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- 1:32So what'd you get up to today?
- 1:35We went for our morning walk, which was nice.
- 1:41We get to open the windows about halfway through the day.
- 1:44Right around noontime, we got to close the windows
- 1:46because it starts getting a little warm.
- 1:47but the morning's been very nice oh that's nice and you i did uh go on oh no go on no i was
- 1:55we we got a i wouldn't call it dumpster dive but uh we found a little uh find that along the side
- 2:01of the road somebody was disposing of again a free uh above ground uh what do you got raised
- 2:07bed garden bed and like a metal thing yeah a little cheapy one hey but yeah hey free it looked
- 2:14It looked like it'll work and free is best cost, man.
- 2:18Yeah, man.
- 2:18I mean, it's only like a foot tall, but there was nothing in there.
- 2:21You don't need more than that, right?
- 2:23I mean, you've got dirt under there.
- 2:26Plants will make do.
- 2:28And if it rutsed away in a year, it won't be as upset as the ones we paid a lot of money for.
- 2:33Something happens to those ones.
- 2:36I don't think it will, but, you know.
- 2:38So far, the Vigo garden beds we got, you know.
- 2:42Yeah.
- 2:43they've been holding up pretty well i i still you know would contend that they could have been done
- 2:51better the four bazillion freaking screw nuts and you know bolts and that did the
- 3:00is a little annoying you didn't do those with my hand did you what's we yeah you didn't like
- 3:07doing with the little wrench that they give you in the box did you yeah are you serious well i
- 3:12didn't do them oh i helped a little bit at the end ah we get the drill out with the nut you know
- 3:19the socket on it we had a little team thing going that's nice she was on the outside holding it i
- 3:25was on the inside yeah my wife actually basically unboxes them and then they have all this plastic
- 3:32coating and she rips all the plastic that's the best part peeling all that stuff off i guess and
- 3:37she does all that
- 3:40and then she gets everything sorted
- 3:41and then she puts the panels together
- 3:43to the point where all we have to do
- 3:45is put like, you know,
- 3:47one edge,
- 3:50she'll put one edge with a rounded corner
- 3:51and a rounded corner and another edge
- 3:54with a rounded corner and a rounded corner
- 3:56and then two flat panels
- 3:57and then we'll just take them down there
- 3:59and we'll do them together to put them together.
- 4:03Yeah.
- 4:04Yeah.
- 4:05That's the way it's worked for us.
- 4:07I have this weird thing.
- 4:09I get,
- 4:10I have zero freaking patience for putting things together at times.
- 4:15You know,
- 4:15sometimes I can,
- 4:16I can be okay with it.
- 4:18I guess what it comes down to is if you send me directions and they are well
- 4:23written and you didn't like make my life just super like the,
- 4:28okay,
- 4:28I get it.
- 4:29You can configure the thing 50,000 ways,
- 4:31but likewise,
- 4:33every panel this long and I'm looking for,
- 4:35you know,
- 4:35an eight by eight.
- 4:37type configuration i've got like you know four of these two corners four more of these two corners
- 4:44four more of these you know what i mean it's like yeah it just seems like it could have been like
- 4:49one and a corner and one and a corner and one in the corner did you never ever like an erector
- 4:58set as a kid i did you didn't enjoy doing that kind of thing that's totally different
- 5:01it's pretty much the same no it's totally different yeah it's not a garden bed erector
- 5:09set if it was a garden bed erector set i'd be pissed but it was an erector set imagine it
- 5:17dream it up engineer it and design it and put it together it wasn't as long as it's a garden bed
- 5:24or as long as it's a cabinet you know what i mean so it leaves a lot of imagination sit in the thing
- 5:31once you make it pretend like it's a spaceship or something i don't know does that make it any
- 5:36more fun no all right not really you could hire the 10 year old down the street to do it for like
- 5:42five bucks i'm sure they'd be happy there is no 10 year old down the street i'm just saying
- 5:49there isn't one those days those days are a long gone all right
- 5:57and the cow gets out constantly though
- 6:01all right and he's probably not the same cow but a cow gets out pretty constantly
- 6:07you got new neighbors down the street now yeah everything our kids i don't know and i don't care
- 6:14i just assumed they never actually became neighbors
- 6:18yeah we got a new another 160 uh home development coming in dude i saw that was oh that's okay i
- 6:31mean hey it is what it is i mean that's only like yeah you know between 320 and 37 000 people
- 6:41yeah that's just a one though like what about the other 50 of them everywhere else like well
- 6:48the good news is you're gonna run out of land that isn't either swamp protected or ocean so
- 6:54well eventually yeah well like the you know a couple counties down south of us that have zero
- 7:01empty land left yeah yeah you just drive it's it's funny because uh you go down there and like
- 7:08some of the street names are named like there's literally one called brian dairy road
- 7:13it used to be a dairy farm there is zero empty land around there anymore
- 7:19there's definitely no no dairy around there at all yeah we've we've got some of that around here too
- 7:26yeah yeah just old old farms that are you know no longer farms yeah what are you gonna do you
- 7:35know it's sad it's happening all around us you know when we first came up here
- 7:39I, if you even remember the first alpaca, right.
- 7:43Uh, coming in, I don't know if, well, you come in from South Carolina, so it's a little
- 7:48different.
- 7:49If you come in from the North Carolina side, if you had made that trip previously, you
- 7:55wouldn't know that you were just going through endless ag fields, endless ag fields.
- 7:59And then you'd get to us and their little town where I am very little town.
- 8:04Like there's no real town.
- 8:06it's more like a you know a food line and and you know a couple gas stations and that's town right
- 8:16dead serious oh and there's like one of those brick house washer going car
- 8:21that's town that's all of town there's not like town okay um but now there's starting to be more
- 8:29town and the road that was endless ag is now just dotted with huge planned communities that
- 8:36have been built you know and it's not slowing down so you know eventually we'll be one of those
- 8:43farms sitting there in the middle of uh suburbia or something yeah i mean that's a possibility i've
- 8:53sent you those pictures before like that one dude that held out at his house and it's like surrounded
- 8:59well there was like you know houses that are this far apart from each other there was a cattle farm
- 9:05up until very recently in a town over here called Waxhaw,
- 9:11which has just exploded.
- 9:15And, you know, these people, you know, their pasture,
- 9:20their house and their pasture are in the same fenced area.
- 9:23So they live with the cows.
- 9:27And so you'd see, like, you know,
- 9:29there's just nothing but subdivisions all around.
- 9:33I mean, planned communities and everything.
- 9:35And then there's, you know, this house with a bunch of cows.
- 9:38You're like, what?
- 9:40And by bunch, I'm talking they probably had 50 head of cattle.
- 9:44Oh, wow.
- 9:44Yeah, not a little.
- 9:45That's a few.
- 9:45Not like two or three.
- 9:47Like, they had cows, right?
- 9:48This was a, you know, a cattle ranch, you know, in the middle of suburbia.
- 9:54And I think they finally sold, so.
- 9:56Yeah.
- 9:57Well, because it's got to get really annoying people complaining about the smell and, you know, easement and, you know, where do you put your compost?
- 10:04and, you know, people.
- 10:07Another thing is, you know,
- 10:08once it encroaches on you like that,
- 10:11one of the problems you have in any farm
- 10:14where you've got livestock
- 10:15is going to be predators, okay?
- 10:18Now, most of the time,
- 10:21predators are dealt with extreme prejudice.
- 10:27Suburbia does not go for that.
- 10:29They don't think that's okay.
- 10:32It's like, but you put suburbia
- 10:34where i was i didn't go where you were you know but that's that's one of the other things that's
- 10:39the kind of stuff if they start you know noise ordinance and stuff like that with the livestock
- 10:44guardian dogs and you know um other kinds of things encroaching that's when we'll probably
- 10:51have to make the decision to get to the heck out of dodge yep now i'm gonna look at places when we
- 10:59come up to visit you guys.
- 11:00Just take a look.
- 11:01I think it'd be a good idea.
- 11:04You know?
- 11:04Yeah.
- 11:05Take a half a day.
- 11:06Can't hurt.
- 11:07Do you want us to contact
- 11:08our realtor lady
- 11:10and hook you up?
- 11:12Yeah, I mean,
- 11:12I don't know, you know?
- 11:13I mean,
- 11:14I'm not going to obligate myself
- 11:15to nothing,
- 11:15but I sure wouldn't mind
- 11:16looking at a couple things.
