An Episode About Nothing

This is what happens when you record an episode and not a lot of stuff happened this past week.  We talk about food, Christmas, Amazon Prime Days, Government Shutdown - WARNING - do not listen if you are hungry!

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SPEAKER_01 0:02

That's him.

SPEAKER_00 0:03

And that's her.

SPEAKER_01 0:04

And this is our time.

SPEAKER_00 0:06

Join us with a cup of coffee, maybe a bloody Mary, or even a glass of wine. As we chat about the adventures, the encounters, and the all-around chaos of our life.

SPEAKER_03 0:24

The government shut down. Christmas sales are starting. It's a crazy world out there. What's going on?

SPEAKER_00 0:30

I know, and it's prime days coming up.

SPEAKER_03 0:33

That's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_00 0:34

I mean, it's crazy.

SPEAKER_03 0:36

You got prime days this week. You got Target deals, whatever the Target stuff's called. You got some Walmart stuff going on.

SPEAKER_00 0:43

And I can't believe that I've, I mean, I've already gotten the Amazon uh gift book. Kids toy book. Yeah, just like just like what we used to get with the, what was it, Sears? You know, the different catalogs.

SPEAKER_03 0:56

Kmart catalog, yeah. I think we talked about that a couple years ago.

SPEAKER_00 1:01

Christmas time is coming.

SPEAKER_03 1:03

But is it only toys? Yeah. Yeah, it's only toys. Why don't they have like, you know, adult toys and well that sounded bad. I didn't mean like electronics and yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:14

I mean, I don't, I don't, I guess that's because, you know, adults have the prime days, but I mean, I'd love to be looking at something that has all the different gadgets. You know, I mean, I remember when I used to get um sharper image catalogs coming in, and those are my favorite.

SPEAKER_03 1:30

That's the second time you've mentioned sharper image in the last three days.

SPEAKER_00 1:33

I know. Because I miss it. I miss it. I mean, now I have Hammer Schlammer.

SPEAKER_03 1:38

Hammerker Schlammerker.

SPEAKER_00 1:39

Yeah, Hammer Schlammerker. I mean, that's but that's all high-end stuff. I mean, it's nice stuff, it's fancy stuff.

SPEAKER_03 1:46

And it's not a store that and it's like Brookstone. It's not like a store that you can go into and test all the stuff.

SPEAKER_00 1:50

You have to you have to look at, you know, you have to order it online and then hope that it fits. And but there's a lot of cool stuff that they have. So, I mean, I've gotten a lot of different things for family members and stuff like that. But yeah, I mean, goodness, I'm just ready for the I'm ready for the weather to start feeling like it's, you know, the holiday season.

SPEAKER_03 2:11

Right. But you know, it's good that they're starting to have the prime days and stuff now. Although I ha I have two things to say about that. One, it's good to have it so that people can start buying now, so you can start spreading out your gift purchases and spread it out over, you know, three months time, if not longer than that, so that it's not all, you know, Black Friday and beyond, because then you only have like two paychecks to pay for all of it. Right. And then those paychecks are still paying your mortgage and your rent and your electric and your phone and your d-d-d-d all that's right.

SPEAKER_00 2:39

Well, like the summer the summertime, was it summer? I think it was summer. The the last prime day, which was like July, I think. I think it was June or July, and uh, you know, I got a whole bunch of Christmas stuff then, so but so exactly.

SPEAKER_03 2:53

So that's good. However, those items will not be eligible for returns because they've been bought six months in advance. That's the only bad thing about buying stuff throughout the year.

SPEAKER_00 3:05

Yeah, well, I mean, oh well. You know, I mean, oh well. But I mean, uh also too, I mean Amazon's pretty good about taking things back, you know.

SPEAKER_03 3:18

Really? You don't have that window?

SPEAKER_00 3:20

I mean, I don't I I don't seem to have it. I mean, there's plenty of time for things to be, you know, that don't work and then they're under warranty or they're not gonna be able to do it. Because I mean I did pay for the I did pay for the extra Assyrian, I think is what it's called, warranty for everything. So anything that we buy, it's automatically covered for the life of the item.

