What do bedazzled Crocs, a jawless alligator, and "murder chickens" have in common? They all feature in this wild episode that captures the quirky essence of Florida living! We start by revealing the hidden dangers of stingray season in the Gulf and how Manny's habit of using safety instructions as rolling papers leads to some hilarious misunderstandings. Florida news doesn't disappoint as we recount the bizarre tale of an alligator being hurled through a drive-thru window, and then debate the contradictory combination of comfort and awkwardness found in Lena's stylish Crocs.
Brace yourself for a weekend of adrenaline and giggles as we recount our daring escapades at Gatorland's Gatorpalooza. Imagine zip-lining over an alligator pit, meeting Jolene, the top-jawless alligator, and discussing the ethics of alligator breeding. But the thrill doesn’t stop there—next, we navigate the intimidating cassowary sanctuary, where Manny’s uneasy encounters with the "murder chickens" are sure to leave you in stitches. These adventures spark deeper reflections on our roles as alphas in the animal kingdom, blending excitement with introspection.
The journey through our childhood memories brings a nostalgic yet humorous perspective on staying cool in the Florida heat. From portable fans to mischievous antics, we reminisce about simpler times spent outdoors compared to today's tech-savvy generation. We also share our unique hurricane prep rituals, the hilarious irony of last-minute water hoarding, and the anticipation for the Florida Man Games. To top it off, we even fantasize about stumbling upon a million-dollar package, blending humor with hypothetical scenarios that are as entertaining as they are imaginative. Tune in for a hearty laugh and a relatable glimpse into the whimsical world of Florida life!
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What do bedazzled Crocs, a jawless alligator, and "murder chickens" have in common? They all feature in this wild episode that captures the quirky essence of Florida living! We start by revealing the hidden dangers of stingray season in the Gulf and how Manny's habit of using safety instructions as rolling papers leads to some hilarious misunderstandings. Florida news doesn't disappoint as we recount the bizarre tale of an alligator being hurled through a drive-thru window, and then debate the contradictory combination of comfort and awkwardness found in Lena's stylish Crocs.
Brace yourself for a weekend of adrenaline and giggles as we recount our daring escapades at Gatorland's Gatorpalooza. Imagine zip-lining over an alligator pit, meeting Jolene, the top-jawless alligator, and discussing the ethics of alligator breeding. But the thrill doesn’t stop there—next, we navigate the intimidating cassowary sanctuary, where Manny’s uneasy encounters with the "murder chickens" are sure to leave you in stitches. These adventures spark deeper reflections on our roles as alphas in the animal kingdom, blending excitement with introspection.
The journey through our childhood memories brings a nostalgic yet humorous perspective on staying cool in the Florida heat. From portable fans to mischievous antics, we reminisce about simpler times spent outdoors compared to today's tech-savvy generation. We also share our unique hurricane prep rituals, the hilarious irony of last-minute water hoarding, and the anticipation for the Florida Man Games. To top it off, we even fantasize about stumbling upon a million-dollar package, blending humor with hypothetical scenarios that are as entertaining as they are imaginative. Tune in for a hearty laugh and a relatable glimpse into the whimsical world of Florida life!
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People didn't know we had a stingray season. It's from May, so it's right now, until October in the Gulf. So they teach you.
Speaker 2:You don't see those signs at the beach when you go. Have you ever noticed?
Speaker 3:I dug it out. I don't read signs. Oh okay, I figured out what instructions I get my warnings from Jesus.
Speaker 1:I'm not reading you. Manny is the person that get instructions out the box and throw them away. Manny is the person that gets the instructions out of the box and throw them away.
Speaker 3:Throw them away. I can see the picture. I know where I'm going. Relax, I see the picture's not that complicated.
Speaker 1:Just look at your why you balling them up, though Don't worry about it, I got this.
Speaker 3:I just use it for smoking papers. I just throw tobacco in the instructions and smoke them.
Speaker 2:There's two very large alligators out here. I can't, I can't Hi, I'm not lying.
Speaker 3:Florida man Accused of throwing an alligator through a drive-thru window.
Speaker 1:What's happening, everybody, this is the that's On Florida podcast. I'm the host. Omg, it's Wix. We had a pretty lit break, so I'm going to let everybody introduce themselves and we're going to get into this.
Speaker 3:Manny Knox, I don't know what you're going to get from me today. I feel angry, I feel tired, I feel excited, but either way, like share, subscribe. Lena walked in the door today and I was pissed off. She looked like a mess, like she stumbled in off of a jet from a foreign country where she had no plans on going to. Her crocs was bugging out. I like the crowd a mess.
Speaker 2:It was so good luck listen, I love y'all because I'm here I could be in bed sleeping my sins away. But I came here so that we could rock this show, okay. So, give me some type of credit.
Speaker 3:That's what I did, but okay.
Speaker 1:Okay, I said sleeping my sins away. I like those though.
Speaker 2:My blinked out Crocs. I like them.
Speaker 3:She walked in and told me I don't wear Crocs. How you don't wear Crocs. We got 73 charms. Tell me, this is just slight work. She walked in and talked about I don't wear Crocs. How you don't wear Crocs when you got 73 charms. Talking about this is just slight work.
Speaker 1:There's not a free whole load. There's a few I see.
Speaker 3:But it looks like you stole this from a case in a Yeda shop. No.
Speaker 2:I like gold, so you know, I feel okay.
Speaker 3:Those are her wedding shoes.
Speaker 2:Even if you don't like crocs, I feel like you're obligated to own a pair. Yeah, because everyone has them, then they're comfortable. So those are my house shoes. But if you're gonna buy a pair of crocs and you're not a fan of crocs, you gotta bedazzle them to your liking so that's why they look the way that they do, because doesn't that scream lena?
Speaker 1:yes, okay then so that's what it was I wear a cross because they all all terrain. Like I could do everything in these crosses. I could go from a basketball game to you know what I'm saying doing some stuff in the yard. Like I could do everything in these crosses, you just got to put them in sports mode. Yeah, you just got to throw them in sports mode. If I have to run, I throw these things in sports mode.
Speaker 2:I have a serious question is it just me, or is it a little difficult sometimes to walk in them Like you kind of like, do the little like. Okay, I thought it was just me, because sometimes I don't know what it is Like, I either step on one or the other or it does like this emergency break on my body because I feel like, okay, I thought it was just me.
Speaker 1:I'm like man. I knew that just now.
Speaker 2:I'm like these things need to come with instructions, because I've almost lost my life a few times.
Speaker 3:I think it's the alcohol.
Speaker 2:I don't wear. Oh, I do drink at the house, okay, Never mind, never mind.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I almost took a couple tumbles.
Speaker 1:Okay that's what I thought, but so I was going to tell y'all. So so I went to Gatorland last Saturday. They had like the Gatorpalooza, they had a Florida man competition. It's a crazy situation. They get in a boat, they ride in a boat in an alligator infested water and they throw people, throw hot dogs at them. It's a crazy situation.
Speaker 1:But either way, some kind of way I got talked into doing a zip line over the alligator pit. So I'm over this alligator and I don't like heights. So I was over the alligator pit, so I'm over this and I don't like heights. So I was like you know, I'm okay with the alligators, it's the heights. And I was trying to back out. But we did it as a group. It was like six or seven of us, maybe eight, maybe eight, and I was like I can't be the only one. But then when we got up there, I'm like I don't care if I'm the only one, I'm backing out, but then chardae decides to go first. So I'm like I can't back out. Now if I don't care if I'm the only one I'm backing out, but then Sade decides to go first.
