This That And The Other
This That And The Other
Nose Woes, Ice Cream Nights, Netflix Letdowns, Pets Galore, and Throwback Tech Tales
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Ever wondered why my nose only decides to run when we're recording? Well, this episode kicks off with that quirky mystery, as we recount the rollercoaster of our week, from a delightful ice cream fellowship at church to peculiar food textures like jello with pretzels. You'll laugh along as we debate whether our week was busy or lazy, and hear my frustration over a disappointing Netflix binge-watch of "Eric." We also reflect on our habit of pushing recording sessions later and later, making for an interesting discussion on procrastination.
In our next segment, we vent about the workplace dynamics when a work bestie is on vacation and imagine taking off on an impromptu trip ourselves. Pet lovers will relate to our woes as we discuss the financial strain of caring for pets, especially the high cost of flea and tick medicine for dogs. Things take a humorous turn as we share anecdotes about the overwhelming presence of cats and kittens in our lives, from feeding strays to struggles managing the growing feline population. If you’re looking for a furry friend, we might just have the perfect incentive for you!
Finally, we take a nostalgic trip down memory lane, reminiscing about the evolution of communication devices from bag phones and pagers to the first iPhones and Razors. We share heartfelt family memories, including quirky tales of "Pop" and his old-fashioned habits, like cutting mold off block cheese and narrowly missing a family member while aiming at a garden-invading rabbit. Join us for a lighthearted, humorous, and nostalgic episode filled with candid reflections and laughs about the week's events and the simple joys of yesteryear.
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man, it's been such a long week. It's sunday after seven o'clock and we're just now starting to record I know this thing's gonna have to be released by midnight oh, that means jody's not going to bed by eight someplace will be tired that's not good. He's got to work tomorrow. What?
Speaker 2happened. Yeah, what time do I get up 3 15? 3, 15 whose idea was this?
Speaker 1I don't know.
Speaker 2I thought we're skipping a week I thought we usually did this like on Tuesdays, then it got pushed to Thursdays, then it got pushed to Fridays.
Speaker 1No, we were Thursdays. Then it got pushed to Saturdays. Now it's Saturday. No, we're Sunday. No, we were Thursdays.
Speaker 2It's 738 on a Sunday.
Speaker 1On a Sunday man. I don't know what's happened happen.
Speaker 2I'm just glad to be here you are. I was scared this wasn't happening.
Speaker 1I mean, we're borderline like this right here we've crossed the line, cross the line. Yeah, this can't happen again why did my nose not ever run until I get on here? I don't know. And then I need to sniff. Yeah, I need to sniff, are you?
Speaker 2gonna belch this time. All right, I'm good you won't belch this time, right, you didn't have jackson, other nothing, yeah, but we did just eat. What did?
Speaker 1we do. We did just eat. Where did we just come from? We just came from church. We had a big old ice cream fellowship. Jody ate so much ice cream he didn't eat regular food.
Speaker 2Pay for it.
Speaker 1Yeah, he will.
Speaker 2I had some little dessert thing, some strawberry. It was kind of like strawberry shortcake in a way.
Speaker 1And then when I Like a strawberry pie yeah.
Speaker 2So when I like dug into it.
Speaker 1They have jello in it. Was that jello?
Speaker 2Is that what that was? Yeah, maybe so.
Speaker 1That's what turned me off. I'm not a jello person. I don't like that texture.
Speaker 2It wasn't exactly what I wanted, but anyway, the pretzel's on the bottom. I wish you'd let me talk.
Speaker 1I do it on purpose, no, you don't.
Speaker 2You know. It's just what you do.
Speaker 1We said we wouldn't argue in this one.
Speaker 2I'm not arguing, I'm just telling you what you do. Here we go.
Speaker 1The people are tired of us Anyway.
Speaker 2No, they're not Anyway. So when I forked down into it and I thought it was walnuts, so I thought it was walnuts, so I had that walnut in my mind and then when I bit into it I was like this is not nuts. So it took me a minute to figure out what it was. And it's like the mini pretzels and they're a little soggy, just a little bit. They weren't soggy, but I mean they were fine, but it just took me by surprise. So when I gathered all my facts and figured out what was in this, it was actually pretty good. But you know, when you taste something and you don't know what it is, you're kind of surprised.
Speaker 1But I saw the Jell-O and that turned me off.
Speaker 2I wanted a bite until I saw when you cut that and I'm like that's Jell-O.
