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Battered by Butter Prices and Clambake Calamities: Exploring Cultural and Healthcare Dynamics

• James Tucker & Santiago Lopez • Season 2 • Episode 45

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Can butter really make you break the bank? We kick off our latest escapade with a hearty laugh over the wild inflation of grocery prices, butter being the star of our comedic grievance. While preparing for a clambake, we recount a tale of workplace bravado gone awry involving a skidster incident. It’s a blend of humor and humility, underscoring the freedom and responsibility that comes with any job, while reminding us all of the importance of workplace safety—even if it means wearing your seatbelt next time.

From clams to calamities, we pivot towards serious topics like government responses to natural disasters. With a nod to historical events like Hurricane Katrina, our conversation touches on FEMA, government funding challenges, and even conspiracy theories involving quartz and batteries. We express our frustrations over resource allocation and question government priorities, all while exploring the cultural rebirth and resilience of communities like those in Louisiana post-Katrina. Personal experiences in places like New Orleans offer a glimpse into how diversity enriches community evolution.

Our journey doesn't end there. We explore the dynamic interplay between cultural diversity and healthcare, reflecting on the impact of diverse communities while voicing frustrations with an increasingly impersonal healthcare system. As we contemplate the changing face of traditional greetings and the growing interest in spirituality among younger generations, we share anecdotes of faith, family, and the quintessential American community spirit. All these experiences and plans culminate in our ambitions of taking the podcast on the road, complete with a trailer conversion and dreams of seafood extravaganzas. Join us for a rollercoaster dialogue that balances light-hearted banter with heartfelt reflections, technical hiccups, and a bit of Browns fandom thrown in for good measure.

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Speaker 1:

We're number one. Jimmy, you've been a cheap ass. You know I'm like damn. You heard it here first.

Speaker 2:

Right, right right.

Speaker 1:

Right, we're the best you know. They say people that cuss are more honest, so I'm an honest motherfucker. Put the fish away, reggie. It don't even hurt to give birth anymore, not for me. Nothing to it, okay.

Speaker 2:

Let's do it. Come on, I'm ready, ready, I'm ready, I want to do it.

Speaker 1:

I wear a phone I got one on right.

Speaker 2:

Now he wants to give me a geek man. House bar talks, baby man, this is a bunch of shit, if you ask me. Morning, morning, morning, jimmy, here, guido, here, clam Bakes. Here you excited you coming to get clams. I don't know what time is it, one o'clock during the Browns game. Probably that's a big. That's like probably one of our biggest events we do here is the clamping, Mostly because Joe's amazing most of the time the way he puts it on.

Speaker 2:

He does it right. Man Joe knows how to put on a clamping. You know that them clams are so good they're big clams. You know that some clams are so good they're big clams, you know. And then amanda said last year the big up was instead of using our unsalted butter that we keep here. You know, she said I bought the whipped salted butter to melt down. So I'm like I'm like, oh okay, so I stopped to go. Don't go grab some salted butter, you know. And she said I wonder how much it is it's? You know, it was like 24 last year and I'm like, okay, I mean butter hasn't gone up. Really, you know, I get there 32 for the tub of butter. A tub of butter $32.

Speaker 2:

Great For a tub of butter and some salt.

Speaker 3:

Whipped up real nice.

Speaker 2:

That's what caused it. That's what caused it was the salt. That's what made it happen. I couldn't believe it. Unbelievable, yeah, she told me. She she's like I wonder how much. And then you know they keep saying, oh, groceries are up 20, what are they talking about last week? They keep saying that's like dude, they're way more high, way higher than that, way high. Yeah, it's astronomical. Groceries are like next level and they keep saying 24% or 20. It's like bullshit, dude. Yeah, I've seen that Everything I see is like 40, 50% higher. Everything and I mean I buy food every week. That food bill is 60% higher, probably with the items we buy, I don't know. So how'd your week go? Not too good. Why is that? Just got hurt at work a little bit. Whose fault? Your fault, absolutely. What'd you do? I was on a skidster.

Speaker 1:

Just flying across the parking lot, hit a crack and then stopped. It Fucked my ribs up.

Speaker 2:

Really Like what the seatbelt dig into you, or something.

Speaker 1:

I didn't have a seatbelt on.

Speaker 2:

Oh, that is your fault. That's what I said. Yeah, that seatbelt would have made all the difference in the world, huh.

Speaker 1:

Probably.

Speaker 2:

So how does that work then? Do you get in trouble for not wearing your seat belt while you're at work? I mean, you kind of should, right trouble with a grown-ass man.

Speaker 1:

What are you gonna do to me?

Speaker 2:

I'd write you up. I don't know. There's safety issues and safety concerns at every company. Yeah, and when we have an unsafe person like yourself working, we have to.

Speaker 1:

No see, here's what it is you're getting it wrong?

Speaker 2:

no, no, you said it okay. I'm just going by what you said.

Speaker 1:

I don't even know what to do if a person's working some you know doing something, something's gonna happen eventually. You just sit there, ain't nothing gonna happen. Well, I mean, if I can just sit there if he's doing it unsafely sure well, you ain't made a claim of workman's comp in your whole damn life. What the hell? It's going to happen sometime.

Speaker 2:

They don't write you up for that. No, I think you should get written up.

Speaker 1:

Well, go tell them that I don't know what the fuck.

Speaker 2:

Mac, you should write them up for not wearing a seatbelt while running a skidster. Where were you at in the lot there the cracks are big.

Speaker 1:

Why don't you, why don't they pour some concrete in the crack? Well, it's not that, it's just you know. I don't know, can't explain it. You have to see it.

Speaker 2:

It's just a seat belt thing really no, I should have had it.

Speaker 1:

It was a. It's a brush, it's a box and it's got a brush on the end of it. Oh, like you're cleaning it, sweeping it. Yeah, sweeping the parking lot, and then the brush is here and it's set down a little bit, and then the bucket it spins it into the bucket. So the bucket was too low and it kind of cracked.