- 11:18Well, yeah.
- 11:18I mean, she's a realtor, right?
- 11:20So for her,
- 11:21if she shows you houses
- 11:22and you never buy,
- 11:23well, you know,
- 11:24maybe you tell someone else.
- 11:25The fact is,
- 11:26we told you about it.
- 11:27So she's getting referrals.
- 11:29That's a good thing.
- 11:30There you go.
- 11:30And, you know, if you do buy and you go through her, I can recommend her highly.
- 11:35We had a great experience with her.
- 11:38And she knows the area very well.
- 11:41You know what I mean?
- 11:42So she'll be able to tell you if, you know, if you're, you know, looking at property or something, she'll be able to tell you if it'll perk.
- 11:49Right.
- 11:51She'll be able to tell you, you know, and this, you know, you might want to think somewhere else because here's the issues.
- 11:58Right.
- 11:58So, you know, she's got the knowledge.
- 12:01That's very valuable.
- 12:03I mean, there's areas around here that are a little less expensive and there's a reason for that.
- 12:09Like, hey, it floods every year.
- 12:11Did you know that?
- 12:14Right.
- 12:15Yeah.
- 12:15Every time it rains, everything's flooded.
- 12:18So neat property if you want to put in the drainage, but otherwise I'd avoid it.
- 12:24So she'll be able to do stuff like that.
- 12:26And I think that's a pretty big value add.
- 12:31Absolutely.
- 12:33Myself.
- 12:33I got sun today.
- 12:36Oh, you did?
- 12:36Looking a little peeky.
- 12:37Working outside?
- 12:38What's that?
- 12:39Working outside?
- 12:40Well, yeah, we put raised garden beds together.
- 12:43Or not together.
- 12:44Oh, you just did that today?
- 12:45Well, we cleared out the remaining raised beds, got everything prepped, and then, you
- 12:52know, got them filled up and stuff like that.
- 12:55All right.
- 12:55we still have two more three more beds to go Oh I thought you had them all put together I mean they were all put together but we had to clear out the summer plant
- 13:08All right.
- 13:09I got you now.
- 13:10Yeah.
- 13:10Nice.
- 13:11But clear that out, get some additional soil because the earth eats it.
- 13:15We have to do that too.
- 13:16The earth eats it.
- 13:17Our compost isn't quite ready.
- 13:20Yeah.
- 13:20so you know luckily we we just you know we have a pile of soil that we can just draw off of
- 13:25um we have the the property to be able to you know have a truck full of soil dumped and
- 13:32use it up over the course of the year you know i'm envious you too can have this
- 13:40right
- 13:43so you're working like sunrise to sunset well it ain't quite sunset yet but
- 13:50working out there all day?
- 13:52No.
- 13:53No.
- 13:53I don't even joke like that.
- 13:58How's your apple juice?
- 14:00You got more of that stuff, huh?
- 14:01It's very good.
- 14:02Homemade apple juice.
- 14:03This one's a little darker.
- 14:04Did you get ice cubes in there this time?
- 14:05Well, there were.
- 14:06They melted.
- 14:07All right.
- 14:08Like those special round ones?
- 14:11No, that's for alcohol.
- 14:14This is apple juice.
- 14:16I got you.
- 14:18Yeah, yeah.
- 14:19it's totally different totally different oh yeah you want to hear my uh facebook marketplace story
- 14:27of the week i would actually so in the process of cleaning out the garage i uh we have this like
- 14:35big long dresser thing like you know mid-century 50s or 60s kind of thing that we have in the house
- 14:41and it came with this big mirror on the back yeah nice enough mirror we just didn't need it
- 14:45So it's been sitting in the garage for like 10 years.
- 14:47I decided to list it on there.
- 14:49It's a really nice shape.
- 14:50You know, it's like heavy, real wood.
- 14:5220 bucks, right?
- 14:53You know, just move it out.
- 14:54So I list it on there.
- 14:57And this woman messaged me, I'm really interested in the mirror.
- 15:00Can I come pick it up?
- 15:02I'm like, yeah, sure.
- 15:04You know, what time do you want to come?
- 15:06She gave me a time.
- 15:07And that time came and went.
- 15:09And she messaged me, something came up.
- 15:11Can I do it tomorrow at this time?
- 15:14I'm like, sure, no problem.
- 15:16That time came and went.
- 15:18And then she messaged me again.
- 15:20Oh, well, we have to leave, go somewhere for the weekend.
- 15:24I'll be back Monday, and then I can come by and pick it up.
- 15:27I'm still being totally cool about it.
- 15:29It ain't no skin off my back.
- 15:31It's been sitting in the garage for 10 years, right?
- 15:33That time came and went.
- 15:35And then she messaged me again, saying, hey, can we move it to this day?
- 15:39That's when I just didn't answer her back.
- 15:42I just ignored her.
- 15:44So then, like a week goes by, and I get a message from this guy.
- 15:49Hey, I'm really interested in this mirror.
- 15:51Can I come by and pick it up maybe tomorrow?
- 15:54And I'm like, man, that phrasing sounds really familiar to the other person.
- 15:59But I'm like, eh, whatever.
- 16:01I'm like, sure.
- 16:02Sure.
- 16:03You know, I'll be available tomorrow between 8 and 10.30 in the morning,
- 16:07or I can message you when I get back for my appointment.
- 16:09and this person says uh okay i'll be there in the morning this is a guy right so this person shows up
- 16:20at the house and it's a girl i must have been looking at her kind of weird and she's like uh
- 16:26i'm here for the mirror and i'm like oh i was expecting uh you know a guy his name cody right
- 16:32I said, I was expecting Cody.
- 16:35And she says, oh, that's my fiance.
- 16:39And I said, oh, all right.
- 16:40Well, what's your name?
- 16:41And she said her name, and it was the same woman that flaked on me four times.
- 16:45And I said, oh, you're the one that flaked on me four times.
- 16:49I said, no, thank you.
- 16:50And I rolled the garage door down right in her face.
- 16:54And that was it.
- 16:55Like, she wasn't happy about it.
- 16:58She started messaging me.
- 17:00You're a horrible person.
- 17:01I drove all the way there to get it.
- 17:02all kinds of things lady you wasted my time how i would have told her yeah you can have it
- 17:09you know what i would have told her you absolutely you can take it it's 80 dollars
- 17:14what do you mean you said 20 yeah it was 20 the first time 20 the second time 20 the third time
- 17:20and 20 this time for 80 you wasted my time my time is not free it's valuable so if you'd like
- 17:29to give me $80 for it, you can have it.
- 17:31Otherwise, shoo, bye-bye.
- 17:34Yeah.
- 17:34I rolled the door down because I didn't want to
- 17:36get into a verbal confrontation with anybody.
- 17:39I just said, no, thank you.
- 17:42I put the door down.
- 17:45Yeah.
- 17:45I would have told her $80.
- 17:47That's what I would have done.
- 17:49And I would have let her know exactly.
- 17:50It was $20 the first time.
- 17:52And it was $20 the second, $20 the third.
- 17:55And this time it's $22.
- 17:56That's a grand total of $80.
- 17:58and I'm charging the $60 for the time that I sat around waiting for you
- 18:03and you never showed up.
- 18:05Yeah.
- 18:06In fact, I probably would have after the first one,
- 18:08I would have said, yeah, I can go ahead and do that.
- 18:10After the second time, I would have been, yeah, you can come and get it,
- 18:15but now you're going to have to pay me for the time that I wasted waiting for you,
- 18:19so it's now $60.
- 18:20And then they wouldn't have contacted me back.
- 18:23You know what I mean?
- 18:23Yeah.
- 18:25I mean.
- 18:26That's why I hate that crap.
- 18:28I just, I don't even bother doing it.
- 18:30I'm like, I don't care if I can't give it to someone I know.
- 18:33I don't care.
- 18:34I'm just going to dump it.
- 18:35No, I'm just, I'm going to get donated to someone.
- 18:38I'm just going to, it ain't worth the 20 bucks.
- 18:40Just going to dump it.
- 18:41Just buy.
- 18:42Sorry.
- 18:43Yeah.
- 18:44Well, pretty much.
- 18:45Yeah.
- 18:46Whatever.
- 18:46Maybe I'll give it to the chickens.
- 18:47The chickens can have a mirror out there.
- 18:49Maybe they'll enjoy it.
- 18:50I wonder what they would do.
- 18:51They'd probably freak out.
- 18:53Think so?
- 18:54I don't know.
