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Critiques, Cats, & Trick-or-Treating Crisis · Rik and that Michele Chick

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Welcome to Rick and That Michelle Chick, the weekly
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podcast where your hosts, Rick and Michelle, confidently dive
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into topics they know absolutely nothing about and somehow make
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it sound legit. They're not experts.
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They're not qualified. Honestly, they barely googled
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it. So grab a drink, lower your
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expectations, and let's pretend this counts as content.
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So buckle up. Facts are optional, but the
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bullshit? That's premium grade.
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This is Rick and that Michelle chick.
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Oh, you want me to start it for once?
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Go ahead. Yeah, Yeah.
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Go ahead all. Right well, welcome to Rick and
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that Michelle chick. Another exciting episode that
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you've been waiting, salivating to hear what is going on in our
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world as we share, you know, little tidbits of the world,
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little tidbits of our personal lives, and little tidbits of
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just who knows what today. Stuff that nobody cares about.
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No, nobody wants to listen to us.
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And also you don't have to do that because remember, we have
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the little boys guy before and. After.
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That's right, you don't have. That you don't have to do the in
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and outro. So yeah, it's all done for us
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now. We're stepping up in this
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podcast journey, which by the way, we are on episode #23 now,
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which is. Crazy.
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Wow, really? 23 episodes.
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OK, seems like time's just flying by.
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Isn't it so much fun? It's super exciting.
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So I hadn't talked to my son Logan in a long time, probably a
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couple months. And he called me out of the blue
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on Saturday and did. And I and he just, I, I picked
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up and said, Hey, what's going on?
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And he's like, he's like, Oh, it goes, I just, I was just missing
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you and I just wanted to talk to you.
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And so we talked for a, a couple hours and it was good, good to
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catch up. But one of the things that we
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caught up on was the podcast and the critique of the party.
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Yeah, yeah, the critique of the podcast.
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I'm sure that may be one of two to three people that we have
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'cause you said, 'cause you said your daughter Shaylee listens
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and then. Periodically, periodically,
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yeah, she'll just tell me, don't talk it.
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When she tells me something that's going on in her life now,
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she'll go don't talk about that on the.
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Back this, this is, this is fair game, man.
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That's how I look at it, you know?
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If you're sharing it with me. You know, and they want, if they
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want to talk about us, they can start a podcast and talk about.
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Us. Oh that would be good actually.
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You probably have a lot of info. Yeah, so, so I I did get AI did
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get an earful from Logan and one was he likes to to correct some
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of my little stories that I say because he thinks he thinks he
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says I'm a big fat liar and that I exaggerate different things
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and which. We have said like, that's our
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business, that's radio, that's show business, that's TV, That's
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what Regis Philbin used to say on live.
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Like you just take your story and you ramp it up you.
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Elevate it. You exaggerate it because
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because it may not be that interesting unless you unless
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you elevate it. And then one of the things that
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we joked about also was I need to shut up and let you do some
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talking. I said well.
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I mean, there have been a lot of people that have said that and
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I'm like, I'm like, well, I knew when we started this podcast,
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which is why it's Rick and that Michelle chick, because I knew
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no matter what, I'm like, Rick is just he is still no matter
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what happens, even if I'm like, hey, I'm I'm going to talk more
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this time. Nope, Nope.
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We'll get on some tangent or subject and you'll just keep
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running with it and I kind of have to steer us back into
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whatever. I mean, I think it's funny.
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I think it's, yeah, I think it's great.
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I mean, this is our, this is how we were on the rate.
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This is how it how it how we function how?
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It was. And relationship was.
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Right. And you have no commercial
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breaks or songs and different things like that.
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So you really are getting the unfiltered version.
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So we used to make jokes, Michelle, that we thought that
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if you, what was going on in the studio was way better than what
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was going on on the air. It I mean it really.
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Was because you're not because we can say we can do stories, we
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can the it's it's just. We can talk about sex, which on
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the radio we used to refer to anything that we talked about
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sex was doing the laundry. Oh yeah, do it to try and go
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over the kids heads basically. So yeah, now we can talk about
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all that and we could, I mean which we have on the podcast,
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we've talked about all the behind the curtains radio stuff
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that which radio in itself is kind of a lie when you think
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about it. We've talked about how all the
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calls are not real, so. And, and, and Logan did make a
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point. He goes, he goes.
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So he said you guys sometimes get too political.
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He goes. But I like because I like the
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radio stuff. When you guys do radio stuff,
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that's interesting. So and I and I try not to get I
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mean, again, because it's the same way as I do on my, my, my
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morning shows. I try not to get political
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because here's here's the truth. The truth to it, Michelle is the
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only opinion someone cares about is that my opinion is the same
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opinion as theirs. So if it's.
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We're not going to change anybody's minds.
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There's I do yes. There, there is fundamentally
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nothing I'm ever going to say on this podcast or even in real,
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just talking to people that are going to make them suddenly go,
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you know, I'm going to change political party.
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You know it's not going to happen.
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They they might be right. That yeah, that will that will
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never happen so yeah so let's see I got to go down shut your.
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What's the Logan list? Yeah.
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Yeah, shut your yap. Yeah, too many, too much.
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Politics wants to hear a little bit more about radio.
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And also he does. He did compliment Michelle on
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saying that Michelle always has really good topics to talk
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about. Oh, that's so sweet.
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Yeah. I mean, it's, it's nice that
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someone's nice to me because my daughter Shaylee is brutal and
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mean and tells me that I suck and the things we talk about
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suck and yeah. Wow.
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Yeah, she's brutal. Pretty hard.
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I don't even. Ask her anymore, because she'll
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make me cry. Literally.
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She's made me cry. Yeah, she's probably, I think
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the only kid, which she is very black and white, just like her
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older brother. You know, they'll just tell you
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what they're thinking and how it is.
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They don't really stop and think about, you know, how that's
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going to affect the other person.
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They just want to tell you and be truthful.
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But in that truth can also hurt the other person.
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This is a. Double edged sword.
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Yeah, yeah. So which is fine.
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I just again, I just don't ask her anymore.
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Yeah, I think, I think Megan has a little bit, not that she's not
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that she listens to the podcast or it gives me opinions, but
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Megan, as we've we've talked before, Megan is very black and
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white like like I try like the I, it's like even if you give
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her a present, she doesn't seem to be emotionally moved no
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matter. What you've given her, there's
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never been anything that she's. I have talked to her about it
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and and she did say the trip to Las Vegas to see Pink.
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She goes, she goes. I did cry, so I didn't see her
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cry, but she said she cried when she saw that I was going to take
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her to Vegas to see pee. Yeah.
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So there's a heart in there. There's a heart in there
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somewhere. You.
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Just now you have to take her on another trip this Christmas as
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her. Gift so so I had been thinking
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about it. I thought about I was checking
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into Disneyland and stuff. Whoo prices are just so, so
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expensive. I don't, I don't live high on
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the hog like Michelle does. So.
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You can go to Disney for reasonable cost, you just kind
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of have to know where those deals are.
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Did you check into Costco because Costco has Disney.
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Yeah, I did. We have a Costco card.
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Yep. Yep.
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That are pretty good so. And again, Disney.
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Yeah, Disneyland tickets usually don't go on sale ever, entrance
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tickets. And so it's usually some kind of
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deal like that, that that's the only way you can get some kind
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of discount so. Yeah, we did Costco for the
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Vegas trip or at least part of the Vegas trip.
