This That And The Other
This That And The Other
28. Labor Day, Chilly Evenings, Nightly Routines, Big Brother Talk, Slides, Crocs, and Socks
What does a chilly Sunday night under blankets, the sight of boat headlights on a lake, and fall wreaths have in common? They all set the scene for our latest cozy episode, where we share our adventures in subtle fall decor transitions, marvel at nighttime lake views, and recount the hilarious chaos our Roomba caused with our dogs. We also chat about the geese flying overhead, the shift to meteorological fall, and how we spent Labor Day differently—one of us going all out with fall decorating. Plus, there's a bit of nostalgia as we plan some vacuuming and cleaning, reminiscing about past autumn memories.
Ever wondered how past "Big Brother" contestants fare in holiday-themed challenges? Tune in as we discuss our newfound obsession with the "Big Brother Reindeer Games," reflecting on the evolution of strategies and alliances over the years. Our conversation takes a whimsical turn debating the practicality of slides with socks and the ever-controversial Crocs. We also share our nightly routines, from letting the dogs out to cleaning the Blackstone grill and adapting to air frying—a nightly dance of chores and relaxation that sets the rhythm of our evenings.
Imagine flying first class from Dubai or enjoying a luxurious train ride across Europe. We recount these extravagant travel experiences, complete with exclusive onboard services, and discuss the curious concept of a Winter Hotel's Ice Ceremony Hall. The conversation meanders through the challenges of foreign currency conversions, the poetic transition of a lake from day to night, and the quirks of holiday schedules. Should all holidays be on Saturdays? We ponder this idea while sharing our weekend plans and the ongoing challenge of balancing leisure with busy schedules. Join us for a warm, engaging chat that travels from cozy living rooms to luxurious getaways, all wrapped up in a blanket of fall ambiance.
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I cannot believe you have me outside30, on a Sunday night 7.27. 7.30, round it up, and we're just now podcasting.
Speaker 2:I know.
Speaker 1:It's crazy and it's cold out here. I'm sitting out here under the blanket.
Speaker 2:It cooled off this evening.
Speaker 1:It cooled off big time.
Speaker 2:The wind got up several hours ago and basically never let up. Thought it was going to get a rain. Yeah, not strong.
Speaker 1:now we didn't but I think it rained at the church it rained in Curry Probably, so yeah. Yeah, because we went to the store.
Speaker 2:We're doing something we say we're never going to do, and that's recording several hours before I have to release this.
Speaker 1:I know I don't know Well, yesterday, recording several hours before I have to release this, I know I don't know well, yesterday I had a headache and I just could not, I could not kick that headache and I just there was no way you blame it on me. This time this time you can. But is it not weird how boats are on the water and they look like car headlights at?
Speaker 2:night time. Yeah, you've got some now, especially some pontoons. They've got two headlights on some pontoons. They've got two headlights on the front. Well, they're mounted lights they look like a car coming down so if they're way off you can see down the main street. You can probably see. I'm gonna say a mile and a half straight ahead oh yeah, oh, there goes the geese listen, how about that?
Speaker 2:how about so? Yeah, so when they're coming this way, you just say it looks like a car in the middle of the water it just, it's just funny to me especially when it's pitch black. You're like what is that?
Speaker 1:well, when it's when it's fourth of july and they do the fireworks on the water and you, it just looks like you got cars all over the place.
Speaker 2:Yeah, all right, I got a question for you question for me or for the audience for you hey, we need to thank everybody for listening.
Speaker 1:By the way, yeah, thank you, all, right so just like that thanks next, next, if I don't do it now, I'll forget let me talk about something. I'll see if you can forget stop it so so last week we talked about stuff that I put out that you didn't notice. Did you notice what?
Speaker 2:I put out this week? Absolutely not, are you?
Speaker 1:serious. You put something else out, you run into it every day and you have not noticed it.
Speaker 2:Is it on the door? Yes, oh, I don't know. Is it really?
Speaker 1:It's a fall wreath.
Speaker 2:I put the fall wreath out this week. Hold on.
Speaker 1:Go, hurry Run. He's going to look at the door and he's looking at it. Yeah, now he sees it. Y'all, we have two doors that go into our house. And you, how do you not see that? I had a red, white and blue, that's a fall wreath. I had a red, white and blue thing hanging on it for summer and I took that down.
Speaker 2:Well, I think you need to keep that up year round, because I'm happy with that.
Speaker 1:Anything red, white and blue year round, yeah but that don't go with my next decor, so I'm don't go with my next decor. So well, I'm slowly doing it, but tomorrow I'm not working on labor days, so guess what's happening all over the house. I don't like you know all over the house falls, but when I think fall colors, it's gonna throw up.
