The Williams Bros' Podcast
It's a podcast. The 4 Williams Brothers who were born in Birmingham and grew up in Savannah, GA share stories, opinions, deep thoughts and basically just hang out. It's just good old-fashioned human connection. You are welcome to hang out with us, if you'd like.
The Williams Bros' Podcast
Catching Up, Travelling, and What To Put On Your Headstone
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We catch up after a long break, starting with our usual tech chaos and ending up in stories about travel, family, and the weird ways we measure time. We go from Kilauea’s red-glowing smoke to Maine’s rocky coast, then land on a surprisingly serious question about legacy after AI sends us on a fake grave hunt.
• returning after a hiatus and fighting audio problems
• Hawaii travel stories, Kilauea volcano cabins, eruption timing, and how monitoring works
• spam in Hawaii and the foods we skip or miss
• Portland and Kennebunkport, coastal Maine in the early season, lobstah and LL Bean
• bringing home lava rocks from the Big Island
• Coast Guard Marathon weekend, 5K vs half marathon, and motivation from everyday runners
• staying fit as we age and why you want to build muscle now
• Birmingham trip highlights, pizza nostalgia Vulcan, and a cool, hidden Tuscaloosa music shop
• trying to find a family grave with AI
• cemetery reflections, Bear Bryant, Mary Anderson and the windshield wiper, and what gets remembered
Cold Open With Campus IDs
SPEAKER_01Oh, also, we went to Hauser Hall and uh we figured if they ask us why we're hanging around the university like that, we we have both of our driver's licenses. So I've got Hauser on mine and he's got Shaler on his. So between the two of us, we can prove why we're there.
Back From Hiatus And Tech Chaos
SPEAKER_01I'm Gar. I'm Steven. I'm Neil.
SPEAKER_04I'm Shaylor. Back after a hiatus. How's everybody doing? Missed you guys.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, missed you too. Real glad we we could get this uh group together here. Y'all have a great uh yeah, great Saturday.
SPEAKER_03See you later. You too. Have a good one. Okay. All right. See you guys.
SPEAKER_01The shortest one ever.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. We spent 30 minutes trying to get our equipment working just so we could say, all right, good talking to you.
SPEAKER_01It's funny how we kind of rotate having audio problems. It's pretty even. Yeah. Every even one of us has some sort of problem where there's it's just not working. What? This is insane.
SPEAKER_03Isn't technology great.
SPEAKER_01It is great. I like how they keep updating stuff so every time you try again, it's completely different than the last time you tried, so it's nothing like you can never find the real answer.
SPEAKER_04Or we get like 30 minutes into the podcast, and someone goes, it stopped recording for some reason.
SPEAKER_01I haven't been recording this whole time. I don't know what happened. Seven minutes in, it stopped.
SPEAKER_04I just noticed it's not working. So what's happening, man? We want to kind of go around the horn and just talk about what's been going on? Because uh I don't think we haven't talked in since March. It's been like two years. Okay. Wow, it's been a long time. Man. Yep. Okay.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, let's go around the horn.
SPEAKER_04I I've got a haircut. Good. But you went on
Hawaii Resorts And Kilauea Night Smoke
SPEAKER_04vacation too. You went to the islands.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, we had a great time in Hawaii. There was lots of stuff to do. We um we stayed on the E uh the west side of the island, which is kind of like the big resort area. Um stayed there for a couple of days, and then we went to the east side of the island, which is supposed to be like really rainy and stuff, and it really wasn't while we were there, which was good. Um stayed at Airbnb over there, and then uh we went up to Mount Kilauea, which is the the volcano that's erupts every, I don't know, like 10, 11 days, something like that. They get a little eruption, and that's been going on for a couple of years. And uh we went there and discovered there is a old military base up at the top of Mount Kilauea that is run by the MWR, which is morale welfare and recreation division or department or whatever it is of the military. And uh you can stay in the cabins up there if you're a vet, you know, retired or military or whatever. So we stayed there for a day, hoping we would get to see Kilauea erupt. Um, we did get there in the middle of the night and watched Kilauea, and there's some pictures I can show you, but it was it wasn't erupting, but the smoke was coming out at night, and then the the smoke came out kind of red looking because it's reflecting off of the lava that's underneath. So it was kind of cool to see. It looked like kind of an eruption, but it wasn't. But it was really cool. So we spent the night up there on top of the the mountain, and then um naturally the day we got home from Hawaii is when it erupted again. So missed the eruption on both sides of the trip, but uh is it scary?
