Cold Open On Sports And Fights

Stephen 0:01

I'm not a big basketball fan. I don't really get the draw to, you know, basketball as much. So women's basketball is like totally off the radar for me. I don't think about it.

Shaler 0:13

But yeah, that would make me go, hmm, maybe, maybe I'll watch that. Fight's gonna break out. Good fight. Yeah.

Stephen 0:27

Hey

Fourth Of July At 250 Years

Stephen 0:28

everybody, it's the Williams Brothers Podcast. I'm Garr. I'm Steven. I'm Neil. I'm Shaylor. And it's the 4th of July. Happy Independence Day, everybody. 250th birthday.

Shaler 0:44

Amazing. Merca.

Speaker 4 0:46

Merca.

Stephen 0:47

And it seems like it was just, I don't know, like 240 years ago.

Garr 0:52

Yeah.

Neal 0:53

When it was the 200th, the bicentennial. Yeah.

Stephen 0:57

That was a big deal. Man. It was a big deal. They had the uh the freedom train that went from town to town with all the with the declaration of independence on it. And they were handing out copies of the Declaration of Independence. It was that was a crazy time. Yeah.

Shaler 1:15

I was watching this morning on I don't know, one of the one of the networks, ABC, CBS, NBC, I don't know, whatever it was. And they were showing all the tall ships that are in the uh New York Harbor right now. There's like, I don't know, tons, 50 or 60 or maybe a hundred tall ships or something that are gonna do this big parade through, you know, past the Statue of Liberty and all. And it's just it's amazing. That's cool. Yep.

Stephen 1:40

I'm glad somebody's making a big deal out of it. I don't feel the same hype that there was in for 200, you know. I mean, every Coke can had like an American theme to it. I mean, everything was 76, you know. That is true. That's true.

Garr 1:57

I do remember that. Yeah, yeah. You remember who was president during the bicentennial? I had to look it up. Was it Ford? It was Gerald Ford. Gerald Ford. That was like after Nixon left office. Right.

Stephen 2:16

And somehow he still mustered enough uh enough uh birthday spirit to I mean that was a long time ago.

Neal 2:24

It was 50 years ago.

Stephen 2:26

Yeah, that was a long time ago. And we were still alive. We weren't even born yet. Right. Exactly. Yeah, that was a long time ago.

Neal 2:38

Yeah, it was. Yep.

Stephen 2:42

Just keeps getting longer, too.

Speaker 5 2:46

Beats the alternative. Sure does. You don't want it to stop.

Speaker 4 2:51

No, not right now.

Shaler 2:54

I'm looking forward to the 300th myself.

Speaker 4 2:58

Oh yeah, me too.

Speaker 5 2:59

Yeah, we can't wait to see that.

Speaker 4 3:01

Wheel me out.

How Nostalgia Hits Different Now

Speaker 3 3:05

Isn't it fun fun to think too that uh 50 years ago in 1976 was 1926?

Speaker 4 3:14

That's right. Wow.

Speaker 5 3:16

Oh yes. Yeah.

Speaker 4 3:18

I know, I was thinking that the other day. We're living in the 20s. Good point. Yeah. One day they'll look back on this and go, remember back in the twenties, they used to have AI, and I really hate those posts on Instagram where it's like when when uh Michael J. Fox went back in time in uh in Back to the Future, he went back thirty years into the past to get to the nineteen fifties. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, what?

Speaker 5 3:49

Oh crush surely it was longer than that. Yeah. But that was like, if you think about it, that was that was like when mom would was 20, right? The 1950s. So she was almost in that same age group. And then I was almost the same age group as Michael J. Fox, or maybe we were in it's in general, but still it's just it's weird to kind of think that that was our life and our parents' lives.

Speaker 4 4:19

Yeah. I think that's what they were getting at, was uh going back. Because remember in the 80s, the 50s were a big deal for a while there. You had happy days, you had, you know, there were a lot of like 50s, Laverne and Shirley and all that that stuff, which I assume was nostalgia for the older folks.

