Read the problem

Advice from Grandpa Branch

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SPEAKER_00 0:03

What is going on here? Must be honest, I'm sorry. Oh yeah, I'm on the wrong audio.

SPEAKER_01 0:10

Okay. Man, that should do it. Hello. We just wasted 12 seconds of our listeners' time. Oh, you're already recording? Because you weren't prepared.

SPEAKER_00 0:22

I wasn't prepared and I should be, because I knew you were gonna call me today.

SPEAKER_01 0:25

Right, because I call every day. That's kind of exactly. Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 0:31

It's so great.

SPEAKER_01 0:34

What do you got for us today?

SPEAKER_00 0:36

Well, right now I'm d changing a tire on a golf cart for the first time in my life.

SPEAKER_01 0:44

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 0:44

But it's kind of like changing a tire on a car, it's just smaller.

SPEAKER_01 0:50

Yeah, they are.

SPEAKER_00 0:53

Well, here's the story though. My mom's got a golf cart and got she they're redoing the roof on her building. Yeah. And she ran over a nail and got a flat, and I called the the guy who does the golf cart maintenance, and I said, Hey man, can you get out there and change that tire or fix that tire? He said, Yeah, I'll go Monday. That was last Friday. And then I saw my mom last night and I said, Did that guy come fix your tire? And she said, No. So I said, Okay. And I texted him, his wife texted back to say, Oh, he's been real busy, blah blah blah, without saying when he's gonna come or if he's gonna come. And then I thought, geez, I can do it. You're you're gonna have to go, you're grown up. I can do it. So the thing that was dumb, the dumb thing. Have you ever done a dumb thing? Never. Well, I did a dumb thing. I got the tire iron and I didn't get the jack that I have. You know, the kind of like you slide it under, you pump it, it goes up real easy. It's nice, you know, hundred dollar jack or whatever. So I get here and I take the tire and I'm starting to undo the tire. I'm like, oh shit, I gotta jack this up. Well, my car's got a jack, like that, you know, comes with the car, but it's under, you know, it's underneath all my tools. So I had to take all the tools out. Then you got to take the tire out, and then there's this rusty old jack under there. But it did the trick, man. It got the it got the the golf cart up high enough for me to get this tire off, and that's where that's where I'm at now. I just had to put all the junk junk back in my car.

SPEAKER_01 2:43

And what kind of lesson can we learn from this? A life lesson. Planning. There we go. Planning thing. We're back to planning with you. We're back to the city.

SPEAKER_00 2:51

I should have been like, what am I gonna need to change a tire? And the first you only need two things. You need a tire iron and you need a jack.

SPEAKER_01 3:01

And you need some um some planning.

SPEAKER_00 3:05

We as we've got well, that's the planning, is that you need the two things. Oh. And I just got one thing, but it's okay because I I just it just meant I had to take out all the tools and use a subpar jet rusty jack. But hey, it worked, and I'm on my way to the tire place now.

SPEAKER_01 3:23

Let's let's feel let's let's as we do go back into history and um try to get to something interesting to talk about rather than tires and golf carts. Yeah, okay, okay, sorry. My grandpa branch always used to say, read the problem. Ding bing bing. You have to read the problem.

SPEAKER_00 3:51

Well, and I spend my life reading problems, you know. I spend my life going, okay, let me think through this. How I'm gonna do it in my mind. I'm gonna do the job in my mind, you know. Oh, I'm gonna need tape. Oh, I'm gonna need a knife, oh, I'm gonna need a a whatever hammer. I'm gonna I'm going through my mind, and then I get everything I need. And and I will say 70, 20, 30 percent of the time, I've there's something that comes up that I didn't think of, but that's why I keep everything in my car that you can ever imagine. I've got wires, I've got anyway. I'm not gonna tell you because I could the whole eight minutes could be me talking about everything in the car.

SPEAKER_01 4:29

Yeah. What's what's what's something your grandparents used to say? Oh, my granny, as old Mima used to say, or whatever.

SPEAKER_00 4:40

My granny, who um I knew the best, my dad's mother, she lived in the house where I live now that we inherited. She she had all kinds of really great sayings, just like just old country sayings that she would say. I would I remember we were at her house, um, and I, you know, she would make me like a she had these frozen uh peppers, stuffed peppers, you know, that she would pull out and cook up for us. I say us because a lot of times Caroline would be there with me. And uh and then one time I was there and I was yawning, and then she said, I can see a tick on your liver.

SPEAKER_01 5:26

I love it. Yeah, we gotta do that. We gotta do eight minutes on just sayings that we grew up with.

SPEAKER_00 5:32

Well, I don't remember them all. I mean, I'm my mind is deteriorating, you know. I don't remember some of the funny stuff she would say. Deteriorate. She was great. She actually um she got interviewed by one of my cousins uh for, I don't know, an hour or two on cassette tape, and she told stories about her childhood uh growing up um where they they were uh tobacco farmers. And uh she she told a lot of good stories about that, and and and and I actually did digitize that in my uh in another podcast I have called Satchcast. There's a at least two episodes where I play those tapes, but they're they're kind of hard to hear because it's a bad quality tape to begin with, and then I'm trying to play the tape on a podcast, but if I put my headphones on, I can I can really hear all the stories.

SPEAKER_01 6:28

They're really great. Here's another here's another Sadieism that we use every day. There's we don't we don't we don't say that it's bad quality. Sadie would say it's not well quality. Not well quality, right? Or it's well quality, which is good quality, or not and we we we say quality a lot too because my mom always says when is that well? We don't say well quality. Yeah, that's the thing. We that's one of the things we do every almost every I mean again we don't say any other thing other than well quality. It's well quality.

SPEAKER_00 7:03

Well we s we my mom when she buys stuff, she buys good stuff and she always calls it quality. So that's how we that's how we say it. It's quality stuff, yeah. You know, but well quality is good too. Well quality, yeah. Uh so how's your how's your health?

SPEAKER_01 7:24

We can't pack this open. It's we have we have to, it's seven we in 30 minutes we have to we're that much into it already? You know what happened that was really great? We talked for seven minutes about a golf cart. Go. What happened?

SPEAKER_00 7:40

Um I talked to my son last night and he said he was listening to the podcast because it was eight minutes. It was a digestible right, you know. That's what we're gonna do. Isn't that great? I love it. I love it. But we gotta think of I gotta think of good things to say to our kids, you know, things that they're gonna help inspire them in life. Right. I'm gonna start working on that.