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- susan: Welcome back. How you doing, babe? Hello, people of the universe. Of our universe. Of our universe. I don't feel like we're reaching the galaxies just yet. No. Hopefully one day soon. Mm, we'll see. What happens? We enjoy making these. Yeah, we do. We enjoy the time we get together to make these. However, it can be a bit What's the word? Tiresome because depending on the week that we've had or the weekend that we've had, this can be like, ⁓ my goodness. ⁓ we've gotta make sure we gotta record, we've gotta make sure we have something, we've gotta do this, we've gotta do Yeah and it becomes a a big thing. Okay, so We have a little bit of Braves update. Not a ton. But they are at the it's 'cause we get a break for this week, right? ⁓ not for the full week. We just got ⁓ well, for majority of the week though. Six day no, son ⁓ Sunday to s Friday was that a six day or five day break? It's five. Five day break. That's pretty long though. Yeah. ⁓ so it's all star break. Last week we won the first series of the week against the Pirates. Yaz hit a grand slam. Jim Jarvis had his first home run. ⁓ and then we went to the over the weekend we went to Saint Louis and we t took one out of three there. We just can't seem to beat them consistently this year. she's w looking at her Tommy boy here. These you can see part of his body in the camera. And ⁓ We in game one we had a like two and a half hour rain delay, so I think that that just kinda threw things off 'cause it stopped Chris Sales' start pretty much. Like he went four innings and then they got delayed so they didn't have him come back out after that. But we're still like three and a half games ahead of Philly. I'm hoping that this like five day break they'll come back strong. Yeah, and Mr. We're still a few weeks away from the trade deadline, so we could see a lot of roster changes in the next couple of weeks. ⁓ But Acunya star and Kim started their rehab assignment in Florida. Last yesterday. Dude, I still want Kim to be off our team. ⁓ sorry. I really don't I Sorry, Kim, if you ever listen to this ever in your life, I'm sorry. But y you are not our strongest ⁓ was a waste of two hundred or twenty million dollars, honestly. ⁓ not worth you're not proving your worth like that, but also I know you've been injured and those things can't really be in your control but when you have been out there you have maybe put in about a third of what other players that probably get maybe less than you do. So that like You're probably a nice person. It has nothing to do with you as a person or anything like that. It purely has to do with the game and the plays. That's it. I mean, well, they get paid millions of dollars to play good. So Well yeah, so you want someone to play good and and he just hasn't shown that. And maybe that's just this year. Was he was he there last year? ⁓ we picked him up at the end of the season but he was on the Padres. I don't know if we picked him up from the Padres, but he was on the Padres for most of the season last year and then he got injured. And then we I think we picked him up off of injury. And then he star he he was solid for us enough for the end of the the season last year. ⁓ I think he had a couple of home runs, but this year's ever why would you pick someone up off injury? That's g wild. Depending on the injury, that's a lot. I don't know if we picked him up ⁓ I think he probably was playing a a a few weeks before we got him. But we needed a bat last year 'cause as good as Nick Allen was at defense, he just wasn't consistent enough for hitting and we needed another bat. Do you think do you think that the Braves are like trying to be underdogs or do you okay no no no no no no no that's not the that's not the question. I need to think about it. Hold on. I was there and then I lost it. Do you think the Braves could get like do you think they pick someone because a a lot of other people Have been going that route. Pick someone? Like like some a lot of other teams that passed up on this person? Yeah. it the I mean in our World Series run back in twenty one, we picked up a lot of guys that were struggling and then they ended up making an impact. Like Jock Peterson, Adam DeVall, Jorge Solaire, Eddie Rosario, those guys were all struggling other paces and we picked them up and they instantly made an impact for us. Just for that spent stand of the postseason run. And then it was they weren't worth anything after so. Okay. But yeah, it it it really just depends on if a guy can get hot right at the right time. Yeah. But I mean like Austin Riley still looks lost out there. I don't know what they're gonna do with him 'cause he's the highest g paid guy on our team. So, I just I don't know. I think Austin Riley has at least made some sort of effort. Like when it comes to playing in