Speaker 5 4:38

Yeah, mom and dad, right. Yeah, yeah, good point. And now we've got the same so that was kind of like the stranger things for our right, yeah, exactly. Right. Yeah. Now it makes sense. Exactly. I think that's what was going on there. I never thought about that.

Speaker 4 4:56

I know you never, it's it's so funny to think when you're a kid, you never look at things from your parents' point of view. Like you never see it from the way they see it, and then when you get older, you're like, oh, that's this must be what they were feeling back then. Now I get it. Okay. Yeah. A little late, but okay, I get it.

Speaker 5 5:17

Much like when you're in the grocery store and the songs you listen to growing up are all of a sudden in the uh background that you see.

Speaker 3 5:24

You're like, wait a minute, that was such a cool song. Now it's you know.

Speaker 5 5:29

What I like is hearing the songs on like the the ads for you know um adult diapers and right, right, you know, Gerital, Gerital, all that stuff.

Speaker 4 5:40

They still have that.

Speaker 5 5:41

Yeah, Mary Lou Rettin. I don't remember what the ad was, but I just remember it was traumatizing America Sweetheart. Yeah.

Speaker 3 5:48

I'm Mary Lou Rettin.

Speaker 7 5:52

I don't know what her health issue is, but please for being cherry cream. Yep.

Speaker 5 5:59

Yeah, I told I told Lana one day you're gonna see Taylor Swift doing some kind of, you know, oh my gosh, can you imagine? Yeah, it's gonna happen.

Speaker 4 6:09

Taylor Swift were depends under the garments.

Speaker 5 6:13

Taylor Swift sings the oldies.

Taylor Swift Wedding Countdown Speculation

Speaker 5 6:15

Yeah, right. Right. She got married last night, right? Didn't she? Wasn't that the wedding was last night? I think so.

Speaker 4 6:24

Travis Kelsey.

Speaker 5 6:26

Yeah. I saw yesterday on the news, I saw a countdown to her wedding, and I'm like, who can't? I mean, are they gonna show it on TV or something? There are a lot of people that care. There are a lot of people that are just like. Yeah, but it's not like you're gonna watch the wedding on TV or anything. It was just like this random countdown. What at the end of the countdown, like, okay, I guess she's getting married. I mean, what do you what do you do? I don't anyway. No, the the Swifties are waiting for the video release because they all believe Taylor's gonna take care of them and videoed it and is gonna release the the details. Well, that's good. And spoiler alert, they were already married. Yeah, they were, yeah. June June 26th, they got married. Yeah. Oh, you're kidding me. Well, I should hope. It was all just a redo for the party for the friends. Yeah.

Speaker 4 7:20

I figure most of what they do is contractual anyway. Like they've got like negotiations and agents and people that they have my I'll have my people call your people. You tell me when the wedding's gonna be, we'll figure it out, we'll work out.

Speaker 5 7:32

Okay, so so while we're talking Taylor Swift, um how how long do you give them? I say five years. I don't know, depending on five years, and that's I'm being very generous because you know how movie stars and I don't know though. Taylor's like a romantic, so I don't think she'd get married unless Yeah, but she's gotta do her next album, and that's where the stuff comes from for the album. Right, so but it's gonna be a whole nother departure, it's gonna be like about marriage and then once they have a kid, it'll be about the special part about having a kid because she's kind of worn out all the boyfriend songs, right? And her her audience is older now, too. So yeah, but the divorce single mom thing will take her a long way too.

Speaker 4 8:17

So well, no, yeah. She'll get all of the things in there. She'll get the she'll get the I'm just got married, I'm googly-eyed, everything is wonderful, or whatever. Right, yeah. Then she'll get the oh, the honeymoon is over. He cheated on me. Yeah, right, right, right. Yeah, all that stuff.

Speaker 5 8:34

Then the alcohol alcoholism song, she'll do that.