Speaker 1:So I'm like I can't back out and I was like why she had to go first, because if she had went second or third, I would have saw the first person. I'm like, all right, y'all, I'm out, I'm going to go. Let me out of this thing. Remember how Cuba Gooding and Boys in the Hood were in the hood with his in the back of the? Let me out. That would have been me right there. Let me out because. But she gonna go first. So but I did it and it was exciting and I'll do it again. Did, uh, the alligator try to bite you? Nah, they don't come up out of the water. They know who I am. They know who I am. Wicks, the protector. I met jolene. Jolene doesn't have a top jaw, but some kind of way. Jolene is still strong, like strong, and people are like, oh, we don't, you know, but Jolene is strong, y'all.
Speaker 3:I've been looking for somebody without a top jaw for a long time.
Speaker 1:So what was? But yeah, gator Palooza 75th birthday. I bet like Ben was there. Ben said he wanted us to come out and collect eggs with him.
Speaker 2:What type of eggs?
Speaker 1:Alligator.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:What do you mean collect?
Speaker 3:From where?
Speaker 2:The chicken.
Speaker 1:You know they be breeding out there.
Speaker 2:Breeding what?
Speaker 1:Why is he breeding?
Speaker 2:We have enough.
Speaker 1:Ben has an alligator part.
Speaker 2:I don't care what he has, we have enough.
Speaker 1:Remember the guy we showed y'all, we showed you that was riding an alligator, and then he had Manny and Rudy take a picture with that.
Speaker 2:Him. We have enough. There's no need to breed when we are almost outnumbered at this point.
Speaker 1:No, we second place right now as far as. Yo watch, they're going to take over, mark my word, mark, my word Look, louisiana has like 2 million. We're at like 1.3, 1.4. We're around that number.
Speaker 2:That is a lot.
Speaker 1:I know I mean compared, because we got all the other stuff but like. But then you got to realize the Python's down at Everglades trying to take them out. So you got to keep bringing them up.
Speaker 2:You got to get our alligator army together.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:I can't.
Speaker 1:But then the day after that right, I decided to face my fears and went to this cassowary sanctuary it's Cassowary Conservancy, I think it's what it's called Cassowary Conservancy and we went in there and now I'm preparing myself for these cassowary right. I done did all my research. I realized that these are the birds that even australians are scared of because they will they call them murder chickens. You know what I'm saying? Because they will take you out. Um, but I did not expect the beef with the other animals. Um, that happened, but, um, I think manny had the animals had more beef with Manny than anybody.
Speaker 2:I feel like Manny just came with an attitude when, like here or to the park, oh, to the thing.
Speaker 3:Well, first I want to say that's crazy. You said something about it was what? Chicken Murder chicken, Murder chicken, what do they call it? I messed with a girl in Immokalee. They on Immokalee. They called her a murder chick and I had a pregnancy scare. We got through that. But to speak on, is that animal? You know how you're the protector. Yeah, I don't know why, when it comes to animals, they know like I'm the alpha. Is that what happened? Anything animal related? They lock in on me because they're like oh, there's an alpha, Is that what?
Speaker 3:happened Like when I go to like the zoos like the lions are all calm, and then I come up to the cage and they start bugging out Like the lion People are looking at me like what are you doing to these animals?
Speaker 3:And I'm like I know you wouldn't understand. So you're like this is alpha energy. You Mufasa, sometimes Scar, for the most part, so that's really what it was they felt, especially when you got Rudy next to you. I thought you was going to be the one. Rudy was the scariest thing I ever saw in my life. I thought there's cages in front of us and he's acting like cages aren't there?
Speaker 2:He was still like four feet away from the cage. Have you not seen animals get through cages? That's happened before. I don't well.
Speaker 3:Well, I was going to say I don't feel like that was going to happen here, but there was a couple that got out of the cage.
Speaker 2:There you go, I mean but either way.
Speaker 1:The ostrich listen you with the protector and you with the alpha, it's not going to. I didn't realize the ostrich was so big Like you see, the emu, you see the castle, you're like these are big birds and think about it.
Speaker 2:If you could sit on them they're big.
Speaker 3:Well, what's crazy with this? Like you know, you had the emos and I think it's just because I missed her, but I don't know. They look just like Lena. Like I was turning around. I was like wait, did she surprise us? And Wilson's like no, no, that's a light-skinned emu. I was like yo, this looks just like Lena. No, that did not happen. I was like yo, I thought it was Lena, that's crazy dog.
Speaker 1:I was focused on surviving. You know that I'm afraid of birds and these are the biggest. So they told us about the emu, the cassowary, and then we seen the ostrich. Well, we went through another like back further and they had the all-star roster of birds that I'm scared of. I don't think it was one there. There was a peacock, there was ducks, there was geese, there was a turkey, there was like every bird Chickens, Chickens, Every bird that I'm afraid of was there and they were just roaming. And then there was a duck with a hot top and I was like that's kind of cool. He just had a hot top. He stuck his head in a socket and his hair.
Speaker 3:Kind of Remember when we was leaving. They started surrounding his car. Which one Was it?
Speaker 1:the emus, they wasn't going to let you leave. They were in the so we're trying to leave and the emu was just standing in the road. They wouldn't let you go, they wouldn't let you go past, they were just in the road. We had a security guard. We did have an emu security guard, but when the cassowary tried to get the lady, that's when that emu was like nah, I'm good. He said I'm good, this is where I did heart.
Speaker 3:I'll see y'all on the other side. I this is where I depart. I'll see y'all on the other side.
Speaker 1:I've reached my maximum capacity. When y'all ready to come back over here, I'll be over here. We ain't messing with that Catty, but no, it was a cool experience though. Cassowary Conservancy they're supposed to be open to the public at one point. I know they're working their way up to that, but we can go back. It was fun.
Speaker 3:I survived the battle. I got attacked, I fought it off?
Speaker 2:How far was the drive?
Speaker 3:Like two hours, two hours it's right across the state. It didn't feel long at all. Rudy was like holding my hand the whole way. He tried to grab my thigh at one point. I was like it's not that type of car ride.
Speaker 1:Then I thought Rudy was going to go down. So the lady was like her name was like Jennifer, right, I'm going to say yeah. So she was like hey, don't get close to the gate. And then Rudy comes behind us with a camera and he has it on the gate and I'm like Rudy.
Speaker 3:It was like when he said what this gate? And then the camera was right there, and then he tried to set me up.
Speaker 1:So the lady, like she opens the gate and she's like this is, you know, the cast where they don't really like people. But if I stand in the middle, because this one is one of the nice ones, rudy was like, well, can Wicks go take, can Wicks stand next to it? I'm like Rudy, why would I do that? Why would I do that to something they call murder?
Speaker 2:chicken. I think he was like motivating you to get over your fear. I think he was just encouraging you like you got this type of thing.
Speaker 1:I wish you would have seen what happened when the other birds came. How Rudy was there came, how rude it was. There was no motivation there, but it was cool. It was cool Out of all the animals there. I did not expect to have beef with an alpaca. What was the alpaca name?
Speaker 3:I can't remember.
Speaker 1:It was very aggressive though. Yeah, he came up on man, he came up on Sade, and I was cool until the lady said, if he put his ears back, look away. And I was like, nah, I'm not playing those games, I'm going to go around his car. So then he just turned around and walked up on me. So I walked away and then he walked up on Sade and I'm like, if he do something, I got you, but from across the car, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3:Yell aggressively. Huh, you were going to yell aggressively. I was going to stand in the car and make myself look bigger.
Speaker 1:Look bigger, yeah, but no, I wasn't messing with that thing, but anyway, it was a cool experience. We had a lot of fun. I overcame most of my fears, but now I got a new one, and it's alpaca.
Speaker 2:I'm not messing with them. I've seen enough videos for me to be like eh.
Speaker 1:That's it, yeah.
Speaker 3:It was nice, it was cute, it was calm, it was tame. It just smelled some fear. And then I went after it a little bit.
Speaker 1:And then Manny almost had a headbutt in competition with a goat named Maverick.
