April 14, 2025 • 45 mins
Star IDs, passports, hospital dramas, and why we finally cut the satellite TV cord – this episode captures the chaos that derailed our regular recording schedule and kept us running for a full week.
The Star ID confusion affects everyone with a driver's license – do you really need that gold star to fly domestically? We break down what the requirements actually mean, why the deadline got extended to May 2025, and what documentation you'll need if you decide to get one. For those planning international travel, we share our surprisingly quick passport experience (under two weeks with expedited service!) and the bizarre "no smiling" rule for passport photos.
Our weekend adventures took an unexpected turn when a relaxing trip to a vintage market morphed into a medical emergency with a family member. The resulting hospital marathon revealed everything frustrating about modern healthcare: unpredictable doctor visits, poor communication between departments, security concerns in hospital parking areas, and the audacity of charging $4 daily for parking while visiting loved ones.
The wound vacuum technology used during treatment provided a fascinating glimpse into medical innovations – a constant suction system that dramatically speeds healing from the inside out. Meanwhile, amid hospital runs and sleepless nights, we finally canceled our satellite TV service, facing an onslaught of desperate retention offers that kept dropping in price with each refusal.
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Speaker 1 (00:17):
Welcome back, episode 39.
We have two guests.
Well, we have our regular guest, which is called Winston, the
dog sitting beside me, and wehave another guest called Coco.
She's in her bed underneath thecamera, ain't that right, coco?
Coco, you want to make anappearance?
Come here, come on, come on.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
You're going to get them barking.
Come on there you go.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Let's see if they'll stay up here.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
See yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Okay, stay up here, see.
Okay, go back.
All right, go back to your bed,get down, coco.
Go get down.
All right, go lay down, ohanyway.
So let's go back to the podcast, anyway so he loves his dogs
yeah last time we taught oh,we'll get into this here in a
second, but we do want toapologize for not a nice sniff
sorry, I can't.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Y'all just gonna have to get over it because I got to
crude man has got a cold and wecouldn't go another week
without recording.
So yeah, so jody's gonna handleit.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah, we apologize, for last week we had a lot of
stuff going on.
We'll talk about that here in asecond, but I know on the last
episode we talked about the starID.
For your driver's license youneed a passport.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I got my passport today.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
We'll talk about that in a second too, but you wanted
me to research the star IDbecause we really didn't know
the ins and outs.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Because you think it's not necessary.
You didn't think I was rightthat you had to have it.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I think it's made up yeah.
That's what I thought so, so Iwas reading right here, and so
this is just the state ofAlabama.
I'll read this kind of verbatim, but it says the US Department
of Homeland Security isextending Might have to give me
that mute button.
Yeah, might have to give methat mute button.
Yeah, I need to hand you that,that's right Is extending the
(02:08):
enforcement deadline for thereal ID called Star ID in
Alabama to May 7th 2025.
In response to COVID-19.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
However, start so does that mean in COVID?
We were supposed to have itdone.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Well, that's it started.
Or is that when it started.
That's when it started Becauseyou know they're trying to
wrangle us in and control us.
That's when it all started.
Star IDs will be available forissuance after May 7th 2025 at
any Aaliyah examining office.
And in order to comply, I mean,I got to put my glasses on,
(02:44):
sorry.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Of course you do.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I tried the print got a little bit smaller.
Let me put my $3 spectacles on.
That did not help.
Let me just pull this thing upcloser.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
You can just pull that tray.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Let's just do this right here, all right.
In order to comply with theFederal Real ID Act, the Alabama
Law Enforcement Agencydeveloped the STAR-ID program.
The STAR-ID is a step beyond anordinary Alabama driver's
license or non-driveridentification card and it meets
all the requirements of federallaw.
(03:14):
Age 18 and over will need areal ID or star ID, compliant
license or another form ofidentification for domestic air
travel.
So meaning in state or incountry.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
So the real ID is not a real ID without the star on
it.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
But it also says or another form of identification.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Passport If you got a military ID, stuff like that.
So I'm just saying so you stilldon't need the star as long as
you've got another ID.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I'm just going to get it.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Are issued?
How much extra am I?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
going to have to pay.
Consider my license.
Ain't it's not time to renewthose?
So I'm just going to have to goin there and say, hey, I need
the star on my ID if I decide togo to Arizona, where our girls
weekend is.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Maybe it says star IDs are issued originally to
qualified individuals only atAlabama Law Enforcement Agency
driver license exam offices.
County operated license officeswill continue to provide
renewals and duplicates forlicense ID cards and star IDs.
Once the provision of the RealID Act star ID goes into effect,
(04:36):
individuals who do not have anunexpired US passport will need
an Alabama star ID to boardcommercial aircraft for domestic
flights or to enter certainregistered or regulated federal
facilities.
Any Alabama license oridentification card issued on or
after April 25th 2022 that isnot compliant with the Real ID
(05:01):
Act will display not for federalidentification across the top
of the credential.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I don't know what any of that means.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
you just read Basically it's saying you're not
compliant if you're going tofly.
But, let me go back to thisright here.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I flew last year and it was fine.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Let's go back to this right here.
I don't fly.
Use me, for example.
I have flown before, but I'mnot somebody that every year I'm
going on a trip I'm flying, ortwice a year, or whatever like
that.
You have to love.
Something happens, an emergency.
I got to go to Oregon forwhatever reason and I got to go
tomorrow.
I got to catch a flight in themorning.
I'm not compliant.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Nope, and you're not.
They're not going to let youfly.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
What are you doing?
This is a crock I guess you'resol.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I mean, isn't that the way I'm reading this?
Is your passport out?
Yeah, we talked about 10 years.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
It's 10 years, so you're right at it probably yeah
, I think a little over 10 yearssince I've been out of the
country.
Uh, let's see.
Let's do the frequently askedquestions.
Let me just skim over thisright here.
If it tells you you can talkwhile I'm reading this to myself
, I don't know if they want tohear my raspy voice.
(06:09):
Well, the new car looksspecifically different.
We don't care about that.
What documents?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
So if y'all have any comments on this or y'all know
any insight on it, let us knowComment.
Let us know what's up with thestar ID See, all this is Comment
.
Let us know what's up with thestar ID?
See, all this is.
So when I go get the star ID,you got to have three forms of
identification your license,your birth certificate and
something else.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
What is that?
Something else?
Yeah, be more specific A bill.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I think most our bills are in your name.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
How am I going?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
to do that?
What if I don't have a bankstatement?
What?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
if my utility bills are in my spouse's or parent's
name.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Oh, there you go.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Let's see If you present utility bills to verify
the address of your principalresidence and those bills are in
your spouse's name, you mustbring your marriage certificate.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Do we even know where that is?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
If utility bills are in your parent's name.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
You may use your birth certificate.
Well, your birth certificate isone form of proof or whatever,
I think.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Anyway, I'm just saying, you know, this will put
people in a bind.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Jody just says it's a crock.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
It is because it's putting here's's putting what's
the point in it?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
That's what I want to know.
What's the point it's?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
like you want me to go take an extra step to get
this on my license for a reasonthat I don't need it.
But when the time comes that Ineed to fly now, it's a hassle
because I need it.
So either way, it's a hassle.
Jody, don't like hassles.
I don't like hassles.
I don't like.
Leave me alone.
(07:48):
That's all I want, Just leaveme alone.
Why are we doing this?
I don't know.
I mean seriously.
Why?
Yeah, I mean, I don't know Lookthey don't even want you to show
your ID when you vote.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
You know, you know, I'm just talking about some
states.
They don't, they do not wantyour idea, that's the only time
we show the idea, is it not?
Yeah, like you don't have toshow it anymore and you should
when you if well we used towrite checks.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
We don't write checks anymore if you're gonna vote in
the great united states ofamerica, I believe you should
show your oh yeah and nobody.
You should not be mad ifsomebody asks you to show your
ID to vote?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Absolutely not.
I don't think that.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
You know that's all right.
So yes, I will show you my IDall day long, every voting place
I go to that day.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
They ain't going to get a star on it.
They're going to kick you outnext time because you don't got
a star.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
You didn't hear what I said.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
However, voting place , you go to that day.
Yeah, yeah, I got you.
I'm happy to show.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
I'm just saying so.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
But I was right, you got to have it right.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I don't know about you being right, but you've got
to have it.
Excuse me Because I don'treally remember the conversation
we had verbatim from the lastepisode.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
You just didn't think I, because that was two weeks
ago, you, two weeks ago, youdidn't think I knew what I was
talking about.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Well, sometimes you get mistaken about stuff, and so
I just wanted to be clear onthis.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Okay, you were right, you were right.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
I think, I don't know .
I don't remember what you said,though.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
You've got to have the star ID.
That's what I said To fly.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I don't agree with it , but whatever, whatever, all
right, so go back.
You had, a few days prior toour last episode, you had to get
a passport, yep.
So you went through thatprocess.
You were talking about it alittle bit more expensive than I
was expecting or even thoughtof.
You were talking about I don'tknow if you talked about this
(09:39):
during our episode recording,but you said they told you not
to smile, which I knew that, butI don't think we talked about
it.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I did not know that, but you said they told you not
to smile, which I knew, that.
But I don't think we talkedabout it.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
I did not know that, but yeah, they told me not to.
Yeah, and you had a little bitof a smirk on that one.
You did show me a picture, yeah, and you can't even have that.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Well, he said, don't smile big.
So I didn't want to sit therejust to nod on the log.
Yeah, why can't?
Speaker 1 (10:05):
you.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Why can't you smile?
I'm traveling.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Well, why can't you just stand there and have
somebody take a picture withoutyou making a facial expression?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I don't know, I can't do it.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
That is the easiest thing to do.
It's hard when you say smile.
That's hard for me to you know.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Just say stand there, I'm gonna take your picture,
I'm gonna smile but it's a fakesmile.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Mine will be fake I never fake it.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I never fake a smile so you.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
But you said you've got your passport.
