Welcome Back And Tech Gremlins

SPEAKER_04 0:08

Hey everyone, welcome back to Set and Sign.

SPEAKER_01 0:11

I'm more getting finally. I know, I know. I'm always hold up to progress.

SPEAKER_04 0:21

Uh so that's a good good way to start. We uh I'm glad you mentioned that because we missed another release.

SPEAKER_01 0:28

Yeah, I know. It's it's always my fault. I malfunctions on my end every time.

SPEAKER_04 0:37

Well, I mean the last half an hour has been malfunctions trying to get this going, but the release was missed before that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 0:51

Yeah, it's always been a malfunction. I just hope this one doesn't drop off like the last one did.

SPEAKER_04 0:57

Well, well we'll see how it goes. Um I guess I'm gonna start with the pop culture update.

SPEAKER_01 1:06

Oh, pop culture, okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:08

Yeah, Enrique Iglesias.

SPEAKER_01 1:12

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:13

Still hot.

SPEAKER_01 1:16

Well, yes. Even for even for a straight man, Todd.

SPEAKER_04 1:22

Yeah. Wow. He sounded way gayer than I did just now. Good lord.

SPEAKER_01 1:30

Oh my god, leave it alone. Ugh. Yeah, I just happened to see uh you forget six years in the navy. I I can sound gay as hell.

Pop Culture Crushes And Banter

SPEAKER_04 1:38

Yeah, I know. I got the soundbite on the board. We're like in the navy. Actually, I don't, but I have a note to put it in the board so I could play it. Yeah. Um, yeah, that's that's what I got, and Ricky Glace is still hot. What do you got?

SPEAKER_01 1:56

Yeah. Um Shakira is still hot.

SPEAKER_04 2:03

Well, I'll tell you I I didn't mean pop culture. I meant what do you have for the show? But since you brought it up, I'll tell you what I like about Shakira.

SPEAKER_01 2:15

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 2:16

Her hips do not lie.

SPEAKER_01 2:19

No, they don't.

SPEAKER_04 2:20

And they never have.

unknown 2:23

No.

SPEAKER_04 2:24

Okay, what do you have for the show?

SPEAKER_01 2:28

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_04 2:29

What's going on?

Seattle Trip And Truck Wrenching

SPEAKER_01 2:31

Uh not much. We got back from Seattle uh yesterday. I guess uh day before yesterday, we got back from Seattle. Spending some time up there with Dino and Cindy. Can you take the had a great time?

SPEAKER_04 2:43

Can you take the gain up on your mic a little bit on your side?

SPEAKER_01 2:46

Just see, how's that one? Is that better?

SPEAKER_04 2:50

Yes, it is. Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 2:52

Yep, not a problem. Yeah, so we were up in Seattle, well, north of Seattle, uh, with Dino and Cindy, and Cindy and Christina had a great time. And you and Dino did chops and oh my god, we had such a great time. He's working on a 66 Chevy C10 that he's putting a small block motor in. And I got to help him with a lot of stuff on that. I mean, there's no box on it, there's no grill or front end on it, there's no fenders on it. It's just he's working its way up. And the goal for that one is him and his buddy. He's actually doing it for a buddy of his. And they're gonna they want to take it down to Hot August nights in Reno, Nevada. So we got to do a whole bunch of stuff with him on that. It's it's really cool just to sit out there with him in his shop and help him out. Yeah, I was like, listen to some cool stories from an old boy.

SPEAKER_04 3:50

It's yeah, I know he sounds like a really solid dude, but you said um helped him. And I I assume you kind of got around to it. He meant sitting there, like watching him do stuff.

SPEAKER_01 4:05

No, I actually uh actually uh ran the fuel lines uh from the fuel injection back to the fuel tank for the return and then ran it from the fuel tank up through the fuel filter and then up into the engine, did that. Um had to put on the bracket that holds the AC power steering and the alternator, got that all put on and everything, and then had to build a little excuse me, stainless steel uh tube to uh put on the the shifter so the shifter would work right and all that. So I wasn't sitting on my ass.

Nemo Project And Movie Confusion

SPEAKER_04 4:42

Oh good, great. That was me. That that noise was me. Um well no, that sounds like a really cool project. Did Cindy uh was she pleased or disappointed or other um with my progress so far on the Nemo project?

SPEAKER_01 5:07

Oh she is so pleased with you and your Nemo project. In fact, she said she made a comment, but she didn't tell me on what which one of our social medias that she made a comment on you could do something else besides the finding Nemo and stuff.

SPEAKER_04 5:23

Uh but yeah, she is. Yeah, you know what? That's right, she did say something. Um which I didn't see it till I was, you know, dick deep in Nemo. So it's kind of like that ship had sailed a little bit, but yeah, where did she here we go? I want to see what she said because I kind of forgot. Nemo, oh she said, so if finding Nemo is not your thing, then how about to Wong Fu from Julie Numa? She said from Julie Newman. I don't think it's Julie Newman. I think it's Julie, no. Is it even Julie? It's too wong fuck from July. No, hold on, I gotta look that up.

SPEAKER_01 6:09

Julie Newmar or something like that.

SPEAKER_04 6:11

Well, she said Julie Newman. I don't think that's right. Oh yeah, Julie Newmar. Okay. Anyhow, um, said if finding a new mo is not your thing, then how about two wongfu? Uh from Julie Newman. This she said this is another Swayze movie.

