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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, who's this s Hey, this is Connor. Hey, Connor,
where are you calling me from?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Sir?
Speaker 1 (00:06):
I'll call you from Lee Air Parking aswater excellent.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
And now let me uh, let me ask you you
you're from Saint Louis, you grew up in Saint Louis,
You got family in Saint Louis.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Oh, yeah, all the above.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
I will never go back to Saint Louis again if
I can avoid.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
It, though, Oh why is that?
Speaker 4 (00:23):
But yes I have.
Speaker 5 (00:24):
Oh, because well, I have a bunch of family in
Saint Louis, and I'm from Saint Louis and all that.
Speaker 6 (00:29):
It's a great town. But I just don't it's not
for me, not for us to need to know, mister Elliott.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Here's what I need to know.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Like, when you say you have family, do you have
grandparents maybe?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Or parents or grandparents in Saint Louis.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
I have parents, yeah, parents and seven siblings.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Oh okay, Now let me ask you this.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Do your parents house or whether it's current or former house,
have a basement? Yes?
Speaker 6 (00:56):
Yes, ye, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Did they keep anything that most of us would consider
odd in the basement.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Besides their children?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
No?
Speaker 6 (01:09):
I don't really think.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
So, Okay, because if they and again, this would be
considered odd to most people. Apparently, at Saint Louis it
is very very thank you, sir. It is very very common,
very common. It is, I think it is now. The
only reason I asked is like, I don't know that. Well,
(01:32):
maybe maybe it was more common than it is now.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 7 (01:40):
Okay, are you going to eventually? Because Diane and I
are also in the dark, Hi.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Elliott in the morning.
Speaker 6 (01:51):
Yes, sir, Hey, I'm origining from.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
You have family back there, yes, sir, like parents, grandparents.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
My mom is actually in Virginia right now. I have
no grandparents I have recently passed, but they were in St.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Louis when you're.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
When your grandparents I'm sorry to hear that. But when
your grandparents were with us, did they live in Saint Louis?
Speaker 6 (02:16):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Did they have a basement in their house as far
as I know, yes?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Did they keep anything in the basement that most of
us would consider weird or odd?
Speaker 6 (02:27):
My grandma actually kept would always keep at least three
month old food in a walk in.
Speaker 8 (02:35):
Three months old damn it.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
No, I got excited. I got excited. I thought you
had it.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Did your grandparents did your grandparents ever keep a turtle
in the basement?
Speaker 8 (02:47):
Oh no, like a pet.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I mean, I don't want to I want to say yes,
because it wasn't like.
Speaker 9 (02:56):
Like in an aquarium or free roaming, free roaming in
the bay.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
I'm actually the guy that talked to you at the
Rivers City Roll event. Okay, yeah about the Blues and
you talked about the Blues backup goalie.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember that now, I remember that.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7 (03:16):
Yeah, I was.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
I was a tall guy with a lucky shirt on.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I gotcha, I gotcha.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
But as far as you know, grandparents never had a
free roaming turtle in their basement.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
No, absolutely not, gotcha?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
All right, very good.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
So now this goes back and again this has nothing
to do with the Saint Louis Blues.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Why do people in Saint Louis?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
And they said, this is pretty common, people who have
a basement have a free roaming turtle in their basement.
Speaker 8 (03:47):
That's so weird.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
I've never even heard of this, so I certainly don't
know why.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
And is it just a Saint Louis thing?
Speaker 9 (03:55):
Yes, yeah, I mean Andy Cohen.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
No, no, but I I've never heard of it.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
I have never heard of it until I was told
about it.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
You're my stomach?
Speaker 7 (04:08):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah? Digesting of Boston cream? The whoa?
Speaker 7 (04:12):
What was the order you've eaten the food? I hope
it was proper.
Speaker 8 (04:19):
Wait, bacon then cream?
