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- 0:00Hey everybody, welcome to the Space Tomatoes podcast.
- 0:25We are here again.
- 0:27I am your one host, LX, and we have Mr. Havoc.
- 0:31Hey, Havoc.
- 0:33I'm your other one host, Havoc.
- 0:35Yeah.
- 0:36Well, I mean, I don't know how to really phrase that.
- 0:38I'm two hosts.
- 0:39No, I'm the two hosts.
- 0:40That's what I am.
- 0:41You want to do the whole thing?
- 0:41You can do the whole thing.
- 0:42I'll let you.
- 0:43No, no, no.
- 0:44You can be the one man show.
- 0:46I like where this is going.
- 0:48I'm the two hosts.
- 0:49I'll be two hosts.
- 0:50You be one host.
- 0:52Right.
- 0:52So we're doing it by ourselves this week.
- 0:55No guest for us.
- 0:59Yeah.
- 1:00Yeah.
- 1:01Anybody who wants to sign up,
- 1:02but we asked maybe that you do the video thing
- 1:05because it seems to be pretty popular with everybody else.
- 1:09I don't know.
- 1:10Not putting down anybody that doesn't want to do video.
- 1:13I just think the audience really appreciates showing up on camera.
- 1:16I don't know why.
- 1:18Yeah.
- 1:19So far, we've received several comments.
- 1:22and, you know, feedback in different areas,
- 1:27chat groups and comments and comments on X,
- 1:32even where people are saying, you know,
- 1:36it's good that we have video of our guests.
- 1:40They're not real thrilled with the static avatar image,
- 1:45whatever, for, you know, to replace an actual video of a person.
- 1:51well i mean they're getting what they pay for i guess i guess that's true no matter what happens
- 1:58right so i mean if anybody wants to come on i mean you don't have to even be a participant in
- 2:05the war dragons community that's just kind of where we started because that's the people that
- 2:09we knew but uh hey maybe you're a landscape guy or a auto mechanic or maybe you fix refrigerators
- 2:17or a plumber. I don't know.
- 2:20I'd be interested in talking to anybody.
- 2:21Anybody in any kind of field.
- 2:23Nursing. I don't know.
- 2:26We had a bull rider, right?
- 2:28So, like, I mean, go...
- 2:30Now, can you qualify
- 2:31on nursing? Are we talking about
- 2:34like, registered nurse
- 2:36type position?
- 2:37Or are we talking about, like, just
- 2:39someone that likes to nurse? You can nurse a beer.
- 2:42I don't know. Anybody.
- 2:43Well, that's what I'm saying. Right?
- 2:45You could be, again, nursing a beer.
- 2:47you could be i don't know you could be like one of those weirdos that dresses up in a diaper and
- 2:51you know nurse as part of some weird fetish thing weirdos would probably make a really good guest
- 2:58honestly yeah honestly it probably would it'd be be like there i mean i could yeah i can think of a
- 3:06billion things i'd like to ask on that one i'm like hey man this is gonna get weird but i got
- 3:11questions so um yeah for our audience i mean maybe they don't even know us very well i mean
- 3:18if they've never uh conversed enough with us when in you know those silly game chats that we were in
- 3:23maybe they don't even know us so uh well why do we go by lx and havoc so i i can say for me
- 3:30the lx part is um back in the early 2000s i was joining various forums from cars to
- 3:40whatever uh and i needed a screen name and i had a mustang an lx mustang with a 460 engine in it
- 3:49hence the lx 460 that's as simple as it gets people like try to read into it like what is
- 3:55that like a lexus no they never made that model i was just gonna say so are you sure it wasn't
- 4:00just a lexus no they never made an lx for they made an lx 470 but never a 460 there is a lawnmower
- 4:06like a toro lawnmower that's a lx 460 model but now it was the lawnmower it was a lawnmower
- 4:13man look at that lawnmower right i'm i'm going for that
- 4:18but now that's the story of the name thing i don't know is there a significance to yours
- 4:25i know you share yours with one of your pups yeah well it actually started before the pup kind of
- 4:33um so again back to gaming right something that i've i've enjoyed throughout my life
- 4:40primarily pc gaming uh you know way back in the day and you know i just i would do silly things
- 4:51you know like nowadays you see gamer channels with people doing first because i was an fps
- 4:58player so first person shooter and uh you would see people you'll see people doing silly stuff
- 5:05and making youtubes about it right and just like doing silly stuff in the game well i was pretty
- 5:11much well known for doing pretty stupid and silly stuff in game and having fun with it
- 5:16and so you know one of my buddies ended up starting to just like say all the time oh here
- 5:23comes causing havoc you know and so i adopted that as my player name okay um and then later on
- 5:30i ended up with a rottweiler puppy and i named so my first rottweiler was named chaos with a k
- 5:41k-a-o-s is there something to that or are you just like a really bad speller like everybody assumes
- 5:47no i i can spell fairly well actually um i just i wanted to change it up a little bit no no real
- 5:55you know significance to that just different right it really messes with the autocorrect
- 6:00like it did it first before it does yeah it really does and then so um anyway my my second
- 6:08rottweiler uh came along and i named her havoc right because i wanted to stay in line chaos
- 6:14havoc okay you know um etc and so you know havoc was my my dog for you know 10 years or so
- 6:23uh and uh you know just stuck i just kept what kept the name and and i've been havoc ever since
- 6:29so it really is rooted in gaming but followed through into real life as my my dog
- 6:35so you so how long 20 20 years or so you've used that name oh gosh it's got to be longer than that
- 6:45um probably closer to 30. wow yeah it is kind of a weird thing because like our parents don't
- 6:56really understand that i don't think and and but when you use a name online like that it does kind
- 7:03of bleed over into real life a little bit like it's weird for me to call you by your your your
- 7:09real name sometimes even though it's you know appropriate sometimes in certain situations john
- 7:14jim jeff why all the j's man your g's it could be g right g off right i mean people call me lx i
- 7:24mean certain people like you know from certain segments and it seems natural and i do oh yeah
- 7:29you do and i and i answered to it it's just you know like a thing i'm not sure you know certain
- 7:35people would uh understand i need to stop saying that i i did realize when watching another episode
- 7:41i say certain things a lot what what did you say you know i say you know a lot i don't know why i
- 7:48say that yeah i hate it i i do the same you know yeah i i do i've been consciously trying to pick
- 7:56out little things that i do either through someone commenting on it or and me not recognizing it or
- 8:04more importantly a lot of it comes from editing right as i'm sitting there going through this
- 8:09again and again and again and again um you know thing uh i start to pick up on these habits that
- 8:20i have that i i'm not real fond of but they're ingrained in my speech patterns apparently weird
- 8:27right you don't notice it until you start watching yourself back if we only had a camera on us all
- 8:33the time we're probably horrified on one of the older ones i started playing with uh editing in
- 8:41premiere um there was a lot of you knows and a lot of likes right and i wanted to just
- 8:49put up like a little flashy counter every time it hit for me it's just like ding ding that would
- 8:55be good right like a self-realization of uh what we're doing yeah yeah i couldn't figure out how
- 9:02to do that yet so i'm super noob on premiere but hey i think it's getting better much better at it
- 9:09yeah i think i like the video edits now far better than what we were pulling off of
- 9:15the service we use yeah i mean the service is great don't get me wrong if you're using them
- 9:23and i'm not going to say the name because i just don't think that's appropriate but you know if
- 9:30you're using an online service and they have ai tools and you know editing and they can cut out
- 9:36little clips for you and do all this stuff hey that's great that's what we we started with um
- 9:42But it just, it never put out the quality or gave us that look of kind of the polish, right?
