SPEAKER_01 0:08

Hey everyone, welcome back to Set and Centered. I'm RJ.

SPEAKER_03 0:11

This is Mark.

SPEAKER_01 0:14

Is it sound a little distant there, bud?

SPEAKER_03 0:17

Uh, probably about 700 miles worth of distance from me, bud.

SPEAKER_01 0:21

Why is that?

SPEAKER_03 0:23

I headed back up to uh uh the Pacific Northwest.

SPEAKER_01 0:28

Yes, so you are in the middle of well working your way across Texas, which takes time.

SPEAKER_03 0:36

Uh actually finally made it through Texas, now in New Mexico.

SPEAKER_04 0:39

Oh, you did?

SPEAKER_03 0:40

Yeah, yeah. I got I got 69 miles till I get to uh 25 north and then go up through Denver and stuff.

SPEAKER_01 0:50

Right. Uh at Ratone, like I told you. Uh yeah. Raton. Yeah, I know. I well I know. Um so this is this is again another kind of departure from our normal thing. Um, because we just uh well we just did our in the wild episode, right?

SPEAKER_03 1:10

Yeah, yeah, that one was that was great. I loved it.

SPEAKER_01 1:13

Yeah, I I did too. People uh we've gotten pretty good feedback on it. I think people liked it.

SPEAKER_03 1:19

Um well I haven't heard from the vodka queen, so she must not have made it through the last couple.

SPEAKER_01 1:25

Well, uh based based on what she told us, it's gonna take her like three or four days. Yeah. And uh, you know, she's probably gonna be kind of disappointed because uh when she can finally get to the end, she'll realize that we don't well, we don't really care what you said.

SPEAKER_04 1:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:46

Yeah, so that was good. Um this uh it's gonna be another kind of I guess you know variation on our normal thing. Um uh which I guess we're gonna have to name this. Well, so let's back up. I'm I'm I'm on the ranch. I'm in the I'm in the studio. You are obviously not, you're on the road. Um so what are we gonna call this? Uh set and centered on the road?

SPEAKER_03 2:15

Uh yeah. Well, for me it'd be on the road again.

SPEAKER_01 2:20

Yes. Although be careful how you say that, because you might get into copyright. On the road again. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:29

I'll just I'll just send Willie a pound of a pound of weed, we'll be good.

SPEAKER_01 2:33

Yeah. Yeah. Um uh set and centered wide load.

SPEAKER_03 2:38

No, that's not uh uh West Westbound and down. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 2:45

Oh, that's not bad. Westbound down. Uh long haul. No, that's that's too descriptive of all of our episodes because it could be a long haul. You know what I think? I think we should call it ride and dirty. Yeah, ride and dirty, ride and dirty.

SPEAKER_03 3:03

We could go with two pups and a fat guy.

SPEAKER_01 3:07

God, that sounds like a song.

SPEAKER_00 3:10

Two pups and a fat guy.

SPEAKER_03 3:14

You might you might have to get a hold of your guy and have him uh come up with a song for that.

SPEAKER_01 3:18

Do you think I'm not already doing that right now? Like I'm I'm already on it.

SPEAKER_03 3:23

That you know, that is the thing with us is one of us says something, the other one's like on his phone looking looking this shit up.

SPEAKER_01 3:30

Well, I mean, yeah, sometimes another way to say that is one of us is trying to do a show and the other one's on his phone playing games and looking shit up.

SPEAKER_03 3:41

Yeah, looking looking up the big words that you use.

SPEAKER_01 3:45

I haven't used a big word in a long time.

SPEAKER_03 3:47

That's true.

SPEAKER_01 3:48

Yeah, I'm trying to I'm trying to be considerate. So uh well there's there's a first. Uh fair enough. And since since you decided to go that direction, why don't you uh I just can't I'm gonna sit back. I want you to tell the listeners why, Mark, why is it that we have to record an episode right now in this situation while you're on the road?

SPEAKER_03 4:20

Because somebody was supposed to get their computer uh all figured out and everything, so that when I get up to the Pacific Northwest, we can do uh podcasts. And so we were doing that until 3.45 in the morning. Yes, you uh so we were doing that until about 3.45 the other morning, and then uh so we figured, hey, what the hell? We'll just try and do a podcast while I'm on the road.

SPEAKER_01 4:42

God, that's that um can we do my version now?

SPEAKER_03 4:48

Yes, let's do your version now.

