Earth Day, Edit & Regret It, and Mukbanging with Mom'osa!

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[00:01:55] Much obliged. You're probably thinking, why are you wearing that silly hat, John? It ain't silly. It's actually part of my Halloween costume for when I was that character from Yellowstone. Well, what's his name? The badass. Rip. Rip. I was Rip. I'm a ginger Rip now. Anyway, I'm going to Texas. That's why I'm wearing the hat and the shirt. I bought this in Cherokee. I bought this in Cherokee, things for a reason. But this episode, it is April the 22nd.

[00:02:24] That means it is Earth Day. Happy Earth Day, everybody. What does that mean? Is it Earth's birthday? Happy Earth... Happy birthday, Earth. Happy birthday? I don't think it's a birthday. If you combine birth and Earth, it would still just be birth. You know? Yeah. Right. I don't think it's a birthday either, but I'm stuck on that now. Yeah, is it just to try to remind us to like the Earth?

[00:02:54] Yeah. Happy... If it's your birthday, Earth, I want to say happy. You don't look a day over 4.4 billion years old. No, you're right. It's a way to help save our planet. A reminder to pick up litter, do things to, you know, not pollute.

[00:03:16] Less of a carbon footprint. I feel like I do my part. I recycle. I mean, I don't obey all the rules when it comes to recycling. For example...

[00:03:30] Like, what are the recycling rules? Well, I don't know. If you look at it, not everything is recycled. Like, what is recyclable? Like cans? Like this can's recyclable, right? Cardboard? Paper? Plastic? That's it, right?

[00:03:48] I mean, I'm talking about in your house, your common sort of recyclable can that you have. What would you say do you put in your recyclable bin? Cans? Cardboard? Paper? Yeah, anything paper, cardboard. What's in there mostly for you? Cardboard. Cardboard, yeah. Okay, so cardboard.

[00:04:14] All those Amazon boxes, everything I get shipped. Styrofoam is not recyclable. Just so you know. Is it not? Styrofoam is not. Uh-oh. Yeah. So there you go. You're accidentally breaking a rule if you put styrofoam in that bin. So that's what I'm saying is I sometimes slack on the things that are supposed to go to the trash bin versus the recyclable bin.

[00:04:40] Is it bad if I just put everything in there and then let them kind of figure out what they want to take? This is what I do. So basically what you're telling me is you and me both have two trash cans. And one of them goes to a landfill and the other one goes to a recycling plant where they have to dig out our trash. Right. Yeah.

[00:05:08] See, I kind of take it from the approach of I want to be so earth conscious. Yeah. I don't want to take any chance of me throwing something away that could actually be recyclable. So I'm going to put everything in the recycling bin. Moose is laughing. To cover all bases. Yeah. So what about your trash? That's my spillover recycling bin. I got you. If the recycling bin gets full. Right, right. All right, I guess it goes in the normal trash can.

[00:05:39] Do you think about these things? Not as much as I should. It's just sort of like, it goes where it goes. I care deeply about doing this right, but time is also important. Time is very important. I mean, the earth knows this. It's 4.5 billion years old. We got nothing but time. Except we don't because we're humans. So we got to get shit done before we die. And become a part of the earth's earth.

[00:06:08] But I know what you're saying. It's very frustrating. I try to do the right thing with recycling. I don't always do it right. I try to do my part, so I recycle. I drive a hybrid from Hendrick Honda of Hickory. Thank you. They got a great hybrid. Moose, you were laughing during the recycle part. Yeah. I'm on the City of Hickory Recycling Board. Okay. Then let us know a little bit. I'm happy to educate a little bit.

[00:06:38] Yeah. Sorry. I'll turn my microphone on. Yeah. I'm on the City of Hickory Recycling Board. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, it's fine. Alan, you didn't know this? You're sitting right next to me. You just ratted yourself out. I did. Yeah. Well, because of the music venue, we produce a lot of recyclables, right? Yeah. So I wanted to make sure that we were doing everything the right way. And I'm also, you know, I'm pretty earth conscious. You know, I want people to throw away the right stuff, Alan.

[00:07:07] I'm going to get a warning message on my mailbox. You're going to get the pink tag. No, but I will tell you this. In those meetings, they do tell us about people that throw away, like, garbage bags full of stuff. And they throw, if people do that, they have to throw away the entire truckload of stuff. And that, yeah, I mean, they go, I mean, right. I have a question. You're on the board, so now I'm talking to the guy. Yeah, you are, for sure. All right.

[00:07:37] Plastic, we both agreed that it is recyclable. It's not. It just depends on what kind of plastic. Like, if you have the shell plastic that, like, sandwiches and things come in, those can't go. Give me an example of the most commonly thing that is recyclable that's plastic. Like, the most. Like, 20-ounce water bottles. Water bottles are recyclable. That's correct. But, like, you know, like shell plastics. It's plastic number five that can't go in there. How are we supposed to? They need.

[00:08:07] Okay. Yeah, they do. Well, that's one of the things that I was concerned about is the actual education to people. Yeah, write it down. There's actually a website. We can pick up the infographic. No, you're right, because I've seen the little symbol, the things that are recyclable and things that aren't on certain plastic things. So, the information is there, but who's going to really take the time to? I will. Okay, how about this? Here's an idea. You can be a part of the R&D process of this.

[00:08:36] Would you do, we're going to say, a better job recycling if you had, say, like something on your recycle bin that said, hey, you cannot recycle X, Y, and Z. Please only put these things in your recycle bin. Yeah? Like, okay, that's a good solution, Moose. Like, instead of just giving us a blue bin, put some things on the bin, like this, this, and this, and then things that you do not put in this bin.

[00:09:03] Like, I would say the most, the worst thing that would go in the bin, make that like a symbol with an X through it and say, don't put this in here, you know? Right. I'll tell you what that thing is, is dirty pizza boxes. So, that's cardboard. What? But it's dirty. It's like, the grease and dirt and all that stuff, like, messes up. This is what I'm talking about. It does mess up the recycling. Like, you, nobody knows this, and I feel bad for how, well, I feel good for educating my friends on this, but. It's Earth Day. Get it out.

