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From Fresh Coffee to College Football: Heartwarming Stories, Safety Tips, and Unexpected Twists
Ever wondered how freshly roasted coffee compares to the bagged variety? Join us as we celebrate National Coffee Day with a deep dive into our love for locally roasted beans from Alabama. We kick off the episode with a lively greeting and a special announcement about an upcoming live stream with Allie Snyder, a dedicated advocate for freedom of speech and children's safety. Allie will share her inspiring experiences speaking at school board meetings, encouraging others to get involved. We also share our thoughts on the recent thrilling Georgia-Alabama game, reflecting on the unexpected twists and turns that make college football so captivating.
Shifting gears, we recount the emotional story of a beloved golf course in Boone, North Carolina, tragically lost to a storm, and send our thoughts to the affected community. Amidst the somber news, we brighten the mood with heartwarming tales about our adorable grandchild and his playful antics. The episode takes a serious turn as we analyze a Dear Abby letter from a concerned woman with a much younger internet boyfriend. We offer our cautious perspectives, highlighting potential red flags and advising prudence. This episode is a rich blend of personal stories, critical reflections on safety, and moments of joy that promise to keep you engaged from start to finish.
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Hello, good morning, happy Sunday. Before we get started, first of all, I would like to tell everybody that I'm going to be doing a live stream later today, 2 o'clock Central Time. I'm going to chat with Allie Snyder from Twitter. I know her from X and her profile reads Freedom of Speech, because sometimes you can't recognize crazy until you hear it talk. Defend the 1A, exercise the 2A, and she's the US store manager for LetWomenSpeakorg. We are going to have a chat. She has an ex pinned to her profile where she has spoken several times in front of her school board to help save the children, and she has posted her speeches on there to help others to hopefully get inspired and get involved to help save the kids. Second of all, happy National Coffee Day and welcome to the Gent. Hello, good morning.
Speaker 2:Okay, this is when I talk.
Speaker 1:Yes, this is when you talk. Yes, this is when you talk.
Speaker 2:Hey, good morning. Happy coffee day. What a beautiful day it is to be drinking coffee. Do you like coffee?
Speaker 1:I love coffee.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I opened up a new pound of coffee today. As most of you know, we are kind of coffee snobs and we get our coffee from a certain place here in Alabama where they freshly roast the beans. And we go get the beans Actually, I have them grounded for us, but we are drinking espresso roast. Today. It is their darker roast with a blend of Colombian and something else I can't remember Beans, and it is delicious.
Speaker 1:It's one of our favorites. Yes, espresso is one of my favorites, so we do support our local roasters and I am going to probably go to Starbucks and get an iced coffee. I wasn't going to, but now that it's National Coffee Day, I will.
Speaker 2:Good for you, that's awesome.
Speaker 1:Look, national Coffee Day, oh yeah sure, yeah, sure is.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we got hooked on this stuff a long time ago and we just, you know that's just you can tell there is such a difference between the freshly roasted coffee that we get and bagged coffees. Not to say, the bagged coffee is not good, but you know, when you get the bagged coffees you get tons of fillers in them so they can make it go further and cheapen the price and all that kind of stuff. And when you drink coffee, that is just coffee. It's coffee, not something else.
Speaker 1:That will make sense to most people, yeah, but anyway, yeah, and I, you know, I put on x last week sometime complaining about how you know my coffee wasn't right. I went to starbucks to get my coffee, you know, you know how I do, yeah, and somebody replied back starbucks coffee sucks. You need to support a local roaster.
Speaker 1:I was like, oh okay, how do you know I don't already yeah exactly, and the coffee I get, I don't get the hot coffee, I get the iced coffee. So it's really not coffee, but it's whatever, it's a coffee-flavored drink. I like it and I'm going to get it. It's America. I can still do that Absolutely. I mean what I need to do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean when I go to Starbucks and I do get a regular coffee, it's not good coffee, it really isn't.
Speaker 1:I like it.
Speaker 2:No, what? The coffee out of the urn. Well just a regular coffee is what's going on.
Speaker 1:It's okay, it's not watered down. I know that.
Speaker 2:No, it's not watered down. It's just been sitting in there baking for a while and it's a brand that they get and they put the fillers in there to let it, so they can increase their profit margin.
Speaker 1:Anyway, we're going to move on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, anyway, coffee's good At our household. Move on. Yeah, anyway, coffee's good at our household. This morning the coffee's really good happy, national happy national coffee day. What are?
