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Family Stories and Game Day Glory
Ever found yourself sneezing uncontrollably while trying to enjoy a round of golf? Today, we kick off with some hilarious and heartfelt stories about the onset of fall, allergies, and how moving to Alabama brought a whole new set of challenges. From battling cat dander to discovering a new love for the cooler seasons, we share how our bodies have surprisingly adapted over time. Get ready to laugh and maybe even shed a tear as we explore how these nuisances have made us appreciate fall and spring in a whole new light.
Our journey continues with a touching reflection on family life, pets, and the pure joy of grandparenting. Remember the time you had to explain a pet's passing to a young child? We dive into those tender moments with our grandson, who at just two years old, can already sing the ABCs but won't go near bacon! We celebrate his growing understanding of life's complex concepts while capturing the everyday frustrations and joys of parenting, all wrapped up with a quick nod to the latest in football.
And for all you sports fans out there, we've got an exciting recap of recent college football action. Can you believe Texas trounced Michigan? We dissect the game, ponder Texas' future in the SEC, and share our thoughts on Deion Sanders' new coaching career at Colorado. Plus, we'll tease you with a glimpse into the upcoming NFL season and our plans for a laid-back Sunday. Tune in for a fun-filled episode packed with seasonal reflections, family anecdotes, and spirited sports talk—you won't want to miss it!
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Hello and good morning, happy Sunday.
Speaker 2:Good morning one and all. What a beautiful day. It is Absolutely gorgeous outside.
Speaker 1:It looks like it is.
Speaker 2:It's pretty outside. Yes, I noticed that when we got up that you know I sleep so lightly, but I hadn't heard the air conditioner running all night long and I thought, wow, guess what? It must be cold outside. Cold for us is, I mean, you know, it's not cold, but 54, 53, something like that, degrees outside this morning.
Speaker 1:That's the start of fall I love it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely, we could probably sweater weather sleep with the windows open. Now crank up the fans upstairs, open the windows, have it be about 50 degrees in. Here. We got our 32 blankets on the bed. I love it Absolutely. That was a good thing. I noticed that this morning. I kind of like that the change of seasons is going to start pretty soon.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what you got on your mind this morning on Sunday September 11th isn't. It Is today the 11th. No, I'm not. No, september 11th is a Wednesday, because September 10th is Tuesday, which is the debate Today's the 8th, the 8th, my goodness.
Speaker 2:I don't know where my head is. Where did your three days go? I don't know. Yeah, it is. Where did your three days go? I don't know. Yeah, I'm supposed to be the one that's not working right now. That goes. What day is it today? I don't know what day it is. Seems like Monday, you know. I don't know what day it is. What you got on your mind, I don't really have a lot on my mind this morning.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:I thought you had a topic or two to talk about Well it was, it was the cool weather. Oh okay, that kind of went by real fast, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2:I thought we could delve into that. But you know the pluses and minuses of the cool weather coming. I remember when I moved to Alabama, especially this part of Alabama, I had never had an allergy in my life. And the next thing I know, in the fall and the spring I was getting, I was having terrible, terrible allergies. So I went to, you know, the doctor and they said, well, you've got allergies, no kidding. Then I went to the allergist and they did all the scratch tests on me and they told me I was allergic to everything. I said why haven't? I've been, you know, and especially allergic to grasses, bermuda, you know, oh, and you're in the golf business too, oh my gosh, wait a minute.
Speaker 2:I've rolled around in the grass all my life, you know, played all the sports. We didn't play on artificial turf, we played on grass. I worked on golf courses, you know, since the time I was 12. Yeah, mowed lawns, for you know, when I was a kid, to make money. You know what the hell started it that I'm allergic to all this stuff. You know what the hell started it that I'm allergic to all this stuff. So you know.
Speaker 2:The next question this was when I was in college and I was playing golf on the college golf team and they said well, the doctor said well, we're going to have to give you this serum and you're going to have to take four shots a week for the next six months and then, hopefully, it will gradually go down. I'm like so twice a week I have to come in here and get shots. I'm going to school, I'm working, I'm playing golf on a golf team. You know that's a lot of time.
