This That And The Other
This That And The Other
Breaking Records and Biking Debates: Traffic Tickets to Time Change Complaints
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Ever pushed the limits of your fuel gauge, flirting with the danger zone just to get that Mexican food fix? I sure have, and it's one of the many laugh-out-loud moments we share in this episode, alongside recalling the sheer joy and mayhem of a helicopter Easter egg drop. You'll feel like you're right there with us, weaving through tales of daring drives and reflecting on memorable community celebrations that blend excitement with a sense of unity.
The conversation takes a spirited turn when we pull on the spandex of controversy, pedaling through the debates on cyclists on our roads. We're talking aerodynamics, the necessity for bike lanes, and the traffic dance that gets us all a little hot under our helmets. And if that's not enough, join us as we unravel the time change conundrum, unpack political puppeteering, and confess to a traffic violation that dinged my perfect driving record. It's a mix of rants, revelations, and the kind of candid chatter that feels like a catch-up with old friends.
For those craving a bit of introspection mixed with levity, we don't hold back on personal health journeys, exploring life post-surgery with a dash of humor over daily quirks. From the philosophical debate of whistling versus humming to the unexpected emotional depth found in a musical documentary, we cover ground that's as varied as it is engaging. Plus, we'll drop some TV show commentary that might just sway your next streaming choice, with candid takes on everything from chance celebrity encounters to the hit-or-miss excitement of picking a new series to watch. Buckle up for a podcast adventure that's as unpredictable as it is entertaining.
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Speaker 1That's all I got, see, ya.
Speaker 2You did good, sounded like a pro.
Speaker 1I am a pro, you are Alright, guys, welcome back.
Speaker 2So we ordered Mexican a couple of nights ago. You go and get it and once you walk out of the house I get a text. I wonder who that text is from? Of course it's from you and it's a picture of your gas gauge and it shows, or it says, 33 miles till empty. Alright, then you text me and I quote and I'm using my air quotes right now, I'm chancing it. You can get me some tomorrow.
Speaker 1I made it.
Speaker 2You made it, but that's crazy because this place right here is like 12 or 15 miles away. Well, you should have said Well, no, but do the math.
Speaker 1Yeah, I had plenty of gas. I was back with 20 miles left, 17, okay fine.
Speaker 2And see now, so I don't Now I get in the car.
Speaker 1It's the next morning.
Speaker 2I'm not gonna call you liar, by no means, but you were saying one of the other episodes that the lowest you've ever got it was 17. Now it just so happens that yesterday or today it's at 17.
Speaker 1I don't know. It was somewhere. When I got in the car this morning it didn't even show it, just had lines on it. So I had to get gas.
Speaker 2I just want you to like do the math, because if you see that 33 and you gotta think I'm going out of town.
Speaker 1You're the one talking what time you called me coming back from Summertime. You're like. I hope I make it to the gas station. I've got seven miles.
Speaker 2I don't think that's true.
Speaker 1I know that's true.
Speaker 2I don't think that's true.
Speaker 1It's when you worked in Summertime.
Speaker 2Well, that might be because I forgot to get gas, and just so, not because I'm chanting it well, I think I can make it.
Speaker 1Well, you've done it too.
Speaker 2I know, I know. So we just got back from our Easter event at church and I gotta say I'm pretty stuffed right now eating all those hot dogs.
Speaker 1Yeah, I gotta give a shout out to our children's director, who pulled off an awesome Easter extravaganza. Wedi go Jania Durham.
Speaker 2She did good. It turned out really good. She did real good. We had a good turn.
Speaker 1The weather turned out great. It was perfect. It wasn't too hot, it wasn't too cold, it got a little bit windy, but I mean.
Speaker 2It was cooler than they said it was going to be.
Speaker 1Yeah, it was, but it was fine. The kids didn't care.
Speaker 2And if I hadn't rained, was it yesterday or day?
Speaker 1before yeah, yesterday.
Speaker 2Whatever. Yeah, so it was wet, so we weren't able to put the eggs where we wanted to, on one side of the property.
Speaker 1That would have been fun, though I think we should have done it. It would have.
Speaker 2Well, you think the parents would have enjoyed.
Speaker 1you know muddy kids Well they know it rained yesterday, so they need to be prepared. When you hide eggs, you're going to hide them outside.
Speaker 2Yeah, I think if it was like the weekend of Easter, your kids are going to really be like dressed up.
Speaker 1They would have dressed them up, yeah, and you wouldn't, but being now, they're not dressing them up.
Speaker 2Yeah, you're not going to put them in a situation where they're going to get muddy or dirty.
Speaker 1I've seen one cute little girl dressed up though.
Speaker 2Oh, I saw several cute little kids that just having a blast.
Speaker 1Yeah, they're wearing a little P coat on. I think that's what they're called.
Speaker 2Not to change the subject, but you know how I go from one thing to the next, but I well, yeah, I remember. Several years ago we took Nicholas to a church and they had an egg drop, and I never that was a long time ago, yeah, and that was probably ten years ago.
Speaker 1Well, several.
Speaker 2Several. Several to me means probably ten Okay. And I never really knew what to expect. But they yeah, but we got out in this field and they put the kids on that. You had like two. It's almost like a football field, you could say the sidelines. You had kids on one side and then kids on the other. Of course you weren't that far from each other. But then next thing, you know, here comes a helicopter.
Speaker 1And it just dumped.
Speaker 2And that joker got a lot lower than he needed to. I didn't feel comfortable with that many kids and he's swinging back because he was going you know down and then you know he was just swinging that was a tail rotor or whatever he was called back around. He's making another pass and he's not high at all and I'm like this could turn bad real quick.
Speaker 2It was cool, but it was cool, it was real cool. Yeah, the kids enjoyed it. I enjoyed watching it. If I could just get over my little bit of fear, I thought something bad was going to happen. But yeah, hey, this event turned out really good and I must say we cooked over 400 hot dogs and just the group of guys the two guys and me that we did it just works out pretty well.
