Transcript
Chris: Welcome back to another episode of the Mythic Giraffe Podcast. I'm Chris.
late: And I'm Ron. Sorry I got distracted by my phone. Well, it's been turned off for like four hours and I just turned it on. I have to get yelled at by my friend for being late.
Chris: No, I did not yell at you. Sigh. So speaking of phones.
late: boy
Chris: I have a ramp.
late: Okay, good. I love it.
Chris: it's It's not exactly the, it's not. It's partially the phone's fault, but... So.
late: It's always fun.
Chris: we We live in an age of technology. And... There are so many.
late: Did you think all ages are...
Chris: appliances.
late: Ages of technology.
Chris: Uh, yeah.
late: Okay.
Chris: Yeah. But we... there are appliances now that are you know everything's taught to be smart it's a smart tv it's a smart Watch.
Chris: It's a smart refrigerator.
late: Yes, my fridge is... I still have the sticker on my fridge that says... Download the app to use it with your fridge.
Chris: Hmm.
late: Why would I do this?
Chris: Hmm. Okay. So... so Because of that, we got the fridge... I don't know, like... nine years ago or something. And. seemed to be fine yeah the little app it reminds me hey it's time to switch the water filter and all i'm like okay this is cool so we got the you know. The stove and the microwave, everything's smart.
Chris: So you would think that the smart appliance that does regular diagnostics to the point where it can tell me how many times in the day. The doors are open.
Chris: If there is an issue, shouldn't I get an alert on my phone?
late: i but I would. I would hope.
Chris: Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. So. We. Come home for vacation. Everything's fine. The next day... We eat.
Chris: my wife points out she says there's water coming out of the door of the refrigerator Well, that's not right. So I said, ah, you know maybe a piece of ice got stuck. I said, oh, wait, no, I opened it up. i said Huh.
Chris: The ice looks a little melty inside the door. Oh, I guess the... freezer element for the door went up because i thought it was two separate things Put it in the freezer, didn't notice anything.
Chris: We go to the grocery store, come back home, go to put groceries away. My wife goes, well, the ice you put in there is now melted and everything else in the freezer seems warm. So. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm.
Chris: So she's like, is the fridge messed up? part messed up too so i opened the fridge i got out a thing of yogurt i put a thermometer in it and it was 55 degrees i said yeah pretty sure the fridge isn't working either So I opened my little app.
Chris: The LG ThinQ app. And I go to the refrigerator. And I hit. Yo. Diagnosis it comes back with green check marks for everything everything is operating fine and then underneath it.
Chris: Caution Freezer appears warmer than normal.
late: That feels like that should be the thing on top.
Chris: Yes, and it should be What? The check off for the freezer should be red!
late: Yeah. yeah
Chris: Not green.
late: Bye.
Chris: Red!
late: Yeah. That's fair.
Chris: So did, so. I start my LG chat. well one we're trying to figure out you know, when we purchased the refrigerator because yeah they're like, oh, where did you buy it? I don't know. I don't write down milestones like that in my life.
Chris: So I... go through my phone and i'm looking at pictures i was like oh there's a picture of the kitchen. And there's the fridge in it. There's one from the year prior. you know So finally I figured out it's like nine years old, eight years old, whatever.
Chris: So I'm chatting with LG. Well, since it is a smart device. Have you tried unplugging it and plugging it back in?
Chris: no i haven't tried that but sure so i shut the breaker off leave it for 10 minutes cut it back on My wife says is it cold? I said yes Honey, as soon as I turned it on.
Chris: Boom, it worked. I said, we gotta give it a few hours. So I give it a few hours, does it work? Monday morning. I am in the chat with LG for two hours.
Chris: trying to see if there's a technician that could come out and look at this. and it's this What's your zip code? Plug it in. Interesting. What's your zip code? but i don't know why my zip code's interesting but yeah here it is again What model refrigerator is it? I filled all this out when I started this chat with you, you jackass.
late: Could we please stop calling it zip code and refer to it by its full name?
Chris: Oh, the zone identification, whatever.
late: Zone improvement plotting.
Chris: Yeah, that's right.
late: Yes.
Chris: It's not improvement. flooding. Um. So. that's right finally i was like you know this is just cementing the idea that we need to move away from lg goodbye So I find a local repair person.
Chris: I talked to them. They're like, well, to come out, it's going to be $200 to diagnose it. If it's the compressor, which it sounds like it is, that's $600 to $800. Labor is about the same.
Chris: I said, I can stop you there, pal. I'm buying a new fridge.
late: right Yeah. we We had the same.
Chris: ah
late: problem with our Samsung fridge. We got a Samsung fridge. End.
Chris: Yeah.
late: They knew there was a problem with the freezer. Like when they... when they it just ah It was a known problem with this freezer. There was ah a clip that was wrong.
Chris: Yeah.
late: It would just completely ice up.
Chris: Hmm.
late: everything. So we're like... what the fuck is going on with this fridge like it and the and the guys the lgbo or the same type of people well you know the seals could be bad and so then Like i had the I had to have this repairman come out, pay him $300 or whatever. And he's like, no, this is a clip that's wrong with all these Samsung fridges. Here you go, flixes it.
late: I'm like, you sons of bitches.
Chris: Yeah.
late: My neighbor.
Chris: Yeah. Hmm.
late: like this this This is the old man part of the podcast again.
Chris: Mm hmm.
late: My neighbor when I was a kid. He had a fridge. that was from the 50s.
Chris: Yeah.
late: that they still used as their beer fridge in the in the and soda fridge in the garage. They left it in a garage, an untreated area, and this fridge just...
Chris: Yeah. Yeah!
late: worked.
Chris: yes
late: Forever.
Chris: Yeah.
late: And. Boy. I've lived in my house. What, like 18 years?
Chris: Yeah.
late: I think I've had four fridges.
Chris: Yeah, this will be our third in. Yeah, about the same, 18 years. yeah Yeah, yeah, right around 18. Yeah. Hmm.
late: And you know what I want to do? I want to start buying fridges with... Extra shit. I just want to buy.
Chris: ah
late: the plain white fridge with no water filters, no nothing, just... Fridge. Because they're just... They just work better?
Chris: Yeah. Oh, I looked at those and I was like, I know. but isn't it so nice like you know what this is this is the make you happy version of the day so let's Yes.
late: The fridge I have now... It has. Okay. incapability of closing the doors.
Chris: ah
late: You close the doors, but they just don't sit. the way you think they should?
Chris: Uh...
late: and then you walk away because it's got those french doors you know where it opens up both sides.
Chris: Yep. yep Oh yeah, yeah.
late: I'm like, don't buy that fridge. It's just such a pain in the ass.
Chris: Yep, you walk away and then it's... Doo -doo.
late: It's just beeping at you.
Chris: Doo -doo. Doo doo.
late: Son of a... It's a nightmare.
Chris: Yeah.
late: I just want a fridge that is so heavy that Indiana Jones could survive a nuke in there.
Chris: Yep.
Chris: yeah Exactly.
late: ah
Chris: Yes. what's like when we went Monday night to look at fridges. We're walking around and she's like. i know we've talked about it you know with this we should definitely get a backup fridge you know just to have something in the garage i was like yeah you know we'll go on marketplace or something they have specific quote unquote garage fridges for sale.
Chris: That urges.
late: oh
Chris: plain jane you know whatever she starts looking at those I said I love you. with all of my heart. We are here to replace our kitchen. refrigerator i am fine if you want to put this garage fridge in the kitchen Totally fine by me.
