#72 - Hiccup Hijinks, Halloween Debates, and Power Slap Perspectives
This is the Unfiltered Union.
Speaker 2:I'm Lynds.
Speaker 1:And I'm Russ.
Speaker 2:Here is this week's episode.
Speaker 1:You have a visitor.
Speaker 2:Really? Okay.
Speaker 1:As soon as I click the record button, he decides to show up. He doesn't love us until we decide to do something.
Speaker 2:Say hello.
Speaker 1:Hello. You don't want to.
Speaker 2:Okay. How often do you get hiccups?
Speaker 1:I don't remember the last time I got hiccups. I am not 5.
Speaker 2:So I'm 5, apparently, because I had hiccups twice in one day the other day.
Speaker 1:Yeah. I was pretty upset with you too that one time because I was sleeping and you decided to come barging in the room while I'm sleeping with your loud hiccup. It sounded like a demon was being exercised. I was taking a shower. I was taking a shower.
Speaker 1:Oh, exercised.
Speaker 2:I was taking a shower. It's not my fault I had hiccups.
Speaker 1:Well, go outside and use the hose when
Speaker 2:you have the hose. To you from now on every time you sneeze. Go outside and sneeze. Why? Not a lot of sneeze in the house.
Speaker 1:Why?
Speaker 2:Because you're so loud when you sneeze.
Speaker 1:I am not loud.
Speaker 2:You scream.
Speaker 1:I'm pretty sure my sneezes are standard sneezes. That's really hard to say. My sneezes are standard sneezes.
Speaker 2:That's pretty good.
Speaker 1:Say it.
Speaker 2:I'm kinda proud of you.
Speaker 1:Say it.
Speaker 2:Well, I think our daughter has had a couple of good isms recently.
Speaker 1:Please say my sneezes are standard sneezes before we move on?
Speaker 2:I'm trying to segue.
Speaker 1:No. I will not allow this.
Speaker 2:Say it again?
Speaker 1:My sneezes are standard sneezes.
Speaker 2:My sneezes are standard sneezes.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's pretty good. Okay.
Speaker 2:Thanks.
Speaker 1:I'm proud of you.
Speaker 2:Appreciate it. Moving on. Daughter. This cat.
Speaker 1:Oh my god.
Speaker 2:Okay. So, our daughter has had quite a few isms recently that we think were pretty good.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So the other day, she came home from school and dropped her backpack off, and there was a bug on it. It was a hornet or a yellow jacket, some something something that is has a stinger.
Speaker 1:And she said, daddy, come get that bug. It's sharp.
Speaker 2:And she was in panic mode.
Speaker 1:She was in a 100% panic mode, but she said, come hurry. Hurry. Come get the bug. It's sharp.
Speaker 2:Yeah. She's been stung, what, 3 times by wasp at this point, so she was in panic mode. Florida's bad. Get the sharp one.
Speaker 1:Who you laugh so hard? A sharp bug. That was the first time I ever heard it, but it makes a lot of sense because they do a lot of stabby stabs.
Speaker 2:And then we were tracing her foot or doing something with her, and she goes, but my toe fingers are
Speaker 1:squished. My toe fingers.
Speaker 2:That was fun.
Speaker 1:I don't understand where
Speaker 2:she gets this thing. Them. Like, I guess just toes.
Speaker 1:Toes? Alright. That's what they are. Fair. They're not toe fingers.
Speaker 2:What do you mean?
Speaker 1:Monkeys have toe
Speaker 2:fingers. One. You know, it translates to your fingers? No? Okay.
Speaker 2:No. Alright. Well, she also Toes. But, like, if you're trying to talk about a specific toe, don't you say my pointer toe? It's a finger.
Speaker 2:Pointer finger. Pointer toe.
Speaker 1:That's yeah. But you don't say finger. Okay.
Speaker 2:I'm not gonna lie
Speaker 1:to you. Say pointer toe finger.
Speaker 2:I mean, kinda. No. Okay. Well, what are those shoes? Those shoes, 5 finger shoes?
Speaker 1:Yeah. But that's just branding.
Speaker 2:Well, so what? They call it that.
Speaker 1:Five finger please. He wants to talk now.
Speaker 2:He just wants attention.
