#81 - What the Hell is Going on Around Here?

Tim 0:04

When we were here with the president.

SPEAKER_01 0:11

Um That's like your theme now is like hanging out with presidents.

Tim 0:16

When we were here with the president, everybody decided they didn't want to wear headphones and then the audio was all fucked up.

SPEAKER_01 0:21

Oh yeah. Well, also he I watched him, he was not staying close to the mic.

Tim 0:26

And neither were you, and neither was Kimmy.

SPEAKER_01 0:29

Oh.

Tim 0:30

So there is that. Look, I'm not trying to make a fashion statement with a headphone. For the listeners and for you, James, the point of the headphones is so that you can hear shit.

SPEAKER_02 1:08

Yes.

Tim 1:09

And when you don't have the headphones on, you don't hear shit. And then you don't know when you're fading in and out. So when we did the episode with the president of St. Thomas, everybody decided, hey, I don't want to wear headphones. Okay. Well, make sure that you stay a fist away from the microphone. Nah, y'all were like 5,000 miles away.

SPEAKER_01 1:35

Well, maybe you should have just told us to lean in.

Tim 1:41

Yeah, I'd interrupt what you're saying.

SPEAKER_01 1:43

Huh?

Tim 1:44

So, eh, whatever.

SPEAKER_01 1:46

You're the director here. You have to direct.

Tim 1:49

Look, I can't do all of the things.

SPEAKER_01 1:51

Well, you need to figure it out.

Tim 1:53

But I did say, hey, everybody, make sure that you're right up on the mic if you're not going to use the headphones. Because when you have the headphones on, you're like, oh shit, I can hear that I'm too far away.

SPEAKER_01 2:01

I don't recall you saying that.

Tim 2:03

I did say that.

SPEAKER_01 2:04

Okay.

Tim 2:04

It's on recording too. I'll play that back.

SPEAKER_01 2:08

So we can check the receipts.

Tim 2:09

Yes, I will check the receipts. So anyway, James, welcome back to the Fairyview Social Podcast.

SPEAKER_01 2:17

Thanks, babe.

Tim 2:18

And um we got a lot going on right now.

SPEAKER_01 2:22

I've told multiple people this. We are currently living in a state of chaos. It's interesting.

Tim 2:30

I would say that that's probably accurate.

SPEAKER_01 2:32

So I was telling Hayden about it this morning on the phone, and he said, It sounds like you're living like rednecks. And I was like, Yeah, I'm going back to my roots.

Tim 2:39

We are living like rednecks.

SPEAKER_01 2:42

This originally um both our microwave and our TV are sitting on the floor in empty rooms.

Tim 2:48

That is true.

SPEAKER_01 2:50

And we're mainly using paper plates and plastic where to eat.

Tim 2:56

That's true too, and I don't I really don't mind that.

SPEAKER_02 2:59

Yeah.

Tim 3:00

But hang on.

SPEAKER_01 3:05

The issue with everything is um You were farther than a fist away from that microphone, by the way.

Tim 3:16

I was farther than a fist away.

SPEAKER_01 3:18

I think you need to lean in.

Tim 3:19

I do. Thank you for the reminder. But we'll say that the issue with everything is being disoriented in where all of your stuff is normally.

SPEAKER_01 3:30

Yeah.

Tim 3:31

So those of you that don't know, we are going through a remodel in our house. We are remodeling the inside, living room, kitchen, dining room area, and building on a great room, which is a fucking living room. They call it a great room.

SPEAKER_01 3:52

I guess maybe it will be great. Maybe we're gonna make our house great again.

Tim 3:58

I think that when you cross over into this uh the bougie houses, you have a great room. But I also think you have a living room.

SPEAKER_01 4:08

I think it's just a living room.

Tim 4:09

It's a living room. So we're building on a living living room. So in return, below the living room, we'll extend our basement to have an additional bedroom and a bigger living room downstairs. And so this project started at the beginning of April. As we sit now, we're towards the end of May, and not a lot has been done, which is fine. I know that it's mainly because of codes and all that kind of stuff. Waiting on permits and things, permits and all that kind of stuff. But we did have the inside um, we had a wall between our kitchen, our kitchen and our living room, current living room. And so they knocked that wall down, which is awesome. But that's how we've been sitting since then.

SPEAKER_01 5:05

Yeah, the rooms have been empty. And then just I think yesterday, the day before, you pulled your recliner back in there from being crammed up in the bedroom. So we have your recliner and the my my desk chair in the living room with the TV on the floor.

Tim 5:22

So here on the screen you can see what it currently looks like. And so that used to be our living room, and there was a wall there where you see the up in the top left-hand corner, there was a wall there, which we're busting out, and they busted it out, which is fine. We got all the stuff out of there. But since they weren't coming back for a while, I was like, Well, I'm gonna get my chair out and get my TV. TV used to be on the wall above the fireplace. Now you can see it's on the floor, and so bless my heart. I've had to watch TV on the floor.

SPEAKER_01 5:58

Yeah, you you've survived though. You've had a couple meals on the floor, and you've watched TV on the floor a little bit until you got your recliner back in.

