Pour Decisions with Erin & David

Episode 13: Traditions, Tears and David’s Emotional Breakdown

Erin Crumbley Season 1 Episode 13

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In Episode 13, Erin and David talk about family traditions, Erin’s upcoming dance performance, David losing vision in one eye and whatever else happens to pop into their heads. 

David gets nostalgic and tears up more than once, proving Erin may not be the dramatic one in their marriage after all. 

They laugh, overshare and somehow turn another week of their crazy life into a podcast. Pour yourself a drink because this episode is funny, emotional and all over the place, just like them. 

 Thanks for listening to Pour Decisions. If you enjoyed this episode, follow the podcast so you don’t miss what’s next — and join us next time for more real conversations and honest pours. 

SPEAKER_00

You're listening to Four Decisions, Life, Love, Business, Alignment with Aaron and David, our partners in strategy and sarcasm. Let's begin.

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Start recording. Hello everybody.

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Hi, Minnie Mouse. I was thinking the Pinky Pooh. What's I'm Hanky the Christmas poo.

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Oh, Hanky the Christmas Poo. You smell so fresh and flowery.

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Which is not accurate because Hanky's like a solid poo. And after Christmas, it's all like Maybe you.

SPEAKER_00

Actually, no, it's me. That's you. Yeah. All right. Okay. Okay, ready? One, two, three. Hi, everybody. Welcome to Poor Decisions. I'm Aaron Crumbly, and this guy is some guy just picked up alongside the road.

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Yeah. She's doing me a favor. I'm David.

SPEAKER_00

I'm doing you a favor. Just pick some random guy up and brought him here and said, Hey, you want to do a podcast? And he said, Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

So this is our lucky number episode 13. Lucky 13. Lucky 13. Yeah, I guess it's my mom was born on the 13th.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, there you go.

SPEAKER_03

But then she also died on the 13th.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, I didn't know that. I didn't realize that. Born and died on the 13th.

SPEAKER_03

Born on January, February, March, April 13th and died August 13th. Or September 13th.

SPEAKER_00

That's a bummer.

SPEAKER_03

September 13th. That is kind of a bummer. So let's take a minute to pause.

SPEAKER_00

Okay. Well, that's it's been a while.

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But I love my mom.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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Well now that everybody now knows that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

We had a good relationship. But you know, it's interesting that we didn't have a good relationship. I don't know why we start talking about my mom, but well, you started it, so here we are.

SPEAKER_00

Lucky number 13 podcast. Here we go. Yeah, because David's gonna dump his bailey drama on me about his mom. There we go. Get on your seatbelts. Hey, it's gonna be a long bumpy ride.

SPEAKER_03

With this podcast, I don't have to pay for a therapist. So y'all be prepared.

SPEAKER_00

Should we get into the wine first before we get into the um I don't know the tragic story of your child childhood? You were like beaten all the time?

SPEAKER_03

No, well, you know, that's a thing. But back in the day, we didn't call it getting beaten, we call it getting spanked. It was a difference. They didn't arrest people for spanking their kids, and they could spank hard and with weapons. And they got away with it.

SPEAKER_00

They don't do that anymore. They don't do that anymore. That's the problem with kids nowadays, I think. No, they don't get spanked, they didn't get spanked enough.

SPEAKER_03

Discipline and and beating somebody with a rod or with a the uh a piece of wood that was carved with a handle on it so that it grips really good and you can swing really fast, and it's about this long and it hurts like snot. Yeah, the discipline and getting beaten with a piece of wood is different. In a belt and all kinds of stuff. I've never switched.

SPEAKER_00

My mom, my mom and dad um were different. My mom would run around with a yardstick, but she must mostly spanked my brother, and I basically had to sit on the couch and wait for my father to get home, and it would be bare butt to bear hand. He put me over his knee, spanked me bear hand to beer butt, and it would sting, I'd have hand prints on my butt. Yeah, but my mom wouldn't spank me, she would wait for my dad to come home and do it for her. Yeah, she was evil, she still is evil.

SPEAKER_03

You know, in what I've realized as I was raising our kids, um um I used to spank, uh you know, we have hers, mine, and ours.

SPEAKER_00

We have eight kids together. If you know that already.

SPEAKER_03

My first five girls, um I spanked them because that's what I was used to. That's what I was taught. That's how I was raised. I thought that's what you're supposed to do. And uh then as you know, I had kids, and I think Naomi, she's my youngest, um and Julia, they probably didn't get as much as the older girls got because back, you know, it's just you're a young parent, you don't know what you're doing. Um, but there's a difference between discipline. Like uh I got to a point where I just stopped spanking and I started taking stuff away from them that was valuable to them, and uh it seemed to have more of an effect because I remember when I got spanked, it didn't phase me. Like I hated it and I was not looking forward to it. I knew it was gonna come, I knew it was gonna hurt, and I just but then it was over, and I'm like, okay, it didn't it didn't really phase me. It was the physical pain didn't last very long.

SPEAKER_00

And you don't say that when I spank you.

SPEAKER_03

That's different. But I agree.

SPEAKER_00

I was the same way. I mean, I knew it was coming and I hated it, but like after it was over with, it was just done, and that's it, and you just go on, move on, and you go do something stupid the next day to get spanked.

SPEAKER_03

So uh but anyway, I don't know. We're talking about my mom, but I love my mom. And uh she's passed away now 15 years, but uh but anyhow.

SPEAKER_00

Can we have a glass of wine before we get into more?

SPEAKER_03

Since we're talking about dead people. I see dead people. Not really.

SPEAKER_00

Why is this guy dead? What do you got here?

SPEAKER_03

Uh this is uh the Klein Family Cellars, and uh again, it's an under $20 a bottle of wine. You can get it pretty much anywhere. Uh it's from uh the North Coast, it's from Sonoma, California. They started their winery back in 1982, a year after I graduated high school. I don't know if anybody needed to hear that, but I told it anyway.

