This That And The Other
This That And The Other
Spice Safety, Lucas Oil Stadium, Travel Mishaps, Red Aspen Nails, Football Victories, ESPN Rankings, and More
Ever wondered if your spices are past their prime? Join us as we dig into the crucial topic of spice safety, highlighted by a recent alert from McCormick. Hear our practical tips on spotting old spices and learn how those rectangular tins and Baltimore packaging might be clues. Through some humorous and enlightening personal stories, we'll show you just how ineffective outdated spices can be, ensuring your culinary creations always burst with flavor!
Catch up with us after Amanda's whirlwind trip to Indianapolis, where she visited the iconic Lucas Oil Stadium and braved the rainy Alabama weather. We'll share travel mishaps, laugh about the trials of short people handling carry-on luggage, and recount a funny yet annoying encounter with a child's umbrella at Walmart. Plus, Amanada chatted with the founders of Red Aspen Nails. She reveals their innovative products and the potential for sports-themed nail designs.
Football fans, this one's for you! We break down Auburn and Georgia's recent victories and navigate the confusing world of ESPN rankings. From building a cozy fire to debating the best college football schedules and NASCAR's influence, there's a bit of everything. We also dive into generational communication differences, inspired by a motivational speaker's cupcake analogy, and share our plans for an exciting weekend ahead. Tune in and join the lively conversation!
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how do you feel about spices?
Speaker 2:I like spices. Are you talking about me being spicy?
Speaker 1:I know you're spicy. What about cooking spices? I like them Do you use them all the time.
Speaker 2:I do not use them all the time, but I would like to.
Speaker 1:Well, mccormick, do you know who McCormick is? Yeah, They've been around a little while A little while he's warning customers to check their spices. Great Sounds scary. Customers to check their spices Great Sounds scary, doesn't it? Sure, I'm going to read this article to you. Oh, you're going to read the whole article. It'll be like two minutes long. It seems that everyone has spices in their homes. Is that right, whether you're a gourmet chef or you're just going to heat something up in the microwave.
Speaker 2:Correct, I got salt heat something up in the microwave correct.
Speaker 1:I got salt, salt and pepper. So, in fact, according to census data, as well as a Simons National Consumer Survey, 300.62 million Americans used spices and seasonings in 2020. And McCormick, the largest spice manufacturer in the world, has a warning for all of them. That really sounds scary, doesn't it Like? Are we supposed to check our spices?
Speaker 2:Our spices in our cabinet are so old it ain't even funny. Hold on, let's get in there.
Speaker 1:We'll get there, Since it takes the average person a real they're so old you've got to beat them on the bar to make Listen, since it takes the average person a very long time to go through their spices. I believe that Many containers with spices wind up sitting on shelves for years. That's a fact, yep, well, that can actually be problematic. In a pair of Facebook posts, the company explains how to tell if your spices are too old, like way too old. Thankfully, it's not very hard to figure it out. The fastest way to see if your spices are too old is if they are in a rectangular tin. You know, do you remember those? It's the metal little rectangle like the pepper like the pepper yeah, or if they were packaged in baltimore.
Speaker 1:So I guess you need to look and see if there's a Baltimore stamp or something on there. If either of those things are the case for you, congratulations. Your spices have been around for over a quarter of a century.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no.
Speaker 1:And I believe that we could probably check some cabinets in people's houses and you'd probably find that oh yeah. There's one way back there, don't you figure?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't have any in the boxes or the tins, whatever.
Speaker 1:If you happen to own one of the older spice containers, don't worry. The seasoning won't make you sick, but it's probably in your best interest to not use them anymore, since they aren't going to be effective. When spices age, they tend to lose their flavor, so adding old spices to your dishes is pretty pointless. Mccormick's recommendation is to make sure your spices have a strong aroma and taste, as well as a vibrant color. It's also good practice to replace them every three years. How about we replace them when the date code goes out? How about that?
Speaker 2:I never look at the date code.
Speaker 1:But what I was going to say is you're right, there is not the mccormick brand, I know that, but there's. There's some that you will have to slap them and hit them around to get them loose enough to get anything out I just used one did you really?
Speaker 2:did some garlic salt.
