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This is the Unfiltered Union.
Lindz [00:00:06]:
I'm Linz.
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And I'm Russ.
Lindz [00:00:08]:
Here is this week's episode.
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The preparation it took to start this freaking episode.
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Take four.
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Take well, first off, take 90% of those takes are because of these children. It's Florida. It's a beautiful day. There's no rain. Sky is blue. It's 80 degrees out. And we said we're gonna start a podcast, so can you guys please go outside just
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for was a poem.
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It is. Haiku. Please go outside. And they were like, okay. We'll go outside. We've been sitting in here for twenty minutes, and it's been constant knocking on the can I have just
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Trading the pantry?
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Have chips? It's like, why do you wait until we're doing something to ask all these questions?
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No. That's children for you. I guess. My god.
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It's like they know. It's like their brains are programmed all the time.
Lindz [00:01:03]:
I feel like husbands are that way too.
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Oh my god. Here we go. Don't mansplain to me.
Lindz [00:01:09]:
Exactly. Yep. Keep it to yourself. This is ridiculous.
Russ [00:01:13]:
What?
Lindz [00:01:14]:
This huge microphone is ridiculous.
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It's the best sounding microphone for podcasts out there.
Lindz [00:01:20]:
I don't believe it.
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Better than the Shure.
Lindz [00:01:23]:
I don't believe it because you watch every podcast ever and everybody uses the Shure. You're telling me this monstrosity?
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Yes. The Shure is used a lot by most people only because it is the influencer's microphone.
Lindz [00:01:38]:
Oh, we're not influencers.
Russ [00:01:41]:
No. Well, we're not that, but everybody's it's got an iconic look, the Shure SM seven.
Lindz [00:01:46]:
It's not this monstrosity.
Russ [00:01:48]:
Right. But this, if you look it up, the sound quality is much higher.
Lindz [00:01:54]:
So can they hear me breathing?
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Probably.
Lindz [00:01:57]:
So I was doing my makeup earlier, getting ready for the podcast. Did you
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get out of breath doing your makeup?
Lindz [00:02:01]:
No. I didn't get out of breath, asshole. No. I was doing my makeup and I could hear myself breathing. Have you ever heard yourself breathe?
Russ [00:02:09]:
I hear it all the time. You know what's the worst? When you're trying to take a nap and you snore and wake yourself up.
Lindz [00:02:14]:
I hear you breathing all the time. You let out a lot of air through your nostrils. It's it's very very intense breathing. But I was doing my makeup, but I heard myself breathing like, oh my god.
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Ain't that weird? And you have to do that to live. It's not that's not something that you can stop.
Lindz [00:02:32]:
Right.
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Like, there's no diet breathing.
Lindz [00:02:35]:
But I feel like it's like one of those sound things that just slink nails on top of it. Right?
Russ [00:02:39]:
Yeah.
Lindz [00:02:40]:
But if this captures our breathing
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That's not gonna be any different than the other mic.
Lindz [00:02:46]:
I apologize to everyone now.
Russ [00:02:48]:
Well, it does sound better.
Lindz [00:02:49]:
Yeah. We'll see.
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And I use this and we did get a new interface too because our old broadcaster is taking a big dump.
Lindz [00:03:00]:
That lasted a long time.
Russ [00:03:01]:
It did. 2016. Yeah. Twenty sixteen and then it's just I wanted something simple. This thing, it doesn't have any power going to it. It's called the PodMobile DSP and it's by this dude. He makes them all by hand.
Lindz [00:03:15]:
Yeah. And he's been really helpful.
Russ [00:03:17]:
Yeah. His name is Fernando and he, I had issues with the first one that I was sent. And he calls me on the phone. I was like, hey, man. I'm having issues. He's like, what's your number? And I gave it to him, and he calls me up right away and helps me out. It's it's awesome. Yeah.
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And I see. I mean, he stands by his product that he makes by hand. He told me on the phone. He was like, bro, I know the manufacturer. I'll take care of it for you. I was like
Lindz [00:03:42]:
Okay.
Russ [00:03:42]:
Okay. So you're gonna you're gonna you're gonna yell at yourself? But, yeah, he's he's a good dude, and I highly recommend checking him out. That's Audio Sigma, odd mobile DSP.
Lindz [00:03:54]:
God. If I hear that word Sigma one more time
Russ [00:03:56]:
Sigma Sigma boy.
Lindz [00:03:58]:
Oh my god. That is all our kids have been singing recently is sing my mind. Yeah. And then what's the other song? The vegetable song?
Russ [00:04:05]:
I don't know.
Lindz [00:04:05]:
Eat them up. See, I'm gonna hit this thing repeatedly.
Russ [00:04:09]:
Well, what bugs me is we have an Alexa in our kids' room because they play music all the time. Right?
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Well,
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yesterday, there were seven seven girls over here. Right? We have the explicit filter on. Yep. Because obvious obvious reasons. We don't want them playing, like, fucking party up by DMX or anything.
Lindz [00:04:29]:
That's only okay at weddings.
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Only okay at our wedding. And, well, one of the kids was like, Alexa, turn off explicit filtered.
Lindz [00:04:38]:
I couldn't believe it. Said okay.
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I was like, this this is a traitor.
Lindz [00:04:43]:
I couldn't believe that, a, the kid knew to do that, and b, Alexa's like, sure. Why not? Yeah. Don't We'll talk about
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authorization. It's fine. Here's your secret security clearance and nuclear launch codes. Do whatever you want.
Lindz [00:04:54]:
Button. I I was shocked.
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I was mad because
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Now all the kids know.
Russ [00:04:59]:
Yeah. Exactly. Now all the kids know. Now I have to relearn Alexa.
Lindz [00:05:04]:
I have to put the filter back on.
Russ [00:05:05]:
Yeah. I have to refigure out how I did that in the first place and figure out if there's a way that I can somehow pin code it to where they can't just say,
Lindz [00:05:15]:
I I was shocked.
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I was like, damn, that kid is pretty smart.
Lindz [00:05:18]:
Uh-huh. Yeah. Who is? Her parents. It's the first time she's come around. So I was like, oh, okay. You're gonna have to watch this one.