Speaker 2:

But I was at full speed. He's a boot, so you were working doubly unsafe. You're going full speed with no seat belt. It's not unsafe to drive it fast no, it is, if there's a cracks around and you don't have a seat belt on.

Speaker 1:

You got the bucket. There's a combination there.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, anyways, it happened so it sweeps it up and puts it in the bucket then, and then you just go dump the bucket. Yeah, that's pretty sweet. Yeah, that's pretty nice.

Speaker 1:

And then that was it, that was it. Huh yeah, two days off.

Speaker 2:

Punishment.

Speaker 1:

No. No it wasn't punishment, I got cooped by ribs.

Speaker 2:

Oh man, that place. I want a job there. Let you do whatever you want there what the hell, are you talking? About I mean you're the one working on save, I guess. Yeah, I mean you. It was your words and I, I just went.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I went and worked on safe. No, something happened. It happened.

Speaker 2:

You don't expect all that seatbelts the law in ohio, but not, no fucking skidster. It should be. It might be in the osha laws, it could be. I would bet money. It is actually I don't care.

Speaker 1:

Either way it happened yeah, safety.

Speaker 2:

See, they have things that are unsafe. My question is when you had like no seatbelt and all that, did you have a Hypervis shirt on Mm-hmm? I did, I did Safety glasses. I didn't have safety glasses. Personal PPE Hard hat, yeah, hard hat PPE. I didn't have that either. Well, you don't need a hard hat in a skid steer. Why?

Speaker 1:

would you? You're like in closed right? Yeah, I should have had it on, though no, I'm just kidding.

Speaker 2:

I mean you. I mean you're in closed. Why would you? I don't know, that doesn't wouldn't make sense to me.

Speaker 1:

I don't know. And then you know how antsy I am. I can't sit at home. I'm like trying to do something and I'm like, what do I do? I just buffed out my truck like, like, what the hell? Sitting out there that didn't hurt your ribs like trying to buff out a truck. Yeah, I go to the hospital and oh, no, no, like standing straight up I feel fine. Oh, really, sitting down I feel fine, but if I move a certain way it just takes your breath away.

Speaker 3:

Oh.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, when my ribs were messed up, I couldn't Like. Laying down was horrible.

Speaker 1:

That's bad Going to sleep. You got to find that spot and then you're fucking.

Speaker 2:

I was squeezing a pillow into my side. That's how I had to do it when I yeah.

Speaker 1:

I turned on my left.

Speaker 3:

It's horrible I turned on my right.

Speaker 1:

I was like all right.

Speaker 2:

And yesterday I took some NyQuil so I could sleep better. Do you feel groggy this morning?

Speaker 1:

I feel tired yeah.

Speaker 2:

I hate that. That's what NyQuil does to you. Amanda did that a couple days ago and maybe three days ago she tried it and she's like I ain't never doing that again. That's horrible.

Speaker 3:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

She woke up and was like I feel as tired as I was last night.

Speaker 1:

now, but I need a good night's sleep.

Speaker 2:

But anyways what else is going on. But is that a good night's sleep? Because isn't that like drinking alcohol? Like you get that, like what do they call it? Rem sleep or whatever? You don't get the REM sleep.

Speaker 1:

I don't know, but I slept good. I didn't get up in the middle of the night, oh well.

Speaker 2:

Usually I get tired in the morning, or just if you slept through the night, I don't know, my body feels better. Well then, you're good. That's all that matters. Your body got the rest it needed. Yeah, I guess the uh. Did you see the? Uh? The femo they were. They were asking that lady at the white house. Did you see that yet? So they're asking this lady at the what? The wife or what? Is she the press secretary or whatever? That? The black lady that comes out all the time. She's got the worst job. Oh my god. Yeah, she's gotta hate life, but she's hanging in there. I gotta give her credit she's. I mean, she's hanging in there. Remember that other one which kind of threw her hands up and quit or something. Oh yeah, she's like being a broadcaster for the browns.

Speaker 3:

You know what I mean oh, that's too much.

Speaker 2:

Anyways, I got this, I got this uh recording of her that I wanted to show, um, because she, you know that the whole thing with this FEMA thing that's going on. Well, it's aggravating because if you remember, katrina, how they went after Bush, like he didn't go in there and help fast enough, remember they kept saying that and it's like they're not doing anything for these people and it's, I mean, almost as bad. It's not as bad, but it's pretty damn close, and it's not as bad, but it's pretty damn close, and it's a larger area by far and in fact they're stopping shipments from going through. I've seen it. It's weird.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, they're like, yeah, it's, I don't understand it, I don't get it well, they're saying that there's some kind of quartz in the ground that they're trying to pretty much muscle over, or something I don't know, I don't know, did that what you?

Speaker 2:

this is something different. I don't know what. That is what you're talking.

Speaker 1:

They're saying that that's what, like them, them cars need, or something where they they make the batteries out of the ports. That's in the ground over there, I don't know oh, really, that's what they're saying.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, like they're, they're trying to protect it.

Speaker 1:

It or trying to get rid of the people so they can get the land.

Speaker 2:

Oh, so they can mine it. Yep, really, you didn't hear that? No, I didn't hear that. No, that's freaking crazy. That's nuts. So we can have more batteries.

Speaker 4:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

They said Elon Musk was having trouble because he wants to bring in Starlink communications. He's like I got it, we could do this right now, but their government's stopping them from doing it. They said. Then they're saying FEMA doesn't have enough money to handle one more, like if there's another hurricane, fema is out of money. There's no money. It's like we send money to Ukraine, all these illegals.

Speaker 3:

We ain't got no money.

Speaker 1:

We ain't got no money.

Speaker 2:

We ain't got no money Right. So then a reporter asked her you know, and I got the clip right here. I'll go ahead and just play it right now. I'll just go ahead and play it right here, so you can hear it yourself.