- 9:55I guess is what it is, right?
- 9:58But it was easy, you know, textual editing, remove words from inside of a paragraph, essentially.
- 10:05And it follows through into the video.
- 10:07So some really neat features.
- 10:09Just the way that it came out wasn't as fine-tuned or as granular as I wanted the editing to be.
- 10:21And because it's automatically going through and taking different video formats and styles, etc., and reframing them,
- 10:32um it kind of takes high quality video and and trashes it and takes lower quality video on the
- 10:40on the other side and lifts it up but at the expense of the higher quality video which is
- 10:46it's great right i mean if you if you want to do something and start the podcast or start you know
- 10:53doing filming or whatever like putting stuff out content it's an easy way to get started
- 10:59and it's an easy way to edit and i will tell you right now there there is
- 11:04the the number one time suck the number one thing that takes up all the time in this is editing
- 11:12it's not doing this this is easy if you will i tried to warn you yeah i know you did you really
- 11:23did. And it drives me nuts sometimes, right? Less so when it's just us two, right? Because the
- 11:30equipment, and there's another one, right? Right? Like, do I need you to acknowledge every time I
- 11:37make a statement? No, of course. But anyway, we have the equipment set up to get a little bit
- 11:43higher quality. We're in a static location. This is something we do frequently. We've had chances
- 11:49to play and tweak and tune and no it's it's not where i want it to be and i don't think you you
- 11:56feel that either right but it's a lot better than it was um now when we bring guests on we're dealing
- 12:03with who knows what kind of equipment you know that's the big variable and it always has even
- 12:07when i was doing the audio only podcast it having guests was quite the challenge to be perfectly
- 12:15honest with you yeah and i and i thought scheduling was bad and it is right scheduling is is tough
- 12:22not not always some people make it really easy and it just flows it's easy and then some people
- 12:27just do no shows and you know that kind of thing yeah right exactly so not not even going to give
- 12:32them a mention yeah some people confirm the night before and then just don't show up the next morning
- 12:39don't even read, don't even respond and say, hey, I can't make it or sorry, I missed it or anything like that.
- 12:46They just, you know, and we're not going to mention any names.
- 12:49It's a really good thing that we're not the kind of people that would be bitter over something like that.
- 12:54And you know even bring it up I more disappointed more disappointed than anything you know and just disappointed that there there was just such a general lack of respect any kind of respect right
- 13:08any right so it is what it is people are people lessons learned they they they are they are on the
- 13:18little list now they're not on any list they're just not going to be on any list either that's all
- 13:28it is what it is no i mean stuff comes up i mean it would have been just as easy as hey i had
- 13:33something come up can't do it instead you know we're sitting there you know twiddling our thumbs
- 13:38waiting for somebody that's all it would have taken i would have been totally cool with that
- 13:42would have been life happens right exactly life happens this isn't the most important thing going
- 13:48on in anyone's life not mine so you know i'm not going to expect that from someone else
- 13:56but uh yeah having the courtesy to be able to say hey you know i even if it was after the fact
- 14:04you know a couple hours after hey man i i totally screwed up i i really apologize and you know let's
- 14:10let's figure it out or even, Hey, you know, given, you know,
- 14:14given more time to think about it, I decided I didn't want to. So, you know,
- 14:18I apologize, but you know, or even just, Hey,
- 14:21I just decided I didn't want to just something would have been cool,
- 14:24but instead it's just nothing. And, you know, Hey, you know,
- 14:29some people are just like that. You know, don't,
- 14:32don't commit if you're not going to do it, you know, considering things,
- 14:36you know, again, I'm thinking maybe I shouldn't do this.
- 14:40right no i'm letting you know i'm just messing with you i'm letting you know
- 14:45that's it i'm done so how's life going for you you do anything uh fun it's good it's hot
- 14:52it's what it's hot we want it's hot oh i don't even want to hear you complaining about being hot
- 14:58we have like a record-breaking heat wave down here so you know feels like temperature like
- 15:07110 or 115 or something oh yeah it's been consistently uh between 95 and 97 and the
- 15:15feels like is like is 105 to 115 or something like that so this coming week is your fault then
- 15:22yeah right no because we're we're gonna be in the you know 97 96 95 range too
- 15:30for the week. Send in some love your way.
- 15:33Damn it, Florida.
- 15:35Keep your hot stuff to yourself.