SPEAKER_01 4:50

So about I don't know, three or four weeks ago, um, we talked about like, oh yeah, how are we gonna do this when I'm out of town? And at the time I thought that is great. Like uh props to you for thinking ad. And I said, Well, there's different ways we could do it, blah blah blah. I said, Well, I'll get you some audio equipment, some stuff, and you can take it and get your laptop fired up and we can test it, you know, from across the road and all that stuff. And uh, so I gave you that, and then two weeks later you had to bring it back because my mom's in the studio and you hadn't fucking used it anyway. I need some of that shit. And then we did that, and then you were like, Well, I can't get in my laptop. And let's do a little cut back to I was giving you shit, because I'm like, How do you get into your laptop if you can't remember the password? Like, oh, it's fine. I got it. Yeah, um cut to you bring me your laptop hat in hand. Please make it work, please. Yeah, so I did. I spent about six hours and uh um it did take like six hours. I wasn't working on it the whole time, but I just I I reinstalled Windows and I I had to set a password and the the login name the username was Mark. And I chose a password that I thought would be easy, and the password I chose was Maggie. Correct. My old dog correct. And knowing you as I do, I thought, well, let's just I'll be on the safe side. I'll set up some recovery uh questions. Like, what was your first high school? And I said three of them. I you know, and I made st I just made stuff up, but I'm like, whatever. But I wrote down on a post-it note, one post-it note, username Mark, password Maggie, other post-it note. I'm like, if it asks you what your first high school was, it's this. If it asks you what your first car was, it's that. And they were all like four-letter words. I mean, it's so fucking simple. And then you're like, oh great, thank you so much. You take it back, and you I think it took like a week to even try it. Like, I can't I can't even log, I can't log in still. I'm like, what and I'm like, really? It's just Maggie, like it's just Maggie. And you're like, oh, you mean lowercase? I'm like, yeah, lowercase are like, oh, I'll bet that's what it was. I was using a capital M. I'm like, mm-hmm. Yes. And so another week went by, whatever. Cut to last night, about midnight 30 before you were leaving across country. You're like, so what are we gonna do about the podcast? And I'm like, ah, you tell me, bud? Uh and I'm like, Do you want to take a hiatus? You're like, no, I think you should keep it going. I'm like, well, if we're gonna do it, then we gotta do it tonight. And so I grabbed a bunch of shit, we went over to your place, said, All right, first thing, let's make sure we can get in that computer. And you opened it up and I typed M-A-G-G I E boom, logged in. And I looked at you like, are you fucking kidding me? It didn't work for me. That's what you said last night, and I was like, okay. So I'm like, all right, okay, well it's in. Alright. And then I, you know, hooked up all the shit. And by the way, well, back up to you were supposed to get your laptop open and get the microphone, all that fucking shit, and test it so we could do a remote from across the road, not across the country. Uh so I hook all that shit up and it wasn't fucking working. Oh my god, dang it. Like, I don't know what we're gonna do. I'm like, let me try something else. And so I go get more shit. Blah blah blah. Long story short, gotta work in. And so hey, you can and you can get you can log in there, you can you can type Maggie, the name of your dog, get in your computer, microphone works, headphones works. I'm like, great. And you're sitting there, we had it on the tailgate of your truck, and you're sitting there, you got the headphones on, you're like, Yeah, it works. You turn to me, you're like, so what do I do after that? And I'm like, and I think I said to you, I'm like, I really wish we could have done this a month ago. I'm gonna step away for a second and have a smoke and a beer.

SPEAKER_03 9:08

Well, we all know that I put the pro in procrastination. We do, we do, and and I I probably need a cape also, since I'm so good at it. A cape? Yeah, you know, it it's like a superpower for me. I need a cape.

The Laptop Password Saga

SPEAKER_01 9:22

It's like a stupid power. Look, man, you know me. Like, I proc I'm with you on the procrastination, but I'm just like, oh, I did everything in my power in advance to like get it all, you know, like help you set up. Whatever. But to my credit, not yours, to my credit, I was really I was really irritated at point, so you know that.

SPEAKER_03 9:44

And yes, I do know that because I know that you've also told your brother about yes, yes.

SPEAKER_01 9:50

But to my credit, I was just like, we could have done this a fucking month ago, but I'm gonna step away and have a smoke, and I'm back in three minutes and we'll do it. And we did it, and we got it done. Um I'm like, great. So when you get up to Washington, we can use this, we can record an episode. Fantastic. And then and then, oh my god, you're like, well, why don't we just record it while I'm driving? And I'm like, And to be fair, I didn't get what you meant at first. I'm like, are you fucking kidding me? Like, we're gonna set the microphone up on your dashboard and do this whole fucking thing on get your laptop going. You're like, no, there's calling me on the phone. I'm like, oh yeah, maybe we could do that. And here we are. And here we are, though we didn't have to be because we could have recorded some in advance. Although, you know, to back up a little bit, uh, the other thing you fucked up was the last step because every time we were oh, did I just hit the micro? I did. Uh also I have to be I have to tell you, uh, I made a huge mistake coming in here to the studio right now. I left the door open. And in my periphery, I'm just seeing cats flying every which direction or whatever. But no, to back to back up, uh what we do every time, every time we record, and then when we're done, I send you the raw audio. And you listen to it, and if you have thoughts, whatever. But basically, like I send you the raw audio, and your job, your only job at that point, is to be like, yep, yep or nerp. Yep. And so on the last episode, the in the wild one, uh, I sent it to you and like five days later, you're like, Oh shit, maybe I should listen to that. I'm like, oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 11:49

Yeah, well, in my defense, I could hardly see for like four days.

