State Fairs and Alligators

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to another episode of I tell you what. I
don't want to taboo this in any way. I don't
think I've ever seen a State Fair forecast so glorious.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Oh I know. I looked and I was like, are
you kidding me?

Speaker 3 (00:12):
That's gonna be better Knock on some wood, because knocking
on my head I do not want to jinx.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Let me go look again, I think, yeah, you're right.
It's seventies.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Baby, I mean, like the entire autombout, is it seventies
the whole.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yeah, I mean it's what it should be. Just at
the end of our rain, I didn't see any rain
the whole the whole time. Oh no, rain seventies, my guy, Wow,
look at that. Holy uh huh.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
Oh wow, it looks beautiful.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Mm hmm. Eighty two sixties.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Eighty four or I'm sorry, eighty two this Thursday to
kick it off, dude, this this is gonna be record numbers.
I mean if this holds, you know, because some people
sit their tentative, they're like, Okay, it's porn rain. Yes,
we're not going. Some people they go no matter what
I mean, they're gonna go. They're gonna stick it out.
They're gonna bring their umbrellas or their wet suits or
whatever and they and eat.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
It's really hot, people might avoid it. This is like
the most glorious weather of.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
My golly, after such a weird summer. It just ends
and absolutely not ends. But I mean, well, basically, yeah,
pretty much. I mean in perfection. That's glorious.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
That's amazing. Oh, I'm excited for the fair, especially because
the weather's gonna be nice well in yours, Thank goodness
for me.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
You are many months along in your pregnancy here.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
I mean it's gonna be Can you imagine like if
you were if it was one hundred degrees out there
and sweltering hot like this morning, I felt a lot
of humidity.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
This steering wheel was like sticky.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
Seriously, you have a garage, don't you?

Speaker 2 (01:43):
I do it. It's just it was real. Yeah, but
I don't have an air conditioner right there, But.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
I would think like being contained in there, it would
not be.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Maybe a little better, But I got out and it
was just it was just misty here this morning. I
mean earlier this morning was a thick you know, But dude,
this is gonna be look at that. That almost makes
me look forward to this even more, even more, yeah,
even beyond the normal excitement for the minister.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
I was just figuring I'd be almost seven months pregnant
just cooking at the fair. But it's not gonna be bad.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
What's the first booth you're gonna hit ours? Okay, I
can hit the pork chop right outside the media A lot.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
Pork on a stick is really good. I just I'm
so hesitant because, like I've talked about having kind of
like heartburn things that I've been dealing with, and I
just worry about eating like fried stuff. I worry that
it's gonna get bad. So I don't know what I
should eat. You should cry. The creep stands right across
from us. Those be safe.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Oh man, look at this. You's got a laundry list
over here. Let me let me get on my list.
The State Fair manifesto.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
The time that we're usually there, like when we first arrive,
usually there's not big lines things. So if you want
to like swing through and grab something like the pickle pizza,
which sometimes has just a block, a big, big, big
line because it's so popular. Oh yeah, sometimes you can
sneak in there.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
And the pork chopline that's got. That's got usually something
that she'll be pretty long, but it's right there. It
smells so good, and it's the first thing that hits us. Yes,
that's always the biggest deal. It's like, dude, just get
beyond it. Just just walk through it, Just go plug
your nose and just go, you know, because I'd stop
and bait in those things that just love. That's one
thing that I absolutely love. Yeah, the malt shops. Right

(03:22):
we have a lot of stuff right by the booth.
That's just incredible. We get the malt shop right there.
You know, I know this sounds very generic, but I've
always loved the lemonade stand, a great big lemonade to
get awesome s. He's across the street.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
We're pretty close to the corn roast too.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Ye.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah. The alligator on a Yeah. Yeah. Have you tried
the alligator on a steak? No, I've always walked past
and go, eh, maybe next year.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
I heard it's a little rubbery. Others said it's tastes
just like chicken. Some people swear by it, they say
it's it's great. They just absolutely love it.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
So I don't know, I don't know if I've had
alligator I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Something tells me we're gonna I lived in flo and
I landed on an alligator once.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
You have the best stories.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
That's the absolute truth. You landed on an alligator Turkey Creek.
It was just north northeast of Fort Walton Beach, Florida.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
Turkey Creek did not, in fact have turkeys in it.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Called an alligator creek. Yeah, we went out there. I
never forget the day and we there's a rope swing
and went off the rope swing and I was the
first to go off, and I'm I'm jumping and I'm
looking down. I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm gonna hit
a log and everybody screamed, my buddy is. There was
a bunch of dudes and some gals in there too,
but they all screamed at a pitch like I've never heard.