- 18:55I have no idea.
- 18:57None.
- 18:58i could see a tom ending up breaking the mirror though so probably not a good idea
- 19:05you know we don't have any of those so like oh there's another tom what are you doing here
- 19:12oh you're puffing up too oh you're gonna face me oh you're ready fine we're going
- 19:18it would be funny
- 19:21anyway that's the story about that well i had we had a good story too so uh
- 19:29i don't remember what day it was but we had a little power outage as we do being duke
- 19:37power customers we have power outages that's just part of life you know when you live elsewhere and
- 19:47you don't have power outages and like you haven't seen a power outage in like years and years and
- 19:52years that's not here that's not duke duke you can expect is at least out here you can expect a
- 19:57power outage at least a very short one you know a few few full seconds i'd say monthly maybe every
- 20:05eight weeks but yeah you're gonna get them right because we all the lines are above ground we are
- 20:11in treeville usa um and any storm you know you can branches come down on them you know trees
- 20:20ball down on them whatever and it breaks transmission lines but anyway that happened
- 20:26and then all of a sudden our lights are flickering the ups is in the house are clicking off and on
- 20:31the battery backup system that i have is is doing the same uh g gfci is tripping and it's just
- 20:39you know, what is going on? So we called up Duke and we're like, Hey, you know, power outage. And
- 20:44then this, and they're like, you need to call an electrician. That's an inside thing.
- 20:49It happened right after power outage, right? Something's wrong. The next morning we call
- 20:55Duke back up and we're like, Hey, this is still going on. And they're like, Oh, okay. Well,
- 21:00we're going to go ahead and label that as partial outage. We'll, we'll roll a truck.
- 21:05We started thinking about it. We're like, you know what? We're going to call the electrician.
- 21:07electrician comes out and uh opens up the meat the meter right he's looking at it he's like yeah
- 21:15it looks good and he goes to push it back onto the the meter uh without the the panel on it right
- 21:21he just wants to see let me shove this thing back on there and it just starts arcing and i'm standing
- 21:27behind him and off to the side looking into this meter box right and in the meter box you've got
- 21:34you know big electrical cables coming in two from the power company and then two go into your house
- 21:39right the bottom two go into your house the top two come in from the power company each one big
- 21:45old lugs in there big lugs right and uh these you know the bundle of cables is about that big around
- 21:51right and uh uh uh each one of these there's there's you know phase a and phase b right uh
- 22:00each one of these is 120 volts right okay that's what makes up a 240 volt so you see your breakers
- 22:07you notice your 240 volt you know like your dryer um if you have an electric range uh things like
- 22:13this are going to be that big thick one and then you have the little ones that are 20s right um 20
- 22:19amps not volts but anyway those 240s you don't have 240 coming in on a line you have two lines
- 22:28at 120 that they pushed together to make 240.
- 22:34Well, first thing we found is for some reason,
- 22:37someone never screwed on the lug on one of the connectors,
- 22:42and that's what was arcing, right?
- 22:44Wow.
- 22:44So got that fixed, right?
- 22:48And, you know, that took a while because it was frozen solid, right?
- 22:53So WD-40 in the thing and waiting, you know, five minutes,
- 22:56wd-40 wait five minutes wd-40 and then he's like hey can you help me and i'm like
- 23:04i don't know he's like just hold these and don't touch anything else and i'm like
- 23:09because i had to kind of hold the lug in place as he's cranking on it um so anyway got that
- 23:15you know let's take quite a bit of torque to they do put down they do i had to hold the lug in place
- 23:21with a pair of pliers while he was torquing it otherwise the lug would have turned out of its
- 23:26its little lock okay anyway so we do that and we go back in there the lights are still flickering
- 23:33like badly right ups's are popping poinking poinking poinking and uh you know all this
- 23:39stuff's going and the guy goes back out and he's like yeah well let me go check something else
- 23:44um and so he goes out and tests so i get back on the line with duke i'm like you guys are rolling
- 23:49the truck today right because we're having an issue and they're like yeah i'm like well i want
- 23:54you to update the ticket and i need you to put in the notes that phase a is sending 127 volts
- 24:03into our house and phase b is sending 129 volts into our house on the combined we're reading between
- 24:12256 and 258 volts okay overvolting things causes bad things to happen including that oscillating
- 24:24power right and so we come we told him that he got done with his work we wrapped up we had to go run
- 24:32an errand we come back and everything's fine all of a sudden right uh turns out duke energy
- 24:38screwed up and somewhere they they you know unwound a transformer wire you know the coil
- 24:45and probably they were delivering you know 16 to 18 more volts down our pipe than you're supposed
- 24:54to have now you're not going to see yours exactly at 120 unless it's like inspection day on move in
- 25:01or something like that you'll probably see 121 you might might say like 122 23 but running up at
- 25:08129 volts on a 120 that's not good right it's just not good if you want to know what that means like
- 25:16how bad that is go take something that runs off a nine volt and put an 18 volt battery on it and
- 25:23see what happens to it it's not going to be good nice so it's all fixed now yeah yeah it seems like
- 25:30it yeah no more no more issues and the the beautiful thing about that is for like years
- 25:35We've been sitting here and we've had, you know, lights that we're just constantly replacing light bulbs.
- 25:41Like, I mean, monthly, monthly.
- 25:44Right.
- 25:44So if you're in a situation where you're constantly replacing light bulbs, I'm going to tell you, you know, get an electrician because this is house power you're dealing with.
- 25:56This isn like a circuit with a breaker There no breaker There is no breaker on house power right you you gotta realize that this is coming off the pole going into your house before there ever a breaker
- 26:09it is 100 transmission line generated raw sheer power and it ain't stopping for nothing to nobody
- 26:17okay so get an electrician unless you happen to really know what you're doing get an electrician
- 26:22have them check your voltage um i i would strongly recommend that if you do know what you're doing
- 26:28all you need is a client meter or any other meter i'm not like we don't have anyone promoting for a
- 26:35we don't promote for anyone we don't have anyone you know whatever sponsoring the show we're we're
- 26:42not those people we're we're not important enough but since luke wants to send me a new multi-meter
- 26:47since well that's great if you need you know okay come on fluke right yeah i wouldn't wouldn't mind
- 26:55one of their uh o-scopes either you know but hey
- 26:59now i gotta i got like an old craftsman one i think yeah not in a solar scope
- 27:08no no a multimeter yeah totally different yeah totally different that's that's the cheap seats
- 27:14um i mean they used to give them away for free it's like harbor freight i don't know
- 27:20yeah i mean i guess they work okay yeah flukes flukes awesome man flukes great
- 27:26klein's pretty good too klein's not bad it's more homeowner type stuff pretty much but i mean
- 27:32nowadays just you see like the electrician have the exact same multimeter i do and i'm like oh
- 27:37no fluke or you know whatever he's like dude i don't need to pay all that extra money this thing
- 27:42works just the same and uh you know what i can buy another one if it breaks and you know or you
- 27:49leave it on a job or yeah or you leave it on a job but yeah glad they found that loose lug though
- 27:55man that's scary stuff it is it is really i mean it's like fire starting stuff it is and that's
- 28:01what i told my wife i was like you know not knowing about this especially with the power
- 28:07outages being a fairly regular thing right you've been there a long time man it's it's amazing
- 28:14that that thing didn't burn the house down i mean literally freaking amazing
- 28:20wow yeah no that's that's crazy i'm glad it's fixed me too me too i'm glad i'm glad we found
- 28:32it too right i'm glad we didn't end up finding out about it in a very terrible way right yeah even
- 28:40in uh automobiles you know loose loose wires are the number one cause of you know fires yeah bad
- 28:46yeah bad stuff not not leaky fuel lights
- 28:50uh no i'd probably say electrical fires yeah same
- 28:56that electricity man electric and glass are two things i don't want to mess with i just don't
- 29:04you know glass like you know i'm talking about like you know not like a mirror or something like
- 29:09that or you know a paint a picture or something like that but i'm talking about like you know
- 29:14bathroom you know mirror glass that kind of crap like big you know window glass that kind of stuff
- 29:20no absolutely not not going to touch it yeah i've had my my issues with that that landed me with
- 29:28partial use of you know my right hand um and still to this day
- 29:34um 35 plus years later i have no feeling on the top of my arm that's stuck yeah yeah and electricity
- 29:47electricity is one of those things right i mean it's not so bad to have electricity go through
- 29:52your body it's it's when it stays you know uh yeah it's it's not good yeah i've heard 270 is the
- 30:04worst you're gonna get zapped i would say anything above 120 is gonna be the worst
- 30:10yeah yeah like that house that's 200 amps 200 amps that's what your service is coming into
- 30:20your house that you are going that's death that's that's what that is that's death
- 30:25or worse living through it yeah yeah well thanks yeah exactly
- 30:34anything else any other home repairs this week no no home repairs we we uh yeah no i got some
- 30:45other stuff i'll talk to you offline about um but all right yeah it's the good stuff no it's
- 30:51it's more personal in nature and all right yeah kind of freaked me out and my wife out for a while
- 30:57i'll just go ahead and say it as long as it's not poop problems i'm good they found a lump on
- 31:02my Rottweiler's
- 31:05breast.