Speaker 5:

It's just categorically false. No Biden did not take FEMA relief money to use on migrants. So FEMA regional administrators have been meeting with city officials on site to coordinate, to coordinate available federal support from FEMA and other federal agencies. Funding is also available through FEMA's emergency food and shelter program to eligible local governments and not for non for profit organizations upon request to support humanitarian relief for migrants so what you just heard there was in the beginning was heard.

Speaker 2:

Yet, like yesterday I think, said fema was never used for support. And then the other clip is 2022, like while she's plotting it out the whole thing, like how they're're going to get FEMA money to help migrants get food and shelter, but now they're saying there's no FEMA money. Like they're saying there's money now but they're saying like they could not handle one more. Like if there was another disaster right now, we'd be done. They don't have the money for it.

Speaker 1:

Well, they ain't doing nothing there with it, so what's the difference?

Speaker 2:

I don't know. Well, yeah, I don't know. Well, yeah, I don't understand. And the thing is is how hardcore they went after Bush about what he did there. Like Bush, I mean, that was nasty what he had to go in and it never dissipated. Here it's dissipated, it's muck and mud now, but it dissipated there because it was the levee breach. It didn't dissipate. It was like there was floods in there for like what a month, something like that in Louisiana, I can't remember what was that. There was like floods in there for like a month. Right, how long did that flood water stay? Because they had to repair the levee? Yeah, because the levee had broken and you're below sea level, which is still stupid. Why did people even build back there? Just go somewhere else above sea level. Why live below sea level? Have?

Speaker 3:

you ever been there?

Speaker 2:

Below sea level. No, I'm talking about Louisiana.

Speaker 1:

No.

Speaker 2:

That's why you don't understand it. I did watch a documentary on it, not a documentary, I don't know what it is. It's like this guy that does tours all over the place, like he'll drive through different places with a local. You know what I mean. And this guy was going through and he's with the local and he's like what he's going through there and they're talking to the locals. They're like knocking out, like this guy's going to friends houses and stuff and they're all talking. And they said the one thing about louisiana is that it's always changing. It has never like. It's like the louisiana of the 50s is not the louisiana of the 60s and it's definitely not the louisiana the 80s, which is definitely not the louisiana today, because everybody loves it and they move in and they change. You know what I mean. Yeah, it's like you.

Speaker 1:

It brings like you're talking new orleans, you ain't talking louisiana. There's two different things no, this is louisiana.

Speaker 2:

Wasn't new orleans at all. I don't even think it was new orleans at all. No, this was just. I forget what. I wish I could say what which city it actually was I can't remember when I go there.

Speaker 1:

I go to like outskirts.

Speaker 2:

You know what I'm saying? Yeah, but you weren't there in the 50s, you don't?

Speaker 1:

know? You know what I'm saying? That ain't what I'm saying.

Speaker 2:

I'm saying like like he said it's slowly changing right now. He said, like on his like, in his area right now, it's like 50 of his area right now is either new people or young people. But the young people he said are second generation or third generation or fortune, so they kind of carry the same traditions. But he said that's the thing about louisiana. He said that's it's. He's, the guy had been there his whole life. He was born in that house that he was living in and took it over from his parents. And he said that. He said he's seen it. Just it just changes. It's never the same, which is I thought was kind of weird.

Speaker 1:

You know what I mean well, I've been to, I'd say, about five different cities where I was at different you know, staying at five different cities, and every one of them was different. The one was like, it was called New Roads. That was like an old style, you know what I'm saying A small country that was cool. Then I stayed in, uh, kenner.

Speaker 1:

Kenner is like a, it's right on the outside of new orleans, that's uh like a suburb of new orleans yeah, it's kind of mellow, whatever, it's not crazy or nothing, then you go to new orleans, and that's where it's all wild.

Speaker 2:

Wherever there's, you go everywhere yeah, new orleans is, is is like that's the, the like where bardi girl and all that is right, so that's probably stays pretty pretty. You know pretty much the same, I would imagine. Right, yeah, they try to keep it like, uh, traditional or whatever it is. Yeah, I mean that would make sense to me.

Speaker 2:

French quarters and stuff. But I was listening to. I want to say who? What was it? It was Tucker Carlson and he was. He was saying like he was, it was disgusting that they were talking about diversity. He was. It was disgusting that they were talking about diversity. He was talking about, like diversity in a community, cause I, I want to say, was it Tim Walls might've said diversity is, is a is a great thing and we welcome it. You know, having diversity in a community, and he was saying that.

Speaker 2:

You know Tucker Carlson's going, diversity in a community. He goes we want to be in a community where we're all this know, similar, we want to get along and we want to do this. And you know we have the same culture and we have the same. You know, blah, blah. He's like that's better, like everybody getting along, and it's like I'm listening to him and you know.

Speaker 2:

And tucker carlson I agree with on a lot of things. You know what I mean. He's a little little extreme right wing for me but I agree with him a lot of things. But I started thinking about lorraine. You know, because we grew up we're diverse community. All us white kids knew all about pasalillos and rice and beans and you know what I mean. Like we have like our and and tortillas, like homemade tortillas and stuff like and I mean I I ate black food, his Hispanic food, in black houses as black families and Hispanic families, like I've eaten like that. And I kind of agree on a diversity thing.

Speaker 2:

I think diversity is great for everybody. It's even like my street, what my wife likes. You know the lady down the street that makes Diwali and stuff like that. That you know we don't know how to make or know nothing about With Diwali is like that great belief it's. We don't know how to make or know nothing about With Diwali it's like that grape leaf. It's like Amanda loves it, it's good, I like it too. But you know it's got like rice and meat and stuff. It's wrapped up in a grape leaf basically.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I like other cultures. I love the foods.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I got to go against Tucker Carlson on that. Diversity is amazing. I still want against tucker carlson on that diversity.

Speaker 1:

I know what's in them, though.