Speaker 1:I know it. If you're not watching on video, this cat is rubbing my microphone.
Speaker 2:Benny cat. Benny cat.
Speaker 1:He loves us, kind of. Only when he wants to, and right now is not a good time, but he wants to.
Speaker 2:But we also took her out, fishing the other night. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah. That was fun.
Speaker 2:And if you check out our TikTok, Instagram, all the things
Speaker 1:Our socials.
Speaker 2:You get to see her reeling in a bass.
Speaker 1:Her first ever bass and surprise, a gator snuck out from underneath the dock and stole it right off the hook.
Speaker 2:I had because she didn't even get to take it out the water, poor kid.
Speaker 1:I had to cut the line because that gator had swallowed all of
Speaker 2:it. I was his gown.
Speaker 1:I was pissed. And then
Speaker 2:A gator wasn't?
Speaker 1:Well, no. He he had a little nice little snack. But there was people out there, and they were like, oh my god. There's a gator. You know, people people freak out over gators in Florida.
Speaker 1:I don't understand it.
Speaker 2:Well, people who are not native
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:I'm getting whacked with the cattail.
Speaker 1:Yes. But it was crazy because it was underneath where we were fishing. So we're fishing on this dock. So we didn't know it was there, and she's reeling in the fish, doing a really good job. The fish is jumping.
Speaker 1:I'm recording a video watching all of it from a baby's first
Speaker 2:bass. For it. Yeah.
Speaker 1:My baby's first bass and that Somama decided to to sneak outside of the out out of the dock and boom, stole that fish. I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 2:It cracked us up though because her reaction, she she drops the pole and says, nope.
Speaker 1:I'm out.
Speaker 2:Not dealing with that gator.
Speaker 1:No. That's an expensive fishing pole. Don't drop it.
Speaker 2:It was hilarious, though. I had a thought the other day. Uh-oh. I need I need you to weigh in here. No.
Speaker 2:How do you what order do you put your clothes on?
Speaker 1:I don't think it matters. I think, honestly, because I don't like to put well, obviously, you put underwear on first.
Speaker 2:What do you mean it doesn't matter? It's cold weather. Matter.
Speaker 1:No. It but, oh, aside from underwear, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2:It really does. No. No. So 100% does.
Speaker 1:I mean, I
Speaker 2:You're the one with OCD.
Speaker 1:I don't wear socks.
Speaker 2:The one telling you it matters.
Speaker 1:I don't wear socks. Okay? So it's underwear and then because I live off of a pile of laundry, I'm okay with that. Don't even judge me. Don't judge me.
Speaker 1:But I live off a pile of laundry, so whatever's on top, I put that on first. So if it's a shirt on the top, I'm putting the shirt on. If it's pants on the top, I'm putting the pants on first. That's how I live. It's just perfectly fine.
Speaker 1:I am not putting clothes into a specific organizational pattern because I'm just gonna wear them and throw them in the in the laundry. It's not happening.
Speaker 2:Putting them on your body, you don't have an order.
Speaker 1:No. It it all depends on what the order that they're in the pile that I am living
Speaker 2:out of. I can't. Like, I feel like no. Like, this is wrong on so many levels. It is against the law at this point.
Speaker 1:No. It isn't.
Speaker 2:You you can't not have an order. I tried the other day to put on a piece of clothing out of order, and it felt so wrong. My whole day was messed up.
Speaker 1:So I will say, though, no. No. No. I got no. No.
Speaker 1:It has nothing to do with clothes, but I do brush my teeth in a certain order. That's not funny.
Speaker 2:I don't know what's weird. Is clothes in a certain order or brushing your teeth in a certain order weirder?
Speaker 1:You know how particular I am.
Speaker 2:About brushing your teeth?
Speaker 1:About brushing my teeth. I am about to be 36. Right? My birthday is in November, and I am about to be 36, and I have not once had a cavity. Not once.
Speaker 1:And I don't know ever I mean, because I'm 36 and I don't have a cavity, I do not wanna break that streak, and I we use Oral B brushes, which are the little spinny head ones, like my little spinny head kit, and they have these 32nd timers that you do your quadrants on. I always start with my bottom left, and then I go bottom right, then I go top left, and then top right.
