SPEAKER_00 0:08

Hey everybody, welcome back to Set and Centered. Uh this is our third episode, if you can believe it. I'm RJ.

SPEAKER_03 0:13

This is Mark.

SPEAKER_00 0:15

And three, yeah, number three. How about that?

SPEAKER_03 0:17

I can't believe three already.

SPEAKER_00 0:19

I th we we need to uh we need to make an announcement right at the top. There was a security breach here in the studio um earlier. And somewhere in this room, we're not sure where at the moment, there's a kitten.

SPEAKER_03 0:33

Oh, I know where exactly where he's at.

SPEAKER_00 0:35

Where is he?

SPEAKER_03 0:36

He's over here getting petted by me.

SPEAKER_00 0:37

Oh my god, really?

SPEAKER_03 0:38

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 0:39

Okay. Well, that's super adorable. Uh yeah, so little flash, little flash is in here with us. So it's it's great so far. He's getting lovies and stuff, uh, but cats will be cats. So we'll s if you hear anything crashing to the ground in the background, it's probably that.

SPEAKER_03 0:55

Especially with Flash.

SPEAKER_00 0:56

Is he on the desk?

SPEAKER_03 0:57

Uh he's on the little uh end table thing you have. Oh my goodness. I'm gonna get a picture of him, hold on.

SPEAKER_00 1:03

Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:04

There he is.

SPEAKER_00 1:04

End table next to your dictionary that I got.

SPEAKER_03 1:06

Yeah, yeah, dictionary. And my and I finally got a pad and paper.

SPEAKER_00 1:09

So you did. Uh you did. And I I did promise that for episode two, but uh, you know, here we are.

SPEAKER_03 1:17

I didn't need it because I didn't need to look up any big words. That's right.

SPEAKER_00 1:20

Yeah, there was there were there were none. That was good. Uh I did have a question for you that I meant to ask you last time.

SPEAKER_03 1:26

Yeah, what do you got?

SPEAKER_00 1:28

Um do you think it's interesting that you are uh a podcast host as a person who's never listened to a podcast?

SPEAKER_03 1:39

I think it's ironic. Just a little bit. Yeah, just a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 1:43

Uh oh wait. What? You did. Wait, you started listening to one here recently, huh?

SPEAKER_03 1:48

Oh, I did. I started listening to one on uh bees. Yeah, yeah, that's right. I did. I didn't get very far into it. I got one episode and then haven't gone back to it yet.

SPEAKER_00 1:57

Yeah, well, what's all the buzz about anyway?

SPEAKER_03 2:00

Uh on the bees? Or just what's the buzz of me actually listening to a YouTube? It was a bee joke. Podcast. Oh, it's a bee joke. Oh my gosh. Hold on, I'll be back.

SPEAKER_00 2:11

I'll behave. Yeah. Uh that a bee. Yeah, it was uh I did kind of forget about that, but it was pretty funny. Like uh, yeah, we were quite a ways into like we're gonna do a podcast and talking about it and planning on it, and then one day you're like, maybe I should listen to one of these podcast things.

SPEAKER_03 2:31

Yeah, it's kind of like audio books. I've only listened to one of those, so what book was it? What was it, Driving in the Rain?

First Podcasts And A Bee Joke

SPEAKER_00 2:38

Oh yeah, you told me about that. Yeah, it's yeah. It sounded it sounded like a good story, but probably one I don't want to listen to.

SPEAKER_03 2:45

Uh sad, right? It's sad at the end. Well, there's a lot of sad parts, but I I really enjoyed it. And then recently I uh watched the movie on it, and like a big old baby, I cried through most of it. Was it was it good, the movie? I I thought the movie was pretty good. It didn't follow exactly the book, but when do they ever do that? But yeah, it was uh it was a good movie.

SPEAKER_00 3:07

Okay, yeah. Uh that's my is it relatively new?

SPEAKER_03 3:11

Uh no, it's been out for probably five years or so.

SPEAKER_00 3:14

That's relatively new to me. Yeah. Yeah. I might check it out, but probably not. Probably not.

SPEAKER_03 3:21

Just I'm having issues over here with uh our the producer. The associate producer. Yeah, the associate is producer.

SPEAKER_00 3:31

What's going on?

SPEAKER_03 3:32

Uh he thinks he should be drinking out of my cup of water. Oh my god. Don't worry, I'm taking pictures to send.

SPEAKER_00 3:39

Okay. This is just the start. Um, yeah, it's I'm actually surprised there's only one kit down here because we did leave the door open for like half an hour.

SPEAKER_02 3:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:51

Uh and well when I because we're in my we're in my off my home office is what the the studio is, and when I kind of had to rearrange the whole thing to make this work.

SPEAKER_03 4:04

Yeah, so I could fit.

SPEAKER_00 4:06

That's not what I said, but there's a degree of it. I'll say it for you. Yeah. And like, you know, the cats were like, what is going on in here? This is fantastic. And remember the first night had it all done. I went outside for a minute, came back in, and like all of the cats were in here. Like two were on that desk, one was on the back of this chair. I'm just like, oh my gosh, this is gonna be a problem if I don't keep the door closed.