Speaker 2:Is that what you? Say yeah, fall colors to me seems like really dark and like they are. They are, but I'm not talking about the trees changing color and the leaves oh, those are pretty. You know like, but like when I see that reef in there yeah I see yellow and I see brown but it's got pumpkins on it well, like it's dark yeah I mean it's. I mean it's not dark, yeah listen oh, there they come back.
Speaker 1:Are they coming back? No one loner.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was a loner the geese are doing a lot of flying right now, since the time. Today is officially meteorological fall. What I heard?
Speaker 1:Don't ask me to say that again. It's not fall until September 21st. Meteorological fall starts today whatever that means Tomorrow it's about to be fall in our house. It feels like fall out here right now.
Speaker 2:So I'm going to work because I've got to work. I don't get holidays off.
Speaker 1:Sorry.
Speaker 2:That's what happens when you're self-employed and you're going to decorate.
Speaker 1:I'm going to decorate.
Speaker 2:Or clean.
Speaker 1:I'm going to decorate. Why? Do we have to clean on our off days. I'm not doing it, I'm just going to decorate.
Speaker 2:Are you going to come home from work and clean?
Speaker 1:Dec days. I'm not doing it, I'm just going to decorate. Are you going to come home from work? And clean Decorating will make me clean. So I mean, you know.
Speaker 2:You have to clean around where you're decorating.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'll spot clean. Maybe Is that the cops I see on the water now.
Speaker 2:That would be no.
Speaker 1:Oh, what is it Just a weird? No, just different color lights.
Speaker 2:So do we use the Roomba anymore? No, because you don't like it. Well, we've got two dogs. Well, like if you use the vacuum, oh they go crazy, they go crazy, they don't go crazy, they're just like. I want to get away from the situation. And it's not even a big vacuum, it's a little, not handheld, it's a little shark vacuum that's not loud at all. Well, but if you're a dog and don't understand, what it is and you're coming at them with it. Yeah, so.
Speaker 1:I will have to. I'll have to vacuum tomorrow while I'm. I'll do that before I decorate.
Speaker 2:Have we talked about? I might?
Speaker 1:do that while Nicholas is in the bed.
Speaker 2:Speaking of sounds and the dog, have we talked about Coco and her issue with like?
Speaker 1:I don't think so okay our little chihuahua.
Speaker 2:Her name's coco. We watch big brother. We've talked about that before, I don't know how many of y'all watch. We need to talk about that, but we watch big brother. It's a. It's a reality show where 16 people go.
Speaker 1:They have to live together and each week one of them gets voted. We don't watch it as consistently as we did when it first come on. There's like 26 seasons. We'll get into that in a second okay.
Speaker 2:So anyway, when they do their tasks, there's like an air horn type thing yeah, they go, even their buzzers or something. There's a buzzer and a little, you know like when, uh, there's a little ding, they say order up at a restaurant a little ding. They do that bell too, and all of those for some reason on this show drives her crazy because they can do it on other shows and I've noticed you don't she goes behind the couch oh, she tries to get up underneath the couch she jumps in my lap, she jumps down, she jumps back in my lap, she shakes, shakes.
Speaker 2:It's got to be painful for her, she shakes so bad.
Speaker 1:And the fire alarm if the batteries go down. Oh, if that thing chirps. Oh, she is, she's messed up for hours. One little chirp and you better go get that thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, find out where it's at.
Speaker 1:It's bad. We have to put her outside or down there with Nicholas. That looks like a spaceship or something going through.
Speaker 2:So now you've got pontoons, it's got LED, a solid light across the side of LED, and this one's blue Looks really crazy. But you're talking about Big Brother.
Speaker 1:We're talking about Big Brother. So Jody mentioned I think last time or time before, I can't remember we talked about Big Brother and then we talked about how we liked the older episodes, like older seasons, and so I went on and I found those older seasons and I've watched a little bit of them, but I found Because the first season is like 23 years old, it's like 2001 or 2000, something like that. Four, is it? Okay? Maybe I can't remember now, of course I can't remember 20, 21, 22 years ago, yeah.
Speaker 2:So it's kind of hard to watch.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Because of the, just because of that big gap in years, right.
Speaker 1:So as I was hunting those, I found big brother reindeer games and it's got um past um big brother, people that were like contestants some of them. Some of them are winners, some of them were just popular, you know, like they were popular with the um, um, what they call it, what, what are. We were popular with the outside world, like america's, they they'll like, call them america's favorite or america's choice, or whatever.
Speaker 1:So, um, they and this. This took place last year at christmas time and I didn't even know it. How did I not know big brother had this? I?