Chris: We could probably put two of them there for the They're... i looked at the cost i was like hell we could buy four of these for the cost of one you know French door fridge.
late: Mm hmm. Mm hmm.
Chris: But just thinking down the road, I was like, yes, down the road. For now, let's fix the problem at hand.
late: Don't you want? Now look. I know you're older than me. By a significant amount of time.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
late: But doesn't down the road now seem like... I should be thinking about downsizing everything in my life.
Chris: Yes!
late: Like...
Chris: Yes!
late: but when i When my wife and I talk about future plans, I'm like, my future plans are to live in a one -bedroom house with... Like. 800 square feet. I don't want a bunch of crap in my house.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
late: Yeah, like...
Chris: Yeah, we talked about that on vacation. i was like you know in like three or four years. We should probably think about finding a little, you know. rancher or bungalow or something.
late: Like you don't have the kids no more.
Chris: yeah
late: And if you don't have the space for them to stay with you, they gotta get a hotel.
Chris: guys here nice
late: Right? Wouldn't that be the dream?
Chris: Yeah. Oh my gosh. Well, actually, I told her, I said... you know, that we watch some Thank you. couple of episodes of this show and it was like Oh, I don't know. Front.
Chris: restoration or something and they actually had a couple that were up in deep creek maryland and they were you know finding properties and you know rehabbing them a little bit you know living out it's like okay And like the first one they looked at, beautiful house. And it's like. four bedroom two bath lakefront access and all this stuff i was like god that thing's probably five six hundred thousand dollars like it's it's on the market for yeah 270 i can probably get them down to 220. i looked at my wife i was like this is a reality
late: We're moving today. I know. i My wife. She posted... She looks at houses all the time. And. One of the things we talk about all the time is going to Maine.
late: She was like look at this house im I'm like, this it's like on a river. It's got like... at maybe 10 acres.
Chris: Yeah.
late: I don't need that much land. but
Chris: Yeah.
late: So we're at 10 acres.
Chris: Yeah.
late: End. she's i'm gonna i'm like this is gonna be like two million dollars it was 155 000.
Chris: right
Chris: Yeah.
late: I was like this. What? Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
late: We're free.
Chris: Yeah. I'm going to go there and live like a king.
late: We just went... What? I was like, wait, wait, wait.
Chris: ye
late: So I can just sell my house now. And just with the equity I have in the house, buy this. Gorgeous how - what? Why are we doing this?
Chris: yeah
late: Why am I still here?
Chris: Yeah. Bruh. yeah Yeah. Woman, why aren't you on the phone with Maine right now?
late: rich Yeah. It's like, what's the internet situation? That's the only thing we gotta...
Chris: hu
late: have a conversation about.
Chris: m
late: But just.
Chris: Yeah.
late: Why am I here?
Chris: Yeah.
late: Because I can tell you. When we look at houses around here, I can't afford anything.
Chris: no
late: I can't even afford my house.
Chris: ah Yeah.
late: Like...
Chris: Yeah.
late: If I had to buy my exact house, I couldn't afford it.
Chris: yeah Yeah, it's crazy.
late: And...
Chris: Yeah, that's like we were talking to some of the newer neighbors, I don't know, like a year or two ago. Like, yeah, you know, what the house was whatever. I was like. that god bless you because yeah That's like $150 ,000 more than we paid for our house.
late: Right.
late: Mm -hmm.
Chris: God.
late: Yep. There are houses. legitimately $200 ,000 more than I paid for my house here.
Chris: yeah
late: And look, I like my neighborhood.
Chris: Yeah.
late: But it ain't worth half a million dollars.
Chris: No! What? Yeah, that's the whole other. you know Talk to you man. you know buying the fridge and everything and i was like god you know they're so expensive and my wife was like What?
Chris: what are we gonna do with you know this money that we have squirreled away are we just gonna sit on it like a dragon or are we actually you know gonna enjoy life i was like yeah you got a point
late: yeah But... I just... um I'm because. You know, again, we're getting... Look at this age where it's like. Don't you just want to be retired and go live in the house that you want and be away from this crap?
Chris: yes oh yeah yeah yeah that's why um i mean yeah not spend things frivolous frivolously but
late: Yeah. You know, I just... every time um Every time I put a dollar into my house, I'm just like.
Chris: m
late: ah And I've spent a... More than a few dollars this this year.
Chris: Yeah.
late: Because, look, I i still got to make it another. few years in this house.
Chris: Yeah.
late: Cool. I'm going to invest. This is my wife and I were talking about this. We have to stop. spending not spending money on our house. to make it the house we want to live in because we're we're here.
Chris: Mm hmm.
late: Right.
Chris: Yeah.
late: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
late: we might as well make it a nicer house Right now.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
late: Which will just be nicer when we go to sell it. you know.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
late: Just... Yeah, it's just and nightmares. spending money on your house. and
Chris: m
late: buying appliances that don't work i just want I don't want any... smart appliances in my house.
Chris: yeah
late: At all.
Chris: Yeah.
late: I don't need my fridge to tell me. to change my water filter. I have a tried and true system and it's...
Chris: Right.
Chris: a calendar.
late: Well, that not even it's even easier than that. I literally put. A reorder on Amazon for my water filter.
Chris: ah
late: for every six months.
Chris: Yeah.
late: When it shows up in my house, I'm like, well.
Chris: Yeah. Right.
late: Change water filter.
Chris: Yep.
late: That's it.
Chris: Yeah. Or... ah Water tastes a little funny. Probably same time to change the water filter.
late: i don't even have to get that part they do it
Chris: Yeah.
late: the I... I gotta take care of now It was great because I'm the water purification officer at my station. That's my self -appointed job.
Chris: ah
late: And. I had. the same the water filters at the station on the same cycle as mine but then
Chris: ah
late: Kitchen remodel took eight months to order.
Chris: Yeah.
late: Purification officer was you know. system off but it's fine it's fine
Chris: Yeah.
late: It's a little extra work for me. I don't drink that water anyways. Screw those guys.
Chris: ah Yeah. It's... Yeah. yeah like you said i just want Yeah. A stove that works.
late: I don't.
Chris: I mean, my parents. had the same stove. from when I was a kid. And they just replaced it like, I don't know, maybe six years ago, just because they were like.
late: Great.
Chris: updating things, but the damn thing still worked.
late: Right, like, oh, it looks ugly. mm -hmm Mm hmm.
late: I...
Chris: Or like... My in -laws. are remodeling their kitchen like oh yeah we're gonna you know get a microwave that'll go on this drawer that's in the island i was like well that's dumb Um.
Chris: Isaac.
late: Oh like where you have to bend down to use it?
Chris: Yeah!
late: No. Yeah. Like they wanted to do it at station one.
Chris: Uh -huh.
late: The where I looked at Natalie and said. Hey, if they put that in. You're in charge of microwaving everybody's food. Because everybody else is going to get back problems.
Chris: Yeah.
late: I'm trying to reach down to it.
Chris: Right. i guess it's some new thing they're trying to make happen but then they were like oh we're gonna redo this hood and all this and i'm like Why?
late: Terrible.
late: Yeah.
Chris: Everything you're talking about.
late: This is...
Chris: all those appliances and everything are working fine.
late: Mm hmm. Yeah. I would. Who was I talking to? And I said, I haven't owned a microwave in like. 15 years and they were just it was It was my driver at work.
Chris: Yeah. Oh, my dear.
late: welled She was like, oh, how do you heat up food? I was like.
Chris: Lovin'.
late: With a stove or an oven? I don't even use my oven. I use my...
