already although what did what do I have? 65,000 miles? It's probably gonna get there, yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Of course, you know, Mr.

SPEAKER_06

You don't hot rod it though. No, I don't. No.

SPEAKER_00

But Mr. Throwaway thinks that means new bike, and I'm like, yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_03

I I think she need I I think she deserves a new bike. She rides all the time. So I think she deserves a new bike. But I can't get if she if I don't buy it for her, she's not gonna get it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

I wouldn't have this one if you didn't buy it for me. So I know.

SPEAKER_03

But the problem is if if she's not part of the decision, I might buy the wrong bike because she's so short that it's hard to fit her on a proper bike. Yeah. So I can't really pull. I was dumb when I bought her this bike, not thinking I would I mean I thought it was low enough the way it was, not thinking that the way that when you sit on a Harley, your legs are so far apart that she, you know.

SPEAKER_06

Oh yeah, yeah, that makes a difference too. So we've taken a lot of you just buy her bike, take it straight to exotic customs.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Get the airbags on it, and that way this bike here has bags on the front and the back. So it makes a big difference. That doesn't help her. I mean, it helps her some. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Next is reverse.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. See, that's see that's that's the reason I want to get her a new bike. Yeah. Is because her bike is too old because they sell them reverse kits now.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

And if we got her reverse, she would be right up town because she can her problem is she can get her feet down, but she ain't got enough op with her legs away or to push the bike. There's gravel there.

SPEAKER_06

Oh, yeah. Gravel really screws you up. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_03

So if if we got her a new newer bike, you could put that reverse kit on there, and then she'd be right up town. She she'd probably get rid of me if I got a reverse.

SPEAKER_00

I almost have. So reverse or reeve.

SPEAKER_06

Reverse or reveal.

SPEAKER_00

See? So maybe you better just leave things alone.

SPEAKER_03

You need you still need me to pull the camper.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, that's right. Okay. Yeah, I'm not gonna do that. There's always a purpose. I'm not gonna do that. He he can, yeah, I've got to keep it right.

SPEAKER_03

If you get rid of me, then you gotta put up another young buck that thinks he can pull a trailer, and you know I'm a I'm the god when it comes to pulling that camper.

SPEAKER_06

He should have been a truck driver.

SPEAKER_03

Probably should have.

SPEAKER_00

Or so he thinks, yes, yes.

SPEAKER_03

Breaker breaker. I've got to take a big 200. I would pull over a lot to do that. That's for sure. Get out. Get out.

SPEAKER_00

Old age equals many stops. Yes.

SPEAKER_06

Well, I got the big old get out. Did you today? Yeah. Well, not today, but uh yesterday. And uh so I, you know, I got out, and I let her be and and had I had a couple phone calls to make, and then she's daddy, daddy, come here, come here. I need your help. And so I go in there and I'm like, okay, oh god dang, girl.

SPEAKER_02

She ripped one.

SPEAKER_06

You are so cute. How are you so stinky? And she she has the saying of no looking, no laughing, no talking.

SPEAKER_03

That's right, you told me.

SPEAKER_06

And so she tells me that, and I'm like, okay, you know, whatever. Get up. And so she gets up off her potty chair, and this turd had to have been like an inch and a half to two inches around.

SPEAKER_05

And I'm like, Holy cow, what the hell? This had to hurt.

SPEAKER_03

No wonder, yeah.

SPEAKER_06

I'm like, do you feel better? And she goes, Yes. And I said, Well, I'd hope so. And so we I even had to take a picture and send it to Bruh. I was like, Look, our daughter gave birth to Mr. Hanky here.

SPEAKER_03

She doesn't have the rule where you can't take a picture.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. So yeah, there's it's no looking, no laughing, no talking. It's not no taking pictures. So um so anyway, we we left. We had to go to the ice cream store. There's an ice cream store that I take care of, and uh their toilet wasn't flushing, so I had to rebuild the inners in the tank. So I took Whitney with me. This is another famous Whitney Go to Work with Daddy story. And uh I got it fixed in like 10 minutes, and the lady says, Okay, you want what do I owe you? And I said, Oh, such such amount. She goes into the back, brings cash out, and gives me cash. And Whitney's standing right there, and she goes, Get money, get rich, go to Las Vegas.

SPEAKER_03

She knows her dad really well.

SPEAKER_06

I'm like, oh my god, girl. Ever since we took her to Las Vegas for uh New Year's, she is just obsessed with Vegas. Anytime she sees a skyline of a city, it's Las Vegas. It could be Chicago, it could be, but it's Las Vegas. And I just thought, where did she, where did she get this in her head of get money, get rich, go to Las Vegas.

SPEAKER_00

Heard it somewhere, bro.

SPEAKER_03

Probably your mom.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

That that lady looked at me and yeah, and I said, we took her there for the for the ball game. And I said she has an infatuation with Las Vegas, and she goes, that explains it. She goes, I want to get money, get rich, and go to Las Vegas, too. No, we all. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Amen.

SPEAKER_06

But yeah, uh so that that was fun taking her to work with me that day. It was a quick, I don't know, 15, 20 minute job, but Whitney got some ice cream out of the deal.

SPEAKER_00

So she didn't want the ice cream.

SPEAKER_06

Oh, every time we go over there, that lady, if Whitney's with me, that lady loads her full of sugar. She has a whole buffet in there of toppings for the ice cream, and it's you know, you pay by the ounce or the pound or whatever.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, that sounds good.

SPEAKER_06

So uh, so you go around, you can she's got, I don't know, a dozen different machines, different flavors. And you go around and you can mix and match, or just do one bowl of this, and then you go to the buffet and you can put gummy worms on there, or you know, MM's, Reese's, whatever. And so Whitney just kind of every time we go in there, she's closed. And so Whitney kind of gets a walk around, and then the lady's like, Oh, do you want these uh cookie balls, cookie dough balls? Oh, do you want these strawberries? Do you want these gummy bears? Do you want these gummy worms? And I'm like, Oh god, stop it. You're giving her you're giving her sugar, and I'm hoping she takes a nap after we leave.

SPEAKER_00

She might crash at some point, though.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, she'll crash after mom comes home.

SPEAKER_00

Where's this place at?

SPEAKER_06

In Omaha. It's like a hundred and I think it's 168th and about Harrison.

SPEAKER_00

Kind of like that one I took you to instead.

SPEAKER_06

It's called Yo Yo Berry.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, yeah, yo-yo. Okay. All right.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, it's really good. Their ice cream is.

SPEAKER_03

What was that place we went to in Grand Island?

SPEAKER_00

I think it's called Big Red Treats or something like that.

SPEAKER_03

I'll tell you what, that was I wish I wasn't a diabetic. I could almost live in a place like that. Yeah. I love ice cream. Yeah. My stomach doesn't like ice cream. And your blood sugar does not like ice cream. Yeah. Gosh, now I'm thinking about ice cream.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Me too.

SPEAKER_06

I guess what you guys are picking up on the way home. Probably not.

unknown

Again.

SPEAKER_06

We had the one here in town that did that. Uh you could buy ice cream by the pound. It was in the 30 Center Mall.

SPEAKER_01

And that didn't last a year or so.

SPEAKER_03

Wasn't wasn't that that was yogurt though, or something? Frozen yogurt.

SPEAKER_00

Well, it was, but the same philosophy. And they had one in the mall up in Norfolk at one time, too.

SPEAKER_06

Oh, yeah, yeah. I remember that too. I think they were the kind of the same one, I think. Because the inside of the places both kind of looked similar.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, yeah. But leave it to Columbus to kill someone.

SPEAKER_06

Is yogurt better for you?

SPEAKER_03

I don't know.

SPEAKER_06

Does your does your stomach handle it any better? It's still a dairy. It's still a dairy. Oh.

SPEAKER_00

Mm-hmm. So it's better for some people, but not with our diabetic-wise, is it better for you?

SPEAKER_03

No. No. No, still plenty of sugar in them things. But it doesn't mean I don't like it. I remember when Sarah's in college, we used to be at frozen yogurt all the time.

SPEAKER_00

TCB Wow. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

I remember that. TCB. That's what it was. TC. I remember that, man.

SPEAKER_00

My roommate, Sarah, and I, that would be one of our treats. We'd go over there and what'd that ever stand for?

SPEAKER_06

Do you know?

SPEAKER_00

The country's best yogurt.

SPEAKER_03

Oh. I never knew that. I never knew that either.

SPEAKER_00

TCBY.

SPEAKER_03

The country's best yogurt. Is there any around anymore?

SPEAKER_00

I have no idea. I have not ran into one in years.

SPEAKER_03

So I can't remember seeing one for quite a few years.

unknown

Wow.

SPEAKER_00

We wouldn't like we will not say how many years that was.

SPEAKER_03

So yeah, but that TCBY and Da Vinci's when we'd get drunk and they delivered. Cheesesteak hoagies. And they delivered them. God dang there. We had a lot of cheesesteak hoogies. They were cheap.

SPEAKER_00

I mean, college student budget year.

SPEAKER_03

They were good. They were like greasy as well. They were just so awesome. We we drove by Da Vinci's the other day when we went to Lincoln. And she's like, I remember going there, man.

SPEAKER_06

Did you guys stop?

SPEAKER_03

No. No. No. We went to okay. We're gonna not that anybody cares, not anybody's listening to this thing, but we went to the broken fork. Crazy fork. Crazy fork. You gotta try it. It's basically I think is what they're they're shooting for is uh baked potatoes. They're gimmicked their gimmick is baked potatoes, and then it's basically a loaded, but you get to pick what it's loaded with. Yeah, like I got a meat lover's, and so it was like sausage and ham and bacon, and Sarah got uh pulled pork, barbecue pork, barbecued pork on top of hers, and I mean it was I thought it was good. I love baked potatoes, that's a good idea. And they were huge, big, big yeah, it came out. I mean, like, you know, like if you go and you go to like a bar and they bring you out a thing and it's got a boat, a boat, and it's got a bunch of, yeah. I mean, well, not a boat, a basket.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, it was okay. Yeah, basket.