Speaker 1:I put a little garlic salt on those vegetables I cooked earlier yeah, garlic salt, and if you didn't have any flavor when you're using earlier, yeah, garlic salt.
Speaker 2:And if you didn't have any flavor when you're using garlic salt, not garlic powder, garlic salt.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what's the difference? Surely it wouldn't lose its flavor, would it?
Speaker 2:I didn't taste it, but sometimes I can't taste stuff anyway, so I don't know.
Speaker 1:Well, welcome back folks to this, that and other. I'm Jody.
Speaker 2:I'm Amanda.
Speaker 1:Sunday evening.
Speaker 2:Rainy.
Speaker 1:Rainy, Gloomy. It's rain Thursday. We had the hurricane come through and we got the aftermath of it.
Speaker 2:So Thursday, we're in Alabama, if you don't know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, central Alabama. So let's see All day Thursday starting early that morning, all day Friday, all day Saturday on and off today, so surely after this it's over. It didn't rain where I was. I actually set up outside a few minutes ago because it hadn't rained in a while, got everything set up, sat down and started sprinkling, so we had to slide everything up under the porch. We're still outside, though.
Speaker 2:I'm still getting sprinkled on.
Speaker 1:Your left arm's getting sprinkled on, yeah, a little bit. But this morning I had to go to the airport to pick somebody up, because that person's been gone since Thursday when I took them to the airport.
Speaker 2:And that would be.
Speaker 1:Amanda.
Speaker 2:That was rough.
Speaker 1:Welcome back, Amanda.
Speaker 2:I'm glad to be back.
Speaker 1:So where did you go?
Speaker 2:I went to Indianapolis, and that's in what state that's in Indiana. We were right across from the Colts.
Speaker 1:Stadium, lucas Oil Field or whatever, yeah, and then what baseball team's right there? Because it's right's right there together, but you know, I never got a picture of it. I was thinking she's gonna take a video or something from a window well then, who did I?
Speaker 2:I must have just sent it to nicholas, because I sent, I took one I was waiting for all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 1:I was waiting for pictures from the flight. Never got it.
Speaker 2:I never took. I just took the lucas stadium. I never took the one that had the big. Oh my goodness, I thought I did.
Speaker 1:I would have liked this, ain't it sorry, it'd been pretty neat yeah, so it has a big like.
Speaker 2:It's like a whole glass thing. I think this might be on the hotel or something on the front. Um, yeah, and then it has uh football be on the hotel or something On the front, yeah, and then it has football players on the front. It's cool, it was huge. I really thought I took a picture of that. But I took so many pictures, it's crazy. But I guess I didn't take that one. I kept saying I was going to and then I thought I did. Let me make sure I didn't.
Speaker 1:So did y'all do anything besides your conference?
Speaker 2:No, that's all we did.
Speaker 1:Really.
Speaker 2:We walked to some restaurant.
Speaker 1:Like a block or two.
Speaker 2:No, like 10 or 15. 30 minutes away, that's not fun.
Speaker 1:No it 10 or 15, 30 minutes away. That's not fun.
Speaker 2:No, it wasn't fun when we were told oh it's just around the, it's just a block or two. 30 minutes later we finally get there, so we Ubered back.
Speaker 1:So this was your first Uber.
Speaker 2:My first. Well, that technically was my second. We had to Uber from the airport to the hotel.
Speaker 1:So how's Ubering? You like Ubering?
Speaker 2:It was okay. We got good people. But one of the girls that came from the airport she said her Uber must have been in a weird mood because they sure was vaping it up and had the sad music going on.
Speaker 1:Can they vape?
Speaker 2:I guess they can, because they must.
Speaker 1:I thought there was rules.
Speaker 2:I would think so, but she said he was vaping it up.
Speaker 1:I thought they were pretty strict on like no food. No, Maybe it's specific for each driver. I don't know how it works, works.
Speaker 2:I have no clue how it works, but I don't know, do you? Is it worth that?
Speaker 1:they all had nice cars though yeah, with the videos I've seen, I don't think I've seen a junker yet yeah, like they were all nice cars yeah so that's your own car, right yeah, so you definitely have to have something that's got to get decent gas mileage if that's going to be your job right but it was 46 for the one from the airport to the hotel and we were about 20 minutes away.
