08-29-25 He Said She Said -- Rick and Aggie Talk Pet Peeves

Everybody has them. Little things that drive you crazy! We call them pet peeves. Tune in as Aggie and Rick talk about some of their biggest ones. 

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(03:41):
of He Said, She Said. I am one of your
hosts for the Evening Aggie, and with me is the
very awesome Roddy Rick. How are you doing tonight, Rick.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
I'm doing all right. I'm hanging in there. It's Friday.
If we're head to the weekend, it's a long weekend
for a lot of folks. So yeah, I don't know,
it's been a week. So I'm just going to try
to stay in as good as spirits as I can
while we talk about things that pisses off.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah, it has been it's been a it has been
a pretty rough week and I actually committed just one
of my pet peeves just now. But we'll get into that.
All of my pet peeves, a lot of them have
to be grammatical. So so yeah, that's kind of weird
coming from somebody who's who's very you know, speaking her second,

(04:28):
you know, her second language, not her first.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
No, actually, I have I have noticed people that English
is their second language taken a lot more serious than
people were English as your first language, because you guys
are like, dude, I took the time to learn this shit,
you're going to use it right?

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Oh man? Uh yeah, Calvin, I'm so sorry, not really,
please think gave me a twitchy.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
She apologizes for nothing.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
I apologize for nothing. I regret nothing.

Speaker 4 (04:59):
The and.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
That's alluding to Cavin just posted a new Twitchy article
where we pretty much made fun of these people who
gathered to sing the most atrocious chance. I don't know
they I thought they were. Did they think they were
at Woodstock or I don't know. I don't know. I
was trying to like and they were all senior citizens,

(05:28):
to put it kindly, because I'm heading in that direction too.
So I'll be qualifying for my senior citizen discount at
the local grocery store in about a year and a half.
So I'm excited.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
You're excited about that, But I.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
Already qualify a Denny's and I have, so you know,
there's that I.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
Was going to say, according to one of the ones
that one of the cell phone companies that does the
orange background, it's not whose mobile is the other one
that's got ted dance and in it. I already I
already qualify for their senior playing because I'm over fifty.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, my parents had have that one. Actually, my mom
now does have that. She likes it, she's fine with it.
She's just complaining about the phone. She was a more
simple phone, and I'm like, I can't help it with
that technology and I don't get along.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
Yeah. My dad is seventy three. We just of it.
We just officially drug him into the twenty first century
about three or four years ago. But unbeknownst to me,
because you know, my dad is a contrarian, he got
an iPhone and then started asking me all kinds of
questions about the iPhone, speaking of pet peeves, just because

(06:46):
I used to do tech support doesn't mean I want
to do your.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
Text that's the big one.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah, So he gets an iPhone and then starts asking
me all these questions about an iPhone, and I had
an Android at the time, so I'm trying to look
things as best I can find him screenshots and everything else. Eventually,
I just gave up and I bought an iPhone and
then I figured out how to work it so that way,
when he calls me, he says, can you help me
figure out how to change the header image on my
Facebook page? Yes, give me a moment, dad, and I
will help you.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
I do help my mom with her FB and yeah,
that was That was an uncomfortable conversation that I had
to have with my mom because she wanted to completely
block one of her kunas and she didn't know how
to block that person, and I had to walk her

(07:38):
through it, and then I had to get messages from
that person. Why can't I see your mom's page? Yeah?
About that, that was uncomfortable. Amended the situation, but so
I told my mom, it's better if you just unfollow

(08:02):
the person, and that way you still remain friends. You
can still see their page if you want to, you
just go to their name and you you know, and
that way, the hispanicity doesn't you know, come out, because
it was very traumatic this happened. So yeah, that's another

(08:25):
little pet peeve. Hmm, just a little one, not a
big One's not big enough to cause me aggravation. Because,
as we all know, I don't like my drama, but
I love watching everybody else's. So that was okay.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
Yeah, yeah, you like everybody else's drama. You just don't
like having drama.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
Yeah, not mine. I don't like sama, which.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
Kind of watching yours, which kind of makes sense. A
lot of people are that way. They don't like having
drama over their own, but they don't mind watching everybody
else's druma. That's why things like telenovellas and soap oppers
work so well. Been on for SID It'll be sixty
one years next year. So because Martelenovela's never died.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
No, no, they just keep going. And I was very
surprised that one of the characters that I remember from
I think as the World turns and she was a
teenager when I was a teener, it's now a grandmother.
Like this is not funny. This has got to stop.

Speaker 1 (09:27):
Just do what I do, yellow this guy third, because it's.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
All cerns fault. Yes, this is true. So anyway, well
I guess we should jump in. Thank you Danielle. I
don't think she's in the chat just yet, but when
she comes in, everybody shouted her because this was her idea.
She gave me the idea about pet peeves last week,
and I had no inspiration when we were talking this afternoon,

(09:56):
and then I remembered, wait, Danielle to you, and you said, yeah,
let's go with that. Yeah, so if you'll want to
jump in with your pet peeves and chat, please feel free.
That will be fun to talk about too, because as
it's your drama, I'm here for it. So there you go.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
He said, She said, aka drama Central.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
I had briefly toyed with the idea of asking you
for half an hour airtime at least twice a week,
so that I could just run through all of the
gossip that was going on on Twitter. Honest to god,
that's all I was going to do. I backed away
from that.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
We already do ninety minutes here. I could just move
into the producer's here and you could do thirty minutes
after this.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
No, no, that's okay. Well I'll talk about it later.
But anyway, Yes, did I show, thanks to Danielle, is
about our pet peeves and like alluded, like I eluded,
a lot of mine tend to be grammatical, and I
was not aware how many a few.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
I would like to point out that I'm currently speaking
to an anthropological grammar nazi.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
I guess, I guess I could qualify.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
I was unaware there was such a creature.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
But apparently, although I do have an anthropological pet peeve,
I do, and I'll just yes, I'll talk about that
one first, because most people really would not understand it.
But one of the things that I absolutely cannot stand
in anthropology is it's basically, if if you're a Star
Trek fan, it's the prime directive. Okay, every single episode

(11:52):
violates the prime directive somehow all the time without it.
Without that prime directive, we'd have no plot to any
of the show because it's the violation of the prime
director that writes the story. But in anthropology we have
something similar. It's basically, we're supposed to be watching, not helping.

(12:12):
We're not supposed to be doing anything to improve the
quality of their life as to our standards. We're supposed
to just watch and take notes, make friends, and learn
their way of life. We cannot superimpose our way or
any of our habits, any of our culture onto their

(12:33):
lives at all, and of late that has actually gone
out the window. And for me, it's a really big
pet peeve because you're no longer studying a group of people.
You are now trying to improve that group of people
to your standard of living. And that's just that's an impossibility.

(12:56):
Those people don't live in your neighborhood. They live in
some place totally differ red. They have totally different set
of rules. They have a totally different way of you know,
gathering their their food and you know, finding their water
or whatever be it. You know, like the Yano Mamo
out in the Amazon, you know, the Masai tribe out
in Kenya, anything like that. You you know, you cannot

(13:20):
tell them, yeah, this is a better way of doing this. No,
you got to leave it alone. As a matter of fact,
there's there's a tribe there's so little water out where
they live that they actually wash all of their stuff
with cow urine because technically is that it is a
sterile liquid and that's how they wash everything. And some

(13:41):
of their plates are made are from from pooh that
has been you know, they put hay and everything and
let it dry in the sun. You know, that's what
they have. And I was watching uh show understand about
cover of year years ago, where the person that was

(14:03):
interacting with them was telling them that there are ways
to actually make better plates, and you know, there's ways
to actually find water. It's fine and dandy. They've always
known about how to find water. They just cannot. They
don't want to move from that area. They know they
can go to another area that has more water. They're
well aware of that. They are transfixed there because of

(14:26):
either their cultural norms or there's a war going on.
I mean this says Africa, or there's hostilities in the
era where the water is at. So they are prohibited
by certain things and I'm just watching that going you
can't do that. So to me, my biggest pet peeve

(14:47):
in that discipline is how often they just decide that
violation of the prime Directive is the way to go.
I've never ugh. It just strives me crazy. Whenever I
see it. I started screaming at the TV. I've been
known to scream at the TV out of the blue.
I actually scared my dad once last year when I

