Carol ReMarks
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Carol ReMarks
Shaving Heads and Shifting Gears
Who knew that a casual stroll through peculiar social media trends could lead us to uncover the bizarre world of fatbergs and the political statements of baldness? We kick off this episode with a lively and humorous exploration of these revolting yet fascinating masses of human waste, pondering their potential uses and how quirky political scenarios could impact their presence. Then, we share an amusing personal anecdote of women shaving their heads in protest of Donald Trump, diving into a reflective discussion on societal norms and misconceptions about baldness, and challenging the stereotypes bald women face, especially in the realm of political expression.
Fasten your seatbelt for another nostalgic ride as we recount the hilariously spontaneous decision to buy a manual transmission car without knowing how to drive it. Relive the youthful moments of relying on a then-boyfriend to navigate the learning curve of stick shifts, sparking memories of adventurous spontaneity. Our routine life humorously intersects with a "MAGA, BITCH" shirt idea, sports game excitement, and the ever-important question of the day inspired by EMPs in movies. Celebrate the thrill of supporting local sports teams, and join us in a cheerful "go Dawgs" as we wrap up this entertaining and thoughtful journey.
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Welcome everyone. Happy weekend, Happy Saturday.
Speaker 2:Good morning one and all. What a beautiful day.
Speaker 1:I have a word of the day for you. You ready.
Speaker 2:Word of the day. I'm okay.
Speaker 1:Fatbergs, huh, fatbergs.
Speaker 2:Fatbergs.
Speaker 1:F-A-T-B-E-R-G-S.
Speaker 2:Yes, are those like the icebergs that go floating along that are larger than the other ones that get made fun of by the kids? That get made fun of by?
Speaker 1:the littler icebergs? No, but it has to do with water.
Speaker 2:Hey you fat birds.
Speaker 1:Hey you fat birds, Are you ready? You want to know what they are? Yeah sure. There were thousands of mysterious black balls that washed ashore and closed a stretch of a popular Australian beaches last month and were discovered to be mini blobs of poop.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Initially believed to be made of tar. Scientists at the University of New South Wales confirmed the sticky balls were in fact fatbergs, a revolting combination of human feces, human hair, cooking oil, chemicals, fatty acids illicit drugs and other compounds. According to reports, they smell absolutely disgusting. Oh my goodness, there's a whole article about it for the New York Post and I posted it on my X-File. If you would like to go, continue to read it. Why fatbergs?
Speaker 2:Well, you know why so much doesn't come to mind, as much as from where these come from. You know I'm thinking do they dump them off of? You know ships, or you know they say, oh, I'll just go with biodegradable, they'll go away, but the fat seems to coincide with growing with the oil which is not bio. You know water soluble and they just you know.
Speaker 1:And are they formed before they dump them out or are they formed somehow in while they're in the ocean floating?
Speaker 2:around. Yeah, absolutely. I didn't finish reading the article, maybe it tells us what's the deal with a fat bird.
Speaker 1:I don't know. But maybe the article tells us I don't know, I did not finish reading it, so I don't know. But maybe, uh, the article tells I don't know, I didn't, I did not finish reading it, so I don't know. But that's your word of the day.
Speaker 2:I need you to use it in a sentence. All I can think of is that if the left had gotten uh elected, we would only be able to poop once a week, so we could diminish fat birds once a week oh my god, that's, so true you will no longer poop. We're not having climate change anymore. It's fat birds.
Speaker 1:Or someone would find something like oh, this is essential to your beauty routine. You can rub fat birds all over your face.
Speaker 2:Absolutely.
Speaker 1:I wouldn't doubt it, absolutely, absolutely, absolutely I wouldn't doubt it, absolutely, absolutely.
Speaker 2:You know, with the illicit drugs and the moisturizing oils from the thing you know, it not only neutralizes the bad parts of the things in your skin, but it makes your face numb so that you can't even smile.
Speaker 1:Makes your face numb. No more wrinkles.
Speaker 2:Yes, no more wrinkles.
Speaker 1:You're just going to smell like crap.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I guess word of the day, to use it in a sentence Boy, these fries sure taste like fat birds, I don't know whatever.
Speaker 1:I love it. But speaking of beauty, I was up a little late last night. That's my fault, I'm sorry. We were all geared up. I was all geared up to go out and party.
Speaker 2:I was happy to do it too, but you know extenuating circumstances.
Speaker 1:Well, we ate dinner we came up we wanted to watch Gutfeld. And then I knew I kind of knew if we came up here to watch Gutfeld that would probably be the end of it, because about 930, you were out.
Speaker 2:Well, I also had to up my medication and I think that had something to do with it. But you know, that is generally a time that I will kind of nod off and then after I nod off I usually stay awake. But after I nodded off last night I nodded off and went to sleep.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you were out of it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's not normal, so I stayed over here.