Speaker 1I call my people out. Jody want. I probably shouldn't have said last name, but she won't care. Yeah, she'll be alright.
Speaker 2We're trying not to say last names on here. We just want to go with first names. But we got a really good group of people at church.
Speaker 1We do. We have people that step up. Yeah, and you just got to tell them what to do, and they'll do it.
Speaker 2You know, there's a select few that do a lot, you know, and so they're such a blessing to the church. And not only that. I was just thinking about the hot dogs. Here we go again. Have you ever heard of Joey Chesnut?
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Joey Chesnut you ever heard of him?
Speaker 1He's a singer. Oh, that's Mark Chesnut, is that right?
Speaker 2Yeah, that was a Mark Chesnut and that was a long time ago, joey Chesnut, I was talking about being full from eating these hot dogs and I thought I didn't eat that many, but then a few of the guys I was with was like on their sixth, fifth hot dog. You know we had a lot of hot dogs, but I started thinking of Joey Chesnut. He's the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Champion and he holds the record. Do you have any idea what the record for eating hot dogs?
Speaker 1Well, I think we watched it one year, didn't we?
Speaker 2I've only watched it one year because I could only stomach it one year. I've seen some highlights since then, but it is like the nastiest thing I've ever seen. When you're doing this and you know just what, do you think the record is?
Speaker 1I say 342.
Speaker 2Come on good, be realistic.
Speaker 1Oh, I thought that was realistic.
Speaker 2You've lost your mind. I mean, it's not a whale. A whale, I'm not feeding a lion, it's 76.
Speaker 1Oh my bad.
Speaker 2Just think about 76 hot dogs you sitting there and eating hot dogs and this was in 10 minutes.
Speaker 1Did they get something to drink?
Speaker 2They have water. So that's what I'm saying. If you ever watch it they're dipping the bread in the water.
Speaker 1What makes people want to do that? You're going to make yourself sick.
Speaker 2I don't know, but do you know what 76 hot dogs on like a tray looks like?
Speaker 1No, you should.
Speaker 2It's a pile. Yeah Well, we cooked a lot, but you throw a bun in there. What do you think about that? Just one of those trays that we had.
Speaker 1That we wrapped up those.
Speaker 2Yeah and fall Just think about that. And eating all that in 10 minutes.
Speaker 1No way.
Speaker 2I mean, it's unbelievable why it really is. So how does your stomach handle that?
Speaker 1Not very well.
Speaker 2I just think I had read one time because after we'd watched this I was kind of interested and he's got a regiment and I know it's like six months before his thing I think it's July 4th is when they have the Nathan's eating contest hot dog eating contest on Coney Island. I think all that's right, I think I'm saying it right. So like six months or might have been four months before the event he starts training and he even, like, does mouth exercises because you think about it, all the chewing and all the swallowing that you're doing, I guess you really you know you would have to have those muscles ready, I don't know. But so when it gets I don't remember if it was a month or two before the event Once a week he does like a mock contest.
Speaker 1Oh, no way.
Speaker 2So I'm saying you know how you feel when you're completely full and you're like you took that last bite and you wish you had enough, because now it's just like you're over the top. Now can you imagine being like really over the top and doing this like once a week for a month or so leading up to this kind?
Speaker 1Makes me sick just thinking about it.
Speaker 2I know I've ate like six or seven. It's putting me over the top.
Speaker 1Don't care for hot dogs.
Speaker 2I mean they're okay, I've ate six. I know I don't know if I've ate seven, so that might be stretching a little bit, but let me ask you was it looked like the next day for Joey Testnut after his 76 hot dog contest.
Speaker 1I think he's on the couch and not moving.
Speaker 2I don't know, do you think like after? I think his tummy just hurt. Why? How can you? I don't know, poundage wise, what this would be, but I know the mass and plus you're adding.
Speaker 1You should have weighed it today. You should have weighed 76.
Speaker 2Yeah, well, I didn't think about it until just now, the way I felt after eating these dogs. But so, like after, you know the way the contest is to. You know you can't throw up. I mean, if you throw up, you know you throw up or you out.
Speaker 2Well, I think, unless you eat what you throw up and that's nasty. But yeah, I would say, you're just qualified, you're not. If you throw up, you're out because you're not going to feel like eating anything anyway. What I'm saying is so contested over with with I won all this stuff. All this stuff Does he get, like go find a hiding spot and like purge himself, like throw, and what does that look like? I don't want to imagine what that looks like.
Speaker 1Well, you just gotta think about it. Why don't we talk?
Speaker 2about that, so anyway. So if he survives all that the next day, how do you feel Horrible? I mean you're not going out and exercising. I mean you might be right, You're just laying around, but when is the next time that you eat Not?
Speaker 1for a while, not for a while, and that means Not for a long time.
Speaker 2Um, what if you like? I was thinking about this too. What if you say excuse me, sir, what do you do for a living? And you tell him I'm a competitive eater? Is that not crazy?
Speaker 1Yes, it is definitely crazy.
Speaker 2Yeah, you got sidetracked over there on your phone, sorry. So no, but I just saw that you know you're competitive eater, but you know he makes like $500,000 a year being a competitive eater.
Speaker 1So I guess if you go through, you get paid or that's what you win. I mean, that's Well yeah, that's yeah.
Speaker 2you win that when. Or you get that Well, out the sponsorships and all that kind of stuff like that is what you get. But I so I don't, you know. So I guess that's his total income with endorsements and all that, but he's like a, a chemist or something like that. But I didn't mean to get all back on that. But back to the whole church, yeah, we just had a very good event. You know, I wasn't able to hear what the message was that Jania did, but of course I know it's.
Speaker 1We had three teachers. They split them up in threes.
Speaker 2With age groups.
Speaker 1Yeah, we had Jania, Spencer and Lacey. They're all wonderful.
Speaker 2Wow, so that's good.
Speaker 1So I guess we're going to do this topic every week.
Speaker 2What's that?
Speaker 1So what are you ranting about today?
