A Flurry of Inactivity (Part 1 of 2)

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Speaker 1 (00:17):
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Heidi ho neighbor Rooney, and welcome to another accounter culture wise, shit.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Culture part of it? My gosh, that was Heidi Home
neighbor Rooney.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
The Simpsons.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
I mean, it wasn't that like home improvement or something
or maybe what.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
No I thought it was. I anyways, if you're done
being mean to me, O, husband of mine.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
I mean to you, you're making.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Fun of my Heidi ho neighbor Rooney. Oh okay, it
sounds like you are making fun of me. Wait to
start that shop. Here's the note. Good out everybody. Well,
we'll go ahead and start it this way. Hi, everybody,
welcome to another counterculture wise. Max has meowed you in,

(02:33):
Abby has whoofed you in, and we are happy to
have you here with us today. We are here in
the middle of the woods, in the middle of nowhere
in Texas, with squirrels and gosh knows what else is
out there right now, and of course all of our
critters who are happily munching on their dinner as we speak.

(02:54):
I am your host today, Melanie Hope, and with me
is my co host, my husband, my very best friend,
and my sweet baboo. Mister James.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Hey, how you doing cool? I have a historical fact
for you. Before the crow bar was invented, most crows
just drank it home.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Wow. Oh my gosh, oh your gosh.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
I have insect bites all over me.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Hey, at least you didn't go through what I went
through with our interview that we just did.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, we have a great interview.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Events was, Yeah, we did. We had a wonderful interview
and uh this we will be coming up here on
a Wednesday. She wrote a fabulous book called Dog and
the Story of Her and you know, we all have
a once at a lifetime dog. For us, it was
Abby and we still have little pieces of her throughout

(04:00):
our podcast because she was such a big part of it,
throughout advice column.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
And she was one of the big inspirations.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah, she was kind of the matriarch of the whole thing. Anyway,
she it was a delightful interview. We had a lovely time.
She's very approachable. She's way over in the Switzerland Alps.
I mean, so it wasn't wasn't the best video in
the whole world, but sound was great and I'm really
looking forward to posting this for y'all. Anyway, in the

(04:30):
middle of this interview, I felt something, you know, brush
my leg. At first I thought it was my cat's tail,
So of course I bat at it and carplop down
goes a scorpion. I managed not to scream bloody murder,
but I literally had to dig off my headphones and say,
excuse me, I need to kill the scorpion.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
You handled it like like Michelle herself would.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Have handled I'm inside. I was like, no, no, I
he didn't sting me. I'm really surprised because I must
have night.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
So you're good.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
Oh you got done last night, I think so. I
know you stepped on one earlier. They are really just
all over the place.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yeah, I accidentally kicked one about two weeks ago. This
happened to put my foot there and doink across the
room and flew the scorpion. You know when you rent
rent from reputable people who.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
Yeah, these guys doing it And I mean we are
out in the middle of no dang where, but hey,
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(06:27):
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Plus it gives me time to make it pretty, so
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was live. And we kind of got bit a couple
of times with folks that said that they were going
to call in live and then didn't show up and
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(06:55):
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Lots of lots of lots of great interviews. And also
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Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yeah, we uh, we want to. Anybody who's listened to
our show for a long time knows we're somewhat partisan,
although I'm definitely not a member of any major political party,
probably never will be again. However, we have an absolute
might as well be wearing a cape badass running for president. Now,

(08:20):
we Melanie has the video which will be showing you
in a moment, but this guy had the solid steel
cajones to go back to the same town where he
was darn near murdered a few months ago. And just

(08:40):
let's show for anybody who's missed it. I really want
people to see this video. It's insane.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
This is this is just classic trump.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
O. Lee, thank you very much, really, and thank you
a very big thank you to Pennsylvania.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
We love Pennsylvania. And as I was saying, that is
just classic, I wanted as I was sorry, I'm.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Never gonna tell you what. How many times have we
watched this already returned to the show. Oh my gosh.
I was hoping something.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
Or something. And that's that's something interesting that a lot
of us have noticed. We actually have a quote quote
president right now who can't string two words together, and
we have a candidate who has never gotten a single
vote for anything she's ever done and still hasn't. And

(10:11):
if her teleprompter turns off, she's a babbling moron. And Trump,
if his teleprompter fritzes out, he just does stand up comedy,
any tailer.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
I mean, he's going He'll just take time to hit
on the same points he's been hitting over and over again,
because it's kind of like a concert. I think Trump
rally goers his biggest, his big supporters, the MAGA people,
And I don't consider myself that, but I do admire him.