SPEAKER_03

And it's uh full. Oh wow, yeah. It was good.

SPEAKER_00

Plenty to eat for sure.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, yeah. And baked potatoes, they do fill you up, especially when you throw all those toppings on there.

SPEAKER_03

And then, and then somebody like me once that starts. See, I there are there are different sugars that affect affect different people in different ways. Yeah. Starch hits me. Uh I mean, hard. Oh, and potatoes are full of starch. Yep, and but they're good, man. I've I'm an Irish. I'm Irish. I love potatoes, I love mashed potatoes. I love potatoes.

SPEAKER_06

That's one thing we don't make hardly ever at home is baked potatoes, and I don't know why. I mean they take they take a while to make. I mean, they take a long time to make.

SPEAKER_03

Sarah got to where she could make her in the microwave in about four.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. Yeah, there's there's a way to do that. But and corn on the cob too. You can do that in the microwave. That turns out pretty good.

SPEAKER_03

But I remember trying that. I remember growing up, my mom doing baked, you know, wrapping them in tin foil and throwing them in the oven. And I remember that.

SPEAKER_00

They take a long time to cook in the oven.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. I remember doing that though. Yeah, now that you say that, it kind of like one of the memory things where it's like, I don't remember mom. And then you you wrap it and then you poke it full of holes and throw it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Got memories things.

SPEAKER_06

You forget there was one of the vendors up in uh Sturgis last year or the year before that had smoked baked potatoes where they put them in a smoker. That was a barbecue place. Yeah. Oh. And they had baked potatoes that they'd put in their smoker, and you'd have kind of that smoky taste and have a small. How would it get inside? Well, again, you poke holes and cook. I hear you. Let that kind of seep in there. Yeah. But uh was it good? Oh yeah, it was it was really good. But they kind of had that can't that same concept to where you could order that baked potato and then put pulled pork on it or you know, whatever rib meat. And uh yeah, it would it was good. Yeah, it was good. But I think a baked potato was like twenty bucks.

SPEAKER_00

Well, I wasn't yours was fourteen.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, fourteen. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

But I mean it was a full meal. I mean burger and fries would have been more probably more than that.

SPEAKER_03

So it was decent. I'd I'd recommend it to people. Yeah. Yeah. We usually go if we go, she's always had a yinkrin for the country kitchen. Yeah, no, that's Omaha.

SPEAKER_00

What are you in Lincoln? What are you talking about?

SPEAKER_03

I just said that's when we go to Omaha. I just shifted gears. I said, Oh, I made a mistake.

SPEAKER_00

My brain didn't go with you.

SPEAKER_03

I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_00

I I said that's been closed for a long time though.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Well, is that one that one is closed? Yeah, they're both closed. Are they really? Yeah, yeah. Country buffet. Country buffet.

SPEAKER_06

Oh, country buffet. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, there was one on center. There used to be one on center, and there used to be one on Dodge. Both.

SPEAKER_03

The one on Dodge closed a long time ago. But the one we used we hasn't been that long ago we went to the one in center, is it? Yeah, it's probably.

SPEAKER_06

We still have Denny's in uh Omaha.

SPEAKER_03

Isn't is that not popular anymore?

SPEAKER_06

You don't find them very often anymore. Really? But yeah, there's one, I think, in Omaha. And I gotta take Whitney over there and introduce her to that because we go to Village Inn. And uh that that's another one of our stories of the week. But uh she did she loves waffles.

SPEAKER_00

Amen. Good girl.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, and so and bacon. Yeah, so uh I I took her to Village Inn, and that's what she has every time we go there. She has a waffle and a slice of bacon. And so we sat down and and she did this the last time we went there. Beef the waitress comes up and asks us what we want to drink. And uh so she says, Well, what can I get you? Meaning the drinks. And Whitney looks right at her. Waffle, bacon now. The waitress starts laughing. She's like, I guess she's hungry. And I'm like, Yeah, she acts like she never eats. But uh, but yeah, the waitress brought brought out her waffle and bacon, and before the plate even hits the the table, Whitney grabs the bacon off of there and she's got it in her mouth.

SPEAKER_00

But I that's what I eat anymore is bacon and more bacon.

SPEAKER_03

So bacon's about the only thing Sarah can eat without getting sick. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Whitney is a big fan of it.

SPEAKER_03

Sarah's allergic to dairy. Oh. So anything she can't eat cheese, she can't milk, she can't nut anything that has dairy cream that stinks. It sucks. We used to eat a lot of sour cream. We used to buy the big tubs of sour cream and big blocks of cheese and shit like that.

SPEAKER_06

Sour cream is so good on a baked potato, too.

SPEAKER_00

I cheated a little bit on that one, but that's my favorite part.

SPEAKER_03

She if she gets what it is that affects her joints real bad, where she feels all stiff and everything. Oh, really? And so what she does is if she eats it late at night, right before she goes to bed, then she goes, I'll sleep, I'll sleep.

SPEAKER_00

Otherwise, ibuprofen is the best you come up with.

SPEAKER_06

Because life is bland if you don't get how long does that usually last?

SPEAKER_00

Uh, I mean a few hours. She takes ibuprofen right away.

SPEAKER_06

And then so it's not something that lasts days on end.

SPEAKER_00

No, but until I knew it, I was eating a lot of cheese and dairy products.

SPEAKER_06

And you weren't figuring out what was causing.

SPEAKER_00

I couldn't figure out why I couldn't move.

SPEAKER_03

She was just she was just always like, oh God, I'm just tired. I just I just feel sore all the time. And she went to that one of them holistic people. Basically. And they they ran all these tests.

SPEAKER_00

We called I said she was a hippie kind of person.

SPEAKER_03

You know what I'm talking about. Like for men, they have the what do they call that? The men where they get their testosterone checked. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Women, it's the same thing for women. And my air compressor must be, or is that a car running? Yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00

I think it's your air compressor. Is it? I recognize the sound. Yeah, yeah, I think it's an air compressor.

SPEAKER_03

I must have a leak somewhere. Um, but uh, so yeah, since we turned 50, life has gotten pretty bland when it comes to food. Big time. I used I didn't realize I was uh allergic to I'm not allergic to lactose intolerant. I'm lactose intolerant. So I mean, no ice cream, you know, I still I still do my fair share of when I want it, I get it. So I just like Sarah said, if I if I'm ever backed up, Sarah always says, go buy some milk and just drink it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

I got into the habit, and it was a bad habit, of buying ice cream and then eating that, you know, as I'm watching TV before bed, yeah. I'd sit there and I'd eat a bowl and then I'd go to bed, and it adds a lot of weight on me. Uh that's not a good thing to eat before you go to bed. So I had to break that habit. It was ice cream. It was a hard habit to break because it was just like comfort food before bed, you know.

SPEAKER_03

I could do it.

SPEAKER_06

I can see why you'd like it. Yeah. I'd be going through uh the grocery store and I'd be looking at all their different ice creams and going, mmm, yeah, that sounds good. That sounds good. I'd be walking up to the checkout with like five different things of ice cream.

SPEAKER_03

Well, it's cheap enough you can do that.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. Yeah. So I I had to break that habit, and every once in a while I still have it.

SPEAKER_00

But uh it's a good treat, you know. Just make yourself.

SPEAKER_03

I used to get so mad at Sarah because there was five of us in the house at one time, you know, when the kids were younger, and she would insist on buying a half a gallon. I'm like, come on, get a gallon at least that we can have some ice cream.

SPEAKER_00

She never would do it. There was a reason.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, she didn't want me eating it.

SPEAKER_00

If it was there, somebody was gonna eat it. Right.

SPEAKER_01

God, I love ice cream.

SPEAKER_03

It's funny, we go to like Sonic or or usually Sonic, we always Freddy's has a really good ice cream. Uh-huh. But if you go to Sonic and you get a large, it's like it's huge. It's huge. Yeah. And so every time, every and we still do it. Sarah's Sarah will ask me what size you want. And I was come on. Yeah. Yeah. She just, I don't know why she asked. She knows I'm going to say large, no matter what. How bad?

SPEAKER_06

I'd say there's no such thing as a stupid question, but this is it's kind of ridiculous right here.

SPEAKER_03

You know that, right?

SPEAKER_00

There's there's a a reason.

SPEAKER_03

Sometimes I think maybe he'll, you know, smarten up and not even small to who is gonna eat a small. Not even exactly. Why even bother? Kids eat the small. That's like two scoops.

SPEAKER_06

Two mouthfuls, and you're done already, man. That small is not worth what I'm gonna go through. Exactly.

SPEAKER_03

And you don't get a girlish figure like me by eating smalls, let me tell you. This is bought and paid for. Exactly. I am almost I'm closer to death than I am to being birthed. So I get to eat what I want.

SPEAKER_00

Yes, and then every time your blood sugar shoots through the roof, you put yourself closer to death.

SPEAKER_03

Life assurance.

SPEAKER_06

Let's remember that.

SPEAKER_00

Sean, you you've never done those kind of things, have you?

SPEAKER_06

No, not at all.

SPEAKER_00

No, uh-uh.

SPEAKER_06

No near-death experiences ever for me.

SPEAKER_00

Um I hopefully lightning can't strike through here because I'm pretty sure that would be an incorrect statement.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah. Brooke would have uh several stories to tell you. She's like, oh god. At the beginning you didn't even have life insurance.

SPEAKER_03

We were just doing it because we were stupid and thought it'd be a cool death.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah. Well, if I die, I die. At least it'll be quick.