SPEAKER_03 4:30

Yeah, yeah. Well, that's where you found it when we walked back into the the studio office. He was on the back of the chair, you're like, my turn.

SPEAKER_00 4:36

Yeah, he's just like, uh, am I gonna get a mic over here? Or yeah, like I said, I'm surprised it's only one. But you know, you were just saying, I think, oh, we were we were talking about this on the last one. Uh how the cats are skittish and hopefully they warm up to you. Well, he's he's there.

SPEAKER_03 4:54

He's there. He's like, a pad and paper. Are you that old?

SPEAKER_00 4:59

Oh my gosh. I'll tell let me give you a little flash tip. Uh so take take because you have a steno pad, take one of the pages, tear it off, crumple it up, and toss it across the room.

SPEAKER_03 5:10

Okay, let me do that. Look, people can actually hear that I have I know that's not your piece. That's the one I know.

unknown 5:21

Hey.

SPEAKER_00 5:25

Oh, there he goes. Okay. He's gone. That'll keep him occupied for a bit. Um when Charlie was a kitten, um he would just he wouldn't leave you alone, you know. And when I I I'd be on I'd be on work calls and he just he'd walk across the keyboard and it's just a pain in the ass. And I I finally took to I had a whole pad of paper, you know, on my desk for whenever I was on a call, just so I could rip a piece off, crumple it up, and throw it across the room, and he'd chase after it, and then I keep him busy for like 30 seconds, and I would just keep doing that all throughout the calls. Otherwise, it was a nightmare. I can only imagine Charlie. Yeah. And now Flash is over here. He's I think he's over it already, but yeah, we'll see.

SPEAKER_03 6:18

Um typical teenager.

Beekeeping Curiosity Takes Shape

SPEAKER_00 6:20

Oh, yeah. So you listen to a podcast, you didn't listen to a podcast about bees just for fun, right? Like you're now getting interested in this.

SPEAKER_03 6:30

Yeah, my my son Coy, he actually uh has a couple beehives up where they live in Washington. Beehive. Beehives, but uh so we've been talking about it now for a couple years. Excuse me, and he uh he keeps on talking about it, and I'm like, ah, that that just sounds interesting. It sounds interesting. So I started uh listening to a bot podcast on uh bees for beginners and stuff.

SPEAKER_00 6:55

Yeah, I guess it wasn't terribly interesting if you didn't stick with it, huh?

SPEAKER_03 6:58

Well, I had other things I had to do.

SPEAKER_00 7:00

Yeah, but I mean not the bees, the bees are interesting, but like maybe that podcast. Um yeah, what because you're talking about it more and more and stuff, and so uh uh what's the intr like what's the drive? Do you want honey or yeah?

SPEAKER_03 7:16

I mean, now that we're you know, Christine and I are both retired and down here in Texas, it's like gotta have something to do.

SPEAKER_00 7:24

Oh, well sure. Of course. I was just curious.

SPEAKER_03 7:27

I mean, I've got a lot to do, but I don't do it. Yeah, right. So might as well add something else to do. Add something to else to do to my list of things I need to buy a lot of and not ever do. Yes, exactly. But no, it's it's uh it's getting more and more. I figure here, probably in the the summer, maybe I don't know when's the best time. I've got to do more research, but maybe get one or two hives. Koy says it's better with uh two hives and stuff, and so we uh you know, Christine and I have been watching a lot of YouTube videos and stuff on that, and yeah, Koy was sending me different types. I didn't realize there's different types of hives. There's uh the vertical ones that everybody sees, but now they've got horizontal ones, yeah. And it's a lot easier to uh you're not lifting the whole box off to try and get to your honey or your brood or whatever.

SPEAKER_00 8:13

So yeah, no, uh I think I mean bees are obviously fascinating. I I was just curious, like personally, for you, like what the draw I'm I'm now taking a video because the whole flash diversion did work for about 30 minutes. He's now on my desk, uh dangerously close to the mixing board and rubbing on the monitor. Yeah. We're not sure. These things may end up on the floor.

SPEAKER_03 8:41

They could be. Yeah. Yeah. Next thing you know, we'll be laying on the floor too in the podcast. Yes, right. And Flash will be up on the desk.

SPEAKER_00 8:48

Yeah. You know, Flash, I'll say this. If uh, you know, and down goes the mic. Okay. Um, yes, that's exactly what happens. You just careen that fucking thing right off the and I just I love uh I love I love the attitude of cats. Like they just knock something down and then they they just kind of look out on the floor like, huh.

SPEAKER_03 9:17

Yeah, I don't know that's it.

SPEAKER_00 9:18

How did that get there? Okay, but I'm putting you down. This is ridiculous.

SPEAKER_03 9:21

Yeah, like it's gonna last very long.

SPEAKER_00 9:22

Yeah, I don't know. Well, we may have to we may have to take him out, but uh no, yeah, so the bee thing. I uh a few years ago, I think it was a random comment on Reddit, uh, or random post about bees. It was something very interesting, and I kind of went on like a like a rabbit hole, you know, for that day about bees.