Speaker 2You want to know what I'm ranting about.
Speaker 1I really don't. I hear it all the time anyway.
Speaker 2I'll really rant, but you know what I'm tired of.
Speaker 1Take a guess you probably may not participate in the podcast.
Ranting About Bicycles and Time Change
Speaker 2Well, that was going to be my second thing if this fell through, but no cyclists, here you go. Saying that again, here we go. Just say, oh my goodness, or something like that. Oh, lord, bicycle boys is what I like to call them. Oh my gosh really. Yeah, first off what are you wearing? Spandex? Is that what you call it? Is that Email?
Speaker 1Jody Ratliff.
Speaker 2Yeah, jratliff33 at yahucom, something like that. You're going to get some backlash on this one.
Speaker 1I think that's my.
Speaker 2Does that mean?
Speaker 1I think so. Yeah, look it up.
Speaker 2Look, if you want to take the time to mess with me because you're mad, you'll look it up. How about that? How about that? But?
Speaker 1really isn't it spandex?
Speaker 2Isn't that what you call that? Yeah, here's a different material. Now, why are you wearing spandex?
Speaker 1It's better air flowage and it don't get all in the way.
Speaker 2So you really need to be aerodynamic to ride down the road really. Yes, yes.
Speaker 1I think you should do a study. I think you should buy these clothes and I'll get on Amazon and buy you some. No, thank you.
Speaker 2And.
Speaker 1Nicholas has got a bicycle and I want you to go see. I want you to put on your baggy shorts and we'll test it there, and you need to turn around and put on some of these spandex. Well, I'm just saying, is you're telling me that?
Speaker 2regular clothes is going to hold you back when you get on this bicycle, and maybe it's the being hot too.
Speaker 1You can't wear a regular shirt.
Speaker 2No, you can't wear a regular shirt.
Speaker 1No, you can't wear gym shorts, really no, they're not sweat proof.
Speaker 2So it's going to affect my peddling of my bike because of my gym shorts and my non-tight.
Speaker 1Those long gym shorts gets in the way. Your knee's coming up and your knee's going to get tangled up in it.
Speaker 2That's a crock. I mean, that's all that is. That's not a crock. Show me another sport where you have to put on equipment or put on a uniform like the pros do. Tell me one.
Speaker 1Volleyball.
Speaker 2Not. If you're going in the backyard, you're not going to put on your well. Volleyball is another thing. I don't feel comfortable watching volleyball because of what they were, but anyway. But if I'm going to go play like backyard football, we don't go show up with shoulder pads, cleats, helmets.
Speaker 1Whoa, whoa, whoa. You back up. You got a son that's 20 years old, that likes to buy cleats, and he don't even play football anymore. You're right, but so he has to show up and look good.
Speaker 2Well, he's not buying shoulder pads, he's not buying a helmet.
Speaker 1I can't know that.
Speaker 2I can get that. Now I have played against some guys that would put on cleats before they play. I kind of get the cleats just for traction, but you're not doing all this other stuff. That's, if I'm going to go play basketball, I don't go grab my Celtics jersey. I don't go grab my mouthpiece and say let's go guys.
Speaker 1Your son does. He has to have different shoes to go play basketball because the shoes that he walks in he can't play basketball in because they don't work. A shoe is a shoe. Let's don't get on the shoe thing. Well, he likes shoes.
Speaker 2I get it. Hey, all these boys nowadays, they love shoes, and he's right up there with him, he loves his shoes. I just don't like paying that kind of money, exactly. Yeah, I mean, I'm going to pay a little bit. I'm happy with my hey dudes, by the way, that's right. But back to the whole cyclist thing. They think they own the place, do they not?
Speaker 1Well, they don't want you to run off Get off the road, go find a walking trail. So you're saying they should have their own place, or a?
Speaker 2walking track or whatever it is. I mean, I know a walking track's for walking, but just hit it with a bicycle. Go get your group of bicycles.
Speaker 1So you're saying they need a cycling track?
Speaker 2Whatever Look, I mean, but they like these all terrain. How about this? These Vote in a one cent sales tax so we can put a track in for cyclists.
Speaker 1They don't want a track, they like these different terrains, whatever.
Speaker 2Put them an extra lane on the interstate. I don't care, whatever, go find a back road. How? About that there's plenty of back roads. But no, you want to ride on the busiest road at the busiest time. I guess that's fine with you. It ain't fine with me when I'm behind you. You like to live on the edge.
Speaker 2Shame on them Because it's going to end up bad for them one day. I hate it for them. Well, and if there's more than one meaning like a pack of bicycle boys, you can forget it. You're stuck, you ain't passed them, they're going to let you. But anyway, if I have any friends that ride bicycles, I still love you, but I don't know what you get out of it.
Speaker 1Next.
Speaker 2I think, yeah, I think I'm done.
Speaker 1You're done. I mean you've got no more rantin' today.
Speaker 2Well, I kind of worked up on that. I just I hadn't. You know it does. It burns me up, it does, but they do. There'll be three, four, five, 10, whatever like that, and they are hogging the lane, doing their 28 miles an hour or whatever, and it's a 55 or whatever, and so I'm supposed to just hang out behind you. Yes.
Speaker 1And just like it's called courtesy Lottie, da Just be nice.
Speaker 2Lottie flipping da.
Speaker 1Be nice.
Speaker 2Yeah, all right, breathe, deep breaths, breathe. Yeah, talk about the time change. Get on something that A time, something that's positive. It's not at all positive this time change. I'm not done. Renting the time change thing is the craziest thing is another yeah, just leave it like this.
Speaker 1Do you like it like this?
Speaker 2I'm gonna breathe over here if you'll just talk about the time change for a second.
Speaker 1The time change wants to talk about. We change time. Yeah but spring forward. It doesn't bother me. I don't know. People says it bothers them. It doesn't bother me, I'm always tired. So I lose the extra hour of sleep, they say. But to me I'm always tired, so I knew an older gentleman.