Speaker 2:don't know but I enjoyed it, and jody even wouldn't let me watch them without him I know I got into it it was, it's because we knew the contestants but wherever you found this at, if the commercials are cut out, oh yeah, there was no commercials in it, so that made it good, so each episode is like 35 minutes, maybe 40 minutes at the most. So you're watching the whole thing. So you can just watch a couple back to back.
Speaker 1:And they vote somebody out every episode, like I think it took place in 12 days or 16 days. Yeah, so it's like the 12 days of Christmas or something like that. Maybe or something. Yeah, so it was good, but you. Maybe or something.
Speaker 2:yeah, so it was good, but you had the veterans had been on there, knew the game, so it was just it was different they approached it different. It was very good, but if you watch the first episode, like we did, from 20 years ago, oh yeah since nobody knew anything they didn't know anything about alliance and people that don't watch this show.
Speaker 2:They have no clue what we're talking about right now, but you know getting in groups like alliances, um, and just how to play the game like. I don't like the way it is because now they automatically try and group together yeah, and they don't play it and they, they all.
Speaker 1:They don't want to make each other mad now when they play. They don't want to make each other mad, so everybody votes the same person off, and so you know who's leaving. Before they, even before it's even the thursday episode for them to get evicted? Yeah, you're not, and it used to not be that it used to not be like, that you wouldn't know because they wouldn't tell you and they wouldn't all vote the same. Because you don't want to make anybody mad, let's not make somebody mad but I did enjoy that christmas episode yeah, I did too.
Speaker 1:I was hoping it was several of them, but it wasn't.
Speaker 2:Last year was the first um the first season of that, so maybe they'll do it, maybe they'll do it every year yeah, but I just don't care about it now, I don't care about the way the game's played. I don't care about the characters yeah uh, just it's just we have different opinions well, it seems like when they first started, you had older people on there too, it was a good mix of ages and now it's all about the young 20s yeah, and I guess we're old yeah, and I understand too.
Speaker 2:You got a uh demographic. You're trying to hit on a show and uh, you know what? The breeze stopped and now I'm hot.
Speaker 1:I did stop. I'm not hot, not yet.
Speaker 2:I got a long-sleeved shirt on.
Speaker 1:I'm under a blanket.
Speaker 2:I know that's crazy A fleecy blanket.
Speaker 1:And I have fleece pants on. I went and put pants on. And flip-flops. I'll never not be in flip-flops.
Speaker 2:I got socks and slides in your slides there's no, is there? Hey, somebody comment please is black socks like the no-show black socks and slides? Is that okay to wear? No, so you're saying you have to have no socks?
Speaker 1:you're 48 years old, seven, whatever you are anyway but does that matter?
Speaker 2:so so, because of my age, yeah, so what if I all right? So if I was 20? You can wear flip-flops yeah, so you're saying I shouldn't wear slides at all. Is that what you're saying? Well, maybe I don't know, or you're saying the socks is the problem.
Speaker 1:I don't know. No, I don't think you wear slides without socks. That look weird, don't it?
Speaker 2:But I thought that was the whole issue with the slides is because I wear socks? No, I just don't like them.
Speaker 1:I don't like the look. You don't like the slides Right Now okay, no, not the slides. Oh my God, what is it then? I just don't like the look. You got some awful looking slides. What do you mean, some puma?
Speaker 2:These are puma, puma. And then I've got some Under Armour ones, but you don't like those either. They're black, they're solid black.
Speaker 1:Yeah, get off that phone, stop texting and pay attention to the podcast. I'm working well for just a second, so 10 minutes you can text, because I'll forget whatever, get back in the game and what?
Speaker 2:what else was you gonna say?
Speaker 1:I don't know, like I don't it doesn't bother for nicholas to wear them. It doesn't bother me for nicholas to wear them. But when you wear them and you want to wear them in the store with me and I'm like, put your shoes on so if I had crocs, would that be better or worse?
Speaker 2:I don't know I'm not wearing crocs in the store I don't even have a pair of crocs you used to I had a pair of crocs at one time yeah but no, if I had crocs, I would probably wear them when I go down and feed the fish right and I get in the water because I don't you know they're what?
Speaker 1:would you call them waterproof there'd be a good, a good shoe to wear in water because you wouldn't have to.
Speaker 2:You know it's easy to dry. I'd do that. But as for like going to a store or anything, I'm probably not. I'm not weed eating them something. Anything outside I would do. But right, other than that, no. But yeah, flip-flops used to wear all the time I know, and now, you won't wear flip-flops.
Speaker 1:I like flip-flops, that's about all I wear and they send new ones all right.
Speaker 2:So yesterday I that flying through there, do you see it? I can't tell what it is, it's just a big old bird that might be an eagle.
