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