Speaker 1I just can't do that texture thing with the Jell-O. I just never have been.
Speaker 2I like Jell-O.
Speaker 1I know, jello, I know I used to make it for you. We made that so you just couldn't have like a bowl of jello uh-uh, like you know, when you have like when you're gonna have surgery or something you gotta eat, um jello yeah I, I just don't eat because I can't do the jello thing. I don't know why, what about jelly.
Speaker 2You can eat jelly, that's the same eh, I'm still iffy on jelly.
Speaker 1I don't like a lot.
Speaker 2If jelly is cold, it's got the same texture as jello. No, yeah, no, it's different Not really it's a little different, different taste.
Speaker 1Anyway.
Speaker 2Same texture, I think.
Speaker 1We've had a pretty good week. It hadn't really been busy. We've had a pretty good week. It hadn't really been busy.
Speaker 2We've just been lazy. I don't know. Don't speak for yourself. How have we been lazy?
Speaker 1You've been into this series on Netflix for the last three days trying to get it done, so I think that's why we've waited to the last minute.
Speaker 2Two days, two days, I think I thought it was three days. Did I start Friday? I thought you started it friday.
Speaker 1Okay, maybe so do you?
Speaker 2it's called eric I I don't suggest it for anybody it's. I don't know how he hung I turned it off after the first episode and told myself I'm not going back to it because of the situation that was on it yeah then the next day I thought you know what? What I'm going to go back to it and let's just see how far this thing goes on this, just to see. And yeah, they took it that far.
Speaker 1It was bad. Yeah, not stuff that we like to watch.
Speaker 2And it ended up not being a good story.
Speaker 1But he watched it, he stuck it out to the end. You made fun of me at the very end, at the very end of it.
Speaker 2I gave it a thumbs down.
Speaker 1He end of it. I gave it a thumbs down when he sure did it said how would you rate this?
Speaker 2yeah, and I did the thumbs down thumbs down so thumbs down? Yeah, I can't believe you made fun of me I said I was just gonna say you stuck with it yeah, I just wanted to see what the agenda was on it, and they definitely had a couple of agendas on that movie you say that about everything.
Speaker 1Well, if you look I guess I just don't pay enough, if you have that in mind when you're watching things not just movies, but anything. I don't think that I just watch it and I just listen to stuff.
Speaker 2But you're also the one that told me that you don't ever listen to lyrics on songs to even know what they're about.
Speaker 1You're right, I don't.
Speaker 2You've got to listen to the lyrics. You just can't sing along. I don't?
Speaker 1I just sing it except for my praise and worship music.
Speaker 2No, I like it.
Speaker 1I listen to those, but then the music and stuff that we listen to when we're young. And now I listen to it and think, oh, that's what that was about. And my parents let me listen to this.
Speaker 2Well, it's just like these country songs and stuff. We're just singing to it all day long, but when you start to think about it, these are not good songs.
Speaker 1It's crazy.
Speaker 2I don't care who you are. I don't care if you're Kenny Rogers. He was not singing good songs.
Speaker 1Kenny Rogers. Where did that come from? I?
Speaker 2don't know, I don't know. I thought of him and Dolly Parton.
Speaker 1I don't know, well, okay.
Speaker 2What song did they have?
Speaker 1Islands in the Stream. That is what we are.
Speaker 2I'm stopping right there. I thought you might keep going.
Speaker 1I watched your facial expressions. It said stop, did you yeah?
Speaker 2I found myself on. Well, I was going to tell myself I wasn't going to mention the other podcast this time, but I have caught myself. I've sung on it twice so far. I mean, it wasn't impressive, it was more of like a little hum.
Speaker 1Well, I think you like that anyway. Goodness gracious Anyway.
Speaker 2Anyway, but back to your week. You've had a lazy week, huh.
Speaker 1I don't know. I don't even know nothing I've done.
Speaker 2I can only speak for myself. I don't know what you've done. I worked, me too.
Speaker 1Oh, we was off Monday, right, was that this week?
Speaker 2Yes.
Speaker 1Was that Memorial Day?
Speaker 2Yes.
Speaker 1Was that last week?
Speaker 2No, this week was Memorial Day this week. This past week was Memorial Day.
Speaker 1Yeah, I don't even know what day it is. That's right. Yeah, I think that's right. Yeah, today's the first and Memorial Day is the last Monday of the month.