Speaker 1:you gonna do celebrate national coffee.
Speaker 2:I got up at five this morning, started drinking it, so I don't mean you.
Speaker 1:I meant in general. I was asking our, but I was asking our listeners okay that was not the question of the day.
Speaker 2:Yes, what are you gonna do today to celebrate national? That was not the question of the day. Yes, what are you going to do today to celebrate National?
Speaker 1:Hockey Day. That is not the question of the day Right.
Speaker 2:That is not the question of the day. The question of the day is did you stay up to watch the Georgia-Alabama game? Oh my, that's all I have to say about that game.
Speaker 1:That's all. That's all. Oh, my have to say about that game.
Speaker 2:That's all? Oh my, well, no, that's not all. That's what I would, if somebody would say describe the Georgia-Alabama game last night. I would just say oh my, oh my, because it was one of those. They're calling it an instant classic. You know, georgia was just not there the first half and we're getting the literal crap kicked out of them. And I told, I told my beautiful wife sitting here, I said if we scored 28 points tonight, I will call it a moral victory and be happy with the way the boys came back fighting to try to get back in the game. But I never, ever thought we were going to take the lead and have a chance to win the game and then get heartbroken by the touchdown pass and then get heartbroken again by the interception in the end zone. It was a phenomenal game and I think if it were all said and done the two teams played again it'd be one of those games that you'd see two probably different teams playing against each other. That's just the way it is nowadays with those athletes. You know, alabama came back and had an edge and Georgia made the necessary adjustments and shut them down in the second half.
Speaker 2:And when I say that's the way college ball is getting. I've always said that from a historic standpoint, and I call it history for me now because I'm in my 60s, but I've watched college football become, or high school football become what I used to think of as college football. College football has become what used to be pro football. Professionals have just gotten better at their trait, and today that was watching Georgia-Alabama play a professional football game, because one team had an edge and in the second half there were adjustments made by that other team that made it into a football game. And a lot of times you see that in professional football where a team goes out and they're 17 points ahead, but that other team comes back, makes adjustments because their athletes are so good. They make adjustments, they chip away and they chip away, and the next thing you know at the end of the game it's, you know, a one, two-point game.
Speaker 2:And that's what I saw last night in the georgia alabama game. Um, college football's become pro football, basically. But you know, still it was very enjoyable. President trump was there and he got a uh, an ovation that kamala could never even think about getting, so that was a good thing. I enjoyed that and you actually sat there with me the whole night.
Speaker 1:I did. Typically, I do not sit out there and watch football with you. I'll stay back here and watch a movie or whatever. Watch a show, but I don't know. I decided let me watch it with him. It's the Georgia-Alabama game. It'll be exciting.
Speaker 2:It was exciting, but and she kept saying I probably should have watched. She was saying she probably should have watched the movie. I was like you know, you couldn't get any more entertainment than that game. And then watching me, watching me swearing and cussing and, you know, picking my you weren't that bad no, I was very calm and tame.
Speaker 2:Yes, I was, was I did let an expletive or two fly, but it was early in the game and I remember you even said that you were surprised at how calm and how well I was taking it. And I was like you know. I looked at you and said this isn't life, this is just a game. I don't get as stirred up as you think I do. No, but I did say if we come back and win this game, I'm going outside and yelling at my lungs at the top of my lungs go dogs which I would have done if we'd have won. So it was a very entertaining game. The season's not over. You know, georgia's a very young team with a lot of Players on it that are new, and I think that we played well.
Speaker 1:Well, good, all right. Who do they play next? Auburn, all right. Well, speaking of stirring things up and seasons, we have the hurricane season upon us and apparently Hurricane Helene whatever her name is has just totally devastated. What is it? North Carolina, south Carolina?
Speaker 2:Lots of the western parts of North Carolina up in the mountains and through there. It's just devastating.
Speaker 1:You were scrolling through your ex and you saw lots and lots of videos of all that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's so many places up in, especially those mountains in North Carolina.
Speaker 1:Southern Ohio, apparently, is flooded everywhere too. I have a couple of friends on there that posted a bunch of stuff, and two high school boys from West Portsmouth helped save a couple of people. Oh good, I mean anyway.