Speaker 2:And then it was six dollars yesterday when we went to that little place to eat to get back total or per person total six dollars uh-huh and how long a drive was that?
Speaker 1:five minutes yeah if you were busy all the time.
Speaker 2:It would be like if I was dropping you off and had somebody within a few blocks to pick them up at about the same time and go, so you get the Uber app and it shows you who's closest to you and you just put your name in there, pay them and you can follow them. You follow them right to you oh well, how about that?
Speaker 1:It was kind of cool. That is neat.
Speaker 2:follow them right to you. Oh Well, how about?
Speaker 1:that it was kind of cool. That is neat. I wondered how that worked.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I'll never use it, I'm sure.
Speaker 2:But that is neat. You can go with me next year.
Speaker 1:No, I'm not going to Indiana Indiana.
Speaker 2:We're not going there.
Speaker 1:Is it somewhere different? This time Different?
Speaker 2:Different every time, really when?
Speaker 1:was it last year? Disney, disney, you wouldn't let me go. I didn't want to go.
Speaker 2:I wouldn't have gone?
Speaker 1:I wouldn't have. Even if I was freed up, I wouldn't have gone.
Speaker 2:Why I'm not going to Disney. You're not going to Disney, I'm not going to Disney. I'm not going to Disney Next year. It's going to be in Arizona.
Speaker 1:Arizona, arizona yeah.
Speaker 2:That'll be pretty neat. Scottsdale, is that what I said? Then you know where our incentive trip is, that we can earn.
Speaker 1:Honolulu.
Speaker 2:And.
Speaker 1:Jody can go with me, but can't.
Speaker 2:But can we can make some kind of arrangement? Puerto Rico, yeah, no, that's not right.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's not right well, I said Hawaii first and you didn't say nothing.
Speaker 2:Yeah hold on. That ain't right. Let me make sure I'm right. Jamaica let me make sure I'm right. Jamaica, let me make sure I'm right, man.
Speaker 1:Costa Rica, costa Rica, costa Rica, that was my next one.
Speaker 2:What did you say first?
Speaker 1:Puerto Rico, puerto Rico.
Speaker 2:Oh, what Puerto.
Speaker 1:Rico, puerto Rico.
Speaker 2:Costa Rica, so you can have that all expenses paid, plus earn extra money for somebody else to go with you.
Speaker 1:Hmm, that'd be nice.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:For what? Three days, four days, five days, three or?
Speaker 2:four, I can't remember how many, but it was fun. We got lots of product.
Speaker 1:I think if I had a free trip like that, I would figure out a way to get off work.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you will If I earn it.
Speaker 1:Got a 19-year-old now, that can take care of it if it falls on a Thursday, Friday.
Speaker 2:Which I think it probably does. So if I can earn it and earn that extra person, so how was the flying? The flying was fine.
Speaker 1:What do you like better taking off or landing or what do you like worse?
Speaker 2:Landing, landing.
Speaker 1:Landing.
Speaker 2:That was the worst thing ever. One time I thought I was going to jerk my head off.
Speaker 1:Did it rain?
Speaker 2:I mean your whole trip or anything like that. So y'all didn't have any rain up there. Just a little bit. Oh, you mean flying, or you mean when we were in Indiana? It was hot there.
Speaker 1:Was it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, when we flew there we had it. It was raining in Atlanta, but by the time we got to Indianapolis it wasn't raining it was hot.
Speaker 1:How long was the flight? An hour and a half.
Speaker 2:Not quite an hour and a half, Not quite an hour and a half. But then my flight back. When I got to Atlanta, my other plane was already boarding. I was scared to death. I was going to miss that flight A little nervous, huh. I was a whole lot nervous.
Speaker 1:What do you do if you miss your flight?
Speaker 2:You just go tell them you missed your flight and they put you on the next one. They can get you on.
Speaker 1:But you lose that money.
Speaker 2:No, okay, I found that out. Made me feel a little bit better.
Speaker 1:I thought you lost that money.
Speaker 2:No, it made me feel a little bit better.
Speaker 1:I know how they overbook some of these flights. Yeah, and that's another thing Like you bought, you get booted off the plane, but you've got a seat Because they they're just expecting people not to show up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that ain't right. I mean I understand that too, but then you're you're messing up the passenger, your customer. They don't care about us. It's like the government. I mean, it was cheaper for me to fly than it was to drive, pay gas and pay for the parking per day would probably take you what?