Russ [00:05:25]:
Yeah. Yeah. This one's gonna be, she's gonna know how to get away with stuff.
Lindz [00:05:29]:
Yeah. These Florida kids. I tell you what.
Russ [00:05:31]:
Florida.
Lindz [00:05:32]:
Florida. Well, speaking of Florida, most recently, the Florida games happened. Florida man games.
Russ [00:05:38]:
Florida man games. Yeah.
Lindz [00:05:39]:
OMG, it's Wix?
Russ [00:05:40]:
Yeah. Was he the host again?
Lindz [00:05:42]:
Yeah.
Russ [00:05:42]:
He deserves it.
Lindz [00:05:44]:
Absolutely. He is the reason why I was okay moving to Florida.
Russ [00:05:47]:
I know. Yeah. His, his what are they he had, like, instructional videos of Florida living.
Lindz [00:05:54]:
Well, it was like it's parody. Right? Like, you know, Florida's crazy. Sure. But it's okay. But it's not. Right.
Russ [00:06:02]:
It had is most states don't have alligators.
Lindz [00:06:07]:
Right.
Russ [00:06:07]:
So Or crocodiles. Or crocodiles. Yep. And he just kinda breaks it down like, look. Just because we have them, it doesn't mean they're just gonna eat you.
Lindz [00:06:16]:
Right. It's an everyday thing.
Russ [00:06:18]:
Right. They they
Lindz [00:06:19]:
Hurricanes don't scare us. I mean, we we get out of the way. But
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The reason why people and alligators have a lot of run ins with each other and bad things happen is because of people. Mhmm. People feeding them, then they start associating food with humans, and then humans have bad run ins with an alligator because he's like, hey, bro. You got some chicken? Mhmm.
Lindz [00:06:41]:
Where's the Publix meat?
Russ [00:06:43]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Let me get that Pub Sub, bro. And then all of a sudden, he's like, you don't have a Pub Sub, I'm a bite your leg off instead.
Lindz [00:06:49]:
Oh, that well, that wasn't it. My bad. But, yes, OMG, it's Wix, was the host, and they had a couple of games that I wanna run by you to see if you would actually play them.
Russ [00:07:00]:
I can barely get out of bed without getting out of breath, so I doubt I would play any of them.
Lindz [00:07:07]:
So one of our neighbors, we actually had her on the podcast before, is a personal trainer. I'm a tell her you need help.
Russ [00:07:12]:
I do need help.
Lindz [00:07:13]:
Uh-huh. But you're probably your way.
Russ [00:07:14]:
My motivation level is so low, and it's not good. No. It is not good.
Lindz [00:07:20]:
So you wouldn't play Ocala knocker ball?
Russ [00:07:23]:
I have no idea what that means.
Lindz [00:07:24]:
Essentially soccer, but with the inflatable things, and you can just run and hit people with your inflatable big ball? Yeah. The inflatable ball.
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So you're inside the inflatable ball?
Lindz [00:07:34]:
Yeah. And you run, and you kick, and you play soccer.
Russ [00:07:37]:
How you kick inside of the ball? You just run into the ball?
Lindz [00:07:40]:
Well, your feet are hanging out. It's like your knees down or hanging out. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Russ [00:07:43]:
That's I mean, that would be kinda fun.
Lindz [00:07:45]:
Right? I thought that one was fun.
Russ [00:07:46]:
Because it's pure contact. It's full contact sport.
Lindz [00:07:49]:
And then they had a mechanical gator.
Russ [00:07:52]:
You gotta ride it? Yeah. Oh, okay.
Lindz [00:07:54]:
That's that was fun. Yeah. No? No. Okay. Well, then they had some more
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I'm scared. I'll get up with a sprain ankle or something on a mechanical gator.
Lindz [00:08:03]:
Oh my god.
Russ [00:08:04]:
I'm so I am I am terrified to get hurt now
Lindz [00:08:08]:
because You're not tall. It's not a long way down.
Russ [00:08:12]:
I but being 37, that's not even that old. Right? But
Lindz [00:08:17]:
the healing six.
Russ [00:08:19]:
The I'm I'm gonna be 37. Shut up, man. See, I can't
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even full.
Russ [00:08:22]:
I can't even do math. But being 37, it takes a lot longer to heal than it used to. Yeah. I'm terrified that, like, I break an arm and I'm out of commission.
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For a couple weeks, you'd be fine. For a
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couple years.
Lindz [00:08:36]:
Whatever. But some of the other ones that they had that are more Florida man. Right? Evading the police.
Russ [00:08:42]:
Yeah. That was that's a that's a, leftover from last year. Right?
Lindz [00:08:47]:
Mhmm. Would you try it?
Russ [00:08:49]:
I hey. No. I'm the only thing I'm evading is taxes.
Lindz [00:08:54]:
Also not true. Let's put that out there. But, well, last night, you were running away from the kids. We were playing ball in the street, and you ran from the kids.
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Do you remember the aftermath? I thought I had a hangover.
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Thought I
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was gonna throw up.
Lindz [00:09:07]:
Back to bed, heavy breathing. Oh my god. You can hear it. Oh
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my my air. Everybody in the neighborhood told me to turn my heart rate down because they could hear it.
Lindz [00:09:17]:
Is that what that was rather than the drums? Yeah.
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I was just like, my heart pumping out trying to keep up.
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Well, then the other one, which you have to know Floridian mythology to know this one, is the eating butt contest.
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Eating butt?
Lindz [00:09:37]:
Remember? You don't remember? No. Okay. Story was guy had on his car decals of I eat Yeah.
Russ [00:09:44]:
Yeah. Yeah. And the cop
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Pulled him over.
Russ [00:09:46]:
Pulled him over.
Lindz [00:09:47]:
And they went to court and everything.
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How do you feel about that?
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About
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So this dude yeah. You just said it, but he had I e a SS sticker on his his vehicle, and a cop pulled him over and said that's inappropriate. Here and he I think he wrote him a ticket, actually.
Lindz [00:10:01]:
He went to court.
