Carol ReMarks
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Carol ReMarks
Boxing Matches and Bakery Battles
What happens when chocolate becomes a potty training tool, and political term limits become the hot topic of debate? We kick off our latest episode with a light-hearted chat about North Alabama's tank top-worthy weather before getting into the ups and downs of parenting, where we candidly discuss the pros and cons of using sweets as motivation for little ones. Transitioning to a more serious note, we engage in a lively debate about the necessity of political term limits, sharing our thoughts on voting out long-term politicians like Nancy Pelosi and considering reforms that could keep career politicians in check.
Then, we lighten the mood with a playful imaginary showdown between Rocky Balboa and Jake Paul in "Rocky 22" and dive into a spirited discussion about favorite bakery treats. You’ll hear a passionate debate over the merits of Boston cream donuts versus apple fritters, guaranteed to make your mouth water. To top it off, we give a quick take on the much-hyped but ultimately underwhelming boxing matchup between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson. With humor and candor, we promise an episode that’s both entertaining and thought-provoking. Go dogs!
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Hello, good morning, welcome to Saturday.
Speaker 2:Good morning one and all. How are we doing today? It looks like it's going to be a beautiful day. It's cool here in North Alabama Like we got about 41 degrees this morning.
Speaker 1:What's it going to be later?
Speaker 2:Warmer.
Speaker 1:Warmer. Okay, thanks, it's going to be sunny.
Speaker 2:I think it's supposed to be a pretty day. Yeah, I don't know. I think maybe mid-60s today Is Supposed to be a pretty day. Yeah, I don't know. I think maybe mid-60s today Is it tank top weather. I think it's probably a little cool for tank top. I don't know if I'll wear one today.
Speaker 1:What if I okay, can I put a tank top and then a little sweater on top of it?
Speaker 2:I think that'd be great. I think our high temperature today is supposed to be 68.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, it's definitely tank top weather. Tank top, you'll be running around chasing Cameron, anyway, not chasing him, but playing with him. Kim Kim, we'll get to see Kim Kim. He's potty training now.
Speaker 2:He's going to be in his big boy pants and underwear and all that stuff Every 20 minutes. Do you go to the bathroom? Do you go to the bathroom? Your kid's going to get so tired of hearing that. Just shut up. But you know, maybe he'll look at us and go. I'll tell you when.
Speaker 1:Just be calm there, pop and Suge, just be calm, I'll tell you when I got to go, He'll be telling us because he wants a piece of chocolate, wants a piece of Hershey Kiss.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I didn't like when I heard that.
Speaker 1:Well, it's a tactic, it's?
Speaker 2:a tactic, yeah, but it's It'll be all right. It's a tactic, yeah, but it's a tactic that you know. Again, I think part of the whole world problem is, you know you got to have a reward and pat on the back and you know, here's your prize for participation and all that crap. This is a little different, yeah, whatever.
Speaker 1:It is, it's not going to hurt.
Speaker 2:I think a pat on the back and good job is a wonderful thing.
Speaker 1:You can do that in other areas when he does something Well all, right, then All right?
Speaker 2:Well, it's just my opinion.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, that's mine.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Well, all right Podcast ended. No, I'm just kidding, that's it. We Right Podcast ended no.
Speaker 2:I'm just kidding. That's it, we're done. Oh me, you know, some things have got to change and I think one of the things have changed. I heard something last night that Nancy Pelosi's putting in for either re-election or retrying to get back into a little bit more power in her party. And it's like you know, please, term limits come about, because there's no need for her in politics anymore. Now. She's probably doing a good job of dividing the Democratic Party, which is fine with me. She's doing a good job of dividing the Democratic Party, which is fine with me. But you know, at some point in time she's got to just dry up and wither away. She's not doing this country any good.
Speaker 1:So you know, Keith, from Pat Unleashed right. Yes, he is against term limits because he says we probably really already have one when we vote. We can vote them out.
Speaker 2:What do you think about that?
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, he's very right, when we vote, we can vote them out. He also says when our side gets a good one in there, wouldn't you like him to remain in there?
Speaker 2:Well, in that same case, yeah, you would. But let's look at it from the standpoint of you know what's good for the country in general.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's true. Overall, you're right about that.
Speaker 2:You know, if we're going to be constitutionalists and we want to go back to what the founding fathers said, the founding fathers said this is a part-time job. You know you go back is a part-time job. You go back home, you do your job and when an issue comes up that you need to vote for, you go up there, everybody votes and then you go home. You don't have multi-million dollar offices getting multi-million dollar perks.
Speaker 1:Multi-million dollar staff.
Speaker 2:Multi-million dollars is part of the perks perks Multi-million dollar staff Multi-million dollars as part of the perks Multi-million dollar staff doing all this. You know, when you look at the fact that they voted, you know, once you go into that office, you have a lifetime pension. You have lifetime insurance, not the insurance we have to get their insurance. You know you're taken care of for life. You have lifetime insurance, not the insurance we have to get their insurance. Right, you know you're taken care of for life. So, yeah, I want to vote myself in there and I want to keep my butt in there as long as I can.