You were worried because itcould take up to like six weeks
oh yeah what was the weeklything you told me?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
well, it said four to six weeks.
So here we are, april 11thtoday, right, yeah, yeah, and I
put in for it like march, thelet's just see what don't matter
.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
But I'm just saying, yeah, you got it within two
weeks.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yeah, I put in like march, the 26th, I put in for it
and I got it today.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
But didn't you pay to have it expedited?
I did.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Well, there you go.
But still he said it'llprobably be four weeks, even at
expedited.
So mine went to, so I got thistracking thing.
So I told you that it.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Do we track everything, by the way?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah, so did I tell you that?
He said it don't just go tolike one place and it's made and
all that.
It goes to one place and it'ssent out to all different places
.
So he said it doesn't just goto like where's our main place,
like atlanta, and it it's madethere or whatever it goes to
(11:42):
there, but then they send it outto other places to have it made
.
And mine I forgot where minewent.
I was gonna try to rememberthat I forgot where mine went.
But yeah, it was not aroundhere, it was off somewhere.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Well, that's my stuff .
It's a security thing, you know, and how come?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
how come they can't send your passport and your
birth certificate and all thatstuff back together?
I don't got that stuff back yet.
They still got my birthcertificate.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Your original.
Yes, oh, I didn't know.
I thought you've got to show itthere.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
No, I remember them keeping yours.
Yeah, they keep your birthcertificate.
So yeah, they still got that.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
I don't know, I wouldn't.
I've never researched that tosee about.
You know passports, wherethey're made, because that, like
I said, it's a security thing.
Yeah, it's not.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
They're not all made at the same place.
They distribute them outthrough different to different
places.
Yeah, so I found thatinteresting, but I forgot where
it said it was coming from.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
But I wonder if the Secret Service is in charge of.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
What are they checking?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Because you know they're over the.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
What are they checking?
Speaker 1 (12:55):
What.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
They're doing background checking stuff on you
.
Why are they checking for yourpassport?
Why can't you just get it?
Why has it got to be shippedoff and made here?
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Well, you can't I mean you can't go down to the
copying place and they make youone real quick, because it'd be
so easy for people with illintent to get it To do bad
things Well that's what I'msaying.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
What are they checking when they're doing your
passport?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
I don't know.
I mean, yeah, they're goingthrough the whole thing and make
sure you don't have some kindof federal, if they're after you
put it that way.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Okay, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, it's a background check Because,
yeah, if you've been indictedfor, you know, smuggling stuff
in from whatever, I don't thinkyou're going to be okayed for a
passport.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Because they don't want you to leave the country.
That's the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
They don't want you to flee.
I'm going to keep you here.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
So today was the cutoff to send in my passport
stuff to Red Aspen.
How about that?
Speaker 1 (13:55):
How about that?
That's a blessing, yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
All right.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
So to go back to last week, when we weren't able to
record, we just had thingstranspire.
All right, let's go back tolast Saturday, or we can go back
a few days before that.
We had planned on going to aplace called Decatur, which is
in a neighboring county.
Let's say, an hour away,roughly right at maybe a hair
(14:24):
over.
They're going to have like aflea market slash pickers, slash
vintage, indoor plus outdoorbooths.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
What was it called?
I don't think I know what it'scalled now I don't know, it
don't matter Trading Days orsomething.
No, it's a festival, wasn't itno?
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Pickers Traders Festival.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Strawberry Festival is what I'm thinking of.
That's not what it was.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
I don't know what it's called that one's coming up
, but it was pretty big, a lotof booths outside.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
It was a girly thing.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
It wasn't a Jody thing things.
What's the deal with boutiques?
Speaker 2 (15:05):
there's a ton of them , is it?
Is it just?
Is there more of them todaythan there was five years ago?
Or five years ago was I justnot paying attention?
I think there's more today thanthere were.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Yes because that's all I saw.
I thought, hey, I'm gonna gohere, I'm gonna see some some
older stuff.
Hey, I'm gonna see some glasses, you know some mugs, some old
stuff.
Hey, I'm going to see someglasses, you know some mugs,
some old stuff that I can lookup and see if it's worth
anything, and we'll deal and wegot a new toy that he wanted to
play with and then we got thereand then it's like you know,
(15:32):
boutique boutique, next boothboutique.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
I didn't realize it was going to be that.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Next one earrings.
Next one earrings.
Next one boutique, that's aboutique too Well, if it's just
earrings.
Oh, just earrings yeah, youknow stuff like that.
It was neat to kind of walkaround, but then you go inside
and I was.
You know it was an hour, wewere done in an hour.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I never imagined being done in an hour, I know
and we, just we, just, you know.
We didn't rush through it.
You know I'll let you go to.
I looked in almost every one ofthem.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I stood outside a lot of the booths because you went
in and looked the cow hides.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
You like the cow hide ?
Speaker 1 (16:09):
They had cow hide rugs and then Ashley had some
some heads cow heads.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Oh, that's right.
Like calf heads for $350.
We should have got one thatcould have went right there
between us.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
It was really neat, but it was kind of crazy.
But why were they so littleCalfs?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
They were calfs not cows, okay, calf head, calf,
calf.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Miniature cow would be a calf.
That's what I caught.
Okay, no, it's a calf, yeah,calf.
A baby cow.
No, it's a calf, yeah, a babycow.
So if the recorder could reachup here and I could hold on, I
would hit that.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
I'm sorry, I know, I'm just saying I would hit the
mute button every time you'vegot a cough.
Sorry guys.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Sorry, people Just bear with her.
Sorry, all right.
So yeah, we got a new toy, or Igot a new toy.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I was going new toy.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I've been wanting to ever since.
We've been doing all this for ayear now this podcast and then
the other podcast that I do withtwo other guys.
We've slowly tried to getlighting.
You know, we're using our light.
Now that's behind this cameraFrom the TikTok shop.
From the TikTok shop, which theChinese steal all of our ideas
(17:22):
and then they make this stuffcheaper and then sell it to us,
and that's exactly what all thisis.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Well, it works, and we do it works.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
They got us.
So we've, you know, betweenMike's upgrade and Mike's stands
here and there.
You know we're just slowlygetting a little bit of this and
that and the other, and youknow I hear that phrase all the
time.
I do too.
Yeah, so what I'm getting at iswe got some Rode clip-on.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
R-O-D-E.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
R-O-D-E Rode Rode, which is top of the line, you
know, name brand clip-onmicrophones that you can clip on
to your hat or to your shirt,collar, whatever.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
They're a little heavy for your shirt.
A little heavy you know?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Yeah, it just depends on what you wear and how you.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
It was fine for me because I've done a crossbody.
I wore a crossbody, so it wenton my strap, yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
And then with me.
I just clipped it on my hat.
But what it's got?
It comes three mics.
One of them actually plugs intoyour phone and it's a magnet
and magnetizes to the back ofyour phone and it's like the
receiver.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
But we can't get over being kind of shy, recording
when we go out doing stuff yeah,so you know like how do you
just go record stuff?
Speaker 1 (18:47):
so the plan was this is the first time we're going to
use it.
We're going to go to thispickers thing.
Go around.
If we see some stuff, I'llvideo and we'll talk about it.
Maybe you know, look it upthrough google and all this kind
of stuff really didn't get achance.
We did yeah we record just alittle bit but as we went along,
it was like look, there's noway that we will have enough to
(19:07):
make a five-minute video, youknow, and put it on YouTube.
It just wasn't there.
So we tested it out and itcomes with your little wind.
What are they called?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Windsock Like a windsock, it's not a windsock.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
It just keeps the wind from blowing into the mic
and you hear it and stuff likethat, so it's pretty neat.
So I really was hoping to, andit's got a seven hour battery
life for each mic, so that was apositive, but really didn't get
to use it.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
We didn't even use it .
30 minutes did we?
Speaker 1 (19:38):
No, I kept them on the whole time we were there
Until we went to the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Johnny's like okay, we got to turn the mics off.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Yeah, I was like don't forget about the mic.
So yeah, so we did that.
And then when we left there, wegot done so quick.
We're like now, what are wegoing to do?
We're not just going to turnaround and head back.
So we went to eat, but it was alittle early, it was just after
11 o'clock.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I think it was 1109.
I keep thinking it was 1109.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
So we were trying to find a place to eat, one of our
other places that we go to.
We were going to go to ashopping place called Martin's
Clothing Stores.
Got everything, and right nextto it it was a used to be, oh,
charlie's oh, charlie's.
And we found out that, oh,charlie's is no longer there,
it's marlins did they go out of?
(20:30):
Did old charlie's go bankrupt?
Or anything, or did that onejust close?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
down.
I don't know, I guess I don'tknow well.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
So we weren't gonna eat there, so we went on down
the road and we found a.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Applebee's.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Applebee's.
We thought they were closedbecause there was nobody there,
but there was two cars.
So that told us right therethat there was possibly a cook
and a waitress, yeah, something.
Two people were there,hopefully.
So when we got there it's like,well, if they don't open at,
surely open at 11.
Right, but if not, 1130.
(21:05):
Yeah, so we're getting there.
I looked on the door and itsaid 11 o'clock and I thought,
yeah, we're good.
But as I was reaching for thedoor, I was like it's not going
to surprise me because just theway my life goes, it'll be
locked.
But we went in there.
Long story short, we were inthere almost till 12 o'clock and
nobody except one guy, but hewent to the bar.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
I know I was like.
There was nobody showed up inthere.
Is it really good to eat?
Speaker 1 (21:31):
here and it was so cold.
Oh my goodness, it was cold, itwas cold in there.
But we were like, hey, maybe weneed to go check the score, you
know.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
I mean I know the score, you know.
I mean I know 11's early.
But people around our town,people started, people are
eating at all times 11 30 shouldhave had some cars rolling,
yeah, and, but then.