SPEAKER_03 9:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:46

Uh call it a beander. I went on a beaner. Uh and uh at some point somebody recommended well, a number of people recommended a book, a specific book about is he over there now?

SPEAKER_03 9:58

Yeah, he's he's kind of talking to the microphone.

SPEAKER_00 10:00

Yeah, he's making so much noise, man. Oh man. Uh what was I saying? Oh, oh yeah, yeah. So several people recommended this book about bees. Not beekeeping, but just you know, about bees and how they work, and like the uh the life of bees and how they're like a living or organism and the whole thing, right? Right. And I gotta tell so I I ordered the book, and I gotta tell you, ever since I ever since I bought that book, I've been really looking forward to reading it.

SPEAKER_03 10:33

How many years ago did you buy it?

SPEAKER_00 10:35

About three. Yeah, there you go. Yeah. You gotta put them down. It's just too much little fur scraping. Oh my god. Come on. Dad's ADHD, you can't do that. No, you can't. Uh uh.

SPEAKER_03 10:50

Yeah, let me let me turn my mic back towards me.

SPEAKER_00 10:53

Oh, that's a good idea. Yeah. You know, this is such a this is such a cat thing, too. It's like you could do nothing all day. Yeah. And they will completely ignore you and go sleep and just whatever. And then if you want to start doing something, they're like, oh, can I get in the way? Can I break things? Can I ruin everything about this? Are you putting them out? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 11:15

Yeah, I'm putting them out.

unknown 11:16

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 11:19

Yeah, but I had two more trying to enter and they weren't count. Yeah. Okay, scoop back up. There we go. Um, yeah, it's it's a circus around here sometimes. That doesn't include the animals.

SPEAKER_04 11:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:36

Um so the book, yeah. Uh it's probably a good book. But I mean, bees are really interesting in a lot of ways, but I know nothing about them beyond that, so we'll leave it there.

SPEAKER_03 11:50

I learned everything I know from the bee movie.

SPEAKER_00 11:53

Did you like that movie?

SPEAKER_03 11:55

I it was cute. I watched it with the grandkids.

SPEAKER_00 11:58

Yeah, it was uh uh well uh Jerry Seinfeld wrote that and whatever, produced it, directed it. And I don't recall, I don't think people I don't think it was very critically acclaimed, but I heard the bee was kind of a whore, or like he was hooking up with some lady or something.

SPEAKER_03 12:15

Yeah, yeah, with the actual person.

SPEAKER_00 12:17

Yeah, that's weird. Yeah. Is that bestiality?

SPEAKER_03 12:24

I could not well uh you know, if you know Jerry Seinfeld, that bee was a little bit old for him.

Flash Vs. The Mixing Board

SPEAKER_00 12:29

Right. I do, I know exactly what you're talking about. Yeah. Um and I'll say this about it. Like, if I had a lot of fucking money and you know, the young'uns not not underage, but you know, like younger people want to date me. All right. Yeah, there you go. Whatever. Yeah. No harm, no foul, right? Yep. I think he ended up marrying one of those. He's been married for a really long time.

SPEAKER_03 12:54

Yeah, he I I believe he has.

SPEAKER_00 12:56

So that's fine. Um God, he's rich as hell. You know, he's like a billionaire, right? Yeah, I don't follow him. I don't follow, I mean, I don't follow him. I'm just saying, like, I've heard yeah, I've read things, and he is literally a billionaire. Like, he's made so much money off that show.

unknown 13:12

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 13:12

Yeah, maybe maybe that could be us. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 13:16

Nah, nah, I'd spend it all.

SPEAKER_00 13:19

True. Plus, we'd need like I don't know, a sponsor or something. Yeah. Yeah. Uh so I was I forgot my thought process there.

SPEAKER_03 13:34

That's okay. Uh Cherry Seinfeld is worth$1.1 billion uh USD in 2026. Dang.

SPEAKER_00 13:42

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_03 13:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:44

That's like that's a lot of money.

SPEAKER_03 13:47

It just shows, you know, the comedian if they're good.

SPEAKER_00 13:50

Well, he it wasn't because he was a good comedian, it was because it was all because of his show, Seinfeld. Um he yeah, that's where he made like all his money. But I you know, they don't make that kind of money anymore. Like the residuals aren't that good, you know. Stream, I don't fucking I don't know anything about show business. What am I why am I talking about this?

SPEAKER_03 14:09

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 14:10

Yeah. Squirrel. Squirrel.

unknown 14:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 14:14

Let's put a cone on Ryan. Keep him in line.

SPEAKER_00 14:18

S back to your B's. Um be careful, be careful. Back to your B's and the things that you're, you know, you'll buy the B things and not do the B things. But speaking of not doing things, I did fix the gate.

SPEAKER_03 14:34

I noticed that tonight when I came in. I actually uh pushed on the gate a little bit. It didn't move. I'm like, okay, let me push the button. Zzz.

SPEAKER_02 14:41

I'm like, holy crap, he did it.