SPEAKER_00

It's an old man.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I just think if I was like back in my high school days and I thought, hmm, I should start a winery, I would have been part of this.

SPEAKER_00

I graduated in 88 and you were 81. You're seven years, man. That was like in middle school. In elementary school when you're graduating.

SPEAKER_03

But it's a Pinot Noir, and uh apparently I did a little research on the Klein family. They have uh one of the coolest little setups in Sonoma where they have festivals at their property, they have all kinds of stuff that you can do. It's family friendly. So if you're ever out in Sonoma, you know, go to the Klein Family Cellars and uh tell them David and Aaron sent you.

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There we go. Shameless plug.

SPEAKER_03

They won't know who we are, but they'll say, hey, cool.

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Maybe they'll hire us to be brand ambassadors for them out there.

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Yeah, we'll be brand ambassador.

SPEAKER_00

I mean, we're brand ambassadors for Carbulus. Why not be brand ambassadors for the Klein family?

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I know.

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We'll move out to California and just represent all the wineries out there.

SPEAKER_03

So this is supposed to be a nice, soft Pinot Noir, Northern California.

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As he slams it down on the table.

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Did not slam it down.

SPEAKER_01

You did too.

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It's got a nice uh Pinot Noir color.

SPEAKER_03

It does. Yeah, the garnet. So Pinot Noir, you're supposed to be able to see through it, not through that bottle, you can't.

SPEAKER_00

But uh these glasses are a little tinted, so it's kind of hard to see the color. But a nice Pinot is gonna have a nice garnet color. It doesn't have a garnet color, that's probably not a very good Pinot. Yeah. I mean Yeah, be that way. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Um Yeah. So uh anywho. Excuse me. It's gluten-free and it's vegan. So I'm not gonna eat any bacon today. I've already eaten bacon.

SPEAKER_00

I had steak. Sure. Steak and eggs. I made steak and eggs today for breakfast.

SPEAKER_03

I had bacon last night on my salad. It was good. I like a good salad every now and then.

SPEAKER_01

That's good. That is really good.

SPEAKER_03

First time I've had it. Alright, so we just plugged Klein Family Cellars. Pinot Noir. And uh, by the way, uh Aaron, I like your shirt.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, yeah. Actually, this shirt was um Dylan's. I guess somebody left it over at the house one day, and it was in Dylan's laundry. Dylan is our 26-year-old son, he's no longer living here, but uh somebody left it, and then I said, that looks like a cool shirt, so I snagged it, so I've had it ever since. And I get a lot of compliments on it. A lot of people here like Ronald Reagan.

SPEAKER_03

Well, it's a very Republican area of the state, the most Republican area of the entire state. And the entire state's very Republican, so you can only imagine.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Yeah. Not South Florida, though. South Florida's a little democratic.

SPEAKER_03

South Florida's very democratic, yeah. Fort Lauderdale, um, you know, ew those towns and and even Orlando to a certain extent. But uh yeah, the rest of the state is basically red. So but you see my shirt?

SPEAKER_00

Oh, he's got the blue angels. So it's Blue Angel weekend.

SPEAKER_03

Blue Angel weekend. This weekend. We're gonna be flying around this week all over the house and all over the sound and all over the place.

SPEAKER_00

Well, we live, we live on the water, so we get to see them come back home uh every weekend when they are doing air shows, and they come and they fly right over the beach, and we just happen to get a view of them every Sunday around four o'clock.

SPEAKER_01

Yep.

SPEAKER_00

And they're gonna be here this weekend where they're gonna be doing the practice day on Thursday, and then Friday's the show, and Saturday's the show.

SPEAKER_03

And well, Friday's the the full practice, and then Saturday's the show, but you might as well go to the thing on Friday because you'll see everybody, and that's all the different planes, and they have all these cool old vintage planes that um have modified, so they do all these crazy tricks. It's just insane to watch. I can't believe some of those guys do what they do. They they go, I don't know how many feet up in the air, then they just free fall, and the plane looks like it's you know, disarray. It's like it's I don't know how you even stay focused. Like, how do you know when to you know pull it back up? Because that would just make me dizzy and I would probably just die. I'd be like, I don't know where it's right into the ground.

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Yeah.

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But um, yeah, good thing I'm not a pilot.

SPEAKER_00

Good thing. Well, you know, it it's just it's a great weekend, but it's so busy, and it's we do it, they do it every year this time of year. And and actually, David's gonna be in uh Georgia for his family reunion, which is also every year, this the third weekend.

SPEAKER_03

The third Friday in July is when it starts.

SPEAKER_00

And he won't be here. And and um I have a show this Sunday for all you guys watching or listening to us. This Sunday at the Sanger Theater, I'm gonna be dancing. Um the first ballroom studio is my my dance troupe, and we're gonna be dancing for charity for the Ronald McDonald House.

SPEAKER_03

Which is a great cause, by the way.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, he the Ronald McDonald House helped uh he was talking about Naomi, his youngest that from his first marriage. She uh uh gosh, how long ago? How long how old is Sophia now?

SPEAKER_03

Don't even ask me that, but she's probably uh she's age set eight, seven, eight. I think she's eight.

SPEAKER_00

Uh they um they got a lot of grandkids, so I can't. Yeah, he's got 14 of them.

SPEAKER_03

I have to look at my phone, it has their birthday. He used to just put their birthday in there, but then every year I'm like, when were they born? Like, so I finally got all the the the the years, I put their birth date and the year now, so I can figure it out.

SPEAKER_00

Eight kids and fourteen grandkids, that's a lot.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, they helped her and juju, her and juju are about the same, they're exactly the same age.

