Cockles of My Heart

I'm just a wee little squirrel in a big man's world just trying to get in that.

Hey, man. Hello, and welcome to Two Grumpy Vets and a duuude. I am your host, Bryan. I am here with my other host, Rich Chelson, and then my other host, the duuude. And we are here today having a great old time. We've got a

Well, you know, obviously, it's been So what has been so then what is the name of the town? Canute. Oh, okay.

King Canute? King Canute. Yep. There is a there there King Canute was a was the king of of England for a while, but he was also the king of the Netherlands. Oddly enough, I don't know how he was able to be king of both, but somehow he was able to. And they, he was very much beloved in in, the Netherlands, during his rule, from what everything I've understood. This is back when the Vikings used to come over and and have, pick up their girlfriends out of England. So so it's a little wild.

Leave the wive at home. Leave the wive at home and go pick up the girlfriends and then go sailing and take them back. And then oh, Lord have mercy. So, so, so how did you figure out that, Canute

was named after a king? Well, because, back in, 2007, while my kids were in school, that was Oklahoma's, Centennial celebration. They joined the, union in 1907. And, so they were throwing out little interesting facts of all the school of all the towns that were around us. Like, we have one town called Red Trop. And the only reason why it's called Red Trop is because there was already a porter Oklahoma, and the guy's last name was Porter,

You, sure, you, sure, Bill and Hillary wasn't in on that one? Yeah. No, no, no, no, no. That's that's Arkansas. Well, I I mean, where they live in Arkansas, isn't too far from Oklahoma, man. Yeah.

Oh, and, and we've already got our first correction.

What's that? Pontification.

Okay. It is about speaking like, like we were saying, because I was giving out kind of what the definition of pontificate was.

Uh-huh.

But it's too, not boldly, but, oh, crap. What's the word? Kinda snobbishly give a speech is essentially what it boils down to, where you're given because it's, it's the pontiff. So you're with, with, with authority, you're speaking with authority. So it can be that you're pontificating and you're speaking with authority, but it also can be that you're just speaking. Yeah. You know, speaking like a bully. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So speaking

speaking down to people?

Yeah. Yeah. Pontification would also be kind of speaking down with people too. Yeah. Oh, okay.

So it all depends on your tone that you have as to the meaning of pontification or pontificate. You know, I just love saying that word now. Thanks, Bryan. My pleasure. I just love saying that word pontificate.

That just, yeah. Today's word is convivial.

So what? Who? Convivial.

Convivial. Alright. You're gonna have to give me a discount.

And the reason and I know this one because when I was actually toying with the using the word as the name of my of a social media company. But anyhow, it just means friendly, friendly, and inviting.

Really? Yeah. When, did you happen to find out in in what time frame this this word was used in?

No. But I have heard it say, I I you don't hardly ever hear the word being used. Right. But I have heard it mentioned in a couple of, a couple books before.

K. On Vivio. Right? Yep. Convivial. Convivio. That is oh, god. Oh, things will make you go Hmmm.. Yes. That's that's cool. That's cool.

Is it hmmm or damn?

This one I think is just

Oh, okay. Well, you let me know you let me know when I can get to the damn.

Okay. I I I'll I'll do that for sure.

You guys know me. I'm a I'm a man of very few words that are literary.

Better. Well, yeah, this is true. This is true. You will, you would tend to use easy words and and blame me. I appreciate that so much. Because well, you know what? Because listen, I love, I love, I love talking with Bryan. I really do, but sometimes, oh my God. Right over me. You know? And, you know, I gotta, yo, dude, back up a couple sentences. We need to talk about these couple words here, you know?

And I, I mean, I mean, Bryan answers them, you know, and and and the thing is Or at least the best of my ability or at least I'll bluff my way through it.

I Right. I was gonna say baffle baffle them with bullshit. Right?

Exactly.

Yeah.

I You know, there's there's there's get that w.

Yeah. Well, you guys know that I speak 2 languages. Right?

Now what's that?

English and bad English. Anything anything other than that? Well, you know, I use some sign language. Now it's not American sign language. It's, bad English sign language.

Yeah. I think I think I think we've all used that a time or 2.

Yeah. I don't know how many times because my truck being governed that I get told I'm the number one driver on the road.

Well, you you know you know, it'd be funny. You know, when that happens, if, they can see you blow a kiss back at him and just, and just watch him just shit themselves. Seriously. I mean, they'd be like and then just speed up and take off because they're like, oh my god. He's gay. No. No. He can't get on me. I don't know. I'm just I'm just making shit up. You know, I've I've I've gotten told that I'm

the number one driver out there. I just give a thumbs up. That's what I'm talking about. Yes. I am the best driver out here. Yeah. If you don't my ego. Yeah. And if you don't like the way I drive,

go around me.

Right. You know, push past, push. What's that saying? Lead, follow, or get the fuck out of my way.

Right. Right. And Yeah. It's funny. Cars have a hard time with that. They have a hard time following those simple little instructions.

Yeah.

I know. I I it's like, I don't get it. It's simple. Either take the lead, follow behind me, or just get the fuck out of my way.

Yeah. Because I'm coming through. I had a semi I had a semi today, and I'm running with a freaking hazmat. Okay? This guy go through temple. He was on his phone or or whatever. So I'm at full throttle and I can get it to get it up to speed. Unrestime. And keep it squeaky. For her. That's right. And and I passed him. And then he comes on me.

And, I mean, you could probably

find cannot go any faster than that unless I'm unless I'm going and it picks the 60. And he pronounces me not at a good rate. I know he was doing 70 miles an hour. Gets in front of me and hits the brake. So he's back down to 62 miles an hour. I'm like, what did that just prove? So I get out from behind him and try to pass him, and he decides he wants to speed up. And I finally got around him, and he does it again. And this is a a semi driver. Yeah. I'm like, dude, what is your problem?

He's a little boy.

That's that Drive. Yeah. Some people like just like some people have a big case. The me me first me first. So they they gotta be first.

They're just little boys and little girls that that act like that because, oh my God, you pissed them off because you didn't do what they thought you should have done. So they're gonna do everything to piss you off and they're gonna act whatever way. And I don't care if they're 80 or 20.