the Well man, his defense is still elite. But ⁓ he needs work on the offense, but his defense is there. Yeah. And his offense is somewhat there. He just needs to feel more confident in it. ⁓ the thing is like ⁓ you're worth it, if you're if you're worth it, yes, I think you should be rewarded. But at the same time, let's think about ⁓ much we're putting into players that aren't giving back. Like after this year, Akuna was out like half the year this year. Yeah. Last year he wasn't out half the year. ⁓ he was out the first couple months of the year first couple months, but he wasn't out almost the full season like he's been this year. This year he's been out of a lot more games. So again, I don't I I get I get that he's great. He's got a great arm and mm, I don't know how to keep him in defense without out him hitting because that's what it is. As when he runs the bases that is when he is hurting himself the most. No, actually ⁓ the first knee injury was in the outfield but ⁓ the second one was him ⁓ it's it It sucks. I don't know. 'Cause I think after you've made a certain amount of injuries, there's just th they're gonna be so questionable to play you all the time. They're gonna be questionable on how to use you because you're just you're not gonna be reliable. And that's a waste of our our money. You know. Do you know which ⁓ MLB ⁓ team receives the most money? Do you know the answer to that? Like that's one of the most that the Doggers has the most money. They they're they pay their players stupid amount. The highest payroll right now I think is the Mets. Because how do other than like sponsorships, investments, like how do they pay? It's from us. It's it's from it's from the people who watch Yeah. So kinda like they say a government like the government works for us because we pay for their we pay for for their paychecks. Like they we pay as taxpayers or whatever, we pay their paychecks. Yeah. The thing is is that if we are the main source of your money flow, I don't wanna pay for a player that I'm not gonna see because he's on injury. If he gets injured during a game that's already started, that's different. But if he was already on injury and we decided to grab him off injury And then he gets injured again and keeps getting injured. I don't wanna see that. That's not what I wanna pay for. I don't wanna pay to go s to go see well not see, you know? That's like I don't know. That's just my personal opinion, I guess. I like watching Akunu too much to say that I wanna see him gone. I'm not saying I wanna see him gone. I'm saying it's a w it's slightly a waste of money for us. Yeah. That we're probably in a way we're So ⁓ Next year I think he'll be a free agent. So that's when they gotta figure out if they wanna pay him big bucks or send him on his way. What do you think they're gonna do? I don't know. Cause the Braves are Alex doesn't really re sign a lot of players. Who? Our GM. Alex Anthopoulos. ⁓ Like he let Max Fried go, he let Freddie Freeman go, but that was an interesting thing with his agent. ⁓ Well, I don't know if was Freddie Freeman really like I thought he was already we were already paying him. I think he just left for more money that we just couldn't give. 'Cause we were giving to other players. ⁓ I don't know. That's what I'm saying. We're giving it to other players when there are maybe more deserving players that we want to keep. Like, does that make sense? Mm-hmm. So. No, Jer Jerks and Profar is probably the worst signing in Braves history. So who? Jerks and Profar, the guy that's got hit for PDs twice. ⁓ yeah. Well, we're still on a contract with him though. Yeah. So it's not like we can boot him. I still think there should be a breach of contract there, but whatever. Yeah. Not not my thing. But yeah, no, I just I don't know. Yeah. No. The All Star game is happening actually right now as we speak. ⁓ Well, it hasn't started. But Yeah, we got five All Stars there. Drake Baldwin, Matt Olson. Chris. Chrisel. Rice sell. and Ozzy Albies. So That's five. Mm-hmm. Ozzie. Ozzie, Drake Baldwin, Maddelson, Iggy and Crusoe. ⁓ okay. Yes. I forg you didn't say I said Riceville. You did? Mm-hmm. I must have missed that. 'Cause I was like, that's just four. Yeah. Yep. So excited to see them tonight. Yeah. She's also got two all stars from her team. The brew crew. Yeah, I don't think Jacob's pitching in the game though. I think he Minsk, he's not gonna No, I think he ⁓ Then what's he gonna be doing? He just got selected and then I think he wasn't able to throw, I don't know. And they substitute someone else and f they can go into the game. Like last year Chrisell was selected for the All Star game, but he didn't lose his spot because he was injured. They just put someone else in. When did he get injured? He got injured last year when we were playing the Mets. No, I'm not I'm talking about Mintz. ⁓ I don't know I don't know if ⁓ Mintz is injured. But But maybe maybe they are playing. I think he's I I think he's gonna be in there. 