SPEAKER_01 11:54

So I know you had a sty you had a sty in the eye. Yes, I did. And I offered you pie. And you offered me pie. Oh my god. You know what? I'm gonna be honest with you, you almost flipped that one by you by me because like I didn't hear from you for three days, and then you're like, hey, I got this sty in my eye, I can't see you. I'm like, oh god, you know, I get it, that sucks, and everything. Uh, but I was telling Rob that tonight earlier. I'm like, you know, it's not entirely his fault. He has a sty in the eye, but he's like, but he could still fucking listen. And I'm like, oh god, you're right.

SPEAKER_03 12:32

Shit, I had all the lights in the fifth wheel turned down and everything because I could hardly hardly see it was too bright. Oh shit. Yeah, well, uh but yeah, I did I did drop the ball on that.

SPEAKER_01 12:46

You did, and I appreciate you taking that one. And I also appreciate you being willing to make up for it by uh you know recording on the road. Um which again, I'm gonna say this about this episode, uh, because I said it about the in the wild one. We don't know how it's gonna sound. Um that turned out pretty well, right?

SPEAKER_03 13:08

Yeah, it turned out really well.

SPEAKER_01 13:10

Yeah, and we don't know if this is going to, but if it does, then you get credit for trying to make up for it. And if it doesn't, uh I don't know, maybe maybe I'll take Rob up on his offer to be the new host.

SPEAKER_03 13:23

Yeah, be the sub-host or the sub-co-host or whatever.

SPEAKER_01 13:28

Yeah, I think he was going for co-host. Now he's just like, he's like, oh wait, uh, Mark's out of town for a month? And then I'm like, I'm just you know, I'm on the phone with him, and all of a sudden I get an email from Rob. It's like res Rob resume. I'm like, okay, but no, I'm just kidding.

SPEAKER_03 13:46

Oh shit, I might have to change my direction to just go kick his ass.

SPEAKER_01 13:50

Yeah, yeah, well, maybe. Oh yeah. But uh, no, we're gonna yeah. Well, I was telling you earlier, we're gonna well now that I I spent uh like two or three hours on the tailgate of your truck in the middle of the night, getting your computer going whilst being pretty pissed off. Um we're able to we're able to uh you know do the able to do an episode when you're up there, and I told Rob I was like, you know, we get that going. Um you know, we'll have you on uh as a guest, not a guest host. Although I can't make any guarantees. He may just take over. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 14:28

Well, that's typical Rob, he just takes over everything, which is great. Believe me. I've I've been at the advantage of having Rob go, Well, I'll just do that.

SPEAKER_01 14:36

I was I was gonna say, I'm glad you finished that thought because he does take over everything, and then before you know it, you're like, Oh, you can I you put my mailbox in and my fifth wheel hitch and my solar panels on my roof, and this is great.

SPEAKER_03 14:52

Yeah, it's like I mean, but when we were talking about the fifth wheel hitch, he's like, Well, you gotta go get some lumber and stuff for the mailbox. I'll just go ahead and put in your fifth wheel hitch, put in the rails, and that way when you get back, it's done, and I'll be damned when I got back. All he all he did was I tightened one bolt.

SPEAKER_01 15:08

I know you tightened one bolt. I remember that because it was like that last bolt on either side that needed to be 87 foot pounds, and uh I took one side. Yeah, didn't know probably took about 25 seconds. Uh, and then you were over there like, oh god, oh so long. You know, I was gonna say though, that day you took my truck to get that lumber. Yes. I I don't know if I told you this, but like when I got in my truck later, I'm like, it felt like getting in my dad's car when I was a kid. I'm like, the seat was so far back, I couldn't reach the pedals, couldn't reach the steering wheel, like yeah, I hear it, I hear it all the time when Christina gets into a car that I've been in.

SPEAKER_03 15:55

Jesus, I can't even touch the steering wheel with my arms. I know.

SPEAKER_01 16:00

Yeah, it's like Jesus, I'm like, I didn't I even know my truck, the seat went back this far.

SPEAKER_03 16:06

Well, you gotta put it back and then you gotta put the back of it down, so then it gives you the the you know the low rider ride.

SPEAKER_01 16:13

Oh, do you do the thing? Do you do the tilt like on the steering wheel where you like tilt it all the way down?

SPEAKER_03 16:21

Like the steering wheel's always up. Damn it. You knew that was coming.

Recording Logistics And Good-Natured Blame

SPEAKER_01 16:36

I didn't know what was coming. I just as soon as you said always up, I'm like, oh god, it's not gonna be good. Um yeah. Okay, so you I don't even know if I uh we mentioned you're on the road, of course, but I don't even know if we covered it. Maybe I'm back like repeating. You are going you are driving from the ranch back up to um Washington where you moved down from. Um yeah, you're gonna spend about a month up there. Uh you got well, got some birthdays. Uh what's what's the deal, bro?