- 15:36Any tomatoes you had left are done.
- 15:39They're shriveling up and saying
- 15:41see you later.
- 15:43Space or otherwise kind of
- 15:45tomatoes.
- 15:46We have some still in little pots
- 15:48from starting them
- 15:50because the turkey
- 15:52decided that it was going to nest
- 15:54in the high tongue.
- 15:57For us growing
- 15:58you know growing tomatoes outside of a high tunnel is problematic not from any reason other
- 16:07than one you know you're kind of in a similar situation but you guys are way more consistent
- 16:13than we are right you get rain events and during you know the the harvest season your rain events
- 16:21are quite typically pretty set you know afternoon comes clouds come in drops a bunch of rain
- 16:31clouds go away and there you are for us we'll go a you know a week without rain and we're watering
- 16:39we're watering and then we'll get like two days of rain just solid rain and every single tomato
- 16:44on there is split everyone and there's just nothing you can do about it and so that's why
- 16:52we grow them in the high tunnel because then we don't get the splitting right we don't really have
- 16:56much of an issue with other stuff you know pests we we know how to mitigate that blossom end rot
- 17:02haven't had that since we started adding crushed like not crushed powdered eggshells okay about a
- 17:09tablespoon into the hole every time we plant just take that mix it in buy those or do you make them
- 17:14want uh we we just keep our eggshells okay so just keep a little gallon ziploc bag or whatever
- 17:21you know container of some form whatever you want and just every time you crack open eggs to make
- 17:27eggs you just take those shells and throw them in there how do you powder and well so what we do
- 17:34then is we'll take a bunch of eggshells and we'll put them on a parchment paper and then i set the
- 17:41oven to go to 350 okay right and then i set it for a half hour right and i do the oven auto turn
- 17:52off thing whatever and i set it for 30 minutes i put that stuff in there and turn the vent fan on
- 17:58high because it doesn't smell great but i set that in there just to bake off any kind of
- 18:03potential pathogen or whatever from you know the eggs being out broken open and exposed
- 18:10then i just let it cool down naturally two hours later i come back pull the tray out then i take it
- 18:17all and we put it in a food processor and we just grind that stuff until it's nothing but a powder
- 18:23and we end up with a pretty large hefty sack of powder and you just take i want to say a
- 18:29tablespoon is probably a little heavy right maybe half a tablespoon just sprinkle some of that in
- 18:33there now that's not going to solve blossom in rod if you're experiencing it if you want to solve
- 18:39that real quick pro tip ancient like wisdom i say ancient of course it's probably like you know
- 18:47i don't know 50 60 years 70 years i can't imagine it's been that long but you know tums go to even
- 18:54just like you know dollar general or whatever and buy the cheapest antacid chewable tums type stuff
- 19:01you can find drop one or two of those around your plant water them in you gotta crush them up or
- 19:06throw them in there you they should dissolve pretty quickly that's the whole point of them
- 19:12right so once you water them they'll start to dissolve pretty quickly if you want to break
- 19:16them up you can but do that and then blossom end rot will go away because they've got high
- 19:22levels of calcium in it and that's what your plant needs to stop that blossom end rot and
- 19:28blossom end rot is exactly what it sounds like if you look at a way a tomato most fruits occur
- 19:33fruit. Tomato is a fruit, by the way. Look it up. Go ahead.
- 19:38I'll wait.
- 19:42All right. Bing. There you go. Fruit.
- 19:48The flower comes out and then
- 19:51the fruit actually comes up behind the flower.
- 19:56And you'll see the flower drop off, but that little dot at the bottom of your tomato,
- 20:01that's where the blossom was.
- 20:03now without enough calcium i'm not sure exactly what causes it but you'll start to get
- 20:09rot right at that end nub and it'll just basically rot out your tomato it just makes them all crap
- 20:17yeah so calcium we had a problem with those uh leaf-footed bugs they came in and they were
- 20:23sucking them all dry nasty little things yeah the the leaf-footed are weird too uh we we get those
- 20:32as well we don't usually get too many of them because we we deploy uh pests and we do a lot
- 20:39we try to do a lot to attract natural predators to things like that but we have had them and they
- 20:46suck but typically all they do is they they just like they'll they'll suck out a little piece yeah
- 20:52and then you get like this weird deformed tomato right not it's not bad we still eat it i don't
- 20:58really care.
- 21:00Slice off the area if there's anything
- 21:02there. Just throw them in
- 21:04the Ziploc or container
- 21:06or whatever and wait,
- 21:08freeze and just throw them in the Vitamix
- 21:10and make sauce.
- 21:13Yeah, all our stuff's
- 21:14pretty much done except the Seminole pumpkin
- 21:16this year.
- 21:17At this point.
- 21:20What's that?
- 21:23What's that?
- 21:24Go ahead.
- 21:24No, I don't know.
- 21:26I don't think about the rainy season because yeah we're getting the rain now and the heat and
- 21:31everything is just pretty much done yeah yeah yeah for us the squash are just going in freaking
- 21:40saying right now I mean we're just pulling five gallon buckets full of squash every day
- 21:45yeah wish I was closer yeah me too because I come eat squash if you want squash I have more squash
- 21:53then I know what to deal with you know it's just tons of it I've got patty pans I've got yellow
- 21:59squash I've got zucchini all right now coming out from I'm jealous yeah we got a lot very jealous
- 22:06yeah yeah I have to buy that stuff I never used to like that stuff but it's good
- 22:12oh I love it I love yellow squash and and I think we talked about this before but one of my things
- 22:20about yellow squash if you roast it right um it's not in like a you know whatever you roast it
- 22:30it the the meat of it turns out it's kind of bread oh yeah okay you know what i mean it kind
- 22:36of has the consistency and texture of a soft bread i was actually asking my wife the other day
- 22:43like cooked can you tell the difference between the yellow squash can you hear me one one second
- 22:50one second
- 22:51come down to say hello
- 23:04yeah she every morning she comes down i'm in my chair and i turn around and just kind of give her
- 23:12you know body rubs if you will and just tell her good morning and that's cool man i'm jealous of
- 23:19that too i i kind of i'm missing having a dog i i understand that i do i really do yeah i was
- 23:29going to get into the dog story we got a dog story to talk about a little bit but uh i i was
- 23:34wondering can you personally tell the difference between the yellow squash and the zucchini when
- 23:39it's cooked or do they kind of taste the same percent you can yeah i really can't the taste of
- 23:46it is going to be dependent on what you season all right right but the texture 100 all right 100
- 23:54yeah i can't i don't know why the zucchini is a little bit more i want to say it's like a
- 24:01very smooth creamier texture typically and the yellow squash again to me is more like a bready
- 24:09texture. It just depends.
