This That And The Other
This That And The Other
17. On Location Outside: Birds, Turtles, Ducks, and Boat Watching, Tipping, Credit Card Fees, and Jody's Rant
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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.
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Welcome back, folks.
Speaker 2Welcome back. Where are we at? We are on location, yeah.
Speaker 1Let's let everybody listen real close. Where are we at?
Speaker 2Just listen, we are on location yeah, let's let everybody listen real close.
Speaker 1Where 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 2that Coco running across the yard chasing a goose.
Speaker 1No, she's not chasing a goose.
Speaker 2There's no gooses Gooses.
Speaker 1There's no gooses in our yard. She was chasing some ducks out of the yard just a minute ago.
Speaker 2I see heads popping out of the water though.
Speaker 1Yep, I see turtle heads. We are sitting outside.
Speaker 2So this may be loud.
Speaker 1Enjoying 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 2It's loud, it's loud. Oh well, I don't really know what to do about it.
Speaker 1I 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 2I 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 1I can do a crow.
Speaker 2You got a pretty good crow.
Speaker 1No, 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 2Yeah, and you'll know who I am.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, what is it? How's it go?
Speaker 2I 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 1Caw 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 2Have we talked about the cats?
Speaker 1No, 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 1I 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 1But 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 2So 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 1Well, for the second time, I don't think so, but go ahead if we have.
Speaker 2They're unwanted cats. They got dropped off. We got two mama cats Two years ago.
Speaker 1Two mama cats and they both had three kittens. So if you want kittens.
Speaker 2I 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 1Well, there was one that came to us.
Speaker 2And I need them to leave and I felt sorry for her.
Speaker 1Yeah, her name was Smokey. She got nothing but ribs and skin.
Speaker 2Well, that's not our fault, that's not our fault.
Speaker 1She was wild. Finally it was feeding her. She got friendly Next.
Speaker 2thing 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 1Whose fault is that? Yours, mine.
Speaker 2Now we got a bird fight going on, I mean duck fight.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2I 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 1But 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 2I wouldn't call that. Why are you being so?
Speaker 1offensive. I'm just trying to take up for myself because nobody else seems to be, Whatever, I had a rough week.
Speaker 2Have you.
Speaker 1Everybody get off my back. Everybody wants to get on my back this week.
Speaker 2I'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 1I was being nice and now you've already made me mad, you Lots of ducks.
Speaker 2Let's go see if a turtle will bite your toe.
Speaker 1Oh, I know One of them would.
Speaker 2Anyway.
Speaker 1It 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 2I want to watch somebody wipe out. Yeah, we've seen a banana on the water.
Speaker 1Yeah, 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 2You usually don't see this many right here on the edge, we're about to see a skier.
Speaker 1Is that our neighbor?
Speaker 2Might be.
Speaker 1Yeah, there's our neighbor, he has got his boat out, oh nope, not skiing. It's one of those.
Speaker 2I 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 1Yeah, 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 2Figures yeah.
Speaker 1I was going to replace it with a British flag, just see if he noticed. I guarantee you wouldn't.
Speaker 2All right, what do we got going on I?
Speaker 1don't know. I'm going to see if he'd take off.
Speaker 2I 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 1Let's listen, can you all?
Speaker 2hear him, here he goes.
Speaker 1Listen, 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 2He's got little girls. I think it's the little girl on there Really.
Speaker 1I think I can't tell Well, he's not holding back.
Speaker 2I think he's got the thing floored, no.
Speaker 1That'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 2I doubt it.
Speaker 1To each their own. Amanda says.
Speaker 2Is that what I say?
Speaker 1That'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 2You don't, I do Not enough.
Speaker 1Not enough. Not enough Note to self. Talk more about Amanda.
Speaker 2Nicely On.
Speaker 1Three Wheels, no Direction.
Speaker 2Podcast. All right, what do we got going on?
Decades Fellowship Fashion Event
Speaker 1I 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 2That was a clothing brand. It was that's very popular.
Speaker 1Well, I think it was popular, because I think that's all I wore.
