Cancel Birthdays, Dropkick DoorDash & Fix Daylight Time!

[00:00:02] What you want, when you want it, where you want it. This is The MESH. A.I.: Absolute Ignorance with Jon Reep. That is me, Jon Reep. But as always, I'm not alone. I'm here with my trusty sidekick, I won't say that, cohort. I'm okay with that.

[00:00:29] Pal, buddy of mine, co-host, The Alan Jackson. How are you? Pal, buddy of mine. Just fine. Happy birthday, Jon. Thank you. It is your birthday today as we're sitting down recording this. It's March 26th as we're talking. I'm sorry, I didn't realize it until we were meeting earlier and you happened to tell me. That's the way it should be. I know. At this age, that's the way it should be. And I'm okay with it. But you kind of like for people to automatically just know it's your birthday.

[00:00:57] That's what Facebook is for. As soon as I crack over my laptop, I get tons of them. I'm very satiated with the birthday wishes via Facebook, social media. So you're satisfied. You feel satisfied right now with your birthday status. Yes, yes. And I have no problem telling people I'm 35 years old. Yeah, I think 35. It's a very, it's a respectful age. Sure. If you look at the way Missy Elliott, you know, put your thing down, flip it and reverse it. I'm 35. Yeah. Because that's 50, I'm 53. Hi.

[00:01:24] But really on my birthday, I think, I've talked about this before and I'll do it real quick. We should only be celebrating the mothers. We get rid of Mother's Day. Okay. All right. So what was Mother's Day? May 8th or 5th or something like that. Sure. So now we're going to get rid of Mother's Day. Okay. Mother's Day now is your firstborn's birthday. Okay. Wait a minute. Mother's Day, you're proposing that Mother's Day becomes your firstborn's birthday. Yeah.

[00:01:54] That's the day you became a mother. Okay. And you did all the work on that labor. Yeah. You went through the labor. You did it. Mom, I was a breach, double breach birth. Oh, were you really? Yeah. So you were a challenge. Yes. Your mom put in some overtime on yours. Okay. I came out butt first doing a yoga pose touching my toes. Yes. That is that. Nope. Nope. I should reenact that. Oh, that's a good social media post. I'm going to call my mom. Mom, let's do this again first.

[00:02:25] Well, I have been a pain in her crawl ever since then. Yeah. That's true. But yeah, we get rid of Mother's Day. So now Mother's Day is the day that you gave birth to your first child. Okay. I like it. Yeah. Here's what I see is the pushback on that though. So mothers, I think a lot of mothers already kind of feel crapped on as we're already like, you know, they don't always get the appreciation they need. They don't always get the recognition. Unfortunately, Mother's Day is a holiday.

[00:02:52] I know my boys tended to forget about it. I had to be the one to remind them. It's just the mom doesn't get a lot of attention, which is now you're saying they have to share their mother's day with the birthday of their child. What I'm saying is we don't celebrate birthdays. Oh, you're saying do away with like birthday. Yeah, you didn't do anything. That's true. You just survived. The mom did all the work. So you get rid of birthdays. Now a mom will still get her birthday.

[00:03:23] Okay. Okay. Yeah. I know what you're saying. Mom's going to get twice. So she's going to get her birthday and she'll get the mother's day on the day of. That's the loophole. She gets two holidays already. So we move mother's day to the, to that, but all mothers still get to celebrate their birthday as well. So they get their birthday and they get a new mother's day. And for every mother, mother's day is a different day. Yes. Cause it's the date of, so for me, I'm the first born in my family. Just like you. Uh, June 7th is my birthday.

[00:03:52] So June 7th becomes my mother's mother's day. Got it. All right. But you're saying I sacrifice my birth. You don't get a birthday. I mean, you get one, but no one makes a big deal about it. And that way you will not forget your mother's day because that is also your birthday. I will never forget. You won't forget. Cause you'll be like, well, how come no one's out of, I don't get a cake. Okay. I'm, I'm all right with this. Cause I don't, I don't get it. Cause guys don't care. I don't get anything. Really.

[00:04:20] It was just cutting out birthdays for dudes and people who haven't given birth. If you are, uh, okay. All right. No, I can see this. I can, can it work for father's day? Yeah. I was going to say, what about the dudes? I mean, father's day. So basically father's day right now is, is non-existent. It really is. It's like, I'm might get a card. Bob already told him I don't like cards. So I don't want a card either.

[00:04:49] So what would I celebrate? Would I get to celebrate father's day? When would you celebrate it? Is it the same day as mother's day? Because that's the day the child was born or is it the conception? Yes. Yeah. That'd be more fun for a guy. I think we should have very open, frank conversations with our parents. Like when was I conceived? Cause that's going to be your father's day.

[00:05:18] So every father's day is basically nine months before your mother's mother's day. So the father's get celebrated first, which there you get. Sounds good to me. All right. Let's get to work on that social media. All right. And then we'll tackle daylight saving time after that. Oh my God. We got to fix that. Right? Yeah. Don't we? Yeah. I think as an experiment, I really wish we could do it. Okay. If we could reverse it. Speaking of Missy Elliott.

[00:05:48] So instead of falling back in the fall, we move forward. We go the exact opposite in the spring. We go back and I'll tell you why. Okay. It's cold in the fall and winter. So wouldn't you want more daylight? Wouldn't you rather save daylight for when it's cold because the sun warms you. And then in the summertime, since the whole reason for farmers is dumb and doesn't exist

[00:06:16] anyway, in the summertime, it's going to be warm at night. So who cares when the night happens? So flip those two. Okay. I don't really care. Yeah. We'll just get away with it all again. My whole thing is I just don't want time to change. Yeah. That's my biggest thing. Right. I don't really care what we do. I don't care which direction we go. And I know that whole daylight savings time was created because people work out in the fields and there's like daylight to deal with.

[00:06:45] And that's when people work nowadays in our work culture, we don't need to work whenever. I mean, it's like if somebody wants to get up at 6am in the morning and work from 6 until 3, they could totally do it in a lot of jobs. Now, I know not every job is that way, but a lot of jobs are a little more flexible. So why not just get rid of it? Just get rid of it. Get rid of the whole daylight savings time. This is our time. Yes. Sometimes of the year, it's going to get darker earlier than normal. Right. Okay. That was what I was going to say. So be it. You know, if you can work it out with your job where you want to work earlier in the day

[00:07:15] so you still get some daylight. There you go. Just your work schedule. Not everyone else's time. That's kind of my thing. And granted, I get it. There's a lot of people that work that can't just go and tell their employer, hey, by the way, I'm going to start working these hours now. Yeah. I get it. And I'm a little, I'm being a little self-centered on that because I kind of do set my own schedule, but I get it. It's not easy for everybody else. So, but I wish there was a way to do it where we didn't have to do this whole time change. It throws everybody off. Yeah.

[00:07:43] It really makes those few days afterwards just weird. You have to go change the clocks on all the clocks in their house. Pain in the butt. It's annoying. So let me ask you this. Yeah. Naturally, if we did not do a time change, naturally, months, certain days would get more light and certain days wouldn't throughout the year. Right. Naturally. Naturally. Okay. Yeah. So if this is a problem, like it's too much one way for six months and then too much one way the other six months, how about we meet in the middle?

[00:08:11] We dedicate one day, clocks change 30 minutes. So it's a 30 minute change. One time forever. That's it. And then, so like if it's, if it's, you know, 11 o'clock right now, we just like, if we were to make this change today, we'd just say, Nope, it is now officially 1130. Correct. Done. And it will never happen again. Never change again. That'd be like Y2K or something would happen. Right. There's times where like, I know, I know everybody wants more daylight and it sounds like you want

[00:08:40] more daylight, you know, during the day as well. There's times though, when I'm at work and it's kind of cool, like to walk out the door at five o'clock and it'd be like dark outside. I'm like, I kind of like that. As a comedian. I love it. When I'm going to a comedy club in the summer and it's still daylight and I'm thinking I got to perform in a nightclub and I'm like, no one wants to be in here. Yeah. It's still nice out. Yeah. So, well, let's get rid of daylight savings time. And then at some point we need to deal with time zones too, because that annoys the crap out of me. Hmm.