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So and then it was that. But what's interesting about any
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of the situation is I thought about then this is this, but
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this is this so. So on one hand, Megan is very
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black and white. Hang on, Barclays Pawn.
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Barkley. Sparkling.
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He's. Looking for the ball.
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It's under your desk. He's looking for the ball and
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it's under the desk. He knows it.
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Is well, no, I I already played with him today.
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So when I get home, I always play with him that way.
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We have a little bit of time, but I mean, it doesn't doesn't
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work that way because he wants to be pet petted and stuff.
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Yeah. So I thought about for for for
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Christmas. I really thought about have you
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ever, I guess, has Jay ever done this, Michelle, to where it's
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like, you know, you get up on, let's just say a weekend and go,
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OK, we're flying off to Disneyland right now and not
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tell you that you're doing that or, or, or a trip where he's
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like, hey, pack your bags. Our flight leaves in like 4
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hours. We're going wherever.
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He tried that. So the birthday that we went to
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see Kiefer Sutherland and Napa, that was before COVID, I think
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that was 2019 because, you know, Kiefer Sutherland has a band, by
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the way. Nobody knows that.
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And I love him. And so, yeah, he was going to be
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in Napa. And so leading up to that trip,
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he didn't tell me where we were going or what we were doing.
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And so I was trying to guess because, again, I'm like, I have
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to know what kind of clothes I need to pack.
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Like, do I need to pack clothes for warm weather?
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Do I need to pack clothes for colder weather, rainy weather?
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Like I need to know. And finally I think I like wore
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him down. I was guessing like Disneyland
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and you know, different places that I know like we like to go
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right? Like I'm guessing those places
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and then I'm looking at the weather, like what's the weather
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like in Disneyland? And finally between like his
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sister, because his sister also knew where we were going.
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So between me like trying to wear them bolt down to tell me
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he finally had to tell me where we were going so that I knew
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what kind of clothes to pack because I was losing my mind.
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I was literally a crazy God damn.
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I was it was. I mean, looking back on it, I
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should. Have just surprised.
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Right. I should have just been like,
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OK, I'll just, you know what, I'm going to take 3 suitcases if
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this is what if you're not right where we're going, I'm in a pack
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one with like warm clothes, one with I'll pack everything.
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I'll take 3 suitcases. So looking back on it, I
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probably should have just shut up and done that.
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So, But it was very nice of him. So yeah, you could do something
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like that. Does she like stuff?
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Like, would she? Like that.
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So that's but that what you just brought up.
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So it's one of those things where it's like, yeah, I don't
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know, I don't know if like the the packing or on one-on-one
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hand they they say, Oh yeah, that would be awesome.
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On the other hand, no. What you know, So she it's just
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it's yeah, it's just a thought. Does she like that
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spontaneousness? I mean, I know she likes it as
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far as like other stuff, but not like something like that.
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Like I, I'm a planner. So I think that's the other part
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of it is I am a type A personality.
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And so that I think probably that's probably what sent me
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into this tailspin with that trip is because I had nothing,
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no control over it, nothing. And so that kind of sends me
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into this weird place, so. So when someone says so, so
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you've, you've come across these people like you've met people
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that like, I don't like surprises.
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Yes. Like there are those people do
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now I, I just want you to help me out on this.
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Do you do you really not or I mean, because I get to see
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that's where the mixed message comes when someone says that
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they don't like surprises. Do you buy that?
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I mean, some people, I think you, I think you really have to
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know them. Like, you really have to know,
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OK, this person is serious because especially, especially
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with women, you know, we I'll say it, I'll say it, I'll say
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it. We want you men to read our
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minds and we want to be like, oh, no, don't do anything.
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Don't do anything for my birthday.
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Don't throw a big surprise party when in reality, we secretly
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really do. That is the truth.
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So women, I I'm sorry. That is legit the truth for most
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of us. We want you men to figure it out
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and surprise us, and we really want that surprise, even if we
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say we don't. Right, see that and that's that
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and that's that. And that's that balancing act.
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Because I've I've learned in my in my process, the minute that
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for some reason I don't know what what it is, it's I don't
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know if it's the luck of the draw, but I will always pick the
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wrong thing. I mean, Jay would probably say
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the same thing too. I.
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Just can't hear you guys. I can't.
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I can't seem to get it right. I mean now like I for what he
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buys me for Christmas and that kind of stuff, he just goes off
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of my list. He doesn't even like veer off of
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it anymore unless he's 100% sure it's something that I really
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want. Like he's like, no.
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And that's and that and that. And that is the biggest struggle
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for Megan because for the most part, if Megan sends me a list,
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you'll get what's on the list because I think you want to get
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what you want. And so when you do, try to put a
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little cork in there or a little spin.
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It's something special or different.
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Yeah, some. And I would say, you know, for
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me, I feel like, I feel like sometimes they hit and then
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sometimes they fall flat. Like like that was not not I
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mean, so it's it's really hard. But I think that's any of us
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with a gift to giving because there have been times and it's
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not necessarily Jay, it could be like the kids or one of my
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friends. I'm, you know, I'm super excited
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that I got this gift. I think it's like the gift, like
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they're going to love it. And then again, they open it and
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it's like, you know. Right.
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You know, right, right, yes. And so you think and that and so
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so for the boys, it's gotten easy because it's just cash for
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the last for the last few years, it's just been, I mean, I don't
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even I am thinking of something special for Logan, but it has to
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do with his childhood. So I can't, you know, if he's
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listening, I don't want to stay with this, but but, but then I,
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but then I also thought about, so think about, think about
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this. If your if your kids are so used
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to always getting cash and then one and then one year you do
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something sentimental, they'll be like, where's the money?
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Yeah, they're not. They'll want the money.
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Hey, thanks for the yeah, thanks for this photo album, Dad, but
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where's my money? Probably because they already
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have the money spent like that's right, so.
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I I think, I think so. So, yeah.
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So I'm kind of at that impasse for this year.
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It's like, it's like, what do you, what do you get people that
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pretty much have everything or don't you know?
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Great. Yeah.
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It's like, it's like, and then and then I, I'm like, I'm like
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you, Michelle. I want it to be good.
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I, I mean, you do you try to make it good.
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Yeah. It's not like you're trying to
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give somebody a a crappy gift. Right, and that's my that's kind
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of why we stopped just buying the kids stuff and started going
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on trips because they want for nothing.
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And I'm, I don't want to just buy you crap that you're never
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going to use or it's not, it's not something that they're going
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to remember. It's like, oh, I'm not going to
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remember the whatever you bought me in 2018, but I am going to
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remember the trip that we went on.
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And again, it doesn't have to be something spectacular like
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Disneyland. It could be this a weekend
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somewhere or just going to the aquarium.
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You don't even have to stay overnight, whatever it is, the
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zoo, I mean something different like that.
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So. That's kind.
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Of I. Don't know about you guys and,
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and I know we're going to talk about some cats here, but yeah,
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we have three dogs. So it makes it, you know, so
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that that spontaneous, that spontaneous just, oh, pack up
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and go. Well, we got three dogs that are
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needy. Right, you don't have a good pet
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sitter yet. No.
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Well, Kyron. Kyron.
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Kyron's in the garage. Kyron's.
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But what if he goes? What if you do like a whole trip
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and he goes too then then? So, so the problem is so a few
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years back, the Megan's bestie got married in Colorado.