SPEAKER_02I've never been around like real lava before.
SPEAKER_03And it is so far away from it. Oh, yeah. It's yeah, I mean, it's you can see where it was. I mean, the the whole island is just old lava, right? It's just that black lava flows, and you can easily see kind of where the flow came down the mountain, and it's huge, and you drive, there's roads built literally, they clear clear out a section and they build a road, right? So there's lava, old lava um uh trails on both sides of you, whatever. And you can walk on it at the beach and all that stuff, so it's everywhere.
SPEAKER_01But um, the actual eruption, you're you're very far away from it, so it's not you know yeah, lava's one of those things, there's nothing you can do, it's just going to take you out if you if you you know, yes, there's nothing you can do.
SPEAKER_03They've they've got it down pretty well nowadays with all the sensors and stuff they have. It's like they they tell you it's gonna erupt between this day and this day, and then they tell you, okay, uh it's gonna erupt in the next you know 24 hours, and then we expect it to uh erupt in the next 12 hours or whatever, and sure enough, it'll it'll erupt and it'll spew, you know, lava and stuff for and it's not huge, it's just kind of yeah, you know, billowing out or whatever, and that goes on, yeah, and that goes on for you know uh I think it's like probably five or six hours or something, and then it all calms down again. And then they're like, all right, the next window is a week from now, and and it so they've got it figured out.
SPEAKER_02So this is this is the rock that was heated basically the Big Bang or something like that, right? And this still, you know, molten molten rock at the inner center of the earth that is still cooling that we live on, like roasted marshmallows, kind of is that uh pretty much.
SPEAKER_01There wouldn't even be uh uh Hawaii if it wasn't for volcanoes, it wouldn't even poke up out of the the water.
SPEAKER_03So yeah, that's yeah, think about that. Yeah, it's pretty cool.
SPEAKER_04Cool. Did you go there in the Navy at all?
SPEAKER_03Not to the big island. I spent a lot of time on Oahu. Okay. I hear spam is really big over there. Spam is big in Hawaii. Yeah, they like their spam. Absolutely. That's cool. I ate no spam while I was there though, because I figure I can get spam here, so you know. That was a Hawaiian food I passed on.
SPEAKER_04When's the last time you guys ate spam?
SPEAKER_03I would say it's probably been maybe uh nine months or a year, maybe something like that. Occasionally I'll eat it, but it's pretty rare.
SPEAKER_01It's been 20, 30 years. I think it's been 30 years. Yeah, that's closer to my two.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Maybe longer.
SPEAKER_03Y'all don't pull off the casserole dish and put the beans in the bottom and put pieces of spam nice and thin.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Just like in good housekeeping. Yeah. We might do that tonight. We'll see. Now that you mentioned it. I know, it sounds real good. Let's do that.
Maine Coast Food And Family Time
SPEAKER_04Well, we went to Maine uh last weekend. My son-in-law um had family up there and um, you know, spent summers up there and and stuff like that. So he was very familiar with the area. But we went to Portland, Maine, which I'd never been to that part of the country before. Beautiful on the coast. And um so very artsy city, Portland. Uh, not a lot of um, you know, olive gardens and things like that. It's all mom and pop type restaurants and art, you know, places, and um but neat town and uh, you know, older, a lot of history. Um we drove to Kennebunkport, and uh there's a you know, like a harbor town there. It's uh pretty much tourists, and this was the beginning of the season for them, so everything had just opened up, which is different because where I live, we don't have a season. It's we're just 24-7, but when you're up there, you know, you have a season, I guess. So uh, but that was fun. Went and saw um the Bush compound, you know, at Kennebunkport, uh, which is out on Walker's Point, and it's it's out on a point. I mean, you can see the whole thing, it's not hidden. Um, it's like five houses or something like that out on this point. You can't get to it, but you can certainly see it. Um what else? Went to the LL Bean store up there, which is pretty cool. And uh got some shirts and got some uh fly fishing stuff while I was up there. And uh that place is huge. They're redoing the the um there's there's like the LL Bean corporate headquarters, which you drive by, which is huge and beautiful, and then there's the massive store, which they're redoing. So now they've kind of broken it out into three different stores while they work on the giant store. But all the three it's like a campus, all the three or four stores are all there together. So um went to LL Bean, um ate a lot of lobster, went to the lobster shack, which is like up on this hill on this point, and you're looking out on the rocky coast of of Maine, which is really really something. Um I brought back a rock too. What did I do with my rock? Here it is. So like these rocks are all over the coast, they're super smooth rocks, so they're great for skipping if you want to, you know, skip rocks in the main coast. But anyway, it's just covered with these rocks. It's not like a Florida sand or anything like that. But beautiful part of the country. It was cold or chilly, I should say. It was in the low to mid-50s most of the time we were there. Um a little rainy, but not too bad. But um the main thing was family, because the whole family was up there. Ryan and Julia are in um oh shoot, what's it called? Um the southernmost part of Maine. Anyway, that's where they're staying for the next like month or so, which was like 45 minutes away from where we were. So we got to see them, and then Maggie and Peter and Beverly, you know, were there. So we had the whole family there for like three days. That's cool. That's awesome. I hadn't seen any of them in a long time. Yeah. So uh good trip. And uh yeah, that was that was our big excursion.
