We explore the true meaning of Memorial Day, its history as "Decoration Day," and why saying "Happy Memorial Day" feels contradictory when honoring fallen soldiers.
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• We question why fireworks are used during a solemn remembrance holiday
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Welcome back Episode 43.
It's Amanda.
It's Ed Stan and it's me, Jody.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
It's like episode 999 .
Speaker 1 (00:26):
It does, it does Sometimes.
Sometimes this is work,sometimes it's fun.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
It should always be fun.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Sometimes it's pulling teeth, sometimes trying
to get subject matter, sometimessomeone doesn't want to
participate.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I don't like subjects Somebody doesn't want structure
, you script it.
And you talk about TV showsthat you don't script it.
That's not real.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Yeah, this is different, you've got to have a
little bit of structure.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I've got structure, let's go.
So I've got a new candy.
You've already tried it once,but I think you need to do it
again.
Okay, this is the sweet tartsgummy halos.
It's tart and chewy, soft andfluffy.
Blue punch, strawberries andcream.
(01:14):
I need you to try it againbecause I think it's really good
, I'm not big on gummy stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
That's part of the problem is that like gummy bears
and gummy worms.
Did you used to like thatgrowing up?
I Like gummy bears and gummyworms.
Did you used to like thatgrowing up?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I love gummy bear and gummy worms.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I didn't care nothing about that.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
You like the hard sour candy.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Yeah, but now all the gummies have gone to just like
pure sugar, because it looksnothing like it used to with
like a gummy bear.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
So this is like granulates of sugar.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
It's good, I like it.
Don't smack what flavorStrawberry Hold on Blue Blue
punch and strawberries and cream.
See, I don't I mean it's okay.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I mean you can have the bag to yourself.
Good, I won't fight you for itGood, because I love it.
I like the new candy, I meanyou can have the bag to yourself
.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Good, I won't fight you for it.
Good, because I love it.
I like the new candy.
Why?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
don't you pick something that's a little bit
more unusual for me to try?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
out.
That's a new candy, so I pickedit.
Okay, new things.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
We've got an orange thing in there, too that you've
been wanting to do.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah, it might be a little too old to do, is it?
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Did we get it at Christmas time?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, might need to look at the date on that sucker.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Six months old.
Surely it's still good,wouldn't it be Six months?
It's chocolate Probably rightthere at it.
Probably they don't have a longshelf life, but I guess six
months.
Surely you should eat it withinsix months why have we?
Not done it.
I mean, I would give it like twoweeks and you should have it
(02:56):
yet I'm not a big chocolateperson, so I think that's why I
hadn't well, I think what it wasis we got it, got it sitting in
there, and we've always talkedabout hey, hey, we'll do a quick
video of it, and we never doLike a minute and a half video,
so we never actually sat down todo that.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
But I would still.
I would rather have candy thanchocolate.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Just because of the mess.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Or what no.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I'll take a Reese's cup over anything.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Okay, if we're doing that, then I'm taking Reese's
pieces over anything.
And then I go to candy.
I'm just not a big chocolateLike.
If I have a choice betweencandy, say sour candy, and a
chocolate bar, I'm gonna pickthe sour candy.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
lemon heads definitely I could make myself
sick off lemon heads becausethey're so good.
I'll just get a mouth of them.
Full of them, like expect, likewhen we go road tripping when
we go road tripping we have tohave candy, so that's why I try
new candy there's a lot of timeswhen we come back right.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
It's not necessarily going no, it's, it's when I'm
going to sleep and you guys stayawake, yeah, so you got to eat
too, but lemons is the go-to.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yeah, lemon heads is the go-to.
That's always bad in like asweet tart or something.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Lemon heads and Red Hots.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Red Hots is good.
I don't ever think about them,but Red Hots are good.
Now the what is it?
Butterscotch disk.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I don't care for butterscotch.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
My mom usually gets me some kind of like a stocking
stuff for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Do you mean?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
caramel or butterscotch.
It's butterscotch the only timeI ever eat it, because that one
bag it's like when I eat one Ican't stop, and when just a few
days they're all gone and I'llnever touch them again until
Christmas.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
But they are so good I don't know, I don't care about
butterscotch I mean it's okay.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
This is nothing we were going to talk about.
We're going to talk aboutMemorial Day.
We just celebrated Memorial Daylast week.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Last week.
Is that right?
Yes, I've got all my days mixedup.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Last week no.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Microwave.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Yeah, it's on the microwave.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Yeah, what was I saying?
Memorial Day, memorial Day Lastweek.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
It was last week, and so Not this week.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
When this comes out.
When this comes out, it's goingto be a week, I don't know.
I'm so confused on when we were.
You don't need to think aboutthe day that you're recording.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
You need to think about the day that it's released
.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I know It'll be a week Monday, right.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
And we're supposed to we're recording on Saturday, so
Memorial Day, we're supposed tocommemorate and honor our
fallen soldiers, right, right.
Or what I would call our heroes.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Right.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
That were killed in battle right.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Right.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
That's what it's all about, right.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
This isn't Veterans Day, right?
You know, when we celebrate ourveterans, this isn't the Fourth
of July.
Forget all that.
When we celebrate ourindependence.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Or is it anybody that was in battle?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I say, when you, in Memorial Day, I think we need to
think of all the soldiers RightCause, you see, all the flags
hanging down.
Right, the city and it's allsoldiers.
But memorial, but it's.
It's fallen soldiers Memorial.
You're memorializing them.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Then why don't we say it's like a funeral?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Happy Memorial Day.
Well, I don't agree with thatand I don't hear a lot of people
, but when I do hear that Idon't, I'm like what are you
talking about?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
somebody else brought that up too on their show about
why we say happy memorial daybut, when it's really not.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
I don't hear a whole lot of it, but it stands out
when I hear it, because I don'thear it enough, yeah but, I want
to slap them and say what areyou talking about?
There is no happy.
We can celebrate it Thinkingabout them, memorialize them,
like I said, but why is it thestart of summer?