Speaker 3 (04:21):
No, no bacon, Yes, I had bacon, then I had
a then I had a wrap, and then that I
wanted to finish with carbs. So apparently, and I don't
know if it's as common as it is now or
its common now as it was, but apparently like people's
parents and grandparents would keep a turtle in the basement.
Speaker 7 (04:44):
For good luck.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I don't know if it was for good luck.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I don't know if it was for There was something
that I read that made it sound like in some
cases it was if there was any bugs or spiders
or anything that would get in there.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
I don't know what turtles eat, but that would be
able to take care of things like that.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
But they said it wouldn't be uncommon to go to
somebody's house and go down in their basement and there's
a turtle in there. And I'd never heard of that
anywhere else. No, I've never heard of that in my
entire life.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
Are these finished basements?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Oh, you know what, that's a good question. I don't know.
Speaker 8 (05:18):
Or is it just like the old concrete floor with
like the drain in the middle, or.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
I was even thinking like mud like don't didn't some
like old I mean yeah, no, no, no, like.
Speaker 8 (05:27):
A hundred years ago.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
No, no, no, by the way, you're wrong, you're wrong.
Speaker 8 (05:31):
A lot of a mud floored basement.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Yeah, where it's just there's no there's no flooring. That's
not that uncommon, nat, not that uncommon.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
From way back when. Yeah, wait, which part now? The
mud floor?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yeah, A lot of people have that. A lot of people,
A lot of people, a lot of Yes, now I need.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Mud floor basement. No, no, not everybody.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
By the way, you realize, not everybody has a finished basement.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
I know that.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
I was the one that asked if these basements were finished.
You're the one throwing in no floor whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
No, but there are so you you could have finished basement.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
You could have what did they call that where it's
got like walls and cement.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
What is that called unfinished?
Speaker 8 (06:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:13):
No, yes, No, unfinished basement means that it's that it
goes down and once you get down this the wooden
steps you're on dirt.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
That's an unfinished No, no, what is that called.
Speaker 7 (06:25):
If I was looking at home.
Speaker 8 (06:26):
Unfinished doesn't have dry wall in it to me?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Unfinished? Yeah, they just got the brick or the floor.
Speaker 8 (06:35):
No, yes, yes, yes, I've never seen it unfinished.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
People are crazy.
Speaker 7 (06:40):
I was buying a house and it's an unfinished basement
and I got there and it was one of the
dirt floors. You would be like, that is an unfinished Yes,
absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Yeah, you would still have the cinder block from the foundation.
Speaker 7 (06:53):
I would expect an unfinished basement to at least have
like Diane said.
Speaker 9 (06:57):
Oh, there's a hot water heater around there. Yeah, there's
a bunch of two by fours.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Yeah, no, there may be. There's there's probably a slab
where the hot water.
Speaker 8 (07:07):
And there is a.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
No no, yeah, I mean it's some maybe like where
it's not like there's a room here and like a
place for a TV here in like a closet.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
We're not arguing that it didn't exist.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Like one hundred years ago to stop it. It still
exists today. It still exists today.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
Yes, I bet If that is the case, it's in
violation of building code.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
No way, no way. Oh so now, if I have
a dirt floor, it's in violation of.
Speaker 7 (07:41):
A building code. Not a dirty floor, No that I have.
But when's the last mud floor you saw? Christy, we're
not asking you the.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Wait the last month? I don't know. But I don't
go into people's basement.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
It's I'm telling you that was phased out.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Like I can tell you this, Like I know Nellie
who lives down the street from me.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
He's got a basement. I've never been in it.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
Now maybe the grandparents who had turtles had these dirt floors, yeah,
but not today. So now we have a lot of questions.
Speaker 8 (08:15):
Yeah, I don't know which.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
One I'm more bothered by. Where am I going? Line one? Hi,
Elliot the morning? Hello, Yeah, Hi, who's as Hi?
Speaker 3 (08:24):
This is Lisa, Yes, Lisa, what can I do for you? So?
