Ranch Banter And Dog Cameos

SPEAKER_00 0:08

Hey everybody, welcome back to Set and Sun. I'm Mark Deer. This is Mark. What's up, Mark? Not much.

SPEAKER_03 0:14

How you doing? Pretty good.

SPEAKER_00 0:16

How are you?

SPEAKER_03 0:16

Uh I'm excellent. Great. Yeah, I'm holding I'm holding Finley, so that makes everything better. Guess we're all caught up.

SPEAKER_00 0:24

Yeah. Yeah, holding Finley. Um he's you know, he's good when he's on your lap. We talked about Finley quite a bit uh on the pod. You know, he's just as long as he just stays there, it's cool. You hear the clinky clinky of his tags in the background, but yeah. People are just gonna have to deal with it.

SPEAKER_03 0:44

Uh hey, that's what happens when you're on a ranch.

SPEAKER_00 0:47

That's right. The dog ranch. That's right. Tags happen.

SPEAKER_03 0:51

We need to go to the bunny ranch.

SPEAKER_00 0:55

You can go. Okay. I mean, I'll I'll I'll I'll go watch a movie. I can drop you off. Uh dang it, you remind me of something I was gonna say. Um yeah, we're on the ranch, uh dog died. It's it uh uh it's gone. But have you ever been to the bunny ranch? No, huh? That's the one in V not in Vegas, uh outside of Vegas. Outside of Vegas. Like I've because there oh, there was a reality show about it, right? For a while. Yes, the Bunny Ranch. Yeah. I've heard uh there's a sh a show podcast or something I listened to. Um they were talking about it not too long back. They'd been there quite a few years back, and I guess it's just kind of a dump. Like it's just you know, a few double wide trailers and blah blah blah. Like not I guess they make it look a lot better on the show.

SPEAKER_03 1:45

Yeah, you know, when I was a kid in grade school, uh my grandparents used to go down to like Nevada and stuff with my great grandma. To the bunny ranch? To the Mustang Ranch. Oh, well so they they my they stopped in and my grandparents got my brother and I t-shirts. We were like fifth and sixth grade. What's the Mustang Ranch? It's another it's the same thing as the Bunny Ranch. Or it used to be. I don't even know if it's there anymore. But they got my brother and I t-shirts for and we were like, like I said, fifth and sixth grade. And so my brother and I wore those to school. Oh, the teacher didn't even know what it was. So we always got to wear our Mustang Ranch t-shirts to school.

SPEAKER_00 2:25

Yeah, well, I I wouldn't have known either. Um yeah, it's so they're whorehouses, right? Yes. Okay, yeah, I I thought I I thought I knew that, but I just want to make sure. Best little whorehouse in Texas.

SPEAKER_03 2:40

Uh Dolly Pardon and Burt Reynolds.

SPEAKER_00 2:42

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. That thing. Again, I've heard of it, but never seen it. Uh so I have to tell you something. Uh the clanking of the tags is fine. Um, but my I don't know if you can hear this in your headset, but my microphone is mounted to that desk that you're on. Oh. Every time you hit it, like poom, it pings away. Yeah, so like with yeah, just don't do that.

SPEAKER_03 3:09

We'll we'll try and be quiet, Riot. That's kind of like quiet riot.

SPEAKER_00 3:13

Quiet riot. Oh, just that it it alliterates? Yeah. Okay. You know what that word means? Sure, no. You don't? Oh. You just went with it?

SPEAKER_03 3:23

Ah, I just it flowed.

SPEAKER_00 3:25

Yeah, that's a word you can look up. Maybe not now, but someday. Alliteration. A L L. Well, you can figure out how to spell it. Alliteration.

SPEAKER_03 3:32

I'll just ask. Yes. There you go.

SPEAKER_00 3:35

Um, I I uh I have an update for everybody. Um well uh it's big news. So everybody will remember we had uh my buddy Brian on the pod, struggling, really, just try trying to get through on this major dilemma he had about picking a gym.

SPEAKER_03 3:53

Oh yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:54

And we uh forgot for about 15 minutes that we were supposed to be helping him. Uh anyway, he he's picked a gym. Did he really? He did. Which one did he go to quickly? I can't tell you because he's not available today. Oh, people that actually have to work. Yeah, yeah. He's not available um to get back on and give his updates. So you and everybody else are just gonna have to wait.

SPEAKER_03 4:18

We gotta wait, Van.

SPEAKER_00 4:19

Yep. On the edge of your seats. Right? No, I'd break and fall over. Yeah. Yeah. That's a figure of speech, I think. Don't please don't break that chair. I'm not. Yeah, that's a big update everybody has to look forward to. Uh did he just get down? Yeah, he just got down. Man, if he comes over here and starts pawing trying to get up, I'm gonna take it.

SPEAKER_03 4:44

Well, hold on. Let me see if I can get him to go out.

SPEAKER_00 4:46

Well, okay.

