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Unexpected Twists: From ER Adventures to Football Surprises and Political Puzzles
What happens when a Bogart movie night spirals into an unexpected hospital visit? Join us as we recount a weekend filled with unexpected twists, starting with a severe stomach ache that led to an ambulance ride and a humorous ER experience. We share the amusing challenges faced by our youthful healthcare professionals and reflect on the gratitude we felt for the care provided and our supportive spouse by our side. As it turns out, the diagnosis was less alarming than anticipated—thankfully—but it was quite the journey nonetheless.
As our ER adventure settled down, our conversation took a surprising detour into the world of college football. The new 12-team playoff system has us scratching our heads, and we're left pondering how teams like Auburn and Oklahoma are shaking things up this season. From unexpected wins to shifting sports interest during the holiday season, we explore how these dynamics keep fans like us on our toes. There's a lot to say about balancing football fervor with the allure of a cozy Bogart night in.
And just when you think we're done with surprises, we turn our attention to the political landscape. We dissect Donald Trump's cabinet picks, marveling at some and scratching our heads at others. Susan Wiles and Tom Holman get our nod of approval, but we're left puzzling over Jeanette Rushwit's appointment as Surgeon General. We also dive into the ramifications of scandals in professional settings, drawing a cautionary tale from a story of career jeopardy. Prepare for a conversation filled with humor, reflection, and unexpected insights that promise to keep you engaged from start to finish.
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Good morning everyone. Happy Sunday. I am hungry and I am tired, so I'm going to let. What did I say Hungry? And tired I'm going to let the gent talk.
Speaker 2:It's a beautiful Sunday morning. The sun's shining, the trees are swaying gently and the light breezes are out of the north, and I'm waking up in my own bed with my beautiful wife. So I mean, it's a beautiful day, anything about that?
Speaker 1:well, I'd hope you wake up in your own bed next to your wife well, there's a possibility that I wouldn't have done that I know, do you want to explain?
Speaker 2:well, okay, last night starting about.
Speaker 1:Well, back up, back up, back up, we decided to watch a doubleheader of Bogart movies. Right, humphrey Bogart Exactly. We watched one, we started watching the other one and I got super tired.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:I said let's stop, let's go to bed. I'm tired, I can barely stay awake.
Speaker 2:I said okay.
Speaker 2:And we went to bed awake and I said okay, and we went to bed, went to bed, I was out immediately. Oh yeah, I mean it was 8 40 on a sunday night or saturday night and I mean she was, we got in bed and she's just sound asleep. I was like, wow, that's pretty good. But at about three o'clock yesterday afternoon I started feeling a gut pain. Now I'm taking a certain medication that's doing something, but I've been on that medication for almost five weeks. So you know I've had some ups and downs as far as the digestive system goes, so to speak.
Speaker 2:But last night my gut started hurting really, really bad and it got to the point where, at about 12 o'clock, 11, 30 something like that it was I I couldn't take it. I tried everything and I couldn't take it and I started worrying uh-oh. So, long story short, we went to the emergency room. Now, knowing the emergency rooms these days, if you just walk, walk in and you say you got a stomachache, you're going to be sitting in there for about 12 hours trying to get somebody to see you. So instead of doing that, I opted for the traditional ride on the ambulance.
Speaker 2:However, when they got here, they told, told us, yeah, well they don't do that anymore yeah, if you go in on a stretcher it's like you may get in, you may not get in. You may not get in, like okay. Anyway, we went in and it was fine. It was as far as emergency rooms go. You know, thank goodness I didn't have to sit in a chair out in a waiting room. You know they did have a room available. I went right in. They took.
Speaker 1:Yeah, saturday night in the ER was not going to be fun but we went to a different.
Speaker 2:We went to the more private hospital instead of the big system that's here in the state, in the city, and there were a couple of things that really stood out to me. Number one when the EMTs came in, I thought you know, wait a minute, y'all. Are y'all out of high school yet, because they look so young.
Speaker 1:They really did.
Speaker 2:And you know they're talking in their expertise and I wanted to say, listen, let me tell you all how to do your jobs, because I'm older and wiser, you know. And I was like, no, I can't because they're trained in this and I've got to understand that they are. And then we were getting to the hospital and I go in and I thought I was in millennial. I thought I was in a millennial. I looked at these nurses I'm your nurse and I'm like you can't be, you know, you're 12. Yeah, and they stuck me like they were 12.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:It took them four sticks to try to find a vein when I could have just, you know, slit my finger and given them as much blood as they needed. But you know, they were all kind and they were nice and all, but they were definitely millennial healthcare servers.