SPEAKER_03 17:16

Uh yeah, I've got uh my son's uh 31st birthday is on the 19th. The grandson, uh his son's birthday is on the 20th. And then here uh month ago yesterday, we had a great niece, and for once uh finally found a family that didn't want to know what the gender of the baby was gonna be. So they're doing their uh crap, they're doing their baby shower on Saturday, so going up for that. And then I got another grandson on the 2nd of April. That it's his 15th birthday, so yeah, that's that's a lot of shit.

SPEAKER_01 17:56

Yep. I mean it's it's cool though, though you can I mean you can you can go up there and kind of get all that stuff, uh not in one shot, and you'll be there for like a month, but it's great that you can do all those things while you're up there.

SPEAKER_03 18:10

Yeah, yeah. And then we're gonna go up to uh Edmunds and see our friends Dino and Cindy and spend a few days with them and have a great time.

SPEAKER_01 18:17

And oh yeah. Is she gonna get is she gonna give me shit? Like when are you when are you doing that? Because I feel like by that I feel like if I haven't watched Dirty Dancing and Finding Emo by the time you see her, she's gonna have comments.

SPEAKER_03 18:32

Uh she she will, but she'll she'll definitely be nice about it.

SPEAKER_01 18:38

I know she she's always nice. Um just I don't want to disappoint her.

SPEAKER_03 18:42

Um why I do.

SPEAKER_01 18:46

I assumed. Uh you disappoint me all the time.

SPEAKER_04 18:50

Uh well.

SPEAKER_03 18:55

Welcome to Christina's world. Disappointment after disappointment.

SPEAKER_01 19:00

Speaking of that, I turned off your water earlier, like you asked me to. Oh, thank you. I appreciate that. And I'm disappointed in you because it's leaking at the spigot.

SPEAKER_03 19:10

Is it really?

SPEAKER_01 19:12

Yeah. Just a little tiny bit, like just just it's like a fucking proton of water, like just enough to where it's leaking, and I can give you shit for it. Cause I I mean I did spend like five minutes with a flashlight. I'm like, oh, tell me it's leaking. Where's the leak? Where's the oh there's a little drop in the dirt?

SPEAKER_03 19:34

Ha ha ha found it. I'll tell you what though, going from what 77 degrees today down to I'm at 32 right now. It's it's freaking cold.

SPEAKER_01 19:49

Oh, it's that cold out there, really? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Well, I told you earlier that you're probably gonna hit some. I'm gonna pull up the map, the weather thing, because I told you earlier you're probably gonna hit some snow there.

SPEAKER_03 20:02

And yeah, that's what you were saying.

SPEAKER_01 20:04

I know that's what I'm saying, because I was just saying that's what I was saying. Um it it and actually this just occurred to me. You probably have no idea because your your weather, you get weather from you know, the hottest weather chick on YouTube, quote, and you can't watch YouTube while you're driving, so you're not supposed to.

SPEAKER_03 20:30

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 20:32

Uh yeah, so well, you're gonna be good for a while, but no, still most of Idaho is snowing. Uh Salt Lake snowing, Wyoming. I think you're gonna go through some snow. Um looks like it's a little rainy and shit up in Washington, but mostly snow.

SPEAKER_03 20:51

Well, I I'll be hitting that. Hopefully. Uh well, now it's morning time, so hopefully this evening I'll be going through all that and it can freeze up and I can just go ice skating.

SPEAKER_01 21:07

I I would pay money, like serious amounts of money to see you ice skate.

SPEAKER_03 21:15

Well, actually, what I'll probably do is I'll I'll do a little bit of national amp and vacation to put the dogs on their leashes on the back bumper. Just drag them through the ice.

SPEAKER_01 21:27

That is uh you know, like one of the things about this podcast is because for a fucking dog rescue, right?

SPEAKER_03 21:37

Yeah, you you're the ones with the rescue dogs. I just got dogs.

SPEAKER_01 21:43

And I was thinking too, like, you never know listening to it because it's like uh yeah, what's that? Uh dog rescue podcast? It seems like they just talk about Patrick Swayze and and dinosaur bones and shit. I'm like, yeah, pretty much.

SPEAKER_03 21:57

Yeah, Patrick Swayze, Linda Gray, you know, all the all the Important stuff in life. Linda Gray? Uh not Linda Gray. What's airing her? What the hell's um Yeah, the baby. She played baby. The baby. Yeah, something. Jennifer Gray.

unknown 22:11

Damn it.

SPEAKER_01 22:11

I just I know. I need a minute because like have we is it possible for us to get through an episode without talking about fucking dirty dancing?

SPEAKER_03 22:23

Like Patrick's. Not until you you watch it, that in Nemo, and then we can do a critique on them, and then then we'll be done with it, we'll find something else.

