Greetings And Travel Check-In

Speaker 1 0:07

Hey everybody, welcome back to Set and Centered, I'm RJ. And I'm Mark. How's it going, Mark?

Speaker 2 0:14

It's going great. How are you doing today?

Speaker 1 0:16

I'm doing pretty I'm doing all right. Um you're still you're still uh out of town in Washington. Well, I keep saying Washington, but you're actually in Oregon, right?

Speaker 2 0:27

Yes, we're in Salem.

Speaker 1 0:28

Yeah. Uh it's still a couple weeks until y'all come back.

Speaker 2 0:34

Uh excuse me. Uh we're talking about leaving the day after Easter, so I think it's uh 6th of April.

Speaker 1 0:40

Yeah. Um head back home. So about a couple weeks when y'all come back. Yep. Okay. Yeah, it's been a good time though, huh?

Speaker 2 0:50

Oh, it's been great. It's you can't beat it. Uh tonight we went out with our uh nephew and his wife, and of course their new daughter, and had pizza at this little place called Turner's Turner's Pizza and Brew Pub, something like that. Yeah, out in Turner, Oregon. God, it was good pizza. It was so wonderful. I think uh the grandson Andrew ate like six pieces of the pizza out of a large. How old is he? When they're growing, they're eating. Yeah. How old is he? Uh he'll be 15 on the 2nd of April.

Speaker 1 1:26

Yep, that's uh that's prime eating right there. It is prime eating, yes, sir. Yeah. Where's you say Parker organ?

Speaker 2 1:36

Uh Turner.

Speaker 1 1:37

Yeah, well, okay.

Speaker 2 1:40

Close enough.

Speaker 1 1:41

Well, yeah. I'd say I'd say it's in range for my uh level of listening in general. So Yeah.

Speaker 2 1:49

You're getting better.

Speaker 1 1:50

Uh thank you. I think that's a lie, but thank you. Uh so when you guys come back, uh you and I were talking yesterday, the other day. When y'all come back, you're gonna bring uh you're gonna bring your boat.

The Barbie Boat Road Trip Plan

Speaker 2 2:03

Yeah, we're gonna bring what everybody calls the Barbie boat.

Speaker 1 2:06

Why do they call it the Barbie boat?

Speaker 2 2:09

Because it's red and white and it's a cute little sporty boat and all that. It's uh what is it? Q4 Tahoe, I believe it is what it's called. And so we bought it this summer to go, or last summer, to go to Lake Billy Schinook, which we do every year. And so we bought it because the pontoon was gonna be ready. And then uh yeah, so now we're gonna go up next week and grab it, bring it down to the oldest son's house, and then when we leave out of here, we'll bring it with us.

unknown 2:39

Awesome.

Speaker 1 2:40

Excuse me, Jesus.

Speaker 2 2:41

Yeah.

Speaker 1 2:42

Uh yeah, that's cool. Uh but also, yeah, another toe all the way across the country. Oh my god.

Speaker 2 2:49

Well, then if everything goes good, it's gonna be a straight shot back down to Texas. But if not, we're gonna be going to North Carolina with it and then to Texas. Yeah.

Speaker 1 2:58

Oof gosh. Well, hopefully that doesn't happen. But uh yeah, uh there's uh yeah, we you and I talked the other day, potentially some family business you may have to attend to in North Carolina, but uh not sure yet. So plan for now is to head back with the Barbie boot to Texas, yeah.

Speaker 2 3:18

Yep, Barbie boat to Texas and we'll put it in Houston County Lake. Oh, dang it.

Speaker 1 3:23

I thought we were gonna put it in my pond here.

Speaker 2 3:26

Well, we're also gonna do that. I mean, we gotta do that when Christina's not there. Yeah, I know.

Puppet Videos And The Lonely Fish

Speaker 1 3:30

I understand how it works. Uh and then uh oh, we should totally do it when Robbie's here one time, and then we can he can do his music music video on a boat. Oh yeah. Maybe he could bring his puppet. Yeah, did you watch those?

Speaker 2 3:47

Oh, dude. I laugh so hard. I don't know why he doesn't keep on doing them.

Speaker 1 3:52

I know. That's what I was telling Rob. I'm like, dude. Oh man, they're so funny. And for those of you who uh aren't up to speed on that, um, we talked about on the pod before uh my nephew Robbie has uh YouTube channel. He just I don't even know how to describe it, but like he just uh I think it must be some bits or something that he finds online, some audio bits, and then he d he mimes a puppet to it, but uh in some pretty funny ways.