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And how do you feel about that?
Lindz [00:10:06]:
I mean, it's not illegal.
Russ [00:10:09]:
It's not illegal.
Lindz [00:10:10]:
It's not illegal.
Russ [00:10:10]:
It's freedom of speech.
Lindz [00:10:12]:
Now if it was something that depicted something bad
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There's a difference between indecent exposure and saying a word, though.
Lindz [00:10:19]:
Right. Agreed. Agreed.
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Yeah. Like So
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I think the ill the illegal part, right, if you're actually depicting that, that's that's a little Yeah.
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You can't do that.
Lindz [00:10:27]:
A little lewd.
Russ [00:10:28]:
You can't you can't post a picture. You can't, like, have
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Your only fans.
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Pornhub streaming out of your car window.
Lindz [00:10:34]:
Have that in
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Oh, yeah. That's true.
Lindz [00:10:36]:
Florida anyway.
Russ [00:10:36]:
That's true. I forgot. VPNs don't exist.
Lindz [00:10:40]:
But the but the eating bun that was just like a eating like, a eating contest. So But
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what do
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they eat? I don't know. I didn't look. I was scared.
Russ [00:10:49]:
I would be too.
Lindz [00:10:50]:
I didn't look. I was scared.
Russ [00:10:52]:
Eating on butt. I can I can't imagine what they would eat?
Lindz [00:10:55]:
Yeah. Well, speaking of eating. Don't.
Russ [00:10:58]:
No. It's my favorite pastime.
Lindz [00:11:00]:
It really is. Like, we are absolute foodies. Footies. Footies.
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Which is I will say when we first moved to Florida, the food here was kinda wack. We had It
Lindz [00:11:12]:
depends on where you went. I agree. We were in a place that didn't have the best food.
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We had a really hard time. I was like, man, the food down here is not that good. But then we finally started branching out, and I will say the food choices here are a lot better than where we came from.
Lindz [00:11:30]:
Yeah. I mean, I think where we initially started in Florida didn't have the best food options.
Russ [00:11:36]:
Plant City?
Lindz [00:11:36]:
Plant City. But coming into They
Russ [00:11:39]:
have good strawberries, though.
Lindz [00:11:41]:
Oh, yeah. And what was the other thing that they had? Cubans. Good Cubans.
Russ [00:11:45]:
Yeah. Strawberry Hut. Mhmm.
Lindz [00:11:47]:
They were good. But then coming into more of the Tampa area now, there's a lot more choices.
Russ [00:11:52]:
Los Chapos Tacos.
Lindz [00:11:55]:
Every time.
Russ [00:11:55]:
I love that. They should sponsor the show.
Lindz [00:11:58]:
Yeah. And then as much money as we spend, and then quickly Boba right next door.
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Quickly Boba. That's our
Lindz [00:12:03]:
spot. Good.
Russ [00:12:04]:
We went there what? Good. Thursday. Thursday or Friday?
Lindz [00:12:08]:
I don't know.
Russ [00:12:09]:
We went but our our thing is our our perfect date night, drive over, get some Boba, and walk to tacos. The taco joint only has, like, canned sodas and stuff, and I'm not gonna buy a canned soda from a place. That just doesn't sound good. So we go to boba first. Uh-huh.
Lindz [00:12:28]:
Get a drink.
Russ [00:12:28]:
Then we walk over to tacos. Yes. Well, Friday, we went to boba first, had tacos, then we went back to boba.
Lindz [00:12:34]:
So we could have boba tomorrow. Well, the next day.
Russ [00:12:37]:
I drank mine before we got home.
Lindz [00:12:40]:
Two bobas.
Russ [00:12:41]:
Then I couldn't sleep.
Lindz [00:12:42]:
Yep. That sounds about right. But eggs are still expensive right now. Right?
Russ [00:12:46]:
They're cheaper though.
Lindz [00:12:47]:
I mean, they're coming down, but they are still expensive.
Russ [00:12:50]:
Yes.
Lindz [00:12:50]:
But iguanas are invasive in Florida. Yeah. People have taken to eating iguana eggs.
Russ [00:12:59]:
How does that work?
Lindz [00:13:00]:
Instead of buying chicken eggs.
Russ [00:13:03]:
I don't how does that work? So they have they lay unfertilized eggs?
Lindz [00:13:08]:
I don't know. I don't know how this works, but I was curious, like, would you try it?
Russ [00:13:13]:
The fuck no.
Lindz [00:13:14]:
It seems like a very Floridian thing to do.
Russ [00:13:17]:
I don't know how that works. Now I gotta do my science and go look it up and see if they actually lay unfertilized eggs.
Lindz [00:13:24]:
Well, it's like that should be part of the Florida man games in my opinion. It's eating, like, all the random Florida stuff Yeah. They should gator tail.
Russ [00:13:30]:
Yeah. That's what the They
Lindz [00:13:31]:
wanna eggs.
Russ [00:13:32]:
When they say I eat or eat butt, they should do gator butt.
Lindz [00:13:36]:
There you go. Gator gator tail.
Russ [00:13:38]:
I love that shit. That is
Lindz [00:13:39]:
so good. It is good. It's gotta be
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done right though, or else it's kind of chewy.
Lindz [00:13:42]:
Yes. But then, you know, obviously, there's still things like ostrich eggs and some other random ones that you have there.
Russ [00:13:48]:
One of those either.
Lindz [00:13:49]:
Me either, but I would try it. Would you?
Russ [00:13:53]:
Have to have a big cast iron pan to cook that thing.
Lindz [00:13:56]:
Crack it open and And
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fill up our cast irons.
Lindz [00:14:00]:
By the
Russ [00:14:01]:
way, we need more cast irons.
Lindz [00:14:02]:
Oh, do we? Mhmm. But it is spring break.
Russ [00:14:06]:
Yes. Yes.
Lindz [00:14:07]:
And it's almost over. Well, at least for our Florida kids. Understood that, you know, other places, other schools. And colleges.
Russ [00:14:16]:
This is the beginning of the vacation season for Florida.
Lindz [00:14:19]:
Yep. It's going to get crazy. It's already crazy.