Speaker 2:And then she had the audacity to say you don't lift weights, do you? And I'm like well, no, I don't lift weights. Good, because your arms are going to be sore this whole time and you're probably not going to be able to use them, to which I said, well, ok, thank you, and I never went back. You know what the hell is that. But here's the good part about it, you know. Yes, I did have allergies and I found that Claritin helped me and I used to take a lot of Claritin helped me and I used to take a lot of claritin. But I've gotten to the point now where you know, I guess I've gotten used to it and started to get that immunity to it, because I've been here a long time and it doesn't bother me as much.
Speaker 2:I didn't know you could get immunity to allergies. Well, you know, you build a tolerance to them absolutely. You know, I still have some of them, but it's not half as bad as it was Right. And of course the Claritin, like I said, helps a lot. But here's the thing Used to be, summer was my favorite, favorite, favorite season of all, and it's now because spring and fall were so bad allergy-wise. But now it's kind of turning around to where I enjoy fall and I enjoy spring a little bit more because I don't have the allergies. So that was just something I was thinking about this morning. It's like, oh good, you know, I can enjoy fall because no more allergies. That's just part of it. You know, we evolve, I guess. Is what to say? Mm it, mm-hmm, you know Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:We evolve, I guess, is what to say Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Yeah, because I, you know, cats used to be my downfall Dust still is Mm-hmm. But you know, there are times now when I'll go over and I'll love on, jill our cat and pet her and it doesn't bother me. So and it used to I'd be like my eyes would be red, swollen shut and scratched, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1:I mean, I don't. Now you're getting used to the cat I guess I'll go over and love on her for a few minutes and pet her and all that.
Speaker 2:We've got a cat in our house, that is just. She's a lovely, wonderful cat. She's a great cat and if anybody wants her.
Speaker 1:No no.
Speaker 2:If she's a great cat and if anybody wants her, no, no, if anybody wants her, they can come get her. No, no, she needs a good home.
Speaker 1:She's old though, you know too.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:She's going to live her life out here with us. It's all she knows. That's true, I'm not going to traumatize her and give her to somebody.
Speaker 2:No, yeah, and speaking of ingrained things in humans and in animals and such, we were talking about this the other day. You know she's an indoor cat. She's never been outdoors, other than we'd get mad at her and throw her out.
Speaker 1:That's not true. That's not true. Now, sometimes we would take her outside just to try to introduce her to the outside.
Speaker 2:We'll open the door and see if she'll go outside and all that kind of stuff. And we'll open the door and see if she'll go outside and all that kind of stuff. But you know, we've taken her out on the porch before and held her and then put her down just to see how she'd react. And her reaction is that of and this is what I was talking about ingrained things in people and in animals and all. But she gets down and she slinks down and she looks for cover, yeah, and she's for cover, yeah.
Speaker 2:And she's looking to the sky Because you know she's never had to look for predators before around her or above her or anything like that, and you can see that that's part of her, ingrained in her genetics, or whatever you want to call it. She's looking for predators, she's outside and she feels exposed and she starts looking up to see if there's anything getting ready to swoop down and get her.
Speaker 2:She's trying to look for somewhere to hide and she's looking for cover and she wants back in the house as quick as she can get in there. But it's kind of interesting the way that you know that's that's in her, in her makeup but also, at the same time, she'll sit there and attract them by meowing ridiculously yeah, it's like if you don't want to be found, then be quiet. At the window Meow yeah, uh-huh. Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 1:Our pets.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:What we do for we are. I know I've said this before a thousand times on the podcast. We are living our life around this cat.
Speaker 2:Well, if we had our dogs still, we'd be living our life around him. So Well, if we had our dog, still we'd be living our life around him.
Speaker 1:Well, that's true, but in a different way. At least we could still go ahead and do some work on the house instead of waiting.
Speaker 2:Well, you know, that's true, it was kind of funny. Yesterday we had our grand cam over and he was looking at—we got a picture of our old puppy and his collar there. And yes, I'm sorry we are those people. We did cremate him when we do have our hatches, the hatches of our dog, because we loved that little dog. He was such a, he was just, he was our dog. But we had to explain to him our grandkamp that he had gone to the great beyond and you know he couldn't quite understand that. But it was kind of interesting, you know, and he but but he did kind of, when we told him that he was our puppy and that we you know he was no longer with us and all that stuff, he kind of almost had a respect for that. It's like, yeah, okay, uh, you know, you can see, I don't know exactly what you mean, but oh, I kind of, you know, and that's the kind of first time he's really respected something like that instead of being a two-year-old right, right.