SPEAKER_00 14:43

I did it, yeah. This is for you, loyal follower, zzz, hopefully. Uh all 2.5. Yeah, this is going all the way back to episode one. Uh yeah, we mentioned the gate. Yeah, it's uh yeah, it works. We'll we'll see if I have to upgrade the solar panel because I did put bigger batteries down there. Um, and so right now there's a solar panel that's like uh, you know, maybe like 18 inches by a foot, you know. And the only the next size up that I have is like three feet by five feet. So it's gonna take some major hardware to do it, but I have it. And on that note, I had a thought earlier. Remember that you know the little trailer, but not the little trailer, the utility trailer.

SPEAKER_03 15:27

The tote one the one we have the water tote on? Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 15:31

Um, and we talked about I remember, I think on the first episode, we're like, hey, maybe we'll do that tonight. So comma, hey, maybe we'll do it tonight.

SPEAKER_03 15:40

Yeah, because we sure as hell didn't get to it last time.

SPEAKER_00 15:43

No, but I had a I had a fun thought. Okay. So the it's a five it's a five lug wheel, right? Yes. Okay. How freaking awesome would it be if we could use uh two of the X bed wheels we took off.

SPEAKER_03 16:03

As long as the bolt pattern master matches out.

SPEAKER_00 16:05

Yeah, I know, I know. That's the implied part. I'm saying, how awesome would it be?

SPEAKER_03 16:08

It would be awesome. I know, right? It could get stuck just like the XPed. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 16:13

Uh did you hear me last night uh in the X-ped? No, I didn't. I did some trail maintenance.

SPEAKER_03 16:19

Uh on the on the back trail?

SPEAKER_00 16:21

No, here inside. Oh, okay. Yeah, pretty late at night. Um and it wasn't like punching through trees like we did the F-150. These are these are established trails that just were a little overgrown. Um I just went out to get some more wood for the fire, and then I ended up, well, you know, let me kind of clean this up so it was it was really noisy because there's a lot of shit bouncing off the truck and whatever.

SPEAKER_03 16:45

Like chainsaws?

unknown 16:47

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 16:47

Um that's a sore subject for Ryan. We'll we'll just defer from that.

SPEAKER_00 16:53

No, let's because here's the thing uh nobody know people don't know that what we what you're talking about. But I have a feeling it's gonna come up a lot with you. Yeah, so why don't you fill why don't you fill everybody in?

SPEAKER_03 17:06

Yeah, so when I first came down in May, Ryan had a nice what huskabana?

SPEAKER_04 17:11

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 17:11

Uh chainsaw. And then I've been down, I came down a couple times before we moved down full time, and we were talking about the chainsaw one night, and Ryan says, Well, I lost it. And I'm like, how in the hell do you lose the chainsaw? This is a common reaction to that, by the way.

SPEAKER_02 17:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 17:28

And I'm like, how in the hell did you lose the chainsaw? He says, Well, I think it fell out of the F-150. I'm like, where? He says, I don't know. Here we are, what, five months later? Uh Christina and I, well, Christina and I came down the first of September.

unknown 17:44

October.

SPEAKER_03 17:45

Yeah. Yes, four months later, still no chainsaw. Yeah.

Gate Fixed And Ranch To-Do List

SPEAKER_00 17:50

Uh I still my position is still it'll turn up. Um though I will uh I will admit that I have less and less in my corner in terms of reasons to think that at this point. That is for sure. I I mean the thing is that like I was talking to Mike about it when I shortly after I lost it, which sucks because he, you know, he's the one who got it for me. Um yeah, so anyway, uh of course at first he's like, Oh, do you lose a chainsaw? I'm like, yeah, I know. But you know, he he when we're talking, he's like, he's asked me where it could be and things like that. And the the point at which I lost it, excuse me, uh, you remembered like the grass was really grown up and all that stuff. And he made a good point. He's like, you know, that 12 inches of grass, yeah, it would hide it, you know, it could be anywhere. I'm like, yeah. Um so when you helped me mow uh in October, yeah, we were we we were keeping an eye out. Yeah, that's oh yeah, exactly. That was there it is. So we mowed we mowed pretty much the whole inside 20 acres. Uh didn't it didn't turn up. Um and then a lot of the roads on the outside acreage, um that was kind of the next place it could have been. Uh a lot of that has been traversed and opened up now and hasn't turned up. No. Now the it is still a possibility that along the road, going let's say from my driveway to your driveway, okay either side, there's still quite a bit, you know, there's areas where it's still grown up quite a bit, so it's still possible. Now part part of the I mean people got to understand, like part of the reason where it's like weird to lose it is this the ranch is at the end of a road. Like and the only driving, you know, that happens when you stay on the ranch is basically to cross the road between the inside and the outside acreage. And so it's like there's not a whole lot of places it could be. I mean there's a lot of area in which it could be. But it's gonna be on a trail or a road or whatever. And the other thing too is there's only one I guess depending on how you count it, one or two um neighbors past your place. Yes. And so literally the only people that drive by are the male lady and and them. And either one of those folks, like if it had fallen out of the back of my truck on the road, would have been like, is this your chainsaw? Like they wouldn't have just taken it. So and you know, sure it very easily there could have been somebody else out that day. I don't know, but uh yeah. So the only thing I can figure out is I had to have just set it on the bed and then um driven off and so far hasn't turned up. Nope, not yet. But I'm still in the it'll turn up camp.

