Have you ever wondered what your dog might be thinking while chasing ducks around the yard? Join us on an evening adventure as we revel in the chaos and calm of nature's backyard theater. Listen to our playful debates over turtle bites, the social lives of ducks, and the unwelcome neighborhood cats that have found a new home in our yard. It's not just about the animals; we also share a good laugh over the squawks of a neighbor's cockatoo and the ever-watchful antics of our dog, Coco.
Are you ready for a blast from the past? Our nostalgic journey takes you back through the fashion trends of yesteryears, from Duckhead shirts to the unforgettable hairstyles of the '80s and '90s. As we prepare for a decades-themed fellowship event, we reminisce and joke about our personal style evolutions and the affordability of trends gone by. Personal anecdotes about hair preferences and their impact on relationships add an amusing yet insightful twist to our discussion on style and self-expression.
Ever had a day where everything that could go wrong did? From a refrigerator on the fritz to chaotic internet disruptions, we share tales of domestic mishaps with a humorous flair. Laugh along as we vent about unreliable service providers, the ordeal of installing security cameras, and tipping practices that boggle the mind. Despite the frustrations, we find moments to celebrate small victories, emphasizing the importance of clear communication and customer service. This episode is a testament to persistence, positivity, and finding humor in the everyday challenges of life.
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Have you ever wondered what your dog might be thinking while chasing ducks around the yard? Join us on an evening adventure as we revel in the chaos and calm of nature's backyard theater. Listen to our playful debates over turtle bites, the social lives of ducks, and the unwelcome neighborhood cats that have found a new home in our yard. It's not just about the animals; we also share a good laugh over the squawks of a neighbor's cockatoo and the ever-watchful antics of our dog, Coco.
Are you ready for a blast from the past? Our nostalgic journey takes you back through the fashion trends of yesteryears, from Duckhead shirts to the unforgettable hairstyles of the '80s and '90s. As we prepare for a decades-themed fellowship event, we reminisce and joke about our personal style evolutions and the affordability of trends gone by. Personal anecdotes about hair preferences and their impact on relationships add an amusing yet insightful twist to our discussion on style and self-expression.
Ever had a day where everything that could go wrong did? From a refrigerator on the fritz to chaotic internet disruptions, we share tales of domestic mishaps with a humorous flair. Laugh along as we vent about unreliable service providers, the ordeal of installing security cameras, and tipping practices that boggle the mind. Despite the frustrations, we find moments to celebrate small victories, emphasizing the importance of clear communication and customer service. This episode is a testament to persistence, positivity, and finding humor in the everyday challenges of life.
-tweet us at https://x.com/jdubb8645290251?s=21
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Welcome back, folks.
Speaker 2:Welcome back. Where are we at? We are on location, yeah.
Speaker 1:Let's let everybody listen real close. Where are we at?
Speaker 2:Just listen, we are on location yeah, let's let everybody listen real close.
Speaker 1:Where are we at? Just listen. Is that a boat out here? Maybe, Is that a bird out here? Is that waves out here Is?
Speaker 2:that Coco running across the yard chasing a goose.
Speaker 1:No, she's not chasing a goose.
Speaker 2:There's no gooses Gooses.
Speaker 1:There's no gooses in our yard. She was chasing some ducks out of the yard just a minute ago.
Speaker 2:I see heads popping out of the water though.
Speaker 1:Yep, I see turtle heads. We are sitting outside.
Speaker 2:So this may be loud.
Speaker 1:Enjoying the evening. We thought it wasn't going to be as loud, but as soon as we put our headphones on and listened, it's and listened.
Speaker 2:It's loud, it's loud. Oh well, I don't really know what to do about it.
Speaker 1:I don't think you can stick with it for our neighbor 20 minutes one, two, three houses down has a cockatoo oh yeah, you might hear it and right before we started recording. We're trying to wait it out because she lets. I guess she lets it out. I don't know if it's got a cage outside or she takes it outside or what, but that joker can do some hollering, hollering whatever it does, but it makes them. I don't know if I know what a pterodactyl sounded like.
Speaker 2:I would swear by it that that's a pterodactyl because it's loud it is but it changes tones but you know what I bet you can do a pterodactyl noise.
Speaker 1:I can do a crow.
Speaker 2:You got a pretty good crow.
Speaker 1:No, I wouldn't say this is a sick crow, Isn't it the one that I like. If we're far apart from each other, I can do it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you'll know who I am.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, what is it? How's it go?
Speaker 2:I don't know how it goes. Ca-caw I, that was loud. I'm noticing something else in the yard. Hold on your turn.
Speaker 1:Caw caw, I see feathers. You see feathers. That is duck feathers, Uh-oh. So I don't know if a cat got after them. No, we had. There were seven ducks in the yard.
Speaker 2:Have we talked about the cats?
Speaker 1:No, but we can. There were seven ducks in the yard about an hour ago and they, they team up there's a group of three and a group of three.
Speaker 1:I see something poking its head, speaking of ducks yeah, there's a duck about to come back in the yard. Anyway, they they're in groups of three, three over here, three over there. They're doing their thing, they're feeding on the ground and all this kind of stuff. They're fine. And this one duck comes up and lands in the water about 50 yards away and then they like go crazy. So I don't know if it's an outcast duck or whatever. I cannot figure out these ducks Because sometimes they turn on each other and they chase one away, but they're all males. There's no female, because the male, the mallards, they're the pretty ones. The females are more of a brown and speckledy. But anyway, I've tried to watch these ducks and figure out what the deal is. You know the hierarchy of the ducks.
Speaker 1:But I can't figure it out. I do know, if you'll have like a female and two males will be with it, that at least one of the males will stand guard and will watch and won't eat anything. Good A lot of times, both of the males will, but at least one of them will.
Speaker 2:So you think the cat might have got a hold of the duck? I don't think so. Have we talked about cats before on here?
Speaker 1:Well, for the second time, I don't think so, but go ahead if we have.
Speaker 2:They're unwanted cats. They got dropped off. We got two mama cats Two years ago.
Speaker 1:Two mama cats and they both had three kittens. So if you want kittens.
Speaker 2:I got them Because I don't like cats. These are not pets that I wanted. It's different. I would take care of them if I wanted these pets. I did not go seeking cats, they came to us.
Speaker 1:Well, there was one that came to us.
Speaker 2:And I need them to leave and I felt sorry for her.
Speaker 1:Yeah, her name was Smokey. She got nothing but ribs and skin.
Speaker 2:Well, that's not our fault, that's not our fault.
Speaker 1:She was wild. Finally it was feeding her. She got friendly Next.
Speaker 2:thing you know poof, yeah, way to go, she's the biggest guy in the house. Like I've said before and I'll say again, our wildlife around our house eats better than we do.
Speaker 1:Whose fault is that? Yours, mine.
Speaker 2:Now we got a bird fight going on, I mean duck fight.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I hear you, I get it all the time, everything's my problem. It is my fault. It is I don't feed these people.
Speaker 1:But is it not relaxing sitting out here watching these ducks even though they're fighting? No, I throw some bird seed out in the yard and they come up Whoop-dee-doo. What's the big deal about that?
Speaker 2:I wouldn't call that. Why are you being so?
Speaker 1:offensive. I'm just trying to take up for myself because nobody else seems to be, Whatever, I had a rough week.
Speaker 2:Have you.
Speaker 1:Everybody get off my back. Everybody wants to get on my back this week.
Speaker 2:I'm about to get off your back. I'm about to mash hang up. You can have it you think one of those turtles ever bites.
Speaker 1:I was being nice and now you've already made me mad, you Lots of ducks.
Speaker 2:Let's go see if a turtle will bite your toe.