Speaker 2:

Hey, a good cat soup might be good, but I don't think I want any well, I mean I understand what he's trying to talk about is like when you come into a city like springfield and kind of like take it over with haitian culture or something, and and I get what he's saying to some degree but Springfield was a dying community with no work, no, nothing. You know what I mean?

Speaker 1:

It was like I don't know about Springfield.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, that's part of the big thing was like there was no work and people were starting to move out. It was kind of becoming like, I mean, a smaller Lorraine, you know, basically like Detroit, and then all of a sudden they come in with the new factory and, no, but there's no workers and Haitian migrants come in and start filling those positions. You know what I mean, which I'm not. I'm not saying that that's the best scenario. I feel like, if they were paying a decent wage, that they wouldn't have to. You know, bring in Haitian migrants to work it. You know what I mean. They're probably paying, like the same thing I paid cooks here in the restaurant at a factory and then they go oh well, we can't find workers, we got to get Haitians. It's like well, people, you know you can't live for $15 an hour unless you do, like the Haitians or even, I know, like the illegal uh, mexicans and stuff, do two, five, six families in a house or something you know, all paying. You know you can't expect americans shouldn't have to do that. Five, six families in a house. That's crazy. You know what I mean.

Speaker 2:

But I get, I get to his, I get what his point is. I mean, I understand it, just you know, but people shouldn't have to to have their community taken over. Basically, I get that to some degree, but I mean, if Hispanics didn't come here when, when the mill and Ford plants needed us, you know needed them we wouldn't have had the heavy influx in Lorraine of Hispanic people that I grew up with, right Cause I'm sure, like not my mom's generation but like probably my grandma's generation, probably didn't have that you know. I mean, that was all kind of new to them, probably when they got here, I would imagine. Anyways, I'm going against tucker carlson. And this diversity is a wonderful thing yeah, but to be overwhelmed with people overwhelmed is a whole different.

Speaker 2:

that's a whole another thing. That's a you, that's like overwhelmed and he talked about that too like where your emergency rooms you can't get help, you know.

Speaker 1:

That's another thing I want to talk about, but go ahead. Yeah, let's talk about it. Man, these hospitals are horrible. When I went to the hospital, I sat there probably 45 minutes. Then they send me well, probably longer than that, about an hour. Was there a lot of people there? No, I met some nice people. So they send me back and then they just check your vitals. It's like a damn movie. They pop up a doctor on the screen and shit, talk to them for a second and then they throw you back in the lobby. You wait there another hour, hour and a half.

Speaker 2:

Wait, wait, wait wait, wait, wait what?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it's crazy.

Speaker 2:

Your doctor didn't see you in person.

Speaker 1:

Not at first. No, he seen you on a screen. There's a lady, yeah, pops up on a screen and she asks you a couple questions, and then you, and it was stupid. You could just write it down on a paper with the guy that's put it in the computer.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, you always have to fill out your paperwork. You do that in the lobby and then it goes to the doctor. I assume they review it.

Speaker 1:

Right, so you do that in the lobby. You give it to them. Then they come call you out like an hour, hour and a half later. Take you in the back. They ask you the questions. Check your vitals later. Take you in the back. They ask you the questions. Give you check your vitals, then a little. They pull this little cart in front of you with a monitor on it and then a doctor pops up then you. She asks you a couple questions, that's over with. Then you go. They put you back in the lobby here. Wait another hour. Go back in the lobby. Wait another hour. Then they go, uh, pull you to the back again now they.

Speaker 2:

Was it the same one that was on the screen?

Speaker 1:

no, it wasn't the same one on the screen.

Speaker 2:

No, so then they after the doctor check was it a real doctor or was it a?

Speaker 1:

no, it was a real doctor on the screen it wasn't a no, no, it was a real doctor. So then they put you back out in the lobby. This is after everything, so another hour hour. So so then they take you, uh.

Speaker 2:

So you went back to the room. How many times?

Speaker 1:

one, two, three, three times yeah, it's weird so then go see the doctor and then I go, uh, they x-rayed my ribs but they couldn't see a break. But they said one of the ribs was low. I was like, hmm. So she says, well, we could do an mri and this and that, and I'm like, okay, I done been here for almost three and a half hours, four hours. I said uh well what's the treatment?

Speaker 1:

if the same thing, same treatment, but I'm gonna sit here another four hours to give me the same treatment, I said, no, I'm good, I don't need it I was like, just let me go.

Speaker 2:

You didn't want to feel confirmed that it was broken no, like what do I care?

Speaker 1:

I'm like she's like it looks. She said I can't see a break, but there's probably a break, but I have to look at an mri, so I go okay, what's the treatment if it's broke, or what's the treatment if it's? You know the way it is now? Oh the same thing, I said yeah said, I'm not sitting here another four hours.

Speaker 2:

So when you went back three times to the room, was it the same room. No, they took you to different, so they had to clean in between each room, right Cause they clean those. So don't they have like wax paper and stuff? They got to change that out, right, if you sat on, don't know, I just and then he's got the hospital.

Speaker 1:

Like I got problems with my ribs, so then they put me in this room with all these people hacking and I'm like what the fuck?

Speaker 3:

I was like you got covid yeah probably.

Speaker 1:

No, I'm just kidding. But yeah, everybody's in there hacking horrible and I'm like, oh my god, where you like I was better off just staying in the parking lot. Yeah, it's horrible. And then, uh, but I met some nice people in there.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, were they coughing on you?

Speaker 1:

No, they had broken stuff.

Speaker 2:

They had broken. So you guys had like a little broken bones community.

Speaker 1:

Them brother people.

Speaker 2:

How did they break their?

Speaker 1:

prejudice. We was like they're hacking over there. It was just like it was, like it was bad. I was like, oh my god, why are we in the same room? This one girl looked like she was dying. I was like you know, she can cut in front of me.

Speaker 2:

she looked horrible, it was bad, so it took so long because you were letting them cut in front of you?