Speaker 2:Well, that's good. Yeah, there's so many places, especially up in those mountains, where you know if you get a ton of rain like you know the level flatlands you're not going to have that flash flooding that apparently caused a lot of the damage throughout the mountains and stuff in North Carolina. You know where the rain funnels off the mountains and just runs through and it took some of those communities just leveled and washed. Some of them aren't even there anymore.
Speaker 2:I always tell the story that there was a golf course up in North Carolina that was near Boone. It was a beautiful, beautiful. I think they rebuilt it but it was one of these exclusive club beautiful places where you could see it driving along this mountain road, and as you're on the mountain road, the mountains huge, big to the right or, as we were driving to the left and a big big stream down the right side of the road, you see the golf course over there and one of these storms went up through there and I heard later on that the golf course was just totally washed away from that storm and they ended up in rebuilding and all that stuff. But you could see a hindsight. You could see that if they got the torrential rains like they did from the hurricane, that it would just wash that place out, just because of the funnel effect of that.
Speaker 2:And apparently that's what happened with a lot of those places up there. A lot of places still don't have power, people can't get in and out because the roads are gone, they're just stranded. So you know, know, lots of prayers going out for those folks today. Yep, lots of prayers to them.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, they're not caring about a football game. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2:No, they're not I can't imagine I can't either. That's awful, yeah, and so far inland from from the you know hurricane itself.
Speaker 1:So all right, what else you got?
Speaker 2:I don't really have anything else really, you don't have anything lively and energetic and fun for the people that are listening in today yes, actually we had our grand cam yesterday yes, we did we had our grand cam and what a heartbreaker he's gonna be he's so dang cute and adorable and smart.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, I know we're his grandparents, so you know we have a different take, but come on, he's so cute he is.
Speaker 2:He is and smart, and the funny thing is that he is so much his dad. That was what was getting me yesterday.
Speaker 1:But he's so smart and he's so cute.
Speaker 2:He just had those mannerisms of facial expressions. And then, of course, we got him a cake pop yesterday and he had the cake. He had only taken a little bitty bite out of it. And he's dancing around, playing, running, having a great time, and I see the cake pop. I said, here, come get you a little bite of your cake pop. So he gets the cake pop and he takes a little bit of bite. I said, here, let's put it back up here so you don't drop it on the floor. And he shook his head, no, and ran off with it and, like his dad, the next thing I know he's not taking a bite of it. He has sucked the whole thing into his mouth and you know, just big old mouth full of cake pop. I'm like that'd be your dad. So he was great.
Speaker 1:He's such a good kid he loves his cars, he'll sit down. He will sit down and play by himself and be so entertained by himself, playing by himself with his cars or whatever. He'll sit there and play for a while without needing anything, and it's you know. We just let him do it because that's good for him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, to be able to entertain yourself like that. Use your imagination and your brain, yeah, yeah, he can see, and he's just sucking in knowledge left and right. He's like an AI with blood flowing through him. You know he's just sucking it all in, so absorbing everything around him. So, yeah, so cool, yep you can tell we're gushing grandparents.
Speaker 1:Yes, took him to the grocery store yesterday, got him a cookie. Yeah, he's a good boy, yeah he is, he just loves going places and loves talking and he loves.
Speaker 2:He did say something that was so funny yesterday. He said, when we were talking about going to the grocery store, he goes I need vegetables for my belly. That's what he said. He did. Vegetables for my belly, he did, he's starting to talk a lot.
Speaker 1:He understands us, what we say too.
Speaker 2:Vegetables for my belly.
Speaker 1:That was funny.
Speaker 2:He does need vegetables for his belly he also needs some meat. Yeah, we gotta figure that out, yeah all right, we need.
Speaker 1:Let's do a dear abby you want to do, dear abby all right, let me pull it up here.
Speaker 2:Let's see this is unrehearsed, dear abby, so you're getting my fresh clean, here we go. Impression.
Speaker 1:Mine too. This is the first time I've read it.
Speaker 2:Oh boy, here we go.
Speaker 1:Dear Abby, my internet boyfriend is 30 years younger than me. I'm afraid he won't like what he sees in person. Dear Abby, I met a young man on Facebook. He is a philanthropist and we have been talking for more than six months. He's kind and sweet and he tells me he loves me. He works around the world as an interior designer and will be returning to the States in a couple of weeks. Oh hon, no, don't believe it. The problem is I'm 30 years older than he is. He has seen photos of me and thinks I am beautiful and a good woman. I am stressed about meeting him because he wants a life together, even though I have shared all of my health issues. Please help me. I have tried to end it because of the age difference, but he very upset and so we go on. I do care about him. What should I do? My question is how much money have you been sending him? Waffling in georgia, all right, what do you think about?