Speaker 1:10 hours.
Speaker 2:It said 8 hours 20 minutes is what it said. So, you're talking 9. It would take what? At least 9 and a half hours, probably because you got to stop.
Speaker 1:So what time did your flight leave this morning? What time did you have to be there this morning? We got to the airport 4.35?.
Speaker 2:We left the hotel about 4.30. We got to the airport a little after 5. And my flight took off at 6 o'clock. Then I got to Atlanta and my flight left at 8.11. And I got to Birmingham at 7.50.
Speaker 1:That's amazing. Time travel Ain't that amazing. That's so cool.
Speaker 2:My time travel.50. That's amazing. Time travel, ain't that amazing. That's so cool. My time travel, yeah so, and the only Now. I'm a short person so it's hard to get. I only took carry on. I didn't check a bag. Only one person helped me with my bag, and that was a nice gentleman. On my last flight don't know his name don't know his name, we give him a shout out. He'd never know. We'll call him fred.
Speaker 1:Way to go fred he didn't look like a fred a gem I liked his hey dudes though he had hey dudes, he's a cool guy no socks no, no, sock guy unless there were no shows and I couldn't tell no, he probably didn't have any.
Speaker 2:He sounds like somebody that wears socks it was nice, I didn't care, he helped me get that luggage up there because it was heavy coming back.
Speaker 1:How old was he? Your age probably, maybe a little bit younger that young yeah, yep so you know my age group, you know we still got it. We still help.
Speaker 2:At least somebody does because I'll tell you those other ones they just looked at me trying to get it up there. I'm like, come on, I'm going to hit you in the head with it. Would you rather help me or would you rather me hit you in the head with it?
Speaker 1:That's like yesterday, me and Nicholas walking out of Walmart.
Speaker 1:They have a tent set up on both entrances outside and it's like these, uh, travel teams, baseball team, whatever, but it's little kids, I mean, they're small kids, yeah. And we walked in and, you know, anyway, did our thing and we were walking out and as I'm walking out, the little girl she's probably nine had an umbrella and is like coming at me from i'm'm walking straight out. So she's coming from my right, going left in front of me, and hits me with the umbrella and drops it in the ground. Then the wind kind of carries it a little bit further left and I've got like this smirk in my face like what's going on, and I pick up the umbrella and I hand it to her and I look back over there and the parents are sitting underneath the thing'm thinking a parent's gonna say, oh, I'm sorry, or something like that, uh, you know I'm sure it was your fault.
Speaker 1:Nothing, it's probably your like your kid just hit me with an umbrella while I'm trying to come out of walmart. At least you could have done, was I say I'm sorry or something? Yeah, or tell her to get out the doorway. It was your, was your fault, I know.
Speaker 2:It wasn't her fault. I know it wasn't Sally's fault. She don't do anything wrong, so I did my eye roll. You don't eye roll To daddy.
Speaker 1:I eye rolled daddy you don't eye roll. Shook my head in disgust.
Speaker 2:Now you might have shook your head. I did that you don't eye roll.
Speaker 1:I tried to IRO and I couldn't. I don't ever do it, so I don't know how to that's right, that's my job. But it's little things like that. You know you're trying to like, it's like.
Speaker 2:Common courtesy. She's a little girl.
Speaker 1:Common courtesy, that's no big deal, but mama daddy, yeah. Tell what's her name Sally. What can Sally? Get out of the doorway. I'm going to bust your tail. I'm going to take that umbrella. That's the second time you know something like that. Sorry, sir. How about that? That's all right, I'm over it, kind of.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I can tell.
Speaker 1:It's been more than 24 hours. I'm almost over it Almost. My lady had a good trip, anything else. You met the CEOs.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, you sat down, you talked with them at your table, sat down with them and they talked to us. They sat down with you yeah, that's pretty cool. They sit down and ask you what you like and what your opinions are. Not many CEOs and founders. They're actually the founders.
Speaker 1:And this is Red Aspen.
Speaker 2:Red.
Speaker 1:Aspen Nails yeah, so look it up If you're a female listening and you're interested in.
Speaker 2:Send me a message like press on now.