They're a little. Yeah. They get mad because they they, they wanna try to blame you for your their emotional distress. Yeah. And it's not your it's not your doing. They're they're mad because they made themselves mad. But again, that's, that that that's humans in in a nutshell. We're always getting mad at the fact that somebody else, did something that we did. And they didn't make us happy. And so we take it very personal.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, this, last night after our alright. After, vet call last night, you know, it was it was cool, but, you know, it was like, you know, we all jumped off around 10 o'clock or so. And, you know, I'm sitting there just messing around and finally it's like, man, I'm tired. I can't stay awake. So it's like, okay. I freaking go to bed. Take them headache powders, take some gabapentin,

Well, that's not good. It's not.

It's not that it's not a good sign. It is definitely not a good combination.

Right. And so and so actually, I came in, took the shower, went out, did my running. And then next thing I know, oh shit, it's 5 o'clock. And I'm thinking, fuck, I gotta get home and eat. And then we got to do our show. I'm like, Holy crap. And I'm, I'm all the way over in past Kigoula. And so I come back. I stopped at the store, got a couple of things, made it back here and, finally got everything to eat and all like that and got done about 20 till 7.

Well, it means you probably, probably actually sleep tonight, you know. If you're if you haven't gotten yourself out, overly octane, it it should be, should be able to kinda pass out at a fairly respectable hour.

Well, I hope so. I mean, either way either way, how

Speaking of octane. Speak speaking of octane. Right. I think I'm going to go, make some 93% octane.

Okay. It's called instant. Hey, that works too. But, the thing is though, is that, I will be up regardless of how many hours sleep I get. I will be up by, by a 7:30 tomorrow.

Why is that? Got an appointment?

Yeah. I get to talk to my whole health coach, Heather.

Your what coach?

My whole health coach.

Okay.

You need to get you all. I'm telling you, dude. They're cool because I've been talking to Heather now for 2 years or so, give or take. And, Yeah. A little more, I think. I I can't remember. I'd I'd have to ask her. She'd know. But, Yeah. We talked for, like, an hour, hour and a half, like, every 2 weeks. And, so yeah. And it and it always makes my day when I get to talk to her. So I will be up tomorrow at 7:30 regardless if I slept 30 minutes or 30 hours. Well,

because This with the VA? Is this with the VA?

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. In fact in in fact, in fact, she's at the VA up in Des Moines up north. And, when I, got down here, I was asking I was asking my doc and all like that and, you know, if I could keep, you know, Heather as my coach. And she, she's like, yeah. You should be able to. And then she put in an order for for me to go through the whole health coach thing. And I get a phone call from the the, VA clinic over in Pensacola.

No. We're not doing this all again. I've already done all this, like, 2 years ago.

It's like it's like, no. I've got things set.

Is, was Barney the host of the video?

Oh, I don't. I don't know, dude. I I I, I did not partake in the viewing of that video. But, yeah, I I I Now you know who you know who Barney is. Right? Yeah. I know who Barney is. I love you. You love me. Yeah. I know. I trust me. I know who Barney is. Sad. Okay. Yes.

I mean, that is I shot Barney in the knee when the shot ring out. Barney hit the floor. No more purple dinosaur.

Oh, shit. You know?

And when Barney came out, my daughter was year and a half old because her second birthday party was Barney.

Yeah.

They did an informal study that stated 98% of the kids from 2 to 4 absolutely loved Barney. 98% of the parents that had kids that loved Barney, 98%, mind you, would like to shoot Barney.

Well, that's why when my son was 1, 2 years old, and he got in got around to watching PBS and all that, and Barney would come on. We made it I personally made it a point to point out that Barney was actually very evil. He hypnotized kids so he could eat them. And he told he told his kindergartner kindergarten, teacher that or pre, pre not kindergarten, but pre k teacher that. He's like, oh, we don't play with Barney. Barney's evil. He eats kids.

I don't I don't understand that. It's just hey. No. That's what I believe you. Ain't going to change my mind.

Well, I've I've sat there and watched rambunctious kids who are just climbing the walls, just bouncing off of everything, turn that purple dinosaur on and just watch them go become docile, slack jawed, just glazed overlooking on the television. It's like, that's scary. No. We're not I mean, now we enjoyed Teletubbies. Teletubbies was was pretty darn cool, but it was just funny because their whole actions were just so quirky enough that we it was like, okay. Yeah.

Yeah. I'd never heard of that one. You never heard of Caillou?

No. Man, in Teletown, I did not like Teletown. Oh,

the Teletowns are awesome.

Say I I didn't freaking get into any of that until, Reezy came along and then it was PAW Patrol, dude.

Oh, yeah.

PAW Patrol. PAW Patrol. Love PAW Patrol. PAW Patrol rocks, dude.

Well, yep. Okay. But I have, and I actually would recommend y'all sit down and just start watching them. They're short. They're great. Best dang little kids cartoons you ever seen. Bluey. Honest to God, man.

Bluey?

Yeah. Bluey. It is, it's may it they're a bunch of Australian shepherds, Australian shepherd family. K. And, there is dad, there's dad, there's mom, there's Bluey, and then, the youngest one. I can't remember what the youngest one's name is. Is it spelled blueorblue? No. Bluey.

Oh, e y. Okay. E y. Yeah.

And it is, and you watch it and you will find stuff in there. That's just hilarious because they they make little they make jokes and jokes, and they're all clean jokes. But at the same time, there there are things that you'll that'll catch you off guard. You go, you'll catch yourself laughing at them. Just the Okay. My, my my granddaughter, she she is, she is Gaga about, about Bluey,

Oh, okay. Okay. It is.

You have, you have like, all the different different dogs that were all part of the family. Like, Muffin. Muffin's, like, supposed to be the little 2 year old heathen. And he's just this rabid little shit that just runs around terrorizing everybody. Then you got the, they're always playing play pretend, so they, they turn all the, all the girls become the old grandmas and the old ladies, and they all just it's just it's a wholesome story. It's a wholesome, show,

Hey, Brian? Dad. Hey, Brian? Yeah. Now now now what? You just wait in about 6 months when people are watching or listening to this episode, they're gonna go find Bluey. We're going to start a new fad of adults watching.

Old dude bluey.