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So we took ten days to go or we took a big trip to go to
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Colorado, or if it took 10 days, but we were gone for a while for
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this wedding. And poor Roxy will hold her pee.
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Yeah, so little Roxy will hold her pee and poo or whatever.
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And so she and so you get so we always said, tell Kyron, hey,
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send proof of life. Send proof of life so you see a
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picture of laxative. I know.
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So you'll send he'll send a picture of poor Roxy and she
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just looks miserable. I'm like, I'm like, that dog
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hasn't peed in days because she won't, she won't do it because
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that's her like her little defiance, you know?
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And then the minute you get home, it's so funny.
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The minute you get home, Bodie and Barkley are all over you,
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right? And Roxy's sprinting towards the
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door to go potty. She wants nothing to do with
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you, she wants outside to pee. I mean not only do we have the
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cats but we also have two dogs and one is fucking crazy.
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We got them during COVID and so which.
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He's a great guard dog, but I am worried he is legit going to
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bite someone. So during, yeah.
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I mean, they're both Australian shepherds so it is their job.
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We are his sheep. Technically it is his job to
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protect us. So I feel super safe at home.
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But it's also a concern. Pet sitter who can and can't
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come in and feed them. Luckily the dog groomer, she
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also has dog training and she offered to come when Shaylee was
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away at college and Jay and I were going to go on a trip.
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I'm thinking, who, who the hell is going to be able to feed this
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dog? And she offered to come and meet
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them to make sure it would be OK.
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And she walked right in the fence.
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And I, I think I'm probably more nervous and freaked out than she
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was. She walked right in the fence
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and he, he didn't bark at her, nothing.
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He just went right up to her, smelled her and then sat at her
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feet, which means, OK, pet me. And I'm just standing there in
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awe, like what in the world? What is going on?
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And so now we have her. She'll, I mean, we pay her, but
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she'll come and take care of them and, and they they do fine
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so. We had we had the what is the
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old Co worker Cassie that used to work at the front desk.
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Yeah, yeah, she, she's pets sit for us before.
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Too. Yeah, she's a great.
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She would be a great house pet sitter, but.
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She lives in Seattle now. So right, I'm in the Tri-City so
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she's not going all the way to to babysit our our babies.
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No, no. Yeah, you've got a house full of
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animals, and I hear you're trying to catch a cat right now.
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Yeah, we, we could have more, we could have more cats.
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So we have the two dogs, we have our 6 cats and then we have the
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two fosters that we've had for like 2 years because I can't
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find them a home. If you are interested in them,
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they are up on our highlights and our Instagram.
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You can message me and I'll give you all the information on them.
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But it is also very hard to, you know, find homes or adult cats.
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But anyway, yes, so I have been on this wild cat chase.
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It's probably been a good week, week and a half.
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Now, the rescue that we foster for, usually they catch them and
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then they bring them to us. I think we've only had to trap a
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few, maybe a couple in the entire time that we have been
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fostering. But where I get my coffee the
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week before, last week, I saw there's a Gray cat twice.
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And the second time I tried to follow her.
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But where the coffee stand is is pretty high traffic area.
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And so I didn't want to follow her too much and scare her into
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the traffic. And so I happen to ask the
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coffee girls about her, like, hey, have you seen this cat?
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Do you know anything about it? And they're like, oh, yeah,
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yeah, we see her all the time. One of the girls that works in
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the morning saw a lady dump her off in the Bush and drive away.
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So we know that she has been. And abandoned.
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And when I saw her, it looks like her like nipples hurt.
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That skin is hanging down, which means that she's nursing kitten
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somewhere. And that was kind of the fear
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that I had if we caught her. And so yes, you have to find
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them. I mean, otherwise they're going
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to die. So last week the another lady
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from the rescue and I were out there with our traps.
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Now, the other lady left her trap overnight and it got stolen
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the next morning when she came to find it, it was gone.
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And I was not going to leave my trap because I didn't realize
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how many homeless people are in that area until you're sitting
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there for like hours just observing Because when you're
20:44
just getting gas or getting coffee or going in the store,
20:47
it's just quick. And so you're not really paying
20:49
attention to everything going on around in that area.
20:52
I was like, good God. So my husband was like, I don't
20:56
want you out there late at night by yourself.
20:58
Just do it during the during the day.
21:01
And it happened to be that I took my trap.
21:04
Usually I'll set it by the coffee girl's car because they
21:07
can see the window and the coffee stand has a camera there
21:12
and then leave it for a while and come back if we haven't
21:15
caught anything. And so I dropped it off
21:17
Saturday, came back home to get my husband.
21:19
We were going to go run some errands and we went to get
21:21
coffee. And while we were there in line,
21:23
she went in the trap and it caught her.
21:26
And so and yes, it's so I'm like, Oh my God, we got her.
21:29
So we get her and of course she's freaking out trying to get
21:34
out, which is what happens. And I notice as she kind of like
21:39
turns, it's like, oh Yep, she is nursing.
21:42
So she has kitties somewhere. So we had to release her and let
21:47
me. Take you back to the kitties,
21:48
maybe? Yeah, no, yeah, she wouldn't.
21:50
She just sat there and was waiting for us to leave for.
21:53
We probably sat there for like 45 minutes.
21:55
It was just like a stare down. She was like sat over here and
21:58
we sat here. So finally we just had to leave
22:02
because I'm like, OK, she needs to go back to these kitties.
22:04
I don't know how old they are. And so I was asking the girls at
22:08
the coffee stand were questions like, hey, when was the last
22:11
time you saw her looking pregnant?
22:13
And they're like 03 to four weeks ago.
22:15
So we're hoping that wants she starts to wean these kitties
22:20
that she'll bring them out. And then myself and one of the
22:24
other lady that got her trap stolen, we were talking to some
22:27
of the businesses in the area and so they are going to look
22:30
out for her. One of them has also been
22:32
feeding her chicken. I also went and got food and
22:36
left it with the girls at the coffee stand and they are
22:38
feeding her when they see her. And then another one of the
22:43
other businesses, one of the workers there said that they see
22:47
her coming from a certain area. So now we kind of think we know
22:51
what area she's coming from. But trying to find kitties is
22:55
like trying to find a needle in a haystack.
22:57
Of course, I even reached out because there's so many bushes
23:00
around there. I even tried to reach out to
23:02
some of my hunting friends because I'm thinking, OK, if
23:05
somebody has like night goggles with the thermal sensor, we can
23:09
look in all the bushes and at least eliminate those.
23:11
You know like we can't eliminate hard surfaces with those but at
23:15
least we could eliminate all these damn bushes.
23:18
But no, nobody has any. So if there's anybody listening
23:22
that has any that we could at least borrow so we could at
23:26
least rule out all these bushes. Also when we trapped her we
23:30
discussed she has a bad eye. I don't know if that's from an
23:34
infection, which we have a one eyed cat and he has the best
23:38
personality. He is also a foster fail.
23:40
We have 4 foster fails. So the hope is, I mean, we do
23:46
love A1 Eyed Cat, I do have to say.
23:49
So the hope is this hopefully now that we have like a bunch,
23:53
which the people at the other businesses are gonna keep an eye
23:57
out for her and kitties, because as soon as she starts to wean
24:00
those kitties, she'll bring them out.
24:02
And the hope is that she brings them to wherever the food is.