I'm not saying happy.
It's not like happy birthday,you don't say happy Christmas,
do you?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Why is it the symbol for the start of summer?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Or not symbol, but you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Like everybody thinks , that's the start of summer.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
It's the unofficial start of summer.
It's what it is why?
Because it falls right thereduring the time when it becomes
summer.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Well, that's crazy, so I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I've never thought about this.
I just look at the calendar andI see when Memorial Day is,
just like I see all holidays.
I'll look every once in a while.
I'll go and I'll say, hey,what's Christmas fall on this
year?
And I'll look Is it a Thursday,is it a Saturday, is it a
Monday?
Just you know, because I wantto know.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I don't have to look at the calendar for Thanksgiving
because I know whenThanksgiving falls it's always a
Thursday, always on a Thursday.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
I didn't know that Memorial Day is always the last
Monday of May.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
You didn't know that.
I had no idea.
Yes, I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Never thought about it, never, like I said, because
I've Always.
I just didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Yep, what else you got about Memorial Day it?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
used to be called Decoration Day.
Yes, and then in the 18, mid-18.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
They still do decoration around here 50s, 60s,
70s.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
It got changed to Memorial Day.
It was still unofficial at thattime.
Well, decoration in the Southis different than Decoration Day
.
What we're talking aboutDecoration Day, I think it was
just because of the civil war.
I think it was calleddecoration day because they're,
uh, um, memorializing the.
I think it was union soldiers.
They got killed.
(08:35):
I don't think it wasconfederate soldiers, but I
could be wrong.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I'm not up on all that you didn't search it that
much, no I did have one fact.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I got one fact right down here.
Let see, let me see if I canread it from right here you
don't got your glasses on.
Yeah, but it's far enough away.
I've got it sitting on thefloor right here.
So in 1968, Congress passed theUniform Monday Holiday Act,
which established Memorial Dayas the last Monday in May, like
I said a minute ago.
(09:04):
I didn't think you didn't knowthat.
No, this is not me talking.
This is what they say In orderto create a three-day weekend
for federal employees.
But Memorial Day didn'tactually become an official
holiday until 1971.
And also, flags were to beflown at half-staff from sunrise
to noon.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I didn't know that either.
I did not know that Ours wasn'tdown, was it at church?
But so this yeah, no, no.
Well, I'm pretty sure no.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I wouldn't have came through there at any point
during, say, from 6 am to noon,to know if it would have.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Maybe I did and didn't notice it, but anyway, so
I thought it was.
To me it sounds like this wasall political, because it was
made for the Monday to givefederal workers a three-day
weekend.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Hmm, why do they need a three-day weekend?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Well, this is Jody's logic.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Oh, don't get him started In Jody's perfect world.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
I would say put all holidays on Saturday, Plain and
simple.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Everybody's not off on Saturdays.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I understand that, but it makes a whole lot more
sense to me than you're going tobite my hand.
On Labor Day.
Let's celebrate it on aSaturday Christmas, a Saturday
Thanksgiving.
Let's celebrate it on asaturday.
Christmas, a saturdaythanksgiving.
Let's celebrate on a saturdaybecause you change, especially
these holidays that are changedup, like july 4th, throughout
(10:35):
the way.
It messes everything up ifyou're in a business to where
you get certain deliveries on acertain day or whatever it is.
Say you work, work for Amazon.
You know people shut down.
Just like Christmas, you haveto shut down.
I would hope most places shutdown, except I know hospitals
don't.
But you have to rearrangescheduling.
(10:58):
You have to do this, do that,this, that and the other
Shameless plug and I'm just likeit's just so.
Just just bam, everything's ona saturday.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
You know ahead of time go with it, shut it all
down, shut it all down.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Forget this three-day weekend, because that's what?
Yeah, between that, between thegovernment giving their workers
three-day weekends and hallmarkmaking up all these holidays
and secretary's day and all thisstuff to where we have to buy
cards and stuff.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
You about to get in trouble now.
I'm just saying Hate mail.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Well, just saying.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Jay.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Ratliff, if there's guys listening to me right now,
they would agree with me.
Unless you work for the federalgovernment and you're like he's
a bozo, he needs to shut hismouth, but everything else is
yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
You hitting it hard.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
So you know you're celebrating, you're
memorializing, we talked aboutthat, but is there anything that
goes on on Memorial Day?
You've got like on July 4th youhave.
Coney Island has the hot dogeating contest.
Joey Chestnut talk about himall the time on the other
podcast.
The records that he sets Allthese hot dogs he can eat in 10
(12:09):
minutes.
It is crazy, it's the worstthing.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Hey, let me tell you, but didn't he get in trouble?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
He did.
But let me tell you somethingIf you've never seen it, don't
just go watch the video, becauseit might make you throw up.
Gross Look, it is terrible.
It's gross, because if youwatch them, you'll see some of
the people that actuallyparticipate.
They will throw up, so that'snasty, and they shoot fireworks.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Why do they shoot fireworks on Memorial Day?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Well, on July 4th I get it, but on Memorial Day we
heard fireworks being shot and Idon't understand.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
It's almost the same thing as saying Happy Memorial
Day.
Don't you think a veterandoesn't want to hear that?
Yeah, saying happy memorial day, don't you think a veteran?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
doesn't want to hear that.
Yeah, we're.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
We're shooting fireworks for the people that
lost their lives to keep us freeyeah, doesn't make sense I mean
I, I know maybe you're, maybeyou're deep in the sauce.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
All day long you've been hitting it pretty hard and
then that night you're like, hey, we're gonna shoot some roman
candles, shooting fireworks onmemorial day?
I don't know, I guess they justthought maybe it's kids that
like and let's put a limit onthese fireworks.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Of what time?
If it's after 11 o'clock, don'tshoot fireworks, that's true.
Okay, I'll give you tillmidnight.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
That's what I hate about new year's eve is because
it's a free for us, like, hey,we're letting you do whatever
you want to up until probably 2o'clock in the morning.