- 24:12But yeah, I certainly can.
- 24:14My wife can too.
- 24:15She's not as big a fan of the yellow squash.
- 24:18I'm curious if other people can.
- 24:20Maybe leave a comment down there.
- 24:21Let me know. I want to know.
- 24:25The same thing.
- 24:27Cooking with red onions versus white onions.
- 24:29When they're cooked, I can't tell the difference.
- 24:32They taste the same to me.
- 24:34Really?
- 24:37I don't know.
- 24:38Oh, red onions are way more spicy.
- 24:41Well, I can see that if they're uncooked, but the cooked ones, I don't know.
- 24:46I can't really tell.
- 24:49Oh, I can.
- 24:50I'm going to give you a blind taste test next time.
- 24:54Okay.
- 24:56I'm down for that.
- 24:58Maybe I'm just not a very good taster.
- 24:59I'm not sure.
- 25:00well
- 25:02you haven't
- 25:07tasted this stuff
- 25:09throughout your life
- 25:11so you know it's kind of like
- 25:14being new to experiencing
- 25:16all these different things
- 25:17you haven't gotten to the nuance of them
- 25:20so much as you've just gotten to the point
- 25:22where I do like them so I eat
- 25:24them so that might
- 25:26be part of it
- 25:27just you know picky eaters
- 25:30For those that don't know, I was the pickiest eater of all time.
- 25:34No exaggeration.
- 25:36Like, it was bad.
- 25:38Terrible.
- 25:38Can you just, let's expand on that a little bit.
- 25:41What was your, like, I mean, you know, you ate food.
- 25:47Obviously.
- 25:48Well, hold on.
- 25:49Let's pull that one back.
- 25:52You ate substances that were claimed to be food or have food style ingredients Right I mean I didn waste like like you know if you if you had a menu of things that you would choose off of on a daily basis what
- 26:08what was that menu uh pizza uh grilled cheese that that that's about 90 percent of it
- 26:16and also those those those golden arches uh chemical oh that that too yeah i would yeah
- 26:24yeah horrible i can't even believe i ate that garbage
- 26:27and when we say pizza we mean pizza with cheese on it that's all just cheese right
- 26:34right so cheese pizza grilled cheese essentially the same thing lots of carbs cheese tons of carbs
- 26:42yeah yeah i this was this was and and now you're eating like squash and and stuff with onions in it
- 26:54and you even tried
- 26:56and at least somewhat enjoyed
- 26:58Brussels sprouts.
- 26:59Yep, we do asparagus
- 27:00on a regular basis.
- 27:01I like that now.
- 27:02Asparagus?
- 27:03Yeah, that's good.
- 27:03That's a newer one?
- 27:04Yep.
- 27:05Yeah.
- 27:06I'm kind of weird.
- 27:07I kind of like the way
- 27:08my pee smells
- 27:09after I eat asparagus.
- 27:10Yeah, you're a weirdo.
- 27:13That's just so weird.
- 27:15I've got green beans
- 27:16on the menu now.
- 27:17My wife does not like green beans.
- 27:18She will eat the snow peas, though.
- 27:21I would have never eaten that stuff
- 27:24Is it all green beans she doesn't like
- 27:28Or is it just canned?
- 27:29No, we don't do the canned ones
- 27:31Just, you know, fresh
- 27:32I mean, we grow them here
- 27:34She tried them
- 27:36She tried them a couple times
- 27:37She just says she doesn't like them
- 27:39Okay, maybe we can change that opinion as well
- 27:44With, like, the right recipe or something
- 27:46Well, you hold her down
- 27:48I'll shove it down her throat
- 27:49well you know i don't we don't want to do that but just like just like you know i've had people
- 27:56tell me before hey i don't like this and i'm like well you know would you be willing to try it if i
- 28:01cooked it and they're like sure i'll give it a shot but i don't like it and i've had some of them
- 28:06come back and say yeah i'm still not a fan yeah i've had others come back and go wow okay yeah
- 28:11this i like yeah how did you do it oh by the way don't don't don't shove one of those chicken neck
- 28:17things at me that kind of grosses me out the thing you were posting the picture of the other
- 28:20day that's what that was right no oh that wasn't i thought it was one of those chicken neck things
- 28:25what was that no that's it's a it's called it's a chicharone oh what is that it's basically like
- 28:33it's basically uh you know um it's pork oh okay it's it's you know skin on pork that's been
- 28:43you know kind of like bacon cooked up and it kind of is it has some qualities like bacon
- 28:51the skin the skin portion is far more crunchy but it's got that fat and that that meat that's like
- 28:59you know it's i i love it you may not like it i don't know some people don't all right that's fine
- 29:06but yeah no that wasn't a chicken oh i thought it was one of those chicken neck things you were
- 29:10telling me about no if you if you if you see one of those it just looks like a piece of chicken
- 29:16all right just a small piece of chicken and those are really good i mean those right there you know
- 29:22close your eyes and take one bite and i guarantee you'll be a fan forever that's what you say i just
- 29:26gotta get past that part close your eyes just give it one bite you know what i mean have you
- 29:32ever tried that uh that stuff i posted that picture of that fermented shark that har hark no
- 29:38harkle is it i don't know how you say it but barful
- 29:42it's like putrefied shark meat or something i don't know it just doesn't sound very
- 29:50appetizing to me but i suppose it's an acquired taste i don't know why would you acquire a taste
- 29:57for that just like hey come here look this stuff don't smell it because you're gonna barf but
- 30:04you know it's like the durian fruit right we talked a little bit about that with with spani
- 30:10man i i you know it's the same thing it smells like raw sewage it's really good once you eat it
- 30:15but i i don't have no desire to go looking for it because it smells so rancid why wouldn't you
- 30:20just have a banana or something instead yeah i don't know or an apple or something bananas are
- 30:27good yeah they don't stink well at least not them to me yeah oh back to the dog thing i i we were
- 30:36talking about that so um we've always had dogs uh we've talked about that um but the the last year
- 30:44or so we've taken care of uh my my wife's mother's uh well i mean her mom and dad's dog he was he was