[00:09:33] It is Earth Day. So, I should get it out to all the thousands and thousands of listeners that we have. I think that, you know, each town has, you know, basically one of these infographics that you can find on your city website, I'm sure, if you have a recycling program, where it indicates all the things that you can and can't recycle. Like, plastic trash bags is a big no-no. Like, it screws it up. So, like, but I will say this, what's even wild about the whole thing is if the commodities

[00:09:59] market isn't at a certain level, basically they're, they don't care. So, like, if aluminum is, like, really, really low, they could care less about recycling and probably don't. Okay. So, I've just discovered, well, I kind of knew this. I was trying to go down a certain path with you, but you just answered the question. I said plastic is recyclable. Yeah, but not all of it. So, right there, there's a problem.

[00:10:24] I have been using plastic bags in an effort to keep my bins clean for my recycle. I use a plastic bag and put my recycles in the plastic bag inside the house, and I take that one and put it in the recycle bin and take that down, thinking that because the bag is plastic that it's okay. But he just said that's a no-no. Yeah, it's not. And, like, nobody knows that. Why don't they make a recyclable plastic bag? That's a good question.

[00:10:52] I think what needs to happen, you know, hear me out. We're going to think tank this. The recycling plants all over the country have got to deal with the shit mistakes we're going to make. You can't just go, well, that's a loss. You're going to have to hire more people, have a whole other division of going through the trash. Don't tell people that because you still want them to do the right thing, but they're not going to do it. You have to be realistic.

[00:11:21] They're not going to do the right thing. We're not going to wash our dirty cardboard pizza boxes. Right. And so what they're also thinking is that more of a regressive type system, so they're going to start finding people that do that. Right. Or just don't take the bin. If you see the bin and there's, like, a plastic bag in there, go, they ain't taking this. They don't. Typically, sometimes they don't.

[00:11:46] You'll get, like, a pink tag on your trash bin or your recycle bin saying that we see that you have a whole bunch of stuff in here that's not supposed to be recycled, so they'll just leave it there. Interesting. Wow. I'm learning a lot. Okay. Well. Educational podcasting. Thank you, Moose. Happy Earth Day, everybody. Hey. Today happens to also be National Jelly Bean Day. Oh, how was your Easter?

[00:12:16] I forgot to ask everybody how your Easter was. Did you have a good Easter at home? Did you eat jelly beans? Leave me in the comments section. I'd like to hear about it, you know, next time I'm looking at the comments section. I'm not live. I recorded this yesterday. But I'll look at them, and you'll see. I'll prove it here in a minute. I'm going to read comments from last week. But Easter, I went to West Hickory Baptist Church with Mom and Jody. It was delightful. But they always have that sunrise service. You know, that's the tough one.

[00:12:46] Oh, did you do the sunrise? No, no, no, no. No. But when they do a sunrise... What time do they really do it at sunrise? Every church does it different, I guess. But our church does do an actual sunrise service. And then they have a breakfast. And then they'll have a normal service. But they don't want to have too much time lapse from the breakfast to the normal service. So they scoot that one up, too. Normal service, 1030. This time on Easter Sunday at 9 a.m.

[00:13:15] So I was there at 9 a.m. Me and Jody joined Mom at 9. But she was there at like 4, like 5 a.m. helping cook breakfast and doing stuff. So she had a day. I like it when they do a sunrise service, but it starts at like 1030. Yeah. They call it sunrise service. They just call it that. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, so that was fun.

[00:13:43] I did buy jelly beans, like I told you, because we did our Easter early and put them in these little fake eggs and hit them around the yard. And now I just got these jelly beans sitting around. I don't eat jelly beans often. In fact, the only time I ever buy jelly beans is around Easter time. I'm not a jelly bean guy. You're not a jelly bean guy? No. I don't dislike them. I like jelly beans. I just don't like them. If I'm at a store and I'm going down the candy aisle, I don't go, where's them jelly beans?

[00:14:13] You know, I got other candies that prioritize over the jelly bean. Do they sell jelly beans year round? Yeah, probably. I would assume so. It's a big industry. I mean, they have all kinds of jelly beans. You can get ones that are just for Easter. But thoughts, jelly beans. Oh, I like them. Yeah. I like the gourmet ones. I like the ones with all the random flavors. That's like butter popcorn flavor.

[00:14:42] Oh, that's right. Yeah, there's some really good ones out there. That is right. I forgot about that. They have exotic weird flavors now. In fact, I think we did an episode on this a long time ago. I think some movie theaters were going to sell the popcorn flavored jelly bean. Did you ever try one of those? The popcorn flavored jelly beans? Oh, yeah. I love it. Wow. It's my favorite. Interesting. I wonder what the movie...

[00:15:09] Can someone look up the craziest flavor of a jelly bean? All I know about jelly beans, they're good, like I said. I don't hate them. I don't dislike them. I just don't ever find myself buying them unless I'm at a... You know, unless it's Easter time. But don't like the dark... I don't like the black jelly beans. Not to sound racist. But I don't like that flavor. And some people love the black jelly beans. Some people hate them. I'm like... It's kind of licorice.

[00:15:39] Yes, jelly belly. Barf! Barf! Yeah. There's a barf one. Oh, now that's hilarious. Hang on. Let me read the barf. Hold on. What does it say about it? Starting strong with a widely known flavor from the famous jelly belly peach flavor, but tastes like far different. It's widely known as the most disgusting... Disgusting... Okay, so this is a trick. Yeah, it looks like a peach one. So it gets you all excited, thinking you like peaches. I love that.

[00:16:08] You bite into it and it's barf. Nasty. It's nasty. There's also canned dog food. That sounds interesting. It can either be canned dog food or chocolate pudding. Ugh. Canned dog food. I'm trying to think of what I would find more disgusting. The barf and what that tastes like? Here's a centipede flavored one. I wouldn't know what that tastes like. I don't know what a centipede tastes like, so I couldn't evaluate that one, but... And these are real... Toothpaste.