Russ [00:14:23]:
Yeah. We went last weekend
Lindz [00:14:25]:
to
Russ [00:14:25]:
the beach and it was packed. It wasn't I don't know. It wasn't worth it to me.
Lindz [00:14:32]:
Well, last weekend even this weekend is chilly for the beach.
Russ [00:14:36]:
It's chilly and the wind was just whipping and hitting you and pelting you with sand. It felt like water's still cold? Needles.
Lindz [00:14:43]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Russ [00:14:44]:
And the water was super cold. So there was no that was the thing too. It's like when you go to the beach, you gotta have shelter to get out of the sun so you don't fry to a crisp. Well, last weekend, when you sat in the shelter, you froze.
Lindz [00:14:58]:
That's cute.
Russ [00:14:59]:
And then you walk out and you'd get in the into the sun to warm up, and then you get sunburned. It didn't it was like torture.
Lindz [00:15:06]:
It's not torture. It was so ridiculous. We are hashtag blessed to be in Florida and able to go to the beach in March.
Russ [00:15:13]:
Meh. It wasn't worth it.
Lindz [00:15:15]:
A gator thought so too.
Russ [00:15:17]:
I saw that. Was that where was that? Siesta?
Lindz [00:15:19]:
Siesta Key.
Russ [00:15:19]:
Yeah. Everything was partying down there with the spring breakers.
Lindz [00:15:22]:
And it was crowded.
Russ [00:15:25]:
Yeah.
Lindz [00:15:25]:
Just the gator swimming in the water.
Russ [00:15:27]:
I wonder how that I wonder if did it just get lost?
Lindz [00:15:31]:
Well, I don't know.
Russ [00:15:32]:
Because I don't I don't think they can survive very long.
Lindz [00:15:35]:
Mating season. So they're, you know, moving around. What if
Russ [00:15:38]:
they're trying to mate with an ocean?
Lindz [00:15:40]:
Manatee. Oh, that'd be fun. Oh. A big old fat gator. A a
Russ [00:15:44]:
manatee gator hybrid.
Lindz [00:15:45]:
That would be cool.
Russ [00:15:46]:
The gator tee.
Lindz [00:15:47]:
Maybe.
Russ [00:15:49]:
Or man manator. Oh. Oh, I like that one. That was awful. It's evil.
Lindz [00:15:53]:
That's a good one.
Russ [00:15:54]:
So a giant scaly sweet potato.
Lindz [00:15:58]:
Sweet potato? I guess. But, you know, overall spring break. We also had some tornado warnings. There was a hurricane that popped up in the Atlantic.
Russ [00:16:10]:
Yeah. No. No no worries though on that one.
Lindz [00:16:13]:
No. No. No. It it went away, but it just seems like we're starting early.
Russ [00:16:17]:
Yeah.
Lindz [00:16:17]:
We're starting early with all this crazy weather stuff.
Russ [00:16:20]:
Right. It was I don't know. Florida's tripping. We've been saying that, like, ever since we've moved here, the winters haven't been as mild as our first year.
Lindz [00:16:29]:
Oh, that first year was awesome.
Russ [00:16:31]:
It was insane. I remember December 11 or tenth, we went to the we went to Sand Hill sorry, Sand Pine Key. Sand Pine? Sand Key. Sand Key. Yeah.
Lindz [00:16:43]:
No. It was Clearwater at the Sand Pearl.
Russ [00:16:46]:
I know. But it's up there. I think that it's technically a key, and it's Sand Key or something like that. Anyway, we went there, and it was freaking amazing.
Lindz [00:16:54]:
Yeah. Beautiful weather.
Russ [00:16:56]:
Got hassled for having a dog on a beach.
Lindz [00:17:00]:
Our service dog.
Russ [00:17:01]:
Yeah. He's a service dog, though. Yeah. When needed.
Lindz [00:17:06]:
And then we also went to the pool for Christmas, but now it just seems like the weather is so extreme, like I don't know. Bouncing back and forth. Hopefully, we'll get a mild one here soon.
Russ [00:17:15]:
It's windy, and it's cold. So it's like getting in the water. The water's cold, then you get out and the wind makes you even colder and then you get pee pneumonia and then you die.
Lindz [00:17:24]:
So Mississippi had a three point o earthquake and tornadoes all at once. Other states also have experienced multiple tornadoes. A total of forty two have died because of these popped up tornadoes. It, I, we're not the only ones. Yeah. We have horrible weather recently.
Russ [00:17:47]:
Moe and my I have a couple of coworkers in Nebraska. They just had a blizzard.
Lindz [00:17:51]:
Oh my god.
Russ [00:17:52]:
Lost power for, I think, a couple of days. I mean, it was a major, major snowstorm. The weather has been tripping.
Lindz [00:17:58]:
Yeah. We need it to be done. I am ready for summer.
Russ [00:18:02]:
I am too.
Lindz [00:18:02]:
I am over this.
Russ [00:18:03]:
Melt me, please.
Lindz [00:18:06]:
Quote him. Remind him that he said that once we get to the summer.
Russ [00:18:09]:
Shit. I will take it. See, that's the thing. Like, yes, I hate winter, but I always hate winter. There's not a time in my life that I like winter. I will take the melting hot sun over anything else.
Lindz [00:18:26]:
I mean,
Russ [00:18:26]:
well, spring is good when it's actually spring, but we haven't had that yet here.
Lindz [00:18:31]:
No. We are struggling. But it's not as bad as swimming out into the middle of the water to save something that looks like it's drowning.
Russ [00:18:41]:
Oh my God. They're evolving. Right?
Lindz [00:18:44]:
So have you seen this picture?
Russ [00:18:46]:
Yeah. Did you The Indonesian gators?
Lindz [00:18:48]:
Uh-huh. The Indian gators.
Russ [00:18:49]:
Are the gators or crocs?
Lindz [00:18:51]:
I think they're crocs. Okay. So they're crocs in Indonesia, and they look like they're drowning. They stick up their little hens.
Russ [00:18:56]:
Yeah. And they they got they it looks like fingers.
