Letting a Story Breathe

[00:00:01] Speaker A: This is the podcast that refuses to die. Welcome to what you thinking, friend? I'm Cody Lindaberry. Dude, I had a flashback. I'm sorry, you. [00:00:37] Speaker B: You almost called it the last. Yeah, dude, I. I heard it. But you didn't say it. I was thinking it. [00:00:46] Speaker A: Yeah. I'm glad I'm the only one, because I was like, oh, I had flashbacks [00:00:52] Speaker B: for nostalgia state sake. Yeah. [00:00:54] Speaker A: This podcast is my naming. [00:00:58] Speaker B: You have PTSD from the other one. [00:01:00] Speaker A: I do. Okay. Go introduce yourself first, please. [00:01:06] Speaker B: I am Ed Worrell, and this is [00:01:09] Speaker A: what you think your friend. And I'm thinking that we've had so many podcasts in the past that we've had not only, like, old callbacks that I've said out in the. Out in public in the real world, but so much that you've had. Like, I think both of us have had podcast nightmares some days. Yes, yes. Where we've gone, like, oh, I gotta set up. Why isn't this working? And then you just realize that it was a dream, and then you're like, damn it. [00:01:40] Speaker B: And then it happens in real life. Yes. Did it? Then it's not a dream. [00:01:44] Speaker A: Yeah. No. Then that's deja vu. [00:01:46] Speaker B: And most of it's because USB is a bastard. [00:01:50] Speaker A: Oh, between. All right, let's get between USBs. Zoom misplacing themselves all over the place in. In any update? [00:02:04] Speaker B: Right. [00:02:05] Speaker A: Yeah, that just. That's got to be the. [00:02:08] Speaker B: The. The zoom. The Chronicles of Zoom have to be probably the worst part of podcasting at a distance. [00:02:17] Speaker A: Chronicles of Zoom is like, it sounds like a Harry Potter book because it's magical and both terrifying at the same time. [00:02:25] Speaker B: Right? Yeah, it's. They. They decide they're going to change their entire interface and don't tell anyone, and then everybody's just like, what the. Just happened? [00:02:35] Speaker A: And because you are our engineer, I'm trying to think of a nice. Whatever the nice version of it is, of a savant. Yeah. [00:02:48] Speaker B: Oh, well, that's. That's mighty kind of you. Yeah. [00:02:52] Speaker A: I had to remember to take out the word idiot in front of savant, which is what I usually put as, like, idiot savant. It's close. Well, no, it's like when you have those moments of being an idiot savant, and you're just like, man, how did I just fall backwards into victory? [00:03:11] Speaker B: Well, that's the way it feels with Zoom. Every time you open Zoom. [00:03:15] Speaker A: Yes, absolutely. [00:03:17] Speaker B: I just fell into figuring out how that worked. [00:03:19] Speaker A: Sweet. So, yeah, in that same regards, I, I. We try to set up, like, a. I don't know. About you. I have a little bit of a tradition of my idiot savants ways. It's like, I'll grab a tea or a beer. N A, now that I've been over a year and a couple months of not drinking, congrats. Thanks, bud. And then, like, I'll light. Light up an incent, get the mood set so that way I could talk to you. [00:03:49] Speaker B: Mine is roll out of bed, forget that we're podcasting, scramble to make sure the laptop is record is charged and my headphones, and then sit down, have a rock star with my buddy with the Rockstar, and plug in the microphone and hope zoom works. That's my routine. [00:04:10] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. Just plug and play is. [00:04:14] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:04:14] Speaker A: Not ever. [00:04:15] Speaker B: Oh, I hope this works this morning. [00:04:18] Speaker A: Like anything in the world. It's like, I hope this works. [00:04:23] Speaker B: USB and a prayer. [00:04:25] Speaker A: Little ASMR from a buddy here. Huh? Hey, there we go. There's the lighter for the incident. And now I. And now I get why, like, habitual smokers would be out there, like, oh, yeah, light. Light up in the morning or while doing something, because you got to have something to do with their hands or something like that. [00:04:46] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:04:47] Speaker A: Like, I get it because of, like, the Mad Men culture of, like, drinking. Well, not while working, but, you know, the socialization that comes with work and drinking. [00:04:59] Speaker B: You know, it's funny you say Mad Men culture. I. I've never watched that show. [00:05:05] Speaker A: You know, [00:05:08] Speaker B: I just. I don't know. It just doesn't sound interesting to me. And I know that's a little out of left field, but that's. [00:05:15] Speaker A: No, no, no, no. [00:05:17] Speaker B: You just said that. And I'm like, I've never seen the show. I understand its premise. Yeah. [00:05:22] Speaker A: You understand the premise. And for what the premise is, it's fantastic. Very. It's very accurate to the times. [00:05:31] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:05:32] Speaker A: And more so on other things than. Other than some other bits. But I. Who definitely can appreciate, like, the, like. Oh, yeah. I get why advertising would be like smoking and drinking. [00:05:45] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:05:45] Speaker A: Through throughout the conquest. [00:05:49] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah. [00:05:50] Speaker A: And there's plenty of points in there that you're just like, oh, yeah. No, historically, these are sound. But even for me, I was like, I got through about like, a season and a half, and I was like, oh, all right. I'm. This is something else. [00:06:04] Speaker B: Too much. [00:06:05] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's a great show, but I just, for whatever reason, just couldn't continue on with it. [00:06:13] Speaker B: Yeah. The. The Apple TV now. Now that they're not calling it Apple tv plus, they rebranded for so dumb. More clarity. Or some. Anyway, so they've got a show by the same writer that's just like taking off like Wildfire. And Becky and I tried to watch the first couple episodes and it. It was a lot. It. I'll be honest, I fell asleep halfway through the second episode because it was boring as dirt to me because there wasn't. There wasn't much audio. Like, there wasn't dialogue. There was a lot of just scenes with just like sounds, which there is audio description. But it just. It was a lot. Yep. It just didn't do