(15:08):
stayed with him for a month. We were watching one
of the shows and he's there in his you know,
comfortable recliner, and I'm over here on the other side
of the room and I'm watching this thing and I just, oh,
my gosh, I could feel my face getting red, and
before I could stop myself, I started screaming at the TV.
And my dad was alarmed. He thought something was wrong,

(15:29):
and I was like, sorry, Dad, and I explained to
him what happened. And he was like, because he didn't
study anthropology, you understand, he was not aware that what
the guy was doing was horrifically wrong, and he thought that, No,
the guy's just trying to help. I said, no, no,

(15:49):
that's not your job. That's not the job of the guy.
The guy is supposed to be there to make friends,
to learn their ways, but not to teach them about
our ways. We're not supposed to do that at all.
And it has it has. The discipline has just been
disappointing right now, I'm just gonna put it that way.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
So a couple of key points. One on enterprise, there
really was no prime directive yet. They had a general
order one, but it was kind of more of a
suggestion because they hadn't been in space yet. Kirk lived
in the wild West of the Federation time, so he
basically did whatever the hell he wanted to. But card
they pretty much tried to follow the prime directive a lot.
And then Sisko's like, fuck you win'e park God, I

(16:34):
do what I want.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
No. No, I was specifically talking about next Generation, and
if you recall Justice, I hated that episode for that reason.
I cannot tell you how much I hated that repisode
because they had the chance to kill off Leslie and
they passed it up.

Speaker 1 (16:51):
Moving on, well, I mean, come on, well, I mean
that's wrong.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
I am not wrong.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
It's we But yeah, I think the only reason they
tried so hard is because it was one of their people.
None but yeah, no, we've talked about that before. Was
that one was actually a direct violation of the prime directive? Yes?

Speaker 2 (17:11):
It was, And you know that's why it kind of
like that really rankled me because oh, no, we're better
than that. So we're just doing it our way and
I'm like, whoa, Okay, so you just basically, well the.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
Thing about it is that entire episode. So this is
one of my pet peeves is writers that don't understand
the things that they're writing about because that annoys me.
It happens all the time, Like on Days of Our
Lives show's been around sixty years. They bring in new
writers and all of a sudden, they've got characters that
would have been interacting with a certain group of people
when they were running one type of establishment, going, oh,

(17:45):
I remember when I was in this place and washing
dishes when I was a kid. Motherfuck are you with
sweeping floors in a fish market when you were a kid?
So yeah, that is one of my pet peeves. And
the thing that irritates me about that episode is if
the prime directive was a thing and they actually followed it,
they never should have set foot on that planet in
the first place. That was not a warped capable civilization, right,

(18:08):
so it shouldn't have been there. Just it's not just
the you know, they tried to stay crusher, it's the
fact that they never should have made contact with them
in the first place because they weren't a warped capable civilization.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yeah, so that is just a small I mean I
took it from from Star Trek, and yes, I know
there was no problem, but you know, the prime director
kind of floats around. But the thing is you're not
supposed to you're not supposed to interfere. And that is
one thing that I have seen in my discipline happening

(18:44):
a lot. And it's not just my discipline, it's a
lot of the soft sciences, like psychology and sociology. They've
been doing the same thing. They have slid into that whole.
We know what's better for you, so we're going to
fix it for you. And I hate that. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, absolutely.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
Not, Calivin. We just did a two hour show last
Saturday on quantum physics and you're just now figuring out
I'm a nerd. Bit slow, are we?

Speaker 2 (19:20):
No, soft science is not a real science. It's that's
why I call it a discipline as opposed to, you know,
a science of any kind, but that they're referred to
as a soft sciences. I call them the five sisters
that would be let me see I fact we call
correctly psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics, and linguistics. I believe those

(19:44):
are the five because they're very soft and everybody's like economics,
but that's a math. No, it's not.

Speaker 1 (19:59):
For the record, For the record, bit I said, cal
not bit so I want to rethink that sentence. Just kidding,
oh so, but yeah, no, I mean that that is
actually one of my big pet peeves the shows that
have been established for a long time, quit screwing them up.
I mean it's one thing when it's like you know,
when it when something moves from like franchise to franchise

(20:21):
to franchise, and it's been around as long as Star
Trek and there's been so many different different iterations of
it you can't possibly expect them to keep up. But
when it's one show and and and there's and you
can't do some research before you start writing for the show. Seriously,
I mean, you know, just.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
Look, just look just I mean, you have the Internet,
have Wikipedia. Even even scrolling through Wikipedia, you could you
could get a gist of You can get the gist
of it.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
So a bit are you. That means you're probably in
mind everyone's in the one for at KLRON Radio, because
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then you're in mind not the station one. So you
should be able to move over to that one and
then you'll be fine. Yeah. Sorry, Sometimes having multiple chats
confused as people, but it helps with our numbers so.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
But yeah, that's I know that's a silly pet peeve
of mine, but it is something that has always graded
on my nerve a little bit. What about you? You
got any I mean you should. I know you got plenty, dude,
I got I got plenty.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
So we already talked about my first one. Just because
I do tech support doesn't mean I want to do
your tech support. Because I've done tech support a lot
of my life after some of the other things that
I've done, and that doesn't mean every time that something's broken,
I want you calling me on the phone going how.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
Do I fix this?

Speaker 1 (21:44):
How do I fix that? You have people that are
attached to whatever devices that you are trying to figure out,
whill get paid to help you figure that stuff out?
Call them? Not me? So that's one of them. My
other one, and this is after doing customer service work
on the phone from two thousand and nine until twenty
twenty three. Don't call me chewing. I hate you. Don't

(22:10):
call me chewing God.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
Okay, for a second I thought you man, don't call
me choey like like Chewbacca, But no, you were chewing
well chewing, got it.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
I should have added in, sorry, I was distracted because
I was going to make a joke to Danielle. One
of my pet peas is when people suggest show topics
just kidding, it's not really when I was waiting until
she was here to use that one.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
So oh, I think Danielle's over on yours too, So.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
Possibly, I don't know. There's been some there's been some
weird stuff going on with X, so it's possible that
everybody may be in the right one and then it
still may not be showing up because yeah, X has
been weird for restream the last few days. But no,
I mean that that's one of my biggest ones. If
you're gonna take the time and now, look, if you're
calling like a family member or something, I don't really care.

(23:05):
But if you're calling a place of business and you
need help with something, don't call me and start asking
questions while you're trying to show on your lunch. Because
sometimes I have a hard enough time understanding you people.
I don't need to be trying to translate around your
chewing noises too. Just so yeah, that's I hate that one.

(23:25):
I hate that one.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
Oh No, there's a I think that there should be like, well,
there used to be telephone etiquette.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
That was one of them anymore.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
But like that's gone out the window because everybody has
a phone and you know, you know, have millennials, gen
z whatever. I don't know, but it used to be
that there was. We used to be taught telephone etiquette
in high school. I know my teacher taught it. It
was part of our English class because part of our

(24:01):
English class was also on etiquette and how to you know,
how to properly greet a person that you know in
the corporate well, you know, in business or in a
social setting and all that stuff because you're using, you know,
the language. So that was part of English. And I

(24:26):
remember miss Harwell saying, you know, I think we spent
like maybe half a week on phone etiquette because she
really really hated the fact that nobody had phone etiquette anymore,
and so she actually spent the better part of a
week telling us how to answer a phone, how to
answer questions on the phone, how to not answer questions

(24:49):
on the phone, because there are some things that you
just don't want to divulge, right, How to not be
have any kind of ticks while you're on the phone
was one of her big pet Peeves. I mean that
woman could not stand gum. She thought gum was like,
you know, the seventh seal have been broken, and that
was the plague put upon us. She could not stand

(25:13):
people chewing anything at any time, but specifically gum. And
if you're on the phone, you should be as still
as possible when you're not speaking, so that you can
hear the other party speaking, and you know, you should
enunciate it, and you should do all these things. But yeah,
she she was. You would have loved her. She hated

(25:35):
that too.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
Oh okay, now some now MD put a parody in
my head, the melody of Mastication to the tune of Californication.
I'm gonna have to figure I'm gonna have to figure
this out now. But anyway, uh no, So, I mean,
I don't know that is something that didn't used to

(25:59):
bother me. But and so another one, because I'm yours
are gonna be much longer winded than mine because I
don't have a lot of explanations behind mine and you
do usually. So another one, and this one is not
anything to do with people. Another pet peep of mine
is fine. It is is having reached the age where
my body hates me. That is a daily pet pee

(26:20):
for me.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
Snap crackle pop.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
Sap, snap crackle pop. Can I get out of bed
without throwing my back out? Or my leg's gonna work
the way they're supposed to do. I need to grab
the cane today. Is it gonna take me thirty minutes
to get into my studio? Yeah, it's all eh okay.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
Next time I call Orty, I'm gonna answer ahoy. Just
just funny, you know that ORTI ahoy? Okay?