SPEAKER_01I always want to tell Ryan uh to post where he is because I see pictures of where they are, but sometimes I can't tell from the picture, okay, where are they now? You know, where because I always it's very interesting to me to watch their progress on on Instagram or whatever, uh you know how they're how they're doing and where they are. And you can tell whether in New York City or Washington, DC, but um, but the other places I'm like, you should, you know, there should be like a note there to tell us where where are you?
SPEAKER_03Right. Put tell them to put up on MySpace so we can follow the easy. Yeah, MySpace would be better. There you go. Yeah, that's good.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, they're in southern Maine right now. I think they're gonna go to Connecticut for a month, and then I think they're gonna go to upstate New York for a month, and then they're gonna head south again. And I think they're gonna make a trip through Atlanta, Steven. So you might you might get a yeah, you might get a sighting there of the two of them. If they're if they're not staying with you, you might get a sighting with them. So right.
SPEAKER_01If they run out of of uh Airbnb money. Right. There's an Airbnb across the street from us, they could just stay there.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, well, don't put it past them. That could happen. That could very easily happen. But yeah, great to see everybody. Good trip. And um so yeah, yeah, good, always good to be home too, but it was good to get away.
SPEAKER_03Speaking of rocks, you talked about that rock that you brought back. I I was gonna bring a rock back from from Kilauea. Uh, but apparently it's a $500 fine to remove rocks from the big island. So I was like expensive. Maybe I'll just leave this rock right here. So I carried it around for three or four days before I discovered you can't leave with lava rocks. It's frowned on.
SPEAKER_01You couldn't have smuggled it out somehow?
SPEAKER_03I probably could have, and it probably would have been fine, but you know, I didn't want to end my trip with a $500 fine.
SPEAKER_02But back to the point they're barely hanging on. I mean, the whole island is just rocked against my lava seat.
SPEAKER_01You take too many of those and it's Hawaii's gone.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Enough people take rocks, the island goes under. I mean, yeah, right. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Survival.
SPEAKER_01It's just real estate. I mean, you can't take it.
SPEAKER_03I mean, it it makes more. It's not like it's not making more. That's true. It's a good point. Yeah, it is. Yeah, really. It's renewable.
