Back In Studio Audio Gremlins

SPEAKER_02 0:08

Hey everybody, welcome back to Set and Center, and I'm RJ. And I'm Mark. Do you hear that hum again? Yes, I do. Is that? Hold on. Oh. So it's something in the room that's changed. Okay. Off to a great start. So welcome back to the studio. I don't know. I haven't been here in a while. Yeah, well, I know. Hence the welcome back. Uh uh, it's good to be back. Yes, it's awesome to be back. Thank you. Yes. Well, you're welcome. Thank you for what letting you come back or Yeah. A little bit of both. Okay. Yeah. Um, yeah, I I for one am glad that we're not doing uh remote anymore. Um I think we we figured out a good solution to make the audio good, but it honestly was kind of a pain in the ass uh on the editing side. Yeah, I want to know. I know. I know, yeah. Uh but anyway, uh yeah, Clean Feed TM sponsors. Yeah, Clean Feed was great. Um, I just it was a lot of whatever. Um so I'm glad we're doing this again. Um I just need to Yep, okay, the soundboard's good. Yep. All right, getting back. Flash, are you back? Oh jeez. You might be. We have the door open. Uh yeah, back in the swing of things. All right, so yeah, uh we we missed a couple, I think a couple releases, like unfortunately, but uh a lot of that had to do with you know your travel and other things.

SPEAKER_01 1:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:42

So we're back on track, we're getting back on track here. Um so last we last we spoke on the pod, um you were having a great time up in Washington. Yeah, Washington, Oregon. And you were uh fixing to yes, Washington, okay. You know, yeah, Washington, Oregon, got it. Yep. Pacific Northwest. Yep. And you were fixing to, uh, you know, about two weeks from then when we talked, uh heading straight back to Texas, right? Yeah, via North Carolina now. Yeah, it happened. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we talked about the possibility of that. Uh yeah. So yeah, I guess if you're gonna drive to Texas going by way of North Carolina, that's not the most efficient route.

SPEAKER_01 2:29

Uh yeah, but there's a couple buckies that we weren't went to that weren't we'd never been to before.

SPEAKER_02 2:35

Well, that's well, i in what states? Well, yeah, what states?

SPEAKER_01 2:40

Uh got one in Mississippi, and then Jesus, what was the other one in? Was it Virginia? I think the other one might have been in Virginia or something like that.

SPEAKER_02 2:51

I didn't know they had them that far east.

SPEAKER_01 2:53

Uh, yeah, I know that one was in sure. I don't remember. It was we had to drive 20 hours straight. We went and got our uh youngest son's dog from North Carolina because he's stationed in the military. And with everything going on, we went and picked up his dog Ranger, and then we had to drive 20 hours straight home because that gave us three dogs, and no hotel will take three dogs, especially when you got a 110-pound brown lap. So yes, uh Ranger the dog.

SPEAKER_02 3:26

The dog. It's Ranger the dog. Yeah, uh Ranger the dog. Unfortunately, we are we already had a Ranger um here at the ranch, so yeah. He's uh and he was here first. Um at the ranch, at least, because Ranger's like 11. Ranger the dog's like 11, but Ranger the Kitten is not.

SPEAKER_01 3:42

No, he's just Ranger's like just here, isn't he?

SPEAKER_02 3:47

Ranger the Kitten. Ranger the Kitten. He's actually like 13 months, yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's why I said, didn't I say that? Yeah, whatever. Yeah, yeah. Whatever you want. It's your it's your yeah back to Ranger the dog. So yeah, he's a big old boy. He's big old dog. Big old boy. He's a d-dur dur. Yeah, I I haven't uh haven't spent a lot of time with him since y'all have been back. Um, because you guys have been kind of getting situated over there.

SPEAKER_03 4:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:12

Uh but I spent a couple hours with him, I think. And yeah, he's a he seems like a good little dopey guy. Yeah, he is. He's a great dog. So let's back up though. Um 20 hours drive from North Carolina to the ranch in Texas, which was the short leg of the trip, right? I mean, let's back up. We talked about that you were in Washington in Oregon.

SPEAKER_03 4:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:35

Uh so you I mean you guys uh this is a big deal. I don't I want people to understand. You you guys kind of had to drop your plans the last week and a half of your visit up there and drive from Salem, Portland, basically, all the way to pretty much the east coast. Yes, yes, we did. And the and then not 20 hours back to the ranch. Uh and how long it was like well, you guys it was a four or five-day drive out there?