[00:09:09] Time zones. Time zones are a huge issue. I just had to schedule. What's your solution there? I don't know. Okay. But I had to schedule appointments yesterday and I'm having to go on my calendar and be like, all right. Eastern standard. They're in Texas and it's like, all right, so I got to look at my calendar and I got to like subtract two hours on everything I'm telling them times. Right. It's, it's frustrating. Yeah. How would you do that? How would you, because I think we just make Eastern time the real time. Everybody else just has to play along.

[00:09:39] So yeah, you just went, if, when it's nine, California, sorry. Sorry. You have to start sunlight till 1 PM. That's right. But there's the breaks. That's the breaks. Okay. All right. Well, I got to, I got to stew on this a little bit longer. Time, time, time tracking is a whole, whole thing we got to deal with. What you're trying to say is happy birthday, John. Yeah, I was happy birthday. Thank you, buddy. Do you do anything? Anything planned? I'm going to meet with the pool guy. I got, Oh God.

[00:10:09] I know you were saying beforehand, you want to talk about ordering things online. I do. Can we, before we talk about ordering things online? Cause I did a lot of that myself just recently. Okay. A lot of stuff from Sam's club. I need to talk about online buying and marketplace stuff. So yeah. But yeah, go ahead. But last week we talked about placentas and birth, birth, birthing. I kind of got a little flack for that. I told my wife, I said, cause we both talked about how they're not going to be listening to the show.

[00:10:39] Like, and then of course I, I say something about the show and then now she's listening. And she said, I have to correct you. Okay. I'm like, and she looked at me like very seriously. I thought I was in trouble. I was like, Oh no. She goes, the placenta, the baby is not inside of the placenta. The baby is inside of an embryonic sac. The placenta is its own sort of organ.

[00:11:07] That's basically it's, it's the, it's a stomach that is kind of like, it's a food storage system for the baby. It's not, but the baby's not in the placenta. Yeah. So I got that one wrong and she wanted to correct it. I like our definition better. I mean, just to be honest, I think ours, ours makes more sense. But anyway, did you know? I get it. Did you think the baby was in the placenta? I didn't know. Right. I had no idea what it was. I would love to do a poll. Yeah.

[00:11:35] But the problem with the poll is no one's going to be honest. I want, this has to be a street poll. I walk up to people like, honestly, right now, tell me what is the placenta do? Is the baby inside of the placenta? That would be the question. That is a good question. I think most guys would go. Yeah. Um, sure. Or like, I don't know. Well, the default is going to be. Yeah. Because again, they're like, well, what else is it for then? I don't want to say what is a placenta? Right.

[00:12:00] I want to say when a woman gets pregnant, is the baby located inside the placenta? Yes or no. Okay. I think that's a fair question. And I think a majority of guys would say yes. I think so too. Moose, I know you're listening. Can we, can we let Moose? Yeah. Well, you gotta be honest, Moose. He can't, he can't comment. He's staying out of it. Okay, fine.

[00:12:34] He doesn't know. He didn't pay enough attention in health class. Like most men, I would say don't know or would get that wrong. Yeah. So I thought the embryonic sac and the placenta were one in the same. See, I think that's probably a very common misconception. So I apologize to my wife. Yeah. Now I know that. Now, did you get something wrong? I don't know if I got anything wrong. I just got a little bit of flack free from bringing the subject up. Um, that was on me. So pregnancy.

[00:13:04] No, the placented. Oh, just in general. And my, my placenta explosion story. Um, Oh, that's right. I forgot about that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I got a little, I got a little pushback. I got a little flack from some family members. Okay. Um, I do not, I do now know the gender of my grandbaby. Oh, are you allowed to say no, you're not. You're keeping a secret for now. Is it?

[00:13:30] It, and you do not have to respond to me cause I don't want to do anything that would tempt you to say it. Mm hmm. But are you finding it hard? You know, the gender of your grandchild. Mm hmm. I do not know the gender only you do at this table, but are you finding it hard when you're talking to people to not use either he or she when describing this grandbaby now? Not yet. Only because me knowing the gender is new.

[00:13:57] And prior to that, I've been saying it, the baby. Okay. You know, so you're still okay. Neutral things. My brain is. Yeah. Still calling it an it. Until everybody else chimes in and is calling it the appropriate pronoun, then I will. That's what I've told people before when I was told the gender, I'm like, don't tell me the gender. If you don't want me to say something, it's not that I'm going to go out and tell people.

[00:14:23] I just know that I'm going to refer to it as he or she at some point. I'm like, it's going to happen. Right. And so I don't want that. And of course people are listening and they're like, Oh, he said, he, he said, he, I got it. And I don't want that to be a temptation. So don't tell me. That did happen to, uh, Laney and Jody when they've, they've been going to different doctors, OBGYNs, you know, different people who do different things. Again, women's health. I'm not even going to try. We're going to avoid that discussion now.

[00:14:51] But one of the places they went, the doctor referred to it as a whatever. And both and Laney and Jody did not know yet. Oh no. He, and the doctor goes, no, no, no. I don't know that. I don't know. He totally knew. He's well, he's saying he didn't know. He knew he's trying to, but I don't know if he, yeah, who knows? He's like, Oh crap. I don't know. I just gave it away. I just said it because there's y'all are this and blah, blah, blah. Yeah. It was a thing.

[00:15:21] Anyway, totally what I would do. Yeah. If I knew the gender. Yeah. And I actually slipped up and said, Oh, he's going to be, he's going to be something like, Oh, well it, I don't know. Yeah. I just used, he is a placeholder. I don't know. Yeah. That's totally what he's doing. He knows. Well, I know I won't say anything. Oh, but I'm not saying that it's either. I mean, I don't, we have no idea. No, the doctor, the male doctor knows. Okay. Well, there's also a female doctor.

[00:15:50] The, the, what do you call the ones that do the ultrasound ultrasound technician? That's where we went. We'll be excited. I'm looking forward to hearing. Yeah, me too. I'm looking forward to seeing how, how this all goes. I'm looking forward to hearing your experience as a new grandfather in the future as well. So grandfather is the role I'm most looking forward to playing. Yeah. I'm just not still in a rush to get there, but I know I'll be excited when I am there. Yeah. Because that's starting to happen to me. Yeah. I go.

[00:16:19] I kind of knew I would be, but now I'm like, let's get it. Let's get it going. I think once I hear one of my boys, you know, he's got a child coming, I'm going to be super jacked up. Yes. Because the grandparent, that's the fun job. It's the fun job. It's the fun job. Yes. Very exciting. Okay. So now, and all that being said, I believe you and I have been recently ordering things online. Well, John, I got to, I need some help.

[00:16:49] And I know this is show AI. This may not be specifically AI related, but it's technology. Well, AI does. Isn't AI the one thing that like watches what you are looking at knows what you like. It's true. It's algorithm based. So if you talk about an outdoor patio set for the next 10 days, everything you see online is an ad for an outdoor patio set. Yeah. Right. All right. So here's my situation.

[00:17:15] I, um, my wife buys and sells a lot of things on Facebook marketplace. Okay. So are you familiar with Facebook marketplace? I am. In fact, uh, we just had an experience with it. Go. All right. I've never done any, I had not done anything on that platform. Okay. Cause I, it kind of creeps me out. Um, yeah. Yeah. So, but I needed a few months ago. I needed a, uh, I needed an item in particular.

[00:17:46] I was looking for an exercise workbench. Okay. One of those exercise machines, you know, that. Like a solo flex. Yeah. Exactly. Does a little bit of everything. That's what I wanted. Making a home gym. Mm. I don't want to buy a brand new one. Cause I just assume I can probably get a good deal from somebody selling one. And that's what everybody told me. It's like, Hey, you just go on Facebook marketplace, search for this. You'll find it. So I did. I searched for a good month.

