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Carol ReMarks
Our Last Episode. It’s Been Fun Y’all.
Ever Googled why your shins itch and ended up diagnosing yourself with something outrageous? Join us for a laugh as we share our own misadventures with self-diagnosis, all thanks to the chilly weather's effect on our skin. Shifting gears, we dive into the nail-biting world of Georgia football, celebrating the team's grit amid a whirlwind of intense overtime games and challenging opponents. With quarterback Beck Carson's recent injury adding to the suspense, we discuss the team's resilience and the "next man up" spirit that keeps the game going strong.
Switching from sports to politics with a dash of humor, we draw an amusing parallel between Jill Biden's perceived admiration for Donald Trump and a classic scene from "Tommy Boy." As we wade through the political landscape, we can't resist dissecting a "Dear Abby" letter that hilariously questions the realness of such tales. Wrapping things up, we reflect on the joy and laughter our listeners bring, cherishing the moments that make this journey worthwhile. Whether you're here for the giggles, the game analysis, or some heartfelt musings, there's something for everyone in this episode.
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Man, I've got some itchy shins. Don't ever look up Google. Don't look up medical things. When you, when you're, don't Google stuff, when you're wanting to know something about your itchy shins or painful kneecaps or whatever, because you're going to hear some, you're going to get some all kinds of crap. It should probably just dry skin from the cold weather.
Speaker 2:Okay, well, what are we going to talk about tonight? Skin from the cold weather uh, okay, well, what are we going to talk about today?
Speaker 1:I know, I know, yeah, so today is the last day, last episode how I could think of when you started, that was the, the, the.
Speaker 2:it was impractical jokers. They had two things they talked about. They had one product on there my shiny I need. And they talked about what. They had one product on there my Shiny Iny, oh my gosh. And they talked about what's the worst thing in the world to have it's an itchy butthole. Okay, and I'm like where is she coming from with this? And I realized, oh hell, she started the episode. Oh good, well, I didn't want to tell you I wasn't going to order the my Shiny Iny thing.
Speaker 1:Oh, my shiny thing, oh lord, it's just my shins are itchy. That's a new one on poor circulation probably just whatever you just how about?
Speaker 2:we've had really dry weather and it's dry skin?
Speaker 1:but why? Why just my shins?
Speaker 2:well, here's what I think you know after we get our feet done. Every time after we get our feet done, um, you know, they lather them up and put lotion on them and put our feet done. Every time after we get our feet done, um, you know, they lather them up and put lotion on them and put our feet in these hot wax and get all this moisture in it. And then I go back to being myself where I don't put moisture on anything. My feet crack and they get painful and all that stuff. So I'm just thinking, maybe, you know, you had a lot of that stuff on there and maybe, uh, the weather's dried out. And how much water did you drink? You had a lot of that stuff on there, maybe, and the weather's dried out, and how much water did you drink yesterday?
Speaker 1:Not a whole lot, but I drank some.
Speaker 2:Some, but not as much as you normally do All right, so I'm just guessing that could be it. It's not poor circulation and your legs are falling off.
Speaker 1:Well, my suggestion is that you have any medical. You have any bodily stuff going on. Don't Google it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, don't Google it.
Speaker 1:They'll tell you you're dying.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you've got liver problems. Ow ow my liver.
Speaker 1:All right, let's talk about some Georgia football.
Speaker 2:Holy hell, I'm getting too old for this shit. Unbelievable, oh my God, you know, wow, what is it? I am speechless, I am without speech.
Speaker 2:Another overtime game Another overtime win and thank God we're going to be in the top four and we get an extra week off, because you know we're going to have to do a few extra laps to get the heart back in shape, to get some strength in the heart, because if we have to go through that again, I don't know if we can take it. And I say that from we meaning me, myself and I because, wow, well, let me ask you this, do you?
Speaker 1:think they deserve to be where they are, with all the problems that they've had, where they've had to go to overtime, instead of wiping the floor with these teams.
Speaker 2:Well, you know, let's look back at what football teams had the hardest schedule. The number one ranked hardest schedule in all of FBS, it's Georgia. It's Georgia. Look at all the people that we've lost to the NFL for the last three years. You know, it's just. You know 20 here, 10 there, 15 there. When it's all said and done, did we win the games? Absolutely, we won the games. So is this team as battle resilient and as much character as any team? Absolutely, so, yeah, absolutely. We had to go on the road and play the toughest teams in the SEC had. Let's go with Oregon or Ohio State or Texas. The schedule was terrible. Yes, they won their games and they should be where they are. But you still have to look at that strength of schedule and see that Georgia played some hellacious teams, and you know and won. So, yes, we deserve to be exactly where we are. Absolutely, and I don't think you'll get any argument from anybody other than some Texas fans who said oh we're up against this.