Speaker 1:Look at it.
Speaker 2:I see it.
Speaker 1:It was big.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's really no way to tell.
Speaker 1:You can just see it up against the horizon, yeah.
Speaker 2:Because of the. You know it's getting dark, hmm, so anyway. So football started this weekend.
Speaker 1:War Eagle. Hey, we didn't plan that, you got those.
Speaker 2:Roll Tide fans out there. Oh no, I don't. Yeah, whatever, nicholas is a Gator fan, traitor, he likes Florida, he's a Traitor fan, Traitor, he likes Florida, he's a Traitor fan. So we used to take Nicholas, when he was a kid, of course, to Auburn games. One year we went to four, five, six games, something. It was the year Cam Newton was the quarterback and, of course, auburn had a winning season, had a good season, good year. Well, it's actually the year they won national championship.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we went to that right. We did not go to the national championship.
Speaker 2:We went.
Speaker 1:What did we go to?
Speaker 2:We went to the SEC championship game.
Speaker 1:Oh okay, my bad.
Speaker 2:But it wasn't the year of Cam Newton. It was when we played Oregon.
Speaker 1:Oh, wow.
Speaker 2:It was the, let me think, follinger. I don't know. I've got the thing. You may go find the picture. No, I don't. So yeah, so nicholas was an auburn fan, of course, because I guess he just falls in line, because when your parents are auburn fan, or whatever fan you are, your kids are basically that till they get old enough and they make their own decision right. And then somehow he got on the gator chomp almost kicked him out of the house.
Speaker 2:Yeah but I think tim tebow too. He looked it up to tim tebow, yeah, and became a gator fan and so, like tonight at church, we had a fellowship, kind of like a football tailgate, since it's basically the end of summer, it's the beginning of football. So we just had a little get together and everybody wear their any excuse to eat. Yeah, that's right, we just had a little get-together and everybody wore their team colors.
Speaker 1:Any excuse to eat. Yeah, that's right, we go to a Baptist church. So he wore his.
Speaker 2:Tim Tebow jersey, and I wore my Auburn shirt and you did too.
Speaker 1:I wore everything Auburn.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Nails. I did my football nails earrings shirt so we did excuse me and not even wearing my stuff yeah, so we did the uh, what was it?
Speaker 2:ESPN Like fantasy football, ncaa. Oh yeah Thing, and so you're beating me right now, and I'm winning right now. You're eight and two and I'm seven and three.
Speaker 1:Because I voted against Florida.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I did good I was thinking Florida would pull it off against Miami for some reason, I don't know why I thought that I knew it, but yeah so football, I knew it, but yeah, so football.
Speaker 1:So see like right now, see if the temperature was like it is right now last night, oh yeah, we could have set out last night and done a fire, hit the fire pit, brought the TV outside and watched football. Yeah, I like the TV outside and kick back watching football, as long as the fire is not too smoky.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I think this week right here is going to be in the 80s. This week right here is going to be in the 80s. I think that's what I saw and I think it's going to be kind of cooler evening. So, yeah, maybe next weekend I haven't looked at the schedule to see who alabama, auburn, georgia everybody plays my phone, but I hadn't looked at the schedule up yet, so it's usually the third week before you really get going with some good games.
Speaker 2:I won't be here that one, the third or fourth week week. So we'll see. We'll see what happens. I haven't looked at any schedule at all.
Speaker 1:Yeah, me neither.
Speaker 2:I don't keep up with it like I used to.
Speaker 1:I do.
Speaker 2:We used to be diehard, or I'll say I was for a few years. I really got into it.
Speaker 1:Would watch every game If I couldn't watch the game we would record, it, would watch every game if I couldn't watch the game, we would record it, yeah, and then I wouldn't did not want to know the score, like I don't, don't turn it on. Don't turn it on, don't turn on the radio, whatever.
Speaker 2:When we get home I'll watch the game and then I'll find out. You know that kind of thing, and now I don't even well, I like to watch game day oh yeah they have good stories on game day. But to me, game day. I would just about have to rewatch it at another time Because I just can't, I don't know, it's not a good time for me.
Speaker 1:Eight o'clock in the morning is not a good time?
Speaker 2:No, it's not.
Speaker 1:I'm busy, that's when I just want to sit there and chill, like Jody likes to get up and get it done and get it going. But chill like jody likes to get up and get it done and get it going, but I know that's part of his work, but when I get up I just want to chill for a minute or two or hours.
Speaker 2:Well, look, I'm not a get up and go person. It gets daylight.