- 30:53he was aged he was 12 and he was getting up there and they just couldn't you know do the care that
- 30:59that he needed so we we've had him for the last year and he passed a couple months back and i
- 31:03really really missed him so so my my my father called me and if somebody that he's acquainted
- 31:11with not not really a friend had a german shepherd that he was looking to rehome and
- 31:16so we decided to give it a chance unfortunately um he had a very high prey drive and the cat
- 31:23they did not get along at all and it it kind of broke my heart a little bit i i really really
- 31:29enjoyed having him here besides that fact i didn't want to have a dead cat and it was just an accident
- 31:35waiting to happen so we had to send him back and he's waiting for the right home but i'm venting a
- 31:42little bit because i i am a little heartbroken about it yeah well that's that's a tough tough
- 31:49situation i mean the situation you know uh you and i have talked about it at length i think you
- 31:56know and and you know the situation you were put in in my opinion was was messed up right um there
- 32:04should have been more um the information should have been more forthcoming uh there was some
- 32:12omission of critical facts in my opinion yeah and and you know if you think back on it from that
- 32:20perspective then you know it's almost like you were duped into taking you know this i prefer to
- 32:29think that i don't know would you have gone and taken the dog if you knew all this ahead of time
- 32:36If he had that much of a prey drive towards cats, probably not.
- 32:40Absolutely not, honestly.
- 32:42Yeah, so you were duped into it.
- 32:45He spent a week here.
- 32:46We enjoyed our time.
- 32:47Super smart dog.
- 32:48I mean, he was catching on to stuff super fast.
- 32:52Faster than any dog we've ever had, honestly.
- 32:54But he was two and a half, and he enjoyed working.
- 33:01He just did not enjoy the cats, and the cats really didn't enjoy him.
- 33:05and it wasn't fair to either of them to have to do that yeah yeah that's a tough one you know
- 33:12that's that's i mean it's it's something that you have to go through you know anytime you're
- 33:18introducing new animals to existing animal structure you know that's always always a tough
- 33:24one it's a lot easier when you bring a you know small you know puppy into the equation yeah that
- 33:32gets to learn as it's growing don't don't mess with the things with the sharp pointy stuff on
- 33:39their you know paws um but you know i mean it's always it's always a crapshoot right i mean you're
- 33:47you've got a very tense situation on your hands when you introduce new animals to an existing
- 33:54structure with animals that's true that's true you know it's exacerbated when you know there was
- 34:03you know no no training contrary to that behavior um and you weren't aware that that behavior
- 34:12existed until after the fact yeah you know those two things make it very difficult
- 34:17yeah now i mean it's the first um really adult dog we've ever tried to bring into our home and
- 34:25i i don't know i i wouldn't say uh we've learned some things i guess i i wouldn't
- 34:33i wouldn't say very you know everybody else to be discards by that everybody you know any every
- 34:39dog's different i i wish it would have worked out differently is all i would just say this right
- 34:46If you're looking to get a dog and bring it into your home,
- 34:56regardless if you have other animals or not,
- 35:00make sure you understand, number one, the breed that you're desiring.
- 35:06And I don't mean, oh yeah, I did a quick search on it and I read this one site
- 35:12or I've watched videos on them or my friend had one.
- 35:16I mean, literally dig in and do some research.
- 35:18What is this breed like?
- 35:20And that is especially true if you're going for, you know, working or, you know, herding class dogs, right?
- 35:30That's when you get into potentially dangerous situations if you're not aware of how to raise them, how to train them, how to socialize them, how to care for them,
- 35:41how to exert dominance over them and make sure that you are the alpha in that situation always
- 35:49right um and you know the other piece to that is you know rescue dogs are awesome you know definitely
- 35:57i wouldn't want to discourage anyone from doing that just make sure that you do your due diligence
- 36:03Make sure you're working with a solid, reputable rescue organization or an individual that you trust.
- 36:12And make sure that you understand that dog and its history and, you know, triggers, you know, issues like a full, complete understanding of this, you know, entity you're going to bring into your home.
- 36:28Right.
- 36:29um and and doing so you'll be prepared for what comes along right um it just it gets it gets tough
- 36:38if it becomes more of an you know i guess uh you know more of a an emotional decision right as
- 36:49opposed to one grounded in in some logic and some you know forethought and investigation and and then
- 36:56that makes it tough you know that was the problem i was having my my heart and my brain were telling
- 37:02me two completely different things my logically i could say that you know like this is not going
- 37:09to work out but my heart is telling me maybe there's something i could do but the more people
- 37:15i talk to professional people that know you know these things better and we've been around german
- 37:20shepherd and i was thinking back to this since 97 is when we got our first one so you know it's
- 37:25It's been a couple minutes.
- 37:28And the more research I did, it's just that prey drive is just really hard to overcome if it's not done when they're itty-bitty little puppies.
- 37:39And even then, you can't just let them run loose.
- 37:42You got to – working dogs are completely different.
- 37:46And I was ready for that part.
- 37:48It was certainly an adjustment for the week that we had here.
- 37:51I, we were on a routine and it was, you know, it was definitely changing the way that I'd been conducting myself in the past.
- 38:00It's a lot of work.
- 38:01It's definitely not a type of dog I would recommend for somebody that, that works a lot or just doesn't have time to devote to it.