Speaker 1:And the thing is he put the collar back on the on the table and then, like I don't know, minutes later he walked over to go sit with you. We have a picture of Jack behind you on the table, behind the chair, and he with several other pictures of our family, our wedding pictures, and he looked at that picture of Jack and said he was trying to communicate with you. Like, is that him?
Speaker 2:And had the red collar on. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, absolutely. So the youngster is growing and kind of growing into understanding a little bit more. As a two-year-old he was singing. He sang several songs that he sang the entirety of yesterday.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, that's right, not Itsy Bitsy Spider, but there was another one I forget.
Speaker 2:Another nursery rhyme, and he did his ABCs all the way through.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:As a two-year-old.
Speaker 1:Yes, without prompting from us yeah. I think you're reading the book to him, the ABC book to him, yeah.
Speaker 2:We've got to work on feeding him, though.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh. Yes For anybody out there that has any advice. The kid won't eat bacon and he won't eat food. I mean, he'll eat fruit all day long.
Speaker 2:Yeah, fruit and bananas he'll eat all day long.
Speaker 1:Which is fine, but he needs some other nourishment. Yeah, I would think he needs some vegetables, some hot, regular food, some vegetables.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, I know they say that. You know, know, they'll eat it when their body wants it. It's like who says that? What? Yeah, that's what I said, that's what I'm saying, that's the point I'm making. It's like what you know I'll. I could have gotten away with drinking Coke, and there was a period of time in his life when he did get away with it. But if he could have gotten away with just drinking Coke from the time he was 10 to whenever, you know, he got to be 25 and he discovered food, he would have done that. He would have not eaten food at all. He would have had Coke and taquitos. Yeah, that would have been it. That would have been all he ate, all his life yeah that's true.
Speaker 2:So I guess what they feed him is what he wants, so at least he eats fruit but he's got to eat some other things too he
Speaker 2:needs some protein and I'll tell us, tell a story on us. One time we went as far as uh, we knew he was coming over, so I got up in the morning and cooked a pound of bacon and we uh, we all sat, put his chair up at the table and we all sat at the table and we put a plate of bacon in front of each of us and said let's have breakfast. And we started to eat the bacon and he put a piece of bacon in his mouth and he chunked it out and spit it out.
Speaker 2:oh no, this is not good, you know, everybody likes bacon. So we said, well, that's all we're having, is that? And he wouldn't eat it Like, oh my goodness. Well, okay, that parenting technique didn't work.
Speaker 1:He'll eat sweets too. All day long He'll eat oatmeal, sweet oatmeal, flavored oatmeal. He'll eat you know sweet, he's got a sweet tooth.
Speaker 2:Yes, he does. I don't know where he gets that from. Not from me. I'll tell you that. Not from me. So do you have a question of the day?
Speaker 1:That's a good question. All right, before we get to the question of the day, we can't go without hearing about football from the gents, so tell us a wise one and sports fanatic, georgia Dog fan, tell us about the football from yesterday.
Speaker 2:Well, Michigan, you had a good run. See you bye, Michigan, you had a good run. See you Bye. Fsu of course I don't think FSU played this weekend, but it's a good thing they didn't, because they'd be 0 for 3. All right.
Speaker 1:So who played Michigan again?
Speaker 2:Texas.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's right. And Texas whooped them.
Speaker 2:Texas, yeah, michigan didn't have a chance.
Speaker 1:Welcome to the SEC.
Speaker 2:Texas, Texas.
Speaker 2:yeah, well, we'll see about that soon because they're going to have to play an SEC schedule, but they're a good football team and they may do quite well. I think they have to play both Alabama and Georgia. I think Texas does this year, so it'll be interesting to see. And of course, texas beat Alabama last year, so we'll see how they do. But Texas has got a good team, but they did lose a lot of people on their team. So you know we'll see what happens, but you know bye-bye there. And of course, dion. I know Dion, you're a great guy and you do a lot of charity work.