SPEAKER_03

Or you hope it is. That's all that's all you can ask for. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

There's a guy that works for me that I don't know, who knows how we even got in this conversation. I think I made mention of playing of equating something to Russian roulette. And he said, I know a guy that killed himself playing Russian roulette. I'm like, no shit. And he's like, Yeah, we, we were playing it. Or he said, I was in a group, they were playing it. He's like, I didn't want anything to do with it, but I was there and shot himself in the face, died.

SPEAKER_03

That wouldn't be something you'd want to witness.

SPEAKER_00

No.

SPEAKER_03

Well, you remember Sean, uh not Sean, that's Sean. Sam and David. Yeah, and you remember Glenn Mole? Uh the name. Okay. If you know anything about Glenn Mole, he's got a scar up his face. Now the story is, I don't know. You gotta remember, I talked to because of my they were my brother-in-laws. The story is they were in the backseat of a car playing Russian roulette, and Glenn pulled the trigger and the gun went off, and it tore off his face and everything. He he lived through the whole thing. I mean, it was brutal, but he it was think about sitting, he was sitting in the middle. Can you imagine that? I mean, you know, one of you is gonna get shot. Oh, you gotta, I mean, you gotta wanna die. Yeah, uh, there's no way around it. No, I again that was a story I got from them. Uh I've heard other people say that's not what happened. Well, I thought, well, I talked to the people that were there, but they say, well, we talked to Glenn, and he said this is what happened. So I don't know.

SPEAKER_00

I would imagine, and probably in the story I was told on the from this other guy too, I would imagine amounts of alcoholic beverages were involved.

SPEAKER_03

This is when Sam and David are pretty good drinkers, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. But still, I don't like those odds.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, I don't either. I don't think I've ever gotten drunk enough to say, No, let's put one bullet in a gun and pull a trigger and see who catches it, who eats it. If you're not ready to die, who are you trying to impress? Right.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

At the end of it, you really didn't impress anybody. Exactly. You're just picking up your brains.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. I don't know, I couldn't do it.

SPEAKER_00

I'm I know we've all been young and dumb at some point, but I've never been that dumb.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

That's all I got to say. Exactly.

SPEAKER_03

There is a certain amount of stupidity that some people try to exceed.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Yeah. They not mean.

SPEAKER_06

There was there was one particular guy that uh one of the guys that works for me, him and I both knew. I I knew him very personally. Uh, but he worked for Service Master and like cleaned up these suicide deals, you know. And uh he always said, you know, oh god, I can't see how anybody could do this to themselves, taking the easy way out, fucking chicken shit. And uh he ended up doing it. Really? Himself? Yeah. He uh in fact, it was a shotgun to his head. He pulled it with his toe. And uh to hell.

SPEAKER_03

This is a guy that worked for you?

SPEAKER_06

No, no, no. It was a guy that the guy that worked for me, him and I both knew him very good. And uh, yeah. Uh I found him in his head or in his house with uh shotgun shell that ran through his skull.

SPEAKER_03

I just couldn't I can't do it. Is it did you tell me the story one other time?

SPEAKER_06

I might have, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Was it a house that you were looking to buy?

SPEAKER_06

It well, later down the road, but I just didn't want to buy it.

SPEAKER_03

It was because it you had you had didn't you close have a connection to this guy?

SPEAKER_06

I was a family member. Okay, yeah. I'm I was trying to get around that without throwing you in the business. It was a it was a distant family member. But uh but yeah, I I just didn't want to redo that house. I didn't want to find other remakes and and it would just wasn't a thing you were willing to wasn't a situation I wanted to put myself in.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. So I don't know, man. It's it takes a certain person to want to well, I had to go get uh a psyche valve this week. Yeah, because they're putting that stimulator in my back. Now I don't understand why it drove them crazy. Well, I'll say Sarah's like, I'm next, I'm next. She actually was in there with us. She would uh the lady said, if your wife wants to come back with us, you can. It's like all right, I got nothing to hide from her. Well, it's funny because as as we hear kind of leaving, she goes, You this whole time she's as I'm we're talking, her eyes keep getting bigger and bigger. And as we're walking out, she goes, I'm not really taking new clients right now, but if you if you want to come see me, you can come see me if you want. And it's like, boy, I don't know how to take that. Yeah. She was pointing at Sarah, not you. That could be right, man. You know, so there's go ahead.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, I was just gonna say, we all we all both thought, why why psych evaluations, but yeah, I don't I don't get that part of it. She basically said it's something that in uh insurance has kind of gone to to make you just jump through another hoop.

SPEAKER_06

I wonder if my sister had to go through that because she's she has the same implant that you're trying to get in your back. Yeah, she has that in her back. Oh, but yeah.

SPEAKER_03

How long did she how long would she get it?

SPEAKER_06

It's been in there four years, maybe. Yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_03

And they could have changed, they could have changed it. Because I had never heard of it. I nobody had ever warned me that you've got to go do a psychic valve. And when we seen the PA for the doctor, and she's like, okay, now we gotta save with the psyche valve. I'm like, why? And her what she said was is they want to talk to you and make sure that you don't expect more than what you're actually gonna get out of this, and that people are kind of yeah, because quite honestly, if you're getting a stimulator, you're in some pain, right? And so if you're told that this is gonna help you and it doesn't help you, you could go off the deep end, and so they want to make sure that the people getting these stimulators aren't close enough to the edge that they're gonna, I guess, waste the stimulator. I don't know.

SPEAKER_06

Did you tell them how long you've been off the deep end?

SPEAKER_03

She, I think she figured that out.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, yeah, she figured that one out pretty quick.

SPEAKER_03

But that was that was uh that was an interesting meeting. There is honestly things and uh you keep in mind that these painkillers make me moody and very emotional when I don't see it coming. She asked me a simple question. Was it about my brother?

SPEAKER_00

I think I think so, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

A simple question about my brother that you know, my brother passed. I broke down. Um I was weeping like a little girl. I was like, what in the hell? And I think oh, she asked, is you know, tell me about your brother or something like that. And I just broke down, man. I don't even know where you're gonna be. It was like you were hypnotized, uh so it's like that room I was sitting on the couch, and and then the once I didn't pinch him or anything, so it was where did Sarah touch you? Show me on the dog where Sarah touched you. Um I and then here's the thing though, when once that damn breaks, it's so hard to keep yourself together because then we're talking about my parents, and we're talking, and so I'm the whole meet, I'm sitting, I don't I was like a little girl the entire fucking meeting. I didn't understand it. So so well a one-time meeting, and yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Reev Reeves looks at Sarah and says, get out.

SPEAKER_03

Well, the woman, the the the person doing she, I can't believe how honest you are. And your wife is, you know, basically I I my wife knows everything about me. She's not gonna hide anyway, you know. So I she was just so amazed that I was so honest. I was like, Well, if we're gonna do this, let's do it right, you know.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, I want the best results out of it. Exactly.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, so then she's thinking, oh, here's a special project I could work on.

SPEAKER_03

Money. I'm gonna put my kid through college on this one. Yeah, I don't know. I have mixed emotion about I mean, I would I think that there's a part of me that would be like, uh I could see me sitting and talking and discussing things, but there's also the other part is like why? I just I don't I don't get uh I don't I have let me let me put to it like this I can understand why people that has had a rough life have to see somebody talk to them like being abused and shit like that. Right. But somebody like me that has had a good upbringing and yeah, parents are still together. Well, my dad died, but they were together until the day he died. My wife takes care of me like a child, you know, and I I get to do whatever I want in my own business, I come and go as I want. I I have a pretty good life, yeah. So why do I want to go cry about anything? I just I think that let's just move on, you know. Yeah, but I can see where it'd be helpful to some people, I really do.

SPEAKER_06

People that own their own businesses need to cry.

SPEAKER_00

We've all done it. Amen. Some place to let the stress out and not punch walls.

SPEAKER_06

You would just say so. Drive out into the country and start screaming.

SPEAKER_01

That might help you.

SPEAKER_06

But it always sucks when Sasquatch yells back. It's like, oh fuck, I'm getting back in my vehicle. It's not that bad. No, I'm not turning into a jack link's beef jerky right now.

SPEAKER_03

You know, uh, when Tyler was here and he was big into Bigfoot for a long time. He I don't think he believes in it anymore, but there for a while he believed in Bigfoot. And he we even played it on the podcast where there is there's a guy, him and his buddies were in the middle of absolute nowhere in a campsite, and they recorded all this. To me, it seemed like a little bit of a setup, but to him, it was not.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, and it was a Blair Witch project, kind of kind of a deal like that.

SPEAKER_03

And they so they were sitting there and all of a sudden they heard like a screech like that, and they packed up and was gone. I hate the way I hate the way the story went. But they he they played the the sound, he played it on the we used to go back and find it somewhere in the podcast, but it was like a screech, really high-pitched screech. Uh and you could, I mean, if you I don't care who you are, even if it is a setup and you don't know you you'd be that'd make your balls draw up pretty tight.

SPEAKER_06

You gotta you gotta watch uh trailer park boys.

SPEAKER_03

I've watched that.

SPEAKER_06

They always call them a Sam scramps. And uh so Brooke, when her and I first started dating, uh she was driving back and forth from Dodge to Columbus, and she was going back one night and she absolutely swears that there was a Sam Scramps that ran across the road in front of her, and she had to slam on the brakes, and she saw this, and it was on on the road going from like Skylar up to the next highway up. And uh she says, I I swear to God it was it was damn Sam Scramps. And I'm like, No, it wasn't. What was it? And uh I don't I don't know. Maybe she is. Was it walking on two legs? She never I I don't know. But uh maybe someday we'll bring her onto the show and she can have you she can uh tell her story about it, but uh yeah, it I've given A lot of shit about that, and I just figure whatever.