Speaker 1:Maybe even younger than that?
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, cause? I don't know. I just call anybody younger than me. You're a millennial, so you know. So we went and we got tested and they did all the stuff that they're supposed to do, and my worries were, of course, that I was going to end up having to stay in the hospital or get cut or do whatever. But they prescribed some medicine, you know, basically said you're on your way. The last guy that was with us was very knowledgeable, very helpful. He was a little older and he was more interactive.
Speaker 1:These other people. When Doogie Howser came in, I thought oh my God.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, that was the doctor, by the way, he was socially awkward and everything I'm like what.
Speaker 1:It cracked me up, though, when you were telling him good job, Good job.
Speaker 2:You gave him the thumb up.
Speaker 1:You said good job, Good job. I'm like oh, Carrie, please don't do that.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, it was like Talking down to him just because he's younger than you. Well, I said, y'all did a great job, thank you, I didn't go. You know what's her name on TV that does that.
Speaker 1:Rachel Rachel.
Speaker 2:Good job, good job. I didn't do that, I just went. Y'all did a great job, good job you. I didn't think, you know, I thought that was okay, but anyway, I'm happy to be laying in my bed and I love my wife for when I said that, when I woke her up and said, listen, I'm thinking about having to do something, and she was all glad to get up and, you know, get dressed and go to the hospital with me and meet me at the hospital. She drove so we could drive home.
Speaker 1:To basically say you're just full of crap.
Speaker 2:Oh, basically, I'm sorry, that was the punchline and I didn't even get that. Yeah, for all that and all the testing and everything, all they said was well, sir, we're going to let you go. The only thing we could find was that you're full of crap and they sent me home.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because they did do a CT scan and all that yeah did the CT scan.
Speaker 2:They put the iodine in my system and did the thing, and that was the diagnosis. We looked, everything looks good. Your organs are all still there. It's all backed up. Nothing's twisted Drink water, you're just full of shit. Oh, I'm sorry, full of crap.
Speaker 1:So rowdy introvert. I know you don't listen, but that's why I was up late, keeping late hours last night tweeting about chuck woolery dying because he said why are you? I've never known you to keep such late hours well, that was what we were doing, and it's so funny. When we got out of there it was about 2, 33 o'clock, which is about the time we normally get up right.
Speaker 2:I got home and it was like, oh, it's time to make my medicine now. I'm like, wait a minute. We hadn't even been to bed yet.
Speaker 1:So when we did go to bed, we went back to sleep and I was sleeping so good and then I was woken up again. He woke me up again on purpose. He shook me on my hip and he's like hey, in my sleep. He said hey, and he started mumbling and talking and and I realized, oh, he's dreaming, and yeah, I don't even know what you said, but I was like, I was kind of mad, that's like he woke me up again, but I went back to sleep.
Speaker 2:I slept through that whole thing. Yeah, but you know, we got the last. I think it was from maybe 3 15 to. I think it was from maybe 3.15 to quarter to 8. Yeah, was that right? Yeah, somewhere in there we got a good sleep, so we're good. Yeah, we're good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean mainly. I mean people might make fun of it or whatever, saying you just had full of crap, constipated, went to the ER, ha ha. But you did that because you know of people who have had twisted intestines or whatever and it didn't turn out well and I didn't want to tell you this. But while we were sitting in the ER, you know I'm scrolling through Twitter and one of the pat heads her handle is called Queen of the Pat Heads was requesting prayer requests for another pat head who has had medical problems and stuff. But she said he is in the hospital, he's had surgery for an intestinal blockage Sorry.
Speaker 1:For intestinal blockage and he is not doing well. I didn't want to say anything to you.
Speaker 2:And I had an employee that died from condition. He's just a little more serious, but like that and I just like, no, you know, I want to go get this checked out because I don't want to have something internally rupture and go yeah, I look at my wife and say I love you.