SPEAKER_00

They uh when when Sephira was born with her intestines outside her stomach, they housed uh Dakota and Naomi for three months while uh she was in uh operation after operation to to put her intestines back into her stomach.

SPEAKER_03

So Ronald McDonald House has being able to stay close to her, because they lived in Daytona Beach and the hospital was in Orlando, it was the mini uh Palmer, the Winnie Palmer hospital in Orlando, which is one of the best children's hospitals on the planet. And um they had great care, the doctors were excellent, but they were so far away, they were an hour, hour and ten minutes away, or an hour away, you know, traffic an hour and a half, but um but being able to stay there and keep their other child with them in the Ronald McDonald House right next to the hospital was just uh a game changer for them. Um it just meant so much to Naomi and yeah, she uh they did a great job and it was all it was all taken care of. It was all charity and uh they couldn't afford it, and but they Ronald McDonald House put them up and um Savera's fine now and she's Savera's just we call her we call her No Fira.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, because she's not scared.

SPEAKER_03

She's not scared of anything.

SPEAKER_00

That kid was yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

I think once once she was born and realized, hey, I'm gonna beat the odds here, she decided she's gonna beat the odds with everything. She's this go she's a go-getter, and she's this something else, and she's so spunky, and she loves me to death. And I love her too.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, another shameless plug. Yeah, you're all about family today. We're gonna get to that though, but um let me finish my dance thing.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, do the dance thing.

SPEAKER_00

So at 2:30 at the Pensacola Sanger Theater, I'll be up on stage with Sasha Farber. He is known for being one of the best dancers and teachers on the show. Um, what is the show called? Dancing with the stars. Yeah, I had like a moment of blink.

SPEAKER_03

He's the one that wears his shirt open all the way down. He has one button, I think, back down.

SPEAKER_00

And he wears it like that when we practice too. So he's a lot of fun, and he's such a great guy. And he's gonna be in town, he's gonna be emceeing the event, and then they're doing charity, auctioning him off um for a dance that day, and somebody can and bid for him and then go up and dance with him on the stage. But it's it's really cool, and I'm in three numbers, and uh yeah, that's at 2 30, which happens to be the same time the World Cup finale is, so yeah, crazy.

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Yeah.

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And David's not gonna be here, he's gonna be in Georgia. He and Georgia. He's gonna be heading up to um uh get the cabin ready, and we're gonna talk a little bit about the cabin and the tradition, because you know, I want David to be here to watch me dance, but he's been doing this tradition. Tradition He's been doing this tradition for his whole life, and even his father, who is 98 his whole life. I mean, that cat that shingle roof is the name of the um the encampment, I guess you call it encampment. Right. And they've been doing it for over 200 years. And so David's father's been going for his whole life, and David's been going for his whole life, and his kids have been going for their. I mean, it's like it's been passed down from generation to generation. And it's really cool because this beautiful property is like stuck in time. You got all these cabins that are all around this tabernacle. Uh David's cabin is built in the 1900s. It's old, it's rickety, it looks like a barn. It's got hay, not hay, but uh saw dust on the ground. I mean, it does have electricity and water to it, but it's like we're staying installed with the McCurry.

SPEAKER_03

That's all it has. No AC. It's just it's really just like a barn. Uh, when you walk in, the rooms, the walls to the rooms are about seven feet, so you can't see over them. But uh everything above that is open. It's just a big A-frame building, and it's it's not even that big. But it's uh I don't even know how many square feet it is. That's kind of interesting. I should figure that out while I'm there. But it's uh yeah, it's we've got uh we built seven different bedrooms in that place, and then there's a one big room that has a table that's probably 20, 22 feet long.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, but the but the the building goes is like slanted so that so the table slanted with it, you know.

SPEAKER_03

And it's just on it's on the dirt, it's on the ground. It's just we there was no there was no cement, there was no foundation. It was just just hey, put the post here, let's build the frame, let's put shingles on it, and that's why it's called shingle roof campground because back in the day all the all the cabins were built with shingles, these old wood wood shingles that they would uh that they would cut from the wood nearby.

SPEAKER_00

And uh And they have a tabernacle in the middle and they have church in the morning and then they have church in the evening, and all these families have gathered there for 200 years. So a lot of family for David, you know, or people that think they're family because they've been going there for so long.

SPEAKER_03

We call a lot of them cousins, even though we're probably not related to them. They probably are, it's probably distant relatives, you know. But um, but yeah, I mean, at first uh it it it basically is a revival, it's a church revival. Um, but it it I guess what happened is over the years, it at first they were all tents, so we still call the cabins tents a lot of time and say, hey, you want to back in the day they were tents. Come over to my tent and have some cake and coffee, or what are you doing at your tent tonight, you know? But yeah, they were just basically tents where the farmers would come and they would bring their livestock, and everybody would take care of everybody's livestock while they were there for a week doing their church services. And uh over time, people started building cabins around the tabernacle. Uh, and so the the tents became permanent structures at that time. And my dad's family had a cabin that my dad pretty much bought from one of his great uncles who was uh about to pass away, and and so we got a cabin when I was real young. We used to go there anyway, because my uncle had a cabin, and now um my dad got a cabin when I was around nine or ten. And uh so we started staying there the whole week instead of just going to visit for a few days here and there. So anyway, we it's it's a thing now, and and it's uh it's a tradition that it's I I tell everybody it's like that's the only place in my entire life that has stayed the same my entire life. Yeah, it doesn't change. It's so weird.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, are you feeling sentimental?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I'm getting nostalgic.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, it's nostalgic.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I get I get choked. I'd cry a lot. I'm sorry. I do, I cry a lot. I little things hit. It does change. I'm just like my mom. I I inherited it from her. She was she was like that.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, that's it doesn't change at all. Like like it stays in time. Everything's exactly the same. And there's not, there's not like he was he's honest, there's no air conditioning there.