Half Marathon Motivation And Aging Muscles
SPEAKER_02We we had a couple of trips as well. I don't remember on the last podcast, but I talked about the um the Elizabeth City half marathon. Maybe it was maybe we podcasted before that. So um so we signed up. Tyler and I signed up for this half marathon at Elizabeth City, the Coast Guard Marathon. Um, I didn't train. I didn't have time to train as much as I wanted to, so I just did the 5k and he did the half marathon. Um, but it was great. The you know, Elizabeth City is a little Coast Guard Navy town kind of place, 45 minutes or so south of the Norfolk area, so lots of uh lots of Navy folk and Coast Guard and nautical themes there. Um but it was it was really nice. The the the run was um Saturday was the 5K and the shorter runs, and then Sunday was the half marathon of the marathon. And they had they had great bands and food and things. And and the part that really struck me though was the people running the half marathon of the marathon, you'd think they're all these super trim runner people, and that's all they do. But there was every every height, weight, you know, everything you can imagine finishing these marathons. And I was like, man, this is really I need to get on it, you know. And ages too. I mean, you know, young, old just um didn't didn't make any difference. So that was that was pretty fun. I think we're gonna do it again next year. Oh, that's cool. That was alright. And Tyler Tyler did I think he wasn't quite at the time he wanted for um his half marathon, but uh, but but he was close and hadn't run one in a while, and I think he's planning to do um he's doing another marathon in October. I'm not sure if it's uh if it's San Francisco or or exactly which one it is, but he's so do you run regularly to try and keep up? I haven't. I haven't run the past couple of weeks. Um but um but yeah, I do I usually either run it, there's a greenway near here um or go to um to planet fitness and and run there. But trying to get back into it because you know, I read this thing that says after you hit 60, 65, whatever, that making new muscle and and really you know getting in shape gets a lot harder if you're not already there. And I'm and I'm knocking on the door. So uh, you know 60. So yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. And when you get past that, it's impossible. And when you get to like 70, 80 or whatever, you're just stuck with what you got at that point.
SPEAKER_03So you better get it on. So what I'm hearing is I can be lazy a few more years. God knowed it now.
SPEAKER_02You can if you can if you really buckle down in a couple of years, you can so if I'm in great shape when the day that I turn 60, I can just coast after that or bring it 70 and just you know just wait to the last minute.
SPEAKER_01Right, exactly. Cramming, cramming, yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_02Um Savannah um for my niece's graduation. The oldest niece graduated high school, Richmond Hill High School.
SPEAKER_01Awesome.
SPEAKER_02Um, first year in their brand new building and campus, um, which is just uh incredible, very just huge. I think there were six hundred and something kids in her graduating class. Um so yeah, it was it was it was it was a lot of fun though. Good to see, good to see that side of the family and and celebrate. Um and then I think I fixed the dishwashers, the only other exciting thing probably in the last uh few months. That is exciting. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04Saw you went to Spanky's when you were in Savannah?
SPEAKER_02Went to Carrie Hilliards. Oh, yeah, yeah, it was on the way in went to Spanky's. We did. We got to go. I had to had to call at noon, I had to be on. So we did the the pickup at Spanky's and had some Spanish for lunch. Awesome. Um and then got in Carrie Hilliard's the night before we left. So close to it. Check the boxes, right? Yeah, exactly. Brunswick stew? Did you get Brunswick Stew? I did. You know what? In fact, that's um, it seems like we weren't that hungry, so I got Brunswick Stew and um somebody had I said something else, I can't remember what it was, but Brunswick Stew was the I got the big bowl of Brunswick Stew, the full stew. Oh, full stew, yes. Oh, okay. Good. That stew was great.
Birmingham Trip Pizza Memories And Vulcan
SPEAKER_01Only trip I took was to Birmingham to see Shaler. And we uh we we had a great time. We went to Vulcan, um, you know, walked through the museum, you know, such as it is. And but it's always interesting to see like how Birmingham got built and what and all that. So that was cool. Um Nikki's didn't go to Nikki's. We looked at Nikki's, but decided against Nikki's, just because it doesn't really have a lot of history for us. I mean, it would you know, grandma and grandpa really loved it, but we didn't eat there that much.
SPEAKER_03Um, we did, yeah.
SPEAKER_01It is enormous, it's beautiful. I mean, it's just you look at it, you could imagine back in the 30s, people coming in and out, you know, the swells coming in and out with their uh fancy cars and their their you know dresses and whatnot. Um anyway, we we saw that. Um we ate at Davenport's. So um and it's it was such a flashback for me because I remember being six years old or five years old or whatever, and and getting to go with dad to pick up the pizza, which was always like, yes, you know, I get to go pick up the and you see him throw it in the air, and you know, and it was always like, Wow, this is you know incredible. And so I did, I I like sat on the little bench where we sat to wait, wait for our pizza, where we watched them throw the pizza and everything. And uh, they don't throw the pizza anymore, they just uh they just do it with their hands. They look like, why am I doing this for a living? Is there some way I can stop doing you know they look very miserable? It was it was it was a very different experience than I remember as a kid. The magic was not as magical, but it was good. The pizza was amazing. I mean very good pizza. So good. So anyway, uh we went to Davenport's. And did we go anywhere else? Cool.
SPEAKER_03We went uh got our big bad breakfast.