(04:41):
It's like a bunch of schoolgirls just scream. And then
I'm like, that's gonna hurt. And I land And I
did not land on it. I landed like right next
to it, and that thing I scared the holy crap
out of it. It must have been taken a n
app and they were all over there. I don't know
what we're thinking. They're all over the golf courses there
and everything. And I landed right next to that thing

(05:02):
and it sent me to the other side of the
creek and just this big whoosh, you know, just the.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
Power of its claws or whatever. I mean, never laid
a hand on me. And I get out. Everybody's running away.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
I mean, what do they think you're going to be
carrying it? Why did they run away?

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Well, like, what if I, you know, I might need
a little help.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah, yeah, Why did they abandon you?

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Well, because they were scared the thing took off. They
they didn't know it. They saw it as I was
in mid air. I did too, but I thought it
was a log.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
Well a couple other people recognized it wasn't a log,
so they just left you.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
Well, they ran away some friends they were exactly, that's crazy.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
There's like a school of them. There's like other little
alligators and stuff, and they all just kind of went
down the went down the creek. Turkey Creek. R forget that.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
Lauren has a like a coworker from Florida, Like when
she goes to visit, she always goes, Oh, I wonder
if there's an alligator in this pod, she goes, if
there's water in Florida, there's an alligator.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
And that's what I've heard.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
Yeah, they're not as bad. They're pretty docile. Like I
would we would go golfing. I wouldn't mess with them,
but you'd It's that one time you hit a perfect
shot right down the fairway, right in the middle of
the fairway, and then you're like, why are there four
hundred balls there? You kind of go over those little
noll or whatever, and there's this great, big blog in
the middle of the fairway. Well that's an alligator. I

(06:28):
mean sometimes stretching twelve thirteen. I mean they're big, some
of them are. They're just sitting there, just taking a nap. Geez, Like,
come on, you watch your ball. It's like, man, there's
not a prov wants hanging out there. I know. If
you get that gator to move, you got Yeah, well
you're on the come up.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
Alligators and water moccasins, Now, they are not docile. They
are not They're going to come after you. They don't
like people. They I don't think they like anything. And
they can hang from trees. They're crazy danger noodles.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
Yep, those are note broke.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yeah, I remember one actually attacking on the golf course.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
It was kind on the golf course. It had a
lot of rain.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
It was kind of flooded a little bit, and the
golf the card path was a little had some water.
You had to stay on the cart path and the
water moccasin came up and it was like attacking, like
literally biting at the tires of the golf carts.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
I'll never forget those.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
Yeah, those seem pretty mean. I feel like if you
kind of leave an alligator alone for the most part,
they're going to kind of leave you alone. They recognize
you as a big enough adversary where they're not going
to test it. Water mookins are just pissed at the world. Yeah,
they don't care how big you are, what you are,
They're gonna come at you.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
They're worse than cats.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
Oh yeah, well for sure, a cat is like your hats.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
Yeah, you know, cats, they're just cats.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
Aren't gonna like attack you like a water moccasin. I
think that we figured out that Dubs is not a
cat man. No, water moccasins are basically cats. I'm not
a snake guy.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
Cat goes out on the golf course get it.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
Stubs runs away screaming and she's like, what's going.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
On a little? My friends?

Speaker 3 (08:12):
The lady k oh my gosh, how big was this cat?

Speaker 2 (08:19):
Like this? It's like a kid.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
Well, if you saw Guardians of the Galaxy, that made
the kind of.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
Frightening that's so funny. You bring up the cats from
Guardians of the Galaxy a lot, Well.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
They really freaked me out.

Speaker 3 (08:32):
They really made an impact because.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
It set it up so with on the cat, he's.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
Talking about alien cats that have tentacles that explode out
of their face. It's a little different.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
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Speaker 1 (08:49):
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Speaker 2 (08:54):
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