Speaker 1:

no, ain't nobody cutting, no, but no, it was like man there was just hacking.

Speaker 2:

So you see a virtual doctor and you don't know where she was or anything, right? No, she could have been in California. Yeah, that's wild. And then the actual doctor that came in where it wasn't an American doctor. Yeah, yeah, that's rare, you don't? I don't see that very often it was a woman.

Speaker 1:

she was tall, Was she pretty?

Speaker 2:

I don't know, she had a mask on. Oh really, that's because of all the people hacking and coughing.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

I was like, wow, did all the workers in the hospital have masks on? No, yeah, I didn't think they were doing that anymore. I guess if you were close to somebody, you would yeah, I hadn't been seeing any doing that anymore. I guess if you were close to somebody, you would yeah, I hadn't been seeing any of that. The yeah, look at that. The star of the show just walks in. Look at this.

Speaker 4:

Is it right here?

Speaker 2:

The star of the show, sure yeah, absolutely, absolutely.

Speaker 4:

Conversation this morning Good.

Speaker 1:

You were listening in, yeah, I think you know I must. You were listening in.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, that kind of reminds me of Terminator. You gotta pull the microphone and grab your headphones. You gotta pull the microphone and grab your headphones. You got to pull the microphone up so we can hear you and, uh, jesus, headphones. This is really something now, huh yeah, it's different than the last, last year, when you were in here. Yeah, we did it.

Speaker 4:

We did it a lot different now I think you guys should go on the road we've talked about it. Actually, I was thinking of talking to carlene. You know, carlene and rich, but my niece and nephew bought that bar out in geneva, new york, or geneva, geneva, ohio, geneva, ohio where's the cord for what?

Speaker 2:

it's not plugged in. Yeah, you can. Why it's not plugged in? It's got to be down there, it's got. Yeah, that would be, that would be cool. We we've talked about making a trailer up. You know where we can take the podcast on the road, like just pull up and have the, the whole trailer, like just be our show yeah, I got an 18 foot trailer brand new, you could use well, yeah, I mean I want to set it up.

Speaker 2:

So it's always that way. So I don't even mess with, I just pull it, lock it up and roll. Yeah, all right, you're on there. You got your microphone. I can turn you down over here. Okay, there you go, got all the controls yeah, I got all the controls.

Speaker 3:

They're all got issues. I'm a control freak what do you want from me?

Speaker 2:

so, yeah, we've thought about it. It's something we definitely want to do. That's that's on our uh agenda of things we want to do, is is be able to go on the road we definitely want to do. That's that's on our uh agenda of things. We want to do is is be able to go on the road. We've been invited to go to browns, but we need to have a setup where we can go on the road. Nice and, you know, simple, because it's too much. It's just too much for us to to mess around with the, with the uh, you know equipment, tearing it down. What should you see? What we got going on in here? Now you can't tear this down and just take it with you. You know what I mean no, you should.

Speaker 4:

You should go on the road I think it would be cool. Put a thing together a trailer.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, we want to. It's in the works. We've talked about it. Keith's got a trailer he wants to convert. He wants to have the side open up so that it's like a long view. You drop the side and have it be the stage in front and just have it all set up as a studio right there. That would be perfect. Yeah, and that would be the goal. So, are you ready, stage in front and just have it all set up as a studio right?

Speaker 4:

there, that'd be perfect yeah.

Speaker 3:

And that would be the goal. So you ready, you got everything ready. Got everything ready, are you sure? Yeah, yeah, that's 30 something dollars. You don't vote.

Speaker 2:

That's what the bar is talking about. That's $30-something a tub now.

Speaker 4:

You don't vote. I'm going to pull a guido here.

Speaker 3:

No, it's just getting out of it. It's crazy, isn't it.

Speaker 2:

You're going to have to work three jobs. Yeah for sure You're going to have to work.

Speaker 4:

I'm working two. Now I heard of you were every day, every day pull that mic about a fist away.

Speaker 2:

Everybody's gonna have trouble hearing you. Yeah, that'll work. That'll be way better. Yeah, so you got all the clams. Do you get anything special this year?

Speaker 4:

no, we got shrimp you did.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, you always got something. I know you always got something in your, in your I got 20 pounds of shrimp what are we going to do? How are we going to cook it?

Speaker 4:

I just think I'm doing a steamer, or we could do it in the kitchen well, however you want, we got skewer sticks down there too, if you wanted we could do that we could put them on a grill however you want.

Speaker 2:

They're big golf shrimp, or Okay, I'm just curious, something special in there.

Speaker 4:

Always something there.

Speaker 2:

Okay, that's no crab. Probably there's a possibility. Wow, you want to put crab legs?

Speaker 4:

out there too. That's it. Everybody's knocking down the door. Now we're going to bed.

Speaker 2:

Yeah right.

Speaker 4:

They got the crabs. See, you can say you got the crabs.

Speaker 1:

We'll just say seafood, seafood.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, we'll just say seafood. We're not going to say we got the crabs. We got the crabs now. No, that's seafood. We're not going to say we got the crabs. We got the crabs, though we talked about it last year. But how do you get all the grit out of yours?

Speaker 4:

just buy good clams you can buy northern clams from Maine, or you can buy southern clams, northern clams or Rhode Island. They seem a lot better.

Speaker 2:

They're bigger. See, they're a lot bigger.

Speaker 4:

Wow, it's a big one.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, that is a big one.

Speaker 2:

Wow, and you put that on.

Speaker 4:

No, I just went and hung out with them.

Speaker 2:

Oh, okay, you supplied the clams and stuff like that.

Speaker 4:

It's going to be a fun day. I think we're going to have a lot of people.

Speaker 2:

Really, I'm being told we might have some audio issues again. I hate this. I don't know I need an engineer. You know any engineers? No, no, does it? I don't know I need an engineer. You know any engineers? No, no, I need an engineer. Bad like somebody not an engineer, but like I don't know somebody who knows how to get the technical stuff out I was listening to you coming here.