Speaker 1:Oh, I know One of them would.
Speaker 2:Anyway.
Speaker 1:It is very relaxing out here. By the way, though, I really don't even want to talk, I just want to watch the pontoons.
Speaker 2:I want to watch somebody wipe out. Yeah, we've seen a banana on the water.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we haven't seen one of those in a while. It had about 12 kids on it, the first go around. I think they figured out that that was too many, because a few minutes later you saw just three or four on it. And then they were interchangeable. I guess all the kids were just taking turns. And then there's a sea dude that had. Well, we've seen several.
Speaker 2:You usually don't see this many right here on the edge, we're about to see a skier.
Speaker 1:Is that our neighbor?
Speaker 2:Might be.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's our neighbor, he has got his boat out, oh nope, not skiing. It's one of those.
Speaker 2:I guess the new thing now is the chair that sits there. It looks like a recliner on water. Is what I call it, Airhead? Is that what it says?
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's Santa Claus' neighbor. Hey, santa Claus neighbor, he's got an American flag on his boat, but he doesn't know how to change out the American flag in his backyard. That thing's been there for 20 years, I bet and it's bad, bad, bad. I took a video of it the other day just so I could show people how bad it is.
Speaker 2:Figures yeah.
Speaker 1:I was going to replace it with a British flag, just see if he noticed. I guarantee you wouldn't.
Speaker 2:All right, what do we got going on I?
Speaker 1:don't know. I'm going to see if he'd take off.
Speaker 2:I know, I thought he might take off, don't take him out to the middle of the lake in the Indy side. Oh, here he goes.
Speaker 1:Let's listen, can you all?
Speaker 2:hear him, here he goes.
Speaker 1:Listen, flip up. Oh, he's hammering down. I don't think he knows how to do it, because that's a little bit too fast.
Speaker 2:He's got little girls. I think it's the little girl on there Really.
Speaker 1:I think I can't tell Well, he's not holding back.
Speaker 2:I think he's got the thing floored, no.
Speaker 1:That's a little bit too fast. It is not. It is too. You don't go that fast. There's a certain speed you go when you have somebody behind you and he's going faster than that. Well, good luck to the little ones. All I got to say. I've seen them drive a car. I hope he can drive a boat better than he can drive a car.
Speaker 2:I doubt it.
Speaker 1:To each their own. Amanda says.
Speaker 2:Is that what I say?
Speaker 1:That's what you say I even claimed that you said that on the other one with the boys the other day. Anyway, I talk about you a lot, no.
Speaker 2:You don't, I do Not enough.
Speaker 1:Not enough. Not enough Note to self. Talk more about Amanda.
Speaker 2:Nicely On.
Speaker 1:Three Wheels, no Direction.
Speaker 2:Podcast. All right, what do we got going on?
Speaker 1:I just think it's very weird because there's two duck heads that just I know they just keep popping up and down. Yeah we got a little retainer block wall right here and one duck head will just stick up, and I'm looking at one right now, and now there's another one they're crazy and they're just standing there looking, and now one's gone, now one's back, that's duck head.
Speaker 2:That was a clothing brand. It was that's very popular.
Speaker 1:Well, I think it was popular, because I think that's all I wore.
Speaker 2:It's not around anymore, is it?
Speaker 1:Well, probably not. But wasn't that I'd call it popular? I don't know, was it stylish? I don't know, were you in the I?
Speaker 2:remember having a shirt a Duckhead shirt but I don't think I could get me any Duckheads because I think it was over the price limit.
Speaker 1:I don it was over the price limit. I don't think duck heads were that.
Speaker 2:I don't think that's what I was trying to say. I don't think it was like a classy for my family. It was uppity, my family it was well I wasn't uppity because I wore a duck head shirt, just saying by the way, speaking of what we wear, I hadn't told you what we gotta do in a couple of weeks I wanted to stay on fashion for a minute well, this is fashion. I'm going to fashion.
Speaker 1:Okay, because I wanted to go into.
Speaker 2:Well, actually in August, this is what we got to do. I hadn't told you.
Speaker 1:Oh, my goodness, so you're going to reveal this to me on the podcast?
Speaker 2:You want me to hold it?
Speaker 1:No, because I want to know now, so I've got to do something or I've got to wear something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you've got to wear something. I've got to wear something, yeah.
Speaker 1:Is this like an event? Is it?
Speaker 2:church yeah.
Speaker 1:During service, after service.
Speaker 2:During the fellowship on Sunday nights, that's not as bad, maybe, maybe. Well, no, the look on your face.
Speaker 1:It might be bad.
Speaker 2:No, you'll like it. I've just got to get you some clothes clothes um. So it's not like a costume. Like no, no, not a costume. I thought I was gonna have to play a part. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no. So in august we are doing a decades fellowship, so you're supposed to dress the year that you graduated I've still got my some of my clothes, so that won't be a problem.
Speaker 1:That's what I thought I'll bring out the tommy hill figure stuff no, that's not what you graduated in.
Speaker 2:Well, I was trying to be younger than no, that's a few years after. Yeah, that was when you were with me.
Speaker 1:I'll put you into tommy here, figure tommy was around, I'm sure, but yeah, but Tommy wasn't as known. Yeah, but it wasn't as known. I don't think yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I got to find you some wranglers and some light-colored wranglers.
Speaker 1:Light-colored. I've got the boots, you don't have to worry about the boots.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you got the boots.
Speaker 1:I don't think I kept any wranglers.
Speaker 2:I think we got rid of all of them finally, yeah so yeah, wranglers are durable, by the way yeah, so we'll get you some Wranglers. I thought that squirrel was taking off.
Speaker 1:I didn't know if the duck was going to jump on its back or it was going to jump on the duck's back, speaking of squirrel we've got doves.
Speaker 2:Now we've got two ducks in the yard and a squirrel so yeah, in August we get to dress up what about the hairstyles?
Speaker 1:See, y'all didn't think about that. I think the women should have to wear a hairstyle.
Speaker 2:If I can fix mine. We just had.
Speaker 1:Do they make that much hairspray?
Speaker 2:Aquanet yeah, they still make Aquanet.
Speaker 1:Do people still use hairspray? Well, not like they used to. We used to consume it, is it not?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean you used to. You used to have big, goofy hairdos. Of course, mine would never be goofy because mine is straight as a board. I want just a little bit of Jody's curl.
Speaker 1:You can have all of it, which I just got a haircut yesterday so I got rid of what curl was starting to.
Speaker 2:So, if.
Speaker 1:I do, feathers Do I have more gray showing when I get a haircut.
Speaker 2:Yeah, right there on the sides. So when it grows, it doesn't stand out as bad, so I guess I think I'll have to look it up. I think I had a perm when I no no, no, you did not. No, that was a couple of years before.
Speaker 1:I probably wouldn't have dated you if you had a perm. Really yeah, wow, okay.
Speaker 2:I probably wouldn't have dated you if you had a perm. Really, yeah, wow, okay, I'm just telling you Good thing you didn't have it, lucky you. I didn't think you dated me for my perm, lucky you, yeah.
Speaker 1:Hair was a big deal.
Speaker 2:Was it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, like top three.
Speaker 2:That's why I kept cutting it off. I thought I'd get rid of you, but it didn't work well.
Speaker 1:I thought about it. I had one foot out the door every time.
Speaker 2:Yep, that's why you came begging she goes any shorter, I'm out that's why you came begging with the half a ring begging.
Speaker 1:I wouldn't say begging well, okay.
Speaker 2:I ain't ever begged for nothing, anyway I've noticed, you say so a lot, and you say anyway a lot. Well, so do you so? Well, okay, I ain't ever begged for nothing, okay, anyway.