- 31:07Aww.
- 31:08Yeah, so
- 31:09been a bit of a
- 31:13tough couple of weeks
- 31:15and she's going to go in
- 31:16for surgery.
- 31:19She's already been put
- 31:21under for imaging and everything
- 31:23else and, you know, the good news
- 31:25is they came back and found that
- 31:26this seems to be, at least, you know,
- 31:29you never know for sure
- 31:31but from what they can tell it seems to be isolated to the one
- 31:35so they're going to take that mammary gland out as well as the lump
- 31:39and the teat.
- 31:41And at the same time she's nine years old and she's going to be
- 31:47neutered or spayed sorry. So she's
- 31:50going to be spayed as well which I'm sad about. I don't want to take
- 31:55her lady bits but they said
- 31:58And with the hormones and stuff, that has the potential to enhance the likelihood of another incident of that.
- 32:09All right.
- 32:10Yeah.
- 32:11You already have it scheduled to do?
- 32:13Yeah.
- 32:14Yeah.
- 32:14Okay.
- 32:15Yeah, it's right after alpaca.
- 32:17Oh, okay.
- 32:18Yeah, they wanted to do it like right before.
- 32:21And I was like, no.
- 32:23Because she loves that time.
- 32:25you know ghost lap time and sun lap time and you know she just she loves and yukon lap time
- 32:32and sometimes pinch lap time and you know she she loves that time she loves having people here and
- 32:39i do too and i you know we would have to keep her you know isolated right because she would
- 32:44get too excited and we can't you know do that post-op so all right but at one point we were
- 32:51really scared because the first vet we took her, took her to, you know, they were like,
- 32:57yeah, well, you know, we can't do the surgery here, but you know, there's a very good possibility.
- 33:02We have to take out, you know, all of the mammaries, all of them, both sides. And I'm like,
- 33:09what? Cause you know, there's, there's a lot, right? There's, there's eight of them. So you're
- 33:16talking about you know a massive undertaking right and i was just like ah
- 33:22yeah yeah that's a lot yeah yeah and i i love that dog dude i mean i love all our animals but
- 33:35that's my bonded dog you know right now i understand yeah
- 33:39I understand
- 33:43it's a bit like
- 33:45and I said
- 33:45a bit like
- 33:46it's a bit like
- 33:48hearing your child
- 33:49has cancer
- 33:50yeah
- 33:51no I
- 33:54I completely understand
- 33:56yeah
- 33:57so
- 33:58we went through that
- 34:00I wasn't going to talk about that
- 34:01sorry for the downy dumper people
- 34:02but hey
- 34:03it's part of my life
- 34:05so you get to
- 34:06you get to share in it with me
- 34:08okay
- 34:08but it seems like she's going to be okay other than the fact that they shaved her entire belly
- 34:15which is just annoying the crap out of her if you know i'm sure it's like razor burny and hot
- 34:23and itchy and so you know but we're taking extra care she's doing good she's she's a happy kid
- 34:30you know yeah so she get extra hugs at alpaca she she gets extra hugs all the time
- 34:37that dog is spoiled
- 34:40they both are
- 34:43they both are
- 34:45both our house dogs are insanely spoiled
- 34:48from my eyes anyway
- 34:51I'm not one of these people that gives treats
- 34:53all the time you know what I mean
- 34:55but these dogs get
- 34:56they get a lot of love
- 34:58a lot of attention
- 35:00plenty of treats
- 35:02we make salads probably
- 35:04four or five nights out of the week
- 35:07and they get cucumbers and some cheese and some carrots and, you know, stuff like that.
- 35:15And they love that stuff too.
- 35:17And if we have broccoli or whatever, they get some broccoli and, you know, they love that stuff.
- 35:22And, you know, so I like to spoil my puppies.
- 35:27Our shepherd used to love cauliflower, broccoli, all that stuff.
- 35:32Yep.
- 35:33Yeah.
- 35:33My dog loves Brassicas.
- 35:36loves them he liked watermelon blueberries yep oh oh yeah the first time giving him a blueberry
- 35:46he'd never had one before and then he was a little a little sketchy about it at first but
- 35:50after that he was like yep that's good yeah i've never really messed with my dog around treats or
- 35:56anything like that so pretty much if i hand it to her she's like okay yeah which is nice i guess but
- 36:04I do kind of miss having a dog around
- 36:08We'll be there eventually
- 36:10Did you get dates yet?
- 36:12No
- 36:12Have you talked to them again?
- 36:15She sent them a couple messages
- 36:17A little while ago
- 36:18Same kind of thing
- 36:20We talked about last time
- 36:23Alright
- 36:23Waiting
- 36:24We can wait
- 36:25I'm patient
- 36:26There you go
- 36:27What was that thing I sent you?
- 36:33I asked for patience and God said no
- 36:36that comes from tribulations
- 36:40I'm working on it
- 36:45I didn't used to always be patient but I'm working on it
- 36:48you are now?
- 36:50I'm kidding
- 36:51more than I used to be
- 36:52I'm kidding I think you're pretty patient
- 36:55I try to be
- 36:57you are with me anyway
- 36:58maybe it's all a lie
- 37:01I don't believe that either.
- 37:05I've changed.
- 37:06I'd like to think I haven't, but I have.
- 37:09The same.
- 37:11Try and be a better person today than I was yesterday.
- 37:14How's that?
- 37:16Eh, that can't be good enough.
- 37:18Sometimes my yesterday makes it a very low bar that I have to come over.
- 37:26I'm human.
- 37:27I am prone to failure and mistakes and all the other things.
- 37:32Right.
- 37:33And that's part of life.
- 37:34You know, learn from it.
- 37:36Pick yourself up, put the next foot forward.
- 37:39And then the other one goes in front of that one.
- 37:42And you just keep doing it.
- 37:46True enough.
- 37:46You trudge this road to happy destiny.
- 37:53So we never know, man.
- 37:55never know what the day will bring you this is true we were supposed to have a guest today and
- 38:00and i blame myself for this i i spoke with this gentleman and we will we will get him on he's
- 38:06very interesting guy a lot of experience and in just a range of things and it'll be interesting
- 38:15some i'm not exactly exactly you know it's all good right but
- 38:25But he's a really, really neat guy.
- 38:28Really neat guy.
- 38:29We had just the most amazing conversation on the phone.
- 38:32Like 45-minute conversation.
- 38:34Oh, wow.
- 38:35And it was just neat.
- 38:37It just flowed.
- 38:39You should have recorded it.
- 38:41No, I can't do that.
- 38:44And then that's called wiretapping, dude.
- 38:47We don't do that.
- 38:47Oh, okay.
- 38:50And then I was going to send him the link,
- 38:54and I completely forgot.
- 38:56My work schedule has just been
- 38:58very very packed and insane So anyway I got up this know got up this morning about eight this morning I was like Oh crud So I sent the link and stuff and let him know
- 39:11Hey, you know, if you can't, whatever, it's all good. We'll, we'll reschedule. Um, so hopefully
- 39:17we'll get him on here. Not too long from now. Uh, we've also got another guest lined up that I
- 39:22think will be very interesting to speak with. Uh, we're going to talk, you know, more personal
- 39:27stuff about like you know their life you know their their their kind of what we do here you know
- 39:37the real stuff right not not you know not current events and not you know anything like that it's
- 39:46just about you know hey you know let's let's dig in who are we let's talk to each other
- 39:51yeah no i'm excited i enjoy having guests it's a little more technically demanding on your part
- 40:00i think oh yes i know you can handle it yeah i might actually schedule that one for dropping
- 40:06we may actually do a duplicate for guests i think from now on in other words you and i will do a
- 40:13session on one day we'll do a guest on one of the other days that way i can drop us pretty easily
- 40:21and the guest I can spend a little extra time on cleaning things up.