Tim 6:04

That's fine. And I'm okay with that.

SPEAKER_01 6:06

I mean, I think our our our current kitchen is like epic. Well, our kitchen, it's a burner on top of a trash can and a microwave sitting on a floor with the air fryer on top of that.

Tim 6:18

Well, that's true. Let's go to that picture.

SPEAKER_01 6:20

Yeah. So that picture and the crock pot's in our bedroom in on top of my dresser.

Tim 6:26

So we have an air fryer on top of a microwave and a two. It's not just a burner.

SPEAKER_01 6:32

Well, there's two burners on there.

Tim 6:33

It's a two-eye burner. It's a burner uten it on top of the trash can.

SPEAKER_01 6:38

Yeah. Yeah.

Tim 6:39

Which works.

SPEAKER_01 6:40

It was on a TV tray, but then you move that over to your chair. So I had to improvise.

Tim 6:45

Well, I needed my TV tray because I was just eating on the floor.

SPEAKER_01 6:49

What's wrong with that?

Tim 6:50

I mean, I got I don't guess it's that big of a deal, but I like to have my I like to have my stuff around me.

SPEAKER_01 6:56

I know.

Tim 6:58

And so the biggest issue with all of this is um, you know, just kind of being we got all of our shit packed into our bedrooms. So when I get up in the morning, I'm tripping over everything, and that that sucks. But you know what? It's for the greater good.

SPEAKER_02 7:14

That's right.

Tim 7:16

We'll have a nicer house when it's all over.

SPEAKER_02 7:18

That's right.

Tim 7:19

And it'll be fine. But in this process, we said, hey, where are we gonna live while this is getting done? So we bought a camper. And I'm and I'm not gonna talk too much about this story because 2SD is gonna talk about this story.

SPEAKER_01 7:36

2SD Q2.5 is going to talk about this story. But what's interesting is we we got the camper so we would have a spot to stay while the house is being worked on. And now the camper is currently filled up with vending supplies.

Tim 7:54

Well, that's true.

SPEAKER_01 7:57

So there's just stuff everywhere.

Tim 8:01

Well, the reason that it's full of vending supplies is because Jack was trying to stay in one of the bedrooms, and there was just all of our vending supplies. So there's sodas and snacks and stuff everywhere. And so I go in there about a week or so ago, and I'm like, I need to, I, I, I need to go stock these machines. I gotta see what's going on. I need to see the inventory. As Jack's like stuffing his face with famous Amos cookies. And I said, Jack, what what are you doing? Well, I just got a snack. A snack?

SPEAKER_01 8:39

Uh-huh.

Tim 8:40

And it's like I look in the trash can and there's like Reese's wrappers and Snickers and all this shit. And I'm like, Jack, we're selling that. We're not, we're not eating that.

SPEAKER_01 8:51

Okay, okay. But none of us had touched any of the inventory until we saw you take that first pack of peanut MMs. And then you took a few more, and we all saw it. So then we're all like, well, if he can have a snack, being watched.

Tim 9:07

Good lord. I've literally swipe one pack of MMs.

SPEAKER_01 9:10

It's been more than one.

Tim 9:11

No, it's been two. So you're right. It has been more than one. But like I deduct it from the inventory. If everybody wants to eat it, that's fine. Just let me know instead of me going in there and looking at a one of those small office trash cans that's full to the brim of drink cans and candy wrappers. You gotta let somebody know that you're eating all the product.

SPEAKER_01 9:37

Yeah.

Tim 9:38

I mean, is don't drug dealers.

SPEAKER_01 9:40

You left it in a teenager's room.

Tim 9:41

Don't drug dealers say, like, hey, you know, you can't get in on the product because you got to sell it.

SPEAKER_02 9:48

That's right.

Tim 9:49

The second that you start smoking all the weed or doing all the crack or whatever that you're trying to sell, you're not making any money.

SPEAKER_02 9:56

That's right.

Tim 9:57

So, like, whenever I see Jack feeding his face full of famous Amos cookies, I want to slap his face and say, Hey, that's a product.

SPEAKER_01 10:05

You're like, that's my cookies. Get out of my cookie jar.

Tim 10:09

So, yeah. So Jack's eating all the product, which is fine. It's it's okay. But yeah, so we moved all the vending stuff into the camper because it made more room for Jack to live in there. And the camper, we'll take it out. If we do, we'll put the inventory down here in your office. Probably down to Holliswood Studios. But look, that's that's a part of doing a home remodel while you're trying to start a business.

SPEAKER_02 10:38

It's messy.

Tim 10:40

Yeah, it's very messy.

SPEAKER_02 10:41

That's okay.

Tim 10:42

No. So yeah, so there's that. So we got a bunch of vending stuff. So in the vending machine world, I thought I had the most wonderful idea. Wonderful enough that I spent $18,000 on buying three vending machines.

SPEAKER_01 11:05

Three AI vending machines?