SPEAKER_01 5:06

Yeah, we uh yeah, we uh pretty much three days to Kansas City, Missouri, and then our youngest one called us Nestis if we could kind of hold up. They had some stuff going on, and can't really talk about that. So we hung out in Kansas City, Missouri for three days. It was really cool. We actually went to the only World War I museum in the United States and uh toured that, had a great time doing that, and then after our three days, we uh took two more days to get uh North Carolina, stayed three days with our youngest one, uh, had a great time with him. It was it was awesome. He's got uh he's got an apartment there. We stayed there and then uh flipped a bitch, as I call it, and drove 20 hours back here to Texas.

SPEAKER_02 5:57

Yeah, and uh the the 20 the 20 hour straight shot wasn't well so of course you guys had you had Ellie and you had Maggie with you on the way to North Carolina, um, and then the two of them plus Ranger back to Texas, but you uh you did the smart thing this time and decided you know what, take take my time, take my time. We're gonna stop in hotels and stuff, and uh that was the plan too, leaving North Carolina, right? Yeah, that was the plan of stuff for the giant dog.

SPEAKER_01 6:34

Yeah, he kind of threw a that kind of threw a wrench in it. Yeah, yeah. But that's that's all good. The you know the things you do for your for your kids and your granddogs. Sure, yeah, I get it.

SPEAKER_02 6:45

It was good. Good. Uh yeah, I think I want to say you guys rolled in about 6 30 in the morning.

SPEAKER_01 6:52

Yeah, yeah, we left there at oh shit, it must have been 10 30 in the morning that we left there and just kind of rolled through. It's like a 15-hour drive, but once you stop at Bucky's and fill up a one-ton Ford a couple eight times. Yeah, a couple eight times.

SPEAKER_02 7:12

Uh-huh. Yeah. Four was it, four thousand miles you said?

SPEAKER_01 7:16

Uh four thousand miles from the time we left Salem, Oregon till we got here. That's what I meant.

SPEAKER_02 7:21

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:22

Um, good.

SPEAKER_02 7:23

Well, that's behind you. Uh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 7:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:28

And uh we were talking about too um before we came in here that well, when you drove up uh to the northwest, whether it be Washington or Oregon, we may never know. Um you uh because Christina had already flown up there, flowed, flooded, flun. I don't know. She already flew up there earlier, so you had driven by yourself uh with Maggie and Ellie. Yeah. So that was that was a long, like that was a long haul just doing that. Um but uh you did say it was uh much more it wasn't enjoyable, right? The you and Christina together making that drive all the way to North Carolina and then back to Texas. Oh, it was so much more enjoyable.

SPEAKER_01 8:08

Yeah, and I've realized I am too damn old to straight shot anymore. Yeah, there is hotels involved now. Yeah, I hear you.

The Brutal 20 Hour Drive Home

SPEAKER_02 8:18

Uh it's just it's not worth it at some point. No, yeah. Well, um, I'm glad to have you back. Uh glad to be back. Yeah, it's good to see uh and well, hadn't seen you in a month, hadn't seen Christina in like two months, I think. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you got back and immediately I was like, why don't you mow your fucking lawn? It's out of control over here. Oh god, it was just terrible. Yeah. And when I say lawn, it's like two and a half acres of just grass. Yeah, tall grass. Yeah, it was it's out of well, it's still out of control because you you started on it, but yeah, and then you're you have a little like uh Romata thing, what do you call it?

SPEAKER_01 9:04

Popper supposed all the no, the thing that fell over. Oh yeah, it's it's like a car cover. Yeah, yeah, like a 12 by 24 car cover that blew over. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:16

Uh right. Uh which it's been down for a while. Um, we've had some sort of rowdy storms. Well, did it have while you guys were gone, and uh yeah, I called you up one day and I'm like, yeah, your your thing fell down. Um, so I'm not picking that up. Nope. Nope. Yeah. Uh otherwise everything was good. Uh we had one night shortly before you guys got back where it was really rowdy in terms of like rain coming down, just fucking buckets. And uh I thought, well, I'll be a good friend and go check out your place for you from the comfort of my truck. And so I flew the drone over. Did a little aerial survey.

SPEAKER_01 9:56

Yeah, everything's good though. Yeah, it was good. I mean, I I appreciate the the drone flyover and and the video. I mean it hey, my my covers for my my uh god, what are those called? They're they're kind of like the the vents. The vents, yeah. Yeah on the little trailer they they held, which is actually a tote on one, and then the cover for the tote on the other that I have big flat rocks on. Big flat rocks, well put. Um stolen, stolen big flat rocks, borrowed on a long-term basis, is what my father taught me when he worked construction.