SPEAKER_03 4:47

Hold on a second.

SPEAKER_00 4:49

I'll just uh come on, fenners. Hang out here by myself on the pod. Hope y'all are doing great out there. Um, we'll be taking your live phone calls at uh 866 uh three two. Okay, you're back.

SPEAKER_03 5:06

At least you didn't use my phone number.

SPEAKER_00 5:08

Isn't that one of those 976 numbers? 1-800. 900? Yeah, 1-900. They don't have those anymore, do they?

SPEAKER_03 5:16

I think that no, they don't. Yeah, the 900 numbers. If you call me, the only thing it's gonna start with is uh I would like to talk to you about your car insurance or your car warranty. That wasn't that was not that was stupid. I know it was. That's how come you're the editor. You edit that shit out.

SPEAKER_00 5:36

I'm le I'm and I'm leaving that shit in. Damn it. Because you're the one that looks terrible.

SPEAKER_03 5:41

Uh I know I look terrible. That's how come we're not on film. Oh I guess it's not film anymore.

SPEAKER_00 5:46

Uh we can uh tape on tape. On tape. You do whatever you want. I'm never gonna edit out the stuff that makes you look bad though. Like I that helps me. Uh makes me feel good. Well, it don't take much then with me. I mean sometimes, yeah. Uh did you um since the since the last episode, uh, did you get new tires?

SPEAKER_03 6:13

Uh no, I haven't got new tires yet. And I haven't even brought the little trailer over here yet uh to work on. Oh, but yeah, I I have a question. Yes. So when I came in tonight.

SPEAKER_00 6:25

No, I this about the panel. Yeah. Okay, no. Let's go back to the trailer for a second. I don't want to go back to the trailer because I'm the one that's messing it up. The little oh, the utility trailer? Yeah. What do you mean you're messing it up? Because I'm the one that hasn't brought it over yet. Yeah, well, a couple things, first of all. We uh had we had we had a conversation about this, which was well, the the punchline is we we're we need to do the work over there, right? We can either do it or there over here. That's exactly what you said last time, and then I went into this whole thing where I'm like, well, it's over there. The new wheels are over there.

SPEAKER_02 7:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:02

And then the only thing we're missing was the angle grinder. Right. So we could just take the angle grinder over there, and then you say, Oh, we have anything.

Audio Setup Woes And Quiet Riot

SPEAKER_03 7:08

I have I I'd have an angle grinder somewhere, I'll find it. I just don't uh This is starting to sound like the chainsaw.

SPEAKER_00 7:15

It's well, I know where my angle grinder is, that's fine. Okay. Um, I just I'm like, why would we drag it back over with no like sh tires that are shot when the whole thing we're trying to do is put new tires on it, which are over there, which we'd also have to bring with us, right?

SPEAKER_02 7:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:31

Okay, so I'll just take the angle grinder. Maybe we'll do that tonight. Yeah. Mm-hmm. That'd be fun.

SPEAKER_03 7:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:36

All right, what were you asking about?

SPEAKER_03 7:38

Uh tonight when I came in, uh, the gate was open. What yeah. What was what's wrong with the batteries on the solar panel again to open the gate?

SPEAKER_00 7:48

Uh nothing. I I nothing. I was over well, something, but not applicable to this. I was I stopped by earlier. Right. And when I came back, I knew you were gonna come over. Oh, so you just left it open for you. Yeah. Okay. Um the batteries on yeah, because when did well a few episodes ago you came over and I'm like, oh the button doesn't work. Yeah. Or no, the but you said the button did work, but then when you left that night, it didn't work anymore. Yeah, it didn't work to close it. Yeah, it's uh okay, was there a question in there somewhere?

SPEAKER_03 8:19

Yeah, so you're saying it's the probably the solar panel's not big enough?

SPEAKER_00 8:23

That's well, yeah. That's what I think because I I've I put bigger batteries on it. Um and so yeah, I mean uh well it came with a small solar panel and then it came with small batteries, and so I've put bigger batteries on it, and now you know if there's a a couple days of clouds, uh the batteries go go dead. So yeah, I'm down I'm thinking it's a solar panel.

SPEAKER_03 8:46

Oh, one of those big ones like you have on top of the bar?

SPEAKER_00 8:50

Uh no, it's got a little one.

SPEAKER_03 8:52

It's like well, now it has a little one, but if you're gonna upgrade the solar panel.

SPEAKER_00 8:56

Yeah, yeah. Well, again, we we talked about this. You don't listen to me. That's the uh No, I was the thing, it it's kind of funny because this uh the the solar panel that's down there is you know not much bigger than a legal sized piece of paper, and the the only other the deck size of the only like extra solar panel I have is one that literally uh is it came off of a commercial warehouse and it's uh well an extra one from the solar that went on the barn, so it's like three feet by five. It's it's quite large.

SPEAKER_03 9:34

Yeah, it is.

