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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Is it raining there? God, doesn't it look like there's
drip a little gray on the front of the plane.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Maybe it's just maybe I don't know, maybe they just
washed it. I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
That's it. Keep telling yourself all of that. My goodness,
you know what I want.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
To try though.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
It's got a sunshield like a car.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
The dim but it's not a jumbo jet.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
I did learn that they are, and the only reason
I learned is I checked find my they're flying out
of Leesburg.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
And but you haven't heard from him directly. Just said
the photos take off.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
The Well, that's well, I mean they're on the when
I during the break they were on I bet they're
in the air.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
So he was along photos. Was he sending you information
to or no? No, he just said no.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
He just he sent the first picture of Stove climbing
in and then the second picture is him clearly in
the driver or in the passenger seat.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yeah, it is fine, my moving.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
It wasn't yet last night. Kristen, Will you do me
a favor? Will you do me a favor real quick?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Will you? Would you? Can you hear me? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Would you grab my phone real quick? If you don't
mind let's just see if it's moving. Dane's all bothered.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Remember this morning, I did say that there may be
a chance that he has to turn off or disable
the phone. Or is that only for commercial flight?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
That's only for commercial flights? Diana Tyler upset.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
My son's friend just got his well it is getting
his private his pilot's license.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
How many hours in there is that he's at right now?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I have no idea. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
I'm not his teacher. But he's going to school to
be a pilot. He got his pilot's license, and he's
home for the summer, and so he's flying.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
So Stove is flying.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
And is that is that like a plane that you
rent or what's going on there?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Diane? I just learned there's more.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Questions I'd be asking.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I would all of that plan exactly, yep, every bit
of history.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Oh, but it won't go live.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
So maybe they're up zipping around yeah yeah, yeah, so
they're up in the air.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Yeah and there you go. Look look at my hand again.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
But let me ask you this. You've gotten an airplane before, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
A big jet.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah I like that.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Yeah, but what is what is what's the difference between
a big jet in this little thing.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
That man's wearing a uniform.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Stove is wearing shorts and a T shirt. They're both pilots.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
I always feel confident getting onto a plane when I
know when I look at the pilot, I can see
that he's got some years behind him.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
And a license.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Yeah, Stove has a license.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I think you said he was making his waist to Yeah, well,
I know.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
He gets to fly a plane, and it's not like he's.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Permit essentially.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I don't know. I don't know what he has. I
have no idea.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
I don't know what the process is of getting a
getting a pilot's license. I know that's what he's going
to school for. And right now I know he's flying
my kid around.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
So how how soon is it into training that you
can fly solo?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I have Again, I am not a pilot. I have
no clue.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
So you never flew again after Bagel took to the SKUIS.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
I would have loved to I flew a plane.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Not by yourself?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
No, no, not at all, not at all.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Yeah, I don't I certainly I have no idea. I
have no idea for regulations there.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
And solo I would think is different than having a passenger.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Oh god, yes, I remember flying with AOPA when I
was a passenger, and they say, one of the scariest
times is the first time you fly solo.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
You know, Stove has flown solo. I do know that.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Do you know how many times?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Nope?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
No questions.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
So this is I think good news. Student pilots can't
have passengers.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Can't have passengers. Yeah, well I know one that does.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
No, he's that means he's past that. Oh good, But
I don't know what teer. Well, I know I'm trying.
But in terms of T I E R we're at
when it comes to his hours.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
But I told you when I lived in New York,
my buddy Adam, he had a friend that was a
young pilot, and every so often on a Saturday, they
would get up and they would just like, fly to Boston.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Matt Howell, our engineer, he's a pilot. I'd fly with him.
I'd fly with Stove. You know what pilots don't want
to do put the plane down.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Of course not and remind us this was a shared
encouragement at home last night? Or was your a little
more on edge?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
No, she didn't seem to be really, he's twenty one
years old. What are you going to say?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
No, you say your kid? Still your kid?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
No.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
If he was doing something illegal or dangerous, then you
get in he's going on flying with.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
A with Sorry, it's not dangerous.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
He's if it were.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Just him and another one of his friends where it
was like, hey, what do you guys want to do today?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Hey, let's go try to fly a plane?
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Then yeah, I would say something, but Stove knows how
to fly a plane. Oh, here's that caveat let's see
if fine, mine's moving yet.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Forty hours is the absolute minimum, But I'm saying all
sorts of other numbers for what.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
That.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
It's as no student does exactly forty hours to get
their license.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Oh oh, so it's more.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
It looks like it's more.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
So he probably has like forty five.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I'm seeing sixty seventy way more almost.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Double line one. Hi Elliott the morning.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
Hey what's up man? How you doing?