SPEAKER_02 10:31

Stolen like a dirty thief. Yeah, and you laughed at me when I've got all those big flat rocks. And uh so far, um we've put in a uh traversable rock road. Yes, some short one. Uh uh saved your trailer from the rain. Yes. Um, and on a sadder note, use them for some nice little headstones for uh uh little Charlie, sweet dolly. Yep. So don't ever laugh at my big flat plans again. True, yeah. True. Uh so uh speaking of flyovers, um you know we flew to the moon. Like you were gone. Did you catch that? Oh, we flew around the moon. Not me. Like we, us. Yeah. I said to the moon.

SPEAKER_01 11:26

Yeah, we flew around it. Don't you have to go to it before you can go around it? Well, when you say fly to, that means you went there. You went around it. Again. No.

SPEAKER_02 11:39

You can answer my question. Don't you have to fly to it before you can go fly around it? Yes. There you go. Um, yeah. So and it's so it's so weird because like you know, I feel like there wasn't, at least leading up to it, there just wasn't a lot of coverage and whatever. Like, you almost didn't even know what was happening. Um now granted, well, you know, after it launched and flew around the moon and shit, you know, after going there, uh it got more coverage. And it was really cool though. Like I, you know, kind of got the the tingles or whatever that old folks back in the 60s probably got when they saw this shit with the Apollo program.

SPEAKER_01 12:23

Yeah, but that was fake.

SPEAKER_02 12:31

Uh-huh. I'm checking the classifieds.

SPEAKER_01 12:36

Podcast. Uh yeah, I know that you know well, you know, they always said that the moon was made of cheese, and then we got there and figured out it wasn't, and then we haven't been back until now. Right. Yeah. Oh, well, we didn't go back, we f we went around it.

SPEAKER_02 12:51

Oh, well. Yeah. Yeah. Just to be clear. Um and you're probably one of those people who's like was asking like when it launched and stuff and was flying out there. Like, why can't they just fly straight to it? Were you one of those people? No, I wasn't. Okay, good.

SPEAKER_01 13:10

No. That's kind of mean, huh? No, uh-uh. I I realized that you gotta go around stuff to get the you don't go. Well, you gotta you gotta be able to get the the momentum to get to there and around there.

Storm Damage Drone Checks And Rock Plans

SPEAKER_02 13:21

Uh well, kind of. Um the other thing is you can't like just you know, point at the moon and go that direction. You have to fly to where the moon's going to be when you get there. Look, I'm not a rocket scientist. Uh that's where you jump in and say, but yeah, you are. Yeah, I was gonna say, yeah, yes, you are. Okay, thank you. Jesus Christ. It doesn't work as well when I have to do it myself. Um Okay. Yeah. Uh just that little that little uh frame thing right to the right of your little area over there. That that institution, the university there. They they have certified that I'm a rocket scientist. However, that being said, um I really don't know how space works. No. Oh no, the thing is that you have to like fly like because the earth is moving and the moon is moving, right. All at the same time. It's you have to fly to where the moon's gonna be, you know.

SPEAKER_01 14:20

Okay, never mind. No, it's it's like when you fly to Mars, you have to you have to fly to where it's gonna be. That's why. Yeah. No, I I know exactly what you're talking about because I watch YouTube. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_02 14:36

I win. You just like, all right. That was the wor Okay. Um damn it. I win. Yeah, no, you don't. Um, but so glad to have you back.

SPEAKER_01 14:49

Uh it's wonderful to be back. It is so fun to be looking at these monitors again instead of you. Oh, thank you. Yes. Yes, thank you.

SPEAKER_02 14:59

Oh, the back of the monitors. The back of the monitors. Yep. I mean, you have your own monitors over there, but you don't you don't care to use the computer. You like to use your phone. Because it's locked. Okay. I mean, that's a fair point. I haven't I guess I kind of forgot about that.

SPEAKER_01 15:16

Uh yeah, it is locked. Um my phone's out on the out on the porch with my smokes. All I got to play with is the colorful lights on my microphone. Oh, wait, you forgot your phone?