24:05
So hopefully the coffee stand. The problem is like, again, this
24:08
place is high traffic. There's a lot of cars when I was
24:12
sitting there, there's so many people, people that just zip in
24:14
and out like super fast. And it's like, what are you
24:16
doing? Like, I mean, sure, they don't
24:19
know there's cats running around there, but just you could hit
24:22
someone. I mean, I'm like, damn, people
24:24
like drive slower. So yes, the hope is once she
24:30
starts weaning them, she brings them out and we can figure out
24:34
how many there are and then trap all of them.
24:37
My worry is the weather is getting colder, who was kind of
24:41
like a race against time at this point.
24:43
I did tell the coffee girls because if something does happen
24:46
to the kitties, unfortunately that is very possible that they
24:51
should notice that, you know, once her milk dries up that it
24:54
won't look, you know, her skin won't be sagging so much.
24:58
And if that does happen, then we can catch her again.
25:01
So hopefully she isn't smart because some of them get smart
25:05
about the traps and they won't even go in the traps, you know,
25:08
once you catch them, once they are smart about the traps.
25:12
So hopefully, fingers crossed we can find them and catch them.
25:16
We're going to go searching some more for them in the next couple
25:20
days so hopefully we can find them.
25:23
That is my cat adventure. No, I think, I think.
25:26
Do you work with the the Yakima? What's the What's the rescue you
25:29
work with? It's underground community cat
25:31
rescue. No, it's just a bunch of ladies
25:33
that started this on their own. They weren't even A5O13C in the
25:39
they just within the last probably four or five years got
25:42
their 5O13C, you know, nonprofit status.
25:46
It was just a bunch of basically crazy cat ladies legit that were
25:50
just going around like catching cats and trying to find them
25:55
homes. They do get transported.
25:57
Where we live again is a rural farm area.
26:01
They do get transported to Seattle and Tacoma where there
26:04
is usually waiting list for cats because most people live in
26:08
apartments and they want a smaller pet.
26:10
And so, so, yeah, they go on transport once they get
26:13
accepted, which they deal with the Humane Society over there,
26:17
Seattle Humane Society, there's safe that has cats.
26:22
And so a lot of them go to those places and get adopted and their
26:25
adoption fee over there is like 350 bucks.
26:28
Like it's a, it's a lot in their paperwork.
26:31
I'm just like, damn, I looked at it.
26:33
I was like, holy smokes. Like like you basically have to
26:36
give your fingerprints like everything about you.
26:41
We we do that a lot with put overpopulation prevention.
26:44
That's what I do a lot of here in the Tri-cities.
26:47
As you already know, I sit on the board and I'm the president
26:49
right now and we have a, we have a cat program.
26:52
We have a dog program. And you're the story you talk
26:54
about Heather, Heather and Carol in our program.
26:57
Heather is, is that like you guys would get along great
27:00
because you're the crazy cat ladies and she's got a separate
27:03
room in her house where she, you know, and all these different
27:05
things and she's got traps. Yeah, which because we have the
27:09
two adult fosters that we've had for two years, that is usually
27:12
our quarantine room. So if I catch this cat, I'm
27:15
going to have to put her in the guest room.
27:17
Like that is the only viable room and she probably has some
27:21
kind of infection. So I can't just let her out with
27:23
our, you know, or be in the same space as our cats.
27:26
So you really have to be unaware of that kind of stuff that you
27:30
can't just take in this cat or animal, dog, cat, whatever it
27:34
might be if you find them and you can't just like throw them
27:37
in with your cats or dogs, whatever the case may be.
27:39
So you kind of just have to be aware of that stuff, which cats,
27:43
dogs have parvo and cats have, it's called Pan Luke, which it's
27:47
just as contagious as parvo and kills them rather quickly.
27:52
So you have to be careful of all that kind of stuff.
27:55
We deal with a lot with that with pit overpopulation
27:57
prevention. But again, Michelle, thank you
27:59
for, you know, for, for doing that because that's and again,
28:03
that's why that's why the mission is so huge.
28:05
Spay and neuter, spay and neuter, spay and neuter.
28:07
But, and don't worry, because I know I have a big mouth.
28:10
I'm not going to get on a soapbox to talk about how shitty
28:13
some people are with their animals because.
28:14
That's yeah, that drops that. Yeah, when I spend all day.
28:17
She was dropped off in a Bush. I was like people which the
28:22
rescues are so overwhelmed again, you know that from
28:26
sitting on the board once, right?
28:29
You know, everybody adopted all these animals during Covic, and
28:32
then once everything opened up, it just went crazy with people
28:37
wanting to get rid of their pets, abandoning their pets.
28:41
Some of the messages and emails that the rescue women that I
28:48
work with get is crazy. Like the things that some of
28:52
these people threaten, like if you don't take my animal, I'm
28:55
going to do XYZ to it. I like what?
28:59
Yeah, we had that. We had that.
29:01
Yeah, we had that happen with the Boston Terrier a few years
29:04
back. I got a call from somebody on
29:06
our board and they said, hey, we have a little Boston terrier.
29:09
And the father, so the young boy, he was 23 years old.
29:12
It's an unaltered, unaltered Boston terrier, of course.
29:16
And, and the kid had to move back in with his dad.
29:19
And the dad says if that dog's not out of here by this weekend,
29:22
I'm shooting it, you know. Oh.
29:23
Yeah. So we deal with these kind of
29:25
these kind of crazy stories all the time and people that the
29:28
crew. I mean, I just, it's one of the
29:31
things I, I mean, again, not no soapbox, but cruelty to animals,
29:35
I think should have massive consequences.
29:38
I've always felt that I've always felt like even from a
29:40
even from a canine situation dealing with a criminal, you,
29:44
you kill a canine, you kill a canine officer.
29:47
That's to me like you killed a real officer.
29:49
You know, that's not a you know, your, your ass is going up
29:52
prison for life if you know so. But yeah, I mean, the, the, the,
29:57
the amount of animal cruelty in the world and it's yeah, I, I
30:02
look back, I think I have a one time.
30:05
Remember I had Boomer who was our our Beagle.
30:08
We had Boomer. And when I was when I was when I
30:12
went to that divorce with Pokey and had to move to Bakersfield,
30:14
CA, I gave Boomer to a listener, which took good care of him.
30:18
But to this day, I've had the absolute and it's been 20 years
30:23
ago, but the absolute guilt of not.
30:26
I feel like that. That's one animal that I did
30:29
not, you know, he should have gone with me to Bakersfield.
30:32
I should have figured it out and I didn't.
30:35
And so I always have that that guilt of and and that's one of
30:40
the things that is so funny. I work with the dog program now
30:42
with Pop and Amanda, who is the dog coordinator.
30:45
I don't even read the stories when they get the up their
30:47
animals because I always make the joke that my yellow trucks
30:50
going through their front window.
30:51
So so I don't read the stories anymore, but she said she goes,
30:57
Rick, you have to have some empathy that that they're
31:01
willing to come to the to come to pop and.
31:04
For the people. Well, just you, you have to have
31:08
some some empathy rather than them just letting their dog go
31:11
on the street, you know what I'm saying?
31:12
Or abandoned like this poor Kitty.
31:14
At least they're coming to a rescue and saying I want to give
31:18
this animal up and finally a good home.