SPEAKER_02 6:30

Is that true?

unknown 6:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 6:34

Yep.

SPEAKER_04 6:35

Okay, it is.

SPEAKER_01 6:36

Um she uh she listens every time a new episode comes out. In fact, kind of got my ass chewed a little bit. No, that's a lie. I didn't. She's like, um, did we miss a couple? I'm like, technical difficulties, technical difficulties. And as usual, she blamed it all on me, which is fine, it's usually me.

SPEAKER_04 6:54

Yeah, yeah, I don't know what you're talking about. Like, I know what you're saying, but my I was I was reading reading your comment, and she said Patrick Swayze's in this Too Long Food movie, and my question was, is that true?

SPEAKER_01 7:07

Yes, he is.

SPEAKER_04 7:08

Okay, great.

SPEAKER_01 7:09

And then she says they're drag queens.

SPEAKER_04 7:11

I under I know, I know that. I haven't seen it, but I I thought it was Woody Harrelson, but I guess it's Patrick Swayze. So I've yeah, I've not seen it, but I thought it was uh what's this Woody Harrelson, yeah. So um I don't oh, you know what? I mean I'm not doing the math on this, and uh wait a second. Woody Harrelson's not it at all.

SPEAKER_01 7:42

I don't think so. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 7:45

This is one of those uh what's the thing? Uh it'll come to me. South Africa President of or somebody South Africa. Who's that South Africa guy? Um Mandela. This is one of those Mandela effect things. I swear he Woody Harrelson was in it. No, it's Patrick Swayze.

SPEAKER_01 8:13

Oh man, I'm not Nelson Mandela.

SPEAKER_04 8:15

Oh my god. Yeah. That's what I said. The Mandela effect. Um Okay. So I thought whatever. So it's Patrick Swayze, that's cool. Drag queens, that's fine. Um, I kind of take exception to her suggestion here though. I appreciate the sentiment of trying to get me out of the Nemo situation, but she's recommending to Wong Fu because it's a Swayze movie, but Nemo's not a Swayze movie.

SPEAKER_01 8:49

No, uh I don't I don't know what the the connection there is. I guess she was just trying to get you out of Nemo.

SPEAKER_04 8:58

Well, I mean I understand that it's like a package deal that I have to do dirty dancing and Nemo. Um it just feel it kind of feels like if I'm gonna do another Swayze movie in place of Nemo, then that's not it's not really holding true to the assignment. Now, if she wanted to swap Dirty Dancing out for another Patrick Swayze movie, then that would that make sense.

SPEAKER_01 9:25

Well you could do that, I don't see any reason why you couldn't do that.

Dirty Dancing Poll Reveal

SPEAKER_04 9:29

Uh except that apart from uh the supposed dog rescue and podcasts and whatever that we had about dogs, this podcast is really pretty much underpinned by Patrick Swayze and Dirty Dancing. So I think I kind of do have to watch it.

SPEAKER_01 9:51

Okay. Hey, how's the how's the poll going on uh the dirty dancing thing?

SPEAKER_04 9:57

The pole. The dirty dance poll?

SPEAKER_01 10:00

Oh, what the one about putting baby in a corner and you put out that poll. Yes. You cheated on?

SPEAKER_04 10:08

Uh I didn't well, okay. I actually haven't looked at it, so I guess we're gonna do the reveal. We'll look at it. Let me pull it up. We'll do the reveal of the results in real time. Uh and drum roll. It's a tie. So in the event of a tie, I believe the person who posted the poll. I think we defer to that, so I guess I won.

SPEAKER_01 10:39

Okay, we'll let you in. We'll quit talking about that. We'll quit talking about that.

SPEAKER_04 10:46

Gonna give up. Nothing to say because what?

SPEAKER_01 10:51

Gonna give up. What that I I gave up? I mean, there's there's nothing I mean shit, I'm good with that, and find something else to rag about.

SPEAKER_04 11:05

Oh, okay. So you're accepting that the pole ended up being a tie. And that as the pole stir or the pole master, if you will. We'll call me we'll call me the pole master. Uh that I get to determine the breaking of the tie.

SPEAKER_01 11:24

Yes, you do.

SPEAKER_04 11:25

Okay. Uh and there's some this is some serious engagement shit right here because um, and again, it was a tie, but if we add up all the total votes, it was two. So one for yes and one for no. Really got a highly engaged audience out there, don't we?

SPEAKER_01 11:47

Yeah, we do. That's okay.

SPEAKER_04 11:48

Mm-hmm. Alright.

SPEAKER_01 11:51

Yep.

SPEAKER_04 11:52

God, you're a little pissed that you didn't win, aren't you? I can tell.

SPEAKER_01 11:56

No, I'm not pissed at all. I got other things on my world. In my world. I mean, believe me, you know I will come up with something else to talk about.

Spanish Words And Misheard Phrases

SPEAKER_04 12:06

Yeah. Well, you know, I I I'm gonna I'm just gonna re- I'm gonna say what I said before, which is like I I think I didn't really have a problem with you saying it too that much. I think it was more a disservice to yourself. Because it was funny there for a bit, and you just like beat the funny out of it.

SPEAKER_01 12:30

I do that a lot, and you know that.

SPEAKER_04 12:32

Yeah. Oh, poprosito.

unknown 12:38

What?

SPEAKER_04 12:40

Pobrecito means poor little guy in Spanish.