Speaker 2:Last time I go back to Austin and get your safe space, jeez.
Speaker 1:So what happened to the quarterback Beck Carson? How did he get injured?
Speaker 2:Well, he had had a hurt hand in the game before and he was throwing the ball and you know, somebody hit him when he was starting to come through throwing it. They hit him and hit him in his arm and we don't know if it's his shoulder. They say he couldn't grab the. The doctor said he couldn't hold, grab the ball, squeeze the ball, jeez. So they took him out and you know they had to do MRI and all that today, I'm sure, to find out what kind of damage, or you know if it's just a sprain, or you know if he's got ligaments or something like that going on.
Speaker 2:So you know, we'll find out more in the next few days. They may not say anything because they may want to say, okay, let's don't give the next team anything to prepare on. We'll just go day by day and see what happens. So you know, hopefully he'll be back. If not, you know, next man up, we Hopefully he'll be back. If not, you know, next man up, we'll see how Gunnar Stockton can do. He was a hell of a recruit and is going to be hopefully a good fill-in for him if our big guy can't go.
Speaker 1:Man, but that quarterback, that second quarterback that came in Stockton, did you say his name?
Speaker 2:Gunnar Stockton. Yes, he got hit, he got whacked.
Speaker 1:Wow, I'm surprised the dude got up off the ground.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was a big hit. That was a huge hit, you know kind of. You know we have another quarterback back there that could, you know, continue on and play well, he's a transfer from Arizona so he would have been okay. But that hit he took was major league and of course, you know they had to take him out of the game because his helmet came off and Carson came back in and there was little doubt. This is one of the reasons that we deserve to be where we are. There was little doubt when Beck came back in that we weren't throwing the ball, we were going to run it and you know, by God, we ran it right up the middle and scored the touchdown and won the overtime. So that should have been on Texas to realize. You know what they ain't passing the ball. You know, let's stack the deck up here and stop the run. But they couldn't do it and we won.
Speaker 1:So go back to your safe space in austin all right, let's move on liberal anyway, yeah, moving on well, we had the tyke, the little boy, like we had the boy yesterday. He was a little ornery than usual, but let me tell you, when I went to go pick him up, they were outside, you know, waiting for me. When I pulled up, I could see our son trying to take something out of Cameron's hand, and when he did that, cameron was throwing a fit and he just decided to lay down on the ground. I was like, oh, this is going to be one of these days. It was a piece of chalk you know, sidewalk chalk that he was playing with outside and Tyler didn't want him to bring it with him. There's no need for you to take chalk in the car with you. So Tyler was trying to get it from Cameron's hand. Cameron wanted it and he just laid down on the ground.
Speaker 1:I thought, oh it's going to be one of these days.
Speaker 2:Oh boy, he was a little bit of a handful, a little bit. He got better towards the end of the day. Yeah, he was okay. Yeah, he, he was okay.
Speaker 1:He had played with his new toys, his new sticker set.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and he enjoyed watching Frosty the Snowman.
Speaker 1:He did.
Speaker 2:He liked Frosty the Snowman. He didn't much like Rudolph the.
Speaker 1:Red-Nosed Reindeer. He didn't, I know, didn't even want to try to watch it.
Speaker 2:I don't know if he was scared of reindeers or had a bad experience with them, or something like that. But, he didn't like, he didn't like, he didn't want much, one, much, no much. Frosty again, maybe frosty's his thing. Yeah, because you know they. You know we did have a little bit of snow last year that they did build the you know snowman, so maybe he remembers that? Yeah, maybe you know, I'm not sure he can remember way back that far, but maybe he does.
Speaker 2:Maybe he doesn't. He didn't want to watch the Wizard of Oz, no, so I don't know, but he was. You know he's two years old. Yeah, you know, that's part of being two years old, two and a half Two and a half. Yeah, there'll be three soon, so yeah, but it was a good day. It was a good day.
Speaker 1:It was a good day. I was worn out and tired, I know. After I dropped them off, though, I went and did some shopping while you finished watching the game, while you watched the bulk of the game by yourself. I had to go do some shopping because I wanted to relax today. I didn't want to have to go out there and be in it today, I wanted to just chill out today, so I was tired when I got home.
Speaker 2:I don't know how people can shop this time of year anyway.
Speaker 1:Actually it was not that bad.