Lindz [00:18:59]:
Yeah.
Russ [00:18:59]:
And they're, like, spread, and they're, like, help me. And then Joe Schmoe swims out there, and then he gets free meal.
Lindz [00:19:06]:
Yep. He's like,
Russ [00:19:07]:
I ordered Uber Eats. It comes right to me.
Lindz [00:19:11]:
So, yeah, the crocs are rolling over, hands up, somebody swims out, gets eaten. Now I will say I read a couple of articles that said that they debunked this, that scientists are saying, oh, it could be an actual behavior that we're just misunderstanding.
Russ [00:19:28]:
What's he doing?
Lindz [00:19:29]:
I think he's getting a benefit of doing this. Yeah. I don't understand. Crocodile gets a benefit out of doing this, so maybe it's a learned behavior. But
Russ [00:19:37]:
Yeah. But what what animals are they survive by eating everything, especially alligators and crocs. They're like, I'm a eat you. You're here. I'm a eat you.
Lindz [00:19:49]:
Well, they're also like scavengers.
Russ [00:19:51]:
Right. They they eat what they can get.
Lindz [00:19:53]:
Opportunist eaters.
Russ [00:19:54]:
So what was what would playing dead drowning in the water accomplish for them? Like, fish aren't gonna look at them and
Lindz [00:20:01]:
be like, oh, he's dying. I'm gonna eat them. Now maybe it didn't do it on purpose the first time, but they're learning.
Russ [00:20:07]:
But then, like I said, Joe Schmoe swam out there, and he got five stars on his Uber Eats delivery.
Lindz [00:20:13]:
Yep. Mhmm. Mhmm. That's good quality.
Russ [00:20:16]:
They're evolving. Yeah. His I was fresh. Still 98.7 degrees hot.
Lindz [00:20:21]:
So I think people when it comes to Crocs, maybe we need, like, security guards around like, no. Nope. He's not drowning.
Russ [00:20:28]:
He's not a person.
Lindz [00:20:30]:
Leave him alone. He's just a croc. Let him be. Meanwhile
Russ [00:20:35]:
According to scientists, he's not trying to eat you, though.
Lindz [00:20:38]:
According to scientists, this is, a behavior you're you're misinterpreting.
Russ [00:20:42]:
Yeah. Okay. Well
Lindz [00:20:44]:
Okay. So I'm the dumb one.
Russ [00:20:45]:
Teach me how to speak croc then. Right. Dumbass. I don't like all that, and I don't
Lindz [00:20:52]:
k. Meanwhile
Russ [00:20:53]:
Space is fake.
Lindz [00:20:54]:
No. We're not there yet. Hold on. So meanwhile, in Tennessee
Russ [00:20:59]:
My house.
Lindz [00:21:00]:
Heard about this story?
Russ [00:21:01]:
I don't know. This is Tennessee.
Lindz [00:21:02]:
There was a licensed security guard. Oh, yeah. Yeah. At a nightclub. Yes. Licensed security guard at a nightclub in Tennessee. Mhmm. Someone opened fire on the crowd that was standing outside the nightclub.
Russ [00:21:13]:
Right.
Lindz [00:21:14]:
And the licensed security guard opened fire back, apparently grazed the shooter because the would be shooter ended up in the hospital with non life threatening injuries.
Russ [00:21:24]:
Dang it.
Lindz [00:21:24]:
Basically told himself told on himself and is now going to jail. But because of the quick actions of this licensed security guard, people were saved.
Russ [00:21:35]:
Yeah. Of course.
Lindz [00:21:36]:
We need more of that. Good stories. One where the licensed security guard took action and there was no mass shooting.
Russ [00:21:44]:
Right.
Lindz [00:21:45]:
We need more stories like that.
Russ [00:21:46]:
I don't know. I mean, the alternative to to you can't destroy all the guns. That's just the way it is. They exist. They're always going to exist. They're made of metal. They're not going nowhere. So how do you stop this kind of stuff? Mhmm.
Russ [00:22:05]:
You give a good guy with training, like this guy was, a firearm. Teach him how to use it, put him in a job like that, and he just saved people's lives. Who knows how many?
Lindz [00:22:18]:
No. I I feel like it's more of the idea that there's a good story out there. You know?
Russ [00:22:24]:
There's a lot of them that are not reported on.
Lindz [00:22:27]:
Right. And then why? Like, I feel like
Russ [00:22:29]:
Well, because a lot of them don't even really make the news.
Lindz [00:22:34]:
But I've again, I feel like it's like, why? We are so inundated with just horrible stories. I'm sick of it.
Russ [00:22:42]:
Yeah. Just imagine if if that guy wasn't there, how many people would be Right. Because of some nut job. We have a mental health crisis, not a gun crisis in this country.
Lindz [00:22:53]:
Agreed.
Russ [00:22:54]:
Let's be clear.
Lindz [00:22:55]:
Well and I We
Russ [00:22:55]:
have issues with American health period, which your body health equals mental health too. It's all connected. Well, and
Lindz [00:23:04]:
I think food we
Russ [00:23:05]:
eat and everything. Go ahead.
Lindz [00:23:07]:
I think it's what we're also consuming in the media. I feel like if we had more good stories.
Russ [00:23:12]:
That you, yeah. Neg constant negativity is never good for your brain.
Lindz [00:23:17]:
Exactly. So another good story.
Russ [00:23:19]:
You said exactly. That was expensive word you just said there.
Lindz [00:23:23]:
Right. Oh, no. I swapped it out for an iguana egg. It's okay. To help the invasiveness. No. Another good story is the astronauts. They finally got to come home.
Russ [00:23:33]:
Yes. Thankfully.
Lindz [00:23:34]:
That's a feel good thing in my opinion that they finally got to come home after nine months of being stuck up there.
Russ [00:23:41]:
Yeah. Hopefully, they, they're able to kinda do their physical therapy and stuff and get back to normal because their bodies are atrophied. From what I saw and read about, their health does take a major hit coming back to Earth because of gravity.