Speaker 1:I've noticed you say so a lot and you say anyway a lot.
Speaker 2:Well, so do you so.
Speaker 1:I don't you, I say like a lot.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Like.
Speaker 2:Just listen to that other podcast.
Speaker 1:Well, what do I say? Let me ask you a question. No, what do I say?
Speaker 2:Let me ask you this question Because that's part of the. Let me ask you this that's part of the podcast is I ask.
Speaker 1:Well, let me ask you this. Oh my goodness, what am I supposed to say when you ask a question?
Speaker 2:I don't know, hey guys. Let me ask you this you don't have to say it, just ask a question. Sometimes you do, just ask a question, we ask, so many questions.
Speaker 1:Sometimes you have to say, let me ask you this, okay. Okay, my goodness, but I am glad, apparently I've got at least one listener to the podcast who you, I don't listen. You critiqued it. Just listen to what you say. I don't listen.
Speaker 2:Apparently, you do somebody told me I'm glad I don't listen you better anyway, anyway, I can't stay on track, anyway she said so like so our refrigerator went out this week.
Speaker 1:It did well, actually our refrigerator went out last week went out on a all right, tell the story.
Speaker 2:Started the ice we noticed with the ice maker so we don't use the ice maker in the refrigerator. I have a pellet ice maker. You know the sonic guys.
Speaker 2:Yeah and so I just make ice and put it in the container, in there in the I was gonna say refrigerator, in the freezer, and I thought I was going crazy. I thought I was leaving the darn door open, not closing it all the way, and the ice was melting and then freezing back. So it did that a time or two and then it was fine for a couple of days, and then the refrigerator started getting hot.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because we just thought it was a seal or something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we thought the door wasn't closing. Good, we couldn't figure it out. Then we're like yep, it's a good thing we had an old refrigerator. I had just bought groceries too.
Speaker 1:I just filled the freezer up the day before. I just filled that freezer up and we've got a. Uh, our original refrigerator is in a little foyer of the house where nicholas stays, and so we just use it, for we keep bottled water and Gatorade and that's it just drinks Leftovers if we have a big meal or something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Leftovers pizzas and stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the freezer, we've got most of his stuff, his freezer stuff, yeah, pizzas and chicken fingers and all that stuff Anyway. So we're very fortunate having a backup refrigerator.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because they sure wasn't in no hurry to come look at.
Speaker 1:But anyways, she's all choked up.
Speaker 2:Sorry about that, yeah, so.
Speaker 1:Well, no, this went on for four days of us not really knowing if the free food was messing up or what. So then, when it finally did go down, we were trying to figure out. You just started running all these scenarios in your head about am I going to have to go spend $1,000 on an refrigerator?
Speaker 2:That was the low end, or?
Speaker 1:$800 or $1,200 or whatever.
Speaker 2:That was the low end.
Speaker 1:Even took a trip to the D-Pot just to look see what they had, and all that. And then, yeah, you called and a day and a half later, no, I called Monday and then yeah you called and a day and a half later. No, I called Monday. Oh, I did not. Oh, and it was Thursday.
Speaker 2:And they come out Thursday at 5 o'clock.
Speaker 1:It was after 5.
Speaker 2:After 5, because, we had already sat down to eat.
Speaker 1:Right, because we'd gave up. Yeah, I'm like, hey, but I'm glad, but they come on, and it seemed like he knew exactly what it was, yeah, he went to the the switch to the thermometer part, where the little switch thing is controller, and he like popped on it with a screwdriver. I mean he just he turned the screwdriver around, hit it like it's a hammer and went and you heard the thing kick on the refrigerator part, it's like my goodness nothing had been on.
Speaker 1:You know it all gone off, didn't make a noise. But he did that and bam started running. I was like my goodness I was gonna be mad if that's all it took and I guarantee that that switch thing probably would be fine. But he said you know it was he said it was a bad.
Speaker 2:It was a bad bad switch.
Speaker 1:Whatever 231 dollars, is that right? 26, $269. $269. Where are you at? I don't know.
Speaker 2:Where'd you?
Speaker 1:go.
Speaker 2:But I mean, hey, the refrigerator was given to us.
Speaker 1:so I think I got the $231 because my mom's air went out and they had to replace a part on it. She told me what part it was I can't remember now and I think it was $231.
Speaker 2:Okay, that's what I was. I can't remember now, and I think it was 231.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's why ours was 260 something, and my apologies if you hear anything like that right there it's me I'm having to hold my microphone because I don't have anything to put it on since we're sitting outside.
Speaker 1:Amanda hogged a little table thing that we have, so she's over there I didn't go there because you told me to so well I was trying to help you out, but I I thought I was going to have something, but now I'm struggling over here, holding this thing as quiet as I possibly can and my hand's getting tired, so I'm trying to switch back and forth with that, but I think the noise is coming from you hitting that cord actually.
Speaker 2:Oh, this, that's you. Yeah, oh, I wasn't even paying attention.
Speaker 1:You should be apologizing. I be apologizing. I'm good over here. No apologies, sorry. Yeah, so what's good? It's it's bad to spend 269 to get something fixed, but it's such a blessing not to have to go out and figure out, hey, what to do with this old refrigerator and having to buy a new one and yada yada yada we was already getting ready to pay somebody to take it off, so we didn't have to deal with it.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's what I'm saying. You run all these scenarios. I'm like I'm ready to pay somebody to take it off, so we didn't have to deal with it.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's what I'm saying. You run all these scenarios. I'm like I'm ready to pay you $100 for somebody to take it. I'm thinking, what am I going to do with this thing?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Spencer told me there's a recycling center thing around that will take it.
Speaker 2:Farley's, farley's Recycling.
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah. You just got to get it down there. Who wants to do that?
Speaker 1:I thought it was just an appliance place.
Speaker 2:Oh, I don't know, I'm not talking about just the recycling center, but he said he knew for sure.
Speaker 1:So I think he said he had taken something since he just moved into a new place.
Speaker 2:They must have had to have done something like that I got an idea for your podcast coming up this week.
Speaker 1:Me.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:What podcast? The other podcast.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the other one.
Speaker 1:What is it? Three Wheels, no Direction.
Speaker 2:I think, since one of your people ain't going to be here, I think me and Rebecca should come on there. Just take over. Hey, we'll just take over, we'll get. Rebecca to talk about.
Speaker 1:Not a bad idea.
Speaker 2:Sentra Kids, her camps, she idea Sentra Kids Her camps.
Speaker 1:She loves to go to camps. We can record too.
Speaker 2:If she would do it. I think that would be cool.
Speaker 1:We won't record long. We can do like a 45 minute A lot of times I'm going to do a shout out Three wheels, no direction.
Speaker 2:Every time he never shouts this one out, never shouts this one out on the other podcast.
Speaker 1:Me, Josh and Spencer, every Monday and Thursday, new episodes.
Speaker 2:They even get two days and I don't even get. I barely get one. I had to beg him to do it today.
Speaker 1:If lightning would strike, it'd kill us both.
Speaker 2:And last week I thought he was never going to do it.
Speaker 1:Oh, my goodness. I'd love to get him worked up this one was a struggle just because I hadn't been feeling very good.
Speaker 2:I love to get him worked up.
Speaker 1:I'm having an issue Might be called Amanda right now. I wish you could drink that into the microphone a little bit more.
Speaker 2:What's in the cup today?
Speaker 1:Cherry Coke.
Speaker 2:Cherry Limeade.
Speaker 1:Cherry Limeade.
Speaker 2:And green apple.
Speaker 1:Green apple. Yeah, it's actually good the I think if I had a uh, some type of slushy thing, yes, but not just a drink no, yeah, if the if, um, I had put that in the freezer and let it get slushy, that would be good.