Speaker 2That's right so that's right yeah. So yeah, so you were off, so y'all stayed home, and then when I got off work, I was at home, and then we didn't do anything. We didn't do anything.
Speaker 1It rained, didn't it? It rained.
Speaker 2I don't know it's rained so much, I don't know what day it has rained a lot Rain today, on and off today.
Speaker 1All right. So we had that little get together at church tonight. And what did we have to take? I got off easy.
Speaker 2Oh, we had to take tea.
Speaker 1Yeah, we had to bring tea and I went up there to get tea. I went up there to get us something to drink. That was three gallons still left.
Speaker 2Well, that's because somebody else brought a bunch of two liters, and then we had lemonade there's a lot of lemonade left. Yeah well, I mean, I guess people wanted the the cokes if you give everybody too many options, they're going to take a little bit of all of them. Remember that so.
Speaker 1So we still had to go to uh gateway to get the tea. That's a little grocery store in our town, and before we went it hadn't started raining before we went, and so I needed some lotion on my legs and I don't like lotion.
Speaker 2I don't like the like feel of it, or whatever you don't like the texture, like jello, you don't like jello and you don't like but I wanted to put tanning drops in it, and and so Jody's usually pretty good He'll put lotion on my legs if I ask him to. But you didn't ask.
Speaker 1But I didn't, because I was putting the tanning drops in it. And then so I get my legs all lotioned up, I go back in the living room and it starts raining and I'm like but what does that?
Speaker 1have to do with your lotion and your tan. Well, if I just use tan and mousse and it gets wet, it messes it up. You'll have little drops like white spots on it. But I don't know about with the tan and drops mixed with the lotion. I'm hoping I'm not spotted when I wake up in the morning because it's a gradual tan so you're telling me the tannin.
Speaker 2Is this what all tannin lotion stuff do if?
Speaker 1you get wet when you've tanned right after it right after.
Speaker 2So what's the time frame to not get wet? Six to eight hours that's why you do it at night before you go to bed so, like in the morning, if you got out in some sprinkling you should be okay, I you really go wash it off.
Speaker 1I'm not talking about a drizzle, yeah, but yeah.
Speaker 2So so you won't be able to tail until hours from now. For sure I'm hoping.
Speaker 1Well, the tanning drops are a gradual tan, so I'm hoping we don't. The old legs are not old spotty in the morning when I get up but then you can just fix it.
Speaker 2Yeah, I just put more on.
Speaker 1Maybe I don't think I need any more how do you take it off? It just wears off.
Speaker 2And when you get in there, so if you're spotty, though, how do you fix that?
Speaker 1well, either you put more on or you get in and you scrub and scrub and scrub. It's not gonna come off in the first day, I mean. So it'll just have to be that way, or either I'll have to add some more. So yeah, that was the excitement of the day. I'm like I'm gonna get wet and I'm gonna be spotty but then, after all the rain, we saw a double rainbow we didn't see that double rainbow which is pretty cool that was pretty cool we didn't even know it was a double rainbow.
Speaker 1Somebody just come in and said hey, did you see that rainbow? So I came and told you and then you went out and videoed it and it was double. Yeah, I like rainbows. Somebody told me I look like a rainbow today. Actually, they told me, how do?
Speaker 2you look like a rainbow.
Speaker 1Can I say what they told me I was supporting?
Speaker 2Oh, we could.
Speaker 1Yeah, they told me. Oh well, you're supporting the Pride Month this month.
Speaker 2How's that?
Speaker 1Because my dress was all different colors. It was like a blue, a pink, I think it had two different pink colors in it. And then I'm like no, the rainbow is God's promise. So he had it first, right. And then they said no, no, I didn't really mean that. I'm like whatever, whatever.
Speaker 2But you said it, you said it.
Speaker 1I'm like no, I don't support that, Sorry.
Speaker 2Hmm. So, I didn't get that when I saw you today. I didn't get that at all.
Speaker 1I mean, it didn't look like a rainbow, not even close. I know it was just like pastel colors, kind of like.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1It's called a patchwork dress, color block dress. That's what it's called.
Speaker 2Color block Color block.
Speaker 1It just had different colors on it. I'm learning something new every time we do this I know I love to teach you stuff.
Speaker 2I know, I'm trying to think what the garb was on the mailbox Christmas swag, swag.
Speaker 1That's it. There you go. Mailbox swag.
Speaker 2Yeah, it just means some kind of decorative something or Swag Swag.
Speaker 1Yeah, it just means some kind of decorative something, or if you're wearing some swag, so what does that mean?