- 40:26And it's not that it's challenging to have more people on, right?
- 40:29What it is is the equipment.
- 40:31It really, really comes down to the equipment.
- 40:36These right here make a huge difference from like an earbud, right?
- 40:43Or even a wired headphone or like a work team's type headset or whatever.
- 40:50You know, those are all fine. There's no problem with them. I wouldn't want to discourage anyone. You don't have to buy gear. I just need a little extra time to get the audio correct because I am not like a, you know, expert editor. I'm new at this and, and I think I'm doing pretty good, but it's challenging when, when it's, when it's a different set of equipment, um, getting things, noise cleaned up and getting levels corrected without
- 41:19making it sound you know terrible in doing so uh is is the challenge and it's by no means
- 41:27should that discourage anyone because i will work my butt off to get it to the best possible sound
- 41:35and look that i can it's just it takes more time that's all and and that's a that's an okay thing
- 41:43because i learn things as i'm going through that right i learn a lot but it takes more time
- 41:49So whereas LX and I have great equipment and, you know, there's kind of a, there's kind of the audio comes through for each of us almost always comes through very consistently.
- 42:04I know that there's going to be certain problems that I'm going to have and that you're going to have in your audio.
- 42:11And so I don't even look for them anymore.
- 42:14I apply the fixed and then I move on because I already know these are just kind of part of our setup, what needs to be done. And so it's easy when you have a guest on your brand new, there's no, like, we don't know what the problems are. And so I have to first identify what the problem is, which is not as easy as it sounds, right? Like you think, Oh, well, that's a hum. Nope. It's not a hum. It's reverb crap.
- 42:42Okay, let me go back over here and try that.
- 42:44And then I, you know, filtering this out or that and raising levels without clipping and, you know, all this other sound engineering weirdness that goes on.
- 42:54But I will be honest with you.
- 42:56The hardest piece to this now so far has been audio.
- 43:01Like the video is, you know, other than that other service that we were using that I to this day, I'm just like, oh, man, I.
- 43:11I can't believe we wasted so much freaking time with that service.
- 43:16I am so bummed because this is so much better.
- 43:21So much better.
- 43:23I think it's fantastic.
- 43:24And do I miss the AI whoopee whoopee cuckoo?
- 43:27Do you?
- 43:27No, I do not because I never freaking used it.
- 43:31I played with it a few times and I'm like, this is crap.
- 43:35And it is.
- 43:36It's slop.
- 43:36All that AI stuff is slop.
- 43:38I really wish people would stop.
- 43:39like all of these youtube ai slop videos it's just trash it's terrible it really is even i see more
- 43:50and more of them every day now even the best of them it's trash it's just garbage stop and i know
- 43:56it's getting your likes and i know it's making you money or whatever it's garbage it's disingenuous
- 44:02garbage, trash
- 44:04BS. I just really
- 44:06wish YouTube would
- 44:08like
- 44:09bifurcate
- 44:11real content creators
- 44:14from AI content
- 44:16creators.
- 44:18Give you the choice. Be able to
- 44:20click a button and say, I don't
- 44:22want AI slop in my feed.
- 44:24Period. Don't care.
- 44:26Don't care how good it is. I don't care
- 44:28who's doing it. I don't care how funny,
- 44:31fascinating,
- 44:31you know surreal it is i don't freaking want it i want real genuine interaction with people i want
- 44:40real content i agree sorry ai content let me write that down yeah it's it's really pissing me off it
- 44:52really is you know it really is i just i look at the crap and i'm just like scroll scroll scroll
- 44:58scroll scroll and like nine out of ten of these are just slop ai bullshit it's terrible
- 45:06yeah the worst is you know they've got entire channels that are dedicated to
- 45:14taking other people's content using short very short clips from them and then shooting in ai
- 45:24crap and it's like it's not their content you're not you're just taking their content cutting it up
- 45:30using ai it's just super low effort chud i look at it look at those content producers
- 45:38and yeah i'm talking directly to all of you you are exactly the same as the aimboggers and the
- 45:46wall hackers in call of duty you're you're not you're not winning you're not you're just
- 45:53piggybacking off someone else's stuff and you have no real skill i can write a prompt oh look
- 46:02you can type on a keyboard look at you there you go oh fancy fancy stuff there
- 46:08sorry i don't even know what any of that stuff is
- 46:13i'm sick of it i'm really really really sick of it i i just detest it it's so low effort
- 46:22disingenuous crap it is i wouldn't even put that in my compost for fear it would
- 46:28poison my plants i know it's digital content maybe we should start our own a non-ai platform
- 46:37nah there's enough platforms out you know youtube even sent out some some stuff recently asking
- 46:47creators about AI content.
- 46:50And I gave it the worst possible everything.
- 46:57I'm not saying AI is bad.
- 46:59I'm not.
- 47:00And I'm not saying you can't use it.
- 47:02Like we do have an intro video.
- 47:04We have one that we created using AI.
- 47:07It's, it's an, yeah, for certain night, the dragon.
- 47:12Oh, okay.
- 47:12Yeah.
- 47:12The dragon animation.
- 47:14That's AI.
- 47:15I used AI to create that.
- 47:18And I don't see a problem with that, right?
- 47:20I've also used it one other time.
- 47:22I used it to modify the logo, the image, the thumbnail for the raw milk episode, which we still need to follow up on.
- 47:32But that's a good one.
- 47:34I thought you meant like our intro with the Amish buggy or the guy getting kicked by the bull.
- 47:38That's not AI.
- 47:39Those are not AI.
- 47:40100% real, real stuff.
- 47:43um and uh you know but so you know i can see using it to augment something in your in your
- 47:51channel but if the content itself is the ai slop and then you take someone that actually produces
- 47:59genuine real content to try and in you know entice people into watching your hook is someone else's
- 48:10content and then you draw in draw them into ai personally i i you know if i was youtube i i
- 48:19i memory hole that crap i would yeah just and they're just thinking about the bottom line well
- 48:26they are and and i get that but i would memory hole it it's it's not it's it's terrible it really
- 48:33is it's terrible it's so bad that i've literally rage quit you know watching anything like youtube
- 48:39many many times like i'm not doing this anymore don't get on facebook then no
- 48:45that's all they have on there man oh that's it like almost every single video yeah i i detest
- 48:54that stuff that's one of the things that you know look hey we're here this is not ai there's no ai
- 49:01there's no ai special effects there's no ai editing this is havoc editing in premiere pro
- 49:08you're real you you know you're a real watch watch ow okay see i'm real
- 49:14i actually had somebody the other day send me a video about elon musk right and he's talking
- 49:25about something or other and i had to tell them i'm like that's that's not him you understand that
- 49:31right they didn't know yeah and uh yeah no i mean i've been duped by it as well a couple of times
- 49:39right but oh like the dr pepper cream soda or whatever that was mint soda right yeah yeah yeah
- 49:45yeah like like hey here's an ad hey look that's not beyond the realm of possibility for junk food
- 49:52manufacturers to do some weird stuff right so okay sucked me in um but in general you see it
- 50:00or you hear the voices or whatever it is.
- 50:03And you're just like,
- 50:03that's nope.
- 50:06Gone.
- 50:08They need to start thumbs downing all that stuff,
- 50:11but they don't even count it anymore.
- 50:13They should.
- 50:14No.
- 50:15Yeah.
- 50:15Why don't they count that anymore?
- 50:17It's kind of silly.
- 50:18I think it's because,
- 50:19you know,
- 50:19people started campaigning,
- 50:21you know,
- 50:22uh,
- 50:23to,
- 50:24you know,
- 50:24try and,
- 50:25you know,
- 50:25the whole cancel culture thing,
- 50:27which again,
- 50:28look,
- 50:29you don't,
- 50:29if you don't like what someone's saying,
- 50:32don't watch,
- 50:34don't listen.
- 50:35There you go.
- 50:37There's,
- 50:37there is the solution.
- 50:38You don't need to go on and campaign to cancel these people and screw their life up.
- 50:45Just move on.
- 50:46You don't like the opinion.
- 50:47Okay.
- 50:48Mind your own.
- 50:50You know,
- 50:51it's an old saying,
- 50:53right?
- 50:55It's not important what you think of me.
- 50:59it is of paramount importance what I think of you.
- 51:07Hmm.
- 51:10At the end of the day, all I can control is myself.