Speaker 2He passed away a few years ago but he always said when we had a time change he was dragging his body. Whatever it. Maybe is a mental thing, but he never could. It took him forever to get adjusted every time we did the time change. Now last year I'm gonna blame it on the time change, but maybe it wouldn't. It seemed like the time change affected me. I just could not get in, it's not it you always want to bring up the age thing, and it's not a. Everything doesn't revolve around age.
Speaker 2Well, it kind of does not everything, but but walk it. Listen, just stick with what we've got right now.
Frustration With Time Change and Driving
Speaker 1I thought we was. I thought that was supposed to be voted on there. I don't know, because if you leave it, stay the way it was.
Speaker 2I like it the way it is, because it's late and it's still light outside. I love it. That's great. Yeah especially in the spring, and some yeah, that is great. Now of course it's darker in the morning, but who care? Majority of people still sleeping. So what is it effect? And I don't believe any kind of excuse that they want to bring for it, you know, but they have they. You've got some states that have. You know that. Don't do the time change which I think it's crazy.
Speaker 1How can some do it? Okay well.
Speaker 2And you get in these time zones and then you go north or you go south, or you'll. You know Easter West, and you're an hour ahead, an hour behind. You go to the West Coast, you're there three hours behind, or whatever, like, oh my goodness, it's crazy. It is crazy, but no great. Tommy Tuberville, you know our Senator, he, he had put a thing forward to where they were gonna try and pass that. You know that the time change will be no more, but I don't know that I'm really care for him anyway.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, don't get you on Tommy.
Speaker 2Well, the thing about Tommy Tuberville is that you know, years back he was a head coach at I think it was Texas Tech and this always bothered me because he was at a dinner with like an assistant coach and he had some recruits or whatever like that and reportedly, and everybody says this story is true but that he got up from the table and he just never came back. I don't know if it was a phone call or whatever, but they were waiting to get too many hot dogs.
Speaker 2No he might have had too many hot dogs, but, but I hadn't even the food came, all this stuff. They just thought he went to the bathroom but he never came back. So then, like the next morning that he announced that he was taking a head football coach I think it was Cincinnati and I just I've always thought that's just pretty sorry how he just left a mind-dry.
Speaker 1But do what you gotta do.
Speaker 2We kind of did the same thing. When he came to Auburn he was in Mississippi told the people Mississippi that you know he was never leaving. That he did. I think he said that they'd have to take him out in a pine box or something like that and that just wasn't true.
Speaker 2And he also said that no coach tells the truth Well you know, nick Saban did the same thing when he was at, I think when he's at LSU, and said there's I don't know His exact words, but it's like there's no way I'm going to Alabama.
Speaker 1I'll say that, and then what do you do?
Speaker 2Well, there's no loyalty anymore when it comes to why is it like companies to with their employees? But hey, it's whoever's writing the check. I'm just like you know the, you know head football coaches, these high schools, you know they are all in 100% all this kind of stuff.
Speaker 2And then you know they get another opportunity. Bam, they're 100% in with the other school. I get it, I understand all that, but it's hard for him being a coach and him doing this stuff. And now he's a politician, I mean I think he fits right in, but he the whole time he was running he said one term and that's it. So mark my words.
Speaker 1How long is the term?
Speaker 2I think the term is six, six years for a senator.
Speaker 1How long has he been in there?
Speaker 2Seems like a lifetime you know he came and spoke to our oh yeah to our football. Yeah, to our football team when we got, you know, got to see him and all that kind of stuff. But I don't two or three years, maybe he's halfway through or whatever, but I guarantee that he's gonna run again Just have this feeling seems like it should be same.
Speaker 1If he's not already been there, I don't know.
Speaker 2I don't know, but he'll stay in there but, okay, I think between cyclists or their biker boys or bicycle boys, whatever you call them, and the time change. I think that's You're good, unless you want me to just sit here for a minute and think what else I mean if it. When it comes to like driving stuff, you know people that bother me driving, which I have. I've calmed down a lot in the last several months, yeah.
Speaker 1No.
Speaker 2Yeah, I have.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, we know why. Let's tell. Let's tell why. No, mr Ratliff got him a ticket because he's got road rage Passing on a double line, this with a trailer.
Speaker 2This was just bad timing.
Speaker 1Illegal.
Speaker 2I have not served it illegal I have not had a ticket in 26 years. How long have we been married?
Speaker 226 right and we were dating. Yeah, we were dating and I did a Illegal you turn and got a ticket. They had just you know this, you should not be a little where I was at and they Just changed it, whatever. Anyway, he got me. But I got on coming home and the speed limit is 55 and this lady was doing 39 the whole way and I've got a 15 foot enclosed trailer behind my truck so I just can't whip it around anybody. If I was gonna pay and I don't and I'm not gonna pass, I'm just like I want this person to speed up, do the speed limit. You don't have to do 56 miles an hour, but if the speed limit is 55, do 55 and you'll never hear a word from me. Well, she just kept on.
Speaker 2I mean it was just driving me crazy. It was just driving me crazy and we finally got up to there's right before we, you know, I got close to the schools the school zone.
Speaker 2There's a wrong, yeah there's a turn to the left, she put her brakes on. So then I'm like she's not even use her flipping blinker, so she slows down and I'm like I can't handle this. So I like just start going around her. Well, when I get around her almost even with her guess what she's not turning she starts, you know, going forward. So now I've really got to give a gas to get around there. So now I'm like up almost.
Speaker 1She was gonna turn until she saw you go, she might have set me up I think she said you well all I did was I looked straight ahead.
Speaker 2A state trooper was coming my way. He was a hundred a hundred yards from me and all he had to do is just turn around. I mean, I whipped around in front of her and I was like, oh my goodness, and he whipped around.