(10:43):
But they want to hear his greatest hits anyway. It's
just like they want to hear the border. They want
to hear the twenty twenty election. You know, I personally
think he.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
Goes on to point. He goes on to point to
the chart, talk about how much he loves that chart
for many reasons. I mean, it's hilarious. And the thing
they try to plan him into being just this monster
and everything. It's it's actually comical how crazy these people
have gotten. It's just, I mean, you hear somebody like

(11:18):
joy read all of the joys. Actually, who are the
most joyless people I've ever seen? They they sound and
look mentally ill. I mean they literally look and sound
mentally with the crazy eyes.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
I've literally seen Keith Olberman foam at the mouth.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
He is, he is a piece.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
He was hilarious back when he was hosting Countdown on
MSNBC like years ago. It was just it was balance.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
I thought he was doing a bit because he's so
off offline. I mean, he is just he sounds like
one of those dial up modems that just can't connect.
He is not with us. I feel sorry for the man.
I can't even imagine being that influenced. First of all,
everything that they hate about Trump, when they talk about, oh,

(12:08):
he's racist and he made fun of a disabled guy,
and he's a misogynist and he's a convicted rapist and
all this stuff, they're all lies. They're not true, and
it's really really easy to look it up. The drink
bleach hooks, the fine people hoax. I could go on
and on.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
I mean when you have the candidate herself and before
that the house plant going off.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
And they never get fact checked. I mean Kamala during
the debate.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
Is done actually according to our Yeah, and she just.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
Told lie after lie after lie, not a single fact check,
and people, it's kind of scaring me how willing people
are to buy this.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
Well, Trump might have should have spoken up, but you
could see by a look on his face here like
like like the Great Round, reaganwon said well, there you
go again. It's just, you know, it's the same.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
I wish he wouldn't get all but hurt about things like,
you know, his his rally audience size or people. She
just kept baiting him and bating him and bati him,
and he kept taking it, and it's like, you know,
let's not do that. You know, we don't need to
do that. He should have just fact checked her. I
I think I didn't. I didn't like Dvance at first,

(13:30):
but now that I've actually seen him in action, I
kind of dig him.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
He's very articulate. And this of the VP debates, oh
my goodness.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
We didn't we didn't want to talk about it. But
that was a comedy show. Faces. I want to I
want to do a compilation of Kamala's faces because that's
all she did was just make mean girl faces during
the whole thing. You know, it's just like just the faces.

(13:59):
And then this guy Tim Walls, what a creep. And
if you go listen to our latest interview, he actually
had Walls as a teacher and he was very restrained
in his opinion, and we didn't talk too much about it, right.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
But boy, but I mean the apparently and It's not
the first person I've heard say this. Apparently, Tim Walls
was a really good coach and a really good.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
Teach, a decent teacher, which you know, I can see
that if you spent that much time in middle school,
you'd lose your mind. Or maybe I really felt like
the thing I've noticed about I don't want to say
lefties or liberals or whatever, but certain these people, I'm
not sure what to even label them. They have very

(14:56):
childish views. They have these luxury beliefs and these this
very like intellectually stunted right, you know, and this whole
thing about oh joy, and you know, they keep going
on and on about it. It's like, but they're nasty
and they're mean, and they're name callers, and they make

(15:18):
stuff up and they lie. And when they get up
there and say, you know, okay, you know what, if
you are hearing the sound of my voice and you
are a person who thinks that the evil Orange Man
is Satan incarnate and he is going to destroy our democracy.

Speaker 1 (15:37):
And the whole world's gonna come just like.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
You did the last time, and you're actually buying this stuff,
and you think I'm crazy, You think I'm nuts. You
think I'm in a cult because I get told that
all the time. Think for a moment, how you would
handle going to a major event. Let's say the anniversary
of nine to eleven. Okay, and Hitler walked into the room.

(16:03):
How would you handle that moment?

Speaker 1 (16:07):
I couldn't even tell you.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
Would you shake his hand?

Speaker 1 (16:11):
No?

Speaker 2 (16:11):
Would you take photos with him smiling?

Speaker 3 (16:14):
No?

Speaker 2 (16:15):
Well that's what Biden and Kamala and Clinton did this year.
They don't believe what they are saying. They don't believe it.
It's rhetoric, it's lies, it's theater. And if you don't
believe me, just watch how they interact with each other

(16:39):
when they don't think anybody's watching. They don't believe what
they're saying. And all through the pandemic, you you could
see this. They're not wearing their masks, getting getting your
hair blown out, you know, doing all these things. They
don't believe in what they're telling you. And we could

(17:00):
talk about why are they buying beachfront property if they
think that the oceans are going to rise and take
it away? Why are they flying their private jets all
over the world if they think that carbon emissions are
going to doom the planet. They're doing it because they
don't believe it. They want you to this way, And

(17:20):
I'm not going to try to convince you of anything.
I just want you to go look for yourself. Just
look for yourself. That's all I'm going to say. All right,
all right, Well.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
So rentable question of the week, even though we've already
talked politics, let's.

Speaker 2 (17:33):
Hear our rentable question of the week. Now, normally it's
it's something relatively benign, like the lack of salad. Fort
kind of takes me off every time. Looking. So we
went to the buffet yesterday and I got a knife
and a fork, and before I could use either one
of them, She's whisked by and took them with all
my napkins in my plate.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
It was like efficiency.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
I appreciate the efficiency, but now I have no silver.
I couldn't even It's.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
Like, it's not my favorite restaurant in town, but it
is the one we go to the most because it's cheap.
It's cheap, and by the time I'm by the time
I'm ready to go to a restaurant, I'm ready to
eat my own arm. Oh this time it was Melanie.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
I well, I hadn't eaten all day, right, and it
was we were supposed to engage in a what I
thought was going to be a half hour endeavor of
taking apart the washing machine, of figuring out what part
we needed to go to Low's to get, and it
turned into a three hour tour that we finally just
gave up. And Jim's gonna have to go to the
laundromat again because we can't figure out.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
So please donate to our laundermat.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
Yeah, exactly again. And then the next step was, oh,
we we got a Beater car as a loaner because
we're still fighting Kia, and yes, I'm going to call
them out. There was an engine recall and Kia is
not going to uphold it. So we've got a parked
car that we can't do anything with even though it's

(19:04):
finally got paid off, like within hours, boom engine. And
so that's a fight I'm going to be doing all
week because the ginger has snapped.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
I've been nice, nice.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
Nice, I've been nice, nice, nice doing all the things.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
He was driven to tears by these clowns. I don't
even like saying.