Chris: Yeah.
late: my convection little
Chris: Yeah.
late: Toaster oven thing. He's like, what? I'm like...
Chris: Yeah.
late: Yeah, I've used two appliances. If I had an induction... Hob. I wouldn't need my sofa.
Chris: Yeah.
late: I can have my kitchen be like... half its size if I didn't have that.
Chris: yeah
late: I don't even want an ice cube maker in my... in my fridge because it's just one more thing to go wrong
late: I almost...
Chris: Yeah.
late: Sold my car. and bought a jeep the other day because i was driving up 13.
Chris: Uh huh.
late: And there was a... old beater jeep and i was like i bet that thing's got Stick. Transmission. you know manual locks manual windows
Chris: Yes.
late: Nothing can go wrong with it except mechanical stuff that someone can fix.
Chris: easily Fix easily is the thing.
late: <unk> Right. And. I was like. it you They only wanted $1 ,500 for it. I was like. i could just buy this thing. Right now.
Chris: Yeah.
late: Just... I don't need extra crap in my life So we'll see you, mate.
Chris: Where is it?
late: My heated seats are nice.
Chris: Where is this $1 ,500 Jeep?
late: I think it must have... i'm I think they sold it. within a day because I...
Chris: Oh yeah, I'm sure.
late: I haven't seen it since.
Chris: Ugh. Yeah.
late: Yeah.
Chris: We can talk about appliances. i You thought I was a madman because I don't have a food processor.
late: That is kind of crazy.
Chris: I... I... what do i need a food processor for i have knives i have cutting boards I have a greater.
late: It's a
late: Do you not like... Bye. blocks of cheese and grate up blocks of cheese.
Chris: I create them by hand.
late: You're an animal. That's pretty crazy.
Chris: i i've got a box grader i just great great great
late: Oh! No. i can I can grate a block of cheese in like... I don't know Six seconds?
Chris: It takes me a good. 10 minutes.
late: Do you not make mayonnaise?
Chris: No, I... i My wife uses mayonnaise, and we use it for some recipes, but no she just buys mayonnaise. Yeah.
late: no no
Chris: Yeah.
late: it's just easy just a food processor man it's It's...
Chris: Yeah.
late: one of like three appliances that you kind of should have in your house. A nice blender.
Chris: We do you have a nice blender.
late: a food processor. And... what else I mean, I have a... I... I love my confection air fryer slash. Toaster oven thing.
Chris: Yeah.
late: Yeah, that thing it was a little pricier we spent more money on that than i was really prepared to
Chris: Mm hmm. Yeah.
late: I use that thing every day.
Chris: yeah
late: It's amazing.
Chris: yeah Well, it's like our side tangent, our oven is supposed to do. air frying and all that kind of stuff Liars.
late: yeah yeah this it's not gonna do it
Chris: No.
late: Yeah. Yeah. I don't even trust. my oven. I don't trust the oven at work. No, sorry. Anything? And the guys at work were like. Because the one of the things, because we have the the shift kitty, the station kitty, it's like.
Chris: Yeah.
late: can we just buy an oven thermometer? And they're like, why would we need an oven thermometer? I said, because you don't know what the temperature of the oven is.
Chris: Right.
late: It shows it on the knob. You're trusting. A knob? You put a thermometer in there so you know what temperature it is.
Chris: Yeah, let's go back to the D shift dinner debacle of.
late: Yeah, exactly
Chris: 2015 or whatever it was
late: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: God.
late: Oh.
Chris: when the shift before us Googled. how to set the thermostat the goddamn thing was 900 degrees inside
late: yeah That's why you use a thermometer.
Chris: God we were not blowing glass. We didn't need it that hot
late: yeah
Chris: God.
late: That's how you cook steaks in six seconds.
Chris: Yeah. Done! Shaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
late: I would say a thermometer is the thing. The people. in the fire service you cook do not know how to use the most.
Chris: Oh yeah. Yeah.
late: we We were cooking.
Chris: Or that's like when you say a meat thermometer. Ah, you just. poke it and see or you cut it open i'm like no you cut it open you let all the juices out and Yeah.
late: Yeah. So.
late: We were cooking steaks last night because... The maniac who was... working on my shift was oh we gotta have steaks i was like oh fine i i eat steak like once every six months i'll make it this time
Chris: Yeah.
late: And I'm like. don't burn them steaks use the thermometer and the thermometer is sitting on the grill
Chris: Yeah.
late: And the old man, i'm I don't think you need to check them yet. I'm like, well, I'm going to check them. I'm like, well, they're already past where you need to pull them. What? Like 130 degrees is like medium rare on a steak.
Chris: Yeah. Yes! that's the That's the highest you should cook it.
late: And you really should pull it at like 125 so it coasts.
Chris: Exactly.
late: up to 130.
Chris: Yes!
late: Yeah. So we're all eating. I pulled them. I'm like, nope, these are coming off. and he's like well leave the two on for us and i'm like all right well you guys want your shoe leather We'll see.
Chris: Ugh.
late: Yeah.
Chris: What kind of animal eats a well -done steak?
late: Yeah.
late: animals who don't like steak.
Chris: Yeah.
late: Yeah. Why buy a nice piece of meat? Why not just go buy the cheapest, crappiest piece of meat that you're just gonna eat?
Chris: Yeah, because I'm sure you're going to.
late: Turtle.
Chris: they're gonna Slather it in A1 or something.
late: Oh, no, no. They were fancy. They poured the A1 and...
Chris: Catch up.
late: onto the plate and dipped. their stake into it.
Chris: Ooh! Pinky out.
late: Yes. that's He said, if you're going to ruin a steak, I guess be... gentlemanly about it.
late: animals.
Chris: Oh my gosh. Yeah, I... Hmm. Now there are some like ground beef I will cook to like.
late: Sure. Because it's...
Chris: Yeah.
late: DK, trust that crap.
Chris: Medium well. Yeah.
late: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah, my mother though She'll get, she... She will fuss at people because she's like oh I'll take my burger medium -rare. They're like man. We won't cook it to that. She's like Fine. Medium.
Chris: but it better have some kind of pink in it. like Okay there, Hannibal Lecter.
late: I've seen my mother eat raw hamburger.
Chris: Ah!
late: Yeah.
Chris: m
late: she's uh They built differently back then.
Chris: yeah Yeah. I just.
late: that's that's That's not what I'm doing.
Chris: yeah yeah Yeah, but now you mention it, you know with all this, I'm going to buy. two more thermometers. because We have one in the oven, but I'm going to put one in the fridge and one in the freezer.
late: I have one in the freezer. I don't have one in the freezer. I have one in the fridge.
Chris: yeah yeah
late: Yeah. Because also... people don't realize that the fridge is different temperatures in different areas of the fridge
Chris: Yeah.
late: Yeah.
Chris: yeah
late: Put a freaking thermometer in there, people.
Chris: Yeah.
late: It's... By the way. They're like seven dollars.
Chris: Exactly.
late: they're not They're not expensive and a good.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
late: Meet thermometer. It's like 20 bucks.
Chris: Yeah. Yep.
late: You do not have to spend $800 on a thermometer.
Chris: Yeah, and the majority of them, if you flip it over, it says, oh, you're cooking pork? Here's this, here's this, here's this, you know, steak.
late: Right. Yeah.