'Cause he Just I don't know. We'll see. We'll see. I think he's gonna show up. Who is that? The Dodgers manager. Why is the Dodgers manager? I think he's the manager of the team. ⁓ did he win coach of the year or something or manager of the year? Well then why do they get picked? How do they get picked? How do the managers get picked? I didn't see them on my voting list. I don't know. ⁓ do you wanna talk about the home derby? yeah, we watched the home run derby last night and none of the braids were in it, but I was happy that both of the Phillies got knocked out. I mean it came down to ⁓ this guy off my screen. ⁓ came down to ⁓ ⁓ wire though. ⁓ and Jordan Walker of of the cardinals ended up winning it. He can't he was down to his last swing, so the new format you can't end on a home run. So he ⁓ he hit four and the the final swing ball was like different colored so it was throwing guys off all night. Except for Schwarber hit one in his final run and then ⁓ Jordan Walker hit four home runs off that ball to win his ⁓ his spot. No. It's pretty cool. Pretty cool. They're announcing the starters right now for the game. Sorry. So Yeah. That's Braves update. Hope we'll get Acuna back in the next week or so and I don't hopefully Kim I do love a cunha. It's not that I don't love Acunya. I think he's great. he's ⁓ of the best athletes in the I just wish that he didn't have as many injuries so it didn't feel like some ⁓ players just are more prone to the injury. Don't know why this guy's in the all star game. ⁓ it should have been Michael Harris, but anyways. Yeah. So there's our cat Tommy. And there's our cat Thomas, he's right behind me. Look at him. He's so sweet. Give him a pet. Any buddy. So yeah, what do we have on the table today, babe? ⁓ Okay. when going camping, what is your top tip? ongoing camping. Mm-hmm. Top tip is ⁓ be prepared for weather. Always be prepared for weather. That's a good tip. That's a good tip. and every time I go camping I try my hardest not to, but I always end up forgetting something. So maybe try to be prepared as the best you can. What's what's a way to do that? What do mean? You could make a checklist. Yeah. And you can check things off when you pack Yeah. You don't really do that, do you? No, I'm not much of a checklist guy. Yeah. So do you think if you had a checklist you would have brought everything that you needed, roughly? Maybe. There were some things that we got that were a hundred percent like. ⁓ well we didn't have any chairs. We got some chairs. I wouldn't end up needing another extension cord anyways. Well, I mean not for what we were doing. If I wanted to cook at the table I would've Yeah. That one I think is a little bit longer than the one we got though. but yeah, so we had to go to Walmart and do a couple of Walmart runs. Yeah, well, ⁓ the thing is is that when we first got there, we realized that we forgot an extension cord and we need an it's an extension cord to put the mattress up to inflate the we d we don't need that 'cause we have the inverter in the back of the car. I know, but then you have to try to fit it into the tent. Yeah, that would have been It would have still fit in there. Not the the one door only opens. That would have been a tight squeeze. I know, and it's it it it's flexible. It's not solid mattress. True, but it's an air mattress. I would be afraid that we would pop it or something. No. That would've been fine. Still. But yeah. And so we forgot that. But I we do we were ready for the main stuff that you need for campaign. We had our tents, we had everything ready for weather. Mm-hmm. We had our we had our fly. However, we did have to get a tarp. Well, I mean like just 'cause we want we want a tarp spot to be dry. Not so necessarily that we need yeah, it doesn't have to be dry but there's a like a little front porch extension. on our tent that the first night it got dumped on 'cause it rained hardcore. Well it wasn't downpour but it It was loud. What do you think it sounds louder in a tent Because it we also had it also was coming off the trees. So it was like real. So it it's always louder in the woods because it I'm gonna play ⁓ then it hits then then the trees are dripping. Ready everyone? I'm gonna play. And there was loud thunder, like it was it was crazy. Yeah. It was crazy. I was scared. It's not the worst rainstorm I've been in though. I was scared. I was scared for my life. I've been in I've been camping in the rain multiple times in my life. I know, I know. That's why I trusted you when you said it was gonna be okay and that you just Yeah, I mean we just need to put a a ground cloth under our tent next time. That's the one thing that we didn't have. Yeah. 