Speaker 1 (26:55):
I mean I remember, I remember when there was a
British dude. I knew that used to answer the phone
that way. But it wasn't just a hoy. Every time
I answered the phone, it was a hoy hoy.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
Yes, I don't know, I know who you're talking about.
I just can't bring it up to mine. But yes,
I think it was oh and I and I don't know.
Maybe it was in a hot fuzz. Maybe that's one
of the characters, one of the characters. Oh hell, it's

(27:25):
like what okay? But yes, so anyway, let's see for me.
The one I committed at the beginning is a pet peeve.
And I slipped into that and I caught myself and
I slipped into it because you actually did it. It

(27:45):
doesn't bother me if other people do it, it bothers
me if I see it in writing. I'm just going
to put that out there. I know it's weird. But
when I was in school again, the illustrious Miss Harwell
really was a stickler for English grammatical rules. And I

(28:09):
mean when I say she was a stickler. That was
probably one of the most difficult classes in English I
ever had. And I went on to college and I
had plenty of English classes there too, that was nothing
compared to the hell that she put me through. But
one of the things that really got on her nerves
there were two. This is one of them. It so

(28:32):
happened that our yearbook, she was my senior English teacher,
by the way, our yearbook had just been put out
and everything, and the cover said it's never been done
this way before. Stupid, I know, But for her, the
grammatical rule of its was it is that it has

(28:58):
has was not a contraction, as was never part of
the it's contraction. It's always been it is. And so
she was very adamant that we understood that that was
an abomination. It is now accepted. It is now part
of the English grammar. You know, evolution, I guess, But
for me, I'm still stuck there because this woman would

(29:21):
threaten us with rulers on our knuckles. Okay, and she
was not a nun, but she was. She was a
you know, spinster. But the thing was, she was adamant
about this, and she drilled it into our heads that
it is is the contraction not it has so whenever
I see it and write it writing it's been, it

(29:43):
drives me crazy. And if you, if you know me,
and some of you have gotten my letters, you know,
handwritten notes and everything, I've never actually done the contraction
of it has. I will always write it out long
form because for me it's it's just a no. No.
I get that times have changed, I get that it's

(30:04):
accepted now, but in true form, composition and grammar, the
correct contraction is it is, not it has so that
has always that's People can say it and it doesn't
bother me. I see it in writing and I want
to set fire to it. It makes no sense.

Speaker 1 (30:30):
The band's dained wood leg a word. One of their
songs is titled It's been a while.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yes I know, And like I said, if I hear it,
I'm fine with it. I just it doesn't bother me.
It's if I see it in writing, it drives me crazy.
And I think it's that woman had an effect on
a lot of people. I'm living proof of it. I
gotta say I was very upset when she passed away,

(30:59):
and and she now has a middle school named after her.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
So you realize you just gave a very serious piece
of ammunition to a chat full of people that love
to troll people.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
Right, Oh yes, I'm gonna get trolled. But you know,
I mean, like I said, if I hear it, I'm fine.
If I see it in writing, it just it's like
but I I mean, like.

Speaker 1 (31:24):
You talk to all of these people on X, You're
not going to see it in writing every single day,
multiple times a day for at least.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
Probably I will get avalanched on it. It's been and
I'll be like, Okay, meeting the thread.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
Every morning Maggie's good morning tweet, it's just gonna be
a gift of somebody's eyes twitching. I yeah, well, like
the next foreseeable few weeks.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
That's that's another that's another weird thing of mine. And
I maybe it's just me maybe it's a lot of people,
but you know, I put the good morning tweet out there,
and the expectation is either people are gonna laugh, or
people might be confused because they don't particularly see what
it's so funny or whatever. But the only expectation I

(32:16):
have is for people to find it funny. Nobody ever
is obligated to say good morning or greet me or
you know, laugh or anything, but they do, and I
find it very heartwarming that y'all take the time to
actually do that. The ones that I don't understand is
that they try to correct the meme. I'm like, I

(32:40):
don't I don't understand why you're Why are you wasting
time correcting a meme? It's just supposed to be funny.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
I understand that I pervey the memes, I don't create them.
By the way, your buddy em has just strolled you
twice and.

Speaker 8 (32:54):
Like, yeah, he's one of the funny ones.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
I knew he would, I know he would.

Speaker 1 (33:10):
I a minute, Well, so I learned something new Saturday
night because he actually tuned in for juxtaposition, which was
very heavy in physics and quantum mechanics and who I think, Yeah,
I somehow did not know that, and all of a sudden,
he's like this, this is this is this what? This
doesn't work for us real physicists. I'm like, wait a minute,
you just see you're a real physicist.

Speaker 2 (33:31):
Yes he is.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
I learned something new Saturday night.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
A lot.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
We have a lot of smart people that listen to us.
But then again, he mostly listens to you, which makes
a lot more sense.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
He's been a very long time followers, so matter of fact,
I remember when he had a previous account and this
is his second account. And but he is extremely intelligent and.

Speaker 4 (33:56):
The you know that.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
A lot of people ask me, it's like, why is
he screaming at us? No, he's not. He just has
problems with his eyesight. So that's why I use capital letters.
And so a lot of us have actually gotten into
the habit of writing back to him in capital letters.
And you know, I'm starting to think maybe I should
just write everything in capital letters to because I can

(34:18):
see him better too. I wouldn't have to wear my glasses.

Speaker 1 (34:28):
Yeah, I know. It was funny because one of the
first times, I think because BZ, who's in the chat now,
was interacting with him a couple of weeks ago, and
I think it was one of the first times they'd
ever interacted with each other. And he's like, why are
you yelling. I'm like, dude, he's not yelling.

Speaker 2 (34:40):
He's not he's not yelling. No, he's no, he's one
of the he's one of the good guys. I gotta say,
m's one of the good guys. So speaking of good guys,
just in case some people in the chat are not
aware of a good Twitter follow good friend passed away
this past you lie. We just learned about it today.

(35:04):
Gray Wolf, who was known to quite a lot of people,
quite a lot of my followers. We had a lot
of mutuals in common. We're very we were bereath to
hear of his passing. He was such a wonderful soul
and he would be greatly missed.

Speaker 1 (35:20):
Yeah, I have to be honest. The first post I
saw about it was using his real name, and I
had no idea who it was. And then I saw
GE's posts and I was like, damn it, I.

Speaker 4 (35:27):
Like that guy.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
Yeah, yeah, he was. He was. He was a sweetheart
and also just he was a friend.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
He was another one that was kind of like wrong.
He was one of the first people that ever really
started paying attention to us.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
Yeah, yeah, he did. He did also along you know,
front of the chat. JC lost his wife just this
past week, so please keep him in your prayers and
your thoughts, your cosmic karma, good vibes, you know. But
it has been It has been a weird, weird and

(36:03):
hard week. And this is why we do this show
levity so that people can just laugh at the absurdity
of life.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
Because there is an absurdity to life. Speaking of absurdity,
my dad gave me my next pet peeve. My dad
used to when I was a kid, and sadly I
have become my father, so that ties into my next
pet peep. You know that progressive commercial where they talk
about how you're turning into your parents. That was always
a pet peeve of mine. And now I realized that

(36:34):
I pretty much have down to the fact that we
were actually standing next to each other in a restaurant
the other day and my one of my son in
laws was like, god, y'all look alike. I'm like, shut up,
but anyway, because yeah, my dad's been playing Santa Claus
for my kids since you know, forever. So the fact
that I'm starting to look like I could carry the mantle.

(36:55):
Now I'm like, oh no, I feel about that. But
people who go out of their way to embarrass people
on purpose in public, just to make them feel completely uncomfortable.
My dad used to do that all the time. He
would go out of his way, like we'd be in
a checkout line. And this is after my parents divorced.
And keep in mind I was eight or nine years old,

(37:16):
which means my dad was twenty. I was eight or nine,
which means my dad was either twenty nine or thirty.
Because we're twenty one years apart, and he's hitting on
the eighteen nineteen year old checkout girl and then asking
me why I'm not getting her number? Oh my goodness, Like,
uh yeah, I'm just gonna go over here. I got nothing.

