Grab a blanket and settle in; we've got stories that might just have you raising an eyebrow. It all starts with a medical condition that sounds like the plot of a B-movie: imagine thinking you've got a brain tumor only to find out it's linked to... undercooked bacon? Let's just say it's a doozy of a dinner mishap you won't forget. Then, we're off to hunger tales from a Low Country boil that's all about the seafood, the warmth of a fire pit, and the kind of company that makes you remember what's important. Jody, the crab leg-cracking hero of the night, even gets a special mention by his lovely wife Amanda.
Ever had a piece of your heart, in the form of a class ring, go on an adventure without you? Listen as we share the heartwarming journey of a lost ring that found its way home, and reflect on how today's kids view keepsakes a bit differently than we used to. But hey, the past is a treasure trove too—especially when it involves cowboy boots, dusty arenas, and bulls with personalities bigger than their horns. You'll be transported to the days of rodeo glory and the late evenings of high school football, where the thrill of the game was only matched by the community spirit.
As we wrap up, let's take a stroll down the memory lane of entertainment, from the now-ancient ritual of rushing to the video store for the newest VHS release to the present-day smorgasbord of streaming options. We'll talk about how the race to return rentals before the due date has been swapped for the endless scroll through Netflix. Join us for this episode that's sure to bring back memories of the days when the biggest decision was whether to rewind that tape or face the dreaded fee.
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Grab a blanket and settle in; we've got stories that might just have you raising an eyebrow. It all starts with a medical condition that sounds like the plot of a B-movie: imagine thinking you've got a brain tumor only to find out it's linked to... undercooked bacon? Let's just say it's a doozy of a dinner mishap you won't forget. Then, we're off to hunger tales from a Low Country boil that's all about the seafood, the warmth of a fire pit, and the kind of company that makes you remember what's important. Jody, the crab leg-cracking hero of the night, even gets a special mention by his lovely wife Amanda.
Ever had a piece of your heart, in the form of a class ring, go on an adventure without you? Listen as we share the heartwarming journey of a lost ring that found its way home, and reflect on how today's kids view keepsakes a bit differently than we used to. But hey, the past is a treasure trove too—especially when it involves cowboy boots, dusty arenas, and bulls with personalities bigger than their horns. You'll be transported to the days of rodeo glory and the late evenings of high school football, where the thrill of the game was only matched by the community spirit.
As we wrap up, let's take a stroll down the memory lane of entertainment, from the now-ancient ritual of rushing to the video store for the newest VHS release to the present-day smorgasbord of streaming options. We'll talk about how the race to return rentals before the due date has been swapped for the endless scroll through Netflix. Join us for this episode that's sure to bring back memories of the days when the biggest decision was whether to rewind that tape or face the dreaded fee.
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Hey guys, welcome back. I'm Amanda. And I am Jody and we are recording on a Saturday.
Speaker 2:Hold on, let me. Let me set the scene real quick. It's late, it's uh past my bedtime, which you might not think that's late.
Speaker 1:Y'all, it's nine o'clock.
Speaker 2:No, it's not. It's past nine o'clock Um, so we're recording late and I have a lingering headache. I've had one all day. You know. I've had a lot of headaches here lately, you know. But I saw a story and I meant to tell you. There was a guy, I think it was in Florida. He was struggling with headaches for a while I think it said for like a month and he went to the doctor to get checked out.
Speaker 2:It was a tumor. No, I out and uh, it was a tumor. No, I bet he wish it was a tumor.
Speaker 1:You know what it was no, I was trying to think of this word and I can't think of what I wanted to say I think it. I don't have it in front of me now, but I think it was a flesh-eating amoeba that that's the word I was gonna say, say Flesh-eating, or amoeba, amoeba, I can't even say it now, amoeba, and I couldn't say it.
Speaker 2:Right. So you know how they've come to the conclusion of how he got this flesh-eating amoeba. No, maybe I'm wrong. I'm thinking now. It was like a tapeworm.
Speaker 1:I think you need to get your facts straight. I think I should have looked this up.
Speaker 2:I think you should have looked that one up, buddy, yeah well, you notice how unprepared we are because it just comes to me, but I don't think it was the me, but I think it was like a tapeworm Anyway. So do you have any idea how they think? They're pretty sure this is how he got it.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Uncooked bacon, the bacon that he'd been eating was not cooked thoroughly, so they think it came from that. That's a scary thought. Yeah, because I got a bacon biscuit this week and the bacon on it was pretty flabby and I didn't eat it just because of this right here. If it had been crisp I'd ate it so you're not eating flabby bacon well, you know, I don't want to feed the beast in my head right now feed the beast, feed the beast, feed the beast.
Speaker 1:You know what that's. Feed the beast, feed the beast, feed the beast. You know what that's from?