'Cause we did get a little bit of water in there, but we were on flat ground so it wasn't that's something you don't want. You don't want to put yourself on a hill. On a hill. Or like at the bottom of a hill. can just flow and be like a river going through. Yeah. Well I I wanted a tarp also because like the whole purpose of our tent when I bought it for him for Christmas and it was our first time using it. So, you know, this was our first time with it out of the bag. Like we had no Nor did we know that the weather was gonna like get crazy. The weather was so unpredictable. Well, I mean like it kept changing Georgia weather. Well yeah, but it kept changing like constantly. But we didn't expect there to be a a big storm, like maybe a light storm, but this is a big storm and if it comes in at a certain angle, so There's a front like you said, a front porch attachment. Now there is a cover on it, but it doesn't cover the front part. So when the mosquito net that goes down at an angle Yeah. And so i it can just go in if it's constantly raining. So would like to keep that dry so that way ⁓ can lay in there. We can put our chairs in there. Like if it did start raining, we could just put our chairs in the front porch. We don't have put ⁓ back in the car. We don't have to put ⁓ back in the car. We don't have to try to fit ⁓ in our tent. We can just put ⁓ on the front porch ⁓ look out and watch ⁓ ⁓ the weather. the weather, like the rain and anything like that and just enjoy it, like you know. and maybe like use a makeshift table to ⁓ play card games on. Like That's that's what I want the front porch to be and I also want it to be a place for Coda to sleep. Yeah. that way she doesn't have to necessarily be in with us. I think the only time I'd want her really in with us is if we think that she might get out for any type of reason that she might like freak out. Yeah. Because we're not next to her. Like it started raining, so I brought her in to the main tent because I just did not want her to freak out. and scratch it. Yeah, and we still had a really good amount of room with our air mattress. Yeah, we still have plenty of room for her. Compared to our first camping trip when we had my dad's little like three man tent. Two man tent. Mm-hmm. Yeah. It was a two man tent. What are you talking about? But this is a six person tent. However But we also didn't have the mat the queen mattress. We had my little twin mat ⁓ air mattress. True. If we had a twin mattress in there There'd be so much room. So much room. Yeah. I wouldn't mind that actually. To have that. So we had like even more space if you wanted to do that. I don't mind being cuddled up with you. Yeah, I know. So yeah, definitely if you want to use an air mattress of some sort Make sure you think about it because I thought a six percent tent was gonna be like majorly huge. I don't know why my mind thought that, but I just was like, it's gonna be enormous. six people exactly. Like it would fit six people in sleeping bags. It does not mean six people on a cot or anything like that. Or your stuff in there or anything like that. Or yeah, your stuff. It's purely six people in sleeping bags. So if you're wanting to fit two air mattresses or something like that, make sure you go bigger. Do not go by how many people it says it sleeps. Just when you when you do that, think of it as letting you Well, I didn't know and I was trying to surprise you with a tent. I feel like it's perfect for our s you we because I mean we can even fit a crib in there when we if we want to go Yeah. So well, the thing is is that the whole point of it was to be a very, very like biggest surprise for Christmas because you knew almost everything else that you were getting for the most part. Yeah. ⁓ there weren't very many surprises. So this one I really wanted to make a surprise and you didn't even see it under the tree until Christmas morning. Yeah. Because I waited for you to be gone and then I opened it and put it under the tree. when you were already up in the room, ready for bed. Because I I just really knew how bad you wanted us to have a tent. So I was like Yeah, and there's still more stuff that I want us to get for camping. Yeah, we've but for now we don't really have the space for it in our house. Yeah. That's the only bad thing. I wanna get into Dutch oven cooking eventually. 'Cause my dad was big into that when I was growing up and it was a lot of fun watching him do that. I also wanna kinda get like a kitchenette that my parents my parents have like a kitchenette thing for camping and I kinda wanna get one of those too. Yeah. So when we have more space to clutter it up. Yeah. That's the first thing we're probably gonna do. But honestly, I've never been a camping person. Never. My dad tried to take me camping. I hated it. He made me touch a worm. Disgusting. Are we fishing at the same time? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. He like but also Fish worms are gross. When you're when you're four years old, they're pretty gross. And you're a girl, they're pretty gross. I feel like that it was a whole it was like a huge can. Yeah, it's a little white white container. Yeah, white container with dirt and you grab the worm and put it on your hook and then send it in the water. Yeah, he made me touch the worm and ⁓ and he won and he took a picture of me with the worm. I've got a picture with a worm. Gross. Okay. I have pictures of fish that have eaten the worm. Yeah. Well, I don't think I caught anything. So with that, like this probably was the best camping experience I had this past weekend with our tent. ⁓ it was? Yeah. the time but w I told you that. Because Well I mean the time before that we were s in such a cramped tent together. We were kind of in a cramped campsite. Yes, very cramped can we say. We heard some people around us and like it wasn't as they didn't really have fire. Just be careful with how your campsite is, 'cause we're right when we went to it we were butted up against the cabin. Anyways, they're expensive to go to anyway, so Yeah. I suggest finding a campground. Yeah. We found a campground that we really like and I I loved it because you had s you could see the other campsite nearby us but like they weren't on top of you. You could hear them a little bit, but it really wasn't that bad. And they had strict rules, you know, ten PM, quiet hour till seven AM and they even had like they were driving around on go karts every Golf carts, sorry, golf carts. They're they were driving around on golf carts, like and I think they were just doing routine checks every, you know, f four to five hours. They were just doing a perimeter check and like that is great because they're also trying to make sure that everyone's following the rules and everything like that. So You know, that's they probably drove around at night. We just didn't really hear ⁓ that much. ⁓ I don't think they drove around at night. You don't think so? No. There's certain time when the office closes. Yeah. I think they they maybe did one final sweep at at ten o'clock to make sure that nobody was being too crazy. Because here's the thing, how are you going to if someone is being like wild at let's say not our campsite but the campsite next to us, how do we call contact the office to let them know? You know? Like an emergency situation, how so I think they they probably make one last check to make sure that everyone's good for at ten PM. I don't know. Maybe. Well they always have someone there on the campsite, so Yeah. But by the time you get down there from where we were, I still enjoyed it. I I still enjoyed it and I really enjoyed it because well, the only other times I went camping was with my dad and again Like it was real camping. It wasn't it wasn't bougie camping, it was real camping. We did not have an air mattress, we slept on the ground and it was uncomfortable. And I was so scared of bugs crawling all over me. I'd not a huge fan of bugs, so Well I mean we can sleep on the ground if you want. No. Mm mm. I like the air mattress. I like having a bed. I like feeling like I have a bed. I don't care too much about the bugs and everything as long as they're outside too. I don't want ⁓ inside. Outside. But you guys not sleep with a tent? We did sleep with a tent. But I just felt so close to the ground that I felt like bugs were crawling in through the zipper and coming into the tent. That's one of the things I'm am also a little paranoid about, which is why I keep saying close the tent, close the tent, close the tent is because I am I don't want bugs getting in. Because I just Well, it's not always a hundred percent all the time. I know. We had a daddy long leg in there. Well, I mean bugs are attracted to light, so if you have lights on and they're pitch black they're gonna be coming. Yes, but we usually did it when it was you know towards we were closing the door pretty quickly and closing it, so it wasn't too bad. Yeah. So we got some souvenirs. It's from what was the place called again? Morganton Point. Morgan Point. Morgan Point. General store. Yeah. It was right around the corner from the campsite. So Yes. And you can find the campsite yourself. We're not gonna tell you because I don't want all of you taking up spots. 