Friend’s Gym Saga Tease

SPEAKER_00 9:35

Are we still talking the solar panel, right? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. It's you and me. Like, how would that come up in any other context? No, it's it is big and heavy. Um and it's so overkill, right? Right. But it's there, I have no use for it. Um it's 24 volt, which um you know, there's not a whole lot of I I can there's I'm not gonna use it probably. Um because and the gate opener is 24 volt. I'm like, okay, it's a good fit. It's ridiculously comically cartoonishly oversized. Definitely. But uh yeah, because the little panel that's on there is uh I think a 12 or 14 watt, and this one's a 240 watt. Oh shoot. Yeah. Um so that's it, yeah. I I'm not sure how to mount it, but I do have some hardware, like some rails and some stuff for mounting on a roof that didn't get used. Because my brother puts brother Rob put the panels on the barn, he just like he just rock and rolled. Uh yeah, he does. Whenever he gets started on something, he just goes. He does, and so he didn't end up using that like the special mounting hardware. He just uh which worked out great. But yeah, I'll have to figure out some way to like put it out there without it being totally stupid. Um uh does it did I answer all your questions?

SPEAKER_03 11:01

Yeah, I think so. I just can't wait to uh see that sucker mounted down there.

SPEAKER_00 11:06

Yeah, it's we'll have to do that here pretty quick. Yeah, it would be nice to just get it uh done. Um oh you'd ask before yeah, earlier, like if um something, something. Oh, y yeah, well batteries, solar panel. Uh here what I did before I you know, well what I did, I got the new batteries, built a battery box and all that shit with the wiring and blah blah blah. And before I moved the new batteries down to the gate, I left it here up by the house, plugged into that solar panel for like a week.

SPEAKER_03 11:41

Right.

SPEAKER_00 11:42

Uh where it's cloudy days, whatever, da da da. And it you know kept the batteries much better than the solar panel at the gate. So to answer your question, I think it'll work. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 11:54

I was just thinking because your batteries say ever start on them, then might be the issue. Uh welcome to Walmart.

SPEAKER_00 12:04

I mean look, I'm broke. So, like, we're we're doing the best we can here. Uh they are, yeah, they're those l like lawn tractor batteries, you know. I got two of those, put them in series 24 bolt, bing bang, boom, bob's your uncle. Um yeah, we'll get them down there. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 12:25

So write that on our list. Trailer.

SPEAKER_00 12:29

Maybe tonight.

SPEAKER_03 12:32

Trailer. Solar panel. And we'll update next time on whether we got anything done. Yeah. Spoiler alert. We aren't.

SPEAKER_00 12:42

Probably not. Um yeah, but I do actually maybe we actually oh god. Maybe we actually might do the trailer tonight because I do kind of want to come over and use your mound. You better reiterate that. She's gone. Oh shit. So we talked uh I don't know, a couple episodes ago what about your your truck in the heater and it didn't, you know, work. And yeah, so we ended up having to burp the air out of the system and use this little this little mound of dirt that you have, because there's no hills around here. Correct, there's not. Because we need to we need to prop the front end up on a uh well, it needs to be up. And so uh in lieu of you know trying to jack it up really high or whatever, we drove your truck on the mound and it worked great.

SPEAKER_02 13:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:39

And I well on the X-bed, I had the same problem on the X-bed, it it wasn't getting the air wasn't warming up. But also in that case, the engine wasn't warming up either. It would stay below normal, which was different from yours.

SPEAKER_02 13:52

Right.

Trailer Repairs And Tool Roundup

SPEAKER_00 13:52

Uh ended up the thermostat was fucked, and so I replaced that. And it blows hotter now and it gets warmer now, but I still think there's air in there. Now I did uh slap a ramp on the back of the sport 10 uh and drove you know drove the X bed up onto the back of the Sport 10 to get it not onto it, but onto the ramp. Right to get the at the front end up. Um crashed into the back of the sport 10 and so doing. Um but it was okay because it was held down by 2300 pounds of water. Um because I still have that giant tote filled with water in the back of it. That's good because uh my tote's still empty. Yeah, yeah, I think we all remember that. Uh and you told me because when we got those totes, well you went and picked them up for us. Um you took took the flat my big flatbed trailer, you went and got them. Um and we'd just gotten a septic in uh at your place. Yeah. And the guy said, you know, if if you're not gonna use it for a bit, you need to put some water, uh like I think you said like 400 gallons or something.

SPEAKER_03 14:57

Something like that, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:58

Yeah, get some water in there, um, just so it doesn't float away.

SPEAKER_03 15:02

Yeah, because if it rains with the if it rains, then the water goes underneath and the concrete I just doesn't make sense to me, but the concrete septic tank will just float right up.