Speaker 3:If the lady wasn't there, I would've went in on her.
Speaker 1:He put his head up. He, he was coming after Manny, but Manny wasn't backing down, so Good for you.
Speaker 3:I just never know. You know, I didn't know she was going to be cool with me going all out with this.
Speaker 1:You should have.
Speaker 2:You should have got down there and, just like I'm mature, Looking at the video, it's not that I don't believe in you. I'm pretty sure that thing would have pretty much effed you up.
Speaker 3:No, I would have tore that thing up and put it on a grill. I was literally looking down there looking at her, like am I going to?
Speaker 1:beat a goat up.
Speaker 3:I let it slide Because he wanted the smoke and I was willing to give it all of the smoke. But, like I said, I didn't know where my limits were. Because here I go. We start off by having a good time and now we got an unconscious goat on the floor in front of me and I'm screaming.
Speaker 1:Brooklyn over its face. We know, we've seen it. It caught the pipes up. I'm with you, dog. This is Brooklyn.
Speaker 3:I'm with you, but now I know she's scared of it too. I'm going to take the thing out, bro, headlock it. That's it. Throw it over my back. That's all Until it back to consciousness. But I'm going to throw it over my back, will you make?
Speaker 2:a carpet like this.
Speaker 3:No, I won't kill it. I'm going to just have it over my back. So the people and I know what happened to this thing and don't play with me. Don't play with me. I can't, oh man.
Speaker 1:So anything, I know you were parlaying yesterday in this sun.
Speaker 3:Listen, you need to stop.
Speaker 2:Listen, no, you need to stop. Well, I'm not even gonna say what has to be told In order for me to stop, because we already know what happened last week Selena, has limits. That you know I. I said oh, I'm not gonna Go out until someone Tells me to you know, sit down.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, and then I'll sit down and all I got was Messages of people telling me to sit down, images of chairs to sit on, a very a comment where a guy expressed where he wanted me to sit down and I was like, oh my God, how did we take it to that level? Level. So, um, I'm outside because I choose to be, because you know that's what I'm doing for now, until someone special comes into my life and tells me hey, honey, stay in. And I'll be like yay, cuddles, because I prefer cuddles than going out. But I went out yesterday. The Florida sun is disrespectful, very. I would suggest everyone to invest in those little travel fans.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Yes, so there was somebody there that had one and it's, you know, through like some little mist that saves your life, unless you got fake eyebrows and lashes, like I do. Then you can't use the water. But the fans is pretty good, and I'm just scared of what's coming this summer, because if it's already this hot right now, to the point that you feel like you're overheating, what is it going to be like in the summer?
Speaker 1:Listen. So before we get to that, my AC went out recently, like out, out, like it wasn't halfway out, it didn't freeze, it went out out. And let me tell y'all, those two days felt like we were on a show with survivor, like it was horrible, and all I kept thinking was at least it's not august, because at least at that nighttime.
Speaker 1:It got into like 68, so it was like cooler at night. You put the fans up and but that ac came on and it hits you for the first time. When that cold air hits you, that's Listen. You don't appreciate your AC until they go out, and that's when you be like you know what I appreciate you Please don't do that to me.
Speaker 3:Like how did they do it before this Bro?
Speaker 2:I don't think it used to be this hot because let's think about it Was it this hot when we were kids?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:No, it was not this impossible, Because I played outside from 9 am to 9 pm and I was okay, Like I didn't come inside to get a drink of water, Like I was good. Now I go to the mailbox and I come inside and I'm freaking dying.
Speaker 3:You continue not to. Let's just call up because I want to go back to something. So when Lena was speaking, gentlemen, all I heard was, if you're out there thinking, am I the person that she's referring to? About the special person to ask her to sit down and cuddle? Yes, it's you, Pursue it.
Speaker 2:No, pursue it aggressively.
Speaker 3:Pursue it and pursue it aggressively To me. I heard her cry for help. No Cry for help, so that's the first thing I want to talk about.
Speaker 2:Boy, they're crying to me.
Speaker 3:Guy, you, if you think that, if you think that comment that you're thinking about saying is inappropriate, it's not and let her have it. Let her have it because she loves aggression. Number two she's what's going on with her right now. She's battling the fact that she's old. She's getting old. She used to just be able to, she said. I played from nine to nine. Now she can't even get the mail. How many adventures has Lena been on with us? Not yet, and it's intentional. There's always something that magically comes up right.
Speaker 3:Well, she said, so it's like but she's out here being a city girl when she wants to be.
Speaker 2:I need a ball in your car when I go out period.
Speaker 3:It's that you know everybody reaches that age and you know it's just what it is. And she said the most senior citizen thing I heard tell me I want to go out with a little electric USB fan.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to lie that neck fan I got from the golf tournament, but I would say okay. So the reason why I say it was because you think about were younger. Right, we were outside all the time playing non-stop yes now and we look at and I, I, when my younger days, I did work at sam's club and I worked outside for like 10 years but you don't realize it until you're done doing it, because you especially when you get older.
Speaker 1:I don't know if it just feels hotter, but it is. I actually went back and looked at the temperatures and it's the same. It's the same. And you see these kids walking outside with hoodies.
Speaker 2:They're outside playing, is the sun just closer to the planet To.
Speaker 1:Florida.
Speaker 2:Okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 1:So right over Florida. Okay, that makes sense, it's just. Florida, my daughter complains.
Speaker 2:I never complained. When I was young I was excited. I was excited for the weekends to play with the neighborhood kids and you know all these activities outside and just have fun. And then, when you were young, once you heard that electrical bulbs, the streetlights, it made that sound. When it's about to come out and all the lights are coming out, that was our cue like get back inside. You know it's late, but I'm talking about 12 hours outside, faithfully just having fun and playing, everything. You could think of my daughter. I'll be like, hey, you know you have a volleyball net outside. She hits that ball three times and comes in. She's like I can't do it. This is not OK, this is a punishment. I was like I was thrilled to be outside.
Speaker 1:You want to know why? Because we didn't have anything to do inside the house. So if you don't have anything to do inside the house, you're going to go outside and be creative.
Speaker 2:No, I was on my Nintendo 64.
Speaker 1:Oh, you're younger than me.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1:When I was younger we had a Nintendo, but it barely worked. You got to blow it and put the alcohol strip, but you only had the one. And like we didn't have multiple t, like we had like a few tvs and my mom would had a tv in her room but she would watch the tv in the living room. So you really can't watch the tv. So you just like you know what, either I'm gonna do this or, and then you kind of get tired of playing against because you don't beat every game you got.
Speaker 2:So that's true. Yeah, no, that's true. Even the tv, like I remember then moving the antennas because I would lose signal. So I'm in there like raving with it and stuff, and then I got frustrated and then I would just go outside, yeah, so, yeah, that's true. There's more things to do? Yeah, for sure, because now they got their phones, they got video games.
Speaker 1:They got social media. They got so many things that they could do to occupy their time. It was we. Just all we did was go outside, we was playing, you know, racing in the street. That's why we were swimming. Listen, I lived a very crazy life. We got in a lot of trouble growing up because you had to get creative, you got to create fun, so, but I think that's probably why I'm you know me and my cousins we you know me and my cousins we're very creative. Now what?
Speaker 2:is one thing that you did that was super crazy when you were young, Like the one that got you in trouble with your parents. Like butt whooping trouble.
Speaker 1:Listen, I was the kid that got a whooping daily. Well, I told y'all, I set my room on fire. There was another time. I was trying to fix a fan and I knocked out the power and a whole complex. Oh yeah, I did this.
Speaker 2:Everybody. Parents knew it was they do?
Speaker 1:They came right to me. It was sparks everywhere. I was burned my face. Yeah, I was. I was a or my fire and because I built like a fire and farm but you know we didn't have the money to like get the fire ant farm so I would build my own and I dropped it and fire ants were everywhere.