SPEAKER_00

Did you know? I don't know if you talked to Tyler about this, that there is a big few foot museum in Nebraska.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, they actually have a convention every year. Yeah, in Hastings. Where is that at?

SPEAKER_00

In Hastings.

SPEAKER_03

Really? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, they have displays and all kinds of stuff from people.

SPEAKER_06

Oh man, that's the next thing I can do to freak Whitney out.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, they've had a chance.

SPEAKER_06

She'll be having nightmares. She won't ever want to go camping again.

SPEAKER_03

Speaking of, hey, did you do they have their show where you went to go look at campers yet?

SPEAKER_06

I didn't go to Lincoln's show. Uh I haven't really looked into that Omaha show yet. I've been so busy with everything going on that I think it's coming up.

SPEAKER_00

Or did they already have it? Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

No, it's shortly after the the uh Lincoln show. It's like two or three weeks after. So it's gotta be coming up. I was just saying, we're it's probably another week or two. Yeah. What's it called? Like the campaign.

SPEAKER_00

International boat sports and travel show.

SPEAKER_06

That's what it is.

SPEAKER_00

You missed it.

SPEAKER_06

I missed it.

SPEAKER_00

February 19th to the 22nd. Damn it.

SPEAKER_03

Now I'm gonna have to try extra hard to get that brand new toy all over here. Yeah, because you're when you know your wife ain't gonna go look.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Let's find you a different one.

SPEAKER_06

We noticed uh that new camper, camper world, maybe in Council Bluffs. Not a single camper there. Did they close?

SPEAKER_00

Was it Camper World or Lazy Days? Lazy Days.

SPEAKER_06

Um we drove past there yesterday. We went past there yesterday, and uh I was having a horrible day yesterday.

SPEAKER_01

Uh oh.

SPEAKER_06

I mean, everything that could go wrong was going wrong, and I was sitting at home.

SPEAKER_02

Not even at work.

SPEAKER_06

I wasn't even at work. I was me and Whitney, we were hanging out, and uh everything that could go wrong was going wrong, and at two o'clock I ended up at at the little sports bar by our house, and Whitney has uh one of the waitresses that works there, her daughter uh comes over after she gets out of school, and them two are like best friends. And it it was probably like 245. 245. We go past there, we're driving past there, and Whitney's like, I want to go see Emerson, I want to go see Emerson. I'm like, Yeah, daddy wants to go see a drink right now because this day has absolutely kicked my butt. And so we go over there, and I knew Emerson wasn't gonna be there until after three o'clock, and and the girl's mom said, Yeah, I'm gonna go pick her up here in about 15, 20 minutes. And so I ordered a drink, and I when Whitney and I go down there, and normally, you know, very rarely will I have a drink because I got Whitney with me. But uh, I knew Brooke was getting off work soon, and I was like, Oh yeah, I can tell Brooke to meet me down here, we'll have an appetizer, have something to eat, and then Brooke can drive her home. And uh so I sat there, I had two two whiskeys on the rocks.

SPEAKER_00

And I just you did have a hard day.

SPEAKER_06

This this whiskey that they have down there, they they ordered this bottle of whiskey for me and uh gave it to me as a gift, as a Christmas gift, and it's 99.5 proof. Is that what you're sitting here drinking one night? Yeah, no, no, no, that's not even close to this stuff. It's it's 50% alcohol. And uh I would you don't it tastes so damn good, it has like a walnut aftertaste, and it is very, very good. You don't mix it with anything, you just drink it on the rocks. But it's enough to give you a mini seizure or two. You take that first drink of it, and uh, but as you take more drinks, it gets easier to drink, you know. But I had two two glasses of that, and uh they were they were pouring them absolutely full. And by that second glass, I was I was feeling it really good, and I told Brooke, I said, Well, I need to run over into Council Bluffs. Uh, you're gonna drive. I'm not getting a DUI. And uh so we ran over into Council Bluffs, and as we were going around the interstate, I looked over there at that lazy days, and I'm like, it's completely bare over there. There isn't one company.

SPEAKER_00

I think it's completely closed. Yeah. When I was down there in December, is when I noticed it. So it's been closed for a little bit. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Huh. I wonder what happened there because a lot of people spoke really good about them. I mean, they gave good deals, and maybe that's why they maybe say maybe that's what happened.

SPEAKER_00

They're a nationwide company, just like Camping World is. So I don't I don't know.

SPEAKER_06

Other than maybe they moved. Yeah, maybe they got a different location around.

SPEAKER_03

Look it up. Maybe, I mean, maybe they got it, they maybe got a different location or something in somewhere else.

SPEAKER_06

They always had really nice campers there. I mean, they had a good selection. It wasn't just pull behinds or just, you know, they had a little bit of everything there, and it was all fairly new stuff. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

So I have the 411.

SPEAKER_06

Okay.

SPEAKER_00

They are permanently closed following a company-wide liquidation in late 2025.

SPEAKER_03

Geez.

SPEAKER_06

So they close all their locations, or since it's a company-wide liquidation.

SPEAKER_00

Well, all I can tell right now is that location is it does say the parent company Lazy Days liquidated assets. The Council Bluff site was not purchased by Camping World.

SPEAKER_02

Oh.

SPEAKER_00

So Camping World must have taken them over.

SPEAKER_06

Well, that sucks because Camping World sucks.

SPEAKER_03

Although that's where we go under Sturgis and we need something, that's where we end up going.

SPEAKER_06

Is that why it's called right there along the interstate in between Rapid City? There's two.

SPEAKER_00

There's Camping World and there's a it's called Jack's. Oh, yeah. So there's two there. Yeah. But Camping World's usually the easy, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

So speaking of DUIs.

SPEAKER_00

We were? Oh, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

I saw Britney Spears. That's what I was getting when you say Britney Spears got DUI.

SPEAKER_05

Last night.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, well, you know.

SPEAKER_00

She's a hot mess.

SPEAKER_06

She just sold all of her song rights and all that for I forget how many millions and millions of dollars. But uh, she was probably out celebrating that.

SPEAKER_03

Right up, man. I'd take a million. Anybody want to buy my rights? Millions.

SPEAKER_00

Cool, Mill, we're we're gone. You get it all.

SPEAKER_03

You get it all. I'll give you every story I got.

SPEAKER_06

There's like three of them, but did you see the lottery started a new game? They they've got this deal where you uh you can win a million dollars a year for life. All right, I'll be in. But it's five dollars a ticket. I'm in.

SPEAKER_00

So well, how many I mean a week is it once a week drawing or what?

SPEAKER_06

No, it's every day of the week. Oh shit. Every day of the week they do a drawing. And you can win a thousand dollars a thousand dollars a month, I think, is the next step down. Thousand dollars a month for the rest of your life. Well, it's still an extra 12 grand a year.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, it'd be a vacation, pretty good vacation.

SPEAKER_06

But yeah, I I don't know, five dollars a ticket though.

SPEAKER_03

If you play if you only played it once a week, you ain't gotta play it every day.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

I mean, that'd be no different than me buying five Alani's when I go play.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. But it gives you a chance at a million dollars for the rest of your life.

SPEAKER_00

What's a what's a I think that's what it is.

SPEAKER_06

It's either a million dollars a year or a million dollars a month.

SPEAKER_03

Jeez, well if it's a million dollars a month, I'm paying every fucking I'm gonna look it up right now what it is. It's fifty-two million dollars a year.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

What was what's what's the two? Those it's the Powerball and uh what's the other one?

SPEAKER_06

Mega millions.

SPEAKER_00

And that one went up to five bucks.

SPEAKER_06

Did it?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, it's five dollars. That's why everybody went to that's why everybody was now playing uh Powerball instead, because Powerball is only two dollars.

SPEAKER_06

Okay, millionaire for life. You get a million dollars a year for life, cash option is eighteen million dollars.

SPEAKER_03

I dig it.

SPEAKER_06

Uh then you get a hundred thousand dollars a year for life. That's the next step down, not it not a thousand dollars a month.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

So that's even better. Yeah. But yeah, nobody's even came close yet. Uh there were three winners of two hundred and fifty dollars. That's three out of five numbers plus the MB. I'm guessing. Is it a different drawing?

SPEAKER_03

Is it a different drawing, or what's it what drawing is it under? Like not megamillions or powerballs. It's a whole other drawing.

SPEAKER_06

It's a whole nother drawing. It's Nebraska Millionaire for Life, is what it's like.

SPEAKER_03

That's it. I'm playing. So where do I play at?

SPEAKER_00

Probably any place in the water. Any gas station, I guess.

SPEAKER_03

Dang, son. Come on, man. I mean, think about even horrible odds. And you win, and they say we'll give you$18 million to walk away. Hell yeah. Because I would end up with$9 million. I could live on$9 million. Because by the time you pay taxes, you know. I might even be able to buy a house with that.

SPEAKER_00

And in today's it'd be closed. I don't know. I mean, because we'd we'd need that five five level ten bedroom.

SPEAKER_03

Well, we yes. Well, it's all gotta be on one floor. That's a thing, because I can't go up steps anymore.

SPEAKER_00

It would pay off my camper.

SPEAKER_03

There you go. We can pay off the camper. Sean's Sean's playing right now. He's talking to Pam. I guarantee it.

SPEAKER_06

No, no. It was the guy that was trying to get a hold of me when uh we first started. And he's a buddy of mine from high school. We've known each other a long, long time and and uh haven't talked to each other in probably twenty years. And then ended up running into each other and catching up and now you're talking? Yeah, we've we've been hanging out and talking and at least it's so at least it's not an old girlfriend.

SPEAKER_00

I guess it's no so so uh old girlfriends know better.

SPEAKER_03

Do you do you do you think Pam listens to the podcast? I don't know. Pam, do you listen to the podcast? Email me. Tell us you're listening. I was gonna I was gonna say, if if she don't, tell us tell us one of the stories that you just got this last week that we called me about. Yeah, that you ran a stoplight talking to me on the phone about.