[00:16:38] No, I like toothpaste. I don't really see that as a gross flavor. No. Right? But here's an interesting thing, though. Think about this. If you want to have a nighttime snack after you've already brushed your teeth, Could you just eat a jelly bean? Just eat those jelly beans. I'm sure every dentist would approve of that. What are you talking about, dentist? I got the... It's the flavor of toothpaste. Rotten egg. Oh, no. That doesn't sound good. That's... Yeah. Butter popcorn.

[00:17:07] See, but they're even saying butter popcorn's not that great. I think the butter popcorn's really good. I wouldn't try the butter popcorn. I love popcorn. Long clippings. God. Oh, my gosh. Oh, that's pretty good. Long clippings. All right. Yeah. Wow. Okay. Well, I did not know all that. Happy National Jelly Bean Day, everybody. You know who loved jelly beans? Ronald Reagan. Yes! Yep. Ronald Reagan. That was one of his favorite candies.

[00:17:35] In fact, I think he made it a big deal. It was in the White House, and they would send him all these jelly... I don't know how that story came out. Did someone just ask him randomly, what's your favorite candy? He goes, I love... Well, I gotta say, yeah. And he probably has them on his desk. Yeah. Hmm. Maybe I gotta look into jelly beans more. Okay. I like jelly beans. You answer it in the comment question. Favorite jelly bean? Least favorite jelly bean? Let's talk about it. All right.

[00:18:04] Let's move on to our next segment. Thank you, guys. I didn't view anything. All right. The crowd is overflowing in the studio here. I don't get it. Really work on that. Yeah. I appreciate y'all coming, but you don't have to randomly start clapping after every time I do something. Don't do that. I got a new segment. All right? I got a new segment. I want you to see it. I'm gonna call this new segment Edit and Regret It.

[00:18:35] This came across my Facebook page, and I've been seeing this for years, and I don't know why I haven't brought it up. But this one guy, this is, I guess, we're showing his page. This is his page. How do you pronounce that word? Pickies? Peaks? Peaks? Peaks. P-K. P-K? Really? P-K, yeah. P-K. Español? Español. P-K. All right. I like it. Okay. Even his profile picture is funny.

[00:19:04] It's a picture of a guy who was trying to put the moon in his fingers and got it wrong. And so what he does, among other things, is he will post an image and then tell people, editors, don't do this, which means do it. Right? So I picked out a couple of them, and I thought we could just look at them and laugh at them together. Right? Right.

[00:19:31] So he put the picture of this guy who kind of right out the gate, he looks like a mix of Slash and Michael Jackson. Yeah. So let me make sure I understand what this happens. Yeah. So he puts this picture up. Yeah. P-K does. Yeah. He'll find a picture, an image. And he asked people or asked them not to, which is basically saying, I want you to do this to modify, edit the image however you like.

[00:19:58] And he starts it by saying, editors, do your thing. Editors, don't put something in his hand. All right. So we'll go back. So there's the master image. That's the one he put up there. Yeah. These are some of the ones people posted up. So right at the gate. He didn't put anything. This person didn't put anything in his hands. No, no, no. Then follow the instructions. Do you know what this is, Alan? I'm afraid to tell you I do know.

[00:20:28] Moose has got a shit-eating grin over there. So I know that he knows as well. Yeah, I don't know what it is. They're waiting for something. I wish not to know. Oh, okay. I got it. So there was an adult film, and these guys were standing behind. It's where a lot of people join in on one person. Oh, they're waiting their turn. They are. Yeah. I got you. And the girl's on the sofa, and she's like bragging. I'm with you. Yeah. Okay. Here we go. Here's another one.

[00:20:58] Oh. Yep. There's one that was done. That's pretty good. He put like the Joker wig on him? Yeah. Is he trying to be the Joker? Or is it just a guy with the green hair? I think it's just a guy with green hair. By the way, did you notice his jeans? Are they backwards? Yeah, they are. Oh, yeah, they are. But I think they're backwards in the original. Yeah, they are. They're in the original photo backwards. So he's doing that. Remember Criss Cross crossing you over? Miggy-dee-miggity-miggity-miggity-miggity-mack, daddy. Jump around.

[00:21:28] They had a jump song. But anyway, they wore their clothes backwards. Oh, God. Here we go. Do I? Yeah, of course. All right. I mean, everyone knows this guy's famous. But again, nothing in the hand. This is just people being dumb. Well, I think it's more up to the imagination on this one. Oh, because the hand is right. Yeah. Cropped. Yeah. So you don't know.

[00:21:54] It leaves it up to the eye beholder where that other hand is. Okay. This one, all right. I admire the Photoshop work done on this one. Yeah. It doesn't apply by the rule of putting something in his hands. No, exactly. It doesn't do that. And come on. The Pope just died. Oh, yeah, yeah. Bad timing. My bad. Bad timing. Oh, here we go. Nothing in his hand, but. Put the red glove on his hand, right? It's Michael Jackson's face. It's Michael Jackson's face.

[00:22:24] Yeah. I don't like that either. I don't think that's the way you should edit this stuff. Yeah. Are we scoring these? You want to score them? We can. We'll make a game out of it. All right. This one, I think. I mean, look. It's a good Photoshop work done, but it does not accomplish what I think the original poster is wanting. The pants are different, too. Did you notice that? Oh, he put on real pants, like jeans. Yeah, what did he do with the pants? I don't know backwards. See, I don't like that. Yeah. You got to go with what's given to you. This is the original image. Right. Okay. Let's put something in his hands.

[00:22:53] That's the whole deal. So one guy did put a squirt gun in his hands. Yeah. So far, that guy's winning. That was actually pretty good. Yeah, because even though it's funny what you're doing. You are... But wait a minute. The guy said, don't put something in his hands. Which would mean he does want you to put something in his hands. And these guys aren't... So they're kind of obeying his command, but that wasn't the idea. Right. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, I don't see anybody else actually doing anything with it.