Speaker 2I just put in the funny thing about it in church parking lot or church parking lot is where I had to turn in that and Got the ticket, yeah. But I told him I thought I was like hey, it's my fault. I said look, I said this lady was driving me crazy. I said not doing the speed limit, I said I was in the wrong and all. And he never said anything about the the school zone. But he sure did put it on the ticket. But he did, it wasn't anything. I did not get a ticket for pass it because if you look at it was right before you get to the skills on. So I Could have probably fought that one.
Speaker 1But oh, that may we just paid it.
Speaker 2Yeah, what do you gonna do? Yeah, what are you gonna do? I mean, well, I just been, my streak is broken, so so now it has. I've thought about this. Hey, I've prayed about it too. I have like, cuz I wasn't the wrong, I should have been like, just calm down, just don't Be an eggmo, anything like that. So and I have, I'm calm down, but I'm thinking to myself I don't want to get another ticket like back to back. So I'm like I'm not do now.
Speaker 1He drives like pop off.
Speaker 2I do, I don't go, I don't go a mile over the speed limit. I turn my blinker on way ahead before I'm gonna turn. You know, you name it, I am, I am doing it, perfect. You ain't getting me for nothing, jack, jack. So yeah, hmm, okay.
Speaker 1All right.
Speaker 2Well, thanks for bringing that up. What do you got? I'm doing all the talking.
Speaker 1I know this is take two, by the way, because I was perfect last night and Jody says I wasn't, we had to redo it. So now I'm not giving him a hundred percent.
Speaker 2So we did up. I'll tell you this a few weeks ago we did an episode. We recorded like 45 minutes, all right, and then I think it was the next day or a couple of days later I go in to edit it and so when I go in and and play it back, it sounded horrible and I'm like what is going on? What happened? And it took me a while to figure it out. But a setting on the laptop, for some reason, when I recorded now I was recording through a record, this recorder I've got, and it it hooks into a Laptop and the laptop had switched the speaker because I didn't do it. Of course, I didn't do it.
Speaker 2Of course you didn't do it, but it recorded off of the speaker on the laptop so it sounded like it was like a speakerphone. If you talked to somebody on a speakerphone or whatever, it just sounded and it was horrible. So guess what we had to do? We had to redo the episode, but the thing about it is it's like you don't do it you know, of course you're not doing it just like you did the episode, just like this right here when we recorded last night. It just wasn't working out.
Speaker 1So I was good.
Speaker 2Yeah well, people will never know now will they?
Speaker 1They might Well, I thought some bloopers in there.
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Speaker 2So, we're just going to talk about whatever today, so it worked out.
Speaker 1Alright, so what we watched this week.
Speaker 2Or we already doing that.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2We've had a busy week.
Speaker 1What did we do? No, we didn't. You got hurt. We've had a slow week.
Speaker 2It's a busy week but a slow week. Yeah, I had back issues this week and I feel a lot better today. It's a little gradually, but today's a lot better. I'm hoping I'm getting over it. But I just a reoccurring thing.
Speaker 2I've had a back surgery eight years ago, or laser spine surgery to be exact, and then I had neck surgery three years ago, this June, I think. Yeah, that's right. So they go into the front of your neck, they make an incision and they basically at your esophagus all this stuff. They just move over to the side so they can get back there to your disc. I had two discs removed. They had a cadaver bones that they put in there, they put a plate and I got six screws in there. So the doctor said that I'm actually a little bit taller than I was before, but I don't know now it seemed like I hunched over a little bit more. So I'm not taller.
Speaker 2But now that surgery the back surgery was in, it did a little bit, but I'll just have issues and I'm going to continue to have issues with my back. I mean, nobody wants to hear about it, but with the neck I had the tingling in my arm. I had weakness in one arm I couldn't look up. It hurt to look down. It was just. You know, it was just just had a bunch of issues Now basically had to wait till Nicholas was old enough to drive because with my job I don't have any off time and so I had my surgery, my neck surgery, on a Thursday, spent the night in the hospital. That night got out Friday, saturday, sunday, monday morning I got up and he drove me around. We worked anyway, so he helped me. But anyway, what I'm saying is the neck surgery it's positive. I mean it's like it did its thing. It was great, except for the swallowing. I have problems with swallowing food now.
Speaker 1It's just weird. I mean it is weird.
Speaker 2I didn't find this out until after the fight. I didn't know. That's part of not what you call a side effect, but it's a regular thing that happens to people when they have this type of surgery. You just have certain foods you just have a hard time, like rice, things like that a hard time and some breads. You know swallowing, but always I basically just have to always make sure I've got a you know glass of water, something to drink right there as I'm eating. But anyway, with the back, yeah it's this little thing.
Speaker 2It was one of those things where I didn't do anything out of the ordinary and just had a sharp pain that took me to my knees, and then it's like any little thing that I did sharp pain.
Speaker 1And so when you got home every day this week, you was in a recliner I had something I don't ever do you never do that.
Speaker 2You know, I've never hardly sit down and it's like I can't wait to get home every day because all I did was just get in the recliner and I just melted into it and did not move, you know, trying to heal up. So yeah, the first two days I really didn't see any improvement. In the last couple of days, especially the day, it's a lot better. So I hope it continues to. You know, get better. I'm going to ask you a few questions. We're not getting past this. Oh, I don't like the question.
Speaker 1Thing.
Speaker 2So I'm going to ask you two or three questions. I don't like the question thing Okay, and people that's listening. You can answer these to yourself or take these questions and ask your spouse, a loved one, anyone, because you know these are interesting questions that I've come up with.
Speaker 1He has a whole note section on his phone of things and questions he just thinks about and he just puts them all in his notes.
Speaker 2Yeah, I've got it in my notes. I've just got one thing to where I just write anything that I think it would be an interesting question.
Speaker 1Some of these things you got too much time on your hand. But he does drive a lot, I do drive a lot, so that's where you come up with these things.
Speaker 2All right, let me ask you this Can you make yourself cry?
Speaker 1Yes.
Speaker 2Well, that was quick.
Speaker 1I can't.
Speaker 2Can you really? Yes, I can so how?
Speaker 1We did it last night, so that's how I know that was a good part of our episode last night that we had to redo.