Speaker 1:I think that needs to go away. That is a corruption.
Speaker 2:You know that is a corruption.
Speaker 1:Oh, their perks and benefits need to go away.
Speaker 2:You know, and then if you look at Elon and Vivek, that may be something they look at.
Speaker 1:I doubt it. We should tell them on Twitter.
Speaker 2:You know it may be something they go, you know. But you know that would come with term limits as well too. But if term limits are done, you know they need to take away that Once you get elected you get all that, because that's bogus stuff. But anyway, that would be part of doing away with Nancy, I guess, to just get rid of some of the ones that have made it career bureaucrats. That's all I got to say about that.
Speaker 1:All right.
Speaker 2:Well, should we move on to?
Speaker 1:Rocky or Mike Tyson and Jake Paul. Let's go with Jake Paul and Tyson, okay. Well, I tell you what that was a hyped up fight and it kind of fizzled yeah it fizzled after the first round. I thought Mike would do better than he did, even though he's 58.
Speaker 2:Yeah, those 58-year-old legs, that was the big thing. He had the skills to cover up, but he just didn't have the skills to move. You know, it was funny Every round for about four seconds he danced back and forth like he was really getting into it, but you could tell those legs just didn't mark. There's a guy on Twitter that made the comment that said Mike Tyson's legs look like mine after I've walked up the flight of stairs to upstairs. It's like, oh God, you know, he could barely stand on those things. So you know, when you don't have legs, you can't punch and you can't get in there and do what he needed to do. But anyway, he's 58 years old and he went head to head with a. You know a 20, what was he? 27? Content creator. And he went head to head with a you know a 20, what?
Speaker 1:was he 27?
Speaker 2:Yeah, Content creator 27-year-old guy who was a fighter, and in great shape.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think Jake Paul held back a lot.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, towards the end of it there was no question. Well, you know, again there were. You know he was boxing and he wasn't going to let Tyson get in close and allow him the chance of landing a massive uppercut, which he could still do. So that was boxing. He wasn't going to allow him to do that and it was a boxing match.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And he was not going to allow him to come in and get close. So he just jabbed and threw, know, jabbed and threw hooks, and jabbed and threw hooks and stayed away from Tyson Because Tyson, like I said, wasn't going to be able to get close to him because he didn't have any legs. But you could tell at the end he probably could have gone in and tried to do damage, but that wouldn't have been right and he knew it and it was out of respect for tyson. Yeah, he knew he was old, he knew he couldn't win and he just said you know, I'm gonna give you the honor of. And that's why, at the end of the match he kind of, you know, took a bow to him and said man, you, you know, you're, you're, you're the, you were, you were one of the greatest, there's no question. But it was hyped and thank goodness we already had a subscription to netflix so we didn't have to pay for it, mm-hmm, because that would have been upsetting to pay for it.
Speaker 1:But a lot of people were mad that Netflix kept buffering, stalling and buffering and stalling and buffering.
Speaker 2:Well, like I said, they weren't ready for the, they aren't quite ready for the big time yet.
Speaker 1:Well, they should be. They knew that this would happen, just like Elon, when Ron DeSantis announced his presidency on X and that had technical issues. Now, I know you're going to have technical issues no matter what, because it's technology, but when you have something like this and it's been planned for a long time you should be better prepared. You're tech billionaires. You're supposed to be smart.
Speaker 2:I think you just have the quote of the day.
Speaker 1:What.
Speaker 2:You're going to have tech issues because it's technology. Well, yeah, okay, that was a good one. But yeah, so I understand you're supposed to be. You know, are you able to have dry runs to see if your system can handle all that? Or do you know how many people are actually going to be subscribing or doing it? That's hard, I guess, but you know, I don't know. We had it and we didn't have too many problems.
Speaker 1:They're obviously not Eagle Scouts. They were not overprepared.
Speaker 2:They were, Like I said, it wasn't really about the technology, it was about the fight. I think last night and I'll tell you one thing Of the fights that we watched, that woman's fight was probably the best fight of them all.
Speaker 1:I know, and I was not looking forward to it because I don't want to watch. I don't think. First of all, I don't think women should be boxing. I don't like it. I just don't. I don't like it. They box, women boxing each other. Some people might think, well, that's okay, At least they're women boxing other women, instead of a man boxing a woman, like the Olympics. But I was kind of rather surprised. These women were punching hard and they were quick.
Speaker 2:We saw the first fight, we didn't see the second fight, so the second fight might have been better. Yeah, but we did watch most of the ladies' women's fight last night.
Speaker 1:Yeah. And man, they tore it. They surprised me.