SPEAKER_03 3:39

Right, but you know, under that. Right. So I'm not talking about things that are broken. I'm talking about things like, oh, they decided they didn't want it or they got duplicates of it or something.

SPEAKER_00 3:46

Well, if they get duplicates of it, then they just send the one that they got most recent back.

unknown 3:51

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 3:51

I guess. I don't I don't know. I just there was a lot of there were a lot of stu sales and a lot of good discounts and and deals that I got, and I mean I don't buy anything off of the prime days unless it's at least thirty thirty to thirty percent or better off. You know, fifteen percent no, twenty percent no. It's gotta be thirty, thirty-five, forty, fifty percent. Those are the those are the items that I'll buy if they're in.

SPEAKER_03 4:17

But don't you think they raise their price by thirty percent just to bring it down thirty percent?

SPEAKER_00 4:21

No, because I do get I do have 'em like locked into my wish list or into things to look at, or you know, I have them in categories, so if those items are, you know, I can go back and look and see what they were on sale or what they were, you know, months ago.

SPEAKER_01 4:40

Right.

SPEAKER_00 4:41

And then be able to see it. But I mean, you know, some of those things I mean I don't need, so I don't get them.

SPEAKER_03 4:47

Exactly. We don't need any of it.

SPEAKER_00 4:49

No, we do there are there are a few things that we do need, you know. That we're gonna do that.

SPEAKER_03 4:57

Have you put have you put anything else on the um automatic buy like we did the I don't think we talked about that. Um the air filters.

SPEAKER_00 5:13

No, I don't uh there's nothing there's nothing that I need that is coming automatic.

SPEAKER_03 5:17

I was gonna say that was a that was a a tip that I got that is, you know, life hack. So you don't have to think about it because you're supposed to change your air filters every month. Once a month. Not once a month.

SPEAKER_00 5:29

I mean that's a quarter. It depends on it depends on the air filter. If you have like just your basic air filter, you should be changing it every month.

SPEAKER_03 5:37

Oh, that was quarterly.

SPEAKER_00 5:38

No, you should change it. You should change it every month if you have the basic ones. If you have the if you have like the deep filters that, you know, do pet dander and and viruses and stuff like that, then you should change those every every two to three months.

SPEAKER_03 5:52

Okay, so the tip that I got was to put those things on an Amazon auto ship program so you don't have to think about it. And when they show up at your door, that's when it's time to change.

SPEAKER_00 6:02

Right, exactly. Exactly.

SPEAKER_03 6:05

So I'm all about those life tips. What do y'all got? Do you have any tips for us? Make our life easier to things that make your life easy that you just don't have to think about.

SPEAKER_00 6:14

Right. I mean, I definitely know. I'd like to know what people are doing out there to help ease the worries and concerns of things to stockpile.

SPEAKER_03 6:24

Another tip that I heard, not Amazon tip, but it and I can't figure out how to do this because it's technology and you know, well there's some type of setting that you can put on your phone. So it's not an app. It's a setting on your phone that will automatically, like on that day, so on October 1st, let's say, it'll pull up all the pictures that you've taken on your phone on October the first. And you can delete them if you want to delete them. It's to help keep your clean, keep your phone clean. And then the next day it'll be October 2nd. It'll bring up all your pictures that you've taken on your phone on October 2nd that are still there.

SPEAKER_00 7:07

Like over the years? Yes. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_03 7:10

Exactly. To try to clean up because I know in my phone I've probably got, you know, 46,000 pictures. Well, they also have if it's like my ears.

SPEAKER_00 7:21

Clean sweep is one, I think. That you can go in and just it'll it'll bring all the duplicates and and things that are similar. And then you can just erase them or you can combine them and I'm sorry, I've got three thousand forty-three.

SPEAKER_03 7:33

I don't have forty-seven thousand.

SPEAKER_00 7:35

See, those are just those are just ones that like you just need to sit down and go to selection and then just start clicking on them and get rid of it.