[00:23:23] All right. You want to check out another one? Yeah, yeah. I got more. I got like three or four of these ones. Yeah, nobody else is actually following the rules on this one. All right. Let's check out another one. So what we should do... Okay. Oh, here we go. Editors, can y'all change the background and remove her glasses? Okay. Here we go. So this is what people are doing based on that. All right. Okay. Oh, clever. Yeah. The background is different.

[00:23:51] The baby is out of the womb and now in a baby carrier, but the glasses are still on. Still got the glasses. Now, I think this is actually PK did that one. So he's doing his own. So I guess... Oh, he did that one. Oh, he's got 14 replies under his own. Okay. That one's pretty good. That's good. Now they're both pregnant. Didn't follow the instructions, but still funny. That is hilarious.

[00:24:24] This might be my favorite one. Is his face different too? No, I don't think so. It is. Oh, it is a little different. Yeah. Why did he do that? Did AI do this? I think it had to have. Is that a character on that show? That's... That is Bubbles from... Trailer Park? Yeah, Trailer Park. Trailer Park Boys. Yeah. So there's just with him gone, and her glasses are gone. Right.

[00:24:55] The background is not changed. Okay. All right. So all somebody did here is put a hard hat and vest on them? This is... A lot of these people are using AI, I can tell. Yeah. Which is... That's what I would do. Yeah. I'm not really impressed with any of this. All right. What's the video? Oh. They start fighting. That's actually pretty good. That is crazy that AI can do that. All right.

[00:25:25] What's the next one? I think we've got a couple more. All right. Oh, boy. He put this one up and said, Editors, make her shoot webs. All right. So we've got a Spider-Man girl here. Her hand is in the Spider-Man motion to shoot webs. So he's saying to make her shoot webs. Here we go. Oh, first one of the video. Oh. Oh. She turns into Venom. All right. That was cool. All right. Which, by the way, did you watch Venom?

[00:25:56] Yes. Is it good? No. Okay. I like Tom Hardy, so I was maybe going to watch it. Okay. Here we go. A hole. I don't get this one. That guy, somebody said that I look like that guy at one time. Is he a? Yes. Okay. He does adult films. He does. So he shoots webs. The caption is, she will dot dot dot. Okay.

[00:26:26] Got it. Let's see. Come on. Is nobody with Spider-Man. All right. The first one. Well. Yeah. Okay. Oh, here we go. All right. Somebody made some webs. But her face is different. Yes. So again, AI at work. Yeah. So AI did. I wonder if they're taking these original images and putting it into an AI and saying

[00:26:55] to do what it, because it's not exact. And AI won't do it exactly the same, right? Here we go. Oh, there's some. So this is, that's a callback. It's a callback to the first one. There you go. That's how you do it. And that is how you play. Edit and regret it. What'd you think? Let's do some more of these. We can do that. I think you just got, we got to find some good examples. Yeah. Yeah. You know, got to find some good ones. I like the idea. Yeah. It's a good idea.

[00:27:25] I need, I mean, I like it when y'all help me with Photoshop and edit stuff. And, you know, we use AI. Al and I talk about AI on our other podcasts. Called Absolute Ignorance, which is a lot of fun, by the way. So can I mention, this is maybe a little preview of our upcoming AI episode. But I also thought maybe it's something we can try to do here on this show at some point. There's a, somebody texted me, I think my wife did actually today, that she found a AI tool,

[00:27:55] I think in ChatGPT, where you can upload a photograph of your pet. Yes. Yeah, I've seen this. And it turns your pet into a human being. Right. Like, what it looks like as a human. Right. I think that's pretty funny. It is. I'd like to try that out. And I have seen different examples. Sometimes it's hilarious. Yeah. And sometimes you go, no. It doesn't make any sense.

[00:28:21] But I was thinking it would be more like half human, half dog. But it's a straight up human. Right. No, it's a full human. Like there's no mingling of the two. Like if it's an old looking dog, then the human's old. Yeah. If it's a dog with blonde hair, the human has blonde hair. And anyway, I saw one that was done of my parents' dog and it looked pretty funny. It's pretty good. All right. Well, what shall we do next?

[00:28:50] Do you want to see some muck banging? Do you want to catch up? Do you want to talk about carpenter bees? I'm going to read your comments from last week. And we've got lots of irrational national holidays. I'll talk to the guys. What do you feel like doing? Can you update us on your whole carpenter bee situation? Because I'm more curious about this now. Okay. Yeah. Are you at home familiar with carpenter bees? I was not. I thought these things were bumblebees. I think we talked about it briefly at the end of last episode.

[00:29:18] I can't remember because it came up in the comments. Yeah. Which is why I'm talking about it. But apparently these things burrow holes in wood to build their nest. And they look. Okay. Yeah. Look at this. This is a hole that a carpenter bee makes. When I saw this hole, because someone told me, here's how you get rid of them. Find the hole. Spray whatever you got to spray in there to kill it. Yeah.

[00:29:47] And you could also put steel wool in the hole because they won't chomp on steel. Okay. They only chomp on wood. Right. So if you fill it full of steel wool, it'll be like, ah, I'm out of here. This is a bad taste. And then, of course, because it's a hole, you can fill it full of wood glue. After you've, you know, there's many, they don't like citrus apparently. So citrus is a thing you can do. Well, I, John Reap, do all of it. You hit every item on how to get rid of these things.

[00:30:17] I went to Lowe's and I bought, this is something you can Google, carpenter bee trap. I bought two of them. And I thought, okay, I'm going to knock out these carpenter bees. So what I'll do is just buy everything that everyone has suggested. So, yeah, basically that's all it is. I could have made one of these, but I went to Lowe's and bought one. But, yeah, you just, it's a block of wood with holes in it.

[00:30:46] They go in there and they fall into the jar and they can't get out. And then you can release them later if you're that kind of human, which is great. I don't, I don't. So they just, hold on, John. They just, they just naturally go in these holes. They think it's there. They think they did it. You're tricking the bee into thinking, oh, that's the one. I left to get some honey. That looks like a hole I might have made. It's a real good, it's a perfect hole. What do you mean? So you get some real cocky carpenter bees like, oh, yeah, that's one of mine. Yeah. I'm going in there.