- 38:11Or that has the area for them to run.
- 38:15Yeah.
- 38:15A nice yard and area for them to be able to be outside and get some outside time, you know, walks, exercise.
- 38:25But they can't just be shoved outside and left to their own devices either.
- 38:28They have to be worked.
- 38:30They have to have a job.
- 38:31They have to have a purpose.
- 38:33They don't have that purpose.
- 38:34They're going to be destructive and not an enjoyable experience.
- 38:41Yeah, yeah.
- 38:42No question about it.
- 38:44Yeah.
- 38:44Yeah it you know it overlooked too much you know and unfortunately the place where that ends up having the most impact is people you know declare dog breeds unsafe or dangerous And it not that those dog breeds are either those things and and you know we hear it all the time but it is true it the owner it the person that that you
- 39:12know that raised and trained or did not train that that dog you know well that's the whole thing
- 39:19about don't get me wrong dog trainers even yeah i'm sorry i didn't mean to interrupt you
- 39:25no you're you're fine go ahead i was just going to say with dog trainers you're not really
- 39:30training the dog per se you're training the the person that owns the dog to do the required
- 39:38things yeah absolutely dog is going to do a dog thing is well the dog will do it it doesn't you
- 39:46don't need a trainer to to teach a dog you don't need any of that stuff you just need to know how
- 39:52to teach the dog to do things, you know, and, and that's where the trainer comes in. And like you
- 39:58said, they're training you, not the dog. Oh, the dog did so well. Yes, you did. I'm not in training.
- 40:06Yeah, you are. You're learning how to train your, your dog. You don't need the dog trainer for every
- 40:12dog you have. No, I'm not going to discourage people from doing this, but once you learn how
- 40:17to train a dog you know how to train a dog there's it doesn't get you know i mean you can make slight
- 40:23modifications to it but it doesn't change right you know the basic concept is there
- 40:28yeah you know and a big one is just consistency like all the time like never ever ever let up on
- 40:36that consistency especially when you have a dog that could be dangerous right yeah yeah and it's
- 40:44not dangerous in a you know snarling way you know aggressive it's just they can get away from you
- 40:51very quickly it's more circumstantial right they get away from you and get backed into a corner and
- 40:57they're scared or or something happens that triggers the dog right it triggers that prey
- 41:03drive and you're not paying attention the dog hasn't been you know consistently trained to
- 41:12respond to you in a certain way and the dog just starts tearing off after something or someone
- 41:19right and you know you haven't taken the time you you weren't consistent you know you relax about
- 41:25certain things whatever the case may be and now there's a situation where danger is imminent yeah
- 41:31and i i do believe those first few months are very critical when socializing the dog to
- 41:38different things if they don't experience those things and i've had that firsthand because we had
- 41:44a dog that was um we had one from a puppy and then somebody offered us another dog this is many
- 41:51years back but he was already um nine months old at the time and he had six or nine months i don't
- 41:58remember but he he wasn't quite exposed to all the things and he was always had a dog aggression
- 42:03his entire life just because he was never socialized and exposed to that thing but it
- 42:09could be anything from you know a guy on a lawnmower to a little kid to cats and you know in
- 42:15our case and if they haven't seen that stuff they could be quite reactive to it oh yeah without
- 42:21question yep and this is dog talk 101 on space tomato right well i i even go as far as to go
- 42:29you know the initial bonding even like you know this was a new thing for my from my wife but when
- 42:38we got our she she got a belgian shepherd she's had a couple of them previously a grown in dale
- 42:48so it kind of looks like a black german shepherd but with longer hair different facial features
- 42:54just kind of similar um they're pretty similar they're herding yeah they're herding dog very fast
- 43:01very agile um and very very insanely high prairie drive insanely high all right um and so she she
- 43:12had gotten that dog and i got her you know my another rottweiler because rottweilers just my
- 43:18thing and I love them and they're the best dog that walks the face of the planet and you know
- 43:24you can argue but you're wrong um so anyway back on the subject when we when her dog came right um
- 43:32you know she's like oh and you know go ahead and take her out I'm like no
- 43:36she was in her little crate and I gave her to my wife and I'm like you need to be the first person
- 43:43that is, you know, physically with and next to and, and this dog, cause that right there is going
- 43:50to cement bonding. Right. And then when, when my dog chaos came, uh, you know, same thing, you know,
- 43:58I was like, do not, cause we pulled up to, to, because air airport, right. We had to have her
- 44:04flown and we pulled up to the place to get them, get her. And, uh, uh, I was like, do not under any
- 44:12circumstance open that that crate do not just just grab the crate bring out here do not you know pet
- 44:19do not put fingers through none of that stuff and it's the same thing it's like i want when that
- 44:26crate opens i'm i am the person that's pulling them out of that crate i am now you know bonding
- 44:32with them as their primary bond right and that's that's kind of important for a dog right and there's
- 44:41nothing wrong with a family bond both of our dogs are very bonded with the family but there is a
- 44:47special bond and and it's you know it's visible you you can see it uh where you know chaos is
- 44:53bonded to me and keely is bonded to my wife right and that's an important thing doing all this dog
- 45:02talk maybe we can get on the birds next time and then everything goes out the window because birds
- 45:07are just maniacs.
- 45:09You mean,
- 45:10like the biting kind
- 45:13that yell obscenities
- 45:15at people? Yeah, those kind.
- 45:16Or like chickens? No, like
- 45:19parrots and
- 45:21conures and those kind of things.
- 45:23Oh, the biting kind. Yeah.
- 45:24The ones with the hooked beaks
- 45:26that gouge into your neck
- 45:28and leave a
- 45:29big flap of flesh hanging there.
- 45:32Not on me. It's just he didn't like my wife
- 45:34very much for some reason.
- 45:37Yeah. Yeah. I almost got a, um, I almost actually, there were two birds I wanted, but a cockatoo, I almost got one. And the, the decision not to get that bird was, was, uh, something I didn't know at the time.