Chris: media you know medium rare rare you know all that chicken cooked to this turkey cooked to this yeah
late: ha
late: just buy a nice digital 3d thermometer
Chris: m
late: Donezo. And it again, don't go out and buy the ThermoPren branded Pro 5000.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: down. No.
late: just
Chris: Yeah.
late: buy one that has magnets in it. That's the only thing I would say.
Chris: Yeah. Yep.
late: It's nice to put the little thing and slap it against the... your fridge or wherever so you can have it next to you.
Chris: Mm hmm. Yeah. Although I will say some of them, like... If you have the probe. On the wire, it is nice for like a roast. you can jam it in there, and then just...
late: Yeah. those Those ones are nice.
Chris: Yeah.
late: Especially if you're not smoking.
Chris: Yeah.
late: Which by the way, I'm quitting my job. and this is my two weeks notice
Chris: Okay.
late: I'm just going to open up a barbecue shack on the side of the road.
Chris: Oh, okay.
late: I'm only going to be open two days a ah week.
Chris: Alright.
late: and we sell out, I'm done for the day.
Chris: Yeah.
late: That's it. It feels like the dream. Peace.
Chris: Yeah. Oh! Speaking of the dream... I met the man. Living the dream. while I was on vacation.
late: Alright.
Chris: we went to a local brewery while we were up there it's like mountain state brewery or whatever and i just want to look at you know the different beers on tap they had you know because they had Well...
late: Sure.
Chris: but it didn't really explain them. So I wanted to ask the guy a couple of questions. And while I was saying you know this customer walked up and he's like hold on and the guy was like oh could i get like a long island iced tea or something the guy goes and points to the other bartender. He's like, I just do beer.
late: Nice!
Chris: I was like... How do I get this job?
late: He... to be fair he's not living my full dream because my full dream would have been like if you come up to me and say explain the spirit of like we have one two three Four, five, and six. Whichever one of those ones you want.
Chris: well it Oh, well, that was the thing when I said, you know, I was like, hey, what's this like? What's that? He was like. i mean it's got the names on them that's a you know half of isin that's a yeah He's like, if you want to know the taste and all that kind of shit.
Chris: here's this and he hands me this like piece of paper that's got like a paragraph for each one he was like I just pull whichever tap pile. Yeah.
late: Nice.
Chris: I was like, this this man has the dream job.
late: That has the dream job.
Chris: Ah.
late: Yeah. Was he like the daytime? Was he the day shift guy? Cause that's like. The real dream.
Chris: Nah, he was like I mean, we went there like 5 .30, 6 o 'clock, so.
late: i could do the I could do the early dinner crowd.
Chris: Yeah.
late: It's fine.
Chris: But yeah, it was still just, I was like, God bless you.
late: Yeah. Yeah. just You should have been like, just so you know. I have a friend who's coming and he's probably going to kill you and take your job. He'll probably wear you as a suit. So...
Chris: Ugh. What's your name again?
late: Yeah. That's the dream.
Chris: Are you right -handed or left -handed so we can get this straight?
late: okay Looks like he's wearing an Edgar suit.
Chris: yeah
late: Hmm. Well... On to topic one.
Chris: Sure. Topic one.
late: But it's funny because topic one sort of... Tangentially runs into your rant.
Chris: god
late: I was. washing my RB the other day.
Chris: okay
late: You know, in between the 38 thunderstorms we get a day now.
Chris: Yeah, yeah.
late: And.
Chris: oh because you get an app you get an alert on your phone from your rv that said i need to be washed
late: No, no. No, it just was what it well, I was technically power washing the house and I was like, well shit while I'm here I'll just do the RV
Chris: yeah
late: i'm an idiot and did power washing before this sort of thing. So anyways. I bought... a telescoping brush. to you know, So I can...
late: reach the RV and get all the things and it won't take us much room.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
late: And I have decided. And i have your that I should have given you the homework that right then and there. I'm going to make you do it on the spot. But I decided that technology. of telescoping handles.
late: has never worked. It will never work. They're always... Terrible.
Chris: Yeah?
late: And it made me start thinking about other things that are terrible technology that seems like it's so a good idea. Like that seems. like a perfectly reasonable idea this telescoping handle They just. Suck.
late: Most. and I'm a guy who still watches fire engines on a regular basis. most vehicle brushes.
Chris: Yeah.
late: Suck. because the handle spins off or it's just they're they all
Chris: Yeah. ah Yeah.
late: like It's a technology that we just cannot get right.
Chris: Yeah.
late: And the other type.
Chris: Because look at the telescoping thing. I was vacuuming the pool the other day and I've got a telescoping handle for that. and you know i have it out there and i go to push and it just retracts upon itself i'm like no No.
late: They're terrible. They don't work.
Chris: No! Yeah.
late: that what they need and i was thinking about it it needs a clip system
Chris: Yes.
late: You get it to the length you need and you clip it in and then when you're done you clip it out
Chris: yeah
late: That's what it means instead. It's got this Flappy.
Chris: Patent pending. Patent pending.
late: Funny, funny, funny. There's this crappy half -turn thing that's not really a lock.
Chris: ah Yeah.
late: it's just They never work. They're terrible.
Chris: Yeah. yeah you unscrew it you pull it to the point you like oh that's good and tight And then now.
late: Yeah.
Chris: Mm -mm.
late: it's They're awful.
Chris: Yeah. I mean, like you said, with the the scrub brushes.
late: Awful.
Chris: yeah You crank that. handle into there as tight as possible you get like five passes on the engine and it's like oh this is loose again
late: mm -hmm 100%.
Chris: Mm hmm.
late: it Just sell me. an integrated brush. With the handle.
Chris: Yeah.
late: That. ah don't have Whatever. It's wasteful, I guess. I'm gonna have to throw the whole thing away when it's broken and broke down. Whatever.
Chris: Yeah.
late: The fire department wastes enough money on other stuff we can get. Just give me a good brush.
Chris: or just glue it in there.
late: Glue it in there. Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
late: Something better than this. Nonsense we deal with.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
late: But in this
Chris: Or again, or again. You screw it in there or whatever, but when it gets to the certain point, because you know which what doesn't fail? The squeegees that just have a stupid pin that goes through.
late: That's true. Squeezes never fail.
Chris: All right.
late: We have...
Chris: Hmm.
late: We have squeegees in Station 1 that I'm pretty sure are from the 80s.
Chris: Oh I'm sure.
late: I don't think those squeegees have ever been replaced. I think we've replaced the blades on them. But the handles are probably from the 80s.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. well And we probably have to take them to, you know, like Mr. Squeegee or something, who's the only person that can work on those squeegees.
late: yeah Yes. Well, they're special fire department squeegees, so they cost an extra $10 ,000 to $12 ,000.
Chris: oh yeah
late: So, you know, special.
Chris: Yeah. i can see it now that we go to this shop or whatever like hey you know bill here ah bill passed away last year how the hell are we gonna get our squeegees re -bladed ah
late: Yeah, that would happen That would be a crisis in our department.
Chris: ah It would. It would. It would. it would Amen.
late: for But in the same...
Chris: My gosh.
late: event So... These are two technologies that failed.
Chris: Yeah.
late: And one of them fails for me. All the time. so the I was like, oh, well, I might as well. run the RV because I try to run it once a month just let it you know. run for a little bit.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
late: I was like, I'll run the RV for a little bit. Which... Turns the stupid radio on in the RV. hooks up to the stupid Bluetooth. So now I'm trying to listen to my.
late: Music on my headphones.
Chris: Uh huh.
late: But for some reason I can't priority channel which... bluetooth i wanted to use and i can't make it forget
Chris: Uh -huh.
late: the car or the because as soon as i hit forget it just re -fucking syncs with the damn thing so
Chris: ah Yeah.
late: The damn Bluetooth never works the way I want it ever.