But when we were getting readyto go they were coming in, so
people just got started latemaybe.
Yeah, they were at the thing wewere at.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Maybe I don't know, decatur's not small.
I mean, there's a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Yeah, yeah so.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
But then after that, what so the reason we?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
didn't record.
Then after that's when theworld turned upside down.
I mean not really, but it wenta little haywire.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Had a family member that got sick.
Yeah, spent all night in the er, literally yeah till one
o'clock in the morning was itone or two, I can't remember it
was one.
It was just after one o'clockwhen they finally, they were
going to transport him toanother hospital yeah and then
got home, got in the bed aftertwo.
(22:41):
The whole thing about this isnow when it comes to hospitals,
you can't trust anything theytell you at all, because we were
told that nothing was going tohappen the next day.
Right, that's why we didn't go.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
No, we were told nothing was going to happen.
That night he had like a cyston his back.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
We're talking about your dad.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Yeah, so he had kind of like a cyst on his back but
it was infected, so it wasreally big.
The local hospital couldn'ttake care of it, so it needed
surgery on it to get it out, toget all of it out of there, and
so they're going to transfer us.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Transfer.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
That just seemed like a weird word when I said it
okay, transfer him, and um,they're like they won't do
nothing today.
Probably, really, this wassaturday.
Yeah, yeah, this was saturday.
The doctor will probably comeby sunday talk about what
they're gonna do for it and thenmonday probably would be when
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they would do him, because, youknow, on the weekend, of course,
my dad always gets sick on theweekend.
It seems like he's always aweekend person to go to the
hospital and late evening andlate evening, not when you're in
the bed.
so so anyway, sunday Jody andNicholas are already going to
Jasper, their normal thing.
(24:06):
We're going to go over.
I wasn't going to church, I wasgoing to go down to his house
do a couple of things, let Jodygo do his thing at church and
then we're going to meet and go,because my plan was I teach
Sunday school, so I feel likeI've got to be there and you're
the toast man.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Oh yeah, and I cooked the toast for the kids.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
So yeah, so I had.
I felt like I had obligationsgonna do that.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
I was gonna knock that out, not stay for church.
We were gonna head on over backto birmingham I get a call as
I'm getting ready.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Hey, they're gonna do surgery here in a little while.
Let's excuse me, yeah, theymashed on it and done all this
stuff on it last night or thismorning.
He was calling it last nightbecause, bless his heart, he he
didn't know.
But um, he said they cut alittle bit out last night but
they're gonna go in there and,um, do the surgery on it here in
(24:56):
a little while.
I said what?
Okay?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
yeah, so this was a little after eight o'clock yeah
call me, and so then my plansare changing so we got to get
somebody to get somebody toteach and then.
So I just finished cooking,cleaned up and then, uh, you
came and picked us up and weheaded to birmingham.
Yeah, then, like five hours.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Yeah, it still took.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Yeah, before they ever took him to have the
surgery.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
It was crazy.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
It was.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
And he didn't eat.
And then he had to have anotherprocedure.
They didn't know if they weregoing to do it Monday.
They thought they were going todo it Monday.
It got to be four o'clock, theyhadn't done it.
Yet he ain't eat all day, itjust he hadn't eaten since
saturday everything was lateevening.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Everything they did was late, even that's crazy to
me.
I don't understand, and he justgot out yesterday yeah, which
was thursday thursday, so hetransferred late saturday night
or sunday morning, monday,tuesday and now he's got a wound
back, which is reallyinteresting how does that
operate?
Is it battery operated?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
well, yeah, you plug it up, but you can unplug it and
you carry this little pouch,because, should I say what he
called it, we won't say what hecalled it okay, um, so't say
what he called it.
No, don't say it.
Okay, so you carry this littlepouch that has the machine and
then it's got a cord or a tubethat hooks to the his is on the
(26:31):
back, so it hooks to his backwhere the wound is, and that
back there has got like a pieceof foam inside the wound.
Back there is got like a pieceof foam inside the wound and
then it's got a clear bandage onthe top but there's a little
circle thing like to hold thatfor the stuff to come out.
(26:54):
So it just sits there and itsucks it out.
Nice yeah, you wouldn't like it.
You would not like it.
Can you hear it?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
it.
Can you hear it?
You can't hear it, you can'thear it.
Is it's a constant vacuum, oris it?
Speaker 2 (27:10):
like every team, it's constant.
It's doing it constant.
So from the time that he had itdone sunday when did they put
the wound back?
On monday, they come back andchanged it Wednesday and then
they changed it again Thursday.
He said it was so much smaller.
He said it had already gottenso much smaller.
(27:32):
So that's how a wound backhelps it heal from the inside
out.
He said that hole was not asbig as what we saw.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
The hole I saw was big, it was huge, it was crazy,
it was crazy, it was crazy yeahso that's our excitement, so
yeah.
So between that and then yougetting sick in the middle of
all that, I know, I was like Ineed to go to the doctor.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I didn't go.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I should have went, so you're back and forth to
Birmingham all week.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Every day and when we say Birmingham, we're like over
an hour from this, fromBirmingham, from where we live.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
And you had to pay $4 for parking.
Every time Every time, you know, to me, that's another.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Why are we paying the park?
That's another.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
I can remember years ago when we would have to go.
I went with my mom and mygrandmother and I don't know if
my sister, I don't think it wasmy sister.
Anyway, my grandmother's twinsister had health issues.
She lived in East Point, that'sin Atlanta, so every weekend we
(28:46):
would have to go over there.
For a while it was like everyweekend that I can remember, but
we would go over there and thatwas the first time I was
introduced in paying for parkingat a hospital.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
You didn't always pay in Prince and I thought this
was crazy.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
I'm thinking this is the biggest.
It's a sham.
It's a sham, it's a scheme,it's a moneymaker.
You know?
That's exactly what it is.
So you're telling me I have aloved one that is in the
hospital, that I need to bethere for.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
And I got to pay to see him.
Yeah, Basically, you got to payto see him Basically.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
I'm coming on your property and to take up space in
one of your parking places,you're going to charge me money.
I want to start chargingNicholas for parking and I guess
$4 is probably a good deal,because I think a lot of them
are more than that.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Oh, a lot of them is more than that, yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Let's start charging.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Nicholas, we're supposed to tell them thank you,
since it's not expensive.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Yeah, so that it's crazy.
Yeah, life gets crazy sometimesit does.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
It's just you're tired and it's not when you go
to the hospital and you see it.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
It's not like you do anything and you're tired.
You're just like, oh my gosh,we're just waiting and waiting
and he couldn't eat, and thatwas horrible.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
And you're afraid.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
But then he would get food and he'd eat two bites.
He'd be done.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Yeah, but you're afraid to do it.
You're at their beck and call.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
You wait and wait and wait.
You're like, hey, I'm waitingon the doctor to make rounds.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
It could be any minute.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
now, five hours later yeah, say three hours in he
still hasn't shown up.
And you're like I really needto go down to the sandwich shop
and get me a quick bite, like beback in 15 minutes.
But you will not do it, no,because you're afraid that
you're going to miss it.
And guess what?
Two more hours goes by and youstill haven't cut it.
It's that kind of thing.
It's ridiculous.
(30:34):
It's like have you know, thesedoctors have some respect for
these patients and I'm notsaying all doctors, I'm saying
almost everyone I've ever had todeal with, though, and I
understand they've got a lot ontheir plate and everything like
that.
But come on, man, you can giveus a little bit of a window of
when you're going to be there.
Tell me, instead of betweenlunch and 8 o'clock at night,
(30:58):
can you not tell me between 2and 4?
I mean, you know what I'msaying.
Just pass it along something.
We even had the nurse that keptcalling this doctor that week
was it sunday or monday?
And could not get a call backto find out when he was getting.
That's just so frustrating.
Calling that doctor out rightnow.
I'm putting his name out there.
(31:18):
I don't know his name.
I never saw him so I don't know, but I was frustrated all right
, so enough of that.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Yeah, tell him what I did yesterday.
You don't even know what I'mtalking about what you did
yesterday.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
I can tell you what I did wednesday water leak
dealing with that.
We won't even get into that,see we've had such a busy week.
I was dealing with that, youwas with your dad and I'm
dealing with a water leak andI'm like scared I'm gonna get
locked in the hospital.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
I have to walk all the way around by myself in a
shady place that we know peoplejust got their car stolen from
over there and I'm like askingeverybody, how am I gonna get
out of here?
And the nurse is like we canget the security to escort you
down there.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
You said the front door said that they locked those
at 7 pm but you didn't know ifyou're going to be able to come
out.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
But then everybody's like there's a door right beside
those doors.
It says emergency and it saysthe alarm will go off.
It really won't.
But if it does, just go on outand don't worry about it, I'm
like that's what I'm doing, thensecurity probably gonna come
tackle me or something.
But I made it out, it was meand another.
This was crazy.
So when I came in, that wasWednesday, right, okay.
(32:32):
So when I came in Wednesday, um,oh, when he was back there in
surgery or whatever, and I camedown to get me something to eat,
another lady had come in thereand she was nicely dressed.
So I just asked her you know, Idon't like church clothes, what
we call church clothes.
I just nicely asked her.
(32:52):
I said you don't happen to workhere, do you?
She's like no.
And then we talked for a minuteand I said said well, I'm
worried about getting out thesedoors at seven.
She said me too.
I don't know what I'm gonna do.
And um, she said my sisterdon't want me walking out by
myself and everything.
So we talked a minute and then,you know, we told each other we
(33:13):
hope you get out, you knowyou're both saying good luck to
each other.
Yeah, we met back up when I wasleaving, got on the elevator
together and walked out.
How crazy is that.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
It was crazy.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
That's not crazy, that's just the Lord working in
his way.
Because she said my sisterreally didn't want me walking
out by myself.