31:20
So yeah, but it, but it's hard when you when you read the, you
31:23
know, when you read the stories and it's like, yeah, it's just,
31:29
it's hard to read it when when it's like, you know, oh, I got a
31:32
new boyfriend, so I can't have a dog now.
31:34
I mean or. Right.
31:35
Or I'm moving or I'm busy and it's like, you know what, the
31:38
pet will adjust to you being busy.
31:40
They'd rather have that than you give them to someone else.
31:45
A whole new family abandoned them.
31:46
I mean, they don't know what's going on.
31:49
Yeah, so, so I, I, I salute you. I thank you, love that you do
31:54
that. You are a wonderful person.
31:55
And and again, it's a great cause.
31:58
And and remember spaying to your animals.
32:00
Yes, hopefully I can catch her, which I mean, yeah.
32:03
You have a set update. Yeah, I will again, like we live
32:07
in a rural area and looking back when I was a child, the the way
32:11
to deal with like my dog got hit by a car.
32:13
Rolo. He was like a black and tan
32:16
German shepherd. He got hit by a car.
32:18
What do you do you think we took him to the vet?
32:20
No, my dad took him out back and shot him.
32:22
Like that was that was what happened back then.
32:25
And it's like, but that isn't the same now.
32:28
You know, things have changed. We have progressed on how we
32:31
treat our animals and people around here again, rural
32:36
agriculture have barn cats. And so a lot of the thinking
32:40
with their barn cats is, oh, I don't need to feed them because
32:43
that makes them better mousers. And it's like that is not,
32:47
that's not even true. Like you still need to feed them
32:50
and care for them and they will be amazing mousers.
32:54
So it's just dealing with all that kind of stuff too where we
32:56
live, so. Yeah, we had to when Logan was a
32:59
little so Pokey. Pokey really liked cats.
33:02
So we had cats when I was married to Pokey.
33:04
So we had a couple. Katie.
33:07
Katie and Weiner Man. Yeah, they they were.
33:10
They were inside and they were outside and inside cats.
33:13
And you'd go out to the front porch and see a dead man.
33:15
Here you go. Here's the.
33:18
Snakes, baby rabbits, I mean, you name it.
33:22
But you know, and they for the most part, 99% of the time or
33:25
90% of the time they were in the house.
33:27
Yeah. But but yeah, so yeah, it's one
33:31
of and and then when Logan we, we, we, we moved to Seattle.
33:34
Oh, when we're talking, So here we're talking, you know, I'm
33:37
going to share a little story about guilt is so when we lived
33:41
in Clarkston, we had Sammy, we had Weiner and we had Katie.
33:46
So we had three. So we had three cats.
33:48
Weiner was Katie's daughter. And then Sam was another cat
33:51
when he was a tabby, a white tabby and passed away.
33:54
So we lost, we lost Sammy. So we were down to Weiner and
33:57
Katie and this little house we lived in.
34:00
We had this cat called stupid that would come around and it
34:03
was a stray and and it was a black and it was a really nice
34:07
cat or whatever, right? Well, we were young.
34:10
We were what I was 23, Pokey was 19 and we were young.
34:14
And I remember that we moved to Seattle for me to work in
34:18
Seattle, and we took Weiner and Katie with us because those were
34:21
those were our cats. And we left stupid behind.
34:25
And to this day, it's the biggest regret because it's
34:30
like, even though it was a stray cat, it still come around, you
34:32
know, You know. And so I you know.
34:36
I look back, I, I look back at my life and I have lots of, lots
34:40
of guilt of, of things I wish I would have done better.
34:44
So again, that's just. Age, learning, progressing, all
34:49
of it. You know, I know.
34:51
At least you have. Learned.
34:53
Progressed and trying to be better with your animals so
34:57
well, but I can do I'm one of I'm.
34:59
One of those weird people that I'll just be driving down the
35:01
road and I don't know why. I'll just think of Boomer the
35:04
dog and I'll just start crying. I mean, haven't you ever done
35:07
that where you're just like, you think of a Yeah, you know, yeah,
35:09
I had a cat that. Yeah.
35:10
Yeah, you know, and you, you know, and.
35:13
You're like, well, that, that that dog or cat's been gone for
35:15
20 years, but just that it just hits you.
35:17
Yeah, you know, and then you're. Normal again.
35:20
For me, it's like there's a there's a great website Does the
35:23
dog die in themovie.com? Oh yeah, I don't I.
35:28
Don't watch movies where? Dogs where animals do.
35:30
I don't, I, I haven't watched, I haven't watched Guardians of the
35:33
Galaxy #3 because they experiment on the pets.
35:35
Like Nope. Oh, I haven't seen that.
35:37
I mean, I won't. Do it.
35:38
I won't. I won't do it if.
35:39
The if the dog is going to get killed, I I won't do it now.
35:43
Humans all day long freaking mow, mow them, mow the humans
35:48
down. Which what was that movie that
35:50
Channing? Tatum did.
35:51
He just did with the dog that he was like he was doing the press
35:55
junket and he was like and the dog doesn't die.
35:58
Isn't it Max or something like? That, yeah, I don't remember.
36:01
I've watched. Marley And that was a huge
36:04
mistake. I should.
36:05
Luckily I was at home by myself. But yeah, I was bawling like
36:09
Marley. Yeah, no lean.
36:11
No, Marley made me. Yeah, Marley made me.
36:14
Oh God, like like a cried like a little bitch, you know, Marley
36:17
did. And then and then there's, you
36:20
know, like, like turn hooch where that made me cry.
36:25
That made me cry. But then it has the great
36:26
ending, right? Yeah, right.
36:28
But. Still I I could see it.
36:29
Today and still ball. Oh yeah, yeah.
36:32
No matter what. I'm going to.
36:34
I'm already turned up too and the animal dies and I'll start.
36:37
Crying and my kids are looking at me like what the fuck is
36:40
wrong with her? Like even even animated.
36:43
I'll be watching like Balto or something like, you know, oh,
36:46
they're treating the dog. They're treating the animated
36:48
dog wrong. I'm going to cry like Oliver.
36:50
Oh, the. Call of the Wild.
36:52
So person 4 just redid that. I mean, it's been a few years,
36:56
but that was my dad's favorite book.
36:58
And then I found it in the Naches middle School library and
37:02
it still had the little library card with like his name on it.
37:07
And then I checked it out. I.
37:08
Know this is crazy. I checked it out and then I read
37:11
it. And so that was like one of my
37:13
favorite books. And yeah, I watched that movie.
37:15
Thank God I watched it at home by myself because again, I was
37:18
like bawling my eyes out. But there was a lot of reason
37:22
more than just that. The sentiment.
37:24
Well, no, it's attached to a connection.
37:25
But. I remember being in being in
37:27
school and it was like, oh, it's movie day and they'd roll in,
37:30
you know, the yearling. It was the yearling or it was
37:33
what's the Oh my gosh, the one where they where the.
37:37
Red or where? The Red Fern.
37:38
Grows any of those any of those were the anywhere.
37:42
Yeah, it's like, Yep, don't take, don't take, you know, like
37:45
what, who the hell? Who the hell assigns this crap
37:47
in in elementary school and I don't know, you know, as a.
37:50
Horse Girl because I had a horse.
37:52
Yeah, I of course read like all the Black Beauty series books,
37:55
which again, like. They're very.
37:57
Abusive to these horses and the things in them are horrible.