Speaker 1:I hate to use the word press on nails because they're glue on. Yeah, but press on because it has a stigma it does, you know, like like the old?
Speaker 2:yeah, it does.
Speaker 1:It does have a bad stigma, but I must say I've seen some pretty cool looking nails that they've got, especially the, the football looking design.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you liked my footballs, didn't you?
Speaker 1:Yeah, they need to have more of them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm going to turn that in. My husband says we need sports all the time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we talked about that on the way home. They've got to do for mama out there. That does the travel. You know, sports with the kids yeah you gotta have all these different sports for your uh nails. Soccer, I guess, I don't know. Do y'all have a soccer?
Speaker 2:uh, we did. I think it might be off the site, but we did have soccer, volleyball, football, baseball so it's something that y'all don't normally keep basketball just bring it back, let it go yeah, and they brought the football ones when the super bowl was and I'm like well, see they just rather have it.
Speaker 1:That shows they're not, they don't know about college football yeah, that's what I think. Yeah, because a lot of, especially up north they're in idaho?
Speaker 2:yeah, it's not, or how, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Oh man, but you get in some of these cities and it's, it's all nfl right they don't care nothing about college and then you get down the south.
Speaker 2:It's just the opposite yeah, I could totally sell football nails. They come back out. I guess I'll stock up on them to put at my booth yeah, but you don't have them now.
Speaker 1:That's what you're saying.
Speaker 2:They're not out, they don't have you see they don't have they dropped the ball, I know that's big time. I'd have jumped all over maybe they just don't sell enough. I don't know. I mean you. I may be the only one that sells 20 of them, or something. I don't know.
Speaker 1:I doubt it. I doubt it. Yeah, I'm glad you're back.
Speaker 2:Good, Did you miss me?
Speaker 1:Yeah, we held down the fort barely, I don't know, it looks pretty rough here, let me tell you I have swept leaves outside the front door out two or three times a day because the way the wind blows them in and it's always windy out here it just collects right here at the front door what'd you do while I was gone?
Speaker 1:I didn't do nothing by normal, just I mean. But the water's up. The water has come up. This time of year, the water continuously goes down and it's come up probably I don't know a foot and a half. It's all the way back. It was way down off the wall. Now it's on the wall.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, it was way down.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean the walkway, it's floating.
Speaker 2:Hummingbirds that are hanging and eating.
Speaker 1:They're having to fight yellow jackets. We have yellow jackets that are getting the juice off the hummingbird feeder. So if I was a hummingbird I wouldn't like to be right beside a. You think a yellow jacket could sting and kill a hummingbird.
Speaker 2:Or does the hummingbird jab it with its beak?
Speaker 1:I don't think so.
Speaker 2:I don't know. They're little, so I don't know what a yellow jacket would do.
Speaker 1:I still say you know, the praying mantis can take out a hummingbird, which I never would have thought that I know. So I don't know about a yellow jacket. Now I'm starting to think anything can take out a hummingbird.
Speaker 2:They might be the weak link. The weak link.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they can't defend herself.
Speaker 2:apparently they're the winklings I don't know what else we got going on I don't know. What did you do while I was gone? I didn't do nothing.
Speaker 1:I just did my normal Football yesterday. You didn't do football Barely watched Auburn win. Barely watched Georgia win Shocker.
Speaker 2:Shocker, who'd they play? What'd you say?
Speaker 1:Georgia played Kentucky. Kentucky Should have ran away with it. What was the score. Oh, I've looked at so many scores.
Speaker 2:I don't remember. We did our rankings and, of course, I messed mine up.
Speaker 1:ESPN rankings yeah.
Speaker 2:You get 10 games. I don't know what I did. I just must have skipped some and I didn't hit it and I thought I did hit it, it's kind of like a fantasy football thing. I mean, I thought I hit it.
Speaker 1:You pick every Saturday, but you can start the Wednesday before.
Speaker 2:The Wednesday before okay.
Speaker 1:But things change, you know. The stats and all that can change a little bit. So you kind of want to do it Friday night or Saturday morning, so I had to text you morning, so I had to text you twice.
Speaker 2:Yeah, saturday, you text me friday, and then you still forgot, I still forgot to do it.