Speaker 2Well, that question I'm going to ask the same, but I didn't ask these other ones. I've got some from last night. I'm not going to ask those now, since you said that. So how long will it take you to like cry? So you're saying you can make yourself cry like, are we talking 30 seconds, five minutes? It just depends. We're trying to think of a sad movie.
Speaker 1Maybe, no, not really.
Speaker 2I think if you give me enough time I can produce a tear at some point. But I think anybody could do that if they really you know, I don't think it.
Speaker 1You can really sit there and think about it, I think you can.
Speaker 2No, I don't think I can just sit here and just have like of course I'm not going to just be bawling, but I don't think I could have like produced tears rolling down my cheeks, both eyes and just constant. No, I can't do that. All right, let me ask you this When's the last time you've whistled?
Speaker 1I whistled at the dogs to get them back in the house.
Speaker 2Well, that's not very often. I didn't say it was often so you're saying when you take them outside, because I'm the one that always takes them outside to get Winston back in off whistle and he'll turn around and look.
Speaker 1Then he'll run the other way.
Speaker 2Yeah, I don't know if I've ever heard you whistle. Show me.
Speaker 1You ready See he's looking.
Speaker 2He knows my wisdom. Yeah, he just woke up.
Speaker 1He's like what are you doing? He's ready for a bone. Well, that was impressive, I must say.
Speaker 2I think I whistle every day, but do you think I do women whistle? I just don't. I mean, I don't whistle.
Speaker 1I don't whistle, I hum like songs.
Speaker 2So if you don't whistle, you're humming. Yeah, is that what you think people do? I don't know. I do hum a lot, but I guess it's either the hum or the whistle, I don't know. All right, let me ask you this one. This is a good one. All right, you're going to jail, and everybody's going to know. There ain't no getting past. Everybody's going to know. Would you rather go to jail? Now, listen to this. Would you rather go to jail for burglary, possession of a controlled substance or indecent exposure? All right, so you've robbed a place, robbed your neighbor, whatever, or you've got drugs on you or you're naked.
Speaker 1If I'm going to jail, I'm going for something good, so I'm robbing something.
Speaker 2You're robbing something. I'm robbing them Really, yeah.
Speaker 1I guess I'd get the longest time in jail too.
Speaker 2Oh, who knows? Now, it depends on what state you're in if you're doing that Burglar. So you don't think? So? Well, here's my thing. I think you could do all three and get by. Well, I'm thinking, if everybody's going to know, Then I could just plead insanity. For your burglary. Yeah, I don't know if anybody's ever got away with burglary, just because I'm insane.
Speaker 2Well, if I do all three together, Well, this is my thing, All right Well everybody pleads that, but listen, if you break in somewhere or whatever, people's going to be like oh, I can't trust him, no more. You know he's still stuff. Or if you're caught naked out somewhere, they're going to be like that joker has lost it, he's a weirdo, he's a freak, all right, but just say you do all three. If I broke in somebody's house and I was naked and I'm on drugs, you know what people's going to say. They're going to say bless his heart, he got on those drugs. You know, if he can get them off him drugs, he'll be all right. So it'll all be blamed on the drugs. So I think that, right there, if you do just one of them, they're going to think you've lost your mind. But if you add drugs into it, they're almost going to give you a. Okay, you think.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2I really do, so I'm going all three.
Speaker 1You're going to do it. You're going to do it. Good, that's right, okay.
Speaker 2All right. Can you sleep with no eyelids?
Speaker 1Well, you can sleep where your eyes open.
Speaker 2Yeah. So, but I'm just saying like if, for some reason, you're right now, your eyelids are like either glued to the top of your head or they just get cut off.
Speaker 1Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 2I think you're good you think you'd have to wear like those protective something Well like that was that mask that people wear at night. Some people wear it because they don't want light shining.
Speaker 1A sleep mask.
Speaker 2Yeah, okay, is that what it's going on? I don't know what it's called, but if you're going to try and go to sleep and you're just like staring at something, I think of course tiredness is going to finally.
Speaker 1When you go to sleep and you're asleep with your eyes open, then what's the difference? But if you didn't have any eyelids. Would they not go in there and fix your muscles or something that makes your eyelids closed?
Speaker 2Look, I'm not See the problem with asking you questions. Is you asked too many questions about my question? Just answer the question. You don't have eyelids. Can you go to sleep?
Speaker 1I got, I'm going in more. I got, no more.
Speaker 2When you're saying like what if you, you can sleep with your eyes open? Well, I get that, but you fall asleep with your eyes closed, you're dozing off, you close in and they, for some reason, they creep up or whatever. Anyway, I'm done asking you question, that did me in and I might not ask you another one.
Speaker 1Yes, no.
Speaker 2No, I'm gonna ask you some more.
Speaker 1I've got it work. That's that's how I learned. I learned from y'all. I learned from the husbands how they you'll ask them to do something and they won't really do it. They'll act like they don't know how to do it or something, and you and the wives will just be I'll just do it, just forget it. Yeah, the husbands, they got it. They know what they're doing. So that's me on the questions.
Speaker 2I'll take you word for it, so we'll do with what we've been watching. We. We watched something several weeks back and it was a documentary on we are the world, and I really enjoyed it. But but I like all kinds of, whether it's rocker documentary.
Speaker 1Well, I do, I can't even say it. Yeah, documentary, documentary.
Speaker 2If it's a documentary, I'll watch it. It don't matter. If it's telling me how cheese is made now I'll watch it.
Speaker 1But we used to watch a show about how stuff was made.
Speaker 2It wasn't at the name of it.
Speaker 1Yeah, how things are made how anyway?
Speaker 2Yeah it, it was alright, I didn't.