Speaker 2Swag can mean different things.
Speaker 1That's too vague or too wide. Yeah, jodi has a lot of hand gestures. I wish I could see them.
Speaker 2Do I really?
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Well, I couldn't talk if I didn't have my hands. I'd be quiet. I don't realize it, but I'm fidgety. I'm really fidgety, I move my you know I'm just all the time moving my fingers. I don't do my toes, though, like you do.
Speaker 1Like me, you can't do your toes my knees always, or my toes tapping or something. Wow, what kind of week we got coming up, since we're already on Sunday. I don't know, Hot week Weeks are you know, is it going to be hot.
Speaker 2Yeah Well, I mean, we're here, the hot weather is here. I just know, as you get older, the weeks fly by and it seems like to me, with my job and everything, I always say this it's like the week is done, the week is starting, and then it just seemed like tomorrow it's Friday again.
Workplace Chatter and Animal Woes
Speaker 1See, it don't seem like that to me it does every week, man, it flies by Next thing. I know my work bestie's not going to be there this week, though I'm going to cry Her's on vacation.
Speaker 2All week.
Speaker 1All week. I'm going to miss her.
Speaker 2So does anybody catch up on her work? Is she good to go?
Speaker 1She's good to go. She's got her ducks in a row. She know what she's doing. She's got it planned out for her. Yeah, she know what she's doing.
Speaker 2That's good.
Speaker 1She's got it handled.
Speaker 2Wish I was going on vacation. Me too That'd be nice, let's go, let's go, let's just up and go, nobody won't miss us. I'm sure.
Speaker 1Who's going to miss us?
Speaker 2Everybody. What Are we taking Nicholas, or are we leaving him here? We're leaving that boy here.
Speaker 1He wouldn't even know we were gone. He wouldn't even know we were gone. We can leave and he wouldn't know.
Speaker 2That's right. We walk right by him and he don't know I walk right by him and I don't even realize he's sometimes because he usually stays in one particular spot, whatever. So if he's somewhere else I don't even realize he's there.
Speaker 1Oh, what else do we do? I had to get the dogs darn medicine this week. Medicine I'm going to talk about a chunk out of the pocketbook.
Speaker 2What kind of medicine?
Speaker 1Flea medicine. They're flea and tick medicine.
Speaker 2They're pills.
Speaker 1Yeah, they are pills. One little pill a piece, so two dogs.
Speaker 2both of them combined weight might be like 21 pounds.
Speaker 1Well, Winston is 16 compared to their records yeah, really. They had him at 16 the last time he was well, oh, he's getting a little.
Speaker 2I'm going to put him on a diet.
Speaker 1Yeah, so he's probably 20 pounds himself.
Speaker 2Coco's Coco can't be like eight or nine pounds.
Speaker 1I think they had her at nine okay, maybe, anyway, that hurt the pocketbook.
Speaker 2Yeah, so two pills two pills, one a piece for them is 150 dollars yes for six months is it six or three?
Speaker 1I'm gonna think it's three. Well, we're going with six because we're not well, I kind of think it's three yeah because?
Speaker 2because we usually don't, you know, I think it's twice a year. We normally do it, and that's good enough. Because the pill usually lasts forever. They never get no fleas, no ticks, no nothing. But they just got to where they started to scratch so bad.
Speaker 1But they don't have fleas, so why are they scratching?
Speaker 2I don't know Something sensitive.
Speaker 1But we I don't know something sensitive, but we'd wait a little bit longer about getting we did.
Speaker 2We usually already have them by this time. So but yes, but still no fleece. So I'm really shocked.
Speaker 1I just hope those cats don't get fleece. Anybody needs a cat. We got them.
Speaker 2They're free you just we'll ship them ups, yes, wherever fedex wherever you need them. They're fine, I might even drive them to you Wherever you need them.
Speaker 1They're free.
Speaker 2I might even drive them to you.
Speaker 1Yeah, road trip.
Speaker 2We've got two cats.
Speaker 1They're not even our cats.
Speaker 2They both had litters. They both had three apiece. Then we've got another cat, so three cats, and then three kittens and three kittens, so that's nine cats. They need to be gone and the kittens are four weeks old. This week will be four weeks old.
Speaker 1They got to be a little bit older than that.
Speaker 2Maybe, maybe five, but not more than five.
Speaker 1So you need a cat.
Speaker 2Contact Amanda.