SPEAKER_01Oh, right. Yeah, that's our that's a new tradition, but yeah, we did we did get the big bad breakfast in uh soho. Southern homewood. Yeah. South South Homewood? Is that what Soho?
SPEAKER_03Soho, yeah. South Homewood.
SPEAKER_01Everybody's got a Soho now.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, South Homewood. You guys saw James though, right?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I was about to start. Oh yeah. That was the coolest because I don't know when the last time I saw him was. It had to be when he was when we're both little kids, you know.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Anyway, we just walked in on him at the music store and he was working and uh he was working hard, you know. People are coming in and out, and uh he was wedging it, you know, conversation between people coming in and out, but it was good to see him again. He's doing doing well, seems like looks good.
SPEAKER_03He's looking good, yeah.
SPEAKER_01And the place is it's weird. It's um you you there it's in this like industrial-looking park, or like a I don't even know how to describe the area where it is, and there's no sign, no sign at all to tell you what that place is. The only thing that's a giveaway is a guitar in the window, and that's it. And it's called Eat My Beats. And you go in there and it's like, you know, all the stuff like uh podcast equipment and microphones and guitars and some other like uh you know, violins and things like that. Mostly you it you can tell it, you know, drums and guitars and and more like rock band stuff or or whatever, but it was interesting. And they had constant flow of people coming in and out.
SPEAKER_03Yep.
SPEAKER_01So they're not. I mean, I it's I I I was like, I can't believe they don't have a sign at all. You know, there's like no sign, but people come. In there constantly.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01So it was cool.
SPEAKER_03It's a word of mouth kind of place, I think, and it must do they must do really well because there was always somebody in there looking for something or whatever. So it was really interesting.
SPEAKER_01It was like it had huge.
SPEAKER_03It was like it was like you walk into one room and there's a little hall, and there's this other huge room, and around a corner, another, you know, all the drums. And I mean it was really good.
SPEAKER_01But you put up interesting door and a long window next to the door and uh like a garage door for loading in and out stuff. And that's it. I mean, it's all you see in brick, you know. And and so we were like, is this it even? I don't know. We saw the guitar and we're like, well, that must be it. Well, let's go in there. And it was uh it was it was really cool. It must be one of those places where if you know, you know. Like if you're cool, you know. But if you're you know, if your kid needs a trumpet for middle school band, you probably don't know about that place. So right.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. Did he recognize you guys when you walked in, or how did that happen?
SPEAKER_01It was a second or so before he figured out who we were, but yeah. Yeah. I think he did a double take.
SPEAKER_03And I said something about long-lost cousins coming to visit, and that he I think that was the memory. Yeah. He went back and looked you up later. Right, yeah.
Hauser Hall Visit And Hidden Music Shop
SPEAKER_01Oh, also we went to Hauser Hall and uh we figured if they ask us why we're hanging around the university like that, we we have both of our driver's licenses. So I've got Hauser on mine, and he's got Shaylor on his. So between the two of us, yeah, we could prove while we're there.
SPEAKER_03That's awesome. And again, just for the one listener we have, uh, we're talking about Shaylor Hauser, who's a relative of ours who was the treasurer of the University of Alabama.
SPEAKER_01Who was our grandmother's brother, yes, our great uncle. Yes, great uncle.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Then we decided to go find Shaylor Hauser's grave.
AI Grave Search Gone Sideways
SPEAKER_01And uh that was really fun because that was an experience in AI right there. Yeah. They there's a you know, there's a not a lot of people know, there's a cemetery right in the middle of uh of um or right across from the student center at Alabama, where a lot of people are buried. It's a pretty pretty big cemetery. And it's not huge, but pretty big. And so uh we're walking around like surely we can find his grave. We just keep walking and looking, we'll see it. We thought it'd be something big at first, but then we it wasn't, so there's no big monument or anything. So we we kept looking and then we decided to ask AI, so we ask uh Google and Google's like, it's in section 15 lot 33. And we're like, great, where's section 15? And there's no no sections. So we start asking, okay, we're at this grave site, what section is this in? It's in section 14. And so we'd walk a few grave rows over. What about this one? What's this in? It's in section 14. It's in section 14, it's in section 13. So it kept so we're like, where the hell is 15? And uh, and I mean it was driving us crazy because it didn't make any sense. We would go this direction, that direction. It was always 14 or 13. So I asked it for a map so we could see like where the sections are. It created a map that looks nothing like that cemetery. It it was a made-up cemetery that made no sense at all.