You ain't got nothing better to do. Turn on bluey. You know? Turn on bluey. Are you are you more dad or you uncle? You know? Right. Right. Yeah. That yeah. That'd be funny. And yeah. That would be really funny. Yeah. No. Breezy led PAW Patrol. So and, Andrew loves Curious George.

Hey. There you go.

There's a classic like the grandkids liked Paw Patrol and oh, what was the monster truck one called?

What? That monster truck one.

Yeah. Didn't know they had one that was monster trucks.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. TJ and the I'd have to look it up, but I think it was TJ and the monster monster trucks. I'd have to look it back up.

Yeah. It's It's better. Well, I mean, I didn't know what Paw Patrol was until Breezy showed me. And at first, I was like, what the hell is this? And then, of course, I got hooked into watching them because me and Breezy would sit on the couch, you know, and then about this, about the second episode through, she was passed out on my lap and I'm still sitting there watching them, You know? And it's just like, man.

Did she ever get into, Octonauts?

No. I don't think so.

That was a that was a good show, the Octonauts.

Yeah. I don't that show that show, I don't remember her getting into that. I can't remember.

Got into the boys got into Octonauts. And, I mean, that was truly a good show. I would sit there and watch it by myself Right. Without without the boys being in the room.

You know, like, hey. Go on. There's a new episode. I'm gonna watch this. You'll go That's right.

You'll go outside play.

Right. Right. Yeah. Now and, you know, the thing is, curious George, I can watch a couple shows with MJ, but after that, it's like, no. I can't.

Yeah. Well, it's kinda gets predictable. You know, that little damn monkey's gonna get into some type of trouble.

Well, yeah. You know, I dude, I expect that because, I mean, it's like but but that's the thing, you know? It it's like it's like he makes noises and and everyone knows exactly what he's saying. You know? I don't know. It just I mean, I'm not I'm not knocking it because it is a good wholesome show, and it's a lot better than than a lot of the ones we have out. So, you know, I can't, I can't really complain about it too much.

Yeah. You, what they really need to bring back is Looney Tunes.

Oh, hell, dude. Why don't you Yeah. But then sadly, you got, you got too much violence in there for the, for the mothers in today. I mean, yo, Sammy Sam has guns. I mean, oh my god.

Oh my gosh.

Elmer Fudd. Elmer Fudd. Elmer Fudd. Is hunting Elmer Fudd. Wildlife.

Yeah. Elmer Fudd is, Yeah. I'm hunt. It's Wabbit season. Oh, it's Wabbit season.

Duck season. Yeah. No. It's yeah. Wabbit season. Duck season. Wabbit season. Duck season.

Yeah. Duck season. I said it's Wabbit season.

Yeah. No. No. Honestly, yeah. Bring back Looney Tunes. You know? Popeye. Oh, yeah. Shit. Yeah. Bring back Popeye or Yogi

Bear. You know? Actually, the Popeye stuff you can find. If you've got a Roku channel, you you look up classic cartoons. You can get Betty Boop, Popeye. And a lot of those,

I ain't got Roku. Ah. I just I just use my PS 5. Yeah. So, I mean, I could still probably find them.

Oh, they're on they're on YouTube. You can find them on YouTube too.

Yeah. Thing is, though, it's like it's like I get man, I squirrel so bad, every day, it seems like. You know, I was like, you know, I'll be like, I'll be like, okay. I wanna do this, this, and this. And it's like, okay. You know, and I'll I'll start on one project I'm doing. And it's like, okay. I'm gonna run-in a town for a minute. It'll be 2 hours before I even get out of the house to go run into town. And then it's like, I'm just getting

You have such a hard life. What? I I just I cannot fathom how how strenuous and, you know, your the time constraints that you have to have on yourself because of being retired.

Tell him, tell him, tell him, I knew he was going to come out with that.

Oh man.

I know.

But, dude, really? I was on the clock today for yeah. I was on the clock today for almost 12 hours.

Wow.

Yeah. So I had to make a double run. Right. And I get to make a double run again tomorrow.

Oh, what the hell? Yeah. I said, now hell no. Yeah? I mean, yeah. It yeah. It's money. I know. But still Yeah. You know? I mean I mean, you know, money is great and all that, but is it really worth all that headache?

Well, the damn fucking lottery numbers won't go in my favor. So

Well, Ron, I can't help you with that, man.

I know. Really can't help you. But the but the bill man cometh.

Well, I understand that, but you know what? There's places to hide where the bill man can't find you.

I would love to just find a big rock. No. Go to Chile.

Go to Chile. Why would I wanna do that? Or or or, is it there's a one freaking country in there that doesn't have extradition, and they can't get to you. You could go down there and live, you know, don't have to worry about it. Ecuador. I know I know there's there's one down through there that that they, no one can really catch you. So so, yeah. And and since you are since you are non computer literate or, you know, then the bill man can't find you. You know?

Yeah. See. No. Thank you. I just nah. I'm good. Okay. Well, I'm just saying And you and you and you know why? And you know why? What? You know what the cost of exportation is for Jeep parts?

Well, no.

But It's, like, freaking double.

Okay. Okay. Hang on, though. Let me ask you this. Why don't you find find a guy named Juan and see if he could get you to parts for, like, next to nothing or, or, or maybe make the parts. See, to think outside the box here. Because I mean, you know, what do you what do you think they do in in, Cuba, you know, with with all them old cars?

Oh, I know.

Or or they scavenging. You know? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, dude, you'd be you'd be riding around. You would be a half a half a boat. I mean, everybody would be like, if I you know?

Yeah. I don't know. See? So why would they be calling him Jeff?

No. That's boss. You know that. FA?

I thought Petrone was boss.

Well, that is 1, but, FA is is, boss as well.

Didn't know that. No. No. Really? I am I am very illiterate with with, with with Mexican.

Well well, what what, what a language are you learning? Because I see you have gone 5 days streak with Duolingo. I'm doing Italian.

Oh, you're do okay. Okay. Yeah. And the reason why Italian, because it's not Spanish. It's close to Spanish. It's just it's right there next door. I mean, they're they say c for yes and no for no. And and you have, and you have latte and and and and cappuccino and, and c. What is the, what is the, say Leucro is for sugar. Oh, shoot. What was the see, cafe is coffee, croissant. Oh, it's Coroneto. Yeah. It's just Coroneto. Coroneto. Not Coroneto. It is corn, c o r n eto.