Chris: Yeah.
late: Ever, ever.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Why can't we prioritize? the Bluetooth.
late: I don't know. what you would think i would be able to say this device
Chris: devices.
late: priorities.
Chris: Yeah.
late: This one. Also... my headphones if one of them is on there's a good chance the other one's supposed to be on at the same time stop turning off
Chris: Yes.
late: individually so that i'm like well great i'm only usually listening to music on my right ear right now
Chris: Yeah.
late: Awesome.
Chris: Yeah.
late: And the only way to do that is to reset the damn things in the stupid case.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Mm hmm. Yeah. but you sit there and you put them in take it out and you're like touching it to your ear to make sure it um
late: oh yeah oh if god helps you to touch the thing because then there's like skipping the songs and oh my god
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yep. Hmm.
late: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
late: There's a nightmare.
Chris: Yeah.
late: But.
Chris: Yeah.
late: So in this nightmare scenario where I can't unpair the damn headphones from the damn RV. I turned the RV off. some i'm tired of it i'm like well fuck i'll turn the damn thing off But for some reason, the radio in my ah RV stays on for like 10 minutes after you turn the thing off.
Chris: was probably because the bluetooth was connected to it so i was like oh you're using me i must stay on
late: So it's...
late: They're fucking playing music in RV where nobody is. I just... um I was. Raging. I am losing. my mind.
Chris: Yeah.
late: I was like, I don't know what to do at this point besides take a baseball bat to my own RV.
Chris: Yeah.
late: That's not going to solve anything, because then I'm just going to be mad for...
Chris: Yeah.
late: myself. And I'd have to go get a baseball bat.
Chris: Yeah, but you'll be happy for about 30 seconds.
late: Yeah. Well, I would be so mad because I'd have to drive to Dick's to get the baseball bat.
Chris: And then your phone would have to reconnect to your car.
late: and then i'm and i'm like a goddamn car won't reconnect because it's stupid thing are would be a nightmare hopeful
Chris: Ah.
late: So angry.
Chris: Yeah.
late: but it's just technology that just
Chris: Yeah.
late: this doesn't it's like we made
Chris: Right.
late: We made Bluetooth.
Chris: Mm hmm.
late: And it was like. awesome because only everybody only had like one bluetooth thing But now everything's fucking Bluetooth.
Chris: yeah
late: And it's... Nothing works.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
late: I'm starting to sound like my wife because my wife. Cannot handle technology at all. And she's hearing me upstairs, so she's hearing me tell her. but She will just rage at technology. I literally...
Chris: Like, click the button 8 ,000 times.
late: But... she Cannot use a printer.
Chris: Well, to be fair.
late: Love for you. they're They're terrible.
Chris: As soon as a printer smells your fear, you've lost.
late: Yeah, you're you're done. You're done. it's But...
Chris: Yeah.
late: printers are terrible they're never going to work another technology that we've never gotten right
Chris: Yeah.
late: Ever.
Chris: Yeah.
late: Which is... Terrible things that just don't work right. I don't know what we do. and
Chris: Yeah.
late: yeah The worst part is... The... Because I'm a sucker. I'm going to go buy another telescoping handle for my stupid brush.
Chris: Oh yeah.
late: I'm gonna buy another pair of headphones for my stupid headphones when these ones die.
Chris: Yeah.
late: what i don't have an option what do i don't know what to go back to a corded pair of headphones
Chris: Yeah.
late: Like an animal?
Chris: Yeah.
late: of
Chris: Yeah. What's like, I mean... And again, I'm sure it's a one -off. But my Garmin watch. Guess what it doesn't track anymore?
late: Your exercises?
Chris: Steps, exercises. It. tracks time and Yeah. Time.
late: I... I have a story about that I got a text message from... the... you know, truck driver at station two.
Chris: Hmm.
late: And he's like... What's up with you slacking? and I'm like. the hell are you talking about i thought he was like giving me some shit about something i did
Chris: Mm hmm.
late: I slack at work all the time.
Chris: Hmm. Hmm.
late: and he's like you haven't done a workout in like a month and a half i said i work out every day what are you talking about
Chris: Yeah.
late: For a month and a half. My Garmin just didn't sync.
Chris: Yeah.
late: And I just had no clue.
Chris: Yeah. Mm -hmm
late: Because if you don't check the app, you would have no idea.
Chris: Right yeah.
late: And um I was like, well, what the... So then I'm like. trying to get it to sync I'm forcing sync i'm updating i'm resetting i'm
Chris: huh Mm -hmm.
late: And then I try to reset my Garmin watch and then it's frozen. I was like. Yes. I was.
Chris: Yeah.
late: Ready to buy a new one.
Chris: Mm -hmm Mm -hmm
late: I was just done.
Chris: Mm hmm.
late: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah, so right now I just have an overpriced watch.
late: That sucks.
Chris: Yeah.
late: Yeah.
Chris: That, oh, by the way, at four o 'clock in the morning says. Battery saver needs to be turned on. ah Okay. So I do that. By 10 o 'clock today, my watch is dead.
Chris: Hmm.
late: That sucks.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. So.
late: My wife is not enjoying. The vibrating sound of my Garmin watch. while backstage is going off every three seconds for overtime.
Chris: Oh I do not have that hooked up.
late: And I don't know how to undo it.
Chris: Mmm. I know in my phone I can like. or there's a way to figure out like which notifications get pushed and which don't because yeah i was i remember mine Somehow I got Discord messages.
Chris: or notifications turned on And I was playing Destiny hardcore at the time, so like... I was in an active clan and it was like... I like yeah this has to stop.
late: Yeah.
Chris: Hmm.
late: ah's just You can't have that.
Chris: Hmm.
late: life.
Chris: Yeah.
late: Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: Oh. I know a technology that, you know, it's again, it's with the communications and all that. My little personal assistant in my phone. Well, let me know that I've gotten an email.
Chris: but they can't read it. Like I'll be mowing the grass like you have an email from Harry's.
late: That's cool.
Chris: that I cannot read. Then I'll I'll get pissy Well, then don't tell me. Okay. turning off notifications for the next 30 minutes i'm like okay so i Five minutes go by.
Chris: text message from i'm like you just told me you were turning off the notifications
late: but Not those type of occasions.
Chris: oh Yeah.
late: I don't even have that on my phone, so I'm... I was going to say. Sorry.
Chris: yeah
late: I... My phone doesn't talk to me? I think I would start to worry about my sanity.
Chris: Yeah. yeah
late: I'm... worried about my sanity most days, I don't need to be talking to inanimate objects.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. I will say it was nice today. I was in the gym. and i got a text from the hr director and i was able to just you know. reply. mid -workout without having to let go of the weights or anything.
late: the
Chris: So.
late: I just wouldn't reply
Chris: Yeah, it was kind of important.
late: Okay. Which I do have a small story about that. the other day uh the maniac who works on a shift i'm not going to say his name but
Chris: m
late: truck lieutenant at station two.
Chris: Oh, okay.
late: oh He calls me. at like nine o 'clock at night.
Chris: What?
late: What? The story gets better. Because I don't... I don't carry my, my phone sits in a different room.
Chris: Yeah.
late: I of course did not answer the phone. Because it's after 8 o 'clock at night. i don' Literally nobody. I need to talk to you after 8 o 'clock tonight.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
late: So then I text.