SPEAKER_03

There's no I see the there's no, I mean, we've got a cabin that was built in the 19, it was built in 1908, I think is when it was built. Um 1919, it's still standing, it's the original cabin. Like there's nothing's been done to it except we've we've re-um we've redone the outside a couple of times. My dad put a new porch on when a tornado took the porch off. Um but the the thing is really it's built out of trees. I mean, literally, the the everything that holds that cabin up, there was there's no to twine or anything up. It's like they just cut the trees. The dirt daubers that hold it on the limbs, took the bark off, and then just put it in a hole and said, Here, let's build a cabin right here. So it's it's really crazy. And I'm gonna do some stuff on Facebook this week. I want to I want to kind of show everybody because it's very unique.

SPEAKER_00

I've never seen anybody or talked to anybody else that does this um besides my family, and it's just so unique and so it has a spring it has a spring right in the middle of the right in the middle of the land that everybody goes and gets the fresh water. The kids go and play in this in this spring, which creates a little river, and they catch salamanders and whatnot. It's but it it's it's the same, but it's but it's so family friendly, like you can bring your kids there and everybody meet at somebody's cabin or tent, and then the kids just go and they can run around and play all day long.

SPEAKER_03

You don't know where they are, you don't know what they're doing, but they're all safe because everybody watches everybody else's kids. And it's it's really so cool, you know. That and you know, we take our baseball gloves and footballs and frisbees down there, and we just have a good time during the day if it's not too hot. But at night, you know, you go to the church service, you come back, you have dinner, you you eat some cake, have some coffee, you sit on the back porch and just talk.

SPEAKER_00

Drink lemonade and tea, and there's nothing else to do. You can't do it.

SPEAKER_03

It's like sitting on Andy Griffith's back porch. It's true.

SPEAKER_00

It is, it's just like sitting on his porch and just you know the crazy thing about it too is that they don't have cell service there, so you can't even get on your cell phone. Most of the the cabins are 10 roofs, so they it's it messes up the cell service, but you really can't get cell service, so you're really stuck in time.

SPEAKER_03

It's very sketchy. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, and they have trails around there with the Ten Commandments. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, you can go through the trails and you walk around the trails. It's probably a couple miles, three miles worth of trails around the thing.

SPEAKER_00

But it's very cool and it's tradition. It's been passed down to David, and then David's passing it down to his children, and his children will probably pass it down to their children.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I just found out this year that my dad's gonna will that to me and my uh sister Jenny, uh, because we're really the only ones out of the family that really care about that place. The other, I've got two older brothers, and they're like, eh, you know, they're they they're hit it's hit or miss, it's nice. They like it because they can come and see the family, but it's not a thing that they really that really want to keep going for some reason. But for me, it's it's so important. Like it's just been such a part of my life, you know, for all these years.

SPEAKER_00

So Yeah. Yes, now everybody gets to see the sentimental, David. So yeah, tradition, that doesn't happen very often nowadays. Nobody does traditional things anymore, it seems like.

SPEAKER_03

Especially not like this. Like this been going on for hundreds of years, you know.

SPEAKER_00

And so this is a f a year he has to go up and get the cabin ready because his dad's on me because my dad can't do anything. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

So it's last year it kind of was too, but my sister she pitches in a lot. She does all the um the food. Well, she does a lot of the food and she does a lot of the, you know, she'll make the beds and she'll take care of that kind of stuff. And I this year I have to do some structural stuff with the with the cabin. So I'm I'm trying to get up there at least a day and a half in advance so I can spend the whole day working on uh the part of the cabin. What's it back up? Yeah, part it's just after a while that the cabin is just separating the you know the the structure is just old and and it's been through so many storms. And so I've got to go and and kind of reinforce a couple things. So that'll be bubblegum and band-aids, baby. Yeah, my soul decode is gonna help me out. Yeah, Cody better be there.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, and and our our youngest, our 17-year-old, is going to get a lesson on how to put the cabin back together. Yeah, get off his games and uh learn how to structurally put the thing back together a cabin.

SPEAKER_03

So And I've already I've been up there a few weeks ago, a couple weeks ago I was up there and I cleaned it out and I I I bombed it, try to get rid of some of the bugs and the snakes and stuff like that. Um, but uh yeah, I mean you're literally just sleeping in in nature. I I remember as a kid, me and my brother, we had to sleep in the same bed, and we were laying there and we were looking up at the shingles on the roof, you know, because you could see them from the inside, and there'd be a little squirrel that stick its head out and look down at us and then disappear, and he'd stick his head out over here and look down and disappear. So, I mean, we have all kinds of varmints and and stuff like that. But you said varmints. I did say varmins. Wildlife.

SPEAKER_00

Wildlife.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, wildlife. They're varmints. But anyway, um, yeah, so anyway, it's kind of cool. And uh I wish all you could come with me. That'd be very cool. But apparently, uh that'd be a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_00

It's exclusive. You have to be a crumbly or you have to be a member of the club. Yeah, crumbly or a family member of the Crumbleys or the Simpsons, yeah, or there, you know, there's so many like family names there.

SPEAKER_03

So the Elliott's, the Davis's, yeah, there's a bunch of.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. But cheers to uh cheers to Camp Meeting. I love Camp Meeting. It's my reset button every year. That's why I tell people it's my reset button because that's where I have a lot of time to think. You don't have self-service. And at night when it gets dark, um, we have swings on the porches, and everybody kind of sits on the porches and watches people come and go.

SPEAKER_00

Well, the porches are in the front, or in like kind of like that in the back, and it faces the tabernacle. So you when you think it's front, it's really the back, and the front is facing the where the tabernacle is where they're they're preaching and and singing, and a lot of singing and old hymns and stuff.

SPEAKER_03

But you have a lot of time to contemplate life and to think about life and what's going on in your life. And it's to me, it's like uh it's it is, it's like a it refreshes my soul.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Do we need to get your tissue on? I don't know.