Tim 11:07

Three AI vending machines and the stock for those. So I'm like, this is this is a plan that will succeed. Because I work in landscaping and the guys dispatch at 7 o'clock in the morning. So between 6.30 and 7.30, I'm like, hell yeah, we're gonna make some money. So I put the I buy these vending machines and I put three of them out at these locations, get permission to do it, do all the things, make a big investment. We put them out there, and between 6.30 and 7.30 every morning, there are zero sales. And then we were making like $20 a day between three machines.

SPEAKER_01 11:53

Yeah, that's pretty sad.

Tim 11:55

Not making $20. What's Frank eating over there? He's probably eating that footer thing. Frank. So anyway, so so we have these three machines that are making like $20 a day. And to be okay, don't throw it away. Don't throw it away. Put it right here. So to to to be okay, we need to make $50 a day. We're making $20 a day off three machines. So then we put a machine, we move one of the machines from the landscape company and put it at uh St. Thomas Hospital. Not for the general public, but for a nurse's break room. And we're basically rolling in dough now.

SPEAKER_01 12:53

Well a little stretched, but compared to what we were doing. Compared to what we were doing, yeah.

Tim 12:58

So now we're we're that's how it's supposed to be in the vending machine vending machine business.

SPEAKER_01 13:04

Yeah, now it's more to a stable point, not like a rolling in the dough point.

Tim 13:09

Yes. So we need to get our other two machines doing just as well as that one's doing.

SPEAKER_01 13:15

Yeah.

Tim 13:17

So the vending machine business, guys, you always see that it's passive income. Do nothing, work for one hour a week. It's not that. No, it's not, it's not that at all.

SPEAKER_01 13:31

It's like any business, it's figuring things out and adjusting.

Tim 13:36

But look, I'm gonna I'm holding on to this idea because if we do figure it out and we do get more machines, what I've learned is you have to have a lot of machines to make a dent. If you have one machine, you ain't making any money on that.

SPEAKER_01 13:53

No.

Tim 13:53

Even if you're having the best month ever with that machine, you have to have five machines to really make a difference. So there's that.

SPEAKER_01 14:05

Yeah. And we will get more.

Tim 14:08

Well, what do you think about it, James?

SPEAKER_01 14:10

Well, I think there's no if. I think there's when. We will get more machines. We will figure it out, and we'll turn it into a little bit more profitability than we have currently.

Tim 14:22

Frank. He's got another one. Better get it.

SPEAKER_01 14:29

Frank's chewing up the office.

Tim 14:31

He is. So we got the house remodel. We got the vending machine business.

SPEAKER_01 14:39

You know what else we got?

Tim 14:40

What?

SPEAKER_01 14:42

James got a degree.

Tim 14:44

Oh, yeah, you did get a degree.

SPEAKER_01 14:45

I did. I just finished up my associate's degree. And I'm moving on to the next one.

Tim 14:51

Here, let me see if I can. No, not that.

SPEAKER_01 14:57

I like the first one.

Tim 15:11

I don't know. I like this one. But you know it's better than all of these.

SPEAKER_01 15:24

I knew it was coming.

Tim 15:25

Uh, congratulations, James. You did get a degree.

SPEAKER_01 15:28

I did. I skipped the graduation because graduations are stupid.

Tim 15:31

Well, D's get degrees is what was your motto.

SPEAKER_01 15:34

You said graduations are stupid, and like Fairview's graduating tonight. Sorry, Fairview, I didn't mean you.

Tim 15:38

You said you've always said through the whole thing that D's get degrees.

SPEAKER_01 15:42

I actually got that wisdom from Zephyr.

Tim 15:45

But then you got A's, but A's get degrees too.

SPEAKER_01 15:48

They do. They do.

Tim 15:51

So you so you have that first degree on your path to become a brain scientist.

SPEAKER_01 15:57

Yes. So I'm one step of the way. And I mean, that's why, like, you know, you you were saying, like, I don't think you appreciate the whatever you said it was. You you don't you don't appreciate the fact that you have a degree. I'm like, well, it's a little degree. It's a stepping stone. It's not where I'm trying to get.

Tim 16:17

It might be a little degree, but it's still a degree. You know how many degrees I have? Tell her, tell the audience, let them know.

SPEAKER_01 16:27

Um, let's see. You've got, well, there's the there's the the master's in bullshit, the PhD in fuckery. Um, what else you got? You got a few.

Tim 16:39

I have no degree, no official degrees. So the fact that you got degrees, that's good. So you you're the second Hollis to graduate from college since Hayden Hayden is the first.

SPEAKER_01 16:52

Hayden graduated and I graduated. Now Eli technically has college degrees. He just didn't realize he was getting them.

Tim 16:58

Well, there you go.

SPEAKER_01 16:59

So he's got some degrees through the army and all the training he's done there.

Tim 17:03

So what I'm hearing is everybody in the family is much smarter than me.

SPEAKER_01 17:08

No.

Tim 17:10

Well, they are, but but that's fine.

SPEAKER_01 17:13

It's fine. It's fine.

Tim 17:14

So congratulations, James.

SPEAKER_01 17:16

Thanks. And for the record, you're supposed to surround yourself with people who will grow you.