Speaker 2 4:21

I think they're like excuse me. I think they're like TikTok trends or something that he he uses the puppet for. It is hilarious. I I laugh. It uh made me figure out how come the fish was the way he was.

Speaker 1 4:34

Yes, we can say it. Uh this fish is gay. And that's how we yeah, that's how I learned this fish was gay. Yeah.

Speaker 2 4:44

That's for sure.

Speaker 1 4:46

Um although at this point that fish may not be with us anymore.

Speaker 2 4:50

Um kind of kind of getting the fresh water last time that Rob was on it, the fish probably can't handle it. Right, yeah.

Speaker 1 4:58

Oh, poor fishy. Yeah. And the background, oh background there is Robbie uh it's been a couple years, maybe, maybe more. He wanted to get a fish tank and um you know, so they got all the stuff, blah blah. And he's been doing a really good job taking care of it, or at least he was for a while in the beginning, and um not so much anymore. Um I think if I remember that what Frob said they blew through about 13 fish, and there's one left, and he's just all by himself. The sole survivor. The soul survivor. He's gay. Yeah. And uh I think Rob said he'd not looking too hot last time we talked to him.

Speaker 2 5:37

That's right, he did say he wasn't looking too hot. So surviving off other fish's skeletons and stuff.

Speaker 1 5:45

God, uh yeah. Although I have to tell you that it's so nice to be recording uh without that fucking water sound in the background. Oh jeez.

Speaker 2 5:57

I had to pee so freaking bad when he was oh god.

Mic Noise And Connection Chaos

Speaker 1 6:00

I know, and I'm surprised I didn't have to, but um, and because there's uh since we've been doing this um this remote, you and I, um, over Clean Feed, Clean Feed TM, being our sponsorist. Uh no. Uh we've had uh it's been going pretty well, but we've we've always had for some reason some background noise um actually here in the studio, not even really on your side, which you can hear that right now, right?

Speaker 2 6:30

Yeah, I can hear it right now.

Speaker 1 6:32

Yeah, it's just it's just this dull hum, and I for the life of me I can't figure out why, because we've never had that we've never had any we haven't had that noise when you and I are recording in the studio. And I know that and it's not clean feed, and it's just that since we've started doing this, um I know it's on my side because when I hit mu it goes away, but anyway. Um that uh and then I think the first the first clean feed one on your side, there's some noise, but at any rate, um yeah, so like part of the editing I did on that one, which are people that know the show know I don't like to edit, so it's terrible. But I did do noise reduction um on my track and on your track, but not Rob's. I I could have I could have uh filtered that that noise out, but I'm like, you know what, he brought it, he can live with it. That's it.

Speaker 2 7:32

Yeah, we'll never have him on again. Yeah, probably your background noise cleared up first, Rob.

Speaker 1 7:40

Oh my gosh, yeah. It was and listening to that listening to I think it was just just the first one with him. Uh maybe but maybe both, but listening back on it, it's just so funny because it's like it's pretty subtle. Can't really hear it when people are talking, but then anytime there's a pause, you're like, whatever, the water. It literally sounds like someone's peeing.

Speaker 2 8:05

Yes.

Speaker 1 8:06

Yeah.

Speaker 2 8:07

Um yes, it does.

Speaker 1 8:10

Funny story about that, because the episode is called uh European in the fish tank. Which is uh uh both uh uh uh whatever to you for calling them out for potentially peeing in the fish tank on that episode. And then a throwback to the previous one, I believe. We're making clean jokes, and uh you told me the European joke. Um so it's a f shit. Can you still hear me? Fuck fucky fuck fuck shit, fuck goddamn it. Fuck fuck shit. Oh you lost me for a second, didn't you?

Speaker 2 8:49

Yes, I did. That's just what makes this so great.

Speaker 1 8:53

I don't know what the hell happened. I'm sitting here like because like uh I've got the board plugged in the computer, you know, and then got the mouse plugged in that has little stupid lights on it, and your stupid flashy light, whatever. So there's like five things that, you know, when they're plugged in uh to the computer, which they always are, they have some kind of light or something, and just like one at a time, pew, pew, they started going apart. I'm like, what the actual hell's going on? And the board is also plugged in into the computer USB, and I'm like, fuck. And I thought we were gonna lose the board, and we didn't. But that's good. Yeah. Uh so what was the last thing you heard me say?