it for me. [00:07:06] Speaker A: So in tradition of lighting an incident, I. I picked up two. Well, I didn't pick up. A friend of mine was kind enough to give me like, just a whole bunch of them. [00:07:18] Speaker B: Okay. [00:07:19] Speaker A: And so you. You really did get like a. A gambler's choice of what are you going to try. [00:07:27] Speaker B: Sure. [00:07:27] Speaker A: And today's is Jasmine. [00:07:31] Speaker B: Mm. [00:07:32] Speaker A: You know, and I love the little descriptions that they put on there. I was like. Jasmine is often called the king of flowers. Jasmine's powerful scent directly affects the. Our emotional centers, making it an excellent choice in love rituals. So I. Buddy, I don't. This is where. [00:07:52] Speaker B: Because the other one. [00:07:55] Speaker A: Oh, baby, it's about to be. Oh, yeah. No. And the other one was not a lick of English. And I'm not sure if it was Spanish or. I don't know. I got none of it. [00:08:10] Speaker B: You should figure out used later on. Use the Apple Translate app on your phone and snap a picture of it and see if it can figure it out. [00:08:21] Speaker A: Oh, that's a great idea. [00:08:22] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:08:23] Speaker A: Well, since AI is taking every job that everybody wants and nobody can get into. [00:08:31] Speaker B: Right. [00:08:32] Speaker A: Yeah. You found. And to bring this up, you found a delightful little website slash game. [00:08:42] Speaker B: I just learned that game's also on iOS. [00:08:45] Speaker A: Really? [00:08:46] Speaker B: Yeah. It's an actual game now. It's not just a web browser game. [00:08:49] Speaker A: It's. [00:08:50] Speaker B: And I can't remember the name of it, but yeah, it's a cool concept. You'll have to. [00:08:54] Speaker A: It is Slop Detective for those that are looking. And the suspect. There's a sneaky group called the Slop Syndicate that's trying to trick everyone. They use computers to make fake stories, pictures and sounds that look real but aren't. Yeah. So you're basically you try to find the slob. Fake stuff made by computers that tries to make it look like it was made by real people. [00:09:25] Speaker B: Right. [00:09:25] Speaker A: It's everywhere. But you get to solve cases, collect badges, and help protect everyone from being tricked by the fake stuff. [00:09:35] Speaker B: I. I thought I Think it was intended for kids but you know, you're a kid at heart, so. So I figured hell yeah. I'm like it did, did you play it? [00:09:45] Speaker A: I have yet. No. [00:09:47] Speaker B: Okay. [00:09:48] Speaker A: But for those that are looking for it, it is slop. S l o p detective k a.com [00:09:57] Speaker B: kagi so that is actually a search engine and web browser company that they, they focus on making decent user experiences for people. Hella. So yeah, they, their, their focus is giving people you know what they're looking for rather than ads all the AI results. Although I will say sometimes on Google that AI result is exactly what you're looking for. [00:10:31] Speaker A: Yes. [00:10:32] Speaker B: Sometimes. [00:10:32] Speaker A: Not always. [00:10:33] Speaker B: Sometimes if you're looking for a really short quick answer that doesn't need to go through 50 results, sometimes it works out beautifully. [00:10:44] Speaker A: Sometimes she works, sometimes she no works. [00:10:47] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. I, I, I'm okay with AI doing stuff like that. Giving a little hint up at the top and as an individual that's smart enough to know that it doesn't, that doesn't quite sound right. Will keep going or if it's exactly what I'm looking for. I'm like, that sounds right. [00:11:06] Speaker A: Yeah. But then you getting called into the like, is this or is this not the answer that I was looking for? Like if you're looking up the answer of what is the tire pressure of a 2025 Kona? Still a little high in my book, [00:11:21] Speaker B: but you know, 33 and a half pounds. [00:11:24] Speaker A: Yes. Well, yeah, probably. It, it honestly is like anywhere between 33 and 36. [00:11:32] Speaker B: See called it. That's rough For a passenger car. Anywhere from 30 to 38 is roughly. [00:11:41] Speaker A: Well it came out with a really high one when okay, why does Cody have a 2025 Kona, you might ask? [00:11:49] Speaker B: I, you know, I was just kind of letting it slide, but go on. [00:11:54] Speaker A: Well, as it turns out about oh the weekend before Thanksgiving. [00:12:04] Speaker B: Okay. [00:12:04] Speaker A: And beast. And because this is December 14th that we're, we got a little time back. Which honestly for letting a story breathe, it's probably better off this way. The weekend before Thanksgiving it is Cats versus Grizzly version one. No Brawl of the Wild. More often than not people tend to get a little boozy on the day where Montana versus Montana State football. [00:12:32] Speaker B: They do. [00:12:33] Speaker A: And this had nothing to do with it. [00:12:37] Speaker B: What? That was misleading. You're like a Google headline, Cody. [00:12:42] Speaker A: I am. So we've, we are in for the night. It is 9:30 ish. Give or take a minute or two. We're minding our own business. We're in for the night. Like We've. We've gone stomped around, said hello to friends and all that jazz. Well, we come around the way we're futzing around reading books or watching some. Probably something on YouTube, and all of a sudden have the urge go into the kitchen. I don't even know what I was going for, but it was one of those moments where you almost hear a sound happen at the same time as you look up. [00:13:24] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:13:25] Speaker A: And somebody hit the Mrs. Parked car. [00:13:29] Speaker B: Oh, lovely. [00:13:31] Speaker A: Yeah. No ice. Perfect. Clear. Clear conditions. Right. [00:13:37] Speaker B: Okay. [00:13:38] Speaker A: Immediately, I have to go find pants because I was just wearing shorts. Put on pants, grab a hoodie. Hoodie's not all the way on as I'm radiantly outside. Gone. Are you okay? And no shoes running out there. And it's a young girl, 19 years old in age. First words that come out of her mouth are, I'm so sorry. I'm insured. I'll pay for it. Like, are you okay? He's not any of those things, but sure. She goes, no, I was texting when I was driving, and I. That. That was on me. I am so sorry. And she is bleeding profusely out of her nose because the