SPEAKER_03 7:44

Click on the page. Exactly, but that'll that'll take like two to three hours to do that in one day. All that why can't I just, you know, have this program on my phone that I don't know, this setting that can just say today's the day, and you know, I'd rather do like four or five pictures on that day and then next day four or five pictures because it's just you know, quick, quick, quick. And it's just part of my daily routine.

SPEAKER_00 8:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 8:07

Like when I get up and I'm playing my game.

SPEAKER_00 8:08

Find that setting. I don't know. Ask somebody about it. I anybody out there know? I mean, let us know. Let us know. Rate those apps. Just like you can rate us. Rate the apps, rate us. Let us know how we're doing, if we're doing a good job, if there's other things you want to hear, want to want us to talk to you about. I mean, you can let us know. You can let us know. Where can they let us know at, babe? Where is it that they can let us know? On any podcast, right? Any any place that they're listening to us on, isn't it? Isn't that right?

SPEAKER_03 8:40

I believe so.

SPEAKER_00 8:41

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 8:41

On your pod on the podcast, you can give us thumbs up, rate us.

SPEAKER_00 8:45

Stars.

SPEAKER_03 8:45

Five stars.

SPEAKER_00 8:46

Whatever, let us know.

SPEAKER_03 8:47

No, not whatever. Five stars.

SPEAKER_00 8:49

Okay. Oh goodness. Yeah. I've been making some now that I'm thinking about like, you know, the holiday season and and cooking for the masses, as I do. Um, people, there are a lot of hacks that you can do with Hawaiian dinner rolls. Like the box wine, you know, the box. It doesn't necessarily have to be Hawaiian rolls. I mean, it could be any dinner rolls. But the King's Hawaiians, I mean, yeah, you can cut those. I mean, I made a I made a breakfast sandwich just the other day where you take the whole like rectangle shape of them and you cut them in half so that you got a top half and a bottom half and leave them all together. And then I cooked bacon, uh, crispy bacon, and then I took uh six eggs and I spray paint I spray spray pan. Spray painted them. I sprayed um like Pam uh in a Pam's a spray. Kick a cooking spray. So I sprayed it in in this um deep little dish that was about the size of the uh you know the the rectangle shape of them, and put an oven on 350 degrees, broke the eggs in there, put the bacon in, and then while the bacon was cooking, I stuck those in and the eggs actually cooked. I like broke the yolks, but they cooked in that pan, so it made the shape, so I didn't have to do individual eggs. And then when the bacon was done, and you can do the same thing with sausage, you know, just flatten out the sausage in the sh in the size of what you're putting it in. The rectangle, you have breakfast sausage. But I did bacon for you, and then you just put it all in there and layer cheese on it and uh put it back in the oven for like five minutes to heat up the rolls, and they were good little sandwiches. You can also do that with like brown sugar on in in in there and on the bottom half, and then put bacon on top of that, and then place the other sandwich, other top half on top of it, and then cook it, and it makes like a cinnamon or like a bacon cinnamon roll.

SPEAKER_01 11:03

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 11:04

You can brush the top of them with butter and sprinkle a little sugar on top of that. So there's one I want to make that's you're making me hungry. There's one I want to make that's uh uh like cordon blue, not cordon blue, um Benedicts, like like eggs benedict, and what you do is you take that but rectangle of the Hawaiian rolls and and and you push in the tops, like just make a circle, you know, and just push it in with your thumbs, and then you put a piece of ham in, and you put the ham in it, and then you put an egg into that in each one of those, and you leave them all together, and then you cook them in the oven, and then once they cook up, the egg cooks inside of the of the um the roll with the ham, and then you make a hollanday sauce, a quick hollandaise sauce, and you just pour it right over the top of it. It is if you get the Kn O R R brand, I think that's Noor.

SPEAKER_01 11:58

Noor.

SPEAKER_00 11:59

Noor brand uh Hollandaise, which is just like a little bit of water and a little bit of milk.

SPEAKER_03 12:04

So how do you how do you put the hole in the in the bread?