SPEAKER_01 22:35

Okay. I I don't think that's gonna happen, but well, I'll I'll watch them. I just I don't think that it's gonna like be all of a sudden in our past and we never talk about it. Oh Jennifer Gray. No, the last time you mentioned Jennifer Gray, uh you were like, oh Jennifer Gray. And what you said is like, yeah, before she got a nose job and everybody hates her now. And the reason I was so exasperated, two reasons. One, it's like of course you know all these you know all the actors and stuff, except for the fucking one that I mentioned last time. Like who that never heard of that.

SPEAKER_00 23:08

Never heard of that.

Listener Feedback And Stats Banter

SPEAKER_01 23:09

Yeah, but then the other thing is is like, oh, she got a nose job. And that was my thing. You always got a fucking little you got a little problem with like everybody. Like I I sent you the uh uh a video of uh well Dolly Parton, she did uh uh Clear Boom Clear Boom Morning, like a recent you know, version of it video, and she had Queen Lazifa and it was like an ensemble, right? Yeah, that was a good one. Beautiful, and your only comment was well, it's too bad Rebo McIntyre's such a bitch.

SPEAKER_00 23:44

I'm like what the fuck even like what and you had nothing to back it up, by the way.

SPEAKER_01 23:53

I'm just like, what do you mean? She's like, well, she's she is.

SPEAKER_03 23:57

I I've always got a bitch about something.

SPEAKER_01 24:00

I know, especially pop culture, which is just like really? I mean, it was got a hey, uh, I have to pee. Okay, I'm gonna put a mark here. Yeah, I gotta go piss.

SPEAKER_03 24:13

I'll be right back. Okay, I'll do I need to do dead airs or should I say something? You do whatever you want, but I'll be right back.

SPEAKER_04 24:23

Okay, goodbye.

SPEAKER_03 24:25

Yeah, I'm good. Yeah, here we are, running down the road, New Mexico. Says I got 41 miles until I turn on 25 north in Trinidad. So not too bad for leaving today at five o'clock in the afternoon, and now it's four o'clock in the morning. So that ain't too bad, I don't think. Got the two dogs with me, Ellie and Maggie. They're back, they're sleeping. I got them, I got them hot dogs when I was I got them snacks, I got them hot dogs, so they're pretty happy with me every time that we stop and they get to go out and go potty, and then they get their water and their hot dogs. So that's a good thing for dogs to do. Their mom doesn't think so, but she's never really road tripped with just herself. Well, if she ever did that, she would learn that you gotta have snacks for the dogs as you go. Jesus Christ, how long does it take a man to be? I mean, he's got a small bladder. It's like every five minutes. I gotta be, I gotta be, I gotta be. It's like those those birds from Nemo. Mine, mine, mine? Oh, you're back.

SPEAKER_01 25:44

Oh, not yet. Oh, Jesus Christ. I just came back and I heard you making it. Do I want to know what you were saying?

SPEAKER_03 25:53

Well while I was no you I was just talking about my drive and were you actually talking the whole time? Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:02

So we're gonna have to keep it.

SPEAKER_03 26:04

We don't have to keep it. You can edit it out. You're the editor.

SPEAKER_01 26:07

I don't I'm editor name only. I told you I don't fucking all right. Well, I am actually uh on the one hand glad that you filled the air while I tinkled. On the other hand, horrified. But that but what what that what may be in there? Like I just oh god. I could just hear I could hear you be like, uh hey Siri, uh dwarf, dwarf midget, clown porn.

SPEAKER_03 26:36

Yeah. No, I was I was like, hey Siri, call Rob. I need a sidekick. Yeah. Well, you know what?

SPEAKER_01 26:47

Careful what you wish for, because he's he's angling for your job right now.

SPEAKER_03 26:52

I know he is. Too bad, too bad Robbie's got it. He doesn't.

SPEAKER_01 26:59

Maybe that could be the sound bite for this episode. Yeah, yeah, that would be a good one. Yeah, well, as I I'll go ahead and write that down since that's your job, but you never do it.

SPEAKER_03 27:10

Well, and you gotta remember you as you were saying last night, the the statistics are that the three gay cowboys has been the best opener yet.

SPEAKER_01 27:20

Uh you know what? Yeah, you're right. Did I tell you about the first like X days, hours, like how they compare it stuff?

SPEAKER_03 27:30

Uh no, I don't think so.

SPEAKER_01 27:32

Well, uh 3G Cowboys was ranked number one, which is what I was telling you last night. Um, but it didn't actually have the most views, which is confused me. But then when I was looking at it, I was like, the deal was uh when we were recording it before, at that time 3G Cowboys had been out for a week. Um and so what it was saying is like for the first week, like if you look at the first week for each episode, three gay cowboys was the best. So whereas uh like the one I'm looking at right now, the one we've gotten the the most views total was from Tuksa Tires and Ticonderogas. That's the number one overall in terms of views, but that's been out for a month. Three Year Cowboys has been out for a week, and Three Year Cowboys is like the first seven days of that. It's like you've blown the doors off of everything, except for I will say, um, this in the wild one. Uh what we call it, lullaby for the bitch queen. Oh god, I didn't I'm sorry, vodka queen. I thought I misspoke. Lullaby for insomniacs. Um, it's actually like trending so fucking hard compared to three gay cowboys, even. Uh oh, really? Yeah, I don't uh it may be a fluke, but we'll see if it keeps up. Um how do oh are we talking about stats?