Speaker 2:I do know what that's from, but yeah, we just got back. Well, we've been back just a little bit, but we had a little get together at a friend's house hey, Sprinter and Rebecca but they just bought a house and so we had a what's it called?
Speaker 1:Low country, my goodness, low country bowl.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and what's all in it? You had red potatoes, corn.
Speaker 1:Conecuh sausage. Jinx pinch poke, give me a Coke and then the best two things were last what are they? Shrimp and crab legs.
Speaker 2:Crab legs.
Speaker 1:You know what I like about crab legs.
Speaker 2:I got a good man and he cracks them for me and gets the meat out, so I don't have to you know, crab legs is one of those things to where it's like is it worth it because it's a lot of work for a little bit of payoff yeah, but you know, we probably forgot one of the most important things we needed tonight. Yeah, the little cracker the little cracker things.
Speaker 1:What are they called? I?
Speaker 2:have no idea. It's just called a cracker. It's like a little pair of pliers, but we end up I guess we did get a pair of pliers. That's the funny thing, Like out of a toolbox.
Speaker 2:I guess we did get a pair of pliers that's the funny thing Like out of a toolbox. I guess Spencer had one and we kind of me and Josh pastored around back and forth and cracked some of them. But other than that we just did the big claw. The other ones we could handle pretty good, but it was still a struggle. I actually cut my finger while I was trying to open them up.
Speaker 2:While I was trying to open them up, but yeah, I actually opened up, I guess, five crab legs to feed you. Yeah, before I ever had my first one.
Speaker 1:Might have been more than that. No, it wasn't more than that.
Speaker 2:But yeah, it was very good.
Speaker 1:Shout out to Jody, he's a good one.
Speaker 2:That's right. That's me, if y'all didn't know it. But yeah, we had fun. We had several couples there and just had a good old fellowship time. Wish we had a fire pit. Like I said, they've just moved into this house so I'm going to have to help him with where to put his fire pit, because that's the only thing he's missing. Wonderful house, fire pit, great spot.
Speaker 1:We like a fire pit. We're going to podcast out at the fire pit one night.
Speaker 2:Well, we said we were going to do that while it was still kind of cool, now it's warming up, we've got to hurry and do it. I don't know how it would sound, but it would be very neat If you never sat at a fire pit at night If the fire was popping and you're out there talking and you hear that popping in the background. I think it'd be kind of cool. I don't know if I could talk a whole lot, though, because it just relaxes me and I just want to listen to the fire.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But we've gotten to where we have a screen out there and a projector and a lot of times we'll watch a movie, or if it's during football season or something, we like to watch football out there. Yeah, watching college football. There's nothing like it on a Saturday night. The only thing about that is it's hot, wait a minute.
Speaker 1:If we're watching During football. It's hot during football and we don't.
Speaker 2:No, it's not. When football starts, it is oh well when it starts, but we don't really have a fire out there when it first starts. Yeah, we just watch it with no fire to get up early for church and all that stuff.
Speaker 1:I think you should just build a pavilion for us.
Speaker 2:I think so Top and all that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, top, We've got a what is it?
Speaker 2:a pergola.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Kind of that I build out there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but yeah, all our lots are going out. I call our lights.
Speaker 2:I call it freedom square yeah, that's a good the patriot zone, something like that. Because, uh, yeah, you sit there and just say whatever you want to say. But yeah, I'm, uh, I'm ready for bed so that means we gotta get rocking and rolling. No, no, we're gonna give this our uh 110 percent, like always well, at least one, at least one of us will.
Speaker 1:I gave my 10%.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're done, so I guess. I'll be talking the rest of the time All right.
Speaker 1:So what's happened this week?
Speaker 2:You know they had the eclipse Monday and I'm not big on just, you know, researching this stuff, waiting for it, making sure I can see it and all that kind of stuff. You know I'm not going to change my schedule but if it's possible, you know when it's going to happen I'm going to have. The only thing that scared me this time was that, like four months ago, six months ago, you made me a eye appointment I know, and you had an eye appointment on the day of the eclipse.
Speaker 2:That was funny and, as it was at three o'clock and the eclipse, the best part of it was it to, or the what is it Totality.
Speaker 2:I think that's what it calls for us. We were like in the ninety two or ninety four percent, you know, total eclipse, so so yeah, I was kind of like man, I'm going to cut this thing close by the time I have to leave for the airport and all that stuff. So two minutes till two, when it's supposed to be the fullness of it all. Guess what happened, at least where I was at it clouded up, clouded up. What about where you were at? We weren't too far from each other, we just weren't together.
Speaker 1:No, me and Spencer went out and looked at it and it was pretty cool. Spencer is your co-worker right, yes, yes, it was pretty cool.