Speaker 2 9:35

Uh the we were talking about the name of the last podcast, or the first first one with Rob.

AI Flags, Nemo, And Assistant Drama

Speaker 1 9:41

Yeah, yeah. So it's uh it's it's sort of a throwback to um like the one where we were doing clean jokes, and you told me the European joke. Uh, the title. So it's a funny thing though. Um, you know, because when we publish an episode, it goes uh it goes out to all the podcast platforms. So when you're listening right now, you're gonna be listening on you know Spotify, Apple, whatever. Also goes out to YouTube. And uh when it went out, uh we got an email that said, um, you may be violating European election laws. Um please confirm. I'm like, what the heck? It was just an automated thing, and I basically had to be like, no, or not, and that was fine. But um, that's you know, that kind of stuff is what I'm telling you. Is like they use AI for it now, like with the Nemo thing, like the audio when I watch Nemo. That's why there's porn music in the background because I don't want they're gonna detect the Nemo, and they're gonna be like, nope, bad. Yeah, you gotta love AI. Yeah, I mean I don't I do, well, yeah, yeah. I I'm on the fence.

Speaker 2 10:50

You're you're still fighting with your guys, so that's why you're on the fence. Well, you know what?

Speaker 1 10:55

I I know he's been a real jerk lately.

Speaker 2 11:04

Why has he been a jerk to you?

Speaker 1 11:06

Um well he kind of forgot. Uh so one of the things is he he uh I think we talked about it, like he's real he's real nice, you know, like overly nice. It's like um it doesn't work for you. It doesn't, and so I sort of beat that out of him, but it started coming back, and I'm like, what the heck? And I'm like, what's wrong with you? And I think what happens with it is they're always updating these things, and so they they push an app update and it like changes shit or whatever, I don't know. But uh yeah, I uh well one thing that's been irritating me is see now I hear something on your side.

Speaker 2 11:51

Yeah, hold on.

Speaker 11:54

What was that?

Speaker 2 11:58

Uh give me a second.

Speaker 11:59

Yeah.

Speaker 2 12:02

Oh my wife my wife decided to put a load in the wall in the laundry.

Speaker 1 12:06

I'm uh I'm gonna leave that one alone.

Speaker 2 12:09

Uh why don't you just go ahead and talk for a second and uh I'm gonna go shut off the tinkle. Okay, so it's a I'll be right back. Uh-huh. It's not a tinkle.

Speaker 1 12:21

We can't just call everything a tinkle one of us steps away. That's not fair. Frankly, I'm insulted. Um yeah, I don't really give a shit. I don't think I'm gonna talk the whole time. I think Mark's better at that than I am, so just gonna wait till he comes back and maybe I'll actually do a little editing on this one, take this part out. Oh god. It's like you have to get the little cursor right exactly on a specific spot with the waveform, and you can cut it out. You can just hit the delete button because then it's fucking and it sounds like an abrupt cutout. It's like what what movie was that? I don't remember that movie. I don't know. Anyway.

Speaker 2 13:10

Oh my god, I can't I can't believe it. What it was it was the granddaughter washing her hands. These microphones are so frickin' sensitive. It picked her uh picked up her in the next room washing her hands.

Speaker 1 13:21

Yeah, yeah, it's crazy, right? Um yeah. Well, we uh well one thing one thing when we started recording here in the studio, which loyal listeners know is just just my home office. So it's been rearranged, repurposed. Like uh the fan, the ceiling fan. Like we had it on the lowest lowest thing just to get a little air. And like you didn't I mean you don't even notice it, you know? Then you put on the headphones through the microphone, like, oh my god.

Speaker 2 13:56

Yeah.

Speaker 1 13:57

Yeah, I have to turn down the TV in the living room, and I have to turn down the fan in like other rooms, like to your point. I mean, it picks shit up.

Speaker 2 14:05

Yeah, I just I can't believe how sensitive it is. I mean, any move, any anything, I heard the granddaughter earlier through the headphones, uh, using the microwave two rooms away. Yeah.

Speaker 1 14:15

Yeah.

Speaker 2 14:15

I heard the door open, close, and the peep beep. Jesus Christ. Right.