Solar Gate Troubleshooting

SPEAKER_00 15:12

Yeah, it's called the Bernoulli principle. Um the Huiway? Bernoulli. Uh it's he's actually the floating shit. Just look up how does shit float? But uh uh so anyway, and we didn't get the water toads for that. We got the water toads uh well you you wanted like a backup source of water because at the time, well, we didn't have the well. You didn't have the well. Nope. Yeah, so um, and then they were very, very cheap. So yes, they were. I'm like, go get me one too. Uh yeah. And it's never gonna hurt. So uh we we went and uh well before we unloaded them off the flatbed, we filled them with both with water, so like 600 gallons, took them over, dumped them in your septic. Yes. Then we brought uh we brought them back, we put yours in the small utility trailer and then took it over there, which went well. Uh there's videos on my TikTok. And uh then we put uh you're like, well, where do you want your toe? I'm like, well, let's put it in the back of the sport tent. You're like, I don't think that that's I don't think the sport tent's gonna hold it. It's not gonna hold it. And I was like, You shut your whore mouth. But no, I uh no, I was I was like, no, I'm not gonna like fill it, it's just the place to put it. Um but then when the storm was coming in and you mentioned uh so like so responsibly and proactively, like, you know, I'm gonna fill that water tote up so we have water parentheses. You didn't didn't happen, didn't happen. And it made me think, I'm like, that's not that's really not a bad idea. Um, and then uh I was like, uh, I don't want to move it out of the sport tent. So I just whipped the sport 10 around next to the bump house and just filled her up and boy, uh it's got a nice squat in the back. It's got the Carolina squat going on. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if you could walk if you walk the front bumper and just lift it with your hand and it went. Well, for those that don't know, what is this sport 10? The sport 10 is um arguably the most phenomenal piece of equipment on the ranch. This is true. Yeah, it's uh super it's a 96 uh Chevy Sport uh Chevy S10. Um and I uh just it it it it was uh it was a running around truck uh at uh a summer camp that's up you know like maybe 10 miles from here. Oh that one there, okay. Yeah, for well, I bought it like about two years ago, so I mean probably its whole life, you know, almost 20 years. Just I mean, beat to shit. Like seats are all torn up, one of the headlights works, dented all hell, you know, no tailgate, blah, blah, blah. It's got tires on it that say for trailer service only. And it's just it's it's probably the most like beat to shit, worn-out truck in the world. Um, and long long story, but I got it for free. Uh, because I the the the camp was selling uh they had an F-150, uh 2009 F-150 four-door pickup, and I was in at that time in the market for uh an uh a second vehicle. And so I made the guy a deal on that, and I'm like, oh, I see you also have this uh this S10 listed. He's like, Yeah, that's a whole other thing. Like, I don't think you're gonna be interested in that. He starts going through all the problems and stuff. But here's the thing though, um, it's back then they when they made a compact truck, it was really small. Yes, it was. Like this thing is honestly not much bigger than the side-by-side. I mean, just footprint-wise. No, like you can you can get it down almost all the trails, which in the F-150, actually, you know, any of the modern ones you can't. So I was like, you know, that's it, wouldn't it wouldn't be bad to just have like a you know a utility truck that can get around out here. And so basically I talked him down to zero dollars uh with delivery. With delivery. So he delivered this F-150 I bought and threw in the S10. And uh it's it's called the Sport 10 because it just uh well here's the thing it's what 20 20 years old? It was a rough 20. Yeah, it was a rough 20, and I cannot overemphasize on that. Lux rode hard and put away wet. But that motherfucker every time fires right up. Yeah, it's got uh I think that I don't know, I can't remember. It's got a smoke machine too. It's coming right out of the exhaust. Yeah, uh it and everything on it, like there's no stereo. The it has vent holes, like not vents for air, but where there used to be vents, so that it's got vent holes. Uh turn signal works in one direction. The wipers work intermittently, and not like the intermittent setting, but like sometimes they work. Uh yeah, something it's got no door panels, you can't open the driver door from the inside. Uh, you have to put the window down. Sometimes you can't open the driver door at all. Um it's it's just it's quite it's quite a thing. So I just uh it just became like a lot of fun because um it's just this little little little truck, it runs like champ, beat the shit, and so I just started talking it up. I'm like, what a machine.

SPEAKER_03 20:49

Yeah, you used to send me when I lived up there in Washington, you'd send me videos of you running around and that and I'd just shake my head going on.