Cornetto. Cornetto.

I believe that's what it is. Yeah. That's the one that keeps hanging me, Giving me a big, a big prop.

Bless you. Bless you, Rod. Thank you. So why can't they just say croissant?

Because that would be French.

And God forbid if the French and the Italian Can't have the French,

Italian speaking French. What type of world you get that you fall into? Gee whiz, man. Oh my god. World War 3 would start over that, dude.

Oh, lord. Well, that showed that that shows to be how stupid I am, I guess.

You're not stupid. And just it's just some it's just something you had had never learned. Yeah. It it and it doesn't make you stupid.

You know? You know? And I always and that's very true. That is very true. You don't you don't have the knowledge because you've never been in that situation. But the one phrase that I always come back around when people are talking about, like, country music or the you know, talking about heavy metal rock and do this and that. The statement always comes around from smoking a bandit when the bandit is telling frog, it all depends on where you're at in the United States as to how stupid you are.

Mhmm.

Which is very true. You know? If you don't know, like, Louisiana is French and Cajun like that. Right. Okay. The way they speak and all that other stuff and, you know, their heritage. And if you're somebody from New York, you know, you don't have a clue on, you know, their heritage. And they may not have a clue on a New Yorker's heritage, but it all depends on where you're from in the United States as to how stupid you are.

Right. But see, the thing is, you see, actually, that's where the the word in that case should be ignorant as in as in the dictionary term and actually stupid. Believe it or not, this is my opinion now. This is not based on any fact because I haven't looked it up. But in, but in my opinion, stupid is basically doing something that you know is not gonna work and is and is not gonna be right. That's stupid, but that's my opinion.

Yeah.

So but yeah. No. And and see, that's the thing. You know? If you don't know, say and I mean, yeah, I've called myself stupid before, but because I've done something, now when it's not gonna fucking work, so I call myself a dumbass.

Yeah. Well yeah. Yeah. That's about to And we call and we'll call you a dumbass too. You know? Right. You know, just not yourself will be called dumb you calling yourself a dumbass. We will help you with that

as well. You know what? I very much appreciate that, Ron. It it just warms the cockles of my heart that I know you and Brian have my back on that.

The cockle of your heart.

You never heard of that?

No. No. There's the Showtime. Another $3.75 word.

What was that, Brian?

I said, there you go. There's our there's our show title. Cockles of the heart.

That's. Oh, Lord. Oh man. I thought, I thought, I thought everybody had heard that. That's an old term.

No. I'm from Nebraska.

I'm sorry.

Well, it wasn't my choice.

Well, yeah. Oh, yeah. You know, at least at least you at least you got out when you could and you stayed

out. Yeah. But cockles, yeah, you're right. Cockles has been around forever. I mean, that's, Mary, Mary, quite contrary. How does your garden grow? Silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row. Right. So the the the cockles of of the heart is just, you know, the the the flora, whatever, now and I'd have to look it up. I can't quite remember what a cockle chiller is. But if I'm thinking right, it's some type of flower.

Yeah. I think it is. I I'm not sure. Like I said, I was I was god, I was a kid when I heard that. And, I mean, it was used, a few times, and so I learned, you know, I learned I learned what it meant and, everything. And, yeah, I've just I've used it. I hell. I thought I thought everybody knew it.

Well, not me.

Okay. Well, now you do.

No. Now I get now I have broadened my horizon.

Yes. My god. There we go, man. See, that's the goal of every day, broaden your horizon.

No. That's shoot the and then shoot those that get in my way. Right?

That's right. That's exactly right. Now notice I I I am not having my glass of water, anywhere near my my, laptop.

Very right. That's that's a glass of whiskey. Good job. We wanna make sure that's just, we can, we can keep that close because I know you're not gonna spout to let that spill. No. No. God, no.

No. I I wouldn't let that spill, but yeah. Yeah. That was

that was Well, once you go ahead and enlighten the, the, the, the audience on that little adventure there, Rich. Oh, that adventure. Yeah, that was,

that was, yeah, we had just, recorded last week and computer had had 2 2 weeks, 2 weeks, maybe, if that. Anyway, I went to get a drink and I kept it near my laptop, and I thought I had a hold of it. And, yeah, my hand said otherwise.

And so it just he went off and broke the cardinal rule of, of, of laptops. Never have your drink close to the laptop.

Yeah. I broke that cardinal rule and it spilled all over this laptop and the screen flashed and flickered and I'm like, oh, no. And, and I tried to wipe up the water and all like that, and I had to tilt tilt the laptop. And and then I hit the power button. It said no bootable disk. Oh, crap. So now this was on Friday when this happened. So I called because I bought it from Best Buy. I called Best Buy, set it up to go see him the next day, went saw

Okay. So enlighten us. So please enlighten us. What what was the ballpark?

13. My guess is plus grand. Yeah. Plus grand.

Okay.

Yeah. Yeah. Grand plus. Well, let's just say that. I mean, yeah, it was pricey. But anyway, so I get it. And then Sunday, Best Buy calls me. It's about 1 o'clock in the afternoon And, I'm like, what the hell is Best Buy calling me for? So I answered it and he's like, hey, dude. It's Aaron from Best Buy. Remember me? I said, yeah. What's up? He's like, you know, your computer you brought in? I said, yeah. I said, I said, dude,

So you actually returned your old laptop that you you baptized, with with with an accident.

Right. Well, well say, I was thinking since it was so new, I was thinking, hopefully praying that, that there was, there was a chance that I could maybe get it returned, exchanged, whatever, something like that. Right. Okay. I wasn't I wasn't you know? But yeah. No. They said the manufacturer warranties only covers defect, not spills. So yeah. So yeah. That's so yeah. And then and then when the guy flipped it on and it started working,

So you basically got got, your new computer for half price, essentially?

Maybe not half price, but a lot less than full price, let's put it Right. So yeah. Yeah. So, yeah. And, yeah, it's been so, yeah. Now, now I keep all my,

all beverages are on the other table.

Right? I've got a, I've got a 6 foot long plastic table right here on the side of me. All my drinks go over there. No. I'm not. No. Because, yeah, this would yeah. I would I would yeah. Have to cry. I would. I really would because that's I mean, oh my god. It's fast. So who

so who's the manufacturer of the of your new one?