SPEAKER_01 12:43

Oh. I don't speak very much Spanish.

SPEAKER_04 12:47

I speak just enough.

SPEAKER_01 12:48

Uno más devices portavor.

SPEAKER_04 12:50

Uno, yeah, that's right. Uh so speaking of Spanish, Mike, he uh so do you know what uh un poquito means?

SPEAKER_01 13:04

Isn't that the one you just said?

SPEAKER_04 13:07

No, no, I don't said poprcito. Oh no, un poquito. You never heard that? No, I haven't. It means a little or a little bit. So like if somebody, you know, asks you, do you speak Spanish? You say un poquito. It means I speak a little bit, right? Okay. Okay. So funny thing about Mike, because he's kind of a goober sometimes, um, he thought un poquito meant in my pocket. Which is funny by itself, but then you know, he was a uh he was in commercial construction, you know, till he retired. And so he was always around Hispanic crews. And so you can you just imagine how many times you busted that out?

SPEAKER_02 13:51

It's like, oh I got a little dinero in un poquito here for you, senori. God, Mike, I can just picture it.

SPEAKER_01 14:02

I can I can picture it with Mike also. You know, the only thing I learned in Spanish, uh grade school, learned the Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish. Why? And then um we had a well in grade school, I was uh there was 12 kids in fourth, fifth, and sixth grade. There was 12 of us in all three grades in in one classroom in Mount Pleasant here up in Washington. And the teachers thought that we should learn Spanish, so that's we'd do Spanish, and then she taught us the Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish.

SPEAKER_04 14:39

So you learned it as part of learning Spanish.

SPEAKER_01 14:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 14:45

Oh, okay. That's cool. Um yeah, I took Spanish. Um took Spanish two or three years in high school. And uh turned out it didn't teach me any of the things I actually needed to know in Spanish. Uh because once once I went to college and uh then I learned some Spanish, if you know what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_01 15:08

Oh, I bet you did.

SPEAKER_04 15:09

Push un poquito face into that pilito.

SPEAKER_01 15:16

Oh boy. Yeah, I I learned more from my uncle Luciano, Luciano Rivera. I learned uh tia, tio, miho, miha.

SPEAKER_04 15:27

So what does tia and teo mean?

SPEAKER_01 15:29

Aunt and uncle. Good job.

SPEAKER_04 15:31

What else did you learn?

SPEAKER_01 15:32

And then Miho and Mija, which is my son, and I guess I think the other one's my daughter or whatever.

SPEAKER_04 15:39

Well, yeah, I mean they're the same word, just with um genders. So miha is feminine, miho is uh masculine. So yeah. Yeah. I don't know if it means my son or daughter. I think it means like son. Well, it's probably like in between. I think it's like son, but like a you know, an affectionate way of saying it, Mio. Um yes. Oh god, oh, it made me think of something. My cousin, technically my mom's cousin, but I don't know how that works. If it's like a second cousin cousin 25 times removed, I don't fucking know. So I just call her my cousin, Laurie. She had or has a dog I had checked on that. Um dog named Eska, big dog named Eska. Now just hearing the name, what what gender would you think that dog was?

SPEAKER_01 16:32

Eska? You would think it would be a female.

SPEAKER_04 16:34

Yeah, I know, right? Uh it's not, it was a dude. Um, and it's a really cool name. I really like the name Eska. It's just every time she said it, or I would hear it. Um it would take my brain a step. Because like to me, and it and it I think it was Nordic, the origin or something. I'm not sure exactly, but to me, like uh being as deep into Latino culture uh as I have been. Literally. Uh-huh. Uh the ah and the o, you know, it's like like you said, or like I said, feminine, masculine, mihomija. What other Spanish do you know? This is interesting.

SPEAKER_01 17:19

Uh C and I think that's about it. I don't know much.

SPEAKER_04 17:29

Donde está la biblioteca.

SPEAKER_01 17:34

Yeah, I don't know that one.

SPEAKER_04 17:35

That means where's the library? It's a good thing to know. Because I mean, think about it. If you're ever in a Spanish-speaking country and you're just like lost or whatever, and you gotta find your way somewhere, library's not a bad place to start. This is true. This is true. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:56

But now they have those uh apps on your phone that'll interpret this stuff for you.

Bathroom Break And Cartoon Talk

SPEAKER_04 18:01

Yeah. But yeah. That takes the fun out of it, though. Oh man. That's true. I hate to do this. I have to tinkle again. I'll be right back.

SPEAKER_01 18:15

Okay, I'll be here. You want me to keep on talking about life? He's already gone. He had to tinkle so bad. As we know, Ryan has a small bladder. It's after 10 o'clock. Couple medellos in him. And he's gotta go every five minutes. I don't know how the hell we even do this podcast with him having to tinkle so much. Well, I don't hear any animals in the studio today. No Finley, no Oakley, none of the cats. So yeah, now we're just sitting here. Hi, Cindy. How you doing? Hopefully, you're sitting out there enjoying yourself in your nice warm sweatshirt. Glad you like that. I enjoyed that. That was fun. Let's see now what else we got. I got shit, man. I'm sitting here all by myself. Oh, I think you're already gonna come back. Shh, be very, very quiet. We're hunting Rions. Yep, still nothing. We're on our own. This is the one man podcast. Mark and the Tinkler. He probably put his bottoms on the board. Sitting here talking to myself as usual. Where the hell did he go? I'm gonna be going out to smoke, also. Oh shit, here he comes.