38:01
Which Shaylee? Growing up she read Warrior
38:03
Cats? Are you familiar with that whole
38:05
series of box? Oh gosh.
38:07
It's. It's crazy, but now that she's
38:09
older, which they really helped her with her reading literacy,
38:13
she was super low and then she start, she got hooked on these
38:16
books and just started reading like crazy and it really helped
38:20
her reading literacy. But it's cats are in colonies
38:23
basically is what they're called.
38:25
And it's just basically these cats that now she talks about
38:30
how like, looking back, it deals with a whole bunch of like how
38:33
these cats are like killed and murdered and stuff.
38:37
That she's like, mom, I cannot believe that.
38:40
Like I was reading this in 4th grade or whatever it is.
38:44
But it's like, hey, it helped you with your reading standards.
38:47
So it's it's fine. So so yeah, yeah, yeah.
38:53
I can't. Yeah.
38:54
Any of that. Now it's like, I, yeah, I skip.
38:57
I'm like, Nope, gonna skip that movie.
38:58
Not, you know, yeah, I even watch.
39:00
It's so funny. I'm a, I'm a John Wick fan, you
39:02
know, which is Keanu Reeves in action.
39:04
And, and in the second movie, I think there's a there's a woman
39:08
in there. She's an assassin and she has
39:10
two German shepherds. And so they they raid this place
39:14
and I'm like, Oh, you better not kill the you better not kill
39:17
those dogs. And and you hear one of them.
39:20
Yep, you know what I'm saying? As it gets shot and I'm like son
39:24
of A and it had a bulletproof vest on.
39:26
So it was fun, but but remember the very first John Wick movie?
39:30
They killed the dog. I mean, or no, I haven't seen
39:33
him. I don't.
39:34
Know I haven't seen any of those and John Wick.
39:36
Yeah, so to me it's like, and I would you made you jog my memory
39:40
on is it water for the elephants or where they.
39:44
Yeah, Robert. Pattinson Yeah, yeah.
39:47
Water. Yeah, when.
39:48
And so when that elephant stomps that mofo's head, I'm like, go
39:51
for it. Like I have.
39:52
No, I don't know why I have. When I when I read articles
39:55
about lions killing poachers, it's like people.
40:00
I'm good with it. I don't.
40:02
Lose any sleep. I don't I I'm not I'm not on the
40:04
flip side to go oh, that was somebody's that was somebody's
40:06
husband or dad. So what mofo mofo was trying to
40:09
kill a lion got what you deserve, dude, I just I just
40:12
never understand killing of lions and rhinos and zebras and
40:16
giraffes. I just trophy hunting, yeah.
40:19
And and then they and then. I and then people try to sit me
40:22
down and be reasonable. Oh well, the tribe needs some
40:25
money. They'll give the mute to the
40:27
tribe. You know well, why don't?
40:30
We feed the people, Why don't we?
40:32
Why don't we do the right thing and feed the people instead of
40:34
killing endangered animals? Human humankind.
40:37
If they could, if they could literally wipe the planet of
40:39
every animal, they, they Evan would do it.
40:42
Oh, I mean, at some point we are.
40:43
Going to Yeah, that's what's going to happen.
40:47
We're over, we're overfishing the ocean, and it is going to
40:50
happen at some point. Yeah, You know, it's a matter
40:52
when. Yeah, there.
40:53
There are many times in my. Day.
40:55
I wish a meteor would just land right on the planet and just
40:57
wipe us out. Many times.
40:58
Dinosaurs, yes. Bye bye.
41:01
Bye, bye. Maybe if you were a little
41:03
kinder to the planet, maybe if you weren't so driven for
41:05
profit. And and oh, I got to, I got to
41:08
have, I got to have that bull elk on my wall.
41:10
You know, I'm saying I'm like what I.
41:12
Mean a lot of people deer in elk they do use that meat to feed
41:16
their families so yes and remember I I talk I.
41:19
Talk about this in the book too, and in my book that I wrote is
41:22
again, if you if you get your deer ticket, you get your elk
41:26
ticket, you get your, your, your, your trout.
41:28
You know, I grew up on a ranch. I grew up on a farm.
41:31
I mean, it is not. These things are not unknown to
41:33
me and and. And that was a.
41:36
And, and that was a fact of life.
41:40
Yeah, that's a fact of life. My my foster.
41:42
Dad haunted. I was around guns my whole time
41:44
as a as a little kid. I personally after killing that
41:47
one bird, I just decided I would never do it again.
41:49
So but but up until then I had gone on mini hunting expeditions
41:54
and different things like that with my with my foster family.
41:57
But I have a great story. I'll, I'll save it for next
42:00
podcast about why I do not hunt. I mean, my dad was.
42:04
So I have a good story to tell, but I'll save that for next
42:07
week. Yeah.
42:08
I mean, I don't know if it's good, but it's the reason why I
42:11
was not a hunter. My dad tried many times to Get
42:14
Me Out to go hunting with him, which girls hunt all the time,
42:17
You know, it's not just a male thing.
42:18
So yeah. Oh, absolutely.
42:20
And again. And.
42:21
I I want to clarify, I'm not I'm big trophy hunting.
42:25
I probably have an issue with, you know what I'm saying.
42:26
That was probably the one I have an issue with.
42:29
But we're something as plentiful, let's say plentiful
42:31
like a like deer, you know, and elk.
42:34
It's about but but also. The poacher eating your.
42:37
Family there. Was an article about this.
42:39
Guy that was a poacher and he was personally responsible for
42:43
the killing of 48 elk illegally. Illegally and he gets a $7000
42:49
fine. So he probably sold the meat for
42:54
more. Than that or what exactly where?
42:57
Where? Is where is the penalty for the
42:59
crim? The, you know, the criminal,
43:00
where's the penalty? I mean until it's.
43:03
Going to be not worth it for them to go out and do this super
43:08
tough. They're just going to keep doing
43:09
it. They don't care.
43:10
Of course they're going to keep doing that.
43:12
You know, couple grand. Is just a slap on the wrist to a
43:15
lot of people. Well, if you get vote.
43:18
For this podcast, we yeah, we're animal lovers.
43:20
On his podcast, Yeah, We Are. Yeah, we're we're big.
43:25
Sobbing babies when it comes to animals, yes.
43:28
Yeah. Yeah, we don't.
43:29
We don't. Yeah, Yeah.
43:30
We're not going to be watching any of those Marley type movies.
43:33
I did want to ask you how many trick or treaters did you get
43:36
this year? So we have.
43:41
We have a running, yeah, we have a running joke at our house is
43:45
Megan does not like me to buy candy because she the bag will
43:49
be left be left in the house and so she doesn't want the candy in
43:52
the house. So you don't get any choice.
43:56
So, so she's in the camp of turn the light off and act like
43:59
you're not home. So I, I am in the I am in the
44:02
camp, I'm in the camp of you got to have at least a little bag of
44:04
something, right? But every year she kind of talks
44:07
me out of it until this year when our neighbor heard me
44:10
talking about it on the radio. They live across the street and
44:12
they got like a couple toddlers. And so they were kind of given
44:17
they were joking with Megan about the candy.
44:19
And so I did run out, run out to the store and buy just a little
44:22
bag of candy. And so they came by and gave
44:25
them a little bit. Well, dumb me left the light on
44:29
and sure enough, we had a couple more trick or treaters and the
44:31
and at 9:00 at night, it was at it was about 9:30.