If you ain't got to shoot themat midnight, we'll let you keep
going as late as you want to,which is crazy.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
That's rough, I'm not a big—well.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
I like fireworks, but I would say, when it gets dark—
, shoot them and get it overwith 9, 30, maybe 10 o'clock and
be done be done with it.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Some people have to work.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
I know exactly right, that's it.
Some people have to get upearly and work and it scares the
everybody's got dogs out ofdogs everybody's.
Majority of people now seem tohave dogs in their house and
everything, but we used to havea chocolate lab named sadie in
their house and everything, butwe used to have a chocolate lab
named Sadie.
If it thundered, she was underthe bed, so you can imagine the
(14:11):
fireworks.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
She did not like fireworks.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yeah, but this dog right here, winston, he don't
care, he don't care.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
As long as he's in your lap, nothing bothers him at
all Nothing.
Earthquake?
I don't think he'd even bat aneye at him.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Hmm, earthquake.
I don't think he'd even bat aneye at him.
But anyway, I don't thinkthere's anything on Memorial Day
.
I do know that I was thinkingof some kind of event that we
might do on Memorial Day, but Idon't think of anything.
But I know the president puts awreath on the.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I know that's a tradition I've seen the Tomb of
the Unknown Soldier.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
I know you's a tradition.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
I've seen the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
I know you did, sorry.
You saw a lot of stuff inWashington, a trip that you
didn't care about taking, whichI would have loved to have gone.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
I tried to get you to go.
I appreciate you for rubbingthat in.
I tried to get you to go.
Yeah, the Tomb of the UnknownSoldier that's Did.
Did y'all see the, theswitching of the guards?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
yeah, we saw it all have you ever watched the videos
of somebody that crosses overthe chain or tries to walk?
Speaker 2 (15:12):
up and get a close picture.
Oh yeah, if you hadn't seenthat, that's something to that's
something to do.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
So another thing that I saw this might happen on
memorial day.
I don't know, I think it waslast week when it happened,
might have been the week before,but it's in england.
But it's that cheese rollingcontest, you know when they?
I don't know if we've evertalked about this before.
We've watched a documentarywe've watched it.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Right, we've what?
Yeah, we've watched it.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
I don't think we've ever talked in depth about all
of it.
But last week when they had it,there was a guy it was a video
that I don't know how many timesI saw it but this guy, this
dude, goes airborne.
He, like you know, they run,they start running down this
hill and then they start slidingand flopping and all this stuff
.
Anyway, he hit wrong whateverand flopping and all that stuff.
(16:06):
Anyway, he hit wrong whateverand he just went airborne
flipping.
I don't know how far he wentand then landed.
I don't know if it was him thatgot hurt or whatever, but
somebody got hurt.
They had two or three events.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
He was flipping over the cheese.
Do they roll with the cheese?
What do they do All?
Speaker 1 (16:22):
right, so everybody's on top of the hill, okay.
And it's kind of like three,two, one go and everybody takes
off, but they roll the cheesedown the hill.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Big cheese.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Yeah, the big cheese.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
That's what they call me the big cheese.
That's my nickname.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Yeah, okay, so it's like a five-pound wagon wheel
like a mini wagon wheel size I.
It looks like a wagon wheellike a mini wagon wheel size I
think it's five pounds, I don'tknow.
Anyway.
So yeah, whoever can get downthe hill the fastest wins.
The cheese gets the big cheese.
So somebody got hurt and had tobe airlifted, and I think they
(16:58):
call it air bust.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
They got run over by cheese.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
No, on the way down, either somebody ran over Boy if
you see as many times as theyflip and flop, I mean I way down
that either somebody ran outboy.
If you say as many times asthey flip and flop, I mean you
probably.
I'm surprised more.
You know, uh, head traumadoesn't happen because it's it
looks pretty dangerous.
I wouldn't do it.
If I was younger I'd do it.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I wouldn't do it now.
At my age, I wouldn't do it butI'd like to watch it I'd like
to watch it, but I don't likethat, would that?
Speaker 1 (17:22):
would.
It's something that we're gonnatalk about on our next episode.
I would watch it just like withyour soapbox Right, the Red
Bull soapbox that we hooked onRight.
Zip it or stop right there.
Zip, check that out on the nextepisode.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Zip, zip, to be continued on that one, yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yeah, but that would be.
I don't know, I don't think itwould be a bucket do, but if I
ever worked my way over toengland I might see if I could
time it to where I'd be goingover there when this is going to
, because I'd like where youcould watch it.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Yeah, I'd like to.
I'd like to not be in it.
No, no, no, no, but I'd like tosee like the chasing of the
bulls I don't want to be a partof that at all.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Is that what it's called running of the bulls?
That's about stupid yeah, ifI'm in a windowsill, like on the
third level, watching them goby like a balcony, yeah, I'm
there but I'm not going to be onthe street corner.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
You like watching those dumb people?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
I'm not, you know.
I've always thought, you knowJody's going to be taken out by
that freak accident.
This is not going to be a freakaccident, because you're not
going to see me on the sidewalkwhen the bulls are coming by no,
you just ride bulls, that's allyeah.
That was a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Well, what's the difference?
Speaker 1 (18:29):
There's a big difference.
Is there 35 years difference.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
No, I mean, what's the difference in riding a bull
and running from a bull?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
There's still a big difference.
Riding a bull and running awayfrom a bull are two totally
different things.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
You still.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
You got to know what you're doing in both okay
situations.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
You're still dumb.
In both situations I would runfrom a bull nowadays.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Before I'd ride a bull and apparently I wasn't
that smart back back then was it?
Was it fun?
It was the.
I'll tell you when you, whenyou're on a bull and you feel
the power that they have whenyou're in the shoot with them
it's an adrenaline rush.
It is an adrenaline rush, butyour nerves are like man, what
am I doing?
(19:10):
I'm crazy, I've lost my mind.
You know it's like there's nobacking out now.
But the kicker is it's likeit's one thing, because when you
first get on the bull and yousit down in the chute, you're
holding on to both To the rails,yeah, Right To the chute is
(19:30):
they lean to one side.