Speaker 2:Inside the house.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, took me a long time to get them out. I was a crazy. I was a different kid. That's why I'm so glad. Yeah, I'm smart. I did my damage outside the house.
Speaker 3:I was usually an accessory, though, to other people's ridiculousness. Oh yeah, Just like a backup.
Speaker 2:What about you, Manny?
Speaker 3:What's the craziest?
Speaker 1:The craziest thing I did I broke somebody's window with a big chicken bone. What kind of chicken was it?
Speaker 2:It was a thick bone. Was it a turkey bone?
Speaker 3:I was going to say, was it a turkey bone? It could have been. It was a big bone.
Speaker 2:So you just threw it at someone's window.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I didn't expect it to break actually, because the kid was messing with me. He was throwing stuff in the window.
Speaker 2:Did your parents have to pay for it?
Speaker 3:Nah we hood, so like it was like a movie, because I remember picking up the bone and I'm like, oh, this is a light bone, I'm good and is a light bone, I'm good. And I threw the bone and everything went in slow motion and I was like, oh my god, that window's gonna break, like in slow motion. I was like, oh, it's gonna break. So we ran. It was it's brooklyn, so there is no backyard. Your backyard is the roof of the first building under you. So we ran into my grandma's house and sat on the couch with the plastic cover yeah, just acting like we did nothing, acting like we did nothing.
Speaker 3:We was outside for five minutes. She knew something was up. She's like wait, y'all was only outside for five minutes. What happened? And we're like we don't know what you're talking about. It's hot and we watch your TV and then you hear that Doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, where everybody started snitching on everybody. Oh no, it was him. He made me do it, he threw it. So that's the one I remember.
Speaker 3:There's other ones, but they're like they make a lot of my cousins look like serial killers and I ain't going to really do that. I got some worse. I got some worse, way worse. But the one that I personally did I broke the window with the chicken bone. I got, though, with the chicken bone, I got worse. Oh no, there's one that's worse than that.
Speaker 3:Real quick, me and my three cousins, we outside, you get bored, you get creative. Mean old lady that lived under us. They called her milagro. Rest in peace. Um, she was mean.
Speaker 3:So, my cousin, I wasn't a fat one at this point because I was about to say something to make me feel like the fat one in this story. I was a skinny one in this story. My fat little cousin's like hungry. And then my bad cousin was like bet Milagro just went food shopping, we're going to go rob her. And we went in her house and we ain't know.
Speaker 3:Anyway, we taking everything out of the fridge and we got a little clubhouse in the backyard Clubhouse. You know what I'm saying. We built our little clubhouse under a huge birdcage and we're just filling it up with food and then we hear something. And you look down the hallway and you see me like gonna wake up and walk out of her bedroom and start running to the kitchen and I'm like I'm the lookout. I'm like yo, she's there, let's get out. I get my cousin out, everybody's out.
Speaker 3:I close the window and I'm like yo, where's papa at? And we're like he's not in the club. Nah, and, and I look in the window, he hiding under the table with a knife. That lady walked up to him and slapped the Holy Spirit out of him. That's not like they do nothing for him. She dragged that boy out of the house, dragged him into the clubhouse and she sees all the food. And then we were all surprised because this is the kicker. That ends the story. She's like all the food. And then she look up and there's a picture of a naked lady hanging in the middle and we like what? Where that came from, and my cousin's like I stole it from homeboy's room in the house.
Speaker 3:It's our tv he said it's our tv and I was like man. I think about those days. I'm like I'm glad I became the citizen that I am today. But yeah, that was again. Rest in peace. What about you?
Speaker 2:So you know I'm an animal lover.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:In my neighborhood there was a house that had like a little white dog. I don't remember if it was like a Shih Tzu, a little pooter or something, but they always kept it in the backyard tied up and that hurt my soul. So one day I told my friends like, oh, I'm going to rescue this dog. Mind you, the dog was not outside all day, it was just outside during the day for a few hours, but to me it was all day. So I told my friends, like be the lookout, I'm going to go in there and I'm going to take this dog. So I jumped the fence'm gonna take this dog. Yeah. So I jumped the fence, I grabbed this dog and I remember jumping the fence with just holding this small dog with just one arm, got away with it, took it to my house.
Speaker 2:I'm not prepared to have a pet. Yeah, so I'll go to the kitchen. I'm getting bowls and stuff like that. I can't let my my parents know I had the dog with me for a whole 24 hours in my bedroom and obviously we don't have dog food. So I'm feeding it like bologna and cheese and Cheetos and all this stuff. This dog starts crapping all over the place because I'm feeding it stuff straight out of the fridge.
Speaker 2:So I'm here cleaning and stuff like that. Well, I guess the neighbors started looking for the dog and my neighbors, who are straight snitches, was like the little Spanish girl right next to us took the dog and she has it. So the people came knocking on the door and I'm like no, this is not true. This is not true. My parents go into the room. They get it out the closet because I hid it out the closet because I hid in the closet for a little bit, of course the dog, and the dog did bark a few times.
Speaker 2:My parents never caught up to it. They thought it was a tv, never questioned me. Well, that dog was actually a mama and they were worried because it had been like almost 24 hours. The puppies haven't been fed. So they threatened my parents that they were going to sue them and sue them if the puppies died, that they were going to come back with their lawyers and stuff. I remember my mom apologizing and rubbing my head, but it was that rub where, like you're gonna catch it later my eyebrows was going back here you know yeah
Speaker 2:and I'm sorry, you know she's just a child when that door slammed, boy, yeah, I ran into my room. I hid in my room for about two hours and it was really really quiet, so I opened the door quietly. I opened the door quietly thinking she forgot she's over it and I think she stood there for two hours because she just put her arm on that door and swung it open and she knocked me out. Yeah, so then I was the neighborhood dog d for like five years. Don't leave your dog around, lena just don't leave it outside yeah, don't leave.
Speaker 3:She takes dogs from you, yeah, for like five years, how like life evolves because now people feel the same way, but they're afraid of losing their man. Don't leave your man outside. It's not safe. True player for real.
Speaker 1:But you were just ahead of your time, Lita, because nowadays they can't even tie the dogs up outside right, Like if somebody catch them with the dog tied up outside when it's too hot. When it's too hot, they'll get in trouble, right.
Speaker 2:Then maybe it was because of me.
Speaker 1:Lita, you changed the game. You could have changed the game. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:I saved the dog.
Speaker 1:But see you were doing something positive.
Speaker 2:You know what I will admit? They never left the dog outside again.
Speaker 1:So you did something right, see, but you're trying to do something good yeah I wasn't up to like.
Speaker 1:I wasn't up to any good like. I would just do bad stuff to do it like. I was so like, but in my mind everything was. I watched a lot of tv, so everything was a movie or a cartoon or a tv show. So I used to think that I was in tv shows. So I don't even want to tell the story.
Speaker 1:Anyways, we, we were kids, we were like 10, 11 years old. We used to go to my grandma's house in Immokalee and we should just be out there causing, you know, wreaking havoc. So one day the security guard used to always bother us, always bother us every day, and he knew us because my grandma, my grandma, had a reputation. Um, so one day he's like coming into the place where my grandma stayed. We saw him, but they had just built like this little bridge I showed y'all the bridge that we go to by Alligator Alley and we were sitting at the top of it and we threw I don't know why we did it. We threw this rock. He was like stopped and it hit this passenger side. We knew we weren't going to hit it. It hit the passenger side and it cracked his window and he tried to chase us, but we already like carved out this little escape route. So we're like running. We're running through the bushes so you really pre-planned this?