Speaker 4 8:37

That'll be her return to country music album, will be the alcoholism and the he cheated on me. That's exactly it. Yeah, took my dog.

Speaker 5 8:45

Yeah, yeah. Exactly. I Shaylor, I'm gonna I'm gonna say I'm I'm I'm a believer in Taylor. I think I think it's gonna be for the long term, I'm gonna say 35 years plus. Wow. Of course, I won't be around to verify that. You might you may be 35 years. Yeah, you could be. Neil, what are you thinking for Taylor and three three years stands out to me, but five is probably about right. Three. So do you want me to put you down for three on that one? You can. You can't. All right, three years. Steve.

Speaker 4 9:19

I'll go five because I think it needs to be a tight enough window for people to still remember like that they got married and you know, to follow the story. Because if it's too spread out, people she'll like fade into the background, and people will be like, well, I didn't even know they were still married. I didn't even know they were still around.

Speaker 5 9:38

Yeah.

Speaker 4 9:39

So yeah, five. I'm gonna go five.

Speaker 5 9:41

All right, very good. Just check it. What what do you think? I'm thinking five. I'm thinking five. Oh, you're thinking five? Yeah. I think five's a good number. It's a good number. I think it probably will be about five.

Speaker 4 9:50

This is gonna get a lot of traction from the the Swifties. Especially when we name it. They're gonna be hating the wedding is being the episode.

Speaker 5 9:58

They're gonna be hating us bad. Yeah, actually, they're already divorced, they just have to fulfill the contract. That's right. They got divorced on the 27th of June. Right. Yeah.

Speaker 4 10:12

NFL and Taylor Swift's organization got together and uh worked something out to try and increase the uh the audience for NFL football. Right. So she had she's contractually obligated to appear at football games now.

Speaker 5 10:29

Right. Right. Yep. They have to do something to get the NFL revitalized. Right. Yeah, exactly. Yep. And for all the romance, the prenap's probably 20 pages. Oh yeah. Oh, yeah. Can you imagine? He's not getting a dime. Oh my gosh, man. Yeah. He is not getting a dime. Neither one of them is doing badly, so it's true. You're absolutely right. Financially, they'll be okay. Yeah. I think she's probably in the billions at this point. I don't know, but I would just make the assumption. Yeah. Yeah.

unknown 11:00

Yeah.

Speaker 4 11:01

They both wore Dior Hot Couture.

Speaker 5 11:04

What's that mean? What's that? What's that Dior Hot Hot?

Speaker 4 11:06

And Cartier Jewelry. I don't know.

Speaker 5 11:08

Is that Article of Clothing or?

Speaker 4 11:10

Yeah, apparently Article of Clothing, and the company that makes it's really excited about uh Oh, it was officiated by Adam Sandler. I love that. That's awesome. At New York's Madison Square Garden Arena Complex.

Speaker 5 11:24

There you go. I wondered who was going to marry them. If it was going to be like a real priest or whatever.

Speaker 4 11:30

Yeah, see if anything screams, you know. Legit. Legit or not legit. Then Adam Sandler. Having your wedding at Madison Square Garden with Adam Sandler as your officiate. I'm not sure. I don't know.

Speaker 5 11:45

Maybe they're just filming a comedy film or something. Maybe there's not really maybe it wasn't a wedding. Maybe it's uh no. I bet you had to pay to be there. I heard the reception the Beatles played. That's awesome. And Elvis. Yeah Elvis. They all came back.

Designing The Sonce Group Logo

Speaker 5 12:14

We do need it. We need a Sonse group logo.

Speaker 4 12:17

Oh, right, because like a secondary logo to the podcast.

Speaker 5 12:21

We need we really need one because it just seems like we could do some product placement. Yeah.

Speaker 4 12:27

Really corporate looking, yeah, like like bland, you know, corporate but yet powerful looking.

Speaker 5 12:35

Very much the PBS brought to you by the Sonce Group. Right, right. Yes. The William R. and Barbara J. Johnson Foundation. Right.