SPEAKER_03

I don't know why I'm crying so much.

SPEAKER_00

He's so yeah, well, it's like you know, his family, his dad is very, very not ill, he's just at the end of his life. And good, absolutely. And so this is kind of like uh we don't think he'll be able to make it. Well, he won't be able to make the camp meeting next year for sure. For sure. So we're we're trying to get up there so to see him and everything. So that's probably a lot of sentimental right there to you. So yeah, don't expect me to make any cakes though, because I'm not a cake maker.

SPEAKER_03

I I'm gonna get up there, I'm gonna make a couple cakes when I get there. So but that's my dad's thing. He would always make a whole bunch of cakes after my mom died. Uh she was the one that used to do that, and then after church service at night, church starts at seven, it's over at eight. By the time church ends, it's getting pretty dark. So, but people would come down from church and uh have cake and coffee.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Okay. I'm sorry. It's okay. Now they get to see the vulnerable David. Yeah. So, anyways, let's switch the subject.

SPEAKER_03

I can't help it, and at this age, I'm not even gonna try. I just let it go. Yeah, but I'm just like my mom. She was like that, dude. She would start talking, and then all of a sudden she'd say something about her mom, and it's just oh, just next thing you know, she's just crying, like mom, I mean your mom died like 40 years ago. Like, you know, but she didn't care. She it just it was like it was yesterday.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Yeah, so while I'm dancing on the stage, you'll be doing ch Sunday church service and and everything, so and then hopefully I'll get my butt up there uh to do the last few days of camp meeting and suffer in the heat.

SPEAKER_03

It's a whole week, so it lasts from Friday, Friday night to Thursday afternoon. And um it's uh just really cool. So anyway, that's what's gonna happen in in my life right now.

SPEAKER_00

And then you're gonna record it and put it all over social media, so yeah.

SPEAKER_03

I'm gonna I'm gonna try to do some some posts about it, you know, just kind of show people what it's all about. Um yeah, nothing big and major, but hopefully.

SPEAKER_00

Well nowadays if it does if you don't if you don't put it on social media, it doesn't exist. I was telling them the other day, I know I've talked about this before, you know, I get online and everybody's posting everything about their lives. It seems like it's I I know more about people on social media than I ever wanted to know about people on social media, including us probably doing this podcast. But at least you get to choose if you want to watch it or not. Not when you turn on uh Facebook, it's just right there in your face, and everybody's talking about everything my dog, this, my food I'm eating, my workout, and hey, look, I'm pumping iron, you know. Like I'm like, I don't care. Stop putting it up there, you know. It's like everybody's telling their whole life story. Everybody needs to get their story.

SPEAKER_03

It's interesting, though, you know. Um, it's interesting to watch somebody else's life. It's just interesting. And I think that's why everybody's obsessed with it. It's just it's interesting. Like, like, you know, all right. So for example, I can sit in front of the TV, we've got 417 channels, there's nothing on, right? But if I look at you know uh social media and I see, hey, this guy looks kind of interesting, or this girl looks kind of interesting, and they're showing a little something about their life. I mean, it's just like watching TV, it's exactly like it. Except for, you know, you don't have to turn on TV, you can just it's on your phone.

SPEAKER_00

But uh they start stalking him. You like Yeah, I don't do that. Yeah. All those, you know, hot models and stuff.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. I like to watch the uh foreigners that move to America, and then they talk about how different it is compared to what they were told how it was, especially with the World Cup going on and all these people coming over to America, and they're like, wow, they told us it was just crime everywhere, and the police were horrible, and and these stadiums were gonna be nasty and dirty. They're like, it's actually the opposite. Everything is so beautiful, and the everybody's so friendly, and everybody's so nice. There's a million of those videos online now. You should check them out if you haven't already. It's so cool to watch because America really, I mean, we are the absolute number one country in the entire planet. And it's and and all these people have been taught and and have been brainwashed to think that America is just horrible, and you know, there's no, you know, uh there's violence everywhere and shootings everywhere.

SPEAKER_00

It's the only show probably over in the media over on the other side of the world probably shows all the they do.

SPEAKER_03

They only show the bad stuff, right?

SPEAKER_00

The rioting and all that, you know.

SPEAKER_03

And they brainwash these people to think that it's horrible, like you can't have your freedoms because you'll end up like America, you know. Uh, and then they come over here and realize, hey, the freedom is worth it, you know, whatever problems we have, our freedom here is worth every single thing that we that we have going on. It's worth it. Like we should continue it.

SPEAKER_00

And so anyway, but which is funny because we go over, like we were over in Spain, we loved I mean it's beautiful. We went to Spain, we went to Rome. I mean, we love going over seas to Europe because it's just a different culture, but it's a very cool culture, talk about tradition and everything. Yeah, Spain was great. I want to continue traveling within the next year after DJ graduates. Uh I want to sell the house and and and get a tiny house and and start traveling. That's my our end goal, I think. In the next goal, yeah, is be semi-retired in the next year and go travel and see I want to see everything before I die. But I don't want to be on my deck.

SPEAKER_03

See a lot of the um na national parks. Um yeah, Wyoming. Yeah, like over in the Midwest. We've never done that, we've never been there.

SPEAKER_00

I probably have, I don't remember because my dad used to put us in the station wagon and make us go to all the things when I was sitting backwards watching the road go this way.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I slept most of it.

SPEAKER_00

I yeah, I just my dad was like, let's go see this, let's go see this trail, or go see these Indian things. And I'm like, Oh no, I'm gonna sleep in the back of the car. I mean, I couldn't believe it.

SPEAKER_03

You had a station wagon though, right?

SPEAKER_00

We had the station wagon with it and the seat would go backwards and then.