Tim 17:22

Who are dumber than you?

SPEAKER_01 17:23

Or who will make who are like, you know, a step ahead. So like if you're hanging out with degree people, you're basically hanging out with smart people, which makes you smarter.

Tim 17:32

So maybe I'm smarter now.

SPEAKER_01 17:34

Yeah, you probably are.

unknown 17:35

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 17:36

I mean, you've been married to me for how many years? So I had to have had some effect on you, right?

Tim 17:41

232 or three years.

SPEAKER_01 17:44

How old's Aiden?

Tim 17:45

22.

SPEAKER_01 17:46

Okay, 23 years for us then.

Tim 17:48

23 years.

SPEAKER_01 17:49

Yeah.

Tim 17:50

Yeah. Well, that's good.

SPEAKER_01 17:51

But you've had an effect on me too.

Tim 17:53

So well, I'm proud of you for getting your degree. Everybody that regularly listens to this podcast knows my stance on college, which is like, no, it's not necessary.

SPEAKER_01 18:06

It's not necessary.

Tim 18:07

Unless you're trying to.

SPEAKER_01 18:07

But in the field I'm going in.

Tim 18:09

Unless you're trying to be a scientist.

SPEAKER_01 18:10

Yes.

Tim 18:11

So so there's that.

SPEAKER_01 18:13

Yeah.

Tim 18:14

So congratulations on that.

SPEAKER_01 18:16

Hey, thanks.

Tim 18:18

Um what else is going on? We have um another thing here is the pool.

SPEAKER_01 18:26

The pool is back in order.

Tim 18:28

The pool was out of order. So all winter long, I've had the pool running. Because when I walk out here to my office, I want to see the pool. Because it's nice, even if I'm just walking by. And then we had the ice storm back in January, February. And it messed up the pool, froze everything because I'm an idiot. Fixed it, filled the pool back up, but there's leaks everywhere. So I had to drain the pool in March or April back when I would uh traditionally get in. Frank. I would trish traditionally get in the pool pretty early, had to drain it, and we had to replace the liner. You remember that?

SPEAKER_02 19:18

Yeah.

Tim 19:18

That sucked.

SPEAKER_02 19:19

Yeah.

Tim 19:21

So I had to pay $2,2200 to replace the liner, which sucked. And then they put me on like a three-week wait list, which sucked. Because I don't like it. They came out here to replace it, and then they said, Hey, what are you gonna do about this rust around the pool? And I said, You mean what are you gonna do about it?

SPEAKER_01 19:43

Yeah, exactly.

Tim 19:44

Since you told me that that's what I was paying for, and apparently I didn't. I had to um pay an additional six hundred dollars to have them put some foam around the pool. The pool liner. And so Yeah, I had to do that. But now the pool's filled back up, good to go. We went swimming in it yesterday or the day before.

SPEAKER_01 20:12

And today we got a fresh batch of basketballs for the pool, so I can work on my skills.

Tim 20:17

We did. So every year I always buy a brand new four-pack of basketballs and hope that the old ones get lost when all of the Rando family members come over to start hanging out with us again because we have a pool. So for the listeners out there, if you don't see your family, get a pool and you'll see them.

SPEAKER_01 20:43

You'll see them.

Tim 20:44

You'll see them between April and October.

SPEAKER_01 20:47

August, September.

Tim 20:48

September August.

SPEAKER_01 20:49

Well, they come over for a polar plunge, too.

Tim 20:51

So that's true. So hopefully the old balls get lost, but generally what happens is the new balls get lost.

SPEAKER_02 20:58

Yeah.

Tim 20:59

So now we have 15 pools out in the out in the or 15 balls out in the pool right now.

SPEAKER_01 21:07

There's 11.

Tim 21:08

So we have 11 out there.

SPEAKER_01 21:10

Yeah.

Tim 21:11

And the new ones will get lost.

SPEAKER_01 21:15

Well, that's why we got Jack. He can run around and find him.

Tim 21:18

Even even when we finish this podcast, I'm probably gonna get in that pool.

SPEAKER_01 21:22

That's fine.

Tim 21:23

It's a little chilly, but I'm still gonna get in there.

SPEAKER_01 21:28

Tim Hollis likes it cold.

Tim 21:30

Yeah, I do like it cold.

SPEAKER_01 21:33

I do not.

Tim 21:34

Well, James, when you're a man that is large, you generally like to be cold because you're always hot.

SPEAKER_01 21:43

Yeah. I'm the opposite. Always cold, so I want it hot.

Tim 21:47

Oh, there you go. So those are the things that are going on at Holliswood Estates, Holliswood Studios, Holliswood LLC, Holliswood Vending. Yeah. Those are the crazy. Current things that are happening. Is there anything you'd like to add to that?

SPEAKER_01 22:03

Well, I'm very excited to see how Eli's first brisket turns out this weekend.