SPEAKER_00 20:56

Yeah, yeah. So I just started calling it the Sport 10 because you know, kind of like hyperbolically. Um and uh another word to look up, yeah, hyper hype hyperbolic. Uh easier just work look up hyperbole. Um, yeah. And just as a fun thing, and I make these stupid videos where I'd like uh you know, I go out in the woods in the middle of the night and I get out and I go behind the truck, yeah, just blowing smoke all over the place. Like, ah, look at that that that mighty sport package exhaust it's got on it. Just crap like that. Um, so yeah, it's uh again, it's old, it's it's really beat up. It's very small, and so yeah, it's uh with that tote in the back, man. I and I when I was filling it, it was just like it's the axle bending. Yeah, you'd hear these pop every now and then. Like, I'm on the stand behind something. Uh yeah, so it's sitting back there, it's loaded with all this water. I got oh I should empty it out now, but and and I was like, Well And uh back to the X Fed. Uh 'cause they're you know, again, you need to get the the front end up and I'm like, well, Sport 10's here. Uh it's not it's weighed down and I have these really awesome like uh five or six foot ramps for the flatbed. So I just went and grabbed one, put up there. Uh drove up one of the wheels, crashed in the sport 10, uh, and spent some time trying to get the air out of the XF system, didn't work, but yeah. That's the Sport 10. That's the Sport 10. She's uh she's a game day player, that one, I'll tell you. Yeah, one of the guys I used to work with, Troy, he had a S10.

SPEAKER_03 22:36

And I caught a ride with him one time up by up to his house, and Christina was gonna pick me up. We pulled up and Christina's just laughing, and we get out. It's like what you guys are shoulder to shoulder and your shoulders are touching the windows. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:54

I know it's so small inside. Yeah. Were you was it you? No, I think it was Rob. Uh maybe, maybe, maybe it was you, but went out late one night um out dicking around, and uh we were making we were like stopping, you know, we stopped at the like P3 third pond, or we stopped by the deer bond, whatever. So we're in and out, and then about halfway through, like the door stopped opening. And so we're we were having to do that. Uh you know, it was already tight, like you're saying, but they had to do the passenger side, slide across the bench, blah blah blah. Yeah. Um it's and and and then I I have a 48-inch um off-road light bar, which it is it's the kind of light bar that you'd mount on top of a full-size pickup or SUV. Right. And I had it, I had it extra. Um it was it was for my ex's truck, and then when you know it wouldn't fit for whatever, so it was just in my barn. I'm like, you know, it'd be cool. Um, because I take the sport tent out in the middle of the night. And it I I lied earlier. It does have two headlights that work. Um, one of them is sort of pointed at the sky though. And then they're just like they're like those old, you know, incandescent yellow. I mean, they don't put out hardly any light. I'm like, how did we get by with these things? But I know. Yeah, it's terrible. Um, so you can't see anything. Um and so I'm like, you know, okay, I could use uh some more light on the sport 10. I done bolted that motherfucker to the hood. And I mean, and it is the the full width of the truck, this light bar.

Oversized Panel Plan And Mounting

SPEAKER_03 24:35

It is, it is. I'm I will I will get pictures and post them. It also has a strobe light on it.

SPEAKER_00 24:40

Uh well yeah, well, like a police light, right? Yeah, yeah, it's got I wanted you to say it. Thank you, thank you. I wasn't sure Yeah, it's got it's got a red and blue uh strobe light bar on top. Um that it genuinely it it's not a police light, but it generally looks like one. Yes, it does. It's freaking awesome. Um now because I was lazy, I didn't put another switch in, so if you have the big light bar on, then that's always on. Um and it's just funny because I don't know if I you I don't know if I don't think I've done it since you've been here, but like you know when the sport tens rolling around because it looks like oh, there must be some alien craft landing over there because it's so bright, and oh, are the cops pulling him over? Because yeah, flashy lights.

SPEAKER_03 25:31

Well, when Christina and I came down that one time, we stayed in the apartment and you came rolling in at whatever time and and it was Christina's like, what is that? Turn like what? She goes, the flashing sport tin.

SPEAKER_00 25:44

Yeah. I got uh I got Jamie with that. I didn't mean to, but when Jamie Rob's wife when they were out here with the kids, uh oh, we were over at your ho your place. Oh yeah. Trying to shoot elevations. Yep. Uh which as we were doing it, we were also learning how to shoot elevations. Um, thanks, Michael.

SPEAKER_03 26:04

We've only used that once.

SPEAKER_00 26:06

Well that's not really his fault though. Like, to be fair, um you know, if not for other reasons why he couldn't come out, yeah, we would have used a lot more. But um, yeah, uh so anyway, they had in the back of the suburban and we were gonna get head over there. And I'm like, I told Rob, I'm like, I just need a minute, I need to get some water or whatever. Go ahead and take my truck. And so they all went over there. Uh Rob, Rob and Jamie, they drove my suburban over. Uh Robbie and Kai drove their Jeep over. Oh, that was so cool. Yeah, that was awesome. Anyway, I came like 10-15 minutes later, and Jamie was just kind of hanging out in the the truck, like at your place, and I come whipping around the corner and it was just getting to dusk in the sport 10 and the lights start flashing, and she like I pull up and she got out, she's like, Oh my god, I was like, What the hell? Why are the cops here?

SPEAKER_03 27:03

Yeah, I remember that night. Yeah, yeah. Both the boys came over in the Jeep. You or yeah, the Jeep, yeah. Robbie's little Jeep he has here, and all of a sudden, here they come, you hear it coming around because he won't shift all the way up, and then I hear it pulling the driveway, and I look over, and there's Robbie and Kai both just waving at me like, Hi!