Speaker 4:

You were perfect a couple times when guido talked to that's just the way I talk no, no, it was. You could tell there was an issue that's what she.

Speaker 2:

That's what she just said, like it has. You know what I mean? I don't know, although your audio volume looks low on yours, ido, for some reason.

Speaker 1:

Well, I'm not in the control booth.

Speaker 2:

Well, I don't know what would cause that so annoying there. We just plugged you back in. Maybe that helps. I don't know How's that sound Better? It's actually your audio volume just went up, so maybe it did fix it.

Speaker 1:

I don't know put you on reset he's like he don't care what I want to say. Has a conversation with himself he would.

Speaker 2:

Well, he was telling us. He was telling us a story. I hope everybody got it.

Speaker 4:

I hope that's true, that's true, I you know, when I had my ankle, I messed it up Same thing, same thing, horrible. They put you in a room and a video thing comes on like the TV and the doctor's at home talking to you.

Speaker 3:

You can see like she was in the kitchen or something.

Speaker 4:

Joe, what'd you do to your foot? And I went twist it.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, just like great.

Speaker 4:

And then crazy, then they go over everything with you and it was like star wars. She signed off and then the guy in the room asked me a question. He said then a doctor will see you, then then you get to see somebody physically, right right right and the lady was like I don't see a break. She was looking at everything. It's just a different world today.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, they take you when we was younger, they used to just take you back there, deal with with you and send you home. Now it's you got to go see this person. Then, after that one, you got to see this person. After that one, you got to see this person.

Speaker 2:

Because they all got to get to bill you Right.

Speaker 1:

They all need to bill you, and that was the whole thing about them. I was like well they pass you around.

Speaker 4:

Everybody gets charged.

Speaker 2:

Right, how many gets a bill?

Speaker 4:

How many?

Speaker 2:

It's like you went to a diddy party. I'm too old. You're too old for a day, I'm 66.

Speaker 4:

Um, but.

Speaker 3:

I was listening to you guys talk about you know, things are changing, neighborhoods change it'd be a different world.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and well, every, I mean we're a different world than it was in the 20s. Here I mean that's. I mean it's of course it's going to be a different world. That's, that's the. The only what's the what? The only thing that stays the same is that everything changes. I mean, that's just how it is and that's okay, but you got to make changes to the right direction. I mean, this godless sexual fluidy, or whatever you want to call it, is just too much. It's got to go.

Speaker 4:

I don't know, but at my, my age, I'm ready to go live on an island.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I don't understand what the can't say merry christmas.

Speaker 4:

You know, at christmas time I'll go to say merry christmas and I'll think to myself, like am I allowed to say that? And I think what's this about? What kind of life is?

Speaker 2:

this. Yeah, that's horrible.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, it is.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah, that's what they want. They want like God out of everything. That's what their plan is.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, but you know how it goes. Nobody wants to talk about it until they're ready to leave the earth, and all of a sudden it's God, please save me. You ever notice that? It's like the?

Speaker 2:

guy hanging off the cliff.

Speaker 3:

I was asking Troy, the one I do the times I talk to a show with.

Speaker 2:

I was asking him about whether or not he was if he's seen more people active as they get older. You know, that was what I was asking him, and he said that he actually sees it more in young people, believe it or not. So maybe that doesn't stand with what you're saying, because I thought the same as you.

Speaker 4:

More actively.

Speaker 2:

People looking to God and looking to get involved in the church and stuff. He says he sees it more through young people than he does through old people, older people that's what he says. I mean he runs five churches. He sees it like in that 20 to 30, they're curious, they want to know. He sees it more right now. He says that's where he sees more of it right now. It's hard to believe, right? Yeah, I'd have to go to his church.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, I wouldn't have thought that Today you'll have to give me an address. I'll go and see you.

Speaker 2:

Church on the North Coast Well that's Marlon and Troy, who are both pastors. Troy kind of runs everything right, isn't he like the head guy there, I think, and I know Marlon is a pastor. I went to school at Clearview with both of them.

Speaker 4:

You know, it's something do you believe or don't you believe? My father-in-law worked at Alcoa and him and a couple him and four other guys were standing around talking about the Lord dying on heaven.

Speaker 5:

This one guy.

Speaker 4:

George came up hey, marty, that's my father. I don't believe so. My father-in-law, that's how he was. He goes, george, you better be right. So george walked away and thought about it. He looked at my father-in-law he goes, marty. What do you mean? I better be right. Better be right. So he walked away again and came back. Stop, you mean, I better be right about believing in god. He better be right.

Speaker 3:

We're gonna be dead for a long time forever I thought about it, I started going to church.

Speaker 2:

That'd be the smart move.

Speaker 4:

Well, you know, I don't know Like. We had a miracle in our family, my son Brendan. You met Brendan, yeah, you know he had open-heart surgery for a month.

Speaker 4:

He used to wear a hearing aid. Hearing might come back might not from the surgery and everything. Hearing might come back, might not from the surgery and everything. But one day my wife took him out. Her girl had him in a box, you know, and she would send sounds to him Looked at my wife and said I can't explain it. Your son can hear. You don't have to blame him. Something like this, it changes your life, it changed my life.

Speaker 3:

Well, that's awesome.

Speaker 4:

So when the doctor looks at you and goes you know your son's very, very, very sick. We're going to be good in the long run. We're going to be good in the long run. We're gonna be good on short runs. Very rough, need to go to. You know you need to go to rainbows. Right, I was like, uh, I didn't even have a cell phone. How am I gonna get there? I don't know where it's at downtown. Drew me a map. Take your time, you know I'll meet you there. He was right. You know it was rough in the short run, but in the long run everything was great. Until you go through something like that, nothing mattered. I left the business. I told my brother Chris, you run the business, I'm leaving.