(37:36):
I got nothing now. Now, eventually he is where I
got most of my sarcasm from and my sense of
humor from. But I still I still really go out
of my way to try to not do things like
that to my kids, because that used to drive me
in safe.

Speaker 2 (37:51):
No, I can you know, I definitely never did anything
like that to my children, And if anything, you know,
there's there's two types when it comes to that there's
the people that do the uncomfortable forward outward and the
people that do the uncomfortable inward. I'm the inward person,

(38:12):
that's the self deprecating humor, you know, that is the
inward uncomfortable that the outward. I've never understood why anybody
would do something like that to me. That's just that
you're actively trying to make someone else so uncomfortable that

(38:33):
they really regret being there, you know, they regret their
existence there for that particular space, you know, part of time,
and it's just it's hard. I've seen people do this.
I've seen a lot of young people do this, and
I've seen a lot of older white ladies do this.

Speaker 1 (38:59):
See see I think I think Jeff maybe read it
to my dad. I point out all the hot moms
and daughters when I'm out with AP, sometimes loud enough
for them to hear it too. Yeah, pet peeve?

Speaker 2 (39:22):
Yeah, I got nothing on that one, Jeff. Moving on,
So what other what other pet peeve do you have?
I'm sure I'm, like you said, you have plenty.

Speaker 1 (39:31):
Yeah, I mean I have like an entire list of
pet peeves. Another thing that really drives me crazy is
people that never let me know that they have plans
for anything until the very last minute, and a lot
of my family is terrible with that, and I think
that's why it's really starting to get on my nerve,
because I really used to be a go with a
flow guy, but especially on you know, the half of

(39:54):
the family that belongs to She who shall no longer
be named, they have this really bad habit of, Oh,
we're doing a birthday party in a week, and then
I get to that birthday party and oh, by the way,
we're doing this one next week. I'm like, you're doing
what do you guys not compare notes with this stuff
before you do back to back birthday parties? Because I'm

(40:17):
always so everybody gets mad at me because I don't
like to pick up a phone because I don't like
to talk on the phone. As another pet peeve of mine,
I've spent twenty years of my life talking on phones
for a living, in one form or another. I don't
want to talk on a phone. If you want to
talk to me, it's easier to text me. And then
if it turns into a long enough thing, then I
will and then I will muster up the courage to

(40:38):
call you. For ten fifteen minutes. Get that out of
the way, then we can go back to texting. But
for all these people who don't like the fact that
I like to communicate in a very specific way, who
don't communicate at.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
All, I really get that. And one of the things
that I cannot understand how this has happened because I
was never trained to ask one. But I became the
social secretary for the entire family. And I don't mean

(41:10):
my family. I don't mean my kids, my husband, I
mean my entire family. Somehow or other, I became these
so they will send me messages and texts and reminders,
you know, they'll call and everything. And I have an
actual social calendar for my family. I don't even live
near them, okay, and yet I'm in charge of all

(41:33):
this stuff. And now they're asking me to go to
Puerto Rico, and I'm like, I would rather have my
nails clipped in a quisine art than go to Puerto
Rico right now. I really would. First of all, this
is a hurricane season. You're not gonna catch me in
Puerto Rico during hurricane season. Why, Because for all the bluster,

(41:55):
they still have not fixed much of what happened after
Maria and that was a long time ago. It's been years. Yeah,
things are still bad. So yeah, I said specifically, yeah, no,
I'm not going, but my mom wants to go, and
so we're trying to figure out who's gonna go. So
I'm like, I have an entire I don't know how

(42:17):
this happened, but I actually have a social calendar and
I fill it out with everything. Everybody's upcoming things, everybody's
upcoming birthdays, you know, who's getting baptized, who's getting you know,
I one of my nieces is having a root canal.
That's actually in my social calendar. I'm like, I have
nothing to do with this, but but it's there, and

(42:41):
I call my mom and I remind her of things,
you know, and everything else, remind my sisters and all
that stuff. And I'm like, I'm still trying to figure
out how it is that I became this person. I
don't understand it.

Speaker 1 (42:59):
Oh no, yeah, I mean I don't know. Sometimes I'm
the one that has to And that's the other reason
why I don't understand why half the time these people
don't communicate these things to me, Because I used to
be the one that everybody was like can you remember
all this for us? And I'm like, sure, it's kind
of what I do, but now it's like never mind, yeah,

(43:21):
no it. But yeah, so this one, this one's smaller
on the list, but I kind of I want to
know if I'm alone in this one, because am I
the only one that hates it? When? You know? And
I don't have to worry about it as much now
because I don't have the big work email lists like
I used to have, other than for a couple of
different places. But I'm not the only one that hates
when everybody replies to every fucking work email using reply all,

(43:45):
no you're not. I hate that.

Speaker 2 (43:51):
I I love the blind copy, I gotta I gotta
say that is an excellent email that I really do enjoy.
But the reply all, that just that drives me crazy,
especially when I can understand it when it's used like
for the family reunion and you send out an email

(44:14):
blast to everybody that's on there, and then everybody just
automatically prized because they don't realize. So now you're entire
you know, you have twenty seven emails saying yeah, I'm
going right. What should happen is that thing goes out
with everybody's name on it, but the sender should say,

(44:38):
please reply to this email only whether or not you're coming,
and that takes care of it. But yeah, I've never
under I mean, there's no reason I don't. I don't.
I'm sure that there are reasons for the reply all,
but I've never found it to be necessary.

Speaker 1 (45:01):
Well, I had, so the weird thing is like, within
the same organization, I had certain bosses that hated reply all,
and I had ones that would yell at you if
you didn't use reply all, and him just pointing that out.
He's like, I got in trouble for not replying all,
And yeah, I've had bosses like that too. They just
and it was I guess it was their way of
showing participation because they could go back through the list
without having to and just see who all had replied

(45:23):
in one place or something, and it made their lives easier.
But god, that annoys me, especially on a busy day
where you're where you're like back to back on stuff
and you've got projects and everything else you're trying to
do and your email is just ding in every five
seconds because everybody's sitting reply all.

Speaker 2 (45:37):
No, and you know Calvin breaks up a good one,
because that is another pet peeve of mine. Group texts.
I cannot stand group texts I am a part of
at least five. Only one of them had my consent,
and I don't know I got tied into these. Oh
by the way, the one that got my consent was

(45:58):
none of my relatives. These are just friends. So the
rest are relatives. Two of them are with sisters, are
my sisters. And I'm like, why why do we have two?
We literally have one for the sisters. Why do we
have another one for the sisters? And nobody could give
me an explanation for that, And I said, well, can

(46:20):
I leave one of them? And they're like, how could
you believe like that? I'm like, I don't need to.
I just have the one. And of course some of
my siblings have the Texas Zaggy you know, group text
and I'm like, I'm you know, I support my team

(46:41):
and everything, but I really don't know the players. I
don't know whose strengths or what. Blah blah blah. I
just enjoyed watching the game, that's all. I don't need
to dissect everything at the end of the game. And sadly,
some of my siblings and their spouses do, and they
get into it, and I'm like, am I evening? So

(47:01):
I just don't understand and it drives me crazy because
I understand the need for some group chats, you know,
but uh no, no, I don't particularly care for them. No,
And I've tried. I've actually asked, n I leave this.

(47:23):
That was my mistake. I asked if I could leave
the conversation, and everybody got offended, and I'm like, see,
that's a you problem, not a be problem. That's why
I want to leave the conversation. But nobody. Nobody got
happy about that anyway.

Speaker 1 (47:40):
Because you're you're You're the bubbly one. You have to
stay in the conversations.

Speaker 2 (47:44):
No, I am the dad one. I'm the one that
brings reality to the situation. And they don't like that.
So I'm like, I'm trying to leave so that you
don't have to deal with it. Why why are you
being like.

Speaker 1 (47:57):
Nice? So? Yeah, another another work related one. Can we
can we go back to realizing that most of these
video meetings that you guys are requiring that we go
to could be handled via email. Please, I don't have

(48:19):
an hour and a half of my day while Janny
is figuring out why you can't hear her on the
video call software, and how it is that the person
who's supposed to be running the video conference software doesn't
understand how to make the video conference software work, and
it's just saying it finally gets everything to turn on,
and all you can see are their feet because the
camera's in the wrong place, and all you're hearing is

(48:41):
rustling because the microphone's in the wrong place. This could
have been done in an email in ten minutes. For
those I would even settle.