[00:31:16] But they go in and they just fall? I guess they fall in there and they can't fly back out somehow. I don't know exactly how the technology part of it works. There's a jar underneath it. Right. But I mean, I just can't imagine a bee just like flying in the hole. And not trying to get back out. And not trying to get back out. It's probably got. How would they just fall into the jar? There's some mechanism. I don't know. Okay. That's a good question. I don't know. But I bought two of these things.

[00:31:42] I bought a spray that says carpenter bees. It's got that long little plastic hose. So I stuck it right in the hole. Oh, you can squeeze. You can put it in the holes. I bent it and then put it down in there and went. And saw it come until it overflowed. It kept coming back. This thing kept coming back. And I don't think it's the same one. Now, of course, bees, swarms.

[00:32:10] I was told the carpenter bees are like lone wolves. Like they're kind of like. Oh, they don't work in like. What do you call them? Hives. Hives. Right. They're not hive oriented like bumblebees. They're lone gunmen. They do their work on their own. Yeah. I really. I want to make it clear. I respect carpenter bees. And I would let them live happily on my property. Yeah. If they didn't destroy it. What are they destroying right now?

[00:32:39] The fence. Your fence. Yeah. The fence I just built not long ago to go around the pool. They're digging holes into it. And it's in a corner. And I would not have known about it had Jody not heard it. You can hear it working. You can hear it going. It sounds like this. Hang on. Can you hear that? I feel like we're in one of those AMSR videos. Yeah. Everybody listen to John make the bee sound. This is my impression. Yeah.

[00:33:08] Of a carpenter bee. Okay. In my backyard. Okay. We're listening. Making his home. While Jody and I are trying to watch TV. All right. Ready? Ew. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I like that. So we were watching. And she heard it. I go, I didn't hear anything. And I hit, you know, pause. And I go like, oh, I do hear that. And so I would text, you know, people. I go, what is this?

[00:33:37] And I was told it's a carpenter bee. They're pretty much harmless. And they're not eating the wood. They're not termites. What are they doing? Because the wood is treated. And it's painted. So they wouldn't like the flavor of that. They're not eating it. They're literally just working. They're carpenters. They're working. Like termites eat the wood. This is why I don't hate the carpenter bee. I respect its work. It makes a perfect hole. I mean, look at the inside of these things. Like the burrowed holes it makes.

[00:34:07] So it's not eating the wood. It's just like digging it out? Digging it and then pushing it out the hole. You can see on the outside of the hole. Because my fence is painted black. But of course the inside's not black. It's still yellow like wood. So they'll dig it and then they'll push the shavings out. And you can see where it's sawdust has come down the side. That's their work. They're pushing it out. But I have killed a couple. So it's not a hive or a swarm.

[00:34:37] It's a four or five. Yeah. I've seen them and they're like bumblebees. They don't really hurt you. But I've also been told to get a tennis racket and enjoy. Just have fun. And today you saw me come in here today. We have an old racket that I got at Goodwill. And I'll keep you posted. But yeah, that's what's happening. And they look, that's the size of it, right? They're about the size of a bumblebee. Almost identical. They look really similar.

[00:35:07] So I mean, I'm sure I have mistaken a carpenter bee for a bumblebee. Yeah. I have my whole life. I've not even heard of carpenter bees. You know what I mean? I kept waiting to hear like carpenter songs. Yeah. Sorry. So the carpenter bee has the bigger, shinier backside. Yeah. Yeah. Where the bumblebees is all covered in whatever that fur is or whatever. And it's yellow. Whatever hair it has on the back. Right. Right.

[00:35:35] So I am still dealing with it. I've killed at least three. Okay. And then another one, you'll see them come and be like, what's going on here? And then land and go like, hmm. And then they take off. I'm hoping that they're spreading the word. Don't come back to this house. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Again, they're putting the word out through their email chain. And again. This is not the place. I respect the word. Yeah.

[00:36:05] Actually, when I saw the hole, I thought that was someone, Patrick made a mistake when he was building it and just decided not to use that hole. It was a drill. What's the phrase? You're supposed to hate the. Don't hate the player. Hate the game. Hate the game. Right. You hate the game these carpenter bees are playing, but you totally respect the player. I respect the player. And I also heard if you don't deal with them, that eventually what will happen is a woodpecker

[00:36:31] will see it and they will eat this thing and then take over its high, build its own. A woodpecker will take over the hole that the carpenter bee made. Make it bigger, better. So it's like all the work that that bee put in. Woodpecker just swoops in and is like, nah, I'm doing this now. Thanks, dude. Yeah. Appreciate the head start. It's like 90% of the work for me. I appreciate that. Yeah. Yeah. That's stupid. Yeah. Exactly. Boos, you said you had carpenter bees or something, didn't you? The deck? Yeah. I could.

[00:37:00] Well, now that I'm educated on this, I don't know which one was which, but I think they were bumble bees because they were more attracted to flowers than they were anything. But my wife and I lived in this other house before. It was a wooden deck. So it makes me think it might have been carpenter bees too. But we called them all buzz. One word named buzz. I don't know if we had them trained or not, but they would just buzz around and just hang out. Yeah. We didn't do anything. We just kind of got used to them and just let them go.

[00:37:28] You spend all that time thinking about that name buzz coming up with that? Yeah. I was going to say, why did you do that? Yeah. Yeah. I had to kind of process it for a little bit. I feel like I could see Moose back there on the deck with a beer in his hand, catching a buzz while he's hanging out with Buzz. Right. Watching Buzz Lightyear. Thank you. I'm the comic. You beat me. Good job, Moose. Hang on. Let's give it up. Thank you. Let's give it up. All right. Let's move on.