SPEAKER_04 19:52

Alright, I'm back. I apologize for that. That one really snuck up on me.

SPEAKER_01 19:57

Nope, you're fine. That's all good.

SPEAKER_04 19:59

Yeah. Or is it uh bueno? Is it all bueno?

SPEAKER_01 20:04

Oh bueno. Or not going to cabeza. I know that one.

SPEAKER_04 20:08

Oh yeah, I would think so. Um since we're multicultural, um, do you know any French?

SPEAKER_01 20:19

Just what I learned from Papua Pew on uh Looney Tunes.

SPEAKER_04 20:25

Yeah, I know I actually know what you're talking about. I mean, I know the character. I don't uh did he say stuff? I just like I think it was Mademoiselle and Mother But oh yeah, he was a total fucking player, wasn't he?

SPEAKER_01 20:43

Yeah, he was. Yes, he was. Always chasing the pussy because he was always chasing cats.

SPEAKER_04 20:49

Was he chasing cats? He wasn't chasing another skunk.

SPEAKER_01 20:51

It was cats because they would always it'd be a black cat that would go underneath the gate or something and they end up with a white stripe, and then he'd think they were a female skunk.

SPEAKER_04 20:59

Oh yeah. Okay, cool.

SPEAKER_01 21:03

Um Yeah, I've I've put on Looney Tunes a couple times for the grandkids, and they I get the evilest looks from them.

SPEAKER_04 21:10

Why? They don't like it?

SPEAKER_01 21:12

Because they don't like my style of cartoons. They get these weird shit and things that they watch nowadays.

SPEAKER_04 21:17

Oh, well, yeah. The stuff with like a million cuts and like it's just it's like basically priming them to be ADD. Yes. Yeah, which is bullshit. Back in my day, we came by our ADD, honestly, you know? Just genetics and bad habits.

SPEAKER_01 21:36

Not yeah, they just called us uh said that we needed some help and uh beat our ass in my day.

Clean Jokes That Escalate

SPEAKER_04 21:42

Yeah. Um I didn't know what ADD was. It's much of the ass beaten in my day, but you know, to quote a rapper from circa 2002, I can't remember the name of. We were just misunderstood, and I just thought my chest. Do you want to hear a joke?

SPEAKER_01 22:03

Yeah, let's hear a joke. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 22:05

Since we're talking about French. Um do you know what the word the French word for egg is?

SPEAKER_01 22:12

No.

SPEAKER_04 22:13

It's oof. Oof. Yeah, it's pronounced or is spelled like O E, one of those combo letters. UF, but it's pronounced oof. Okay. So in France, how come they don't like omelets for breakfast?

SPEAKER_01 22:32

I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 22:34

Because one egg is an oof.

unknown 22:37

Oh Jesus.

SPEAKER_04 22:41

I know. It's so good. It is. I'll take my Oscar now. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:49

We don't have any animals named Oscar.

SPEAKER_04 22:51

That's a good joke. You guys, I mean, you gotta admit.

SPEAKER_01 22:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 22:55

It's not bad.

SPEAKER_01 22:56

Well, I I I heard one. Uh okay. It's why do cows cows wear bells?

SPEAKER_04 23:03

Why do cows wear bells? I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 23:06

Because their horns don't work.

SPEAKER_04 23:11

Oh, that's both funny and also like I can't believe that took me as long as it took me, which was a few seconds. I'm like that's good. That's good. I like that. It is. I like that. I like that. Oh, we're doing clean jokes. This is fun. This is an change. What do you call uh that's not a joke, actually? No, that's not a joke. Oh, uh, whatever. You got any more jokes like that? Like clean jokes? Maybe we'll do clean jokes now. I'll change the whole podcast to clean jokes.

SPEAKER_01 23:44

Holy shit, they're so few and far between for me.

SPEAKER_03 23:46

Yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_01 23:48

Yeah. Oh, okay. If you're if you're American when you go in the bathroom, and you're American when you come out of the bathroom, what are you while you're in the bathroom?

SPEAKER_03 24:02

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 24:04

European.

SPEAKER_03 24:05

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_04 24:10

Uh oh, I got one. Uh what do you what has what has uh fifty legs and uh three teeth?

SPEAKER_01 24:22

I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 24:23

The front row at a Willie Nelson concert.

SPEAKER_01 24:27

Oh no shit.

SPEAKER_04 24:32

Yep. That's yep. That's so clean. That's a little it's a little mean, but it's clean.

SPEAKER_01 24:39

I told uh many years ago we had all three grandkids, uh, the older ones. Uh shit, they were probably 12, 12, and 10 or 11. And so they wanted me to tell jokes. Granddaughter always wants jokes. Papa, give me a joke. Papa, tell me a joke. And so I told them, excuse me, what's uh red and green and goes a thousand miles an hour.

unknown 25:05

Red and green.

SPEAKER_01 25:06

Of course, it's a frog and a blender. Oh, Jesus. And my one grandson, he's still to this day, and he's almost 15. Papa, that was the worst joke ever. It's bad. It is. Yeah. That's like but now Rosie, she's she's 13, almost 14, and she don't want clean jokes anymore. She wants the Papa style joke. She is definitely my granddaughter. We caught her one time that we were sitting around campfire and telling stupid jokes and shit. Looked over. I'm like, Rosalie, what are you doing? She says, writing it down on my phone, Papa. I'm like, oh shit, we can't do that anymore.