They're not standing up,they're leaning on one side.
So the guys have to put theirboots in between the railing and
push the bull upright so youcan get your leg down beside
them.
So guess what, now that you'vegot?
Speaker 2 (19:45):
your leg sitting on them.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
They move their boots , and what does the bull do?
He leans back over there.
So now your legs you know, yeah, so there's a lot.
Nobody thinks about that either.
But when you're sitting on themyou know you're nervous, you're
excited, adrenaline startingand all this stuff.
But it doesn't get real untilthey start tightening that bull
(20:07):
rope and when your hand tightensand you realize that it is so
tight.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
You don't tighten the rope, do you?
No, your other dude, yourperson, tightens it, or whatever
you tell them when to stop.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
But they tighten that and you've got, you've heated
up.
It's got rosin, you know, onthe bull rope and you heat it up
.
You're going up and down onthere and you're heating it up
with your glove.
Why down on there and you'reheating it up with your glove?
Why make it sticky?
So then, so when they tie, theyput it in there.
You put your hand in there.
They tighten it up.
It is so tight.
You're thinking there is no waymy hand's gonna come out of
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this and I'm gonna be stuck.
That's what you think.
Because it's so tight.
I'm just stuck on this bull.
I'm just stuck on this bull,and we even even got out of the
chute.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
yet you're still in in the chute, still in the chute
.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
But yeah, and then too you have to slide it.
And I'm talking like I'm aprofessional and I'm by no means
professional.
If I'd have done it longer, Iknow I would have got good at it
, because it's just somethingyou'd have to learn.
You just can't do it.
You can and you just can't ridethree or four bulls and you
know you get buried.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Why got you started on riding bulls?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I don't know, I don't know the guy's eyes hanging
around, but anyway.
So once you get your hand tieddown, all this stuff or wrapped,
whatever you call it, you slideup on your hand and you have to
lean over the bull's head soyou want to be in front.
You don't ever want to get back.
If you ever get back on likeleaned back, you're in trouble.
(21:35):
If you ever get pushed off ofyour hand so you're actually
like sitting further on them.
So now, instead of your handbeing up close, you've scooted
away.
You're in a danger zone.
Your butt's on the back end ofthe bull.
He's going to pop you andyou're.
You're gonna be skyrocketed,yeah, but the other thing is
you're leaned up on the yourhand and your head is leaned up
(21:56):
over the horns or the hump, likeone boy I rode.
His name was sleepy.
They called him 71, also knownas sleepy.
He's got this big hump right.
So you're leaning over him likethis, right here, and it's like
you're, you know, gonna kissthe hump and you're thinking you
wear a mask no, I mean a anykind of cover face face cover no
(22:16):
we were the real deal back thenreal deal.
Here we go, which is great, youknow, they're a bull rider,
just got killed.
A couple weeks ago I saw ohreally no, we, we, no.
We wore of course the vests.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
But if they land solid, quit Quit.
I'm talking to the dog, I'm nottalking to Amanda for those
that are listening.
If the bull lands solid on you,like on your chest, it's going
to kill you anyway with all thatweight.
So all that vest is basicallydoing is keeping you from
getting gored if he slings itand All that vest is basically
doing is keeping you fromgetting gored.
If he slings it and they're nottipped, the tips are cut off,
(22:54):
sanded down, whatever you wantto call it.
So you don't have a sharp point, you're not going to get gored,
but it still won't hurt if hegets you in between the fence
and horn.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
I wouldn't mind going to a rodeo.
Yeah, the PBR.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
PBR yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
I'm thinking PRB.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I hear the pr, pbr, pbr.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah, I'm saying prb, right, yeah, pbr, we went,
didn't we one time?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
a few times and a few times.
Yeah, I guess we did a fewtimes I mean we've been to local
stuff and all that but, yeah, Ithink anyway, however, we got
on that you started, you wererunning with the bulls and you
asked me about riding riding ofthe bulls riding.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
So would you rather ride or run?
Oh, run.
See, I just think that's thecraziest thing ever.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Well, no, if I'm running, are you talking about
being on the streets?
Just like they do or are youtalking about me being in a
field.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Just like they do.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Are you talking about any situation and you're having
to run away?
Speaker 2 (23:47):
I'm talking about what they do to run another bull
.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
See, I thought you were just meaning, like any
situation, I'm running away froma bull.
No, I'll take that all day long.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
I'll take yeah, because You're going to get
trampled on.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
There's no scenario You're not telling me.
Am I like 10 feet away and theysay go and they let the bull
loose and I've got to get away,yeah, or am I just standing on
the streets waiting?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
for the bulls to run.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
I'm waiting on the bulls to come around the corner.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
We don't.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
We know they're coming eventually, and every all
these guys are standing aroundwaiting, and then we just start
taking off running I'm taking mychances with that.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Yeah, okay, I can push a guy down and you can get
trampled on and get pushed down.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Yeah all right because if I do that it's legit.
I'm touching a bull because I'mriding a bull.
I'm in a shoot, we're makingcontact.
There could be more contactcoming.
I could get hurt.
If I'm riding a bull, if I'mrunning with the bulls, there's
a 95 99 chance.
(24:47):
Whatever it is that I'm noteven gonna get near it.
So possible?
Speaker 2 (24:52):
yeah, all right, we're keeping it short and sweet
this week.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
That's it.
We've done pretty good.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
We're gonna try shorter sessions, maybe.
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Next time we will see you, seeya.
Welcome back Episode 43.
It's Amanda.
It's Ed Stan and it's me, Jody.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
It's like episode 999 .
Speaker 1 (00:26):
It does, it does Sometimes.
Sometimes this is work,sometimes it's fun.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
It should always be fun.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Sometimes it's pulling teeth, sometimes trying
to get subject matter, sometimessomeone doesn't want to
participate.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I don't like subjects Somebody doesn't want structure
, you script it.
And you talk about TV showsthat you don't script it.