Speaker 1:A lot of people don't like him.
Speaker 2:Well, that's just because of his personality, but he does a lot of charity work and he does help a lot of people. Yeah, but one of the things about and this is something that we brought up in the golf business a lot of people get jobs because they wear the clothes well, not because they can do the job. And you were a great college football player and a great professional football player and probably a great guy running a charitable organization. But college football is not a charitable organization and it's probably time that you kind of said you know, I really don't know what the hell I'm doing, I really don't. You know, I won my first games on Charisma and all, but you know, as far as the whole program goes, I didn't know, that's crazy.
Speaker 1:You can win football games on Charisma.
Speaker 2:Well, you know you can take a smaller program and out-coach some of the people because you had professional Sure, you know you're a professional in an amateur league.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:So you know there are times when that helps and you can do well with it. You as a personality can recruit, like to Jackson state. You can recruit better athletes than the teams that you're playing because you're Deion Sanders and they want to go be with Deion Sanders. But now you go up to Colorado where your personality can't recruit all those great players because you're having to recruit against Texas and Alabama and Ohio State and Georgia, so you're not getting those players. Now you have to do it on coaching ability. Guess what happened? He can't do it on coach ability because he's not a coach. He was great at other things. So therefore you know he's not going to do well this year because half his team left to the transfer portal last year. Well, more than half of his team left, so he doesn't have a football team. He's got a couple of good players, but that's about it, yeah.
Speaker 1:He'll quit.
Speaker 2:Well.
Speaker 1:Because he won't be winning, he'll quit.
Speaker 2:Well, he may quit because he says you know, hey, this isn't my. He's smart enough to say you know, hey, this isn't my. He's smart enough to say you know what? This ain't my bag. I don't know about that. I think once his kids get to the point of graduation too, he'll say you know, because he's got two kids that play for Colorado.
Speaker 1:He'll say you know, that's why he's there coaching.
Speaker 2:It's time to get on out of here Well you know they went with him from Jackson State too, there, oh Well, you know they went with him from.
Speaker 1:Jackson State too.
Speaker 2:there oh yeah, yeah, absolutely so. Anyway, the teams that looked good yesterday Texas, georgia, they looked good, a few other teams by Notre Dame. How could you lose that game? That's unbelievable.
Speaker 1:I mean, I don't know much about football, I just don't like deon sanders. I like you know, as a player, sure, but I just the way he treated the press and his ego is just ridiculous. Yeah, absolutely, I just don't like him absolutely so.
Speaker 2:Anyway, my takes. You know we're, we're only in week two and some of the pretenders are dropping out and some of the contenders are starting to rise, and we'll see, we'll see, all right.
Speaker 1:It was an interesting day. Well, there's your recap for Saturday football.
Speaker 2:Yes, there wasn't a lot of major stuff going on other than Michigan lost.
Speaker 1:When do the pros start?
Speaker 2:Today.
Speaker 1:Oh you going to watch any?
Speaker 2:You know it'll be background fodder. Oh, I'm not truly intent on you know, here's my catch of it. I like to see how the rookies play, the college guys that came out, you know those first-round picks that are supposed to be really good. I want to see how they adapt in the professional league. That's what I like to watch, to see how they do. And then of course, I'll just smattering here and there of looking at it, but mostly I won't watch professionals until they get to the playoffs and to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:But like I say it'll be background fodder, I'll keep it on because you know I have to. All right, All right.
Speaker 1:Well, I've got to write for the girls this morning. Okay, and then yeah, that's all I've got.
Speaker 2:We'll have some breakfast and watch Wings, okay, and just enjoy a beautiful Sunday outside.
Speaker 1:Sounds great, might take a walk Sounds great.
Speaker 2:Enjoy it outside.
Speaker 1:All right, oh, we need a question.
Speaker 2:We need a question, jeez Okay.
Speaker 1:The question of the day. Okay, the question of the day. Okay. This question of the day is brought to us by Giblets actually. Oh, okay, and here it is you ready, I'm ready? It's kind of like a trivia question of the day.
Speaker 2:Okay, sunday morning brain writing.