airbag has gone full tilt. Boogie in that car. [00:14:28] Speaker B: Oh, she hit the car hard then. [00:14:31] Speaker A: Yes. [00:14:31] Speaker B: Oh, wow. [00:14:33] Speaker A: In a Chevy. I can't remember the model. In a newer Chevy, if you go over 20 miles per hour, all airbags will deploy. [00:14:46] Speaker B: Wow. That seems a little excessive, but okay. [00:14:49] Speaker A: Yes. So when she probably was looking at her phone or trying to grab her phone, looked up at the last second because the way that, you know, the car tried to swerve, but it's a little too late. [00:15:04] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:15:05] Speaker A: Hits the back quarter panel of the driver's side of the car and completely up her car. [00:15:14] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:15:15] Speaker A: Like, it is now drivable in any way, shape, or form. [00:15:19] Speaker B: Right. [00:15:20] Speaker A: So me and the Mrs. We do something as nice as, like, short of making her a snack. We have been probably the coolest people that you could possibly run your car into. [00:15:34] Speaker B: Right. Well, because you and the Mrs. Are both, like, you know, happens sometimes. [00:15:39] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, absolutely. [00:15:40] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:15:41] Speaker A: There are some things that we have zero control over, and that's just the way of it. [00:15:46] Speaker B: Right. [00:15:47] Speaker A: And in this case, we had zero control over it because, I mean, you were parked. Well, we weren't even in the car. [00:15:54] Speaker B: Exactly. Yeah. [00:15:55] Speaker A: So I go grab her some tissues because nose is bleeding all over the curve and, you know, get her some water and all this other jazz. [00:16:06] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:16:07] Speaker A: She apparently was coming home from a friend's place to her house now. They will play this again because this was Montana versus Montana State. The. This game starts about noon and goes on until about 4 o'. Clock. [00:16:25] Speaker B: Sure. [00:16:25] Speaker A: Give or take. This is 9 o' clock at night. But even still, she got on the horn with her people. We are kind of like, okay, we're going to call non emergency services. [00:16:40] Speaker B: Right. [00:16:42] Speaker A: And she kind of goes, okay, we just make sure, like sit down, please don't. We're not worried about the damn cars. Just, you know, we're making sure you're okay. [00:16:52] Speaker B: Right. [00:16:53] Speaker A: All of a sudden she has five, you know, younger adults. [00:16:59] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:17:00] Speaker A: Or kids. What. You know, whatever. It was bridging. You're bridging the gap. You got five of them coming from one direction and another four coming from the opposite direction. Like, Jesus, we got flanked. We got flanked. And it was funny because obviously brother goes into quarterback mode and all these kids are super nice. So it's not like, what the are you doing? It's like, bro, I was not even anywhere near this situation. [00:17:33] Speaker B: Right. [00:17:34] Speaker A: Y' all ran into me. Not. There was no iota of, of ill intent or badness. And any of these kids, they, they all can. They swarmed to her for their friend and they were doing solid. Brother and his buddy there, it might have been a cousin, I don't know. They're looking at it going, oh yeah, that car, that car's. Man, I am so sorry that this happened to your car. As long as she's okay, that's all that matters. You know, it's the buddy chimes in, man, I'd be pissed if that was my car. I was like, you are clearly maybe 20. You have more testosterone going on in your world right now. I don't, I just don't give a man. This. A car is a car is a car. [00:18:31] Speaker B: It can be replaced. It can be replaced, replaced, fixed, whatever. [00:18:36] Speaker A: You'll appreciate this. The, the cops that come onto scene, they were dealing with one at first. And then you know, you have another firefighter show up. Obviously the ambulance comes around the way. Ambulance puts her into a neck sling. I guess somebody on her team or from the. Whoever gave her an arm sling. And you know, they check her for a DUI or any like any plausible. She has shark eyes obviously from shock of. [00:19:11] Speaker B: Right. [00:19:11] Speaker A: The situation. [00:19:13] Speaker B: Right. [00:19:13] Speaker A: She comes back clean and everything of the sort. But the, the cops that I'm. We're dealing with both have like a 15 year old Metallica mustache like this sandwich artist. Like these are young bucks. [00:19:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:19:29] Speaker A: In the service. [00:19:30] Speaker B: Quite, quite literally rookies. [00:19:32] Speaker A: Yeah. And the only thing that I can think of is just like, all right, this is especially when it's like, you're not a part of my call list today. It was like, well, yes, I am now. [00:19:45] Speaker B: This wasn't on your 2025 bingo card. [00:19:47] Speaker A: No, it was not. The car. The car had enough impact to send it up over the sidewalk or not on like, a. The curve. The curb. [00:20:03] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:20:04] Speaker A: It has enough junction to go over the curve and dig itself into my lawn. Like, there's a little rock path before the main lawn. [00:20:13] Speaker B: Right. [00:20:13] Speaker A: And there is like a amount of. Of gravel movement. That junction had moved. [00:20:24] Speaker B: Wow. [00:20:24] Speaker A: And, you know, cops gone. Do you want to tow? I was like, well, the only place that I would get a tow to is the house. And I think we're here. Like, this isn't gonna be an issue. It's like, well, it's not hitting any of the crop or sidewalk. It's not interrupting anything. So, yeah, you're fine. It's like, all right, cool. Just don't stick her. My damn car. That's all I ask. [00:20:48] Speaker B: Right. [00:20:49] Speaker A: Eventually we got like, the gal comes over with her mom, a mama bears. A little not impressed with her daughter, but, you know, she's caring and else. [00:21:01] Speaker B: Right. [00:21:01] Speaker A: So everybody's really cool about the situation. She's apologetic as all can get out. And for what it was worth, the insurance companies are all talking to each other because it's the same company. [00:21:12] Speaker