SPEAKER_02 15:26

Yeah. Oh boy. Well, just uh I'm gonna I I got you, bud. So if at any point you need me to look up a word for you, just let me know. Yeah, not a problem. Absolutely. Yeah. Um, great. So oh god. Fuck. Uh all well, it's great to see uh all the dogs when you got back. Um I was really excited to see Ellie and Maggie. Maggie looks like she's feeling a lot better than she was, you know, like I don't know, a month ago. Yeah, yeah, she's she's doing so much better. It's it's so funny with her. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Um, but yeah, and you you got to see all your friends. Um, yes. Can I can I and little well uh Buckley? Thank you. His little buddy. Yeah, well, yeah, Buckley, little puppers, uh, who thinks Canai's a daddy.

SPEAKER_01 16:20

Yes, he follows him. It is so great every morning when he gets up, go out and sit in my chair outside, and here comes Kanai out from underneath the fifth wheel, and here comes the pup. Won't let you touch him, but there's the pup.

SPEAKER_02 16:32

Yep, yep. Just like uh not even really like Canai will you know run or trot. A puppy he's sort of he he bounds. Yes. He's saying, wait up, dad, wait up, but the grass at your place is so tall. Like sometimes he's running through the grass and you just see him like top of his head as he's bouncing.

unknown 16:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:53

Sometimes you don't even see him. It's like Ellie goes out there and all you can see is just the the her tail because it curls. All you can see is the white from her tail. Yeah, you see you see Canai bounce, and then all of a sudden you see the grass moving, and there's Buckley.

SPEAKER_02 17:09

Yeah, yeah, that's one thing I've learned. I don't I don't really worry too much about where old Buckley is because pretty sure he's always behind Kanai.

SPEAKER_01 17:19

Yeah, I and I can't believe how freaking tall Hartley's gotten. Oh god, he's huge. Oh my god, he stands taller than the grass at my place. Yeah. Holy shit. Yeah, and long. Yeah.

Why The Moon Flyby Felt Big

SPEAKER_02 17:31

Like standing uh standing like next to like say Bailey. Um God, he's pro I mean, he's probably a foot longer than her. About, yeah. He's quite a bit taller. I don't think well, you tell me, I I think he's about the same height as Canai. Um, or do you think he's taller? Uh you know, I honest I think he's at at least as tall, but yeah, I think he's yeah. I would say about the same, but he's definitely uh longer. Yes. And I think Canai probably still weighs more than Hartley. I would think so. Yeah. Like he is the I I I say he's the only dog or uh seen that has butt cheeks. Like, you know, his thighs are just he's like he's not fat, he's chon, he's all muscle, and he's just like thick. He's a husky. Um and Hartley's a lot leaner. Yes. So I think Hartley, it may be close. I think Kenneth probably weighs a little more still, but Hartley's definitely bigger than Kennai. Yes, definitely. Yeah, he's a big boy. Oh my god. And do you see do you catch the fucking clod stompers on Junior or Buckley, his front paws? Yeah, he's holy crap. Wait till that little shit really starts growing. Holy crap. Yeah. And the difference, the crude between his front paws and his back paws, his front paws are like three times as big a round. I haven't even noticed that. I'm like, oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 19:03

So uh when are we gonna start waging bets on what the next dog's gonna look like? Fuck you.

SPEAKER_02 19:09

Go back to Oregon or andor Washington. Andor Washington. Oh god, yeah, it's the next dog. Ugh.

SPEAKER_03 19:17

Uh yeah.

Dog Updates And The Food Bill

SPEAKER_02 19:18

And well, the last two have just shown up, which yeah, like you know, when Hartley did it, it was like, wow, you know, this you know, been here four years or whatever, and like a dog has never like just shown up here. Uh well, I guess that's the thing now. Yeah. Here I am. Here I am. Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, how about this? Um, speaking of them being here, I uh I because I mean it's a lot of food now, like Buckley's and Buckley's still scrawny as shit. Yeah. He eats a lot more than you would think he does for skinny as is, but um, I the other day I I was like filling all the cups, you know, to go feed everybody, and I'm like, I just wonder because I'm feels like I'm blowing through these fucking bags pretty quick. And so I got my uh little food scale, whatever, and you know, I weighed like a one of cups of food, and then I did the math. Do you want to guess like how many pounds of food, dog food? Forget the cats for now. How many pounds of dog food I'm going through a day? What's your guess? Uh probably about eight pounds. Fuck you, that's exactly right. No shit. How'd you know? Fuck, I don't know. God damn it. You you really you really fuck up the reveal. I mean it's actually yeah, 8.25 roughly. But fucking, yeah, eight pounds a day. Holy crap. Which I don't know, I don't do math, but on a monthly basis, that's a lot. Um but you 240 some pounds a day. Did you do that in your head? Yes. All right. On a 30-day average. Okay, whatever. I don't believe you. No, it's about 240. I didn't do the 2.5. No, no, it's 240 pounds a month, roughly. Okay, okay. Yeah, I don't what'd you say?