SPEAKER_03

In the very back seat of the station wagon, you get to see the car that hits you. Well, I would get to see the car come and I would slam right into it.

SPEAKER_00

Well, I would sat back there and it would make me sick to my stomach. So every time they put me back there, I would be the one getting sick to their stomachs, so they decided not to put me back there anymore.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, our daughter's just like ours.

SPEAKER_00

So I can't, I can't I can't watch anything go on. Like when we're when we go to uh Disney or anything like that, anything that makes me go backwards totally messes up my stomach. I can't deal the deal with that. I can't go around like this either, like spinning. But I do like the hills. I do like the I don't like the hills too.

SPEAKER_03

I'm I'm with you. I know the roller coasters. The older I get for some reason my balance is it's affected. I guess it happens when you get older, but you're uh what do you call it?

SPEAKER_00

Um very burpee tonight today. You're very burpee today.

SPEAKER_03

I have yeah, I'm burping for some reason.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah. Oh, nice.

SPEAKER_03

There we go.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, so well, I mean, the older you get, you start to lose your eye.

SPEAKER_03

I'm trying to sneak it out a little bit at a time, but I just decided, you know what?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I mean, and you know, get older and then you start losing your sight in your eye.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I got an eye issue that's that's not going away, and they can't figure out what's going on with it. That's frustrating. I've I've seen five different doctors in the last month, and nobody matter of fact, I had two doctors quit on me because they couldn't figure out what it was. And I had one doctor tell me, you know what? He goes, Mr. Crumbly, I'm not gonna pass up the opportunity to let somebody else help you with this problem.

SPEAKER_01

He said, What the fuck?

SPEAKER_03

Like you're quitting, right? You're just quitting on me, right? I didn't say that, but that's exactly what he did. He just quit on me. He says, I can't figure it out here. I'm gonna pass you along to the next doctor.

SPEAKER_00

And then not the next doctor says, I don't know what's wrong with your eye. No, then I'm I'm sorry you're going blind in one eye, but I don't know what it is. We've had we tested your lungs, we've done an MRI, we've done this and this, and spinal tap.

SPEAKER_03

Spinal tap, MRI, had my blood tested twice. I had um my chest x-rayed, my pupils dilated 14 times. Um, it's like nobody can figure it out. And finally the doctor said, Well, I guess it's this, and said, You're just gonna have to live with it because there's nothing we can do. That's basically what they told me. I said, All right.

SPEAKER_00

So I told them if he goes blind on me before we get the chance to travel, I'm gonna be pissed off. Yeah, I can't be like going to England and Ireland and Scotland and him not being able to see it, and then I have to explain everything to him. Like, hey, hey, baby, like look at that castle. Oh, sorry, you can't see that castle. That'll still be cool. Let me let me tell you what it's about.

SPEAKER_02

I'll have to go feel the castle. Oh, there's a castle wall here. Wow. It is so most beautiful castle I've ever felt. Who knows, right? Who knows?

SPEAKER_00

I'll be playing Marco Polo. David will be walking around.

SPEAKER_01

Hey David, I'm over here, I'm over here, I'm over here.

SPEAKER_03

Find me. Oh, and I'll go, oh, Aaron, nice to see you again.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, it's not Aaron.

SPEAKER_03

No, I'll know. I will know. Sure. All of a sudden I get slapped. Oh, I'm sorry, lady. Thought you were my wife. You don't mind, do you?

SPEAKER_00

She'll be like, I'll take this blind man home. You'll be in the next thing I know, you'd be like, with your cane, and the lady's taking you away. Hi, David! Guess I'm gonna go see the rest of the castle by myself.

SPEAKER_02

This lady wants me to explore.

SPEAKER_00

The mountains. The mountains of Ireland. Tracts of land, huge tracts of land. She's got huge tracts of land.

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All right.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, Monty Python is his favorite all time. All the time, yeah. And young Frankenstein.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, young Frankenstein. And you talk about sentimental movies of all time.

SPEAKER_00

Talk about being sentimental and tradition. I mean, he just if he has his choice to what he wants to watch, he wants to watch Monty Python.

SPEAKER_03

Tell him what I wanted to watch from uh for Father's Day this year.

SPEAKER_00

What was it?

SPEAKER_03

Do you remember?

SPEAKER_00

I don't know. I might have had a buzz. I don't know. What was it?

SPEAKER_03

You do remember. Animal House.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, Animal House, that's right. We did. We made the case.

SPEAKER_03

I turned the kids on. I turned my kids on to Animal House. I don't know if they loved it or not, but I certainly did. I laughed my ass off just like I was watching it for the very first time. I haven't seen that movie in 30 years, probably. But it was And the kids actually liked it.

SPEAKER_00

They were like they were like rolling their eyes, but we started watching it and they actually got into it.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

It's such a great movie. Such a great flick.

SPEAKER_00

Well, it's kind of cool. Like our younger kids are kind of hippies anyways.

SPEAKER_03

We don't get mad, we get even. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. I remember watching that when I was a kid and I got to see boobies for the first time.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, that was the first R-rated movie I got into. I think I was 15. And when I saw those titties on the screen, it was like heaven opened up and I heard the chorus of the angels singing. I'll be right back. I'm going to the bathroom. It was the most marvelous, most marvelous thing I'd ever seen in my entire life at that time. I'm just saying.

SPEAKER_00

Being honest. Being honest. Well, that's the thing about poor decisions. That was that a poor decision? No. That was a great decision. When you got to go to that radar. The very first radar movie I went to go see it was Risky Business.

SPEAKER_03

Okay. I went into the Risky Business.

SPEAKER_00

I know there was a lot of things in that movie. And I went in and yeah. Tom yeah, Tom Cruise and the train scene. That was pretty hot.

SPEAKER_03

So things you sliding in his underwear. Take those old records off the shelf.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. And whitey tighties.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. He was wearing the whitey tighties at that time.