Speaker 1:Because you were in so much pain. Yeah, I mean there's being constipated and there's pain. So yeah, we did the right thing. This was not normal pain, and when it was not normal, yeah for you to wake me up in the middle of the night and say, hey, I need to, because who wants to do that? I didn't who wants to go to the ER on a Saturday night. So to me you were serious and you were in pain.
Speaker 2:I was serious, Of course you were. I was serious and I was in pain. But I woke up this morning they gave me a little medicine that said that this would help relieve and it did, but I'm still waiting on the gravy train, so to speak. Speaking of gravy train, come drown that tiger. I got you All right. What?
Speaker 1:else. You want to talk football because it's so confusing. It's so confusing now.
Speaker 2:You know, now we're at 12 team playoff and it's going to be the point now where only like five or six are going to deserve to be there. And it's like, well, who the hell are we going to pick now? Because you know you start going down the roller coaster. Well, a lost to b and b lost to c and c lost to d and d lost to e and e lost to a and b, but b and c lost to d and D lost to E and E lost to A and B, but B and C lost to D, and D is better than B because B won't beat A.
Speaker 2:And then FG and I all deserve, because they beat the teams that A, b, c and D lost to, but they lost to the teams that A, b, c won against, and then Alabama lost to Vanderbilt, so they shouldn't be in. So where do you go? Where do you go? And last night I would have been watching football last night, but, but we started bogart movies, uh, but I knew that this was gonna happen, that there was gonna still be all this turmoil and them on the screens talking about what I just went over and I said you know, it's just time to watch movies.
Speaker 2:Because, I watched Georgia play yesterday, which you know they played a team they should have beaten like they beat them. So it was, georgia played the toughest schedule in the nation and you know this was their whack game and of course they won, but it was just it's. So, I guess, convoluted, I guess would be the best way to put it Convoluted that I just said. Let's just watch movies. And, sure enough, auburn beats Texas A&M. They should not have beaten Texas A&M, if you look at the records. And then Oklahoma trounces Alabama. So basically, two of the lower tier teams beat Alabama this year. Oh God, you know they've got to already be calling for DeBoer's demise. So you know, that's why we started watching movies last night. Yeah, that was the demise.
Speaker 1:So that's really all I've got we still have lots of football left, though right yeah, you got thanksgiving and then you got new year.
Speaker 2:Still lots of stuff happening yeah, and this is actually the time, now we've gone through the diluted part of the NFL season and I will start to watch a little bit more NFL football with an interest, whereas the first eight, ten games of the year it's like who cares.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But now you've gotten to the point where it's started to get sorted out and you can see where they're going. It's kind of like basketball or baseball. You know what's the point watching the first? You know 75% of it, because all those games are just for making. You know, making the team's money. Now let's watch to see what's going on?
Speaker 1:Baseball to me has become like your college football, so watered down and diluted. I don't know who's playing when where, and you know, I used to kind of keep up with it, but you know sort of, but you knew when they were coming on TV and playing and you knew they were playing. It doesn't seem like now. It's like such vastness, it's like what I don't understand and so I lose interest.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean 162 games per season to see if you're going to get to the playoffs. You know, when you start the season you're a team. When you get to midseason you're a totally different team. By the end of the season you're a totally, totally different team. You've changed so much through 162 games that you're not the same team you were when you started the season. So you know what's the point. That's just my thing. What's the point? Why do you play 162 games? Yeah, I don't know, I don't get it. So anyway. So, with the NFL picking up and, you know, the NCAA or college football kind of winding down into it Right now it's just next week is what I call state championship week. Texas will play Texas, a&m, alabama will play Auburn, georgia, georgia, tech, florida State, but anyway, florida State will play Florida, clemson will play South Carolina, yada, yada, yada. So that'll be that. Then we go on to the playoffs and we'll see what happens with that.
Speaker 1:And we have Thanksgiving week coming up. I only have Thanksgiving day off. As far as I can tell, we're still going to have a podcast episode every day until then. Well, you know, every day next week. But it is Thanksgiving week coming. I understand people's schedules are going to be off and everything, but we still plan to have an episode out every day, All right. Question of the day. Okay. All right, we are going to talk about Donald Trump's cabinet picks thus far. The question is who is your favorite and who is your least favorite? Right now? I think my favorite would be the Susan Wiles. Is that her name?
Speaker 1:Chief of Staff is my favorite Least favorite is probably the Surgeon General who is apparently very pro-COVID vaccine and masking. We used to see her on Fox News all the time.