Speaker 10 (08:28):
I grew up in Saint Louis and we lived in
a house that was built I don't know. It's since
been torn down, but back then it was one hundred
years old, and it had a dirt floor basement and
a cellar, and we had a turtle.
Speaker 7 (08:44):
Thank you, check check check. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
By the way, congrats on having that unfinished basement.
Speaker 10 (08:49):
Said years ago, it was it would get muddy if
it would rain too much, it was dirt.
Speaker 8 (08:54):
Oh dude, that's turtle like that.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Wait, so what is the and was what was the turtle? Four?
Speaker 10 (09:01):
I guess at eight? Things like like book like it
would keep it keep the stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Away, right, And so did you guys?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Would you feed it like would somebody throw a head
lettuce down there every so often?
Speaker 10 (09:16):
I'm not I don't remember doing that, but maybe, right,
I think they. I think in the winter they like
hibernate or something.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Turtles hibernate. I didn't know that, I think, And.
Speaker 10 (09:26):
I just know that we didn't have anything on the floor,
but we had shelves for like canning stuff and if
our washer and dryer was down there. But I think
our water heater was like in the kitchen or something.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Right, But you had a house.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Most importantly, you had a turtle in the basement. Yes,
fascinating to me. Fascinating to me. All right, very good,
very good, Thank you, Saint Louis, Thank you.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
Turtle.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Are we talking? Oh big? Not like a no, no,
that a little box turtle. No? No, yeah, not like
like a tortoise. It's not like a tortoise where you're
gonna ride it.
Speaker 8 (09:59):
No, that's a big tur that those things that lived
like one hundred and fifty years.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
I don't know like this, Yeah, with.
Speaker 8 (10:06):
The dirt, it was it was it was my pappies
and his pappies.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
No, no, but you make it he was a good
basement cleaning turtle. No, no, but you make it sound
like one of the itty bitty little things. Oh, it
was a it's a turtle that roams the basement floor.
You know what I imagine it to be? The size
of like what is the yeah, zoomba.
Speaker 8 (10:27):
A rumba, the vacuum.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Maybe he meant I don't know what the last snapping
turtle is. Wait, what did I thank you? David? Wait
what am I talking about?
Speaker 8 (10:40):
What's the size of her? You mean a rumba?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
What's the thing that vacuum?
Speaker 7 (10:44):
I don't know if he does.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
What's the thing that vacuums the vacuum?
Speaker 8 (10:49):
Pumba?
Speaker 1 (10:50):
No, Diane, No, the zoomba, rumba?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
What is it?
Speaker 7 (10:55):
Rumba? Inspired cardio work?
Speaker 3 (11:03):
No, Chris, Okay, thank you. I have a friend in
Christen about the size of a room.
Speaker 7 (11:08):
The wrong Disney film. That's toy story, Diane referenced lion kid.
Speaker 11 (11:14):
Well.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
St.
Speaker 7 (11:14):
Louis is home to various native turtles, so we don't know.
Is it the three toad box? Is it a red
eared slider?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (11:22):
Wait, so is that why Eastern spiny soft shell? So
was midland smooth was?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Was was Saint Louis?
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Were turtles there only because it is turtles a hot
Is Saint Louis a hot bed for turtles?
Speaker 7 (11:39):
It doesn't say that it's anymore so than others anywhere
else where?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Am I going line six? Hi? Only in the morning.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
There are a lot of people who have moved out
of Saint Louis.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
I'm just saying, yes, ma'am. Who is this?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Joanne?
Speaker 11 (11:58):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Joanne? How are you?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I'm good, I'm good. I grew up in Saint Louis
in the sixties.
Speaker 12 (12:04):
Seventies, eighties.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
My parents lived there into the nineties, and all of
my friends, all of my family who still lives there,
and none of us had a turtle in the base.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Oh. I got so exciting, everybody, I got so excited.