SPEAKER_03 20:55

I'm glad you are, because I was looking at one of the little keychain chainsaws to get for you so you wouldn't lose it.

SPEAKER_00 21:01

That's funny.

SPEAKER_03 21:03

Yeah, but the problem was this it was a still, it wasn't a huskaborna.

SPEAKER_00 21:07

That's the problem.

SPEAKER_03 21:08

Yeah, mine that's how come I didn't get it. Well, I know better.

SPEAKER_00 21:12

So what you're saying is like uh I need uh I need to like have the chainsaw attached to me so I don't lose it.

SPEAKER_03 21:20

Uh or excuse me, whatever you uh are writing in it needs to be secured.

SPEAKER_00 21:25

Yeah, it does. I I don't I don't disagree with that. Um and I would have never I would have never driven off with it like that. So here's the let's back up a little bit. This is only the theory that it was on the bed of the F-150, and I drove and it dropped. Because I don't remember I don't remember uh setting it there. I don't remember like had you know, oh it's it's not like I got in the truck like oh the chainsaw's in the back, I'll just fucking drive away. Uh it was just sort of math because like I had cut up a big log by the fire pit, and that was the last place I remember. It was there at the fire pit on the ground. And then somewhere between that and when I realized it was lost, um, I just know that I had the F-150 backed up to the fire pit at some point. And so my guess is I just set it on there. Pro this would be typical me. Like, oh, I need to let me set it up here on the trucks. It shouldn't it'd be irresponsible to just leave it here on the ground, right? Yeah. Uh cut to whenever I got in the truck to drive it. I didn't realize it was there. And so that's what I'm pretty sure happened.

SPEAKER_03 22:28

He won't tell you it was two months later when he was realizing it was gone.

SPEAKER_00 22:33

I'm not gonna say it was the next day, but it was uh couple weeks. Yeah, here's the thing about uh the chainsaw is it's it's a it's a bad motherfucker. It's that was a really nice chainsaw. Yeah. But you don't use a chainsaw that often. When you need one, you really need one, as we've learned since I lost it. Um but it's not like you're using it every day or even every week. So yeah, it probably took me a couple weeks to realize, but uh anyway, that's why every now and then Mark's gonna get his little oh maybe it's with the chainsaw digs in or whatever.

SPEAKER_03 23:09

Yeah, it's called a dig. It's called a dig.

SPEAKER_00 23:13

Hold on, do I need to look that word up?

SPEAKER_03 23:16

No, uh-uh. There's too many uh different meanings for it. That's true. Um, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:23

I will admit at some point I'm gonna have to give up all hope and get another chainsaw.

SPEAKER_03 23:30

Here comes more of his money, tractor supply.

SPEAKER_00 23:34

The amount, first of all, my favorite store, like the best place, right? I you you love tractor supply as much as I do? Yeah, I do love tractor supply. Yeah, it's just great. Um, and secondly, yeah, like man, it every I go I don't have to like go there for myself ever because I go there probably about every week and a half.

SPEAKER_03 23:59

Yeah, you go for the animals.

Trailer Wheels And Night Trail Work

SPEAKER_00 24:01

Yeah. I mean two weeks at the outside just to get a thousand pounds of food, you know. And uh but when I'm in there, I always gotta check out the clearance aisle. It's awesome. Yep. Sometimes they have like 50% off of clearance, and blah blah blah. Um, but yeah, I just love poking around in there. Uh and uh usually I'll I'll try to get myself a little like last time I bought like$230 in dog food and cat food, and then I got myself a little uh a little like uh Allen wrench set that was on clearance for five dollars and a little something for me, I guess.

SPEAKER_03 24:41

The dogs can cats can eat for a week and I can keep this for a long time. Yeah. Until I lose it out of the back of the truck next to the chainsaw.

SPEAKER_00 24:48

Yeah, but to your point, I do I do spend a lot of money at tractor supply. I do too. There was it's been I think like a year and a half ago I went in there. Uh you know, like every now and then you've spent enough to earn like ten dollars off or whatever. Mm-hmm. There there must have been some delay or something in their system. And see, I don't know, I don't even I don't notice or keep track of when I should have one. They I think they might send me an email. I don't know. She's every now and then they're like, oh, you got ten dollars, you want to take it? Yeah. But there must have been some glitch or something, because one day I was in there and just buying a couple hundred dollars of dog food, and she's like, Oh, you've got a ten percent, or is it ten dollars or ten percent?

SPEAKER_03 25:29

I'm not thinking I've spent that much to get it. I just I niggle and dial my way through that sucker.