Lindz [00:23:55]:
Mhmm. Remember on Wall E? Why? Our kiddos' favorite back in the day. Mhmm. But they were all, you know, up in space, and they were they looked like babies. Their bone density was none.
Russ [00:24:07]:
But they had a lot of fluffy.
Lindz [00:24:09]:
Mhmm. So I can imagine, right, that they made these astronauts who were up there for nine extra months.
Russ [00:24:16]:
Mhmm. Well, speaking of that, Trump was in some kind not really a press conference, but, you know, he takes questions when he does his whatever. He was asked, like, do the astronauts, since they weren't supposed to be up there for nine months straight, do they get overtime?
Lindz [00:24:31]:
Because they're salary only.
Russ [00:24:33]:
They're salary. So the answer is no. But Trump said, I didn't even know I didn't even think about this. Nobody even brought this up to me. If I have to, I will pay them out of my own pocket because they should be getting more a lot more than what they got.
Lindz [00:24:48]:
Yeah. It's almost like hazard pay, not even overtime. It's like hazard pay.
Russ [00:24:52]:
Well, they get something it's kinda similar like that, but it's still only equaled out to, like, $5 a day. Oh. So the it was like a thousand dollars extra. Only a thousand bucks for nine months of not seeing your family, your friends.
Lindz [00:25:08]:
I mean,
Russ [00:25:08]:
like, how destroying your body.
Lindz [00:25:09]:
How bored are you too? You know, like, that mental game of being stuck
Russ [00:25:15]:
Well, I don't
Lindz [00:25:16]:
in space, in a tube.
Russ [00:25:17]:
I don't know. I mean, I think they actually go up there and they do a lot of stuff.
Lindz [00:25:22]:
But still, you you are not there
Russ [00:25:24]:
and play Xbox.
Lindz [00:25:26]:
You're not you're not conversating with anybody other than somebody on a mic and maybe the other person that's stuck with you. Yeah. You're not seeing you're not touching grass. You're not
Russ [00:25:36]:
weird to me too is, like, why do they keep sending people up there? I thought the plan was to bring that thing down.
Lindz [00:25:42]:
I don't know.
Russ [00:25:43]:
Didn't yeah. I think one of our episodes, we even talked about it. Elon
Lindz [00:25:46]:
that's, I think, like, a twenty fifty projection. It's not anything soon.
Russ [00:25:51]:
Yeah. But what the hell, man? Why are we going up there anyway?
Lindz [00:25:54]:
What's out there, babe?
Russ [00:25:57]:
Right there?
Lindz [00:25:58]:
What's out there?
Russ [00:25:58]:
Nothing. How about we focus our energy on multiplanetary species?
Lindz [00:26:06]:
Multiplanetary jumping travel. That's the word, traveling.
Russ [00:26:11]:
Yeah. Yeah. We should be on Mars and stuff.
Lindz [00:26:13]:
Yeah. We need we need but if you think about it, though No. Go ahead. These astronauts
Russ [00:26:19]:
That one, Matt Damon grew potatoes up there, man. We'd be fine.
Lindz [00:26:22]:
Oh, that was Mars. I know.
Russ [00:26:24]:
That's what I'm saying. That's our first step.
Lindz [00:26:26]:
Okay. But these astronauts stuck up there for nine months. They were brought back from SpaceX. Right? Yes. SpaceX is how they got back. Yeah.
Russ [00:26:33]:
Boeing was supposed to bring them back, but they failed miserably.
Lindz [00:26:37]:
SpaceX has a lot of failures too. Like, how antsy and nervous are you They don't know. Everywhere those astronauts and, like, SpaceX has come
Russ [00:26:46]:
What's their failures?
Lindz [00:26:48]:
They had the thing blow up recently.
Russ [00:26:49]:
That's that's r and d. That's not that had nothing to do with the rockets that they use to send things up and send things back. I'm serious. At that that's like comparing a Chevy Corvette to a Chevy Silverado. It's not even remotely the same thing. One has been I mean, that's a stupid analogy.
Lindz [00:27:11]:
It was. But
Russ [00:27:13]:
but I'm saying, though
Lindz [00:27:14]:
I thought you're going apples and oranges in you.
Russ [00:27:16]:
It is, though, because we'll we'll say the apple was investigated and researched to death. They got all the bugs out of the apple, but the orange is still kinda like, we don't know how to we don't know how to grow this thing yet. I'm serious. It's the same thing.
Lindz [00:27:32]:
Your analogy is just on.
Russ [00:27:34]:
I am stupid.
Lindz [00:27:35]:
Like,
Russ [00:27:36]:
it's the same. Like, one thing has been tested. It's been shown. The performance has been shown to work. They've
Lindz [00:27:45]:
You would have no apprehension and say, space SpaceX is coming to get you.
Russ [00:27:50]:
I would a % take SpaceX over Boeing.
Lindz [00:27:55]:
I mean, you might have a point.
Russ [00:27:58]:
I ain't going on.
Lindz [00:28:00]:
You might have a point.
Russ [00:28:01]:
Y'all can't even fly airplanes right
Lindz [00:28:03]:
right now. You might have
Russ [00:28:05]:
a point.
Lindz [00:28:06]:
Did you see the Boeing guy get absolutely destroyed in congress, the CEO? No. Oh, he this might be old, to be honest with you, but he got destroyed and he had a 26 raise while everyone else in the company had maybe, like, one or 2%.
Russ [00:28:20]:
And while the company's going up in flames
Lindz [00:28:22]:
Yep. Yeah. That was that was interesting.
Russ [00:28:24]:
Mind boggling.
Lindz [00:28:26]:
But Tesla cars are being destroyed Which is ridiculous. And vandalized and sold. Like, what do you think you're doing?
Russ [00:28:34]:
We're I'm telling you. I What do you
Lindz [00:28:36]:
think you're doing?
Russ [00:28:37]:
Everybody sell it. Please keep selling your Teslas. Saturate the market with your model y's.
Lindz [00:28:42]:
We are not getting a Tesla.
Russ [00:28:44]:
What if it goes to 25 k?
Lindz [00:28:46]:
We're not getting a Tesla.