Speaker 1:oh yeah, oh we jumped through the bushes, we. It was like a little we could have listen, we could have died a couple times because none of us could swim. But it was just like water and you had to run through and it was one little like cement thing and you had to jump to the other side. So we're running through that, jump to the other side. Now there's nothing but water. None of us could swim and we're doing it. So we get back to my grandma's house. All of us are tired. My grandma's, like what are y'all doing? The security guard knew exactly who we were, so he didn't even follow us, he just went right to my grandma's house, right to the house.
Speaker 1:But my grandma was one of those grandparents was my grandkids ain't did nothing. So she cursed him out for a long. Yeah, my grandma was like my grandkids ain't Not my babies. Yeah, they didn't do this, show me. Yeah. And he was like looking at us. He was like they been here. We back in the room.
Speaker 2:She was really live for y'all.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my grandma. Oh yeah, Now, if it was my mom or my grandma. Well, my grandma with her kids, it was different. Like if they did it she would y'all get out here and deal with this because I ain't got nothing to do, but her grandkids, you can forget it, we didn't do anything wrong, but yeah, so I was.
Speaker 2:I was a menace when I was young you know just one little short story now that I'm thinking about it and you were like, oh, that wasn't that bad. I'm like man, I'm thinking in my head like I really was a good kid. But then, once you said that, something popped in my head that was like stored back here and it just resurfaced. My friend had an uncle that was a drunk and he was so mean to us. He was a young uncle, he was like 21. So he was, you know, drinking, but he was so mean and he would bully us and stuff and make fun of us. We're like little kids. Oh, you ugly and you got braces and he's 21,. You know, like his early 20s. I'm like why are you bullying? Like all the time he sat outside just making fun of all little kids.
Speaker 2:One day I went to my friend's house. I said you know, I don't like your uncle, your uncle's me. My friend was like, yeah, I don't like him either. We should do something. What do you call those things? Like the needles, but they have a little ball at the end, do you know?
Speaker 3:what I'm talking about. It's not a so yeah, and it has like a little like white ball.
Speaker 2:So I remember going into his room and sticking them underneath the carpet, facing up like a few of them, because he was mean to us and we were. I remember like it was yesterday, we were playing Sonic on the Sega and all we heard was somebody screamed me like bloody murder. Well, he got off of bed and stepped on that little carpet and it went in his foot.
Speaker 3:And he did go.
Speaker 2:It was a few of us at the house. Yeah, it was a few, and I still remember the boy's name was Milton, orlando and Santiago and it was me and we all ran home. Milton obviously stayed because that was his house and he went knocking on everyone's doors telling everyone's parents your child is this and he's limping. I think he got, I think it was like three or four of those needles that went into his foot and he was limping and my mom yeah, my mom was very upset, very upset.
Speaker 1:So y'all was the Macaulay Culkin, Kevin from Home Alone, eh y'all. I forgot that until you said that I'm like yo, I was a good kid.
Speaker 2:Oh wait, no, I wasn't. Yeah, I think that was it though.
Speaker 3:Huh, you just stabbed the man. That was it. That was all. That was all.
Speaker 1:You should just leave it at the dog story next time.
Speaker 3:Leave it at the dog story.
Speaker 2:Yeah, look like I was like eight or nine, it's fine, I haven't been that aggressive this explains so much about you got to get creative.
Speaker 1:Just what's going on with you right now I will say we was more, but like, okay, I don't know if y'all see this, but I I got, I have two teenage daughters right, teenage sister, you know, because my dad was a rolling stone um, I got nieces, nephews, right and I see them. I'll tell them let's go outside and do something, and they all grab their hoodies and I just be looking at them.
Speaker 2:Hate it.
Speaker 1:Like are y'all crazy? Like it is 100 degrees outside and y'all all got on hoodies and they were like it's not even that hot and I'm like whoa y'all all sweating.
Speaker 2:And I'm sweating by looking at y'all. Yes, and that is a real thing. Other people sweat watching you with a hoodie. I don't care what no one says. That's not true. No, it is true. I look at you, I'm hot and I start sweating Facts.
Speaker 3:I think that's a little different.
Speaker 2:We go to the movie theaters and she'll be in there shaking because she's cold, but she won't take a hoodie, but she'll wear a hoodie to go ride her bike yeah, yeah, I don't, I don't know it's and it pisses. It pisses me off, it pisses me off no, I'm with you oh, these kids man I've been trying to figure this out.
Speaker 1:I've been asking the question and, but kids just they all have different answers and most of them just say they can't mess up. The drip is what I've been getting the most. Is they gotta stay consistent with the drip.
Speaker 2:The hoodie adds the drip oh, that's true, but it's cute, but it's 95 degrees, but it looks cute. I'm like who wants to be cute and especially I'm trying to be comfortable.
Speaker 1:But then you get to that age I guess that's what made me. You get to an age to where comfort is like I know I'm at the age where comfort is king, like comfort is the ultimate goal.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:They be like oh, this outfit is, I'm like nah, but it look like the fabric is going to rub and then I ain't. I know I'm going to let me just get these joggers over here and this comfortable T-shirt and I'm going to be good. No, I don't care about it. But the kids they care about. But it's weird because they don't dress up like they used to, like I remember, when we was in school. If you wore an outfit that wasn't, I guess, up to par, then they try to roast you. That's why my roasting skills, because, you know, I went to school dressed like anything.
Speaker 2:We really had no fashion like what we're wearing dickies I remember the dickie era and sacconis. Those were the shoes remember the sacconis exactly and the hush puppy shoes. I had the hush exactly, so we really didn't have. We really looked like chicanos, like we really looked like we're from la because we had the plaid and we have the.
Speaker 1:We had the dickies and then I went at the dickie rumpers, like the one piece and then.
Speaker 2:But we wouldn't wear the top part, we let it hang and just a white shirt, like we really were walking around like prisoners and you remember the long, the long t phase, thanks to the franchise boys man, yes, yes, headbands and the wristbands. Thanks, yes.
Speaker 1:Thanks to Demi. I know some people that wore the band-aid too.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I wasn't that cool?
Speaker 2:I did it. You wore the band-aid I did it, I did it.
Speaker 1:Did you hurt yourself?
Speaker 2:We cut it to make it square because you know the band-aid is, like you know, round.
Speaker 1:But you were clumsy so it was okay because you could of the day when you hurt yourself but now they just like I pull up to my daughter, like pick her up from school and see kids in like pajama, pants and crocs and hoodies and that's all they got on. Like they don't care about fashion these days, they just throw on the most common. I'm like damn, what was this when I was growing up? You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2:the more comfort, because now I'm at that stage now where comfort is everything I don't with, like my daughter has a mean shoe game too, just like me, and she'd rather leave them in the closet and wear Crocs. It drives me insane, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what they do. But they'll show people like, oh, I got some nice shoes. Yeah, look at this.
Speaker 2:They'll show the picture On the picture.
Speaker 1:Then they got Crocs. So that's my daughter, both of them. Both of them, I don't know. One of them, I don't know, she might be really into fashion, but that other one, you can forget it. So we were talking about something earlier before Me and Lena. We were born and raised here and we said something and Manny was like what is that? We were talking about the Stingray Shuffle. And Manny was like like is that an event? And I was like they didn't teach you the stingray shuffle. I was like yo, what aquarium?
Speaker 1:is that I'm trying to go. I love aquariums. Well, I don't know about stingrays, because we still got to spend for steve irwin.
Speaker 2:So we got to spend for steve irwin, but um so explain to them what it is so they know, because there's people like manny that don't know so when we grew up we grew up in florida, right so they teach you different things.
Speaker 1:One of them was the zigzag from the alligator, which I think they were trying to set us up. I think that was a setup to get rid of kids. Another thing was the stingray shuffle. They teach you to shuffle your feet when going underwater. It makes the stingrays because they'll notice you shuffling. Your people didn't know we had a stingray season. It's from May, so it's right now until October in the Gulf. So they teach you.