SPEAKER_00 25:34

I spent a lot of freaking animal food, don't I? Okay, it's ten dollars. Or is it ten percent? That's ten dollars. Um, so I would say on average it's about like once a month for my god, it's been a lot of food. Uh yeah, like, oh, you got a ten dollar thing you want to use it? Sure. Takes ten dollars off. Well, like I said, this time there must have been a delay in their system or something because she's like, Oh, you got ten dollars you want to use it? I'm like, Yeah, she's like, Oh, actually you have two. Uh hold on, four. She's like, and it just like I could kind of see her finger like going down the screen, like it was adding more and more. She's like, just hold on a second. She's like, You have nine.

SPEAKER_03 26:13

You should have gone back and got more dog food.

SPEAKER_00 26:15

It doesn't, yeah. She's like, oh my god. She's like, I didn't I don't think I've ever seen that before. And I'm like, uh well. Yeah. I mean, yeah. Uh so she's like, you want to use them? Like, yeah, use them. But yeah, I I super love that excuse me, super love that place. I'd actually never been in one until I got here, and uh they uh do you by the way I was gonna ask you, do you get your dog food from there?

SPEAKER_03 26:41

Yeah, we've we changed our dog food because they don't have the kind that we were using up there.

The Mystery Of The Lost Chainsaw

SPEAKER_00 26:47

Yeah, um same, same when we moved down here. They didn't uh the none of the stores here had what we were using, and so um I switched to a tractor supply brand, what's it called? Four health, yeah, I think um which is great food, but uh because I'm me, like I uh I was in there for like an hour with the label from our old food on going through ingredients and so I I finally you know figured out this four health one that they have. I'm like, yeah, that's a pretty good match, whatever. So I get that. Um but I was gonna I don't know if you I feel like you guys probably buy dog food like once every two months.

SPEAKER_03 27:28

Yeah, I we buy the the very huge bag, and since our dogs aren't very big, it doesn't it doesn't go that much. The 35-pound bag, yeah, the one on the bottom shelf, yeah. Yeah, I I buy the one on the bottom shelf because I think Christina will pick it up and put it in the cart, but it's yeah. She doesn't?

SPEAKER_00 27:45

No, she can't pick it up. Right. Um I was gonna uh oh so you you may or may not have noticed that they changed the the packaging, like the yes.

SPEAKER_03 27:56

Uh in fact, uh when we just bought some here a couple weeks ago, the the gal says, How do you like our new packaging? I said, Okay. Yeah, well, you didn't even notice? No, I that's only the second time I bought it since we came down here. Got it. Because as you said, every two months I gotta buy more food.

SPEAKER_00 28:13

Well, I yeah, no, I just this it it's torture being in my brain because when the first time I went to get food after they changed it, I was there for like another hour because I'm like, is this the same thing? Because and I'll tell it's not entirely it's it's entirely crazy, but I'll tell you a couple things that they did. And this is a this is a minor beef because I I like the new packaging too. It doesn't break open as much the old one often would break open, these ones don't. But I would get the um the variety of dog food called it and it was called small bites, right? Right. And they changed the name of that to small breed.

unknown 28:58

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 28:58

Now to me, those are very different things. Yes. Okay. So I spent like 10 minutes looking at it and figured out, okay, this is the same food. They're calling it small breed. Okay, so I got that sorted out. Then I went to get the cat food and another 20 minutes because the one I used to get, um, it was I think it was called All Stages or whatever. And it was it was for kittens and and cats. It covered both of them. So all my all the cats, all the kittens, they all had that all the time. But it was just called, you know, all stages. They don't have that now. And again, me with the labels, uh, took I figured out it's just called chicken and chicken and rice. So I spent 20 minutes over there losing my fucking mind to figure out the okay, it's called chicken and rice now. Got it. See, this is why it's torture sometimes in my brain. Like you went in, you're like, okay, packaged, you pretty you didn't even notice you like up dog food, boom. I go in and I'm like, what the hell is happening in this aisle? Yeah, because this is gonna be my whole night. Well, see, this is what I'm saying. I wish often I wish I could just be like that. Yeah, I got blue. Good to go. Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_03 30:13

The only thing I can say about You gotta lean forward, dude. Yeah, I gotta lean forward. The only thing I can say about changing the dog food down here is uh my bulldog, she's a lot more gassy than she was.

SPEAKER_00 30:24

Uh which well, which one are you guys getting? The small bites or small breed?

SPEAKER_03 30:29

Uh both. Well, yes, the answer is. Don't put me on the spot. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_00 30:35

Do you what color do you it's the brown bag? The brown. Um like the brownish red? When you say brown, do you mean yellow? I'm just gonna post a picture of it on our socials. Okay. Yeah, better. Uh because yeah, they do have I don't know. Like, she's always been gassy though.

SPEAKER_03 30:57

Oh god, bull dogs are gassy.

SPEAKER_00 30:59

Yeah, I don't I'll I'll be honest, um, with as many dogs as as I have and have had, I don't think it makes a difference. Some dogs are just really farty, like Lucky.

SPEAKER_03 31:08

Oh god, he was over at the place the other day and he was sitting there and all the time, oh my god. And then he looks at his butt, like, did that come from me? It's like you don't have a tail. Of course it came from me. Yeah, I know. There's nothing to slow it down, Lucky.