SPEAKER_00

Who wears whitey tighties anymore.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. He probably wears a thong now.

SPEAKER_00

He probably does.

SPEAKER_03

Like me.

SPEAKER_00

Wow, you've been uh just uncovering so much about yourself on this episode. Episode number 13.

SPEAKER_03

So what's up with you these days?

SPEAKER_00

What's up with me?

SPEAKER_03

I was dancing and working and real estate.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I mean, we've got three houses under contract right now. We've got another house about to uh go on uh live next week.

SPEAKER_02

Next week while you're in Georgia.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, we've got a four-bedroom, three-bathroom, beautiful home in North North North Navarre. I guess it's Holly, really.

SPEAKER_03

Well, it's it's the address is Milton, I think.

SPEAKER_00

No, it's no, it's Navarre.

SPEAKER_03

It's still Navarr?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Way up there. It's right, it's right across from uh Eole Brothers, if you know where that's at.

SPEAKER_00

Off of Gordon Evans, and it's a beautiful nebb neighborhood over there. Uh Herbst Homes, I think, built that that neighborhood. Um that's going live. And uh so real estate's really been picking up. Thank God, knock on wood. Let's keep it going. And I'm back to being a brand ambassador for Carbless.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

And I'm thinking about picking up some more organizations and being brand ambassador for them, like liquor and stuff like that. Yeah. So when Carblis doesn't mean me, I can go different companies, yeah. I go to festivals and and uh I mean people do it for full time. They go out and they get hired and they go to festivals and it's it's good income, you know.

SPEAKER_03

When uh you know, in real estate, you you don't have that steady income. So it's kind of and it doesn't, you know, you pick and choose the jobs that you want, which is really cool. So if you're interested in in being a carpless rapper, uh, you know, let us know because we can we can uh we've hired half the staff anyway. Most of the people that work there came through us, it seems like because uh but we get yeah, yeah, but it makes good money. You just stand there and give out free stuff and tell people how cool the drink is, and you know, but you do it, you pick and choose the jobs you want, and uh you got nothing going on one night. Like, yeah, I got nothing going on, I'll go do this job. And they pay pretty well, and yeah, it's good uh income, just like uh a steady income. So we know that at you know, the 10th of the month and the 25th of the month, we know we have some money coming in. Um, because real estate is is so uh hit or miss.

SPEAKER_00

You know, anybody tells you, you know, we're lucky David's now getting his social security, but if you have a husband and wife team that are doing anything commissioned, whether it's real estate or it's lending or whatever, that and you depend on that that paycheck, um, it's very hard. You need to have somebody that has a salary job in order to make it. Um when you both are depending on commissions, it's it's a hard, it's a hard thing to do. And so you have to get side gigs, whether you're a brand ambassador or you take a part-time job somewhere else. Uh I do happen to like the brand ambassador jobs because it gives me the freedom to go and talk to people and I love people, you know that. Yeah, and I love alcohol.

SPEAKER_03

And what it's fun meeting new people, and that's that's the cool thing about that job is that there's no stress involved at all. It's like no customer service involved at all. It's like, hey, you want something free? No, okay, have a good day. Yes, okay. Well, stop in, let's talk for a second, and then you end up finding out a little something about them. And it people are really cool when when you're in that kind of environment. No stress and there's no pressure. People will just open up and talk to you, and you know, you meet some of the really coolest people ever and um just have a cool conversation and give them some free stuff.

SPEAKER_00

And yeah, people want free samples, they want the the koozies that we we give out. I'm I we were like, listen, if you want if you want this koozie, go to the bar and buy a can and bring it back, and we'll give you a koozie because that's the only way you're getting koozies because they'll not want to sample it and just want koozies. And parvelos is a great drink right now, and uh it's up and coming, so it's been very successful. Yeah, but I I I'm thinking about getting some brand faster jobs doing, you know, Tito's and some of the other liquor companies because it's an easy job. So easy. And I like talking to people, and it's great money. And when real estate is on its lull, I go out and do that, and you know.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Like I said, it's it's good.

SPEAKER_00

It's just you keep burping.

SPEAKER_03

Would you stop it? I'm sorry, I don't know what's going on with me. I didn't even eat anything before he sat down.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

So I don't know.

SPEAKER_00

Um right now. Yeah, I see now. So yeah, um, that's about it. Real real estate's picked up and um thinking about other ways to make money and not have to go back to selling computers. I just had somebody reach out to me today wanting me to sell their software, their iTad software for them. So um I'm gonna at least talk to them about it to see what that entails. But you know, I get tired of selling. I'm not gonna Yeah, I'm not gonna be selling is stressful. It's it is very stressful, especially when it's commission based. And when you're not selling, you're not making any money. You know, I should have probably thought about that when I decided to pick a career out. Back in the day when I started my career, I was a radio DJ. I was radio and television and did PR and stuff. So I didn't really want to go into sales, it just kind of fell into my lap and now I'm doing sales. I'd like I'd like to go back into radio and television. So if you're watching and you're a radio station or a television station, I'm I'm available. I mean, I know I'm a little old, but I I can still kick it. I'm still doing brand ambassadorship. I mean yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Well, I used to be your hippie dippy weather man, and I'm bringing you your hippie dippy weather man. That's Carlin.

SPEAKER_00

It's so funny everybody thinks um he's a surfer or you're hippie or whatever. Everybody thinks you're like he calls they call him the dude.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Everybody's like, Man, your husband's like the dude. Big Lebowski. You know, I said, Yeah, he is kind of like the dude. Wears his flip-flops and his robe, and you know, he's always looking for some milk. Anyways, all right, I gotta go because I've got a yeah, the Emero Coast Wildlife Refuge has a board meeting tonight, and I have to be there. I've got four more meetings and my off the board, been there for Six years. Six years on the board.