Speaker 2It's not around anymore, is it?
Speaker 1Well, 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 2remember 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 1I don it was over the price limit. I don't think duck heads were that.
Speaker 2I 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 1Okay, because I wanted to go into.
Speaker 2Well, actually in August, this is what we got to do. I hadn't told you.
Speaker 1Oh, my goodness, so you're going to reveal this to me on the podcast?
Speaker 2You want me to hold it?
Speaker 1No, because I want to know now, so I've got to do something or I've got to wear something.
Speaker 2Yeah, you've got to wear something. I've got to wear something, yeah.
Speaker 1Is this like an event? Is it?
Speaker 2church yeah.
Speaker 1During service, after service.
Speaker 2During the fellowship on Sunday nights, that's not as bad, maybe, maybe. Well, no, the look on your face.
Speaker 1It might be bad.
Speaker 2No, 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 1That's what I thought I'll bring out the tommy hill figure stuff no, that's not what you graduated in.
Speaker 2Well, I was trying to be younger than no, that's a few years after. Yeah, that was when you were with me.
Speaker 1I'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 2Yeah, so I got to find you some wranglers and some light-colored wranglers.
Speaker 1Light-colored. I've got the boots, you don't have to worry about the boots.
Speaker 2Yeah, you got the boots.
Speaker 1I don't think I kept any wranglers.
Speaker 2I 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 1I 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 2Now 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 1See, y'all didn't think about that. I think the women should have to wear a hairstyle.
Speaker 2If I can fix mine. We just had.
Speaker 1Do they make that much hairspray?
Speaker 2Aquanet yeah, they still make Aquanet.
Speaker 1Do people still use hairspray? Well, not like they used to. We used to consume it, is it not?
Speaker 2Yeah, 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 1You can have all of it, which I just got a haircut yesterday so I got rid of what curl was starting to.
Speaker 2So, if.
Speaker 1I do, feathers Do I have more gray showing when I get a haircut.
Speaker 2Yeah, 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 1I probably wouldn't have dated you if you had a perm. Really yeah, wow, okay.
Speaker 2I 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 1Hair was a big deal.
Speaker 2Was it.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, like top three.
Speaker 2That's why I kept cutting it off. I thought I'd get rid of you, but it didn't work well.
Speaker 1I thought about it. I had one foot out the door every time.
Speaker 2Yep, 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 1I wouldn't say begging well, okay.
Speaker 2I 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 1I've noticed you say so a lot and you say anyway a lot.
Speaker 2Well, so do you so.
Speaker 1I don't you, I say like a lot.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Like.
Speaker 2Just listen to that other podcast.
Speaker 1Well, what do I say? Let me ask you a question. No, what do I say?
Speaker 2Let 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 1Well, let me ask you this. Oh my goodness, what am I supposed to say when you ask a question?
Speaker 2I 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 1Sometimes 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 2Apparently, 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 1It did well, actually our refrigerator went out last week went out on a all right, tell the story.
Speaker 2Started 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 2Yeah 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 1Yeah, because we just thought it was a seal or something.
Speaker 2Yeah, 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 1I 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 2Yeah, Leftovers pizzas and stuff.
Speaker 1Yeah, 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 2Yeah, because they sure wasn't in no hurry to come look at.
Speaker 1But anyways, she's all choked up.
Speaker 2Sorry about that, yeah, so.
Speaker 1Well, 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 2That was the low end, or?
Speaker 1$800 or $1,200 or whatever.
Speaker 2That was the low end.
Speaker 1Even 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 2And they come out Thursday at 5 o'clock.
Speaker 1It was after 5.
Speaker 2After 5, because, we had already sat down to eat.
Speaker 1Right, 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 1You 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 2It was a bad bad switch.
Speaker 1Whatever 231 dollars, is that right? 26, $269. $269. Where are you at? I don't know.
Speaker 2Where'd you?
Speaker 1go.
Speaker 2But I mean, hey, the refrigerator was given to us.
Speaker 1so 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 2Okay, that's what I was. I can't remember now, and I think it was 231.