SPEAKER_00 12:07

That's what I'm saying. You take your thumb and like on the like put an indentation in it? Yeah, just just shove the shove the a circle in the top, just press it down into, kind of like make it look like a a little bread bowl, you know. You're just pushing it down because it's fluffy, and then that you put the ham down in there, and then you kind of put the ham in like a little basket almost so it makes so it can catch the egg, and then you make it and then you cook them.

SPEAKER_03 12:32

Well, I mean okay. You must be talking about bigger rolls.

SPEAKER_00 12:35

I'm thinking of those little bitty Yes, those little bit the little bitty Hawaiian slayer rolls. You don't use the giant eggs, you get like just smaller eggs. Well, you do the smaller, not extra large or longer.

SPEAKER_03 12:49

I'm like, there's not a lot of egg that could fit in that yes, oh yeah, you'd be surprised.

SPEAKER_00 12:52

Like a little bit of the yolk, not the yolk, the no, I'll have to I'll have to make them and show you because they are definitely easy to easy to do.

SPEAKER_03 12:59

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 12:59

From watching.

SPEAKER_03 13:00

You'll get that K N O R R home day.

SPEAKER_00 13:03

I will. Kanor. I'll get that. Knore, whatever. I'll get it and make it up. But yeah, there's a lot of different things that you can do with those. You can make French toast ones too. That was pretty I I watched how that was done with bacon and it's a little bit. Yeah. Things can do with Hawaiian rolls. Absolutely. There's a lady I follow that she that's all she does is use Hawaiian rolls or dinner rolls in the rectangle shape, leaves them in the shape, and then either cuts them in half so that you got a top and a bottom and does stuff with that, or she, you know, just leaves them whole and then and does things with that way. So yeah, that's definitely a good little good little way to feed the masses. I think I'm gonna be making quite a few of those different dishes for Christmas time.

SPEAKER_01 13:52

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 13:53

You know, for Christmas morning and Christmas dinner. And I mean I've made them with brisket. I made them with the the brisket, you know, just putting briskets on and cheese and onions and pickles. Yeah. Yeah, you can do that. Pull pork, you can add that too. Barbecue sauce.

SPEAKER_03 14:13

On those little bitty bread thingies, though, it's like there's more stuff than there is bread.

SPEAKER_00 14:17

Right. So they're easy. I mean, you're getting you're not getting as much bread, which is a good thing. Right. You know, you're getting more of the protein and more of the nutrients than the carbohydrates and stuff. But yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:32

Very good. You needed to have a little cooking show.

SPEAKER_00 14:37

I should. I should do a little cooking show. I should do a little cooking show with have it set up and and do all the different ways of teaching of cooking.

SPEAKER_03 14:46

So cooking cooking with him. No, because you don't do measurements.

SPEAKER_00 14:49

No, I don't.

SPEAKER_03 14:50

And when I watch it, if I well, I said when I watch a cooking show. Never. Right, you know. If I was to, I'd want it to have exact measurements.

SPEAKER_00 14:57

Well, I mean, I I can't I can estimate and say what that measurements are, but I mean I'm not gonna sit there and measure it. I mean, you know, she does like she'll she'll measure it and then like the whole electric, or she'll do, you know, so that's that's cooking. You gotta make it, you gotta make it your own. You gotta make it your own. That's like with the waffles. You know, I love adding pecans and blueberries, you know, not in the same waffle, but different things added to my waffle mix and then poured it, or savory, where you got bacon and cheese in the waffle mix, and then you pour it into the waffle iron and you let it cook. And then when it comes out, you take some more bacon and crumble over the top of it.

SPEAKER_03 15:37

And maple flavored bacon?

SPEAKER_00 15:40

You can do maple flavored.

SPEAKER_03 15:42

With your maple syrup on it.

SPEAKER_00 15:43

You can do that. But you could also do uh, you know, like breakfast sausage, which I know you don't like, but you could crumble breakfast sausage, put it inside the the the waffle, and then instead of using syrup, use gravy over the top. And then there, you know, throw a couple eggs on top of that, and you get yourself a breakfast meal. Simplicity.