Speaker 6 (06:13):
Hey?
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Good?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
What's going on?
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Dude?
Speaker 5 (06:15):
So soe probably has his private pilot place and this
plus a couple more endorsements. If he's he's making this
way to become a commercial pilot, and what he's doing
now is just flying around building time because he had
to have fifteen hundred hours right become a commercial that
they'll qualify. And I'd rather be in a small Sessna
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that has a problem than a big seven thirty seven
or like what Diane's talking about the problem exactly because
the Sestna has a very good glide ratio. And I mean,
your son's safer now than driving to the airport up
in the air.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I'll tell you what. He's safer than driving with Diane.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Yeah, the small planes are pretty safe and plus stem
Maryland and a small plane is completely different than flying
and a big a personal fasten.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Ja Yeah, exactly, exactly. Everybody back off, very good, Thank
you sir. She's doesne that make you feel better?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
So you want this to be like a weekly activity
for him and stuff?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
If still wants to go weekly and my kid wants
to go go.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
By the way, fifteen hundred hours an airline pilot, WHOA,
that's a lot of experience.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Yeah, but don't you want that you've got a couple
hundred people up there with you.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Of course, I'd want Dobe only has one other person
up there with him.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I'd want that for sure, for all serious scenarios in
which I'm in the air.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Hi Elliott in the morning.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Hi, this sneak.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yeah, Hi, who's this Hi?
Speaker 6 (07:42):
This is Stacey. I'm from Fairfax, Virginia. So my son
is an aerospace engineering major at Embry Riddle, which is
considered the Harvard of the Skies. His roommate is a pilot.
He's actually my son is listening and he's like, you
need to call in.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
I can't. I'm at work.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
And I'm like, wow, okay. So this scared thing as
a parent is when your son sends you the sends
those photos of him flying a plane with a kid
who's like six months younger than him, who has his
pilot's license, and your son is flying over you know,
the ocean in Daytona Beach.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Oh yeah, oh no, listen, trust me, I've definitely seen
stove not in pilot fashion one hundred. So yes, is
it weird? Yeah, because you never get on a plane
and look over and go, oh my god, dude, we
were partying last weekend. No, you get on the plane
and you look at him and you go, yes, sir,
you know, I'll listen to the I'll watch the video
(08:35):
and thank you very much. For coming in like all
of that stuff. You know what Stove would sound like.
I'm the speaker, please please, so, yes, it is weird.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
Oh I just got to saying, like, to fly alone,
you need thirty to sixty hours after passing the test,
and at Riddle you have to not only pass their test,
but you have to pass.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
The FAA test.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
And then then there's then there's strumental, which is weather flying,
and then there's CFI, which is commercial flight instructor. And
so his roommate is now a CFI too. I think
if I'm saying that correctly, he's going to correct me.
He's texting me as I'm talking. And that's where they
actually can get hours in seat while instructing a student,
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so they don't have to pay for the flight or
the gas, but they get all of the the credit
for those hours while teaching a student to fly. And
he's said that you have to have one thousand hours
at Riddle in order to be FAA certified to go
fly a commercial regional jet.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Yeah, okay, yeah, I knows that they're going to fly
around Lisburg for a while.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
All right, very good.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Now you don't know, actually you said you don't know
where they're going or what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I don't know what the flight plan is.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I got the radar up from air traffic Control. I
have the weather channel.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Make sure that there's no no bad weather.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Yeah, I'm o.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
God, Now, by the way, I'm bad. He's he's flashing
green live again.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
See oh yeah yeah so now and we are at
the end of the runway, so hopefully we're going the
other way.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Or whoops, went too far.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Oh it's funny until it isn't right.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
He's gonna be fine, don you Why are you looking
at me?
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Why don't you have to Why aren't you like texting him? Going?
How's it going? Everything? Text me some more pictures? Why
would you text him?
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Yeah, he and his friend are out flying. Well, I
don't know that they're off the ground yet. It looks
like they may be turning at the end of the runway. No,
but it maybe go like they got we're gonna go
forgot to take off.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I think you should be okay at the weather. Thank
you later today a mess like you're lucky he's not
flying around one.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
The Why because it's going to rain? Oh yeah, look
at that? Come in?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Where am I going?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Line for Hi, Elliott the morning.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Hey, this is me.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Yeah, Hi, who's this?
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Hi?
Speaker 7 (11:12):
This is d from Frederick.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Hey, what's going on now? Hold on?
Speaker 7 (11:17):
Back in the late seventies early eighties, we lived in Poolsville,
and when my brother was in high school, he had
a friend who either had his pilot's license or was
working on it, and they.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Used to skip school and fly over our house.