44:35
We get a ringing at the doorbell and it's trick or treaters and I
44:38
already ran. I had run out of candy, so I was
44:40
like, oh, I'm sorry. Even though I only had a little
44:42
bag going. Oh, I'm so sorry guys.
44:43
And I said that's fine. So we normally we don't get a
44:47
lot of trick or treaters. How do you do out there in the
44:49
the boondocks? We don't do well, but I.
44:51
Was talking to a lot of people that do normally have a lot of
44:56
trick or treaters and they said this year they had about half of
45:00
the trick or treaters as they did last year.
45:02
And I think it's kind of a combination of a couple things.
45:05
I was thinking about it and Shaylee and I were discussing it
45:07
too. I was thinking about it when I
45:10
went to Walmart like the week before Halloween and the week of
45:13
Halloween, there was still a bunch of Halloween stuff, like a
45:17
bunch. And normally around that time
45:21
it's slim Pickens at Walmart for like costumes and candy and
45:25
there was a lot left. So I think part of it was
45:28
finances. People did not have the money or
45:31
that money to spend on costumes. I think that's a piece of it,
45:35
but I also think the other piece is trunk or treats are ruining
45:40
door to door trick or treating completely ruining it.
45:43
Yep, there's so many. And I.
45:45
I think that that is probably the number one.
45:48
Yes, we had that's a big treat. We had this in the tri-cities
45:51
too, because I'm, I'm part of a bunch of those Facebook groups
45:53
they're talking about, Oh, how many trick or treaters did you
45:55
get or whatever? And, and, and there's still
45:58
certain areas that still get a crap load of kids.
46:01
But wait, which you? Were saying it was down.
46:04
Right which I get the. Trunk or treats are safe and you
46:07
know where the candy's coming from, but you also have those
46:09
areas in those neighborhoods that you know are very safe and
46:13
a lot of people still go door to door trick or treating.
46:15
So you can't use that as an excuse.
46:17
I think the other pieces, trunk or treats are just easier for
46:20
parents to just take their kids around to trunks and they don't
46:23
have to be schlepping in the cold and their costumes going
46:28
door to door. So I think that's a big piece of
46:30
it. Plus there's trunk or treats
46:32
like all week long leading up to Halloween now, which is crazy to
46:35
me. Crazy And and and they're all
46:37
free. Usually, Yeah, yeah.
46:40
They're all, they're all I mean. Going door to door is free.
46:43
But well, but I mean. It's maybe you can, if you can
46:47
get a huge pillow, pillowcase of candy in one stop.
46:50
Why would you not basically. So yeah.
46:53
Yeah, I think we have a, we have a ton.
46:55
Well, we have trunk or treat. We have, we have a ton of
46:57
activities. I mean, we well here we've got
47:00
I, I, I know. Do you guys still have Mad
47:01
Hatter's haunts where you're at? Still on different things, like
47:04
yeah, yeah. So so even.
47:06
Here in the tri-cities that haunted houses have blown up
47:08
too. Like there's a lot of things
47:11
that different. Things that they can.
47:12
Do so yeah, for for I think trick or treating is is down at
47:17
least because a lot of people are just like you said, trunk or
47:20
treat Yeah, ruining it. Well, you.
47:24
Well, you. Now you're in.
47:25
The boot, you're in the boondocks.
47:26
So yeah, we don't. I mean when?
47:28
We used to decorate a lot. We are on the main road.
47:33
We would decorate a whole bunch and at one point we had done
47:36
like a little haunted house when the boys, Matthew and Benjamin
47:40
were probably 5 and 6. And so we got a lot of people
47:43
then and we would give candy at the end of the haunted house.
47:46
But since we don't decorate as much any which I don't, we don't
47:49
decorate anymore at all. We don't get anyone other than
47:53
and you know, like my brother brings his twins so I could see
47:56
them in their costume. Yeah, we get some of the family
47:58
members, but that's it. And of course, my grandbaby came
48:02
to trick or treat, so. Right.
48:03
So you get to get to see her. You get a little you.
48:05
Get a little bag of candy. And that's what, yeah, yeah, I
48:08
got her a little toys. And she's only three months old,
48:11
so yeah, yeah, Megan. Megan's a big fan of Turn The.
48:13
Lights off, act like you don't exist.
48:17
Oh gosh, well, and the. Funny thing is no, no, The funny
48:19
thing about. Her is.
48:20
She's, you know, my wife, she's, you know, she's always on the
48:23
go. So it's not not like she's
48:25
hanging around on Halloween. She goes out with her friend
48:28
Angie. She's doing other things.
48:29
So I'm like, how I, we was getting this conversation like,
48:31
what is it? If you're not here, why I should
48:35
be able to hang out candy And I'm like, and I'm like, and so
48:37
the way our, our house is situated, if I turn off the
48:39
light, you can still see the TV. So so.
48:44
Yeah. That's.
48:47
Hilarious because you know, somebody's here and the dog.
48:49
Well, the dogs are very, the dogs are reactive as well.
48:53
But yeah, yeah. But still.
48:55
But still. Yes.
48:55
I am, I am. I have very much want to give
48:58
out candy on Halloween or trick or treaters and she's in the
49:01
camp that doesn't. Yep.
49:03
Well, now. That I sounded like an old
49:05
person with my people don't like slip their kids in the cold from
49:10
house to house. I sound like the old person that
49:12
that is like I had to walk uphill in the snow when I was
49:17
younger. Like when did you I?
49:21
Sound like that person. Now like I, I think.
49:24
That I stopped trick or treating.
49:28
So my buddy Dean, my buddy the Blake's, they, they, they had
49:32
their own little haunt, like you said, they had a big house.
49:34
They they had a lot of money and so they would have a Halloween
49:38
party. So Dean would Dean would invite
49:41
his friends. And so I got to to go to that
49:43
several years when I so when I was with the Wallaces, when I
49:47
was with the Wallaces, I was able to go to that party.
49:50
And so I didn't trick or treat. Gosh, 7th grade on up probably.
49:55
Yeah, I think once I was like. 13, which would be something
49:59
like something like 7th, 8th. Grade Yeah.
50:01
Then which we went to see which This is why I do not like the
50:08
Halloween movie franchise. Michael Myers, my girlfriends
50:12
and I, her parents took us to the movies.
50:15
And I had sprayed, you know, the spray and hair color.
50:19
Yeah. We had like, sprayed our hair.
50:21
Well, I'm, I'm blonde like, or at least like dishwater blonde,
50:24
naturally. And so we sprayed my hair black.
50:28
Well, this is the first time I had ever done anything like that
50:31
to my hair. And it soaks in the color.
50:34
And so my hair, I wash my hair the next day and it is like a
50:38
green, dark green color. I kid you not.
50:43
It's like dark green. And I'm like, oh, my God, I
50:46
cannot go to school like this. My mom made me go to school with
50:50
my hair like that. Yes, yeah.
50:52
Made me go to school. Of course, everyone is like
50:54
teasing me about it. And it took me, it took probably
50:57
at least that entire week of continuously washing my hair all
51:02
the time to finally get it out. But besides that, again, we were
51:06
probably like 1213, going to see this R rated movie, which the
51:11
person at the time, I don't think now, they probably don't
51:14
care how old you are going to R rated movies.