[00:18:15] I was, I was like favoriting different people who were selling the different things. I was watching the prices. I was kind of mapping out where they are. They're all relatively local, like within an hour drive from me or so. So I found one and this is my first experience on Facebook marketplace trying to buy or sell anything. Okay. And so I, I contacted the guy cause I'm told that's what you're supposed to do. And you write him a note and you'd be like, Hey, is this still available? And you know, is the price still this?

[00:18:44] And when could I come get it? If, if I wanted it, guy wrote back. It's like, yep, still available. That's the price. And perfect. You let me know when you want to come get it and we'll work it out. Awesome. It's a good deal. I'm happy. Now this thing's going to be big, like, you know, bigger than I can fit in my car. Yeah. So I'm like, all right, well, I'm going to have to get a rent a van to go pick it up because it's like, you know, I don't want to go on unassemble it, you know, at this guy's

[00:19:12] house and then like load the pieces in my car and hopefully I build it back together. I'm like, no, I just want to kind of. Right. Big bulky thing. I just want to do that. Yeah. So I ran into a van, got my son to go with me as an extra set of hands. And the whole deal on Facebook marketplace is supposedly like they don't tell you their address until it's time to go visit them. Okay. Because they don't want to give out their address and make any big, you know, unless yeah, you're really going to buy something. Right.

[00:19:42] There's no reason to have it. So you're supposed to like message them like the day before you come or that morning or whatever and be like, Hey, tell me the address and I will come get this item. Okay. So I'm loaded up in a van. I've had dialogue with this guy. We're ready to sell this thing. He lives about 45 minutes away. It's going to be a little bit of a drive. Go totally. All is good. I get in the van. We start driving and I have Alex get on my phone. Like, all right, text the guy and say, what's the address? I know the basic city where he is.

[00:20:10] Like it tells you that, but it doesn't tell you this specific address. So we're driving that way. And then the guy ghost me. He starts ghosting me. Like he does not respond. He actually unfriends me on Facebook blocks me from even contacting what. So here I am in a van. I've rented in the city where the guy lives and I'm just like, dude, what happened? What happened? It's like, did you give them any money before this? No, I'm not out any money other than the rental of the van. That sucked. Right.

[00:20:40] I'm just trying to think of why he wouldn't have. What's the game. Yeah. He got nothing out of this. What was the scam? Like somebody was like, oh, there is just a scammer. I'm like, well, what's the scam? He told me he had an item to sell. Did you ask for, okay. So are you okay with tell me the price? It was like 80, 90 bucks. I mean, it's not a lot. 90 bucks. I say it's 90 bucks. Was he trying to sell it for one 20 and you said, did you go down in price?

[00:21:09] No, actually I didn't haggle, which everybody told me I should have, but I'm like, no haggling. So you didn't piss him off with the haggle. No, I was totally upfront. Hey, that's the price you're selling it for. Awesome. I could be there this weekend. Done. Done. I'm like, well, what's, what's, what's the game here? Like what, what did he gain? All right. By ghosting me the day of the sale. And it like, not even just like ghosting me, but like blocking me.

[00:21:34] Like I looked him up on Facebook and it's like, this person has blocked you for contacting him. He hasn't blocked me. I could go look him up. Should we swarm this guy? I don't, I don't remember his name. I don't remember who he is. If you could find out and I put it on my Facebook. Hello everybody. I have a free workout. Come message. Just come by my house. Let me see if I can. So you never got his address. You never got any address. No. Dang it.

[00:22:01] I got, I knew the city, but once I got to the address part, I, I had no idea. Wow. So I, yeah, what is it? I can't figure that out. And then John, this just leads to my bigger question to you. Since then I have been trying to buy a treadmill. Yeah. Okay. So I'm like, all right, maybe that was just a one bad experience. I don't understand what the game was, but look, I'm not going to write off Facebook marketplace altogether because there's one bad experience. It's like, I do need a treadmill. Okay. And I want to spend 50 bucks on a used treadmill.

[00:22:31] Yeah. It's all I want. I went on Facebook again, Facebook marketplace. I found three different ones in my vicinity. Yeah. I have messaged all three of them independently over the last several weeks. Yeah. Not a single one has responded to me. So what am I, John, what am I doing wrong? What have you gotten any notices on Facebook that I'm like blocked? Am I like person non-goddess on Facebook? Is that, I don't know, man.

[00:23:00] I don't, I personally, did you use your account? Yeah. And your wife uses Facebook marketplace. She has no problem. Does she use her account? Yeah. But she's like selling stuff every week and buying stuff every week with no problems. And you've talked to her about this and she's got no help. Yeah. She's like, I don't know what you're doing wrong. I'm like, oh, so it's me doing wrong. I got it. Okay. No, I don't know what I'm doing. Or she would be the one that'd be able to help you. Yeah.

[00:23:27] I, I wonder if some people just don't take it seriously. Like, like it's a casual thing. Like if I'm looking around at my table, like what do I don't, I don't need this coffee cup anymore. So I'm just going to take a picture of it and put it on Facebook marketplace and see what I can do. And then they forget they do it. And then they just ignore it. I don't know. That might be like if it's a lazy cash casual way of selling something. I've worried at one point you don't think it's my name.

[00:23:55] Do you like people see my name and think, oh, he's obviously joking. This is not a real guy. That might be, that might be something to do. Now has anyone responded to you? Wait, your name is Alan Jack. No one ever says that. Again, I've had three different conversations with, or tried to start three different conversations, three different treadmills over the last 30 days. And there's one of them I've even written three times. I'm like, Hey, just checking in. I'm real.

[00:24:25] I'm a real guy here in Hickory. Yeah. I could come get this treadmill tomorrow. Are you still selling it? It makes me think. And there's no response. Maybe there's a setting that you're not aware of within your Facebook. That's not allowing you to communicate with these people. Are you doing it from a personal Facebook page or not? Not a personal profile profile. Okay. It's like me. Yeah. And I mean, it is supposedly shows up as me when I'm reaching out to these people. That's weird.

[00:24:53] I mean, I have a photograph that I think pretty clearly shows. I'm not trying to play off. Like I'm the country singer. Yeah. Celebrity is like, it's me. So that's a good question. Uh, right in with help people. Uh, let us know, comment on the YouTube channel. Do you like the idea of buying stuff online from people? Like, you know, instead of a company to Amazon, I have no problem with. I do Amazon every day. Amazon's great. But have you ever, does that concern you? Is that anything you are ever having issues with?

[00:25:23] I don't do it that much because I don't know if I trust it. It seems like a lot of hassle. It's like, it's like going to a yard sale on your, on your laptop. Yeah. And you know, when you go to a yard sale, you're going to get there and you're going to be like, well, I want this. The guy's like, well, uh, the law haggling goes on. It's a lot of, uh, interacting with people that you might otherwise not want to interact with ever in your life. True.

[00:25:51] And so it's, it's kind of that. So, but, but a lot of people do it. My stepdaughter, Lainey, now that she's going to have a baby is she's, she had two aquariums in her room. Oh, all right. So now, yeah, no. Why two aquariums? I mean, is there a difference between the aquariums? Is there a reason for having to, why not just dump all the fish in one? I, that is a great question and I'm sure they told me, but I think that's a great question.

[00:26:21] I think one was saltwater maybe. Oh, no, that would make sense. One's a saltwater. One's a freshwater. Uh, don't, don't Jody. I'm sorry if I got that wrong. We're going to assume that's the answer. Cause that makes sense. One fish. I remember this in particular, one of these things that they got, I don't know if it was a fish or like a crab thing was like eating the other things instead of the separate it. So he's like a, like a fish cannibal. Yeah. Well, you know, that's what they do. Right.

[00:26:50] But, um, so there were two and now she's pregnant and mom has said, all right, you're going to have to turn that, that area of your room into a nursery now. So now you got to sell these aquariums and they did Facebook marketplace. Okay. And, uh, they found a buyer. Three dudes came to the house. We had already moved it to the front yard. I mean, it was a lot draining the water out of this thing. Okay.