Speaker 1Okay, 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 1Amanda 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 2Oh, this, that's you. Yeah, oh, I wasn't even paying attention.
Speaker 1You 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 2Oh, 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 1Oh, 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 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Spencer told me there's a recycling center thing around that will take it.
Speaker 2Farley's, farley's Recycling.
Speaker 1I don't know.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, yeah. You just got to get it down there. Who wants to do that?
Speaker 1I thought it was just an appliance place.
Speaker 2Oh, I don't know, I'm not talking about just the recycling center, but he said he knew for sure.
Speaker 1So I think he said he had taken something since he just moved into a new place.
Speaker 2They must have had to have done something like that I got an idea for your podcast coming up this week.
Speaker 1Me.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1What podcast? The other podcast.
Speaker 2Yeah, the other one.
Speaker 1What is it? Three Wheels, no Direction.
Speaker 2I 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 1Not a bad idea.
Speaker 2Sentra Kids, her camps, she idea Sentra Kids Her camps.
Speaker 1She loves to go to camps. We can record too.
Speaker 2If she would do it. I think that would be cool.
Speaker 1We 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 2Every time he never shouts this one out, never shouts this one out on the other podcast.
Speaker 1Me, Josh and Spencer, every Monday and Thursday, new episodes.
Speaker 2They even get two days and I don't even get. I barely get one. I had to beg him to do it today.
Speaker 1If lightning would strike, it'd kill us both.
Speaker 2And last week I thought he was never going to do it.
Speaker 1Oh, 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 2I love to get him worked up.
Speaker 1I'm having an issue Might be called Amanda right now. I wish you could drink that into the microphone a little bit more.
Speaker 2What's in the cup today?
Speaker 1Cherry Coke.
Speaker 2Cherry Limeade.
Speaker 1Cherry Limeade.
Speaker 2And green apple.
Speaker 1Green 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 2I 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 1We'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 2I think she just went to one, that's what I'm saying she could.
Speaker 1we 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 2Hmm.
Speaker 1Yeah, 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 2If she'll do it.
Speaker 1Do y'all like Reese's Cups?
Speaker 2No.
Speaker 1Y'all like Snyder's Pretzels.
Speaker 2No, no, y'all like Snyder's pretzels. No, y'all like Dr Pepper. I like sour candy.
Speaker 1Really Well, I'd say that's the stash we have in there.
Speaker 2I know, in our little office I visit it.
Speaker 1Yeah, I know, I'm just letting nobody else know. Y'all put in whatever y'all want and we'll have it there.
Speaker 2Oh.
Speaker 1Spencer actually cooked us yeast rolls before we started the last episode.
Speaker 2I smelled it when I left.
Speaker 1That 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 2All right, so our fridge went out this week.
Speaker 1My leg went out.
Speaker 2Your leg went out. Yeah, your leg's been out for two weeks.
Speaker 1I'm having an MRI this coming week to figure out what's going on with a disc in my back. Whatever, Anyway.
Speaker 2So let's talk about people. I see 12 turtle heads sticking up out of the water.
Speaker 1I 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 2You know exactly what it looks like. I hate it.
Speaker 1Snakehead Go ahead. What was you going to talk about?
Speaker 2About 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 1Go ahead.
Speaker 2I've been trying to get a hold of a dude.
Speaker 1There went the ducks, by the way.
Speaker 2Sorry, 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 1Well, that's good that he admitted.
Speaker 2He admitted.
Speaker 1He didn't lie, so that's good.
Speaker 2And 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 1We get off at 11 is that what he goes by, dude?
Speaker 2yeah 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 1I need to go somewhere else that's just the way it is nowadays.
Speaker 2I 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 1Call him again, I'm going to call him again.
Speaker 2I mean.
Speaker 1Blow his phone up.
Speaker 2It's just Until he blocks you. Well then I'll call from somebody else's phone.
Speaker 1Well, 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 2Yeah.
Speaker 1So what you need I?
Speaker 2understand, things come up.
Speaker 1I know, but what I'm saying is the week before we didn't have no lightning. I know, I know.