Speaker 2 (19:24):
That, but yeah, and I and enough enough, I'm getting
this done if I have to go all the way
to you know, the president of the company. This is happening.
This is happening because other people have had this problem
and they got it taken care of. So I don't
know why I'm having to fight it so hard.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
I mean, they made a lot of money off of us.
Oh yeah, I mean the interest plus you know, us
being normal human beings.

Speaker 2 (19:48):
Sometimes you might think financing and the actual Kia Corporation
are two different things. But it's a fight between where
we got the oil change and Kia themselves. Because Velveleen
doesn't want to take response.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
Oh she called them to.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
I'm gonna damn right, I'm gonna call her out. We
went and got our an oil change at Valdeleen and
literally twenty four hours later, not even not even twenty
four hours later, all of a sudden, all the lights
come on. The engine makes a really loud, knocking, rattling sound,
and wemediately stopped the car. We had her toed our
mechanic friend. We don't want to touch it because obviously,

(20:24):
twenty four hours after an oil change, your engine goes kubluey.
Check engine light comes on, the check oil light comes on.
I mean it's all the things, and he said, it
looks like the oil is in there. So it's not
like they forgot to put the dream plug back, because
that has literally happened to me. But it looks like
the oil filter is faulty. So Valdelink actually, and it

(20:47):
takes them three days. Nobody's getting back to me. I
had to keep badgering corporate until they finally said, okay,
we'll come look at it. So they come out and
they take a bunch of pictures and whatnot, and you know,
they're talking with each other, good old boys, the whole thing,
and they're, well, maybe we need to put in a
different filter yard to Yarty, but we need to get
a hold of the regional manager. So regional manager goes

(21:07):
online and finds this this engine recall which doesn't even
apply to my particular year, make and model. But he's
got it in his head that they are not responsible
for their faulty part that caused the meltdown within twenty
four hours, that I have to take it to Kia
to get a diagnosis. Kea wants three hundred and sixty

(21:28):
dollars just to diagnose it, not to fix it, just
to look at it just to look at it. So
Valvelene got paid because they also talked me into a
three hundred dollars battery, which we did not have the
money for. Remember, Jim just started a job on Monday,
and now they went another three hundred dollars just to

(21:51):
get it looked at after it exploded thanks to them. No,
this is not happening. So folks, if anybody has some advice,
I'd be more than open into it because it's going
to get ugly bias a Kia foot anyway. So now
we got this beatter car. That are our beautiful, amazing

(22:12):
church friends who have just bent over backwards helping us
because we have been stranded in the middle of no
day where there's no public transportation, no bus anything. We've
just been hodgepodging getting there. Is a regional transit.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
Regional transit, but it is iffy.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
It's it's mainly for folks that have dialysis.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
So it's like, yeah, it's it's a combination ad and
rural transit.

Speaker 2 (22:34):
And the only reason you were really eligible for it
is because of your veteran status.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
Stall not just that, but I do live out in
the stick.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
We do live out in the boot.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
We're still in the county, so we qualify.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
Yeah, and so here's a gym going to his eight
o'clock job, having to catch this bus at five a m.
Which means he has to be up at three thirty
four o'clock to get everything ready to go, and then
to get home. He's getting home, you know, six thirty seven, and.

Speaker 1 (22:58):
I got to get back in bed and start over. Yeah, responsibilities.
I have this wife, I think.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
Yeah, and then I also work full time, and then
I'm having to make up for you know, basically we
don't get to see each other.

Speaker 1 (23:11):
I don't want to complain.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
We're not complaining. No, No, let's get back to the miracle
thing that you know. They're they've been helping us out.
So one of them had a kid who was getting
rid of their old pos Beater car that's literally on
its last leg and they'd like to hear, just have it.
It's going to need new tires. It didn't even have
a horn, the you know, everything's broken. It's it's none
of the electrical stuff work. I mean it is. It
is a beater. You turn it on, it's like baba.