Speaker 1:You're gonna miss something, so you gotta get out there and get busy, but what time we go to bed. Last night I don't think I ever went to bed that early nine oh yeah, I think it was 9.15. And I was awake at 5, and I couldn't go back to sleep.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean your body tells you how you've had enough.
Speaker 1:Your batteries are charged, yeah but I didn't want to get up that early.
Speaker 2:Don't go to bed so early. You're getting old.
Speaker 1:Well, I had a headache too, so I don't know of any.
Speaker 2:Well, I'll take that back. I do know a couple of 40-plus-year-old people that go to bed at 12, 1 o'clock, but that's just because they don't have to get up, say by 6 or 7 or anything like that.
Speaker 1:You can't get up at 3 o'clock in the morning. I mean, I guess I would too.
Speaker 2:But even with that. I'm just saying people that usually have to be at work at 7 or 8, still I'm thinking like 9 o'clock. A lot of people go to bed like at 9 o'clock or just as you get older.
Speaker 1:I think it's not right if you go to bed before 10.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I would like that the weekends I can stay up sometimes until then, but my body just shuts down and I'm not fighting it. It's not worth it to me to fight falling asleep if I'm trying to watch something or whatever, because now I'm not going to remember, I'm going to miss a few minutes because I keep dozing off, and so what's the use?
Speaker 1:just go to bed yeah I know I mean, that was my thing last night. I kept dozing off, we did, we have something on tv and I don't like it when you agreed.
Speaker 2:I don't.
Speaker 1:I don't like it when you announce to the world I'm going to bed before I do because, that messes up my routine I know, because when I go to bed I just go to bed, I go in there and I'm like, golly, I gotta turn lights off, I gotta fix my own coffee for the next morning. No, I usually fix your coffee unless it's Saturday or Sunday.
Speaker 2:I did last night. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Saturday and Sunday I'm off From fixing me coffee. From fixing coffee. That's fine. So what was I going to say?
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:I was going somewhere with that, yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:So Jody has to get his clothes together. He's got to let the dogs out, he's got to. I don't know what he does, but when he says he's going to bed, 30 minutes later he will go to bed.
Speaker 2:It's not that long.
Speaker 1:When I say I'm going to bed five minutes, I'm gone. Now I might be back there on my phone. What is that? Oh, a cat. I don't like it dark out here.
Speaker 2:I have chores to do before I go to bed.
Speaker 1:Yeah, when I'm going to bed, I'm going to bed, not 30 minutes later.
Speaker 2:So the dogs have to go out. You got to let them out right before you go to bed. They have to go out to use the bathroom.
Speaker 2:I can't always rely on Nicholas, so I let him out. And then if Winston, all he wants to do is look at a cat that's out here and not go use the bathroom drives me crazy, so I'm out here longer than I want to be. That's the problem. Is the stinking dogs letting them out and letting them back in, trying to keep Coco from running off up the hill, anything like that? But but, yeah, Get up and say I'm going to bed.
Speaker 1:It's like, oh, I was like now I've got a lot to do.
Speaker 2:I was like I can't just let the dogs out and walk back there and go to bed. Now I have to make sure the lights are turned off.
Speaker 1:It don't bother me with lights, because I never go to bed and just go to bed unless I don't feel good.
Speaker 2:But I don't know.
Speaker 1:Sometimes I do. If you're watching something and you're watching something and I'm, and you're into it and I'm over there dozing off, I'll say I'm going to bed and I'll go to bed and go to sleep.
Speaker 2:I just wish you could make a decision on what we're going to watch when we finally sit down, like I've gave you ample amount of time.
Speaker 1:Why is it always me?
Speaker 2:well, because I ask you, find us something, and then when I finally get, and I settled in and I find me no, you hand me the remotes when I finally sit down to eat.
Speaker 1:These last weeks you tell me to find something to watch, and I'm putting it on the middle because we ain't finished the middle yet.
Speaker 2:Oh, the middle's so great. Sue graduated. I know she's in college now. My girl has grown up, she's left the nest.
Speaker 1:Yep, it's just a good show.
Speaker 2:That is just such a good show. I could go back and watch it again.
Speaker 1:I know you could, because you missed the first.
Speaker 2:Well, I've missed like the last four episodes before we started watching it today. We tried to watch a few in between church today I fell asleep.
Speaker 1:Oh, I did too. Yeah, you fell asleep before I did.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't normally take naps. Yeah, I did too. Yeah, you fell asleep before I did. Yeah, I don't normally take naps but by golly. Today I did yeah, but I couldn't help it. Yeah, I was fighting it. I was like, why am I fighting it?
Speaker 1:I know that's me like why am I fighting it?
Speaker 2:And then my contacts were dried to my eyes. When I woke I couldn't see.