Speaker 2:Well, on Saturday nights it's usually not because people are watching football, although there wasn't a whole lot of football going on in the state of Alabama, I thought it was going to be horribly packed, but it was not.
Speaker 1:I didn't have to wait in any huge lines. Parking was easy to find. It was decent.
Speaker 2:Good, good, that's a good thing. I hate shopping. I hate shopping period.
Speaker 1:But I hate shopping. We love Amazon.
Speaker 2:Yes, absolutely.
Speaker 1:I remember one year I did all of my shopping via my office that I worked in, from Amazon.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, you know, we got several things coming in today. We shall see.
Speaker 1:I know there's one gift that you got for me and I know what it is. It's sitting over here and I'm trying so bad not to get into it yeah, I'm doing the same thing because you got a box over there, it's a don't look in this and I never do, because I'll just I don't care, I'll wait.
Speaker 2:You know I want to see, but that's one thing. If you want to drive my sweetheart crazy is get her a gift, have it a box and say that sure as in, you can't open it. Oh, you talk about driving somebody crazy. This is it right here. But you do know what this one is.
Speaker 1:I do know. Well, yeah, because I asked you for it. I even sent you the link for it, I showed you how to get it, and all this stuff.
Speaker 2:And you also said that that's all I want, and I want nothing else.
Speaker 1:So I'm done. It was kind of expensive so.
Speaker 2:I'm done Easy peasy. I also know that means you better get me something else, by God.
Speaker 1:He meant that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Exactly, that's all I want. No relief Translated. You better get me something else. My God, this is just an early present. My brother had something else under that damn tree, something that's going to surprise me. Yes, absolutely, absolutely.
Speaker 1:Well, you want to read a Dear Abby, or do you want to thank the listeners, since this is our last episode? Well, first thing, I want to read a Dear Abby. Or do you want to thank the listeners, since this is?
Speaker 2:our last episode. First thing I want to do is just let everybody be aware that Trump is the president of the United States right now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think people, oh, right now, right now. I mean well you were asking me that on the way home the other day. You're like who? If somebody asked you who the president was, who would you say? And I'd say Joe Biden. And then you said well, who's really the president right now?
Speaker 2:You know he's not in the office making the decisions.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:But you know, as far as the world stage goes and getting work done and all that kind of stuff, you know, do you think they're going to say we need to call Joe Biden and talk to him about something, or is it going to be you know, let's just go ahead and call Trump, because it's just that way.
Speaker 1:Yeah, apparently they showed some pictures of him and Jill was sitting real close to him and how she just was smiling and admiring him and they're like oh, she likes him, she wants him. Oh God, she voted for him.
Speaker 2:It's kind of like what was the movie Tommy Boy yeah. What was the movie Tommy Boy yeah. When her husband gets hit by the or gets on the, she just kind of moves on to the next one. So Jill's like, okay, he's out of the, let me move on to Trump. See if I can move on to Trump, you know you're out of power. She's a power hungry woman. That's all she is. She's as bad as the rest of them. Bad.
Speaker 2:She's as crooked and as bad as the rest of them yeah so anyway, I just wanted to, you know, everybody just can't kind of take a look at that. No, let's see that.
Speaker 1:Yes, because over the, over the years or year or whatever we have. You and I have both talked about how terrible the in this administration has been. Now we can go out on our last episode with knowing that Trump is the president.
Speaker 2:Yes, thank God.
Speaker 1:America has spoken, and they spoke loudly.
Speaker 2:They spoke loudly and you know, again we'll go back to. I've always said that I have a little bit of faith in America, that maybe, just maybe, you know, people will come to their senses and hopefully, you know, this is a little bit and it and it continues. Instead of, you know, we just get relaxed and say, OK, that's, we did it. You know, I think I think that fight still has to be ongoing because it's not over yet. You know those liberals are not going to give up.
Speaker 1:Oh no, their way of thinking. We have a saying in a recovery, whatever forum, that they're just out there doing push-ups and now getting stronger, yeah just getting you know like we're going to sit back here and just do a few push-ups for the next battle.
Speaker 2:So, yes, what about, Dear Abby?
Speaker 1:Let's talk about Dear Abby. All right, I have one that had definitely caught my attention. I just have to go find it. Sorry, here I am. I'm going to find Dear Abby. All right, here we go. Dear Abby, my husband and I have been married a long time. Our relationship is stable but rocky. Okay, is it stable or is it rocky? Which one is it?
Speaker 2:Stably rocky.