Speaker 2:Very surprising that she picked Jeanette Rushwit as surgeon. That surprised me because that's a give and go against what Kennedy really stands for in a lot of things. So maybe the two roles that they have are separated to the point where that we don't know, because, you know, we're not total experts on the whole thing.
Speaker 1:So what about you? Who's your favorite, least favorite?
Speaker 2:well, you know they aren't cabinet picks, but elon and oh yeah and uh vivic, but I'd have to say, for the cabinet, my favorite is going going to be, of course, tom Holman.
Speaker 1:Oh yes, that's right, that is a number one.
Speaker 2:And I like how they named him Border.
Speaker 1:Czar, yes, yes.
Speaker 2:You know, that's perfect. The devil came to Georgia, type thing. Sit right down here and let me show you how it's done. Fire on the mountain. Here we go.
Speaker 1:What about your least favorite?
Speaker 2:I said that already.
Speaker 1:Oh, you did.
Speaker 2:Didn't I.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:I said Jeanette Rushmore oh okay, so we both picked her, did I?
Speaker 1:say that? No, I said that, but you agreed with me.
Speaker 2:I agreed with that because I thought that was probably my least favorite pick for the whole thing. I actually like her and I like a lot of things she says when she's on Fox, but I don't know.
Speaker 1:Well, my favorite, favorite pick had quit Matt Gaetz.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, quit Matt Gates. Well, yeah, again. Like I was saying and we said this on a podcast before I predicted that that was not, that he was going to pick Bondi.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know why not just come out and pick her first.
Speaker 2:Again. I say it's playing their game. Maybe, it's playing their game.
Speaker 1:I think it's the other way around. I think he picked Gates to satisfy the firebrand people.
Speaker 2:Really.
Speaker 1:Yeah, knowing that he would probably bail out. I don't know, he may not have known about all that stuff about him. You think he would? Because they didn't know about Pete Hegseth, because Pete Hegseth did not tell the Trump administration about his problems with the woman and the sexual, all this stuff and paying her off. And from what I understand the Trump administration is not pleased.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I could see that too. I haven't heard that, I haven't read about that.
Speaker 1:Listen to Megan, I know you're busy during the day. Megan Kelly has covered it extensively, a lot and to be honest, I mean the woman is very not credible with her story If you read the whole report and not listen to little snippets of headlines on the news because they're not going to tell you everything. But Megyn Kelly does go over it extensively and points out all this stuff and it's obviously to me it was consensual. It was consensual, but she got in trouble with her husband. Oh, rape, rape, rape.
Speaker 2:That's just wrong. Let me see how I can get out of this and so he just pays her off Just make her go away.
Speaker 1:Blah, blah, blah. Not knowing that, maybe later he would be in this, but I would think I would tell.
Speaker 2:Donald Trump be prepared for this. And of course too, when they pay people off like that, aren't they signing the? You know you cannot say anything. Yes. Or you must pay back the money plus interest, right.
Speaker 1:But apparently it was just a so-called friend of hers that wrote the report and sent it to Mar-a-Lago.
Speaker 2:Whatever Just so-called. Yeah, we're not leaking it, somebody else did.
Speaker 1:But you know he felt like he had to pay her off because you know back in that day, first of all, dumbass, don't have sex with strangers you don't know about. I don't care how drunk you are, that's just ridiculous, especially at the position you were in at Fox. Come on, pete, use your brain, not the other thing. Yeah, use the brain. I swear you think you would know better.
Speaker 2:Yeah, don't think with what I say. You just say think with your head, not with your.
Speaker 1:Not the other one. Yeah, you just say think with your head, not with your, not the other one, exactly, but I forgot where I was going with that train of thought. But anyway, Anyway, that's. Oh, he felt like he had to pay her to keep her shut up, because if any kind of allegation like that got out, even though it wasn't true, they would have fired him. Yeah, and he didn't want to lose his job.
Speaker 2:Exactly.
Speaker 1:Well, don't do those things, Mr Pete, exactly right, don't do those things.
Speaker 2:Well, you know we'll see what happens. Yes, all right, got to go. It's been a great day and we're going to get something to eat and I hope everybody out there has a great day and go.
Speaker 1:We'll be back again tomorrow.
Speaker 2:And go Dog Sick them.