Speaker 1:And I'm going to tell you right now. You're not going to know the answer.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:You're not going to know the answer. Okay, trust me. All right, right, you ready, I'm ready. The total number of questions in the bible is 3 298. The old testament has 2 274 questions, the largest number found in job. Only one book of the old testament has no questions. Which book is it? And I'll tell you right now. I didn't even know this was a book, never heard of it.
Speaker 2:The Book of Brick? I have no idea.
Speaker 1:Zephaniah. I didn't even know that was a book in the Bible.
Speaker 2:I'd never heard of it. Somebody said Zephaniah. I'd say God bless you. No, I did not know that.
Speaker 1:So Giblet says full disclosure. I did not count all the questions. I found that in the book All the Questions in the Bible by Jimmy L Hancock.
Speaker 2:Wow, that's interesting.
Speaker 1:Now I've got to go look. I've never heard of.
Speaker 2:Zephaniah.
Speaker 1:Shame on me. There you have it, but I am listening to the Bible in a Year podcast by Father Mike, and so when we get to that I'll let you know. Yeah please, but that's interesting about the questions in the Bible yes, it is.
Speaker 2:And not knowing the book of Zephaniah.
Speaker 1:So I don't know. I gave the answer away, so maybe that's not the question of the day.
Speaker 2:All right, now we have to come up with one, all right. Here is the question of the day, the. You know, we sit here in the mornings and watch TV and, uh, there are certain ads on TV that we, you know, kind of jest about and talk about, and then there's certain ones that we just turn off. So, because of we'll talk about that in just a second. But the question of the day is, which is the worst TV advertisements you've seen recently? And for me it's not that it's really, really bad, these pharmaceutical ones. It's bad, these pharmaceutical ones.
Speaker 1:It's always with the pharmaceutical ones.
Speaker 2:The pharmaceutical ones are the worst. And there's one with Wegovy, okay, where it looks like it's what is. You know, all these people are walking down the street and the other people are seeing them walk down the street Like the walking dead. And it's like the walking dead, you know. They put down what they're doing, they fall in line and start walking down the street with them. You know it is funny. And there's one where the guy it looks like he's working on an engine with his son and you know he sees him and then he, you know, hands the wrench to the kid, like I must follow.
Speaker 1:All right, son, and walks out. I got to leave.
Speaker 2:I got to leave and follow and he walks out into the stream of crowd walking down the street.
Speaker 1:All right, we're asking what the worst ones are not the funniest ones.
Speaker 2:It's just ridiculous. Why do they put crap like that on TV?
Speaker 1:We could do a whole episode on these damn commercials. What about the one with the old women at the lake giving the hand sign? Oh the hand sign.
Speaker 2:It's like the secret hand sign. You know, to enter this lake, you must be us, you must be part of us.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she's like give us a hand sign to the camera person. What in the world?
Speaker 2:Oh boy, you're worried about Trump. These are the people you need to worry about the old women going into the lake showing. You must show the sign before you can swim in the lake with us, and you must learn how to act like you're talking to someone when you're on TV doing a commercial.
Speaker 1:Oh Well, I'll tell you the ones that I hate. Are there any commercials with Christine in it?
Speaker 2:I was going to say that was the next one. Anytime the vocal fry.
Speaker 1:Well it's not just the vocal fry, it's the way she sings songy.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah fry. It's not just the vocal fry, it's the way she sings songy, oh when she inserts sentences like this, when she's you know, have you ever get your shower? Get the shower, make sure you do it oh, I can't stand it and then, when she gets, make sure that today yeah yeah, you know, when she's at the end of her spiel because her voice goes down, yeah, you know, get your shower for the not so cost, I think. Extension today, today, shoot her, don't shoot. I shouldn't say that, no, get her off tv.
Speaker 2:Get her off tv anyway, what's the worst advertisement you've seen?
Speaker 1:yeah, oh, we went way long I'm so you know my advertisement's probably going to come up now, because I think after 23 minutes I have a dynamic content, that to insert an advertisement, but it doesn't do it till after 23 minutes.
Speaker 2:Maybe you could go back and edit this down.
Speaker 1:No, I'm not going to edit it, you're not going to because it's.
Speaker 2:I mean, this is, this is 100 percent great stuff.
Speaker 1:It is great stuff no-transcript.