Speaker 2:Always in that order.
Speaker 1:Every time if I don't do it, I gotta start over.
Speaker 2:Are you serious?
Speaker 1:I will brush my teeth for 20 minutes if I have to to get it right.
Speaker 2:I can't. There's no way that that bothers you that much.
Speaker 1:It bothers me that much.
Speaker 2:Okay. So as a female, right, we have underwear, we have a bra, we have a pants, we have a shirt. Right?
Speaker 1:You have a pants.
Speaker 2:We have a pants. If I don't do the bottom first and top second, I feel completely miscombobulated.
Speaker 1:I don't understand that. See, I I feel like you you gotta put on your undergarments first, obviously. Here we go.
Speaker 2:No. It's
Speaker 1:Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. So you're saying you put your undies on
Speaker 2:Uh-huh.
Speaker 1:And then you put on your pants?
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:So you can't put your undies and your bra on at the same time?
Speaker 2:You mean like undies first, bra second? No. That's out of order. It's bottom top
Speaker 1:first. I don't understand.
Speaker 2:Well, I tried it the other day to put my bra and then my shirt on first. It was wrong. It's wrong. It felt wrong.
Speaker 1:Yeah. I don't I truthfully don't care what order I put them on in. Like like I said
Speaker 2:teeth matter?
Speaker 1:Yes. Okay. But I have clear to clear. But but I have no cavities as a 36 year old.
Speaker 2:Yet because it is just after Halloween.
Speaker 1:And?
Speaker 2:And we have a lot of freaking candy.
Speaker 1:Yes. But I will brush my teeth and order, and they will be perfectly fine. So there.
Speaker 2:Well, we took our daughter and our nephews and a bunch of neighborhood kids around, and they did really well as far as getting candy. But our little stem of the neighborhood, because of the hurricane, still doesn't have street lights, so it just seemed like nobody came to our house to fish candy.
Speaker 1:I'm not gonna lie. That was kinda nice.
Speaker 2:I'm sure it was. I was, like, not walking with the kids.
Speaker 1:I got to sat out I got to sat out. I got to sit outside and just chill. And I did fly my drone. I flew my drone over the neighborhood, and it's pretty cool seeing all the kids running up and down the streets and all that stuff, and it was wild.
Speaker 2:It was busy, but on the lighted part of the environment. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm definitely It was very busy.
Speaker 1:We live on a cul de sac, so our cul de sac was pitch black except for our house, really. We had one blow up decoration. That is our extent of decoration for Halloween is one blow up decoration.
Speaker 2:Like pumpkins. We didn't get pumpkins this year.
Speaker 1:It's so it's hard in Florida. You have to get them, like, the day of because in We
Speaker 2:can still get them for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1:In 30 seconds, them things melt.
Speaker 2:True.
Speaker 1:And bugs everywhere. There's a lot of bugs. But I sat outside for about a half hour, and I got swarmed with mosquitoes.
Speaker 2:I'm sure you did.
Speaker 1:It was unbelievable. I was pissed.
Speaker 2:Well, you talked about our one blow up decoration, but there was some people who, like, their whole house is done up. Almost like what you would expect for Christmas. Right? With all the lights and all the fixtures and all the blokes and all the it was pretty good in our neighborhood.
Speaker 1:There's a group of people that open their entire house up.
Speaker 2:Right. To do the haunted house. They let
Speaker 1:they let rambos in their
Speaker 2:house To walk around. It's crazy. But I guess there's this viral thing going around right now where, some lady had a decoration in her yard, and I guess it was very gruesome, looked like a murder scene.
Speaker 1:I think I've seen that.
Speaker 2:Yeah. And I guess the cops were called because it was too much, too gruesome. They wanted it the neighbors wanted it taken down. The lady did take it down, but how much is too much decor? Like, let's stick with Halloween specifically.
Speaker 2:How much is too much decor for Halloween?
Speaker 1:I don't think it was too much. I just think it was if it's graphic, you don't wanna walk outside and see graphic stuff.
Speaker 2:Well, it's not your cup of tea, but it's my yard.
Speaker 1:I understand that, but you can't show you can't go outside naked and stand in your yard.
Speaker 2:Okay. Okay. I see where you're going.