Speaker 4 12:46

Yeah. We haven't given into any worthying worthy causes in a while.

Speaker 5 12:54

So you know though, I'm we're gonna go to Orlando and do the um the walk. Orlando and do the walk this year, so we could be like the team Sonse group if we awesome. Let's do it. I'm there. How do we like how do we like that? The Sonse group investment trustees. That looks like royalty, man. It does. A little too fancy, maybe. We have to have a castle somewhere for that one. Is that a crock pot in the middle? I think so. Or a Weber grill. Sure. That would be funny. A Weber grill. Anyway. Like the grill utensils crossing. Yeah, that'd be good.

Speaker 4 13:37

And a chicken chicken leg.

Speaker 5 13:42

Hot dog sticking out of it or something. Per yes, because that's an homage to our first. We gotta have a hot dog. The wiener basket.

Speaker 4 13:55

As a first episode, we didn't have the guts to go for the joke.

Speaker 5 14:04

That will be the logo. The wiener basket. That's awesome. Like a basket.

Speaker 4 14:14

Like an oval basket with a hot dog in a bread basket with like fries around the outside, and then the hot dog in the middle.

Speaker 7 14:32

Oh, that's so funny. Oh my gosh.

Speaker 5 14:37

Nobody's gonna get it but us.

Speaker 4 14:40

Well, when they hear the first episode, they will. That's true. If they hear the first episode. You can always depend on the wiener basket to get a good laugh. That's right.

Speaker 5 14:48

It's a classic. It's a classic.

unknown 14:50

Yeah.

Speaker 5 14:51

Woo! Hard to outdo that first one. Everybody talks about how great the wiener basket episode was. It was the best episode. You wouldn't believe the people. A lot of people talk about it. It's the best in 50, 100, 300 years ever. Everyone. Never been a podcast.

Speaker 4 15:09

Never been a podcast like this. Never. None of us can do uh Trump, by the way, but that's okay.

Speaker 5 15:19

We all try. You wouldn't believe the wieners. They were on, they were talking about, they were huge, huge dieners.

Speaker 4 15:28

We had to get special baskets. Wiener baskets, we call them. We call them wiener baskets. That's what we're calling them.

Speaker 5 15:37

Had a little trouble with RFK Jr. He wasn't in favor of the Wieners, but we got him there.

Speaker 3 15:42

We love the Wieners. He doesn't like the Wieners.

Speaker 7 15:58

Oh my God. Woo!

USA Soccer Takes And Flop Culture

Speaker 4 16:13

I gotta wash my USA soccer shirt. There you go. There you go. That's it. I've got got a team USA shirt. Those boys have been doing all right, haven't they? So far, so good. Yeah. Yeah. We didn't watch Messi last night, though. I don't know how how they did. Anybody watch Venezuela? No. I'm just not into Messi. I'm just not as excited about him as everybody seems to be. But I was watching yesterday and they were like, he's a genius. He's amazing. He's a magician. I'm like, I don't know. How good can you be, really?

Speaker 5 16:46

That's right. Is he as good as those guys on Ted Lasso?

Speaker 4 16:50

Right. Exactly. That's the thing.

Speaker 5 16:52

Jamie Tart. Is he as good as Jamie Tart on Ted Lasso?

Speaker 4 16:57

He's no Jamie Tart, I'll tell you that. That's right. Yeah, so the next game is tomorrow, right? Tomorrow night? Is it right? For America?

Speaker 5 17:10

I think so. Is it? Maybe. I thought it was like the the or maybe it's next.

Speaker 4 17:15

I don't know. I don't know. Maybe it's next Sunday.

Speaker 5 17:17

Monday. Monday. Monday. Okay, I knew it was soon. Yes. Gotcha. Gotcha. Well, that's exciting.

Speaker 4 17:27

And we're playing without our lead shooter.

Speaker 5 17:30

Yeah, he what did he do?