Speaker 2That you just forgot me.
Speaker 1Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2Do 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 1Or 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 2yeah, oh my goodness, I didn't think it was hot in our house. It was hot in our house Apparently.
Speaker 1It 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 2But I thought he was coming that morning Right and I took off work.
Speaker 1Right, 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 2it was the same way Even the major camera companies.
Speaker 1That if I said the three-letter you know abbreviation people would know.
Speaker 2Yeah, but just call me back and let me know.
Speaker 1I know, I know.
Speaker 2Send 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 1Yeah, 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 2just 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 1That's all you got to do.
Speaker 2That was my rant. Sorry, but I just had to get that off my wall.
Speaker 1That's what I'm saying. It goes every line of work. That what?
Speaker 2That bug you about got dive-bombed.
Speaker 1I did Bomb-dive-bombed. I didn't see it. It must have moved so fast. I didn't see it.
Speaker 2Well, 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 1Well, 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 2They 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 1Day 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 2Was that the first time they came out, or was this when they were supposed to come out and get it fixed?
Rambling Small Talk
Speaker 1They 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 1Before 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 2I called. He didn't answer he didn't answer.
Speaker 1Imagine that.
Speaker 2I don't know. I just feel like we could do better.
Speaker 1Oh, as a society.
Speaker 2I mean.
Speaker 1That'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 2Yeah, 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 1I just you have. Look, it's a struggle all week long to look for positives. It really is, you know.
Speaker 2Oh, I can tell a positive, let me tell a positive.
Speaker 1Last night.
Speaker 2What was last night?
Speaker 1Okay, it's not that one then.
Speaker 2No, did I already talk about it.
Speaker 1That 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 2Last 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 1It doesn't matter, just talk. Are you got your phone on or am I hearing somebody talk?
Speaker 2My phone's not on. Where is my phone? No, it's not on. Oh, I do hear somebody talking.
Speaker 1Come on down. Oh, I do hear somebody talking, come on down.
Speaker 2Oh, I see Guest speaker. Come on down.
Speaker 1Our neighbor's like right behind us there. I guess they got back from the boat.
Speaker 2I didn't see them come back in, or maybe not.
Speaker 1Maybe they didn't go, I don't know.
Speaker 2I don't know Anyway.
Speaker 1Anyway, I feel, like I have to whisper, but because we're going to talk.
Speaker 2Anyway. 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 1That is, that's very good.
Speaker 2Number four, I think, in the corporate leg. I think we have 4,000 girls on our team.
Speaker 1Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 2So I thought that was pretty good. That's a positive, that's very good.
Speaker 1That's a big-time positive Number four.
Speaker 2But 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 1Try 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 2I have 13 girls under me. My little team was only $250 from the next rank. I could have ranked up.
Speaker 1I would have bought $250 worth of nails. I almost did, but I thought.
Speaker 2Jody 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 1In your little booth, in my booth, my goodness.
Speaker 2That's a lot.
Speaker 1It is a lot.
Speaker 2That'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 1If 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 2you heard this on the podcast. Yeah, I give you 10% off.
Speaker 1Yeah, we can do that and then shoot us an email.
Speaker 2Yeah, let me know and I'll tell her.
Speaker 1Or comment on the episode or whatever like that. Let us know and we will make sure that happens.
Speaker 2I give you 10% off my booth. We'll do something That'd be cool.
Speaker 1That would be cool, that's a pretty blue boat.
Speaker 2It is a blue.
Speaker 1Oh, wipe out, wipe out and they're gonna wipe out too anyway. So that was the neighbor's dog starting to bark.
Speaker 2How about?
Speaker 1that. 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 2I'm having a hard time concentrating so. So that was a positive this week.
Speaker 1I'll say this If he keeps barking like this, we will have to shut this thing down earlier than that.
Speaker 2Yeah, maybe not. So yeah, I was number four. All right now. You got our dogs barking at the ducks.
Speaker 1They're chasing the ducks, so I can't get away from this now.
Speaker 2So I was number four in our big corporate league.