Speaker 2:I mean, I like it like that, just because I don't like plain water all the time anyway, back to that other podcast for a second.
Speaker 1:We've gotten we're recording like an hour and 20 minutes every episode, so it's gotten every. It seems like it's getting longer and longer each time. So what I'm saying is, yeah, we get rebecca and you in there, we can shorten it down to 45 minutes and we can record a couple we can let rebecca talk about her camps.
Speaker 2:I think she just went to one, that's what I'm saying she could.
Speaker 1:we can dedicate one that and then the next one can just be whatever we can find out. Y'all can talk about how much y'all love me and Spencer.
Speaker 2:Hmm.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm going to shoot Spencer a text here in just a minute and tell him to go ahead and get that in the works.
Speaker 2:If she'll do it.
Speaker 1:Do y'all like Reese's Cups?
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Y'all like Snyder's Pretzels.
Speaker 2:No, no, y'all like Snyder's pretzels. No, y'all like Dr Pepper. I like sour candy.
Speaker 1:Really Well, I'd say that's the stash we have in there.
Speaker 2:I know, in our little office I visit it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know, I'm just letting nobody else know. Y'all put in whatever y'all want and we'll have it there.
Speaker 2:Oh.
Speaker 1:Spencer actually cooked us yeast rolls before we started the last episode.
Speaker 2:I smelled it when I left.
Speaker 1:That was sick. Just because we had talked about it in a previous episode that I wanted to start eating them before we recorded and he did it, man. Thank you, Spencer.
Speaker 2:All right, so our fridge went out this week.
Speaker 1:My leg went out.
Speaker 2:Your leg went out. Yeah, your leg's been out for two weeks.
Speaker 1:I'm having an MRI this coming week to figure out what's going on with a disc in my back. Whatever, Anyway.
Speaker 2:So let's talk about people. I see 12 turtle heads sticking up out of the water.
Speaker 1:I know there's a lot that is scary. If you didn't know that was turtles. You'd be like what is going on down there?
Speaker 2:You know exactly what it looks like. I hate it.
Speaker 1:Snakehead Go ahead. What was you going to talk about?
Speaker 2:About to knock you out Snakehead, so let's talk about. Let's do it, I'm ready, okay when you call somebody for a job, say I'm going to use this example Security cameras.
Speaker 1:Go ahead.
Speaker 2:I've been trying to get a hold of a dude.
Speaker 1:There went the ducks, by the way.
Speaker 2:Sorry, Squirrel, I've been trying to get a hold of a dude to do our security cameras for a week and a half. I have called him every day. The first time I called he just admitted oh, I forgot.
Speaker 1:Well, that's good that he admitted.
Speaker 2:He admitted.
Speaker 1:He didn't lie, so that's good.
Speaker 2:And I'm like, okay, he said, all right, I can come tomorrow, so-and-so time, I'll call you and let you know. Never heard. This was a week later, by the way. Never heard anything. I called him back, left a message, didn't hear anything. I called him back, left a message, didn't hear anything. I called him back again and he answered and he said I've been on this lightning job, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like well, dude, I called you a week ago. It wasn't lightning job, Anyway. So why can people not just respect your time, the way you should respect their time, and give you a call back? Dude, I called him friday.
Speaker 1:We get off at 11 is that what he goes by, dude?
Speaker 2:yeah okay I called him friday. He said let me get your number and I will, for sure let you know. I gave him my cell phone number. Phone still hadn't rang. What's today? Today is saturday at six o'clock and I still hadn't heard from him. I'm like I need these cameras. I know we might be a little job to you, but I need these cameras and I need them working. And if you can't do it, I need to go.
Speaker 1:I need to go somewhere else that's just the way it is nowadays.
Speaker 2:I mean, that's the way is don't, don't tell me you're gonna do it and even call and let me know. He said I will call you either way, if I can or if I, if I let me back up, go ahead, I will call you and let you know if I can or if I can't make it, still waiting on that call. So guess what I'm gonna do monday.
Speaker 1:Call him again, I'm going to call him again.
Speaker 2:I mean.
Speaker 1:Blow his phone up.
Speaker 2:It's just Until he blocks you. Well then I'll call from somebody else's phone.
Speaker 1:Well, what I'm saying is everybody's job, no matter what line of work you're in. A portion of it has to do with customer service, Right?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So what you need I?
Speaker 2:understand, things come up.
Speaker 1:I know, but what I'm saying is the week before we didn't have no lightning. I know, I know.
Speaker 2:That you just forgot me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2:Do you not write it down? I write everything down and I'll tell you at work. Hold on, let me write it down. Tell me again and let me write it down.
Speaker 1:Or I will not remember. See, I'll give it to the refrigerator repairman guy. I mean, even though he was late or whatever, and I know they stay covered up, yeah, but it was after hours and it was probably almost seven o'clock when he left yeah so, and he was sweating like a dog. Do you notice that, by the way?
Speaker 2:yeah, oh my goodness, I didn't think it was hot in our house. It was hot in our house Apparently.
Speaker 1:It is Apparently, but yeah, so I mean, and he was nice and all that, oh, he was nice as can be and he's not the super nicest guy, but I'm not asking for that, but he called, said he was on his way.
Speaker 2:But I thought he was coming that morning Right and I took off work.
Speaker 1:Right, so maybe there's some kind of miscommunication that they could have told you, it would have been hey, later in the day. Yeah, that could have been a better job, but that's the way it is everywhere now it don't matter. You know we've dealt with you're talking about these cameras and it's been several years ago. We dealt with the same thing and everybody that I dealt with.
Speaker 2:it was the same way Even the major camera companies.
Speaker 1:That if I said the three-letter you know abbreviation people would know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but just call me back and let me know.
Speaker 1:I know, I know.
Speaker 2:Send me a text. If you don't want to call most everybody text now. And just shoot me a text and say, hey, it's going to be next week.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's all about communication. I am so strict on communication. Just let me know. And how about this If you ain't going to do it or can't do it?
Speaker 2:just tell me, Let me know that too, because I'll find somebody else Right, so I can get on the horn and start finding somebody else.
Speaker 1:That's all you got to do.
Speaker 2:That was my rant. Sorry, but I just had to get that off my wall.
Speaker 1:That's what I'm saying. It goes every line of work. That what?
Speaker 2:That bug you about got dive-bombed.
Speaker 1:I did Bomb-dive-bombed. I didn't see it. It must have moved so fast. I didn't see it.
Speaker 2:Well, it's because you're thumping them off of your arm onto me. That's what it is. That at me, that's okay. I don't know what it was. Well, so, anyway, so that's my rant for the week. I mean, I don't, I don't get it, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Well, you know we dealt with that when we had uh spectrum come out here, called him out oh man, we had you know I think, I think we talked about that thanksgiving.
Speaker 2:They came out on thanksgiving, I know, but the day before or no, the day of, but it was a hassle to get them. And then there was a day of no. I'm yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1:Day before, no the day of, but it was a hassle to get them in. It was the day of no, you're right, it was the day before. Yeah, guaranteed, we will have it that day?
Speaker 2:Was that the first time they came out, or was this when they were supposed to come out and get it fixed?
Speaker 1:They were supposed to get it fixed. They'd come out and they wouldn't do it. And get it fixed, they'd come out and it wasn't doing. And then this guy said, yes, blah, blah, blah, whatever, it's like a contractor through them. So it wasn't actually a guy that worked, for he's a contractor, right, didn't even run the line, right, it was drooping it. We've talked about this, we'll go back to it. Drooped it down the driveway. It drug on the roof of your car as you went up our driveway. A few days later, fedex, fedex came and ripped that and the at&t he took every internet in the neighborhood down. That was funny. Uh, just because of their lazy work, but anyway, we still didn't have spectrum that night. And then, guess what? He gave you, your, your, his number yep say call me, call me, and now this was thanksgiving eve day.