SPEAKER_00 31:21

Well, yeah, so I'll tell you, like, after after I had his his his tail lopped off, which I didn't do it for fun, people, like it was a very traumatic thing that he got hit by a truck. It was horrible, and his tail had to be lopped off. I'll get more into that at one point, but uh after I cut his tail off, yeah, maybe. Um I I was talking to somebody and I said this and this was a legitimate realization. I didn't really even realize it was funny until it came out of my mouth. I'm like, yeah, you know, it's I I I get mud flaps. Like I have a whole new respect for mud flaps now. I just started laughing so hard. I'm like, yeah, and but it's true, because there's no there's no buffer there anymore. No, not with Lucky. And I'll tell you what, the the noise of his farts is not even close to the worst thing. Those things are fucking nuclear.

SPEAKER_03 32:22

Oh dude, he could he can wipe out everything out there. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:26

I mean, holy shit. Yeah. And I'll tell you what, um, I had him in the house uh after after that accident. Mistake one. Well yeah, it's kinda kind of forced into it with what with the two broken shoulders, the internal bleeding, the spinal fracture. Uh but anyway, he uh yeah, he was in the house for like two weeks until while he was recuperating and hoo boy. The cats were like I mean there was yeah, it was just Charlie back then, but man, there were some times like I can't like I have I open the doors, get out of the house. Those things are freaking weapons.

SPEAKER_03 33:09

Yeah, they are, they are. You know, the funny thing about him though is when I was down the first time and he was playing all crippled up and everything, and then you went into town and I stayed back at the ranch. And I'm like, I'm feeling sorry for this dog. He's tail's missing and he's hobbling around. Ryan takes off down the road. What's lucky dude? He jumps off the what about three foot deck.

SPEAKER_00 33:34

Oh no, from there it's uh it's like five feet.

SPEAKER_03 33:38

Yeah, he jumps off this sucker and runs full speed. And I'm like, I am not feeling sorry for you anymore, bud.

Tractor Supply Loyalty And Pet Food

SPEAKER_00 33:46

No. And you know, I don't I don't even know if I call it a jump. It's like because I think people are thinking like he just kind of plops down. Oh no. He gets a it he gets a running start, and he it's like this huge arc, he just goes like sailing over the edge of the deck, and it scares the shit out of everybody the first time they see it. Oh yeah, yeah, it scares the shit. Well, he's a 60-pound dog, used to be 62, but um you get that one. Okay, uh he's a 60-pound dog, he's a big boy, he's like a pit bull lab mix. And dogs are not like cats, they're not supposed to do shit like that. And you just but you know, once uh when you when you get to know him and see how he moves and stuff, he is very limber. Like it's almost like he's built more like a cat in terms of his flexibility and stuff. Because that would fuck up a lot of dogs. My mind just went to the gutter. I'm sure it did. I'm surprised it was not there to begin with.

SPEAKER_03 34:47

Oh, it just went to a different part of the gutter. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 34:50

Would you like to share? Are we gonna move on?

SPEAKER_03 34:52

Well, you said he's flexible.

SPEAKER_00 34:54

Okay. Have you seen Okay? I see where you're going with that. Um and I I mean, not that I'm not I'm not going off of what you said, but it made me think of another lucky attribute, which is this dog's dick is enormous, right?

SPEAKER_03 35:14

Dude, he makes John Holmes look small.

SPEAKER_00 35:16

Terrifying. Like, and and people might be thinking, well, 60-pound dog, big dick. No, no, no, no, disproportionately big.

SPEAKER_02 35:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:27

And when that thing comes out, it's like, whoa, holy mother of God. Right?

SPEAKER_03 35:36

Dude, I'm jealous.

SPEAKER_00 35:37

I am terrified, and maybe a little jealous, but it's just yeah, it's terrible. Um it reminds me of uh one of my uh one of my friends was here, and she was on the phone with her dad and just chit-chatting and lucky uh lucky was in the house with us. I think it was the second time he got hit by a truck, uh, which was not nearly as traumatic as the first time, but it had a little more recuperating. And so like her dad knew, you know, that Lucky was in the house, whatever. And you know, she just talked to him in the living room, and Lucky started getting a little humpy, and she she goes, Oh my god, no, put your penis away. And her dad goes, I really hope you're not talking to Ryan. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 36:29

Uh and just Lucky getting relaxed.

SPEAKER_00 36:32

A little too relaxed. It's like, you know what, save it for Canai. Save it for your boyfriend. Yeah. Jesus Christ. Yep. He oh dude, this is so funny. Cause Lucky, Lucky's very he he's a very playful dog and stuff. And him and Canai are we joke that they're like boyfriends because they're just such best friends. Oh yeah. And sometimes they'll just like lay on the dirt and like chew on each other's faces, and they're just they're adorable. But I gotta tell you, this is so funny. Um you ever seen Lucky play with a toy? No. Right. Uh, me either. And I've been noticing because Canai, uh, he's been so playful with Hartley, the new puppy.

SPEAKER_02 37:14

Right.