SPEAKER_03 29:09

Yeah, that's what I brought up was the stats. I know, but why? Why, just because I thought it was cool that the one with Robbie was I think it's just I I got two theories here. Uh, one is because it has the word gay in it. I yeah. And and two is once they hear Robbie's laugh, it just you just fall in love with it.

SPEAKER_01 29:31

Yeah, well, I think you're right on both counts. Um I think I mean I'll go back to what I said before. If we had if we'd have taken his advice and called the podcast two gay cowboys, we would be riding high right now. Um but yes, his laugh. Uh I just every time look, it's just so infectious. Yeah.

Travel Plans, Family Birthdays, And Weather

SPEAKER_03 29:57

Yeah. Um and then and then when your mom when he cussed and your mom jumped in there and scared the hell out of him.

SPEAKER_01 30:05

And he's just he's just giggling in the background. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 30:11

Yeah. So we're gonna we're gonna have to do a comparison though, once once we have Rob on the podcast after a week, we're gonna have to compare and then let Rob know that he's out of a job.

SPEAKER_01 30:22

Uh oh, well, we'll see, because I mean, he he's trying to put you out of a job right now, so fucking Rob. You know, it was so funny. I was talking to him earlier because he listened to In the Wild, and he's like, uh, he really liked it. And he's like, you know, uh, you know, like uh I'm still down to be on the podcast, like anytime you want, man. And uh I called him and I says, like, you know, we're talking about it. I said, here's the thing, uh, you know, Mark's out of town for like five weeks, and he's he's a total jabroni and fucked everything up, and then cut with his laptop and shit. I said, I just laid it out. I'm like, here like here's the situation. And so I told basically my point was like, yeah, we'd love to have you on, but with this, I don't know, yeah, I don't know what's gonna happen. Um, but we'll do it. Um and god damn it, I've lost my point.

SPEAKER_03 31:19

Um not my circus, not my monkeys.

SPEAKER_01 31:27

Keep your monkeys to yourself. Give me a second here. Um what did you say before that?

SPEAKER_03 31:34

Uh don't put baby in a corner.

SPEAKER_01 31:37

No, fuck you. You no, for real. What did you say before it got me on the Rob thing?

SPEAKER_03 31:44

Uh uh that we're gonna have to compare Rob's and and Robbie's when that when Rob's are.

SPEAKER_01 31:51

Thank you, yeah. That was uh fuck I remembered. No, you didn't know. I was just gonna say it was terrible, but it triggered what I was thinking of, which uh I said, yeah, so we definitely want you on there, not sure when we're gonna be able to do it. And I said to like, uh, aren't you worried though? It's gonna kind of ruin the mystique of Rob. And he's like, What do you mean? I said, Well, you know, you've been on like three times for two or three seconds each, and uh you get name checked in like every episode, and he's just laughing. He's like, Yeah, pretty much.

SPEAKER_03 32:25

Yeah, it was great when uh you went to call Robbie and he called Rob. He said, Oh, never mind, wrong person.

SPEAKER_01 32:34

Yeah, like I know, except you just sounded so disappointed then.

SPEAKER_00 32:40

Like, oh, okay, that's fine.

SPEAKER_01 32:42

Yeah. Uh and like I s like I told you, uh, if I'd have thought of it, I would have done it on purpose, but it was a complete accident.

SPEAKER_03 32:51

Yeah. And I and we won't mention that we've talked about just calling him and hanging up.

SPEAKER_01 32:59

Well, no, hold on. That sounds rude, Mark. That's not what we've talked about doing. What we've talked about.

SPEAKER_03 33:07

Maybe I talked to myself about it.

SPEAKER_01 33:09

No, you do. Well, I was gonna say what we've actually talked about is not much better, but just and we call him up and be like, hey Rob, you're on the podcast. You'd be like, Oh, finally, here I am. And I'm like, Oh, wait, actually, oh, we're out of time. Catch y'all later. Yes, and then as he's like, son of a bitch, as it fades out.

SPEAKER_03 33:30

Yeah, and then slip in. Is Robbie home? Yeah, oh god.

SPEAKER_01 33:36

Okay, we gotta do that to him. Like, hey, hey, you're on the podcast. You're like, oh, finally, great. Yeah, could you uh could you just hand your phone to Robbie? Uh that'd be fantastic.