Speaker 1:Before thanksgiving that evening. Call me if you've got any. What do you say? Problem or if? It ain't working out or what, yep, and guess what?
Speaker 2:I called. He didn't answer he didn't answer.
Speaker 1:Imagine that.
Speaker 2:I don't know. I just feel like we could do better.
Speaker 1:Oh, as a society.
Speaker 2:I mean.
Speaker 1:That's where society's going right now, not just about customer service, but every aspect of it. You make it start on that nope, you sure about that? I'm pretty sure about that yeah, you talk about the government no, I do not want to talk about the government with you. You sure I do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I do, I want to no they'll probably ban us if we do that I'm already on the list, I'm sure I, I'm sure so anyway, so that's our week this week. I hate to be negative, but Debbie Downer.
Speaker 1:I just you have. Look, it's a struggle all week long to look for positives. It really is, you know.
Speaker 2:Oh, I can tell a positive, let me tell a positive.
Speaker 1:Last night.
Speaker 2:What was last night?
Speaker 1:Okay, it's not that one then.
Speaker 2:No, did I already talk about it.
Speaker 1:That could go, okay, never mind, that's not what that meant. Anyway, it was a blessing, is what I was talking about. Go ahead.
Speaker 2:Last night. Oh, yes, yes, see, I can't remember what we've talked about last week or whatever. What's today? Today's the 8th.
Speaker 1:It doesn't matter, just talk. Are you got your phone on or am I hearing somebody talk?
Speaker 2:My phone's not on. Where is my phone? No, it's not on. Oh, I do hear somebody talking.
Speaker 1:Come on down. Oh, I do hear somebody talking, come on down.
Speaker 2:Oh, I see Guest speaker. Come on down.
Speaker 1:Our neighbor's like right behind us there. I guess they got back from the boat.
Speaker 2:I didn't see them come back in, or maybe not.
Speaker 1:Maybe they didn't go, I don't know.
Speaker 2:I don't know Anyway.
Speaker 1:Anyway, I feel, like I have to whisper, but because we're going to talk.
Speaker 2:Anyway. So for the month of May in my Red Aspen business I was number four in sales there you go. So that's a positive.
Speaker 1:That is, that's very good.
Speaker 2:Number four, I think, in the corporate leg. I think we have 4,000 girls on our team.
Speaker 1:Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 2:So I thought that was pretty good. That's a positive, that's very good.
Speaker 1:That's a big-time positive Number four.
Speaker 2:But you know what You've got to keep it up now, I know that's big shoes to fill, especially coming to summertime, and people don't.
Speaker 1:Try not to set your expectations too high. I know, that's what I always say you want to set high and I was only my little team.
Speaker 2:I have 13 girls under me. My little team was only $250 from the next rank. I could have ranked up.
Speaker 1:I would have bought $250 worth of nails. I almost did, but I thought.
Speaker 2:Jody Ratliff would have been so mad at me, but I would have put it in my booth. I didn't even tell you this. This this I sewed 11 nails last month.
Speaker 1:In your little booth, in my booth, my goodness.
Speaker 2:That's a lot.
Speaker 1:It is a lot.
Speaker 2:That's a lot, and now I'm about to put Fourth of July out there. My booth is at the 10 Cup Shout out to the 10 cup.
Speaker 1:If you live in jasper alabama, we're giving all these shout outs advertisement a free plug yeah, so go to my booth. We might have some cups at the booth too that's what you can do, if you remember our booth from that other place I tell you, uh, if you go to the 10 cup and you mentioned.
Speaker 2:you heard this on the podcast. Yeah, I give you 10% off.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we can do that and then shoot us an email.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let me know and I'll tell her.
Speaker 1:Or comment on the episode or whatever like that. Let us know and we will make sure that happens.
Speaker 2:I give you 10% off my booth. We'll do something That'd be cool.
Speaker 1:That would be cool, that's a pretty blue boat.
Speaker 2:It is a blue.
Speaker 1:Oh, wipe out, wipe out and they're gonna wipe out too anyway. So that was the neighbor's dog starting to bark.
Speaker 2:How about?
Speaker 1:that. I love it. I hope y'all can tone this stuff, that background noise out and just listen to us. Concentrate on my voice right now I'm having.
Speaker 2:I'm having a hard time concentrating so. So that was a positive this week.
Speaker 1:I'll say this If he keeps barking like this, we will have to shut this thing down earlier than that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, maybe not. So yeah, I was number four. All right now. You got our dogs barking at the ducks.
Speaker 1:They're chasing the ducks, so I can't get away from this now.
Speaker 2:So I was number four in our big corporate league.
Speaker 1:Well, congratulations. I do like that boat. By the way, that is a pretty boat.
Speaker 2:Yeah, now our dogs are going to fight, all right. So what else we got?
Speaker 1:I was going to ask you how do you feel? About tipping.
Speaker 2:I tip, I like to tip. Well, it depends. Okay, let me take that back.
Speaker 1:What are you tipping?
Speaker 2:Cows, cow tipping, you ever been cow tipping?
Speaker 1:No, I was afraid to do that. I didn't really understand it at the age when I could have done it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was like is that true?
Speaker 1:Can you really do that?
Speaker 2:I don't know, I've never done that.
Speaker 1:No, that don't know. I've never done that. I just that don't sound, I don't think. I just think that's on the movie. I've been inside. That's on lightning. I've been inside. No, that's tractor tipping. Yeah, same thing, same thing. I've been inside a uh arena with bulls. I've been inside a pasture with cows. I don't feel comfortable at nighttime being in a pasture that seems very dangerous.
Speaker 2:But not knowing, not knowing what's out there.
Speaker 1:When you're a dumb teenager, you do it just to do it, by the way, not to change the subject, but I'm going to for a second. Do you see all these idiots up there that keep getting hit by like buffaloes, a buffalo like mauls, these people, because they want to take a picture of?
Speaker 2:them or get too close.
Speaker 1:No, a bunch of idiots.
Speaker 2:I saw a video Stay in your car, yeah. I saw a video where people was by this train track, some special train or something and one girl was too close to it. They would turn around and try to take a selfie as it goes by. Well, guess what Did?
Speaker 1:it kill her.
Speaker 2:She got hit.
Speaker 1:Did it kill her?
Speaker 2:I never it didn't. It was just a little quick Video, real thing I didn't ever say.
Speaker 1:But why you do that? Why, if you get hit by a train, normally it's not good, so Not that.
Speaker 2:I'm laughing. Well, I mean, I think it like Grazed, like you know.
Speaker 1:Just took an arm off. Maybe, but why? Why are you?
Speaker 2:doing that. I don't know these picture opportunities. Well, you know, it's like Sometimes it ain't worth it.
Speaker 1:I can't remember how many people's died at the Grand Canyon, where they've turned around and taken a selfie and they've slipped off that cliff.
Speaker 2:Anyway, back to tipping. How bad is it to fall? I don't want to fall, we'll get back to tractor tipping in a minute.
Speaker 1:But how bad is it to I don't know. All right.
Speaker 2:So, falling off the edge at say, when you fall in your dreams, it's really bad Let me finish.
Speaker 1:You fall off the edge of a cliff, say at the Grand Canyon.
Speaker 2:I just fell down steps at work, my gosh, can I please finish no? I'd love to. I just fall down steps at work. I don't know about the big things.
Speaker 1:Can I talk?
Speaker 2:Yeah, while I get a drink, go ahead.