- 51:14That's right.
- 51:15I've heard that plenty of times.
- 51:16So, you know, that's the whole thing.
- 51:19It doesn't matter what you think about me.
- 51:20It doesn't.
- 51:21It doesn't matter at all.
- 51:22It has nothing to do with anything.
- 51:25Boo.
- 51:26Okay.
- 51:26Bummer.
- 51:27I'm sorry you feel that way.
- 51:29Have a nice day, I guess.
- 51:32You know, but it is important what I think of you, right?
- 51:37That's what impacts me.
- 51:40And if I'm sitting here and I'm, you know, my brain, you know, you're renting space in my head.
- 51:48That's not a you thing.
- 51:50You didn't do it.
- 51:51I allowed you, you know?
- 51:54So that's one of those things.
- 51:56It's the same thing, right?
- 51:57but that AI slop's gotta go like turn it off just turn it off
- 52:05Make it go away.
- 52:06I detest that.
- 52:10Use AI to augment yourself, not to be the main player.
- 52:18I mean, it's just no.
- 52:22I'll have to send it to you.
- 52:24I watched this video about him.
- 52:25I mean, it's all hypothetical, but what may become of AI in the next few years?
- 52:31None of it's really good.
- 52:32i'll just send it to you to watch it's kind of entertaining again go on to youtube and type in
- 52:40slaughter bots that's all i'm gonna say something like that that's all i'm gonna say if you want to
- 52:47know where this ends up it's not even where it ends up it's there today yeah we missed the mark
- 52:54that was like a 2012 2013 uh short film like five minute thing it's terrifying we're there today
- 53:03that's where we are you've got things like palantir palantir doing the targeting for
- 53:10military strikes you've got autonomous drones you've got autonomous vehicles they're building
- 53:16autonomous robots that you know the whole thing remember when they came out they're like oh no no
- 53:22You know, no, no, no.
- 53:24We made it part of the contract.
- 53:25We'll never have weaponized these things.
- 53:27They're weaponized now.
- 53:29They get the little robot dog.
- 53:31They said we would never, ever do that.
- 53:32Open AI.
- 53:33Oh, yeah.
- 53:34Now it's got a, you know, it's got a rocket launcher on it.
- 53:38And, you know, a belt fed frickin, you know, a grenade launcher, you know, belt fed grenade launcher.
- 53:46Oh, it's totally fine, though.
- 53:48Now.
- 53:49No, it's not.
- 53:51Dude, it's not.
- 53:52Oh, and the whole idea of like micro drones with larger drones and maybe even larger drones being just like, yeah, watch Slaughterbots.
- 54:04Do that.
- 54:05Give yourself nightmares for the next few weeks and realize that everything that is in Slaughterbots is likely in production.
- 54:15And if it's not right now, it will be in the next one to two years.
- 54:20And then tell me.
- 54:22You love AI.
- 54:24The scary part is we're not the only country doing this.
- 54:27So people realize there are other big countries that have their hand in this stuff too.
- 54:35So if it gets out of hand, it ain't necessarily something we do either.
- 54:39It can go on either side.
- 54:42I don't know, man.
- 54:44Nothing I can do about it.
- 54:49I'm refilling my apple juice.
- 54:51oh i was wondering what you're doing over there you know i like to keep my apple juice in nice
- 54:58containers another half glass apple juice and i'll bring up the government thing do not that
- 55:03would be a that's not a good that's a bad time right waiting to happen right there please don't
- 55:09i'm having a great day all right if you want to go for it i'm gonna do my best to resist
- 55:16yeah right
- 55:17my best won't be good enough but i i'll do my best
- 55:22i just can't resist getting it i just ah
- 55:28did you yeah like my stomach muscles are yeah i had a cable wrapped around my
- 55:41and i just oh pet down getting old man sucks it does it does and my last back the last time my
- 55:50back went out and really screwed with me yeah it was it was bad and uh you know i'd like to say i
- 55:59was out there you know shoveling dirt or doing something pounding t-post or something like that
- 56:04I put on a sock.
- 56:06I was literally putting a freaking sock on.
- 56:09That's all.
- 56:10I'm like, oh, let me put my sock on.
- 56:13And I was out of commission for like two weeks.
- 56:19Yeah.
- 56:20It's getting old thing, man.
- 56:21It's old.
- 56:22It's getting old.
- 56:26I don't even want to think about it.
- 56:27I wouldn't have it any other way, man.
- 56:31Hey, yeah.
- 56:32It's like people always tell me, hey, you know,
- 56:34you could you know color that a little bit i'm like yeah god gave me this gray i think i'll keep
- 56:40it that's right shows you have wisdom right i don't know about that but it shows something
- 56:49yeah i'll be there soon enough i'm sure i don't think so no no you're not that young are you
- 56:59I'm not
- 57:02I'm not that young
- 57:04how much younger are you from me
- 57:06not
- 57:07not that much
- 57:09I'm not giving away all my secrets
- 57:17how many decades
- 57:18less than one
- 57:21no how many decades
- 57:23on the planet for you
- 57:24for me
- 57:26not quite five
- 57:28all right i'm solidly in the uh fifth decade so i might actually have a decade on you all right
- 57:40so yeah you could look like this like in the next you know five years all right cool it's actually
- 57:49kind of cool you know what else is really cool is people like that ask for your id look at you
- 57:55and just go i know i have to you're like d d i mean really yeah my i here's my id okay what do
- 58:05you what do you think this came from can i tell you a secret you can if you never leave the house
- 58:13nobody ever asks for id what do you mean oh we don't go anywhere nobody will ask you for id yeah
- 58:20Well, you know, and I would prefer that, right?
- 58:24But I need a...
- 58:25That's my same concept of if you don't have a phone, nobody will ever call you and bother you.
- 58:31I think I need a sour mash still for my apple juice.
- 58:35Mmm.
- 58:41I don't even know what that is.
- 58:42What is that?
- 58:44I don't even know what that is.
- 58:45What?
- 58:46A still?
- 58:47A sour mash still?
- 58:49Like a still still?
- 58:50to distill it?
- 58:52That would be, yeah.
- 58:53That's it.
- 58:54Can you legally do that?
- 58:55I don't do that.
- 58:57I don't think so.
- 58:58And I wouldn't do that
- 59:00because I don't think it's legal.
- 59:02All right.
- 59:03But I was saying if I needed,
- 59:04if I wanted to not ever leave the house,
- 59:07that would probably be one of those things
- 59:09I would want.
- 59:11Yeah, you could just stock up.
- 59:12No.
- 59:13Fill your garage.
- 59:14You're good.
- 59:15No no no no No I mean okay maybe maybe I sure somebody in your area could show you how to do that i mean
- 59:25there's a lot of like moonshine runners back in the day i don't in that area i know for a fact i
- 59:31think that's all gone now nobody does that kind of shenanigans anymore it's just not a thing we
- 59:38both know a guy i bet you he could nope he doesn't know somebody nope he doesn't know anybody nobody
- 59:44does that out here and really nope nobody anymore does that anymore nope nope nope nope nope nope
- 59:50okay no no um you know i would think that there probably might be some some folks
- 1:00:07probably not near me though obviously you know but you know i'm gonna have to ask around that
- 1:00:14Somewhere around, maybe in the mountains or something that did that sort of thing.
- 1:00:22Honestly, I don't know why it's like illegal.
- 1:00:26Yeah, I don't know either.
- 1:00:27What's the deal?
- 1:00:30I don't know.
- 1:00:30Hopefully I don't get busted on the way up there because I made you that mosquito repellent stuff.
- 1:00:35Who even knows what that is?
- 1:00:36They'll be like, what is this?
- 1:00:37No, you'll be fine.
- 1:00:39It's tincture, dude.
- 1:00:40For everybody watching, it's for real.
- 1:00:44Mosquito repellent made from a beautyberry bush.
- 1:00:48But, I mean, it's an alcohol.
- 1:00:50It's basically a tincture.
- 1:00:52So what a tincture is, you take alcohol.
- 1:00:55Vodka is a perfect medium for this.
- 1:00:59Don't use isopropyl alcohol, please.
- 1:01:03Yeah, I wouldn't use that.
- 1:01:04Yeah, not a good idea.
- 1:01:06Vodka works perfectly.