Speaker 2:And we all had glasses. We had bought those $2 glasses that they were selling everywhere. You know I heard a story about that too that some people were busted for selling fake Eclipse glasses.
Speaker 1:Why do you do that what?
Speaker 2:kind of Igbo are you to do that?
Speaker 1:Just to make some money.
Speaker 2:Right, but I would hate to think you know when I was staring at the sun with those things on. You know when you wear those things and look anywhere? I mean you just don't. It's like total black everywhere else right shows you how powerful they are. But why are they made up? But still how?
Speaker 1:they make it so black, but you can see the sun. What? What is that?
Speaker 2:it just shows you how bright the sun. It's kind of like a welder's mask.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know, the spark is so bright.
Speaker 1:I've seen some pictures with people in their welder's mask.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, that's smart. That's probably better than what these little solar glasses were. But anyway, if you think about it or at least I did when I was staring at the sun with those glasses on you know I feel like maybe I am doing something to my eyes just staring, even with these glasses on, and I just don't know it. So now you go back to these people that were selling these fake glasses. What about? When do you find out that they're fake? The next day, when you can't see, when you go blind? What does it do? I?
Speaker 1:mean, could you not tell that it was fake? I mean, if you can see stuff around you, then you should know it's fake.
Speaker 2:But if you don't know, if you're thinking it's like 3D glasses when you put them on, do you know that that's a legitimate 3D or they just seem kind of funny?
Speaker 1:You don't know the difference.
Speaker 2:So if you get a pair of glasses that's really dark or not so dark, you're just going to think, hey, they're legit because it said so, or not so dark, you're just going to think, hey, they're legit because it said so.
Speaker 1:Right. So you just take it for its word. You just got to trust it.
Speaker 2:And then find out the bad way that two days later you've burnt your retina or whatever like that. Didn't I see them interview some guy that had burned his retina? He did I saw.
Speaker 1:There you're talking about the story I saw maybe when he was in elementary school or whatever, and he looked up at the um, at the sun, and his mama told him not to and he burned his retina how long does it take, though, to stare?
Speaker 2:it seems like when I was in elementary school or whatever, it seemed like there was a game who could stare at the sun the longest?
Speaker 1:Yeah, why you do?
Speaker 2:that you know, so isn't that doing damage to your eye?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So Junior over there that stared at it, how long did he stare at it? To where it burned his retina.
Speaker 1:I don't know, I didn't listen that good. I just heard him say he was in elementary school.
Speaker 2:I feel like if you just and his mama told him to stop staring at it. I feel like if you stared at it for like 10 seconds, you've done some damage, right? Yeah, I mean, you've ever glanced up there and your eyes?
Speaker 1:start watering. You can't even your eyes start watering, you can't even look up there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I was thinking that when I was getting my eye examined, when he put that little prism looking in the back of your eye and this bright light in your eye, I was thinking now, is this healthy for my eye, this spotlight he's putting in my eye?
Speaker 1:That thing is bright.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but you know, I meant to ask him too if he walked outside or if his employees were able to go outside and look at it. Oh, yeah, but he was a busy fellow. Let me tell you.
Speaker 1:He is very busy. He had a bunch of people.
Speaker 2:He is very busy, but yeah, so. So the next. Well, let's say when was the last one? 2017 is that?
Speaker 1:right, I don't know, you're my facts guy yeah, that was so.
Speaker 2:This was the first eclipse in uh since 2017 are they all total eclipses or totality no because can't you have an eclipse and it not be? Yeah, I mean somebody is going to have a total eclipse and then other people's not going to see.
Speaker 1:It's kind of like us, we weren't 100%. They were in Texas, yeah.
Speaker 2:Texas, arkansas. It went up northeast.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:The one, and I'll find out when it is here in a minute, but, um, I think the next one, I think oregon is going to be the only place that you're going to be able to see that during the time the moon's disc covers, uh, that of the sun, and only then. So totality. It's safe to look at the eclipse without a solar filter or eclipse glasses. So, in fact, to experience the awesomeness of the event, you must look at the sun without a filter during totality. How about that without? Yeah, because the sand is completely covered, so you're not going to be damaging your eyes who's going to take that chance?
Speaker 2:well, I mean, it says it right here, so you do. Okay, but it's a? Uh. I think this is pretty neat. Depending on your surroundings, as totality nears, you may experience strange things. You'll notice a resemblance to the onset of night, uh, though not exactly so, I guess you know it. It gets, starts getting a little dark, uh, shadows appear different, and then usually any breeze will dissipate and birds uh, many of whom will return to roost will stop chirping. So it's quiet, and sometimes a 10 to 15 degree drop in temperature is not unusual. So basically, the birds think that it's bad.