Russ [00:28:48]:
If it goes to 25 k, we have a van that's worth 30 something. Listen to me. Listen to what I'm saying. Our payment will be $300 a month on a 17,000 mile Tesla.
Lindz [00:29:01]:
You ready?
Russ [00:29:02]:
Yeah.
Lindz [00:29:02]:
K. No. We're not getting a Tesla.
Russ [00:29:06]:
Why not?
Lindz [00:29:07]:
And I'm not I don't give a crap about Elon or Tesla or any of that. It's just because we have a van. It serves a purpose. It has eight seats. Eight
Russ [00:29:18]:
It does.
Lindz [00:29:19]:
Eight seats in it. I want to maintain that many seats. Why? Tesla doesn't have that. Why? That that's a vehicle, not a question.
Russ [00:29:27]:
How often how often do we use those 94 seats?
Lindz [00:29:32]:
I would say at least once a month.
Russ [00:29:34]:
That's a lie.
Lindz [00:29:35]:
It is not.
Russ [00:29:36]:
Well, even so, it's like everybody that needs to sit in the car can sit in their own car too.
Lindz [00:29:42]:
Right. But when it costs per car, we can get away with only paying for one car rather than three cars.
Russ [00:29:51]:
Like, what cost per car?
Lindz [00:29:53]:
When we did the festival of lights, when we did there's a couple other things. Oh, you go to,
Russ [00:29:59]:
So the festival of lights that we all agreed that we will never go back to.
Lindz [00:30:04]:
Fair enough. But you go into Honeymoon Island. It's per car.
Russ [00:30:09]:
Okay.
Lindz [00:30:10]:
So my point is
Russ [00:30:11]:
My point is is I don't wanna pay for oil changes. I wanna pay less for brake pads less often. Gasoline is expensive. We have a freaking solar system on our house that can be used to generate energy and have a free gas tank or a free tank of volts.
Lindz [00:30:32]:
Yeah. But in the winter months when it's not as sunny
Russ [00:30:35]:
Doesn't matter. It's still the ROI is a lot higher and a lot faster than a gas guzzler.
Lindz [00:30:43]:
Not getting Tesla.
Russ [00:30:44]:
But We'll see.
Lindz [00:30:46]:
Really curious what people think they're doing after you've already bought it that you sell it. Yeah. You know, it depreciates in value. You already gave Elon your money. Losing Yeah. Money.
Russ [00:30:56]:
You gave Elon your money.
Lindz [00:30:57]:
So what are we doing?
Russ [00:30:58]:
Elon's not really making money off of secondhand stuff other than maybe service calls and things of that nature.
Lindz [00:31:04]:
Right. And then if you destroy a Tesla or if you vandalize it, that
Russ [00:31:08]:
Then you go to jail.
Lindz [00:31:09]:
That's right. So what are what are we doing? What are we doing?
Russ [00:31:12]:
I don't understand it. I really don't. I mean, you don't have to like what the dude's doing, and that's totally fine. But vandalizing property that's not yours, not smart. Selling your vehicle, whatever.
Lindz [00:31:25]:
That's an impact to you.
Russ [00:31:26]:
That's not violent. And if that's what you wanna do, then
Lindz [00:31:30]:
It doesn't make sense. But
Russ [00:31:31]:
Go ahead. You know, you show him. You show that South African.
Lindz [00:31:36]:
Yeah. Though you already paid him. But Yeah.
Russ [00:31:37]:
Bet you already paid him. You show him that you don't like Tesla.
Lindz [00:31:40]:
Never buy another one, maybe.
Russ [00:31:41]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's the that's the smart thing to do. Yeah. But they're telling people to, like, carry guns if you own a Tesla because they're getting harassed on the street and all that stuff. It makes no sense.
Russ [00:31:52]:
It's like, dude, I own a car. I don't I mean, it's not just because Elon's the CEO, it doesn't mean that I support what he's doing. Right.
Lindz [00:32:03]:
Meanwhile, Selena's murderer had a gun in her car and killed Selena. Yeah. She about to get out, ain't she? I swear to my god. If I don't give a damn about Tesla, none of that. But if Yolanda gets out of jail, I don't know how I'm gonna feel. I I might that's something I would ride over. That's something I would go to the streets for.
Russ [00:32:26]:
You're going to the streets over
Lindz [00:32:28]:
go to the streets.
Russ [00:32:29]:
Over Selena?
Lindz [00:32:30]:
Yes.
Russ [00:32:31]:
Yeah. That's weird. I mean, I I feel like that kind of stuff. Like, if you take a life, your life is forfeit.
Lindz [00:32:38]:
Which makes no sense. Right? If you get a life sentence, you can go out on parole one day. Yeah. I don't think that's how it should work. So my life is only worth, like, thirty years?
Russ [00:32:46]:
Right. She took away a young girl's life.
Lindz [00:32:49]:
And she could have been bigger than anyone today as far as music goes.
Russ [00:32:54]:
Right.
Lindz [00:32:55]:
I But
Russ [00:32:56]:
I I it's just to me, if you're a murderer and you did it and it wasn't, like, self defend you know?
Lindz [00:33:06]:
She admitted. I mean
Russ [00:33:07]:
She admitted that she just capped her. Yep. Your life's forfeit. Yep. And I'm not saying that they should just put you in a chair, but prison for the rest of your life is probably fair.
Lindz [00:33:19]:
Yeah. At the very least.
Russ [00:33:21]:
You took away somebody's life, so guess what? Yours is now taken away. Right. You don't get to do that.
Lindz [00:33:28]:
But I saw on TikTok, this one Latin lady, Latina lady, and she said that all the Latinos are gonna go and wait to see if Yolanda comes out. I will drive the getaway car. I will help. I I can be there.
Russ [00:33:40]:
You will help what?
Lindz [00:33:42]:
If they would if they if they're gonna do anything against Yolanda, I I could be there. I can be there in support.
Russ [00:33:47]:
You mean you just you'd be there in support of a protest?
Lindz [00:33:50]:
Yes. Okay. I'm there.
Russ [00:33:51]:
A nonviolent protest?
Lindz [00:33:53]:
Right.