SPEAKER_01 21:11

I'm not saying.

SPEAKER_02 21:12

Okay. Um, but yeah, so 240 pounds, and the biggest bags, the biggest bags they have, because it's tractor supply food, right? Are 45 pounds, right? Yeah. So it's uh let's call it five and a half. Five and a half. Basically, it's a it's a bag and a quarter of the biggest bags they have every week. Oh, jeez.

SPEAKER_01 21:35

Oh well, you know how come Buckley eats so much? Or how come he's always thin? It's cause his legs are so little and he has to keep up with can I'm telling you, like I little bastards going, slow down, bitch, slow down.

SPEAKER_02 21:49

He is like I sometimes sometimes I feel bad for him. Like, but then also I'm like, you make your choices. But well, today it was gross hot. Like humid, like stifling. And I was in the I was in the kitchen. My kitchen, like the window there, it it looks out over uh the back part of part of my property where the ponds are. There's like this, which if you go further, that then you get to your property. Yep. And then there's this slope up from the ponds, up to the house. And like I saw can I kind of trotting up the thing. And I didn't see Junior. I'm like, uh, he's he'll be along. And then he kind of comes around out from around the the trees, and he's like just like trying bounding up the hill. I'm just like, you poor little guy. Because he's probably gotta make four strides for every one can eye stride. Yeah. And he's you know, and he's tiny. I mean, he doesn't have much reserve. But yeah, I'm like, dude. I think the one saving grace, hopefully, um, as it gets warmer, is that since Canai's a husky, he he gets hot really easily. Um, and so he's he'll tend more as it stays as it gets warmer, he'll tend more to just like you know, crash under the deck and hang out instead of exploring and stuff unless until it gets cooler at night. But yeah, uh otherwise he's gonna kill that poor little dog.

SPEAKER_01 23:21

I don't know. Uh so the other day Christine and I were sitting out there, here comes Canai and Lucky, Hartley and Buckley, and all three of them had been or all four of them had been swimming in the pond. Oh god. They were all four soaking wet. Wait, you only mentioned three dogs. No, can I? Yes, Hartley, yes, Lucky, that's three, and Buckley. Buckley had went to swimming. Can I? Can I? Hartley.

SPEAKER_02 23:50

Lucky. Oh, lucky. And Buckley. See, I didn't I didn't catch that because the fuck did you not get that? I'll tell you exactly why, because uh I just I omitted it because no no no, there's a reason because Lucky doesn't swim in the pond. Like he he'll wade in to get water and stuff, yeah. But anyway, yeah, so which is great, right? I'm like, thank thank you, you know, because you won't use the fucking dog Hilton that I spent a lot of time, money, whatever, air conditioning. And it's like, so don't you know, don't I always get so irritated with them. I'm like, sit here on the deck. Oh god, we're dying, it's so hot. It's 68 fucking degrees in your house, go in your house. Or you got a pond, go swimming. So I'm glad they're using well. I'm glad he's teaching Junior to like to use the pond and stuff. Yeah. I wonder if I wonder if he was actually swimming in there.

SPEAKER_01 24:46

That would be so cute. Yeah, it would have been, yeah. Maybe uh camera should be set up to out towards the pond to see. Okay. Uh all right.

SPEAKER_02 24:55

Okay. You got an extra camera or I might have. You mean toward the pond? Well, at the pond. Wait. Oh. Yeah, okay, whatever. I think I have an extra one. There's no power down there though. Um You could set it on on the back of the deck there and point it down towards the pond. Well, I do have one on the back of the deck, but it's I mean it's far.

unknown 25:21

Yeah.