Speaker 1You need a kitten? Hit us up, because I need them gone. I might throw a $20 bill in with every cat. I'll pay you to take it. That's right, I'll buy you cat food.
Speaker 2Yeah, cat food $20 bill. In with every cat, I'll pay you to take it. That's right, I'll buy you cat food. Yeah, cat food $20 bill. Yeah, Just get them gone A BOGO deal.
Speaker 1But you're not buying them. You know it's different if this was a pet that we wanted and we actually got the pet.
Speaker 2But no, these cats came up a year ago no, I made a mistake, it was one cat, no-transcript. And uh, a few weeks went by and I'd see her and you started seeing she's nothing, but she's getting to be skin and bones. And amanda's making fun of me because I'm doing my hands as I'm talking, so I'm gonna fold my hands together like I'm praying. Will that be all right? So, anyway, so I felt sorry for her, of course, and so I gave her some food in a spot and she finally ate it and slowly but surely I could get close enough and all that stuff. Well, anyway, so she had kittens and then. So we ended up having like five or six kittens, and then those some of them got gone. We gave away a few, whatever like that. I couldn't ever catch the two or three that we had to where I could go get them fixed, and I waited, waited around. I knew I should have done whatever I needed to do, and they ended up two out of the three got pregnant and now they've had kittens.
Speaker 1It's different if it's a pet that we wanted.
Speaker 2We've gone from never having cats to where we're now averaging nine or ten cats. For the last two years, I need them gone.
Speaker 1I don't like cats. They climb on your car. They rub up against you, or they don't like cats I don't either. They climb on your car.
Speaker 2They rub up against you or they don't rub up against me because they know I don't like them and I don't like cats either, but I find them interesting to watch to see how they eat.
Speaker 1You don't like cats either, but you're out there here, kitty, kitty, kitty, come here, it's time to eat. Ding, ding, ding, ding. Here's your food. You eat better than, are you?
Speaker 2done. No, that's not exactly how it went, because then you'll go feed the fish, and then you'll go feed the birds.
Speaker 1We've got all kinds of wildlife out here. They eat better than we do. I've had to cut our grocery bill out because he feeds the wildlife.
Speaker 2There's a lot of animals that are depending on me for survival right now. Well, you've got a family that depends on you, but—.
Speaker 1Y'all are doing all right, trust me. Well, I had to cut our grocery bill so you could feed your wildlife.
Speaker 2I saw that bill. It didn't look like it got cut. But I tell you, when you buy groceries, when you throw like, if you need, like washing powder and like a you know a big pack of toilet paper or paper towels, whatever. It is like that. My goodness, that was not buying any meat.
Speaker 1This week I bought one hamburger meat and that was all, because I was going to get Chuck Eyes or something later on in the week at Gateway. I spent more this week because I had really let groceries get down. This is how I do it I put in my mind what I'm going to keep my grocery budget at, and then I just cut our food back and don't go over that. But then you got Jody who buys something at Walmart every darn day. Seems like he buys something at Walmart every day.
Speaker 2You think so?
Speaker 1Yes, but anyway.
Speaker 2So this week I was like If you check that account, the last two weeks I have not, so thank you.
Speaker 1So this week I was like I can't cut groceries. All right, I'm gonna give myself this budget and I'm like, well, that ain't nothing. Then I'm like I've got to get us some food.
Speaker 2Now we have food, but you know, but you know, you leave out that part about me buying something at walmart every time when amanda shoots me a text on hey, when you get to Walmart, pick this up for me. So it might only be a $4 or $5 or $6 purchase, but you make it sound like I'm buying $30 worth every time I'm in Every day, yeah. But that's not true to fact. Is that a true statement, true to?
Speaker 1fact True to fact? I don't know, but anyway.
Speaker 2I don't know if I made that up or if I heard that that grocery budget this week was out the door. You know that's such a waste too.
Speaker 1Groceries are just a waste, and we still didn't have much.
Speaker 2As a society, we consume so much food and it's just such a waste. It just goes in and goes out.
Speaker 1And it's summertime, so you know where half the budget goes. Water and Gatorades popsicles, oh and popsicles, and they're, they're gone yeah, now we get the.
Speaker 2What are the for the ones you freeze the?
Speaker 1popsicles? No, I'm not talking about the ones you buy. The ice pops, yeah, they're like the long pop ice. Is it called pop ice? Maybe the long ones, yeah they're like you buy them. They're not, they're not a big pack of yeah they're not already froze, you take them home.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's what I'm talking about the cheap ones.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, really good that you can sit there and they're in a big pack of 50 of them or whatever. Yeah, and they're not already froze.