SPEAKER_00 37:14

And like sometimes I feel like Lucky's jealous because I've run around, blah blah blah. I'm like, I don't know. The other night, Hartley was out there, uh, he picked up a toy, and he was running around like trying to get Kanai. He was playing like keep away with Kanai, right? Yeah, which he does a lot, and Lucky were just kind of sitting there watching. And uh like an hour later, I'd put Harley up in the crate to go to bed. I go outside, and Lucky had picked up that toy, and he was running around, like, look, can I I can play the toy too? Come get the toy for me, Canai. Jealous. And I'm like, dude, you're so like, come on, reel it in. Play a little hard to get, bud. Yeah, it's awful. Um, yeah, so uh we are, if you can believe it, we're at the end of our episode here.

SPEAKER_03 38:06

Already?

SPEAKER_00 38:07

Yeah, it's like dude, time really flies when we're doing this.

SPEAKER_03 38:12

Yeah, I mean, it's just it's just fun to do. You just sit here and talk about stuff and end up on a tangent on lucky not having a tail and being hung like a horse.

SPEAKER_00 38:22

Yeah, being hung like a horse, no tail.

SPEAKER_03 38:24

Yeah, yeah. Should have called him Mr. Ed.

SPEAKER_00 38:27

Mr. Yeah. Wait, nope, I don't get that one.

SPEAKER_03 38:31

Yeah, yeah. See, I'm dating myself. Well, I know the I know not in that way, but I'm just era.

SPEAKER_00 38:37

Right. But if you were in that way, then you kind of go for a full circle back to the flexibility thing. Yep. Um, but no, I know the show. What about it? You're just saying because he's a horse?

SPEAKER_03 38:48

Yeah, because he's a horse.

SPEAKER_00 38:49

Yeah, I mean he is. Um he's he's a big boy. Um, big boy, big dick, no tail. Yeah, I was giant head too. That's kind of a funny thing about yeah. My brother calls me donkey boy, donkey. We always make fun of him covered for his big head, and uh, I was like, when uh after the accident and stuff, and he had to, you know, we knew we knew he had to get the tail cut off, like I was like, do you think like once I cut the tail off, it's just gonna fall forward on his head?

SPEAKER_02 39:22

You would think you would, but nope, he stands up just fine.

SPEAKER_00 39:26

Yeah, he's uh it's so I I feel I kind of feel bad for him. Like he's fine, he's super happy, and he has a great time. But because you don't realize how much expression you get from the tail on a dog, because he just looks like the saddest dog all the time.

SPEAKER_03 39:42

Yeah, and he can't move his hips, so he just stands there. Are you excited, Lucky?

Dog Diets, Gas, And Label Confusion

SPEAKER_00 39:47

I know you you learn to read his ears, yes, and stuff. But yeah, people are like, Well, uh, you know, he could wag in the beginning, like, well, he'll learn how to wag his his butt. I'm like, no, you don't understand. Like, this it sounds I think uh maybe even though it's on the social ad uh an image of the x-ray. No, this was like several inches in because you know the tail's next engine was fine. Right. I mean the full last tail was ever nothing for him to fucking wagle. Yeah. But uh so uh this was a really good time. Um hope people enjoyed it. Uh we will maybe maybe for the next one we'll we'll get into the lucky story. It was uh it was really it was really quite traumatic for all involved. Um but he he's a trooper and he's he's a hell of a hell of a guy to have around. Yeah, he is. So we're glad that he made it. Um yeah, with that, I'll I'll just say thank you again for listening. Um y'all have a good night.

SPEAKER_03 40:58

Yep, have a good one. We'll catch you on the next one. Hey, it's Mark here at Set and Centered. Uh, just want to let everybody know that if they want to catch us on the socials, you can catch us at our webpage, setcenter. Or on Facebook at SetCenterLive. Uh we'll maybe post some little stupid videos that we've done, stuff like that as we keep on going. And also we talk a lot about the animals here on the ranch. And you can we'll post pictures of them. We'll see how it goes. Let us know. Have a going.

SPEAKER_01 41:39

It always shows we're sitting center, kind of sorta, maybe. Holding it together, we zip ties, baby. Dogs in the dirt giving side eye shade. Laughing through the mess that we just made. Yeah, we said it's centered, but the world's off track. If it's broke, it's up. You can count on that sockets gone, wind blows, gate won't latch. Toolbox open like a raccoon got it snatched. Coffee cold, temp, high sweatin', regret, still talking like we got it. You bet we take a breath, then we jump back in. Same two clowns, same old grim. We said it's in a kind of sorta, maybe. Holding it together, we zip ties, baby. Dogs in the dirt, giving side eyes jade, laughing through the mess we just made. Yeah, we said it's centered, but the world's off track. If it broke, it's up. You can count that break time, yell it all unwind. Thousand dogs judging with that thousand-yard mind. Project list is long, but we'll get there soon. That's a lie, but it's a good tone. We said it's in a kind of sort of maybe held together by stubborn and a little crazy. You're still listening to one of the pack. Now back to the chaos. Here we go.