Speaker 7 (11:36):
My mom didn't find out about that until about thirty
years later.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Wow. Wow, that's pretty good. All right, very good, very good.
Thank you, ma'am, thank you.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
My good Tyler.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
I can't even hold the phone to look at these photos.
Why I haven't looked at any of the new photos.
Wou'd you get the one you sent?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Oh yeah, that's fine. Oh by the way, you're definitely
airborne right now.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Because you're over a grassy field.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Right on. Knock it out there we go. That's good.
Oh wait, what is this wrong thing?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Maybe I'm just a little sensitive this morning.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Yeah, no, Tyler's still from uh from Weston?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
What is that?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Whoa?
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Whoa?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Oh wait, you can see stove.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Hold on one sec.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
You ready?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Did he cuss?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
There's the it was raining, there's stove. There's your pilot.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Oh wait there, get a haircut. You gotta be able
to see.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
What he got, like like the beeber bang's working.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah, he's fine. Put on a pilot's hat, the captain's head.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Where are your wings?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
There you go, Those two are safe.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
My life in those hands.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Now, tell Diane what you did yesterday though, I saved
my son's life.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Okay, sorry. I was sitting at home. He was at
flag football camp in the evening, and there were once
again storms in and around the area last night. And
I'm sitting at the computer and the camp's only a
few miles away from the house, and I heard thunder.
I turned to Lindsay, my wife, and said, all right,
I'm gonna go get him. Because the assumption is that
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when people are outdoors and they hear thunder, they go indoors.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
No, but you're not supposed to.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Yes, you are for the thunderors, you go indoors. Yes. So,
And I flew out of that house because on find
by his bag that I could tell was in the
middle of the field. Wasn't movie and they were staying
outside less and less, and I understood this was a
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possibility that they scurried the kids so fast and said
just leave all your stuff. But I wasn't willing thunder
to take that risk, so I left the house in
a state of dress I normally would not go out
in public. I had crocs on. I don't wear them
outside the house now and well to walk the dog,
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but I definitely don't leave the house wearing crocs or
my just keep fighting Kevin Owen shorts and they also
have red trim on them, and my crocs are red,
so I've got a whole lot of red and my nose.
It's a whole thing.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
And was Lindsay opposed to you rushing out of the house.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
She said, don't you think because the county runs it,
they have protocol for inclement weather. Yes, And I said,
while holding the phone up to her face, does it
look like they do. So I get in the car.
There's more thunder and then it starts to pour. So
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I'm thinking, okay, there's now there's no way, but I
can see that the dot don't find mine still hasn't moved.
I get there and now there's lightning in the sky
that it's visible again. This place is it's five minutes
from my house. How far away is because Lindsay wondered.
Lindsay' said, you know, sometimes the thunder's here, but people
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don't hear it elsewhere. I said, they heard that thunder.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
No, no, but how far away was the lightning?
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Oh? When it was near the school's field it was visible?
No no, but and the thunder was audible. It doesn't
you Okay. So I get there, I see I see
a table being broken down in the turnaround, and I'm thinking, okay,
great they so they did they they got the kids
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in and now they went back out to grab this tablet,
papers on it or whatever.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
And I overhear another cautious parent who clearly went there,
ask are they done? And the employee says, no, they're
going to wrap it up because of the storms.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Oh see, that's good, that's what you wanted.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
So I parked my car immediately.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Well, you know what had let out? It's right next
to the county pool. The second there was thunder, they
shot the pool and all those people were in the
parking lot. Get out of my way. Almost hit a
group of three girls. As I'm fired up because they're
going to wrap it up. They should have wrapped it
up when you first heard thunder, like this is full
What do they call that? Mama bear? I'm mama bear? Now, yeah, no, no.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
What is that called? It's more than mama bear? What
is that called? Well, definitely a helicopter mom, for sure.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
What No, this is not helicopter parenting at all. So
I start walking and I don't feel safe because again
visible lightning up, audible thunder, and I'm in a big
field now and the music still playing on the field.
They still have tents up, they're playing multiple games, scrimmages, whatever.
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Because it's three hour camp. This is the second hour
of it. So they were at the competition part of
the camp and I had to walk through one of
the games to get him because I wanted a straight
line is the shortest distance between two points. So I
walked right through, right through the red zone. And this
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is I kind of alluded to this earlier, like this
is not when someone's life is in danger. There's nothing
embarrassing to me at all. And I had crocs on
and I certainly don't care about his embarrassment or his
sort of reputation.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
How about what his new nickname will be?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
So I go up there to the sideline of his game,
and I see him and I and I yelled his
name and he looked around.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
And hid.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
And then my god, that's my god.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
And then I yelled his name again and then he
saw him.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Hey, I think your mom's here.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
He recognized my w W shorts and I said we
gotta go.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Well, no, because we're still playing.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
And he kind of like, whose father is that abduction? Yes?