Yeah, and it was like we hadlike three minutes till seven.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
So you're always trying to get there we were
trying to get there.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
It was like 3 minutes till 7 and me and her both walk
up to the door and it was slowto open and we're like and then
it just opens Because at thishospital, fine hospital, you
know, no problem with thehospital, great hospital.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
But we've got, you know, friends from church that
have been sick and that havebeen at that hospital several
weeks back and got their carstole while they were there.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
And that's all.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
I could think about If a car, if somebody that you
know's car got stowed in theparking lot at the hospital, I
can understand why you'd benervous to walk out.
If you're a female, oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
So then you want to hear what the nurse told me.
Sure, she's like yeah, all thetime during Christmas all our
cars always get broke into.
Every year during Christmas wehave so many employees and their
cars get broken into can theynot do anything?
Speaker 1 (34:43):
do you not have security?
Why we not got security drivingaround this joint there's a
booth out there for somebody tosit in and nobody sits in it
yeah, but I'm just saying, ifyou have somebody in there, are
they not like watching andseeing?
Speaker 2 (34:59):
oh I I heard something.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Oh, that's glass being broke from a window
because somebody broke into acar.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
So if somebody's told that if their car was in that
parking lot that we're talkingabout, it might not have been no
, it was in the parking deck.
No, I don't remember, I don'tknow where it was.
They would have had to pay $4to get out of that parking lot.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Which you feel safer walking out to a regular parking
lot.
That's just one level outsidein front of the hospital or
parking in a parking deck goingout not a parking day parking
decks.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
I did not want to park in that parking day I don't
feel safe that's why that nextmorning, when I knew I had to go
by myself to start with, I gotup, went early because I was
afraid that the parking lot wasgoing to get full and I was
going to have to find somewhereelse to park and walk in and out
by myself.
But it all worked out, it's allgood.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Society.
Man, I tell you, when you haveto worry about coming out of a
hospital and you're afraid youcan get mugged or shot, whatever
it is.
I mean it's crazy.
That's why I always say youknow, be aware of your
surroundings, especially whenyou get in your car.
We tell nicholas all the timeall the time because what he'll
(36:10):
he'll do, he'll get out of thegym and he'll go get in his
truck and he'll crank it or sitthere for a few minutes and be
on his phone or whatever, likethat.
I think when you get in yourtruck, lock them doors first
thing, then sit there, that'sfine, but at least lock them
doors.
But you know, he came home onenight.
He called me on the phonecoming down our driveway because
(36:32):
somebody had he had noticedsomebody had followed him.
And then when he got turnedinto our driveway they followed
him down the driveway.
Anyway, we don't know what thestory was like.
I went out after the guy forwords and he was back and forth
through our neighborhoods.
I don't know what to do.
But anyway, just saying you'vegot to be aware, when you walk
out, make sure you're lookingaround.
(36:54):
Don't see anybody.
Look around your car.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
It is All right.
So guess what I did yesterday?
Speaker 2 (37:02):
I have no idea, you don't remember.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Let's see.
I worked most of the day.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
I canceled satellite.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Oh, finally canceled satellite.
Have we got it today?
Speaker 2 (37:15):
I haven't even checked.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Because we still had it yesterday.
Well, the 11th was our canceldate or renewal, I guess for the
month yeah, when it would go,but like when it cuts for your
bill and cycle or whatever Iguess is what it's called.
So tell us the story of that,because you were texting me as
you were on the phone.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Oh, my gosh, she kept on and on.
Well you, we got mobile.
I could get you in here withthis mobile If you'll switch
your phones, or I could get youthis package.
I see you have the sportspackage.
Didn't even know we had theflipping sports package.
I don't even know what that wasand I'm not.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
I mean, if that's the sports package, well, they need
to do a little bit more work onit because I didn't notice
anything great about it.
Hey, we've got some ESPNs,great Right.
I didn't say no.
What's the NFL?
What's it called?
I don't know.
The NFL ticket, is that what?
Sunday?
Speaker 2 (38:14):
ticket, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
What is it Did you get?
You know you can have fun youknow, we got that one time, one
time right when we got yeah,because you got one year free,
but then after that it's like400.
You better make sure you cancelit.
But yeah, it was like you turnit on there and it's like every
game right plans up go ahead.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
So, anyway, she's like we can do this.
I'm like no, and in this pointI'm texting jody everything
she's telling me Well, I cangive it to you for this and you
can get these channels.
No, well, how about this?
We up your Internet, so we'regoing to be getting one gigabyte
(38:51):
instead of 600, something Idon't know.
Oh, I didn't take that stuffback today.
She said I didn't have to today, I didn't take that stuff back
today.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
She said I didn't have to today.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
I got to take the receiver and the router because
we got to swap routers.
I can give you that and I cangive you your local channels and
you pick your channels.
I said, no, well, let me see, Icould probably do this.
I just want internet, that'sall I want.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Take everything away from me, but internet okay but
you had me sold on, you know,like the last text you sent me
on what she was promising.
I was like, hey, they canguarantee us for a year, or, if
they can come down, $25 moreBecause she kept coming down.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Yeah, but it wasn't.
I don't think you wereunderstanding what I was saying.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
I don't guess so.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Yeah, yeah, and that price was only guaranteed for a
year.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
You only get that price for a year, so then it's
going to jack back up, oh, thatwas going to be fine, because my
point was going to be hey In ayear I'll do it again Exactly.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
But how could they give us that and not do it
before I was leaving?
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (40:11):
That price.
They're just trying to hold onto you.
Look, these places like thatare losing people left and right
when it comes to satellitecompanies we got too much
streaming that way oh, that'swhat I'm saying.
So there's too much, two nightsthis week.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Now, of course it was late, we didn't even turn the
tv on I didn't sit in therecliner until last night, out
of the whole.
That might have been the wholeso that was last night, was, I
guess I probably can't use thisweek for an example but yeah,
because we, if we were home, wegot home late every day this
week I just been going to bedbecause I didn't feel good.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
But no, you've got so many options on streaming and
just like YouTube.
I'm not talking about YouTubeTV, I'm talking about YouTube on
your phone.
Now you get the app on the TV,you just pull it up and watch
whatever, and that's what I do Idon't.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
That's all.
Jody watches, he don't watch Idon't?
Speaker 1 (41:04):
we've had spectrum for five, six years, maybe,
maybe, and I'm I don't know anychannel numbers, nothing.
Yes, you do, I know fox they're39, that's the only one and I
know like our local channel orlike the NBC's and stuff is like
at 5 or channel 10.
It's somewhere around there.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
So did we tell them we did get that antenna.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
Yeah, we did, we talked about it.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
We got the antenna so we got the antenna.
Oh yeah, because we talkedabout you put it together on the
table and it was big yeah, the200 mile range, and I'm still
want to get started on this.
No I don't want you started onit.
No, because we already been onhere long enough.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
My voice is how long we've been on here I don't know,
I don't know when we started Igotta just look down there at
the recorder and I can't see itwhere Well you're moving stuff
around and making so much noiseas it is, it don't?
Matter 44 minutes, 44 minutes.
So they're tired of us.
Now we can go an hour.
I think we got it in us.
No, I don't want to.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
All right, they don't want to hear him.
I guess I'll be singing AltoSunday.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
I don't even know what that is.
Speaker 2 (42:19):
It's low alto is alto is low, soprano is high, not
high, but yeah, so alto is low.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
What's in between?
Speaker 2 (42:29):
alto is not low, low, alto you got so.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
Soprano is high.
What's next?
Speaker 2 (42:34):
soprano alto tenor soprano soprano tenor alto
basses bass, bassist bass.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Low, low, low.
Do we have any bass at church?
Wade is he?
Yeah, he's just considered that, but he's not like.
Well, I've heard some of theseguys that don't, what is it?
Oak ridges, boys, that kind.
What's the guy?
I don't know his name, but Idon't know.
That's what I consider.
Is it, would you say, basses,or just bass, bass, bass.
(43:06):
So if you ain't that low, Idon't consider you bass, I don't
.
Speaker 2 (43:11):
Oh well, it is.
I mean basses yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
Stop licking, all go.
Alright, check us out onYouTube.
I need to say that at the verybeginning, instead of waiting to
the end oh, check us out onYouTube.
If you want to see us, if youwant to see Winston, you
definitely need to watch thevideo on YouTube.
Plus, coco makes the shortlittle appearance at the very
(43:36):
beginning of it.
So, yeah, check it out.
I wish our YouTube had a lot offollowers.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
Go follow us, subscribe, we'll go live.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
Yeah, because we want to start doing YouTube lives
when we record on Fridays.
It'd be nice.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
It'd be nice.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
But yeah, check us out TikTok Facebook.
Do we have Facebook I?
Speaker 2 (43:57):
don't know, you're in charge.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
Just go to YouTube.
Youtube and TikTok.
That's all you got to do.
Speaker 2 (44:02):
Don't worry about nothing else, that's all you got
to do.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
Listen to us on Spotify.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:06):
Give us a like, follow and a share.
Speaker 1 (44:09):
And rate the show.
Please for the love.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
But don't let me look , because I'll get ill.
What If people don't like us?
Speaker 1 (44:16):
No, Look, if you ain't got nothing good to say,
don't comment.
You know we find out thatpeople comment that don't have
good intentions.
Speaker 2 (44:26):
You know, you can just keep scrolling.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
Yeah, the person that .
Hey, when I listen to somethingand I didn't like it, I just
keep going, I don't go.
You know what I'm going to do.
I'm going to hit that commentbutton.
I'm going to tell them how badthey are.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
No, you don't do that .
I mean they're doing what theywant to do.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
Let them do it right and if, if I don't, like it,
it's okay if it's a podcast thatI don't like, they don't need
to hear from me.
I'll just go to the next one.
I won't be back, right?
That's the thing like rating,too.
Even though I always harp on,hey, please rate the show please
.
We'd appreciate it helps us out.