SPEAKER_00

Do we need to talk about Sean's driving habits?

SPEAKER_03

Or I was talking to him with all of a sudden I hear this somebody honking. I go, Sean, who's honking? He goes, Oh, I just ran a stoplight by accident.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, I did, and I waved at the guy. I'm like, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_03

I'm on the phone. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

I'm driving with my phone.

SPEAKER_00

Like a wooden local police department, please do not listen.

SPEAKER_03

They're too busy to listen to us.

SPEAKER_00

No, they're busy doing things they shouldn't.

SPEAKER_06

I've got a tenant of mine that that uh got a hold of me this week and he says, Have you ever had any issues with the lady that lives across the street and over to the west of me? And I said, No, I know she's got a shitload of cameras up around her house, but you're in town? Yeah. And I'm like, no, I haven't had any issues with her, I guess, but you know, my sister owned this house beforehand, and my sister had told me that she's kind of a pain in the ass. And he says, Well, I I was out just with my leaf blower and going around the foundation of the house, blowing all the leaves out and blowing them out towards the middle of the yard so that I'd have them all in a pile and pick them up, and she called the fucking cops on me. What? Because he was being noisy. And so he says, then a couple weeks goes by. I was outside, it was a nice day out. I opened up all the doors on my pickup. I was cleaning it out, washing the windows and vacuuming it, and I had my music playing. She called the cops on me for that.

SPEAKER_03

What do the cops say to him?

SPEAKER_06

It there's no sound or I mean, yeah, there's it's during you know, daylight hours. It's not like he's doing it. And he's like, I have all of this on camera, I wasn't doing anything wrong. Uh, but she has been a royal thorn in my ass. I've had the cops call on me probably eight times already, and he's only been there for three months, three or four months. And I'm like, I don't know, uh must be something you're doing. I I don't know, you know, because I've never had a problem with this lady. So I call my sister and I'm like, Have you ever had an issue with this lady? Because you lived there for like five or six years, and she's like, Oh yeah, this lady's a royal thorn in everybody's ass in the neighborhood. She goes, The people that live directly across the street from the rental house, uh, I'll send them a message to give you a call. They got all sorts of stories, and so this would be the house that's next door to this lady, yeah. And they call the lady called me, uh the girl that lives in the house calls me last night and she did, she had all sorts of stories. They had to go as far as going to court and putting a harassment protection order on this lady. And I'm like, Well, I'm gonna go to her house and I'm gonna knock on her door and tell her, you know, this is my source of income. Don't be scaring my tenants off. And she's like, Well, you could do that, but make sure that you have your phone on record from the time you pull up to her house to the time you leave. Because I went over there one time to go talk to her, just have a civil conversation with her, and she called the cops just because I knocked on her door and said I felt threatened. I felt like they were gonna abuse me in some way, and uh So she knows she's doing something mean. I mean she knows she's in the wrong, right, and I said, It sounds like this is just like a uh lonely old lady living in this house, and she's like, Oh no, she used she was from Platte Center.

SPEAKER_03

What's her name?

SPEAKER_06

And I I have no idea. But she said that she used to beat the hell out of her husband, and her husband has passed away since then, and maybe she took him to the cornfield. But uh but you know, he's passed away. She has three kids, two of the kids have nothing to do with her. The son still hangs around her, and uh and the son plays along with it, but she does not like noise, she wants to be the boss of the block.

SPEAKER_03

So the son the son sides with her every time.

SPEAKER_06

And she wants to be the boss of the block, basically.

SPEAKER_03

Why does it w my question is this why do people pay attention to her? So the cops are called, so what?

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, but she does it constantly, so where to where it interrupts your day constantly.

SPEAKER_03

So what? And it Because after a while, if you just don't give a shit and just keep doing it, let her keep calling the cops. Yeah, that's what I say.

SPEAKER_00

Sounds like she does it to everybody, so I mean I mean the cops gotta know her.

SPEAKER_03

But it's uh it gotta be annoy.

SPEAKER_00

I mean, it would be annoying. Why would I mean I understand? Why would you want to live there if if you're always getting a few cops are gonna walk up and say, hey, noise complaint?

SPEAKER_03

I'd go, okay, I'm gonna keep doing what I'm doing. It's the middle of the day. Yeah. And what are they getting they're not writing tickets, obviously?

SPEAKER_06

Well, so that neighbor across the street, she was saying that the the cops were getting fed up with it.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. They do, but it's not her voice.

SPEAKER_06

You know, they're they got better things to do.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. So So you're saying the cops are telling them to knock it off, or are they so they're side with the old lady too?

SPEAKER_06

So the cops finally they told her that she needs to knock it off. She needs to quit calling them because they got better things to do than worry about a leaf blower blowing or a guy listening to his car stereo while he's cleaning out his vehicle.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

And that's that's kind of what I mean.

SPEAKER_03

That's that's what I mean, is let her call. Go on.

SPEAKER_00

But they're probably still required to follow.

SPEAKER_03

They're required, but who who cares? That's their job. You know what? Hey, we got a race to point, just wave it off. That to me, to me, that would get under her skin faster than your skin. Right. If you act like, hey, buddy, how you doing? Because she's obviously watching everything that's going on, just say, hey, thanks for letting me know. Just let it, it'll burn her ass, or it'll burn your ass. Right. And then she'll wait, stay up all fucking night stewing.

SPEAKER_06

So I'm I'm not even I'm not even gonna go over there and go talk to her because I'm not gonna get myself involved in this. It's not my problem. But until it becomes my problem, I'm not gonna make it my problem.

SPEAKER_03

Why my my thing is this why aren't people calling her in on her being like that? What he needs to do, if it was me, I'd get a restraining restraining order on her too.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

I mean, why not? Obviously, they would grant him one because she's already a pain in the ass.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, there's already one against her.

SPEAKER_03

So just another one that way she can't. Who knows?

SPEAKER_06

Maybe some of the other neighbors have done the same thing.

SPEAKER_03

So then she can't do anything with him. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

I mean, it's too bad though, because you just get you get tired of dealing with it all the time, and you just I'm surprised that couple hasn't moved or something.

SPEAKER_06

I mean, yeah, well, they can't, they're in Elise, but no, I mean what's the on door?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Yeah. You watch these you watch these television shows about neighbors, and that's how people end up dead.

SPEAKER_00

Yes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

I mean, she wants to die. You want to meet my freezer? Get out.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. Get out of the neighborhood.

SPEAKER_00

That's why we want we're intrigued by permanently gonna put you here. We're intrigued by the advertising for that TV show neighbors. Yeah. I think it's on HBO, so we don't have HBO, but yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Maybe that's what I need to do. I need to charge the tenants so much per week to have lawn mowing service, and I go over there and like the yellow speedo and mow it.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, that's it. See what she says then.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, enjoy this belly. Embrace it.

SPEAKER_03

You never know, she might fall in love with you.

SPEAKER_06

Go go over there and like the uh uh what was his name? Uh the guy from Yorkistan or whatever. Uh Borat.

SPEAKER_00

Borat. Oh, Borat.

SPEAKER_03

Oh yeah. Go over there in one of those deals where it's over your shoulders and a little onesie. The people like that just brings the worst out on me.

SPEAKER_06

Call the cops on me. Yeah. I'm making noise over here. I got lawnmower going, I got the leaf blower going, I got the leaf blower between my legs blowing the leaves away.

SPEAKER_03

I just don't understand people like that. It blows my mind.

SPEAKER_00

I'm sure our neighbors don't care for us too much, but they can't call the cops. Exactly.

SPEAKER_03

We our yard looks like dog shit.

SPEAKER_00

It's not that bad, but it is not the best yard in the world either.

SPEAKER_03

And our we have a neighbor that I'm pretty sure what is today, March 5th, he'll probably start mowing this weekend.

SPEAKER_00

I mean, he Oh, as soon as it turns green, he absolutely.

SPEAKER_03

He got a beautiful lawn. I wish my lawn looked like his. I I I don't bitch about him because I wish I had that talent, you know, but I just don't have the will. I don't have the will.

SPEAKER_06

My neighbor that passed away, she she was from Vietnam, and she had a lucky bamboo plant. And the her kid, her son, gave it to me, and he says, you know, I'd like to give this to you for my mom. I'm like, okay, and so I kind of research on how to take care of this thing. I have no green thumb.

SPEAKER_02

I have no green thumb.

SPEAKER_06

Neither do I. And these things are hard to kill. Are they? Well, it's turning brown. You killed it. I've been watering this thing and trying to trying to keep up on it. That's funny. I there goes my luck.

SPEAKER_03

Maybe that but dude, you've always had good luck. Maybe you maybe I hope I hope your luck doesn't turn around, man.

SPEAKER_00

You've always had pretty good luck. Way better luck than us.

SPEAKER_03

Hey, I got a question. I'm shifting gears on you real quick. Just just popped in my head. Are we going to Las Vegas? No. Oh.

SPEAKER_06

Um, so just the opposite. We're going to Council Gloves.

SPEAKER_03

I heard today. Now, maybe I don't know, but Mark Sliva, is he not healthy? Is something wrong? I don't know. I heard he hasn't heard anything. I heard he hasn't pulled, he hasn't been driving for like four months. Is that because he's been having issues?

SPEAKER_06

No, he's had some pictures on Facebook of him driving.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, maybe who I was talking about. I don't know.

SPEAKER_06

I know he's diabetic. I was gonna say, I seen him. See, that's what it was about. He's not having any complications that's what it was about.

SPEAKER_03

They said they used to have complications from from like with blood sugars and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_06

And if you're a truck driver, yeah, you can't have that. No, you can't once you could pass out behind the wheel and cause an accident. Which is I hope that's not the case.