- 45:52um but you know when i was because i came down i was you know going to this place and
- 45:58you know spending time with the bird making sure that there was you know something there and blah
- 46:04blah blah and the bird was super cool and you know really liked me and we got along well and
- 46:09everything else and then you know more research like i said do your research go you know physically
- 46:15interact you know do stuff to really know this this animal anyway then i find out these this
- 46:23thing's going to live longer than i will and and i'm like well you know there's there's a positive
- 46:30aspect to that i guess but the negative aspect is that this thing's going to live that long which
- 46:37means there's there's no you know i mean i i've got to have like a an inheritance plan right
- 46:44for an animal that spent you know 60 years 70 years with me you know what i mean that's just
- 46:53didn't seem right to me yeah i mean on the flip side the worst the worst part about owning a dog
- 47:00i could tell you straight up the absolute worst part is every 10 or 12 years they die
- 47:06and it yeah it rips me apart and i you know i've told myself like that's it i'm done i cannot do
- 47:15this again you know but then you know then somebody gets into your heart a little bit and
- 47:19weasels are way in there but you know then you find yourself and time flies so fast i can't even
- 47:26believe it does and and it's terrible i i hate it volunteer maybe go volunteer to rescue or
- 47:36something maybe that's a good idea the option to have dogs around you and see them go maybe off to
- 47:43great homes and you know you get a lot of touch with dogs and you get that emotional satisfaction
- 47:50without you know or maybe or like or get five dogs that might be the problem that's the thing
- 47:59i have to worry about yeah like bringing them all home i think i know someone that would put
- 48:06put a stop to that after one but you know no she keeps telling me that you know if i want a puppy
- 48:12to get a puppy i don't know well like i said after one right one one might come home and then after
- 48:20that but that's the other thing that would be a great way to spend time with and get to know the
- 48:25dog and really be sure this is the right fit for you before bringing them home well the one good
- 48:32thing that did come out of it so we started walking him early in the mornings because he just
- 48:36he woke up a bundle of energy ready to go and i enjoyed it so we started walking him you know in
- 48:43the morning for you know 30 minutes to an hour and we've decided to continue that uh that ourselves
- 48:49so we've been doing that every day and well that's nice yeah that's really so we get up at
- 48:54the crack of dawn and go out there and she's got her little uh fitness watch and sets the uh the
- 49:00goals on there and whatever and no i've been enjoying it imagine i just had this come through
- 49:07my head i don't know why but imagine if when the sun came up it did actually crack crack
- 49:13like a super loud like booming crack like every morning and then it would be just where you're at
- 49:22or like i guess it would have to continually crack and yep the whole world would just be under
- 49:28constant cracking nice be cool yeah it would be weird but it would be cool maybe maybe not
- 49:37yeah you're a weirdo like if you're trying to sleep in and all of a sudden dawn cracks and
- 49:41you're like damn it really wanted to sleep that's what the crack of dawn is maybe i don't know
- 49:48I've been around for dawn before
- 49:51And it didn't crack at all
- 49:52But you never know
- 49:54Maybe we could make something happen
- 49:56Yeah, my wife is not the biggest morning person
- 49:58So it's been a little adjustment for her
- 50:00I usually, I call it
- 50:02I'm on chicken time
- 50:03So when the sun is up
- 50:05Alright, well that was fun
- 50:06Yeah, we had a little drop out there
- 50:08So we were talking about the chicken time thing
- 50:10And I don't like
- 50:12I don't set an alarm
- 50:14But when the sun comes up, I get up
- 50:16And when the sun goes down, I go to bed
- 50:18just kind of how i operate you're kind of a night owl but i used to be used to be
- 50:25yeah i don't know what changed just all of a sudden
- 50:28you know the the insomnia just kind of went away and this has happened throughout my life
- 50:37and it's always come back i'm hoping it doesn't this time but you know insomnia just kind of went
- 50:43away and now i'm going to bed by like 11 30 midnight at the latest dude that's like sometimes
- 50:49a little early that's like so late for me every time i'm around you i'm like man this dude never
- 50:54sleeps compared to my my more normal three four in the morning and then wake up at seven or eight
- 51:02in the morning uh you know i'm i'm okay with it i'll take this yeah i just wake up in the morning
- 51:12now too there's no like i set my alarm but it never ends up going off okay like i'll get i'll
- 51:18get somewhere around six shakes maybe seven hours of sleep and then boom i'm awake it's a done deal
- 51:24yeah no going back to sleep the last alarms i set were you know doing the the dragon thing i'd have
- 51:30to wake up at a certain time and every time i hear that noise even to this day it's like yeah
- 51:36I cringe a little bit.
- 51:39Yeah.
- 51:40Well, I kind of have to do this thing for these other people
- 51:46so that I can afford to exist on the planet
- 51:53because the planet is expensive, apparently.
- 51:56Yeah.
- 51:57Yes, it is.
- 51:59Yes.
- 52:00It's an expensive planet.
- 52:01A lot of people own this planet and just...
- 52:05You know, you've got to pay them for the use, I guess.
- 52:07Fair use planet.
- 52:12Terrible.
- 52:13Anyway.
- 52:13Now, hopefully people enjoyed our freeform banter today.
- 52:19Well, I think they will.
- 52:20Yeah, maybe.
- 52:21Whatever.
- 52:21If they don't, next time we can go in-depth on why Building 7 did not blow itself up.
- 52:28Are you sure?
- 52:29No.
- 52:30Maybe it just got tired.
- 52:32I'm still looking for that for us to get the little blue information box about something.
- 52:37Well, I think at this point that's I'll keep shoving stuff in there a little bit.
- 52:41There's there's enough there's enough.
- 52:44There are enough inconsistencies and questions around that whole particular piece of the puzzle that.
- 52:53Yeah, I don't think anyone's going to like, oh, disinformation, misinformation, malinformation.
- 52:59And what is that all about anyway?