Speaker 1Well, congratulations. I do like that boat. By the way, that is a pretty boat.
Speaker 2Yeah, now our dogs are going to fight, all right. So what else we got?
Speaker 1I was going to ask you how do you feel? About tipping.
Speaker 2I tip, I like to tip. Well, it depends. Okay, let me take that back.
Speaker 1What are you tipping?
Speaker 2Cows, cow tipping, you ever been cow tipping?
Speaker 1No, I was afraid to do that. I didn't really understand it at the age when I could have done it.
Speaker 2Yeah, I was like is that true?
Speaker 1Can you really do that?
Speaker 2I don't know, I've never done that.
Speaker 1No, 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 2But not knowing, not knowing what's out there.
Speaker 1When 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 2them or get too close.
Speaker 1No, a bunch of idiots.
Speaker 2I 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 1it kill her.
Speaker 2She got hit.
Speaker 1Did it kill her?
Speaker 2I never it didn't. It was just a little quick Video, real thing I didn't ever say.
Speaker 1But why you do that? Why, if you get hit by a train, normally it's not good, so Not that.
Speaker 2I'm laughing. Well, I mean, I think it like Grazed, like you know.
Speaker 1Just took an arm off. Maybe, but why? Why are you?
Speaker 2doing that. I don't know these picture opportunities. Well, you know, it's like Sometimes it ain't worth it.
Speaker 1I 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 2Anyway, 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.
Debate on Tipping in Restaurants
Speaker 1But how bad is it to I don't know. All right.
Speaker 2So, falling off the edge at say, when you fall in your dreams, it's really bad Let me finish.
Speaker 1You fall off the edge of a cliff, say at the Grand Canyon.
Speaker 2I 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 1Can I talk?
Speaker 2Yeah, while I get a drink, go ahead.
Speaker 1Which 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 2Because you don't hit nothing.
Speaker 1No, 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 2They're gonna try again stuff like that.
Speaker 1So 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 2You 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 1Yeah, how did they sneak back in? I don't know, our neighbor snuck back in. Oh, they're all dolled up, huh, or?
Speaker 2they were. He's almost live. Are you sure that was a neighbor a while ago?
Speaker 1Because they don't have the big flag up now. Yeah, I think you're right.
Speaker 2That 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 1Santa 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 2you want to talk?
Speaker 1Back to tipping.
Speaker 2Cow tipping.
Speaker 1How do you feel about tipping or?
Speaker 2what do you think? I never went cow tipping so I just heard about it. It's a little scary.
Speaker 1Yeah. So anyway, let's get off the cow tipping, tipping people money.
Speaker 2What about it?
Speaker 1How 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 2You mean like at gas stations, because I told you about going. Is that what you mean?
Speaker 1No, 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 2And 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 1So 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 2Oh, there he went again.
Speaker 1He 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 2And so she's.
Speaker 1She's right there. Okay, hold on. Can I ask?
Speaker 2this though no, you can't yeah Did he have his wallet.
Speaker 1I don't know. He has a card.
Speaker 2Yeah, probably not. Nicholas is smart. He never carries his wallet when he goes anywhere with Jody.
Speaker 1Yeah, 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 2If he wanted anything else, yeah, yeah, he should have the paper.
Speaker 1Well, 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 2I mean he keeps your cash and pays with his card. Same difference.
Speaker 1He still comes out ahead.
Speaker 2Yeah, 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 1It'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 1Oh, 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 2Let me ask you this Did it charge to use your card? Did you have to pay the fees?
Speaker 1I don't know Was there a thing there. Probably so, and that right there is going to.
Speaker 2That's going to hurt people, because the booth that I do.
Speaker 1Yeah, they charge. Yeah, because she said her fee.
Speaker 2I think it's three or something like that, but she said her fees have doubled. Did you see how fast?
Speaker 1she was going. Yes, I did, and he wiped everybody off that time.
Speaker 2She said, her credit card fees have doubled, so she'd rather you pay cash.
Speaker 1Explain to me the credit card fee.
Speaker 2I don't know.