Speaker 1:So I'm sorry and I already had like two cups of coffee in me, so I was over here scrolling.
Speaker 2:And I had three cups of coffee too. So you know.
Speaker 1:Anyway, go ahead. You were scrolling, so I started scrolling through Twitter and I wish I hadn't, and then I started looking for it on purpose. Was the or the was? Were, whatever you say? The liberal progressive women who are shaving their heads in protest of Donald Trump? Now that's whatever. I don't care, because to me, they're really not doing anything. I've been bald for going what? Three years now? Yeah, three years. To me, what they are doing is not a big deal. They're really not. It just tells me the mentality of people, not just them, but the people who criticize them. What they don't know they're doing is they're saying that bald women are ugly and lunatic. That's what? Because I've heard so many people on the right conservatives, trump-loving MAGA people call out these liberal women and I understand they're crazy, whatever, but they're calling them Like. Riley Gaines even called out one of them and said well, now you're bald and Trump's still president.
Speaker 1:Like, being bald is a bad thing, bald is a bad thing, but that's what I that's what I got upset about were the people on the right saying, insinuating that or implying that now, now you.
Speaker 2:Now you look hideous and you're because you're bald.
Speaker 1:If you're a and if you're a bald lady, then you are then you're a left-leaning liberal and I mean one person said now, if you're out and about and you see a bald woman, stay away from her. She's unhinged and unstable and blah blah. Now you know who to stay away from, yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, this too shall pass. That's going to be one of those things that's going to be very short-lived. And again, it's on social media. So we've got to realize too, just how many people aren't on social media. You know there. Realize too just how many people aren't on social media, you know there are a lot of people that aren't on there.
Speaker 2:So that's true, you know, so that's true. And the ones that you know are blindly led into thinking well, this is the way it is, absolutely. If you are bald women, then you're that way. You know that they don't have any, they don't have any stay in or any influence on my life anyway, so screw them.
Speaker 1:I know and I could almost take the unhinged crazy part, but the part where the beauty standards, where they're calling them ugly now because they're bald, because they have no hair.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they were ugly before they cut shave their heads.
Speaker 1:I know that, but the people on the right are know that, but I'm just saying but the right, the people on the right, are saying that it just pisses me off Now. I've never, ever been embarrassed to go out in public and being with my bald-headed, maga-loving self, but I will be now. I'm embarrassed now to go out. That's probably why you wanted to stay in last night. You didn't want to be seen with me. Oh my God, I'm kidding about that part, but not about me going out. Now when I go out, I'm going to be worried that people think I am the crazy liberal, lunatic woman.
Speaker 2:We're just going to have to get you a shirt.
Speaker 1:I got me a MAGA hat.
Speaker 2:But then you're covering up your bald head. That's true. I'm talking about get a shirt that says MAGA bitch. No, I like it how many shirts have you seen? Maga BITCH? How many times have you seen one?
Speaker 1:I don't know. They want to have BITCH on it well, that's the whole thing.
Speaker 2:It's like you know. Maga QUEEN no, it's MAGA comma BITCH oh, okay not, I'm a MAGA BITCH it's MAGA BITCH saying you know, you got something to say about it, you know, anyway, that's what I like. I like that it's kind of F with me because I'm MAGA.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but a lot of people wouldn't understand that. They would think MAGA bitch, not MAGA comma bitch.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's true. Not only do we have to deal with people who are ignorant, but we have to deal with people who are ignorant. No, I like this better. That's a shirt. Yeah, not only do I have to deal with ignorant people, I have to deal with people who are ignorant. I like that one. If you didn't get it the first time, maybe the second time it'll sink into your ass. I like it. I come up with good ones every once in a while.
Speaker 1:It'll just give me the opportunity. If somebody ever says anything to me about it, I can just fucking go off on them.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. I think we were driving down the road the other day and you know you said something about I don't want to get into a confrontation. You know I said, and I looked at you and said I don't worry about it, you can take them, I'll just sit in the car while you wait until you're done so anyway, that's yeah. Don't worry about that, though, sweetheart.
Speaker 1:Oh, you say it's like it's no big deal to not worry about it, but I'm the one that's bald and have to go out there and see these people. I understand Whatever, but luckily.
Speaker 2:I'll always love you Luckily.
Speaker 1:I think you're beautiful. Luckily, we don't go out anywhere. We go to work and come home, or I go to work and come home.
Speaker 2:How was dinner last?
Speaker 1:night. It was delicious. Yeah, I thought it was pretty good too. Are you trying to insinuate Nothing? Because I said we don't go? I don't mean like this weekend, I meant in general, when we're on our regular routine and we enjoy our lives.
Speaker 2:We do, of course I'm not saying we don't Absolutely. We got big, big we're going to.
Speaker 1:Let's see, we're coming back over here for oh, you know what we're doing for my birthday we're going to go see Greg Gutfeld.