Speaker 4 17:32

Did he got a red card? He he accidentally um stepped on somebody's ankle. Oh, okay. And turned his ankle in and stepped on him with the cleats. He didn't mean to. He was just trying to keep from falling. Yeah. But in soccer, the intent doesn't matter. Oh, I gotcha. Apparently. Just the fact that you injured the player. Yeah.

Speaker 5 17:55

Well, hopefully that doesn't slow us down. Yeah, some of the acting is amazing too. Oh. Yeah.

Speaker 4 18:01

When you see in slow motion, you're like, wow, they didn't even touch each other. They just got close, and then the guy's like, whoa!

Speaker 3 18:09

Why is he pounding his head against the ground? I'm not sure why he's doing that.

Speaker 4 18:13

Or after. So I even saw one where it's like after somebody else had already fallen and everybody had stopped down, the other guy like grabbed his leg and fell out of nowhere. That was it's maybe no one will notice. Yeah, you don't get a break. You don't get to, except in the United States, I guess, when you're playing FIFA and you get the hydration break for commercials. But um, but normally there's no break, you just play nonstop. So if you want to rest, that's the only rest you get is lying there writhing.

Speaker 5 18:48

Yeah.

Speaker 4 18:49

Yeah.

Speaker 5 18:50

Feign an injury. That's funny.

Speaker 4 18:52

They must teach that though. There must it must be a class at soccer school. Yeah. Like how to fall. Because it's always the same. You know, they like, oh, they're in such pain. And then they always do their hands up. Like, can't you see I'm injured? Yeah. I'm injured. Yeah.

Speaker 5 19:11

There's a great ESPN commercial where they there was a play on that. I forget what it was, but it was exactly that where someone just barely gets bumped and they're all on the floor and writhing in pain. And then they look around, nobody's there, and they just get up and walk off. Right. That's awesome.

Speaker 4 19:30

Yeah, I love when they do their hands up. I'm like, if you were in pain, would you really just do that? Will you be like, hey, what about me? Can you see him in pain?

Speaker 5 19:38

I want to see the referee go, oh, you're right. I'm sorry I didn't see you.

Speaker 4 19:42

Stop everybody.

Speaker 5 19:44

Yeah.

Speaker 4 19:44

This guy is in pain over here, apparently. He was hurt somehow.

Women’s Basketball Turns Surprisingly Physical

Speaker 5 19:49

Have you guys seen some of the clips from the women's basketball, like Caitlin Clark and how violent that's getting? I saw one recently. I mean, they're like throwing each other to the ground and they're they're coming in and like when they're coming down court, they're coming in like with their arms up to block each other. It's violent. I haven't seen like a full game, so maybe I've just seen the you know the two or three instances in a game when it happened, but very violent.

Speaker 4 20:18

Do you think maybe they're looking for an edge to get people to watch?

Speaker 5 20:21

Like I was about to say, like hockey. Maybe. Maybe. Yeah. Maybe, but it's it's very violent.

Speaker 4 20:31

Especially for basketball. Yeah.

Speaker 5 20:34

Yeah, somebody had their hand on her neck on the ground or something in one of the grips. It was like interesting. And then there was this one where you know when you're when you're like blocking someone, and you're you're you know, your arms are kind of intertwined, and this one girl just kind of took her arms and slammed the other girl down onto the ground, and the referee didn't see it. Wow. Yeah. It's crazy. Yeah. It's just but maybe that's it. Maybe um, I mean, surely there's no conspiracy, but it's a little bit like professional wrestling. You're waiting for the fight to break out on the women's basketball game. Yeah. Hockey. It's like a hockey match. Yeah, like a hockey game. Yeah.

Speaker 4 21:17

Yeah, because I'm not a big, I'm not a big basketball fan. I don't really get the draw to, you know, basketball as much. So women's basketball is like totally off the radar for me. I don't I never think about it.

Speaker 2 21:30

But yeah, that would make me go, hmm, maybe, maybe I'll watch that. A fight's gonna break out. Good fight.

Speaker 7 21:40

Yeah.