Speaker 2:

I'm going with my wife and my son yeah, when it comes to health, when it comes to family, family and good friends, whatever, it's just.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, when it comes to health, when it comes to family, you know, family and good friends, it's just. We all do it with immediate attention. Yes, we should do it every day. See, I think you know, when you guys were talking about America, I think America was a lot more kinder place, maybe because it was simple, I don't know.

Speaker 2:

There's places in America that are still simple. It's out there, you just got to get there.

Speaker 4:

I mean everybody looked out for each other. You know what I mean. One time I was hopping a train because we live by the track on the side and Mr Strickler came over and knocked on the front door and went downstairs. How you doing, mr Strickler? Joe is your mom home. I didn't think nothing of it, I go okay.

Speaker 5:

I ran upstairs. I go, mom, Mr.

Speaker 4:

Strickler's. Here she was like tell.

Speaker 4:

Dave, I'll be right there. So she came, she walked down the banister. She said Dave, how you doing? Daddy, I'm watching Joey jump in the train, hop in the train. He was going to get killed. He cared about me. I don't know people get involved like that. Just, you know, I got caught on my minibike. Police brought me home. I ran in the house, looked for my mom and dad. I came back, came down to the two policemen, said my mom and dad aren't here, but this is gunther's next door. She's like a mom to me. Okay, let's go where they walked me over and hand me over to mrs gunther with the ticket for my minibike. You know, but you know some people today you're probably not gonna door. I'm not taking a man.

Speaker 1:

No, we talked about that before. How the neighbors were just.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, like your neighbor was, like you know, was like your mom.

Speaker 1:

Extension of your family. Extension of your family.

Speaker 4:

You know, they could even hit you.

Speaker 1:

Right, right, that's what we talked about.

Speaker 2:

They could whack you on it and you'd get your ass whooped twice when you get home, and because that you had to get a whipping from the neighbor, you were getting your ass whooped. Yeah, yeah, that's how it was back then yeah, I know I got off subject, but no, that's that's all we do we like knowing that you were delinquent. It made us all feel better it explains a lot too, you know I've come a long way you know what?

Speaker 4:

I think it's growing up in Lorain. You know you guys like talking about Lorain, I really do. I think it's you grow up here. I used to go visit friends at college at Ohio State, Bowling Green Kids that they met at school. We would meet when we'd go visit. They would say to me I wish I grew up in lorraine. Say why you guys are so close, you're so tight. And I'd say to the kids that they met I'd say well, didn't you grow up like that, not that glue yeah, I don't know if it exists today, though in lorraine.

Speaker 2:

Oh, I'm sure it does. You think so? You think lorraine's just got that lock. It's just always there. I think the kids are, you know, I don't know. I mean, when you're on your devices, that's what makes it tough. Being on the devices it makes it tough. There's no interaction.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, there's no passing the note around, or? Hey, you know the party's at Guido's house. His parents are gone.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, you know, I mean it's something the anti-social network.

Speaker 5:

Yeah you know they're like this all the time.

Speaker 1:

Yeah it's Phone click and then I don't. It's called social media, but it's not. You know what I mean.

Speaker 2:

It's here, it's not going away, Right, I mean it's the way it is now. Life's not going to, it's not going to go away. And I know that if I was 12, I know what I'd have been doing. I'd have been on that device too. I'd have been. You know what I mean. I'm on it now. I mean I know I would have been on it then.

Speaker 4:

I mean, I would have been texting Mrs Gunther.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 4:

The cops are here, come over with them. I mean you, know, I mean you know Maybe.

Speaker 3:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Or they would have just texted your mom wherever she was.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, she'd come flying up in the driveway with that ass Eddie.

Speaker 3:

Joey's here.

Speaker 4:

The cop. Yeah, he told my man like, wow, I was kind of proud of that. Then he might have told away Remember Frank's telling you on the east side, yeah.

Speaker 2:

Frank's telling you. And then what was that? You were proud of it. That's weird.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, I was like you know, like at 12 years old. I was like that's cool, my minibike's getting towing it now. That's kind of weird.

Speaker 1:

Did you ever get it back?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, my dad, I would have been annoyed, I wouldn't have been proud. That's odd.

Speaker 4:

I drove a concrete truck for consumers. I told that After work he went over there and moved them over. He knew some people.

Speaker 3:

Right, so he got my mini bike back. He said, I've got it fixed.

Speaker 4:

Hopped on my mini bike and boom, there I went. But it wasn't, you know. But I mean I wasn't hurt nobody.

Speaker 2:

Right, right. No, they have that going on on though, like in illyria, real bad right now. Illyria has, like some, some mini bikes that are always going down middle avenue and stuff and I'm I'm kind of like you, like they're not really hurting me, but middle avenue is probably not the right place for it, like you need to be somewhere else. Middle avenue is a little probably too tooed for minibikes and carrying on. But I'm like you, I kind of feel like, eh, let them play, it's better for them. I mean, if the kids are out smoking, dope, drinking, what video games I mean mini bikes are probably better than all those. You know what I mean in my tree, your clothesline, by something we all hit trees. I mean unless you get, unless you like. I mean we've had people die when we were kids, you know, and it would open up and an LTVer minibike.

Speaker 4:

I got the hammy down. So I grew up with older guys so when they went to a motorcycle I got their minibike.

Speaker 1:

I always got the hammy down when I was a kid at home with it, when it was already souped up by the time you got it up. Yeah, it was ready to go.

Speaker 4:

But I had to. I really do People listen out there. I had the best time growing up on the east side of Lorain.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I liked the east side when I lived there Homewood though. When I was a kid Homewood was like that's where my grandma lived. I spent a lot of time there most of my time there, really but that was mini bait bike haven. Everybody had a 50, everybody. I mean that that's a, but we had the honda humps and all that back there behind us and stuff and I mean everybody had a mini bike.

Speaker 4:

It was awesome but then I got a snowmobile, it was even more fun it's a wasted money though here.