That's not real.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Yeah, this is different, you've got to have a
little bit of structure.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I've got structure, let's go.
So I've got a new candy.
You've already tried it once,but I think you need to do it
again.
Okay, this is the sweet tartsgummy halos.
It's tart and chewy, soft andfluffy.
Blue punch, strawberries andcream.
(01:14):
I need you to try it againbecause I think it's really good
, I'm not big on gummy stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
That's part of the problem is that like gummy bears
and gummy worms.
Did you used to like thatgrowing up?
I Like gummy bears and gummyworms.
Did you used to like thatgrowing up?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I love gummy bear and gummy worms.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I didn't care nothing about that.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
You like the hard sour candy.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Yeah, but now all the gummies have gone to just like
pure sugar, because it looksnothing like it used to with
like a gummy bear.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
So this is like granulates of sugar.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
It's good, I like it.
Don't smack what flavorStrawberry Hold on Blue Blue
punch and strawberries and cream.
See, I don't I mean it's okay.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I mean you can have the bag to yourself.
Good, I won't fight you for itGood, because I love it.
I like the new candy, I meanyou can have the bag to yourself
.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Good, I won't fight you for it.
Good, because I love it.
I like the new candy.
Why?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
don't you pick something that's a little bit
more unusual for me to try?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
out.
That's a new candy, so I pickedit.
Okay, new things.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
We've got an orange thing in there, too that you've
been wanting to do.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah, it might be a little too old to do, is it?
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Did we get it at Christmas time?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, might need to look at the date on that sucker.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Six months old.
Surely it's still good,wouldn't it be Six months?
It's chocolate Probably rightthere at it.
Probably they don't have a longshelf life, but I guess six
months.
Surely you should eat it withinsix months why have we?
Not done it.
I mean, I would give it like twoweeks and you should have it
(02:56):
yet I'm not a big chocolateperson, so I think that's why I
hadn't well, I think what it wasis we got it, got it sitting in
there, and we've always talkedabout hey, hey, we'll do a quick
video of it, and we never doLike a minute and a half video,
so we never actually sat down todo that.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
But I would still.
I would rather have candy thanchocolate.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Just because of the mess.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Or what no.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I'll take a Reese's cup over anything.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Okay, if we're doing that, then I'm taking Reese's
pieces over anything.
And then I go to candy.
I'm just not a big chocolateLike.
If I have a choice betweencandy, say sour candy, and a
chocolate bar, I'm gonna pickthe sour candy.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
lemon heads definitely I could make myself
sick off lemon heads becausethey're so good.
I'll just get a mouth of them.
Full of them, like expect, likewhen we go road tripping when
we go road tripping we have tohave candy, so that's why I try
new candy there's a lot of timeswhen we come back right.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
It's not necessarily going no, it's, it's when I'm
going to sleep and you guys stayawake, yeah, so you got to eat
too, but lemons is the go-to.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yeah, lemon heads is the go-to.
That's always bad in like asweet tart or something.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Lemon heads and Red Hots.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Red Hots is good.
I don't ever think about them,but Red Hots are good.
Now the what is it?
Butterscotch disk.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I don't care for butterscotch.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
My mom usually gets me some kind of like a stocking
stuff for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Do you mean?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
caramel or butterscotch.
It's butterscotch the only timeI ever eat it, because that one
bag it's like when I eat one Ican't stop, and when just a few
days they're all gone and I'llnever touch them again until
Christmas.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
But they are so good I don't know, I don't care about
butterscotch I mean it's okay.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
This is nothing we were going to talk about.
We're going to talk aboutMemorial Day.
We just celebrated Memorial Daylast week.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Last week.
Is that right?
Yes, I've got all my days mixedup.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Last week no.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Microwave.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Yeah, it's on the microwave.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Yeah, what was I saying?
Memorial Day, memorial Day Lastweek.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
It was last week, and so Not this week.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
When this comes out.
When this comes out, it's goingto be a week, I don't know.
I'm so confused on when we were.
You don't need to think aboutthe day that you're recording.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
You need to think about the day that it's released
.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I know It'll be a week Monday, right.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
And we're supposed to we're recording on Saturday, so
Memorial Day, we're supposed tocommemorate and honor our
fallen soldiers, right, right.
Or what I would call our heroes.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Right.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
That were killed in battle right.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Right.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
That's what it's all about, right.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
This isn't Veterans Day, right?
You know, when we celebrate ourveterans, this isn't the Fourth
of July.
Forget all that.
When we celebrate ourindependence.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Or is it anybody that was in battle?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I say, when you, in Memorial Day, I think we need to
think of all the soldiers RightCause, you see, all the flags
hanging down.
Right, the city and it's allsoldiers.
But memorial, but it's.
It's fallen soldiers Memorial.
You're memorializing them.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Then why don't we say it's like a funeral?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Happy Memorial Day.
Well, I don't agree with thatand I don't hear a lot of people
, but when I do hear that Idon't, I'm like what are you
talking about?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
somebody else brought that up too on their show about
why we say happy memorial daybut, when it's really not.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
I don't hear a whole lot of it, but it stands out
when I hear it, because I don'thear it enough, yeah but, I want
to slap them and say what areyou talking about?
There is no happy.
We can celebrate it Thinkingabout them, memorialize them,
like I said, but why is it thestart of summer?
I'm not saying happy.
It's not like happy birthday,you don't say happy Christmas,
do you?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Why is it the symbol for the start of summer?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Or not symbol, but you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Like everybody thinks , that's the start of summer.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
It's the unofficial start of summer.
It's what it is why?
Because it falls right thereduring the time when it becomes
summer.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Well, that's crazy, so I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I've never thought about this.
I just look at the calendar andI see when Memorial Day is,
just like I see all holidays.
I'll look every once in a while.
I'll go and I'll say, hey,what's Christmas fall on this
year?
And I'll look Is it a Thursday,is it a Saturday, is it a
Monday?