SPEAKER_03

I just kind of heard that to the great mind. Huh. So I just I knew that you talked to him more than I do. We just we seen him on Saturday. He was at the chili feed up in Pierce. Well, you guys talked to him more than I do. And he looked real thin. That's the reason I asked.

SPEAKER_00

He he's gotten thin.

SPEAKER_03

He's gotten real thin. But he came over and said hi.

SPEAKER_06

Well, he just lost his dad not too long ago, too. And so, you know, that the stress of that kind of can make a person lose weight and just loosely.

SPEAKER_03

He was pretty tight with his dad, too.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, he was. Him and Mitch both.

SPEAKER_03

I think all the kids were pretty tight with polka dot. Oh, polka dot. Everybody everybody knew polka dots.

SPEAKER_06

After their mom passed away, you know, that really brought the family a lot closer. It separated them for a while.

SPEAKER_03

When did their mom die? Hasn't been that many years ago, right?

SPEAKER_00

I think it's been longer than you think.

SPEAKER_03

Oh. Well, I don't think so because it's been five or six years.

SPEAKER_00

Well, that's that's not the least.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Well, I'm thinking that, but I because I remember that their mom was a nice lady too.

SPEAKER_06

She was a sweet lady.

SPEAKER_03

But was she?

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

I never met her.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, I I met her quite a few times.

SPEAKER_03

And because I just remember that during that period there was always one of the kids that was on the outs of the family.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, somebody was always fighting.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, and and I I had heard that mom was kind of helping direct traffic in that.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, she was kind of the glue that held everything together. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

So moms always do.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, they always do. Moms always do. Us fathers, we don't do nothing. Nope.

SPEAKER_06

But yeah, I I know Polka Dot was very loved by a lot of people. Oh yeah. I mean, it was a huge funeral. Was it? I didn't I didn't go to the funeral, but uh but I I talked to people that that did go and they said, man, it was a big funeral. But Polka Dot knew everybody, everybody got along with him. Uh he did a lot of cool things with his life too. And yeah, he was a and his kids know everybody.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, you know, because of him, I think. I mean so because he had a shop, didn't he? For a while, and everybody kind of comes to the shop. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

He had a bar there in St. Ed called Polka Dots.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, was that him?

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

I didn't realize that was him. How long did that how long was that open? I don't know.

SPEAKER_00

Years. It was quite a few years ago. A few years, yeah. Although it I think it changed hands and it's been changed TJ's for quite a few years now, but I don't know if it was if he had it for five years or not.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, I see. Okay. Yeah, but I've always got along with the Sliva boys. I mean it would be nice to me. And what more can I ask for, you know?

SPEAKER_00

You can always ask for more. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

We'll just leave it at that.

SPEAKER_06

You've you've forgotten to change your calendar all year.

SPEAKER_03

I know. I like to stay. In January. I would like to talk about it. I never changed my calendar. Yeah. We're already in March.

SPEAKER_00

This man does not know how to use a calendar, just so we're all clear.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, I I don't either.

SPEAKER_00

No clue. What day is it? What month is it? When when is that?

SPEAKER_06

All of all of our days just mesh together.

SPEAKER_00

He does, because here's the deal. I have on my refrigerator, because he does this to me, you know, and I'm like, hey, such and such on Friday or Saturday. Well, I didn't know that was coming up or whatever. I make a day a weekly calendar on the fridge. Where where is the most looked-at spot? For a big guy like me. On the fridge. It's right. You walk into the laundry room where he gets his clothes. He walks right by it. He refuses.

SPEAKER_03

I don't think about it.

SPEAKER_00

Literally refuses to look at it.

SPEAKER_03

It's funny because I had asked her to be on the podcast last well, Sunday, I think, is when I asked you. And then uh last night, I said, Don't forget tomorrow's Thursday. She goes, It's on the fridge.

SPEAKER_06

Brooke doesn't have this calendar of events for me. She calls me and she works it into a conversation. We have we have this going on, we have that going on, we got this, and I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm usually busy doing something as we're talking. And then it just goes in one ear, out the other. And so a calendar of events, even six months ahead of time, would be kind of here. Here's the thing though. My cousin's getting married on May 17th.

SPEAKER_03

Sarah, Sarah tries to have the conversation and slip another tube, but I have a rule. If I'm watching and I'm looking at the television, I'm concentrating. I'm concentrating on the television. You could be talking to me and I'm not hearing you. And that's not even a joke. If I'm concentrating on this, I'm not hearing you. I might you do this, but I'm not listening to you.

SPEAKER_00

So if it's important, I I either have to wait for a commercial.

SPEAKER_03

She either waits for a commercial or she goes, Will you pause that?

SPEAKER_00

So see, I have a backup because I know he's not gonna remember. So I write it on the camera. Now, yeah, now if I put a whole month out there, it would it would still be lost in translation. So I shorten it to one week, but that's still the I just don't think I don't I I don't think about looking at it.

SPEAKER_03

It's because here's here's my life. I get up, I go to work, and I come home. I don't think anything else is going on in my life. And on the I if I ask on Wednesday, what do we got going on this weekend? If she I don't think anything, so then I don't have any reason to look at this calendar. But she does put doctor's appointments on there.

SPEAKER_00

I even put my schedule on there if there's something so he knows where I what I've got going on.

SPEAKER_03

Her life isn't that crazy either. Monday night she comes home, Tuesday night she goes to church, Wednesday night, maybe go sees her mom. Thursday night, she goes home again. Friday night, we fall asleep on the couch. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

And then if there's a Saturday event or a Sunday event, I do I put that on there.

SPEAKER_03

I know. We don't really do much on weekends.

SPEAKER_00

No.

SPEAKER_06

You guys have had a couple date nights.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, yeah. We we've we've been a little more.

SPEAKER_06

She's she's trying to get me out. Now that the kids have left the house, you can kind of our couch, though, man, is so comfortable.

SPEAKER_03

It is nice.

SPEAKER_00

It is nice, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

We are we we are I don't know when. I'll have to wait till it comes up on the couch.

SPEAKER_00

It'll come up on the calendar.

SPEAKER_03

We're going to Branson.

SPEAKER_06

Oh, you'll like that.

SPEAKER_03

I've never been end of the month.

SPEAKER_06

We took uh we took Whitney there when she was I she was just a little tiny baby, uh six months old, something like that. We went down there, and uh it is a pretty cool town. Is it are you taking the camper? No, no, no.

SPEAKER_00

I'm just gonna get an Airbnb for a couple nights.

SPEAKER_06

Oh, we're we're gonna Airbnb. We've got a long ways to pull a camper, but we pull we drove the motor home down there, and we stayed right on the river, and it was it was fun. We were right by Cabela's. Uh we weren't that far from going to downtown Branson. There's a lot to do down there. Uh but I wanted to do some fishing while we were there, and we did that. You have to get a well Whitney was a year old because it it was on my birthday that we went down. So uh Whitney's born at the first of April and I'm born at the end of April. So not the same age, of course. No, there's a little span little span in there. Yeah, I act like it. But I think that's why Whitney and I get along so good. We're both little kids.

SPEAKER_00

Um I was just not gonna be like full crazy season because we're just gonna go at the end of this month. But you know, I I get that we never do anything, and then when I say, hey, we're gonna go do this, I get the well do we really do anything.

SPEAKER_03

Here's the thing. As I've explained to I even explained it to the woman doing my psyche therapist. I have an issue phobia phobia of being too far away from a bathroom. Because when you take the medications I do, sometimes when it hits, we're going right now. Yeah. So we've we've compromised. We're gonna get some dude wipes, a new pair of drawers, and a pair of jeans.

SPEAKER_00

Stored in the back in the back of the back of it.

SPEAKER_03

That way, if something happens, I'm taken care of. Yeah, yeah. I even no joke, thought maybe I should just go buy some diapers and wear them on the way down there. But okay, it's a phobia. I yeah, that I don't like leaving I I like pulling a camper because then I got a bathroom with me.

SPEAKER_06

I I know I know what you're talking about because I I went through medications too that just didn't agree with my stomach. And I mean, just out of nowhere, it's you're going to hit you. Yep. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

And if you're if you're 20 miles, you're not gonna make it 20 miles to a bathroom, and you're like, and then when it hits, it like hurts, man.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. So yeah, I I know I know what you're talking about, and it sucks because you do kind of feel confined. Uh I gotta be close to a bathroom. See, it's a man you can't let it rule your life. That's what she says. You can't, you can't let it rule your life. You gotta figure out an alternative way.

SPEAKER_03

Well, you know, like last year, you and I, we both kind of had the same symptoms, and we both kind of ended up at the hospital, and they told me they told me I was having uh pancreatitis, and they told you something completely different.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, they told me it was heartburn. Yeah, and that's when they starred me on this medication that starred me shitting yourself basically. Yeah, I mean, uh you would I would eat and it would be like 10 minutes, 15 minutes after I ate. Man, I better be close to a bathroom.

SPEAKER_03

And and I'm on that same medication that you and uh I quit taking it.

SPEAKER_06

Did you? I did. I just up and after I quit taking it, everything's fine.

SPEAKER_03

I don't think you had upbringing, I think you had payreitis. I really do.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

At least uh let's just say that made sense for my diagnosis as to what I was going through.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

And you were having the same symptoms.

SPEAKER_06

Everything was exactly the same.

SPEAKER_03

And so I told Sarah I didn't cry though. I did. Um Pussy. Get out. So that happened, that happened Easter weekend because we were gonna have surfing turf and it was easy. And they said, Well, you can't eat no solid foods for the next few days. So I couldn't even eat Easter dinner with the family, you know. Yeah, and uh I when Sturgis rolled around, I was like, I I'm scared, I'm gonna get clear up there, and then this is gonna hit again, and I'm gonna be out and stuck in Sturgis, you know, and her only comment was, You can't let it rule your life. You gotta get out and you gotta do your thing. Well, it's still scary, but I went. I mean, yeah, as you get older, those things do rule your life sometimes. Yeah, yeah. Not my wife though.