Speaker 2You take them home and you throw them in there.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's what I'm talking about the cheap ones, yeah, yeah, really good that you can sit there and eat 10, get your scissors, cut the end of them off and knock one out. Jody can't bite it off. No, I'm not going to bite off Amanda Nicholas does. No, we don Look.
Speaker 2I used to, when I used to fish all the time and tie and bait and I'd always bite the line you know and all that stuff. I can't do that anymore.
Speaker 1Why.
Speaker 2I just can't.
Speaker 1You're sensitive.
Speaker 2Well, you know, I just can't take a chance and hurt my teeth.
Speaker 1Because why.
Speaker 2Because there'd be a bill at the doctor's office if I did something.
Speaker 1Because you're getting old.
Speaker 2No, oh, okay, nothing's got to do with age.
Speaker 1Oh, that's another thing this week has happened to me.
Speaker 2What's happened to you? You've gotten old.
Nostalgia for Old Cell Phones
Speaker 1Yeah, my eyes are going. I think I need some readers. Your eyes have dramatically changed quickly, yes, like just in a month. It's weird. It's weird and I'm like I can still see and Jody's like well, try these readers, anyway, it's going to make it better.
Speaker 2I finally gave in.
Speaker 1But it gets me ahead of it. I mean, like, as soon as I put them on, it's like weird, like it makes my eyes cross, or something.
Speaker 2I'm probably just kidding. You probably just don't have the right though is there anything less than a one?
Speaker 1I mean a 1.25 probably not, I don't know I don't know, but, man, I've had a couple of headaches this week from my eyes and with my job. That's about all I do is on the computer, so I got to have something.
Speaker 2I'm glad I don't sit in front of a computer all the time.
Speaker 1Sometimes I just have to get up and walk go, and sometimes I'm sitting there for three and four hours at a time.
Speaker 2But sometimes I wish I'd had a job like that where I'm just sitting in front. But then other times I'm like there's no way.
Speaker 1I can do this, I'd rather do it.
Speaker 2It's kind yeah, but then other times I'm like there's no way I can do this. I'd rather do you know. It's kind of like whatever in life you're doing. It's kind of like the same thing with hair If you got straight hair, you want curly hair. If you got curly hair, you want straight. You know what I'm saying it's just the way it is.
Speaker 1I want it both ways. Yeah, so the disc job and the eyes, and I've been feeling the age. This week it's been a little cray-cray.
Speaker 2Cray-cray, cray-cray.
Speaker 1Yeah. So what we got coming up this next week? Anything? I don't think so. Maybe not. Yeah, it's time to cut grass. This week. Cutting grass week at my dad's, ain't it?
Speaker 2Oh, that's right, that's right Every other week until this weekend. Sometime at some point sometime maybe I don't know. Plus, if it rains, that's the whole thing. Rain affects everything and just messes me up if I got a lot of stuff to do yep maybe not maybe not what you want to talk about now.
Speaker 1You wanted to know when I first got a cell phone I did.
Speaker 2I wanted to know because you know, I can remember back when I got mine which was the craze, the new thing, but of course they were the whole pay structure. Back then, when you got one was in the whole minutes and you couldn't go over your minutes and I never got one.
Speaker 1I didn't get one till I was married. I had a bag phone in the car, but I was threatened with my life. You better not use it because it costs us money.
Speaker 2Yeah, I had a friend that had the bag phone.
Speaker 1In the Monte Carlo.
Speaker 2Yeah, which.
Speaker 1I wish I still had that thing. Yeah, that car was sweet, so I can't remember what year 95, 96, 97.
Speaker 2Was the year when I got a cell phone, Something like that After you graduated 94. I don't know you graduated in 94.
Speaker 1Did you have a phone when you graduated?
Speaker 2Maybe, so I don't remember them being that I don't know, I don't know about it or not.
Speaker 1Which in 94, I was only 14. Right, jody was graduating. Yeah, let's leave that out.
Speaker 2So I don't know, Because everything.
Speaker 1You had a pager when we got together.
Speaker 2I had a pager and a. I don't know why I had a pager. He was important to me. I had a pager and a cell phone, but the pager I'm just. You know.
Speaker 1you had a what about the little messages on the pager? You know you would try to 9-1-1. Yeah.