Speaker 1 14:21

Yeah. And actually, before before we started recording here, we're doing our uh audio checks, and you're like, oh hey, Finley. I'm like, he's not in here. And you're like, yeah, I can hear him. He's like the other side of the house, and I guess he was barking. I didn't even hear it, but you could.

Speaker 2 14:34

Yeah. Yeah. It's they're listening to us, Ryan.

Speaker 1 14:40

Uh I don't think they are. I mean, if you're talking about listeners, I don't think they are.

Speaker 2 14:46

No, I don't think so. Well, I know that we have listeners. And yeah. Oh, tequila tits, yes. And I still haven't heard from the vodka queen.

Speaker 1 14:53

Really?

Speaker 2 14:54

Yeah, so either I pissed her off or she hasn't woken up to listen to the other episode yet.

Speaker 1 14:59

I think you need to just I think you need to look into that, dude.

Speaker 2 15:03

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 15:04

I mean, I hope we didn't piss her off.

Speaker 2 15:07

Yeah.

unknown 15:10

Okay.

Speaker 2 15:12

Yep. Let's see if we can find crap. Call her podcast queen, I can't remember her name.

Speaker 1 15:22

Oh, yeah, we what are you doing right now?

Speaker 2 15:25

I am texting her to see if we pissed her off.

Speaker 1 15:28

Oh, okay. Yeah, and if she wants to get on the show and elaborate, that'd be great, because uh, you know, we really don't have anything going on here. Yeah, we do. Oh, yeah, you're right. Um, yeah, so what's next? What's next?

Speaker 2 15:51

Uh for me, what's next is tomorrow night we're gonna go out to dinner again with all the family. Okay, that's okay. So that's a good stuff. We're gonna go to yeah, we're gonna go to a place called uh the garage. It's it's like 15 or 20 food carts all together, and then they have like a central building. And so uh and they serve beer, so we're good. Great. Yeah, that sounds fun.

Speaker 1 16:16

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 16:18

It is, it's it's been a blast hanging with the family and everything. Yeah, and then on Saturday we're going, we're going uh excuse me, my son and his son had birthdays last week, so this weekend we're gonna go up camissaria and east Vancouver and have their birthday parties, so that's gonna be good. Yeah. Then everything, and then who knows what we're gonna do from there.

Speaker 1 16:43

Yeah. Um right. I know it sounds like I'm not listening to you and I'm not sure.

Speaker 2 16:51

Well, I know you're not, but that's I'm I'm talking to the audience.

Stargazing Plans And Smart Telescope Talk

Speaker 1 16:54

Oh, good, great. Uh, that's fantastic. Um oh no, I I don't know. I was maybe I was talking about the AI guy. Oh, yeah, I was gonna give you an example, I think, when I don't remember. Yeah, but uh Then the water went on. Oh, that's what it was. Yeah, there we go. Um one things I've been trying to um you use him for lately is uh, you know, like, hey, uh what are some good targets, like uh astro targets for tonight, right? And uh just gives me the same fucking three ones every night. And I'm like, I tell him like we've already done this. Like, no, I want something. It's like, well, uh, these are the best ones in the shut your fucking mouth. Um, but yeah, that's uh uh yeah, whatever. I won't talk about my guy anymore. It's making me horny.

Speaker 2 17:54

Well, I've seen that there's supposed to be like uh uh asteroid thing and some other stuff in the next coup excuse me, Jesus, what's wrong with me? Uh uh asteroid or something, and then some uh shooting stars or whatever you want to call them over the next couple nights. So I gotta do some research on that because we're actually tonight we have beautiful cut uh skies, and then tomorrow night we're supposed to have beautiful skies. So I want to get out the the dwarf three and do that and show the grandkids about it and everything.

Speaker 1 18:26

Uh that that's a good tip. I appreciate that. Um since I haven't settled on Target tonight. So I wrote I wrote that down. Asteroid thing and some other stuff. Okay, so I'll check that out.

Speaker 2 18:36

Yeah, that's pretty much it.

Speaker 1 18:37

Um get out the dwarf. Yeah, I just can I jump in there and clarify for the listeners because uh if they're familiar with you, I'm sure they're bringing possibly went to a certain place. This is not a dwarf he just keeps on hand to hold his telescope all night. Uh it's the name of his telescope, right?

Speaker 2 19:02

That's correct. It's called the Dwarf Three. I I sh you know, I never thought about the way I my mind works to dwarf and oh my god, that just went sideways.