But you know what I don't do?
You don don't rate, I don'trate shows.
(45:00):
So all of these that I listento, I haven't rated a single one
of them.
Speaker 2 (45:05):
Then why should anybody listen to you and rate?
Speaker 1 (45:08):
That's what I'm saying.
It's like I'm begging thesepeople to rate our show, but I
don't rate nobody's show, golly.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
Slacker.
Speaker 1 (45:14):
Don't do what I do, slacker.
What is it I'm leaving?
Do as I say.
Oh, I'm just rambling.
I know let's go All right, weappreciate you listening and
we'll see you next week.
Bye-bye.
Welcome back, episode 39.
We have two guests.
Well, we have our regular guest, which is called Winston, the
dog sitting beside me, and wehave another guest called Coco.
She's in her bed underneath thecamera, ain't that right, coco?
Coco, you want to make anappearance?
Come here, come on, come on.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
You're going to get them barking.
Come on there you go.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Let's see if they'll stay up here.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
See yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Okay, stay up here, see.
Okay, go back.
All right, go back to your bed,get down, coco.
Go get down.
All right, go lay down, ohanyway.
So let's go back to the podcast, anyway so he loves his dogs
yeah last time we taught oh,we'll get into this here in a
second, but we do want toapologize for not a nice sniff
sorry, I can't.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Y'all just gonna have to get over it because I got to
crude man has got a cold and wecouldn't go another week
without recording.
So yeah, so jody's gonna handleit.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah, we apologize, for last week we had a lot of
stuff going on.
We'll talk about that here in asecond, but I know on the last
episode we talked about the starID.
For your driver's license youneed a passport.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I got my passport today.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
We'll talk about that in a second too, but you wanted
me to research the star IDbecause we really didn't know
the ins and outs.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Because you think it's not necessary.
You didn't think I was rightthat you had to have it.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I think it's made up yeah.
That's what I thought so, so Iwas reading right here, and so
this is just the state ofAlabama.
I'll read this kind of verbatim, but it says the US Department
of Homeland Security isextending Might have to give me
that mute button.
Yeah, might have to give methat mute button.
Yeah, I need to hand you that,that's right Is extending the
(02:08):
enforcement deadline for thereal ID called Star ID in
Alabama to May 7th 2025.
In response to COVID-19.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
However, start so does that mean in COVID?
We were supposed to have itdone.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Well, that's it started.
Or is that when it started.
That's when it started Becauseyou know they're trying to
wrangle us in and control us.
That's when it all started.
Star IDs will be available forissuance after May 7th 2025 at
any Aaliyah examining office.
And in order to comply, I mean,I got to put my glasses on,
(02:44):
sorry.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Of course you do.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I tried the print got a little bit smaller.
Let me put my $3 spectacles on.
That did not help.
Let me just pull this thing upcloser.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
You can just pull that tray.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Let's just do this right here, all right.
In order to comply with theFederal Real ID Act, the Alabama
Law Enforcement Agencydeveloped the STAR-ID program.
The STAR-ID is a step beyond anordinary Alabama driver's
license or non-driveridentification card and it meets
all the requirements of federallaw.
(03:14):
Age 18 and over will need areal ID or star ID, compliant
license or another form ofidentification for domestic air
travel.
So meaning in state or incountry.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
So the real ID is not a real ID without the star on
it.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
But it also says or another form of identification.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Passport If you got a military ID, stuff like that.
So I'm just saying so you stilldon't need the star as long as
you've got another ID.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I'm just going to get it.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Are issued?
How much extra am I?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
going to have to pay.
Consider my license.
Ain't it's not time to renewthose?
So I'm just going to have to goin there and say, hey, I need
the star on my ID if I decide togo to Arizona, where our girls
weekend is.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Maybe it says star IDs are issued originally to
qualified individuals only atAlabama Law Enforcement Agency
driver license exam offices.
County operated license officeswill continue to provide
renewals and duplicates forlicense ID cards and star IDs.
Once the provision of the RealID Act star ID goes into effect,
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individuals who do not have anunexpired US passport will need
an Alabama star ID to boardcommercial aircraft for domestic
flights or to enter certainregistered or regulated federal
facilities.
Any Alabama license oridentification card issued on or
after April 25th 2022 that isnot compliant with the Real ID
(05:01):
Act will display not for federalidentification across the top
of the credential.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I don't know what any of that means.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
you just read Basically it's saying you're not
compliant if you're going tofly.
But, let me go back to thisright here.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I flew last year and it was fine.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Let's go back to this right here.
I don't fly.
Use me, for example.
I have flown before, but I'mnot somebody that every year I'm
going on a trip I'm flying, ortwice a year, or whatever like
that.
You have to love.
Something happens, an emergency.
I got to go to Oregon forwhatever reason and I got to go
tomorrow.
I got to catch a flight in themorning.
I'm not compliant.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Nope, and you're not.
They're not going to let youfly.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
What are you doing?
This is a crock I guess you'resol.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I mean, isn't that the way I'm reading this?
Is your passport out?
Yeah, we talked about 10 years.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
It's 10 years, so you're right at it probably yeah
, I think a little over 10 yearssince I've been out of the
country.
Uh, let's see.
Let's do the frequently askedquestions.
Let me just skim over thisright here.
If it tells you you can talkwhile I'm reading this to myself
, I don't know if they want tohear my raspy voice.
(06:09):
Well, the new car looksspecifically different.
We don't care about that.
What documents?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
So if y'all have any comments on this or y'all know
any insight on it, let us knowComment.
Let us know what's up with thestar ID See, all this is Comment
.
Let us know what's up with thestar ID?
See, all this is.
So when I go get the star ID,you got to have three forms of
identification your license,your birth certificate and
something else.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
What is that?
Something else?
Yeah, be more specific A bill.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I think most our bills are in your name.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
How am I going?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
to do that?
What if I don't have a bankstatement?
What?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
if my utility bills are in my spouse's or parent's
name.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Oh, there you go.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Let's see If you present utility bills to verify
the address of your principalresidence and those bills are in
your spouse's name, you mustbring your marriage certificate.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Do we even know where that is?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
If utility bills are in your parent's name.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
You may use your birth certificate.
Well, your birth certificate isone form of proof or whatever,
I think.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Anyway, I'm just saying, you know, this will put
people in a bind.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Jody just says it's a crock.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
It is because it's putting here's's putting what's
the point in it?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
That's what I want to know.
What's the point it's?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
like you want me to go take an extra step to get
this on my license for a reasonthat I don't need it.
But when the time comes that Ineed to fly now, it's a hassle
because I need it.
So either way, it's a hassle.
Jody, don't like hassles.
I don't like hassles.
I don't like.
Leave me alone.
(07:48):
That's all I want, Just leaveme alone.
Why are we doing this?
I don't know.
I mean seriously.
Why?
Yeah, I mean, I don't know Lookthey don't even want you to show
your ID when you vote.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
You know, you know, I'm just talking about some
states.
They don't, they do not wantyour idea, that's the only time
we show the idea, is it not?
Yeah, like you don't have toshow it anymore and you should
when you if well we used towrite checks.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
We don't write checks anymore if you're gonna vote in
the great united states ofamerica, I believe you should
show your oh yeah and nobody.
You should not be mad ifsomebody asks you to show your
ID to vote?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Absolutely not.
I don't think that.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
You know that's all right.
So yes, I will show you my IDall day long, every voting place
I go to that day.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
They ain't going to get a star on it.
They're going to kick you outnext time because you don't got
a star.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
You didn't hear what I said.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
However, voting place , you go to that day.
Yeah, yeah, I got you.
I'm happy to show.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
I'm just saying so.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
But I was right, you got to have it right.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I don't know about you being right, but you've got
to have it.
Excuse me Because I don'treally remember the conversation
we had verbatim from the lastepisode.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
You just didn't think I, because that was two weeks
ago, you, two weeks ago, youdidn't think I knew what I was
talking about.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Well, sometimes you get mistaken about stuff, and so
I just wanted to be clear onthis.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Okay, you were right, you were right.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
I think, I don't know .
I don't remember what you said,though.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
You've got to have the star ID.
That's what I said To fly.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I don't agree with it , but whatever, whatever, all
right, so go back.
You had, a few days prior toour last episode, you had to get
a passport, yep.
So you went through thatprocess.
You were talking about it alittle bit more expensive than I
was expecting or even thoughtof.
You were talking about I don'tknow if you talked about this
(09:39):
during our episode recording,but you said they told you not
to smile, which I knew that, butI don't think we talked about
it.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I did not know that, but you said they told you not
to smile, which I knew, that.
But I don't think we talkedabout it.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
I did not know that, but yeah, they told me not to.
Yeah, and you had a little bitof a smirk on that one.
You did show me a picture, yeah, and you can't even have that.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Well, he said, don't smile big.
So I didn't want to sit therejust to nod on the log.
Yeah, why can't?
Speaker 1 (10:05):
you.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Why can't you smile?
I'm traveling.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Well, why can't you just stand there and have
somebody take a picture withoutyou making a facial expression?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I don't know, I can't do it.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
That is the easiest thing to do.
It's hard when you say smile.
That's hard for me to you know.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Just say stand there, I'm gonna take your picture,
I'm gonna smile but it's a fakesmile.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Mine will be fake I never fake it.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I never fake a smile so you.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
But you said you've got your passport.
You were worried because itcould take up to like six weeks
oh yeah what was the weeklything you told me?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
well, it said four to six weeks.
So here we are, april 11thtoday, right, yeah, yeah, and I
put in for it like march, thelet's just see what don't matter
.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
But I'm just saying, yeah, you got it within two
weeks.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yeah, I put in like march, the 26th, I put in for it
and I got it today.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
But didn't you pay to have it expedited?
I did.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Well, there you go.
But still he said it'llprobably be four weeks, even at
expedited.
So mine went to, so I got thistracking thing.