Speaker 2Or you would try to put in something that you had to turn the pager the other way and it spelled yeah, something like something. Yeah, I forgot, I'm trying to think the the pay structure on the phone back there you had certain areas roaming.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's what it was yeah, and roaming charges when you got out of area yeah, so you had like a map thing you could look at night time after nine o'clock was free, yeah, or something like that you could keep up with how many minutes and I can't remember what, uh, how much you had in months, but you could keep up with me and you ran over, you had to pay, you know, extra for so that's crazy.
Speaker 1Yeah, lord, these kids couldn't make it now no, no but that texting that was the thing.
Speaker 2Since you only had so many minutes, you didn't take your phone with you. Oh yeah, I left. I left mine in my vehicle.
Speaker 1It wasn't something that you.
Speaker 2No, it wasn't something that I stayed on all the time you might have had a phone, but it didn't have internet on it. Oh yeah, yeah, but I'm just saying it's like since you couldn't just use it anytime. Well, you could use it anytime you wanted to, but since you're limited on your minutes, it was something that you just didn't keep on you because you knew, hey, the only time I'm going to use it, if I make it, I call whoever about something, and you're on it and you're off, and that's it.
Speaker 1That'd be nice. Let's go back to it that way.
Speaker 2That might be nice, but that's when it was like a brick.
Speaker 1They were big, weren't they?
Speaker 2But they were, you know, they were thick, they weren't slender.
Speaker 1And when that iPhone come out. We thought that was the thing, well.
Speaker 2I would like to go back. I had a.
Speaker 1Razor. I liked the Razor I had.
Speaker 2I didn't like those.
Speaker 1Wasn't it a Razor yeah?
Speaker 2I didn't like the look of it, did it slide. No, no, the Razor closed yeah.
Speaker 1No, did it, I'm pretty sure. Yeah, speaking of that, always happens too. Jody always gets some kind of notification. He don't turn his stuff on.
Speaker 2Because I never get it until we pod, so the razor closed. Yeah.
Speaker 1I had a sliding one too. I had a little pink one that slid.
Speaker 2That was back when they had Shazam. When you had that one was when Shazam came out, because you could get like five Shazams free before you would have to.
Speaker 1What's Shazam Songs?
Speaker 2Yeah, the app that you can listen to if you don't know what a song is.
Speaker 1You Shazam it. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But you had a BlackBerry one time and you liked that didn't you?
Speaker 2Yeah, I had the BlackBerry.
Speaker 1Have we already talked about phones? Because for some reason I feel like we talked about a BlackBerry.
Speaker 2I don't think so.
Speaker 1Why can we not remember what we've talked about?
Speaker 2That's what happens after so long Hush. No, I'm not there, it is. Let me see, see.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, okay, I had a pink one.
Reminiscing About Old Phones and Family
Speaker 2I think mine was pink. I didn't like them, I just I liked them.
Speaker 1I don't think you ever had one. No, I didn't have one. Yeah, you didn't have those.
Speaker 2I'll tell you what I did. I had a Motorola flip phone which was a small, really small, and it just everything about it. I like, because it was small, compact. I like slamming it down when you're done.
Speaker 1That's the problem with phones now. You can't hang up on somebody. I know Not the good way. I'm so mad at you.
Speaker 2I know you push a button You're like take that.
Speaker 1Take that.
Speaker 2Take that.
Speaker 1That was the fun. What about the phones, the real phones we used to have, and you had one phone and you had a big, long cord on it so you could walk away from your parents when you were talking yeah, but did you ever have to like get the cord?
Speaker 2you like took the phone off the hook or whatever?
Speaker 1you held it up and you held it so it would mean so it would un. Yes, all the time. Yeah, all the time which I kept the phone in my bedroom because we had a long, not the. We had a long cord that come from the wall to the phone so I could take it in my bedroom, but we also had a party line, so I didn't understand the party line the party line was like when the phone would ring, it would ring at my, at my house and my Pawpaw's house, so you didn't know who it was going to be for.
Speaker 1So if the phone was for Pawpaw, you had to say hold on a minute. And you have to go next door and go to Pawpaw and tell him to hey, phone's for you.
Speaker 2Why would you have a party line that don't make any sense?
Speaker 1Because you didn't pay for two phone lines. Because we only paid for one phone line. I guess that's called a hassle.
Speaker 2You got that right.
Speaker 1I'll pay for two phones because, pop, he used to get some calls, did he really?