(23:36):
But it gets us from pointing point for now. So
we had to. I mean, we're still trying to get
the registration. That is a whole saga I don't.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
Want to go into.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
But anyways, so here we are, you know, trying to
figure out the washer part, trying to figure out this
is everything was supposed to take you out twenty twenty
minutes or whatever. And I finally give up. Okay, five,
you know, it's like one o'clock in the afternoon. It's like,
we gotta we gotta get the tires because we had recycling.
We had a whole bunch of we needed to do
because remember we don't have garbage either, groceries. Well, the

(24:04):
lunch thing came because I didn't eat breakfast. Oh no,
what we did eat breakfast, but it was like at six, yeah,
and it was really early, and it was if I remember,
it was cheesy grits and it was lovely. Yes, I
made Jimmy Jim make some mean grits. Let me tell you.
That's that's kind of like a little special treat we
have because we know it's not good for us. Oh
but we had bacon too, so that's good grits and

(24:26):
bacon yeha, Okay, oh we need it with some collared
grains okay, And so you know here it is we
ate like six or something and Jim, I can tell
when his blood sugar is starting to go. Someone, Jim
go have a protein bar. So he did. Keep him hydrated,
keep him fair, because we don't want his blood sugar
going wonky. But I forgot about meat. So we get

(24:46):
down to the tire place and that were recommended. They
were supposed to be used tires. It was supposed to
be so no one didn't cost so much, but actually
they end up costing as much as the brand new
tires that we got for the Kia with the lifetime warrantine,
YadA YadA. So by now we're it's you know, it's
ninety something degrees out and everything's gone wrong, and it's
approaching four o'clock in the afternoon, and everything else that

(25:08):
we wanted to get done wasn't getting done, including this show.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
And mister Monas had a melt down.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
And mister Monas had a melt down, and then when
he noticed that they were trying to replace the wrong tire,
it went into meltdown overdrive and I.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
Were to excuse myself and went across the street to
get some bottled water because I was dehydrated and just
absolutely nuts.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
Yeah. So then it's like, okay, well we got to do this, this,
this and this, and by the time we got the
tires done and saw something leaking from the engine and
we still don't know what that is. I was having
a literal panic attack, like heart racing, headache, freaking out, handshaking.
You know, that's something I folks that if you're familiar

(25:52):
with those, you I don't even want to go to
ind detail. But it's like, okay, both of us were
in that state, so I'm like, you know what, food.
So we we went and checked our mailbox. And my
sweet sweet uncle who just every now and then random
out of the sky stuff. And since my mom passed,

(26:15):
we've gotten a little closer just talking to each other.
And you know, he lives in Washington State and he's
going through it too. He's taking care of his wife
who has Biden disease.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
Get a couple of books.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
We did get a couple of books from from upcoming guests,
and he sent us a little something something because he
knows we don't have a Costco within a ninety mile radius.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
So soon supposed.

Speaker 2 (26:38):
Every time they they say every time he sees something special,
like when they come out with a lemon cello almonds,
he'll send us a bag of those. So b from
Washington State, we get a little bit spoiled because we
get Rainier cherries, which are the best cherries on the planet.
So they had some chocolate covered Rainear cherries and my
sweet uncle there after the day we had and for

(27:03):
that surprise to be at our mailbox.

Speaker 1 (27:05):
It was just the right time, just the right It was.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
The sweetest thing. So of course I had tell him
thanks for the sweet the sweet gift. And I don't
mean the sugar content. But so I I hide them
and dull them out little by little because I don't
want to kill my diabetic husband. It's worth it a
little bit, a little bit, little bit, and I can
take them, like the last time he sent us the
lemon yellow almonds. Yeah, those lasted six months, I.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
Know, and only because I knew where they were. Okay,
I'm not stupid, but it's like, you know, these are
rare treats. We don't have access to them so far
as I know. I mean, maybe there might be some
obscure store somewhere that has.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
Them sometimes around there place.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
Well, I mean, but the candy themselves might be available elsewhere,
just under a different brain.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
I don't know. I didn't want to know.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
Anyway, It's a rare candy for us.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
So it was just, yeah, it was.

Speaker 1 (27:57):
Just something we wanted to stretch out.

Speaker 2 (27:59):
And did and it was lovely, and so we'll be
doing the same thing with these. And it was just
it reset my heart. It reset my heart. And and
then then we went and ate and had a lovely dinner.
They had a Mongolian grill there, which I like, and Jim,
Jim was getting all kinds of fun things. He's he's

(28:20):
four plate buffet guy, and I'm like, one bowl, whoops,
that was too much food. And I'm going to sit
here and drink, drink, drink iced tea and tell my yeah.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
You know, yes, but no, because you can a little bit,
a little bit, little bit.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
Yeah, And I understood how like the table next to
us like twelve plates overfull, heaping their entire ye.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
And this is something I experienced in Vegas every time.
I mean, buffets aren't what they used to be in Vegas.
Very few hotels actually even have them anymore.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
Crazy expensive. They used to be like free, free or
really price under ten dollars was get in here, yeah,
get in here, you know, read, eat and then get
back out there.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
Put the buffet way in back so you have to
walk past the table slots and all that. They're not stupid.
But the accountants took over from the mob and then
everything went to heck. But you know, I'd go to
these places and there'd be these gigantic and absolute cliche,
big trucker guys, trucker hat, beer belly, two plates, and

(29:32):
these plates are not small plates, absolutely stacked in a pyramid,
so that nothing was.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
Just it's not going anywhere, and it's gonna get cold
before you can finish.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
It, exactly. That's why I tell you, that's why I'm
three or four plate guy. I don't stuff my plates anymore.
I know better now. No.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
I like taking like, oh, I want to try Golden
Corral one shrimp, and if it's good, I'll go back
and get more. I want to try chicken, you know,
and if it's good, I'll go back and get more.
But I always go for the Mongolian grill, which is
a whole meal. So it's a whole meal. It's really
good though. I like I like all the sauces and everything,
and I put I basically fill my bowl with cilantro.