Speaker 2:You don't see those signs at the beach when you go. Have you ever noticed?
Speaker 3:I dug it out. I don't read signs.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, I figured out what instructions?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I get my warnings from Jesus.
Speaker 1:I'm not reading you, manny, is the person that get the instructions out of the box and throw them away. Throw them away.
Speaker 3:I can see the picture. I know where I'm going. Relax. I see the picture.
Speaker 1:It's not that complicated why you balling them up, though don't worry about it, I got this.
Speaker 3:I just use it for smoking papers. I just throw tobacco in the instructions and smoke them well, yeah, they teach us this growing up.
Speaker 1:Like hey, they teach us this growing up. Like, hey, go stingray, shuffle, zigzag from alligators. They teach us these things and I'll tell people from other places that they teach us this and they'll be like they don't teach all that for real and I'm like, yeah, Wait, so is a stingray shuffle a myth, like the zigzag too, or is that a real thing?
Speaker 2:It's a warning that you give to them, because what happened is that stingrays, when they um, they're in season, they come, they come closer to the shore, yeah, but they kind of bury themselves under the sand so you really can't see them. So there has been people that have walked and stepped on them and, you know, got hurt so by you like walking and kind of doing like this to your feet. They feel that vibration, they'll walk away, like they literally clear the path for you and they walk away. They kind of swim away from you. So that's what it is you're kind of doing like this to your feet. They feel that vibration, they'll walk away, like they literally clear the path for you and they walk away. They kind of swim away from you.
Speaker 2:So that's what it is. You're kind of giving them that warning, like hey, I'm coming, so they'll move. They won't attack you or nothing, they'll just move.
Speaker 3:Thankfully.
Speaker 2:What.
Speaker 3:Well, thankfully, like I'm an alpha.
Speaker 2:Oh, I hit the water, they just move Okay.
Speaker 3:But shout out to y'all that got into the shuffle. Yeah, Also I never really touched the bottom of the thing, so maybe I just naturally am smart like that. When I go in the water I don't, but once I get into a floating depth I'm not touching the floor.
Speaker 1:No, it's when you, it's when you first enter, oh, right up to the edge, and it was just you got to kind of like shuffle your feet. But there's a lot of people that didn't know we had a stingray season or that we were taught to stingray shuffle. But it's a real thing, y'all.
Speaker 2:So y'all out there. Like I said, there's signs. I thought it was going to be one of those. Tiktok videos challenges like stingray shuffle. No, no, Hopefully we're not going to discuss it.
Speaker 2:We're just going to do it for educational purposes. June 1st to the end of November, it is hurricane season, guys, so start preparing, start getting your water, start getting your propane tanks. Do not be those people that do it when the hurricane is like a mile away, is like a mile away. Let's prepare ourselves and let's be smart and let's stack up and leave stuff for other people. Let's not go crazy.
Speaker 2:Oh jeez and take care of yourselves and protect your house. That's all we're saying. What is? I'm scared of natural disasters. Like I said, I'd rather be chased by serial killers than a storm. So that's all we're saying. All right, next subject.
Speaker 1:Could I just say this real quick Okay, just don't give me anxiety. No, I ain't gonna give you anxiety Because you know I'm a little, but why they take all the toilet paper?
Speaker 2:Was that hurricane season or was that COVID? No, that was COVID.
Speaker 1:They do that in hurricane season too, For some reason. The first things to go well besides Dasani Water and Toilet paper, but Dasani's still there, no you know what?
Speaker 2:I worked at Walmart for eight years and you are absolutely right the items that people stack up the most and you're right Was Beer.
Speaker 2:Yeah you know, I'm talking about a whole shopping cart and the bottom was full of beer. And you're right, it was paper towels and toilet paper Definitely A lot of plastic, the utensils. And the bottom was full of beer. And you're right, it was paper towers and toilet paper Definitely A lot of plastic. The utensils, the stuff like that, and a lot of water and a lot of and you know something used to bug me out but I never said nothing Electrical can openers. If we don't have electricity.
Speaker 2:You cannot open your cans, guys, and they used to forget that. I used to look at it like I'm not even gonna tell them, just ring them up you know what should I?
Speaker 1:you got that whole moment in your head. Should I tell them?
Speaker 2:yeah, nah, yeah, they should have known about.
Speaker 1:And charcoal bags and the propane tanks they used to go pretty quick yeah, yeah, I always had charcoal, just in case, because you never know when you got to get out in the back door and improvise. Or you know, get your grill and you got to do your thing. But no, I live a little crazy though.
Speaker 3:I treat hurricane season like the purge. I'm not buying nothing. Protect your stuff, I'm coming for it. But what I was also going to say, I think I figured out that toilet paper thing. Maybe I'm wrong when I buy toilet paper. I don't like over buy toilet paper, no, like I buy exactly what I need and before I run out I go re-up. So maybe it's cause, like now you changing your mentality. I need to have extra toilet paper now cause I don't know when I'm gonna be able to go get toilet paper.
Speaker 2:I think now we live in fear that we're gonna go and have nothing to wipe our bottoms with. So we're stacking up because there's not a lot left. Now you're freaking out because the person before you freaked out and we're following the trends. But let me tell you, there is enough. Okay, there is enough for everyone. We're not going to. I think I still have toilet paper from COVID two years. What is it? Two years ago, four years ago.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I bought so much Charmin that I could be a store at this point, but that's because I was scared, because what I heard is we're going to have a shortage and we're not going to have toilet paper for years. I said what? So I'm driving like wasting gas to every store. And here's a four pack, I'm going to get that. Here's a six pack. And you know, some stores were like two per customer. So I'm getting two, but then I'm getting two, but then I'm taking the Kyla, so I'm giving the Kyla my credit card, while I have my debit card. We act like we don't know each other because I can only walk out with two. Who are you?
Speaker 1:Mom, but I forgot who is your mom.
Speaker 2:Yes, I was that person, because y'all scared me.
Speaker 1:And that's the thing, because, like me, I think okay. So, before I say that I got something that I have to address this hurricane season, and I'm going to say this, I just want to cover my little ears, you're going to agree with this.
Speaker 3:You're going to agree with this.
Speaker 1:For the people that don't drink water all year. When hurricanes come, why are you buying water? You haven't drunk water in two years, why are?
Speaker 2:you Because we're not going to have AC and let's be real, Like we know that we're going to have a crash in the heat with no AC, with a sugary drink, so we have to have water. I think that's the only time I drink water honestly. No, you've been doing better.
Speaker 1:I mean yes, Look at you right here.
Speaker 2:Well, that's because I drank a lot last night.
Speaker 1:Well, we've been talking and you've been doing better with the water. I mean, I know some people in my life that haven't drunk water in like two years. You know what I'm saying, like you just know. You can look at them like you don't drink water, do you? And as soon as a hurricane comes, they want to go buy the most water, and it's like bro go buy your Diet Cokes, like you've been doing.
Speaker 1:Leave the water for us real water drinkers, because you buying up all our water and I'm not going to buy the Diet Coke.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying Like I ain't going to, but anyway, the people that don't drink water, don't wait till a hurricane come and please, when it's a category one or a tropical storm, don't go there acting crazy y'all. People got to go to work, people got regular stuff to do and no business is really going to close down for a category one or a tropical storm, not in florida I just got my fence up.
Speaker 2:Can we skip this year, like give us a break?
Speaker 1:yeah, this is too much I'm pretty sure we're gonna be all right my fence is so pretty. I get compliments on my fence you gotta post, did you post it?
Speaker 2:what the fence? Yeah yeah, I posted. I posted the old one. I had the wood one, that um it. It was knocked out like 30 minutes into the hurricane. And then I got the white plastic one, the really pretty one. But what I did is that I sprayed, I glossed the the fence, so I spray painted with gloss, you know. So it's like shiny, it's real pretty. I thought it was a good idea. But I mean, I use about 22 cans but it's pretty and it's shiny.