Speaker 1:Which is worse? Falling off the edge of, say, a cliff Maybe it's the Grand Canyon, maybe not To where you're possibly going to be, like rolling or hitting stuff as you're falling, or say, falling out of a 40-story building straight down, it's going to be a quicker death on the falling out of the building.
Speaker 2:Because you don't hit nothing.
Speaker 1:No, because you don't, but it's like, oh, but you know what's about to happen. I think that's the bad part, if you fall off a cliff and you're just like something could catch you and well you're hitting, I mean you're like hitting tree limbs here they go.
Speaker 2:They're gonna try again stuff like that.
Speaker 1:So I don't know I don't want to fall period, but I think if you want to fall. You want to fall out of a building. Maybe, I don't know I don't think so so they did come back.
Speaker 2:You didn't see them yeah, of a building Maybe I don't know. I don't think so. So they did come back you didn't see them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, how did they sneak back in? I don't know, our neighbor snuck back in. Oh, they're all dolled up, huh, or?
Speaker 2:they were. He's almost live. Are you sure that was a neighbor a while ago?
Speaker 1:Because they don't have the big flag up now. Yeah, I think you're right.
Speaker 2:That was not our neighbor earlier I mean it was a neighbor, but not the one we thought it was this is our next door neighbor that's leaving now.
Speaker 1:Santa claus neighbor is now leaving. That was not him earlier yeah so if you don't understand santa claus neighbor, listen to the first couple of episodes yeah, and you'll know, anyway, we got way off subject there.
Speaker 2:you want to talk?
Speaker 1:Back to tipping.
Speaker 2:Cow tipping.
Speaker 1:How do you feel about tipping or?
Speaker 2:what do you think? I never went cow tipping so I just heard about it. It's a little scary.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So anyway, let's get off the cow tipping, tipping people money.
Speaker 2:What about it?
Speaker 1:How do you feel about it? I'm seeing more and more little cups at registers to tip people that aren't doing anything but their job.
Speaker 2:You mean like at gas stations, because I told you about going. Is that what you mean?
Speaker 1:No, I'll tell you one. When me and Nicholas went to Birmingham, to the Civic Center for an event, and then he wanted to try and find something good to eat, we walked around the corner there was a real good chicken barbecue place whatever, was it a food truck or it was an actual restaurant, right it was a sit-down restaurant. You couldn't, but first of all the turnoff was. I gave him cash.
Speaker 2:And they wouldn't take cash. They wouldn't take cash, they wouldn't take cash. So Jody is done. When you don't take cash, jody is done. Jody is a cash man, that's right.
Speaker 1:So you're already limiting me right there. You know cash is a form of currency. You should take it no matter what, so anyway. So I wasn't standing with Nicholas, because he went up there to order, because I wasn't going to get anything, so we had the money. So here he is, he's hollering at me.
Speaker 2:Oh, there he went again.
Speaker 1:He did so I had to go up there to him and I was like what? And he was like they don't take cash. I was like what?
Speaker 2:And so she's.
Speaker 1:She's right there. Okay, hold on. Can I ask?
Speaker 2:this though no, you can't yeah Did he have his wallet.
Speaker 1:I don't know. He has a card.
Speaker 2:Yeah, probably not. Nicholas is smart. He never carries his wallet when he goes anywhere with Jody.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but realistically, why would he need to pay for his food if he's with me, like we're going to this event in Birmingham?
Speaker 2:If he wanted anything else, yeah, yeah, he should have the paper.
Speaker 1:Well, so even if he did have his wallet, he could have had his card and just put out his card and kept your cash. I'm buying his food, I'm buying his lunch. Yeah, you kept his cash.
Speaker 2:I mean he keeps your cash and pays with his card. Same difference.
Speaker 1:He still comes out ahead.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly Because you, exactly because you gave him a lot more anyway, anyway, so yeah so she's got just a ipad set up as the.
Speaker 1:It's the. That's the register you know, yeah, and then you swipe her car and all that and she's got she's got a thing right there. I took the. I'm trying to talk with my hands, I know, and it's not because one of my hands is holding the microphone oh me to hold the mic for you, like I'm interviewing you?
Speaker 1:Oh, that would be sweet, that would be nice. So there's a tip thing right there and I noticed I'm like what is this tip jar for? Because that's all she did. First of all, she won't take my money, right? So she should be giving me a tip, right, anyway? So she won't take my money, so I'm having to use my card, and so she doesn't do anything else. She doesn't even walk to the back to tell the people.
Speaker 2:Let me ask you this Did it charge to use your card? Did you have to pay the fees?
Speaker 1:I don't know Was there a thing there. Probably so, and that right there is going to.
Speaker 2:That's going to hurt people, because the booth that I do.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they charge. Yeah, because she said her fee.
Speaker 2:I think it's three or something like that, but she said her fees have doubled. Did you see how fast?
Speaker 1:she was going. Yes, I did, and he wiped everybody off that time.
Speaker 2:She said, her credit card fees have doubled, so she'd rather you pay cash.
Speaker 1:Explain to me the credit card fee.
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:That's the biggest here we go. That's the biggest here we go. That's the biggest ripoff right there.
Speaker 2:But it's not like, it's not her fault. I know, I know Most people pay with cards.
Speaker 1:I'm talking about the credit card companies.
Speaker 2:Oh, I know Look.
Speaker 1:I am using your card, correct? Yeah, I mean it's not really.
Speaker 2:I mean, it's even your bank card, not just a credit card. It's your bank card, but still I'm being charged to use any kind of card my money which is on a card yes, right, yes and that's what everybody wants us to go towards.
Speaker 1:So shouldn't the incentive be to not I don't care, you got me worked up. Shouldn't the incentive be not to charge us to use that card, because the card is what you want us to use?
Speaker 2:here we go.
Speaker 1:That makes no sense. Everybody's gullible. Let's just go along with it. That digital currency, it's coming.
Speaker 2:Mark of the beast. Everybody's going to have it, because they don't care. Get back on the tipping. So if you're in a sit-down restaurant, yes, I feel like you should tip. I think you should tip.
Speaker 1:I'm tipping.
Speaker 2:Sonic brings it out to you.
Speaker 1:You're doing a service for me. I'm tipping you because of the service you're doing. Yeah, the girl at the register is getting paid to work the register. She didn't even go to the back to hand the order in to the cook or anything like that.
Speaker 2:She's just standing there, but how do they get paid in to the cook or anything like that? She's just. How do they get paid? Do they get a normal seven what's what's thing? Uh, 725 or something like that? Or do they do like the servers and they only get paid so much and they work off of the tips?
Speaker 1:well, if that's her, hey, she needs to find another job, because to me that's, she's not a server yeah so she can just get paid her 285 an hour because she's not getting so you're saying you shouldn't tip?
Speaker 2:her at that place.
Speaker 1:Y'all are no, because then they, they're, they're hollering you're getting paid to cook my food anyway you're charging me. You're charging me Because you're not sitting down. You're calling my order to come get it. You're not bringing the food to me or anything.
Speaker 2:I'm not sitting down eating.
Speaker 1:I'm walking up to the register.
Speaker 2:You're not filling my drink. No, none of that. You're not seeing if I'm okay, no.
Speaker 1:That's another thing.
Speaker 2:I want my server to get what I give. I don't like them to put it in a pool and divide it out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't like them to put it in a pool and divide it out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know how many do that. I want my server to get what I give.
Speaker 1:Is that going to be your smaller local type restaurants that will pull it together, or the chain ones? Do they pull it?
Speaker 2:together. I thought the chain ones. I don't know, I don't know. I want to go. I have been blessed and not had to work in food. Oh, it's a hard job. I couldn't do it. I could not do it. I couldn't do it. I guarantee the first. I couldn't take the people.