[00:27:21] Taking it down basically three flights of steps to go and it's heavy to go onto the front yard. So these people don't have to come into our house that we don't know. Right. True. Yeah. And, and just put it in the front driveway. So when they roll up, they can see it. And the whole time the guy was trying to haggle with Laney's boyfriend, Josh, but he was also helping sell it. So he was like, well, I wanted a hundred bucks. And the guy says, will you take 80?

[00:27:50] He goes, no, I'll take a hundred. And the guy's like, how about 85? And the whole time they've already agreed to sell it and he's not gotten any cash. But so he wasn't sure if he was going to get what he told him it was selling for. But the guy did give him the amount. Three guys showed up, had him cash and they, and they took it. But you know, it seemed like a pain in the butt to do all of that. Um, I don't do a whole lot of Facebook marketplace.

[00:28:18] I think there's good times, good situations to do that, but it just, I don't know. I just don't trust people. Yeah. That's the thing. You know, there's no like, um, okay. For like big companies, stay what you want about big corporate America and blah, blah, blah. It is so easy to return something. It really is. Good Lord. John, I have a printer. Uh, I keep it home. Yeah. Solely for printing return labels for Amazon.

[00:28:45] Like that's all I use it for is like every time I want to return something, it's like, Oh, just print the labels on there. Boom. It is so great. That is awesome. I just bought for my pool area. Mm hmm. So we went on a whim. We went to Sam's club and I saw this awesome little outdoor furniture set that I thought would be perfect in this one area. And we sat in it, we measured it. I said, let's get it. Mm hmm. And we got it.

[00:29:13] And the next day I picked it up and it's perfect. We love it. And now we think, okay, that was easy. That was great. And I'm sorry. What was this again? Like it was, uh, it was an outdoor furniture. Set all a set to go at your pool around the pool. So it's like a little love seat. It's basically a, an L shaped couch with love seat and it's got a little fire pit table. Okay. And then some other little Ottoman type things that you can decorate around it. It looked great.

[00:29:42] I'm looking for some fire pit related furniture at the moment to Sam's club. Sam's club's got something good. I'll, I'll, yeah. Now here's the problem I had. So we got that there. It may, we measured, I mean, look at the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, luckily we got it right. If it's perfect, we love it. But, and now we're thinking, okay, now what, now, what, now, now we've got to do this. Okay. Cause now that will match this. So I'm thinking this area. I don't know if you've seen the AstroTurf area that I have. No, I haven't. You got to come by. Okay.

[00:30:12] You didn't have it. You didn't have it. Right. Back at Halloween time. No, no. There's one area that is now fake artificial, artificial turf. Okay. And it's bigger than I thought it was going to be. Wow. So basically what I'm talking is there's going to be two basically furniture sets on that turf that's made for the outdoors. It can get rained on and, but it looks nice. Okay.

[00:30:36] So the one that we ordered off of, cause basically Sam's club and members mark are the same thing. Oh really? Members mark, Sam's club. Um, is it members mark? What's the other one? There's another one. Costco. Costco. Right. Costco and Sam's club are competitors. They're competitors. But I think not makers mark. That's whiskey. I've been saying that too.

[00:31:04] We're going to get more of this makers mark, but no, it's members. I think it's members. Yeah. So you go to Sam's club, you order something online. Sometimes it's getting it from members. Mark. Yeah. That's the only thing that does confuse me about ordering stuff from corporations is the multiple brand names. I'm like, right. It seems, it seems fishy. Yeah. It's like, all right. Am I really just ordering from Sam's club? Why are you putting a different name and right for that? I don't get that. Yeah. It bugs me. Cause then the, then the return part gets shadier or confusing. Yeah.

[00:31:32] But so I, we, we ordered, uh, we ordered a bunch of stuff online from there because we were so satisfied with the purchase that we made, but we were in the store. We made the first purchase. Right now we went ahead and trusted. You trusted. And we go, let's get a bunch of this stuff. Yeah. I think once the trust is built. Yeah. Then it's like, yeah, I'm on stuff all over the place. Right. The minute, the minute years ago that I realized, Hey, this Amazon thing works. Like the product I ordered. Right.

[00:32:02] Showed up on the time it said it was going to get here. Yep. And it works and it's valid product. And I paid a good price for it. This is super easy. I'm on board. Like I, the trust has been built. Yeah. Do I return things on Amazon? Sure. I returned probably one out of every eight or nine things I buy. Yeah. Because it's just what didn't work or it's not what I needed after all, whatever. But I don't care because I'm like, all right, I'll try it. And if it doesn't work, I'm returning it.

[00:32:30] That's the, that's part of the trust is knowing that you're not getting, you'll get your money back or you'll get what you want. I used to feel so guilty returning things to stores and that a, like it's an embarrassing feeling. It's like, I messed up. Yeah. I'm sorry. I got to return this. Yeah. Is it broken? No, it's just not what I was supposed to get. My wife didn't like the color. Right. I should have researched this further. Yeah. So I don't have to deal with anybody.

[00:32:59] Give me a guilt trip or feeling like I feel like there's a guilt trip. So the ones that we ordered online after building up the trust and that this was yesterday, man, every, every muscle in my body today is sore. Oh really? Because I spent all day yesterday moving gigantic boxes. FedEx came with, I'm talking on crates. Oh yeah. Cause I mean, big furniture, they're shipping to you. Yeah. Come to my house. They lower at the driveway.

[00:33:29] I go, we can't go all the way to your pool. We can't deliver it back there. Sure. So we just have to lay it here. I get that. So I spent all day, almost one piece at a time, moving everything from the front driveway to the pool area. Jeez. Assemble this extra furniture that we just got. By the way, and it was the wrong color that we ordered online, separate color came. I thought, well, maybe I could live with it.

[00:33:54] Then it was time to put together the, uh, the, uh, lounge chairs that you had to assemble. Hmm. You know, the kind of like the, uh, uh, what do you call it? The Ikea kind of stuff. Yeah. This is a higher level of that. And what looked cool online, it was basically a lounge chair with wheels. Cause we don't want people scuffing up the travertine. So when you want to move a chair, I don't want to go. Scuffing up the what? Uh, the, the, the flooring that we bought. What did you call it? Travertine. Travertine. Yeah.

[00:34:22] Is that a brand name or is that like a common type of stone? It's a type of stone. I've never heard of that. Here. I'll show you. I didn't either until I've got a pool. So you are all versed in the pool lingo now. So when it comes to this, I am travertine. It's like a stone. Travertine is a sedimary rock. Am I saying that word right? I'm sure. Sure. Sedimentary rock, a variety of limestone formed by a chemical precipitation of calcium carbonate from fresh water often found in springs, rivers and lakes.

[00:34:52] Hmm. So it looks really cool. Okay. But, but you know, it's like, it's stone. It's like a marble almost. And I don't want. You don't want to scuff it up. Scuff it up. So I think if we're going to have furniture, it's got to be like something that's not going to scratch that. Need to have some sort of a surface on the bottom, some sort of. A plastic, you know, plastic's fine if it looks good, especially for pools. Wood's going to rot. Yeah. Metal will scrape. Metal will scrape. An awesome looking plastic rounded leg would be perfect. Yeah. So that's what we were looking for.

[00:35:22] And I got this, this lounge chair with these wheels. And when I put the whole thing together, it looks like crap. Hmm. And it's not the size that they said it was. Oh man. And I, and it took me, this chair almost killed me. I got scars all over my legs. I can't tell you how many times I dropped an Allen wrench. Oh yeah. Like just trying to turn something to get there and then it just slips out of your hand. Yeah. I know it's tough. And that was one chair. So. And Jody doesn't like it.

[00:35:51] So I'm going to have to take back. You got to take it apart. These, they're heavy. How do you, so how do you, how do you go about returning a big item like that? Are you required to like disassemble it and put it back in a box? That particular item was an Amazon purchase. Oh. So I was told all we got to do is go to a UPS store and they'll print off the things for you. And if I can get it in my car, it should be fine. You just take the chair, assemble. I'm probably going to have to disassemble.