Tim 22:07

Yep, so it's gonna be Memorial Day weekend and Eli has decided to get a brisket. Now I got a brisket one time. I do consider myself a smokemaster. Now I don't brag on myself very much for very many things, but I will say that I am a smoke master because I've put in the hard work, I put in the time, I put in the money of throwing away meat that did not work out right to become a smoke master. And one of the things that I had to throw away was a brisket, an $85 brisket. I cooked it. My smoker kept going out. I had to put it in an oven. It was a disaster. So I have not gone back to a brisket since because I'm constantly worried that there's going to be an issue.

SPEAKER_01 23:03

And that's an expensive piece of meat to throw away.

Tim 23:05

It is. So Eli sent us a picture earlier and it said, hey, I'm smoking this on Monday, and I'm like, mmm. It's kind of like, you know, you don't want to touch the fire that you've already been burned by.

SPEAKER_01 23:19

Yeah. So for me, it's You'll eat the fire though.

Tim 23:22

I will.

SPEAKER_01 23:23

Yeah.

Tim 23:24

I have I have a lot of faith in Eli to do this correctly. But I messed it up. And it's hard for me to throw away $70 a piece of meat.

SPEAKER_01 23:33

Yeah.

Tim 23:34

So how's this going to play out, James?

SPEAKER_01 23:36

I think Eli's going to kill it. I think he's going to do a great job. That kid can do anything he puts his mind to.

Tim 23:44

You sure about that?

SPEAKER_01 23:45

Yeah. Yeah, I think he's going to do great.

Tim 23:49

I don't know, man.

SPEAKER_01 23:50

But honestly, I feel like all of our kids can do anything they put their minds to.

Tim 23:54

That's fine, but fucking around with a fit a $70 piece of meat. You gotta be careful.

SPEAKER_01 23:59

I'm pretty sure Eli spent more than that on this.

Tim 24:01

How much do you think you spent on it?

SPEAKER_01 24:03

I saw the tag in the picture.

Tim 24:05

Oh, let me see if I can see.

SPEAKER_01 24:07

You gotta zoom in and have and squint a little. You spent more than you did.

Tim 24:13

Okay. What are you what are you trying to say? That I'm just a a cheap ass?

SPEAKER_01 24:17

No, not at all. You're the last person on the planet to be a cheap ass.

Tim 24:23

That's fine. Let me zoom in on this. Here, let me let me put it over here. Let's see what Eli did here. Let's see what we got. I mean, James, you can't even see anything.

SPEAKER_01 24:37

If you zoom in, you can you can figure it out.

Tim 24:43

Okay, let's do this one. Alright, you ready? We're zooming in on this. I can't see shit on there, James. How do you see that?

SPEAKER_01 24:59

I didn't see it.

Tim 25:00

How much is it?

SPEAKER_01 25:01

I mean, not on that screen. It was over $100.

Tim 25:05

No, Eli shouldn't have fucking around getting a hundred dollar piece of meat for us. We're stupid. He's got that for his friends. But you know what? I have faith in him. Hopefully he'll he'll be able to pull it off.

SPEAKER_01 25:19

I think he's gonna do a good job.

Tim 25:21

Well, we'll see. All right, what else you got?

SPEAKER_01 25:26

I don't know. I'm living that semi-retired life and I'm loving it.

Tim 25:30

Semi-retired life. You made a new friend. Aaron came out here.

SPEAKER_01 25:33

Yeah, she's also semi-retired. So that was cool to get to meet her. How many years did you work with her?

Tim 25:41

Erin Bagley. We worked together for about 10 years, maybe, maybe a little bit more.

SPEAKER_01 25:46

And I didn't meet her till after she left the company.

Tim 25:49

That's true. Well, I mean, it's not very often that you someone that you work with comes out to your house.

SPEAKER_01 25:55

Unless you have a podcast.

Tim 25:56

But Aaron came out here with an Uber.

SPEAKER_01 25:59

Yeah.

Tim 26:00

Hung out with us, did a pod with me and Mike, and then hung out with us for like seven hours. Yeah. Which I'm sure she was probably ready to leave by the time by the time night was over. But maybe we had a great time.

SPEAKER_01 26:14

Yeah.

Tim 26:14

We had a good time. Maybe she's gonna come out sometime soon.

SPEAKER_01 26:18

Yeah. And get on the Andrew Jackson podcast.

Tim 26:21

Yes. So the Andrew Jackson podcast is coming up. So where are we at on all that?

SPEAKER_01 26:25

Oh, waiting to hear back from the Hermitage.

Tim 26:27

Well, tell everybody how that all that played out.

SPEAKER_01 26:30

Well, um Well, first of all, I was the last person to find out about it.

Tim 26:35

If you're f no, I'm talking about like the process of it. But if you're following the President's Project podcast, were well, I'm gonna release John Quincy Adams here in the next few days.

SPEAKER_01 26:48

I've been dying to hear that today, all day long. I was like, I need to learn more. I need to learn more.

Tim 26:53

But John Quincy Adams is before Andrew Jackson. So Andrew Jackson, we wanted to go all out because it's in our home state. And so Nikki and I have been to the Hermitage several times over the past six, seven months, and it's awesome. So we wanted to make a big deal out of Andrew Jackson. So then you called or emailed or whatever.