Speaker 1:So you shouldn't really be showing somebody shanking up somebody else in your fucking yard.
Speaker 2:Well, but it's Halloween though.
Speaker 1:No. It does no. It doesn't give you a free pass to be a crazy person.
Speaker 2:But Halloween is all about scare and horror. Right? That that that's the point and purpose
Speaker 1:of Halloween. Giving kids letting kids run around in costumes and have candy. So you have to also think about the young'uns. And I I don't think that you should have blood everywhere and make it look like some gruesome murder scene outside of your house. That's a little bit much.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Now now if you do set it up like this neighborhood couple here and you have it to where you have to go inside to see that stuff, okay, it's your choice at that point. But outside, nobody you can't not see it.
Speaker 2:I understand what you're saying, but at the same time, it's her yard.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Well, so you're giving permission to pedophiles to go outside and be in their yard butt naked.
Speaker 2:Woah. You went way left there, friend.
Speaker 1:Well, that that's that but you're you can't you can't say one's okay and not the other because
Speaker 2:But it's totally different. You are comparing pedophiles to decorations.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Well, murder scene is a murder scene, and seeing someone naked is seeing someone naked. That neither one is appropriate is what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 2:Okay. That that's very extreme.
Speaker 1:Yeah. But that's what you're this lady had a murder scene in her yard.
Speaker 2:But it wasn't like the dead body is shown. Like, it was, you know, there was, like, fake blood. But people do that on their doors all the time. Like, do not enter, and there's bloody handprints. Like, that's a thing.
Speaker 2:Is that too much?
Speaker 1:No. Yeah. But you're you're talking see, that's it's totally different. You're talking about there's a body there. Right?
Speaker 2:1 in, like bag. Yes. Yeah.
Speaker 1:With blood all over it.
Speaker 2:Fake. Yeah.
Speaker 1:No, Ned. Did you really kill somebody? Put them there? I'm just
Speaker 2:clarifying, making sure we're on the same page.
Speaker 1:I that's not appropriate for these little kids that are running around getting candy. It's not
Speaker 2:So a skeleton in dirt is not appropriate.
Speaker 1:No. That's fine.
Speaker 2:Why?
Speaker 1:Because it's it's fine as long as it's not like somebody murdering like, does the skeleton have a sword sticking out of its eye? I don't know. I can't. Is it you can't you can't do that shit. If you can't if if it's not appropriate for, you know, especially the younger crowd, then you probably shouldn't have it.
Speaker 2:Agree to disagree on that. That is a a differing of opinions there. And here at Unfiltered Union, we're allowed to do that. You can
Speaker 1:have your opinion.
Speaker 2:I can have mine. But what I'm saying is it's my yard. I will do what I want. However, if neighbors come together and ask me to take it down, they think it's too much, that's my right to either agree or disagree and either take action or not.
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:Good job. We are differing opinions, and we're moving on.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Oh. No.
Speaker 1:I don't know. I just I don't like it because I don't, truthfully, I don't want our kids seeing that. Well She's already timid timid. Right.
Speaker 2:But there are the moon. But there are other kids like our nephew who has watched Scream at this point, who has watched other things that probably aren't necessarily age appropriate, but he can handle it, and he enjoys that kind of thing.
Speaker 1:Like Jaw's jaws at 7.
Speaker 2:Right. He likes the suspense of it. He likes he that's just what he enjoys, and that's okay. So to him, it might not be a big deal. To our daughter, it might.
Speaker 1:And how old is the nephew? Just just so everyone hears it.
Speaker 2:He is 6 years old.
Speaker 1:Shouldn't be watching screen.
Speaker 2:Not our choice. Not our decision. Not But he can handle it though.
Speaker 1:Can't be.
Speaker 2:Difference. And he
Speaker 1:is We'll find out.
Speaker 2:It doesn't bother him like it would our kid.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh. I don't know. I don't like it, period. I don't keep their innocence for as long as possible.
Speaker 2:Now, I can agree with that, but, again, differing of personalities.
Speaker 1:I agree. But I I want our kid, our kid to keep to stay a kid as long as possible.