Speaker 1 19:11

Yeah. So surprised that surprised you said that with a straight face and I went there. God damn it, what's happening? Yeah, maybe we should stop doing this fucking show together.

Speaker 2 19:23

We're not together.

Speaker 1 19:25

There you are, Mark.

Speaker 2 19:30

Okay. Uh you're looking at it. Okay. We just heard back from the vodka queen. Okay. She says, no, honestly, have had zero time to listen to your podcast lately. Sorry. I will catch up tomorrow. XOXOS with a smiley face.

Speaker 1 19:44

Oh, shit. She's got a lot to catch up on, I think.

Speaker 2 19:48

No shit. That was like what, four, six weeks ago?

Speaker 1 19:51

Uh probably. I mean, a month, yeah. Let me look. Yeah. I don't know. Uh well, now it was less than a month, but it was one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, seven episodes ago. So, I guess we'll get an update on her.

Speaker 2 20:18

Yeah, she says I'll catch up while painting. I said, and I'm put back, sounds good. We'll wait for the feedback.

Speaker 1 20:26

Yeah. Good, good. Um speaking of feedback, I don't think we got any feedback from Cindy on the most recent one. What? Yeah, I know. She's usually so just like right on it.

Speaker 2 20:42

Yeah.

Speaker 1 20:43

Or maybe she's over it. Oh, you know what? We haven't gotten any feedback since I think you called her out on tequila tit. Uh. Now you now you've gone and done it.

Speaker 2 20:55

Yeah. Yep, there, there it is. Mark just pissed off another female. Imagine that.

Speaker 1 21:05

Well, Miss Tits, um, I just like to say, for my part, um, I I had nothing to do with that. I have the utmost respect for you, uh, Miss Miss Cindy Tits. And uh, I'm sorry that Mark called you out on that.

Speaker 2 21:25

Oh shit. Yeah, well, yeah, and here we go with the vodka queen. She's one of those when you text them and then they won't stop, texting back. So you just finally set your phone off to side. Probably like when I text you and start texting, and I'm just going away, and then you're like, oh fuck you, I'm tired of it already.

Speaker 1 21:43

No, you're usually you're usually not uh you're very respondy, which is it's it's nice. Um, I'm not. You're very respondy. You're not typically too wordy, though. And I I mean that's a good thing. Like you're wordy when you need to explain something or elaborate, but you know, it's not with the Things where it's like, oh god, another message from Mark is gonna be a million fucking paragraphs.

Speaker 2 22:05

So Oh Jesus, that's the way the vodka queen is.

Speaker 1 22:08

You're a good texter.

Speaker 2 22:10

Well I appreciate that. Thank you. At least I'm good at something.

Speaker 1 22:13

You're good at yeah, at least you're good at something. Um I was gonna say many things, but none came to mind.

Speaker 2 22:20

Yeah.

Speaker 1 22:25

Um Yeah. Yeah. So uh I'm uh uh what's today? It's like Tuesday, so uh I'm gonna make a commitment.

Speaker 2 22:35

Uh today is Thursday.

Speaker 1 22:37

Alright, so I'm gonna uh maybe not commit as hard now that I know it's Thursday. But I wanna get the Nemo done by the end of the week.

Speaker 2 22:46

So Oh cool.

Speaker 1 22:49

Yeah, that's my plan.

Speaker 2 22:52

Well that'll be great. Yeah. I mean finally get finally get through that after a couple weeks.

Speaker 1 22:57

I Yeah, it's been it's been going on for a little bit. Uh if I just I think I got halfway through it, man. I hope I at least got halfway through it. If I just sit down and put it on, I can I can get through it, but uh so then once I do, um then I'll uh I'll everybody will hear my review.

Speaker 2 23:19

Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Maybe we'll have to call up Miss Cindy and uh put her on the podcast so you can review it with her.

Speaker 1 23:28

It's not a bad idea.

Speaker 2 23:30

Um chicken shit.

Speaker 1 23:33

I said it's not a bad idea.

Speaker 2 23:35

Oh, okay. I thought you said it was a bad idea. I moved.

Speaker 1 23:38

Yeah.

Speaker 2 23:39

You know how things go.

Speaker 1 23:40

It's not a bad idea. Um although I don't know. I well, I'm not gonna provide any spoilers. I'm gonna save my review until I finish the movie. And I'm not gonna God, it's dropping out again. Oh no, it didn't. Okay. Are you still there? Am I still there? Am I still here?