B: Oh, that actually makes things weirdly way easier. Yes. [00:21:16] Speaker A: Yeah, for sure. Like, both Mama bear and ourselves took care of the incident report. So by the next morning, we were already getting the call for, you know, we're gonna get disappear out there and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. [00:21:33] Speaker B: Right. [00:21:33] Speaker A: Man. I've come to find out, because this happened on our block, that the only real re. Like, people were coming out of the woodworks, got the jammies on, looking, poking, poking their heads out around the corner, trying to figure out what the right. Unless you're like a direct neighbor. [00:21:59] Speaker B: Right. [00:22:00] Speaker A: Like, off to the left and right of me. Once the right came out immediately. Once to the left show up. They took their car, which was unheard of for them because normally they don't go out at night. They took their car that usually is parked behind the one on the street. [00:22:18] Speaker B: Uhhuh. [00:22:19] Speaker A: So their car would have been the one. That girl would have been dead because that is all metal. [00:22:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:22:27] Speaker A: Versus the amount of plastic that was destroyed in a matter. And the only reason that my car wasn't destroyed is because I was swapping over to Winter Tires the next morning. Like I just put in a fuel pump in the car. Yeah. And that was the only real reason that my car was not destroyed and the Mrs. 's car was. So take that with. Because that if that would have happened to the Nissan, it would have been told, no doubt. But because it was a newer car. [00:23:04] Speaker B: Could you imagine the chaos if that was the, the Saturn? [00:23:09] Speaker A: Oh God. [00:23:10] Speaker B: Being all plastic, that thing would have just blown up. [00:23:12] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. But with this in hand, I still had to do the winter tires. [00:23:20] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [00:23:20] Speaker A: On that Sunday morning. And sure enough, everybody coming out of the damn woodworks trying to. You know how long it usually takes it by hand. No power tools to replace all four tires. Right. [00:23:33] Speaker B: Oh yeah, that's, that's back breaking. [00:23:37] Speaker A: This became a two hour job because of the amount of people that were asking me questions about the goddamn car that hit last night. [00:23:43] Speaker B: You're like, stop it. I, I actually gotta do things. Yeah. [00:23:48] Speaker A: I got to do. I wanna. There's football to watch. God damn it. So the long and short of it is I. I've come to learn from other people is if you're going to get to tow, don't let cops tow it for you because you'll get a 500 charge no matter what. [00:24:07] Speaker B: Oh yeah. Yep. [00:24:09] Speaker A: I guess if you go through aaa. This is the story that I'm getting from other people. I cannot justify this for myself. [00:24:15] Speaker B: Right. [00:24:15] Speaker A: Is that if you get through AAA then you're gonna, you don't have to [00:24:19] Speaker B: pay some of the time. [00:24:23] Speaker A: Some of the time. [00:24:23] Speaker B: Yeah. For us, since it was probably not [00:24:28] Speaker A: for us, we didn't have to pay because it was already a part of the. [00:24:33] Speaker B: Oh, the insurance. [00:24:34] Speaker A: Yeah, the insurance also because they had already said, yeah, we're at full fault. So pick it up, take it in. This is where I'm a little chapped. Get a rental. [00:24:48] Speaker B: Okay. [00:24:50] Speaker A: 2025 Hyundai Kona. [00:24:53] Speaker B: Okay. [00:24:56] Speaker A: You have to put it into a service mode in order for the windshield wipers to stand up. Because if you don't the windshield wipers themselves, it will not clear the back. The hood of the car. [00:25:14] Speaker B: Oh, weird. Oh, because they tuck under the hood, don't they? Yeah. Oh, that's like my old Pontiac that did that. [00:25:23] Speaker A: That was a yes. And so when coming back from Great Falls for Thanksgiving and it hit that snowstorm. [00:25:29] Speaker B: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:25:33] Speaker A: We are not impressed. [00:25:36] Speaker B: I wouldn't be either. [00:25:38] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, we're not impressed with that. And the car is not totaled really. It has done about $9,000 worth of damages that they are doing the replacement of fixing really on. [00:25:58] Speaker B: How old is the car? [00:26:01] Speaker A: 20, 23 I think. Mitsubishi. Yeah. [00:26:06] Speaker B: Wow. [00:26:08] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:26:09] Speaker B: $9,000 of repairs on a 23ish Mitsubishi. [00:26:15] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:26:17] Speaker B: I would have thought they would have totaled it. [00:26:19] Speaker A: It is $11,000 short of being totaled. [00:26:22] Speaker B: Of course. That's so stupid. [00:26:27] Speaker A: It's so dumb. So goddamn. And it's gonna take easily. It's been pertinent a month since the son of a was towed off and it's gonna clearly gonna get worked on until the brand new year. [00:26:45] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:26:46] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:26:46] Speaker B: That is so dumb. [00:26:48] Speaker A: Isn't it just though. That's so depreciation on top of XYZs and all this other. [00:26:56] Speaker B: Well, yeah. Cars lose half their value as soon as they hit the pavement of the road basically no matter what. [00:27:02] Speaker A: Yeah, well absolutely. [00:27:05] Speaker B: It just. That's amazing to me. $9,000 of repairs to that car and they're still like oh yeah, we'll fix it, dude. [00:27:14] Speaker A: If. If I was a conspiracy theorist. [00:27:17] Speaker B: Huh. [00:27:18] Speaker A: I would be thinking that the car repair shop had to be given somebody a handy in order to make sure that they got paid for that job. [00:27:28] Speaker B: Yeah. That's insurance. Doesn't like to pay anything out normally ever. [00:27:35] Speaker A: Maybe that's. That's why I'm like what. What rare occasion did this like happen? [00:27:44] Speaker B: Right. [00:27:44] Speaker A: I'm befuddled. [00:27:45] Speaker B: Yeah. That's insane. [00:27:48] Speaker A: Right? Oh, so that's. That's the current new news on that one. [00:27:57] Speaker B: That's. [00:27:58] Speaker A: Or anything that was going on in my world. [00:28:00] Speaker B: That's crazy. Well, right. Glad nobody was, you know, seriously hurt. [00:28:05] Speaker A: No. The poor gal. We felt bad for her because this was a Nostra Cody moment here. [00:28:13] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:28:13] Speaker A: You've. You feel bad for the girl because she obviously she was doing. She was texting, not driving on that occasion. [00:28:19] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:28:20] Speaker A: And she paid the price of. She then got to go to the er. Wait, now this is my guessing. I didn't. We have yet to. We have not talked to this person. We wish them well, but we know from past experiences. [00:28:38] Speaker B: Huh. [00:28:40] Speaker A: That she got to spend four hours waiting in the er. [00:28:44] Speaker B: Oh. [00:28:45] Speaker A: At least before they straightened out her nose. [00:28:49] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:28:51] Speaker A: So. Okay. She broke her nose. [00:28:53] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:28:56] Speaker A: But all I could think of is like having had night occasions where I'll like broke this or a friend has broke that or XYZs that you're going to be spending about three to four hours. Unless it is a life endangering moment. They make you sit. [00:29:16] Speaker B: Oh yeah, absolutely. [00:29:18] Speaker A: On a Saturday night. Hell no. [00:29:22] Speaker B: Oh yeah. It's. That's ridiculous to me. [00:29:26] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:29:26] Speaker B: How long it Takes in an er and she was already had time enough to think about it, you know, while she was going through all the stuff, you know, at your guys's curb of your home, basically. And then another four hours in the er and I guess all you can hope is she becomes the like most staunch supporter of putting keeping your phone in your purse or pocket while you're driving and just ignore the hell out of it. [00:29:52] Speaker A: I'm glad that you said that. [00:29:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:29:55] Speaker A: Because every person that I talk to, this. This started off with the. The neighborhood who was asking me questions. [00:30:05] Speaker B: Sure. [00:30:06] Speaker A: It's like I have two daughters. Both of them did the same thing. Turn around, talk to people that are co workers who have daughters. Yeah, Same thing, huh? I was like, for the one neighbor, you were like, you would think that the older daughter getting in trouble would deter the youngest daughter from happening. No, life more of a haha. It happened to you and then. Oh, it happened to me. [00:30:41] Speaker B: Karma's a. Oh, truly, [00:30:45] Speaker A: truly. That's. That is a quick acting karma right there. [00:30:49] Speaker B: Usually that is insane. [00:30:51] Speaker A: You don't get that instant, instant warning karma. No, no, you get. You gotta wait, you gotta simmer on that pot. [00:30:58] Speaker B: So basically the moral of the story is don't text and drive. [00:31:03] Speaker A: Basically. [00:31:04] Speaker B: That's it. Don't. Yeah, don't be a. Don't text message while you're trying to drive. Especially in residential where there's cars parked all over the place. You know, then you really look like a freaking idiot. [00:31:15] Speaker A: I wanna, I wanna drive this point home. And this is maybe because it seems like everybody and their brother around here has a dui. [00:31:26] Speaker B: It's Billings. Of course they do. [00:31:28] Speaker A: It is Billings, bro. Well, like it seems like in Great Falls and not a whole lot of people got DUIs. Right. [00:31:37] Speaker B: That's because our people in Great Falls seem to think our cops are lazy, but our cops are actually quite good. Yes, but that's a whole other. [00:31:44] Speaker A: That's a. That's a whole different thing. [00:31:45] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:31:47] Speaker A: Bill, you have to be pertinent, blackout drunk to. To be able to get a dy at least just because it seems like everybody's driving like a jackass. [00:32:02] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:32:03] Speaker A: But the mass majority of people that I know or have had conversations with, the mass majority of the time that they ever got DUIs is because they thought that they were close. They were within a mile of home. Like they're on the home stretch. And so. But when you think, oh, they'll let down their guard a little bit. They did. And that's when he gets cherries. And berries time. Or they hit somebody else's car. [00:32:31] Speaker B: Well, don't they usually say when driving, most accidents happen within like five blocks of your home or something like that? [00:32:40] Speaker A: Yeah. Because you thought you won. [00:32:41] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. [00:32:42] Speaker A: Like you've thought you've beaten everyone. You've. You are the world conqueror. [00:32:48] Speaker B: You beat the O. [00:32:48] Speaker A: Done it. [00:32:49] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:32:49] Speaker A: You've beat the OD. [00:32:50] Speaker B: And then the little. [00:32:51] Speaker A: You had a 12 pack and made it home without incident. Then the. [00:32:57] Speaker B: Then the party lights flare up behind [00:32:59] Speaker A: you and that's the sound of the police. [00:33:03] Speaker B: Yeah, I just. And they've actually just been tailing you for like three blocks. [00:33:09] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:33:09] Speaker B: They ran your plate. They know exactly where your address is. So they pull you out just in front of your home. So everybody sees. [00:33:16] Speaker A: Oh, man. That the amount of times that are like. And I. I'm thinking about this now doing like growing up in the bar scene versus more modern day now. [00:33:30] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:33:31] Speaker A: Everybody's only got them cell phones anyways. And the whole, like, we are short of cctv really. [00:33:38] Speaker B: We're. [00:33:38] Speaker A: We're not that far off. [00:33:39] Speaker B: Right. [00:33:40] Speaker A: And. But, you know, as growing up is like, you know, I've had a couple of beers, I'm cool to drive. You know, the. Growing up in the. Yeah. [00:33:51] Speaker B: And now you look at those. Those. Those people that said that lyric. Nope. You weren't. [00:33:56] Speaker