[00:37:58] So that's where I'm at with the carpenter bee. Well, good luck with that. Thank you, sir. Would you like to take a break or will you want to see what my mom's been up to? I'm kind of curious. You did a mukbang with your mom, right? Yeah. So it's been a while. Well, you know, I get a lot of comments. How's your mom? How's your mom? Because, you know, I used to do the whole walkie talkie time, walk around the block with mom. And we used to do a lot of mukbanging and I haven't done one in a while.

[00:38:26] So I thought, yeah, let's do that. Let's catch up. So mom and I went out, got some food, brought it home and ate it. And I can talk about that or we can go on with the twinsies. Let's do the mukbang and then we'll come back to the twinsies. I want to talk about the twins a little bit. All right. So, yeah. Tease. Here's a little teaser for you. When we'll come back, we're going to talk about some Australian twins. You know what I mean? Stick around for that.

[00:38:54] You don't know what that is yet, but maybe you do. Anyway, let's check out this quick segment with me and mukbanging with Mimosa. Hello, everybody. It's John Reap here and I'm with... Mimosa. Yeah, that's my mom, Mimosa. And we haven't done a mukbanging with Mimosa in a long time.

[00:39:23] So here we are. It's been a minute. And today, won't you tell about where we went? We went to Chicken Salad Chicks. Just one chick. Chicken Salad Chick. A chick. Yeah. So apparently, it's just one lady who does it all. Although I saw when we went to pick it up, I saw a lot of young ladies in there. Only one of them's the chick. Anyway, have you eaten here before? Yep. Never. I've heard it was good. I've heard good things. And they were busy.

[00:39:53] They were very busy. We ordered online to make it real simple. I got three different ones and she got three different ones. And here's what we got. Dill Ischus Diva Scoop Barbecue. I think that's what I got right here. And then you got the Sassy Scotty Fancy Nancy. No, I got Sassy Scotty.

[00:40:19] You got Fancy Nancy, Classic Carol, and Lauren's Lemon Basil. Right. This is what it looks like. Obviously, that one's the barbecue. And you get three big scoops. If you want, you can do one scoop, two scoop, three scoop. So basically, we have six different flavors here. I do love this. They give you a pickle. It's got a little bit of lettuce. And you got crackers. And look at this.

[00:40:48] They give us a cookie. A chicken salad chick cookie. Boom. I'm not even going to use a fork. You know what's going to be my fork? These here are crackers. I'm not. Like, I'm literally going to, like, eat all of this. If I can open it. Oh, my gosh. Don't think my teeth are going to pop out. Once again, that one's the barbecue right there. Okay. Get a little scoop of it. Those are pretty big scoops, by the way.

[00:41:18] Yes, they are. That is really good. You want to try it? I'm going to use a fork. Fine. You are a fancy fancy. You're going to have a cracker bag. It tastes more like barbecue than it does chicken salad. No. So it's good. All right. I don't know which you switched on mine. This looks like it's got...

[00:41:48] Well, I bet you that was the lemon. Lemon. Maybe. I don't know. Just go for it and tell me what you think. Which one you think it is. What was that flavor it was? Well, you've got Fancy Nancy, Classic Carol, Orange Lemon. Is there any lemon taste in that? But what's... Does it say what the spice... No, I mean, we have to look it up. I don't have the menu in front of me. Okay. It's good.

[00:42:17] Sassy Scotty, I believe, has ranch, bacon, and cheese. You think that's this one? Yes. Let's try it. That is a nice scoop right there. See the cheese in it?

[00:42:47] I think that's a classic Carol. One of them's got pickles. Is that the celery? Celery? Yeah. I like that. I think there's apples in there, too. I think I've got to buy an apple. It's good. Yeah. But I think that cheese one gets you guys better. Right. Don't stab me with your fork. I won't. I'm coming in.

[00:43:20] You know what I'm going to do? Because I've just realized this. The cracker might be tipping the scales. Yes. I need to do a full-on fork. Let's try it again. The dill-icious. Yeah. Let's see. This one's got dill pickle in it, I think. Let's try.

[00:43:51] Yeah. Dill pickle. I'll tell you when it's time. I don't know. So far, my favorite one is either this barbecue or this bacon with the ranch. All right. This must be the fancy Nancy. Mm-hmm. Let's try it.

[00:44:19] I like how you shut your eyes and you're really concentrating. This is my least favorite. Least favorite? Mm-hmm. Tell me what you think is in there. What flavors came out? Just chicken and mayonnaise. Oh. What's so fancy about that? Well, what do we get? How many mimosas out of five? One mimosas or five mimosas? All five. You give all five mimosas?

[00:44:49] Mm-hmm. This is good. Yeah. I don't know who this chick is, but I like her. Yeah. She does. She knows your chicken salad, doesn't she? Yes. She's come on. She's figured something out. I like it. Look, variety is the spice of life. Right, Mama? Amen. That was real good. Well, might be nap time now. Might be. We'll see. All right. Well, say goodbye, everybody, Mom.

[00:45:18] Bye, fickle. I love Chicken Salad Chick. That place is awesome. Yeah, I'm glad you guys went there. That's kind of one of my favorites right now. Yeah? What is it? Do you get the same thing every time, Alan? I've tried different flavors. Yeah. It's called Chicken Salad Chick, right? Yep.

[00:45:48] Moose, do you know what they serve there? Let me think. Chicken Salad? No, actually, surprisingly, no, they don't. They don't serve any chicken salad. Nope. It's all tuna. Yeah, it's all tuna. No, it's not. It's all different flavors of chicken salad. It's really good. Nice. They have, what do you end up getting most of the time? I don't remember the name of it, but it's the one that's got like some jalapeno and kind of spice. That's the one I did not get. Oh, it's good. I don't do the spice. No, it's not really that spicy, though. Okay. There's also like a buffalo sauce one. That's really good.

[00:46:17] There's a buffalo one. There's a barbecue one. I mean, you just watch. Anyway, thank you for that. Good job, Chicken Salad Chick. Alrighty then. Let's move on. This was brought to my attention earlier. Apparently, in Australia, there are some twins that are making the news. Yeah. I'll just leave it at that. All right. Let's watch this together. I haven't seen this yet. I think it's real.