[00:36:20] Luckily I only put together one chair. Some returns on Amazon. It is kind of a little bit of a crapshoot. It's what I've learned with the Amazon returns. Okay. Sometimes when you return something, it'll come up and say, Hey, you know what? Just drop it off. You don't even need to put it in a bag or box or whatever. Just drop it off at the store. They'll take care of it. I'm going to try that. Yeah. That's the hopes. Yeah. Other times they say, eh, you got to put it in a box. Yeah. Like it needs to be in the original box again. Yeah. So I don't know what rhyme or reason they have for deciding if it's box worthy or if it can go

[00:36:50] naked back to the store. I don't know, but I'm imagining. Here's hoping your chair is like, they're going to let you just bring it back. It's such a big, heavy thing. They're going to want it. And I had to, it took, Oh man, I'm not joking. Trying to understand the directions and they have different size screws for different holes, different wrench, different wrenches. I mean, it came with its own tool set almost in plastic. And then I drop a washer in the grass. Mm-hmm.

[00:37:19] Can't find a washer. I'm pretty sure I'm missing some parts. That's the worst. That I don't want to do anymore. I think when it comes to the lounge chairs, we're going to have to just bite the bullet and go to a store that has them built and go, bring these to me like this. Those are ones. I feel bad for physical stores, especially local stores. Yeah. I really do feel bad. I mean, I realize I am the part of the problem.

[00:37:46] I am not frequenting those stores like I should because Amazon's so freaking easy and typically cheaper and fast. Every time I go to a store that like specializes in a certain something that I want, it's always like, yeah, we can get that for you. We'll order it. It's going to take three weeks to get the one you want, whatever. And it's going to cost this much. And I'm just like, okay, but I can go on Amazon right now, buy this exact thing and have it here in two days.

[00:38:15] Exactly. Cheaper. It's like, why? Please tell me why, how does this work? And I feel bad because I get it. Local shops and stores. I totally get it. I want to support them. I really do. Because I feel bad. I mean, that's their livelihood. Their stores. I thought that for the longest time they had to run the show. It's like, we're the only place where you can come by patio furniture for your pool. Yeah. You got to come to the patio store and we'll take care of you. And they do a great job. But nowadays it's like, ah. Yeah. No, you're right.

[00:38:45] I don't know. It just seems easier the other way. Right. And I feel bad because we're basically putting these other places out of business. Yeah. Do you think that there will ever be a time where you can go to Amazon or a service like Amazon and order brick and mortar? So essentially your brick and mortar store is being bought out by Amazon. I'm going to order. You want to buy a store?

[00:39:15] There's got to be a way to do it. No, I want to build a brick and mortar. You want to buy the brick and mortar to build a store. I'm trying to figure out how to save and or put out of business brick and mortar. Here's what these stores ought to do if there's a way to do it. Okay. Just imagine this, John. If they could, I want to be able to walk into a store to see the product. Okay. I want to be able to see it like your pool chairs. You want to see them. Yeah. But I want to be able to go in that store and be like, yep, that is the chair I want. Click a button on my phone and say, I have just ordered it.

[00:39:45] Yes. This store gets some sort of benefit from it. They get some sort of proceeds from the purchase of the thing, but it's like, boom, I just bought it and it's being delivered two days from now. But I want to see it. That's a genius. That's the store we need, right? That's what every store should be. Dude. I got it. Okay. You just, yes, this, yes, yes. Every town. I mean, sadly, we're going to have to partner with Amazon, but it's okay. Every town needs an Amazon brick and mortar. Okay. Now Amazon. Yes.

[00:40:15] Lives on the internet. Yeah. But let's just say you had a store called Amazon and you go, they're going to have to be specialized. What I'm saying is they don't sell anything there. You pay a membership fee to the Amazon store. So like, like a Sam's club. Yeah. You pay a membership fee. Okay. You walk around, you go in there and you, you go, Oh, look at this chair and you sit in it and you can feel it. Right.

[00:40:43] You can't buy it there, but you can click on it and go, it'll be at your house in two days. And they're even coming from this store. That's this is a display store. I, we need store should be display stores. Yeah. Okay. And then we should be able to click a button and order it and just have it delivered and not have to deal with it because that saves us not having to try to, you know, lug it. If it's a larger item, we don't have to worry about trying to, how do we get it in our car? How do we buy it from the store? If it's a special order model, we don't have to like, you know, if we say, yeah, I like the chair.

[00:41:13] I just tried. I sat in, but I want it in black and they don't have a black one here. So I can place a black order online. It's still going to be there in two days. I don't have to deal with waiting. Any would think that would work with furniture. Yeah. That would work with what else? I mean, Amazon has everything. Some things you don't need to go see, feel and touch. You know, some things, some things, but the things that you do, that's what that would specialize in clothes. I mean, definitely.

[00:41:43] So you have clothes and furniture. I think you need to see, maybe this is how we save malls. Maybe Amazon just buys an entire old shopping mall. That's kind of run down. And now each store, each room is like each store is a different display area. Yeah. So we're putting mom and pop shops even further out of business with this idea. This is true. See, I'm wondering if there's a way that the mom and pop show shops can say, all right, look, we are a shop and we are going to sell pool furniture.

[00:42:13] That's what we do. Okay. But everything we're selling is stuff that people buy through Amazon. It's just, if they come into our store and they snap the photo of saying, that's the one I want. Yeah. We get a cut of it because we're a physical store showing this off and we can like talk to the customer about these products, but people are still buying. And if we're buying it through Amazon, we just mom and pop pool shop. Yeah. Get, you know, 10% of the money. I think that's happening now on some levels. On some levels. Well, yeah, probably is. But that's ultimately, I think where we're going. Yeah.

[00:42:42] We're basically Amazon is like this centralized hub of all stuff that we can have shipped to us within 48 hours. Mm-hmm . It's just, we need these shops to be people to display these products. Yep. And having some experts there that I can ask questions to about those products. This just happens. So funny. Yeah. So, Jody and I, for our hot tub, the hot tub is old. Yeah. It came with the house.

[00:43:10] And even the people who had the house before us, it came with them. Oh, so it's a second generation. Yeah. I mean, it was, it's like, I don't know, 20 years old or something, this hot tub. But it still works great, blah, blah, blah. And now, the cover for the hot tub is very old, rotting, and it's heavy. Mm-hmm . Every time you try to lift it, it's two band job. So I thought there's, by now there's gotta be blah, blah, blah.

[00:43:37] So we go to this place called, I forgot the name of it, but it's a, it's a Whirlpool Spa store. Okay. And we just, so let's just go in there and look around for things that maybe we'll, because we need new steps getting into it. Right. And I thought, there are gonna be some items there. So we're, we're, we're shopping around. I tell the lady who was very helpful what I was looking for. Yeah. Twice she said, ah, I just, I just get that on Amazon.

[00:44:05] And had I been the owner of that store, I would have said, what are you doing? I know. That would have been pissed. But she was honest, she was nice to me. She said, well, I mean, you can buy this one. I've had that happen so many times too. People just say, yeah. I mean, like, obviously you can tell they're not the owners of the business. They're just working there. They're just getting a paycheck. But it's like, yeah, just go on Amazon. Just go on. Nobody does. Nobody buys. You'd be the only person to buy this for this price. So that happened. But she was helpful in other aspects.

[00:44:32] Apparently we were already in the system because that address was in the system. Okay. My address where the hot tub resides is that they've been dealing with the same address in this company because that's where they bought it. They bought the hot tub there. Yeah. And so, so I did end up buying some other stuff like the steps. I said, I want some steps. How much of these? And she said, don't buy these steps. Order them on Amazon. And I did. So I put those together yesterday.

[00:45:01] That was another thing I did. And then, and the lid we ordered from her. It's a lid. Right. And then that's going to take six weeks. Geez. I probably could have bought it on Amazon. See that the time of it, we are an impatient society. Yeah. Okay. Anytime you tell me that something I want is going to take weeks to get to me. I'm like, really? I mean, is it really have to take weeks? Like what is the channel of distribution here that's causing this? Yeah. We're spoiled now.