Speaker 1:this we don't know a lot of details. All we know is that she's 30 years older. They met on Facebook and that's it.
Speaker 2:Okay, number two and number one and number three and number four and number five. All right. What is this guy, who is a philanthropist and a world traveler and all doing on Facebook? Meeting women Number one. There's all kinds of wrong with that. Yeah, eating women Number one. There's all kinds of wrong with that. You know, I don't see many philanthropists, you know. You know that means he's got lots of money, right?
Speaker 1:So he's got lots of money by scamming these women out of their money.
Speaker 2:Probably by scamming women. Look at Herschel, Herschel and.
Speaker 1:Trump. Oh yeah, sorry, we're watching, we Herschel and Trump, oh yeah. Sorry, we have TV on in the background. They have Trump on and Herschel Walker's in the background.
Speaker 2:That's what the gent was pointing at, and they were at the Georgia-Alabama game last night. I think that's awesome, but there's so much wrong with that. First of all, if I, if I'm dear Abby and I'm giving her advice, I'm going to say get off Facebook. Um, go to your senior center and meet some people there. In your own age, because they're going to be the people that you can trust.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:More so than getting scammed by somebody who claims to be a philanthropist who's hanging out on Facebook.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm. All right, let's see. Are you done? Are you having?
Speaker 2:more. There are just so many ways that I could go with that, but yes, I'm done.
Speaker 1:I think it's wrong. She needs to, especially if he gets upset because she wants to end it. She says she's trying to end it. He gets very upset, I'm sure he does. You're probably giving him money. All right, here we go, dear Waffling tread very carefully. Although you have communicated over the last six months, he may not quite be the person he has presented himself to be. Make no commitments until you have actually met him in person. Hold on to your skepticism and do not give him money for any reasons, because things seem to be too good to be true often are there you, yeah, she was very kind with her advice, I'd have slapped the hell out of her.
Speaker 2:What the hell are you thinking?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So yeah.
Speaker 1:All right, we do need a question of the day. Stand by. All right, the gent has come up with a question of the day.
Speaker 2:And I kind of steal this from you, know, because my mind's been kind of wandering back to Jimmy Buffett, since it's been a little over a year now since he passed away but in one of his songs he has a line I won't give you the preceding lines, but the line comes up to you pick the century and I'll pick the spot. And he's talking about going back in time and picking a place and a time to go somewhere. So, like if you said, okay, I want to go back to the 1400s and I want to go to New York City, well, you'd be sitting on a piece of land that had nobody on it, so that wouldn't be the best pick in the world, of course, but that's the whole romanticized part about it. You know, you pick the century and pick the spot. What would you choose to do? What part of history would you want to go back and be either a part of, or see, or whatever the case is? The question is, if you got to go back in time, where would you go and what would the calendar?
Speaker 1:date be Okay, that's a real interesting thing and you're not going to answer it.
Speaker 2:It's hard to answer. I've tried to answer it in my brain a hundred million thousand times. Every time I've listened to that song, it's always been huh, where would I go? What would I do? That's such an interesting question. Think about it while you're pondering, while you're drinking your second cup of coffee. It's National Coffee Day. Ponder that question.
Speaker 1:All right, sounds good.
Speaker 2:Where would you go I?
Speaker 1:don't know. No, no, ponder that question All right, sounds good when?
Speaker 2:would you go? I don't know, no, no, I have no idea. It's a tough question, isn't it?
Speaker 1:But when you first asked me this, my thought was am I allowed to come back to?
Speaker 2:present time.
Speaker 1:If I can, only if I'll go for a week. That widens it up a little bit. If I'm allowed to come back to present time, you know well here. Here's the thing about this question. If I'm stuck there, then that whoo that definitely will narrow it down.
Speaker 2:That makes all your choices about where to go and what time to go all that much more important, doesn't it, uh-huh?
Speaker 1:so yeah, that's a it's a great question to ponder well, there you have it, have it All right, we need to go.
Speaker 2:Well, I've enjoyed this. Thank you for inviting me.
Speaker 1:All right, you have anything else to say?
Speaker 2:Go Dawgs there you go.
Speaker 1:Thanks for listening and I'll be back again tomorrow.