Speaker 1:That's your science lesson for this week, folks that's right was a.
Speaker 2:Didn't mean to bore you on that, but especially since the eclipse, is over.
Speaker 1:I thought you was looking up when the next one was yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm right here at it. This is the last one, so the eclipse will happen. Nope, that's not it. The next total solar eclipse over the continental US requires a 20 year wait Because we've got eclipse over the continental us. Uh requires a 20-year wait because we got to wait till august 23rd, 2044. Uh, that one is going to be visible only in montana and north dakota. I think I said oregon a minute ago, so I was a little bit wrong. Great total solar eclipses follow in 2045 and 2078. We will not be here I hope not.
Speaker 2:At least not that 2078 one. Those events will have a maximum totalities of six minutes and six seconds and five minutes and 40 seconds. So that's pretty cool, all right. And what is this you said?
Speaker 1:That's your science lesson of the week, folks.
Speaker 2:Science update Close that chapter. Close that chapter.
Speaker 1:Close that chapter.
Speaker 2:Done Good.
Speaker 1:All right. So I enjoyed telling stories, telling our story last week. I hope y'all enjoyed listening to it and I have thought of some, I think you know, going back.
Speaker 2:I think we got stuck, though, for a while on like prom. Maybe Didn't it seem like we got stuck in the area for a little too long, yeah, so yeah.
Speaker 1:So I mean we have several stories but one that comes to mind that I'd like to throw out there.
Speaker 2:So I told y'all last time that hold on I didn't agree to none of this, so I don't know where you're going oh well so I'm trying to think right now what you're about to say I told y'all last time that jody rode bulls back in his crazy years.
Speaker 1:I never got to see him ride bulls. I think he he did it right when we started dating. I don't remember maybe one or two times doing it after we started that I knew of. He probably did it and didn't tell me. Oh well, I know he did because we were dating.
Speaker 2:Well, we started going out. Were we dating Dating?
Speaker 1:I don't know what do you call it.
Speaker 2:I don't know, but we were going out and I was still. I maybe wrote a couple you know, and then ended my career.
Speaker 1:Okay, so back when we were teenagers and oh, excuse me, I was a teenager Jody was in his 20s you had high school rings and you wore each other's rings. Oh, I know where you're going. And so Shut it down. So of course Jody has mine and mine fits on his pinky and he would wear it on his pinky.
Speaker 2:Why would I do that?
Speaker 1:I don't know why did you do that?
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:And why did you do it at a rodeo? I didn't know this at the time, but found out later that he lost my ring at a rodeo in the mud. He.
Speaker 2:When did I? Where do I need to jump in here Because I don't remember what all you know and what you don't know?
Speaker 1:Well, just go ahead and spill it. Well, you go ahead.
Speaker 2:You just go ahead and tell the story.
Speaker 1:All I know is I was told after the fact that you went back and dug through the mud and found it wherever you rodeoed at. But apparently there's some more to the story, because the look on your face.
Speaker 2:Oh no, I don't have any. Look on my face.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I've just got a headache and I'm holding my head. Oh, so when did I tell you? A few days after, or you'd like like a year, what?
Speaker 1:no, not a year. I think it was a few weeks.
Speaker 2:I don't think it was a few days no, so this is what happened, and I didn't hide none of the kids do that these days.
Speaker 1:They don't swap rings like.
Speaker 2:Nicholas didn't even get a ring nicholas didn't get a ring, he didn't get a jacket nothing, yeah, he didn't get.
Speaker 1:Did he get her year't?
Speaker 2:get a jacket. He didn't get nothing. Yeah, he didn't get. Did he get a yearbook?
Speaker 1:No, he quit yearbooks a long time ago.
Speaker 2:So we didn't get a yearbook, we didn't get a ring, we didn't get a Letterman jacket. He didn't get anything, so saved us money. So yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh well, okay, so I think you're just remembering it wrong. Oh so I didn't this event, I didn't ride this night, excuse me. I had a buddy of mine that was riding and so I was going to have to tighten his rope, his bull rope, you know. So when you get on, I was on the back of the chute for anybody that doesn't really you know anything about this. So you got a bull in a chute in a pen. I guess you would about this.
Speaker 2:So you got a. You got a bull in a chute in a pen. I guess you would a tight pen, it's called a chute, and the bull rider, you know, slides down onto the bull's back and there's a rope that goes around him anyway. So that rope's got to be pulled tight, so his hand will be tight. So, uh, I'm the one doing that for him. So I'm behind the chute and I'm doing that and he, you know, ties in all this kind of stuff. Anyway, he rides, we're there all night. We get back and I think I don't know if it was that, I guess it was. That night I realized that, hey, the her ring that was on my pinky finger and I really don't know why I wore it on my pinky finger.