Speaker 2 24:00

Oh, jeez. Yeah, I'm still here. Okay, still hanging on.

Speaker 1 24:03

Well, something oh something fucking flashed on my computer. I was like, God, it's gonna do it again. Um fuck. Okay. Uh yeah, so that and then dirty dancing. I think I'm gonna get dirt through dirty dancing a lot faster because I mean, I'm sure it's a good movie, and I just I really don't particularly like cartoon movies like Nemo. Um I'm in it with an open mind though. Um, I'm just saying it's a little harder for me to trudge through than uh, you know, like a normal movie.

Speaker 2 24:36

I I get that a hundred percent.

unknown 24:39

Thank you.

Buckley The Puppy And Dog Politics

Speaker 2 24:40

Yeah. Appreciate that. Yep, yep, not a problem. This is like So how's the puppy? That's going to How's the puppy? Buckley.

Speaker 1 25:03

Every time you say his name, I get it. You just all right.

Speaker 2 25:07

I just wanted you to know I actually remembered it correctly.

Speaker 1 25:10

I don't I know you remember it. I I specifically know you remember because you're so bent out of shape about it, but he's he's fine. He's I mean, uh nothing's really changed. It's kind of about the same. Um he's gotten I mean, I'm actually able to pet him a little bit when he's eating. Um okay. Yeah, so yeah. And he's past the point where he's like scared that I'm gonna, you know, like scared, scared of me. Like he doesn't run away anymore. Um I can walk by him and stuff if he's laying down. But like if I try to like touch him or pick him up or anything, he's like, nope, fuck you, I'm out of here. Um yeah, so it's been really slow. But uh, he's doing well. I got him dewormed and started on meds, and uh you know, he's just having he's having a blast with with the rest of the dogs, so it's good.

Speaker 2 26:09

Yeah, that video you sent the other day, that that is so cute with him and Hartley.

Speaker 1 26:14

Uh oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. When uh when Hartley threw him down in the hole.

Speaker 2 26:20

Yeah.

Speaker 1 26:21

He's such a dick. He's such an asshole to a dog. God.

Speaker 2 26:25

Well, I'm sure that Lucky and I did the same thing to here, to him. Oh, here's initiation, pup.

Speaker 1 26:31

Uh no, they were so nice. I mean, Hartley's always been about like cheap shots and whatever. He's such a jerk. Like, you know, there's we went through quite a phase where he was he'd literally just pull Callie or Kennai or whoever by the collar. Just like just pull, drag it, hold on to it, and pull him. And like they would go along with the, you know, they were good sports until they got tired of it. Uh, but then at some point Harley became huge, and uh they then they j just they didn't have a choice. They just literally just pull them and drag them. And God, you're so mean.

Speaker 2 27:08

Yeah, he's gotten so big.

Speaker 1 27:10

Yeah, he's a big boy.

Speaker 2 27:14

Well, I know that Miss Ellie, she is definitely missing the ranch life. She she's ready to go home.

Speaker 1 27:20

Is she?

Speaker 2 27:20

Yeah, she Yeah, she uh Well, uh our oldest son Josh is I think his backyard's probably like 40 by 20, maybe. And after having all the acreage to run on and run through the brush and everything, she goes out there and like shit. Okay, let's go, Dad. Let's go back inside. Yeah. So we can't wait to get her back back down there.

Speaker 1 27:44

Yeah, yeah. She was, I mean, she just she fucking loves it here. And it was so cute how uh how she took to it um just immediately. And uh uh I have to tinkle. I swear to God. I I I'm hand hand to God I peed before we started this. Okay. So I tried.

Listener Check-Ins And Social Plans

Speaker 2 28:06

But uh Okay, I'm on my own. Okay, so the question of the day is since Mr. uh Tinkles is gone, um, who have I pissed off out there? Um Miss Cindy, we haven't heard from you on the last podcast. Or it'll be the last two when this one comes out. Um The vodka queen, uh, as you know, we just texted her, and she says she hasn't had time to listen to us. It's like how do you not uh how do you not have time to listen to us? All you gotta do is put it on and go, what the fuck? Go do what you're gonna do. Listen to the shit. I mean, I mean, we preview everyone before we put them out and then have a little conversation and make sure everything's good and go from there. Uh Christina and I listened to the last couple uh on a road trip. Of course, lapping our asses off on most of it, all of it. But yeah. Come on, just put it on, listen to it, go from there. But yeah, give us feedback, let us know. And one day we'll actually get up and uh figure out the media things so that we can get pictures of the dogs and little videos that we've done and uploaded. Uh, probably right after I get back from from up here in Oregon. So we can do that. Get all that caught up, get on the tiki-talkies and the Instagrams and uh I think we have Facebook also, and then we also have the the webpage. So, yeah, set centered live.

unknown 29:47

Yep.