SPEAKER_04 25:49

Yeah, I know. Uh it's like you're not allowed to have a pen or a phone or any way to record this stuff if we're talking about it. Come on, man.

SPEAKER_01 26:00

Yep. Yep. Shit. So what's going on at the ranch? Anything exciting?

SPEAKER_04 26:07

Uh, I actually have one more joke that I just thought of that actually Robbie because you mentioned 13-year-olds and Robbie told me. And I'm like, it's not a it's not a dirty joke, it's not a bad joke. But it's a little, I think, you know, kind of like what you're saying. It's maybe a little more in the category of maybe wait till you're older to tell this. But anyway, here's the joke. Um, what do you call a black man?

SPEAKER_01 26:36

A man?

SPEAKER_04 26:38

By his name, you racist.

unknown 26:40

Oh shit.

SPEAKER_01 26:47

Okay, that gives me one more friend of ours' daughters, uh, what's worse than ants in your pants?

SPEAKER_03 26:54

Oh, yeah, I know this one. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_04 26:58

That's awful. Uh see, I think you went, see, I think your joke is is bad though, like a little dirty.

SPEAKER_01 27:07

It is, it's a little bit dirty, but oh well, we had to end on a bad one, not a good one.

SPEAKER_04 27:12

Well, yeah. I mean, I guess. Uh there's that one joke. Uh what is sorority girls uh their favorite numbers always five or seven. I don't know, because they just can't even.

SPEAKER_01 27:31

Oh Jesus Christ. Oh my gosh. Yeah, I know. I'll have to remember that one for Rosie.

SPEAKER_04 27:47

Yeah, and I I just think we should be clear here that you understand this because the number six is an even number, right?

SPEAKER_01 27:54

Yes, I call it an even numbers.

SPEAKER_04 27:56

All right. Hey man, I've learned not to take anything for granted on this fucking show.

SPEAKER_01 28:01

Especially with me.

Fireflies And Failed Camera Plans

SPEAKER_04 28:03

Yeah, exactly. That's what I'm talking about. So, yes, what's going on the ranch? Um, it's well, I'll tell you one fun thing. Um, as of yesterday. I think they probably started before that, but yesterday evening in earnest, the fireflies really exploded.

SPEAKER_01 28:23

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_04 28:24

Mm-hmm. Shit. Missing that. Oh, they're just fucking. I mean, this is the most I've ever seen at one time, actually. It's insane.

SPEAKER_01 28:33

That's cool.

SPEAKER_04 28:37

Yeah, it is.

SPEAKER_01 28:38

How's uh how's the new puppy?

SPEAKER_04 28:40

Good lord. Already just move them past the fireflies. Um, okay.

SPEAKER_01 28:45

Um yeah, because I'm not there to enjoy them, and Christina's gonna get mad that she's not there to see them.

SPEAKER_04 28:51

Well, okay. Uh you know, I think sort of one of the premises, if you will, of uh two-person podcast is like a little sort of conversation. So uh when I say stuff about fireflies, and you're like, that's cool, how's a puppy? Uh okay. All right, since you didn't ask any follow-up questions, I'll just follow up on my own here. Um, so I've been trying to get pictures or video of the fireflies, which is very difficult. They're real sons of bitches in that way. Um, so I tried last night, uh, just on my phone, doesn't work. And then today I had a fucking brainwave. I'm like, wait a minute. I should use the astrophotography setting on my phone, right?

SPEAKER_01 29:37

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_04 29:38

Because it does those like it runs for four minutes and does whatever. Um it captured them, but it's some creepy fucking shit, so not what I was looking for. And so then I actually, so the road, the dirt road coming in, you go past my place um before you hook the corner with that straight line from basically my driveway to the corner, just fucking for whatever reason in and around that road, excuse me, just blown up with fireflies. And so I thought I should fly. What if I flew the drone like low altitude along the road? You can see all the fireflies.

SPEAKER_01 30:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 30:20

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I mean, I thought that was a pretty good idea.

SPEAKER_01 30:24

It it makes total sense to me.

SPEAKER_04 30:25

Yeah. Uh it actually for the first of 20 seconds or so, it it looked like it was gonna work. Then I flew it into a tree. So uh it's really dark. Um so that was harder.

SPEAKER_01 30:38

I thought this one was it the drone that avoids trees, or this is the non-avoidance drone.

SPEAKER_04 30:43

It's the avoidance drone, but I had inadvertently turned off the avoidance stuff. Oh shit. Mm-hmm. Um, and then I got my my GoPro not GoPro. And I'm like, oh, maybe I can just set it on a tripod. Well, the tripod. I have a tripod because you got me one. Um and do like a long exposure shot. And uh that didn't fucking work either.

SPEAKER_01 31:08

So now what about your smart telescope? Because you're supposed to be able to do landscapes and stuff with it. Couldn't you just set it up for uh a long exposure on that? Have it stack the photos?

SPEAKER_04 31:22

Um no. I well the telescope is for like telescoping in on things, you know what I mean? Like it's got a really high magnification on it. And so it wouldn't work for that. At least mine, your yours might uh yours has a wide angle.

SPEAKER_01 31:38

Yeah, because mine's a yeah, mine has a wide angle. That's right.

SPEAKER_04 31:41

Yeah, mine doesn't have that. Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:44

I didn't have that.