A: Well, you. [00:33:57] Speaker B: You look back on it. [00:33:58] Speaker A: Well, I've definitely looked back on a couple of things. One in particular is somebody that. Who's no longer around with us and not because of drinking and driving. It was sadly cancer. [00:34:09] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:34:10] Speaker A: But by the. Let me think about this. I'm gonna say it's either the third or fourth dui. [00:34:17] Speaker B: Oh, geez. That's when you really should start questioning your behavior. Is the third or fourth dui. [00:34:24] Speaker A: Well, when you are teetering and tottering your truck in the median on a bridge. [00:34:32] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. You need to start questioning your life choices at that point. [00:34:37] Speaker A: Yeah. But the funnier part about it is he continued to drink and ended up having a. A friend who quite possibly was the worst Uber driver that was known to man. This woman, not elderly woman, not giving out names, but she has wrecked more cars than I've ever seen a human being in my life. The way that she drives, quote, told by our DUI friendly neighbor, said, I feel safer driving drunk than her sober. This. She scares the out of me. [00:35:26] Speaker B: Some people just should not drive. [00:35:28] Speaker A: Agreed. [00:35:30] Speaker B: I. Some people should not. Whether they're just. [00:35:33] Speaker A: Some people should not be able to. Some people should not be able to get a car loan My dude. [00:35:37] Speaker B: That's true. [00:35:38] Speaker A: Like, you should be able to look up a person's history and go, okay, that's been four cars. [00:35:43] Speaker B: Nope, we're sorry. [00:35:45] Speaker A: Like, how the did you get a Cadillac Escalate? [00:35:50] Speaker B: Well, the problem with it is they don't care about your driving history. They just look at, can you pay for the car? [00:35:58] Speaker A: Same person that goes to the casino, windows all down, leaves their wallet and their keys in the damn car. Do you got security? The goddamn Took my world. No kidding. [00:36:20] Speaker B: You're like. You just left it out there for the world to see. Windows open, every. Yeah, you're lucky that's all they took. [00:36:29] Speaker A: That was the third time that it happened within the month. [00:36:32] Speaker B: People are dumb. Wow. Yeah, that's something. [00:36:39] Speaker A: There's a. There's some different cats out here in the world. I'm just gonna say it, so. [00:36:45] Speaker B: Oh, that's insane. So going back to something you said previously before your. Your. Your tirade. Your tirade. So I saw this online, and I absolutely. Just like. Because in Montana, we. We like our two colleges for football and everything. Me, personally, I could give or take it to be brutally honest, but I'm not a. I'm not an American football fan. [00:37:17] Speaker A: If. If they gave a hoot about baseball as much as, like, the Dominican, right? [00:37:24] Speaker B: Yeah, I'd be all over it, but. [00:37:26] Speaker A: Or Japan. Japan. [00:37:27] Speaker B: Or Japan. Japan. Baseball's awesome. But that's another tirade. [00:37:31] Speaker A: That's the difference. That's your tirade? [00:37:34] Speaker B: Yeah, I, I. You can tell when people aren't from actual Montana because they call the Cat Grizz game the Brawl of the Wild. And that because, to me, media is trying to shove that down your throat. And you can tell when people are, you know, such as ourselves, have been in Montana, either born in Montana or Montana long enough that we might as well have been born in Montana. [00:38:02] Speaker A: So first one, Ed, Second one, me. [00:38:04] Speaker B: Yeah, we've been here long enough that we're, you know, Montanans, and we're just like. We still call it Cat Grizz no matter what. [00:38:13] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:38:14] Speaker B: And it just bugs the hell out of me when your media tries to make it Brawl of the Wild. I'm like, oh, stop it. That's dumb. Just. Or Brawl of the Wild, too. And you're like, oh, now we've put a number on it. Crap. Or, you know, it just annoys me. [00:38:35] Speaker A: Fun fact for this one is the only reason that we call it two is because they have never met in the playoffs. [00:38:41] Speaker B: Right? They usually. [00:38:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:38:43] Speaker B: As is history. They usually meet the last Game of the season for Cat Grizz, and then nine times ten, that's. Whoever wins that game goes on to the playoffs. But they both made it, so. [00:38:56] Speaker A: And there's been plenty of occasions where both of them made it. But more often than not, like, one team or another will get knocked off by a Dakota team. [00:39:05] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:39:07] Speaker A: And now that all of the Dakota teams have been knocked out. [00:39:11] Speaker B: Take that, Dakotas. [00:39:12] Speaker A: Yeah. You flatlander sons of We a guy we at least got mountains. You. [00:39:22] Speaker B: I love it. [00:39:23] Speaker A: Fun fact. Mount Rushmore not as big as you think it would be. [00:39:26] Speaker B: It's not. No, it's not. It really. Mount Rushmore is not as impressive as you think it is not. It's nothing like the movies. Much like the Las Vegas sign. Yes. [00:39:38] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. No, the Las Vegas sign is like a 24 inch wide. [00:39:45] Speaker B: When Becky and I went to Vegas year several years ago for our friend's wedding, we went to the Vegas sign because that's what you do. And we're like. Becky's like, that's it. It's like a sign in a parking lot. [00:39:58] Speaker A: Vegas. No, man. Do they know marketing? [00:40:02] Speaker B: Oh, absolutely. [00:40:03] Speaker A: How the else do you get to market a sign that is about 2ft in diameter? [00:40:12] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. [00:40:13] Speaker A: We. [00:40:13] Speaker B: We. She was like, that's. We're not even gonna go up to it because it's. [00:40:18] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:40:19] Speaker B: Nothing like you see on the movies. Yeah. [00:40:22] Speaker A: Because guess what? You have a thousand. Or like, oh, it's not even a thousand. It's. Let's be clear. At a given time, you have about 50 people there on the sign on, quote, the Astroturf. That is the little. Little patch of greenery that is in front of