ASUS, a h u s.

A say that again?

A s u s.

Yep. Asus or Asus or however you wanna pronounce it. Yeah. Asus. I was Not Jesus. Jesus.

Yeah. Well, you know, you say, Hey, Sus. And I bet, I bet, I bet 3 of them will turn around and say, what? Okay. Hey, Capasa. You know? Yeah, no, but yeah, I got, yeah, this one. Yeah. I was I was I was shocked, so that's why I was like, because I had to leave with a computer because we were working on, the first episode and I had I had no way to to, to, get anything done or even help to get anything done. So

You mean kinda like the help I'm giving?

You help tremendously, man. Yeah. You do, Rod. You like you like what's what's the word? I'm just a I'm

just a dude in the world.

I'm just a dude?

Yeah.

Oh, little old me.

Yeah.

You're listening, dude. Course, man. We're like we're like lost without you, dude.

I'm just a wee little squirrel in a big man's world. Just trying to get in that.

Okay.

I was I was gonna say.

I mean, that's now that's now part of the Internet, man. Sorry. It's there forever.

I probably wouldn't have said that out loud, but okay. Right. Love you, brother.

The internal dialogue, external dialogue, man. I mean,

what is somebody gonna come to find me and shoot me?

No. No. No. No, Ron.

He I I love how I love how pure Ron is. I mean, he just completely oblivious to all gay in windows that keep he keeps throwing out. It's just,

okay. Now run.

I had you know what? Now that you said that, I had no freaking idea. Absolutely. That that was from another genre on a cartoon movie.

Right.

Parts over or something. I don't remember. But it's like never in a 1000000 years would I put it into

a dad. You can't fucking You gotta have a dirty mind, man. See? See it? Look how pure and innocent you are.

No. See, Ron Ron, what we're saying, someone will hear what you said, you know, about about being another, having another whatnot, everything like that. And, they're gonna laugh like crazy because their minds are

are as bad as mine. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay.

So

So so to be a squirrel in a big man's world, just try to get a nut. Yeah. Okay.

It sounds a lot dirtier than what what you're meaning for too, but yeah. Yeah. And I know what you're saying. It's just

Okay. So let's go back to let's go back to the primary aspect of my life. Prozac. Because sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't.

Oh my god. Right? Oh, wow. You you just yeah. You're the bomb, dude.

I just I try my damn bit.

Right. Right.

So, Rich, what, what games you playing these days?

You know, actually, I haven't really played any game. The last one I the last one I did play oh, crap. I think I tried a new one if I remembered. Right? No. Because I didn't.

I haven't I know you've tried, Cyberpunk 2077

while it was, Yeah. I I need to get back on the Cyberpunk because you see, I'm I'm at the, training where I need to go distract the guard and then, and then go basically knock him out or kill him. And I'm putting no weapons and I'm stuck right there. I can't, I can't, I can't freaking get past him because I started hitting him and on, you know, knocking him out. And then he like shakes his head, stands up, pulls his pistol, pah, kills me.

Do you have a cyber deck on your, in quip? I don't know. Apparently I just completely just blew your mind on that one. Yeah. I was gonna say, yeah, I think you did. It just went. Okay. Yeah. Well, most of the time you get started, you start out with just a very small, what the, in cyberpunk that is called cyber deck And it allows you to throw add hacks to it so you can do, like, short circuit or weapon glitch or or cybernetic, glitches or and things like that. And you can Okay.

So

Okay. Because you Have you had the, have you had the combat training yet? I think I'm doing that now. Oh, Okay. So, yeah, it's just, you just gotta figure out how to, how to actually,

whoop his ass. Yeah.

Okay. Actually, you just gotta figure out how to sneak past his ass, I think, is what it is. Unless it's the one where you gotta sit there and punch him and then, yeah, that gets to be kinda.

Well, I I think I think I have to punch him because, the few times that I have, I I see his little status bar go down go down. And it's like, I know I'm hitting you harder than that, you motherfucker, but it it it only goes down so far. And then he's like, yeah. Okay. We're done.

Boom. You're done. Okay. Now now if he's pulling out a gun and you don't you've and you're not able to have the gun yet, then no. It's, I would say probably is closer to you needing that or, actually might be what it is is you need to sneak up behind them and you, hit grab. Okay. And then when you grab him from behind, you have the ability to either incapacitate or kill. Okay.

Okay. I'll try that then because you And I think grab is square if I'm thinking, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think you're right. Grab is square. But, yeah, I'll try that because, yeah, that's that's, where I'm stuck right now in cyberpunk. I mean, it looks cool. It's I mean, it looks fun. Oh, it's beautiful. If you go into settings and stuff and the graphics

side and turn on the ray tracing and all, just turns into just this beautiful masterpiece. I mean, it's a, it's a great game. I mean, it's hard to believe that just 2, maybe 3 years ago, it was just a flaming pile of dog crap, just as glitchy as could be. You'd be running along and all of a sudden you'd fall through the map. You'd what? Fall through the map? You'd be running along, and and you would just there'd be places where you just happen to fall out in a hole in the map, and you just

That don't sound like a fun time.

I don't know. It depends on which way you wanna swing, man. But now it's all in all, no cyber punk is, is probably my second favorite game right now.

Okay.

Red dead 2 is still my favorite. Just that whole story arc is phenomenal. And yes, I know it starts off real. It starts off cold,

but it gets better. Yeah. I'm I, I mean, I'm, I'm in the warmth. I just, I don't know. I just, I I'm actually waiting for the townspeople to cool down because I think they're still pissed off because I, because I went in and accidentally well,

while it killed a prostitute. Well, if you got a bounty on your head, yeah, they're gonna be a little pissed. But if you don't have a bounty on your head, they they nah. Now if you go off and shoot like the, if you go off and accidentally shoot the, like the shopkeeper Right? And you go back in, he's gonna remember that you shot him. Oh. And he'll actually even have, like, if you shoot him in the arm, he'll have a bandage on his arm and stuff.

That's fun.