(30:17):
She's a I do love cilantro. Yeah, So I put
I put the meat in first, and then the sauce,
and then let it marinate while I'm putting on the
broccoli and the cilantro and the little baby corns and
all this stuff, and then cover it in garlic.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
But anyway, I was, I was outside of that dinner.
I was a naughty boy all day and really at
the end of myself, I was just I was done
with me, and I was done with him too. She
was done with me, and for good reason.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
He needed an ear flicking. Boy.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
I needed more than an ear flicking, but kicking. But
you know, and then it's I know now that it's
no coincidence. But every time we go to this new
church we're going to, which is, by the way, celebrating
its one fifth an, I'll go and say it Oak

(31:08):
Grove Baptist. And this preacher his name is Cody. I
don't know his last name.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
But they don't want to give too much away.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
No, no, I don't want to.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
There's people out there that hater guts. Oh, by the way,
if you hate our guts, head on over to count
cultuwise dot com. Fill out the ID ten T form.
Let us know what we did wrong, and we will
give it the attention it deserves.

Speaker 1 (31:28):
Absolutely this pastor who is not an idiot or an id.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
Ten T no, no.

Speaker 1 (31:37):
Joke, Jim, I know, let me Okay, it's not fun anymore,
all right, right, right right? It just has this ability
to give.

Speaker 2 (31:48):
Where he has bugged our house.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
I'm absolutely convinced you have, absolutely.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
And what's really funny is Jim was in such a
bad frame We are totally off track. Jim was in
such a bad frame of mind that he was upset
with himself. He was very contrite this morning, apologetic. And
our friend asked if because she knows our situation with
the car, and she asked if we wanted a ride,
and of course we did, and because we just adore her,

(32:14):
so any chance to spend, any chance to spend even
a minute with her, we're going to jump at it.
And so we're out on the porch waiting for her
and Jim says, I'm just not feeling it. I don't
even want to go.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
And I thought was that I felt like a hypocrite, even.

Speaker 2 (32:29):
Being he felt like a hypocrite. He felt like a
hypocrite for going to church. And I said, Jim, you
don't go to the hospital when you're well, which.

Speaker 1 (32:38):
Is exactly what Jesus himself.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
You don't call an ambulance when you're feeling fine. You
don't go to church because you're pious. You go because
you're broken, and you're okay, okay, fine, fine, So we
go and just being in this car with her it
lightens your mood already. So she drops us off and

(33:00):
I didn't even see what it was about. I didn't.
I knew he's been doing this series on James, and
we've been going through it very slowly, because what he
does is he picks it apart. He gives us a
little bit of historical context. He tells us what the
letters were about and who they were written to and for,
and you know, goes into detail and does it all
within an hour, and you know, one and then we're out.

(33:21):
And but before I even knew what he was going
to talk about specifically, I looked at Jim. I just
had this feeling. I said, Jim, this one's gonna hurt.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
And it's because what he read and what we paid
the most attention to is James one nineteen. I don't
know which language to use. Let's use this one Christian
standard Bible. My dear brothers and sisters understand this. Everyone
should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow

(33:51):
to anger.

Speaker 2 (33:53):
So he called that the rhythm almost and he likened
it to like the two steps two steps right, and
he said, that's the rhythm of how we are to
be Christians. Quick, slow, slow, And it touched my heart
and I heard a lot of things I needed to hear.
But Jim I could tell. Jim was like ooow. But

(34:18):
it gave us some tools. But I'll tell you he's
not a fiery preacher. He's very earnest, he's very very
he's passionate. You can tell he's passionate. He's very direct,
and he's humble. But by the time we were singing
the doxology, I felt like I had done ten rounds

(34:40):
with Mike Tyson. I mean, I was like you. And
then afterwards there's an adult Bible study which is actually
quite large and growing, but a lot of people were
gone because of an illness. So the guy who's actually
the husband of the lady who gave us a ride.
He was home, so we had a sub. We had

(35:02):
a sub and since it was like it was like
just this morning, he didn't have time to put together anything.
He just printed out the notes from the sermon, which
is published on their app, and we basically just as
a group had a conversation and it was really good.
So the whole day was enlightening and we learned a lot.

(35:23):
And I have been in victim mode because of this
whole car thing. I've been begging, I've been pleading. I'm like,
you know, after everything I went through with getting the
inspection and the tires and everything on this this beater car,
and literally literally driven to tears by a man who
was so cruel to me because he was upset that

(35:45):
he doesn't make money on the inspections, which has nothing
to do with me. You know, that's just you look
it up and you go there and they're supposed to
look at it and then they send a report and
then you can get your your tabs and whatnot. He
was so mad and so angry about that, and he
kept telling you, and you know, I'd already had a
rough day. I'd already had a really rough day, and

(36:05):
everything was going sideways and nothing that I because I
I had planned the entire friday. I had planned the
entire day. While Jim's taking the slow boat to China,
I was going to take this car and we had
to install a horn. Yes, this is how beat her
this car is install a horn, which you know cost
another one hundred and twenty five dollars from the backyard

(36:25):
mechanic who did it, and get the inspection which requires
a horn. But this guy didn't even look at the horn.
So we all that for nothing, and then go get
the registration and the title transfer, and then I was
going to get tires and I was going to clean
it up a little bit and maybe get you know,

(36:46):
a seat covers something, because the seats like totally torn.
It looks like a lion bid.