SPEAKER_03 33:46

Yeah, yeah. Rob Robbie's is only a 52%. We gotta hand your phone to him. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:54

Well, at least when you call Rob, uh, you know, it's like, hey, hey, bud. And then he'd be like, hey bud, what's up? Or you call Rob B, it's like, hey, bud. He's like, so you texted me an hour ago, just like right fucking into it. I'm like, okay.

SPEAKER_03 34:17

You know he's gonna start his own podcast just to try and outdo us. Robbie? Well, both of them probably they'll be the father and son duo.

SPEAKER_01 34:28

I I I welcome it. I would I think that would be great. Um, another thing I'll say about that is uh one of the things that Robbie's talked about uh wanting to do, you know, for a few years is be a streamer, you know, like a streamer. I'm doing in quotes. Um okay. Yeah, like I guess that's uh games, right?

SPEAKER_04 34:53

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:54

Yeah. Um and then also, like, you know, he didn't have a PC. And so when he was here at the ranch last time, like he I let him play games on mine, blah blah blah. So the family went in, we got him a computer, we got him a microphone, all the stuff to stream and whatever. So he could do a podcast. Um and hasn't.

SPEAKER_03 35:14

So well, yeah, but he needs his uncle Ryan to to help him with his opening intro, and that would be him stomping through the house, imitating his father, imitating his father.

SPEAKER_01 35:28

Uh does Rob stomp? Rob doesn't stomp.

SPEAKER_03 35:32

No, but Robbie does and says it's Rob.

SPEAKER_01 35:36

Did I tell you about that night? Remember the night that you guys uh disassembled my dog?

SPEAKER_03 35:45

Oh yeah, yeah.

Dog Rescue Roots And Pop Culture Detours

SPEAKER_01 35:46

Yeah, and I was I was having a night. I I don't think I was a bitch to anybody, but I was having a night, and I just like like you know, I went to bed early, right? And so I went and laid down in my room. And of course, Robbie, even though I have a whole guest suite set up for him every time he comes here, he he sleeps on the sofa. And uh like, dude, he's stompy usually, but I was in my bedroom, I was like try kind of trying to fall asleep in and out. Now little motherfucker, once he realized like I was down for the night, which this is like 11 o'clock, very early for me. Yes, he oh god, he needed a lot of snacks from the kitchen and a lot of drinks, and he would just bum, bum, bum, bum, stomp, stomp. I'm like, I'm sitting there and like half asleep, I'm like, I fucking get it, Robbie. I get it. It's like a fucking dinosaur fucking stomp at you.

SPEAKER_03 36:42

He's well, he's probably upset he didn't have strawberries.

SPEAKER_01 36:48

I tried, Mark. I went to every fucking grocery store in town, and I think you know how scared I was that I couldn't find them.

SPEAKER_00 36:58

I'm like, oh god, there's no strawberries, they don't have them. I thought I was gonna get in trouble.

SPEAKER_03 37:05

Well, you were so scared it made me scared of the little shit.

SPEAKER_00 37:08

I know. You're like, oh god, should I go to Palestine?

SPEAKER_01 37:12

Go to Lufkin? I don't know. Yeah. And I think I think we ended up getting the strawberries at some point. But no, dude, I don't know if you I don't know if you did it when you were here that time, but literally every other time that Rob's been out here with him, he will get the biggest fucking like bowl I have. Like mixing bowl. It's like a punch bowl. And he'll just go in there and just like slice up strawberries. So it's a literal fucking punch bowl of strawberries that we just have in the fridge. And then every now and then Robbie just goes in, grabs his punch bowl, goes back to his couch, he just sits there with the punch bowls in his lap and just eats strawberries while he's watching the YouTubes.

SPEAKER_03 37:57

At least he's got a routine.

SPEAKER_01 37:59

Oh, yeah. I mean, I yeah, I guess it's either that or uh his Totino's pizzas or chicken nuggies instead. The Nuggies, the Nuggets, the Nuggies, the cheese, the mac and cheese, the oh god, the launchables. Fuck and he only eats the chicken ones. So every time he fucking comes, I clean out the goddamn, you know, the wall the grocery stores here in town. Because you know, the chicken ones they don't have like it's the less common one. And yep, like I'll order like 15 of them when he f before he comes, and that's just like for the weekend. And they'll be like, Well, we only had nine.

SPEAKER_04 38:42

And I'm like, Oh god.

SPEAKER_01 38:44

I feel like having to tell them, like, well, you need you need to tell them. Like, I don't want I don't want to tell him we only had nine. Yeah. Yeah. Like, and he goes through phases, like some days he doesn't eat anything, some days he just eats everything.

SPEAKER_03 39:00

Yeah, yeah. I was yeah, you know, because I was told he only eats nuggets and uh the pizza rolls and and uh macaroni and cheese, and then he was eating this and he was eating that. I'm like, what the hell?