Speaker 1:It was right at 11 o'clock when I did it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I, like I said, I don't know how I missed it. I don't, I thought I was clicking on it and then it didn't keep it, or something. I don't know. I don't know, I don't know. What have we?
Speaker 1:got this week. I don't know of anything particular. I'm chilling this week If you would stay this temperature right here. I'm cold, Are you? I could be cold yeah, it has cooled off in the last several minutes If I was sitting in front of a fire.
Speaker 2:I would love it Did you say fire. I did. You going to build me a fire this weekend? Hey, I'm ready.
Speaker 1:Yes, I've got everything I have redone around the fire pit. I'm talking about that freedom square yeah, freedom square redone. It took all the wood out that I have piled up on the uh, I don't know what the firewood holder thing is which you?
Speaker 2:official stand wood stand.
Speaker 1:Is that the official? Sure what it would go? Okay, redid it, moved it, restacked it, added wood to it because I'd cut some trees down and, uh, I had to put a tarp. I had to cover all that because I knew all this rain was coming starting the 30s. So like monday, tuesday and wednesday I was doing that. So, yeah, anyway. So we got dry wood, we got seasoned wood over there it's ready. Oh, we need some dry weather and some cool weather. I'm not doing it when it's hot.
Speaker 2:Right now is fine.
Speaker 1:If it was this temperature right now.
Speaker 2:Saturday I could see Friday. You could do Friday night? Yeah, I'd do.
Speaker 1:Friday I could see building one.
Speaker 2:But football's not on on Friday. Well, I know, but it's a lot easier to do one on Friday night than it is Saturday night. I need them to move football to Friday night.
Speaker 1:College.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think I'll call that in.
Speaker 1:We know they do those weird some Thursdays, some.
Speaker 2:Fridays, I don't want Thursdays. You gotta work Friday.
Speaker 1:What was it? Lsu? You did a Sunday game.
Speaker 2:They're opening, I think on Sunday.
Speaker 1:I wonder why the NFL doesn't? Why does NASCAR race on Sunday?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1:I've gotten to where I'm listening to Dale Earnhardt Jr's podcast.
Speaker 2:Oh, so you got one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's pretty good.
Speaker 2:Somebody this weekend quoted from Dale Earnhardt Jr. They put a quote up there on our screen because our thing was driven and of course we were in Indy, so they put a quote from Dale Earnhardt. Now I don't remember what it was.
Speaker 1:My memory is horrible, junior or senior.
Speaker 2:Junior. I think it was junior. Pretty sure it was junior.
Speaker 1:I'm not into motivational quotes and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:You need to be.
Speaker 1:Why.
Speaker 2:Because it's nice, it's good.
Speaker 1:It's like a motivational speaker.
Speaker 2:We had a good speaker Talking about all these millennials and the different, the way you talk to them and stuff.
Speaker 1:You had to talk to them different. Is that what they're meaning? Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah, Well, everybody's so sensitive nowadays.
Speaker 2:Well, and she actually put studies up and numbers and graphics and it was amazing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know what's happening. We've gotten soft as a society.
Speaker 2:It's like she took this example of a cupcake in a box and more. Whatever, what's the new generation? Is that millennials?
Speaker 1:I guess what's generation X, z? I don't know, anyway, what am I? Anyway, I don't know.
Speaker 2:Millennials is the new one? Yeah, I think. Maybe, I don't know X, z I don't know.
Speaker 1:Anyway, what am I? Anyway, I don't know. Millennials is the new one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think, maybe I don't know, just go with it. Anyway, they want the cupcake, care nothing about the presentation in the pretty box, they just want that cupcake. They could care less about how it's presented and to where. The older people like how it's presented. You know, like the look of it and the way something's presented.
Speaker 1:That's just what they said. Yeah, that's just kind of an example they gave or did they have stats to.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they had all that stuff.
Speaker 1:Really yeah. Do you believe that though?
Speaker 2:Yeah, they could care less about how you give it to them. They just want what's in the box.
Speaker 1:I thought you were it to them. They just want what's in the box. I thought you're gonna say they'd open the box and see how empty it is, and they'd want more.
Speaker 2:That's the way I see it with millennials not enough.
Speaker 1:I don't want one cupcake I want two.
Speaker 2:Oh, all right, what you got for us. What are we gonna talk about?