SPEAKER_04 31:46

Um here a joke about fireflies.

SPEAKER_01 31:50

Let's hear a joke about fireflies.

SPEAKER_04 31:53

All right. What do you call a firefly that tells jokes?

SPEAKER_01 31:57

I have no idea.

SPEAKER_04 31:58

A real glow getter.

SPEAKER_01 32:07

Uh makes sense.

Timid Rescue Puppy And Parasite Protocols

SPEAKER_04 32:09

Yeah. Uh so the new puppy, asked about the new puppy. Uh, he's fine.

SPEAKER_01 32:14

Yes. So he's driving you nuts.

SPEAKER_04 32:18

Uh yes, but in a completely different way than like Harley did. Um because we didn't have time to get into it last time, really, about him at all. Because we kind of got sidetracked with the fact that you hated his name. Um, and then other things came up, I guess. And so we didn't want to talk about him, but he here's the thing about him. He's timid. Scared. He's scared of people Oh wow. Yeah. So he's been great with the other dogs. It just sucks. Well, you don't even really know how much it sucks. He's been great with the other dogs. Um, they're like his buddies and blah blah blah. But he scared of me, like terrified of me. Um, and so it's uh it's been really fucking trying. Um like to be honest with you, that's r really stressed me out, put me in a bad state of mind because uh well I mean he's it's it's getting better, but how it has been is like half the time, half the days he can even eat. Even though he's a tiny puppy, like eight weeks old and he's starving to death, but he won't eat or he doesn't eat because you know he's scared of me bringing him food in the food bowl. And of course, you know, I can't just set food down and leave it because the other dogs will eat it. Um and he's a puppy, he's a wee tiny little young puppy, so he has worms, of course. Right, haven't been able to catch him to deworm him, and he's you know he's got fucking fleas, because I always have fucking fleas when they first get here, haven't been able to catch him to de-flee him. And it's like, you know, on the one hand, some people are like, well, you know, you'll get to it when you get to it. Uh no, that's not the fucking thing. The fucking thing is that, yeah, but in the meantime, my whole fucking pack is at risk. Well, beyond at risk at this point. I mean, it's inevitable that there's worms, uh, whatever. And so honestly, it's been really fucking stressing me out. Um, and we're getting there, we're getting a little better with it. Um I've been able to feed him consistently for the last day and a half. I got some what did I give him so far? I got a heart a heart guard. Managed to get him to eat a heart guard and uh some first dose of a dewarmer. Um, but he still needs flea, flea and tick. And that kind of well, so my mom was asking me the other day, like what's like what do you do? Not what do you do, but like, you know, what's standard operating when you take in a new puppy? Um it depends a lot on the situation, but basically, assume they're all infested with everything. That's what I do. Uh start with them. And that's from experience.

SPEAKER_02 35:20

Because usually they are.

SPEAKER_04 35:21

Yeah. Uh so the first thing is uh a big ol' flea bath. Um I say flea bath, I mean I like cover everything. Like basically get some fucking supercharged motherfucking flea tick, you know, whatever shampoo. Right. And they get they get a bath. Uh like, you know, four rounds of scrub, rinse, repeat, whatever. And then so that's the first thing, basically. And then they go, they go on flea and tick, and they go on the hardware, and whatever. And so from there it's been fine. But with this little fuckstick, oh god, running a dog rescue. With this, with this wee little puppy, um, yeah, I've been able to catch him to do those things. Uh, so like I said, it's gotten a lot, it's gotten a lot better. Very slowly. I would say probably based on how things are progressing. Uh been about two or three days from now, I might be able to catch him to give him a bath. Okay. But at least I've been able to start him on meds, been able to feed him consistently. But it's fucking annoying because I'm like, you know, your little fucking puppy ass shows up here, and then you won't leave. And it's like, now I have to be stressed out. Now I'm fucking stressed out. Like, oh god, is he did he eat enough? He's not eating enough. And then the other thing too, I think I told you that one day, well, I told you it's gonna freeze that one night, right?

SPEAKER_01 36:58

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 36:59

Yeah, I think that's been since the last time we did a show. Um, yep. And yeah, it was like fucking low 20s, dude. That night. Wow. And then the next night, high twenties, still free. And I'm like, this little fucking puppy, a little teeny tiny puppies out there like shivering. And I'm like, I'm sure you're miserable, but you won't you know, like I have a warm fucking crate and a blanket inside, but you won't let me get you and take you in there. So that's how that's going.

SPEAKER_01 37:30

So you think um it sounds like he may have had a lot of abuse before he came to his new home.

SPEAKER_04 37:36

No, I don't think he's old enough to have had any abuse, dude. Like he's uh like he just I I just think he didn't have any socialization. Oh, it's not like he's scared of me, scared of me, like, oh you're gonna do something. He scared of me like you're not a dog. What's happening?

SPEAKER_01 37:57

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 37:59

I think and you may be right. You you may be right. I'm not sure. Um because uh I I think he's just too young to have had much of a history with anything. And I gotta tell you, because I think in that video you said he looked like he was about eight weeks old. And I was saying probably eight to ten was my thought. But Jesus Christ, I was watching him today, like he was playing with a toy or something rolling on his back. When he opened his mouth, I was like, holy crap, he doesn't even have like a full front row of baby teeth yet. Oh I know. Which, you know, people are like, Well, how fucking negligent are you? This dog's been here for week and a half, two weeks, you don't even know that. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That's part of that's part of what fucking happens, you know, when I bring a dog in, is I do a whole fucking thing in the bath and I know all this stuff. But yeah, dude, I think he's really young.

unknown 39:03

Oh shit.