Speaker 2I mean, it wasn't just like a great show yeah but, but if you throw any kind of musical documentary, I like it. But though we are the world, you know it had a lot, I think, different of Lionel Richie now, simply because he was Pretty much behind the scenes of all this. I didn't know, I didn't know this. Him and Michael Jackson were the two that wrote the song. All right, and then there were it was. They said it was 40 of the biggest egos trying to get them together to do this song. So the way they had planned it, it's all that you know. They had a certain amount of time and they planned it. What's the Grammys? Grammys, I think. I think it's the gram. Whatever the musical awards is, I'm sure it's the Grammys.
Speaker 1I don't watch awards anymore. No, we first got married. They were okay. But everybody older and it's just like everybody.
Speaker 2Yeah, used to watch the Oscars, the Grammys, because, well, I know, for us anyways, we used to like watch and see what these actors, actresses, musicians, what they were wearing, how they, the song they saw. I want to see them. You know it's kind of stuff and now I could. I don't care at all about any of them. They're all a bunch of looms the way I look at it, but I'm not gonna waste my time watching that anyway. So their plan was when the award show was over, with all these, it's gonna be involved in the where the world Project was going over to this studio and they're gonna cut the track, individual tracks, group, whatever it was gonna be. And You're talking like Lionel Richie was the one that was trying to keep this thing together, keep them from getting off track.
Speaker 1You know you had who are some of them in there? You had Cindy Loper Kenny.
Speaker 2Rogers, kenny Rogers, you had. Huey Lewis. Huey Lewis you had. Who sings highway to the danger zone Kenny Loggins.
Speaker 1I don't know.
Speaker 2Yeah, I'm right, go ahead.
Speaker 1Yeah, you're always right on that stuff.
Speaker 2You had a. Oh my goodness, I've lost track.
Speaker 1Glut. No, who's the? I can picture but I can't think of her name. Anyway, you had serve a little you had Bob Dylan.
Speaker 2You know Bob Dylan.
Speaker 1Yes.
Speaker 2But hey, bob, why he was there. I don't know that Joker, hmm, oh, oh, did you say Willie Nelson?
Speaker 1No.
Speaker 2He was there, stevie Wonder, yeah.
Speaker 1I was doing my hands.
Speaker 2Yeah, and the shape of eye glasses. So I'm supposed to know who you're talking about.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah. So Lionel Richie was keeping all these people together, keeping them from getting off track. Some of them was drinking and getting getting a little Tipsy, so he was trying to wrangle them all back in, and then you had a few of them just leave. What's his name? That does the Dukes of Hazard song? Just a good old boy, whaling Jennings. He was there. He just got tired of waiting and he just left, which I don't blame him. But so yeah, but it was. It was good. It's really good. Documentary.
Speaker 1Like those documentaries like that. But some of you watch, I don't care for we watch Wham.
Speaker 2Yeah, what's in that? George Michaels and I don't know the other guy that was in Wham. We watched it and that was very good. I didn't know all the ups and downs of that.
Speaker 1We've watched a couple of wrestling wins Wrestling watch rig flare. Yeah. What was the one where they they Went to this guy's house cuz they were on drugs or something. Oh, the way into this house and then he kept leaving and he's like I'll do better, I'll do better, and he'd come back and then Jake the snake.
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Speaker 2Yeah, the back to snakes. Yeah, so he's like he was just in this little video house and he was, you know. No, yeah, he got on drugs and just couldn't get off of it and he's just like back and forth on it and and it's a. It's another wrestler I can't think of his name right now, but he's got a program where he tries to rehabilitate.
Speaker 1Yeah he.
Speaker 2A matter of fact, he's a dealing with Butterbean trying to get him in shape. Last I saw that was several months back. Oh, really, yeah, I saw Butterbean last week, by the way, at a grocery store, so I had to take a double tag. I was like I just do who's?
Speaker 1that.
Speaker 2Yeah, I'm like you've aged. And then I looked in the mirror and said I've aged.
Speaker 1Yeah, how about that?
Speaker 2Yeah, I started watching the program and it's on Netflix and it's about Troubled teens. They were sent to this place by their parents to do some some kind of rehabilitation thing and I didn't get past the first episode. It for me it was hard to watch because it's it seemed like it was scripted. There were some fake crying and all that's of course in my opinion, but did you watch any of it? Not really you were in the room.
Speaker 1Yeah, I wasn't watching that. Yeah, you were, I was just not interested in it at all.
Speaker 2No, it just was not it really.
Speaker 1But if you don't get my interest in the first five minutes.
Speaker 2I'm on my phone and I might look up everyone so in my opinion, I didn't. It's not very good if I can't get past the first episode. Just the way it was done. It just yeah.
Speaker 1Jody's all about this the way they edit and the way they things look fake and things are scripted and Well, you can tell if you look close enough, you, I mean you can see the others.
Speaker 2They own the prime. We watched Reacher. We watched was it last year, when the season was on? You know which one? I'm talking about? The big old, muscular guy. Everybody loves that.
Speaker 1Everybody. I know you say it is fake. Well, like the.
Speaker 2What do you mean?
Speaker 1The video and then like it's predictable or something I don't know. You just didn't like it.
Speaker 2Well, I don't, I don't know about all that, but I just I don't like it. I mean, it's kind of like a typical storyline of typical.
Speaker 1There we go yeah like yeah, you know, what's gonna happen?
Speaker 2Listen he. He walks at Richard. There's a guy that he thinks is following him and the guys in his car and he's sitting like on the side of the road or in town in a parking place and Richard Just starts just walking with his big old strides and comes up to the car and kicks the front bumper of the car and Makes the airbag go off inside the car and it hits the guy and like bloodies his nose, breaks his nose and all that.
Speaker 1I'm like mm-hmm, yeah, you're done, I'm done, but everybody loves it.
Speaker 2I just, I don't know and it's not bad.
Speaker 1Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 2I might go in there in a minute and start watching where we left it off, who knows. But no it's just not my thing, all right. And then the last thing, and we started this a couple of nights ago and it's called up apples never fall and it's on Peacock, and we watched the first episode. I liked it. It's got a good storyline. Yeah, and I'm not, and this is brand new, it just came out, so I'm we're not. I'm not gonna say anything else about it.