Speaker 3:Yes, you're going to have a bunch of birds killing themselves seeing their reflection. What do you mean? The gloss is going to make them see their reflection. They're going to kill themselves.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:It looks nice. I thought you cared about animals. I do, but I never thought of it.
Speaker 2:I just thought about protecting it and giving it that extra gloss and protection to it, because it's supposed to.
Speaker 3:It's like I know there's a lot of dead birds in my yard, but look at how cute the fax is, guys.
Speaker 2:No, I don't have dead birds.
Speaker 3:Let's focus.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, I did have one hit the window, the window.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they will hit the window.
Speaker 2:But you just created more reflection, so I put a little thing of water.
Speaker 3:That sounds like voodoo.
Speaker 2:No, and left it out there and it sat in that box for a couple of hours, but eventually it flew away. I think it was just dizzy, yeah.
Speaker 1:But it was definitely the window. Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:It was feathers everywhere. My dog was barking. For like three days I'm like the bird is gone.
Speaker 3:The part of the story. She's leaving us at that. That night she got drunk too. Knocked her against the glass. No, passed out right next to the bird. No, they both woke up at the same time and flew away.
Speaker 2:No, we did not. You alright.
Speaker 1:I'm alright, you alright too.
Speaker 3:She woke up with a big chi-chong on her head, like what happened? You alright, I'm good, I'm good, you good, I'm good.
Speaker 2:Let's not talk about this, let's not tell nobody about this on this episode, but one day I'm going to share the most drunkest story.
Speaker 1:We're going to get Lena to host the episode too. That's what the goal is.
Speaker 2:That was the goal. Yes, we're going to make it happen.
Speaker 1:You're going to host the episode. I don't know if y'all seen, but they just announced the new Florida man Games for next year. The tickets are already open. I want to say that the tickets are selling. Really. They're doing it at the fairgrounds this time.
Speaker 2:What fairgrounds.
Speaker 1:I think up there at St John's Fairgrounds. Oh okay, so last year they did it, but I told y'all they didn't expect it to be so big.
Speaker 2:And it was the first time, right, that was the first time they thought it was going to be a couple hundred people.
Speaker 1:People and 5,000 people showed up and now then and that's even what a bunch of people saying oh man, I'm sorry, I missed it. So they're supposed to be like a. It's expected to be an even bigger. Like they got a jumbotron this year, they're doing like it's gonna be wild this year, um, but they've already put tickets on sale and I'm hosting again, um, so I'm excited for that. I think it's what march? First, let me look it up, I'm gonna put it in man, it's already.
Speaker 2:That's like I feel like you just went I did.
Speaker 1:Well, it's in february, I think february, okay, um, but they already like, I guess, because of how big it was, they're already like let team sign up and you know, um, but they got picked up by a lot like I know a lot of tv networks were trying, you know, trying to pick it up. A lot of uh, news story news, big news publications were picking it up, um, but yeah, they're adding women this year, so they have the florida man, florida women this year as well. I think they tried to add florida women last year but they had one team that ended up dropping out. But yeah, it's gonna be, it's gonna be that was probably lena's too.
Speaker 3:She's playing on that, but she's like you know what it's so hot oh, that would be.
Speaker 1:I'm over this. What's crazy is it wasn't even that hot up there.
Speaker 2:We're down here yeah, it gets hotter the further south you go so when I was in south beach three weeks ago. Yeah, the sand was so hot.
Speaker 1:Walking across it.
Speaker 2:We were just like jumping, like we looked weird. We were jumping to the water. It was hot, it was super, super, like I can't describe it. But I felt like charcoal, like I was walking on hot charcoal. The sand was never that hot.
Speaker 1:No, listen what I'll say. When we were up there, right, it was like 68, 67. So I got a jacket on and they're like oh, I bet you're going to take the jacket off. It's high. And I'm like listen, I stay in Southwest Florida 67, I'm keeping this jacket on.
Speaker 2:And they thought I was crazy. But yeah, so it's coming back next year.
Speaker 1:I'm excited, I'm ready Florida to see some more Florida competitions. I did do the Mechanical Alligator at Gatorland again, so I did worse. I don't know if I'm going backwards. I did worse this time than I did last time. You're getting older. Hopefully they'll televise it too. Huh, it'd be nice if they could televise it. I think that they were trying, like they did, like a small one, like in their area. They had a company that was doing like the videoing and they tried to stream it online. But then, like I said, this year it's going to be bigger, so it may be televised.
Speaker 3:It may be something that televised, but or at least they can use footage from this one to not really push the 2025 one yeah.
Speaker 2:And if it was a success you know last year or this year for sure it's going to be even more Now that people know about it. It's going to be crazy.
Speaker 1:They got some new, like new competitions. They're going to bring the same ones back, but they're going to add new competitions, because I think that was a lot of people's thing, is they, like I said, with that? What a lot of people didn't realize is they didn't expect it to be this big, it was just it started out as a joke and then it kind of just transformed into an idea like let's just do it, and then it just kind of turned into something that is like crazy now. So I'm excited for it. I like closer it gets.
Speaker 1:I'll give more details, but you can go get your tickets at thefloridamangamescom. We're going to have some fun, but before we get out of here, right. So you know, we always got to do our Florida stories and it's something that. So we got two. One thing that I didn't realize, but I kind of realized because so I have a niece, my niece is going to school to be a teacher, but she stays in Georgia now. So I have a niece, my niece is going to school to be a teacher but she stays in Georgia.
Speaker 1:Now why she stays in Georgia? Okay, but us in Florida when we see people going to be a teacher, we're like why they don't pay that much. But then I realized when I looked at this through some research, that Florida is now 50th in the country when it comes to teacher pay. So it's not teacher everywhere that get paid, like teachers here, it's just teachers here. Oh, I mean, yeah.
Speaker 2:So so there's better paying Georgia than there is in Florida. Yeah, that's insane.
Speaker 1:There's only two states worse than us, that pay less than Florida, and I'm sure their cost of living isn't as high. Let me see what those two states are. Hmm, there's only two.
Speaker 2:I've always said there's a special place in heaven for teachers. Let me see what those two states are. I've always said there's a special place in heaven for teachers because there's no way how kids are so disrespectful nowadays. It's not like what it used to be. All these kids just want to be social media famous, so they're disrespecting their teachers, even putting hands on them. I couldn't.
Speaker 1:And the parents don't, I couldn't. The parents don't. I couldn't, the parents don't. My thing is, I always tell my kids if you do disrespect that teacher, you got to come home and deal with me. A lot of these parents they're too quick to like defend the kid, even when the kid is doing crazy stuff, and it's like yeah, I'm not that parent.
Speaker 2:If my child did wrong my, I'm never going to be that parent. That's why when you said about your grandma like oh, she used to cover for Never.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's my grandma.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Listen, when I get called from school, I know that my child did something. There's no like oh, this must be a mistake. No, I know my child did something and I'm not that parent to be like. No, my baby. No, what she do this time, whoop that butt when I get home.
Speaker 3:What is it? What is it? What did you think? I mean, all right, so I'm going to take this. I'm going to take this from the other side of things. Y'all can call me negative if y'all want. But I mean, listen, I deal with people in Florida. I feel like it would be a waste to pay for education in Florida Because, like, what are we really going to get out of it, right? I mean, you would want to pay more, right? No, no, because it's just like with the shenanigans that we look at every day. It might be a waste of money to invest in education?
Speaker 1:What if? Okay, go ahead. I'm going to let you finish.
Speaker 3:No, no, that's really it. That's just. I'm thinking out loud, bro, but wouldn't you want to pay them more.