Speaker 1:what do you want to talk about?
Speaker 2:I don't have anything you never have anything you're supposed to. You always say let's come up with a topic.
Speaker 1:Hey, do you want me to tell you a few cool inventions of 2024?
Speaker 2:Sure.
Speaker 1:It's called the PhotoStick Omni. Okay, it instantly backs up and protects your photos and videos on every device. When was the last time you backed up?
Speaker 2:your photos. I thought they automatically backed up.
Speaker 1:I thought they did too, but mine. I'll get a thing every once in a while and say, like yours has not backed up in 60 days.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Yep. So the PhotoStick Omni backs up all the photos and videos stored on your smartphone, tablet or computer with one touch of a button. It's real easy, it says. It's a perfect gift for anyone who wants to keep their memory safe. It works on all devices computers, phones, tablets and operating systems including Windows, apple, android, google and more. One click or tap and you're done. The PhotoStick Omni searches your device and backs up every photo and video you can backup or transfer your files to backs up every photo and video. You can back up or transfer your files to free up space.
Speaker 2:Uh, no software or install so if you back up your photos, you can delete them off your photos and get them off of this stick thing so this is yeah.
Speaker 1:So what? The end of this stick?
Speaker 1:let me see if I can you see that right there, yeah it's like a four-sided thing like a prong thing, so it'll fit in like whatever your charger the type charger you have that plugs in on your phone. It's like a four-sided thing, like a prong thing, so it'll fit in like whatever your charger the type charger you have that plugs in on your phone. It's got that, those various ends on it. So, depending on your device whether it's a new iphone, the older iphone or android or whatever you just pick which size you you snap it into your phone and it'll pop up on there. It gives you like a play-by-play on what to do. Then it searches for your photos, downloads them and puts them. It's just a memory stick.
Speaker 2:I know, but how am I going to get my photos back off there?
Speaker 1:I guess you plug it back in.
Speaker 2:Into your phone and you have to go through all those photos.
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:To find one you want.
Speaker 1:Like say hey, I'm looking for.
Speaker 2:I wasn't prepared for you to ask questions.
Speaker 1:Now I'm just reading you this article. Let's go to learn more, but I mean, you bring something up, you think I'm not gonna ask questions.
Speaker 2:I'm ready to put some new nails on. I just took mine off. Halloween nails coming out next week already, yeah, and we got some christmas nails. We got some new makeup face wipes and Red Aspen is partnered with Children's Network and now you can donate to Children's Network when you place orders with Red Aspen.
Speaker 1:That's pretty neat.
Speaker 2:And they give it back. So we got a nail named after a little girl. So this is what they done. They talked about these nails and girls from children's network got to design nails with a little one little girl, no longer with us, but she got to design a nailing. They gave us her nail and, uh, she got to go to the tree house and everything and, and, um, see her nail and that, oh man, they did not prepare us for that, they, they gave us no tissues, no, nothing. It was a sad little story, but it was a good story, you know. But you know how it's just sad.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And oh, they gave us no tissues. Everybody in the room's boo-hooing, but that's a good thing. They give back and to let these little girls design those nails, that's.
Speaker 1:That's pretty neat.
Speaker 2:That is so neat.
Speaker 1:All right. Number two the Audion Atom, the world's first wireless charging hearing aids for less than $100.
Speaker 2:Heck yeah.
Speaker 1:You think that's any good?
Speaker 2:I don't know you want to sign up Because I will get you some Did you know, the average pair of hearing aids cost between $3,000 and $5,000?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yet these only cost around $100. How I don't know, I don't know. They provide crystal clear sound thanks to the advanced capabilities of the built-in Atom chip, wireless charging, no batteries to install or replace.
Speaker 2:Merry Christmas to Jody.
Speaker 1:Yes, right 20 stocking stuffer for me 20 plus hour battery life. Now, I think this needs to be ordered like today.
Speaker 2:Anniversary.
Speaker 1:This is a 20 plus hour battery life. Go all day without interruption. No hearing test needed. See, I don't. I think you need the hearing test.
Speaker 2:It's a lot different. That cat's going to get something. They're both going up the tree.
Speaker 1:The squirrel's in the other tree. Doofus, how scared him off how?