Speaker 1That's the biggest here we go. That's the biggest here we go. That's the biggest ripoff right there.
Speaker 2But it's not like, it's not her fault. I know, I know Most people pay with cards.
Speaker 1I'm talking about the credit card companies.
Speaker 2Oh, I know Look.
Speaker 1I am using your card, correct? Yeah, I mean it's not really.
Speaker 2I 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 1So 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 2here we go.
Speaker 1That makes no sense. Everybody's gullible. Let's just go along with it. That digital currency, it's coming.
Speaker 2Mark 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 1I'm tipping.
Speaker 2Sonic brings it out to you.
Speaker 1You'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 2She'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 1well, 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 2her at that place.
Speaker 1Y'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 2I'm not sitting down eating.
Speaker 1I'm walking up to the register.
Speaker 2You're not filling my drink. No, none of that. You're not seeing if I'm okay, no.
Speaker 1That's another thing.
Speaker 2I want my server to get what I give. I don't like them to put it in a pool and divide it out.
Speaker 1Yeah, I don't like them to put it in a pool and divide it out.
Speaker 2Yeah, I don't know how many do that. I want my server to get what I give.
Speaker 1Is that going to be your smaller local type restaurants that will pull it together, or the chain ones? Do they pull it?
Speaker 2together. 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 1No, the first day I would pour a drink on somebody's head.
Speaker 2Yeah, I couldn't take the people Because I'm like look, jerk, I'm not dealing with you. Yeah.
Speaker 1Because I don't have to Take his job'm doing it If I go above and beyond.
Speaker 2Okay so.
Speaker 1I 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 2Don't y'all love us?
Thoughts on Tipping and Service
Speaker 1Give 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 2You're a waiter.
Speaker 1Waiter. 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 2I don't like the pool thing.
Speaker 2Yeah, 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 1All right, that boat's flying, yeah. Disclaimer Don't believe anything that we say. I don't know anything about the restaurant business.
Speaker 2True.
Speaker 1So some people might listen to this and be like, oh my goodness.
Speaker 2Y'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 1don'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 2You 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 1I'm paying for a service. The tip is a service Right.
Speaker 2Or 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 1I 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 2You know just what about food trucks?
Speaker 1What about food trucks?
Speaker 2You tipping out a food truck?
Speaker 1I'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 2Put it at $15.
Speaker 1Put it at $14.99 and no tip.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1And then let me decide.
Speaker 2Well, I mean they are letting you decide if you're going to tip with that tip jar. I know, but I feel.
Speaker 1It'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 2Well, his tip was included in that, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1That'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 2she 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 1You 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 2Yeah, Jody wants to go the other way.
Speaker 1Yeah, 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 2He's coming this way he's turning. I forgot to tell you we're having a guest on the podcast.
Speaker 1Well, if your phone rang right now because she's got her phone in her hand.
Speaker 2I know right Like she's calling somebody. Let me see, because mine's on silent.
Speaker 1Okay, 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 2They're going on, they are turning around, they're turning, yeah, they're tail spinning.
Speaker 1They are.
Speaker 2That's what it looks like Coco's, out them down there.
Speaker 1Yeah, better come closer, all right.
Speaker 2Have we made a big mess Anyway?
Speaker 1no, we're not done with the tipping.
Speaker 2Oh tipping.
Speaker 1All right, same thing with you go to the beauty salon.
Speaker 2I do not understand why they have a tip on the.
Speaker 1It'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 2But everybody tips, did you tip?
Speaker 1No, 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 2Same thing at the nail place.
Speaker 1If you want to pay, if you want to charge me $18, I will be paying $18 and just consider my tips in there.
Speaker 2Same thing at the nail place. You know some people, some people tip $10, $15, $20. And I'm like what the heck?
Speaker 1Well, that would be like all right.
Speaker 2so 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 1aren't you already paying like 60 bucks? How much is it for a manicure?
Speaker 2well, 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 1That 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 1No, 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 2Yep, 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.