Speaker 2:I don't either, yeah but it was no longer there. So at some point, I guess coming back home or after we'd already got there't either, yeah, but it was no longer there. So at some point, I guess coming back home or after we'd already got there, I'd realize that it was lost. But I do remember. The next day I called the rodeo company to see if you know if anybody had found it he was scared to death well, I lost your ring and you know I was thinking that's money and I was going to buy another one.
Speaker 2:A lot of problems with this, but I never got a. You know, left messages, never got a call back or anything from this rodeo company. But we ended up and I don't even remember where it was at. But we ended up driving all the way back up there the next day and looking around in the dirt and the mud and all that stuff.
Speaker 1:I remember you saying it was muddy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and could not, you know, had no idea. I mean, you're looking, you might as well be in a field, because mine was gold. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I didn't do silver like mine. Yeah, I remember what it was like.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but either way, I mean it's still. Yeah, I mean because I'm thinking it's been trampled on. Trampled on it's, you know, it's six inches in the mud and there's no way. So we never found it, you know, didn't find anything like that. I don't know if it was me or my buddy that thought about looking in his, his uh bag, his bull riding bag that had all of his equipment, the rope and all that stuff, and guess what was in that bag?
Speaker 2:at the bottom of that bag was that ring well so we had come off in the mud so in the middle of putting the rope back in there or me getting it out or whatever it was, that ring had popped off and it was in that bag.
Speaker 1:So how about that? You redeemed yourself a little bit, yeah, so say I could have been like whoo.
Speaker 2:I could say, I should have never said anything. You never know I would never know, yeah but I don't know if it's a few days or what before I found it was a, it was a hot minute before you ever told me it might have been the next week when we got the bag back out to ride and that's when we found it.
Speaker 2:I don't know, it might have been a whole week before I found that ring, I don't remember. But I don't think if I'd I lost it, I'd have kept it from you for a week and I might have a day or two just to get my bearings, and, you know, try and find it. But if I hadn't found it in a few days, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have waited you know longer than that to tell you it is what it is.
Speaker 1:I guess. So that's just another fun little crazy story.
Speaker 2:You know, I've only got like three pictures, I think, of me bull riding.
Speaker 1:I'm going got like three pictures, I think, of me bull riding. I'm gonna put one out there.
Speaker 2:Wonder if that's when you hurt your back. Wonder if that started all your back problems.
Speaker 2:We can say I'll say yeah, I do remember yeah, I do remember I rode a bull named gremlin and, uh, he spun around on me and he, he didn't get. He barely got out of the chute and he just started spinning and right there in the corner, you know, they, they plow up the inside of the make it, you know, a little bit softer or whatever. Right there in the corner they don't. Well, of course, that's where I landed, but I landed flat on my back in that corner and I remember I had little blood blisters on my back from where, you know, little rocks, pebbles and stuff that was in there. That's all I can, I guess, is just from landing on that. But yeah, yeah, we'll blame it on that?
Speaker 1:how about that? Thinking of pictures, you said I don't think you have pictures, but I think you have vhs tapes, because I remember when we started dating you had a big video recorder that you set on your on your shoulder. You know, back then it was a big old like a rca yeah that you said I wonder where those are.
Speaker 2:I don't I have not even thought about that.
Speaker 1:I need to I can't believe your mom hadn't come across them or something I don't know, or no, we've got some.
Speaker 2:We've got some, uh matter of fact, in the closet. It's either in this back closet behind me right here, or it's in the attic. I don't think it's in the attic.
Speaker 1:I think it's in the back closet, so we have them here.
Speaker 2:We have. I'm going to say it's like a little three-drawer thing. There's probably 20 or 30, and I would. But even when you find it, how would you play it? We don't have a VCR.
Speaker 1:That's true.
Speaker 2:Can you get VCRs?
Speaker 1:Our church has VCRs.
Speaker 2:I guess I'd be taking it to the church.
Speaker 1:That'd be something to watch. I don't know, we might have to drag that out.
Speaker 2:I guess you would just have to. You could get it on Amazon.
Speaker 1:I guess I'll buy it cheap Somebody I know Some cheap Somebody I know there's a company that still makes VCRs. I'm sure you can find one on eBay. Yeah, some people I'm surprised we don't have one in the attic actually.
Speaker 2:We might do it, but I just don't want to go searching for it. I'd be willing to pay $30 or $40 just for a one-time.
Speaker 1:So you don't have to get in the attic. Well, you know, we've got all these recordings from the small cameras.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we these recordings from, uh, the small cameras there for a while. You know a little bd camera like, and so you'd have the small tape and then you can convert it. Well, I don't know. No, you would play it, you would hook that to your tv and play it to that so how would you actually record that onto something else to save it, or could you?