Speaker 2:I agree. However, going back to the idea of, you know, neighbors coming together and saying, hey, too much, take it down. She did, and that was her choice. Right? There was no slap down.
Speaker 2:How do you feel about the new sport coming out for power slaps? It's not new, is it? Well, no. Not brand new, but
Speaker 1:I don't think it's dumb. I mean, I if you wanna watch it, I think it's funny to watch. I just don't know how they have the whole
Speaker 2:Sport dedicated to it? Yeah.
Speaker 1:It seems kinda silly to me.
Speaker 2:Well, what's interesting to me is it doesn't seem like it's based on training, if you will. I I don't know. Maybe it maybe it is. Maybe I'm completely, I don't know, ignorant in the sport, but it doesn't seem like a person who is big, large, heavyweight has an advantage over someone who is maybe smaller than them because how hard you slap doesn't isn't dependent exactly on their their size because I have seen I have seen slap these power slap videos Mhmm. Where smaller individuals can slap just as hard and knock somebody out who's bigger than them.
Speaker 2:Yeah. But It's one shot. You get one shot.
Speaker 1:A big person is all just naturally stronger than a smaller person.
Speaker 2:That is not true.
Speaker 1:It is too. It is too.
Speaker 2:It is not.
Speaker 1:I have a friend that is a very large individual.
Speaker 2:Mhmm.
Speaker 1:He would a 1000% out bench press me.
Speaker 2:But what I'm saying is a slap because
Speaker 1:A bench 1 bench 1 push up 1 pushing up a bench press is the same as doing this in slap.
Speaker 2:Can I finish? No. So one slap, you have to get it in the right spot. Right? In order to knock that person out.
Speaker 2:Otherwise, you missed your one chance. Now they have a chance and they can knock you out. So the difference is instead of being in a ring and just throwing punches all day, you get one shot. And if you aren't exactly right on that shot, then you don't get to knock that person out.
Speaker 1:But do you think a big person can punch harder than a smaller person?
Speaker 2:Do I think a bigger person can punch harder than a smaller person?
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Yes. The bigger person would punch harder than a smaller person.
Speaker 1:K. So a bigger person would have an advantage in power slap.
Speaker 2:If they get it right is what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 1:Okay. But
Speaker 2:Because in the ring, you don't get a breathing chance. Right? Like, you are constantly throwing hands, whereas in power slap, you get one slap. And if they are better at than your one slap, you're going down.
Speaker 1:If my big friend power slapped me, I would be on the first man on Mars.
Speaker 2:But if they didn't land it right.
Speaker 1:I would be the 1st man on the moon.
Speaker 2:Whatever. But you have a hard head, so my point is that's
Speaker 1:Oh, I'd be I'd be fine.
Speaker 2:Right. But I'd be knock you out.
Speaker 1:Jump on
Speaker 2:the moon. Your turn, and you may be able to
Speaker 1:long distance hit him from the moon.
Speaker 2:The point I'm trying to make here in this whole discussion, do you think it's good, bad, or neutral for the UFC?
Speaker 1:I don't know. I there's a lot of social media buzz about it, so I don't doubt that it's a net positive, or they wouldn't do it.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, you know, for Dana White, right, the creator, he he is he is golden. But when it comes to the actual sport of UFC versus PowerSlap, it seems like online, on a lot of these PowerSlap posts, people are saying, like, I don't want anything to do with PowerSlap because it's hurting the sport of UFC. I don't exactly get that.
Speaker 1:I don't know. I I mean, it's I see a lot of highlight videos, and I do watch those. I'm not gonna lie. And I and I laugh my ass off just about every time because it is funny.
Speaker 2:At his back.
Speaker 1:But do I think it is, it hurts? I don't think so. I don't know. I mean, I guess some people can see it as kind of an unskilled version of whatever, a competition. Like, UFC, you have to be skilled.
Speaker 1:Powerslap, I still think you have to be skilled. You have to hit them square in the dome piece.
Speaker 2:Right. You
Speaker 1:get that
Speaker 2:one shot.
Speaker 1:And stay awake, but
Speaker 2:I
Speaker 1:don't obviously, I don't think it's as skilled as somebody in the UFC.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:I don't
Speaker 1:know either. I think it's dumb, but do I think it hurts the UFC? Probably not.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I don't know either. I don't know if I think it hurts the UFC or not. I think I'm neutral on it. I think they're they're separate sports at this point.