SPEAKER_00 27:27

Yeah, that was so cool. Yeah, it's it's one of those, um, you know, for the folks listening, it's one of those mini Jeeps. Um, gas powered though, like it uh it's not like a power wheel. And I mean it's a it'll go. And it's got uh three forward gears in reverse. Now, the first time that Robbie was here after the Jeep, we taught him how to shift. He's been here. You did? Yes. Did he forget? I well, I'm glad this came up because I guess you didn't know that. Yeah, we taught him how to shift, and uh yeah, all the time since then, uh he's forgotten how to do it, I guess. And so you just hear this thing like fully pegged, just driving around the ranch and it or like shift, shift, come on, shift. And he actually I don't know if you were over here that day, but he actually like done almost broke it because he didn't shift. Were you here there?

SPEAKER_03 28:21

Yeah, yeah, I was. He he came out from down by Lake Lucy.

Tires, Batteries, And To-Do List

SPEAKER_00 28:26

Yeah, yeah. And as yeah, I told his dad like, oh the Jeep's broken, blah blah blah. And I think I think what Rob figured out is he just he just overheated the damn thing so much because it worked okay after that. But um, yeah, I was I was ta I talked to Robbie a little bit last night and that came up um about the shifting, and I was giving him shit for it. And well, let me tell you how it came up though. Uh little Robbie. Uh he's he goes, you know what I was thinking? I'm like, what? He's like, for our out at the ranch next time I come, I'm like, yeah, what? He's like a quad. Oh shit. And I'm like, what do you mean, a quad? He's like, uh, an ATV? And I'm like, yeah, I know what I know what you mean. What do you mean? He's like, uh, you should get me one. I'm like, oh my god. Uh Uncle Money bags. Yeah, apparently. Uh I'm like, did you call the wrong person? Because I'm broke. Um and I'm like, you little shit. And uh so then I start that I started getting up shit. I'm like, uh I'm not gonna get you anything that has an engine until you learn how to shift because you're I was like, you need to you almost broke that damn thing. Yeah, you did. And he's like, I shifted. I said, yeah. Four times four four visits ago. He shifted ever since then. But yeah, it's really it's it's cute as hell. Um, like when just when those two are balling around in it, and little Kai, cowboy hats and oh yeah, Robbie and his glasses, yeah, his his ski goggles. His ski goggles. Yeah. He didn't he actually didn't wear those while he was here. He wore he was wearing them when I picked him up at the airport, and then he had put them on, I guess, to go it must be a city thing. He put them on to go back to this back home. But just hilarious. Like as soon as I saw him, I thought, blue blockers? Are those blue blockers? You remember those things? Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Like, I don't I guess that's the style. I don't know. I don't know what the kids are doing these days.

SPEAKER_03 30:28

Yeah, he's what are they coming back out? We need to pick on that kid again. Yeah. Uh actually he picks on us. I know.

SPEAKER_00 30:36

He's a great kid. He's a great kid. He's he's really smart and he's really funny and quick. Yeah, sure as hell don't get it from his dad or mom. I didn't say that. Uh one's on you, Rob. Yep. Uh, but no, like he does pick on us because you know, he's he's he's quick. He's smart, he's he's smart and he's fast with the joke. He's what, 12? Uh well, uh yes, in like in about three days, though, his birthday, he's gonna be 13. Oh, Jesus. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Um yeah, he does, he's got a great sense of humor. Um, and uh so you asked, I don't I don't know when they're uh there was some talk about spring break. Okay. Um I don't I don't know though to when they're gonna be back. But yeah uh as soon as possible for my money. Uh well not my not my money personally, but you know what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_03 31:28

You need to say it, Robby needs some shit. Yeah. Wait until Kai gets old enough to go, Uncle Ryan.

SPEAKER_00 31:34

Oh god. Yeah. Well, that's uh another cute thing. Um because it's uh this wasn't the first time that Kai came out, but um this time, this last time, I got him a little dump truck. Little? It's like a it was like a power wheel dump truck, you know, like he could get in it and drive it around on you know, it had a lever, you could dump the bed, like the thing, and it was it was one of those things I'm like this is probably just this is gonna be stupid, right? You know my god, it went everywhere.

SPEAKER_03 32:10

Oh, it it lasted for a long time on one charge of the battery.

SPEAKER_00 32:14

Oh sure, yeah. I mean he'd be out there all day. Yeah. Just and and uh you know, the the only place that really got stuck was uh when there was some tall grass and just because it's got the plastic wheels. But he learned to stay out of it eventually. And yeah, he just like, Hey, uh, you know, you wanna go down? You guys wanna go fishing at the pond? Yeah. And Robbie would jump in his jeep, head down. Kai would be in his dump truck, mmm, head down. And uh, you know, every time he'd be driving by a little Kai on his dump truck. If he saw me, he'd he'd look over and give me a thumbs up and put his hand wrap back on the wheel, keep driving. Keep on driving. Yeah, he took it very seriously.