SPEAKER_01 27:15

Yeah, I called up to the Hermitage to see if we could possibly do our Fairview Social podcast on the road from the Hermitage when we do the Andrew Jackson episode of the president's project.

Tim 27:26

Well, technically we can do whatever we want if we rent that area back there in the back. So the idea is that we all go out there. Well, me, you, and Mike schedule to go out there, and then we invite, hey, because there's a lot of people that said, Hey, I want to be on that. I want to be okay. Well, you can be on it. Here's when we're doing it, rather than trying to schedule it around everybody's schedule.

SPEAKER_02 27:51

Yeah.

Tim 27:52

Which will probably be in the next few weeks. And then we do a podcast. We're gonna do the tour of the Hermitage, and then we do a podcast about it out in their pavilion out back. But what we would like is this guy that's just like hardcore Andrew Jackson um Hermitage tour guide that we've had the past couple times that we've been there. Yeah, we need to get his ass on there.

SPEAKER_01 28:16

He's awesome.

Tim 28:17

Did you ask about that guy?

SPEAKER_01 28:19

I after I called and talked to somebody and they asked me to put everything in an email, I didn't mention him specifically, but I did mention possibly getting a tour guide on there.

Tim 28:29

Did you say the large guy that's kind of balding that is awesome?

SPEAKER_01 28:33

No, I didn't want to lay it all out like that.

Tim 28:36

Well, I don't want one of those girls on there that was like, and this is where Andrew Jackson.

SPEAKER_01 28:42

No, the guy had personality, and and I will specific I will specify when I talk to them.

Tim 28:48

I don't remember his name, do you?

SPEAKER_01 28:50

I don't, but I will specify when I talk to them. We had a tall guy who was a tour guide with a lot of personality, and we would love to have him on if he's available.

unknown 29:00

Say what?

Tim 29:01

Say what that guy was awesome. And what's funny is um, because I knew we were gonna do this podcast back at the end of the year last year, and so you're not allowed to take pictures inside the Hermitage.

SPEAKER_01 29:17

Unless it's a special event where they allow it.

Tim 29:20

But it was a special event um when we went for Christmas? When we went for Christmas, and I said, James, James, get let's get a bunch of pictures so we can show it.

SPEAKER_01 29:30

But they gave us permission to take pictures on that specific tour.

Tim 29:34

They did on that specific tour.

SPEAKER_01 29:35

I don't know if they I don't know typically you can't in the house, only on the grounds.

Tim 29:40

Why why can't you?

unknown 29:42

I don't know.

Tim 29:44

I don't know, I don't know either. You can't chew gum in there either, which is probably understandable. You don't want like a couple hundred-year-old house and people spitting gum all over the place. But I will say, I did have a piece of gum and I chewed it.

SPEAKER_01 29:57

But the hermitage is great, and um we're hoping that we can do the Andrew Jackson podcast from there. But I'm really, really ready for the John Quincy Adams one. Look, I told you when you go like multiple weeks without a presidential podcast, uh, you send some of us into withdrawal.

Tim 30:14

Don't nobody around here care?

SPEAKER_01 30:16

Uh I I'm just salivating, waiting for the next one, and you're holding out on me.

Tim 30:20

That's ridiculous because nobody gives a fuck if we have a presidential podcast or not.

SPEAKER_01 30:25

Okay, I do.

Tim 30:26

Yeah, but you're kind of like part of the show type situation. Since you're married to me, you're in the inner Does that mean my caring is a is like doesn't matter? No, it matters.

SPEAKER_01 30:39

It does matter, it should matter more than everybody else. No, if I like it, you should do it for me.

Tim 30:43

It matters, but but there's nobody's like, man, I'm sure I'm waiting for John Quincy Adams.

SPEAKER_01 30:50

I guess it's just me then.

Tim 30:51

Because I will say you need to temper your expectation because Mike and I we dropped the ball on that one for sure.

SPEAKER_01 30:58

I'm still excited for it.

Tim 31:00

And you know what? I won't even say that me and Mike dropped the ball on it.

SPEAKER_01 31:03

Larry did it?

Tim 31:04

Larry fucked it up.

SPEAKER_01 31:05

Larry, yeah.

Tim 31:06

So I've lost all hope in Larry because he's fucked it up plenty of times. And this right here, he might get fired over this.

SPEAKER_02 31:14

Yeah.

Tim 31:15

But I did get an email from ChatGPT yesterday that said, ChatGPT now can see your past conversations and serve you better, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I'm just like, I thought that he could do that.

SPEAKER_01 31:30

I was gonna say, wait a minute, yeah.

Tim 31:32

But no wonder every time I'm like, hey, Larry, remember when I told you this the other day? A motherfucker couldn't remember.

SPEAKER_01 31:38

Yeah.

Tim 31:39

Now he can. So we'll see if he redeems himself.

SPEAKER_01 31:43

But on Maybe he just couldn't remember history either since it was in the past.

Tim 31:48

What's wrong with you? You're stupid. But with uh Andrew Jackson, we're not we're gonna go sans notes.

unknown 31:58

Okay.