Speaker 1:So there could be like because a lot of the things that happen is people like that moved to florida. So they moved, like even that georgia couple, the one that was sleep on the beach and left their kids. They were drunk, like it's. It sounds like a florida man story, but really these people were coming down here from georgia to vacation.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then he fell asleep and he ran, tried to run and knock himself out. You know, I said florida man would have been on his feet for a while before that happened. You know what I'm saying? We're conditioned for things like that, but I'm trying to see the states that's like arkansas is close to us, but they still um have a better salary than florida. Florida is 50 as of 2020, 2023. Um, I'm trying to see, hold on, let me look, let me look. I'm looking for the two states that's worse. Oh, west Virginia, it's 51. Mm-hmm.
Speaker 3:And what's 52?
Speaker 1:You got to be crazy to be 52, boy. You just don't care at this point.
Speaker 2:So it says the average starting teacher salary in Florida is $47,000 a year.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That to me. I don't know.
Speaker 1:You don't have to go to school and do all of that.
Speaker 2:To go to school and tolerate kids for that many hours and not just one or two, Like we're talking about over 20 kids. That is a whole lot. I really think there should be better pay. Not to mention they don't get paid during the summer, do they?
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:No, they don't. Yeah, okay, they kind of got to make it stretch yeah, no, I, and let's be real, cost of living is a lot. Yeah, so I feel they have the summer off, they have um spring break, winter break, thanksgiving break that they're not getting probably paid for this. So I feel like it should be a little more so they could stretch over that time that they're off with the kids.
Speaker 1:I agree, I think, and also, like I said, teachers deal with a lot. Most teachers I know now they have to get a second job. Like you'll see a teacher, like I remember one of my track coaches like they used to make fun of him because you know, obviously as kids I wasn't one of those people but like, obviously kids didn't understand that he would go to work as a school teacher. Then he'd have to go work at Walmart after he left school in order to survive and as a kid most kids didn't understand it until they became adults. And then they're like oh, it's the same with bus drivers.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Like bus drivers. I think they're starting out at like 17, I think in Florida, 18. But you could go to like and listen. I saw it through the bus driver training. They didn't let me complete it because my driving passed, you know, when I was here. Wait, okay, all right. So I was going to be a school bus driver, y'all At like 2000.
Speaker 2:I mean good benefits, Good health benefits.
Speaker 1:It was like 2000. You ever dated a school bus driver 11.
Speaker 2:Have I ever dated one? No, 2012.
Speaker 1:It was like around that time and I was going to be a school bus driver. I saw through the training and I passed the first CDL test and everything. And I saw through the training for weeks and it was like they came in and it was like, hey, your driving record, if the news get a hold of this. When I was young, I was a rough rider. You know what I'm saying. I used to be in and out getting tickets. I told y'all about my tickets, um, but yeah, so no, and put like the stuff that school bus drivers have to deal with and you could go sit at a call center and make just as much I would.
Speaker 3:I would prefer just to do that like honestly, I was a teacher for a very short time, um, and, yeah, I had to get a second job, but then, when the school found out that I was at the strip club too, they were like that's it.
Speaker 1:Then they got strict rules. You can't really have an outside. I don't know, it's wild.
Speaker 2:And shout out to the companies that do hire these teachers during season, Because I worked at TJ Maxx and during the summer all these women that I haven't worked with were there and I'm like, who are these new workers? They were like, no, they've been with the company about you know four or five years. It's just that their teachers are the bus drivers and it's summer. They don't got a job, so they work here every year during the summer and they keep the job, Like they literally just work during the summer.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, and they've been there for like five, six years and the company allows them. So shout out to those companies that allow that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they know that they're coming in and they're going to do what they're supposed to do. But no, but I thought that was crazy because I'm like like teachers are probably one of the most important jobs, like when you we need them. Yes.
Speaker 2:They're definitely needed, and that's another reason why they should get paid a little more, because, let's be real, I'm not homeschooling my child.
Speaker 1:And then they want to be like state or extra time. So they'll give them like okay, we're going to use this as school year, but we want you to do extra work on top of that.
Speaker 2:And nah, and these teachers are also the coaches after school.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, it's crazy. We need to do better by the teachers y'all. We need to find a way to do better by these teachers. Now, that was our serious story. The next one is cocaine sharks. So we mentioned cocaine sharks before.
Speaker 1:Right, we talked about it briefly, but then another story came out, I guess where people this these people were getting caught. They had cocaine on them. I've been watching a lot of the videos when you know FWC and all the people that patrol the waterways and I see how they do it now, but I guess these people are going to get caught. They dumped all their cocaine over the side of the boat, you know. So don't get caught. The sharks got into cocaine. Now many thought that that was less sharks, so they don't get caught. The sharks got into cocaine. Now many thought that that was less sharks. But I watched Cocaine Bear and I'm like imagine those sharks turning into cocaine. But you imagine jaws on cocaine. Could you like picture that?
Speaker 2:That's crazy, I can't.
Speaker 1:But like multiple jaws, Because they've been seeing, but that's probably why we've been seeing all these sharks in the water. Recently they done had whale been seeing all these sharks in the water recently.
Speaker 2:They don't have whale sharks in florida. They didn't have orcas. I saw that the other day they had a whale shark in naples.
Speaker 1:Uh, orcas, um great whites. They saw a couple great whites here. They've been seeing all these sharks in florida. That's probably why here? They probably heard that they come in florida for the drugs, I think so. I think the sharks are like they got the good stuff over there in Florida and they pulling up.
Speaker 2:So this package that they found was 65 pounds.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And it's a street value of a million dollars.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I will want to be tanning one day minding my business, and a package just lands right next to me One million dollars.
Speaker 1:What is your next move?
Speaker 2:I will do illegal activities.
Speaker 3:She's going to turn into what's the girl lady from Netflix that did all the dope? That's it, and I just don't want to say too much, because then I don't want to like you know, they'll use this as evidence.
Speaker 2:That's it, and I just don't want to say too much because then I don't want to like you know they'll use this as evidence. But I will be driving a nice car and I will have a pool in my backyard.
Speaker 1:That's all I'm saying you won't tell anybody, but there will be signs.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there will be signs.
Speaker 3:That's crazy. The last package she found she tried to run away from.
Speaker 1:Oh geez All right, so we're going to wrap this up. Y'all got anything y'all want to leave with the people, something that y'all want to tell them.
Speaker 3:Just a reminder. Lena's waiting jumping the DMs.
Speaker 2:Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 3:And after you do that, like share and subscribe, but hit her up first, then like share and subscribe, because priorities you got to hit her up first, dm her first, okay you gotta hit her up first.
Speaker 2:Dm her first. Okay, um. Something I learned this weekend and I want to educate others is if you drink um a lot, and water is not doing the job because you feel dehydrated, pure coconut water does the job, you feel I thought she was gonna say something you feel amazing afterwards, like you never drank and you are 100% hydrated, so just yeah, that's what I tell you coconut water.
Speaker 1:If you really want to feel hydrated, you got to get your magnesium and all of that stuff in, so but yeah, so what can I say?
Speaker 2:I'm out here with the coconut, yeah yeah, this is getting out of hand.
Speaker 1:No, coconut water is good for you know we ain't gonna get too deep into this, but y'all know I drink. You know I mean I of hand. No, coconut water is good for you know we're gonna get too deep into this, but y'all know I drink. You know I mean I probably have some coconut water next week. But, um, what can I leave with people? I'm out here. I'm out here, uh, facing my fears, y'all. I'm out, face the cassowary or emu or ostrich. Um, now, I got beef with alpacas. I went ziplining. So face your fears, y'all. It's never too late. I'm going to learn how to swim, accomplish these things, you'll feel a lot better. But that's all I got, y'all, and that's on Florida there's two very large alligators out here.
Speaker 2:I can't tie up. Florida man accused of throwing an alligator through a drive through window.