SPEAKER_02It's an accurate map. You just said that's a good point.
SPEAKER_01That is a good point. So uh then I I realized I was using Google Flash and I switched to Google Pro and I said, Hey, recheck all that other all the information you've given us so far, make sure that's all correct. And it said, Oh, no, not at all. We don't have any access to a map of of that cemetery. There's no way we could find a particular grave in that cemetery.
SPEAKER_03We just made all this up.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, just I mean, it was 45 minutes to an hour of us walking around listening to Google Flash, and it was like since I've learned that Google Flash is not very accurate. But um Pro is, but not Flash. Nope. It it loses its mind pretty quickly. But that was fun.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, needless to say, we did not find it the marker, yeah. So we don't know.
SPEAKER_02He he's there. I guess when you have a building named after you, the grave marker is probably not as big a deal. Right.
SPEAKER_01I mean, sure.
SPEAKER_03Sure.
SPEAKER_01It did give us like as we were leaving, it gave us an a picture of his grave. We did see what it looks like. We're like, oh, oh that well, if we'd have known that, we would have but we were like, no, we're not going back. That's fine. We're gone. We're out of here. But that was fun. Right. A lot of fun. But it was fun, you know. It was a good crave. Taylor and I. Yeah, having having a good time hanging out in Birmingham.
SPEAKER_04But I think I remember seeing a picture of Bear Bryant's grave there. Yeah. Yeah. Go ahead. Go ahead.
SPEAKER_01No good. I was just gonna say we saw Bear Bryant's grave, you know, because it's in the same um cemetery as our parents are, and and as uh as you know, grandma or nana and pop and all the rest of it. A lot of a lot of fame. Yep. Yeah. So, and we also found the inventor of the windshield wiper in that grave. Hold on. Shaler was doing, you know, Googling or whatever. I think it was Shaler. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03So so we were we were talking about as we were driving through the the graveyard.
Fame In Cemeteries And Windshield Wipers
SPEAKER_03I was like, you know, it's amazing. When one subject that came up was it's amazing how like most of the people in a graveyard, no one knows who they are anymore. They've been there for so long, family members probably don't even know at this point, you know, that sort of thing, because they've been there for a hundred years or more, whatever it is, and kind of how you know how that's kind of sad that is, or whatever. And then we found Bear Bryant, of course, and then um, and then I asked Google or Grok or whatever, I said, um, you know, what other famous people are buried in the cemetery? And it came up with the inventor of the windshield wiper.
SPEAKER_01So yeah, so we were like, we've got to go find her. Yeah I mean, this is not we're not leaving without finding her. It's a her, by the way. Yeah. Um, Mary Anderson, a real estate developer in uh in Birmingham, invented the windshield wiper. And it's nowhere on her grave. And we were talking about that, about how if you want to be remembered, you should put what you did. I mean, there should be like you you should have a big gravestone with a lot of information on it to explain to everybody who you were, especially if you invented the windshield wiper. I mean, right. I agree. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Like what year was that, do you think? Is that the 1930s? 1903. Yeah, shortly after the car, I'm sure.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Oh man. She had noticed sorry, she she had noticed a trolley driver in New York City that had to drive with the with both the front window open and his head sticking out to see through the sleet. So she decided there should be some sort of rubber bladed spring-loaded wiper.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01She got the patent.
SPEAKER_03It seems like in the old days, you know, grave markers would have more information on it, you know. I think I I would think. I think that's true.
SPEAKER_01Like the colonial cemetery, you know, you'd you'd see, you know, some information anyway.
SPEAKER_03But nothing else, you know, devoted father and husband and blah blah blah, you know, whatever it is. And nowadays it's just like a last name or you know, maybe the full name. Yeah. Um, in the case of of one of our aunts, she just has her death year. She doesn't have her birth year because she didn't want anybody to know how old she was. Right. You never is that Aunt Minnie? I think it was Aunt Minnie. Yeah, Aunt Minnie, yeah. So uh anyway, but you know, it's it would be interesting to to put some information about juice if especially if you did something significant like invent the windshield wiper for crying out.
SPEAKER_05Right.
SPEAKER_03So anyway. But it was interesting. QR code there'll be a there'll be a QR code. There we go. That's a great idea. I like that.