Speaker 1:I had to go back there and scrape them off my eyeballs and oh, that's a bad thing it was terrible. Why don't you just take your eyes out? No, we call it taking your eyes out, taking your contacts out, but it's like I can't that's too much trouble like it doesn't even put them back in. I don't even have them out now. I mean, it's dark, why not? Why do I not got them out right now?
Speaker 2:I don't have mine out either. I don't know why I'm wearing my reading glasses.
Speaker 1:I was going to say you've got glasses on, I've got something right here. I was going to read oh, you're readers, oh yeah and it's hard to put glasses on after these.
Speaker 2:You've got these headsets on, so I just left them on. I'll tell you what, though you wear glasses and wear these headsets for 30 minutes or longer Does it hurt, man it starts hurting. Maybe I that other podcast and we, you know, we record, for probably, I mean it might be two and a half to three hours.
Speaker 1:When we record two episodes, I can't do it, and so I've, I'm reading stuff and we're going over stats and we're talking about this and that and uh.
Speaker 2:So yeah, it starts killing your head around your ears wearing these things.
Speaker 1:So yeah, so so so we's gonna cook out. All weekend we've been out of propane I got as far as all summer long have not been. This is my reasoning. We have a black stone.
Speaker 2:It's a.
Speaker 1:It's a and I love to cook on it, but it needs to be cleaned Like we need to like re-season it, so we've got to clean it real good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the cleaning won't be bad, but then you have to season it after cleaning.
Speaker 1:But I've got to where I can cook hamburgers, I can cook steaks, I can cook hot dogs all in the air fryer and I'm just like let's just do that and me or Jody, neither one, we don't. We don't fuss about it, we're like okay, all right, I really wanted to grill out. I really wanted the black black top, black stone clean to grill out.
Speaker 2:But so saturday I'd already decided. You know what it's the end of summer and I'm finally gonna buy a, a propane tank. So I put an empty propane tank in the back of my truck. You did. Yeah, it's in the back of my truck right now, but I put it in there. Saturday, when I left, had, you know, a few errands to run and when I came back, actually did I meet you in Jasper.
Speaker 1:No, you met me at the grocery store at Gateway, that's right.
Speaker 2:So yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1:To pick out meat to grill, to pick out meat to grill on the Blackstone. And we didn't even do it.
Speaker 2:Didn't even get propane because we decided that we're just going to use the air fryer. Yeah, I just take the steaks and cut them up and it's called steak bites and you put it in the air fryer.
Speaker 1:Well, it's like beef tips. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:But chuck eyes, yeah, yeah, but chukkas, oh. But. So you get the chukkas. They're my fave. We marinate them for probably four hours.
Speaker 1:It was a while.
Speaker 2:Yeah, leave them out, get them room temperature, which it really wouldn't matter, because we're using it, because usually, if you're going to grill them, I wouldn't, but if you're air frying them, but the only thing I'm satisfied with the air fryer on the steak, except it takes the flavor away.
Speaker 1:That's the only thing this time, but it don't always do that, so I don't know something we're not the next one.
Speaker 2:We're doing. We're doing on. I am getting propane and we're cooking. I don't care. We're done with air fryer when it comes to steak. You can do your other stuff, that's fine well, you know when we do. If I want a steak during the winter, you can do pizza rolls in the air fryer, but it takes remember it's crisper and it seems like it takes the taste away too, like the insides disappear.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's because I done them too long. That time I done them too long. I don't know, the only thing about the air fryer is y'all eat so much. I have to do two, I have to cook two different times, but it's still so much better than the oven, because it takes the oven forever to heat up.
Speaker 2:What happened to our Instapot? We used to be big on the Instapot.
Speaker 1:I know yeah, potatoes. I thought about potatoes the other day. We hadn't had potatoes in a while man that's all we put those in the Instapot for 20, 25 minutes.
Speaker 2:I think if you put the Instapot and then you have the air fryer and you're cooking out of both of those, you'd have an exceptional dinner.
Speaker 1:Well, you know I do ribs in the Instapot.
Speaker 2:You've never had ribs like what's in an air fryer I mean not air fryer.
Speaker 1:Well, you cook them in the Instapot and then, um I cook them in apple cider vinegar and um I done a dr pepper last time, and then, um you take them out, you put your barbecue sauce on them and you put them in the air fryer to um to get the barbecue sauce, um, what's the word? Like a glaze on it yeah, there's a word for it. Of course I can't think of it, but anyway. So yeah, that was our grilling out for labor day but you pull it on the rib, it comes right up.
Speaker 1:It's really unbelievable how good it is. It's from that instapot steaming them like the instapot really does a number it.