Just you know, because I wantto know.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I don't have to look at the calendar for Thanksgiving
because I know whenThanksgiving falls it's always a
Thursday, always on a Thursday.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
I didn't know that Memorial Day is always the last
Monday of May.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
You didn't know that.
I had no idea.
Yes, I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Never thought about it, never, like I said, because
I've Always.
I just didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Yep, what else you got about Memorial Day it?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
used to be called Decoration Day.
Yes, and then in the 18, mid-18.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
They still do decoration around here 50s, 60s,
70s.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
It got changed to Memorial Day.
It was still unofficial at thattime.
Well, decoration in the Southis different than Decoration Day
.
What we're talking aboutDecoration Day, I think it was
just because of the civil war.
I think it was calleddecoration day because they're,
uh, um, memorializing the.
I think it was union soldiers.
They got killed.
(08:35):
I don't think it wasconfederate soldiers, but I
could be wrong.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I'm not up on all that you didn't search it that
much, no I did have one fact.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I got one fact right down here.
Let see, let me see if I canread it from right here you
don't got your glasses on.
Yeah, but it's far enough away.
I've got it sitting on thefloor right here.
So in 1968, Congress passed theUniform Monday Holiday Act,
which established Memorial Dayas the last Monday in May, like
I said a minute ago.
(09:04):
I didn't think you didn't knowthat.
No, this is not me talking.
This is what they say In orderto create a three-day weekend
for federal employees.
But Memorial Day didn'tactually become an official
holiday until 1971.
And also, flags were to beflown at half-staff from sunrise
to noon.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I didn't know that either.
I did not know that Ours wasn'tdown, was it at church?
But so this yeah, no, no.
Well, I'm pretty sure no.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I wouldn't have came through there at any point
during, say, from 6 am to noon,to know if it would have.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Maybe I did and didn't notice it, but anyway, so
I thought it was.
To me it sounds like this wasall political, because it was
made for the Monday to givefederal workers a three-day
weekend.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Hmm, why do they need a three-day weekend?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Well, this is Jody's logic.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Oh, don't get him started In Jody's perfect world.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
I would say put all holidays on Saturday, Plain and
simple.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Everybody's not off on Saturdays.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I understand that, but it makes a whole lot more
sense to me than you're going tobite my hand.
On Labor Day.
Let's celebrate it on aSaturday Christmas, a Saturday
Thanksgiving.
Let's celebrate it on asaturday.
Christmas, a saturdaythanksgiving.
Let's celebrate on a saturdaybecause you change, especially
these holidays that are changedup, like july 4th, throughout
(10:35):
the way.
It messes everything up ifyou're in a business to where
you get certain deliveries on acertain day or whatever it is.
Say you work, work for Amazon.
You know people shut down.
Just like Christmas, you haveto shut down.
I would hope most places shutdown, except I know hospitals
don't.
But you have to rearrangescheduling.
(10:58):
You have to do this, do that,this, that and the other
Shameless plug and I'm just likeit's just so.
Just just bam, everything's ona saturday.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
You know ahead of time go with it, shut it all
down, shut it all down.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Forget this three-day weekend, because that's what?
Yeah, between that, between thegovernment giving their workers
three-day weekends and hallmarkmaking up all these holidays
and secretary's day and all thisstuff to where we have to buy
cards and stuff.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
You about to get in trouble now.
I'm just saying Hate mail.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Well, just saying.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Jay.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Ratliff, if there's guys listening to me right now,
they would agree with me.
Unless you work for the federalgovernment and you're like he's
a bozo, he needs to shut hismouth, but everything else is
yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
You hitting it hard.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
So you know you're celebrating, you're
memorializing, we talked aboutthat, but is there anything that
goes on on Memorial Day?
You've got like on July 4th youhave.
Coney Island has the hot dogeating contest.
Joey Chestnut talk about himall the time on the other
podcast.
The records that he sets Allthese hot dogs he can eat in 10
(12:09):
minutes.
It is crazy, it's the worstthing.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Hey, let me tell you, but didn't he get in trouble?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
He did.
But let me tell you somethingIf you've never seen it, don't
just go watch the video, becauseit might make you throw up.
Gross Look, it is terrible.
It's gross, because if youwatch them, you'll see some of
the people that actuallyparticipate.
They will throw up, so that'snasty, and they shoot fireworks.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Why do they shoot fireworks on Memorial Day?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Well, on July 4th I get it, but on Memorial Day we
heard fireworks being shot and Idon't understand.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
It's almost the same thing as saying Happy Memorial
Day.
Don't you think a veterandoesn't want to hear that?
Yeah, saying happy memorial day, don't you think a veteran?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
doesn't want to hear that.
Yeah, we're.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
We're shooting fireworks for the people that
lost their lives to keep us freeyeah, doesn't make sense I mean
I, I know maybe you're, maybeyou're deep in the sauce.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
All day long you've been hitting it pretty hard and
then that night you're like, hey, we're gonna shoot some roman
candles, shooting fireworks onmemorial day?
I don't know, I guess they justthought maybe it's kids that
like and let's put a limit onthese fireworks.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Of what time?
If it's after 11 o'clock, don'tshoot fireworks, that's true.
Okay, I'll give you tillmidnight.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
That's what I hate about new year's eve is because
it's a free for us, like, hey,we're letting you do whatever
you want to up until probably 2o'clock in the morning.
If you ain't got to shoot themat midnight, we'll let you keep
going as late as you want to,which is crazy.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
That's rough, I'm not a big—well.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
I like fireworks, but I would say, when it gets dark—
, shoot them and get it overwith 9, 30, maybe 10 o'clock and
be done be done with it.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Some people have to work.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
I know exactly right, that's it.
Some people have to get upearly and work and it scares the
everybody's got dogs out ofdogs everybody's.
Majority of people now seem tohave dogs in their house and
everything, but we used to havea chocolate lab named sadie in
their house and everything, butwe used to have a chocolate lab
named Sadie.
If it thundered, she was underthe bed, so you can imagine the
(14:11):
fireworks.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
She did not like fireworks.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yeah, but this dog right here, winston, he don't
care, he don't care.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
As long as he's in your lap, nothing bothers him at
all Nothing.