SPEAKER_02A giant QR code. I like that.
SPEAKER_01That makes perfect sense.
SPEAKER_02You just have to pay your subscription for the hosting out, you know. Yeah. To oblivious.
SPEAKER_01Well, yeah, I mean, you should just pay that up, just whatever, for to the cemetery, you know. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03We should have a QR code that leads people to our podcast when we die, and that way they can go back and reflect and listen.
SPEAKER_01Oh, right. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Great. I love it. Get bored or whatever.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, they'd go, these guys didn't do anything. That's all they did. Okay.
SPEAKER_01Well, okay. Everybody's got something. That's the thing.
SPEAKER_02You know, history is written, you know, by you know, the survivors, whatever. So you could just write on this thing about we were this world famous podcast in the 2020s, and you know, oh right. And then in the 2050s, when they read it, man, these guys were like, you know, huge.
SPEAKER_03There you go. There's a there's a guy. I gotta go ahead. Go ahead, Steve.
SPEAKER_01I'm gonna look up something while you're uh I was just gonna say, not to get political, but imagine what Donald Trump's grave would look like. It would be like a freaking palace with uh all of his accomplishments.
SPEAKER_02We will likely outlive him, so we'll we'll see. We will see they call that a presidential library.
SPEAKER_01Oh, right.
SPEAKER_02That's true.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_01It'll yeah, that's true. His presidential library will be like walking into like this other world. Like, that did that happen? I don't remember that happening.
SPEAKER_05Right, yeah, yeah. That's funny.
SPEAKER_03So um uh there was a guy named Charlie Smith who passed away in 1979. L uh he was buried in uh bar in Wildwood, Bartow, somewhere like it. Bartow in in Florida. And he was known as America's oldest man. Okay, speaking of of kind of making making up history to some degree, uh, he claimed to be 137 years old. Um and everybody kind of went along with it, and when he died, okay, they buried him and they, you know, have that on his grave or whatever. Um, but in reality, I think he was probably in his 90s, but nobody wanted to, you know, really admit the fact that he was only in his 90s, and he kept claiming he was born much earlier than he was. So there you go. That's kind of an example of okay, we'll we'll believe it and we'll go along with it. And you know, hundred years, people are still gonna believe he was America's oldest man.
SPEAKER_01Make up whatever you want, put it on your grave, and then who's gonna erase it at that point?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it's granite. I mean, come on. It's right there, it's in stone, it's literally set in stone.
SPEAKER_01So, yeah, that's another take on it. Instead of putting what you really did, put what you know, just something crazy that you claim to have done. And there you go.
SPEAKER_02As long as it's not too outlandish that there's anything at stake, right? As long as it's just sort of, oh, okay, harmless, I guess.
SPEAKER_01Cemetery's full of people that like all everyone will feel so uh so sad they were not able to accomplish what everybody before them was able to accomplish. Right.
SPEAKER_03Al Gore, inventor of the internet. You know, exactly.
SPEAKER_02It's like Facebook, like everything on Facebook, just on uh gravestones. Exactly.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that's right. Exactly. Yeah, so that was fun.
SPEAKER_03That was a fun trip. Fun trip.
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Rocket Test Blast And Methane Joke
SPEAKER_04Wow, yes, wow, what a video. Blue eyes.
SPEAKER_01Unbelievable. Yeah. Unreal.
SPEAKER_02Did you see it any of it from over the horizon there?
SPEAKER_04Or no, I didn't know it happened until the next day. And I think I was I was watching the local news to figure out what the weather was gonna be, and and they had video of it, and I was like, oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it failed the static test, I guess.
SPEAKER_04I mean, it looked like an atomic explosion the way. Yeah, it did. It was huge. And that was their only launch pad. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh. Yeah. When you see the video, they're like these two towers, and then there's the rocket, and then after the explosion, there's one tower and it's kind of bent over. The other one's completely destroyed. It was quite the explosion. Hydrogen and oxygen, I'm guessing.
SPEAKER_03I don't know what they use. I guess they do. I think they use uh methane, I think. Yeah, New Glenn uses methane and liquid oxygen. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. All right. I don't know why, but knowing it runs on methane just makes me think of dad.
SPEAKER_01He ran on methane too.
SPEAKER_02Yes, he did. Lasty tribute.