Speaker 2 (48:48):
For reply all, Oh my goodness, really.

Speaker 1 (48:54):
Meetings that don't need to be meetings. This is another
huge pet peeve for me, and I don't that was
even That was even the way it was even before
we ever been when I was working FORU, even before
we were working from home, they would call us into
these meetings and this, and they would always do it
on the days when either we weren't very busy, which
is kind of when you want to be on the phones,

(49:16):
or when I was working on another project so I
wasn't on the phone anyway, and then they wanted me
in a meeting to tell me an hour's worth of
crap that they could have told me in ten minutes,
but never. You know, when you're a phone monkey, give us,
you know, even if it's a couple of us at
a time, give us some time off the phones when
we're getting slammed. Then we wouldn't care about your meetings.

(49:37):
But this whole, especially once we started working from home,
and it was like this this big thing of you know,
once a week we're going to have a meeting where
you have to be on camera blah blah blah blah blah.
And I'm like, this could have been done via email
instead of me sitting here for an hour.

Speaker 2 (49:54):
It's amazing how I think people just get used to
that whole social media vibe, so they have to be
like online for this instead of an email or you know,
sending a text, Hey I'm having issues with this or whatever.
What do I do. I think that's where it comes from.

(50:17):
I really do.

Speaker 1 (50:20):
Yeah, I know, well, Jeff. In one instance, these were
it people that couldn't figure it out. This was back
when I worked for Convergence and was a team leader
for the networking technical support team. I'm dealing with a
bunch of people that literally do not only tech support
but computer tech support for a living and couldn't figure
out why that stuff wasn't working when we had to
do video conferences. Now. Granted, back then it was still

(50:42):
fairly new technology compared to what we have now. But
these were also the same people that helped direct TV through,
you know, testing out stuff, design their whole home stuff
that they have now. But they couldn't figure out how
to make video conferencing work.

Speaker 2 (51:06):
Yeah I can, I've never done it, and several of
you have actually helped me with problems, but I've never
felt the need that, you know, like you need to like.
It could have been an email, it could have been
a text. I don't see the need for a meeting
to discuss my problem, you know, I don't see that.

Speaker 1 (51:30):
Yeah, I mean, and for me, most things could be
a text. You know, I'm not one of these people
because that's what I hear from people all the time. Well,
sometimes text loses something in translation because you can't get
the vibe from the people that you're texting with. If
it's somebody that you've talked to for forever, you can
pick up their vibe when you're texting, and if you can't,
there's something wrong with you. Because I go through this

(51:54):
with people all the time, and it'll be something It'll
be something completely out of uh, out of character for them,
and it's like one or two sentences and I'm like, okay,
so what's wrong. They're like, how the hell did you
know something was wrong via text? Because you always say
good morning or you say you know something very specific,
and you didn't this time, So what's going on? And

(52:15):
they're like damn. But I mean, if it's somebody that
you communicate with enough, you know when the ViBe's off er,
at least you should so and so to me, that's
that's always been like a cop out. And again, if
there's somebody who's getting frustrated when I'm texting them, I
will take the time to call them so they can
understand that. You know, you're probably reading something into this
that isn't there. But nine times out of ten, if

(52:35):
you feel like I'm getting angry with you via text,
you probably wouldn't want to talk to me because if
I'm getting angry, if I'm getting angry with you via text,
it's not going to be any better.

Speaker 2 (52:51):
So let's say I had one and I complete the boss,
so I'm gonna do my other grammatical one, which also
was drilled into me by ms Harwell. Rest.

Speaker 1 (53:10):
I think miss Harwell might become one of my pet
peeves by the end of the day.

Speaker 2 (53:14):
There's only two. There's only two actually, and I'm sure
I'll get bombarded on Twitter with this too and thank
you mute button. But when people do quote, the reason
is because that is actually a violation of grammar rules.

(53:37):
Right there. You either do the reason is that, or
this is because you don't do the reason is because
it's one or the other. It has always been us.
It is accepted into our lexicon rad now it really is.
But if you look into upper grammar rules and everything,

(54:02):
it's still a no no, or at least it was
last year when I looked it up. Things have changed,
God knows. Merriam Webster is completely woke now anyway. So
and so it's dictionary dot com. But it used to
be that that was a grammar rule that should not
be violated. It's either the reason is that blah blah blah,

(54:26):
or this is because that that that you know, so
using both you're kind of like just being redundant. But
a lot of people say it, a lot of people
do it. You see it in novels everywhere, every single
book that I have read, most contemporary ones that I've
been reading, you know, for spirited books, they have it

(54:48):
in there somewhere. You know. It's it's just, it's it's
part of our lexicon. Now, it's it has seeped through
and it has taken hold, and it's kind of like
a limpet on the side of the book. So you know,
there's not much that you can do, but it is
something that has always greated on. When I see it,

(55:08):
if people, like I said, if people say it it
just it doesn't I I'm fine with it. I don't care.
But if I see it in writing, it's like, and
it's because of that woman. That woman was just so
strict when it came to grammar rules, and it was
always something that we had to you know, we were

(55:29):
writing down, we were reading it. It was in our
grammar and composition book. And so because I see it,
if writing it irks me, but you know, I let
it slide because it is accepted. It is part of
the lexicon Nile, like I said, and it's you know,
it's just it's it's fine. Like when I hear it,
it's not a big deal. When I see it in writing,

(55:49):
it's like Miss Harwell is like pinging that last nerve
she needs. She just needs to take a rest her
spirit does anyway.

Speaker 1 (55:59):
Yeah, I would kind of agree with that so far,
conversations going anyway. She's come up a lot tonight, Aggie.

Speaker 2 (56:08):
You know that's it does with the two that that
you know.

Speaker 1 (56:12):
So yeah, well it may only be two pet peeves,
which he's come up a lot while you've been discussing
those pet peeves. So yeah, I think I think.

Speaker 2 (56:21):
Calvin, I'm going to get even. I'm going to write
you a letter all in cursive with a bunch of apostrophes,
a bunch of contractions.

Speaker 1 (56:37):
Nice, all right, So this one is something that bothers
me but doesn't really seem to bother a lot of folks.
And it's returning the shopping cart to the card stall,
even when it doesn't get you a quarterback.

Speaker 2 (56:54):
I I agree that is a that is a big
pet peeve of mine, people that leave the cards rewhere.
And I just I can't stand that. I went to
church on Sunday, and after church, I went grocery shopping,
and after I put my groceries in the car, I

(57:14):
gathered up eight carts and took them back, and someone
thought I was dressed really nice for working at the
grocery store. I said, no, I just got out of church.
I'm not working. I don't work here, and they said,
and they said, you should, and I'm thinking maybe I should.

Speaker 1 (57:39):
Yeah, Am, I'm a dude. I don't use a buggy.
I honestly didn't used to, and now I wobble, so
I kind of have to. But I'm just glad I'm
not in one of the electrical ones.

Speaker 2 (57:48):
So oh that's a that's a whole other can of
worms for me, because I understand that those are for
people who have problems walking, but I see a lot
of people that don't have the problem walking using them,
and it irks me because somebody with a disability would

(58:11):
have to wait for that cart to become available. And
I mean, I I saw this young woman. She just
she looked like she could walk just fine. So but
I thought, well, maybe she has an issue and that's
why she's writing it. She was not overweight, she was

(58:34):
pretty much my size and she's writing this, so I thought,
maybe there's something wrong with her leg maybe she just
you know, she twitched it. Maybe she's got it braced
up or something. No, she was wearing sandals. I didn't
see any you know, ace bandages or anything like that,
so I just said, could be her knee. So I'm
just I'm not going to judge or anything. And I check.

(58:56):
I'm about to check out, and she has done checking out.
So I watched her take the buggy out, take her stuff,
and run to her car. I was pissed. I was
livid because that is not supposed to be used by
people who are able bodied to walk around Walmart or

(59:17):
the grocery store or wherever they are at all. And
she just did it because she just she was lazy,
just didn't want to walk through the store. And I'm like,
this is why people don't like young people right now,
because of the ship.