SPEAKER_04 39:04

Yeah, well Hartley was Hartley was 10 to 12 weeks when I f when he showed up, which is really young. Yeah. But he had a full he had a full ass mouth of baby. Well, you know. I mean, you know how young a dog has to be to not even have a full mouth of baby teeth. Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_01 39:23

Yeah. Yeah. That's not good. Yeah, that's it's not good. Yeah, I was I was showing Cindy the video of Berkeley. Buckley. Sorry.

SPEAKER_04 39:36

Um that was a passive aggressive way of saying you don't like his name. I get it.

SPEAKER_01 39:42

Oh, bullshit. And she was saying Rottweiler and possibly German Shepherd, she was in the pet industry for like 30 years.

SPEAKER_04 39:51

Doing what?

SPEAKER_01 39:52

So she's the actually she's actually the one with Ellie that said that she looked like that salute geek or whatever. And then looked it up, like, yep, just a smaller version.

SPEAKER_04 40:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 40:01

What did she what did she do in the pet industry for um I think she worked in in the retail part of it. Um dog treats, dog food, you know, like the at the pet stores.

SPEAKER_04 40:14

Oh, okay. Like manufacturing popcorn. Oh, I gotcha. Yeah. Um sorry, go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 40:23

No, but she she did that, and so she knows so much about animals. And I mean, they feed their dogs homemade fucking dog food. Buster Roy and Trippy. If their food isn't moist or anything else, they just like look at her, look at her Dino, like, what the fuck? This needs to be gourmet a little bit. Yeah, I believe that.

SPEAKER_04 40:48

Yeah. You know, my mom makes all of their food for their dogs, right?

SPEAKER_01 40:54

Yeah, I do.

SPEAKER_04 40:55

Raw. I do. Well, not I don't know if it's raw, but from all fresh ingredients, what it's just I mean, props to her. I'm like, I'm basically at the point where I just like get a I want to get a bucket, you know, get a bucket full of food and open the back door and just throw it on the deck. Like, whatever you get, you get. You're fine.

SPEAKER_01 41:18

Yeah, I made uh for Maggie, I made homemade food for maybe a month, month and a half. Then I was like, fuck it, back to the dry. Yeah. It's it's a pain in the ass, especially living in a fifth wheel.

SPEAKER_04 41:31

But well, it's yeah, it's a lot of work. I mean, that's I that's kind of why I brought it up, is it is a lot of work. Um, and so anybody that does it, I'm I'm impressed by like like those two and my mom. Um yeah. And it I mean it's a great thing to do. Uh I don't have the fucking I don't there's no way I can keep up with that.

Maggie’s Decline And End Of Life Plans

SPEAKER_01 41:59

No, uh-uh. Well, we uh we figured out some stuff with the bulldog, Miss Maggie. Well, one she can't hear. She is deafer than deafer than deaf now. She's having a hell of a time. Uh when she wakes up getting up, her it's like her hind legs don't work. It takes her a while to get going.

SPEAKER_03 42:24

Oh, jeez.

SPEAKER_01 42:24

Uh, she was really having a problem holding in her potty time uh the last last few days. So we've really been having to make sure that she goes out after she drinks or eats. And it just hasn't been good. Her eyesight's gone. I gotta here at Josh's house, I can get her to walk down the hallway because to go through his garage to the back, you gotta go through the bathroom. Well, she's gotta have the bathroom light on and then she'll walk through. And then if the garage light isn't on, she won't go until you turn on the garage light and then she'll go out back. And then the the same on the way in, and it's just yeah. I mean, 13 years old for a bulldog, that's old.

SPEAKER_03 43:04

And then on the way home. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_01 43:08

Yeah. No, on the way home, uh, from Cindy and Dino's Christina and I were Christina was because I was driving, but looking up a bunch of stuff on more or less end of end of life for a bulldog, and Maggie's got 95% of the shit that's going on is the end of the end of line for a bulldog, and it just it's just heartbreaking for me. Shit, I've had her for seven years now.

SPEAKER_03 43:37

Oh yeah. I yeah, I know, man.

SPEAKER_01 43:40

So now I'm laying in the I lay in the middle of the floor with her and hold her and cuddle her and everything and just try and spend as much time with her. I mean, knowing my luck she's gonna hold on for another couple years, I hope, but it just doesn't just doesn't seem good.

SPEAKER_04 43:56

Well, yeah, and I mean If I'm understanding correctly, it seems like it's sort of uh excuse me. It's sort of like there's been a lot of changes real fast, real recently.

SPEAKER_01 44:12

Yes. Just within the last week, week and a half. Well, I told you that she ran away that one that one morning. Yeah. I think we talked about that.

SPEAKER_04 44:21

Well, we didn't actually. That was my bad. I think you you sent me a message about it, but remind me.

SPEAKER_01 44:28

Um she she whines in the morning to get out in Josh's fish tank, the lights automatically come on and go off. So as soon as the fish tank lights come on, she wants out. So she starts whimpering and whining. So I opened up the crate and went to take her out the garage and she wanna go. So I opened up the front door. She went out there and she went to the rose bushes, peed, and then looked at me like you're an asshole, and wandered off.