Speaker 21:40

Here we go again.

The “Free” Apple Watch That Wasn’t

Speaker 21:44

The Williams brothers have a gripe.

Speaker 4 21:47

So Comcast or Xfinity or whatever. That's who I have for mobile service. And a while back, they uh I was on there trying to get a new phone, and the guy's like, let me also give you this free. Free Apple Watch. And I'm like, well, I don't want an Apple Watch. I don't need an Apple Watch. Everybody who's got everybody who needs an Apple Watch has one. There's no use for an Apple Watch here. And he's like, no, no, no. It's free. It's free. Let me be the one to give it to you because it's free. And he was really pushing it. And uh and and I'm like, it has mobile service, and I don't want the mobile service. Just cancel the mobile service if you don't want the mobile service. After you get it, you just cancel the mobile service. Well, so I got the watch, and it's just I haven't used it yet. It's just been sitting there because I was gonna give it to Dawn's sister. But her phone was like she had an iPhone 8, so it can't even connect with a watch. And so she just got a new watch, and so I called Xfinity and I'm like, okay, you know, we got this watch, we're gonna cancel the mobile service, and I'm gonna, you know, activate it and everything. And they were like, Oh, you can't cancel the mobile service, you'll you'll have to pay for the watch. So I'm either this other guy, whoever he was in whatever country he was in, was just telling me what he had to tell me to quote unquote give me the free watch. And I'm like, Well, this dude lied to me. And they're like, Well, I'm very sorry, I would never do that. I would never lie to you, but uh, I'm so sorry. I mean, it was like where what do you do then? What I mean, anyway, it was I was like and then he tried to sell me something. I'm like, I'm not buying anything from you guys, no way, nothing else. But it was man, it was that that I really I was like, man, at first I thought they just gave me a needless watch for no reason that I don't need that's a that why did I even get it? But now I'm gonna be stuck paying either ten dollars a month or two hundred and fifty dollars for the watch.

Speaker 5 24:00

Stupid. I don't like that.

Speaker 4 24:01

Not on either.

Speaker 5 24:03

I wonder if they can if you could like compel them to, hey, provide me the contract where I agree to this or the audio recording or something.

Speaker 4 24:12

You know, yeah, that's a good idea.

Speaker 5 24:14

Yeah.

Speaker 4 24:14

Or small claims court or s you know, something, or social media, you know, if it gets that bad, just maybe, yeah, maybe I'll call them back and be like, yeah, let me show me where I signed that or agreed to that.

Speaker 5 24:26

Yeah, because I'm gonna call the FTC because this feels like fraud to me. Yeah, you know. Yeah, yeah. And I'd hate to have to talk about this on the Wall Street Journal. Right. Exactly. Yeah, because there's a reporter that reports on technology, and and it'd be pretty easy to contact her. Yeah. Or get the Son's group involved.

Speaker 4 24:46

You don't want to have to no, you don't want I mean, you don't want that kind of hate because let me tell you, they're connected. Have you seen their logo in their offices? They're not fooling around. That's right.

Speaker 5 25:05

You don't want the wiener basket coming to your door.

Speaker 3 25:09

You don't.

Speaker 5 25:13

That's so slimy though.

Speaker 3 25:15

So I mean I get the incentives for things, but really, guys, come on.

Speaker 5 25:20

I mean, they've got the recordings too. So they would they would have recorded him saying, Oh, you just cancel it. Yeah.

Speaker 4 25:29

Yeah.

Speaker 5 25:29

Yeah. So man, that's that's low. That was really low. Yeah.

Speaker 4 25:34

I thought it was low too, and I'm sure it was just one unscrupulous sales rep or whatever out there somewhere in the world. But yeah, who just needed to close his right, yeah. But that's a bad way to do it. I like the wiener basket in the middle. That's awesome.

Latin Translation For Wiener Basket

Speaker 4 25:55

Shaler has posted the Sonce Group seal, and it's got uh it's got lions, a crown, a shield, and the wiener basket in the center, so that's good.