Pond Swimming Camera Ideas And Heat

Hartley’s Crate Diarrhea Catastrophe

SPEAKER_02 25:21

That's what, like 300 feet probably to the pond? Sure. Okay. So 100 yards. Whatever. That's the same thing. You're not gonna trick me on. Let me tell you about a shitty situation with Harley though. Okay. The other day, um, because you know he's uh he's I guess arguably the biggest the biggest dog here at well, Ranger the dog is probably yeah, I don't know. Yeah. But anyway, Harley's big. But he fancies himself uh more of an inside dog. Um like we talked about before. And honestly, like I'm okay with it for the most part, because he's really good in the house. He he's always clean. He you know, he's not out digging up armadillos and shit like Cali or hunting squirrels and shit like Canai or whatever. I'm like, so I'm I'm mostly fine with it. So he likes to be outside most of the day and play with the other dogs and do shit. And then he'll come in and you know, he'll sleep in his crate overnight. Uh, you know, all of this, I'm just sort of for the listeners, you know. Yep, yep. Um and so and he's also he's really good about, you know, like if I want to sleep in every now and then, parentheses every day. Um just being patient, you know, like with the potty, and he'll whine, so I'm like, Yeah, I gotta go. And I'm like, shut up, daddy, sleeping. Okay, I'll just leave here. He's always been really good about that. And the other day, dude, I like I'd slept in and I hear him, and he's kind of like whining, but like a different kind of whine. Usually if he wants something, like if he wants out to go potty, he'd be like, like a baby. This is more like something was wrong. So I get up and I go in the living room, and immediately I can tell he's shitting in his crate.

SPEAKER_01 27:21

Oh crap.

SPEAKER_02 27:23

Which, you know, dog something's gotta be really wrong for a dog to do that. Yep. And I'm like, oh my god, what are you doing? And I go over there, dude. Here's what happened. He he ate something, got something, I don't know, but he had the run. He had diarrhea, like fierce. So I get over there and he's hunched over and it's coming out, and I when I get over the crate before I even open, I can tell that it's like all over the blankets that are in there. Like all over the thing, and as I'm on this is the worst fucking part. As I'm unlatching the gate or the door to let him out, I notice that, well, this this was apparently some projectile shit. I'm not fucking shitting, dude. Outside of the crate uh this huge puddle of shit, diarrhea shit, that was like uh a foot and a half outside the crate. Oh damn, and just uh, you know, six inches is huge fucking. I'm like, oh my god. And I'm just like, oh took him outside, took Al Klee and Finley outside. I'm like, oh my god, oh this is one of those I hate every choice I've made in my life that's led up to this, right? Moments, I'm like, oh it was so fucking disgusting. And then the smell hits, right? Because you hear the whining, you get oh, oh, what's going on? And you just get them outside, and then the smell hits, like, oh god. Oh damn, and so I'm like, fuck. I didn't even try to save those blankets, but no, got a husky bag, went in there with my gloves, put it in there, tied it off, took it outside, took the crate, didn't even try to clean it up in there. I took it outside, fucking power washed some bitch right out back. And then I had to deal with the real problem. The carpet? Yes, oh damn, oh god, it was awful. And so, like, and I don't want to be gross here, I really don't like talking about shit, but I mean I had nitrile gloves on, and you know, like if there's a little poop on the carpet, you get a paper towel and kind of grab it, whatever. Yep. I had gloves on. I was scooping handfuls of this stuff up into the carpet. That was there's so much. Oh, and then I'm like, okay, I got that. Uh and then it's like an hour, two hours of like real intense spot cleaning the carpet, you know. Like crying a little bit. I'm just like, God, this is so fucking gross, so fucking horrible. And uh then, you know, then I go back outside. He's like, Oh, hungry. Can I breakfast? I'm like, you gotta fuck yourself. So I'm just like, oh, nice way to wake up, huh?

SPEAKER_01 30:25

Uh I'm just thinking, good thing your robot carpet cleaner didn't go out.

SPEAKER_02 30:30

Well, that's I've seen when that happened. I've seen that book too. Well, I guess I'm gonna I'm gonna uh credit Rob for that one because I don't want to necessarily point fingers or anything, but I'll say this. You I well you remember when I got that. Well now it's whatever. I got it, it worked great. Like vacuumed the whole house. Um and uh ever since the first time he came here with his kids, uh it uh hasn't really worked. Couldn't couldn't keep up with all that.

SPEAKER_01 31:04

Did it try sucking up water in the bathroom?

SPEAKER_02 31:06

No, it like oh Robbie, oh Robbie. Uh the no, this was the uh when they came last March when I went to Denver. Oh, okay, yeah. Yeah, it just like and there I don't as far as I know, there was no flood in the bathroom that trip. Um but yeah, it just like because you know, kids, you know, popcorn kernels everywhere, this, that, the other, blah, blah, blah.

SPEAKER_03 31:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:35

And uh I get back, and I was telling Rob before I left, I'm like, he's like, what's this? I'm like, oh, it's the robot vacuum does a great job. He kind of looks around. He's like, Yeah, I mean, did you vacuum before? I'm like, nope, I didn't. The robot robot does all this. He's like, Oh, that's cool. He gets back, he's like, That thing's a fucking piece of shit. He said he kept getting stuck, kept getting clogged, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, and I didn't even, I didn't realize it till after he left, and I could never get it working right again. I'm like, it wasn't the robot, it was your children.