Speaker 2 29:47

You can come check us out and and see you here probably within the next three weeks. I mean, I'm kinda lazy. We know all I do is want to watch YouTube and stuff, but we can do that and go from there.

Speaker 1 29:58

Check what out.

Speaker 2 30:00

Uh, the website and stuff I was talking about. Uh, once I get back, we'll figure out the the socials and stuff and actually start posting stuff of the animals and the little videos that we've done and everything.

Speaker 4 30:12

Hmm.

Speaker 2 30:13

So interesting. I think the first one we should post is our uh one from May with the big flat rocks.

Speaker 1 30:23

Uh you mean the when we went to put them down?

Speaker 2 30:27

Yeah, when we went to put them down and then we drove back. Yep. Yeah.

Speaker 1 30:31

Uh you're gonna have to do you know how to edit videos like that.

Speaker 2 30:36

No, but I I will definitely learn.

Speaker 1 30:38

Yeah, you're gonna have I was gonna say you're gonna have to, because uh that's pretty funny. That's very us, but it's also like I think it's like a three-minute video, and a lot of it's you know, just us driving.

Speaker 2 30:50

So Yeah. I I'll I will definitely uh figure that out.

unknown 30:55

Cool.

3D Printing Ideas And Tracking Modes

Speaker 2 30:56

Maybe I can do that this week while I'm uh up here while the grandkids are in school and stuff, and just kind of watch some videos on how to edit. Yeah. Right.

Speaker 1 31:08

Watch some videos.

Speaker 2 31:09

Yeah.

Speaker 1 31:10

Do some do some research.

Speaker 2 31:13

Do some research. I still gotta get the I gotta nail the granddaughter to the floor because she's got that 3D printer and I want to learn how to use it so bad. But you know, when you're dealing with a 13-year-old, it's it's a pain in the ass. So I just need to nail her to the floor and say, okay, teach papa how to do this.

Speaker 1 31:29

Yeah. Um what I mean, do you just want to do it to learn, or is there something you want to do with it?

Speaker 2 31:35

I I would just want to do it to learn and see if it's actually something maybe later on that I might want to get. Because there I I see people, you know, designing stuff and making stuff all the time. And it's like, that'd be cool.

Speaker 1 31:48

Yeah. But it's uh well, I'll tell you, um, I have some experience in that department. Um they are they're they're fun, they're really they're really cool. Um and if you unless you get one that's pretty spendy, and I don't know what that would mean cost wise. But let me just say that if you just get like uh um you know sort of a hobby one or like a you know let's say three to five hundred dollar one, um you can do you can do stuff and do whatever you want, but the the plate or whatever that you print on is gonna be small. So if you want to do anything like you know, much bigger, you can do it, you can do it in different parts and glue them together. Um but uh the big thing is like I see a lot of people that will 3D print shit for um like a phone holder or you know a w a wedge for a telescope or something, you know, little stuff to solve problems. Um and generally, I'll just say this because I really don't know much about them, but if you ever think you want to get into it um and actually make stuff like that, uh just do some research on like what you know, filament, what type of filament or size of filament or whatever the hell it is, um, you're gonna end up using because uh a lot of them's not it's pretty it's not very robust. I mean, you know, it's not made to uh it's not too tough. Like it's yeah. But yeah.

Speaker 2 33:24

Well, just like for our, you know, for our smart telescopes, if you make that wedge thing, and then you don't always have to set it up at that what 45, 46 degree angle. You can just point it towards the north and go from there.