SPEAKER_04 44:57

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 44:58

Of course, I'm standing there in my skivvies, and I'm like, fuck. Now I gotta go in and get dressed. So I ran in and got dressed. I didn't run, we know better. I went in and got dressed, put on my shoes, and started scouring this two blocks looking for Maggie. Can't find her, can't find her. Woke up Christina. Hey, you got a flashlight? She's like, Yeah, why? I said, Maggie took off. So her and Ellie, she got up with Ellie, figured that Ellie would find Maggie, and shit. It was like an hour that we were out there, couldn't find her, and then so we went back in the house, waited for daylight to come in, and then just walked across the street to the corner house, and here she is coming out from underneath their steps, like, what you doing, Dad? But she couldn't hear me, so I couldn't I couldn't get her to come to me. It's still 6 30 in the morning. I don't want to wake anybody up. So I literally walked over and got the potato, as I call her, and carried her back to the house. And it's just it's like, you know, she's just getting lost in her thoughts and and everything. So yeah, that was not a fun morning to start.

SPEAKER_04 46:03

No, that's that's awful.

SPEAKER_01 46:04

I've uh well, I I know open once we go ahead.

SPEAKER_04 46:12

I was just gonna say that uh I know how scary that is. That uh I know everything you were going through right then, where you know, you couldn't find her stuff, but uh and and then the other stuff. That's it it is heartbreaking. Like I'm I I feel for you, man. I'm sorry. Uh do you guys have a plan? Uh or a vet or whatever, kind of on standby.

SPEAKER_01 46:40

Yeah, pretty much. If if it happens up here, because we're up here for another couple weeks, if it if it happens up here, yes, we we have the vet, and then we'll take care of it and and stuff, and and then we'll take care of everything afterwards because I don't want her to you know I want to have her in my life, even if she's no longer here. So I've I've got plans for that and everything.

SPEAKER_03 47:04

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 47:07

Well and then then then I worry about Ellie because you know, Ellie's her whole life has been with Maggie, and then if we don't have Maggie, I guess I'm just gonna have to give Ellie to you.

SPEAKER_04 47:22

And here I was feeling sympathy for you. And you're back. Oh, you know, I think that I know that's in that situation, it's you know, you're thinking about the different you know, there's different layers to it, you know. It's not just losing losing one dog, it's that you got the other dog that's attached and stuff, and uh, you know, I uh timing wise, uh it's never a good time for this to happen, but you know, everything happens for a reason, I think. Uh I agree. And when it should, and I think if there's any silver lining here, um that's that. Ellie and and you guys um you have a home here on the ranch. And Maggie always will as well. Um matter how it shakes out. Um I know you guys will do the right thing for um Yeah, there's I don't want to make her you know, I don't want to do anything, what do they say, too early or too late.

SPEAKER_01 48:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 48:34

Right. And uh I'll I'll you'll know. And I don't know how you'll know. I just know that you from my own experience in that uh with that stuff, and knowing how close you and Maggie are, I know that uh she'll she'll let you know. And uh I again I'm sorry, man.

SPEAKER_01 48:58

Um I appreciate it. Yeah, yeah, man. I'm I'm sure she will let me know that okay, Dad. This is enough.

SPEAKER_04 49:06

Yeah, I uh yes I hope I get to see her again. Uh but not at the expense of her well-being. And so if she's not happy and whatever, and that happens before y'all get back, then you know, whatever's best for her, right?

SPEAKER_01 49:24

Yep, exactly. I'm I'm hoping that I can deal with the not really being able to see, I can deal with uh not being able to hear, it's just knowing that she's in pain when she gets up and that you know she can she can't control her her ear and uh whenever she's gotta go. So you know it's it's hard on her to say, okay, you just got done drinking, you know, ten minutes ago, let's go outside. And she's like, What the fuck? I'm supposed to go crawl back in my bed. Yeah, yeah.

Closing Joke And Support

SPEAKER_04 49:59

Well, I mean, yeah, exactly. That's you know the that's the thing with the pain and the inconnents and stuff. It's like uh as long as as long as she's enjoying her life, uh, great. But it sounds like it's getting to the point where she may not be. And that's you know, for me and I'm sure for you, that's that's the line. It's like uh Um I had to look this has been a little bit rough. I mean I mean it's not to take anything away from what you're going through, I'm just saying the end of this episode. But uh yeah, we are kinda out of time. Um Are we out of time? Yeah, we are, yeah. And I thought, uh Hopefully this isn't cold hearted, but I I asked my guy to give us a a funny joke.

unknown 50:59

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 51:08

Rough. Okay, so I'll have to go pick a different one. Correct.

SPEAKER_02 51:17

Oh god.

SPEAKER_04 51:19

Alright, uh what do you saw for that? Okay, uh what do you call a dog with the surround sound system?

SPEAKER_01 51:35

I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 51:36

A subwoofer. And on that note, man, uh I'm glad that we can be serious and joke around and all that stuff anytime. Um so take care of that little girl. Keep me posted on it. Uh you know, if you need anything or just need to talk or whatever, of course, you can call me anytime. You know that.

SPEAKER_01 52:02

Oh yeah, yeah, I appreciate that.

SPEAKER_04 52:04

Alrighty, sir. Uh we're gonna we're gonna wrap it up. Uh so catch y'all later.

Where To Find Us Online

SPEAKER_01 52:11

Have a good one. We'll talk to you soon. 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 talked 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. How are we going?