Work Ethic and Job Satisfaction
Speaker 1If 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 2I might I think your blood pressure's up. It's just frustrating, I want.
Speaker 1I 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 2I 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 1But 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 2Jody says negative, not going to do it.
Speaker 1No, I think I speak for the people.
Speaker 2You think? Yeah, I think so Maybe they need to let us know.
Speaker 1I don't care if they do or not.
Speaker 2really, Well, that's not very nice.
Speaker 1I'm just saying.
Speaker 2Wow.
Speaker 1Majority of people are not going to.
Speaker 2Majority of people tip.
Speaker 1Majority 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 2Everything.
Speaker 1Hmm.
Speaker 2All right.
Speaker 1Well, we hope you've enjoyed this. Uh, the nature that's in the background.
Speaker 2This hodgepodge Is that is that cicadas?
Speaker 1Is that what I hear now? No, was that not a cicada I just heard. Is that what that is? You hear that.
Speaker 2We're not took over by them, like some places.
Speaker 1No, like Tennessee and places.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, A lady I follow on Instagram.
Speaker 1I listen to.
Speaker 2They are covered up.
Speaker 1Nate 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 2That's what it is Nice.
Speaker 1Not saying I was a. Is it a cicada, cicada, cicada.
Speaker 2Cicada I don't know.
Speaker 1See, I think I messed you up, I think you were saying it right and I messed you up, yeah.
Speaker 2But that's not. Let me ask you this that's not for all.
Speaker 1Stop it. That's not for all of them.
Speaker 2I'm just saying there's two, so I find that's cooking.
Speaker 1Somebody is cooking out.
Speaker 2Somebody is grilling in his mouth.
Speaker 1Oh no, they don't. What did we get today? What did you bring home? What did we do today?
Speaker 2I painted. What did I bring y'all home?
Speaker 1I 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 2We painted that all morning long, and then I rewarded y'all with food.
Speaker 1You did, got home.
Speaker 2Your favorite.
Speaker 1Went by church. This is your favorite Went by church. Did something Close to it For a little bit, came home.
Speaker 2I think it took me two hours to get that food, by the way, yeah, anyway, so what did you bring home? Barbecue.
Speaker 1Full moon barbecue Baked beans. Potato salad.
Speaker 2Ribs Me and Nicholas like the ribs. Jody likes the meat Me and Nicholas likes the ribs.
Speaker 1Well, ribs are fine, but my thing with ribs.
Speaker 2He won't eat ribs out.
Speaker 1Right, I don't eat ribs out because I make such a mess. I feel like I make a mess.
Speaker 2He don't.
Speaker 1So I feel like I. You know how I feel too about napkins, right.
Speaker 2Yeah, how do I feel? Because it gets on you.
Speaker 1No, I'm just saying, you should only use your napkin one time and that's when you're done eating.
Speaker 2When you're done, yeah, why are you eating?
Speaker 1So 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 2That'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 1They're afraid to say that they like me, because you know people will turn against them.
Speaker 2It'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 1Do you? Yeah, I got to tan. I thought we might have?
Speaker 2Oh, 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 1Got 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 2The next day.
Speaker 1Yeah, 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 2So that's why I didn't know if it would. If I had used the moose, it would have.
Speaker 1It 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 1I 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 2We'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 1But you've got to have a little bit of what do I call it structure.
Speaker 2I'm not structured yeah.
Speaker 1You've got to have a few topics that you can go to.
Speaker 2I like the cow tipping, but we didn't have any structure. All right, all right, folks, I'm out.
Speaker 1We're going to get out of here, right now you out, I guess so.
Speaker 2See you later, where can they find us. All over the place.
Speaker 1All over the place.
Speaker 2We on all social media.
Speaker 1When 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 2We don't put anything on there, but you put it on there, you know what do you call that when you Facebook stalk?
Speaker 1Stalk them. Yeah, if you'll follow us, we promise to stalk you.
Speaker 2Wow, you just ran them all. Yay, I'm not going to stalk you, because I never get on Facebook.
Speaker 1Oh, 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 2When you might hear Jody say Watch out for the turtles.
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