Russ [00:33:54]:
Okay.
Lindz [00:33:54]:
Maybe.
Russ [00:33:55]:
No. A nonviolent protest? Right. Okay. Just to be clear, nonviolent?
Lindz [00:34:00]:
Yes.
Russ [00:34:00]:
Okay.
Lindz [00:34:01]:
Exactly.
Russ [00:34:02]:
Okay. Good.
Lindz [00:34:04]:
I'm just driving.
Russ [00:34:05]:
Driving what? A Tesla?
Lindz [00:34:07]:
Shut up. So what's the worst fight that you ever saw in high school?
Russ [00:34:13]:
I I I read this question and I had to think, but my I think the worst one was when I was in ninth grade, so I was fresh in the high school, and these two black chicks were fighting. And, oh my god, there was weave everywhere. I'm serious. Like, they were yanking each other's hair out, and it was everywhere. Like, they had to call the janitor. They had to call in overtime janitors. They had, like, 13 janitors in there picking all this up.
Lindz [00:34:42]:
That's not the one I thought you were gonna say.
Russ [00:34:44]:
Which one?
Lindz [00:34:45]:
I think you're gonna talk about the belts one.
Russ [00:34:48]:
The belts?
Lindz [00:34:49]:
Yeah. What are you
Russ [00:34:50]:
talking about? Did I see this?
Lindz [00:34:52]:
Yeah. You told me. The what? You told me that there was a fight. I didn't even see this. So I I can't say that this is mine, but you told me that there were two guys, they took off their belts and they were fighting each other with them, like hitting each other with their belts.
Russ [00:35:06]:
You're yeah. Must be your other boyfriend.
Lindz [00:35:10]:
Well, there weren't many before you.
Russ [00:35:12]:
Well, you better talk to them because I don't remember ever telling you that. I never seen nobody beating each other with a belt Really? Other than my mama.
Lindz [00:35:21]:
Okay. Fair enough. I thought it was gonna be the best one.
Russ [00:35:24]:
So I don't remember that.
Lindz [00:35:26]:
Okay.
Russ [00:35:26]:
I I didn't really honestly, I don't think I've seen that many fights in high school.
Lindz [00:35:31]:
Really?
Russ [00:35:31]:
Yeah. There wasn't much.
Lindz [00:35:33]:
It was definitely my freshman year, so it would have been your sophomore, that I saw the most. Like, though, there were so many.
Russ [00:35:41]:
Yeah. I don't know. I don't
Lindz [00:35:41]:
know if it's something about that year that just
Russ [00:35:44]:
It's almost like going to prison, you gotta establish dominance.
Lindz [00:35:49]:
Immediately? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No. Mine was three girls. There was three girls against one. And
Russ [00:35:55]:
she has messed up
Lindz [00:35:57]:
the one she actually held around, but still, and then one of the assistant principals was like all messed up makeup smeared and she's screaming, everybody go to class and trumping highs and times.
Russ [00:36:09]:
Yeah. I remember that that that fight that I was talking about where the weave was everywhere. They're they, I remember the principal and their the administrators coming there and trying to tell everybody to go to class. I'm like, I can't, man. It's pay per view. My parents paid for this.
Lindz [00:36:22]:
This was before cell phones
Russ [00:36:24]:
Oh, yeah.
Lindz [00:36:24]:
Before TikTok. Yeah.
Russ [00:36:26]:
There was no recording it. It was like, we got live action.
Lindz [00:36:29]:
I wonder if that almost keeps kids. No. No.
Russ [00:36:33]:
I don't know. I was thinking that. I do think it probably I mean, I see lots of Karen videos, but I do think that it makes you think twice about being a dick when you're older.
Lindz [00:36:45]:
I think if you're the right person, maybe.
Russ [00:36:47]:
Yeah. Like I said, there's a mental health crisis in this country. So I think a lot of people, they don't care or I don't know. They think that it's not gonna happen, that they're gonna get recorded and immortalized online.
Lindz [00:36:59]:
Right.
Russ [00:37:00]:
But that that for example, that one older dude, he got caught. Dude was recording and punching his window in his car. It was like a road rage incident. You know what I'm talking about?
Lindz [00:37:11]:
No. But
Russ [00:37:12]:
everybody's, like, remixing the video. He's plunging the car in a cadence. So they're, like, doing music to it and dancing. And it's like, this dude will he will never ever ever live that down.
Lindz [00:37:24]:
Mhmm.
Russ [00:37:25]:
It's it's forever.
Lindz [00:37:26]:
No. I've I've lost it the other day on a video where the old man was trying to put money in a Oh, yeah. Toll booth to try and get out of the parking lot.
Russ [00:37:35]:
But see, that's funny, though.
Lindz [00:37:36]:
I know. But I feel like I need more of that in my life and not this. We're talking about No. I agree. Brought it up.
Russ [00:37:43]:
I yeah. I agree, though. But I'm just saying, if you go out there and you act like an asshole, be prepared to be immortalized as an asshole.
Lindz [00:37:50]:
Yep.
Russ [00:37:51]:
And that that happened to this dude, and it it my dad sends me videos. He's like, here's another one. It'd be months, six months later. And he's like, I found another one. It's another remix, and a dude will be playing the guitar, and he's punching a window playing the drums.
Lindz [00:38:06]:
I mean, like, we need to get back to more of, like, the AFV videos. Like, let's get back to that where those are funny, then
Russ [00:38:13]:
then lighthearted. Right.
Lindz [00:38:14]:
You can
Russ [00:38:15]:
watch them in front of your kids.
Lindz [00:38:16]:
Right.
Russ [00:38:17]:
Yeah.
Lindz [00:38:17]:
I miss those.
Russ [00:38:18]:
Me too. Me too.
Lindz [00:38:22]:
Bye.
Russ [00:38:22]:
Love you. Should I stop it?
Lindz [00:38:27]:
Yeah. Do you
Russ [00:38:28]:
want me to stop it now? Here.
Lindz [00:38:29]:
What are we at?
Russ [00:38:31]:
38. That's not bad.
Kiddo [00:38:37]:
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