Speaker 8 (12:19):
I am.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
Health perfectly.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
We had pet turtles. We would find pet turtles out
in our yard. Because yes, like Tyler was saying, there
were prevalent all over the place, so we would bring
them in and keep them in boxes. But we never
had three Roman turtles.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Yes, these are turtles.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
My unfinished basement had a concrete floor. It just didn't
have walls or carpeting or anything fancy. It had the furnace,
it had the washing machine, and it had one little
corner room that my dad put up some cheap walls
to make a potting shed for my mother.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Oh well, can't hide money.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
That was Yeah, my dad built it with two.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
By fours, gotcha, gotcha?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Non there?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
All right? Very good, very good.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Anybody with a turtle.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Everybody had turtles, man, everybody had turtles.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Everybody in Saint Louis HadAM.
Speaker 7 (13:18):
Did you say where you first learned of this?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I read it somewhere.
Speaker 7 (13:21):
Oh okay, I thought maybe it was.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
No, I don't you know what.
Speaker 8 (13:23):
I wonder if Bigsie's parents had her grandparents maybe. I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
It's something he had mentioned to No, not at all,
But now that I think about it, Bigsie now he
likes turtles. Well, no, he he loves Saint Louis. He
loves Budweiser. The uh no, no, but he's got he's
got a basement. I don't think I've ever been in.
He may have a turtle down there now and.
Speaker 8 (13:44):
Mud floors.
Speaker 7 (13:48):
From w Ross in New York. It's teenage mutant turtles
and usually a rat.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
That's funny. Where am I going? Line? Hi, Elliot the morning? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (14:05):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Who's this? Hi?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
It's David Maryland.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yes, sir, what can I do for you?
Speaker 6 (14:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (14:11):
You were talking about unfinished basements. About ten years ago,
I was at a house in Arlington had an unfinished
dirt floor and a well in the basement, open well.
Speaker 7 (14:22):
When was it built?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Thank you? Thank you?
Speaker 7 (14:24):
When is this house? Say thank you?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Hundred years ago?
Speaker 7 (14:30):
Where is this house built? Sir?
Speaker 4 (14:32):
I don't know when the house is up. Maybe in
the forty thirty maybe yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Ago, yeah, no, okay. But you don't think people renovate
houses thank.
Speaker 7 (14:40):
You, so they get rid of the dirt floor. We
didn't say they didn't exist, it's just they're not not
finishing them with at least a concrete stone floor.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Now, I think that's wrong.
Speaker 7 (14:54):
You think there's new developments. We're people.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
I don't think Brothers is putting in a house with
a dirt floor.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
No, but I bet like if.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
You go back, Oh, this is our impure model.
Speaker 9 (15:09):
Yes, well it comes with a wine refrigerator and a
dirt floor.
Speaker 7 (15:18):
What did they even call that? We keep saying mud
or dirt? Like, was there a name?
Speaker 8 (15:22):
I think it's dirt floor.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
I think it's called the basement. We have a basement
and you had no floor.
Speaker 7 (15:30):
You're a few minutes away from claiming it's basically finished.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Line one, Hi, Elliot in the morning.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
Are you conchusing it with a crawl space or noell.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
No, No, A crawl space is exactly that, like there's
there's you.
Speaker 8 (15:55):
But a lot of times those that those could have
like gravel down.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
But those are outside like that is like like you
entrance them from the outside, like it's got like lattice
and you could see like like grass and stuff.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
No, I know what a crawl space is.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Cellar is a basement that you get into from the outside.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
I know it. Oh, I'm sorry, the one with the
dirt floor. It's finished to you. You're dumb.
Speaker 8 (16:29):
Well now you've gone and offended.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Him, No I did, Oh you showed him.
Speaker 8 (16:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (16:37):
Well, some people remember these floors fondly, Elliott as being
part of their past. Modern construction has moved away from
them due to issues with mold, cold, damp, aar and pests.