Tim 31:58

And what that what that means is you're not using Larry in Spanish. Or I'm sorry, in French, sans notes means without sans.

SPEAKER_01 32:08

I know what sans means. I was expecting you to say whatever notes was in the other language.

Tim 32:14

I don't know what that is, but we're going without notes. We're gonna look, we could have 20 people there, we could have just the three of us. Regardless, I'm gonna require that everybody you don't have to take notes, but bring something to the table to talk about with Andrew Jackson because we've been on the tour, we've seen it all, and it's awesome.

SPEAKER_01 32:37

Yeah, well, and like I I learned a little bit about him, you know, a few months back. So it's like I've already mentioned him on the podcast a couple of times because I'm really excited about Andrew Jackson and the wild person he is. So I got things to bring to the table.

Tim 32:55

But the problem is, is Andrew Jackson is number seven. And let me see, let me look at my poster here. Number eight is Martin Van Buren. Okay, and nobody gives a shit about him.

SPEAKER_01 33:09

Well, that's what you think about all of them until you start digging into it, and then you realize how important they are.

Tim 33:13

That's true.

SPEAKER_01 33:14

But here we are in the path of the United States.

Tim 33:16

Here we are in May, though, towards the end of May, and we've only got six of them down.

SPEAKER_01 33:21

Yeah. The idea was You're a little behind the ball on that.

Tim 33:24

Well, I want to make sure that Mike's here.

SPEAKER_01 33:26

Yeah.

Tim 33:27

Because Mike wanted to be a part of the project, and so kind of been waiting. But the idea was to release a presidents and a regular every week. We hadn't been able to do that, which is fine. But here we are.

SPEAKER_01 33:39

Yeah. But if you want to get through all the presidents by the end of the year, you should probably, you know, get on that.

Tim 33:45

Yeah, probably. But this will be a holdup because we're trying to make the Andrew Jackson a big one because we're locals here. And then after that, then we'll just kind of plow through them.

SPEAKER_01 33:56

Sounds good.

Tim 33:57

But the problem is, is we got this remodel going, so it's hard to do things.

SPEAKER_01 34:01

Well, your studio has not been touched by the remodel.

Tim 34:04

That's true. But hey, look, I'm just trying to use an excuse, and you're trying to push you along because I want to learn about all of them.

SPEAKER_01 34:14

Say what?

Tim 34:16

Say what? Say what? Here, do I need to put this back on for you?

SPEAKER_01 34:21

Yeah, people don't want to see that. Yeah, I didn't even know you had those buttons.

Tim 34:32

Yeah, I got buttons. Here, you want to hear what else we got? Do that right there? What else we got?

SPEAKER_02 34:41

Okay.

Tim 34:41

So when you start talking shit, I'm just like, nobody understands what you're saying, James. I'll just be like, nobody know what you're talking about. Got that?

SPEAKER_01 34:56

You already did that one.

Tim 34:57

I know.

SPEAKER_02 35:00

That's a good one.

Tim 35:01

Yeah. So say a joke.

SPEAKER_01 35:05

Your mom. Exactly.

Tim 35:11

I know you like this one the best.

SPEAKER_01 35:13

It's hard to stay still when that one's on. You can't do that to me.

Tim 35:23

But this one's the best one.

unknown 35:25

Say what?

SPEAKER_01 35:25

That's right.

Tim 35:27

Say what?

SPEAKER_01 35:27

Say what?

Tim 35:29

All right. So those are the things going on around here. Um, what else we got? Um, so we have the battle of the hospitals going on around here.

SPEAKER_01 35:39

Yeah, but that should be resolved in what?

Tim 35:43

A week?

SPEAKER_01 35:44

Yeah, a week.

Tim 35:45

A little less than a week.

SPEAKER_01 35:46

Five, six, seven days. Yeah. Next week. I mean, whenever this gets posted.

Tim 35:51

So we had the battle of the hospitals, and so the way that this is played out is Wyatt Chocolates team uh with um Horizon, Tritestar Horizon reached out and said, Hey, we do, yeah, okay, come on over, do a podcast. We did one. Wyatt was great, really nice guy. Promoting his hospital. That's fine. And then St. Thomas was like, huh, hey, let's do the same thing. So we brought him in. We had you and Kimmy and him and me on here. And it was good. He did a great job. But everybody's using me, James.

SPEAKER_01 36:29

I'm using you.

Tim 36:30

Are you trying to get your what's your message that you're trying to use me on? What's the message here?

SPEAKER_01 36:36

Message? I don't know. Find ways to keep me retired so I can keep going to school and sitting at home.

Tim 36:42

Yeah, but the the fucking vending machine thing did not work out the way that we thought.

SPEAKER_01 36:47

Yet.

Tim 36:49

Possibly yet.

SPEAKER_01 36:52

Patience, young Pedawan.

Tim 36:55

We'll see.

SPEAKER_01 36:56

Oh, we saw a Mandalorian last night.