- 53:00like disinformation misinformation misinformation okay and then there's malinformation right oh is
- 53:08that a new thing i don't think i've heard that one they started that you know a couple couple
- 53:13few years ago all right that event that you know the little global party that we had um
- 53:21and uh it basically was anything that comes out that's true but it might harm the you know kind
- 53:31of narrative right uh is mal information so it's actually true it's it's correct information but
- 53:39you know this this could harm you know something some plan or some you know thing that we're trying
- 53:46to get done if the truth came out.
- 53:49So it's, and we slept, walked through, like people just went, oh, yeah, okay, malinformation.
- 53:57And for people keeping track at home, this is how I get him into his rants.
- 54:02I know, right?
- 54:03I just slip it in there so subtly, and then he goes at it.
- 54:08Poke, poke, poke, poke, poke, poke, poke.
- 54:11Yeah, pretty much.
- 54:13You should have your own segment.
- 54:14Do your little Havoc rant.
- 54:18I might I think it would be fun to just get out of you Yeah I just go on my little my little rants on the on the thing and i just you know make sure i pan the camera and go back over to you to watch your face just
- 54:30kind of laugh right yeah don't don't do the blocking me thing out just leave you know so
- 54:35you can see my reaction the whole time right nice might have to do that nice but only if you agree
- 54:44You'd dress up in a clown suit one time.
- 54:46Nah, nah.
- 54:48Were you afraid of clowns too?
- 54:50Nah, I'm just, nah.
- 54:51I don't know.
- 54:52Not really.
- 54:54Come on, little Bozo the Clown.
- 54:55Did you just have a Ronald McDonald doll when I was a kid?
- 54:58I still think that would be fun.
- 55:02I'm good.
- 55:02Maybe I'll get my Darth Vader helmet.
- 55:04Of course, the headphones probably don't fit under that.
- 55:07Yeah, it's fine.
- 55:09Nobody cares.
- 55:10Right.
- 55:11Just put them over the helmet.
- 55:14pretend nice i'll have to get some in-ear monitors
- 55:18yeah those things i don't really do good with those things they hurt me
- 55:23my ears aren't big enough i guess well they they have they have some really good ones now
- 55:29and and they'll come with like five different sizes um which is interesting to me like i always
- 55:38have, I have to have two different
- 55:40sizes.
- 55:41Your
- 55:41ear holes are two different sizes?
- 55:47Yeah. Wow.
- 55:49So are my boobs.
- 55:50You wear two different size shoes?
- 55:56No.
- 55:56But they are two different sizes.
- 55:58Oh, okay.
- 56:00Maybe we just need those
- 56:02custom ones like the professional
- 56:04musicians get where they mold the thing in your
- 56:06ear. That would be nice.
- 56:08they're probably not cheap it's not that bad to be honest with you oh really it's not that terrible
- 56:15no it really isn't now the the actual electronics and stuff but the actual getting the mold done
- 56:22not that bad at all yeah just go in they inject a bunch of crud in your air wait pull it out
- 56:31and they take it off to a lab and flick the wax chunks off in there what that flick the wax chunks off yeah it goes off nicely yeah there someone back there making sure they super clean
- 56:47nice
- 56:50there we go
- 56:53terrible
- 56:55I don't know which part
- 56:57is grosser that
- 56:58I thought about
- 57:00someone doing that and actually
- 57:02doing that or
- 57:04the thought of someone doing that and then sticking it in your ear which one's grosser i
- 57:10don't know leave a comment let us know yeah leave a comment hopefully y'all enjoyed today
- 57:17i don't know it was enjoyable for me enjoyable for you yeah it's been good yeah i've enjoyed it
- 57:25i enjoy it pretty much every time we do this that was a quick hour yeah it went by pretty fast
- 57:32minutes now i get to uh replace a door on the bedroom yay for me i'm more of a metal guy i i
- 57:39don't do the wood thing so much but speaking of metal have you used your new welder yet
- 57:44yeah you have no oh wire i moved it though does that count as using it kind of all right
- 57:54maybe we'll have to glue some metal together when i come up to visit
- 57:59yeah that would be cool um i actually need to get like i told you i need to get a cart for it
- 58:05i need to get it a cart because well you know the area yeah that thing's not light and it's in a
- 58:11small form factor right not small enough to be like let me just lift it and carry it i think it's
- 58:16about 100 pounds yeah yeah and and so given all that taking it down a gravel driveway and across
- 58:25where the chickens are and all that stuff you know i've got to have some way of being able to do that
- 58:30and it hasn't been a super huge priority
- 58:34when you need it it'll become a priority yeah exactly exactly until then it's just kind of
- 58:43sitting there i i know i know the thing i haven't used mine in a while either
- 58:46well i mean i got to i got to do a little bit of education just on setup and getting it getting it going not that big of a deal but then I got to get you know i got to get some scrap metal that i can play with right now i you know i got t posts i got
- 59:04fencing and you know some 14 gauge wire none of that is conducive to not really maybe the t post
- 59:13you know but still i know no desire to stick t posts together that do i need to bring you some
- 59:19scrap down there up there um i mean if you have some laying around sure i wouldn't mind having
- 59:24some but i think i can find it around here yeah it shouldn't be too difficult yeah not not that
- 59:30big of an issue but it literally it's just about setting aside you know a day right where that's
- 59:36what i'm doing nothing else is gonna happen you know what i mean and that's that's where it comes
- 59:43in it's like yeah i want to do this i really really do but at the same time there's all these
- 59:49other things that need to be done and this really is a i would like to do this not a this needs to
- 59:56be done right so like you said when it comes down to it and i really need it well all of a sudden
- 1:00:03now it's something i need that's how things work yeah yeah now today i become an expert in a
- 1:00:10mortising hinges on a door,
- 1:00:12which is really not my thing.
- 1:00:14Anyway, I think I should probably get to it.
- 1:00:17Any closing thoughts?
- 1:00:21Closing thoughts?
- 1:00:24No.
- 1:00:25No.
- 1:00:26I don't know.
- 1:00:28No.
- 1:00:29No closing thoughts.
- 1:00:30Tell everybody to have a nice day.
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