SPEAKER_00

No. You take it as it comes.

SPEAKER_03

I know, but god, it's just you know what?

SPEAKER_00

When you got your comforts of your home, yeah, you don't have to hey taking the camper is I will give you that. I I agree with that.

SPEAKER_06

Let's pull the camper down there. Then I can give you a good campground to stay in.

SPEAKER_00

I don't want to pull it seven and a half hours, so yeah, I hear you.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. So we will we're you know what I'd like to do is have your wife come on at the same time as Sarah's on some other time, and then we can do like a little game show of who knows each other's spouse better, you know. Oh, that would probably happen. You know, I think that'd be kind of fun.

SPEAKER_06

So I think we should do that. But if if Whitney or if uh Brooke comes down here, Whitney's gonna be with us. Yeah, I understand. It'd be hard to Whitney can kind of throw some insight into this too.

SPEAKER_00

Now she rules that route.

SPEAKER_06

Oh very much. Oh yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

We used to have a couple of those.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, we do. So she she has this uh I guess ankling to be a bathroom attendant. She's she's practicing for the job. Uh she will not if we flush the toilet, we go to the bathroom and we flush the toilet, she will throw an absolute shit fit. She loves to flush the toilet. And so the other morning, I'm in the bathroom, she was still asleep in bed. And I'm in the bathroom, and all of a sudden I hear the doorknob kind of wiggle. And we have the kid-proof little covers on the doorknobs, and uh she knocks on it, and I said, Yes, Whitney, what do you want? I'm in here. Are you done? I said, No, I'm not done. I said, just I'll be out in a little bit. Don't flush it. I said, I'm not, I'm not gonna flush it, I'll let you flush it. And I hear the doorknob wiggle again, and I said, I'll let you know when I'm done. She goes, Open the damn door. You've created a monster. Where would this come from?

SPEAKER_03

I got a cussing little girl that wants to go to Las Vegas and get money and get rich and then she wants to eat now.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, she wants her bacon and waffles now.

SPEAKER_00

Well, we always said, and I still think it's true, Ben has to inspect every bathroom.

SPEAKER_03

So every time everywhere we go, the first thing he does is I go to the bathroom. And he's in there a while.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, he he he sp he sits for a while, I think.

SPEAKER_03

I don't I don't know about you. This is me. I don't like shitting in public arena. I'm not a big fan of it. If I have to, I have to, but exactly.

SPEAKER_06

If I have to one thing when I check into a hotel room, bathroom, first thing I do. You look at it or you go to it? No, I go in there and I I got a drop of deuce. Do you really? Yep, really every time. It just never fails. I don't know what it is, but I could have shit ten minutes ago and then you know got to the hotel, and it's like, yeah, you one thing like I'm like I'm marking my territory.

SPEAKER_03

Like I said, I don't I don't like to do some public arenas and and there's times, like you said, you're forced into it. I'll never forget when we we took the kids on a cruise and we went down to we we left out of uh Galveston. Well, just like you know, you're getting ready to go on a trip, you don't want to bring everything with you, so we were we ran to Walmart. I think it was Walmart or Target, one of the other. Well, it was one of the things where uh oh, I gotta go, and I hated it, but I went in, and of course, the bathrooms had like five-inch gaps in between the doors, and I'm like, crap. And of course, you think to yourself, what are the odds someone's gonna look in there? They're never gonna look in there. Oh no, a little kid, probably Whitney's age, come walks in and puts his face up right in the crack, goes, There's a fat guy pooping in here. And he goes, Hi. I'm like, hi. And then he just ran off. He's like, crap. I gotta finish this deuce now. Well, I'll never forget that.

SPEAKER_00

Ben's 20, and I don't think his fascination's over with yet either.

SPEAKER_03

Of going to the bathroom?

SPEAKER_00

Well, a couple weeks ago when we went to the bike show in Lincoln, yeah, we took him with us. We'd been there for a little bit, and all of a sudden, I'm going to the bathroom.

SPEAKER_03

Okay. Was he in there a while?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. His sister and I, we walked around, walked around, and I'm like, Liz, where's your brother?

SPEAKER_03

He's gonna start getting hemorrhoids.

SPEAKER_00

It was another five or ten minutes, and there he pops in.

SPEAKER_06

I'm like, I bet. What do you think of the bike show?

SPEAKER_00

It was okay. Yeah, it wasn't uh I didn't see anything spectacular, but we didn't go last year. I think you went last year.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

But it it snowed that day, or it was kind of crappy that day, and we didn't go. Elizabeth went. Well, it snowed again this year for it. Yeah, on Thursday though. Yeah. So and we went Friday night. But um, she thought there was a a lot of different bikes, but pretty much the same number of bikes. I mean, it wasn't like gigantic.

SPEAKER_06

Right. And we I still say from what they have both sides open this year or just one side?

SPEAKER_00

They had both sides, but that other side when you first walked Is it more of like a swap meet? The swap meet was there, and there was a couple of defender boosts. No, they haven't done campers in a couple years now.

SPEAKER_06

No, that's what Reeve and I were talking about was you know, they haven't had the campers there, and Brooke and I always liked to see that because a majority of them were the toy.

SPEAKER_00

Toy haulers, yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_06

And so, you know, if they had that this year, we probably would have went. I probably would have grabbed her by her hand and said, We're going.

SPEAKER_03

I I just wonder, and this is just me wondering. I just wonder if toy haulers is kind of a dying fad. I don't I don't think people are buying toy haulers right now because they're number one, they're more expensive. They're way more expensive. And I just people I just don't see people buying them anyway. I don't, I really don't.

SPEAKER_00

I just well I think those that are those motorcycle riders that are trailering their bikes are using the enclosed trailers. Yeah, they're starting to make them into and then you know, yeah, modifying them to suit or whatever because they're easier to pull than a big old 40-foot yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Here, you know, we were talking about the bike show and how they always got these clubs all the way around and everything. I I come up with a plan. They're always talking they want more bikes in these bike in this bike show in Lincoln. You know what? Tell them if they if they're a club and they want to be selling getting 90% of the guys that are in that club need to have a bike in the show.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. I mean it would grow the bike show. Because that's what it is. It's supposed to be a bike show.

SPEAKER_03

It's not a recruiting mechanism, and that's what they're using it as.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

But if you want to recruit, then put your bike in the bike show. 90% of the guys in the club got to put their bike in the show. Now, bike it would grow the club.

SPEAKER_00

Now, the the at the Lincoln show, you did you said you didn't go, Sean. So, yes, it was heavily um clubs, but it wasn't just motorcycle. I mean, there's so many different clubs. That's my ear quotes and for those the audience that couldn't see. Um I mean, there was the CMA, Christian Motorcycle, then there's the Hell Fighters, and there's the um combat vets. The combat vets. There, I mean, there's so many uh steel uh steel stilettos, uh the ladies' group, yeah. But there's all these other groups that aren't motorcycle clubs that are also there too. So, I mean, at least it was a good mix, I think that way.

SPEAKER_03

Why are they not putting their bikes in the show?

SPEAKER_00

Why why are they not put if they're these other ones are, you know, you got your Honda Club and they got their bikes there, you got your uh Patriot riders and they got their bikes in there, and you know, things like that, too.

SPEAKER_03

You don't have to have a beautiful bike to be in a bike show.

SPEAKER_00

Some people Well that's that's part of it, is just having a little bit of everything in there.

SPEAKER_03

Because everybody's bike is different in their own way, yeah. Right.

SPEAKER_00

It's not meant this this one is not to meant meant to be your big shows, your cycle drags or your mama trides or your anything. It's it's a local group, you know. So I I don't know. I I didn't think The show was any different than the last years I've gone. Um, I think it is still down from when it first when we first started going. For sure.

SPEAKER_06

What we seen last year, it was way down. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. However, I do think that um, because we went Friday night.

SPEAKER_06

And a bait runs that, don't they? Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

It's district two, yeah, out of Lincoln. Um, but sounded like Saturday was pretty busy for for traffic. So I mean, I think that's good. You know, um Clark Spikes and Drikes is always down there too. Eric was down there.

SPEAKER_03

Eric's always down there.

SPEAKER_00

Exotic was not there this year. They are usually down there.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, yeah, because that's where I bought stuff for your money.

SPEAKER_00

Um but vendors are hit or miss. You know, there's there was some clothing, some jewelry, some headbands, some coffee truck. I got coffee.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, coffee truck.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, I gotta have the coffee truck.

SPEAKER_03

Um I I don't want it to die, but I mean there's they've got so many strikes already because it's February. And like you said, it almost always snows right around that. If they if I just think that if you're gonna have a booth and you're if if you're selling food, I think you're out. But if you're a club that revolves around a bike, they should be required to put a bike in the show. Right. That should be part of the entry fee.

SPEAKER_06

And that's kind of the thing about being in a motorcycle club is you take pride in your bike. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

So some of these guys have to have these almost brand new spiffy.

SPEAKER_03

And they don't want to take it out of February because it's like, you know what, put it on a trailer, bring it down here. That's part of that's part of selling your club. Yeah, you know.

SPEAKER_06

Absolutely. Well, it's part of being in a club. Yeah. You're gonna ride. It doesn't matter rain or shine.

SPEAKER_00

You know, yeah, if you're in a club, if they tell you to ride on, you're gonna ride for sure. But anyway, I you know, Elizabeth's a bike junkie, so she she can always find something something cool. And um I think I should show a few reveal a few pictures of it.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, there's a because I want to get into making uh Sissy bars and shit like that. And she took me some pictures, took some pictures of stuff.

SPEAKER_00

There was a there was a trike. And I'd I'd never seen it. It was kind of but it was a John Deere tractor that turned into a trike.