Speaker 2Yeah, cuz but yeah, it's got some Some an actor, an actress that's familiar, that you'll know.
Speaker 1Yeah, so we're gonna do this like every week, like talk about things that we've watched or whatever. So we won't do New stuff. If we've watched some, then that's fairly new, but if it's older we're gonna talk about it. So if you don't want it, if you want to watch it and don't want to be spoiled, then you're gonna have to skip to the end or something. Yeah, I mean, we won't tell all the details.
Speaker 2But I'm gonna let it out, I'm not gonna hold back, I'm gonna tell you about it. Yeah, so if you don't want to bold, but the only thing and I Got so used to Netflix but on Peacock, when we watch it it seemed like every three or four minutes was an ad and you watching that little dial over there says 60 seconds and you're just watching your lightweight so you hit like the mute button. Yeah, you're like I just want to hear nothing.
Speaker 1Yeah, until I say that thing, get down to three or four commercials, yeah it just drives me crazy.
Speaker 2Yes but let me ask Everyone that's listening Do you pick something to watch Strictly like, based on the title? So if you're like, because I noticed like with you, you're so strange what you pick.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, this Apple show that we pick. I didn't read it, I just saw the preview and I wanted to watch it. Until we get in there and he's like, well, what's it about? I'm like I don't know, Just watch it. What and then he starts asking these other questions I don't know. He's like well, didn't you read it? No, I didn't read it, so most of the time I make him read it to me. If he wants me to know what it's about, he'll just read it to me, I will because I know yeah.
Speaker 2so I'm only after you've trained me.
Speaker 1Well, I just know automatically, yeah he just automatically reads it and I'm like, okay, just play it. Yeah, so I don't read it, just play it.
Speaker 2I skim over it and if I think it's a possibility, I'll just go ahead and just read it out loud.
Speaker 1But and then then sometimes we'll just be like we have picked a couple of shows and not read it, and Because you get tired of going through all these shows and you can't find nothing, you can't find nothing, I'll just go pick it.
Speaker 2I spend more time skipping over stuff that's probably good to watch and I actually watch.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2I mean it might be 15 minutes. I've gone in there and I'm like you know what. I've only got about third, maybe 30 minutes left to watch something before I gotta go to bed, so I'm just not gonna watch that. Then I'll go to YouTube and I'll watch it.
Speaker 1Yeah, which I moved on the cop shows and hey, these in.
Speaker 2Let me tell you these interactions with cops and I don't want. I thought we're done, here we go, we're back on it.
Speaker 1No, we need back on it. No, save it for another next week.
Speaker 2I'm talking about these interact actions. No, just a little quick one. These were the. The cops interact with people and the cops do like something low down. These cops are giving cops a bad name just because the way they treat these people or the way they lied to them or the way they set them up or whatever like that I've watched bad it did. Some of them are really bad.
Speaker 1The way they, the way they arrest somebody yes, and they get you to tell what they want you to tell, but it's not even the truth and they just I don't know.
Speaker 2I do feel sorry for people and then you're finding out that what, what they're doing now is like they Ask you to get out of the car. They just start asking, like where you headed, where you going, where you been? Well, I'll just keep on and I didn't know.
Speaker 1You don't have to answer these questions. Yeah, you know, but I did. Yeah, jody, yeah, of course.
Speaker 2So, but what they're doing is they'll be doing this right now because they're waiting on the canine unit, and then they get in there and that what they're what they say they're doing is they're trying to make it to where you get so tired Of waiting or not allowing them to do it. Then you finally break and he said all right, you search my vehicle, whatever like that and then they just tear the vehicles apart. But yeah, I've got, I've got caught up in this. I'm watching what's on a amp. Watch as much.
Speaker 1You know you've been watching how to do a podcast.
Speaker 2That's right, that's right. Well, I know how to do a podcast. I'm just trying to Editing and stuff like that. So all right, well, I think that's it.
Speaker 1It's all you got for this week, Mr.
Speaker 2I think so, because we're uh yeah, this is a long one we're good, I hope y'all stuck with us.
Speaker 1Hey, I hope so, because I hope we're entertaining. I hope so. Every episode might not be entertaining, we'll come up with some stuff, but the.
Speaker 2The main thing is I'm trying to get this person I'm looking at Across the room from me, if I can get her focused, get you focused on something. I know I'm, but I'll do it every way. You know, like you. You said in the last episode that I asked you hey, just think of a few questions, stas, don't tell me about them. Just think of a few questions and when we get this thing rolling on the episode, just Pop them off at me and surprise me or whatever like that. Oh, where I'm like, think of a subject, that's just not.
Speaker 2That's not how I roll and then we get in here. I'm like, oh no. I don't know well so yeah, well, yeah it was. This was fun, but I do. I hope y'all enjoy it seriously. If you have a comment or whatever, shoot it out there at us.
Speaker 1Yeah. Any anything y'all want us to review, like on Netflix or something to watch. Yes, send us something to watch, we'll watch it and come back and but if you're gonna be negative, don't see me Get out of here.
Speaker 2So, dude, it was kind of negative to me and a comment or whatever.
Speaker 1I didn't make you listen but hey, but because it helps our algorithm and it gets us out there.
Speaker 2That's right, but I'm saying, if you're gonna waste your time listening to this, you don't like it. I appreciate it because you gave me a download and that's all that counts. For all the lovers out there, we thank you, yeah, we do, hey, we appreciate you and the haters too, maybe.
Speaker 1maybe you'll find something you like.
Speaker 2Yeah, I think Amanda covered it and when we first started about where all we're at, what we need you to do, we want to be that typical Side that asks you to hit that five star, but that like, but get that, follow all that stuff hit them all, hit them all yeah, and that's all. We're not gonna do that again. That's a little Done one and done one and done. We're not gonna waste your time, if you like it, I hope so.
Speaker 1It's alright, we appreciate you guys. A good rest of the week and we'll catch you next week. See ya out of here.
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