Yeah. Yeah. It's it's actually a lot of fun. Funnier than hell. 1 (1h 45m 20s): Yeah. It is. The only thing that is, is the weapons are kind of set. Some of them. Not well, most Yeah. Yeah. You get some a lot of them that are I've I've got a couple of, couple of legendaries that have got, that have got corrosive on them, and they're they're great until I come across a boss and all it seems like all the bosses are are resistant to corrosive. It's like, right. Damn it.

I was asking Ron if you fell asleep on us. Sorry. I thought I thought you were done.

No. No. I'm here.

Okay. Okay. Just checking, dude. Okay. But,

yeah. Go ahead. But try but I'm kinda balanced between that one and I'm got an old, an old p, PlayStation game, near automata. Never heard of that. Or automata, if you wanted potato, patata. And, Haters.

Haters, Todd.

Haters, Todd.

But it's a but it's a I don't I've just kinda started started with it just because I got to a point on on on Borderlands where I was just like, oh, screw it. Right. Just kinda kinda threw my hands up in the air and just said, never mind. I don't wanna play this anymore. Because I made the mistake of going into the heck hole, and I'm just by myself.

Yeah, no, no, you gotta shoot them and then shoot all them guys. And then, and

with the man And then hit him. But but what it is is that's one of those things you actually have to, you have to actually it works better when you have multiple people so that you've got, like, 3 people who are taking care of the, taking care of the orbs so that you get rid of them, the orbs really fast. And then the 3rd guy or the 4th 3rd or 4th guy just runs around and just blows the heck out of the, out out of, out of the the main guy.

Now now the thing is, though, do you, do you refill quick when you get hit?

What do you mean by refill? Like, well, the life or the, or my, Yeah. Yeah. You can tell. For the shield, is it? It it it well, the shield itself heals, goes pretty good. I've found one that is think I've got an 8 or 900, shield. So it's like a 900 units of shield

protection in there. Okay. Okay. Because because the thing is because because I've beat that guy before. It's it's harder now. It took me like 5 or 6 tries. Okay. Took me, like, 5 or 6 tries, but when I got all the minions out and then those orbs and stuff like that, When I went to working on him, I'd nail him about 3, 4, about 4 times, and then I'd roll over to another side and then hit him again. And I I just kept sticking and moving.

shield up.

Yeah. And so and so by, like, the 3rd or 4th round, you've got him to where you're 4 or 5 and then and then go, like, 6 or 7 or 8 shots. You can take him all out and you get a whole, a whole bunch of shit.

I mean Yeah. I figured you got a bunch, but Yeah. I was, just I I I went through, I don't know, probably 6 cycles of him shielding up and fill and and healing back up. And I'm running around blowing all the all the bad guys to pieces and and, then taking going through and just shooting the hell out out of, out of each of the spheres. And then by the time I got out of them all blown up, he's already full health again. I'm like,

Yeah. That's why you hit him, move, hit him, move, hit him, move. And then just once he gets, once you get him down past to, you know, about a quarter left and then land to it, pray to God, you don't run out of bullets.

Well, I had never run out of bullets. It's ever seems like everybody drops plenty of them, but Right. But, yeah, it was just a it was, like I said, after about the the bajillionth time of of him refilling and stuff, I was just like, screw it. Screw it. Braves quit.

No wonder why it started to get into, I mean, shit. You sealing from the government. That ain't gonna be shitting.

But, I'm just waiting for and, the remaining reason why I'm playing that one as hard as I am is just that it's, that, playing that one is because I'm still waiting for, Elden Ring to, to finally drop in price enough to where I could go off and buy it. So cause that's the actual game that I'd really like to play.

What's that Elden ring you said? Yeah. Yeah. I never heard of that one. I don't think it doesn't ring a bell. I've probably seen it. I just I just didn't Oh, yeah. Pay attention. But yeah. So, yeah, so far, I mean, that's that's about what I'm doing on there. It's just I get, yeah, at night, I squirrel so hard that,

We're gonna have to we're gonna have to make a little change on this. I didn't prepare my phone properly while I'm doing this because yeah. For so for those of y'all behind the, behind the scenes, I do this on a mobile setup. And, and, basically, I send everything through the phone. But, I didn't prepare my phone this time, so I was down at 2%. I was like, yeah, I better go ahead.

Oh, yeah. That's insane.

So my sound quality is probably going to change dramatically,

and that's fine. Well, once it gets up through a phonic, it shouldn't be that bad. Yeah. It should level 8 everything out. Right.

So

Right?

Ron. So, Ron, what video games you playing?

It was on 0.

0.

Well, dude, what's the game like? Tell us, explain it to us, man. I hadn't played the I hadn't played 0 before.

That means, nada. I am not I am not a gamer. The only the only games that I like are the old the old, arcade games. Yeah. Like,

yeah. The old stand up, con cabinet.

Yeah. Asteroid, Pac Man Right. Donkey Kong.

Jiras?

Was that the one that went to all the different is that

one of the goes to all the different planets. Yeah.

Yeah. I would love to get that console and have that game in my house.

Dude, check Amazon. You could probably get it. No. I'm sure. I I

I know. Sure. I do. Like I said, back in junior high, me me and a friend. 50¢. We were on that game for 8 hours and it cost us 50¢. A quarter a piece.

That's a deal right there.

Yeah. Yeah. That was a cheap entertainment right there.

Right.

Yeah. But as far as gaming, no. Well Don't game.

Okay. Well, what do you do for fun?

Sit around and watch cars, Russ.

Okay.

Like going playing out with my Jeep when I can afford it. I haven't been shit. I haven't been out wheeling now, and damn. The last time I went out wheeling was October.

Dude, come on now. That's 6 months. You haven't wheeled in 6 months?

Nope.

Man.

I can't afford to break anything.

I can't afford to break anything.

Right now.

Dude, dude, go on the easy trails. Just freaking get out there and just, and just freaking I know I know it would kill you, you know, but still, just go out there and wheel, dude. Find a trail and wheel, man.

Make it Well, I got well, well, Dave had a group down to Hidden Falls, I think, Saturday. Uh-huh. And he's hit nothing but level fives the whole day.

Okay. Well, it doesn't doesn't mean you have to go follow them.

Well, yeah, you're right. But the level 5 trails, those are the ones that are the fun.

Yeah. But but is isn't the level 5 trails, the easiest one to break your Jeep on?

Well, yeah, it is. It is.