Speaker 1 (59:37):
So the funny thing is when you were talking about
how somebody was, you know, asking you if you worked
there for some remember last week when I got a
song in my head that happened too, because all of
a sudden, it was like, yes, no, maybe I don't know.
Can you repeat the question? Did I look up in

(01:00:00):
bits like and I don't work here, and if I did,
I would not help you, like I could almost make
that fit almost a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
It's just that it to me, it's a it. You know,
that's a pet peep And I will say this pet peeve.
And a lot of you out there are former, you know,
retired military and may have DV license plates. But one
of the big pet peeves that I have, and it

(01:00:34):
drives me crazy because my brother in law does this
all the time. My brother in law has DV license plates.
You know that that means you know, the disabled veteran. Yeah,
he parks in the handicapped space all the time. Well,
because my sister has the same plates, she gets to

(01:00:55):
do it too. And I'm like, you're not disabled. You
can walk in then out of the store just fine. Now,
if he is taking his mother, totally totally needs to
park there because she is disabled so and he is
one of her two caretakers, So I get that, But
when he's alone and he does it too, drives me crazy.

(01:01:17):
My sister doing it all the time drives me crazy.
I'm like, why are you parked here? And she's like,
because I have the plates. I'm like, that's no, that's
not the way this works. It felt like I was
in that that's not how any of this works and
that gift. And I was looking at her, going, you're
able bodied, you can walk in and out just fine,

(01:01:38):
and she's like, I don't have time for that, and
she just dismissed me. And I'm like, this is uh,
this is such a big pet fee for me. It
really is, and it just it drives me crazy. And
the weird thing is my husband has those plates and
I tell him, absolutely not, you cannot park in the

(01:02:00):
handicaps space at all. Now. When he had surgery and
he you know, his uh, his ankle was was in
a food and everything in it. Yeah, I let him,
but I was not happy about it because I knew
he could still walk. But I let him. I'm very
and and he and he knows, you know, one of

(01:02:24):
the he's got purple heart plates as well, and it's
a TV plate and and he says, the only reason
that he got those plates was that, you know, it
just he qualified for them. So he said, yeah, sure whatever,
not thinking you know. And then one day he's he's

(01:02:48):
like looking for parking spots, like, oh, I can park here.
I said, no, you cannot. He was like, no, I cannot,
And he just went around looking for his fun and
opened up and he was like, but I have the plates,
And I said, but that's not the point of that
parking space. And this is something that I've had to
tell a lot of my friends. Just because the Department

(01:03:10):
of the Army and the Veterans Administration considers you disabled
doesn't mean you are disabled enough to use those spaces.
You know, you've got to use your brain too. You
can't just just because you have Oh, I have the
plate so I can park here. I'm like, no that.

Speaker 1 (01:03:28):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:03:29):
There was one gal that I actually went to court
over this. She got a handicapped parking tag. This is
while I was in Texas, A and M, so she
could park in the handicapped spaces because she had to
go home and breastfeed her child, so she needed access
quick access to her to her car. And I was like,

(01:03:54):
you've never heard of a breast pump. I mean for real.
Because her was working from home at the time, and
this was before emails, before you know, the Internet or
anything like that. He actually worked from the house. He
you know, did a lot of proof reading and stuff
like that, so most of the work was at his

(01:04:14):
house and so he was a I think copy editor
or something, and so she would go home to breastfeed
and then go back to attend school. And this, you know,
people got upsets like there's no reason why she should
have that. It's like, oh, but I need it. And
so it went, it went to court, and the court

(01:04:34):
sided with everybody else. They said, yeah, you can get
a press bump and your ask, we could feed the child.
But it's just it's incredible to me that this is
something that, you know, the whole the whole issue for

(01:04:55):
having a parking space for handicapped people is for people
who have trouble, you know, walking or you know. One
of the one of the guys back home he lost
back home, I say, back home, back in San Antonio.
He's he's in my neighborhood and he rides a truck

(01:05:17):
and it's lifted. He lost his legs in Afghanistan and
hislicense plates has no legs, not even joking. Great guy
he has, he has. He did not want a handicapped
specific license plate, but because of his disability, he had

(01:05:43):
to get one. He didn't want to give up his truck,
so he spent out of pocket to make sure that
he could still drive that truck. And he could you know,
it had a ramp that would come out, you know,
for his wheelchair and all that stuff and everything, because
he loved that truck. But he felt that he could

(01:06:08):
park all the way out there in the middle, you
know where nobody parks just fine, and he just didn't
want to be considered handicapped, you know, So you have
you have that flip side. And he was I mean,
he was a great guy, don't get me wrong. But
his wife said, honey, I need help to with you

(01:06:31):
and with getting in and out of your truck because
it's lifted. It's ridiculous. She had to have like a
little step stool step ladder thing come out of her side.
But you know, there there's there's some people that don't
want to be known for their handicap, so they try
to avoid it. And then you have the flip side,

(01:06:53):
which is, oh, I got DV plates, I can park
anywhere I want, you know, I can park in the
handicaps soon And I'm like, no, you can't, you can't.
You cannot just because you have you need to have
an actual physical handicap in order to point there.

Speaker 1 (01:07:07):
And kid me. The correct term is handy capable.

Speaker 2 (01:07:14):
But I mean it just it drives me nuts when
my sister does it. As a matter of fact, if
she asks me to run an errand with her, I
have to ask her straight out. It's like, do you
plan on parking in the handicap zone? Yes?

Speaker 4 (01:07:28):
Or no?

Speaker 2 (01:07:30):
And I'll ask and I'll be that person. I'll make
her uncomfortable in front of people because this I feel this,
I feel very very this. This means a lot to
me obviously, and I you know that it's one of
the few times where the uncomfortable goes outward. And so

(01:07:50):
I put her in that position and she actually kind
of steps back and says, you know, I no, I'm
not I will park, you know, because it doesn't that
I shouldn't be parking there. And I'm gradually bringing that
but that's only But all I know is when she's
around me, that's the way she acts. I don't know
if she's still barking on the anti cap space when

(01:08:14):
I'm not around Oh yeah, yeah. So that's one of
my big pet peeves. It's the fact that some people
do have these license plates, but they're not unable, you know,
they're they're able body and it just strives you crazy
to see it.

Speaker 1 (01:08:31):
Well, I know, like here in Oklahoma, that plate alone
isn't enough. You still have to go to a doctor
and actually get a placard, so those people would be
getting in trouble here, and I have one. I rarely
use it, but I do have one. There are days
so it's usually if I'm if I'm taking somebody else
to the store that has an ambulatory issue, or if
there's like a day that I have to have my cane.

(01:08:52):
I will rarely use a space. My kids get mad
at me sometimes they're like, why is this a park here?
You've got the placard. I'm like, because I can walk
today and I need some steps so you can.

Speaker 2 (01:09:00):
No, you do have you do have an ambulatory issue.
When my dad was alive and I went down for
a month last year to keep him company while my
mom was in Puerto Rico, he had a placard. He
had no car, but the placard made it easier for

(01:09:20):
his friends when they took him to the VA, when
they took him to the hospital or whatever, to park
in the handicamp space so that my dad could get
help to go inside. Because my dad did have ambulatory
issues by this point, and when I was staying with him.
Whenever we went somewhere, I would use the placard in

(01:09:44):
Mom's car to take him where you know, he needed
to go, and I would park there, I would take
him inside, and then I would go back out and
park somewhere else. So I made it easier for him
to you know, get out, and then I I would
go put the car in another space, and then you know,
when he was done, you know, with his doctor's visit

(01:10:06):
or whatever, I would go get the car and then
I would help him inside and everything. And he was like,
I do have the placard. I said, I know that,
but I just feel bad because I can I can walk.
He says, yes, but I'm the one that can't. I
was like, okay, point taken, so, you know, but still
I would I would feel really weird, even with the placard,

(01:10:28):
even knowing that I was helping Dad, that I was
I didn't belong in that parking space. So I tried
to avoid it as much as I could. And there
were days when Dad was like fine ambulatory wise, and
he would say, yeah, we can park somewhere else. I
don't need the I don't need the placard, you know,
and he would keep it in the glove compartment, so

(01:10:49):
you know, sometimes he had his good days, sometimes he
had it's bad days, and on the bad days, I
would take the placard out and that way, you know,
it was more convenient for him. But and that's handy.
Placard is far more handy than the license plate because
it's if you're helping somebody with ambulatory problems, if they
have the placard, then you know they don't have to

(01:11:11):
worry about license plates or anything like that. So it's
I prefer the placard honestly to to license plates.

Speaker 1 (01:11:22):
Yeah. So speaking of you know, parking lots things like that.
I do have some driving related bed beefs. Turn signals
exist for a reason, you heathens.