Speaker 1:I think you can send them off. There's companies that do that. I think you could send it off and have it done.
Speaker 2:And they just put it on a disc, right yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, we don't even have a DVD player.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we got rid of that too.
Speaker 1:So what you going to put it on?
Speaker 2:No do we not have a TV that one slides in the side? Is that not our bedroom TV?
Speaker 1:No, that TV got took to the church.
Speaker 2:That's right, that's our security camera TV.
Speaker 1:Now you've told it all.
Speaker 2:All right.
Speaker 1:So that was just a fun little story. I don't that story sticks out. I like that story. I don't know why. I just I just think it's fun.
Speaker 2:I wish uh just reliving the rodeo days.
Speaker 1:I didn't rodeo too long, but still just to think of that I'm like what was I thinking? Yeah, what were you thinking? That was you know, I like rodeos, though we've been to a couple we've been to several and you know I've met the big rodeo anybody that knows rodeos knows who tough heat is.
Speaker 2:I met him and got his autograph one time. Don gay, he's a hey, I don't even know if he's still alive. He's a rodeo bull riding guy. Yeah, got know if he's still alive. He's an old rodeo bull riding guy. Got his autograph one time, so yeah, Back in the good old days. Yeah, but looking at it now it's like I wouldn't get on a bull for nothing.
Speaker 2:We went to. We'd go to Mississippi and I can't remember the guy's name now, so I mean he was famous in the rodeo community, but we'd go down there and ride stairs. That's what we practiced on when I first got started. You just got on a steer and kind of got your bearings out of.
Speaker 1:Who got you into?
Speaker 2:that I don't know. I don't know. But you just you know you're trying to get your balance. You know forward and you know you can only lean certain ways. You ever get leaned back, or if you sit on the tail end of a bull, you're in trouble because you're gonna get flung yeah, so you need. You got to sit up around your hand you got you got to lean over his head.
Speaker 2:You're leaning over his head. I mean it's a crazy thing, like if he raised his head up. I mean he, you know you kiss him on the forehead pretty much. But yeah, if you don't do that, you're starting off in, you know, on the wrong angle to begin with. You ain't gonna make it. I'm acting like I'm, you know, such as great, you know, bull rider. I wasn't, but I just knew the basics I'm glad you got out of that yeah, me too kind of so.
Speaker 1:Another thing during our dating times I was in a band and I always remember Friday nights it being so cold. You come up there, we'd be under the blanket. Friday night football.
Speaker 2:I think some of the coldest I've ever been not just saying what you're talking about right now, but being at a Friday night football game. High school football games.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That's some of the coldest.
Speaker 1:That is cold.
Speaker 2:I've ever been.
Speaker 1:That was crazy yeah.
Speaker 2:And I don't know if it is just because you're not prepared for it. I think that's most of it right. Just because you're not prepared for it? I think that's most of it right. When people go to these ballgames, they don't just prepare, they're not wearing thermals under and all this kind of stuff.
Speaker 1:I think when we were younger we didn't really care. But going to some of Nicklaus's I mean we would prepare, but we still weren't prepared enough.
Speaker 2:I don't think it got cold, like back when I I remember particularly one of your, one of the games when you went to school that I remember I was wearing like a Carhartt jacket.
Speaker 1:I remember I was pretty much boned up. I think we have a picture of that. I don't know where it's at, though.
Speaker 2:I froze. I was acting cool and tough, like I wasn't, but deep down inside, I was freezing Because you probably gave me your jacket. And that might be the coldest I've ever been.
Speaker 1:Those were fun times too.
Speaker 2:But when Nicholas, you know, a few years ago hadn't been but two years since he graduated.
Speaker 1:Just a year? A year, yeah yeah, this may be a year.
Speaker 2:So yeah, when he played football, you know it got cool. When the sun was going down it would get cool, but it, you know, of course, it wasn't nothing like what I remember several years back. I know.
Speaker 1:I mean, I feel like we don't. Football weather now is not like what it used to be when I was a kid. It seems like I don't know.
Speaker 2:I mean, I know that doesn't make any sense, but I remember freezing at ball games, oh yeah, and now I know. Well, I know, now I go prepared and maybe that's it maybe that's like I will. I know the one year we even had our little, uh small propane tank heater we would take yeah you know, and then I always supplied hot hands for people.
Speaker 2:Jody was the hot hands man yeah, I mean we would take a blanket or whatever and I wore thermals just on the nights. We knew when the sun went down it was gonna be cool. I don't like cold weather, so especially now, and so I go prepared. But I but I miss going to the games since he graduated.