Speaker 9 (16:51):
Oh well, yeah, I want god knows what burrowing up
from the depths.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
I have enough mice. No, but that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
That's why I have a turtle, right, right, So did
turtles leave the basement once we started putting down flooring.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
I don't think they ever left Saint Louis.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
No.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
No, I'm telling you because I did search and a
lot of articles are written by people who were able
to get out of Missouri right and couldn't believe this
wasn't something in everyone's home.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
So they they grew up under the impression that everybody
has turtle. Yes, So they got to Virginia or Maryland
and they were like, well, we shopping, We're in Ellicott City.
It's beautiful. Weirdness thing though none of our neighbors.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Keep a turtle in there?
Speaker 7 (17:42):
Sounds about right?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Hi Elliot in the morning, Oh, don't invite him over action? Yes,
who is this?
Speaker 7 (17:55):
I hope you have nothing else?
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Yes? What can I do for you?
Speaker 6 (18:00):
That's all I got for you?
Speaker 11 (18:02):
Good, very good, perfect line or Hi Elliot of the morning,
Hi hill Billy Jesus Christ.
Speaker 8 (18:14):
I got a turtle right now.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
No here, it is two things. Number one, he'll billy
his living room dirt floor. Number two, he's turtling, Yes,
he'll bill it.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
What can I do for you, sir?
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Actually, when I uh in Apple, that's when I lived
up in Boonsburg, Maryland.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
The cellar was a dirt floor. I think that's where
y'all getting it wrong.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Going under the house, I end up digging up a
uh like an old baby like toddlers, I'll fit. And
the house was building like eighteen thirteen or something.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Oh really, Oh that's weird that that's that's creepy. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
I used to have to get my water delivered to
the house.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
I am not kidding, sir. No turtle, no turtle here
and there?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
All right, very good, very good, Thank you, hill Billy,
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
And I'm standing on his back bouncing me up and down.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
I'm not doing this. He's trying to get me off,
So I gotta find his head with my foot. That's
the hard part. Once you find his head. Just reached
down and Laurie Gloody, Hi, Elliott, the boarding Oh damn it,
(19:49):
I hit the wrong button. I think I got your number, Larry.
Uh hi Elliot at the morning. Hello, Yeah, Hi, who's
ask Maureen?
Speaker 6 (19:59):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (19:59):
More? What can I did? Jesus Christ?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Now Maureen was building the eighteen hundreds. No offense, It's
just it's not a common it's not a current.
Speaker 8 (20:12):
She's younger than you.
Speaker 7 (20:13):
Yesterday was my mom.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
And I'm sorry, Yes, Maureen, Yes, Maury.
Speaker 12 (20:19):
So I'm sixty and my grandparents had a house with
a dirt floor in the basement.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Yeah see, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker 12 (20:29):
Oh yes, the stairs led down to the basement. We
called this cellar with a dirt floor, and they had
a washing machine with the rollers, so the clothes would
swish around in the basin and then you'd stick them
through these rollers to squeeze out the water.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
I would never, never, never, no, Like we went from
we went from the creek to like a plug in like, no, I'm.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Not doing Do you have a washing it with a stick?
Oh my god.
Speaker 12 (21:06):
This was probably built in the early twenties.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Like twenty five, twenty oh six.
Speaker 12 (21:12):
Like nineteen twenty oh got it.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Hey they got a turtle down in there.
Speaker 12 (21:20):
No, no, no, this was an upstate New.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
York so oh very good, very good. Saint Louis, I gotcha.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Oh, even even from upstate New York, the attitude kicks in,
all right, very good, thank you, ma'am. By the way,
I love the idea of having a turtle down there.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
Because of all of the benefits and not too many negatives.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Right yeah, I mean, what's the what's the downside? Nothing?
Speaker 7 (21:44):
Taking care of a problem and not creating.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Any Well, I actually the guys who laid the cement
took care of the problem.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
I'm trying not to smile. I got my teeth, not
Depp by a chainsaw.