SPEAKER_03

That's a long time.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. But I loved every moment of it.

SPEAKER_03

I love the the the place is still going strong. And uh they they're building new uh uh cages and encamp enclosures for the the wildlife that they're some of the enclosures are so old and and you know in this weather in Florida, it's just termite infested yeah, they're termite falling apart. And uh so they're they're rebuilding one of the biggest structures, right? What's that for?

SPEAKER_00

That's for what actually when after the the like let me like rephrase this after the skunks or the foxes or the possums or whatever, after they've gone through the the feeding stage, the baby stages, they put them in there to get before they release it.

SPEAKER_03

So they're like juveniles, yeah, animals and they get to hang out little bitty babies anymore.

SPEAKER_00

Little bitty babies are kept in cages and they feed them and stuff, but when they get to where they can run around, they'll put them out there and these it's enclosure, and then and then once they get to the point where they can feed themselves or whatever, then they sit and they release them. So and we've had over a thousand babies so far this year. I mean it's been crazy how many abandoned wildlife or or you know, the birds that have been blown out of their nests or possums that have been hit by a car and the babies are still.

SPEAKER_03

We've got some bad storms here this year for sure.

SPEAKER_00

So yeah, I got uh like four more meetings and I'm off the board. And I think this coming year for 2027, I'm gonna start saying no. No more, no more. I can't do this.

SPEAKER_03

Well, you can only volunteer so much. And people that's the thing, people know that you usually volunteer for stuff. Eventually somebody's gonna take advantage of you and ask you to do stuff that you don't want to do, but they know you're gonna say yes. So and that's what I hate is when people take advantage of that, you know, your your kindness and your you know, your volunteerism or whatever you call it.

SPEAKER_00

You're talking about me or you. Yeah, not me. I know you say no.

SPEAKER_03

I tell people no, like volunteer for the waterboard stuff, but yeah. Not not just that, and there's other stuff, but I know when to say no. I know when I'm like, you know what, my plate's pretty full. I I just I don't know if I can, you know, I don't want to volunteer for something and not be able to give it a hundred percent. If I volunteer for something and I have to you know hustle to get there and I'm not, you know, not really there mentally, I I don't want to do it. Like I'd rather, you know, make sure that, hey, okay, I've got time for that in my life, and I really want to help out this particular cause. So yeah, I'll volunteer. Yeah, I am a people pleaser. I I say yes a lot. And so this year's a lot.

SPEAKER_00

So I need to say no.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, so in 2027, more travel and more no's.

SPEAKER_03

More travel.

SPEAKER_00

More travel, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

2027. We're gonna think about traveling. We'll we'll do the podcast on the road, we'll take it on the road with us in our new RV that we're gonna buy in 2027.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, that's we're manifesting that. We're putting it out there, and our kids are gonna get into real estate, so when we're out traveling, we refer all our real estate to our kids. Yeah, and they can handle all our business. And they can pay us. There we go. We'll get a referral fee.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, of course.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Well, it's gonna be our business, so it'll just we'll just and I can just go to we can go to all these festivals, the Kippy festivals, and do brand ambassadorships. You know, we'll go to Burning Man and all those cool.

SPEAKER_03

I don't know about right now. Burning Man seems to have come out of control, become out of control. Just so many people there now. But back in the day, you know, ten years ago or twenty years ago, um, it would have been kind of cool. But we'll see. Who knows? Who knows what we'll end up?

SPEAKER_00

Who knows?

SPEAKER_03

Who knows?

SPEAKER_00

On that note, it's uh time to go, and I want to say thank you guys for watching.

SPEAKER_03

Just you thanks for dealing with me crying. I'm sorry, I was a crap baby today.

SPEAKER_00

Well, it's okay.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, it's one of those things. Yeah, such as luck.

SPEAKER_00

We had uh I just got a a notification last week that uh a hundred episodes have been downloaded, so I guess somebody's watching us. Somebody's watching. It's probably our family.

SPEAKER_03

Appreciate you guys. Thank you.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, so if you like this episode, please share it, comment, yeah, reach out to us.

SPEAKER_03

We'd love to have share, like and share, and follow.

SPEAKER_00

And follow.

SPEAKER_02

Like, share, and follow.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, and maybe you'll win a trip with us.

SPEAKER_02

Maybe we'll win a free car. Yeah, maybe not.

SPEAKER_00

You can go with us. You can go with us in the RV. We'll like travel together.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, that'd be cool.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, we need we need a driver.

SPEAKER_03

We'll take one uh one of our fans on our road trip with us.

SPEAKER_00

They can drive and we can drink.

SPEAKER_02

I like that, Neil.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, all expenses paid.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, we'll go see the Klein winery together. Yeah, we should. Maybe I'll reach out to the clients and see if uh Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

If anybody talks to the Klein family, tell them Aaron and David said hi. They're we're we're like that. We're close.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, but yeah, we appreciate you guys watching, and we'll be back next week, maybe if he didn't get back in time, do episode 14, and we'll have to think of more creative things to talk about. Yeah. Less tears, hopefully.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, or more tears. Depending on if y'all like the tears, I'll cry every time. Please believe me, I could too. Yeah, I could just get me talking about something sad.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Yeah, he's the crier of the family. I don't cry, he cries.

SPEAKER_03

I cried during movies. I cried during Fred Claws, but that's a whole nother story.

SPEAKER_00

We'll wait and tell you that story like next time. Put a pin in that one. We'll tell you that story next time.

SPEAKER_01

Next time.

SPEAKER_00

All right, well, guys, have a good good rest of your weeks and uh weeks, week. And uh yeah.

SPEAKER_03

And hey, cheers to bad decisions. Poor decisions. Well, cheers to not having bad decisions and having poor decisions. All right. Cheers. Cheers.