Speaker 2 (01:11:34):
As a friend of mine said, uh the designer on
a on a on X Uh. Yeah. I have a
lot of respect for those that still have the turnlight
on but are not turning because at least they know
where it is.

Speaker 1 (01:11:55):
At least you've reached senior moment in your life where
you forgot the turn signals on, but at least you
used it, so what you've been along.

Speaker 2 (01:12:03):
Yes, I'll give you some respect for actually using it.
You're not turning, but you used it.

Speaker 1 (01:12:08):
So yeah, yeah, yes, I realize I am older, but
the left lane is not for warp speed. It's for passing.

Speaker 2 (01:12:21):
Oh man, there's been some hmm yeah, yeah, I've okay,
I'm gonna get into it.

Speaker 1 (01:12:32):
So well. This is another thing that is kind of
starting to slowly get into our lexicon though, because the
more congest that our highways get and the more lanes
they put on, they're now putting more and more exits
to where you know, if you're going a certain way,
you can actually take the left side of the road
to get where you're going, which is kind of denoting
while everybody's like, well, if I've got to exit like
five miles from now in the left lane, I might

(01:12:53):
as well to stay in the left lane. That would
be like saying, if you're in an exit in five
miles on in the right lane, you might as well
just stay in the right lane if there's not a bunch
of traffic, because everybody knows you're not going to do that.
But still, it's just one of those things where it's like,
I mean, these are the littler things that take me off,
but they're kind of a cumulative thing. Because you know

(01:13:13):
turn signals are important. Also, please, if you're going to
take the time to hook up a trailer to your vehicle,
make sure the fucking lights work. Oh. I got so
tired of that when I was running patrol because I
was like, dude, you took it. It probably took you
ten fifteen minutes to hook this thing up. You couldn't
make sure the wiring was good. Because now I have

(01:13:35):
to give you a ticket. I don't want to give
you a ticket. I have to give you a ticket
because you're being your you are being unsafe on the roads. Yeah,
it answered, and then would get mad at me, and
I'm like, I didn't do it. Now. There are certain things.
Another pet peep of mine, and kind of in the
same vein, is seat belts. If you are over the

(01:13:55):
age of eighteen and you don't want to wear a
seat belt, no one should legally be to make you.
If you have children in the car and you don't
make sure they have seat belts on, then you deserve
to have the book thrown at you, and you should
probably be put under the jail because that's just retardation.
But I don't like the nanny state in any forms
and what killed me for a while is even after

(01:14:16):
I when I was doing private security work, half the time,
I was in a uniform, so I was running around
all over the place without my seat belt on because
I had a gun belt on. And then for several
years afterwards, out of habit, especially if I was exhausted,
I was just getting the car and started driving. The
day that the day after we found out my father
in law died, I get pulled over leaving work because

(01:14:36):
they were actually they were like, you've got time, just
go take it. So I just hopped in the car,
wasn't even thinking about it. I'm like, dude, I'm exhausted,
i haven't slept in two days. My father in law
just died, and I wasn't thinking about putting my seatbolt on.
Here's your twenty five dollars ticket. Well, fuck you too, buddy.

Speaker 2 (01:14:53):
Yep, I've dealt with that. I've dealt with that my
future well husband's grandmother when she passed away, if we
were engaged at the time. He gets a call from
his dad and she is At the time, he was

(01:15:13):
in Houston and his grandmother lived in Angleton, so you know,
Dad says, there's not a lot of time left, and
so he gets to the car he's racing down there,
and he gets pulled over given a ticket. He explains
the situation. The guy doesn't care, and the guy tells him,

(01:15:34):
you know, I don't know if this is true or not. Well, unfortunately,
my grandmother passed away that day, and after the memorial
and everything was done, the obituary was in the paper.
He brings the obituary so that he can get exempt

(01:15:56):
from the fine and just says, yeah, it doesn't matter,
and they made him pay the fine anyway, and and
I'm like, wow, uh, that was the first time I
had heard of speed traps and that town was certainly
one of them. So and you know, it's not the

(01:16:17):
only one in Texas. I will say that that was
that was kind of like a big wake up call
for me. That But you know, the state is not
under any obligation to feel sorry for you for any
losses that you may occur in your life. I mean,
if you break the law, you break the law. I
get that. I I I just think that a little

(01:16:39):
humanity goes a long way. But that's just me. Maybe
half half the world thinks the same way, though, But whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:16:50):
Yeah, I mean I mean, trust me, there were there
were times when I was like, you know what, this
didn't happen. You know, I'm not even gonna worry about it.
So and it was just one of those things where
I'm like, dude, Joe, I'm dealing with all kinds of crap,
and and the thing about it is this is this
is this was an Oklahoma County ticket. Their seatbelt tickets
aren't expensive, but they're a pain in the ass because
you don't have any way to pay it over the phone.

(01:17:11):
They don't let you pay it by mail. You actually
you actually have to go in and pay it in person.
There's nowhere to park down there. So I was already
burning time off to be ables because I just couldn't
concentrate on work. And then I get to go home
and tell the now ex wife, Oh, I got a
ticket for not putting my seat belt on. For those
of you who know my ex wife, you can you
can imagine how that conversation. Yeah, that was. That was

(01:17:33):
That was. That was not fun either. Shut up anyway.
But yeah, it's just I don't know, just little bit
he pet peeves. I love how Jeff is like, first
of all, cars have GPS, and they cannot tell when
I'm in New Hampshire and I actually don't have to
put a seatbelt on, so what the hell's up with that?
And his other comment was, I will let you know, Rick,

(01:17:55):
the spaceships don't have turned signals. And then I love amish.
I refuse to ide intel to the enemy.

Speaker 2 (01:18:04):
Yeah, you know what a friend of mine does. This
is in Puerto Rico, and where, honest to God, I
would wear a seat belt even if I weren't in
a car because that place is so nuts. But he
actually clicks the seat belt and then sits down in
the car.

Speaker 1 (01:18:28):
Yeah, I've done that before. And then I got a
car where it was like this automatic thing where you
have to buckle the bottom part and then the rest
of it comes over the top of you. So I
really couldn't get around it. So then I kind of
got in the habit of wearing it, and then I
was like and then I kind of broke the habit
again because I was usually wearing a gun belt and
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:18:45):
I was not aware of that New Hampshire didn't have
the seatbelt law. I thought it was national.

Speaker 1 (01:18:50):
I didn't know that either, but I learned.

Speaker 2 (01:18:53):
Something New today. Pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (01:18:57):
One of the most liberal states in the country that does.
Besides calub you know, one of the still doesn't have
sea billows.

Speaker 2 (01:19:04):
I think there's still hope if we adhere to you know,
live for you or die.

Speaker 1 (01:19:09):
Right maybe maybe maybe, I guess we'll find out. All right,
So got any more were now know about ten minutes?
It looks like m gosh.

Speaker 2 (01:19:27):
I mean I had a bunch that I like completely
spaced out.

Speaker 1 (01:19:36):
No, no, okay, I mean I have a few more.
So another one going back to meetings. So we've already
talked about, you know, don't reply all why are we
having meetings that could have been handled the email. If
they make you go into a meeting, silence your damn phone. Please.

(01:20:00):
I hate that.

Speaker 2 (01:20:00):
That's a big one.

Speaker 1 (01:20:02):
I hate that. I don't especially I'm the one having
to run the meeting because I've had to do that before,
and people's holders like ding ding ding ding ding ding
ding ding ding, and I'm like, dude, turn your phone off.
Stop it now.

Speaker 2 (01:20:17):
I was in church and normally, you know, we all
have our ringers off, you know whatever. We don't turn
off our phones, but we have the ringer off. And
this was one Sunday when there was a possibility of
the tornadoes. Yeah, I still went to church. Yeah, we

(01:20:41):
all still showed up because we're like, yeah, I mean,
what are we gonna do? Right, So we go and
we're middle of the sermon, you know, and everything, all
of a sudden, you hear almost every single phone go
off because the emergency system you can't shut that off.

(01:21:01):
I mean, the sound, you can't shut it off, so
it just goes off. I thought you could, and my
old phone you could, but not my new phone. Nice,
So I guess, you know, the newer phones are like, yeah,
we can't shut that off. So it you know, it's
like fifteen twenty phones all go off at the same time,

(01:21:25):
and and and the priest is up there just waiting
and finally says, okay, somebody tell me what's going on,
you know. So one of the deacons got the phone
out and he explained the emergency you know, the broadcasting
system was talking about how there a tornado has been
sighted north of Surfi Springs, gond bless our priests. He says,

(01:21:51):
it's still forty miles away. We still got time. We
all just sat there, okay, I guess, and shit.