[00:46:45] Some of the drama that unfolded on the Sunshine Coast this afternoon. Two sisters have told how their mother and man raced to help when the carjacked SUV rolled on Steve Irwin Way, only to find the gun-wielding car thief emerging from the wreck. Here's some of what they had to say. And one guy, he was up there with our mum. And he went up there. And he was coming back down towards us. And he goes, run.

[00:47:14] He's got a gun. And our heart started to pound. And I said, well, mum, where's mum? And poor mum was stuck up there. But apparently, our brave mum, she goes, are you all right? Because he had all blood all over his face. And he goes, I'll shoot you. She goes, hey, I'm here to help. And mum distracted him to make him look the other way. Is this real? I believe so.

[00:47:44] I mean, okay. I read up about these girls. Like, supposedly, they do this a lot. They talk the same way. They have the same things to say. I love this. And yeah, it sounds like it's pretty real. I mean, mum, gun, run. And then, but see, we just did the edit and regret it. There's no way someone just took the same lady's interview and then put it somehow, photo, like an edit. There's no way. Because they're not exactly the same.

[00:48:13] I'm sure there's a way to do it. But I'm pretty confident this is real. Their hair's slightly different. Their clothes are slightly different. Same earrings, same face. This is pretty, this is insane. All right, let's keep going. He looked the other way and mum ran into the bush behind the fence. And the guy goes to her, I'll find you and I'll shoot you. All I was thinking about when we were running.

[00:48:43] I hope he doesn't fire. Yeah, we were so blessed. How close to him do you think you were? Well, see, he was up there. And we were passed out. When you drive away, you don't think of all of that at the time. You just run for your life. Wow. I think it's great. Wow. That is awesome. I need some twins in my life. Yeah, I know. Wouldn't that be fun?

[00:49:13] It's like listening in stereo to things happening. If you could get a twin and you guys are so in sync, everything you say, you all say the same thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I don't have any friends in Hickory that are twins. Like we need to get some friends that are twins. So I do. There's a set of identical twins that I know. Okay. Are you friends with them? Yeah. Both of them? Both. It's one of those where I will see I'm better friends with one than I am the other.

[00:49:43] Uh-huh. So when I see one of them out, I kind of have to like approach them like, is this the one I know or the one I don't really know that well? Right. And they're always pretty good at like saying, oh, I'm the one you don't know that well. Male or female? Female. Around our age? Yeah. Wow. Do I know them? I don't think so. Not Freddie Ford? No. Okay. Um, yeah. I know. Well, I know the Scalar brothers. Right.

[00:50:12] Comedians. Two comedians. And they do this. This is, you know, they have the same brain pretty much. I think that's what I read a news report about these two in Australia because they are known, I think, in Australia. Okay. And yeah, they dress alike all the time. They kind of finish each other's thoughts like all the time. Yeah. They're very much in the same wavelength. Wow. So I think it's really cool. It is cool.

[00:50:37] And there's, I mean, if nature can do that, Mother Nature can make two of the exact same human being at the same time, put them out there. I mean, think of what, I don't know, what would AI and the future of twins look like? I mean, in a weird way you could say robots, Elon Musk, you know, all these robots that I've seen, Boston Dynamics, they're all twins.

[00:51:07] Because they're all twins. Because they're all exactly the same. They can all dance. Have you seen the dancing robots? The ones that they did, the thriller? Yes. Have you seen the thriller one? I have. It's crazy. It is good. And sometimes I don't know if I'm looking at a real thing, you know. But I believe it. Yeah, all those Boston Dynamics robot videos are very real. Yeah. So that's basically what this is. These are robots. You think they're robots? I think they're robots. I mean, that's probably a better explanation.

[00:51:35] Australian fembots left over from Austin Powers. Anyway, that is pretty cool. Yeah. So this just happened today? You saw this today? Yeah, I just saw it this morning. There you go. I meant to put that in the best trend segment. That's what was trending yesterday because now today's Tuesday. Okay. Have I told you about the Hickory Social House yet? Not today. You haven't told us. How amazing it is. Oh, yeah. You and I went there the other day and we shot some fun videos. We did.

[00:52:05] Should be ready over the next week to show. And while we were there, I happened to get one of my burgers, which is very good. The John Unrepeatable Barbecue Cheeseburger. That burger, I had not seen it in person, John. It is a lot bigger than I expected. Yeah. Which is great. It is huge. It's a good deal for your money. Tell me to stop. This is the burger. All right. Maybe about there. Right. Maybe there. So it's that thick.

[00:52:35] Yeah. And it's got a knife in it. Oh, yeah. Because you're going to need the knife. I mean, there's no other way to keep it all together. You've got to spear it down the middle. Right. Yeah. And this video that we were shooting for the soldier house, you'll see at some point, I'm literally walking around the restaurant with this burger barbecue thing in my hand. And we keep moving around from location to location. At the end of it, you know, it's juicy. You're going to love it. It was getting on my hand. I'm like, I want to eat it now.

[00:53:04] So we're not recommending you should walk around for long periods of time with it in your hand. No, no. This is not like, yeah, this is not street food. Right. You want to eat this at the table. At the table in front of a plate. Yeah. You know, with a napkin nearby. Because it's the soldier house, I was being social. I was walking around with it. I don't recommend doing that. I was just trying to be funny. And you can do that at the soldier house. Go to the soldier house is what I'm trying to say. It's very good. Do we have a cruise ad? We do.

[00:53:34] Want me to play it? Sure. Let's remind everybody of this cruise I've got coming up next year. All right. Me and Justin Clyde Williams. And hopefully you'll come. Here's a reminder of when. All right. Here we go. Okay. Hello, everybody. Look who it is. It's Captain John Reap. I'm back, baby. We're going cruising again. That's right. Not just me, but my buddy, Justin Clyde Williams. And you. And you.

[00:54:03] And your friends. This time we're going to Coco K and Nassau. We're doing stand-up comedy, country music, and karaoke. And we want you to come. But now you're thinking, well, when is it, John? When is this cruise? Well, we came up with something to help you remember the date. Show them, buddy. It's going to be a hit. And y'all pay attention. Oh, yeah. Johnny, Johnny, who can I turn to?