Speaker 1:No, the first day I would pour a drink on somebody's head.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I couldn't take the people Because I'm like look, jerk, I'm not dealing with you. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Because I don't have to Take his job'm doing it If I go above and beyond.
Speaker 2:Okay so.
Speaker 1:I wish I could talk and say something before you interrupt me, let me finish my thought. Well, look, don't, it'll be gone. I know, don't even listen to what I'm saying. It'll be gone. When I get done talking, you can do your points, so don't listen to what I say. My gosh, I don't even remember what I was going to say now.
Speaker 2:Don't y'all love us?
Speaker 1:Give me a second. Okay, I'm trying to go above and beyond, doing my job right. What I do for you as a waitress or a server.
Speaker 2:You're a waiter.
Speaker 1:Waiter. Well, I'm a server, whatever, my goodness, steward, stewardess, what is it? What do you call the person in the plane? Airline Attendant, attendant, okay, anyway, tomato, tomato. So I'm getting paid off my service. I don't want to get paid off of the pool, you know. Yes, because so-and-so Jimmy Sue over here ain't pulling her weight. She's got an attitude, jimmy Sue, and she's getting the same amount as I am, but she's making more because I'm pulling in more tips for the pool, because of my niceness.
Speaker 2:I don't like the pool thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't believe in the pool thing, but I would say this Maybe it's fair for the ones that aren't serving and aren't getting paid the large amount or a decent amount, and need that pool to go, because some people could be giving it their all and then not getting a tip just because the person didn't tip. They tip $2, you know, and they got, and they should have tipped them $10. I mean, you know. So I guess I guess that kind of makes up for it, though, you know, if somebody's not a good tipper.
Speaker 1:All right, that boat's flying, yeah. Disclaimer Don't believe anything that we say. I don't know anything about the restaurant business.
Speaker 2:True.
Speaker 1:So some people might listen to this and be like, oh my goodness.
Speaker 2:Y'all let us know. Yeah, let us know. So I'm just saying If you work in that business, let us know how your tips are we?
Speaker 1:don't give advice. Sure, don't give medical advice. We give opinions and we try and tell facts, but like this right here, I have no idea.
Speaker 2:You know how the tips work, so take with it, jody, just don't like to tip if you don't give him a service.
Speaker 1:I'm paying for a service. The tip is a service Right.
Speaker 2:Or they're serving you and you're not going and getting it and all this stuff Right, because they're getting paid to do that, right, and you ain't got to do a good job. A cook is just getting paid to cook.
Speaker 1:I don't need you to come to. You know, I don't need to take two sips out of my water and you come back and you're pouring more water in my cup. I don't need that, not, I don't you know. Then you're starting to bother me. Now you know not that I'm gonna take, you know, not keep you because of that. I'm just saying like, I just want you to show up every once in a while. I want you to notice if I'm getting low on my drink. Yeah, or there's no salt and pepper at our table, or there's four of us at the table and there's no silverware.
Speaker 2:You know just what about food trucks?
Speaker 1:What about food trucks?
Speaker 2:You tipping out a food truck?
Speaker 1:I'm not tipping out a food truck. If you want more money, put it towards the cost of the food Instead of at $12.99 for that sandwich and fries.
Speaker 2:Put it at $15.
Speaker 1:Put it at $14.99 and no tip.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:And then let me decide.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean they are letting you decide if you're going to tip with that tip jar. I know, but I feel.
Speaker 1:It's not that I feel obligated, but I just think about you different, like if I'm not seeing anything, if you're not allowing a service. That's like the refrigerator repairman If he came in here and if he just had a tip jar down on the counter as he's working right there, I'd have been like no, no tip for you.
Speaker 2:Well, his tip was included in that, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:That's what I'm saying. Yeah, so he didn't need a tip because he's doing a service for us, but it's included in the what I call a package deal. Your labor, your labor, yeah in the what I call package deal, your labor, your labor yeah yeah, we got some fishermen right here. He brought his wife uh-oh maybe come over and catch a fish in front of us. Looks like she's gonna do the fishing and he's gonna say in that her fishing what if he floored it right now?
Speaker 2:she would hit I would be so mad at him if he would the water. Are they staring at us like you never know? She's on the phone, yeah.
Speaker 1:You never know, when people pull up, if they know you or not. I try not to stare because I don't want to know them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Jody wants to go the other way.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like if I didn't have this mic right now, I would be getting up and walking away just so I don't want to, don't turn that wheel this way, if we know him, he's like get in the house Go go. Oh, he's turning.
Speaker 2:He's coming this way he's turning. I forgot to tell you we're having a guest on the podcast.
Speaker 1:Well, if your phone rang right now because she's got her phone in her hand.
Speaker 2:I know right Like she's calling somebody. Let me see, because mine's on silent.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm about to sneeze by the way, I know Nice, I'm not trying to have. I scared the bird I scared every bird that was in the yard. I'm not trying to have dead air right now, but I am paying attention to this boat.
Speaker 2:They're going on, they are turning around, they're turning, yeah, they're tail spinning.
Speaker 1:They are.
Speaker 2:That's what it looks like Coco's, out them down there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, better come closer, all right.
Speaker 2:Have we made a big mess Anyway?
Speaker 1:no, we're not done with the tipping.
Speaker 2:Oh tipping.
Speaker 1:All right, same thing with you go to the beauty salon.
Speaker 2:I do not understand why they have a tip on the.
Speaker 1:It's the same thing with that. It should be included in what I'm paying for my haircut. Don't ask for a tip from me because you're doing the job.
Speaker 2:But everybody tips, did you tip?
Speaker 1:No, I never tip. Got a haircut yesterday I didn't tip. I saw that tip line and I'm like nope, I feel $16 for a haircut is enough.
Speaker 2:Same thing at the nail place.
Speaker 1:If you want to pay, if you want to charge me $18, I will be paying $18 and just consider my tips in there.
Speaker 2:Same thing at the nail place. You know some people, some people tip $10, $15, $20. And I'm like what the heck?
Speaker 1:Well, that would be like all right.
Speaker 2:so if I go get my old I mean because you're already doing my nails, which don't get your nails done there. I got you cheaper anyway, but you're paying them for that service. They get that money, so why are you tipping on something like that? But I've heard women say that they tip $ and I'm like I can't afford that?
Speaker 1:aren't you already paying like 60 bucks? How much is it for a manicure?
Speaker 2:well, I hadn't been in two and a half years, but the last time I went it was probably 60 and I do a five dollar tip I would say five dollars sounds good to me if I was going to tip something like that I never done over five dollars, even if I done nails and toes because if you're looking at percentages, that's not 10, but you're up there close to it.
Speaker 1:That sounds enough I did always tip, but listen that's what I'm saying, like why are we picking and choosing these? That would be that would be like I'm going to get my oil changed from fred down at the garage and he's charging me 70 bucks, to you know, for the oil change all right now. If if he's asking for a tip, would I give him a tip? Heck.
Speaker 1:No, I'm not giving him a tip because he got paid to change and he got paid to change it, just like the stinking people that do your hair and that do your nails. Oh, I don't understand. I'm just saying. You see, if you start looking around, you'll see there's more little tip cups and tip jars and all that same thing. Maybe it's because they're not getting paid good enough what about that person on the street that's got a little thing out there wanting your money? He's playing music for you I didn't say he was playing music he's just there.
Speaker 2:Yep, I don't ever give anybody on the street money. If I got food, I give them some food, but I don't give them money. I can't do the money thing.