51:16
But at the time, there's somebody there when you buy the
51:19
ticket, right? And so she was like, are you
51:24
guys old enough? And we all kind of look at each
51:26
other like, oh, shit. And there's like a couple behind
51:29
us. And the lady behind us is like,
51:31
yeah, they're old enough. She like vouches.
51:34
For. Us so the girls kind of like
51:38
okay, but she's still like sold us the tickets.
51:40
This is probably the first horror movie I have ever seen
51:44
and to this a day I I cannot stand Michael Myers even just if
51:48
I see the mask. I had nightmares for like months
51:53
after that and I to this day despise like I don't I'm not
51:57
like a horror movie type person. I don't really like.
52:00
Them and. I don't know if that's where it
52:02
started from or I I don't know. Same here.
52:04
I'm not. Yeah.
52:05
Michael yeah, For me as a kid, Michael Myers scared to live in
52:08
crap when I hear the music like. Yeah, just.
52:11
Just the thought that he's standing there in the in the
52:13
window of your kitchen, like I'm getting goosebumps now.
52:17
Just. Like, yeah, so for me for.
52:19
Me, Amityville Horror, where the the doll has red eyes or any of
52:23
that. Sorry.
52:24
Yeah, we had. Yeah.
52:25
None of that. None of that stuff.
52:26
Not a fan. I did enjoy the Scream franchise
52:31
only by the fact that that was really corny to me.
52:34
But you're kind. Of making.
52:36
I always look. I always look.
52:37
Like I. Yes, I see Scream as as a parody
52:42
of slasher movies, you know, with the ghostfaced or what the
52:46
Ghostface guy. So so I can handle, I can handle
52:49
a scream. Scream is OK, I guess, but I've
52:52
never, I've never been a not a big horror fan.
52:54
You know, I think I watched the very first.
52:57
Saw movie which there what on like 20 now I don't even know
53:00
how many there but I did not cut.
53:03
Your leg. Off what the?
53:04
Yes, I did not like that. Like psychological aspect of the
53:08
Saw movies. Like no, I'm like, no, I'm out.
53:12
No, I don't like any of it. No, you're we're in.
53:13
The same boat vote on that, just not, you know, not we're both
53:17
scaredy cat chickens. What we?
53:18
Are. Yeah, just not.
53:20
Just not. My thing, I put that up, put
53:22
that with the roller coasters. That's just Nah, dude, I don't,
53:26
I don't, I mean, I, it's funny is, you know, because I, I, when
53:31
it comes to movies, I do think I'm a, I'm a typical dude
53:34
because like action movies, right, you know?
53:38
I, I, you know or. Westerns, I mean, I think yeah,
53:41
those are movies I like, you know, I like, I like John Wick,
53:44
I like Stallone, I like, you know, those those, you know,
53:48
Bruce Willis, Die Hard, all the I mean, I like all those kind.
53:52
And then and then I like comedies and then I like and
53:54
then, and then bringing up the rear is, you know, a drama, you
53:59
know, something like, you know, I like stuff that I like stuff
54:02
that has to deal with lawyers, doctors.
54:05
I mean, they, they call it procedural, you know what I'm
54:08
saying? So I and I enjoy and I enjoy
54:11
things where detectives figure out things.
54:14
So I kind of like. Those.
54:15
I like those. Kind of movies, but yeah, I got,
54:19
you know, Silence of the Lambs is an amazing movie if you're
54:21
talking and I don't, but I've never thought of that as a
54:23
horror movie, even though you could probably couldn't classify
54:25
it like that. I thought it was more much more
54:27
of a suspenseful, suspenseful thriller.
54:30
So I so I like. I like a few of those.
54:32
Where you know? But just hacking up people, I
54:36
just. Never, you know, Chainsaw
54:37
Massacre. OK.
54:40
Yeah. No, no.
54:41
Thanks. Yeah, my husband must not be
54:43
normal. I mean, he likes the ones that
54:45
he can't figure out. So which I just which I just.
54:49
Made him watch. Have you watched the Demi Moore,
54:51
The substance? No.
54:53
Was it good? Well.
54:54
I mean, I thought it was good. He did not like which it does
54:58
have some like blood and which it's just kind of like Walking
55:01
Dead type is what it reminded me of.
55:04
But it's very I I understand where he didn't get it because
55:07
it's from like Demi Moore's character is aging in Hollywood.
55:12
And as you age, you're getting replaced by a younger person and
55:17
so. That.
55:18
Aspect of it, I think women, especially older women, can
55:21
really understand and really tap into that aspect of the movie
55:26
where like, dudes don't really understand that because once you
55:29
guys get to a certain age, it doesn't really matter.
55:31
You just look great with your salt and pepper hair.
55:34
Where us with like our Gray or white hair is like, no, no,
55:37
we're starting to get some wrinkles or bags and whatever it
55:40
is, there's a stigma of that compared to yeah.
55:43
There's a stigma, yeah. So he, I don't think he really.
55:47
I explained it to him like I liked it, I mean, because of
55:50
that aspect of it and how how like Dennis Quaid is in it and
55:55
he plays like that slimy manager type person.
55:59
So it he did great. He was fabulous in that part.
56:04
So yeah, I liked all facets of it, but that's probably because
56:07
being on the radio, we kind of had a glimpse into that world
56:10
too, like the music world and all that type of stuff.
56:14
So it's probably a bunch of reasons why I like it.
56:17
But yeah, he, I don't think really understood the whole the
56:21
whole plot of it, I think, or the message.
56:24
So yeah, I think I made him waste like an hour and a half of
56:27
his life. I think what's.
56:30
Interesting is when we when we talk about horror movies, I can
56:34
I like you you brought up The Walking Dead.
56:36
I can watch The Walking Dead. You know, for some reason, for
56:39
some reason The Walking Dead is not believable to me.
56:43
So I, I'm I can suspend belief about The Walking Dead, but
56:46
Michael Myers standing in the kitchen that could happen in
56:48
real life. So those.
56:50
Yes. So so I can watch I can watch
56:53
fantasy or sci-fi, you know, and and those kind of movies and
56:58
suspend belief. But for me, Halloween were where
57:01
they legitimately could be a serial killer.
57:03
That is not. That is not, I don't want to say
57:06
the realisticness. Yes, yes, yes, if it if it could
57:10
truly happen. Yes, if it can happen in real
57:12
life, I'm really not interested in seeing.
57:14
I mean The Walking Dead. Good afternoon.
57:15
You never know. Walking zombies I don't know
57:18
about. Yeah.
57:20
It's. Possible.
57:21
Possible. All right, we're coming up on
57:25
like. 57 minutes so we can we can call it a day we.
57:31
Can call it a podcast hopefully. Do you want?
57:33
Hopefully I shut my yap enough. To make the.
57:35
To make. Well, I mean, yeah, because I.
57:37
I got to talk about the cat story.
57:38
So do you want to do the outro since you you started with the
57:44
outro? Oh, you started with an intro, I
57:47
mean. I'm still going to I'm still
57:48
going to put the voice guide before go try.
57:50
So yeah, I'll, I'll do. A little outro.
57:52
I just think it's funny. All right, here you.
57:54
Go. All right, here you go.
57:55
This has been another great episode of Rick and that
57:58
Michelle chick, TuneIn. Next week we'll discover will
58:01
Rick finally shut his pie hole and will Michelle finally get a
58:05
word in edgewise? We'll find out next week with
58:08
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58:10
I gotta want to. Cry.
58:16
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