So I told you that it.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Do we track everything, by the way?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah, so did I tell you that?
He said it don't just go tolike one place and it's made and
all that.
It goes to one place and it'ssent out to all different places
.
So he said it doesn't just goto like where's our main place,
like atlanta, and it it's madethere or whatever it goes to
(11:42):
there, but then they send it outto other places to have it made
.
And mine I forgot where minewent.
I was gonna try to rememberthat I forgot where mine went.
But yeah, it was not aroundhere, it was off somewhere.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Well, that's my stuff .
It's a security thing, you know, and how come?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
how come they can't send your passport and your
birth certificate and all thatstuff back together?
I don't got that stuff back yet.
They still got my birthcertificate.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Your original.
Yes, oh, I didn't know.
I thought you've got to show itthere.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
No, I remember them keeping yours.
Yeah, they keep your birthcertificate.
So yeah, they still got that.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
I don't know, I wouldn't.
I've never researched that tosee about.
You know passports, wherethey're made, because that, like
I said, it's a security thing.
Yeah, it's not.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
They're not all made at the same place.
They distribute them outthrough different to different
places.
Yeah, so I found thatinteresting, but I forgot where
it said it was coming from.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
But I wonder if the Secret Service is in charge of.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
What are they checking?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Because you know they're over the.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
What are they checking?
Speaker 1 (12:55):
What.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
They're doing background checking stuff on you
.
Why are they checking for yourpassport?
Why can't you just get it?
Why has it got to be shippedoff and made here?
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Well, you can't I mean you can't go down to the
copying place and they make youone real quick, because it'd be
so easy for people with illintent to get it To do bad
things Well that's what I'msaying.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
What are they checking when they're doing your
passport?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
I don't know.
I mean, yeah, they're goingthrough the whole thing and make
sure you don't have some kindof federal, if they're after you
put it that way.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Okay, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, it's a background check Because,
yeah, if you've been indictedfor, you know, smuggling stuff
in from whatever, I don't thinkyou're going to be okayed for a
passport.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Because they don't want you to leave the country.
That's the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
They don't want you to flee.
I'm going to keep you here.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
So today was the cutoff to send in my passport
stuff to Red Aspen.
How about that?
Speaker 1 (13:55):
How about that?
That's a blessing, yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
All right.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
So to go back to last week, when we weren't able to
record, we just had thingstranspire.
All right, let's go back tolast Saturday, or we can go back
a few days before that.
We had planned on going to aplace called Decatur, which is
in a neighboring county.
Let's say, an hour away,roughly right at maybe a hair
(14:24):
over.
They're going to have like aflea market slash pickers, slash
vintage, indoor plus outdoorbooths.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
What was it called?
I don't think I know what it'scalled now I don't know, it
don't matter Trading Days orsomething.
No, it's a festival, wasn't itno?
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Pickers Traders Festival.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Strawberry Festival is what I'm thinking of.
That's not what it was.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
I don't know what it's called that one's coming up
, but it was pretty big, a lotof booths outside.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
It was a girly thing.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
It wasn't a Jody thing things.
What's the deal with boutiques?
Speaker 2 (15:05):
there's a ton of them , is it?
Is it just?
Is there more of them todaythan there was five years ago?
Or five years ago was I justnot paying attention?
I think there's more today thanthere were.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Yes because that's all I saw.
I thought, hey, I'm gonna gohere, I'm gonna see some some
older stuff.
Hey, I'm gonna see some glasses, you know some mugs, some old
stuff.
Hey, I'm going to see someglasses, you know some mugs,
some old stuff that I can lookup and see if it's worth
anything, and we'll deal and wegot a new toy that he wanted to
play with and then we got thereand then it's like you know,
(15:32):
boutique boutique, next boothboutique.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
I didn't realize it was going to be that.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Next one earrings.
Next one earrings.
Next one boutique, that's aboutique too Well, if it's just
earrings.
Oh, just earrings yeah, youknow stuff like that.
It was neat to kind of walkaround, but then you go inside
and I was.
You know it was an hour, wewere done in an hour.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I never imagined being done in an hour, I know
and we, just we, just, you know.
We didn't rush through it.
You know I'll let you go to.
I looked in almost every one ofthem.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I stood outside a lot of the booths because you went
in and looked the cow hides.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
You like the cow hide ?
Speaker 1 (16:09):
They had cow hide rugs and then Ashley had some
some heads cow heads.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Oh, that's right.
Like calf heads for $350.
We should have got one thatcould have went right there
between us.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
It was really neat, but it was kind of crazy.
But why were they so littleCalfs?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
They were calfs not cows, okay, calf head, calf,
calf.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Miniature cow would be a calf.
That's what I caught.
Okay, no, it's a calf, yeah,calf.
A baby cow.
No, it's a calf, yeah, a babycow.
So if the recorder could reachup here and I could hold on, I
would hit that.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
I'm sorry, I know, I'm just saying I would hit the
mute button every time you'vegot a cough.
Sorry guys.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Sorry, people Just bear with her.
Sorry, all right.
So yeah, we got a new toy, or Igot a new toy.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I was going new toy.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I've been wanting to ever since.
We've been doing all this for ayear now this podcast and then
the other podcast that I do withtwo other guys.
We've slowly tried to getlighting.
You know, we're using our light.
Now that's behind this cameraFrom the TikTok shop.
From the TikTok shop, which theChinese steal all of our ideas
(17:22):
and then they make this stuffcheaper and then sell it to us,
and that's exactly what all thisis.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Well, it works, and we do it works.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
They got us.
So we've, you know, betweenMike's upgrade and Mike's stands
here and there.
You know we're just slowlygetting a little bit of this and
that and the other, and youknow I hear that phrase all the
time.
I do too.
Yeah, so what I'm getting at iswe got some Rode clip-on.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
R-O-D-E.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
R-O-D-E Rode Rode, which is top of the line, you
know, name brand clip-onmicrophones that you can clip on
to your hat or to your shirt,collar, whatever.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
They're a little heavy for your shirt.
A little heavy you know?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Yeah, it just depends on what you wear and how you.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
It was fine for me because I've done a crossbody.
I wore a crossbody, so it wenton my strap, yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
And then with me.
I just clipped it on my hat.
But what it's got?
It comes three mics.
One of them actually plugs intoyour phone and it's a magnet
and magnetizes to the back ofyour phone and it's like the
receiver.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
But we can't get over being kind of shy, recording
when we go out doing stuff yeah,so you know like how do you
just go record stuff?
Speaker 1 (18:47):
so the plan was this is the first time we're going to
use it.
We're going to go to thispickers thing.
Go around.
If we see some stuff, I'llvideo and we'll talk about it.
Maybe you know, look it upthrough google and all this kind
of stuff really didn't get achance.
We did yeah we record just alittle bit but as we went along,
it was like look, there's noway that we will have enough to
(19:07):
make a five-minute video, youknow, and put it on YouTube.
It just wasn't there.
So we tested it out and itcomes with your little wind.
What are they called?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Windsock Like a windsock, it's not a windsock.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
It just keeps the wind from blowing into the mic
and you hear it and stuff likethat, so it's pretty neat.
So I really was hoping to, andit's got a seven hour battery
life for each mic, so that was apositive, but really didn't get
to use it.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
We didn't even use it .
30 minutes did we?
Speaker 1 (19:38):
No, I kept them on the whole time we were there
Until we went to the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Johnny's like okay, we got to turn the mics off.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Yeah, I was like don't forget about the mic.
So yeah, so we did that.
And then when we left there, wegot done so quick.
We're like now, what are wegoing to do?
We're not just going to turnaround and head back.
So we went to eat, but it was alittle early, it was just after
11 o'clock.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I think it was 1109.
I keep thinking it was 1109.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
So we were trying to find a place to eat, one of our
other places that we go to.
We were going to go to ashopping place called Martin's
Clothing Stores.
Got everything, and right nextto it it was a used to be, oh,
charlie's oh, charlie's.
And we found out that, oh,charlie's is no longer there,
it's marlins did they go out of?
(20:30):
Did old charlie's go bankrupt?
Or anything, or did that onejust close?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
down.
I don't know, I guess I don'tknow well.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
So we weren't gonna eat there, so we went on down
the road and we found a.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Applebee's.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Applebee's.
We thought they were closedbecause there was nobody there,
but there was two cars.
So that told us right therethat there was possibly a cook
and a waitress, yeah, something.
Two people were there,hopefully.
So when we got there it's like,well, if they don't open at,
surely open at 11.
Right, but if not, 1130.
(21:05):
Yeah, so we're getting there.
I looked on the door and itsaid 11 o'clock and I thought,
yeah, we're good.
But as I was reaching for thedoor, I was like it's not going
to surprise me because just theway my life goes, it'll be
locked.
But we went in there.
Long story short, we were inthere almost till 12 o'clock and
nobody except one guy, but hewent to the bar.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
I know I was like.
There was nobody showed up inthere.
Is it really good to eat?
Speaker 1 (21:31):
here and it was so cold.
Oh my goodness, it was cold, itwas cold in there.
But we were like, hey, maybe weneed to go check the score, you
know.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
I mean I know the score, you know.
I mean I know 11's early.
But people around our town,people started, people are
eating at all times 11 30 shouldhave had some cars rolling,
yeah, and, but then.
But when we were getting readyto go they were coming in, so
people just got started latemaybe.
Yeah, they were at the thing wewere at.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Maybe I don't know, decatur's not small.
I mean, there's a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Yeah, yeah so.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
But then after that, what so the reason we?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
didn't record.
Then after that's when theworld turned upside down.
I mean not really, but it wenta little haywire.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Had a family member that got sick.
Yeah, spent all night in the er, literally yeah till one
o'clock in the morning was itone or two, I can't remember it
was one.
It was just after one o'clockwhen they finally, they were
going to transport him toanother hospital yeah and then
got home, got in the bed aftertwo.