Speaker 1:I have suffered from depression since childhood and I am now trying to manage it. My husband has his own issues. This is made up. One of them is that he often brings up something he finds amusing about my parents. For example, he mocks my dad in the home I grew up in because it wasn't fancy. This is hurtful. I don't appreciate my husband bringing up dad's quirks to belittle him. When I say I don't appreciate it, he starts yelling and telling me that he's not trying to hurt me and that I shouldn't take it that way. Then he goes off and sulks and won't even speak to me for the rest of the day. His behavior is getting old. It ruins things between us.
Speaker 1:If you tell someone that what they say is hurtful but they discount it, what then? Things he may think are funny are not always funny to me. Any advice. No joke in Ohio, wow. So I guess the title is Dear Abby. My husband mocks my family in my childhood poverty. So what do you think about that? I think that's made up. Obviously, I think that's made up. What do you think? What kind of advice you're going to give these people, this woman?
Speaker 2:How old are they? How long have they been?
Speaker 1:married.
Speaker 2:I don't know, but their marriage is stable but rocky okay, um, quit writing letters to dear abby and go get some professional help. That's, that's my advice y'all are in that bad of shape. Number one you don't need to be married now. If you have to be married, well then all right, Go seek professional help.
Speaker 1:I think the writer of these Dear Abbeys uses AI, chat GPT a lot. Create me a letter to Dear Abbey about blah blah blah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no kidding, you know, I I don't think there's anybody writing to Dear Abbey. I fully believe that, to continue on with the column, that they make these letters up yeah, they do they are definitely made up because nobody is writing Dear Abby.
Speaker 1:Nobody is writing Abby, nobody writes letters yeah, exactly, exactly. Well, you can email her probably yeah, so so you know.
Speaker 2:My advice again would be that's a lot to tag on. Y'all need professional help, but don't I don't suggest medication no, okay oh god, oh, that's just too. That was too much to bite on. Yeah, that's like taking that big old bite of really tart key lime pie and realizing you know, this is tart.
Speaker 1:All right. Well, this is the last episode. We are going to sign off pretty soon. In just the next few minutes, we probably need to do a question of the day. First, I would like to thank everyone for listening when you listen, even if it's just regular listening or just tune in every once in a while. But I really want to thank Mr Shons and Giblets and Boy Blob a while back when they were all quoting me and retweeting stuff and helped to promote the podcast. First of all, it made me crack up. It giggled. I giggled so much when they would pick out some of the stuff I'd say and then re-blast it, because when I would read it it just sounded funny to me, out of context, you know.
Speaker 2:And it would make you think oh, did I say that.
Speaker 1:I know, sometimes I had to remember wait. How was I saying that, what did I? Say what did I say? But it made me laugh.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I enjoyed that a lot. I will miss that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely yeah, Because I got quoted on having a couple yesterday that were good ones and I liked it.
Speaker 1:That was good.
Speaker 2:I was like, yeah, I've got to use that again. But the thing about them was they were spontaneous stuff. It just comes out when you wouldn't have said that otherwise had you not been doing a podcast. So, thank you, thank you everybody.
Speaker 1:I think that was the most enjoyable part for doing this podcast was that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and the fact that we got to do some stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we got to do some stuff, yeah. But you know, I got into that routine too where I'd pull into work. Well, first I'd wake up in the morning and try to find some topics to talk about, some headlines, and then I'd go into work, pull out my phone, start recording and then upload. It was just so easy and fun.
Speaker 2:You're going to be playing bubble burst in bed tomorrow. From now on, what are you doing? You're not playing bubble burst.
Speaker 1:Rotting my brain now on. What are you doing? Playing bubble burst.
Speaker 2:Rotting my brain Instead of looking for things like dear Abby, you'll never guess who moved in next door to me.
Speaker 1:I don't think I'm going to give up the audio format all the way, because you can record audio directly on X. I'll probably start doing something like that. Mr Sean's has been suggesting the two minute buzz or something like that. I could do start doing something like that. Mr Sean's has been suggesting, you know, the two-minute buzz or something like that I could do.
Speaker 2:That sounds like a plan, and thank you again everybody, it's been great.
Speaker 1:Thank you.
Speaker 2:Hell of a run.
Speaker 1:Thank you.
Speaker 2:Hell of a run.
Speaker 1:Thank you, I don't even know what to say now. We're just going to end it. You're going to say your goodbyes. Go, dawgs Go. Dawgs sick them Woof, woof, woof and again. Thank you so much, everybody, for listening and participating in this podcast. Thank you, goodbye, see you.