Earthquake?
I don't think he'd even bat aneye at him.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Hmm, earthquake.
I don't think he'd even bat aneye at him.
But anyway, I don't thinkthere's anything on Memorial Day
.
I do know that I was thinkingof some kind of event that we
might do on Memorial Day, but Idon't think of anything.
But I know the president puts awreath on the.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I know that's a tradition I've seen the Tomb of
the Unknown Soldier.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
I know you's a tradition.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
I've seen the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
I know you did, sorry.
You saw a lot of stuff inWashington, a trip that you
didn't care about taking, whichI would have loved to have gone.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
I tried to get you to go.
I appreciate you for rubbingthat in.
I tried to get you to go.
Yeah, the Tomb of the UnknownSoldier that's Did.
Did y'all see the, theswitching of the guards?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
yeah, we saw it all have you ever watched the videos
of somebody that crosses overthe chain or tries to walk?
Speaker 2 (15:12):
up and get a close picture.
Oh yeah, if you hadn't seenthat, that's something to that's
something to do.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
So another thing that I saw this might happen on
memorial day.
I don't know, I think it waslast week when it happened,
might have been the week before,but it's in england.
But it's that cheese rollingcontest, you know when they?
I don't know if we've evertalked about this before.
We've watched a documentarywe've watched it.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Right, we've what?
Yeah, we've watched it.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
I don't think we've ever talked in depth about all
of it.
But last week when they had it,there was a guy it was a video
that I don't know how many timesI saw it but this guy, this
dude, goes airborne.
He, like you know, they run,they start running down this
hill and then they start slidingand flopping and all this stuff
.
Anyway, he hit wrong whateverand flopping and all that stuff.
(16:06):
Anyway, he hit wrong whateverand he just went airborne
flipping.
I don't know how far he wentand then landed.
I don't know if it was him thatgot hurt or whatever, but
somebody got hurt.
They had two or three events.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
He was flipping over the cheese.
Do they roll with the cheese?
What do they do All?
Speaker 1 (16:22):
right, so everybody's on top of the hill, okay.
And it's kind of like three,two, one go and everybody takes
off, but they roll the cheesedown the hill.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Big cheese.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Yeah, the big cheese.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
That's what they call me the big cheese.
That's my nickname.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Yeah, okay, so it's like a five-pound wagon wheel
like a mini wagon wheel size I.
It looks like a wagon wheellike a mini wagon wheel size I
think it's five pounds, I don'tknow.
Anyway.
So yeah, whoever can get downthe hill the fastest wins.
The cheese gets the big cheese.
So somebody got hurt and had tobe airlifted, and I think they
(16:58):
call it air bust.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
They got run over by cheese.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
No, on the way down, either somebody ran over Boy if
you see as many times as theyflip and flop, I mean I way down
that either somebody ran outboy.
If you say as many times asthey flip and flop, I mean you
probably.
I'm surprised more.
You know, uh, head traumadoesn't happen because it's it
looks pretty dangerous.
I wouldn't do it.
If I was younger I'd do it.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I wouldn't do it now.
At my age, I wouldn't do it butI'd like to watch it I'd like
to watch it, but I don't likethat, would that?
Speaker 1 (17:22):
would.
It's something that we're gonnatalk about on our next episode.
I would watch it just like withyour soapbox Right, the Red
Bull soapbox that we hooked onRight.
Zip it or stop right there.
Zip, check that out on the nextepisode.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Zip, zip, to be continued on that one, yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yeah, but that would be.
I don't know, I don't think itwould be a bucket do, but if I
ever worked my way over toengland I might see if I could
time it to where I'd be goingover there when this is going to
, because I'd like where youcould watch it.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Yeah, I'd like to.
I'd like to not be in it.
No, no, no, no, but I'd like tosee like the chasing of the
bulls I don't want to be a partof that at all.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Is that what it's called running of the bulls?
That's about stupid yeah, ifI'm in a windowsill, like on the
third level, watching them goby like a balcony, yeah, I'm
there but I'm not going to be onthe street corner.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
You like watching those dumb people?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
I'm not, you know.
I've always thought, you knowJody's going to be taken out by
that freak accident.
This is not going to be a freakaccident, because you're not
going to see me on the sidewalkwhen the bulls are coming by no,
you just ride bulls, that's allyeah.
That was a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Well, what's the difference?
Speaker 1 (18:29):
There's a big difference.
Is there 35 years difference.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
No, I mean, what's the difference in riding a bull
and running from a bull?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
There's still a big difference.
Riding a bull and running awayfrom a bull are two totally
different things.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
You still.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
You got to know what you're doing in both okay
situations.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
You're still dumb.
In both situations I would runfrom a bull nowadays.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Before I'd ride a bull and apparently I wasn't
that smart back back then was it?
Was it fun?
It was the.
I'll tell you when you, whenyou're on a bull and you feel
the power that they have whenyou're in the shoot with them
it's an adrenaline rush.
It is an adrenaline rush, butyour nerves are like man, what
am I doing?
(19:10):
I'm crazy, I've lost my mind.
You know it's like there's nobacking out now.
But the kicker is it's likeit's one thing, because when you
first get on the bull and yousit down in the chute, you're
holding on to both To the rails,yeah, Right To the chute is
(19:30):
they lean to one side.
They're not standing up,they're leaning on one side.
So the guys have to put theirboots in between the railing and
push the bull upright so youcan get your leg down beside
them.
So guess what, now that you'vegot?
Speaker 2 (19:45):
your leg sitting on them.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
They move their boots , and what does the bull do?
He leans back over there.
So now your legs you know, yeah, so there's a lot.
Nobody thinks about that either.
But when you're sitting on themyou know you're nervous, you're
excited, adrenaline startingand all this stuff.
But it doesn't get real untilthey start tightening that bull
(20:07):
rope and when your hand tightensand you realize that it is so
tight.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
You don't tighten the rope, do you?