Speaker 5 26:09

I'm gonna put some words in the chat, but I was looking up wiener basket in Latin. Oh, that's good. Okay, I see where we're going with this. All right.

Speaker 4 26:21

Let me let me make sure my uh That's one of those things you we we could get framed and then we get passed down to our family, and they wouldn't they would not understand. That it was just a joke.

Speaker 5 26:34

Yeah, yeah. Instead of the lions, though, it should probably be like a guinea pig or something. Maybe the guinea pigs, maybe the guinea pigs. Oh, yeah, two guinea pigs. That would be good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Corbus farcinium. Yes, yeah.

Speaker 3 26:49

Corbus Farsinium.

Speaker 5 26:51

I like that. What does that mean? Ever faithful? No, it means wiener basket. Basket of wiener. Basket of the wiener. Yep. So I'm going to chat GPT to try to reverse engineer this and see how it goes. Yeah, see what it comes out as. That's a good that's a good corbis is basket or basket full in Latin. Morbus is disease or illness. Far farcinium. Um connected to farsi, a contagious horse disease related to glands. The disease called Farsi glanders, especially in horses. So I'm sure I spelled it right. Google came back when I reverse translated it and it translates as a basket of sausages. Okay. So that's great. All right. Oh, okay. That's better. There you go. There's the new logo. The established 1912, I gotta change, but there's the guinea pigs.

Speaker 4 27:55

Oh, I like the I love the guinea pigs.

Speaker 5 28:01

Yeah. So we're looks more regal somehow with the guinea pigs. That's awesome. Love it. We're getting there. We're getting there. It's a work in progress. It's very nice.

Banana Delivery Mix Up Turns Delicious

Speaker 5 28:23

So Robin ordered groceries. She thinks she had a coupon. We don't typically order the delivery groceries, but sometimes we order delivery groceries. And so she puts her order in various things, and uh, she was gonna um, you know, grandkids were gonna be in town, and she got you, I think she put in for five bananas um in her grocery order, and she got the groceries, and the person had picked up five bunches of bananas. Oh wow. That's a that's a lot of bananas. She had at least, I don't know, 30 bananas probably on the counter. She said, Don't, she sent me a text, don't buy bananas. But but she called, I think it was from uh I think it was Walmart maybe delivery, and and she called them and they apologized and took it off and you know, comped her for the bananas. So they were now free bananas at least.

Speaker 4 29:21

Oh, that's good.

Speaker 5 29:22

Um, so she made a fabulous banana pudding that that's just about gone, and then yesterday made a couple of banana breads. I was gonna say, yeah, that's great. Yeah, yep. A lot of banana. It was very funny. That's good. That's good.

Speaker 4 29:36

That's a good deal. Free banana.

Speaker 5 29:39

You have to wonder what the shopping person was thinking, you know, when they're, you know, just yeah, right. Yeah. Maybe it was their first time. I don't remember. Should I text this person? No, I'm in a hurry. I'll just five things.

Speaker 4 29:53

They're probably gonna make a big banana pudding and some banana bread. We did.

Speaker 5 29:58

Maybe they own a monkey. That's right.

Speaker 3 30:05

You just never know.

Speaker 4 30:11

You just never know. That's right. That's funny. I was gonna say I didn't know you could actually pick how many bananas you got. I always thought they, you know, whatever the bunch is you you'd get, but I guess that makes sense. You can't pick it up.

Speaker 5 30:27

I guess it does. I never thought about it either, but I guess you would. But you know, and apples, I guess, is priced by the bag. So maybe you just say one bag of apples, but with uh things that are by weight, maybe you do have to Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 4 30:42

I don't know. That's one we'll we should do a whole podcast on that later. I think so. And how can it be bought via online ordering?

Speaker 3 30:53

I agree. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 31:00

How to take advantage of the poor people that are trying to earn a living shopping for us. That's good.