Chris: Yeah. Is it? Yeah. Is it? Yeah. The CIA calling? Otherwise? No.
late: There's literally nothing. I... i tell my mother this story and she's like well what if i had to call you i said You live eight hours away from me. If you had an emergency at 9 o 'clock at night, there's nothing I can do until the next morning anyway, so I'm just going to sleep through the night.
Chris: Exactly.
late: Yeah, we're fine.
Chris: ah
late: This solved itself.
Chris: Yeah.
late: So. Bye. Bye. So he... I text him in the morning when I wake up at 6 a .m. like I normally do. I waited until 7, I think. So, which one?
Chris: m
late: swole You didn't answer your phones. No. That was... He's like, what are you doing, sleeping? I was like. I might have been sleeping or I just. Don't answer my phone after 8 o 'clock at night because... I don't need that shit in my life
Chris: Yeah.
late: Okay. Any second. well, I had this call ah in Bethany Beach and like, you know, I got questions about it. I'm like. That's cool. ah that is Literally nothing to do with me.
Chris: Yeah.
late: but like but Literally nothing. And it was a hazmat question. I'm like. Cool I'm happy to answer your question. But I'm not on call to answer. volunteer fire company questions.
Chris: Right.
late: at 9 o 'clock at night.
Chris: yeah Yeah. yeah unless it was you know you found that This person owed me a million dollars.
late: stop
late: Yeah.
Chris: i don't really care
late: And probably. I could deal with that in the morning anyways.
Chris: Exactly. Yeah.
late: Yeah.
Chris: Because you're not going to be able to do anything about it at 8 .30, 9 o 'clock at night.
late: Exactly.
Chris: Yeah.
late: But he he he was.
Chris: Huh.
late: legitimately like flabbergasted when I was like, no, I don't answer my phone.
Chris: huh ha
late: at night.
Chris: yeah
late: Well, how do you... How do you know what's going on? Hi.
Chris: yeah
late: I don't
Chris: Well, he's okay and I'm - conundrum when it comes to that. Because you would think. He would be the type that like still has a rotary phone. But he has a lot of smart technology.
late: Sure.
late: Sure, sure, sure.
Chris: Yeah.
late: That's fair. But she... He's one of these people who I worry like is going to give himself a... an aneurysm because he's worried about everything going on in the world. 10 o 'clock, good night.
Chris: Oh yeah. Yeah.
late: like
Chris: Yeah.
late: There was a fire at my cousin's work.
Chris: Oh, that's it.
late: And I just got the alert on my phone and I was like. The next morning, I text her. I was like, hey, embers of fire. It should work. She's like. what what time was it i said ah i don't know it happened during the night i wasn't looking at my phone She's like, what?
Chris: yeah Yeah.
late: i'm like yeah I don't... Life. doesn't concern me anymore.
Chris: Yeah.
late: Like...
Chris: Yeah.
late: from From the moment I'm like, okay. Screen's down. um
Chris: Yeah.
late: I'm good, bud.
Chris: Yeah, that's, ah I mean. I realized... He was yesterday afternoon. that I had forgotten to turn. like backstage and pulse point back on and my phone.
late: Cool.
Chris: Because I was on vacation. I was like i don't need it.
late: Yeah. but I bet your life was just the same.
Chris: It was. It was.
late: Hmm.
Chris: It was. Although... The first morning. We were at the. The My brother set the smoke alarms off cooking breakfast.
late: nice
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He was like, oh. he' was like ah yeah Yeah, sorry. I hope the fire department doesn't show up. I was like, one, this system's not tied to an automatic. alert.
late: Yeah.
Chris: Two. we're in gary county it's volunteers start out showing up
late: Yeah. We got it, bud. We got like 45 minutes. to still
Chris: Yeah.
late: you Think about it.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
late: Well, ready to move on to the topic? Dos.
Chris: Uh, sure. So for topic two Um... I thought we would go through some... Uh, odd or obscure regional phrases that
late: Oh boy.
Chris: Yeah. we should probably start using.
late: Oh sweet.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. So. There's... Okay, the first one is acknowledge the corn.
Chris: What do you think that means?
late: Well... My brain immediately went to the... classic Children of the Corn movie.
Chris: No.
late: So... Um...
Chris: ah
late: I'm hoping it's not that.
Chris: Yeah. Um,
late: Now it's the corn.
Chris: Yeah.
late: I don't know
Chris: Yeah. It's ah to acknowledge the corn is admitting your three sheets to the wind or to cop to any wrongdoings or mistake. because of corn whiskey.
late: h
Chris: Yeah.
late: Yeah, I would not have gone there. Who said I was thinking murder -death -kill?
Chris: that Yeah.
late: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Um, An agonor. A -G -I -N -N -E -R It's a noun.
late: A -G -I -N -N -E -R.
Chris: Correct.
late: That's also now how I thought we would spell that. um
Chris: Yeah.
late: I'm hanging her. And Aginor... is someone who left the 4 -H club. to travel west. During the 48.
Chris: Hmm.
late: gold rush of corn growing.
Chris: Now... uh this is someone who lives to be a contrarian whether it's about a specific issue or just something different or new.
late: Oh, it's just me.
late: So I'm just denying her. Okay. All right.
Chris: You're an agator.
late: Alright.
Chris: Yeah.
late: Okay, I'll get business cards made up.
Chris: Yeah, yeah A blue norther. this is from Texas
late: A blue norther.
Chris: Mm hmm.
late: Well, I'm assuming Knowing Texas that that means some Democrat who moves to Texas. Thank you very much.
Chris: No.
late: Okay.
Chris: It's a frigid wind from the north that causes temperatures to plummet.
late: Hmm.
Chris: Yep, because it's a northerly wind and it makes you turn blue.
late: Huh.
Chris: Yeah.
late: Alright, alright.
Chris: Yep, so next time there's a chilly breeze, woo, that's a blue norther.
late: Yeah, but here you can't hell if it's northern because the wind's coming from all directions it doesn't matter which way you're facing the wind's coming at you
Chris: We, uh...
Chris: That's true That is true. that's like yeah you look at the radar around here and it's like yeah seriously yeah eight o 'clock they're going east and then it's north and then it's south and then it's west and and um
late: Pilots must hate it.
Chris: Mm hmm.
late: Yeah. Yeah. So we have a blue all -rounder.
Chris: Yeah. The blue all -arounder.
late: Yeah, yeah.
Chris: A bombazine.
late: Well, Bombazine is clearly... A F - French Creole magazine. About. Bomb bomb music.
Chris: Ooh. I didn't know Bomb Bomb was a specific music.
late: I just made it up.
Chris: Okay. Oh. I'll give you a hint. It's a derivative of Bumbershoot.
late: A b - a b - A bumper shoot.
Chris: Yes.
late: Well, a bumper shoot. is a parachute that you wear on your ass. So that. If you're. falling you you know you fall in that classic position ass up hands down.
Chris: Yes.
late: That's a bumper shoot.
Chris: Yes. Yeah, it's an umbrella.
late: what
Chris: Yes.
late: No, we already have a word for that.
Chris: I can't believe you've never heard of Bumbershoot.
late: but No. First off. I don't. philosophically believe that people should use umbrellas. Suck it off Who calls it a...
Chris: What's wrong with an umbrella?
late: They're the most impractical. piece of clothing or article of Outerwear you can have. They're useless.
Chris: Ah.
late: So you have to carry this stupid thing around with you, right?