(22:41):
The whole thing about this isnow when it comes to hospitals,
you can't trust anything theytell you at all, because we were
told that nothing was going tohappen the next day.
Right, that's why we didn't go.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
No, we were told nothing was going to happen.
That night he had like a cyston his back.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
We're talking about your dad.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Yeah, so he had kind of like a cyst on his back but
it was infected, so it wasreally big.
The local hospital couldn'ttake care of it, so it needed
surgery on it to get it out, toget all of it out of there, and
so they're going to transfer us.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Transfer.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
That just seemed like a weird word when I said it
okay, transfer him, and um,they're like they won't do
nothing today.
Probably, really, this wassaturday.
Yeah, yeah, this was saturday.
The doctor will probably comeby sunday talk about what
they're gonna do for it and thenmonday probably would be when
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they would do him, because, youknow, on the weekend, of course,
my dad always gets sick on theweekend.
It seems like he's always aweekend person to go to the
hospital and late evening andlate evening, not when you're in
the bed.
so so anyway, sunday Jody andNicholas are already going to
Jasper, their normal thing.
(24:06):
We're going to go over.
I wasn't going to church, I wasgoing to go down to his house
do a couple of things, let Jodygo do his thing at church and
then we're going to meet and go,because my plan was I teach
Sunday school, so I feel likeI've got to be there and you're
the toast man.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Oh yeah, and I cooked the toast for the kids.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
So yeah, so I had.
I felt like I had obligationsgonna do that.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
I was gonna knock that out, not stay for church.
We were gonna head on over backto birmingham I get a call as
I'm getting ready.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Hey, they're gonna do surgery here in a little while.
Let's excuse me, yeah, theymashed on it and done all this
stuff on it last night or thismorning.
He was calling it last nightbecause, bless his heart, he he
didn't know.
But um, he said they cut alittle bit out last night but
they're gonna go in there and,um, do the surgery on it here in
(24:56):
a little while.
I said what?
Okay?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
yeah, so this was a little after eight o'clock yeah
call me, and so then my plansare changing so we got to get
somebody to get somebody toteach and then.
So I just finished cooking,cleaned up and then, uh, you
came and picked us up and weheaded to birmingham.
Yeah, then, like five hours.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Yeah, it still took.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Yeah, before they ever took him to have the
surgery.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
It was crazy.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
It was.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
And he didn't eat.
And then he had to have anotherprocedure.
They didn't know if they weregoing to do it Monday.
They thought they were going todo it Monday.
It got to be four o'clock, theyhadn't done it.
Yet he ain't eat all day, itjust he hadn't eaten since
saturday everything was lateevening.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Everything they did was late, even that's crazy to
me.
I don't understand, and he justgot out yesterday yeah, which
was thursday thursday, so hetransferred late saturday night
or sunday morning, monday,tuesday and now he's got a wound
back, which is reallyinteresting how does that
operate?
Is it battery operated?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
well, yeah, you plug it up, but you can unplug it and
you carry this little pouch,because, should I say what he
called it, we won't say what hecalled it okay, um, so't say
what he called it.
No, don't say it.
Okay, so you carry this littlepouch that has the machine and
then it's got a cord or a tubethat hooks to the his is on the
(26:31):
back, so it hooks to his backwhere the wound is, and that
back there has got like a pieceof foam inside the wound.
Back there is got like a pieceof foam inside the wound and
then it's got a clear bandage onthe top but there's a little
circle thing like to hold thatfor the stuff to come out.
(26:54):
So it just sits there and itsucks it out.
Nice yeah, you wouldn't like it.
You would not like it.
Can you hear it?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
it.
Can you hear it?
You can't hear it, you can'thear it.
Is it's a constant vacuum, oris it?
Speaker 2 (27:10):
like every team, it's constant.
It's doing it constant.
So from the time that he had itdone sunday when did they put
the wound back?
On monday, they come back andchanged it Wednesday and then
they changed it again Thursday.
He said it was so much smaller.
He said it had already gottenso much smaller.
(27:32):
So that's how a wound backhelps it heal from the inside
out.
He said that hole was not asbig as what we saw.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
The hole I saw was big, it was huge, it was crazy,
it was crazy, it was crazy yeahso that's our excitement, so
yeah.
So between that and then yougetting sick in the middle of
all that, I know, I was like Ineed to go to the doctor.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I didn't go.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I should have went, so you're back and forth to
Birmingham all week.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Every day and when we say Birmingham, we're like over
an hour from this, fromBirmingham, from where we live.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
And you had to pay $4 for parking.
Every time Every time, you know, to me, that's another.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Why are we paying the park?
That's another.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
I can remember years ago when we would have to go.
I went with my mom and mygrandmother and I don't know if
my sister, I don't think it wasmy sister.
Anyway, my grandmother's twinsister had health issues.
She lived in East Point, that'sin Atlanta, so every weekend we
(28:46):
would have to go over there.
For a while it was like everyweekend that I can remember, but
we would go over there and thatwas the first time I was
introduced in paying for parkingat a hospital.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
You didn't always pay in Prince and I thought this
was crazy.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
I'm thinking this is the biggest.
It's a sham.
It's a sham, it's a scheme,it's a moneymaker.
You know?
That's exactly what it is.
So you're telling me I have aloved one that is in the
hospital, that I need to bethere for.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
And I got to pay to see him.
Yeah, Basically, you got to payto see him Basically.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
I'm coming on your property and to take up space in
one of your parking places,you're going to charge me money.
I want to start chargingNicholas for parking and I guess
$4 is probably a good deal,because I think a lot of them
are more than that.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Oh, a lot of them is more than that, yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Let's start charging.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Nicholas, we're supposed to tell them thank you,
since it's not expensive.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Yeah, so that it's crazy.
Yeah, life gets crazy sometimesit does.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
It's just you're tired and it's not when you go
to the hospital and you see it.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
It's not like you do anything and you're tired.
You're just like, oh my gosh,we're just waiting and waiting
and he couldn't eat, and thatwas horrible.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
And you're afraid.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
But then he would get food and he'd eat two bites.
He'd be done.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Yeah, but you're afraid to do it.
You're at their beck and call.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
You wait and wait and wait.
You're like, hey, I'm waitingon the doctor to make rounds.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
It could be any minute.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
now, five hours later yeah, say three hours in he
still hasn't shown up.
And you're like I really needto go down to the sandwich shop
and get me a quick bite, like beback in 15 minutes.
But you will not do it, no,because you're afraid that
you're going to miss it.
And guess what?
Two more hours goes by and youstill haven't cut it.
It's that kind of thing.
It's ridiculous.
(30:34):
It's like have you know, thesedoctors have some respect for
these patients and I'm notsaying all doctors, I'm saying
almost everyone I've ever had todeal with, though, and I
understand they've got a lot ontheir plate and everything like
that.
But come on, man, you can giveus a little bit of a window of
when you're going to be there.
Tell me, instead of betweenlunch and 8 o'clock at night,
(30:58):
can you not tell me between 2and 4?
I mean, you know what I'msaying.
Just pass it along something.
We even had the nurse that keptcalling this doctor that week
was it sunday or monday?
And could not get a call backto find out when he was getting.
That's just so frustrating.
Calling that doctor out rightnow.
I'm putting his name out there.
(31:18):
I don't know his name.
I never saw him so I don't know, but I was frustrated all right
, so enough of that.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Yeah, tell him what I did yesterday.
You don't even know what I'mtalking about what you did
yesterday.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
I can tell you what I did wednesday water leak
dealing with that.
We won't even get into that,see we've had such a busy week.
I was dealing with that, youwas with your dad and I'm
dealing with a water leak andI'm like scared I'm gonna get
locked in the hospital.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
I have to walk all the way around by myself in a
shady place that we know peoplejust got their car stolen from
over there and I'm like askingeverybody, how am I gonna get
out of here?
And the nurse is like we canget the security to escort you
down there.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
You said the front door said that they locked those
at 7 pm but you didn't know ifyou're going to be able to come
out.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
But then everybody's like there's a door right beside
those doors.
It says emergency and it saysthe alarm will go off.
It really won't.
But if it does, just go on outand don't worry about it, I'm
like that's what I'm doing, thensecurity probably gonna come
tackle me or something.
But I made it out, it was meand another.
This was crazy.
So when I came in, that wasWednesday, right, okay.
(32:32):
So when I came in Wednesday, um,oh, when he was back there in
surgery or whatever, and I camedown to get me something to eat,
another lady had come in thereand she was nicely dressed.
So I just asked her you know, Idon't like church clothes, what
we call church clothes.
I just nicely asked her.
(32:52):
I said you don't happen to workhere, do you?
She's like no.
And then we talked for a minuteand I said said well, I'm
worried about getting out thesedoors at seven.
She said me too.
I don't know what I'm gonna do.
And um, she said my sisterdon't want me walking out by
myself and everything.
So we talked a minute and then,you know, we told each other we
(33:13):
hope you get out, you knowyou're both saying good luck to
each other.
Yeah, we met back up when I wasleaving, got on the elevator
together and walked out.
How crazy is that.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
It was crazy.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
That's not crazy, that's just the Lord working in
his way.
Because she said my sisterreally didn't want me walking
out by myself.
Yeah, and it was like we hadlike three minutes till seven.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
So you're always trying to get there we were
trying to get there.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
It was like 3 minutes till 7 and me and her both walk
up to the door and it was slowto open and we're like and then
it just opens Because at thishospital, fine hospital, you
know, no problem with thehospital, great hospital.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
But we've got, you know, friends from church that
have been sick and that havebeen at that hospital several
weeks back and got their carstole while they were there.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
And that's all.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
I could think about If a car, if somebody that you
know's car got stowed in theparking lot at the hospital, I
can understand why you'd benervous to walk out.
If you're a female, oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
So then you want to hear what the nurse told me.