Speaker 4 31:14

Do they put it away for you? Or you just get it on the front porch. Okay.

Speaker 5 31:18

I don't know if they I don't know if they'll put it away or not, but they just front porch is all we've ever experienced. I don't know if we've ever had groceries delivered to us. I think we've always just gone to

Parking Gripes At Sam’s And Beyond

Speaker 5 31:32

the thing. Oh, oh, I do have I do have a I have a uh a gripe.

Speaker 31:36

Here we go again. The Williams brothers have a gripe.

Speaker 5 31:43

We are at the um at the Sam's Club yesterday, picking up stuff, right? Same thing where you go and you pick it up. It it's ordered in advance. You pull up to the little parking spot, you know, it's got the number on it and all that sort of thing. And um I'm I'm looking at and this lady is across from us, in the same kind of parking spot where they deliver, right? And I s I see the car there, and then here she comes with a um you know, buggy full of groceries, and she loads up her car and puts the buggy away and drives off. And I'm like, So she went inside and she shopped and then brought her stuff out and put it in the car, but she's actually parked in a spot for delivery stuff. So that's my gripe is if you're gonna park at Sam's, park in a regular parking spot. Why are you taking up these other spots? That's my gripe.

Speaker 4 32:42

This is uh homeowners becoming their parents moment. That's exactly what this is. Shaler's gonna stand out there in the parking lot and you can't park here. Are you you're not a delivery? You have a to go order? Sorry. Yeah. It's not for you. Citizens arrest.

Speaker 5 33:11

I told you guys I was at Texas Roadhouse. We were getting del we were getting the takeout at Texas Roadhouse, and I whipped into the spot and went and got our takeout. As I'm walking back to the car, I see this sign and it says for disabled veterans only, where I've parked.

Speaker 4 33:29

Oh no. So I was like, oh, that's not good. Did you start limping or get nailed?

Speaker 5 33:34

No, or maybe it was just veterans in any event. Um, I felt pretty bad. So I was one of the Shaler, I was one of those guys that was they're not gonna tell me where to park. I'm gonna park here.

Speaker 4 33:46

Did somebody come rolling in behind you like they had been a long, I had to go a long way to get there because they couldn't park in the it's alright, Gar.

Speaker 5 33:56

I mean, you're old, so you know, uh just that's true, not seeing so well. I mean, I thought it was one of those signs for like park here for carryout, because they have those signs too. No, this was the veterans parking only. Confused. Yeah, they're worried. They put words on those signs oftentimes. They do put words on the signs. I don't remember where I parked.

Veterans Spots And Getting Older

Speaker 1 34:36

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Speaker 5 35:08

Because like at Home Depot and Lowe's and stuff, they have veteran parking, right? And it's three or four spots, something like that, usually. And I I always complain if they're all full because I know deep in my heart that one of those people is probably not a veteran, and they're taking my spot, so I complain about that every time. And Mina's like, they're probably all veterans. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no. They're just taking my spot.

Speaker 4 35:32

And when you say complain, you complain to Mina, right? You're not complaining. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 35:36

Oh, yeah, no, yeah, I'm not complaining to anybody that cares at all. But uh, you know some guy getting in his car. Where did you serve? Yeah, exactly. Let me see your let me see your arm out of the yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah. No, I'm just kidding. That's funny. And it'd be easy to tell if you're a veteran or not, because if you ever challenge someone on it and they were a veteran, they would quickly quickly tell you how much they're worried about what you think. You know, right. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, right. Right. You know what you can do with your concern about my parking? You can take that sign? No. Right. That sounds about right. Yeah, that's pretty much it. You are a veteran. Okay, you're good. You're good. Blood pressure never goes up. Just really?

Speaker 4 36:24

Right, right, yeah.

Speaker 5 36:25

That's probably why no one said anything at Texas Roadhouse because I look so intimidating. That's probably why. Oh, yeah. That's what it was. That's exactly the World War II guy right there. Army Ranger from World War II. You think he was in Pearl Harbor?