Speaker 2:how high can they go? They go high, can't? They?
Speaker 1:you know I had a video. I've got it on.
Speaker 2:Uh, my tiktok if they get stuck, they get stuck, that I ain't getting them down. This cat went way up there, let's go, and yeah, yeah, let it all right.
Speaker 1:Number three bondick. You know what that is.
Speaker 2:What.
Speaker 1:Bondic Repair just about anything in seconds. You know, like Bondo you ever heard of Bondic. Yes, all right, you all right over there.
Speaker 2:No, I don't like that one.
Speaker 1:It's glues and adhesives. I know that's what we're talking about.
Speaker 2:Yes, was invented by a dentist who?
Speaker 1:was inspired by the incredibly strong UV cured bonding compounds he used on the job. He teamed up with a chemical engineer and together they developed an ingenious liquid plastic welding compound that's 50 times stronger than glue.
Speaker 2:That they now glue your teeth in with.
Speaker 1:You apply the liquid formula to the damaged area, shine the special UV light on it and it hardens into rock solid, clear plastic in four seconds. You can use it to bond, fix, build, rebuild and even fill virtually anything. Once hardened, you can stand, you can sand, shape and even paint it. Let's see what they love about it. It's fast, bionic hardens in four seconds with UV light. It's ridiculously strong and designed to last a lifetime. It works on virtually anything plastic, metal, wood, glass, ceramics and more. And guess what? It says it's sold out.
Speaker 2:Why'd you say this was the top 10? What'd you say?
Speaker 1:No, it was like 20-something. Oh, best inventions. All right, got to go, I got to go.
Speaker 2:You got to go already.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh, something else. What I've been with Red Aspen just a hair over two and a half years and I have sold $21,000 worth of nails and product.
Speaker 1:That's a lot of nails and products. That's a lot of nails and products.
Speaker 2:That's a lot of nails and I have to say it's probably mostly nails. I don't have many customers that buy.
Speaker 1:What have you got Glue? I know that, no, does that come with?
Speaker 2:it Well, yes, some does you got to get extra. You don't have to.
Speaker 1:But you got to have glue right.
Speaker 2:It's got glue in the kit right.
Speaker 1:It's got glue in the kit, right, but after you use, those nails.
Speaker 2:For so long you can keep using those nails, right about two or three times.
Speaker 1:Oh, is that it? Yeah, you can't just keep reusing if you mix them?
Speaker 2:yeah, you can I mean mix them.
Speaker 1:If you mix them with other nails, yeah, but you're still getting two or three wears out of it you can get more.
Speaker 2:Depends on what sizes you use.
Speaker 1:I don't need to see. Now you're changing your tone. So now, now you're changing.
Speaker 2:All right. Well, you can use them several times. Anyway we have makeup, we have face care and we have that's it tanning stuff.
Speaker 1:Tanning stuff makeup.
Speaker 2:I love my tanning stuff.
Speaker 1:Hair stuff.
Speaker 2:No, not hair stuff.
Speaker 1:I thought I heard you say hair stuff.
Speaker 2:No, sir, I didn't say hair stuff, oh you got nail stuff. N. I heard you say hair stuff. No, sir, I didn't say hair stuff. Oh, you got nail stuff, nails. You got face Tanning.
Speaker 1:Tanning, makeup, makeup. You said something else.
Speaker 2:Oh, skincare.
Speaker 1:Skincare.
Speaker 2:Face mask and pedi mask and stuff like that. So 21,000. That's good.
Speaker 1:That is good.
Speaker 2:I feel like it's good.
Speaker 1:So Red Aspen got 20,000 of it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's right, that's right, no.
Speaker 1:Anyway, that was something I'll find out this weekend. That's good. I thought it was good. So they had y'all's facts and figures and all that.
Speaker 2:No, I looked it up. I found where you could find it.
Speaker 1:Oh. I looked it up, that's cool. All all right, let's go in before it gets any darker and if it rains anymore we appreciate you listening and we'll catch you next week, hopefully right on a monday, maybe we'll do something exciting we said we couldn't record on a saturday because you were gone, yeah, or friday or thursday. So we had to wait the last man maybe you'll take me somewhere next weekend. Maybe I'm gonna let you plan it all right, all right, see you folks all right out.