Speaker 1 (36:52):
See it looks I mean this is Buick Regal. When
it first came out, those cars were gorgeous. They're probably
luxury in its day automobiles.

Speaker 2 (37:00):
Yeah, it's this thing's this thing is this.

Speaker 1 (37:03):
Looks like something you Fred Sandford would drive that.

Speaker 2 (37:07):
Yeah, this thing's it looks like somebody pulled it out
of a cow field where it's for ten years. It's
it's been abused it and it's an old you know,
it's a twenty year old car.

Speaker 1 (37:17):
And twenty three, twenty four, two thousand and one.

Speaker 2 (37:21):
Yeah, it's a twenty three year old car. It's a beater,
and gosh, there's still nineteen oh, there's some nineteen seventy
cars and we're still running.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
Yeah, yeah, which, I mean, that's that's an approach we
could take. We could put some money into fixing it up,
but we don't have to find an actual competent and
moral person.

Speaker 2 (37:43):
It's just it's too far gone. So I mean, it's
it's a band aid. It's a temporary fix. And that's
exactly what they told us too. They said, you know,
this is just a temporary fix. Our gift to you.
It's a miracle. We're not looking a gift horse in
the mouth. It's just that ended up costing us a
lot of money. So here I am thinking, Okay. The

(38:04):
mechanic who said he was going to do the horn,
said you'd get it back to me at ten and
that would give me plenty of time to get the inspection, go,
get the registration done, get the tires, because one of
the tires was so bald. The medal was sticking out,
so it's a miracle that we didn't end up in
a ditch somewhere and spruce it up a little bit

(38:26):
and surprised Jim with you know, here's your car, and
you know, and then I have to deal with the
Kia situation. And what happened instead is the mechanic who
told me he would He was supposed to have it
to me Thursday night, but he said he was tired
because he's an old, older gentleman, and so he said, yeah,

(38:48):
I have it for the first thing in the morning,
probably round ten. Ten's fine. That gives me plenty of
time to do all the other things. On a Friday,
then I can get all the things and then Jim
can have the car on Monday. And what happened instead
is around two o'clock I finally called him and said, hey,
everything okay. I was actually getting worried. I thought, well,
maybe he took a nap and died or something. I
don't know because no contact nothing. And he yells at me,

(39:11):
well i'm working ahaw.

Speaker 1 (39:16):
Say.

Speaker 2 (39:16):
He literally yells at me. So then he says, okay,
well we need to take it. He comes to get
me because he knows I'm and he's only down the road,
so he comes to get me in the car because
he knows I'm otherwise can't get to him, and the
guy drive. I mean, Mario Andretti has nothing on this guy.
And he's an old he's like in his eighties, and
he's got a flip phone. He's driving with one hand, trying.

Speaker 3 (39:38):
To dial Iteah, trying to dial the guy that is
supposed to do the inspection with the other hand because
he said he had a two fifteen appointment.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
Which there's no applatments. There still applainmans. I don't know
what he thought. So he's trying to dial the guy
because we're going to be like a minute or too late,
and so and I kept saying, well, do you want
do you want me to die? I could put it
on speaker, I can use my phone, and I got it.
I got it. And he's steering into oncoming traffic. He
almost steers into a ditch. I'm literally fearing for my life,

(40:10):
which is good. At least now I know I'm not
suicidal because I was actually afraid of dying. So there's that,
because after everything that's been going down, you kind of
I don't know, maybe this whole living thing is a bit,
you know. No, I was fearing for my life, so
that that's that's I learned something about myself. And so
we finally get down there and and the guy's out
to lunch in more Ways at two fifteen in the afternoon. Okay,

(40:34):
so he he won't even let me drive my car.
I mean, it's my car and my name and the
whole thing, and it has to be because Jim wouldn't
have time to go get everything in his name. But
it doesn't matter. We're married, you know whatever. If if
anything ever happened to us, that's your car. You can
have it. I'll tell you that right now, But you

(40:56):
can't have the cats. Good luck with that.

Speaker 1 (41:01):
Good luck with that mine.

Speaker 2 (41:03):
You might want to ask him about that. Max is
a registered emotional support kittie and so drives me back
to his place and literally grabbing the oh crap handle,
fearing for my life and finally lets me have my
own car. And you know, so he still gives me
the whole rig of a roll about Oh I need

(41:23):
a hip replaced in this and that? And I love
how when we were driving, like half the show is
just gonna be when we were driving, he asked me
for the number because he couldn't find the numbers, so
he asked me for the number, and I'm like two
fight fo. He's like what, I'm like, two five four yardy?

(41:46):
Are yarty? He's like what, I'm like, two five four
yardy and he goes, if you could just behave for
a moment.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
Something I'd say to you, I'm.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
Like, oh okay, So he shut me completely down. The
rest of the ride was in silence. I was just
sitting there, holding on for dear life, praying to God
that we didn't die. So we get there, the guy's
not there, would drive him home. I figured, okay, well,
the guy's expecting us anyway, So I just went back
to the same place and he still wasn't back from lunch.