Speaker 1:Yeah. I don't, honestly, I don't consider power slap a sport.
Speaker 2:Yeah. It's not having, you know, big names from the UFC move over to the other side, you know. So 2 separate sports and let them go. You know, pickleball versus tennis. Stop it.
Speaker 2:Oh, our Bendy cat just moved the mic. He wants your attention.
Speaker 1:Yeah. It's not the right time.
Speaker 2:Talk to him. Okay. So I wanted to talk about, 3 upcoming things that we're excited for because I've got a list. You ready? Sure.
Speaker 2:Yellowstone. We've got well, let me back up. All new releases that are coming out. I'm so excited. This is the time of year where all the new stuff is coming out, and I'm so excited.
Speaker 2:Yellowstone's coming back November 10th. Oh, so excited. Squid Games, for season 2 just dropped the official trailer, and it's coming out in December. Do you hear me?
Speaker 1:I'm trying. So gloarded. I I do. And I will watch that one. Yellowstone, I'm
Speaker 2:No. You never watched it.
Speaker 1:I know, but I I've watched a little bit of it. It's just a little too far fetched to me.
Speaker 2:Oh, I love it. It's so good. And then Wicked, the movie Wicked.
Speaker 1:Is that the new Wizard of Oz type deal?
Speaker 2:Yeah. Well, it was a play. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah. No. I know. But it's based on Wizard of Oz.
Speaker 2:Yes. The Wicked Witch. Right. That comes out in a few weeks. I'm so excited.
Speaker 2:Oh, but, also, Christmas town at Busch Gardens is getting ready to be in. I'm so excited. So excited. I'm not gonna be freezing my butt off walking around Busch Gardens. It's going to be nice weather.
Speaker 2:We get to see the Christmas lights, get in the spirit. And so
Speaker 1:If we're going to Christmas town, I'm getting me a mobility buggy.
Speaker 2:You do that.
Speaker 1:I'm not I am serious.
Speaker 2:I hear you. But then also for Christmas, around the Tampa area, they do the boat parade.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:That is one of my favorite things for the Christmas season here in Tampa, Florida.
Speaker 1:It's a new tradition for us since moving here. We used to go to a parade in our in Virginia, in Northern Virginia, and it was frigid. We would be miserable. And we wanted to leave after about 3 minutes, but we had to stay for the whole thing because Santa came at the end. Mhmm.
Speaker 1:And our kiddo, obviously, wants to see Santa, so we toughed it out. But now
Speaker 2:Now Santa walks around and talks to everybody while the boats go by.
Speaker 1:Well, and you're not freezing your ass off.
Speaker 2:Right. It's like having a picnic. It's so fun. Wonderful.
Speaker 1:I love it. That was that is that was that or that is one of my favorite Christmas events that I enjoy down here for sure.
Speaker 2:I'm so excited. We're getting to that season. There's so much coming up. It's gonna be so much fun. I'm so ready.
Speaker 1:You okay? Yes. Because is it my turn now?
Speaker 2:It is.
Speaker 1:So you said TV shows, so I wanted to say a TV show. I didn't write it in the list.
Speaker 2:You're going off script.
Speaker 1:Arcane is coming out. Oh. The second it's the 2nd season.
Speaker 2:Mhmm.
Speaker 1:2nd, and it's the last season, which sucks. But they're closing up the story. And they're closing it up, as far as I know, in only 3 episodes.
Speaker 2:Only 3 episodes for the season? Yeah.
Speaker 1:But they're re it kinda makes me mad too because Netflix is releasing them, like, 2 weeks apart or something like that. I'm like, I'm just gonna
Speaker 2:They better be movie movie length then. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I know. But I feel like I'm just gonna wait till they're all out to watch so that I'm not waiting 2 weeks in between. But that's coming out. I'm very excited about that. That is my nerd card showing.
Speaker 1:But even if you don't like video games and it's about League of Legends. It's a League of Legends show. But even if you don't like video games, it's a really good animated TV show.
Speaker 2:Okay. Well, go back to your script of other three things. Hello. And now Google's talking. Sorry.