Speaker 2:The thing that surprised me was the power with which they were punching yes and quickness. Power and speed. You know, that was what really got me. Now, I don't know if their gloves were boxed with lighter gloves. Now, of course, you know the Tyson fight. Last night they were fighting with heavier gloves than normal, that's so you know. They wouldn't kill each other.
Speaker 2:And there wasn't a chance of somebody getting than normal. That's so you know they wouldn't kill each other and there wasn't a chance of you know somebody getting really hurt. But I don't know if those ladies were using lighter gloves or what, but man it was. You know. I saw it when. I remember seeing them walking in in their street clothes and I was thinking you know a gang of people, you know you guys take the thugs, I'll get the lady. Just be surprised when you got your ass kicked, That'd been funny Anyway.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was an event for the century, I guess Shows that Jake Paul's a really, really, really good promoter of his content creations, I guess yeah. Well, you know he made $20 million off of it, so it's pretty good. Pretty good for a day's work.
Speaker 1:Good for him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, pretty good for a day's work. I mean, I'm not going to watch any of his stuff and I agree with that, but that's just what it is.
Speaker 1:Now he's got the bragging rights of beating up on a 58-year-old man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you can put that in his.
Speaker 2:Twitter profile Put that in his pipe and smoke it. Yes, we saw another boxing.
Speaker 1:Yes. So spoiler alert coming ahead 48 years ago, rocky was made. Yep, the movie, that's right. And this whole, I have never seen it all the way through, I've never watched it. I don't think. At least I don't remember watching it. Obviously I don't remember watching it because I thought this whole time, my whole entire life. Now, it was made in 1976, so I was 10. I thought Rocky Balboa won. I thought he won. I mean, he's Rocky Running up the steps being victorious. I thought he freaking won. He was an underdog. Don't underdogs come out and win in movies in Hollywood land? Isn't that how it typically works? But nope, he did not win. At least he didn't win the boxing match. But in his mind he did win because he did go the distance with Apollo and he got the girl.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. And he won his girl and that was the romantic part of the movie Absolutely. I was mad, you're like he didn't even at the movie. He didn, absolutely. I was mad You're like he didn't even at the movie. He didn't win. I was like no, he didn't win. You know, of course. Of course, in the background it's kind of hard to hear, but you know, they announced the winner as a split decision and Apollo Creed wins it.
Speaker 1:I was mad you were mad about that I was mad.
Speaker 2:All that time invested. But there is the scene where he's you know, talking to uh adrian and he says you know I'll win. I can't remember. I said, if I'm standing, yes, I win.
Speaker 1:yeah, because no one's ever gone the full distance with him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Because I will have gone the distance and nobody expects that, you know, I'm just because he started that. That little segment of it was I can't do this. And she says yes, you can, rocky. So there she was, standing by his side at the beginning and at the end and that was. It was a great movie.
Speaker 1:Well, apparently there's a second part sequel to that.
Speaker 2:There's like Rocky 22.
Speaker 1:I know, I know, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2:I think Rocky 22,. He fights Jake Paul. That's a good one. You like that? That's a good one. That's a good one. Thank you for all.
Speaker 1:We're out of here.
Speaker 2:That's it, I'm done, that's good. Rocky 22. All right, the Jake Pollack.
Speaker 1:That's good, I like it All right. We got to come up with a question of the day. That's good, all right.
Speaker 2:You come out with Rocky 22. Would you go watch it?
Speaker 1:All right, we got to come up with a question of the day. All right, the gent has the question of the day.
Speaker 2:Since we're looking at and seeing, you know, whoopi Goldberg in the Five and not the Five Whoopi Goldberg on her show the View, the View, and she's, you know, the bakery discriminated against me because my political beliefs, or horse hockey. Anyway, let's put it to a lighter thing. If you go to a bakery you're on vacation and you go in the morning and you smell the bakery and it's like, oh, let's go get a donut or a pastry or something. And you walk into the bakery and they've got the counter full of all the scrumptious yummies and all what's your go-to item.
Speaker 1:I'm getting something like a Boston cream, something with like a creamy thing inside, not icing, but the creaminess inside. Okay, that's what I'm getting. And it doesn't have to have chocolate frosting on it, but I want something that has the pudding-like stuff on the inside.
Speaker 2:I'm getting one of those big-ass apple fritters oh, they're so good. The ones that don't have a standard shape and they got some goo and some apples on them. Oh yeah, they're awesome.
Speaker 1:I like that. That's a on them. Oh yeah, they're awesome. I like that, that's a good question yes, absolutely.
Speaker 2:All right, we got to go. That was a great question because it gave like a sense It'll liven your senses to things you know what I'm saying, yeah. It was a good question on a lot of different levels.
Speaker 1:Okay, all right to things.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm saying. Yeah, it was a good question on a lot of different levels.
Speaker 1:Okay, all right, there we go. Go dogs, I'm done. Go dogs.
Speaker 2:I need a bear claw.