the sign. [00:40:40] Speaker B: Right. [00:40:40] Speaker A: And honestly, you could take a selfie anywhere near it and call it good. [00:40:45] Speaker B: Yep. [00:40:46] Speaker A: But it's so dumb. [00:40:47] Speaker B: It is. You're just like, well, that's not impressive at all. [00:40:53] Speaker A: Huh. [00:40:54] Speaker B: Yeah, that's kind of a letdown. [00:40:56] Speaker A: At least. Like, impressive monuments of like, oh, if you go to Seattle, you know, the Space Needle, you could pretty much get a picture of the Space Needle in the background of any shot. [00:41:07] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:41:08] Speaker A: Almost anywhere in Seattle. [00:41:10] Speaker B: Right, right. [00:41:11] Speaker A: Which is cool because that's your little. Like, that's your North Star. If you're trying to travel around. [00:41:16] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. That's you. You can get to the center of Seattle if you can see the Space Needle. [00:41:21] Speaker A: If. Yeah, exactly. Depending on where you are. And if, you know, like, okay, Space Needle is there. I need to go left in order to go to Sofi or whatever that. Or no, Okay. I know it was Century Link. I don't know if it's still Century Link Stadium. [00:41:41] Speaker B: Oh yeah. I don't remember. [00:41:46] Speaker A: Damn. [00:41:48] Speaker B: Yeah, I can't remember. You've been there, huh? [00:41:51] Speaker A: Well, I. Well it was easier to remember because locals call it the clink. [00:41:55] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:41:57] Speaker A: But I can't remember. I'm just having a. Oh, T. Mobile Stadium. That's. [00:42:01] Speaker B: Well, T. Mobile's the baseball stadium. Yeah. It used to be Safeco. Yes. [00:42:06] Speaker A: Yep. But I was, that's where I was [00:42:09] Speaker B: struggling was the baseball stadium or, or the hockey arenas. Climate pledge. [00:42:15] Speaker A: Is it? [00:42:15] Speaker B: Yes. Well, that's where we saw Lincoln park was Climate pledge. [00:42:19] Speaker A: Oh, gotcha. [00:42:21] Speaker B: Yep. And the who I. [00:42:24] Speaker A: Man, I. I love to go see a cracking game because honestly, hockey is a hell of a lot of fun to watch. Is fast. Yeah. Like it's a. It's another one of those like, much like soccer that if you ever have the chance go because you're going for more of the environment. But man, those got wheels. [00:42:42] Speaker B: Oh yeah. [00:42:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:42:43] Speaker B: Hockey's fast paced. Even going to like a Great Falls Americans game is kind of, kind of entertaining. We've. We've gone to. Gone to a few. Even after I lost my. I've lost my eyesight because we, we sit close enough to the Great Falls Americans game. There's the. Let's be honest, it's like 10 rows of seats and that might be a slight under exaggeration, but you're not wrong. It's not a. There's not a lot of bleachers or seats, but I can actually hear which direction they're skating and what. What's going on. It's. It's kind of interesting for hockey. [00:43:19] Speaker A: You hear momentum and when they. Especially because Americans are a little bit of an, of a league enough to get the chirping. Yeah. Yeah. And that's, that's awesome. That's all you need. If you're going for soccer, you're going more for the environment of like hearing people hoot holler for about 90 minutes. [00:43:42] Speaker B: Right. [00:43:44] Speaker A: So yeah. And knowing that that's coming to the World World cup is coming if we don't it up. [00:43:51] Speaker B: Right. That's yet to be seen because. [00:43:54] Speaker A: Well, yeah. Which we got a really good, like a really favorable job. [00:44:01] Speaker B: Oh yeah. There's honestly Vegas odds for America up not getting FIFA. The FIFA cup is probably, you know, better odds that they're going to screw it up somehow. [00:44:12] Speaker A: Well, we got Australia, Paraguay and then probably Turkey. The third one, they have a playoff, a four team playoff. So we'll figure that out in March because that's when it is. [00:44:30] Speaker B: I I could see Trump making some dumbass speech about loving turkey and their food. [00:44:36] Speaker A: Dude. I the amount of disappointment, like it seems like any other time where if you look up something on Reddit or turn on the TV that you're just like is the like Henry Rollinson said, it's like. And during the Bush era it's like I just wish that we had him on like a closed circuit television. So that way it was like our little hidden secret. [00:45:03] Speaker B: Right. [00:45:04] Speaker A: Like how the did you get elected kind of. But you know. [00:45:07] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:45:09] Speaker A: But yeah. [00:45:09] Speaker B: And that award that the FIFA gay gave Donald Trump some bogus peace award. Yes, that. So all the comedians have been calling it something to the effect of the fake International Fascist Award. [00:45:25] Speaker A: Oh, that's delightful. [00:45:27] Speaker B: And I'm just. It's something to that effect. I can't remember exactly what it was, but it was something to that effect. And I'm like, oh that's amazing. [00:45:34] Speaker A: Colin just from Saturday Night Live said it pretty well. This fake trophy that has a bunch of creepy little Trump hands holding up the world as if to pull the world into hell. It's like that's a pretty good description. Yeah, I, I abide by that one. But it is a creepy looking trophy. [00:45:58] Speaker B: Is it really? Oh, I hadn't seen any descriptions of the trophy, but it's that bad, huh? [00:46:03] Speaker A: What childish little man you have to be in order to you get blown over by the world peace. [00:46:14] Speaker B: Oh yeah. They didn't even quit. [00:46:15] Speaker A: They. No, they blew past the stop sign on that one. [00:46:20] Speaker B: So they're like floor it. Floor. We don't care. We'll risk it. [00:46:23] Speaker A: Yeah. On the sidewalk. Doesn't matter. [00:46:26] Speaker B: Just go, just go. [00:46:29] Speaker A: So with that. Yeah, it is a creepy trophy that you have to have such a like to be. Well, you know FIFA is already corrupt as anyways so that's well one corrupt [00:46:42] Speaker B: agency to a corrupt man. [00:46:44] Speaker A: So it's like, well I guess we'll spend the $20 for a trophy to get him, you know, make them happy. [00:46:50] Speaker B: It's probably spray painted tin foil. Much like all of his other decorations