Speaker 1:I do too. We only went to a couple this year for our friends.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was the thing, because you had a group of parents that you sat with year after year after year. Everybody's kids were involved and they're growing up together. And then when you know a group graduates, and there's one or two kids that's just now turned a senior, you know they're kind of left behind. And so now you know, we went back and sat with some of the parents that we're used to, but it's just not the same because everybody's not there anymore. Yeah it was different. Yeah, I miss it.
Speaker 1:I miss it, but better things to come, maybe.
Speaker 2:I wouldn't if we'd won all the time it sure would have made it better.
Speaker 1:It would have made it a lot better sitting out in that rain. That one ball game. Oh man, we went to the car that one ball game. It was raining so bad that we was. We went to the car that one ball game it was raining so bad. All right, well, that's. That's a couple of more stories that we got for you, and we may just throw these things in there here and there, you know, depending on what we've got to talk about or whatever. Um jody has watched an interesting show. The last might have took him two weeks to watch, I can't remember if it. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it did. Um on netflix and I thought we might talk about netflix a little bit I watched one.
Speaker 1:It's called three body problem I don't remember that one was I not, I think?
Speaker 2:I don't know. I I was not able. You know you watch bits and pieces. If I watch, if it's like eight episodes, I'm not gonna watch like 20 or 30 minutes of the episode and then finish the episode the next night. I've got to watch at least one full. You know I don't want to watch a partial episode. So it did. It seemed like it took two weeks but I watched two different things the last couple weeks. But this one was called and it's weird three body problem and it's about, apparently aliens are on their way here, you know, to earth. We find out about it, something about science, something you know, physics, all that stuff. Something has changed and it's not all adding up anymore and some things are happening to this science, these scientists around the world and all this kind of stuff. But anyway, so apparently they find out the aliens are coming and it's going to take them 400 years to get here. So we've got to figure things out before they get here.
Speaker 1:Oh, I remember that one. I watched it on and off. We did, but I didn't yeah.
Speaker 2:It's kind of cool, kind of strange and everything like that, but I think it was eight episodes, I think it was. But it ends where and of course I'm not going to, like I said, we talked about this. If it's a newer thing, I'm not going to talk about the ins and outs of all of it, but I will say this that it ends to where there's going to have to be another season. Yeah, it did not end where there's a conclusion. So, and my thoughts about that is I hate to think I have to wait.
Speaker 1:He hates that.
Speaker 2:Well, I hate to think that now you've got me involved and now I've got to wait a year at least, probably to see you know, and by that time I'll forget. There's another thing that we watched on Peacock. It's a murder podcast. Yeah, is that the name of it my Murder Podcast.
Speaker 1:No, I don't remember the name of it.
Speaker 2:So now I know the name of it. It's called Based on a True Story.
Speaker 1:So that was the podcast.
Speaker 2:That's well, she likes everything murder related.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And she wants to do a podcast and everything, and so they end up figuring out who this murder guy is and he ends up being like their plumber or something like that anyway, so then they all get together and start this podcast and it becomes very popular and all this kind of stuff, and then he's setting them up, blackmails them yeah so it went off, and I don't know how long ago it's been since we watched this I don't know been a while, but I looked it up the other day and it's going to be like another year
Speaker 1:yeah, it says either the end of this year or the beginning of 2025 so you know what I was thinking as we're sitting here talking about netflix and stuff like that. You know, I've been going back to our when we dated and first getting married and stuff like that. But how did? We used to watch movies. We used to have to go to blockbuster and rent movies, talking about VHS tapes and all. I just think what did we do? Now we stream everything and if we can't find something on one platform, we go to another platform.
Speaker 1:And we used to only have so many channels.
Speaker 2:But remember, though, when we went to to blockbuster, when there was a new release yeah, you know they'd have 50 copies yeah and you're hoping that when you know they have it, or you'd call, you call and they hold it for you yeah, so then, but it's kind of overwhelming too because you would go. It's almost like turning on netflix and scrolling through all those movies.
Speaker 1:I mean you can scroll through Netflix for 20 minutes before you can ever find anything. That's what I'm saying, and you get so aggravated.
Speaker 2:It's the same thing of when you're at, like, say, blockbuster. You walk those few aisles back and forth looking at the new releases, looking at the sci-fi, looking at the, you know whatever.
Speaker 1:It's just crazy how things have changed.
Speaker 2:But the hassle of that was you know you always you rent it for a day or you got it all weekend. It was the hassle of getting it back on time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was the biggest thing. I was never good at that at all.
Speaker 2:So is Redbox still a thing.
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:I see them Because is that not where Netflix.
Speaker 1:How did Netflix start? You could rent movies from Netflix and they would send you the disc and you have to send them back, right? Was that? Netflix? That's Redbox.
Speaker 2:I have no idea, I don't know. I think Netflix was something like that.