Chris: <unk>
late: Then... you Oh, it's raining. Let me put out my deploy my umbrella. cool i'm in this little bubble of all my pants are still getting wet my feet are getting wet but my shoulders are dry until the moment i get in my car and i have to take the umbrella and dump the water on the interior of my car and then i close the umbrella which is sopping wet and now it's in whatever space i'm in so yeah I really made a difference.
late: in my life because now everything's wet instead of just me.
Chris: Ah. well the next time you see somebody using one you can say look at that bombazine
late: Bye. My wife. is an umbrella person or had been an umbrella person it is probably the Kind of achieved my life as I got her to stop using umbrellas. Just grab a nice raincoat and some goulashes and you're a better person.
Chris: Oui, oui, oui. Grab some what?
late: goulashes
Chris: No, they're galoshes. Goulash is something you eat.
late: Go on, Ashers.
Chris: No, they're galoshes.
late: You know, goulash is something you eat. Goulash is there something you put on your feet.
Chris: Yeah.
late: And that rhymes.
Chris: And it does.
late: So it's got to be true.
Chris: Ah. ah
Chris: Elbedriched.
late: All right, um can you you give me country of origin?
Chris: southeastern Pennsylvania
late: Oh, great where where I'm from. So great. All right.
Chris: the Yep.
late: All right. So these are my people.
Chris: Yep.
late: Ill -bedretched.
Chris: Yep. E L B E. d r i t s c h
late: I was on board until you said EL. but And everything fell apart. ill bedriched All right, so this is an Amish thing. Um,
late: Hmm.
late: I've lived in this area my entire life and I've never heard this word. Oh.
Chris: Yeah. Do you remember when you were in Scouts? Did you ever go on a snipe hunt?
late: Yes.
Chris: That's the same thing
late: oh Okay.
Chris: Yep.
late: Alright.
Chris: Yep. An imaginary animal used as a practical joke on a naive hunter.
late: You know, a snipe is not it's a real thing.
Chris: It's a bird.
late: It's a bird. i tell My wife and I just had this conversation because it was a word -a -word.
Chris: Yeah.
late: and she's like that's not a real word i said it's a bird
Chris: Yes, it is. Yep.
late: it's The word sniper.
Chris: Or it's also...
late: comes from
Chris: Yeah.
late: The bird.
Chris: Yes.
late: Yeah.
Chris: Because they, yeah.
late: They're very hard to see.
Chris: They snipe. Yeah.
late: And no, it's because...
Chris: um
late: They're very hard to shoot because they're...
Chris: Yeah.
late: They're so hard to see.
Chris: Why would you shoot a snipe?
late: I don't know. People shoot birds.
Chris: Perfect.
late: Why would you shoot a duck? I don't know
Chris: Because you eat it?
late: I guess you can either snipe, I don't...
Chris: Maybe.
late: I don't know.
Chris: Yeah.
late: I don't hunt.
Chris: Hmm.
late: All right. Well.
Chris: Mm -hmm Yeah.
late: i You know, I went to Scouts in southeastern Pennsylvania. Never heard this term.
Chris: Hmm.
late: We call it a snipe hunt.
Chris: Yeah, that's...
late: Hmm.
Chris: Ah. A FLUG. f F -L -U -G
late: All right, well, it's...
Chris: Unspecified region.
late: It's spelled the way I think it would be.
Chris: Mm hmm.
late: Slug. Well...
Chris: well
late: Clearly. Flug is a derivative of flagon, which we all know. is an old -timey measurement for three and a half drams. So a FLUG.
late: is a half a flagon.
Chris: So word used used to describe the dust or lint that makes it into the nooks and crannies around you. So instead of saying lint, you say, ah, there's flug in my pockets.
late: I like my definition better.
Chris: Yeah, no, I agree.
Chris: Futs.
late: Well... ah Wait.
Chris: So, like, as to, don't futz around.
late: Yeah, like that's a... way will Wait wait wait. Am I just discovering that futz is not a thing that normal people will say?
Chris: Yeah, I... Yeah. My followers.
late: Wait... Do you not say futz?
Chris: Yeah, you futz around. Yeah, stop futzing around.
late: You're f***ing around with us. Yeah, stop f***ing with us.
Chris: Yeah.
late: Stop fussing with that.
Chris: Yeah. Hey, you're wasting time.
late: Well, you're not you're
Chris: Or, your yeah.
late: if but You're touching things you're not supposed to touch.
Chris: you're Yeah.
late: You're futzing. Don't fuck with that.
Chris: Yeah. Exactly.
late: Is that it? Is this a regional thing?
Chris: It says just the north.
late: Is this a thing that like other people don't say and I just think is normal?
Chris: yeah Maybe. Yeah.
late: Oh, wow. Yeah, Futz is... What? Legitimately having a crisis of personality right now. Because when you said futz, I was like... I was expecting like... a futsaluno or something.
Chris: Ah. ah Listeners, if you're from the South, let us know if. You don't know what futz means.
late: Like, you don't futz with stuff?
Chris: Yeah.
late: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
late: Like your father would say hey Kid, stop fussing with that stuff.
Chris: Yeah.
late: Or if you're from South Philly, your father would be like. Hey, John, stop fussing with that John.
Chris: Yes. Hmm. The Goozle.
late: Well... We can't, this is a frame of trainer podcast.
Chris: It's from the South.
late: So we can't talk about a guzzle.
Chris: Hmm.
late: The goozle. is Clearly. The part... of your gooch that hangs towards your inner thigh. The Guzzle.
Chris: Oh, you were so close.
late: oh
Chris: It's the throat in general
late: Oh.
Chris: Yeah. Hmm.
late: I think I actually have. heard Goozle before.
Chris: Yeah.
late: That's not a term I use.
Chris: Yeah. How about a honeyfuggle?
late: Well.
Chris: It's a kind of person
late: I, I've, I don't, I'm not. keyed into this community, but like... I know they exist. I know they take it very seriously. And I know that they consider. People who are...
late: you know, ignorant of their community. Muggles.
Chris: m
late: But if you're a prostitute who pretends to be a muggle for a day, you're a honey fugal.
Chris: ah It's a... ah Someone who. uh, Relies on trickery swindling or deceit
late: I was close.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. So, or if, you know, something's happened that I got honey fuggled.
late: Did you see... Sorry to change this. Did you see... The maniac crap out of Wales.
Chris: ah ah Maybe not?
late: They were gonna put like an underground Communication line to Ireland. And they were going through Wales. And... the country not the
Chris: Yeah, yeah.
late: Animal. And. These maniac Harry Potter fans. protested because it was going through the the spot where they filmed the death of the Stupid elf.
Chris: what Oh, I did see that, yes.
late: Yeah. And that's... the they're That's the reason to not do something because
Chris: Yeah.
late: An imaginary. Character. In a movie. Died in this spot
late: Sometimes I need to get off this.
Chris: h
late: this. That's right.
Chris: Yeah, that's that's kind of ridiculous.
late: That's a little ridiculous.
Chris: Yeah.
late: Honeyfugle.
Chris: Yeah.
late: I might use that one. Stop putting food on me.
Chris: Yeah. That's a yeah. Yeah. Um, Here's one from Maine. in Massachusetts. Hosey.
late: Well. Again. We're all familiar with hosies. Um, you know, When I was a kid There was a term we would use for people who per pretended to be part of.
late: ah a group. We call that a. opposer, right? Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
late: To be a hosie is to pretend to be a fireman.
Chris: Close. To reserve or stake a claim.
Chris: Yep. So if you... waltzed over to a chair and declared it yours, you could mosey and hosey at the same time.
late: And if there was a posy on that chair, it would be.