SPEAKER_01 32:02

How come I'm picturing Kai sitting on top of it with the cowboy rowing shit in front of me? Suck that up, bitch.

SPEAKER_02 32:14

Exactly. That'd be so so fun. I I mean, yeah, something like that. I remember. Yeah. Oh god. Yeah, so I get back to the point. Um so so since not that not that Rob or anybody in his family broke my robot vacuum, but since my robot vacuum hasn't worked since he was here with his kids, luckily it did not drive through the giant pile of Harley shit. There you go. Yes. So thanks Rob. Yeah, thanks, Rob. Yeah, so fucking Rob. Fucking Rob. Yeah, so uh and I'm like now back to the diarrhea. So one thing's about Harley, um, cause you uh well no, you guys were well the first like couple weeks I had him, like when he first showed up, and it was a little puppy, of course, um, he had the runs like real bad. And like I was getting worried. I'm like, is this ever gonna fucking stop? Um and eventually it did, but the number of the number of times I was out with that little puppy in a flashlight, uh pointed at his butthole at night, being like, is your poop good yet? Is your poop good? But and so he did have the runs for quite a while when he was little. Um, but this obviously was a whole other thing, because he could not keep it in, and oh god. So that of course I'm worried. I'm like, well, shit. And so he stayed outside for two nights. Oh shit. So I'm like, uh, dad's not taking that crate back in until he power washes it again and lets it sit in the fucking sun and whatever. And I'm like, maybe this is just where yeah, maybe he's just outside now, right? Like this is the transition. Uh and then I think it was today or yesterday, like it's it's really hot out here, dad. Can I go in and play with my analog toy? I'm like, yeah, you can't. Well, I did make sure his his shit was you know that solid. Yes. Yeah, yeah. I'm now realizing I've spent a not insignificant portion of my life analyzing this dog's shit. What was that sound? Uh that you no, I would say that's a cat. What was it? That's like something slamming at the door? I would say yes. Okay. Damn it. Hold on. Okay. Probably. I can't see anything, so I don't know. Uh yes. Well, if they're not in here, they're gonna make sure that you know they're not in here. Yep, that's for sure. Yeah, so that was my Hartley shit story. That's a shit. Yeah. Um god, same day. All right. And there are days where I'm just like, and again, I shouldn't say certain things. Um uh as a guy who runs a dog rescue and decided to run a dog rescue, but I'm just gonna say it. Some dogs I some days I fucking hate dogs, Mark. I just fucking can't stand them.

SPEAKER_01 35:27

I get that.

Lucky Vs The Scary Food Bowl

SPEAKER_02 35:28

So on the same the same day. Now, for the listeners out, uh for the big dogs outside, I have uh I have bowls set up and they're on posts out on the side of the house. It's like a carport type thing. And so the it's a metal bowl that's up off the ground about a foot. Um, and there's like five of them. So I go out there and feed all the big dogs, put the food in, boop, boo boo. The other day. Lucky. Special little lucky. He you know the little little tag, because they all have the red tags on their collars, and it's got like a that's like a keychain ring rank that holds it on. Yep. Alright. So he he must have got his tags snared in something, because I found his tag on the deck the day before. I'm like, oh, whose tag is this? And I just said it on the rail. I'm like, I don't know, I don't care to find out. But what had happened is that key ring thing had gotten like unfurled kinda, so it was kind of like all pokey and shit. So here's what happened. Here's let me let me bring it up to speed on another aspect of my life here last few days. Lucky when he was eating the little ring thingy caught on his bowl, and so he thought it was stuck to him, like some sort of dog killing alien or something, and he got all fucking freaked out, and the bowl went flying. So it's like four days ago, Mark. Don't eat out of the bowl. He's scared of the fucking food bowl, Mark. I'm just like, I go out there, uh, so I'm out there, and I the only way he'll eat is if I'll put I grab handfuls of it and hold it for him. Or take handfuls and yeah, oh sorry, yeah. It's you know, it is one of those things where I feel bad for him, but I'm like, come fucking on, dude. I mean, come on. Dad, the big bull babies. Uh-huh. And so and feeding has already been a thing since uh Buckley came around because um I usually I I go out, well, you know, you've been here and you fed them and stuff. Yeah. Go out, put the food down, everything's fine. Um, now I have to be out there with them because you know, the big dogs, and they're they've kind of stopped doing it, but they have been like, oh, I'm done with mine, I'll go steal the puppy's food. Yep. So I have to stay out there anyway. And so now I'm out there like, okay, Buckley, okay, you're uh you're lucky, here's a handful of food. And then then I can kind of I'll kind of guide my hand down to the bowl and it'll start eating out of it. I'm like, okay, great. And I'll walk away and you just turn around and you're just looking at me. He's like standing three feet away from the bowl, just looking at me like so. This is my life.