[00:45:27] You remember as a kid, when you look in the back of a boy's life magazine and it would say like, allow six to eight weeks to deliver this pair of x-ray glasses. We were just like, cool. Okay. I can wait. And nowadays, no, I'll be there tomorrow. The next day, three. Yeah. Sometimes two days, even door dash. Well, there's an extra button. You can hit express. We are a lazy society. We just want it. John cannot on that note.

[00:45:57] Do you still have family members in your household ordering single food items from door dash just to be delivered to the house? Or is that, is that kind of. I am gone by the way. Sure. That happens when I'm gone. Yeah. I feel the same way on my end too. That is my biggest. I love convenience. I like the idea of pushing a button and something shows up in my house.

[00:46:20] But when it's down to buying a single piece of food item or a meal that is from a restaurant. Honestly, we live in Hickory. Nothing's that far away. No. Most of the restaurants we order from are honestly within two miles of my house. Right. I can get there in a minute and a half. Yeah. And it's like, why am I, why are we ordering stuff to be delivered to our doorstep, paying an extra fee, tipping the guy?

[00:46:50] I'm like, really? Are we tipping the guy? Right. Right. To deliver it. He drove a mile down the road and dropped it off from my front door. Yeah. And he gets it. It's like, why are we doing this? I have a theory. Okay. I'm going to get in trouble. Oh boy. Here we go. That's fine. This will be your placenta moment. I think it's male, female. Oh, is it?

[00:47:12] I think men, by and large, at your own place, now you're on the road at a hotel, then it's 50-50. But at your own home, men are more likely to go like, I'll just go get it. Yes. Because we don't care what we look like. We don't care what we look like. Women are like, I need to do my hair. I look ugly right now. I haven't taken a shower. I put my makeup on. I can see that. And so they're going to just DoorDash it. I think it breaks down to gender in a little bit.

[00:47:42] And when it comes to stuff like that, delivered to your house. Because I think I've heard you say that you've had, not going to name names, but members of your family that will order a Frosty from Wendy's. Yeah, yeah, yeah. From DoorDash. Yeah. Palm Berry. Yeah. A $1.20 food item. Yeah. They probably paid, I'm sure they paid more in DoorDash fees than they did for the actual item. Right. And it really, Wendy's, I know where you live. You live near me. We can get to Wendy's in two minutes.

[00:48:11] Well, you're saying Wendy's, it was not Wendy's. It's a place even closer than Wendy's. Oh, is it that Palm Berry's? It's Palm Berry's place. Palm Berry's place, yeah. I mean, really, that's even closer. Even closer. Yeah, there's two fewer lights in between us and that place. Oh, there's a hilarious TikTok I saw. Yeah. And this is a great idea. I wish we had thought of it. It's some guy who's, he's pranking DoorDash delivery people. Oh, perfect. It's the best. Yeah, okay.

[00:48:38] So the video starts with him sitting on his front porch waiting for the DoorDasher. And you see them coming up. He's like, oh, okay, thank God you're here. All right, hell, thank you, thank you, thank you. How much? And they're like, okay, here, I just got to take a picture because let me just hold it. And he grabs the food and he drop kicks it. He kicks it as hard as he can. And he goes, okay, give me the drink. And he'll just throw the drink down. And the person's looking like, like, what did you do? And he goes, here, here's a hundred bucks. But he overtips them. Okay. So he makes up for it. Yeah.

[00:49:09] He doesn't really make them, they're shocked that they can't believe. Right. Because of all the work that they went through. Yes. Bringing you this food. All the, quote, work they went through. Work. Yeah. The work that just had to go into. I mean, think about. Or making the food. Yeah. That's a lot of work. Well, this person, this DoorDash person, right? Yeah. They could be anywhere in their car driving around waiting for an order to come in. Bling! They get an order. And they're like, okay, well, that one is 10 miles away.

[00:49:38] I'll say yes to that. All right, I'm going to go ahead and drive across town and go to the Wendy's and I'll sit in the parking lot and wait for them to get the order done. And you sit in your car and you're waiting. And now the order is done. You go in and you get it. Now you got to look, okay, where does this person live? All right. So I'm going to go. And they want me to come to the house. I'm going to the front yard. Do you want me to put it at the door? Is it a hotel? So there's a lot of time and effort. I won't say work. I get that. Sure. No, it's, it's, there's some effort. And then you hand it to a guy and he drop kicks it. That's hilarious.

[00:50:07] Are they videotaping the guy's reaction? Yeah. That's the cameras on the door dash. Oh yeah. Yeah. But then he has funny, clever ways of giving them extra money. Some of them try to run away cause they think he's crazy. Yeah. Well, I, that's totally. Yeah. And he, he has to physically chase them down sometimes and go, no, no, no. Here's this is a thousand dollars. Wow. And they're like, okay. I need to look these videos up. That would be really funny. I, yeah, I've been trying to photo bomb the door dashers. So when they, when they're taking their picture, like if they put it in the front door

[00:50:35] and I'm looking at the people or of a side window and I can see they're about to snap the picture. I kind of like jump in. Like I want to be in the picture. Does your doorbell, um, your video doorbell, which I love my video doorbell by the way. Yeah. Yeah. It's great. I'm actually getting two more for my other, my back doors. Cause I love them so much. Do you have ring ring system? Ours is a, uh, the one I got is a Logitech. Okay. Cause I, all right. Here's all of my cameras.

[00:51:02] Let me get nerdy for a second, but I, uh, I, we have a home kit home. That's Apple's automated home. All my devices are connected on it. I got to have a doorbell that will connect to it. And Logitech makes one that works really well. Anyway. Yeah. I'm adding two more cause I love them, but does your doorbell, will it try to do face recognition? No. Okay. Mine. Not that I know. Mine does something weird where if it sees somebody in the video doorbell camera,

[00:51:30] a certain face or just a face. It's trying to identify who, what it is. It is. Okay. And it's hilarious sometimes. Okay. Because it's looking at my photo library and it's like, Oh, who do I think this person that just walked up is? And you know, I've had it actually come up and say, uh, I think like somebody rang your doorbell. I think it was your uncle David. I'm like, uh, uncle David's been dead for 10 years. I don't think it's him. But you still have photos in your phone. Yeah.

[00:51:59] Well, thank you for that. Does it make an announcement? No, he actually puts a little, it puts a little text. It's like somebody rang your doorbell. It appears it's maybe this person. Okay. Cause it's scanning my photo library and it's checking the face recognition. And it's just, it's kind of hilarious. Yeah. It's never been right. It's like, it's told me that my dad was like dropping off food, you know, at our house. No, I don't think that was my dad. I don't think my dad was doing it. Some guy who looks like my dad. Yeah.

[00:52:27] But then of course I see the video and I'm like, it looks nothing like my dad. I don't know where this is. So that's the Apple's version of ring doorbell called. Well, it's not by Apple, but it works with the Apple system that I've got in our house. Um, you know, I've got all the home pods and the, uh, all over the house and they are all connected in this doorbell works with it. So what's cool is that if somebody rings the doorbell, the video of that doorbell pops up on my TV. Oh, I want that. Yeah. It's so nice. I was like, Oh good. I can see who it is.

[00:52:55] If I need to get up as opposed to having to pull your phone up and look it up. Yep. I need that. I do love the video doorbells. So you got the whole, I see, I'm seeing your whole house right now. Yeah. So this is the front door. Uh, this is the deck. Yeah. This is the garage door, but I don't, and this is the pool, but the pool, this is the pool from like the third level looking way down. It's like a bird's eye view. This is the artificial turf I was telling you about. Oh, that's pretty. It's nice. Yeah.

[00:53:24] So this is all travertine around here. Travertine. Yeah. All that decking the, around the pool is travertine hot tub, artificial grass. This is the one thing that we got that we loved. Like it fits in that corner. That is really nice. Perfect. That's a fire pit. Yep. Then we said, let's, but now we have this room here. Let's get another something like that to go here, but it's this weird light blue, dark gray color. So we just, we need to replace the color.