Speaker 2:We are going to go see Greg Gutfeld. Looking forward to that.
Speaker 1:That's a ways off, though.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it is, it is, it is. What else do you have on your mind today?
Speaker 1:That was it, that's it, that's it All right.
Speaker 2:What are we going to do today?
Speaker 1:Get massages.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I got to write yeah, watch the games.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what are we going to do? We're going to go down to the sports book. We're going to go down to the sports book.
Speaker 1:That's always fun, we're going to watch games. I thought about taking my computer. Do you think they'd let me take my computer?
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely. There's guys that sit down there in the sports book with their computers thinking that they're going to get an edge on the games.
Speaker 1:I've never seen anybody do that. I figured if they let you take your phone, they should let you take your computer. The funny part about it is, I was thinking you know I'm going to get an edge.
Speaker 2:I'm going to get an edge, whatever dude.
Speaker 1:So how.
Speaker 2:Flip a coin. Flip a coin, that's your best guess.
Speaker 1:So Georgia plays Ole Miss.
Speaker 2:Ole Miss today, yes, and how is that?
Speaker 1:How do you think that's going to turn out?
Speaker 2:Georgia's going to kick their ass 100%.
Speaker 1:It's Ole Miss.
Speaker 2:Pretty good it's going to be a good game. It's a very close. The bookmakers have it. Georgia is a two-and-a-half point favorite. But you never know, they're playing at Ole Miss today in Oxford, so Oxford should give them a little advantage. But we shall see. We shall see. You never know which Georgia team is going to show up and you never know how the matchups will work out. So, hopefully we'll win.
Speaker 1:We are in Ole Miss territory, aren't we?
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're somewhere near there. Yeah, I wouldn't call this so much Ole Miss territory. This is more Memphis Memphis State. You'd see more people pulling from Memphis and Memphis State around this area. But yes, we're probably going to see more people wearing Ole Miss stuff than we would see Georgia stuff today, although I've seen an abundance of Georgia stuff here too. So, who knows, we shall see.
Speaker 1:It'll still be fun. I doubt that I'll take my computer out. I don't know that they have good Wi-Fi down there. I'll probably end up taking a nap down there.
Speaker 2:In that part of the sportsbook? No, they don't have it. I remember you'd have to log on to the Caesars thing for them. But you know we'll see. Yeah, you can take a nap. I know you You'll be wide awake checking it all out and you know if we need to come back up here and let you take a nap, we can definitely do that, sweetheart.
Speaker 1:I can come back.
Speaker 2:I'm all for it. All right, going with which way the wind carries us.
Speaker 1:Well, do you have a question of the day? All right, the gent has the question of the day.
Speaker 2:I was just thinking about this because I saw, you know, thinking about the EMPs and movies and all this kind of stuff. And here's my question. And for us who are of the age will understand this If all of a sudden you had to jump into a car and it was a manual, could you still drive it? And the second part of the question is, could your kids drive it?
Speaker 1:I could, but our kids could not.
Speaker 2:I could absolutely do it, and I think Tyler could. I think Tyler could. Yeah, Because I think he's had to drive some golf course equipment that were manual, but I'm not sure Gracie's ever been part of that. But yes, I definitely could do it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the sad part is there are none of those around anymore. You can't go out and buy them.
Speaker 2:No, there are not too many. I think you can order them, but I don't think you can buy them anymore unless it's, you know, one of the race cars, some of the race cars that don't have, but still a lot of them have. You know, the manual transmissions on the, you know, switch. They're manual but they're electronic manual, you know, like the BMW.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that I could never figure out.
Speaker 2:You know you can switch it to manual but it will release at a certain RPM. But you can hold it to where it'll go up a little higher, like if you put it in. You know your sports controls, you know it'll hold its RPMs a little higher but it's not true.
Speaker 1:That's not the same. It's not true. You know, let me shove the clutch in before I do this and if I don't have the clutch, I'm going to grind them.
Speaker 2:What is it? Can't find them. Grind them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know why they stopped making those, because people were idiots and didn't know how to drive them.
Speaker 2:Oh. So let's bow to the idiots and let's create this technology that has more parts in it so we can up the cost. And then of course, you know, if we up the cost, then we can. You know anyway, you know the progression after that. But the lighthearted part is could you still drive a manual transmission? I could.
Speaker 1:I actually bought a car in my younger days, Bought it it was an automatic, I mean it was a manual transmission. Had no idea how to drive it, but I bought it. The guy I was dating at the time had to drive it off the lot for me and teach me how to use it.
Speaker 2:Oh, my goodness me. You know what? Because it was probably less expensive, probably. Yeah, we got this manual over here. You don't want it because it's less expensive. That's the one I want. Have you ever driven one?
Speaker 1:No, Okey dokey, all right. Well, thank you for listening.
Speaker 2:Have a great day, go Dawgs.
Speaker 1:Yay Go Dawgs.