SPEAKER_03 32:55

Yeah, he'd he was awesome in that. That was so cool.

Burping Heaters Using The Dirt Mound

SPEAKER_00 32:59

Yeah, I was glad I was here for that one. Yeah, yeah, it was that was really cool. Um and there I have uh I I got a video at one point, um, I think maybe we were coming back up from the pond from fishing, and uh Rob and Jamie were in the side by side, and I was walking. So there's there's like a slope from like a long slope from the house down to the uh to Lake Lucy, the big pond where they're fish. Um and so I was walking up the slope and Rob and Jamie come around the side by side and drive past me. Then Robbie comes to drive by and the Jeep past me. And then Kai and his dump truck, mmm I'm like, this is this is some fun family shit right here. Kai was out looking for cacti. I don't think he'll be looking for well, maybe he will be looking for him now. Yeah, I mean hopefully he's looking for him after the the cactus incident. Oh my gosh. Which we did a little uh like I think he did a little sh quip about it one time. I don't think we ever really told the story, but uh he he they were out here for geez like eight or nine days. I mean, been out here for a while, and he'd been all over the place. Um, and you know, he fell down, he tripped, got little cuts and scrapes like a little boy does out in the woods. But you know, nothing nothing really happened. Uh and so the morning that I'm driving to the airport, it's about a two-hour drive from here, um, I I got up, like Rob and his wife were already up, everything was packed, they had cleaned up the apartment and taken everything out, good to go. Robbie was up, dressed, in shorts, in shorts, blue blockers on, uh, ready to go. Kai was up, dressed, shot. I mean, everybody was ready to go. I'm like, this is great. And we still had uh a couple hours, and I asked my brother, I'm like, geez, like you got up really early today. He's like, Yeah, he's like, you know, I just I I just wanted to chill. Like, we could all chill instead of running around at the last minute. I'm like, that's great. And so we did, we chilled. Um, and then I mean, literally, when it's time to go. The the truck was running, time to go. So all the bags, all the suitcases were in the the back of the truck. It was running. Uh it was like, okay, uh, you know, one last one last smoke or whatever, you know, three, four minutes, we'll be out of here. And I went inside, I think, to get, you know, my wallet and just the stuff, and walk outside, get ready to get in the truck, and I hear Kai screaming bloody murder, and it's about 50 feet off the deck behind the house. And and Rob was out there, and I said, What's going on? Rob goes, he picked up a cactus. I'm like, oh my god. More like roll than a cactus. As it turns out. Yeah. Yeah. I'm like, oh my god. And at that moment, I'm like, okay, well, not not a huge deal. So get him up on the deck and get Rob some tweezers, and he's sitting there on one of his hands. He's pulling him out. And Kai's just like screaming, uh. And Rob's just and he handled Rob handled it so well. Yeah. He's just like, you know, little guy, like, this is just gonna hurt. There's nothing we can do about it. And so he gets them all out. He's like, Oh my god, your other hand too. Oh gets them all out, puts him down, and Kai's like, you know, he's he's kind of crying a little bit, but he's okay. And so he's kind of wandering around the deck, and I look over and I see his legs, and I'm like, I say say to rub, I'm like, what's that on his leg? Uh about a million little pokies stuck on his legs. Oh my god. He's like, oh my god. So then it turns out he had them all both up and down both his legs, yeah. His chest and his stomach. I mean, just every like, oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 36:49

Let's put him in shorts before we leave, Jamie.

SPEAKER_00 36:53

Wouldn't it wouldn't wouldn't matter that much. No. All over his arms, hands, everything.

SPEAKER_03 36:57

Belly.

The Legend Of The Sport 10

SPEAKER_00 36:58

Hell yeah, yeah. And so Jamie, meanwhile, she was inside uh finishing up some laundry or something, at least for the first few minutes. And so she comes out and uh he's crying when she's like, What happened? And Rob's like, uh, he fell on a cactus, and she's just like, and bless her heart too, she handled it well. She's like, Oh Jesus fucking Christ. Yeah. Goes back inside, gets some tweezers, come out, start tweezing. Yeah. And then at some point we realize that they're everywhere, blah blah blah. So took him in inside, in the kitchen with the big light, and me, me, Rob, and Jamie, each with a pair of tweezers and flashlights, like pulling things out of this poor little guy. And uh like uh ru uh Mark mentioned his like his chest and his stumping too, because we got we get him all out, and at this point we're only 20 minutes late or so. And uh I'm like, okay, good, anybody see anything? No, all right. And so like I I take my hand, like the back of my hand, and I rub it like on the front of his shirt, like down his chest and stomach, and he's just start screaming. We're like, oh god, oh my god. So Rob's like, I don't even think Rob and Jamie said anything to each other, you know? It's like raising kids together, being married, you have that sort of unspoken. Yeah, yeah. He just starts screaming, and Jamie grabbed him and went into the bathroom, and Rob went out the back door. And uh I'm at some point I'm like, oh, he's probably gonna go get a new set of clothes. So I'm like, oh shit, the truck auto locks. So I go like running out the back door, he's running out the sidewalk, I toss him the key fob, he's like, Thanks, bro. Runs back. He's in there digging a whole new outfit out of the out of the suitcase, out of the back of the truck, blah blah. And Jamie's giving him a whore bath in the sink in the bathroom to just get the rest of it off. And Robbie's just sitting there on the couch just watching his YouTube. Like he's I don't really notice anything fucking going on. And uh so yeah, they Rob gets in there with the new clothes, Jamie's wrapping up the thing, and uh I went to grab I don't know, maybe my wallet again because we're gonna get it. Uh I go in the kitchen, I see Robbie was had like sort of laid down on the couch again, and I said, Robbie, get up. He's like, What? I said, uh, we're about to leave. He's like, Yeah, didn't you say that like half hour ago?