Speaker 1:If you're playing music and you're on the sidewalk, I don't feel obligated to stop to begin with Because it's the sidewalk and that's where I'm walking. So I'm going to walk on by. That don't mean. Don't call me a bad person because I don't stop and throw a dollar in there. But what I'm saying is, if I stop and listen to you and I tip you, I'm paying for a talent. You know, I think this guy sounds good. Keep up the good work. Here's you some money. Yeah, but if you ain't doing nothing, or maybe if you are, and yeah, don't feel bad that I just keep walking so I don't know, I think.
Speaker 2:I might I think your blood pressure's up. It's just frustrating, I want.
Speaker 1:I might. I think your blood pressure's up. I don't know. It's just frustrating. I want people to do a good job. I want people to work hard. You ain't got to be the greatest at your job, right, work hard. You ain't got to be excited about your job either. Put in a good day's work and go home, don't complain. Try and look at the positives.
Speaker 2:I think I'm going to put a tip jar out on my desk next week, you know, but have some pride in what you do for a living. They do. That's why they want you to tip them.
Speaker 1:But it's the one, well, that's fine. I mean the ones that. But if I'm just like, I just want to see if I can get an extra buck, put this little jar out there. Huh, negative.
Speaker 2:Jody says negative, not going to do it.
Speaker 1:No, I think I speak for the people.
Speaker 2:You think? Yeah, I think so Maybe they need to let us know.
Speaker 1:I don't care if they do or not.
Speaker 2:really, Well, that's not very nice.
Speaker 1:I'm just saying.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 1:Majority of people are not going to.
Speaker 2:Majority of people tip.
Speaker 1:Majority of people are not going to email or comment what I'm trying to get at about this, so I'm just saying so, I mean because that's what people know, people that are looking back people that are looking to complain, you know? Yeah, that's what they want to do. They'll complain about everything.
Speaker 2:Everything.
Speaker 1:Hmm.
Speaker 2:All right.
Speaker 1:Well, we hope you've enjoyed this. Uh, the nature that's in the background.
Speaker 2:This hodgepodge Is that is that cicadas?
Speaker 1:Is that what I hear now? No, was that not a cicada I just heard. Is that what that is? You hear that.
Speaker 2:We're not took over by them, like some places.
Speaker 1:No, like Tennessee and places.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, A lady I follow on Instagram.
Speaker 1:I listen to.
Speaker 2:They are covered up.
Speaker 1:Nate Bengazzi, I think that's how you say his name. Yeah, I don't know Nate Land. He's a comedian. They're out of Nashville, they've got a podcast and they went over these cicadas. I don't even know if I'm saying it right. There's a 13 and a 17 year phase, or event that goes on. They stay dormant under the ground. Some of them do for 13 years and then they come out, and some stay for seven, so they're alive under the ground, but then that's the only way they're experiencing one of those right now.
Speaker 2:That's what it is Nice.
Speaker 1:Not saying I was a. Is it a cicada, cicada, cicada.
Speaker 2:Cicada I don't know.
Speaker 1:See, I think I messed you up, I think you were saying it right and I messed you up, yeah.
Speaker 2:But that's not. Let me ask you this that's not for all.
Speaker 1:Stop it. That's not for all of them.
Speaker 2:I'm just saying there's two, so I find that's cooking.
Speaker 1:Somebody is cooking out.
Speaker 2:Somebody is grilling in his mouth.
Speaker 1:Oh no, they don't. What did we get today? What did you bring home? What did we do today?
Speaker 2:I painted. What did I bring y'all home?
Speaker 1:I think I done pretty good and Nicholas painted over at my mom's house. So me, nicholas and Nana all painted. She's got a garage and a little side building and all that stuff.
Speaker 2:We painted that all morning long, and then I rewarded y'all with food.
Speaker 1:You did, got home.
Speaker 2:Your favorite.
Speaker 1:Went by church. This is your favorite Went by church. Did something Close to it For a little bit, came home.
Speaker 2:I think it took me two hours to get that food, by the way, yeah, anyway, so what did you bring home? Barbecue.
Speaker 1:Full moon barbecue Baked beans. Potato salad.
Speaker 2:Ribs Me and Nicholas like the ribs. Jody likes the meat Me and Nicholas likes the ribs.
Speaker 1:Well, ribs are fine, but my thing with ribs.
Speaker 2:He won't eat ribs out.
Speaker 1:Right, I don't eat ribs out because I make such a mess. I feel like I make a mess.
Speaker 2:He don't.
Speaker 1:So I feel like I. You know how I feel too about napkins, right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, how do I feel? Because it gets on you.
Speaker 1:No, I'm just saying, you should only use your napkin one time and that's when you're done eating.
Speaker 2:When you're done, yeah, why are you eating?
Speaker 1:So you're wasting napkins if you're dabbing your mouth and cleaning it now and you're about to mess it up again. Yep, do it when you're done.
Speaker 2:That's my philosophy anyway, we've had a good day today, a bunch of people agree with me. They just won't say it hidden. Jody fans, that's what it is that, what, that, what it is? Yeah, they're in the closet.
Speaker 1:They're afraid to say that they like me, because you know people will turn against them.
Speaker 2:It's got my views, but they believe it and they understand. Is that right? I guess, All right, I got things I got to do now.
Speaker 1:Do you? Yeah, I got to tan. I thought we might have?
Speaker 2:Oh, I got an update about my tan last week, right? Was it last week when I tanned and I got out in the rain?
Speaker 1:Got out in the rain. Tell them what happened. You just got dribbled on a little bit, yeah and it was fine yeah. You were afraid you were going to be splotty.
Speaker 2:The next day.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I thought I was going to be splotchy you hadn't gone through that eight-hour window of it drying Right Because you is yeah, and then we'll only use the tannin drops that time.
Speaker 2:So that's why I didn't know if it would. If I had used the moose, it would have.
Speaker 1:It would have spotted you might as well be speaking german to me right now, because I ain't got a clue I'm gonna go tan your legs yeah, I've got all these turtles down here looking at me, waiting for me to feed them, and the catfish, so we get off this. I'm going down there to feed, so this is uh you know what feeds better than we do y'all being out here.
Speaker 1:I don't know if it was more productive for us on the podcast, because we didn't have a single thing. I hit this start button, this record button bam, it's all over the place free flowing it doesn't matter, it's all over.
Speaker 2:We're just talking, didn't even have nothing wrote down, no topics or nothing that's called scripted and you don't like scripted, but I do like't like scripted, but I do like that you say everything is scripted.
Speaker 1:But you've got to have a little bit of what do I call it structure.
Speaker 2:I'm not structured yeah.
Speaker 1:You've got to have a few topics that you can go to.
Speaker 2:I like the cow tipping, but we didn't have any structure. All right, all right, folks, I'm out.
Speaker 1:We're going to get out of here, right now you out, I guess so.
Speaker 2:See you later, where can they find us. All over the place.
Speaker 1:All over the place.
Speaker 2:We on all social media.
Speaker 1:When can they find us? Mondays Mondays, that's right Once a week. Once a week Yep, we got a Facebook page. Is that right? I don't know Instagram, I think. Follow us. I don't think we put anything on there, but yeah, follow us. That way we know who you are and we can start watching you Keep an eye on you.
Speaker 2:We don't put anything on there, but you put it on there, you know what do you call that when you Facebook stalk?
Speaker 1:Stalk them. Yeah, if you'll follow us, we promise to stalk you.
Speaker 2:Wow, you just ran them all. Yay, I'm not going to stalk you, because I never get on Facebook.
Speaker 1:Oh, are you ready to go, or something. I'm out, I'm just going to keep talking. All right, thanks for listening and we'll see y'all on the next episode.
Speaker 2:When you might hear Jody say Watch out for the turtles.