(42:19):
The guy behind the counter was really nice and talked
to him a little bit. He goes, oh, yeah, he's
the only one who is licensed to do that here,
so he's the only one who can actually do it.
I'm like okay, and he said, hey, he should be
back any minutes. You can just wait here. So I
sit and guy comes in, walks, sees me, walks right
past me, goes to his office, No hello, no kiss

(42:40):
my foot, no nothing. I'm like, oh, this isn't going well.
And I'm not a very friendly person. I'm a very
friendly person. I even I walked into the guy behind
the count by my goodness, you have beautiful blue eyes
and he just being from her to hear. So guy
comes out. I'm like, hey, are you the inspection guy?
And he goes, I don't make any money doing these okay,

(43:02):
I said, well, the mechanic guy told me to give
him his card. Apparently they supposedly work together. That was
the wrong move because this set this guy off. So
I got a big earfull about how he doesn't make
money doing it, and he really resents out the mechanics
sending them there to him because then he has to

(43:22):
do this thing and then you go get the car
fixed elsewhere, blah blah blah. And it's like, okay, I'm
just I've never met the guy before. And the only
thing that this mechanic did was install a horn. And
there might be a lot of work that needs to
be done on the car, and perhaps I needed a mechanic.

(43:43):
But do you think I'm going to go to somebody
who's screaming at me? No, so he goes, well, I
don't have time to do it right now, so just wait.
So he leaves me sitting there for another fifteen twenty minutes,
and it's like, you know whatever, I should have just
gone to another place, because you can't throw a rock
without hitting one of these places. But I just didn't know, oh,
because I'm new to the area and he was recommended
by the mechanic dude, so I just thought that's where

(44:05):
you go. So he finally comes out and goes, well,
let's see what you got, and of course he sees
this beatter piece of junk car and he knows that,
you know, I'm a broko and he ain't gonna get
nothing out of me. So then I get the lecture
again about how he doesn't make any money doing it,
blah blah blah, and I'm not saying anything because I've
pretty much I've been already shut down by one guy,
and now this guy is laying into me and it's

(44:26):
already been a long day. It's one hundred and some
odd degrees. I'm sitting in the car. So he does
the thing. He looks at the numbers whatever, doesn't even
look at the horn, so all the horn, the whole
horn thing that set everything back an entire day. Didn't
even need it.

Speaker 1 (44:38):
Well, we wouldn't have known.

Speaker 2 (44:39):
But yeah, well, at least we've got a horn. And
this car is so old you couldn't even install a
horn in the steering call and they had to put
a separate button on the side, so you have to.

Speaker 1 (44:49):
I guess if you do that within the string call.
First of all, it's a lot more time consuming and expensive.
But they don't last anymore because they're older cars.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
Well, he couldn't even find the parts. Oh, he said,
they don't even exist. Yeah, it's too old, not even
not even a junkyard. He couldn't even find the part.
He's he said, even had almost the same car out
on his lot, and that one that horn didn't work either.
So it's like he tried. And so the guy comes
back and as he's handing me the paperwork, he says, well,

(45:20):
it looks like your front tire's bald, but I know
you're gonna go get that replaced elsewhere. And I looked
him in the eyes and I said I might not have.
And that set him up. No, that's what everybody does.
Everybody comes in and I don't make any money off
of this blah blah blah blah blah blah. And by
then tears are streaming down my face. So I took

(45:41):
off my sunglasses and I looked at him and I said,
my husband and I are very loyal customers to people
who treat us kindly. If you had been kind to me,
you would have had a customer for life. And that
pissed him off even more, pardon the French. And as

(46:02):
he's walking away, still shouting and waving his arms, I
yelled out, because he's like nobody ever comes back to
be blah blah blah, and I yelled out, well, perhaps
if you treated your customers with kindness, they would return.
And then I just sat there, and you know, I
started the engine and got the AC going. Thank God,
the AC works in this thing, so one thing that

(46:23):
does actually work, and just sat there and just cried.
That's how awful he was. And once I was done crying,
then I went on Yelp and gave him a one
star review and retold the whole thing. And then I
went on Google and gave him a one star review.
And it looks like I'm not the first person he's
done that too, So that was my day and I
didn't have time for that. By then it was so late.

(46:44):
I didn't have time for the tires. I couldn't get
it registered. So I completely failed my husband every possible way.
I completely failed him. He didn't even have a car,
and you know, so at that point, and poor Jim,
he doesn't it was going on. He's just all innocent
at work and whatnot. And then of course I get
the thing with the Valvelene isn't willing to do anything
to the car until Keia does something to it, and
Kia is not willing to do anything to the car

(47:05):
because they're blaming Valveleen. And I'm stuck in the middle
with no car but car payments and insurance payments while
it's just sitting on somebody's lot and nobody's willing to
do anything. And I just I.

Speaker 1 (47:17):
Well being that you allow yourself to be a doormat.
God puts you on this earth. You have value and
you know, treat people with love and.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
Run out of cheeks to turn and it's time to yeah, yeah, it's.

Speaker 1 (47:36):
It's it's time. It's time to assert yourself.

Speaker 2 (47:39):
And Karen's got nothing on the ginger so it's gonna
get ugly tomorrow. First I'm gonna get the registration that
so I have to get up at the crack a
behind with Jim. But at least he doesn't have to
catch the bus at five, so I'm gona drive him
down to work, and you know, once nine o'clock hits,
I'm gonna get the get the registration, and you know,

(48:00):
take care of that, and then I'm going to spend
the rest of the day doing whatever I have to
do to get my Kia fixed because this is this
is gone beyond, like way beyond. Somebody somewhere is going
to give me a dang engine because I'm valvelin installed
a faulty.