SPEAKER_01

Oh.

SPEAKER_00

But the tractor was actually backwards. It was kind of hard to look at. I have a picture of it, but it was uh you want to show the audience a picture? Yeah, can I show the audience a picture, please?

SPEAKER_03

We'll send you an email. Speaking of which, you got anything more to say, sir? I don't want to cut you off.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, you do, but that's no, I'm good.

SPEAKER_03

Okay. Um, we I am working on trying to get cameras so that we can at least show our faces and I don't know how to I mean cameras are coming. I just got well, I was waiting for a payday and I just got it, so I might be able to buy 'em. Yeah. I'm also thinking about just out of just because I'm that guy, I want to try, I want to try to get people interested in my shop. I'm gonna buy a camera and I'm gonna put it up in a like a nice camera and put it up in the corner of the shop or something like that, and just do like lives on TikTok and shit like that, and see if I can get some some people do a live feed. And then trans, you know, try try to sell the Sour Patch Hour and shit like that.

SPEAKER_00

Speaking speaking of which, did you ever reactivate the the Facebook page?

SPEAKER_03

No, I don't know how.

SPEAKER_05

My wife, my wife will help me. I guess we'll get binge. Give a blue-collar guy a computer.

SPEAKER_03

Because I opened up my Facebook and they he had started to do a Sour Patch Hour Facebook page, and I never went into it, and so they shut it down. It was inactive, so they shut it down. So now I gotta figure out how to do that. Anywho.

SPEAKER_00

Anywho, oh here.

SPEAKER_03

What are we doing?

SPEAKER_00

You wanna this is my Facebook page. Do you want to say hi?

SPEAKER_03

Oh, hey, everyone. Am I dirty? And do it. Do I look like I've been drunk in the dirt?

SPEAKER_00

You are a blue-collar man.

SPEAKER_03

He's at least clean. I don't think that's fair. Well, I'm not really clean.

SPEAKER_00

It's Sean, so you know. Oh, wait, that's the wall.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, we do that it's almost like talking to a wall.

SPEAKER_00

I was gonna try to turn it back, but see, I'm even see, she's no good either.

SPEAKER_03

We need bed.

SPEAKER_00

Here's oh, there we go. So um, those on my live, they're like, what the hell's Sarah doing? This is the Sour Patch Hour podcast that we are recording right now. That was Reeve, there's Sean.

SPEAKER_03

Did you show me?

SPEAKER_00

Yes, I showed you more than once. See, there you are.

SPEAKER_02

Am I out here? Am I dirty?

SPEAKER_00

No, just just your shirt and your face and your hands. Sour patch hour podcast, ladies and gentlemen.

SPEAKER_03

We have fun here. So anyway.

SPEAKER_00

Sorry, sorry, those that are listening to us, we took a little turn there.

SPEAKER_03

Sarah's gonna help us start promoting this.

SPEAKER_00

So yeah, I need that on top of it.

SPEAKER_03

Here's here's what I propose. Okay, speaking of which, next Thursday, the guy that works for me.

SPEAKER_06

Next Thursday, I won't be here. Oh. I'm gonna be traveling.

SPEAKER_03

You're going to Sturge uh Vegas?

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Okay. All right. Well, we won't have it next Thursday then.

SPEAKER_06

Yep. I'm gonna go to the NASCAR race. Okay.

SPEAKER_00

Ooh, fine.

SPEAKER_03

I will I will tell him. But the next time we meet, yeah, he's my partner in the bike shop. And I thought maybe we could have him in. We can talk more motorcycles and kind of do a little bit more of that with him.

SPEAKER_06

Or have him fill in for me next week. If you if you want, if you don't mind. That's fine. All right. That's fine.

SPEAKER_03

Maybe that's what we'll do then.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. Okay.

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Cool.

SPEAKER_06

Maybe maybe you guys can give me a call while uh while you're I should try to figure out how to hook that up on here so that everybody can. Either that or just put me on speaker phone and put the phone up close to the we've done it with Ben a couple times. But yeah, it might be a little slurred, it might be a little no, by the time by the time we're two hours behind over there, so I'll probably be in a decent state of mind. I don't know. We're going out for O's birthday, so you never know. You never know in Vegas. Maybe he and I'll do that. They don't put clocks in a casino for a reason.

SPEAKER_03

So you never know what time it is.

SPEAKER_06

So you never know what time it is.

SPEAKER_01

24 hours, right?

SPEAKER_06

They are. You could you could drink at four o'clock in the morning.

SPEAKER_03

That's too much.

SPEAKER_00

I don't think I could do Vegas.

SPEAKER_03

Here's Sarah and I have we've never been to Vegas. You lose track of time real easy. We've never been to Vegas, but Sarah and I have always said that if we go, you're going with us because we want someone that's going to show us around. And he I think I don't know, I'd probably make me sick in my stomach, but he says he went to that Wizard of Oz in the the sphere, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

I've heard that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Did you see so Metallica is playing there? And uh they're doing a residency there for a while this summer, and so tickets just went on sale. And of course, it's through Ticketmaster, yeah. And there were people already bitching. There was 30,000 some odd people ahead of them, and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Well, today I got a I saw a thing on on uh Facebook and who knows if it's true or not, it's on Facebook, but resale tickets five thousand a ticket.

SPEAKER_00

I'm not surprised. I am not surprised at all.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. I I knew that was gonna blow up, you know, having Metallica there. Uh that was gonna blow up, and tickets were gonna be expensive, but not five thousand expensive.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, that's crazy stupid.

SPEAKER_06

I thought it was crazy expensive to buy Wizard of Oz tickets for I think mine were$125,$150 for one seat.

SPEAKER_02

Wow.

SPEAKER_06

And uh I really had to win some money there to justify spending that on a on a show, on a movie that I've seen probably a hundred times. But I'm glad I did because it was one hell of an experience. It it is so cool in there. Metallica playing in there. Oh, yeah, that's gonna be cool.

SPEAKER_00

Hey Ben, you don't have to go to another semester of college. Mom dad want to go to the club.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, um, I seen some, you know, I watch reels, kind of like a TikTok on Facebook, and somebody had taken their phone in there and recorded a little bit of the Wizard of Oz in the dome. Yeah, or the sphere, I guess is what you should say. Yeah, it does look pretty cool. It is, but that's that sphere almost has to be the size of Columbus, man.

SPEAKER_06

I mean, it's gotta be huge. It is huge inside. There's I think three different levels, and uh your movie screen is not only just side to side where you're sitting. I mean, it's around you, it goes over top of you too. It's like behind you too, right? Plus it's not behind you because that's where all the seats are. Okay. But it goes over top of you and then side to side, and then like during the Wizard of Oz, when the tornado comes through, you got wind blowing, you got leaves blowing around. You when the tree, when the apple trees get angry, you got apples falling on you, and there's stuff, you know, it's just like uh foam apples falling down on you. Um there was flying monkeys through the crowd when the all the monkeys were mad and you know, flying out to go get everything.

SPEAKER_03

So how'd they do that? What did they they just threw some?

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, they were actual monkeys. But it it's a very cool experience. It's it's if if the tickets are in that 125 to 150 range, it's definitely worth going and seeing. 5,000, absolutely not. Yeah. I don't think you know Jesus.

SPEAKER_03

Metallica, I like Metallica, but not that much.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_06

I'll sit out in the parking lot and jam to it in my car.

SPEAKER_03

You'll hear it, yeah.

SPEAKER_06

And pretend that I'm there.

SPEAKER_03

I know that you know, that's because that's all that LED bullshit that's you know, they've got that down. Yeah. For the tournament this year, I don't know if it's the girls' tournament or the boy the basketball tournaments, um college, they have LED floors they're playing on. So, like during halftime and stuff like that, there's shows going on, there's stuff moving around. Oh, yeah. It's like I don't know if I can play on something like that, you know? Yeah, weird. So I don't know. I I love that LED shit. I just wish I understood it. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

I don't like it when it's in a car coming towards me.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, I'm like ridiculously brilliant. I don't know. I deal with those all the time going back and forth.

SPEAKER_00

Hence uh, this is another old person thing. I don't like drive at night anymore.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I don't either.

SPEAKER_06

Speaking of an old person thing, I'm about ready to hit the bathroom. Okay.

SPEAKER_03

That's fine. That's good with me. All right, we can closure up. We won't do the old Midwest goodbye. That was something that Tyler and I have done away with. We don't do the Wait, wait, wait.

SPEAKER_00

You guys don't talk about football?

SPEAKER_03

We do not. No, that was a Tyler.

SPEAKER_06

And it's kind of off season anyway.

SPEAKER_00

I maybe we'll discuss it a little more, but when when the season comes around, we might, but I don't pay too much attention to the top of your your Melissa tongue. Yeah, yeah. The sun will still shine.

SPEAKER_03

Yes. Tyler just he and we would talk for over an hour about it. And I can see where people quit listening to.

SPEAKER_00

That was his his thing. And we all have our thing.

SPEAKER_03

That was the last thing we'd done on each show. He wanted to talk about football.

SPEAKER_00

So as a matter of fact, you still have your husband prediction from September 20th, 2025.

SPEAKER_03

I've never wiped it off. Who did win? Um not us. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00

Not us.

SPEAKER_03

Um, but I would like to have Tyler on here pretty soon just to see if he'll come in. I like Tyler. Oh, I do too. He's he'd be fun. He'd he's funny. He's one, yeah.

SPEAKER_06

So I love listening to you two talk.

SPEAKER_03

All right. Well, our Midwest goodbye is done. So, anybody else got anything to say?

SPEAKER_01

Uh that's a no.

SPEAKER_03

All right, I'm out. All right, see you later, everybody.

SPEAKER_00

Have a great one.

SPEAKER_05

Goodbye.