SPEAKER_01 38:30

Uh maybe he needs a plastic bowl, so it's something different.

SPEAKER_02 38:33

I yeah, well, I hadn't thought about that. I thought about changing actually, I had thought about that, I just hadn't done it. Um, I did you get one of those like ceramic bowls that the little dogs have.

SPEAKER_01 38:46

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 38:47

Um, which you like as soon as I put it, well, I brought it out and he saw it, I'm like, he's like, oh, new bowl. Like this won't like be clingy and clinkity. I can eat out of this. And so I set it down and then I I I guess I guess just slightly a little bit too much because it made a little tiny when it hit the concrete, he's like, ooh. My god dang it. For those of you new to Lucky, we're talking about a 60-pound pit bull lab mix who is officially scared of a bull. And in so being scared, ruining my life.

SPEAKER_01 39:33

He's had a hard life. You gotta give him a little bit of you know what?

SPEAKER_02 39:36

Okay, I'm yeah, right? So that's part of my thing. I'm like, dude. This you got hit by a truck, and then another truck. Yeah. You got abandoned by your bitch mother, you were almost killed, euthanized before, you know, you were rescued and sanit. You lost your fucking tail, you broke two shoulders, spines fractured, all this stuff when you got hit by the first truck. And so I think I feel like he should be a little more resilient. Nah. You know, I'll say this. If he would have been as scared of trucks after getting hit by the first truck, he would have never got hit by the second truck if he would have treated it like his fear of the bull. Yeah. So where was that luck?

SPEAKER_01 40:22

It's like tonight when I came in. He's like, Oh, somebody's coming down the road. Let's go run. It's like, oh shit, he's just gonna open the gate.

Wrap Up Socials And Outro

SPEAKER_02 40:31

Yeah. It's been uh real blast. Oh god. Just it's so annoying. I'm like, God dang it. Oh, the fun of the fun of living on the ranch with Lucky. I am gonna I'm gonna do the plastic bowl thing. I'm gonna make a note actually. Because I'll try that tomorrow. I'll set one out tonight so I don't forget. Yeah. Hopefully that'll solve the problem. That might solve the problem. Well, I have another problem we can solve right now. What's that? This show, because it's over. Already? Already. Damn. I know. It seems to go so much quicker when I'm here in the studio with you. Uh yeah, it does. It does for sure. Um, so uh it's unfortunate that you're back. Um, but no, in all seriousness, I'm glad you're back. Welcome back. I'm glad to be back, thank you. Yep. And uh, you know, to our listeners, um sorry we missed a couple, but we're back on track. Oh barring a diarrhea explosion or a dog destroying fucking food bowl uh derails my schedule, whatever. But we're back. Uh yes, we are, and we all we appreciate y'all listening. So we definitely do. I yeah, I mean, you kinda undercut me when I mean you have to have the last word while you do, because that's the thing when we sign off. Uh we should switch that. Why? So I get the last word on everybody. Okay, go ahead. I'm done. I don't want to fucking do it. No, I'm done. You're not done. You have to do your thing. You know, whatever. Catch y'all later. Have a good one. See, like I just said. No, like that can't be the we gotta do it again. Sorry, I fucked it up. Catch y'all later. Have a good one.

SPEAKER_01 42:19

Hey, it's Mark here at Set and Centered. Uh I 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 and stuff like that, as we're gonna keep on going. And also, we've talked a lot about the animals here on the ranch, and we'll post pictures of them. We'll see how it goes. Let us know how we're going.

SPEAKER_00 44:00

We just made. Yeah, we said and centered, but the world's off track. If it's broke, it's us. But you can count on that. Break time, yell it all unwind. Thousand dogs judging with that thousand-yard mind. Project list is long, but we'll get there soon. That's a lie, but it's a good tone. We said it's in a kind of sorta, maybe. Held together by stubborn and a little crazy. You're still listening, you want to pack now. Back to the chaos. Here we go.