Speaker 1:So my other thing is fall fishing in Florida is real nice because it's not super hot
Speaker 2:Mhmm.
Speaker 1:To where you're dying.
Speaker 2:Sweating, obviously.
Speaker 1:Well, and sun burning. But it's cooler and the fish I think the fish bite more down here because they're kinda chipper, you know, like our dog. Mhmm. And then my last one, my last thing that I am looking forward to is voting. I am excited to vote on Tuesday, And the reason why I am voting on Tuesday is because my kiddo wants me to take her with me, and I'm excited to show her the cluster that voting is.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I oh, I didn't put my voting sticker on. I went and voted today because my work week doesn't allow me to leave the house pretty much the entire day.
Speaker 1:And just just for reference, today is Friday before voting day.
Speaker 2:Yes. But this is your final reminder to get out and vote. Don't care how you vote, just do your thing. We here at Unfiltered Union have our own opinions, and we'll not sway you one way or the other. Just remember to get out and vote.
Speaker 2:It's important. I wanted to tell you a story. So I went and voted today and
Speaker 1:And it was a madhouse. Let me just be clear.
Speaker 2:It was insane. It's at a local library and it seems like those are the places right now for early voting in the Tampa area. So I went, Russ dropped me off, and the line's out the door, and it's probably a good, what, 200 yard line at this point.
Speaker 1:That's a bit much, but okay.
Speaker 2:It's not
Speaker 1:it's a long line, though.
Speaker 2:Okay. Well, I say 200 yards. You you gauge it however you want.
Speaker 1:It's from here to Mars.
Speaker 2:You got slapped? Okay. So the line is real long, going through the line, and there's the individuals who are the poll monitors, if you will, and they make sure, you know, line stays orderly, goes through, goes quick. Well, this one gentleman, and he had to have been older, I would say in his eighties.
Speaker 1:A lot of those polling officials usually do that as a volunteer because they're bored.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Well, and Florida is a retiree state.
Speaker 1:And then yeah. And The Price is Right was off by then.
Speaker 2:Anyway, so he's going through the line. Lady in front of me has her 16 year old daughter, and the man comes up to the 16 year old daughter and says, oh, what are you doing here? You look like you're too young to vote. And the girl goes, oh, I'm here with my mom. Just came back from an appointment.
Speaker 2:I'll I'm here Moral support. Moral support. That's what she said. Thank you. And the gentleman said, oh, well, shouldn't you be in school?
Speaker 2:And she goes, oh, I'll probably go to school, you know, after this, just here with my mom. And the gentleman said, I don't understand your generation, to this young girl. And I I'm just looking at him, like, she's here to learn about her civic duty.
Speaker 1:Yeah. That don't it's none of your business, first of all.
Speaker 2:It used to be a thing though when we were kids. Like, to go with your parents to the polling booth and watch them vote. I remember doing it with my dad when I was young.
Speaker 1:Yeah. I did it, and I remember being bored to death.
Speaker 2:Right. And watch them go in. And, oh, back then, it was those tick things. Do you remember that?
Speaker 1:Yeah. It was like a it would punch a hole once you pull that big lever.
Speaker 2:Mhmm.
Speaker 1:Man, pulling that lever, though, it's like, what's gonna happen? Because it was, like, 12 feet.
Speaker 2:That was a long pull. But back then, it was a thing. You go, you saw your parents do it, and I don't know. I feel like it should still be a thing.
Speaker 1:Right. Why not? That's why when our kiddo asked, can I go with you to vote? I said, yes. Of course.
Speaker 2:Right. So you haven't voted yet. You'll go on Tuesday during the madhouse.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:It's gonna be crazy. Like, the if the lines are this long now
Speaker 1:I'm blessed to work from home, so I can kinda hopefully skip a lot of the traffic and go in after everyone goes to work, go in during the middle of the day. So hopefully that helps. But if not, I don't care. It'll be a fun experience for her to see and kinda I'll I'll let her help me fill out the the Scantron.
Speaker 2:She's familiar with those.
Speaker 1:Yes. Unfortunately, because of school.
Speaker 2:She'll keep you entertained in the line too. Maybe she'll give you some more isms to bring back.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Sharp bugs.
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