[00:54:32] Talking about Johnny Poovy, the cruise director. I've got some buddies. Let's book a cruise. Me and you and him. And everybody. I know you've had reaps, peeps on the water before. Oh, man. We did. It was a blast. But this time we want to do something more. Oh, it's going to be big. Tell them. Johnny, I got your number at the bottom of the screen.

[00:55:01] Give him a call. Let's go country. When is it? February 26, 2026. Yes. That's the date. February 26, 2026. February 26, 2026. 2026. Book your cabin. 2026. February 26, 2026. Anyway, you get it.

[00:55:28] Let's read some comments from last week, everybody. This guy named Jingle Fangs, he said, I was summoned for jury duty tomorrow, but I just called, and my services tomorrow are not required. Hallelujah. Yes. Have you ever had to report for jury duty? I feel like you guys are good citizens. I feel like you've done it.

[00:55:55] You've been there, or you went, but you didn't get selected. I had the same thing happen to me. I was supposed to be on jury duty a couple weeks ago and had to call, and they said my services weren't needed either. It was great. That's perfect. Yeah. Alan, you served on one, didn't you? I did on one time. Yeah. Yeah. I got called one time and did have to serve. That's pretty cool. Yeah. It was all right. I mean, it's like, you know, depending on how long the case is and how bad it is, you can say, well, I'm doing my part as a good citizen. I'm sorry. I can't go. I can't work today. I've been sequestered or whatever.

[00:56:25] Yeah. It was just a shame that, I mean, the one I had to go to, it was a really boring case. Yeah. I wish you could kind of pick and choose the one to be like, look, I'm really good on murder cases. That'd be interesting. I just, I'd like to kind of put my hat in. Yeah. My name in the hat for any murder cases. Right. I'd like to be first dibs on. Oh, that's good. Good. So, okay. So everyone who's registered voter, your name goes in the pile. Right. And you'll randomly get these in the mail. Yep.

[00:56:53] And you're supposed to fill it out and send it in. And then they'll say, you've been selected. You show up. And then they'll say, out of the 40 of you here, we only need these guys. The rest of you can go home. Right. So I made it that far. Okay. But I didn't get selected. But wouldn't it be cool, like your idea of saying, now that I'm selected, give me a list of cases. Show me the caseload. And then you can go like, Let me pick the one I want to be on. Which one, like if you hated Christmas, you can say, which one's around Christmas?

[00:57:24] Let me do that one. I can't buy any gifts. I've been sequestered. I'm sorry. Oh, that's perfect. Yeah. You can get out of holidays. I'm always looking for excuses not to have to buy people gifts. Yeah. So scheduling jury duty around a major holiday that would involve gift giving. Boom. That's genius. Yeah. All right. There you go, Jingle Fangs. Congrats. Lisa Johnson. I'm going to do this real quick. Lisa Johnson. What in the tarnation is this all about? So Lisa's a new person in the comments. And I want to go down the rabbit hole of her, but we'll do that.

[00:57:54] Jingle Fangs. He probably thinks the person he's addressing is the only one seeing it. That was a funny video. We made fun of the guy. Oh. Yeah. Right. Lisa Johnson. And then again, says first time here. Okay. Jared says, Jared 316. He sounds like a dragon with asthma. That guy did kind of. The guy. I hope you. Don't you come here. Rib him your. Oh, right, right, right. Yeah. That's what he's talking about. He did sound like a good one, Jared. Dustin Bosley. Oh, bicycle. Ready for the Huntsville, Texas show, buddy. Me too.

[00:58:22] It's coming up this Friday. Lisa Johnson back in the comments section. I got a good sense of humor, but I don't know what. She's a new person. Now I know why only 20 people are watching this on YouTube. Now you'll go down to 19. Bye. Where did she come from? Why is she being so mean? But I also want to. That was uncalled for. It's uncalled for, but I want to respect the people who took it up for me. Eric said, later, Gator. Jared said, bye, Lisa.

[00:58:50] Jingle fangs, don't let the door hit you. Dustin Bosley, bye, Lisa. There we go. So thank you. We don't need Lisas in our lives. You know? And thank you for taking up for me is what I'm trying to say. Yeah. Yeah. She came in all hot and fired up, like ready to go. Yeah. And it's like, look, she gave it like 30 seconds and be like, yep, I'm out. Something we said, I don't think she liked. Oh, yeah. And then she started getting snarky. Yeah. You know what I mean? Too many dudes.

[00:59:19] It was not a lot of, we don't have much female love on this show. We have all dudes in here all the time. That's true. Yeah. We are kind of light on the female side. Robert Urie. My garage is loaded with holes from carpenter bees. Wow. There you go. This is a whole thing. I have not experienced carpenter bees in my place. I want to. It sounds like they're pretty popular. Yeah. It could, you know, if there's enough of them, they could make your house into Swiss cheese. That's not good. Let's get on to the reaps peep of the week.

[00:59:47] That will be Dustin Bosley. Thank you, Dustin Bosley. Look, there he is. That's his YouTube channel. Everyone go subscribe to his YouTube channel. Let him know that we appreciate him and love him. And look, he's into health, wood and outside. I could probably watch some of these. Maybe he knows more about carpenter bees if he's working with wood. He could. Right? So there you go.

[01:00:17] I appreciate you all. We're going to wrap this one up, man. I think we're at an hour right about now. We are. Okay. It's amazing. With nobody else in the studio, you still talk for an hour, man. Very efficient. Yeah, it's good. This tells me something. What does it tell you? I don't know. I like this. No, you need other people in there. Listen, I love everybody. I love you. Don't forget to come see me on the road.

[01:00:46] Cherokee, Wednesday, Thursday, Cornelius, Friday, Huntsville. More tour dates at carolinareaper.com and for Moose and for the Alan Jackson. My name is John Reap and I want to say, bye, Sickle.

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