No, your other dude, yourperson, tightens it, or whatever
you tell them when to stop.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
But they tighten that and you've got, you've heated
up.
It's got rosin, you know, onthe bull rope and you heat it up
.
You're going up and down onthere and you're heating it up
with your glove.
Why down on there and you'reheating it up with your glove?
Why make it sticky?
So then, so when they tie, theyput it in there.
You put your hand in there.
They tighten it up.
It is so tight.
You're thinking there is no waymy hand's gonna come out of
(20:40):
this and I'm gonna be stuck.
That's what you think.
Because it's so tight.
I'm just stuck on this bull.
I'm just stuck on this bull,and we even even got out of the
chute.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
yet you're still in in the chute, still in the chute
.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
But yeah, and then too you have to slide it.
And I'm talking like I'm aprofessional and I'm by no means
professional.
If I'd have done it longer, Iknow I would have got good at it
, because it's just somethingyou'd have to learn.
You just can't do it.
You can and you just can't ridethree or four bulls and you
know you get buried.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Why got you started on riding bulls?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I don't know, I don't know the guy's eyes hanging
around, but anyway.
So once you get your hand tieddown, all this stuff or wrapped,
whatever you call it, you slideup on your hand and you have to
lean over the bull's head soyou want to be in front.
You don't ever want to get back.
If you ever get back on likeleaned back, you're in trouble.
(21:35):
If you ever get pushed off ofyour hand so you're actually
like sitting further on them.
So now, instead of your handbeing up close, you've scooted
away.
You're in a danger zone.
Your butt's on the back end ofthe bull.
He's going to pop you andyou're.
You're gonna be skyrocketed,yeah, but the other thing is
you're leaned up on the yourhand and your head is leaned up
(21:56):
over the horns or the hump, likeone boy I rode.
His name was sleepy.
They called him 71, also knownas sleepy.
He's got this big hump right.
So you're leaning over him likethis, right here, and it's like
you're, you know, gonna kissthe hump and you're thinking you
wear a mask no, I mean a anykind of cover face face cover no
(22:16):
we were the real deal back thenreal deal.
Here we go, which is great, youknow, they're a bull rider,
just got killed.
A couple weeks ago I saw ohreally no, we, we, no.
We wore of course the vests.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
But if they land solid, quit Quit.
I'm talking to the dog, I'm nottalking to Amanda for those
that are listening.
If the bull lands solid on you,like on your chest, it's going
to kill you anyway with all thatweight.
So all that vest is basicallydoing is keeping you from
getting gored if he slings itand All that vest is basically
doing is keeping you fromgetting gored.
If he slings it and they're nottipped, the tips are cut off,
(22:54):
sanded down, whatever you wantto call it.
So you don't have a sharp point, you're not going to get gored,
but it still won't hurt if hegets you in between the fence
and horn.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
I wouldn't mind going to a rodeo.
Yeah, the PBR.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
PBR yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
I'm thinking PRB.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I hear the pr, pbr, pbr.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah, I'm saying prb, right, yeah, pbr, we went,
didn't we one time?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
a few times and a few times.
Yeah, I guess we did a fewtimes I mean we've been to local
stuff and all that but, yeah, Ithink anyway, however, we got
on that you started, you wererunning with the bulls and you
asked me about riding riding ofthe bulls riding.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
So would you rather ride or run?
Oh, run.
See, I just think that's thecraziest thing ever.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Well, no, if I'm running, are you talking about
being on the streets?
Just like they do or are youtalking about me being in a
field.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Just like they do.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Are you talking about any situation and you're having
to run away?
Speaker 2 (23:47):
I'm talking about what they do to run another bull
.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
See, I thought you were just meaning, like any
situation, I'm running away froma bull.
No, I'll take that all day long.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
I'll take yeah, because You're going to get
trampled on.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
There's no scenario You're not telling me.
Am I like 10 feet away and theysay go and they let the bull
loose and I've got to get away,yeah, or am I just standing on
the streets waiting?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
for the bulls to run.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
I'm waiting on the bulls to come around the corner.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
We don't.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
We know they're coming eventually, and every all
these guys are standing aroundwaiting, and then we just start
taking off running I'm taking mychances with that.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Yeah, okay, I can push a guy down and you can get
trampled on and get pushed down.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Yeah all right because if I do that it's legit.
I'm touching a bull because I'mriding a bull.
I'm in a shoot, we're makingcontact.
There could be more contactcoming.
I could get hurt.
If I'm riding a bull, if I'mrunning with the bulls, there's
a 95 99 chance.
(24:47):
Whatever it is that I'm noteven gonna get near it.
So possible?
Speaker 2 (24:52):
yeah, all right, we're keeping it short and sweet
this week.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
That's it.
We've done pretty good.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
We're gonna try shorter sessions, maybe.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Yeah, maybe it'll suit us a little better than
longer I think it'll help us outand maybe y'all enjoy it more.
But uh, check us out.
If you're just listening, ofcourse you know we're on Spotify
, apple iHeart.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
TikTok.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Well, I'm just talking about where you get your
podcasts at yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
There's 10 or 12 sites you can listen to, but we
need you to follow us on TikTok.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
But what we're saying , if you're listening to us
there, check us out on TikTokSame name, this, that and other.
Check us out on YouTube.
We're just now kind of startingthe YouTube thing.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
We're starting some lives on TikTok.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Yeah, we did a live today on TikTok, just some fun
stuff.
We were outside cooking somesteaks and all that.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Just, we ain't got nothing else to do.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
That's right.
So, yeah, so check us out onTikTok or YouTube, and we sure
would appreciate it.
Hey, and if you hadn't hit thatlike or that subscribe or that
five-star rating, do that too.
The five-star rating reallymakes a big difference for us
and helps push us out there.
We just want to talk and havefun.
We don't want to get famous andmake a lot of money, but that
happened, whatever.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Speak for yourself.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Help us out.
We'd appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
All right guys.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Until next time, we will see you.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
See ya, bye.
Bye.
Next time we will see you, seeya.
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