Speaker 2:That bone just comes off and that meat is so good, so good. Oh my goodness, we might have to have those next week. Yeah, you talk about it. It don't sound that great. That's the number. That bone just comes off, and that meat is so good, so good.
Speaker 1:Oh, my goodness, we might have to have those next week. Yeah, we'll get you to talk about it. It don't sound that great right now because we just ate.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, we just ate, we ate finger foods at church for the football tailgate thing. But the brownies I had that fudge brownie. You had two brownies ice cream, had some strawberries and blueberries. Ain't nothing like cold, cold strawberries and blueberries love it, I'm I'm stuffed, and then drank two cups of tea I didn't even know.
Speaker 1:You got two cups of tea.
Speaker 2:I got you one, then you got another I hadn't even finished my other one, but while I was up I thought I'm just gonna grab another one, just in case okay, so I didn't have to get up again.
Speaker 1:I got you. Yeah, they were smaller cups, I mean.
Speaker 2:So yeah, We've kind of figured out at these socials we have at church or fellowships, to go to the dessert table first, go ahead and grab, you Go get the dessert. Because the line can be so long to get the regular food that it's not picked over on the dessert. You go ahead and go there first and just get whatever you want.
Speaker 1:Who doesn't love dessert first?
Speaker 2:Oh my goodness, who made that rule?
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:That you have to eat regular food first.
Speaker 1:Don't eat your dessert I don't know. Yep, I don't know.
Speaker 2:You got a roadside oddity or anything. No.
Speaker 1:I don't, are you?
Speaker 2:trying to take mine away from, but I thought that was going to be your thing. Every week we'll do a roadside.
Speaker 1:There hadn't been a good one, I hadn't seen a good one. You want me to talk? About this ice hotel yes, because you want to Switzerland, go right ahead. Anybody been to?
Speaker 2:Switzerland, I haven't.
Speaker 1:You going to carry me one day, you ever seen the Northern Lights.
Speaker 2:You going to carry me Besides that time that you put the way and look up in the sky in alabama and you can see it, which is a sham scam sham sham shammy scam.
Speaker 1:All right, let's go.
Speaker 2:All right the ice hotel. Uh, it's in switzerland.
Speaker 1:I've already flipped through a few pages there's an ice thing in georgia, I think is there, uh, the world's first and largest hotel built out of the snow and ice.
Speaker 2:Ice hotel has been reincarnated in a new rendition every winter for the last three decades. Three decades, that's a long time, that's three, that's three plus zero. Added together is 30. Let's see Every year with a broad new art to experience. Okay, I'd kind of me, let me start over. Let me go here. Uh, during an intense period in can, what is this word? Capital? J u, k, k a s, j, I'm not even gonna say it. So an intense period in blank. During November and early December every year, the empty space on the riverbank turns into a majestic hotel made of ice and snow. Doesn't that sound? I wish I could see these pictures. Let's talk about the hotel.
Speaker 1:I wish you'd just take me. Yeah, why don't you just take me?
Speaker 2:So during five months, guests from all over the world experience the art and ice hotel winter, before it melts down in spring and the loan from its adjacent I can't even read these words something from the river returns. So besides the 15 to 20 standard ice rooms in the Winter Hotel, it also houses 12 art suites, uniquely designed and handcrafted, all of them created for the very first time. So let's talk about the 12 suites. The art suites are individually designed and sculpted. I can't even say that either. Skip that. The artists, perhaps from Germany, uk or the US, have been picked from over 200 applicants and invited to make the suite you'll be sleeping in. Each suite is unique and has never been created before. How about that? How?
Speaker 1:about that? How about that?
Speaker 2:All right, the ice room 15 to 20 rooms, Our standard rooms with ice decor and a bed made of ice.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:I wanted to create a feeling of being embraced and protected by the ice. A good night's sleep for all guests. Joanne Larson, the artist of our standard ice rooms.
Speaker 1:Is this the place that the dude you watch on youtube?
Speaker 2:simon wilson. If you check him out on youtube, he's got a youtube channel. He goes around and checks these places out jody's addicted to him, oh yeah he fly, he just goes. He'll ask somebody where they're from and if, wherever it is, he'll fly there anyway. He just documents what it's all about. He. He flew, uh, from dubai to somewhere in first class and we watched that and it was, was it not? Unbelievable? I like the train one yeah, but he, it was like you're in your own little oh, yeah, yeah, yeah on the jet, and then you had a uh.
Speaker 1:And it closed, right yeah everything closed, like a room. Yeah, then you had, like I'm going to call them servants.