Chris: o that Yeah.
late: Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: Um, This is a sound. That something makes a Juggerum.
late: o A juggerum.
Chris: Yep.
late: Well... Again. I'm going to use my prolific knowledge of world politics and... global social economic systems.
late: We all know. that Rum was made in jugs? in mostly the Caribbean and Barbados.
Chris: yes
late: And what...
Chris: ah
late: is native. to Barbados. But the Barbados... Canary bird, which makes the noise. Juggerum.
Chris: It's the sound a bullfrog makes.
late: Damn it.
Chris: Yeah. I didn't know that had a name. Them bullfrogs are juggerumming.
late: That's... Deep.
Chris: And see, that sounds like something from the South. It says it's from the Northeast.
late: yeah I've never heard that. I live in the Northeast.
Chris: Yeah.
late: Ish. Mid -Atlantic, I guess. What do you call the piece of skin between your thumb and your forefinger.
Chris: I know your hand taint.
late: It's called your... Curacao.
Chris: Curaçao?
late: Or so. Yeah. It's fun time.
Chris: Yeah. Um, An adjective. La Rupping. L -A -R -R -U -P -I -N -G It's from Oklahoma.
late: Wow.
late: In Oklahoma. It's anything I know about Oklahoma and I've... Of course. I've seen love. you know the musical Bye. What? They have there is a specific LARP community.
late: that pretends to be puppies, not furries. Peace. And they call it... The Rupping.
Chris: m ah It's... commonly used to emphasize the deliciousness of food such as that cake is la -rupping good
late: okay that's
Chris: Yeah.
late: I think that's a silly one
Chris: here's you should but you'll probably get this from the Ozarks Noodle. it's a verb
late: Whoa. I'm gonna give my fake answer, but I know what the real answer is.
Chris: Okay.
late: As. a cultural expert of the people of the Ozarks. Um,
late: We all know. that They don't have pasta? So when they were introduced to the Italians by the Italian migration of the 1920s,
late: they started calling Italian people. a noodle.
late: but it really it means to put your hand in a... Hole in Hope of Catfish. Good show.
Chris: Yep.
late: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Hmm.
Chris: Um, Someone... uh nebby like someone's being nebby this is from pennsylvania
late: Well... You have to go back. To. the migration of English and Welsh settlers from the 16 and 1700s into Eastern Pennsylvania.
late: And they came with the word. Jebby. Jabby is slow. pejorative term for just kind of a weaselly person. But if that Weasley person has asthma and needs medicine.
late: They change that and call them a Nebi.
Chris: Mm -hmm. It's someone who's sticking their nose where it doesn't belong. Mm hmm. Yeah. Let's see Let's get another.
Chris: Oh, this one says it's from Delmarva and the South Atlantic. PIPG.
late: The South Atlantic? Like.
Chris: That's what it says.
late: Fahimi?
Chris: What? Ahem. Pip Jenny.
late: Well... Again, as an expert on the... anthropological people and cultures of the Delmarva Peninsula.
Chris: sh Sure, Billies.
late: Short bellies, as we like to call them.
Chris: Mm hmm.
late: Say it again.
Chris: Pip Jenny.
late: <unk> Jenny. A Pip Jenny. is So. Weird little tab. on the back of a crab.
Chris: Yeah, that makes more sense. It's a pimple.
late: oh
Chris: Hmm.
late: oh Again. I've worked in the Dunbar Peninsula for the last 20 years. I've never heard anybody say anything. pip jenny And I work with a guy who's from Smith Island.
Chris: Yeah.
late: And I don't know half the words he says, and he's never said Pip, Jenny.
Chris: Maybe you should throw that out the next time you're around him.
late: Yeah, he might actually. He probably would know it.
Chris: Yeah, oh yeah. Yeah. Um... A toad strangler.
Chris: Also known as a toad choker.
late: Wow.
Chris: ah
late: We all know what toe choking is.
late: Dude. strength Is this a person?
Chris: It's a noun
late: it's a noun
Chris: it's ah It's an event.
late: It's an event. Well, it's a...
Chris: It's from the Gulf States.
late: It's a rainstorm so heavy. That the rain. reaches a level where it's so high that the toads Start choking on the mud?
Chris: You are correct
late: No way.
Chris: I swear to you.
late: Wow.
Chris: Yep. A sudden, extremely heavy heavy rain. That would.
late: Toe choker.
Chris: Yep.
late: That's fun.
Chris: Hmm.
late: I got one!
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. ah And we'll finish it up with a, where was it?
Chris: Mully grubs. it's a noun it's a plural noun So. Yeah.
late: There's multiple Molly grubs
Chris: Mm hmm.
late: Ugh.
Chris: yeah Or, you know, just It could be just Mully Grub.
late: well
late: I've been very interested in the mulberry tree and family. of trees for the last
Chris: Mmm.
late: decade or so There's a very specific kind of jam. It comes from mulberry trees?
Chris: hu
late: It's called Mulberry Jam. And. Because of the nature of mulberry trees, grubs grow in that jam and those are... Mother grumps.
Chris: Ah. It's a state of being sulky with a bad temper. Typically, if somebody's hangry.
late: Get them all the grubs.
Chris: So there you have the Mully Grubs.
late: Hmm.
Chris: Yep. Yeah.
late: I like my answers for a lot of these
Chris: yeah Yeah. Yeah, I think your answers are better.
Chris: Ah.
late: It was fun.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah, I figured that'd be a little... light -hearted.
late: I think tomorrow at work you need to use... what was it nip jenny
Chris: Oh yeah.
late: Yeah. Try that. See if anyone knows it.
Chris: Yeah. yeah i'm gonna keep that list and use them out there oh man they're toe choker out there
late: Yeah. That's... Boy, that's a real toad choker.
Chris: Ha!
late: I mean it does kind of make you talk like that.
Chris: It does, yeah.
late: it's a You can't be like...
Chris: Yeah.
late: posh nobody knowing know they' be like well there's a real toad choker out today
Chris: Exactly. Because that puts it on a whole other level of like weird.
late: Yeah. it's That's true.
Chris: Yeah. Ah.
late: Hmm.
Chris: Yeah. oh I think that was a good cast of the pod.
late: Thank you. We've completed the task.
Chris: We have
late: Summer's coming to an end, folks.
Chris: It is.
late: Enjoy your last couple of days of... true summer before it becomes you know fall summer And when we go right into fall winter.
Chris: Yeah. Yes, yeah, yeah, we don't get fall anymore.
late: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. So. Yeah. Maybe it's because people need to put the... Like. decorations out earlier or something. Maybe that cokes the...
Chris: autumn spirits.
late: I'm... silently cursing you.
Chris: I know you are.
Chris: Oh.
late: I have choice words to say but I'm not going to say them.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. yep
late: Well folks, enjoy your... Last few days of August. you know.
Chris: Yeah.
late: what we in the mid -atlantic call The humid times.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
late: Or... or Hamad. As we get to go.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah, Hamid immediate swamp ass, whatever you want to call it.
late: where Where it actually can be. More than 100 % humidity.
Chris: Yes. Yes, and it will give you the molly gobs.
late: It definitely gives you the molly gobs. And sometimes, because of the weather, we get real cho -chokers.
Chris: Yeah, oh yeah, yeah. yeah sure There's one blowing in from a blue north all -arounder.
late: all aroundunder Because we don't get to do northerners, we get all -arounders.
Chris: Yeah. Yep.
late: Hmm.
Chris: Take care, folks.
late: See you, folks.