Speaker 1 (01:22:01):
Yeah, I'm just i'l must just talked about that before
because he lives in a huge county and when they
first started doing those emergency notifications, he'd beginning stuff that
was like hundreds of miles away. He's like, can we
fix this please?

Speaker 2 (01:22:13):
Yeah, And but that's the thing, you know, I have
shut off the emergency system on my older phones, but
my new phone I can't seem.

Speaker 1 (01:22:21):
Yeah, on the new ones, you can't do that kind
of like you know, and this is going back to
that you know, continuity pet peeve. Another one is when
TV shows strive so much for realism, so they like
figure out how you know, if you take your battery
out of your phone, they can't track you. Guess what
now they've made it to where you can't take your

(01:22:41):
battery out of your Thank you you over zellous researching
mofos for making the rest of our lives harder.

Speaker 2 (01:22:49):
Yeah, that's a that's a yeah, that's a good one.
But you know, when it comes to the realism and TV,
I cannot stand the Crime Scene Investigation or whatever CSI.
I could never or NCIS. I love the show n CIS.

(01:23:10):
I always thought it was fun to watch and everything,
but having worked in a lab and.

Speaker 1 (01:23:17):
Knowing how long, forever how.

Speaker 2 (01:23:21):
Long these tests actually take. To me, nets I could
not stand it. And that went just a little too
far for my willful suspension of disbelief. Okay, it just
I just could not cover it because I'm like, y'all
can research this, even if you just wanted it to
be part of the drama. You can, you know, you

(01:23:47):
can stretch it out, Yes you can. You can put
something else, you know, while we're waiting for that. But no, no,
this test does not take three hours. It literally takes
three weeks. And this other test, oh my god, what
I'm lucky to get toxicology back in a month and
a half. What are you talking about?

Speaker 1 (01:24:06):
At least, at least in some of the later procedurals,
they were like, can you put a rush on this
for me? And they're like, yes, sure, even though you
know that doesn't really have it either, but yeah, So
at least they tried to explain why some of the
stuff came back quickly. All right, so I've got at
least one more, and this one's a big one. If
you're gonna have an argument in the middle of a
public place on your phone, put the bitch on speakers

(01:24:27):
so I can figure out who I'm rooting for. I
don't I don't want half the conversation if you if
you're if your ball's out enough to have an argument
in the middle of a grocery store, in the middle
of the mall with somebody on a phone, then put
it on speakers so I can figure out which one
of you I'm going to be rooting for over in
the corner while I pay attention to all your.

Speaker 2 (01:24:47):
Drama, I I you know, and this goes to another
pet peeve. If drama breaks out and you guys are
videotaping or you know, putting the camp cordon or camera
or whatever, put it in landscape mode. Don't put it
in portrait mode, land gape.

Speaker 1 (01:25:07):
You need to mostly take that shit up with Brad, dude,
because when I produce for them on Thursday night, I'm like,
can we decide if we're doing ninety or two hours?
Because lately you guys are like right in the middle
and I never know what I'm doing.

Speaker 2 (01:25:22):
I think, I know it's really bad with me and Brad.
I get it, and we have, you know, Mr Brad
after our show, So I tried to give him a warning. Hey,
you know you now have just this because he does
have a long spiel.

Speaker 1 (01:25:42):
So that honestly doesn't bother me as much because we
have two different people controlling the feeds on those so
that one can still start on time. When I started
having issues like last night, because you know, I'm expecting
ninety minutes and Jen and I are supposed to be
on and then my computer started me in dumbs. I
was trying to find time to reset my internet and
everything else to set it up. And then the next

(01:26:04):
thing I know is when is next thing I know?
I'm like, okay, so it's ninety minutes. Now we're at
ninety five minutes. Now we're at one hundred minutes, and
I'm finally just like, okay, do we're gonna We're gonna
have to wrap soon because I still have to get
things done with Jan and my internet's being stupid, so
I'm gonna have to reset. But yeah, dude, you really,

(01:26:24):
you really don't need to be throwing stones about that one,
because uh, there's a certain show of yours. It doesn't
air very often and it's only supposed to happen once
a month, sir.

Speaker 2 (01:26:37):
Sure, Okay, just got me all now, I you know,
did sometimes I get by some shows go over and everything,
and I try, I try, I try really hard not
to go over.

Speaker 1 (01:26:57):
Pas No, I know. And like I said, that doesn't
really bother me as much because on those nights there's
other people controlling the feeds. So even if you guys
are running over for a minute or so, and I've
told you of that before, because sometimes Corn kind of
goes off on tangent for the last couple of minutes,
I'm like you, do you have control over your own feed?
Start yours it exactly on time, because it'll hold over
for a minute and then we'll shut down and everything

(01:27:17):
will be fine. So that doesn't bother me as much.
What bothers me is when I'm the one controlling both
feeds and I never know what timeframe we're working with
because it's never the same. Hm.

Speaker 2 (01:27:31):
Well, I guess.

Speaker 1 (01:27:32):
And on that note, where can folks find you? Because
we better The programming directors already yelling at us that
we better stop on time.

Speaker 2 (01:27:40):
So ah, you can find me at Agi Ricon and
at Aguie the barkeep those are over on Eggs. You
can find me eight thirty pm Eastern Tuesday, nights doing
the cocktail out with the aforementioned I ever saw Brad
Schlager at thirty pm Eastern Friday nights, he said, She said,
with the awesome you. The second Wednesday of every month

(01:28:02):
at APM, the guys get together for Toxic Masculinity. That
includes you and I bring the drink of the month,
and Jeff and I are getting ready to do our
Spirited Books podcast first Monday of Everard. Yes, no, seriously,
this Monday. This Monday. Hey, we did a makeup show.

(01:28:25):
It's Saturdays ago.

Speaker 1 (01:28:28):
I'll believe it when it goes live. I'm just teasing.

Speaker 2 (01:28:31):
Oh my gosh, I'm sorry. I know that things were
about this summer for Spirited Books, but and it couldn't
be helped what with you know, me losing my dad
and having to help momb for a while and everything,
and then Jeff getting seriously sick.

Speaker 1 (01:28:52):
Jeff didn't get seriously sick. Jeff tried to die.

Speaker 2 (01:28:54):
This Yeah, that was that was. Don't ever do that again, Jeff.
I'm telling you right now, do that again. I will
come up there and beat your ass if you do
that again.

Speaker 1 (01:29:05):
You might want to take your notes. There's Kippi.

Speaker 2 (01:29:12):
Oh my gosh, okay, where can we find you?

Speaker 1 (01:29:16):
On that note, you can find me tomorrow night pushing
months for the front Port Forensics crew. You can find
me Sunday night Push and that's it eight pm Eastern,
assuming they're going to be back tomorrow night. You can
find me pushing buttons and now officially co hosting with
Corn and Mick on Korn's reading room at seven pm
Eastern on Sunday. Monday Night back doing America Off the
Rails ten pm Eastern as Shawn's lead in act, unless

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he doesn't have his show, because that's kind of the
only reason I do that one to try to build
momentum for him, since I usually wind up having to
do it on every other Wednesday anyway, and I had
to do a makeup this past week because she wasn't
in So's. If he's got a show, then I will
do an opening act for him. If he doesn't, then
I may take Monday off completely. Then again I may
I've already decided. I may or may not do a

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special holiday show on Monday too. I haven't decided because
I didn't do one on Tuesday, so I don't know.
Just TVD Tuesday Night back with Manorama, I think, because
every time I turn around he's saying something else. So
I think we're doing a show Tuesday, and if we are,
I'll be there Wednesday night usual stuff, so full night
over the full day and full night Tuesday through Friday.
Rick Robinson Show starting into am Eastern as well, and

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then Jenneric ten pm Eastern and back around here doing
this thing with you next Friday. And other than that.
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think that's it, and if it's not, I've said too
much as it is.

Speaker 2 (01:30:50):
Bye.

Speaker 1 (01:30:51):
Oh that's not the right button though, Well you see
what happened was bye? Every Friday?

Speaker 2 (01:31:00):
Good everybody?

Speaker 1 (01:31:02):
Another pet peeve when my producer pushes the wrong damn button.

Speaker 2 (01:31:05):
Oh wait, that's me, that's you. Two minutes over