'Cause I wanna go. But no, it was beautiful. It was off the lake. Yeah, like Blue Ridge up in North Georgia. It was it was really nice and like I just loved the campsite, the area. I would do it again. The only thing I think that freaked me out the most was the storm was the storms. And then Coda, when we brought her inside because of the storms, she would walk around. She thought it was someone outside the tent. And I could not tell if it was someone walking around our tent or if it was Coda. Because my charger had a light. So it looks like someone was shining light. You need to get a different charger 'cause that charger can't. Mm mm. I just need to cover it. I saw I just need to cover it. I saw so many lights that I would be like, ⁓ my gosh, is that something? Is that something? Is that something? I'd be so scared. And I was we used my keys, cause like This was ridiculous. Okay. I'm just trying to be safe. I used my keys and put them through the zipper. If someone really wants to get in our tent, they'll get into our tent. They have knives. They could just cut through the Yes. And then we know they're there. But at least we're not gonna give ⁓ the like we'll wake up immediately. Then zipping the tent open's not gonna wake us up? I don't know. You never know, okay? I just all right. I feel like Coda will give us some kind of warning. I don't think she would. She's not gonna bark at people, but I don't know. So I took my key lanyard and put it through the two loops that were connected to the zippers and then I made a makeshift tie to tie ⁓ together like a lock. So that way they couldn't go couldn't get opened from the outside. I just I have a little Okay. Not trying to die. Also, serial killers. Okay, they exist to stop watching or reading or watching so much. Murder mystery. Murder mystery. But I love it, okay? I like I like the thrill. I like the ⁓ my gosh. my gosh. ⁓ know? ⁓ It's it's bad for me, but Yeah, but Blue Ridge, LJ, that whole area's just beautiful. Very beautiful. But we had a great time. That's just all that we did this weekend, is we just went camping. Mm-hmm. And so that was basically our episode was just to talk about us and our camping and, you know, some tips and tricks to learn from us. You know. Yeah. But he might make me a camping person just yet. 'Cause I did enjoy myself, so and I did ask to go back. I normally wouldn't. So Yeah, I mean Don't have to go primitive primitive. So Yeah. They've gone to two places with power, so Power is nice. Well, we did with my parents 'cause my mom always liked having a fan blowing. ⁓ fan is nice. So I just we just need to get a little bit closer so that the fan can fit in the little cubby above at the very top and then it could just blow on us. Yeah, we can figure out a way rig it. Rig it. Yeah. So I don't want to set it on that net 'cause I don't want that net to get like stretched out or whatever. Well I know. But it has a it has a clip at the top. Yeah, it has a clip at the top. So you can hang Yeah. So things that we'll do next time. Yep. Learn from our mistakes or from our experiences. Yeah. Or learning and so you know, we had a grand old time. We took pictures, they were really cute. Yeah. We went swimming, we took coda swimming. my gosh, that was a big thing. Yeah, sure. Force it on the water. ⁓ She got out and then ran up the hill and then got into it with another dog and I had to chase her around and then she ran out. She didn't get into it. She just ran by that dog and that dog barked and so she ran away. Yeah. They didn't get into it into But yeah, obviously the Aunt Pets were supposed to be on leash. Unleash and and we had her on a leash, but she was coming out of the water and I thought he was gonna be right behind her 'cause I was filming and then I didn't realize I wasn't very close to grab her and so I didn't grab her. And she Yeah, she got up the hill quick. And so then he went chasing after her and then he went around and then I came up the hill and then she came back up the hill behind me. I said, Hey clo and she came straight to me. I had her leash, thank goodness, and I clipped her in. We didn't take her leash off after that. So yeah. That was her camping trip. Maybe we'll find a way to bring the cat sometime. No really. That would be a big fat no. Unless we weren't bringing Coda and we were bringing one cat and one cat only to test it, then fine. But which one would you bring? Luke probably. Luke. Definitely not that one. That one would run. The minute he could. No, I don't mean like We get that ⁓ that cat catio thing. Mm catio. Yeah. Well then we need to get ⁓ on preventatives. Like an actual flea intake medicine if we're gonna do that like coda. Yeah. Well, I was just joking. It's definitely her dog's thing. Yeah. Nice to get her out of the house. We gotta get it get her used to it. She's she was still kinda skeptical. She didn't really eat much. Yeah. And I wonder if it's just because of the bowl or what? but she just didn't eat that much. But it could have been the storms, it could have been, you know, it was just a lot of new Yeah, we had her at our friend's house. ⁓ the Friday night. Friday night. Yeah, but she did great there. She did but yeah. Alrighty. Well Yeah. That was it. That was our our weekend adventure and our weekly episode. So Well we'll see you next time. See you next week. Bye.