SPEAKER_03 39:23

I'm like Oblivious to what just happened to his little brother.

SPEAKER_00 39:27

Yes. I'm like, uh I'm like, look, dude. I said, uh, we are super late. Uh we have to get to the airport. So you need to get up and be ready to get off your little ass as soon as your parents say Kai's good. He's like, okay. And so he did. And yeah, we ended up leaving uh really late. But uh it you know worked out fine. It was ended up being a great, hilarious, hilarious story. Yeah, it did. He grabbed a cactus. And and yet uh Mark said like looked like he rolled around in it because I think um I think because Rob only saw Kai's hands at first, he just thought he picked one up, but I think uh either he felt he fell out of his dump truck onto it, or maybe he did pick it up and then he freaked out and dropped it and then fell on it.

SPEAKER_03 40:20

But uh yeah, something because when I wanted when I went to go pick up the dump truck after you guys left, put it back up on the carport. I'm looking and looking like where in the hell is there a cactus? Underneath all these pine needles is a cactus. Well, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 40:34

Well, that's the thing. We talked about it a while back, but um there there are cacti or cactipuses as I like to call them. Yes. Uh here and there, like kind of all over the ranch, but really here and really there. Like very few and far between. Um, but you'll find them. Yeah. But that close, yeah. I was gonna say that close to the house. I mean, I've never seen one that close to the house. And in fact, I was telling you, I think the other day, I went out to like find it. I just found one of Rob's beer cans and I couldn't find the cactus. And yeah, it's just and I think too, didn't they uh wasn't the reason they were out there so close to leaving is like Kai wanted to drive his dump truck one last time or something?

SPEAKER_03 41:16

Yeah, yeah, I believe that was it. He wanted to drive us, and Rob told him, Don't get out of it, you got your clothes on, just drive around.

SPEAKER_00 41:22

Yeah, and and like everything with a three-year-old, I'm sure it happened in a split second. Because Rob was out there with him, you know. Really? No, he wasn't.

SPEAKER_03 41:29

Oh, he went, oh, he wasn't? No, he was sitting up on the the back deck talking with me until until he heard Kai scream. Gotcha. Okay, so I'm yeah, I misunderstood because sorry, Rob, threw you under the bus. Yeah, totally. Let me back up and hit you again.

SPEAKER_00 41:41

You're under the dump truck. Under the dump truck. Yeah, okay, yeah. So because when I went out, um Rob was down there walking back with Kai. So, okay, yeah, that makes more sense. Um, but you know what? I gotta say, uh in Rob's defense, Kai'd been rock and roll around this place for over a week in that thing and didn't have any problems. Nope, not one. So yeah, that was that was a fun story. Um it was it's just like oh, you know, and then afterwards, like, okay, that's funny. He'll never live that down.

SPEAKER_03 42:12

No, and then you sent Kai the happy birthday thing with all the animals, and then at the end there was a cactus, happy birthday, Kai! Yes, yes, yes, yes.

SPEAKER_00 42:22

Well, well executed, I think. Yeah, very well executed. Um, and speaking of executions, we're gonna have to execute this show because we're done. Again, again, yeah. Okay, let's go. Yeah, all right. Well, we'll catch you all later. Have a good one.

SPEAKER_03 42:46

Hey, it's Mark here at Stetin 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 at setcenter.live or on Facebook at Stet Center Live. Uh we'll maybe post some little stupid videos that we've done, stuff like that, and so we're gonna keep on going. And also we've talked a lot about the animals here on the ranch, and we'll post pictures of them. We'll see how it goes and let us know. How do we go?

SPEAKER_01 44:00

Regret still talking like we've got it. You bet we take a breath, then we jump back in. Same two clowns, same old grim. We're set and center, kinda 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're set and centered, but the world's off track. If it's broke, it's us. But you can count on 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. If you're still listening, you wanna the pack. Now back to the chaos. Here we go.