Speaker 4:

Not bad, but you know we used to have bad winters then. Yeah, I remember the winter of 78, you know, and we were all sitting one night smoking cigarettes, had our helmets off with our girlfriend Police officer in Sheffield Lake came down the road, slid and looked at us, turned around, hit the flashers and we boom, I could see the flashers going off of my, my suit. You know, I told kim a girl I was dating. I go, kim, how close is he?

Speaker 2:

he's right behind us good times good times, you know, good time, I got a, I got a friend that, um, he lives in mass or uh, hudson, I believe, and they they had a, uh, they were out at boston mills. They were out. They went out there in the middle of the night and were riding and the bear cats were after him, chasing him and they, freaking, were trying to outrun him and he ended up hitting a tree and like, messed it, like he, my buddy that actually was riding- with me.

Speaker 3:

It was fun. It was on the way for a purpose. I don't know if his parents had money, so they sued his dad or whatever.

Speaker 2:

But I don't know if it was back his head, but I had to pay him some money for it or whatever. But the police got him. Though they're the Bearcat Patrol or whatever it is, they come after him. Yeah, they were on the run, like taking off. It was pretty wild on the run, like taking off. It was pretty wild, pretty wild. When he was a kid we didn't have nothing like that, that's for sure. That would have been awesome Boston Mills, and we didn't have side-by-sides and all those good things they have now too either. Would have been a good time to grow up.

Speaker 4:

You gotta have fun. You guys still have fun. What'd you do here?

Speaker 2:

It's no riding a side-by-side Come on, he's all right.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, that's fun.

Speaker 2:

What the hell? There's no comparison.

Speaker 4:

I'm trying to plug you guys, yeah, yeah, that didn't work. Get him out of here.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, that's not the same. That's definitely not the same.

Speaker 3:

My mom's on her way up. In a little bit she's going to help me shuck.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, they're good people, for sure.

Speaker 4:

You know, and that's another thing we got these good spots to go to get corn A lot of people don't even know about that around here.

Speaker 1:

That's crazy how I don't know. I've asked people about it and they're like I don't know.

Speaker 4:

I'm like, are you crazy? It's because they're focused on going to the little grocery store.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, they're going their little route. They don't come out of it.

Speaker 2:

And it's cheap too. I mean I paid like I mean, for the corn on a cob is like seven bucks a dozen. I mean that's cheap. That's cutting the grass getting us ready for the show today.

Speaker 4:

Oh, that's going to be fun, I think.

Speaker 2:

They're making noise out there. Party's getting ready to get started?

Speaker 4:

Yeah, All right, well, I'm going to go down and start getting stuff ready. All right, well, thanks for coming and talking to us. Come and tell, get started.

Speaker 2:

Yeah all right, well, I'm gonna go down and start getting stuff ready. All right, well, thanks for coming to talk to us we don't, we don't say nothing we don't out anybody he asked. He asked, he asked me something. I forget what it was. I don't remember what it was. You asked me something about what, and I said I buy good ones. I forget what it was, though I can't remember. Was it the chicken? You know.

Speaker 4:

He asked me about the chicken I said everybody swears by that chicken he goes.

Speaker 2:

What's the secret? I said you got by good chicken.

Speaker 1:

See what he learned from me he. He's going to be his business model from now on.

Speaker 4:

Alright, fellas, we buy a good beer. Thanks for coming to see us, joe. We'll have fun today.

Speaker 2:

Yes, sir. The thing is we've got to sit there and watch that when still we're watching Deshaun Watson and not Baker Mayfield. He was talking crap on the Browns last week.

Speaker 3:

He was talking mad shit about us. I was like that's sick, that's sick.

Speaker 2:

But I heard he was saying nice things about the fans, so I don't know.

Speaker 1:

Hopefully it was. You know what the fans still love him.

Speaker 2:

In Cleveland. Absolutely, I'm seeing like when I'm looking on the recording, I am seeing a red thing there. For some reason, I don't know where it's coming from.

Speaker 1:

I don't know, but that light's on.

Speaker 2:

Oh, my man, it's just picky, picky today, piggy, piggy, picky. I didn't say piggy. Where's piggy? Is she coming to the Clambake?

Speaker 1:

No, you could come on this side why and you get this light in your face- and see how.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, then that would be a good idea. If I'm on that side, then I can sit over there and go. Oh, there's a technical problem, that's Guido's problem.

Speaker 5:

That's right, he's the one with the controls.

Speaker 4:

You're the one with all the controls.

Speaker 2:

He's the I don't know what the hell dude. I literally didn't touch a thing, right, I touched absolutely nothing. I don't think the podcast came out perfectly, true? You know what I mean? Shut everything down, turn it back on. Everything should be exactly as it was. I don't think it sounds like Darth Vader. Now you explain that one to me, because I don't get it. Lack of sleep. Lack of sleep, you think? Yeah, it just sounds like Darth Vader. Oh yeah, I don't know why that would, and I've heard it. When it happens, it's unbearable to listen to.

Speaker 2:

I mean, I don't hear it in our headphones, but I've heard our recordings of it, the one I didn't even put out because it was so bad. Thank you, thank you, thank you, amanda. Amanda's telling me I have audio issues right now. I don't know what to do about it. I really don't. What am I supposed to do with it? I mean, I don't know if I'm wasting my time having this conversation. I don't know what to do with it. I don't know what to do with it. I don't know.

Speaker 3:

Johnny's telling me it's got to be like quotes. I guess we're on the podcast because we're, you know we're listening to it now we're having a record call.

Speaker 2:

I guess Probably kind of want to post it, because it's garbage, I guess, because it's all muffled and whatnot, but wonderful. So I guess we got to go shuck some corn and get ready for this clam bake. I've got a lot of work ahead of me today, and then I got to go watch the Browns lose. But at any rate, every time I move a lot he's got all the amp. Johnny knows it. So all right, let's get out of here later.

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