Sure, she's like yeah, all thetime during Christmas all our
cars always get broke into.
Every year during Christmas wehave so many employees and their
cars get broken into can theynot do anything?
Speaker 1 (34:43):
do you not have security?
Why we not got security drivingaround this joint there's a
booth out there for somebody tosit in and nobody sits in it
yeah, but I'm just saying, ifyou have somebody in there, are
they not like watching andseeing?
Speaker 2 (34:59):
oh I I heard something.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Oh, that's glass being broke from a window
because somebody broke into acar.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
So if somebody's told that if their car was in that
parking lot that we're talkingabout, it might not have been no
, it was in the parking deck.
No, I don't remember, I don'tknow where it was.
They would have had to pay $4to get out of that parking lot.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Which you feel safer walking out to a regular parking
lot.
That's just one level outsidein front of the hospital or
parking in a parking deck goingout not a parking day parking
decks.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
I did not want to park in that parking day I don't
feel safe that's why that nextmorning, when I knew I had to go
by myself to start with, I gotup, went early because I was
afraid that the parking lot wasgoing to get full and I was
going to have to find somewhereelse to park and walk in and out
by myself.
But it all worked out, it's allgood.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Society.
Man, I tell you, when you haveto worry about coming out of a
hospital and you're afraid youcan get mugged or shot, whatever
it is.
I mean it's crazy.
That's why I always say youknow, be aware of your
surroundings, especially whenyou get in your car.
We tell nicholas all the timeall the time because what he'll
(36:10):
he'll do, he'll get out of thegym and he'll go get in his
truck and he'll crank it or sitthere for a few minutes and be
on his phone or whatever, likethat.
I think when you get in yourtruck, lock them doors first
thing, then sit there, that'sfine, but at least lock them
doors.
But you know, he came home onenight.
He called me on the phonecoming down our driveway because
(36:32):
somebody had he had noticedsomebody had followed him.
And then when he got turnedinto our driveway they followed
him down the driveway.
Anyway, we don't know what thestory was like.
I went out after the guy forwords and he was back and forth
through our neighborhoods.
I don't know what to do.
But anyway, just saying you'vegot to be aware, when you walk
out, make sure you're lookingaround.
(36:54):
Don't see anybody.
Look around your car.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
It is All right.
So guess what I did yesterday?
Speaker 2 (37:02):
I have no idea, you don't remember.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Let's see.
I worked most of the day.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
I canceled satellite.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Oh, finally canceled satellite.
Have we got it today?
Speaker 2 (37:15):
I haven't even checked.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Because we still had it yesterday.
Well, the 11th was our canceldate or renewal, I guess for the
month yeah, when it would go,but like when it cuts for your
bill and cycle or whatever Iguess is what it's called.
So tell us the story of that,because you were texting me as
you were on the phone.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Oh, my gosh, she kept on and on.
Well you, we got mobile.
I could get you in here withthis mobile If you'll switch
your phones, or I could get youthis package.
I see you have the sportspackage.
Didn't even know we had theflipping sports package.
I don't even know what that wasand I'm not.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
I mean, if that's the sports package, well, they need
to do a little bit more work onit because I didn't notice
anything great about it.
Hey, we've got some ESPNs,great Right.
I didn't say no.
What's the NFL?
What's it called?
I don't know.
The NFL ticket, is that what?
Sunday?
Speaker 2 (38:14):
ticket, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
What is it Did you get?
You know you can have fun youknow, we got that one time, one
time right when we got yeah,because you got one year free,
but then after that it's like400.
You better make sure you cancelit.
But yeah, it was like you turnit on there and it's like every
game right plans up go ahead.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
So, anyway, she's like we can do this.
I'm like no, and in this pointI'm texting jody everything
she's telling me Well, I cangive it to you for this and you
can get these channels.
No, well, how about this?
We up your Internet, so we'regoing to be getting one gigabyte
(38:51):
instead of 600, something Idon't know.
Oh, I didn't take that stuffback today.
She said I didn't have to today, I didn't take that stuff back
today.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
She said I didn't have to today.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
I got to take the receiver and the router because
we got to swap routers.
I can give you that and I cangive you your local channels and
you pick your channels.
I said, no, well, let me see, Icould probably do this.
I just want internet, that'sall I want.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Take everything away from me, but internet okay but
you had me sold on, you know,like the last text you sent me
on what she was promising.
I was like, hey, they canguarantee us for a year, or, if
they can come down, $25 moreBecause she kept coming down.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Yeah, but it wasn't.
I don't think you wereunderstanding what I was saying.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
I don't guess so.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Yeah, yeah, and that price was only guaranteed for a
year.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
You only get that price for a year, so then it's
going to jack back up, oh, thatwas going to be fine, because my
point was going to be hey In ayear I'll do it again Exactly.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
But how could they give us that and not do it
before I was leaving?
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (40:11):
That price.
They're just trying to hold onto you.
Look, these places like thatare losing people left and right
when it comes to satellitecompanies we got too much
streaming that way oh, that'swhat I'm saying.
So there's too much, two nightsthis week.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Now, of course it was late, we didn't even turn the
tv on I didn't sit in therecliner until last night, out
of the whole.
That might have been the wholeso that was last night, was, I
guess I probably can't use thisweek for an example but yeah,
because we, if we were home, wegot home late every day this
week I just been going to bedbecause I didn't feel good.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
But no, you've got so many options on streaming and
just like YouTube.
I'm not talking about YouTubeTV, I'm talking about YouTube on
your phone.
Now you get the app on the TV,you just pull it up and watch
whatever, and that's what I do Idon't.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
That's all.
Jody watches, he don't watch Idon't?
Speaker 1 (41:04):
we've had spectrum for five, six years, maybe,
maybe, and I'm I don't know anychannel numbers, nothing.
Yes, you do, I know fox they're39, that's the only one and I
know like our local channel orlike the NBC's and stuff is like
at 5 or channel 10.
It's somewhere around there.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
So did we tell them we did get that antenna.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
Yeah, we did, we talked about it.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
We got the antenna so we got the antenna.
Oh yeah, because we talkedabout you put it together on the
table and it was big yeah, the200 mile range, and I'm still
want to get started on this.
No I don't want you started onit.
No, because we already been onhere long enough.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
My voice is how long we've been on here I don't know,
I don't know when we started Igotta just look down there at
the recorder and I can't see itwhere Well you're moving stuff
around and making so much noiseas it is, it don't?
Matter 44 minutes, 44 minutes.
So they're tired of us.
Now we can go an hour.
I think we got it in us.
No, I don't want to.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
All right, they don't want to hear him.
I guess I'll be singing AltoSunday.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
I don't even know what that is.
Speaker 2 (42:19):
It's low alto is alto is low, soprano is high, not
high, but yeah, so alto is low.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
What's in between?
Speaker 2 (42:29):
alto is not low, low, alto you got so.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
Soprano is high.
What's next?
Speaker 2 (42:34):
soprano alto tenor soprano soprano tenor alto
basses bass, bassist bass.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Low, low, low.
Do we have any bass at church?
Wade is he?
Yeah, he's just considered that, but he's not like.
Well, I've heard some of theseguys that don't, what is it?
Oak ridges, boys, that kind.
What's the guy?
I don't know his name, but Idon't know.
That's what I consider.
Is it, would you say, basses,or just bass, bass, bass.
(43:06):
So if you ain't that low, Idon't consider you bass, I don't
.
Speaker 2 (43:11):
Oh well, it is.
I mean basses yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
Stop licking, all go.
Alright, check us out onYouTube.
I need to say that at the verybeginning, instead of waiting to
the end oh, check us out onYouTube.
If you want to see us, if youwant to see Winston, you
definitely need to watch thevideo on YouTube.
Plus, coco makes the shortlittle appearance at the very
(43:36):
beginning of it.
So, yeah, check it out.
I wish our YouTube had a lot offollowers.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
Go follow us, subscribe, we'll go live.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
Yeah, because we want to start doing YouTube lives
when we record on Fridays.
It'd be nice.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
It'd be nice.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
But yeah, check us out TikTok Facebook.
Do we have Facebook I?
Speaker 2 (43:57):
don't know, you're in charge.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
Just go to YouTube.
Youtube and TikTok.
That's all you got to do.
Speaker 2 (44:02):
Don't worry about nothing else, that's all you got
to do.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
Listen to us on Spotify.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:06):
Give us a like, follow and a share.
Speaker 1 (44:09):
And rate the show.
Please for the love.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
But don't let me look , because I'll get ill.
What If people don't like us?
Speaker 1 (44:16):
No, Look, if you ain't got nothing good to say,
don't comment.
You know we find out thatpeople comment that don't have
good intentions.
Speaker 2 (44:26):
You know, you can just keep scrolling.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
Yeah, the person that .
Hey, when I listen to somethingand I didn't like it, I just
keep going, I don't go.
You know what I'm going to do.
I'm going to hit that commentbutton.
I'm going to tell them how badthey are.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
No, you don't do that .
I mean they're doing what theywant to do.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
Let them do it right and if, if I don't, like it,
it's okay if it's a podcast thatI don't like, they don't need
to hear from me.
I'll just go to the next one.
I won't be back, right?
That's the thing like rating,too.
Even though I always harp on,hey, please rate the show please
.
We'd appreciate it helps us out.
But you know what I don't do?
You don don't rate, I don'trate shows.
(45:00):
So all of these that I listento, I haven't rated a single one
of them.
Speaker 2 (45:05):
Then why should anybody listen to you and rate?
Speaker 1 (45:08):
That's what I'm saying.
It's like I'm begging thesepeople to rate our show, but I
don't rate nobody's show, golly.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
Slacker.
Speaker 1 (45:14):
Don't do what I do, slacker.
What is it I'm leaving?
Do as I say.
Oh, I'm just rambling.
I know let's go All right, weappreciate you listening and
we'll see you next week.
Bye-bye.
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