- 1:01:08grab some vodka just vodka you could even be the kind of stuff that has a white like label that
- 1:01:15says in black vodka on it you'll be fine um and that's where you take herbs and and things of that
- 1:01:22nature and you put them in with the alcohol and you let it sit for a very long time and it
- 1:01:27essentially extracts all of the you know beneficial parts to those herbs and then you can put them in
- 1:01:37water or you can do things like things like that but you can also use them to rub on skin
- 1:01:42for irritation for cuts burns or for in this case to prevent mosquito bites yeah we haven't tried it
- 1:01:51yet but supposedly it's supposed to work great we'll find out it's supposed to work better than
- 1:01:57deep that would be great oh you got another one
- 1:02:00yep you'll give it a shot though right there you see that yep that that's what mosquitoes do to me
- 1:02:10they welt me and they love me like i i can go out with like 10 people i will be the only one
- 1:02:18covered in welts from freaking mosquitoes i'm curious to see how this stuff works
- 1:02:23it's darker than your apple juice i don't care you even said oh this might stain your clothes
- 1:02:31i don't care if it keeps those things from from biting from biting me i i don't care i i will
- 1:02:39literally wear stained clothes and use this all the time yeah and like i told you if it works i
- 1:02:48literally am going to buy like 50 beautyberry plants and i'm gonna plant them every freaking
- 1:02:55where yeah i'm gonna bring you some seeds you can plant them they're native there cool yeah
- 1:03:00supposed to be i will literally scatter them everywhere every well i'll germinate them see
- 1:03:06if i can't get them to go best yeah whatever you want to do well i'm gonna try everything we got
- 1:03:14If I put some in a pot, I don't know if they'll take,
- 1:03:16but I think it has to go through the cold season first.
- 1:03:19Right, yeah.
- 1:03:20I think seeds need to go through the cold season
- 1:03:22while they're like seed,
- 1:03:25and then they'll germinate when it gets warm.
- 1:03:28Right.
- 1:03:29But I don't know that much about beauty berries.
- 1:03:32But again, if they work,
- 1:03:33I am going to scatter them freaking everywhere.
- 1:03:38Yeah.
- 1:03:39We've tried lemon hole.
- 1:03:40People say they just pull the leaves off
- 1:03:41and rub them on themselves.
- 1:03:43Well, that's, that's people say that about all kinds of stuff.
- 1:03:46And I have tried people are like, Oh, rosemary is a great, you know,
- 1:03:51blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
- 1:03:52I'm like, I have a rosemary bush right outside my front door.
- 1:03:55A huge one.
- 1:03:56Well, not huge.
- 1:03:57I've seen some pretty massive ones, but it's a big one.
- 1:04:02There's mosquitoes right outside my front door.
- 1:04:04They don't care.
- 1:04:05They live on the rosemary bush.
- 1:04:07They're like, yeah, we kind of dig on this stuff.
- 1:04:09Our mosquitoes are thug, dude.
- 1:04:12They are.
- 1:04:12They're like cartel mosquitoes.
- 1:04:14They're like,
- 1:04:15we're going to get the blood today.
- 1:04:21Was that racist?
- 1:04:22I don't think that's racist.
- 1:04:24Was that racist?
- 1:04:25I thought you were doing it.
- 1:04:27It was comedic.
- 1:04:28Slowpoke Rodriguez or something.
- 1:04:29Well, it's supposed to be comedic, right?
- 1:04:32And so I'm not trying to be racist.
- 1:04:34Just think of me as,
- 1:04:36what was the guy's name again?
- 1:04:39Oh, what was his name?
- 1:04:42Oh, come on.
- 1:04:45What's Little Mouse's name?
- 1:04:47Slowpoke Rodriguez or Speedy Gonzalez.
- 1:04:49Speedy Gonzalez.
- 1:04:51That's it.
- 1:04:51Yeah, his cousin is Slowpoke Rodriguez.
- 1:04:53Andale, andale.
- 1:04:53Arriba, arriba.
- 1:04:54Aye-ha.
- 1:04:55Exactly.
- 1:04:59I am Speedy Gonzalez.
- 1:05:00You don't remember his cousin?
- 1:05:01No, I don't.
- 1:05:03Oh, yeah.
- 1:05:04I was young.
- 1:05:05He was the exact opposite.
- 1:05:06Slowpoke Rodriguez.
- 1:05:08Was that his name?
- 1:05:09That's what it was.
- 1:05:10Yeah.
- 1:05:10That's awesome.
- 1:05:12He just sat around taking a siesta all day.
- 1:05:15That's awesome.
- 1:05:16Yeah.
- 1:05:17Do you remember Super Chicken?
- 1:05:21No.
- 1:05:22What?
- 1:05:24I liked Hong Kong Phooey.
- 1:05:26You remember that?
- 1:05:26I do remember Hong Kong Phooey.
- 1:05:29Number one super guy.
- 1:05:32Yeah.
- 1:05:32Yep, I remember that one.
- 1:05:33Super Chicken's awesome.
- 1:05:35Yeah.
- 1:05:36I was just watching a thing, The Electric Company.
- 1:05:39Was that before?
- 1:05:40Or you were too old for that?
- 1:05:41Or did you watch that?
- 1:05:42that was I think a bit after I was young enough to watch that kind of stuff but I do remember it
- 1:05:50yeah yeah I didn't know Morgan Freeman was on there apparently he was on oh really yeah he hated
- 1:05:57doing it I don't doubt he was just doing it for the paycheck hey you know when you're when you're
- 1:06:05struggling, man. You just, Hey, whatever it is, you got a job out. I'll take it. Yep.
- 1:06:14I mean, you know, whatever cartoons. I used to love cartoons so much. Well, because we,
- 1:06:24we okay I grew up in a different era right And TV was a thing that had a broadcast There was no pause There was no let me just watch this later
- 1:06:41There was no, I mean, you might have a rerun,
- 1:06:44but you'd have to look through the guide
- 1:06:46to figure out when it might play again
- 1:06:48and make sure you were there at that time
- 1:06:51on that day to watch it.
- 1:06:54Otherwise, too bad, so sad.
- 1:06:56It's gone.
- 1:06:57It's gone.
- 1:06:58There's no DVR.
- 1:07:00There was none of that crap.
- 1:07:01And so cartoons only came on like on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Well, I wasn't allowed to watch TV on Sundays, so it was Saturday mornings. So up until 10 a.m. on Saturday mornings, there was like from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. they had, you know, the cartoons and we would watch cartoons.
- 1:07:23And I love the cartoons, Bugs Bunny and the Roadrunner and Marvin the Merchant and all this stuff. This is what I grew up with, you know, and it was excellent. You know, it was, it was some of the best cartoons I think ever.
- 1:07:40personally i've seen some of the cartoons my kids like what my kids watch i'll be honest with you
- 1:07:48whoever wrote those cartoons was without question on a frack load of psychedelics
- 1:07:57like they were melted brain in a peaking trip at that moment because come on like what's the one
- 1:08:07with the the the i don't even know what they are they're they're like i i don't know and they live
- 1:08:14in a whale or something and some captain dude and it's just i i look spongebob that's another
- 1:08:22thing you look at that and i i spongebob is cool but i mean that's just weird we had my bird my
- 1:08:30bird like spongebob we had you know we had roadrunner and wiley coyote like okay those are
- 1:08:38real things we had bugs bunny and elmer fudd and elmer fudd would go hunting and you know this is
- 1:08:44real stuff you know and obviously you had wiley coyote with the acme anvil company trying to drop
- 1:08:51anvils on and that wasn't real but that was the cartoonish aspect of it right now it's like hey
- 1:08:58look at this made up weird blue creature that lives in a whale and it just,
- 1:09:04and it's just mind bending leave psychedelic weirdness.
- 1:09:09And you're like,
- 1:09:10why does this feel like it's not the right thing for my children to be viewing?
- 1:09:17Yeah.
- 1:09:18Yeah.
- 1:09:22I'm just saying,
- 1:09:24call me old,
- 1:09:25call me what you will.
- 1:09:26I don't care.
- 1:09:28I just think things have gotten very weird.
- 1:09:35You did enjoy the singing vegetables, though.
- 1:09:39VeggieTales?
- 1:09:40Yeah.
- 1:09:41There's a different reason for that.
- 1:09:45VeggieTales was born.
- 1:09:47It's literally a children's.
- 1:09:49It's a Christian children's cartoon.
- 1:09:54All right.
- 1:09:55I like the hairbrush song.
- 1:09:56You did a good performance of that for me.
- 1:09:57I love VeggieTales, man.
- 1:10:01They are so awesome.