Speaker 2yeah, he had buddies hmm, he didn't seem like the guy that would talk on the phone a lot, but I guess I mean, it wasn't a lot but I mean, I know but yeah, pop, you got a Pop story, don't you? I do have a Pop story. Pop almost killed me one time with a gun.
Speaker 1My Pop.
Speaker 2Yeah, your Pop yes.
Speaker 1My.
Speaker 2Pop. Yeah, because your Pop was a, it was country Overalls yeah.
Speaker 1Overalls worked in the mines.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Retired from the mines.
Speaker 2I can remember about him. Maybe it was a story you told me, or maybe it was us looking in his fridge, but he had like cheese in there. I came over one day because we were within walking distance.
Speaker 1So I go over to his house and say, pop, I need some cheese, I need to make a sandwich. Go in there and get you some. I go in there. It's got mold on it. Now this is the cheese that was in the block. You know, because we always bought the block cheese and you know you just cut your cheese off of it and cut the cheese yeah, you cut the cheese.
Speaker 2There comes out that five-year-old anyway, that's right fifth grader, so um he's like go in there and get you some.
Speaker 1I go in there and get you some. I go in there and there's mold all over that cheese. I said Pop, this cheese ain't any good, it's got mold on it. He said Honey, you just cut that mold off. There ain't nothing wrong with that. He's right yeah but I didn't do it. That's Pop, though.
Speaker 2Yeah, so he had a garden.
Speaker 1Big garden? Yeah, and he had a garden Big garden.
Speaker 2Yeah, and I was in the garden. I don't remember if he talked about a rabbit, kept getting in the garden or whatever like that, but it just so happened. The rabbit was in the garden when me and him was in the garden and he swung that gun around and started shooting at that rabbit and almost shot me. That's the last time I went to his garden.
Speaker 1It was funny. Oh, it wasn't, it was not funny.
Speaker 2It was not funny at all. Jody just goes running, he's got a gun. Jody thought he'd done something wrong Thought I was a rabbit for a second.
Speaker 1Pop didn't like those rabbits getting in his garden.
Speaker 2Yeah, he had tunnel vision when he saw the rabbit. He didn't like those rabbits getting in his garden.
Speaker 1Yeah, he had tunnel vision when he saw the rabbit. He didn't care about nothing else.
Speaker 2All he saw was Damon shooting at a rabbit. Oh, good old Pop.
Speaker 1Wow, I like old Pop. I miss old Pop, anyway. So we kind of had a boring week this week. Jody's mad because I forgot to do Look Up Country Song, or it Ain't? I guess we'll have to put that on the burner for next week.
Speaker 2I wasn't mad. I knew you wouldn't be prepared, and then you didn't even think about it. I did not, you did not think about it at all.
Speaker 1I did not.
Speaker 2I knew it.
Speaker 1I knew it If you don't write me a sticky note. It ain't happening. Write your own sticky note.
Speaker 2Well, there should have been one on there about this.
Speaker 1Oh.
Speaker 2So I can't help you.
Speaker 1Well, you can, I need help.
Speaker 2Yeah, you better hush, you sure do.
Speaker 1You better hush, you're going to get in trouble, all right. Well, I guess we've rambled enough. I guess so.
Speaker 2Getting late.
Speaker 1Yeah, 7.30.
Speaker 2A lot 7, 30 to do 7, 30, it's 8 14 now wow I go to bed in 15 minutes but now I can't, I'm gonna get in trouble because now I have to start the process of. Uh, I say, just let this one go bloopers and all.
Speaker 2Because there's been some bloopers, y'all nope it'd be good you have to listen to. You have to go through and listen to it first and you add music and all that stuff. So it takes a while. So I have to go through and listen to it first and you add music and all that stuff, so it takes a while. So I have to do that. So I mean it's not like I just push a button and bam, it's gone. That'd be nice. Blam it sounded like I cussed, but I said blam.
Speaker 1Blam yeah, all right, I enjoyed it.
Speaker 2I enjoyed it.
Speaker 1Yeah, it was fun.
Speaker 2Maybe we'll be better next week Better.
Speaker 1This is great Prepared Jody don't like it when I say let's just go in there and talk. He's like no, I want something to talk about.
Speaker 2And I'm like.
Speaker 1I don't want to talk about nothing that never happened All right, folks. Hope y'all have a good week. Thanks for tuning in and we'll see you every Monday On the flip side. Bye.
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