SPEAKER_03 16:04

And you just made that up in your head just now.

SPEAKER_00 16:06

Yeah, I sure did.

unknown 16:07

See, I can do that.

SPEAKER_00 16:08

Sure did. That's what that's what happens when you're a cook. When you're when you're and you're blessed to have a cook. So I mean, I think you cook what one meal m maybe every what two, three months, maybe? Something like that. I'm not saying anything bad about it. You married good. I didn't marry. You married up.

SPEAKER_03 16:29

Okay in the cooking realm, I married up.

SPEAKER_00 16:32

Oh, really? That's all you married up? No, get me started. Oh goodness.

SPEAKER_03 16:38

I told you the other day, I said, because I know that you don't like cooking all the time. I said, I would cook. I could cook two times a week. And it wouldn't be the same two things every week. What would those two things be?

SPEAKER_00 16:48

Spaghetti or meatballs and um rice. Exactly. Those are the two things. Come on.

SPEAKER_01 16:56

No, I could I could cook it.

SPEAKER_00 16:57

Or macro, I could give you a third one, macaroni and cheese and hot dogs.

SPEAKER_01 17:00

No, you make that. I'm that's your easy thing.

SPEAKER_00 17:04

Yeah, that is my easy thing. Well, actually my easiest thing is cowboy beans.

SPEAKER_01 17:08

Cowboy beans, I was about to say.

SPEAKER_00 17:10

Which we haven't eaten in a long time.

SPEAKER_03 17:12

Because that's just that and the macaroni and cheese and hot dogs, that's just like little kid foods.

SPEAKER_00 17:18

Yeah, well, sometimes I want to be like a little kid. I mean, it it fed me when I was growing up perfectly fine. Uh huh. You know, and that's the thing. A lot of the meals back when we were growing up, you know, like stuff on a shingle.

SPEAKER_03 17:31

Yes, I was about to say. We had that every Wednesday night before church.

SPEAKER_00 17:35

See, that's a that's an item that is lost, you know, and hasn't hasn't come back. Or fried spam sandwiches, fried spam and egg sandwiches.

SPEAKER_03 17:44

We called it same old stuff.

SPEAKER_00 17:45

Yeah, well, we didn't. We called it shimon on a shingle. Shimon? Shimon. Shimon on a shingle.

SPEAKER_03 17:52

And didn't one of our boys say that they don't ever remember having spam? You've made spam.

SPEAKER_00 17:57

I've made it spam quite a few times.

SPEAKER_01 17:59

Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 18:00

Quite a few times. In fact, I've cut up spam, I've cooked spam, cut it up, and put it in the uh in macaroni and cheese and and in eggs, and you know, I've made casserole, I've made quichas with spam.

SPEAKER_01 18:11

Spam.

SPEAKER_00 18:12

And you know what? The thing's potted meat.

SPEAKER_03 18:15

Spotted meat.

SPEAKER_00 18:16

It's potted meat. So it's like just, you know, bunch of bunch of bunch of pieces of meat, pork. It's push pushed together.

SPEAKER_02 18:24

Don't get me started because I saw the day I went to a I was like, did it not make it into the hot dog? So now it's a spam, so it's worse than hot dogs.

SPEAKER_00 18:31

I went to a Korean market uh today, and they had 12, I think it was, 12 different flavors of spam. One was a maple spam. I was like, what? And then one was a pickled spam, and one was a Korean barbecue spam, one was a sriracha spam, one was a um oh what was uh Did you buy any of them? No, I didn't buy any of them. I didn't buy I w I almost bought the maple one just to see, you know, how that would how that would do in, you know, like for breakfast. Because I mean there's nothing like slicing up spam and cooking it in a pan and getting it crispy on all sides and then using and that's your meat.

SPEAKER_01 19:16

Right.

SPEAKER_00 19:17

I mean spam's a good survival food. It's one to have, it's one to have in store because it doesn't go bad. It's in that can blast, it's in that can with that uh jelly around it.

SPEAKER_01 19:29

Keeps it all nice and I didn't know there was jelly around it.