Speaker 1 (48:20):
The thing.

Speaker 2 (48:21):
The thing that's really upsetting me though, is I got
I hate to be mean. I'm gonna put a big
butt in here, because you know, as soon as you
put a butt in the middle of it, I do
kind of mean to be mean. I got the little
girl diversity higher, Okay, I appreciate. I appreciate that girls
are and I used to work on my own cars.
I took out a shop. But she was a little

(48:43):
girl basically and brand new. She she was the new hire.
So when I come in and I tell them, look,
you know, oil changed the whole thing. It just got
the spark plugs change and everything. So she's all good
and everything. So I just want to, you know, treat
her right, because we drove her to Vegas and back
and they're like, oh, well, it looks like you you

(49:05):
need a battery. Look at this reading. Now. What I
should have done is say, oh, that sucks. When she
stops starting, then I'll get a new battery. But no,
me being a dumb dumb I'm like, okay, well, how
much is well I at the time I thought it
was so three hundred dollars. Three hundred dollars for a
freaking battery. So the little girl is doing the oil

(49:28):
change and the guys are all kind of sitting around
with their arms crossed, you know, bsing supposedly supervising her,
and they they were plugging in the the do hickey
to get the readings if there's anything wrong with the
engine or whatever. The older guy that was helping the
little girl is up underneath the steering column trying to
find the plug in. I had to tell him where

(49:50):
it is. I said, no, it's it's right there. It's
in that panel and he's like, oh, yeah, there is dum.
I had to tell him where it was. Okay, So
he gets it plugged in and he's like, oh yeah,
no life blah blah blah, it's all clear, yadda yaddy,
And you know they all the reset things that they
have to do for for you know, when the oil
changes up in this and that, and she installs the

(50:13):
battery then gets in the car. Now, I told this guy,
you've got to understand I if I'm gonna get this battery,
I'm literally using my rent money to do this. It's like, oh, yeah,
what are you gonna do is I're okay, fine, fine, fine,
but I'm literally using my rent money to do this.
And I told him a little bit about the saga

(50:34):
of you know, the move and the whole thing. You
guys all know that, and you know, it's like Jim
just started a new job and he doesn't get paid.
He gets paid once a month, so we've got to
white knuckle it through the month. And they're like, oh,
three hundred dollars battery. I'm like, m okay, you know,
and we just had to buy a two hundred dollars
tire and we had to buy this into that, and

(50:54):
it's like it's just nickel and diminus to death. And
so she gets in the car and says it starts
it and goes, oh, it started, that's good.

Speaker 4 (51:09):
And I'm sitting there, you know, paying my rent money
for a battery, and I've got little girl Diversity Hire
saying crap, like that's a good sign that the car started.

Speaker 2 (51:21):
Then she shows me the dipstick. Look there's oil in it.
Will I hope so considered a here for an all change.
So I was in a great mood, you know, drove
off car is driving like a dream like her old self,
and you know, I go and do errands and whatnot.
Everything's groovy, no lights, no that. Then drive her home

(51:43):
and Jim and I are like gay cars in great shape,
blah blah. You know, did all the things, spark plugs,
the whole thing. She got her oil changed, and she
should be feeling good as new because you know, like
I say, we drove her Vegas and Bablan to make
sure she's not gonna explode on us. And we're literally
making the last payment like in a week, and so
uh needed some groceries. Sent Jim down the Hill, which

(52:06):
is a good twenty minute saga. Yeah, it's he calls
me and tells me, you know, all the lights came
out and started not getting really loud. So I just
just parch it here at the at the gas station.
I don't know what to do. I'm like, do not
turn the car on. But literally twenty four hours later,
like after the oil change.

Speaker 1 (52:25):
So this brought us to where we started our story.

Speaker 2 (52:28):
Obviously something happened between oil change and you know, so
now we've got Kia versus Valveleene and all of them
are not treated us right. And somebody said it was.

Speaker 1 (52:39):
Not Melanie and Jim New New New News. Yeah, she's
gonna she's gonna take it to them because so, yeah, on.

Speaker 2 (52:45):
Top of everything else, the washing machine decides, I'm just
never going to turn off the cold water, even if
you unplug me. I'm just gonna keep filling with cold
water until I fled the back half of your rental house.
So we got that going for us. And yeah, it's
just it's time to lay hands on all things electronic

(53:07):
and God is good all the time. God is good.
So an hour into our podcast, we're gonna talk about
the WTF.

Speaker 1 (53:18):
Kamala, Oh, we were actually gonna.

Speaker 2 (53:20):
Rant the rant. We were actually gonna rant about We
were going to talk about the just I don't think
I even need to talk about it because I think
y'all have been hearing about it and what they've been
going through there, and we you know, I hate to
be the cliche of thoughts and prayers, but that's really
all we can offer at this point. But Elon, good

(53:44):
old Elon. I do like this guy. He's had to
step in and he's doing his best to help, as
is our rightful President Trump. And I just wanted to
go over some of the things that are happening. So
let's take a look at this

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