Say but but you said you you didn't wanna break your Jeep?

Yeah. I don't wanna break the jeep right now because I just can't afford to fix it. Right. Right. I So, you know, but the kind but just my current life situation right now is just I don't have very much joy going out and wheeling right now. And once a couple things change my life, then I'm sure that will be, you know, a joyous events. But right now, it's like just, nah. Just got no joy for it. Dude. But, of course, I don't have joy for anything.

It's exactly what I'm saying. I know this. So at least getting out and at least doing something. I mean, because part of you still enjoys it. Oh, yeah. You know? So so like I said, go out, do the easy trails and just and just just ride, man. Yeah. Well, a hundred Yeah.

Oh, I completely understand you.

Yeah. I know, but you'll sit at home while everybody else goes wheels. Yeah.

Yeah. I know. That's kinda how it's been. That's alright. I'll get over it.

I mean, shoot. Why don't you get ahold of Thomas? See if he wants to go. He'd be game.

Oh, yeah. I know. He would be same way with Patrick.

Right. Yeah. Just, you know, say, hey. Let's go with it. You know, let's let's just take the easy trails so I don't break my Jeep because I can't afford it. Thomas being a guide. I don't care.

Yeah.

Thomas. I know. That's why I love Thomas. I mean, cause the dude, he's just like, well, he's game for just about anything, you know? In, you know, whether it's like, like, like, when, Thomas was with us, see, was it the first event at K River where we went wheeling up that creek behind Adam's house and that and that waterfall step? Remember that? Uh-huh.

Yeah.

I think I think you went up it with your lockers. Matt went around, and I was riding with Thomas. I think I think someone else went up. I Patrick. I think Patrick went up and over it. And Thomas wanted to try it, and you was ground guiding, you and your lovely crocs. I was just standing in the water. That was great. I loved it. But, Thomas rolled up and, tried to crawl up, but his, his bumper was even with the rock, with the face of the rock.

He didn't Oh, yeah. That's right. Uh-huh.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I remember. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. He didn't he didn't have enough height to get up. You know, if he had enough height, yeah, he would've probably well, I don't know. Thomas ain't locked, is he?

No. He's not locked.

Okay. I didn't think so. But, I mean, yeah, Thomas is game, and that's that's why that's why I love Thomas. You know? You know, if he thinks he can do it, he'll do it. You know?

Hell, he took his Jeep up, the last time we went out there. This was I rode with Patrick, for the military Jeepers event, and he took his open, barely over 3 modifications and took it up west.

Really?

Oh, yeah. West is not not for the faint of heart. I'll put it to you like that. You can tear you can tear some shit up very easily on west and east on those two trails.

Right.

Yep. And he got his jeep up west.

See, that's why I love Tyler. He's just like, nah, I can do it. He just gets it done, man. Yep. I mean, seriously, if if if there's even even a quarter chance he can do it, he can go. That's that that's cool.

Without lockers?

Yes. Exactly. Without lockers.

Yep. Base yeah. Base The only one

the only one he will not do is, Carnage Canyon. He will not touch Carnage Canyon Okay. Whatsoever. K. But you better have you better better wanna have lockers to go up Orange Canyon.

Right. I'll get lockers one day.

It's a You need to look into Ox Lockers.

I have looked into Ox Lockers, dude. $1200 a pop. Okay.

How much? God. It's Yeah. Damn. How much was it? 1200

a pop. 1200 a pop. Yep. Each half.

Yep. But the good thing about all soccer is that they're mechanical and not electric.

I know. I know. Trust me. I look, I, yeah, I look because they've, they've got electric, they've got air. And I looked at all those, but yeah. Yep. But, yeah, they they are not cheap. Mm-mm.

Well, what is cheap when it comes to modifying a Jeep? Not a damn thing. Right. That's true. Lift, shock, the freaking if you wanna go a long arm, you know, configuration, yeah, the freaking price should just keep going up and up and up and up. Right? We got one guy here. He put a long car long arm kit on his JK and put a 4 inch lift on it. And he didn't do it. He had a shop do it for him for that long arm kit and everything that he got and all the and he got the upper end stuff, which is great.

Okay. I was gonna say it must be It was 88.

It was $88100

Wow.

To get his lip put on and and the cost of the lift. But he also did a long arm compression. You know? That ain't cheap.

Well, no. It's not cheap, but dadgum, dude. I mean $88100

he spent on that that lift and getting it put in.

Well, I mean I mean, not all lifts cost that.

Oh, no. No. No. But he got you know, he had to get the brackets fabricated and get them welded on the right place on the frame and all that other stuff. And it's like, you know, if you have $88100 to do that, knock yourself out. Right. But, of course, he got, he got, what was the name of the components he got? Yeah. I don't remember the name of the components. It's the same components that I have on the front of my Jeep when I bent the, tie rod and the

Yeah. You said it, and I can't think of it. Yeah. Freaking drawing a blank. Woods or Adams?

No. That's the drive shaft.

Okay. Okay. Okay. Now you had told me I know, and I I I'm freaking drawing a blank.

Yeah.

But either way, you know, it's, it's yeah. I don't know. I mean, you know, it's the dude's money. Yeah. He earned it.

Yeah. And trust me, it, he will not bend or break any of these components. He will bust the hind joints.

Well, I think I think I I would I would rather bust the hind joints than anything else. Hind joints are cheaper.

Yeah. Exactly. That's that's the they're they they designed it that the Heim joints will break first. Right. Yep. So but, yeah, they're, yeah, they're the real thick walled tubing, and I won't bend I won't bend my tie rod and my drag link ever again.

That's cool.

Yeah. But, of course, those two pieces cost me, just the parts were $1200 for those two pieces.

Oh, that's I mean, I mean, when you want quadriplext.

Quadraflex. Quadraflex?

Yeah. Quadraflex.

That was that's the components that the other guy put all the way around his Jeep. Okay. With the upper and lower control arms, with the long arm Right. Kit front and back, 4 inch, 4 and a half inch lift. Yeah. Was all Quadratech.

Okay. Okay.

Which is, yeah, the very pretty much the top end line of the parts. But, yeah, it cost him over. It his total bill came out to be $88100 to get it installed and the part. Right.

Well, that I mean, that was his choice. Yep.