[00:53:54] Okay. Okay. See that chair right there. I do. That thing tried to kill me. That's the chair that I put together. That's the one. All the other boxes are tucked in underneath here. You can't see them, but that, but that, that was a fire pit area, but I'm going to put that, I'm going to make that all travertine. So that, that chair, it's just kind of ostracized right now. It's kind of like off on its own. I had it over here, but I thought, no, no, no, you don't deserve to be, you don't deserve to be there. You need to be back over the shade. I'm happy.

[00:54:22] I only put one together by the time Jodi got home to say, hear her say, I don't like that chair. Good. Cause I put eight of them together. No, I just did the one. Thank God. I'm glad you did, but you got a, you got a really nice, a nice setup, right? We need to do a, you still want to do like a show or something from your pool area. 100% when this is all done, because we still have some things to do. This will be an area for a dining table. Now, not a fire pit. Yeah. Umbrella table. I don't want John reaps.

[00:54:51] Uh, what do you call this area? We had a, this is a Laguna day reap Laguna day reap. Yeah. We need to have a John reaps Laguna day reap beach party. Yeah. Where it's like, just, just like you would see at the playboy mansion. It's just a whole bunch of people in the pool. That's what I want. People just standing by the pool dancing. Yes. Even if there's no music playing, just dancing. This whole area right here. People dancing on the wall. People dancing over here. People sitting at the table eating people in the hot tub, people in the chairs. That's perfect.

[00:55:20] And I got, Oh, well it came in the mail. Okay. This is a birthday gift that Jody got for me that she didn't know that she got for me, but I got it and I said, thank you. Ron Burgundy, terry cloth, orange robe. And we're going to do that scene where he's like, yes. Yeah. And if you're going to have that, that's going to be a reason to have a night pool party this summer. Cause I need extras. Yes. And you and I, and Jody will dress up like, uh, uh, what's your face? Christina Applegate. Yep.

[00:55:49] And I'll dress up like Ron Burgundy. We'll have stay most there. Uh, everybody. Yes. From the show. Okay. Other people. Yeah. Yeah. We'll do our version of that. It'll be like, I have a very important announcement to make. Carolina Reaper is live right now. Whatever. We'll make it about the show. Yeah. Oh, or AI. I'm excited. Yeah. I'm excited. That'll be, that'll be really, really fun. Yeah. So you've had, I mean, okay. Other than this one chair experience that you're dealing with right now. Yes.

[00:56:19] Otherwise your, your shopping experience and purchasing things online has been good. It's just, you found the limitation. It sounds like it's ideal to go and actually see the chair, sit in it, really check it out before you buy it online. Cause this thing, it was supposed to be extra large chairs supposed to be super wide. It is not. When you put your arms on the armrest, it's too far down. So your arms are supposed to go like this. It's like, I'd have to do like this. The one thing they say, maybe not like, it's supposed to be extra wide.

[00:56:49] It's not extra wide. Like, is that for like size person? Is that what they're basing it on? Like you wanted a chair big enough for anyone that could come in? Well, I don't know. That's what Jody just saw it. She goes, Oh, this one's got wheels and it's like, it's, it's, it's wider than normal chairs. So that would be more comfortable if you want to lay on it and sleep and maybe toss and turn kind of thing. Like a twin bed. You want to have to move around in it. Yeah. So she thought, Oh, that would be cool. It's got wheels on it. Yeah. So that's the good thing.

[00:57:18] You can just pick up this end and move it like, Oh, I see. You know, like a hand trucks or something. Uh, but yeah, all this stuff I had to take from the driveway on a hand truck and come through here, put it back here and disassemble it, drag the cardboard back out to the front yard. Anyway, it's a big old thing. Um, life's life's tough, man. I know. As I'm saying this, I'm thinking of some poor guy who's like in standing in the rain right

[00:57:46] now, begging for spare change. He's like, yeah, yeah, John, that sucks to be you, man. You're sucks. Dude. I couldn't get my Bluetooth to sync up with the deck speakers. I know it's the worst life sucks. It really does when these things happen. Yeah. I will say when it comes to buying furniture, chairs, things you're sitting in, I will pay extra now that we've had this conversation and go to a mom and pop store, sit in it and go.

[00:58:15] Now I know I could probably get this cheaper on Amazon, but then I'd have to put it together. And yeah, I think that's where we need to do the calculation. It's like, if we're going to have to spend time assembling it, if we're going to spend time with the chance of it not being right or not being something we'd like, and we got to pack it back up and return it. If we got to calculate all that and be like, all right, maybe it is just worth it for some of these purchases that we just go to the store, see it in person and tell them, yep, that's what I want. I may pay more.

[00:58:43] It may take longer to get to me, but at least I know it's right. Exactly. That's my fear. I don't buy clothes on Amazon or places for that reason. Cause I'm like, yeah, I need, I got to see how it's going to look on me. I got to try it on. I don't want to just, especially pants. Yeah. You know, a shirt. If I see a t-shirt and I just go, I'm gonna get an extra large, but even though sometimes it's 50 50 cause it's not, it's not soft. It's scratchy. Yeah. So clothes. I don't like buying online. Yeah.

[00:59:13] Furniture. I am after hearing your stories, I'm less likely to do furniture. Yeah. Things like I need new batteries. Okay. Anything else, anything else, anything that is a proven product that I know about, I will get through Amazon. But yeah, I do think if shops really want to be specialized, it's like clothes. There's always going to be a need for closed stores. Mm hmm. And I think furniture. Yeah. Furniture stores, things that people want to sit in, sit on, try out, you know, it's a, you just need that. So let me ask you this.

[00:59:42] And then I bet we're almost at an hour. I think we're close. Yeah. Um, we went to Texas roadhouse the other day when, when Laney wanted us, we all went to the ultrasound. Yep. Me, Jody, uh, her late Laney's a boyfriend, Josh and Josh's parents and siblings all went together as this family to the ultrasound. Then afterwards we went to Texas roadhouse. Now when I went to Texas roadhouse, it was, there's always a wait.

[01:00:11] Texas roadhouse is always packed. What? Okay. I got a question. And I'm, I'm with you too. It's like, what really? Yeah. So, but there is, and I'm out ruled on these things. And I'm thinking fine. Um, it's going to be a 30 minute wait, but as we're waiting out there, I'm noticing the whole side of the parking lot is for door dash, uh, cars. Hmm.

[01:00:37] I'm seeing people come in and out getting food and then driving it away. Okay. And I'm thinking there needs to be a law or something. It's like, if you're a big, big established chain, like Texas roadhouse, you are not allowed to do door dash. Door dash should just be for Chinese food, pizza, fast food. Why? Why do you say that?

[01:01:07] Because you don't really go to a pizza hut and sit down anymore. Uh, places where you want to, because I felt like the door dash orders were delaying my time. I wanted to, Oh, I see. Okay. All right. I got it now. Yeah. So it's not that you're saying that people should not be able to enjoy the food of Texas roadhouse in the comfort of their own home. You're saying it's the fact that there's a lot of activity happening and it's probably slowing things down. Slowing things down from you guys. Yeah.

[01:01:34] Patrons who want to sit in the restaurant and enjoy your meal. Right. It is affecting your, your service. Yeah. Yeah. There's gotta be something there to be done about it. All right. Because it slowed down the whole process. Yeah. I mean, I gotta imagine it probably does. I mean, you have a limited number of people in the kitchen working all the time. Yeah. They're having to do half their stuff they're cooking for our door dash orders. Yeah. Then obviously that means the other half of the in person stuff would seem to be slower. A little bit.

[01:02:04] Yeah. Hmm. Hmm. What is it with Texas roadhouse though? I don't get it. I, every time I drive by there's a Texas roadhouse in our town. Every time I drive by every time packed, packed line out the door, people sitting looks like they've been there for like half an hour to an hour waiting. Yeah. I mean, it's, and it doesn't matter what time it leads to think. Okay. Sunday after, after church, like lunchtime. Yeah, I get it. Right.