Speaker 2:They came around, yeah, and was handing you out stuff. It was just unbelievable. I think it was $6,500, something like that for that first class. I think Might have been more than that. But yeah, check him out, he even does. You said the trains um one of them he went. Where did he go? Somewhere in europe? But he gets first class on everything, kind of just shows you what it's all about and it's pretty neat one of them was a 24 hour ride or a 48 hour ride.
Speaker 2:He had a a uh like a little suite that it would sleep for, so these beds and everything poured out. But then he went around to the regular seating was just chairs and these people had paid for these seats and that's what you were in for the 40-something hours. You didn't have a bed. He didn't recline back, nothing like that. He did that.
Speaker 1:It didn't recline back.
Speaker 2:Nothing like that Can't do that. It was crazy, all right. So Ceremony Hall it's a unique wedding venue, so our Ice Ceremony Hall is also located in the Winter Hotel, together with the best of the building. It returns to the river in spring, but love is eternal. Let's see. Let me see. This is an intimate venue accommodating around 35 to 40 people, with walls and ceiling made of snow, and the altar details and benches are made of pristine natural ice and benches are made of pristine natural ice. It is also very suitable for those considering to renew their vows or a solemn blessing ceremony.
Speaker 1:Are you trying to tell me this is where we're going?
Speaker 2:in September. Maybe, so, maybe, so what do you think about that?
Speaker 1:I don't think I could do it, why it's too cold.
Speaker 2:You think so?
Speaker 1:Yes, I think I couldn can handle it.
Speaker 2:Now.
Speaker 1:I'd like to see it, but I don't think I can handle it.
Speaker 2:I'm going to go into the tickets and availability to see what this is. If I can find it, you might have to talk for a minute.
Speaker 1:I don't got nothing to say. Really, it's bedtime.
Speaker 2:Bed ain't bedtime? Not yet.
Speaker 1:It's 8 o'clock.
Speaker 2:It's time, bed, ain't bedtime, not yet. It's eight o'clock, it's a bedtime, it's a winding down time. I don't know what, uh, switzerland, I don't know what.
Speaker 1:The conversion rate for money is, yeah, no clue.
Speaker 2:Yeah, sorry on that one anyway, so that's not gonna help yeah, you're no help nope, my bad look how the water's rippling like it looks weird.
Speaker 1:Somebody just turned their bright light on over there too it looks like water.
Speaker 2:It's dark now. I mean where it was, it was lighter when we started this and now it's completely water, but it's dark now. I mean where it was. It was lighter when we started this and now it's completely dark.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's dark. Oh, they turned their light off the lake was hopping today, though, before that wind blew up so tomorrow or this will come out.
Speaker 2:What is it? Labor day uh, yeah so I hope everybody has a good labor day, hope everybody's off, doesn't have to work. It doesn't really make sense to me because, uh, labor day, everybody's off, work. Shouldn't you be laboring? Shouldn't you be getting after it at work? No, I've been getting after it enough have you yeah yeah, I think all holidays should be on saturday.
Speaker 1:That's what I think, but not all places are closed, so that really don't matter.
Speaker 2:But if you put it on Saturday, it'll help more people to be able to be off work.
Speaker 1:You think so?
Speaker 2:I do, but then it'll make more people madder because they're like I could have got an extra day off Right, a three-day weekend, what?
Speaker 1:are you?
Speaker 2:doing Jody, why are you changing this? That's right. I blame the government for all this, oh okay why do we have thank you?
Speaker 1:blame the government.
Speaker 2:Why do we have that's right? Why don't we have thanksgiving on thursdays? I don't know, doesn't matter the date, we're gonna throw it on a thursday that's right why? I don't know, why don't we do christmas that way? I don't know. Doesn't make sense. Put them all on a saturday. That's what I say. It really messes me up when you have a holiday following a different day every year, because some days for me are harder than others when it comes to working.
Speaker 2:So if I've got to be off that day like a Christmas and that's a really rough day for me I've got to figure out how to squeeze that in on other days. Am I boring you over there?
Speaker 1:no, I'm good you sure?
Speaker 2:yes, you look like I was boring you over there. No, I'm good, you sure.
Speaker 1:Yes, looked like I was boring you. No, I don't. Anyway, all right, it's about time to wrap her up. Yep, they've heard enough of us.
Speaker 2:That's it.
Speaker 1:They're done with us. All right, we're still going to get to the Little Debbie Park at some point. She thinks I'm going by myself, it sounds easy.
Speaker 2:It sounds easy Like hey, we can just go one Saturday and then.
Speaker 1:We didn't do nothing this Saturday.
Speaker 2:I was covered up with stuff to do oh covered up Covered, covered up. I did have stuff to do.
Speaker 1:It could have waited. No, yeah.
Speaker 2:No, yep no.
Speaker 1:Could have happened today All right.
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