Speaker 1:I think you're right. Yeah, they started off like that, right. I just think it's crazy. I don't know. I was just sitting here thinking how we used to have to go and rent and now you can sit in the comfort of your own home and you can rent new movies. I mean, you know what did me and Nicholas? We rented something not too long ago that was just come out in the theaters or whatever, and you could rent it on one of those platforms was it a cartoon type?
Speaker 2:maybe?
Speaker 1:was it mario? Was it the new mario movie? I don't know, I don't know, I don't remember, but I don't know. I was just sitting here thinking how but say they figured that these days. That I don't. We say it was good back then, like we liked it. But I guess that's just because what we grew up with and they say it's good now.
Speaker 2:But they'll say back in the good old days but see, they've figured it out too, like on these new releases. You know used to be when a movie came out you had to wait. Oh, forever. It seemed like a year before it came out on dvd yeah now a movie comes out, and in what say three months yeah you. You've got a chance to stream it yeah but it's like 29.99 or something like that. But what?
Speaker 1:I'm still pay that.
Speaker 2:What I'm getting at is that's to me that's smart. I'll pay it because I can be in the comfort of my home and I can pause it will not pay it. Yeah, but I'm just saying I can pay it because I can be in the comfort of my home and I can pause it. Jody will not pay it, yeah, but I'm just saying I can pause it. I don't have to buy that $9.99.
Speaker 1:That popcorn, I can make your popcorn for you.
Speaker 2:That's right. That's right and I don't have to be there a specific time. Maybe I don't want to be there at 7 o'clock to watch the movie.
Speaker 1:Maybe I want to watch it at 5 30 when it's convenient for me. Yeah, that's right. I just thought that's crazy, how things, everything, everything has changed how it's.
Speaker 2:It's just like you know, we used to have a rental place on every corner. It seemed like, yeah, we had one locally yeah we live not in the, we live outside of a, a city, a small city town, I guess you'd say, and in our little spot we had just a local place that you could go and rent whatever, and of course they no longer do that, but even if they're still in business, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I think they are, but I think they have tanning beds.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think I guess there's always a business for tanning.
Speaker 1:I guess Always it is.
Speaker 2:It's technology and the way things go. You know when you're successful, just like blockbuster and all those you know they probably saw that, hey, things are never going to change who would ever thought you would not have.
Speaker 1:You wouldn't rent movies anymore.
Speaker 2:You know it's almost like a gas station that's popular, that just makes all kinds of money. You know they always have 20 years from. They don't realize that. You know they're going to open up another road or whatever and it's going to detour all your you know your traffic to where you don't do it. I mean, it's just things, stuff you just don't foresee.
Speaker 1:That reminds me of the Cars movie.
Speaker 2:Does it, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:That was the first movie Nicholas seen in theaters, by the way. Yeah, all right, you got one more show. I got a side track there, squirrel yeah.
Speaker 2:It was called Ripley.
Speaker 1:I didn't like it.
Speaker 2:You didn't like it. Why did you not like it?
Speaker 1:I mean, I don't know, it was slow.
Speaker 2:It was set and it was black and white, you know, but the way it was filmed I don't know what you would call it, but it is black and white, but it's just very well done. I'd actually forgotten until the last episode that it was in black and white, if that makes sense. I just like the way it was done. I mean, I just liked it.
Speaker 1:I know you did, I didn't, but it's setting. It was slow.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's uh, I don't know if they ever went to rome, I don't know, but in places like that, small little cities in italy, uh, it was. Some of it was very slow, but I like the storyline and it's all it. Basically it's a guy that steals somebody's identity and it tells you know how he slowly manipulates these people and how it keeps going, and I think it was eight episodes. Is that right? Yeah?
Speaker 1:I think so. Is that, like the norm Is eight episodes? The norm Maybe so I don't know, the show I'm hooked on now is ten?
Speaker 2:But before you get squirreled into something else. Oh, I'm not going, let me, let me finish this I'm not gonna go into detail about all of it, since it's new and I don't want to spoil it for anybody is it new or we just okay? No yeah, it's new, but it I like the way it ended. You know all the loose ends. I thought it ended weird all the loose ends were tied. What?
Speaker 1:really yeah. Why would you say that I don't know? Because I didn't pay attention to the whole thing. You did not know and that's why you like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if you don't watch every episode. You ain't got the right to say nothing.
Speaker 1:I was in there.
Speaker 2:You were there, but you weren't there.
Speaker 1:Exactly Put it that way. All right, well, I guess that's all we got for this week.
Speaker 2:It's late. I put forth my best effort. I really did.
Speaker 1:Me too. What about you did you? Yes, 120, right there, I can see, I can see it in your eyes you can't even see my eyes.
Speaker 2:They're closed. I know everybody appreciates it.
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Speaker 1:Bye.