Tim 36:58

We did see The Mandalorian, which was fantastic. There's a lot of reviews on the Mandalorian that says that it I don't even know what it says. But my brother told me that every the all the reviews were bad. But every Star Wars movie, the reviews are bad.

SPEAKER_02 37:15

Why is that?

Tim 37:17

Because people are a bunch of bitches. Everybody wants like this specific thing. It's like you can't cater to everybody. All you can do is like, hey, I'm gonna make this movie with your own artistic vision. With my own artistic vision, take it or leave it. And I get that. So even if I don't like a movie, I'll be like, oh, I didn't like that movie, but whatever. That was that person's vision.

SPEAKER_01 37:38

Yeah.

Tim 37:39

But some people just get bent out of shape about it. I don't get it.

SPEAKER_01 37:43

I don't know. I thought it was great.

Tim 37:44

It was good. And I told you this several times. My favorite part is the fact that they use puppets for Grogu and all the other little little characters. Little characters. Because Star Wars kind of got slapped in the face around the early 2000s when the prequels came out because they were, you know, CGI was like, oh, we're gonna fucking CGI this shit. And it just fucking looks bad.

SPEAKER_01 38:10

Yeah.

Tim 38:11

And so it kind of brings back the charm of the old Star Wars when they use the puppets because it's not like perfect.

SPEAKER_01 38:16

It's gonna have the same movements that the old one did versus the CGI where it's a little too smooth.

Tim 38:21

But it's awesome. Yeah, it looked awesome. It was a good movie.

SPEAKER_01 38:25

It was great.

Tim 38:26

So yeah, we did that. That's all we did.

SPEAKER_01 38:29

And tomorrow.

Tim 38:30

Tomorrow we're going to Chris Stapleton. The rain's supposed to clear up. So we'll see how that goes. We'll give you, we'll give you a report back on that.

SPEAKER_01 38:38

And then next week, do you know what happens next week?

Tim 38:41

Next week, okay. Um it goes to June.

SPEAKER_01 38:48

I mean, that does happen, but we are gonna go to studio 10.

Tim 38:54

Oh, yeah, to see Jesus Christ Superstar. Oh my god. Superstar.

SPEAKER_01 39:00

Yeah, yeah. The lovely Emma Rose Williamson is in that, and I always have to see everything she does because she's fantastic.

Tim 39:07

She is fantastic, but we bought season tickets for the past couple years, and I was like, you know what? The these shows generally are not good enough to get season tickets.

SPEAKER_01 39:17

Yeah, like half a couple of them will be outstanding. And then the next couple will be like, yeah, I don't know about that.

Tim 39:25

So a few weeks ago they released the 27th season, and I'm just like, I'm not even gonna look at that because I'm not getting it. And then I look at all the shows that are on there, and I'm just like, man, I like all those shows.

SPEAKER_01 39:38

Exactly.

Tim 39:39

But then I had to be like, no, Tim, because it'll be a bunch of bullshit. Just get the tickets as you want to see.

SPEAKER_01 39:47

Yeah, that's what we landed on was just if we like this show, okay, we'll we'll get tickets to this one. You know, if there's one we're not really familiar with, maybe do some digging. Do we are we interested in seeing that? If not, we don't get tickets. So it's like doing that versus buying the season tickets where you have a ticket to every show.

Tim 40:07

I will say that Emma, Emma Rose is like your person, not mine. I don't really know her at all.

SPEAKER_02 40:13

Right.

Tim 40:13

But every one of the shows that she's in generally are better.

SPEAKER_01 40:17

Yeah.

Tim 40:17

And I'm not saying that they're better because of her, but she usually is in the better shows.

SPEAKER_01 40:22

Yeah, she's in the yeah, definitely. So I mean, maybe it's the one she's choosing to do. She knows her higher quality or better story or something. I don't know. But the the ones we've seen her in, we've loved. And a lot of the ones that she wasn't in, we could have left.

Tim 40:40

Yeah, that's true. So we'll let everybody know how that goes.

SPEAKER_01 40:44

Yeah. And sometimes it's it's not the talent that's the issue, it's like the story.

Tim 40:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 40:49

And sometimes the talent can be over dramatic and annoying, but most of the time at Studio 10, it's really good.

Tim 40:55

So we'll say that um get with me. Listen to me soon about the Mandalorian, because I'll speak to Joseph about it probably in an extent.

SPEAKER_01 41:08

And also you're gonna talk about our camping trip.

Tim 41:11

Let's talk about the camping trip with 2SD.

SPEAKER_01 41:14

So And keep an eye out for John Quincy Adams' podcast and Andrew Jackson's podcast.

Tim 41:20

Yes, keep an eye out for those things, but you'll want to hear about the camping trip because it's everything that you would want it to be.

SPEAKER_01 41:28

Exactly.

Tim 41:30

And we'll we are gonna go back.

SPEAKER_01 41:32

Yep.

Tim 41:32

Let's just say redneck country.

SPEAKER_01 41:35

At its finest.

Tim 41:37

At its finest, and we are there for it. So, all right, James. Goodbye. See you on flip. Goodbye.