SPEAKER_01 39:13

Yeah, no. No, as uh that's one thing like the last couple years he's really gotten a lot better about is uh a variety of different things. But like some days you probably saw it when he was here, like some days he we we just be on the deck because there's a that's a glass sliding door, you know, in the back of my house, right into the kitchen, and like every fucking three minutes he'd be going in into the pantry, into the fridge, getting more food. I'm like, Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_03 39:45

Yeah, you'd you'd you sit there and go, How in the hell are you so skinny? Yeah, all you all you do is lay on the couch, watch YouTube, and eat everything that's in the house that you like.

SPEAKER_01 39:56

I know, yeah. Although apparently it's uh it's pretty strenuous uh in some capacity. I don't know if I told you this, but remember when they uh when Rob and Jamie went to uh do their anniversary thing?

SPEAKER_03 40:12

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 40:13

Yeah, so they you know they were gone for I don't know, they left early afternoon, got back later that night. So I watched the kids and like I made I made a deal with Robbie because he had wanted to play this PC game. And um I said, look, uh I downloaded the game, it's on my computer, and I showed it to him, like, do you want to play this? And his eyes got big. He's like, Oh yeah. I'm like, all right, here's the deal. I said, you can play it as long as you want, while your parents are gone. As long as you help me with Kai. At any point, anytime I need help with Kai. He's like, okay, you got it. Um and uh Do you hear squeaks? Is it just me?

SPEAKER_03 40:54

I hear squeaks. Is that on my side? It's on your side.

unknown 40:57

Oh god.

SPEAKER_00 40:59

I'm so scared because Finley's outside and Okay's outside and Hartley's in this crate.

SPEAKER_03 41:04

Yeah, I was gonna say it's gotta be Finley.

SPEAKER_01 41:07

No, it's not.

SPEAKER_03 41:09

Uh oh.

SPEAKER_01 41:10

No, Finley's outside. Oakley's outside.

unknown 41:14

Oh god.

SPEAKER_01 41:16

Uh oh. Oh, okay. I'll deal with that later. Um talking about uh the game.

SPEAKER_03 41:25

Robbie and the PC with Kai.

SPEAKER_01 41:27

PC. Yeah, I can't remember what my point was on that. We're talking about before. Oh, skinny, yeah, yeah. I was saying it was strenuous. Because like he's you know, he'd be in there and he'd be playing or whatever. And at one point I was he'd be in he was inside for a couple hours, and uh I was outside and he comes out and he's like kind of walking back and forth on the sidewalk behind the house. And he's like, he's like got his knuckles together, he's like stretching on him doing stretches and stuff. I'm like, uh, how's it going? He's like, Oh, I'm good. He's like, I'm sore, I'm really sore. I'm like, from what? He's like, the game. He's like my wrists are sore, and I need to do some stretches, and I'm like, oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 42:10

Oh my god. To be 12 years old and be sore, that'd be great.

Pit Stop, Dogs, And Midnight Miles

SPEAKER_01 42:14

Yeah, well, from a game, like yeah, I remember that. Um, so I guess I don't know, maybe Hartley's getting good at this podcast thing because uh we're at the end of the show. Already? Thank you for doing it right this time. Wait, was that genuine or were you just now I'm never gonna know. Are you fucking with me? No, it did go by pretty fast, huh?

SPEAKER_03 42:41

Yeah, it it only took uh 64 miles.

SPEAKER_01 42:46

Now we're measuring it in miles. Uh did we did we decide did we decide to call it uh set and center riding dirty?

SPEAKER_03 42:57

You're no, we're not calling it ride right. Everything with you's gotta be riding something.

SPEAKER_01 43:03

No, I don't ride, I am ridden. Oh I love I love it. I love it when I throw one back in your face and you regret opening your mouth.

SPEAKER_03 43:19

Yeah, it's kind of hard to talk right now. I'm trying to keep my mouth closed.

SPEAKER_01 43:23

Yeah, I've heard that one before. Um, but uh well we've got to come up with a name before we end the show, and we're out of time, so we gotta do it fast. Um I vote ride and dirty, set and center, ride and dirty. What do you what do you want to call it?

SPEAKER_03 43:38

Yeah, that works for me. Let's call it ride and dirty.

SPEAKER_01 43:40

All right. Set and center, ride and dirty. Um, so I'm gonna let you go. Uh uh, do you hear the squeaks?

SPEAKER_03 43:48

I do hear the squeaks. That's awesome. Oh my god. That's awesome.

SPEAKER_01 43:52

To Little Hartley, which if you were a real friend, you would have taken him with you.

SPEAKER_03 43:57

I I uh I asked Coy if he wanted him, but he 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.live, or on Facebook at Set Center Live. 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 goin'.

SPEAKER_02 45:07

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 us. You can count on that socket's gone, wind blows, gate won't latch. Toolbox open like a raccoon got snatched. Coffee, cold, temp, I sweat, 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're sitting in a kind of sorta, maybe. Holding it together, we zip ties, baby. Dogs in the dirt, giving side eyes shade, laughing through the mess we just made. Yeah, we're set and centered, but the world's off track. If it broke, it's up. 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're set and set up, kinda, sorta. 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.