in the White House. [00:46:58] Speaker A: Yeah, boy, getting his from Home Depot and just spray painting the gold. [00:47:03] Speaker B: Right. [00:47:05] Speaker A: The ornaments straight out of Home Depot is just amazing. [00:47:09] Speaker B: Yep. [00:47:10] Speaker A: And now he's shortened a person or like the contractors that tore down the West Wing. Oh yeah. [00:47:17] Speaker B: That doesn't surprise me at all. Goodness that that's his M.O. is get somebody to spend a boatload of money as a business to do work for him and then short him and not pay him. That's his M.O. that doesn't surprise me in the slightest. [00:47:36] Speaker A: And, you know, the amount of, like, I'm sure that somewhere along the way, you probably ran into a video of when contractors don't get paid and then they go back and remove all the work. [00:47:50] Speaker B: Yep. [00:47:52] Speaker A: Like, patio. I'm taking down everything. Lawn. I'm going to take every little panel back. I will smash every little bit and say, go yourself. Which I love that. That's. [00:48:09] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:48:11] Speaker A: If you. If you don't pay, you don't play, you know, Exactly. [00:48:16] Speaker B: I just. And that. That whole. Well, historic house is going to be left in shambles [00:48:28] Speaker A: one way or another. Buttery. Oh, another. [00:48:30] Speaker B: Well, it's gonna be even worse than we thought. I mean, it's just. It's going to be. There's going to be a lot of work to bring that building back to, you know, what it used to be and code. Well, that too. That too. [00:48:45] Speaker A: I was like, if you're going to modernize the son of a. There's a lot of ghosts in that building. [00:48:50] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, absolutely. [00:48:52] Speaker A: I just. [00:48:53] Speaker B: It's insane that he just all willy nilly, just flat did it. [00:48:59] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:48:59] Speaker B: And, yeah, I mean, I guess that part of it's not surprising to me because, well, that's how he runs his life. But just do it and ask. Well, he doesn't ask questions, but people ask questions later. [00:49:13] Speaker A: So we're asking questions now and you're all like, maybe. [00:49:19] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't get it. [00:49:21] Speaker A: I don't even understand. But considering that this is December 14th, we'll go ahead and make are. We hope that everybody has a great new year in 2026. Trying to bring the positive vibe into the new year. And. Yeah, I think that's everything that I got for this podcast. [00:49:46] Speaker B: Yeah. All I have to say is in 2026, vote blue. [00:49:51] Speaker A: Go blue. [00:49:52] Speaker B: Go blue. No, no, that's. That's about all I have. I mean, like I said, I'm glad everybody's okay from that whole incident. And don't. Yeah, we sound like old men. [00:50:05] Speaker A: Don't text when you drive. [00:50:07] Speaker B: Get off your phones. [00:50:09] Speaker A: I mean, with everything else is like, even my car got bottomed out by the snow. [00:50:15] Speaker B: Right. [00:50:16] Speaker A: And what do you do in that case scenario? Call into work. [00:50:20] Speaker B: Snowed in. [00:50:22] Speaker A: I. Yeah, because it's like, oh, most of the car is iced over and I. I bottom out. I can't. I can't move. [00:50:30] Speaker B: You guys got hammered with snow. We got little to Nothing, which is 12 inches overnight. Oh, good God. So you guys got all the snow that they were warning us about? Yep. Thanks, Billings. You. [00:50:43] Speaker A: No problem. [00:50:44] Speaker B: You took the. You took the hit. [00:50:47] Speaker A: Took the L for sure. [00:50:48] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. No, because we were like this last week. We were told we were going to get anywhere from 6 to 10, maybe even 12 inches of snow, and we barely got more than a dusting, maybe. Yeah, you got an inch. [00:51:02] Speaker A: That's what you got. You got to, like. You got that much in comparison to. It was already raining on top before it all even came down, so it was. It's all ice. [00:51:14] Speaker B: Yeah, we. We got a little bit of rain, and it got cold, but that's. That's about it. [00:51:18] Speaker A: Yeah. And I got a company party to go to today, so this is going to be a fun, fun little experience to. To slip slide. [00:51:27] Speaker B: We're starting to sound like old men. We're like, we really have to go outside? It's like 15 degrees. I don't. I don't want to. [00:51:36] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah. [00:51:37] Speaker B: Can Walmart wait till tomorrow, bro? You know, whatever it is, buddy. [00:51:43] Speaker A: Ed Cody, centurion of the modern world. My moment of being old was I'm willing to go out into the world icy and miserable to get potatoes for a chowder. [00:52:01] Speaker B: Well, you know, you have to. You have to have priorities. [00:52:04] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:52:05] Speaker B: And clam chowder is a good motivator and priority. [00:52:08] Speaker A: When the Mrs. Make it soup from scratch. God damn it, I'm. [00:52:11] Speaker B: Oh, yes. Yes. Homemade clam chowder. Yes. [00:52:15] Speaker A: Yeah, I will. I will fight the elements and humans just because I don't like humans in [00:52:21] Speaker B: whatever order they come at you. [00:52:23] Speaker A: Come at me, bro. I'm gonna get in between me and my potato. That's not a good. For an Irishman. [00:52:30] Speaker B: Exactly. And clam chowder. [00:52:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:52:34] Speaker B: Yes, absolutely. [00:52:35] Speaker A: Well, it wasn't clam chowders like a chicken bacon. [00:52:38] Speaker B: Oh, well, that sounds good, too. [00:52:41] Speaker A: It had four bowls. I was a fat bastard after that. [00:52:46] Speaker B: Well, you know, you get. You win some with some. [00:52:49] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. And now I'm going to quest for more chowder. So thank you all for listening. This has been what you. Thank you, friend. I'm Cody Lindaberry. [00:52:58] Speaker B: And I'm Ed Worrell. You can find us on, well, most of the social media, but, you know, we don't post all the time, so whatever. [00:53:05] Speaker A: Yeah, we don't podcast all the time either, but damn it, we did it for the. You, the listener. And thank you for listening. Have a great day.