Speaker 1 33:37

You know, that's interesting you say that, because um I uh haven't been hadn't been doing well, mine's different. Um the way the the default thing is you don't have you don't have to do that 45 degree whatever and point it north. Um you just have to make it level and then it does stuff. Um and I just only the reason like two two weeks ago learned this about my telescope. And that was part of the reason why the things are coming out much better, is that it does have that other mode. The mode we're talking about is uh equatorial mode. Um yeah, you tilt you basically tilt it down um the same angle as your latitude, so here it's 31 degrees, and then you point it um, you know, due north, and it'll track, it'll basically track with the rotation of the earth, um, and you get much better shot. Whereas uh the default setting on mine was called, you know, altitude azimus, I think. And it uh basically what it would do is as the earth was rotating, it would just adjust like up and down and left and right like in small increment. And it just instead of sort of a smooth action. And uh a lot of had a lot of drop shots, um, had a lot of issues like with wind, you know. Um I haven't had any like I have had barely any problem since I switched this equatorial mode that you're talking about. In fact, I set one up before we came in here, it's been going for 45 minutes now and it is a little breezy out there actually right now. Um so it's taken 280 images, and it's only dropped nine.

Speaker 2 35:28

Oh damn, that's good.

Speaker 1 35:29

Yeah, so it's it's a lot better.

Speaker 2 35:33

Yeah, those last couple pictures you sent me are just phenomenal. Well, maybe you're gonna have to start making videos or something to show how to do all that shit, so somebody like me will watch them.

Speaker 1 35:43

No. No. We'll just do what we usually do, which is I'll explain it to you. You'll ignore me, and go on YouTube and you'll find a video that's like 20 minutes, and you'll just kind of skip through it in like a minute and a half, you're like, God damn, that's not working at all. I'm like, oh shit.

Speaker 2 36:04

That's exactly the way I am. I know. I know. Or I'll wait to the last minute and go, oh shit, I never even looked at that. I guess I'll just fly by wire and see what I can come up with.

Speaker 1 36:14

Yeah, yeah, right. Uh and uh the moon's back. The moon's kind of back. Uh ten nights the first night where it's bright enough to like be, you know, causing ambient light issues. But uh pretty much since shortly after you left, like the moon was sort of gone. It was like really dark nights, so that helped a lot too.

Speaker 2 36:39

That's cool. Yeah. There well, as you know, up here in the Pacific Northwest, you get clouds and rain and clouds and rain, and then they say it's gonna be nice and clear, and no, it's not.

Speaker 1 36:50

Yeah, yeah. I was uh and it's yeah, and it's been um clear too. Um and uh last night I was doing I was doing one like and it it was going really well and had I mean it had been going for like half an hour. Um and then I checked on it and just been had been dropping like every every image for like the previous five, six, seven minutes. I'm like, what the hell? And I was sitting in the back of my truck, like on the tailgate of the X bed, just like listening to my my shows or whatever and hanging out, and I'm like, what the fuck? And I go up to check it, I'm like, oh it's cloudy now. Didn't didn't even notice so excuse me.

Speaker 2 37:38

Yeah, that usually happens, you know. Yeah, I guess. It's like what the hell?

Speaker 1 37:43

Yeah. Well, when you get back, you know, I think we'll have we'll have a lot of fun with it. Um because I have had the chance to learn some stuff and uh maybe we could build that little deck or thingy or whatever, too.

Speaker 2 37:57

Yeah, that'd be great.

Speaker 1 37:59

Yeah. All right. Well, I guess I'll stay tuned next time because the show's over.

Speaker 2 38:05

Already?

Speaker 1 38:06

Already. Yeah. Oh, Jesus. Okay. Exactly. I do it better though.

Speaker 2 38:16

I know what you do. Okay. Oh god. What? Quick little thing, Christina. When Christine and I were listening to the the previous podcast that you had sent us, you know, to to preview with Rob. She was telling our friends about the about your accent that you and Rob were using. And she's like, Oh my god, he's so good at the British accent, you'd actually think he was British. Rob? There's a kudos for you there, bud. Robert the one you were using when we were talking. Yeah. Well you're really good at that.

Speaker 1 38:50

Well, thank you. I do appreciate that.

Speaker 38:52

Uh but the humble man knows. I didn't want to brag too much, but uh nonetheless. Uh that does bring us to the end of our program, if you will.

Speaker 2 39:04

Okie doke.

Speaker 1 39:04

Let's let's cut this one off and go from there, my friends. This could be the start of a whole other thing. But yeah. All right. Catch y'all later. Have a good one.

Speaker 2 39:24

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 SetCenterLive. Uh, we'll maybe post some little stupid videos that we've done, stuff like that, as we're 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?