[01:02:32] But it was like, it could be a Thursday afternoon at 4 30 PM. And there's freaking line of people going to Texas roadhouse. Is that the, that somehow became the number one. Uh, if a family is, if a family's going out to do something, we're going to Texas roadhouse. There used to be a long, it's long horn still around. Longhorn still there. Doesn't have the line. Not as much. I mean, it does stay pretty busy, but it's not, it's not Texas roadhouse.

[01:02:59] No, what are the main, what's the biggest, uh, uh, state. I, the only differentiator. And I don't know if this is the thing, but it does. It is the thing that attracts me to Texas roadhouse. The peanuts. Uh, yes. I was going to ask you which one does that. Yeah. Texas roadhouse does the peanuts where they give you the little bucket of peanuts that you can just like. I didn't see any this time. I'll see if they've done away with that. Maybe so. And people are just stupid. Yeah. Yeah. That's the main.

[01:03:29] You want to be able to throw things on the floor. I love that. I used to go there years ago and it's like, yeah, I want to crack open these peanuts and I can just throw the shells on the floor. Yeah. I remember that. Nobody can say anything to me about it. When did you discover that you could do that? How old were you the first time that you ate, cracked open a peanut shell and threw it on the floor? Well, the Texas roadhouse here in Hickory has not been around. I mean, it wasn't around when I was a kid. Yeah. So I don't remember when the first time I went. I mean, I was in my twenties, I'm sure late twenties or something like that. Same. But yeah, you go in.

[01:03:59] But I didn't know. I didn't know either until the first time I went in and I was like trying to be the nice guy. Like I'm just going to put the shells on this little, little napkin here and I don't want to, I don't want to make a mess. Yeah. And then somebody is like, no, you do. You just put them on the floor. Do you remember who that somebody was? Um, I think it might've been Brad that works here. Oh yeah. Cause he, he and me and him and a couple of the guys used to do dinner like every week. Yeah. It's kind of cool. We'd alternate places. And I was like, we went to Texas roadhouse and that was like a revelation for me.

[01:04:28] I'm like, I can just throw things on the floor. This is great. This is great. I remember leaving this place. The reason why it stands out in my brain is cause I went there with the family when I was visiting from LA or Raleigh or something. Okay. And we went to this place and I didn't know you could do it. Oh. And then they bring the peanuts in a bucket. Dad, dad does it. He, he, he, he cracks one open, eats the peanut shells and goes, watch this and just throws it. He knew I didn't know. The motion you just did was he actually threw it.

[01:04:58] Over his shoulder. It was like just guns a blazing. I'm just going to throw it out. Not like, let me just drop it. Drop it directly underneath me. He like tosses it over the back of his shoulder. See that's. I'm like, dad, what are you doing? I was like, dad, we're going to kick us out of here. I was getting, he knew I didn't know. Right. And thought it was funny to prank me in a weird way. And then I thought like, that's it. And I'll go around and see everybody doing it. Yeah. I'm like, Oh, this is pretty cool. What else can I throw? So you're saying the last time you went to Texas Roadhouse, which was pretty recently here. Yeah. There were no peanuts. I didn't notice any.

[01:05:29] So I wonder if they got rid of it. I don't know if the word's gotten out about that because there are still people lined up outside that restaurant. I wonder how many people are going into that restaurant now having waited an hour and a half outside, assuming only to find out, assuming that the peanuts are of the same situation as before. Yeah. They get into the restaurant there. They crack open their menu and they're looking around the table. They're like, where's the F and peanuts. Right.

[01:05:53] And some poor waitress has to tell them, yeah, sorry, we don't, we don't do the peanuts anymore. Yeah. I wonder if there was like a union strike by people working at Texas Roadhouse, like complaining about having to clean up. I need to find out if you can still go because I didn't see any, but, but this is, it's an odd pairing to me anyway. Peanuts and a steakhouse. So when I think peanuts, I think of a circus. I think of like maybe something on with ice cream in it.

[01:06:22] But, but I don't think of steak and what's your appetizer? Peanuts. Yeah. Well, you know, it's another odd pairing. Five guys. Have you been to a five guys restaurant? I have. They do the peanuts as well. Do they? I'm not, I'll take it back. I've not been into five guys. If you go into five guys, five guys, burgers, bits of burgers and shakes place. Yeah. There again, don't know why peanuts are there, but in the middle of the restaurant, there's a gigantic thing of peanuts and you come and scoop a peanuts thing and take them to your table.

[01:06:52] And again, just crack them open. Now I don't think they have the whole shells on the floor piles. Yeah. But you can get a bag or whatever. You get another cup and do your shells in there. But that's the only reason I will, when people say, I think five guys burgers are too expensive, but I will go. You'll make it up in peanuts. I'll make it up in peanuts. That's great. There we go. A lot of ways to save money and time. We're all about saving money and time. And the best way to return things.

[01:07:21] And don't use Facebook marketplace is my messaging. Cause I, I, unless if you, if you have my name or are affiliated with me in any way, did you ever get any kind of workout equipment? No, I've got nothing. You're still looking. Well, I've got work. I had to just end up buying it on Amazon. Oh, I still don't have a treadmill. No treadmill. And look, I, so listen, I'm using the words exercise equipment for these scenarios to cover up one. I'm really trying to buy at these places.

[01:07:47] It was like, you know, because exercise equipment sounds cooler for people. Oh, wait a second. It's not the one 20th die cast millennium Falcon model I was trying to buy. So no, that that's not what I was renting the van for. We can just go to goodwill and get you something, man. I'm sure there's a treadmill. Goodwill. You know, actually, no, I'm sure I have been trying to buy a treadmill. I find better luck going to those thrift stores, you know, I will. Anytime I'm in a city or I'm visiting somewhere, my wife and I hop into the goodwill hop into

[01:08:17] whatever other thrift store. I'm like, maybe there's a $40 treadmill. Yeah. Somebody's got there. I can just take, there are tons of random workout. We work out things at Goodwill all the time. You'll see me and Mark will do it on the other show. I think that's really funny that that's, that's a popular item for people to just donate. And like, yeah, yeah. Screw this exercise thing. Yeah. I get it. I get it. All right. All right. Thanks buddy. No, man. Thanks. Enjoyed it.

[01:08:47] Happy birthday again. Thank you. Thank you. And thanks for listening to this. And don't forget to rate review, subscribe and share. Leave us a comment in the comment section underneath the YouTube video of this. If that's how you're watching it. And in fact, Alan, you know what I'm going to do right now? I'm going to go right. Maybe this will be a way to end the show moving forward is I just go to my YouTube channel, which I got right here. Yep. I see it.

[01:09:14] Here's one four days, seven days ago. Let's see if there's any comment under this video. Oh, here we go. Dustin Bosley, 6201. He said, bring your barbecue sauce to Huntsville, Texas show buddy. And that was on the future. So bright, but AI is still dumb episode. Yeah. Okay. Well, Dustin, I will do that. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I mean, people can honestly just make comments on the YouTube channel for these shows.

[01:09:44] Cause that's a, that's what we're hearing. John is that people, people are doing the YouTube for their audio shows. Yeah. So we're making sure all the audio shows are nicely on your YouTube channel. Here's another one by Shane Flint outdoors. This has quickly moved up into my top three favorite podcasts. This keep this one going. Such a great lesson. Now, did he write that? Um, before we took the year and a half hiatus.

[01:10:13] Yeah. Well, it says three days ago. It also says edited. Oh, so maybe he edited this three days ago. No, but you only put this video up. How long ago? I don't remember. Four days ago. Yeah. Well, I'm glad to hear we've moved up. Oh, that was the episode. Hey Siri. What is a placenta? Okay. All right. Thank you, Shane. Thank you. Everybody who listens to this and, uh, thank you to most. Thank you to the Alan Jackson. And, uh, we'll see you next time. I'm John Reap saying goodbye.

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