- 1:10:03Mira el pepino.
- 1:10:06Es triste.
- 1:10:09I've only seen the one you showed me.
- 1:10:12The silly songs.
- 1:10:14If you go look up VeggieTales' silly songs,
- 1:10:17and there are some great silly songs.
- 1:10:21Oh, where is my hairbrush?
- 1:10:24Oh, where is my hairbrush?
- 1:10:26Oh where oh where oh where oh where oh where oh where oh where is my poor hairbrush.
- 1:10:34That's exactly the song.
- 1:10:36It's good stuff.
- 1:10:38Veggie Tales are awesome.
- 1:10:39Awesome awesome.
- 1:10:41Fun.
- 1:10:42Good stuff.
- 1:10:43My kids yeah they watch Veggie Tales a lot.
- 1:10:48And again it's because it was you know the message behind it was the reason for it.
- 1:10:56right i see so there's not a lot of other cartoons out there they're like that so
- 1:11:04no hey here we are you're not gonna get that on family guy
- 1:11:09no probably not yeah probably not giggity giggity anyway it's almost time to put the chickens to bed
- 1:11:20is it really yeah do you like you know cuddle them up and tuck them in and everything i just
- 1:11:26They go into bed, tuck them in.
- 1:11:28Just kind of close the door on them, don't you?
- 1:11:31You're like, you're hostages now.
- 1:11:34I have closed the door.
- 1:11:36You're stuck.
- 1:11:37Well, they're not going to get eaten if they're closed in their little hut.
- 1:11:41True.
- 1:11:43However.
- 1:11:43A raccoon or a possum or whatever.
- 1:11:52Yeah.
- 1:11:53We did that for a while.
- 1:11:55We lost so many freaking chickens, dude.
- 1:11:59There were chicken bodies everywhere.
- 1:12:03It was quite heartbreaking.
- 1:12:06And after that, we started closing the coop up for a bit.
- 1:12:10And then we stopped.
- 1:12:11And the reason being is if anything, anything comes into your day and holds you up from being able to accomplish that task, they're screwed.
- 1:12:22Like they're just sitting in a coop.
- 1:12:24you know no water no food no you know yeah yeah and i've i you know what
- 1:12:31yeah predation about getting one of those solar powered doors for them
- 1:12:37we've thought about that too the problem is that there's you know you have to be real careful with
- 1:12:43that we've i've known a number of people that have had chickens end up caught in the door
- 1:12:49and dying because of that, because they're automated.
- 1:12:53And I've also known people that thought their automated door was working,
- 1:12:57and it wasn't.
- 1:13:00And so, once again, you've got chickens stuck in a coop,
- 1:13:02and no water, you know, less ventilation than probably is, you know,
- 1:13:10perfect during the summer days type of thing.
- 1:13:14Right.
- 1:13:14You know, and no food.
- 1:13:16so we've we've thought about it and we we might go to that at some point but
- 1:13:23automation is great but you know on the flip side doing the manual work keeps us fit
- 1:13:31keeps us i'm going out there twice a day i'm good i visit with him a little bit exactly
- 1:13:37keeps us fit keeps us moving keeps them engaged keeps us engaged with them as well
- 1:13:43So when there are problems when there are issues you know bumblefoot or you know sour crop or you know something like this we notice it quickly or you know you know coxie right If if we end up with you know
- 1:14:00coccidiosis at some point, you know, catching that early on,
- 1:14:06that's your, your best bet. You know what I mean? Right.
- 1:14:09And so that interaction twice a day is, is a good thing in my eyes.
- 1:14:16Yeah.
- 1:14:17And having to do...
- 1:14:18Minimum twice a day.
- 1:14:19Having to do waterers and things of that nature, as opposed to using automatic waterers, just keeps us, again, keeps us fit.
- 1:14:28You know, I'm carrying around five-gallon water feeders and, you know, five-gallon buckets of water and filling horse troughs and, you know, doing all this stuff.
- 1:14:37If we automate it all, then what do I do?
- 1:14:40You know?
- 1:14:41Yeah.
- 1:14:41Now...
- 1:14:42I did set them up with an automatic waterer, though.
- 1:14:44it's got like a manifold,
- 1:14:45the little cups on it,
- 1:14:46but I make sure to clean them things out and make sure it's all full.
- 1:14:50You,
- 1:14:51and you've also got a much smaller operation than we do.
- 1:14:57Yeah,
- 1:14:57for sure.
- 1:14:58Like,
- 1:14:59for sure.
- 1:14:59I mean,
- 1:14:59I think now we were back up to close to 70 chickens.
- 1:15:03So,
- 1:15:04you know,
- 1:15:04little difference.
- 1:15:06Yeah,
- 1:15:07a little bit.
- 1:15:09We have to catch and put back into their environment,
- 1:15:13daily more chickens than you have.
- 1:15:17Hmm.
- 1:15:18Yeah.
- 1:15:18Between nine and 12 or so.
- 1:15:22Oh, wow.
- 1:15:23A little skateboard.
- 1:15:24Freedom chickens.
- 1:15:25We all, we have always had freedom chickens.
- 1:15:27That's what we call them.
- 1:15:28And they just, we don't, we're not going to chase them, you know, at night when we see
- 1:15:33them, we'll put them in.
- 1:15:35But I'm not going to stop them.
- 1:15:38Like if you want to be outside and you want to do that, just realize, you know, hey.
- 1:15:43I'm going to look at that like you're just trying to live your life the way you see fit.
- 1:15:50And I see no reason to disrupt that.
- 1:15:55Fair enough, I guess.
- 1:15:57Let them live.
- 1:15:59Let them live.
- 1:16:01You know, it'd be amazing if humans could actually apply a little bit of that.
- 1:16:06Well, I don't like that thing.
- 1:16:08There should be a law against it.
- 1:16:10how about you just let those people do what they want to do and move on with your life
- 1:16:16don't worry about it it's not your problem yeah you know just go yep now i hear you go live your
- 1:16:25life enjoy well i don't like what they're saying on the radio on this channel well
- 1:16:31freaking change the channel i mean there's like 4 000 freaking radio stations out there pick a
- 1:16:38different one if you don't like one of those put your music on your phone and put that through your
- 1:16:43stuff and if you don't like that for crying out loud buy a cd and stick that thing in your cd
- 1:16:49changer in your freaking car you know i mean do you don't wait just leave cars come with cds anymore
- 1:16:57oh i don't know mine has one oh okay mine does too i just didn't know if that's a thing anymore
- 1:17:03I don't think they come with ashtrays, do they?
- 1:17:05Mm-hmm.
- 1:17:06Mm-hmm.
- 1:17:07They do?
- 1:17:07New ones?
- 1:17:09Oh, well, you know, I don't know.
- 1:17:10I'd have to check my wife's vehicle.
- 1:17:12Mine's not new enough.
- 1:17:14Yeah.
- 1:17:15Mine has one.
- 1:17:17I don't think ours.
- 1:17:18Ours is like a 2007.
- 1:17:20I don't think it has an ashtray.
- 1:17:21It's got a cigarette lighter plug, like 12-volt thing.
- 1:17:24Yeah.
- 1:17:24It actually has a cigarette lighter, though.
- 1:17:29Make me think that.
- 1:17:29They usually give them, but I've heard some people say you have to actually ask the dealership for it.
- 1:17:36All right.
- 1:17:37Those things are neat fun.
- 1:17:39You can do a lot of things with one of those.
- 1:17:41Cigarette lighters?
- 1:17:42Yeah.
- 1:17:43Like, what, put a big bird mark scar on your arm?
- 1:17:46You know, fun with your friends.
- 1:17:48Yeah.
- 1:17:50Melt your fingertip off?
- 1:17:51Why is it orange?
- 1:17:53I don't know.
- 1:17:54Mommy, what's this thing?
- 1:17:58Yeah.
- 1:17:58lessons need to be learned some have to be learned the hard way
- 1:18:04you've learned them i've learned them it's the way the world works man sometimes it takes two
- 1:18:12or three times which lessons have you learned quicker and really seriously stuck with you
- 1:18:19the ones you learned the hard way or the ones that someone informed you and they just kind of stuck
- 1:18:23with you i i hear you yeah oh yeah that was hot i'm never ever ever doing that again that was stupid
- 1:18:36as opposed to well someone told me that was hot no i don't know now you know i don't know
- 1:18:44all right well maybe it's time to wrap this up so lx can put his chickens to bed
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