And he looked around and he told the players and
the coaches. He was like, stranger danger, stranger danger. I
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think I need to leave, I think, and again, I
don't feel safe out in the field. So what so
this when I realized that he got the message and
started making his way to the sideline, where his bag
had not moved. I turned around and booked it back
to the car.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Did you get through the game again?
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Not?
Speaker 1 (19:15):
On the way back? I think they went close whip
my ass. I think they were. They were.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
It's tackled.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
The offense had made its way down the field, so
they it was faster for me to just walk around
all the people. And I get to the car and
how oh, I like so angry and there's still people
like taking their sweet time from the pool. I'm like, well,
they're idiots also. But here's here's what made me consider
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writing an email because I was so pissed. I mean,
I even I made a flippant comment, and I know
it was wrong. But there's been there's been this week alone.
There's been the fishermen who died, there was the archery range,
there was the golfer new like I, I should not
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have said I hope a kid dies. I shouldn't have
said that. I shouldn't have said that, and I was
and I was told to apologize and I and I
wouldn't take it back. So the rage lasted that this
was at home. This was at home. But here's what
I here's what I found out that drives me is
a county sponsored activity.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
What did you say in the car on the way home, Like,
were you yelling at your kid?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
No?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
No, no, no, Well I explained to him in a situation.
If this situation arises again, if you choose to return
to this camp, I don't know if you will. You
have to excuse your new nickname. You have to excuse
yourself because I even if I do write this email,
I don't know if it will change anything. Because this
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was there are other people in your question when.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
You say excuse yourself, yeah, you're expecting him with everybody
playing football for him to go excuse me. My parents say,
I need to go get under the shed while this
is going on.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Thank you, there's no way.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Oh I hope it doesn't affect your NFL contract.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
No, but just how about like, how about just being
able to play.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
But here's the kicker. Here's the kicker, cause I know
here we go, not the position, the kicker, but we
do know. A couple of other kids are at the
camp and one of them, at the first sound of
thunder said, shouldn't we head inside?
Speaker 4 (21:36):
So when you were hoping a kid got hit by lightning,
not that kid.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
No, no, no, no, no, we like that one. And this
was also this is all I learned this after the fact.
And you know what one of the counselors said to
this child.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
I hope one of these kids get hit by lightning.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
No, so again, first thunderstrike, clearly, lindsay they heard it
there too, shouldn't we head inside? The counselor said, inside
for pussies. No said to this child and the rest
of the teams, baby, are you done guessing? Because this
will this will make your blood boil. This is what
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he said. Again, it's a county sponsored ex city. This
wasn't a pickup flag football game run by like seniors
in high school for these freshmen. No, the counselor said,
thunder never killed anybody. Well, he's not wrong. God, I remember,
at least you got it right when you were wishing
it was lightning so seconds. I mean, there was visible
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lightning after that first rumble of thunder. Thunder never killed
Anybody's wrong. I'm putting my child in the hands of
these morons. No, it may not even be a question
as to whether he wants to return to the camp.
I mean, I let know he doesn't.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Wait, did you write the letter.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Oh to the No, I have not yet. I said
I was considered because in order for my wish to
come true, the camp needs to go on. I won't
take it back. I shouldn't have said it, but I
won't take it back. No regrets.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
But but you will agree the counselor's not wrong.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
About thunder not killing anybody.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
True. That is true.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
It is not how any person with any sense of
how life works should react to outdoor activities in a thunder.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Say that to a kid.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
No what the kid doesn't know, you know, the kid
does know. Kid knew we should be heading inside.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
One kid.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
I don't know why the pool shut it? Why is
everyone having to leave? A fool? Right, we're still out
here in this field.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Well, it's not like I'm standing in a puddle by football.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
The grounds very saturated, Diane, I was so angry, and
I was this morning. It's I don't even know how
you triggered me this morning, but it came up up.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Oh, I don't remember what it was.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
It was before the show start, before the show started.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Yeah, he got his panties all in a wad.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
And I was really fired up. And that's why the
situation with your son makes me feel very uncomfortable.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Where is he by the way over?
Speaker 4 (24:15):
It looks like, well it's weird, like, uh, find my
isn't continuous, So like he's over this neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
And then whoo, we're over this neighborhood. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
And as long as we're over neighborhoods were good, not
in them.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Yeah, then we're fine.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Well, I am hoping for a safe return
Speaker 2 (24:36):
And I am as well to the flag football field