SPEAKER_00 19:33

Yeah, there's a preservative jelly so that it doesn't it doesn't spoil.

SPEAKER_01 19:36

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 19:38

I mean it's the same thing, it's the same thing as like uh what you got uh chicken of the sea, which you know, and you got you got tuna, not chicken. Right, but you got chicken, you got chicken that you can that's in cans, so it's already cooked and put in cans, so that's a great thing for survival food. You know, you can eat it right out of the can. But it's an old pork and beans. You know?

SPEAKER_03 20:00

Beans and cornbread.

SPEAKER_00 20:02

But I mean, if I'm gonna make beans and cornbread, I I pr I prefer to get like br the raw beans, you know, and then soak them in half water, half beef broth, or half chicken broth overnight so they swell up, and then cooking them in a slow cooker with h ham or or bacon or t chicken, whatever, so that it just makes a whole dish. That's that's what I like.

SPEAKER_03 20:27

Well, that's our New Year's Day black-eyed pea recipe.

SPEAKER_00 20:29

Well, that's just black-eyed pea. I mean, you can make other things. I mean, you can make, you know, they have a variety of different beans that you can make to actually make like a bean stew. A stew.

SPEAKER_03 20:40

It's not a stew.

SPEAKER_00 20:41

It's a stew What do you mean?

SPEAKER_03 20:45

Peasant soup?

SPEAKER_00 20:47

Yeah, well, whatever. Agador.

SPEAKER_01 20:51

We need Spartacus. Agador, Sparcus.

SPEAKER_00 20:53

Agador, Spartacus.

SPEAKER_03 20:54

We need to watch that movie. I thought good.

SPEAKER_00 20:56

Good old birdcage.

SPEAKER_03 20:58

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 20:58

Good one. That's one that you can laugh at all the time. But I mean, if people, if you watch the birdcage, when they're outside, look real carefully and you can see that back behind them there is a storm coming in, and the sky is dark, but they're all lit up, and that's the magic of Hollywood. Putting lights up, but you can look and see all, and you got people walking past them in like G strings and stuff like that, and it is cold out there, and the wind is blowing, and I'm just like, yeah, okay. Yep, they needed to get that shot on that day.

SPEAKER_03 21:30

And also watch the uh part in the kitchen that we were just saying about. About why you say it's a uh it's a stool, it's not a stool.

SPEAKER_00 21:40

Sifu chowder chowder.

SPEAKER_03 21:43

Because when Robin Williams falls, he was laughing, and that wasn't planned.

SPEAKER_00 21:49

He he he bit it and then got back up and he's laughing, trying to say his words.

SPEAKER_03 21:54

Yep, and he does some cussy custard sons right there.

SPEAKER_00 21:57

That is a funny, funny show.

SPEAKER_03 21:58

Drops the GD bomb.

SPEAKER_00 22:00

That is a funny show.

SPEAKER_03 22:01

Oh, it's so good. We do need to watch that.

SPEAKER_00 22:03

That, and then of course, anytime you're having a bad day, just watches some Ted Lasso.

SPEAKER_03 22:07

Oh, we had to do that because we were watching some crazy show.

SPEAKER_00 22:10

Scary movies something crazy the other day. Ted Geen, right? Something like that.

SPEAKER_03 22:14

Yeah, and I couldn't, and I was like, I need to watch something funny to get my mind off of that.

SPEAKER_00 22:19

And then sure enough, two episodes into Ted Lasso and you're laughing and giggling.

SPEAKER_03 22:23

Exactly. But of course, we're on season three right now, which is not my favorite. No, but season four is gonna be coming up in the next year, and I can't wait.

SPEAKER_00 22:30

I I hope it's good. I hope it's good. I hope it's not like Sopranos, where it took forever to get the an end, and then it just was not that good, and then it just ended with the freaking song in a diner, and that's it.

SPEAKER_02 22:45

Stop.

SPEAKER_00 22:47

And that was it. And that was him, and that was her, and this is our time.

SPEAKER_03 22:52

Bye, baby, bye, honey.