You know? And I can do just as well with the short arm kit. So I'll just leave the short arm kit on there. That way I don't have to fabricate any brackets. Right. Right.

Yeah. No. I mean, yeah, some people just go, you know, overboard, but that's what they want. So Yep.

And then you have then you have the actual rock crawlers that are on 1 ton steerable rear axles.

Yeah. Those boys those boys got more money and cents. I mean, those those rock crawler crawlers, and Brian can testify because Brian got to riding

1. Mhmm. Yep.

And yeah. I mean yeah. Yeah. Those guys will drop $50,000 and that's just a start.

Oh, that's just a start. You you once you get the whole configuration done and you got the rear steering and you got the 44 inch tires, you got 1 ton rear steering, all that, you're close to a $100,000 for a rig. Oh, yeah. Well, absolutely. Yeah.

So, Brian, it it it explain about your your ride in that in that, rock crawler.

That was that was wild, man. Just the fact that, I mean, yeah, you get I mean, it's got like a 75 point harness that you you buckle yourself into. You think you take it off to the to the moon just because that thing, you know, it's one, it's got a big freaking engine on it. You didn't you wouldn't think that it would actually be able to get up as high as it does, but it it crawled. The reason they call it a rock crawling. That thing that's rock crawler. It crawls and it's

It's Oh, yeah.

And Well, it's it's a trip. And I mean, you don't think you're, you know, got up to the top and then or almost to the top, and he there's a little area that he was having to kind of pernagle himself in so he could jump up and over. And, yeah, once he once he hit it just right and he bumped up and over, I mean, you're it you you caught some air on on my ass end. It was a it was a trip. It was Where Exhilarating is a good way to describe it.

Yep. Where did you get the chance to ride in the rock crawler at? Birds.

Birds? Uh-huh. Yeah. Remember that purple one that had the 4 wheel steering?

Hey, Rhonda. 1st year of our event

at March.

Uh-huh. Yeah. There there there was, like, 4 rock crawlers

that, came up. And, Yeah. Me and me and Tank both went toodling around in that darn thing. Yep.

I am vague I vaguely remember them.

Yeah. No. I'd I didn't get a chance to go ride in 1. I would have loved to, but I didn't get a chance. Yeah. You were you were busier in 1 arm paper. Yeah. That ain't no lie. I was. So but yeah. No. It's one day, I'll I'll, get to riding a rock crawler.

Oh, yeah.

So

Well, as soon as you get this Jeep paid off, you can buy my trailer. So at least you have 2 pieces and then the next piece you save up your money, $100,000 and go buy yourself a rock collar.

Oh, yeah. My Jeep wouldn't pull it, dude.

No. Your Jeep wouldn't like that at all. No. It wouldn't. At at all.

It would And hook and I hook the trailer up, put the rock crawling on there, and that Jeep would go. Let's walk you. Alright. We're out of here.

It wouldn't so much be the starting aspect as would it be the stopping aspect.

Yeah. Because yeah. No.

That's what the other putting the brakes on and then yeah. They're putting the brakes on and getting the trailer pushing you through the intersection.

I would need to throw an anchor out just to help slow down. Just get your get your boat anchor out. Right. Right. Mhmm.

Without a doubt.

So ah, well, let's go ahead and, well, I guess, we'll start wrapping her on up.

Okay.

And, and and any any key points of insight, knowledge, or or wisdom, dude, you'd like to impart upon, upon the listeners?

Yeah. Do not step on Superman's cape and don't piss into the wind.

Nice. I like that.

Don't pull the mask on a old lone ranger, and don't mess around with Slim.

That's right. That's right. Excellent problem.

That was awesome. I liked it.

Yeah. But my wisdom for the day is don't step on Superman's cape and don't piss in the wind.

Yeah. That's just never a good thing.

Yeah. No. Especially if you try to pee off of a cliff and the wind blows back up, that that always winds up having a bigger mess. So Gotcha. Anyhow, so, Rich, how about you? What's what big merge of wisdom do you got for for the listeners?

Well, since you put me on the spot, drink more coffee.

Drink more coffee. That was lesson learned. Don't have too many conversations before you've had you need to have the proper balance. One conversation for 1 cup of coffee. Oh, no. No. No. No. You need a pot of coffee.

No. Per conversation. Before the first time before the first conversation.

Thank you. Before the first conversation. Okay. Okay. Yes. Yeah. Pot before the converse after that, you can talk all day long. I don't care.

But

drink more coffee.

Drink more coffee. Amen. Drink it. Yeah. Absolutely. Alright. And then mine mine's actually going to be if you're still if you're a veteran and you'd like to have some folks who you can hang around with, you could talk to, hit me up. Circlecast. That's circlecast, all one word, cast, all one word@gmail.com. Just in the subject line, say better put in veterans call or something to that effect, and let let me know that you'd be interested in, joining in the vet call.

way too many having a bad day.

Even if you're just having a crappy day. Exactly. I mean, we're all of us all of us vets are are out to help other vets. That's right. And so just just just come along and and ask don't even actually have to ask for help. Just call and say, hey. I just need to talk. You're always gonna find a veteran going, sure, man. What do you wanna talk about? I'm gonna talk about whatever it is we want you wanna talk about. So, man,

So But, yeah, seriously, that's this is this is what we do. This and and this is none of this is scripted. None of this is scripted. So you're hearing this like we're actually was having the phone calls before we thought about doing this. So Yeah. And I I mean, it's not hard to do. It's easy to do if if if you want more information or if you just wanna say, hey, or say screw you, you know, reach out to Brian or myself, rchelson@gmail.comorcirclecast@gmail.com. Send us an email with

Alright. Well, guys, we'll go ahead and we'll let you go so y'all can keep on y'all's way. And and, Rich, you have yourself a good night. I know you've got a busy day tomorrow. And, Ron, I'm sure you've got, a lot of trucking to do because I do I have the same. I've gotta go from Altus all the way over to Tyler and back so tomorrow. So yay.

Yeah. I got I got a and I got a double run again tomorrow. So, yeah, I will have a very busy day.

Alright. Well, y'all have a good night then, and y'all sleep good. And, we'll see y'all next week. Safe. Okay? Yep. We'll see you next week.

Alright. Y'all be safe.

Alright.

Alright. Bye.